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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Former Michigan big man Hunter Dickinson entered the NCAA transfer portal shortly after the college basketball season concluded, immediately becoming the highest profile player to do so.
Now, about a month later, Dickinson still has not made up his mind on where he will play next season. Speaking on the RoundBall Podcast Tuesday, Dickinson revealed he had hoped to have a decision by now, but is still figuring it out - a process he called 'exhausting'.
The former All-American and three time All Big Ten selection is down to four finalists - Kentucky, Kansas, Maryland, and Villanova - and Locked on College Basketball's Andy Patton and Leif Thulin gave their thoughts on where they believe he will ultimately end up next season.
"I thought Villanova was the most likely, because Dickinson wants to make the NBA," Thulin said. "And no school is better at teaching fundamentals and parlaying that into successful NBA careers [with players] that aren't superb athletes, while also being successful at the college level."
Villanova is near Dickinson's hometown, has significant pedigree as a program, and is in dire need of a big man after having 6'8 Eric Dixon as the biggest player in last year's rotation.
Kansas could also use a more traditional back to the basket big, something Bill Self has a lot of experience with, and playing alongside KJ Adams would make a very daunting frontcourt in Lawrence.
Maryland emerged as an early destination because of Dickinson's connection with assistant coach Mike Jones, who coached him in high school, but he previously held a grudge when the old Maryland staff, led by Mark Turgeon, did not recruit him out of high school.
Finally, there is the Kentucky conundrum. The Wildcats may return Oscar Tshiebwe for yet another season, and Dickinson won't play in Lexington if he is back - leaving them in a bit of a holding pattern. Is that what is holding Dickinson up? Or will he end up joining Neptune and helping Villanova back to prominence after a down season in 2022-23?
A decision is likely coming soon for the big man, and wherever he chooses will have a ripple effect across the college basketball landscape.
For more analysis on Dickinson's decision, check out Locked on College Basketball.
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When can kids safely take off their masks in school? About three-fourths of the nation's largest districts required masks at the start of the school year. Recently, the calls by some parents to unmask children have grown louder, especially now that there is a COVID-19 vaccine available with emergency authorization for children as young as 5 years old.
The country is still in a pandemic that's killing more than 1,000 Americans every day. And a body of evidence shows masking, in combination with other safety measures, effectively cuts COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools. Masks are cheaper than renovating school buildings to improve ventilation or create outdoor learning spaces, and they're (still) easier to get ahold of than COVID-19 tests, which can also be used to preempt transmission.
On the other hand, masking has continued, in many cases, into a third school semester. Several months after most adults have been eligible for vaccines, tens of millions of children are spending school days with the bottom half of their faces swathed in either fabric or, in the case of surgical masks, a substance called "melt-blown polypropylene." If they have a long commute, they could be masking for 10 or more hours a day; in some districts, masks are required even outside. Parents are concerned about social development, language learning, skin irritation and mental health.
NPR posed the question of when kids can safely take their masks off in school to scientists and policy leaders in different parts of the country and found a range of nuanced positions and timelines.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
When can kids take off their masks? Not now.
In a statement to NPR, a spokesperson said, "CDC continues to recommend universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students, and visitors to K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status or community transmission levels. At this time, there are no changes, however, as the science changes, we will update our guidance as needed." CDC director Rochelle Walensky has backed keeping masks on in schools "as we head into these winter months."
Massachusetts State Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
When? Immediately — with enough vaccinations.
How? A school must demonstrate a vaccination rate of 80% or more of both staff and students. The decision can be made "by local school and district leaders in consultation with local health officials." Schools must collect proof of vaccination of everyone from administrative assistants to after-school staff. Unvaccinated people must keep masking.
Joseph Allen, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
When? Jan. 1, 2022, once younger children have a chance to get vaccinated.
How? Allen, whose expertise is healthy buildings, is not in favor of a vaccine threshold for unmasking students, given the low risk of COVID-19 to children. He thinks schools should mandate vaccines for adults in school buildings, hold vaccination clinics on-site and provide education to encourage vaccines for kids, and use rapid antigen testing, ventilation and air filtration to lower risk even further.
"I've been a big proponent of mask wearing for a long time, for over a year, but at this point in the pandemic, it no longer makes sense to me," he tells NPR. "If we don't offer paths to removing masks at this point in a pandemic, when risks are low and the tools for protection are there — the vaccine specifically — then we lose trust."
Danny Benjamin, distinguished professor of pediatrics at Duke University, co-chair of the ABC Collaborative
When? January 2022, once younger children have ample chance to get vaccinated.
How? Benjamin of the ABC Collaborative, which has done some of the largest studies showing the efficacy of universal masking in schools, would prefer that 100% of adults in the building are vaccinated or masked, and at least 70% of the children are vaccinated. At "70 to 80 percent, there's a good chance you're going to be successful." And, because risk tolerance varies by district, he says, some districts might go mask-free with as few as half the children vaccinated — if they can accept more COVID-19 transmission as a result.
Amy Falk, pediatrician, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.
When? "In my heart of hearts," not for a while, but realistically, once children's vaccines have been available for at least several weeks.
"My big holdout is getting every kid protected who wants to be protected. And that, you know, whatever happens after that, I guess everyone's made their choice with it."
Falk is lead author of a widely cited study showing that 90% mask compliance cut COVID-19 transmission within several schools in Wisconsin last fall, even when the spread in the community was high.
Vaccination rates in her community are low — around 50% for adults and even lower for teenagers — and she doesn't expect much better for her younger patients. Opposition to mask mandates, meanwhile, has grown intense. Falk, who offers medical advice to her local school district, has been personally afraid to attend school board meetings since the May 2021 meeting, which she describes as "a very unsafe situation. There was a mass of anti-masking parents and some students. They were heckling us. They were not letting us leave. It was very, very heartbreaking."
Public pressure led to the mask mandate in high schools being lifted this fall, which led in turn, she said, to "massive spread. It was unreal." The board reinstated masking after two weeks. Falk wishes for continued masking, but, she says, "I actually don't know if I think, at a state level, they could pull it off."
Ali Mokdad, professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington
When? Let's not even talk about it until the spring.
Mokdad sees signs of a coming winter COVID-19 surge and of waning immunity from adult vaccination. He implores, "We should not celebrate prematurely. We should be very wise about what's happening right now. We're talking about our children. We're talking about our future."
Jeanne Noble, associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of COVID response for the UCSF Emergency Department
When? Dec. 28 in the Bay Area, eight weeks after the FDA's emergency authorization of the vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds.
How? Noble's recommendation is for schools to follow the metrics the Bay Area has set for unmasking adults in public spaces: low community transmission, low and stable COVID-19 hospitalizations, and high rates of vaccination — currently at 80% of San Francisco residents over 5 years old.
Like Benjamin and the state of Massachusetts, Noble thinks that unmasking once schools reach a threshold of 70% to 80% vaccination rates for students would be fine, even conservative. But she says going by community metrics is preferable because it's simpler and more consistent. Dr. Noble is one of the authors of a petition signed by 150 Bay Area medical professionals, asking the state of California to create a clear masking off-ramp for schools.
"People are tired of this," Dr. Noble says. "There's a sense, I think, in a child's life, particularly, that things are never going to change." She says that parents need to be able to give kids hope by telling them that a day is coming when they will be able to play at school with their friends without masks on.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf
When? Jan. 1, 2022
On Nov. 9, Wolf, a Democrat, announced the statewide K-12 mask mandate will lift on Jan. 1. He's not tying it to any requirements around student vaccination but is leaving the decision to local jurisdictions.
Outgoing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio
When? Not yet. The Democratic mayor, who oversees the country's largest school district, said at a news conference that the mandate would stay in place "out of an abundance of caution."
Incoming New York City Mayor Eric Adams:
When? He told CNN he "looks forward to it ... if we can find a safe way to do it."
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PARIS (AP) — Unrest across France sparked by the police shooting of a 17-year-old appeared to slow overnight after six nights.
In all, according to the Interior Ministry, there were 157 arrests overnight, down from a peak of 3,880 arrests during the fiery night of June 30, and two law enforcement stations were attacked, among other damage.
Around 45,000 officers were deployed nationwide to counter violence fuelled by anger over discrimination against people who trace their roots to former French colonies and live in low-income neighborhoods. Nahel, the teenager killed last Tuesday, was of Algerian descent and was shot in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
Across France, 297 vehicles were torched overnight along with 34 buildings.
A burning car stuck the home of the mayor of the Paris suburb L’Hay-les-Roses over the weekend, an unusually personal attack amid the backdrop of fires and vandalism targeting police stations and town halls.
French President Emmanuel Macros has blamed social media for the spread of the unrest and called on parents to take responsibility for their teenagers. Eric Dupond-Moretti, the justice minister, told France Inter radio that parents who abdicated that responsibility “either through disinterest or deliberately” would be prosecuted.
Mayor Vincent Jeanbrun said his wife and one of his children were injured and criticized the government for doing too little, too late — and said blaming social media or parents was papering over a bigger problem.
“The base ingredients are still there. For several years now, all summer long, explosives go off that keep people from sleeping, that make them crazy,” he told BFM television on Monday. “We are powerless summer after summer.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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NEW YORK — A new work by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, written for an upcoming NASA mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, is a glance at outer space that returns back to Earth.
Limón's “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa,” which she read Thursday night during a ceremony at the Library of Congress, is part of NASA's “ Message In a Bottle Campaign ” as the aeronautics and space administration prepares for a years-long journey. The Europa Clipper is expected to launch in October 2024, with “In Praise of Mystery” engraved on the spacecraft.
NASA's campaign also gives people a chance to have their names engraved on the spacecraft, according to the website.
“Writing this poem was one of the greatest honors of my life, but also one of the most difficult tasks I’ve ever been assigned,” Limón said in a statement released through the Library of Congress. “Eventually, what made the poem come together was realizing that in pointing toward other planets, stars and moons, we are also recognizing the enormous gift that is our planet Earth. To point outward is also to point inward.”
During a recent interview with The Associated Press, Limón said she struggled at first with the poem, explaining that because of its official nature she couldn't rely on her usual instincts. After working on more than a dozen drafts, she received invaluable advice from her husband, Lucas Marquardt, who urged her to write the poem is if it were personal, a “poem that you would write anyway.”
“I think of all the times as a child that I would look down and find a whole universe in the grass, or in a small, watery wedge from the creek across the street from my house,” she said. “But than I also think that that was in tandem with looking up at the moon.”
The 7-stanza poem begins as a tribute to “the night sky inky/with black expansiveness,” a sky we read as an “unerring book of the universe.” But, Limón adds, treasures can be found below the sky.
Limón, 47, has been poet laureate since 2022 and was recently appointed by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden to a second term, lasting two years. Her books include “Bright Dead Things” and “The Carrying.”
READ: "In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa"
"Arching under the night sky inky
with black expansiveness, we point
to the planets we know, we
pin quick wishes on stars. From earth,
we read the sky as if it is an unerring book
of the universe, expert and evident.
Still, there are mysteries below our sky:
the whale song, the songbird singing
its call in the bough of a wind-shaken tree.
We are creatures of constant awe,
curious at beauty, at leaf and blossom,
at grief and pleasure, sun and shadow.
And it is not darkness that unites us,
not the cold distance of space, but
the offering of water, each drop of rain,
each rivulet, each pulse, each vein.
O second moon, we, too, are made
of water, of vast and beckoning seas.
We, too, are made of wonders, of great
and ordinary loves, of small invisible worlds,
of a need to call out through the dark."
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge is considering Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s arguments that a new Kansas law rolling back transgender rights doesn’t bar the state from changing the sex listing on transgender people’s birth certificates.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree ruled Tuesday that Kelly’s office can defend her administration’s policy of changing birth certificates and accepted its “friend of the court” arguments. The state’s Republican attorney general, Kris Kobach, argues that a law that took effect July 1 prohibits such changes and requires the state to undo previous ones.
The new law, which was enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature over Kelly’s veto, defines male and female based on a person’s sex assigned at birth for “any” state law or regulation. If Kobach is successful, Kansas would be only among a few states that don’t make such changes, along with Montana and Tennessee.
The issue is before Crabtree because he is enforcing a 2019 legal settlement that requires the state to change birth certificates for transgender people. Kobach has argued that the new law nullifies that settlement and has asked Crabtree to revoke his order that made the agreement binding.
The 2018 lawsuit that led to the settlement was filed by four transgender people and named three Kansas health department officials who oversee birth certificates as defendants, but not the governor. Kelly, therefore, needed the judge’s permission to make her own arguments.
In her filing that Crabtree accepted Tuesday, Kelly’s office argued that the new law is discriminatory but the health department is not violating it by changing birth certificates. In a separate filing, the four transgender people said “the zealous desire” of some officials to discriminate against transgender people doesn’t justify reconsidering the legal settlement’s terms.
“Such an outcome would undermine confidence in courts’ ability to vindicate constitutional rights,” they argued.
Kobach also is attacking changes in the sex listings on Kansas driver’s licenses in a separate a state-court lawsuit.
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Meet the American who 'won the war for us': Andrew Jackson Higgins, World War II New Orleans boatbuilder
Praised by Ike, Higgins reinvented amphibious warfare with iconic landing craft
Andrew Jackson Higgins was born and raised 1,000 miles from the ocean, yet forever changed war fought from sea.
He designed and manufactured the iconic World War II amphibious landing craft that delivered Allied troops onto hostile beachheads from North Africa to Normandy to Iwo Jima and countless battle zones in between.
Higgins "is the man who won the war for us," Dwight D. Eisenhower said in a 1964 interview with historian Stephen Ambrose.
It’s astonishing praise from the highest authority.
Ike, before becoming president, was the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
He planned and executed the D-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944 — the largest, most ambitious, most successful amphibious attack in the history of warfare.
The Allies landed 160,000 men on the shores of France in the first 24 hours alone – many of them, if not most of them, sent into the breach from one of Higgins’ innovative steel-and-wood landing craft.
Higgins was a pugnacious Irish-American boatbuilder. Born in Nebraska, he rose to fame as a titan of wartime industry in New Orleans.
"Higgins is the man who won the war for us."
"With his wavy brown hair, square jaw and broad shoulders, Higgins looked like he could take care of himself in a fight," Paul Martin wrote in 2012 book, "Secret Heroes: Everyday Americans Who Shaped Our World."
Commonly called Higgins Boats, his landing craft were officially known in military parlance as LCVPs (land craft, vehicle, personnel).
They were built to quickly unload men and equipment in shallow surf hazarded by underwater obstacles, then quickly reverse and return to the mother ship for more.
He developed a larger version of the Higgins Boat called LCMs (landing craft, mechanized), sturdy enough to deliver troops with a battle tank from ship to shore.
The Army soldiers who fought their way up the spine of Italy to take it back from the fascists, the Rangers who scaled the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day and the Marines who famously raised the flag over Iwo Jima all arrived into battle aboard Higgins Boats.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur famously splashed out of a Higgins Boat onto the Philippines in 1944.
"I have returned," MacArthur declared, two years after his forces in the Philippines were embarrassingly routed, his men killed, imprisoned and tortured by Japan.
The grim but effectively utility of the Higgins Boat was popularized among a new generation of Americans in the horrific opening scene of the 1998 Tom Hanks war epic, "Saving Private Ryan."
"If it wasn’t for Andrew Higgins, the world could have gone a whole different way."
"If it wasn’t for Andrew Higgins, the world could have gone a whole different way," said Fred Hoppe, a Nebraska artist who shares the same hometown as the boatbuilder.
"It could have been tyranny for the world instead of victory for us."
Hoppe is celebrated for his sculptures that pay homage to American war heroes around the world, including two dedicated to Higgins: one in Nebraska and one at Utah Beach in Normandy.
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The tributes are personal to Hoppe. His father, Fritz, landed in Anzio, Italy, aboard a Higgins Boat in 1944. He returned to raise a family but suffered from battle wounds the rest of his life.
Raised on the banks of the Big Muddy
Andrew Jackson Higgins was born on August 28, 1886, in Columbus, Nebraska to John G. and Annie (O’Conor) Higgins.
His dad, originally from Chicago, was a prominent judge, lawyer and newspaper publisher, connected at the highest levels of American politics.
"Higgins was a close friend of Grover Cleveland and an enthusiastic Democrat," Jerry Strahan wrote in his 1998 biography of the boatmaker, "Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II."
Strahan added, "So enthusiastic that he named his new son after the party’s twice successful presidential candidate Andrew Jackson."
John Higgins died after falling down a flight of stairs when Andrew was just 7 years old.
Annie Higgins moved the fatherless family to Omaha to begin life anew on the banks of the Missouri River.
It's apparently a quirk of history that the man who built the boats that achieved their greatest fame for attacking Omaha Beach in France on D-Day in 1944 spent his youth in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Missouri River proved the gateway to the deepest interior of the continent during the Lewis & Clark Expeditions. It was here along the shallow "Big Muddy" that Higgins drew the inspiration that would one day deliver American might across the deepest oceans.
Higgins joined the state militia where, among other things, he got his first taste of amphibious warfare.
Higgins joined the state militia where, among other things, he got his first taste of amphibious warfare.
"The troops had to cross the Platte River by pontoon," writes Strahan.
"The experience, coupled with a strong desire to read instilled in him by his mother, led Higgins to become a student of military history."
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But "money was scarce and times were hard," reports the website of the Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial in Nebraska.
Higgins sought opportunity elsewhere.
He moved to Mobile, Alabama, in 1906 and found employment in the lumber industry. He opened his own business, Higgins Lumber and Export Co., in New Orleans n 1922.
He eventually hauled exotic woods from around the world on his own fleet of sailing ships, "said to have been the largest under American registry at that time," according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Higgins Lumber was forced out of business at the dawn of the Great Depression.
"Nevertheless, the indefatigable Higgins, who laughed at adversity and whose vocabulary did not include the word ‘impossible,' kept his boatbuilding firm (established in 1930 as Higgins Industries)," reports the Naval History and Heritage Command.
"The Eureka Boat featured a shallow draft, recessed propeller … and the remarkable ability to run up on land and reverse back into water."
Higgins found success selling an innovative type of shallow-water craft called the Eureka Boat to oilmen and trappers who worked the bayous and the delta around New Orleans.
The Eureka Boat featured a shallow draft, recessed propeller, ideal for negotiating water filled with unseen obstacles below the surface, and the remarkable ability to run up on land and reverse back into water.
The military history enthusiast had unknowingly reinvented amphibious warfare. He solved a problem plaguing American military planners in the 1930s as they prepared for the global war ahead.
Most ancient form of naval warfare
Amphibious assault is "the most ancient form of naval warfare," famed historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote in his 1962 epic of the U.S. Navy in World War II, "The Two-Ocean War."
The ancient Greeks, Phoenicians and Norsemen all "distinguished themselves" in the ability launch attack from sea to land, he added.
This age-old art of war, however, "became discredited in World War I and for years thereafter was neglected by all naval powers except Japan," Morison wrote.
Faith in air power, and the famously deadly British military blunder at Gallipoli in 1915, appeared to make amphibious warfare obsolete.
"Amphibious assault is the most ancient form of naval warfare."
"Land-based aircraft and modern coast defense guns would slaughter any landing force before it reached the beach," Morison wrote of the wisdom of the day.
Amphibious invasions of the past reached the beach on standard shallow water boats, either rowed or motorized, that had barely evolved from the days that the Ancient Greeks attacked across the Mediterranean or that Washington crossed the Delaware in 1776.
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A World War I Marine Corps recruit ad shows jarheads attacking a land target by jumping out of rowboats no different from one they might have rowed across a lake.
American military planners of the 1930s bucked the conventional wisdom of the era.
The United States, they correctly assumed, would be forced to insert its forces violently onto hostile beaches across both the Atlantic and the Pacific in the coming two-ocean war.
They turned to Higgins and his Eureka boats.
They needed a new, better and more powerful way to deliver men and equipment from ship to shore.
They turned to Higgins and his Eureka boats. The sturdy but nimble vessels could move in shallow water, they had propellors protected from underwater obstacles and, after powering the bow up on land, they could quickly back up and return to water.
"When tested in 1938 by the Navy and Marine Corps, Higgins' Eureka boat surpassed the performance of [a] Navy-design boat and was tested by the services during fleet landing exercises in February 1939," reports the Naval History and Heritage Command.
"Satisfactory in most respects, the boat's major drawback appeared to be that equipment had to be unloaded, and men disembarked, over the sides, thus exposing them to enemy fire in a combat situation."
Japan at the same time had developed a boat with a drop-down ramp at the bow. Military planners showed a picture to Higgins.
He described it to his chief engineer over the phone and ordered him to work on it immediately.
"Higgins Industries responded by shattering production records, turning out more than 20,000 boats – 12,500 of them LCVPs – by the end of the war."
Higgins Industries successfully demonstrated with new boat with the drop-down bow less than a month later.
The LCVP, the Higgins Boat, was born. It could carry up to 36 troops with combat gear, a jeep with 12 men, or more than four tons of cargo, deliver all of it right to the beach, back up and return to the mother ship for more men or equipment.
They were operated by a four-man crew, reached speeds of 12 knots, were armed with two 30-caliber machine guns and could float in just 3 feet of water.
The U.S. and its Allies ordered them by the thousands.
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"In 1938, [Higgins] operated a single boatyard employing less than 75 workers," reports the National World War II Museum of New Orleans.
"By late 1943, seven plants employed more than 25,000 workers. They responded by shattering production records, turning out more than 20,000 boats — 12,500 of them LCVPs — by the end of the war."
Inspired by the Missouri shallows
There is a powerful monument today that stands at the head of the pristine rows of white gravestones at Normandy American Cemetery at Omaha Beach.
It depicts a graceful man in bronze, like an ancient god, who appears to be swimming skyward, as if to heaven.
It's called the "Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves," dedicated to the sacrifices of the 9,386 American soldiers buried in sprawling ocean-bluff cemetery beyond the monument.
"Ninety-three percent of the U.S. Navy's 14,072 vessels in 1943 were built by Higgins Industries."
"A lot more men would have died if not for the Higgins Boats," said Hoppe, the Nebraska artist, who created two statues dedicated to Higgins.
One stands proudly in their hometown of Columbus, Nebraska. The other stands at Utah Beach in France, where Higgins Boats, and the men on them, led the liberation of Europe.
Andrew Jackson Higgins himself died on August 1, 1952, in New Orleans.
He was 65 years old.
"If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach," Eisenhower said in 1964, expanding on his claim that Higgins won World War II.
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"The whole strategy of the war would have been different."
Higgins helped win the war if only by sheer productivity.
"If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach"
The U.S. Navy was served by 14,072 vessels at one point in 1943, according to the Andrew Jackson Higgins National Memorial in Nebraska.
An incredible 93% of them – 12,964 - were built by Higgins Industries.
The United States rose to dominance in World War II by its unmatched ability to project force across vast distances.
Among those was the nation's ability to deliver men and equipment to any beach on any ocean in the world.
Yet this unprecedented ability to deliver power across the oceans was born in the most heartland of American waterways.
"If it had not been for the Missouri River at Omaha there would have been no Higgins Industries of New Orleans turning out ships, planes, engines, guns and what have you for the Army and Navy," Higgins reportedly told the Omaha Chamber of Commerce during a speaking engagement in 1943.
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"Looking at the Missouri shallows, its snags and driftwood … led [me] to think up [the] first shallow-draft boat. Everything else came from that."
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unum (NYSE: UNM) has a suite of tech-forward solutions in response to the growing needs of employees in a competitive talent market. According to recent Unum research, two of the top HR challenges in the workplace are support for employee's mental health and employee attraction and retention.1
Over half (56%) of U.S. workers said they felt mentally unwell according to Unum research. Polly Nicholas, SVP Unum Solutions said the company is at the center of helping employees when they need time away from work and employers save time when administering benefits.
"Unum has always been an organization that helps the working world thrive throughout life's moments. When you consider what the world has gone through in the last few years, now, more than ever, we are in a profound sort of touchstone for how we can show up for people," said Nicholas.
"Our internal data shows there was a 37% growth in Unum disability claims paid and 55% increase in leaves administered. When you couple that with the national conversation around leave, mental and financial wellness, our portfolio of solutions can provide meaningful support for America's workers and businesses," Nicholas added.
Unum's service and technology solutions complements businesses as they meet the needs of a changing workforce. The suite of digital solutions:
- Support Time Away: Unum Total Leave and Unum Leave Logic provide easy to understand leave planning and management tools that deliver an elevated employee experience and accurate data for HR.
- Integrate with HR Systems: Unum HR Connect can be integrated with top HRIS providers to create seamless implementation, administration and access.
- Improve Workforce Wellness: Unum Behavioral Health increases access to personalized experiences for employees and provides resources for employers to reduce mental health stigma.
Learn more about Unum's benefit solutions.
About Unum Group
Unum (NYSE: UNM), an international provider of workplace benefits and services, has been helping workers and their families for more than 170 years. Through its Unum and Colonial Life brands, the company offers disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental, vision and stop-loss insurance; leave and absence management support and behavioral health services. In 2021, Unum reported revenues of $12.0 billion and paid $8.2 billion in benefits. The Fortune 500 company is one of the 2022 World's Most Ethical Companies, recognized by the Ethisphere®.
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Brown will retire after this season, his 18th with the club.
The 37-year-old made the announcement Thursday ahead of the Kings' regular-season finale. Los Angeles will face Edmonton in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs.
Brown has played in a franchise record 1,295 regular-season games during his 18 seasons as a physical two-way forward for the Kings. The upstate New York native was a first-round draft pick in 2003. He spent eight seasons as Los Angeles' captain, raising the Stanley Cup first after both of the team's championships in 2012 and 2014.
Brown has 325 goals and 387 assists in his career. He has nine goals and 19 assists in 63 games this season for Los Angeles.
Brown is one of the four remaining members of the Kings' championship teams, along with goalie Jonathan Quick, defenseman Drew Doughty and captain Anze Kopitar.
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A slate of diverse candidates are coming into power after historic midterm victories. Among them is Sheng Thao, who will become the first Hmong-American to lead a major U.S. city when she’s sworn in as mayor of Oakland, California.
Here & Now‘s Deepa Fernades meets with her to hear more about her story and her progressive vision.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Hinske is joining the New York Mets as assistant hitting coach in manager Buck Showalter's staff, Eric Chavez is switching to bench coach and Dom Chiiti is becoming bullpen coach.
Glenn Sherlock is moving from bench coach to catching and strategy coach, and Jeremy Barnes from assistant hitting coach to hitting coach, the team said Thursday.
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Hinske, a 12-year big league veteran, was hitting coach of the 2018 Los Angeles Angels, when Billy Eppler was general manager. Eppler became the Mets GM in November 2021.
Hinske was first base coach of the Chicago Cubs in 2014 and assistant hitting coach from 2015-17 and was Arizona's assistant hitting coach from 2019-21.
Chiti worked with Showalter in Baltimore and Texas. He spent the past two seasons as the Angels' bullpen coach.
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Chavez joined the Mets as hitting coach before last season.
Showalter's coaches include Jeremy Hefner (pitching), Jeremy Barnes (hitting), Joey Cora (infield and third base), Wayne Kirby (outfield and first base) and Danny Barnes (assistant major league coach).
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Air Force and military families take heed: You may not need to find a new home for the family dog or cat before moving to that next assignment.
The Department of Defense Wednesday announced a new policy to cover pet travel expenses, like pet shipping or quarantine fees, incurred by service members when they move to a new assignment.
The policy covers pet expenses during a permanent change of station (PCS), the DOD said, and will be effective as of January 1, 2024.
Military members going through a PCS within the continental United States can be reimbursed up to $550 for one household pet, either cat or dog, and up to $2,000 for moves to or from a location outside the continental United States to cover costs related to the transportation of a pet, the department said.
The military estimates that this new allowance may be used by an some 227,000 service members.
“Historically, service members paid the majority of out-of-pocket expenses to transport pets when assigned to a new duty station,” the department said. “This policy reduces that financial burden while recognizing the important role a pet plays in a military family’s household.”
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said Friday that nearly 10% of its 26 million people have fallen ill and 65 people have died amid its first COVID-19 outbreak, as outside experts question the validity of its reported fatalities and worry about a possible humanitarian crisis.
After admitting the omicron outbreak last week following more than two years of claiming to be coronavirus-free, North Korea has said an unidentified fever has been explosively spreading across the country since late April. Its anti-epidemic center has since released fever tallies each morning via state media, but they don’t include any COVID-19 figures.
Some observers say North Korea was likely forced to acknowledge the COVID-19 outbreak because it couldn’t hide the highly contagious viral spread among its people and suffer possible public discontent with leader Kim Jong Un. They believe North Korean authorities are underreporting mortalities to try to show that its pandemic response is effective, while the country lacks test kits to confirm a large number of virus cases.
