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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
6-3-0, Fireball: 2
(six, three, zero; Fireball: two)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
6-3-0, Fireball: 2
(six, three, zero; Fireball: two)
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Taylor Swift fans are a force to be reckoned with — and so are their wallets. Swift's presence this summer comes at a time where hospitality businesses could really use a boost.
"She was the first album that I ever owned. I got her 'Fearless' album with my dad when I was like, 7. So I've listened to her for 16 years, 17 years," said Ava Anderson, a Swift fan waiting in line to buy merchandise for the Seattle stop on the Eras Tour.
Anderson and Caden Hernandez are passing the time making Taylor-themed bracelets, a now tradition on the tour. Anderson is a local, but Hernandez had quite the journey to get here.
"I'm living in Fresno right now, so I worked from 6:00 a.m. to 11 and then drove to Monterey and then we flew out," she said.
Hernandez is an example of the power Swift has, and people coming in from out-of-state to go to these shows are providing an incredible boost to local economies.
CoStar Group, a hotel research firm, says that at the tour's half-way point in June, it generated $98.2 million in revenue for hotels. For example, when Swift played three sold out shows in Chicago, Choose Chicago tweeted out that hotel occupancy set a new record.
This just in! 🚨
Chicago set its new all-time record for total hotel rooms occupied!
Thanks to three nights of Taylor Swift, the ASCO Annual Meeting, the James Beard Awards and more.
This isn’t just post-pandemic–we had more rooms filled than ever in Chicago’s history! pic.twitter.com/OqEGB3ZB2C
— Choose Chicago (@ChooseChicago) June 7, 2023
In Seattle this weekend, the latest stop on the tour, CoStar says hotel bookings are at 93% full, which is up from 70% this weekend last year.
"We've had some difficult times, as most of the country has, but to get back to 2019 numbers, it's gonna take a big lift. And it's events like this, it's weekends like this that really are going to position us for that recovery," said Michael Woody, senior Vice President of Visit Seattle.
He says people making the trip to the city, spending money on lodging and restaurants, is a needed boost for a post-pandemic recovery as the city strives to get visitation numbers up.
Swift may come and go, but Woody hopes the introduction to Seattle by way of the Eras tour inspires people to keep visiting.
"We're excited we get to welcome all of the Swifties here to town — and for us, more importantly, not only is it just for them to come for the concert, but we hope they spend a little bit of time with us," he said.
SEE MORE: Taylor Swift makes 'generous' food bank donation before Denver show
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com
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SULIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Anti-government demonstrations erupted Saturday in several locations across Iran as the most sustained protests in years against a deeply entrenched theocracy entered their fourth week. At least two people were killed.
Marchers chanted anti-government slogans and twirled headscarves in repudiation of coercive religious dress codes. In some areas, merchants shuttered shops in response to a call by activists for a commercial strike or to protect their wares from damage.
The protests erupted Sept. 17, after the burial of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who had died in the custody of Iran’s feared morality police. Amini had been detained for an alleged violation of strict Islamic dress codes for women. Since then, protests spread across the country and were met by a fierce crackdown, in which dozens are estimated to have been killed and hundreds arrested.
In the city of Sanandaj in the Kurdish-majority northern region, one man was shot dead Saturday while driving a car in a major thoroughfare, rights monitors said. The France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network and the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, said the man was shot after honking at security forces stationed on the street. Honking has become one of the ways activists have been expressing civil disobedience. Video circulating online showed the slain man slumped over the steering wheel, as distraught witnesses shouted for help.
The semi-official Fars news agency, believed to be close to the elite paramilitary force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, said Kurdistan’s police chief denied reports of using live rounds against protesters.
Fars claimed that people in Sanandaj’s Pasdaran Street said the victim was shot from inside the car without elaborating. But photos of the dead man indicate that he was shot from his left side, meaning he likely was not shot from inside the car. The blood can be seen running down the inside of the door on the driver’s side.
A second protester was killed after security forces fired gunshots to disperse crowds in the city and 10 protesters were wounded, the rights monitors said.
A general strike was observed in the city’s main streets amid a heavy security presence and protesters burned tires in some areas. Patrols have deterred mass gatherings in Sanandaj but isolated protests have continued in the city’s densely populated neighborhoods.
Demonstrations were also reported in the capital Tehran on Saturday, including small ones near the Sharif University of Technology, one of Iran’s premier centers of learning and the scene of a violent government crackdown last weekend. Authorities have closed the campus until further notice.
Images on social media showed protests also took place in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Other protests erupted at Azad University in northern Tehran, in other neighborhoods of the capital and in the city’s bazaar. Many shops were closed in central Tehran and near the University of Tehran.
President Ebrahim Raisi in a meeting with students from the all-female Al-Zahra University in Tehran alleged again that foreign enemies were responsible for fomenting the protests. He has made the claim without giving specifics or providing any evidence.
“The enemy thought that it can pursue its desires in universities while unaware that our students and teachers are aware and they will not allow the enemies’ vain plans to be realized,” he said.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in The Hague, Netherlands chanted and sang in a solidarity demonstration in support of the protesters in Iran.
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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) on Thursday expanded the state’s civil rights law to include explicit protections for sexual orientation and gender identity, signing the first statewide law in Michigan to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people.
“It is a new day in Michigan,” Whitmer said Thursday during a signing ceremony in Lansing. “Michiganders are freer today; they are happier today and I am proud to be playing a small part of that.”
Whitmer, whose daughter, Sherry, is openly gay, said she hopes the new law will send a message to LGBTQ people and their loved ones that, “if you’re looking for a place that will respect you and protect you, it’s time to come to Michigan.”
The state legislature’s new Democratic majority earlier this month passed legislation to amend Michigan’s Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act (ELCRA) to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, expanding the landmark civil rights law that has protected Michiganders from housing, employment, education and public accommodations discrimination since the 1970s.
The law as amended will take effect in June.
Former Michigan Republican Rep. Mel Larsen, for whom the ELCRA is partially named, said during Thursday’s signing ceremony that the measure’s original intent was — and still is — to ensure that “every resident of Michigan” is protected under the law, including LGBTQ people.
Larsen sponsored the original draft of the 1976 ELCRA with former state Democratic Rep. Daisy Elliott, who died in 2015.
“We’re on this earth to move the pendulum a little bit in our lifetime,” Larsen said Thursday. “And if we do that enough, we’ve done some good.”
Republicans in the legislature this year argued that passing the proposed amendment would infringe on the freedoms of religious organizations and institutions, claims Democrats denied.
In a landmark decision in July, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the ELCRA’s definition of sex includes sexual orientation. The ruling stemmed from a 2020 case involving two businesses that had denied services to LGBTQ clients.
“That was an incredibly important win,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D), one of the only openly LGBTQ state attorneys general in the U.S., said Thursday. “But until now, at this very moment, never has Michigan passed any law to enshrine legal rights and protections for the LGBTQ community.”
“We’re all well aware that court decisions can change depending on the composition of the jurists,” Nessel said Thursday in an apparent reference to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year to scrap federal abortion protections.
“The LGBTQ community deserves to at long last see the words sexual orientation, gender identity and expression printed in black and white in our statutes,” Nessel said. “Those words matter.”
LGBTQ advocacy groups on Thursday celebrated the new law as a history-making victory for the LGBTQ community.
“This is an incredible and historic day for LGBTQ+ people, for the people of Michigan, and for all Americans across our nation,” Kelley Robinson, the president of the Human Rights Campaign, said Thursday in a statement.
“The passage of the ELCRA amendment is a beacon of hope for those fighting for their rights,” Robinson said. “In states like Tennessee or Florida or Oklahoma, this is a reminder that when we come together as one we can and we will build a better future for everyone, including for LGBTQ+ people.”
Troy Stevenson, the director of state advocacy campaigns for The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ youth suicide prevention organization, said the new law sends a powerful message of acceptance to LGBTQ people nationwide.
“[W]e work every day to protect the lives of LGBTQ youth, and days like today prove that in generations to come, both their legal and lived equality will no longer be fodder for political debate,” Stevenson said.
The expansion of Michigan’s ELCRA comes as more than 400 bills targeting the rights of LGBTQ people — particularly transgender youth — are under consideration in state legislatures nationwide. Three anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced this year in the Michigan House, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, but stand little chance of passing.
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FARGO, N.D. (KXNET) — The deeper one digs into the urban legends of North Dakota, the more likely they are to come across some that shift from the interesting to the frightening and eventually to the downright bizarre. This is the case with the elephant rumored to be buried under Horace Mann Elementary School: A tale going back over 100 years that theoretically could be answered, but never has been.
To this day, variations on the tale have been whispred around Fargo, but nobody is quite sure about the exact circumstances that led to the creature supposedly ending up buried below the grounds that have now become home to Horace Mann Elementary. If the rumors are true, than where did it come from? And why hasn’t anyone bothered to figure out if it is to begin with?
Profiling a pachyderm
The original story of the elephant buried under Horace Mann begins in the early 1900s, before the elementary school was actually built. Before it’s construction in 1915, the land was actually known as Hector’s Addition, another part of the county fairgrounds. As such, many groups of traveling performers, including circus folk, passed through the area, bringing their unique acts and animals with them. One of these groups who visited Hector’s Addition brought with them an elephant, who died of a heart attack while on the property.
Refusing to pay the extremely high price to transport the expired elephant, they instead opted to bury the animal in the dead of night before skipping town. Their scheme went unnoticed, and Horace Mann Elementary School was eventually built on the site where the elephant was supposedly buried. Since then, the event has been viewed as a common folk tale in the nearby community.
With the school covering the area and preventing a proper dig, how do we have any indication that the event even happened? Well, there are some pieces of history and evidence from the Pachyderm Recovery Project (originally spearheaded by former Fargo city planning department member Dan Mahli in 2001), as well as more evidence brought to light by the High Plains Reader in 2014, that may point to the possibility of the rumor being a reality.
Addressing the Elephant in the School
Work from both the Reader and the Pachyderm Recovery Project has uncovered plenty of information about the history of the ground that Horace Mann now stands on, and though we still can’t confirm wether or not the elephant tale is true, Hector’s Addition’s history of fairground follies goes back even further than the rumor would imply.
According to the High Plains Reader’s findings, approximately 80 traveling circuses passed through Fargo, with at least ten directly camping on Hector’s Addition, almost all carrying elephants in tow. They’ve even managed to estimate a date range in which the elephant may have been entombed — between 1892 and 1905 (between the time the land was purchased by Martin Hector and when circuses were forced to move their setups to Ninth Street South). At the time that the PRP once again attempted to comb through the archives, there were around 30 circuses remaining that had not been entirely looked through in the Fargo forums, and without full information and a physical investigation, the story remains an urban legend.
Even if the elephant rumor is false, though, this research has indicated that there is one animal that the rumor may have spun from. Archive seraches have shown that a dead camel has been comfirmed to be buried by Fargo North High School — courtesy of Barnum and Bailey — who died of a currently unidentified disease in the summer of 1907.There is a chance that the original rumor started due to the camel and school connection, and spiraled from there.
Despite all the work that groyps like the Pachyderm Recovery Project have done, the evidence remains inconclusive: if there is an elephant underneath Horace Mann Elementary, then it’s one whos death hasn’t been recorded and somehow slipped through the cracks of history. Discovering the truth about the elephant under Horace Mann is a slow process, but still an intriguing one nontheless.
If you have any information about the history of Horace Mann Elementary School’s grounds or circuses in Fargo, please reach out to us at ndfirst@kxnet.com.
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KYIV – Powerful explosions shook Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant, the global nuclear watchdog said Sunday, calling for “urgent measures to help prevent a nuclear accident” in the Russian-occupied facility.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said two explosions — one Saturday evening and another Sunday morning — near the Zaporizhzhia plant abruptly ended a period of relative calm around the nuclear facility that has been the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
Fears of a nuclear catastrophe have been at the forefront since Russian troops occupied the plant during the early days of the war. Continued fighting in the area has raised the specter of a disaster.
In what appeared to be renewed shelling both close to and at the site, IAEA experts at the Zaporizhzhia facility reported hearing more than a dozen blasts within a short period Sunday morning, the statement said, adding that the IAEA team could see some explosions from their windows.
Several buildings, systems and equipment at the power plant — none of them critical for the plant's nuclear safety and security — were damaged in the shelling, the IAEA said, citing information from the plant’s management. There were no reports of casualties.
Still, Grossi said reports of shelling were “extremely disturbing.” He added: “Whoever is behind this, it must stop immediately.
“As I have said many times before, you’re playing with fire!” Grossi said, and appealed to both sides in the conflict to urgently agree and implement a nuclear safety and security zone around the nuclear facility.
Russia has been pounding Ukraine’s power grid and other key infrastructure from the air, causing widespread blackouts for millions of Ukrainians amid frigid weather, with snow blanketing the capital, Kyiv, and other cities.
Elsewhere in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian forces shelled civilian infrastructure in about a dozen communities, destroying 30 homes, the Ukrainian presidency said Sunday.
In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, one person was wounded and 20 buildings damaged in shelling of Nikopol, a city across the river from the Zaporizhzhia plant, the report said. Three districts in the northern Kharkiv region — Kupyansk, Chuguiv and Izyum — also came under Russian artillery fire in the past 24 hours.
In the eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Russian shelling killed one person in Donetsk and damaged power lines, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office.
The situation in the southern Kherson region “remains difficult,” the report said, citing the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces. Russian forces fired tank shells, rockets and other artillery on the city of Kherson, which was recently liberated from Ukrainian forces, and the settlements of Chervyn Mayak, Kachkarivka, Tokarivka, Chornobayivka and Antonivka.
Shelling late Saturday struck an oil depot in Kherson, igniting a huge fire that sent black billowing smoke into the air.
Russian troops also shelled people lining up to get bread in the town of Bilozerka, wounding five, the report said.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The last veteran of Mexico’s relatively small contingent of World War II veterans has died, Mexico’s Defense Department announced Thursday.
The department said former Sgt. Horacio Castilleja Albarrán was 98 when he died Wednesday. A cause of death was not provided.
Castilleja Albarrán was one of about 300 Mexican soldiers and airmen in Squadron 201, known as the Aztec Eagles, who were sent from Mexico to help in the U.S. war effort against Japn.
The aircraft squadron fought alongside the U.S. Army Air Forces in the Philippines in 1945. Mexico was late to enter World War II, but declared war after German submarines sank several Mexican oil tankers.
Castilleja Albarrán joined the army in 1942 at age 18 and was trained as a radio operator. He was long retired from the service.
He was given a funeral with military honors.
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READ: Alvin Bragg’s lawsuit against House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan over Trump probe interference
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit Tuesday against House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan to prevent GOP interference in former President Donald Trump’s case.
Read the lawsuit here.
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PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of two transgender girls in Arizona filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a year-old state law banning trans girls from participating in school sports.
Attorneys for the families, whose names are concealed in court documents out of fear for their childrens’ safety, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Tucson.
The plaintiffs include an 11-year-old who wants to play girls’ soccer, basketball and cross-country, and a 15-year-old volleyball player. In court filings, they are going by the names Jane Doe and Megan Roe.
“Jane knows this would be because she is transgender, and I worry about how that will affect her self-esteem and her confidence,” her mother said in a statement.
“The ban’s exclusion of plaintiffs from participating in school sports because they are transgender denies them equal treatment under the law,” attorneys wrote in the 21-page complaint.
The attorneys also argued the law violates the Equal Protection Clause under the U.S. Constitution and Title IX.
“It cannot survive constitutional scrutiny and it endangers transgender children,” attorney Justin Rassi said in a news release.
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who is a defendant in the challenge, called the lawsuit’s logic “backwards.” It’s about fairness, he added.
“Title IX was aimed at giving girls equal opportunities for playing sports. When a biological boy plays in a girls’ sport, it disadvantages the girls,” Horne told The Associated Press. “There have been lots of news stories about girls who worked hard to excel at their sports, found they could not when they had to compete against biological boys and were devastated by that.”
Horne said he will contact the office of the Arizona Attorney General about next steps in response to the lawsuit.
The Arizona Interscholastic Association, the Kyrene School District in Tempe and The Gregory School in Tucson are also named as defendants. Alicia Saposnik, a spokesperson for The Gregory School, said the private school was waiting to meet with their legal counsel. A spokesperson for the others did not immediately return email requests for comment.
In March 2022, then-Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed off on limiting trans girls from participating in school sports alongside cisgender girls. The issue became front and center in Republican-led statehouses since Idaho lawmakers passed the nation’s first sports participation law in 2020. Prior to that, no state had ever passed a law regulating gender-designated youth sports.
On Tuesday, a similar law was advancing in the North Carolina Senate that would prohibit transgender girls from participating in sports that correspond with their gender identity. The proposal is among the first to advance through committee after Republicans returned from spring recess this week with newly veto-proof margins.
The legislation would designate middle and high school sports by biological sex, determined by what it called “reproductive biology and genetics at birth.” Sponsors promoted the bill as a necessary precaution to protect cisgender girls. But they did not offer an explanation for how the restrictions would be enforced.
LGBTQ+ rights advocates say these GOP-backed bills, and hundreds more across the U.S., are anti-trans attacks disguised as protections for children, and that they use trans people as political pawns to galvanize GOP voters ahead of an election year.
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The 75th Emmy Awards are the latest production to be put on pause due to the Hollywood strikes and will not air as planned in September.
A person familiar with the postponement plans but not authorized to speak publicly pending an official announcement confirmed the delay Friday. No information about a new date was immediately available.
The Emmy Awards were scheduled to be broadcast on Fox on Sept. 18. Rules laid out by the actors’ union, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, say stars cannot campaign for the Emmys or attend awards shows while on strike.
Writers are also not permitted to work on awards shows until the strike ends.
Whenever the next Emmy Awards are held, HBO will walk in as the leading contender. The network is up for 74 awards for three of its top shows: “ Succession,” “The White Lotus” and “The Last of Us.”
“Ted Lasso” has the most comedy category nominations with 21, including best comedy series and best actor for Jason Sudeikis.
Roughly 65,000 SAG-AFTRA actors and 11,500 Writers Guild of America screenwriters are on strike, calling for better pay, structure with residual payments and protection from the use of artificial intelligence.
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Indiana Rep. Jim Banks (R) said Monday he is “strongly considering” running for Indiana Sen. Mike Braun’s (R) seat in 2024 after Braun announced he will instead launch a campaign for the state’s governorship.
Braun had previously filed paperwork to run in Indiana’s governor’s race and on Monday made a formal announcement at a steakhouse event.
“Indiana deserves a proven conservative to continue Senator Braun’s work in the United States Senate,” Banks said in a statement. “I am strongly considering running for the open Indiana Senate seat in 2024, and I will spend the upcoming holidays praying and talking with my wife, family and close friends about how I can best serve Indiana.”
Banks, who was first elected to the House in 2016, currently chairs the Republican Study Committee.
He ran to serve as majority whip in the upcoming Congress but ultimately lost to Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) in a closed-door conference vote last month.
“Senator Braun has been a reliable and strong conservative in the Senate and I’m grateful for all he has done for our state over the past four years,” Banks said on Monday. “I am confident that he will continue to champion Hoosier values in the next stage of his public service career.”
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), whom Braun is seeking to replace in 2024 since Holcomb is term-limited, has left the door open for running for the Senate seat, WISH reported last week.
Rep. Victoria Spartz (Ind.) previously told fellow Republicans that she would also run for Braun’s Senate seat if he follows through with a gubernatorial run, Politico reported in September.
Whichever candidate wins the state’s Senate primary is likely to go on to win in November 2024 in the reliably conservative state.
Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) won the state by 21 percentage points in his reelection race last month.
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Fans will have to Google it beginning next season if they want to access the NFL's “Sunday Ticket” package.
The NFL announced an agreement on Thursday for Google to distribute the package of out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels.
The seven-year deal is worth a little more than $2 billion per season. The package has been on DirecTV since 1994. The satellite provider has paid $1.5 billion per year on an eight-year contract that expires at the end of this season.
The NFL had been seeking $2.5 billion per season for the package. It could still reach that total since the league retains commercial rights to bars and restaurants and is in the midst of selling those rights.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said during an interview with CNBC over the summer that the next move for “Sunday Ticket” would be to a streaming service because that would be the best option for fans.
Goodell reiterated that with Thursday's announcement.
“For a number of years we have been focused on increased digital distribution of our games and this partnership is yet another example of us looking towards the future and building the next generation of NFL fans," he said in a statement.
It is the second time in less than two years that the NFL has partnered with a streaming service to air games. The league’s 11-year contract with Amazon Prime Video for Thursday night games started this season.
Besides Amazon, Apple and ESPN also expressed interest in “NFL Sunday Ticket.”
“As the ways fans enjoy NFL football evolve in a changing media landscape, partnerships with innovators like YouTube will ensure that more games are available to more fans," said New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is also chairman of the NFL’s media committee. “This partnership will grow our game for future generations and allow them to follow their favorite sport.”
The NFL has had a presence on YouTube since 2015, when it launched its official NFL channel. That has increased to include channels for all 32 teams and 10 official league channels, including NFL Films, NFL Network and Mundo NFL.
NFL Network and NFL RedZone have been available to subscribers of YouTube TV since 2020.
“Through this expanded partnership with the NFL, viewers will now also be able to experience the game they love in compelling and innovative ways through YouTube TV or YouTube Primetime Channels," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said in a statement. "We’re excited to continue our work with the NFL to make YouTube a great place for sports lovers everywhere.”
Starting next season, “NFL Sunday Ticket” will be available as an add-on package on YouTube TV and standalone a la carte on YouTube Primetime Channels.
Google said in June that YouTube TV, which was launched in 2017, had surpassed 5 million accounts and was the biggest internet-based pay TV service in the U.S. That number includes users on free promotional trials.
YouTube Primetime Channels, which launched in November, is a service that allows users to subscribe and watch content from streaming services on the YouTube app.
Even with “Sunday Ticket” moving to YouTube, the price is not expected to substantially decrease due to contracts with CBS and Fox, which carry the Sunday afternoon games.
Viewers pay around $300-$400 a season for the package, which averages 2 million subscribers.
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It's been nearly a year since El Salvador's state of exception began. The effort to crack down on gangs has been hugely popular with the public there, but it has also come at a huge human cost.
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It's been nearly a year since El Salvador's state of exception began. The effort to crack down on gangs has been hugely popular with the public there, but it has also come at a huge human cost.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Browns’ defensive line has gone from disappointing to perhaps dominant.
Cleveland, which has spent the offseason upgrading a unit that underperformed in 2022, agreed Friday night to acquire three-time Pro Bowl pass rusher Za’Darius Smith from the Minnesota Vikings, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press.
The Browns are sending fifth-round picks in 2024 and 2025 to the Vikings for Smith, a sixth-round pick in 2025 and a seventh-rounder in 2026, said the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the teams had not announced the swap.
In Cleveland, Smith will be paired up front with All-Pro end Myles Garrett, one of the NFL’s best edge rushers.
Shortly after news of the trade broke, the Browns posted a photo of a smiling Garrett without any caption.
The 30-year-old Smith had 10 sacks last season, his first with Minnesota, and has 54 1/2 since breaking in with Baltimore in 2015. He signed a three-year, $42 million contract with the Vikings before last season, with $11.5 million guaranteed.
After going 7-10 last season, the Browns made revamping their defense a priority. They’ve done so with the signings of free agent tackle Dalvin Tomlinson, end Ogbonnia Okoronkwo and safety Juan Thornhill.
Smith should give the Browns two players capable of disrupting the pocket and another weapon for new coordinator Jim Schwartz.
Smith enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in 2022 with the Vikings after a back injury in 2021 limited him to one game with Green Bay.
Smith had 8 1/2 of his sacks over the first seven games, though, and his pressure rate dropped off significantly over the second half of the schedule. The only game he missed was the meaningless regular-season finale, but a nagging knee injury limited his impact.
With a scheduled salary cap hit of more than $15 million, Smith became an obvious candidate for release or trade for the cap-strapped Vikings. Smith even posted a message on Twitter in March that had strong farewell vibes and thanked the entire organization for an “amazing season and experience.”
Two months later, the departure finally came — saving the Vikings more than $12 million in cap space.
The Vikings ran a 3-4 scheme for their base defense, with Smith and Danielle Hunter at the outside linebacker spots, but Schwartz’s 4-3 system will make Smith more of a traditional defensive end. He played in a 3-4 over three seasons with the Packers, too.
Marcus Davenport, who signed as a free agent after leaving New Orleans, will be first in line to fill Smith’s role opposite Hunter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Monday that she was encouraged by last week’s U.S. inflation report, which pointed to slower price increases, and said the Fed would likely soon reduce the size of its interest rate hikes.
“The inflation data was reassuring, preliminarily,” Brainard said. “It will probably be appropriate, soon, to move to a slower pace of rate increases.”
Brainard’s comments, during a discussion at Bloomberg, were more positive toward the inflation report than were those of several of her Fed colleagues last week. Some central bank officials have sought to temper the stock market’s ebullient response to the better-than-expected inflation report, which suggested that the rampant price spikes of the past 18 months were moderating.
The Fed is considering raising rates in smaller increments after having increased its key short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, by a substantial three-quarters of a point at four straight policy meetings. Yet the central bank doesn’t necessarily want the stock market to jump in response. A major sustained stock rally tends to cause consumers and businesses to spend more and can undercut the Fed’s efforts to cool economic growth and inflation.
On Sunday, Christopher Waller, a member of the Fed’s influential Board of Governors, suggested that “everybody should just take a deep breath” after last week’s inflation report, because it “was just one data point.”
“We’re going to need to see a continued run of this kind of behavior and inflation slowly starting to come down,” Waller said, “before we really start thinking about taking our foot off the brakes.”
On Monday, Brainard pointed approvingly to a decline in goods inflation: The costs of used cars, clothes and furniture all fell from September to October. Those price declines reflected the unsnarling of previously clogged global supply chains, which had caused inflation spikes last year and earlier this year.
The central bank can now take a more deliberative approach, Brainard said, after having raised its key short-term rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, a level she said will restrict economic growth over time.
The Fed’s vice chair noted that it can take time for rate increases to affect the overall U.S. economy. In the past, Brainard has made that point in explaining that raising rates in smaller increments would give the Fed time to judge how its earlier rate increases were working.
As the Fed’s policies start to restrict growth, Brainard said, the policymakers will start considering the risk that they could go too far and raise rates higher than needed, thereby causing a recession.
“As we get into restrictive territory, or further into restrictive territory, risks become more two sided.” she said. That is, the dual risks would be that inflation could stay too high or that the Fed would slow the economy too sharply.
Thursday’s data showed that consumer prices rose 7.7% in October compared with a year ago — still a painfully high level, but down from a peak of 9.1% in June. And a separate gauge that measures “core prices,” which exclude volatile food and energy, rose just 0.3% from September to October, half the pace of the previous two months.
In her remarks Monday, Brainard underscored that the Fed would continue to raise rates in the coming months.
“What’s really important to emphasize,” Brainard said Monday, “is we’ve done a lot, but we have additional work to do both on raising rates and sustaining restraint to bring inflation down to 2% over time.” That was a reference to the Fed’s annual 2% inflation target.
Speaking at a news conference earlier this month, Chair Jerome Powell signaled that the Fed may scale back its rate hikes to a half-point as soon as its meeting in mid-December. Historically speaking, that would still amount to a sizable increase. In the past, the Fed has most commonly raised or cut rates by just a quarter-point.
The stock market soared after Thursday’s inflation report on hopes that cooling inflation would allow the Federal Reserve to slow its interest rate increases. T he Dow Jones surged 1,200 points, its best day in two years. Stocks added further gains on Friday.
In the wake of the market’s celebratory response to the inflation data, several Fed policymakers sought last week to cool the enthusiasm.
“One month of data does not a victory make, and I think it’s really important to be thoughtful, that this is just one piece of positive information,” said Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve.
Lorie Logan, president of the Dallas Fed, added Thursday that the inflation figures “were a welcome relief” but made clear that further Fed rate hikes are coming, though possibly at a slower pace.
In her remarks Monday, Brainard pointed to other signs that inflation pressures are cooling. She noted that two gauges of worker pay have shown that wage growth is declining.
“That does suggest … lessening wage pressures,” she said.
Though Powell has said that rapid wage growth is not a principal driver of inflation, pay raises can perpetuate price hikes, particularly in services such as restaurants, hotels and airlines, as companies pass on to customers the cost of higher labor through price increases.
Brainard also said the collapse of the FTX cryto exchange and its effects on other parts of the crypto universe, such as lender BlockFi, show that cypto is “highly concentrated, highly interconnected” and there “need to be strong regulatory guardrails.”
“It is really concerning to see that retail investors are getting hurt by these losses,” she said.
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Jeff Bohnert had all but given up on seeing his poodle-hound mix again after she went missing in early June. Two months later, he got a text from a neighbor: People exploring a nearby cave found a dog. Could it be Abby?
Bohnert doubted it, but still curious, he went to the cave site near his rural Missouri home. That’s when he saw the picture one of the rescuers took.
“I said, ‘that’s my dog,’” Bohnert recalled Monday.
Making Abby’s tale even more amazing is the fact that she’s just weeks shy of turning 14. Yet somehow, she managed to survive nearly 60 days out on her own, apparently much or all of it in a barren, pitch-dark, 58-degree Fahrenheit (14-degree Celsius) cave.
Abby and Bohnert’s other dog, Summer, do everything together, including misbehaving.
On June 9, the pair ran away from home, Bohnert recalled. It had happened before, and in the rural area near Perryville in eastern Missouri, it was generally no big deal. The dogs would scamper through the fields, maybe chase something, then head home.
When Bohnert awoke the next morning, Summer was back home but Abby was not.
“They never separate,” he said. “I figured something bad had happened. I mean, she’s old. She could just get overcome by the heat.”
Bohnert posted about his missing dog on Facebook, reached out to neighbors and contacted police, but no one had seen Abby.
On Aug. 6, Gerry Keene and five other adults, along with five children, had just entered the Berome Moore Cave, planning a day of exploring. One of the kids ran ahead of the group and yelled back to his dad, “There’s a dog in here.”
“Their dad was like, no there’s not,” Keene said.
Yes, there was.
“She was just lying there curled up in a ball,” Keene recalled. “She lifted her head and looked at us but she didn’t respond to verbal commands. She looked like she was pretty close to being done.”
Keene enlisted the help of another caver who happened to be there, Rick Haley. They knew Abby couldn’t make the estimated 500-foot walk back to the entrance, especially since it was through tight passageways and up a steep incline.
Haley was trained in cave rescues, and he retrieved a duffel bag and a blanket from his truck. They put the blanket inside the bag, then the dog, who immediately took to the warm blanket after weeks laying in the cold mud.
Still, getting Abby out was tricky given her fragility.
“It was critical that we not give her any rough handling,” Haley said. In the rocky areas through small passageways, “We would carry her short distance, set her down, then kind of move in front of her, reach back, pick her up, and put her in front of us.” He described it as “kind of a leap-frog kind of thing.”
Soon after initially finding Abby, Keene briefly went to a few homes nearby to see if anyone was missing a dog. One neighbor reached out to Bohnert, who lives close enough to the cave site that he can see it from his home.
He went there assuming it couldn’t be Abby — how could a 13-year-old dog have survived such an ordeal?
To his amazement, she did, and roughly an hour-and-a-half after the rescue began, she was out. One of the rescuers gave Abby a bite of beef.
“She almost ate his finger off,” Keene said. Almost immediately, she began to perk up.
Bohnert figures Abby ended up in the cave after falling into a sinkhole or a hidden entrance. Haley said there were paw prints everywhere, indicating she initially tried to get out.
After that, Haley and Bohnert believe she hunkered down, able to essentially live off her own body fat.
“I think she was just in a preservation mode,” Bohnert said.
Abby normally weighs about 50 pounds, Bohnert said, but he guessed she lost half her body weight in the cave. Since her rescue, she has regained weight and started to get back the voice she likely lost barking for help.
She’s also wagging her tail again, showing she’s putting the trauma behind her.
“It’s amazing how she’s springing back already,” Bohnert said. “She’s acting like herself again.”
To learn more about Clear The Shelters 2022 and search for adoptable pets in your area, visit cleartheshelters.com. You can also donate to your local animal shelters and rescue groups by visiting clearthesheltersfund.org.
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Bobcat caught using a dog bed inside an Arizona home
A bobcat in southern Arizona found a comfy and warm place to rest – but it was inside someone's home – and in their dog's bed.
The Arizona Game and Fish Department posted two photos of the bobcat on Twitter, saying it's suspected to have come in through an unlocked doggie door at a home in San Manuel, just outside of Tucson.
The big cat was seen lounging on a fluffy dog bed surrounded by toys. By time help arrived, the bobcat was gone.
The department warns to not handle entrapped or injured wildlife. Instead, call Arizona Game and Fish's Wildlife Center at 623-236-7201 as soon as possible.
No injuries were reported to humans or animals.
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Tune in to FOX 10 Phoenix for the latest news:
Photos courtesy of the the Arizona Game and Fish Department
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Note: x - clinched playoff berth; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Tuesday's results
Swift Current 7 Brandon 5
Saskatoon 5 Prince George 2
Seattle 4 Tri-City 2
Wednesday's results
Winnipeg 5 Swift Current 3
Lethbridge 3 Calgary 0
Spokane 6 Portland 2
Kelowna 5 Everett 2
Friday's results
Prince Albert 6 Regina 5
Winnipeg 7 Moose Jaw 1
Kamloops 7 Red Deer 4
Lethbridge 3 Brandon 1
Seattle 4 Tri-City 3 (OT)
Saskatoon 6 Victoria 4
Spokane 4 Everett 3 (SO)
Saturday's results
Brandon at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Regina, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Portland at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's games
Kamloops at Calgary, 2 p.m.
Monday's games
Lethbridge at Regina, 2 p.m.
Prince Albert at Brandon, 2:30 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 2 p.m.
Kamloops at Edmonton, 2 p.m.
Spokane at Vancouver, 2 p.m.
Winnipeg at Swift Current, 4 p.m.
Portland at Prince George, 2 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 2:05 p.m.
Tri-City at Kelowna, 2:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Lethbridge at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Portland at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Winnipeg at Calgary, 11 a.m.
Kamloops at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Regina, 7 p.m.
Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
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An 18-year-old northeastern Nebraska woman was sentenced Thursday to 90 days in jail and two years of probation for burning and burying a fetus she aborted with her mother’s help in a case watched by advocates as a slew of states move to restrict abortion access.
Celeste Burgess, of Norfolk, was sentenced in Madison County after pleading guilty earlier this year to concealing or abandoning a dead body. Two other misdemeanor charges of false reporting and concealing the death of another person were dropped, in an agreement with prosecutors.
“The Court specifically finds that while probation is appropriate, confinement is necessary because without this confinement, it would depreciate the seriousness of the crime or promote disrespect for the law,” the judge’s order read.
Burgess and her mother, 42-year-old Jessica Burgess of Norfolk, are accused of working together to end the pregnancy. The abortion, well into her third trimester, violated Nebraska law at the time that banned abortion after 20 weeks of gestation. Officials have said Jessica Burgess ordered abortion pills online, which she gave to her then-17-year-old daughter in the spring of 2022.
Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty earlier this month to providing an illegal abortion, false reporting and tampering with human skeletal remains. In exchange for her plea, charges of concealing the death of another person and abortion by someone other than a licensed physician were dismissed. She faces sentencing on Sept. 22.
Norfolk police detective opened an investigation into the abortion following a tip, according to an arrest affidavit. Police secured a search warrant to gain access to Facebook messages between the two, in which prosecutors say the women discussed terminating the pregnancy and destroying the evidence. Police then found the burned fetal remains buried in a field north of Norfolk.
In one of the Facebook messages, Jessica Burgess instructed her daughter on how to take the pills to end the pregnancy, according to court records. In another, Celeste Burgess wrote, “I will finally be able to wear jeans,” according to the documents.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s last year overturned Roe v. Wade, which for 50 years had established the constitutional right to abortion. Nebraska lawmakers who opposed Republican’s efforts to severely restrict abortion access in the legislative session that ended in June, repeatedly cited the Norfolk case, saying it shows state prosecutors would target women who seek abortions with criminal penalties.
Republicans in the officially nonpartisan Nebraska Legislature failed this year to enact a six-week ban on abortions, but later passed a 12-week ban after adding it as an amendment to another bill to limit gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Opponents say that violated a Nebraska constitutional requirement that legislative bills stick to a single subject.
The ACLU has sued to overturn the abortion ban and transgender care bill.
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Former President Trump is plowing ahead with his 2024 campaign launch next week despite the pleas of even some of his closest advisers, who point to risks for both Trump and the Republican Party as a whole.
For Trump, a formal declaration of his candidacy would cut off support from the Republican National Committee (RNC) in paying his legal bills, complicate how he can fundraise and risk inviting potential GOP challengers to move up their own plans if an announcement lands with a thud.
