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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to immediately stop using certain Butterfly Express essential oils. The products contain the substance methyl salicylate which must be in child resistant packaging as required by the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA). Butterfly Express' packaging of the products that have been found to contain methyl salicylate is either not child-resistant or has not been properly tested to the child packaging regulation, posing a risk of poisoning if the contents are swallowed by young children.
Butterfly Express has manufactured and sold essential oils since 2010. The company has not agreed to recall the essential oils or offer a remedy to consumers.
CPSC evaluated Wintergreen, Birch, Le Sweet Relief, and Le EZ Traveler essential oils and determined each contains greater than 5% methyl salicylate, which requires the products to be in special packaging (commonly referred to as child resistant and senior friendly packaging). For certain sizes (20 mL, 240 mL, and 480 mL) of these products, the packaging is not child resistant. Other sizes of the products (10 mL and 50 mL) are in packaging for which the firm has failed to provide certification demonstrating the products meet the mandatory special packaging regulation (16 CFR § 1700.15). CPSC is aware of, but has not specifically tested the content of, other Wintergreen and/or Birch essential oil blends offered for sale online, that are similarly packaged and that may also contain greater than 5% methyl salicylate. Furthermore, CPSC is aware of these products being available in a "sample size" (6 mL) that also may not be child resistant.
These essential oils are sold by Butterfly Express at Butterfly Express and ButterflyExpress.net, and by Butterfly Express and other third-party sellers at Amazon.com, Walmart.com, eBay.com, and Healthandmed.com.
CPSC urges consumers to immediately stop use and store out of sight of children the Butterfly Express Wintergreen, Birch, Le Sweet Relief, and Le EZ Traveler essential oils. Consumers should not pour methyl salicylate down the drain. Consumers should contact their local hazardous waste disposal site for disposal instructions. Report any related incidents to the agency at www.SaferProducts.gov.
Individual Commissioners may have statements related to this topic. Please visit www.cpsc.gov/commissioners to search for statements related to this or other topics.
About the U.S. CPSC
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product-related incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products has contributed to a decline in the rate of injuries associated with consumer products over the past 50 years.
Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
For lifesaving information:
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California has dismissed a securities fraud and defamation lawsuit filed by a Tesla investor against CEO Elon Musk, one of Musk’s supporters and Tesla.
In an order filed Thursday, Judge James Donato threw out the lawsuit by the investor, Aaron Greenspan, who runs a legal document website. Donato wrote that the lawsuit had failed to make plausible legal claims.
Donato had previously dismissed the case in June, but he offered Greenspan the opportunity to file another complaint on federal legal issues. The judge wrote that claims such as defamation that were made under California law would be taken up later as warranted. In Thursday’s order, Donato dismissed all of Greenspan’s case, which was originally filed in 2020.
Among other things, the lawsuit alleged that Omar Qazi, a Musk fan, defamed Greenspan in a series of tweets that made baseless accusations against him. Greenspan asserted that the tweets were part of a campaign of 80,000 coordinated tweets that praised Tesla and attacked critics.
Donato ruled that Greenspan failed to provide facts to support his allegations that Qazi acted as an agent of Tesla or Musk. Qazi had previously called the allegations “absurd,” and Tesla’s lawyers had disputed Greenspan’s allegations as conspiracy theories.
In other legal news connected to Musk, a Delaware judge agreed Friday to expedite a Twitter shareholder lawsuit challenging his proposed buyout of the social media giant, while nevertheless saying she was “extremely skeptical” of the plaintiff’s claims.
In granting a motion to expedite requested by the Orlando Police Pension Fund, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick noted that the threshold for granting such a request was relatively low.
“While I’m skeptical of the plaintiff’s theories, and extremely skeptical at that, on a motion to expedite the strike zone is far larger for the plaintiff,” the judge said. “It’s like the strike zone applied when Little League players start pitching their own games.”
McCormick said the pension fund could pursue “extremely limited discovery” regarding its allegations that the deal must be delayed for at least three years under an anti-takeover provision in Delaware corporation law.
The judge nevertheless said she was “dubious” that the proposed Twitter buyout is the sort of deal the provision is intended to address. The provision prevents any shareholder who owns 15% or more of a company’s stock from buying out other shareholders for a period of three years after reaching the 15% threshold unless certain conditions are met. One such condition is approval of the deal by at least two-thirds of the outstanding voting stock not owned by that “interested stockholder.”
While Musk owned only about 9.6% of Twitter’s stock when the company’s board approved his proposed $44 billion acquisition, the complaint alleges that he is an interested stockholder because he had an “agreement, arrangement or understanding” with Morgan Stanley and Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey.
The plaintiffs allege that Dorsey, who owns about 2.4% of Twitter’s stock, and Morgan Stanley, which owns about 8.8%, worked with and encouraged Musk to take the company private.
The defendants, who have filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, say there was no “meeting of the minds,” and that the notion that Musk is an interested stockholder under Delaware law is “wholly speculative and conclusory.”
They note, among other things, that the Morgan Stanley entity serving as Musk’s financial adviser, and a separate Morgan Stanley unit that has offered to help finance the buyout, are not among the entities that own Twitter stock. They also argue that Morgan Stanley Investment Management, which owns most of the Twitter shares in question, is a registered investment advisor prohibited from voting for a business transaction for any reason other than its clients’ best interests.
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AP Business Writer Randall Chase reported from Dover, Delaware.
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Two tourists in Venice, Italy, infuriated the city's mayor by riding motorized surfboards through the famed Grand Canal this week, prompting Mayor Luigi Brugnaro to call them "imbeciles" who were making a mockery of Venice.
Mayor Luigi Brugnaro posted video of the pair on Facebook and Twitter, asking everyone in his city to help find the surfers. As extra motivation, he offered a free dinner for anyone who could identify the two and bring them to justice.
Ecco due imbecilli prepotenti che si fanno beffa della Città… chiedo a tutti di aiutarci a individuarli per punirli anche se le nostre armi sono davvero spuntate… servono urgentemente più poteri ai Sindaci in tema di sicurezza pubblica!
— Luigi Brugnaro (@LuigiBrugnaro) August 17, 2022
A chi li individua offro una cena! pic.twitter.com/DV2ONO3hUs
"Venice is NOT Disneyland," the mayor wrote as he posted a second video showing the pair skimming their boards under an arched bridge in the city widely known for its serene beauty. Passersby gaped and filmed the spectacle.
Brugnaro got his wish: the pair were tracked down and their boards were seized in short order, he said in an update on social media.
The surfing scofflaws are visitors from Australia who have now been hit with fines of 1,500 euros (about $1,509), according to local newspaper La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre. The mayor also wants to see them prosecuted for harming Venice's image.
The incident comes four years after Venice banned personal watercraft such as paddleboards and kayaks from its main waterways, due to overcrowding that snarled the flow of gondolas and vaporetti (water buses). The law allows some exceptions, but they're mainly for residents.
Venice is a UNESCO world heritage site — but it has been at risk of being classified as "in danger." In an attempt to lessen tourism's harmful effects, large cruise ships were barred from the city's center in recent years.
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DOVER, Del., May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- At their meeting held today, the Board of Directors of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) voted to increase the quarterly cash dividend on the Company's common stock from $0.535 per share to $0.59 per share. The Board's action raises the 2023 annualized dividend by $0.22 from $2.14 to $2.36 per share, a 10.3 percent increase. The $0.59 per share dividend will be payable July 5, 2023 to all shareholders of record at the close of business on June 15, 2023.
"In 2022, Chesapeake Utilities celebrated its 16th consecutive year of earnings growth, while navigating through the macroeconomic and regulatory headwinds impacting utilities all across the nation," commented Jeff Householder, president and CEO. "Our diversified portfolio of underlying businesses, proven growth strategy, and strong financial position allows us to prudently allocate capital and maximize shareholder value."
"Looking forward, we remain well positioned to invest in our business and our people, capitalize on our growth strategy to achieve our earnings and capital expenditure targets, and consistently return capital to our shareholders," added Householder. "Our Board's decision to increase the annualized dividend rate to $2.36 per share marks our 20th consecutive year with increased dividends. At 10.3 percent, our five-year dividend growth nicely aligns with our five-year earnings growth. We remain focused on driving dividend growth supported by earnings growth to further long-term value creation for our shareholders."
Chesapeake has paid dividends to its shareholders without interruption for 62 years and has increased its annualized dividend every year since 2004.
About Chesapeake Utilities Corporation:
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy delivery company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Chesapeake Utilities Corporation offers sustainable energy solutions through its natural gas transmission and distribution, electricity generation and distribution, propane gas distribution, mobile compressed natural gas utility services and solutions, and other businesses. For more information, visit www.chpk.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation has no affiliation with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Head of Investor Relations
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday told his country’s Victory Day parade on Moscow’s Red Square that “a real war” has been unleashed against Russia by the West’s “untamed ambitions,” shortly after the Kremlin’s forces rained cruise missiles on Ukrainian targets.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor more than 14 months ago, Putin has repeatedly framed the war in Ukraine as a proxy conflict with the West. The Kremlin’s official narrative of the war has painted a picture of an existential conflict with the West, which in Moscow’s view is merely using Ukraine as a tool to destroy Russia, re-write its history and crush its traditional values. That version of events has dominated Russian state media coverage of the war.
In his speech, Putin insisted that the West’s “untamed ambitions, arrogance and impunity” are to blame for the conflict.
Putin welcomed soldiers fighting in Ukraine who were present at the parade. “To Russia! To our brave armed forces! To Victory!” Putin concluded the speech.
Russia unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, hours before the start of the Moscow parade, which this year is taking place amid tight security measures.
The Kremlin’s forces launched 25 missiles overnight in a wave of attacks across Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said, adding that air defense had successfully destroyed 23 of them.
In a Telegram post, the air force said eight Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from carriers in the Black Sea toward the east and 17 from strategic aircraft.
The barrage came as Moscow and other cities hosted military parades and other festivities marking Victory Day, Russia’s biggest secular holiday that this year has been significantly overshadowed by the war in Ukraine.
Russian media have counted 24 Russian cities that canceled May 9 military parades — the staple of celebrations across Russia — for the first time in years. The Immortal Regiment processions, in which crowds take to the streets holding portraits of relatives who died or served in World War II — another pillar of the holiday — have also been canceled in multiple cities.
Regional officials blamed unspecified “security concerns.” Some speculated, however, that the reason behind canceling Immortal Regiment marches was the fact that Russians might bring portraits of relatives who died in Ukraine to those processions, illustrating the scale of Russia’s losses in the drawn-out conflict.
Moscow sought to project a show of force during its flagship parade on Red Square, with top-notch military equipment rumbling through it and leaders of ex-Soviet nations standing beside President Vladimir Putin.
Initially, only one of them — Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov — was expected to attend, but at the last minute on Monday officials confirmed that leaders of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan were heading to Moscow as well.
Still, the parade looked more modest than usual: There were no military aircraft flying over Red Square, and fewer pieces of military equipment were displayed. For the first time in years, the parade ended in under an hour.
The pared-down celebrations come after ambiguous official reports last week that two Ukrainian drones flew into the heart of Moscow under the cover of darkness and reached the Kremlin before being shot down. The Kremlin billed it as an attempt at Putin’s life; Ukraine denied involvement.
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Revenue from Travel & Tourism will make up almost 10% of U.S. economy
New National Travel and Tourism Strategy welcomed but not enough, says WTTC
Despite positive growth, falling international traveler spending leaves U.S. Travel & Tourism lagging behind other countries after pandemic
DALLAS, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Economic Impact Report (EIR) from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), which represents the global Travel & Tourism private sector, reveals that the U.S. Travel & Tourism sector is projected to contribute over $2.6 billion in gross domestic product (GDP) to the U.S. economy over the next decade.
By 2032, the U.S. Travel & Tourism sector is expected to make up 9.2% of the entire U.S. economy based on an average annual growth rate of 3.9% – nearly double the anticipated 2% growth rate of the U.S. economy overall.
According to the forecast, produced in partnership with Oxford Economics, between 2022 and 2032, jobs in the U.S. Travel & Tourism could grow at an average rate of 3.9% annually, representing a 47% increase from 2022 expected job levels.
Whilst the global tourism body welcomes the new National Travel and Tourism Strategy, which aims to ensure the future growth of Travel & Tourism in the U.S. and create new jobs, WTTC says only immediate action now can secure the long-term recovery of the sector and create more than 6.3 million jobs over the next decade.
For 2022, WTTC projects that the sector's GDP contribution will grow by more than 42% versus 2021, reaching more than $1.8 billion by the end of this year and accounting for 7.6% of the entire U.S. economy.
By year-end, the global tourism body forecasts that employment in the sector could increase as much as 28%, reaching 13.5 million jobs nationwide, from a high of 16.8 million in 2019.
"The long-term recovery of the U.S. Travel & Tourism sector looks positive, bringing more than 6 million new jobs to the U.S. economy over the next 10 years," said Julia Simpson, WTTC President & CEO. "But the landscape is highly competitive, and the U.S. is losing out on international visitors."
Simpson continued: "Full recovery of Travel & Tourism relies on a significant rebound of international travel. While the new National Travel and Tourism Strategy is a step in the right direction, 2021 was another difficult year for the U.S. economy and the millions of livelihoods who rely on it.
"Many countries' Travel & Tourism sector is bouncing back to pre-pandemic numbers next year, but the U.S. is not expected to recover until 2025."
Despite strong projected growth in employment and GDP contribution over the next 10 years, WTTC's data indicates that pressure created by slow international traveler spending in the U.S. will continue to drive a significant performance gap in the sector's recovery this year.
At the current pace of the recovery, the U.S. international spending would not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2025, showcasing the urgency of opening borders to international travelers.
In fact, international traveler spend to the U.S. remains far below pre-pandemic levels, resulting in a slower-than-expected recovery of international tourism revenue.
In 2021, international visitor spending grew a modest 1.4%, reaching $40.3 billion but falling far short of 2019's total of $190.9 billion.
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) represents the global travel & tourism private sector. Members include 200 CEOs, Chairs and Presidents of the world's leading travel & tourism companies from all geographies covering all industries. For more than 30 years, WTTC has been committed to raising the awareness of governments and the public of the economic and social significance of the travel & tourism sector.
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BRUCHSAL, Germany, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, ADAC Luftrettung and Volocopter entered a collaboration partnership to customize next-generation electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) for rescue services. Two milestone agreements were signed at the Paris Air Show: one to purchase two VoloCity aircraft, and another with the intention of securing 150 additional units of Volocopter's eVTOLs as part of this collaboration. The two VoloCity aircraft will start testing in late 2024 of to provide ADAC Luftrettung's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) as supplementary aircraft in Germany. Upon successful completion of this test, the additional eVTOLs will be considered for use in future rescue missions.
Since 2018, nonprofit ADAC Luftrettung, and Volocopter, have been a part of a joint eVTOL feasibility study in EMS and rescue operations, sponsored by the ADAC Foundation with the Institut für Notfallmedizin und Medizinmanagement (INM, Institute for Emergency Medicine and Medical Management) at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. The study theoretically proved that the introduction of eVTOLs in aeromedical situations would add a significant tactical advantage. Today, the two companies cosigned two contracts: ADAC Luftrettung to purchase two VoloCity aircraft, and have the intention of securing 150 additional units of eVTOLs for its future EMS missions.
The two VoloCity aircraft are expected to go into research operations in Germany after receiving the type certificate from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in 2024. A pilot and an emergency physician will be dispatched to incident locations – to supplement, not to replace – rescue helicopters in order to provide rapid assistance from the air. After the successful completion of at least a two-year research operation in the German towns and regions of Idar-Oberstein and Dinkelsbühl, ADAC Luftrettung may deploy next-generation Volocopter eVTOLs in its rescue service operations.
"From the very beginning, we have been convinced that these aircraft can also shape and improve the rescue service of the future," explained Frédéric Bruder, Chief Executive Officer of ADAC Luftrettung, and emphasized: "With higher ranges and operational speeds as well as significantly more payload of the next generation of eVTOLs, we can also put the benefits for emergency care into practice – and fulfill our statutory mission to further develop the rescue service from the air with pioneering innovations."
Dirk Hoke, Chief Executive Officer of Volocopter, said: "There is no better way to start Volocopter eVTOL operations in Germany than by saving lives. ADAC Luftrettung is the leading European rescue service with highly trained pilots and successful missions who believe in us to create a better future together. We have proven the emergency rescue use case works in theory, now we are concentrating on the delivery and execution to start test operations in Germany in 2024."
The ADAC Luftrettung feasibility study and the opportunities for rapid emergency care using eVTOLs have also been met with great interest by the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, as they have joined forces with Groupe ADP to explore the deployment of ADAC Luftrettung's concept for multicopter operations in EMS also in the Paris region.
About ADAC Luftrettung GmbH
Operating more than 50 rescue helicopters out of 37 bases, the charitable ADAC air rescue service is one of the major HEMS organizations in Europe. The ADAC rescue helicopters are part of the German EMS system. If need be, they are requested by a rescue coordination center after a 112-emergency call and deployed to rescue injured or ill persons. "Racing against time and for life" is the motto of ADAC Luftrettung GmbH. One rule applies especially in the case of serious injuries or illness: the faster the patients are taken to an adequate hospital for treatment or attended to by an emergency doctor on site, the better are their chances of survival or convalescence. Since 2017, the organization has operated under the umbrella of the charitable ADAC foundation.
About Volocopter
Volocopter is building the world's first sustainable and scalable urban air mobility business to bring affordable air taxi services for goods and people to megacities worldwide. Volocopter leads and cooperates with partners in infrastructure, operations, and air traffic management to build the ecosystem necessary to "Bring Urban Air Mobility to Life." Volocopter has 500 employees in offices in Bruchsal, Munich, and Singapore, has completed over 1,500 successful public and private test flights, and has diverse investors, including Geely, NEOM, Mercedes-Benz Group, Intel Capital, and BlackRock. www.volocopter.com
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Damaged pipe removed from main after boil water advisory lifted
DETROIT (WNEM) - Crews are continuing to repair a 120-inch water transmission main after a precautionary boil water advisory was lifted for thousands of residents.
The Great Lakes Water Authority said crews removed the damaged section of the pipe by crane on Sunday while the additional 48 feet of 120-inch pipe is being delivered, which is expected to arrive on Tuesday.
The precautionary boil water advisory was lifted for the seven remaining communities on Saturday because the system pressures were stabilized and water quality testing was completed in the regional transmission and local distribution system per the regulations set by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE).
If there are significant water pressure drops in the regional system during repairs or return to service, another boil water advisory may need to be issued.
GLWA is still asking all 23 of the communities that were initially impacted by the boil water advisory to limit their outdoor water usage until repairs are complete.
Residents and businesses coming out of the boil water advisory should review GLWA’s checklist. The GLWA said that those who have been under the boil water advisory should take the following steps before using their water now that it has been lifted:
1. Flush
a. Unscrew and remove the faucet aerator (screen)
b. Turn on each cold water faucet/tap slowly
c. Run cold water for five minutes
d. Clean and reinstall aerator
e. Flush automatic ice makers. Ice cubes made during the Boil Water Advisory should be emptied and the ice maker run through a 24-hour cycle. Make three batches of ice and discard them. The water line should be clear, and ice should be safe to consume with the fourth batch
2. Clear Hot Water Tanks/Heaters
a. Run hot water only at all faucets and flush until water runs cool or typically a minimum of:
i. 15 minutes for a typical household 40-gallon hot water tank
ii. 30 minutes for a hot water tank greater than 40 gallons
3. Replace Filters
a. Water filters, such as ones used in refrigerators, faucets, pitchers and under the sink, are not designed to remove the specific bacteria potentially present during a Boil Water Advisory. If you ran water through your filter during the Boil Water Advisory, the filter should be replaced.
b. Remove and discard water filters
c. Replace with a new filter following flushing
The cause of the break is still under investigation.
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Registered Investment Advisors converge on SYNERGY22 in Orlando, Fla. in record numbers.
ORLANDO, Fla., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TradePMR, a technology and custodial services provider for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), will kick off its signature conference SYNERGY22 Unleashed, on Wednesday May 25 through Friday, May 27 at The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes. The event marks the return of the annual conference that gathers Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) from across the country with some of the wealth management industry's top technology and service providers for the first time since 2019.
"During the pandemic, TradePMR was fortunate to help numerous RIAs transition to our Fusion platform and for some – SYNERGY22 is the first opportunity for us to meet in person. We are excited to gather and celebrate the successes of RIAs," said TradePMR CEO and Founder, Robb Baldwin. "This year's SYNERGY theme is 'Unleashed,' which we feel is a perfect fit after the constraints we've all felt over the past couple years. The conference will focus on providing RIAs with the technology, service, and insights to unleash their potential, unleash their ambition, and ultimately unleash their growth."
The conference agenda is filled with sessions hosted by TradePMR team members, successful RIAs, and keynote speakers that are leaders of their respective industries. SYNERGY22 attendees will see keynote sessions, including;
- John DiJulius, best-selling author on customer experience and founder of The DiJulius Group,
- Allison Schrager, economist and published author
- Grant Hill, NBA Hall of Famer and entrepreneur.
- Industry veterans and technologists Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today, and John O'Connell, founder of The Oasis Group.
- Robb Baldwin, Founder and CEO, TradePMR
This broad slate of guest speakers will aim to provide outside perspective into the challenges and opportunities facing RIAs today. In addition to these sessions taking place throughout the week, the conference will feature a private concert from Ken Block and Drew Copeland from TradePMR's hometown, Gainesville, Fla.-based band, Sister Hazel
"While much has changed since our last SYNERGY conference in 2019, one thing has not: our commitment to providing RIAs with advanced technology backed by white-glove service," said Scott Victoria, Chief Operating Officer at TradePMR. "Our team has a number of updates in the works that we can't wait to share with our advisors throughout the week. We couldn't pick a better place to showcase the future of TradePMR, and how our team is working tirelessly to support RIAs across the country."
This year's event is sponsored by FirstClearing, Adhesion Wealth, Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), AdvisorEngine, Benjamin, Black Diamond, Preferred Capital Securities (PCS), Advyzon, CalSurance, D.A. Davidson, Markel, Millennium Trust Company, Myriad Advisor Solutions, Redtail, RightSize Solutions, Riskalyze, Starkweather & Shepley, SumRidge Partners, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), FP Transitions, Morningstar, Addepar, and Broadridge.
For more information about the SYNERGY conference including the complete list of speakers and full agenda, visit synergy.tradepmr.com.
To follow the events updates throughout the week, follow any of TradePMR's social media accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook or Instagram or by searching the hashtag #SYNERGY22 .
About TradePMR
For more than two decades, TradePMR has worked with growth-minded independent registered investment advisors (RIAs), providing innovative technology tools and support designed to transform their businesses. The privately-held brokerage and custodian services provider (Member FINRA/SIPC), based in Gainesville, Fla., works to streamline fee-only investment advisors' operations through comprehensive custodial, operational, and trading support. For more information, visit www.TradePMR.com.
Follow TradePMR on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for the latest news, updates, and event information.
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(The Hill) – An Oklahoma school board on Monday voted to approve a bid to open the nation’s first religious charter school, sparking backlash and questions about the constitutionality of the move to use taxpayer dollars to fund a religious school.
Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board in the meeting approved in a 3-2 vote a plan to create St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.
“We are elated that the board agreed with our argument and application for the nation’s first religious charter school,” Brett Farley, the executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma, said after the decision.
“Parents continue to demand more options for their kids, and we are committed to help provide them,” he added.
The journey for this Catholic school is far from over as many disagree with the idea of a charter school, which receives taxpayer dollars along with private donations, run by a religious organization. Opponents argue it violates the separation between church and state.
The nonprofit Americans United for Separation of Church and State on Monday bashed the decision as a violation of religious freedoms.
“It’s hard to think of a clearer violation of the religious freedom of Oklahoma taxpayers and public-school families than the state establishing the nation’s first religious public charter school,” the group said in a statement, calling the decision “a sea change for American democracy.”
“State and federal law are clear: Charter schools are public schools that must be secular and open to all students,” Americans United said. The group says it’s preparing legal action.
Though some religious schools do receive government money, the new St. Isidore school would be fully government-funded, the New York Times reports.
Supporters of the school argue charter school laws are different in each state and, while in some states a religious charter school may be impermissible, it is allowed under Oklahoma law. Some also see Monday’s approval as a win for religious freedom.
And while school choice is popular among conservatives, even top officials in Oklahoma are split on the decision.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) on Monday applauded the decision, calling it a “win for religious liberty.”
“This is a win for religious liberty and education freedom in our great state, and I am encouraged by these efforts to give parents more options when it comes to their child’s education,” Stitt said in a statement.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R), on the other hand, called the decision unconstitutional and “disappointing,” arguing the approval of any publicly-funded religious school goes against state law.
“It’s extremely disappointing that board members violated their oath in order to fund religious schools with our tax dollars. In doing so, these members have exposed themselves and the State to potential legal action that could be costly,” Drummond said.
Even those whom the religious charter school might have thought of as friendly to the decision have come out against it.
“This decision runs afoul of state law and the U.S. Constitution. All charter schools are public schools, and as such must be non-sectarian. Charter schools were conceived as, and have always been, innovative public schools that provide an alternative for families who want a public school option other than the one dictated by their ZIP code,” said Nina Rees, president of the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools.
The religious charter school has already overcome some adversity as their application was first denied in April, but the school had the opportunity to fix some of the perceived issues in the application.
And in terms of threats from lawsuits, the school is not afraid of it, but wants to embrace them.
“We’re not surprised by the threat of a suit, but we will be preparing if they choose to file one,” Farley said. “This is a question that ultimately needs to be answered by the courts, perhaps by the US Supreme Court.”
Those supportive of the religious charter school have some optimism the conservative-majority Supreme Court would be more sympathetic to their case, especially after favorable rulings for religious schools previously.
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CLEVELAND (AP)Pinch-runner Ernie Clement raced home from second base on a wild pitch in the eighth inning for the go-ahead run and the AL-Central leading Cleveland Guardians rallied for a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night in the opener of a crucial five-game series.
Clement ran for Josh Naylor, who led off the eighth with a single and took second on Oscar Gonzalez’s single. Jhoan Duran’s 2-1 pitch to Andres Gimenez bounced in front of catcher Gary Sanchez and went back to the screen on the fly.
Sanchez couldn’t find the ball initially and Clement rounded third and slid headfirst into the home plate, beating Sanchez’s throw.
Clement heeded Naylor’s advice when manager Terry Francona sent him in to pinch-run.
”As I’m coming in, Naylor stopped me and said `Hey, be ready for a dirt ball,”’ Clement said. ”So obviously if there’s a dirt ball I’ve got to get my butt to third. I was just running until (third base coach Mike Sarbaugh) stopped me and he never did, so I just kept going.”
The crowd of 20,669 was on its feet and Clement was celebrated by his teammates when he got back to the dugout.
”That’s as cool as it gets,” he said. ”It’s got that playoff atmosphere and the energy the crowd brought, it kept us in it because we were down early. Especially with this team, we’re never out of a game. Everybody on the bench knows that.”
Cleveland leads third-place Minnesota by five games and has clinched the season series with a 10-5 edge, giving the Guardians the tiebreaker. The teams play a day-night doubleheader Saturday followed by games Sunday and Monday.
Cleveland swept a three-game series at Target Field last weekend and has won six straight over the Twins. The Guardians also gained a game on the Chicago White Sox, who lost 3-2 to Detroit in 10 innings.
The Guardians are 32-15 in games decided in the seventh inning or later, which is both fun and nerve-wracking for Francona.
”I don’t think you’re ever too old to – I’m nervous as hell,” he said. ”And I don’t mean that in a bad way. It was exciting. Guys work all winter and all spring and play all year and you have the right to play in a game that’s this exciting. That’s great. Embrace it.”
The loss was difficult for the Twins, who seemed to be in position to cut another game into Cleveland’s lead.
”It’s very hard,” manager Rocco Baldelli said. ”That was a very tough ballgame to watch because we’re feeling good with a lot of things that we’re doing. We had some big swings, we made some plays, guys were pitching good. There was a lot going real well.”
Trevor Stephan (6-4) pitched a scoreless eighth while Emmanuel Clase gave up an infield hit in the ninth, but got Gilberto Celestino on a groundout for his 36th save.
Duran (2-4) allowed a run in the eighth.
Bailey Ober allowed one hit over five innings in his first start since June 1 and Jake Cave hit a two-run homer in the fourth as Minnesota took a 3-0 lead, but Cleveland rallied in the seventh.
Second baseman Nick Gordon’s throwing error on Gimenez’s grounder started the seventh. Gimenez took third on pinch-hitter Owen Miller’s single and scored on Myles Straw’s one-out single. Jose Miranda made a diving stop at first base on Steven Kwan’s grounder, but the runners moved up a base and scored on Amed Rosario’s single.
”We didn’t play perfectly clean baseball … We needed to really play an incredibly, crisp solid all-around game to get where we needed to be,” Baldelli said. ”It wasn’t crisp enough.”
Cleveland starter Triston McKenzie allowed three runs in seven innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: Minnesota is trying to stay in the race despite a lengthy injury list, with second baseman Jorge Polanco (knee inflammation), center fielder Byron Buxton (hip strain), left fielder Alex Kirilloff (wrist inflammation), outfielder Kyle Garlick (left wrist sprain) and right fielder Max Kepler (bruised leg, sore wrist) all sidelined. Kepler is the only one not on the injured list. … Gordon was removed from the game after fouling a ball off his left foot in the eighth. … Polanco played second base in a rehab game Friday night for Triple-A St. Paul.
Guardians: RHP Aaron Civale (elbow) is scheduled to start Tuesday in Chicago against the White Sox. He allowed two home runs and seven hits in 2 2/3 innings on a rehab start for Triple-A Columbus on Thursday.
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The Twins will add LHP Louie Varland (0-0, 3.38 ERA) as the 29th man to start Saturday’s first game against Cleveland RHP Shane Bieber (10-8, 2.91 ERA). RHP Josh Winder (4-4, 3.83 ERA) will start the second game for Minnesota against LHP Konnor Pilkington (1-2, 4.30 ERA) who will be the Guardians’ 29th man.
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Congress examines fraud in pandemic aid for small businesses
(AP) - A congressional panel Tuesday will examine payouts under a federal coronavirus pandemic aid program intended to help small businesses weather the COVID-19 outbreak amid revelations that as much as 20% of the money may have been awarded to fraudsters.