“It’s true that there has been a hole in its 2 1/2 years of pandemic fighting,” said Kwak Gil Sup, head of One Korea Center, a website specializing in North Korea affairs. “But there is a saying that North Korea is ’a theater state,’ and I think they are massaging COVID-19 statistics.”
Kwak said North Korea is likely partly using the outbreak as a propaganda tool to show that it is overcoming the pandemic with Kim’s leadership. But the country has “a Plan B” and “a Plan C” to seek Chinese and other foreign aid if the pandemic gets out of hand, he said.
On Friday, the North’s state emergency epidemic prevention headquarters said 263,370 more people had feverish symptoms and two more people died, bringing the total fever cases to 2.24 million and fatalities to 65. They said 754,810 people remain quarantined, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
The outbreak likely originated from an April 25 military parade in Pyongyang that Kim organized to show off his new missiles and loyal troops. The parade and other related festivals, which marked North Korea’s army foundation anniversary, drew tens of thousands of people and soldiers from Pyongyang and other parts of the country, who returned home after the events.
South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Thursday that “a considerable number” of the fever cases reported by North Korea include people sick with waterborne diseases like measles, typhoid and pertussis.
The National Intelligence Service assessed that those diseases had already been spreading across North Korea even before COVID-19 broke out, according to Ha Tae-keung, a lawmaker who attended a private NIS briefing. Ha cited the NIS as saying the waterborne diseases were spreading due to shortages of medicines and medical supplies in the wake of the North’s previous long-running anti-pandemic steps.
“(The NIS) said it doesn’t know exactly what percentage of the fever cases are coronavirus patients. It said North Korea lacks coronavirus diagnostic kits but appears to have sufficient thermometers,” Ha said.
The NIS has a spotty record in confirming developments in North Korea. Some civilian medical experts earlier said they believed most of the fever cases announced by North Korea were COVID-19.
On Monday, when the North’s fever cases had already surpassed 1.2 million, Ryu Yong Chol, an official at Pyongyang’s anti-virus headquarters, said on state TV that the government had detected 168 COVID-19 cases as of last Saturday. There have been no updates on the North’s virus cases since then.
Ahn Kyung-su, head of DPRKHEALTH.ORG, a website focusing on health issues in North Korea, said Pyongyang had likely determined its omicron outbreak won’t cause catastrophic fatalities but disclosed it to prevent potential public unrest. He said North Korea’s increased anti-virus measures are partly meant to solidify its control of a public tired of previous restrictions and other difficulties.
“North Korea’s pandemic response isn’t completely staged as people are dying. But it’s obvious that its leadership’s political intentions have been added there,” Ahn said. “One day, they’ll proclaim their victory over COVID-19 in a colorful manner.”
North Korea’s public medical system remains in shambles, and experts say the country could suffer mass pandemic fatalities if it doesn’t receive outside aid shipments. They say the country’s elevated restrictions on movement and quarantine rules may also worsen its food insecurity.
The NIS said North Korea intends to overcome the pandemic with assistance from its main ally, China, according to Ha and Kim Byung-kee, another lawmaker who was briefed by the spy service. During an anti-virus meeting Saturday, Kim said his country faces “a great upheaval” and that officials must study how China and other nations have handled the pandemic.
Some media reports said North Korea already sent planes to China to bring back emergency supplies earlier this week, but the South Korean government said it couldn’t confirm the reports. South Korea said it and the United States have offered to ship vaccines, medicines and other medical supplies to North Korea, but the North hasn’t responded.
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Second Quarter Highlights*
- Diluted EPS for the Quarter of $(1.74), Down 278 percent, primarily due to the impairment of goodwill recognized in the Digital reporting unit
- Adjusted Diluted EPS1 for the Quarter of $1.67, Up 21 percent
- Net Revenue for the Quarter of $424 million, Up 21 percent
- Increases Organic Total Net Revenue Growth2 Target for 2022 to 9 to 11 percent, from 5 to 7 percent; Increases Data and Access Solutions Organic Net Revenue Growth2 Target to 10 to 13 percent, from 8 to 11 percent
- Increases 2022 Adjusted Operating Expense Guidance2 to $659 to $667 million, from $617 to $625 million.
CHICAGO, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) today reported financial results for the second quarter of 2022.
"Cboe delivered strong second quarter results to close out an exceptional first half of 2022. Activity across our ecosystem—cash, data and derivatives—was robust," said Edward T. Tilly, Cboe Global Markets Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Many of our newer initiatives, like the extension of trading hours for SPX and VIX Options to nearly 24 hours-a-day, five days-a-week and the addition of Tuesday and Thursday expirations for SPX Weekly options, have outperformed our early expectations in 2022, further accelerating the strong growth across our core businesses. With the closing of the ErisX and NEO acquisitions in the second quarter, the entire Cboe team remains focused on extracting even greater value from the ecosystem we have created. The digital asset market environment has changed dramatically since we closed the ErisX transaction on May 2nd, which resulted in an accounting adjustment. We believe that the $220 million book carrying value reflects the reality of the market today, but in no way changes our enthusiasm for the digital asset space. We are intently focused on integrating our platforms and positioning Cboe for its next wave of growth in the quarters ahead."
"In the second quarter, Cboe produced record-setting revenue results as overall net revenues grew 21% year-over-year," said Brian N. Schell, Cboe Global Markets Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. "The benefits of the Cboe flywheel were apparent given the strong year-over-year growth from each category during the quarter, with net revenues from derivatives markets1 growing 30%, data and access solutions1 up 20%, and cash and spot markets1 growing 7%. Moving forward, we are increasing our 2022 total organic net revenue growth2 expectations, targeting 9% to 11% growth, up from our prior guidance range of 5% to 7%. In addition, our 2022 organic net revenue growth2 expectations for our Data and Access Solutions business are increasing to 10% to 13%, up from our prior guidance range of 8% to 11%. The upgraded guidance is a testament to not only the strength of the first half results, but the durability we expect to see in the revenue base moving forward. We look forward to building on the first half momentum with continued investment and integration across the Cboe platform."
Consolidated Second Quarter Results -Table 1
Table 1 below presents summary selected unaudited condensed consolidated financial information for the company as reported and on an adjusted basis for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021.
- Total revenues less cost of revenues (referred to as "net revenue") of $424.1 million increased 21 percent, compared to $350.6 million in the prior-year period, reflecting increases in net transaction and clearing fees1 and access and capacity fees. Inorganic net revenue1 in the second quarter of 2022 was $9.9 million.
- Total operating expenses were $661.5 million versus $160.6 million in the second quarter of 2021, an increase of $500.9 million, primarily due to the impairment of goodwill recognized in the Digital reporting unit, driven by negative events and trends in the broader digital asset environment. Adjusted operating expenses1 of $157.0 million increased 22 percent compared to $128.3 million in the second quarter of 2021, primarily due to the acquisitions of Cboe Asia Pacific, ErisX, and NEO, as well as an increase in salaries, wages, and bonuses resulting in higher compensation and benefits.
- The effective tax rate for the second quarter of 2022 was 28.2 percent compared with 41.1 percent in the second quarter of 2021. The decrease is primarily due to the remeasurement of UK deferred tax liabilities following the UK tax rate increase from 19 percent to 25 percent enacted during the second quarter of 2021 and effective April 1, 2023. The effective tax rate on adjusted earnings1 was 28.4 percent compared with 30.1 percent in last year's second quarter. The lower effective tax rate in the second quarter of 2022 was primarily due to changes in income tax reserves in the second quarter of 2021.
- Diluted EPS for the second quarter of 2022 decreased 278 percent to $(1.74). Adjusted diluted EPS1 of $1.67 increased 21 percent compared to 2021's second quarter results.
Business Segment Information:
Discussion of Results by Business Segment1:
Options:
- Options net revenue of $235.3 million was up $56.7 million, or 32 percent, from the second quarter of 2021, due to double-digit increases in net transaction and clearing fees2, access and capacity fees, and market data. Net transaction and clearing fees increased primarily as a result of a 46 percent increase in Index options trading volumes versus the second quarter of 2021, along with a 7 percent increase in Index options revenue per contract ("RPC") for the quarter. Access and capacity fees and market data fees were each 29 percent higher than second quarter 2021.
- Net transaction and clearing fees2 increased $54.6 million, or 41 percent, reflecting an 18 percent increase in total options average daily volume ("ADV") and a 21 percent increase in total options RPC compared to the second quarter 2021. The increase in total options RPC was due to a mix shift, with Index options representing a higher percentage of total options volume. The RPC for Index options increased 7 percent as higher-priced SPX options accounted for a higher percentage of Index options volume.
- Cboe's Options business had total market share of 33.2 percent for the second quarter of 2022 compared to 30.4 percent in the second quarter of 2021, primarily reflecting an increase in Cboe's multi-listed options market share for the quarter of 28.3 percent compared to 26.8 percent in the second quarter of 2021.
North American (N.A.) Equities:
- N.A. Equities net revenue of $92.7 million was up $3.5 million, or 4 percent, primarily due to higher access and capacity fees and transaction and clearing fees. Year-over-year declines in industry market data offset some of the growth in the segment. Transaction and clearing fees were impacted by higher N.A. equities industry volumes as compared to the second quarter of 2021. Net capture was flat in the second quarter of 2022, when comparing year over year.
- Cboe U.S. Equities exchanges had market share of 13.6 percent for the second quarter of 2022 compared to 14.3 percent in the second quarter of 2021, negatively impacted by pricing changes that drove a higher net capture.
Europe and Asia Pacific (APAC):
- Europe and APAC net revenue of $49.9 million increased by 20 percent, reflecting growth in European equities and clearing, and the addition of Cboe Asia Pacific in July 2021, which contributed $8.2 million in net revenue. European Equities average daily notional value ("ADNV") for the overall market was up 12 percent during the quarter and ADNV traded on Cboe European Equities was €10.9 billion, up 49 percent from last year's second quarter. Net capture decreased 11 percent for the quarter, reflecting a mix shift with the strongest gains coming in Lit market share, outpacing the growth in higher-capture Cboe BIDS Europe and Periodic Auction services, as well as from the impact of volume pricing tiers with higher volumes and higher market share.
- For the second quarter of 2022, Cboe European Equities had 23.2 percent market share, up from 17.4 percent in the second quarter of 2021, as a result of positive momentum across all orderbooks, with a particular strength in Lit markets and record Cboe BIDS Europe market share.
Futures:
- Futures net revenue of $29.6 million increased $2.2 million, or 8 percent, due to increases in net transaction and clearing fees2, access and capacity fees, and market data.
- Net transaction and clearing fees2 increased $0.8 million, or 4 percent, reflecting slight upticks in both ADV and RPC.
Global FX:
- Global FX net revenue of $16.6 million increased 20 percent, primarily as a result of higher net transaction and clearing fees2. ADNV traded on the Cboe FX platform was $39.6 billion for the quarter, up 22 percent compared to last year's second quarter and net capture per one million dollars traded was $2.71 for the quarter, flat compared to $2.71 in the second quarter of 2021.
- Cboe FX market share was 17.0 percent for the quarter compared to 16.3 percent in last year's second quarter.
2022 Fiscal Year Financial Guidance
Cboe provided guidance for the 2022 fiscal year as noted below.
- Organic net revenue growth1 is expected to be in the range of 9 to 11 percentage points in 2022, up from previous guidance of 5 to 7 percentage points.
- Reaffirmed revenue from acquisitions held less than a year1 is expected to contribute total net revenue growth in a range of 2 to 3 percentage points in 2022.
- Organic net revenue1 from Data and Access Solutions is now expected to increase by approximately 10 to 13 percent in 2022, from a base of $419 million in 2021, up from previous guidance of 8 to 11 percent.
- Adjusted operating expenses1 in 2022 are now expected to be in the range of $659 to $667 million, from a base of $531 million in 2021, up from previous guidance of $617 to $625 million. The updated 2022 guidance considers incremental investment spend in technology and headcount to support Cboe's numerous growth initiatives, deals closed during 2021 but not fully reflected in the 2021 cost base, recent acquisitions of NEO and ErisX and increases in core expenses. The guidance excludes the expected amortization of acquired intangible assets of $125 million; the company plans to reflect the exclusion of this amount in its non-GAAP reconciliation.1
- Reaffirmed depreciation and amortization expense for 2022, which is included in adjusted operating expenses above, is expected to be in the range of $40 to $44 million, excluding the expected amortization of acquired intangible assets.
- Reaffirmed the effective tax rate1 on adjusted earnings for the full year 2022 is expected to be in the range of 27.5 to 29.5 percent. Significant changes in trading volume, expenses, tax laws or rates and other items could materially impact this expectation.
- Reaffirmed capital expenditures for 2022 are expected to be in the range of $47 to $52 million.
Capital Management
At June 30, 2022, the company had adjusted cash1 of $349.1 million. Total debt as of June 30, 2022 was $1,959.2 million.
The company paid cash dividends of $51.2 million, or $0.48 per share, during the second quarter of 2022 and utilized $15.6 million to repurchase 147 thousand shares of its common stock under its share repurchase program at an average price of $106.12 per share. As of June 30, 2022, the company had approximately $233.3 million of availability remaining under its existing share repurchase authorizations.
Earnings Conference Call
Executives of Cboe Global Markets will host a conference call to review its second-quarter financial results today, July 29, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. CT. The conference call and any accompanying slides will be publicly available via live webcast from the Investor Relations section of the company's website at www.cboe.com under Events & Presentations. Participants may also listen via telephone by dialing (877) 255–4313 from the United States, (866) 450–4696 from Canada or (412) 317–5466 for international callers. Telephone participants should place calls 10 minutes prior to the start of the call. The webcast will be archived on the company's website for replay. A telephone replay of the earnings call also will be available from approximately 11:00 a.m. CT, July 29, 2022, through 11:00 p.m. CT, August 6, 2022, by calling (877) 344–7529 from the U.S., (855) 669–9658 from Canada or (412) 317–0088 for international callers, using replay code 10160639.
About Cboe Global Markets
Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of market infrastructure and tradable products, delivers cutting-edge trading, clearing and investment solutions to market participants around the world. The Company is committed to operating a trusted, inclusive global marketplace, and to providing leading products, technology and data solutions that enable participants to define a sustainable financial future. Cboe provides trading solutions and products in multiple asset classes, including equities, derivatives, FX, and digital assets, across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
Cautionary Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. You can identify these statements by forward-looking words such as "may," "might," "should," "expect," "plan," "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "predict," "potential" or "continue," and the negative of these terms and other comparable terminology. All statements that reflect our expectations, assumptions or projections about the future other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements, which are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us, may include projections of our future financial performance based on our growth strategies and anticipated trends in our business. These statements are only predictions based on our current expectations and projections about future events. There are important factors that could cause our actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
We operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible to predict all risks and uncertainties, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.
Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the loss of our right to exclusively list and trade certain index options and futures products; economic, political and market conditions; compliance with legal and regulatory obligations; price competition and consolidation in our industry; decreases in trading or clearing volumes, market data fees or a shift in the mix of products traded on our exchanges; legislative or regulatory changes or changes in tax regimes; our ability to protect our systems and communication networks from security risks, cybersecurity risks, insider threats and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information; our ability to attract and retain skilled management and other personnel; increasing competition by foreign and domestic entities; our dependence on and exposure to risk from third parties; fluctuations to currency exchange rates; factors that impact the quality and integrity of our indices; the impact of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") pandemic; our ability to operate our business without violating the intellectual property rights of others and the costs associated with protecting our intellectual property rights; our ability to minimize the risks, including our credit and default risks, associated with operating a European clearinghouse; our ability to accommodate trading and clearing volume and transaction traffic, including significant increases, without failure or degradation of performance of our systems; misconduct by those who use our markets or our products or for whom we clear transactions; challenges to our use of open source software code; our ability to meet our compliance obligations, including managing potential conflicts between our regulatory responsibilities and our for-profit status; our ability to maintain BIDS Trading as an independently managed and operated trading venue, separate from and not integrated with our registered national securities exchanges; damage to our reputation; the ability of our compliance and risk management methods to effectively monitor and manage our risks; our ability to manage our growth and strategic acquisitions or alliances effectively; restrictions imposed by our debt obligations and our ability to make payments on or refinance our debt obligations; our ability to maintain an investment grade credit rating; impairment of our goodwill, long-lived assets, investments or intangible assets; the accuracy of our estimates and expectations; litigation risks and other liabilities; and operating a digital asset business, and clearinghouse, including the expected benefits of our ErisX acquisition, cybercrime, changes in digital asset regulation, losses due to digital asset custody, and fluctuations in digital asset prices. More detailed information about factors that may affect our actual results to differ may be found in our filings with the SEC, including in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021 and other filings made from time to time with the SEC.
We do not undertake, and we expressly disclaim, any duty to update any forward-looking statement whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
The condensed consolidated statements of income and balance sheets are unaudited and subject to reclassification.
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Trademarks:
Cboe®, Cboe Global Markets®, Cboe Volatility Index®, Bats®, BIDS Trading®, BZX®, BYX®, Chi-X®, EDGX®, EDGA®, ErisX®, EuroCCP®, MATCHNow®, and VIX® are registered trademarks of Cboe Global Markets, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
RPC, average revenue per contract, for options and futures represents total net transaction fees recognized for the period divided by total contracts traded during the period.
Touched volume represents the total number of shares of equity securities and ETFs internally matched on our exchanges or routed to and executed on an external market center.
Matched volume represents the total number of shares of equity securities and ETFs executed on our exchanges.
U.S. Equities - Exchange, "net capture per 100 touched shares" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments and routing and clearing costs divided by the product of one-hundredth ADV of touched shares on BZX, BYX, EDGX and EDGA and the number of trading days. U.S. Equities – Off-Exchange data reflects BIDS Trading. For U.S. Equities – Off-Exchange, "net capture per 100 touched shares" refers to transaction fees less order and execution management system (OMS/EMS) fees and clearing costs divided by the product of one-hundredth ADV of touched shares on BIDS Trading and the number of trading days for the period.
Canadian Equities, "net capture per 10,000 shares" refers to transaction fees divided by the product of one-ten thousandth ADV of shares for MATCHNow and the number of trading days. Total market share represents MATCHNow volume divided by the total volume of the Canadian Equities market. TSX listed volume market share represents MATCHNow volume divided by the total volume in TSX listed equities. Canadian Equities data does not include NEO data.
European Equities, "net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in British pounds divided by the product of ADNV in British pounds of shares matched on Cboe Europe Equities and the number of trading days. "Trades cleared" refers to the total number of non-interoperable trades cleared, "Fee per trade cleared" refers to clearing fees divided by number of non-interoperable trades cleared, "Net settlement volume" refers to the total number of settlements executed after netting, and "Net fee per settlement" refers to settlement fees less direct costs incurred to settle divided by the number of settlements executed after netting. Asia Pacific data reflects the acquisition of Cboe Asia Pacific (formerly Chi-X Asia Pacific) effective July 1, 2021. Australian Equities "Net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in Australian dollars divided by the product of ADNV in Australian dollars of shares matched on Cboe Australia and the number of Australian Equities trading days. Japanese Equities "Net capture per matched notional value" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments in Japanese Yen divided by the product of ADNV in Japanese Yen of shares matched on Cboe Japan and the number of Japanese Equities trading days.
Global FX, "net capture per one million dollars traded" refers to transaction fees less liquidity payments, if any, divided by the Spot and SEF products of one-thousandth of ADNV traded on the Cboe FX Markets and the number of trading days, divided by two, which represents the buyer and seller that are both charged on the transaction. Market Share represents Cboe FX volume divided by the total volume of publicly reporting spot FX venues (Cboe FX, EBS, Refinitiv, and Euronext FX).
Average transaction fees per contract can be affected by various factors, including exchange fee rates, volume-based discounts and transaction mix by contract type and product type.
Non-GAAP Information
In addition to disclosing results determined in accordance with GAAP, Cboe Global Markets has disclosed certain non-GAAP measures of operating performance. These measures are not in accordance with, or a substitute for, GAAP, and may be different from or inconsistent with non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The non-GAAP measures provided in this press release include net transaction and clearing fees, adjusted operating expenses, adjusted operating income, organic net revenue, inorganic net revenue, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net (loss) income allocated to common stockholders and adjusted diluted earnings per share, effective tax rate on adjusted earnings, adjusted cash, EBITDA, EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA margin.
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Acquisition-related expenses: From time to time, we have pursued acquisitions, which have resulted in expenses which would not otherwise have been incurred in the normal course of the company's business operations. These expenses include integration costs, as well as legal, due diligence, impairment charges, and other third-party transaction costs. The frequency and the amount of such expenses vary significantly based on the size, timing and complexity of the transaction. Accordingly, we exclude these costs for purposes of calculating non-GAAP measures which provide an additional analysis of Cboe's ongoing operating performance or comparisons in Cboe's performance between periods.
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New Data from 630+ Fertility Patients Surveyed Reveals Knowledge & Preferences
Around Fertility Treatments & Specimen Storage
NEW YORK, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association ("RESOLVE"), a non-profit organization, and TMRW Life Sciences ("TMRW"), a fertility technology company, today released new data from an independent survey conducted by Untold Research – "A Peek Behind the Curtain: Patients' Knowledge, Fears, and Transparency into an Embryo's Journey."
Survey results show that when selecting a fertility clinic, patients prioritize accuracy and safe egg/embryo storage over clinic success rates, cost, location or recommendations from doctors and friends. Nearly all patients say accurate egg/embryo transfer (91%) and safe egg/embryo storage (82%) are "very important"—above clinic success rates (74%), their relationship with the doctor (68%), cost (47%), location (38%), recommendations from doctors (33%), and friends and family (23%). Despite prioritizing safe embryo transfers and storage, patients admitted they knew little about how best to ensure the safety of their most precious cells. 88% said they didn't know how often wellness checks are performed on their frozen tissues' environment and 61% of patients believe that mixups will be avoided due to trust in their doctor and clinic.
Between September 16 and October 2, 2022, 637 adults completed an online survey designed to understand the experiences, knowledge, and opinions of those exploring, considering, undergoing, or who have undergone fertility treatments. RESOLVE invited patients to participate through email, social media posts, and other outreach efforts.
The survey reveals:
- Patients fear egg or embryo mix-up and loss.
The top patient fears in specimen freezing/storage processes are: specimen being damaged due to mishandling, receiving the wrong specimen and losing your specimen due to storage failures. - Patients want accuracy.
The most important factor for patients when selecting a fertility clinic is accurate egg/embryo transfer, with 91% of respondents describing this as "very important." - Patients want safe storage.
The second most important factor is safe egg/embryo storage, with 82% of patients citing this as "very important." Both rates were well above those given for clinic success rates, relationship with doctor, cost, location, and referrals. - Patients want automation.
94% of patients said they want automation as part of their storage process that includes digital labels, touch-of-a-button reports, multiple daily checks, and predictive alarms. Only 2% of patients want an exclusively manual process. - Patients want transparency.
More than 90% of patients want full transparency on specimen labeling, traceability, and monitoring. 78% of patients feel transparency will give them greater peace of mind.
The survey results highlight a strong patient desire for safe, automated, and transparent egg and embryo management and storage solutions. According to the World Health Organization, 1 in 6 adults worldwide experience infertility. As a result of advancements in assisted reproductive technologies (ART), especially the success of fast freezing (vitrification), more patients than ever before are pursuing egg freezing and in vitro fertilization (IVF). In 2005, fewer than 1 million patients worldwide had frozen eggs and embryos stored. By 2025 that number is expected to reach tens of millions.
"As a two-time cancer survivor who froze my eggs before starting a potentially sterilizing chemotherapy regime, I intimately understand the importance of safe, accurate storage," says Lindsay Beck, Chief Impact Officer at TMRW. "I strongly encourage all fertility patients to ask questions, know their options, and make educated decisions about egg and embryo storage."
Summary survey results are being released during National Infertility Awareness Week, a week dedicated to empowering patients and changing the conversation around fertility.
TMRW provided an unrestricted grant to RESOLVE to administer the survey independently.
About Untold Research
Untold Research is a woman-owned research organization focused on helping altruistic organizations do more good by crafting data-driven narratives to help inform strategy, illustrate impact, and create change. We break the mold of traditional research through thoughtfully measuring and exploring not only people's thoughts, opinions, and behavior, but also the motivations behind them. Through both time-tested and experimental methodologies, Untold Research designs custom studies which create space for participants to respond authentically, yielding strategic recommendations and findings to help organizations overcome challenges and advance their goals. Untold Research's work has been presented all over the world and earned international media coverage, including in the Christian Science Monitor, WAMU, and El Dia.
For more information, please visit www.untoldresearch.com.
About RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
Established in 1974, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association is a non-profit organization with the only established, nationwide network mandated to promote reproductive health and to ensure equal access to all family building options for men and women experiencing infertility or other family building challenges. One in six people globally have infertility RESOLVE addresses this public health issue by providing community to these women and men, connecting them with others who can help, empowering them to find resolution and giving voice to their demands for access to all family building options.
For more information, visit http://www.RESOLVE.org.
About TMRW Life Sciences, Inc.
Founded in 2018, TMRW Life Sciences, Inc., is a fertility technology company that automates the management and storage of frozen eggs and embryos. For the first time, frozen specimens can be digitally identified and tracked, safely managed with automated robotics, and remotely monitored around the clock. TMRW's next-generation technology platforms set a new standard of care, reducing potential points of failure in the existing manual systems by 94%. TMRW delivers peace of mind by helping reduce the risk of specimen mix-up, damage, or loss. Named Fast Company's #1 Most Innovative Biotech company in 2022, TMRW has been adopted by leading fertility clinics across the United States and will soon be available in the UK and Europe.
For more information, visit www.tmrwlifesciences.com.
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CHICAGO, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Titan International, Inc. (NYSE: TWI) ("Titan" or "TWI") today released the following comments from its Chairman of the Board, Morry Taylor.
"I got a number of calls yesterday asking what is happening with TWI!! One fellow said he was at Costco to buy something and save $18.00 only to get home to find out he lost one million dollars in value on TWI stock!! I'm in Charlevoix, Michigan and I opened my iPad to see TWI down to $15. Deere, Agco, and CNH were also all down a lot.
"I called a friend and asked what's going on. He comes back with soybeans and corn are down heavy and TWI CEO sold 40,000 shares. Well, TWI has a program for officers and Board members to sell and buy stock called 10b5-1. This program has been in place at TWI for many years and is where the shareholder establishes the terms many months in advance of the transaction during an open period. The stockbroker then handles everything from there, and you find out after the fact what price it sold at. What you know or don't know reference information about the company or market has no effect on what the broker does that day.
"Remember, whether you get stock options or restricted stock, Uncle Sam wants his cash at the time of the grant. With about 63 million shares outstanding, the CEO selling 40,000 shares does not mean a damn thing. Let's not forget, TWI's financial performance and outlook is strong, and management updated and improved guidance for 2022 just eleven days ago. To those who sold, I hope you made a profit, to new shareholders I believe you'll be rewarded."
Safe Harbor Statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are covered by the safe harbor for "forward-looking statements" provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "plan," "would," "could," "potential," "may," "will," and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which are generally not historical in nature. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effect on us. Although we believe the assumptions upon which these forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, these assumptions are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These risk factors include, but are not limited to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and financial performance; the effect of a recession on the Company and its customers and suppliers; changes in the Company's end-user markets into which the Company sells its products as a result of domestic and world economic or regulatory influences or otherwise; changes in the marketplace, including new products and pricing changes by the Company's competitors; availability and price of raw materials; and levels of operating efficiencies. Additional risks and other factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those contemplated in this release are detailed in the Company's reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, especially the disclosures under "Risk Factors" in those reports. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof. The Company cautions that any forward-looking statements included in this press release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, changed circumstances or future events, or for any other reason, except as required by law.
About Titan: Titan International, Inc. (NYSE: TWI) is a leading global manufacturer of off-highway wheels, tires, assemblies, and undercarriage products. Headquartered in West Chicago, Illinois, the company globally produces a broad range of products to meet the specifications of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and aftermarket customers in the agricultural, earthmoving/construction, and consumer markets. For more information, visit www.titan-intl.com.
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PRAGUE (AP) — The heads of nine European NATO members on Sunday issued a joint statement backing a path to membership for Ukraine in the U.S.-led security alliance, and calling on all 30 NATO nations to ramp up military aid for Kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise move Friday to apply for fast-track NATO membership, in response to Russia’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine.
NATO membership needs approval from all 30 members and Ukraine is unlikely to join anytime soon. Being a country already at war complicates the request.
The nine NATO countries in Central and Eastern Europe fearful that Russia could target them next if it isn’t stopped in Ukraine urged a response to the annexation.
The leaders of Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and Slovakia published a statement on their websites Sunday saying: “We support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, demand (that Russia) immediately withdraw from all the occupied territories and encourage all allies to substantially increase their military aid to Ukraine.”
