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Which white Vans are best?
There’s something about all-white Vans that’s both classy and casual. It can be a hard look to pull off, and it takes plenty of cleaning to keep them looking good, but it’s worth the effort. You can find all-white Vans in any of the brand’s many styles, so don’t worry — you have options.
The best white Vans are the Vans Unisex Authentic Sneakers. This is the style that started it all, and it’s the easiest to match with most of your outfits.
What to know before you buy white Vans
Vans styles
White Vans are available in all 10 Vans styles.
- Authentic: This is the original style first made available in the mid-1960s. It’s an excellent and budget-friendly sneaker.
- Era: This style takes the Authentic and adds padding to the collar to reduce the chances of blisters and irritation that some experience.
- Old Skool: This style adds the Sidestripe to Era Vans for some extra flair.
- Sk8-Hi: This style is Vans’ high-top shoe. It’s designed to benefit skateboarders, but don’t let that stop you from rocking them.
- Ultrarange: Some people find Vans grow uncomfortable the longer you wear them in one sitting. Ultrarange Vans tackle that by adding arch support and extra cushioning as well as increasing breathability.
- Platform: This style increases the thickness of the sole to give you some extra height.
- Slip-on: This style replaces the laces with an elastic tongue so you can slip in and out of them.
- Sandal, flip-flop and slide: These styles look and feel like their namesakes — they just include Vans branding.
Sizing
Vans are designed to be unisex. All white Vans you find should be listed with equal sizing, barring a retailer’s decision to use only men’s or women’s sizing. Most Vans come in men’s sizes 4-13, equivalent to women’s sizes 5.5-14.5. Vans also come in children’s sizes.
What to look for in quality white Vans
Cush
Some Vans shoes use proprietary techniques to increase comfort with the Cush line being especially common.
- UltraCush Vans have foam insoles for extra cushioning.
- PopCush Vans use a thinner foam insole for extra arch support and shock absorption.
- ComfyCush Vans increase the flexibility of the outsole and cushion the insole to increase overall comfort.
Sidestripe
Some Vans have wavy Sidestripes along both sides of the upper. The Sidestripe is a significant element of Vans style, but it can be hard to see on all-white Vans. If you want the Sidestripe to stand out, look for white Vans with an alternate color Sidestripe or color it later yourself.
How much you can expect to spend on white Vans
They can cost as little as $35 or as much as $120. Most cost no more than $70, but once you start looking at less common styles or limited-time and otherwise special designs, you start seeing prices in the $80-$120 range.
White Vans FAQ
How do I keep white Vans clean?
A. White Vans have different cleaning requirements depending on their upper material. Some are easier to clean than others, and white Vans need to be cleaned more often. They also need to be washed by hand.
- Canvas Vans are the easiest to clean. Start by removing any loose grime. Then pretreat any serious stains before scrubbing everything clean with a toothbrush and a mixture of warm water and detergent. Rinse them, and wrap them in a towel to dry.
- Leather Vans require a leather cleaner and a shoe brush. Use the two together to scrub off grime and treat with a leather waterproofer if desired. Leave everything to air-dry.
- Suede Vans need special tools and extra care to avoid ruining them. Start by using a suede brush to remove surface grime before gently applying suede cleaner with a toothbrush. Without splattering the suede, use soap, water and a different toothbrush to clean the soles. Leave everything to air-dry.
- Laces and insoles also have specific cleaning requirements. Wash the laces in a mixture of water and detergent. The insoles should be scrubbed with a toothbrush topped with baking soda and detergent. Rinse, then let them both air-dry.
Can I personalize white Vans?
A. Yes. In fact, it’s a common practice. Stick to canvas Vans, though. Leather can be personalized, but it’s tricky, and suede can’t be personalized at all.
What are the best white Vans to buy?
Top white Vans
Vans Unisex Authentic Sneakers
What you need to know: The original Vans style popularized the brand for a reason, so don’t overthink it.
What you’ll love: The canvas upper is the easiest material to clean, and it’s something you’ll need to do often with all-white shoes. Canvas is also the easiest to personalize if you want to make your shoes unique. They’re a good choice for semi-casual office wear.
What you should consider: There’s no arch support. A few consumers had issues with the back of the collar rubbing into their heels and ankles.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top white Vans for the money
What you need to know: If you like quick and comfortable shoes, grab this pair of slip-ons.
What you’ll love: The elastic tongue is easy to pull back for slipping your feet in and holds tight to the top of your feet for a secure but comfortable fit. The back of the collar has some padding to reduce rubbing and irritation.
What you should consider: A few customers received damaged shoes or two right or left shoes rather than a matching pair. Others reported them needing a longer-than-usual break-in period.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Vans Unisex Sk8-Hi Skate Shoes
What you need to know: If all-white isn’t stylish enough for you, add more style with this high-top pair.
What you’ll love: The extra height of the ankle provides plenty of support and protection, and the waffle-pattern sole increases traction and grip, especially when skateboarding. They have some suede detailing, which subtly adds to the style.
What you should consider: The Sidestripe is hard to see. A few purchasers received different sizes than they ordered. Others found them to be uncomfortable when worn for extended periods.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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(CNN) — Out of the post-pandemic travel chaos, a hero has emerged.
Unassuming and undercover, this hero has spent much of the past year traveling the globe, stepping in when airlines mess up to save people’s precious vacations.
Its name? Well, it goes by a few. To you, it may be Tile, Chipolo, Pebblebee or – its best-known incarnation – AirTag. That’s right: compact, portable and potentially snatching your perfect vacation from the jaws of lost luggage disaster, the travel accessory of the moment is the humble luggage tracker.
We’ve seen it month after month, after airlines and airports laying off staff led to travel chaos throughout 2022. Not enough baggage handlers and exploding numbers of travelers meant bags not being loaded onto planes, bags not being taken fast enough off planes, unattended bags piling up by the thousands in airports – and many of them lost.
The bag mishandling rate was up 74.7% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to data from SITA, which offers various IT solutions (including baggage tracking) for the aviation industry. Out of every 1,000 bags to take to the skies, 7.6 were lost last year, compared to 4.35 per 1,000 in 2021 and 5.6 per 1,000 in 2019.
Bags for international flights are eight times as likely to be mishandled than those on domestic flights, due to the likelihood of them being transferred (connections account for nearly half the incidents). However, you don’t have to have a complex itinerary for the airline to lose your bag – a whopping 17% of mishandled bags in 2022 were simply never loaded onto the plane in the first place.
“The sudden surge in travel has led to increased disruptions that are compounded by a shortage of skilled staff,” Thomas Romig, vice president for safety, security and operations of the Airports Council International (ACI) wrote in a report this year for SITA.
And 2023 could be even worse, according to Rory Boland, editor of UK-based consumer magazine Which? Travel.
“There remain significant problems with lost luggage this year, and this is likely to be worse still in the peak travel period this summer. That’s not just the odd bag going missing, but planes taking off with no luggage because staff shortages meant it wasn’t possible to load them in time,” he warns.
If losing a bag doesn’t sound like the worst thing that could happen on vacation, that probably means you haven’t ever lost one. “If you’ve lost a bag once you’re probably scarred for life,” says tech writer Kate Bevan, to whom it’s happened twice.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get a call or an email saying your missing bag has been located. If you’re not, you’ll be waiting indefinitely, always wondering what happened to that piece of luggage.
But if you put a tracking device inside it, as more and more people are finding, you can tell the airline where it is.
And while knowing where it is doesn’t guarantee you’ll get it back, you have more of a fighting chance.
“For me, tracking devices are essential because they help you help the airline find your luggage faster, but also offer peace of mind that you will get your belongings back at some stage,” says Boland.
A PowerPoint presentation to recover his bag
Jai Rawat was traveling home from London Heathrow to San Francisco in January when his bag went missing. Two days later, his airline, Virgin Atlantic, emailed to say that the bag had been located and would be returned to him “soon.”
Yet nine days after his flight, his AirTag was still showing at Heathrow.
Rawat – CEO of Zinrelo, which powers loyalty programs for brands – sent screenshots of its location to no avail. Virgin said that staff were “trying to locate the bag” – despite him showing them exactly where it was.
In desperation, after 34 days, he created a PowerPoint presentation, entitled “Helpful hints to find my suitcase.”
The six-page document gave a detailed description of the bag, and included maps, satellite photos, Google Streetview screenshots and an annotated map of Heathrow Terminal 4, marking the exact building which he deduced the bag was in.
It was no rush job – Rawat says he “spent a few hours scouring the internet for airport maps,” overlaying his AirTag location map against them. He was, he says, “desperate,” as the bag contained a precious item belonging to his daughter.
The result? Three days later, the bag arrived at his home in California. It had been opened, and “several things” were missing – but he was refunded for them 10 days after making a claim.
This was the first time he’d used a tracking device, and Rawat says he was surprised how long Virgin Atlantic took to find the bag.
“I thought that since the exact location was visible via AirTag, the airline should be able to find it easily. It was really frustrating that they were having a hard time finding the bag even after I gave them all the information – it felt that they were just not putting in enough effort,” he says. Possibly because he was one of many: “At one point the agent I was emailing with told me that the building had thousands of lost bags,” he said.
‘Airlines do too little’
“Ultimately, AirTags give travelers the peace of mind of knowing where their most prized possessions are at all times,” says Emily McNutt, senior travel editor at CNN Underscored, which has named the trackers the “ultimate travel companion this summer.” The site has also compared AirTags against Tiles and Samsung Galaxy SmartTags, as well as reviewing Chipolo products.
“In years past, that luxury was largely unavailable as travelers had to wait for the airline to let them know where their bag was – and that could often be hard for airline representatives to actually track down,” she says.
“While AirTags aren’t perfect (they rely on Apple’s ‘Find My’ network, so they’re not as reliable in scarcely populated areas), they’ve given travelers the power of knowing exactly where their bag is in many cases before airline representatives can do the same.”
Boland says travelers are taking matters into their own hands for one reason: “Too many airlines do far too little to track bags down in a timely manner.
“Anyone who has had an airline lose their bags will know that you are often fobbed off with no answer as to where your luggage is and when you might be reunited with it.
“Passengers pay increasingly large amounts of money to many airlines to transport luggage, so it is completely unacceptable that it’s down to the passenger to tell the airline where it lost the bag.”
‘The police never called me’
Elliot Sharod was one of the first to go viral for tracking his lost luggage through its AirTag.
In April 2022, he and his wife were returning from their wedding in South Africa when one of their bags – containing mementos from the ceremony – was lost.
Thanks to his AirTag, Sharod could see where it was. But Aer Lingus – which had lost the bag – wasn’t replying.
In desperation, Sharod made a PowerPoint presentation and tweeted it at the airline. It swiftly went viral.
Not that Aer Lingus got the case back for the unhappy couple. Eventually, the pair traced it to a shed outside a block of residential apartments in London, and called the police, who broke in and recovered it.
More than a year on, Sharod’s unimpressed by how it all panned out.
The bag was “ripped to shreds – everything that could have identified us was destroyed,” he says. Their order of service and table settings from the wedding were gone, as were his wife’s perfume, hair straighteners and “anything they could sell.” Only clothes were left.
So what happened next? Not a lot, as it happened. “The police said they’d call me in for a statement but that never happened. They didn’t take it further and neither did the airline,” he says.
Sharod says he sent a 12-page document to Aer Lingus outlining the saga, and was asked “what was it we were looking for?”
“I just said frankly we’re six weeks on, I’d just like an apology and I’d like everything that was stolen to be replaced.”
The airline paid them around $1,000 compensation and threw in lounge access on a forthcoming flight, but refused to share more details, calling it an internal matter.
Sharod now goes carry-on only wherever possible, even on two-week trips.
Google enters the game
AirTags may be in the news, but they’re not the only trackers available. However, until now, alternatives such as Tile or Chipolo haven’t been perhaps as useful – because of how they work.
Lose your bag with an AirTag in it, and the tracker uses Apple’s global network to locate itself – meaning that any iPhone user passing by will passively locate it. Other brands, however, rely on other users of their same network – so if your missing bag has a Tile in it, the only way it’ll ping is if another Tile user is nearby. The closest so far has been the Samsung Galaxy smart tag, which works with Samsung phones – which account for over one in five.
But in May, Google announced that later this year, its Find My Device “ecosystem” would be upgraded to work with trackers including Tile, Chipolo and Pebblebee – making it the largest network in the world. It’ll also alert you if an unknown tracker starts moving with you. (Some tracking devices have been used in stalking cases; Apple and Google are working together on an industry-wide effort to help limit the risk of Bluetooth devices being used for unwanted tracking.)
Bevan says that Google opening up its network is a game-changer. “In the rest of the world [outside the US], Android has much higher penetration [than Apple],” she says. “Google doing this is a big deal.”
The company is also rumored to be working on its own tracker device, codenamed Grogu.
Safety first
Are tracking devices safe? That’s a question the aviation industry appears to have been battling.
Lithium batteries, of course, are banned from traveling in the hold, and lithium fires are a regular occurrence in the cabin – the FAA’s running tally of lithium battery incidents “involving smoke, fire or extreme heat” is already at 25 for 2023, with 74 logged in 2022. Both Lufthansa and Air New Zealand seemingly banned bag trackers in the hold last year – before swiftly reversing the ban in both cases. (Lufthansa told CNN that the airline never banned them – although their social media team had said that trackers were “classified as dangerous” and “cannot be used.”)
The FAA isn’t concerned, however. Its rules say that metal batteries containing less than 0.3 grams (0.01 ounces) of lithium, are OK in checked luggage. Trackers have less – AirTags, for example, contain just over 0.1 grams and Tiles contain less than 0.1 grams on average, according to a spokesperson.
Airlines going DIY
Tracking your bags yourself can never hurt, but some airlines are offering similar services.
SITA offers a Bag Journey service to airlines, which tracks luggage at four stages of the process, and offers airlines the chance to share the real-time data with passengers. Just 25% of airlines have taken them up on this so far, but SITA says that 67% of airlines plan to allow passenger access by 2025.
The company has also developed a system that automatically identifies bags unlikely to make their connecting flight, and rebooks them on the next one, keeping the existing bag tag, while keeping the passenger informed. Again, though, it’s up to the airlines to buy into it.
“SITA is committed to working with the industry to ensure passengers are once again confident to check in their baggage,” CEO David Lavorel wrote in the company’s 2023 “Baggage IT Insights” report.
Meanwhile Delta passengers who use the airline’s app have received push notifications about their bags’ progress since 2016. The airline uses RFID technology in its bag tags.
Taking back control
For Sharod, personal tracking devices have “given the power back to passengers.”
“It’s changed how airlines have to interact with passengers,” he says. “They can’t hide behind generic responses on Twitter. They can’t keep pieing people off because we know where our bags are.”
He hopes that “AirTag awareness… has pushed airlines to look at their internal processes – and if they want to protect their reputations, hopefully that will benefit passengers. Ultimately, it should lead to it being better.”
For Bevan, the devices haven’t yet changed the way we travel, but says they “take one of the stresses out of traveling.”
So how to give yourself the best chance of getting your luggage back?
All our case studies, of course, advise buying a tracking device. And, perhaps, disguising it. Sharod’s wife hid the couple’s tags in balled-up clothing. “If you just chuck it in, you run the risk of [a potential thief] finding it,” he says. Luggage brand Samsara makes cases with hidden, and relatively indestructible slots for tracking devices – but so far they’re only carry-on size. The brand is working on larger versions.
Rawat advises photographing the bag at check-in, making an inventory of what’s in it, and writing your contact details on a piece of paper to put inside – as well as on a nametag outside.
And don’t forget that the majority of people do get their bags back. Last year, four out of five bags that didn’t arrive on time were merely delayed, rather than lost entirely, according to SITA’s data. Just 7% were lost or stolen – the rest were damaged or had items stolen from them.
Meanwhile, Boland – who never travels these days without a tracker – has a novel proposition to change the industry: “Airlines should refund passengers fees when they lose bags, as this would work as an incentive for them to reduce the number of misplaced pieces of luggage.”
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LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Spero Therapeutics, Inc. ("Spero" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPRO).
Class Period: October 28, 2021 – May 2, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: July 25, 2022
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Spero lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/spero-therapeutics-inc/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the data submitted in support of the Tebipenem HBr NDA were insufficient to obtain FDA approval; (2) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (3) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Charles Linehan, Esquire, of GPM, 1925 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, California 90067 at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. If you inquire by email please include your mailing address, telephone number and number of shares purchased.
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WUHAN, China, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kitalpha, the brightest star in the Equuleus constellation, is 52.5 times more luminous than the sun, shining with a dazzling light, just like the new release, TK Gen2 Kitalpha thermal monocular from Guide Sensmart. This new arrival comes with the enhanced and new capabilities of night vision, laser indicating and outdoor lighting that enable users to absorbedly explore the world through the darkness.
Equipped with Guide's new self-developed infrared detector and the patented image processing technology, the new TK captures sharp imaging and is packed with powerful features like image and video recording, smooth zoom, approximate ranging and PIP. Personalized image observation is supported in different scene modes.
This Guide thermal monocular chose its first show at the HuntEx2022 from April 22 to 24 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Unexpectedly, the power failure left visitors in the dark across the hall last day and it did not enrage visitors who came to the Guide Sensmart's booth. The visitors took this thermal camera for night vision. The considerate ergonomic design makes it a comfort for one-hand operation and portability, and differential button design allows operation in total darkness. Visitors like the amazing imaging quality and they can't keep their hands off it. Detection up to 3km ensures the long-range view and safety, which can be used for animal observation.
Since thermal imaging camera is a passive non-contact recognition tool of targets, it is concealed and not easy to be discovered, making it convenient to observe fast animals in a safer place. Three scene modes give prominence to animals and its LCOS eyepiece prevents condensation or fogging and helps users maintain a clear view.
Except the TK Gen2, Guide Sensmart will showcase their newest products and solutions at MILIPOL QATAR exhibition taking place May 24-26, 2022, in Doha Exhibition & Convention Center.
At booth #C070, Guide Sensmart will show innovative thermal imagers for petroleum & metallurgy, mechanical & electrical and law enforcement. Product and application specialists will be available to discuss users' specific requirements.
Enter the Guide Sensmart booth and discover all the company's offers.
About Guide Sensmart
Guide Sensmart is the subsidiary of Guide Infrared (SZ.002414), the world leading infrared thermal imaging systems manufacturer with over 20 years of experience in the infrared industry and mass production capacity. https://www.guideir.com/.
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Customer shoots 2 Popeyes employees in drive-thru window at Alabama restaurant, police say
Published: Jun. 27, 2022 at 11:33 AM CDT|Updated: 30 minutes ago
PRICHARD, Ala. (WALA/Gray News) – Two Popeyes employees were injured after a customer opened fire in the drive-thru window at an Alabama restaurant, police said.
According to the Prichard Police Department, the shooting happened just after 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
Investigators said the man got out of his vehicle and fired a gun into the drive-thru window, striking two employees.
Police did not release a motive for the shooting and did not clarify the injuries of the workers.
The shooting is under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Prichard police at 251-452-2211.
Prichard is located about 5 miles north of Mobile.
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There is no sign of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sudan. Millions of Sudanese civilians continue to be displaced as the country teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war.
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There is no sign of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sudan. Millions of Sudanese civilians continue to be displaced as the country teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Padraig Harrington holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the 15th right when the last of his five-shot lead was about to vanish, and he closed with three tough pars for a 1-over 72 to hold off Steve Stricker and win the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday.
Harrington never lost the lead at Saucon Valley on a day when he made it hard on himself.
Stricker, who started the final round eight shots behind, began making his run with consecutive birdies to finish the front nine, and he closed with two straight birdies for a 65.
That left him one shot behind, and the Irishman needed only pars to win for the first time on the PGA Tour Champions. It wasn’t easy.
Harrington had to two-putt from above the ridge on the 16th, and he trickled it down to a foot. He was well below the ridge from about 50 feet away on the par-3 17th and, after running that by 6 feet, calmly rolled in the par putt.
On the closing hole, he was pin-high but some 35 feet away with a spine running through the line of his putt. He cozied that to 3 feet and rapped it in for the win.
Harrington finished at 10-under 274.
He is the third straight player to win the U.S. Senior Open in his debut, following Jim Furyk last year and Stricker in 2019.
Mark Hensby had a 69 to finish alone in third. Stricker, however, was the only one who had a chance to catch Harrington.
“It’s tough to lead from the front,” Harrington said. “It’s even tougher when it’s Steve Stricker behind you. He tends to have one on me. I’m happy enough to get it done in the end.”
Stricker had good birdie chances on the 15th and 16th holes, but he stuffed his shot on the 17th to a foot, and then took on a back-right pin at the closing hole to 5 feet away.
Harrington, who led by as many as six shots at one point, began the back nine with consecutive bogeys, and then he missed a good birdie chance on the par-5 12th.
Before Stricker could make his final birdie, Harrington made his 30-footer to be assured of staying in front, and his lag putting was superb when it needed to be.
Stricker didn’t realize he had a chance until he teed off on the 16th and realized he was two behind.
“I tried to birdie them all coming in,” he said. “I had a couple of putts I wish I could have over.”
Stricker got the best of Harrington without hitting a shot last September at Whistling Straights, when he led a stronger and younger U.S. team to a rout over Harrington’s European squad in the Ryder Cup.
Harrington won three majors on the regular tour, the first one at Carnoustie in 2007 when he rallied to win the British Open in a playoff. Stricker was in final group that day and shot 74.
Harrington and Stricker each have a senior major this year, with Stricker winning the Regions Tradition in Alabama a month after returning to the tour from a six-month break recovering from a virus.
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MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. (WPIX) – Police in New York have dug up the backyard of Rex Heuermann, who is accused of killing three women in the Gilgo Beach murder investigation.
A yellow excavator that had been seen scooping dirt in the backyard Sunday was still at the house Monday morning. In Associated Press drone footage, a man could also be seen operating a piece of equipment that can be used to scan for buried objects.
Over the weekend, police dismantled a wooden deck at the house.
Investigators with shovels could be seen scraping through the freshly upturned earth in Heuermann’s yard.
Investigators were also using ground-penetrating radars and police dogs to help with the search. Police haven’t commented on what evidence, if any, they’ve found so far.
Heuermann is charged in the killings of three women whose bodies were discovered along Gilgo Beach in 2010. He’s also suspected in the death of a fourth woman whose body was found in the same area. However, he has not been charged in that case, investigators said.
Heuermann’s arrest on July 14 marked a stunning breakthrough in the hunt for a suspected serial killer who had eluded investigators and whose crimes gripped Long Islanders since the bodies of four women — all of them sex workers — were found wrapped in burlap near Gilgo Beach.
Within months, the remains of six other bodies, including a toddler, were discovered elsewhere along the same beach highway. Heuermann has not been accused in any of those cases. Police have said the deaths may be the work of multiple killers.
Heuermann has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Watch every single goal from Harry Kane’s record-breaking 2022-23 Premier League campaign with Tottenham.
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Watch every single goal from Mohamed Salah’s 2022-23 Premier League campaign with Liverpool.
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Look back at all the best saves from around the Premier League during the 2022-23 season.
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Eufy RoboVac X8 and G30 review
The automated routine of a robotic vacuum can clear time in your day for the things you actually want to do besides vacuuming. Its powerful suction and hands-off controls can help your home stay cleaner, especially if you have pets.
To help shoppers decide whether a robotic vacuum is right for their home, we tested two popular Eufy by Anker models: the RoboVac X8 and the RoboVac G30. Here’s what we learned.
Key features to consider when shopping for a RoboVac
While they may look fairly similar from the outside, robotic vacuum features vary widely. Some can automatically map your room to navigate the space they’re intended to vacuum, while others bounce off obstacles or respond to boundary strips placed on the floor. It’s also important to note the vacuum’s battery life, which can vary depending on both the square footage it’s cleaning and the suction power it’s using.
While the type of flooring can sometimes dictate which robotic vacuum is best, RoboVac models are equipped with BoostIQ technology that helps the vacuum determine what kind of surface it’s cleaning and adjust its suction power automatically. Both of the RoboVac models we tested are also equipped with washable filters, but shoppers should consider the additional cost of replacing filters every few months.
RoboVac vacuums pair with the user-friendly EufyHome app to help you monitor the battery level, control room mapping, set schedules and more. Onboard the RoboVac, drop-sensing technology keeps your vacuum from falling down the stairs.
RoboVacs worth considering
Our experience with Eufy by Anker RoboVac X8
The Eufy by Anker RoboVac X8 features twin turbines for more powerful suction. Its advanced iPath Laser Navigation mapped the home quickly and accurately. We tested it on tile, hardwood and medium-pile carpet and were impressed by its performance on all surfaces. The twin turbines plus its spinning side brush easily handled debris like pet hair, dust and cat litter. The twin turbines made it somewhat louder than other robotic vacuums we’ve tested, but it was still considerably quieter than a standard vacuum.
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Why we recommend Eufy by Anker RoboVac X8
Mapping and vacuuming a 215-square-foot area took only 20 minutes, and its mapping technology enabled it to accurately navigate around furniture. The RoboVac X8’s twin turbines provide a noticeably deeper clean. On the rare occasion that the roller became tangled in long hairs, we were able to use the X8’s included tool to clean and fix it.
Its advanced features also translate to better interactivity on the app. The app can help with troubleshooting by identifying specific brushes that need attention, or it can direct the X8 to clean or stay out of specific areas. Along with its extra features compared to the G30, the X8 also has a longer-lasting battery, with a maximum runtime of 190 minutes compared to the G30’s 105.
Overall, the RoboVac X8 performed like a high-end robotic vacuum, and it’s priced like one, too. If you want impressive cleaning power and lots of app functionality — or if you regularly deal with plentiful pet hair that’s defeated less powerful vacuums in the past — the X8 might be a great choice for your home.
What is Eufy by Anker RoboVac G30?
The Eufy by Anker RoboVac G30 is one of Eufy’s more affordable models, but we still found it to be a solid performer. Its Smart Dynamic Navigation technology uses infrared sensors instead of the X8’s lasers, which make it a little less adept at detecting objects and corners but more accurate and efficient than models that rely on bouncing off obstacles.
The G30 has the same BoostIQ technology that lets it automatically adapt its suction power according to the surface it’s cleaning. It also offers convenient features such as auto-return recharge-and-resume technology, which lets the G30 return itself to its charging dock during cleaning to recharge, then pick up where it left off in its routine.
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Why we recommend Eufy by Anker RoboVac G30
The G30 was easy to set up and start using right away. It’s compact and quiet — at 56 decibels, it’s about as loud as a normal conversation. It has the same 600-milliliter dust collector capacity as the X8, and during our testing, both took about the same amount of time (4-5 hours) to recharge.
While the G30 didn’t remove pet hair or long hairs from medium-pile carpet as well as the X8 due to its single-turbine design, we still think it would be a good model for those looking for a middle-of-the-road robotic vacuum. Its side brushes clean hard-surface floors thoroughly, and the BoostIQ technology noticeably improved its efficiency as it switched between different types of flooring.
Overall, the G30 offers plenty of useful features, such as app scheduling and Alexa compatibility, at just half the price of the X8. Plus, at 2.85 inches, it’s a full inch shorter than the X8 and more capable of easily fitting underneath furniture.
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‘House of the Dragon’ has fire-breathing debut on HBO
The premiere of the “Game of Thrones” prequel “House of the Dragon” averaged a combined 9.986 million viewers Sunday on HBO and HBO Max, the most for a series premiere on HBO, according to live-plus-same-day figures released by the streaming service and Nielsen.
That figure will grow, as Sunday night viewership for an HBO series represents 20% to 40% of a show’s total audience, according to HBO.
“The Sandman” was Netflix’s most-streamed program for the second time in its two full weeks of release, with viewers spending 77.24 million hours watching the 10 episodes of the fantasy drama between Aug. 15 and Sunday, according to figures released Tuesday by the streaming service.
Viewership was down 39.4% from the 127.5 million hours watched the previous week.
“Day Shift” was Netflix’s top-ranked film for the second time in its two weeks of release, with viewers watching the vampire action comedy for 63.39 million hours, 12.2% more than the 56.15 million hours the previous week when it was available for three days.
Episodes of “America’s Got Talent” and “Password,” which follows it on NBC, accounted for four of the top nine programs on broadcast or cable programs. The 121-minute “America’s Got Talent” episode on Tuesday, Aug. 16, averaged 6.437 million viewers to finish first for the fourth consecutive week and sixth time in eight weeks.
The Tuesday “Password” episode averaged 3.971 million viewers, ninth for the week and first among programs beginning at 10 p.m. or later.
The 61-minute “America’s Got Talent” Wednesday episode was second, averaging 5.642 million viewers. The Wednesday “Password” episode was fifth, averaging 4.361 million.
The only other broadcast or cable program to average more than 5 million viewers was the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” which averaged 5.441 million viewers for an edition with three previously aired segments that were updated for Sunday’s broadcast.
CBS won the network race after back-to-back second-place finishes behind NBC, averaging 2.83 million viewers, with “60 Minutes,” three episodes of “Big Brother” and a rerun of “FBI” all finishing among the week’s 14 most-watched programs.
NBC averaged 2.68 million viewers and ABC 2.42 million viewers.
“Celebrity Family Feud” was ABC’s ratings leader for the eighth time in the eight weeks since the conclusion of the network’s coverage of the Stanley Cup Final, averaging 4.541 million viewers, fourth for the week.
Sunday’s first episode matched teams led by Olympic gold medal-winning figure skater Nathan Chen and actor Simu Liu, while Grammy-winning R&B singer Monica and rapper-producer-record executive Jermaine Dupri led the teams for the second game.
Fox averaged 1.89 million viewers. Its most-watched program was Sunday’s Arizona-Baltimore NFL preseason game, 21st overall and first among prime-time sporting events, averaging 3.217 million viewers.
