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Amazon Prime Day has plenty to offer over the next two days. Whether it is Le Creuset products, great deals on Apple AirPods Pro or the best sales on Amazon devices, there are plenty of options in household items and groceries.
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Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim.
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Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay $1.26 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that she promoted a cryptocurrency on Instagram without disclosing that she’d been paid $250,000 to do so.
The SEC said Monday that the reality TV star and entrepreneur has agreed to cooperate with its ongoing investigation.
The SEC said Kardashian failed to disclose that she was paid to publish a post on her Instagram account about EMAX tokens, a crypto asset security being offered by EthereumMax.
Kardashian’s Instagram post contained a link to the EthereumMax website, which provided instructions for potential investors to purchase EMAX tokens.
“The federal securities laws are clear that any celebrity or other individual who promotes a crypto asset security must disclose the nature, source, and amount of compensation they received in exchange for the promotion,” Gurbir Grewal, director of the SEC’s division of enforcement, said in a prepared statement.
Kardashian has agreed to not promote any crypto asset securities for three years.
“Ms. Kardashian is pleased to have resolved this matter with the SEC. Kardashian fully cooperated with the SEC from the very beginning and she remains willing to do whatever she can to assist the SEC in this matter. She wanted to get this matter behind her to avoid a protracted dispute. The agreement she reached with the SEC allows her to do that so that she can move forward with her many different business pursuits,” a lawyer for Kardashian said in an email.
While Kardashian is well known for reality TV, currently appearing on “The Kardashians” on Hulu, she is also a successful businesswoman. Her brands include SKIMS, which makes shapewear, loungewear and other products, and a skincare line called SKKN.
For anyone trying to promote a product, Kardashian provides a huge megaphone with 330 million followers on Instagram.
The crypto industry often uses influencers and celebrities to promote new tokens or products. Matt Damon appears in advertisements for Crypto.com, and other celebrities that have been paid to do crypto promotions include Reese Witherspoon and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Kardashian is not the first celebrity to attract the attention of financial regulators, either. In 2018 the SEC settled charges against professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer DJ Khaled for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting investments in digital currency.
“This case is a reminder that, when celebrities or influencers endorse investment opportunities, including crypto asset securities, it doesn’t mean that those investment products are right for all investors,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. “We encourage investors to consider an investment’s potential risks and opportunities in light of their own financial goals.”
“Ms. Kardashian’s case also serves as a reminder to celebrities and others that the law requires them to disclose to the public when and how much they are paid to promote investing in securities,” Gensler added.
Cryptocurrency has attracted increasing attention from Congress as well. A bipartisan proposal that emerged last month would hand the regulatory authority over Bitcoin and Ether, two popular cryptocurrencies, to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission after wild swings in crypto valuations, dozens of scams and hundreds of billions of dollars gained and lost.
Cryptocurrencies, after soaring during the pandemic, have had a rough year as prices swing wildly, but mostly lower, and with crypto companies under intensifying scrutiny.
The token Kardashian was promoting has performed particularly poorly and is now worse less than 10% of its peak price.
Bitcoin has given up more than half its value in 2022, tumbling from almost $46,000, to around $19,000 Monday.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kasperi Kapanen, Nathan Walker and Jakub Vrana each scored to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 3-0 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday night.
Rookie goalie and Winnipeg native Joel Hofer started in his first home appearance with St. Louis and stopped 33 shots in his fourth NHL start to help the Blues win for the fourth time in six games. He didn't get the shutout because he had to leave the ice for a skate repair in the second period. Thomas Greiss had a save while filling in. Hofer started in place of the suspended Jordan Binnington on Friday and had 33 saves in a 5-2 win against Washington — his first NHL game since Nov. 13, 2021. Hofer, called up from Springfield of the AHL under emergency conditions Thursday after Binnington was suspended, is now 3-1-0 in the NHL.
Connor Hellebuyck, starting for the second straight day, had 14 saves for the Jets, who have lost three of their last four games.
Winnipeg fell short of completing a season sweep of the Blues after having won the teams' first three meetings by a combined 13-4 margin.
From the side of the net, Kapanen redirected a pass from Nick Leddy past Hellebuyck at 4:04 of the first period, giving St. Louis a 1-0 lead. It was his fourth goal in 10 games with the Blues.
Walker increased the lead to 2-0 with 9:26 left in the second. Justin Faulk skated in down the left wing when he made a backhanded pass to Walker, who one-timed the puck from the side of the net.
Vrana wristed in a shot on a breakaway at 12 minutes of the third period after getting a pass from Kapanen. It was his fourth goal in four games.
SERVING SUSPENSION
Binnington served the second of his two-game suspension Sunday. Binnington was suspended by the NHL’s Department of Player Safety for roughing and unsportsmanlike conduct against Minnesota forward Ryan Hartman in the second period of St. Louis' 8-5 loss on Wednesday.
EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION
Play was halted at 4:55 of the second period when Hofer lost a skate blade while in net after making a save. After trying to replace it back, Hofer was forced to go back to the locker room for the repair. Greiss came in and made one save in 2:36 before Hofter returned.
ICE CHIPS
Blues D Torey Krug received a game misconduct at 13:24 of the first period after his used his stick to slam on the penalty box glass,. He also was called for a double minor and given a 10-minute misconduct as well on the play. ... The Blues assigned LW Nikita Alexandrov and D Tyler Tucker to Springfield of the AHL on Saturday. Alexandrov had seven points (three goals, four assists) in 28 games with the Blues, and Tucker had a goal and three assists in 24 games.
INJURIES
Jets F Pierre-Luc Dubois (lower body injury) is day to day, C Sam Gagner (hip injury) out for season, and C Cole Perfetti (upper-body injury) is also out.
Blues LW Jake Neighbours (upper-body injury) is back to practicing but remains out.
UP NEXT
Jets: Host Arizona on Tuesday night.
Blues: Host Detroit on Tuesday night. __ AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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Ex-teacher’s aide accused of licking boy’s foot, molesting several children
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/Gray News) - A grand jury in Georgia indicted a former teacher’s aide on multiple counts months after he was arrested on suspicion of licking a young boy’s feet. He is accused of molesting several other children.
An indictment shows 25-year-old Caurey Rollins is accused of molesting several kids during his time as a teacher’s aide at Glenn Hills Elementary School in Augusta, Georgia. He faces eight child molestation charges, all within a five-month period.
Documentation sent to WRDW says Richmond County schools received information on Feb. 1 about a male paraprofessional teacher possibly touching female students inappropriately. It lists four female victims.
Rollins is also accused of sucking, licking and kissing the foot of a 7-year-old boy on Jan. 14 at Urban Air Adventure Park. After that incident, he was arrested and charged with non-aggravated child molestation.
Rollins was placed on administrative leave without pay on Jan. 17 while the district investigated the alleged incident at Urban Air. Less than three weeks later, he sent an email stating he was resigning from his position due to the situation at hand and that it would be in his best interest to step down and seek different employment.
The district hired Rollins on Aug. 11, 2022, as a general paraprofessional. His contract was set for 10 months, but he resigned after five.
Some of his responsibilities included serving as an assistant to the teacher and assisting with the supervision of students while promoting activities to enhance the social, emotional, intellectual and physical development of students. Another responsibility was to maintain the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as expected by the teacher.
In a statement, Superintendent Dr. Kenneth Bradshaw said the school system cooperated fully with law enforcement in their investigation of Rollins. He also confirmed an internal investigation was conducted after the district was notified of the alleged incident at Urban Air.
“The safety and security of our students is of the utmost importance to us,” Bradshaw wrote.
A child molestation prison sentence is anywhere from five to 20 years for one count, according to Child Enrichment. If found guilty on all eight counts and sentenced to the maximum, Rollins is looking at 160 years behind bars.
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- Cboe to become the preferred third-party distributor of all Morningstar-branded indices
- Agreement expected to help broaden access to Morningstar indices for investors globally
- Cboe Global Indices Feed is publishing an initial 50 Morningstar-branded indices beginning July 1, with plans to offer the full index suite in the fourth quarter
CHICAGO, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, today announced it has entered into an agreement with Morningstar Indexes, a leading global index provider, to begin publishing real-time, intraday values for Morningstar-branded indices on its Cboe Global Indices Feed. With this agreement, Cboe will become the preferred third-party distributor of Morningstar's full range of branded indices.
Morningstar offers more than 25,000 indices calculated1 across all major asset classes, styles and strategies for making asset allocation decisions, benchmarking investment performance and creating index-linked investable products. Under the new collaboration, Cboe Global Indices Feed will be designed to provide market participants globally with seamless and efficient access to all Morningstar indices through a secure global network, delivered both on-premise and through Cboe Global Cloud, a premier real-time cloud-based data streaming service. Cboe Global Indices Feed is also expected to help broaden distribution of Morningstar Indexes to new data customers around the world.
Cboe Global Indices Feed, previously known as Cboe Streaming Market Indices (CSMI), is a streaming data service that delivers more than 400 real-time index values to customers globally. Under the agreement, Cboe will distribute real-time values for an initial 50 Morningstar indices, including Morningstar's range of well-known thematic, Economic Moat Focus and ESG indices, as well as the recently introduced Morningstar Broad Style Indexes. This initial dissemination will begin on July 1 via the MSTAR Channel, with additional indices being launched on the MSTARC Channel at a later date. Additional indices are planned to migrate to Cboe Global Indices Feed in a phased rollout over the coming months. With the completion of this migration, planned for the fourth quarter, Morningstar's complete suite of branded indices will be available through Cboe Global Indices Feed.
"We are pleased to deepen our relationship with Morningstar Indexes through this agreement and provide the global investment community with enhanced access to the critical tools and solutions to help them gain transparency into the markets and drive informed investing decisions," said Catherine Clay, Executive Vice President, Data and Access Solutions at Cboe Global Markets. "Cboe's global and comprehensive data streaming service covers some of the world's most innovative and widely followed financial benchmarks. We are excited to expand our offerings with the addition of all of Morningstar's indices and look forward to helping extend the tremendous utility of these products to an even broader base of customers globally."
Enhanced by Morningstar's intellectual property (IP), Morningstar Indexes' range of index solutions provide unmatched value and flexibility for navigating long-term opportunities across all major asset classes, styles and strategies. Morningstar's IP-driven index solutions draw from Morningstar's leading-edge research and ratings systems, including world-class intelligence from Morningstar Equity Research, Sustainalytics and PitchBook and, in the case of the Morningstar® Broad Style IndexesSM, alignment with the Morningstar Style BoxTM.
"We're incredibly excited to expand on our collaboration with Cboe Global Markets to make our unique, world-class index approaches available to an even broader range of investors globally," said Ron Bundy, president of Morningstar Indexes Group at Morningstar. "As one of the fastest growing global index providers, we are working hard to extend our capabilities to a much larger span of investors and clients. Our deepening alignment with Cboe Global Markets will help accelerate access to our industry-leading indexes to help further empower investors."
Cboe Global Indices is a leader in the creation and dissemination of volatility and derivatives-based indices. Its offerings include index design, implementation, calculation, maintenance, administration and data distribution services for a suite of custom indices and benchmarks.
Access to Cboe Global Indices Feed is available directly from Cboe and through most large industry vendors. For more information on the new Morningstar index channels and plans for the migration of Morningstar's indices to Cboe Global Indices Feed, please see Cboe's Trade Desk notice.
About Cboe Global Markets, Inc.
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, 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 and FX, across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit www.cboe.com.
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Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022. The Company has operations in 29 countries.
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Morningstar Indexes was built to keep up with the evolving needs of investors—and to be a leading-edge advocate for them. Our rich heritage as a transparent, investor-focused leader in data and research uniquely equips us to support individuals, institutions, wealth managers and advisors in navigating investment opportunities across all major asset classes, styles and strategies. From assessing risk and return with traditional benchmarks to helping investors effectively incorporate ESG objectives into their investment process, our range of index solutions spans an investment landscape as diverse as investors themselves. We help investors answer today's increasingly complex questions so that they can more easily reach tomorrow's goals.
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Dow Jones Industrial futures declined 1.6% and the S&P 500 fell 2%. European shares dipped in midday trading and Asian benchmarks finished lower.
A turbulent week on Wall Street ended Friday with more losses and the stock market's fifth straight weekly decline. The pullback came as investors balanced a strong U.S. jobs report against worries the Federal Reserve may cause a recession in its drive to halt inflation.
The Fed is hoping to raise rates and slow the economy enough to snuff out the highest inflation in four decades, but it risks choking off growth if it goes too far or too quickly.
China reported its exports rose 3.7% over a year earlier in April to $273.6 billion, down sharply from March's 15.7% growth, as global demand weakened. That added to pressure on the world's second-largest economy after Shanghai and other industrial cities were shut down to fight virus outbreaks.
Imports crept up 0.7% in April to $222.5 billion, in line with the previous month's sub-1% growth.
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Companies and investors worry the ruling Communist Party's "zero-COVID" strategy that temporarily closed most businesses in Shanghai and other industrial centers is disrupting global trade and activity in autos, electronics and other industries.
But a slowing global economy is also taking a toll.
"The blame rests partly with China's COVID-19 outbreak, which has led to manpower shortages and bottlenecks in the logistics sector. But the extent of these disruptions shouldn't be overplayed," Julian Evans-Pritchard said in a commentary. "Instead, the drop in exports seems to mostly reflect softer demand."
The Shanghai Composite was little changed, adding nearly 0.1% to 3,004.14. Markets were closed in Hong Kong for a national holiday.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 2.5% to finish at 26,319.34. South Korea's Kospi dipped 1.3% to 2,610.81. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 dropped 1.2% to 7,120.70. The benchmark in Jakarta, Indonesia, lost 4.4% as markets reopened after the Eid al-Fitr holiday last week.
In Europe, France's CAC 40 slipped 2.1% in midday trading, Germany's DAX fell 1.8% and Britain's FTSE 100 was down 1.9%.
Apart from concerns about inflation and coronavirus restrictions, the war in Ukraine is still a major cause for uncertainty. More than 60 people were feared dead after a Russian bomb flattened a school being used as a shelter, Ukrainian officials said. Moscow's forces pressed their attack on defenders inside Mariupol's steel plant in an apparent race to capture the city ahead of Russia's Victory Day holiday Monday.
"Russia's Victory Day today will also bring geopolitical risks back into the limelight as well. President Putin is likely to reiterate his justification for the Ukraine war but markets may be watching for any further efforts to ramp-up military operations to secure the war," said Yeap Jun Rong, market strategist at IG in Singapore.
Even the energy sector, a star performer in recent weeks, is under pressure Monday. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $2.88 to $106.89 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, but is still up more than 40% this year. Brent crude, the basis for pricing oil for international trading, edged down $2.74 to $109.65 a barrel.
In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 131.06 Japanese yen from 130.55 yen. The euro cost $1.0540, down from $1.0545.
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Practice moved up ahead of extreme heat
CABELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The kids may be out of school for the summer, but if you’re a parent, you know sports never stop.
Wednesday morning, both the Cabell Midland Football and Boys Soccer Team held practices.
The football team was already scheduled to practice at 8 a.m., but the soccer team wasn’t supposed to start until 7:00 p.m.
But with temperatures in the 90s at that hour, the athletic trainer told coaches they needed to have all practices done by 11 a.m. if they planned on holding them.
“It’s a lot easier for me to be proactive by looking at the heat, what’s coming, and tell my coaches to adapt beforehand, rather than being in a hot practice and have to react to a player that may have lost consciousness or is going through a possible heat stroke,” said Andrew DeMoss, who is the athletic trainer at Cabell Midland High School.
Student athletes recognize the dangers, too.
“In the heat like this, anybody can pass out, but as long as you’re hydrated, that’s the key thing for this heat,” said Shawn Rouse, a senior on the football team.
With extreme temperatures still expected to be a factor tomorrow – the soccer team will once again practice tomorrow morning.
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The brand continues its impressive growth following the $400M investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2
ENCINITAS, Calif., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Southern California inspired activewear brand Vuori announces its launch in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East, and Mexico continuing its global rollout started earlier this year. Consumers in these countries now have access to the popular apparel brand through branded e-commerce shops in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East, and Mexico. For now, in China, Vuori is available exclusively via Tmall, China's most popular direct to consumer website.
"We are proud to continue Vuori's expansion outside of the US," said Joe Kudla, Founder and CEO of Vuori. "We are excited to bring our vision and brand to consumers in these key markets, connecting with customers around the world."
Shoppers on Tmall will have access to a targeted assortment catering to the Chinese consumer, and those in Singapore, Hong Kong, the Middle East, and Mexico can now browse Vuori's entire collection of men's and women's apparel at their country's respective web addresses below.