It said the leaders “firmly stood behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine’s future membership.” At the 2008 summit, NATO members welcomed Ukraine and Georgia’s aspirations to join, but declined to provide a clear timeline for the two countries’ possible ascension. Sunday’s letter didn’t mention a timeline, either.
Asked Friday about Zelenskyy’s application for accelerated NATO membership, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said the application process in Brussels “should be taken up at a different time.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg was noncommittal when asked about Zelenskyy’s appeal to join.
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council chaired by Putin, derided the move, saying that Zelenskyy’s request amounts to “begging NATO to accelerate the start of World War III.”
Spurred into action by security concerns over Russia’s invasion, Finland and Sweden officially applied to join NATO in May using an accelerated procedure. Most member countries have already ratified their applications and the two Nordic nations are on track to join in record time.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Police investigating the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students say they’re working with law enforcement in Eugene, Oregon, to determine if a white sedan that was found on the side of the road there is related to the Idaho case.
Relatively few details have been released about the homicides of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. The four friends’ bodies were found Nov. 13 at a rental home across the street from the university campus, and the killings have left the small town of Moscow, Idaho deeply shaken.
The Moscow Police Department is working through nearly 12,000 email and phone tips, the department said in a press release Tuesday, as well as more than 4,500 digital media submissions including surveillance camera footage. Investigators are also still looking for any information about a white 2011-2013 Hyundai Elantra that was seen near the rental home around the time the students were killed.
“Investigators believe the occupant(s) may have critical information to share regarding this case and have identified over 22,000 vehicles,” the department wrote in the news release. “If you know of, or own, a vehicle matching this description, or know of anyone who may have been driving this specific vehicle on the days preceding or the day of the murders, please forward that information to the Tip Line.”
The case has drawn massive interest from true crime aficionados and online would-be sleuths, and in recent days many online forums dedicated to the case have focused on images of a Hyundai Elantra found abandoned on the side of the road in Eugene, Oregon, after a collision.
On Tuesday, the Moscow Police Department confirmed that investigators were aware of the car and were “working with the local jurisdiction to determine if the vehicle is related to our case.”
Melinda McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Eugene Police Department, wrote in a text message that somebody called 911 on Dec. 17 to report that a person was sleeping inside a Hyundai Elantra.
Officers responded and made contact with the person, and no further report was made, McLaughlin wrote. The vehicle had been there since Dec. 15 when it was left after an injury crash.
“We have no information to indicate it is related to the Moscow, Idaho case,” McLaughlin wrote. “However, they were sent the vehicle information so they have it to review.”
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From L.A. to San Diego and back up to San Jose, a Pro Club is a sacred garment in California. From the beginning (unpacking it, breathing in the comforting chemical whiff of a new tee) to the end (retiring it with dignity once it loses its pristine snow-y white color or the collar is less snug than it once was), a Pro Club’s lifespan is filled with homages born out of love. The way we pay tribute to a Pro Club shows up in multitudes, governed by personal ritual: Customizing it with a screen print at your local T-shirt mart, waking up when the world is still quiet to crease it to sharp perfection. There’s a level of respect that comes with wearing a garment so singular. You are called to keep it beautiful — wear it every day as a salute to freshness.
Jess Cuevas, a multimedia artist who is currently a freelance art director for Nike and a brand art director at Willy Chavarria, has many memories of Pro Club throughout his life. A teenager of the ’90s, he draws deep inspiration from club kid culture, rave culture, goth culture and Latino culture — groups that share an affinity for this one shared garment, worn in different ways.
“Pro Club for me is so many different things, but my connection to it is definitely the feeling when I’ve just opened the package,” says Cuevas. The consistency, the knowledge that each time you’re going to get the same clean white tee or tank, the way the brand offers opportunities for experimentation with its wide size range (wearing an XL to the knees when you’re really a medium is a rite of passage, after all) — Pro Club gives what it needs to give.
“It’s the perfect tee,” Cuevas says. “You get it at the liquor store, you get it at the flea market, swap meet, it’s everywhere. It’s woven into the fabric of California, L.A. specifically. It’s defined decades. And so when I open it, I feel proud. You just feel like you’re clean, you’re ready to go, you’ve got that crease. Boom.”
Recently, Cuevas wanted to honor the Pro Club through a reverential shoot that could bring the iconic tee back to the source — one of the brand’s L.A. warehouses. “For a long time we’ve seen Pro Club photographed in front of liquor stores,” Cuevas says. “I think that is beautiful. It’s amazing to walk into a liquor store in L.A. and pick up a T-shirt. But I also think there’s other ways to visualize it.” When Cuevas connected with Brian Lee, the son of Pro Club’s founder who runs marketing and e-commerce for the brand, he was not only starstruck — but pleasantly surprised at the brand’s willingness to collaborate.
“The fact that Pro Club is open to seeing their pieces in a different way means a lot,” Cuevas says. He directed the shoot among the warehouse’s natural clutter — boxes and boxes with the Pro Club logo, old frames of Tupac and “The Last Supper.” It was important for him to capture the space in its natural state. “I love that work environment,” Cuevas says. “They have the setup to do a perfect backdrop and perfect lighting. But I didn’t want that. I wanted to use what’s there. Don’t clean up the desk, don’t dust anything, just let us do this.”
For the shoot, he worked with collaborator, friend and fellow artist Pablo Simental, who modeled the clothes, styled in a way that was intended for the viewer to see Pro Club anew. Deeper cut pieces like the heavyweight mechanic’s jacket were paired with patent leather dress shoes; a crisp white tank was layered over a longer, glowing white tee, creating a corset-like effect. Part of Cuevas’ own artistic practice is manipulating the proportions of subjects in images to offer a new perspective. With the shoot, he distorted the shapes of the clothing ever so slightly, creating large shapes in the pants, cinched waists, cartoonishly stretched footwear. “It almost goes back again to ’90s early Y2K drawings, JNCOs, even graffiti characters,” he explains.
If wearing a Pro Club is a sacrament, the L.A. Pro Club warehouse is a church. Cuevas describes the energy in the space as humble and hardworking, not dissimilar to the pieces they house day in and day out. Bringing it back here felt full circle for Cuevas, a way to understand where our relationship with Pro Club is going by capturing where it comes from. “I wanted to experiment with the traditional ways that we see Pro Club.”
Creative direction, styling and image distortion: Jess Cuevas
Model: Pablo Simental
Photographer: Jesse Sandoval
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Dental Support Organization Among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies with Three-Year Revenue Growth of nearly 900%
WEST CHESTER, Pa., Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Inc. magazine revealed that Spark Dental Management, a leading Dental Support Organization (DSO), was named to the 2021 Inc. 5000 list, ranking at No. 699 overall and 42nd among companies in the Health Services category. This is the fifth year that an affiliate group of Spark Dental Management was included in this prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies.
The theme of this year's Inc. list was "Winning in a Time of Change". The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Among the top 500, the average median three-year revenue growth rate soared to 2,144 percent. Together, those companies added more than 68,394 jobs over the past three years.
"I'm incredibly proud of our organization and honored to receive this award," said Chief Executive Officer Michael O'Donnell. "In this time of change, it takes an outstanding group of employees, both in our affiliated practices and within the management team, to overcome the myriad of challenges we face in our industry. This award speaks volumes about our employees to be able to demonstrate such growth."
Spark Dental Management saw a year of abundant growth in 2021. Through de novo builds and strategic acquisitions, the dental support organization grew to more than 70 practices and expanded its geographic footprint to seven states. Spark Dental Management now has locations in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, New Jersey, Delaware, and Indiana.
"2021 was a busy but very exciting year for us, partnering with Rock Mountain Capital, building an incredible team, and growing our footprint from 10 locations in one state to over 70 locations in seven states," said Dr. Jason Hartman, Founder, President and Chief Orthodontic Officer of Spark Dental Management. "With the collective team we have in place now across all of our practice groups, I'm excited to see where the future takes us."
Spark Dental Management is a multi-specialty dental support organization that provides complete business and operational support services for its affiliated practices. The DSO currently supports 70 pediatric dental and orthodontic practices in seven states as well as five outpatient ambulatory surgery centers, a unique and critical component in solving access to care challenges.
The DSO is a model organization for the delivery of high-quality dental services, recognized for its superior patient care, customer service, and staff. Its mission is to provide exceptional and appropriate dental care to its patients while educating and facilitating a lifetime of excellent oral health.
Spark Dental Management provides the highest level of comprehensive business and operational support services to 74 affiliated pediatric dental and orthodontics locations in seven states. The company was founded as Spark Orthodontics in 2010 by Dr. Jason M. Hartman with a keen focus on delivering the highest quality patient care. From financial management to human resources and marketing, our professionals work to improve patient experience and expand access to dental care. Spark Dental Management is a portfolio company of Rock Mountain Capital. For more information, visit www.SparkDentalManagement.com
Since 1982, Inc. magazine has produced the celebrated Inc. 5000 list. Rankings are determined according to percentage revenue growth when comparing 2018 and 2021. Qualifying companies must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent as of December 31, 2021. This year's full listing can be found at https://www.inc.com/inc5000.
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NEW YORK — Airlines canceled more than 1,500 flights in the U.S. on Thursday, one of the worst days yet for travel as the peak summer vacation season heats up.
Cancellations were especially high Thursday in the New York City area, where forecasts called for a chance of storms late in the day. At LaGuardia Airport in New York, more than one-third of all flights were scrubbed, and more than one-fourth of flights were dropped at nearby Newark Liberty airport in New Jersey, according to tracking service FlightAware.
The cancellations came less than three weeks after airlines kicked off the summer travel season by canceling about 2,800 flights in a five-day stretch around the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
As of 5:30 a.m. Eastern, there were already 835 cancellations for Friday in the U.S., according to FlightAware.
Thursday's rough travel day happened as airline CEOs held a virtual meeting with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — a sign of the Biden administration's concern about the prospect of snarled airports and unhappy travelers this summer.
“I let them know that this is a moment when we are really counting on them to deliver reliably for the traveling public,” Buttigieg told NBC News.
During the meeting, which took place by videoconference, Buttigieg asked the CEOs to describe steps they are taking to operate smoothly over the July 4 holiday and the rest of the summer, according to a person familiar with the call but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Buttigieg also pushed airlines to examine whether they can handle the schedules that they have published, and to improve customer service, the person said.
The head of trade group Airlines for America, Nicholas Calio, said in a statement that industry officials appreciated the chance to talk with Buttigieg and “discuss our shared commitment to prioritizing the safety and security of all travelers.”
Airlines are struggling with shortages of workers, especially pilots, that are hurting their ability to operate all their planned flights. Pilot unions at Delta, American and Southwest have said their airlines were too slow to replace pilots who retired or took leaves of absence during the early part of the pandemic.
Two Senate Democrats said this month that the holiday weekend performance “raises questions about airline decision-making.” Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Edward Markey of Massachusetts said delays and cancellations “are occurring so frequently that they are becoming an almost-expected part of travel.”
The airlines blame bad weather and the Federal Aviation Administration, an arm of the Transportation Department that manages the nation’s airspace. In a letter to the senators, Calio ticked off a long list of FAA delays and staffing problems over the holiday weekend.
The airlines have jousted with the FAA this spring over delays in Florida, where air travel recovered more quickly than in many other parts of the country. After meeting with airline representatives in May, the FAA agreed to increase staffing at an air-traffic control center near Jacksonville and make other changes.
Concern about flight problems comes as the number of air travelers in the U.S. pushes above 2.2 million a day. That is still about 300,000 fewer per day than in mid-June 2019, but crowds will grow over the next several weeks and almost certainly break the pandemic-era record set on the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.
Bottlenecks could pop up at gateway airports where travelers enter the United States. Last weekend, the Biden administration dropped a 16-month requirement that people test negative for COVID-19 before boarding a flight to the U.S. That decision is expected to boost international travel — United Airlines said Monday that it saw an immediate increase in searches for overseas flights.
Another threat: The FAA is urging airlines to quickly upgrade equipment that might be vulnerable to radio interference from new wireless service. The agency’s acting administrator, Billy Nolen, told airlines Wednesday that Verizon and AT&T plan to turn on hundreds of 5G C-band transmitters near airports on July 5.
Dire forecasts of fallout from the wireless companies’ initial C-band service failed to come true early this year. Still, Nolen said FAA can’t promise that there won’t be problems with some planes. He said industry officials have found a way to retrofit many planes with problematic gear by the end of the year and others in 2023.
Shares of the largest six U.S. airlines dropped between 6% and 9% on Thursday, as jitters about the economy sent the broader market tumbling.
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Chief Medical Officer Provides Overview of Preclinical Data Recently Presented at the 2023 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting
Video Highlights Validation of the ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System with a Second Tumor Suppressor Gene
AUSTIN, Texas, May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Genprex, Inc. ("Genprex" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GNPX), a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes, today released a new video where the company's Chief Medical Officer, Mark Berger, MD, discusses the recently presented positive preclinical data for the NPRL2 gene by Genprex's research collaborators. The data were presented at the 2023 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting.
The studies used the Company's non-viral ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) humanized mouse models. These positive data support the therapeutic potential of the Company's non-viral delivery system, which is being used in its current REQORSA® clinical oncology programs. REQORSA immunogene therapy is the Company's lead drug candidate for lung cancer. The preclinical data also provide further evidence that the ONCOPREX Nanoparticle Delivery System has the ability to be successful using tumor suppressor genes other than the TUSC2 gene that is already in use in clinical trials with REQORSA. Lastly, the data suggest that targeting NSCLC with the NPRL2 gene, potentially in combination with anti-PD1 treatment as well, may provide therapeutic potential for lung cancer patients progressing on anti-PD1 treatment.
"The study utilized the same delivery platform that Genprex uses with our REQORSA product candidate but with a different tumor suppressor gene," said Mark Berger, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Genprex. "The whole point of our oncology program is to identify tumor suppressor genes, which are systematically deleted during cancer development, and then re-express the tumor suppressor genes in cancers. This process has shown preclinically that it can achieve strong efficacy and is currently being evaluated in Phase 1/2 clinical trials of REQORSA. Now researchers have replicated that process in in vitro studies with the NPRL2 gene, which we believe is validation that ONCOPREX as a platform may be used with multiple tumor suppressor genes to address multiple types of cancer."
The abstract entitled, "NPRL2 gene therapy induces effective antitumor immunity in KRAS/STK11 mutant anti-PD1 resistant metastatic human non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in a humanized mouse model," has been made available on Genprex's website here.
To watch the video, please visit Genprex's website at https://www.genprex.com/videos/.
About Genprex, Inc.
Genprex, Inc. is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing life-changing therapies for patients with cancer and diabetes. Genprex's technologies are designed to administer disease-fighting genes to provide new therapies for large patient populations with cancer and diabetes who currently have limited treatment options. Genprex works with world-class institutions and collaborators to develop drug candidates to further its pipeline of gene therapies in order to provide novel treatment approaches. Genprex's oncology program utilizes its proprietary, non-viral ONCOPREX® Nanoparticle Delivery System which encapsulates the gene-expressing plasmids using lipid nanoparticles. The resultant product is administered intravenously, where it is taken up by tumor cells that then express tumor suppressor proteins that were deficient in the tumor.The Company's lead product candidate, REQORSA® (quaratusugene ozeplasmid), is being evaluated in three clinical trials as a treatment for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). Both NSCLC clinical programs received a Fast Track Designation from the Food and Drug Administration. Genprex's diabetes gene therapy approach is comprised of a novel infusion process that uses an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector to deliver Pdx1 and MafA genes directly to the pancreas. In models of Type 1 diabetes, GPX-002 transforms alpha cells in the pancreas into functional beta-like cells, which can produce insulin but are distinct enough from beta cells to evade the body's immune system. In a similar approach, GPX-003 for Type 2 diabetes, where autoimmunity is not at play, is believed to rejuvenate and replenish exhausted beta cells.
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Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are made on the basis of the current beliefs, expectations and assumptions of management, are not guarantees of performance and are subject to significant risks and uncertainty. These forward-looking statements should, therefore, be considered in light of various important factors, including those set forth in Genprex's reports that it files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission and which you should review, including those statements under "Item 1A – Risk Factors" in Genprex's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Sen. Alberta Darling announced Wednesday she will retire after a 32-year career in the Legislature.
Darling, a River Hills Republican, will step down Dec. 1. Her departure means Republicans won't have a supermajority in the chamber at least until a special election is held to fill the seat representing south Milwaukee.
Darling has been in the Senate since 1992 after first serving a single term in the Assembly.
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HANGZHOU, China, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NetEase Games, the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES, HKEX: 9999), is excited to announce the appointment of Emile Liang as a Lead Producer of its Montréal Studio. Emile brings the studio more than two decades of rich industry expertise in triple-A game production.
Located in Quebec, Canada, NetEase Games Montréal is a significant part of the Company's global strategy. The studio is dedicated to making contact with online gamers, talent and business partners in North America, and bringing top-quality games to international markets.
As a 23-year veteran at Ubisoft, Emile has worked on seven shipped triple-A titles, the most recent of which, Far Cry 6, was nominated for multiple awards including Best Action Game at The Game Awards 2021. In his new role with NetEase Games, Emile will extend his career as a game producer, and further help NetEase Games Montréal with the development of triple-A titles.
The appointment of Emile Liang is the latest in the series of key strategic moves for NetEase Games as it sets its sights on the global market. Other initiatives include the launch of Nagoshi Studio in Japan and Jackalope Games in America earlier this year.
About NetEase Games
NetEase Games is the online games division of NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES and HKEX: 9999), developing and operating some of the most popular mobile and PC games in markets including China and Japan. As one of the world's largest incubators of quality online game content, NetEase Games is dedicated to supporting the growth of innovative studios around the globe and growing an international presence along the way. To complement its self-developed games and world-class R&D capabilities, NetEase Games also partners with other industry leaders including Blizzard Entertainment, Mojang AB (a Microsoft subsidiary) and other global game developers to operate some of the most popular international online games in China. For more information, please visit neteasegames.com.
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You’ll be hard-pressed to find a menu in Columbia, SC that doesn’t include pimento cheese. And no two restaurants serve it up the same way, so you’ll have plenty of exploring to do to find your favorite. With so many options to explore, it’s about time someone compiled a sampling of these dishes for you to seek out, enjoy, and earn eligibility to win a prize.
So, Experience Columbia SC did just that! Now it’s even easier to dig in to it all with the Columbia SC Pimento Cheese Passport.
Inside you’ll find an abundance of standout bars and restaurants, each serving up a new take on the sharp, creamy flavor of pimento cheese and offering you a new appreciation for the city. With 17 restaurant options, the possibilities for a cheesy, delicious meal are endless.
Start your day with one of the breakfast options, such as, Rambo’s Fat Cat Biscuits. If you miss them at Soda City head over to NoMa to try their chipotle pimento cheese and sausage biscuit, according to them it’s the one that put them on the map.
Still got a hankering for that cheesy goodness around lunchtime? You’ll need to head to The Root Cellar and order their southern egg rolls filled with homemade pimento cheese, pulled pork, and Root Cellar BBQ sauce - an original and flavorful twist on this southern delicacy.
End your picture-perfect cheese-filled day with a nightcap at River Rat Brewery. Pair your favorite brew and rooftop view with a pimento cheese quesadilla, add brisket, pork or chicken for a heartier version.
Planning on going to all 17 spots? We’ve got some hard-earned cheddar for you. Check in at all 17 restaurants to receive a mug, pint glass, t-shirt, and $50 gift card to your favorite Pimento Cheese Passport participating restaurant.
Download the passport to get started on this delicious tour guide around the city.
Want more info on the Pimento Cheese Passport (and the delicious Southern staple in general)? Find more information here.
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Ada resident sentenced for witness tampering and federal firearms violations
Published: Jun. 9, 2023 at 11:22 AM CDT|Updated: 11 minutes ago
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (KXII) - An Ada man was sentenced in federal court on witness tampering and federal firearms violations.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, 33-year-old Timmie Runnels admitted to shooting at a car back in January of 2021.
When officers searched his vehicle, they found more than 40 rounds of ammunition.
And while he was in jail awaiting trial, Runnels made phone calls trying to keep a witness from testifying.
He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
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Ashley Graham opens up about awkward Hugh Grant interview at Oscars
Posted/updated on: March 14, 2023 at 8:30 amAshley Graham is speaking out about her now viral interview with Hugh Grant at the Oscars on Sunday.
The model, 35, interviewed the movie star during ABC's Countdown to the Oscars and was met with very short, blunt answers to her questions. The brief exchange prompted some to deem the interview as awkward and cringeworthy because of Grant's responses.
So what's Graham's response to it all?
"You know what? My mama told me to kill people with kindness, so there you go," she told TMZ on Monday.
Despite the social media debate, the former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover girl had a great time at the star-studded event.
"I had so much fun," she added. "My feet hurt though."
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Wausau Pilot & Review
WAUSAU – Noah Stroming struck out five in a six-inning complete game as the Wausau Post 10 American Legion baseball team won its second-straight game to start the season with a 4-3 defeat of De Pere on Saturday at Athletic Park.
The game was shortened to six innings due to rain, and the second game of the day scheduled against Oshkosh was postponed.
Wausau scored three times in the second inning and added another in the third to take a 4-1 lead.
Nate Woehlert had an RBI single, Wyatt Stahel scored on a wild pitch, and Ethan Graham had a sacrifice fly to give the Bulldogs the lead in the second. A double steal led to the fourth run in the third.
De Pere struck for two runs in the fifth before Stroming settled back in to finish off the victory.
Wausau will travel to Marinette for a doubleheader Sunday.
Wausau 4, De Pere 3
De Pere 010 020 – 3 6 2
Wausau 031 000 – 4 5 0
WP: Noah Stroming. LP: Martens.
SO: Martens (5 inn.) 5, Cherney (0 inn.) 0; Stroming 5. BB: Martens 3, Cherney 0; Stroming 1.
Top hitters: D, Martens HR, 2 RBI; Brosing 3B. W, Nate Woehlert 2×3, RBI; Jesse Osness 2B.
Records: De Pere not reported; Wausau 2-0.
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Fans React to Korea Singers Association Chairwoman’s Request for BTS to ‘Reconsider’ Indefinite Break
On Wednesday (June 22), ARMYs and other K-pop fans reacted to a statement made by the chairwoman of the Korea Singers Association toward BTS.
The chairwoman apparently requested that BTS "reconsider" their indefinite break from group activities to focus more on solo work, citing the decline of the "Hallyu flow."
"Since it's not easy to expect next BTS or Beatles, I'm afraid that the Hallyu flow would be cut," Korea Singers Association chairwoman Lee Jayeon reportedly said.
Hallyu is a Chinese term that refers to the "Korean Wave," as in music, movies, television and more. In this instance, the conversation encompasses South Korea's economy and the impact that BTS have had culturally and economically.
"I know it's a decision made after a lot of consideration, but I do wish they would reconsider," the chairwoman continued. "If BTS disappears, then the Hallyu missionaries ARMY also disappear."
Despite her statement, the members of BTS have made no moves to quit music or their other endeavors, as emphasized by multiple members including RM, V, Jungkook, and Jimin.
After media fervor and mis-translations incited a panic about a "hiatus" and "disbandment," the members set the record straight by clarifying that they are simply taking a step back to focus on rejuvenating themselves creatively and diving into solo work.They have no plans for disbandment and will still be filming and releasing their variety show Run BTS.
The move is an important step for the group to take and serves as a reminder to other artists worldwide that burnout happens to everyone and it's important for artists to put their mental health first.
Naturally, however, the chairwoman's statement caused a slew of fan reactions from ARMYs and other fandoms. ARMYs called for more respect for artists' mental health, while others defended older groups' impact on Korean culture.
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EXETER — With his team holding a one-goal lead inside the final two minutes of the NHIAA Division III boys lacrosse championship game Sunday, Laconia coach Steve McDonough turned to his defense again.
The Sachems’ defense responded, forcing two late turnovers and helping set up the title-clinching goal to give Laconia a 12-10 victory over Hopkinton at Bill Ball Stadium.
Fourth-seeded Laconia finished 14-3 and allowed six or fewer goals in 11 games. The Division III title is the Sachems’ fifth overall, first since 2016 and first under McDonough, who was an assistant coach for the 2016 team.
The second-seeded Hawks, who defeated Laconia, 8-5, in the regular season, finished 14-3.
When Hopkinton took a timeout with 1:55 remaining, McDonough said he mostly spoke to his defense.
“Really just, ‘Hey defense, we’ve relied on you all year. If we’re going to win a championship, it’s you again,’” McDonough said of his message during the timeout. “Our defense has been phenomenal. … It was, ‘Hey, if we’re going to win a championship, you guys are going to have to make some plays and do that for us,’ and they did that.”
Laconia forced the Hawks to turn the ball over twice following that timeout. After the Sachems caused the second turnover with about one minute left, senior goalkeeper Cam Harriman (12 saves) cleared the ball upfield towards classmate Evan Rollins. Rollins then scooped up a ground ball and capped the game’s scoring with 45.9 seconds left.
“It was a tough battle,” Sachems senior captain and defenseman Edgar Conroy said. “We had to keep our composure and I think that was a big thing that we did.”
Laconia scored the game’s first two goals and led, 3-2, after the opening quarter. Hopkinton senior Quinn Whitehead’s goal knotted the score 57 seconds into the second frame. The Sachems then went on a 5-0 run to end the first half to take an 8-3 lead into halftime.
“We put them on their heels, I think, winning faceoffs, fastbreaks, transition goals,” Laconia senior captain and midfielder Tim Ausevich said of his team’s second-quarter run. “I don’t think they were ready for that because when we played them earlier in the season, we weren’t really getting into transition that well. We came out, punched them this time and put them on their heels with the transition, I think.”
McDonough said he and his players talked at halftime about how they expected Hopkinton to come out with a fire in the second half.
The Hawks opened the third quarter on a 5-1 run powered by Whitehead (four goals) and senior attackman Ryan Brown (three goals). Whitehead scored twice and Brown notched two goals and an assist during the run.
“They’ve just got a nose for the goal,” Hopkinton coach Deacon Blue said of Brown and Whitehead. “They kind of became a one-two punch up there on attack towards the end of the season and were finding each other well. That was part of the first half. We weren’t getting any possessions and if those guys can’t get the ball, we can’t score. Simple as that.”
Battling against Hopkinton seniors Connor Tewksbury and Ethan Molnar, Ausevich won the first-half faceoff battle, 9-5, and 14-10 overall.
Senior Cole Roy logged four goals and freshman Connor Tucker had a hat trick for the Sachems. Laconia also received two goals each from Rollins and Evan Carignan and one from Lucas Bean.
Hopkinton senior Aidan Burns’ only goal cut Laconia’s lead to 11-10 with 2:53 left. The Hawks also received a goal each from Patrick Buss and Josh Duval. Hopkinton senior goalie Eli Standefer made 11 saves.
“The guys just bought in and we had to play today,” McDonough said. “We knew all year how we were capable of playing and it took longer than I would’ve liked to get some buy-in to how I wanted us to play but better late than never, obviously.”
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Congress examines fraud in pandemic aid for small businesses
(AP) - A congressional panel Tuesday will examine payouts under a federal coronavirus pandemic aid program intended to help small businesses weather the COVID-19 outbreak amid revelations that as much as 20% of the money may have been awarded to fraudsters.
The problems in the COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, overseen by the U.S. Small Business Administration, included a finding by congressional investigators that some 1.6 million applications for the loans may have been approved without being evaluated.
Separately, the SBA’s Office of the Inspector General estimated that at least $80 billion distributed from the $400 billion program could have been fraudulent, much of it in scams using stolen identities.
The program is expected to be at the center of a congressional subcommittee hearing that also will tackle broader fraud concerns with the flood of pandemic aid from multiple federal government programs for states, local governments, businesses and the unemployed.
The $5 trillion in total aid, delivered in a series of bills signed by presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, have come with numerous complications.
Fraud overwhelmed enhanced unemployment insurance programs funded by the federal government and administered by the states. There was so much aid to governments that many struggled to find a way to spend it all under the original regulations. And there have been questions about whether the Paycheck Protection Program to keep employees working was worth it.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis says more than $10 billion allocated under two massive business loan programs has been returned because of investigations and bank actions. Federal prosecutors have charged nearly 1,500 people with crimes related to fraud against the government over the business loans and enhanced unemployment insurance programs.
The government’s Pandemic Response Accountability Committee says inspectors general for various federal agencies have at least 1,150 ongoing investigations into fraud from the different aid funds. Officials say it could take years to untangle all the problems.
One focus for the subcommittee is a report released Tuesday by its own staff that found up to 1.6 million applications for loans intended to keep small businesses open and making payroll were approved by a batch method. That could mean they were not even opened by officials before being greenlighted for funding.
The report blames the SBA for creating the batch approval function early in the pandemic, during the Trump administration.