The problems in the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration, included a finding by congressional investigators that some 1.6 million applications for the loans may have been approved without being evaluated.
Separately, the SBA’s Office of the Inspector General estimated that at least $80 billion distributed from the $400 billion program could have been fraudulent, much of it in scams using stolen identities.
The program is expected to be at the center of a congressional subcommittee hearing that also will tackle broader fraud concerns with the flood of pandemic aid from multiple federal government programs for states, local governments, businesses and the unemployed.
The $5 trillion in total aid, delivered in a series of bills signed by presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have come with numerous complications.
Fraud overwhelmed enhanced unemployment insurance programs funded by the federal government and administered by the states. There was so much aid to governments that many struggled to find a way to spend it all under the original regulations. And there have been questions about whether the Paycheck Protection Program to keep employees working was worth it.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis says more than $10 billion allocated under two massive business loan programs has been returned because of investigations and bank actions. Federal prosecutors have charged nearly 1,500 people with crimes related to fraud against the government over the business loans and enhanced unemployment insurance programs.
The government’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee says inspectors general for various federal agencies have at least 1,150 ongoing investigations into fraud from the different aid funds. Officials say it could take years to untangle all the problems.
One focus for the subcommittee is a report released Tuesday by its own staff that found up to 1.6 million applications for loans intended to keep small businesses open and making payroll were approved by a batch method. That could mean they were not even opened by officials before being greenlighted for funding.
The report blames the SBA for creating the batch approval function early in the pandemic, during the Trump administration.
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Local elections officials in Virginia were scrambling Monday to process 149,000 “motor voter” registration applications suddenly sent to them over the weekend by the state Department of Elections, a problem related to computer failures that also happened earlier this month.
Voters whose applications aren’t processed before Nov. 8 can still vote on Election Day but would have to do so through a provisional ballot, those officials said.
Any voter who has a question about their registration status can call their local elections office or check the state Department of Elections website at vote.virginia.gov, officials said.
“It’s extremely frustrating,” said Eric Spicer, general registrar in Fairfax County, which received about 11,000 unprocessed motor voter applications over the weekend. Nearby Prince William County received about 6,000 such applications while Loudoun County had about 4,500, officials there said.
“The voters did their part,” Spicer said. “We need to make sure they can get registered on time.”
The Department of Elections said the problem was caused by the same technical glitch within the statewide voter registration system that led the department to send 107,000 unprocessed motor voter applications to local offices earlier this month. A DMV spokeswoman said her department was not aware of the new problem.
The new batch was discovered after several voters who tried to cast ballots after early voting in Virginia began on Sept. 23 learned that their information had not been entered into the system, the Department of Elections said. In each case, those voters were registered on-site and were allowed to vote, the department said.
“I am very grateful for the vigilance of Virginia’s general registrars in quickly surfacing concerns during early voting,” said Susan Beals, elections commissioner under Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), said in a statement. “I’m pleased that all affected voters are able to vote and that anyone with questions or concerns can reach out to us directly so that we may assist them as we near Election Day.”
The problem has surfaced amid intensifying scrutiny over any potential problems in the midterm elections as control over the House and Senate hangs in the balance.
In Virginia, there are several competitive congressional races — particularly between Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and Prince William Board of County Supervisors member Yesli Vega (R-Coles) in the northern part of the state and, in the Virginia Beach area, between Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) and state Sen. Jen A. Kiggans (R-Virginia Beach).
Youngkin won his election last year after promising to bring “election integrity” and business-world efficiency to government. Additionally, Attorney General Jason S. Miyares created an “Election Integrity Unit” in his office, explaining in a recent opinion essay that the move was mainly a restructuring of attorneys and other staff in his office already working on election issues.
The state Department of Elections said it is in the midst of improving the state’s long-troubled voter registration system, which is known as VERIS and dates from about 2007. Last week, the department announced it hired a contractor to install a new statewide system.
Local election officials said the new batch of unprocessed applications to process will mean extra work during an already busy period after early voting started.
Spicer said his office in Fairfax will bring in 20 additional workers to help deal with the applications, which each take about two minutes to process.
Judy Brown, the general registrar in Loudoun County, said her office has asked its staff to come in early and plan to stay late until the applications are processed.
State officials were helping, removing duplicate applications from the system, Brown said.
“It is what it is,” Brown said, about the extra work. “It’s very unfortunate. But we can only do the best we can to try to get notices out to the voters. We still have a lot of things we need to do to get ready for the election.”
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kodiak Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: KOD), a biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to treat high prevalence retinal diseases, announced today that management will present at the 2022 Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference in New York, NY on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 1:05 p.m. Pacific Time (4:05 p.m. Eastern Time).
A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the "Events and Presentations" section of Kodiak's website at http://ir.kodiak.com/ and will remain available for replay for a limited time following the event.
About Kodiak Sciences Inc.
Kodiak (Nasdaq: KOD) is a biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to treat high prevalence retinal diseases. Founded in 2009, we are focused on bringing new science to the design and manufacture of next generation retinal medicines to prevent and treat the leading causes of blindness globally. Our ABC Platform™ uses molecular engineering to merge the fields of antibody-based and chemistry-based therapies and is at the core of Kodiak's discovery engine. Kodiak's lead product candidate, tarcocimab tedromer, is a novel anti-VEGF antibody biopolymer conjugate being developed for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases including wet age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in elderly patients in the developed world, and diabetic eye diseases, the leading cause of blindness in working-age patients in the developed world. Kodiak has leveraged its ABC Platform to build a pipeline of product candidates in various stages of development. KSI-501 is our dual inhibitor antibody biopolymer conjugate targeting both VEGF (VEGF-trap) and IL-6 (anti-IL-6 antibody) for the treatment of retinal diseases. We are expanding our early research pipeline to include ABC Platform based triplet inhibitors for multifactorial retinal diseases such as dry AMD and glaucoma. Kodiak is based in Palo Alto, CA. For more information, please visit www.kodiak.com.
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A spreading bacteria primarily affecting children younger than 5 years old has spurred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to warn doctors to be vigilant.
Shigella (shigellosis) causes inflammatory diarrhea and it is “easily transmissible,” the CDC said.
The “CDC asks healthcare professionals to be vigilant about suspecting and reporting cases of XDR Shigella infection to their local or state health department and educating patients and communities at increased risk about prevention and transmission,” states the advisory issued Friday.
“Shigellosis usually causes inflammatory diarrhea that can be bloody and may also lead to fever, abdominal cramping, and tenesmus. Infections are generally self-limiting; however, antimicrobial treatment may be indicated to prevent complications or shorten the duration of illness,” said the CDC.
Symptoms usually appear in 1-2 days and can last up to a week. The ways a person can get Shigella, according to the CDC, include:
- Touching surfaces, such as toys, bathroom fixtures, changing tables, and diaper pails, contaminated with Shigella bacteria from someone with an infection
- Changing the diaper of a child with a Shigella infection
- Taking care of a person with an infection, including cleaning up after the person uses the toilet
- Eating food prepared by someone with a Shigella infection
- Swallowing water you swim or play in, such as lake water or improperly treated swimming pool water
- Swallowing contaminated drinking water, such as water from a well that’s been contaminated with sewage or flood water
- Exposure to poop during sexual contact with someone with a Shigella infection or who has recently recovered from a Shigella infection
Shigella strains can be resistant to common antibiotics, including azithromycin, ciprofloxacin, ceftriaxone, ampicillin and more.
“Currently, there are no data from clinical studies of treatment of XDR Shigella to inform recommendations for the optimal antimicrobial treatment of these infections,” the CDC report said.
Shigella has predominantly affected young children 1 to 4 years old in the United States. More recently, however, the CDC reports that it has observed an increase in antimicrobial-resistant Shigella infections among adult populations, especially men who have sex with men, people experiencing homelessness, international travelers and people living with HIV.
Those who have been diagnosed with Shigella are advised to frequently wash their hands and not to have intercourse.
Read the CDC’s warning about Shigella online at https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/pdf/CDC_HAN_486.pdf.
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LLYC's 2022 Results
MADRID, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In spite of uncertainties triggered by the war in Ukraine and its impact on the global economy, the audited figures for LLYC's 2022 results revealed significant growth. Total revenues of the communications, digital marketing and public relations consultancy amounted to €89.5 million (+39% versus 2021) and operating income (totals less re-invoicing of client expenses) was €72.7 million (+36%). Recurring EBITDA (gross operating profit) improved by 26% to €16 million and consolidated net income rose by 30.6% to €7 million. The company has virtually doubled in size in two years in terms not only of total and operating revenues but also EBITDA (+90%).
"These solid results were made possible by the significant commercial efforts of all our teams and a solid customer base. Thanks to them, we once again met the goals set out in the business plan, in line with our commitment to our shareholders and to the market. The 2023 forecast includes double-digit improvements in turnover. We have a sturdy foundation for inorganic growth in key markets for the firm," said Alejandro Romero, Global CEO of LLYC.
Strong growth of Deep Digital Business
The results reflect a balance between the business units. Europe contributed 36% of operating income and 43% of EBITDA in 2022; Americas, 32% and 30%, respectively. All the rest came from Deep Digital Business, the area that integrates all of the firm's artificial intelligence, digital transformation and inbound marketing service lines and solutions, which posted tremendous growth.
Deep Digital Business already represents one third of LLYC's business. Its services are in high demand and revenues increased by 98% in 2022. It is the key bet for the transformation of the firm's proposal.
Sound financial position
LLYC carries a lower level of debt versus the market average and has the resources to meet the ambitious business plan set out in its budget for 2023. The financial debt/EBITDA ratio is -0.3 and gross debt was reduced to €8.9 million (-15% versus 2021).
LLYC strives to be a diverse, inclusive, equitable and multidisciplinary company. Driven by this growth, 2022 is set to be a big year for investment in talent. The firm has incorporated new profiles, which boost its technological and creative capabilities. Last year it closed with 1,127 professionals, compared to 966 in 2021 (+17%).
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Oshkosh Fire Department responded to record number of calls in 2022
OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - The Oshkosh Fire Department answered over 10,000 calls for service for the first time in its history last year.
The fire department tells Action 2 News it finished 2022 with 10,405 calls. Calls have increased 15% since 2019.
Fire Chief Mike Stanley says the department is emphasizing risk-reduction efforts to hold back the growing number of fires, medical calls, ice rescues and other incidents.
“The City of Oshkosh’s population continues to increase, and as a large number of the population ages, I foresee a continued increase in demand for our services,” Chief Stanley wrote in a statement. With a fixed number of resources such as firefighters, apparatus, and fire stations the Department continues to implement and utilize risk-reduction programs to attempt to reduce the numbers of incidents by preventing them in the first place.”
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RICHMOND COUNTY, Va. — A 25-year-old Lancaster man died in early morning crash over the weekend in the Robley area of the Northern Neck, according to Virginia State Police.
The crash happened around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday at the intersection of Route 3 and Route 601. State Police said it was a single-vehicle crash.
A 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix ran off the road to the right and struck a tree.
The driver, identified as Joseph Bradley Lane Jr., died at the scene, according to State Police. He was wearing a seatbelt.
This crash remains under investigation.
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is taking over an investigation into corruption allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), a state prosecutor handling a separate case case against Paxton told The Hill.
Kent Schaffer, the state prosecutor, confirmed the DOJ was taking over the case from federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas.
It’s unclear why federal prosecutors in Texas were removed from the case, which was opened after several of Paxton’s senior officials accused him of bribery and abuse of office in 2020, but The Associated Press reported Paxton’s attorney’s sought the change, claiming there was an “obvious conflict.”
FBI agents and federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas were also involved in a 2019 search of the home of Austin real estate developer Nate Paul, who donated to Paxton’s 2018 campaign.
After Paul accused the agents and prosecutors of improperly raiding his home, Paxton appointed a special counsel to investigate the claims over objections by members of his staff. This appointment was one of several instances that ultimately led eight of Paxton’s employees to accuse him of bribery and abuse of office.
Paul reportedly also employed a woman with whom Paxton has acknowledged having an extramarital affair and was accused of playing a role in the remodel of Paxton’s Austin home, according to the AP. Paxton has denied any allegations of wrongdoing.
The changeover in the corruption investigation comes one week after Paxton reached a tentative $3.3 million settlement with four of the former employees, who were fired after reporting the Texas attorney general to the FBI.
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Latest solutions leverage key technologies such as mmWave, phased array, and beamforming to push 'Velocity' of connectivity higher
TAIPEI, Feb. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Auden Group, a leading provider of connectivity solutions based in Taiwan, is attending MWC Barcelona 2023 (Hall 5, Booth 5J64) to showcase its technological breakthroughs that are accelerating high-frequency 5G and wireless communications worldwide. Always pushing the cutting edge of antenna design, the brand is holding live demos of the solutions that achieved these milestones — including the 28GHz mmWave RF front-end antenna module that delivers high-frequency mmWave antenna technology at scale and the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) User Terminals that advance satellite broadband services.
Elevating 5G Frequency Capabilities: 28GHz mmWave
Unlocking higher frequencies of 5G means higher speeds, and Auden's 28GHz mmWave RF front-end antenna module demoed at MWC is a breakthrough therein. This solution uses 256QAM signal over-the-air transmission to allow its phased array antenna to deliver beamforming with excellent performance from rapid beam steering. Antenna designs, particularly phased arrays, use beamforming to solve path loss issues common at the higher frequencies of 5G mmWave, while enabling the creation of high-frequency 5G mmWave networks and Radio Frequency Identification.
Advancing LEO User Terminal Design for Enterprise and Marine Applications
For satellite broadband service via LEO networks, Auden is also spotlighting the LEO User Terminal, a 32 x 32 antenna array module with 2D beam scan capabilities, which the brand has successfully moved from the proof of concept stage to being ready for mass production in record time. In addition, a Marine LEO User Terminal project is in the pipeline, designed for marine applications in the future, together with Electronically Steered Array (ESA) for maintaining stability of marine solutions in rough seas.
5G MIMO Combo Antenna for Rugged Devices and V2X
Auden adds immense value to its Sub6 & 5G MIMO antenna designs through customizing them for particular applications. To highlight this, the brand is exhibiting its phased array antenna with integrated movement tracking, which was built to enhance high-mobility applications like vehicle-to-everything (V2X). For rugged devices, its bespoke slot antenna design is ideal for metal-encased devices, and a rotating antenna design offers a low profile for compact spaces. The company will also be discussing more on both embedded and external antenna designs tailored to verticals like V2X and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).
Lastly, Auden is showcasing advanced testing products such as Dielectric Assessment KitSystems and health wearables testing solutions at the show.
A Key Player Empowering Telecoms and Beyond
As a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, Auden partners with top global telecoms companies and plays a key role in their communications infrastructure. For example, the brand collaborates with a major satellite broadband service provider that counts on Auden's LEO User Terminals for enterprise users. Through providing customers cost-effective antenna designs tailored to a specific vertical, Auden has been particularly successful in the market for rugged device antennas, in which it has the top market share. The company's impact on the Open RAN ecosystem is also outstanding, as its subsidiary Auray recently became the world's first Open Testing and Integration Centre (OTIC) to issue the 5G OPEN RAN radio unit certification.
For more information, please contact sampson.duan@auden.com.tw or
visit https://www.auden.com.tw/en/home-en/.
About Auden Group
Established in 1981, Auden Group is a leading provider of connectivity solutions based in Taiwan. Continuously striving to advance the connectivity industry worldwide, the company provides comprehensive technical and service support in the wireless communication market, spanning antenna design & manufacturing, system-level integration, wireless product testing, laboratory & security, and green energy.
CONTACT: Jessie Liu, Tel : (+886)928-279-002
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Myles Jack’s first year in Pittsburgh was also his last.
The Steelers have cut Jack today, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
A veteran linebacker who played his first six seasons in Jacksonville, Jack signed a two-year, $16 million contract with the Steelers a year ago. Cutting him today saves $8 million in salary cap space for the Steelers.
Jack is only 27 years old and started 13 games last season, so it’s likely that he’ll have several teams interested in his services, though likely not at $8 million a year.
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CHICAGO (AP) — R. Kelly kept an ugly side of his life hidden as he escaped poverty in Chicago and rose to pop music stardom, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the singer’s trial on charges accusing him of enticing girls for sex and rigging a 2008 child pornography case.
Kelly’s lead attorney implored jurors during her opening statement at the federal trial in Chicago not to accept what she said was the prosecution’s portrayal of her client as “a monster.”
Going back to the 1990s, much of the world knew Kelly solely by his hit songs, including the chart-topping inspirational anthem “I Believe I Can Fly,” U.S. Assistant Attorney Jason Julien said. But “Kelly had another side … a hidden side, a dark side,” he added. “This trial is about Kelly’s hidden side.”
Kelly, 55, faces multiple charges, including enticing of minors for sex, producing child pornography and rigging his 2008 child pornography trial at which he was acquitted. Kelly, who has denied any wrongdoing, has been trailed for decades by complaints and allegations about his sexual behavior. The scrutiny intensified after the #MeToo era and the 2019 six-part documentary “Surviving R. Kelly” that detailed sex abuse allegations involving women and teenage girls.
Defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean told jurors that Kelly, in part because of intellectual challenges that included illiteracy, was forced to rely on others as his career took off and that he was sometimes led astray by those in his circle of associates.
“Mr. Kelly can also be a victim,” she said.
A conviction in Chicago could add decades to a 30-year prison sentence he already received from a New York federal judge for charges that he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Sitting at a defense table as the prosecutor spoke, Kelly occasionally shook his head as Julien described Kelly manipulating and controlling girls — even beating them if they didn’t comply with strict rules that included calling him “daddy.”
Julien sought to give jurors a sense of the scale of Kelly’s alleged exploitation, saying he “repeatedly” had sex with girls who were just 14, 15 and 16 years old — “multiple girls, hundreds of times.”
He told jurors that the evidence includes at least three videos showing Kelly having sex with underage girls.
“We’re not going to play hours of child pornography and make you watch it,” the prosecutor said, explaining they would see excerpts. He added: “The videos are difficult to watch. But it is important to watch … to understand what happened.”
Kelly nodded his head in agreement when his lawyer told jurors Kelly isn’t looking for special treatment — just a fair trial.
“When the government wants to paint him as a monster … you remember we are talking about a human being,” Bonjean said.
She said jurors should not succumb to what she called “a mob justice climate” surrounding Kelly, alluding to “Surviving R. Kelly” and years of harsh social media accounts of him.
“It is true that Mr. Kelly is imperfect,” she said. “On his journey from poverty to stardom, he stumbled along the way.” But, she said, she was confident jurors would ultimately find him not guilty.
After jurors acquitted Kelly at his state trial in 2008, some later explained that they felt they had no choice because the girl did not testify. The woman, now in her 30s and referred to in court filings as “Minor 1,” will be the government’s star witness. During the trial, she will be referred to by a single pseudonym, “Jane,” in court. She’s expected to testify that she was on video having sex with Kelly.
A central focus will be whether Kelly threatened and paid off Minor 1. That’s the allegation underpinning one of the charges against Kelly, conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Kelly also faces four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are expected to testify.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they also have denied wrongdoing.
The jury was impaneled Tuesday night with prosecutors and defense attorneys arguing toward the end of the process about whether the government was improperly attempting to keep some Black people off the jury. Kelly is Black.
About half the 12 jurors impaneled were identified as Black by the judge, prosecutor and defense attorneys. There are also five alternates.
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Things didn’t go the way Mayor Gerard Hudspeth hoped at Tuesday’s Denton City Council meeting when he proposed replacing former council member Alison Maguire on the Denton County Transportation Authority board and the Denton County Behavioral Leadership Team.
The council — now down to six members after Maguire was recalled last month — couldn’t reach a majority to remove her from the Behavioral Leadership Team or make her the alternate city representative instead of the primary one on the DCTA board.
Mayor Pro Tem Brian Beck and fellow council members Vicki Byrd and Brandon McGee voted against the proposals, citing what they called her excellent service record on both boards. Hudspeth and council members Chris Watts and Jesse Davis voted to replace her on the boards because 8,600 people in District 4 — 64% of the vote — voted to recall her in early November.
Maguire’s recall from the city council does not prevent her from serving on the DCTA board or the Behavioral Leadership Team.
Hudspeth plans to try again after the elections in May.
“64 percent of District 4 voted to make a change,” Hudspeth said. “This is a service job, and I don’t get to do what I want to do. I serve the whole city. We represent the community, and 8,000-plus made a decision that I had nothing to do with. … I’m taking that direction.”
Maguire showed up during the public comment period on the items to defend her service on both boards. She pointed out the long hours she spent to help come up with a strategic plan at DCTA, an agency that she said was chaotic when she replaced Watts on the board in October 2021, when he was removed for failing to follow a council directive.
“I have angered some powerful people, and now they don’t want me to be part of local leadership in any capacity,” Maguire told the Denton Record-Chronicle on Monday.
She was referring to Hudspeth and Watts, who claimed that Maguire’s recall was the first time in Denton’s history that a recall election was successful due, in part, to the vague language in the city charter that allowed a petition to move forward from signees who didn’t vote for her but were now represented by her due to a December 2021 redistricting.
At the Tuesday evening council meeting, Hudspeth said that it wasn’t personal and that he was simply listening to the 64% of voters who recalled her in District 4. His response was reiterated by Davis and Watts.
“We’re not talking about someone who resigned,” Davis said. “The voters voted no confidence in the person in front of them.”
Maguire argued that District 4 voters weren’t voting on her service at DCTA. Davis disagreed.
“I would like to note that the results of the election on Nov. 8 only applied to District 4, and both of these boards and representatives on each of these boards represent the entire city,” Maguire said. “The voters outside of D4 didn’t get a chance to vote.”
Watts denied that it was personal on Monday to the Record-Chronicle and reiterated it Tuesday evening, pointing out that he hasn’t berated Maguire on social media as she had done to him and that he even told her they would have a “redo” when he was voted to the at-large Place 6 council seat in May.
He then said the only reason that council was discussing Maguire’s replacements was because Maguire, Beck and previous council members ignored the will of 150 or 200 residents who showed up to demand that council members vote against the redistricting map in December 2021.
“Very few people present the fact, not at all,” Watts said. “... 8,600 [people] would rather have the seat empty than have someone there who doesn’t represent their values.”
Maguire was no doubt missed Tuesday afternoon at the council work session. The lack of her tie-breaking vote affected two requests made by McGee: the “ban the box” initiative, which would help people with criminal records to get a fair shake from employers before a criminal background check, and community benefits agreements, a deal between a developer and the neighborhood ensuring concessions when a development impacts their area.
Hudspeth, Watts and Davis declined to move both issues forward, citing several reasons but basically that the city shouldn’t be dictating employers’ hiring practices or developers’ agreements with neighborhoods.
Randy Hunt from Historic Denton brought the idea of a community benefits agreement (CBA) to the Southeast Denton Neighborhood Association in late summer when SEDNA members and their council member, Byrd, discovered that a high-end apartment complex, the Railyard, would be coming into their neighborhood.
Hunt said McGee was the point person to introduce the pitch to bring the idea of a CBA and a community benefits ordinance to a work session for staff to develop on what that could look like if Denton were to require that developers do indeed meet with neighborhoods about development projects when it impacts their area.
As several residents have criticized in the past, the city doesn’t do a good enough job letting people know about future developments appearing in their neighborhood. For example, the Railyard project has been in the works for three years with city staff, but SEDNA didn’t learn about it until a few months ago.
“The city is not involved [in the agreement],” Hunt said. “It just prevented Development Services from supporting a development unless there was a CBA in place.”
At the Tuesday afternoon work session, Byrd pointed out that CBAs would also help alleviate the long council meetings they often experience when the neighborhoods show up to complain about a development they weren’t aware of and didn’t want.
Hudspeth could have been the deciding vote to allow the CBA/CBO to move forward to a work session, but he declined to do so.
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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan activists launched a legal challenge Monday to controversial new legislation criminalizing some internet activity in the East African country.
Their petition to the constitutional court argues that the description of computer-related crimes in the bill enacted with President Yoweri Museveni’s signature last week violates the right to freedom of expression and criminalizes some digital work, including investigative journalism.
In presenting their petition at the court in the capital, Kampala, the petitioners were backed by silent protesters who carried placards reading “This law is worth breaking.”
The legislation increased the restrictions introduced in a controversial 2011 law on the misuse of computers. The legislation, passed by the national assembly in September, was brought by a lawmaker who said it was necessary to deter those who hide behind computers to hurt others.
The new law proposes jail terms of up to seven years in some cases, including for offenses related to the transmission of information about a person without their consent, as well as the sharing or intercepting of information without authorization.
“Yes, we live in the digital space. But do you have the right to take my picture and use it for your interests?” Muhammad Nsereko, the lawmaker who brought the bill, told The Associated Press by phone Monday.
Opponents of the law say it will stifle freedom of expression in a country where many of Museveni’s opponents — for years unable to stage street protests — often raise their concerns on Twitter and other online sites. Others say it will kill investigative journalism.
Critics range from the Committee to Protect Journalists to Amnesty International, which called the legislation “draconian.”
“This piece of legislation threatens the right to freedom of expression online, including the right to receive and impart information, on the pretext of outlawing unsolicited, false, malicious, hateful, and unwarranted information,” Amnesty International’s Muleya Mwananyanda said.
“It is designed to deliberately target critics of government and it will be used to silence dissent and prevent people from speaking out.”
While the law has useful provisions such as those protecting the right to privacy, including responsible coverage of children, “it introduces punitive penalties for anyone accused of so-called hate speech,” the statement added.
Museveni, 78, has held power in Uganda since 1986 and won re-election last year. Although he is popular among some Ugandans who praise him for restoring relative peace and economic stability, many of his opponents describe his rule as authoritarian.
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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.
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Nearly half of Californians “are likely to choose an EV the next time that they’re in the market for a vehicle.”
That’s the very uplifting takeaway from a survey released last week and commissioned by the electric vehicle advocacy group Veloz. But in more nuanced questions, the survey reveals lots of room for improvement, and ways policymakers in the state could be helping more consumers connect.
California now nudges past 15% EV sales among new vehicles. That said, it’s a more daunting challenge to get from those relative new adopters to the state’s ambitious target to shift away from most gasoline vehicles by 2035.
The survey focused on incentives and education, two aspects that results suggest aren’t offered in the form that might win the most buyers.
Seven in ten Californians support the idea of replacing the current EV rebate incentives with a point-of-sale voucher, the survey results suggest—in the form of a coupon that buyers could take to the dealership, giving them an instant discount.
The Veloz survey found that 69% of Californians support the voucher idea, while 20% oppose it and 11% are unsure.
That agrees with every other survey we’ve seen, suggesting that shoppers overwhelmingly support “cash on the hood” over the more abstract—and not guaranteed—idea of a tax credit.
As a George Washington University study earlier this year found, shoppers are so fond of point-of-sale rebates that they would take a lower incentive at purchase over a larger one potentially later. Based on the buyers who projected the lower immediate amount, those authors suggested taxpayers might have saved $2 billion over the long run with a simple lower rebate instead.
More education, less marketing?
The Veloz survey, which was funded by ClimateWorks Foundation and conducted in March by Fairbank, Maslin, Mallin, Metz & Associates (FM3), among 878 registered California voters likely to cast ballots in the November 2022 election, found that information goes a long way toward selling potential EV adopters on EVs as a new vehicle type.
Concrete facts about how quickly a car can charge, the amount drivers will save to charge versus fill with gasoline, and the simplicity and cost savings of maintenance for EVs versus gasoline vehicles were examples of persuasive information.
By household income, there’s some variation in the perceived trustworthiness of EV information, the survey found. Lower-household-income respondents were more likely to find those who have owned an EV for a few years to be a trustworthy source, and they were also more likely to see environmental organizations as a trustworthy source on EV experience.
It appears that the survey didn’t ask about information from automakers themselves, which might be the most interesting and rapidly changing aspect of the market right now. Most notably, GM is offering something called EV Live, in which it allows consumers to virtually connect with experts who can help explain EVs, home charging, battery technology, and more. Whether that’s the sort of education that will also help shift the mainstream remains to be seen.
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DETROIT – A driver is in critical condition after suffering third-degree burns in a fiery crash in Detroit.
According to the Michigan State Police Metro South Post, the single car crash occurred on westbound I-96 near Evergreen Road at 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
Police say a preliminary investigation revealed that a 20-year-old driver from Lincoln Park was traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control, hit the center median, and struck a light pole.
The driver was not wearing his seatbelt, police said.
The car caught fire, resulting in the driver suffering the burns over 80 percent of his body. He is currently listed in critical condition at a local hospital, police said.
“We want to remind drivers as we approach the high travel holiday weekend, slow down and wear your seatbelt.” said F/Lt Mike Shaw in a statement. “We know that excessive speeds are leading to a lot of our preventable crashes and drivers not wearing seatbelts also leads to more fatalities.”
The driver has not been identified by name.
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“Late Night” LaMonte Wade Jr. is expected to be back with the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday, so the nickname might need a little adjusting for the day game.
After spending most of the season on the injured list, he’ll also be on hand Saturday for LaMonte Wade Jr. Bobblehead Day on Saturday. Wade never has had a Bobblehead Day before, he said Tuesday, and his parents, LaMonte and Emily, are also likely to be at Oracle Park.
That generally means a Wade homer — he’s made a habit of habit of it when his family is in town, including the memorable game last year when he hit a blast right over Emily Wade when she was out in the arcade in right. “We’ll see,” Wade said with a smile.
“It’s going to be nice having LaMonte back on the baseball field,” said manager Gabe Kapler, who didn’t entirely commit to the move for Wednesday but said that Wade’s return is “where we’re trending.”
Wade came off the IL briefly in May, but his left knee, which he injured during spring training, continued to cause him difficulty, and he wound up getting weekly injections of a synthetic cushioning agent for the joint. That did the trick, and this time around, he feels at full stength.
“Ever since I got the first one, it has been feeling better,” Wade said. “The next two obviously made it feel even better, so the shots definitely helped out a lot. That’s something I’ll use probably the rest of the season.”
Wade called his two IL stints frustrating — “No one wants to miss that much time” — but he had five hits in his last 16 at-bats with a homer and two walks in his rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento.