- China: Tmall: http://vuori.tmall.com/
- Singapore: https://vuoriclothing.sg
- Mexico: https://vuoriclothing.mx
- Hong Kong: https://vuoriclothing.hk
- The Middle East: https://vuoriclothing.ae
The move comes as part of Vuori's larger international ambitions. Earlier this year, the maker of performance and leisure apparel opened its first international markets in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Australia, and Canada. The brand continues to grow in those countries, through eCommerce, wholesale and retail channels. Vuori opened its first store outside of the US in London's Covent Garden earlier this month, and added a few key new wholesale partners in the fall, including Harrods and Equinox in the UK, and Breuninger in Germany.
Next year, the brand intends to launch in Japan and Korea (via partnership), while opening additional stores in the UK and building on the foundations across all channels in its initial markets.
Established in 2015 by Founder and CEO Joe Kudla, Vuori has grown to unicorn status thanks to its differentiated, versatile perspective on performance apparel. Expansion outside of the US is a key strategy for furthering the brand's growth and profitability. Last year, Vuori received a $400 million investment by the SoftBank Vision Fund 2, which valued the brand at $4 billion.
As it reaches new markets around the globe, Vuori continues to enrich its product offering, support its sustainability goals and make key investments in infrastructure and people. The brand plans to operate 100 stores in the US by 2026 and will hire 100 additional people to work at its California headquarters by the end of 2022. This year, Joe Kudla was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2022 Pacific Southwest Award winner by Ernst & Young and Vuori also announced it is Climate Neutral Certified for the third year in a row.
A new perspective on performance apparel.
Vuori draws inspiration from the active California lifestyle—an integration of fitness, yoga, surf and life. We make products that stand the test of time and hope to inspire others to live healthy, extraordinary lives. Vuori is much more than a brand. It's a way of life. Launched in 2015, Vuori delivers elevated, everyday essentials that blur the lines between fitness and life. An active yogi and surfer, founder Joe Kudla was motivated to create clothing that's Built to Move in. Styled For Life. Today, Vuori is available at retailers around the globe, and has stores in nearly 30 cities, including Malibu, New York and London.
With products that are designed to last, the Climate Neutral Certified brand is committed to sustainability, with a three-tiered approach: involving the use of recycled and sustainable materials, reducing plastic waste, and offsetting 100% of carbon emissions. Vuori's Investment in Happiness drives meaning for every area of the business, a philosophy and active commitment to the shared happiness of its team, customers, community, and the natural environment.
For more information, get in touch with us at vuoriclothing.com.
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Mindbody to power Kinélite's 17 kinesiology, massage therapy, rehabilitation and nutrition clinics.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mindbody, the leading experience technology platform for the wellness industry, today announced a multi-year agreement with Kinélite to power its 17 wellness clinics across Canada. By implementing Mindbody's software, Kinélite will streamline operations, create a uniform brand and provide customers with a consistent, personalized experience across its locations.
"In just 5 years since its founding, Kinélite has already expanded its footprint to 17 locations. Their trained wellness professionals are clearly making a notable impact in the lives of their customers, and we are grateful to support them in their growth with our technology," said Fritz Lanman, CEO of Mindbody and ClassPass. "Personalization is the future of wellness. Brands like Kinélite that understand this consumer desire for a customized wellness experience are leading the way."
Founded in 2017, Kinélite's mission is to provide clients with a healthy mind in a healthy body. Providing a well-rounded experience that can be personalized to each client's needs and goals is an integral part of achieving this goal. Kinélite's wide range of service offerings allow for a curated client program, including fitness, weight loss and nutrition coaching, competition preparation, muscle rehabilitation, group training, at-home training and more.
"As our brand continues to expand, our team needed to implement a software that has the ability to provide not just the basics, but additional tools that fuel our growth in innovative ways," said Marc-André Renaud, CEO and president of Kinélite. "With Mindbody helping us streamline our operations, find new clients and pull detailed reports that allow us to make informed decisions, our team is free to focus on providing the personalized wellness experiences we pride ourselves on."
In addition to the breadth of tools provided by Mindbody software, Kinélite was drawn to Mindbody's seamless integration with health goal tracking software Hexfit. Used by thousands of professionals around the world, Hexfit allows fitness professionals to provide their clients with detailed training plans, nutrition tracking, progress tracking and in-app direct communication for a one-on-one training experience.
"Mindbody and Kinélite have both been excellent partners and we look forward to merging those relationships with this agreement for increased efficiency. By using Mindbody alongside Hexfit, staff will gain a deeper understanding of their clients and be able to provide even more customized experiences," said Étienne Dubois, president of Hexfit.
For more information about Mindbody's offerings, visit https://www.mindbodyonline.com/business.
About Mindbody
Mindbody is the leading experience technology platform for the fitness, wellness, and beauty industries. With the addition of ClassPass, the leading global fitness and wellness membership, to the Mindbody portfolio, consumers and wellness businesses around the world are easily connected through a rich wellness community. Fitness studios, salons, spas, and integrative health centers—from the newest entrepreneurs to the largest franchises—use Mindbody's integrated software and payments platform to run, market, and grow their businesses. Consumers use Mindbody and ClassPass to choose from a broad range of wellness experiences across thousands of gyms, exercise studios and wellness providers around the globe. For more information on how Mindbody is helping people lead healthier, happier lives by connecting the world to wellness, visit mindbodyonline.com.
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Biden flies into Mexican President López Obrador's new airport for summit
MEXICO CITY - One of the most important diplomatic decisions by President Joe Biden at the gathering this week of North American leaders might have been his choice of airport.
Biden arrived in Mexico City on Sunday via Mexico's newest hub, the Felipe Angeles International Airport, a prized project by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The hub was christened last year with much fanfare, though it's more than an hour's drive north of the city center, has few flights and until recently lacked consistent drinking water.
Biden and López Obrador, whose relationship is transactional at best and absent the warmth and camaraderie Biden has with other world leaders, shook hands and walked together down a long red carpet on the tarmac, flanked by soldiers. The two then took the long drive into the city center together.
Along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who arrives on Monday, the trio will spend the next two days discussing migration, climate change, manufacturing, trade, the economy and the potential global clout of a more collaborative North America.
"This gathering will deepen our coordination and advance our shared priorities for North America," Biden tweeted.
Ahead of the summit, Biden announced a major U.S.-Mexico border policy shift, with Mexico's blessing, that will result in the United States sending 30,000 migrants from four other countries per month back across the border. The U.S. will accept 30,000 people per month from the four nations — Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela — for two years and offer the ability to work legally.
On Sunday, Biden spent four hours in El Paso, Texas, his first trip to the border as president and the longest he's spent along the U.S-Mexico line. The day was highly controlled and seemed designed to showcase a smooth operation to process migrants entering legally, weed out smuggled contraband and humanely treat those who've entered illegally, creating a counter-narrative to Republicans’ claims of a crisis situation equivalent to an open border.
But it was likely to do little to quell critics from both sides, including immigrant advocates who accuse the Democratic president of establishing cruel policies not unlike those of his hard-line predecessor, Donald Trump, a Republican.
Biden encountered no migrants except when his motorcade drove alongside the border and about a dozen lined up on the Ciudad Juárez side in Mexico. His visit did not include time at a Border Patrol station, where migrants who cross illegally are arrested and held before their release.
Elsewhere in El Paso where Biden did not visit, hundreds of migrants gathered outside the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, where they've been sleeping outdoors and receiving three meals a day from faith groups and other humanitarian organizations.
The group of migrants had several pregnant women, including 26-year-old Karla Sainz, who's eight months along. She was traveling in a small group that included her 2-year-old son, Joshua. Sainz left her three other children back home in Venezuela with her mother.
"I would ask President Biden to help me with a permission or something so we can work and continue," she said.
Noengris Garcia, also eight months pregnant, was traveling with her husband, her teenage son and the family dog from the tiny state of Portuguesa, Venezuela, where she operated a food stall.
"We don’t want to be given money or a house," said Garcia, 39. "We just want to work."
Asked what he’s learned by seeing the border firsthand and speaking with the officers who work along it, Biden said: "They need a lot of resources. We’re going to get it for them."
The number of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has risen dramatically during Biden's first two years in office. There were more than 2.38 million stops during the year that ended Sept. 30, the first time the number topped 2 million. The administration has struggled to clamp down on crossings, reluctant to take measures that would resemble those of Trump’s administration.
From Texas, Biden headed south to Mexico City. López Obrador will formally welcome Biden at the Palacio Nacional on Monday, the first time since 2014 Mexico has hosted a U.S. president. The two will meet before Trudeau joins them for dinner. Biden and Trudeau will hold talks Tuesday, and then the three will gather for discussions.
For the U.S., the major talking points are migration, drug trafficking and building on Biden’s push on electric vehicles and manufacturing. Mexico is focused on economic integration for North America, supporting the poor in the Americas and regional relationships that put all governments on equal footing. Canada is looking to expand on green initiatives.
While the three nations work together, it's not all rosy. The leaders of Canada and Mexico have voiced concerns over Biden’s "Buy American" plan. And while Biden’s push toward electric vehicles is a boon to both nations because of the tax credits for North American batteries, there’s concern the U.S. allies will be left behind.
Meantime, the U.S. and Canada accuse López Obrador of trying to favor Mexico’s state-owned utility over power plants built by foreign and private investors, something that's forbidden under the three countries’ free trade pact.
Biden's relationship with Trudeau is warmer, but he still hasn't made it to Canada during his presidency, despite White House officials saying for months he planned to head north following a gathering in Los Angeles last fall.
López Obrador skipped that gathering because Biden didn't invite the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. He's also made no secret of his admiration for Trump. And he was one of only three world leaders who didn't recognize Biden’s election victory until after the formal Electoral College vote and the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. But despite this, they each recognize the other's importance.
"They are both consummate politicians," Andrew Selee, head of the immigration think tank Migration Policy Institute in Washington, said of Biden and López Obrador. "They're looking for what the other person needs, and they're trying to make clear what they need. It's very transactional. There isn't a big vision for the relationship right now."
For Biden, that meant flying into the new airport, one of four keystone projects López Obrador is racing to finish before his term ends next year, as Mexico doesn't allow reelection. The other projects are an oil refinery, a tourist train in the Yucatan Peninsula and a train linking Gulf coast and Pacific seaports.
The airport was expected to cost $4.1 billion and was built after López Obrador canceled the partly constructed airport created by his predecessor. During construction of Felipe Angeles in 2020, hundreds of mammoth skeletons were uncovered.
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Associated Press writers Andres Leighton in El Paso, Texas; Anita Snow in Phoenix; Morgan Lee in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Josh Boak in Washington contributed to this report.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
7-2-7, Fireball: 9
(seven, two, seven; Fireball: nine)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
7-2-7, Fireball: 9
(seven, two, seven; Fireball: nine)
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Authorities in Belarus on Friday added 625 people with alleged ties to “extremists” to a list that prohibits them from holding public office and other activities, further ramping up pressure on the beleaguered opposition.
The eastern European country's Ministry of Internal Affairs released a sweeping update that increased the number of blacklisted individuals by a third, to a total of 1,469. The additions included opposition activists, businesspeople, journalists and others who participated in or covered antigovernment protests that rocked Belarus for several months in 2020.
The mass demonstrations followed a disputed presidential election which strongman Alexander Lukashenko claimed to have won with over 80% of the vote. The main opposition challenger, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, fled to Lithuania after the vote under official pressure, and the government unleashed a sweeping crackdown on protests, arresting more than 35,000 people.
The Viasna Human Rights Center, whose founder, Ales Bialiatski, was named a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize this month, described the expansion of the extremism watch list as part of a broader climate of repression amid Lukashenko’s support for Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“Arrests, searches, torture in detention centers continue in Belarus, pressure is put on political prisoners, and all those who disagree (with the government) are designated as extremists,” Viasna said in a statement.
“Repressions are ongoing in respects of citizens who actively voice their civic position regarding the war in Ukraine, launched by Russia,” it said.
Among those added to the interior ministry’s list of alleged extremists were members of the Pahonia regiment, an all-Belarusian military unit that aids the Ukrainian army in its fight against Russia’s aggression.
Listed individuals are barred from public office, teaching and publishing activities, and military service within Belarus, while anyone found to be disseminating “extremist” material faces a criminal charge punishable by a prison term of up to seven years.
Aksana Kolb, editor-in-chief of the independent weekly newspaper Novy Chas, was another individual branded “extremist” on Friday. The publication was blocked in Belarus and Kolb was jailed for several months over its protest coverage. She described Minsk's ongoing clampdown on its opponents as a sign of fear over “growing discontent in the country.”
“The authorities are trying to label anyone who expresses their position as an ‘extremist’ in order to shut their mouth and create a vacuum around that person,” Kolb, who left Belarus following her release from prison, told The Associated Press.
Minsk's “extremist” register includes individuals and organizations, as well as media outlets and websites. Social media accounts linked to Valery Tsepkalo, an opposition politician and former presidential candidate who now lives abroad, were added Friday.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina attorney at the center of a case that’s captured the nation’s attention, was sentenced Friday to life in prison. He was convicted of murdering his wife and their youngest son.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia's J.T. Realmuto became the first catcher to hit an inside-the-park home run in postseason history, circling the bases Saturday when his drive in Game 4 of the NL Division Series bounced off the angled wall and Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. failed to back up the play.
It was the 18th inside-the-park homer in postseason history and first by a Phillies player, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Boston’s Rafael Devers hit the previous one, for Boston in the 2017 ALDS against Houston.
Realmuto connected to lead off the third inning against Braves reliever Collin McHugh. The ball hit the angled portion of the wall at Citizens Bank Park beyond the reach of center fielder Michael Harris II, and the carom rolled along the warning track toward right-center.
Acuña stood in right watching the play, and didn't start running toward the ball until Realmuto was well past first base.
Realmuto, who runs extremely well for a catcher, made a headfirst slide into the plate, well ahead of the relay.
Realmuto, a three-time All-Star, had 22 home runs this season. He stole 21 bases and was caught just once.
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FILE - The First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, Jan. 6, 2021. The bank which was the subject of a fierce debate in the early years of the American republic, will be getting a $22.2 million renovation as part of a planned transformation into a museum focusing on the institution's role in the development of the U.S. economy. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
PHILADELPHIA — The landmark First Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, subject of a fierce debate in the early years of the American republic, will be getting a $22.2 million renovation as part of a planned transformation into a museum focusing on the institution's role in the development of the U.S. economy.
Closed to the public for decades but a popular site for photos because of its neoclassical facade featuring six giant columns supporting a triangular pediment, the building in Philadelphia's Old City was constructed between 1795 and 1797 and was the first structure designed specifically for the new federal government in what was then the nation's capital.
After years of calls for its restoration, the building will open as a museum in time for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.
"We tell the story of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Revolutionary War," executive director Thomas Caramanico of the Independence Historical Trust said Monday, pointing to nearby institutions while standing on the bank's steps, WHYY-TV reported. "But we don't tell the story of money."
Park officials say the newly formed United States had massive debt and dozens of local currencies as President George Washington took office in 1789. Alexander Hamilton, then secretary of the treasury, advocated a national bank to give the federal government more authority to handle the fiscal situation. Future president Thomas Jefferson, then secretary of state, argued that the U.S. Constitution didn't authorize creation of a national bank and urged a veto by Washington. But Hamilton prevailed and The Bank of the United States, now called the First Bank, was given a 20-year charter.
The bank didn't dictate federal policy but wielded great influence due to its size, and banknotes it issued were the closest thing to a national currency — and the only thing accepted to pay the federal taxes it was charged with collecting. The bank also worked to pay the national government's bills, including a lot of debt left over from the Revolutionary War. Congress decided not to renew the bank's charter when it expired in 1811, and five years later — after the War of 1812 — President James Madison signed a bill establishing the Second Bank of the United States.
The $22.2 million work beginning this month will include roof repairs, cleaning and repair of marble and brick masonry, and interior repair and renovations as well as construction of a new addition to serve as the main visitor entrance. The Independence Historical Trust, the park's philanthropic partner, has raised $4.5 million for essential architectural and construction documents and for the design, fabrication and installation of interactive and immersive exhibits. Officials said an additional $6.6 million will be sought to complete the project.
Exhibits in the planned First Bank museum "will describe Hamilton's vision of a national economy by exploring key aspects of the nation's commerce, workforce, natural resources, and financial systems," officials said. A public-private campaign is to pay for "video walls, state-of-the-art interactives, and immersive environments that will engage visitors in first-person narratives and illustrate the impact of the First Bank in transforming America's economy."