The CW averaged 340,000 viewers. Its biggest draw was last Tuesday’s premiere of the historical drama about Leonardo da Vinci, “Leonardo,” which averaged 543,000 viewers, 172nd among broadcast programs. Its overall ranking was not available.
ABC finished third among the broadcast networks, averaging 2.45 million viewers.
The top 20 prime-time programs consisted of two episodes each of “America’s Got Talent” and “Password”; “60 Minutes”; four ABC game shows — an original episode and a rerun of “Celebrity Family Feud” and original episodes of “The $100,000 Pyramid” and “Press Your Luck”; the ABC alternative series “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “The Bachelorette”; three episodes of the CBS alternative series “Big Brother”; reruns of CBS’ “FBI,” “FBI: International” and “Young Sheldon”; and three editions of the Fox News Channel political talk show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Fox News Channel had each of the top eight prime-time cable programs and 10 of the top 11 to win the prime-time cable network race for the 11th consecutive week, averaging 2.31 million viewers.
MSNBC was second, averaging 1.319 million viewers, and ESPN third, averaging 896,000.
The Aug. 15 edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” was the top-ranked prime-time cable program, averaging 3.432 million viewers, 12th overall.
The cable top 20 consisted of 14 Fox News Channel weeknight political talk shows — five broadcasts each of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” and “Hannity” and four of “The Ingraham Angle” — and its Sunday political talk show “Life, Liberty & Levin”; the Aug. 15 edition of the MSNBC news and opinion program “The Rachel Maddow Show”; ESPN’s coverage of the Chicago Bears-Seattle Seahawks NFL preseason game; HBO’s “House of the Dragon”; and the 8-9 p.m. and 9-10 p.m. segments of USA Network’s professional wrestling program, “WWE Raw.”
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WA Pendleton OR Zone Forecast for Tuesday, March 21, 2023
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358 AM PDT Wed Mar 22 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. North wind 5 to
10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. Northwest
wind 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph overnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the upper 40s to mid 50s. West wind 5 to
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15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Windy. West wind
15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid to upper 40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts
to around 25 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Partly cloudy. Lows
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in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the 40s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of
rain or snow. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s.
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358 AM PDT Wed Mar 22 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 50s to lower 60s. Northwest wind
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
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.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. West wind
5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph overnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny. A 50 percent chance of rain showers in
the afternoon. Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Windy. Southwest
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wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Rainfall amounts
less than a tenth of an inch.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 20s to lower
30s. Windy. West wind 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or snow
showers. Snow level 1000 feet. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
Breezy. West wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the
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mid 20s to lower 30s. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance
of rain or snow. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Lows in the
upper 20s to lower 30s.
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5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. Southwest
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wind 5 to 10 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph overnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Highs in the mid to upper 50s. Windy. Southwest wind
20 to 30 mph.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
showers. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Windy. Southwest wind
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain showers.
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Highs in the lower to mid 50s. Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
rain or snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
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.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the
upper 40s to lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain. Highs in
the lower to mid 50s.
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rain or snow. Lows in the lower 30s. Highs in the 50s.
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358 AM PDT Wed Mar 22 2023
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of rain showers
overnight. Lows in the mid to upper 30s. South wind 5 to 15 mph.
Gusts up to 25 mph overnight.
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.THURSDAY...Rain showers likely. Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
Windy. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent. Rainfall amounts less than a quarter of an inch.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Rain or snow showers likely. Snow level
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2000 feet. Lows in the lower to mid 30s. Windy. Southwest wind
20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Rain or snow showers likely. Snow level 1000 feet.
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Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Windy. Southwest wind 20 to
30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Windy. Rain or snow showers likely. Light snow
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accumulations. Lows in the lower 30s. Chance of precipitation
70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the 40s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain
or snow. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 40s to
lower 50s. Lows in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
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.MONDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or snow.
Highs in the upper 40s to lower 50s.
.MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain or
snow. Lows in the lower 30s.
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.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of rain or snow.
Highs in the lower to mid 50s.
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358 AM PDT Wed Mar 22 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 40s.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of rain and mountain
snow showers overnight. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the mid 20s
to lower 30s. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
25 mph overnight.
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.THURSDAY...Rain and mountain snow showers. Mountain snow
accumulation up to 2 inches valleys and 2 to 4 inches in the
mountains. Snow level 3500 feet. Highs in the upper 30s to mid
40s. Windy. Southwest wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
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35 mph. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the 20s. Windy. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph with
gusts to around 45 mph.
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.FRIDAY...Snow showers. Moderate snow accumulations possible.
Highs in the 30s. Windy. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph. Chance of
precipitation 90 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Windy. Snow showers. Moderate snow accumulations
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possible. Lows in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
.SATURDAY...Snow likely. Light snow accumulations. Highs in the
upper 20s to mid 30s. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. A 40 percent chance
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of snow. Lows 17 to 25. Highs in the upper 20s to upper 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the 20s.
.MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance
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...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THURSDAY TO 5 PM
PDT FRIDAY ABOVE 2500 FEET...
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and mountain snow
showers in the evening, then rain and mountain snow showers
likely overnight. Mountain snow accumulation up to 2 inches. Snow
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level 4000 feet. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. West wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph overnight. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.THURSDAY...Snow showers likely in the morning, then snow showers
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in the afternoon. Snow accumulation of 2 to 5 inches. Highs in
the lower 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. Southwest wind 10 to 20 mph
with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation near
100 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers. Light snow accumulations. Lows
19 to 25. Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around
35 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY...Snow showers. Light snow accumulations. Highs in the
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upper 20s to mid 30s. Breezy. West wind 10 to 20 mph with gusts
to around 30 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Snow showers. Light snow accumulations.
Lows 17 to 23. Chance of precipitation 90 percent.
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.SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the mid 20s to mid 30s. Lows 17 to 24.
.TUESDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
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.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the mid 40s to mid 50s. Northeast wind
5 to 10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of rain and
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mountain snow showers. Snow level 4000 feet. Lows in the upper
20s to mid 30s. West wind 5 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 30 mph
overnight.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a chance of rain or snow showers in
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the morning, then rain or snow showers in the afternoon. Snow
accumulation up to 1 inch. Snow level 2500 feet. Highs in the
upper 30s to mid 40s. West wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around
30 mph. Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
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.THURSDAY NIGHT...Snow showers likely. Light snow accumulations.
Lows in the 20s. Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph with gusts to
around 45 mph. Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
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Highs in the lower 30s to lower 40s. Breezy. West wind 10 to
20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of
snow showers. Lows in the 20s.
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.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the lower 30s to lower 40s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the 20s.
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.SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the mid 30s to lower 40s. Lows in the
20s.
.TUESDAY...Mostly sunny with a chance of rain or snow. Highs in
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Simcoe Highlands-
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358 AM PDT Wed Mar 22 2023
.TODAY...Sunny. Highs in the 50s. North wind 5 to 15 mph in the
morning, becoming light.
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.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
evening, then a chance of rain and mountain snow showers
overnight. Lows in the 30s. Breezy. West wind 10 to 20 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph overnight. Chance of precipitation
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50 percent.
.THURSDAY...A chance of rain or snow showers in the morning, then
rain or snow showers in the afternoon. Snow accumulation up to
1 inch. Snow level 2500 feet. Highs in the mid 40s to lower 50s.
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Windy. Southwest wind 20 to 30 mph with gusts to around 40 mph.
Chance of precipitation near 100 percent.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Windy. West wind 20 to
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30 mph with gusts to around 45 mph.
.FRIDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the lower to mid 40s. Windy. West wind 15 to 25 mph with
gusts to around 35 mph.
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.FRIDAY NIGHT...Windy. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow showers. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 30s to mid 40s.
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.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows in the 20s.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs in
the lower to mid 40s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain or
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snow. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain or
snow. Highs in the 40s. Lows in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Chance
of precipitation 50 percent.
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The Biden administration is moving one step closer to developing a central bank digital currency, known as the digital dollar, saying it would help reinforce the U.S. role as a leader in the world financial system.
The White House said on Friday that after President Joe Biden issued an executive order in March calling on a variety of agencies to look at ways to regulate digital assets, the agencies came up with nine reports, covering cryptocurrency impacts on financial markets, the environment, innovation and other elements of the economic system.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said one Treasury recommendation is that the U.S. “advance policy and technical work on a potential central bank digital currency, or CBDC, so that the United States is prepared if CBDC is determined to be in the national interest.”
“Right now, some aspects of our current payment system are too slow or too expensive,” Yellen said on a Thursday call with reporters laying out some of the findings of the reports.
Central bank digital currencies differ from existing digital money available to the general public, such as the balance in a bank account, because they would be a direct liability of the Federal Reserve, not a commercial bank.
According to the Atlantic Council nonpartisan think tank, 105 countries representing more than 95% of global gross domestic product already are exploring or have created a central bank digital currency.
The council found that the U.S. and the U.K. are far behind in creating a digital dollar or its equivalent.
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Treasury, the Justice Department, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies were tasked with contributing to reports that would address various concerns about the risks, development and usage of digital assets. Several reports will come out in the next weeks and months.
Eswar Prasad, a trade professor at Cornell who studies the digitization of currencies, said Treasury's report “takes a positive view about how a digital dollar might play a useful role in increasing payment options for individuals and businesses” while acknowledging the risks of its development.
He said the report sets the stage for the creation of agency regulations and legislation “that can improve the benefit-risk tradeoff associated with cryptocurrencies and related technologies.”
The Blockchain Association, which lobbies lawmakers on Capitol Hill, said in a statement that the White House reports are “a missed opportunity to cement U.S. crypto leadership.”
“These reports focus on risks — not opportunities,” the statement reads, "and omit substantive recommendations on how the United States can promote its burgeoning crypto industry, including job creation, improvements to the financial system, and expanded access for all Americans.”
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers have submitted various pieces of legislation to regulate cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Sheila Warren, CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, said in an emailed statement that the report “seem to kick the can down the road” she said, “we don’t see clear recommendations.”
The director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese, told reporters that “we’ve seen in recent months substantial turmoil in cryptocurrency markets and these events really highlight how, without proper oversight, cryptocurrencies risk harming everyday Americans' financial stability and our national security.”
“It is why this administration believes that now more than ever," he said, "prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is needed.”
He said on Friday that the Administration plans to "execute a comprehensive action plan with priority steps to mitigate key risks of cryptocurrencies — among others, money laundering and financing for terrorism.”
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NEWARK, N.J., April 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- HarbourView Equity Partners, the global alternative asset management company founded by Sherrese Clarke Soares, announced today that banking industry veteran Carlos Cruz has joined the firm as Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets.
Cruz brings to HarbourView nearly two decades of experience in technology, media, and entertainment banking, during which time he has originated, structured and arranged bank and subordinated debt facilities in support of acquisitions, recapitalizations, and leveraged buyouts at leading financial institutions.
"Carlos' appointment further solidifies our core team of talented senior leaders at HarbourView," said Soares. "His leadership in our capital markets function will be critical as we expand our investment footprint across the entertainment and media landscape. We are grateful for the commitment of our financing partners who have helped scale our platform to this point and look forward to working with them more in the years to come."
Cruz joins HarbourView from Fifth Third Bank, where he was an Executive Director in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group of the Corporate and Investment Bank. During his tenure at Fifth Third Bank, Cruz was responsible for growing the entertainment finance business, becoming a key financing partner and creating the advertising and marketing technology lending practices. Prior to Fifth Third, Cruz was a Vice President in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at CIT, a leading middle market commercial lender, and began his career at Merrill Lynch in the Public Finance Investment Banking Group. Cruz holds an M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University.
"Having followed HarbourView's rapid growth since its inception, I am thrilled to join such a talented team that is building a foundation for an enduring financial institution," said Cruz. "I look forward to immersing myself in this ecosystem of artists and financing partners that HarbourView has curated and helping to grow the platform and community further."
HarbourView is a multi-strategy, global investment firm focused on investment opportunities in the entertainment and media space. The company has been extremely active since launching in 2021, acquiring over 40 music catalogs to date. The firm's distinctly diverse portfolio features thousands of titles spanning numerous genres, eras and artists, amounting to a diversified catalog of ~17,000+ songs across both master recordings and publishing income streams. Last month, the firm completed an investment in MACRO – the multi-platform media company founded by Charles D. King – its first in the film and TV space.
The company strives to be the standard for excellence and integrity in investing in assets and companies driven by premier intellectual property, with experience in and around esoteric asset classes, including in music, film, TV, and sports.
About HarbourView Equity Partners
HarbourView is a global investment firm focused on niche markets and esoteric investment opportunities that aim to build enduring value and returns. The company is headquartered in Newark, NJ.
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NEW YORK, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Branford Castle Partners, a leading North American focused private equity firm, announced that its portfolio company, Lafayette Instrument, LLC (Lafayette), has acquired Aurora Scientific, Inc. a leading Canada-based manufacturer of instrumentation and software, used in life sciences research related to Muscle Physiology and Neuroscience.
Lafayette (https://lafayetteneuroscience.com/) is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of scientific instrumentation equipment for the neuroscience, polygraph and human evaluation markets. Aurora is the market leader in providing instrumentation equipment related to Skeletal Muscle Physiology research which is utilized by leading universities and research institutions globally.
"This partnership brings together two leading instrumentation companies within the life science community and presents an opportunity to strengthen our relationships with top research institutions and broaden our product offering," said Benjamin Mangrich, CEO of Lafayette Instrument.
"This acquisition provides Lafayette with the opportunity to increase its product offering to existing and overlapping customers while also extending its product line offering into Muscle Physiology," said Ceon Francis, Principal of Branford Castle. "We are excited to work with the Lafayette management team to continue to support the future growth of the company."
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Stikeman Elliott LLP provides legal advisory services for the transaction.
About Lafayette Instrument
Lafayette Instrument Company has over 70 years of experience engineering data acquisition and measurement instrumentation for disciplines such as research and education, medicine, physical therapy and rehabilitation, security, and law enforcement. Lafayette is positioned at the forefront of neuroscientific discovery, human evaluation, and credibility assessment.
Established in 1947 as a manufacturer of physiological recording and psychological testing instruments, Lafayette acquired Campden Instruments in 1998 to complement its existing neuroscience product line and, in 2016, founded PEAK Credibility Assessment Training Center to teach practitioners scientifically validated credibility assessment techniques.
About Branford Castle Partners
Branford is a private market investor, with offices in Florida and New York, that has a 35-year history of helping to grow businesses. The firm typically makes control investments in companies with up to $15 million of EBITDA and a leadership position in a niche industry. Branford is particularly keen on the strong relationships it builds with its portfolio company managers. Branford has specific expertise in industrials/specialty manufacturing, consumer products and services, commercial distribution, business services and logistics.
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The land-use consultancy provided environmental, engineering, planning and landscape architecture services for new facility
JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Land-use consultancy Dresdner Robin announced the grand opening of the Maher Charitable Foundation's Early Learning Center, which is located in Newark's South Ward.
Dresdner Robin provided all aspects of site development, including site analysis, zoning analysis, storm water management, environmental assessment and remediation, and professional engineering, among others. Along with expert planning testimony presented during public hearings, which contributed to the necessary site-plan approval, design and traffic-pattern recommendations along Demarest Street were also provided.
"Having worked on this project since its inception in 2018, we are thrilled to watch the center come to life," said Dresdner Robin's Mark Vizzini, the Associate Director of Land Development. "Not only does it include several top-tier exterior elements that beautify the site, but it has also expanded the early education system in Newark, providing additional options for the youth."
The Early Learning Center features a dual-purpose playground area for young children and toddlers, as well drop-off, pick-up and parking areas, which were designed with traffic-calming measures in mind, including speed tables and raised crosswalks. Dresdner Robin also implemented a storm water runoff conveyance system and two underground storm water management systems.
"Our mission was to create a sustainable and safe outdoor space for our young students," said Sam Crane of the Maher Charitable Foundation. "Through its team of talented engineers and designers, Dresdner Robin exceeded our expectations and ultimately helped us make a positive impact on the Newark community."
Dresdner Robin performed state required childcare environmental investigations and reporting overseen by a licensed site remediation professional to obtain childcare licensure from the state.
Prior to the opening of the Early Learning Center, Dresdner Robin completed a temporary facility on an adjacent site to the permanent facility. The students officially moved from the temporary facility to the new Maher Charitable Foundation's Early Learning Center in March of this year.
About Dresdner Robin
Dresdner Robin is a leading land-use consultancy covering the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia metro markets. The full-service firm provides creative solutions that emphasize service, client satisfaction, and technological innovation with specialties in site and civil engineering, land surveying, environmental services, planning, surveying, and landscape architecture in the revival of urban landscapes. Dresdner Robin's multi-functional teams are strategically located in offices throughout New York City, New Jersey, and the metro Philadelphia area. For more information, visit: http://www.dresdnerrobin.com.
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NEW YORK, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ARQQ).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
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This lawsuit is on behalf of: (i) all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Arqit securities between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, inclusive; and/or (ii) all holders of Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger") and entitled to vote on the Merger.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 5, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, Defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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Casey White, Vicky White shared nearly 1,000 phone calls before April escape
LAUDERDALE Co., Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - As investigators uncover further details about Casey White’s and Vicky White’s relationship prior to the prison escape that captured national headlines, they discovered the two shared nearly 1,000 phone calls while Casey White was being held at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, between August 2021 and February 2022.
According to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton, Casey White and Vicky White developed a relationship while Casey White was being held in the Lauderdale County Detention Center during the summer of 2021. Casey White was held in Lauderdale County at the request of his attorney for better access.
Casey White was later moved back to Donaldson Correctional Facility, where he shared phone calls with Vicky White nearly four times per day. Between August 2021 and February 2022, WAFF reports that Sheriff Singleton says Casey White and Vicky White shared 949 phone calls.
Casey White was moved back to the Lauderdale County Detention Center on Feb. 25, 2022.
With the help of Vicky White, investigators say Casey White escaped from the detention center on April 29. That escape sparked a national manhunt for 11 days until they were caught on May 9 in Evansville, Indiana.
During a police pursuit, Vicky White died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. She died the night of May 9.
Casey White was transported to Alabama to await trial. He is charged with capital murder in the 2015 death of Connie Ridgeway. He has also since been charged with murder in Vicky White’s death.
Sheriff Singleton said he doesn’t know what the two talked about on the phone or for how long the calls would last.
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Senior legal analysts explore the latest SEC initiatives around ESG disclosure for asset managers, as well the strident opposition and likely legal challenges the agency's controversial proposals will encounter
NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
What: SEC targets ESG asset managers and fuels critics
Why: As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment continues to expand, the SEC is trying to bring greater clarity around fund and adviser disclosures for the benefit of investors. Despite an estimated $17.1 trillion in "sustainable" investments at stake, there are few standards for marketing investments that consider environmental, social, and governance factors. Moreover, concerns around greenwashing and exaggerated ESG claims remain a top priority for the SEC as it has stepped up enforcement efforts on this score. Against this background, the SEC has issued two new rulemaking proposals and a request for comment. The comment period for these releases concluded in August.
In a new Strategic Perspective entitled "SEC targets ESG asset managers and fuels critics", Wolters Kluwer legal experts consider the increasingly vocal opponents to ESG investing, as well as examine reactions to the SEC rule proposals, including the likelihood of adoption and legal challenges.
Additionally, the Strategic Perspective includes the views and insights from two of today's leading legal practitioners in the asset management space, Gwen Williamson, partner in the Investment Management group at Perkins Coie, and Howard Sidman, partner in the Financial Markets practice at Jones Day.
Who: Lene Powell, J.D., Senior Legal Analyst; Brad Rosen, J.D., Senior Legal Analyst; and Matthew Garza, J.D., Managing Editor
Like a nutrition label, the SEC's proposed ESG disclosures for advisers and funds aim to give investors greater confidence that ESG claims mean something real. There are disagreements as to specifics, but overall there appears to be broad support for the goal of improving ESG information for investors.
- Lene Powell, J.D., Senior Legal Analyst
The wide range of public comments received in connection with the SEC's "Names Rule" demonstrates that the war over ESG investing and its regulation is alive and well. While supporters of the SEC's initiative see the proposals as a means to prevent greenwashing and enhancing investor understanding, opponents view the very same proposed rules as furthering confusion, complexity, and devoid of any corresponding benefits to the public.
- Brad Rosen, J.D., Senior Legal Analyst
Financial data providers like S&P, Morningstar, and Bloomberg have moved aggressively to meet investor demand for bespoke ESG indexes and other investment products. Their success has earned them attacks from state attorneys general, right-leaning media, Elon Musk, even some academic circles, and now they find the SEC's nose under their tent.
- Matthew Garza, J.D., Managing Editor
To read "SEC targets ESG asset managers and fuels critics", visit:
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Contact: To arrange an interview with Lene Powell, Brad Rosen, Matthew Garza, or other legal experts from Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. on this or any other legal topics, please contact Linda Gharib: lrusmedia@wolterskluwer.com
Wolters Kluwer (WKL) is a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services for the healthcare; tax and accounting; governance, risk, and compliance; and legal and regulatory sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
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Emilio Nava 2023 French Open Odds
The French Open continues in Paris, France, with Emilio Nava in the round of 128 versus Roberto Carballes Baena. Nava is +50000 to win at Stade Roland Garros.
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- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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- In the qualifying round on Friday, Nava defeated No. 161-ranked Blancaneaux, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
- Nava is 10-11 over the past year, with zero tournament titles.
- Nava is 1-2 on clay over the past 12 months, with no tournament titles.
- Nava, over the past 12 months, has played 21 matches across all court surfaces, and 24.7 games per match.
- In his three matches on a clay surface over the past year, Nava has averaged 28.7 games.
- Over the past year, Nava has been victorious in 13.8% of his return games and 75.4% of his service games.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
05-08-12-14-16, Mega Ball: 22
(five, eight, twelve, fourteen, sixteen; Mega Ball: twenty-two)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
05-08-12-14-16, Mega Ball: 22
(five, eight, twelve, fourteen, sixteen; Mega Ball: twenty-two)
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HONG KONG, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The results of the May 2023 Index Review on the MSCI China Small Cap Index have been released. Hangzhou SF Intra-city Industrial Co., Ltd. (Stock Code: 9699.HK), the largest third-party on-demand delivery service provider in China, will be added to the MSCI China Small Cap Index, effective after the market closes on 31 May 2023. It demonstrates that the international capital market has recognized the Group's development prospects and industry influence. This will further enhance its popularity in the global investment community.
The MSCI China Small Cap Index is an equity index compiled by MSCI Inc., a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community, for measuring the performance of the small-cap segment of the China market. The index, widely recognized by the international financial community and institutional investors, serves as a benchmark for global institutional investors to optimize their investment portfolios. SF Intra-city was included in the MSCI China Small Cap Index according to the results of the May 2023 Index Review. This will further enhance its popularity in the global investment community and generate a positive impact on the Group's transaction liquidity as well as valuation improvement.
Since its listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in December 2021, SF Intra-city has been committed to optimizing its business structure and profitability, thereby achieving excellent performance. In 2022, the Group demonstrated robust business resilience by steadily expanding its business while continuing to improve its financial performance significantly. Last year, the Group's revenue increased significantly by 25.6% to approximately RMB10,265.2 million; gross profit recorded more than a threefold increase from approximately RMB94.8 million in 2021 to approximately RMB413.4 million; gross profit margin substantially increased from 1.2% in 2021 to 4.0%. The scale of intra-city delivery services for merchants maintained healthy growth, achieving a revenue of approximately RMB 4,649.7 million for the reporting period, increased 19.8% YoY. Revenue from intra-city delivery to consumers was approximately RMB 1,898.7 million for the reporting period, increased by 57.3% YoY. Last-mile delivery service quickly rebounded under the receding impact of pandemic. It recorded a revenue increase of 19.9% to approximately RMB 3,680.4 million.
To cooperate with digital transformation and adopt new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence, the Group is committed to optimizing the network system, realizing efficient real-time order scheduling as well as logistics systems, and developing intelligent distribution networks. Moreover, the Group launched the "SF lntra-city Delivery Cloud" (豐配雲) SaaS real-time logistics system to provide one-stop intra-city logistics solutions for delivery service providers and brands with self-delivery business. In order to further improve the Group's delivery capability and deployment of smart delivery network, it successfully launched the on-demand drone delivery service, providing a new service experience for its customers and the merchants.
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MACON, Ga. (AP) — Georgia will issue electronic debit cards by October for women and children who benefit from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
Commonly called the WIC program, it provides food for low-income women during and after pregnancy, as well as children 5 and younger.
Georgia Public Broadcasting reports the state is one of the last to quit using paper vouchers after a 2020 mandate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for states to switch to electronic methods.
“The state of Georgia couldn’t meet that deadline,” said Pat Mobely, WIC coordinator for the Savannah-based Coastal Health District. “So we now are complete and we’re ready to go.”
The state's electronic pilot program began earlier this month in the district. Mobely said all beneficiaries should have a card by the end of October, giving them greater freedom to manage their spending.
“They’re going to be able to go into stores, and if they just need to go get a gallon of milk, they can go get that,” Mobely said. “They don’t have to use all their benefits at one time. So they have a whole month to use everything that’s on that card.”
Beneficiaries will also be able to check their balances online.
Roughly 200,000 women and children in Georgia take advantage of WIC benefits every year, and that number has the potential to increase with a switch to the debit cards. In a 2019 study of states that had implemented the program, there was an 8% increase in participation over three years. Most of those new participants were children.
Georgia has long offered an electronic benefit card for the separately administered and larger Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a program still called food stamps from when benefits were delivered on paper.
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BLOOMINGTON — Hot shooting carried the Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team to an 86-52 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin victory over North Park on Wednesday at Shirk Center.
The Titans shot 55 percent from the field (37 of 67) while winning their third straight game.
IWU (11-8, 6-4 CCIW) started fast with 28 first-quarter points and led 40-30 at the half before scoring 23 points in each of the final two quarters.
Lauren Huber led the Titans with 22 points and 12 rebounds.
Caite Knutson added 18 points. Katelyn Heller contributed 15 points and six assists and Sawyer White 12 points and nine rebounds.
IWU dominated the boards, piling up a 50-27 rebounding advantage.
North Park (7-12, 3-7) received 23 points from Victoria Perry.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith showed off the game ball that marked her 400th career win.
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Brian Ehresman poses with Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith at the Titan Golf Outing this summer
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith donned a mask as her Titans practiced behind her Tuesday at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith directs her team during the Titans' 86-81 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin victory over Millikin on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2020, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith rallies her team as they take on Wheaton Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith talks to her bench during the Titans' 80-54 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin win over Millikin on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team members presented coach Mia Smith with a game ball to mark 400 career wins.
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Mike Wagner, left, Illinois Wesleyan University Athletic Director, and former Athletic Director Dennie Bridges, presents women's basketball team coach Mia Smith with a decorated cookie and bouquet of flowers to mark her 400th career win after IWU defeated Whittier last Saturday.
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A special game ball was decorated to honor Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball team coach Mia Smith to mark 400 career wins.
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Illinois Wesleyan head women's basketball coach Mia Smith directs her team during the Titans' 77-76 nonconference loss to the University of Chicago on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, at Shirk Center.
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llinois Wesleyan coach Mia Smith reacts during a 2013 game against Millikin at Shirk Center.
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The resume of Illinois Wesleyan's IBCA Hall of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, includes winning the 2011-12 NCAA Division III national title. She addressed fans during a celebration for that team at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan's IBCA Hall of Fame basketball coach, Mia Smith, saluted fans after a 2012 NCAA Division III national semifinal win over St. Thomas at Holland, Mich. That squad went on to win the national title.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith, center, instructs her team during a timeout in the third quarter of Wednesday's CCIW game against Elmhurst at Shirk Center.
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Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach Mia Smith, center, addresses the crowd at Shirk Center after the Titans' 85-45 win over Carroll in the 10th annual Pink Zone game benefiting the Bloomington-Normal Community Cancer Center.
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Site will generate approximately 25 MW of solar energy by 2027
Project will use existing Oswego Harbor Power land, remove inactive oil tanks
OSWEGO, N.Y., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Generation Bridge, LLC (the "Company") today announced plans to remove an inactive oil tank farm in Oswego, New York to make way for close to 25 megawatts ("MW") of solar energy by the year 2027. Generation Bridge, together with its affiliate, Generation Bridge II, LLC, is the owner of electric power generation facilities totaling more than 5,900 MW of installed capacity across New York and Connecticut.
The multi-year Oswego solar project will utilize land owned by and located roughly threeand-a-half miles south of the Oswego Harbor Power plant, which is the Company's latest commitment to hasten the transition from fossil fuel generation to clean, renewable energy.
The project is being developed by asset manager Eastern Generation, LLC. Generation Bridge and Eastern Generation are affiliates of ArcLight Capital Partners, a leading power infrastructure investor with an existing portfolio containing over 25 gigawatts of installed generating capacity.
"ArcLight is proud to support Generation Bridge's investment in Oswego, and help New York meet its renewable energy goals by replacing fossil fuel infrastructure with clean energy generation," said Dan Revers, Managing Partner at ArcLight. "We look forward to working with the State of New York, the Department of Environmental Conservation, and the local Oswego community to begin to transition the Oswego Harbor Power station away from fossil fuel by replacing inactive fuel oil storage tanks with clean, renewable solar power."
The Oswego solar project will be built at the South Oswego Terminal, which contains several fuel oil storage tanks with a total capacity of approximately 129 million gallons. The investments in solar at the Terminal will create hundreds of jobs during construction. This is the first of several planned projects, which may ultimately include additional investments in solar, energy storage, and other clean energy technologies both at the Terminal and the main Oswego Harbor Power plant.
"As the long-time operator of several power generation facilities in New York State as well as manager of thousands of megawatts of power generation across the Northeast, we are bringing considerable engineering and project management experience to these development projects," said Mark Sudbey, CEO of Eastern Generation. "These investments in a brownfield site are made possible thanks to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and New York's leadership in clean energy."