“The fourth day, I started feeling all right,” he said. “It’s weird at first seeing pitchers again, everything like it was kind of getting on me. But after that, I settled back in and starting hitting some balls.”
Wade, whose six game-tying or go-ahead hits in the ninth inning in 2021 were the most in the majors in 40 years, hit .280 against right-handers at Sacramento and both his homers came against right-handers. He also played four games at first base, so could get some time there with the Giants.
Wade will have missed 61 games in all when he returns against Tigers right-hander Rony Garcia. The team got some superb play from Luis González during Wade’s absence, but González is now out with lower back stiffness; when the rookie comes off the IL, he’s likely to get sent out at least briefly because the team will have three left-handed hitting outfielders with Wade joining Mike Yastrzemski and Joc Pederson. Kapler said Tuesday that González is getting close to resuming baseball activity.
In addition, shortstop Brandon Crawford (knee contusion) is continuing to improve; he is expected to return from the IL when eligible next Monday.
“We have a game plan now to get him back to full health and full explosiveness and with a clear head,” Kapler said. “We're excited about what he's going to bring when he gets back to the club. He’s just feeling generally better; I think this is going to be good for Craw and for us.”
The Giants are likely to send DH Yermín Mercedes back to Sacramento to make room for Wade on the roster.
Susan Slusser is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sslusser@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @susanslusser
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Finance 500, Inc. (the "Company" or "F500") – a full service broker dealer and leader in meeting the funding needs of high-performance banks across the country announced the appointment of Mr. Jeffrey A. Rigsby as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer ("CEO").
Mr. Rigsby joins F500 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and will work closely with Mr. Bryan Bennett, founder, President and COO, and its founders, on the Corporation's overall growth strategy and execution. Mr. Rigsby's primary areas of focus will be the integration of the Company's performance and risk management group, product line and services expansion, leveraging information technology, client success and related growth priorities.
"I am thrilled to be welcoming Jeff to Finance 500," said Mr. Bennett. "Jeff brings over four decades of senior executive leadership experience within the banking and financial services industries. Having him join us in this leadership role is the culmination of the partnership we formed with Jeff and CB Resource in 2014."
Mr. Rigsby will continue in his role as Chairman, CEO and Founder of CB Resource, Inc. an industry leader in community bank risk and performance management. Prior to launching CB Resource, Inc. Rigsby was Executive Vice President of California Federal Bank, a NYSE traded company. In addition to serving as an EVP of the Bank, he was President and CEO of its wholly- owned subsidiary, California Federal Investment Services ("CFIS").
"I am very happy to directly join the team at Finance 500 as we continue to build a market leading full-service broker dealer. I strongly believe that the Finance 500 value proposition clearly sets it apart in meeting the needs of banks and credit unions throughout the US. I look forward to helping unlock further value for all our stakeholders as we continue to execute on the Company's exciting growth strategy," said Mr. Rigsby.
Mr. Rigsby earned his MBA at the Graziadio Business School at Pepperdine University. Additionally, he serves as the Audit Chairman of FNBC Bank, and is a member of the faculty of Pacific Coast Bankers School, a National Graduate School for Banking.
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Finance 500, Inc. is a full-service broker-dealer serving over 2,000 banks nationwide. For over four four decades the Company has proven to be a reliable and trusted partner, providing brokerage and investment services, which assists banking institutions and credit unions with cost effective deposits, investment banking solutions, and investors with FDIC insured CDs to support a stable investment portfolio.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Germany apologized on Thursday for using a leopard emoji in a jibe at Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Twitter that ended up offending some Africans.
The German foreign ministry poked fun at Russia’s top diplomat during his tour of Africa when it tweeted that he wasn’t there looking for leopards, but using the trip to try and justify Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The tweet, and the leopard emoji the foreign ministry used on its official account, played off Germany’s decision to send some of its advanced Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine to help its military fight off Russian forces.
But an African Union official took offense at what she said was the continent being portrayed as only about wild animals. Ebba Kalondo, the spokeswoman for AU Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat, tweeted back to the German government account questioning if Africa, its people and its wildlife was “just a joke to you?”
“Foreign policy is not a joke nor should it be used to score cheap geopolitical points by illustrating an entire Continent with colonial tropes,” Kalondo wrote in a follow-up tweet.
The German foreign ministry apologized and said that the tweet wasn’t meant to offend, but rather “to call out the lies that Russia uses to justify its imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Lavrov has visited South Africa, Eswatini, Angola and Eritrea this week, where he has repeated his claims that the United States and its Western allies are using Ukraine as a tool in a “hybrid war” against Russia.
Many African nations still hold historical ties with Moscow. South Africa was one of several to abstain from a U.N. vote last year condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Eritrea voted against the resolution alongside Russia, Belarus, North Korea and Syria.
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Opens August 25, 2022 at the California Historical Society
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Historical Society's (CHS) exhibition Mapping a Changing California: Selections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century presents the diverse and at times difficult stories of California's growth and development through maps dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Beginning in the 1600s, the earliest maps depicted California as an island. Following Spanish colonization, maps of the mission and rancho periods reflect the growth of established settlements and the devastating impacts on Native communities. Interest in plotting the newly formed state surged in the decades following the Gold Rush, and maps documented the rapid urbanization of towns up and down California.
Mapping a Changing California also considers how maps document change through three thematic lenses: changing environments, real estate and gentrification, and tourism. "These thematic sections provide an opportunity for visitors to dive deeper into the fascinating and often complicated aspects of California's history. The maps and accompanying materials in these galleries highlight issues that are still relevant to us today, including changing landscapes, surging real estate prices, and iconic attractions that draw tourists to California from near and far," says Paige Laduzinsky who served as guest curator for the exhibition.
Highlights include maps of Nueva California in the late 1700s, a submerged ghost town in Shasta County, geologic surveys of the Sierras, the burned portion of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, and early depictions of downtown Los Angeles and Hollywood. Related photographs, manuscripts, and archival materials help reveal the complex legacy of cartography in California.
The exhibition includes Mapping YOUR California, a free hands-on gallery designed for all ages to explore some of the basic concepts behind maps, what they depict, information they provide, and how they relate to our lives. This interactive gallery puts the visitor at the center of the experience, asking them to share what places are special to them and create a map that reflects their California story.
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(The Hill) — Rising prices in the first quarter of the year pushed up the income needed to afford a home to its highest level since 2007.
Major homeownership expenses last quarter required about 33 percent of a family’s monthly income, a report from nationwide property data provider ATTOM showed. Typically, lenders call for a buyer’s monthly debt-to-income ratio not to exceed 28 percent.
Now after three quarters of declines, the price for a median single-family home rose to $350,000 — up 10 percent from the first quarter.
ATTOM’s report shows prospective buyers needed to earn at least $75,000 annually to afford a median-priced home in about half of the nation’s housing markets.
The highest yearly wages needed to afford a median-priced home were highest in markets along the East and West coasts.
Wage requirements were highest in Manhattan County, New York, where prospective buyers need to earn more than $383,000 annually to afford a typical home. Manhattan is followed by San Mateo County, California, where buyers need an income higher than $361,000 for a typical home purchase.
Boomers and millennials fight for homes as housing market cools
Three California counties — Marin, Santa Clara, and San Francisco — round out the top five. Buyers need earnings of $352,153 in Marin, $340,803 in Santa Clara, and $327,906 in San Francisco County.
California’s Santa Cruz, Alameda, Orange and Napa counties and Kings County, New York — which includes Brooklyn — completed the top 10. Wages higher than $200,000 were necessary in each of these counties to afford a median-priced home.
The report also notes where wage requirements to afford a median-priced home are lowest. Three of the counties were in Pennsylvania. Prospective buyers in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, must earn just less than $15,000 to afford a typical home.
Housing prices skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic boom. Rising mortgage rates exacerbated the housing affordability squeeze and have failed to make a dent in home prices.
Mortgage rates have settled above 6 percent in recent months after soaring from historic lows amid the Federal Reserve’s fight with inflation. And recent sales data indicates buyers are adjusting to the rates.
New home sales surged by 12.2 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 763,000 units. Sales were 20 percent higher than they were a year ago.
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PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State hired Jeff Schmedding as the Cougars’ new defensive coordinator on Thursday.
Prior to his time at Auburn, Schmedding was the defensive coordinator at Boise State for the 2019-20 seasons. Before joining the Broncos, the native of Spokane, Washington, spent 15 seasons as an assistant coach at Eastern Washington in a variety of roles. Schmedding was the defensive coordinator for the Eagles his final four seasons.
“Jeff brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team, and truly understands our region of the country,” Washington State coach Jake Dickert said in a statement. “Jeff will put his stamp on our defense and I can’t wait to work alongside him in continuing the foundation of defensive football we have built here at WSU.”
Schmedding will replace Brian Ward, who left the Cougars after last season to take a position at Arizona State.
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Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has reached an agreement with the state to permanently provide safe drinking water to more than 1,000 properties impacted by forever chemical contamination in five southern New Hampshire towns.
Saint-Gobain, which has a plant in Merrimack, is one of the leading causes of wells in Bedford, Hudson, Litchfield, Londonderry and Merrimack being contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid compounds (PFOAs). The chemicals were first discovered in 2016, according to a news release.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) announced the deal Monday morning. The department was represented by the Attorney General’s Office.
Saint-Gobain has worked with NHDES to address the properties at greatest risk by providing bottled water, point-of-use treatment systems (POET) or waterline connections to more than 500 properties, primarily in Litchfield and Merrimack, according to the news release. In 2018, Saint-Gobain provided 302 waterline connections.
Approximately 1,000 additional properties have tested above the new standards of 12 parts per trillion passed in 2019.
“The families and businesses occupying these properties will finally get a permanent solution, after a long period of relying on bottled water,” NHDES Commissioner Bob Scott said in a statement.
As part of the deal, 352 properties have been identified to receive a waterline connection or a POET. Additional water sources for 600 properties still need to be finalized, according to the news release. Some of the connections are set to begin this summer with the more complex ones being constructed in 2023.
In December, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that exposure to water in contaminated wells could have increased health risks for residents. New Hampshire’s Department of Health and Human Services released a report the same month which found higher-than-expected levels of kidney cancer in Merrimack.
New Hampshire House Speaker Sherman Packard, R-Londonderry, called the deal ”a positive step in a long, multi-tiered” process in a statement.
“(The deal) is a good-faith effort to restore clean drinking water to those affected and ensure that all New Hampshire residents benefit from the improvements made to our state’s water infrastructure and through our continuing legislative efforts,” he said.
A remote meeting will take place on May 4 for impacted properties.
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FLOYD, Va. and INDEPENDENCE, Va., Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parkway Acquisition Corp. ("Parkway" or the "Company") (OTC QX: PKKW) – the holding company for Skyline National Bank ("Skyline" or the "Bank") – announced its results of operations for the second quarter of 2022.
Parkway recorded net income of $2.2 million, or $0.40 per share, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, compared to net income of $2.3 million, or $0.38 per share, for the same period in 2021. For the six months ended June 30, 2022, net income was $4.6 million, or $0.83 per share, compared to net income of $4.1 million, or $0.69 per share, for the six months ended June 30, 2021. Second quarter 2022 earnings represented an annualized return on average assets ("ROAA") of 0.88% and an annualized return on average equity ("ROAE") of 11.67%, compared to 0.99% and 10.74%, respectively, for the same period last year.
President and CEO Blake Edwards stated, "We are pleased with our results for the second quarter and first half of 2022. Strong earnings, combined with a reduction in shares outstanding due to our successful repurchase program, resulted in an increase in earnings per share of 20.29% for the first six months of 2022 compared to the first six months of 2021. During the pandemic, revenue from the SBA-PPP program helped to offset the impact of interest rate decreases which were implemented by the Federal Reserve in March of 2020. Our focus, while navigating the pandemic-related challenges, was on growing our core banking business, especially core loans, in order to stabilize earnings once PPP-related revenues were depleted. While PPP loans fell by $56.2 million from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2022, our core loans grew by $81.7 million, or 13.0%. Through the first half of 2022 our core loans have grown at an annualized rate of over 17%. Successful core loan growth, along with recent interest rate increases, could have a positive impact on margins as the year progresses."
Edwards continued, "Deposit growth was strong as well, with annualized growth of lower cost core deposits of 25% during the second quarter of 2022, as the Skyline brand continues to be well received throughout our market area. In May 2022, our Christiansburg, VA branch was relocated to a newly constructed branch building, which will serve as the hub of our New River Valley operations and greatly enhance our ability to serve our customers in this market. I believe we are well positioned for continued growth and success in the future and know that our employees will continue to deliver on our brand promise of being "Always our Best" for our customers each and every day."
Highlights
- Net income was $2.2 million, or $0.40 per share, in the second quarter of 2022, compared to $2.3 million, or $0.38 per share, in the second quarter of 2021.
- Net interest margin ("NIM") was 3.54% for the second quarter of 2022, compared to 3.53% in the first quarter of 2022, and 3.69% in the second quarter of 2021.
- Total assets increased $42.4 million, or 4.26%, to $1.04 billion at June 30, 2022 from $995.8 million at December 31, 2021, and increased by $91.3 million, or 9.64%, from $946.9 million a year earlier.
- Net loans were $714.6 million at June 30, 2022, an increase of $36.7 million, or 5.42%, when compared to $677.9 million at December 31, 2021, and an increase of $22.6 million, or 3.26%, when compared to $692.0 million at June 30, 2021.
- Total deposits were $953.7 million at June 30, 2022, an increase of $55.5 million, or 6.18%, from $898.2 million at December 31, 2021, and an increase of $107.4 million, or 12.68%, from $846.3 million at June 30, 2021.
- Annualized return on average assets decreased to 0.88% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, from 0.99% for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, due mainly to growth in total assets. Annualized return on average equity increased to 11.67% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, from 10.74% for the quarter ended June 30, 2021.
- The Bank participated in the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program ("SBA-PPP") during 2020 and 2021. Gross SBA-PPP loans totaling $5.4 million with net deferred fees of $204 thousand remained on the balance sheet as of June 30, 2022. SBA-PPP loans totaled $61.5 million at June 30, 2021.
- The Company repurchased 12,000 shares of its common stock through its publicly announced share repurchase program during the second quarter of 2022.
Second Quarter, First Half 2022 Income Statement Review
Net interest income after provision for loan losses in the second quarter of 2022 was $8.1 million compared to $7.7 million in the second quarter of 2021, primarily reflecting increased interest income and a reduction in interest expense. Total interest income was $8.8 million in the second quarter of 2022, representing an increase of $281 thousand in comparison to the second quarter of 2021. Interest income on loans decreased in the quarterly comparison by $250 thousand, primarily due to a decrease in SBA-PPP related interest and fees of $289 thousand from the year ago period. From June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2022, SBA-PPP loans decreased by $56.2 million, however; this decrease has been offset by higher yielding organic loan growth of $81.7 million. Management anticipates that this loan growth in addition to higher rates in the current year will have a positive impact on both earning assets and loan yields. Interest income on securities increased by $402 thousand in the quarterly comparison, as a result of the $65.0 million increase in the securities portfolio, excluding market value changes, from the year ago period. The Company also successfully reduced interest expense on deposits by $201 thousand, or 32.84%, in the quarterly comparison, reflecting rate reductions in deposit offerings as well as a reduction of $27.7 million in time deposit balances from a year ago.
For the first half of 2022, net interest income after provision for loan losses was $16.0 million compared to $14.9 million for the first half of 2021. Interest income increased by $705 thousand, primarily due to an increase of $708 thousand in interest income on securities and an increase of $126 thousand in interest income on interest-bearing deposits in banks, which offset a decrease in loan interest income of $127 thousand during the first half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2021. Interest income on loans decreased in the six-month comparison, primarily due to a decrease in SBA-PPP related interest and fees of $121 thousand from the year ago period. Excluding SBA-PPP related interest and fees of $1.7 million for the first half of 2022 and $1.8 for the first half of 2021, interest income on loans would be comparable at $14.1 million. Interest expense on deposits decreased by $443 thousand for the six-months ended June 30, 2022 compared to the same period last year. As previously discussed, this is a reflection of the reduced rates for interest bearing demand deposits, time deposits, and savings products and a reduction in time deposit balances from a year ago.
Second quarter 2022 noninterest income was $1.5 million compared with $1.6 million in the second quarter of 2021. Income from service charges and fees increased by $286 thousand, offsetting a $158 thousand decrease in mortgage origination fees as mortgage origination volume declined compared to the year ago period. Nonrecurring income of $200 thousand from a one-time lease termination fee was recorded in other income for the second quarter of 2021. Excluding this nonrecurring income of $200 thousand in 2021, noninterest income increased by $114 thousand for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of 2021.
For the six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, noninterest income was $3.2 million and $3.0 million, respectively. The increase of $139 thousand was due to an increase of $503 thousand in service charges and fees, which offset a $301 thousand decrease in mortgage origination fees. Included in income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was nonrecurring income from life insurance contracts of $217 thousand, and for the six months ended June 30, 2021, there was nonrecurring income of $200 thousand from a one-time lease termination fee.
Noninterest expense in the second quarter of 2022 was $6.9 million compared with $6.4 million in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of $458 thousand, or 7.14%. There was an increase in salary and benefit costs of $205 thousand, while occupancy and equipment expenses increased $197 thousand in the quarterly comparisons primarily due to branch expansion costs. FDIC assessments increased by $38 thousand to adjust for continued deposit growth, offsetting a decrease in core deposit intangible amortization of $29 thousand in the quarterly comparison. For the six-month period ended June 30, 2022, total noninterest expenses increased by $708 thousand compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to employee and branch costs associated with branch expansion. Salary and benefit cost increased by $229 thousand, occupancy and equipment expenses increased by $288 thousand, and telephone expense increased by $62 thousand from the first six months of 2021 to 2022. FDIC assessments increased by $75 thousand in the six-month comparison due to continued deposit growth.
Net income before taxes decreased by $103 thousand in the quarterly comparison causing a decrease in income tax expense of $37 thousand. In the six-month comparison, net income before taxes increased by $538 thousand, resulting in an increase in income tax expense of $45 thousand.
Balance Sheet Review
Total assets increased in the second quarter of 2022 by $30.8 million, or 3.06%, to $1.04 billion at June 30, 2022 from $1.01 billion at March 31, 2022, and increased by $42.4 million, or 4.26%, from $995.8 million at December 31, 2021. The growth in assets during the second quarter of 2022 primarily reflects an increase in gross loans and deposits during the quarter. Total loans increased during the second quarter by $23.0 million, or 3.30%, to $720.6 million at June 30, 2022 from $697.6 million at March 31, 2022, and increased by $37.1 million, or 5.43%, compared to $683.5 million at December 31, 2021. SBA-PPP loans decreased by $7.5 million during the second quarter 2022; however, this decrease was offset by higher yielding organic loan growth of $31.0 million during the quarter. Gross loans at June 30, 2022 included $5.4 million in SBA-PPP loans with net deferred fees of $204 thousand.
Asset quality has remained strong, with a ratio of nonperforming loans to total loans of 0.23% at June 30, 2022 compared to 0.19% at December 31, 2021. The allowance for loan losses was approximately 0.84% of total loans as of June 30, 2022 compared to 0.83% at December 31, 2021. Management's estimate of probable credit losses inherent in the acquired Cardinal Bankshares Corporation and Great State Bank loan portfolios was reflected as a purchase discount which will continue to be accreted into income over the remaining life of the acquired loans. As of June 30, 2022, the remaining unaccreted discount on the acquired loan portfolios totaled $785 thousand.
Investment securities increased by $451 thousand during the second quarter to $149.9 million at June 30, 2022 from $149.4 million at March 31, 2022, and increased by $20.2 million from $129.7 million at December 31, 2021. The increase in the second quarter of 2022 was the result of $10.2 million in purchases, offset by paydowns, calls, and maturities of $2.5 million, and an increase in unrealized losses of $7.2 million as a result of the increase in interest rates during the quarter.
Total deposits increased in the second quarter of 2022 by $32.6 million, or 3.54%, to $953.7 million at June 30, 2022 from $921.1 million at March 31, 2022, and increased $55.5 million, or 6.18%, compared to $898.2 million at December 31, 2021. Deposit growth continues to reflect increased balances held by customers, organic growth in our markets and new customer deposits. Lower-cost core deposits (demand deposits, savings, and money market accounts) increased by $45.7 million during the quarter, resulting in annualized growth of 25%, while time deposit balances decreased by $13.1 million.
Total stockholders' equity decreased by $3.6 million, or 4.51% to $75.8 million at June 30, 2022, from $79.4 million three months earlier, and decreased $9.4 million, or 11.02%, from $85.2 million at December 31, 2021. The change during the quarter reflects net income of $2.2 million, less stock repurchases of $154 thousand, and an unrealized decrease in the value of the securities portfolio as a result of increased interest rates during the quarter. As interest rates rise, we anticipate continued negative pressure on the market value of our investment portfolio which is recognized on our balance sheet as a reduction in stockholders' equity. However, management does not anticipate the need to sell any investment securities prior to their scheduled maturity, therefore we do not expect market value changes to impact future earnings.
Forward-looking statements
This release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934 as amended. These include statements as to expectations regarding future financial performance and any other statements regarding future results or expectations. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are including this statement for purposes of these safe harbor provisions. Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe future plans, strategies, and expectations of the Company, are generally identified by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," "estimate," or "project" or similar expressions. Our ability to predict results, or the actual effect of future plans or strategies, is inherently uncertain. Factors which could have a material adverse effect on the operations and future prospects of the combined company and its subsidiaries include, but are not limited to: changes in interest rates, general economic conditions; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Company's credit quality and business operations, as well as its impact on general economic and financial market conditions; the effect of changes in banking, tax and other laws and regulations and interpretations or guidance thereunder; monetary and fiscal policies of the U.S. government, including policies of the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board; the quality and composition of the loan and securities portfolios; demand for loan products; deposit flows; competition; demand for financial services in the combined company's market area; the implementation of new technologies; the ability to develop and maintain secure and reliable electronic systems; accounting principles, policies, and guidelines; and other factors identified in Item 1A, "Risk Factors," in the Company's Annual Report on 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. These risks and uncertainties should be considered in evaluating forward-looking statements and undue reliance should not be placed on such statements. We undertake no obligation to update or clarify these forward‐looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
(See Attached Financial Statements for quarter ending June 30, 2022)
For more information contact:
Blake Edwards, President & CEO – 276-773-2811
Lori Vaught, EVP & CFO – 276-773-2811
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Louisiana State Police are investigating and LSU has stopped a graduate student from teaching after he left a profanity-laced voicemail for a state senator for voting to override Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a ban on youth access to gender-affirming health care.
In a copy of the voicemail that spread widely on social media, graduate student Marcus Venable tells Sen. Mike Fesi, a Republican from Houma, that he can't wait to see his name in the obituaries and makes a reference to putting his "f***ing ass in the ground."
LSP officials have confirmed an investigation into the complaint against Venable is active and ongoing. They declined to comment further.
In a statement, LSU said Venable has taught classes at the university before, but will not be allowed to do so in the future.
"As a university, we foster open and respectful dialogue. Like everyone, graduate students with teaching assignments have the right to express their opinions, but this profanity-filled, threatening call crossed the line," the statement said. "This does not exhibit the character we expect of someone given the privilege of teaching as part of their graduate assistantship. The student will be allowed to continue their studies but will not be extended the opportunity to teach in the future."
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- Restaurant Noma will operate an exclusive three-night dinner series in Los Angeles, July 19-21
- Audi to bring renowned MAD Monday speaker series to Los Angeles on July 18; tickets available to the public on June 13
- Audi to provide funding for six scholarship recipients from the LA hospitality community to attend groundbreaking MAD Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark
LOS ANGELES, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Audi of America announced today a collaboration with the Copenhagen-based Restaurant Noma – named #1 in the world by the prestigious World's 50 Best Restaurants organization in 2021, and with the food and hospitality nonprofit MAD, reinforcing a shared passion for innovation, focus on sustainability and commitment to driving positive change.
The partnership includes bringing a three-night noma dinner series to Los Angeles this July, hosting the first ever MAD Monday event in LA and providing funding for six scholarship recipients to attend the MAD Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Three-Michelin-star Restaurant Noma and its founder, Danish chef René Redzepi, are known for a focus on foraging, innovation and a unique interpretation of New Nordic Cuisine. From sourcing local ingredients to reducing food waste, noma seeks to be an inspiration for other organizations around the world to embrace the opportunity for a more sustainable business model.
As part of the partnership with Audi, René and his team from Copenhagen will curate an exclusive invite-only three-night dinner series in Los Angeles from July 19-21. The menu for the dinner series will be a multi-course tasting menu of classic noma dishes inspired by their seasonal menus with a wine pairing selected by the noma team.
"I believe that organizations should continually innovate. At noma, we are constantly building things up to break them down, and then start over again—it's at the core of everything we do," said René Redzepi. "We should all take a step back into nature to find inspiration to reinvigorate the process of innovation."
Collaborating with noma strengthens Audi's mission to work with like-minded organizations that stand for living progress and creating a more sustainable future. Audi and noma share a commitment to sustainability and inclusion through actions grounded in purpose and a focus on creating a positive impact for individual and society as a whole.
"When you collaborate with like-minded people and companies you not only grow as an individual, but as an organization, too. I find Audi to be a forward-looking company with a strong focus on innovation; creating the ultimate design and experience to develop more sustainable solutions," said Peter Kreiner, noma CEO and co-owner.
MAD and The LA Scholars Award presented by Audi
MAD (Danish for "food") was established by Redzepi in 2011 as a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating sustainable change in restaurants and communities around the world. Launched in 2019, MAD Academy is an educational initiative based in Copenhagen that invites hospitality professionals to attend five-day intensive programs to gain the expertise, practical tools and inspiration they need to generate positive change in their workplaces, their communities, and the world at large.
Melina Shannon-DiPietro, executive director of MAD, says, "At MAD Academy, we ask ourselves: How might we build a restaurant industry with better working conditions and a more inclusive kitchen environment? How do we create an industry that contributes solutions to climate, environment, and biodiversity, while preserving the deliciousness and pleasure of the restaurant experience?"
As a long-time supporter of the culinary industry, Audi is announcing a pivotal scholarship program that will provide a remarkable opportunity for individuals from the Los Angeles hospitality community to attend the innovative MAD Academy in Copenhagen and learn how to adopt more sustainable practices that can impact and inspire others when they return home. The LA Scholars Award, MAD's most comprehensive scholarship to date, will provide funding for six recipients to attend their choice of MAD Academy program, including airfare, lodging, meals and all programmatic costs.
"Audi is honored to partner with MAD as our goals to drive change around diversity, equity and inclusion are very aligned," said Tara Rush, chief marketing officer, Audi of America. "With the LA Scholars Award, we're underscoring our mission to build a more sustainable and inclusive tomorrow, for automotive, culinary and beyond."
Individuals who reside and work in the greater Los Angeles area and who are interested in applying for the LA Scholars Award presented by Audi can find more information here: https://madacademy.dk/la-scholars/
MAD Monday
As part of its work to transform the hospitality industry, MAD hosts an ongoing series of public talks in local communities that are open to everyone with an interest in food and have an appetite for change. MAD Mondays began as a way to gather food fans and restaurant and hospitality workers on their traditional day off, Monday, to join in meaningful conversations with the goal of ultimately driving positive change in their industries.
MAD Monday LA, presented by Audi and MAD on July 18, will be the first MAD Monday event to be held this year and the first ever to be held in Los Angeles. Built on MAD and Audi's shared values of innovation and a commitment to sustainability, MAD Monday LA will be an evening of inspiration, learning, and community. The event, which will take place at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, will include a thought-provoking lecture and practical skill-building exercise designed to empower and inspire attendees.
The featured speaker will be Douglas McMaster, chef and owner of Silo. McMaster has been a lecturer for MAD Academy, inspiring the next generation of leaders to think differently about food systems, waste, and the industry at large. Doug is known as an influential speaker in Europe and MAD Monday LA will mark the first time he is presenting in the U.S.
The skill-building exercise will be a Planning Change Workshop – facilitated by renowned chef and MAD Academy director, Magnus Nilsson and program manager, Jack Muirhead. This workshop is a way for MAD Monday guests to get an exclusive peek into some of the transformative exercises that are typically reserved for students attending MAD's five-day Academy programs.
"Both Audi and MAD believe in spreading the power of positive impact—supporting talented individuals as they take their learnings from MAD back to their own communities to create long-lasting change," says Shannon-DiPietro.
Following the event, a reception featuring some of LA's diverse food offerings will allow the attendees, community members, young apprentices and luminaries the chance to network and connect.
To reserve tickets to attend MAD Monday LA, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mad-monday-la-presented-by-audi-registration-342884164767 There is no cost to attend and tickets will open to the general public on Monday, June 13.
noma
Led by its founder and head chef René Redzepi, the three Michelin starred Restaurant Noma, five times recognized as the World's Best, works with an intimate network of purveyors to develop a cuisine that expresses its region's culture and seasons. In February 2017, noma closed at the harbor side warehouse that it called home for fourteen years. Twelve months later, the restaurant reopened in a new location and with a new philosophy focused on the region's three distinct seasons and myriad micro-seasons.
Beyond Copenhagen, and driven by a continued desire to learn, experience and expand their creativity and tastes, noma has also undertaken three international residencies including Japan (2015), Australia (2016) and Mexico (2017).
René Redzepi
René Redzepi is the founder, head chef and co-owner of noma. René Redzepi is the founder of MAD, a nonprofit that aims to build a community of cooks, purveyors, thinkers and enthusiasts, with an appetite for knowledge, a passion for food, and a desire to improve the world around it. In March 2021, he founded Noma Projects, an initiative that aims to transform the restaurant's collective knowledge, craft, and spirit into an engine for creative output and positive change.
Redzepi is the author of Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine, A Work in Progress, and the New York Times bestseller Foundations of Flavor: The Noma Guide To Fermentation. He is married to Nadine Levy Redzepi, and together they have three daughters: Arwen, Genta and Ro.
MAD
MAD (Danish for food) is a nonprofit organization that empowers the global hospitality community with the tools, inspiration, and knowledge to make a difference in their restaurants and the world. MAD was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2011 by René Redzepi, chef and owner of restaurant noma, with the ambition of transforming hospitality and driving change in food systems.