Other Republicans are particularly concerned about how an early Trump announcement might cost them in Georgia, where control of the Senate could be on the line in a runoff election next month. If Trump has already declared he is running for president again, lawmakers and party strategists worry that it will become a major motivator for Democrats to turn out and vote in a state Trump narrowly lost in 2020.
Some in the GOP are openly calling for the party to move on from Trump entirely in the wake of this week’s midterm elections.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who handily won reelection on Tuesday, called the prospect of Trump jumping into the 2024 race so early a “silly decision.”
“He stands to potentially muck up the opportunity for [Herschel] Walker to win in Georgia in his runoff,” Sununu said in a SiriusXM interview on Friday.
“I think what the former president doesn’t understand is if he announces … he’s not going to keep anyone out of the race,” he continued. “But no one else is going to announce until summer or fall for a whole variety of fundraising reasons and all of this. So it’s going to be a very awkward thing with only him in the race. No one’s going to really care. It’s just going to be weird.”
Trump on Monday teased an announcement for next week about his future plans, clearly hoping to build on momentum from a big night for Republicans in the midterms. But the anticipated red wave never materialized, with some of Trump’s highest profile endorsements suffering key losses.
Jason Miller, a top adviser to Trump who worked on his 2016 and 2020 campaigns, put to rest on Friday any speculation that the former president might be second-guessing the decision in light of the results.
“President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for president. And it’s going to be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement,” Miller told former Trump White House official Stephen Bannon on the latter’s radio show.
The former president and his allies urging him to jump into the race see some benefits to an early announcement.
Doing so would lay down a marker for other Republicans to either pledge their loyalty to Trump for 2024, or risk being ostracized by the MAGA wing of the party. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), a member of House leadership, has already publicly backed Trump for 2024.
It would also potentially clear the field of prospective candidates such as Nikki Haley, Trump’s former United Nations ambassador, who said in April 2021 she would not run for president if Trump were in the race.
There are some in Trump’s orbit who also believe the former president wants to declare his candidacy before a potential indictment comes down over his mishandling of classified information after he left the White House. If he is actively running for president, the Justice Department would face some difficult decisions about how to proceed with bringing charges, though Trump’s allies are sure to claim that any indictment is politically motivated regardless.
Trump in an interview over the summer denied investigations into his conduct were motivating a possible third White House bid.
Still, there are numerous risks to Trump launching his campaign essentially two full years before the presidential election.
Campaign finance laws would restrict how Trump could use the money he raised through his Save America PAC, and it would cap donations he could accumulate over such a long time period.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel says the party can no longer pay Trump’s legal bills if he’s a declared candidate.
Multiple Republican strategists and some former Trump campaign officials doubted that an early announcement would clear the field of potential primary challengers, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) among the potential candidates who are unlikely to be deterred by Trump’s announcement.
“That’s part of the problem for his candidacy is the earlier he does it is the more time he gives a Glenn Youngkin or a Ron DeSantis to bide their time, see where the opening is and see where he is around late second quarter,” a former Trump campaign adviser said.
Trump has gone particularly hard after DeSantis in recent days, complaining that the Florida governor was not gracious enough for Trump’s help in his 2018 campaign, threatening to release damaging information about DeSantis in a 2024 primary and mocking him as “Ron DeSanctimonious.”
But the attacks have largely backfired. DeSantis has not engaged, and many conservatives have rallied around the Florida governor after his landslide victory on Tuesday.
Perhaps the greatest concern around an early Trump announcement, however, lies in Georgia, where many Republicans fear a repeat of two years ago.
“If I’m advising any contender — DeSantis, Trump, whomever — nobody announces 2024 until we get through Dec. 6,” former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News, adding that Trump should put any announcement “on pause.”
The former president, who fuels turnout not just for Republicans but for Democrats and independents who oppose him, lost Georgia narrowly in 2020, becoming the first Republican since 1992 to fail to carry the state.
Trump then spent the weeks before a January 2021 Senate runoff spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election and sowing doubt about whether Georgia voters could trust that their ballots would count. Democrats ultimately won both Senate runoffs, clinching control of the chamber.
A handful of GOP voices have gone as far as to say the party should move on from Trump completely, including Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, billionaire donor Ken Griffin and Rep.-elect Mike Lawler (N.Y.), who defeated House Democrats’ campaign chief.
“Anytime you are focused on the future, you can’t so much go to the past. I think people are really excited about the opportunity to address the challenges that we’re facing as a country,” Lawler said on CNN. “And I think more focus needs to be on the issues and the substance of those issues than on personalities.”
But those concerns have clearly not convinced Trump, who has been itching to declare a third White House campaign for months but has held off at the urging of advisers and party leaders.
The former president has in recent days insisted the midterms were a success for him personally, pointing to the dozens of candidates he endorsed who won their races for the House, Senate and other offices.
Miller, who two days ago said “priorities A, B and C” needed to be focusing on the Georgia runoff, on Friday said Trump told him of his plans: “’There doesn’t need to be any question. Of course I’m running. I’m going to do this, and I want to make sure people know that I’m fired up and we’ve got to get the country back on track.’”
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NEW YORK (NewsNation) — Skyrocketing tuition and crippling student loan debt have millions of parents and students wondering whether college is even worth it anymore as companies reconsider hiring requirements.
Major companies like Google, Tesla, and IBM have dropped the requirement for college degrees as college enrollment continues to drop.
According to a recent study from Harvard Business Review and Emsi Burning Glass, a leading labor market data company, companies are dropping the requirements for many middle-skill and even higher-skill roles. More than 51 million jobs posted between 2017 and 2020 were analyzed for the study.
This move by companies reverses the so-called “degree inflation” trend that picked up steam after the Great Recession in which many employers began adding degree requirements to job descriptions that hadn’t previously needed them — even though the actual jobs hadn’t changed.
In place of four-year-degree requirements, many companies are instead focusing on skills-based hiring to widen the talent pool.
Nationwide, enrollment at higher education institutions continues to decline, but the number of prospective student applications is surging at many colleges.
“Seventy percent of high school graduates at peak, about 2017, went straight to college. Now, we’re about down to 63%, and the decline is even sharper in many states,” said Jon Marcus, a senior editor at Hechinger Report, a nonprofit publication covering inequality and innovation in education.
From 2010 to 2020, annual enrollment at postsecondary institutions has fallen more than 14% nationally, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In real terms, that’s 4 million fewer students compared to 10 years ago.
Marcus said the greatest decline is in the Northeast and Midwest, where birth rates are flat — meaning fewer students are coming out of high school. But the biggest reason why admission numbers are declining is the soaring tuition cost.
“It’s not a secret that for decades the cost of college has been increasing and people have struggled to pay,” Marcus said. “They’ve often borrowed to pay it, which has resulted in the student loan crisis which we’ve been hearing quite a lot about.”
Today, more than 40 million Americans have college debt.
Meghan McGrody is a first-year student at Boston University and an aspiring attorney who will undergo four years of undergrad and three years of law school, costing her family into the six figures.
“I applied for financial aid. B.U. is 100% need-based, so that helped, too,” McGrody said.
Many universities are taking notice and launching programs to lure kids to college. Princeton University announced it would cover the college costs for those whose families make less than $100,000 annually.
About 83% of Princeton’s recent graduating seniors are debt-free, according to the university. They also note that 62% of its undergraduate students already receive some financial aid.
So, what’s the return on investment for everyone else paying sky-high prices? It depends on the student’s major.
We’re seeing a big decline in the number of people enrolling in majors with the lowest ROI, so humanities, history, English,” said Michael Hicks, a professor at Ball State University.
On average, college graduates make 67% more than non-college graduates. But, of course, some professions require a degree.
“This is a very vast and wide world. I mean we need someone for everything — like there needs to be someone with a college degree to be a doctor,” said Anna Tillisch, a college sophomore.
So, if you don’t want to be a doctor or lawyer, do you need a degree?
“In a knowledge economy like ours, based largely on things like tech, you need some people to continue to go to college. You don’t need everybody to go to college,” Marcus said.
As college tuition continues to rise, about 45% of incoming freshmen are expected to graduate in four years, but six years has become more common.
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AALF taps Pillsbury United Communities Leader as Next CEO
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities (AALF) announced today that its board of directors has unanimously selected Adair Mosley as the organization's next Chief Executive Officer. Mosley, who currently serves as Pillsbury United Communities President and CEO will succeed Marcus Owens, previous AALF CEO, on October 10.
Mosley has a track record of strong leadership, transformative innovation and fundraising. He has been with Pillsbury United Communities for 11 years, the last five as CEO. Throughout his tenure, the agency's budget has grown from $12 million to $16 million.
"I am deeply honored to be chosen as the next CEO of the African American Leadership Forum to continue my ambition of driving transformative impact across our state. I believe in the collective power of the Black community and all the potential we hold," said Mosley. "I look forward to leading fearlessly, unapologetically, and authentically to meet this moment."
Earlier this year, Mosley received national headlines for raising $1 million to provide every student of North High School's graduating class of 2022 a post-secondary scholarship. He also served instrumental in opening North Market, a full-service grocery store in North Minneapolis. His hiring culminates a five-month national search to find the successor to Owens. During that time, Vice President of Administration Shanaya Dungey, and Vice President of Amplification Marc Watts, have served as AALF's Co-Interim CEOs.
"The work we are doing is a critical component of moving the needle and making a broad impact for Black lives in our region. We are visioning and stewarding a new Black experience for our community. Adair's innovative leadership approach and trailblazing efforts will prove invaluable for AALF to take our current initiatives to the next level," said Dungey.
"This moment in the Twin Cities provides us with a unique opportunity to create a healthy, vibrant, and prosperous future for the African American community," said Kevin Lindsey, Chair of AALF's Board of Directors. "In pairing the talented AALF staff with Adair's leadership to cultivate the best ideas within our community, AALF is poised to succeed and become a model for metropolitan areas in the United States to emulate."
Prior to being named Pillsbury United's CEO in 2017, Mosley led as the organization's Chief Innovation Officer. He is a sought-after public speaker on topics ranging from health equity to disruptive system design and serves on the boards of MinnPost, the Center for Economic Inclusion, and the Women's Foundation of Minnesota.
In 2019, Mosley was selected to represent the Twin Cities region at Harvard Business School's Young American Leaders Program. He has been named by the Grist organization as one of its 50 Fixers-- "individuals cooking up the boldest solutions to humanity's biggest challenges" --and received the Local Legend Award from the General Mills Foundation for the embodiment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision and legacy.
Currently, Mosley is a candidate for Executive MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics and previously attended the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan's Executive Leadership Institute. He was an American Express Leadership Fellow in 2014 and earned a certificate in Human Centered Design at Stanford.
Welcome aboard Adair Mosley!
Founded in 2006, AALF is regarded as one of the leading, Black-led nonprofits in the United States. In 2021 the organization was selected to be the primary steward for United By Black Powered By All, a bold 10-year funding and community solutions initiative designed to close the gaps of racial disparities in Minnesota. Known for its connections to community, leadership development and ability to mobilize its network, AALF's mission is to improve the lives of African Americans in Minnesota by building a cross-sector network of leaders and institutions that convenes, collaborates, and champions solutions. AALF carries out its work through its proprietary methodology known as Black-Centered Design. More information is available at www.aalftc.org. Contact at info@aalftc.org.
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CEDAR FALLS — The public is invited to learn more about the details of perhaps the most highly anticipated, impactful report to hit Cedar Falls in the last year.
The Cedar Falls Economic Development Corporation’s task force will share more about a near-final draft of a housing needs assessment at an informal open house from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Center, 528 Main St.
The event marks one of the final steps in a process that began in May when the fairly new organization contracted with the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments and the University of Northern Iowa’s Institute for Decision Making for close to $50,000 to guide the crafting of a report that hasn’t been completed since 1998.
“This open house is a little piece of the overall input process,” said Karla Organist, program manager with IDM. “We’ve already had different focus groups and surveys.”
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The lengthy 125-page assessment dives into the city’s housing stock, unmet housing needs, and policy- and decision ‐making as it relates to developers, local officials and other stakeholders. It also offers extensive research to back up 33 short-term, long-term and ongoing recommendations for future action.
“We don’t expect to make any major changes at this point, or to come across anything we didn’t anticipate,” Organist said about the open house. “It’s more about the opportunity share about what we’ve found and what we can do to better the city’s overall housing situation. Where are the gaps and how can we fill them?”
The assessment was completed with the help of a 20-member task force with representation including public officials as well as professionals from the real estate, construction, banking, senior living and social services sectors.
On Tuesday, Organist said, members of the task force will run seven different stations to educate people and accept comments on the results of their efforts.
One will be focused on the process while another will have information on the findings, goals, data and survey results. At the other five stations people can learn about regulatory review, financial mechanisms, new programs, space for development, and complementary services and amenities.
“They’ll get a feel for the key things we’ve learned and that guided our recommendations,” she said.
Regulatory review focuses on what may make it easier, streamlined and uniform to help builders, Organist explained. Financial assistance could be offered to someone interested in buying, rehabbing or constructing of a home.
Space for growth pertains to actual lots available to build on. New programs could offer more affordability for those looking to buy a home. And the amenities are about “quality of place,” or what may help attract people to the area.
“We may have the executive summary printed out, as well as some bullet points at each of the stations,” Organist said. “But it will be a very informal chance to talk one-on-one, ask questions and dig deeper.”
No formal presentation will be offered. The full draft is expected to be available online at some point.
The Housing Commission and Human Rights Commission have been given updates on the latest draft and an overview will be shared with the City Council on Monday. A resolution of support will come before the council for a vote May 15.
The assessment came as a recommendation from the Racial Equity Task Force in 2021 to determine how to provide “housing variety to promote affordable housing options for all.” More recently, it was highlighted at a council meeting as one requirement for private developers to qualify for Iowa’s Workforce Housing Tax Credit Program.
The Economic Development Corporation paid for the report after the council decided to pull funding from its current year budget for the assessment. The organization is a 501©(4) nonprofit with its own board, but has received some funding from the city.
In June, the council was presented with the Resilience Plan – another lengthy, technical document involving an extensive process, offering insight on environmental and economic recommendations and findings. At the time, a majority declined to endorse the document in its entirety. Some, instead, wanted more time to review and pick and choose individual parts to focus on.
Councilmembers Daryl Kruse, Gil Schultz, Dustin Ganfield, Dave Sires and Susan deBuhr voted against adopting the document and, since then, it’s only been reintroduced briefly in public by Mayor Rob Green during the November goal setting sessions.
The same five supported the removal of $35,000 dedicated for the housing assessment as part of the effort at the time to reduce a proposed property tax increase.
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(iSeeCars) — How can consumers get the most remaining life out of a used car while paying the lowest purchase price? Used car shoppers should consider one of these top 20 best used cars for the money. By analyzing over 2 million used vehicles, iSeeCars.com identified models with the longest lifespan and then compared those models with their current used car values. This allowed iSeeCars.com to identify the best values for 10-year-old vehicles ranked by the price of their remaining potential lifespan (the lowest price per remaining 1,000 miles of lifespan).
Summary
- Used car shoppers can get over 100,000 miles of use for less than $10,000 from the Chevrolet Impala
- Toyota Prius is available for less than $14,000 with up to 130,000 miles of remaining life, along with exceptional fuel economy
- SUVs and minivans, including the Honda Odyssey and Ford Expedition, can provide more than 100,000 miles of family transportation for just $15,000
- Toyota Avalon can be purchased for less than $16,000 with over 143,000 miles of remaining lifespan
“Although used car pricing is slowly dropping, it remains near record levels, putting a serious financial pinch on first-time buyers or used car shoppers needing to replace their current vehicle. And new vehicle pricing is simply unrealistic for many consumers,” said Karl Brauer, Executive Analyst for iSeeCars.com. “But we now know shoppers can buy a 10-year-old car that costs substantially less than 1-5 year-old used models, yet these vehicles still have 80,000 or more miles of life left in them,” continued Brauer. “Some, like the Toyota Prius, Toyota Avalon, and Honda Ridgeline, have more than 125,000 miles to go. And all of these top 20 cars provide a potential lifespan above 200,000 miles.”
Top 20 Best Used Cars for the Money: Wide Range of Brands and Vehicle Types
The average price for these top 20 best used cars for the money is just $12,814, with an average remaining lifespan of 101,923 miles, or more than 46% left of their total usable lifespan. This top 20 ranking also has a good mix of vehicles here, with everything from small hatchbacks to midsize sedans, three-row SUVs, minivans, and a pickup truck represented.
Top 10 Best Used Cars for the Money: 5-Year-Old Models Still Offer Big Savings
Shoppers not comfortable buying a 10-year-old car can still find savings and plenty of remaining life by shopping for 5-year-old cars. Of course the average cost of these top 10 models is higher than a 10-year-old car, but still reasonable at $20,428 versus today’s used car price average of approximately $33,000, especially when the average remaining lifespan of 150,526 miles – or 69% of total lifespan remaining – is taken into account.
Top 10 Best Used SUVs for the Money: Family Flexibility for Around $15,000
The cargo space and functionality of SUVs and crossovers has made them popular over the past few years. Everything from a compact SUV like the CR-V to the exceedingly roomy Chevrolet Suburban makes the list. Most of these models are available with all-wheel drive to bolster confidence in cold-weather states.
Top 10 Best Used Trucks for the Money: All With Over 90,000 Miles of Use Left
Trucks face some of the toughest use cases of any vehicle, yet these 10 models can be purchased for an average of less than $20,000 while offering an average remaining lifespan of more than 100,000 miles.
Top 4 Best Used Minivans for the Money: Plenty of People-Moving Still To Do
A wide spectrum of minivan pricing is available for used shoppers looking for maximum life at a minimum price. The Sedona starts things off below $10,000, and with more than 87,000 miles remaining, that price buys a lot of future use. The Toyota Sienna is the most expensive minivan, at $16,289, but it offers another 112,000 miles of people-toting to go.
Top 10 Best Used Sedans and Hatchbacks for the Money: $12,000 will get you 100,000 Miles
Sedans and hatchbacks continue to offer an excellent blend of practicality and high mpg at a reasonable price. The best large cars are the Chevrolet Impala and Toyota Avalon, offering more than 230,000 potential miles. The best midsize car is the Honda Accord, with an average of 113,584 miles still on tap. The best compact cars are the Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla, both of which offer a potential lifespan over 200,000 miles.
Top 9 Best Used Hybrids for the Money: Low Price and Low Ownership Cost
Hybrids are newer to the market and haven’t had as much time to accumulate miles, so we lowered the required potential lifespan to 150,000 miles to make our list. These nine hybrids offer an average remaining lifespan of 103,133 miles, and they can be purchased for an average cost under $14,000. And with excellent fuel efficiency, their operating cost will be low, too.
Best Used Electric Cars for the Money: More Than a Decade of Proven History
Due to the recent introduction of electric vehicles we lowered the mileage threshold to 80,000, allowing the Tesla Model S and Nissan LEAF to make the cut. A 10-year-old Model S remains costly at an average price of $35,612, with a remaining potential lifespan of 55,025 miles. The Nissan Leaf has a much shorter electric driving range, but it can be purchased for $9,196 and still have 43,811 miles of emissions-free driving to give.
Compared to today’s average new car MSRP, and even the average dealership price tag of slightly used cars, the accessibility of these older models to budget-minded buyers is far greater. And these cars still offer reliable powertrains, 21st century safety features, and most modern infotainment features, such as Bluetooth streaming and navigation.
Buyers in need of greater cargo or passenger capacity than a subcompact car or subcompact SUV provides can now consider the older, larger models on these lists. While newer cars like the Hyundai Kona or Nissan Versa are affordable, they may not serve larger families. But an older minivan or 3-row SUV, with 100,000 miles left on its lifespan, could be the solution to families on a tight budget.
Regardless of vehicle type, shoppers should always review a used car’s vehicle history report before buying, and a pre-purchase inspection is another prudent move when buying any used car, particularly an older vehicle.
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Methodology
iSeeCars.com analyzed over 2 million used cars on the road between January and October of 2022. The mileage over which the top one percent of cars within each model obtained was calculated and used as an estimate of end-of-life for that model. The average five- and ten-year-old used car prices of each model, as well as the average mileage of five- and ten-year-old versions of each model, were then aggregated to calculate the cost per remaining 1k miles metric. This metric was then used to rank cars. Only models with at least 10 model years of production between 2002 and 2021 (20 model years), in production as of the 2020 model year, and with an end-of-life mileage of over 200,000 miles were included for the analysis. A lower end-of-life mileage threshold was used for alternative-fuel vehicles due to their relatively recent introduction. Heavy duty vehicles were also excluded from analysis.
About iSeeCars.com
iSeeCars.com is a car search engine that helps shoppers find the best car deals by providing key insights and valuable resources, like the iSeeCars free VIN check reports and Best Cars rankings. iSeeCars.com has saved users over $360 million so far by applying big data analytics powered by over 25 billion (and growing) data points and using proprietary algorithms to objectively analyze, score and rank millions of new cars and used cars.
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PARIS (AP) — An enfant terrible appeared in a new guise on Wednesday as designer Olivier Rousteing of Balmain took a one-off shot at a couture collection for the house of Jean Paul Gaultier.
Such was the excitement surrounding the event that roads were blocked and security stretched over 100 yards, tangling traffic in all directions. The show was fashionably late. That may have had something to do with Kim Kardashian. She arrived tardily with her daughter North West in outfits referencing the 1992 heyday of Madonna and Gaultier, who sat in the front row sipping champagne and laughing almost all the way through.
Here are some highlights of the fall-winter 2022 couture collections:
ROUSTEING DOES GAULTIER
Taking the codes of Gaultier — such as structured tailoring, Breton striped nautical tops and the conical bra — Rousteing let his hair down on Wednesday for an infectious and tongue-in-cheek fashion homage to Jean Paul Gaultier, who retired from couture in 2020 after a 50-year runway career.
It was all about the quirk. Rousteing took Gaultier’s torso-shaped perfume bottle “Le Male,” which features a metal strap under the nozzle — and turned it into several looks. Garnering applause from the enthusiastic audience, one model strutted forth with a metal choker, striped glass top and tin micro mini. Elsewhere the famed pinstriped menswear tuxedo jacket, with voluminous proportions, was reimagined beneath a body-shaped corset.
There were genuinely touching moments, such as when two models walked together in pregnant conical bra looks in black and flesh, touching their bellies. That was seen as a political statement supporting lesbians having medically assisted reproduction, something the French parliament allowed last year.
Beyond homage, this couture was definitely very Rousteing. He fused his personal styles upon the Gaultier house codes and many of the styles — flowing capes, caps and layering — captured ones seen before on the Balmain runway.
In purely aesthetic terms, many of the looks veered off into pastiche or costume. Nobody seemed to mind.
KARDASHIAN DOES MADONNA
A blond Kardashian and daughter spurred a dazzle of paparazzi snaps walking up the stone steps of central Paris’ Gaultier HQ dressed in the image of Madonna when she controversially appeared — with exposed breasts — with Jean Paul Gaultier at a 1992 amfAR fundraiser in Los Angeles, California.
The styling was flawless in this homage, in which Kardashian channeled the pinstriped Gaultier dress that at the time spawned headlines around the world. Kardashian’s version here was more tame, with skin-colored inserts. West wore a waistcoat, like the couturier did as he held hands with his then best friend, for whom he designed several garments including the conical bra look for the singer’s Blond Ambition tour.
The old Gaultier faithful, such as Spanish actress and muse Rossy de Palma, were out in force to support the effort — alongside a speckling of RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, including Simone and Gigi Goode.
ELIE SAAB’S SUPERNATURAL
There was something shamanic in the air at Elie Saab, as the Lebanese designer fused his usual show-stopping fare with the supernatural in a rare co-ed show.
Flame red and charcoal black feathers, which seemed to burn up the skirt of the first black gown in a V, set the otherworldly tone.
There was an ethnic feel to the textures and patterns, and a nice geometry in the garment’s pared-down straps that exposed the model’s flesh.
Another piece, a high priest-cum-bird look, was surely the piece de resistance: A red-black feathered A-line cape with strong shoulders worn on a male model that powerfully swept the floor. With its intricate white embroidered patterning resembling a totem, it was an impressive piece of design.
A sorceress feel infused other creations, such as one bejeweled, silver-tasseled number with a sparkling choker that seemed to hark from a fantasy movie. It was worn on a model with swept-back hair and nude makeup.
FRANCK SORBIER
The French couturier and lover of art and theater took his audience back in time on Wednesday to a Renaissance universe of court jesters, fairytale maidens and cantering horses.
In the cobbled courtyard of a historic grand townhouse, a saxophonist played on stone steps as a horse grazed at his feet. Then a damsel descended from two carved wooden doors, wearing a bleeding red velvet gown with voluminous full skirt to lead the horse away. A court jester appeared in an amorphous white bib featuring playing card motifs, as a model in pigtails and a baby pink textured gown with capped sleeves offered out candy floss. Her skirt, cut on the bias and slightly dropped, had heavy ripples that moved with a stylish swagger.
And then a man in tails and 19th century top hat rode in on a Penny Farthing bicycle.
Groups of men and women entered the courtyard scuffling in stylized black, funeral-style tailored ensembles. One female model had a mafia-style hat and long silk scarf — and looked like the head of some feuding crime clan.
The fusion of performance with fashion made for a highly memorable spectacle.
MARGIELA’S CINEMA INFERNO
A 30-minute play in which two lovers — one pregnant, the other bleeding out — drive through the desert was Maison Margiela’s couture offering for fall.
The “assemblage performance” at Palais de Chaillot was the brainchild of designer John Galliano, who created a weird “Southern Gothic” tale set in Arizona.
Melodrama was everywhere. One model was shot to the corny yet brilliant words of “she dropped like an old coat falling from a hanger.”
Yet in terms of couture, it was hard to see the clothes.
Only when the post-performance roll call occurred could guests get a cohesive sense of the collection — and that at a distance — featuring femme fatale gowns, crumpled cowboy hats, thick layered jackets and shotguns. There was even a white bunny ear cap worn by a model on an amorphous layered tulle dress in virgin white.
The best looks were classic Galliano, who always has an eye on historic, fluid dress codes. Model Anna Cleveland wore the piece de resistance — a giant pink silk ball gown with a loosely fitted torso and parachute skirt that was gathered funkily at the front. It was twinned anachronistically with a 1920s bright red swimming cap.
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(KTLA) – A man who was wanted on suspicion of stabbing a high school student in California is in custody after being barricaded inside his Los Angeles-area home Wednesday morning.
The man surrendered around 9:15 a.m. after an hourslong standoff in Alhambra, officials say. Aerial video from Nexstar’s KTLA showed multiple officers escorting the man into the back of a squad car.
The unidentified man is believed to have fatally stabbed 17-year-old Xavier Daniel Chavarin, a student at Woodrow Wilson High School, last Friday, authorities said.
The attack happened while Chavarin was waiting for his family to pick him up after school.
Police previously released surveillance video of the suspect which matched the description of the man taken into custody.
The man was seen getting out of a dark-colored SUV before walking across a parking lot and attacking Chavarin. He stabbed the teen repeatedly in the back before fleeing from the scene, police said. Witnesses said Chavarin walked into a nearby restaurant and asked for help before collapsing on the floor.
The man had apparently stabbed another person, a 33-year-old father, just a few hours later and is said to have mental health problems. He has had run-ins with law enforcement in the past, Los Angeles Police Department officials confirmed to KTLA.
In both stabbings, the suspect appeared to be wearing the same clothing. In the second attack, he removed his baseball hat and was riding a skateboard during his assault, police said.
Authorities have not released any further information about either incident, and a motive behind both crimes remains unknown.
A memorial has been set up at the spot where Chavarin was attacked. Loved ones remember him as a hardworking, straight-A student.
“He was going to graduate with honors,” said Rosario Chavarin, the victim’s great-aunt. “There are no words to describe the pain.”
“He was just waiting for his mother on the sidewalk,” said Ricky Ramiro, a family friend. “He never knew this was going to happen. It’s one of those cases where he’s just at the wrong time, wrong place.”
Parents who have children attending school in the area are now concerned for their children’s safety.
“Our children deserve to be safe,” said Maria Brenes, an El Sereno resident. “No mother deserves to have their child lost, especially in such a tragic, devastating way.”
A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help the Chavarin family with funeral expenses.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Longtime actress and activist Jane Fonda announced Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in a post on Instagram.
Fonda said she has begun chemotherapy to treat the cancer, but it won’t slow her down.
“I’m doing chemo for 6 months and am handling the treatments quite well and, believe me, I will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism,” Fonda wrote.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer that spreads through the lymphatic system in “a non-orderly manner,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The cancer becomes more common among older patients.
According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the overall five-year survival rate for American adults is 73%.
Despite her diagnosis, Fonda said she is lucky to have the resources to fight the disease the best way possible.
“I realize, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this,” she said. “Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right. We also need to be talking much more not just about cures but about causes so we can eliminate them.”
The 84-year-old actress also said the diagnosis has taught her the importance of community.
“Of growing and deepening one’s community so that we are not alone,” she said. “And the cancer, along with my age — almost 85 — definitely teaches the importance of adapting to new realities.”
Fonda is one of Hollywood’s long-working actors, with her first role dating back to 1960’s “Tall Story.” Since then, Fonda has received numerous acting honors, including two Academy Awards for Best Actress. Her first win was for 1971’s “Klute,” followed by her second in 1978 for “Coming Home.” Altogether, Fonda has been Oscar-nominated seven times.
Until April, the political activist (and former exercise video mogul) starred in Netflix’s sitcom “Grace and Frankie,” opposite fellow Hollywood veteran Lily Tomlin.
Fonda’s Friday statement also came with a political message, with the actor writing: “The midterms are looming, and they are beyond consequential so you can count on me to be right there together with you as we grow our army of climate champions.”
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COLUMBUS, Ohio , July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Bancshares, Inc., (the "Company"), (NasdaqGS: NWBI) announced net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 of $33.0 million , or $0.26 per diluted share. This represents a decrease of $382,000 , or 1.1%, compared to the same quarter last year, when net income was $33.4 million , or $0.26 per diluted share. The annualized returns on average shareholders' equity and average assets for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 were 8.72% and 0.93% compared to 8.90% and 0.94% for the same quarter last year.
(PRNewsfoto/Northwest Bancshares, Inc.)(PRNewswire) The Company also announced that its Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share payable on August 14, 2023 to shareholders of record as of August 3, 2023. This is the 115th consecutive quarter in which the Company has paid a cash dividend. Based on the market value of the Company's common stock as of June 30, 2023 , this represents an annualized dividend yield of approximately 7.5%.
Louis J. Torchio , President and CEO, added, "We are very pleased with the positioning and strength of our balance sheet during the past twelve months as we have been able to grow loans by almost $840.0 million , or approximately 8.0%, over that time period by reallocating cash and investments to higher yielding earning assets. Specifically, as a result of the new commercial lending verticals we have recently implemented, commercial loans have grown $416.9 million , or 42.2%, over the past year. As part of this balance sheet shift towards commercial banking, we sold the mortgage servicing rights on approximately $1.3 billion of one- to four family mortgage loans for an $8.3 million gain, which enabled us to sell approximately $110.0 million of investment securities for an equivalent loss, resulting in no impact to tangible capital. We were then able to reallocate these funds from investments yielding approximately 2.0% into commercial loan originations yielding over 7.0%. In addition, our overall deposit balances remained stable during the most recent quarter, although we continue to see customers shift into higher yielding deposit products. Tangible common equity remains strong at over 8.0% and asset quality continues to perform well."
Mr. Torchio continued, "with the continued inversion in the yield curve and the change in our customer deposit mix, as well as higher borrowing costs and balances, the increase in our overall cost of funds continued to outpace our yield improvement, which resulted in net interest margin compression on a linked quarter basis to 3.28% from 3.47%. We expect some additional net interest margin compression could continue for the remainder of the year."
Net interest income increased by $8.3 million , or 8.3%, to $108.5 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, from $100.3 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022. This increase in net interest income is a result of both the increase in market interest rates and the change in our interest-earning asset mix throughout the past year. Cash and marketable securities were redeployed into higher yielding loans, which, along with higher market interest rates, caused the yield on interest-earning assets to increase to 4.34% for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from 3.20% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . Interest income on loans receivable increased $37.2 million , or 38.9%, due to an increase of $907.8 million , or 8.9%, in the average balance of loans in addition to an increase in the yield on loans to 4.83% for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from 3.79% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . Partially offsetting this increase in interest income was an increase in the cost of interest-bearing liabilities to 1.47% for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from 0.24% for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . This increase was largely due to higher market interest rates causing an increase in both deposit and borrowing costs. The net effect of these changes in interest rates and average balances was an increase in the Company's net interest margin to 3.28% for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from 3.07% for the same quarter last year.
The provision for credit losses increased by $2.9 million , or 48.2%, to $8.9 million for the current quarter ended June 30, 2023 from $6.0 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . This increase was primarily due to growth within our commercial loan portfolio year over year, as well as forecasted economic deterioration reflected in our allowance for credit loss models. The Company continued to experience improvement in asset quality as classified loans decreased by $63.3 million , or 22.8%, to $214.1 million , or 1.90% of total loans, at June 30, 2023 from $277.4 million , or 2.66% of total loans, at June 30, 2022 . Total delinquent loans increased to $72.1 million , or 0.64% of loans receivable, at June 30, 2023 from $51.1 million , or 0.49% of loans receivable, at June 30, 2022 . The increase was primarily driven by two commercial loan administrative delinquencies totaling $22.9 million at June 30, 2023 , which have subsequently been brought current.
Noninterest income decreased by $651,000 , or 2.1%, to $29.8 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 , from $30.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . This decrease was primarily due to a decrease in mortgage banking income of $1.1 million , or 52.3% to $1.0 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from $2.2 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . This decrease reflects the impact of less favorable pricing in the secondary market, due primarily to the volatile interest rate environment, as well as a decrease in mortgage volumes primarily due to higher market interest rates.
Noninterest expense increased by $4.4 million , or 5.5%, to $85.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from $81.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 . This increase primarily resulted from a $1.7 million , or 13.1%, increase in processing expenses to $14.6 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 , from $12.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 due to the implementation of additional third party software programs. Also contributing to this variance was a restructuring expense of $1.6 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 due to the severance charge for personnel changes during the current quarter. Lastly, FDIC insurance premiums increased $934,000 , or 82.7%, to $2.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from $1.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 due to an increase in the deposit insurance assessment rate beginning in the first quarter of 2023.
The provision for income taxes increased by $663,000 , or 6.7%, to $10.5 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2023 from $9.9 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 due primarily to an increase in income before taxes in the current year.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio , Northwest Bancshares, Inc. is the bank holding company of Northwest Bank. Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Warren, Pennsylvania , Northwest Bank is a full-service financial institution offering a complete line of business and personal banking products, as well as employee benefits and wealth management services. As of June 30, 2023 , Northwest operated 134 full-service community banking offices and eight free standing drive-through facilities in Pennsylvania , New York , Ohio and Indiana . Northwest Bancshares, Inc.'s common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market ("NWBI"). Additional information regarding Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Northwest Bank can be accessed on-line at www.northwest.com .