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Funding will increase use of Checkology® virtual classroom in schools nationwide to help students discern credible news and other information and defeat misinformation
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Melanie and Richard Lundquist, co-founders of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and two of California's most significant philanthropists, today announced a $10 million commitment to the News Literacy Project — the largest in the 14-year history of the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, which is the country's largest provider of news literacy education. During the 2021-22 school year alone, educators using NLP content, training and programs reached an estimated 2.4 million students.
The Lundquists' support will dramatically boost NLP's efforts to increase the reach of its resources and implement its ambitious new four-year strategic plan that seeks to mobilize news literacy practitioners — educators, students and the public — to better navigate today's fraught information landscape and push back against mis- and disinformation. The Lundquists are signatories to the Giving Pledge and have appeared four times on The Philanthropy 50, the annual list of America's 50 most generous philanthropists.
NLP provides a wide variety of programs and resources to aid educators in teaching news literacy and to help the public learn to sort fact from fiction. Its primary educational tool is the Checkology virtual classroom, which is a free online platform with 18 engaging, authoritative lessons that focus on such subjects as discerning news from other kinds of content, understanding bias, and identifying misinformation and conspiratorial thinking. Checkology is being used by middle and high school English, social studies, history, government, STEM and journalism teachers, as well as librarians in every state in the country. The platform helps students appreciate the role of the First Amendment and a free press, demystify how journalists do their work, and apply critical-thinking skills to evaluate and seek credible news and other information.
"From COVID to January 6 to climate change, the misinformation crisis facing our country is an urgent threat. Because of its proliferation, democracy is circling the drain," Melanie Lundquist said. "I spent considerable time researching which organizations had the best resources available to prepare our young people to protect themselves against the tsunami of false and harmful content they come across online daily. It was clear that the News Literacy Project has the best tools for educators to use to develop critical-thinking skills in students that will enable them to win this fight. That's why my husband and I are making this significant investment to enhance and expand NLP's vital work."
The Los Angeles Unified School District — the second largest school district in the U.S. — has entered into a memorandum of understanding with NLP that authorizes the use of Checkology for students in grades 6–12. NLP collaborates with numerous other school systems nationwide, including districts in New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Birmingham, Nashville and Indianapolis. The organization is also working at the state level in Colorado, Hawai'i and Iowa.
The gift from the Lundquists will significantly expand NLP's efforts in Los Angeles — and across the country — to educate students on using news literacy skills to identify credible sources and understand what information to trust and act on in the news they encounter each day. A portion of the gift will be used as a match to attract additional donors.
In a demonstration of Checkology in September with twelfth-grade government students at Theodore Roosevelt High School, which is part of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, Melanie Lundquist and LAUSD Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho saw firsthand how students use Checkology to understand the difference between fact, opinion and harmful misinformation. (Photos available here.) They were joined at the school by NLP founder Alan C. Miller and other members of the organization's leadership, including President and CEO Charles Salter; Ebonee Rice, senior vice president of educator engagement; and Shaelynn Farnsworth, senior director of education partnership strategy. Also in attendance was Joan Sullivan, chief executive officer of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.
"Anyone can post anything online, making it challenging for our students to know who or what to trust," Carvalho said. "It is vital our students have the ability to discuss and discern credible information in the classroom as the basis for their actions as citizens and voters."
"We live in the most complex information ecosystem in human history," added Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times who started NLP in 2008 and helped launch the field of news literacy. "News literacy is a survival skill in the 21st century. We've seen how it can transform young people's lives when they learn to question the information they encounter and become more mindful about what they share. This helps them elevate reason over emotion and gain a greater sense of civic engagement. We're now seeking to reach the public as well to create societal change around how people consume and share information much like we've seen with issues like smoking and drunken driving."
Expanding its mission to teach news literacy skills beyond the classroom, NLP recently launched RumorGuard®, its first learning platform for adults. RumorGuard empowers the public to recognize and resist mis- and disinformation by helping people learn how to identify credible information. The platform also encourages users to stop the spread of misinformation by sharing RumorGuard content and encouraging users to join its community of concerned people who want to keep facts at the center of public discourse.
Miller spearheaded the organization's efforts to raise nearly $50 million during his tenure, including a five-year, $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Despite launching during the Great Recession, NLP has steadily grown from just Miller to a staff of 43 today, spread across all regions of the U.S. The organization has seen its annual budget increase from $1.7 million in 2016 to more than $8 million currently.
Melanie Lundquist, who is vice chair of the Board of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools and a member of the University of Southern California President's Leadership Council, has joined NLP's board of directors. The board includes current and former nationally recognized print and broadcast journalists, former appointees from Republican and Democratic administrations, and educators. It is chaired by Greg McCaffery, former chairman of Bloomberg BNA (now known as Bloomberg Industry Group).
"The Lundquists' gift, along with Melanie's hands-on commitment to roll up her sleeves and help NLP, gives us a real leg up as we implement our new strategic plan and drive toward even greater philanthropic support," Salter said. "This support is critical to NLP's expanded impact in classrooms across America and our work to reach the broader public. We're proud to be taking the lead nationally to help people of all ages fight back against the deliberately inaccurate information they are confronted with daily. Reaching everyone is the only way we can create a more news-literate America to sustain democracy."
Melanie and Richard Lundquist have appeared four times on The Philanthropy 50, the annual list of America's 50 most generous philanthropists. The Lundquists are signatories of the Giving Pledge. Their gifts have helped transform non-charter K-12 public education and health care delivery, spur biomedical research and innovation and propel efforts to combat climate change. Melanie is a member of the University of Southern California President's Leadership Council, the Board of Councilors of the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education, the Board of Trustees of AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles and is Vice Chair of the Board at the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. Melanie was named "Philanthropist of the Year" in 2019 by the Los Angeles Business Journal for driving systemic change. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Southern California and a Doctor of Humane Letters from McPherson College.
The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A judge in Romania has granted a request to extend by another 30 days the arrest of Andrew Tate, the social media personality who was detained in the country on charges of being part of an organized crime group, human trafficking and rape, an official said Friday.
Tate, 36, a British-U.S. citizen who has 4.7 million followers on Twitter, was initially detained on Dec. 29, in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. His brother, Tristan, and two Romanian women were arrested and held in the same case.
Ramona Bolla, a spokesperson for Romania’s anti-organized crime agency, DIICOT, told The Associated Press that prosecutors requested the second 30-day extension Thursday to keep all four in detention while the investigation continued. A judge approved the request Friday, she said.
The judge’s decision at the Bucharest Tribunal came after all four lost an appeal last week in a Bucharest court against a judge’s Dec. 30 ruling to extend their arrests from 24 hours to 30 days.
The Tates are also likely to appeal Friday’s extension.
Ioan Gliga, a lawyer for the Tate brothers, said he considered the ruling Friday as “totally unjustified.”
“Only an hour ago, the session was closed and the file has 20 volumes,” he said, “I find it very hard to believe that someone has the physical capacity to study the file in such a short time, as only yesterday it reached the tribunal.”
A post on Andrew Tate’s Twitter account Thursday read: “I’m in detention as they ‘look’ for evidence. Evidence they will never find because we are not guilty. They have and will continue to ignore and throw away any and all testimony or hard evidence (that) we are innocent.”
“My case isn’t about the truth. This is about Politics,” the post continued.
Tate, a former professional kickboxer who has reportedly lived in Romania since 2017, was previously banned from various prominent social media platforms for expressing misogynistic views and hate speech.
Romanian authorities descended on a compound near Bucharest last week and towed away a fleet of luxury cars that included a blue Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari and a Porsche. They reported seizing assets worth an estimated $3.9 million.
Prosecutors have said that if they can prove the owners gained money through illicit activities such as human trafficking, the assets would be used to cover the expenses of the investigation and to compensate victims. Tate also unsuccessfully appealed the asset seizure.
After the Tates and the two women were arrested in December, DIICOT said in a statement that it had identified six victims in the human trafficking case who were subjected to “acts of physical violence and mental coercion” and were sexually exploited by the members of the alleged crime group.
The agency said victims were lured with pretenses of love, and later intimidated, kept under surveillance and subjected to other control tactics while being coerced into engaging in recorded pornographic acts.
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Launching nationwide this year, new vegan-certified cheese from Saputo Dairy USA partners with Laura Prepon
LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Often described in a negative way, plant-based cheese has received a bad reputation. Finally, there's an offering to change that narrative. Rolling out at retailers nationwide this year, Vitalite™ is a new brand of plant-based, vegan-certified, dairy-free cheese from Saputo Dairy USA that offers great taste, texture, visual appeal and melting performance.
"As demand for vegan cheese continues to grow, many consumers have been vocal about how difficult it has been to find a plant-based cheese that lives up to their expectations," said David Cherrie, Saputo Dairy USA vice president, marketing and innovation. "As a dairy company, we are experts at making cheese people love and crave. Where other plant-based cheeses fall short, we saw an opportunity to use our expertise in the cheese category to create a delicious plant-based alternative."
Vitalite™ plant-based cheeses are perfect ingredients to add melty goodness to any meal, no matter anyone's dietary preferences, says Laura Prepon, actress, director, cooking enthusiast, creator of the PrepOn Kitchen culinary line and Vitalite™ ambassador. Prepon is partnering with the Vitalite™ brand to showcase some of her favorite ways to incorporate plant-based cheese into family meals.
"I like to live a flexitarian lifestyle and it wouldn't be possible without the right ingredients. That's why Vitalite™ plant-based cheeses have become a staple in our home," said Prepon. "I've also recently found out that my children have sensitivities to dairy, so we use Vitalite™ plant-based cheese for basics like grilled cheese and quesadillas or sprinkled on tacos, as well as in more in-depth recipes like my black bean and quinoa burgers stuffed with cheddar-style cheese. All of our expectations of yummy, melty cheesy goodness are met!"
An ideal addition to favorite dishes, including pizza, pasta, tacos, salads, dips, sandwiches and more, Vitalite™ is available in six varieties:
- Plant-Based Mozzarella Style Slices
- Plant-Based Mozzarella Style Shreds
- Plant-Based Cheddar Style Slices
- Plant-Based Cheddar Style Shreds
- Plant-Based Grated Parmesan Style
- Plant-Based Creamy Original Spread
"People following a plant-based or flexitarian diet have limited options in the grocery store and many of those options lack appeal," said Chef Nikki Trzeciak, Saputo executive chef and senior manager of culinary and sensory. "The idea for Vitalite™ came out of trying to solve that. We want home cooks to feel liberated in the kitchen and inspired to create traditional foods they have an emotional connection to without compromise."
According to a 2022 Food Institute report, the global vegan cheese market is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of about 10% and reach a market value of about $7 billion by 2030. This demand is being fueled by the growing number of consumers following vegan, plant-based and flexitarian diets, increasing awareness about lactose intolerance, mounting climate-change and animal-welfare concerns, and the expanding middle class in developing nations.
Vitalite™ products are made without genetically modified ingredients and are vegan- and kosher-certified, gluten-free and except for the Creamy Original Spread, soy-free.
For more information, recipes and plant-based cooking inspiration, visit Vitalite.com or Instagram and Facebook @VitaliteUSA.
Saputo Dairy USA is part of Saputo Inc., one of the top 10 dairy processors in the world. Through the Dairy Division (USA), Saputo produces, markets and distributes a vast assortment of cheeses. Furthermore, the company converts, markets and sells a broad range of specialty cheeses and holds an important portfolio of import licenses for specialty cheeses manufactured abroad. Saputo Dairy USA also produces a variety of dairy and non-dairy extended shelf-life products. Additionally, Saputo produces, markets and distributes dairy ingredients in the USA and on the international market. Products are sold under a variety of the company's brand names, as well as under customer brand names.
Saputo Dairy USA is among the top mozzarella, string cheese and domestic blue and goat cheese producers and is one of the largest producers of extended shelf-life and cultured dairy products in this region.
© 2022 Saputo Cheese USA Inc. All rights reserved. Vitalite™ is the trademark of Dairy Crest Limited (trading as Saputo Dairy UK).
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Leading aerospace supplier and Hyundai Motor Group's Advanced Air Mobility company to collaborate on lightweight aerostructures and electrical wiring interconnection systems—laying foundation for scaled manufacturing
PARIS, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Supernal LLC (the Company) and GKN Aerospace announced today a partnership on the design and build of major aerostructures and Electrical Wiring Interconnection System (EWIS) for Supernal's electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle. The companies will also mature high-rate manufacturing technologies to produce these parts and assembly methods. This marks the second established aerospace manufacturer agreement Supernal has announced at the Paris Air Show, as the Company works to develop a novel high-rate manufacturing process that will enable the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) industry to meet expected demand in the coming decades.
GKN will work with Supernal to apply its broad portfolio of design capabilities and manufacturing technologies to the development of the Company's eVTOL vehicle. GKN will supply lightweight aerostructures and high-voltage, high-power electrical wiring systems for Supernal's full-scale technology demonstrator, which the Company will begin flying in 2024. The partnership aims to improve the business case—and process—for introducing advanced materials and rate-enabling assembly processes to the AAM industry. In working with GKN to mature these innovative processes from the outset, Supernal will develop volume ramp-up capabilities that enable the Company to rapidly scale production as aircraft order demand grows.
"Manufacturing is crucial to the success of Advanced Air Mobility and Supernal is pleased to partner with leading suppliers, such as GKN Aerospace, to industrialize existing processes," said Jaiwon Shin, president of Hyundai Motor Group and CEO of Supernal. "Instead of focusing on 'time to market,' Supernal is prioritizing 'time to scale.' Our work with GKN Aerospace will lay the foundation for producing eVTOL vehicles at scale and will be bolstered by Hyundai Motor Group's high-tech manufacturing processes."
As part of Hyundai Motor Group (HMG), Supernal is working to integrate the automotive leader's expertise—including supply chain management, logistics and distribution, and manufacturing—throughout the AAM ecosystem. In the manufacturing realm, HMG is helping Supernal to develop a scalable digital factory model that will industrialize aerospace material and assembly advancements. Supernal's work with leading aerospace manufacturers, such as GKN Aerospace, is an important first step toward the Company's ability to reduce the cost and time of aircraft production.
GKN Aerospace is a global leader in the design and manufacturing of lightweight aerostructures and EWIS, across global original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and the growing AAM market. Supernal and GKN Aerospace's design and manufacturing activities have begun at GKN Aerospace's Global Technology Centre in Bristol and across sites in Europe.
"We are excited to collaborate with Supernal and to support the development of this all-new eVTOL," said John Pritchard, president, civil airframes, GKN Aerospace. "Supernal's eVTOL can play a key role in the transition to zero-emissions flight, and we are delighted to be collaborating on the platform, in line with our mission to be the most trusted and sustainable partner in the sky. GKN Aerospace is proud to bring to this project its wealth of experience in design and high-rate manufacturing, in conjunction with key technological innovations and expertise."
Supernal's partnership with GKN Aerospace is part of the Company's "open ecosystem" approach to address the niche technology needs of AAM. The Company plans to grow its portfolio of manufacturing partners across other vehicle components and assemblies, in addition to airframe.
Supernal and GKN Aerospace held a signing ceremony for the partnership at the Paris Air Show today.
About Supernal
Supernal (Su·per·nal) is a U.S.-based mobility service provider on a mission to redefine how people move, connect, and live. We are developing an Advanced Air Mobility eVTOL vehicle and working to responsibly co-create the supporting ecosystem and integrate it into existing transit options. As part of Hyundai Motor Group, we are both a new business and an established company, with plans to harness our automotive manufacturing heritage to make Advanced Air Mobility accessible to the masses. Visit www.supernal.aero for more information and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
About GKN Aerospace
GKN Aerospace is the world's leading multi-technology tier 1 aerospace supplier, with a mission to be the most trusted and sustainable partner in the sky. As a global company serving the world's leading aircraft manufacturers, GKN Aerospace designs, manufactures and delivers an extensive range of advanced aerospace systems, components and technologies – for use in commercial and defence aircraft ranging from helicopters, business jets, passenger planes and advanced air mobility vehicles to the most advanced fighter aircraft. In line with its mission, GKN Aerospace is committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Lightweight composites, additive manufacturing, electrical wiring interconnection systems and innovative engine systems help to reduce emissions and weight on today's aircraft, while it collaborates with global partners to accelerate the development of zero-emission aircraft technologies, including hydrogen-powered propulsion and all-electric flight. GKN Aerospace is market leading in aerostructures and engine systems, with 15,000 employees across its 38 manufacturing locations in 12 countries.
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Supernal
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REGINA - Bogdans Hodass scored twice and the Medicine Hat Tigers "held" Connor Bedard to four points as they defeated the Regina Pats 6-4 in Western Hockey League action on Sunday at the Brandt Centre.