Since the very beginning, MAD has led important conversations about how the restaurant community can contribute to the health of the planet and positively contribute to the lives of those working in food. MAD's programs include a Symposium; a series of public talks in major cities around the globe; media shared through books, publications, and online videos; and VILD MAD, free resources to explore nature through foraging. In 2019, MAD launched its most ambitious project yet: an Academy supporting the food and hospitality industry with tools and knowledge for change makers.
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3 injured in shooting at Six Flags near Chicago
GURNEE, Ill. (AP) - Three people were hurt late Sunday in a shooting outside an amusement park north of Chicago.
A spokesperson for Six Flags Great America said the victims were in a parking lot outside the amusement park in Gurnee when shots were fired from a vehicle.
The vehicle immediately drove away.
Two of the people injured were taken to a hospital for evaluation and one refused treatment, according to the spokesperson.
The park is located about 45 miles north of Chicago.
WGN News spoke with Laurie Walker and her daughter, Grace, who were inside the park when the shooting occurred.
Walker said they were waiting in line for the ‘Ricochet’ in the southwest area of the park around 7:50 p.m. when she noticed people running in a panic.
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Company is one of the guests at Espaço Brasil and participates in debates on the hydrogen market on November 16th and 17th, in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
SÃO PAULO, Nov. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With the objective of presenting the first green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Brazil and debating initiatives that contribute to the decarbonization of the industry, Unigel - one of the largest chemical companies in Latin America and the largest manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers in Brazil - participates in the 27th edition of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference that will take place between the 6th and 18th of November 2022, in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
Leo Slezynger, Unigel's shareholder, will be the company's representative at COP27 and will be at Espaço Brasil for the debate "Actions for the Development of the Green Hydrogen Market in Brazil", on November 16, at 10 am, promoted by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI). Also participating in the panel are Denise Scarpa from Albuquerque Maranhão, a specialist in Corporate Relations and Regulatory Affairs at Shell; Leone Peter Correia da Silva Andrade, director of innovation and technology at SENAI/DR/BA and Jurandir Marães Picanço Júnior, energy consultant at the Federation of Industries of the State of Ceará.
On the 17th, at 9 am, also at Espaço Brasil, the Unigel shareholder will have the opportunity to present Unigel's green hydrogen plant in a discussion promoted by the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) together with the CEO of thyssenkrupp South America, Paulo Alvarenga; Rogério Zampronha, CEO of Prumo Logística; and Jesse Can Griensven Thé, CEO of Lakes Environmental.
According to Slezynger, Unigel arrives at COP27 with the focus on demonstrating how Brazil has the potential to be a protagonist in the green hydrogen market. "I understand that Brazil is in a position to be the largest producer of green hydrogen on the planet, since we have a consistent industry, privileged weather conditions and a strong domestic market that will generate growth for suppliers even in international adversities. It is an honor to be at such a great event for the first time and to be able to demonstrate that our country will be one of the great hydrogen players in the world", he explains.
The Plant
Unigel is a pioneer in a key market for industrial green hydrogen projects due to the high renewable energy capacity installed in Brazil. The company is investing $120 million (BRL 650 million), during the first phase, to build the largest green hydrogen plant in the country. The plant is expected to be operational by the end of 2023. Unigel relies on the world's leading technology for high-efficiency electrolysis from thyssenkrupp nucera, Germany.
Located in the Camaçari Industrial Complex (BA), the new factory, in its first phase, will have a production capacity of 10 thousand tons/year of green hydrogen and 60 thousand tons/year of green ammonia, aimed at the domestic market. In the second phase of the project, scheduled to go into operation by 2025, the company is expected to quadruple the production of green hydrogen and ammonia.
About Unigel
Founded in 1966, Unigel is strategically located in Brazil, in the states of Bahia, Sergipe and São Paulo. It is a leader in styrenics, acrylics and nitrogen fertilizers, consolidating itself as one of the largest chemical companies in Latin America and the largest manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers in the country.
Present in people's daily lives, Unigel provides essential inputs for the manufacture of final products in home appliances and electronics, automotive, paints and coatings, civil construction, pulp and paper, packaging, health and beauty, textile, mining and agriculture markets. The company also carries out the first initiative for the production and distribution of hydrogen and green ammonia in Brazil. With an investment of $120 million, the new plant will be the largest in Brazil when it opens in late 2023.
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US soldier is trying to rescue this sweet, helpless puppy from the Middle East: ‘Family is so excited’
The NY-based nonprofit Paws of War is trying to send Sgt. Macintire's puppy home to Utah
A U.S. soldier is asking for help in safely getting his tiny rescue puppy out of the Middle East and into America — so that this beautiful animal can finally live a happy life.
U.S. Army Sgt. Macintire, who is on his 15th deployment overseas, is recruiting help from the public as well as support from the nonprofit Paws of War to transport his adorable puppy, CJ, back home to his family in Utah.
Robert Misseri, co-founder of the Long Island, N.Y.-based Paws of War, told Fox News Digital that the pup's rescue mission needs more funding before all steps can be completed. The group also divulged just how close to death this puppy had been.
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"We have assured [Sgt.] Macintire that we would do everything we can not to let him down or his family down," said Misseri about the pup.
He added about the rescue mission and the animal's transport, "It’s very expensive."
Paws of War staff revealed to Fox News Digital that "things were touch and go" for little CJ at the start of the mission.
First off, the pup was "facing several health issues, including dehydration, and possibly poison[ing]," a staff member shared with Fox News Digital.
The pup's "chances of survival were not good. She received several types of IV medications and treatments over the course of a week. Initially, she did not respond well — but after five days, when we thought it was going to be her last day, she turned the corner."
"They all knew how much the dog meant to Sgt. Macintire."
"It was hard for everyone just seeing her lay lifelessly in the cage, not being able to help or comfort her," said Paws of War staff.
The organization remained in contact with Macintire and his family throughout the process of rescue and rehabilitation.
"So many of the soldiers on the base were also waiting each day for the updates," donor relations specialist Gary Baumann of Paws of War told Fox News Digital via email. "They had loved this little pup, and they all knew how much the dog meant to Sgt. Macintire."
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Macintire, who can't disclose his first name or specific location, first came across CJ while on patrol with other soldiers. The puppy was with its mother, who was nursing her brood on the side of the road, while a protective adult male dog lingered nearby.
Amid grieving the loss of his own family's Great Dane back home, the sergeant continued to visit the family of dogs, hoping to win over the father pup, whom he named Cooper.
Eventually, Cooper took Macintire's offerings of food and water — and allowed the soldiers to play with his puppies.
One day, however, the family of dogs went missing. After searching for the animals, soldiers finally found Cooper's body — as well as the sick, scared and now-orphaned puppy they named CJ, short for Cooper Jr.
The Army sergeant made it his duty to care for and adopt the puppy, leaning on Paws of War to help provide her with medical attention and a one-way ticket out of harm’s way.
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"I wanted to show CJ a life different from the one her father suffered in," the sergeant told Paws of War. The dogs, he said, had been "fighting to survive in the open desert, scrounging for food and being mistreated by some humans."
Robert Misseri of Paws of War explained that there are a "multitude" of obstacles involved in getting a dog out of the Middle East and into the U.S., including a hefty price tag.
"Our goal right now is to raise all the funds that are needed," he said. "We feel confident that we can."
The Paws of War co-founder detailed that the end goal is to have CJ in Utah — greeting the sergeant once he returns home from deployment. Step one is to get the puppy to Macintire’s wife, six kids and granddaughter.
"I hike daily on the trails throughout Utah and can't wait to have CJ by my side," Macintire said. "That will give me so much joy knowing she is safe and happy."
CJ has full clearance to fly to the U.S. once full funding is collected for her trip.
"My family is so excited," he added. "My kids have even cleaned up our yard and made sure there were no holes in the fence."
A rescue mission such as this one from the Middle East involves a variety of other challenges, such as nailing down flight clearance and sending Paws of War personnel to remote locations for pickups.
Misseri said once a puppy is picked up, the first order of business is to get the animal to a veterinarian, even though the nearest vet could be up to 500 miles away.
"They [veterinarians] are not as common as they are here in America," he said.
"In many of these places, dogs are not common pets, so there are not a lot of veterinarians or a lot of supplies."
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Despite these challenges, Misseri revealed that what keeps Paws of War going is the goal of preventing additional U.S. soldiers from having to leave pets behind against their will.
"We’ve heard from so many soldiers that served prior to knowing we existed and had to leave an animal behind — and it weighs very, very heavily on them," he said.
"And now, when someone does reach out to us, we do everything we can to never let that soldier down or let that dog down."
The survival rate for puppies in the Middle East is "very low," Misseri also said — so leaving them behind can be "brutal" for soldiers.
"We do everything we can to never let that soldier down or let that dog down."
"It's a cruel existence for them," he said. "You have dogs that have to fight for food. You have people who try to hurt them. The temperatures are brutal. It's very different, so the survival rate is very low in general."
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Misseri said CJ is "doing great" right now and that she has full clearance to fly once enough funds have been collected on her behalf.
Any donations are gratefully accepted at pawsofwar.networkforgood.com.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
3-7-4
(three, seven, four)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday afternoon's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Midday" game were:
3-7-4
(three, seven, four)
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DIMMITT, Texas (KLBK|KAMC) – A county judge described the scene after a fiery explosion at a Texas dairy farm Monday night as “terrible” and “devastating.”
“The number of animals that were lost and the barn that was lost,” Castro County Judge Mandy Gfeller said. “I believe that financially, it’s just devastating and catastrophic.”
According to Castro County, the number of cattle that died in the fire at the South Fork Dairy had been estimated at 18,000. Officials were still working to confirm that number Thursday morning. Nexstar was also working to independently verify the figure with the business but had not been able to reach them at publication time.
The Castro County Sheriff’s Office said one employee was inside the dairy building when the explosion happened, but firefighters were able to get her out. She was to be flown to University Medical Center to be treated for critical injuries.
Gfeller said the tragedy could’ve been worse if not for emergency personnel.
“We’re thankful for our first responders as well as the neighboring counties who sent aid so quickly,” Gfeller said. “I commend their swift response and quick thinking to help save those lives.”
Gfeller said South Fork Dairy is one of the county’s largest businesses, so the damage goes beyond just the facility.
“It employed citizens of our county, and that could impact those citizens, as far as jobs go, it could impact our tax base for our county and other municipalities and taxing entities,” Gfeller said. “They’re going to have to rebuild in order to be able to sustain that portion.”
As the county continues to navigate the tragedy, Gfeller said the community outpouring has been inspiring.
“In both times of loss and celebration, we have a very great community that supports others,” Gfeller said. “While the loss of so many animals is devastating, I am so thankful that there was no loss of human life, and I’m just praying for complete restoration for South Fork Dairy.”
The cause of the disaster is still unknown, and an investigation is underway.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Castro County has 15 dairies that produce 148,000 pounds of milk a month, making it the second-highest milk-producing county in Texas.
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Kenneth M. Phillips is a different breed of lawyer. The California-based author and attorney specializes in holding negligent dog owners legally accountable for their failure when their animal mauls, maims or kills an innocent person. He's been called the nation's undeniable legal expert and strategist in matters of dog bites.
His website contains an appropriate headline from People Magazine--"Biting Back: When a Dog Sinks Its Teeth In, Attorney Ken Phillips Goes For the Throat."
And business (he doesn't solicit) is nonstop and growing. Phillips routinely partners with local attorneys to file dog bite cases in communities across the nation, only charging clients when he wins in court.
As the author of the online Dog Bite Law (dogbitelaw.com), he not only has compiled mountains of statistics on the types and nature of dogs that kill and maim, but he's also determined that the best protection is a combination of well-crafted laws, governmental policies that support enforcing the laws, and well-funded animal control departments.
In one section of the site (dogbitelaw.com/model-dog-bite-laws) he offers model laws that focus on three different aspects: A Model Dangerous Dog Law, a Model Irresponsible Dog Owner Law and a Model Dog Bite Statute.
In light of injurious and fatal large dog attacks in Arkansas, my interest lies in seeing our state significantly strengthen its dog-bite law which currently essentially allows a dog one free bite before relatively moderate penalties are levied. Too often, one bite is sufficient to kill a person or their smaller pet. It should be the sole responsibility of the dog owner to keep it restrained or face truly serious consequences, period.
Phillips says the purpose behind a dangerous dog law is to identify canines "whose behavior is intolerable to the community's safety, set forth conditions of confinement of those dogs to reduce the risk of injuries to people and possibly other animals and provide due process to the owners of the dogs. In a word, these laws are to take the bad dogs off the streets. The purpose of an irresponsible dog owner law is to identify people who create unjustifiable risks for the public, as well as dogs and other animals. For example, this law would identify a person who frequently has a dog off-leash and impose a fine and possibly other conditions to prompt that person to conduct himself or herself properly."
This certainly would have applied in October when my wife Jeanetta and our 12-pound taco terrier Benji were viciously attacked without warning by an unrestrained pit bull mix as they peacefully walked a neighborhood street.
Jeanetta was injured and Benji spent three days in the vet's office with many puncture wounds and a dislocated leg.
Phillips further says the purpose behind a model dog bite statute is to give victims "a way to be reimbursed for medical expenses and compensated for pain, suffering, loss of income, and other damages. Modern statutes take into consideration the realities that exist nowadays, as opposed to the old laws which allow a person to keep a dog without liability unless the dog previously bit someone."
"Under those old laws, which are referred to as the 'one bite law' and the 'first bite free' law [as we have in Arkansas], you can have a bad dog that bites someone and then replace it with another bad dog that bites someone, and keep doing that indefinitely without ever having to compensate anyone."
"Those three kinds of laws are enforced in administrative proceedings and civil lawsuits, but there also should be criminal laws against dog fighting, negligently maintaining a dog that has been trained to be vicious or is known to be vicious, and violating animal control laws (such as leash laws) more than once.".
Phillips lists dog-bite laws by state on his site. Connecticut, for example, imposes strict liability on the owner or keeper of a dog that damages property or injures a person. The statute also covers non-bite injuries.
Phillips' site also contains numerous facts about dog bites, especially those inflicted by the most renowned biters of all, pit bulls.
For instance, pit bulls killed or maimed 3,569 people in the U.S. and Canada between 2009 and 2018, and killed over 80 percent of all Americans killed by dogs.
A 2019 survey found that more than 50 percent of all pit bulls in the USA are up for sale or adoption. Most of those have been given up by their former owners. That 2019 breed survey found about 4.5 million pit bulls in the United States, making up approximately 5.8 percent of the country's canine population. Forty percent of pit bulls in shelters are euthanized every year.
"From 2011 to 2019," Phillips writes, "14 peer-reviewed retrospective medical studies from Level 1 trauma centers spanning all major geographical regions in the United States ... all report similar findings: Pit bulls are inflicting a higher prevalence of injuries than all other breeds of dogs. ...
"Studies by health-care providers establish that pit bull attacks are associated with higher median Injury Severity Scale scores, a higher number of hospital admissions, higher hospital charges, and a higher risk of death. ... Similarly, an additional study found pit bulls inflict 'more complex wounds, were often unprovoked, and went off property to attack,' and that '[t]he probability of a bite resulting in a complex wound was 4.4 times higher for pit bulls compared with the other top-biting breeds."
Phillips notes that owners of pit bulls are more likely to be irresponsible. "In nearly all the cases in which I have been consulted where a pit bull killed a person, the pit bull owners had no insurance, and therefore the victim's family received no justice in the form of compensation."
And Phillips' statistics tell another chilling story.
Between 2016 and 2021, whenever pit bulls became homicidal, most of the time they killed either their owners or members of their owners' families. This is called "eruscide." ("Erus" means owner or master of the house.)
Phillips writes: "In 2016, of the 31 Americans killed by dogs, 23 were by pit bulls and their mixes, and 12 of those 23 victims were either the owner of the pit bull, or a member of the owner's family. ... The eruscide rate was 52 percent. In 2017, of the 39 Americans killed by dogs, 29 were killed by pit bulls and their mixes, and 18 of those 29 victims were either the owner of the pit bull or a member of the owner's family. .. The eruscide rate was 62 percent.
"In 2018, of the 34 Americans killed by dogs, 25 were killed by pit bulls and their mixes, and 14 of those 25 victims were their owners, the owners' family members, or babies that the pit bull owners were watching. ... The eruscide rate was 56 percent. In 2019, 48 Americans were killed by dogs. Pit bulls and their mixes killed 33, and 13 of the 33 victims were their owner or the owner's family member. In one additional case, the victim was a visiting baby. ... The eruscide rate was 40 percent.
"In 2021, of the 51 Americans killed by dogs, 37 were killed by one or more pit bulls and their mixes (in some cases in combination with one or more other breeds), and 21 of those victims were either the owner of the pit bull or a member of the owner's family. The eruscide rate was 57 percent."
Now go out into the world and treat everyone you meet exactly like you want them to treat you.
Mike Masterson is a longtime Arkansas journalist, was editor of three Arkansas dailies and headed the master's journalism program at Ohio State University. Email him at mmasterson@arkansasonline.com.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) and ZERO today announced the 2022 ZERO-PCF VAlor Young Investigator Award for innovative research into the causes of racial disparities in prostate cancer and potential strategies to reduce them.
The $225,000 ZERO-PCF VAlor Young Investigator Award was awarded to Jun Gong, MD, of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for his project entitled A Nationwide Study on Systemic Treatment Patterns in Black Patients with Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC).
"Racial disparities in prostate cancer remain a significant unsolved problem, with Black patients more than twice as likely to die from the disease than their white counterparts," says PCF President and CEO Charles J. Ryan, MD. "We believe Dr. Gong's work will shed important light on how differences in treatment impact patient outcomes which may support strategies that ultimately reduce racial disparities in prostate cancer."
"We can't end prostate cancer without eliminating the long-standing disparities in prostate cancer," says Jamie Bearse, ZERO's CEO and President. "Dr. Gong's work is critical to help get us get closer to everyone having a fair and just opportunity to prevent, find, treat, and survive prostate cancer."
Some clinical trials have shown evidence that Black patients with mCRPC do as well or better than white patients; however, these studies have been limited by the small number of Black men enrolled in them. Dr. Gong, a urological oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai is investigating treatment patterns and disparities by using data from more than 10 million Veterans to generate the largest known cohort of Black patients with mCRPC. The underlying causes of racial disparities in prostate cancer are multifactorial and complex but do include unequal access to health care. Dr. Gong and team will investigate how differences in treatment patterns and time to treatment initiation contribute to prostate cancer disparities, information that will help improve access to and timely initiation of standard and novel treatments for Black patients to reduce disparities.
PCF Young Investigator Awards are intended to identify a cohort of future research leaders who will keep the field of prostate cancer research vibrant with new ideas and offer career and project support for early career physicians and scientists who are committed to advancing the prostate cancer field. In 2022, 34 PCF Young Investigator Awards totaling $7.2 million were granted to the promising next generation of cancer researchers. Read more about the Class of 2022 PCF Young Investigator Awards here.
About the Prostate Cancer Foundation
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's leading philanthropic organization dedicated to funding life-saving prostate cancer research. Founded in 1993 by Mike Milken, PCF has been responsible for raising close to $1 billion in support of cutting-edge research by more than 2,200 research projects at 245 leading cancer centers in 28 countries around the world. Since PCF's inception, and through its efforts, patients around the world are living longer, suffering fewer complications, and enjoying better quality of life. PCF is committed to creating a global public square for prostate cancer, in service to our mission of ending death and suffering from the disease. Learn more at pcf.org.
About ZERO – The End of Prostate Cancer
ZERO — The End of Prostate Cancer is the leading national nonprofit with the mission to end prostate cancer and help all who are impacted. ZERO advances research, provides support, and creates solutions to achieve health equity to meet the most critical needs of our community. From early detection to survivorship, ZERO is the premier resource for prostate cancer patients and their families to access comprehensive support, make meaningful connections, and take action to save lives. Our dedicated national and chapter staff is joined with a growing team of passionate volunteer champions to increase advocacy, awareness, and community engagement to ZERO out prostate cancer. ZERO is recognized with four out of four stars by Charity Navigator and accredited by the Better Business Bureau. ZERO spends more on programs than any other prostate cancer charity, dedicating 85 cents of every dollar to support, education, and research.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Staci L. Vernick
Prostate Cancer Foundation
svernick@pcf.org
press@pcf.org
610-812-6092
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BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Ezra Miller is due in court Friday where the “Flash” actor is set to accept a plea deal to avoid jail time in connection with a break-in at a southern Vermont home last spring.
Miller agreed to a suspended sentence of 89 to 90 days in jail for the misdemeanor of unlawful trespass, according to a plea deal filed with the Vermont Superior Court in Bennington. Miller will also be fined $500 plus a $192 surcharge and be placed on probation for a year. Two other charges were dropped, including a felony burglary charge that could have carried a sentence of 25 years in prison.
Miller pleaded not guilty in October to stealing liquor from a neighbor’s home, one of a string of arrests and reports of erratic behavior by the actor last year that stretched from Hawaii to New England.
Vermont State Police responded to a burglary complaint in the town of Stamford on May 1 and found that several bottles of alcohol had been taken from a residence while the homeowner was away.
The homeowner said he had been friends with Miller for about 18 years and bought the home a year and half ago in Stamford, where Miller also owned a home, according to the police affidavit. Miller was charged after police consulted surveillance footage and interviewed witnesses.
Miller was arrested twice last year in Hawaii, including for disorderly conduct and harassment at a karaoke bar.
Miller stars in the upcoming film “The Flash,” expected to be out in June 2023, after appearing in several “Justice League” films for Warner Bros. and D.C. Films.
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MALDEN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts charter school where an 8th grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School student posted on social media a picture of the “School Uniform Compliance Form” the student received from a teacher for the hijab on Thursday. In the description of the infraction, the headscarf worn by Muslim women was misspelled as “jihab.”
The school said in an emailed statement that it allows students to wear religious attire “as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs,” but asks students to provide a letter “expressing this desire from a member of their clergy.”
School Superintendent Alex Dan said there were no consequences given to the student and that the form sent home was meant to start the conversation with the family about obtaining a religious accommodation. But Dan acknowledged that the situation was mishandled.
“While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures,” the school’s statement said.
The Massachusetts chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says its lawyers are representing the student’s family and are investigating the situation. The student is now wearing a hijab at school, the group said.
CAIR-Massachusetts Executive Director Tahirah Amatul-Wadud said wearing a hijab or other religious attire shouldn’t require families to seek an accommodation.
“I would like never for that student have to justify what she is wearing,” she said Sunday. “I don’t want them to ever have to justify that this requires an accommodation.”
The Mystic Valley Regional Charter School also came under fire in 2017 for a policy of banning hair braid extensions. The parents of then-15-year-olds said their twin daughters, who are Black, were punished for wearing extensions while white students hadn’t been punished for violations of hairstyle regulations.
After intense criticism, including from Democratic Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, the school abandoned the policy.
In July, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law prompted by that incident to ban discrimination based on natural and protective hairstyles — such as Afros, cornrows or tightly coiled twists — in workplaces, school districts and school-related organizations in the state.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Arabian Knight won the $750,000 Southwest Stakes by 5 1/2 lengths on Saturday at Oaklawn, giving Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert his record sixth victory in the race.
The colt came into the Kentucky Derby prep as one of the most highly touted 3-year-olds in the country. Arabian Knight, who was purchased for $2.3 million as a 2-year-old, was making his second career start and first on a sloppy track in front of 27,000 fans in Arkansas.
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“These good horses are hard to come by,” said Baffert, who was on hand in Hot Springs. “We’ve had a lot of luck here at Oaklawn, so it was nice to have a horse like this.”
However, Arabian Knight was ineligible to earn the Kentucky Derby qualifying points awarded to the winner because Baffert has been suspended for two years by Churchill Downs Inc. The penalty, which ends shortly after this year's Derby on May 6, stems from Medina Spirit's medication violation after the colt won the 2021 Derby and was later disqualified. Baffert is challenging the ban in court.
Ridden by John Velazquez, Arabian Knight ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:43.50 and paid $2.80 to win. He is 2-0 and has career earnings of $544,275.
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“He ran 1:43 and change, that’s racehorse time and he did it without taking a deep breath,” Baffert said. “This was a big effort.”
Red Route One closed from last to finish second, and Frosted Departure was third. Sun Thunder was fourth, followed by Jace's Road, Corona Bolt, El Tomate and Western Ghent.
At Gulfstream in Florida, Baffert's entry Defunded finished second in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup, beaten by 4 1/2 lengths by Art Collector on Saturday.
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DALLAS, June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Experienced trial attorney Austin Curry of the Dallas-based intellectual property and commercial litigation firm Caldwell Cassady & Curry has earned Board Certification in Patent Litigation from the prestigious National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA).
Mr. Curry is one of the rare lawyers to earn NBTA board certification based on his proven commitment to bettering the legal profession by completing a rigorous application process and a detailed written examination. NBTA board-certified attorneys must also have substantial trial experience, positive references from judges and other lawyers, and proof of good standing, among other requirements.
Since Caldwell Cassady & Curry was formed less than 10 years ago, Mr. Curry and the firm's lawyers have helped clients win more than $2.5 billion in trial verdicts and legal settlements. Mr. Curry is widely regarded as one of the top trial lawyers in the state, having earned multiple selections in the annual guide to The Best Lawyers in America and the Texas Rising Stars list of the state's leading young attorneys. He previously was named one of the top intellectual property lawyers in the country under the age of 40 in the Rising Stars list published by the national legal news outlet Law360.
Earlier this year, Caldwell Cassady & Curry was ranked as one of Texas' best law firms for intellectual property disputes in the 2022 edition of Chambers USA, the exclusive annual guide to the country's top attorneys and firms.
Chambers rankings are based on input from 200 individual research analysts across 200 separate legal jurisdictions. The assessments focus on multiple areas, including effectiveness, technical legal ability, client service, depth of experience, and client value.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry additionally is ranked on the 2022 Best Law Firms list as one of the country's leading intellectual property litigation firms.
Caldwell Cassady & Curry represents companies and individuals in high-stakes civil litigation, including patent infringement cases, trade secrets claims, fiduciary duty cases, class actions, and disputes involving company founders. The firm has tried and won some of the nation's top verdicts against the largest companies in the world. Learn more about the firm at www.caldwellcc.com.
For more information, contact Bruce Vincent at 214-763-6226 or bruce.vincent@muselegalpr.com.
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(WJW) – The U.S. Department of State reissued a travel advisory for the Dominican Republic this week, warning travelers to “exercise increased caution” due to the high level of crime in the country.
According to the State Department, concerns include violent crimes such as armed robbery, homicide and sexual assault.
While resort areas tend to be better policed, urban areas like Santo Domingo remain a concern, the government warns.
“The wide availability of weapons, the use and trade of illicit drugs, and a weak criminal justice system contribute to the high level of criminality on the broader scale,” the government stated.
Here’s what is recommended to help protect yourself:
- If robbed, give up your personal belongings without resistance.
- Do not carry or wear anything valuable that could attract attention.
- Be wary of strangers.
- Travel with a partner or group whenever possible.
Travelers are also advised to be aware of their surroundings and heed safety and security advice from local resort and tour operators.
In addition, the government recommends having a contingency plan for emergencies.
Dominican Today, an English-language newspaper in Santo Domingo, citing a 2022 survey, reported that 66.4% of people in the country believe crime tops the list of most serious problems. Also, 29% of them felt “very afraid” of crime in their neighborhood or community.
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Amber Heard notified a Virginia court Thursday that she will appeal the $10.35 million judgment she was ordered to pay ex-husband Johnny Depp during a high-profile defamation trial that exposed the inner workings of their troubled marriage.
Heard’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal in Fairfax County Circuit Court, where a six-week trial featured riveting testimony from both Heard and Depp. The document notifies the Virginia Court of Appeals that Heard intends to appeal the judgment, as well as rulings the judge made after the verdict, including rejecting Heard’s request to set aside the verdict and dismiss the lawsuit or order a new trial.
“We believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment. We are therefore appealing the verdict,” a spokesperson for Heard said in a statement. “While we realize today’s filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice.”
Depp sued Heard for libel over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp’s lawyers alleged he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned him by name. Heard filed counterclaims, alleging that Depp’s former lawyer defamed her by publicly characterizing her abuse allegations as a hoax.
The jury ordered Heard to pay Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The punitive damages were reduced to $350,000 under a state cap. The jury awarded Heard $2 million on her counterclaim.
Much of the testimony during the six-week trial focused on Heard’s claims that she had been physically and sexually abused by Depp at least a dozen times. Depp insisted that he never hit Heard and that she was the abuser.
“The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented during the six-week trial and came to a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in multiple instances,” a spokesperson for Depp said in a statement. “We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand.”
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DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a dispute over parental rights when a same-sex relationship ends outside marriage.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said the case could break new legal ground in the state.
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“The children of same-sex couples should be able to maintain their relationships with their parents regardless of whether the parents remain together,” ACLU attorney Miriam Aukerman said in a court filing.
Carrie Pueblo is seeking joint custody of a boy who was born in 2008 to her partner at the time, Rachel Haas. Same-sex marriage was not legal in Michigan at the time, but the women had participated in a commitment ceremony in 2007.
They raised the boy together even after their relationship ended. But in 2017, Pueblo said Haas demanded that she stop having contact with the boy.
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Pueblo filed a lawsuit seeking custody, but courts so far have turned her down, saying she and Haas were never married and that Pueblo has no biological connection to the boy.
“Unfortunately Michigan law has not had the opportunity to keep up with the modern family style, with the modern family dynamics, with the modern family composition," Pueblo's attorney, Reh Starks, told the Supreme Court.
Haas' attorney, George Perrett, urged the court to stay on the sideline and let the state Legislature change the law if lawmakers believe it would be appropriate.
“We need a comprehensive approach to this, not a piecemeal approach,” Perrett said, noting a variety of consequences since the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 legalized same-sex marriage.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky won’t be going far this summer when he leaves American Ballet Theatre — he’ll simply be crossing Lincoln Center’s plaza over to New York City Ballet.
Ratmansky, one of the leading classical choreographers in the world, will join NYCB in August as artist in residence with a five-year contract, the company announced on Thursday. In June, he steps down from the same position at ABT after 13 years. He’s created several works for NYCB over the years, including “Russian Seasons,” “Concerto DSCH,” “Namouna,” and “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
In an interview, NYCB’s artistic director, Jonathan Stafford, said the company was delighted to be able to give Ratmansky, a former artistic director at the Bolshoi ballet, a more robust role.