Generation Bridge, LLC is the owner of several electric power generation facilities totaling roughly 5,000 MW of installed capacity located in California, Connecticut, and New York. Operation and asset management services are provided by Eastern Generation and Consolidated Asset Management Services. Generation Bridge is a wholly owned affiliate of ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VII, L.P., a private equity fund managed by ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC. More information about Generation Bridge can be found at www.generationbridge.com.
Eastern Generation, LLC owns, operates, and manages electric generating facilities totaling approximately 3,000 megawatts through its Astoria Generating Company and other subsidiaries. Eastern Generation manages an additional 6,000 MW portfolio of generation assets owned by Generation Bridge, LLC and Generation Bridge II, LLC, and their affiliates. Eastern Generation sells capacity, energy, and ancillary services into the merchant markets administered by the New York and New England independent system operators. Eastern Generation is an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC. More information about Eastern Generation can be found at www.easterngeneration.com.
ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC was founded in 2001 and is a leading middle-market sustainable infrastructure investor with a long-term, successful track record across 7 investment funds. Since inception, ArcLight has invested approximately $27 billion in 123 transactions, including over $16 billion of equity into the power, renewables, strategic gas and transformative infrastructure sectors. Based in Boston, the firm's investment team employs a value-added, operationally intensive investment approach that benefits from its dedicated in-house technical, operational, and commercial specialists and partners, as well as the firm's approximately 1,800-person asset management operational partner. More information about ArcLight can be found at www.arclight.com.
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A new Community Coordination model to accelerate a first generation of diagnostics and treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB), a brain research and advocacy non-profit organization is pleased to announce it is launching a Call for a TBI Action Coalition on the eve of Veterans Day.
This 'Call for Coalition' is an actionable outcome from the recent Cohen Veterans Bioscience led Brain Trauma Blueprint Action Summit held October 18-19, 2022, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington DC. CVB convened national stakeholder groups across government, academia, foundations, industry, and individuals with lived experience to develop the plan to execute the TBI Precision Research Roadmap – a consensus driven plan that outlines the research projects & policies needed to accelerate a first generation of precision diagnostics and targeted treatments for brain trauma and also the systemic changes required to ensure that all those suffering from trauma-related brain disorders can get access to these new innovations, and other support and care, they so desperately need.
Every year, millions of Americans, including Veterans, active military, first responders and public safety personnel, experience traumatic brain injuries and their devastating chronic effects, including suicide. Yet, in 2022, we still have no FDA-approved TBI diagnostics or treatments.
Cohen Veterans Bioscience (CVB), a national, nonpartisan 501c3 non-profit research organization dedicated to fast-tracking the development of diagnostic tests and personalized therapeutics for brain health, established the Brain Trauma Blueprint and is leading the coalition effort.
Through the Action Coalition we will engage the entire stakeholder community to be part of a more coordinated effort, to place TBI research at the top of the U.S. National Policy agenda to ensure that the TBI Precision Research Roadmap is executed, and that the future for those suffering from these conditions is brighter.
"We believe that a different model is needed to achieve success – a model where we collaborate to identify the most pressing research gaps and work collectively to address those gaps and ensure our work is not done in isolation, but as part of a more coordinated effort with the right resources and the right focus" said Dr. Magali Haas, CEO & President of CVB.
The TBI Coalition will be an all-hands Community Driven approach that enables Public-Private Partnership to optimize the synergistic capabilities of industry, government, advocacy and academia using an integrated approach, so that new insights can build off each other and lead to accelerated solutions. The work of the TBI Action Coalition will be driven by the consensus TBI Precision Research Roadmap to ensure progress towards clearly delineated goals & objectives to deliver on the promise of precision diagnostics and targeted therapeutics.
"The time is now to embark on a new model of research, where researchers, the government, industry and those with lived experiences come together to focus on achieving specific, measurable objectives that will transform the lives of people who suffer from brain related injuries" says Frank Larkin, Chair of CVB's Veterans Advisory Council.
We invite all individuals and organizations interested in joining this critical fight to join the Coalition Membership program. You can access Coalition information via www.braintraumablueprint.org/actioncoalition/ or www.cohenveteransbioscience.org
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SoCal teacher says she was fired for not hiding students’ gender preferences from parents
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JURUPA VALLEY, California (KABC) — A former Jurupa Valley High School teacher is speaking out after she says she was fired for not hiding students’ gender transitions and identities from parents.
Jessica Tapia was fired for refusing to follow a state law that forbids teachers from talking to parents about their child’s gender choices without consent from the student.
“And I said, ‘Are you asking me to lie to parents?’ And they said ‘Yes,'” Tapia said outside Jurupa Valley High.
AB 1266 was passed in 2014. It says schools can’t tell parents about their children’s gender identity without first asking the student.
Assemblyman Bill Essayli from Riverside is now introducing new legislation. He says he wants to protect parental rights so parents know what’s going on with their children.
“Concealing information from parents is not only wrong, it’s dangerous and harmful to the emotional and physical safety of trans minors,” Essayli said, standing next to Tapia during a press conference.
Tapia said parents need to be involved during this time.
“We are talking about minors. Their brain is not fully developed. The decision-making portal in that brain is not fully developed, and they need their parents at this time for everything,” she said. “Everything they’re going through, mentally, emotionally physically, spiritually, you name it.”
Tapia is planning to sue the school district for wrongful termination.
The Jurupa Unified School District sent a statement that said, in part: “…all students and staff enjoy the right to privacy under the Constitutions of the United States and California. While individuals may elect to disclose their personal information to the public, the District is prohibited from doing so.”
“The District’s actions related to Ms. Tapia were based on its obligations under current state and federal law which protects student privacy and requires the District to provide a discrimination-free learning environment to students.”
“The law will reset the appropriate relationship between educators and parents, and reaffirm that children are the domain of their parents, not the government,” Essayli said.
Some parents at the school think they need to know what their children are doing.
“Parents should absolutely be involved in all the decisions that their kids make,” parent Peggy Bigby Lamberth said. “Right now, kids are influenced by the media, by their friends, by just a lot of mixed messages.”
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Swing by Ball State Arts Terrace for a free concert July 28
MUNCIE, Ind. — The Big Band musicians of America’s Hometown Band will return to the Ball State University Arts Terrace for the free concert “Swing, Swing, Swing that Big Band Thing” at 7 p.m. July 28.
The band’s leader is pro trumpeter Larry McWilliams, BSU jazz program founder and emeritus professor of music. This outdoor setting under the shady trees has plenty of space for lawn chairs, blankets, picnics and dancing on the quad, located between Riverside and University avenues, south of the Fine Arts Building.
Free parking will be available just east of the quad in the McKinley parking structure, along the quad drive loop or street parking along University across from the Student Center, plus the lots just west of Lucina Hall, and south of the Student Center, accessed from University Avenue.
The non-profit, 501(c)(3) group known as ‘America’s Hometown Band’ is Muncie's municipal band, founded in 1988 by Roger McConnell and Philip Cooley. Individual donations are always welcome at any concert, and also can be made via the AHB website amhometownband.org, or the America’s Hometown Band Facebook page.
More free concertsHere's who'll take the stage at the Muncie Three Trails Music Series 2022 concerts
Nonprofits can nominate board members for Fisher Award
MUNCIE —Each year, the John W. and Janice B. Fisher Governance Award recognizes one board member of a Delaware County nonprofit whose actions have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to their organization. The award, given by Ball Brothers Foundation, is intended to highlight the important role that governing board members play in strategic planning, financial oversight and overall organizational effectiveness.
Nonprofits have until 4 p.m. on Aug. 15 to nominate one of their board members for the award, which includes a $10,000 grant to the winner’s respective organization.
The award is named in honor of Delaware County philanthropists John W. and Janice B. Fisher, Ball family members who believed deeply in the importance of good governance and strong leadership.
This year’s winner will be announced in October at the Muncie–Delaware County Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner.
Information/nominations: ballfdn.org/fisher-governance-award.
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- The largest commercial payer in Michigan, representing 5.8 million covered lives, has established positive coverage effective September 1 2023 for both one- and two-level lumbar total disc replacement (LTDR) procedures, which includes prodisc® L.
- The majority of commercial payers recently adopted positive LTDR coverage policies, and the almost 6M additional Michigan lives increase the total one-level LTDR coverage to greater than 160M out of an estimated 170 million commercially-covered lives in the U.S.
- Centinel Spine's prodisc L is the only LTDR system in the U.S. approved for one- and two-level use in the lumbar spine.
WEST CHESTER, Pa., July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Centinel Spine®, LLC, ("the Company") a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease by providing the most complete and clinically-proven total disc replacement (TDR) technology platform in the world (prodisc®), today announced significant expansion of coverage for lumbar TDR procedures in Michigan. The policy expansion announced by Michigan's largest commercial payer—effective September 1, 2023— represents over 5.8 million covered lives across the state and includes a positive coverage recommendation for both one- and two-level lumbar TDR. This major positive coverage update continues the trend for one-level lumbar TDR over the last several years, moving the number of covered lives from under 50% in 2017 to now approaching universal coverage for commercial payers.
The expanded coverage policy specifically references Centinel Spine's prodisc® L system, the only TDR system in the U.S. approved for one- and two-level use in the lumbar spine. Additional policy addenda outline coverage for the L3-L4 lumbar level; prodisc L remains the only TDR system in the U.S. approved for use at the L3-L4 level. The commercial payer, the largest operating payer in Michigan, previously had no coverage policy for either one- or two-level lumbar TDR. The new positive coverage policy opens access to patients suffering from symptomatic degenerative disc disease (DDD) who can benefit from lumbar TDR using prodisc L for both one- and two-level lumbar TDR.
According to John F. Keller, MD, Neurosurgeon, Great Lakes Neurosurgical Associates, "This most recent announcement expands disc replacement coverage benefits to over half of the patients we see in my practice, providing them with access to a motion-sparing alternative to fusion in the lumbar spine. We appreciate that more and more commercial payers now recognize and value the extensive existing clinical evidence and ongoing long-term outcome publications that demonstrate that one- and two-level lumbar total disc arthroplasty is a safe and effective procedure. I anticipate this coverage expansion may lead many of my patients that have been avoiding fusion to reconsider their surgical options to obtain a higher quality of life."
Centinel Spine CEO Steve Murray shared, "This reversal from non-coverage to coverage by such a large commercial payer continues a trend in positive coverage decisions for prodisc L over the last several years. This is a major positive coverage change that more than doubles the number of covered lives in Michigan and brings total one-level lumbar TDR coverage in the U.S. to almost 95%. We have seen an immediate response by surgeons and patients, leading to continued strong growth in prodisc L cases in the last two years."
About Centinel Spine, LLC
Centinel Spine®, LLC is a leading global medical device company addressing cervical and lumbar spinal disease by providing the most robust total disc replacement (TDR) technology platform in the world (prodisc®). The Company's prodisc technology is the most studied and clinically-proven TDR system across the globe, validated by over 540 published papers and 240,000 implantations worldwide.
Centinel Spine continues to advance its pioneering culture and corporate mission to become a catalyst of change in the spine industry and alter the way spine surgery is perceived. The prodisc platform remains the only technology with multiple motion-preserving solutions for both cervical and lumbar anterior column reconstruction.
For more information, please visit the company's website at www.CentinelSpine.com or contact:
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Abortion bans were temporarily blocked in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end constitutional protection for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation. One side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect, and the other tried to stop or at least delay such measures.
Much of the initial court activity focused on “trigger laws,” adopted in 13 states that were designed to take effect swiftly upon last week’s ruling. Additional lawsuits could also target old anti-abortion laws that were left on the books in some states and went unenforced under Roe. Newer abortion restrictions that were put on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling are also coming back into play.
“We’ll be back in court tomorrow and the next day and the next day,” Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued the case that resulted in the high court ruling, said Friday.
Rulings to put trigger laws on hold came swiftly in Utah and Louisiana on Monday, and a hearing was scheduled for Tuesday as Texas clinics seek assurances they can resume services for at least a few more weeks without risking prosecution.
A Utah judge Monday blocked that state’s near-total abortion ban from going into effect for 14 days, to allow time for the court to hear challenges to the state’s trigger law. Planned Parenthood had challenged the law, which contains narrow exceptions for rape, incest or the mother’s health, saying the law violates the equal protection and privacy provisions in the state constitution.
“I think the immediate effects that will occur outweigh any policy interest of the state in stopping abortions,” Utah Judge Andrew Stone said.
In Louisiana, a judge in New Orleans, a liberal city in a conservative state, temporarily blocked enforcement of that state’s trigger-law ban on abortion, after abortion rights activists argued that it is unclear. The ruling is in effect pending a July 8 hearing.
At least one of the state’s three abortion clinics said it would resume performing procedures on Tuesday.
“We’re going to do what we can,” said Kathaleen Pittman, administrator of Hope Medical Group for Women, in Shreveport. “It could all come to a screeching halt.”
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican and staunch abortion opponent, vowed to fight the judge’s ruling and enforce the law.
“We would remind everyone that the laws that are now in place were enacted by the people through State Constitutional Amendments and the LA Legislature,” Landry tweeted Monday.
In South Carolina, a federal court lifted its prior hold on an abortion restriction there, allowing the state to ban abortions after an ultrasound detects a heartbeat, usually around six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. There are exceptions if the woman’s life is in danger, or if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest.
Planned Parenthood said after the ruling that it will continue to perform abortions at its South Carolina clinics within the parameters of the new law.
Also Monday, abortion rights advocates asked a Florida judge to block a new law there that bans the procedure after 15 weeks with some exceptions to save a mother’s life or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality, but no exceptions for rape, incest or human trafficking. The ACLU of Florida argued that the law violates the Florida Constitution. A ruling on that is expected Thursday — a day before the law is scheduled to take effect.
Abortion rights activists also went to court Monday to try to fend off restrictions in Texas, Idaho, Kentucky and Mississippi, the state at the center of the Supreme Court ruling, while the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed an emergency motion there on Saturday seeking to block a 2021 law they worry can be used to halt all abortions.
In Friday’s ruling, the Supreme Court left it to the states to decide whether to allow abortion.
“The expectation is that this will result in years of legislative and judicial challenges,” said Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University law school.
As of Saturday, abortion services had stopped in at least 11 states — either because of state laws or confusion over them.
In some cases, the lawsuits may only buy time. Even if courts block some restrictions from taking hold, lawmakers in many conservative states could move quickly to address any flaws cited.
That’s likely to be the case in Louisiana. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in state court don’t deny that the state can now ban abortion. Instead, they contend Louisiana now has multiple, conflicting trigger mechanisms in the law.
They also argue that state law is unclear on whether it bans an abortion prior to a fertilized egg implanting in the uterus. And while the law provides an exception for “medically futile” pregnancies in cases of fetuses with lethal abnormalities, the plaintiffs noted the law gives no definition of the term.
Now that the high court has ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, abortion rights groups are seeking protection under state constitutions. Challenges to trigger laws could be made on the grounds that the conditions to impose the bans have not been met, or that it was improper for a past legislature to bind the current one.
James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, said the wave of suits from abortion rights advocates is not surprising. “We know that the abortion industry has basically unlimited funds, and its allies have basically unlimited funds, and of course they’re fanatical about abortion on demand throughout pregnancy,” Bopp said in an interview.
But he said that that the Supreme Court ruling should preclude abortion rights supporters from prevailing in any federal challenges. And he called efforts based on state constitutions “fanciful.”
Still other cases could be filed as states try to sort out whether abortion bans in place before Roe was decided — sometimes referred to as “zombie laws” — apply now that there is no federal protection for abortion.
For instance, Wisconsin passed a law in 1849 banning abortions except to save the life of the mother. Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he does not believe it is enforceable. Abortion opponents have called on lawmakers to impose a new ban.
In the meantime, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin said it immediately suspended all abortions.
In Michigan, Planned Parenthood challenged a 1931 abortion ban ahead of last week’s Supreme Court ruling. In May, a judge said the ban could not be enforced because it violates the state’s constitution. Abortion rights supporters are now trying to get a proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot in November to protect abortion and birth control.
Idaho, Oklahoma and Texas have adopted laws that allow people to seek bounties against those who help others get abortions. It is an open question as to whether that means people can be pursued across state lines, and legal challenges over the issue are likely to come up in cases of both surgical abortions and those involving medicine mailed to patients.
The California Legislature, controlled by Democrats, passed a bill Thursday to shield abortion providers and volunteers in the state from civil judgments imposed by other states. In liberal Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed an executive order Friday that prohibits state agencies from assisting other states’ investigations into anyone who receives a legal abortion in Massachusetts. Rhode Island’s Democratic governor said he would sign a similar order.
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Forliti reported from Minneapolis and Mulvihill from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Associated Press writers Samuel Metz in Salt Lake City; Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Anthony Izaguirre in Tallahassee, Florida; and other AP reporters throughout the U.S. contributed to this report.
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MILWAUKEE, Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG) has announced plans to release its fourth quarter 2022 financial results after the market closes on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. A conference call/webcast has been scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, February 2, 2023, to discuss the Company's results for the quarter ended December 31, 2022.
Individuals interested in joining by telephone should register for the call "here" to receive the dial-in number and unique PIN to access the call. It is recommended that you join the call at least 10 minutes before the conference call begins. The call is also being webcast and can be accessed via the Company's Investor website found at http://mtg.mgic.com under Newsroom. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Company's website through March 2, 2023.
About MGIC
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation ("MGIC") (www.mgic.com), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation, serves lenders throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, and other locations helping families achieve homeownership sooner by making affordable low-down-payment mortgages a reality through the use of private mortgage insurance.
From time-to-time MGIC Investment Corporation releases important information via postings on its corporate website, and via postings on MGIC's website, and it intends to continue to do so in the future. Such postings include corrections of previous disclosures and may be made without any other disclosure. Investors and other interested parties are encouraged to enroll to receive automatic email alerts and Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds regarding new postings. Enrollment information for MGIC Investment Corporation alerts can be found at https://mtg.mgic.com/shareholder-services/email-alerts. For information about our underwriting and rates, see https://www.mgic.com/underwriting.
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NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Intuit, Inc. ("Intuit" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: INTU). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Intuit and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On March 29, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Intuit, claiming that the Company has deceived millions of Americans into paying for tax service preparation software that should be free. Then, on May 4, 2022, Intuit agreed to pay $141 million to settle similar allegations regarding its TurboTax software.
On this news, Intuit's stock price fell $22.14 per share, or 5.1%, to close at $409.86 per share on May 5, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military used an “enhanced-blast” munition known as a fuel-air explosive in an airstrike that killed more than 160 people, including many children, at a ceremony held last month by opponents of army rule, a major human rights monitoring group charged in a report Tuesday.
The attack caused “indiscriminate and disproportionate civilian casualties in violation of international humanitarian law, and was an apparent war crime,” said the New York-based group.
Thermobaric weapons consist of a fuel container and two separate explosive charges, with the first detonating to disperse the fuel particles and the second igniting the dispersed fuel and oxygen in the air, creating a blast wave of extreme pressure and heat that creates a partial vacuum in an enclosed space. That makes the weapon particularly deadly for people in an enclosed space, such as the office that was being opened.
Myanmar is wracked by violence that began after the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021, and brutally suppressed nonviolent protests. That triggered an armed resistance and combat in many parts of the country, with the military increasingly using airstrikes to counter the opposition and secure territory.
Human Rights Watch said it based its conclusion that a thermobaric weapon had been used on a review of 59 photos of the victims’ bodies and a video of the site following the attacks.
It said it also analyzed eight photographs and two videos of the remnants of the weapons posted online by the National Unity Government, an underground group that calls itself the country’s legitimate government. It presented them during a news conference three days after the bombing of the building that was supposed to be a local office for the organization.
The attack killed 168 civilians, including 40 children under 18 years, it said. A 6-month-old girl was the youngest victim and a 76-year-old man was the oldest, the statement said. Its tally could not be independently confirmed by The Associated Press.
A witness told the AP on the day of the attack that a fighter jet dropped bombs directly onto a crowd of people and a helicopter appeared about half an hour later, firing at the site. The witness, who asked not to be identified because he feared punishment by the authorities, said those killed also included leaders of local anti-government armed groups and other opposition organizations.
Myanmar’s army acknowledged the attack but defended its actions, accusing anti-government forces in the area of carrying out a violent campaign of terror. It said the People’s Defense Forces — the armed wing of the National Unity Government -- had terrorized residents into supporting them, killing Buddhist monks, teachers and others.
The military government’s spokesperson, Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, told state television MRTV there was evidence the attack had set off secondary blasts of explosives hidden by the People’s Defense Forces around the site.
Human Rights Watch said that according to a witness, the People’s Defense Force stored goods, funds, medicines and also some ammunition in the office building, which was intended for civilian uses such as filing taxes, township meetings and judicial processes.
“The presence of opposition combatants and ammunition would make the building a legitimate military objective subject to attack,” said Human Rights Watch.
“Even so, the use of an enhanced-blast weapon for the attack was unlawfully indiscriminate because its use in a crowded civilian area could not minimize the loss of civilian life. In addition, the initial strike and ensuing attacks on hundreds of fleeing civilians was almost certainly an unlawfully disproportionate attack, and possibly a deliberate attack on civilians.”
The use of thermobaric weapons is rarely publicly acknowledged because of the indiscriminate destruction they can cause.
The United States has used varieties of fuel-air explosives in conflicts in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. In Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force dropped what it described as its “largest non-nuclear conventional weapon,” the 9,840-kilogram (21,693-pound) Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb.
Russia, which acknowledges producing fuel-air munitions, has been accused of using them in several conflicts, including in Ukraine. The weapons have also been reported to have been used by Azerbaijan in fighting against neighboring Armenia, and by government forces in Syria’s civil war.
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Leading Pest Control Company Urges Mosquito Prevention Amidst New Malaria Cases
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mosquito Joe®, a Neighborly® company, is urging homeowners to take immediate action against mosquitoes following the public health alert issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this week, confirming the presence of malaria cases in Florida and Texas. These cases are the first instances of the mosquito-borne disease in the country since 2003. As nationwide concerns arise from this news, Mosquito Joe is committed to educating the public about the factors contributing to malaria transmission, its symptoms, and how to protect themselves ahead of the Fourth of July festivities.
Malaria is a serious and potentially fatal disease that is transmitted through the bite of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. An infected person may show signs of symptoms that can range from fever, chills, and nausea to more severe complications if left untreated. Though extremely rare in the U.S., there are more than 240 million cases of malaria diagnosed each year, according to the CDC. The reasons that the disease is now emerging in the U.S. may be due to an increase in travel activity, along with the ongoing rise in global temperatures. The combination of these conditions allows the Anopheles mosquito to thrive.
"The recent confirmation of malaria in both Florida and Texas is concerning as locally transmitted cases of the disease haven't been seen in the U.S. for the past 20 years," said David Price, Associate Certified Entomologist for Mosquito Joe. "Mosquitoes can rapidly multiply and become a serious threat to public health. Preventing mosquito bites is the best way to avoid new cases of malaria. At Mosquito Joe, we are committed to taking an active role in educating the public on effective mosquito prevention techniques to safeguard our communities from diseases like malaria."
The Fourth of July weekend is approaching and many will be spending hours outdoors celebrating. Mosquito Joe provides the following tips to stay safe from these blood-sucking insects and the potential diseases they carry:
- Use Mosquito Repellent: Apply an effective mosquito repellent that contains DEET, picaridin, or other EPA-approved ingredients when spending time outdoors. Don't forget to reapply as needed.
- Wear Protective Clothing: Mosquito activity peaks in the evening, so consider wearing long sleeves, pants, and socks when watching the fireworks to protect exposed skin. Opt for light-colored and loose-fitting clothing for comfort and better visibility.
- Maintain Your Yard & Pools: Fourth of July weekend brings plenty of pool parties and the cleaner the pool is, the more fun for everyone! Keep swimming pools clean, properly circulated and filtered throughout the holiday weekend. Use a pool cover when not in use to prevent mosquitoes. For the yard, regularly mow the lawn to avoid tall grass, a resting area for mosquitoes. Remove or empty containers like flowerpots, watering cans, and buckets that hold standing water, as they can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes.
- Use Outdoor Fans: Mosquitoes do not like excessive air movement, so setting up an outdoor fan around any picnics or gatherings can create a breeze that makes it difficult for them to fly and infest the area.
- Keep Doors & Windows Screened: Make sure that any open windows or doors are equipped with intact screens, free from holes or gaps, in order to prevent mosquitoes from entering your home.
- Call in the Professionals: If you're worried about a mosquito infestation ruining your holiday plans, consider hiring a professional pest control company, like Mosquito Joe, to eliminate the bugs from the yard.
Mosquito Joe is dedicated to helping homeowners protect themselves from the dangers of mosquitoes and the associated health risks. Franchise locations across the U.S. offer professional services that provide reliable and effective mosquito control solutions. Mosquito Joe's certified technicians are trained in the Mosquito Joe Pollinator Protection Management Program, which focuses on deep familiarity with each customer's property, professional application procedures, and the use of appropriate products. They are also trained and certified to meet state guidelines.
Last year, the brand was awarded the Silver Tier by the EPA's Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program (PESP) for its work on emphasizing integrated pest management (IPM), education, pollinator protection, and stewardship of the environment.
For more information about Mosquito Joe and mosquito preventive measures, visit MosquitoJoe.com.
About Mosquito Joe®
Dedicated to making outside fun again by eliminating mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas from customers' yards, Mosquito Joe®, a Neighborly® company, is a leader in the outdoor pest control industry. The brand was founded in 2010 and has since expanded to more than 350 locations throughout the U.S. Acquired in 2018, Mosquito Joe® is part of Neighborly®, the world's largest home services company with more than 30 brands and 5,000 franchises collectively serving 12 million+ customers in six countries, focused on repairing, maintaining, and enhancing homes and businesses. Through Neighborly.com and the Neighborly mobile app, Neighborly connects consumers to local service providers that meet rigorous franchisor standards across 19 service categories. For more information about Mosquito Joe®, visit www.mosquitojoe.com. To learn about franchising opportunities with Neighborly®, click here.
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Martina Navratilova diagnosed with throat, breast cancer
NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis great Martina Navratilova said Monday that she has been diagnosed with throat cancer and breast cancer.
In a statement released by her representative, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame said her prognosis is good and she will start treatment this month.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable, and I’m hoping for a favorable outcome,” the 66-year-old Navratilova said. “It’s going to stink for a while but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
She said she noticed an enlarged lymph node in her neck while attending the season-ending WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas, in November, and a biopsy showed early stage throat cancer. While Navratilova was undergoing tests on her throat, she said, the unrelated breast cancer was discovered.
Navratilova was diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer in 2010 and had a lumpectomy.
She won 59 Grand Slam titles overall, including 31 in women’s doubles and 10 in mixed doubles. The last was a mixed doubles championship with Bob Bryan at the 2006 U.S. Open, a month shy of her 50th birthday.
Navratilova originally retired in 1994, after a record 167 singles titles and 331 weeks at No. 1 in the WTA rankings. She returned to the tour to play doubles in 2000 and occasionally competed in singles, too.
Navratilova was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000. She has worked as a TV analyst in recent years.
The statement issued Monday said Navratilova would not be a regular part of Tennis Channel’s coverage of the Australian Open later this month “but hopes to be able to join in from time to time” via video conference.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Disney sued Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday over the Republican’s takeover of its theme park district, alleging the governor waged a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” after the company opposed a law critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
The lawsuit was filed in Tallahassee minutes after a Disney World oversight board appointed by DeSantis voted to void a deal that gave the company authority over design and construction decisions in its sprawling properties near Orlando.
“Disney regrets that it has come to this,” the case said. “But having exhausted efforts to seek a resolution, the Company is left with no choice but to file this lawsuit to protect its cast members, guests, and local development partners from a relentless campaign to weaponize government power against Disney in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint unpopular with certain State officials.”
The legal filing is the latest salvo in a more than year-old feud between Disney and DeSantis that has engulfed the governor in criticism as he prepares to launch an expected presidential bid in the coming months.
DeSantis, who has framed himself as a Republican firebrand able to deftly implement his conservative agenda without drama, has dived headlong into the fray with the beloved company and major tourism driver, as business leaders and White House rivals bash his stance as a rejection of the small-government tenets of conservatism.
“We are unaware of any legal right that a company has to operate its own government or maintain special privileges not held by other businesses in the state,” said DeSantis spokeswoman Taryn Fenske. “This lawsuit is yet another unfortunate example of their hope to undermine the will of the Florida voters and operate outside the bounds of the law.”
The fight began last year after Disney, in the face of significant pressure, publicly opposed a state law that bans classroom lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in early grades, a policy critics call “Don’t Say Gay.”
As punishment, DeSantis took over Disney World’s self-governing district and appointed a new board of supervisors that would oversee municipal services in the sprawling theme parks. But before the new board came in, the company pushed though an 11th-hour agreement that stripped the new supervisors of much of their authority.
The DeSantis board on Wednesday said Disney’s move to retain control over their property was effectively unlawful and performed without proper public notice.
“Disney picked the fight with this board. We were not looking out for a fight,” said Martin Garcia, chair of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, before the vote, adding “bottom line, what our lawyers have told us, is factually and legally what they created is an absolute legal mess. It will not work.”
DeSantis has also vowed additional retribution, with proposals to enhance state oversight of the resort’s rides and monorail, as well as a suggestion to build a prison nearby. Also Wednesday, the Florida Senate passed a bill seeking to put those retributions in place and to undo agreements made by the Reedy Creek board before the state took it over. The House still needs to approve before it can move forward.
Disney has said all agreements made with the previous board were legal and approved in a public forum. Disney CEO Bob Iger has also said that any actions against the company that threaten jobs or expansion at its Florida resort was not only “anti-business” but “anti-Florida.”
The Disney lawsuit asks a federal judge to void the governor’s takeover of the theme park district, as well as the DeSantis oversight board’s actions, on the grounds that they were violations of company’s free speech rights.