Tomas Mrsic, Brayden Boehm, Andrew Basha and Pavel Bocharov also scored for the Tigers (19-21-7-1), who trailed 3-1 after the first period and 4-2 heading into the third.
Connor Bedard scored three goals for the Pats (22-21-1-1), while Zane Rowan netted a single.
The Tigers outshot the Pats 39-25.
Elsewhere in the WHL:
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ICE 5 HITMEN 4 (OT)
CALGARY, Alta. — Owen Pederson's second goal of the game, at 2:42 of overtime, settled a superb game as the Winnipeg ICE edged the Calgary Hitmen 5-4.
Graham Sward, Easton Armstrong and Carson Latimer also scored for the ICE (35-6-1-0), who outshot the Hitmen 42-34.
Sean Tschigerl scored twice for the Hitmen (23-17-5-1), while Maxim Muranov and Oliver Tulk netted singles.
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HURRICANES 10 OIL KINGS 2
EDMONTON, Alta. — Hayden Smith scored three goals as the Lethbridge Hurricanes whipped the host Edmonton Oil Kings 10-2.
Tyson Zimmer scored twice for the Hurricanes (26-16-3-2), while Anton Astashevich, Nolan Bentham, Miguel Marques, Cole Shepard and Jett Jones scored singles.
Noah Boyko and Mason Finley scored for the Oil Kings (7-36-3-0).
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EVERETT, Wash. — Jalen Luypen scored the game-winner at 15:41 of the second period as the Tri-City Americans edged the Everett Silvertips 3-2.
Reese Belton and Ethan Ernst also scored for the Americans (23-16-4-1).
Ben Hemmerling and Jackson Berezowski scored for the Silvertips (23-22-1-0).
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WINTERHAWKS 4 CHIEFS 3 (OT)
PORTLAND, Ore. — Marek Alscher's goal at 3:09 of overtime lifted the Portland Winterhawks to a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the visiting Spokane Chiefs.
Chaz Lucius scored with 17 seconds left in the third period as the Winterhawks tied the Chiefs 3-3 and forced overtime.
James Stefan and Ryan McCleary also scored for the Winterhawks (34-8-2-1), who outshot the Chiefs 45-28.
Jaren Brinson, Cade Hayes and Berkly Catton scored for the Chiefs (9-32-2-2).
* This roundup was generated automatically with a CP-developed application.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 29, 2023.
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Trump lashes out after Justice Department no longer says presidency shields him from defamation suit
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump lashed out on social media against the U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday after it stopped supporting his claim that the presidency shields him from liability against a defamation lawsuit brought by a woman who says he sexually attacked her in the mid-1990s.
Trump said in a post on his social media platform that the department’s reversal a day earlier in the lawsuit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll was part of the “political Witch Hunt” he faces while campaigning for the presidency as a Republican.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Carroll, 79, sued Trump, 77, for defamation months after he vehemently denied her claims first made publicly in a 2019 memoir that a chance encounter between the pair at a Bergdorf Goodman store began with flirtations but ended in a violent encounter inside a dressing room in a desolate section of the store.
The progression of the lawsuit, filed in 2020, was delayed for three years as an appeals court considered claims by Trump and the Justice Department that he was protected from liability for remarks he made while president. When Joe Biden became president, the Justice Department did not change its position.
But the department said in a letter to a Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday that circumstances have changed since it made its original recommendation and it no longer believes Trump can claim that his comments about Carroll were carried out as part of his official duties as president.
It noted that a court in Washington, D.C., had recently further defined when a president is immune from civil lawsuits, and it cited a federal jury’s $5 million award to Carroll in May after finding that Trump had sexually abused and defamed her, though he didn’t rape her. It also considered that the lawsuit has been updated with remarks Trump made about Carroll’s claims after leaving the presidency.
In three posts Wednesday on Truth Social, Trump offered fresh support for claims he made about Carroll that led the jury to conclude he had defamed her.
“The statements that I made about Carroll are all true. I didn’t Rape her (I won that at trial) and other than for this case, I have NO IDEA WHO SHE IS, WHAT SHE LOOKS LIKE, OR ANYTHING ABOUT HER….,” he wrote.
The trial resulted from a lawsuit Carroll filed in November after New York state temporarily enabled adult victims of sexual attacks to sue their abusers for damages even if the abuse occurred decades earlier. Her defamation claim at the trial resulted from statements Trump made last October.
For several days, Carroll testified that Trump’s attack caused her to shut down her romantic life afterward, and his comments after her memoir was published shattered her reputation and led to a “staggering” onslaught of hateful and occasionally threatening messages toward her.
Trump did not appear at the two-week trial, though significant portions of an October videotaped deposition were shown to the jury.
In Wednesday’s social media posts, Trump called the trial “very unfair,” criticized the judge as hostile and biased, and said his lawyers “due to their respect for the Office of the President and the incredulity of the case, did not want me to testify, or even be at the trial…..”
He added: “WE ARE STRONGLY APPEALING THIS TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE!!!”
A day after the verdict, Trump repeated many of his earlier claims about Carroll during a CNN town hall, prompting Carroll to amend her original defamation lawsuit to include those remarks. She now seeks $10 million in compensatory damages and substantially more in punitive damages at a trial scheduled for January that may consist only of a damages phase.
Trump then countersued, saying Carroll defamed him with comments she made a day after the verdict.
The Associated Press typically does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly, as Carroll has done.
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I love my husband and my mother-in-law, and I’m stressed and happy that she’s coming to spend her last years with us. Any advice?
— Anonymous
Anonymous: What a generous thing you’re doing.
Your husband is acting out, so he needs generosity, too, though that can be harder to see. And he might need treatment for anxiety, because avoidance, passive-aggression and fight-picking are pretty classic manifestations. He may refuse treatment, but then inevitability (i.e., the move) takes over.
Maybe, if you have the presence of mind when he’s in the throes of acting out, say: “I know this is all freaking you out. Take your time.” And: “We can manage without the modifications for now. It’s okay to take a breather.”
And if needed: “Am I hearing correctly that you want to call this off?” Let him answer the direct question. If he says yes, then say: “Okay, let’s sit down to figure out Plan B.”
Because it isn’t just, “No, changed our minds, you can’t come!” It’s also about making other arrangements. You’re doing this for a reason, presumably: Your mother-in-law can no longer live independently, or it’s too stressful or expensive for her to try. As you talk it out, the reasons you all chose this option will announce themselves again. But it might help him to walk through the reasoning again.
If you can’t or won’t be his designated hand-holder, then call in an elder-care specialist (social worker) who can help you both navigate this often-overwhelming stuff.
Readers’ thoughts:
· Shooting from the hip here, but: My guess is the husband wants to be the kind of person who welcomes his mother into his home, but he doesn’t actually want her there. He does not want to say this out loud.
· Why is it the wife’s job to DO EVERYTHING? Elder care predominantly falls on women. Why? Why does Hax seem to think that’s reasonable?
My advice: Move out. Let your husband put on his big-boy pants. This is his job, not yours. If you were satisfied with taking on all duties, and your hubby’s shiftlessness, you wouldn’t have written in.
· I wonder whether the husband feels pressure from cultural expectations, where aging parents coming to live with their adult children is the norm and is often expected.
· Air this out with your husband. Figure out WHY he cannot face his mom, and have a frank talk with her. Now.
· I do wonder whether it’s anxiety about watching his mom die; it’s a sad, scary transition to be the one doing the “caring” for someone who cared for you, and it could bring the husband’s own mortality into sharper view. Either way, they need to figure out what is going on, and HE needs to tell Mom they need to make other plans.
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BIO CEO & Investor Conference, February 6-9 – Corporate presentation Tuesday, February 7, at 10:45 a.m. ET
SVB Securities Global Biopharma Conference, February 13-16 – Corporate presentation Tuesday, February 14, at 11:20 a.m. ET
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRVI), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing the investigational therapy Haduvio™ (oral nalbuphine ER for the treatment of chronic cough in adults with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other chronic cough indications, and for the treatment of prurigo nodularis, today announced senior leadership will attend and present at the following February investor conferences.
BIO CEO & Investor Conference (February 6-9, 2023)
Presentation Date/Time: Tuesday, February 7 at 10:45 a.m. ET
Corporate presentation: Farrell Simon, SVP, Head of Commercial and Strategy
Meeting participation: Lisa Delfini, CFO, and Farrell Simon, SVP, Head of Commercial and Strategy
Location: New York, NY and virtual
SVB Securities Global Biopharma Conference (February 13-16, 2023)
Presentation Date/Time: Tuesday, February 14 at 11:20 a.m. ET
Corporate presentation: Jennifer Good, President and CEO, and Lisa Delfini, CFO
Location: Virtual
A live webcast of the SVB Securities Global Biopharma Conference corporate presentation will be accessible from the 'Investors & News' section on the Company's website at www.TreviTherapeutics.com. An archived replay of the audio webcast will also be available on the Company's website following the event.
About Trevi Therapeutics, Inc.
Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing the investigational oral therapy Haduvio™ (nalbuphine ER) for the treatment of chronic cough in adults with IPF, other chronic cough indications, and for the treatment of prurigo nodularis. The Company reported statistically significant results from the Phase 2 CANAL trial of Haduvio for the treatment of chronic cough in adults with IPF. Based on this positive data, Trevi plans to focus future clinical development on chronic cough conditions, including IPF, refractory chronic cough, and interstitial lung diseases (ILDs).
For more information, visit www.TreviTherapeutics.com and follow the Company on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Investor Contact
Katie McManus
Trevi Therapeutics, Inc.
203-304-2499
k.mcmanus@trevitherapeutics.com
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Itineraries up to 58 days include immersive explorations of South Pacific islands and a circumnavigation of Australia
SEATTLE, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Holland America Line ships are set to explore the lush landscapes and natural wonders of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific in 2024-2025. From unspoiled islands to cosmopolitan cities, Westerdam will spend the season Down Under, while Koningsdam and Zaandam each offer a longer Legendary Voyage to the South Pacific and Hawaii.
In October 2024 Westerdam sails a westwardly South Pacific crossing, followed by the iconic Australia Circumnavigation. From December 2024 through March 2025, the ship offers a series of 14-day departures roundtrip from Sydney, Australia, or between Auckland, New Zealand, and Sydney. Zaandam's "Tales of the South Pacific" in September 2024 is from Vancouver, Canada, to San Diego, California, or roundtrip San Diego, while Koningsdam's "Hawaii, Tahiti and Marquesas" in February 2025 is roundtrip from San Diego.
"Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific are iconically beautiful locations, but they have so much more to offer which is why they remain high on the bucket list of travelers who are looking to see the world with the ease of a cruise," said Beth Bodensteiner, Holland America Line's chief commercial officer. "The Australia Circumnavigation itinerary is the most in-depth immersion a cruiser can have of the continent, and many of our Legendary Voyages make it possible to visit distant destinations from a North American homeport. These cruises are among some of the most notable we offer."
Legendary Voyages Linger Longer
Holland America Line's extended Legendary Voyages range from 25 to 59 days and combine the ceremony of a Grand Voyage with itineraries that feature a comprehensive collection of ports that enrich the experience in each destination. Most of Holland America Line's Legendary Voyages sail roundtrip or to/from a North American homeport, allowing travelers to see the world from their doorstep with a convenient domestic flight and easy embarkation.
Highlights of the Australia and New Zealand 2024-2025 Season
- LEGENDARY: The 35-day "Australia Circumnavigation" departing Nov. 17, 2024, sails Roundtrip from Sydney. Westerdam visits 16 ports around the continent of Australia and includes scenic cruising in the Great Barrier Reef, as well as the remote Ribbon Reef and Far North Regions. Guests enjoy overnight calls at Freemantle (Perth), Australia, and Hobart, Tasmania, along with a late-night departure from Adelaide. Beyond Australia, the ship will call at Komodo Island.
- From January through March 2025, Westerdam offers 14-day "Australia and New Zealand" cruises between Auckland and Sydney. The sailings include six ports around New Zealand and a call at Hobart. All itineraries include scenic cruising in Fiordland National Park, and select dates also include Milford Sound.
- A special 14-day "New Zealand Holiday" cruise departing Dec. 22, 2024, is roundtrip from Sydney. Guests spend the holidays exploring six ports around New Zealand, including an overnight call at Wellington. The holiday itinerary also features scenic cruising in Fiordland National Park and Milford Sound.
Highlights of the South Pacific 2024-2025 Season
- LEGENDARY: 51- or 56-day "Tales of the South Pacific" voyage aboard Zaandam. The 51-day itinerary is roundtrip from San Diego departing Sept. 30, 2024, while the 56-day cruise is from Vancouver to San Diego departing Sept. 25. The exploration takes a counterclockwise route around the South Pacific, with 20 calls in Hawaii, Kiribati, Samoa, Fiji, Tonga, Niue, Cook and Society Islands, Marquesas and Tahiti. Guests have extra time ashore with overnights at Honolulu, Hawaii, and Papeete, Tahiti, as well as late-night departures from Honolulu and Suva, Fiji.
- Westerdam's 23-day "South Pacific Crossing" departing Oct. 24, 2024, is from Seattle, Washington, to Sydney. The Pacific Ocean crossing includes seven ports in Hawaii, New Caledonia, Fiji and American Samoa.
- LEGENDARY: The 35-day "Hawaii, Tahiti and Marquesas" aboard Koningsdam departs Feb. 15, 2025, and is roundtrip from San Diego. The ship makes four calls in Hawaii and six additional island calls throughout the South Pacific. Overnights include Honolulu, Raiatea, Moorea and Papeete.
- LEGENDARY: Westerdam's 29-day "South Pacific Crossing" departing March 30, 2025, is from Sydney to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Guests discover 12 ports in Hawaii, American Samoa, Fiji and New Caledonia. The itinerary offers an overnight at Honolulu, plus late-night departures from Lahaina and Kona, Hawaii; Suva; and Nouméa, New Caledonia.
Book Back-to-Back Cruises with a Collectors' Voyage
Ranging from 43 to 58 days, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific Collectors' Voyages are perfect for avid explorers seeking a more extensive cruise experience. The voyages combine back-to-back, nonrepeating itineraries and represent the best per-day value for guests.
Have It All
For a limited time, when guests book select 2024-2025 Australia/New Zealand cruises with the Have It All premium package, the standard package amenities of shore excursions, specialty dining, a Signature Beverage Package and Surf Wi-Fi are included — plus the added perk of free prepaid Crew Appreciation, along with free upgrades to the Elite Beverage Package and Premium Wi-Fi. Terms and conditions apply. Visit hollandamerica.com for full details.
Beginning fares for 2025 Australia/New Zealand/South Pacific cruises range from $2,449 to $10,999 per person, double occupancy, depending on length. Taxes, fees and port expenses are additional.
For more information about Holland America Line, consult a travel advisor, call 1-877-SAIL HAL (877-724-5425) or visit hollandamerica.com.
Editors Note: Photos are available at https://www.cruiseimagelibrary.com/c/jebkog2x.
Find Holland America Line on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the Holland America Blog. You can also access all social media outlets via the home page at hollandamerica.com.
About Holland America Line
Holland America Line, part of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE/LSE:CCL and NYSE:CUK), has been exploring the world for 150 years with expertly crafted itineraries, extraordinary service and genuine connections to each destination. Offering an ideal mid-sized ship experience, its fleet visits nearly 400 ports in 114 countries around the world and has shared the thrill of Alaska for 75 years — longer than any other cruise line. Holland America Line's 11 vessels feature a diverse range of enriching activities and amenities focused on destination immersion and personalized travel. The best live music at sea fills each evening at Music Walk, and dining venues feature exclusive selections from a Culinary Council of world-famous chefs.
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In-person absentee voting will begin this Thursday, June 23, for next Tuesday’s Statewide Primary Election.
Early voting will be available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 23 and Friday, June 24, and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, June 25.
Voters can go to the Cleveland County Fairgrounds or the Moore Norman Technology Center’s South Penn Campus to vote early.
Absentee Voting Board personnel will be on duty each day to assist voters at the Cleveland County Fairgrounds — located at 615 E. Robinson St., Building E, Norman — and at the Moore Norman Technology Center South Penn Campus located at 13301 S. Penn Ave., Oklahoma City.
“Voters fill out an application form when they get to one of the early voting sites. They are not required to give any reason for voting early,” County Election Board Secretary Bryant Rains said. “They are required to swear that they have not voted a regular mail absentee ballot and they will not vote at their polling place on Election Day.”
Oklahoma law requires every voter who votes in person to show one proof of identity before receiving a ballot.
