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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — The FBI has joined the Chesterfield County Police Department in searching for a suspect wanted for an armed bank robbery in North Chesterfield.
At around 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, an armed suspect — now identified by the FBI as the “Dapper Dan Bandit” — robbed the First Community Bank located at 11400 Midlothian Turnpike.
According to authorities, the suspect displayed an all-black semi-automatic handgun and demanded money in specific denominations from the victim teller before placing the stolen money in his pockets. He then returned his firearm to his waistband and walked out of the bank.
The suspect is described as a White man with brown hair. Authorities estimate he is between 40 to 50 years of age, around 5-foot 8-inches tall with a slim build. He was wearing a gray flat cap, a light-colored dress shirt, a dark blue blazer, khaki pants, white socks and brown square-toed dress shoes. His face was covered with sunglasses, a white medical-style mask and black “mechanics” gloves with white lettering.
Anyone with information concerning this case is encouraged to contact the Richmond FBI Office at 804-261-1044 or submit an online tip here.
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The grandmother placed her head in her hands and began to sob.
"She didn't have to suffer," Adela Aguilar said, shaking her head as she recalled the moment when her granddaughter bid her farewell last month.
Adela Ramírez had just turned 28 and made a major decision: She was leaving Cuyamel, a small town in northwest Honduras, and heading to the United States.
"I told her -- 'Don't go. Here you live well. Here you can live anywhere you want, working,'" Aguilar told CNN affiliate Televicentro.
Still, Aguilar said her granddaughter was convinced she'd find a better life in the United States, where her mom and sisters were already living.
Now Aguilar and other family members and friends told Televicentro they're heartbroken and stunned after learning Ramírez was among dozens of migrants found dead this week in a semi truck in San Antonio, Texas.
Investigators are still working to identify victims in what one Homeland Security Investigations agent called the deadliest human smuggling incident in US history. At least 53 people have died, and some victims could be younger than 18.
Authorities have said migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras are among the dead. And in communities thousands of miles away from San Antonio, devastated family members are beginning to come forward to share stories about their loved ones.
Two brothers were excited to find work in the US and send money back to their mother
Karen Caballero told reporters that her sons' journey to the United States was supposed to be the beginning of a new chapter in their lives.
"We planned it together as a family, so that they could have a different life, so that they would achieve their goals and dreams," she said. "This was the jumping-off point."
Authorities said her sons, Fernando José Redondo Caballero, 18, and Alejandro Miguel Andino Caballero, 23, were among the victims. Alejandro's wife, Margie Tamara Paz Grajera, 25, also perished.
Speaking to reporters in front of her home in Las Vegas, Honduras, Caballero recounted how much she adored her sons.
"To me, my sons were always the most beautiful children in my world," she said.
She told Telemundo that her sons were excited for the journey -- the same way they'd been when they were young boys waiting to go to a birthday party. They'd wanted to build her a house with the money they'd earn working in the United States.
"Triumph, and stay focused," she told them before they left.
The brothers' grandfather, Miguel Ángel Lara, told CNN en Español he sensed something bad had happened. The family had lost contact with them, he said, and then he learned about the tragedy in San Antonio.
"Someone told me, 'Look at the TV.' And I looked, and I said, my boys are there."
She texted her friend that she'd made it across the border
Back in Cuyamel, Adela Ramirez's loved ones told Televicentro they were struggling to come to terms with her death.
"We were like sisters," said Claudia Vallecillo, a close friend.
"I can't believe the news," Vallecillo said as she showed Televicentro the home where Ramírez had lived with her mother and sisters.
Balloons from Ramírez's recent birthday celebration are still in the living room, near the motorcycle she used to ride. Sandals and high heels are lined up against the wall in her bedroom, where a pile of photos includes an image from her 2015 graduation from the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Institute in Puerto Cortés, Honduras, with a specialty in business administration.
"Here I am, and seeing her things, I feel even worse," Vallecillo said.
Ramírez's mother and sisters had all left for the United States within the past year or so, family members told Televicentro.
And Ramírez left to join them last month, Vallecillo said. The two friends kept in contact throughout her journey.
On Monday morning, Ramírez sent Vallecillo a series of text message asking her to keep a secret.
"I'm in the USA now. ... But don't tell anyone," she wrote.
"Now I am going to be with my mama and my sisters," Vallecillo says Ramírez told her.
But Ramírez never had a chance to reunite with her family. Later that day, the truck was found in San Antonio.
As they mourn, Vallecillo says Ramírez's loved ones are hoping officials will help transport her remains back to her hometown.
"We ask the government to help us and send us her body so we can bury her here," she said, "to see her for the last time."
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins shortstop Carlos Correa formally opted out of his contract to become a free agent, the MLB Players’ Association announced Monday.
Correa was one of nine major leaguers who exercised options to join the pool of players eligible to sign this offseason with any team.
The decision was widely expected since the day Correa surprised the baseball world by signing with the Twins coming out of the lockout, in lieu of the longer-term deal he’d been seeking. Correa made $35.1 million in 2022, the highest annual average salary for an infielder in Major League Baseball history.
The Twins also announced Monday they will decline contract options on starting pitchers Chris Archer ($10 million) and Dylan Bundy ($11 million) and first baseman Miguel Sanó ($14 million). They have the following buyouts: $750,000 for Archer, $1 million for Bundy and $2.75 million for Sanó.
Right-hander Sonny Gray will be back in Minnesota’s rotation. His $12.7 million option was exercised Monday — his 33rd birthday — for 2023. Gray had a 3.08 ERA in 24 starts after arriving in a trade with Cincinnati that sent 2021 first-round draft pick Chase Petty to the Reds. Gray had 117 strikeouts in 119 2/3 innings.
Joining Correa, Archer, Bundy and Sanó on the open market after the expiration of their contracts with the Twins are relief pitcher Michael Fulmer, outfielder Billy Hamilton, catchers Sandy Léon and Gary Sánchez and starting pitcher Aaron Sanchez.
Correa strongly hinted over the final weeks of the season he would opt out. He first revealed his decision in an interview the El Nuevo Día, a newspaper in his native Puerto Rico, published Oct. 12. But the move could not actually be made until one day after completion of the World Series, which was won Saturday by the Houston Astros, Correa’s former team.
Correa, a multiskilled player at a premium position in his prime at age 28, will hit the open market for a second consecutive winter. His positive impact with the Twins on and off the field was clear, though a star player can only go so far.
After spending 108 of the 182 days in the regular season in first place, the Twins tumbled out of the AL Central lead and finished 78-84. Correa batted .291 with 22 homers and had an .834 OPS while contributing his customary strong defense.
The desire to keep Correa in Minnesota long term is clearly mutual. He raved about the organization and how comfortable his family felt in the community. The middle-market Twins will have to get creative with agent Scott Boras, though, to make it happen. Correa will draw wide interest, and the bigger-spending clubs are certain to drive up the price.
The 29-year-old Sanó faded hard into a quiet and disappointing ending with the Twins, who signed him at age 16 out of the Dominican Republic in 2009. Since his debut in 2015, no major league player struck out more than Sanó, with 1,042 in 694 games.
After making the All-Star team in 2017, Sanó batted just .217 over the last five seasons. He had trouble staying healthy throughout his tenure with the Twins, including a knee injury this year that limited him to 20 games. He had five hits in 60 at-bats.
Bundy led the Twins with 29 starts, posting a 4.89 ERA over 140 innings. Archer had a 4.56 ERA in 102 2/3 innings, making 25 starts for his most since 2018 after thoracic outlet syndrome wrecked his previous two seasons.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed on Thursday to ban most uses of a toxic chemical used in paint removal.
The proposal would ban most industrial and commercial uses of methylene chloride, which, in addition to paint removal, is used as a solvent in making pharmaceuticals and in electronics.
One study found that methylene-chloride exposure killed 85 people between 1980 and 2018. The substance has also been linked to certain cancers.
The new proposal, from the Biden administration, goes further than a Trump administration rule that banned the sale to consumers of paint strippers using methylene chloride but did not address its industrial uses.
An EPA press release states that after the 2019 rule, the use of the solvent remained “widespread.”
“The science on methylene chloride is clear, exposure can lead to severe health impacts and even death, a reality for far too many families who have lost loved ones due to acute poisoning,” said EPA Administrator Michael Regan in a written statement.
“That’s why EPA is taking action, proposing to ban most uses of this chemical and reduce exposures in all other scenarios by implementing more stringent workplace controls to protect worker health,” he said.
The agency is not proposing a complete ban on the substance. Instead, it is proposing to set new workplace standards aimed at limiting exposure to the substance’s use at government agencies like the Defense Department, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration.
Environmental organizations largely celebrated the proposal, with many saying it applied the same common-sense protections the Trump administration gave consumers to workers who need it just as much.
“EPA just decided to leave workers who had the greatest exposures to methylene chloride paint strippers in harm’s way,” Earthjustice senior attorney Jonathan Kalmuss-Katz said of the Trump-era rule.
“This rule will finally provide workers with the same protection as consumers,” Kalmuss-Katz added of the Biden rule.
However, he said that any exemption “is going to leave people exposed to a chemical that is not only carcinogenic, but hugely lethal, and it is critical that those exemptions be as short-lived and as narrow as possible.”
The chemical industry, meanwhile, raised concerns about the potential supply chain effects of the EPA’s proposal.
“EPA’s website says most of these changes would be fully implemented in 15 months and would amount to a prohibition of an estimated 52% of annual production volume for end uses subject to [the Toxic Substances Control Act]. That scale of reduction in production, that rapidly, could have substantial supply chain impacts if manufacturers have contractual obligations they need to follow through on or if manufacturers decide to cease production entirely,” a written statement from the American Chemistry Council read.
The group warned of the potential for “ripple effects,” including in the pharmaceutical industry.
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NEW YORK — The comic strip “Dilbert” disappeared with lightning speed following racist remarks by creator Scott Adams, but it shouldn't come as a shock to anyone who has followed them both.
Adams, who is white, was an outspoken presence on social media long before describing Black people as a “hate group” on YouTube and, to some, “Dilbert” had strayed from its roots as a chronicler of office culture.
The editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, which dumped “Dilbert” last year, said the comic strip “went from being hilarious to being hurtful and mean.” The Los Angeles Times, which joined dozens of other newspapers in dropping the comic following last week's remarks, had quietly replaced four of Adams' strips last year.
“He kind of ran out of office jokes and started integrating all this other stuff so after a while, it became hard to distinguish between Scott Adams and ‘Dilbert,’” said Mike Peterson, columnist for the industry blog The Daily Cartoonist.
As individual newspapers told readers they were dropping “Dilbert,” the company that distributed the strip, Andrews McMeel Universal, said it was severing ties with Adams. By Monday, “Dilbert” was gone from the GoComics site, which also features many top comics such as “Peanuts” and “Calvin and Hobbes.”
Adams said Monday that the strip, which first appeared in 1989, will only be available on his subscription service on the Locals platform.
“Dilbert” is effectively dead, Peterson said.
Adams said Monday on YouTube that his distributor didn't really have a choice because clients and other cartoonists were mad. “They were just forced into it,” he said.
On Twitter, he said his book publisher and book agent had “canceled” him. The Penguin Random House imprint Portfolio said it wouldn't publish Adams' book “Reframe Your Brain” in September, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Adams has long been active on Twitter, whose CEO, Elon Musk, was among the few to publicly back him. He also blogs regularly and puts out a regular podcast on YouTube.
He's attracted attention for comments he's made in the past, including saying in 2011 that women are treated differently by society for the same reason as children and the mentally disabled — “it's just easier this way for everyone.” He said 2016 GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina had an “angry wife face.”
Adams became a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, saying Trump had a hypnotist's skill in attracting followers. He said that stance cost him money in lost speaker's fees.
He said he lost the prime-time animated “Dilbert” series that ran on UPN for two seasons for “being white” when the network decided to target a Black audience, and that he lost two other corporate jobs because of his race.
During the Feb. 22 episode of his YouTube podcast “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” he referenced a Rasmussen Reports survey that had asked whether people agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” Most agreed, but Adams noted that 26% of Black respondents disagreed and others weren’t sure.
The Anti-Defamation League said the phrase at the center of the question was popularized as a trolling campaign by members of 4chan — a notorious anonymous message board — and was adopted by some white supremacists. Rasmussen Reports is a conservative polling firm that has used its Twitter account to endorse false and misleading claims about COVID-19 vaccines, elections and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Adams repeatedly referred to people who are Black as members of a “hate group” or a “racist hate group” and said he would no longer “help Black Americans.” On his podcast Monday, he called his “hate group” remark “hyperbole,” but continued to defend his advice that white people “get the hell away” from Blacks.
In announcing that “Dilbert” would be cut from the Kansas City Star, the newspaper's community engagement editor, Derek Donovan, said Adams' “antagonistic, childishly macho persona” has been a constant for years.
“It's not cancel culture,” editor Richard Green of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in California said. “It's doing the right thing.”
The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro, Massachusetts, left a blank space Monday where “Dilbert” would normally run and said it would keep it that way through March “as a reminder of the racism that pervades our society.”
The San Francisco Chronicle stopped publishing “Dilbert” last October — a move that drew only a handful of complaints. Editor-in-Chief Emilio Garcia-Ruiz said in the newspaper that he had objected to a strip that said in an effort to diversify workplaces, straight men should pretend to be gay.
In a Sept. 2 “Dilbert” strip, a boss said that traditional performance reviews would be replaced by a “wokeness” score. When an employee complained that could be subjective, the boss said, “That'll cost you two points off your wokeness score, bigot.”
In an August strip, the boss said the company was getting into the “pandemic prevention market” and creating demand by unleashing a deadly virus.
A Black employee featured in an Oct. 20 strip noted that his boss ignored his actual accomplishments to recommend him for a job for which he was not qualified. The employee backed down when told it would be a big jump in pay.
Peterson said there are other examples of how Adams' attitudes had replaced the biting humor that Peterson and a legion of middle managers loved. Adams seemed to run out of jokes.
“The strip jumped the shark,” he said.
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Associated Press writer David A. Lieb in Jefferson City, Missouri, and news research Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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Erie Strategic Ventures will invest in and offer commercial support to startups focused on the insurance industry and related spaces
ERIE, Pa., Aug. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Erie Insurance, an auto, home, business and life insurance company based in Erie, Pennsylvania, today announced the establishment of Erie Strategic Ventures to support visionary entrepreneurs. The fund is the most recent example of ERIE's commitment to supporting entrepreneurship and delivering innovative products, services and experiences to its customers and network of independent agents.
Erie Strategic Ventures' focus will span the personal and commercial insurance value chain as well as natural adjacencies that offer potential to deliver value to ERIE customers and agents. Initial areas of interest include insurance innovation in risk avoidance, claims, underwriting, digital sales, agency productivity tools, and products and services for home, families and small businesses. The fund is stage and geography agnostic but will focus primarily on early-stage investments in North America.
"We are excited to build upon our expanding innovation efforts with the launch of this venture fund," said Keith Kennedy, senior vice president for Next Level Innovation at Erie Insurance. "ERIE is committed to a culture of service and our corporate values will translate well into supporting the founders we invest in."
Erie Strategic Ventures is the venture capital arm of Erie Insurance, a Fortune 500 insurance company that generated $7.9 billion in direct written premium in 2021. Founded in 1925, ERIE is the nation's 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer based on direct premiums written. ERIE is rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best and has more than six million policies in force.
In addition to capital, Erie Strategic Ventures will leverage ERIE's industry leadership and value proposition to support portfolio companies. With nearly 100 years of insurance expertise, ERIE has the potential to serve both as a customer and development partner for startups. ERIE will seek to partner with startups to bring innovative products and services to market, leveraging a strong network of independent agents across 12 states and Washington D.C.
Erie Strategic Ventures will partner with Touchdown Ventures, a firm specializing in corporate venture capital, which will work closely with senior executives at ERIE on fund operations.
"We are thrilled to partner with a values-driven company such as Erie Insurance that has the scale, resources and ability to make a positive impact on the corporate venture landscape," noted Rich Grant, co-founder and managing director of Touchdown Ventures. "Our combined Erie Strategic Ventures team has significant insurance industry and corporate venture capital experience. We will leverage this expertise and ERIE's unique position in the market to support entrepreneurs."
Learn more about Erie Strategic Ventures at www.erieinsurance.com/ventures.
About Erie Insurance
According to A.M. Best Company, Erie Insurance Group, based in Erie, Pennsylvania, is the 11th largest homeowners insurer, 13th largest automobile insurer and 13th largest commercial lines insurer in the United States based on direct premiums written. Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance is a Fortune 500 company and the 19th largest property/casualty insurer in the United States based on total lines net premium written. Rated A+ (Superior) by A.M. Best, ERIE has more than 6 million policies in force and operates in 12 states and the District of Columbia. News releases and more information are available on ERIE's website at www.erieinsurance.com.
About Touchdown Ventures
Touchdown Ventures partners with corporations to manage their venture capital programs. Touchdown works closely with each corporation to achieve the financial and strategic benefits from venture capital investments. The firm is a Registered Investment Adviser and maintains offices in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. More information on Touchdown can be found at www.touchdownvc.com.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials violated the federal Clean Air Act as well as the state’s regulations by issuing an air quality permit for a proposed gold mine in west-central Idaho, the Nez Perce Tribe and two conservation groups said.
The tribe, Idaho Conservation League and Save the South Fork Salmon last week filed a petition with the Idaho Board of Environmental Quality seeking to have the permit withdrawn and sent back to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for additional work.
The department in June issued the permit to Perpetua Resources Idaho and its Stibnite Gold Project about 40 miles east of McCall.
“The (permit) being challenged here authorizes emissions of air pollutants from the (Stibnite Gold Project) that will occur over the mine’s anticipated 16-year life span,” the petition states. “These emissions include massive quantities of dust generated by mining, hauling, and processing. The dust includes particulate matter and arsenic — pollutants which can cause serious harm to human health and the environment.”
Mining in the area dates back more than a century and has resulted in two open pits, including one that has been blocking a salmon spawning stream since the 1930s. The site also has extensive tailings left from mining operations that are the source of elevated levels of arsenic.
Perpetua Resources' plan involves expanding mining in the area but also restoring old mining areas in the process, ultimately restoring the entire area when mining is finished. Plans call for creating a third open-pit mine in the area.
The company has said the area still contains more than 4 million ounces of gold and more than 100 million pounds of antimony. Antimony is used in lead for storage batteries as well as a flame retardant. The company also says the mines will create hundreds of jobs.
The company said the three-year permit process found the project meets strict state and federal clean air requirements.
“The Stibnite Gold Project is designed to be protective of Idaho’s people and the environment, while redeveloping and improving existing conditions at an abandoned mine site,” Perpetua Resources spokeswoman McKinsey Lyon said in a statement. “Those challenging this permit may not like mining activity, but that does not invalidate a permit that meets the requirements of the law and was issued only after robust scientific analysis and public input.”
The project includes patented mining claims and unpatented claims on the Payette National Forest and Boise National Forest. It also includes private land and state land.
The Nez Perce Tribe says the project is within its aboriginal homeland where the tribe has treaty rights.
The U.S. Forest Service is conducting an environmental review of the project. It's not clear when a final decision will be made on whether the project can move forward.
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On Thursday, Florida Gators soccer (2-8) will face off against the South Carolina Gamecocks (6-2-3) in Columbia, South Carolina at 7 p.m. The Gamecocks will be the third top-25 ranked team they will take on. Initially set for Friday, the game moved up 24 hours to avoid weather expected from Hurricane Ian.
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In their third SEC match against Georgia, the Gators lost 3-0 at home.
Throughout the first half, both teams gave each other a hard time executing plays that would bring out a goal. Both teams went scoreless going into halftime.
At 58 minutes, the Dawgs scored their first goal and within a 10-minute span, they scored two more goals. The Gators were unable to put up a goal on the board losing, 3-0.
Alivia Gonzalez took two shots. Ashley Tutas and Oakley Rasmussen both took one. Keeper Alexa Goldberg saves six shots taken.
Looking at the Gamecocks
To start out the season, South Carolina kept an undefeated record until SEC play started. They took on No. 11 Alabama and lost 0-2 away and No. 20 Arkansas 1-0 at home. The Gamecocks look to come out with a win to equalize their SEC record of 1-2.
Shae O’Rourke leads her team with nine points coming from three goals and three assists. Catherine Barry has 18 shots on goal out of the 43 shots she has taken in 2022.
Goalkeeper Heather Hinz saved 39 shots taken by opponents and only allowed six goals with a save percentage of 0.867.
South Carolina head coach Shelley Smith’s team averages 14 shots per game and scored 15 goals throughout this season.
Match History
Since the start of the series in 1995, Florida holds the record of 22-11-2. The Gators have not beaten the Gamecocks since the 2016 SEC tournament semifinals where they won, 1-0.
The teams met on the field right before the SEC tournament in 2021 and South Carolina came out on top with a 2-1 win in Gainesville.
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Mark Appel is proof that even for a No. 1 draft pick, the road to the major leagues is sometimes a bumpy one.
Appel was called up by the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, nine years after he was drafted first overall by Houston. In between, he bounced around the minors, was traded in the 2015 deal that sent Ken Giles to the Astros – and even quit baseball for a bit.
He resurfaced last year and finally joined the Phillies this weekend, although he didn’t pitch. If the 30-year-old Appel does appear in a game for Philadelphia, he’ll be the fourth No. 1 overall selection to make his major league debut this year, joining 2017’s Royce Lewis (Twins), 2019’s Adley Rutschman (Orioles) and 2020’s Spencer Torkelson (Tigers).
Only one other time have four top picks made their debuts in one year. That was in 1989, when Andy Benes, Ken Griffey Jr. and Jeff King – the No. 1 pick in each of the previous three years – all began their big league careers. The other top pick to make his debut in 1989 was Ben McDonald, who had actually been drafted that same year by Baltimore.
With the draft coming up next month, here are a few other notes about the history of No. 1 overall picks, with some help from Baseball-Reference.com:
– Although so far, 1989 is the only year four top picks have made their big league debuts, there were other seasons when three No. 1s did it. Those were 2007 (Luke Hochevar, Justin Upton and Josh Hamilton) and 1987 (B.J. Surhoff, Shawn Abner and Tim Belcher).
– Although it was more common in the early days of the draft, McDonald is the last player to make his debut the same year he was drafted first overall. The longest wait belongs to Matt Bush, who was taken in 2004 by San Diego and finally pitched in the majors in 2016 for Texas. He’s still with the Rangers.
– Appel is one of a handful of No. 1 picks who haven’t played in the majors. Steve Chilcott, picked in 1966 by the New York Mets, and Brien Taylor, taken by the New York Yankees in 1991, had injury problems. Brady Aiken, selected in 2014 by Houston, is a more recent example. Last year’s top pick, Henry Davis, has reached Double-A in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ system.
TRIVIA TIME
Appel was drafted by two other teams (and didn’t sign) before the Astros picked him first overall. Who were those franchises?
LINE OF THE WEEK
Austin Hays had to beat the weather to hit for the cycle. On Wednesday night, Hays and the Orioles routed Washington 7-0 in a game shortened to six innings. That was enough time – he hit a single in the first, a homer in the third, a triple in the fourth and a double in the sixth.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
Down 2-0 with two outs in the ninth and nobody on, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a 1.1% chance of beating Atlanta on Sunday night, according to Baseball Savant. Then ex-Dodger Kenley Jansen allowed a pair of singles, putting men on first and third. After Chris Taylor stole second, Trayce Thompson’s single scored both runners to force extra innings.
Each team scored once in the 10th before the Dodgers finally won 5-3 in 11. Los Angeles won two of three in Freddie Freeman’s return to Atlanta.
TRIVIA ANSWER
The Detroit Tigers drafted Appel out of high school in 2009 in the 15th round. He was picked eighth overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012 before returning to Stanford for his senior season and moving up to No. 1.
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DETROIT – Police found four guns in a microwave and dryer at a Michigan home, officials said. The firearms were in the possession of a convicted felon, most of them were loaded and one was linked to five crime scenes.
A 33-year-old Michigan man is accused of felon in possession of a firearm, WDIV Local 4 reports.
The guns found in his home were linked to five crime scenes in Detroit from August 2022 to April 20, the report said. The guns were found when Detroit Police officers and ATF agents executed a search warrant on the suspect’s vehicle and home on April 21.
They found a Glock 43 pistol in a microwave in the dining room; it was loaded, the report said. Three guns were discovered in the dryer in the basement: A Titan Tiger Revolver .38 special that was loaded; a Bersa Thunder 380 CC piston that was loaded; and an unloaded Sig Sauer p229 Elite 9mm pistol. None of the guns are registered in Michigan.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pajama Program, a national non-profit organization focused on providing children with equitable access to sleep through education programs, announced that its Board of Directors has elected eight new members:
- Debbie Bigman, CPA – Auxilium Platforms LLC
- Angela Chan – Angela Chan Advisory
- Holly Chen – Senior Director, HRBP at Ross Stores Inc.
- Jesse Cole – Managing Partner & Co-Founder of The Seed Lab, LLC
- Linda Gornitsky, Ph.D. – Founder and President of LBG Associates
- Jonathan Rich – CEO and Founder of Sophia Advisors LLC
- Charece Williams – Senior Director, Head of Sports Marketing (Americas) for Under Armour
- Jordan Zmijewski – CEO of Diverzify Inc.
"We are delighted to welcome this diverse group of eight dynamic individuals to our Pajama Program team," said Executive Director Jamie Dyce. "Working with these individuals, as well as our existing board members, we will be able to expand our reach as we advocate for and provide programming regarding healthy sleep for all children."
Board Chairperson Nick Berger said, "Representing a cross section of industries, these eight individuals will further grow our reach and awareness as well as assist in fulfilling our mission. We welcome and thank them for their service and commitment."
Sandler Search, a national executive search firm, generously assisted with the search process for new board members.
These individuals join a robust group that includes:
- Nick Berger – Managing Director for Newmark Knight Frank (Chairperson)
- Aaron Boyajian, Esq. – Managing Partner for Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP (Vice Chairperson and Treasurer)
- Ann Marie Resnick – VP of Marketing for Hammacher Schlemmer (Secretary)
- Melissa Bortnick, Esq. – Managing Counsel, Music for Epic Games, Inc.
- Julie A. D'Emilio – EVP, Sales for Carter's, Inc.
- Carla Hall – Chef, Cookbook Author, and TV Host
- John S. Kiely, Esq. – Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
- Pia Marinangeli, PhD, LCSW, CASAC – Psychotherapist
- Eileen McCarthy – VP at McCarthy and Smith, Inc.
- Larry Nevins -- EVP of Operations for HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide
- Ruchi Pinniger – Founder and CEO of Watch Her Prosper®
- David Rush – President of |E|N|V|
- Lisa Tan -- Chief Marketing Officer for Reverie
- Ramie Waxman – Financial Controller for Bregal Investments, Inc.
- Jill Wilson – SVP Human Resources and Talent Management at Carter's, Inc.
Since 2001, Pajama Program has delivered over 7.5 million Good Nights for Good Days to children facing adversity by providing pajamas, storybooks, and resources for caregivers. For information visit www.pajamaprogram.org.
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LAKE CITY, S.C. (AP) — It was supposed to be a fun road trip to Mexico, a post-pandemic adventure for a group of childhood friends.
One was treating herself to cosmetic surgery after having six children. It was a 34th birthday celebration for another.
They rented a white van in South Carolina and set out on the nearly 22-hour trip, shooting silly videos and driving straight through to Brownsville, on the tip of Texas.
“Good morning, America!” Eric Williams said into the camera in the early morning hours after the all-night drive. “Mexico, here we come.”
But once they got to Mexico, the trip took a terrible turn. Two members of the group would never make it home, victims of the ruthless Gulf cartel, a drug gang tied to brutal killings and kidnappings in the violent border city of Matamoros, a city of a half-million people that has long been a stronghold of the powerful cartel.
There could hardly be a worse border town to pick for a fun adventure.
It all started when Latavia McGee booked the cosmetic surgery with a doctor she’d been to before, in 2021. Dr. Roberto Chavez Medina’s advertisements on Facebook and TikTok have a strong following among American women.
It’s a common story — people often leave the U.S. for all sorts of medical treatment; costs in Mexico can be less than half what someone would pay in the United States.
McGee’s appointment was within days of her cousin Shaeed Woodard’s 34th birthday. Friends Zindell Brown and Cheryl Orange rounded out the group of five, most of whom had grown up together in Lake City, South Carolina, a town of fewer than 6,000 people.
Once they got to the border, they rented rooms at a Motel 6 off the highway in Brownsville, a lush town with a high poverty rate on the Rio Grande where parrots squawk from palm trees.
The friends set out early Friday to cross an international bridge that spans the two countries, thinking they were headed to see the doctor right on the other side. Orange stayed at the motel in Brownsville because she forgot to bring her ID to cross the border.
“They went to drop her off and was supposed to be back within 15 minutes,” Orange said.
But the clinic had moved to a new location several blocks away.
It’s not clear what happened next: perhaps the group got lost. The Mexican state of Tamaulipas is the subject of a U.S. State Department warning to avoid travel because of violent crime and kidnappings, but the friends may not have known — Williams’ mother said she didn’t think her son had ever been out of the U.S.
Hours passed, and on the U.S. side of the border, Orange contacted the Brownsville police, concerned something bad had happened.
Her worst fears would come to pass.
Just a few miles across the border, around midday, a vehicle crashed into the group’s van. Several men with tactical vests and assault rifles arrived in another vehicle and surrounded them, according to Mexican police reports. Shots rang out.
Brown and Woodard were hit by bullets and appeared to have died immediately. Williams was shot in the leg.
Video on social media showed men forcing McGee into the bed of a pickup truck, then going back to drag a wounded Williams and the bodies of their two friends across the road and into the truck as onlookers in traffic sat in their cars eerily silent. One witness said no one wanted to draw the gunmen’s attention.
The truck barreled off. A Mexican woman who had been hit by a stray bullet, 33-year-old Areli Pablo Servando, was left to die on the street.
When Mexican authorities arrived on the scene, they found Social Security cards and credit cards belonging to the group of friends inside the van, marked by a bullet hole in the driver’s side window. The U.S. consulate, only blocks away, issued an alert, warning its employees to avoid the area until further notice because of a deadly shooting downtown.
The doctor at the clinic later told investigators he thought it was strange his patient hadn’t shown up for the procedure, which can run up to $3,000, but his office had only communicated with her electronically. The clinic was about a four-minute drive from where their van had crashed.
The crash would be the start of some of the most terrifying days of the surviving friends’ lives.
The cartel members drove them from place to place around the city in a harrowing ride, stopping shortly after the shooting at a medical clinic.
A doctor told investigators that two men with assault rifles burst in through a back door and threatened to kill staff if they didn’t treat a wounded person with them. The gunmen and their hostages stayed three hours at the clinic and then left, according to Mexican investigative documents viewed by The Associated Press.