“A targeted campaign of government retaliation — orchestrated at every step by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech — now threatens Disney’s business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region, and violates its constitutional rights,” the lawsuit said.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Attorneys hired by Jay-Z and other entertainers have ended two lawsuits they filed on behalf of Mississippi inmates in 2020 over what they said were squalid living conditions at the state’s oldest prison — a facility that came under Justice Department scrutiny after outbursts of deadly violence by inmates.
Even before the violence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman in late 2019 and early 2020, state health inspectors had found repeated problems with broken toilets and moldy showers. Inmates said some cell doors did not lock, and it was common to see rats and roaches.
The lawsuits were dismissed Jan. 13 after the inmates’ attorneys and the state Department of Corrections said improvements have been made during the past three years, including installing air conditioning in most of the prison, renovating some bathrooms and updating the electrical, water and sewer systems.
In April, the U.S. Justice Department issued a report that said Parchman had violated inmates’ constitutional rights. The department said the prison failed to protect inmates from violence, meet their mental health needs or take adequate steps for suicide prevention, and that the prison had relied too much on prolonged solitary confinement.
The Justice Department spent two years investigating Parchman. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in April that Mississippi Department of Corrections officials cooperated with the investigation and pledged to resolve problems.
U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock in northern Mississippi filed the order this month dismissing the lawsuits that were funded by Jay-Z; rapper Yo Gotti; and Team Roc, the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z’s Roc Nation. In a court filing, attorneys for the plaintiffs and for the defendants in the Mississippi Department of Corrections agreed that nobody involved in the lawsuits admitted liability or responsibility to anyone else in the suits.
“We’re pleased that Parchman has started to address the cruel and inhumane prison conditions after the Department of Justice’s investigation, but we aren’t satisfied with short-term improvements,” Mario Mims, who goes by the stage name Yo Gotti, said in a statement Monday. “The Mississippi Department of Corrections has neglected these torturous living conditions for decades, so we will continue to hold them accountable and ensure they commit to creating long-lasting change that safely protects their incarcerated population.”
One lawsuit was filed in January 2020 and the other was filed a month later. They two were eventually merged. The second suit said Parchman was a violent, rat-infested place where inmates lived in “abhorrent conditions” and their medical needs were routinely ignored.
Burl Cain, a former Louisiana prison warden, became commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections in May 2020 and vowed to improve conditions at Parchman. Since then, the department has moved some inmates to other prisons. Parchman had more than 3,200 inmates in December 2019; it has about 2,450 this month.
“The Mississippi Department of Corrections appreciates the tremendous responsibility of housing individuals sentenced to our care, custody and control and has always been committed to continuously improving the living conditions of the individuals housed in all of our correctional facilities, including the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman,” Courtney Cockrell, an attorney for the department, said in a statement Monday. “Accordingly, we have and will continue to make diligent efforts to improve the quality of life for all individuals in the custody of the MDOC and provide them with opportunities to successfully return to their communities.”
Violence has been a longstanding problem in Mississippi prisons, where many jobs for guards have gone unfilled. Officials with the state Department of Corrections have said for years that it is difficult to find people to work as guards because of low pay, long hours and dangerous conditions. The state increased pay during the past two years.
The Justice Department said last year that it found “gross understaffing” and “uncontrolled gang activity.” It also found that insufficient security gave inmates “unfettered access to contraband.”
Parchman was founded in 1901 on the site of a former plantation. For decades, inmates worked in a farming operation that critics said was akin to slavery.
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A leading registered investment advisory firm "…isn't your parents' financial planning office."
WHEATON, Ill., Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Crain's Chicago Business recently released its report on "The Coolest Offices in Chicago 2022." In that report the Crain's staff said, "At Fairhaven Wealth Management's office in Wheaton, the lobby features a giant Fairhaven logo hand-carved out of California redwood. The design is deliberate and bold, and hints this isn't your parents' financial planning office."
"The vision of our office design was to create an experience that communicated our culture without saying a word," said Marc Horner, Founder and CEO Fairhaven Wealth Management. "Whether guests to our office be clients, potential clients, community leaders or the FedEx guy, they immediately know they are someplace different when they are greeted by a six-foot wide wooden hand-carving of our logo. And that just begins the "experience" of visiting our office."
The carving was commissioned by Doug Rowell aka "Carver Doug" www.carverdoug.com. In addition to Fairhaven, Carver Doug has worked on projects including a banjo for comedian Steve Martin, a guitar for Samuel L. Jackson and the clubhouse table for the television series "Sons of Anarchy". In fact, it was his work on the television crime drama about an outlaw motorcycle club that inspired Fairhaven's Horner.
Fairhaven art curator, Truman Rapp, recalls the evolution of the carving, "Marc threw out the idea that he thought the logo would look cool carved out of wood in a style like the Sons of Anarchy clubhouse table. I have to admit, I did not quite get the connection between financial planning and outlaw motorcycle gangs. But part of the fun working with Marc and the Fairhaven team is how much they enjoy thinking creatively."
"We believe delivering a unique client experience starts by first taking care of our team," says Horner. "Part of that care is creating for them a unique and inspiring work environment. To have our space highlighted alongside multimillion-dollar offices reaching a half mile into the skies of Chicago is a pretty mean feat towards that goal!"
Today the Fairhaven team serves more than 450 clients across the country. For more information, visit www.fairhavenwealth.com.
Fairhaven is an independent, privately-owned SEC-registered investment and wealth management firm. Our values are summed up in the Fairhaven Way /fair•haven/: 1. Listen more than we speak 2. Provide unbiased financial advice 3. Tailor strategies to client goals 4. Deliver prudent investment management 5. Focus on tax efficiency 6. Remain disciplined in a world of uncertainty 7. Communicate candidly & consistently. To learn more, visit www.fairhavenwealth.com. Or follow the firm on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
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Soldier's path to a Methodist University degree started in 1994
When Master Sgt. Christopher Ansley’s daughter, Keeley, placed a hood over his head at Methodist University’s graduation on Saturday, it marked the end of a 28-year journey that started with encouragement from his father.
The hooding ceremony is a long-standing tradition for the university, according to a statement released by the school. Each of the nearly 300 graduates selected a parent, spouse, child, professor or friend, to help mark the academic achievement during the school’s commencement at Segra Stadium in downtown Fayetteville.
Ansley, who plans to retire from the Army this year, first stepped foot on the Methodist campus in 1994, according to a separate statement from the school. At the time, his father, who was in the Marine Corps, was attending night school at what was then Methodist College and would earn his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting the following year.
The path Ansley took to earn his sociology degree had more than a few detours. His father died in 1998, but Ansley kept taking classes at Methodist before joining the Army National Guard two years later.
Ansley switched to active duty status after the Sept. 11 attacks and deployed to Iraq twice. In 2012, he returned to Fort Bragg and started picking up a few online classes at Methodist. He was on track to finish in 2014, but he was transferred to Fort Polk, Louisiana and a few years later moved to Scranton, Pa., to become an ROTC instructor.
Last year, Ansley decided he wanted to earn his degree before he retired. He contacted the staff at Methodist’s Fort Bragg campus to talk about how he could do that.
More:Methodist University receives $1.5 million gift, names buildings for Dr. Frank P. Stout
Billy Buckner, director of the university’s Military Programs and Workforce Training, said many of the actions Ansley took were already available.
“We just needed to determine which path would best suit him,” Buckner said.
Ansley said the degree would not be possible without his wife and five children.
“My kids are my inspiration,” he said. “I keep telling them to never give up and to strive to be the best you can be.”
Ansley said he went into the Army instead of the Marines because he didn’t want people to say he was following in his father’s footsteps. Now, he’s proud that he followed his father to Methodist.
“I know he really wanted to see me graduate before he passed away, but it means a lot to me that I’m earning a degree from the same university as him,” he said. “It’s something I get to carry with me the rest of my life.”
During the commencement ceremony, Methodist University President Stanley T. Wearden praised the graduates for dealing with the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’ve been working in higher education for 40 years, and I’ve never seen challenges like those we have faced together over the past two years,” Wearden said. “You have felt the pressure – I’ve seen that. But what I hope you now realize about yourselves is that you have deep reservoirs of strength, character, and compassion.”
More:Three university professors jazz up Cumberland County's music scene
Larry Keen, president of Fayetteville Technical Community College, spoke during the commencement. Keen has led an effort to provide college transfer programs at FTCC and played a pivotal role in the relationship between the two schools.
Keen encouraged the graduates to be “in the arena” instead of standing back and condemning other people.
mentioned the Class of 2022 should be proud of its efforts and offered encouragement.
“Be the one who invests all you have to be the best you can be,” he said.
Local news editor Steve DeVane can be reached at sdevane@fayobserver.com.
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Leading National Health Equity Non-Profit Adds Chief Operations Officer and Chief Strategy and Learning Officer
BOSTON and OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Leads, a national non-profit working to address the root causes of racial health inequities, has announced the addition of two new members to its executive leadership team. Dominique Morgan has joined the organization as its chief operating officer and Susan Furtney as chief strategy and learning officer.
"As our work in racial health equity innovation has spread, and our advocacy and partnerships have grown at both the local and national levels, we saw the opportunity to reinforce our operations and learning structures that are key to achieving our strategy," said Health Leads CEO Alexandra Quinn. "Susan and Dominique's leadership experience across the healthcare ecosystem, as well as in government, corporate, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations, will be key to furthering our work in removing deeply-rooted barriers to health, dignity, and well-being."
Dominique previously served as market president for VillageMD, chief operating officer of Steward Medical Group, and vice president of Population Health for Steward Health Care. Dominique's decades of experience and a passion for transforming health outcomes for under-resourced populations will guide her in her new role overseeing Health Leads programs, initiatives, and operational support functions including finance, people and culture.
"Health Leads understands what deep health equity work truly requires - that it's not a set of short-term solutions or a one-time training - and continues to pursue initiatives and partnerships that demonstrate how to redesign systems to make a meaningful impact on people's lives," said Dominique. "From maternal health to housing to food insecurity, I'm excited to lead this work tackling today's most pressing health equity challenges."
Most recently serving as the chief strategy officer at SUNY Upstate University Hospital, Susan is a public health executive with nearly three decades of business development, operations management, analytics, and consulting experience in both corporate and non-profit organizations. As Health Leads' first chief strategy and learning officer, Susan will oversee the business development, investor relations and communications functions and evolve the organization's learning, policy, measurement and evaluation strategies.
"In partnership with community-based organizations across the country, Health Leads has a proven history of untangling complex barriers to health, facilitating collaborations for advocacy and action, and spreading equity-centered practices and policies," said Susan. "I'm honored to join Health Leads to help continue to drive the organization toward meaningful impact, both locally and nationally."
In their new roles, Susan and Dominique will work closely with the leadership team in setting the strategy for Health Leads initiatives and partnerships to ensure the organization remains at the forefront of collaborative, community-led health equity innovation and advocacy.
For full bios on Susan and Dominique, visit https://healthleadsusa.org/about-us/our-leadership
About Health Leads
Health Leads is an innovation hub that seeks to unearth and address the deep societal roots of racial inequity that impact our health. The organization works both nationally and locally across the U.S. to build partnerships and redesign systems so that every person, in every community, can live with health, well-being, and dignity. Learn more at healthleadsusa.org and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.
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4 children dead in mobile home park fire, authorities say
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA/Gray News) - Four children have died in a fire at a mobile home park in Indiana, according to authorities.
The Fort Wayne Fire Department said they received a call for a fire at Dupont Estates Mobile Home Park on the northeast side of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday morning.
An official with the fire department told WPTA that four children in the mobile home had died and four adults were taken to the hospital. Two pets also died in the fire, the fire department said.
The fire department said crews battled hard and had the fire under control about 20 minutes after their arrival.
The fire department had responded to another fire on April 16 at the same mobile home park. An adult and a child were able to evacuate, but a dog died in the fire. The cause of that fire remains under investigation.
Dupont Estates is a family-oriented mobile home park, with amenities including a pool, clubhouse and other child-friendly features. Units are individually owned and are not maintained by park ownership.
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Link in bio app gives creators the ability to easily sell any e-book or PDF in a few simple steps
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Koji, the world's most powerful link in bio platform and the leading app store for social media, announces the launch of its updated e-book and audiobook capability. Koji now makes it easier than ever to sell and share any e-book, PDF or audiobook from directly inside your link in bio.
Koji's e-book app offers powerful sharing features, as well as new preview, description and design options in order for sellers to properly showcase books and entice prospective buyers. Customers can view or download their purchase instantly and the app's built-in reader and player allows both ebooks and audiobooks to be read or listened to interchangeably. In addition, sellers can upload audiobooks, either as standalone items or as an add-on and they can easily create combination bundles that include e-books and audiobooks.
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Koji is the only e-commerce platform tailor made for social media with hundreds of free templates to customize and monetize social platforms. The company's versatile digital storefronts are used by a fast growing community of Creators and innovators to engage audiences on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch and other platforms.
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The Thundertones Chorus is part of a national organization called the Barbershop Harmony Society. The Huntington Tri-State chapter has between 30 and 35 members. For the singing Valentines, they split into groups of four to make barbershop quartets.
It averages around 30 valentines each year but has had up to 70 in the past, this year it expects to sing around 40.
“They’re always well received and sometimes, there is even a tear or two,” said Steve Patrick, the chorus director.
They’ve sung Valentines almost everywhere within a 30 mile radius of Huntington. Parents order them for their children in school and children will order them for parents at their office. Lovers also order them for their significant other, most commonly they visit restaurants or homes.
“Everyone is unique and everyone is special,” he said. “We had a situation where one year, we sang to a lady from her fiance, the next year she ordered one for him, the following year they asked us to sing at their wedding because we were an important part of their courtship.”
This is the largest fundraiser the chorus does. It helps purchase new music, costumes and equipment. To order a singing Valentine, call 304-302-6683. Each Valentine costs $50, which includes two songs, a card and a rose.
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Laguna Heights laundromat provides free services to tornado victims
It's been exactly one week since a tornado tore through Laguna Heights and people lost homes, businesses and a man lost his life.
Laundromat Five Stars EZ Wash allowed those affected by last week's tornado to wash their cloths for free.
One of the women who manages the laundromat lives in Laguna Heights and had her home damaged; now she wants to help her neighbors who need it.
Margarita Alonso helps run the laundromat that is owned by her sister. It's less than a mile from where the tornado touched down in Laguna Heights.
"It was so scary. We were sad, all I could think was pray for all those people trying to pick their stuff. It was devastating," Alonso said.
The tornado barely missed her house.
"We didn't have that much damage. We only had a few leaks compared to what everybody else lost," Alonso said.
That's why she and her sister are trying to help.
"She said let's do something. Before, we didn't have a washer or dryer ourselves, so that was a hassle for us too and then, them that they're misplaced, they don't have a current home right now, so we want to do that for them," Alonso said.
They offered free washer and dryer services to anyone affected by the tornado on Friday, May 19.
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- On-demand institutional liquidity network offers futures spreads, options strategies and spot OTC
- Rapid growth underpins OKX's emphasis on product development specifically for institutional clients
VICTORIA, Seychelles, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OKX, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, today announced that its Liquid Marketplace, an on-demand liquidity network tailored for institutional traders, exceeded USD1 billion in trading volume in 2023.
The on-demand OKX Liquid Marketplace provides access to deep institutional liquidity and provides access to a number of crypto trading strategies, including futures spreads, large options block trades or spot OTC, to run at scale. One-click atomic execution of both legs allows traders to easily execute efficient and low-risk spread trading to farm funding rates, generate yield via cash-and-carry trades, and roll expiring futures hedges.
Lennix Lai, Managing Director of Global Institutional at OKX, said: "Institutional clients demand liquidity, superior fee structures, and streamlined execution of advanced trading strategies. We've designed our Liquid Marketplace to hit this sweet spot, and the market is responding. Our aim is to become the go-to venue for institutional traders by listening to their needs and leveraging our technical expertise, creativity and product design to build the best platform for their needs."
OKX Liquid Marketplace overhauls the traditional RFQ process by automating workflows, offering an integrated position builder and enabling anonymous RFQs with two-way quotes. Users can construct custom multi-leg strategies and request quotes on futures spreads and basis trades with the click of a button. The platform also offers leading security underpinned by end-to-end connectivity with OKX's risk management and settlement system.
The growth of the OKX Liquid Marketplace has occurred against the backdrop of OKX's global expansion, which has seen it reach 50 million global users.
Find out more about OKX Liquid Marketplace here.
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This announcement is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to provide any investment, tax, or legal advice, nor should it be considered an offer to purchase, sell, or hold digital assets. Digital assets, including stablecoins, involve a high degree of risk, can fluctuate greatly, and can even become worthless. You should carefully consider whether trading or holding digital assets is suitable for you in light of your financial condition. Please consult your legal/tax/investment professional for questions about your specific circumstances.
About OKX
OKX is the second biggest global crypto exchange by trading volume and a leading web3 ecosystem. Trusted by more than 50 million global users, OKX is known for being the fastest and most reliable crypto trading app for investors and professional traders everywhere.
As a top partner of English Premier League champions Manchester City FC, McLaren Formula 1, golfer Ian Poulter, Olympian Scotty James, and F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, OKX aims to supercharge the fan experience with new engagement opportunities. OKX is also the top partner of the Tribeca Festival as part of an initiative to bring more creators into web3.
Beyond OKX's exchange, the OKX Wallet is the platform's latest offering for people looking to explore the world of NFTs and the metaverse while trading GameFi and DeFi tokens.
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Whether you’re looking for something new this season or an avid gardener considering adding to your collection, the Boise Flower & Garden Show on March 24-26 at the Boise Centre is a must-do. The 26th annual Boise Flower & Garden show comes with an array of features featuring new companies, products, ideas, and advice from gardening experts.
With spring right around the corner, what better time is there to get a jump-start on planning for your yards and gardens.
Bonsai exhibit
This year’s show will include a bonsai exhibit. The Boise Bonsai Society will host an array of workshops and demos all weekend long, focused on educating the general public in the ancient art form of growing miniature trees in pots.
“It’s a great resource for those wanting to learn and begin the pruning process,” said Anna Aldinger of IBL Events.
For those who may be unfamiliar or want to learn more about the art of bonsai, the “Bonsai 101- Getting Started with Bonsai” workshop may be a great option. “Styling Techniques & Principles” presented from March 24 through March 26 at noon is another workshop. “It’s not necessarily just one tree. You can do the art of bonsai with many different types of trees,” said Aldinger. “Some of these trees are anywhere from 20 years old to hundreds of years old.”
More to check out
Another feature of this year’s show is the keynote address which will encompass a panel presented by Jim Duthie of KTVB’s “You Can Grow It.” “We have an expert panel where guests can come and ask questions … they can tap into the knowledge of those experts and get their questions answered,” said Aldinger. The event will take place on Friday, March 24 at 1:30 p.m. with limited seating on a first come-first serve basis.
Free live music will be available to guests on both Friday, March 24, and Saturday, March 25 from 1 to 5 p.m. Also on Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m., local wines and beer tasting will feature Sawtooth Winery and Vizcaya Winery as well as Mad Swede Brewing Company and Loose Screw Beer Company.
The community is also encouraged to bring soil samples from their garden or other frequently recreated areas in a one-quart plastic bag which can be tested by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. Water testing will also be available to test for fluoride, nitrate, arsenic, uranium, manganese, and lead. More information can be found online at GardenShowBoise.com.
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Police said the driver took off in a gray Honda Civic after hitting a pedestrian
Police looking for driver involved in South Side fatal hit-and-run
Police said the driver took off in a gray Honda Civic after hitting a pedestrian
NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES. THE CAUSE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION. POLICE ARE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP TO IDENTIFY A CAR INVOLVED IN A FATAL HIT-AND-RUN AROUND WEST CARSON STREET AT 3:00 THIS MORNING. THEY FOUND AN ADULT MAN IN THE ROAD. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD. THEY ARE LOOKING FOR A 2016 TO 2 018 HONDA CIVIC WITH DAMAGE TO THE FRONT GRILL. IT IS GRAY IN COLOR.
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Police looking for driver involved in South Side fatal hit-and-run
Police said the driver took off in a gray Honda Civic after hitting a pedestrian
Pittsburgh police are searching for the driver they said hit and killed a pedestrian early Saturday morning on West Carson Street.The crash happened just before 3 a.m. on the city's South Side. First responders found an adult man down in the road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.Investigators are looking for a 2016-2018 gray Honda Civic with damage to its front grill.Police ask anyone with information to call the Collision Investigation Unit at 412-937-3051.
PITTSBURGH —
Pittsburgh police are searching for the driver they said hit and killed a pedestrian early Saturday morning on West Carson Street.
The crash happened just before 3 a.m. on the city's South Side. First responders found an adult man down in the road. He was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Investigators are looking for a 2016-2018 gray Honda Civic with damage to its front grill.
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Back in January, we told you about a different kind of COVID vaccine that had just been approved for use in India. The vaccine, called Corbevax, had some very attractive properties: It's low-cost, easy to make using well-established biotech processes — and patent-free.
The vaccine's inventors were hoping it would help address questions of vaccine equity for countries that can't afford to make or buy expensive vaccines like the ones sold by Pfizer and Moderna.
It appears their strategy is working. Since Corbevax was authorized for use last December, Indian health authorities have administered quite a few doses. Here's where things stood on August 10 when I spoke with the two scientists who invented it: Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Botazzi, co-directors of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital.
"The new numbers as of this week from the Indian government say that 70 million doses have gone into arms," Hotez says. Those arms belong to adolescents, but on August 10 the vaccine was authorized for use as a booster in people 18 and older.
Not only does the experience so far suggest the vaccine confers long-lasting immunity, it also appears to be quite safe.
"We have not seen any pharmacovigilance that says otherwise," Botazzi says. Pharmacovigilance is the technical term for monitoring for bad side effects from a drug or vaccine.
In addition to using low-cost materials, Botazzi says they also wanted to be culturally sensitive. For example, they made sure no products derived from animals were needed to make the vaccine.
"Our technology is considered vegan and therefore we can develop this vaccine as a halal certified vaccine," she says – an important consideration in countries with a large Islamic population like Indonesia.
Wondering how the world would respond
It wasn't certain at first countries would take to Corbevax.
"A lot of people initially thought the global market for COVID vaccines is quite saturated," says Prashant Yadav, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. "Will there be a place for a late entrant, even if it comes at a lower cost and even if it comes with more open intellectual property?"
The answer to that question appears to be yes. In addition to a partnership with Biological E in India, a company called Biofarma in Indonesia is planning to make Corbevax.
And African countries are showing interest.
"Corbervax has been approved by the Botswana Medicines Regulator Authority," says Mogomatsi Matshaba, an adviser to the Botswana government on COVID-19 and executive director of Botswana-Baylor. He says Corbevax has not yet been used there, but he expects it will be, as well as in other African countries.
"The plan is to start mass production in Botswana," he says.
Of course lately, there have been new variants of the COVID virus, and it's not clear how well Corbevax will work against them. The Texas team that made Corbevax is trying to make a version of their vaccine that will work against all varieties of the virus.
At least one member of the U.S. Congress was so impressed with Hotez and Botazzi that she nominated the pair for the Nobel Peace Prize
"Their effort is to bring health, peace and security to all people by making it possible to vaccinate the world," says Lizzie Fletcher, a Texas Democrat. "So I think that that's very much in keeping with the purpose of the prize."
Winning a Nobel prize is probably a long shot, but that's OK with Hotez.
"I'm on cloud nine and I think Dr. Bertozzi is as well in part because, you know, it's not just the recognition, it's the fact that we showed there's another way to do this," he says — a way for a small, academically focused lab to make a vaccine that's safe, effective and affordable.
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Parkland shooter’s prosecutor had bloody facts on his side
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case: terrifying witness accounts; heartrending statements from parents and spouses; chilling surveillance videos; gruesome autopsy and crime scene photos; and, as a capstone, Thursday’s jury walk-through of the three-story building where it happened, bloodstains and Valentine’s Day cards still clinging to the floors.
Lead prosecutor Mike Satz, the 80-year-old former Broward County state attorney, then rested his case against the defendant who murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
Cruz’s attorneys repeatedly objected that Satz’s case went beyond what was legally allowable or necessary and was aimed primarily at inflaming the jurors’ emotions — objections that were denied by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer.
There was never any doubt Satz would be able to prove the killings were “cold, calculated and premeditated,” that Cruz’s actions were “heinous, atrocious or cruel” and “created a great risk to many persons " and four other aggravating circumstances listed in Florida law that make him eligible for a possible death sentence. But Satz also had to give them heft as they must, in the jurors’ unanimous opinion, “outweigh” the mitigating factors the defense will soon present.
“I didn’t think there were any surprises, but what surprises could there have been?” said Bob Jarvis, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in suburban Fort Lauderdale. “The jurors knew walking in what Cruz had done. ... The question that kept running through my mind was, ‘Was it too much?’”
“He did a fantastic job,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. “He has built a case that I think has given the jury more than enough to find these aggravating factors and was not over-the-top at all.”
After a one-week break, the sides will spend a week without the jury arguing before Judge Scherer over what evidence Cruz’s defense can present about how his birth mother’s drinking and drug abuse during pregnancy affected his brain and whether defects can be seen on scans.
Jennifer Zedalis, a University of Florida law professor, said such arguments over fetal alcohol syndrome scans go back 20 years.
“Brain scans, MRIs, we can learn from them — the argument will be over whether the evidence reaches the standard of relevance and reliability to be permitted,” Zedalis said. She said if the evidence’s admissibility is borderline, she would expect the judge to side with Cruz’s lawyers as appellate courts have said “a defendant on trial for his life deserves wide latitude.”
Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 counts of first-degree murder; the trial is only to decide whether the former Stoneman Douglas student is sentenced to death or life without parole. Once they begin deliberating, likely several weeks from now, the jury will take separate votes for each victim. For each death sentence, the jury must be unanimous or the sentence for that victim is life.
After Scherer rules, lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill is expected to give her opening statement Aug. 22 and then she and her team will present their case.
“That’s when the trial really begins,” Jarvis said.
Instead, they are expected to focus on his life, starting with his birth mother’s addictions; his severe emotional and behavioral problems that began in preschool and the holes in his treatment; his adoptive father’s death when he was 5; his adoptive mother’s death three months before the shootings; his alleged sexual abuse at the hands of a “trusted peer”; that he was an immature 19-year-old; and the bullying he endured from his brother and his brother’s friends.
McNeill and her team are unlikely to downplay the severity of Cruz’s actions — they have conceded in court several times that the murders were horrible and wiped away tears during some parents’ statements about their dead child.
The defense will argue, “If you send him to death, you are ignoring all of that and that is just wrong,” Jarvis said.
Weinstein said the defense has a tough task. The jurors all swore they could vote for either death or life, based on the evidence. Even if the defense can prove some mitigating factors, he said, it will be difficult for those to outweigh 17 people murdered in cold blood.
“I don’t think you can paint a picture of Cruz as sympathetic, that he’s not as bad as what the prosecution has said,” Jarvis said. “Instead, they have to show that he is a victim, that he fell through the cracks, that society failed him from the outset. ...Society created this monster and failed to stop this monster.”
Weinstein said the prosecution will argue if the death penalty “is not appropriate in this circumstance, why do we have it? What could happen that’s possibly any more egregious than this?”
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Lakers guard Matt Ryan had a unique path to the NBA, and it involved a cemetery
Matt Ryan had a problem. Actually, he had quite a few. But this one — it had a solution.
At the time, the COVID-19 pandemic had already wiped out his best chance at finding a professional basketball job in the U.S., his pre-draft workouts and summer plans completely altered when his college career ended on a Sunday and the world stopped March 11, 2020, three days later.
Ryan had options — the economics degree from Vanderbilt, the good grades and the networks he established meant all he had to do was drive an hour south into New York City to join a big financial firm. It would mean a career — and it would probably mean saying goodbye to competitive basketball.
Yet on this day, Ryan wasn’t trying to figure out any of this. There was something more pressing.
If he was going to make it as a shooter in pro basketball, the shorter high school three-point line at the gym in which he worked out wasn’t much use. The cones he put down in the corners and on the wings and at the top of the key kept getting in the way and were an ankle injury waiting to happen.
He needed to make himself a portable, movable three-point line.
The Lakers went through a competitive scrimmage Saturday, with guard Patrick Beverley and coach Darvin Ham helping ramp up the players’ intensity.
“You wanna know what I did?” he said excitedly from inside the Lakers training camp years later. “You know those yoga mats. It was a very skinny yoga mat and I cut it into like seven skinny pieces and I put those seven markers around the arc. That’s what I used for my three-point line.
“… Had to figure it out.”
In the time between college and pro basketball, Ryan did whatever he needed to be ready whenever his phone finally rang. He worked a landscaping job at a local cemetery. He delivered food for DoorDash and Uber Eats.
And he shot — a lot.
The yoga mats worked — Ryan transformed himself into an NBA-caliber shooter who earned a two-way deal with Boston late last season. He scored his first points in the Celtics’ regular-season finale and now is competing for a roster spot with the Lakers.
“I had to make that fake NBA line,” Ryan said. “Most of the time, I was in there alone, so I was chasing all of my own rebounds, hours on end every day. And, I got better, got into great shape, turned into a shooter that could just constantly move and shoot on the move.”
Ryan, a 6-foot-7, 25-year-old wing, was a late addition to the Lakers training camp with the team looking to find three-point shooting (Ryan hit 38% in the G League last season before joining Boston).
His story became a fun sub-plot in the NBA Finals when the novelty of a delivery driver in the league won over parts of the basketball internet.
The job at the cemetery came because Ryan knew the right people. His grandfather was running a cement monument business and had a contact at the local cemetery. Ryan, who was looking for a job in town that would be flexible, got hired.