According to Rains, the Absentee Voting Board verifies a voter’s registration information. Then, the Board issues all the appropriate ballots to the voter. The voter marks the ballots in a voting booth and then casts them in the voting device.
For more information, contact the Cleveland County Election Board at 405-366-0210.
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GREECE WILDFIRES: A wildfire whipped up by strong winds triggered a series of massive explosions Thursday at an air force ammunition depot in central Greece, and F-16 fighter jets were being moved from a nearby air base as a precaution.
BOAT ACCIDENT: At least 21 people died and 40 others were rescued after a Philippine passenger boat overturned on Thursday when it was lashed by strong winds in Laguna Lake southeast of Manila, police said.
STOCKHOLM: Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday that police have received several permit applications for the burning of religious texts in the country next week, and that he fears this may escalate tensions with the Muslim world.
SECURITY PARTNERSHIP: Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the U.S. National Guard's security partnership program, the chief of the National Guard, Gen. Dan Hokanson, announced on Thursday.
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Satisfy your wanderlust or plan your next adventure with these 14 must-read books
As the weather starts hinting at springtime, the urge to get outside and enjoy some fresh air ramps up. Whether you crave a thousand-mile bike ride or simply a stroll through the park, reading the right book can help us appreciate our natural surroundings and inspire us to conserve them. We asked BestReviews book expert Ciera Pasturel for her favorite reads that inspire her to get outside. From memoirs to surreal fiction, these books will transform the way you view our planet and help you plan your next adventure.
In this article: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers, “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer and “The Nature Fix” by Florence Williams.
Environmental writing and eco-fiction
Genre writers face the difficult task of making their imaginary worlds feel believable, but the challenge applies just as strongly to authors writing about the real world. Whether the author wants to convey the majesty of Mount Everest in fiction or the environmental threat to Alaskan salmon in an exposé, the reader wants to feel as if they’re experiencing that place for themselves.
“Books set in nature are written to inspire and open our eyes to the wonders of the world,” Pasturel said. Nature writing, memoirs and eco-fiction often have a common goal: to use scientific data or observation to shape the reader’s perspective on nature in order to inspire involvement and action as well as appreciation.
“Stories with environmental themes provide readers with insight into the wonders of our world,” Pasturel said. “These books both inspire and remind us that our environment is a delicate system that requires protection and care.”
Best fiction books that will inspire you to get outside
“The Overstory” by Richard Powers
Pasturel recommends this 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction winner, which tells the intertwining stories of lives connected to trees, ranging from 19th century New York to the Pacific Northwest’s timber wars. Part work of activism, part love letter to nature, it invites readers to observe, understand and treasure the natural world.
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“This is an exhilarating novel that will keep readers on the edge of their seats,” Pasturel said. Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, it tells the surreal story of 16-year-old Pi, who survives a shipwreck and finds himself sharing a lifeboat with a fellow survivor: a Bengal tiger.
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“Once There Were Wolves” by Charlotte McConaghy
Part eco-fiction, part suspense, this thrilling novel follows twin sisters and scientists who are reintroducing gray wolves to the Scottish Highlands. Pasturel recommends this story for the way it explores both interpersonal relationships and encourages empathy for other people and for nature.
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“A Solitude of Wolverines” by Alice Henderson
Pasturel recommends this series starring Alex Carter, a wildlife biologist who’s dedicated to saving endangered species. Her attempts to study and protect wolverines in hostile Montana are imbued with an extra sense of realism, thanks to Henderson’s career as a wildlife researcher.
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Best nonfiction books celebrating the natural world
“Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Viewing the natural world through her lenses as a botanist and an Indigenous woman, Kimmerer shows how life on Earth is interconnected in this book Pasturel calls “not one to miss.” She invites readers to acknowledge the reciprocal relationship between humanity and nature before it’s too late.
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“Flight Paths” by Rebecca Heisman
This fascinating new book tells the story of how our understanding of bird migration has evolved, from Aristotle’s theories to contemporary radar. It’ll make you want to join the scores of citizen scientists and bird watchers who help study and conserve our bird populations.
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“The Nature Fix” by Florence Williams
Why does being out in nature make us feel better? Williams explores the science behind how nature affects the brain and why it’s vital to have (and use) green spaces in our day-to-day lives.
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“Guidebook to Relative Strangers” by Camille T. Dungy
Traveling cross-country isn’t easy. Traveling as a Black mother with a young daughter is even harder. This collection of essays captures Dungy’s experiences as her work took her through the Adirondacks, Maine, Virginia and beyond.
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Worth checking out
- If you’re looking for inspiration for your next family camping trip, try “Braving It” by James Campbell.
- “A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson humorously recounts the author’s mishaps while hiking the Appalachian Trail.
- In “Kings of the Yukon” by Adam Weymouth, the author’s journey down the Yukon River illuminates the threatened ties between salmon and Indigenous people.
- “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed inspired a generation of women to discover what they were capable of on the Pacific Crest Trail.
- If you know Blair Braverman’s sled dogs from social media, you’ll enjoy her account of how she got started adventure guiding in “Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube.”
- “On Trails” by Robert Moor explores the origins and meaning of the paths we take, from trails to freeways.
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Third Quarter 2022 Highlights:
- Global EGM Sales Eclipsed 1,000 Units for the First Time Since Q4 2019
- Domestic EGM Recurring Revenue Topped $45 Million; Up 4% Y/Y and 8% Ahead of Q3 2019
- Domestic Premium EGM Footprint Increased 18% Sequentially; Eleventh Consecutive Quarterly Increase
- Domestic EGM RPD Exceeded $30 for the Sixth Consecutive Quarter
- Domestic EGM Installed Base Expanded for the Second Straight Quarter; Up by over 300 Units YTD
- Table Products Adjusted EBITDA Reached a Record $2.6 Million
- On Pace to Achieve Year-End 2022 Net Leverage Target of less than 4.0x
LAS VEGAS, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PlayAGS, Inc. (NYSE: AGS) ("AGS", "us", "we" or the "Company"), a designer and developer of equipment and services solutions for the global gaming industry, today reported operating results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022.
Commenting upon the Company's third quarter performance, AGS President and Chief Executive Officer David Lopez said, "Our third quarter financial results further reflect the people, product and process-driven operating momentum building within our business. Given the encouraging initial customer response to the broader and more diverse new product lineup we recently unveiled at the Global Gaming Expo ("G2E"), I am even more excited about what lies ahead for our Company and its key stakeholders."
Kimo Akiona, AGS Chief Financial Officer added, "I am extremely pleased with the balance sheet deleveraging progress we have made year-to-date, as we ended the third quarter with net leverage at 4.0 times. Supported by the stable operating trends we continue to observe within the business, I remain confident in our ability to deliver on our year-end net leverage target of less than 4.0 times and look forward to further reducing leverage in the years ahead."
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
- Total revenue increased approximately 16% year-over-year to $78.3 million. Table Products revenue advanced 30% versus the prior year, reflecting outsized growth within our progressive installed base, growing demand for our PAX S single-deck card shuffler, further adoption of our AGS Arsenal site license offering, and the Q1 2022 Lucky Lucky side bet acquisition. EGM revenue increased by more than 15% year-over-year, paced by EGM sales revenue growth of over 50%. Global EGM sales topped 1,000 units for the first time since Q4 2019, reflecting successful execution of our strategy to broaden our global customer account penetration, continued recovery in North American replacement unit demand and complementary EGM sales into international markets. Interactive revenue grew to $2.6 million in Q3 2022 as we continue to benefit from outsized growth within our Real Money Gaming ("RMG") business. Total revenue improved approximately 2% over the $76.6 million delivered in Q2 2022, representing our seventh consecutive quarter of sequential total revenue growth.
- Gaming operations, or recurring revenue, increased 6% year-over-year to $56.6 million. Domestic EGM recurring revenue improved by 4% versus the prior year, topping $45 million for the second consecutive quarter. Our growing premium game mix, improved core content execution, further implementation of optimization initiatives, and a stable domestic gaming macroeconomic backdrop boosted our Q3 2022 Domestic EGM recurring revenue performance. International EGM recurring revenue advanced 16% year-over-year, paced by the consistent macroeconomic recovery underway throughout Mexico. To that end, International EGM recurring revenue has now increased sequentially for nine consecutive quarters. Table Products recurring revenue increased by more than 25% year-over-year to a record $3.8 million, supported by growth across all product verticals. Table Products revenue has also increased sequentially for nine consecutive quarters. In aggregate, recurring revenue accounted for over 70% of our consolidated Q3 2022 revenue mix.
- We generated $476 thousand of net income in Q3 2022 compared to a net loss of $1.8 million in the prior year period. The year-over-year increase in our reported net income was predominantly driven by our strong year-over-year revenue growth, which contributed to Q3 2022 operating income of $9.0 million compared to $7.0 million in Q3 2021. Q3 2022 marked the second consecutive quarter in which we were able to generate positive net income.
- Total Adjusted EBITDA (non-GAAP)(1) increased 8% year-over-year to $34.5 million compared to $31.9 million in Q3 2021. Year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA growth within the Table Products and EGM segments of approximately 57% and 6%, respectively, was partially offset by a decline within the Interactive segment, as we continued to incur modest incremental expense in order to accelerate the flow of new AGS game content into the North American RMG channel over the coming quarters. Adjusted EBITDA increased modestly on a quarterly sequential basis relative to the $34.1 million delivered in Q2 2022.
- Total Adjusted EBITDA margin (non-GAAP)(1) was 44.0% compared to 47.4% in Q3 2021. The year-over-year change in our Adjusted EBITDA margin was predominantly driven by a greater mix of EGM unit sales revenue, which carries a lower gross margin as compared to EGM gaming operations revenue, further post-COVID normalization in our discretionary business operating expenses and market-level inflationary cost fluctuations. Total Adjusted EBITDA margin compressed modestly versus the 44.6% achieved in Q2 2022, largely a function of unfavorable changes in revenue and product mix.
EGM Quarterly Results
Domestic Gaming Operations
- Domestic EGM gaming operations, or recurring revenue, increased approximately 4% year-over-year to $45.9 million, accounting for approximately 70% of our total Q3 2022 domestic EGM revenue. Continued growth within our domestic EGM installed base, supported by an over 70% year-over-year increase in the number of premium EGM units installed, further installed base optimization and a stable gaming macroeconomic backdrop drove our improved quarterly recurring revenue performance versus the prior year. Domestic EGM recurring revenue topped $45 million for the second consecutive quarter and exceeded Q3 2019 levels by approximately 8%.
- Our domestic EGM installed base expanded to 16,258 units at the end of Q3 2022, representing an increase of 491 units year-over-year and 231 units versus the prior sequential quarter. Our domestic EGM installed base has increased for two consecutive quarters and has expanded by 319 units year-to-date. Installed base growth in the year-over-year, year-to-date and quarterly sequential periods was paced by outsized growth within our premium EGM footprint, as we continue to leverage our strong game performance, diverse array of cabinet configurations, enhanced complement of game mechanics, and deep portfolio of premium game content to further penetrate the premium EGM segment. Additionally, our decision to strategically expand our Class II EGM installed base within the state of Texas following the favorable Supreme Court ruling in June further supported our domestic EGM installed base growth in Q3 2022.
- Our premium EGM installed base increased by over 70% year-over-year, accounting for 14% of our domestic EGM installed base at the end of Q3 2022 compared to 9% and 12% at the end of Q3 2021 and Q2 2022, respectively. Our premium EGM installed base increased by approximately 18% on a quarterly sequential basis, exceeding the 15% sequential growth rate achieved in Q2 2022 and marking our eleventh consecutive quarter of premium unit growth. Our premium games continue to deliver superior RPD performance, as compared to the domestic average, strengthening the per unit earnings power of our domestic EGM installed base and enhancing the returns we are able to achieve on our machine-related growth capital investments.
- Domestic EGM RPD increased modestly year-over-year to $31.13, exceeding $30 for the sixth consecutive quarter. Outsized premium unit growth, continued improvement in our core content execution, further fleet optimization, and a stable gaming macroeconomic environment paced our improved Q3 2022 domestic EGM RPD performance.
International Gaming Operations
- International EGM gaming operations, or recurring revenue, totaled $4.3 million compared to $3.7 million in Q3 2021 and improved approximately 1% over Q2 2022 levels, marking the ninth consecutive quarterly sequential increase.
- Our international EGM installed base totaled 6,274 units at September 30, 2022, representing a quarterly sequential decrease of 495 units. During Q3 2022, we elected to remove the approximately 7% of units previously classified as inactive from our reported international EGM installed base as we did not see a high degree of probability the units would return to operation. Beginning with Q3 2022, and in all subsequent quarters, we will no longer designate units as active and inactive, rather it should be assumed all of the reported units are active.
- International EGM RPD was $7.34, representing a quarterly sequential increase of approximately 10% relative to the $6.69 achieved in Q2 2022. A generally stable macroeconomic backdrop in Mexico and the removal of over 470 units previously classified as inactive from our reported international EGM installed base paced the sequential improvement in international EGM RPD performance.
EGM Equipment Sales
- We sold 1,014 EGM units in Q3 2022, representing an increase of over 50% compared to the 663 units sold in Q3 2021 and our highest level achieved since Q4 2019. The increased depth and breadth of our core game content catalog, the strategic broadening of our customer account penetration, continued success in capturing an outsized share of Historical Horse Racing ("HHR") sales opportunities, a steady recovery in core North American replacement unit demand, and additional complementary international sales combined to drive our improved EGM unit sales performance versus the prior year. EGM unit sales increased approximately 9% relative to the 934 units sold in Q2 2022.
- Average sales price ("ASP") was $19,146 versus $18,970 in Q3 2021, topping $19,000 for the fourth consecutive quarter. Our ASP performance reflects a greater mix of premium-priced Orion Curve cabinets and continued successful implementation of our price integrity initiatives.
- We sold units into 26 U.S. states, four Canadian provinces throughout Q3 2022, as we continue to successfully implement strategic initiatives intended to broaden our customer account penetration, particularly with larger corporate buyers.
Product Highlights
- During Q3 2022, we began to trial our newest gaming cabinet, the Spectra UR43. As a testament to the product's strong initial performance, Spectra recently received top honors in the "New Portrait Upright" category of the October 2022 Eilers-Fantini Cabinet Performance Report with a reported index of over 2.5x house average. Spectra is currently trialing across a variety of different end markets, with its two launch titles, Long Bao Bao and Shamrock Fortunes, consistently delivering performance well above house and zone average. Spectra will soft launch in Q4 2022, with a full-scale commercial launch planned for Q1 2023. We currently have over 30 titles under development to support Spectra during its first year of commercialization.
- Our first two high-denomination game themes, Mega Diamond and Gold Inferno, recently went live, with the initial installs delivering strong game performance both inside and outside of the high-limit room. High-limit games' structurally superior win per day dynamics should boost our domestic EGM fleet optimization initiatives as we are able to build a critical mass of high-denomination games within our domestic EGM installed base. Additionally, the expansion of our content offering into the high-denomination vertical creates unique product bundling opportunities, which should drive incremental domestic EGM unit sales volume.
- Our Orion Curve Premium installed base increased by over 40% on a quarterly sequential basis, as the product continues to establish critical mass across both Class II and Class III jurisdictions. The continued strong performance of our Rakin Bacon Deluxe launch title, our robust Curve Premium game theme pipeline, consisting of over 25 titles, and the expanded breadth of our product configuration and merchandising offerings should allow us to further broaden our penetration of the higher-yielding premium game segment.
Table Products Quarterly Results
- Gaming operations, or recurring revenue, increased approximately 7% sequentially to a record $3.8 million. Recurring revenue has increased sequentially for nine consecutive quarters, supported by growing customer demand for our industry-leading progressive products, greater customer adoption of our all-inclusive site license offering, the AGS Arsenal, and further penetration of the single-deck specialty game card shuffler market with PAX S. Recurring revenue grew by over 25% relative to the $3.0 million achieved in Q3 2021.
- Equipment sales revenue was approximately $280 thousand, representing the second highest level ever achieved within the segment. Sales revenue benefitted from initial PAX S customer purchases and sales of other items within our suite of table utility products.
- Our installed base expanded by approximately 180 units on a quarterly sequential basis to a record 4,969 units(4), led by a nearly 70-unit increase in our progressive installed base. Our installed base increased by 1,186 units year-over-year, supported by growth in all Table Product categories, including progressives, side bets, premium games, and shufflers, and the addition of units acquired in conjunction with the Q1 2022 Lucky Lucky side bet acquisition.
- Our average monthly lease price ("ALP") decreased approximately 7% year-over-year to $243, with the decline predominantly driven by a higher mix of lower-yielding side bet units resulting from the Lucky Lucky acquisition and an increase in trial units in connection with our PAX S rollout.