Orange was worried, stuck on the other side of the border at the Motel 6 with no clue what had happened. On Saturday morning, she spoke to a Brownsville officer at the motel. Within an hour, a detective was assigned to the case and shortly after that Brownsville police handed it off to the FBI.
On Sunday, the FBI reported their disappearances and offered a $50,000 reward for their return and the arrest of the kidnappers, and U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar said U.S. officials contacted President Andrés Manuel López Obrador directly to ask for help in locating the missing Americans.
Back home, their family and friends in the United States watched the video of their capture in horror and prayed. The wait, the silence, became unbearable.
“I just want them to come home,” Zalandria Brown, Zindell Brown’s older sister, said Monday night. “Dead or alive, just bring them home.”
Jerry Wallace, Williams’ cousin, couldn’t eat or sleep.
“It’s really something just trying to just wait and hear what’s going on and not hearing nothing,” Wallace said..
The next day, the agony of not knowing ended, but with the news came more heartache.
An anonymous tipster reported sighting armed men and people in blindfolds at a shabby, orange shack with blue trim and a corrugated metal roof in a tiny rural community known as Ejido Tecolote, on the outskirts of Matamoros. A white pickup parked outside matched the one the Americans had been loaded into March 3, according to the Mexican investigative documents.
The shack was near Playa Bagdad — or “Bagdad Beach,” a remote strip of sand where the Rio Grande meets the Gulf of Mexico that has been known as a drop-off point for U.S.-bound smuggled goods since the U.S. Civil War.
Mexican authorities, following the lead, drove the dirt roads searching. Then they heard shouts and the word: “Help!” That led them to the shack, where they found McGee and Williams blindfolded inside. They were being held next to the of bodies their friends, who had been wrapped in blankets and plastic bags, according to the Mexican investigative documents.
A 24-year-old man in a tactical vest who was guarding them darted out the back door, only to be quickly apprehended.
The two Americans were rushed to a Brownsville hospital.
Robert Williams, Eric’s brother, said he couldn’t wait to tell him “how glad I am that he made it through and that I love him.” His 11-year-old son was overjoyed.
On Thursday, as two of the friends’ bodies were returned to the U.S. in hearses, calls grew for action to be taken to crush the Gulf cartel. The cartel’s Scorpions faction apologized in a letter and announced it had handed over five members who were responsible for the abductions of innocent Americans. The letter was obtained by the AP through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official.
Woodard’s father said he was speechless.
“I’ve just been trying to make sense out of it for a whole week. Just restless, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat. It’s just crazy to see your own child taken from you in such a way, in a violent way like that,” James Woodard told reporters. “He didn’t deserve it.”
Orange was speechless too. She said Friday in a voice text to an AP reporter that she and her friends who survived the attack are not ready to talk about their ill-fated trip.
“We just want to begin to recover,” she said.
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Watson reported from San Diego and Peña reported from Ciudad Victoria. Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A woman was killed and another person was injured in a Birmingham crash Monday morning.
Birmingham Police said the two-vehicle crash happened on East View Boulevard at Five Mile Road. The deceased was identified as a 32-year-old female.
The other victim was taken to UAB Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
According to police, the intersection of East View Boulevard and Five Mile Road will be closed for an undetermined amount of time.
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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Spencer's announced that for the second consecutive year, over 680 retail locations will support the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to raise awareness and funds to fight for social justice, civil liberties, and LGBTQ+ rights through a round up program that raised over $320,000 last year alone.
"Giving back is always in style, and Spencer's is proud to continue our partnership with the ACLU who embrace and support our core value 'We Are All Human,'" said Steven Silverstein, CEO and President of Spencer's. "Now more than ever, we continue to be loud and proud, celebrating our guests' individuality and attitude regardless of sexual orientation, gender, race, and background, because together we can put a stop to hate and inequality."
Guests can round-up any purchase from June 10 through June 19 to support ACLU's mission to defend and expand civil liberties including the right of LGBTQ+ people to live free from fear and discrimination. Spencer's announced that they will match up to $50,000 in donations for 2022.
The retailer has been a go-to source for PRIDE merchandise and a fierce champion of authenticity from day one, encouraging guests and associates to come as they are without judgment. This year, the PRIDE collection is bigger and better than ever and is complemented by the ACLU round-up program. Merchandise within the PRIDE collection include skirts, tees, tanks, jerseys, shorts, buttons, flags, masks, jewelry and more.
Follow @Spencers on social media or visit www.spencers.com to shop their 2022 PRIDE collection, and visit https://www.aclu.org/action/ to find out how you can make a difference.
About Spencer's
Spencer's is the ultimate destination to find the latest edgy, outrageous, and unique accessories and apparel. For 75 years, Spencer's has celebrated, embraced, and created current trends through t-shirts, accessories, jewelry, drinkware, sexual health and wellness, and more. Founded in 1947 as a mail-order catalog in Pennsylvania, the company opened its first brick-and-mortar store in 1963 and has since grown to over 680 retail locations, in addition to an online presence. To find the latest products and styles, visit @Spencers on social or online at spencersonline.com to locate the nearest store.
About ACLU
For more than 100 years, the ACLU has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect the constitutional rights of all people. With a nationwide network of offices and millions of members and supporters, the ACLU takes on the toughest civil liberties fights in pursuit of liberty and justice for all.
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BANGKOK (AP) — Global stocks were mostly higher Tuesday after a wobbly day on Wall Street as markets cooled off following a rare winning week.
Oil prices pushed higher and U.S. futures also advanced.
As they wrapped up a summit in Elmau, Germany, Group of Seven leaders were finalizing a deal to seek a price cap on Russian oil, raise tariffs on Russian goods and impose other new sanctions.
Rising energy prices and Treasury bond yields were weighing on sentiment after last week’s rally, and investors were awaiting remarks expected for midweek by central bank leaders including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde, analysts said.
Investors will get an update on U.S. economic growth on Wednesday when the Commerce Department releases a report on first-quarter gross domestic product. U.S. consumer confidence data is also on the agenda in a week that has few other major economic releases. So some investors have adopted a “wait and see” stance, said Jun Rong Yeap of IG.
“Investors and traders are worried about the soaring inflation situation and weak economic growth, and these two factors continue to flash red signs on their trading dashboards,” Naeem Aslam of Avatrade.com said in a commentary. “The question that traders are asking is if the bear market rally is over.”
Still, after a mixed start to Asia’s day, shares turned higher.
Germany’s DAX added 0.9% to 13,306.38 while the CAC 40 in Paris advanced 1.4% to 6,132.32. Britain’s FTSE 100 gained 1.1% to 7,337.96. The futures for the Dow industrials and the S&P 500 were up 0.7%.
On Monday, the S&P 500 slipped 0.3% to 3,900.11. The Dow dropped 0.2% to 31,438.26, and the Nasdaq slid 0.7% to 11,524.55.
In Asian trading Tuesday, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index gained 0.7% to 27,049.47 while the Kospi in Seoul added 0.8% to 2,422.09. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.9% to 6,763.60.
Chinese shares have gotten a boost from the easing of pandemic restrictions as the country’s latest wave of outbreaks abates.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index reversed early losses, gaining 0.9% to 22,418.97, and the Shanghai Composite index jumped 0.9% to 3,409.21.
Shares fell in Taiwan and India but rose in Bangkok.
Oil prices extended gains after surging on Monday amid reports that producers in the Middle East were at or near maximum capacity, with little leeway to boost production.
Benchmark U.S. crude oil gained $1.52 to $111.09 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It jumped $1.95 to 109.57 per barrel on Monday.
Brent crude, the basis for pricing for international trading, rose $1.68 to $112.66 per barrel. .
Stocks closed out last week with solid gains and the S&P 500 posted its best day in two years on Friday. Markets rallied as pressure from rising Treasury yields let up somewhat and investors speculated that the Federal Reserve may not have to be as aggressive about raising interest rates as earlier thought to control inflation.
Treasury yields has resumed their rise. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, rose to 3.22% early Tuesday from 3.20% late Monday.
Wall Street will have a few more reports this week that could provide more insight into inflation, economic growth and the Fed’s path ahead.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has sent energy prices soaring, adding to inflationary pressures following the pandemic. U.S. crude oil prices are up more than 40% for the year. Prices for wheat and corn have also surged.
In other trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 135.77 Japanese yen from 135.45 yen late Monday. The euro slipped to $1.0584 from $1.0587.
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Clothes-cleaning technology has advanced so far that we tend to take our washing machines for granted. We may not be pounding our clothes on a rock down by the river to get them clean anymore, but what do you do when a full-size washing machine isn’t available? Enter portable washing machines. They are a great option and have a variety of uses that go beyond emergency laundry.
The Black and Decker Small Portable Washer performs like its full-size counterpart and comes from a trusted name in small appliances.
What to know before you buy a portable washer
Style of portable washer
Portable washing machines come in manual (nonelectric) and electric.
- Manual: Manual machines might take you back to the days of using a washboard at a stream in your mind, but they are much more modern than that. They are small and operated using a hand crank or foot pedal to turn or agitate the interior drum. They have a lower capacity than electric models and may not be as durable because of the plastic construction.
- Electric: Electric portable washers still use manual labor when it comes to filling the tub, but prewash, wash and rinse are all automatic. Fancier versions have automatic dispensers for liquid fabric softener and LED displays.
Size and capacity
The amount of clothes you wash and how often you wash them determine the best size for you.
- Small: The tub on small washers is .2-1 cubic foot. They are 18 inches tall, with a square base that measures 14 inches by 14 inches.
- Medium: The machine measurements are nearly double the size of a small washer, and the tub is almost triple (2.8 cubic feet).
- Large: Big households need a larger washer, and this one is it. The tub capacity on these is 13.2 cubic feet, and it measures over 3 feet tall and nearly 2 feet deep and wide.
Single vs. twin tub portable washers
- Single tub: These are the most common. Clothes are agitated and spun in just one tub. This keeps the footprint smaller.
- Twin tub: Twin tubs are slightly less common and allow the user to both wash and agitate clothes in one tub while the other spins the water out in the other.
Portable washer features
Multiple wash cycles
Portable washers with multiple wash cycles are better able to deal with different levels of dirt. Even the most affordable washers come with three cycles.
LED display
Another premium feature is LED displays. These let you know how the cycle is progressing.
Automated cycles
Automated cycles are available only on fully electric machines. These move through with no interference from the user and can also be set on a time delay.
Easy hookup
You shouldn’t need to have a professional hook up your portable washer. Most are filled with a bucket and have a drain hose that can be looped into a sink.
How to get the best performance from your portable washer
- Move the washer with a furniture dolly, and store it near the sink you'll use for draining.
- If storage is not available, use the top of your portable washer as an additional countertop when it is not in use.
- Plug it into an electrical outlet. Do not use an extension cord.
- Pay attention to the recommended load limit. You can damage your washer if it's overloaded.
- Weigh your clothes before you put them in the washer.
- Use the detergent suggested by the manufacturer of your washer, and use the suggested amount.
Portable washer cost
Portable washers are not as expensive as their built-in counterparts, but they still aren’t cheap. Expect to spend $100-$500, depending on the size and available features.
Portable washer FAQ
Who needs a portable washer?
A. Portable washers are incredibly convenient for people who do not have access to a full-size washing machine or you can't get to a laundromat. These might include:
- Full-time RVers and tiny house enthusiasts
- Renters in apartments without washers
- People undergoing a home remodel
- People who don't need a full-size machine
How do you care for a portable washer?
A. After each use, wipe out the washing machine tub with either starch or bleach. You can also use diluted white vinegar if you'd prefer to keep chemicals to a minimum. Wipe the outside of the machine every now and then to prevent dust and grime from building up.
Once a month or so depending on your level of use, you’ll need to clean out the drum more thoroughly. Fill it with hot water to the max fill line and add 2-4 cups of white vinegar (the amount depends on the size of the washer). Let this sit for an hour, then run the wash cycle with no detergent and drain completely.
Which portable washer should I get?
Best of the best portable washer
Black and Decker Small Portable Washer: available at Amazon
Our take: It has many of the same features as a full-size washing machine and cleans like a pro.
What we like: It has a 2-cubic-foot tub with six cycle options and three water levels. It's quiet and compact. The LED screen is easy to read, and the washer is easy to operate. It hooks up with a hose in the back.
What we dislike: Unfortunately, some users report leaks.
Best bang for your buck portable washer
VCJ Portable Washing Machine: available at Amazon
Our take: This has two tubs that clean and spin simultaneously for the most efficient wash.
What we like: This washer fits 9 pounds of clothes. The wash cycle is quick and quiet. It has three basic cleaning settings and an adjustable timer and spin cycle. It's available in a 20- and 28-pound capacity, too.
What we dislike: Really filthy or heavy-duty clothes won't get clean in this.
Honorable mention portable washer
Comfee 1.6 Cubic-Foot Portable Washing Machine: available at Amazon
Our take: Even with its relatively large capacity, this washer is lightweight and energy efficient.
What we like: It has six cleaning settings and a programmable delay. There are three water levels. The tub is 1.6 cubic feet, and it's available in 2 cubic feet, too. It has a sturdy motor and a child lock.
What we dislike: This washer is durable but also much heavier than other models.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrities, lawmakers, brands and everyday social media users are flocking to Meta’s freshly minted app Threads to connect with their followers, including many Twitter refugees tired of the drama surrounding Elon Musk’s raucous oversight of that platform.
But the real question is: Will they stay?
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said in a Threads post Monday that in the five days since its launch, 100 million people have signed up for Threads, which was rolled out as a companion app to Instagram.
Ann Coleman is among them. The 50-year-old, who lives in Baltimore, said she joined Threads after hearing about the platform from a comedian she follows on social media. She said she loves Twitter and has been using it for more than 10 years. She even met her husband on there.
But Coleman, who is politically progressive, has been looking to switch to a new platform because of Musk’s political views and changes he’s made to Twitter, like upending its verification system. She previously joined the decentralized social network Mastodon, but found it a bit confusing to use.
She said she likes Threads but wishes she could easily follow all her Twitter friends there. Threads gives Instagram users the option to automatically follow the same accounts they do on the photo-sharing app, which makes it easier for active Instagram users to replicate a similar type of engagement on Threads. But others starting from the ground up will have to do more work.
“If I’m going to leave Twitter entirely, I’m going to have to try and find some of these people” from Twitter, Coleman said.
While she said she has her own concerns about Meta — specifically pointing to the Cambridge Analytica privacy breach, among other things — “it’s not with the depth of concern that I do with Musk.”
Michael Evancoe, 28, said he hasn’t used Twitter much since his personal page was suspended years ago for what the platform attributed to violations of its rules on spam. Evancoe, who now works in production, said he agrees with some of the changes Musk has been making on Twitter and he created a new account earlier this year. But he wasn’t able to gain many followers or interactions.
He joined Threads last week, and says he’s been able to interact more with other users. But he hopes that Meta does not moderate the platform overly aggressively.
“I think that would be a deterrent to both interest and engagement as well,” Evancoe said.
For its part, Meta has said it will moderate using Instagram’s content guidelines. In the past few days, the company has been positioning the much-hyped platform as a new digital town square that’s a less toxic version of Twitter, with some executives indicating their aim isn’t to replace Twitter but to offer something more palatable to a vast array of users.
“The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations,” Mosseri said Friday.
In the first two full days that Threads was broadly available — Thursday and Friday of last week — traffic on Twitter was down 5% compared with the same period a week ago, and down 11% compared with the same period a year ago, according to the web analytics company SimilarWeb. But it also said Twitter traffic has experienced an overall decline even in the absence of Threads.
To Jennifer Billinson, a professor of media studies at Nazareth University in New York, the first days of Threads have highlighted a potential culture clash — specifically one between Twitter refugees and what is likely a much larger number of people just clicking over from Instagram.
The idea that Threads will just become a Twitter clone, she says, is running headlong into the reality that the Twitterites are going to be “vastly outnumbered” on the new platform by those from Instagram, which has more than 2 billion monthly users. By comparison, Twitter has more than 237 million daily users, according to the most recent figures from the company’s earnings report last year.
Among other things, those used to the more abrasive culture of Twitter could easily annoy more laid-back Instagram users. Of course, such tensions might be alleviated by potential platform changes that give people more control over what they’ll see in their Threads feed. At the moment, users are largely at the mercy of the Threads algorithm.
Despite the influx of users, Brendan Gahan, partner and chief social officer at the creative agency Mekanism, stressed it’s too early to know how successful Threads will be. He further questions whether the rapid growth of Threads is even a good thing, pointing out some other successful platforms began with a focused approach and expanded more gradually.
There’s also the question of how influencers will use Threads and whether they can replicate the same following as on other platforms. Most notably, Jimmy Donaldson — a popular YouTube video maker who goes by MrBeast — has already amassed more than 4 million followers on Threads.
By integrating the new app to Instagram, Meta made it very easy for content creators to convert their Instagram followers to Threads followers. But that can also create a situation where popular content creators gain more influence while crowding out emerging talents from cultivating their own culture on a new platform, Gahan said.
Creators might also face other challenges.
“Somebody who is purely video and photo-based may have trouble translating to a text-focused platform,” Gahan said. “That said, a lot of them I see reposting the same content. Time will tell whether or not that’s a successful strategy.”
Asante Madrigal, a content creator who makes his living off of social media posts about pop culture, said he’s been trying out the Threads app and reposting some videos he’s made recently on actress Keke Palmer, among other things.
But at least for now, the 22-year-old said he doesn’t plan to make Threads a priority because he can’t monetize his content on there. Instead, he said he’s going to focus on apps where he’s actually earning money, like Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, where he more than 2 million followers combined.
Madrigal said the Threads algorithm is a black box, and pointed to some things that are still lacking in the app, including hashtags and direct messaging between users. And figuring out what to do on there will take more work.
“I have a lot of friends that do pop culture as well,” Madrigal said. “And they were just like, ‘Oh, my God, not another app’.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — An iconic sign of Christmas arrived in New York City on Saturday as a crane hoisted an 82-foot (25-meter) Norway spruce into place at Rockefeller Plaza, where the 14-ton tree will be festooned with thousands of lights and topped with a star encrusted with millions of crystals.
The Christmas tree will be officially lit on Nov. 30.
The approximately 90-year-old tree was cut Thursday then lifted onto a flatbed truck for its 200-mile (322-kilometer) trip from Queensbury, New York, to New York City.
“We gave it with the expectation that everybody would enjoy it,” said Neil Lebowitz, whose family donated the tree.
“For me, it was just a nice tree,” Lebowitz was quoted as saying by the New York Post. “Now it’s a special tree. Everybody around the world can enjoy it.”
The tree, whose lower branches extend 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter, will be aglow with 50,000 multicolored lights and topped with a 900-pound (408-kilogram) star covered in 3 million crystals.
After the holidays, the tree will be milled into lumber for donation to Habitat for Humanity, officials said.
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was notorious for unbridled and profane challenges to authority even before the attempted rebellion that he mounted Saturday. The reported agreement for him to go into exile in Belarus would place him in a country where such behavior is even less acceptable than in his homeland.
Prigozhin on Sunday was uncharacteristically silent as his Wagner private army forces pulled back from Russian cities after a Kremlin announcement that he had agreed to depart for Belarus; it remains unclear whether he's actually there.
What will Prigozhin find in Belarus?
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko reportedly negotiated the deal, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Saturday that Lukashenko "has been acquainted with Mr. Prigozhin for a long time, at least 20 years. But Prigozhin's maverick ways are at odds with Lukashenko's harsh repression of dissent and independent media.
In power since 1994, the leader often called "Europe's last dictator" launched a brutal crackdown on 2020 protests against his rule. Hundreds were sentenced to lengthy prison terms, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski.
Under Lukashenko, Belarus became almost umbilically tied to neighboring Russia, agreeing to form a still-in-progress "union state." Although Belarus' army is not known to have taken part in Russia's war on Ukraine, the country allows Russia to base troops there that have fought in Ukraine and made a deal this year for deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Lukashenko is a vehement ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Prigozhin’s stance toward the Kremlin leader is murkier. Even as his fighters moved swiftly toward Moscow on Saturday, Prigozhin did not criticize Putin directly and instead claimed his aim was to oust the Russian defense establishment which he has denounced as corrupt and incompetent, complaining that it undermined his forces fighting in Ukraine.
What's next for Prigozhin?
"It is not yet clear what Lukashenko is going to do with Prigozhin. I think they don't have an understanding themselves." exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told The Associated Press.
“Lukashenko once again has made Belarus a hostage to other people’s games and wars. He is by no means a peacemaker.”
“Prigozhin leaving for Belarus does not mean that Prigozhin will stay there. There's nothing for him to do in Belarus — arrive, exhale, use the corridor and move on,” said Artem Shraibman, a Belarusian political analyst now in exile in Poland.
What's next for Wagner?
The Belarus deal removes Prigozhin’s control of Wagner, but it’s unclear whether any of his fighters would follow him to Belarus, either out of a sense of loyalty or due to dismay with being absorbed into the Russian military as contract soldiers.
“These personnel could potentially sign contracts with the MoD on an individual basis, demobilize in Russia … (or) travel to Belarus in some capacity,” the Institute for the Study of War think tank said in its report on the failed rebellion.
If in Belarus, there would be concerns about whether they could get access to the Russian battlefield nuclear weapons. Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy head of Russia’s security council, was worried about them gaining control of Russian weapons as the uprising roiled on Saturday.
“The world will be put on the brink of destruction,” if Wagnerites obtain nuclear weapons, Medvedev warned.
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9-year-old boy seriously injured in bear attack, troopers say
PALMER, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - Alaska State Troopers say two people were sent to the hospital earlier this week after a bear attacked them.
KTUU reports a bear attacked a man and a 9-year-old boy near Glenn Highway and Matanuska Townsite Road, about 37 miles from Anchorage, on Tuesday.
Troopers said the boy suffered serious injuries in the incident, and the man had minor injuries. Medical personnel transported both of them to an area hospital for treatment.
According to Alaska State Troopers, a witness said they saw a man carrying a child away from the road with head lacerations.
Department spokesperson Austin McDaniel said that the man and juvenile encountered a brown bear sow and her cub while they were hunting in the Palmer Hay Flats area. The man was armed. He shot and killed the bear in the attack.
Alaska Wildlife Trooper Scott Lanier said his department is continuing to investigate the situation.
Previously, residents reported several encounters with a bear that killed dozens of chickens and turkeys.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The second phase of the Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will be available Monday, Oct. 17 in six counties across Florida that were impacted by Hurricane Ian.
According to the Florida Department of Children and Families, individuals and families impacted by the storm in the following counties are eligible to receive food assistance if they are not getting food assistance benefits through the regular SNAP:
- Flagler
- Highlands
- Manatee
- Orange
- Pinellas
- St. Johns
“The first week of D-SNAP has been highly successful with nearly 100,000 pre-registrations,” DCF Secretary Shevaun Harris said in a statement. “I encourage everyone to take advantage of the virtual/telephonic option so that we can provide you with the quickest service possible. The process is simple, saves times, and avoids applicants from having to attend an in-person D-SNAP event.
"Our team at the Department remains committed to providing Floridians with support they need following Hurricane Ian.”
D-SNAP is reportedly being implemented in phases and by county.
Pre-registrations for the program are required by all applicants and then an interview can be conducted over the phone or in person at a D-SNAP event, DCF said in a news release. However, the agency recommends applicants interview over the phone to help provide the best service to those in need.
DCF says it will host D-SNAP events for people who cannot interview over the phone and those dates will be announced on the agency's website when they are open.
Phase one of the program concluded on Sunday, which included assistance for people in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Hardee, Lee, Polk and Sarasota counties.
The next phase of the program is scheduled to begin on Oct. 27 to assist those in Hillsborough, Lake, Osceola, Putnam, Seminole and Volusia counties.
To view the program's schedule by county and more information on how to apply, click here.
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VALLEJO, Calif., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A Plus Tree, LLC ("A Plus Tree" or the "Company"), a portfolio company of Hyperion Capital Partners LLC ("Hyperion"), announced it has completed the acquisitions of Tree Preservation and Landscaping, The Tree Men, and Treecology. These three acquisitions reflect the Company's commitment to building a best-in-class tree care business for commercial and residential clients.
Tree Preservation and Landscaping and The Tree Men bolster A Plus Tree's presence in Southern California, and Treecology strengthens the Company in Portland, Oregon. Both geographies are key to the Company's growth plan and these three acquisitions will serve as beachheads through which A Plus Tree can better serve clients in these markets. Cyrus DeVere, the CEO of A Plus Tree, said, "Growth fueled by great partnerships allows for true synergies. Tree Preservation, Tree Men, and Treecology are all wonderful additions to the A Plus Tree culture of love and respect. Onward!"
Tree Preservation and Landscaping is based in Los Angeles, California, where founder David Sims has been serving clients since 2001. David said, "A Plus Tree is a great company to be affiliated with. The culture and work environment at A Plus Tree are great, I am all in. It has been my pleasure to work through the transition period with team members who are knowledgeable, personable, and proficient at their jobs."
The Tree Men is based in Los Angeles, California. Founders Mark and Kandi Dunning have provided tree care services to their clients since 1969. Mark and Kandi said, "We started The Tree Men over 45 years ago—our clients are amazing and are like family. We found a perfect fit with A Plus Tree, they are professional and caring."
Treecology operates in Portland, Oregon, where Damon Schrosk will continue to serve his clients as part of the A Plus Tree team. Damon said, "Through my conversations with the folks at A Plus Tree, I developed an understanding of their culture of trust and integrity. That, coupled with their innovative projects like urban wood utilization through milling and bio-char generation, and their non-profit A Plus Cares, helped me understand that this was a company that matched our culture and ethics. I felt comfortable that the reputation I developed through my efforts with Treecology would be honored and preserved. In the time since I have become a team member, I have seen the dedication and growth-oriented mindset that each of the upper-level leaders bring to their work."
Cyrus DeVere further stated, "With the addition of incredible team members and leaders from great companies, it is truly energizing to be able to expand our service offering of professional tree care to more clients."
The Partners of Hyperion said, "We are thrilled to support Cyrus and his team in their acquisition of these three excellent companies. These businesses complement A Plus Tree's strategy and will strengthen its ability to provide best-in-class tree care services by growing its client base, augmenting its yard footprint, increasing its focus on residential clients, and inviting enthusiastic team members into the A Plus Tree family. It speaks to the sellers' trust in Cyrus and his team that they joined the Company. We are excited to continue helping A Plus Tree grow organically and through acquisitions."
About A Plus Tree
Headquartered in Vallejo, California, A Plus Tree is a leading provider of tree care services for commercial and residential clients. A Plus provides specialized services to property owners and managers, including tree trimming, pruning, and removal; plant and tree healthcare; and arborist consulting. The Company employs a team of highly skilled tree care professionals, and operates across Northern and Southern California, Washington, Oregon, and Utah.
About Hyperion
Hyperion Capital Partners is a private investment firm based in Los Angeles that establishes and utilizes partnerships with management to produce substantial long-term value. Hyperion makes control investments in companies that generate between $20 and $200 million of revenue and are headquartered in North America.
For more information, please contact info@hyperion-cp.com or visit hyperion-cp.com.
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Amp by Movista reimagines the way in-store work is executed.
BENTONVILLE, Ark., March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Movista, the leading retail execution SaaS provider, today announced the release of Amp by Movista, its next-generation mobile execution app designed for frontline retail teams. Amp supports new features that enhance the productivity and experience of in-store work and boasts a modern and intuitive user interface that drives employee engagement.
Amp's noteworthy feature enhancements include mobile tasking, which gives team leaders the ability to create tasks on the fly; work escalation, which automatically notifies managers or relevant employees of urgent or at-risk work for always-on-time completion; and mobile reassignments, which enables frontline employees to redirect tasks to other individuals or teams. Amp also includes a redesigned and fully integrated communications module that supports individual messages, group messages, and team announcements for quick and compliant work collaboration.
Amp acts as a mobile extension of Movista's retail execution platform for retailers and field teams, giving all workforces the ability to execute tasks at scale and optimize merchandising and sales performance through one collaborative application. Amp is available for Movista customers to download on the iOS App Store and Android Play Store.
"Amp is the next evolution of frontline mobile work," said Scot Delancey, Chief Product Officer at Movista. "With productive new capabilities and a thoughtfully designed interface, it will serve as a much-needed work aid for today's overstrained frontline teams. In-store work will become more streamlined and intuitive at a time when retailers and field teams of all types and sizes are struggling to engage and retain their talent."
About Movista
Movista is an enterprise-grade retail execution SaaS company that empowers store and field teams to orchestrate in-store work and improve on-shelf availability with ease. We are revolutionizing the way retail teams collaborate so they can execute flawlessly in today's dynamic store environment. Our solution unifies all key execution functionality into a single integrated desktop/mobile work hub that improves workforce productivity and in-store item management. Learn more at www.movista.com. Follow on LinkedIn for the latest retail insights.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A 33-year-old man was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in prison for sex trafficking of two minors at the Desert Star Motel in 2019, U.S. Department of Justice officials in Fresno said.
Darnell Bernard Edwards, of Antioch, pleaded guilty to charges in December.
Edwards took two underage girls to the motel and other locations in California and ordered them to make $500 a day through prostitution in April and May 2019, according to US DOJ officials and court filings.
The girls had the letter “D” and a crown tattooed on their bodies, indicating they were being pimped by Edwards, according to documents.
Bakersfield police and federal authorities raided the Desert Star Motel in January 2021 after two years of investigation, officials said. Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer called the motel “a modern day brothel” following the raid.
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ATLANTA, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), the global research and advisory firm focused on staffing and workforce solutions, released its 2023 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Influencers list today. WorkLLama is a proud sponsor of this year's list.
"Our business strategy and social missions are one in the same—helping organizations deliver on their workforce strategies while giving all candidates and underrepresented communities access to meaningful work," said Kevin Poll, SVP Strategy and Business Development. "Through our work and partnerships, we will ensure all talent is equitably included, and we're proud to sponsor the leaders and influencers on this list as they continue to provide safe and inclusive workplaces."
The annual DE&I Influencers list honors US and Canadian professionals, executives and leaders working to make workplaces more equitable and inclusive. That work includes having crucial conversations and actions around diversity, belonging, fair treatment of workers, equal pay, hiring bias, discrimination, racism, and more.
WorkLLama is continuing its commitment to DE&I with a recent announcement of a strategic partnership with TAP (The Ability People), a consulting and advisory services firm focused on disability inclusion in the workplace. Additionally, its new IN Series—a collection of global events dedicated to educating organizations about the importance of including people with disabilities into their strategic DE&I initiatives—will also help increase awareness for workers with disabilities.