Forward-Looking Statements - This release may contain forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition and results of operations of Northwest Bancshares, Inc. including, without limitations, statements relating to the earnings outlook of the Company. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements, include among others, the following possibilities: (1) changes in the interest rate environment; (2) competitive pressure among financial services companies; (3) general economic conditions including inflation and an increase in non-performing loans; (4) changes in legislation or regulatory requirements; (5) difficulties in continuing to improve operating efficiencies; (6) difficulties in the integration of acquired businesses or the ability to complete sales transactions; (7) increased risk associated with commercial real-estate and business loans; (8) changes in liquidity, including the size and composition of our deposit portfolio; and (9) the effect of any pandemic, including COVID-19, war or act of terrorism. Management has no obligation to revise or update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date of this release.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
June 30, 2023
December 31, 2022
June 30, 2022
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents
$ 127,627
139,365
504,532
Marketable securities available-for-sale (amortized cost of $1,287,101, $1,431,728 and $1,516,743, respectively)
1,073,952
1,218,108
1,364,743
Marketable securities held-to-maturity (fair value of $718,676, $751,384 and $835,565, respectively)
847,845
881,249
923,180
Total cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities
2,049,424
2,238,722
2,792,455
Loans held-for-sale
16,077
9,913
31,153
Residential mortgage loans
3,479,080
3,488,686
3,255,622
Home equity loans
1,276,062
1,297,674
1,280,492
Consumer loans
2,201,062
2,168,655
2,002,545
Commercial real estate loans
2,895,224
2,823,555
2,876,176
Commercial loans
1,403,726
1,131,969
986,836
Total loans receivable
11,271,231
10,920,452
10,432,824
Allowance for credit losses
(124,423)
(118,036)
(98,355)
Loans receivable, net
11,146,808
10,802,416
10,334,469
FHLB stock, at cost
44,613
40,143
13,362
Accrued interest receivable
37,281
35,528
27,708
Real estate owned, net
371
413
1,205
Premises and equipment, net
139,915
145,909
146,869
Bank-owned life insurance
257,614
255,062
254,109
Goodwill
380,997
380,997
380,997
Other intangible assets, net
6,809
8,560
10,538
Other assets
227,659
205,574
192,983
Total assets
$ 14,291,491
14,113,324
14,154,695
Liabilities and shareholders' equity
Liabilities
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits
$ 2,820,563
2,993,243
3,058,249
Interest-bearing demand deposits
2,577,653
2,686,431
2,858,691
Money market deposit accounts
2,154,253
2,457,569
2,631,712
Savings deposits
2,120,215
2,275,020
2,362,725
Time deposits
1,989,711
1,052,285
1,155,878
Total deposits
11,662,395
11,464,548
12,067,255
Borrowed funds
632,313
681,166
130,490
Subordinated debt
114,015
113,840
113,666
Junior subordinated debentures
129,444
129,314
129,184
Advances by borrowers for taxes and insurance
57,143
47,613
55,622
Accrued interest payable
4,936
3,231
1,725
Other liabilities
179,744
182,126
162,214
Total liabilities
12,779,990
12,621,838
12,660,156
Shareholders' equity
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value: 50,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued
—
—
—
Common stock, $0.01 par value: 500,000,000 shares authorized, 127,088,963, 127,028,848 and 126,881,766 shares issued and outstanding, respectively
1,271
1,270
1,269
Additional paid-in capital
1,022,189
1,019,647
1,015,349
Retained earnings
657,292
641,727
620,551
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
(169,251)
(171,158)
(142,630)
Total shareholders' equity
1,511,501
1,491,486
1,494,539
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
$ 14,291,491
14,113,324
14,154,695
Equity to assets
10.58 %
10.57 %
10.56 %
Tangible common equity to assets*
8.08 %
8.03 %
8.01 %
Book value per share
$ 11.89
11.74
11.78
Tangible book value per share*
$ 8.84
8.67
8.69
Closing market price per share
$ 10.60
13.98
12.80
Full time equivalent employees
2,025
2,160
2,188
Number of banking offices
142
150
150
*
Excludes goodwill and other intangible assets (non-GAAP). See reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures for additional information relating to these items.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Quarter ended
June 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
December 31, 2022
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
Interest income:
Loans receivable
$ 132,724
123,745
117,137
106,943
95,574
Mortgage-backed securities
8,326
8,537
8,603
8,683
7,158
Taxable investment securities
841
845
840
838
715
Tax-free investment securities
667
700
701
709
683
FHLB stock dividends
844
690
419
148
82
Interest-earning deposits
594
423
153
1,295
1,684
Total interest income
143,996
134,940
127,853
118,616
105,896
Interest expense:
Deposits
21,817
11,238
3,871
3,157
3,341
Borrowed funds
13,630
11,238
6,938
2,710
2,290
Total interest expense
35,447
22,476
10,809
5,867
5,631
Net interest income
108,549
112,464
117,044
112,749
100,265
Provision for credit losses - loans
6,010
4,870
9,023
7,689
2,629
Provision for credit losses - unfunded commitments (1)
2,920
126
1,876
3,585
3,396
Net interest income after provision for credit losses
99,619
107,468
106,145
101,475
94,240
Noninterest income:
Loss on sale of investments
(8,306)
—
(1)
(2)
(3)
Gain on sale of mortgage servicing rights
8,305
—
—
—
—
Gain on sale of SBA loans
832
279
—
—
—
Service charges and fees
14,833
13,189
14,125
14,323
13,673
Trust and other financial services income
6,866
6,449
6,642
6,650
7,461
Gain on real estate owned, net
785
108
51
290
291
Income from bank-owned life insurance
1,304
1,269
1,663
1,475
2,008
Mortgage banking income
1,028
524
477
766
2,157
Other operating income
4,150
2,151
4,901
3,301
4,861
Total noninterest income
29,797
23,969
27,858
26,803
30,448
Noninterest expense:
Compensation and employee benefits
47,650
46,604
46,658
46,711
48,073
Premises and occupancy costs
7,579
7,471
7,370
7,171
7,280
Office operations
2,800
3,010
3,544
3,229
3,162
Collections expense
429
387
563
322
403
Processing expenses
14,648
14,350
13,585
13,416
12,947
Marketing expenses
2,856
2,892
2,773
2,147
2,047
Federal deposit insurance premiums
2,064
2,223
1,319
1,200
1,130
Professional services
3,804
4,758
5,434
3,363
3,333
Amortization of intangible assets
842
909
932
1,047
1,115
Real estate owned expense
83
181
53
61
72
Merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
1,593
2,802
4,243
—
—
Other expenses
1,510
1,863
2,304
321
1,849
Total noninterest expense
85,858
87,450
88,778
78,988
81,411
Income before income taxes
43,558
43,987
45,225
49,290
43,277
Income tax expense
10,514
10,308
10,576
11,986
9,851
Net income
$ 33,044
33,679
34,649
37,304
33,426
Basic earnings per share
$ 0.26
0.27
0.27
0.29
0.26
Diluted earnings per share
$ 0.26
0.26
0.27
0.29
0.26
Annualized return on average equity
8.72 %
9.11 %
9.38 %
9.84 %
8.90 %
Annualized return on average assets
0.93 %
0.97 %
0.98 %
1.05 %
0.94 %
Annualized return on tangible common equity *
11.79 %
12.15 %
12.48 %
13.84 %
12.16 %
Efficiency ratio
62.06 %
64.10 %
61.27 %
56.60 %
62.28 %
Efficiency ratio, excluding certain items (1) **
60.30 %
61.38 %
57.70 %
55.85 %
61.43 %
Annualized noninterest expense to average assets
2.42 %
2.51 %
2.52 %
2.23 %
2.29 %
Annualized noninterest expense to average assets, excluding certain items (1) **
2.35 %
2.40 %
2.37 %
2.20 %
2.26 %
(1)
Reclassified from other expenses for periods prior to March 31, 2023. Respective ratios updated for reclassification.
*
Excludes goodwill and other intangible assets (non-GAAP). See reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures for additional information relating to these items.
**
Excludes amortization of intangible assets and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses (non-GAAP).See reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures for additional information relating to these items.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Consolidated Statements of Income (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Six months ended June 30,
2023
2022
Interest income:
Loans receivable
$ 256,469
183,748
Mortgage-backed securities
16,863
13,518
Taxable investment securities
1,686
1,392
Tax-free investment securities
1,367
1,357
FHLB stock dividends
1,534
163
Interest-earning deposits
1,017
2,151
Total interest income
278,936
202,329
Interest expense:
Deposits
33,055
7,092
Borrowed funds
24,868
4,349
Total interest expense
57,923
11,441
Net interest income
221,013
190,888
Provision for credit losses - loans
10,880
1,148
Provision for credit losses - unfunded commitments (1)
3,046
4,992
Net interest income after provision for credit losses
207,087
184,748
Noninterest income:
Loss on sale of investments
(8,306)
(5)
Gain on sale of mortgage servicing rights
8,305
—
Gain on sale of SBA loans
1,111
—
Service charges and fees
28,022
26,740
Trust and other financial services income
13,315
14,473
Gain on real estate owned, net
893
262
Income from bank-owned life insurance
2,573
3,991
Mortgage banking income
1,552
3,622
Other operating income
6,301
7,105
Total noninterest income
53,766
56,188
Noninterest expense:
Compensation and employee benefits
94,254
94,990
Premises and occupancy costs
15,050
15,077
Office operations
5,810
6,545
Collections expense
816
923
Processing expenses
28,998
25,495
Marketing expenses
5,748
4,175
Federal deposit insurance premiums
4,287
2,259
Professional services
8,562
5,906
Amortization of intangible assets
1,751
2,298
Real estate owned expense
264
109
Merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
4,395
1,374
Other expenses
3,373
2,608
Total noninterest expense
173,308
161,759
Income before income taxes
87,545
79,177
Income tax expense
20,822
17,464
Net income
$ 66,723
61,713
Basic earnings per share
$ 0.53
0.49
Diluted earnings per share
$ 0.52
0.49
Annualized return on average equity
8.91 %
8.01 %
Annualized return on average assets
0.95 %
0.87 %
Annualized return on tangible common equity *
11.97 %
11.28 %
Efficiency ratio
63.07 %
65.47 %
Efficiency ratio, excluding certain items (1) **
60.84 %
63.98 %
Annualized noninterest expense to average assets
2.46 %
2.27 %
Annualized noninterest expense to average assets, excluding certain items (1) **
2.38 %
2.22 %
(1)
Reclassified from other expenses for periods prior to March 31, 2023. Respective ratios updated for reclassification.
*
Excludes goodwill and other intangible assets (non-GAAP). See reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures for additional information relating to these items.
**
Excludes amortization of intangible assets and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses (non-GAAP). See reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures for additional information relating to these items.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited) *
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
Quarter ended June 30,
Six months ended June 30,
2023
2022
2023
2022
Reconciliation of net income to adjusted net operating income:
Net income (GAAP)
$ 33,044
33,426
66,723
61,713
Non-GAAP adjustments
Add: merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
1,593
—
4,395
1,374
Less: tax benefit of merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
(446)
—
(1,231)
(385)
Adjusted net operating income (non-GAAP)
$ 34,191
33,426
69,887
62,702
Diluted earnings per share (GAAP)
$ 0.26
0.26
0.52
0.49
Diluted adjusted operating earnings per share (non-GAAP)
$ 0.27
0.26
0.55
0.49
Average equity
$ 1,519,990
1,506,832
1,509,466
1,553,520
Average assets
14,245,917
14,256,705
14,184,050
14,340,034
Annualized return on average equity (GAAP)
8.72 %
8.90 %
8.91 %
8.01 %
Annualized return on average assets (GAAP)
0.93 %
0.94 %
0.95 %
0.87 %
Annualized return on average equity, excluding merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense, net of tax (non-GAAP)
9.02 %
8.90 %
9.34 %
8.14 %
Annualized return on average assets, excluding merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense, net of tax (non-GAAP)
0.96 %
0.94 %
0.99 %
0.88 %
The following non-GAAP financial measures used by the Company provide information useful to investors in understanding our operating performance and trends, and facilitate comparisons with the performance of our peers. The following table summarizes the non-GAAP financial measures derived from amounts reported in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition.
June 30, 2023
December 31, 2022
June 30, 2022
Tangible common equity to assets
Total shareholders' equity
$ 1,511,501
1,491,486
1,494,539
Less: goodwill and intangible assets
(387,806)
(389,557)
(391,535)
Tangible common equity
1,123,695
1,101,929
1,103,004
Total assets
14,291,491
14,113,324
14,154,695
Less: goodwill and intangible assets
(387,806)
(389,557)
(391,535)
Tangible assets
13,903,685
13,723,767
13,763,160
Tangible common equity to tangible assets
8.08 %
8.03 %
8.01 %
Tangible common equity to tangible assets, including unrealized losses on held-to-maturity investments
Tangible common equity
$ 1,123,695
1,101,929
1,103,004
Less: unrealized losses on held to maturity investments
(129,169)
(129,865)
(87,615)
Add: deferred taxes on unrealized losses on held to maturity investments
36,167
36,362
24,532
Tangible common equity, including unrealized losses on held-to-maturity investments
1,030,693
1,008,426
1,039,921
Tangible assets
13,903,685
13,723,767
13,763,160
Tangible common equity to tangible assets, including unrealized losses on held-to-maturity investments
7.41 %
7.35 %
7.56 %
Tangible book value per share
Tangible common equity
$ 1,123,695
1,101,929
1,103,004
Common shares outstanding
127,088,963
127,028,848
126,881,766
Tangible book value per share
8.84
8.67
8.69
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Reconciliation of Non-GAAP Financial Measures (Unaudited) *
(dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)
The following table summarizes the non-GAAP financial measures derived from amounts reported in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.
Quarter ended
Six months ended June 30,
June 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
December 31, 2022
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
2023
2022
Annualized return on tangible common equity
Net income
$ 33,044
33,679
34,649
37,304
33,426
66,723
61,713
Total shareholders' equity
1,511,501
1,513,275
1,491,486
1,459,786
1,494,539
1,511,501
1,494,539
Less: goodwill and intangible assets
(387,806)
(388,648)
(389,557)
(390,488)
(391,535)
(387,806)
(391,535)
Tangible common equity
1,123,695
1,124,627
1,101,929
1,069,298
1,103,004
1,123,695
1,103,004
Annualized return on tangible common equity
11.79 %
12.15 %
12.48 %
13.84 %
12.16 %
11.97 %
11.28 %
Efficiency ratio, excluding amortization and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses
Non-interest expense
85,858
87,450
88,778
78,988
81,411
173,308
161,759
Less: amortization expense
(842)
(909)
(932)
(1,047)
(1,115)
(1,751)
(2,298)
Less: merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses
(1,593)
(2,802)
(4,243)
—
—
(4,395)
(1,374)
Non-interest expense, excluding amortization and merger, assets disposition and restructuring expenses
83,423
83,739
83,603
77,941
80,296
167,162
158,087
Net interest income
108,549
112,464
117,044
112,749
100,265
221,013
190,888
Non-interest income
29,797
23,969
27,858
26,803
30,448
53,766
56,188
Net interest income plus non-interest income
138,346
136,433
144,902
139,552
130,713
274,779
247,076
Efficiency ratio, excluding amortization and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses
60.30 %
61.38 %
57.70 %
55.85 %
61.43 %
60.84 %
63.98 %
Annualized non-interest expense to average assets, excluding amortization and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
Non-interest expense excluding amortization and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expenses
83,423
83,739
83,603
77,941
80,296
167,162
158,087
Average assets
14,245,917
14,121,496
13,983,100
14,052,919
14,256,705
14,184,050
14,340,034
Annualized non-interest expense to average assets, excluding amortization and merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense
2.35 %
2.40 %
2.37 %
2.20 %
2.26 %
2.38 %
2.22 %
*
The table summarizes the Company's results from operations on a GAAP basis and on an operating (non-GAAP) basis for the periods indicated. Operating results exclude merger, asset disposition and restructuring expense. The net tax effect was calculated using statutory tax rates of approximately 28.0%. The Company believes this non-GAAP presentation provides a meaningful comparison of operational performance and facilitates a more effective evaluation and comparison of results to assess performance in relation to ongoing operations.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Deposits (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
Generally, deposits in excess of $250,000 are not federally insured. The following table provides details around the Company's uninsured deposits portfolio:
As of June 30, 2023
Balance
Percent of total deposits
Number of relationships
Uninsured deposits per the Call Report (1)
$ 2,895,624
24.83 %
4,892
Less intercompany deposit accounts
889,157
7.62 %
12
Less collateralized deposit accounts
553,128
4.74 %
255
Adjusted balance of uninsured deposits
$ 1,453,339
12.47 %
4,625
(1)
Uninsured deposits presented may be different from actual amounts due to titling of accounts.
Our largest uninsured depositor, excluding intercompany and collateralized deposit accounts, had an aggregate uninsured deposit balance of $18.6 million, or 0.16% of total deposits, as of June 30, 2023. Our top ten largest uninsured depositors, excluding intercompany and collateralized deposit accounts, had an aggregate uninsured deposit balance of $112.2 million, or 0.96% of total deposits, as of June 30, 2023. The average adjusted uninsured deposit account balance was $314,000 as of June 30, 2023.
The following table provides additional details over the Company's deposit portfolio:
As of June 30, 2023
Balance
Percent of total deposits
Number of accounts
Personal noninterest bearing demand deposits
$ 1,397,167
11.98 %
291,177
Business noninterest bearing demand deposits
1,423,396
12.21 %
45,911
Personal interest-bearing demand deposits
1,535,254
13.16 %
59,784
Business interest-bearing demand deposits
1,042,399
8.94 %
8,354
Personal money market deposits
1,511,652
12.96 %
26,488
Business money market deposits
642,601
5.51 %
2,980
Savings deposits
2,120,215
18.18 %
216,105
Time deposits
1,989,711
17.06 %
67,662
Total deposits
$ 11,662,395
100.00 %
718,461
Our average deposit account balance as of June 30, 2023 was $16,000. The Company's insured cash sweep deposit balance was $205.7 million as of June 30, 2023.
The following table provides additional details over the Company's deposit portfolio over time:
12/31/2021
3/31/2022
6/30/2022
9/30/2022
12/31/2022
3/31/2023
6/30/2023
Personal noninterest bearing demand deposits
$ 1,419,806
1,413,732
1,388,690
1,413,781
1,412,227
1,428,232
1,397,167
Business noninterest bearing demand deposits
1,679,720
1,715,117
1,669,559
1,680,339
1,581,016
1,467,860
1,423,396
Personal interest-bearing demand deposits
1,768,910
1,787,295
1,785,761
1,742,173
1,718,806
1,627,546
1,535,254
Business interest-bearing demand deposits
639,529
588,850
529,357
498,937
499,059
466,105
624,252
Municipal demand deposits
532,003
515,477
543,573
571,620
468,566
447,852
418,147
Personal money market deposits
1,972,603
1,999,564
1,994,907
1,949,379
1,832,583
1,626,614
1,511,652
Business money market deposits
657,279
681,049
636,805
627,634
624,986
701,436
642,601
Savings deposits
2,303,760
2,367,438
2,362,725
2,327,419
2,275,020
2,194,743
2,120,215
Time deposits
1,327,555
1,251,878
1,155,878
1,067,110
1,052,285
1,576,791
1,989,711
Total deposits
$ 12,301,165
12,320,400
12,067,255
11,878,392
11,464,548
11,537,179
11,662,395
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Marketable Securities (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
June 30, 2023
Marketable securities available-for-sale
Amortized cost
Gross unrealized
holding gains
Gross unrealized
holding losses
Fair value
Weighted average duration
Debt issued by the U.S. government and agencies:
Due after one year through five years
$ 20,000
—
(1,676)
18,324
3.37
Due after ten years
51,124
—
(10,627)
40,497
6.23
Debt issued by government sponsored enterprises:
Due after one year through five years
20,984
—
(2,940)
18,044
4.48
Due after five years through ten years
25,516
—
(4,027)
21,489
5.02
Municipal securities:
Due within one year
500
—
—
500
—
Due after one year through five years
950
17
(9)
958
2.41
Due after five years through ten years
20,481
—
(1,845)
18,636
7.2
Due after ten years
64,589
59
(10,409)
54,239
10.45
Corporate debt issues:
Due after five years through ten years
8,463
—
(917)
7,546
5.70
Residential mortgage-backed agency securities:
Fixed rate pass-through
219,643
4
(28,705)
190,942
6.4
Variable rate pass-through
7,861
2
(215)
7,648
4.36
Fixed rate agency CMOs
821,371
—
(151,317)
670,054
5.01
Variable rate agency CMOs
25,619
35
(579)
25,075
3.09
Total residential mortgage-backed agency securities
1,074,494
41
(180,816)
893,719
5.24
Total marketable securities available-for-sale
$ 1,287,101
117
(213,266)
1,073,952
5.53
Marketable securities held-to-maturity
Government sponsored
Due after one year through five years
$ 49,471
—
(6,541)
42,930
3.99
Due after five years through ten years
74,985
—
(13,586)
61,399
5.67
Residential mortgage-backed agency securities:
Fixed rate pass-through
$ 155,431
—
(23,770)
131,661
5.27
Variable rate pass-through
495
—
(10)
485
3.95
Fixed rate agency CMOs
566,934
—
(85,253)
481,681
5.90
Variable rate agency CMOs
529
—
(9)
520
5.61
Total residential mortgage-backed agency securities
723,389
—
(109,042)
614,347
5.76
Total marketable securities held-to-maturity
$ 847,845
—
(129,169)
718,676
5.65
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Borrowed Funds (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
June 30, 2023
Amount
Average rate
Term notes payable to the FHLB of Pittsburgh, due within one year
$ 500,000
5.43 %
Notes payable to the FHLB of Pittsburgh, due within one year
28,000
5.39 %
Total term notes payable to the FHLB
528,000
5.43 %
Collateralized borrowings, due within one year
63,863
1.24 %
Collateral received, due within one year
40,450
5.16 %
Subordinated debentures, net of issuance costs
114,015
4.28 %
Junior subordinated debentures
129,444
7.21 %
Total borrowed funds *
$ 875,772
5.22 %
*
As of June 30, 2023, the Company had $3.2 billion of additional borrowing capacity available with the FHLB of Pittsburgh, including a $250.0 million overnight line of credit, which had a $28.0 million drawn balance, as well as $309.0 million of borrowing capacity available with the Federal Reserve Bank and $105.0 million with two correspondent banks.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Analysis of Loan Portfolio by Loan Sector (Unaudited)
Commercial real estate loans outstanding
The following table provides the various loan sectors in our commercial real estate portfolio at June 30, 2023:
June 30, 2023
Property type
Percent of portfolio
5 or more unit dwelling
13.9 %
Nursing home
12.8 %
Retail building
11.4 %
Commercial office building - non-owner occupied
8.5 %
Residential acquisition & development - 1-4 family, townhouses and apartments
4.5 %
Warehouse/storage building
3.6 %
Manufacturing & industrial building
3.5 %
Commercial office building - owner occupied
3.5 %
Commercial acquisition and development
3.4 %
Multi-use building - office and warehouse
3.2 %
Single family dwelling
3.2 %
Hotel/motel
2.9 %
Other medical facility
2.9 %
Student housing
2.6 %
Multi-use building - commercial, retail and residential
2.6 %
2-4 family
2.4 %
Agricultural real estate
2.1 %
All other
13.0 %
Total
100.0 %
The following table provides our commercial real estate portfolio by state at June 30, 2023:
June 30, 2023
State
Percent of portfolio
Pennsylvania
32.0 %
New York
31.7 %
Ohio
20.0 %
Indiana
8.8 %
All other
7.5 %
Total
100.0 %
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Asset Quality (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
June 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
December 31, 2022
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
Nonaccrual loans current:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 1,559
1,423
1,496
2,186
1,970
Home equity loans
1,089
1,084
1,418
1,158
1,337
Consumer loans
1,009
911
836
833
976
Commercial real estate loans
48,468
50,045
53,303
56,193
60,537
Commercial loans
995
1,468
895
1,801
5,270
Total nonaccrual loans current
$ 53,120
54,931
57,948
62,171
70,090
Nonaccrual loans delinquent 30 days to 59 days:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 49
688
473
54
2
Home equity loans
37
18
180
316
172
Consumer loans
309
223
178
155
158
Commercial real estate loans
1,697
1,900
1,220
55
911
Commercial loans
855
341
145
237
358
Total nonaccrual loans delinquent 30 days to 59 days
$ 2,947
3,170
2,196
817
1,601
Nonaccrual loans delinquent 60 days to 89 days:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 185
919
31
32
199
Home equity loans
363
338
290
432
566
Consumer loans
360
340
341
382
226
Commercial real estate loans
210
1,355
473
848
630
Commercial loans
245
126
96
132
73
Total nonaccrual loans delinquent 60 days to 89 days
$ 1,363
3,078
1,231
1,826
1,694
Nonaccrual loans delinquent 90 days or more:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 6,290
3,300
5,574
5,544
5,445
Home equity loans
1,965
2,190
2,257
1,779
2,081
Consumer loans
2,033
2,791
2,672
2,031
1,942
Commercial real estate loans
8,575
8,010
7,867
8,821
14,949
Commercial loans
2,296
1,139
1,491
638
583
Total nonaccrual loans delinquent 90 days or more
$ 21,159
17,430
19,861
18,813
25,000
Total nonaccrual loans
$ 78,589
78,609
81,236
83,627
98,385
Total nonaccrual loans
$ 78,589
78,609
81,236
83,627
98,385
Loans 90 days past due and still accruing
532
652
744
357
379
Nonperforming loans
79,121
79,261
81,980
83,984
98,764
Real estate owned, net
371
524
413
450
1,205
Nonperforming assets
$ 79,492
79,785
82,393
84,434
99,969
Nonperforming loans to total loans
0.70 %
0.71 %
0.75 %
0.78 %
0.95 %
Nonperforming assets to total assets
0.56 %
0.56 %
0.58 %
0.61 %
0.71 %
Allowance for credit losses to total loans
1.10 %
1.09 %
1.08 %
1.02 %
0.94 %
Allowance for total loans excluding PPP loan balances
1.10 %
1.09 %
1.08 %
1.02 %
0.95 %
Allowance for credit losses to nonperforming loans
157.26 %
152.98 %
143.98 %
130.76 %
99.59 %
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Loans by Credit Quality Indicators (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
At June 30, 2023
Pass
Special
mention *
Substandard **
Doubtful
Loss
Loans
receivable
Personal Banking:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,483,098
—
12,059
—
—
3,495,157
Home equity loans
1,272,363
—
3,699
—
—
1,276,062
Consumer loans
2,196,938
—
4,124
—
—
2,201,062
Total Personal Banking
6,952,399
—
19,882
—
—
6,972,281
Commercial Banking:
Commercial real estate loans
2,649,535
74,170
171,519
—
—
2,895,224
Commercial loans
1,377,981
3,040
22,705
—
—
1,403,726
Total Commercial Banking
4,027,516
77,210
194,224
—
—
4,298,950
Total loans
$ 10,979,915
77,210
214,106
—
—
11,271,231
At March 31, 2023
Personal Banking:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,499,135
—
6,330
—
—
3,505,465
Home equity loans
1,277,915
—
3,631
—
—
1,281,546
Consumer loans
2,227,379
—
4,754
—
—
2,232,133
Total Personal Banking
7,004,429
—
14,715
—
—
7,019,144
Commercial Banking:
Commercial real estate loans
2,585,676
69,837
171,591
—
—
2,827,104
Commercial loans
1,217,344
6,381
22,298
—
—
1,246,023
Total Commercial Banking
3,803,020
76,218
193,889
—
—
4,073,127
Total loans
$ 10,807,449
76,218
208,604
—
—
11,092,271
At December 31, 2022
Personal Banking:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,484,870
—
13,729
—
—
3,498,599
Home equity loans
1,292,146
—
5,528
—
—
1,297,674
Consumer loans
2,164,220
—
4,435
—
—
2,168,655
Total Personal Banking
6,941,236
—
23,692
—
—
6,964,928
Commercial Banking:
Commercial real estate loans
2,579,809
55,076
188,670
—
—
2,823,555
Commercial loans
1,100,707
7,384
23,878
—
—
1,131,969
Total Commercial Banking
3,680,516
62,460
212,548
—
—
3,955,524
Total loans
$ 10,621,752
62,460
236,240
—
—
10,920,452
At September 30, 2022
Personal Banking:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,388,168
—
13,730
—
—
3,401,898
Home equity loans
1,279,968
—
5,021
—
—
1,284,989
Consumer loans
2,112,478
—
3,760
—
—
2,116,238
Total Personal Banking
6,780,614
—
22,511
—
—
6,803,125
Commercial Banking:
Commercial real estate loans
2,589,648
34,684
188,498
—
—
2,812,830
Commercial loans
1,094,830
4,004
26,736
—
—
1,125,570
Total Commercial Banking
3,684,478
38,688
215,234
—
—
3,938,400
Total loans
$ 10,465,092
38,688
237,745
—
—
10,741,525
At June 30, 2022
Personal Banking:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,273,117
—
13,658
—
—
3,286,775
Home equity loans
1,275,124
—
5,368
—
—
1,280,492
Consumer loans
1,998,863
—
3,682
—
—
2,002,545
Total Personal Banking
6,547,104
—
22,708
—
—
6,569,812
Commercial Banking:
Commercial real estate loans
2,600,207
51,540
224,429
—
—
2,876,176
Commercial loans
954,129
2,468
30,239
—
—
986,836
Total Commercial Banking
3,554,336
54,008
254,668
—
—
3,863,012
Total loans
$ 10,101,440
54,008
277,376
—
—
10,432,824
*
Includes $4.9 million, $7.4 million, $7.4 million, $4.5 million, and $7.4 million of acquired loans at June 30, 2023, March 31, 2023, December 31, 2022, September 30, 2022, and June 30, 2022, respectively.
**
Includes $31.2 million, $31.9 million, $39.1 million, $51.4 million, and $59.3 million of acquired loans at June 30, 2023, March 31, 2023, December 31, 2022, September 30, 2022, and June 30, 2022, respectively.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Loan Delinquency (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
June 30, 2023
*
March 31, 2023
*
December 31, 2022
*
September 30, 2022
*
June 30, 2022
*
(Number of loans and dollar amount of loans)
Loans delinquent 30 days to 59 days:
Residential mortgage loans
14
$ 627
— %
259
$ 26,992
0.8 %
304
$ 29,487
0.8 %
26
$ 1,052
— %
20
$ 785
— %
Home equity loans
92
3,395
0.3 %
111
4,235
0.3 %
145
6,657
0.5 %
88
3,278
0.3 %
107
3,664
0.3 %
Consumer loans
602
7,955
0.4 %
587
6,930
0.3 %
737
9,435
0.4 %
549
6,546
0.3 %
563
6,898
0.3 %
Commercial real estate loans
13
2,710
0.1 %
23
4,834
0.2 %
29
4,008
0.1 %
13
1,332
— %
26
2,701
0.1 %
Commercial loans
38
15,658
1.1 %
46
4,253
0.3 %
51
2,648
0.2 %
48
2,582
0.2 %
24
1,486
0.2 %
Total loans delinquent 30 days to 59 days
759
$ 30,345
0.3 %
1,026
$ 47,244
0.4 %
1,266
$ 52,235
0.5 %
724
$ 14,790
0.1 %
740
$ 15,534
0.1 %
Loans delinquent 60 days to 89 days:
Residential mortgage loans
52
$ 3,521
0.1 %
23
$ 1,922
0.1 %
65
$ 5,563
0.2 %
51
$ 4,320
0.1 %
61
$ 5,941
0.2 %
Home equity loans
31
1,614
0.1 %
31
1,061
0.1 %
29
975
0.1 %
36
1,227
0.1 %
28
952
0.1 %
Consumer loans
250
2,584
0.1 %
185
2,083
0.1 %
255
3,070
0.1 %
223
2,663
0.1 %
178
1,460
0.1 %
Commercial real estate loans
12
1,288
— %
17
1,949
0.1 %
16
2,377
0.1 %
13
1,741
0.1 %
9
1,472
0.1 %
Commercial loans
23
11,092
0.8 %
19
1,088
0.1 %
24
1,115
0.1 %
14
808
0.1 %
6
341
— %
Total loans delinquent 60 days to 89 days
368
$ 20,099
0.2 %
275
$ 8,103
0.1 %
389
$ 13,100
0.1 %
337
$ 10,759
0.1 %
282
$ 10,166
0.1 %
Loans delinquent 90 days or more: **
Residential mortgage loans
63
$ 6,290
0.2 %
39
$ 3,300
0.1 %
65
$ 5,574
0.2 %
64
$ 5,544
0.2 %
63
$ 5,445
0.2 %
Home equity loans
68
1,965
0.2 %
65
2,190
0.2 %
68
2,257
0.2 %
65
1,779
0.1 %
69
2,081
0.2 %
Consumer loans
314
2,447
0.1 %
313
3,279
0.1 %
334
3,079
0.1 %
289
2,388
0.1 %
286
2,321
0.1 %
Commercial real estate loans
20
8,575
0.3 %
18
8,010
0.3 %
19
7,867
0.3 %
22
8,821
0.3 %
31
14,949
0.5 %
Commercial loans
38
2,414
0.2 %
24
1,302
0.1 %
15
1,829
0.2 %
11
638
0.1 %
10
583
0.1 %
Total loans delinquent 90 days or more
503
$ 21,691
0.2 %
459
$ 18,081
0.2 %
501
$ 20,606
0.2 %
451
$ 19,170
0.2 %
459
$ 25,379
0.2 %
Total loans delinquent
1,630
$ 72,135
0.6 %
1,760
$ 73,428
0.7 %
2,156
$ 85,941
0.8 %
1,512
$ 44,719
0.4 %
1,481
$ 51,079
0.5 %
*
Represents delinquency, in dollars, divided by the respective total amount of that type of loan outstanding.
**
Includes purchased credit deteriorated loans of $605,000, $331,000, $1.7 million, $783,000, and $6.3 million at June 30, 2023, March 31, 2023, December 31, 2022, September 30, 2022, and June 30, 2022, respectively.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Allowance for Credit Losses (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
Quarter ended
June 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
December 31, 2022
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
Beginning balance
$ 121,257
118,036
109,819
98,355
99,295
ASU 2022-02 Adoption
—
426
—
—
—
Provision
6,010
4,870
9,023
7,689
2,629
Charge-offs residential mortgage
(545)
(207)
(546)
(166)
(138)
Charge-offs home equity
(235)
(164)
(232)
(535)
(255)
Charge-offs consumer
(2,772)
(2,734)
(2,430)
(2,341)
(1,912)
Charge-offs commercial real estate
(483)
(657)
(621)
(1,329)
(4,392)
Charge-offs commercial
(1,209)
(865)
(404)
(243)
(329)
Recoveries
2,400
2,552
3,427
8,389
3,457
Ending balance
$ 124,423
121,257
118,036
109,819
98,355
Net charge-offs to average loans, annualized
0.10 %
0.08 %
0.03 %
(0.14) %
0.14 %
Six months ended June 30,
2023
2022
Beginning balance
$ 118,036
102,241
ASU 2022-02 Adoption
426
—
Provision
10,880
1,148
Charge-offs residential mortgage
(752)
(1,321)
Charge-offs home equity
(399)
(702)
Charge-offs consumer
(5,506)
(3,635)
Charge-offs commercial real estate
(1,140)
(5,416)
Charge-offs commercial
(2,074)
(1,010)
Recoveries
4,952
7,050
Ending balance
$ 124,423
98,355
Net charge-offs to average loans, annualized
0.09 %
0.10 %
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Average Balance Sheet (Unaudited)
(dollars in thousands)
The following table sets forth certain information relating to the Company's average balance sheet and reflects the average yield on assets and average cost of liabilities for the periods indicated. Such yields and costs are derived by dividing income or expense by the average balance of assets or liabilities, respectively, for the periods presented. Average balances are calculated using daily averages.