- We ended Q3 2022 with 1,800 progressive units installed, representing a year-over-year increase of approximately 25%. Our progressive installed base increased by approximately 4% sequentially, paced by the addition of over 50 units in conjunction with a single new casino opening. Our Bonus Spin Xtreme ("BSX") progressive installed base expanded by over 40% sequentially and has increased more than fourfold year-to-date, as casino operators continue to leverage the product to activate progressives on latent roulette, craps and specialty game tables, and further optimize their overall table revenue performance.
- More than 80 PAX S specialty game card shufflers were live in 26 unique casinos across twelve different jurisdictions as of September 30, 2022. We expanded our PAX S footprint by over 50 units in Q3 2022. Supported by the receipt of additional jurisdictional regulatory approvals, the product's successful launch-to-date and the constructive customer feedback we continue to receive, we expect PAX S demand to accelerate in the coming quarters.
- We were live with 23 AGS Arsenal site licenses at the end of Q3 2022 compared to 13 in the prior year period. The Arsenal's compelling value proposition and our organizational commitment to investing in Table Product innovation continue to drive incremental interest in our site license offering.
- Table Products Adjusted EBITDA increased 57% year-over-year to a record $2.6 million. Outsized growth in both equipment sales and recurring revenue, coupled with an unwavering focus on segment-level cost discipline, produced strong flow through in the quarter. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 63.5% compared to 52.4% in Q3 2021, with the increase largely attributable to the operating leverage achieved within the business.
Interactive Quarterly Results
- Interactive revenue increased modestly year-over-year to $2.6 million. Our real-money gaming business accounted for 85% of Q3 2022 segment-level revenue compared to 78% in Q3 2021.
- RMG revenue increased approximately 10% year-over-year, supported by the strong performance of player-favorite AGS game themes in the North American RMG channel, the distribution of AGS content into new North American jurisdictions, and the broadening of our B2C operator partner relationships. North American-sourced RMG revenues accounted for approximately 88% of our Q3 2022 total RMG revenue mix compared to 70% in Q3 2021. RMG revenue increased approximately 6% sequentially, driven by the activation of additional B2C operator partners and the introduction of new AGS game content into the RMG channel.
- Interactive Adjusted EBITDA was $575 thousand, marking the segment's eleventh consecutive quarter of positive Adjusted EBITDA performance. Interactive Adjusted EBITDA declined modestly year-over-year, as we incurred incremental expense to accelerate the flow of new AGS content into the North American RMG channel. We expect these incremental investments, along with recent strategic game development talent acquisition, to supplement the rate of growth we are able to achieve within our Interactive business in the coming quarters.
- Our land-based slot content continues to resonate in the North American RMG channel, as reflected by our top-five supplier slot indexing ranking in the October 2022 Eilers-Fantini Online Game Performance Report. Notably, our Capital Gains and Golden Wins Deluxe game themes achieved top-25 rankings within the report's "Overall" and "New" performance categories, respectively. Our online game content catalog, consisting of over 30 proven AGS land-based titles, is live in the majority of the most prominent regulated North American online jurisdictions, including PA, MI, NJ, Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta, and we continue to prepare for scheduled upcoming launches into additional jurisdictions, including British Columbia, CT and WV.
Liquidity and Capital Expenditures
As of September 30, 2022, the Company had an available cash balance of $33.4 million and $40.0 million of availability under its undrawn revolving credit facility, resulting in total available liquidity of $73.4 million.
The total principal amount of debt outstanding, as of September 30, 2022, was $572.8 million compared to $615.7 million at December 31, 2021. Total net debt, which is the principal amount of debt outstanding less cash and cash equivalents, was approximately $539.4 million as of September 30, 2022, conveying a total net debt leverage ratio of 4.0 times compared to 4.2 times as of December 31, 2021(5).
Third quarter 2022 capital expenditures totaled $19.7 million, bringing year-to-date capital expenditures through September 30, 2022 to $49.9 million. Gaming equipment-related investments into our EGM and Table Product installed bases accounted for approximately 60% of capital expenditures incurred year-to-date. Driven by unwavering demand for our high-performing and growing portfolio of premium EGM products and growing customer interest in our recently-unveiled Spectra UR43 gaming cabinet in response to strong initial game performance, we expect to incur full-year capital expenditures near the upper end of our previously articulated $62 to $67 million range.
2022 Net Leverage Target
Supported by our solid operational and financial execution year-to-date, the accelerating new product momentum developing across multiple segments of our business and the consistency we continue to observe within our core day-to-day operations, we remain on pace to deliver upon our year-end 2022 net leverage target of less than 4.0 times.
Conference Call and Webcast
AGS leadership will host a conference call to review the Company's third quarter 2022 results on November 8, 2022, at 5 p.m. ET. Participants may access a live webcast of the conference call, along with a slide presentation reviewing the quarterly results, at the Company's Investor Relations website http://investors.playags.com. A replay of the webcast will be available on the website following the live event. U.S. and Canadian participants may access the call live by telephone by calling +1 (833) 927-1758, while international participants should call +1 (929) 526-1599. The conference call access code is 151571.
Company Overview
AGS is a global company focused on creating a diverse mix of entertaining gaming experiences for every kind of player. Our roots are firmly planted in the Class II tribal gaming market, but our customer-centric culture and remarkable growth have helped us branch out to become one of the most all-inclusive commercial gaming equipment suppliers in the world. Powered by high-performing Class II and Class III slot products, an expansive table products portfolio, highly rated social casino, real-money gaming solutions for players and operators, and best-in-class service, we offer an unmatched value proposition for our casino partners. Learn more at playags.com.
AGS Investor & Media Contacts:
Brad Boyer, Senior Vice President Corporate Operations and Investor Relations
investors@playags.com
Julia Boguslawski, Chief Marketing Officer
jboguslawski@playags.com
©2022 PlayAGS, Inc. Products referenced herein are sold by AGS LLC or other subsidiaries of PlayAGS, Inc. Solely for convenience, marks, trademarks and trade names referred to in this press release appear without the ® and TM and SM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that PlayAGS, Inc. will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, its rights or the rights of the applicable licensor to these marks, trademarks and trade names.
Forward-Looking Statement
This release contains, and oral statements made from time to time by our representatives may contain, forward-looking statements based on management's current expectations and projections, which are intended to qualify for the safe harbor of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the proposed public offering and other statements identified by words such as "believe," "will," "may," "might," "likely," "expect," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "seeks," "estimates," "believes," "continues," "projects" and similar references to future periods, or by the inclusion of forecasts or projections. All forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and projections of future events.
These forward-looking statements reflect the current views, models, and assumptions of AGS, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that cannot be predicted or qualified and could cause actual results in AGS's performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of AGS to maintain strategic alliances, unit placements or installations, grow revenue, garner new market share, secure new licenses in new jurisdictions, successfully develop or place proprietary product, comply with regulations, have its games approved by relevant jurisdictions, the effects of COVID-19 on the Company's business and results of operations and other factors set forth under Item 1. "Business," Item 1A. "Risk Factors" in AGS's Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements made herein are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements and there can be no assurance that the actual results, events or developments referenced herein will occur or be realized. Readers are cautioned that all forward-looking statements speak only to the facts and circumstances present as of the date of this press release. AGS expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To provide investors with additional information in connection with our results as determined by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP"), we disclose the following non-GAAP financial measures: total Adjusted EBITDA, total Adjusted EBITDA margin, total net debt leverage ratio, and Free Cash Flow. These measures are not financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered as a substitute for net income (loss), income from operations, cash flows, or any other measure calculated in accordance with GAAP, and may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Total Adjusted EBITDA
This press release and accompanying schedules provide certain information regarding Adjusted EBITDA, which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We believe that the presentation of total Adjusted EBITDA is appropriate to provide additional information to investors about certain material non-cash items that we do not expect to continue at the same level in the future, as well as other items we do not consider indicative of our ongoing operating performance. Further, we believe total Adjusted EBITDA provides a meaningful measure of operating profitability because we use it for evaluating our business performance, making budgeting decisions, and comparing our performance against that of other peer companies using similar measures. It also provides management and investors with additional information to estimate our value.
Total Adjusted EBITDA is not a presentation made in accordance with GAAP. Our use of the term total Adjusted EBITDA may vary from others in our industry. Total Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as an alternative to operating income or net income. Total Adjusted EBITDA has important limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for the analysis of our results as reported under GAAP.
Our definition of total Adjusted EBITDA allows us to add back certain non-cash charges that are deducted in calculating net income and to deduct certain gains that are included in calculating net income. However, these expenses and gains vary greatly, and are difficult to predict. They can represent the effect of long-term strategies as opposed to short-term results. In addition, in the case of charges or expenses, these items can represent the reduction of cash that could be used for other corporate purposes. Due to these limitations, we rely primarily on our GAAP results, such as net income (loss), income from operations, EGM Adjusted EBITDA, Table Products Adjusted EBITDA or Interactive Adjusted EBITDA and use Total Adjusted EBITDA only supplementally.
The total Adjusted EBITDA discussion above is also applicable to its margin measure, which is calculated as total Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of total revenues.
The following table presents a reconciliation of total Adjusted EBITDA to net loss, which is the most comparable GAAP measure:
Free Cash Flow
This schedule provides certain information regarding Free Cash Flow, which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure under the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
We define Free Cash Flow as net cash provided by operating activities less cash outlays related to capital expenditures. We define capital expenditures to include purchase of intangible assets, software development and other expenditures, and purchases of property and equipment. In arriving at Free Cash Flow, we subtract cash outlays related to capital expenditures from net cash provided by operating activities because they represent long-term investments that are required for normal business activities. As a result, subject to the limitations described below, Free Cash Flow is a useful measure of our cash available to repay debt and/or make other investments.
Free Cash Flow adjusts for cash items that are ultimately within management's discretion to direct, and therefore, may imply that there is less or more cash that is available than the most comparable GAAP measure. Free Cash Flow is not intended to represent residual cash flow for discretionary expenditures since debt repayment requirements and other non-discretionary expenditures are not deducted. These limitations are best addressed by using Free Cash Flow in combination with the GAAP cash flow numbers.
The following table presents a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow:
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PLANTATION, Fla., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- T-REX Acquisition Corp. ("Company") has successfully met several operational milestones since the Company's last press release on March 14, 2022. Our virtual asset mining program, through our wholly-owned subsidiary Raptor Mining LLC, has successfully mined Bitcoin at a co-location facility in Tampa, Florida.
In March 2022, the Company closed an initial Private-Investment-in-a-Public-Entity ("PIPE") offering where the Company sold units at $0.75 per unit with each unit consisting of one common share and one warrant exercisable at $1.50.
In April 2022, the Company's shareholders voted to increase the Company's authorized shares from 150 million to 350 million and added 20 million blank check preferred shares. Additionally, the shareholders nominated three persons to the Board of Directors. Frank Horkey and Michael Christiansen who both accepted Board positions and a third nominee who withdrew his name citing personal reasons.
On July 1, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors re-appointed Frank Horkey as our President and added Michael Christiansen as our Secretary/Treasurer. Both shall serve in their respective capacities for the 2023 fiscal year.
On August 31, 2022, T-REX Acquisition filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") which became effective on September 8, 2022. Readers can view the Company's final prospectus here.
President, Frank Horkey remarked "Over the past six-months, not only has T-REX Acquisition Corp.'s pilot program in the crypto currency mining space proven successful, but we have also taken great measures to reinforce our corporate foundation and set the stage for our next surge of growth. We are prepared to really ramp up our core business of mining crypto currencies and are uniquely positioned to expand into new verticals.
This communication contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In this context, forward-looking statements often address expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and often contain words such as "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "see," "will," "would," "target," and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words. These forward-looking statements, which reflect management's expectations regarding future events and operating performance and speak only as of the date of this press release. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which could cause actual results and events to differ materially from such statements. Factors can be found in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There can be no assurance that management's expectations, beliefs, events, or projections will result or be achieved or accomplished. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise such forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may otherwise be required by law.
This announcement does not constitute an offer of securities for sale or a solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in any jurisdiction nor shall it (or any part of it) or the fact of its distribution, form the basis of, or be relied on in connection with, any contract therefor.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincinnati Bengals went into Buffalo feeling disrespected and played their most complete game of the season.
With tickets on sale last week for a potential neutral-site Buffalo-Kansas City AFC championship game, the Bengals came into a snowstorm and dominated the second-seeded Bills.
Cincinnati’s 27-10 win — its 10th in a row — sets up a rematch with Patrick Mahomes and the top-seeded Chiefs in the AFC championship game on Sunday.
The Bengals are peaking in the playoffs again, and nobody is more confident than quarterback Joe Burrow, who said this team is better this last year’s.
That squad won 27-24 in overtime at Kansas City to advance to the Super Bowl, where it lost 23-20 to the Los Angeles Rams.
“We’re a more complete team and a better team,” Burrow said. “We just seem to make plays when it counts.”
With three backups playing on the offensive line against Buffalo, it was hard to predict how efficiently the Bengals’ offense could operate.
It couldn’t have gone much better.
Burrow completed 23 of 36 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns.
He had zero turnovers and was sacked just once. He completed passes to eight different receivers.
“Unbelievable,” running back Joe Mixon said. “To come through in the snow and deliver dots the way he was doing it, that’s crazy. I’m going to be honest, that’s crazy. I’ve never seen anything like it, to be real.”
Mixon had a big game, too — a welcome development considering the Bengals’ running game had stalled in recent weeks.
He rushed for 105 yards, averaging 5.3 per carry, and a touchdown.
It was Mixon’s first 100-yard game since Nov. 6 and only his second this season.
WHAT’S WORKING
Just about everything on Sunday.
Cincinnati was balanced on offense, picking up 30 first downs, converting 6 of 10 third downs and finishing with 412 total yards — including 172 on the ground, its most since Nov. 6.
The defense limited Buffalo to 63 rushing yards and kept constant pressure on quarterback Josh Allen, who was hit eight times and sacked once.
The Bills’ top receiver, Stefon Diggs, finished with four catches for 35 yards.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
As far as the Bengals are concerned, the NFL’s decision-making process could use some work.
The league began selling tickets for a possible game in Atlanta that was dependent upon the Bills and Chiefs winning last weekend.
The NFL had decided on the first-of-its-kind, neutral-site conference championship because the Bills (13-3) finished the season a half-game behind the Chiefs (14-3) after their game at Cincinnati was canceled on Jan. 2 when Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field.
The Bengals felt disrespected by that plan and were determined to ruin it.
“They keep talking us down, and we’ll keep showing up,” receiver Ja’Marr Chase said.
STOCK UP
Jackson Carman had not played tackle for the Bengals since he was drafted in 2021.
Carman was pushed into service at left tackle after Jonah Williams dislocated a kneecap in the wild card-round playoff win over Baltimore.
Backups Hakeem Adeniji and Max Scharping were already starting on the right side because of injuries.
The O-line has hardly looked better than it did on Sunday, when it dominated Buffalo’s defensive front on a snowy field.
STOCK DOWN
WR Tyler Boyd had just one catch for 23 yards.
INJURIES
C Ted Karras suffered a knee injury during Sunday’s game but played through it. He said he’ll be OK for the AFC championship game. … Williams and G Alex Cappa (ankle) were considered week to week.
KEY NUMBER
5 — Number of career postseason wins for Burrow, the most for any Bengals quarterback.
NEXT STEPS
Beat Mahomes and the Chiefs on Sunday for the fourth time in the span of about 13 months to earn a second consecutive trip to the Super Bowl.
Mahomes suffered a high ankle sprain on Sunday that could limit his mobility.
“I hope that (Mahomes) is healthy,” Cincinnati safety Jessie Bates III said. “I hope that he is 100 percent healthy so there is no excuses. We’ll be ready.”
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The California Senate voted 34-1 Thursday in favor of legislation outlawing caste discrimination in the state. If it passes in the state Assembly and is enacted, California could become the first state in the nation to make caste bias illegal by adding it as a protected category in the state's anti-discrimination laws.
State Sen. Aisha Wahab, D-Hayward, the first Muslim and Afghan American elected to the legislature, introduced the bill in March. Caste is a division of people related to birth or descent and those at the lowest strata of the caste system known as Dalits, have been pushing for legal protections in California and beyond. They say it is necessary to protect them from bias in housing, education and in the tech sector — where they hold key roles.
Thursday's vote was swift, with only Sen. Brian Jones voting against the legislation, which has been controversial. On April 25, hundreds on both sides of the issue came to voice their opinions during a Senate Judiciary hearing on the matter. Proponents say caste discrimination is a reality in California and that clarifying the state's anti-discrimination laws will help protected caste-oppressed communities. Opponents have maintained that the law will single out Hindus and people of Indian descent.