"In the wake of economic uncertainty organizations' commitment to DE&I efforts can give way to other business priorities. But those truly devoted to DE&I have not slowed down or deprioritized this vital effort," said SIA Chief Operating Officer Ursula Williams. "SIA honors those making the world of work a place where all can belong and where all can succeed. We are very proud to see many of those faithful advocates grace our 2023 DE&I Influencers list."
Visit SIA's DE&I Influencers website and read the May/June 2023 issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine to learn more about this year's honorees.
About WorkLLama
WorkLLama is a total talent management and engagement suite. We create communities of highly engaged talent with a single, modern, AI-driven talent marketing, relationship management, and direct sourcing platform. Visit us at workllama.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
About Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA)
SIA is the global research and advisory firm focused on staffing and workforce solutions. Our proprietary research covers all categories of employed and non-employed work including temporary staffing, independent contracting and other types of contingent labor. SIA's independent and objective analysis provides insights into the services and suppliers operating in the workforce solutions ecosystem including staffing firms, managed service providers, recruitment process outsourcers, payrolling/compliance firms and talent acquisition technology specialists such as vendor management systems, online staffing platforms, crowdsourcing and online work services. We also provide training and accreditation with our unique Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) program.
Known for our award-winning content, data, support tools, publications, executive conferences and events, we help both suppliers and buyers of workforce solutions make better-informed decisions that improve business results and minimize risk. As a division of the international business media company, Crain Communications Inc., SIA is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, England.
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PETALUMA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tangram Insurance Services, Inc. ("Tangram"), one of the largest independent managing general underwriters and program managers in the United States, acquired Los Angeles-based New Empire Entertainment Insurance effective August 1, 2022.
New Empire is a leading insurance agency specializing in the entertainment industry. Since 2008, the New Empire team has helped thousands of production companies and independent producers identify their insurance needs and protect their productions. The company works with the top entertainment insurers to obtain the best coverage possible, at the most competitive rates, without sacrificing coverage and protection.
"We are very excited for the New Empire team to be partnering with Tangram," said James Bekhor, CEO of New Empire. "Tangram's relationships, innovation, and experience will provide acceleration to New Empire's overall program offering and commitment to the entertainment industry."
"I am thrilled to have the New Empire team join our family of specialty programs. As Tangram leaps forward, we seek programs and teams that deepen our capabilities in a specific market segment. The entertainment industry has emerged from the challenges of the past two years, and continues to show resilience and opportunity," said Rekha Skantharaja, President and CEO of Tangram Insurance Services. "We are excited to provide insurance solutions for businesses and people creating films, music, and special events. I am especially proud that our independent and entrepreneurial culture continues to resonate with our peers in the industry."
Tangram is interested in collaborating with privately held MGUs, MGAs, and program managers across the United States in order to continue its growth trajectory. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Matt McKenna, Director of Corporate Development, at 925-746-7962 or matthewmc@heffgroup.com.
Tangram Insurance Services, Inc. is a managing general underwriter and national program manager bringing in-depth expertise and specialized program capabilities to a variety of industries. With 20 years of experience in the program space, Tangram partners with top insurance companies to deliver niche insurance solutions. For more information, please visit tangramins.com.
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CEDAR FALLS — A new downtown gift shop bills itself as having a “little bit of everything.”
Cedar Falls native Teri Johnson recently opened up her new store, Fab Finds, at 510 State St., Suite B, the former location of the Subculture Skateboards and Disc Golf.
“We have fabulous finds. It is exactly what it sounds like,” Johnson said. “There’s a little bit of everything for everyone. I hope people can come in and find something they like at a decent price.”
It sits in the same building as Legacy Wellness, right behind the Cedar Falls Public Library and in between E-Clips Hair Studio and HealthCare Revolutions.
“Our store will always be changing and trying to add different things,” she added. “We hope people pass by wondering what might be new every week.”
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Johnson came across the smaller spot, less than 600 square feet in size, for her new business when her son, Cole, 16 had been looking for the local skateboard shop and came to realize Subculture Skateboards was no longer open.
“It’s downtown Cedar Falls,” she said about why she picked the spot. “It gets pretty busy.”
It had been a goal of hers to own a shop after working for someone else’s business at several different jobs in the past.
“I wanted to be my own boss and set my own hours,” she said. “I love meeting and talking with people.”
The brick-and-mortar location will sell Bling Boutique by Teri, a craft business she previously operated online and craft shows, as well as lots of clothing, the goods of other nearby vendors and the familiar jewelry offered up by Paparazzi Accessories. She’s engaging in wholesaling and other direct sales, as well.
On the shelves, a customer will find different types of clothing, jewelry, tumblers, keychains, hair accessories, purses, snacks, books, games and movies.
The local vendors include Little Miss Fashionista, Why Woodn’t You? and Patterson Custom. In the future, she hopes to add more children’s clothes, cellphone accessories and magnets.
Local vendors can offer merchandise inside the store for a small fee and percentage of their proceeds. Johnson can be reached either on her Facebook business page, by calling (319) 229-6273 or emailing FabFinds50613@hotmail.com.
Her hours of operation are 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Waterloo and Cedar Falls neighbors: Obituaries for July 7
Read through the obituaries published today in The Courier.
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John D. Britt, 86, died Tuesday, July 4, 2023, at UnityPoint Allen Hospital. Arrangements: Hagarty-Waychoff-Grarup Funeral Service on South Street.
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Charles’ history with US presidents: He’s met 10 of past 14
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hanging out with Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia at a White House “supper-dance.” Swapping stories with Ronald Reagan about horseback riding. Bending the ears of Donald Trump and Joe Biden about climate change.
King Charles III, who became head of state following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, has made the acquaintance of 10 of the 14 U.S. presidents who have held office since he was born in 1948.
He was just 10 when he checked off his first president in 1959. That was when Dwight Eisenhower visited the queen and her family at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, where she died on Sept. 8 after a 70-year-reign.
“I guess you can’t start too early,” said Barbara A Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. She noted that Charles’ grandson, Prince George, was a toddler when Kensington Palace released a photograph of him shaking hands with Barack Obama during the president’s trip to London in 2016.
Charles never met Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy, Perry said.
His encounters with U.S. presidents included what he recalled as an “amusing” weekend visit to Nixon White House in 1970 with his sister Anne, when the 20-year-old future king — one of the world’s most eligible bachelors — sensed there was an effort afoot to set him up.
“That was the time when they were trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon,” he later recalled.
The king has chatted up presidents on his visits to the U.S. and met others when they traveled in the United Kingdom. He was in the company of Donald Trump, Obama, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush when he represented the British monarchy at the state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush in 2018 in Washington.
Charles met President Joe Biden last year at a climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
The royal has visited America about 20 times since that memorable first trip in the Nixon years, he told CNN last year.
The royal siblings had been invited to Washington by Nixon’s daughters and son-in-law, Tricia Nixon, Julie Nixon Eisenhower and her husband, David Eisenhower, grandson of President Eisenhower, for that three-day visit in July 1970.
The young VIPs had a packed schedule that included frolicking at the Camp David presidential retreat, a nighttime tour of Washington’s monuments, museum visits, a luncheon cruise down the Potomac River to George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, a dance on the South Lawn for 700 guests, and a Washington Senators baseball game.
Charles and Nixon also met in the Oval Office. But if the president had his heart set a union between his family and the royals, it wasn’t meant to be.
In June 1971, less than a year after Charles’ visit, Tricia married longtime beau Edward Cox in the White House Rose Garden. A decade later, in July 1981, Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. They divorced in 1996.
Nixon, himself, had pushed for Charles to visit the U.S. for the perceived public relations bonanza, according to a January 1970 memo he sent his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.
“I think this could do an enormous amount of good for U.S.-British relations,” Nixon said. He wrote that he’d been told that Charles “is the real gem” of the royal family and “makes an enormously favorable impression wherever he goes.”
Charles returned the praise in a thank-you note.
“The kindness shown to us at the White House was almost overwhelming and for that we are immensely grateful,” the prince wrote to Nixon. “Both my sister and I take back to Britain the most heartwarming evidence of what is known as the special relationship between our two countries and of the great hospitality shown to us by you and your family.”
Many of the former Prince of Wales’ conversations with recent U.S. presidents centered on his interest in tackling climate change. Charles has campaigned for the environment for 50 years, but he acknowledged after becoming king that his new role requires that he set aside his activism on that and other issues.
Charles, 73, and Biden, 79, discussed global cooperation on the climate crisis last year while both attended a summit in Glasgow, Scotland. They also met at Buckingham Palace in June 2021 at a reception the queen hosted before a world leaders’ summit in Cornwall.
Biden rejoined the 2015 Paris climate agreement after Trump as president withdrew the U.S. from the accord.
Biden and the king spoke on Wednesday, with Biden offering his condolences over the queen.
Trump has said that during his visit with Charles, the former prince “did most of the talking” and pressed him on climate during a scheduled 15-minute meeting that stretched to 90 minutes in 2019 at Charles’ residence in London.
During a three-day visit to Washington in 2011, Charles, an advocate of environmentally friendly farming, met with President Obama. In a speech, he praised Michelle Obama’s campaign against childhood obesity and hunger, and U.S. manufacturers’ efforts to produce healthier foods.
He criticized U.S. government subsidies for large-scale agriculture and encouraged increased business and government support for organic and environmentally friendly food production.
In his toast at a White House dinner in 2005, the future king told President George W. Bush that the world looks to the United States “for a lead on the most crucial issues that face our planet and, indeed, the lives of our grandchildren.
“Truly, the burdens of the world rest on your shoulders,” he said.
In the remarks, Charles also said the trip reminded him of his first visit to America, “when the media were busy trying to marry me off to Tricia Nixon.”
Visiting with Reagan in the Oval Office in 1981, the two discussed their interest in horseback riding as a steward brought tea. But it was not served the British way.
Of the experience, Reagan later wrote in his diary:
“The ushers brought him tea -- horror of horrors they served it our way with a tea bag in the cup. It finally dawned on me that he was just holding the cup and finally put it down on the table. I didn’t know what to do,” Reagan confessed.
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AP News Researcher Rhonda Shafner in New York contributed to this report.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The sexual abuse trial of a “Dances With Wolves” actor charged in Nevada with abusing Indigenous women and girls for more than a decade is on hold indefinitely, a state judge announced Wednesday.
Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, was originally set to stand trial May 1. He is charged with 18 felonies, including sexual assault of a minor, kidnapping, lewdness and child abuse.
Shortly after a grand jury in Las Vegas indicted him in February, Chasing Horse invoked his right to a trial within 60 days. But on Wednesday, his public defender, Kristy Holston, asked to put a pause on proceedings while they ask the Nevada Supreme Court to toss his indictment.
Clark County District Judge Carli Kierny said she would set a new trial date if the high court upholds her recent decision denying Chasing Horse’s request to dismiss the case. Chasing Horse and his attorneys argued that two women identified as his victims wanted to have sex with him.
Kierny, in her ruling issued Friday, said state prosecutors presented enough evidence for “a reasonable grand juror to conclude that the sexual assaults occurred.” While Kierny upheld the sexual abuse charges, she dismissed a drug trafficking charge, saying that there was no substantive testimony tying Chasing Horse to the psilocybin mushrooms investigators found while searching his home.
Holston and lead prosecutor Stacy Kollins declined to comment further after the hearing.
Kierny set a new hearing for May 10 to check on the status of Chasing Horse’s appeal to the high court, which had yet to be filed on Wednesday.
Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and is widely known for his portrayal of Smiles a Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 film.
But police and prosecutors have said that in the decades since appearing in the Oscar-winning movie, Chasing Horse marketed himself to tribes nationwide as a medicine man with healing powers who could communicate with higher beings. They accuse him of using his position to lead a cult, gain access to vulnerable girls and women, and take underage wives starting in the early 2000s.
Chasing Horse’s indictment in state court stems from allegations made by two women — including one who says she was 14 when the sexual abuse began — but court records show authorities have identified at least four other victims in the U.S and in Canada.
The former actor’s arrest on Jan. 31 in Nevada sent shockwaves throughout Indian Country and led to more criminal charges in other jurisdictions, including in Canada and the U.S. District Court in Nevada, as well as on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.
Chasing Horse is being held on $300,000 bail at a county jail in Las Vegas. If he posts bail, he likely would be turned over to federal authorities in Nevada.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Thursday, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and touring the war-torn country as it fights Russian aggression.
Pence, who this month launched his campaign for the Republican nomination for president, has been deeply critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
He has called on the U.S. to deliver more military aid to the country and criticized GOP rivals who have questioned the ongoing U.S. involvement, saying there is no room in the party for “Putin apologists” and pushing back against those who want the U.S. to take on a more limited role on the world stage.
Pence spent roughly 12 hours in the country Thursday, according to an adviser, with stops in Moshchun, Bucha and Irpin, according to NBC News, which traveled with him.
“I’m here because it’s important that the American people understand the progress that we’ve made and how support for the Ukrainian military has been in our national interest,” he told the network. “I truly do believe that now, more than ever, we need leaders in our country who will articulate the importance of American leadership in the world.”
In addition to his meeting with Zelenskyy, Pence received multiple briefings, including one from Ukrainian officials on the country’s current security situation and one on allegations of human rights violations by Russians accused of abducting Ukrainian children in a bid to weaken Ukrainian resolve, the adviser said.
Pence also participated in a commemoration ceremony to honor Ukrainians killed during the defense of Moshchun during Russia’s offensive and visited the destroyed Romanov Bridge, where he was briefed on the civilian evacuation efforts.
Pence visited St. Andrew’s Church and Pyervozvannoho All Saints in Bucha, the site of a civilian mass burial site, and laid flowers at the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kyiv.
The trip was the second by Pence to the region. In March 2022, he made an unannounced visit to the Ukrainian border with Poland, where he crossed into Ukraine and helped deliver aid to the flood of refugees who escaping the war’s initial invasion.
Both trips were arranged by Samaritan’s Purse, an international Christian humanitarian aid organization.
Pence’s GOP rivals have been far less eager to push for more U.S. involvement in Ukraine, reflecting broader skepticism within the party.
A February poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found only about a quarter of Americans — 26% — believe the U.S. should have a major role in the conflict, down from as high as 40% in March 2022. Among Republicans that number is even lower, with the number saying the U.S. should have a major role dropping to just 17%.
Both former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who are also seeking the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, have said the defense of Ukraine is not a vital U.S. national security interest. Trump has stressed the humanitarian cost of the war and called for its end. DeSantis once called the Russian invasion a “territorial dispute,” but later walked back those comments in the face of criticism.
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Spud Kings fall to Northern Colorado 2-0 on Saturday
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) - The Idaho Falls Spud Kings lost their rubber match to Northern Colorado on Saturday night, falling to the Eagles 2-0.
The Spud Kings return to the Mountain America Center on Jan. 20 taking on the Rock Springs Prospectors.
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The ruling party in Japan, to which the slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also belonged, is expected to dominate legislative elections there today.
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The ruling party in Japan, to which the slain former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also belonged, is expected to dominate legislative elections there today.
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Man in coma after living with black mold for months
ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (WBBH) - A Florida man is in the hospital fighting for his life after suffering an asthma attack on Christmas Eve. His family’s troubles began when Hurricane Ian flooded their home, and toxic black mold appeared.
Kendra Elliot’s bathroom and bedroom are both off limits for her family of five living in Englewood, Florida. Hurricane Ian flooded their home in September, and toxic black mold started growing.
Elliot says neither the landlord nor the Federal Emergency Management Agency would clean the mold, so they lived with it.
“The wall, when you touch on it, it’s like you can almost push through it,” she said.
The danger culminated in an asthma attack on Christmas Eve that sent Elliot’s fiancé, 26-year-old Christian Childers, into a medically induced coma.
“They were on their way to the emergency room, and they didn’t make it. They had to pull into a fire station, and he went into cardiac arrest. He died, and they had to work on him for an hour to get his heartbeat back before they got him on the way to the hospital,” Elliot said.
The couple have been working to find someplace else to stay since the mold first showed up, but with FEMA denying help and rental rates through the roof, they don’t have anywhere else to go.
Now, in addition to trying to find safe housing, Elliot sits at her fiancé's bedside during visiting hours. She never imagined she’d spend Christmas Day in the hospital.
“I wake up in the morning: ‘Where’s Christian?’ And I sleep with his dirty clothes, just to smell him at night. I wasn’t expecting this. He’s the love of my life, and I just want him to wake up. That’s all I can say. It’s all about Christian right now, and I’m there for him,” she said.
The latest reports from the hospital suggest Childers’ condition may not improve, but his family is not giving up hope.
To add insult to injury, the family’s landlord sent them an eviction notice after Elliot informed her of the hospital stay.
The county says they’ve been in touch with FEMA and are assigning a team to try to help the family with their case.
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No-code platform speeds up service delivery and significantly enhances customer experience for insurance, banking and other financial institutions
TOKYO, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EasySend Ltd. (Headquarters: Israel, CEO & Co-Founder: Tal Daskal, "EasySend"), an InsurTech company supporting the digitalization of the insurance and financial industries, has established a Japanese entity, EasySend Godo Kaisha in Tokyo. With Kazuyo, Yamashita as Director of Business Development in Japan, EasySend will further expand its customer base and partner companies in Japan and promote the digitalization of the financial industry in Japan including insurance companies and banks by leveraging its knowledge and experience in the global market, while addressing Japanese laws and market needs such as privacy data and security.
The importance of digitalization is widely recognized in the insurance and financial industries, with strategies to simplify, accelerate, and automate business processes. Driven by Covid 19, the industry has also been rapidly strengthening non-face-to-face channels and digitizing and automating administrative procedures of various forms in paper and PDF, contract processing and payment claims.
EasySend meets the needs of these insurance companies and financial institutions by providing a no-code development platform that does not require programming expertise. In particular, EasySend supports digitization by streamlining customer data intake and automating workflows that previously required paper forms into web forms and workflows in a short period of time and at a low cost. EasySend's platform has already been implemented by dozens of insurance companies and banks in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. In Japan, EasySend's platform has been implemented by Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. has also signed a distributor agreement.
EasySend's platform allows non-system developers to quickly and easily develop systems with intuitive drag-and-drop operations and simple configuration, reducing a company's five-year digital transformation plan to just three months, speeding service delivery, reducing system development and operations costs and improving customer services, resulting in the increase in the revenue. It also leverages a cloud-based, no-code builder that leverages third-party integrations, and analytics to address increasingly diverse and complex customer needs, giving it a competitive advantage over its competitors. EasySend also connects to Salesforce CRM to pre-populate fields, collect electronic signatures, initiate journeys, and optimize results. Enterprises can initiate the digital process through their website, email, SMS or CRM and the customers can start the process from any device, at any place or time. EasySend's platform keeps personal and corporate information secure with strict security measures that comply with Japanese and international standards.
Tal Daskal, EasySend's CEO stated, "The establishment of EasySend's presence in the important Japanese market will allow us to build relationships with many companies, including Japanese insurance companies and financial institutions. EasySend is a digitalization expert in the insurance and financial industries. EasySend shortens sales cycles, reduces manual work, and increases brand loyalty."
Akiyuki Matsuda, Data Business Group, DX Promotion Department, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc. said, "By using EasySend, we are smoothly digitizing our traditional paper-based operations without major changes to our workflow. The file upload function, check boxes, electronic signatures, and other useful tools have made implementation easy. We also feel that intuitive operations such as copy and paste and drag and drop allow us to develop sophisticatedly designed web flows without advanced digital skills," he said.
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Demo video for the solutions:https://ja.easysend.io/demo-video
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- Real Garant by Zurich - Changing a complex process into a streamlined digital journey, impacting the revenue https://ja.easysend.io/customer-stories/real-garant
- VGM - Achieved 5-year digitalization plan in 3 months
https://ja.easysend.io/customer-stories/vgm - Nürnberger -Built a digital journey in just 6 weeks and increase customer satisfaction https://ja.easysend.io/customer-stories/nurnberger
Partner program:https://ja.easysend.io/partner-program
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EasySend is a no-code platform that empowers organizations to transform complex forms, customer data intake and signature collection processes into easy digital experiences.
By collecting customer data and signatures in a way that seamlessly integrates into internal systems and processes, EasySend empowers organizations to automate workflows and streamline customer interactions. Learn more at easysend.io.
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Events are being held for Martin Luther King Jr. Day across the Tri-state over this holiday weekend.
A march and rally will be held at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. statue in Newark at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The People's Organization for Progress has held this "We Won't Go Back" event observing Dr. King's birthday for nearly 35 years.
"The forces racism, white supremacy, and fascism in this country are trying to drag us backward to an era before the Civil Rights Movement and even the New Deal. We are marching on January 15th to let them know that we won't go back," said POP's Chairman Lawrence Hamm.
Monday, the federal holiday dedicated to Dr. King's legacy will be marked by the colorful Empire State Building in NYC.
The building will pay tribute with its famous tower lights shining in red, black and green in honor of the civil rights icon.
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Chicago Butler's river of points eventually washed away Elmhurst Timothy Christian in a 49-29 cavalcade in Illinois girls basketball on Feb. 21.
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In collaboration with Levy and Legends, new checkout-free stores will offer the best fan experience available by eliminating lines and wait times for food and beverages
NASHVILLE, Tenn. and SAN MATEO, Calif., July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nissan Stadium and leading checkout-free technology platform, Zippin, today announced that five Zippin-powered stores will launch in time for the Tennessee Titans pre-season this summer. The stores will be operated by Levy and Legends, both restaurant and hospitality leaders, to offer frictionless shopping experiences on both the concourse and club levels.
"At Nissan Stadium we're always looking for ways to offer our fans the greatest level of convenience and ease of purchase," said Adam Nuse, Titans Senior Vice President of Business Operations. "Working with Zippin will offer our fans a quick and easy way to grab the food and drink items they need, and get back to enjoying Nashville's biggest stage: Nissan Stadium."
Zippin is the leading checkout-free platform deployed in stadiums and venues because of its high accuracy approach to frictionless shopping. The company delights shoppers by eliminating checkout lines, cutting the time it takes to get through concessions from an average of 20 minutes to as little as 20 seconds. The ROI and increased sales is positively changing the economics for venue operators who can now redirect staff to more profitable tasks, improve inventory management, and optimize revenue per square foot.
"Fans are demanding quick and easy access to top quality food and drink that enhances their experience at the stadium," said Gary Jacobus, SVP of Business Development. "Forward-looking venues like Nissan Stadium are fast adopting innovative technology, like Zippin's, and they recognize that the maximum ROI of checkout-free is fully realized with multiple stores located throughout the venue."
Nissan Stadium's checkout-free shopping will be available for the wide range of entertainment and other sporting events the multi-use venue welcomes every year. From WWE wrestling to concerts, the stadium contributes a big cultural and financial impact on Nashville.
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Zippin has developed the next generation of checkout-free technology, enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores. Our patent-pending approach uses AI, machine learning and sensor fusion technology to create the best consumer experience, banishing checkout lines and self-scanners for good, and letting shoppers zip in and out with their purchases. Zippin's technology is being used by retailers on four continents to power checkout-free experiences in their street-front retail stores, as well as stores, kiosks and concession stands in a wide variety of venues such as stadiums, offices, airports, train stations, hotels, convention centers and residential buildings. For more information, visit https://www.getzippin.com.
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LendingClub Reports Third Quarter 2022 Results Published: Oct. 26, 2022 at 3:06 PM CDT | Updated: 1 hour ago
Revenue Increased 24% Year Over Year to $304 .9 Million
Diluted Earnings Per Share Increased 58% Year Over Year to $0.41
Total Assets Grew 43% Year Over Year to $6 .8 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO , Oct. 26 , 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America's leading digital marketplace bank, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank, National Association, Member FDIC. LendingClub Bank is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S.(PRNewswire) "We delivered solid results as we leaned into the strategic advantages of our digital bank in the face of a less favorable economic environment. We drove growth in recurring interest income supported by strong credit performance of our retained high-quality prime loan portfolio," said Scott Sanborn , LendingClub CEO. "As we anticipated, marketplace volumes were impacted by higher funding costs for certain loan investors, driven by rapidly increasing interest rates. Over time, as rates stabilize and we continue to reprice personal loans, we expect this impact to gradually moderate. Our digital bank and other strategic advantages position us to continue to effectively navigate the evolving economy and to capitalize on attractive growth opportunities as they emerge."
Third Quarter 2022 Results
Loan originations were $3.5 billion, up 14% year over year. Total net revenue of $304.9 million grew 24% year over year, driven by growth in net interest income. Net interest income, a recurring stream of earnings for the company, increased 89% year over year to $123.7 million. Total loans held for investment (excluding PPP) grew 97% to $4.4 billion from September 30, 2021, reflecting growth in personal loan originations held for investment in the quarter of $1.2 billion, or 33% of total originations. Net interest margin expanded to 8.3% from 6.3% a year earlier, primarily reflecting a greater mix of personal loans which generate a higher yield than the rest of the loans held for investment. Marketplace revenue of $173.8 million remained flat year over year, roughly in line with marketplace sales as the company retained a higher percentage of loan originations to drive growth in recurring revenue. Deposits of $5.1 billion were up 80% from September 30, 2021, primarily reflecting growth in online savings deposits. Credit quality of the company's held-for-investment loan portfolio remained strong, with delinquency rates gradually normalizing as the portfolio seasons. The strong credit performance of the held-for-investment portfolio reflects the high quality credit profile of our borrowers with an average FICO of 730. Provision for credit losses of $82.7 million primarily reflects $1.2 billion of quarterly loan originations held for investment and loan portfolio growth of 97% year over year. The efficiency ratio improved to 61% from 73% in the third quarter of 2021 due to improved marketing efficiency, prudent management of non-marketing expenses and strong growth in net interest income. Net income of $43.2 million increased $16.0 million year over year. Net income for the third quarter of 2022 included an income tax benefit of $7.2 million. The earnings from the tax benefit enabled higher loan retention. Diluted earnings per share of $0.41 grew 58% year over year. The improvement from a year earlier primarily reflected revenue growth and improved operating efficiency, as well as a $0.05 per share benefit from the reversal of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. Total equity of $1.1 billion was up $316.6 million, or 39%, from September 30, 2021, primarily reflecting net income generated over the period and the release of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance. Book value per common share of $10.67 increased 32% from September 30, 2021. Tangible book value per common share of $9.78 increased 38% from September 30, 2021. Substantial capital with a consolidated Tier 1 leverage ratio of 15.7% and consolidated Common Equity Tier 1 capital ratio of 18.3%. Pre-tax, pre-provision income of $118.7 million increased 76% year over year, driven by revenue growth and improved operating efficiency.
Three Months Ended
($ in millions, except per share amounts)
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
September 30, 2021
Total net revenue
$ 304.9
$ 330.1
$ 246.2
Non-interest expense
186.2
209.4
178.8
Pre-tax, pre-provision income
118.7
120.7
67.4
Provision for credit losses
82.7
70.6
37.5
Income before income tax benefit (expense)
36.0
50.1
29.9
Income tax benefit (expense)
7.2
132.0
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Net income
$ 43.2
$ 182.1
$ 27.2
Diluted EPS
$ 0.41
$ 1.73
$ 0.26
Income tax benefit from release of tax valuation allowance
$ 5.0
$ 135.3
$ —
Net income excluding income tax benefit (1)
$ 38.2
$ 46.8
$ 27.2
Diluted EPS excluding income tax benefit (1)
$ 0.36
$ 0.45
$ 0.26
(1)
Third and second quarters of 2022 include income tax benefit of $5.0 million and $135.3 million, respectively, due to the release of a deferred tax asset valuation allowance. See page 3 of this release for additional information on our use of non-GAAP financial measures.
For a calculation of Net Income Excluding Income Tax Benefit, Diluted EPS Excluding Income Tax Benefit, and Tangible Book Value Per Common Share, refer to the "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures " tables at the end of this release.
The company provided full year net revenue and net income guidance for 2022.
Fourth Quarter
2022
Full Year
2022
Total net revenue
$255M to $265M
$1,180M to $1,190M
Net income
$15M to $25M
$280M to $290M
LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC) is the parent company of LendingClub Bank, National Association, Member FDIC. LendingClub Bank is the leading digital marketplace bank in the U.S., where members can access a broad range of financial products and services designed to help them pay less when borrowing and earn more when saving. Based on more than 150 billion cells of data and over $80 billion in loans, our advanced credit decisioning and machine-learning models are used across the customer lifecycle to expand seamless access to credit for our members, while generating compelling risk-adjusted returns for our loan investors. Since 2007, more than 4 million members have joined the Club to help reach their financial goals. For more information about LendingClub, visit https://www.lendingclub.com .
Conference Call and Webcast Information
The LendingClub third quarter 2022 webcast and teleconference is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. A live webcast of the call will be available at http://ir.lendingclub.com under the Filings & Financials menu in Quarterly Results. To access the call, please dial +1 (844) 200-6205, or outside the U.S. +1 (929) 526-1599, with Access Code 659586, ten minutes prior to 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (or 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). An audio archive of the call will be available at http://ir.lendingclub.com . An audio replay will also be available 1 hour after the end of the call until November 2, 2022, by calling +1 (866) 813-9403 or outside the U.S. +44 (204) 525-0658, with Access Code 037801. LendingClub has used, and intends to use, its investor relations website, blog (http://blog.lendingclub.com ), Twitter handle (@LendingClub) and Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/LendingClubTeam ) as a means of disclosing material non-public information and to comply with its disclosure obligations under Regulation FD.
Contacts For Investors:IR@lendingclub.com
Media Contact:Press@lendingclub.com
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use the following non-GAAP financial measures: Net Income Excluding Income Tax Benefit, Diluted EPS Excluding Income Tax Benefit, and Tangible Book Value Per Common Share. Our non-GAAP financial measures do have limitations as analytical tools and you should not consider them in isolation or as a substitute for an analysis of our results under GAAP.
We believe these non-GAAP financial measures provide management and investors with useful supplemental information about the financial performance of our business, enable comparison of financial results between periods where certain items may vary independent of business performance, and enable comparison of our financial results with other public companies.
We believe Net Income Excluding Income Tax Benefit and Diluted EPS Excluding Income Tax Benefit are important measures because they reflect the financial performance of our business operations. Net Income Excluding Income Tax Benefit adjusts for the release of a deferred tax asset valuation allowance in the third and second quarters of 2022. Diluted EPS Excluding Income Tax Benefit is a non-GAAP financial measure calculated by dividing Net Income Excluding Income Tax Benefit by the weighted-average diluted common shares outstanding.
We believe Tangible Book Value (TBV) Per Common Share is an important measure used to evaluate the company's use of equity. TBV Per Common Share is a non-GAAP financial measure representing common equity reduced by goodwill and intangible assets, divided by ending common shares issued and outstanding.
For a reconciliation of such measures to the nearest GAAP measures, please refer to the tables on page 16 of this release.