His first days, with the weather around 15 degrees, were spent walking up and down rows of graves, cleaning discarded Christmas wreaths and decorations. It was so cold, he needed to wear leggings and pajama pants under his jeans.
Lunchtime and dinner were spent in his Jeep, running back and forth to a burger joint or the Mediterranean place in town, sometimes with his younger brother or best friend riding along because there wasn’t anything better to do.
“I kinda got a little addicted,” Ryan said. “I made $1,000 the first week.”
The NBA money is a little better — if Ryan can somehow earn the 15th spot on the Lakers and keeps it, he’ll have a seven-figure contract. After becoming a free agent this summer, Ryan worked out for the Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets before signing with the Lakers.
“Two teams that want shooting around their superstars. I’m doing the best I can,” Ryan said. “it’s obviously an unbelievable opportunity. There’s a roster spot open. I would love to be on the team and contribute in any kind of way, whether it’s playing no minutes or playing all 48. Whatever I’m asked to do, I’ll do.”
Ryan believes he can be more than just a fun training camp story. In the scrimmage open to the media Saturday, Ryan made a three and had another attempt blocked. He knows players who do what he thinks he can have had a lot of success around LeBron James in particular. Ryan spent some time picking the brain of one of those players — Kyle Korver.
“Everyone who is in the gym is here for a reason — and you’ve got to do what you’re best at. I’m obviously not going to go try to dunk on AD [Anthony Davis]. I’m going to shoot threes,” he said. “And I’m going to try and show I can do that with the best shooters in the league.”
And he won’t even have to worry about slipping on strips of a yoga mat.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Giving Tuesday," celebrated this year on Tuesday, Nov. 29, is seen as the start of the year-end charitable and holiday giving season. To help South Floridians focus on year-end and holiday charitable giving opportunities, Community Foundation of Broward President/CEO Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, Ph.D., today released her "10 Tips for Year-end Giving."
"Now is the time to plan and maximize the value of your year-end charitable giving," said Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson."Our heartfelt thanks go out to the tens of thousands of Broward residents who invest in our community's future by making charitable contributions, especially the visionary philanthropists who have created a legacy of BOLD impact with their personalized charitable funds at the Community Foundation."
The new "10 Tips for Year-end Giving" include:
1.) Develop a strategy and plan for your year-end charitable giving. Review your personal objectives for giving as part of creating a plan. Spell out your mission and follow it in developing your giving plan.
2.) Consider gift "bundling." You can bundle several years' worth of support for your favorite causes or organizations through a single, year-end gift to a donor-advised fund. Gift bundling enables you to lock in support to achieve your long-term charitable goals, while realizing the full tax benefit during the 2022 year.
3.) Donate appreciated stock. Donating appreciated stock multiplies your giving power by removing your tax liability from the stock sale and realizing tax benefits from the donation. The stock transfer must take place before the end of the year and it may not be possible to complete in one day.
4.) Give with your IRA distribution. Using your Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD) from your IRA is an easy way to donate. A QCD is an above-the-line tax deduction that can satisfy your required minimum distribution.
5.) Name a charitable organization as a beneficiary in your will. If now isn't the best time to dip into your assets and make a donation, naming a charitable organization such as Community Foundation of Broward as one of your beneficiaries is a good way to ensure that your future gift will help others.
6.) Document the value of your gifts. For donations of non-cash items worth more than $5,000, an appraisal may be required to determine fair market value.
7.) Be mindful of limits on charitable contributions. According to the Internal Revenue Service, generally you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases.
8.) Focus on the December 31 year-end deadline.Charitable contributions must be made by December 31, however, credit card charges processed before the end of the year are deductible in that year, regardless of when you pay off the charges. Also, checks written and mailed before the end of the year are deductible in 2022, even if the checks are cashed next year.
9.) Contact your professional advisors to help clarify your best giving strategy. It is always important to consult your financial advisor and your accountant to fully understand ramifications of year-end giving.
10.) Consult with philanthropy experts at Community Foundation of Broward. They can provide guidance about making the most of your charitable giving. Visit www.cfbroward.org to learn how best to amplify your impact.
For more information about Community Foundation of of Broward, please email Kirk Englehardt, Vice President of Marketing and Communications at the Community Foundation (kenglehardt@cfbroward.org) or call 954-761-9503.
Founded in 1984, Community Foundation of Broward (CFB) helps families, individuals, and corporations create personalized charitable Funds that deliver game-changing philanthropic impact. 473 charitable Funds represent more than $212 million in assets, distributing $119 million in grants over the past 35 years. CFB provides bold leadership on community solutions and fosters philanthropy that connects people who care with causes that matter – which empowers visionaries, innovators and doers to create the change they want to see in the community – and BE BOLD. www.cfbroward.org.
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TROY, Mich., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Class Valuation, a leading tech-enabled appraisal management company, announces today that they've successfully completed the verification process for Freddie Mac's new ACE+ PDR (automated collateral valuation plus property data report) solution.
Class will complete these data collection orders through Property Fingerprint, Class Valuation's 3D Scanning technology, which has produced tens of thousands of property data collections to date. Property Fingerprint's comprehensive data collection and reporting process are not only built to support programs like ACE+ PDR, but also support desktop and hybrid appraisal processes providing streamlined cycle times, saving more than two days on average nationwide, and reducing revision rates by 85%.
Set to roll out this July, Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR solution is a new offering that allows lenders to originate cash-out and certain no cash-out refinance loans without an appraisal. With ACE+ PDR, additional property information is physically collected on-site by trained data collectors and/or data collection technology using the Freddie Mac PDR dataset, in lieu of an appraisal.
The data set requirements to participate are very comprehensive and Class Valuation's Property Fingerprint Report provides lenders everything they need to leverage this new and exciting product.
ACE+ PDR offers an expedited valuation solution to help lenders get to the closing table faster and with greater certainty. Lenders who are interested in participating in ACE+ PDR must work with a provider who can fulfill these requirements.
"Property Fingerprint is the only 3D scan technology utilizing virtual inspection to collect comprehensive, standardized, and repeatable data collection," said Scot Rose, Chief Innovation Officer at Class Valuation. "We are thrilled to be leading the way and enabling our partners to take advantage of these new and exciting programs like ACE+ PDR, desktop, and hybrid appraisals."
Class Valuation is dedicated to making this technology universally available. Lenders who might manage their own panel, or providers who need access to this advanced technology can either simply order the Property Fingerprint report for use in their own process or license the technology and perform the data collection with their own providers.
Click here to learn more about Freddie Mac's ACE+ PDR solution.
For more information on Property Fingerprint, visit www.classvaluation.com/digital-appraisals.
Class Valuation is a top nationwide Appraisal Management Company (AMC), delivering outstanding quality and service to every client. The company is committed to combining the best people, products, processes, and technology available to help lenders make more homeownership dreams come true. Class has consistently been ranked highly in client service by several of the nation's top ten mortgage lenders and has been recognized as a top place to work, along with receiving many other industry awards. Founded in 2009, Class Valuation is headquartered in Troy, Michigan. For more information, please visit www.classvaluation.com.
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Have stock prices turned so positive that they've entered a bull market? Some signs point to yes
The stock market has pushed higher in recent months, gradually recovering much of the ground lost in 2022. Some observers have heralded the start of a new bull market of generally rising prices. Is this something worth getting excited about?
Maybe so, but the new trend, if it holds, doesn't mean all stocks will advance. There's also some misunderstanding about what bull markets are all about, along with bear markets, their mirror images.
Is there a consensus that a new bull market has started?
Not really, though many analysts consider a rise of 20% from the prior low as meeting the definition of a new bull phase. The widely followed Standard & Poor's 500 index on or around June 8 marked a 20% advance from its low last October.
But the S&P 500 is just one market barometer, though arguably the most widefly followed. Other measures aren't yet near the 20% mark, such as the Russell 2000, which tracks smaller stocks. And even the S&P 500 remains well below its all-time high of around 4,800. Conversely, other market barometers such as the tech-heavy NASDAQ surpassed the 20% level weeks ago.
But at least most stocks are rallying now, right?
Many are, but most stocks haven't risen 20% from their lows last fall, which is why some advisers are skeptical of this latest upward phase. This rally has been driven by huge gains generated by a smattering of large, tech-focused companies, especially those perceived to be leaders in artificial intelligence.
Seven dominant tech companies — Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia and Tesla — combined weigh in with roughly 28% of the stock market’s overall capitalization or value and are projected to generate around 16% of total earnings for the S&P 500 this year, reports Sheraz Mian, research director at Zacks Investment Research.
The combined earnings of those seven corporations are projected to rise 13.2% in the current, second quarter, while earnings for the other 493 companies in the S&P 500 are expected to tumble 12%, he added (with overall earnings for the full index slated to drop 8.9%).
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The outsized impact of the biggest stocks has surpassed "even the lopsidedness of the market at the height of the Dot Com bubble in 2000,” said Phillip Wool, managing director at Rayliant, an asset-management company.
"Such a lack of breadth often precedes an economic downturn and suggests investors have been overly optimistic in bidding up such a small subset of stocks," wrote Wool in a recent commentary. He is skeptical of whether a true bull market has started.
How can stocks be in an upward trend with so much anxiety?
Consumers are concerned about a lot of things right now, including still-hefty inflation, rising interest rates, bloated credit-card balances and more. But it's not unusual for stocks to rally when public confidence is low. In fact, bull markets usually commence when the public mood is grim, and they often peter out when seemingly everyone gets excited about investing.
A survey of investors last October, right around the time the market was bottoming — and thus an optimal time to invest, in hindsight — showed widespread and worsening pessimism, according to the study conducted by the University of Michigan.
“The last time a decline of this size and speed was observed in the data was just prior to the Great Recession,” the university said in a report at the time. “While this comparison does not necessarily imply that stock owners expect a financial crisis, there is considerable uncertainty going forward.”
More recently, just 34% of Americans said they expected stock prices to be higher 12 months from now, according to a survey of consumer expectations taken in May by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
If a bull market has arrived, can be we expect steady gains?
No. Stocks rarely generate steady gains. Usually, they come in fits and starts, not in a smooth upward trajectory. Looked at another way, stocks have appreciated at an average clip of about 11% over the long haul. But in only a handful of calendar years have returns actually approximated that number.
However, if we have entered a new bull market, it could last a while. Since 1929, the average gain for the S&P 500 during bull markets has approximated 130%, and these upward phases have lasted for 39 months on average, reported Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist at LPL Financial.
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FOMO, or the fear of missing out, might be prompting a lot of the recent buying. Favorable economic developments including steady employment gains, slowing inflation and a possible pause in Fed interest-rate hikes also have helped brighten the mood.
Where did the 'bull' and 'bear' terms come from anyway?
Origins of the terms are murky, but they possibly reflect how the two animals attack. "That is, a bull will thrust its horns up into the air, while a bear will swipe down," reports Investopedia.
But there are other explanations and references for the terms, which also can apply to price movements for bonds, commodities and other assets (though less commonly for housing). The key point is to recognize that a bullish trend signals rising prices, while a bearish trend reflects the opposite.
Reach the writer at russ.wiles@arizonarepublic.com.
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An 84-year-old white man in Kansas City, Missouri, was charged Monday with first-degree assault for shooting a Black teen who mistakenly went to the man’s home to pick up his younger brothers.
Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said at a news conference that there was a “racial component” Thursday night when Andrew Lester twice shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who is recovering at home after being released from the hospital. But nothing in the charging documents says the shooting was racially motivated, Thompson clarified.
“We understand how frustrating this has been but I can assure you the criminal justice system is working and will continue to work,” Thompson said.
The shooting outraged many in Kansas City and across the country. Civic and political leaders — including President Joe Biden — demanded justice. Some, including lawyers for Yarl, pressed the racial dimension of the case.
Yarl, an honor student and all-state band member, was supposed to pick up his two younger brothers when he approached the wrong house at roughly 10 p.m. Lester came to the door and shot Yarl in the forehead — then shot him again, in the right forearm.
No words were exchanged before the shooting, the probable cause statement said. But afterward, as Yarl got up to run, he heard Lester yell, “Don’t come around here,” the statement said.
Yarl ran to “multiple” homes asking for help before finding someone who would call the police, the statement said.
Rev. Vernon Howard, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City, called the shooting a “heinous and hate-filled crime.” Vice President Kamala Harris wrote on Twitter that “No child should ever live in fear of being shot for ringing the wrong doorbell.” The Missouri Senate held a moment of silence for Yarl on Monday.
The civil rights attorneys for Yarl’s family, Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, said in a statement that Biden called Yarl’s family and offered “prayers for Ralph’s health and for justice.”
“Gun violence against unarmed Black individuals must stop,” the lawyers’ statement read. “Our children should feel safe, not as though they are being hunted.”
Yarl’s supporters plan to hold a rally Tuesday evening in Kansas City.
The assault charge carries a penalty of up to life in prison. Lester also was charged with armed criminal action, which has a penalty range of three to 15 years in prison. Lester was not charged with a hate crime. Thompson said Missouri’s statute is considered a lesser felony than first-degree assault, and carries a less severe penalty.
Missouri is among roughly 30 states with “Stand Your Ground” laws, which allow for the use of deadly force in self-defense, but the prosecutor determined the shooting was not in self defense.
An arrest warrant was issued but Lester was not yet in custody, Thompson said.
Lester told police that he lives alone and had just gone to bed when he heard his doorbell, according to the probable cause statement. He said he picked up his gun and went to the door, where he saw a Black male pulling on the exterior storm door handle and thought someone was breaking in.
A number for Lester was not in service on Monday evening and it was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney to speak on his behalf.
The shooting happened in a middle class neighborhood in north Kansas City. Yarl didn’t have a phone with him and went to the wrong block, his aunt, Faith Spoonmore, wrote on a GoFundMe page set up to help pay medical bills. By Monday afternoon, $1.4 million had been raised.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said that Yarl’s parents asked him to pick up his brothers at a home on 115th Terrace, but he mistakenly went to 115th Street, the Kansas City Star reported.
Yarl is a bass clarinetist who earned Missouri All-State Band honorable mention and who plays several instruments in the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of Kansas City, Spoonmore wrote. A statement from the North Kansas City School District described Yarl as “an excellent student and talented musician.”
Spoonmore said Yarl is “doing well physically” but has a lot of trauma to overcome emotionally.
By Monday afternoon, the home where the shooting happened had been vandalized. Black spray-paint on the side of the house showed a heart with “16” in the middle. Eggs splattered the front windows and the door.
A message seeking comment from Republican Gov. Mike Parson, a staunch gun rights supporter, wasn’t immediately returned.
Crump, who has represented families in several high-profile cases of Black people being shot, including those of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, questioned why the shooter wasn’t arrested and charged immediately.
“We all believe that if the roles were reversed and this was a Black citizen who shot a 16-year-old for merely ringing his doorbell, they would have arrested him, and he wouldn’t have slept in his bed that night,” Crump said.
Two days after Yarl was shot, a 20-year-old woman was killed by a homeowner in Upstate New York Saturday after the car she was in drove to the wrong address. Washington County Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy said Kaylin Gillis was in a car with three others looking for a friend’s house.
As the car was turning around, Kevin Monahan came out and fired two shots, one of which struck Gillis. Monahan was charged with second-degree murder.
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The Indian government is increasingly cracking down on journalists critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The country, which once took pride in having a media landscape that was diverse in nature, has been moving in the opposite direction in recent years.
Rana Ayyub, a prominent investigative reporter, Washington Post columnist and a frequent critic of Modi's government, often draws the ire of Hindu right-wing politicians. She's faced online harassment, death threats, and India's judiciary system for her work as a journalist.
"There is nothing like press freedom in the world's largest democracy of 1.3 billion people," she told Morning Edition host A Martinez. "Most of the mainstream media is literally repeating the government's lies and the ones who are independent, who are critical, are paying a price."
India's ranking on the World Press Index fell to 150 out of 180 countries, according to Reporters Without Borders.
In March 2022, Ayyub was stopped at Mumbai airport from boarding a flight to London to give a speech about online violence against female journalists organized by the International Center for Journalists. Indian authorities barred her from leaving the country because of an ongoing investigation into alleged financial crimes.
India's Enforcement Directorate, which is tasked with enforcing the country's economic laws, filed charges against Ayyub under the anti-money laundering law in October. The agency alleges that Ayyub has used more than $324,000 (Rs 2.69 crore) publicly raised funds for herself. Ayyub has publicly denied any wrongdoing.
Ayyub gained prominence through her investigative reporting on the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. She showed how the state government's lack of reaction led to over 1,000 fatalities, the great majority of whom were Muslims.
She continues to raise her voice and speak out against the government's tactics, even though she knows she might be persecuted for it. In a conversation with Morning Edition's A Martinez, Ayyub talked about what it is like to be the recipient of digital threats, India's mainstream media, and how journalists can fight back.
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On facing death threats, online harassment and legal challenges
Journalists should only worry about reporting the stories and not becoming the story themselves. We have become the stories in the new India that we live in.
In 2018, a fake pornographic video clip featuring Ayyub's face was circulated on WhatsApp. The video caused widespread public outcry. Last January, Ayyub received over 26,000 responses to a tweet criticizing Saudi Arabia's role in the war in Yemen, many of which contained death and rape threats.
"The harassment against me has been more than a decade long, from my image being morphed into a porn video and circulated all over the country to being charged in a money laundering case, which I'm going to face now once I arrive in India. I received a court summons a month ago [...] for an article I wrote in 2009, and I have to appear on January 28th, [...] and the accusation against me is that I'm a practicing Muslim and hence prejudiced in my reportage. There are multiple cases against me for my tweets, for my appearances on news channels. Everything that I say oftentimes gets converted into a case, so [...] I head into an uncertain future."
"At this point of time, I worry about every single person, especially independent journalists in India, who are putting everything at risk to fight that battle. Journalists should only worry about reporting the stories and not becoming the story themselves. We have become the stories in the new India that we live in."
On Modi's refusal to answer journalists' questions
There are many journalists who are being arrested, silenced. They can't tell their stories. They're being murdered. Kashmiri journalists are being arrested under the Public Safety Act.
"Mr. Modi has been in power since 2014 when he assumed the role of the prime minister of India. Until today, [...] he has not had a single press conference. When he travels to a country, he does not do joint press meets. He does not take questions from the media even internationally, because he knows that a lot of questions will be critical, especially about the attack on minorities, on the 220 million Muslim minorities in India. He has not taken any questions, except for interviews that he gets done by say, some Bollywood superstar, who's going to ask him something like, "how do you like to eat your mangoes? Do you like to peel them or slice them?"
"There is nothing like press freedom in the world's largest democracy of 1.3 billion people. Most of the mainstream media is literally repeating the government's lies and ones who are independent, who are critical, are paying a price. There are many journalists who are being arrested, silenced. They can't tell their stories. They're being murdered. Kashmiri journalists are being arrested under the Public Safety Act."
On the impact of online disinformation
"We have news anchors reading out government pamphlets and demonizing journalists and critics every day. The Indian population is basking in that, but few of them are complaining because there is a culture of disinformation. We have Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram where fake news becomes the norm, and some of us are being demonized."
"Indian news channels are becoming platforms for hatemongers. These have become platforms that look the other way as hate is being spread all over India. Yesterday, one of India's ruling party's lawmakers asked Indians to keep weapons in the house to silence minorities. The Indian population is largely consuming something that is extremely toxic."
On alternatives to mainstream media
With Elon Musk and Twitter censorship, Indian journalists find themselves in a position where on one side we have these media moguls who own these publications, who own these houses and who are censoring them, and the gatekeepers who are censoring them to protect the government
"News channels are owned by big business houses who are bending over backwards to accommodate the views of the government. So to protect their own interests and their platform, the journalism platforms end up becoming a mouthpiece for the government. Most newspapers in India are dependent on revenues and ads from the government."
"Some of the most biggest stories in India are coming from people who are not backed by journalism organization, but by independent press. The real stories are coming from the international press and independent news media in India. [...] In the absence of gatekeepers, social media has allowed citizen journalists to report stories of communal violence and genocidal calls."
"So now with Elon Musk and Twitter censorship, Indian journalists find themselves in a position where on one side we have these media moguls who own these publications, who own these houses and who are censoring them, and the gatekeepers who are censoring them to protect the government. And on the other hand, what available platforms that they had are been taking away from them. "
Olivia Hampton and Nina Kravinsky produced the audio of this interview. contributed to this story
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YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The body of the missing hiker in Yosemite has been recovered, according to the family.
24-year-old Petaluma native Hayden Klemenok tragically went missing at Yosemite National Park on Sunday, July 2, during a hike with friends.
His family traveled to Yosemite shortly after in an effort of locating him but revealed on Tuesday that their effort was met with devastating news.
“On Sunday morning, we were notified that Hayden had been located. Due to the complexity of his location, it took another 24 hours to formally recover him. While a few further steps remain in the investigation, Hayden’s cause of passing is presumed to be an accidental drowning,” the family posted on Facebook.
The family added that memorial service plans are in the works.
Taylor McKinnie, Hayden’s sister says he was a recent graduate of San Diego State and a lifelong athlete.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Kirill Kaprizov might not like the spotlight. But if he keeps playing like he has been, he’d better get used to being the center of attention.
Kaprizov scored with 20 seconds left in overtime, completing a natural hat trick and lifting the Minnesota Wild past the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 on Sunday.
“I work hard. So does the rest of the team,” Kaprizov said through an interpreter. “At the end of the day, we all come out, we play 60 minutes and do our best. I don’t like to be singled out. I don’t like to be compared, but I just go out there and do my job. Sometimes it goes in and sometimes I get a couple goals but ultimately I just kind of play my game.”
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 22 shots for the Wild, who trailed 2-0 heading into the third period before Kaprizov took over.
Minnesota’s 25-year-old All-Star set a team record with 47 goals last season. He’s now ahead of that pace this year after his third career hat trick gave him 37 goals with another six weeks yet to play in the regular season.
“He might be the hardest working superstar ever,” said defenseman Calen Addison, who set up the winning goal. “I mean, this guy goes to the corners like no one else, and he’s not losing a battle ever. I mean, he does everything for us.”
Mathieu Olivier and Liam Foudy scored for Columbus, while Elvis Merzlikins made 41 saves.
The Wild have earned points in eight of their last nine games (6-1-2), but their offense has been sputtering, averaging just 1.7 goals over their previous 10 contests.
Those struggles continued for two periods against Columbus, which has allowed more goals than all but three teams in the NHL this season. Merzlikins blanked them through the first 40 minutes before Kaprizov scored twice in the first six minutes of the third to tie the game.
First, Kaprizov tipped home a shot directly in front of the net to get Minnesota on the board at 1:15 of the third. Then, with Minnesota on its first power-play of the game, Foudy was sent off for high sticking Addison in the face.
Just as the 5-on-3 was about to expire, Kaprizov scooped up a loose puck in the slot and wired a wrist shot past Merzlikins.
Kaprizov nearly completed his hat trick in regulation with a breakaway later in the period, but after making a nifty spin move to shake a defender, his shot beat Merzlikins but hit the post.
On the final shift of overtime, Addison feathered a pass across the crease and Kaprizov slammed it into the open net for the game winner.
“I literally could have kept them on the ice the whole … game, probably, but certainly the third period and overtime,” Minnesota coach Dean Evason said of Kaprizov’s line. As it was, Kaprizov had a team-high 25 minutes and 36 seconds of ice time.
The Blue Jackets, despite being buried in last place in the Metropolitan Division, have made strides recently. They are 3-1-2 in their last six games, with the only loss a 2-0 defeat by the Wild in Columbus on Thursday. But coach Brad Larsen sensed his team was fighting the effects of a second straight day game, after they beat Edmonton 6-5 on Saturday.
“I thought the first half of the game we were real sharp,” Larsen said. “We needed more guys tonight to be on their game – we had a few guys who just weren’t locked in and it cost us tonight. … We just ran out of gas and got a little bit sloppy and it cost us.”
Minnesota outshot Columbus 13-7 in the first period but wasn’t able to solve Merzlikins. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets took a 1-0 lead late in the period when Olivier scored his fifth of the year off a Wild turnover in their own zone.
Foudy doubled Columbus’ lead just three minutes into the second when he redirected a centering pass from Erik Gudbranson past Fleury.
That merely set the stage for Kaprizov’s star turn. And, as great as his superstar played, Evason said he can’t be surprised by it.
“It’s hard to tell, because he rarely doesn’t have it,” Evason said. “He plays like that all the time. … His drive and his desire and his willingness to compete is always at that level.”
LOFTY COMPARISON
Fleury, who spent 13 seasons and won three Stanley Cups with Pittsburgh, said Kaprizov’s play reminds him of a former teammate with a great track record of his own.
“Reminds of me of (Sidney Crosby) a bit,” Fleury said. “The way he’s built: big legs, big butt. Short, fast, plays, goes to the corner, battles, big hits. Finishes his checks. Defense, comes back in the zone. Helps out in our d-zone, too. It’s all similar to Sid. Obviously he’s got a great finish, too.”
UP NEXT
Blue Jackets: At Buffalo on Tuesday night.
Wild: Host Islanders on Tuesday night.
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By MICHAEL BALSAMO
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Steve Dettelbach, a former federal prosecutor, to run the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, making him the agency’s first confirmed director since 2015.
Dettelbach takes the reins of the agency as the Biden administration and the Justice Department are fighting to combat a surge in violent crime, gun violence and mass shootings that has touched both big cities and small rural communities across the nation.
Dettelbach was confirmed by the Senate in a 48-46 vote. He’s racked up endorsements from law enforcement officials, former Justice Department officials who worked for both Republican and Democratic administrations and victims of violence. Two Republican lawmakers, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rob Portman of Ohio, voted to confirm Dettelbach.
Dettelbach is a former federal prosecutor who served as U.S. attorney in Ohio from 2009 to 2016 and has run in the past for attorney general of Ohio. He worked in several other positions in the Justice Department and was involved in the prosecution of a man who firebombed an Ohio courthouse. He also served as the chairman of the civil rights subcommittee as part of the attorney general’s advisory committee under former attorneys general Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.
Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first ATF nominee, gun control advocate David Chipman, after it stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
Both Republican and Democratic administrations had long failed to get nominees for the ATF position through the politically fraught process since the director’s position was made confirmable in 2006. Since then, only one nominee, former U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones, has been confirmed. Jones made it through the Senate in 2013 but only after a six-month struggle. Jones was acting director when President Barack Obama nominated him in January 2013 and left the role in 2015.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration removed the agency’s acting director, Marvin Richardson, from his position and replaced him with the U.S. attorney in Arizona, Gary Restaino. Restaino has juggled both jobs as Dettelbach’s nomination waded its way through the Senate. Richardson has been the agency’s deputy director.
Dettelbach’s confirmation was immediately hailed by advocates who highlighted his experience as a prosecutor and his work with law enforcement.
“Steve Dettelbach’s bipartisan confirmation vote is a watershed victory for the gun safety movement and further proof that the Senate logjam around this life-or-death issue is finally breaking,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety.
His nomination had been staunchly opposed by gun rights groups, including Gun Owners of America, which wrote a letter Tuesday to Senate leaders urging them to vote against him.
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PITTSBURGH, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a bus driver and I feel unsafe when passengers try to get on the bus without a face mask. I thought there could be a safe and simple way to dispense masks to passengers," said an inventor, from Houston, Texas, "so I invented the MASK DISPENSER. My design would enhance safety for bus drivers and passengers."
The patent-pending invention provides a safe way to provide face masks to passengers entering a bus. In doing so, it ensures that individuals who have lost or forgotten their masks can enter. It also helps to prevent the spread of airborne germs and viruses and it provides added protection and peace of mind. The invention features a user-friendly design that is easy to operate so it is ideal for busing companies, airports, hospitals, etc. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Houston sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-HOF-187, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Kyley Gary-Grayson went 6-for-7 from the free throw line and finished with 14 points, six rebounds and three steals as West Orange held off Morristown-Beard 40-33 at the HUrban Legends Showcase in Paterson.
Anaya Karriem tallied seven points and four rebounds while Adrienne Taylor Kamara recorded seven points and five rebounds for West Orange (3-0). Mya Bushrod came up with three assists and three steals.
Morristown-Beard fell to 0-2.
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LOS ANGELES — Natasha Cloud shouted at DJ Mal-Ski, the Sparks’ in-game DJ, more than 90 minutes before the game began Tuesday night as he stood in front of his turntables inside Crypto.com Arena. She had taken the court to warm up and he had yet to start playing music for the evening.
Cloud, and all of the Mystics, were ready to go early.
The Mystics looked like an offensive juggernaut in the first half of a 94-81 victory over the Sparks, their fourth win in their past five games. Washington (15-10) led 53-44 at halftime, which matched its highest-scoring half of the season, in the first game after the all-star break. The 94 points were also a season high.
“I missed their annoying [behinds],” Cloud said with laugh. “We’re energized. The first half is what it is and the second half is go time. We know what we have in our locker room and so I think we’re just seeing a different focus, too.”
A 15-7 first-quarter run gave the Mystics a 24-14 lead as Washington never trailed after falling behind 2-0. Washington, which shot 50.8 percent from the field, was almost giddy during the morning shoot-around and that energy carried over to the game.
The Phoenix Mercury host the Mystics on Thursday.
“We had energy at practice yesterday,” Coach Mike Thibault said. “We had good focus this morning. We’ve been shooting the ball a little bit better, although we didn’t make layups tonight, and it paid off.”
Elena Delle Donne showed exactly why she is a two-time MVP by matching a season high with 26 points on 10-for-14 shooting, including 4 for 5 from beyond the arc. It was her second consecutive game hitting the 26-point mark. The ball was moving and it was a stellar offensive night for the entire team, but Delle Donne consistently made plays that few others in the league can. The Sparks sent multiple defenders throughout the night at the 6-foot-5 forward and it still didn’t matter as she unleashed a bevy of pump fakes, up-and-unders and fadeaways to create space. Thibault called it a “vintage game” from the franchise cornerstone.