Jones, R-Santee, said he has heard concerns from numerous constituents and agrees with them that the legislation unfairly targets a specific group. He contends that caste bias is already covered under existing anti-discrimination laws.
In April, the California Civil Rights Department voluntarily dismissed its case alleging caste discrimination against two Cisco engineers, Sundar Iyer and Ramana Kompella, while still keeping alive its litigation against the Silicon Valley tech giant.
In February, Seattle became the first U.S. city and the first jurisdiction outside South Asia to add caste to its anti-discrimination laws. Several colleges and universities have also enacted similar policies barring caste discrimination on campuses, including University of California, Davis.
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The mayor of Baltimore called for a summer curfew after two teenagers were shot while police were attempting to break up a large crowd of minors Sunday night.
A 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot and wounded as police attempted to break up fights among a crowd of more than 200 teenagers gathered at the city’s Inner Harbor area around 9 p.m., WBAL-TV reported.
One of the victims was in critical condition and the other was stable, WBAL reported.
Two suspects were arrested, police said, including one with a loaded gun who matched a description of the shooter and another who was found with a loaded gun in a police garage, WBAL reported.
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Following the shooting, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced his intention to implement a 9 p.m. curfew for anyone 14 years and younger and 10 p.m. for those younger than 17 during the forthcoming summer months, WJZ-TV reported.
“I want everyone to hear me and hear me clearly,” Scott said. “We are going back to the old days. We will be enforcing a youth curfew as we move into the latter spring and summer months.”
Scott has seen young children away from their homes at night too often, he said.
“It’s not just about making sure we are getting them off the street, but making sure that we are supporting them and figuring out what’s going on with them and their families,” Scott said. “It is not normal for person to be that far away from their home and no one knows where they are or cares for them.”
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SALMON, ID - Fire officials report that the Moose Fire burning 17 miles north of Salmon, Idaho is human-caused.
The blaze has grown from 45,113 acres to 48,534 acres with containment rising from 17% to 21%.
US Forest Service law enforcement is now working to determine the specific cause of the fire which began near the confluence of Moose Creek and the Salmon River on July 17.
Fire managers report Saturday saw active fire activity in the afternoon and into the late evening and that due to dead trees on the west side of fire, the fire front is advancing up to a mile a day.
Hotter temperatures, lower relative humidity and expected gusty winds have fire managers saying significant fire growth is possible on Sunday.
Efforts to protect structures in the Pine Creek area along US Highway 93 and in the Panther Creek area are continuing.
Values at risk include residences, energy infrastructure, the Salmon municipal watershed, mining operations, heritage resources, fisheries, livestock grazing allotments, and a variety of recreational opportunities.
The blaze is burning in grass, brush, and timber along both sides of the Salmon River.
The Lemhi County Sheriff has issued evacuation warnings in the area of the Moose Fire. The latest updates from the Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office can be found here.
An evacuation center is available at the Salmon Valley Baptist Church, 1230 Cemetery Street in Salmon. Additional information is available by calling 208-756-3324, 208-940-2220, or 208.940-0220.
The Pilot Car System on Salmon River Road is scheduled to run as normal on Sunday. It is for residents, river permit holders, and river shuttles. The road is closed to all other traffic.
There are 973 personnel, 23 hand crews, 61 engines, and nine helicopters assigned to the Moose Fire.
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CA Sacramento CA Zone Forecast for Sunday, October 30, 2022
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488 FPUS56 KSTO 310752
ZFPSTO
Interior Northern California Zone Forecasts for California
National Weather Service Sacramento CA
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
Spot temperatures and probabilities of measurable precipitation
are for today, tonight, and Tuesday.
CAZ013-312300-
Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County-
Including the city of Shasta Dam
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 57 to
72 higher elevations...67 to 75 lower elevations. Light winds
becoming south up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 30 to
45 higher elevations...39 to 48 lower elevations. Prevailing
south winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...At lower elevations, rain showers. At higher
elevations, rain showers and a chance of freezing rain in the
morning, then rain showers, heavy snow showers and a chance of
freezing rain in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs 38 to 53 higher
elevations...49 to 57 lower elevations. No snow accumulation
lower elevations...2 to 4 inches higher elevations. Snow level
4500 feet in the afternoon. Prevailing southwest winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow
showers. Colder. Lows 21 to 36 higher elevations...31 to 40 lower
elevations. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up to
2 inches higher elevations. Snow level 4000 feet. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers, snow
showers and a slight chance of light freezing rain in the
morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs 34 to 49 higher elevations...45 to 55 lower elevations. No
snow accumulation lower elevations...up to 1 inch higher
elevations. Snow level 3000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost. Lows 21 to
36.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost. Not as cool. Highs
41 to 56.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows 25 to 40.
.FRIDAY...Mostly sunny. Warmer. Highs 51 to 66.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 31 to 46.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain showers. Highs 50 to 65. Lows 32 to 47.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
45 to 60.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SHASTA DAM 73 47 55 / 0 40 90
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CAZ014-312300-
Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County-
Including the city of Burney
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Partly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Widespread
frost in the morning. Highs 58 to 69. Light winds becoming west
up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening then becoming mostly
cloudy. Lows 26 to 38. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...At lower elevations, rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. At higher
elevations, rain showers in the morning, then rain showers, snow
showers and a chance of freezing rain in the afternoon. Cooler.
Highs 39 to 48. No snow accumulation lower elevations...up to
3 inches higher elevations. Snow level 5000 feet in the
afternoon. Prevailing west winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain and snow showers likely in
the evening, then a chance of snow showers after midnight.
Colder. Lows 13 to 27. Little or no snow accumulation lower
elevations...up to 2 inches higher elevations. Snow level
4000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers and
light freezing rain in the morning, then a chance of rain and
snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 32 to 44. Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Widespread frost. Colder. Lows
8 to 22.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost. Highs 34 to 45.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows 13 to 27.
.FRIDAY...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Not as cool. Highs
46 to 56.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 22 to 36.
.SATURDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain and snow showers.
Highs 48 to 57.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows 25 to 39. Highs 43 to 57.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BURNEY 67 28 47 / 0 20 90
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CAZ015-312300-
Northern Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Redding and Red Bluff
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs around
73. North winds up to 10 mph shifting to the south in the
afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a
slight chance of rain showers after midnight. Lows 43 to 51.
South winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers. Cooler. Highs 54 to 60. South winds
10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers.
Colder. Lows 33 to 41. Southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in
the morning, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 52 to 58. Light winds.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 39.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Areas of frost. Highs 56 to 62.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 34 to 44. Highs
58 to 68.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 38 to 48.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Highs 60 to 66. Lows 40 to 50.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
REDDING 75 41 57 / 0 30 90
RED BLUFF 75 49 59 / 0 20 90
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CAZ016-312300-
Central Sacramento Valley-
Including the cities of Chico, Oroville, and Marysville/Yuba City
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 68 to 74. Light winds becoming
south up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows
45 to 51. Southeast winds up to 10 mph with gusts to around
20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers. Highs 56 to 64. South winds 10 to 15 mph
with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers and
a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then partly
cloudy with a chance of rain showers after midnight. Colder. Lows
35 to 41. South winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 54 to 60. Light winds becoming northwest up to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 33 to 39.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Areas of frost. Highs 57 to 63.
.THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to
46. Highs 58 to 68.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Highs 61 to 68. Lows 39 to 49.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
CHICO 73 51 59 / 0 10 90
OROVILLE 71 50 58 / 0 10 90
MARYSVILLE/YUBA CITY 71 49 60 / 0 0 90
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CAZ017-312300-
Southern Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Sacramento
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs around 70. Light winds becoming
southwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows around 49. South winds up to
10 mph with gusts to around 20 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 58 to 64.
South winds 10 to 15 mph. Gusts up to 25 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 37 to 43. Southwest winds
10 to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers. Highs 55 to 61. Light
winds becoming west around 10 mph in the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 33 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 57 to 63.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 35 to 43. Highs 57 to
67.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 38 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 63 to 69.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows 44 to 52. Highs 62 to 69.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
SACRAMENTO 70 52 62 / 0 0 80
SAC EXEC AIRPORT 70 51 62 / 0 0 80
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CAZ018-312300-
Carquinez Strait and Delta-
Including the city of Fairfield/Suisun
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 64 to 70. Southwest winds up to
10 mph.
.TONIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 49 to 54. Southwest winds 10 to
15 mph with gusts to around 25 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 58 to 64.
Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Gusts up to 35 mph in the
afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. A slight chance of rain showers in
the evening. Colder. Lows 40 to 46. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph.
Gusts up to 30 mph in the evening.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly sunny. A slight chance of rain showers in the
afternoon. Highs 56 to 62. West winds up to 10 mph with gusts to
around 20 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 36 to 42.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Highs 58 to 64.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 38 to 44. Highs 60 to
66.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 47.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance
of rain showers. Highs 62 to 68. Lows 41 to 51.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
61 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRFIELD/SUISUN 71 50 65 / 0 0 80
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CAZ019-312300-
Northern San Joaquin Valley-
Including the cities of Stockton and Modesto
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 66 to 72. Light winds becoming
southwest up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 43 to 51. West winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers likely in the afternoon. Highs 56 to
64. South winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers in
the evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers after midnight. Lows 39 to 45. West winds up to 15 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 53 to 61. Northwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 34 to 42.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Highs 54 to 62.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Clear. Lows 35 to 43. Highs 54 to
64.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 37 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 61 to 67.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 44 to 52.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 61 to 67.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
STOCKTON 69 49 61 / 0 0 80
MODESTO 69 47 62 / 0 0 70
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Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County-
Including the city of Alder Springs
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then clearing. Highs 53 to
68 higher elevations...67 to 73 lower elevations. Light winds
becoming southeast up to 10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Clear in the evening, then mostly cloudy with a slight
chance of rain showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 35 to 50.
Prevailing southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...At lower elevations, rain showers. At higher
elevations, rain showers and heavy snow showers in the morning,
then rain and snow showers likely in the afternoon. Highs 36 to
51 higher elevations...51 to 57 lower elevations. No snow
accumulation lower elevations...up to 3 inches higher elevations.
Snow level 4500 feet in the afternoon. Prevailing west winds 5 to
15 mph with gusts to around 30 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers,
snow showers and a slight chance of light freezing rain in the
evening, then partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and snow
showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 24 to 38 higher elevations...
35 to 41 lower elevations. No snow accumulation lower
elevations...up to 1 inch higher elevations. Snow level
3500 feet. Prevailing west winds up to 15 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Partly cloudy. A slight chance of rain and snow
showers in the morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in
the afternoon. Highs 33 to 48 higher elevations...49 to 55 lower
elevations. Snow level 3500 feet. Prevailing west winds up to
10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Lows 25 to 40.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Not as cool. Highs 41 to 56.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 46. Highs
46 to 61.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 39 to 51.
.SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy with a chance of
rain showers. Highs 51 to 66. Lows 39 to 54.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain showers. Highs
46 to 61.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
ALDER SPRINGS 59 38 43 / 0 20 80
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Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley-
Including the city of Paradise
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 63 to 73. Light winds becoming southwest up to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 39 to 51. Prevailing
southeast winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...Rain showers. Cooler. Highs 46 to 56. Prevailing south
winds 5 to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers and a
slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of
rain showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 30 to 44. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 10 mph shifting to the southeast after
midnight.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain and snow showers in
the morning, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 42 to 54. Light winds becoming southwest up to 10 mph in
the afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Colder. Lows
27 to 41.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost. Not as cool. Highs
47 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 31 to 45. Highs
50 to 65.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Lows 39 to 51.
.SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Highs 52 to 65. Lows 40 to 55.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
PARADISE 66 47 50 / 0 10 90
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Including the cities of Grass Valley and Jackson
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 65 to 73. Prevailing east winds up
to 10 mph shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Lows 41 to 49. Light winds.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain showers in the
morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. Highs 48 to 62.
Prevailing south winds up to 15 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Rain showers likely and a slight
chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of rain
showers after midnight. Colder. Lows 33 to 43. Prevailing south
winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of rain showers in
the morning, then a chance of rain showers in the afternoon.
Highs 44 to 56. Light winds becoming west up to 10 mph in the
afternoon.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Areas of frost. Colder. Lows 28 to 38.
.THURSDAY...Sunny. Widespread frost. Highs 49 to 59.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...Clear. Lows 33 to 41.
.FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Highs 55 to 63. Lows
33 to 47.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 58 to 66.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain
showers. Lows 42 to 52.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 54 to 64.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
GRASS VALLEY 67 42 50 / 0 0 90
JACKSON 68 46 57 / 0 0 80
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Including the cities of Chester and Quincy
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy in the morning then becoming partly
cloudy. Highs 53 to 68. Light winds becoming southwest up to
10 mph in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly clear. Colder. Lows 27 to 42. Prevailing south
winds up to 10 mph.
.TUESDAY...At lower elevations, rain showers. At higher
elevations, rain and snow showers likely in the morning, then
heavy snow showers, rain showers and a chance of freezing rain in
the afternoon. Cooler. Highs 31 to 45 higher elevations...37 to
51 lower elevations. Snow accumulation up to 1 inch lower
elevations...except 1 to 7 inches higher elevations. Snow level
6500 feet decreasing to 5500 feet in the afternoon. Prevailing
southwest winds 5 to 15 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Snow showers, rain showers likely
and a slight chance of freezing rain in the evening, then a
chance of snow showers, rain showers and a slight chance of light
freezing rain after midnight. Colder. Lows 19 to 34. Snow
accumulation 2 to 4 inches. Snow level 4000 feet. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers and
light freezing rain in the morning, then a chance of rain and
snow showers in the afternoon. Highs 25 to 40 higher elevations...
32 to 45 lower elevations. Snow level 3500 feet. Prevailing
southwest winds up to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy. Widespread frost. Colder. Lows
15 to 30.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost. Not as cool. Highs
32 to 47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows
21 to 36. Highs 38 to 53.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows 29 to 44.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 45 to 60.
.SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a chance of rain
showers. Lows 31 to 46. Highs 43 to 58.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
QUINCY 70 31 51 / 0 0 90
CHESTER 66 29 46 / 0 10 90
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Including the city of Blue Canyon
1251 AM PDT Mon Oct 31 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING...
.TODAY...Mostly cloudy. Highs 49 to 64 higher elevations...61 to
71 lower elevations. Prevailing southeast winds up to 10 mph
shifting to the southwest in the afternoon.
.TONIGHT...Mostly cloudy in the evening then becoming partly
cloudy. Colder. Lows 27 to 42 higher elevations...36 to 48 lower
elevations. Prevailing south winds up to 10 mph with gusts to
around 30 mph...except south up to 25 mph over ridges.
.TUESDAY...Mostly cloudy. At lower elevations, a chance of rain
showers in the morning, then rain showers in the afternoon. At
higher elevations, a chance of rain and snow showers in the
morning, then rain showers with possible snow showers and
freezing rain likely in the afternoon. Breezy. Highs 34 to
49 higher elevations...44 to 59 lower elevations. No snow
accumulation lower elevations...3 to 6 inches higher elevations.
Snow level 6500 feet. Prevailing south winds 5 to 15 mph
increasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 45 mph.
Over ridges...prevailing southwest winds 20 to 30 mph increasing
to 25 to 40 mph in the afternoon.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...Mostly cloudy. Heavy snow showers, rain showers
likely and a slight chance of freezing rain in the evening, then
a chance of snow showers, rain showers and a slight chance of
light freezing rain after midnight. Colder. Lows 15 to 30 higher
elevations...27 to 39 lower elevations. Little or no snow
accumulation lower elevations...1 to 4 inches higher elevations.
Snow level 5000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up to 15 mph
with gusts to around 35 mph...except southwest up to 25 mph over
ridges.
.WEDNESDAY...Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of snow showers in
the morning, then a chance of rain and snow showers in the
afternoon. Highs 24 to 39 higher elevations...38 to 50 lower
elevations. Snow level 4000 feet. Prevailing southwest winds up
to 10 mph.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of snow
showers. Widespread frost. Colder. Lows 14 to 29.
.THURSDAY...Mostly sunny. Widespread frost. Not as cool. Highs
32 to 47.
.THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...Mostly clear. Lows 19 to 34. Highs
38 to 53.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...Mostly clear. Widespread frost. Lows 28 to 43.
.SATURDAY...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Not as cool. Highs 47 to 62.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...Partly cloudy with a slight chance of rain and
snow showers. Lows 31 to 46.