Quarter ended
June 30, 2023
March 31, 2023
December 31, 2022
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Assets:
Interest-earning assets:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,485,517
32,485
3.73 %
$ 3,493,617
32,009
3.66 %
$ 3,439,401
30,974
3.60 %
$ 3,331,173
29,414
3.53 %
$ 3,171,469
27,327
3.45 %
Home equity loans
1,273,298
16,898
5.32 %
1,284,425
16,134
5.09 %
1,282,733
15,264
4.72 %
1,274,918
13,658
4.25 %
1,277,440
11,961
3.76 %
Consumer loans
2,143,804
22,662
4.24 %
2,123,672
20,794
3.97 %
2,069,207
19,709
3.78 %
1,981,754
17,256
3.45 %
1,880,769
15,777
3.36 %
Commercial real estate loans
2,836,443
38,426
5.43 %
2,824,120
37,031
5.24 %
2,822,008
35,428
4.91 %
2,842,597
34,158
4.70 %
2,915,750
31,844
4.32 %
Commercial loans
1,326,598
22,872
6.92 %
1,161,298
18,353
6.32 %
1,113,178
16,315
5.74 %
1,050,124
12,978
4.84 %
912,454
9,090
3.94 %
Total loans receivable (a) (b) (d)
11,065,660
133,343
4.83 %
10,887,132
124,321
4.63 %
10,726,527
117,690
4.35 %
10,480,566
107,464
4.07 %
10,157,882
95,999
3.79 %
Mortgage-backed securities (c)
1,859,427
8,326
1.79 %
1,909,676
8,537
1.79 %
1,956,167
8,603
1.76 %
2,019,715
8,683
1.72 %
1,952,375
7,158
1.47 %
Investment securities (c) (d)
374,560
1,715
1.83 %
384,717
1,761
1.83 %
386,468
1,753
1.81 %
388,755
1,762
1.81 %
376,935
1,590
1.69 %
FHLB stock, at cost
45,505
844
7.44 %
39,631
690
7.06 %
26,827
419
6.19 %
14,028
148
4.19 %
13,428
82
2.44 %
Other interest-earning deposits
38,912
594
6.12 %
30,774
423
5.50 %
9,990
153
5.99 %
253,192
1,295
2.00 %
846,142
1,684
0.79 %
Total interest-earning assets
13,384,064
144,822
4.34 %
13,251,930
135,732
4.15 %
13,105,979
128,618
3.89 %
13,156,256
119,352
3.60 %
13,346,762
106,513
3.20 %
Noninterest-earning assets (e)
861,853
869,566
877,121
896,663
909,943
Total assets
$ 14,245,917
$ 14,121,496
$ 13,983,100
$ 14,052,919
$ 14,256,705
Liabilities and shareholders' equity:
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Savings deposits (g)
$ 2,142,941
1,393
0.26 %
$ 2,198,988
690
0.13 %
$ 2,298,451
585
0.10 %
$ 2,350,248
594
0.10 %
$ 2,361,919
589
0.10 %
Interest-bearing demand deposits (g)
2,469,666
1,648
0.27 %
2,612,883
951
0.15 %
2,718,360
509
0.07 %
2,794,338
360
0.05 %
2,857,336
310
0.04 %
Money market deposit accounts (g)
2,221,713
6,113
1.10 %
2,408,582
4,403
0.74 %
2,512,892
1,310
0.21 %
2,620,850
692
0.10 %
2,653,467
668
0.10 %
Time deposits (g)
1,765,454
12,663
2.88 %
1,293,609
5,194
1.63 %
1,024,895
1,467
0.57 %
1,110,906
1,511
0.54 %
1,220,815
1,774
0.58 %
Borrowed funds (f)
837,358
10,202
4.89 %
740,218
7,938
4.35 %
451,369
3,967
3.49 %
127,073
239
0.75 %
123,749
167
0.54 %
Subordinated debt
113,958
1,148
4.03 %
113,870
1,148
4.03 %
113,783
1,148
4.04 %
113,695
1,149
4.04 %
119,563
1,203
4.03 %
Junior subordinated debentures
129,401
2,280
6.97 %
129,335
2,152
6.66 %
129,271
1,823
5.52 %
129,207
1,322
4.00 %
129,142
920
2.82 %
Total interest-bearing liabilities
9,680,491
35,447
1.47 %
9,497,485
22,476
0.96 %
9,249,021
10,809
0.46 %
9,246,317
5,867
0.25 %
9,465,991
5,631
0.24 %
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits (g)
2,820,928
2,889,973
3,039,000
3,093,490
3,090,372
Noninterest-bearing liabilities
224,508
235,213
229,794
209,486
193,510
Total liabilities
12,725,927
12,622,671
12,517,815
12,549,293
12,749,873
Shareholders' equity
1,519,990
1,498,825
1,465,285
1,503,626
1,506,832
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
$ 14,245,917
$ 14,121,496
$ 13,983,100
$ 14,052,919
$ 14,256,705
Net interest income/Interest rate spread
109,375
2.87 %
113,256
3.19 %
117,809
3.43 %
113,485
3.35 %
100,882
2.96 %
Net interest-earning assets/Net interest margin
$ 3,703,573
3.28 %
$ 3,754,445
3.47 %
$ 3,856,958
3.57 %
$ 3,909,939
3.42 %
$ 3,880,771
3.07 %
Ratio of interest-earning assets to interest-bearing liabilities
1.38X
1.40X
1.42X
1.42X
1.41X
(a)
Average gross loans receivable includes loans held as available-for-sale and loans placed on nonaccrual status.
(b)
Interest income includes accretion/amortization of deferred loan fees/expenses, which was not material.
(c)
Average balances do not include the effect of unrealized gains or losses on securities held as available-for-sale.
(d)
Interest income on tax-free investment securities and tax-free loans are presented on a fully taxable equivalent ("FTE") basis.
(e)
Average balances include the effect of unrealized gains or losses on securities held as available-for-sale.
(f)
Average balances include FHLB borrowings and collateralized borrowings.
(g)
Average cost of deposits were 0.77%, 0.40%, 0.13%, 0.11%, and 0.11%, respectively and average cost of Interest-bearing deposits were 1.02%, 0.54%, 0.18%, 0.14%, and 0.15%, respectively.
(h)
Shown on a FTE basis. GAAP basis yields for the periods indicated were: Loans — 4.81%, 4.61%, 4.33%, 4.05%, and 3.77%, respectively, Investment securities — 1.61%, 1.61%, 1.59%, 1.59%, and 1.48%, respectively, Interest-earning assets — 4.32%, 4.13%, 3.87%, 3.58%, and 3.18%, respectively. GAAP basis net interest rate spreads were 2.85%, 3.17%, 3.41%, 3.33%, and 2.94%, respectively, and GAAP basis net interest margins were 3.25%, 3.44%, 3.54%, 3.40%, and 3.05%, respectively.
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Subsidiaries
Average Balance Sheet (Unaudited)
(in thousands)
The following table sets forth certain information relating to the Company's average balance sheet and reflects the average yield on interest-earning assets and average cost of interest-bearing liabilities for the periods indicated. Such yields and costs are derived by dividing income or expense by the average balance of assets or liabilities, respectively, for the periods presented. Average balances are calculated using daily averages.
Six months ended June 30,
2023
2022
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Average
balance
Interest
Avg.
yield/
cost (h)
Assets
Interest-earning assets:
Residential mortgage loans
$ 3,489,545
64,494
3.70 %
$ 3,077,155
52,868
3.44 %
Home equity loans
1,278,831
33,033
5.21 %
1,285,668
23,433
3.68 %
Consumer loans
2,133,794
43,457
4.11 %
1,840,110
30,684
3.36 %
Commercial real estate loans
2,830,316
75,463
5.38 %
2,957,744
61,601
4.14 %
Commercial loans
1,244,404
41,225
6.68 %
868,854
15,987
3.66 %
Loans receivable (a) (b) (d)
10,976,890
257,672
4.73 %
10,029,531
184,573
3.71 %
Mortgage-backed securities (c)
1,884,412
16,863
1.79 %
1,948,794
13,518
1.39 %
Investment securities (c) (d)
379,611
3,478
1.83 %
375,323
3,130
1.67 %
FHLB stock, at cost
42,584
1,534
7.26 %
13,648
163
2.41 %
Other interest-earning deposits
34,842
1,017
5.88 %
1,003,627
2,151
0.43 %
Total interest-earning assets
13,318,339
280,564
4.25 %
13,370,923
203,535
3.07 %
Noninterest-earning assets (e)
865,711
969,111
Total assets
$ 14,184,050
$ 14,340,034
Liabilities and shareholders' equity
Interest-bearing liabilities:
Savings deposits (g)
$ 2,187,355
2,082
0.19 %
$ 2,348,282
1,181
0.10 %
Interest-bearing demand deposits (g)
2,540,879
2,599
0.21 %
2,866,333
631
0.04 %
Money market deposit accounts (g)
2,314,631
10,516
0.92 %
2,660,745
1,321
0.10 %
Time deposits (g)
1,514,289
17,858
2.38 %
1,256,513
3,959
0.64 %
Borrowed funds (f)
789,057
18,139
4.64 %
129,487
324
0.50 %
Subordinated debt
113,914
2,296
4.03 %
121,574
2,454
4.04 %
Junior subordinated debentures
129,368
4,433
6.82 %
129,109
1,571
2.42 %
Total interest-bearing liabilities
9,589,493
57,923
1.22 %
9,512,043
11,441
0.24 %
Noninterest-bearing demand deposits (g)
2,855,260
3,075,617
Noninterest-bearing liabilities
229,831
198,854
Total liabilities
12,674,584
12,786,514
Shareholders' equity
1,509,466
1,553,520
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
$ 14,184,050
$ 14,340,034
Net interest income/Interest rate spread
222,641
3.03 %
192,094
2.83 %
Net interest-earning assets/Net interest margin
$ 3,728,846
3.37 %
$ 3,858,880
2.87 %
Ratio of interest-earning assets to interest-bearing liabilities
1.39X
1.41X
(a)
Average gross loans receivable includes loans held as available-for-sale and loans placed on nonaccrual status.
(b)
Interest income includes accretion/amortization of deferred loan fees/expenses, which were not material.
(c)
Average balances do not include the effect of unrealized gains or losses on securities held as available-for-sale.
(d)
Interest income on tax-free investment securities and tax-free loans are presented on a fully taxable equivalent ("FTE") basis.
(e)
Average balances include the effect of unrealized gains or losses on securities held as available-for-sale.
(f)
Average balances include FHLB borrowings and collateralized borrowings.
(g)
Average cost of deposits were 0.58% and 0.12%, respectively and average cost of Interest-bearing deposits were 0.78% and 0.16%, respectively.
(h)
Shown on a FTE basis. GAAP basis yields were: Loans — 4.71% and 3.69%, respectively; Investment securities — 1.61% and 1.46%, respectively; Interest-earning assets — 4.22% and 3.05%, respectively. GAAP basis net interest rate spreads were 3.01% and 2.81%, respectively; and GAAP basis net interest margins were 3.35% and 2.86%, respectively.
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A 24-year-old Willingboro man was found guilty by a Superior Court jury Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Lindenwold woman during a meeting he arranged online to purchase a used phone from her, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw said.
Marvin A. Coleman Jr. was convicted of first-degree felony murder, first-degree murder and related offenses in the slaying of Maribely Lopez, Bradshaw said in a statement.
Coleman's sentencing before Judge Gerard H. Breland in Mount Holly is scheduled for June 9.
Police were called the morning of March 7, 2019, to the first block of Medley Lane in Willingboro and found Lopez dead inside her Ford Focus with the engine still running. Investigators determined the shooting occurred about 11 p.m. the day before.
Bradshaw said the proposed transaction was arranged earlier that day by Coleman on the OfferUp marketplace app and the meeting place was in front of a vacant house on Medley near Coleman's residence.
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Bradshaw said Coleman shot Lopez in the head through the partially opened driver's side window. The phone that was advertised for sale was discovered inside the car, Bradshaw said.
Lopez was a graduate of Lindenwold High School, according to her obituary.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The trainer of racehorse champion Maximum Security was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday for his role in a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster.
Jason Servis was sentenced by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil in Manhattan federal court after pleading guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor charge alleging that he used unapproved drugs on the horses he trained. He was also ordered to pay $311,760 in forfeiture, $163,932 in restitution and a $30,000 fine.
“You have undermined the integrity of the sport of horse racing,” Vyskocil told Servis as she announced the sentence. “You cheated. You lied, and you broke the law.”
Servis, 66, of Jupiter, Florida, was among more than 30 defendants, including veterinarians, charged in March 2020 after a multiyear federal probe of the abuse of racehorses through the use of performance enhancing drugs.
Authorities said participants in the fraud — affecting races in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky and the United Arab Emirates — misled federal and state regulators, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, various state horse racing regulators and the betting public.
Given a chance to speak, the bespectacled Servis cried before composing himself and speaking briefly.
“I will live with this for the rest of my life, and I’m most truly sorry,” he said.
Authorities said Servis gave Maximum Security a performance-enhancing drug called SGF-1000, recommended it to another trainer and conspired with a veterinarian to make it look like a false positive for another substance.
Maximum Security crossed the line first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby before being disqualified by Churchill Downs stewards for interference in what was an unprecedented move. Country House, who crossed the line second in that race, was later declared the winner.
Maximum Security won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top 3-year-old male horse in 2019. The following January he won the Saudi Cup before Servis was indicted that March.
Servis put the horses under his control in danger by giving virtually all of them performance-enhancing drugs, Vyskocil said. She said it was evidence that he knew what he was doing was wrong as he hid the drugs in bottles of shampoo or among containers holding bandages.
She also criticized him for falsely billing horse owners for the expense of the drugs by claiming they were paying for “Acupuncture & Chiropractic” care.
Authorities said he entered horses in races approximately 1,082 times from 2018 through February 2020.
Servis lost Maximum Security to two-time Triple Crown-winning trainer Bob Baffert in 2020 following the indictment and has been seen as a disgraced member of the industry since.
The federally mandated Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority designed to nationalize doping, medication and other safety rules went into effect in various stages over the past 13 months.
In a release, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said the sentencing “sends a clear signal to those in the racehorse industry that no one is above the law. Endangering the welfare of animals for profit will not be tolerated. Illegally doping racehorses is a serious crime that will be met with a serious sentence.”
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — We all want to take a break from our smartphones to not be bothered by them, so Jamey Tucker shows you how your phone can do it for you.
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BEIJING, Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Recon Technology, Ltd (NASDAQ: RCON) ("Recon" or the "Company"), a China-based independent solutions integrator in the oilfield service and environmental protection, electric power and coal chemical industries, today announced that a mainland China variable interest entity's subsidiary, Beijing BHD Petroleum Technology Co., Ltd. ("Beijing BHD") was awarded a new RMB1.31 million ($0.19 million) contract to provide gas flares for oil and gas fields operated by a leading China oil and gas company in the Northwestern Qinghai province. In total, Beijing BHD has generated RMB8.50 million ($1.22 million) in revenue from awarded bids and contracts for heating furnaces and related accessories since July 2022.
Pursuant to the recently awarded contract, the equipment to be supplied by Beijing BHD will be mainly used to manage volatile organic compounds ("VOCs"), or organic chemicals that have a high vapor pressure at room temperature. Emission of VOCs from crude oil processing are known to adversely affect both the human health and the environment. VOCs can escape during various stages of crude oil processing, from extraction to refinery; thus the crude oil industry is recognized as one of the major sources of VOC releases into the environment, which makes their control and management important.
Mr. Shenping Yin, Founder and CEO of Recon commented: "We are glad to report on further business progress on our operation in China following last week's announcement about new contracts gained from our long-term clients and partners. This is a recognition that serves as a testament to the challenging and inspiring work our team members do every day. We are happy to see that our efforts are proven productive and will strive to keep and grow our great work in the coming year."
Recon includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws throughout this press release. A reader can identify forward-looking statements because they are not limited to historical fact or they use words such as "scheduled," "may," "will," "could," "should," "would," "expect," "believe," "anticipate," "project," "plan," "estimate," "forecast," "goal," "objective," "committed," "intend," "continue," or "will likely result," and similar expressions that concern Recon's strategy, plans, intentions or beliefs about future occurrences or results. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that may change at any time and may cause actual results to differ materially from those that Recon expected. Many of these statements are derived from Recon's operating budgets and forecasts, which are based on many detailed assumptions that Recon believes are reasonable, or are based on various assumptions about certain plans, activities or events which we expect will or may occur in the future. However, it is very difficult to predict the effect of known factors, and Recon cannot anticipate all factors that could affect actual results that may be important to an investor. All forward-looking information should be evaluated in the context of these risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those factors disclosed under "Risk Factors" in Recon's most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and any subsequent half-year financial filings on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements that Recon makes from time to time in its SEC filings and public communications. Recon cannot assure the reader that it will realize the results or developments Recon anticipates, or, even if substantially realized, that they will result in the consequences or affect Recon or its operations in the way Recon expects. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made. Recon undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances arising after the date on which they were made, except as otherwise required by law. As a result of these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements included herein or that may be made elsewhere from time to time by, or on behalf of, Recon.
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DoorDash on Thursday said it received a record number of customer orders in the second quarter, boosted by resilient demand and its acquisition of Finnish delivery service Wolt Enterprises.
DoorDash said orders grew 23% to 426 million in the April-June period, surpassing Wall Street’s expectations. Analysts polled by FactSet forecast total orders of 419 million. The delivery company's gross order volume jumped 25% to $13 billion, also beating expectations.
Based on the strong results, San Francisco-based DoorDash raised its full-year order forecast. The company now expects gross order volumes between $51 billion and $53 billion, up from the $49 billion to $51 billion range it forecast earlier this year.
DoorDash shares jumped 14% in after-hours trading.
DoorDash said its net loss for the quarter more than doubled to $263 million as it closed the $8.1 billion acquisition of Wolt. The company said stock-based compensation costs and increased headcounts hurt profits. Wolt has around 6,000 employees.
DoorDash said it lost 72 cents per share in the April-June period, compared to a 30-cent per share loss in the same period a year ago. That was far larger than the 21-cent per share loss Wall Street expected.
DoorDash said it hasn’t seen much negative impact from inflation. Consumers added slightly fewer items per order in response to higher prices at restaurants and other retailers.
The company also hit an all-time high for DashPass members, indicating users are seeking more affordable options. DashPass members get free delivery on most orders; the membership costs $59 in the first year and $96 annually after that.
DoorDash didn’t provide an update Thursday on the number of DashPass members it has. But it has previously said that the number tops 10 million.
DoorDash also said it also gained drivers during the quarter and was able to retain them with benefits like gas-cost relief and mileage-based bonuses. DoorDash said it spent $40 million on those benefits during the quarter.
DoorDash said high inflation is likely causing more people to consider gig work for extra cash. The typical DoorDash driver makes deliveries for just four hours per week; 90% work under 10 hours per week.
The company said its full-year outlook anticipates softer consumer spending in the second half of this year. DoorDash could also potentially lose customers to rival Grubhub, which recently combined with Amazon to offer free delivery for a year.
DoorDash announced in November its plan to buy Wolt, which operates in 22 countries where DoorDash has no presence, including Germany, Sweden, Hungary and Israel.
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At the start of dinner service, a steady group of customers settled into their seats inside Thanh Long restaurant, a San Francisco institution, with two dishes in mind: sweet Dungeness crab and fragrant garlic noodles.
They’ve come to the right place. For the past 52 years, the Vietnamese restaurant has been a mainstay in the Outer Sunset neighborhood, where it has served the dynamic duo for decades. Every day, the restaurant sells about 100 crabs and nearly 250 plates of garlic noodles.
“The first time I cooked the garlic noodles, everyone loved it,” said owner Helene An.
Thanh Long’s garlic noodles are as San Franciscan as cioppino and the Mission burrito, as KQED points out. But for Helene, the dish represents an unwavering legacy. About 10 family members — including Helene’s sister, daughters, nieces and nephew — know how to prepare the coveted garlic noodles and Dungeness crab sold at Thanh Long and Crustacean restaurants in San Francisco and Beverly Hills. With the dishes' wide popularity, the recipes have been greatly shielded and prepared only within secret kitchens at the family restaurants.
At Thanh Long, the private kitchen is inconspicuously set at the back of the house. It connects to the restaurant’s main prep area with a passthrough window that resembles a stainless-steel bookshelf. On the other side, staffers wait for the door to unlatch. When it’s time, a sliding barrier opens to reveal a pair of bare hands placing a heap of garlic noodles next to a whole Dungeness crab. After a moment, the small passageway to the secret kitchen seals shut.
“My mom always told us, ‘I've lost many things in my life, but my legacy will be these recipes,’” said Monique An, proprietor of Thanh Long. “‘You can lose your material possessions, but the knowledge and the values I give you is for you to keep and pass on to future generations.’”
A ‘Bay Area phenomenon’
Ever since Helene added pungent garlic noodles to Thanh Long’s menu in 1978, the dish has been widely successful and the inspiration for other Bay Area restaurateurs who have created their own. At home, budding cooks can scroll through an endless sea of online recipes dubbed “San Francisco-style Vietnamese garlic noodles,” which aim to taste like Thanh Long’s.
“My mom has been credited with bringing garlic noodle culture to the Bay Area,” Monique said. “It’s become a Bay Area phenomenon with garlic noodles. Everyone has their own version. It’s a nice compliment for us.”
“I'm very proud everybody has tried to imitate my cooking,” Helene added.
In late 2022, Helene was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame for introducing Vietnamese dishes to the mainstream. For Helene, the award worked twofold. She was honored to be recognized for her longtime culinary contributions, but she also saw this as an opportunity to showcase the beauty of Asian culture and the vibrant flavors of its cuisine, especially amid Asian hate crimes.
Moreover, Helene’s daughters Elizabeth and Catherine An were also honored with the award, which recognized the family for their beloved restaurants within their hospitality group, House of An.
House of An encompasses both Crustacean restaurants in San Francisco and Beverly Hills, AnQi Bistro in Costa Mesa, Tiato in Santa Monica, and its flagship restaurant, Thanh Long. Diana An, Helene’s mother-in-law and founder of Thanh Long, was posthumously honored with the induction.
It's hard to imagine Thanh Long as anything other than a famous San Francisco restaurant celebrated for its Vietnamese fare, but if you could travel back in time, the beloved restaurant would be totally unrecognizable.
Thang Long and the green dragon
Thanh Long opened by pure chance in 1971. The hardships of the Vietnam War had stirred Diana, the matriarchal family figure, to fly to San Francisco in 1969 so she could spend some time with her cousin. During the trip, the pair decided that they’d make a pitstop at Sunset Joe’s, on the corner of Judah Street and 46th Avenue, to grab a couple of sandwiches for a picnic. When they arrived at the shop, a “For Sale” sign perched on the storefront window caught Diana’s eye.
“At that time, she wanted to stay in the United States to get a visa,” Helene said of her mother-in-law. “When she spoke to the owner of the restaurant, he said it was $5,000 and she said, ‘Oh, $5,000 is not expensive,’ but she didn’t know because she was a housewife. She signed the papers without telling my father-in-law.”
Diana’s husband, John An, was livid when he found out about the decision upon her return to Vietnam. He was concerned about the impulsive purchase (a sum of about $40,000 in today’s money) but couldn’t do more than complain. It was far too late to back out of the deal now.
In those days, Vietnamese women were expected to be submissive and look after the family household, Helene explained, but Diana had bigger dreams. She longed for freedom and reasoned that the sudden purchase was worthwhile, not only as a business venture but also to establish her independence. Diana packed up her life in a suitcase and planned the trip back to San Francisco.
“I think she was very bold for a Vietnamese woman back then,” Monique said of her grandma.
Diana, who knew her way around the kitchen, wasn’t deterred from opening a restaurant thousands of miles away from home. To pay homage to her native Vietnam, Diana decided to name her new restaurant Thang Long after the former name of Hanoi. But when the sign was complete, it had a monumental typo. Instead of reading Thang Long, which means "ascending dragon," the business sign read Thanh Long, meaning "green dragon."
“She said ‘It's OK, don't change it. Green means luck. Just leave it like that,’” Helene recalls her mother-in-law said. So, the name stuck.
In the early days of Thanh Long, the restaurant menu featured very few Vietnamese dishes alongside the more substantial deli items left behind by the previous owner.
Diana’s famous roasted crab appeared on the menu with American dishes such as a club sandwich, fried ham and egg on toast, and a hamburger served with fries. Today, a copy of the original menu is found framed in the back of the restaurant, complete with menu item prices inscribed in Diana’s handwriting. The business was sluggish to start — until Helene arrived in San Francisco in 1975 with a fresh approach.
With the growing concern of communism taking over Vietnam, Helene, then 31, and her three daughters under the age of 10, fled the country for San Francisco. Helene took up two jobs to help make ends meet, working in accounting by day and helping Diana cook at the family restaurant by night.
Although Helene wasn’t an experienced cook, she spent enough time watching her mother and others around her cook meals during her youth. Those memories helped bolster her cooking instincts when it came to cooking at Thanh Long. The first thing she wanted to implement was an all-Vietnamese menu.
“When I came, I wanted to introduce American people to Vietnamese food,” Helene said. “I asked my mother-in-law for permission, and slowly, I changed the menu.”
Helene noticed that many of her colleagues at her other job had pasta for lunch. She’d ask them what it was about pasta they loved so much, not fully understanding the appeal of a heavy tomato or cream sauce. When one answered, “because it’s easy to eat,” it got Helene thinking. One evening, she decided to go home and take a stab at making her version of pasta, fully unaware that she would end up creating Thanh Long’s most iconic dish.
The former Italian deli owner, who maintained a friendship with Diana after the sale, stopped by for lunch one day and was skeptical of Helene’s garlic noodles. Playfully, he told Helene that if he deemed her garlic noodles better than a classic bowl of pasta, he would help spread the word. After his first bite, he was hooked.
“He told me, ‘Oh my goodness. It's so good. You beat me,’” Helene recalled. “He spread the word to his Italian friends. Then slowly, we got busy, and I had many Italian people come to eat my Vietnamese pasta.”
For the past 52 years, Thanh Long has remained an enduring fixture in the Outer Sunset and a business Monique believes has helped usher more restaurants into the neighborhood.
Under Monique’s wing, the An family intends to operate Thanh Long on the same street corner for the foreseeable future.
For Helene, the success behind owning a decadeslong San Francisco restaurant is credited to her customers, including both locals and tourists who have made the pilgrimage to the outskirts of the city just for a seat at Thanh Long and a taste of one its most iconic dishes.
“They still remember us because they love the tradition,” Helene said.
Monique believes part of Thanh Long’s good fortune has everything to do with the family members and staffers who have been on this journey from the very beginning. She thinks back to her grandmother Diana and admires her independent streak.
“She was a trailblazer, just like my mom,” Monique said.
Thanh Long, 4101 Judah St., San Francisco. Open Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday, 4:30-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 4:30-8:30 p.m.
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IGT PlaySports grows sports betting footprint in Wisconsin via multi-property technology and services agreement
LONDON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International Game Technology PLC ("IGT") (NYSE: IGT) announced today that the Company will soon expand its sports betting footprint in Wisconsin, via a multi-year agreement with the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. Under the terms of the agreement, IGT PlaySports technology will power retail sports betting at St. Croix Casino in Turtle Lake, Wisc., St. Croix Casino in Danbury, Wisc. and St Croix Casino in Hertel, Wisc. In addition, all three casinos will leverage IGT's trading advisory services and deploy self-service IGT PlaySports QuickBet Kiosks.
"Our agreement with IGT will enable us to wow our guests with localized betting offers and first-rate player experiences at our sportsbooks and grow excitement at The Book and the Red Zone," said Loren Benjamin, St. Croix Casino General Manager. "Sports betting has ushered in new energy and visitation to our casinos, and we look forward to elevating and evolving that success with IGT's proven technology and experienced team."
"As a trusted sports betting partner in Wisconsin and beyond, IGT PlaySports looks forward to helping St. Croix Casinos scale their player engagement and sportsbooks' profitability with our technology and services," said Joe Asher, IGT President of Sports Betting. "Through our proven PlaySports solution, IGT delivers on what today's sports fans value most in a sportsbook: choice, convenience, and reliable and intuitive technology."
IGT PlaySports is deployed at more than 90 gaming venues across North America. To learn more visit IGT.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Emergency workers rescued thousands of pilgrims after flash floods triggered by sudden rains swept through their makeshift camps during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to an icy Himalayan cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Saturday. At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured.
Authorities suspended the pilgrimage for two days as rains continued to lash the region. Teams of rescuers from India’s military, paramilitary and police as well as disaster management officials combed through the slippery mountain tracks and used thermal imaging devices, sniffer dogs and through-the-wall radars to locate dozens of missing.
They dug through mud, sand and rocks that swamped the campsites on Friday evening after hurtling down with a gush of water near the cave shrine revered by Hindus. Civilian and military helicopters evacuated the injured to hospitals.
Thousands of people were in the mountains when the rains struck.
Officials said about 15,000 devotees were moved to safer locations and at least five dozen injured were administered first aid at base camp hospitals set up for the pilgrimage, which is undertaken by hundreds of thousands of Hindus from across India.
Groups of pilgrims are staggered over 1 1/2 month for security and logistical reasons.
Ravi Dutt, the 69-year-old Hindu ascetic from eastern West Bengal state, was camping near the cave on Friday evening. He said that suddenly water gushed down from a mountain “sweeping away men, women and our belongings too.”
“Everything was buried under a mountain (of mud and rocks),” Dutt said as he broke down. “I have never seen such an incident in my life.”
Abdul Ghani, a Kashmiri porter who rents his pony to pilgrims, said it was an utter chaos. “I just bundled a devotee on my pony and never looked back,” he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed anguish over the deaths. Manoj Sinha, New Delhi’s top administrator in the region, said: “Our priority is to save the lives of people. Instructions have been issued to provide all necessary assistance to pilgrims.”
The Amarnath pilgrimage began on June 30 and tens of thousands of devotees have already visited the cave shrine where Hindus worship Lingam, a naturally formed ice stalagmite, as an incarnation of Shiva, the god of destruction and regeneration.
This year, officials expect nearly 1 million visitors after a two-year gap due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Worshippers trek to the cave along two routes through lush green meadows and rocky and forested mountain passes with a view of glacial lakes and snowy peaks. A traditional route via the southern hill resort of Pahalgam takes three days while a trip through northeastern Baltal lasts one day. Some pilgrims use helicopter services to make quick visits.
The cave, at 13,500 feet (4,115 meters) above sea level, is covered with snow most of the year except for the short summer period when it is open to pilgrims.
Hundreds of pilgrims have died in the past due to exhaustion and exposure to harsh weather during the journey through the icy mountains. In 1996, thousands were caught in a freak snowstorm, leading to more than 250 fatalities.
The pilgrimage concludes on Aug. 11, a full-moon night that Hindus say commemorates Shiva revealing the secret of the creation of the universe.
Apart from weather-related hazards, officials have said that pilgrims face an increased threat of attacks from Muslim rebels who have fought for decades against Indian rule. This year, for the first time, devotees are tagged with a wireless tracking system. Tens of thousands of police and soldiers also guard the routes.
The pilgrimage has been targeted in the past by suspected rebels, who accuse Hindu-majority India of using it as a political statement to bolster its claim on the Muslim-majority disputed region.
At least 50 pilgrims have been killed in three dozen attacks blamed on militants since an armed rebellion began in Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1989 for the region’s independence or a merger with Pakistan, which controls a part of the territory.
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(iSeeCars) – When you compare the cost of driving a gas-powered car one mile to the price of going the same distance in an electric vehicle, the EV almost always comes out ahead. Drivers of gas-powered cars always know gas prices because they are advertised in big numbers at every local gas station. Not as many people know the cost to use an EV charging station to fill up an EV, largely because the cost of electricity is not as prominent in people’s minds.
Yet it’s possible to calculate EV charging costs pretty quickly. If you don’t want to dive into public charging station rates, the associated rebates and incentives, or studying your own electric bill, the Department of Energy (DOE) has said the average cost for electric car charging is about 60 percent lower than the equivalent fueling costs for an internal combustion vehicle. But if you’re an EV owner, or potential owner, and want to figure out a more specific number, here are three ways to calculate the cost to charge and drive electric.
This chart shows the cost to fully charge a Volkswagen ID.4 as well as the cost per mile and annual cost to charge for each state in the U.S., using average residential electricity costs and annual driving range. We’ll show you how we arrived at these numbers below.
*Energy costs sourced from U.S. Energy Information Administration
Cost Per “Gallon”
In 2013, when mass-market electric vehicles were still relatively new, the DOE created the eGallon, which attempted to calculate the cost of a “gallon” of electricity. Electricity can’t be measured in gallons, so the DOE came up with a formula that uses the average efficiency of the top five best-selling EVs to calculate a realistic national average. The formula looks like this: eGallon ($/gal) = FE * EC * EP, and we can use it to calculate the cost of an eGallon for any EV:
Step 1: Find the miles per gallon (MPG) rating of a comparable gas-powered car. This is the fuel economy (FE) in the formula above. You can also use the average U.S. rating of 25.4 mpg for model year 2020 vehicles, the most recent data available.
Step 2: Find the electricity consumption (EC) of the EV. This number, expressed as kilowatt-hour (kWh) per mile, can be found on the EPA’s fuel economy website. As an example, we will use the Tesla Model Y, which was the best-selling EV in the U.S. last year. There are multiple versions, each with different ratings. We will use the most efficient model, the Tesla Model Y RWD, which uses 26 kWh per 100 miles. We need to express this number by the mile, so we will divide by 100, or .26 kWh.
Step 3: Find your electricity price (EP). For home charging, you can use the monthly number from a recent utility bill or calculate your annual average. If you’re OK with rough estimates, you can use the average cost for your state (which you can find in the table below) or the national residential average, which was 15.42 cents in June 2022 according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the most recent month for which data is available.
Step 4: Break out the calculator. Following the formula above with national averages, the cost of an eGallon in the Model Y looks like this: 25.4 x .26 x 15.42 = $1.02. That means using an EV charger to fill up a Model Y is like gassing up a traditional vehicle for around a dollar a gallon.
Cost Per Charge
If you want to move beyond gallons, you could calculate the actual charging cost. You will need to know two things: the cost of the electricity and how much you need. Average residential electricity costs vary wildly around the country, from 10.49 cents per kWh in Washington State to 28.98 cents in California and 44.09 cents in Hawaii. Remember, the national average is 15.42 cents.
The amount of electricity an EV driver needs depends on the distance traveled and the EV’s battery size. Automakers provide the total capacity for electric car batteries in each EV, and today’s packs range from around 30 kWh to around 100 kWh. The usable battery capacity is what determines driving range, and is not always equal to the stated full capacity. But for our purposes you can estimate usable battery capacity by reducing total capacity by around 10 percent. An empty 70-kWh pack would require around 63 kWh for a full charge. Some automakers provide a battery’s net capacity, which will make your calculations more accurate.
Now, all you need to do is some multiplication. A 2022 Volkswagen ID.4 Pro RWD, for example, with its 82-kWh battery (77 kWh net), it will cost around $11.87 to charge from zero to full (77 kWh x 15.42 cents = 1,187 cents).
Calculating costs at public fast charging stations works the same, but it’s difficult to discuss average costs. Charging networks charge different rates, usually somewhere around 30 or 40 cents per kWh, with everything from the charging network you’re using (Tesla SuperCharger network Electrify America? EVgo?), to the time of day (peak hours versus off-peak hours) potentially impacting your cost.
Generally speaking, the faster charging options out there, such as DC fast charging public chargers or the SuperCharger network, will cost you more than charging with a 240-volt level 2 system at your house. But fast chargers can get you from 10 to 80 percent battery capacity in less than 30 minutes, assuming your EV has a compatible charging system capable of taking full advantage of this technology.
Many newer EVs, like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Tesla Model 3, can take advantage of fast charging, while most older EVs like the Nissan Leaf can not. That kind of charging speed can mean up to 250-plus miles of range recaptured in less than an hour, versus 4 miles of range an hour from a standard 110-volt wall outlet or 30 miles of range from a level 2, 240-volt home system. (For more information on charging time, refer to our How Long Does it Take to Charge an Electric Car? guide.)
Cost Per Mile
Finally, it’s useful to know an EV’s cost per kWh, since that allows you to calculate cost per mile. Start with the cost to refill the battery ($11.87 for our ID.4 example above) and then divide by the vehicle’s range of 275 miles: 4.32 cents per mile. The average American drives 14,263 miles each year, according to the most recent data from the Department of Transportation. That would mean the average cost to drive the ID.4 for a year is just over $600, as reflected in the table above.
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For months now, the Governors of Texas and Arizona have been sending charter buses full of migrants and refugees to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, just a few blocks from the Capitol Building.
When they disembark, they find neither the local nor federal government there to meet them.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott says he started sending the buses to D.C. because the Biden administration attempted to lift the pandemic-era emergency Title 42 order that allowed the U.S. to deny migrants entry.
According to Gov. Abbott's office, more than 6,100 migrants have been bused to D.C. from Texas alone. They arrive six days a week, as early as 6 a.m. and as late as 11 p.m – sometimes multiple buses each day.
In response, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says this is a federal issue that demands a federal answer. She and other local government officials secured a FEMA grant in June for an international nonprofit to offer emergency services to migrants.
So far, only local volunteers and nonprofit staff have greeted these buses at Union Station. Abel Nuñez is head of CARECEN, the Central American Resource Center, which stepped in to help people being bussed to D.C. when this all started.
"It was really crazy because they were just leaving them on the street," said Nuñez, who first showed up at the station on April 16 after getting a tip from the D.C. Mayor's office on Latino Affairs that a bus was on its way.
"We knew it was on its way so we were there since 5 a.m. just waiting for them along with mutual aid organizations," he said, adding that the first bus didn't arrive till 8 a.m. "And it was incredible how shell-shocked these people were coming out of the buses."
The organization soon learned that the migrants had been let out of immigration detention centers at the border and spent very little time – sometimes less than a day – at a shelter or nonprofit at the border before being put on the bus for a 36-hour journey.
Last week, Mayor Bowser requested that the federal government deploy D.C.'s National Guard to support the nonprofit staff helping migrants.
The federal government has to call up the D.C. national guard because the district isn't a state, and so far the government has not responded to her request. Additionally, some volunteers disagree with what they call a "militarized response" to the humanitarian crisis.
"The governor of Texas has pushed the respite work up to D.C. We're not a border town so we are not used to doing this type of work," Nuñez said. His organization has been helping migrants getting off the bus with meals, hygiene kits, and a safe place to rest.
"For them, it was just a free ride," Nuñez said. "They didn't really have any other options and were offered a bus to the east coast – Washington D.C. – which some of them understood was closer to their final destination ... so they were happy."
But he added that with only local volunteers and nonprofit staff greeting the buses, and with no government support to greet them, the migrants were confused at the disorder that they found once they got to D.C.
"We have to recognize that the immigrants coming in were primarily from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba... some folks from Central Africa ... so they had [final] destinations such as Miami, New Jersey, New York or Tennessee [in mind]," Nuñez said.