“Best player in the world,” Cloud said. “She allows our offense to flow. She allows my job to be a lot easier. Teams have to really figure out what they're going to do to maintain her and then play the rest of us. So just her presence alone.
“Elena doesn't even have to touch the ball if she doesn't want to and she would make all of our jobs a lot easier. Just her poise, her leadership, her experience, and her IQ on both ends of the floor just makes us better.”
Still, Los Angeles hung around and trailed by just five with 6:13 remaining in the fourth quarter when Delle Donne and Cloud slammed the door shut. The Mystics used a 14-4 run to open a 15-point lead with Delle Donne burying three three-pointers and Cloud adding one of her own. Cloud scored 10 of her season-high 21 points in the fourth quarter and also had nine assists and four rebounds.
“When Tash is scoring and attacking, we're terrifying,” Delle Donne said. “She's worked so much on her game and you see it and you see the confidence in her. ... I don't know how Tash does it. Her motor is ridiculous. The amount of minutes she plays. She's always playing the best offensive player on the other team, and then she has to come down and run our offense. But she does a phenomenal job.
“I don't ever want to play with anyone else.”
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored 12 points off the bench and Ariel Atkins finished with 10 after playing in the All-Star Game on Sunday.
Katie Lou Samuelson and Brittney Sykes scored 16 apiece as the Sparks were without Nneka Ogwumike, who was out with a non-covid illness. Whereas turnovers were an issue the last time Washington ventured to Los Angeles, the Mystics scored 27 points off 18 Sparks turnovers this time around.
The game had a little extra incentive for the Mystics, who acquired the right to swap first-round picks in the 2023 in a draft-day deal with the Atlanta Dream in April. Atlanta owns the Sparks’ first-round pick next year, so the Mystics would benefit from Los Angeles being as far down in the standings as possible.
“I think about that every week when I watch them play somebody else, too,” Thibault said before the game. “I never like to wish [ill] on very many teams, but when you have a chance to get their pick and it can be better than the one we have, you’ve got to feel that way.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network, a non-profit organization helping to make reliable child care more affordable and accessible for families in California, has launched MyChildCarePlan.org, a new website specifically developed to provide California's parents with the information they need to make the best possible child care choices for their families.
Using the site's search tool, parents and families are able to learn what child care providers are in their neighborhood, which have space and availability, their approaches to care, languages spoken, experience in meeting medical and special needs, and more. Data is collected through state records and by local child care specialists, meaning the information on the site is reliable, unbiased, and free to use for both parents and providers.
California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Executive Director Linda Asato hopes this resource can dramatically change parents' child care search experience. "We are proud to support MyChildCarePlan.org as a new website and resource for all of California. We understand how challenging it can be for families to find affordable quality child care, and are pleased to launch this site to help ensure they have access to a trustworthy, easy-to-use platform to alleviate these challenges."
In addition to a search tool, the site offers information and support resources. Parents can learn how to get financial help to pay for child care, check on licensing information about providers, get expert tips on how to support their child's learning and development, and much more. Families can get personalized, one-on-one support offline, too, via the child care consumer education hotline or by contacting their county's local Child Care Resource and Referral Agency (R&R), where they can speak to a local specialist who can provide personalized support in their journey to find the right child care for them.
Asato says that this new site is different from other resources out there because it puts the power in the hands of families. "We're different because we are working to build genuine trust with families. We are empowering the user. Parents now have better and more up-to-date information, and providers have a free way to promote their services and share real-time availability. For such a long time, finding child care was an ongoing burden to families who have had to navigate a complex web of information. Now there is a better way to find child care in California."
For more information, visit: MyChildCarePlan.org.
The California Child Care Resource & Referral Network is a non-profit membership organization of 58 of California's child care resource and referral agencies (R&R), dedicated to promoting affordable, quality child care through research, education, policy, and advocacy. MyChildCarePlan.org is a project of the California Child Care Resource & Referral Network.
MyChildCarePlan.org is a search and support website designed to provide California's families with the information they need to make the best possible child care choices for their children. The site offers a highly customizable child care search tool and live support from local experts to help parents to find child care that meets their family's unique needs. With MyChildCarePlan.org, families can access the information they need to find child care they can trust, and providers can easily promote their services to families who need them. Now there is a better way to find child care in California.
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Fort Wayne got a shout out again from the Global Leadership Summit.
Author and pastor Craig Groeschel, who presented the opening session Thursday, said the summit was being viewed by people in more than 1,400 locations. He cited Fort Wayne as one, along with specific location references to just a few others.
The annual event to encourage visionary and innovative leadership is held every August, with a church in the Chicago suburbs serving as host site. Other locations are known as satellites and Fort Wayne has had the distinction numerous times of being the top-attendance site.
Groeschel is pastor of Life.Church, which has multiple locations. He and his church staff created the YouVersion Bible App, which has been downloaded more than half a billion times worldwide.
Prominent speakers from faith-based organizations, non-profits, businesses and government leaders ranging from Gen. Colin Powell to Carly Fiorina have been featured faculty for summit sessions. Bob Iger, former chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Co. is among scheduled speakers this year.
Blackhawk Ministries in Fort Wayne began hosting the summit locally 19 years ago, at the time under Kelly Byrd's leadership. It started with about 150 viewing it from the church. Attendance quickly grew each year, especially after the suggestion that it could attract a larger, more diverse crowd – including from businesses – if it were hosted at a different venue. Parkview Health CEO Mike Packnett agreed his organization could help cover the cost of the first-year's move. The next venue became the Grand Wayne Convention Center downtown, though local organizers have also hosted the event at Memorial Coliseum when attendance was around 4,000 and at least once at the Embassy Theatre.
One Global Leadership Summit official speaking from the main site Thursday said about 300,000 people were watching the summit live. It continues today.
Nearly 2,000 in northeast Indiana were registered as of Thursday. That included those viewing from the Grand Wayne and sites in Huntington and Kendallville. Plus, for the first time locally, Fort Wayne had a Spanish language room for those viewing at the Grand Wayne.
This is the first time since 2019 for regular mass viewing. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a virtual experience in 2020 and last year, multiple sites including Sweetwater and Brotherhood Mutual, hosted to help spread the crowds locally.
Local summit supporters, who operate under the new name Love Fort Wayne, have spurred several initiatives – including monthly prayer sessions. They believe their coalition building will lead to a better community. Along with the core faith-based entities, the organization has increased efforts to embrace other sectors, including schools and families.
Donovan Coley, CEO of The Rescue Mission Fort Wayne, is one of Love Fort Wayne's board members. During a video as part of Thursday's opening, Coley said if the organization "can move he needle," it will help transform the region and city.
"It takes you. It takes me. It takes us all," Coley said.
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Onboards Jake Carl as Senior Vice President – HealthCare Markets and Protik Kundu as Vice President – Sales (Retail & CPG)
NEW YORK, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JK Tech, a global provider of next-generation digital transformation services, has strengthened its leadership team in the US with the appointment of Jake Carl as Senior Vice President – HealthCare Markets and Protik Kundu as Vice President – Sales (Retail & CPG).
Jake brings with him over two decades of experience in the healthcare domain comprising of interactions with payers, providers, laboratories, and life sciences companies. Having worked across AI, RPA, NLP, Cloud, PaaS, and SaaS, solutions, at JK Tech, he will be primarily responsible for shaping the company's market-facing healthcare solutions and focusing on Client Acquisitions. On the other hand, Protik has 23+ years of experience in helping customers with various IT initiatives including digital transformation across various industries including CPG, Retail, Life Sciences, Medical Devices, Services, and Insurance. He was associated with system integrators like Wipro, HCL, Cognizant & Zensar Technologies and was recent with Kloud9, leading their Sales Team in AI-driven digital transformation. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur (B.Tech) and IIT Bombay (Master of Management). He will be working closely on shaping JK Tech's Retail & CPG solutions and enabling client acquisitions.
Commenting on the aggressive hiring strategy, Aloke Paskar, President & CEO, JK Tech, said, "We are focused on bringing in the best from the industry. The appointed senior level executives, with their extensive experience, will support us in integrating our operations, strengthening our processes, and driving JK Tech's technology offerings to the next level."
Talking about his new role, Jake Carl, said, "I am extremely excited to join JK Tech and be part of this phenomenal transformation and growth journey. We have all the right ingredients to become a preferred technology provider for clients across industries and will be working to deliver on the company's vision of 'committed to a superior experience'."
Adding to this, Protik Kundu, commented, "I look forward to working with the highly skilled and experienced team of JK Tech, especially at such a pivotal time of growth and momentum for the company. With JK Tech re-affirming its position as a Data Transformation leader and launching path-breaking technology solutions, especially in the areas of hyperautomation for several industries and helping them to embrace & accelerate the digital transformation, the role is full of opportunities."
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JK Tech is a next-generation Digital and IT services provider enabling clients globally to navigate their digital transformation. JK Tech stands by its vision of "committed to a superior experience" with its customers, its people, and its social environment.
JK Tech offers specialized capabilities across automotive, manufacturing, retail & consumer products, healthcare with its niche solutions across Modernization and Automation that help improve their performance and create lasting value across its enterprises.
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HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — SpaceX, the rocket ship company run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has fired several employees involved in an open letter that blasted the colorful billionaire for his behavior, according to media reports.
The reports published Friday cited an email from Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, saying the company had terminated employees who put together and circulated the letter. The letter writers denounced Musk for actions that they said are a “frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks.”
The New York Times was the first outlet to report the purge, based on information from three employees familiar with the situation. The employees were not named.
It’s unclear how many SpaceX workers lost their jobs, but Shotwell left no doubt that the company believed they had crossed an unacceptable line.
“The letter, solicitations and general process made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views,” Shotwell wrote in her email, according to the Times . “”We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism.”
The firings occurred Thursday — the same day Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time about his $44 billion deal to add that social media service to his business empire. The purchase is in limbo while Musk tries to determine whether Twitter has been concealing the number of fake accounts on its platform.
As the Twitter drama unfolded, another report emerged t hat Musk had paid $250,000 to a flight attendant to quash a potential sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Musk denied the sexual harassment allegations, and Shotwell last month sent out an email to SpaceX employees saying she believe the accusations were false.
In recent weeks, Musk has also crudely mocked the looks of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Twitter and posted a poop emoji during an online discussion with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.
The open letter from SpaceX employees criticizing Musk asserted that some of his tweets sent out to his 98 million followers cast the company in a poor light.
“As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company,” the open letter said. “It is critical to make clear to our teams and to our potential talent pool that his messaging does not reflect our work, our mission, or our values.”
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K-9 officer saves 3-year-old boy lost in ‘very remote’ area surrounded by swamps
ROSCOMMON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) – A K-9 officer is being praised for finding a missing 3-year-old boy in a remote, wooded area of Michigan surrounded by swamps.
According to a news release from the Roscommon County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched to a home Monday afternoon for a report of a missing child.
The 3-year-old boy was reportedly missing from his home for at least 20 minutes, and the child’s mother and neighbors were unable to find him.
The sheriff’s office described the area as “very remote” and mostly wooded with swamps.
Deputies requested backup from Michigan State Police, including multiple K-9 officers.
MSP Trooper Adam Whited and his K-9 partner Loki immediately began tracking the toddler when they arrived.
After searching for more than three miles, K-9 Loki located the child in a remote area that was approximately a half mile away from his home, the sheriff’s office said.
Officials said the boy was barefoot and had made it past two marshes through the woods.
Fortunately, the 3-year-old was in good health when he was found, and he was carried out of the woods piggy-back style and reunited with his family.
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COMMERCE, Texas (AP) — Michael Noble returned an interception 32 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter as Texas A&M-Commerce scored 31 unanswered points to wallop Houston Christian, 31-3 to go to 3-0 in Southland Conference play Saturday.
Nery Enriquez kicked a 47-yard field goal with 4:51 left in the first quarter to give the Huskies a 3-0 lead, but Eric Rodriguez answered with a 15-yard pass to Andrew Armstrong to make it 7-3 at intermission after each team punted six times in the first half.
Emmanuel Adagbon connected on a 49-yard field goal with 10:24 left in the third quarter and, on Houston Christian's first play from scrimmage on their next possession, Noble added his pick-six to make it 17-3. Cameron Nellor scored on a six-yard run and J.T. Smith added a 14-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter.
Justin Fomby threw for 110 yards on 23-of-43 passing for Houston Christian (2-5, 1-3), which managed just 206 yards of total offense.
Rodriguez threw for 209 yards, completing 17 of 30 attempts. Armstrong finished with six catches for 102 yards for Texas A&M-Commerce (5-2, 3-0).
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Six Pakistanis and one Iranian national who were found guilty of trafficking heroin via the Indian Ocean to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa have been sentenced to life in prison.
The foreigners have been in custody since 2014 when they were arrested and charged with trafficking heroin worth 1.3 billion Kenya shillings ($10 million).
Each of the convicts will also be fined 3.9 billion Kenya shillings, the Mombasa court said Friday. They all have a right to appeal to the higher court.
The seven were crew members of a ship Amin Darya, also known as Al Noor, and were arrested while on board while the ship was at sea.
The ship was destroyed in an operation that was supervised by then President Uhuru Kenyatta, who reiterated the country’s strict stance against drug trafficking.
During the trial, the foreigners accused police of tampering with evidence after the ship was destroyed before the case was concluded. The magistrate, however, said the court was satisfied with the evidence retrieved before the ship was destroyed.
Police said they found 377 kilograms (831 pounds) of granular heroin, 33,200 liters (8,770 gallons) of liquid heroin and 2,400 liters (6,34 gallons) of diesel mixed with heroin.
The Kenyan public prosecutor had sought a life sentence for each of the men after the court found them guilty last month. Kenya’s coast has become a transit point for drug trafficking in the East African region, according to officials.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Dodge//SRT and Mopar competitors open the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series this weekend (March 9-12) at the famed Gainesville Raceway in Florida with the 54th running of the Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, marking the NHRA's first season-opening event in Florida
- The NHRA Amalie Gatornationals marks the one-year anniversary of Dodge//SRT and Mopar partnering with Tony Stewart Racing (TSR), which fields driving stars Leah Pruett in Top Fuel and Matt Hagan in Funny Car, who both scored national event victories last season with their Direct Connection and Dodge Power Brokers branded nitro-powered machines
- Three-time NHRA Funny Car World Champion Hagan returns to Gainesville as the Funny Car champion after scoring the first Wally trophy for the TSR organization last March with the Dickie Venables-tuned Direct Connection Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat
- Pruett, a 10-time NHRA Top Fuel national event winner, brings the potent Direct Connection Top Fuel dragster to Gainesville for TSR after impressive testing runs in recent weeks in Florida
- Both TSR nitro-burning machines will sport new Sublime Green liveries
- Direct Connection performance parts offerings will be on display in the NHRA Manufacturers Midway throughout the season, including this weekend, which features race simulators for race fans to test their skills or experience a run in the Matt Hagan Funny Car simulator
- All 21 NHRA national events will air on FOX or FS1 and will stream live on NHRA.TV
- For more information on Dodge and the 24-month Dodge Never Lift campaign, visit Dodge.com or DodgeGarage.com
The excitement of the opening round of the 2023 National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Camping World Drag Racing Series hits a 11,000-horsepower pitch this weekend (March 9-12) at the legendary Gainesville Raceway in Florida as Dodge//SRT and Mopar competitors are staged to kick off the new season with another winning performance in the 54th annual NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals.
Led by the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) nitro team, Dodge//SRT and Mopar racers Leah Pruett (Top Fuel) and Matt Hagan (Funny Car) bring their strong Direct Connection entries to the 2023 season opening event, the first of 21 rounds for the coveted NHRA Camping World World Championships.
The Dodge//SRT and Mopar duo enter their second campaign under the TSR banner, and Hagan returns as the event's defending Funny Car champion with his nitro-burning Direct Connection Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. The 2022 Gatornationals Funny Car triumph for Hagan was the first win for the TSR squad. Hagan recorded three additional NHRA national event victories in the team's initial season.
Pruett also scored a 2022 NHRA Top Fuel title for TSR at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile High Nationals last July in Morrison, Colorado.
"After an outstanding opening season with Tony Stewart Racing, we are excited for the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series as Leah and Matt are primed to put the Dodge Power Brokers and Direct Connection machines back in the winner's circle," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand CEO - Stellantis. "Our Dodge//SRT performance enthusiasts also have the opportunity to get a close-up view of Direct Connection factory-backed performance products at our Manufacturers Midway display. It should be a spectacular season opener for the Dodge//SRT programs at Gainesville this weekend."
The Direct Connection performance parts brand – only available through the Dodge Power Brokers dealer network – is the exclusive source of the Dodge brand's factory-backed performance parts and straight-from-the-manufacturer technical information. Complete information on Direct Connection is available at DCPerformance.com.
For the first time in the 54 years of the NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Gatornationals, the Florida event will serve as the season-opening race on the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series schedule after many decades beginning with the NHRA Winternationals in Pomona, California. The on-track action begins Friday, March 10, with two qualifying sessions for the professional divisions, followed by two nitro sessions on Saturday with final eliminations set for Sunday at 10 a.m. EST. In addition, the Top Fuel ranks will feature the Pep Boy's All-Star Top Fuel Callout on Saturday.
TSR team owner Tony Stewart, whose nitro operation recorded five NHRA national event wins in 2022, brings added enthusiasm for the Gainesville opener, as well as the upcoming 2023 season.
"We're looking forward to getting the NHRA season started in Gainesville," said Stewart, who'll drive an Alcohol dragster for the full 2023 tour. "It's a special track because it's where Leah (Pruett) and I had our first date, and it's where we got our first TSR team win last year with Matt Hagan. We retained all our team members, so I know we're going to continue to build off last year's success. The crews mesh very well together and are extremely talented. Both teams were able to test during the off-season to dial-in their setups and get ready for competition. We can't thank Dodge enough for their support and continued partnership."
Hagan, a three-time (2011, 2014, 2020) NHRA Funny Car World Champion, comes to Gainesville after a strong finish where he placed third in the 2022 Funny Car points with his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and ran his career-win total to 43. The Virginia driver has produced top-three national point finishes nine times during his legendary career.
Still working with famed crew chief Dickie Venables, Hagan quickly gave the new TSR organization immediate respect with the 2022 Gatornationals Funny Car in the Dodge Power Brokers and Direct Connection livery. While he successfully began the new chapter in his career with his new team and Direct Connection as his primary livery, Hagan is set for another strong Gatornationals performance after a stellar pre-season testing.
"I'm pumped to be returning to Gainesville as the defending champion," said Hagan. "Knowing we're starting the season at the Gatornationals, and it was the track we got TSR's first win last year is special. It was also my first win at Gainesville too. I can't wait to climb into this Sublime Green Dodge Direct Connection Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car. Let's light the pipes and get another win!"
Pruett, a former Nostalgia Funny Car World Champion and NHRA SAMTech Factory Stock Showdown Champion, will campaign in her 11th year in drag racing's ultimate division, Top Fuel, and again work with crew chief Neal Strausbaugh and the TSR crew at the NHRA Gatornationals this weekend. The 34-year-old California native begins the 2023 NHRA campaign with one of the best NHRA elapsed time in series history at 3.631 seconds.
"I can't remember a time I've ever looked more forward to the Gatornationals than this race in our Sublime Green Dodge Direct Connection Top Fuel Dragster," said Pruett. "It's the overall season opener, not just on the East Coast. Teams also got extensive testing at this track in the last month, which means the competition is going to be ultra-thick. I believe the fans are in for a memorable event."
Also entered at Gainesville Raceway for the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat nitro-burning contingent will be two-time world champion Cruz Pedregon in his Snap-On Tools Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car and young Alex Laughlin in the Havoline Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car for Jim Dunn.
Pedregon brings his Cruz Pedregon Racing team to Gainesville after a 2022 season-ending Funny Car victory at the NHRA Finals last November and seeks to add to his 38-career Funny Car win total this weekend, while Laughlin moves into the Funny Car division this year after stints in Pro Stock and Top Fuel. Team owner Dunn is a legendary figure in NHRA drag racing dating back to his Funny Car driving in the early 1970s.
@DodgeMoparMotorsports on Instagram
The @DodgeMoparMotorsports Instagram channel continues to share content capturing Dodge//SRT Mopar drivers on the track. Fans can see action from the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series and NHRA Sportsman grassroots racers, competing in classes such as Factory Stock Showdown, Stock and Super Stock, as well as additional motorsports series.
DodgeGarage: Digital Hub for Drag Racing News
Fans can follow all the NHRA action this season at DodgeGarage, the one-stop portal for Dodge//SRT and Mopar drag-racing news. The site includes daily updates and access to an online racing HQ, news, events, galleries, available downloads and merchandise. For more information, visit www.dodgegarage.com.
Dodge//SRT and Mopar Manufacturers Midway Exhibit
Fans in attendance at NHRA Camping World national events in 2023 are invited to visit Dodge//SRT and Mopar's massive 4,800-square-foot display, one of the largest exhibits in the NHRA's Manufacturers Midway. At the Dodge//SRT and Mopar display, they can meet their favorite Dodge//SRT drivers for autographs and check out a selection of Direct Connection performance parts and vehicles. In addition, drag-racing fans can test their virtual skills and experience a nitro pass from the driver's seat of the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car simulator. The interactive exhibit also features a pair of Dodge Challenger SRT Demon simulators.
Mopar Career Automotive Program (CAP)
Now entering its fifth season, the Dodge//SRT and Mopar exhibit will also host Mopar Career Automotive Program (CAP) activations at seven NHRA national events, beginning at the NHRA Gatornationals in March. The Mopar CAP program is dedicated to recruiting, training and placing the best service technicians in the industry in Stellantis dealerships. Students are invited to visit the informational booth, which features a subject matter expert, program information, games and giveaways. More information is available at Moparcap.com.
NHRA on FOX and NHRA.TV
This season, Dodge//SRT and Mopar brands will continue to partner with NHRA as part of their multi-year full media package, which includes NHRA on FOX commercials and integration. All 21 national events will be broadcast on either FOX or FS1. Non-stop track action will also stream live on NHRA.TV.
The NHRA Amalie Motor Oil Winternationals television coverage will air on Fox Sports 1 with qualifying highlights 1 on Saturday, March 11 at 10 a.m. Eastern with qualifying highlights 2 on Sunday, March 12 at 9 a.m. Eastern. The Pep Boys Top Fuel Callout finals will be shown at 10:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday on FS1 with three hours of eliminations set for FOX Network at noon Eastern on Sunday.
Dodge//SRT
For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with a lineup that delivers unrivaled performance in each of the segments where they compete.
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT Hellcat versions of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, as well as an R/T performance hybrid version of the all-new Dodge Hornet, representing the brand's first-ever electrified performance vehicle. Dodge delivers the dragstrip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever; and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet. Combined, these four muscle vehicles make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the "#1 Brand in Initial Quality," making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS).
Dodge is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), visit www.stellantis.com.
Mopar
Mopar is the global name for Stellantis genuine parts and authentic accessories.
A simple combination of the words MOtor and PARts, Mopar offers exceptional service, parts and customer-care. Born in 1937 as the name of a line of antifreeze products, Mopar has evolved over more than 85 years to represent both complete vehicle care and authentic performance for owners and enthusiasts worldwide.
Mopar made its mark in the 1960s during the muscle-car era with performance parts to enhance speed and handling for both on-road and racing use. Later, Mopar expanded to include technical service and customer support, and today integrates service, parts and customer-care operations in order to enhance customer and dealer support worldwide.
Complete information on Mopar is available at www.mopar.com and the newly redesigned Mopar blog at www.blog.mopar.com. For more information regarding Stellantis (NYSE: STLA), please visit www.stellantis.com.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with writer Sophie Downey about the upcoming Nike cleats designed for women. Despite soccer's popularity, it's rare to find cleats that are designed for female athletes.
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6 Things to Know About Being an Ocean City, NJ Summer Lifeguard
Want to Be an Ocean City Lifeguard?
The preparation for surf's up on the Ocean City Beach Patrol is getting an earlier start than ever this year in an attempt to get the attention of the best potential guards before they find other summer work.
That means they really want you. It also means, if you are interested in being a guard this summer, you have to act more quickly.
Here Are Six Things to Know About Being an Ocean City Lifeguard This Summer
1- Tryouts are Saturday, June 3. You must be 16 by July 15, 2023, to be a lifeguard this summer.
2- Ocean City is expanding its search to include summer homeowners and their families this summer. That could mean more competition. That's what the city is hoping.
3- Ocean City hopes to have 190 lifeguards this year, 20 more than last summer.
4- The starting pay for lifeguards is $12.80 per hour, but, a pay raise is under consideration for this summer to be more competitive.
5- You do not need any certifications or previous lifeguarding experience The Ocean City beach patrol will give you paid training.
6- Last year's tryout test included:
- A 500-meter box swim
- A 500-meter box paddle
- A 1/2 mile beach run
- A 500-meter surf dash
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THIEVES NX created as tribute to esports team's championship win
PLANO, Texas, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In the summer of 2021, 100 Thieves cemented their place in esports history with a championship title three years in the making. As 100 Thieves' luxury automotive partner, Lexus created a customized NX to commemorate their victory. The THIEVES NX, unveiled in a new video yesterday, features the first generative artwork leveraging championship gameplay data.
The CHAMPION PRINT on the THIEVES NX will be familiar to 100 Thieves fans, as it mirrors their signature geo-print, yet Lexus' version gives it an entirely new spin. The CHAMPION PRINT is more than just a tribute to the team's victory; it's a map of how they got there.
To create a graphic representation of 100 Thieves' championship win, Lexus input the raw player data into a generative design tool created especially for the project. Player actions and movements from the team's 11 winning playoff matches are represented by lines, nodes and curves. Each win is outlined in reflective red ink and etched with a designated top player name.
"We felt the best way to commemorate our partner's tremendous championship win was to build a one-of-a-kind THIEVES NX which was inspired by the team's winning journey," said Vinay Shahani, vice president of Lexus marketing. "The intuitive and tech-forward features of the Lexus NX make it the perfect canvas and co-conspirator for this type of creative venture."
The THIEVES NX, a 2022 NX 350 F SPORT Handling AWD, is customized with 100 Thieves-themed embossed headrests, floor and cargo mats, puddle lamps, door sills and ambient illumination. Its connected and technology upgrades include Lexus Interface with available 14-inch touchscreen display; available Intuitive Parking Assist with Automatic Braking; and Drive Connect trial with Cloud Navigation, including Google points-of-interest (POI) data, Intelligent Assistant, including Hey Lexus and Destination Assist.
"I can't think of a more fitting way to celebrate our championship win than our own exclusive Lexus NX," said Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag, founder and CEO of 100 Thieves. "We can't wait to drive the THIEVES NX around L.A. and show it off to our fans at events."
Redesigned from the inside out, the all-new 2022 Lexus NX ushers in Lexus' next chapter, with bold design, connected-driving feel, intuitive technology, electrification and unmatched craftsmanship. For more information on the all-new 2022 Lexus NX, visit www.lexus.com/nx.
About Lexus
Lexus' passion for brave design, imaginative technology, and exhilarating performance enables the luxury lifestyle brand to create amazing experiences for its customers. Lexus began its journey in 1989 with two luxury sedans and a commitment to pursue perfection. Since then, Lexus has developed its lineup to meet the needs of global luxury customers in more than 90 countries. In the United States, Lexus vehicles are sold through 244 dealers offering a full lineup of luxury vehicles. With six models incorporating Lexus Hybrid Drive, Lexus is the luxury hybrid leader. Lexus also offers eight F SPORT models, one F performance model and one F model. Lexus is committed to being a visionary brand that anticipates the future for luxury customers.
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Strong Balance Sheet and Revenue Growth Drive Record Earnings and Returns
JERICHO, N.Y., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESQ) (the "Company"), the financial holding company for Esquire Bank, National Association ("Esquire Bank"), today announced its operating results for the second quarter of 2022. Significant achievements during the quarter include:
- Net income increased 19% to $6.4 million, or $0.78 per diluted share, as compared to $5.3 million, or $0.66 per diluted share on a linked quarter basis. Net income and diluted earnings per share were $4.5 million and $0.57, respectively, for the second quarter of 2021.
- Industry leading returns on average assets and equity of 2.00% and 17.81%, respectively, as compared to 1.92% and 15.06% on a linked quarter basis. Returns on average assets and equity were 1.84% and 13.76%, respectively, for the second quarter of 2021.
- Strong net interest margin of 4.46% anchored by variable rate commercial loans as loan yields improved 16 basis points on a linked quarter basis. The net interest margin was negatively impacted in the current quarter by elevated levels of interest earning cash balances. Approximately 59% of our loan portfolio is variable rate and primarily tied to prime.
- Our loan portfolio increased $41.3 million, or 20% annualized, to $859.3 million on a linked quarter basis, as we continued to focus our digital marketing efforts and resources on higher yielding commercial loans anchored by our national litigation platform.
- Continued solid credit metrics, asset quality and reserve coverage ratios with minimal nonperforming loans and a reserve for loan losses to total loans of 1.20%.
- Deposits increased $65.6 million on a linked quarter basis, or 24% annualized, to $1.2 billion with a cost-of-funds of 0.10% (including demand deposits), a direct result of our highly efficient branchless and technology enabled deposit platforms. Demand deposits and escrow-based NOW accounts represented 44% and 39% of total deposits, respectively.
- Off-balance sheet sweep funds totaled $496.8 million at quarter end while the associated administrative service payments ("ASP") fees increased to $617 thousand due to increases in short-term interest rates. These sweeps represent additional sources of funding for future loan growth.
- Growth in payment processing fee income and small business clients nationally totaling $5.5 million and 72,000, respectively. Our technology enabled payments platform facilitated the processing of $7.1 billion in payment volume across 136.1 million transactions for our clients. Fee income represents 31% of total revenue.