Stafford, who worked with Ratmansky as a dancer on “Russian Seasons” and “Concerto DSCH,” said Ratmansky brought what he called a unique approach to NYCB, specifically a sense of musicality, a broad dance vocabulary and a devotion to detail.
“He brought layers of my own artistry and dancing that I didn’t know I had in me — it was kind of mind-blowing in a way as an artist to work with a choreographer like that, who really not only brought the best out in you but brought new things out in you,” Stafford said. “He’s very quick to challenge those he’s working with to be better. At New York City Ballet we’re always trying to be better and we just think he’s going to fit so beautifully into that.”
In a statement, Ratmansky said the new opportunity at NYCB, which performs across the plaza from ABT at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, “opened a new creative door for me.”
The company said Ratmansky will create at least one new work each year, with the first scheduled to premiere during the 2024 winter season as part of the company’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
The 54-year old choreographer has created works for companies around the globe and is known for his prolific talent and deeply varied repertoire.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a Russian mother and a Ukrainian father, Ratmansky grew up in Kyiv, where his parents still live. He was choreographing in Moscow when the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, and left the country immediately. In September, he presented “Wartime Elegy” at Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle, dedicated to the people of Ukraine. On opening night, he unfurled and held aloft a Ukrainian flag during curtain calls.
Stafford noted that Ratmansky was “very much a ballet historian, and he loves the history of New York City Ballet,” especially the legacy of famed choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
Wendy Whelan, the former NYCB principal dancer and current associate artistic director, called working with Ratmansky on his ballets one of the artistic highlights of her dancing career.
“To have him now working with NYCB’s current generation of dancers on a regular basis is a dream come true, and I can’t wait to see what he creates with our artists,” Whelan said in a statement.
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AUSTIN, Texas — On Sunday, the day that would have been the 50-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Vice President Kamala Harris shared one Austin couple's pregnancy story on her Instagram page.
Vice President Harris captioned the video:
"Abortion bans put women’s lives at risk. On the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, I’m sharing Amanda and Josh’s story as we call on Congress to protect reproductive freedom for everyone, everywhere."
Amanda and Josh Zurawski detailed their experiences post-Roe v. Wade's overturn. Amanda said just before reaching her 18-week pregnancy mark, she was diagnosed with an "incompetent cervix." This meant she was dilating prematurely.
Doctors told her she would have an inevitable miscarriage.
“They told us that the only thing we could do was wait," Amanda said in the video.
Under former laws, this diagnosis would have allowed Amanda to receive a medical emergency-related abortion immediately. However, Texas's trigger law prevented this, and it was only when Amanda's life was considered "at-risk" that she was able to receive the care she needed as she lost her baby.
"This was preventable," Amanda said. "It didn’t have to happen to me, and it’s something that shouldn’t have happened to me, but it did because of these laws the state of Texas had recently passed."
Following the overturn of Roe v Wade in June and the state's trigger law going into effect in August, Texas saw an immediate and dramatic decrease in the numbers of abortions. Notably, abortions performed at abortion clinics and surgery centers dwindled from nearly 2,600 in June to just three in August.
Abortions performed in the first eight weeks of pregnancy or less dropped to zero.
Texas's trigger law bans all abortions, except under limited circumstances like a "life-threatening condition to the mother caused by pregnancy." Abortion in the state is punishable by up to life in prison and, at least, a $100,000 fine for each offense.
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — With the arrival of stormy weather — and the expected arrival of Post-tropical cyclone Ian from the South — customers all across Virginia are experiencing power outages.
Dominion Energy
The latest update from Dominion Energy as of 6 p.m. Friday evening shows 21,640 customers without power in Dominion Energy’s service area.
- Newport News — 2,733 customers
- Virginia Beach — 15,213 customers
- Louisa County – 263 customers
- Goochland County – 183 customers
- Powhatan County – 16 customers
- City of Richmond – 23 customers
- Henrico County – 154 customers
- Chesterfield County – 97 customers
Northern Neck Electric Cooperative
Northern Neck Electric Cooperative (NNEC) said that, as of 6 p.m. Friday evening, a total of 1,747 customers were without power — 8.8% of NNEC’s total customers.
According to NNEC, the outage was caused by a tree falling on a transmission line. Crews are reportedly working to restore power and it is estimated that power will be restored around 9:00 p.m.
- King George – 217 (7.41% of customers)
- Northumberland — 1,437 (27.48% of customers)
- Lancaster — 92 (4.16% of customers)
Update: Power has been restored to about 1,300 members, according to an announcement at 6:57 p.m. from the Northern Neck Electric Cooperative, which also said restoration crews will continue to work on the remaining outages. By the power cooperative’s estimate, fewer than 400 members remain without power.
Southside Electric Cooperative
Southside Electric Cooperative, which serves counties between Petersburg and the border with North Carolina, reports that as of 6 p.m. on Friday evening, a total of 1,524 customers were without power.
- Amelia – 561 (11.7% of customers)
- Charlotte — 381 (10.3% of customers)
- Dinwidde — 321 (5.1% of customers)
- Prince Edward — 66 (1.7% of customers)
- Chesterfield — 40 (1.4% of customers)
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MENLO PARK, Calif. and NEW YORK, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) today announced several key investing team promotions. Aaron Jacobson and Vanessa Larco, both technology investors, have been elevated to senior investing team roles with appointments to the firm's Venture Capital Investment Committee. NEA also promoted three individuals to Partner: Danielle Lay and Luke Pappas on the technology investing team, and healthcare investor Lily Huang.
"We are delighted to recognize the many contributions both Aaron and Vanessa have made to our investing practices, as well as the significant impact each has had on our organization," said Scott Sandell, CEO, NEA. "Both have played important roles in helping to build some of the most successful and transformational companies in our portfolio, forging deep, trusting relationships with the entrepreneurs they support along the way. Aaron and Vanessa embody our shared values of trust, teamwork, and excellence across all facets of their work, from helping to shape our sector strategies to mentoring the next generation of talent, and we look forward to their continued success in these new roles."
Aaron Jacobson, who joined NEA in 2011, is an enterprise technology investor focused on AI/ML, developer tools, cloud infrastructure, robotics, and cybersecurity. He is a director of flox, Crowdbotics, Embrace, Pulumi, DeltaStream, Rapid Robotics, Outrider, Tigera, and ForAllSecure and works closely with Databricks, Antimatter, and others. Jacobson also played a key role in the firm's historic investments in Box, NGINX, StreamSets, and Illusive Networks.
Vanessa Larco joined NEA in 2016 and invests in enterprise software and consumer technology companies. She is a director of Assembled, Cleo, Evernow, Evident ID, Kindred, Mejuri, and Rocket.Chat. Additionally, Larco led NEA's investment in Greenlight and was a board observer at Robinhood. She serves on the boards of LatinxVC and Venture Atlanta.
Jacobson's and Larco's new roles reflect several recent updates to NEA's organizational structure—notably, the firm retired the title of "General Partner" and now designates its senior investment personnel by appointment to the Venture Capital Investment Committee or Venture Growth Equity Investment Committee. The promotions of Danielle Lay, Luke Pappas and Lily Huang to Partner continue NEA's long-standing emphasis on promoting from within, recognizing the outstanding contributions each has made as a core member of the firm's investing team.
"There's a long-running quip at NEA that promotions typically come after someone has already been doing the job for quite some time, and it's hard to imagine two more apt examples than Danielle and Luke," said Tony Florence, Co-President, NEA, who has worked closely with both investors since they joined the firm in 2017. "They are culture carriers who reflect the very best of NEA in all they do, and each has shown tremendous leadership, acumen, and commitment in their work—from Luke's efforts to expand our operations in Europe to Danielle's role in developing NEA's sector theses in emerging areas of focus. We're very excited to celebrate their many contributions with these promotions."
NEA Co-President Mohamad Makhzoumi, who has mentored Huang since she joined the firm in 2017, noted that "Lily has continually distinguished herself as an investor, company builder and consummate teammate. She has been involved in company formation, provided critical support to growing businesses, and played an important role in numerous transactions across our healthcare portfolio. Resolve, resourcefulness, and an unflappable demeanor are just a few hallmark traits of this talented investor, and I'm thrilled to recognize her contributions with this promotion to Partner."
Lily Huang focuses primarily on digital health investments. She is a director of Curana Health, Elion, and Vori Health and serves as a board observer of Belong Health, Everside Health, Strive Health, and triValence.
Danielle Lay invests in consumer technology with particular focus on social-viral and e-commerce infrastructure. She is a director of Goody and serves as a board observer of Block Renovation, Burrow, Fizz, Formlabs, Pair, Prime Financial Technologies, and THE WELL.
Luke Pappas invests in consumer and enterprise companies, serving as a board observer or working closely with Aquabyte, Bliq, goop, Konux, Modyfi, With, and PlayVS. He has also been involved in several of the firm's key strategic initiatives, including its secondary sale in 2018; the formation of Connect Ventures, a joint venture with CAA; and most recently NEA's expanding presence in Europe.
In addition to these promotions at the Investment Committee and Partner level, NEA also announced promotions at the Principal and Senior Associate level. On the technology team, Alex Sharata was named Principal and Arjun Jain, Mustafa Neemuchwala, and Hunter Worland were promoted to Senior Associate. Healthcare investing team promotions include James Buxton and Lulu Xu to Principal and Michael Li to Senior Associate.
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Dustin May’s mound maturity is improving, even if his cursing is a work in progress
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — There is the way Dustin May feels when he’s on the mound, and there is the way the fiery Dodgers right-hander outwardly expresses it.
On the inside, May has been quietly pleased with his progress this spring, continuing to regain strength and stamina he didn’t realize he was missing last year in his initial return from Tommy John surgery — as well as a newfound level of mental fortitude to go along with it.
“I would say right now is probably the closest I’ve been to pre-surgery, feel-wise,” May said. “I’m in a pretty good spot.”
It’s just that, based on May’s often-emotional in-game demeanor, it sometimes can be hard to tell.
Freddie Freeman leaves Canada’s WBC win with hamstring injury
PHOENIX — The Dodgers had a rare day off from their Cactus League schedule Tuesday. They got an on-field scare anyway.
First baseman Freddie Freeman, playing for Canada in the World Baseball Classic, left Tuesday’s 5-0 win over Colombia with a hamstring injury.
Freeman ran gingerly out of the batter’s box after popping out to the third baseman in foul territory in the top of the third inning. He was replaced at first base in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As the sun was rising in Kabul on Sunday, two Hellfire missiles fired by a U.S. drone ended Ayman al-Zawahri's decade-long reign as the leader of al-Qaida. The seeds of the audacious counterterrorism operation had been planted over many months.
U.S. officials had built a scale model of the safe house where al-Zawahri had been located, and brought it into the White House Situation Room to show President Joe Biden. They knew al-Zawahri was partial to sitting on the home's balcony.
They had painstakingly constructed “a pattern of life," as one official put it. They were confident he was on the balcony when the missiles flew, officials said.
Years of efforts by U.S. intelligence operatives under four presidents to track al-Zawahri and his associates paid dividends earlier this year, Biden said, when they located Osama bin Laden’s longtime No. 2 — a co-planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. — and ultimate successor at the house in Kabul.
Bin Laden's death came in May 2011, face to face with a U.S. assault team led by Navy SEALs. Al-Zawahri's death came from afar, at 6:18 a.m. in Kabul.
His family, supported by the Haqqani Taliban network, had taken up residence in the home after the Taliban regained control of the country last year, following the withdrawal of U.S. forces after nearly 20 years of combat that had been intended, in part, to keep al-Qaida from regaining a base of operations in Afghanistan.
But the lead on his whereabouts was only the first step. Confirming al-Zawahri’s identity, devising a strike in a crowded city that wouldn’t recklessly endanger civilians, and ensuring the operation wouldn’t set back other U.S. priorities took months to fall into place.
That effort involved independent teams of analysts reaching similar conclusions about the probability of al-Zawahri’s presence, the scale mock-up and engineering studies of the building to evaluate the risk to people nearby, and the unanimous recommendation of Biden’s advisers to go ahead with the strike.
“Clear and convincing,” Biden called the evidence. "I authorized the precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield once and for all. This measure was carefully planned, rigorously, to minimize the risk of harm to other civilians.”
The consequences of getting it wrong on this type of judgment call were devastating a year ago this month, when a U.S. drone strike during the chaotic withdrawal of American forces killed 10 innocent family members, seven of them children.
Biden ordered what officials called a “tailored airstrike,” designed so that the two missiles would destroy only the balcony of the safe house where the terrorist leader was holed up for months, sparing occupants elsewhere in the building.
A senior U.S. administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the strike planning, said al-Zawahri was identified on “multiple occasions, for sustained periods of time” on the balcony where he died.
The official said “multiple streams of intelligence” convinced U.S. analysts of his presence, having eliminated “all reasonable options” other than his being there.
Two senior national security officials were first briefed on the intelligence in early April, with the president being briefed by national security adviser Jake Sullivan shortly thereafter. Through May and June, a small circle of officials across the government worked to vet the intelligence and devise options for Biden.
On July 1 in the White House Situation Room, after returning from a five-day trip to Europe, Biden was briefed on the proposed strike by his national security aides. It was at that meeting, the official said, that Biden viewed the model of the safe house and peppered advisers, including CIA Director William Burns, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and National Counterterrorism Center director Christy Abizaid, with questions about their conclusion that al-Zawahri was hiding there.
Biden, the official said, also pressed officials to consider the risks the strike could pose to American Mark Frerichs, who has been in Taliban captivity for more than two years, and to Afghans who aided the U.S. war efforts who remain in the country. U.S. lawyers also considered the legality of the strike, concluding that al-Zawahri’s continued leadership of the terrorist group and support for al-Qaida attacks made him a lawful target.
The official said al-Zawahri had built an organizational model that allowed him to lead the global network even from relative isolation. That included filming videos from the house, and the U.S. believes some may be released after his death.
On July 25, as Biden was isolated in the White House residence with COVID-19, he received a final briefing from his team.
Each of the officials participating strongly recommended the operation’s approval, the official said, and Biden gave the sign-off for the strike as soon as an opportunity was available.
That unanimity was lacking a decade earlier when Biden, as vice president, gave President Barack Obama advice he did not take — to hold off on the bin Laden strike, according Obama's memoirs.
The opportunity came early Sunday — late Saturday in Washington — hours after Biden again found himself in isolation with a rebound case of the coronavirus. He was informed when the operation began and when it concluded, the official said.
A further 36 hours of intelligence analysis would follow before U.S. officials began sharing that al-Zawahri was killed, as they watched the Haqqani Taliban network restrict access to the safe house and relocate the dead al-Qaida leader’s family. U.S. officials interpreted that as the Taliban trying to conceal the fact they had harbored al-Zawahri.
After last year’s troop withdrawal, the U.S. was left with fewer bases in the region to collect intelligence and carry out strikes on terrorist targets. It was not clear from where the drone carrying the missiles was launched or whether countries it flew over were aware of its presence.
The U.S. official said no American personnel were on the ground in Kabul supporting the strike and the Taliban was provided with no forewarning of the attack.
In remarks 11 month ago, Biden had said the U.S. would keep up the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries, despite pulling out troops. “We just don’t need to fight a ground war to do it.”
“We have what’s called over-the-horizon capabilities," he said.
On Sunday, the missiles came over the horizon.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in, and Americans have selected their favorite brands by participating in Market Force Information's 2022 Quick Serve Restaurant (QSR) / Fast Casual Study. Market Force surveyed 5,173 consumers about their most recent restaurant experience to understand which brands are consumer favorites and why.
The full study ranks 53 brands on a variety of factors covering the entire customer journey including QSC (Quality, Service, Cleanliness); speed of service; brand sentiment; menu; loyalty and value measures. The study also explores the concept of how brand identity and values can be an important consideration for consumers.
From a brand identity and values perspective, America's favorites include Firehouse Subs, Chick-Fil-A, In-N-Out, Dutch Bros Coffee and Chipotle. In terms of customer loyalty, Chick-Fil-A and In-N-Out came out on top with Customer Loyal Index (CLI) scores of 4.77 and 4.75 (out of 5), respectively, followed by Papa Murphy's at 4.70, Jersey Mikes at 4.64 and Raising Cane's at 4.61. The rest of the scores ranged from 4.60 to a low watermark of 3.76.
The study connects the dots between a brand's ability to deliver customer satisfaction and win customer loyalty, with impactful outcomes including brand trust and wallet share.
"Ultimately there is a strong connection between execution, consistency and financial results," says Phil Doriot, Market Force's VP of Customer Success and Analytics. "I've studied top brands across many industries throughout my career. The secret to success lies in the data and the insights derived when the right analytical methods are applied."
The full study ranks winners in technology, showcases successful brand differentiation, examines how brands can be more competitive, and models what metrics are most linked to wallet share growth.
"Given how competitive the restaurant landscape is, this is "need to know" information for brands who are already on the list and those who aspire to be," says Doriot.
The results have been tabulated and a summary of the findings can be accessed at: https://www.marketforce.com/qsr-research-2022-download
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The 53 brands featured in the study include: Arby's, Auntie Anne's, Baskin-Robbins, Bojangles, Boston Market, Burger King, Captain D's, Cava, Checkers and Rally's, Chick-Fil-A, Chipotle, Church's Chicken, Culver's, Dairy Queen, Del Taco, Domino's, Dunkin', Dutch Bros Coffee, El Pollo Loco, Firehouse Subs, Five Guys, Hardee's / Carl's Jr., In-N-Out Burger, Jack In The Box, Jersey Mike's, Jimmy John's, KFC, Krispy Kreme, Little Caesars, Long John Silver's, Marco's Pizza, McAlister's Deli, McDonald's, Moe's Southwest Grill, Noodles & Company, Panda Express, Panera Bread, Papa John's, Papa Murphy's, Pizza Hut, Popeyes, Qdoba, Raising Cane's, Sonic Drive-In, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bell, Taco John's, Tim Hortons, Wendy's, Whataburger, Wingstop, Zaxby's.
Market Force Information provides a robust framework for measuring and improving employee experience, operational performance, customer experience, and financial KPIs. Market Force delivers solutions for restaurants, big box and specialty retail, grocery, petro-convenience, hospitality, travel, telecom, technology, energy, education, health and wellness, movie studios and theatres, fitness, financial services, gaming, CPG, alcohol and tobacco, pharma, government agencies and more.
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Charges filed after death threats were made to Duncan family
DUNCAN, Okla. (KSWO) - According to court documents, Cody Lee Vantine was charged with one count of endangering/planning to perform an act of violence. A crime punishable by up to ten years in prison.
Duncan police responded to a threats call on June 23.
One victim heard yelling coming from the backyard to find Vantine making threats to a family member, according to the same records. After the family went inside, one of the victims alleged they saw Vantine come onto the property and loaded a round into the chamber of a handgun. The victim went back inside to call police.
When police arrived, Vantine confirmed he did own a gun. Police found it on the ground in front of Vantine’s back door, still loaded.
Vantine was taken into Stephens County Jail and charged with one count of threatening to perform acts of violence.
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ATLANTA, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In its latest in a series of 27 acquisitions over the past four years, Ty J. Young Wealth Management has acquired the practice of insurance and wealth advisor Michael R. Martin, based in Reidsville, NC. The acquisition, which closed in November 2022, will bring the clients of Mr. Martin into the Ty J. Young Wealth Management family and expand the services and resources they have access to for their insurance needs, retirement planning and more.
"As an independent insurance agent with no secretary nor staff, I wanted an option to retire and at the same time have my clients insurance and retirement needs met" said Mr. Martin. "This seemed to be an impossible task until I met Ty Young and his associates. They gave me the peace of mind that my client's service needs would be met even better that I could if I stayed in the business."
The acquisition will expand Ty J. Young Wealth Management's presence in North Carolina and add to its existing clientele of more than 7,000 clients nationwide. "It's our honor and privilege to serve the great people of North Carolina," said founder and CEO Ty Young.
Learn more about Ty J. Young Wealth Management at: https://www.tyjyoung.com
Ty J. Young Wealth Management is one of America's largest independent wealth management firms. Founded by Ty J. Young in 1998, the firm manages more than $1 billion in assets for more than 7,000 clients nationwide. They are recognized as a thought leader in investment management, retirement planning and insurance with Ty Young frequently being featured on CNBC, Forbes, Fox Business and more. Learn more about Ty J. Young Wealth Management at: https://www.tyjyoung.com/
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A psychologist who worked for the San Antonio Spurs has settled her lawsuit against the team and former player Josh Primo over allegations he had exposed himself to her multiple times in private sessions, her attorney said Thursday.
Hillary Cauthen worked as a performance psychologist for the team. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Bexar County, where San Antonio is located, she had accused the 19-year-old Primo of exposing his genitals to her nine times “despite her numerous complaints about Primo’s improper sexual conduct to the organization’s leadership.”
“The parties have agreed to resolve this matter,” Cauthen’s attorney, Tony Buzbee, said in a one sentence statement. Details of the settlement were not disclosed.
William J. Briggs II, Primo’s attorney, declined to comment on the lawsuit’s settlement.
In a statement, Spurs CEO R.C. Buford said since the allegations against Primo were made, the team has taken measures “to ensure that all parties involved are treated with dignity and respect.” The team has collaborated with Cauthen and other experts to “review and improve our workplace processes and procedures.”
“This is a learning opportunity for us, and one that we are certain will make us better moving forward,” Buford said.
The lawsuit’s settlement comes as the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office continues investigating the allegations against Primo.
In her lawsuit, the team’s former performance psychologist said the Spurs did nothing to discipline Primo or address her concerns.
Cauthen said she had informed and requested a meeting with Spurs general manager Brian Wright after what she described as Primo’s first incident of indecent exposure in December 2021. She said her request for a meeting in January was postponed by Wright until March, during which time Cauthen continued to counsel Primo despite her concerns.
Cauthen said her role with the team was marginalized in the months that followed, culminating in her contract not being renewed in August.
Cauthen said she was angry, confused and sad that Primo had not faced any discipline for his actions until the Spurs released him an hour before their Oct. 28 home game against Chicago. Primo has not signed with another team.
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MIAMI (AP) — Democratic U.S. Rep. Val Demings of Florida went on the attack Tuesday in her first debate against Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, accusing him of being a serial liar, while Rubio criticized her for supporting President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. Each accused the other of being an extremist on abortion.
Rubio, a two-term senator, and Demings, a three-term congresswoman and former Orlando police chief, faced questions at the West Palm Beach debate on topics including inflation, voting rights, gun violence, immigration and foreign policy.
Florida has increasingly shifted rightward in recent election cycles, giving Rubio the advantage as Republicans have gained a voter registration advantage in the state. But Demings clearly saw the debate as an opportunity to take Rubio on forcefully as she tries to become the state's first Black senator.
Rubio skirted a question on whether he would support a federal abortion ban with no exceptions and instead called Demings' position extreme because she would not say what limits on abortion she would support.
“Every bill I have ever sponsored on abortion and every bill I’ve ever voted for has exceptions,” Rubio said.
“What we know is that the senator supports no exceptions," Demings responded. "He can make his mouth say anything today. He is good at that, by the way. What day is it and what is Marco Rubio saying?”
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, Rubio has expressed his personal opposition to abortion in all cases while saying he’d back abortion-restricting statutes that include exceptions. Demings supports abortion access at least until fetal viability, saying the government should not be the one to determine that.
On gun control, Demings accused Rubio of not doing enough to change laws to prevent shootings, including mass killings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018.
“How long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, grocery store, movie theater, a mall and a nightclub and do nothing?” Demings said.
But Rubio defended his opposition to gun restrictions, saying some proposals would not have stopped many of the mass shootings and Americans have a Second Amendment right to protect themselves.
“Everything she is for would have done nothing to stop any of those shootings,” Rubio said. “Every one of these shooters would have passed the background check that she keeps insisting on. No one here is in favor of mass shootings and violence."
To address inflation, Rubio said the U.S. needs to stop spending so much money, citing some pandemic relief funds, and to boost domestic oil production. He chastised the Biden administration for its decision to release more oil from the U.S. strategic reserve to help bring down prices at the pump.
“Oil reserves do not exist to win midterms,” Rubio said.
Demings said the pandemic relief money was necessary to help hurting families and businesses.
“Of course the senator who has never run anything at all but his mouth would know nothing about helping people and being there for people when they are in trouble," Demings said.
Rubio also attacked Demings for not passing legislation in Washington, saying all she had done was get post offices named after people. Demings angrily rejected his characterization, noting the buildings were named after police officers who died in the line of duty.
“It’s embarrassing that you think that honoring a person who was a hero by naming a federal building after them is nothing,” she said.
Demings repeatedly accused Rubio of distorting her record and positions on issues.
“I am really disappointed in you because I think there was a time when you did not lie in order to win,” she said.
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Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported destroying a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian strike in the country’s east grew to 45.
An overnight rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka, the Ukrainian military’s southern command said. Nova Kakhovka is about 55 kilometers (35 miles) east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
The precision of the strike suggested Ukrainian forces used U.S.-supplied multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, or HIMARS. Ukraine indicated in recent days that it might launch a counteroffensive to reclaim territory in the south as Russia bombards the eastern Donbas region.
Russia’s Tass news agency offered a different account of the blast in Nova Kakhovka, saying that a mineral fertilizer storage facility exploded and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged. Some of the ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition.
A satellite photo taken Tuesday and analyzed by The Associated Press showed significant damage. A huge crater gaped precisely where a large warehouse-like structure once stood.
Ukraine now has eight of the HIMAR systems, a truck-mounted missile launcher with high accuracy, and Washington has promised to send four more.
Explosions were reported late Tuesday in Luhansk, a city in the Donbas that has been under the control of Russian-backed separatists since 2014, with videos posted on social media. A spokesman for the separatist forces, Andrei Marochko, said the Ukrainian army had dealt a “massive blow” to the air defense system in Luhansk, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. He said there was no word yet on any casualties. There was no immediate information from the Ukrainian government or military.
“The occupiers have already felt what modern artillery is like, and their rear will not be safe anywhere on our land that they have occupied,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address. “They have felt that the operations of our intelligence officers for defending their homeland are of an order of magnitude greater than any of their special operations.”
Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian shelling over the past 24 hours killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 48 more, Ukraine’s presidential office said in its Tuesday morning update. Cities and towns in five southeast regions came under Russian fire, the office said.
Nine civilians were killed and two more wounded in Donetsk province, which makes up half of the Donbas. Russian rocket attacks targeted the cities of Sloviansk and Toretsk, where a kindergarten was hit, the presidential office said.
The British military said Tuesday that Russia was continuing to make “small, incremental gains” in Donetsk, where heavy fighting led the province’s governor last week to urge its 350,000 remaining residents to move to safer places in western Ukraine.
The death toll from a Russian rocket attack that struck a Donetsk apartment building Saturday rose to 45, the emergency services agency said late Tuesday. It said workers found more bodies and also rescued nine people as they dug through the rubble of the five-story building in Chasiv Yar throughout the day.
Yet many in the Donbas, a fertile industrial region in eastern Ukraine consisting of the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, refuse — or are unable — to flee, despite scores of civilians being killed and wounded each week.
In northeaster Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and its surrounding region, Russian strikes hit residential buildings, killing four civilians and wounding nine, Ukrainian officials said.
“The Russians continue their tactics of intimidating the peaceful population of the Kharkiv region,” Kharkiv Gov. Oleh Syniehubov wrote Tuesday on Telegram.
Russian fire also struck the southern city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday morning, hitting residential buildings. Twelve people were wounded as the result of the Russian shelling, with some of the rockets hitting two medical facilities, regional governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Air raid sirens sounded Tuesday in the western city of Lviv — the first daytime sirens there in over a week — and in other areas of Ukraine as Russian forces continued to make advances.
In eastern Luhansk, “fighting continues near the villages” on the administrative border with neighboring Donetsk, Luhansk Gov. Serhiy Haidai told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“The Russian army burns down everything in its way. The artillery barrage doesn’t stop and sometimes continues for four to six hours on end,” Haidai said.
The British Defense Ministry’s intelligence briefing said Russia had seized the town of Hryhorivka and continued to push toward the Donetsk province cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.
“Russian forces are likely maintaining military pressure on Ukrainian forces whilst regrouping and reconstituting for further offensives in the near future,” the intelligence briefing said.
However, Russia may be relying more heavily on private military contractors, like the Wagner Group, to avoid a general mobilization, the British ministry said. Western officials have accused Wagner of using mercenaries to fight in Africa and elsewhere.
In other developments:
— The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin would visit Iran next week. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin will travel to Tehran next Tuesday to attend a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Iran and Turkey, a format for Syria-related talks. U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday that Russia was seeking hundreds of surveillance drones from Iran, including weapons-capable ones, for use in Ukraine.
— Russian and Turkish military representatives plan to meet in Istanbul on Wednesday to discuss the transport of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said. Pyotr Ilyichyov, head of the ministry’s department for international organizations, told Russian news agency Interfax that “representatives of Ukraine, as well as U.N. (officials) in the role of observers” are also expected to take part in the talks. Ilyichyov reiterated that Moscow was ready “to assist in ensuring the navigation of foreign commercial ships for the export of Ukrainian grain.”
— Germany’s justice minister said investigating war crimes in Ukraine would likely take “many years” but he was confident it ultimately will be successful. Justice Minister Marco Buschmann said there will “probably be hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions, of pieces of evidence that have to be sifted through, documented and evaluated.” The German federal prosecutor’s office said in early March that it had started looking into possible war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. Buschmann spoke Tuesday in Prague, where he and his European Union counterparts were meeting.
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian woman during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Monday.
The Israeli military said soldiers opened fire on a vehicle that was accelerating toward them after they signaled for it to stop, adding that the incident was under review.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the woman as Sanaa al-Tal, 19. The incident occurred in the city of Beitunia, where the military said troops were on an arrest raid.
Palestinians and rights groups accuse Israeli soldiers of using excessive force against Palestinians, without being held accountable. The military says it contends with complex, life-threatening scenarios.
In a separate incident, Israeli police said a soldier shot an Israeli man who he suspected was going to carry out an attack, in the city of Raanana, north of Tel Aviv. Israeli media said the man was later pronounced dead.