"We need a place where we can receive them, give them a meal, and actually help them plan their next step. Even if that means staying in the D.C. area."
CARECEN has helped send some of the migrants to California or Texas, or wherever they have family or friends that can receive them. Still, aid volunteers say that about 10-15% of those who are dropped off by these buses have decided to stay in D.C. indefinitely.
One couple from Venezuela stayed at a volunteer's home with their four children until their flight to Florida.
"Over there in Texas, when we were in the refugee camp, it was tougher because on the border there are military, so they treat the people like militants," said Ronald, the husband. "I felt that we were in a better place. If we didn't have her family I told her that we would stay here. We would stay in Washington."
Critics – including some Republican state and local officials – have called Gov. Abbott's plan to bus migrants to D.C. "political theater". Still, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey joined Texas and started busing migrants to the nation's capital in May.
"I felt that he truly wanted to get a media hit out of this," said Nuñez of Abbott's move. "And that eventually two or three weeks later when everything would die down, he would stop doing it."
When that didn't happen, Nuñez said the community stepped in.
"I think this is an example where the local community rose up and said, 'No, we are not going to have chaos in our city, we are going to be in solidarity with the people that are on the buses and help them to the best of our ability,'" Nuñez said. "Now we're reaching our limit on that."
But he added that resources from the city or from the federal government and other municipalities could really help. "I think we can do an amazing job of demonstrating to this nation what it is to really integrate newcomers into our communities."
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Russian troops entering Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine
By ELENA BECATOROS and RICARDO MAZALAN
Associated Press
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian-battered eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk appeared to be on the brink of becoming another Mariupol on Monday as services and aid have been cut and Moscow seeks to capture all of Ukraine’s industrial Donbas region.
Luhansk regional Gov. Serhiy Haidai said the Russians have entered the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk and are pushing toward nearby Lysychansk. He said two civilians were killed and another five were wounded in the latest Russian shelling in the war.
The Ukrainian military said Russian forces were reinforcing their positions on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Sievierodonetsk and bringing additional equipment and ammunition to press their offensive.
Russian forces stormed Sievierodonetsk after trying unsuccessfully to encircle it, Ukrainian officials said, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the situation as “indescribably difficult.” A Russian artillery barrage has destroyed critical infrastructure and damaged 90% of buildings.
Sievierodonetsk, 143 kilometers (89 miles) south of the Russian border, has emerged in recent days as the epicenter of the Donbas fighting. Mariupol is the city on the Sea of Azov that spent nearly three months under Russian siege before the last Ukrainian fighters surrendered.
Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk span the strategically important Siverskiy Donetsk River. They are the last major areas under Ukrainian control in Luhansk, which makes up the Donbas together with the adjacent Donetsk region.
Sievierodonetsk Mayor Oleksandr Striuk has estimated that 1,500 civilians in the city have died since the war began, from Russian attacks as well as from a lack of medicine or treatment.
The Institute for the Study of War, a think tank based in Washington, questioned the Kremlin’s strategy of assembling a huge military effort to take Sieverodonetsk, saying it was proving costly for Russia and would bring few returns.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told French TF1 television Sunday that Moscow’s “unconditional priority is the liberation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” adding that Russia sees them as “independent states.” He also suggested other regions of Ukraine should be able to establish close ties with Russia.
The Ukrainian army reported heavy fighting around Donetsk, the regional capital, as well as Lyman to the north, a small city that serves as a key rail hub in the region. “The enemy is reinforcing its units,” the Ukrainian armed forces’ General Staff said. “It is trying to gain a foothold in the area.”
Authorities in a Russia-backed separatist region said at least five civilians were killed in the latest Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city including a 13-year-old boy.
Zelenskyy on Monday will address European Union leaders gathering in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine amid divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions. He has repeatedly demanded that the EU target Russia’s lucrative energy sector and deprive Moscow of billions of dollars each day in supply payments.
Zelenskyy on Sunday visited soldiers in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, where Ukrainian fighters pushed Russian forces back from nearby positions several weeks ago. Russia has kept up bombardment of the northeastern city from afar, and explosions could be heard shortly after Zelenskyy’s visit. Shelling and airstrikes have destroyed more than 2,000 apartment buildings in the city since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to the regional governor, Oleh Syniehubov.
In the wider Kharkiv region, Russian troops still held about one-third of the territory, Zelenskyy said.
In Luhansk, constant Russian shelling has created what provincial governor Serhiy Haidai called a “severe situation.” But some Luhansk supply and evacuation routes functioned Sunday, he said.
Russian pressure also continued in the south on Monday. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said an artillery strike on the shipyard in the southern port of Mykolaiv destroyed Ukrainian armored vehicles parked on its territory.
In the Kherson region, the Russia-installed deputy head of the regional administration, Kirill Stremousov, told Russia’s Tass state news agency that grain from last year’s harvest is being delivered to Russian buyers, adding that “obviously there is a lot of grain here.” Ukraine has accused Russia of looting grain from territories its forces hold, and the U.S. has alleged Moscow is jeopardizing global food supplies by preventing Ukraine from exporting its harvest.
In Mariupol on Sunday, an aide to its Ukrainian mayor alleged that after Russia’s forces gained complete control of the city, they piled the bodies of dead people inside a supermarket. Petro Andryushchenko, posted a photo on the Telegram messaging app showing bodies stacked alongside closed supermarket counters. It wasn’t immediately possible to verify his claim.
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Last week's challenge: This week's challenge comes from listener Elaine Elinson, of San Francisco. Name a tree. In the very middle of the word insert a homophone of another tree. The result will be a new word describing what everyone wants to be. What is it?
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in midday trading on Wall Street Tuesday as disappointing earnings reports weighed on technology and travel companies.
The S&P 500 fell 0.4% as of 12:12 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 20 points, or 0.1%, to 32,812 and the Nasdaq fell 1.3%.
Technology stocks fell broadly and weighed down the broader market. Chipmaker Micron Technology fell 5.7% after warning investors that revenue could fall short of forecasts because of weakening demand. That warning hit other chipmakers hard, with Nvidia shedding 5.6%.
Norwegian Cruise Line plunged 12.2% after reporting disappointing financial results and giving investors a weak revenue forecast. The weak results weighed down travel-related stocks. Expedia fell 3.2% and American Airlines fell 3.3%.
U.S. crude oil prices were little changed and energy stocks gained ground. Exxon Mobil rose 2.9%.
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Bond yields rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 2.78% from 2.75% late Monday.
Investors have been closely watching the latest round of corporate earnings and economic data for clues on how inflation is hurting consumers and businesses. As the earnings season winds down, Disney, Wendy’s and Wynn Resorts will be reporting quarterly results this week.
The U.S. Labor Department will release its July report for consumer prices Wednesday, followed by its producer prices report on Thursday. Investors and economists will look for any signs that the Federal Reserve’s aggressive rate hikes the past few months have helped to bring inflation under control.
“Regardless of that number, there's still going to be an environment where they're raising rates,” said Michael Landsberg, chief investment officer of Landsberg Bennett Private Wealth Management.
The Fed has raised rates four times this year in an effort to hit the brakes on the economy and cool the hottest inflation in four decades. Wall Street is worried that the central bank could slam the brakes too hard and tip the economy into a recession. Last week’s strong July jobs report has most economists predicting the Fed will again raise short-term interest rates by as much as another three-quarters of a point at its September meeting.
Most economic data already points to a slowdown. The U.S. economy has now contracted for two straight quarters, which constitutes an informal indicator of a recession. But recession fears have been tempered by a hot jobs market with unemployment at historic lows. While that's good for the economy, it is a sign that inflation persists.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Amnesty International is urging suppliers of aviation fuel to Myanmar to suspend such shipments to prevent the military from using them to conduct air attacks on civilian targets as the number of bombings has increased.
In a report released Thursday, the London-based rights group documented diversion of aviation fuel that is supposed to be used only for civilian travel and transport to the military. It also called on refiners, shipping companies and others in the aviation fuel supply chain to stop shipments until they can ensure they won’t be diverted to military use.
The report, carried out in collaboration with the underground activist organization Justice for Myanmar, followed news of air strikes that have killed dozens of people not engaged in fighting the military controlled government following the army’s February 2021 ouster of Myanmar’s elected government.
“These air strikes have devastated families, terrorized civilians, killed and maimed victims. But if the planes can’t fuel up, they can’t fly out and wreak havoc. Today we are calling on suppliers, shipping agents, vessel owners and maritime insurers to withdraw from a supply chain that is benefiting the Myanmar Air Force,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard said in a prepared statement.
“There can be no justification for participating in the supply of aviation fuel to a military that has a flagrant contempt for human rights and has been repeatedly accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and other grave human rights violations.”
Military air strikes killed as many as 80 people, including singers and musicians, attending an anniversary celebration last month of the Kachin ethnic minority’s main political organization. The casualties appeared to be the most in a single air attack since the military seized power.
Civilians from the Karen ethnic minority in eastern Myanmar were also killed in air attacks earlier this year.
Ethnic minorities have been fighting for autonomy for decades, but nationwide antigovernment resistance has increased markedly with the formation of an armed pro-democracy movement opposing the military takeover.
Air attacks on schools, villages and camps of people who have fled the fighting have destroyed homes, schools, monasteries and other civilian infrastructure. The military says such attacks are needed to fight “terrorist” groups.
Human rights advocates have been lobbying governments to impose arms embargoes and cut off supplies of fuel that might be diverted for military purposes. Opponents of such measures say that blocking aviation fuel supplies would interfere with civilian travel and deliveries of humanitarian aid.
The Amnesty report outlined examples of how fuel delivered to Myanmar’s Thilawa port, near its biggest city Yangon, was diverted to military use despite pledges that it was only to be used by civilian aircraft.
It said at least eight shipments of Jet A-1 fuel were unloaded at Thilawa between February 2021 and Sept. 17 of this year. In some cases, letters documented that the shipments were due for use by military aircraft. In others, civilian and military aircraft were supplied by the same storage facilities.
Most of the companies involved in the aviation fuel supply chain that the Amnesty International urged to observe an embargo on shipments replied to the group’s request for comment by saying they had controls in place to prevent supplying the military with fuel.
Singapore-based Puma Energy Co., the company handling most aviation fuel supplies to Myanmar, suspended its business there after the military takeover, leaving operations to its local partner. Last month, it announced it would sell its share of the business to a locally owned company.
In a letter to Amnesty International included in its report, Puma said the details the right group provided contributed to its review of its Myanmar investment, which “ultimately led to the decision to exit Myanmar.” Puma is largely owned by Singapore-based global commodity trading giant Trafigura.
Puma said it had not sold or distributed any fuel to the Myanmar Air Force since the military takeover and put in place controls to prevent such sales, but became aware of incidents where the air force had managed to breach such controls.
Amnesty said its report “draws on a wide range of sources, including leaked company documents, corporate filings, vessel-tracking data, satellite imagery, public records, and exclusive interviews with defectors from the Myanmar Air Force and sources close to Puma Energy..”
In September, a United Nations-appointed human rights expert called for governments and companies to coordinate efforts to cut off the military-led government of Myanmar from its sources of revenue and weapons, saying life in the Southeast Asian nation has become a “living hell” for many since the generals seized power last year.
Tom Andrews, in Geneva to deliver his annual report on Myanmar to the U.N. Human Rights Council, told reporters that while many countries have been imposing sanctions on individuals, military entities, financial institutions and energy companies, what is needed is “coordinated action.”
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The completely re-branded, enhanced event creates meaningful opportunities for founders to connect with other founders, tech talent, educational programming and investors.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Black Tech Week, the inclusion focused tech ecosystem-building festival, announced the events schedule for its 2022 conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. The annual five-day event will run from July 18-22 and hold 60+ sessions—–presenting 50+ tech influencers and minority innovation ecosystem builders as featured speakers. Black Tech Week's featured speakers include Kimberly Bryant, Founder of Black Girls Code, Arlan Hamilton, Founder of Hire Runner and Backstage Capital, Felecia Hatcher, CEO of Black Ambition, and Detavio Samuels, CEO of Revolt. Black Tech Week's events are presented with support from its committed sponsors including Amazon Web Services, The City of Cincinnati, Fifth Third Bank, Delta Dental of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, Ohio Third Frontier, Lincoln and Gilbert.
Black Tech Week's keynotes, panels and sessions tap into the most relevant topics such as exits, IPOs and the current startup lifecycle, fundraising and navigating the venture landscape, and hiring for innovation amid the Great Resignation. Registrants can sign up for VC office hours with firms in attendance or participate in the pop-up Career Fair; through these offerings, Black Tech Week aims to serve as a real-time resource for organizations seeking to diversify their teams and for investors interested in cultivating more inclusive portfolios. Part of Black Tech Week's programming will take place in the conference's Activation Spaces––where Inc. Founder's House, AWS, and Black@Genesis will run programming.
This year's conference calendar is timed to coincide with the Cincinnati Music Festival, one of the oldest and largest in the country; the festival hosts 70,000+ visitors and generates 107 million dollars in economic impact.
Lightship Foundation, the Cincinnati-based economic development organization, acquired Black Tech Week with the vision of positioning Ohio as the most supportive state in the Midwest for minority innovation. Lightship Foundation, with Founder and CEO Candice Matthews Brackeen at its helm, is executing on its mission to leverage local corporate partners and community networks including the Cincinnati Innovation District (CID) to bring remarkable technology and venture leaders from all over the world to Ohio.
"For the last seven years, Black Tech Week has been hard at work, ecosystem-building for Black tech communities across the U.S.. Relocating to Cincinnati means expanding our national network of founders, talent, and investors." said Candice Matthews Brackeen, Lightship Foundation Founder and CEO. "We're so proud of our 2022 conference calendar––and the opportunity to bring this innovative session lineup to our community."
"The city of Cincinnati is committed to becoming a place where Black entrepreneurs feel supported and seen," says Aftab Pureval, Mayor of Cincinnati. "We are excited to host Black Tech Week and support Lightship in creating a hub for tech collaboration in the Midwest."
To register for this year's Black Tech Week in Cincinnati, to view the schedule and learn more about the speakers, please click here.
About Lightship Foundation
Lightship Foundation is an impact-driven organization serving remarkable entrepreneurs & ecosystems. We leverage corporate partnerships, specialized programming, and capital investments to drive growth within the minority innovation economy. Since 2017, Lightship Foundation has guided over 200 companies led by women, FOC (Founders of Color), and those representing the LGBTIQ and disabled communities to more than $120M in venture funding across the US. Connect with Lightship Foundation on Linkedin and visit the Lightship Foundation website to learn more.
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BlackTech Week is an inclusion focused ecosystem-building festival that partners with founders, corporations and the community to create a valuable experience for investors, entrepreneurs, and techies of every kind. Connect with Black Tech Week on Facebook and Instagram, and visit the Black Tech Week website for more information.
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Establishing Industry Identity and a New Look Communicating the Company's Mission
KIMBERLY, Idaho, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Standlee, a premium forage and animal wellness company, announces an updated visual identity to their product packaging. The new modern design focuses on communicating nutritional wellness and product differentiation with timeless colors while highlighting the benefits of forage within an animal's diet.
The new packaging is a commitment to visually sharing our company's mission to enrich the relationship between our consumers, the animals they care for, and the life they love through education, wellness, and premium forage.
"As a family-owned company, we believe in cultivating a relationship with our consumers through our high-quality forage, convenient product packaging, and the education we provide to support those who live this lifestyle." said, Scott Plew, President at Standlee. "Our team designed the new packaging with as much detail as our farmers harvest each field. We will continue to provide a premium experience for all, as we share this mission that is, grown for the life we love."
Focusing on features essential to our brand and consumer, the new packaging showcases a forage-identifying color scheme that works seamlessly with our recognizable Standlee brand green. The bag design highlights nutritional information and benefits on the front and side of our packaging for consumers to recognize and determine the forage suitable for their animal. At the top of each bag, the logo will distinguish between lines encompassing different product categories like forage-based products grown in the western United States, non-forage-based products, and animal wellness products. Large striking imagery on the front and back connect horse owners to their animals. A feeding chart for additional animal species and a QR code to the Standlee website for more supporting information
"With our consumers in mind, we designed our packaging to reflect our premium products while wanting the shopping experience for our consumers to be just that – a premium experience," said Jessica Wright, Director of Marketing at Standlee. "Each element on every product has been thoughtfully considered; we are proud and thrilled to see it in stores and in our consumer's barns, homes, and trailers."
Retailers and consumers can expect to see the new Standlee product packaging on shelves as early as May 2023 for some products and continue to roll out throughout the year. While the packaging has changed, the same premium product that consumers have come to know and love from Standlee remains the same.
If you want more information about Standlee's packaging, please contact customer service at customerservice@standlee.com or 800-398-0819.
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Standlee puts the health and well-being of the animals you love first by delivering the best nutrition through premium forage and highest-quality animal care products.
Founded in 1981, Standlee has carefully grown and manufactured sun-cured forage to ensure high-quality and consistent nutrition. Their finished products are managed to ensure year-round supply and are delivered to customers by the largest distribution network of forage products in the United States. They provide premium forage in a variety of types and in a wide range of product formats, including pellets, cubes, chopped, and bales – To keep your animals at peak health and performance throughout the year Standlee forage is the perfect nutritional solution for horses, livestock, small animals, and poultry.
Standlee has committed to providing a premium experience when purchasing their products. You can trust it was made with the same dedication as if they are caring for your own animals.
Standlee is Grown for the Life We Love®.
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Transaction will strengthen Lumen's financial position and sharpen strategic focus
DENVER and LONDON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN) and Colt Technology Services (Colt), a digital infrastructure company, announce today they have entered into an exclusive arrangement for the proposed sale of Lumen's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business to Colt for $1.8 billion. This represents a very attractive multiple (~11x) for Lumen's EMEA business and will create additional value for its shareholders. More information on this transaction can be found in Lumen's 8-K to be contemporaneously filed with this release.
The envisaged transaction is subject to customary conditions and would involve the divestiture by Lumen of its EMEA business, including its terrestrial and subsea networks, data centers and network equipment in the region to London-headquartered Colt. Upon completion, the transaction will further Lumen's strategic focus on investing in core businesses that are expected to drive long-term, profitable growth.
Benefits to Lumen:
- Purchase price represents a strong ~11x multiple of the EMEA business's estimated 2021 adjusted EBITDA.
- Additional capital and a streamlined portfolio will drive more focused investments on enterprise growth and help maintain Lumen's strong balance sheet.
- The terms of the transaction enable Lumen to continue to serve multinational enterprise customers through its strategic partnership with Colt.
"We are continuing to execute on portfolio optimization at Lumen, creating additional value for our shareholders by monetizing non-strategic assets at accretive multiples," said Lumen President and CEO Jeff Storey. "This transaction would enhance our focus so we can invest more efficiently in our most strategic opportunities – our key Enterprise and Quantum Fiber initiatives – and partner with regional leaders like Colt in Europe and Cirion in Latin America to continue serving our multinational enterprise customers."
"This transaction would mark the next chapter in Colt's exciting story of global growth and world-class innovation," said Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt Technology Services. "We're deeply committed to building extraordinary connections for our people, customers and partners across our digital infrastructure. This acquisition would strengthen and extend these connections across existing and new geographies, helping us to accelerate growth and bring the power of the digital universe closer to our customers."
Known for its commitment to customer experience and its industry-leading environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, Colt is a global digital infrastructure business with over 60 offices around the world. The transaction will extend Colt's infrastructure to new geographic markets, boosting the services and capabilities it delivers to global enterprises and strategic partners.
Benefits to Colt:
- Extends Colt's network into additional countries, European cities and data centers, offering businesses throughout Europe expanded fiber network connectivity.
- Offers Colt access to a full range of product solutions for diversified Enterprise, Hyperscaler, Government and Wholesale customers.
- Positions Colt to meet growing enterprise and international IP traffic in EMEA via extensive terrestrial and subsea reach.
Strategic partnership
Most of Lumen's EMEA employees would join Colt after the transaction closes. Colt and Lumen will establish a strategic relationship that will enable Lumen to continue delivering a seamless experience for its multinational customers with needs in EMEA. The partnership will also allow Colt to continue serving the needs of the EMEA-based customers with service needs outside of EMEA.
"Lumen has a strong interest in Colt's success, and we expect to remain a close business partner and key customer," said Storey. "Colt's strong reputation and customer focus make them the ideal partner to serve the needs of our customers, and we expect to remain Colt's partner of choice for their customers' needs in North America."
"Colt and Lumen share values, and a drive to deliver outstanding customer experience," said Gilder. "This combination is powered by amazing people and incredible infrastructure and is inspired by technology's ability to change the way we live and work."
Lumen and Colt envisage the transaction would close as early as late 2023 upon receipt of all regulatory approvals in the U.S. and certain countries where Colt operates, as well as the satisfaction of other customary conditions.
The purchase agreement contains various customary covenants for transactions of this type, including various indemnities and purchase price adjustments.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is acting as financial advisor to Lumen in connection with the transaction, and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is serving as legal advisor to Lumen. Evercore Group L.L.C. is acting as financial advisor to Colt in connection with the transaction and Baker & McKenzie LLP is serving as legal advisor to Colt.
About Lumen
Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 400,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.
Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com/home, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks in the United States.
About Colt
Colt Technology Services (Colt) is a global digital infrastructure company which creates extraordinary connections to help businesses succeed. Powered by like-minded partners and amazing people, Colt is driven by its purpose: to place the power of the digital universe in the hands of its customers, wherever, however and whenever they choose.
Since 1992, Colt has set itself apart through its deep commitment to its customers, growing from its heritage in the City of London to more than 60 offices around the world. The powerful Colt IQ Network connects 222 cities and 32 countries with more than 1000 data centres, 51 Metropolitan Area Networks and over 31,000 buildings across Europe, Asia and North America's largest business hubs. Privately owned, Colt is one of the most financially sound companies in the sector.
Obsessed with delivering industry-leading customer experience, Colt is guided by its dedication to customer innovation, by its values and its responsibility to its customers, partners, people and planet.
For more information, please visit www.colt.net
Forward-looking Statements Except for the historical and factual information contained herein, the matters set forth in this press release, including statements regarding the expected transaction proceeds, timing and benefits of the proposed transactions, and other statements identified by words such as "estimates," "expects," "projects," "plans," "intends," "will" and similar expressions, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, many of which are beyond our control. Actual events and results may differ materially from those anticipated, estimated or projected if one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or if underlying assumptions prove incorrect. Factors that could affect actual results include but are not limited to: the ability of the parties to timely and successfully receive the required approvals of regulatory agencies; the possibility that the anticipated benefits from the proposed transaction cannot be realized in the manner contemplated; the possibility that it may be more difficult than anticipated to segregate the Company's EMEA business from its other businesses in connection with the Divestiture; the possibility that the post-closing commercial relationships between the parties will not operate in the manner currently contemplated; the possibility that the Company might be required to pay higher than anticipated tax payments, to make unanticipated payments under the transaction agreements or to otherwise receive less net cash proceeds than anticipated; the possibility that the Company's customers, vendors or employees could react unfavorably to the Divestiture; changes in the Company's cash requirements, financial position or business, operational or financial plans; the effects of competition from a wide variety of competitive providers; the purchaser's ability to successfully maintain the quality of its product and service offerings and to introduce new offerings on a timely and cost-effective basis; and other risk factors and cautionary statements as detailed from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that the Company's proposed Divestiture of its EMEA business will in fact be consummated in the manner described or at all. You should be aware that new factors may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to identify all such factors, nor can we predict the impact of each such factor on the proposed transaction. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Unless legally required, the Company undertakes no obligation and expressly disclaims any such obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Furthermore, any information about our intentions contained in any of our forward-looking statements reflects our intentions as of the date of such forward-looking statement, and is based upon, among other things, regulatory, technological, industry, competitive, economic and market conditions, and our related assumptions, as of such date. We may change our intentions, strategies or plans without notice at any time and for any reason.
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WINNIPEG, MB, May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ – Pollard Banknote Limited (TSX: PBL) ("Pollard Banknote") congratulates the Texas Lottery Commission ("Texas Lottery") on the launch of $20 Million Supreme, the U.S. lottery industry's first scratch ticket game at the $100 price point. Printed by Pollard Banknote, the 4" by 12" milestone ticket features Soft Touch™ and Scratch FX®, an engaging combination of print innovations ideal for conveying the game's value and uniqueness in the market.
$20 Million Supreme debuts in response to the considerable popularity of the Texas Lottery's higher price point scratch tickets, an industry-wide trend that has emerged in recent years. The Lottery's $50 price point has played a major role in its impressive financial performance, achieving the highest percentage of sales growth in fiscal year (FY) 2021 relative to other price points, and driving record contributions to Texas education, as a result. The introduction of $20 Million Supreme represents a natural progression from the $50 price point, of which the Texas Lottery was among the first lotteries to introduce fifteen years ago. Pollard Banknote's Scratch FX® infuses the ticket with unmatched brilliance, while Soft Touch™, part of The Touchables™ line of specialty inks, imparts a distinct tactile feature to the ticket surface. With three bonus spots and engaging callouts, $20 Million Supreme is expected to substantially contribute to FY 2022 revenue generation.
"The Texas Lottery is excited about the monumental launch of $20 Million Supreme," said Gary Grief, Executive Director, Texas Lottery Commission. "The introduction of the $100 game will provide Texas Lottery players added convenience when they purchase $100 or more of lottery products at a time, and will provide added efficiency for our Texas Lottery retailers, who always face the challenges of long transaction times for large purchases. With prizes starting at $150 and four unprecedented top cash prizes of $20 million, which are the largest top cash prizes the Texas Lottery has ever offered in a scratch ticket game, we anticipate that the game will generate significant excitement among players and retailers and will provide needed support for public education throughout the state of Texas."
"We are thrilled to partner with the Texas Lottery to bring the first $100 scratch ticket game to the U.S. lottery market," said Brad Thompson, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Pollard Banknote. "Through a diverse portfolio of offerings, many of which feature Pollard Banknote's print innovations, the Texas Lottery consistently demonstrates how well it understands its players. $20 Million Supreme is the most recent example of how the Texas Lottery delivers world-class products to support worthy causes throughout the state."
Beginning with the first ticket sold in 1992, the Texas Lottery has generated $34.6 billion in revenue for the state and distributed $74 billion in prizes to lottery players. Since 1997, the Texas Lottery has contributed $28.7 billion to the Foundation School Fund, which supports public education in Texas. As authorized by the Texas Legislature, certain Texas Lottery revenues benefit state programs including the Fund for Veterans' Assistance. Since the first veterans'-themed scratch ticket game was launched in 2009, the Texas Lottery has contributed more than $179 million for programs supporting Texas veterans. The Texas Lottery provides several entertaining games for lottery players including Powerball®, Mega Millions®, Lotto Texas®, All or Nothing™, Texas Two Step®, Pick 3™, Daily 4™, Cash Five® and scratch ticket games. For more information visit us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube or at texaslottery.com. PLAY RESPONSIBLY.
Pollard Banknote is a leading lottery partner to more than 60 lotteries worldwide, providing high quality instant ticket products, licensed games, in-lane ticket options, and sales-driving merchandising solutions from its Schafer Retail Solutions + portfolio. It also offers a full suite of digital offerings, ranging from world-class game apps to comprehensive player engagement and iLottery solutions, including strategic marketing and management services. The company is a proven innovator and has decades of experience helping lotteries to maximize player engagement, sales, and proceeds for good causes. Pollard Banknote also provides pull-tab tickets, bingo paper, ticket vending machines, and its Diamond Game and Compliant Gaming electronic games and devices to charitable and other gaming markets in North America. Established in 1907, Pollard Banknote is owned approximately 64.3% by the Pollard family and 35.7% by public shareholders, and is publicly traded on the TSX (PBL). For more information, please visit our website at www.pollardbanknote.com.
Certain statements in this press release may constitute "forward-looking" statements and information, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. When used in this document, such statements include such words as "may," "will," "expect," "believe," "plan," and other similar terminology. These statements reflect management's current expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this document. There should not be an expectation that such information will in all circumstances be updated, supplemented, or revised whether as a result of new information, changing circumstances, future events, or otherwise.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHNT) — October is HBCU Month in the State of Alabama, according to a new proclamation by Governor Kay Ivey.
“Our 14 HBCUs play an important role in Alabama’s economy,” Ivey wrote on Twitter. “In honor of these historic institutions and the talent on their campuses, I was proud to host the presidents of our HBCUs to declare October as HBCU Month!”
There are more HBCUs, or historically-Black colleges and universities, in Alabama than in any other state in the nation. Those include:
- Alabama A&M University
- Alabama State University
- Bishop State Community College
- Concordia College Alabama
- Gadsden State Community College
- H. Councill Trenholm State Technical College
- J.F. Drake State Community and Technical College
- Lawson State Community College-Birmingham
- Miles College
- Oakwood University
- Selma University
- Shelton State Community College
- Stillman College
- Talladega College
- Tuskegee University
State leaders assert HBCUs are “well known for preparing the highest number of African-American students for science, technology engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and many of Alabama’s HBCUs have been recognized for their top performing STEM departments.”
According to our news partners at AL.com, leaders say Alabama is the first state in the country to dedicate a month to HBCUs.
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- Government Security Director appointed with notice of non-objection by Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)
- Reconstitution of the Audit Committee, satisfying NASDAQ's requirement for an independent audit committee
- Eric Tapia appointed Chief Financial Officer
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TuSimple (Nasdaq: TSP), a global autonomous driving technology company, today announced additional independent appointments to its Board of Directors – including a new Government Security Director, Michael Mosier, and an Audit Committee Chair, Wendy Hayes.
Michael Mosier will serve as the Government Security Director and will be responsible for overseeing the Company's compliance with federal government legal and regulatory requirements. In order to be appointed, he passed through extensive background checks to receive non-objection from CFIUS. Mr. Mosier has vast experience in the federal government across national-security related roles, including at the U.S. Department of Treasury, U.S. Department of Justice, and White House National Security Council. Most recently, Mosier served as Acting Director of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. He was also Counselor to the Deputy Treasury Secretary, focused on emerging technology and cybersecurity. Mosier has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and began his career in public service as a prosecutor with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Wendy Hayes brings to TuSimple extensive financial and business oversight experience. In her new role as an independent member of TuSimple's Board of Directors, she will serve as chair of the Audit Committee. Ms. Hayes is a partner at a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley and also serves on the boards of other NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies. Previously, Ms. Hayes worked at various Deloitte global offices as an Audit Partner after she first joined Deloitte San Francisco in 1997. She also was an Inspections Leader for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), which was established by Congress to supervise audits of public companies and protect investors, and is overseen by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Following the recent appointment of James Lu as an independent member of TuSimple's Board of Directors, TuSimple has appointed three new independent board members in the last week.
Additionally, Eric Tapia has been appointed as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Tapia has been serving in the role of interim Chief Financial Officer since July 7, 2022. He brings more than twenty years of experience working in corporate finance, controllership, and treasury, as well as working closely with public companies' C-level and Board of Directors. Before joining TuSimple in 2021 as VP Global Controller, Mr. Tapia was the VP Controller and CAO of Grainger, Inc., a $13 billion Fortune 200 company, a role he held for over 6 years.
"When I returned to lead TuSimple, I made a commitment to right the ship and set us on a path toward long-term stability and success," said TuSimple President and CEO Cheng Lu. "With the appointment of Eric as permanent CFO, three new independent board members in the last week, the reconstitution of the Board's Audit Committee and other board committees, we're moving forward with our plan to restore accountability and transparency to this Company. Furthermore, with the addition of Michael and Wendy to the board, we're gaining valuable expertise that we believe will benefit TuSimple and our investors. I'm pleased they've agreed to join our Board of Directors and look forward to working with them as we drive TuSimple's strategy forward to usher in a safer and more efficient future in the autonomous freight industry."
TuSimple is a global autonomous driving technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in Arizona, Texas, Europe, and China. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready, fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) driving solution for long-haul heavy-duty trucks. TuSimple aims to transform the $4 trillion global truck freight industry through the company's leading AI technology, which makes it possible for trucks to drive safely autonomously, operate nearly continuously, and reduce fuel consumption by 10%+ relative to manually driven trucks. Global achievements include the world's first fully autonomous, 'driver-out' semi-truck run on open public roads, and development of the world's first Autonomous Freight Network (AFN). Visit us at www.tusimple.com.
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In another sign of the changing state of the pandemic, an invaluable source of information about the virus over the last three years is shutting down, NPR has learned.
The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center plans to cease operations March 10, officials told NPR.
"It's bittersweet," says Lauren Gardner, an engineering professor who launched the project with one of her students on March 3, 2020. "But it's an appropriate time to move on."
When the pandemic erupted, no one knew much of anything about the virus and how to respond. Was it safe to go grocery shopping? How easily could someone get infected on a bus or train? Could runners get sick just by passing another jogger in the park?
"As everyone can remember, there was very little information, particularly at the beginning of the pandemic," says Beth Blauer, an associate vice provost at Johns Hopkins who has helped run the center.
"And when we started to see the cases move out of China and in through Europe and headed toward our shores, we knew that there were going to be a series of public policy decisions that would have to be made," Blauer says.
Those decisions included where to impose dramatic but crucial public health measures. Should mayors close schools? Should governors mandate masks? Should CEOs shut down factories? Should heads of state seal borders?
But there was no good data available to make those decisions. Neither the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention nor the World Health Organization were providing enough useful numbers in real time. So journalists and academic researchers at places like Johns Hopkins jumped in to fill the void.
NPR launched its own tracker on March 16, 2020, drawing data from Johns Hopkins. It was viewed over 52 million times over the last three years as readers sought to stay updated on COVID metrics. On Feb. 1, NPR ceased updating the page, recognizing that Americans can find the information they need on the CDC's COVID website. This was not the case early in the pandemic.
"I know CDC has the ability to do this and has done it numerous occasions in the past," says Dr. Ali Khan, a former CDC official who is now dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. "So it was unusual that at the beginning of this COVID pandemic that they did not collect this data and put it out in a timely many. Extremely unusual and very surprising."
Johns Hopkins "essentially filled the vacuum," Khan says, "That was invaluable to understand what was going on."
After Johns Hopkins launched the project, the website quickly became crucial for deciding everything from where drug companies should test vaccines to where Hollywood should film movies. Even the White House and the British prime minister were relying on Hopkins data.
Gardner recalls many conversations "with people that were just out about doing their job — traveling in Japan, here and there — who would tell me the dashboard was the driving force in decision-making for them ... about quitting their job and then coming home so that they wouldn't get stuck."
The site's maps of the world and individual countries became an iconic way of tracking the virus's inexorable spread.
"I would refresh my computer screen over and over again over the course of the work day looking to see what the latest numbers were," says Dr. Celine Gounder from the Kaiser Family Foundation, who was working as an infectious disease specialist at the Bellevue Hospital in New York when the pandemic began.
"It was really startling to see even over the course of the day how the numbers were evolving. I think my colleagues thought I was a little obsessive," Gounder says. "But it was also watching history unfold in real time on your screen."
The site, which Blauer and Gardner note was created and run largely by women, cost $13 million and eventually drew more than 2.5 billion views, Blauer says.
"It is a staggering amount of traffic," she says. "These are numbers I don't think I'll ever see again in my professional career."
But now that the threat of the pandemic is receding, states are reporting data less frequently and the CDC has ramped up the agency's data reporting, the university decided it was time to shut it down.
"There's definitely a bitter sweetness about the end," Blauer says. "But we are at an inflection point."
Both Blauer and Gardner say they hope the CDC and the public health system will continue to invest in data collection so the nation will be better prepared in the future. But they're prepared to step back in if necessary.
"There will be another pandemic," Gardner says. "And, so we'll have to see."
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Watch President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address here
President Joe Biden is scheduled to deliver his second State of the Union address Tuesday night at the US Capitol.
His remarks will provide an opportunity to speak to a politically polarized Capitol Hill and nation as his administration faces an uncertain economic picture, renewed calls for police reform, a war in Ukraine and escalating tensions with China -- all while Democrats and the GOP eye 2024.
Biden's address to Congress, roughly at the halfway point of his term, comes after Republicans regained control of the House chamber, meaning new Speaker Kevin McCarthy will share the dais with Vice President Kamala Harris and sit directly behind the president.
Here's what you need to know about how to watch Biden's speech.
What time is the President's speech?
Biden will deliver his remarks at 9 p.m. ET.
Where can I watch it?
You can watch it below.
Who is delivering the Republican response?
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican response to Biden's address.
Sanders gained national prominence when she served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, but she was no stranger to politics with her father, Republican Mike Huckabee, serving as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007. She made history last year as the first woman elected as governor of Arkansas.