The SBA’s Office of the Inspector General said Tuesday before the hearing that many of the assertions in the report are based on OIG reports over the past two years but that it cannot validate statements or independent research performed by the subcommittee included within the report. The office said it’s “aggressively rooting out the fraud and bringing wrongdoers to justice.”
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Good Question: How does the veto process work in Kentucky?
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - We saw Republican lawmakers override more than a dozen of Governor Andy Beshear’s vetoes on Wednesday.
It’s a topic we have spent a lot of time talking about the past few days, which got us asking, how does the veto process work in Kentucky? That’s today’s Good Question.
When a bill is passed in Kentucky, the governor has three options: they may sign it, permit it to become law without their signature or veto it.
Because the governor has 10 days to act on a bill, lawmakers usually pass their priority bills before the veto recess. That ensures they can vote to override a potential veto in the last two days, which is what we saw on Wednesday.
Kentucky is one of six states that only requires a simple majority to override a veto. That means 51 state representatives and 20 state senators.
Republicans control 80 of 100 seats in the House and 30 of 38 seats in the Senate, so getting to that majority is a fairly easy task for them.
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EOS Worldwide recently launched its entrepreneurship content on the World Economic Forum's Strategic Intelligence platform. As a global thought leader in the entrepreneurship space, EOS® will feature its material in the Entrepreneurship Transformation Map.
The World Economic Forum's dynamic knowledge tool- Transformation Maps- helps users explore and make sense of the complex and interlinked forces that are transforming economies, industries, and global issues. This allows users to visualize and understand more than 280 topics and the connections and interdependencies between them, helping, in turn, to support more informed decision-making by leaders.
Transformation Maps are used by more than 30,000 global constituents, including leaders in business, government, international organizations, civil society, academia, the media, arts, and culture, as well as approximately 950,000 users from the general public.
In addition to living on the World Economic Forum's site, Transformation Maps often serve as briefing materials and discussion aids for the participants and speakers during all World Economic Forum events, such as this week's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Kelly Knight, EOS Worldwide President and Integrator says, "This important partnership brings our help-first content to even more of the global entrepreneurship community and to those devoted to supporting women and all other minority entrepreneurs. As we chart our way to helping more than 100,000 businesses worldwide clarify their vision, gain traction and achieve team health through simple, proven and practical tools by 2030, we look forward to joining forces with world-class organizations like the World Economic Forum to support us in this mission."
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The Forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Protesters in southern Afghanistan on Sunday gathered following Prince Harry’s claim in his new memoir that he killed 25 people he described as Taliban fighters while posted with British forces in the country.
Around 20 faculty and students demonstrated at a local university in Helmand, the province where British forces were largely concentrated during the NATO and U.S.-led coalition operations in Afghanistan.
“We condemn his (Prince Harry’s) action which is against all norms of humanity,” one demonstrator said. Others carried posters showing Harry’s portrait with a red ‘x’ across it.
Sayed Ahmad Sayed, a teacher at the university, condemned Harry for his role in UK military operations in Afghanistan.
“The cruelties which have been committed by Prince Harry, his friends or by anyone else in Helmand or anywhere in Afghanistan is unacceptable, cruel. These acts will be remembered by history,” Sayed said at the protest.
NATO and U.S. troops withdrew in August, 2021 from the country after 20 years of warfare there and running air operations in support of the Western-backed Afghan government’s fight against a Taliban insurgency. Their withdrawal set the stage for the Taliban’s rapid return to power that month.
In his memoir, “Spare,” Harry says he killed more than two dozen Taliban militants while serving as an Apache helicopter copilot gunner in Afghanistan in 2012-2013. He writes that he feels neither satisfaction nor shame about his actions, and in the heat of battle regarded enemy combatants as pieces being removed from a chessboard, “Baddies eliminated before they could kill Goodies,” the prince writes.
Harry’s decision to put a number on those he killed, and the book’s comparison of those to chess pieces, drew outrage from Taliban officials, and concern from British veterans.
“We ask the international community to put this person (Prince Harry) on trial, and we should get compensation for our losses,” said Mullah Abdullah, who lost four family members in what he described as a U.K. airstrike in 2011 that hit his family home in the Nahr-e-Saraj area of Helmand.
“We lost our house, life, and family members. We lost our livelihood and also our loved ones,” said Abdullah, while visiting the graves of the family members he lost in the strike.
The media director for the Taliban governor of Helmand, Mawlavi Mohammad Qasim, said Harry’s claims in his memoirs “exposed the real face of the Western world.”
“It is a clear indication of their cruel and horrific actions,” he said.
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CEDARHURST, N.Y., Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues this alert to shareholders of Dingdong (Cayman) Limited (NYSE: DDL), if they purchased or acquired the Company's American Depository Shares ("ADS") pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's June 2021 initial public offering (the "IPO"). Shareholders have until October 24, 2022 to file lead plaintiff applications in the securities class action lawsuit.
Shareholders are encouraged to contact us at https://kclasslaw.com/cases/securities/nyse-ddl/, by calling toll-free at 1-833-835-1495 or by email (dk@kclasslaw.com).
Kuznicki Law PLLC is committed to ensuring that companies adhere to responsible business practices and engage in good corporate citizenship. The firm seeks recovery on behalf of investors who incurred losses when false and/or misleading statements or the omission of material information by a Company lead to artificial inflation of the Company's stock. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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EL DORADO, Ark. (KTVE/KARD) — On April 12, 2023, the City of El Dorado will begin drainage work at 12th Street and College Avenue. After morning school drop-off and traffic has slowed down, repairs will begin.
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Copa Holdings Reports Financial Results for the Third Quarter of 2022
Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 5:00 PM EST|Updated: 36 minutes ago
PANAMA CITY, Panama, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Copa Holdings, S.A. (NYSE: CPA), today announced financial results for the third quarter of 2022 (3Q22). The terms "Copa Holdings" and the "Company" refer to the consolidated entity. The following financial information, unless otherwise indicated, is presented in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). See the accompanying reconciliation of non-IFRS financial information to IFRS financial information included in the financial tables section of this earnings release. Unless otherwise stated, all comparisons with prior periods refer to the third quarter of 2019 (3Q19) (which the Company believes are more relevant than year-over-year comparisons due to the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021).
OPERATING AND FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Copa Holdings reported a net profit of US$115.9 million for the quarter or US$2.93 per share, as compared to a net profit of US$104.0 million or earnings per share of US$2.45 in 3Q19. Excluding special items, comprised of an unrealized mark-to-market net gain of US$0.9 million related to the Company's convertible notes as well as changes in the value of financial investments, the Company would have reported a net profit of US$115.1 million or US$2.91 per share.
- Copa Holdings reported an operating profit of US$143.7 million for the quarter and a 17.8% operating margin, compared to an operating profit of US$132.9 million and an operating margin of 18.8% in 3Q19.
- Total revenues for 3Q22 increased 14.3% to US$809.4 million, as compared to 3Q19 revenues. Yields increased 12.1% to 14.1 cents and revenue per available seat mile (RASM) increased 15.0% to 12.8 cents.
- Operating cost per available seat mile (CASM) increased 16.4% from 9.0 cents in 3Q19 to 10.5 cents in 3Q22, driven by higher fuel prices. CASM excluding fuel (Ex-fuel CASM) decreased 5.3% in the quarter to 5.9 cents, as compared to 3Q19.
- Passenger traffic, measured in terms of revenue passenger mile (RPMs), increased by 0.8% compared to 3Q19, while capacity (ASMs) decreased by 0.6%. As a result, load factors for the quarter increased by 1.2 percentage points to 86.8%.
- During the quarter, the Company started operations in one new route — Felipe Angeles International Airport in Mexico City.
- The Company ended the quarter with approximately US$1.1 billion in cash, short-term and long-term investments, which represents 42% of the last twelve months' revenues.
- The Company closed the quarter with total debt, including lease liabilities, of US$1.7 billion.
- During the quarter, the Company took delivery of one Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, ending the quarter with a consolidated fleet of 95 aircraft – 67 Boeing 737-800s, 18 Boeing 737 MAX 9s, 9 Boeing 737-700s, and 1 Boeing 737-800 freighter, compared to a fleet of 102 aircraft prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Copa Airlines had an on-time performance for the quarter of 86.6% and a flight completion factor of 99.5%.
Subsequent Events
- In October, the Company took delivery of one Boeing 737 MAX 9 and expects to receive one additional aircraft in November, to end the year with a total fleet of 97 aircraft.
- In October, Copa Airlines was recognized by Skytrax – for the seventh consecutive year – as the "Best Airline in Central America and the Caribbean" and as the "Best Airline Staff in Central America and the Caribbean."
(1) Excludes Special Items. This earnings release includes a reconciliation of non-IFRS financial measures to the comparable IFRS measures.
(2) Average Aircraft Utilization is calculated based on the Company's active fleet, excluding aircraft in storage.
(3) The Company believes that comparisons with 2019 are more relevant than year-over-year comparisons due to the significant impacts in 2020 and 2021 of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Copa Holdings is a leading Latin American provider of passenger and cargo services. The Company, through its operating subsidiaries, provides service to countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. For more information visit: www.copaair.com.
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NON-IFRS FINANCIAL MEASURE RECONCILIATION
This press release includes the following non-IFRS financial measures: Adjusted Operating Profit, Adjusted Net Profit, Adjusted Basic EPS, and Operating CASM Excluding Fuel. This supplemental information is presented because we believe it is a useful indicator of our operating performance and is useful in comparing our performance with other companies in the airline industry. These measures should not be considered in isolation and should be considered together with comparable IFRS measures, in particular operating profit, and net profit. The following is a reconciliation of these non-IFRS financial measures to the comparable IFRS measures:
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“When I get back into the Oval Office,” former president Donald Trump told the annual gathering of the conservative group Turning Point USA recently, “I will obliterate the deep state.” While this may sound like simply more of the same authoritarian bombast that he is known for, it is no idle threat. Indeed, it is deeply rooted in a Republican imperative that predates Trump, one that has a political traction that probably will outlast him.
Trump’s plan, outlined on the former president’s campaign website, is to bring every part of the federal government under his personal control. This includes stripping employment protections from “deep state” civil servants, making independent federal agencies directly answerable to the White House, blocking funds that have already been appropriated by Congress for programs he opposes and eliminating any legal accountability for presidential actions.
Trump seems more likely to succeed the second time around because his allies have spent the past few years making plans and training staffers to overcome the obstacles they faced during Trump’s term — barriers that thwarted many of his authoritarian impulses.
While it is tempting to see this well-planned assault as uniquely Trumpian, it is actually just a maximalist version of a proposition that dates to the early days of the Reagan administration. Trump’s ideas might be extreme, but they’re foundational to the modern conservative project and embedded in the DNA of the modern Republican Party.
The presidency of Richard M. Nixon, especially Watergate and Nixon’s handling of the Vietnam War, marked the peak of what scholars were beginning to call the “imperial presidency,” to describe an expansion of executive power that began with the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Congress forced Nixon from office and undertook in the years that followed a mission to claw back its authority, beginning with a wave of investigations into the activities of the CIA and other intelligence agencies during the presidency of Gerald Ford.
A key figure in this story is Dick Cheney. As a former Nixon administration official and Ford’s chief of staff, Cheney thought that increasingly aggressive congressional actions had dangerously weakened the presidency in ways that violated the Constitution. In 1979, Cheney entered Congress himself, and during the Reagan presidency, he bristled at attempts by a Democratic-dominated House to control the president.
Asserting that Reagan didn’t need congressional approval to fund the Contra insurgency in Nicaragua, Cheney accused Congress of a tendency “to act as if we are the fount of all political virtue in this society.” It was then that Cheney met David Addington, a powerful staff lawyer in the Reagan White House who shared his views on executive power, particularly regarding intelligence and military matters.
Addington, along with colleague Samuel A. Alito and their boss, Reagan’s second attorney general, Edwin Meese, began promoting a unique interpretation of Alexander Hamilton’s assertions about the role of the executive in Federalist 70. They argued that the executive was meant to be the dominant branch of government, that it was designed to function autonomously from the other branches and that the “vesting clause” of Article II of the Constitution gave the president sole authority over all aspects of it.
However, the Reagan administration’s bold attempt to defy and circumvent congressional authority was checked in what came to be called the Iran-contra scandal by an independent counsel and nationally televised congressional hearings in 1987. Although Reagan himself was spared, the investigation of the illegal sale of arms to Iran to fund anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua resulted in the indictments of several senior White House officials.
In 1989, Cheney became secretary of defense for Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, bringing Addington with him. In 1990, he tried to convince the president to invade Kuwait without congressional approval. Cheney received support from Assistant Attorney General William P. Barr — another staunch proponent of expansive executive power. Earlier, as head of Bush’s Office of Legal Counsel, Barr had drafted a memo permitting the FBI to detain fugitives without agreement from the countries in which they were seized.
But Bush didn’t embrace this expansive definition of presidential power. Instead, it was his son, George W. Bush, who became the president to do so after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. With the vigorous support of Cheney, who was now vice president, and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld — another veteran of the Nixon White House — Bush authorized the illegal wiretapping of phones by the National Security Agency, suspended habeas corpus for both U.S. and foreign citizens and forcibly abducted terrorism suspects and brought them to a third country for aggressive interrogation and torture. The administration justified these actions with what was now known as the “unitary executive theory.” Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo wrote the notorious “torture memos” under this theory.
Conservative legal scholars and activists, once principally opposed to big government, began to warm to the expansion of presidential power because of their anathema toward the federal bureaucracy. They saw the proliferation of executive agencies — many overseen by congressional committees — as constraints on their agenda.
And they were correct, as agency missions like protecting consumers, the environment and individual rights clashed with conservative beliefs about the rights of the private sector and promoting the traditional nuclear family. They reasoned that concentrated presidential power would enable them to bypass federal rules, bring executive agencies to heel and circumvent congressional checks.
This understanding meant that when Trump — a Republican who brazenly claimed authoritarian power — came along, conservatives were well primed to support his efforts with an exaggerated theory of presidential governance they had already long been peddling.
And once Trump left office, conservative organizations, scholars and activists began working to build an apparatus to make future Republican presidents much more powerful. Former White House officials, including Stephen Miller, Mark Meadows and Russell Vought — who learned a great deal from the obstacles they faced during Trump’s presidency — have helped launch overlapping initiatives that are laying groundwork for a radical reorganization of the executive branch. The most prominent of these are part of “Project 2025,” a well-funded umbrella effort by conservative groups that are drafting position papers, writing legal briefs, drawing up blueprints and vetting and training thousands of potential staffers.
The effort reflects a perilous synergy between Trump’s far-right allies and mainstream conservatives when it comes to presidential power. Driving this effort is the flagship of establishment conservative policy, the Heritage Foundation. “The notion of independent federal agencies or federal employees who don’t answer to the president, Heritage Foundation President Kevin D. Roberts said recently, “violates the very foundation of our democratic republic.”
But while Roberts tried to cloak the mission in lofty, principled rhetoric, today’s proponents of the unitary executive no longer need invoke Hamilton to justify this radical shift in national governance. They now simply claim it as a political tool. “There is no way to make the existing structure function in a conservative manner,” John McEntee, a former Trump staffer and leading figure in Project 2025 flatly told the New York Times. “What’s necessary is a complete system overhaul.”
Should Trump or another Republican win the 2024 election, there will no doubt be pushback from independent agencies, the federal bureaucracy and congressional Democrats. But this dilated vision of the American presidency has formidable bases of support. The Supreme Court has been shifting toward a more capacious view of executive power for decades, and Republicans in Congress have increasingly chosen party loyalty over their own institutional authority during Republican presidencies.
Perhaps the most potent source of support is the vast number of voters for whom the multiple indictments of Trump are evidence both of a thoroughly corrupted government and the need for a savior. “In the end, they’re not coming after me,” Trump likes to say on the stump. “They’re coming after you — and I’m just standing in their way.”
This authoritarian project didn’t begin with Trump, nor will it end with him. Instead, Trump supercharged antidemocratic tendencies at the heart of the GOP that had existed for decades. Regardless of whether a Republican wins the presidency in 2024, the institutional and ideological apparatus is now in place for future GOP incumbents, and it would be foolish to imagine that they would not avail themselves of it. Indeed, Trump has created a durable template for executive authoritarianism in his party that is being tested at the state level by the likes of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) to promote his own presidential bid.
As if to redeem Nixon’s failed attempt at an imperial presidency, Trump recently compared himself to the former president, saying, “I think he always regretted that he didn’t fight.”
We are now in a dangerous political moment, but it has been a long time coming.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — O. Bruton Smith, who emerged from North Carolina farm country and parlayed his love of motorsports into a Hall of Fame career as one of the biggest track owners and most successful promoters in the history of auto racing, died Wednesday. He was 95.
His death was announced by Speedway Motorsports, which cited natural of causes.
His son, Marcus, the current president and CEO, on Tuesday posted a tribute to his father on social media: “I had a wonderful Father’s Day weekend. I am so thankful to be a dad, and to have an amazing dad,” said the post, which was accompanied by photos of Smith surrounded by his family.
“Race fans are, and always will be, the lifeblood of NASCAR. Few knew this better than Bruton Smith,” said NASCAR chairman Jim France. “Bruton built his race tracks employing a simple philosophy; give face fans memories they will cherish for a lifetime. In doing do, Bruton helped grow NASCAR’s popularity as the preeminent spectator sport.”
Born March 2, 1927, on a farm in Oakboro, a small town 30 miles east of Charlotte, Ollen Bruton Smith was the youngest of nine children. He watched his first race as an 8-year-old during the Depression and bought his first race car at 17 for $700.
“The whole idea at that time was that I was going to be a race car driver. I learned to drive, but that career didn’t last long,” Smith said about his early start, claiming his mother prayed for him to find another passion. “You can’t fight your mom and God, so I stopped driving.”
Smith instead became an entrepreneur — promoting his first race at age 18 — and became one of the giants in stock car racing. Speedway Motorsports, the company he founded, was the first motorsports company to trade on the New York Stock Exchange and it currently owns 11 facilities across the United States.
The tracks host NASCAR, IndyCar, NHRA and other series in Atlanta; Bristol, Tennessee; Charlotte; Las Vegas; New Hampshire; Sonoma, California; Texas; Dover, Delaware; Nashville, Tennessee; North Wilkesboro, North Carolina; and Kentucky.
NASCAR races this weekend at Nashville Superspeedway, a track that was purchased by Speedway Motorsports late last year.
“My parents taught us what work was all about,” Smith said in 2008. “As I look back, that was a gift, even though I certainly didn’t think so at the time. A lot of people don’t have that gift because they didn’t grow up working. Bu if you are on a family farm, that’s what you do. Everything is hard work.”
Speedway Motorsports also owns and operates a number of subsidiaries. Smith founded Sonic Automotive in early 1997 and took it public 11 months later; in 2000, it was recognized as a Fortune 500 company and has hundreds of dealerships in over 20 states.
Smith was on the ground floor as stock car racing grew in popularity, starting in the Deep South. Smith joked he was “unlucky enough” to be appointed by a committee of frustrated racers and car owners to begin promoting races.
He partnered with Curtis Turner in 1959 to build Smith’s first permanent motorsports facility, Charlotte Motor Speedway. It opened in June 1960 with a 600-mile race, the longest in NASCAR history. The Coca-Cola 600 to this day is considered a crown jewel on the NASCAR calendar.
Smith became known for building state-of-the-art facilities that embraced the fan experience. His tracks have condominiums, Speedway Clubs that offer fine dining and giant, high-definition video screens.
“I love the racing business. I want to contribute more and more,” Smith said in 2015. “You hear us preach about ‘fan friendly.’ I think that is a driver for me to just do more things. I enjoy the contributions I’ve been able to make to the sport.”
He often sparred with NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. and his successor, Bill France Jr., and battled the NASCAR leadership for decades trying to bring elite Cup Series races to his properties. The two largest operators of racetracks in the country rarely saw eye-to-eye, but Smith, with his gold-framed shaded sunglasses and wild sport coats, never backed down.
“Bruton’s contribution to stock car racing is hard to measure,” said fellow NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt Jr. “His ambitious vision created growth and opportunities that I am forever thankful for.”
Eddie Gossage, who worked for Smith at Charlotte before leaving to help open Texas Motor Speedway and guide it through its first 25 years, paid tribute to his former boss.
“I’ve met American Presidents and scholars. Astronauts and artists. World famous musicians and athletes. But the greatest man I ever met was Bruton Smith,” said Gossage, who retired last summer. “We had so much fun working together. He always treated me like an equal as he taught me lessons about business and life.”
Smith in 2016 was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame for his contributions to motorsports. Jim France called Smith “a giant of a sport.”
“Everyone knows what he’s done for motorsports, NHRA and NASCAR,” said legendary drag racer John Force. “He was like a second father to me. I met him when he opened Bristol. I sure loved him. I’m going to miss him. His legacy will live on.”
Smith is survived by sons Scott, Marcus and David, daughter, Anna Lisa, their mother, Bonnie Smith and seven grandchildren. Funeral arrangements were pending.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A one-time champion skateboarder who has spent nearly three decades in prison for raping and killing a woman at his Southern California home has been recommended for parole, and the San Diego County district attorney vowed Wednesday to appeal.
Mark “Gator” Rogowski confessed to killing Jessica Bergsten, 22, in 1991 at his home in Carlsbad, a beach town north of San Diego. He beat her with a car lock, chained her to a bed, raped her, then placed her in a surfboard bag and strangled her before burying her in the desert, authorities said.
Bergsten was a friend of Rogowski’s former girlfriend and he said he attacked her out of “misplaced revenge” after he was dumped.
Rogowski pleaded guilty to rape and murder and was sentenced to 31 years in prison. He is being held at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego.
San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan said in a statement that Bergsten's family was “devastated" by the California State Board of Parole Hearing's decision to recommend him for parole, and her office would seek to overturn the decision.
“The family and friends of Jessica Bergsten deserve the continued promise of justice in this case,” Stephan said. “Our office argued strongly against releasing this violent defendant.”
Rogowski was previously denied parole in 2011 and 2016, while a 2019 recommendation for his release was reversed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Rogowski has said he was remorseful.
“I’m disgusted with what I did. I think about it every day,” the 1980s skateboarding champion told the parole panel in 2019. “I took everything from that poor family. They have every right to be angry with me. I want to make it go away but I can’t.”
The most recent panel noted Rogowski’s remorse and good behavior during 27 years behind bars and determined he was suitable for release, despite objections from Bergsten’s father and the San Diego County district attorney’s office, according to the local ABC News affiliate, KGTV-TV.
“The pain never goes away,” Stephen Bergsten told the panel. “This inmate received a life sentence, but he imposed a death sentence upon Jessica and our family.”
The state Board of Parole Hearings has 120 days to finalize the panel’s recommendation. Newsom then reviews it and has 30 days to decide whether to let it stand or reverse it.
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LONDON (AP) — After an acrimonious divorce and years of bickering, Britain’s government looks like it wants to make up with the European Union.
The tax-cutting economic plans of the country's new prime minister, Liz Truss, has her feuding at home with financial markets, the opposition and chunks of her own Conservative Party. But abroad, European politicians and diplomats have noticed a marked softening of tone since Truss took over from Boris Johnson a month ago.
Truss and her ministers say they want to solve a fractious dispute with the European Union over post-Brexit trade rules. On Thursday, the British leader plans to travel to the Czech Republic for the first meeting of the European Political Community, an initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron.
A few weeks ago, British officials were cool about the new forum, which includes the 27 EU member countries, aspiring members and the U.K., the only nation to have left the bloc.
Now, the government says Truss intends to play a leading role at the summit, where she will use an opening session address to urge unity against the “strategic challenges” exposed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — especially Europe’s energy dependence on Russian oil and gas.
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Britain was looking at the new grouping “with an open mind.”
“We want to find ways of working well with our neighbors and partners and friends in Europe,” he said at the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference this week.
The European Political Community has another advantage for post-Brexit Britain: It shows “there is more to Europe than the EU," Cleverly said.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put Brexit in perspective and brought Western allies closer together. The energy squeeze and cost-of-living crisis unleashed by the war have given governments in Britain and across Europe more pressing problems to deal with.
Truss' office says she plans to tell the Prague summit that “Europe is facing its biggest crisis since the Second World War, And we have faced it together with unity and resolve.”
“We must continue to stand firm — to ensure that Ukraine wins this war, but also to deal with the strategic challenges that it has exposed," she plans to say in her address.
The U.K. has also softened its tone – if not its stance – in the dispute with the EU over trade rules for Northern Ireland.
Arrangements for Northern Ireland — the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU nation — have been the most contentious issue so far in the U.K.-E.U. divorce. The two sides agreed to keep the Irish border free of customs posts and other checks because an open border is a key pillar of the peace process that ended decades of violence in Northern Ireland. Instead, some goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. undergo checks.
That solution has spiraled into a political crisis for the power-sharing government in Belfast, with British Unionist politicians refusing to form a government with Irish nationalists because they see the checks as undermining Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom.
With talks between the U.K. and the EU to solve the problem gridlocked, Johnson's government introduced legislation earlier this year to suspend the checks and rip up part of its legally binding Brexit treaty. The unilateral move brought legal action from the EU and the risk of an all-out trade war.
Truss’ government has not abandoned that bill, which is on a slow journey through Parliament. But Cleverly has stressed his warm relationship with the EU’s Brexit chief, Maros Sefcovic, and negotiators from the two sides have held their first talks in months.
“I think there is a recognition that it’s in our collective interest to get this result,” Cleverly said.
Even Conservative lawmaker Steve Baker, a Brexit hardliner who helped scuttle former Prime Minister Theresa May’s attempts to forge a closer relationship with the EU, apologized and promised “to work extremely hard” to improve relations.
“I and others did not always behave in a way which encouraged Ireland and the European Union to trust us to accept that they have legitimate interests, legitimate interests that we’re willing to respect,” Baker said.
European leaders are welcoming, but wary. They want the U.K. to scrap both the treaty-breaching legislation and its insistence on removing the European Court of Justice’s role in overseeing the Brexit agreement.
“We’ve had positive mood music before, but it does feel a slightly better kind of positive mood music,” David Henig, a trade expert at the European Center for International Political Economy, said. “Coming at the (Conservative) conference, where you wouldn’t expect it to come … it does feel like there is something there."
“I’m not getting out the hallelujahs yet that it’s the start of a long-term change,” Henig said. "But because of where it’s happening, I take it slightly more seriously this time.”
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Editor’s note: The following two-part story contains direct references to sexual abuse and sexual assault.
The UW Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) recently released “Calls to nowhere: Reports of sexual abuse and assault go unanswered at the NWDC,” the latest in their series of reports on human rights abuses at the Northwest Detention Center (NWDC), a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma.
“[The] existence [of gaps in the implementation of sexual abuse prevention standards] suggests that no one really knows how widespread sexual abuse may be at the NWDC,” the report states.
According to the document, the private prison contractor GEO Group that operates NWDC is contractually obligated to uphold safety standards legislated by Congress and issued by ICE. These standards require multiple avenues of sexual abuse reporting accessible to detainees and immediate responses from GEO and ICE.
“In fact, the records show that ICE appears to fail to respond adequately — in some cases, at all — to abuse reported through the very mechanisms the agency has created purportedly to facilitate reporting,” the document says.
The report also shows that researchers came to this conclusion by examining hundreds of ICE Significant Incident Reports and thousands of written grievances filed by NWDC detainees.
“We file, for example, a lot of Freedom of Information Act requests of many government agencies,” Angelina Godoy, director of UWCHR, said. “Student researchers . . . helped generate those requests . . . Other students have monitored those requests as they've gone through the system and helped us analyze the documents.”
UWCHR’s findings detail cases of sexual abuse of detainees by other detainees, NWDC healthcare providers, and GEO officers. In many cases, victims utilized hotlines advertised in posters at NWDC for reporting assaults, but ICE failed to respond, ignoring or dismissing the cases.
Godoy explained that these failures originate in the fact that NWDC is a for-profit facility which increases profits when depriving detainees of adequate food, medical care, protection from sexual abuse and assault, and using solitary confinement to retaliate against those who speak out against these conditions, as uncovered by UWCHR’s reports.
“Since ICE is permitted to remove or transfer people from the NWDC at will and without explanation, there is a danger that they could do so . . . as a way to cover up troubling cases,” the findings say.
The report cites documentation of systematic sexual assault and abuse in ICE facilities across the country and related lawsuits against private prison companies.
The real purpose of ICE
ICE was allotted an $8.3 billion budget in 2021, an over twofold increase since 2003. Journalist Juan González on Democracy Now said that the entire federal government in recent decades has been turned into an apparatus for hunting down, deporting, and locking up immigrants.
Godoy said that while ICE often uses the language of criminality and public threat, they do not have the legal authority to detain anyone for public safety reasons.