Israeli-Palestinian tensions have been high for months, with the Israeli military carrying out nightly raids in the West Bank since the spring, when a spate of attacks against Israelis killed 19 people.
More than 130 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, making 2022 the deadliest since 2006. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
The military raids have prompted a series of Palestinian shooting attacks, killing at least four more Israelis in recent weeks.
Israel says the raids are meant to dismantle militant networks and thwart future attacks. The Palestinians say the raids are aimed at cementing Israel’s open-ended 55-year-old occupation of lands they want for their hoped-for state.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem. The Palestinians seek all three territories for their future independent state.
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On-line date ends in gunfire and robbery
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Omaha, Nebraska (KETV) — An on-line date ended in gunfire and a robbery.
Now, Omaha police have released pictures of two of the people wanted in the crime.
Investigators said the victim met a woman through a dating app and they agreed to meet the afternoon of November 4th at an apartment just north of 60th and Northwest Radial Highway.
The woman led the man into a bedroom where three masked men, armed with handguns, assaulted him.
After getting his money, they shot him two times.
He was hit in the hand and in the buttocks.
The victim survived and now police want to find the three men and the woman who led him into the trap.
Investigators said they may be in a black SUV.
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A rare, endangered seal named Yulia basks on Tel Aviv beach
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media buzz.
But it’s not American film director and Tel Aviv mainstay, Quentin Tarantino, or another Hollywood celebrity — it’s Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal.
The seal cow first appeared south of Tel Aviv’s main beachfront last Friday. On Tuesday, Yulia drew clusters of curious onlookers to the rocky beach south of Jaffa’s historic center.
These seals are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, with as few as 350 mature specimens estimated to exist in the wild. Its populations have dwindled due to historic seal hunting, fishing, and habitat destruction.
Rarely spotted on Israel’s shores, the dwindling Mediterranean monk seal populations are believed to survive only in a handful of places in the Mediterranean Sea.
Israel’s Nature and Park Authority has fenced off the section of beach where Yulia has come ashore to rest, and dispatched volunteers to monitor her from a distance.
Still, her appearance is a sensation.
“This is a very rare event that a monk seal stays for such a long time on the shore,” said Aviad Scheinin, a marine biologist from University of Haifa.
Yulia is molting, a multi-day process of shedding her winter coat, he explained, during which time she has been resting on the shore and taken occasional excursions out to sea.
Scheinin said fellow researchers from around the eastern Mediterranean have identified Yulia as previously spotted in Turkey and Lebanon in recent years. She is estimated to be around 20 years old.
“I’m researching marine mammals for 20 years; this is the first time that I’m actually seeing such a thing, and I can hardly sleep at night because of that,” he said.
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HYANNIS, Mass., June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Savant Systems, Inc., a global industry leader in smart home and energy anchored by the Savant Power System that features a patented and award-winning flexible load management, announced today that it has launched its new energy storage system (ESS) – Savant Power Storage.
"Now more than ever, home and business owners are looking for simple ways to combat rising energy costs, ensure power and safety during outages and access renewable energy sources," said Bob Madonna, Savant CEO. "Savant Power Storage maximizes energy efficiency and can optimize clean energy such as solar, while providing access to affordable power during peak pricing periods and outages."
Savant Power Storage is a foundational and scalable smart home technology that consists of an integrated inverter and LFP battery system and intelligent software that offers optimized power source management, high performance energy storage and flexible load management that can be tailored to meet the needs of any home or business up to 800 A.
Pricing for Savant Power Storage 20, Savant's first energy storage system (ESS) product to launch, starts at $19,500 MSRP with a 10-year warranty, and is eligible for U.S. tax credits, as well as other government subsidies via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). To order, customers can simply log on to savant.com for a free smart home consultation. A Savant smart home and energy expert will provide information and a quote for a system that meets their specific home or business needs and connect them with a local installer. Shipping will begin in the third quarter of 2023.
With a scalable inverter and LFP battery system that houses between 12.5 kW to 125 kW of storage delivering from 20 kWh to 200 kWh, Savant Power Storage 20 draws homeowners, installers, and builders ever closer to a convenient Net Zero emissions smart home. Home and business owners will enjoy its unique all-in-one shallow design with a small footprint. Installation time is significantly reduced compared to other energy solutions, due to a quick-load battery system and the ability for a single installer to complete the entire project, saving homeowners and installers time and money.
Savant's intuitive and award-winning user app allows for easy monitoring, control, and automation of everyday energy consumption, optimizing efficiency, reducing costs, and maximizing the life of stored energy during peak pricing periods and outages. Users can automate their home or business for any scenario such as switching to stored power in the event of a grid outage, prioritizing storing energy before an approaching storm and much more.
Savant Power Storage can operate as a standalone or as part of a complete end-to-end Savant Power System that combines onsite energy generation, inverter and battery storage, generator control, flexible load management for every circuit, and level two EV charging.
The Savant Power System along with the vast lighting, entertainment, security, and comfort portfolios of Savant smart home and GE Lighting, a Savant company, creates the only integrated whole home and energy automation solution that can be controlled by one software platform and app. This extensive portfolio gives solar installers, integrators, and builders the opportunity to upgrade their customers into a more complete, convenient, and energy efficient smart home or building that is suited specifically to their unique needs.
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Headquartered in Massachusetts, Savant Systems, Inc., is a global leader in smart home, intelligent lighting and energy solutions for consumers, businesses, utility companies and more. Along with GE Lighting, a Savant company, Savant Systems, Inc. offers the most diverse portfolio of DIY and professionally installed smart products available at thousands of leading retail stores and through a network of authorized integrators. Engineered to customize any space, Savant's innovative solutions unite all the vital pillars of any connected environment – climate, lighting, entertainment, security, and energy – together into a premier integrated experience controlled by intuitive award-winning software for iOS and Android. Learn more at savant.com.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Humanigen, Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of HGEN during the class period listed are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible lead plaintiff appointment. Appointment as lead plaintiff is not required to partake in any recovery.
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CLASS PERIOD: May 28, 2021 to July 12, 2022
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) Humanigen's lead product candidate, lenzilumab, was less effective in treating hospitalized COVID-19 patients than defendants had represented; (ii) as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was unlikely to approve the lenzilumab Emergency Use Authorization and the ACTIV-5/BET-B study was unlikely to meet its primary endpoint; (iii) accordingly, lenzilumab's clinical and commercial prospects were overstated; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: October 25, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/humanigen-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31654&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of HGEN during the timeframe listed above, you will be enrolled in a portfolio monitoring software to provide you with status updates throughout the lifecycle of the case. The deadline to seek to be a lead plaintiff is October 25, 2022. There is no cost or obligation to you to participate in this case.
WHY GROSS LAW FIRM? The Gross Law Firm is nationally recognized class action law firm, and our mission is to protect the rights of all investors who have suffered as a result of deceit, fraud, and illegal business practices. The Gross Law Firm is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a company lead to artificial inflation of the company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said he was surprised when informed that government records were found by his attorneys at his former office space in Washington. He was asked about the issue after the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee requested that the U.S. intelligence community conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents.
Speaking to reporters in Mexico City on Tuesday, Biden said his attorneys “did what they should have done” when they immediately called the National Archives about the discovery at the offices of the Penn Biden Center. He kept an office there after he left the vice presidency in 2017 until shortly before he launched his Democratic presidential campaign in 2019.
The White House confirmed that the Department of Justice was reviewing “a small number of documents with classified markings” found at the office.
“I was briefed about this discovery and surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office,” Biden said in his first comments since news of the Nov. 2, 2022, document discovery emerged Monday. He added that “I don’t know what’s in the documents” and that his lawyers had suggested he not ask.
Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Mike Turner sent the request to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, saying that Biden’s retention of the documents put him in “potential violation of laws protecting national security, including the Espionage Act and Presidential Records Act.”
Irrespective of a federal review, the revelation that Biden potentially mishandled classified or presidential records could prove to be a political headache for the president, who called former President Donald Trump’s decision to keep hundreds of such records at his private club in Florida “irresponsible.”
“Those entrusted with access to classified information have a duty and an obligation to protect it,” said Turner in a letter to Haines. “This issue demands a full and thorough review.”
On Tuesday, Rep. James Comer, the new GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee, sent the White House Counsel’s office a letter requesting copies of the documents found at the Biden office, communications about the discovery, and a list of those who may have had access to the office where they were found. The White House didn’t immediately respond to the request.
Haines agreed in September to conduct a “risk assessment” rather than a “damage assessment” of the Trump case.
There are significant differences between the Trump and Biden situations, including the gravity of an ongoing grand jury investigation into the Mar-a-Lago matter. The intelligence risk assessment into the Trump documents is to examine the seized records for classification as well as “the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents.”
Sen. Mark Warner, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called for a briefing on the documents.
“Our system of classification exists in order to protect our most important national security secrets, and we expect to be briefed on what happened both at Mar-a-Lago and at the Biden office as part of our constitutional oversight obligations,” he said. “From what we know so far, the latter is about finding documents with markings, and turning them over, which is certainly different from a months-long effort to retain material actively being sought by the government. But again, that’s why we need to be briefed.”
Special counsel to the president Richard Sauber said Monday that after Biden’s attorneys found the records, they notified the National Archives and Records Administration — which took custody of the documents the next day.
“Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives,” Sauber said.
A person who is familiar with the matter but not authorized to discuss it publicly said Attorney General Merrick Garland asked U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to review the matter after the Archives referred the issue to the department. Lausch is one of the few U.S. attorneys to be held over from Trump’s administration.
Trump weighed in Monday on his social media site, asking, “When is the FBI going to raid the many homes of Joe Biden, perhaps even the White House?”
Republicans have just taken control of the House of Representatives and are promising to launch widespread investigations of Biden’s administration.
The revelation also may complicate the Justice Department’s consideration of whether to bring charges against Trump, a Republican who is trying to win back the White House in 2024 and has repeatedly claimed the department’s inquiry into of his own conduct amounted to “corruption.”
The National Archives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Spokespeople for Garland and Lausch declined to comment.
Comer also sent a letter to the National Archives requesting records and correspondence relating to discovery of the Biden documents, asserting that “NARA’s inconsistent treatment of recovering classified records held by former President Trump and President Biden raises questions about political bias at the agency.”
His Democratic counterpart, Rep. Jamie Raskin, said Biden’s attorneys “appear to have taken immediate and proper action.”
“I have confidence that the attorney general took the appropriate steps to ensure the careful review of the circumstances surrounding the possession and discovery of these documents and make an impartial decision about any further action that may be needed,” he added.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chair of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, said Monday that the American public deserved to know earlier about the classified documents.
“They knew about this a week before the election, maybe the American people should have known that,” Jordan told reporters. “They certainly knew about the the raid on Mar-a-Lago 91 days before this election, but nice if on November 2, the country would have known that there were classified documents at the Biden Center.”
Jordan is among House Republicans pushing for the creation of a “select subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal government” within the Judiciary Committee.
It wasn’t immediately clear why the White House didn’t disclose the discovery of the documents or the DOJ review sooner. CBS was first to report Monday on the discovery of the potentially classified documents.
The Justice Department for months has been investigating the retention of roughly 300 documents that were marked as classified and were recovered from Trump’s Florida estate. In that instance, prosecutors say, representatives of Trump resisted requests to give back the full stash of classified documents and failed to fully comply with a subpoena that sought their return.
FBI agents in August served a search warrant at the Mar-a-Lago property, removing 33 boxes and containers.
That investigation is being led by special counsel Jack Smith. Prosecutors have interviewed an array of Trump associates and have been using a grand jury to hear evidence.
Democrats made a similar request of the director of national intelligence in August following the search of Mar-a-Lago. Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff, who then led the House Oversight and Intelligence committees, asked Haines for an “immediate review and damage assessment,” alleging that Trump “has potentially put our national security at grave risk.”
Intelligence officials are not believed to have briefed Congress on their assessment in the four months since, according to public statements from lawmakers. Haines noted in her letter that any risk assessment would not “unduly interfere” with the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago.
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Associated Press writers Nomaan Merchant, Eric Tucker and Farnoush Amiri in Washington, Colleen Long in Mexico City and Michael Tarm in Chicago contributed.
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DHAKA – Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday celebrated the opening of the country’s longest bridge, which took eight years to build amid setbacks involving political conflict and corruption allegations.
The 6.51-kilometer (4.04-mile) bridge spanning the Padma River cost an estimated $3.6 billion and was paid for with domestic funds after the World Bank and other global lending agencies declined to finance the project following a graft scandal involving a Canadian construction company.
The bridge, which will open to the public on Sunday, will slash the distance between the capital, Dhaka, and Bangladesh’s second largest seaport, Mongla, by 100 kilometers (62 miles).
“The bridge belongs to the people of Bangladesh. It encapsulates our passion, creativity, courage, endurance and perseverance,” Hasina said at a ceremony in Mawa, about 31 kilometers (19 miles) southwest of Dhaka.
While not directly part of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, the bridge was built by the China Major Bridge Engineering Company Ltd. and is seen by Beijing as a milestone for cooperation with Bangladesh, according to a statement by China’s Ambassador Li Jiming.
The China Railway Group has said the Padma Bridge will later feature a rail network that connects with other Belt and Road projects and will serve as an important link between China and a pan-Asian rail network.
Economists say the Padma Bridge will increase Bangladesh’s gross domestic product by an additional 1.3% per year, adding to robust growth projections from the Asian Development Bank that predict Bangladesh’s $465 billion economy will grow by 6.9% in 2021-22, and 7.1% in 2022-23.
Officials said the bridge will connect at least 21 districts in the southern and southwestern regions of Bangladesh.
Experts say the construction of the bridge, which involved more than 4,000 engineers, was a major technical challenge. The underwater pilings extend 122 meters (400 feet) deep, a world record, and it requires 41 pillars. At some points in the river, the water flow volume ranks second globally only after the Amazon River.
The World Bank said in 2012 that it found elements of corruption involving a Canadian construction firm in the plans for the Padma Bridge and decided to stay away from funding $1.2 billion for the project.
The decision prompted other lending agencies including the Asian Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Islamic Development Bank to distance themselves from the project. Hasina then said Bangladesh would build the bridge with its own funds.
The corruption charges went to a Superior Court in Ontario, Canada, which acquitted three former top executives of SNC-Lavalin, the Canadian firm, in an international bribery case linked to the bridge's construction in 2017.
Hasina also defied bitter criticism by political opposition led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia during the construction of the bridge. The opposition criticized Hasina's government for increasing the budget threefold over the years and accused the authorities of corruption. Hasina rejected the allegations.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America today announced that Lindsay Hans and Eric Schimpf have been appointed presidents and co-heads of Merrill Wealth Management, reporting to Bank of America Chair and Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan.
As presidents, Hans and Schimpf will join Bank of America's executive management team and oversee more than 25,000 Merrill employees. Merrill's client balances totaled $2.8 trillion as of Dec. 31, 2022.
"Merrill is one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world and an integral part of Bank of America as we serve the unique needs of individuals, families and businesses," Moynihan said. "Lindsay and Eric have excelled as leaders, delivering outstanding results for our advisors and clients. I'm looking forward to them building on the success and long tradition of Merrill in the years ahead."
Hans, who most recently served as head of Merrill's Private Wealth Management, International and Institutional business, joined the company in 2014. Previously, she was a division executive for Merrill for six years, first for the Mid-Atlantic and later for the Northeast.
Schimpf began his career as a Merrill financial advisor in 1994 and has held several leadership positions within the business. He has served for six years as division executive, first for the Southeast and most recently for the Pacific Coast. He also has been serving as co-head of the Enterprise Advisor Development program.
Hans will continue to serve as a member of the company's Global Diversity and Inclusion Council and as a National Executive sponsor of the Merrill Women's Exchange. Schimpf will continue to serve as Executive Sponsor for the company's Black Professionals Group.
Hans and Schimpf succeed Andy Sieg, who is leaving the company. Sieg served as Merrill president since 2017 and led the business through a period of sustained growth and modernization of technology for advisors and clients.
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73% of people want hotels to offer tech that minimizes contact with the staff and other guests
74% interested in hotels using AI to deliver more relevant offers
Hoteliers look to tech to ease staffing woes and support unbundled, pay-for-use services
AUSTIN, Texas, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study by Oracle Hospitality and Skift shows that 95% of people plan to travel in the next six months – with 29% taking an epic 'revenge travel' trip – however, many want to eliminate the 'touch' from the high touch industry they once knew. Nearly three-quarters (73%) of travelers want to use their mobile device to manage their hotel experience, including checking in and out, paying, ordering food, and more. This is good news for hoteliers looking to tech to manage through the staffing shortage without hurting guest engagement and service.
Over the next few years, travelers are also looking to personalize their journey even more by picking their exact room and floor and paying for only the amenities they want – and even wanting to pre-screen properties in the metaverse (68%). Moreover, 74% are interested in hotels using AI to better tailor services and offers, such as room pricing or food suggestions and discounts. Nearly 40% of hotel executives see this 'unbundled' model as the future of hotel revenue management.
"The pandemic has established technology's role in the guest and associate journey, and the industry is never going back," said Alex Alt, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Hospitality. "Whether a hotel organization has two properties or 2,000, guests are looking for the highly digital, self-service experience they have come to expect in other parts of their lives, from banking to ordering food. For hoteliers to meet these demands, especially with constrained property staffing, they need systems that will enable them to quickly adapt, 'plug in' new services, and better and more efficiently serve a diverse group of travelers."
The "Hospitality in 2025: Automated, Intelligent… and More Personal" study surveyed 5,266 consumers and 633 hotel executives across the world in the spring of 2022 to better understand how guest expectations have changed and how hotels are adapting. Consumers and executives were surveyed in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, Singapore, Brazil, and Mexico. Check-out the report at: https://bit.ly/3MPgGXa.
Travelers want people to 'get away' while on their getaway
Two years of restrictions created a pent-up desire to travel, with 29% of people planning a larger, pricier "revenge travel" trip. But the pandemic has also left jetsetters feeling antisocial with many desiring contactless and self-service technology:
- 92% of travelers don't miss being around other people while staying on a hotel property.
- 73% agree that they're more likely to stay at a hotel that offers self-service technology to minimize contact with the staff and other guests.
- 38% want a fully self-service model, with staff only available upon request.
- 39% want to order room service from their phone or a chatbot.
- 49% are also looking for contactless payments (only 5% want to pay in crypto).
Staff remains slim, tech is helping
The labor shortage remains a top issue in the hotel industry, but hoteliers are working hard to onboard new tech to ease the strain on guests and staff:
- 65% of hoteliers said incorporating new technologies for staff best describes their strategy to weather labor shortages and attract new talent.
- 96% are investing in contactless technology, with 62% noting "a fully contactless experience" is likely to be the most widely adopted tech in the industry in the next three years.
- 54% added that their highest priority is to adopt tech that improves or eliminates the need for the front desk experience between now and 2025.
Travelers are mixed on how patient they are willing to be in this transition:
- 39% said they want a fully contactless experience for all basic hotel transactions (check-in/out, food & beverage, room keys, etc.).
- 34% said a staff shortage, and resulting slow service, would be their #1 deterrent to rebooking a hotel. However, just 23% noted that a lack of daily room cleaning is an issue, showing consumers have accepted (and 17% welcomed!) that this pre-pandemic mainstay is never coming back.
People looking for the comfort of home, even when away from home
Whether ordering room service or signing onto Netflix, travelers want the ease and convenience of home while traveling:
- 45% said on-demand entertainment access that seamlessly connects to their personal streaming or gaming accounts is their #1 must-have during their stay. Likewise, 45% of hotel executives said this in-room entertainment set-up is what they're most likely to implement by 2025.
- 77% of travelers are interested in using automated messaging or chatbots for customer service requests at hotels.
- 43% want voice-activated controls for all amenities in their rooms (lights, curtains, door locks, etc.).
- 25% want room controls that auto-adjust temperature, lighting, and even digital art based on pre-shared preferences.
A la carte-based hotel pricing
Consumers are interested in a hotel model that lets them pay for just what they use. Hoteliers, in tandem, are looking at new service models that upsell everything from amenities to adventures:
- 81% of hoteliers expect a big service model shift between now and 2025.
- 49% strongly agreed that "special amenities and upgrades" are critical to their revenue strategy.
- 36% predict that the future of hotel revenue management will be underpinned by unbundling room rates, like a "basic economy" vs. "economy plus" model on airlines.
For travelers:
- 87% said they would be likely to book a hotel that allowed them to pay only for amenities that they use.
- 54% are willing to pay more to choose their view; 38% to choose their room; 37% to check in early/check out late; 33% to use the spa, wellness, or fitness services; 32% to choose their room floor; and more.
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In some cultures, people greet one another by asking: “Have you eaten?” In Ukraine’s wartime capital, the question is more likely to be a wry, “Getting any sleep?”
More than 16 months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, wailing air alerts routinely pierce the late-night and predawn hours, followed by the thunder of air defenses at work against incoming waves of missiles and drones in the skies over this city of some 3 million people.
In May and June, more than 200 Russian projectiles were shot down over the capital region, Ukrainian officials said. With the relentless pace of attacks, a full night of sound slumber is something to dream about — a rare treat, a treasure so often tantalizingly out of reach.
Kyiv, which resisted Russia’s early onslaught of ground forces, is hundreds of miles from the current front lines, and people here tend to depict their own forced wakefulness as a far lesser ordeal than the battlefield conditions faced by the country’s defenders or the perils of life in Russian-occupied cities and towns.
But the noisy alerts reflect real danger. On a Saturday in June, five people were killed when falling debris from an intercepted missile hit a multistory building in Kyiv, incinerating parts of two floors and sending chunks of masonry plummeting into stairwells and the courtyard.
Closer to the front lines, civilians as well as soldiers are at constant risk. On June 27, Russian Iskander missiles struck a popular restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk at the dinner hour, resulting in the deaths of at least 13 people, including four children and a prominent young Ukrainian novelist. Dozens of others were injured.
“You don’t want to dwell on it all the time, the possibility of a missile coming for you,” said Larisa Lapshina, a 65-year-old Kyiv resident. “But you’d be crazy not to worry about it. And when you worry about it, you can’t sleep.”
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Sleep deprivation, mental health experts say, is both cause and consequence of long-term stress, to be taken seriously in either event. Traditionally, however, Ukraine is not a place where psychological well-being is openly discussed.
“People here tend to think they should just be able to cope on their own,” said Alyona Gerasimova, a public health project director in Ukraine for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Seeking to dispel lingering stigma associated with mental health support, the government has put a premium on community-based initiatives to promote emotional resilience.
Even far from Ukraine’s front lines, military funerals set off waves of mourning. ‘You can’t see an end to it,’ one chaplain says as the war drags on.
For those in certain professions, stress is a way of life, even if carefully hidden behind a calm facade.
Oleksandr Ratiev, a shift commander at a firefighting and emergency services base in northwest Kyiv, said that after one recent predawn strike, a frightened family realized that part of a downed drone had crash-landed on their roof.
“Everyone was on the street in their nightclothes, and everyone was scared — they were afraid the warhead would explode,” Ratiev said. “You have to be able to look them in the eye, calmly, and tell them it’s going to be OK.”
His crew of seven swiftly assessed the damage, summoned the bomb squad and purposefully distracted the couple’s two boys, about 4 and 8, by showing off their trucks and gear. The smoldering wreckage was safely removed.
When he goes home to his own family — a wife and two children, one of them 10 and the other an infant — Ratiev, a first responder for a dozen years, doesn’t like to talk about whatever danger or tragedy he has just encountered. At most, he might relate some happy ending elliptically, without dwelling on the harrowing circumstances preceding it.
“I don’t want to bring the war home to them,” he said.
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For everyday stress, everyone has their own personal coping mechanism: yoga, late-night snacks, walks in one of the city’s many green parks, long cafe conversations about anything except the war.
For some, there’s dancing.
Before the war, Kyiv’s club district was a magnet for revelers and ravers from across Europe. Now it is reassessing its place and identity, said music entrepreneur Harry Pledov.
With the shocking mutiny by Russia’s Wagner mercenaries put down for now, Moscow and Kyiv both work to calculate where their war goes from here.
“Some people like loud music to relax and express their emotions on the dance floor,” Pledov said as a thumping electronic soundtrack throbbed in the background. Off-duty soldiers are a particularly enthusiastic clientele, he said.
Clubbing was a no-go earlier in the war, Pledov said — “it felt too strange to do anything fun” — but over the months it has made a comeback, with more of an emphasis on fostering community togetherness and donations to the armed forces and war-related charities.
Because overnight curfew hours and predawn air alerts coincide with what were once prime club hours, the dancing commences about 6 p.m., when the summer sun is still bright.
“Night is day now, and day is night,” Pledov said.
Across the Dnipro River and at the other end of the generational spectrum, weekend evenings see an outdoor gathering of Ukrainian seniors dancing to oldies, a tradition that predates the war by decades. In winter, the dipping and twirling take place inside a spacious downtown Metro station; in the summer, the elders take over a tree-shaded park pavilion.
To the strains of vintage pop tunes or traditional music — sometimes live, sometimes recorded — romance sometimes blooms among those old enough to remember past wars and hardship.
“It was fate that we found each other here,” said Mykhailo Yahol, a dapper 85-year-old, beaming at his 70-year-old girlfriend, Marysia Hornishevska, who nodded her snowy head in assent. Both are widowed; they met five years ago in this park, at a dance evening like this one.
“When I hear bombs falling down on the city, I feel dizzy,” said Yahol, who was a toddler when Kyiv came under Nazi occupation during World War II. “You don’t forget about the war when you’re here, dancing, but you’re distracted. For a bit, at least.”
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From inside their 11th-floor apartment, when an enormous boom reverberated shortly before 3 a.m., Elena Stzelchenko, 38, and Andriy Zhuravel, 40, didn’t realize at first that their own building had been hit.
“We thought maybe it was a factory nearby,” she said. “Then we smelled the smoke.”
Seven floors above them, missile debris tore through the outer walls of the high-rise in Kyiv’s western district of Solomianskyi, obliterating several flats and touching off a raging fire. It was days before the bodies of all five people killed in the strike were recovered.
With everyone jolted awake, Stzelchenko and Zhuravel checked on an elderly neighbor, who told them he was fine. They soothed their plump, imperious long-haired tabby and swept up the splintered drywall and ceiling tiles that littered the common entryway.
“I was already awake when it happened — I don’t even try any more to sleep at that hour,” said Yevhenii Kandyba, a 28-year-old lawyer who lives on the building’s seventh floor. “I do my sleeping after I finish with work.”
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Hours after the June 24 strike, he walked his beagle, Loki — “my small, scared friend” — down to the parking lot, waiting for emergency services at work there to let people check on their cars.
“Last night, I was happy I’d found a good parking spot!” he said. Now, even from a distance, he could see his red Mazda was covered in powdery dust, with a smashed windshield and an enormous dent.
In a city the size of Chicago, people can sometimes convince themselves that airborne catastrophe won’t find them. But sometimes, it does.
“You’re a little surprised when it’s your own building where this happens,” Kandyba said. “But on any night, you’re never surprised that somewhere in the city, something has gotten hit.”
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It can be hard to get much sleep with a toddler in the house. That’s especially true for Ukrainian parents like Dmytro and Yulia Kravchenko, who leap to check on 18-month-old Mikhail whenever an air alert sounds.
At Kyiv’s sprawling, shaded city zoo, the little boy was wrapped in his father’s arms on a sunny Sunday as he stared first at the tiger in its outdoor enclosure, nearly hidden by shrubbery, then stretched out a hand toward snakes behind the glass in the dimly lit reptile house.
“This is all we want, for him to be happy and learning,” said Kravchenko, 37. “And safe.”
The zoo has remained open throughout months of war, taking in animals displaced by fighting elsewhere. When Russian airstrikes on Kyiv repeatedly knocked out the power over the winter, zoo officials crowdfunded fuel for a wood stove that kept the gorilla warm.
During Russian bombing, the zoo has been hit repeatedly by shrapnel, said zoo director Kyrylo Trantin. A big piece of jagged metal crashed onto the grounds during a concerted round of strikes in May, but lodged in a chestnut tree, not close to any animal enclosure, he said.
Trantin is particularly proud of Horace, the Asian elephant, who was frightened at first by air alarms, but now knows to lumber quickly into his enclosure whenever one sounds.
Russian private military contractor Wagner is busy boosting its brand as its fighters try to subdue Ukraine, trading secrecy for war propaganda movies.
“Horace is a national hero!” said Trantin, 51, who concedes that his Horace-related fandom stems in part from the fact that he got his start as an elephant keeper. When war stress gets to him, he likes to go and shovel elephant dung — it calms him down, he said.
“Our friends from all over the world are helping us,” he said. “We’ll never abandon this place, it’s too important for our morale, for our city.”
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Kyiv’s annual book fair, the biggest in Ukraine, is held in a complex known as the Arsenal, built as a weapons depot, now a cavernous arts-event space. That history resonates with many in attendance.
The gathering had to be canceled last year, in the early months of war, but it was revived in June, with author readings and panel discussions and overflowing book booths that drew thousands of visitors — including President Volodymyr Zelensky, who dropped in with his wife, Olena.
Attendees spoke proudly of the importance of events like this one taking place, whether despite the war or because of it.
“For us, it’s a battle on the cultural front,” said Anastasia Arseniuk, a 22-year-old student at Kyiv University.
Newly published works showcased at the festival included the war diaries, posthumously published, of a well-known poet and children’s author, Volodymyr Vakulenko, who was abducted last year during Russia’s occupation of the eastern city of Izyum and surrounding villages.
In November, his remains were unearthed in a mass grave left behind by the Russians. Later, so was his diary, and a well-known young Ukrainian novelist and poet named Victoria Amelina was instrumental in bringing it to publication, an occasion celebrated at the fair.
Only days later, the literary community shuddered to learn that Amelina, 37, who in recent months had put aside fiction to turn her attention to documenting war crimes, was among those gravely hurt in the June 27 missile strike on the pizza restaurant in Kramatorsk. On Saturday, she died of her injuries, leaving behind a young son.
The long fight for Bakhmut is backed by consumer tech — messaging apps, teleconferencing services, cloud-synced mapping software and drones.
In an eerily prescient poem, Amelina had written of the capriciousness of the threat from the skies: “An air raid across the country / each time like going to everyone’s execution / yet they aim at only one.”