Sanders expressed gratitude last week for the opportunity to give her party's response and "contrast the GOP's optimistic vision for the future against the failures of President Biden and the Democrats."
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doubled-down on his nuclear arms buildup to overwhelm “hostile forces” at a key meeting where military leaders approved unspecified new operational duties for front-line army units.
Members of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Military Commission decided to supplement an “important military action plan” on the duties of front-line troops and further strengthen the country’s nuclear war deterrent, state media said Friday.
North Korea hasn’t specified the new operational duties for front-line army units, but analysts say the country could be planning to deploy battlefield nuclear weapons targeting rival South Korea along their tense border.
While North Korea's pursuit of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles that could reach the U.S. mainland gets much of the international attention, it is also developing a variety of nuclear-capable short-range missiles that can target South Korea. Experts say its rhetoric around those missiles communicates a threat to proactively use them in warfare to blunt the stronger conventional forces of South Korea and the United States. About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in the South to deter aggression from the North.
Kim during the military commission's three-day meeting that ended Thursday called for his entire army to “go all out” in carrying out the plans to bolster the nation’s military muscle and consolidate “powerful self-defense capabilities for overwhelming any hostile forces and thus reliably protect the dignity of the great country.”
The report by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency did not include any direct criticism toward Washington or Seoul amid a prolonged stalemate in nuclear negotiations.
Jolting an old pattern of brinkmanship, North Korea has already set an annual record in ballistic testing through the first half of 2022, firing around 30 missiles in over 18 launch events, including its first tests involving intercontinental ballistic missiles in nearly five years.
Kim has punctuated his recent tests with repeated comments that North Korea would use its nuclear weapons proactively when threatened or provoked, which experts say portend an escalatory nuclear doctrine that may create greater concerns for neighbors.
North Korea’s apparent push to deploy battlefield nuclear weapons at front-line units had been predicted since April, when Kim supervised a test of a new short-range missile that state media said would “drastically” improve the firepower of front-line artillery units and “enhance the efficiency in the operation of tactical nukes.”
Experts say North Korea’s unusually fast pace in testing activity this year underscores Kim’s dual intent to advance his arsenal and pressure Washington over long-stalled nuclear diplomacy. Talks have stalled since early 2019 over disagreements in exchanging the release of crippling U.S.-led sanctions against the North and the North’s disarmament steps.
Kim has shown no intentions to fully give away an arsenal he sees as his strongest guarantee of survival. His pressure campaign is aimed at forcing the United States to accept the idea of the North as a nuclear power and negotiating economic and security concessions from a position of strength, experts say.
The military meeting came amid signs that North Korea is preparing to conduct its first nuclear test explosion since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear weapon that could be tipped on its ICBMs.
Experts say North Korea may use its next nuclear test to claim that it has acquired the ability to build a small nuclear warhead to fit its short-range missiles or other weapons it recently tested, including a purported hypersonic missile and a long-range cruise missile. Smaller warheads would also be necessary for the North’s stated pursuit of a multiwarhead ICBM.
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Fayetteville, AR. (KNWA/KFTA) – We’ve got a lot of spring football to talk about in this week’s Arkansas Football Recruiting Report with Otis Kirk.
We’ve also got a commit, a future commit, and other recruits. Check the link above for the full interview.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve may reach a turning point this week as it announces what's expected to be another substantial three-quarter-point hike in its key interest rate — its fourth straight.
Fed officials will likely engage in a fraught debate over whether it may soon be time to slow its rate hikes, which are intended to cool the worst inflation in four decades but are also raising the risk of a recession.
At a news conference Wednesday after the Fed's latest meeting, Chair Jerome Powell could signal a forthcoming shift to smaller rate increases. Doing so would give officials time to assess the impact of the hikes.
Powell won't explicitly spell out the Fed's likely next moves. But economists say he could acknowledge that officials are discussing a downshift to a half-point rate increase in December. The Fed's hikes have already led to much costlier borrowing rates, ranging from mortgages to auto and business loans.
Those higher loan costs have weakened the home market, in particular. The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, which was just 3.14% a year ago, topped 7% last week for the first time since 2002, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported. Sales of existing homes have fallen for eight straight months.
Fed officials have stressed that they need to raise rates significantly to tame inflation, which has caused hardships for millions of households. High inflation has also become a central point of attack for Republicans against Democrats in the midterm congressional elections.
Yet some economists have said the Fed should soon consider scaling back the fastest pace of rate increases since the early 1980s.
“It is time to think about calibrating these rate hikes,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG. As the Fed moves closer to finishing its rate increases, she said, “it makes sense to not be hitting the brakes so hard.”
The Fed’s benchmark short-term rate stands in a range of 3% to 3.25%. In September, policymakers forecast that they'd raise it by an additional 1.25 percentage points by year's end. That timetable suggests a three-quarter-point hike on Wednesday and a half-point increase in December.
One concern for the Fed is that if it suggests it could ease its credit tightening, the financial markets might conclude that it will soon stop raising rates altogether and perhaps cut them next year. Stock and bond prices would move higher, countering the Fed's efforts to slow the economy.
Fed watchers say there are two ways the central bank could avoid raising any misplaced optimism: Officials could send a tough anti-inflation message Wednesday by reiterating a point from the minutes of their September meeting. The minutes showed that the policymakers preferred to err on the side of raising rates too high, rather than raising them too little and risk perpetuating high inflation.
Another possibility is that in December, when policymakers will update their economic forecasts, they could pencil in an extra quarter-point rate hike early next year to underscore their determination to curb inflation, which reached a punishing 8.2% in September.
One reason the Fed might begin pulling back soon is that some early signs suggest that inflation could start declining in 2023. Consumers, squeezed by high prices and costlier loans, are starting to spend less. Supply chain snarls are easing — ocean freight costs have plunged 67% in the past year — which means fewer shortages. Wage growth is plateauing, which, if followed by declines, would reduce inflationary pressures.
For now, though, many Fed officials have said they see few signs inflation is coming down in a sustainable way.
“We need to see actual progress in core inflation and services inflation, and we are not seeing it yet,” Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said recently. (Core inflation excludes volatile food and energy costs and is considered a good reflection of underlying price pressures.)
A few have sounded more optimistic notes. Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard listed several reasons inflation would likely fall soon, including price cuts by retailers to clear excess inventories. As a result, she said “moving forward deliberately" would help the Fed determine how the economy is handling its rate hikes and how many more might be needed.
And Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed, noted recently that the central bank won't be carrying out three-quarter-point rate hikes indefinitely.
“The time is now to start talking about stepping down," Daly said.
Most of the signs of easing inflation have emerged in private-sector data sources, including websites that track rents and home prices. Some economists think Fed officials will have to assign greater weight to such sources in the coming months.
The data firm ApartmentList, for example, said rents in new leases fell from August to September for the first time this year. Even tracked over the past 12 months, the still-high 6.8% increase in rents was far less than the 12-month increase of 17.1% that was measured a year ago.
Yet in the government's consumer price index, housing costs are still rising at the fastest pace in decades. That reflects what many people are experiencing: Apartment dwellers who are now renewing leases likely face higher rents than they did a year ago.
The slowdown in housing costs will eventually feed into the government's data, though it could take a year or longer. Many economists think the Fed will have to take those slowing housing costs into account before then.
Kathy Bostjancic, chief U.S. economist at Nationwide, said that as interest rates reach levels that slow growth, and real-time data show slowdowns in rents and wages, Fed officials "need to be looking through the front windshield, not the back, and be more careful with their rate increases.”
Other central banks have already started pulling back. The Bank of Canada raised rates by only a half-point last week even though a three-quarter-point hike was expected. The European Central Bank raised its key rate by 0.75 percentage point but signaled that its increases could cool.
These moves “contributed to expectations that a dovish pivot is coming for all global central banks,” said economists at TD Ameritrade.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rickie Fowler was flamboyant as ever Friday in the U.S. Open, not so much with his attire as a golf game so wildly entertaining that he made only four pars in his 2-under 68 that gave him a share of the 36-hole record and a one-shot lead going into the weekend.
Los Angeles Country Club tried to fight back after a record opening day of low scores, and help arrived in the form of a blazing sun and just enough wind to keep the toughest test in golf from turning into a festival of birdies.
Fowler still did his part, making birdies on half of the holes he has played over two rounds. What mattered was leading a major at the halfway point for the first time, and growing confidence that his three-year slump is well behind him.
He was at 10-under 130, tying the U.S. Open record set by Martin Kaymer in 2014 at Pinehurst No. 2. Fowler led by one shot over Wyndham Clark (67), with Rory McIlroy (67) and Xander Schauffele (70) two shots behind.
“Yes, I’m in the lead, but we’re only halfway there,” Fowler said. “Being in the lead is nice, but it really means nothing right now. I’m looking forward to continuing to challenge myself and go out there and try and execute the best I can.”
He started with three straight birdies, all of them from about 6 feet. The two bogeys he made on the front nine were followed by birdies. He started the back nine with two bogeys, only to answer with a 25-foot birdie putt. Back and forth it went, all round, until he finished with a beauty of an approach to 8 feet on the 17th, the hardest hole of the round.
Schauffele, who matched Fowler’s record-breaking 62 on Thursday, had a wild ride of his own.
He was tied for the lead at one point early on the back nine, approaching a few holes that could yield birdies. They produced bogeys instead, both times with a wedge in hand on the par-5 14th and the 115-yard 15th hole.
He birdied the final two holes to stay very much in the game.
“Just leaking some oil,” Schauffele said. “I bogeyed two holes I was supposed to have good birdie looks on. But I’m happy with how I finished.”
Clark, who last month broke through with his first PGA Tour title against an elite field at Quail Hollow, started strong with a bold flop shot that set up a birdie and a 40-foot birdie putt on the back nine, and then he held it together over his final nine holes.
Closing fast was McIlroy, without a major in nine years, overcoming a rugged start with four birdies on his last five holes. He was at 132, the sixth time he has been 8 under or lower going into the weekend at a major. He won three of those previous five times.
“I felt like coming into this week that was going to be a key for me if I could put the ball in play. You can play from there and create some scoring opportunities,” McIlroy said. “That’s really my game plan over the next couple days. Put the ball in play off the tee, and I think I’ll be just fine from there.”
Not to be overlooked was Dustin Johnson, the two-time major champion who made a quadruple-bogey 8 on his second hole with six bad shots, one penalty and a tap-in. The man with golf’s shortest memory rebounded quickly and still shot 70, leaving him four shots behind and very much in the mix going into a weekend.
The North course wasn’t tricky — USGA setup man John Bodenhamer said it would not be as “stupid hard” as it could be — and instead relied on maximum length. That included a pair of par 3s nearly reaching 300 yards.
“I think there was maybe five or six tees that were put back, and then not only that, a lot of times they had a back tee, they had a back pin,” Clark said. “So it was playing pretty long.”
Clark’s two big moments came on the par-5 14th that played 605 yards with a front right pin tucked behind a massive bunker complex. He was all the way to the left in the sticky, gnarly collar of another bunker and sent his shot skyward, over a corner of the sand to the tiny section of green, and then made a 12-footer for birdie.
The other was on the 16th from 40 feet, a putt he misread in the practice round and got right with a scorecard in hand.
McIlroy didn’t envision such low scoring, including his opening 65, which he attributed to cloud cover, condensation and receptive greens.
“The conditions now, it’s a little brighter, sunnier, a little bit of breeze. It’s got the potential to get a little firmer and faster over the next couple days, which will make the scores go up a little bit,” McIlroy said. “We’ll see what it’s like at the end of the week.
“Yes, the course has played maybe a little easier than everyone thought it would, but wouldn’t be surprised on Saturday, Sunday to see it bite back,” McIlroy said. “It should be tough. It should be just as much of a mental grind out there as a physical one.”
McIlroy had his share of mistakes on the back nine with errant shots off the tee, including the 297-yard 11th hole, the second-longest par 3 for a U.S. Open. But he had a 30 on the front nine for the second straight day by taking advantage of the scoring holes and ending his round with a tee shot on the par-3 ninth to 3 feet.
Harris English also shot 30 on the front nine to finish off his 66, leaving him at 7-under 133.
“They can get them as firm and fast as they want and put those pins in some tough spots. It’s going to be fun,” English said. “The rough is still going to be penal. I think everybody is going to get the U.S. Open they’ve been wanting to see.”
On an opening day that featured two 62s (Fowler and Schauffele), the low round belonged to Min Woo Lee, whose 65 left him tied with Johnson at 6-under 134.
Scottie Scheffler was among those five behind.
All of them are chasing Fowler, who is thrilled to be back in this position again. The real test starts Saturday, for Fowler and the rest of the field wondering when a typical U.S. Open will finally arrive.
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For Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the problem with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is that it’s a market that sends the wrong signals to the wrong people.
He wants out.
And so Youngkin and Democratic legislators, along with environmentalists across the state, are drawing battle lines over the 11-state carbon market, in which power companies can buy or sell carbon dioxide credits. They can be buyers, if their CO2 emissions exceed a cap, or sellers, if they want to get some extra money for emitting less of the greenhouse gas than their cap.
Many Democratic lawmakers say a state law calls for Virginia's participation in RGGI and that only the legislature can remove Virginia from the compact. Youngkin says that law allowed Virginia to join RGGI, but did not mandate Virginia's participation.
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The idea behind RGGI is that the price of those credits, along with the cost of buying allowances authorizing utilities to emit a limited amount of CO2, will affect decisions about using coal, oil and natural gas to spin the generators that make electricity - and emit CO2.
In the end, RGGI expects its market will move utilities toward generating power with sources that don't emit CO2.
But Youngkin, whose time at the multi-billion-dollar Carlyle Group saw the firm move into carbon-reducing investments in a major way, doesn't buy that argument.
“Let’s not have a hidden tax ... that was miss-sold and misrepresented as some sort of market-based incentive, because RGGI is not a market-based incentive,” Youngkin said in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“In this case, the utility can decide but they don’t have to worry about it because they can pass it right on to the consumer and the consumer Has. No. Choice,” he said.
“They have to buy power from the monopoly utility.”
That was shaping up to a fairly big bill.
The State Corporation Commission last year agreed with Dominion’s view that it would spend some $168 million to buy RGGI credits and that in order to cover that cost the bill for a typical residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours a month should rise by $2.39.
“We must recognize that utilities in this case are monopolies ... were told they had to buy these allowances and all they do is 100 percent pass 'em on to the consumer, who has no say in this,” Youngkin said.
But Dominion this year asked, and the SCC agreed, to suspend the surcharge, noting that Virginia was on track to pull out of RGGI. Dominion said it could cover sums it had previously spent through base rates.
Youngkin said he won’t renew Virginia’s contract with RGGI when it expires in December 2023.
Meanwhile, he wants the state Air Pollution Control Board to repeal 2020 amendments to its C02 trading regulations requiring utilities to buy CO2 allowances – that is, RGGI authorization to emit a limited amount of the greenhouse gas.
The board can do that because it is part of the executive branch that the governor leads, he said.
General Assembly Democrats beg to differ. In a letter to the air board last week, 61 of them said the agency’s powers are limited because the General Assembly created the air board.
“You only have the powers that the General Assembly grants you,” the letter said.
The Democrats’ letter also cites the law that enables participation in RGGI — the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act — adding, “it is clear our intent for Virginia to participate in RGGI.”
RGGI has generated $378 million to support low-income energy efficiency programs and flood protection in Virginia, the Democrats said.
Youngkin sees it differently:
“The bill that was passed ... said that you could - it allowed you to go put this in place. It never mandated it," Youngkin said. "It allowed it, it never mandated it."
The bill says the director of the air board “is hereby authorized” to run the program to sell allowances that can be used in RGGI’s trading system or something similar. It says the director “shall seek to sell 100 percent of all allowances” unless doing so would mean a net loss of benefit to consumers.
Youngkin said he reads that as allowing the air board to do away with the requirement that utilities buy the allowances, “and then we get to - as a government, the General Assembly - to work and if we want to provide funding for flood resiliency, then let’s go provide funding for flood resiliency.
"Let’s not have a hidden tax that was, that was miss-sold and misrepresented.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chris Taylor scored on a bases-loaded walk in the 12th inning, Max Muncy homered twice to move back into the major-league lead, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-8 on Monday night for their sixth straight win.
Trayce Thompson drew a walk on a full count with the bases loaded and two outs off Jorge López (1-1) to give Los Angeles its third walk-off victory this season.
Thompson said his approach was the same as any other at-bat, despite the increased stakes.
“I’m not looking to just take a pitch right there. If he throws a pitch right down the middle, and I am not aggressive, it’s tough to sleep at night,” Thompson said. “You have to take your two-strike approach and try to battle anything close. If it’s not there. it’s not there.”
Will Smith also went deep as the Dodgers led 6-3 thru seven innings before the game saw three ties and three lead changes in the final five innings.
Minnesota’s Trevor Larnach hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning. Jorge Polanco had three hits, including a solo shot. Christian Vázquez also had three hits for the AL Central-leading Twins, who have dropped 11 straight to the Dodgers.
Phil Bickford (1-1) picked up the win for the Dodgers, allowing one run in three innings. The right-hander allowed the first three batters he faced in the 10th inning to reach base, including a bases-loaded walk to Vázquez in the 10th. But the right-hander retired nine of the last 11 batters he faced, including four strikeouts.
“When I first went out there I didn’t have the pitches I wanted to make and found a spot to snap out of it and get in the moment. All that was in the past and I moved forward,” Bickford said.
It is the first time in four major-league seasons that Bickford has gone longer than two innings in a game, and the 48 pitches are a career high.
“I think he realized that he was the last man standing, and it was his game. He was not looking for any exits,” manager Dave Roberts said of Bickford.
Minnesota trailed 6-3 in the eighth before Larnach tied it on a 2-2 fastball from Yency Almonte to right-center.
David Peralta had an RBI in the bottom of the eighth to put the Dodgers back on top at 7-6, but the Twins answered in the ninth to knot it again and send it to extra innings. Correa drew a leadoff walk and scored on Byron Buxton’s double into the left-center gap.
Vázquez’s walk in the 10th gave Minnesota its first lead of the game at 8-7. It was short lived as J.D. Martinez had a one-out RBI base hit in the bottom of the inning.
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli lamented his team not being able to add to their lead with no outs in the 10th.
“We were exactly where we want to be, and we’ve got to find ways in all those at-bats to push a run across,” he said. “He was on the ropes a little bit with his strike-throwing. We’ve got to find ways to push another run across.”
BALDELLI NOT HAPPY
Baldelli said he thought Peralta’s double in the eighth was a foul ball. However, it could not be challenged.
“It’s a big reason why we lost the game because they were awarded a double on a ball that was not close to being fair,” Baldelli said.
MUNCY BACK ON TOP
Muncy — who came into the game mired in a 2-for-28 slump after hitting a walk-off grand slam in the ninth inning against Philadelphia on May 3 — has 14 homers after his fourth multi-homer game this season and the 13th of his career.
The Dodgers’ third baseman also had three hits and three RBIs.
“I’ve definitely been grinding the past couple weeks. So just to get a couple results it definitely felt good,” Muncy said.
Muncy went deep for the first time in nine games with a solo shot into the right-field stands off Twins’ starter Pablo López. The first-pitch drive came immediately after Smith’s two-run homer to center to give Los Angeles the lead.
On his next at-bat, Muncy hit a two-run shot on a changeup from López that just got over the wall in center to extend the Dodgers’ lead to 5-1.
FOR STARTERS
Dodgers right-hander Noah Syndergaard went only four innings after allowing two runs and four hits with five strikeouts.
Syndergaard went only one inning in his last start on May 9 at Milwaukee after a cut on the index finger of his pitching hand opened up. He is 1-3 with a 5.94 ERA in eight starts. He signed a one-year, $13 million contract in December.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: RHP Walker Buehler (Tommy John surgery) will throw a bullpen session at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday. He threw a 10-pitch bullpen last week in Arizona and reached 89 miles per hour at one point. Buehler underwent surgery on Aug. 23.
UP NEXT
Twins: RHP Bailey Ober (2-0, 1.85 ERA) is 1-0 in four previous interleague starts.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (6-2, 2.36 ERA) pitched a perfect game through seven innings and struck out 13 the last time he faced Minnesota on April 13, 2022.
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HARRISONBURG, Va., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the Memorial Day holiday kicks off the summer vacation season, James Madison University professor Shelley Whitmeyer is hoping beachgoers will help collect data for an important coastal science project.
All that's required to participate in "SandSnap" is taking a photo of a coin in the sand with a cellphone and uploading it to a website.
A computer using a machine-learning algorithm does the rest, giving scientists information on the various sizes of sand grains.
Whitmeyer has been assisting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with the project the past several years, promoting the project to Girl Scout troops and others. This week, a sign was placed on the boardwalk at Fire Island National Seashore, a barrier island off Long Island, New York, inviting the public to participate. The sign will be there for the next five years, but photos can be taken on any beach around the world.
When Whitmeyer works with groups, she usually gives some instructions on how to take the photos. Now it's time to see how the public at Fire Island does going off instructions on the sign.
"I have a tendency to butt in too much," she quipped.
So how can photos of sand help scientists?
Coastlines change rapidly. Normal tides, storms with high winds and people on the beach all move sand around. SandSnap is taking a look at how sand moves. The information ultimately could help coastal decision-makers better manage areas prone to erosion.
Inviting the public to participate has some important benefits. Scientists can get more data faster than if they have to collect it all themselves and it promotes trust in science, Whitmeyer said.
"We do know there is distrust of science in the general community and I think part of that is, people think that science is a set of facts and therefore if they're true, they should never change. That's not really what science is. Science is more about a process where we keep collecting data and we keep revising what we know because we learn new things. If people understand the process better, I think they might trust the science a bit more."
More information about SandSnap can be found on the SandSnap website.
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Company reports 3% growth across both Food and Animal Safety segments; 6% increase with neutral currency
Combination with 3M's Food Safety business closed on September 1; integration underway
LANSING, Mich., Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neogen Corporation (NASDAQ: NEOG) announced today the results of the first quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, which ended August 31. Revenues for the first quarter were $132,349,000, compared to $128,305,000 in the prior year, an increase of 3%. Excluding unfavorable currency comparisons to the prior year, revenues increased 6% in the first quarter. On an organic basis, sales increased 4% with a neutral currency comparison.
The first quarter marked the 121st of the past 127 quarters that Neogen has reported revenue increases compared to the same quarter in the prior year.
"I'm proud of the Neogen team for delivering growth over the prior year in a challenging environment which included inflationary pressure, softening market conditions, and negative currency comparisons," said John Adent, Neogen's President and Chief Executive Officer. "In advance of the close of the 3M Food Safety transaction on September 1, the Neogen team showed remarkable dedication to integration planning for a business with $370 million in annual revenues while staying focused on our existing customers. We welcome our more than 400 new Neogen colleagues, and look forward to our shared future success as an innovative leader in food security."
Net income for the first quarter was $5,209,000, or $0.05 per share, adversely impacted by $13.7 million of professional fees and other deal-related expenses incurred in connection with Neogen's combination with 3M's Food Safety business, which closed on September 1, 2022. Excluding the 3M Food Safety deal-related costs, net income for the quarter would have been $15,891,000, or $0.15 per share, compared to the prior year's $17,077,000, or $0.16 per share.
Gross margins were 47.0% of sales in the first quarter of the fiscal year, compared to 46.8% in the prior year. The 20 basis point improvement is the result of a favorable product mix shift in the Animal Safety segment and price increases implemented to offset rising costs.
Excluding the 3M Food Safety deal-related costs, operating expenses rose by 11% in the first quarter, primarily due to $2.1 million of incremental costs from acquisitions completed in the last year, increased spending on customer-facing activities, and compensation. Adjusted operating income for the first quarter was $19,793,000, or 15% of sales, compared to $21,745,000, or 16.9% of sales in the first quarter of the company's 2022 fiscal year. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter was $27.0 million, compared to $28.9 million in the prior year, a decrease of 6%.
"During the first quarter of our 2023 fiscal year, we continued to be faced with challenging business conditions, both in terms of a slowing economy, inflationary raw material cost increases, and ongoing supply chain issues. Our results were also adversely impacted by currency headwinds, primarily in Europe, which resulted in $3.9 million of lower revenues in the first quarter on a comparative basis," said Steve Quinlan, Neogen's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. "Despite this, we continued to invest in the company, purchasing a small distributor in Thailand, ceremonially breaking ground on our new manufacturing facility in Lansing, and nearing completion on a distribution facility in Kentucky."
Revenues for Neogen's Food Safety segment were $64,643,000 in the first quarter, an increase of 3% compared to $62,722,000 in the prior year's first quarter; adjusting for the adverse currency impact, growth was 9%. This increase was led by a 25% increase in aflatoxin test kits, primarily from an aflatoxin outbreak in Brazil and new business in Mexico and Central America. Sales of food quality and nutritional analysis products increased by 9% over the prior year, as the products continued to be integrated into U.S. channels. This growth was offset by a significant decrease in Soleris equipment sales due to a difficult comparison to strong prior year placements, and a 9% decline across the company's allergen testing portfolio due to softening market conditions and supply disruptions for certain products.
The company's Soleris® product line recorded a 6% increase in consumables over the prior year, and the ANSR® pathogen detection product line grew 13% from new equipment placements and higher test kit sales. The recently introduced Neogen Analytics platform continued to make strong inroads in the market.
Revenues for the company's Animal Safety segment were $67,706,000 in the first quarter of the fiscal year, an increase of 3%, compared to $65,583,000 in the prior year's first quarter; the increase was 4% on a neutral currency basis. Sales of animal care products, including supplements, vitamin injectables, and companion animal parasiticides, increased 21% over the prior year, enhanced by the September 2021 acquisition of CAPInnoVet. This growth was also driven by increases across the company's biosecurity portfolio, including a 14% increase in insect control products and a 7% increase in cleaners and disinfectants over the same period in the prior year.
A 12% decrease in sales of rodent control products offset some of this growth, the result of diminished rodent pressure in the U.S. The company also recorded a 6% decrease in sales of veterinary instruments over the same period a year ago, as this category had increased by a strong 18% in the first quarter a year ago.
Neogen's genomics business reported through the Animal Safety segment recorded a 7% increase in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago, with sales from the company's December 2021 acquisition of Genetic Veterinary Sciences partially offset by lower sample volumes in the porcine market and a difficult prior-year comparison due to a large research project.
The company reported an increase of 2% in its international revenues in the first quarter compared to the prior fiscal year; excluding the currency headwinds, the increase was 10%. International revenues represented 39.1% of overall sales, compared to 39.4% in the prior year.
Revenues at the company's UK operations increased 5% over the prior fiscal year (19% in pounds), led by a 31% increase in sales of cleaners and disinfectants, aided by the acquisition of Delf (UK) Ltd. in December 2021. In Brazil, revenues increased 13% (14% in Brazilian reals), driven by strong sales of the company's mycotoxin test kits, including aflatoxin and deoxynivalenol (DON), as well as increases in veterinary instruments and genomics testing. Revenues at Neogen's Latin America operations rose 19% (20% in Mexican pesos), led by increases across the company's diagnostic testing portfolio and culture media, as well as higher sales of rodent control products and cleaners and disinfectants.
Revenues at Neogen's Australasia operations decreased by 8% (-2% in local currency), as a large culture media order in the prior year was only partially offset by bovine genomic service increases. Revenues at Neogen's operations in China were down 18% (-14% in Chinese yuan) as the country's COVID-19-related lockdowns continued to negatively impact sales in the first quarter of the fiscal year.
Neogen Corporation develops and markets comprehensive solutions dedicated to food and animal safety, operating with the intention to "Every day, protect the people and animals we care about." The company's Food Safety segment markets dehydrated culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases, and sanitation concerns. Neogen's Animal Safety segment is a leader in the development of genomic solutions along with the manufacturing and distribution of a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, veterinary instruments, wound care, and disinfectants, as well as rodent and insect control solutions.
Certain portions of this news release that do not relate to historical financial information constitute forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Actual future results and trends may differ materially from historical results or those expected depending on a variety of factors listed in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the company's most recently filed Form 10-K.
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, June 1, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
630 AM CDT Wed Jun 1 2022
...Strong thunderstorms will impact portions of Carson, southeastern
Hutchinson, western Gray and southwestern Roberts Counties through
715 AM CDT...
At 630 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from 9 miles north of Pampa to 4 miles southwest of
Panhandle. Movement was east at 20 mph.
HAZARD...Nickel size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.
Locations impacted include...
Pampa, Panhandle, White Deer, Lefors, Skellytown, Kingsmill and
Codman.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration calls it a “student loan safety net.” Opponents call it a backdoor attempt to make college free. And it could be the next battleground in the legal fight over student loan relief.
Starting this summer, millions of Americans with student loans will be able to enroll in a new repayment plan that offers some of the most lenient terms ever. Interest won’t pile up as long as borrowers make regular payments. Millions of people will have monthly payments reduced to $0. And in as little as 10 years, any remaining debt will be canceled.
It’s known as the SAVE Plan, and although it was announced last year, it has mostly been overshadowed by President Joe Biden’s proposal for mass student loan cancellation. But now, after the Supreme Court struck down Biden’s forgiveness plan, the repayment option is taking center stage.
Since the ruling Biden has proposed an alternate approach to cancel debt and also shifted attention to the lesser-known initiative, calling it “the most affordable repayment plan ever.” The typical borrower who enrolls in the plan will save $1,000 a month, he said.
Republicans have fought against the plan, saying it oversteps the president’s authority. Sen. Bill Cassidy, the ranking Republican on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, called it “deeply unfair” to the 87% of Americans who don’t have student loans.
The Congressional Budget Office previously estimated over the next decade the plan would cost $230 billion, which would be even higher now that the forgiveness plan has been struck down. Estimates from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania put the cost at up to $361 billion.
Emboldened by the Supreme Court’s decision on cancellation, some opponents say it’s a matter of time before the repayment plan also faces a legal challenge.
Here’s what to know about the SAVE Plan:
WHAT IS AN INCOME-DRIVEN REPAYMENT PLAN?
The U.S. Education Department offers several plans for repaying federal student loans. Under the standard plan, borrowers are charged a fixed monthly amount that ensures all their debt will be repaid after 10 years. But if borrowers have difficulty paying that amount, they can enroll in one of four plans that offer lower monthly payments based on income and family size. Those are known as income-driven repayment plans.
Income-driven options have been offered for years and generally cap monthly payments at 10% of a borrower’s discretionary income. If a borrower’s earnings are low enough, their bill is reduced to $0. And after 20 or 25 years, any remaining debt gets erased.
HOW IS BIDEN’S PLAN DIFFERENT?
As part of his debt relief plan announced last year, Biden said his Education Department would create a new income-driven repayment plan that lowers payments even further. It became known as the SAVE Plan, and it’s generally intended to replace existing income-driven plans.
Borrowers will be able to apply later this summer, but some of the changes will be phased in over time.
Right away, more people will be eligible for $0 payments. The new plan won’t require borrowers to make payments if they earn less than 225% of the federal poverty line — $32,800 a year for a single person. The cutoff for current plans, by contrast, is 150% of the poverty line, or $22,000 a year for a single person.
Another immediate change aims to prevent interest from snowballing.
As long as borrowers make their monthly payments, their overall balance won’t increase. Once they cover their adjusted monthly payment — even if it’s $0 — any remaining interest will be waived.
Other major changes will take effect in July 2024.
Most notably, payments on undergraduate loans will be capped at 5% of discretionary income, down from 10% now. Those with graduate and undergraduate loans will pay between 5% and 10%, depending on their original loan balance. For millions of Americans, monthly payments could be reduced by half.
Next July will also bring a quicker road to loan forgiveness. Starting then, borrowers with initial balances of $12,000 or less will get the remainder of their loans canceled after 10 years of payments. For each $1,000 borrowed beyond that, the cancellation will come after an additional year of payments.
For example, a borrower with an original balance of $14,000 would get all remaining debt cleared after 12 years. Payments made before 2024 will count toward forgiveness.HOW DO I APPLY?
The Education Department says it will notify borrowers when the new application process launches this summer. Those enrolled in an existing plan known as REPAYE will automatically be moved into the SAVE plan. Borrowers will also be able to sign up by contacting their loan servicers directly.
It will be available to all borrowers in the Direct Loan Program who are in good standing on their loans
.WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS?
Supporters say Biden’s plan will simplify repayment options and offer relief to millions of borrowers. The Biden administration has argued that ballooning student debt puts college out of reach for too many Americans and holds borrowers back financially.
Opponents call it an unfair perk for those who don’t need it, saying it passes a heavy cost onto taxpayers who already repaid student loans or didn’t go to college. Some worry that it will give colleges incentive to raise tuition prices higher since they know many students will get their loans canceled later.
Voices across the political spectrum have said it amounts to a form of free college. Biden campaigned on a promise to make community college free, but it failed to gain support from Congress. Critics say the new plan is an attempt to do something similar without Congress’ approval.
IS IT LEGAL?
That depends on who you ask, but the question hasn’t been taken up by a federal court.
Instead of creating a new payment plan from scratch, the Biden administration proposed changes to an existing plan. It cemented those changes by going through a negotiated rulemaking process that allows the Education Department to develop federal regulations without Congress.
It’s a process that’s commonly used by administrations from both political parties. But critics question whether the new plan goes further than the law allows.
More than 60 Republicans lawmakers urged Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to withdraw the plan in February, calling it “reckless, fiscally irresponsible, and blatantly illegal.”
Supporters argue that the Obama administration similarly used its authority to create a repayment plan that was more generous than any others at the time.
The Biden administration formally finalized the rule this month. Conservatives believe it’s vulnerable to a legal challenge, and some say it’s just a matter of finding a plaintiff with the legal right — or standing — to sue.
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I’m not surprised that Fox News settled the Dominion defamation lawsuit, though like everyone else I’m taken aback by the amount. My suspicion is that the decision to drop the defense stemmed less from a fear of the jury verdict — which might have been much lower — than from the reputational toll a trial would have caused. And if there’s a lesson here, it’s not so much about Fox News as such but about the growing costs of pandering to your audience.
If you’re reading this column, you know the background. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s defeat in his 2020 re-election bid, many of his supporters insisted that there’d been fraud at the polls. No big deal. Allegations of fraud are as old as America, and had the matter been left in the realm of vague conspiracy charges, there would have been no litigation.
Instead, a number of those in Trump’s inner circle decided that the voting machines had somehow been tampered with, and announced that Dominion was the villain. Various Fox News programs repeatedly aired the claims. Since the allegations were utterly baseless, and the network refused to stop stoking them, Dominion sued.
Fox News tried and failed to get the case dismissed. Once the judge ruled that the allegations were false as a matter of law and defamatory per se, everyone expected a settlement. Yet I cannot help wondering whether, had the case gone to trial, Fox might have won on the merits.
Wait, what?
I’m serious. No, I’m not saying Fox News would definitely have won. But there was a fighting chance. Why? Because the bar for proving defamation is high, and requires showing that one’s defamer acted with “actual malice.” And in the same ruling, the trial court declined to find that in airing the false and silly charges, Fox acted with actual malice. That question, wrote the judge, was better left to a jury.
Yes, we’ve all seen the many disturbing text messages showing that lots of people at the network secretly despised Trump, thought his allegations of fraud were baseless, and fretted about losing viewers if they debunked his claims. But there’s no guarantee that Dominion would have been able to show a clear line between those beliefs and executives’ decisions about who got air time. Even if a jury wasn’t fully convinced by Fox’s defense, the broadcaster might have wound up paying only nominal damages.
So why settle? Well, at trial anything can happen. More important, even if Fox News thought it had a shot at winning, the price of that victory would’ve been enormous. Imagine a long line of executives, producers and hosts trooping to the witness stand to be examined by the plaintiffs about what they knew and when they knew it. Under oath.
Even for Fox News, whose annual revenue is in excess of $14 billion, $787 million isn’t pocket change. But the company plainly decided it’s worth the money to avoid gavel-to-gavel coverage of how the sausage is made.
I’m not claiming that Fox News is unique. When defamation suits against deep-pocketed defendants survive motions to dismiss, they’re almost always settled. To go to trial always risks too much reputational damage.
So why am I worried?
Because Fox was only the most egregious offender in an age when institutions of all kinds tend to swiftly choose sides without bothering to gather much evidence. And that rush to defamatory judgment is hardly just the province of those who lean rightward. Look at Oberlin College’s payment of $36 million to Gibson’s Bakery after a dean accused the local business of racism. Or Duke University’s payment of a reported $60 million to three lacrosse players falsely accused of rape. Or for that matter, the multiple news outlets that paid Nicholas Sandmann, a pro-life student demonstrator, an array of undisclosed sums. All of this was due to defamation that resulted from taking sides before getting the facts.