“[The purpose of ICE] is a specific population control,” Maru Mora Villalpando, co-founder of Washington grassroots organization La Resistencia, said. “The U.S. was built on stealing natives people's land. It was built on bringing Black people to be slaves . . . The U.S. immigration system is built to keep us as cheap slave labor when it's convenient for them and kick us out when they don't need us anymore. But on the way there, they still profit from us.”
Check back Wednesday for part two of the story, which highlights how community groups have come together in the face of ICE and includes how anyone can support these efforts.
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Many women with two or three breast tumors can get by with lumpectomy surgery instead of having their whole breast removed, a new study suggests.
In recent years, more patients with multiple tumors have been identified, a result of more sensitive imaging techniques that can reveal tiny, once-hidden cancers. That means more patients are being diagnosed with multiple cancer sites in the same breast.
In the past, doctors would say these women needed mastectomies. Researchers wanted to know: Was this dogma still true?
They followed nearly 200 women with two or three tumors in one breast who had lumpectomies followed by radiation. The patients ranged in age from 40 to 87. To take part in the study, their tumors had to be less than 5 centimeters and separated by 2 to 3 centimeters of normal breast tissue.
After five years, just 3% saw cancer come back, similar to rates from previous lumpectomy studies in patients with only one tumor. The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health, was being discussed Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
“This study caught my attention very quickly," said Dr. John Kiluk, a surgeon at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, who was not involved in the research. “It is definitely a step forward for our field.”
Lumpectomy's advantages include quicker recovery and, often, better cosmetic results.
No surgery guidelines existed for these patients, but some doctors already were offering lumpectomy as a choice, said Dr. Judy Boughey of Mayo Clinic, who led the research.
“This will make them more comfortable with that approach,” Boughey said. "And I think it will also make patients ask their surgeon, ‘OK, I have two sites of disease. Do I have to have a mastectomy? Or can you give me breast conservation?’”
The study did not randomly assign patients to lumpectomy or mastectomy. That would have yielded better data, but it would be nearly impossible to find women willing to be randomly assigned, Boughey said, making such an experiment impractical.
In the study, the women who had an MRI before surgery did the best, suggesting MRI scans may help surgeons be more thorough at removing cancer.
The study is part of a larger research movement aimed at avoiding overtreatment and unnecessary side effects by “right-sizing” cancer care, Boughey said.
“Do we have to throw the kitchen sink at everyone?" she asked. "Which patients need every single option that we have available and which will do just as well without having the kitchen sink thrown at them? Every single treatment has some kind of side effects.”
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BOZEMAN — With Week Two officially in the books, there was a lot that stood out in Saturday’s 63-13 win over Morehead State, but one group more than most, and that was their wide receivers.
The unit had to step up early after the Bobcats lost their fourth running back of the season to injury in Jared White, cycling in six different receivers against the Eagles.
“You never know who’s going to go down and you better be ready because you don’t want to get caught not ready," senior wide receiver Willie Patterson stated.
On their first two drives, the Bobcats ran nearly identical sweep plays to score Willie Patterson and Clevan Thomas, but their contributions on the ground didn’t stop there.
Sacramento State Transfer Marqui Johnson also got in on the action rushing for 61 yards on four carries and two touchdowns.
“I think all those guys are more than capable of doing what they did and that was part of the plan regardless of Jared [White] going down, so they did a good job after they got those opportunities," head coach Brent Vigen said.
After a lack of productivity in the passing game last week, Vigen was excited to see Tommy Mellott’s progression in the pocket against Morehead State throwing for a new career-high of 265 yards and two touchdowns.
“We completed the ball better with Tommy [Mellott]," Vigen added. "That was one thing we were definitely looking at, but I thought our receivers - you know, one thing that stood out to me is the run after the catch was great to see this afternoon.”
Tight end Treyton Pickering also had himself a day on Saturday leading all receivers with 98 yards on five catches.
"We had a tight end with 98 yards receiving," Vigen smiled. "That’s pretty damn good, so excited to see that. Keep getting these people off my back for not throwing to the tight end.”
Montana State hits the road to Portland next Saturday to close out non-conference play against Oregon State with kickoff set for 6 p.m. MT.
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NYC cancels swim classes amid lifeguard shortage nationwide
NYC Parks says hiring qualified lifeguards continues to be a 'challenge'
New York City residents and visitors will need to be extra careful in the water this summer.
The NYC Parks Department announced in a tweet on Monday that all swim programs will be canceled for the entire summer due to the national lifeguard shortage.
This includes swim programming like early bird and night owl lap swims, senior splash, learn to swim, swim team, water aerobics and day camps at outdoor pools.
AMERICA'S LIFEGUARD SHORTAGE WILL BE A ‘TOTAL DISASTER COME AUGUST’
"Outdoor pools will remain open each day for general swim from 11a.m.-3 p.m. and from 4 p.m.–7 p.m.," NYC Parks tweeted.
In a statement sent to Fox News Digital, the department explained that hiring qualified people has been a "challenge," as it has been for the rest of the nation, and continues to be an issue amid the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We know that New Yorkers rely on our city pools as their summer vacation destinations, and we are proud that we offer free access across the city to help New Yorkers safely stay cool on hot summer days," the statement reads.
Hiring qualified people has been a "challenge."
"Safety is our top priority — It’s because of this that we prioritize access to the millions who visit our pools annually rather than redirecting recourses to ancillary programming."
The agency encouraged all former NYC Park lifeguards to get re-certified for summer 2022.
The city trains and certifies lifeguards up until the July 4th weekend.
Beaches and pools are then staffed according to the final number of lifeguards available.
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As opening day approaches on Tuesday, June 28, the NYC Parks department is planning for city pools to stay open for general swim.
That day — June 28 — is the day after NYC public schools close for the summer.
The lifeguard shortage first began amid the pandemic, when all lifeguarding courses, recertification testing and swim classes were canceled.
Since then, the industry has been attempting to play catch-up, even though this is the third year in a row that New York City has canceled outdoor swim programs.
Nearly one-third of the nation’s 309,000 public pools have been impacted by the shortage, with many limiting their hours or actually closing altogether.
American Lifeguard Association's director of health and safety Bernard J. Fisher II revealed in an interview with Fox News Digital last week that the shortage is bound to get worse as the summer continues.
"It’s going to get worse," he said. "It’s going to be a total disaster in August, the hottest month of the year," he added bluntly.
Fisher put into perspective how desperate the U.S. has become for lifeguards, mentioning that America’s top training entities for lifeguards historically pulled in about 300,000 trainees per year.
Returning to normal employment levels would require at least double the number of lifeguards, said Fisher — bringing in 600,000 to just under one million candidates per year.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Rafael Nadal withdrew from Wimbledon because of a torn abdominal muscle on Thursday, a day before he was supposed to play Nick Kyrgios in the semifinals.
It is the first time since 1931 that a man pulled out of the oldest Grand Slam tournament before a semifinal or final.
“I made my decision because I believe that I can’t win two matches under these circumstances,” Nadal said at a news conference at the All England Club. “I can’t serve. It's not only that I can’t serve at the right speed, it’s that I can’t do the normal movement to serve.”
The 22-time major champion sighed occasionally while answering questions in English, then Spanish, for more than 20 minutes total. He twice described himself as “very sad.”
Nadal said trying to continue to compete could make the injury worse.
The only other time in his career that Nadal gave a walkover to an opponent by pulling out of a Grand Slam tournament prior to a match came at the 2016 French Open, when he withdrew before the third round because of an injured left wrist.
The 40th-ranked Kyrgios, a 27-year-old from Australia, advanced to his first title match at a major tournament and becomes the first unseeded men’s finalist at Wimbledon since Mark Philippoussis, who lost to Roger Federer in 2003.
Kyrgios will meet either three-time defending champion and No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic or No. 9 Cam Norrie of Britain for the championship on Sunday; their semifinal will be played Friday.
The second-seeded Nadal, a 36-year-old from Spain, is 19-0 in Grand Slam action in 2022, including trophies at the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June. That put him halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam for the first time in his career.
Nadal has been bothered by a stomach muscle for about a week, and the pain became nearly unbearable in the first set of his 4-hour, 21-minute victory via fifth-set tiebreaker against Taylor Fritz in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
After that match, Nadal said he had considered stopping before it was over — and could not be certain whether he would feel well enough to play again Friday.
He wore two strips of athletic tape on his lower stomach and took a medical timeout to take painkilling pills; his father and sister motioned from the stands for him to quit.
On Thursday’s off day, Nadal went to the All England Club for a light practice session. He was signed up on the official schedule to train on one of the competition courts but did not show up there, instead opting for practice courts to which fans don’t have access.
Mostly content to hit forehands and backhands, Nadal did attempt a few serves — the part of his game that revealed the most obvious inability to play with full force and, he said, caused the most discomfort against Fritz. Those practice serves Thursday were generally tapped in, by Nadal’s standards, not with any of the body-torqueing effort he usually uses.
“I was thinking during the whole day about the decision to make," Nadal said.
It’s not far from what went on with Nadal at Roland Garros, where he took repeated injections to numb the chronic pain in his left foot and insisted he had no idea when he might reach the point of not being able to take the court.
He tried a new treatment after leaving Paris, and that worked well enough, Nadal said, to allow him to walk without limping.
His level of play through five matches on Wimbledon's grass was such that he thought he had a chance to win a third title at the tournament, after those in 2008 and 2010.
The injury changed things, of course.
“I don’t want to go out there, not be competitive enough to play at the level that I need to play to achieve my goal,” he said.
Nadal said he thought he might be sidelined for about a month or so. The year's last Grand Slam tournament, the U.S. Open, starts Aug. 29.
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SAN ANTONIO — A man is dead after he was hit and killed by a driver in a truck on the west side early Wednesday morning. Police say the driver did not stop.
The victim, a man in his 40s, was struck around 12:10 a.m. on Culebra near 36th Street close to St. Mary’s University.
Police say the victim was crossing the street and another car slowed down to let him cross.
When he crossed into the second lane, a driver in a white truck struck him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials say the family of the man was there and was understandably very upset.
The vehicle that hit him was an older model truck.
SAPD says they’re going to try pulling video from businesses nearby to find the person responsible.
We’ve reached out to SAPD and they were able to tell us they did take someone in for questioning but weren’t able to tell us if they were arrested.
It’s something that’s becoming all too common here in Texas.
For this reason, TXDOT is launching their Be Safe, Drive Smart campaign.
As part of this campaign, you may see human billboards walking around near the San Fernando Cathedral Wednesday.
Members of the campaign will be seen wearing boards with messages reminding folks the importance of following rules of the road, and looking out for each other.
TXDOT says pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and serious injuries continue to rise.
Here in San Antonio, in 2021, there were 626 crashes involving pedestrians.
88 of them were fatal and 132 resulted in serious injuries.
The human billboards will be walking around from 8 a.m. until noon.
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JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski advanced from her primary along with Kelly Tshibaka, her GOP rival endorsed by former President Donald Trump, while another Trump-backed candidate, Republican Sarah Palin, was among the candidates bound for the November general election in the race for Alaska's only House seat.
Murkowski had expressed confidence that she would advance and earlier in the day told reporters that "what matters is winning in November." Tshibaka called the results "the first step in breaking the Murkowski monarchy's grip on Alaska." Tshibaka also said she was thankful "for the strong and unwavering support President Trump has shown Alaska."
A Murkowski has held the Senate seat since 1981. Before Lisa Murkowski, who has been in the Senate since late 2002, it was her father, Frank Murkowski.
Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been scrapped and ranked choice voting is being used in general elections. The top four vote-getters in a primary race, regardless of party affiliation, are to advance to the general election.
The other two places in the Senate race were too early to call.
Murkowski voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Trump was acquitted. But he has had strong words for Murkowski, calling her "the worst" during a rally last month in Anchorage.
Murkowski said that if Tshibaka derives her sole strength from Trump's endorsement, "what does that really say about her as a candidate with what she has to offer Alaska? Is it just that she will be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump? I don't think that all Alaskans are really seeking that. Not the ones that I'm talking to."
Kevin Durling, a co-chair of Tshibaka's campaign, said Trump's endorsement of Tshibaka was an added bonus for him. He said Tshibaka's commitment to business and family and her values were important to him. He expressed frustration with Murkowski for the impeachment vote and for her support of the nomination of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
In the House primary, Democrat Mary Peltola, Palin and Republican Nick Begich advanced to the November election. It was too early to call the fourth spot. The winner of the November race will be elected to a two-year term.
Peltola, Begich and Palin were also competing in a special election to serve the remainder of the late-Rep. Don Young 's term, which ends early next year. Young died in March.
The special election was voters' first shot at ranked voting in a statewide race. The winner of the special election may not be known until at least Aug. 31. If successful, Peltola would be the first Alaska Native woman elected to the House.
There also were several write-in candidates in the special election, including Republican Tara Sweeney, who was also competing in the House primary. Sweeney was an assistant secretary for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Interior Department during the Trump administration.
The special election was on one side of the ballot; the other side contained primary races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and lieutenant governor and legislative seats.
Palin, in a statement Tuesday evening, called this "the first test case of the crazy, convoluted, undesirable ranked-choice voting system."
Supporters of ranked voting have said it encourages positive campaigning but the House race has at times taken on harsh tones.
Begich, a businessman from a family of prominent Democrats, has come out hard against Palin, seeking to cast her as someone chasing fame and as a quitter; Palin resigned during her term as governor in 2009.
In one Begich ad, the narrator says Alaska has faced "years of disasters," including fires and COVID-19. "Sarah Palin is one disaster we can actually avoid," the narrator says.
A narrator in one of Palin's ads refers to Begich as "negative Nick" and says Palin wants to serve in Congress "to carry Don Young's torch."
Peltola, a former lawmaker who most recently worked at a commission whose goal is to rebuild salmon resources on the Kuskokwim River, has cast herself as a consensus builder.
She said one thing that would help her be a good representative is that she is "not a millionaire. I am just like every other regular Alaskan, and I understand the economic struggles that Alaskans face first-hand. My priorities are the priorities of everyday Alaskans."
In a statement early Wednesday, she said while the results of the special election won't be known for some time, "we are moving forward into the general election. We are going to build on this momentum and build a coalition of Alaskans that can win in November."
In the race for Alaska governor, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy advanced, as did former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, and Democrat Les Gara. It was too early to call the fourth spot.
Dunleavy and his running mate, Nancy Dahlstrom, in a statement said this "is only the start of the race. We'll dig into all the numbers as they come in over the next few days to find out where we need to shore up our campaign, and we're looking forward to reaching every Alaskan and earning their vote between now and November."
Walker is running with Heidi Drygas and Gara with Jessica Cook.
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IRVINE, Calif., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- University Lab Partners announces the 2nd annual launch of Orange County's pitch competition for life science startups, Pitch. Launch. Grow. The winner will receive priority admission and/or renewal to University Lab Partners and 1-year ULP lab space (one (1) - 6ft lab bench) valued at $29,400. Applications open until June 20, 2022.
The life science industry is one that encompasses a wide range of areas. These areas can include companies operating in the fields of drug discovery, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and therapeutics offering innovative products and services.
Applicants have the opportunity to refine their pitch decks while attending the 4-part topic-specific webinars focused on the fundamentals of creating an investable life science start-up. Finalists will be selected by a panel of startup experts and pitch live at the Demo Day on August 24th, 2022, at UCI Beall Applied Innovation where the winner will be announced.
For more information, please visit https://www.universitylabpartners.org/our-events/pitch-launch-grow-2022.
Pitch. Launch. Grow. Demo Day is sponsored by Insperity, Snell & Wilmer, Biocom California, Hatch Spaces, and NexCore Group.
University Lab Partners (ULP) is a premier, nonprofit, wet lab incubator located in UCI Research Park in Irvine, CA. ULP is a professionally-managed and equipped wet lab facility along with the benefits of peer-to-peer interactions among a life science-focused entrepreneurial community.
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50 years of South Plains Mall memories: Employees, customers share what makes it special
In 1972, Lubbock's South Plains Mall opened its doors to thousands of excited shoppers. In those 50 years, several generations of shoppers have made sweet memories in the mall. Here's what former employees and customers shared.
Sue Hammons: First date, 25th anniversary award and how mall trips marked her life
"(My first visit) was when my husband and I first started dating, within a week of its opening. I had never been, and he hadn't either. It was a different era, and he put his hand on my back while he opened the door to enter the mall. Our favorite stores were the pet shop, David's stationary, and we had to get a hotdog. That was the deal."
During the 25th anniversary, the mall hosted a competition for people to discuss what the mall meant to them. Hammons won, and received a t-shirt, a $50 coin of mall money, a coffee mug, and a phone card.
"You take a small town, then put something that massive in it, it was the center of the town and everyone's meeting place. My mother, after my son was born, would take him to the mall. When the twin grandsons came, they and their older brother would play on the concrete animals."
"I've probably changed more than it has. Back then, we had churches and the mall. It was just the place to go."
South Plains Mall former employees remember jokes, storms, frisbee and love
"I was terrible at working the cash register, but they were kind enough to keep me employed during the summer and Christmas breaks," said Jan Johnson, who was a 19-year-old college student and J.C. Penney employee for the opening day. "I remember a guy friend telling me to 'stay out of menswear' and it took me a while to get the joke."
"It was a common sight to see 30 or more people in line to be photographed when I arrived in the mornings, at the studio," said Kay Bradford, who was the manager and photographer for The Children's Photographer in the mid-1970s. "And the line seldom grew very much shorter as the day progressed. It was exhausting and an experience I’ll never forget!"
"(I) shocked my girlfriend when I called her on the phone and suggested she come up to the store to look at wedding rings as they were on sale, and with my employee discount I could afford it," said Robert Carr, who worked in the men's department in Hemphill-Wells in 1972-73. "She cried happily all the way as she drove up there as fast as she could. We picked out rings, placed them on layaway, so I could make payments 'til paid off. We happily set a date for the wedding in about 6 months. However, after 2 months, she asked how much longer before it was paid for and we could get out of layaway so I could present the engagement ring to her. I told her it should be paid off by the week before the wedding. She really wanted that ring, so she paid off the last portion of the balance herself! She figured her money was to be Our Money after marriage so shared a bit early ... best investment we made together, (and) still married after 48 1/2 years!"
"I was working at the Swiss Colony in 1972. "I was 'pushing cheese samples when a tall, scruffy, 20-something, bearded guy approached me," said Diantha Roberts, who worked at Swiss Colony in 1972. "He stood there awkwardly and I, of course, offered him cheese. He took the cheese, but said he’d really like my number. I thought he was pretty cute, being the 70’s! I grabbed a paper sack from under the counter and wrote my name and number on it. Fast track 50 years later, and I’m still with that not so scruffy, but bearded man. Thank you South Plains Mall, Swiss Colony and cheese for a great husband!"
"My boyfriend worked at Gingiss Tuxedo and wore their tuxedos often while on the job and looked so handsome," said Barbara Hardy, who worked in the ladies' budget dresses section in Dillards in 1973-1974. "We would meet in the middle of the mall on our breaks if we could. He surprised me with a beautiful wedding ring set from Tabor's Jewelers and, praise Jesus, I'm still wearing it almost half a century later."
"I worked at the mall for 6 months when it first opened. It was unlike any other job recruitment I had experienced," Pat Heath said. "My application was distributed to the managers at the stores that were completed or about to be. The managers then decided which applicants they wanted to see. I was selected by two managers, one was a clothing store and the other was at Swiss Colony. I selected Swiss Colony. It was a wonderful experience. I remember one day, a huge snow storm came through. The mall was empty of customers. To pass the time, we played frisbee in the mall from where Dillards was to Coach House Gifts and on down to Smoker’s Haven."
Customers' memories span decades: fountain wishes come true, first day adventures, kids' parties
Mary Beth Meyers remembered the excitement from the opening days of the mall, when she took a trip with her family.
"My daddy had a big black Lincoln Continental with the suicide doors, and he loaded all 5 of us girls and our Mama up in it, and drove us over there to look at new mall," Meyers said. "It was something new and exciting to Lubbock!"
"The first day it was open, my son, 5 years old, threw a nickel in the fountain, and wished to go to Six Flags ... he had no idea we were going there in three days," said Robbie Motgomery. "When we left to go, he grinned and said, 'See dad, my wishing really worked.'"
"My daughter had her 10th birthday party there," said Danna Baker Watkins, who shared this memory from 2000. "We started in the food court and divided the kids into teams. Each team had a scavenger hunt list of things to find (something Christmas themed, something purple, etc.). Each team had $10. After all teams returned, we put all the finds from the hunt in a bag and the first team back got to choose first for their treasure. Each child got to draw several times and that was their 'goodie bag.' Many shops gave the team something instead of making them pay. We had kids Chick-Fil-A meals and a decorated cookie as birthday cake. It was such a huge hit!"
These were collected from readers' emails, comments from "If you grew up in Lubbock, Texas, you remember when......" Facebook group and Twitter replies.
Alana Edgin is a journalist covering Business News in Lubbock and the surrounding area. Send her a news tip at aedgin@lubbockonline.com.
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Agent: Bills safety Damar Hamlin is breathing on his own
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is breathing on his own and able to talk after having his breathing tube removed, his agent said Friday — the latest step in his remarkable recovery in the four days since going into cardiac arrest and being resuscitated on the field during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Agent Ira Turner was unable to provide any other details in a text sent Friday morning to The Associated Press. The development was first reported by The Athletic.
The Bills said Friday in a statement that Hamlin’s “neurologic function remains intact and he has been able to talk to his family and care team.”
The 24-year-old Hamlin was still listed Thursday in critical condition in the intensive care unit of the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Aside from being able to communicate by writing, Hamlin was also been able to grip people’s hands.
“So we know that it’s not only that the lights are on. We know that he’s home. And it appears that all the cylinders are firing within his brain, which is greatly gratifying for all of us,” Dr. Timothy Pritts said. “He still has significant progress he needs to make, but this marks a really good turning point in his ongoing care.”
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The Columbia High volleyball team split matches last week and has two more nonleague tune-ups before starting Trico League play Sept. 27 at always tough Castle Rock.
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Sheriff’s deputy sought in connection with 2 fatal shootings in California
DUBLIN, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say they are seeking a northern California sheriff’s deputy the in connection with the slaying of two people early Wednesday morning.
He remains at-large hours after the bloodshed.
Law enforcement officials say they are searching for Devin Williams Jr., a deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. He is considered to be armed and dangerous.
Williams allegedly shot the pair in Dublin, California, early Wednesday morning and drove away.
Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene.
The sheriff’s office says he was off-duty at the time of the shooting.
Other details were not immediately available.
Authorities have planned a late morning news conference.
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MIAMI LAKES, Fla., April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Giant Eagle, Inc., one of the nation's largest food, fuel and pharmacy retailers, and Allivet.com, one of the nation's leading digital pet pharmacies, have partnered to further expand Allivet.com's PetRx platform in the retail space and offer a convenient online solution to Giant Eagle Pharmacy guests.
Giant Eagle's PetRx website (https://www.gianteaglepetrx.com/) offers thousands of prescription pet medications and over-the-counter pet products. Powered by Allivet.com, GiantEaglePetRx.com provides valuable benefits to Giant Eagle Pharmacy guests, including savings on pet healthcare products, fast and reliable delivery, and an AutoShip program offering the convenience of automatic delivery.
"We look forward to building a long and successful relationship with our partners at Giant Eagle," said Ujjwal Dhoot, CEO of Allivet.com. "As one of the largest food, fuel and pharmacy retailers in the country, Giant Eagle serves millions of customers every year, and we are thrilled that our innovative platform will enable them to provide their pet parents access to affordable and convenient medications and supplies for their pets."
Giant Eagle is excited to meet their guests' pet pharmacy needs by adding the GiantEaglePetRx.com solution in partnership with Allivet.
"Allivet is a trusted pet pharmacy solution provider," said Jim Tsipakis, Giant Eagle Pharmacy's Executive Vice President and President. "Through this partnership, Giant Eagle Pharmacy will make access to pet medications and supplies for our guests more convenient than ever."
About Giant Eagle
Giant Eagle, Inc., ranked among the top 40 on Forbes magazine's largest private corporations list, is one of the nation's largest food, fuel and pharmacy retailers and distributors, with approximately $10 billion in annual sales. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to more than 480 stores throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, northern West Virginia, Maryland, and Indiana.
About Allivet.com
Allivet.com, an online pet pharmacy, is fully licensed in all 50 states and is a .Pharmacy Verified Website under the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. An ally to pet parents since 1992, Allivet.com helps pet parents manage their pets' health needs by providing affordable access to thousands of medications and other pet products, exceptional customer service, and the convenience of AutoShip, an automatic delivery subscription service. Allivet.com has also developed an innovative B2B solution, enabling major retailers to offer pet pharmacy services to their shoppers under their own store brand.
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WFO LAKE CHARLES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, July 19, 2022
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HEAT ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Lake Charles LA
248 PM CDT Tue Jul 19 2022
...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING...
...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 7 PM CDT WEDNESDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Heat Advisory, heat index values up to
109. For the second Heat Advisory, heat index values up to 111
expected.
* WHERE...Portions of central, southwest and west central
Louisiana and southeast Texas.
* WHEN...For the first Heat Advisory, until 7 PM CDT this
evening. For the second Heat Advisory, from 11 AM to 7 PM CDT
Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses to occur.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out
of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors. Young
children and pets should never be left unattended in vehicles
under any circumstances.
Take extra precautions if you work or spend time outside. When
possible reschedule strenuous activities to early morning or
evening. Know the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat
stroke. Wear lightweight and loose fitting clothing when
possible. To reduce risk during outdoor work, the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration recommends scheduling frequent
rest breaks in shaded or air conditioned environments. Anyone
overcome by heat should be moved to a cool and shaded location.
Heat stroke is an emergency! Call 9 1 1.
* WHAT...Heat index values up to 108 expected.
* WHERE...In Louisiana, Calcasieu, Jefferson Davis, Acadia,
Lafayette and Upper St. Martin Parishes. In Texas, Jefferson
and Orange Counties.
* WHEN...From 11 AM to 7 PM CDT Wednesday.
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LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - A significant grant and a sisterhood of sorts came about in part thanks to an edition of our Hometown Conversations series.
Sister Karen Neuser of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration first saw a local program documenting some of the struggles for students of color in school. She said she then watched the Hometown Conversations featuring the co-founders of Hope Restores. That's when Sr. Karen decided to take action.
"The joy that happens within and the joy that you meet when you reach out is a huge positive way to live," said Sr. Karen. "That's what's going to bring this world to a better place."
The sisters worked with Hope Restores, providing a recurring grant of $200,000/year for three years, and offering to help with whatever the local African-American nonprofit resource might need.
"Support shows up in more than one form. I think it shows up in being able to say I see you and I hear you. That means a lot," said Tashyra Bernard, Hope Restores Director of Operations. "We really feel like we've gained a sister."
Hope Restores invites everyone to learn how to get involved, and join them for coffee at their Copeland Ave. location the first Friday of each month from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
You can see more of our Hometown Conversations series here.
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Ohio court sides with NASCAR in challenge to broadcast tax
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state’s attempt to tax NASCAR for broadcasting its races in Ohio was unlawful.
At issue before the court was whether the state tax commissioner properly subjected those broadcasts to Ohio’s commercial activities tax during an audit from 2005 to 2010. The tax requires payments on a company’s annual sales.
The court ruled that the Daytona Beach, Florida-based NASCAR’s broadcast revenue, licensing revenue, media revenue and sponsorship fees were wrongly subjected to the tax. A group of three justices on the 7-member court dissented over licensing fees.
The state had argued that it imposed the tax based on NASCAR’s commercial activity, including the organization’s sale of Ohio broadcast rights. Tuesday’s ruling reverses a Board of Tax Appeals ruling in its favor and sends the organization’s disputed tax bill — which totaled $529,520 — back to the panel to be readjusted.
NASCAR maintained that its commercial activities in Ohio such as broadcasting races and selling merchandise are done by other companies — Fox Broadcasting Co., for example — which are taxed accordingly.
Applying the tax to NASCAR broadcasts in Ohio was “an unconstitutional expansion of tax liability for out-of-state content providers,” it said.
In an opinion written by Justice Pat DeWine, the court agreed, determining that taxing NASCAR’s broadcasts “did not lie within the tax commissioner’s authority.” That was because its broadcast, media and sponsorship agreements are based on fixed fees that “do not vary with the amount of use.”
On the question of licensing agreements, Justices Melody Stewart, Jennifer Brunner and Michael Donnelly disagreed that they should not be subject to the tax.
They sided with the tax commissioner’s decision to calculate licensing fees separately from sales of NASCAR’s licensed products — flags, mugs, grill covers, keychains, hood ornaments, fuzzy dice — by its contract holder, BSI Products. NASCAR had argued that amounted to a double tax.
Stewart wrote: “If a homeowner hires a plumber to fix his sink and pays the plumber with earnings that Ohio has already taxed, Ohio is fully justified in also taxing what the homeowner paid the plumber as part of the plumber’s earnings.”