Some of the statements above, including statements regarding our competitive advantages, macroeconomic outlook, anticipated future performance and financial results, are "forward-looking statements." The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "outlook," "plan," "predict," "project," "will," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements include: our ability to continue to attract and retain new and existing customers; competition; overall economic conditions; the regulatory environment; demand for the types of loans facilitated by us; default rates and those factors set forth in the section titled "Risk Factors" in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as in our subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in forward-looking statements. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION OPERATING HIGHLIGHTS (In thousands, except percentages or as noted) (Unaudited)
As of and for the three months ended
% Change
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
September 30, 2021
Q/Q
Y/Y
Operating Highlights:
Non-interest income
$ 181,237
$ 213,832
$ 189,857
$ 179,111
$ 180,878
(15) %
— %
Net interest income
123,676
116,226
99,680
83,132
65,288
6 %
89 %
Total net revenue
304,913
330,058
289,537
262,243
246,166
(8) %
24 %
Non-interest expense
186,219
209,386
191,204
188,220
178,775
(11) %
4 %
Pre-tax, pre-provision income
118,694
120,672
98,333
74,023
67,391
(2) %
76 %
Provision for credit losses
82,739
70,566
52,509
45,149
37,524
17 %
120 %
Income before income tax benefit (expense)
35,955
50,106
45,824
28,874
29,867
(28) %
20 %
Income tax benefit (expense)
7,243
131,954
(4,988)
234
(2,682)
N/M
N/M
Net income
43,198
182,060
40,836
29,108
27,185
(76) %
59 %
Income tax benefit from release of tax valuation allowance
5,015
135,300
—
—
—
N/M
N/M
Net income excluding income tax benefit(1)(2)
$ 38,183
$ 46,760
$ 40,836
$ 29,108
$ 27,185
(18) %
40 %
Basic EPS – common stockholders
$ 0.41
$ 1.77
$ 0.40
$ 0.29
$ 0.27
(77) %
52 %
Diluted EPS – common stockholders
$ 0.41
$ 1.73
$ 0.39
$ 0.27
$ 0.26
(76) %
58 %
Diluted EPS excluding income tax benefit(1)(2)
$ 0.36
$ 0.45
$ 0.39
$ 0.27
$ 0.26
(20) %
38 %
LendingClub Corporation Performance Metrics:
Net interest margin
8.3 %
8.5 %
8.3 %
7.6 %
6.3 %
Efficiency ratio(3)
61.1 %
63.4 %
66.0 %
71.8 %
72.6 %
Return on average equity (ROE)
14.2 %
33.8 %
18.7 %
14.1 %
13.8 %
Return on average total assets (ROA)
2.5 %
5.5 %
3.1 %
2.4 %
2.4 %
Marketing expense as a % of loan originations
1.3 %
1.6 %
1.7 %
1.7 %
1.6 %
LendingClub Corporation Capital Metrics:
Common Equity Tier 1 Capital Ratio
18.3 %
20.0 %
20.6 %
21.3 %
22.8 %
Tier 1 Leverage Ratio
15.7 %
16.2 %
15.6 %
16.5 %
16.2 %
Book Value per Common Share
$ 10.67
$ 10.41
$ 8.68
$ 8.41
$ 8.07
2 %
32 %
Tangible Book Value per Common Share(2)
$ 9.78
$ 9.50
$ 7.75
$ 7.46
$ 7.08
3 %
38 %
Loan originations (in millions)(4) :
Total loan originations
$ 3,539
$ 3,840
$ 3,217
$ 3,069
$ 3,107
(8) %
14 %
Marketplace loans
$ 2,386
$ 2,819
$ 2,360
$ 2,308
$ 2,471
(15) %
(3) %
Loan originations held for investment
$ 1,153
$ 1,021
$ 856
$ 761
$ 636
13 %
81 %
Loan originations held for investment as a % of total loan originations
33 %
27 %
27 %
25 %
20 %
Servicing portfolio AUM (in millions)(5) :
Total servicing portfolio
$ 15,929
$ 14,783
$ 13,341
$ 12,463
$ 11,592
8 %
37 %
Loans serviced for others
$ 11,807
$ 11,382
$ 10,475
$ 10,124
$ 9,744
4 %
21 %
Balance Sheet Data:
Loans and leases held for investment, net, excluding PPP loans
$ 4,414,347
$ 3,692,667
$ 3,049,325
$ 2,486,440
$ 2,235,698
20 %
97 %
PPP loans
$ 89,379
$ 118,794
$ 184,986
$ 268,297
$ 367,558
(25) %
(76) %
Total loans and leases held for investment, net
$ 4,503,726
$ 3,811,461
$ 3,234,311
$ 2,754,737
$ 2,603,256
18 %
73 %
Total assets
$ 6,775,074
$ 6,186,765
$ 5,574,425
$ 4,900,319
$ 4,750,760
10 %
43 %
Total deposits
$ 5,123,506
$ 4,527,672
$ 3,977,477
$ 3,135,788
$ 2,838,719
13 %
80 %
Total liabilities
$ 5,653,664
$ 5,107,648
$ 4,686,991
$ 4,050,077
$ 3,945,970
11 %
43 %
Total equity
$ 1,121,410
$ 1,079,117
$ 887,434
$ 850,242
$ 804,790
4 %
39 %
Allowance Ratios:
Allowance for loan and lease losses to total loans and leases held for investment
6.3 %
6.0 %
5.5 %
5.0 %
3.9 %
Allowance for loan and lease losses to total loans and leases held for investment, excluding PPP loans
6.4 %
6.2 %
5.8 %
5.5 %
4.5 %
Allowance for loan and lease losses to consumer loans and leases held for investment
7.2 %
6.9 %
6.6 %
6.4 %
5.2 %
Allowance for loan and lease losses to commercial loans and leases held for investment
1.9 %
2.0 %
1.8 %
1.8 %
1.6 %
Allowance for loan and lease losses to commercial loans and leases held for investment, excluding PPP loans
2.2 %
2.3 %
2.3 %
2.6 %
2.6 %
N/M
– Not meaningful
N/A
– Not applicable
(1)
Excludes third and second quarter 2022 income tax benefit of $5.0 million and $135.3 million, respectively, due to the release of a deferred tax asset valuation allowance.
(2)
Represents a non-GAAP financial measure. See "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures. "
(3)
Calculated as the ratio of non-interest expense to total net revenue.
(4)
Includes unsecured personal loans, auto loans, and education and patient finance loans only.
(5)
Loans serviced on our platform, which includes unsecured personal loans, auto loans and education and patient finance loans serviced for others and held for investment by the company.
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION LOANS AND LEASES HELD FOR INVESTMENT (In thousands) (Unaudited)
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
Unsecured personal
$ 3,642,254
$ 1,804,578
Residential mortgages
197,776
151,362
Secured consumer
180,768
65,976
Total consumer loans held for investment
4,020,798
2,021,916
Equipment finance (1)
167,447
149,155
Commercial real estate
372,406
310,399
Commercial and industrial (2)
246,276
417,656
Total commercial loans and leases held for investment
786,129
877,210
Total loans and leases held for investment
4,806,927
2,899,126
Allowance for loan and lease losses
(303,201)
(144,389)
Loans and leases held for investment, net
$ 4,503,726
$ 2,754,737
(1)
Comprised of sales-type leases for equipment.
(2)
Includes $89.4 million and $268.3 million of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans as of September 30, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Such loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Association and, therefore, the Company determined no allowance for expected credit losses is required on these loans.
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION ALLOWANCE FOR LOAN AND LEASE LOSSES (In thousands) (Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
Consumer
Commercial
Total
Consumer
Commercial
Total
Allowance for loan and lease losses, beginning of period
$ 228,184
$ 15,076
$ 243,260
$ 173,857
$ 14,128
$ 187,985
Credit loss expense for loans and leases held for investment
81,935
664
82,599
68,314
1,739
70,053
Charge-offs
(22,944)
(784)
(23,728)
(14,707)
(1,145)
(15,852)
Recoveries
963
107
1,070
720
354
1,074
Allowance for loan and lease losses, end of period
$ 288,138
$ 15,063
$ 303,201
$ 228,184
$ 15,076
$ 243,260
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2021
Consumer
Commercial
Total
Allowance for loan and lease losses, beginning of period
$ 54,058
$ 17,023
$ 71,081
Credit loss expense for loans and leases held for investment
37,695
(562)
37,133
Charge-offs
(3,142)
(1,194)
(4,336)
Recoveries
20
838
858
Allowance for loan and lease losses, end of period
$ 88,631
$ 16,105
$ 104,736
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME (In thousands, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)
Three Months Ended
Change (%)
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
September 30, 2021
Q3 2022
vs
Q3 2021
Q3 2022
vs
Q2 2022
Non-interest income:
Marketplace revenue (1)
$ 173,837
$ 206,384
$ 174,556
— %
(16) %
Other non-interest income
7,400
7,448
6,322
17 %
(1) %
Total non-interest income
181,237
213,832
180,878
— %
(15) %
Interest income:
Interest on loans held for sale
5,879
7,130
8,536
(31) %
(18) %
Interest and fees on loans and leases held for investment
124,028
108,911
57,644
115 %
14 %
Interest on retail and certificate loans held for investment at fair value
3,685
5,091
12,172
(70) %
(28) %
Interest on other loans held for investment at fair value
791
631
973
(19) %
25 %
Interest on securities available for sale
3,820
4,426
3,180
20 %
(14) %
Other interest income
5,017
2,279
355
N/M
120 %
Total interest income
143,220
128,468
82,860
73 %
11 %
Interest expense:
Interest on deposits
15,184
6,078
1,899
700 %
150 %
Interest on short-term borrowings
87
417
849
(90) %
(79) %
Interest on retail notes, certificates and secured borrowings
3,685
5,091
12,172
(70) %
(28) %
Interest on Structured Program borrowings
225
360
2,120
(89) %
(38) %
Interest on other long-term debt
363
296
532
(32) %
23 %
Total interest expense
19,544
12,242
17,572
11 %
60 %
Net interest income
123,676
116,226
65,288
89 %
6 %
Total net revenue
304,913
330,058
246,166
24 %
(8) %
Provision for credit losses
82,739
70,566
37,524
120 %
17 %
Non-interest expense:
Compensation and benefits
84,916
85,103
73,304
16 %
— %
Marketing
46,031
61,497
50,782
(9) %
(25) %
Equipment and software
12,491
12,461
10,297
21 %
— %
Occupancy
5,051
6,209
6,486
(22) %
(19) %
Depreciation and amortization
10,681
10,557
10,549
1 %
1 %
Professional services
11,943
16,138
11,750
2 %
(26) %
Other non-interest expense
15,106
17,421
15,607
(3) %
(13) %
Total non-interest expense
186,219
209,386
178,775
4 %
(11) %
Income before income tax benefit (expense)
35,955
50,106
29,867
20 %
(28) %
Income tax benefit (expense)
7,243
131,954
(2,682)
N/M
N/M
Net income
$ 43,198
$ 182,060
$ 27,185
59 %
(76) %
Net income per share:
Basic EPS – common stockholders
$ 0.41
$ 1.77
$ 0.27
52 %
(77) %
Diluted EPS – common stockholders
$ 0.41
$ 1.73
$ 0.26
58 %
(76) %
Weighted-average common shares – Basic
104,215,594
102,776,867
99,073,507
5 %
1 %
Weighted-average common shares – Diluted
105,853,938
105,042,626
106,108,662
— %
1 %
N/M
– Not meaningful
(1)
Marketplace revenue consists of the following:
Three Months Ended
Change (%)
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
September 30, 2021
Q3 2022
vs
Q3 2021
Q3 2022
vs
Q2 2022
Origination fees
$ 127,142
$ 149,252
$ 129,125
(2) %
(15) %
Servicing fees
23,760
18,166
20,819
14 %
31 %
Gain on sales of loans
23,554
29,319
21,907
8 %
(20) %
Net fair value adjustments
(619)
9,647
2,705
(123) %
(106) %
Total marketplace revenue
$ 173,837
$ 206,384
$ 174,556
— %
(16) %
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS BY SEGMENT (In Thousands) (Unaudited)
LendingClub
Bank
LendingClub
Corporation
(Parent only)
Intercompany
Eliminations
Total
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
Assets
Total cash and cash equivalents
$ 896,519
$ 659,919
$ 109,200
$ 88,268
$ (52,878)
$ (61,061)
$ 952,841
$ 687,126
Restricted cash
—
—
78,746
76,540
(12,461)
(80)
66,285
76,460
Securities available for sale at fair value
338,096
205,730
21,061
57,800
—
—
359,157
263,530
Loans held for sale
90,058
335,449
—
55,799
—
—
90,058
391,248
Loans and leases held for investment, net
4,503,726
2,754,737
—
—
—
—
4,503,726
2,754,737
Retail and certificate loans held for investment at fair value
—
—
87,144
229,719
—
—
87,144
229,719
Other loans held for investment at fair value
—
—
15,057
21,240
—
—
15,057
21,240
Property, equipment and software, net
89,576
36,424
40,381
61,572
—
—
129,957
97,996
Investment in subsidiary
—
—
671,574
557,577
(671,574)
(557,577)
—
—
Goodwill
75,717
75,717
—
—
—
—
75,717
75,717
Other assets
305,456
254,075
207,556
168,042
(17,880)
(119,571)
495,132
302,546
Total assets
6,299,148
4,322,051
1,230,719
1,316,557
(754,793)
(738,289)
6,775,074
4,900,319
Liabilities and Equity
Total deposits
5,188,845
3,196,929
—
—
(65,339)
(61,141)
5,123,506
3,135,788
Short-term borrowings
165
165
4,638
27,615
—
—
4,803
27,780
Advances from PPPLF
91,671
271,933
—
—
—
—
91,671
271,933
Retail notes, certificates and secured borrowings at fair value
—
—
87,144
229,719
—
—
87,144
229,719
Payable on Structured Program borrowings
—
—
11,185
65,451
—
—
11,185
65,451
Other long-term debt
—
—
15,300
15,455
—
—
15,300
15,455
Other liabilities
205,814
218,775
132,121
150,727
(17,880)
(65,551)
320,055
303,951
Total liabilities
5,486,495
3,687,802
250,388
488,967
(83,219)
(126,692)
5,653,664
4,050,077
Total equity
812,653
634,249
980,331
827,590
(671,574)
(611,597)
1,121,410
850,242
Total liabilities and equity
$ 6,299,148
$ 4,322,051
$ 1,230,719
$ 1,316,557
$ (754,793)
$ (738,289)
$ 6,775,074
$ 4,900,319
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME BY SEGMENT (In thousands) (Unaudited)
Three Months Ended September 30, 2022
LendingClub
Bank
LendingClub
Corporation
(Parent only)
Intercompany
Eliminations
Total
Non-interest income:
Marketplace revenue
$ 153,504
$ 9,015
$ 11,318
$ 173,837
Other non-interest income
25,240
4,794
(22,634)
7,400
Total non-interest income
178,744
13,809
(11,316)
181,237
Interest income:
Interest income
137,142
6,078
—
143,220
Interest expense
(15,277)
(4,267)
—
(19,544)
Net interest income
121,865
1,811
—
123,676
Total net revenue
300,609
15,620
(11,316)
304,913
Provision for credit losses
(82,739)
—
—
(82,739)
Non-interest expense
(177,714)
(19,821)
11,316
(186,219)
Income (Loss) before income tax benefit (expense)
40,156
(4,201)
—
35,955
Income tax benefit (expense)
(9,440)
16,683
—
7,243
Net income
$ 30,716
$ 12,482
$ —
$ 43,198
Three Months Ended June 30, 2022
LendingClub
Bank
LendingClub
Corporation
(Parent only)
Intercompany
Eliminations
Total
Non-interest income:
Marketplace revenue
$ 191,087
$ 11,167
$ 4,130
$ 206,384
Other non-interest income
20,041
3,914
(16,507)
7,448
Total non-interest income
211,128
15,081
(12,377)
213,832
Interest income:
Interest income
120,152
8,316
—
128,468
Interest expense
(6,213)
(6,029)
—
(12,242)
Net interest income
113,939
2,287
—
116,226
Total net revenue
325,067
17,368
(12,377)
330,058
Provision for credit losses
(70,566)
—
—
(70,566)
Non-interest expense
(196,636)
(25,127)
12,377
(209,386)
Income (Loss) before income tax benefit (expense)
57,865
(7,759)
—
50,106
Income tax benefit (expense)
(17,318)
85,864
63,408
131,954
Net income
$ 40,547
$ 78,105
$ 63,408
$ 182,060
Three Months Ended September 30, 2021
LendingClub
Bank
LendingClub
Corporation
(Parent only)
Intercompany
Eliminations
Total
Non-interest income:
Marketplace revenue
$ 151,109
$ 23,447
$ —
$ 174,556
Other non-interest income
25,393
4,140
(23,211)
6,322
Total non-interest income
176,502
27,587
(23,211)
180,878
Interest income:
Interest income
64,606
18,254
—
82,860
Interest expense
(2,270)
(15,302)
—
(17,572)
Net interest income
62,336
2,952
—
65,288
Total net revenue
238,838
30,539
(23,211)
246,166
(Provision for) reversal of credit losses
(38,019)
495
—
(37,524)
Non-interest expense
(161,101)
(40,885)
23,211
(178,775)
Income (Loss) before income tax benefit (expense)
39,718
(9,851)
—
29,867
Income tax benefit (expense)
(4,670)
12,607
(10,619)
(2,682)
Net income
$ 35,048
$ 2,756
$ (10,619)
$ 27,185
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION NET INTEREST INCOME (In thousands, except percentages or as noted) (Unaudited)
Consolidated LendingClub Corporation (1)
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2022
Three Months Ended
June 30, 2022
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2021
Average Balance
Interest Income/ Expense
Average Yield/ Rate
Average Balance
Interest Income/ Expense
Average Yield/ Rate
Average Balance
Interest Income/ Expense
Average Yield/ Rate
Interest-earning assets (2)
Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and other
$ 893,655
$ 5,017
2.25 %
$ 1,023,192
$ 2,279
0.89 %
$ 778,667
$ 355
0.18 %
Securities available for sale at fair value
396,556
3,820
3.85 %
409,327
4,426
4.32 %
266,686
3,180
4.77 %
Loans held for sale
126,487
5,879
18.59 %
156,503
7,130
18.22 %
226,422
8,536
15.08 %
Loans and leases held for investment:
Unsecured personal loans
3,268,649
110,446
13.52 %
2,692,148
95,529
14.19 %
991,297
39,532
15.95 %
Secured consumer loans
337,191
3,039
3.60 %
268,091
2,351
3.51 %
464,194
4,688
4.04 %
Commercial loans and leases
692,783
9,262
5.35 %
644,002
8,732
5.42 %
616,823
7,887
5.11 %
PPP loans
105,500
1,281
4.86 %
149,454
2,299
6.15 %
436,785
5,537
5.07 %
Loans and leases held for investment
4,404,123
124,028
11.26 %
3,753,695
108,911
11.61 %
2,509,099
57,644
9.19 %
Retail and certificate loans held for investment at fair value
104,010
3,685
14.17 %
144,613
5,091
14.08 %
344,205
12,172
14.15 %
Other loans held for investment at fair value
17,763
791
17.83 %
16,991
631
14.85 %
30,981
973
12.58 %
Total interest-earning assets
5,942,594
143,220
9.64 %
5,504,321
128,468
9.34 %
4,156,060
82,860
7.97 %
Cash and due from banks and restricted cash
58,411
75,517
96,733
Allowance for loan and lease losses
(254,849)
(202,904)
(86,686)
Other non-interest earning assets
597,169
490,412
449,964
Total assets
$ 6,343,325
$ 5,867,346
$ 4,616,071
Interest-bearing liabilities
Interest-bearing deposits:
Checking and money market accounts
$ 2,192,904
$ 4,575
0.83 %
$ 2,463,710
$ 2,664
0.43 %
$ 2,221,365
$ 1,707
0.30 %
Savings accounts and certificates of deposit
2,260,170
10,609
1.86 %
1,555,607
3,414
0.88 %
307,807
192
0.25 %
Interest-bearing deposits
4,453,074
15,184
1.35 %
4,019,317
6,078
0.61 %
2,529,172
1,899
0.30 %
Short-term borrowings
6,848
87
5.09 %
10,874
417
15.35 %
57,224
849
5.93 %
Advances from PPPLF
104,897
93
0.36 %
151,278
135
0.36 %
416,748
371
0.36 %
Retail notes, certificates and secured borrowings
104,010
3,685
14.17 %
144,613
5,091
14.08 %
344,087
12,172
14.15 %
Structured Program borrowings
13,859
225
6.50 %
18,439
360
7.81 %
100,178
2,120
8.46 %
Other long-term debt
15,300
270
7.04 %
15,357
161
4.20 %
15,606
161
4.13 %
Total interest-bearing liabilities
4,697,988
19,544
1.65 %
4,359,878
12,242
1.12 %
3,463,015
17,572
2.03 %
Non-interest bearing deposits
284,134
292,750
81,491
Other liabilities
250,086
261,796
285,292
Total liabilities
$ 5,232,208
$ 4,914,424
$ 3,829,798
Total equity
$ 1,111,117
$ 952,922
$ 786,273
Total liabilities and equity
$ 6,343,325
$ 5,867,346
$ 4,616,071
Interest rate spread
7.99 %
8.21 %
5.95 %
Net interest income and net interest margin
$ 123,676
8.32 %
$ 116,226
8.45 %
$ 65,288
6.28 %
(1)
Consolidated presentation reflects intercompany eliminations.
(2)
Nonaccrual loans and any related income are included in their respective loan categories.
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (In Thousands, Except Share and Per Share Amounts) (Unaudited)
September 30, 2022
December 31, 2021
Assets
Cash and due from banks
$ 23,211
$ 35,670
Interest-bearing deposits in banks
929,630
651,456
Total cash and cash equivalents
952,841
687,126
Restricted cash
66,285
76,460
Securities available for sale at fair value ($415,726 and $256,170 at amortized cost, respectively)
359,157
263,530
Loans held for sale (includes $90,058 and $142,370 at fair value, respectively)
90,058
391,248
Loans and leases held for investment
4,806,927
2,899,126
Allowance for loan and lease losses
(303,201)
(144,389)
Loans and leases held for investment, net
4,503,726
2,754,737
Retail and certificate loans held for investment at fair value
87,144
229,719
Other loans held for investment at fair value
15,057
21,240
Property, equipment and software, net
129,957
97,996
Goodwill
75,717
75,717
Other assets
495,132
302,546
Total assets
$ 6,775,074
$ 4,900,319
Liabilities and Equity
Deposits:
Interest-bearing
$ 4,868,132
$ 2,919,203
Noninterest-bearing
255,374
216,585
Total deposits
5,123,506
3,135,788
Short-term borrowings
4,803
27,780
Advances from Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility (PPPLF)
91,671
271,933
Retail notes, certificates and secured borrowings at fair value
87,144
229,719
Payable on Structured Program borrowings
11,185
65,451
Other long-term debt
15,300
15,455
Other liabilities
320,055
303,951
Total liabilities
5,653,664
4,050,077
Equity
Series A Preferred stock, $0.01 par value; 1,200,000 shares authorized; 0 shares issued and outstanding
—
—
Common stock, $0.01 par value; 180,000,000 shares authorized; 105,088,761 and 101,043,924 shares issued and outstanding, respectively
1,051
1,010
Additional paid-in capital
1,611,627
1,559,616
Accumulated deficit
(451,336)
(717,430)
Treasury stock, at cost; 7,751 and 0 shares, respectively
(98)
—
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)
(39,834)
7,046
Total equity
1,121,410
850,242
Total liabilities and equity
$ 6,775,074
$ 4,900,319
LENDINGCLUB CORPORATION RECONCILIATION OF GAAP TO NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES (In thousands, except share and per share data) (Unaudited)
As of and for the three months ended
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
September 30, 2021
GAAP Net income
$ 43,198
$ 182,060
$ 40,836
$ 29,108
$ 27,185
Income tax benefit from release of tax valuation allowance
5,015
135,300
—
—
—
Net income excluding income tax benefit
$ 38,183
$ 46,760
$ 40,836
$ 29,108
$ 27,185
GAAP Diluted EPS – common stockholders
$ 0.41
$ 1.73
$ 0.39
$ 0.27
$ 0.26
(A)
Income tax benefit from release of tax valuation allowance
$ 5,015
$ 135,300
(B)
Weighted-average common shares – Diluted
105,853,938
105,042,626
(A/B)
Diluted EPS impact of income tax benefit
$ 0.05
$ 1.29
Diluted EPS excluding income tax benefit
$ 0.36
$ 0.44
$ 0.39
$ 0.27
$ 0.26
September 30, 2022
June 30, 2022
March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
September 30, 2021
GAAP common equity
$ 1,121,410
$ 1,079,117
$ 887,434
$ 850,242
$ 804,790
Less: Goodwill
(75,717)
(75,717)
(75,717)
(75,717)
(75,717)
Less: Intangible assets
(17,512)
(18,690)
(19,886)
(21,181)
(22,521)
Tangible common equity
$ 1,028,181
$ 984,710
$ 791,831
$ 753,344
$ 706,552
Book value per common share
GAAP common equity
$ 1,121,410
$ 1,079,117
$ 887,434
$ 850,242
$ 804,790
Common shares issued and outstanding
105,088,761
103,630,776
102,194,037
101,043,924
99,782,192
Book value per common share
$ 10.67
$ 10.41
$ 8.68
$ 8.41
$ 8.07
Tangible book value per common share
Tangible common equity
$ 1,028,181
$ 984,710
$ 791,831
$ 753,344
$ 706,552
Common shares issued and outstanding
105,088,761
103,630,776
102,194,037
101,043,924
99,782,192
Tangible book value per common share
$ 9.78
$ 9.50
$ 7.75
$ 7.46
$ 7.08
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HOUSTON and LONDON, March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) will host a Capital Markets Day on Tuesday, March 14 from 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT. CEO Peter Vanacker and members of the Executive Committee will present the company's long-term strategy to drive shareholder value, business objectives, capital allocation priorities and financial outlook.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Tony Gonsolin couldn't really control his splitter. His slider wasn't working for him, and he didn't command his curve the way he would have liked, either.
One thing he had going for him? His ability to work through it and come away with yet another win.
Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.
Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning, and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto. That was all Gonsolin needed.
“It's just a pro outing, another quality start for Tony," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
Gonsolin struck out five and walked one while lowering his National League-best ERA to 1.58.
The 28-year-old right-hander breezed through the first three innings and got out of a minor spot in the fourth before Jake Burger homered leading off the fifth. The next two batters reached base, but Gonsolin got out of it without allowing another run. He finished strong by retiring all three batters in the sixth, before Roberts went to the bullpen.
“It felt good,” Gonsolin said. “I felt like I had a better feel for my stuff in that inning. I was ready to go out for the seventh.”
Yency Almonte and Brusdar Graterol each worked an inning. Daniel Hudson came on in the ninth for his fifth save in five chances, filling in with closer Craig Kimbrel on paternity leave.
Trea Turner homered leading off the ninth against José Ruiz, and the NL West-leading Dodgers stopped a three-game slide.
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Cueto (0-3) dropped his third straight start. The two-time All-Star went six innings, allowing three runs and four hits, and Chicago’s three-game win streak ended.
“Our offense got shut down and there were some at-bats that were not fun to take," manager Tony La Russa said. "I know the guys aren’t happy with them.”
STRIKING EARLY
Shut down by Michael Kopech in a 4-0 loss on Tuesday, the Dodgers quickly went ahead against Cueto.
They scored two in the first when Turner blooped a two-out single and Smith drove the next pitch to left.
Bellinger made it 3-0 when he led off the second with a shot to right.
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A roundup of the week's most newsworthy technology industry press releases from PR Newswire, including humans' struggle to identify AI-generated content and a new laser weapon for the Air Force.
NEW YORK, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the business technology industry stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Match Launches New Feature Designed to Combat Dating App Burnout
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The palletized laser weapon, aimed at protecting people and assets against short-range aerial threats, passed the Air Force's Test and Assessment plan. This included multiple days of live-fire exercises to acquire, target, track and destroy drone targets in short-range attack, swarm attack, and long-range threat scenarios. - New EY Consulting survey finds eight out of nine employees see value in emerging technologies that they say senior leaders are too slow to embrace
The Emerging Tech at Work Survey asked more than 1,000 US employees about their familiarity with and expected impact of 12 emerging technologies — including artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML), augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR), digital twin, edge and quantum computing, and biometrics, among others. - Surprising New Study Reveals Humans Struggle to Spot AI-Generated Content, says Nexcess
Success rates varied by participants' ages. Younger generations tended to be more successful at detecting AI. Participants in the 18-24 age bracket answered correctly 61% of the time, compared to 51% of 45-54 year olds. - Lumen, Google and Microsoft create new on-demand, optical interconnection ecosystem
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An AI-driven study solution that empowers students with learning differences, including dyslexia and ADHD, to effectively read and learn – is now equipped with new Translation and Dictionary features. - SyncWords Launches the World's First Platform for In-player Live AI Captioning, Subtitling, and Dubbing
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EvolveMe now lets teens from across the U.S. enter drawings for a chance to win $5,000 weekly, as well as a one-time $7,500 bonus prize to help advance their postsecondary education and career interests
BOSTON, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- American Student Assistance® (ASA), a national nonprofit changing the way kids learn about careers and navigate a path to postsecondary education and career success, today announced its EvolveMe™ Weekly Drawing Program, which incentivizes young people nationwide to complete tasks that help them plan for their futures through weekly drawings that end on September 29, 2023. EvolveMe is part of ASA's free suite of digital experiences designed to help teens gain awareness of education pathways and career possibilities that match their interests; increase access to valuable, durable, and transferable skill sets; and give them the confidence they need to navigate a path to success after high school. The sweepstakes will randomly select 26 weekly winners (two per week over the course of 13 weeks), each winning a prize valued at $5,000. The program also includes a one-time bonus cash prize drawing – open only to those who did not win a weekly drawing – valued at $7,500.
The program is open only to legal residents of all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia – ages 13-19 years – as of time/date of entry. They must also be eligible participants in the EvolveMe platform, where participants earn virtual points for completing activities that advance their postsecondary education and career interests. Qualified teens may participate in the sweepstakes, so long as they have accumulated enough points in EvolveMe and have permission from their parent or legal guardian to participate. Participating minors will need to show that they have permission from their parent or legal guardian to formally accept the prize if they are selected as a potential winner.
Prizes may be used for any educational purpose toward the winner's postsecondary education or career path. For instance, teens can use cash prizes to complete a career and technical education (CTE)-related course, attend a summer computer coding camp, purchase a computer, buy school supplies or textbooks, or cover transportation and clothing expenses for work-based learning opportunities like internships, apprenticeships, or job-shadowing.