- On June 2, 2022, the Company announced an exclusive agreement with B.E. Blank & Company ("BEB") to provide growth capital financing to commercial law firms nationally.
- Effective June 27, 2022, the Company was added as a member of the broad-market Russell 3000 Index as part of the 2022 Russell indexes reconstitution. Based upon its membership in the Russell 3000 Index, the Company has also become a member of the small-cap Russell 2000 Index.
- Esquire Bank remains well above the bank regulatory "Well Capitalized" standards
"Esquire will continue to create value beyond our financial sector peer group by coupling our industry leading returns with two significant national markets primed for disruption," stated Tony Coelho, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
"There is tremendous growth potential in both our national platforms due to the limited number of participants and the fragmented approach to finance and technology in both markets," stated Andrew C. Sagliocca, Chief Executive Officer and President.
Second Quarter Earnings
Net income for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 was $6.4 million, or $0.78 per diluted share, compared to $4.5 million, or $0.57 per diluted share for the same period in 2021. Returns on average assets and equity for the current quarter were 2.00% and 17.81%, respectively, compared to 1.84% and 13.76% for the same period of 2021.
Net interest income for the second quarter of 2022 increased $3.0 million, or 28.2%, to $13.7 million, due to growth in average interest earning assets totaling $278.2 million, or 29.2%, to $1.2 billion and increases in the average yields on interest earning assets when compared to the same period in 2021. Our net interest margin decreased slightly to 4.46% in the current quarter as the margin was negatively impacted by elevated levels of average interest earning cash balances funded with low-cost core deposits. Average loans in the quarter increased $141.0 million, or 20.1%, to $841.3 million when compared to the second quarter of 2021, fueled by growth in commercial and multifamily loans. Excluding the effects of our PPP and NFL portfolios in the second quarter of 2021, average loan growth would have been approximately 30%. Our loan-to-deposit ratio was 74.4% as our low-cost deposit base increased $240.8 million, or 26.3%, fueled by demand and escrow deposits. The average yield on loans increased 12 basis points to 5.92% in the current quarter, demonstrating the positive impact short-term rate increases have on our variable rate commercial loans (approximately 59% of our loan portfolio is variable rate and primarily tied to prime). Average securities in the quarter increased $73.3 million to $208.1 million as management opportunistically invested excess liquidity in the bond portfolios driving average yields up 39 basis points to 1.99% and increasing interest income $495 thousand to $1.0 million in the current quarter. The increases in short-term market interest rates also positively affected the yields on other interest earning asset categories alongside those average yield increases noted in the loan and securities portfolios.
The provision for loan losses was $850 thousand for the second quarter of 2022, consistent with the same period in 2021. As of June 30, 2022, Esquire had an allowance to loans ratio of 1.20% as compared to 1.16% in the trailing quarter ended March 31, 2022. The increase in the allowance as a percentage of loans was related to qualitative factors due to the current economic and inflationary environment.
Noninterest income was $6.2 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $742 thousand increase from the same period in 2021, driven by increases in ASP and payment processing fee income. ASP fee income increased $607 thousand to $617 thousand for the second quarter of 2022, primarily due to increases in short-term interest rates on our off-balance sheet funds. Payment processing income was $5.5 million for the second quarter of 2022, a $162 thousand increase from the same period in 2021. Payment processing fees in 2021 totaling $5.4 million were positively impacted by $500 thousand in early termination fees on ISO contracts. Excluding these early termination fees, payment processing fees increased $662 thousand, or 13.6%, from the second quarter of 2021. Payment processing volumes and transactions for the credit and debit card processing platform increased $916 million, or 14.7%, to $7.1 billion and 21.4 million, or 18.6%, to 136.1 million transactions, respectively, for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. These increases were driven by expansion of our sales channels through ISOs, increased number of merchants, volume increases, the reopening of the economy post pandemic and were facilitated by our focus on technology and other resources in the payments vertical. We use proprietary and industry leading technology to ensure card brand and regulatory compliance, support multiple processing platforms, manage daily risk across 72,000 small business merchants in all 50 states, and perform commercial treasury clearing services for approximately $7.1 billion in processing volume across 136.1 million transactions.
Noninterest expense increased $1.3 million, or 14.0%, to $10.4 million for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. This increase was primarily driven by increases in employee compensation and benefits, hiring related costs, data processing, advertising and marketing, and travel and business relations. Employee compensation and benefits costs increased $630 thousand, or 11.1%, due to increases in staff and officer level employees to support our growth, investment in digital platforms and related sales/marketing divisions, and the impact of salary, bonus and stock-based compensation increases. Due to the effects of inflation on the overall economy and consumer prices, we proactively increased our employees' base salary at year-end in excess of industry and national averages to support employee retention. Hiring related costs increased $188 thousand as we continue to invest in staffing to support our growth. Data processing costs increased $145 thousand, or 16.0%, due to increased processing volume, primarily driven by our core banking platform, and additional costs related to our technology implementations. Advertising and marketing costs increased $89 thousand, or 28.3%, as we continued to grow our digital marketing platform and expand our thought leadership in our national verticals. Travel and business relations costs increased $65 thousand as we re-engaged in our traditional high touch marketing and sales efforts to complement our digital marketing efforts.
The Company's efficiency ratio was 52.3% for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to 56.5% in 2021.
The effective tax rate was 26.5% for the second quarter of 2022, as compared to 27.0% for the same period in 2021.
Year to Date Earnings
Net income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 was $11.7 million, or $1.43 per diluted share, compared to $8.7 million, or $1.10 per diluted share for the same period in 2021. Returns on average assets and equity for the six months ended June 30, 2022 were 1.96% and 16.44%, respectively, compared to 1.82% and 13.53% for the same period of 2021.
Net interest income for the six months ended June 30, 2022 increased $4.7 million, or 22.9%, to $25.5 million, due to growth in average interest earning assets totaling $226.3 million, or 24.4%, to $1.2 billion and increases in the average yields on interest earning assets when compared to the same period in 2021. Our net interest margin decreased slightly to 4.44% in the current period as the margin was negatively impacted by elevated levels of average interest earning cash balances funded with low-cost core deposits. Average loans increased $120.1 million, or 17.4%, to $809.1 million when compared to the comparable prior year period, fueled by growth in commercial and multifamily loans. The average yield on loans increased 7 basis points to 5.84% when comparing 2022 to the comparable prior period, Average securities increased $67.4 million to $194.8 million as management opportunistically invested excess liquidity in the bond portfolios driving average yields up 32 basis points to 1.91% and increasing interest income $844 thousand to $1.8 million in the current year. The increases in short-term market interest rates also positively affected the yields on other interest earning asset categories alongside those average yield increases noted in the loan and securities portfolios.
The provision for loan losses was $1.5 million for the six months ended 2022, a $1.2 million decrease from the same period in 2021. The decrease in the provision relates to the reduced pandemic related uncertainty and the sale of our legacy NFL consumer loan portfolio to a fund in second quarter of 2022.
Noninterest income was $11.7 million for the six months ended 2022, a $779 thousand increase from the same period in 2021, driven by an increase of $598 thousand in ASP fee income, which is positively impacted by increases in short-term interest rates, volume and duration of off-balance sheet funds, as well as an increase of $108 thousand in our payment processing income. In the prior year, payment processing income included $500 thousand in early termination fees from ISO contracts. Payment processing volumes and transactions for the credit and debit card processing platform increased $2.2 billion, or 19.4%, to $13.3 billion and 44.5 million, or 21.3%, to 253.9 million transactions, respectively, for the six months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. These increases were driven by expansion of our sales channels through ISOs, increased number of merchants, volume increases, the reopening of the economy post pandemic and were facilitated by our focus on technology and other resources in the payments vertical.
Noninterest expense increased $2.5 million, or 14.3%, to $19.8 million for the six months ended 2022, as compared to the same period in 2021. This increase was primarily driven by increases in employee compensation and benefits, hiring related costs, data processing, travel and business relations, and occupancy and equipment, offset by a decrease in professional and consulting services. Employee compensation and benefits costs increased $1.8 million, or 16.6%, due to increases in staff and officer level employees to support our growth, investment in digital platforms and related sales/marketing divisions, and the impact of salary, bonus and stock-based compensation increases. Due to the effects of inflation on the overall economy and consumer prices, we proactively increased our employees' base salary at year-end in excess of industry and national averages to support employee retention. Professional and consulting service costs decreased $121 thousand, or 7.7%, partially offsetting the increase in employee compensation and benefits as previously contracted consultants were hired, primarily in our technology development and digital marketing departments. Hiring related costs increased $175 thousand as we continue to invest in staffing to support our growth. Data processing costs increased $303 thousand, or 17.2%, due to increased processing volume, primarily driven by our core banking platform, and additional costs related to our technology implementations. Occupancy and equipment costs increased $92 thousand, or 6.5%, primarily due to amortization of our investments in internally developed software to support our new digital platform and additional office space to support our continued growth. Travel and business relations costs increased $116 thousand as we re-engaged in our traditional high touch marketing and sales efforts to complement our digital marketing efforts.
The Company's efficiency ratio was 53.2% for the six months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to 54.7% in 2021.
The effective tax rate was 26.5% for the six months ended 2022, as compared to 25.8% for the same period in 2021.
Asset Quality
At June 30, 2022, nonperforming loans held for investment were minimal, totaling $4 thousand. As of June 30, 2022, the allowance for loan losses was $10.3 million, or 1.20% of total loans, as compared to $14.0 million, or 1.98% of total loans at June 30, 2021. The decrease in the allowance as a percent of loans was primarily due to the charge-off of $9.0 million upon reclassification of the legacy NFL consumer post settlement loan portfolio from held for investment to held for sale during the third quarter of 2021 that was subsequently sold to a fund on April 1, 2022.
Balance Sheet
At June 30, 2022, total assets were $1.3 billion, reflecting a $251.6 million, or 23.8% increase from June 30, 2021. This increase was attributable to loans held for investment increasing $152.0 million, or 21.5%, to $859.3 million, driven by commercial and multifamily loans, funded with low-cost deposits. Excluding the effects of the NFL reclassification (third quarter of 2021) totaling $25.9 million and net payoffs of our PPP loans totaling $23.6 million, our loan growth was $201.5 million, or 30.6%, when comparing June 30, 2022 to 2021. Our higher yielding commercial loans grew 36.5% during this same period. Our sales pipeline remains robust, driven by our current and future digital marketing plans, robust proprietary CRM platform and our employees that support current and future growth. Commencing in the first quarter of 2022, we invested a portion of our excess liquidity in held-to-maturity securities, totaling $76.3 million at June 30, 2022. Our available-for-sale securities portfolio decreased $3.6 million, or 2.9%, to $122.7 million as compared to June 30, 2021.
The following table provides information regarding the composition of our loan portfolio for the periods presented:
Total deposits were $1.2 billion as of June 30, 2022, a $240.8 million, or 26.3%, increase from June 30, 2021. This was primarily due to a $117.5 million, or 29.7%, increase in noninterest bearing demand deposits to $513.1 million, a $115.6 million, or 22.8%, increase in Savings, NOW and Money Market deposits to $623.4 million, and a $7.7 million increase in time deposits to $19.0 million. The increase in deposits was primarily driven by commercial and escrow low-cost and noninterest bearing deposits from our litigation and small business platforms. Off-balance sheet sweep funds totaled $496.8 million at quarter end, representing additional sources of funding for future growth. Our deposit growth and off-balance sheet funds continue to demonstrate our highly efficient branchless and technology enabled deposit platforms.
Stockholders' equity increased $10.9 million to $145.5 million as of June 30, 2022, compared to June 30, 2021, primarily due to net income and amortization of share-based compensation, partially offset by other comprehensive losses of $11.6 million. This other comprehensive loss reflects the current unrealized losses on our available-for-sale agency MBS portfolio that have been negatively impacted by recent increases in short-term market interest rates and not due to credit concerns. Esquire Bank remains well above bank regulatory "Well Capitalized" standards.
About Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc.
Esquire Financial Holdings, Inc. is a financial holding company headquartered in Jericho, New York, with one branch office in Jericho, New York and an administrative office in Boca Raton, Florida. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, Esquire Bank, National Association, is a full-service commercial bank dedicated to serving the financial needs of the litigation industry and small businesses nationally, as well as commercial and retail customers in the New York metropolitan area. The bank offers tailored financial and payment processing solutions to the litigation community and their clients as well as dynamic and flexible payment processing solutions to small business owners. For more information, visit www.esquirebank.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" relating to future results of the Company. Forward-looking statements are subject to many risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: changes in business plans as circumstances warrant; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial markets; the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and results of operation; and other risks detailed in the "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements," "Risk Factors" and other sections of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this press release are not a guarantee of future events, and that actual events may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "might," "should," "could," "predict," "potential," "believe," "expect," "attribute," "continue," "will," "anticipate," "seek," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "projection," "goal," "target," "outlook," "aim," "would," "annualized" and "outlook," or similar terminology. Any forward-looking statements presented herein are made only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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Man hit by truck while running across the country for a cause, not expected to survive
PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV/Gray News) - A Portland man running across the country to bring awareness to those impacted by the pandemic is expected to succumb to his injuries after being hit by a truck along a road in Texas earlier this week.
Grady Lambert’s parents, Mark and Julie, said their son was running from Cannon Beach, Oregon, to Hilton Head, South Carolina, a 4,000-mile journey, all for a good cause.
“He had always talked about running across cross-country,” Julie Lambert said. “So I kind of knew it was going to happen at some point. And of course, once again, he didn’t run it by us. He just said, ‘This is what I’m doing.’”
His parents were at Cannon Beach on March 16 when he set off on his journey. It was a moment that took a lot of preparation before heading east from Oregon.
“We wanted to make sure that he was sufficiently prepared because it was an enormous undertaking,” Mark said.
Along the way, Grady Lambert documented his journey on Instagram, making his way down to California, across Arizona and New Mexico, then into Texas. He raised thousands of dollars along the way for frontline workers and took pictures with nearly everyone he met.
“That was a hard day, watching your son leave on something that you knew was dangerous,” Julie Lambert said. “We recognized the danger of what he was doing.”
But hiss journey came to a tragic end in Amarillo, Texas, on Sunday. A truck hit him while he was running along a road in the city, leaving him with life-threatening injuries that his parents said he won’t survive. Mark and Julie Lambert will donate their son’s organs so he can help more people after he’s gone.
His parents said they are also setting up a scholarship in his name for students graduating from Lincoln Academy Alternative High School in his hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The money will be awarded to a student who is going to pursue a career in nursing. A scholarship, Grady’s parents said, is aligned with his mission of the journey he couldn’t complete.
Though he couldn’t complete his run, Mark and Julie Lambert said they are going to do it for him. Before he left, Grady Lambert told his mother in the car that if anything bad happens to him, to finish his journey.
“He said, so I want you to take my ashes and spread them from where I stop to the end,” Julie said. “So Mark and I will have an epic road trip and spread Grady’s ashes along the way.”
Mark and Julie Lambert said they’ll remember their son the same way as everyone else he met throughout his life, a warm, compassionate, young man who was always thinking about others.
If you would like to donate to Grady Lambert’s scholarship fund, click here.
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BERLIN, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fraugster, a payment intelligence company which is the first player to offer compliance, chargeback protection, risk management solutions and credit scoring via one AI platform and one integration, today announced the publication of its first Payment Intelligence Report 2022. This provides insight into key Compliance, Fraud Risk and Revenue Uplift trends in the market. Information from 60B data points and 80M individual transactions in 2021 were analyzed by the Fraugster team. Findings highlight the latest fraud tactics being deployed against Payment Service Providers (PSPs), Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) suppliers and Merchants in Travel, Physical and Digital Goods, challenges and opportunities for BNPL players, chargeback trends, popular fraud types, PSD2 impacts, and future trends for 2022 and beyond.
Research highlights:
Fraud attack findings
- 109% Increase in Identity fraud
- 70% rise in Gift Card fraud
- 52% Increase in Account Takeover (ATO ) attacks
Checkout/Basket facts
- Average Order Value by Vertical: BNPL €146, Travel €580, Physical Goods: €147, Digital Goods €20
- Preferred shopping times based on the number of orders
Sanction information
- Top sanctioned countries: Russia, Iran, Syria and North Korea
- Total AML fines in 2021 amounted to € 2.5B, with over 80 institutions being fined.
Chargeback data
- 46% of the total chargebacks were filed within a span of 60 days
- 15% (pre-pandemic) to over 50% (pandemic peak) increase in angry chargebacks
- Average chargeback by value by vertical: Travel € 710, Gaming: €25, Fashion: €220
- Total cost of chargeback to the merchant is 2.9x the value of chargebacks
BNPL snapshot
- Bad debts as a percentage of total outstanding debt for Credit Cards stood only at 5.30% compared to an estimated 9.55% for Buy Now Pay Later providers.
- 62% growth of new user group adopting BNPL (18-24 age bracket)
3DS data
- 20-50% of a merchant's transaction flow is redirected to frictionless 3DS
- Decrease in Issuer declines post 3DS, compensates for customer drop-offs, therefore, balancing overall acceptance rate.
Vertical quick dives
- Airlines lost over €6.5B to fraud in 2021, which is equivalent to the global average cost of 24,000 flight tickets with fraud losses amounting to 1.5% of total global airline revenue.
- Total direct fraud losses for digital goods (consisting of gaming, gambling and gift cards) amounted to €3.58B in 2021, with over €13.72B worth of genuine transactions lost due to false positives.
- Fashion had the highest percentage contribution to revenue i.e., 28%, followed by home and living (22%), electronics (19%), food and personal care (18%) and furniture (13%). Nearly €69.65 B from the total revenue for physical goods was lost to fraud in 2021.
Christian Mangold, Fraugster CEO says "We are excited to publish the first edition of our Payment Intelligence Report 2022. By researching our own data we gleaned information about Compliance, Fraud Risk and Revenue Uplift that will enable us to make adjustments where required to ensure that our merchants can minimize fraud and maximize revenues."
To view the complete Payment Intelligence Report 2022, please click here.
About Fraugster
Fraugster is a Berlin based payments intelligence company that helps the e-commerce ecosystem to minimize fraud and maximize revenue by making smarter real-time business decisions. We help our customers solve multiple use cases by giving them access to various, interoperable products via one integration.
Fraugster has developed one of the most accurate AI fraud prevention solutions on the market and is backed by some of Europe's most reputable deeptech investors from Earlybird to Speedinvest, CommerzVentures and Munich Re Ventures. Further information can be found at https://www.fraugster.com/
For further information please contact: Caroline Delvenne, pr@fraugster.com, +49(0)30 555794810
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SHOSHONE COUNTY, Idaho — A dual drowning was reported along the Coeur d'Alene river this afternoon. The two floaters, a 60-year-old woman and 12-year-old man, were near mile-post 16 when they got caught up by a downed tree and were pulled underwater due to strong currents.
Both people were quickly rescued by passerby's. The woman was found unconscious, not breathing and not wearing any safety equipment. A witness began CPR and the victim regained consciousness and was transported via life flight to Kootenai hospital for precautions.
Shoshone County Deputies on scene reported that the river is very high and cold, with temperatures around 46 degrees. Deputies also mentioned that if it wasn't for the quick actions of witnesses, the outcome could have been much different.
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Chief Privacy Officer of LinkedIn brings 20+ years of global leadership to privacy innovators
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RadarFirst, the global innovator in privacy incident management, announced the appointment of Kalinda Raina, Vice President, Chief Privacy Officer at LinkedIn, to its Board of Directors, effective on December 30, 2022. Raina will provide strategic insight to support continuous innovation and operational excellence for RadarFirst's next growth phase.
A practicing privacy attorney and industry thought leader, Raina leverages over 20 years of experience across the privacy landscape, including international data privacy, data protection laws, and product development to support RadarFirst's continued transformation of privacy and cybersecurity incident management.
"Kalinda is a distinguished leader in the privacy and data protection domain. We are thrilled to welcome her to RadarFirst's Board of Directors," said Don India, CEO of RadarFirst. "Her expertise will be invaluable as we expand the RadarFirst platform from the gold standard in Fortune 500 incident management to the gold standard for all data compliance leaders."
Privacy leaders around the globe rely on RadarFirst for an efficient, consistent, and defensible solution for privacy incident response. Patented technology makes RadarFirst a one-of-a-kind solution for navigating changing breach notification laws and maturing privacy operations.
"RadarFirst has earned a well-deserved reputation for its best-in-class software and unwavering commitment to helping clients achieve operational excellence," said Raina. "As the risk and compliance landscape continues to evolve, RadarFirst is well positioned to meet the critical needs of the market and accelerate its global growth. I am excited to join RadarFirst's Board of Directors and work with their talented team as we strive to build a more compliant future."
Raina currently serves as Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer for LinkedIn, where she is responsible for building data protection programs and data strategies and ensuring enterprise compliance. Prior to LinkedIn, Raina served as Head of Privacy and Policy, Americas for Apple responsible for integrating Apple's privacy story into key innovations such as Apple Watch, HealthKit, Apple Pay, Touch ID, and Family Accounts.
Earlier in her career, Raina spent over six years as Nintendo's Chief Privacy Officer and was a privacy associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Saul Ewing LLP. Raina has served as the Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), and currently serves as a board member of Power of Zero, an international non-profit organization ensuring the well-being of children in an increasingly online world.
Raina's role was sourced through the external board program operated by Vista Equity Partners, a global investment firm focused on enterprise software, data, and technology-enabled businesses and a majority investor in RadarFirst. Launched in 2017, the board program leverages Vista's ecosystem and additional resources to identify, train, and appoint qualified board candidates for its portfolio companies. The program works to create a diverse pipeline of qualified board candidates through programs and partnerships that advance diversity for all boards and drive impact for the corporate world at large.
RadarFirst offers innovative software solutions to data privacy challenges in today's increasingly complex and changing privacy regulations. With RadarFirst's patented SaaS-based incident response management platform, organizations make consistent, defensible breach notification decisions in a fraction of the time. The Radar Breach Guidance Engine™ profiles and scores data privacy incidents and generates incident-specific notification recommendations to help ensure compliance with data breach laws and contractual notification obligations. Privacy leaders around the globe rely on RadarFirst for an efficient, consistent, and defensible solution for privacy incident response. To learn more about simplifying your incident management with RadarFirst, visit radarfirst.com.
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DETROIT — The U.S. government's road safety agency has closed a more than six-year investigation into exhaust odors in Ford Explorer passenger cabins, determining that the SUVs don't have high levels of carbon monoxide and don't need to be recalled.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it reviewed more than 6,500 consumer complaints, tested SUVs in the field and called in automotive, medical, environmental health and occupational safety experts before making the determination.
The probe covered nearly 1.5 million Explorers from the 2011 to 2017 model years and involved complaints of sickness and crashes that involved three deaths and alleged there were 657 injuries. Many complaints came from police departments that used Explorer Police Interceptors as patrol vehicles.
But the agency said in documents released Monday that it used rigorous test methods to send exhaust gas into vehicles. No Explorers with bodies that were sealed under a 2017 Ford field service campaign had carbon monoxide levels that were higher than Environmental Protection Agency limits.
The agency determined that sealing issues due to installation of sirens, lights, cages and other items were responsible for the highest measured carbon monoxide levels in vehicles it tested. The highest carbon monoxide levels in consumer vehicles were usually traced to sealing issues caused by repairs after rear crash damage, NHTSA said.
Even without Ford's sealing repairs, no vehicles without crash damage or equipment installed had carbon monoxide levels that exceeded acceptable levels, the agency wrote. “Therefore the agency has not identified a defect that represents an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety,” the agency wrote.
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A fired Vermont deputy who is the only candidate on the November ballot to become sheriff of the county where he served was charged Friday with simple assault for kicking a shackled prisoner, authorities said.
John Grismore, 49, of Fairfax was cited on the charge Friday through his attorney. He is due in court Monday in St. Albans to answer the charge, said Vermont State Police in a news release.
Surveillance cameras recorded the prisoner being kicked on Aug. 7. In the Aug. 9 primary, Grismore won the nomination of both Franklin County’s Republican and Democratic parties to have his name on the November ballot for sheriff. But after the video became public he was suspended and then fired by outgoing Franklin County Sheriff Roger Langevin.
The county Republican and Democratic parties gave their support to a write-in campaign by Sheriff’s department Lt. Mark Lauer, a 27-year Vermont State Police veteran who has been at the department for nearly a decade. Gale Messier is also running a write-in campaign. He spent decades in law enforcement including 20 years at the sheriff’s department in Chittenden County, Vermont’s most populous county.
On Friday Grismore said in an email that “the story is still the same" and he had nothing new to add.
But in a subsequent message, Grismore said he was “surprised and dismayed” the results of the state police investigation had been referred for prosecution as misdemeanor simple assault. He said he continued to maintain he used the minimum amount of force necessary to prevent the prisoner from spitting on him and the other deputies, he said.
“Although this latest step is unfortunate, I look forward to the opportunity to definitively, once and for all, clear my name," Grismore said. “I fully believe in our criminal justice system, having served within it for the better part of 25 years, and I am confident that once all the facts are exposed, I will be promptly and completely vindicated"
Early voting is well underway in Vermont, with mail-in ballots already distributed.
Messier said Friday that the the charge was a good thing.
“You can’t be a bully, you’re a police officer," Messier said.
Lauer said Friday he had no comment.
The Vermont Department of State’s Attorneys and Sheriffs has said that if Grismore wins and takes office the only mechanism to remove him would be impeachment by the Legislature.
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OAK BROOK, Ill., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) (the "Company"), a leader in environmental and safety solutions, announced the completion of a new five-year $800 million credit facility, to replace its existing $500 million credit facility. The new facility is comprised of a $675 million revolving credit facility and a $125 million term loan facility. The arrangement also provides the Company with the ability to further expand its borrowing capacity by up to the greater of (i) $400 million and (ii) 100% of Consolidated EBITDA for the applicable four-quarter period preceding such expansion notice, subject to approval by applicable lenders.
Jennifer L. Sherman, Federal Signal's President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are extremely pleased to announce this new credit facility, which provides greater financial flexibility to invest in internal growth initiatives and pursue additional acquisitions. The terms of the new facility are more favorable to the Company, reflecting our strong cash flow and balance sheet. This marks another important milestone for the Company, as we continue to execute on our strategic long-term growth objectives."
The syndication of the new facility was completed with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC and Truist Securities, Inc. acting as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners, PNC Bank, National Association and Truist Bank as Syndication Agents, and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and The Toronto Dominion Bank, New York Branch as Documentation Agents. Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, will serve as Administrative Agent, Swingline Lender and Issuing Lender.
Additional details of the credit facility will be available in a Form 8-K to be filed by the Company.
Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) builds and delivers equipment of unmatched quality that moves material, cleans infrastructure, and protects the communities where we work and live. Founded in 1901, Federal Signal is a leading global designer, manufacturer and supplier of products and total solutions that serve municipal, governmental, industrial and commercial customers. Headquartered in Oak Brook, Ill., with manufacturing facilities worldwide, the Company operates two groups: Environmental Solutions and Safety and Security Systems. For more information on Federal Signal, visit: www.federalsignal.com.
This release contains various forward-looking statements as of the date hereof and we undertake no obligation to update these forward-looking statements regardless of new developments or otherwise. Statements in this release that are not historical are forward-looking statements. Such statements are subject to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to vary materially from those stated. Such risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to: direct and indirect impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the associated government response, risks and adverse economic effects associated with emerging geopolitical conflicts, product and price competition, supply chain disruptions, work stoppages, availability and pricing of raw materials, cybersecurity risks, risks associated with acquisitions such as integration of operations and achieving anticipated revenue and cost benefits, foreign currency exchange rate changes, interest rate changes, increased legal expenses and litigation results, legal and regulatory developments and other risks and uncertainties described in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 4" game were:
9-6-6-1
(nine, six, six, one)
¶ Ticket-holders with all four winning numbers in the order given win the top prize. Lesser amounts are also awarded to ticket-holders with other varying combinations of the winning numbers.
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(The Hill) – Rising COVID-19 cases in Europe are setting off warnings that the U.S. could experience a new surge this winter.
Previous jumps in the U.S. have followed a pattern in which cases first rise in Europe, making officials nervous they could see a spike in U.S. cases as the weather turns.
The most recent data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control shows that cases began going up around the beginning of September in Europe.
The seven-day average is roughly 230,000 cases per day, reflecting rates that were seen in late July when Europe was still dealing with the omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariant wave.
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated last week that a rise in cases in Europe was expected due to cooling temperatures, but stressed that hospitalizations and deaths did not have to rise as well due to the viral therapeutics that are now available.
Confirmed coronavirus-related deaths across the European Union have remained low, with a seven-day average of 280 as of last week.
In the U.S., cases and deaths have continued to trend down, but dropping temperatures that push people indoors, dismal booster vaccination numbers and an overall disregard for pandemic mitigation practices are setting the stage for a winter wave resembling the one across the Atlantic.
The seven-day moving average for cases in the U.S. is around 38,000, while the seven-day moving average for deaths is about 330.
Ali Mokdad, epidemiologist and professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, told The Hill the contrast in the regions can be attributed to multiple factors, including warmer temperatures in the U.S. and differing levels of community immunity.
“In the U.S., we have a higher infection rate than many European countries, where more people have been infected here. So we have a little bit more immunity than they do, but still we have waning immunity,” Mokdad said.
COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations in the U.S. will likely begin going up in three to four weeks, Mokdad said, though they won’t reach the same levels seen during the omicron wave last winter. He emphasized that this projection is contingent on a situation in which new coronavirus variants that are better at escaping immunity don’t rise in dominance.
Researchers and virologists have continually stated that the risk of a more infectious variant still looms as the SARS-CoV-2 virus continues to spread and mutate.
The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub, a U.S.-based data collective operated by researchers and public health experts, publishes possible directions in which the pandemic could go based on multiple models.
The most recent projections from the data hub present four scenarios: two in which no new variants occur and two in which they do.