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DENVER, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) announced today that results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 will be released on Monday, February 13, 2023, following the close of U.S. markets. Palantir will host a webcast to discuss its results at 3:00 PM MT / 5:00 PM ET.
A live webcast and replay will be available at investors.palantir.com, and participants can pre-register here. In addition, shareholders can submit and vote on questions by visiting https://app.saytechnologies.com/palantir-2022-q4.
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Gary Brown: Lincoln in his own words
For a country lawyer who went to Washington, President Abraham Lincoln had a lot to say – first in Congress and later the White House.
And Americans are dedicated to remembering the wisdom of the man who led the nation through the dark days of the Civil War.
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An abundance of pages at websites throughout the internet are dedicated to preserving Lincoln's words, which were sometimes homespun, other times eloquent, and in either style almost always profound.
No doubt some of the Lincoln quotations – in the manner of the much misquoted Mark Twain or the mistakenly remembered Yogi Berra – are erroneously attributed to the country's 16th president.
Still, enough trusted historical and scholarly websites exist to have collected a wealth of reliable and thought-provoking remarks made by Lincoln during a life that had a profound effect on the history of the United States.
Today, as we recognize the birthday of one of the country's most revered presidents, it seems an appropriate time to recall just a few of the things that Lincoln is credited with saying, as compiled by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum in Springfield, Illinois.
Lincoln possessed ambition early in life
According one of the first quotations listed, along with its date, at the museum's website, talk of ambition began early in Lincoln's law and political career.
"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men." (March 9, 1832)
Lincoln served in the Illinois state legislature from 1834 to 1842. And, he realized that his actions in that office would often would speak for him.
"Mr. Chairman, this movement is exclusively the work of politicians; a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician myself, none can regard it as personal." (Jan. 22, 1937)
Lincoln moved on to the U.S. House of Representatives late in the 1940s. But, it was even before that when Lincoln's morality – raging against an issue that would shape our memory of him – showed in his relating of a personal observation.
"The (slaves) were strung together precisely like so many fish upon a trot-line. In this condition they were being separated forever from the scenes of their childhood, their friends, their fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters." (Sept. 27, 1841)
Later, Lincoln would be more specific in his moral judgement.
"There can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another." (Oct. 16, 1853)
More:Gary Brown: Why we should be able to keep classified documents
Lincoln's service came as a war president
Long before Lincoln was elected president in 1860, he made known his intentions regarding a war between the states. '"The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you." (Aug. 1, 1856)
During his campaign, he offered himself as a candidate as the conduit to powering a solution to ending the discord that tore apart the nation prior to the Civil War. He reasoned that the division in the country could not remain.
"I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other." (June 16, 1858)
War came because of the differences in thinking by the nation's people. Lincoln, long before he was shot at Ford's Theatre, was willing to give up his life for cause of keeping the country together.
"If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle ... I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it." (Feb. 22, 1861)
While opposing slavery, Lincoln knew full well his ultimate objective.
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it." (Aug. 22, 1862)
In the end of the war, all slaves indeed were free. The first in rebel states through the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the rest following the Civil War by the 13th Amendment. Lincoln thought all Americans should celebrate relieving slaves of a life of servitude.
"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free." (Dec. 1, 1862)
In the end, the cause of freedom would take his own life. Before his assassination, he seemed to have come to terms with threats against him, both verbal and physical.
"I abstain from reading the reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer." (April 11, 1865)
When Lincoln was gone, dying from his assassin's bullet on April 15, 1865, he left his words, and by them he is remembered.
"I do the very best I know how – the very best I can," he once said, though the date is unknown to those compiling his quotations at the Lincoln museum, "and I mean to keep doing so until the end."
Reach Gary at gary.brown.rep@gmail.com. On Twitter: @gbrownREP.
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SEATTLE — Boogie Ellis scored 27 points and USC earned its seventh straight victory, pulling away from Washington late to earn an 80-67 win on the road Friday night.
The Trojans (11-3) were unbeaten in six December games, including three straight to open Pac-12 play.
Washington trailed by seven at intermission but quickly erased that deficit in the second half. Freshman Keyon Menifield scored on a pair of layups and Cole Bajema hit the first of his four second-half 3-pointers to get within one, 42-41 three minutes into the half.
The Huskies then used a 10-0 run fueled by a pair of Bajema 3-pointers and a pair of baskets by Menifield to take a 58-55 lead with 10:28 left in the game. But Ellis answered by scoring nine points in an 11-0 run that put the Trojans back in front, 66-58.
Ellis finished shooting 10 of 19 from the field, including 4 of 8 from distance, and went 3-for-3 from the line, adding seven rebounds, two assists and three steals. Drew Peterson added 17 points and Tre White contributed 12 points and grabbed eight boards.
Keion Brooks paced the Huskies (9-5, 1-2) with 22 points and seven rebounds. Menifield added 18 points and Bajema was 4 of 9 from beyond the arc and contributed 12 points.
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WAUKEGAN, Ill., Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nielsen-Massey® Vanillas, the premier brand and provider of fine vanillas and flavors, has been named one of Loyola University Chicago's 2022 Family Business Heroes for its sustainability programs. As a third-generation family business, Nielsen-Massey has long been committed to protecting the people it works with, the planet and the local community.
The company employs a tailored approach to improve the quality of life for farmers in the communities around the world where it sources vanilla beans. These sustainability initiatives help impoverished communities embrace modern growing practices and improve the quality of life for families. Nielsen-Massey is also a founding member of the Sustainable Vanilla Initiative and continues to have an active role in multiple projects that are focused on combatting child labor, reducing deforestation, and strengthening the vanilla sector by improving wages for farmers.
"Corporate sustainability and responsibility is really in our DNA," said Craig Nielsen, vice president of sustainability for Nielsen-Massey/Co-owner. "We like to go in and have conversations with the villagers and find out the things they really need. We're in it for the good of the people."
Some of the projects the company has invested in throughout Madagascar include distributing COVID-19 remediation materials, developing a water tower with 12 distribution points to serve 3,000 residents and building a primary school to educate 82 students.
Closer to home, Nielsen-Massey gives back to local community organizations with an emphasis on education, at-risk children and youth, military and veterans, and environmental protection. Employee volunteering is a big part of the company's culture, with several employee volunteer events taking place each year.
Since 2009, Nielsen-Massey has donated a portion of its annual profits to assist disadvantaged children and adults with education and leadership development, especially in the field of culinary arts through its charitable arm, The Nielsen-Massey Foundation. A few of these organizations include World Central Kitchen, Feeding America and the Culinary Institute of America. A complete list of organizations the company supports as well as more details on its sustainability efforts can be found at NielsenMassey.com.
With more than a century's worth of experience, Nielsen-Massey® Vanillas has earned a reputation as the world's leading manufacturer of premium, pure vanilla extracts. The third-generation family owned and operated company uses a proprietary slow, cold extraction method to deliver the richest tasting vanilla. Nielsen-Massey was the first to introduce an organic and fair trade vanilla from Madagascar and remains committed to supporting the plants, people and communities that supply its beans. All consumer products are all-natural, allergen-free, certified Kosher and Gluten Free, and Non-GMO Project Verified. The company is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois, with production facilities in Waukegan and Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. To learn more visit NielsenMassey.com.
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PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of a new Arizona law restricting how the public and journalists can film police, agreeing with the American Civil Liberties Union and multiple media organizations who argued it violated the First Amendment.
U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi issued a preliminary injunction that stops the law from being enforced when it is set to take effect on Sept. 24. The quick decision came after Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and the prosecutor and sheriff's office in Maricopa County told the judge they did not plan to defend the law. They were named as defendants in the lawsuit filed last month.
The law was enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature over unified opposition from Democrats and signed by GOP Gov. Doug Ducey on July 6.
It makes it illegal to knowingly film police officers 8 feet (2.5 meters) or closer if the officer tells the person to stop. And on private property, an officer who decides someone is interfering or the area is unsafe can order the person to stop filming even if the recording is being made with the owner's permission.
The penalty is a misdemeanor that would likely incur a fine without jail time.
KM Bell, an ACLU attorney who lobbied against the bill at the Legislature and was in court Friday, said they were pleased the judge acted quickly.
“We are extremely gratified that Arizonans will not have their constitutional rights infringed and their ability to record the police criminalized by this law,” Bell said.
Bystander cellphone videos are largely credited with revealing police misconduct — such as with the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis officers — and reshaping the conversation around police transparency. But Republican Arizona lawmakers say the legislation was needed to limit people with cameras who deliberately impede officers.
Tuchi gave the Legislature a week to decide whether it wants to defend the law. The ACLU and media groups are seeking a permanent injunction.
Republican Rep. John Kavanagh, a retired police officer who sponsored the law, said he was “taken by surprise” when Brnovich did not move to defend the law.
“I was assuming that the attorney general would do his job as the state’s attorney and defend a law passed by the state,” Kavanagh said. “We are trying to get together with the (House) speaker and the (Senate) president and see if the Legislature will defend it, but there’s also the possibility of some outside group possibly stepping up.”
Brnovich’s office is charged with defending state laws. But in this case, his spokesperson, Katie Conner, said that because the attorney general does not have enforcement authority in these types of cases, they were the wrong party to sue.
Matt Kelley, an attorney who represented the news organizations that sued, argued in his court papers that Brnovich is not correct. He noted that by law the attorney general can step in and enforce laws that county prosecutors normally would.
Kavanagh argued that allowing people to record police up close while they are doing enforcement, like making arrests or dealing with a disturbed person, could put officers in danger, and noted that he made several changes to address the concerns of the ACLU. Those include changing the restriction from 16 feet (4.8 meters) to 8 feet.
“So I think this is unbelievably reasonable,” he said. “And if what’s causing the problem is my limiting it to just these law enforcement characters in all encounters, how ironic that trying to limit the scope of government reach is unconstitutional. But I guess that’s the world we live in.”
Kelley said that the law was very problematic. He praised Tuchi for quickly agreeing that the law did not meet the requirements needed to restrict First Amendment protections for filming law enforcement activities.
“There wasn’t anything in the law that said the person recording has to be interfering with law enforcement or harassing officers or otherwise doing something that would create a danger or a distraction,” Kelley said. “All it prohibited was simply standing there, making a video recording. And since that’s activity that’s protected by the First Amendment, this law was on its face unconstitutional.”
The original legislation was amended so it applies only to certain types of police actions, including questioning of suspects and encounters involving mental or behavioral health issues. It exempts people who are subject to the police interaction, or in a stopped car.
In similar cases, six of the nation’s dozen U.S. appeals courts have ruled on the side of allowing people to record police without restriction. Soon after the Arizona law was signed, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that a YouTube journalist and blogger’s lawsuit against a suburban Denver police department could move forward. The blogger said an officer blocked him from recording a 2019 traffic stop.
The Phoenix Police Department, which oversees the nation’s fifth-largest city, has been criticized in recent years for its use of force, which disproportionately affects Black and Native American residents.
Reporters and photographers said this law will make it nearly impossible to do their job, especially at massive events like protests. The outlets that sued include Phoenix Newspapers Inc., parent of The Arizona Republic; Gray Television; Scripps Media; KPNX-TV; Fox Television Stations; NBCUniversal Media; the Arizona Broadcasters Association; States Newsroom; Arizona Newspapers Association; and the National Press Photographers Association.
The Associated Press filed a friend of the court brief urging Tuchi to block the law from being enforced. The AP's attorneys said that photographers especially could be caught up while covering rallies, where it could limit their ability to capture the full interactions between police and protesters.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Callan, a leading institutional investment consulting firm, announced today that Kevin Schmidt joined the firm's Summit, NJ, consulting team on Jan. 1 as a senior vice president and investment consultant. Mr. Schmidt brings over two decades of industry and investment consulting expertise, and reports to Summit group leader and investment consultant Annoesjka West.
"What initially drew me to Callan was their incredibly strong reputation within the industry—their effectiveness with clients as well as a high level of respect and support given to their employees," said Mr. Schmidt. "I look forward to working alongside such a talented group of individuals, with the shared goal of consistently delivering actionable, best-in-class investment ideas to our clients."
Most recently, Mr. Schmidt was an investment consultant with RVK where he advised a variety of client types, including public funds, endowments and foundations, corporate entities, and insurance funds. He assisted clients on investment policy development, governance, asset allocation, asset class structure, performance evaluation and attribution, and investment manager searches. Prior to RVK, Mr. Schmidt was an analyst and client portfolio manager at OppenheimerFunds, Invesco, and UBS. He earned an MBA from Fordham University and a BS in economics from the University of Maryland.
"We are excited to have Kevin join the Summit team," said Ms. West. "He brings years of experience working with a variety of client types and will be a great asset to Callan and our clients."
Callan was founded as an employee-owned investment consulting firm in 1973. Ever since, we have empowered institutional clients with creative, customized investment solutions backed by proprietary research, exclusive data, and ongoing education. Today, Callan advises on more than $3 trillion in total fund sponsor assets, which makes it among the largest independently owned investment consulting firms in the U.S. Callan uses a client-focused consulting model to serve pension and defined contribution plan sponsors, endowments, foundations, independent investment advisers, investment managers, and other asset owners. Callan has six offices throughout the U.S. Learn more at callan.com.
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LONDON (AP) — Police worked Wednesday to piece together details and the motive of a knife and van attack that killed two 19-year-old students and another man in the English city of Nottingham, as friends and family remembered the two younger victims as talented athletes with a passion for life.
Nottingham University students Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar were stabbed to death in a street near student housing before dawn on Tuesday.
Police say a 31-year-old suspect also killed a man in his 50s more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away, stole his van and ran down a group of pedestrians. Three people were hurt, one critically, in the hit-and-run.
The slain owner of the van was Ian Coates, a school caretaker. His employer said he was a “beloved and respected” staff member at a Nottingham primary school.
The rampage unfolded over about 90 minutes across a large swath of Nottingham, a university city of about 350,000 some 110 miles (175 kilometers) north of London.
Nottinghamshire Police released more details of the attacks on Wednesday, saying a man matching the suspect’s description tried to enter a care home after the two students were stabbed, but was kept out by residents.
Police subdued the suspect with a stun gun after he abandoned the van, and detained him on suspicion of murder. Police said they believe the attacker acted alone, and were working with counterterrorism officers to try to establish a motive. The attack has not been labeled terrorism by the authorities, and police are investigating issues including the suspect’s mental health.
The BBC and other U.K. media reported that the suspect, whose name has not been released, is originally from West Africa and has lived legally in Britain for many years and did not have a criminal record.
Britain’s interior minister, Home Secretary Suella Braverman, said police were “working flat out to establish the full facts and provide support to everyone affected.”
“They are currently keeping an open mind as to the motives behind these attacks but I can confirm Nottinghamshire Police are being assisted in their inquiries by counterterror police, though this does not mean that it is currently being treated as a terrorist attack,” Braverman told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
A Nottingham University graduation ball scheduled for Tuesday evening was canceled, with many students gathering instead to light candles for the victims during a vigil at St. Peter’s Church.
“It is hard to find the words to express the shock and grief felt across our institution at the senseless loss of two first-year students who have had their bright futures brutally curtailed by a seemingly random act of violence,” said university Vice Chancellor Shearer West.
Kumar was in the first year of a medical degree, and Webber was studying history.
Webber’s parents and brother said he was “a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to.”
“A talented and passionate cricketer, who was over the moon to have made selection to his university cricket team,” the family, from Taunton in southwest England, said in a statement.
“Complete devastation is not enough to describe our pain and loss at the senseless murder of our son.”
Kumar also played cricket and had played field hockey for England youth teams. Woodford Wells Cricket Club near London said she was “a fiercely competitive, talented and dedicated cricketer and hockey player” who was “fun, friendly and brilliant.”
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Why people in China are panic buying canned yellow peaches as COVID surges
An unprecedented wave of COVID cases in China has sparked panic buying of fever medicines, pain killers, and even home remedies such as canned peaches, leading to shortages online and in stores.
Authorities said Wednesday they had detected 2,249 symptomatic COVID-19 cases nationally through nucleic acid testing, 20% of which were detected in the capital Beijing. CNN reporting from the city indicates the case count in the Chinese capital could be much higher than recorded.
Demand for fever and cold medicines, such as Tylenol and Advil, is surging nationally as people rush to stockpile drugs amid fears they may contract the virus.
Canned yellow peaches, considered a particularly nutritious delicacy in many parts of China, have been snapped up by people looking for ways to fight COVID. The product is currently sold out on many online shops.
Its sudden surge in popularity prompted Dalian Leasun Food, one of the country's largest canned food manufacturers, to clarify in a Weibo post that canned yellow peaches don't have any medicinal effect.
"Canned yellow peaches ≠ medicines!" the company said in the post published Friday. "There is enough supply, so there is no need to panic. There is no rush to buy."
The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, also tried to set the record straight. It published a long Weibo post on Sunday urging the public not to stockpile the peaches, calling them "useless in alleviating symptoms of illness."
Authorities also pleaded with the public not to stockpile medical supplies. On Monday, the Beijing city government warned residents that it was facing "great pressure" to meet demand for drug and medical services because of panic buying and an influx of patients at clinics.
It urged the public not to hoard drugs or call emergency services if they have no symptoms.
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The rising demand and shortage of supply of COVID remedies have fueled bets on drugmakers.
Shares of Hong Kong-listed Xinhua Pharmaceutical, China's largest manufacturer of ibuprofen, have gained 60% in the past five days. The stock has so far jumped by 147% in the first two weeks of this month.
"Our company's production lines are operating at full capacity, and we are working overtime to produce urgently needed medicines, such as ibuprofen tablets," Xinhua Pharmaceutical said Monday.
Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat pain and fever. It is also known as Advil, Brufen, or Fenbid.
The drug shortage has spread from mainland China to Hong Kong, a special administrative region with a separate local government system. On Sunday, the city's health chief urged the public to refrain from panic buying cold medicines they do not need and urged residents "not to overact."
In some Hong Kong drugstores, fever drugs such as Panadol, the local brand name for Tylenol, have sold out. Most of the buyers were sending the medicines to their families and friends in the mainland, sales representatives told CNN.
Shares of Shenzhen-listed Guizhou Bailing Group Pharmaceuticals, known for making cough syrup, have gained 21% this week and risen 51% so far this month. Yiling Pharmaceutical, the sole producer of Lianhua Qingwen, a traditional Chinese medicine recommended by the government for treating COVID, has also jumped more than 30% in the past month.
Even providers of funeral services and burial plots have gotten a huge boost. Shares in Hong Kong-traded Fu Shou Yuan International, China's largest burial service company, have soared more than 50% since last month.
There is "strong pent-up demand for burial plots" in 2023, analysts from Citi Group said in a recent research report, adding that they've noticed increasing investor interest in the sector.
They cited the existence of hundreds of thousands of cremated remains, which are being temporarily stored in government facilities awaiting burial. Lockdowns across much of the country have halted funeral services, they said.
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Trump lawyers say they won’t call witnesses at rape trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers said Wednesday that they will not call any witnesses at the New York civil trial arising from writer E. Jean Carroll’s claims that the former president raped her in the mid-1990s.
Trump lawyer Joseph Tacopina said they decided not to put on a defense case after learning that health issues were preventing their expert witness, a psychiatrist, from testifying. Tacopina previously disclosed that Trump would not testify at the trial, in federal court in Manhattan.
Carroll’s lawyers said they could finish presenting their case on Thursday.
They listed four remaining witnesses, including a former People magazine writer who says Trump pinned her against a wall and forcibly kissed her at his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida in 2005, an allegation he denies.
They also plan on playing excerpts of a sworn deposition that Trump gave in connection with Carroll’s lawsuit, as well as a the 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump boasted about grabbing women’s genitals.
Trump denies ever touching women against their will and has said that Carroll’s claims are politically motivated attempts to smear his reputation and deny him the White House.
His lawyers attacked Carroll’s credibility through exhaustive cross-examination, questioning why she didn’t scream out for help during the alleged attack and why she never went to police.
A psychologist testifying on Carroll’s behalf testified Wednesday that it’s common for rape victims to fall silent and blame themselves.
The case isn’t being heard on Fridays, meaning that jurors could hear closing arguments and start deliberating next week.
“I think you can reasonably expect to get the case early next week,” Judge Lewis Kaplan told jurors.
Earlier Wednesday, a clinical psychologist hired by Carroll’s lawyers testified that Carroll shows common signs of trauma and has been able to move on with her life in part by blaming herself and leaning into her exuberant public persona.
Psychologist Leslie Lebowitz said Carroll has avoided intimate relationships, sometimes shutting down during dates, and often finds herself fending off “intrusive memories” of what she says Trump did to her in a dressing room at a luxury Manhattan department store.
Testifying for a second day, Lebowitz relayed decades of clinical expertise and her observations of Carroll during interviews in preparation for trial. Carroll testified last week that Lebowitz is the only mental health professional she’s spoken with since the alleged sexual assault.
“For many years, she just simply blamed herself for the assault, thought she just did something stupid and that’s why it happened,” Lebowitz said.
For 17 years, Carroll did not speak publicly about the event. But in a 2019 memoir, she described how a sometimes flirtatious chance encounter with Trump at the store in spring 1996 ended with violence when Trump cornered her in a dressing room after they challenged each other to try on a piece of lingerie.
Carroll is an “extremely resilient person,” Lebowitz said, explaining that her persona as a popular Elle magazine advice columnist and her Midwest upbringing combined to lead her to try to keep her experience with Trump secret.
“It made her feel she was worthless. She felt degraded, diminished,” Lebowitz said. “Ms. Carroll, like most of us in many ways, doesn’t want to be a victim, doesn’t want to be pitied. But more than most people, she is fiercely identified as ... the person who can march on ... and put it behind you.”
Still, the psychologist said, there were times when she was nearly overcome with her memories, like when she first saw a trailer for Trump’s TV show, “The Apprentice.”
“She became so flooded with memories, feelings, a sense of panic, that she actually lost her capacity to speak,” Lebowitz said.
Lebowitz said Carroll sometimes “experiences intrusive physical remembrances” in which memories of the assault come “spooling like a video before her.”
At one point, Lebowitz said, she was speaking with Carroll and noticed that “she began to squirm in her seat because she was experiencing Mr. Trump’s fingers inside of her or what she alleges to be Mr. Trump’s fingers inside of her.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – A central Florida high school teacher has been fired after he asked students to write their own obituaries ahead of an active shooter drill.
Jeffrey Keene, a psychology teacher at Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, said he was made aware of the shooter drill on April 3. Speaking with NBC News, Keene said he felt students writing their own obituaries would help them “reflect on their lives during the school shooter scenario.”
According to NBC News, Keene gave the assignment to a class of 11th and 12th graders during first period on April 4.
He told his class of 35 students, “This isn’t a way to upset you or anything like that. It wasn’t to scare them or make them feel they were going to die, but just to help them understand what’s important in their lives and how they want to move forward with their lives and how they want to pursue things in their journey.”
However, by second period, students from his class said they were being interviewed by school administrators about the assignment. By seventh period, the teacher – who had been hired in January – had been fired.
“If you can’t talk real to them, then what’s happening in this environment?” Keene told NBC News. “In my mind, I’ve done nothing wrong.”
On Monday, Nexstar’s WFLA reached out to the Orange County School District regarding Keene’s employment status. The district spokesperson responded by stating that the school administration immediately investigated the situation and the “employee has been terminated.”
“While the district does not comment on employee matters, Dr. Phillips High School families were informed that a teacher gave an inappropriate assignment about school violence,” the district’s media relations manager Michael Olldendorff said in a statement. “Administration immediately investigated and the probationary employee has been terminated. Please note that an employee appointed on probationary status shall attain permanent status in his or her current position upon successful completion of at least a 1-year probationary period.”
Keene told NBC News that since he was a new hire and not a member of the union, it wasn’t possible for him to reverse the school district’s final decision. The 63-year-old teacher said he plans to find another teaching job and reportedly “vowed not to change anything.”
“I don’t think I did anything incorrectly,” Keene said. “I know hindsight is 20/20 but I honestly didn’t think a 16-, 17-, 18-year-old would be offended or upset by talking about something we’re already talking about.”
Keene, a teacher since 2008, told Orlando’s WOFL he plans to appeal his termination.
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The humanoid robot named Ai-Da spoke about the future of artificial intelligence in creative industries. Ai-Da predicted the role of technology in art will keep growing. Then it needed to be reset.
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NEW ORLEANS — The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country Monday, as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect and the other tried to stop or at least delay such measures.
The US Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end constitutional protection for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation from all sides. Temporary delays were successful in Louisiana and Utah, after state judges issued orders Monday that blocked abortion bans in those states from going into effect, while a federal judge in South Carolina said a law restricting abortions after six weeks of pregnancy would take effect immediately there.
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Much of Monday’s court activity focused on “trigger laws,” adopted in 13 states that were designed to take effect swiftly upon last week’s Supreme Court ruling. Additional lawsuits could also target old antiabortion laws that were left on the books and went unenforced under Roe. Newer abortion restrictions that were put on hold pending the Supreme Court ruling are also coming back into play.
“We’ll be back in court tomorrow and the next day and the next day,” Nancy Northup, president and chief executive of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which argued the case that resulted in the high court ruling, said Friday.
Rulings came swiftly in Utah and Louisiana. A Utah judge on Monday temporarily blocked that state's near-total abortion ban, after Planned Parenthood challenged a trigger law there that contains narrow exceptions. In Louisiana, a judge in New Orleans, a liberal city in a conservative state, temporarily blocked enforcement of the state's trigger-law ban on abortion, after abortion rights activists argued that it is unclear. The ruling is in effect pending a July 8 hearing.
At least one of the state's three abortion clinics said it would resume performing procedures on Tuesday.
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“We’re going to do what we can,” said Kathaleen Pittman, administrator of Hope Medical Group for Women, in Shreveport. “It could all come to a screeching halt.”
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican and staunch abortion opponent, vowed to fight the judge's ruling and enforce the law.
“We would remind everyone that the laws that are now in place were enacted by the people through State Constitutional Amendments and the LA Legislature,” Landry tweeted Monday.
Also Monday, abortion rights advocates asked a Florida judge to block a new law there that bans the procedure after 15 weeks with some exceptions and is set to take effect this week. A ruling on that is expected Thursday.
Abortion rights activists also went to court Monday to try to fend off restrictions in Texas, Idaho, Kentucky, and Mississippi, the state at the center of the Supreme Court ruling, while the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona filed an emergency motion there on Saturday seeking to block a 2021 law they worry can be used to halt all abortions.
In Friday's ruling, the Supreme Court left it to the states to decide whether to allow abortion.
“The expectation is that this will result in years of legislative and judicial challenges," said Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University law school.
As of Saturday, abortion services had stopped in at least 11 states — either because of state laws or confusion over them.
In some cases, the lawsuits may only buy time. Even if courts block some restrictions from taking hold, lawmakers in many conservative states could move quickly to address any flaws cited.
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That's likely to be the case in Louisiana. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed in state court don’t deny that the state can now ban abortion. Instead, they contend Louisiana now has multiple, conflicting trigger mechanisms in the law.
They also argue that state law is unclear on whether it bans an abortion prior to a fertilized egg implanting in the uterus. And while the law provides an exception for “medically futile” pregnancies in cases of fetuses with lethal abnormalities, the plaintiffs noted the law gives no definition of the term.
Around the country, challenges to other trigger laws could be made on the grounds the conditions to impose the bans have not been met, or that it was improper for a past legislature to bind the current one.
Laura Herner, a professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, said other challenges might call into question whether state laws sufficiently and clearly allow for exceptions to protect the life or health of a pregnant woman.
Now that the high court has ruled that the US Constitution does not guarantee the right to an abortion, abortion rights supporters will make the case that their state constitutions protect such a right.
A judge heard arguments on that issue Monday in Florida, where attorneys tried to block a new law from going into effect Friday. The ban beyond 15 weeks has exceptions to save the pregnant woman’s life or prevent physical harm or in cases where the fetus has a fatal abnormality. The ACLU of Florida argued the law violates the Florida Constitution.
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James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee, said the wave of suits from abortion rights advocates is not surprising. “We know that the abortion industry has basically unlimited funds, and its allies have basically unlimited funds, and of course they’re fanatical about abortion on demand throughout pregnancy,” Bopp said in an interview.
But he said the Supreme Court ruling should preclude abortion rights supporters from prevailing in any federal challenges. And he called efforts based on state constitutions “fanciful.”
Still other cases could be filed as states try to sort out whether abortion bans in place before Roe was decided — sometimes referred to as “zombie laws” — apply now that there is no federal protection for abortion.
For instance, Wisconsin passed a law in 1849 banning abortions except to save the life of the mother. Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he does not believe it is enforceable. Abortion opponents have called on lawmakers to impose a new ban.
In the meantime, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin said it immediately suspended all abortions.