"Research tells us that less than half of survey respondents who identified as members of Generation Z said they had enough information to decide what post-high school pathway was best for them. As part of ASA's mission to help middle and high schoolers make informed, confident decisions about their futures, we are incentivizing millions of teens to explore, experiment, and complete tasks that advance their postsecondary education and career interests," said Clay Colarusso, CMO and SVP Digital Strategy of ASA. "Highly engaging digital tools and game-like digital experiences such as EvolveMe – co-created with input from thousands of young people – truly makes developing skills to prepare for a successful life after high school fun and exciting."
To enter the Weekly Drawing, teens can visit https://evolveme.asa.org and log in or create an account. Once they have accrued enough points for an entry (1,000 points), they can navigate to the rewards page, complete, and submit an official entry form. The complete entry rules can be found here.
More about EvolveMe
The EvolveMe platform enables teens to discover high-quality, credible career experimentation activities including virtual work-based learning opportunities, mock job interviews, and mentorships; complete tasks; and develop transferable skills they can apply to any job. Then, they can earn, collect, and redeem points for rewards. Teens are rewarded for completing tasks under the categories of Life Skills, Experimenting with Jobs, Building Your Network, and Career Quizzes. These tasks involve activities, such as watching videos and taking quizzes, playing games, and completing mini-lessons or quests. For tasks completed, teens earn points which they can redeem for entries to the Weekly Drawing or for gift cards to their favorite retail, restaurant, and entertainment brands. They can also track their progress and accomplishments through fun and dynamic visuals with the platform. For instance, they can see their personal tree grow as it sprouts unique flowers and creatures each time they complete an activity.
ASA's free suite of digital experiences, which engaged and impacted more than 12 million teens in 2022, also includes Future Network™, a series of original videos that spans five categories and follows Gen Z as they explore and learn about different careers from industry professionals; Futurescape®, a mobile-first experience that enables career exploration aligned with teens' interests; and Next Voice™, a digital youth advocacy platform that empowers kids with the durable skills they need to effectively make change for the issues and causes that impact their futures.
About American Student Assistance® (ASA)
American Student Assistance® (ASA) is a national nonprofit changing the way kids learn about careers and navigate a path to postsecondary education and career success. ASA believes all students should have equitable access to career readiness learning, starting in middle school, so they will be equipped to make informed, confident decisions about their futures. ASA fulfills its mission by providing free digital-first experiences, including Futurescape® and Next Voice™, and EvolveMe™, directly to millions of students, and through impact investing and philanthropic support for educators, intermediaries, and others. To learn more about ASA, visit www.asa.org/about-asa.
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ROME (AP) — The Vatican pushed back hard Friday at “slanderous” insinuations against St. John Paul II that were aired following the reopening of an investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee.
The kerfuffle erupted after Emanuela Orlandi’s brother, Pietro, spent eight hours meeting Tuesday with Vatican prosecutors, who earlier this year reopened the dormant investigation into Emanuela’s disappearance. The Vatican probe has coincided with the recent decision by Italy’s parliament to open a parliamentary commission of inquest into the case, giving the Orlandi family hope that the truth might finally emerge.
Emanuela Orlandi, 15, vanished June 22, 1983, after leaving her family’s Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See.
Her disappearance has been one of the Vatican’s enduring mysteries, and over the years has been linked to everything from the plot to kill John Paul, a financial scandal involving the Vatican bank and Rome’s criminal underworld.
The recent four-part Netflix documentary “Vatican Girl” explored those scenarios and also provided new testimony from a friend who said Emanuela had told her a week before she disappeared that a high-ranking Vatican cleric had made sexual advances toward her.
Pietro Orlandi has long insisted the Vatican knows more than it has said and has welcomed the reopening of the probe and promises by Vatican prosecutors that they have been given carte blanche to investigate “without reservations” to find the truth.
During his Tuesday interrogation, Pietro Orlandi provided Vatican prosecutors with an audiotape from a purported Roman mobster insinuating that John Paul would go out looking for underage girls to molest. He played part of the recording during an appearance after his testimony on Italy’s La7 network.
The Vatican’s editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, blasted the recording and Orlandi’s airing of it on national television as slanderous and noted that the insinuation was accompanied by “no evidence, clues, testimonies or corroboration.”
“It is sacrosanct that there be a 360-degree investigation to seek the truth about Emanuela’s disappearance,” Tornielli wrote in the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
“But no one deserves to be vilified in this way, without even a shred of a clue, on the basis of the ‘rumors’ of some unknown figure in the criminal underworld or some sleazy anonymous comment produced on live TV.”
John Paul’s longtime secretary, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, also criticized the insinuations against John Paul as “unreal, false and laughable if they weren’t tragic and even criminal.” He said he understood the pain of the Orlandi family and hoped for the truth to finally come out, but defended John Paul and denied he ever tried to cover up the Orlandi case.
Pietro Orlandi’s lawyer, Laura Sgro, insisted her client wasn’t accusing anyone and blamed a manipulation of his comments for fueling the dispute.
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B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Wednesday's results
Red Deer 5 Calgary 2
Saskatoon 3 Lethbridge 2
Winnipeg 4 Vancouver 3
Brandon 3 Kelowna 0
Thursday's results
Moose Jaw 5 Regina 2
Friday's results
Red Deer 4 Medicine Hat 2
Brandon 2 Lethbridge 1
Prince Albert 2 Edmonton 1
Saskatoon 3 Calgary 0
Winnipeg 5 Kamloops 3
Tri-City 6 Everett 3
Prince George 5 Vancouver 1
Saturday's results
Lethbridge 3 Swift Current 2
Red Deer 3 Prince Albert 0
Medicine Hat 5 Brandon 1
Portland at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Vancouver 6 Victoria 5 (OT)
Spokane at Seattle, 6:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Winnipeg at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Sunday's results
Prince Albert at Calgary, 4 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Regina, 4 p.m.
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 4 p.m.
Kamloops at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Lethbridge at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Vancouver at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
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Former Honduran congressman gets 30 years in drug conspiracy
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in New York has sentenced a former Honduran congressman to 30 years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking operation. Fredy Renan Najera Montoya previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to importing cocaine into the U.S. — and a weapons offense. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan says Najera helped distribute more than 30 tons of cocaine from the region of Honduras that he represented in government. Najera allegedly built clandestine airstrips in Honduras that received cocaine shipments from Venezuela and facilitated the movement of the drug to the western part of Honduras for transport to the U.S.
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BEND, Ore., June 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- It's ADOBOLOCO's Black Jack year on Hot Ones! Adoboloco hit 21, a winning hand. With 5 cards down on season 21 it's guaranteed to be one of the most entertaining seasons yet. What has ADOBOLOCO brought to the table?
Jalapeño Chico is the name of their next challenger. Jalapeño's? This is going to be tame! That would be further from the truth! When it comes to flavor and heat, ADOBOLOCO never rests on its laurels! Much work has been put into this project, giving guests a challenge handling the sauce but at the same time, having an enjoyable experience. Flavor always comes first, ADOBOLOCO lives by that rule. Sean Evans himself has dubbed ADOBOLOCO, "hot sauce royalty!" High praise indeed!
Crafted with a blend of hardwood cold smoked Jalapeños, Scorpion Peppers and Smoked Paprika, this sauce compounds into a savory rich fire roasted fusion. The heat comes on steady and builds. Beware of the afterburn! Don't worry, no matter what, the delicious combination of flavors is top priority. From tacos to pulled pork, nachos to breakfast sandwiches, burritos to pizza, the possibilities are endless. Season 21 of Hot Ones, is drool worthy and will whet any appetite!
The extremely popular YouTube show has captivated quite the audience ranging from; food enthusiasts, music junkies, and movie fans alike. First We Feast and lovable host, Sean Evans has gathered 12.3 Million subscribers, a testament to how fans love Hot Ones. And what's not to love? Celebrities getting interviewed while eating hot wings with a variety of sauces is so entertaining! Prevous top tier guests have included; Post Malone, Gordon Ramsey, Tom Holland and Paul Rudd, just to name a few.
ADOBOLOCO sauces have been featured on seasons 5, 8, 10, 18 and most recently, 21. ADOBOLOCO has collaborated with Heatonist to make some special flavors for Hot Ones like Hawaiian inspired Island Wings sauce and their hottest flavor to date: FIYA!FIYA!.
ADOBOLOCO Jalapeño Chico now available at: https://heatonist.com/products/adoboloco-Jalapeño-chico
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a simple way to apply liquid treatments or products onto the hair and scalp," said an inventor, from Spring, Texas, "so I invented the APPLICATOR BRUSH. My design enables you to dispense mousse, conditioner, oil or detangler in a neat and timesaving manner."
The invention provides an improved design for a hairstyling brush. In doing so, it enables the user to dispense gel, mousse or other products onto hair and the scalp. As a result, it saves time and effort and it reduces hassles and messes. The invention features a versatile design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households, salons, 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. 21-HOF-300, 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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'ElderForms' streamlines processes and eliminates reliance on paper
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Eldermark, an acclaimed healthcare technology provider for the senior care industry, today announced a new partnership with document management company WorldView on a new electronic forms product for the senior care industry.
"ElderForms" allows senior living organizations to simply convert paper-based residency agreements and other documentation to accessible, fillable electronic forms. Users can utilize field formats such as alpha, numeric, checkboxes, date pickers, signatures and more, while accessing forms anytime, from anywhere. ElderForms offers unlimited, secure email delivery, allowing forms to be reviewed, executed, and returned with just a
few clicks. Or resident customers and responsible parties can sign documents with their finger on a touchscreen device.
"ElderForms is another innovative solution from Eldermark that addresses an unmet need in senior living. It removes the hassle of manual documentation, boosts operational efficiency for senior centers, simplifies regulatory compliance and improves bottom line performance through saved workforce time," said Jaime Ojeda, President & CEO of Eldermark. "Senior care operators rely on us for the technology to help their communities run more smoothly and efficiently, and ElderForms is another powerful operations tool in our extensive portfolio."
With ElderForms, senior living communities can onboard more residents, utilize digital storage for the documentation, and save on operational costs associated with paper, printing, labor and payroll. The new product can also help ensure the completeness and compliance of forms, eliminating penalties for incorrect or missing information. ElderForms also provides e-signature capabilities to make enrollment and other processes quicker and easier for residents and their families, as well as for senior living staff.
Matthew Moore, President and CEO of WorldView, added: "At WorldView, our goal is to go beyond basic document management to create unique solutions for unique operational needs. We're grateful for the opportunity to serve Eldermark and the senior care community with expanded features that further demonstrate our commitment to providing complete process automation."
For more information on ElderForms, contact Eldermark.
For nearly thirty years, Eldermark has empowered senior living leaders to centralize their clinical and business operations onto one platform, revolutionize care models, capture new revenue and proactively manage their communities. Eldermark's end-to-end solutions enable organizations to work more efficiently and achieve financial objectives — all to focus on what truly matters, delivering superior healthcare outcomes and resident experiences. To learn more, visit Eldermark.com
WorldView Services Ltd. is a cloud-based document management service provider offering secure, content services solutions that enable organizations to store, manage, and share vital information between employees, vendors, partners, and customers. With decades of experience across a multitude of industries, WorldView's global view of business process automation allows it to provide a full suite of end-to-end, integrated solutions for software platforms as well as consultation and customization for end-users. Today, WorldView tracks, routes and stores over half a billion documents for thousands of healthcare professionals across North America. For more information visit worldviewltd.com.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – No, he likely won’t be giving his chili recipe away, but fans of the hit NBC show “The Office” will have the chance to meet their favorite accountant next month.
Brian Baumgartner, the actor who plays Kevin Malone on “The Office,” will be in Wichita for a meet and greet during the opening weekend for the Wichita Sky Kings, a new professional basketball team in Wichita.
According to the Sky Kings’ Facebook page, Baumgartner will be here from March 17-19, giving fans who buy season tickets for the team a chance for a meet and greet, photo opportunity, and the chance to get some chili with the actor.
Tickets can be purchased by visiting the Sky Kings’ website.
An Atlanta, Georgia, native, Baumgartner has starred in television shows since 2001. His most notable role is in “The Office.” He also has podcasts, including one called “An Oral History of The Office,” where he talks through the show’s creation and the times the show was running.
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MDA will design and build antennas for the Arrow satellite
PARIS AND BRAMPTON, ON, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, today announced it has been selected by Airbus OneWeb Satellites, LLC (AOS) to design and build Ka-Band steerable antennas. The MDA antennas will be integrated into the portfolio of Arrow commercial small satellites manufactured by AOS.
"We are pleased to be selected by Airbus OneWeb Satellites to support important applications for space and communications constellations," said Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA. "This contract represents another opportunity to demonstrate MDA's best-in-class satellite design and manufacturing capabilities."
MDA technology has been integrated into more than 350 satellite missions to date, with more than 2,000 antenna subsystems and 3,000 electronic subsystems on approximately 850 satellites currently in orbit. The antennas for AOS will be built, assembled and tested at MDA's state-of-the-art high volume satellite production facility in Montreal.
Airbus OneWeb Satellites LLC is a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb. AOS manufactures satellites for the OneWeb commercial constellation and Airbus customers in Merritt Island, Florida. AOS is producing satellites for Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc., in support of U.S. government programs.
The AOS contract was added to MDA's backlog in the third quarter of fiscal 2022.
Serving the world from its Canadian home and global offices, MDA (TSX: MDA) is an international space mission partner and a robotics, satellite systems and geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. With over 2,400 staff across Canada, the US and the UK, MDA is leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more. With a track record of making space ambitions come true, MDA enables highly skilled people to continually push boundaries, tackle big challenges, and imagine solutions that inspire and endure to change the world for the better, on the ground and among the stars.
This press release contains forward–looking information within the meaning of applicable securities legislation, which reflects the Company's current expectations regarding future events. Forward–looking information is based on a number of assumptions and is subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by such forward–looking information. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the factors discussed under "Risk Factors" in MDA's Annual Information Form available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. MDA does not undertake any obligation to update such forward–looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable law.
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19 First Alert Weather Days: Scattered storms pop up this weekend; flooding possible
Published: Aug. 20, 2022 at 7:54 AM EDT|Updated: 45 minutes ago
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The 19 First Alert Weather Team has activated alert days for Saturday afternoon through Sunday.
Today: Variable skies with scattered storms developing this afternoon and evening. Highs: Mid-Upper 80s.
Tonight: Scattered storms and muggy. Lows: Upper 60s.
Sunday: More scattered storms, possible wind damage and possible local flooding. Highs approaching 80.
Sunday night: Scattered storms and muggy. Lows: Upper 60s.
Monday: Humd with spotty storms. Highs: 75-80.
Tuesday: A few showers. Highs: Upper 70s.
Wednesday: Partly cloudy. Highs: Around 80.
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MONTARA, Calif. — The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in Northern California, injuring his two young children and his wife after the 250-foot drop, remained hospitalized with serious injuries Wednesday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Rescuers initially hailed the family's survival as a “miracle” after the Tesla sedan plummeted down a notorious cliffside Monday along the Pacific Coast Highway near an area called Devil’s Slide that’s known for fatal wrecks.
Firefighters were forced to cut the family out of the wreckage. They used a rope system to haul the children up the cliff in a rescue basket while the parents were hoisted by helicopter.
Patel’s family — including his 41-year-old wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son, whose names have not been released — also remained hospitalized Wednesday. CHP Officer Mark Andrews would not comment on their conditions or detail Patel’s wounds.
It wasn’t immediately known if Patel, 41, has an attorney. Pasadena police records do not show any calls about violence at the family’s home. The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether the agency had received or investigated any reports on the family.
The case brought back memories of a 2018 tragedy when a woman intentionally drove off another Northern California cliff i n an SUV with her wife and their six adopted children. All were killed. The crash in Mendocino County happened just days after authorities in Washington state opened an investigation following allegations that Jennifer Hart’s children were being neglected.
Investigators are looking into Patel’s motive and Andrews would not say whether detectives have been able to interview him.
“I have no idea what his thought pattern was,” he said.
Andrews said investigators likely would not present the case to prosecutors until after Patel is booked into the jail.
Patel is a doctor in radiology at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills area of Los Angeles.
“Providence Holy Cross Medical Center is deeply saddened to learn of a traffic incident involving one of our physicians and his family,” the statement said. “We are extremely grateful there were no serious injuries. We will not respond further, as this incident is under investigation.”
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New Business Will Provide Innovative Solutions For Vertical Farming
RIVERSIDE, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Grow Glide, the industry leader in vertical, mobile cannabis cultivation solutions, announced a new business vertical: AG Glide. AG Glide will provide vertical racking, tables, workflow and airflow solutions immediately, tailored to the general horticultural market.
The move to agriculture comes as the parent company, Grow Glide 20x-ed their business from 2020 to 2021, pivoted to Europe and increasingly received requests from leading horticultural farming companies.
AG Glide CEO, Travis Schwartz, remarked, "AG Glide has been a long time coming. Internally, we've known since inception that our proven and tested modular cannabis solutions would easily translate into the general horticultural industry and we're thrilled to enter this market with customized, innovative solutions that will make a meaningful difference for cultivator ROI."
AG Glide President Darin Siples added, "Talking and interacting with large companies in the space and getting hands on at their facilities encouraged me to create AG Glide. Grow Glide revolutionized the world of vertical cultivation in cannabis and I cannot wait to help hundreds of growers across the world, save space, save water and deliver ROI."
Growers know best. Whether you've been cultivating for decades or are joining us on the cutting edge of indoor horticulture, AG Glide supports growers. Our vertical farming technology can be customized to fit your needs and fuel your indoor, vertical farm.
Our best-in-class racks and horticulture tables come in different configurations to support your best practices. Cultivation teams can work with peace of mind, utilizing our Grow Decks for safe access at any height. And our AirGlide delivers consistent, customizable airflow ensuring your plants are always in an optimal environment.
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NBA super prospect Victor Wembanyama is currently dominating in the LNB Pro A playoffs – and the NBA wants you to see it.
Metropolitans 92, Wembanyama’s team in France, faces top ranked ASVEL Basket in Game 3 of the LNB Pro A semifinals on Friday, June 2, 2023 (6/2/23) at 12 p.m. ET. Fans can watch the future San Antonio Spurs star via the NBA App, which is carrying every Wembanyama game for the rest of his season.
Metropolitans 92 leads the best-of-five series 2-0.
The championship series will begin on June 11 and conclude no later than June 20.
Here is the full schedule, courtesy of NBA.com:
- Game 1: Mets 92 wins 75-69
- Game 2: Mets 92 wins 86-83
- Game 3: June 2, noon ET
- Game 4: June 4, TBD (if necessary)
- Game 5: June 7, TBD (if necessary)
Here’s a recent AP story about Wembanyama:
The Wembanyama sweepstakes and draft lottery has a winner: It’s the SpursVictor Wembanyama is set to follow in the footsteps of David Robinson and Tim Duncan, and the San Antonio Spurs are ready to welcome the French phenom.
It sure seems like an ideal pairing.
The Spurs hit the lottery jackpot on Tuesday, landing the No. 1 pick and the right to draft one of the most highly touted prospects in NBA history.
Not since LeBron James made the jump from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in his hometown of Akron, Ohio, to the NBA two decades ago has a player come with this much fanfare. At 7-foot-3 and with the ability to shoot like a wing player and pass like a point guard, the 19-year-old Wembanyama is expected to make an immediate impact.
And he had a message for San Antonio.
“I’m trying to win a ring ASAP,” Wembanyama told ESPN after the lottery results. “So be ready.”
It’s the third time the Spurs have won the lottery, and on both previous occasions they made picks that paid off for decades. They chose Robinson in 1987, Duncan in 1997, and those Hall of Fame big men were a major part of how the Spurs became a team that won five NBA titles under coach Gregg Popovich.
“Our future was already bright,” Spurs managing partner Peter J. Holt said. “Now, it’s going to be through the moon.”
General manager Brian Wright called it “an incredible day” for the franchise and the fans.
Charlotte will pick second, Portland moved up to third, and Houston fell to fourth.
“Human nature sets you up to get greedy, so when it was two teams left, yeah, I wanted No. 1, right?” Hornets GM Mitch Kupchak said. “For a second there was a little bit of ‘aw shucks’ but overall to go from four… to two, it’s an incredible stroke of luck.”
But to get the No. 1 pick in a year like this?
“People talk about generational talents and you only think on-court skill, but it’s bigger than that,” Wright said. “Peter talked about his ability to be a great teammate, his ability to think the game, unique challenges. You see him doing things that you wouldn’t have even guessed someone could do — his approach, his professionalism. I think when you use the word generational talent, it extends beyond just your ability to put the ball in the basket. And he’s unique in so many ways.”
The Spurs were 22-60 this season, tied for the second-worst record in the NBA. Popovich and the Spurs have had incredible success with international players in the past — most notably, Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, who owns the French team that Wembanyama played for last season.
“He’s an incredible young man,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN as part of its draft lottery broadcast. “He’s 19 years old and I didn’t take out a yardstick or meter stick or whatever they use in France, but he seemed all of 7-4 to me. … He clearly appears to be a generational talent.”
Wembanyama finished his regular season with Boulogne-Levallois of France’s top pro league earlier Tuesday, his 22-point effort good enough to clinch the league’s scoring title. It was shortly past 2 a.m. Wednesday in Paris when the lottery results were revealed, and Wembanyama was gathered with family and friends for a celebration.
“Can’t really describe it,” Wembanyama said in his interview with ESPN, adding “it’s a really special moment.”
Finally, he knows where his NBA journey will begin. His agents did not respond to multiple requests for comment from The Associated Press.
“I think the team that has the first choice isn’t going to get it wrong,” said Vincent Collet, Wembanyama’s coach in France and also the coach of the French national team — which Wembanyama is expected to play for this summer at the World Cup and next summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Detroit had the worst record in the NBA and was one of the three teams with the best odds of winning. The Pistons wound up falling all the way to fifth, the worst of their possible outcomes.
The rest of the lottery order: Orlando will pick sixth, Indiana seventh, Washington eighth, Utah ninth, Dallas 10th, Orlando (from Chicago as part of an earlier trade) in 11th, Oklahoma City 12th, Toronto 13th, and New Orleans 14th.
Wright said he woke up at 5 a.m. and wished he could have gone back to sleep. He was so anxious he didn’t eat all day. But he did perform his end of a secret handshake he and his 9-year-old son have, hoping it would bring good luck.
Wembanyama is wrapping up his third professional season in France and has been the consensus top pick for months. He wasn’t at the lottery because of his game schedule in France. But many of the other top prospects — Scoot Henderson of the G League Ignite, Brandon Miller of Alabama, twin brothers Amen and Ausar Thompson of the Overtime Elite program — were in the room to watch the lottery results get unveiled and get a little better idea of where they may be heading to start their NBA careers.
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DETROIT — Hyundai and Kia are telling owners of some of their large SUVs to park them outdoors and away from buildings after a series of fires involving trailer hitch wiring.
The Korean automakers are recalling more than 281,000 vehicles in the U.S. because of the problem, but they haven't figured out how to fix it yet. The automakers reported 25 fires or melting incidents in the U.S. and Canada caused by the problem, but no crashes or injuries.
The recalls cover more than 245,000 Hyundai Palisade and over 36,000 Kia Telluride SUVs from the 2020 through 2022 model years.
In documents posted Tuesday by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the companies said debris and moisture can accumulate in a circuit board in the tow hitch wiring. That can cause an electrical short, which can lead to a fire.
Hyundai said that dealers will inspect the wiring and remove a fuse as an interim repair. Kia doesn't have an interim repair. The companies say a final repair is being developed.
In addition, dealers from both automakers have stopped selling the affected SUVs until repairs are made.
Hyundai and Kia aren't the only car brands that have been affected by recalls over fire hazards. Earlier this year, Ford had to recall about 139,000 SUVs because the engines of those cars could potentially catch on fire, even when the ignition was turned off.
That issue was caused by a printed circuit board that was susceptible to a short.
Similar to the new recall, Ford also told customers to park their cars outside until they could get a replacement.
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Investment to expand the company's cloud-native networking portfolio and global operations, changing the way networks are built, operated, and consumed
RA'ANANA, Israel, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DriveNets, a leader in cloud-native networking solutions, today announced it has secured $262 million in a Series C venture capital funding round, considerably increasing the company's valuation over its January 2021 Series B round. The funding from this latest round of investment will be used to develop future technology solutions, pursue new business opportunities, and expand the company's global operations and support teams to support growing customer demand.
The round was led by D2 Investments with the participation of DriveNets' current investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Pitango, D1 Capital, Atreides Management, and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services.
"DriveNets' approach of building networks like cloud allows telecom providers to take advantage of technological efficiencies available to cloud hyperscalers, such as cloud-native software design and optimal utilization of shared resources across multiple services," said Ido Susan, DriveNets founder and CEO. "This latest round of investment demonstrates our investors' and customers' confidence in us and will enable us to expand the value and global operational support we offer them."
"DriveNets has demonstrated its ability to move the networking industry forward and has gained the trust of tier-1 operators," said Adam Fisher, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. "While other solution providers are facing challenging headwinds, DriveNets continues to innovate and execute on its vision to change the future of the networking market."
"DriveNets has already made a big impact in the high-scale networking industry, and its routing solutions are adopted by tier-1 operators for their quality and the innovation they enable," said Aaron Mankovski, Managing Partner at Pitango. "This investment will allow DriveNets to expand its footprint in the market and develop additional offerings."
Strong company performance supports investor confidence
Since its last funding round in 2021, DriveNets has gained significant market traction.
- Growing network traffic running on the DriveNets' Network Cloud solution by 1,000 percent
- Engaging with nearly 100 customers and doubled bookings year over year
- Establishing key strategic partnerships to speed up the deployment of next-generation networks worldwide, including agreements with Itochu Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC), EPS Global, Wipro Limited, and KGPCo.
- Growing its overall employee base by 30 percent, significantly expanding its operations and deployment teams, and its global reach.
DriveNets also recently announced the addition of three cloud and networking industry veterans to its leadership team.
Learn more about DriveNets here.
About DriveNets
DriveNets is a leader in cloud-native networking software and network disaggregation solutions. Founded in 2015 and based in Israel, DriveNets offers communications service providers (CSPs) and cloud providers a radical new way to build networks, substantially growing their profitability by changing their technological and economic models. DriveNets' solution – Network Cloud – adapts the architectural model of cloud to telco-grade networking. Network Cloud is a cloud-native software that runs over a shared physical infrastructure of standard white-boxes, radically simplifying the network's operations, offering telco-scale performance and elasticity at a much lower cost. Learn more at www.drivenets.com
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While Fourth of July sales have officially ended, Amazon’s Prime Day begins next week, which means other retailers are beginning to roll out their own sales right now to compete with the online retailer.
This week, you’ll find discounts on everything from a dehumidifier to a gaming console, television, luggage for summer travels and more. Take a look at 13 items on sale this week that are definitely worth the money.
Unless otherwise noted, the deals do not require coupon codes or memberships. If a code or membership is required, it will be included in the description below so you know how to use the coupon and can sign up before ordering.
MORE: The best early Prime Day deals you can shop now
1. HUMSURE Dehumidifier 70 Pint
You’ll save $201 — around 45% — on this HUMSURE 70-Pint Dehumidifier, now priced at $228.99 from the regular price of $439.99.
Designed for a 4,500-square-foot room, it removes up to 70 pints of water from the room daily. It can be used in bathrooms, basements, garages or anywhere you have too much moisture. It is made with wheels that rotate 360 degrees so you can move the dehumidifier from room to room easily.
It also has multiple settings, timers for auto-start and auto-stop and will automatically shut off when the water tank is full, alerting you it’s time to empty the tank with a beeping alarm and light.
Walmart does not say when the deal ends, so you’ll want to order it soon.
Buy HUMSURE Dehumidifier 70 Pint from Walmart for $228.99 (was $439.99)
2. onn. 50” Class 4K UHD LED Roku Smart TV HDR
Looking for a new TV? You can save $40 on this 50-inch 4K UHD LED Roku Smart TV, now priced at $198.
The television has built-in Roku so you can stream movies and shows from a variety of apps, or hook up cable, satellite or an HDTV antenna. You can even use voice activation on the Roku app to search right on your screen in case you misplace your remote or would simply rather use your voice.
The TV is listed as a “rollback,” but Walmart does not say how long the sale price will be sticking around.
Buy onn. 50” Class 4K UHD LED Roku Smart TV HDR from Walmart for $198 (was $238).
3. Xbox Series X Video Game Console
Know a gamer that could use a new Xbox? You can save $137.90 on an Xbox Series X Video Game Console from Walmart, discounted from $627.89 to $489.99.
The Xbox offers 4K gaming, 3D spatial sound and is backward compatible with thousands of games, so you don’t need to buy new games to play on the console.
Buy Xbox Series X Video Game Console from Walmart for $489.99 (was $627.89).
4. Bedsure Queen Cooling Pillow Cases – Set of 2
If you’re having trouble sleeping because of the heat, you can save 50% — or $9 — on this set of two Bedsure Queen Cooling Pillow Cases from Walmart.
The $8.99 deal is only good on the queen size in gray, but other sizes and colors are also on sale. The pillow cases are made from rayon that is derived from bamboo, which Walmart says is cooler to the touch and able to wick moisture away better than cotton.
There’s no saying when the price will change, so you’ll want to order the pillowcases soon.
Buy Bedsure Queen Cooling Pillow Cases – Set of 2 from Walmart for $8.99 (was $17.99).
5. Idealife Plant Pots Self Watering Planters with Drainage Hole (Set of 5)
You can save 20% on these Idealife Plant Pots Self Watering Planters with Drainage Holes from Amazon, priced at just $14.36 when you clip a coupon at checkout.
You’ll get five indoor pots in the set measuring 7 inches, 6 inches, 6.5 inches, 5.5 inches and 5 inches, making them perfect for most small and medium-sized plants. The pots store varying amounts of water depending on the size, making sure the plant you put in the pot stays watered for a week or more.
You can purchase the pots without an Amazon Prime membership, but you will need one to receive free shipping. Amazon prices change frequently, so you’ll want to grab this quickly before the coupon expires.
Buy Idealife Plant Pots Self Watering Planters with Drainage Hole from Amazon for $14.36 (was $17.95).
6. Sun Joe 1700PSI/1.2GPM Electric Pressure Washer w/ Attachments
Summer is the perfect time to power wash your driveway, sidewalk or other outdoor areas and QVC is offering a great deal on a Sun Joe Electric Pressure Washer with attachments.
Now priced at $179.95, you’ll save $38.05 from the regular price of $218. The power washer comes with a spray wand, hose, garden hose adapter, clean-out tool and power cord.
The sale ends on or around July 12 and QVC says it is selling fast, so you’ll want to order quickly before it sells out. It’s also important to note that the sale price does not include shipping, which is an extra $20.22.