Even before Amelina’s death, Valeriya Skoryk, a 16-year-old high school student volunteering as a guide at the book fair, said it was crucial not to let numbness take hold in the face of wartime loss and fear.
“Sometimes when I hear air-alert sirens, I don’t even react,” she said. “But then I say to myself, ‘I’m alive. I’m still alive.’ And so are people I love. That’s a reason to keep going.”
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Patrick Mahomes wins NFL MVP ahead of Super Bowl
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes picked up another major award on his way to his third Super Bowl appearance.
On Thursday night, during the “NFL Honors” broadcast, Mahomes was announced as the NFL’s most valuable player, which is determined by Associated Press balloting.
Mahomes, who also won the award in 2018, is preparing for Sunday’s matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium.
“First of all, I want to thank God for giving me this platform and putting so many amazing people around me to help support this dream I’ve had since I was a little kid,” Mahomes said in a recorded statement. He thanked his wife and family, Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, general manager Brett Veach and coach Andy Reid and his staff.
“And most of all my teammates,” Mahomes said. “I would never be standing here today without y’all. Every day, giving everything that we have together to go for the ultimate goal: the Super Bowl. Let’s continue to go for that dream this weekend.”
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Mahomes, 27, this season passed for a career-best 5,250 yards and 41 touchdowns, with 12 interceptions, and has led the Chiefs to their third Super Bowl in four seasons.
Minnesota Vikings receiver Justin Jefferson was offensive player of the year, San Francisco 49ers end Nick Bosa defensive player of the year.
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Voters in Iowa have already begun filling out their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections. One of the choices they will make this year is whether to send Republican Chuck Grassley back for an eighth term in the U.S. Senate. National Democrats have mostly given up on Iowa, which was long seen as a competitive between the two major political parties. Grassley, though, is running in the closest race he has had since his first election to the Senate in 1980.
"This is my 99th county meeting I've had for the 42 year in a row," Grassley said to a round of applause from a friendly mid-day crowd in the rural southwest Iowa town of Bedford in late August.
Sen. Grassley likes to tout his annual tours of Iowa's 99 counties, which are a mix of public and private events that some say are hard for his critics to attend. Grassley has been re-elected for decades to represent this state that many have long seen as purple.
"As things have gotten more polarized, so have people and so you should expect a lot of states that were purple to start to shift one direction," explained political science professor Megan Goldberg at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. "[Iowa] has the demographics that like to push us in the rightward direction, not the leftward."
Like so many places in the country, the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade energized supporters of reproductive rights in Iowa. Democrats see Sen. Grassley's role on the Senate Judiciary Committee as a key player in that eventual ruling. Grassley blocked former President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland ahead of the 2016 presidential election and then shuttled former President Trump's nominee of now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett through nomination hearings ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
A handful of protesters turn out almost every Friday in the small northeastern Iowa town of McGregor holding signs that say things like "Abortion is Healthcare" and "Women: Vote Like Your Life Depends on it... Because it Does."
"We're barreling towards 2024, which really seems like the last chance we have to stay a democracy," protester Erin Cubbon said. "It's scary."
Cubbon says it's hard to believe Iowa helped launch former Obama's rise to the White House and was among the first to legalize same-sex marriage. It's also the same state Sen. Grassley has been representing in Congress for nearly a half-century.
He has been reelected easily partly because he presents himself as a moderate. But the 89-year-old has learned to embrace Trump like Republican voters have in the state. Grassley accepted his endorsement at a Trump rally in Des Moines last year.
"I was born at night but not last night so if I didn't accept the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of Republican voters in Iowa," Grassley joked to thousands of cheering Trump supporters on the Iowa State Fairgrounds "I wouldn't be that smart."
Republican support is not hard for Grassley to find. That means, though, that he's often facing questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election on the campaign trail. Typically, these questions come from voters concerned about the legitimacy of the 2020 election.
NPR asked Grassley recently why he pivots to talk about election policy instead of pushing back on Trump's false claim about a stolen election.
"I shouldn't have to repeat that. It's a fact that what I said on [December] the 14th, when the electoral votes were counted."
It's clear Grassley is an institution in Iowa but a new Des Moines Register Iowa poll suggests voters might be ready to move on even as this state becomes redder. Grassley is just three points ahead of his Democratic challenger, retired Navy Admiral Mike Franken.
In comparison, Iowa's Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds enjoyed a 17 point advantage over her Democratic challenger, Deirdre DeJear.
Franken is hoping to catapult that public opinion advantage in a reddening state into the U.S. Senate. HE recognizes, though, it is an uphill climb.
"There's a portion of Iowa that will not vote for me because I'm a Democrat, that will not change. I will hold office and I will support them to the best of my ability," Franken said. "That's completely different than the Republican perspective on this state, where it is support your own and to hell with the rest."
Many had written Franken's campaign off after a police report surfaced saying he kissed a former staffer without consent. National Democrats are not engaged in Iowa either. Grassley has the cash advantage but Franken raised twice as much money as Grassley in the last fundraising quarter. Franken is also hammering Grassley on abortion, hoping that will drive Iowans to the polls.
Megan Goldberg at Cornell College says Franken may have a very narrow path to victory.
"Where Republicans go in and they vote for Republicans, for governor, for the House of Representatives and they skip voting in the Senate race, because they're not interested in voting for Grassley," Goldberg said. "But they can't bring themselves to vote for a Democrat."
Expect Franken to highlight Grassley's extensive tenure in Washington in the last days on the campaign trail as he attempts the seemingly impossible task of unseating a titan of Iowa politics.
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PHOENIX – Amid a small gathering inside the Arizona House members' lounge, state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton isn't exactly subtle.
Caught on camera, the Democrat swipes a Bible from an end table and appears to place it under a nearby cushion.
In what her own pastor described as an "ill-advised prank," Stahl Hamilton, who is a Presbyterian minister herself, had been hiding Bibles from the members' lounge in odd places, like inside a refrigerator. Stahl Hamilton has explained it as a playful commentary on the separation of church and state and a protest against the weaponization of religion in politics
The prank captured the attention of GOP leadership who, after finding the missing Bibles, decided to install hidden cameras to catch the culprit. Since being caught, not all of Stahl Hamilton's colleagues are laughing. Three even filed a formal ethics complaint against her.
Ethics complaint leads to an investigation
"We, and other members of the Arizona House who cherish our faith and hold the Bible in reverence, do not see Representative Stahl Hamilton's disrespect of scripture as playful in any regard," Reps. Justin Heap, David Marshall and Lupe Diaz wrote in their complaint against Stahl Hamilton last week.
In it, the three first-term Republican representatives accuse her of disorderly conduct under House rules, theft, and creating a hostile work environment under state and federal laws protecting workers from religious discrimination.
To be clear, a House ethics inquiry can't find anyone criminally liable for anything – it's no court of law.
The complaint could amount to nothing. It could also end in a House vote for punishment – as little as a censure, at most, expulsion. Republican Rep. Joseph Chaplik, who chairs the House Ethics Committee, is taking it seriously.
"Something of this magnitude that's made national news, I think it's only wise to allow the person that has the claim held against him to come and speak about it," he said. "Due process, let them talk and understand what happened and let's figure out if this is a valid or invalid claim against them."
Democrats say it's political retribution
Democrats are quick to point out the prank only made national headlines after GOP House leaders released select footage from their hidden camera sting operation to a local TV station.
"This could have been handled with a phone call by the Speaker and the Majority," said House Minority Leader Andrés Cano. "It didn't have to be a political gotcha moment."
Cano told Arizona PBS he fears the complaint is payback against Stahl Hamilton – she filed an ethics complaint in March that led to the expulsion of a Republican representative for that lawmaker's role in spreading a baseless election conspiracy about other elected lawmakers.
"This should not be about political retribution, and I'm worried with what I'm seeing so far," Cano said.
Well before the complaint was filed against her, Stahl Hamilton apologized for her actions. In a speech delivered on the House floor, she said she never meant to desecrate the Bible or offend.
"I hold scripture very dear to my heart," she said. "It is what guides me. It is what shapes and informs the decisions I make."
A conversation about the separation of church and state, she said, would have been better started as an actual conversation – not a stunt like this.
"I recognize that my actions could have been seen as something less than playful and offensive," Stahl Hamilton continued. "And for those of you who I have deeply offended, I apologize."
In her formal, written response to the ethics complaint against her, Stahl Hamilton's attorneys wrote that her actions were a peaceful protest "in response to the weaponizing of religion in politics."
The Bible's role in politics
Rev. Katie Sexton-Wood doesn't condone Stahl Hamilton's behavior – "I don't necessarily agree with putting a Bible in a refrigerator" – but she also appreciates the point the representative was trying to make.
Sexton-Wood heads the Arizona Faith Network, an interfaith organization in Phoenix, and is a pastor in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The Bible is, but shouldn't be, the lone religious document in the members' lounge, she said.
"I carry my Bible with me to places that I may want to have reference to it," she said. "But I'm not putting it out in the halls of our Capitol, where it can be seen as a predominant document that is forming and informing laws that are being made."
Put another way, it's one thing for individual lawmakers to have Bibles on their desks. But Sexton-Wood says she wonders what Bibles are doing in the members' lounge in the first place.
"We still need to talk about why it was those actions were necessary to begin with in [Stahl Hamilton's] mind," she said. "And that's going to require a conversation around whether that Bible should be in there — or not — to begin with."
Or at least, she said, a conversation about what other sacred texts also deserve a place in the members' lounge.
With an ethics inquiry underway, it's not a conversation Rep. Andrés Cano anticipates having.
"I have not gotten any reassurance that the Book of Mormon, the Quran, any of the texts that are super important to Arizonans, Americans, people of this world, would be included in our members' lounge," he told Arizona PBS.
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Over the years, Bill Belichick has had an interesting approach to dealing with the Patriots’ best in-house free agents.
In short, it’s called rolling the dice.
Instead of working out a deal before they officially hit the market, Belichick typically tells them to find their best offer, and come back before signing on the dotted line elsewhere. If the player returns, Belichick decides if he’ll increase his offer to either match or come close, and then it’s take-it-or-leave-it time for the player.
“Their M.O. is always the same,” one agent told the Herald recently. “They’ll let a guy get close to free agency, and see what the market is. A lot of teams don’t like doing that. But the Patriots have never minded going that route.”
In the past, Belichick’s strategy most notably worked with Devin McCourty, Dont’a Hightower, Julian Edelman, Matthew Slater and David Andrews, to name a few.
In McCourty’s case, it came down to the wire in 2015. It was nail-biting time. The Eagles, Giants and Jaguars were all in the mix, trying to woo the Patriots safety. McCourty had a deal in place with Philadelphia and was prepared to leave, but as the story goes, when he called Belichick to say goodbye, the Patriots’ head coach and chief decision-maker finally made his pitch.
McCourty ultimately took a little less to stay, but the five-year, $47.5 million deal ($28.5 million in total guarantees) he signed was competitive with what was on the table.
“I’m blessed to say we had other teams that were interested but I said all along that I knew in my heart that I wanted to be back in New England,” McCourty said during an interview with Comcast Sportsnet Boston at the time. “But I also knew the business side of football, and I had to do what I had to do. I’m back, but I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t possibilities over the last two days that I was going to be somewhere else. I’m happy it all worked out.”
Will Belichick still have that kind of success with Jakobi Meyers and Jonathan Jones, his top two free agents this year? There are already signs of the same scenario playing out.
After all, times have changed. Players have typically re-signed with the Patriots because Belichick comes relatively close to the number the players get on the outside. And players also know that being with the Patriots usually enhances their chances of winning.
The latter attraction, however, doesn’t exist like it used to, not like the days when Tom Brady was under center.
Former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson, part of the first three championship teams, has firsthand experience of that dynamic. He got to be a free agent once, then had the usual Belichick treatment with the head coach telling him to go see what he could get.
“I went to Green Bay, and the offer was a little bit better, but I wanted to win, so I came back,” explained Johnson, who hosts the Sunday Football Show on 98.5 The Sports Hub (8-10 a.m.). “So Bill did that with me, and I’ll be honest, it didn’t sit well with me. I didn’t like it.
“We all have our reasons for coming back. We have our families here, we want to win, whatever,” he went on. “So you come back, but it never sits well with you that Bill was willing to let you go in the first place.”
By most accounts, Belichick is going to follow suit and let Meyers and Jones see what they can get during the tampering period over the next two days, or perhaps beyond. The Patriots go this route because they believe the player will find out the market isn’t quite what they thought, and ultimately come back.
How do players find that strategy?
Speaking with Jonathan Jones on Wednesday after his appearance at the Patriots Hall of Fame, he wasn’t sure what to expect since it was his first crack at free agency. But there was little question his hope was to remain in New England.
“I’m new to this. If that’s how it goes, that’s how it goes,” Jones said when asked about Belichick’s philosophy with free agents. “My agent will handle all of that. For me, it’s more my decision on what I think is fair, and what’s out there.
“But I know that’s what usually happens,” he went on. “See what else is out there. But I can definitely feel there’s interest from New England to have me here. So, hopefully we can get it done.”
In other words, if the Patriots match the type of offers Jones is expected to attract when the legal tampering period commences Monday, chances are, Jones will return. If not, he’s probably gone.
It’ll be the same way with Meyers.
The Patriots are taking a gamble, to be sure. They’re betting that maybe the market isn’t quite what the players and their agents expect.
Last season, top corner J.C. Jackson (five years, $82.5 million) got a ton more than the Patriots were willing to spend, and off he went.
Meyers is looking at a payday around $12-14 million a year, and possibly more as the top wideout, per the NFL Network’s Mike Giardi. Jones is in the $10-$12 million range.
One might think it would be good business for the Patriots to keep two players they saw something in that other teams didn’t, and took a chance on after both went undrafted.
One might think it would behoove the Patriots to keep them in the fold because both of those players have produced well beyond expectations. They’ve bought into the program, have been model citizens, are emerging leaders in the room, and were both the top players at their respective positions.
More than anything, it sends a good message.
Johnson, however, believes the tables have turned, and Belichick is going to lose out more than he wins the way he deals with his in-house free agents.
“It’s a bigger risk for Bill to play that game now,” said Johnson. “It had worked out in his favor because he had Tom Brady. Guys want to play on a team when they know they have a chance to win every single Sunday. Only the Patriots are not guaranteed a playoff spot any more.”
Not since Brady left, anyway.
McCourty’s influence
Speaking of Jones, he offered some terrific insights during his appearance Wednesday at the Patriots Hall of Fame, speaking to Big Sister Boson on International Women’s Day.
At one point, the 29-year-old Patriots cornerback was asked about players who have influenced him the most in his career.
Without hesitation, Jones began with Devin McCourty. The veteran safety, who announced his retirement Friday, was the guy in the room Jones wanted to emulate, along with Matthew Slater.
And given how much time he’s spent watching McCourty go about his business during nearly a decade together, Jones feels he’s ready to take on a similar role as a leader and mentor.
“The easy way to do something, is to see it done. If I could see it done, I could just repeat it,” Jones said. “And me, going into Year 8 this year, I’ve turned into Devin. I’ve turned into that guy who younger guys come in and ask, ‘How have you been in the league 7-8 years?’ ”
Former Patriot Duron Harmon, who went to Rutgers with McCourty, sent a text expressing the kind of impact Devin had on him, and others.
“Dev means the world to everybody he comes in contact with. He’s selfless, caring and one of the best leaders, if not the best leader I ever been around,” said Harmon. “I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for Dev taking me under his wing. I could go on and on about how great Dev was on the field but what he did off the field had a much greater impact on me.
“Taught me to acknowledge right and wrong but also how to do something about it,” Harmon went on. “Dev is a special person that will be missed by the entire NFL community.”
The Rodgers file
While it hasn’t happened yet, the expectation in NFL circles is that Aaron Rodgers – barring the mercurial quarterback throwing a curveball – will eventually wind up in New York with the Jets, perhaps before the new league starts Wednesday.
Should that happen, the AFC East could very well have a shake-up at the top. That means Buffalo will be up against it to repeat as champs. It also means the Patriots could take over as the cellar dwellers in the division.
“The Jets, with Aaron Rodgers, I think they’re Super Bowl contenders,” said Johnson, the former Patriots great. “I know that sounds crazy, but he’s a game-changer. If he’s motivated and engaged, and goes there and plays up to his ability, along with having an elite defense, I believe they’re going to be Super Bowl contenders.”
ESPN analyst and former Jet Keyshawn Johnson, meanwhile, offered his take on what will go down in the division shoulder Rodgers land in New York.
“(The Jets) will become my favorite team in the AFC East because when I look at the AFC East, you talk about the Buffalo Bills,” Johnson said Wednesday on ESPN. “Leslie Frazier is not there as the defensive coordinator anymore. What’s going to happen up there? Can they retool the defense? Can they get another receiver?
“You look down in Miami. What’s going on with the health of Tua (Tagovailoa)? The New England Patriots are always a team you have to watch out for. Bill O’Brien comes from Alabama to run the offense to try to get Mac Jones to be what they thought he would be when they drafted him. That’s a lot. I know for sure that Aaron Rodgers can play quarterback. Aaron Rodgers would probably be the best quarterback in the division, surpassing Josh Allen. With Aaron Rodgers, the Jets go to the playoffs, the Jets win the division.”
No surprise fans in Buffalo were outraged by Johnson’s take on Rodgers jumping over Allen as the division’s best quarterback.
Saban on Tua
Over in Dolphin-land, Miami picked up Tagovailoa’s fifth-year option.
That wasn’t all that surprising.
Still, there are major red flags around Tua given his history of concussions, suffering two last year that ultimately led him to miss five games last season, including a playoff loss to Buffalo. In 2021, Tagovailoa missed four games. So he’s had trouble staying on the field.
Alabama coach Nick Saban, who had Tua in college, recently expressed concern about his former quarterback on Stephen A. Smith’s podcast.
“I hate it that he’s having these issues and problems,” Saban said via the Palm Beach Post. “I would trust the medical staff to make the right choices and decisions for his safety, his future. I’d love to see him continue to be able to play and have success, but I don’t want him to put himself at risk either.
“I think any time that guys start having multiple concussions, it’s a cause for concern. But again, I think that’s got to be sort of ‘How concerning is it?’ is a medical question that needs to be answered by some people who are experts in that field.”
It’ll be interesting to see if the Dolphins add to the quarterback room.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two large banks that cater to the tech industry have collapsed after a bank run, government agencies are taking emergency measures to backstop the financial system, and President Joe Biden is reassuring Americans that the money they have in banks is safe.
It’s all eerily reminiscent of the financial meltdown that began with the bursting of the housing bubble 15 years ago. Yet the initial pace this time around seems even faster.
Over the last three days, the U.S. seized the two financial institutions after a bank run on Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, California. It was the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual went under in 2008.
How did we get here? And will the steps the government unveiled over the weekend be enough?
Here are some questions and answers about what has happened and why it matters:
WHY DID SILICON VALLEY BANK FAIL?
Silicon Valley Bank had already been hit hard by a rough patch for technology companies in recent months and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive plan to increase interest rates to combat inflation compounded its problems.
The bank held billions of dollars worth of Treasuries and other bonds, which is typical for most banks as they are considered safe investments. However, the value of previously issued bonds has begun to fall because they pay lower interest rates than comparable bonds issued in today’s higher interest rate environment.
That’s usually not an issue either because bonds are considered long term investments and banks are not required to book declining values until they are sold. Such bonds are not sold for a loss unless there is an emergency and the bank needs cash.
Silicon Valley, the bank that collapsed Friday, had an emergency. Its customers were largely startups and other tech-centric companies that needed more cash over the past year, so they began withdrawing their deposits. That forced the bank to sell a chunk of its bonds at a steep loss, and the pace of those withdrawals accelerated as word spread, effectively rendering Silicon Valley Bank insolvent.
WHAT DID THE GOVERNMENT DO SUNDAY?
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Treasury Department, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation decided to guarantee all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, as well as at New York’s Signature Bank, which was seized on Sunday. Critically, they agreed to guarantee all deposits, above and beyond the limit on insured deposits of $250,000.
Many of Silicon Valley’s startup tech customers and venture capitalists had far more than $250,000 at the bank. As a result, as much as 90% of Silicon Valley’s deposits were uninsured. Without the government’s decision to backstop them all, many companies would have lost funds needed to meet payroll, pay bills, and keep the lights on.
The goal of the expanded guarantees is to avert bank runs — where customers rush to remove their money — by establishing the Fed’s commitment to protecting the deposits of businesses and individuals and calming nerves after a harrowing few days.
Also late Sunday, the Federal Reserve initiated a broad emergency lending program intended to shore up confidence in the nation’s financial system.
Banks will be allowed to borrow money straight from the Fed in order to cover any potential rush of customer withdrawals without being forced into the type of money-losing bond sales that would threaten their financial stability. Such fire sales are what caused Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.
If all works as planned, the emergency lending program may not actually have to lend much money. Rather, it will reassure the public that the Fed will cover their deposits and that it is willing to lend big to do so. There is no cap on the amount that banks can borrow, other than their ability to provide collateral.
HOW IS THE PROGRAM INTENDED TO WORK?
Unlike its more byzantine efforts to rescue the banking system during the financial crisis of 2007-08, the Fed’s approach this time is relatively straightforward. It has set up a new lending facility with the bureaucratic moniker, “Bank Term Funding Program.”
The program will provide loans to banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions for up to a year. The banks are being asked to post Treasuries and other government-backed bonds as collateral.
The Fed is being generous in its terms: It will charge a relatively low interest rate — just 0.1 percentage points higher than market rates — and it will lend against the face value of the bonds, rather than the market value. Lending against the face value of bonds is a key provision that will allow banks to borrow more money because the value of those bonds, at least on paper, has fallen as interest rates have moved higher.
As of the end of last year U.S. banks held Treasuries and other securities with about $620 billion of unrealized losses, according to the FDIC. That means they would take huge losses if forced to sell those securities to cover a rush of withdrawals.
HOW DID THE BANKS END UP WITH SUCH BIG LOSSES?
Ironically, a big chunk of that $620 billion in unrealized losses can be tied to the Federal Reserve’s own interest-rate policies over the past year.
In its fight to cool the economy and bring down inflation, the Fed has rapidly pushed up its benchmark interest rate from nearly zero to about 4.6%. That has indirectly lifted the yield, or interest paid, on a range of government bonds, particularly two-year Treasuries, which topped 5% until the end of last week.
When new bonds arrive with higher interest rates, it makes existing bonds with lower yields much less valuable if they must be sold. Banks are not forced to recognize such losses on their books until they sell those assets, which Silicon Valley was forced to do.
HOW IMPORTANT ARE THE GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES?
They’re very important. Legally, the FDIC is required to pursue the cheapest route when winding down a bank. In the case of Silicon Valley or Signature, that would have meant sticking to rules on the books, meaning that only the first $250,000 in depositors’ accounts would be covered.
Going beyond the $250,000 cap required a decision that the failure of the two banks posed a “systemic risk.” The Fed’s six-member board unanimously reached that conclusion. The FDIC and the Treasury Secretary went along with the decision as well.
WILL THESE PROGRAMS SPEND TAXPAYER DOLLARS?
The U.S. says that guaranteeing the deposits won’t require any taxpayer funds. Instead, any losses from the FDIC’s insurance fund would be replenished by a levying an additional fee on banks.
Yet Krishna Guha, an analyst with the investment bank Evercore ISI, said that political opponents will argue that the higher FDIC fees will “ultimately fall on small banks and Main Street business.” That, in theory, could cost consumers and businesses in the long run.
WILL IT ALL WORK?
Guha and other analysts say that the government’s response is expansive and should stabilize the banking system, though share prices for medium-sized banks, similar to Silicon Valley and Signature, plunged Monday.
“We think the double-barreled bazooka should be enough to quell potential runs at other regional banks and restore relative stability in the days ahead,” Guha wrote in a note to clients.
Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, said the Fed’s lending program means banks should be able to “ride out the storm.”
“These are strong moves,” he said.
Yet Ashworth also added a note of caution: “Rationally, this should be enough to stop any contagion from spreading and taking down more banks … but contagion has always been more about irrational fear, so we would stress that there is no guarantee this will work.”
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With public approval mired in the low 40% range, with two thirds of Americans believing the nation is headed in the wrong direction and a majority of Democrats expressing a preference for a different candidate, President Biden’s intention to seek re-election has frozen the field of possible competitors and created a long term political headache for his party.
Even as some polls show him losing to former President Donald Trump in a hypothetical matchup, the party has rallied behind Biden, pledging support and loyalty despite private concerns about his age and the stamina needed to endure the exhausting pace of a national campaign.
While Biden benefitted from the national lockdown wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 that allowed him the freedom to campaign from the basement of his home, a full bore campaign against a younger Republican opponent – potentially as much as 30 years his junior – would subject him to at least six months of mental and physical strain that would test the endurance limits of the fittest of people.
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As concerning as his well-being may be to party leaders, of deeper worry to the hard-headed political movers and shakers is a health risk or incapacitation leading to a withdrawal and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris to presidential candidate.
Her tenure has been mediocre, and she has achieved a reputation as one of the least consequential vice presidents in modern history. At 38%, her approval ranking is below Biden’s, and she is not considered presidential material.
A Harris victory – as unlikely as that may be – would place in the nation’s highest office an untested, ill-prepared individual who has demonstrated no ability to assume the leadership of the free world, deal effectively with Congress or rally the American people to her cause.
Her rambling and often incoherent responses to media questions, breaking into giggles at inopportune moments, and her frequent inability to grasp the essence of complex issues have eroded confidence in her capability to sit at the pinnacle of global power.
Her campaign for the presidential nomination in 2020 – wracked by disarray and collapsing even before the first primary contest took place – is a clear sign that an equally disastrous outcome is a virtual certainty should she step into that role in 2024.
With that history in mind, the party establishment confronts the dilemma and politically fraught terrain to be negotiated to deny Harris a candidacy should Biden be unable to continue.
Moreover, a victory for the Biden-Harris ticket raises the sensitive prospect of an incumbent president unable to complete his term and turning the office over to his vice president, establishing her as the heir apparent in 2028, reviving all the concerns about her shortcomings.
With little more than a year before the presidential campaign begins in earnest, speculation has been floated quietly that Biden may choose to forego re-election in time for party leaders to convince Harris to stand aside – a not insignificant task, to be sure – by offering her a high profile position, such as the next opening on the Supreme Court.
No matter the pains taken to act with the utmost delicacy, any move to bypass Harris either as a presidential candidate or as a successor to the office will produce a firestorm of criticism and accusations of gender and ethnic bias.
She broke that glass ceiling – a watershed event in America’s politics – and her accomplishment should not be minimized, despite the unprecedented pandemic-driven limits on campaigning or the suggestion Biden’s victory was a reaction to the chaos and upheavals of the Trump administration rather than a validation of his agenda.
Both parties were dealt the same hand in 2020 and worked under the same restrictions and conditions. Biden and Harris won; that cannot be taken from them.
Biden may have frozen the field, and thawing it will test the limits of party leaders, either through persuasion or serious hardball politics.
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CARL GOLDEN is a senior contributing analyst with the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University in New Jersey. You can reach him at cgolden1937@gmail.
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The Fort back open for businesses after devastating fire
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - About nine months and a half a million dollars in renovations later, a long-time Lincoln business has reopened its doors and is back up and running.
The Fort closed last July after an electrical fire that shut down the store until just last week.
At about 1 am. on July 15th, 2022 a fire started under one of the checkout counters at the business due to a faulty power strip.
Company executives said the store has been an icon in south Lincoln for almost 51 years and now it has a new look.
“There is nothing in this building that was in it,” said Steve Wohlfarth, President and CEO of The Fort.
Wohlfarth said nearly every surface in the store either had smoke or water damage, resulting in roughly $500,000 in renovations and replacing more than $3 million worth of merchandise.
“Every square inch of this building has either been touched, or cleaned, or repainted, or re-carpeted or new ceilings,” said Wohlfarth. “And so it’s been, it’s been a lot of work.”
It all led up to Friday of last week when they reopened to customers once again to sell western and work wear.
“I have felt the pressure of not being open,” Wohlfarth said. “We’ve had our share of folks wishing we were open and I appreciate our customers I really do. Without our customers, we wouldn’t be here.”
Employees at The Fort said it’s been quite a journey.
Hannah Seibel had her first day of work just one day before the fire last summer.
Wohlfarth said he was able to use the insurance money to pay employees while the business was closed. They had the option of working at a different company location, or like Hannah, instead of selling hats and boots, getting to work on remodeling.
“The first thing that I did was just rip up carpet,” Seibel said.
That means Seibel, who has now worked there for almost a year, is still just in her first week on the sales floor.
“It’s nice to know that like everyone who is here has worked on that and has put effort into it,” Seibel said.
Since The Fort didn’t get to celebrate its 50th anniversary last year because of the fire, owners said they plan to celebrate their 51st anniversary with events this summer.
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Buckingham Palace released King Charles' coronation invitation on Tuesday, giving royal watchers much to discuss.
The invitation, printed on recycled cards with gold foil detailing, features symbolic flora, fauna and coats of arms. It will be sent to over 2,000 guests inviting them to the May 6th event at Westminster Abbey (where first lady Jill Biden will represent the U.S.).
The official invitation for the Coronation of The King and The Queen Consort has been revealed.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 5, 2023
Designed by Andrew Jamieson, the invitation features the Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth, to celebrate the new reign.
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And it refers to the king's wife as "Queen Camilla" for the first time, officially dropping the word "consort" from her title.
That's raised some eyebrows, in large part because of Camilla and Charles' controversial relationship and the palace's previous stance on her position (more on all that below).
"Like everyone else, I was surprised to see Camilla announced as Queen Camilla, as opposed to Queen Consort Camilla, which Queen Elizabeth had indicated was how she expected Camilla to be addressed once she became the monarch," says Nicoletta Gullace, an associate professor of British history at the University of New Hampshire.
The palace argued it made sense to call Camilla "queen consort" before Queen Elizabeth died to more clearly distinguish between the two, Gullace tells NPR. However, she adds, this invitation confirms that won't be the case going forward.
"It's mostly symbolic, but when you think about it, the monarchy itself is mostly symbolic," Gullace says, noting that titles have long been a point of contention for the family of Prince Harry and Meghan, for example. "So these symbolics end up being very important."
So what does this change actually mean, and why is it causing such a stir?