Shaun Truelove, assistant scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a member of the COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub team, said he is leaning away from the potential scenarios where no new variants arise.
“We are seeing variants, we are seeing that they are emerging and it seems like we will have one of those,” said Truelove.
The BA.5 omicron subvariant, the dominant strain in the U.S., has begun losing its foothold in the U.S., with sublineages like BA.4.6 and BQ.1.1 growing in prevalence. In some parts of the Midwest, BA.4.6 now accounts for a fifth of COVID-19 cases.
The differences in community immunity levels between the U.S. and Europe presents a challenge in projecting where the American infection rates will go based on overseas observations, according to Truelove.
“We have a situation where people are constantly being infected, so their immunity from that infection or from vaccination is waning. And then at the same time as all that’s happening, we’re also seeing the influx of these new variants that have these immune escape properties,” he said.
Apart from COVID-19, there are other bits of information that can be gleaned from Europe’s situation that could help forecast what the U.S. will experience in the upcoming months.
Health officials have warned that the flu will likely be worse than it has been in recent years due to lack of exposure, possibly resulting in a “twindemic” of both viruses. Mokdad noted that a spike of influenza infection in Europe has not yet been observed amid the coronavirus surge.
“We haven’t seen a spike of cases in Europe right now. … So some encouraging news for the flu, but I wouldn’t bet on it,” said Mokdad.
While U.S. influenza cases have been rising, only 3.3 percent of lab-tested specimens have come back as positive, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent polling from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases found that 49 percent of U.S. adults plan on getting the flu shot this year, only 5 points lower than the percent of adults who got the shot last year.
The prevalence of people getting vaccinated and practicing viral mitigation methods like masking and social distancing has largely fallen out of favor. President Biden said in September that the pandemic was “over,” a move that Mokdad partly cited for the slow booster uptake.
“President Biden said the pandemic is over, but that’s a mistake for me at a time when we’re trying to push a booster for a new vaccine designed for BA.4 and BA.5 and he goes and says it’s over. So why would people go and get the vaccine?” Mokdad said. “It’s very hard for me to say COVID-19 is over. It’s not over, especially right now coming into winter.”
Experts who spoke with The Hill strongly encouraged people to get the updated bivalent booster ahead of the holiday season.
“The best holiday present that you can give — whatever you celebrate — that you give for yourself and your family members is protection and safety. And the best way to do it is to go and get your booster and your flu shot,” Mokdad said.
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NEW YORK, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today QBE North America announced the promotion of James Haggerty to Head of Commercial Programs. Haggerty most recently served as SVP, Underwriting Governance for QBE North America.
In his new role, Haggerty will be responsible for building and strengthening the $1+ billion Commercial Programs portfolio, which includes both Property and Workers' Compensation programs. He will lead the refinement of program business strategy backed by robust operations and quality assurance while enhancing and expanding relationships with program administrators.
"We're delighted to have a leader of Jim's caliber take on this key position," said Michael Foley, President, Commercial Insurance, QBE North America. "He has deep knowledge of the business from his previous vantage point in the CUO function, and he has proven his ability as a leader in forging highly effective teams and strong partner and customer relationships. With his vision and guidance, I am confident our Commercial Programs team will take their current leadership position in the market to an even higher level."
Haggerty has nearly 30 years of insurance industry experience – 25 of them at QBE and its acquired companies. Prior to his six years as the underwriting governance leader, Haggerty served as the product and underwriting leader for two of QBE's business units. He also has experience as a regional leader and frontline underwriter. Haggerty holds a B.S. from the University of Maine.
About QBE North America
QBE North America is a global insurance leader focused on helping customers solve unique risks, so they can focus on their future. Part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, QBE North America reported gross written premiums in 2022 of $7.3 billion. QBE Insurance Group's 2022 results can be found at www.qbe.com.
Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, QBE operates out of 27 countries around the globe, with a presence in every key insurance market. The North America division, headquartered in New York, conducts business through its insurance company subsidiaries. The actual terms and conditions of any insurance coverage are subject to the language of the policies as issued. QBE insurance companies are rated "A" (Excellent) by A.M. Best and "A+" by Standard & Poor's. Additional information can be found at www.qbe.com/us or follow QBE North America on LinkedIn and Facebook.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The number will follow Shohei Ohtani until it is over. No, not Ohtani’s home runs or strikeouts or any of his magnificent numbers from the field. Nothing like that.
It’s all about how much. As in how much will his next contract be worth.
Ohtani is among several players going into their final seasons before they are eligible for free agency. There is still time for signatures and press conferences before opening day, but history shows a new contract becomes less likely once the real games begin.
There is no real precedent for placing a value on Ohtani’s remarkable skills, especially after baseball’s epic offseason spending spree. And that doesn’t factor in the potential business opportunities that go along with the majors’ only truly global star.
Ohtani hit .273 with 34 homers and 95 RBIs last season in his fifth year with the Los Angeles Angels. The 2021 AL MVP also went 15-9 with a 2.33 ERA in 28 starts on the mound.
He prepared for this season by leading Japan to the World Baseball Classic championship, striking out fellow Angels star Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the United States in the final.
Ohtani, who turns 29 in July, could set multiple records with his next contract, likely in the neighborhood of a $45 million average annual value and quite possibly reaching $500 million in total.
If the Angels drop out of contention in the rough-and-tumble AL West, Ohtani likely becomes the top name on the trade market this summer. If the Angels are in the mix for the playoffs, the pressure builds on the team to get something done before possibly losing Ohtani in free agency for nothing more than a compensatory draft pick.
So yeah, definitely high stakes with Ohtani and the Angels.
Here is a closer look at five more players eligible for free agency after this season:
RHP AARON NOLA, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES
Nola, who turns 30 in June, went 11-13 with a 3.25 ERA in 32 starts for Philadelphia last year. He also had a career-best 235 strikeouts in 205 innings for the NL champions.
Nola was selected by the Phillies with the seventh overall pick in the 2014 amateur draft. There were extension talks during spring training, but it didn’t work out.
“We are very open-minded to trying to sign him at the end of the season,” President of Baseball Operations Dave Dombrowski said. “We’re hopeful that he’ll remain a Phillie for a long time.”
3B MATT CHAPMAN, TORONTO BLUE JAYS
Chapman hit 36 homers and drove in 91 runs for Oakland in 2019. He hasn’t been able to duplicate that production, but the three-time Gold Glover finished with 27 homers and 76 RBIs in 155 games last year in his first season with Toronto.
Chapman turns 30 on April 28. Long one of the game’s top fielding third basemen, he is represented by Scott Boras, who generally takes his clients to free agency.
TEOSCAR HERNÁNDEZ, SEATTLE MARINERS
Hernández was acquired in a November trade with Toronto. He hit .267 with 25 homers and 77 RBIs in his final year with the Blue Jays. He was terrific in 2021, batting .296 with 32 homers, 116 RBIs and a .870 OPS.
The change of scenery could help the 30-year-old Hernández set himself up for a big payday. He is a .357 hitter with three homers and seven RBIs in 16 games at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park.
OF IAN HAPP, CHICAGO CUBS
The switch-hitting Happ is coming off perhaps his best big league season, setting career highs with a .271 batting average, 72 RBIs and 42 doubles in 158 games. He also won his first Gold Glove and made the NL All-Star team for the first time.
Chicago had struggled to re-sign its own players in recent years, but it agreed to a $35 million, three-year contract with infielder Nico Hoerner on Monday. The 28-year-old Happ, a first-round pick in the 2015 amateur draft, is on the executive subcommittee for the players’ union.
LHP JULIO URÍAS, LOS ANGELES DODGERS
Urías, who turns 27 in August, likely will have plenty of suitors if he reaches free agency. He went 17-7 with an NL-low 2.16 ERA in 31 starts for the NL West champions in 2022, finishing third in NL Cy Young Award balloting. That’s after he went 20-3 with a 2.96 ERA in the previous season.
Urías also is a Boras client, but the Dodgers have one of the majors’ biggest payrolls. Los Angeles also could make a run at Ohtani, which could factor into its discussions with Urías’ camp.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A 14-year-old student at a middle school in Florida is reportedly facing a grand theft charge after officials say she stole over $10,000 from her grandparents and handed it out to fellow classmates.
The girl, a student at Lake Weir Middle School in Summerfield, had handed out hundreds of dollars — each — to some of her fellow students on Thursday, according to an arrest report.
Deputies with Marion County responded to the school the same day. School officials also found $2,500 in the girl’s backpack.
Investigators said the student claimed she was given the cash from a former student, but they later learned she had stolen around $13,500 from her grandmother’s safe.
The girl now faces a possible grand theft charge, the Associated Press reproted.
Administrators with Lake Weir Middle School contacted parents after the incident, advising them to talk with their children about the stolen money.
“We would like to recover this money for the grandparents,” school officials said. “If you speak with your children and if they have received money from the student, please turn it in to our school resource officers.”
Administrators added that kids who return the stolen money will not face any consequences.
By Friday, officials had recovered about $700 of the money that had been handed out. That money and the $2,500 recovered from the girl’s backpack were returned to the grandmother.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF), a leading provider of title and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries, today announced the acquisition of St. Louis Title, Security Title Insurance Agency and Accurate Disbursing of St. Louis, Missouri, and Benchmark Title of Southern Illinois.
"We couldn't be more excited to bring these premier title and escrow teams in the St. Louis market into the FNF family of companies," said Mike Cusack, Executive Vice President and Regional Manager of FNF. "Their commitment to the St. Louis and Southern Illinois real estate community is evidenced by their success, growth, and dedication to customer service. Together, we will continue this commitment and provide each of these teams with all of the resources we have to service each and every customer."
St. Louis Title, Security Title, Accurate Disbursing and Benchmark Title were founded in 2005 and have grown to become one of the market leaders in the St. Louis metropolitan area. John Schaefer, the current manager, will continue to lead all operations.
"We are very excited to join the FNF family," said Mr. Schaefer. "Our combined resources will allow us to continue to provide the service our customers expect, and to lead our employees and customers into the future."
About Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation's largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters - Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title and National Title of New York - that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States. More information about FNF can be found at fnf.com.
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Investors@fnf.com
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KEITHVILLE, La. (AP) — Communities from Texas to Florida began assisting survivors and cleaning up Thursday after tornadoes left scattered destruction and at least three people dead across the South. To the north, blizzards continued to pound the Midwest as more ice and snow headed toward New England.
Three straight days of volatile weather in the South continued as a possible tornado wrecked a building housing a cotton gin in rural Georgia and forecasters issued a stream of tornado warnings across the Florida peninsula.
The same storm front spawned twisters as it marched from central Texas across Louisiana, where all three storm deaths were confirmed, before destroying farm buildings in Mississippi and tearing roofs off other buildings in Alabama.
In Union Parish, Louisiana, near the Arkansas line, volunteers stocked a gymnasium with donated clothing and other supplies for dozens whose homes were badly damaged or destroyed.
“It shows that people love you,” said Patsy Andrews, who survived the storm hunkered in a bathtub with her three children. “It shows that people care.”
Andrews teared up as she recounted how winds blew open her front door early Wednesday in the Union County community of Farmerville as tornado alerts sounded. Windows started breaking with a popping noise like gunfire, she said, as the family crawled into the bathroom.
“The only thing we know to do was just crying, we was screaming, just calling on Jesus,” Andrews said. She added: “We all grabbed each other, we jumped in the tub. All we could do was just pray. It was very devastating.”
A few others caught in the storm’s path weren’t so fortunate.
An 8-year-old boy and his mother were killed in rural Keithville, Louisiana, when their mobile home was swept away Tuesday. Authorities found a third victim outside a home in St. Charles Parish, west of New Orleans, after a possible tornado struck the opposite corner of the state Wednesday.
The National Weather Service can take days to confirm whether destructive winds were in fact tornadoes. Data compiled by the Southern Regional Climate Center at Texas A&M University showed nearly 50 tornadoes reported across six states since Tuesday — the vast majority of them in Louisiana and Mississippi.
In Mississippi, a suspected tornado destroyed four large chicken houses, one containing 5,000 roosters, Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said. In Summerville, Alabama, Fire Chief Michael Aaron said storm winds tore away roofing and downed power lines.
State emergency managers said four people were also injured in storms. Three of those were in the Mississippi Delta’s Sharkey County, where storms hit a mobile home park in Anguilla on Wednesday. One person was injured in Hinds County, home to the capital city of Jackson.
Before the storm front started moving offshore, police in rural Doerun, Georgia, reported that a suspected tornado struck a large building housing a cotton gin, leaving a sagging heap of bent metal. No injuries were reported, the police department said in a Facebook post.
Further to the north, the National Weather Service issued blizzard warnings Thursday in the Dakotas as well as portions of Montana, Wyoming and Nebraska. As the storm moves eastward, interior parts of the Northeast could accumulate as much as one foot (30 centimeters) of snow, said Zach Taylor, a weather service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland.
“It really, truly has been a coast-to-coast winter storm that has affected a large portion of the country, and that doesn’t begin to even mention the severe weather in the South,” Taylor said.
Roger Hainy, who owns a farm near Wessington Springs in central South Dakota, said he was shut in after blowing snow formed drifts that made the roads impassable. Hainy’s farm lost power earlier in the week when freezing rain hit the area.
“Back when I was a kid we used to have three-day blizzards, but this one is going to be four days,” Hainy said. “It’s been a long time since we’ve had one like this.”
In Bismarck, North Dakota, an additional four inches (10 centimeters) of snow were expected Thursday to top a foot that has already accumulated. Wind gusts of 60 miles per hour (96 kph) prompted a no-travel advisory for major highways.
“The wind and ice — it’s miserable, and a lot of people are in the ditches,” said Dean Cota, manager of the Stamart Travel Center, where the parking lot was full of truckers waiting out the storm. “Everything’s just slick and it’s blowing vehicles right off the road.”
Blizzard conditions pelted Minnesota, leaving thousands without power and blanketing roads with ice and snow.
Brianna Vatalaro, 21, in northern Minnesota said she lost power and heat in her home for more than six hours Thursday morning and watched 50-foot trees fall on powerlines, creating blue and green sparks outside her house.
She thought about “all the things that could possibly go wrong,” like not being able to charge or use her phone in an emergency, or needing to help her stepmom who uses a breathing machine that requires power.
Vatalaro tried driving to her job at Home Depot but gave up within five blocks, she said, after seeing trucks spin out on the highway and hopping out of her car to help push a man’s vehicle out of ice and snow. “It’s been chaotic,” she said.
In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state is well prepared for several inches of snow expected in some areas over the coming days. During a briefing in Albany, Hochul said there’s also a chance that strong winds could topple power lines.
“We have utility crews all set, already on the ground, ready to respond as quickly as possible,” she said.
Forecasters expect more blizzard conditions in places across the Upper Midwest, and ice and snow from the central Appalachians into the Northeast. The National Weather Service issued an ice storm warning Thursday in parts of four states and a winter storm warning through Friday night from Pennsylvania to Maine. The weather service said heavy snowfall is expected across portions of interior New York and New England through the weekend with storm totals expected to reach one to two feet.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)Jr. Clay scored a career-high 40 points for Tennessee State in a 100-85 victory over SIU Edwardsville on Saturday night.
Clay added eight rebounds for the Tigers (17-12, 9-7 Ohio Valley Conference). Marcus Fitzgerald Jr. scored 18 points while shooting 5 for 8 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 6 of 8 from the free throw line, and added six rebounds. Dedric Boyd recorded 13 points and was 5 of 9 shooting (3 for 7 from distance).
Shamar Wright finished with 20 points, eight rebounds and three steals for the Cougars (17-12, 8-8). Ray’Sean Taylor added 17 points for SIU Edwardsville. In addition, Damarco Minor had 15 points and six rebounds.
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Five people were arrested in West Lafayette over the weekend on drug- and alcohol-related charges.
Purdue student Kyanne Edwards, 20, was arrested early Friday morning by West Lafayette Police on preliminary charges of possession of cocaine and possession of paraphernalia, according to Tippecanoe County Jail logs.
Edwards was the passenger of a car pulled over for disregarding a traffic signal near the 100 block of Pierce Street. The officer who pulled the car over observed that she had a small amount of cocaine along with paraphernalia, West Lafayette Police Capt. Adam Ferguson said.
The driver of the car, Lafayette man Jaquall Esper, 20, was reportedly intoxicated and smelled of marijuana, Ferguson said, so he was arrested on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, possession of paraphernalia and operating a vehicle without ever receiving a license.
Purdue student Justin Qualley, 21, was arrested early Saturday morning by Purdue Police on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle with a BAC of 0.10 or more.
PUPD Capt. Song Kang was unavailable for comment Monday.
WLPD arrested two other non-students on preliminary OWI charges and booked them into the jail Saturday morning between 1 and 7 a.m.
West Lafayette man Charles Goris, 31, was arrested on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and operating with a controlled substance in his body. Ferguson said he was pulled over at the intersection of North 2nd Street and South Street, where an officer observed open alcohol containers and marijuana in the car. Goris failed multiple field sobriety tests and submitted to a blood draw at a local hospital. The results are pending.
Lafayette man Tyler Mullin, 31, was arrested on a preliminary charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. After pulling him over on Brown Street, an officer found that he had multiple warrants, including one for strangulation and criminal confinement.
None of the five who were arrested remain in the Tippecanoe County Jail as of Monday afternoon, according to online logs.
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, July 25, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 500
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
233 AM EDT MON JUL 25 2022
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 500 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS
NY
. NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE
ALLEGANY CATTARAUGUS CAYUGA
CHAUTAUQUA CLINTON ERIE
ESSEX FRANKLIN GENESEE
HAMILTON HERKIMER JEFFERSON
LEWIS LIVINGSTON MADISON
MONROE NIAGARA ONEIDA
ONONDAGA ONTARIO ORLEANS
OSWEGO ST. LAWRENCE SENECA
WAYNE WYOMING YATES
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN JEFFERSON AND
NORTHEASTERN OSWEGO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
The severe thunderstorm which prompted the warning has moved out of
the warned area. Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch remains in effect until 500 AM EDT for
central New York.
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN LEWIS COUNTY...
At 235 AM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles northeast
of Lowville, or 17 miles northwest of Old Forge, moving east at 55
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
Locations impacted include...
Whetstone Gulf State Park, New Bremen, Watson, Greig, Croghan,
Belfort, Soft Maple Reservoir, Kirschnerville, Beaver Falls and
Indian River.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
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Today: After morning rain, we’ll see a brief break by late morning only to see a resurgence by this afternoon of showers and storms. Chances for severe weather are higher in the east but possible in central ND around Minot and Bismark. Highs will be in the 50s and 60s with increasing NE wind to 15-25 MPH, gusting to 35 MPH.
Tonight: Rain and storms will likely continue in northern ND. Severe storms are not expected overnight. Widespread 40s with NE winds becoming southeasterly and staying strong at 20-30 MPH.
Friday: A chance for rain in northern ND before lunchtime with highs remaining on the cool side in the 50s and 60s. Mostly cloudy skies with very windy conditions. Expect WSW winds from 25-35 MPH with gusts to 55 MPH.
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On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made the first ever cell phone call on the streets of New York. His invention, a brick-sized device, became the first cell phone available to the general public.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it has granted equity awards on November 15, 2022, under its 2022 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plan") to new employees who joined PayPal. The grants were previously approved by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of PayPal Holdings, Inc. Information regarding the equity awards can be found on the company's investor relations website at: https://investor.pypl.com/news-and-events/news/
PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 430 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com.
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PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ExchangeRight, one of the nation's leading providers of diversified real estate DST and REIT investments, is pleased to announce it has fully subscribed its $132.30 million Net-Leased Portfolio 56 DST, which features 640,385 square feet of grocery, necessity-based retail, banking, and healthcare tenants. The offering launched with a loan-to-value of 44.95 percent and non-recourse interest-only financing at a fixed rate of 5.368 percent over a 10-year term.
The offering contains 33 net-leased properties diversified across 19 states throughout the United States. The portfolio features 13 distinct tenants, including Woods Supermarket, Family Dollar, and Scheels All Sports, with nine CVS Pharmacy locations providing 28 percent of NLP 56 DST's net operating income. The properties are 100 percent occupied and operating.
"We are honored by the trust that investors, representatives, and advisors continue to place in us for investors' wealth management and retirement needs," said Warren Thomas, a managing partner at ExchangeRight. "We are pleased to have provided advisors, representatives, and their investors with another stable portfolio net-leased primarily to investment-grade tenants operating essential businesses in necessity-based retail and healthcare industries. This offering is designed for economic resilience and aims to serve investors with dependable monthly income regardless of market forces."
ExchangeRight and its affiliates' vertically integrated platform features more than $5.3 billion in assets under management that are diversified across over 1,100 properties and more than 21 million square feet throughout 47 states. More than 7,100 investors have trusted ExchangeRight to manage their capital. While all of the company's current and past offerings have met or exceeded targeted cash flow distributions to investors since its founding, past performance does not guarantee future results.
ExchangeRight pursues its passion to empower people to be secure, free, and generous by providing REIT, fund, and 1031 DST portfolios that target secure capital, stable income, and strategic exits. The company strategically syndicates net-leased portfolios of assets backed primarily by investment-grade corporations that successfully operate in the necessity-based retail and healthcare industries, as well as diversified value-add portfolios of inline and outparcel retail properties shadow-anchored by strong-performing grocery tenants. Please visit www.exchangeright.com for more information.
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BELTON — The 2022 Central Texas State Fair at the Bell County Expo Center wound up four days of activities at midnight Sunday.
“The fair has been great,” said Tim Stephens, executive director of the expo.
The concerts on the outdoor stage every night were part of the draw, he said. Added into the mix was the demolition derby Friday night and professional bull riding on Saturday and Sunday.
“The weather’s been really nice,” he said. “That’s helped the crowds, too, and made the fairgrounds very enjoyable.”
On Sunday afternoon, the sun was brighter than the day before, but there were still a lot of people touring the outdoor midway. There were carnival rides and foodstuffs galore, and scores of thrilled children.
One of the new additions at this year’s fair was Myallindianshop, operated by Madhavi Gali of Seguin. She had colorful quilts, table runners and pillowcases, all hand-made and all Indian-themed.
She also had jewelry and kaftan dresses.
“Some of them I make,” she said, such as the pillowcases and kantha quilts. Some of the other items she gets from India.
Her best sellers are parasols, quilts and jewelry, she said.
“Anybody might buy,” she said. “Most of my customers are non-Indian.”
Her wares are something different, she said.
“Each piece of my quilts and table runners is unique,” she said.
The livestock exposition building was filled with people taking in the petting zoo and a livestock show. And there were a lot of vendor booths to visit. One of these was C&E Favors, operated by Connie Martin, a full-time social worker, and Elsira Preston, a. U.S. Army master sergeant.
Preston said they started C&E Favors in May 2020.
“We’re an event preparation team,” she said. “We do parties”
They make custom chocolates, party favors and decorations, Preston said.
“We do set-up and take-down for parties,” she said. That includes birthday parties, office parties, and military welcomes and farewells.
“We do party-in-a-box,” Preston said. “So if they’re not doing it here, we can ship it to them.”
“We call ourselves a one-stop shop, because we do it all for you,” Martin said.
This was their first time at the Central Texas State Fair, and Preston said it went well for them. Next weekend they’ll be at a festival in Harker Heights.
The booth next door, titled Amazing Grace Mission, was operated by Rodney and Kathy Houle of Abilene.
“We live in a fifth wheel and travel all over Texas,” he said. “We set up our booth at fairs, festivals and flea markets.
“We show three things God wants you to know and then we ask two questions,” he said. “Are you 50%, 75% or 100% sure that if you died today you would go to heaven?”
Then they read I Corinthians 15:1-4 and talk about the gospel, he said.
Their list of three things God wants people to know, he said, are that God cannot lie, as indicated in Titus 1:2; God cannot change, Malachi 3:6; and God cannot let anyone into heaven unless they are born again, John 3:3.
“We had eight salvations at this fair,” he said. “And we had seven people make reassurances to Christ. I estimate we’ll give out 1,000 pieces of gospel literature for this fair.”
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A Bucks County mother missing since October was killed by her husband, who dismembered the body and dumped part of the remains in a dumpster while burying the rest, authorities said Thursday.
The partial remains of Elizabeth “Beth” Capaldi, 55, were found last week near Philadelphia International Airport after her husband, Stephen Capaldi, led police to her body, Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said.
Beth Capaldi was last seen at her Sellersville home, where she lived with her husband near the intersection of High and East Church streets, back on Oct. 10. On that day, Stephen Capaldi killed his wife of 30 years inside the residence, Weintraub said.
The next day, he dismembered her, and on Oct. 12, Beth Capaldi’s daughter reported her missing, the DA said. Also on Oct. 12, Stephen Capaldi dumped Beth’s partial remains in the dumpster of an apartment complex in Lansdale, Montgomery County, Weintraub said. He added that, on Nov. 5, Stephen Capaldi buried the rest of the remains along the Delaware River shoreline at Hog Island in Tinicum Township.
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Sources told NBC10 last week that Stephen Capaldi led investigators to the remains after being taken into police custody.
Stephen Capaldi appeared before a grand jury on Dec. 8 and was interviewed by prosecutors. Prosecutors struck a plea deal with the defendant whereby he agreed to tell investigators where the body was. The deal was made in the hope of finding Beth Capaldi alive and returning her to her family, Weintraub said.
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“This negotiated resolution will now allow Beth Capaldi’s family to grieve on their own terms, knowing that we did all we could do to find her and ultimately to bring her home, and free of the whims and the timing of the criminal justice system and the endless appeals that it affords its defendants. In a word: closure,” Weintraub said.
On Dec. 9, Stephen Capaldi led investigators to the partial remains at Hog Island in Tinicum Township, the DA said. The remains were positively identified as those of Beth Capaldi on Dec. 12.
Weintraub said he expects Stephen Capaldi to plead guilty to murder and charges related to the coverup. As part of the plea deal, he could be sentenced to 20-40 years in prison and be eligible for parole when he is 77 years old, Weintraub said.
Part of the motive for the killing could be an affair Stephen Capaldi was having, according to the DA.
The investigation is ongoing and detectives will continue to search for Beth Capaldi’s body “until it is no longer feasible to do so,” Weintraub said.
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Five weeks after Election Day, all 435 races in the U.S. House have been called. Republican Lauren Boebert defeated Democrat Adam Frisch by 546 votes after a recount.
Frisch had previously conceded the election, but Boebert’s margin of victory was within the range for an automatic recount. Frisch told supporters that he did not want them funding his campaign during a recount effort.
“Please save your money for your groceries, your rent, your children, and other important causes and organizations,” he said.
Boebert previously claimed victory. The Associated Press did not call the race, however, as the vote was too close to call. Ultimately, little changed following Colorado’s recount.
The race surprised many by being one of the most competitive races in this year’s election.
With Boebert’s win, Republicans will have a 222-213 edge in the 2023-24 Congress. While Kevin McCarthy is poised to become the Speaker of the House, he will still need 218 members to support him.
Boebert gained notoriety during her first term in the U.S. House. She was among some Republicans who rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election. She also spread several falsehoods about the presidential election, including claiming that ballots were illegally sent to voters.
There has been no evidence substantiated in court to back up her claims.
She has also become one of the top fundraisers in Congress. According to Open Secrets, she has raised over $7.6 million in campaign contributions.
According to Open Secrets, the district was the seventh-most expensive House race in the U.S.
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The last player to start at first base on Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds other than Joey Votto was Scott Hatteberg, who got the gig in 2008, his final season in the big leagues.
By comparison, five different third basemen, five different second basemen and nine different shortstops have started the opener in the same span.
Fifteen years later, someone other than Votto will start Thursday for the Reds at first base on Opening Day. He has started the first game of the season 14 years in a row but told reporters in Cincinnati on Monday he won’t be available for the 2023 opener.
“I’ll be heading down to Nashville to finish my rehab games,” Votto said, “and then I’ll come up not long after that.”
The Triple-A Louisville Bats open the season Friday in Nashville. The Reds play the Pirates a day earlier at Great American Ball Park.
Votto, 39, had surgery in the offseason to repair a torn rotator cuff in his left bicep. He did not play after Aug. 16 last season.
Earlier this month when asked if he’d be ready for Opening Day, Votto said, “We’ve got 162 games to play. I’m not worried about one game. I’m concerned about being able to come come out and play well and be healthy for as much of the season as possible.”
Votto hit .182 (4 for 22) with a double and one RBI in eight spring training appearances. He said he and the Reds made the decision for him to start the season with a minor-league rehab stint on Monday.
“What led me to that decision,” Votto said, “was just not being ready, starting a good bit behind during spring training, still working through some of the rehab process, not accumulating enough time in the field, not accumulating enough at-bats. Yesterday was the first day where I felt semi close to being able to play close to 100%. It takes a stretch of time feeling that way before you feel like you’re regular-season ready. And it saddens me because Opening Day means a lot to our city and it means a lot to me. This is just how it has shaken out this year. I’m trying to hustle back and get back in uniform as quickly as possible and help the team. It’s just going to be a little bit later this year.”
Christian Encarnacion-Strand made the most appearances for the Reds at first base in the Cactus League. He hit .577 (15 for 26) with four home runs and 13 RBIs in 12 games but will start the season on the injured list.
The first baseman with the next most appearances was Jason Vosler, who hit .262 (10 for 38) with two home runs and four RBIs. Vosler, 29, hit .265 in 36 games last season with the San Francisco Giants. The Reds signed him as a free agent on Feb. 1.
Spencer Steer started nine games at first base last season for the Reds. He played third base this spring and hit .271 in 18 games.
Reds manager David Bell said Monday they haven’t determined who will play first base on Thursday.
“We still have the two days here in Cincinnati to make some final roster decisions,” Bell said, “so it’s a little bit early to really talk about that because (the Votto news) is new information that we have to process and figure out, but it’s going to happen quick. We need everyone to know their situation.”
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