Buy Sun Joe 1700PSI/1.2GPM Electric Pressure Washer w/ Attachments from QVC for $179.95 (was $218).
7. Toy Fly Plus Drive Dual Function Vehicle Drone Set, 7 Piece
You can get this 7-piece Toy Fly Plus Drive Dual Function Vehicle Drone Set from Macy’s for just $19.93, a savings of $90.06 from the regular price of $109.99.
The drone is by Sharper Image and comes with auto orientation control and assisted landing, so even if you’re new to flying drones, you should be able to get the hang of it.
For ages 12-15, the drone comes with a remote control, charging cable and four replacement blades just in case some break. Weighing just 1.05 pounds, it can be used on land or in the air and has five LED lights so you can see it flying even at night.
At such a low price and a savings of more than 80%, you are definitely going to want to snatch this deal up quickly. Macy’s also has it marked as a “Last Act: Final Sale” deal, so chances are there are not many left and they may sell out.
Buy Toy Fly Plus Drive Dual Function Vehicle Drone Set, 7 Piece from Macy’s for $19.93 (was $109.99).
8. Keurig K-Slim + ICED Single Serve Coffee Brewer with Coupon
You can save $80.01 on this Keurig K-Slim + ICED Single Serve Coffee Brewer that also comes with a coupon for $20 off your purchase of Kcup pods, which you will need for the brewer. Shipping is $7.50, so your total comes to $87.60, a savings of $62.39 from the regular price of $149.99.
Available in blue or gray, the Keurig works for hot coffee in three sizes and iced coffee in a 6-ounce cup. It measures less than 5 inches wide, so it won’t take up much space on your counter.
The sale ends on or around July 16, but QVC also says they’re selling quickly, so you might want to grab one soon.
Buy Keurig K-Slim + ICED Single Serve Coffee Brewer with Coupon from QVC for $69.98 (was $149.99).
9. Coway Airmega True HEPA Purifier with Air Quality Monitoring
You can get this Coway Airmega True HEPA Purifier with Air Quality Monitoring from Amazon for $142.49, a savings of $87.50 from the regular price of $229.99.
The purifier and air monitor works in rooms up to 361 square feet and help capture dust, pollen and other pollutants and allergens. It also shows real-time indoor air quality and has an automatic fan that turns on if the air needs to be cleaned.
The deal is for Amazon Prime members only, so you will need to purchase a membership first if you don’t already have one. Amazon may change the price at any time, so you’ll want to order it soon.
Buy Coway Airmega AP-1512HH(W) True HEPA Purifier with Air Quality Monitoring from Amazon for $142.49 (was $229.99).
MORE: Buy a $50 Amazon gift card and get $5 in Prime Day credits
10. PowerCrush Digital Blender with Quiet Technology
If you have plans to make frozen cocktails, smoothies or even ice cream this summer, Macy’s is having a sale on a PowerCrush Digital Blender with Quiet Technology.
Regularly $158.99, the Black & Decker blender is currently on sale for $94.99, a savings of $64. The blender holds up to 6 cups and has pre-programmed functions for drinks, soups, creating breadcrumbs and more. It also comes with an 18-ounce plastic jar so you can take your drink to go.
Buy PowerCrush Digital Blender with Quiet Technology from Macy’s for $94.99 (was $158.99).
11. Freehold 5-Piece Softside Spinner Luggage Set
You can save $170.01 on this Freehold 5-Piece Softside Spinner Luggage Set from Macy’s, now priced at $69.99, a 70% savings from the regular price of $240.
The luggage set includes five different bags: one suitcase with wheels, one upright bag with wheels, one duffel bag , one tote and a small “kit” bag for accessories. Made of 100% polyester, they come with a 3-year limited manufacturer’s warranty.
Buy Freehold 5-Piece Softside Spinner Luggage Set from Macy’s for $69.99 (was $240).
12. Austin Stripe/Solid Reversible 8-Piece Comforter Set
You can save $65.01 on this Austin Stripe/Solid Reversible 8-Piece Comforter Set from Macys, now priced at $34.99.
A 65% savings from the regular price of $100, the comforter set includes a comforter, shams, a bedskirt, pillow cases, a flat sheet and a fitted sheet. The set comes in seven colors and sizes twin-California king, with all colors and sizes included in the sale.
Some color and size combinations are already sold out, however, so you may not get the color you want in the size you need and should place your order quickly in case the sets sell out.
Buy Austin Stripe/Solid Reversible 8-Piece Comforter Set from Macy’s for $34.99 (was $100).
13. Fiskars 4-Claw Stand Up Weeder
You can save $16 on this Fiskars 4-Claw Stand Up Weeder on Amazon, now priced at $45.99.
The weeder helps prevent pain from bending, as you can use it while standing to avoid injuring your knees and back. Made with four stainless steel claws that grab the weeds and roots from the ground, it can be used to permanently remove weeds like dandelions without the need for chemicals.
Amazon prices change frequently, so you may want to order soon to make sure you get it when it’s on sale. The weeder appears to be on backorder, however, with an estimated delivery of 1-2 months, so keep in mind that you may not receive it until mid-to-late August.
Buy Fiskars 4-Claw Stand Up Weeder from Amazon for $45.99 (was $61.99).
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NEW YORK (AP) — Today’s sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bites, new research suggests.
For their study published Wednesday, researchers used fossil evidence to create a 3D model of the megalodon — one of the biggest predatory fish of all time — and find clues about its life.
At around 50 feet (16 meters) from nose to tail, the megalodon was bigger than a school bus, according to the study in the journal Science Advances. That’s about two to three times the size of today’s great white shark. The megalodon’s gaping jaw allowed it to feed on other big creatures. Once it filled its massive stomach, it could roam the oceans for months at a time, the researchers suggest.
The megalodon was a strong swimmer, too: Its average cruising speed was faster than sharks today and it could have migrated across multiple oceans with ease, they calculated.
“It would be a superpredator just dominating its ecosystem,” said co-author John Hutchinson, who studies the evolution of animal movement at England’s Royal Veterinary College. “There is nothing really matching it.”
It’s been tough for scientists to get a clear picture of the megalodon, said study author Catalina Pimiento, a paleobiologist with the University of Zurich and Swansea University in Wales.
The skeleton is made of soft cartilage that doesn’t fossilize well, Pimiento said. So the scientists used what few fossils are available, including a rare collection of vertebrae that’s been at a Belgium museum since the 1860s.
Researchers also brought in a jaw’s worth of megalodon teeth, each as big as a human fist, Hutchinson said. Scans of modern great white sharks helped flesh out the rest.
Based on their digital creation, researchers calculated that the megalodon would have weighed around 70 tons, or as much as 10 elephants.
Even other high-level predators may have been lunch meat for the megalodon, which could open its jaw to almost 6 feet (2 meters) wide, Pimiento said.
Megalodons lived an estimated 23 million to 2.6 million years ago.
Since megalodon fossils are rare, these kinds of models require a “leap of imagination,” said Michael Gottfried, a paleontologist at Michigan State University who was not involved in the study. But he said the study’s findings are reasonable based on what is known about the giant shark.
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FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A police officer was shot in his bulletproof vest during an exchange of gunfire with a suspect who was killed by another officer following a pursuit in central California, authorities said.
The suspect sped away during a traffic stop Saturday evening in northwest Fresno, Deputy Police Chief Mindy Casto said.
A police helicopter crew monitored him as he drove recklessly, cutting off other vehicles and running red lights, Casto said.
When officers on the ground caught up to him, the suspect got out of his car and opened fire, according to police. Officers returned fire “and the suspect went down,” Casto said.
The investigation was ongoing Sunday. It was not immediately known how many shots were fired by either the suspect or the two officers. The suspect's gun was fired at least once, according to the deputy chief.
“There’s also evidence that the officer was actually struck by gunfire in his ballistic vest," Casto said. The officer was not seriously hurt. The officer who shot the suspect was not injured.
The suspect, who was not named, had a lengthy criminal history with more than 20 arrests and six outstanding warrants, the Fresno Bee reported.
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Wheat for May fell 1.50 cents at $6.62 a bushel; May corn lost 1.75 cents at $6.3175 a bushel, May oats was off 1 cent at $3.6150 a bushel; while May soybeans declined 29 cents at $14.1950 a bushel.
Beef was mixed and pork was lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle was off .15 cent at $1.6215 a pound; Mar. cattle was up .77 cent at $1.8902 a pound; while Apr. lean hogs was fell .32 cent at $.7575 a pound.
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NEW YORK (PIX11) — A New York City lottery player won $1 million in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing.
The winning second-prize ticket was sold at the Millenium Smoke and News at LLENIUM SMOKE 2345 Broadway near West 86th Street, according to lottery officials.
Friday’s winning numbers — 5, 10, 28, 52, 63, and Mega Ball 18 — went unmatched, continuing a 29-drawing trend that began after the last jackpot-winner was announced on April 18.
The current jackpot is estimated at $1.05 billion, with a cash option of $527.9 million. That amount officially qualifies as the fourth-largest grand prize in Mega Millions history, tied with a jackpot awarded in Jan. 2021.
The Mega Millions drawing is every Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m.
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A 40-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the death of an Evansville man, whose body was found over the weekend in the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife Area in northwest Warrick County, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources is reporting.
Johnathon Buza, of Evansville, has been charged with murder, felony murder, robbery resulting in serious bodily injury and unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, the DNR said.
He is accused of killing 27-year-old Manuel Eduardo Heaton.
Heaton’s remains were found by a passerby around 7:30 a.m. Saturday in the area of St. Johns Road and Kansas Road, near the Scaup Pit., officials said.
"You (expletive) aren't going anywhere," Smith reportedly said.
The Warrick County Coroner’s Office took possession of the body and an autopsy was to be done.
Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to contact the DNR Law Enforcement Central Dispatch at 812-837-9536 or the Warrick County Sheriff’s Office at 812-897-6180.
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Series C financing led by Bain Capital Life Sciences to support PKU program and pipeline in immune-mediated diseases and cancer; Ron Renaud joins Jnana's Board of Directors
Jnana initiates Phase 1 clinical trial of JNT-517, a potential first-in-class oral treatment for PKU; JNT-517 receives US FDA Rare Pediatric Disease Designation
BOSTON, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jnana Therapeutics ("Jnana"), a biotechnology company leveraging its next-generation chemoproteomics platform to discover medicines for challenging-to-drug targets, today announced the close of its $107 million Series C financing. The financing was led by Bain Capital Life Sciences with participation from existing investors including RA Capital Management, Polaris Partners, Versant Ventures, Avalon Ventures and Pfizer Ventures.
The proceeds from the funding will be used to progress the company's lead program in phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disease, through a clinical proof-of-concept (POC) study, and to advance additional wholly owned, potential first-in-class medicines in immune-mediated diseases and cancer. Jnana's RAPID chemoproteomics platform enabled the identification of JNT-517, a small-molecule inhibitor of the phenylalanine transporter SLC6A19 that acts at a novel, cryptic allosteric site, as well as a growing pipeline of programs against challenging-to-drug targets such as transcription factors.
"We are thrilled to welcome Bain Capital Life Sciences to our strong syndicate of leading life science investors who share our vision for the potential of our RAPID platform and lead program in PKU," said Joanne Kotz, Ph.D., co-founder and CEO of Jnana Therapeutics. "With their support and the initiation of our second collaboration with Roche, we are well positioned to deliver on our aim of developing breakthrough medicines for patients."
Jnana also announced the dosing of the first healthy volunteers in a Phase 1 study evaluating JNT-517, its clinical candidate for the potential treatment of PKU. After the Phase 1a portion in healthy volunteers, JNT-517 will be evaluated in a Phase 1b study in individuals with PKU, with the potential to demonstrate clinical POC. In addition, the company announced that JNT-517 has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation by the US Food and Drug Administration.
"With its unique mechanism of action of blocking phenylalanine reabsorption in the kidney, JNT-517 has the potential to be the first therapy for all individuals living with PKU, regardless of genetic background or age," said Joel C. Barrish, Ph.D., co-founder, President and CSO of Jnana Therapeutics. "The Rare Pediatric Disease Designation by the FDA underscores the promise of JNT-517 to accelerate innovation for these patients with limited treatment options."
"We share Jnana's patient-focused mission and commitment to developing the next generation of best-in-class therapies that address high unmet medical needs across a wide range of diseases," said Ron Renaud, a Managing Director at Bain Capital Life Sciences who is joining Jnana's Board of Directors in conjunction with the financing. "We are excited to support Jnana as they progress their PKU program into clinical development and advance their innovative pipeline of potential novel medicines against challenging-to-drug targets."
About PKU
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inherited metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH). This enzyme is required for the breakdown of phenylalanine (Phe), an amino acid found in all protein-containing foods. When PAH is deficient or defective, Phe accumulates to abnormally high levels in the blood. If left untreated, these toxic levels of Phe in the blood can result in progressive and severe neurological impairment and neuropsychological complications. The SLC transporter SLC6A19 is responsible for kidney reabsorption of Phe back into the bloodstream, and the inhibition of SLC6A19 offers a novel, oral approach for the treatment of PKU.
About Jnana Therapeutics
Jnana Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging its next-generation chemoproteomics RAPID platform to discover medicines for highly validated, challenging-to-drug targets to treat diseases with high unmet need. Jnana is focused on developing first- and best-in-class therapies to treat a wide range of diseases, including rare diseases, immune-mediated diseases and cancer. Jnana's wholly owned lead program is a potential first-in-class oral approach, targeting an allosteric site on the phenylalanine transporter SLC6A19, for the treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare genetic metabolic disease. Located in Boston, Jnana brings together scientific leaders in small molecule drug discovery and development, a highly experienced management team and the backing of leading life science investors Bain Capital Life Sciences, RA Capital Management, Polaris Partners, Versant Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Pfizer Ventures and AbbVie Ventures. For more information, please visit www.jnanatx.com and follow us on Twitter and on LinkedIn.
About Bain Capital Life Sciences
Bain Capital Life Sciences (www.baincapitallifesciences.com) invests in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, diagnostic, and life science tool companies across the globe, with a focus on companies that both drive medical innovation across the value chain and enable that innovation to improve the lives of patients with unmet medical needs. The differentiated skillset of Bain Capital Life Sciences team enables it to deliver targeted capital and value-added strategic support to companies around critical phases of growth and inflections in value. Since 1984, Bain Capital has employed a strategic and analytical approach to identify attractive investment opportunities and partner with management teams to transform and improve their businesses. During this time, Bain Capital has developed global reach, deep expertise, and a proven track record in the life sciences industries across private equity, public equity, credit, venture capital, and real estate.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP)An emerald inscribed for a Mughal emperor. A Safavid-period knotted wool carpet. An Ottoman-era curtain, intricately embroidered with metal threads, which was part of the covering of the Kaaba, the cube-shaped structure in Mecca that Muslims consider the metaphorical ”house of God.”
Like tiles in a mosaic, the collection in Doha’s Museum of Islamic Art, or MIA, provides visitors with a peek into diverse aspects of Muslim heritage, art and craftmanship with items spanning three continents and many centuries.
In a capital where so much is new, the museum showcases a variety of the old and historic. And with soccer fans from around the world descending on Qatar, the story that the museum tells now has more listeners.
On a recent day, visitors – some wearing soccer jerseys or scarves – stopped to snap photos, inspect an object, read a label or browse shelves lined with books and souvenirs.
”The architecture itself is very good. Also, I like the inside displays; the pieces are very impressive,” said Bert Liu, who lives in the United States. ”Before I knew very little about Islamic history but after I saw a lot of objects, I feel I learned more.”
Qatari officials say they hope the tournament will help provide visitors with a better understanding of their culture and that of the larger region. The World Cup host has faced intense criticism over rights issues, including the treatment of migrant workers, and accusations of ”sportswashing” or attempting to use the event’s prestige to remake its image.
Qatari officials have argued that the country’s progress and achievements are being overlooked. The ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, said some of the attacks on the first Arab and Muslim country to host the World Cup included ”fabrications and double standards.”
Sports is not the only area where Qatar, a small country with big ambitions and the vast wealth to match, has sought to leave its mark as part of a quest for global influence. It has also been aiming to carve out a name in the culture and arts arenas, including with museums like MIA.
”Qatar has invested much in terms of establishing itself as a Middle Eastern hub for culture and art with soft-power aspirations being a key factor driving these efforts,” said Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a geopolitical risk consultancy based in Washington, D.C. ”Museums in Doha have done much to help the Qataris promote their culture, tell their stories, and share their unique perspectives with global audiences.”
And now, he noted, many soccer fans may be visiting the region for the first time.
Qatar is far from alone in such grand, well-financed cultural endeavors, with other Gulf countries also vying for tourists as they strive to diversify their economies.
”We have the ambition to show Islamic culture in all its diversity and sort of also show the regional differences,” said Julia Gonnella, MIA’s director. ”The idea is really for education, for diversity, also to build up a society beyond oil and gas.”
The museum attracts both Muslim and non-Muslim visitors, she said, adding that MIA’s ”first audience” is the people who live in Qatar.
Designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei, the MIA complex has a presence that is somehow both imposing and simple, with its waterfront location, light-colored exteriors and sharp and clean architectural lines. Geometric shapes and Islamic motifs appear inside. Windows drench the surrounding area in sunlight and provide a view of modern-looking buildings jutting into the sky across the water.
The museum’s collection includes metalwork, ceramics, woodwork and textiles. Items on display include jewelry, manuscripts of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, armor and arms.
Gabriel Petersen, who visited from Australia, said he was impressed by how old some of the objects were and enjoyed seeing exhibits from different parts of the world.
”It’s just a different culture,” he said. ”You don’t get much of that in Australia.”
The museum also offers glimpses into religious beliefs and rituals. Visitors can read about the five pillars of Islam – the profession of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting and hajj or pilgrimage – or learn about hajj rituals and different funerary practices in the Islamic world.
Initially opened in 2008, the museum closed in April 2021 and reopened a month before the World Cup with expanded interpretive materials to help provide more context for items on display.
A temporary exhibition titled ”Baghdad: Eye’s Delight” celebrates the capital of Iraq as one of the ”most important and influential cities in the Islamic world” and highlights its role as a city ”of power, scholarship, and riches,” according to the museum. The exhibition features objects on loan from world-renowned institutions, MIA says.
Rob Humphreys, who was visiting from Wales, said he particularly enjoyed viewing Baghdad from a different angle.
”At least in Europe, we tend to associate Baghdad with … war and so on and the invasion,” he said. ”Learning about how important Baghdad was as a cultural and scientific and trading city … was really interesting.”
Catrin Evans, his wife, admired the quality of craftmanship dating back centuries in MIA’s collection and thought the calligraphy, jewelry and copies of the Quran were ”awe inspiring.”
”We tend to think of everything in a European, Western perspective,” she said. ”This definitely opened my eyes to the background to Islam and also the culture here.”
At one point, the couple thought of not coming to Qatar for the World Cup because of misgivings over rights’ issues, including those of LGBTQ people.
”We’ve come to learn, but it doesn’t mean we put our values to one side while we’re here,” Humphreys said, adding cultural exchanges are also important to them.
”Museums are always good places for generating new ideas, often controversial,” he said. ”But it’s a space to express those and explore them and talk and have a dialogue.”
— Associated Press writer Luis Andres Henao contributed to this report.
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- The deadline to vote is at 10:00 am (Pacific Time) on Friday, August 26, 2022.
- For any questions, please contact Alexco's proxy solicitation agent and communications advisor, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, toll free at 1-877-452-7184 (+1-416-304-0211 outside North America) or email assistance@laurelhill.com.
VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Alexco Resource Corp. (NYSE American: AXU) (TSX: AXU) ("Alexco" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that a leading independent proxy advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. ("ISS") has recommended Alexco shareholders ("Alexco Shareholders") vote "FOR" the proposed acquisition of Alexco by 1080980 B.C. Ltd. ("108"), a subsidiary of Hecla Mining Company ("Hecla") at the upcoming special meeting of securityholders to be held on Tuesday, August 30, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. (Pacific Time) (the "Meeting").
At the Meeting, securityholders will be asked to consider and, if deemed advisable, pass a special resolution (the "Arrangement Resolution") to approve an arrangement (the "Arrangement"), in accordance with the terms of an arrangement agreement entered into by the Company and Hecla on July 4, 2022, as assigned and amended (the "Arrangement Agreement") pursuant to which 108 will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Alexco (the "Alexco Share") that it does not already own by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). Under the terms of the Arrangement, shareholders will receive 0.116 common shares in the capital of Hecla for each Alexco Share held.
ISS is a leading independent, third-party proxy advisory firm who, among other services, provides proxy voting recommendations to pension funds, investment managers, mutual funds and other institutional shareholders.
In their report ISS stated: "The transaction makes strategic sense as shareholders will benefit from jurisdictional and project risk diversification, enhanced financing capacity and access to capital, and the benefits conferred by a consolidation of assets with Hecla."
Alexco's Meeting will be conducted at:
The meeting materials have been filed by the Company on SEDAR and EDGAR and are available under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. The meeting materials are also available on the Company's website at Alexco - Investors - Special Meeting of Shareholders (https://alexcoresource.com/investors/special-meeting-of-shareholders/).
Due to the essence of time, Alexco securityholders are encouraged to vote online or by telephone.
For any questions or assistance with voting, Alexco securityholders can contact the Company's proxy solicitation agent, Laurel Hill Advisory Group:
North America Toll Free: 1-877-452-7184
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Founded in 1891, Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) is the largest silver producer in the United States. In addition to operating mines in Alaska, Idaho and Quebec, Canada, the Company owns a number of exploration properties and pre-development projects in world-class silver and gold mining districts throughout North America.
Alexco is a Canadian primary silver company that owns and operates the majority of the historic Keno Hill Silver District in Canada's Yukon Territory, one of the highest-grade silver mines in the world.
Website: www.alexcoresource.com
Some statements ("forward-looking statements") in this news release contain forward-looking information concerning Alexco's Meeting, Alexco's anticipated results and developments in Alexco's operations in future periods, planned exploration and development of its properties, plans related to its business and other matters that may occur in the future, made as of the date of this news release. Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Meeting, statements with respect to the consummation and timing of the transaction; approval by securityholders; the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the transaction; and timing, receipt and anticipated effects of court, regulatory and other consents and approvals. Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which could cause actual events or results to differ from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among others, the risk that the Arrangement may not close when planned or at all or on the terms and conditions set forth in the Arrangement Agreement; the failure of the Company and Hecla to obtain the necessary regulatory, court, securityholder, and other third-party approvals, or to otherwise satisfy the conditions to the completion of the Arrangement, in a timely manner, or at all, may result in the Arrangement not being completed on the proposed terms, or at all; changes in laws, regulations and government practices; if a third party makes a Superior Proposal (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement), the Arrangement may not be completed and the Company may be required to pay the Termination Fee (as defined in the Arrangement Agreement); if the Arrangement is not completed, and the Company continues as an independent entity, there are risks that the announcement of the Arrangement and the dedication of substantial resources of the Company to the completion of the Arrangement could have an impact on the Company's current business relationships and could have a material adverse effect on the current and future operations, financial condition and prospects of the Company; future prices of silver, gold, lead, zinc and other commodities; market competition; and the geopolitical, economic, permitting and legal climate that we operate in. Forward-looking statements are based on certain assumptions that management believes are reasonable at the time they are made. In making the forward-looking statements included in this news release, Alexco has applied several material assumptions, including, but not limited to, assumptions as to the ability of Alexco and Hecla to receive, in a timely manner and on satisfactory terms, the necessary regulatory, court, securityholder and other third party approvals; the satisfaction of the conditions to closing of the Arrangement in a timely manner and completion of the Arrangement on the expected terms; the expected adherence to the terms of the Arrangement Agreement and agreements related to the Arrangement Agreement; the adequacy of our and Hecla's financial resources; favourable equity and debt capital markets; and stability in financial capital markets. There can be no assurance that forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Alexco expressly disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by applicable securities legislation.
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FRESNO, Texas — Authorities in Texas said a 47-year-old man was arrested and charged after his dogs fatally attacked a 71-year-old man.
The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office said Samuel Cartwright is charged with attack by dog resulting in death and his bond is set to $100,000.
In a news release, the sheriff's office said that on July 18, Freddy Garcia was walking to a neighborhood store in Fresno when seven dogs attacked him.
According to authorities, Garcia was transported to a hospital in Houston, where he later died.
The department said that the dogs, who were all a pit bull mix, were captured by deputies and animal control.
KTRK reported that officials initially thought the dogs were stray dogs.
Still, after an investigation, three of the dogs connected to the mauling were reportedly found in Cartwright's yard, the news outlet reported.
“This devastating tragedy didn’t have to happen," Sheriff Eric Fagan said. "I extend my deepest condolences to the Garcia family and his neighbors as they adjust to the loss of Mr. Garcia."
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Sex abuse allegations spread against cheerleading industry
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Sprawling allegations of abuse against cheerleaders reached Tennessee on Monday in a case that escalates the accusations facing some of the sport’s top institutions.
An adult coach sexually assaulted teenage boys at Premier Athletics, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit filed in Memphis that is similar to a previous complaint against Rockstar Cheer in South Carolina.
In both cases, attorneys say leaders at Varsity Spirit, which runs competitions, and the U.S. All Star Federation, the country’s cheerleading governing body, failed to provide a safe environment for athletes.
The lawsuit, brought anonymously by two teenage boys and one boy’s mother, alleges that a Premier Athletics coach sent nude pictures and masturbation videos and instigated nonconsensual sexual acts.
The coach has not been charged, and The Associated Press is not naming him. USASF did not immediately respond to an email request seeking comment.
In a statement to the AP, Premier Athletics Knoxville West said it was “inaccurately implicated” in the lawsuit, in which the majority of the allegations are said to have occurred before current ownership purchased any gyms.
In the statement, Premier Athletics said it heard June 26 from an athlete who reported receiving inappropriate photos from the coach. According to the statement, Premier suspended the coach and immediately made a report to local law enforcement and USASF, neither of whom substantiated the complaint. Premier fired the coach, according to the statement.
Premier said it heard Sept. 18 from one athlete that another athlete had a “physical relationship” with the coach. After reporting that allegation to local law enforcement and USASF, Premier said, it did not contact the alleged victim’s family to avoid any accusations of interfering with an investigation.
In a statement to the AP, Varsity Spirit said it is outraged that “predators took advantage of cheerleading programs to abuse innocent children” and rejected accusations that it enabled such behavior. Varsity Spirit added that it never received reports of suspected misconduct and has not owned Premier Athletics or any other gym since August 2021.
Premier Athletics received reports in late May or June, but the coach continued to access the gym as recently as this month, according to the boys in the lawsuit.
Even after USASF added the coach to its ineligible list, the boys allege, he continued to participate in private lessons with minors on the gym’s premises. In a July message, the coach told one of the plaintiffs that the gym manager told him he would not be fired, according to the boys in the lawsuit.
Also in July, USASF sent the coach a report notifying him of the allegations. That same week, the boys allege in the lawsuit, the coach worked at camps run by the Universal Cheerleaders Association, which was established by Varsity founder Jeff Webb, and remained a Varsity representative.
The boys say in their lawsuit that USASF and Varsity endangered athletes by failing to report the misconduct to local law enforcement.
At a news conference Tuesday, the plaintiffs’ lawyers said that “insular” systems within the cheer industry make it difficult for athletes to report misconduct. These institutions, the lawyers said, have set up an intentionally convoluted process. Lawyers noted that local gyms must become USASF members to participate in Varsity competitions.
“Varsity and the companies that it empowers have an endowment that is funded on the backs of these athletes,” attorney Jessica Fickling said. “The athletes and their families pay copious amounts of money to ensure that this sport continues. And for that money they are given a promise that they are going to be safe, that the environments that they cheer in, the gyms and competitions, will be safe. And yet, those environments are ill-equipped to handle these kinds of allegations.”
Lawyers with the Strom Law Firm said Tuesday they are aware of other potential victims and seek to expedite this case. Attorney Alexandra Benevento said the allegations are part of a greater “culture of oversexualization in cheer.”
Attorney Bakari Sellers also said he prepared documents this weekend for an unnamed federal agency. The lawsuit comes toward the end of a month that has disturbed families within the cheer industry after similar accusations from plaintiffs represented by Strom Law Firm against well-known coaches in South Carolina.
“This is not just something that happens in Greenville,” Sellers said. “This is not just something that happens in Knox County. This is something that’s happening all around the country.”
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Adrian Sainz in Memphis contributed to this report. James Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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Sitting in a parked car with an arsenal of weapons and ammunition, the man who fired on police officers in North Dakota earlier this month chose to use the one gun in his vehicle that was modified with a binary trigger. The device allowed the gun to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon.
The July 14 shooting in Fargo, which killed one officer and wounded two others and a civilian, has put a spotlight on the device and other trigger modifications that are a growing concern for law enforcement.
Mohamad Barakat, 37, opened fire on the officers as they responded to a car accident. He shot from his vehicle loaded with guns, a homemade grenade, gasoline canisters, propane tanks containing improvised explosives, and more than 1,800 rounds of ammunition, police said. Barakat was killed by a fourth officer who returned fire.
North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said on Friday that he believes the violence could have been the beginning of a bigger attack, as the Downtown Fargo Street Fair and the Red River Valley Fair were underway.
Wrigley noted that Barakat had four semi-automatic handguns and three semi-automatic rifles, but only one of them — the one he picked to go on his shooting rampage — had a binary trigger.
Here's a look at the device, regulations around binary triggers and how they differ from bump stocks:
WHAT ARE BINARY TRIGGERS?
A binary trigger is a modification that allows a weapon to fire one round when the trigger is pulled and another when it is released — in essence doubling the firing capacity, firearms experts and weapons manufacturers say.
The modifications are relatively inexpensive, running a few hundred dollars depending on the model. They are also a relatively new technology, first released in 2015 partly in response to federal regulators seeking to expand the scope of banning modifications that create automatic weapons.
WHAT REGULATIONS EXIST ON BINARY TRIGGERS?
They are legal in most states and at the federal level. Federal regulations don't yet cover the sale of binary trigger modifications, said Robert Spitzer, a professor at the College of William & Mary Law School whose research focuses on gun policy and politics.
“It’s a matter of technology outrunning regulation, which is not a new thing," Spitzer said.
Some states do ban the purchase of binary triggers specifically or modifications like binary triggers generally. The manufacturer websites note that they cannot sell them to civilians in 12 states, including California, New York, Florida and others or in Washington D.C. At least one other state not listed on the seller websites has a partial ban on similar modifications, firearm law experts said.
HOW DO BINARY TRIGGERS DIFFER FROM BUMP STOCKS?
Bump stocks are a frame or component added onto the back of semi-automatic weapons that allow them to fire like machine guns by using the recoil from an initial trigger pull to fire multiple rounds.