In Michigan, Planned Parenthood challenged a 1931 abortion ban ahead of last week's Supreme Court ruling. In May, a judge said the ban could not be enforced because it violates the state’s constitution. Abortion rights supporters are now trying to get a proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot in November to protect abortion and birth control.
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Idaho, Oklahoma, and Texas have adopted laws that allow people to seek bounties against those who help others get abortions. It is an open question as to whether that means people can be pursued across state lines, and legal challenges over the issue are likely to come up in cases of both surgical abortions and those involving medicine mailed to patients.
The California Legislature, controlled by Democrats, passed a bill Thursday to shield abortion providers and volunteers in the state from civil judgments imposed by other states. In liberal Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed an executive order Friday that prohibits state agencies from assisting other states’ investigations into anyone who receives a legal abortion in Massachusetts.
The challenge filed in Arizona, where most providers stopped offering abortions, said the legal questions are urgent.
Even if abortions resume in weeks or months, the plaintiffs said, “patients may be at greater risk of medical complications or may lose access to abortion altogether as a result of the delay.”
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BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite U.S. suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations between Beijing and Washington.
The Pentagon decided not to shoot down the balloon, which was potentially flying over sensitive sites, because of concerns of hurting people on the ground.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the western United States, a U.S. official said Friday.
In a statement late Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the balloon a was civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research. The ministry said the airship has limited "self-steering" capabilities and "deviated far from its planned course" because of winds.
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"The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into U.S. airspace due to force majeure," the statement said, citing a legal term used to refer to events beyond one's control.
On Thursday, a senior American defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has "very high confidence" that the object spotted over U.S. airspace in recent days was a Chinese high-altitude balloon and that it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation's three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.
The defense official said the U.S. has assessed that the balloon has "limited" value in terms of providing intelligence that couldn't be obtained by other technologies, such as spy satellites.
It was not clear what will happen with the balloon if it isn't brought down.
Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said Thursday that similar balloon activity has been seen in the past several years and the government has taken steps to ensure no sensitive information was stolen.
He said the balloon was traveling well above the height commercial aircraft fly at and didn't present a threat to people on the ground.
Biden was briefed and asked the military to present options, according to a senior administration official, who was also not authorized to publicly discuss sensitive information. The senior defense official said the U.S. prepared fighter jets, including F-22s, to shoot down the balloon if ordered.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised against taking "kinetic action" because of risks to the safety of people on the ground. Biden accepted that recommendation.
Even though the balloon was over a sparsely populated area of Montana, its size would create a debris field large enough that it could have put people at risk.
The defense official would not specify the size of the balloon but said commercial pilots could spot it from their cockpits.
The balloon was first reported by NBC News.
A photograph of a large white balloon lingering over the area was captured by The Billings Gazette. It could be seen drifting in and out of clouds and had what appeared to be a solar array hanging from the bottom, said Gazette photographer Larry Mayer.
The balloon's appearance adds to national security concerns among American lawmakers over China's influence in the U.S., ranging from the prevalence of the hugely popular smartphone app TikTok to purchases of American farmland.
"China's brazen disregard for U.S. sovereignty is a destabilizing action that must be addressed," Republican Party House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted.
Tensions with China are particularly high on numerous issues, ranging from Taiwan and the South China Sea to human rights in China's western Xinjiang region and the clampdown on democracy activists in Hong Kong. Not least on that list of irritants are China's tacit support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, its refusal to rein in North Korea's expanding ballistic missile program and ongoing disputes over trade and technology.
On Tuesday, Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems in response to nearby operations by 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing's strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy.
Twenty of those aircraft crossed the central line in the Taiwan Strait that has long been an unofficial buffer zone between the two sides, which separated during a civil war in 1949.
Beijing has also increased preparations for a potential blockade or military action against Taiwan, which has stirred increasing concern among military leaders, diplomats and elected officials in the U.S., Taiwan's key ally.
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Paradigm Appoints Kevin Turner as Chief Growth Officer; Promotes Kathy Galia to Chief Clinical Solutions Officer
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm, the industry leader in solving catastrophic and complex health care challenges and improving lives, today announced the appointment of Kevin Turner as Chief Growth Officer and the promotion of Kathy Galia to Chief Clinical Solutions Officer. As Chief Growth Officer, Kevin Turner will oversee sales, account management, and product development functions for the Paradigm enterprise, reflecting the company's continued commitment to growth, innovation, and client service. In her promotion to Chief Clinical Solutions Officer, Kathy Galia will lead Paradigm's Clinical Solutions business unit, including the teams responsible for delivering the company's risk-based catastrophic and severe injury management solutions, as well as the case management service line, assuming the position previously held by Turner.
"At Paradigm, our team is our biggest asset, enabling us to ensure the highest level of service and outcomes for our clients and the injured workers we serve," said John Watts, CEO, Paradigm. "With Kevin and Kathy, we are fortunate to have extremely talented, respected leaders with the ability to take on expanded roles that build upon long track records of success at Paradigm and in the industry. We are so proud to elevate these excellent leaders into positions that offer new growth opportunities for them and the organization. I look forward to working closely with both Kevin and Kathy in their new roles as we continue our mission of improving lives and building excellence in the Paradigm organization." Both executives will report directly to CEO Watts.
Kevin Turner, Chief Growth Officer
In his new role as Chief Growth Officer, Turner will oversee sales, account management, and product development functions for the enterprise, reflecting Paradigm's continued commitment to growth, innovation, and client service. "Kevin's combined sales, operational, and product management experience, together with his deep workers' comp sector knowledge, makes him uniquely positioned to lead Paradigm's unified go-to-market organization and to foster greater collaboration with our clients and across the Paradigm organization," said CEO Watts. "Kevin has already been instrumental in leading recent initiatives to evolve our products and introduce new solutions, a role he will be able to play even more fully as Chief Growth Officer."
Turner has been a key member of Paradigm's executive leadership for the last 13 years and has more than 30 years of experience in the workers' compensation industry. He started his career with Paradigm as Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for Paradigm Outcomes. Following a series of acquisitions, Turner became CEO of the Catastrophic Care Management division, overseeing the entire profit & loss (P&L) for Paradigm's flagship, risk-based products. Following Paradigm's reorganization in 2021, Turner became Chief Clinical Solutions Officer, with responsibility for all of Paradigm's clinical solutions, including its case management services and enterprise product development.
Before joining Paradigm, Turner was Executive Vice President of Operations and Business Development for Xchanging. During his tenure there, he managed multiple regional and national claims operations, planned business strategy, and developed sales teams, overseeing $325 million in annual revenue. Turner is also the past-president, current board of director, and a steadfast advocate for Kids' Chance of America, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarship opportunities to children who need financial assistance due to a parent's work-related injury or death.
Kathy Galia, Chief Clinical Solutions Officer
Building upon experience gained in her previous role as Paradigm's SVP and General Manager of Clinical Solutions, Kathy Galia will now lead the Clinical Solutions business unit. In this role, Galia will be responsible for the industry's preeminent solution for workers who suffer the most challenging and expensive catastrophic injuries. She will also oversee Paradigm's case management services and personnel. Additionally, Galia will spearhead the commercialization of Paradigm's latest clinical offerings, including the HERO SevereSM and HERO EpisodicSM products, which build upon Paradigm's legacy of deep clinical expertise and accountability for outcomes.
"At Paradigm, we deliver the gold standard in clinical solutions because of the commitment, passion, and expertise of our employees. In her two and a half years with Paradigm, Kathy has embodied this commitment, passion, and expertise—and has proven her ability to nurture it in others to create more effective ways of delivering current products and leading innovation," said CEO Watts. He continued, "We are proud and excited to elevate Kathy to lead our Clinical Solutions business unit. And with a background as a registered nurse and case manager, Kathy brings executive-level nurse leadership back to the executive table at Paradigm."
Before joining Paradigm, Galia spent 10 years at The Hartford Fire Insurance Company, where she held a variety of strategic leadership and medical case management roles, including leading their Medical Solutions business. Last year, Galia was selected as a 2021 Women to Watch honoree by Business Insurance, a program created by the industry publication to recognize the outstanding work of women in the commercial insurance industry, including workers' compensation and risk management.
About Paradigm
Paradigm is an accountable specialty care management organization focused on improving the lives of people with complex and catastrophic injuries and diagnoses. The company has been a pioneer in value-based care since 1991 and has an exceptional track record of generating the very best outcomes for patients, payers, and providers. Deep clinical expertise is the foundation for every part of Paradigm's business, including its risk-based clinical solutions, case management services, high-value specialty networks, home health, and payment integrity programs.
Paradigm is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with offices across the U.S. For more information, please visit www.paradigmcorp.com.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tyzhaun Claude scored 21 points and Vonterius Woolbright added a double-double as Western Carolina defeated Tennessee Tech 75-65 on Saturday night.
Claude had six rebounds for the Catamounts (6-6). Woolbright finished with 18 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists. Tre Jackson recorded 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting from 3-point range.
The Golden Eagles (3-9) were led by Jayvis Harvey with 19 points. Jaylen Sebree added 16 points and six rebounds, while Grant Strong scored 10. The loss is the sixth in a row for the Golden Eagles.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Baseball begins again on Thursday with opening day. For some players and managers, it's also their first regular-season game with a new team.
Here is a closer look at a couple people in new places who could have a big impact this year:
—1B José Abreu, Houston Astros: Abreu has been one of baseball's most consistent performers since his big league debut in 2014. He had at least 25 homers and 100 RBIs in six of his first nine seasons. The three-time All-Star hit .317 with 19 homers and 60 RBIs during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, winning the AL MVP award.
After beginning his major league career with the Chicago White Sox, Abreu finalized a $58.5 million, three-year contract with the World Series champions in November. The addition of Abreu — with his steady presence in the lineup and clubhouse — became even more significant when Houston second baseman Jose Altuve broke his right thumb during the World Baseball Classic.
—SS Xander Bogaerts, San Diego Padres: One of the biggest surprises of free agency was Bogaerts' $280 million, 11-year contract with San Diego in December. But Bogaerts' deal strengthens the Padres' star-studded lineup and the team's infield defense.
The 30-year-old Bogaerts won two World Series titles while spending his first 10 years with Boston. He hit .307 with 15 homers and 73 RBIs in his final season with the Red Sox. With Bogaerts in the fold, the Padres could have four players with shortstop experience in their starting infield — perfect timing with baseball's new limits on defensive shifting.
—OF Daulton Varsho, Toronto Blue Jays: Varsho was acquired in a December trade after he set career highs with 27 homers, 74 RBIs and 16 steals in 151 games with Arizona last year. He was selected by the Diamondbacks in the second round of the 2017 draft and spent his first three seasons with the team.
The 26-year-old Varsho should help balance Toronto's heavily right-handed lineup, which also includes Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Bo Bichette, Matt Chapman and George Springer. He also is a versatile defensive upgrade in the outfield who can even fill in at catcher in a pinch.
—SS Trea Turner, Philadelphia Phillies: Turner's $300 million, 11-year contract with the NL champions sure seems like an ideal match of player and team. Turner brings his speed and athleticism to a Philadelphia lineup that — at full strength — includes sluggers Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and J.T. Realmuto.
Turner, a World Series winner with Washington in 2019, hit .298 with 21 homers and a career-high 100 RBIs for the Los Angeles Dodgers last year. He also swiped 27 bags in 2022, and the bigger bases and new limits on pickoffs could make him an even more dangerous baserunner this season.
—Manager Pedro Grifol, Chicago White Sox: There is lots of talent on the White Sox, who have ace right-hander Dylan Cease atop their rotation and All-Star shortstop Tim Anderson in their lineup. But the team flopped to an 81-81 record last year and missed the playoffs after making the previous two postseasons.
Enter Grifol, who was hired in November after Tony La Russa stepped down late last season because of health issues. Grifol, a former minor league catcher, spent the previous 10 seasons in a variety of coaching roles with Kansas City. He was widely praised during spring training for his attention to detail and the pace of the team's workouts, but there is pressure to get the club turned around this year.
—C Sean Murphy, Atlanta Braves: Murphy was acquired in a three-team trade in December in Atlanta's biggest offseason move. The Braves, winners of five consecutive NL East titles, then signed the catcher to a $73 million, six-year contract, counting on his continued development behind the plate.
The 28-year-old Murphy set career highs with a .250 batting average, 18 homers and 66 RBIs in 148 games with Oakland last season. He also is known for his defense, winning a Gold Glove in 2021. Murphy and Travis d’Arnaud should give Atlanta one of baseball's best catching tandems.
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced an overhaul of the agency’s food safety and nutrition division, vowing that a new structure will better protect consumers and the U.S. food supply.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said he would create a new human foods program led by a deputy commissioner with authority over policy, strategy and regulatory activities for the part of the agency that oversees 80% of the foods Americans eat.
“This is one of the most important changes in the history of the FDA,” Califf said in an interview.
The move merges two existing FDA programs and some regulatory authorities. Tapping a single leader “unifies and elevates the program while removing redundancies, enabling the agency to oversee human food in a more effective and efficient way,” Califf said.
The announcement follows months of scrutiny of FDA over contamination at a Michigan factory that led to a nationwide infant formula shortage. And it follows a scathing report that found FDA’s food division was plagued by decentralized leadership, indecisiveness and a culture of “constant turmoil” that impeded actions to protect public health. For years, the agency has been criticized for responding too slowly to outbreaks in produce, heavy metals in baby food and the need to reduce sodium in the U.S. diet, among other issues.
Califf’s actions drew mixed reviews from food safety advocates. Some said it was a good start, while others said he didn’t go far enough to dismantle ingrained structural problems.
“I think it does a good job of identifying the essential problems and addressing them head-on,” said Dr. Peter Lurie, who heads the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which focuses on consumer nutrition, food safety and health.
Mike Taylor, who previously served as FDA deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine, said the new deputy doesn’t appear to have full authority over the office responsible for inspecting company plants, laboratory testing, imports and investigations.
“If that’s the case, the human foods program at the FDA will remain fragmented and the deputy commissioner will not be empowered to make the change that is necessary,” Taylor said. He also questioned whether the new deputy commissioner would control the program’s funding.
The changes aim to straighten out a convoluted leadership structure. The FDA oversees human and veterinary drugs and medical devices, along with much of the U.S. food supply. The Agriculture Department also oversees some food products.
Frank Yiannas, the current FDA deputy commissioner for food policy and response, is leaving his post next month. Susan Mayne, director of the current Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said in a statement that Califf asked her to stay on through the transition. The new deputy, who will report directly to the commissioner, will be named by spring, Califf said.
The revamped foods program will include a separate center focused on nutrition, including foods such as infant formula, plus an office to coordinate state efforts to identify and prevent foodborne illness outbreaks. The plan also calls for a new expert advisory committee to weigh in on food safety, nutrition and new food technologies.
Under the new structure, the deputy commissioner will not oversee FDA’s veterinary medicine center. Califf said that’s because much of the center’s work involves animal drugs and devices, not food. In addition, the animal feed industry worried that it would become “subsidiary to human food,” Califf said.
That disappointed Mitzi Baum, president of the nonprofit STOP Foodborne Illness. Human foods, animal foods and outbreaks are often closely linked and they should be part of the same program, she said.
“Any change is messy. It’s going to be disruptive,” Baum said. “Why not make all of the changes that need to be made in order to create the most efficient and effective agency?”
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– Founder Dr. Kyle Kingsley will maintain leadership position focused on key organizational priorities –
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Vireo Health of Minnesota, LLC ("Vireo" or the "Company"), a physician-founded medical cannabis company based in Minneapolis, today announced that Amber Shimpa has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Ms. Shimpa's appointment to the role follows eight years of cross-organizational leadership at the Company, including serving as the Company's first Chief Financial Officer when it began operating under the name Minnesota Medical Solutions.
Amber Shimpa commented, "I'm proud to join Kyle in this new role and lead Vireo into the future. I look forward to working more closely with our team members and partner organizations to improve the lives of patients and other Minnesotans who have been negatively impacted by the failed war on drugs. Our organization has been steadfast in its commitment to these initiatives since our inception, and we'll continue to do this important work despite significant challenges posed by current federal regulations and related capital constraints."
Vireo Health of Minnesota was founded in 2014 by former Hennepin County Medical Center emergency room physician, Dr. Kyle Kingsley, after learning about the medical benefits of cannabis for patients with chronic pain. Dr. Kingsley will remain actively involved with the Company and continue to support Ms. Shimpa on matters related to public affairs, product quality, and as an advocate for safe and affordable access to cannabis for Minnesotans.
Dr. Kingsley commented, "Amber has been an incredible advisor and business partner to me since our formation. Her tireless work to advance our mission has earned the respect of our entire organization, and she personifies the essence of the professional talent, growth mindset and integrity that cannabis companies should bring to the communities in which they operate. She has become an irreplaceable executive unique in her compassion for her team and her community, and I'm confident her enhanced role will serve our Company well."
Vireo Health of Minnesota began serving medical cannabis products to Minnesota patients in 2015. Since then, the Company has grown to serve over 46,000 patients with more than 200 Minnesota-based employees. In addition to its work serving medical patients, the Company funds restorative justice programming through its ongoing criminal expungement clinics, community educational events, and direct fundraising campaigns for The Last Prisoner Project and its 1937 Impact Fund. The Company's medical and scientific research teams also continue to work collaboratively with the University of Minnesota, Health Partners and Park Nicollet to study the impacts of medical cannabis on cancer patients and adults with chronic pain.
Vireo Health of Minnesota, LLC, a subsidiary of Goodness Growth Holdings, Inc. (CSE: GDNS; OTCQX: GDNSF), is a physician-founded medical cannabis company based in Minneapolis. The Company's mission is to provide safe access, quality products and value to its patients while supporting its local communities through active participation and restorative justice programs. Vireo Health of Minnesota manufactures proprietary, branded cannabis products which it distributes through its network of eight Green Goods® retail dispensaries throughout Minnesota. For more information about Vireo Health, please visit www.vireohealth.com.
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Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old media mogul, announced on Monday that he was getting married for the fifth time, he told the New York Post after proposing in the city over the weekend.
Murdoch announced his engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, 66, a former police chaplain in San Francisco, model, singer and radio talk show host. He told the New York Post, “I knew this would be my last.”
Murdoch divorced actress Jerry Hall just last year. The couple were married in 2016.
Murdoch, the Australian-born businessman, owns hundreds of local, national and international news outlets through his media behemoth News Corp. He has been instrumental in founding and organizing some of the most popular and successful conservative media outlets around the world, including Fox News.
Smith, whose late husband was country singer Chester Smith, said that she and Murdoch met last September, saying it was “a gift from God.”
“I’m a widow 14 years,” Smith said. “Like Rupert, my husband was a businessman. Worked for local papers, developed radio and TV stations and helped promote Univision. So I speak Rupert’s language.”
Murdoch said he was nervous in proposing to Smith, saying he “dreaded falling in love.”
The wedding is set for the summer, and the pair said that they would spend their time between California, Montana, New York and the U.K.
Murdoch was first married in 1956. His longest marriage, with Anna Maria dePeyster, a Scottish-Australian writer, lasted from 1967 to 1999.
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NEW YORK, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX Television Stations Digital properties finished April 2022 as the top-performing O&O station group in Total Minutes according to Comscore Media-Metrix. This marks FOX Television Station's 18th consecutive month ranking as number one in the category. The group also finished as the top O&O group for Unique Visitors and Total Views.
FOX Television Stations closed out the month reaching 685M Total Minutes, 251M Total Views, and 42M Unique Visitors. This performance marked increases in all three key metrics versus prior year: Minutes (+43%), Views (+23%), and Unique Visitors (+6.7%).
FOX Television Stations was also the most engaged brand on social media against the other O&O groups in April, with 14.6M total social actions according to Shareablee. On YouTube, FOX Television Stations secured the overall #1 spot among all local station groups, with more than 185M video views.
APRIL 2022 FOX Television Stations VS. Competition
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX Television Stations – 685M
ABC Local – 262M
NBC Television Stations Group – 214M
CBS Local – 26M
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX Television Stations – 251M
ABC Local – 142M
NBC Television Stations Group – 129M
CBS Local – 28M
Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX Television Stations – 42M
ABC Local – 30M
NBC Television Stations Group – 34M
CBS Local – 8M
Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Audience, Custom-Defined List including [M] Fox Television Stations, [C] NBC Owned Television Stations, [S] ABC Local, and [C] CBS Local, April 2022, U.S.
Source: April 2022 Shareablee, PowerRankings: Local Media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube)
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Talks between the White House and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's team on raising the nation's debt ceiling are resuming Friday evening after an afternoon hiatus, according to McCarthy.
"We took a pause because of frustration — this White House will not acknowledge they are spending too much," McCarthy told Fox Business Friday evening.
The Friday afternoon pause in negotiations came as President Biden is in Japan for the G-7 summit. Before he departed Tuesday, he said he was confident he could reach a deal with McCarthy that would pass through Congress.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned lawmakers that the U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills as early as June 1, if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit before then.
For months, Biden said he would only sign a "clean" debt limit bill — one that solely lifts the nation's borrowing limit without addressing spending. House Republicans continue to insist that any deal that raises the debt limit must also include spending cuts.
Earlier optimism has apparently faded
Biden and McCarthy met at the White House earlier this week with other top congressional leaders. All emerged from the meeting expressing more optimism than before that they could reach a deal to avoid an unprecedented debt default.
Coming out of that meeting, the president designated Steve Ricchetti, who has served in multiple Democratic administrations; and Shalanda Young, a veteran Capitol Hill aide, as negotiators on behalf of the White House. McCarthy heaped praise on the pair on Thursday.
"Very professional — highly respect them — their knowledge," McCarthy told reporters. "Everybody in this place knows [Young], respects her greatly."
McCarthy, for his part, has tapped Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana to lead the talks along with other senior staff.
Biden previously said he would be "in constant contact" with aides while in Japan and would stay in touch with McCarthy and other leaders as well. He also announced earlier this week he would cut his trip short to finish talks; he returns on Sunday.
Work requirements have been a sticking point
A White House official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity about these closed-door negotiations, told NPR the negotiators took a pause Friday afternoon and said both sides have to negotiate in good faith and recognize they won't get everything they want.
"There are real differences between the parties on budget issues and talks will be difficult. The president's team is working hard towards a reasonable bipartisan solution that can pass the House and the Senate," the official said.
One central demand from McCarthy is for a deal to include new work requirements for adults without dependents who receive support from safety net programs. It's an area some Democratic lawmakers are worried Biden will agree to in order to avoid default.
Asked earlier whether he would accept new work requirements for some programs, Biden reiterated that he would not accept any that impact Medicaid – or, for other programs, cuts that go substantially beyond what currently exist.
NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith contributed to this report.
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Rescuers look for victims at Cuba hotel after blast kills 22
HAVANA (AP) — Rescuers in Cuba’s capital were searching rubble through the night to find more victims of an explosion that killed at least 22 people and injured dozens at a luxury hotel that once hosted dignitaries and celebrities, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z
A natural gas leak was the apparent cause of Friday’s blast at Havana’s 96-room Hotel Saratoga. The 19th-century structure in the city’s Old Havana neighborhood did not have any guests at the time because it was undergoing renovations ahead of a planned Tuesday reopening.
Relatives of missing people remained at the site late Friday night as rescuers sifted through rubble. Others gathered at hospitals where the injured were being treated.
“I don’t want to move from here,” Cristina Avellar told The Associated Press near the hotel, whose outer walls were blown away by the explosion, leaving the interiors of many rooms exposed.
Avellar was waiting for news of Odalys Barrera, a 57-year-old cashier who has worked at the hotel for five years. She is the godmother of Barrera’s daughters and considers her like a sister.
Although no tourists were reported injured, the explosion is the latest blow to the country’s crucial tourism industry.
Even before the coronavirus pandemic kept tourists away from Cuba, the country was already struggling with the sanctions imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump and kept in place the Biden administration. The sanctions limited visits by U.S. tourists to the islands and restricted remittances from Cubans in the U.S. to their families in Cuba.
Tourism had started to revive somewhat early this year, but the war in Ukraine crimped a boom of Russian visitors, who accounted for almost a third of the tourists arriving in Cuba last year.
The hotel’s first floors appeared to have suffered most of the damage from Friday’s blast. The missing walls made it possible to distinguish mattresses, pieces of furniture, hanging glass, tattered curtains and cushions covered in dust.
Dr. Julio Guerra Izquierdo, chief of hospital services at the Ministry of Health, said at least 74 people had been injured. Among them were 14 children, according to a tweet from the office of President Miguel Díaz-Canel.
Cuba’s national health minister, José Ángel Portal, told The Associated Press the number of injured could rise as the search continues. Fire Department Lt. Col. Noel Silva said rescue workers were still looking for a large group of people who may be under the rubble.
The search was to continue through the night. The shattered hotel remained cordoned off as workers operated heavy machinery to lift huge pieces of wall and masonry and trucks left the site loaded with rubble. Firefighters and rescue workers toiled inside the wreckage.
Authorities refused to release the names of the dead, even to their relatives. Authorities placed emergency lights at the site and brought in trained dogs to help in the search.
Rescuers declined to answer questions because the authorities had ordered them not to to avoid confusion.
A 300-student school next to the hotel was evacuated. Havana Gov. Reinaldo García Zapata said five of the students suffered minor injuries.
The emblematic hotel is about 110 yards (100 meters) from Cuba’s Capitol building, which had broken glass and damaged masonry after the explosion.
The hotel was first renovated in 2005 as part of the Cuban government’s revival of Old Havana and is owned by the Cuban military’s tourism business arm, Grupo de Turismo Gaviota SA. The company said it was investigating the cause of the blast and did not respond to an email from the AP seeking more details about the hotel and the renovation it was undergoing.
In the past, the Hotel Saratoga has been used by visiting VIPs and political figures, including high-ranking U.S. government delegations. Beyoncé and Jay-Z stayed there in 2013.
García Zapata said structures adjacent to the hotel were being evaluated, including two badly damaged apartment buildings. Díaz-Canel said families in affected buildings had been transferred to safer locations.
Photographer Michel Figueroa said he was walking past the hotel when “the explosion threw me to the ground, and my head still hurts.... Everything was very fast.”
Worried relatives of people who had been working at the hotel showed up at a hospital to look for loved ones. Among them was Beatriz Céspedes Cobas, who was tearfully searching for her sister.
“She had to work today. She is a housekeeper,” she said. “I work two blocks away. I felt the noise, and at first, I didn’t even associate” the explosion with the hotel.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is scheduled to arrive in Havana for a visit late Saturday and Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said the visit would still take place.
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Let’s face it: This is a quarterback grudge match, no matter how much Eagles’ Jalen Hurt and Commanders’ Carson Wentz deny it or avoid discussing it: Hurts is coming off a record-setting performance, and Wentz is facing the team that drafted him — and the quarterback who replaced him and forced him to skip town.
Hurts, one of the NFL’s most dynamic run and pass threats, has led the Eagles to a 2-0 start, while Wentz has thrown for seven touchdowns for the Commanders, who are 1-1. Hurts and Wentz downplayed the showdown, but plenty of emotion is expected in each team’s first NFC East game of the season.
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While the Commanders are still wondering what they have in Wentz, Hurts is coming off a victory against the Vikings that made him first player in league history to throw for 300-plus yards, complete more than 80% of his passes and run for two or more touchdowns in a game. He appears to have answered the pressing question of whether he is a franchise quarterback.
“I knew he had that in him and again I’m not surprised by anything that Jalen does on the football field,” coach Nick Sirianni said Wednesday. “Maybe to the outside world, it’s like, ‘Whoa.’ I don’t think that surprises any of us in the building because we live with him every day, we see him every day and we see the growth every day.”
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Aside from Hurts, here are five Eagles players to watch in Sunday’s game against the Commanders:
Without Dickerson, who is listed as questionable with a foot injury, pass protection and the running game will be impacted.
If Dickerson plays, he will have to handle Commanders defensive tackles Jonathan Allen and Daron Payne, who have combined for three sacks.
With Dickerson playing next to left tackle Jordan Mailata, the Eagles have had success running the ball. According to Pro Football Focus, Eagles running backs have averaged 7.3 yards per carry (six rushes for 43 yards) when running in the gap between Dickerson and Mailata.
Sanders has 30 rushes for 176 yards and a rushing touchdown, while averaging 5.9 yards a carry. The Commanders have allowed an average of 6.8 yards per carry (35 rushes for 238 yards). If the Commanders keep their safeties deep to protect against big plays by receivers DeVonta Smith and A.J. Brown, there will be opportunities for Sanders to gain big chunks of yardage. The Eagles lead the NFL with 28 “explosive plays” — completions of 16 or more yards and runs of 10 or more. The Cmmanders gave up six such plays in a 36-27 loss at the Detroit Lions last week.