It’s not being wrong that leads to these outcomes. Everybody’s wrong sometimes, and most of us are wrong a lot. What leads to these huge settlements is the great hurry to be heard, to take a position, to prove to whoever’s out there listening that you’re on their side, even if you have to trample somebody’s reputation along the way. If something sets Fox apart, it’s that it persisted in airing the falsehood its audience wanted to hear for so long.
Fox News misbehaved badly, and I’m glad Dominion is getting paid. But as to whether the enormous settlement will put a brake on our growing tendency to rush to repeat whatever our particular audience wants to hear — whether or not it’s actually true — color me skeptical.
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Thousands stream to National Mall to demand gun law changes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of people streamed to the National Mall for the highest-profile of countrywide demonstrations Saturday marking a renewed push for gun control after recent mass shootings from Uvalde, Texas, to Buffalo, New York, that activists say should compel Congress to act.
Organizers hoped the second March for Our Lives rally would draw as many as 50,000 people to the Washington Monument. While that would be far less than the original 2018 march that filled downtown Washington with more than 200,000 people, they decided to focus this time on smaller marches at an estimated 300 locations.
Despite rain in the nation’s capital, scores turned out on the monument grounds well before the rally began, holding up signs, including one that said “Children aren’t replaceable, senators are. Vote.” A middle school-age girl carried a sign that said, “I want to feel safe at school.”
“We want to make sure that this work is happening across the country,” said Daud Mumin, co-chairman of the march’s board of directors and a recent graduate of Westminster College in Salt Lake City. “This work is not just about D.C., it’s not just about senators.”
The first march was spurred by the Feb. 14, 2018, killings of 14 students and three staff members by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. That massacre sparked the creation of the youth-led March For Our Lives movement, which successfully pressured the Republican-dominated Florida state government to enact sweeping gun control reforms.
The Parkland students then took aim at gun laws in other states and nationally, launching March for Our Lives and holding the big rally in Washington on March 24, 2018.
The group did not match the Florida results at the national level, but has persisted in advocating for gun restrictions since then, as well as participating in voter registration drives.
Now, with another string of mass shootings bringing gun control back into the national conversation, organizers of this weekend’s events say the time is right to renew their push for a national overhaul.
“Right now we are angry,” said Mariah Cooley, a March For Our Lives board member and a senior at Washington’s Howard University. “This will be a demonstration to show that us as Americans, we’re not stopping anytime soon until Congress does their jobs. And if not, we’ll be voting them out.”
The protest comes at a time of renewed political activity on guns and a crucial moment for possible action in Congress.
Survivors of mass shootings and other incidents of gun violence have lobbied legislators and testified on Capitol Hill this week. Among them was Miah Cerrillo, an 11-year-old girl who survived the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. She described for lawmakers how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot.
On Tuesday, actor Matthew McConaughey appeared in the White House briefing room to press for gun legislation and made highly personal remarks about the violence in his hometown of Uvalde.
The House has passed bills that would raise the age limit to buy semi-automatic weapons and establish federal “red flag” laws. But such initiatives have traditionally stalled or been heavily watered down in the Senate. Democratic and Republican senators had hoped to reach agreement this week on a framework for addressing the issue and talked Friday, but they had not announced an accord.
Mumin said the goal is to send a message to lawmakers that public opinion on gun control is shifting under their feet. “If they’re not on our side, there are going to be consequences — voting them out of office and making their lives a living hell when they’re in office,” he said.
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In phishing tests conducted on business emails, more than half of the subject lines clicked imitated Human Resources communications.
TAMPA BAY, Fla., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has released the most frequently clicked phishing methods, including the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests. Half of those that were clicked on had subject lines related to Human Resources, including vacation policy updates, dress code changes, and upcoming performance reviews. The other top category was IT requests, including password verifications needed immediately. Test results are available on KnowBe4's website.
By now most people know that if they receive a text message confirming an $1800 order they never placed, or telling them they've just won a new grill, they shouldn't click on it. But what if it's from their HR Department about an upcoming performance review? Or, what if the attachment is a draft of a Strategic Plan that mentions their name?
Business phishing emails are particularly effective because, left unanswered, they could potentially affect the user's daily work, enticing employees to react quickly before thinking logically about the email's legitimacy. The email source may be hidden by a spoofed domain, making it even easier to miss, and may even have the company name and logo (sometimes even the employee's name) in the email body. Most include a phishing hyperlink in the email or a supposed PDF attachment.
"We already know that more than 80% of company data breaches globally come from human error," said Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4's CEO. "New-school security awareness training your staff is one of the least costly and most effective methods to thwart social engineering attacks. Training gives employees the ability to rapidly recognize a suspicious email, even if it appears to come from an internal source, causing them to pause before clicking. That moment where they stop and question the email is a critical and often overlooked element of security culture that could significantly reduce your risk surface."
To download a copy of the KnowBe4 Phishing Infographic, visit KnowBe4.
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is used by more than 50,000 organizations around the globe. Founded by IT and data security specialist Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 helps organizations address the human element of security by raising awareness about ransomware, CEO fraud and other social engineering tactics through a new-school approach to awareness training on security. Kevin Mitnick, an internationally recognized cybersecurity specialist and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, helped design the KnowBe4 training based on his well-documented social engineering tactics. Tens of thousands of organizations rely on KnowBe4 to mobilize their end users as their last line of defense.
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Which pink blush dress is best?
A pink blush dress is an excellent choice because pink is a subtle hue that exudes femininity and sophistication. This benefit is heightened when you add a flattering silhouette versatile enough to become your go-to pick for any occasion. If you are looking for the perfect pink blush dress, with an ultra-feminine flair, the Cosonsen Deep V-Neck Dress is the top choice.
What to know before you buy a pink blush dress
Hue
Blush is a muted, neutral shade of medium pink. For reference, think of Jennifer Grey’s light pink “Dirty Dancing” finale dress rather than Reese Witherspoon’s bright bubblegum hues in “Legally Blonde.”
Neckline
The best neckline for your pink blush dress depends on the look you’re trying to achieve, your body’s shape and your comfort zone. Here are five popular necklines with descriptions of what they do for your figure:
- V-neck: Makes a V at the center of your chest to elongate the neck and draw eyes to the bustline.
- Scoop neck: Rounds at the chest to emphasize the neck and collarbone.
- Crew neck: Rounds at the neck to shorten the neck and fill out the chest.
- Square neck: Squares at the bust with a line straight across the chest to elongate the neck and narrow the shoulders.
- Sweetheart neck: Forms a heart shape at the top of the chest to draw attention to the bustline.
Silhouette
When deciding on the best silhouette for your pink blush dress, consider the style you’re going for and what parts of your body you want to accentuate. These are five of the most popular styles with their respective fit descriptions:
- A-line: Hugs the bustline, pulls in at the waist and flares out at the hip to create an hourglass shape.
- Empire waist: Commonly seen on maxi dresses, it hugs the bust and flares out at the bottom bra line to create a long, lean look.
- Pencil: Often seen on T-shirt dresses, it skims the body with a straight, narrow fit for a slightly boxy but stylish and comfortable look.
- Sheath: Hugs the entire body to show off your curves.
- Trumpet: Hugs your body to the knee and flares out at the bottom to highlight your shape and add a touch of drama.
What to look for in a quality pink blush dress
Personalized details
The best pink blush dresses boast pieces that let you show off your sense of style. Some added details you might look for are floral stitching, cute ruffles, textured fabrics, flowy chiffon or ultra-slimming wrap designs.
Versatility
The ideal go-to dress is versatile enough to take you from one event to another with a few choice accessory changes. For example, fantastic work-to-play dresses often boast a professional hemline, covered bust and sexy silhouette. This is a perfect work outfit when paired with kitten heels and a cardigan or blazer. Then it transforms into the perfect after-work ensemble when you ditch the covering and pop on high heels.
Easy care instructions
Selecting a pink blush dress in a fine fabric that requires dry cleaning can be very high maintenance. Instead, consider a high-quality but machine-washable alternative that mimics fine textiles, such as chiffon or silk. You will wear it more often, and your price per wear will be a lot lower.
How much you can expect to spend on a pink blush dress
Depending on the brand, design and material you select, you will typically spend $25-$200.
Pink blush dress FAQ
What is the most universally flattering fit?
A. An A-line shape that fits at the waist and flares at the hip flatters most bodies.
What color shoes go best with a pink blush dress?
A. While there are no rules here, some of the most complementary shoe colors are nude, gold, rose gold and gray.
What’s the best pink blush dress to buy?
Top pink blush dress
What you need to know: This dress’s deep V-neck, tie waist and flared hem give it a very flattering fit.
What you’ll love: This faux wrap dress boasts a chiffon-like fabric and ruffles at the hem. You can select from long or short sleeves in sizes XS-2XL, and it should hit you on your mid-thigh. It is a great choice for any occasion, day or night.
What you should consider: Its hemline ranges from 34.3-36.2 inches long, which might be short for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top pink blush dress for the money
Sonoma Goods For Life Puckered Tiered Dress
What you need to know: This is the perfect casual dress you can transform with the right accessories.
What you’ll love: Its puckered texture, floral design at the neckline and ruffled edges add a feminine flair to this adorable sleeveless dress. It features a scooped neck with a hem that lands just above the knee, and it comes in sizes SM-2XL.
What you should consider: Its puckered design might look a little too wrinkled for some.
Where to buy: Sold by Kohl’s
Worth checking out
DressTells Fit Flare Midi Dress
What you need to know: It boasts a flattering A-line shape with a hemline that lands just below the knee, a cap sleeve and a high scooped neckline. It also is available with a three-quarter-length sleeve.
What you’ll love: This is a wardrobe staple you can wear to work or special events. It’s 94% nylon, 6% spandex and features a zipper closure for a contoured but comfortable fit. It comes in sizes XS-3XL with easy care instructions.
What you should consider: Some reviewers claim it runs small.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Through Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023
- Horoscope for Saturday, 1/21/23 by Christopher Renstrom
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- 49ers will be America's Team if they destroy evil Cowboys
- Mudslide cuts off tiny Santa Cruz town from neighbors
- Huge blow to downtown SF as tech giant abandons skyscraper
- Large wave drags San Francisco State student away from shore
- Where a James Beard Award-winner goes for SF dim sum
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- Revelers party on hidden island exposed by king tides
- Bay Area tech layoffs in 2023 are already outpacing 2022's worst
- 'Amazing': Hot chicken shop loved by Drake opens in Oakland
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst troubling macroeconomic trends and talks of a possible recession, hiring defied all expectations with U.S. businesses adding 528,000 jobs in July. Compared to the broader employment trend, job growth in the IT sector remained essentially unchanged from June, down 0.02% in July, according to TechServe Alliance, the national trade association of the IT & Engineering Staffing and Solutions Industry. On a year-over-year basis, IT employment was up a meager 0.32% from July 2021, adding a net of only 17,400 jobs in the year's period. The Engineering sector showed a year-over-year job growth rate of 4.08%, with the addition of 106,900 jobs over the course of the year.
"We continue to see a very strong demand for tech talent and a shortage of qualified candidates," said Mark Roberts, CEO of TechServe Alliance. "This is validated by the low unemployment rate of 2.2% in the sector and by our member companies, who tell us that job requirements from their clients still continue unabated. It is not surprising that we are continuing to struggle in growing the overall technology jobs' pie because of this significant supply-demand imbalance.
"This really underscores the need for businesses to move quickly with hiring decisions, offer competitive compensation, and not hold out for that perfect candidate or they will lose the candidate to other employers in need of the same skill set."
The following table presents information about the total number of jobs in certain sectors that provide a significant amount of employment for IT and engineering professionals.
Technical note: TechServe Alliance's IT Employment Index and Engineering Employment Index are the first specific measurements of IT and engineering employment. These unique measurements of total IT and engineering employment are created monthly by studying the ongoing staffing patterns of a dozen IT and computer related occupations in 22 industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of IT workers and nearly two dozen engineering occupations in 30 select industries and industry sectors employing significant numbers of engineering workers. Both the monthly IT Employment and Engineering Employment Indices are based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, which is subject to monthly revisions, and is revised accordingly. Both indices are also subject to periodic revisions and annual revisions / benchmarking that includes revisions to several years of employment data, which also may incorporate new occupational definitions. Both indices were revised / benchmarked going back several years starting with January 2022 data and published in February 4, 2022. In addition, both indices are subject to minor revisions to March and April data. The next major revision will be published in February 2023.
TechServe Alliance is the national trade association of the IT & Engineering staffing and solutions industry. IT & Engineering staffing and solutions firms count on TechServe Alliance to keep their leadership informed, engaged, and connected. TechServe Alliance serves as the voice of the industry before the policymakers and the national and trade press. By providing access to the knowledge and best practices of an entire industry and tapping the "collective scale" of its members, TechServe Alliance supports its members in the efficient delivery of best-in-class IT & Engineering staffing and solutions for clients and exceptional professional opportunities for every consultant.
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Which oversized blazer is best?
The 1980s trend of the oversized blazer quickly became a wardrobe staple for many due to its versatility and comfort. It’s ideal for any season because you can pair it with bike shorts and a crop top in warmer months, and it looks just as great with slacks, leggings and a button-up when the weather cools down.
The best ones, such as the Grlasen Long-Sleeved Oversized Blazer, have long hemlines with button closures and lining for coverage. They should also sport hues that complement the rest of your wardrobe.
What to know before you buy an oversized blazer
What is an oversized blazer?
An oversized blazer is what it seems; it’s a blazer with a loose fit that hangs on your body for a casual but elegant aesthetic. Also called the boyfriend blazer, it typically has slightly longer arms with a cuff that lands just past your wrists and a bottom hemline that rests low on your hip, sometimes at mid-thigh.
You can easily dress them up or down, and the best varieties have universally flattering silhouettes with structured shoulders and a button closure to show off your curves.
Oversized blazer styles
The right oversized blazer can bring out your best features. There are six silhouettes and textures to consider.
- Classic oversized: This is universally flattering with a long hemline, wide lapel and button closure.
- Leather: This is made from matte or shiny leather, adding an edgy touch to the everyday blazer.
- Waterfall: This boasts the shape of the classic blazer, but instead of a button closure, it has added fabric that drapes at the center.
- Belted: This gives you a flattering silhouette by tapering your waist with a chic belt.
- Denim: This supremely stylish blazer is made from denim with washes that range from dark to light with optional distressing.
- Tuxedo: This has a matte shell with a satin lapel and joins at the waist with several rows of buttons, giving it a more formal look.
How to find your blazer size
To ensure you get an oversized blazer that fits, compare your measurements to the manufacturer’s sizing chart. There are three easy steps to finding your measurements.
- Shoulders: Place the measuring tape on the tip of one shoulder and measure the distance across your back to the tip of your other shoulder.
- Chest: Wearing a thin top, measure the circumference of the fullest part of your bust.
- Waist: Measure the smallest part of your midsection, typically at your navel.
What to look for in a quality oversized blazer
Lining
Lined blazers give you more warmth and coverage than unlined ones. They also help you achieve a clean, smooth look because they mask the lumps and bumps caused by bra lines and the clothes you wear under the jacket.
Pockets
Pockets are important on blazers because they help you tote around essentials, such as your phone, credit cards and keys. While pockets are typically placed at the hips, you can also check for them on the jacket’s chest and interior.
Button closure
A button closure can help you create a curvier silhouette and stay warm. Even if you prefer to let your jacket hang open, it’s still helpful to have the option to close it when you need to.
How much you can expect to spend on an oversized blazer
While designer models can cost $100 or more, you can easily find a high-quality blazer from a retailer for about $40-$70.
Oversized blazer FAQ
How can you give your blousy blazer a more fitted look?
A. Consider a belt or a cinch clip that secures the extra fabric at the small of your back.
How should you wash your machine-washable blazer?
A. Fill your sink with water and add 1 teaspoon of a gentle detergent. Place your blazer in the water and let it soak for 30 minutes. Then gently scrub soiled areas with a cloth and rinse the garment with clean water. Finally, place it on a hanger and hang it out to dry.
What’s the best oversized blazer to buy?
Top oversized blazer
Grlasen Long-Sleeved Oversized Blazer
What you need to know: This trendy blazer has structured shoulder pads with a loose but elegant aesthetic and goes with anything.
What you’ll love: This oversized blazer lands mid-thigh and has a classic boxy shape with long arms and a wide lapel. It also features a button closure, pockets at the hips and a smooth lining for a polished look. It comes in 30 varieties, in sizes S-XXL.
What you should consider: Some people reported that the bottom hemline was a bit longer than expected.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top oversized blazer for the money
What you need to know: This chic blazer lands at your mid-thigh and gives you a perfectly polished look with a casual feel.
What you’ll love: It has a blousy look, long sleeves, a single-button closure and a notched lapel. It’s also lined for coverage, has pockets at the hips and has added stretch for comfort. It comes in eight hues, in sizes S-XXL.
What you should consider: Some people reported that its sleeves aren’t as slouchy as they hoped they would be.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
What you need to know: This sophisticated blazer can easily be dressed up or down and completes any outfit.
What you’ll love: It features a notched collar, long hemline and polyester lining. It also has added stretch for comfort, closes with a large button to create a flattering silhouette and has long sleeves. It comes in 13 hues, sizes S-XXL.
What you should consider: Some reviewers said they didn’t like that this blazer is dry-clean only.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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MIAMI, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Brand Institute is proud to announce its work with scPharmaceuticals in developing the brand name FUROSCIX®, which was approved by the FDA on October 7, 2022.
FUROSCIX® (furosemide injection) is a drug product indicated for the treatment of congestion due to fluid overload in adults with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class II/III chronic heart failure. The product consists of a single-use, On-Body Infusor with a prefilled cartridge that is programmed to deliver the FUROSCIX® dosage over a defined interval of time.
scPharmaceuticals is focused on exploring, developing, and commercializing innovations that expand and advance the outpatient care of acute conditions such as heart failure and bacterial infections requiring outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy. Its goal is to provide targeted solutions for patient populations and disease states where outpatient management will have the greatest impact.
"The entire Brand Institute and Drug Safety Institute team congratulates scPharmaceuticals on the FDA approval of FUROSCIX," said Brand Institute's Chairman and C.E.O., James L. Dettore.
Brand Institute is the global leader in pharmaceutical and healthcare-related name development, with a portfolio of over 4,000 marketed healthcare brand names, 1,300 USAN/INN nonproprietary names for 1,200 clients. The company partners on over 75% of pharmaceutical brand and nonproprietary name approvals globally every year with healthcare manufacturers.
Drug Safety Institute is composed of former naming regulatory officials from global government health agencies, including Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), Health Canada (HC), American Medical Association (AMA), and the World Health Organization (WHO). These regulatory experts co-authored the name review guidelines while with their respective agencies, with many responsible for ultimately approving (or rejecting) brand name applications. Now working for a private company, these professionals provide Brand Institute's clients with industry-leading guidance pertaining to drug name safety (i.e., preventing medication errors), packaging, and labeling.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Gross Law Firm issues the following notice to shareholders of Tuya Inc..
Shareholders who purchased shares of TUYA 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.
CLASS PERIOD: This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased Tuya American Depositary Shares in or traceable to the Company's March 2021 initial public offering.
ALLEGATIONS: The complaint alleges that during the class period, Defendants issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (a) a material portion of Tuya's China-based customers were engaged in the widespread and systematic manipulation of reviews and product offerings in violation of Amazon.com's terms of use; (b) prior to the initial public offering, a consumer investigation and data breach had exposed an illicit fake review scheme being perpetrated by many of Tuya's clients, among others, which included, inter alia, the exposure of 13 million records of organized fake review scams linked to over 200,000 Amazon account profiles; (c) as a result of (a) and (b) above, there was a substantial risk that a material portion of Tuya's significant customers would be barred from using Amazon.com's platform, negatively impacting Tuya's business, revenue, earnings, and prospects; and (d) as a result of (a)-(c) above, the registration statement's representations regarding Tuya's historical financial and operational metrics and purported market opportunities and expected growth did not accurately reflect the actual business, operations, financial results, and trajectory of the Company at the time of the initial public offering, and such statements were materially false and misleading and lacked a reasonable factual basis.
DEADLINE: October 11, 2022 Shareholders should not delay in registering for this class action. Register your information here: https://securitiesclasslaw.com/securities/tuya-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=31378&from=4
NEXT STEPS FOR SHAREHOLDERS: Once you register as a shareholder who purchased shares of TUYA 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 11, 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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A suspect is behind bars for a shooting death in Wilmington, four-and-a-half years ago.
Wilmington Police said that their Cold Case Unit this year identified 25-year-old Charles Jones as a suspect in the killing of 25-year-old Blayton Palmer in October 2018 on East 23rd Street. A New Castle County Grand Jury indicted Jones Monday, and he was taken into custody without incident Tuesday.
Jones is charged with murder and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony. He was being held at the Howard R. Young Correctional Center on $1.5-million cash-only bail.
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It wasn't exactly Lewis & Clark in uncharted territory, but Normal West had to survive its share of thorns while shedding Peoria Richwoods 59-56 in an Illinois boys basketball matchup on December 2.
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ORANGE, Va. (WRIC) — Several senior staff members at Montpelier, the historic home of founding father James Madison, have been fired after a public conflict over representation for the descendants of those enslaved there.
The Montpelier Foundation, which governs the historic site in Orange County, voted in 2021 to allow the Montpelier Descendant’s Committee (MDC), a group that represents the descendants of people enslaved at plantations across Central Virginia, to nominate half of the foundation’s board members, effectively sharing control of Montpelier with them.
However, in March the foundation reversed course, revoking the MDC’s role as a co-equal partner. That move prompted backlash from several national organizations and Montpelier’s own senior staff, culminating in the firing of several staff members on April 18.
Shared Governance
In June 2021, the Montpelier Foundation voted to allow the MDC to nominate half of its board members, effectively committing to allow the MDC to be an equal partner in governing the site.
“This historic decision means that for the first time, the descendants of enslaved persons at a major national historic site will be co-equals in sharing governing power and responsibility for the very site that enslaved their ancestors,” wrote Gene Hickok, chair of the board of directors, in a press release following the decision
The agreement to share governance with the MDC was heavily publicized on Montpelier’s website and in the press. It also drew support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), which owns Montpelier and is the parent organization of the Montpelier Foundation.
“The National Trust strongly supported this proposal, and we worked with both parties over the past year to achieve this new level of partnership,” wrote Paul W. Edmondson, president of the NTHP.
Less than a year later, on March 25, 2022, the foundation reversed course, voting on new bylaws that would allow the MDC to continue nominating board members, but not require the foundation to seat them.
Instead, the foundation promised to “consider any recommendations of the Montpelier Descendants Committee,” but reserved the right to make their own nominations designed to represent the descendants of enslaved people, independent of the MDC.
Backlash
A letter from the NTHP, addressed to chair Gene Hickock and the Montpelier Foundation’s board and sent ahead of the board’s vote, warned that the change in bylaws would “irretrievably damage the relationship” between Montpelier and the MDC.
The letter, signed by Edmondson, goes on to acknowledge apparent difficulties the foundation and MDC were having in reaching an agreement but said it was “far too soon for the Foundation to give up on the worthy commitments it made only last June.”
That letter was dated March 24. The next day, the board voted to adopt the bylaws, despite the National Trust and the Descendant’s Committee concerns.
James French, the chairman of the Descendant’s Committee and a board member of the Montpelier Foundation, denounced the move.
“We’ve been used as a prop in a public performance to gain attention and money, while behind the scenes descendants and staff with whom we work well have been subject to racial animus and massive resistance,” French said.
In a press release following the vote, board chair Gene Hickok claimed the change would actually expand representation for descendants of enslaved people on the board.
“There has been some misunderstanding about the purpose of the board’s vote,” said Hickok. “It is, in fact, a way to ensure that more voices of descendants of enslaved persons are heard in the telling of the history of Montpelier.”
Staffing Changes
After the vote, a statement was released by a group claiming to represent a majority of full-time staff at Montpelier calling for the board to “provide ‘at least equal representation’ on the Board to the MDC.”
The statement also claims that staff members were prevented by leadership from collaborating with the MDC. According to the group of staff, the board has stalled several projects, even some for which funding was already secured, and threatened staff with retaliation for working with the MDC.
Now, several senior staff members say they’ve lost their jobs in retaliation for speaking out. Chief Curator Dr. Elizabeth Chew, Director of Archaeology Dr. Matthew Reeves and Director of Communications Christy Moriarty were all fired via email on April 18.
“My colleagues and I stood up for our longtime partners in the Montpelier Descendants Committee, just as they have always encouraged and valued us,” said Dr. Chew. “I do not regret taking this stand.”
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has condemned the firings, calling into question the Montpelier Foundation’s fitness to lead.
“The National Trust has been working to achieve a resolution to the very public dispute between the Foundation and the Montpelier Descendants Committee,” the organization wrote. “But these and other recent actions by the Foundation lead us to question whether a resolution is possible under the current leadership of the Foundation.”
In response, Board Chair Gene Hickok issued a press release claiming the MDC worked “relentlessly for months to create dissension and division among the staff of James Madison’s Montpelier.”
“Actions taken this week were for repeated and disruptive violations of our employment policies,” Hickok said. “Individuals who have played a role in these developments have been either terminated or disciplined.”
Hickok added that he was still committed to promoting representation on the board for descendants of those enslaved in Orange County, adding that the MDC and National Trust were welcome to take part “if their real goal is parity and not a takeover of the Foundation.”
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A key Pentagon review has found no cause to overturn the Air Force process that would lead to moving U.S. Space Command Headquarters to Huntsville.
The new command with a mission to protect America from attacks launched from space is based in startup headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., while base location site reviews were contested. Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville and a base in Colorado Springs were finalists for the command, and Colorado congressional representatives have attacked the process that led to the conclusion Huntsville was the preferred headquarters site.
“We found that the process Air Force officials used to select Huntsville, Alabama, as the preferred permanent location for the U.S. Space Command headquarters (USSPACECOM HQ) complied with law and policy and was reasonable in identifying Huntsville as the preferred permanent location,” the Air Force Inspector General’s Office said.
The inspector general’s review is one of two that were under way after Colorado Springs challenged the findings, but the one most awaited by local officials. The second review by the General Accounting Office has not been released.
The command is responsible for military operations in outer space including space forces provided by other uniformed branches of the Defense Department. It is commanded by Gen. James Dickinson. The move would mean construction of a new headquarters and transfer of 1,800 members of the headquarters staff to Alabama. A new headquarters would also have been required if the command leadership remained in Colorado.
Alabama came out on top in a review process set up by the Pentagon to remove politics from the base-selection process. The Air Force sent a team of experts to the two finalist cities for a “qualitative and comprehensive” review.
The team looked at the two bases and their surrounding communities in terms of whether the bases had room to grow and to host employees and their families. Outside factors included cost of living, and the availability of quality, affordable housing off base. The Air Force designated Huntsville its “preferred” site after that review.
Colorado media has repeatedly stressed that former President Trump said he ordered the command moved to Alabama. But the Air Force has maintained that the official factors that went into the decision “related to mission, infrastructure capacity, community support and costs to the Department of Defense.”
“Of the 21 associated criteria Basing Office officials used in the process, we determined that 10 criteria were reasonable and accurate because either the Basing Office personnel or subject matter experts (SMEs) generally had the supporting documentation, or we were able to verify the information using publicly available data,” the Air Force Inspector General’s Office’s review said. “In addition, eight criteria were reasonable based on extensive discussions with the Basing Office personnel and SMEs; however, we could not fully verify the accuracy of those rankings due to the lack of supporting documentation. In addition, for three criteria, we could not determine reasonableness or accuracy of the ranking because either the Basing Office personnel or SME were not available to discuss them or there was no supporting documentation.”
“We determined that, overall, the basing action process directed by the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) complied with Federal law and DoD policy, and the Air Force complied with the SECDEF’s requirements for the basing action, though the Basing Office personnel did not fully comply with Air Force records retention requirements,” the inspector general said. “We found that Basing Office personnel developed relevant and objective evaluation factors and associated criteria to assess, score, and rank candidate locations. In addition, the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Energy, Installations, and Environment and Basing Office personnel sought input from stakeholders, including USSPACECOM officials.”
“The decision for the location of USSPACECOM Headquarters is critical. It affects not only national security but also military personnel and the communities of these candidate locations. We verified that the process the Air Force used to make the preliminary selection complied with law and policy. However, we recommend that the Secretary of Defense review senior leader concerns regarding full operational capability and the Secretary of the Air Force ensure site selection criteria important to service members, veterans, and military families were fully considered,” said Sean O’Donnell, Acting Inspector General, Department of Defense.
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KENBRIDGE, Va. (WTVR) — A trip to a grocery store turned into a nightmare for a woman in Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Kimberly Slaughter dropped by Shoppers Value in Kenbridge to pick up a few groceries when she noticed what she believed were mouse droppings on a packaged bag of popcorn.
"I was like, I'm not getting that bag," she said. "So I put it on the bottom shelf because there was already mouse poop covering the bottom shelves."
Slaughter said there were sticky rodent traps on the bottom shelf as well. She then went to grab another bag of popcorn, but noticed that bag had a small hole in the top right corner.
"As soon as I went to put the bag in my basket to take it up front because, you know, they can't sell it. The thing had popped out, and you know, I was like, 'Oh, well, hi!'"
That "thing" was a snake.
Slaughter said she immediately pushed her grocery cart, with the bag of popcorn and snake still inside, to the front of the store to let an employee know about the issue.
"They're like, this doesn't ever happen here," she explained. "But the bottom shelf has no merchandise on it because of the simple fact that mice get on it."
While she was at the front of the store, Slaughter said the snake crawled out of the bag, down the side of the shopping cart before returning to the popcorn bag.
"It was the full length of the cart," Slaughter said "It had prime real estate though."
According to Slaughter, an employee removed the snake from the store,.
"I have a baby, and he is just starting to walk. So imagine if he was a little bit older, or if my niece had gone and been like, 'Hey, I want some popcorn,' and grabbed that bag and it bit her. It's not safe. It's not healthy."
Scripps station WTVR reached out to the store manager, Brian Stanley, about the issue. He said the reptile was a small black snake.
"We have no idea where it came from," he said. "We are investigating trying to find out where it came from, but we have no other indication that there could be any others."
When asked about the rodent droppings and traps, Stanley said he wasn't aware of any mouse traps at the store at the time because he wasn't there.
"We use mouse traps sporadically when we have a need for them, but more so for prevention," he explained.
Slaughter said she plans to report the incident to the Virginia Department of Health, but she doesn't want the store to shut down for good because it's one of the only places to purchase groceries in the small town.
This story was originally reported by Caroline Coleburn and Taylor O'Bier on wtvr.com.
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The FBI has updated its list of Native Americans who are confirmed to be missing in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation.
According to the agency, the whereabouts of 186 people currently unknown. FBI officials recently added 19 names to the list and removed 10.
It was first released in late July after agents spent several months examining various law enforcement databases.
Many records of missing Native Americans were incomplete or outdated.
The FBI says the new list pushed local and tribal law enforcement to update their files on missing Indigenous people.
In addition, the FBI says it’s trying to track down leads in cases related to all the names on the list.
Relatives of missing people who are not included are encouraged to contact law enforcement.
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Colby R. Shultz, 21, of Urbana, OVI amended to physical control, guilty, 120 days of jail with 120 days suspended, no further offenses/pay fines and costs, fined $500, OVI, dismissed, marked lanes, dismissed.
Darrell A. Strickland, 41, of 1082 Mound St., OVI, continued, refer to driver’s intervention program, driving under suspension, dismissed, wrong way one way, dismissed.
Alexis Underwood, 21, of 2590 Ehrhart Drive, OVI amended to physical control, guilty, 120 days of jail with 117 days suspended, 3 days credit for time served, no further offenses/pay fines and costs, fined $300.
James E. Beard II, 49, of 6201 Zachary Ave., OVI amended to physical control, guilty, def complete 3 day driver’s intervention program program, fined $150, OVI, dismissed, speed, dismissed.
Jacob A. Bradley, 31, of Urbana, flee/elude police officer, continued, bond changed to own recognizance.
Michael A. Clay, 37, of 553 Stanton Ave., obstructing official business amended to disorderly conduct, guilty, pay in full by 4/25/23 by 8:45am, fined $75, failure to control, guilty, fined $50.
Oviedo J. Salvador Juarez, 34, of Plain City, OVI, guilty, 160 days of jail with 157 days suspended, 3 days credit for time served, 12 months of driver’s license suspension, fined $500, OVI, dismissed, marked lanes, dismissed, tinted glass, dismissed.
Zachery D. Massey, 25, of New Carlisle, OVI amended to disregard of safety, guilty, administrative license suspension terminated without fee, fined $150.
Ray J. Paris, 43, of 342 W. Southern Ave., domestic violence, continued, assault, continued, OVI, guilty, 180 days of jail with 150 days suspended, 12 months of probation, 12 months of driver’s license suspension, probation is ISP, fined $1000.
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SEATTLE (AP) — Dorli Rainey, a self-described “old lady in combat boots” who became a symbol of the Occupy protest movement when she was photographed after being pepper-sprayed by Seattle police, has died. She was 95.
The longtime political activist died on Aug. 12, the Seattle Times reported. Her daughter, Gabriele Rainey, told the newspaper her mom was “so active because she loved this country, and she wanted to make sure that the country was good to its people.”
Rainey was a fixture in the local progressive movement for decades, demonstrating for racial justice, affordable housing and public transit, and against war, nuclear weapons and big banks.
In November 2011, in the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Rainey, then 84, joined protesters in blocking downtown intersections. She was hit when Seattle police used pepper spray to clear the crowd.
Fellow protesters poured milk over her face to ease the sting, and a seattlepi.com photographer, Joshua Trujillo, captured a stunning image of her staring defiantly into the camera, her eyes red and milk dripping off her face.
The photo become a worldwide symbol for the protest movement. She was profiled by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Associated Press and The Guardian.
“It’s a gruesome picture,” she told the AP. “I’m really not that bad looking.”
Then-Mayor Mike McGinn apologized and ordered a review of the incident. Rainey was back out protesting a couple days later.
“Dorli is legendary, and deservedly so, for her activism,” McGinn said Friday. “She was just omnipresent and a conscience and a voice for change, and I deeply, deeply, deeply respected her.”
Rainey was born in Austria in 1926. She was a Red Cross nurse and then worked in Europe as a technical translator for the U.S. Army for 10 years. She married Max Rainey, a civil engineer who got a job with Boeing, and they moved to the Seattle area in 1956.
She worked as a court-appointed special advocate, representing children who have experienced abuse or neglect, and as a real-estate agent. She served on the Issaquah School Board and ran for King County Council a half-century ago, and she made a brief run for Seattle mayor in 2009.
She had three children, Gabriele, of Asheville, North Carolina; Michael, of Boston; and Andrea, who died in 2014. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Max.
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While you may be sad that summer is coming to an end, right now is the best time of the year to get deals on everything you’ll need for next summer, including Crocs, which is currently offering a pretty big discount on their popular clogs and sandals.
Now for a limited time, you can get two pairs of Crocs for just $50, making them $25 each. Regularly priced at $65 each, you’ll be saving $40 per pair, or a total of $80. As an added bonus, shipping is also free on orders of $49.99 or more and Crocs is offering free returns.
To get the deal, just head to Crocs’ website, choose two pairs of shoes and use the promo code 2FOR50 at checkout. You’ll see the price go from $76.98 to $50.
The deal appears to only be good on select colors and styles of clogs that are already on sale, so if it seems that the code is not working, you may just need to try a few times to get two pairs that are included. (The current sale on clogs is 30% or %40 off, but adding the promo code gets you two pair for even less!)
While the majority of the shoes included are their clogs and sandals in multiple colors, you’ll also find a few boots and sneakers, so we’ve included a few pairs below that we have tested to make sure they are included in the deal.
Classic Beach Dye Clog
These Classic Beach Dye Clogs come in white, pink or black, all with a tie dye pattern. Some sizes are already sold out, but there are a handful left, so you’ll want to grab them quickly.
The clogs are great for a laid-back look, like heading to the beach or a summer party. They have a pivoting heel strap for a secure fit and are easy to clean and lightweight.
Classic Lined Neo Puff Tie Dye Boot
These Classic Lined Neo Puff Tie Dye Boots are still available in a handful of sizes. The boots feature a lined tie-dye nylon funnel neck and offer lightweight comfort.
The boots also include a bungee cord and lock at the cuff and are easy to clean and quick to dry, so you don’t have to worry about getting wet and messy in the snow.
Women’s Literide 360 Pacer
These Women’s Literide 360 Pacer sneakers come in black, white, blue or gray and sizes 4-11. They feature a plush foam footbed that delivers support and cushioning, while a molded Matlite Motion upper has perforation patterns that are flexible like a knit fabric, making them breathable.
The shoes are lightweight and are heat-mapped to your feet, so they give you support where you need it the most. The rubber outsole also offers traction and durability.