Under former President Donald Trump's administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved to ban bump stocks after the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival where a gunman using bump stock-modified weapons killed 60 people. Federal regulators argued that bump stocks fell under 1934 and 1986 federal regulations on automatic weapons.
The ban survived multiple challenges around the country until January, when a U.S. Appeals Court in New Orleans ruled in favor of challengers who argued the federal regulations against machine guns don't specifically cover bump stocks.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also made moves to regulate what are called “forced reset triggers," saying they also created, in essence, machine guns out of semi-automatic weapons by adding a spring to a trigger, allowing it to reset and fire faster.
Greg Wallace, a professor at the Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law who has studied firearm laws, said binary triggers work on a completely different mechanism than forced reset triggers. He said binary triggers modify the component of the trigger that holds the hammer or striking mechanism back.
Wallace said he agreed with several articles that have called binary triggers a gimmick “having little, if any, practical real-world use.”
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Associated Press writer Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas, contributed to this report.
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Get ready to spring forward on March 12, at least one more time.
Most of the U.S. will move the clocks forward by one hour on Sunday at 2 a.m. for daylight saving time, which will end on Nov. 5 of this year.
The question is: Will this be the final time most Americans feel aggrieved over losing an hour of sleep?
Daylight saving time is the result of a federal law applying to most of the United States; Hawaii, most of Arizona and U.S. territories in the Pacific and Caribbean do not follow daylight saving time. In March 2022, the Senate unanimously passed the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent, removing the need to change clocks twice per year. The bill stalled in the House of Representatives but remains alive.
With permanent daylight saving time, there is more sun in the evening hours. The trade-off is less daylight in the mornings, especially in the winter months.
I wish the daylight saving time was permanent, I hate when it gets dark super early
— José Luis Guerra (@borgetti16) March 9, 2023
Currently, 19 states have passed legislation to avoid the changing of clocks, but such laws cannot go into effect until the federal law is changed.
Regardless, most Americans will want to move their clocks ahead before going to bed on Saturday night, though it will take longer for human bodies to adjust. Daylight saving time is also a convenient opportunity to refresh the batteries in smoke alarms.
Daylight Savings isn’t even here yet and already I hate it.
— ChiChi Greenblatt (@ChiChiGreenblat) March 8, 2023
Common suggestions to avoid feeling extra groggy on Monday morning include avoiding caffeinated or alcoholic beverages in the evening, taking naps, exposing yourself to morning sunlight on Sunday and maintaining a consistent evening mealtime. Now is as good a time as any to institute personal limitations on screentime from devices like phones and tablets around bedtime.
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher was quick to dismiss the Chinese spy balloon that was spotted flying over the United States.
"You know what people are freaking out about this week? There's a balloon, a Chinese spy balloon over Montana. Oh, my God!" Maher mocked the panic during his opening monologue on Friday night. "Now they know where we keep the cows!"
"Who gives a s---?" Maher asked his audience.
MAHER ACCUSES BIDEN OF ‘TRAGEDY PORN’ FOR HAVING FAMILY OF TYRE NICHOLS AT STATE OF THE UNION: ‘EXPLOITATIVE’
BILL MAHER SAYS TYRE NICHOLS, CALIFORNIA SHOOTINGS PROVE AMERICA'S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE GOES ‘DEEPER THAN RACE’
Maher acknowledged how the Chinese government is denying that it is spying on the United States.
"There's saying, ‘It’s very innocent. It's a weather balloon.' They said they would never use a spy balloon to infiltrate and monitor America. That's what TikTok is for," Maher quipped.
WARNING: EXPLICIT LANGUAGE
The HBO star mocked the "usual suspects on the right" who are saying to "shoot this f------ thing down" while experts say it's "too dangerous" to remove it without knowing what's in it.
"So we just have to watch from a distance until it slowly and inevitably crashes and burns — like we're doing with Kanye," Maher joked.
"Speaking of blimps, Donald Trump is in the news," Maher segued into the next topic, addressing how the former president lashed out at the "Real Time" host earlier this week.
BILL MAHER ADMITS BIDEN WAS ‘VERY SHADY’ WITH DOCUMENTS, BUT SAYS HIS SCANDAL WAS ‘DIFFERENT’ THAN TRUMP'S
On his social media app Truth Social, Trump railed against Maher, calling him a "Low Ratings sleazebag."
"I don't have low ratings," Maher smirked.
Maher told his audience he could tell "the 24 is already on" because Trump's "going at me again."
"Yes, I'm a ‘low-ratings sleazebag’ who laughs at conservatives because he thinks we're weak and stupid. He's so weak and stupid," Maher taunted the former president.
The "Real Time" host predicted the nickname Trump will give former South Carolina governor and his former UN Amb. Nikki Haley, who is set to launch her presidential campaign later in February: "Tricky Nikki."
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbian police on Thursday urged citizens to lock up their guns after a 13-year-old boy used his father's guns in a shooting rampage that killed eight of his fellow students and a school guard, sending shock waves through the nation.
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Thousands of people in Belgrade and other cities throughout the Balkan country lined up to lay flowers, light candles and leave toys to commemorate the victims of the shooting that happened in a central district in the Serbian capital on Wednesday morning.
Many people cried and hugged outside the school as they stood in front of heaps of flowers, small teddy bears, a gray and pink toy elephant and a girl's ballet shoes hung on the fence. Students from other Belgrade schools also came to the site in groups, standing in silence.
Police said the teenager had planned the attack for a month, drew sketches of classrooms and made lists of children he planned to kill. The boy, who had visited shooting ranges with his father, took two guns from his father's safe, police said on Wednesday.
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Serbia is awash with weapons left over from the wars of the 1990s but mass shootings still have been extremely rare — this is the first school shooting in Serbia's modern history.
“The Ministry of Interior is appealing to all gun owners to store their guns with care, locked up in safes or closets so they are out of reach of others, particularly children,” police said in a statement that also announced tightened controls on gun owners in the future.
The shooting on Wednesday morning in Vladislav Ribnikar primary school also left seven people hospitalized — six children and a teacher. One girl who was shot in the head remains in a life-threatening condition, and a boy is in serious condition with spinal injuries, doctors said on Thursday morning.
To help people deal with the tragedy, authorities announced they were setting up a helpline. Hundreds answered a call to donate blood for the wounded victims. A three-day mourning period will begin Friday morning.
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Serbian teachers' unions announced protests and strikes to demand changes and warn about a crisis in the school system. Hundreds of students and their parents protested in front of the education ministry, demanding resignations.
The shooter, whom the police identified as Kosta Kecmanovic, has not given any motive for his actions.
Upon entering his school, Kecmanovic first killed the guard and three students in the hallway. He then went to the history classroom where he shot the teacher before turning his gun on the students.
Kecmanovic then unloaded the gun in the school yard and called the police himself, although they had already received an alert from a school official. When he called, Kecmanovic told duty officers he was a “psychopath who needs to calm down," police said.
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Those killed were seven girls, one boy and the school security guard. One of the girls was a French citizen, France's foreign ministry said.
Authorities have said that Kecmanovic is too young to be charged and tried. He has been place in a mental institution while his father has been detained on suspicion of endangering public security because his son got hold of the guns.
“I think we are all guilty. I think each one of us has some responsibility, that we allowed some things we should not allow (to happen),” said Zoran Sefik, a Belgrade resident, during Wednesday evening’s vigil near the school.
Gun culture is widespread in Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans: The region is among the top in Europe in the number of guns per capita. Guns are often fired into the air at celebrations and the cult of the warrior is part of national identity. Still, the last mass shooting was in 2013 when a war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
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While such attacks are rare, experts have repeatedly warned of the danger posed by the number of weapons in a highly divided country, where convicted war criminals are glorified and violence against minority groups often goes unpunished. They also note that decades of instability stemming from the conflicts of the 1990s as well as ongoing economic hardship could trigger such outbursts.
“We have had too much violence for too long,” psychologist Zarko Trebjesanin told N1 television. “Children copy models. We need to eliminate negative models ... and create a different system of values."
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HONG KONG (AP) — One of Hong Kong’s most reputable sources for public opinion data is limiting its survey scope, including on sensitive topics such as the Tiananmen crackdown. The change, on the heels of a risk assessment done by the government, would likely muffle access to information showing changes in public sentiment toward the city.
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute announced Tuesday it tentatively decided to cancel about one-fourth of its regular survey questions, and use about one-third of the remaining ones only for internal reference, academic research, and commissioned services, rather than releasing them for public use. The announcement came two weeks after the release of its report about the anniversary of China’s crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests was canceled due to the Hong Kong government’s risk assessment.
The institute’s CEO, Robert Chung, told the Associated Press in an email reply Tuesday night that the government’s risk evaluation weighed into the decision.
When the institute was reviewing its operation, it also considered various factors including the demand for opinion data, the historical development of Hong Kong society, the role of the pollster in promoting science and democracy, and legal risks, he said. Under the resulting plans, affected topics include the Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, 1989, the city’s handover to China’s rule in 1997, local disciplinary forces, and ratings of lawmakers. Their final plan will be announced in July.
Critics said the moves would be a great loss to Hong Kong, which was once famed for its freedom of expression.
Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to China’s rule in 1997 and was promised the right to retain its Western-style civil liberties for 50 years after the handover. For decades, the institute has tracked public sentiment on issues including the 1989 crackdown that killed hundreds and possibly thousands of people and how China’s central government policy has fared the city.
The institute earlier said it was not told whether the assessment was related to the sweeping national security law, nor did it ask. Neither the government nor the police immediately responded to a request for comment.
In January 2021, when more than 50 pro-democracy activists were arrested on subversion charges in the city’s biggest national security crackdown yet, police also raided the office of the institute, which was involved in organizing the voting.
Before he launched the independent institute, Chung was the director of the public opinion program at the University of Hong Kong, the city’s oldest university. Over the years, his work has drawn ire from pro-Beijing media outlets and organizations. But the institute continued to ask politically sensitive questions after the enactment of the security law. For example, in previous polls about the Tiananmen crackdown, it asked respondents whether they thought Beijing students and the central government “did the right thing.”
Chung Kim-wah, who served as deputy chief executive of the institute before leaving for the United Kingdom, said his former colleagues have been doing public opinion studies for about 30 years — a rarity in the city, and crucial to the study of Hong Kong’s history and social development.
The poll results were also used to provide information to the government so it could respond to the public’s views, and served as indicators of the city’s changes, Chung said.
“This is a very great loss,” he said.
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This story has been corrected to reflect Chung’s email reply was from Tuesday night, not Wednesday.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WFRV) – A Milwaukee man has been issued criminal charges by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office in relation to the homicide of a 13-year-old boy.
According to the Milwaukee Police Department, the charges were issued on Friday to 18-year-old Lazarus L. McAdoo.
On Sunday, February 19, 2023, 13-year-old Jamarri was killed in front of his home on the 4100 block of North 47th Street.
For his alleged role in the crime, McAdoo was charged with one count of First Degree Reckless Homicide, as a Party to a Crime, and Use of a Dangerous Weapon.
McAdoo was arrested by police without incident on May 27 and could face up to 65 years in prison if he is convicted.
The Milwaukee Police Department says this is one step closer to getting justice for Jamarri and his family.
No other details are available at this time. Local Five will update this story as more information comes is released
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CHICAGO, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its monthly webinar offerings, ThinkCERCA Founder and CEO, Eileen Murphy, will host a conversation with veteran education leader, author, and motivational speaker, Dr. Elvis Epps.
Leaders Need a Lift: Let's Talk Adversity to Action will take place on February 2nd at 11 a.m. CT.
Against increasingly daunting conditions that mentally, emotionally, and physically overwhelm school leaders, the 1-hour webinar will focus on what it takes to set the best impression with staff, students, and parents.
Dr. Epps' will also discuss his latest book, New Principal, No Problem: Leading a Winning Culture Without Losing Your Mind.
"My book was written with new and aspiring leaders in mind because I know what they are going through. I have been there, and I know the frustrations they will face. I wanted to provide a framework to help them succeed as new leaders. Leaders cannot effectively lead if they are frustrated, angry, upset, confused, or burned out. Our schools need leaders with the confidence and competence to make great decisions. School leaders are expected to lead their schools to higher heights while taking care of those they lead. I hope my presentations, book, and words have demonstrated that," said Dr. Epps.
ThinkCERCA's webinar programming aims to provide educational leaders with strategies for building instructional capacity around literacy, critical thinking, and writing across disciplines and between grade levels.
Recent features include:
- A conversation with best-selling author and educator, Esther Wojcicki, on her T.R.I.C.K. method.
- Two-part series, Boardroom to Classroom, exploring the full path of onboarding a literacy and writing solution.
- A step-by-step guide to building shared and equitable grading practices by a veteran public school principal.
Register for the Leaders Need a Lift: Let's Talk Adversity to Action webinar here.
Dr. Elvis Epps' book, New Principal, No Problem: Leading a Winning Culture Without Losing Your Mind, can be purchased here.
About ThinkCERCA
ThinkCERCA's personalized literacy platform helps educators teach critical thinking skills through close reading and academic writing across subjects. With a research-based framework that teaches students how to construct a cohesive argument, studies show they can achieve an average of two years of reading growth annually. Teachers gain 1:1 time with students and equip them with a step-by-step approach to thinking critically and reading and writing with purpose. Visit here to learn more about their solutions including Core ELA, benchmark evaluations, and more.
Contact: Eileen Murphy, eileen@thinkcerca.com
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CHICAGO, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quinnox announced today that Forrester had named it a Strong performer in Modern Application Development in its recent report entitled The Forrester Wave™: Modern Application Development Services, Q3 2022. Quinnox received the highest score in the current offering category.
"From a technical perspective, Quinnox shines across most of the current offering criteria," writes author Diego Lo Guidice, Vice President, Principal Analyst. These include modern development and delivery services with agile, product development, DevOps, SRE and automation, architecture API and microservices, continuous testing, cloud-native, AI and data, case history examples, metrics, methodologies, frameworks and software, and vertical industry knowledge. Quinnox also showed an in-depth grasp of the practices involved with the technologies.
"To us, Forrester's independent assessment reflects Quinnox's ability to deliver breakthrough impact with sustainable value through Modern Application Development," said Ravi Sundaram, Chief Strategy Officer, of Quinnox. "We believe the research strengthens our guiding principles: build solutions using cutting-edge technology, take a 100% technology agnostic approach, rapid time-to-value for customers, and improve overall client value. These principles capture Quinnox's true differentiation as the most relevant IT partner and how we deliver game-changing transformation for our clients."
Forrester's 28-criteria evaluation of modern application development services providers "identified the 14 most significant ones and researched, analysed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps technology architecture and delivery professionals select the right one for their needs."
Quinnox scored a 4.33 in the current offering category, the highest among all evaluated vendors. "This shows us that Quinnox's investments in building its technology capabilities have been as per the technology trends," said Akshay Deshpande, CTO of Quinnox. "Our continued focus is on ensuring we have the best resources and capabilities to help our clients to differentiate themselves in their markets and accelerate their growth by delivering unmatched employee and customer experiences."
Additional Findings in the Forrester report about Quinnox
- 'Quinnox MAD solutions focus on four principles: cutting-edge technology, a 100% technology-agnostic approach, rapid time-to-value, and overall client value. Quinnox is faithful to those principles, with a superior innovation roadmap and planned enhancements.'
- 'The vendor has an impressive level of AI infused in its software assets, some of which can turn into products (e.g., Qyrus test automation).'
About Quinnox:
Quinnox is your agile, business-results-driven digital technology partner. With the power of human and applied intelligence, we simplify business processes, improve customer experiences and create exceptional business value for forward-thinking enterprises. Our data-driven digital solutions unlock the hidden potential of your business across your digital value chain, helping to accelerate success today and tomorrow. We are headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with a presence across geographies including UK, Germany, UAE, and India.
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HONG KONG, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Akeso, Inc. (9926.HK) ("Akeso") released two-year updated data from a Phase Ib/II clinical study of cadonilimab – a first-in-class PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody developed by Akeso – in combination with chemotherapy as first-line therapy for advanced gastric (G) or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma at the 2023 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
Results showed that cadonilimab in combination with chemotherapy in first line treatment of G/GEJ adenocarcinoma, had a high remission rate and promising long-term survival advantage in the all-comers population (regardless of PD-L1 status).
As of October 2022, 94 gastric cancer patients were enrolled in the study, of which 50% had a negative expression of PD-L1 (CPS <1) and only 15% of patients had a positive expression (CPS ≥ 5). With a median follow-up of 24 months (94% of subjects experienced at least one post-baseline tumor assessment), the updated data continued to show significant efficacy benefits from previously disclosed data, with even more obvious benefits to patients.
Efficacy:
- Remission was efficient in the all-comers population, and overall survival (OS) was significantly high: Median OS was 17.41 months, median progression-free survival (PFS) was 9.2 months, and the 12-month OS rate was 61.4%. The objective response rate (ORR) was 68.2%, and the disease control rate (DCR) was 92%.
- Promising efficacy in population with high expression of PD-L1: The median OS of the population with PD-L1 CPS ≥5 was up to 20.24 months, and the median PFS was not reached.
- Promising efficacy in population with low expression of PD-L1: The median OS of the PD-L1 CPS <5 population was 17.28 months, along with a median PFS of 7.23 months.
- Remarkable efficacy in the PD-L1 expression negative population: In the PD-L1 CPS <1 population, the median OS reached 17.64 months and the median PFS was 8.18 months.
Safety:
- No adverse safety signals were observed in comparison to the PD-1 monoclonal antibodies.
Gastric cancer is one of the most prolific malignancies in the world and is the second most common malignancy in China. The benefits of PD-1 monotherapy in combination with chemotherapy as a first-line therapy are still relatively limited compared to chemotherapy for OS and PFS. For example, in real patients with advanced G/GEJ adenocarcinoma in China, approximately 13% and 38%[1] of these are PD-L1 low expressing (CPS 1-4) and (CPS <1) , respectively, which comprehensively represent more than half of the total patient population. Thus, there is a huge need for more effective treatments for this patient.
Regardless of PD-L1 status, cadonilimab demonstrated highly effective tumor remission and survival benefits in overall advanced gastric cancer. Furthermore, the differential and superior efficacy of cadonilimab in low-PD-L1-expressing populations compared to currently approved PD-1 monoclonal antibodies further suggest that cadonilimab will be an improved therapy for the first-line treatment of advanced gastric cancer.
Currently, the enrollment of the Phase III study (NCT05008783) for the first-line treatment of advanced G/GEJ adenocarcinoma was completed.
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For first-line treatment of advanced gastric cancer, the median OS for the population with CPS≥5 was 75% in the CheckMate649 Chinese subgroup, and the median OS for nivolumab combination chemotherapy was 14.3 months regardless of CPS status; 15.5 months for CPS≥5, 10.1 months for CPS<5, and 11.8 months for CPS<1[2-3].
In the ORIENT-16 study, population with CPS ≥5 was 61%. Regardless of CPS status, the median OS was 15.2 months with sintilimab combination chemotherapy. In the population with CPS ≥5, the median OS was 19.2 months.[2,4-5]
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RICHMOND, Va., Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Capital Square, one of the nation's leading sponsors of tax-advantaged real estate investments and a developer of mixed-use multifamily communities, announced today that their inaugural development project, an 80-unit Class A multifamily property in Richmond, Virginia, has secured long-term financing from USAA Life Insurance Company after achieving property stabilization.
As a result, investors in the project-specific CSRA Opportunity Zone Fund I, LLC will receive a special distribution that represents a 53% return of equity.
Dubbed "INK," the 80,000-square-foot property, which includes 1,939 square feet of ground-level retail space, was built in a qualified opportunity zone in the emerging Richmond neighborhood of Scott's Addition. INK is the first of three Capital Square development projects that comprise Scott's Collection, a group of boutique multifamily communities within Scott's Addition. Construction on INK began in the second quarter of 2020 and was completed in January 2022. The property achieved 100% occupancy just over five months after the completion of construction.
"The Scott's Addition neighborhood of Richmond is quickly emerging as one of the city's most popular neighborhoods, with soaring demand for quality multifamily communities like INK and one of the area's highest occupancy rates," said Whit Huffman, chief strategy and investment officer. "The success of INK and its related opportunity fund comes as no surprise, and we are extremely pleased to have delivered this high-caliber development property to its residents while also providing an early distribution to investors that far exceeds our pro forma projections."
The private placement memorandum provided to CSRA Opportunity Fund I investors had anticipated a special distribution totaling a 36% return of equity upon securing long-term financing at the conclusion of property construction and lease-up. The special distribution is intended to provide investors with funds to pay the tax due on their deferred gains, which are taxable as a part of investors' 2026 tax returns. Due to the exceptional performance of the property, the special distribution increased to 53%, far in excess of the 36% that was projected.
"In just three years, Capital Square has planned, constructed, permanently financed and leased 100% of the apartments in Ink at Scott's Collection," said Louis Rogers, founder and chief executive officer. "The project has been delivered on time, on budget and has been exceptionally well received in the market despite construction cost volatility and procurement challenges. This is a phenomenal result for investors in spite of a global pandemic that shut down major portions of the economy, along with unprecedented inflation and shortages of labor and material. Renter demand for this exceptional property has exceeded expectations and it is helping to transform Richmond's Scott's Addition into one of the city's most vibrant and exciting neighborhoods."
Capital Square currently has three other multifamily developments under construction in the Scott's Addition opportunity zone that will deliver a total of 559 luxury apartment homes by 2023, with another 350 units planned for the neighborhood. These projects include VIV and GEM, the remaining two Scott's Collection multifamily projects. Construction on VIV was completed in July and is currently welcoming residents, while GEM is currently pre-leasing and opening to residents in the fall. Also included is The Otis, a 350-unit joint development with Greystar that is expected to complete its first phase of construction during the fourth quarter of 2022.
Since 2019, Capital Square has initiated over $440 million in total development value across seven opportunity zone developments in fast growing markets in the Southeast. Among these is CSRA Opportunity Zone Fund VII, LLC, which seeks to raise $41.4 million from accredited investors to fund the development of an additional luxury multifamily development in the Scott's Addition neighborhood.
Opportunity zones were created to stimulate long-term private investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide. Conceived as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, opportunity zone funds are intended to help foster economic growth by providing tax benefits to incentivize private investments in designated opportunity zones.
About Capital Square
Capital Square is a national real estate firm specializing in tax-advantaged real estate investments, including Delaware statutory trusts for Section 1031 exchanges, qualified opportunity zone funds for tax deferral and exclusion and a real estate investment trust (REIT). In recent years the company has become an active developer of mixed-use multifamily properties in the southeastern US, with eight current projects totaling approximately 2,000 apartment units with a total development cost in excess of $600 million. Since 2012, Capital Square has completed more than $6.0 billion in transaction volume. Capital Square's related entities provide a range of services, including due diligence, acquisition, loan sourcing, property/asset management, and disposition, for a growing number of high-net-worth investors, private equity firms, family offices and institutional investors. Since 2017, Capital Square has been recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation for six consecutive years. In 2017, 2018 and 2020, the company was also ranked on Richmond BizSense's list of fastest growing companies. Additionally, Capital Square was listed by Virginia Business on their "Best Places to Work in Virginia" report in 2019 and their "Fantastic 50" reports in 2019 and 2020. To learn more, visit www.CapitalSq.com.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an overhaul of Democrats’ political strategy on Saturday, saying the party is “getting crushed” by Republicans in part because they are too timid, often forced to play defense while Republicans “dominate with illusion.”
Speaking at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas — the territory of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, one of Newsom’s chief political foils — Newsom was careful to praise current party leaders like President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
But he said that mantras that may have worked for the party in the past — like Michele Obama’s famous quip “when they go low, we go high,” — simply don’t work today because “that’s not the moment we’re living in right now.”
“These guys are ruthless on the other side,” Newsom said. “Where are we? Where are we organizing, bottom up, a compelling alternative narrative? Where are we going on the offense every single day? They’re winning right now.”
Newsom said that’s why — even though he is running for reelection as governor of California — he has been spending some of the millions of dollars in his campaign account on TV ads in Florida urging people to move to California, newspaper ads in Texas decrying the state’s gun laws, and putting up billboards in seven states urging women to come to California if they need an abortion.
“There’s nothing worse than someone pointing fingers. What are you going to do about it?” Newsom said. “The reason we’re doing those ads is because … the Democratic Party needs to be doing more of it.”
Of course, the main reason Newsom can do those things is because he faces little pressure at home. Newsom is likely to cruise to a second term as governor of California in November, facing a little-known and underfunded Republican challenger one year after defeating a recall attempt.
Newsom’s actions have increased speculation he might be running for president, an idea he has repeatedly denied — doing so again on Saturday in Texas. Asked if he was considering running for president in 2024 or 2028, Newsom said: “No, not happening.”
“I cannot say it enough,” he said. “I never trust politicians, so I get why you keep asking.”
Newsom said that President Joe Biden’s first two years in office have been “a master class … on substance and policy.” But later, he said good governance, by itself, is not enough to win elections — adding that “otherwise Biden would be at 75% approval.” In reality, about 53% of U.S. adults disapprove of Biden, according to the most recent poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The problem for Democrats, Newsom said, is that they “fall in love so easily” with “the guy or gal on the white horse to come save the day.”
“We missed a more important paradigm that leadership is not defined by that person in formal authority, it’s defined by people with moral authority every single day,” he said.
Newsom’s aggressiveness could end up helping Abbott, who is locked in a more competitive race with former Congressman Beto O’Rourke. Kenneth Grasso, a political science professor at Texas State University, said there has been concern among some in the Republican Party that Abbott is “not conservative enough.” Newsom’s attacks against Abbott “only helps him with those people,” Grasso said.
“If you stress that they’re right-wingers, you call them extremists, using that kind of language, all you are going to do is enhance their popularity in their own base,” he said.
Despite that risk, Texas Democrats seem to be welcoming Newsom’s attention.
“I like this guy,” Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa said of Newsom. “I like the way he’s showing the contrast between what y’all do in California and what the narrow-minded, extremist positions that occur here in the state of Texas.”
The Republican Party of Texas did not respond to an email seeking comment.
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MEXICO CITY, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FIBRA Prologis (BMV:FIBRAPL 14), a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico, announced today that Daniel Stephen Letter has been appointed as a new non independent member of the Technical Committee. Currently, Dan is the President of Prologis, overseeing all global operations and capital deployment in which the company operates.
ABOUT FIBRA PROLOGIS
FIBRA Prologis is a leading owner and operator of Class-A industrial real estate in Mexico. As of December 31, 2022, FIBRA Prologis was comprised of 225 logistics and manufacturing facilities in six industrial markets in Mexico totaling 43.6 million square feet (4.0 million square meters) of gross leasable area.
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Adding to Its Collection of Compelling Color Choices, LG's Cutting-edge Refrigerator Now Features Pantone's 2023 Color of the Year
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LG Electronics (LG) will present an exciting, new color option for its groundbreaking MoodUP™ refrigerator to offer personalized customer experiences at CES 2023. In collaboration with the world-renowned Pantone Color Institute, Viva Magenta – the Pantone Color of the Year 2023, is coming to LG's color-changing fridge. Viva Magenta is a brave and fearless crimson red that brings excitement and drama into home interiors, energizing any environment with its vibrancy.
The refrigerator with MoodUP™, unveiled at IFA 2022 in Berlin this September, boasts a diverse range of rich, dynamic colors to choose from; providing a convenient way for users to enliven their kitchen whenever they feel the need to change or refresh the mood. With the arrival of Viva Magenta, the upper door panel of the fridge now offers a total of 23 color options. Owners of the 4-Door French-Door model can mix and match colors to their personal aesthetic, with more than 190,000 possible color combinations available.
MoodUP™ users can easily select and apply Viva Magenta – and any of the other available colors – by using the intuitive LG ThinQ™ app. Implementing LED color-changeable door panels, LG's innovative kitchen solution gives users the ability to customize the look of their fridge without the cost and hassle of having to physically replace any of its exterior elements.
For a more traditional look in the kitchen, users can turn off the MoodUP™ refrigerator's LED door panels at any time and enjoy the traditional color combination of Lux Gray and Lux White. Timeless and understated, this clean, cool combo harmonizes well with any décor and evokes the natural, subtle contrast of different colored stones.
"Now with Pantone Color of the Year 2023, Viva Magenta, the refrigerator with MoodUP™ epitomizes the convenience and customizability of LG's innovative ThinQ UP™ appliances," said Lyu Jae-cheol, president of LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company. "We will continue to develop advanced lifestyle solutions offering differentiated customer experiences and unprecedented upgradability."
Visitors can experience all of LG's latest innovations, including the LG InstaView™ MoodUP™ refrigerator with Viva Magenta, at the company's booth (#15501, Las Vegas Convention Center) at CES 2023 from January 5-8.
About LG Electronics Home Appliance & Air Solution Company
LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $63 billion global innovator in technology and manufacturing. In the United States, LG sells a wide range of innovative home appliances, home entertainment products, commercial displays, air conditioning systems, solar energy solutions and vehicle components. LG is a seven-time ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year. The company's commitment to environmental sustainability and its "Life's Good" marketing theme encompass how LG is dedicated to people's happiness by exceeding expectations today and tomorrow. www.LG.com.
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Winslow suffers big loss to Show Low, 57-0
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Jake Fraley Player Prop Bets: Reds vs. Dodgers - July 28
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 57 minutes ago
On Friday, Jake Fraley (.528 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including three home runs) and the Cincinnati Reds play the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose starting pitcher will be Bobby Miller. First pitch is at 10:10 PM ET.
In his previous game he had a hitless showing (0-for-4) against the Brewers.
Jake Fraley Game Info & Props vs. the Dodgers
- Game Day: Friday, July 28, 2023
- Game Time: 10:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Dodger Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Dodgers Starter: Bobby Miller
- TV Channel: SportsNet LA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -161)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +140)
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Jake Fraley At The Plate
- Fraley is hitting .264 with 13 doubles, 14 home runs and 32 walks.
- Fraley has picked up a hit in 61.9% of his 84 games this season, with at least two hits in 21.4% of those games.
- In 13 games this season, he has hit a long ball (15.5%, and 4.6% of his trips to the dish).
- Fraley has driven in a run in 37 games this season (44.0%), including 15 games with more than one RBI (17.9%). He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- He has scored in 27 of 84 games this year, and more than once 7 times.
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Dodgers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Dodgers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league.
- The Dodgers have the 20th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.50).
- Dodgers pitchers combine to give up 112 home runs (1.1 per game), the seventh-fewest in baseball.
- Miller (6-1 with a 4.28 ERA and 53 strikeouts in 54 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Dodgers, his 11th of the season.
- His most recent appearance was on Saturday against the Texas Rangers, when the right-hander threw six innings, surrendering three earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- The 24-year-old has a 4.28 ERA and 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings in 10 games this season, while allowing a batting average of .236 to opposing hitters.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines police on Friday recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl who drowned in the Raccoon River after getting off an inflatable raft.