First, some context on the royal marriage
Camilla's royal upgrade has been awaited and debated by some for as long as she's been married to Charles.
Charles and Camilla knew each other before he married Diana in 1981, and they continued their relationship beyond then. Princess Diana famously said "there were three of us in this marriage," and many of her admirers have blamed Camilla for breaking it up.
"Even though Diana died in 1997 and Charles and Camilla have been married since 2005, the legacy of Diana is something that still curses Camilla," says Gullace.
After Charles and Camilla got married, many wondered whether the mistress-turned-duchess could be a future queen. At the time, royal agreement stipulated that she would eventually be known as "princess consort" instead.
But Camilla's approval ratings have steadily increased over the years, with many Britons seeing her as a warm presence and a calming influence on her husband. And she's gradually taken on a more public role with her royal duties, including charity work focused on empowering women and promoting literacy.
In 2021, Queen Elizabeth appointed Camilla a "Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter," the most senior order of knighthood in the British honors system.
And the following year, on the eve of her 70th anniversary on the throne, she said it was her "sincere wish" that Camilla be known as queen consort "when the time comes." Camilla went on to adopt that title after Queen Elizabeth's death in September 2022.
Gullace says the "consort" label seemed to symbolize all of the things that made Camilla seem illegitimate in the eyes of the public and the royal family, including the fact she was divorced.
"And [Charles'] insistence on removing it is really an attempt to move forward and to assert his legitimacy and hers in the face of all the different criticisms they have had," she adds. "So I do think it is actually a fairly significant thing that happened, the dropping of that word, and I think that is why it has gotten a fair amount of attention."
Now for some light semantics
There are actually several different types of queens in U.K. history, depending on their ancestry and marital status (for example, queen dowager and queen mother).
"Queen regnant" refers to a reigning female monarch, equivalent in rank and title to a king. That would be Queen Elizabeth II.
"Queen consort," on the other hand, refers to the wife of a reigning king. She still holds the title and the crown, but doesn't have the same political or military powers as a king. This describes Camilla, who will be crowned alongside Charles at the ceremony.
"Consort" means you're a monarch, but not entitled to rule, says Gullace. And it applies to men too.
"So Prince Philip and male spouses of reigning queens are called 'prince consort' because nobody wants to create any confusion of who is in the seat of power," she says, explaining that kings "generally take precedence over queens."
But "consort" isn't really part of the title, says librarian and royal historian Marlene Koenig. She tells NPR she's not surprised that it wasn't on the invitation.
She looked up how former queen consorts, such as Alexandra, Mary and Elizabeth (the late queen's mother), were styled after their husbands became king, and says she "very rarely" saw the word consort. That was usually only in formal settings like the queen's coronation service or prayers.
Within weeks, she said, most mentions of those queens, including in news coverage, called them just that. For instance, the 1937 coronation invitation for King George VI said "King George VI and Queen Elizabeth."
In a word, it's about the future
The discourse over the title change is arguably a window into a larger conversation about the future of the monarchy itself.
Koening describes the change as the last step in a gradual process of undoing the stipulations the palace put on Camilla at the time of her marriage to Charles.
"I call it a slow burn, that it will be righted when the coronation [takes] place," she adds.
Meanwhile, Gullace frames it as a step forward.
"So already, allowing Charles to be king while divorced himself and married to a divorced woman is a sign of tremendous change, the removal of the word consort legitimating that is really a highly modern gesture that conforms much more realistically to modern marriage practices and to the king's new role," Gullace says.
After decades of preparation, King Charles, 74, is reportedly focused on modernizing and "slimming down" the monarchy. He's long been passionate about philanthropic causes, particularly environmental ones, and many Brits are waiting to see what that means for his reign.
Gullace says Camilla has a difficult job, too — noting that while people seem pleased with how she's performing her royal duties and supporting her husband, she's also been accused by Prince Harry of "working behind the throne to cast bad publicity on her stepsons."
Above all, Gullace says, the biggest unknown is how the monarchy will fare without Queen Elizabeth, who reigned over seven turbulent decades and "had something special about her."
It remains to be seen whether Charles and Camilla have it too, she says, and how that might influence public opinion about the institution itself, which is already low among younger generations.
"So I think that is going to be the big question that we're left with," she says. "We'll see how well the coronation is received, how widely watched it is, and how Charles's monarchy fares after that."
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Josh Bell Player Prop Bets: Guardians vs. Phillies - July 23
Published: Jul. 23, 2023 at 9:25 AM EDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
The Cleveland Guardians, including Josh Bell (.406 batting average in his past 10 games), battle starter Aaron Nola and the Philadelphia Phillies at Progressive Field, Sunday at 1:40 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-3 against the Phillies.
Josh Bell Game Info & Props vs. the Phillies
- Game Day: Sunday, July 23, 2023
- Game Time: 1:40 PM ET
- Stadium: Progressive Field
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- Phillies Starter: Aaron Nola
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- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -189)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +450)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +180)
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Josh Bell At The Plate
- Bell is hitting .241 with 18 doubles, 11 home runs and 42 walks.
- Bell will look to extend his four-game hitting streak. He's batting .389 with two homers in his last games.
- Bell has had a hit in 57 of 89 games this year (64.0%), including multiple hits 15 times (16.9%).
- He has hit a home run in 12.4% of his games in 2023, and 3% of his trips to the dish.
- Bell has had an RBI in 36 games this season (40.4%), including nine multi-RBI outings (10.1%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 21.3% of his games this season (19 of 89), with two or more runs three times (3.4%).
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Phillies Pitching Rankings
- The Phillies pitching staff is eighth in MLB with a collective 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Phillies have a 4.08 team ERA that ranks 12th among all league pitching staffs.
- Phillies pitchers combine to surrender the fourth-fewest home runs in baseball (105 total, 1.1 per game).
- Nola looks for his 10th victory when he makes the start for the Phillies, his 21st of the season. He is 9-6 with a 4.27 ERA and 126 strikeouts in 126 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Tuesday, the righty tossed 7 1/3 innings against the Milwaukee Brewers, allowing two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- Among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season, the 30-year-old's 4.27 ERA ranks 43rd, 1.084 WHIP ranks 12th, and 9 K/9 ranks 28th.
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DUBLIN and MONTREAL, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Endo International plc (OTC: ENDPQ) announced today that Paladin Labs Inc., an Endo operating company, received Health Canada's approval of XCOPRI™ (cenobamate tablets) for adjunctive therapy in the management of partial-onset seizures in adults with epilepsy who are not satisfactorily controlled with conventional therapy.
"Many adults with partial-onset seizures are not able to control their seizures, even with the availability of many anti-seizure medications," said Livio Di Francesco, Vice President & General Manager of Paladin Labs Inc. "Paladin is dedicated to addressing unmet medical needs, and we are proud to achieve this approval—a milestone in epilepsy treatment."
Paladin Labs is working collaboratively with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) and the Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) to ensure appropriate patients have access to XCOPRI™.
Paladin Labs expects to launch XCOPRI™ in December 2023.
About Epilepsy1-3
Epilepsy is a chronic neurological condition affecting ~300,000 Canadians. It is characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures. While there are many different types of seizures, they can be grouped into two broad categories based on the location of the brain in which the seizure activity starts: generalized seizures and focal seizures. Focal seizures (also called partial-onset seizures) affect ~60% of people with epilepsy. While many people with epilepsy will respond to anti-seizure medication, ~30% of patients continue to experience seizures despite treatment with currently available medication options.
About XCOPRI™
XCOPRI™ (cenobamate tablets) is indicated as adjunctive therapy in the management of partial-onset seizures in adults with epilepsy who are not satisfactorily controlled with conventional therapy. It is taken orally, once-daily.
XCOPRI™ is an anti-seizure medication (ASM) discovered and developed by SK Biopharmaceuticals and SK life science. It is a novel small molecule with a dual mechanism of action. In pre-clinical studies, XCOPRI™ has been demonstrated to reduce repetitive neuronal firing by inhibiting voltage-gated sodium currents. It is also a positive allosteric modulator of the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABAA) ion channel.4-6 The efficacy and safety of XCOPRI™ for the treatment of adults with partial-onset seizures (also known as focal-onset seizures) were assessed in two randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trials (C013 and C017).7.8 Long-term safety of cenobamate in this population has been studied in open-label safety study (C021).9
XCOPRI™ is currently marketed in the US as XCOPRI® and Europe under the trademark ONTOZRY®.
About Endo International plc and Paladin Labs
Endo (OTC: ENDPQ) is a specialty pharmaceutical company committed to helping everyone we serve live their best life through the delivery of quality, life-enhancing therapies. Our decades of proven success come from passionate team members around the globe collaborating to bring treatments forward. Together, we boldly transform insights into treatments benefiting those who need them, when they need them. Learn more at www.endo.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Paladin Labs Inc., headquartered in Montreal, Canada, is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on acquiring or in-licensing innovative pharmaceutical products for the Canadian market. Paladin has a focused marketing, medical and sales organization that has helped it evolve into one of Canada's leading specialty pharmaceutical companies. Paladin is an operating company of Endo International plc. For more information visit www.paladin-labs.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain information in this press release may be considered "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and any applicable Canadian securities legislation including, but not limited to, the statements by Mr. Di Francesco, any statements relating to product efficacy, regulatory approvals, expected launch dates, potential treatments or indications, therapeutic outcomes or treatment responses, and any statements that refer to expected, estimated or anticipated future results or that do not relate solely to historical facts. Statements including words or phrases such as "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "plan," "will," "may," "look forward," "intend," "guidance," "future," "potential" or similar expressions are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this communication reflect the Company's current views as of the date of this communication about its plans, intentions, expectations, strategies and prospects, which are based on the information currently available to it and on assumptions it has made. Actual results may differ materially and adversely from current expectations based on a number of factors, including, among other things, the outcome of the Company's contingency planning and restructuring activities; the timing, impact or results of any pending or future litigation, investigations, proceedings or claims, including opioid, tax and antitrust related matters; any actual or contingent liabilities; settlement discussions or negotiations; the Company's liquidity, financial performance, cash position and operations; the risks and uncertainties associated with chapter 11 proceedings; the time, terms and ability to confirm a sale of the Company's businesses under Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code; the risk that the Company's chapter 11 cases may be converted to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; the adequacy of the capital resources of the Company's businesses and the difficulty in forecasting the liquidity requirements of the operations of the Company's businesses; the unpredictability of the Company's financial results; the Company's ability to discharge claims in chapter 11 proceedings; negotiations with the holders of the Company's indebtedness and its trade creditors and other significant creditors; the risks and uncertainties with performing under the terms of the restructuring support agreement and any other arrangement with lenders or creditors while in chapter 11 proceedings; the performance, including the approval, introduction, and consumer and physician acceptance of new products and the continuing acceptance of currently marketed products; and the Company's ability to obtain and successfully manufacture, maintain and distribute a sufficient supply of products to meet market demand in a timely manner. The Company expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required to do so by law.
Additional information concerning risk factors, including those referenced above, can be found in press releases issued by the Company, as well as the Company's public periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and with securities regulators in Canada, including the discussion under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and any subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Public Health Agency of Canada. Epilepsy in Canada. 2021. https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/documents/services/publications/diseases-conditions/64-03-17-2021-Epilepsy-in-Canada-EN-FINAL.pdf. Accessed April 20, 2023.
- Epilepsy Canada. https://www.epilepsy.ca/what-is-epilepsy. Accessed May 26, 2023.
- Guignet M, Campbell A, White HS. Epilepsia. 2020;61(11):2329-2339.
- Nakamura M, et al. Eur J Pharmacol. 2019;855:175-182.
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- Sperling MR et al. Epilepsia 2020;61(6):1099-1108.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday demanded testimony and documents from two former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe.
Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent letters to Mark Pomerantz and Carey Dunne as the party rallies around the former president. They request transcribed interviews and a series of communications by March 27. A grand jury in New York is weighing whether or not to bring an indictment against Trump.
The letters, obtained by The Associated Press, are part of a larger GOP-led congressional investigation into Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as he is wrapping up a probe into whether Trump engaged in an illegal hush money scheme involving a porn actor. Jordan and other senior Republicans have called the Bragg’s investigation a “political persecution,” and one that is without merit.
“Last year, you resigned from the office over Bragg’s initial reluctance to move forward with charges, shaming Bragg in your resignation letter — which was subsequently leaked — into bringing charges,” Jordan, an Ohio Republican, wrote in the letter to Pomerantz late Wednesday. “It now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case against President Trump using a tenuous and untested legal theory.”
The outreach to Carey and Pomerantz comes days after Jordan and two other Republican chairmen sent a letter to Bragg, a Democrat, seeking information about his actions in the Trump case, which they characterized as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” They requested testimony as well as documents and copies of any communications with the Justice Department.
“No authorities wanted to take the case but then what changed? President Trump announces he’s running for president and shazam,” Jordan told reporters Monday.
By effectively demanding transparency in the middle of a criminal investigation, House Republicans are using the power of their new majority to defend Trump — who is still seen as the leader of the party — as he mounts a second run for president.
The Manhattan grand jury appears close to finishing its work, after hearing last week from Trump’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, but the timing of a possible decision on whether to charge the ex-president remains uncertain. Prosecutors canceled a scheduled grand jury session Wednesday and it wasn’t clear if the panel would meet Thursday.
Requests for comment from Pomerantz and Dunne were not immediately returned Wednesday night.
Pomerantz, who along with Dunne oversaw the hush-money investigation until early last year, released a book last month titled “People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account.” In the book, he detailed how then-District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. authorized him in December 2021 to seek Trump’s indictment.
Pomerantz has portrayed the hush-money payments — made or arranged by Cohen — as perhaps the most challenging, legally fraught of the potential cases against the former president.
Vance abandoned the hush-money angle in 2019, pivoting the investigation’s focus to other matters, but Pomerantz said he revisited it when he joined the office in January 2021, looking for a way to make more serious felony charges stick.
He considered whether Trump could be charged with money laundering and explored if porn actor Stormy Daniels had demanded payment to remain quiet, thereby extorting him. Pomerantz said the hush-money matter became known around the office as the “zombie” case.
Still, Pomerantz wrote, “Over the months that I and others worked on the case, we developed evidence convincing us that Donald Trump had committed serious crimes.”
Even if a conviction wasn’t a certainty, Pomerantz said he thought they owed it the public to bring the case to trial. “Losing it would be better than not even trying,” he wrote.
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Few parents say they’ll get COVID vaccines for young kids as soon as possible, survey finds
(CNN) - It might not be long until there’s a COVID-19 vaccine approved for kids younger than 5, but having a vaccine in the U.S. for those young kids and vaccinating them are two totally different things. And there are a lot of parents who say they’re on the fence right now.
In fact, a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation showed only 18% of parents with children younger than 5 said they would vaccinate them as soon as a vaccine was available.
Nearly 40% of parents want to wait and see, and 11% said they’d only vaccinate if it were required. And 27% said they definitely won’t do it.
The survey said the majority of parents who are hesitant say they feel like they “don’t have enough information about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for children in this age group.”
Ultimately, the FDA will determine the vaccine’s safety and effectiveness with meetings set for June.
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RoboTire's Automated Tire Changing System to Serve Customers in Pennsylvania
DETROIT, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RoboTire, a Michigan-based robotics and automation startup that designs and deploys systems to change vehicles' tires, today announced a partnership with Creamery Tire, Inc., a locally owned and operated tire service center founded in Pennsylvania in 1988. Creamery Tire is deploying RoboTire's fourth-generation tire changing system at its location in a north Philadelphia suburb at 4123 Creamery Rd, Creamery, PA 19430.
The partnership between Creamery Tire, which offers customers a unique tire-buying experience, and RoboTire's state-of-the-art systems using robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will aim to improve the overall tire changing experience for customers in Pennsylvania. RoboTire's systems can help reduce the current hour-long tire changing experience to less than 25 minutes, allowing shops to serve more cars in a safe and efficient environment.
Victor Darolfi, RoboTire Co-Founder and CEO, said, "We are thrilled to partner with Creamery Tire as we deploy our tire changing technology into more brick-and-mortar locations. We see a growing demand for safer and more efficient tire changing practices that benefit automotive shop owners and customers. RoboTire and Creamery Tire working together to integrate our robots with their expert staff will provide the best possible customer experience."
"RoboTire's systems are truly revolutionizing the way tires are changed, and we are excited to be one of the first shops in North America to offer this innovative service model to our customers," said Joseph Franklin, CEO of Creamery Tire, Inc. "We are dedicated to bringing the best technology and experience to our employees and customers alike in Pennsylvania."
RoboTire's first tire-changing system at Creamery Tire began serving customers on December 16, 2022. Creamery has signed on to install additional RoboTire systems at two other locations in Pennsylvania.
RoboTire is a robotics and automation solution that is revolutionizing the way tires are changed. Founded by CEO Victor Darolfi in October 2018, RoboTire has designed a system that enables robots to change tires in a fraction of the time human operators can—reducing an hour-long experience to under 24 minutes. By bringing innovation to the traditional, RoboTire is transforming the way fleet operators, dealers, and independent service providers look at tire and wheel services. For more information about RoboTire, visit robotire.com.
Locally owned and operated, Creamery Tire Inc. has been providing tire sales, tire repair, and tire maintenance services to the Creamery, PA area for more than 35 years. As a professional tire dealer, Creamery Tire offers a complete line of competitively priced tires from the industry's best tire brands like Michelin, Goodyear, and Continental. We also offer tire repair and tire maintenance services for you and your vehicle. At Creamery Tire, we treat our customers like family, and our goal is to always exceed expectations.
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The 20-year partnership has raised over $33 million for children with critical illnesses
PHOENIX, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Make-A-Wish® and Chi Omega proudly announce that Chi Omega has granted its 3,000th wish with Make-A-Wish. Since 2001, Chi Omega, the largest women's fraternal organization in the world with 181 collegiate chapters and 248 alumnae chapters nationwide, has raised over $33 million in partnership with Make-A-Wish to help create life-changing wishes for children battling critical illnesses.
Funds raised through the partnership make it possible for more wish kids like 10-year-old Anna Grace to experience the long-lasting impact of a wish. When Anna Grace received a devastating cancer diagnosis, she stopped playing sports and going to school due to endless hospital visits and treatments. Her heartfelt wish was to visit a marine adventure park in Orlando. With the help of Chi Omega's fundraising efforts, Anna Grace's wish came true.
"The joy of a wish can significantly impact the lives of children facing a difficult diagnosis and can lead to improved health outcomes and quality of life," said Leslie Motter, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish America. "Chi Omega has proven that community service is one of their core values, and we're grateful to celebrate 20 years of partnership. We look forward to continuing to work together to help children reclaim their childhood and believe in brighter days ahead."
Chi Omega chapters, collegians, and alumnae support the mission of Make-A-Wish through volunteering, fundraising, and hosting special events. With over 20,000 collegiate members and over 270,000 alumnae members, Chi Omega has dedicated more than 1.4 million hours towards the mission, enabling hundreds of wish kids to experience wishes that deliver hope to deserving families nationwide.
"Chi Omega is very proud of our partnership with Make-A-Wish. For over 20 years, our Sisters have raised over $33 million dollars and granted over 3,000 life changing wishes for children and their families," said Kay Calloway, Director of Engagement for Chi Omega. "Service to others is important to Chi Omega and that is why Make-A-Wish resonates so well with our members. We are grateful for all the hard work, dedication and service that our Sisters give to Make-A-Wish and look forward to our continued success and bright future with Make-A-Wish."
For more information about the Make-A-Wish and the Chi Omega partnership, www.wish.org/chiomega.
About Make-A-Wish
Make-A-Wish creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Make-A-Wish is the #1 most trusted nonprofit operating locally in all 50 states throughout the U.S. Together with generous donors, supporters, staff, and more than 24,000 volunteers across the country, Make-A-Wish delivers hope and joy to children and their families when they need it most. Make-A-Wish aims to bring the power of wishing to every child with a critical illness because wish experiences can help improve emotional and physical health. Since 1980, Make-A-Wish has granted more than 520,000 wishes in nearly 50 countries worldwide; more than 350,000 wishes in the U.S. and its territories alone. For more information about Make-A-Wish America, visit wish.org.
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(NewsNation) — Fast food chain Taco John’s has been home to Taco Tuesday for 40 years, but now the company is abandoning its claim to the famous phrase. The company is also using the move to draw attention to a nonprofit organization that supports restaurant workers.
Since May, Taco John’s has been involved in a legal battle with rival chain Taco Bell, who challenged the company’s registration of the “Taco Tuesday” saying, which Taco John’s has held since 1989 (in every state except New Jersey). Taco Bell also enlisted the help of basketball star LeBron James, who previously tried to trademark “Taco Tuesday” himself.
“We’ve always prided ourselves on being the home of Taco Tuesday, but paying millions of dollars to lawyers to defend our mark just doesn’t feel like the right thing to do,” Jim Creel, the CEO of Taco John’s, said.
The company has also pledged to donate $40,000 to Children of Restaurant Employees, an organization that provides financial support to food service workers facing a health crisis or disaster.
The amount works out to $100 per Taco John’s location. The company challenged Taco Bell — its “litigious” competitor — to match the pledge, which would work out to about $720,000.
Taco John’s challenged LeBron James, too, to donate fees from his recent Taco Bell advertising campaign to the organization, and invited other fast food chains and local taco shops to take part in solidarity.
The median salary for fast-food workers is just shy of $28,000 per year as of 2022, data presented by U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
Taco John’s, based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, got its start as a food truck over 50 years ago. “Taco Tuesday,” according to Taco John’s, began with a franchisee in Minnesota coming up with “Taco Twosday” to promote two tacos for 99 cents on a slow day of the week.
The company also suggested that it will continue to use the Taco Tuesday phrase — without the registration symbol — in its promotions, including an in-app two-for-$2 taco deal to help customers celebrate “Taco Tuesday every day.”
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NEW YORK, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Freshworks Inc. ("Freshworks or the "Company") (NASDAQ: FRSH). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Freshworks and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around September 22, 2021, Freshworks conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), offering 28.5 million shares of its common stock to the investing public at a price of $36 per share (the "Offering Price"). According to the IPO's offering documents (the "Offering Documents"), Freshworks' business had "grown rapidly" in the lead up to the IPO and the Company observed "broad appeal of [its] products to customers of all sizes and geographies." Consequently, the Company's growth rates and purportedly "healthy" net dollar retention rates reached levels not previously achieved, and there was no indication that either was decelerating. However, the Offering Documents failed to disclose that at the time of the IPO, Freshworks' revenue growth and billings had encountered significant obstacles. As the truth about Freshworks' business and operations came to light after the IPO, the Company's share price fell sharply, damaging investors.
The Pomerantz Firm, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Paris is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, the Pomerantz Firm pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 80 years later, the Pomerantz Firm continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomerantzlaw.com.
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NEW YORK — Nikki Finke, the veteran reporter who became one of Hollywood's top journalists as founder of the entertainment trade website Deadline.com and whose sharp-tongued tenacity made her the most-feared columnist in show business, has died. She was 68.
Finke died Sunday in Boca Raton, Florida, after a prolonged illness, according to Deadline.
A famously reclusive blogger, Finke began writing LA Weekly's "Deadline Hollywood" column in 2002 and made it essential reading for gossip and trade news. Four years later, she launched Deadline Hollywood Daily as a website.
Blogging at Deadline.com, Finke made a pugnacious media empire of scoops and gossip, renowned for her "live-snarking" award shows and story updates that blared "TOLDJA!" when one of her earlier exclusives proved accurate.
Finke's sharp-elbow style earned her plenty of enemies in Hollywood. But the Long Island native's regular drumbeat of exclusives proved her considerable influence with executives, agents and publicists. In 2010, Forbes listed her among "the world's most powerful women." Finke was unapologetic, declining to soften her approach for the most glamorous stars or the most powerful studio executives.
"I mean, they play rough," Finke told The New York Times in 2015. "I have to play rough, too."
Finke did it all largely from the confines of her apartment in west Los Angeles, not schmoozing at red-carpet premieres or cocktail parties. But from her reclusive remove, Finke could ruthlessly skewer executives whose decision making she disapproved of. She once called Jeff Zucker, then-president of NBC Universal, "one of the most kiss-ass incompetents to run an entertainment company."
"I can't help it!" Finke told The New Yorker in 2009. "It's like meanness pours out of my fingers!"
In 2009, Deadline Hollywood was purchased by Jay Penske, whose company, Penske Media Corporation, would later also acquire Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. Finke often quarreled with Penske, particularly after his purchase of the Deadline rivals. She departed the site in 2013 after months of public acrimony, but remained under contract as a consultant. "He tried to buy my silence," Finke wrote at the time. "No sale."
"At her best, Nikki Finke embodied the spirit of journalism, and was never afraid to tell the hard truths with an incisive style and an enigmatic spark. She was brash and true," Penske said in a statement Sunday. "It was never easy with Nikki, but she will always remain one of the most memorable people in my life."
After her departure, Finke played with various projects but never returned to entertainment journalism. Her deal with Penske reportedly prohibited her to report on Hollywood for 10 years, though she at one time threatened to go solo again with NikkiFinke.com. Instead, she debuted HollywoodDementia.com, with fictional showbiz tales instead of real ones.
Before her notoriety with Deadline, Finke had spent years as a reporter for The Associated Press, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, the New York Post and the New York Observer. She inspired a 2011 HBO pilot that starred Diane Keaton as reporter Tilda Watski.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s police said Thursday they found the body of a suspect who allegedly fatally shot two people the previous day in the capital in what some officials are suggesting was a hate crime.
Two men were killed and a woman was wounded on Wednesday evening near or at a bar, which is a popular spot for the local LGBTQ community in downtown Bratislava.
Police said they were investigating but haven’t provided details about the motive of the shooting. They also said that authorities found the suspect’s body, but didn’t immediately give any further details.
President Zuzana Caputova and Prime Minister Eduard Heger condemned the slayings and suggested it might have been a hate crime.
“When I say that Slovakia is a free and democratic country I meant it,” Heger said Thursday. “It’s unacceptable that anyone should be afraid about their way of life,” he said.
“No form of extremism is acceptable.”
Caputova and Heger offered condolences to the relatives of the victims.
“We have to together overcome the hatred and evil,” Caputova said.
His Interior Minister Roman Mikulec said it took place at a site “where the LGBTQ minority used to meet and look for safety.”
“Any demonstrations of extremism against this or any other minority are unacceptable and have no place in our society,” Mikulec said.
According to Slovak media, the suspect posted a racist document on Twitter full of hatred for Jews and LGBTQ people and posts about the shooting. The account was blocked Thursday.
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Alcoholics Anonymous: 8:30 a.m., 500 S. Wolcott; noon, 500 S. Wolcott; 2 p.m, 917 N. Beech; 5:30 p.m., 508 Wyoming Blvd.; 6 p.m., 500 S. Wolcott; 7 p.m., 1868 S. Poplar. Douglas: 7:30 p.m., 628 E. Richards (upstairs in back).
Alcoholics Anonymous “A Sufficient Substitute:” 6 p.m., 500 S. Wolcott. Info: 266-2969.
Al-Anon: Noon, 701 S. Wolcott, St. Mark’s Church, enter at the back of the church across from parking lot.
Narcotics Anonymous: Noon, 500 S. Wolcott, 12-24 Club; 7 p.m., 302 E. 2nd, Methodist Church; Web site: urmrna.org.
Teen Addiction Anonymous: 3:30-4:30 p.m., Boys & Girls Club Teen Center. Info: 258-7439.
Adult Children of Alcoholics: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., 12-24 Club, 500 S. Wolcott St., Suite 200.
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — A top Treasury Department official said Thursday that the cap on the price of Russia's oil is severely curtailing its greatest source of revenue as it wages war in Ukraine.
When the United States and other economic powers in the Group of Seven, along with the European Union and Australia, last year announced an ambitious plan to cap the price of Russian oil, U.S. officials said it would deliver a crippling blow to Russia's economy.
“In just six months, the price cap has contributed to a significant decline in Russian revenue at a key juncture in the war,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said in remarks Thursday at the Center for a New American Security, pointing to a nearly 50% drop in Russian oil revenues compared with a year prior.
The price cap was rolled out to equal parts skepticism and hopefulness that the policy would stave off Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
In addition to the price cap, the allied nations have hit Russia with thousands of sanctions over the course of the nearly 16 months of war. The sanctions are aimed at bank and financial transactions, technology imports, manufacturing and Russians with government connections.
Adeyemo said most recently the Kremlin's new tax on oil companies, designed to make up for the lack of revenues, is evidence of the cap's success.
“This change will constrain Russia’s oil companies going forward, leaving them with fewer funds to invest in exploration and production and over time diminishing the productive capacity of Russia’s oil sector," he said. “There is clear evidence of its success."
Lauri Myllyvirta, a Finland-based analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, said while the price cap has made an impact on Russia’s economy, the EU’s import ban has had more effect in reducing Russian oil revenues.
The EU last year announced a ban on the importation of Russian oil and other products from Russian refineries. And in February, Europe imposed a ban on Russian diesel fuel.
“The combination of the EU's oil import ban and the price cap did have an impact,” Myllyvirta said, “but the EU import ban has been the more impactful measure.”
Myllyvirta also said the cap is too high for to have a more meaningful impact on Russian oil revenues. The price cap on Russian oil has remained at $60 per barrel.
In response to the punitive measures, Russia has cut its oil production, and announced this month that it would extend the cuts by 500,000 barrels per day until the end of December 2024.
“This is a precautionary measure taken in coordination with the countries participating in the OPEC+ agreement, which previously announced voluntary oil cuts in April,” Alexander Novak, Russia’s deputy prime minister, wrote on the government’s website.
The voluntary cuts may also be due in part to waning demand.
The International Energy Agency this week issued its five-year forecast on oil demand, which suggests that fossil fuels’ dominance over drivers is starting to wane.
It’s part of a larger trend in which countries’ efforts to address climate change by moving to renewable energy sources will begin to lessen demand, which in turn could lessen the economic strength of countries like Russia.
The forecast indicates that demand for gasoline will peak in 2023, while demand for overall transport fuels would top out in 2026. The IEA specifies that this is “the result of a pivot towards lower-emission sources triggered by the global energy crisis,” in addition to better efficiency and the growth in sales of electric vehicles.
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Associated Press White House reporter Josh Boak contributed to this report.
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