Classic Crocs Sandal
These Classic Crocs Sandals come in more than a dozen colors, ranging from white and black to hot pink, lime green and bright orange.
The sandals have two upper straps, so they offer comfort and foot security, plus seven holes on each shoe so you can add Jibbitz charms if you want to customize them. They’re light, easy to clean and quick to dry, so they would be great for pool and beach days.
Will you be taking advantage of this deal and picking up some Crocs?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- M/I Homes, Inc. (NYSE: MHO) announced results for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
2023 First Quarter Highlights:
- Revenue increased 16% to $1.0 billion, a first quarter record
- Pre-tax income increased 11% to $136.0 million, a first quarter record
- Net income increased 12% to a first quarter record $103.1 million ($3.64 per diluted share) from 2022's $91.8 million ($3.16 per diluted share)
- Homes delivered increased 10% to 2,007 and average sales price increased 6% to $486,000
- Shareholders' equity reached an all-time record of $2.2 billion, a 28% increase from a year ago, with book value per share of $79
- Return on equity of 26%
- New contracts decreased 14% to 2,171 contracts
- Backlog sales value decreased to $1.7 billion compared to $2.8 billion a year-ago
For the first quarter of 2023, the Company reported pre-tax income of $136.0 million and net income of $103.1 million, or $3.64 per diluted share. This compares to pre-tax income of $122.3 million and net income of $91.8 million, or $3.16 per diluted share, for the first quarter of 2022.
Homes delivered in 2023's first quarter increased 10% to 2,007 homes. This compares to 1,823 homes delivered in 2022's first quarter. New contracts for the first quarter of 2023 decreased 14% over 2022's 2,514 new contracts. Homes in backlog at March 31, 2023 had a total sales value of $1.7 billion, a 38% decrease from a year ago. Backlog units at March 31, 2023 decreased 40% to 3,301 homes, with an average sales price of $522,000. At March 31, 2022, backlog sales value was $2.8 billion, with backlog units of 5,526 and an average sales price of $505,000. M/I Homes had 200 communities at March 31, 2023 compared to 176 communities at March 31, 2022. The Company's cancellation rate was 13% in the first quarter of 2023 and 7% in the first quarter of 2022.
Robert H. Schottenstein, Chief Executive Officer and President, commented, "We had strong first quarter results highlighted by record revenue, record income and a 10% increase in homes delivered. We are particularly pleased with our results given the material change in housing conditions compared to a year ago; notably, significantly higher interest rates, inflationary pressures and persistent uncertainty regarding the general economy. We increased our revenue by 16% to a record $1.0 billion, increased pre-tax income by 11% to $136 million and delivered 2,007 homes. In addition, our results reflect a 50-basis point improvement in our overhead expense ratio."
Mr. Schottenstein continued, "Our financial condition is as strong as it's ever been. We ended the quarter with record shareholders' equity of $2.2 billion, an increase of 28% over last year, book value of $79 per share, cash of $543 million, zero borrowings on our $650 million credit facility, and a homebuilding debt to capital ratio of 24%. Despite the changes in housing conditions over the past year, there remains a strong desire for home ownership, and we believe our industry will continue to benefit from strong fundamentals, including favorable demographic trends and an undersupply of housing. Looking ahead, we are well positioned with our diverse markets and product offerings, a strong balance sheet and low leverage."
The Company will broadcast live its earnings conference call today at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. To listen to the call live, log on to the M/I Homes' website at mihomes.com, click on the "Investors" section of the site, and select "Listen to the Conference Call." A replay of the call will continue to be available on our website through April 2024.
M/I Homes, Inc. is one of the nation's leading homebuilders of single-family homes. The Company has homebuilding operations in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota; Detroit, Michigan; Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers/Naples and Orlando, Florida; Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, Texas; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee.
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "targets," "envisions," "goals," "projects," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Any forward-looking statements that we make herein and in any future reports and statements are not guarantees of future performance, and actual results may differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, without limitation, factors relating to the economic environment, interest rates, availability of resources, competition, market concentration, land development activities, construction defects, product liability and warranty claims and various governmental rules and regulations, as more fully discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, as the same may be updated from time to time in our subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are made as of the date hereof, and the risk that actual results will differ materially from expectations expressed herein will increase with the passage of time. We undertake no duty to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. However, any further disclosures made on related subjects in our subsequent filings, releases or presentations should be consulted.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — No. 3 House Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2024, becoming the highest-ranking congressional leader Friday to publicly back the former president, even as he’s being widely blamed by other Republicans for failures in the midterm elections.
Stefanik, of New York, has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential contender on an emerging Trump ticket. The former president has promised a Tuesday event at his private Mar-a-Lago club that is widely expected to be an announcement of his intentions to run again for the White House.
“It’s very clear President Trump is the leader of the Republican party,” Stefanik said in a statement.
“I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President in 2024,” she said. “It is time for Republicans to unite around the most popular Republican in America, who has a proven track record of conservative governance.”
But Stefanik is an outlier among leading Republicans who are mostly reluctant to see Trump jump in the presidential race as his MAGA-styled candidates — MAGA is shorthand for Trump’s 2016 “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan — are being blamed for the GOP’s setbacks in the midterms.
Republicans had been expecting a midterm “red wave” that would give them big wins in races for governors, Congress and beyond this week in a rebuff of President Joe Biden and the Democratic agenda.
Instead, Republicans made only modest gains in the House and lost a crucial Senate seat in Pennsylvania when Democrat John Fetterman defeated Trump-backed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz.
With votes still being counted as of midday Friday, control of the House and Senate remained too early to call.
Other Republicans are calling for the party to move on from the Trump era.
Stefanik easily won her own reelection to another two-year term from New York, and is expected to cruise to her spot as chair of the House Republican Conference in Tuesday’s internal party elections. If Republicans win the majority, hers would become the 4th ranking leadership position.
She launched her career as a more moderate conservative voice and as one of the youngest members of the House, is seen as a rising star in Trump’s orbit. She has not tamped down talk of a potential vice presidential nod.
Stefanik and Trump remain close and work together, according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss it. She helped raise money and backing for several newly elected members of Congress.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held wide-ranging talks at the White House on Friday as Japan looks to build security cooperation with allies in a time of provocative Chinese and North Korean military action.
The two administrations were also ready to seal an agreement to bolster U.S.-Japanese cooperation on space with a signing ceremony by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa.
The Oval Office meeting and signing ceremony at NASA's Washington headquarters will cap a weeklong tour for Kishida that took him to five European and North American capitals for talks on his effort to beef up Japan's security.
Biden welcomed Kishida to the White House on Friday morning for the prime minister's first visit to Washington since he took office in October 2021. Inside the Oval Office, the U.S. president praised Japan for its "historic" increase in defense spending and pledged close cooperation on economic and security matters.
"We meet at a remarkable moment," Biden told Kishida, adding later, "The more difficult job is trying to figure out how and where we disagree."
Kishida, speaking through an interpreter, said the two nations "share fundamental values such as democracy and the rule of law" and stressed that their joint role on the global stage "is becoming even greater."
It all comes as Japan announced plans last month to raise defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product in five years, a dramatic increase in spending for a nation that forged a pacifist approach to its defense after World War II. Japan's defense spending has historically remained below 1% of GDP.
Blinken said this week that the U.S.-Japan space cooperation framework was a "decade in the making" and "covers everything from joint research to working together to land the first woman and person of color on the moon."
He added that the U.S. and Japan agree that China is their "greatest shared strategic challenge" and confirmed that an attack in space would trigger a mutual defense provision in the U.S.-Japan security treaty.
Before Friday's meeting of the two leaders, U.S. and Japanese officials announced an adjustment to the American troop presence on the island of Okinawa in part to enhance anti-ship capabilities that would be needed in the event of a Chinese incursion into Taiwan or other hostile acts in the region. Japan is also reinforcing defenses on its southwestern islands close to Taiwan, including Yonaguni and Ishigaki, where new bases are being constructed.
The leaders discussed Japan's push to step up defense spending and coordination that comes as concerns grow that China could take military action to seize Taiwan and that North Korea's spike in missile testing could augur the isolated nation's achieving its nuclear ambitions.
Biden and Kishida also discussed intrusions by China's military vessels into Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The uninhabited islets are controlled by Japan but claimed by China, which calls them Diaoyu.
Kishida's sit-down with Biden is the final face-to-face in a week of talks with fellow Group of Seven leaders that focused largely on his efforts to increase Japan's defense spending and urge leaders to improve cooperation.
With Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, he cemented Japan's first defense agreement with a European nation, one that allows for the two countries to hold joint military exercises.
Kishida also discussed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron his hopes to improve security cooperation between Japan and their respective nations. Germany was the lone G-7 country not on Kishida's itinerary.
Japan last month announced plans to buy U.S.-made Tomahawks and other long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea under a more offensive security strategy, while Japan, Britain and Italy unveiled plans to collaborate on a next-generation jet fighter project.
"Just a few years ago, there would have been some discomfort in Washington with a Japan that has this kind of military capability," said Chris Johnstone, a former National Security Council official in the Biden administration who is now the Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Those days are gone."
Biden administration officials have praised Japan for stepping up in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Japan was quick to join the U.S. and other Western allies in mounting aggressive sanctions on Moscow, and Japanese automakers Mazda, Toyota and Nissan announced their withdrawal from Russia.
The White House has made the case that China is paying close attention to international efforts to coalesce behind Ukraine as it weighs action on Taiwan.
"We strongly oppose any unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force or coercion, anywhere in the world," the leaders said in a joint statement following their meeting.
The Biden administration officials have been pleasantly surprised by Japan's intensified effort to reconsider its security.
A senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss negotiations with the Japanese, noted that historically negotiations involving U.S. force posture in Okinawa have been "unbelievably fraught, incredibly challenging and difficult" and often took years to complete. But, the official said, negotiations before this week's meetings were completed with striking speed.
Biden had been expected to raise the case of Lt. Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy officer deployed to Japan who was jailed after pleading guilty last year to the negligent driving deaths of two Japanese citizens in May 2021.
Alkonis' family says he suddenly fell unconscious behind the wheel during a family trip on Mt. Fuji. He veered into parked cars and pedestrians in a parking lot, striking an elderly woman and her son-in-law, both of whom later died.
The Navy officer was sentenced in October to three years in prison, a sentence that the family and U.S. lawmakers have called unduly harsh considering the circumstances. Alkonis also agreed to pay the victims $1.65 million in restitution.
The official added that the Biden administration was working "to find a compassionate resolution that's consistent with the rule of law." Neither Biden nor Kishida responded to shouted questions about Alkonis at the White House, and outside its gates, about two dozen demonstrators called for Alkonis' release.
Kishida met with Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday before his meeting with Biden.
___ Associated Press writers Tracy Brown and Seung Min Kim in Washington and Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo contributed to this report.
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UNION, N.J., Sept. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) today announced that Gustavo Arnal, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, passed away on September 2, 2022. The entire Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. organization is profoundly saddened by this shocking loss.
"I wish to extend our sincerest condolences to Gustavo's family. Gustavo will be remembered by all he worked with for his leadership, talent and stewardship of our Company. I am proud to have been his colleague, and he will be truly missed by all of us at Bed Bath & Beyond and everyone who had the pleasure of knowing him," said Harriet Edelman, Independent Chair of the Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Board of Directors. "Our focus is on supporting his family and his team and our thoughts are with them during this sad and difficult time. Please join us in respecting the family's privacy."
Mr. Arnal joined Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. in May 2020 following a distinguished global career in finance at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Procter & Gamble. At Bed Bath & Beyond Inc., Mr. Arnal was instrumental in guiding the organization throughout the coronavirus pandemic, transforming the Company's financial foundation and building a strong and talented team. He was also an esteemed colleague in the financial community.
About the Company
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and subsidiaries (the "Company") is an omnichannel retailer that makes it easy for our customers to feel at home. The Company sells a wide assortment of merchandise in the Home, Baby, Beauty and Wellness markets. Additionally, the Company is a partner in a joint venture which operates retail stores in Mexico under the name Bed Bath & Beyond.
The Company operates websites at bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, buybuybaby.com, buybuybaby.ca, and facevalues.com.
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It has been six seasons since Duke lost its first three ACC road games.
Considering how well the No. 16 Blue Devils have traditionally fared against Boston College, they might have a good chance to prevent that from happening again on Saturday vs. the Eagles at Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Jon Scheyer knew his first season as Duke coach wasn’t going to be easy. And his squad already has faced some conference adversity, notably on the road.
The Blue Devils (11-4, 2-2) have beaten Boston College (8-7, 2-2) and Florida State at home this season by a combined 35 points but have lost at Wake Forest and North Carolina State by the same margin.
Wednesday’s 84-60 defeat at NC State might end up being the low point of the season for Scheyer and the Blue Devils. Duke did not score in the first eight minutes, had just four points through the first 11, shot 39.6 percent from the field overall and allowed the Wolfpack to shoot 47.1 percent and block nine shots.
“I knew this when I took the job that there’s gonna be some moments like this, where people can doubt you,” Scheyer said. “They can doubt us as a team; sometimes the best way to learn is to experience it.
“You wish you were 2-0 on the road or 4-0 in the conference, but that’s not how it works. For us it’s all about how you learn from it – and that’s how I’m gonna approach it.”
In ACC play on the road this season, Duke has 130 points and has gone just 13 of 42 from 3-point range while allowing both opponents to score in the 80s and shoot a combined 48 percent. The Blue Devils last started 0-3 in the ACC in 2016-17.
“We know the road games are tough,” said guard Jeremy Roach, who has just 22 points in the past three games and has combined to shoot 2 of 18 from the field in the past two.
“We got to be even more locked in on the road. Learn and go to (Boston College) on Saturday.”
Roach, who averages a career-high 11.9 points a game, had just six during Duke’s 75-59 home win over Boston College on Dec. 3. However, freshman Mark Mitchell scored 15 and Kyle Filipowski added 13 with 10 rebounds as the Blue Devils shot 52.8 percent to win their seventh straight over the Eagles.
The Eagles improved to 6-2 at home this season with Tuesday’s 70-63 victory over Notre Dame. Boston College has won its past three home games and has held those opponents, including then-No. 21 Virginia Tech, to an average of 61.3 points.
“Our team is coming into form,” Eagles coach Earl Grant said. “We’ve just got to do what’s best for the team. Whatever helps the team the most … to have a chance to be successful.”
BC guard Jaeden Zackery, who is averaging 10.9 points per game, had 18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field against Notre Dame. He scored 14 while making 6 of 11 shots at Duke last month.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — After five agonizing years, Louisville finally gets to look forward.
An independent panel placed the Cardinals’ basketball program on two years of probation and fined it $5,000, but spared the school major penalties from NCAA allegations leveled in the aftermath of a federal investigation into corruption in college basketball.
The Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP) also declined on Thursday to penalize former Cardinals coach Rick Pitino, whom the NCAA initially cited for failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance. Chris Mack, Pitino’s successor who was fired in January, also was not penalized for additional allegations announced last year by the NCAA.
“The panel views this decision as exonerating both coaches,” IARP chief panel member David Benck said in a conference call with reporters.
Pitino, now the coach at Iona, thanked the IARP for its fairness and reiterated his adherence to the rules.
“So, do I feel vindicated? It’s not really that important anymore because it’s been five years,” Pitino said in a conference call.
Former Cardinals assistant coach Jordan Fair and associate head coach Kenny Johnson, now a Rhode Island assistant, received two-year show-cause orders for Level I violations. The IARP concluded that Fair “was knowingly involved” in arranging a cash payment in exchange for a player enrolling at Louisville.
The IARP, created to decide complex cases, also restricted Louisville’s recruiting visits for this academic year and issued a public reprimand.
“We were hopeful of a successful outcome through this process, and that’s what we received,” Cardinals athletic director Josh Heird said in a news conference with Louisville’s acting president, Lori Gonzalez.
The IARP was created out of proposals from a commission led by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in 2018 to reform college basketball. The panel’s decision cannot be appealed.
The NCAA in May 2020 accused Louisville of committing a Level I violation for an improper recruiting offer and several Level II violations. Pitino was accused of failing to promote an atmosphere of compliance — an accusation the IARP concluded was unfounded.
The NCAA case followed a federal investigation announced in September 2017 that involved numerous college basketball programs accused of giving illicit cash to recruits. The school acknowledged it was the subject of allegations related to the recruitment of Brian Bowen II.
Louisville had previously been placed on NCAA probation because of a sex scandal. Thursday’s decision by the IARP put the latest disciplinary matter to rest for a school that has endured several scandals since 2015.
“The panel felt that the institution and the coach were hypersensitive on compliance issues coming right on the heels of the prior case,” Benck said.
The IARP also recently announced minor sanctions against Memphis in a similar case, signaling that the era of harsh NCAA penalties may be coming to an end with college athletes now allowed to make money off their name, image and likeness. Kansas is still under investigation by the IARP as a result of the federal probe, and this week it self-imposed a four-game suspension on coach Bill Self while reiterating the program’s commitment to the Hall of Famer.
Cases tied to the federal probe involving Arizona and LSU are still pending with the IARP. NCAA vice president of hearing operations Derrick Crawford expects those to be completed by next spring or early summer.
In the Louisville case, federal prosecutors alleged that Adidas representatives funneled $125,000 to a recruit’s family to get him to attend the school. Pitino was not named in the federal complaint and repeatedly denied authorizing or knowing of any payment to a recruit.
Benck also rejected NCAA allegations that Adidas, as Louisville’s sportswear partner, was acting on behalf of the school’s athletic interests.
“It was our interpretation that it was merely their own brand promotion,” Benck said. “On top of that, the institution never requested any assistance with recruiting in our opinion, had no knowledge of any assistance that the apparel company provided.”
The Hall of Fame coach and athletic director Tom Jurich were fired in the wake of the federal complaint. That episode occurred with Louisville on NCAA probation after a 2015 sex scandal in which a basketball staffer was alleged to have hired strippers to entertain recruits and players.
Louisville’s sanctions from that scandal included vacating 123 victories, including its 2013 men’s basketball championship and 2012 Final Four appearance — both under Pitino.
College sports’ governing body amended its Notice of Allegations in September 2021 for violations committed under Mack during the 2020-21 season. The NCAA accused the program of impermissible activities and said Mack did not promote an atmosphere of compliance.
Mack was fired in January after three-plus seasons and eventually replaced by former Cardinals player and Kentucky assistant Kenny Payne. Mack’s final season began with a six-game suspension by the school for failing to follow university guidelines in handling an extortion attempt by fired ex-assistant Dino Gaudio.
University officials pushed back against the accusations and noted coaching and administrative changes among their corrective measures.
The IARP’s decision closes a long period in which Louisville has been stifled competitively, administratively and financially. The Cardinals’ lone NCAA Tournament appearance since Pitino’s departure came in 2019, and the revolving door of coaches has limited Louisville on the recruiting trail.
“It’s finally over,” Heird said. “There’s been a cloud over this program for five years now, whether it’s recruiting or just the fans feeling the impact of it, the staff, the athletic staff, the university staff. For all of that to just be lifted today. … It’s relief.”
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Mike Muskat, Corey Devine and Nicole Su recognized for work in Labor and Employment law
HOUSTON, Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Three attorneys with Houston-based Muskat, Mahony & Devine have been selected to the 2023 list of Best Lawyers in America, one of the most highly-respected legal guides in the United States.
Partners Mike Muskat and Corey Devine earned repeat honors for their work in labor and employment law, and associate Nicole Su was named to the list of Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch."
Mr. Muskat is a Board-Certified Labor and Employment lawyer who has litigated hundreds of cases on behalf of employers involving nearly every type of employment law claim. His work in Labor and Employment litigation has also been recognized by Texas Super Lawyers and Benchmark Litigation.
Mr. Devine is recognized by Best Lawyers for his work in labor and employment law management. Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law, his practice includes traditional employment, wage and hour, and unfair competition disputes and counseling. Mr. Devine has also been honored as a Texas Super Lawyers Rising Star and was named to Houston Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list.
Ms. Su currently focuses her practice on litigating employment matters and assisting employers navigating the complex issues that arise within the employer/employee relationship. This is Ms. Su's first year on the "Ones to Watch" list, which recognizes professional excellence in attorneys rising in their careers.
"We love working on behalf of our clients each and every day, so to be honored for the work we love is really something special," said Mr. Muskat. "And it doesn't get any better than being recognized based on feedback from our clients and our peers."
The Best Lawyers in America list is based on confidential client and peer evaluations, as well as extensive editorial research. To read more, visit: https://www.bestlawyers.com/firms/muskat-mahony-devine-llp/67626/US.
Muskat, Mahony & Devine, LLP is a Houston-based labor and employment law firm that delivers big firm expertise and sophistication with a personal approach. Founded in 2006, M2D partners daily with some of the world's largest and most sophisticated employers to find solutions to their toughest labor and employment challenges. Its lawyers have a successful track record for resolving all types of employment-related disputes, including those involving claims of discrimination, harassment and retaliation, violations of wage-and-hour laws, and unfair competition.
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubled down on her push for school choice, but did not offer specifics, during a rally Monday at the Statehouse Convention Center.
Sanders reiterated her message on education, emphasizing literacy, school choice, accountability for teachers and school safety. The rally was part of National School Choice Week.
Sanders was joined by school choice activist Corey DeAngelis and Republican state Rep. Keith Brooks of Little Rock.
“During the two years I spent on the campaign trail I spent a lot of time talking about education,” Sanders said. “To me, there is no greater place to lean into and do a much bigger and better job for the students of Arkansas, and that starts with empowering our parents. Our parents the cornerstone of a child’s success, and they must be a part of the conversation, not an afterthought.”
Before making her remarks, Sanders said she signed a proclamation declaring this week “Parental Choice Week” in Arkansas. Sanders also said an education reform package will be made public in the coming weeks that will address a wide range of issues, from school vouchers to increasing teacher pay.
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BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 36 points and the Boston Celtics held off the Washington Wizards 130-121 on Sunday.
Malcolm Brogdon added 17 points and Derrick White finished with 15 for the Celtics, who have won three straight and 12 of their last 13. It is also Boston’s second win this season over Washington, which has lost its last three.
Celtics star Jayson Tatum missed his first game this season with a sprained left ankle. But his absence didn’t slow down the offense, as Boston jumped out to 17-point halftime edge and grew its lead as high as 26 in the third quarter.
The Wizards cut it to 119-107 in the fourth, prompting Boston interim coach Joe Mazzulla to reinsert his starting lineup. The Celtics went on a 22-6 run to help close out the game.
The NBA’s top-rated offense, Boston shot 55% from the field, 16 of 34 from the 3-point line and went 26 of 26 from the free throw line.
Bradley Beal led Washington with 30 points. Kristaps Porzingis added 21.
The Wizards were also short-handed, with forward Kyle Kuzma out with lower back pain.
They got back guard Monte Morris from a three-game absence because of a sore right ankle, but never found an offensive rhythm or got support from their bench, which was outscored by their Boston counterparts 46-36.
TIP-INS
Wizards: Held a 58-52 advantage in the paint. … Had one turnover in the first half and four for the game.
Celtics: Brown has scored 25 or more points in five straight games. … Seven players finished in double figures. Held a 38-29 rebounding advantage. … Eight players made a 3-pointer. … Former Boston Bruins star Zdeno Chara sat courtside.
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Wizards: Host Minnesota on Monday.
Celtics: Host Charlotte on Monday.
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(KTLA) – A California woman has been arrested after she tried to steal an infant from a hospital, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Jesenea Miron, 23, impersonated a nurse at the Riverside University Health System – Medical Center at about 10:30 am. Thursday and went into a patient’s room, where she “attempted to take their newborn infant,” the Sheriff’s Department said in a press release.
“The suspect was confronted by hospital staff, who then notified security. The female fled the location before she was able to be apprehended by hospital security or law enforcement,” the release added.
The Sheriff’s Department identified Miron as the would-be kidnapper and arrested her early Friday morning in the 11000 block of Weber St. in Riverside, where investigators also found “additional items of evidentiary value,” according to the sheriff’s department and jail records.
Miron is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center. She faces a kidnapping charge and is due to appear in the Riverside Hall of Justice on Tuesday, according to jail records.
In a statement, RUHS – Medical Center CEO Jennifer Cruikshank said the hospital is working with the sheriff’s department to “investigate how the suspect accessed the patient’s room and interacted with the family.”
“Riverside University Health System– Medical Center has multiple layers of security to protect the safety and well-being of patients and staff, and we’re thankful those systems and our vigilant staff were able to thwart this suspect … Our security protocols have been reviewed and reinforced, and we have additional sheriff’s deputies on campus. We are also working with the family to address their concerns and ensure their emotional well-being,” Cruikshank said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator Galvan or Master Investigator Merrill at 951-486-6700 or the Sheriff’s Department at 951-776-1099.
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The Pac-12 has not had a game like UCLA-Oregon in four seasons, and only two of them over the last nine.
The ninth-ranked Bruins visit the No. 10 Ducks on Saturday in the first regular-season meeting of Pac-12 teams ranked in the top-10 of the AP poll since 2018.
The last time the conference had a top-10 game in the regular season was No. 10 Washington's 28-15 victory against No. 7 Washington State in an Apple Cup that decided the Pac-12 North — which is no longer a thing.
The Pac-12 dumped its divisions this season so it's possible UCLA (formerly in the South) and Oregon (formerly in the North) could meet again in Las Vegas. For now, the winner moves into sole possession of first-place in the Pac-12.
That's good enough to make it this week's most intriguing game as the second half of the season begins with five ranked-on-ranked games.
No. 9 UCLA at No. 10 Oregon
This is the third time Bruins coach Chip Kelly has faced his former school, and also the third time it has been at rowdy Autzen Stadium. The Bruins lost the first two, but are far better now as Kelly's plan has come to fruition behind QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson and RB Zach Charbonnet. The Ducks have been rolling since getting thumped by Georgia in their opener, with Auburn transfer Bo Nix (20 touchdowns) leading the way.
LINE: Oregon by 6 1/2. PICK: Oregon 35-31.
No. 17 Kansas State at No. 8 TCU
Second straight huge home game for the undefeated Horned Frogs after they rallied in the fourth quarter against Oklahoma State last week to emerge as the only unbeaten Big 12 team heading into the back half of the season. But don't forget the Wildcats, who haven't lost in the conference yet and bring the best defense in the league to match TCU's top-ranked offense.
LINE: TCU by 3 1/2. PICK: Kansas State 27-26.
No. 7 Mississippi at LSU
The Rebels have reached the top-10 running through a manageable first-half schedule, but the back half has a much higher degree of difficulty. Ole Miss has not won in Baton Rouge since 2008. The Tigers have been all over the place in Brian Kelly's first season, but there is some high-end talent scattered about a rebuilding roster.
LINE: LSU by 1 1/2. PICK: Ole Miss 28-24.
Minnesota at No. 16 Penn State
A humbling loss at Michigan has Penn State fans anxiously bracing for another second-half slide heading into the annual whiteout game. There is also uncertainty about Penn State QB Sean Clifford's health, which could provide an opportunity for heralded freshman Drew Allar. The Gophers have lost two straight, but hope to have QB Tanner Morgan back from injury.
LINE: Penn State by 4 1/2. PICK: Minnesota 23-21, UPSET SPECIAL.
No. 21 Cincinnati at SMU
The Bearcats fell out of the rankings after an opening loss at Arkansas, and have quietly taken care of business since. They're not CFP contenders this season, but they still might be the best of the American Athletic Conference, which is about to enter a fun championship stretch that could still involve the Mustangs.
LINE: Cincinnati by 3. PICK: SMU 28-27.
Other ranked teams playing FBS opponents with lines by FanDuel Sportsbook.
Iowa (plus 28 1/2) at No. 2 Ohio State
Hawkeyes' defense might provide some resistance for QB C.J. Stroud and the prolific Buckeyes' offense ... OHIO STATE 38-13.
No. 14 Syracuse (plus 13) at No. 5 Clemson
ACC orange rivals have played some close games in recent years, but the Tigers have won eight of nine since 'Cuse joined the conference ... CLEMSON 27-16.
No. 24 Mississippi State at No. 6 Alabama (minus 21)
This is the third time since 2019 the Tide will play the Bulldogs coming off a loss. 'Bama has won those games by a combined 71 points ... ALABAMA 38-13, BEST BET.
No. 20 Texas at No. 11 Oklahoma State (plus 6 1/2)
Cowboys have won five of the last seven meetings ... TEXAS 34-31.
Boston College (plus 20 1/2) at No. 13 Wake Forest
Eagles have won three straight trips to Winston-Salem, North Carolina ... WAKE FOREST 38-21.
Memphis (plus 7 1/2) at No. 25 Tulane
Getting ranked for the first time since 1998 was hard for the Green Wave; staying ranked could be even tougher against a tricky closing schedule ... TULANE 24-20.
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UCF (minus 4 1/2) at East Carolina (@Wvschorn) — Knights showing signs they are ready to make another AAC title run ... UCF 35-27.
Kansas (plus 7 1/2) at Baylor (@realbbbb) — Both teams have lost two straight in the wild Big 12 ... BAYLOR 31-27.
Duke (plus 8 1/2) at Miami (@billhirni) — Hurricanes try to make it two straight along the road to salvaging their season ... MIAMI 28-21.
Texas A&M at South Carolina (plus 3 1/2) (@Stevencalcutt) — Passing has been a problem for both teams with a combined 15 touchdown passes and 15 interceptions ... TEXAS A&M 23-21.
Boise State (plus 3) at Air Force (@scott_callihan) — Broncos try to stay unbeaten in the Mountain West ... BOISE STATE 31-28
North Texas (plus 10 1/2) at UTSA (@RauhReport) — Sole possession of first-place in Conference USA at stake ... UTSA 34-26.
Washington (minus 7 1/2) at California (@lancebasler) — Huskies have lost their two road games ... WASHINGTON 34-24.
Purdue (plus 2 1/2) at Wisconsin (@Pappy_BigTenCFB) — Badgers have won 15 straight in the series ... PURDUE 28-24.
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Last week: Straight-up — 11-7; Against spread — 11-7.
Season: 109-40; 79-80.
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Police are searching for a suspect in a Monday assault inside a Back Bay parking garage.
Police responded to the parking garage at 100 Clarendon St., which is between where Clarendon intersects with Columbus Avenue and Stuart Street, at around 5:15 p.m. Monday for a call of an assault in progress. There, a female victim told them she had been physically and indecently assaulted but defended herself and caused the assailant to flee, according to a police statement.
The suspect is a Black male who at the time was wearing a green hooded jacket or sweatshirt with blue jeans and black sneakers, according to the statement.
Police ask that anyone who recognizes the person or who has any information about him or the incident to call district detectives at 617-343-4683, or to call 9-1-1 if you see the suspect. Anonymous tips can be submitted to the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-(800)-494-TIPS or by texting the word “TIP” to CRIME (27463).
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida arrested one man Saturday and announced arrest warrants for two others believed to be the gunmen who opened fire along a crowded beachside promenade on Memorial Day, wounding nine people.
The Hollywood Police Department said authorities arrested Jordan Burton and are searching for Ariel Cardahn Paul and Lionel JeanCharles Jr.
The suspects will be charged with one count of attempted murder in the first degree, eight counts of attempted murder in the second degree and one count of carrying a concealed firearm, police said in a news release.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Burton has hired an attorney
Two other men who police say were involved in the altercation that led to the shooting have already been arrested on firearms charges.
Police and witnesses said the shooting began as a group of people fought in front of a busy stretch of shops on the Hollywood Oceanfront Broadwalk. Bystanders frantically ran for cover as gunshots rang out during the busy holiday weekend at the beach destination just south of Fort Lauderdale.
Seven of the nine people injured in the shooting have been released from the hospital, police said. Two others are still recovering in the hospital.
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Corinth police arrest parents after 3-month-old baby dies at hospital
CORINTH, Miss. (WCBI) – A three-month-old baby has died from head injuries and now the parents are under arrest.
On June 14, Corinth Police officers were called to Douglas Street regarding a three-month-old unresponsive baby.
The baby was taken to Magnolia Regional Health Center and then transferred to LeBonhuer Children’s Hospital in Memphis Tennessee.
The three-month-old died later that night due to blunt force trauma to the head according to the hospital.
Gabriel Girner, the baby’s father, was arrested and charged with Capital Murder.
The mother, who is a minor, was arrested as well.
She was charged with condoning child abuse.
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PARIS (AP) — The reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials said Monday.
The cathedral’s iconic spire, which collapsed in the blaze, will gradually start reappearing above the monument this year in a powerful signal of its revival, the army general in charge of the colossal project, Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, said.
“The return of the spire in Paris’ sky will in my opinion be the symbol that we are winning the battle of Notre Dame,” he told the Associated Press.
The reconstruction itself started last year, after more than two years of work to make the monument stable and secure enough for artisans to start rebuilding it.
Authorities have made the choice to rebuild the 12th century monument, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture, the way it was before. That includes recreating the 93-meter-high (315 ft) spire added in the 19th century by architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.
Meanwhile, an exhibition called “Notre-Dame de Paris: at the heart of the construction site” is to open to visitors on Tuesday in an underground facility in front of the cathedral. Accessible for free, it highlights ongoing operations on the site and the expertise and skills of workers. It also features some remains from the fire and works of art from the cathedral.
Gen. Georgelin said the cathedral will reopen in December 2024, in line with the goal set by President Emmanuel Macron just after the fire — yet it will be too late for the Paris Olympic Games scheduled in summer next year.
“My job is to be ready to open this cathedral in 2024. And we will do it,” Gen. Georgelin said. “We are fighting every day for that and we are on a good path.”
This “means that the archbishop of the capital will be in a capacity again to celebrate the Catholic liturgy in his cathedral” and the monument will also “be open for tourists to visit,” he said.
Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak told the AP that this doesn’t mean all the renovation will be finished then. “There will still be some renovation work going on in 2025,” she stressed.
Meanwhile, the new exhibition near the cathedral will allow visitors, including those coming for the Olympics, “to live what could be this experience of visiting Notre-Dame in a brand new way,” she said. In addition to the free visit, a virtual reality show will allow paying visitors to dive into the history of the cathedral. “That will help also tourism in Paris,” she added.
Everyday in the capital and across the country, about 1,000 people work to rebuild Notre Dame, Gen. Georgelin said.
“The biggest challenge is to comply precisely every day to the planning we have done,” he stressed. “We have a lot of different works to achieve: the framework, the painting, the stones, the vault, the organ, the stained glass and so on.”
Philippe Jost, managing director of the government agency overseeing the reconstruction, noted that the result “will be faithful to the original architecture” both because “we are sticking to the vanished shapes of the cathedral” and because ”we are also sticking to the materials and construction methods” of medieval times.
“We don’t do concrete vaults that look like stone, we do stone vaults that we rebuild as they were built in the Middle Ages,” Jost said, adding that the roof framework will also be made from oak like it initially was.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Air Force general in charge of the nation’s air- and ground-launched nuclear missiles has requested an official investigation into the number of officers who are reporting blood cancer diagnoses after serving at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana.
The illnesses became publicly known this week after The Associated Press obtained a military brief that at least nine missileers — those officers serving in underground bunkers near silo-based Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles and responsible for turning launch keys if ordered — were reporting diagnoses of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. One of the officers has died.
Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, which is responsible for all of the silo-based and aircraft-launched nuclear warheads, said in a statement to the AP Friday that he has requested that the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine conduct a formal assessment into the reported cancers.
It was not immediately clear if that assessment would be limited to Malmstrom, or if it would include similar nuclear missile facilities at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming.
“Air Force Global Strike Command and our Air Force takes the responsibility to protect airmen and Guardians incredibly seriously, and their safety and health is always my top priority,” Bussiere said. “While we continue to work through this process, service members and their dependents as well as former service members who may have concerns or have questions are encouraged to speak with their healthcare providers.”
The Air Force told the AP last Sunday that its medical teams were looking into the issue. Bussiere’s request elevates that look into formal review conducted by the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.
“We are working together to create courses of action moving forward. We are committed to remaining transparent during this process and we pledge to maintain an open dialogue with members, their families and stakeholders throughout,” Bussiere said.
Over the last week, more missileers who served at Malmstrom or their families have reached out to the AP to share their experiences with diagnoses of blood cancer and other types of cancer.
Concern about the cancers was raised by a Space Force officer in a January briefing to his unit. Many missileers transferred into the Space Force after it was created; at least 455 Space Force officers, including its highest-ranking officer, new Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman, served as missileers.
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which according to the American Cancer Society affects an estimated 19 out of every 100,000 people in the U.S. annually, is a blood cancer that uses the body’s infection-fighting lymph system to spread.
For comparison, only about 3,300 troops are based at Malmstrom at a time, and only about 400 of those are assigned either as missileers or as support for those operators. The three bases control a total of 400 siloed Minuteman III ICBMs.
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