Police said officers found the girl's body at 12:20 p.m., about two days after she entered the river. The girl had been in the raft Wednesday evening with two other children when she got off, went underwater and didn’t resurface, police said.
Emergency responders had been searching the river for the girl since Wednesday.
Police have not identified the girl.
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Chase Elliott will miss Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway after undergoing a three-hour surgery to repair his fractured tibia.
Elliott suffered the injury snowboarding, and Hendrick Motorsports general manager Jeff Andrews said there was no timeline for Elliott's return to racing.
"We’re going to race a long time together with Chase Elliott, and we’re going to win a lot more races together," Andrews said.
"Certainly, there’s a little bit of a setback, and obviously Chase is very disappointed. The most important thing is Chase’s health, and we’ll have a suit ready for him when he’s healthy and ready to get back in a race car."
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Josh Berry will drive the No. 9 Chevrolet in Sunday's Cup race in Las Vegas.
Berry acknowledged he will need to adjust to driving the new car, but he did manage to win two Xfinity Series races on the track in the past. He said his familiarity with the track should be beneficial.
NASCAR'S KURT BUSCH REMAINS OUT AS CONCUSSION SYMPTOMS CONTINUE TO LINGER
"I’m going to be learning a new car here in an hour or so, so at least having some success on the track, I think that definitely gives me more confidence in what I’m doing," Berry said Saturday. "It’s been a wild couple of days. You never know what will happen when you wake up."
Andrews added that the process has started to get a waiver for Elliot from NASCAR. If the waiver is granted, Elliott would be eligible to compete in the playoffs.
Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion, said he spoke with Elliott and shared his own experience returning from a broken right leg and left foot at Daytona in 2015.
"Even as good of a support system as I had around me during my injury, there was a time when we were watching the races on Sunday, and you kind of break down and miss being out there and being in your car and having a chance of going out there to compete," Busch said.
"That’s what we live for and build on our whole lives to have success. Chase is plenty young (27) and, I’m sure, plenty healthy enough that it’s not going to be anything too crazy to go through."
Elliott's injury did not happen on the track, but Andrews said Hendrick Motorsports will not change its new policy regarding drivers' activities away from the track, saying "these guys have to go out and live a life."
Elliott finished second last week in Fontana, California, in the series' second race of the season. Elliott was involved in a crash the week before at the Daytona 500.
He is a second-generation driver and the son of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott. The Georgia native is NASCAR’s five-time fan-voted most popular driver.
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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week seeking health care got caught in a deadly drug-related shootout and kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday.
The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. They came under fire shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast, the FBI said in a statement Sunday.
“All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men,” the FBI said. The bureau is offering a $50,000 reward for the victims’ return and the arrest of the kidnappers.
A video posted to social media Friday shows men with assault rifles and tan body armor loading the four people into the bed of a white pickup in broad daylight. One is alive and sitting up, but the others seemed either dead or wounded. At least one person appeared to lift his head from the pavement before being dragged to the truck.
The scene illustrates the terror that has prevailed for years in Matamoros, a city dominated by factions of the powerful Gulf drug cartel who often fight among themselves. Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the four were traveling to buy medication, “there was a confrontation between groups, and they were detained,” without offering details.
Tamaulipas’ chief prosecutor, Irving Barrios, told reporters that a Mexican woman died in Friday’s shootings. He did not specify whether she was killed in the same gunfight where the kidnapping took place.
A woman driving in Matamoros witnessed what appeared to be the shooting and abduction. She asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal.
The white minivan was hit by another vehicle near an intersection, then gunfire rang out, the woman said. Another SUV rolled up and several armed men hopped out.
“All of a sudden they (the gunmen) were in front of us,” she said. “I entered a state of shock, nobody honked their horn, nobody moved. Everybody must have been thinking the same thing, ‘if we move they will see us, or they might shoot us.’”
She said the gunmen forced a woman, who was able to walk, into the back of a pickup truck. Another person was carried to the truck but could still move his head.
“The other two they dragged across the pavement, we don’t know if they were alive or dead,” she said.
Mexican authorities arrived minutes later.
Photographs from the scene show a white minivan with a bullet hole in the driver’s side window and all of the doors open after apparently colliding with a red SUV.
Shootouts in Matamoros were so bad on Friday that the U.S. Consulate issued an alert about the danger. Local authorities warned people to shelter in place. It was not immediately clear how the abductions may have been connected to that violence.
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said in a statement Monday the Americans were kidnapped at gunpoint and an “innocent” Mexican citizen died in the attack. He said various U.S. justice agencies were working with their Mexican counterparts to recover the missing persons.
Authorities have provided no other details about who the victims were or where they were from.
President Joe Biden had been informed of the situation, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday. She declined to answer other questions, citing privacy concerns.
Victims of violence in Matamoros and other large border cities of Tamaulipas often go uncounted because the cartels have a history taking bodies of their own with them. Local media often avoid reporting on such episodes out of safety concerns, creating an information vacuum.
The State Department warns U.S. citizens not to travel to Tamaulipas. However, being a border city, U.S. citizens who live in Brownsville or elsewhere in Texas frequently cross to visit family, attend medical appointments or shop. It’s also a crossing point for people traveling deeper into Mexico.
As the headquarters of the Gulf cartel, Matamoros was once relatively calm. For years, a night out in the city was part of the “two-nation vacation” for spring breakers flocking to Texas’ South Padre Island.
But increased cartel violence over the past 10 to 15 years frightened away much of that business. Sometimes U.S. citizens are swept up in the fighting.
Three U.S. siblings disappeared near Matamoros in October 2014 while visiting their father and were later found shot to death and burned. Their parents said they had been abducted by men dressed in police gear identifying themselves as “Hercules,” a tactical security unit in the city.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Cash 5" game were:
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SYDNEY, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Saasyan, a leader in AI-powered online student safety, has today launched Image Object Detection AI, a new AI model embedded in their cloud-based, online student safety solution, Saasyan Assure, that identifies and alerts when weapons are found in images across Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
"With instances of threats of violence, extremism and radicalisation increasing in prevalence across the globe, Image Object Detection AI will significantly improve a school's ability to detect, intervene, and address threats to staff and student safety" said Sidney Minassian, CEO of Saasyan.
Capable of identifying more than 4,000 different types of weapons, Image Object Detection AI inspects images uploaded to a student's school online drive, in addition to those exchanged via school email or chat accounts.
Saasyan also announced that it has expanded its natural language processing models (NLP), a vital part of how language-based alerts are generated in Saasyan Assure, to now include detection of threats of violence, extremism and radicalisation.
These NLP models are applied to students' web searches, chats, emails, drive content and even video titles to generate alerts beyond direct matches with Assure's local 'words & phrases' dictionary. If a student performs a search for something like 'where to buy a gun' or 'best place to hide a knife', schools can now receive an alert regardless of if the trigger terms are found in the local dictionary.
With the addition of the new Image Object Detection AI and NLP models, as well as the recently announced Safe Image AI for detecting images containing sexual content and AI-Powered Online Grooming alerts for detecting inappropriate online conversations between adults and children, Saasyan is enabling K-12 schools to perform their duty of care, proactively manage risk and be able to intervene against cyberbullying, self-harm, suicide, threats of violence, online grooming and image-based abuse.
About Saasyan
Saasyan is a leader in AI-Powered Online Student Safety.
With the mass adoption of technology in the classroom and with remote learning, the online safety of students is top of mind for parents, is a high priority for school leaders and is a non-trivial problem for school IT teams.
Saasyan helps schools ensure the online safety of their students with flexible web filter controls for K-12 classrooms, advanced alerting of cyberbullying and self-harm, and comprehensive reporting of student online activities.
Integrating with the world's leading identity, cybersecurity and collaboration platforms already used by schools, Saasyan's all-cloud solution is quick to set up and delivers immediate value.
Today Saasyan serves over 400,000 students across 700 government and non-government schools.
Our mission has just begun.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Next PR, an award-winning public relations firm, today announced it has earned Great Place to Work® Certification™. The prestigious award is based entirely on current employees' experience of working at Next PR. 98% of employees said it's a great place to work – 41 points higher than the average U.S. company.
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience and the leadership behaviors proven to deliver market-leading revenue, employee retention and increased innovation.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Next PR is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
"We owe our continued success to our team of dedicated employees," said Next PR CEO Heather Kelly. "This incredible recognition validates their hard work and contribution to making Next PR a great place to work. Without them, this would not be possible."
At Next PR, creating an exceptional employee experience is a top priority. The firm has invested in a holistic wellness package for all employees, intended to provide benefits and perks to help team members and their families thrive. For a full list of Next PR employee benefits, visit: https://www.nextpr.com/benefits.
According to Great Place to Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company's profits and have a fair chance at promotion.
To join Next PR's award-winning team, explore open positions at: https://www.nextpr.com/careers
About Next PR
Next PR is an award-winning public relations firm with one major focus: results. Next PR is agile, fresh and hyper-focused on helping clients achieve their next big PR goals. Founded in 1978, the company has offices across the nation in San Francisco, Denver, Colorado Springs, Chicago and Philadelphia. Next PR boasts the best and brightest in public relations, but more than that, it brings the fun – and the motivation – to the daily grind. The company has been named a Top Place to Work by PR News and has been recognized by the Dave Thomas Foundation as an Adoption-Friendly Workplace for seven years running. Employees are consistently selected as PR Rising Stars and Communicators of the Year. Learn more about how Next PR pushes boundaries to help clients launch brands, disrupt industries and engage with the audiences that matter most at nextpr.com.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Navy energy security and efficiency expert will focus on innovation, sustainability, resiliency, and best practices for the transportation and storage of high-value, high-consequence, and mission-essential energy sector cargos.
MCLEAN, Va., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CakeBoxx Technologies, the global leader in specialized, high-value, and high-consequence cargo transportation platforms – and innovator of the first and only SAFETY Act-approved intermodal shipping container – announced the appointment of Scott Pugh as the company's Science Advisor. Scott will focus on emerging logistics challenges for the shipment and storage of complex systems, equipment, and materials essential to emerging energy technologies. He will work directly with CakeBoxx Technologies' executive leadership and engineering and logistics teams to provide expert scientific guidance on supply chain requirements for the complex technologies now under development in the energy sector – including offshore wind, renewables, hydrogen, and nuclear power.
"Transporting the world's most important cargo has been a significant challenge for decades and is becoming increasingly complex," said Daine Eisold, CakeBoxx Technologies Founder and CEO. "If any single component is stolen, damaged, or destroyed during shipment, major disruptive consequences occur – for companies, countries, and people counting on those assets being operational. CakeBoxx's revolutionary transport platforms address these inherently complex challenges. This is a natural extension to our origin story," Eisold explained. "CakeBoxx was introduced to the U.S. Government market by Battelle Memorial Labs in 2011, and our innovative and adaptive shipping containers for sophisticated defense materials were first recognized. Today, CakeBoxx customers are committed to climate resilience and environmental sustainability. Given our leadership in onshore wind, aerospace, defense, and other high-value supply chain transportation solutions, it is natural for the energy sector to look to CakeBoxx as a partner. We design and build advanced transportation and storage systems for these critical infrastructure supply chains."
"We're bringing Scott on board now to continue building an amazing leadership team that knows and understands the needs of our customers," Eisold added. "Scott Pugh, our COO Jim Campbell, and CTO Sean Tan all have incredible operational and technical knowledge in defense, energy, and commercial markets. Our goal is to provide the absolute best customer experience, and the best way to accomplish this is by bringing the best leaders onboard."
Eisold believes science and technology integration is essential to the evolution of transportation systems. CakeBoxx transport solutions are a critical component of these systems that not only improve safety and security but also reduce costs, improve speed to market, and enable growth.
Emerging markets in E.V., space, uncrewed vehicles, and sophisticated, final-mile goals all need innovative and capable transport systems. A key differentiator of CakeBoxx designs is a complete departure from standard eight-foot wide by twenty or forty-foot long parameters. This immediately allows shippers of heavy, wider, taller, and longer cargoes to have a safe and flexible option for shipping their complex products associated with these emerging markets. From massive wind turbines and jet engines to customized automotive, aerospace, defense, specialized materials, and numerous other non-conforming sizes, shapes, and assets of strategic importance, CakeBoxx works as an extension of their customer's team to design and produce the safest and most secure transport solutions available. Pugh's role will be focused on continued innovation at CakeBoxx to meet the needs of a wide range of industries whose products are critical to powering, protecting, and producing the essential parts of economies worldwide.
Pugh's 29-year career in the United States Navy established him as an expert in engineering and physics, specifically in the fields of nuclear weapon electromagnetic effects, submarine technology, and nuclear propulsion. During his tenure in the Navy, Pugh served as the Naval Academy Director of Mathematics and Science, Branch Head of Pentagon Navy Special Programs, and Commanding Officer of the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS WHALE (SSN-638). After retiring from active duty in 2005, Pugh began working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate. He led multiple critical infrastructure security initiatives and held the lead position for a JASONs study of severe space weather impacts on the electric grid. In addition, Pugh has served in multiple senior government roles for energy security and efficiency, including working for the Department of Defense (DoD) at the Pentagon and on the White House National Science & Technology Council task force.
Pugh's passion for the shipping industry has deep family roots. It began at an early age while living in Louisiana, where his father worked as an assistant port director. He would take his boat down the bayou to watch the ships enter the port to load and unload cargo from around the world, and it spurred a lifelong interest in the industry.
"CakeBoxx has become the global leader in developing shipping solutions that are transforming the speed, security, and safety of the most consequential cargo in the world, and I'm excited to help the company continue its tremendous trajectory," said Pugh. "Inspired by my early interest in cargo shipping, long careers with the U.S. Navy and Department of Homeland Security, and extensive background in science, I am impressed with everything CakeBoxx is accomplishing with their transformational, customized container designs. I'm thrilled to bring my unique perspective and experience to the table to help CakeBoxx grow into new and expanding markets."
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CakeBoxx Technologies is a global supply chain systems engineering and transportation systems integration solution provider. The company designs and builds cargo shipping containers and platforms to help organizations manage risk, increase resilience, lower total cost of ownership and increase velocity for cargo transportation and specialty manufacturing markets.
CakeBoxx "two-piece" containers with their deck and lid design, are the first innovation in the industry to offer truly safe, secure and efficient containerized transport for the top-loaded, side-loaded, break bulk and general project cargo markets. Advantages of CakeBoxx solutions include increased operational efficiency, reduced risk of cargo theft, and lower operating costs. Using CakeBoxx containers saves money. CakeBoxx Technologies offers these containers in a product line of sizes and specifications to meet individual customer needs.
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Sendoff for ND National Guard members in Fargo
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - On Wednesday, 155 North Dakota National Guard members were honored in a sendoff ceremony. The soldiers from the Fargo-based 191st Military Police Company come from 35 communities across North and South Dakota and Minnesota.
Last March, the soldiers were alerted about a possible deployment overseas for a year-long mission in support of the U.S. Central Command’s Operation Spartan Shield. The operation is made up of active Army, National Guard, and U.S. Army Reserve support units. The task force maintains the U.S. military presence in Southwest Asia to help strengthen defense relationships and build partner capacity.
“You as your soldiers know that you can’t do it without the love and unconditional support of your families back home. And to the family members that are here, know that you’ve got our respect and you’ve got our support. And that’s not just with words but that also through all the veterans organizations and programs we have,” said Governor Doug Burgum.
Thirty soldiers from the same unit served at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2012 and 180 soldiers served in Iraq from 2008 to 2009.
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23XI Racing got a jump on the 2024 Cup Series season with the surprising announcement Tuesday that it signed Tyler Reddick to join the NASCAR team owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin.
Reddick, a two-time Xfinity Series champion, is in his third full season driving for Richard Childress Racing. He is coming off his breakthrough first career Cup victor y on July 3 at Road America.
The 26-year-old Reddick still has one season left driving for RCR, a potentially awkward situation the team addressed in a tweet when it wrote the “ timing of this announcement could not be any worse.”
It seemed a perfect moment to strike for 23XI. The race team fields cars this season for Bubba Wallace and Kurt Busch and both drivers are signed through the end of next season. Hamlin said he expected 23XI to remain a two-car organization and did not address how Reddick and the other drivers would fit — though at 43, Busch’s career could be winding down. Both drivers won a race — Wallace won last season at Talladega; Busch this year at Kansas — for 23XI.
The 26-year-old Reddick signed a multi-year deal with 23XI and is now positioned as an anchor for the team for years ahead.
“I watched him, I raced against him, I wanted him and I got him,” Hamlin said.
Reddick made the playoffs last season and finished 13th in the points standings. His win at Road America earned him a second straight playoff berth and solidified his credentials as a driver on the rise. He’s made 93 career starts and has 11 top-five finishes — five this season – for RCR.
Reddick said his decision should have not been a “total shock” to team owner Richard Childress and that he was ready to chase championships in the No. 8 Chevrolet with the time he has left at RCR.
“We’re going to see it through together and we’re going to go out and make the most of it,” Reddick said. “We’re going to try and grow together.”
Hamlin said Busch and Wallace were expected to return in 2023 and it was too early to determine all the important details for Reddick such as sponsor, car number — and even which driver he would replace in the lineup, if any at all.
Hamlin said he wanted Busch, the 2004 Cup champion, to end his career with 23XI.
“Once he’s done driving, he’s going to have a nice cushy office job at 23XI,” Hamlin said.
The race team was founded in 2021 with Wallace as the lone driver. Busch was added this season. The only Black driver in the Cup series, Wallace has struggled this season and has two top-10 finishes in 19 Cup races. Hamlin said “all scenarios are always out there” but appeared committed to keep 23XI a two-car lineup.
Reddick, who is part of a two-car lineup at RCR with Austin Dillon, “crashed” a scheduled Toyota video call Tuesday that included Hamlin, Toyota Racing Development David Wilson and 23XI Racing President Steve Lauletta. Reddick defended the decision to announce his 2024 jump almost a year and a half ahead of his scheduled first points race for 23XI Racing in the Daytona 500.
“I feel like it gives everyone time to figure out what lies ahead,” Reddick said. “I feel like it’s better to do it now than in the playoffs. There’s no reason to kick the can down the road.”
The decision to announce a driver signing this far out from his debut has happened before in NASCAR — and 23XI strongly felt Reddick, who won the Xfinity Series title in 2018 with JR Motorsports and 2019 with RCR, was too talented to let him test the free-agent market.
“It’s not unprecedented but it is rare,” Hamlin said, “and so is Tyler.”
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Getting in the water is a nice way to cool off from the heat, but there are many other reasons seniors should consider aquatic activities.
It’s necessary for seniors to stay as active as they can, and water aerobics and other aquatic exercises are a great way to stay fit.
Pamela G. Huenink, a certified exercise physiologist at Community Hospital Fitness Pointe in Munster, said seniors can achieve a variety of benefits by participating in water activities.
Aquatic exercise classes at Fitness Pointe take place in the facility’s lap pool, which stays at 82 degrees, as well as its 92-degree therapy pool.
Stretches done in the therapy pool help participants enhance flexibility. Huenink said muscle strength and flexibility are key for maintaining independence.
“The Fitness Pointe aqua classes are designed to help our aging population keep their independence as long as possible, and we love to have new people join our classes and see their own improvement with consistent class attendance,” Huenink said.
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The warmer water pool also offers functional and strength water programs.
“These classes work on toning the body as well as improving balance and coordination all through movements that use the buoyancy and viscosity of the water to challenge the body’s skeletal muscles,” Huenink said. “The use of hand buoys, noodles and small Pilates balls give participants consistent challenges to help them with stability when out of the pool.”
In the 82-degree lap pool, water aerobics participants can increase their heart rate by performing larger body movements.
“Movements such as walking or marching in place, small hopping movements, modified jumping jacks and slow jogging are common,” Huenink said. “It is also common to hold hand buoys when completing these movements to challenge the upper body. They come in different sizes so a class participant can choose how much they want to be challenged, if they prefer to hold the buoys.”
Aquatic exercise classes have many other benefits for seniors.
“There is little to no impact on the joints in the body,” Huenink said of water programs.
Being in the water can help take pressure off sore joints, muscles and the spine while participating in the exercises.
“Because of the combination of buoyancy and viscosity, the core muscles are challenged as people move through the water, which helps improve balance out of the water,” Huenink said.
When it comes to determining how often to participate in water classes or other fitness programs, Huenink recommends seniors stay as active as they can.
“Physical activity is paramount to ensuring that as we age, we keep our muscles flexible and our joints’ range of motion as large as possible,” Huenink said. “Adding exercise, specifically water classes, to a weekly regimen of movement will help a senior maintain or even improve these things. The best place to start for a senior is two to three times a week consistently moving at a comfortable pace for 10 to 15 minutes, working up to 30 minutes a day.
“If someone can move 30 minutes each day five to six days a week, they will be well on their way to keeping a healthy lifestyle that will encourage longevity of life.”
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BUCHAREST (AP) — NATO turned its attention on Wednesday to three countries shaken by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — Bosnia, Georgia and Moldova — as the military alliance struggles to extend its security umbrella across Europe.
At talks in Romania, the foreign ministers of the three countries met with their NATO counterparts to discuss ways that the world’s biggest security organization might be able to help, as the war in Ukraine exposes them to political, energy and territorial uncertainty.
While the cause of the problems facing Bosnia, Georgia, and Moldova is clear, their needs and the way that NATO might be able to help them are not. No straightforward proposals about what might be done were offered by NATO ministers as they arrived at the Palace of the Parliament in the capital Bucharest.
Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra said the meeting is aimed at ensuring “more safety and security on the European continent,” and “is a signal … on how important it is to create stability not only for NATO countries itself, but also beyond.”
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told reporters that it was important not to let a “gray zone be here, to be taken over by other forces.”
Bosnia has long been wracked by political instability, but protests rocked the Bosnian Serb half of the ethnically divided country last month after some voters alleged that a pro-Russian Bosnian Serb leader rigged an election in the Serb entity, Republika Srpska.
Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic said her country, where a government is in the process of being formed following the elections, “is very concerned about the future.”
“We have proxies, or we had the proxies, in our government, Russian proxies. So division in the country is deep and we hope that we will be able to overcome it. NATO’s presence is extremely important for Bosnia-Herzegovina because it is a guarantor of our security,” she said.
NATO has promised Georgia that, like Ukraine, it will join the 30-nation alliance one day, but Russian troops swept into Georgia after that pledge was made 14 years ago. A breakaway Georgian region has this year threatened to hold a referendum on joining Russia.
Russia’s war in Ukraine has had a troubling effect on Moldova, which is currently facing a severe energy crisis due to its reliance on Russian energy.
In recent weeks it has suffered massive power outages as a result of Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid. Russian missiles have also traversed its skies, and in April blasts occurred in the country’s Russian-backed breakaway region of Transnistria — where Moscow bases around 1,500 troops.
Things are moving more positively in other parts of Europe. Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said that he and his counterparts from Finland and Turkey had held “a very good” meeting aimed at unblocking Turkish opposition to his country joining NATO.
Billstrom said that he plans to travel to Ankara soon for further talks. NATO is eager to add the two Nordic nations to its ranks. They applied to join in April, amid concern that Russia might target them next. Turkey and Hungary are the holdouts on ratifying their applications. The 28 other member nations have already done so.
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Intoxicated man causing disturbances attempts to hide from police under a blanket
BELFAST, Maine (Gray News) – Police in Maine did not have to use top of the line detective skills to find a suspect who was attempting to hide from them at a local inn.
The Belfast Police Department said officers were called to the Admiral Ocean Inn late Sunday night for the report of an intoxicated man causing a disturbance.
When they arrived, they met up with Philip Dulude and removed him from the property. They also told him he would be arrested if he came back.
A few hours later, a sergeant with the department was checking the parking lot of the inn, where he found someone sitting in a chair and hiding under a blanket. When the sergeant pulled the blanket off, he found Dulude hiding under it.
The department says Dulude was then taken into custody and charged with criminal trespass and violation of bail conditions.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City police said Wednesday an extortion and drug-dealing gang was behind the Dec. 15 shooting attack on one of Mexico’s best-known journalists.
Police Chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said 11 people had been detained in connection with the attack on a vehicle driven by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva.
The little-known gang dealt in murder, extorting money from businessmen and street-level drug dealing on the city's rough east side.
Officials did not explain why such a small-time gang tried to kill one of Mexico’s most prominent journalists.
Gómez Leyva escaped shaken but unharmed, after two gunmen on a motorcycle tried to kill him in a late-night attack on a Mexico City street. He was saved by his SUV having bullet-proofing.
In raids and searches that led to the detentions, police found a cap with the letters CJNG, the initials of the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
But Garcia Harfuch said that did not necessarily mean the cartel was involved.
“It is very frequent in Mexico City for criminal gangs to use names — Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco Cartel — just to communicate a link with them, without meaning they are part” of the cartels, he said. “As in other arrests and searches, they have the initials of any number of cartels.”
A top lieutenant of the Jalisco cartel threatened another journalist earlier in 2022, which was the deadliest year in at least three decades for Mexican journalists and media workers, with 15 slayings.
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Best wooden baseball bats
Many youth or amateur baseball players are more familiar with using aluminum baseball bats or training bats made with composite materials, but professional baseball players must use traditional wooden bats. Many amateur leagues also require them.
So if you’re required to buy a wooden bat, or you want to get comfortable with using one, which wooden baseball bat should you get?
What to consider before buying a wooden baseball bat
Your level of experience
Baseball beginners should aim to use a bat that gives them optimal control. Wooden bats that offer the best control are typically lightweight and are made from bamboo or ash. Either lets beginners hone their skills due to relatively equal weight distribution throughout the bat, making it easier to both swing and connect with the ball.
Maple, birch and hickory bats, on the other hand, are aimed at intermediate to advanced players who are aiming for hitting power. If you’re looking for something in between, a composite bat made of ash and maple might be best.
The bat’s weight
The weight of the bat you choose doesn’t depend only on your experience level. It’s important to take into account what type of hitter you are — or want to become.
Hitters who are just trying to get on base, for example, will almost always aim to use a lighter bat. It will connect with the ball more effectively and efficiently than a heavier bat, though the baseball may not travel as far.
If you aim to become a heavy hitter who sends balls out of the park, however, and you’re not worried about executing crisp, precise shots, a heavier bat that creates optimum momentum is preferable.
The bat’s handle
Old-school wooden bats typically have a round handle that gets thinner the closer it gets to the top. This shape is not ergonomic and can burn out forearm strength quickly in beginners.
For the purposes of comfort and durability, beginner and modern bats have axe handles. This style of handle lets beginners grip the bat more effectively because it fits the shape of the hand and burns less energy when you grip. This lets you apply more energy as you swing.
However, axe-handle bats are limited to certain manufacturers, and more experienced players may prefer a conventional round handle.
The bat’s knob
The knob is a critical component of any wooden bat. A knob is the disc shape at the very bottom of a bat that ensures the bat does not slip out of the hand when swung. However, some are more comfortable than others.
The best style for beginners is tapered. This makes sure that the grip feels more natural.
The bat’s barrel
Since a large-barrel bat provides more weight at the end of the bat, it is generally preferred by power hitters. But contact hitters typically prefer small-barrel bats. The trade-off is that the larger barrel is harder to swing, and it’s more difficult to maintain accuracy.
There are other features for larger-barrel bats that can provide better outcomes for contact hitters. For example, thicker handles and cupped ends provide more grip. They also distribute weight better to make the bat easier to swing.
Types of wooden baseball bats
Type of wood
Three main types of wood are used to make bats:
- Ash: Bats made from ash provide a larger “sweet spot” with a strong end to strike the ball. But they’re more prone to breaking when the ball hits closer to the handle.
- Maple: The hardest wood used for bats, maple provides lots of power and is less prone to breaking. But players struggle to achieve the same power they can get with ash.
- Birch: Birch bats sit in the middle, softer than maple but harder than ash. For players who regularly hit the ball at different points along the bat, including the handle and the end, it’s the best option.
Drop weight
The term “drop weight” is a way to categorize bats based on their power. The drop weight is the length of the bat minus the weight.
The drop weight number is labeled with a stamp on the bar. Adult baseball bats usually have a drop weight of -2 or -3. Younger players usually need a drop weight closer to -4 or -5, but many use a drop weight as low as -8.
Lighter bats provide more speed in the swing, but power is produced by weight. So players should find the heaviest bat they can still swing comfortably.
Top wooden baseball bats
Rawlings Adirondack Ash Wood Youth Baseball Bat
This bat is ideal for kids who want to practice faster swing speeds. The medium barrel balances speed with accuracy and the cupped end provides balance.
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Louisville Slugger Prime Yelich Maple Baseball Bat
The dense composition of this maple bat provides lots of power and the carefully crafted cup is designed to minimize breakage. The swing weight is end loaded for extra power.
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Victus MH17 Pro Reserve Birch Wood Baseball Bat
With the largest sweet spot of any wooden Victus bat, this balanced bat enables fast swing and tons of accuracy.
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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a reported home invasion that occurred Tuesday in Brooksville.
According to the sheriff’s office, deputies were dispatched to a home on Seaway Drive around 2:30 a.m.
When they arrived, deputies met with the victim, a man, who said he had just returned home from work in Tampa.
The man said when he pulled into his driveway around 2:15 a.m., an unknown vehicle pulled up in the road at his driveway.
When the victim got out of his vehicle, four men left the other car.
According to police, the four men were dressed in black, wore masks and were all armed with various firearms.
The men ordered the victim to get on the ground.
The men demanded money and jewelry from the victim and escorted him to the front door of his home, police said.
The victim unlocked the door and the other men followed him into the home.
According to the victim, he and four family members in the home were placed in a bedroom and told to stay there.
The men took various things from inside the home and fled the scene. The victim and his family left the bedroom and contacted law enforcement.
Detectives and forensic specialists responded to the scene and conducted interviews with the victims and collected physical evidence.
None of the victims were injured during the incident.
If you have information on the reported home invasion, contact Hernando County Crime Stoppers to remain anonymous. You can call 1-866-990-TIPS or **TIPS from a cell phone. Tips can also be submitted online.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — One of the most popular gifts people like to give for Valentine’s Day is flowers. The tradition of floral arrangements as gifts dates all the way back to the 17th century with research showing that 64% of men buy flowers for their loved ones.
There’s a lot that goes into getting the perfect bouquet made for that special someone. According to gourmetgiftbaskets.com, 224 million roses are grown specifically for Valentine's Day.
5NEWS had the chance to talk to a local florist, Eden Garett with Eden’s Botanicals. She said she ordered more than $20,000 worth of flowers this year for the big day. They expect to get about 600 orders for Valentine's Day with quite a few employees ready to help.
Eden’s Flower Truck will be parked at the Pinnacle Hills Promenade at Kendra Scott so shoppers can buy last minute flowers.
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