WR A.J. Brown
The Commanders have given up the sixth-highest number of receptions to wide receivers this season, 29, which could indicate a big game for A.J. Brown (15 catches for 224 yards) or DeVonta Smith (seven catches for 80 yards), or both. Neither receiver has caught a touchdown pass yet this season.
Brown said this week that before the trade that brought him to the Eagles, he mulled playing baseball for the San Diego Padres: “I was dead serious,” Brown told The News Journal. “(The Padres) had reached out to me. They were about to invite me to spring training. They were just waiting on an answer from me.
“I just fell in love with football in high school. It was so much more fun scoring touchdowns.”
If there was a week for Reddick to have an impact game, this would be it. The knock against Wentz — as Eagles fans will recall — is that he often holds onto the ball too long. Wentz has been sacked six times this season, with tackles Charles Leno Jr. and Samuel Cosmi giving up a combined two sacks, six hits, and eight quarterback pressures. Reddick, with his speed and assortment of pass rushes, could make Wentz uncomfortable in the pocket.
The Commanders coaches and players watched cornerback Darius Slay dominate Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson with two interceptions and five passes defended, so they’re unlikely to attack him.
That could mean more work for Bradberry, who has a pick-six while allowing a quarterback passer rating of 7.0. The Commanders have a dangerous group of pass catchers that includes Terry McLaurin (six catches for 133 yards and a TD), Curtis Samuel (15 catches for 133 yards and two TDs) and Jahan Dotson (seven catches for 99 yards and three TDs).
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Sunday showers with cooler temps taking over
Wet weather is here, and we’ve started the cool-down.
Today: Scattered rain with a few storms possible at times. Morning highs in the 60s with falling temps. Windy with southwesterly breezes gusting over 30 mph.
Tonight: Chance of showers. Lows in the mid-upper 30s. Windy with southwest gusts over 35 mph.
Tomorrow: Spotty showers, possibly a few brief snow showers in the northern half of the state. Highs in the upper 40s. Windy with Westerly gusts over 30 mph at times.
8 Day Forecast: With temperatures in the 30s, a morning frost is possible Monday and Tuesday. Warmth eventually returns for the latter half of the work week when we have 70s in the forecast.
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NEW YORK, July 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blockchain security startup BlockSec announced the completion of the Seed Plus funding round with $8M raised. The funding round was co-led by Vitalbridge Capital and Matrix Partners, with participation from investors Mirana Ventures (Venture Partner of Bybit), CoinSummer, and YM Capital.
Founded in 2021, BlockSec's mission is to provide security infrastructure for the entire blockchain ecosystem. With cutting-edge technologies, BlockSec enhances the security of decentralized applications, detects high-impact blockchain vulnerabilities, and blocks sophisticated security attacks.
Since last year, BlockSec has provided security audit services to more than one hundred clients, in both Solidity and Rust ecosystems. BlockSec has developed a real-time on-chain monitoring system to block ongoing attacks and rescued more than 5 million assets, including 3.8 million for the stablecoin DEX Saddle Finance [1]. BlockSec has identified multiple critical vulnerabilities on the Solana blockchain, with nearly one million bug US dolloar bounty awarded. Also, the flash loan monitoring system [2] and the transaction visualization system [3] developed by BlockSec are two public tools widely used by the blockchain security community.
With the raised funding, BlockSec plans to expand its research and production team and provide the on-chain monitoring and attack interception capability to more decentralized applications.
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BERLIN (AP) — Deutsche Bank subsidiary DWS said Wednesday that its chief executive is resigning, hours after authorities raided its offices as part of a probe into claims that the company exaggerated the sustainable credentials of some of the financial products.
CEO Asoka Woehrmann is set to step down after the company’s annual general meeting on June 9, DWS said. He will be succeeded by Stefan Hoops, who currently oversees Deutsche Bank’s corporate and commercial client activities.
In a statement, Woehrmann said DWS was profitable and stable despite difficult market conditions.
“At the same time, the allegations made against DWS and myself in past months have become a burden for the company, as well as for my family and me,” he was quoted as saying. “In order to protect the institution and those closest to me, I would like to clear the way for a fresh start.”
Some 50 investigators searched the offices of DWS and Deutsche Bank on Tuesday, Frankfurt prosecutors said.
The raids were triggered by a former manager in charge of sustainability, who claimed that DWS had engaged in “greenwashing” by exaggerating the environmental and climate credentials of certain funds it sold.
Prosecutors said initial investigations showed there were sufficient indications that environmental, social, and governance criteria were not considered in a majority of the funds featured in the company’s sales brochures.
Deutsche Bank said Tuesday that the actions taken by prosecutors were “directed against unknown people in connection with greenwashing allegations against DWS.”
“DWS said that they have continuously cooperated fully with all relevant regulators and authorities on this matter and will continue to do so,” the bank said Tuesday.
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Self-harm and grief rise among young adults in the aftermath of COVID-19
NEW YORK CITY, May 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Crisis Text Line, a not-for-profit organization that provides free, 24/7 text-based mental health support, released its third annual national data report, "United in Empathy: What 1.3 Million Conversations Say About The State of Mental Health In America" identifying the top issues for texters in 2021. Anyone can text HELLO to 741741 to be connected to a live, trained crisis counselor.
In 2021, over 20,000 people donated their time to connect with strangers as volunteer Crisis Counselors at Crisis Text Line. During the second year of the pandemic, these volunteer counselors had 1.3 million conversations with people in crisis. Over seventy percent of conversations were with texters under age 25, providing a unique snapshot of the mental health issues for young Americans.
Data from the national report paints a picture of a generation of young adults experiencing a collective mental health crisis. Exploring these 40 million anonymized and de-identified messages through natural language processing helped paint a picture of the most prominent emotions on our texters' minds last year. The words that soared in popularity compared to 2020 were Trauma, Triggered, Therapist, Plans, and Exhausting.
"Gen Z is in crisis. Through our conversations with texters, we are seeing the impact of the pandemic, particularly on the mental health of teens who experienced significant disruptions in their school and social lives." said Dena Trujillo, CEO of Crisis Text Line. "While we can't eliminate the root causes of anxiety, grief, and eating disorders, together, we can provide support and hope through empathetic conversations between volunteers and texters that help texters in crisis find healthy ways to cope. By training volunteers to empathize with strangers via text, we are helping young people in their moments of need and building a more empathetic world."
Key findings of the report include:
High anxiety: In 2020, Crisis Text Line reported that anxiety reached record highs in our conversations – especially in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, anxiety levels among texters dropped slightly, but overall, they have yet to return to 2019 levels. This is consistent with the findings of the American Psychological Association (APA), which reported that the range of anxiety for U.S. adults was four times higher between March 2020 and August 2021 than in 2019.
Rising rates of grief: Texters were 13% more likely to bring up grief and bereavement in 2021 compared to 2019, and this topic kept creeping up throughout the past two years, from 4.3% to 4.8% of conversations. This increase in Crisis Text Line conversations about grief is a stark reminder that the mental health effects of the pandemic are going to last long after infection rates and hospitalizations taper off.
Eating and body image issues: The rise in eating and body image issues in our conversations was sharper than the rising rates of grief. Texters were 17% more likely to bring up these issues in 2021 compared to before the pandemic (going from 3.1% to 3.7% of conversations).
Crisis Text Line is actively recruiting for volunteers who would like to train to become a volunteer Crisis Counselor. During the free 30-hour training, volunteers learn how to bring texters from a hot moment to a cool calm through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning. Applicants must be 18 or older, and have access to reliable Internet access and a personal computer. Information on volunteering can be found at crisistextline.org/become-a-volunteer.
The full report is available online at www.crisistextline.com/states
Media Contact: Ashley Womble, press@crisistextline.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two Florida residents have pleaded guilty in a scheme to peddle a diary and other items stolen from President Joe Biden’s daughter to the conservative group Project Veritas for $40,000, prosecutors said Thursday.
Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander “sought to profit from their theft of another person’s personal property,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.
Harris, a 40-year-old from Palm Beach, and Kurlander, 58, of nearby Jupiter, face the possibility of up to five years in prison. They pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property across state lines.
Harris’ lawyer, Sam Talkin, said she “has accepted responsibility for her conduct and looks forward to moving on with her life.” Kurlander’s lawyer, Florian Miedel, declined to comment.
While authorities didn’t identify anyone in the case except the defendants, the details of the investigation have been public for months.
Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, was moving out of a friend’s Delray Beach, Florida, home in spring 2020 when she stored the diary and other belongings there, prosecutors said in a court filing.
They said Harris then moved into the same room, found the items and got in touch with Kurlander, who enthused in a text message that he would help her make a “ton of money” from selling it, adding an expletive before “ton.”
The two initially aimed to sell some of the purloined property to then-President Donald Trump’s campaign, but a representative turned them down and told them to take the material to the FBI, according to the court papers.
The campaign “can’t use this,” Kurlander explained to Harris in a September 2020 text message, adding: “It has to be done a different way.”
Their next stop was Project Veritas, which paid for the two to bring some of the material — including the diary and a digital device with family photos — to a New York luxury hotel, prosecutors said.
Project Veritas staffers met with Kurlander and Harris in New York and agreed to pay an initial $10,000, saying more money could come if they retrieved more of Ashley Biden’s items from the home, partly in order to authenticate the diary, according to the court filing.
Back in Florida, Kurlander texted Harris a blunt assessment of what would come of the exchange, prosecutors said.
“They are in a sketchy business and here they are taking what’s literally a stolen diary and info … and trying to make a story that will ruin” Ashley Biden’s life and possibly affect the impending presidential election, he wrote, according to the court papers. He added that the two needed “to tread even more carefully” and get “anything worthwhile” out of the Delray Beach house, according to the court papers.
Prosecutors said Kurlander and Harris took Ashley Biden’s stored tax documents, clothes and luggage as Kurlander pressed Project Veritas in a message to commit to a bigger payout: “We are taking huge risks. This isn’t fair.”
A Project Veritas staffer soon flew to Florida, the employee shipped the items to New York and the group paid Harris and Kurlander $20,000 apiece, prosecutors said.
Project Veritas identifies itself as a news organization. It is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.
“Project Veritas’s news gathering was ethical and legal” in the diary affair, the group said in a statement Thursday. The organization said earlier that it turned the journal over to law enforcement after receiving it from “tipsters” who maintained that it had been abandoned in a room.
“A journalist’s lawful receipt of material later alleged to be stolen is routine, commonplace and protected by the First Amendment,” Project Veritas added Thursday.
Neither Project Veritas nor any staffers have been charged with a crime.
The FBI searched the group’s New York offices and the homes of some of its employees as part of the investigation. A court in New York appointed a former federal judge to review material that was seized in those searches, so as to ensure that investigators couldn’t look at material protected by journalistic or attorney-client privileges.
Generally, media organizations aren’t culpable for receiving material that might have been stolen, if they weren’t involved in the theft. But there can be criminal liability for orchestrating theft and then knowingly paying for stolen material.
“There is no First Amendment protection for the theft and interstate transport of stolen property,” the U.S. attorney’s office wrote in a court filing last year.
O’Keefe has said that Project Veritas ultimately could not confirm that the diary belonged to Ashley Biden. The group did not publish information from it.
He added that there was “no doubt Project Veritas acted appropriately at each and every step.”
Ashley Biden, a 41-year-old social worker, is the daughter of the president and of first lady Jill Biden. His eldest daughter and his first wife were killed in a 1972 car accident.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. , Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- McKim & Creed, an award-winning, 2022 ENR Top 160-ranked design firm, today announced that Rob Stout, PE has joined the firm as Water Business Unit Manager. In this role he will oversee the firm's water and wastewater business, focusing on providing best-in-class client service. Mr. Stout is based in McKim & Creed's Charlotte office.
"We're thrilled to have Rob on board and leading our water business," said McKim & Creed Chief Executive Officer Street Lee. "Expertise in water infrastructure expansion, management and sustainability are important to our clients and we are confident that with Rob's experience, he can help drive our commitment to supporting our communities with their water, wastewater and water reclamation needs."
Mr. Stout comes to McKim & Creed with 28 years of experience in municipal water and wastewater, with a solid background in finance, operations and business development. "I've spent my entire career in water and wastewater and I'm really looking forward to working with the many industry-leading water experts at McKim & Creed," he said.
Mr. Stout has a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an MBA from Wake Forest University.
About McKim & Creed: McKim & Creed is an award-winning, employee-owned firm with more than 800 employees operating in offices throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania. McKim & Creed specializes in civil, environmental, mechanical, instrumentation, plumbing, and structural engineering; industrial design-build services; airborne and mobile LiDAR/scanning; unmanned aerial systems; subsurface utility engineering; and hydrographic and conventional surveying services for the energy, transportation, federal, land development, water and building markets.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Predators announced Ronda Engelhardt will become a North American amateur scout based out of Minnesota, the first female scout hired by the team.
The hiring of Engelhardt on Wednesday comes a day after the Calgary Flames added Rebecca Johnston for a player development role and the Seattle Kraken promoted Alexandra Mandrycky to assistant general manager after three years as director of hockey strategy and research.
Engelhardt has been head coach of the Premier Hockey Federation’s Minnesota Whitecaps the past four seasons and won the Isobel Cup in 2019. The native of Roseville, Minnesota, was a U.S. women’s national team player and captain at the University of Minnesota in 2002-03.
She previously was an assistant hockey coach at Division III St. Thomas and the girls high school head coach at the Breck School in Minnesota.
General manager David Poile also announced Sebastian Bordeleau has joined coach John Hynes’ staff as a skills coach. Nathan Gerbe was hired to replace Bordeleau as the Predators’ forward development coach, working with assistant general manager Scott Nichol evaluating Nashville’s prospects.
Former NHL player Brett Carson has joined assistant general manager Jeff Kealty’s staff as a North American Amateur Scout for the western part of the United States and Canada. Jason Nordby is the Predators’ new assistant strength and conditioning coach after 17 seasons as strength coach with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals.
Michael Bingham joins the Predators’ equipment staff as a coordinator, and Jon Sherman was hired as hockey operations coordinator and analyst.
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(NewsNation) — Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo says he was honest with his previous employer about the guidance he provided his brother, Andrew Cuomo, after the former New York governor was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.
“I never lied and there were no secrets,” Chris Cuomo said in an exclusive interview Tuesday on Dan Abrams Live.
The assertion conflicts with CNN’s version of events. The cable news outlet suspended Cuomo after documents revealed the extent to which he helped his brother respond to the scandal. The network claimed that Cuomo was more involved than executives knew.
“I have been obsessed with what happened, when, what was known, and there are a lot of facts that I believe are going to come out,” said Cuomo, who maintains that CNN execs were aware of his dealings with his brother.
Text messages and transcripts released by the New York attorney general last year showed Chris Cuomo had been in communication with his brother’s top aides, helping the embattled governor navigate the media firestorm and relaying what he was hearing from sources regarding the allegations.
He was let go by the network shortly after.
In a conversation with NewsNation host Dan Abrams on Tuesday, his first since leaving CNN, Cuomo acknowledged that he had talked with members of the media about the accusations against his brother. But he denied attempting to influence their coverage of the story.
“I never contacted any media who were covering my brother, to try to affect their coverage,” Cuomo said.
In March, Cuomo took legal action against his former employer and is now seeking $125 million for wrongful termination.
The former anchor said that any calls he made to the media were only to find out if stories about his brother would be running. He said he did not try to pressure the press one way or another on those calls.
“There was a curiosity at the time by my brother’s team, obviously, of what was coming next, who was writing what,” said Cuomo.
Cuomo pointed out that there’s an important distinction between manipulating the media and trying to figure out basic information, insisting that he only did the latter.
“I could have contacted Ronan (Farrow). I could have contacted anybody who was working in the media — I’ve got a lot of relationships — and I probably could have justified it by saying, ‘I just want to make sure that you’re straight on the facts. I don’t want to influence you.’ I never did that,” Cuomo said.
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Florida A&M Rattlers at Portland Pilots
Florida A&M finished 13-17 overall with a 5-12 record on the road last season. The Rattlers averaged 65.0 points per game while allowing opponents to score 68.8 last season.
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WFO PHOENIX Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, December 5, 2022
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DENSE FOG ADVISORY
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Phoenix AZ
951 AM MST Mon Dec 5 2022
...DENSE FOG ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
Visibility continues to improve above one quarter mile this
morning. Thus, the Dense Fog Advisory will be allowed to expire.
Use caution as localized areas of lowered visibilities due to fog
will be possible.
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Texas vs. Colgate: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - NCAA Tournament First Round
The No. 2 Texas Longhorns (26-8) and the No. 15 Colgate Raiders (26-8) battle on Thursday for a place in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The first-round matchup starts at 7:50 PM.
In this article, you will see the spread and odds across multiple sportsbooks for the Texas vs. Colgate matchup.
Texas vs. Colgate Game Info
- When: Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:50 PM ET
- Where: Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa
- How to Watch on TV: TBS
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Texas vs. Colgate Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this matchup available on several sportsbooks.
Texas vs. Colgate Betting Trends
- Texas has put together a 17-17-0 record against the spread this season.
- A total of 16 out of the Longhorns' 34 games this season have hit the over.
- Colgate has put together a 16-16-0 record against the spread this year.
- In the Raiders' 32 chances this year, the combined scoring has gone over the point total 19 times.
Texas Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +1400
- Texas is sixth-best in the country in terms of its odds to win the national championship (+1400), and resides in the same spot, according to the computer rankings.
- In terms of their national championship odds, the Longhorns have experienced the 75th-biggest change this season, improving from +2200 at the beginning to +1400.
- Texas has a 6.7% chance of winning the national championship, based on its moneyline odds.
Colgate Futures Odds
- Odds to win the national championship: +500000
- Colgate, based on its national championship odds (+500000), ranks much better (60th in college basketball) than it does in our computer ranking (109th).
- Based on its moneyline odds, Colgate has a 0% chance of winning the national championship.
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WA Spokane WA Zone Forecast for Friday, December 2, 2022
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427 FPUS56 KOTX 030732
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Zone Forecast Product for Eastern Washington and North Idaho
National Weather Service Spokane WA
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
WAZ031-031200-
Northeast Blue Mountains-
Including the cities of Anatone and Peola
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 20. South wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
Gusts up to 20 mph in the morning.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 17 to 21. Temperature
rising into the in the mid 20s after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Snow showers likely. Highs in the upper 20s to mid 30s.
Chance of precipitation 70 percent.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows in the lower 20s.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid
20s to lower 30s. Lows 17 to 24.
.THURSDAY...Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
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WAZ034-035-031200-
Moses Lake Area-Upper Columbia Basin-
Including the cities of Moses Lake, Ephrata, Othello, Quincy,
Ritzville, Grand Coulee, Odessa, Wilbur, and Coulee City
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of flurries.
Patchy freezing fog. Lows 12 to 16. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY...Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 15. North wind 5 to
15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers.
Highs in the mid to upper 20s. Northeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 7 to 15. Light wind.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 19 to 29. Lows
8 to 17.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 15 to 19. Temperature
rising into the in the lower 20s after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Lows 15 to 19.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 20s.
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WAZ038-031200-
Okanogan Highlands-
Including the cities of Republic, Inchelium, and Wauconda
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow
showers. Patchy freezing fog. Lows 10 to 16. Temperature rising
to around 15 through sunrise.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of flurries in the morning.
Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the mid 20s to lower
30s.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 4 to 14.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Very cold. Partly cloudy. Lows 2 to 11.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to
mid 20s. Lows 6 to 16.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 11 to 19. Temperature
rising to around 16 after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the mid to upper 20s. Lows 11 to 20.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid to upper 20s.
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WAZ041-044-031200-
Wenatchee Area-Waterville Plateau-
Including the cities of Wenatchee, Chelan, Entiat, Cashmere,
Waterville, and Mansfield
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 15. Temperature rising to around 17 through
sunrise.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
morning. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the 20s.
Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 10 to 16. North wind 5 to
15 mph overnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 20s. North wind 5 to 15 mph
with gusts up to 20 mph.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 7 to 15.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Highs 16 to 26.
Lows 8 to 18.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the lower to mid 20s. Lows 14 to 18.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 20s.
$$
WAZ043-031200-
Okanogan Valley-
Including the cities of Omak, Okanogan, Brewster, Bridgeport,
Oroville, and Nespelem
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 10 to 13. Temperature rising to around 16 through
sunrise.
.SATURDAY...Mostly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
morning. Highs in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 11 to 14. Gusts up to
20 mph.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the 20s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 7 to 12.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 17 to 25. Lows
7 to 15.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Lows 14 to 18. Temperature
rising to around 19 after midnight.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the 20s. Lows 14 to 18.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the 20s.
$$
WAZ047-031200-
Central Chelan County-
Including the cities of Leavenworth, Plain, and Lake Wenatchee
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 11 to 17. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to
20 mph in the mountains.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
morning. Patchy freezing fog in the morning. Highs in the mid to
upper 20s. Chance of precipitation 30 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 11 to 18. Temperature
rising to around 16 after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 12 to 18.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the upper 20s
to mid 30s. Lows 14 to 24.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow. Lows 17 to 23.
.THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent
chance of snow. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s. Lows 16 to 23.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the upper 20s to lower 30s.
$$
WAZ048-031200-
Western Chelan County-
Including the cities of Stevens Pass, Holden Village,
and Stehekin
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Snow showers likely. Snow accumulation of 1 to
3 inches valleys and 2 to 4 inches in the mountains. Lows 13 to
19. Temperature rising to around 16 through sunrise. Chance of
precipitation 70 percent.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
morning. Highs in the upper 20s to lower 30s. Chance of
precipitation 50 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 14 to 19. Temperature
rising to around 16 after midnight.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower to mid 30s. East wind
5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the mountains.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 15 to 19.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs in the lower to
mid 30s. Lows 16 to 26.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow. Lows in the 20s.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the lower to mid 30s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow.
Lows in the lower to mid 20s.
.FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the lower to mid 30s.
$$
WAZ049-031200-
Western Okanogan County-
Including the cities of Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp, Methow,
and Conconully
1132 PM PST Fri Dec 2 2022
.REST OF TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow
showers. Lows 7 to 11. Temperature rising to around 13 through
sunrise. South wind 5 to 15 mph with gusts up to 20 mph in the
mountains.
.SATURDAY...Partly sunny. A chance of snow showers in the
morning. Highs in the 20s. Chance of precipitation 20 percent.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 6 to 15.
.SUNDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 20s to lower 30s.
.SUNDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 4 to 13.
.MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 20s
to lower 30s. Lows 6 to 16.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of
snow. Lows 12 to 18.
.THURSDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow. Highs
in the mid to upper 20s.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent
chance of snow. Lows 12 to 18. Highs in the mid to upper 20s.
$$
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DALLAS — Lady Jade, Leah Frazier and Coach Tre join Jane to talk about how dad's affect our self-worth.
How Fathers Shape Our Self Love
Say Yes to You Table Talk
DALLAS — Lady Jade, Leah Frazier and Coach Tre join Jane to talk about how dad's affect our self-worth.
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The entertainment world has lost an '80s icon.
Irene Cara, known for singing the joyful theme songs to the cult musical films Fame and Flashdance, has died. she was 63.
Her publicist, Judith A. Moose, announced the star's death on Twitter Nov. 25. "It is with profound sadness that on behalf of the family I announce the passing of Irene Cara. The Academy Award winning actress, singer, songwriter, and producer passed away in her Florida home. Her cause of death is currently unknown and will be released when information is available."
The statement continued, "Irene's family has requested privacy as they process their grief. She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films. Funeral services are pending and a memorial for her fans will be planned at a future date.'
Cara began her entertainment career as a child singer. In the '70s, while still very young, she also tried her hand as an actress, appearing on the soap opera Love of Life, the children's variety show The Electric Company, the miniseries Roots: The Next Generations and later, as a teen, as the lead in the 1976 musical film Sparkle.
She also appeared in four Broadway musicals—Maggie Flynn, The Me Nobody Knows, Via Galactica and Got Tu Go Disco.
But it was the 1980 musical drama film Fame that launched her to international, well, fame. The film centered around a performing arts high school, Cara played student Coco Hernandez and performed four songs, including the hit single "Fame," for the movie soundtrack.
The New York native went on to co-write and perform the lead single "Flashdance... What a Feeling" for the soundtrack to the 1983 romantic drama dance film Flashdance, starring Jennifer Beals as a dancer who aspires to become a professional ballerina. The song earned Cara a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female, and an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song.
In 1984, Cara co-starred with Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds in the movie City Heat. Later, in the late '80s and early '90s, Cara did voiceover work for children's animated films, such as the movie Happily Ever After. Her last onscreen role as in an episode of the TV series Hearts Are Wild in 1992.
Cara also continued her music career, and performed a cover of Petula Clark's hit "Downtown" for the soundtrack of the 2004 film Downtown: A Street Tale. In 2011, Cara released her final album, Irene Cara Presents Hot Caramel with her all-female band, Hot Caramel.
In a follow-up statement, her publicist tweeted, "We were working on amazing projects that would have made her and her fans incredibly happy. Her manager and I will finish them. She'd want that."
In recent years, Cara enjoyed what she called a "semi-retired" life in Florida. "I sell my stuff online and most of the time I'm just here with my family. And I'm very proud of my family," the star told SongwriterUniverse in 2018. "I have a beautiful home by the beach and life is good. I live off my royalties and I work when I want to."
Cara was preceded in death by two older brothers and her parents. "I'm just happy that I was able to fulfill their dreams for me before they passed away," she told SongwriterUniverse. "When you're five or six years old, you don't choose a career. I wasn't a child who decided, 'I want to be in showbiz.' This was something that was laid out for me by my parents. This was their dream for me, and I fulfilled it. So I'm happy about that."
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "Daily 3 Evening" game were:
4-3-2
(four, three, two)
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Shootings in New Mexico targeted Democratic officials. A new study provides insights into viral coinfections among children. And, data show that most Paycheck Protection Program loans were forgiven.
Copyright 2023 NPR
Shootings in New Mexico targeted Democratic officials. A new study provides insights into viral coinfections among children. And, data show that most Paycheck Protection Program loans were forgiven.
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Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in Nevada County on Saturday as the so-called Still Fire burns, authorities said. Video player above: Top Stories from Aug. 27, 2022CalFire crews are responding to the fire burning in the area of Wolf Road on Still Road, the state's fire agency said on social media. It's across Highway 49 from Lake of the Pines and is burning about 15 miles south of Grass Valley. The fire has burned about 25 to 30 acres as of 1 p.m., authorities said. CalFire said the fire is holding within retardant lines as they work to create a barrier to prevent the fire from spreading. The Nevada County Sheriff's Office said two zones are under mandatory evacuations. Those include NCO-E397 and NCO-E161. See all evacuation orders and warnings below. App users, click here.A temporary evacuation point is located at Bear River High School at 22453 West Hacienda Drive, Grass Valley. An animal evacuation site is located at the Nevada County Fairgrounds. | RELATED | 2022 Northern California wildfire resources: Where to find county evacuation info, maps, alerts and moreIt's unclear how the fire started.KCRA's Fire Threat IndexKCRA 3’s weather team has developed a new tool the team will be using to keep you informed as fire conditions change. It’s called the Fire Threat Index. This will give you an idea of the fire risk on any given day in different areas of our coverage region so you can plan ahead. For the Foothills, the Fire Threat Index is moderate on Saturday.| MORE LIKE THIS | 2022 California Wildfire Preparedness Guide: What to know and how to stay safeThis is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.Here is where you can download our app.
NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. — Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued in Nevada County on Saturday as the so-called Still Fire burns, authorities said.
- Video player above: Top Stories from Aug. 27, 2022
CalFire crews are responding to the fire burning in the area of Wolf Road on Still Road, the state's fire agency said on social media. It's across Highway 49 from Lake of the Pines and is burning about 15 miles south of Grass Valley.
The fire has burned about 25 to 30 acres as of 1 p.m., authorities said. CalFire said the fire is holding within retardant lines as they work to create a barrier to prevent the fire from spreading.
The Nevada County Sheriff's Office said two zones are under mandatory evacuations. Those include NCO-E397 and NCO-E161.
A temporary evacuation point is located at Bear River High School at 22453 West Hacienda Drive, Grass Valley. An animal evacuation site is located at the Nevada County Fairgrounds.
| RELATED | 2022 Northern California wildfire resources: Where to find county evacuation info, maps, alerts and more
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You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
It's unclear how the fire started.
KCRA's Fire Threat Index
KCRA 3’s weather team has developed a new tool the team will be using to keep you informed as fire conditions change. It’s called the Fire Threat Index. This will give you an idea of the fire risk on any given day in different areas of our coverage region so you can plan ahead.
For the Foothills, the Fire Threat Index is moderate on Saturday.
| MORE LIKE THIS | 2022 California Wildfire Preparedness Guide: What to know and how to stay safe
This is a developing story. Stay with KCRA 3 for the latest.
Here is where you can download our app.
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