.SUNDAY...Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of rain showers.
Highs 42 to 57.
TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
BLUE CANYON 60 41 43 / 0 0 90
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Inter Miami co-owner Jorge Mas has one lasting memory from Lionel Messi’s debut: the image of Messi running to embrace his family after delivering the game-winning free kick and cementing a new era for the club and Major League Soccer.
“That was for the fans. This community is hungry,” Mas said.
Messi’s follow-up performance Tuesday night against Atlanta United in the Leagues Cup showed the impact that one player — the right player — can have on an entire club.
Messi scored twice and had an assist in his first start for Miami, bringing his total to three goals in two games. Inter Miami had a 3-0 lead by halftime, the first such lead in club history.
“There’s going to be a before and after Messi in football for this country,” Mas said.
Miami went on to win 4-0. Messi exited in the 78th minute to a standing ovation, with many in the crowd wearing his No. 10 jersey. Many also headed for the exits themselves once Messi was on the bench.
“With the type of player that he is, it’s justified that this happens,” Miami coach Tata Martino said. “I would have preferred that the public stayed and pay tribute to the entire team, but I can also understand it.”
Miami swept its group and moved on to the round of 32 in the Leagues Cup, in which it will host a to-be-determined opponent.
In the eighth minute, Messi took a pass from his longtime Barcelona teammate Sergio Busquets, surged forward and sent a strike off the right post before tapping in his own rebound. Then, in the 22nd minute, Messi put Miami ahead 2-0 off a pass from Robert Taylor.
“Since those two have gotten here, the spirit has changed,” Miami’s DeAndre Yedlin said, referring to Messi and Busquets. “Obviously, guys are really excited. But I think just their presence gives everybody more confidence. And I think also the teams that we’re playing against now have a bit of fear in their eyes. When those two are on the field, you know you’re in for a tough game.”
Messi came off the bench in the 54th minute Friday night in Miami’s first Leagues Cup match against Mexican club Cruz Azul. And he provided a moment fans had hoped for when the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner and World Cup champion for Argentina decided to take his talents to MLS. Messi converted the game-winning free kick in stoppage time in front of a crowd estimated at 21,000.
Yedlin had placed the skipper’s armband on Messi when he checked in on Friday, but Messi entered Tuesday’s match wearing the armband just below his right shoulder.
“He’s my teammate now. He’s our teammate,” Yedlin said. “He’s part of this team and he wants to win like everybody else. And he’s been a joy to be around, obviously not just on the field. He’s obviously an amazing talent but off the field he really helps a lot of the younger guys, even older guys like myself.”
Brazilian midfielder Gregore had been the club’s captain before suffering a foot injury in March.
With Messi rightly commanding much of the attention from Atlanta’s defenders, opportunities opened for other Miami players. Taylor scored in the 44th minute, then made it 4-0 in the 53rd after being set up by Messi.
“There’s times when the coach prepares a certain game in a certain way, but these two players are so good at what they do that they create space,” Martino said about Messi and Busquets.
Goalkeeper Drake Callender preserved the shutout when he stopped a penalty shot by Thiago Almada in the 86th minute.
“There are things that of course after review of the game that we can do way better,” Atlanta coach Gonzalo Pineda said. “I think we also had some chances to score. … We couldn’t capitalize.”
Messi had entered holding hands with the son of hip-hop artist DJ Khaled.
A fan got onto the field as Messi was exiting. The fan sprinted all the way toward Miami’s bench where Messi stood before Martino grabbed the attention of security. The fan was then escorted off the field.
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BEIJING, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This is a report from China.org.cn.
Beijing subways and buses will implement a new ticketing system that attaches passengers' health codes to their transit cards, said the municipal transport authority on Thursday.
According to the new protocol, passengers' health codes and 48-hour nucleic acid test (NAT) results will be checked automatically when they swipe in.
Since May 28, the municipality has been testing the new ticket system at 115 subway stations and 10 bus routes.
Starting from Friday, the protocol will be expanded to 321 stations on 25 subway lines and 536 bus routes.
Municipal transport officials said that the new process will save passengers' time, and called for commuters to upgrade their transport cards and codes as soon as possible to take advantage.
By May 31, 10.3 million physical transport cards and codes had been upgraded for access to the new service.
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Nonfiction
1. Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)
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2. Atomic Habits by James Clear, narrated by the author (Penguin Audio)
3. Never Finished by David Goggins, narrated by the author, Adam Skolnick and Jacqueline Gardner (Lioncrest Publishing)
4. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)
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5. I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, narrated by the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)
6. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson, narrated by Roger Wayne (HarperAudio)
7. If You Tell by Gregg Olsen, narrated by Karen Peakes (Brilliance Audio)
8. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan, narrated by the author (HarperAudio)
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9. Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins, narrated by the author and Adam Skolnick (Lioncrest Publishing)
10. The Good Life by Robert Waldinger, MD and Marc Schulz, PhD, narrated by the authors (Simon & Schuster Audio)
Fiction
1. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Brittany Pressley and Ryan West (Brilliance Audio)
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2. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, narrated by Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus and Pandora Sykes (Random House Audio)
3. The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey, narrated by Jess Nahikian (Brilliance Audio)
4. Fairy Tale by Stephen King, narrated by Seth Numrich and the author (Simon & Schuster Audio)
5. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Olivia Song (Simon & Schuster Audio)
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6. Regretting You by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Tanya Eby and Lauren Ezzo (Brilliance Audio)
7. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, narrated by Lauren Fortgang and Michael David Axtell (Macmillan Audio)
8. Hide by Tracy Clark, narrated by Chanté McCormick (Brilliance Audio)
9. It Starts with Us by Colleen Hoover, narrated by Colin Donnell and Olivia Song (Simon & Schuster Audio)
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10. Verity by Colleen Hoover, performed by Vanessa Johansson and Amy Landon (Audible Studios)
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Basketball goals recalled due to potential backboard injury hazards
(Gray News) – Thousands of Spalding Momentous basketball goals are being recalled after the company received reports of injuries.
Welds in the arm attaching the backboard to the pole of some EZ Portable Basketball Goals can fail, causing the backboard to fall and potentially hurt anyone around, the Consumer Product Safety Commission reported in a news release.
Spalding has received 26 reports of the welds failing, including three backboards completely separating from the pole.
One person reported the backboard falling on their head, while another said they were hit on the shoulder and upper torso.
The recall specifically involves Spalding Momentous EZ Assembly Portable Basketball goals with the numbers 1010, 1011 or 1012 printed to the right of the CAUTION statement on the front of the backboard.
All backboard styles are attached to a black metal pole with a black metal arm. The goals have “Spalding” printed on the front of the base and “6E” molded on the back.
According to CPSC, the basketball goals were sold at Academy and Scheels stores nationwide and online at Spalding.com and Amazon.com from May 2021 through April 2022.
Anyone with this goal should stop using it and contact Spalding to arrange for a technician to remove the original arm and install a new one on the goal system.
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Ukrainians celebrate as troops make gains By Mallory Yu, Kathryn Fox Published September 12, 2022 at 3:37 PM CDT Facebook LinkedIn Pinterest Twitter Email Print Listen • 1:26 Ukrainians react to the gains made by Ukrainian forces in a military offensive carried out in recent days. Copyright 2022 NPR
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Turkish official gives June date for Nordic NATO expansion
By ANDREW WILKS
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ISTANBUL (AP) — A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June. A spokesman and foreign policy adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that Sweden and Finland believe that the new laws will be fully effective and completed by June. The Nordic states applied to join the defense alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But their membership must be approved by all 30 NATO states. Only Turkey and Hungary have yet to approve the deal. Ankara linked accession to stricter counterterrorism measures.
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SAN ANTONIO — CPS Energy’s board approved a plan to phase out coal in the next five years as part of a plan to power San Antonio for the rest of this decade.
The new blend of power sources will include solar, wind and natural gas, but not everyone was on board with the plan.
The CPS Energy Board of Trustees approved this generation plan in a 4-1 vote.
One concern was the potential cost that could be passed onto customers. While the plan does incorporate renewable energy, some don’t think it goes far enough.
To meet its energy goals, CPS Energy wants to implement a new plan.
The Rate Advisory Committee recommended what’s called P2, blending gas, solar, wind and storage additions through 2030.
“San Antonio is phasing out coal in 2028, which is far earlier than initial estimates, decades ahead of what’s originally scheduled,” said Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who was in the majority of board members who supported the plan.
The plan helps the City of San Antonio meet its goals in the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan with a target to become carbon neutral by 2050. However, the plan does not meet the CAAP target in 2040, but the mayor and CPS Energy say they will make use of technologies in the meantime to meet those goals.
One unit of the coal-powered Spruce plant will be shut down in 2028, and its second unit will be converted to run natural gas.
Mayor Nirenberg is not concerned with relying on natural gas, prices of which skyrocketed during the summer.
“I would prefer for us to be less reliant, less exposed to the volatility of the state grid,” Mayor Nirenberg said.
“Spruce is the sixth most polluting plant in the state of Texas, so that’s really good news. But on the flip side, it’s not our favorite thing that they decided to convert over half the plant to fracked gas,” Emma Pabst from the Sierra Club said after the vote. The Spruce plant would run through 2065 under this energy portfolio.
"Even if it's available by 2065, my guess is it would be an insurance policy," CPS Energy CEO Rudy Garza says keeping the natural gas option available helps with power reliability, but believes renewable energy sources will help keep the lights on and keep emissions down.
“You can’t just look at coal to gas and say you’re not really doing anything. That’s not true. We’re shutting down thousands of megawatts of old inefficient gas units and thousands of megawatts of coal,” Garza adds.
ERCOT still must approve the Spruce plant shutting down. It’s not clear how these changes could impact CPS Energy ratepayers just yet.
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PHOENIX, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC), a career technical education (CTE) public school district serving Phoenix, Arizona, is preparing students to enter the aviation industry with high-value credentials.
In 2021, 13 out of 26 West-MEC's high school aviation program students were able to head straight into the workforce after completing the program for directly related employment in the aviation industry. Careers can be secured in manufacturing, airlines, hangars, airfields and repair stations.
The pandemic exacerbated employment shortages in the aviation sector by slowed-down training and hiring and early retirements, but now the industry is taking off.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics recently reported that airline industry employment has reached beyond pre-pandemic levels. Employment increased to 767,263 passenger and cargo airlines workers in June 2022, which is 23,893 more jobs than in June 2019.
"The world has been through difficult circumstances the past couple of years but, as bad as things were, it's never been this good," said West-MEC Aviation Instructor Terry Menees. "The older generation is starting to move on, creating many new job opportunities for young adults. Now that travel is open, people want to get out and explore the world again."
Students also test for industry-standard certifications at West-MEC, such as the Federal Aviation Administration, at no additional cost. Earning a high-value credential such as the FAA helps students achieve a career as an airframe technician, powerplant technician, air transportation technician, and many more. The knowledge obtained from the aviation program is transferable to a broad spectrum of careers within the aviation industry.
West-MEC students, both in the high school and adult programs, are consistently able to get great jobs right out of school, something that was tough to do even a couple of years ago. West-MEC even trains students for the job-seeking process through industry tours and interview prep.
Students who completed their aviation program in 2021 are now employed by Goodyear Airport, PDS Tech (Honeywell), McAllister Aviation, Aeroteams(AerSale), Airtime Aircraft, PDS Tech Honeywell), AZ Flight Training Center, Aersale and SkyQuest Aviation, to name a few.
Menees added, "With the vast number of opportunities in aviation, it is more important than ever for young people to prepare. When they walk out of the West-MEC doors, there's a tremendous chance of getting a good job after the proper certification process."
West-MEC is a career technical education public school district focusing solely on innovative career and technical education (CTE) programs that prepare students to enter the workforce and pursue continuing education. West-MEC CTE programs provide students opportunities to earn college credit and industry credentials. West-MEC serves more than 37,000 students from 48 high schools across 3,800 square miles in the northern and western cities of the Phoenix Metropolitan area. West-MEC now also offers adult education programs. Visit www.west-mec.edu for more information about West-MEC's career-driven education opportunities, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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An officer was struck by a vehicle Tuesday night in northwest Baltimore, city police said.Police said the officer was hit around 8 p.m. in the 5200 block of Park Heights Avenue.The officer was taken to Shock Trauma, where he is listed in serious condition, police said.An 11 News crew is on the way to the scene.This report will be updated.Stay with WBALTV.com and 11 News for more on this breaking story.
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Bingo, Lite-Brite, Nerf among Toy Hall of Fame finalists
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Voting opened Wednesday on which toys should go into the National Toy Hall of Fame this year. The class of 2022 finalists are: bingo, Breyer Horses, Catan, Lite-Brite, Nerf Toys, Masters of the Universe, piñata, Phase 10, Pound Puppies, Rack-O, Spirograph, and the top.
“These 12 toys span the history of play. The top is as old as civilization itself and bingo has been played in some form for hundreds of years,” said Christopher Bensch, vice president for collections at The Strong museum in Rochester, where the hall of fame is housed.
The public is invited to vote online through Sept. 21. The three toys that receive the most public votes will make up a single “Player’s Choice” ballot. That ballot will be counted alongside those turned in by a national selection committee whose members include industry experts, academics and others.
The inductees will be announced Nov. 10.
“All 12 of these toys have what it takes to be contenders for the class of 2022,” Bensch said.
Anyone can nominate a toy for the annual honor, but to be recognized by the hall of fame, toys have to have achieved icon status, longevity and foster learning or discovery. They also must have changed play or toy design.
The National Toy Hall of Fame opened at The Strong in 1998. So far, 77 toys have been inducted, from simple favorites like the paper airplane, bubbles and sidewalk chalk to the even more ubiquitous, including the stick and cardboard box.
Last year’s honorees were American Girl Dolls, Risk, and sand.
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Thunderstorms that rolled through South Central Kansas during the early morning hours bringing heavy downpours and gusty winds have pushed farther into eastern Kansas. Lingering clouds and showers are starting our Saturday across parts of central Kansas but showers will exit the picture early today.
Pleasant temperatures range from the upper 50s and lower 60s early Saturday in western Kansas to middle 60s in central Kansas.
Sunshine will return from west to east today with temperatures getting back to seasonable levels this afternoon. Hit and miss showers and thunderstorms are expected to redevelop mainly for northern and western Kansas later this afternoon as a cold front closes in from the northwest, but South Central Kansas should enjoy a mainly dry Saturday with the return of sunshine for the late morning and the afternoon.
Temperatures cooled by the overnight rains will warm right back into the Summerlike 80s for highs this afternoon with slightly less humidity than we saw on Friday.
Thunderstorms which develop across northern and western Kansas later this afternoon will work their way across the rest of the Sunflower state during Saturday night but they should not be as strong as the Friday night activity.
Most rain should wrap up Sunday morning as the cold front sinks south leading to a rather pleasant Sunday with cooler temperatures and pleasant humidity levels.
Storm chances will return to western and northern Kansas overnight Sunday night into Monday but this activity is expected to be spotty.
Highs next week look to favor the 70s and 80s, seasonable for the Sunflower State. More disturbances will cross our path next week. We will need to watch the tracks closely. While a few strong storms are possible, the higher chances for severe weather might stay just to our south in Oklahoma and Texas Tuesday into Wednesday.
Hotter temperatures will return by the end of next week into next weekend with a few more 90s thrown in for good measure.
6/10/23 KSN Storm Track 3 Forecast from Meteorologist Jack Boston:
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Today: Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms. Hi: 86 Wind: NW/SW 5-15
Tonight: Partly cloudy. 60% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 65 Wind: SW/NW 5-15
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, windy. 30% chance of showers and storms. Hi: 79 Wind: NW/NE 10-25
Tomorrow Night: Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms. Lo: 57 Wind: NE 5-15
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Mon: Hi: 80 Lo: 58 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms.
Tue: Hi: 82 Lo: 60 Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms.
Wed: Hi: 83 Lo: 63 Partly cloudy. 20% chance of showers and storms.
Thu: Hi: 86 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms.
Fri: Hi: 89 Lo: 67 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms.
Sat: Hi: 90 Lo: 67 Partly cloudy. 10% chance of showers and storms.
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TORONTO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - RIV Capital Inc. ("RIV Capital" or the "Company") (CSE: RIV) (OTC: CNPOF) today announced that its board of directors (the "Board") received a shareholder requisition on December 20, 2022, requesting that the Company call a special meeting of RIV Capital's shareholders for the purpose of, among other things, electing five new directors to the Board, just three months after shareholders elected all seven of the Company's nominees at its Annual General Meeting.
The shareholders making the requisition, funds that are controlled or directed by JW Asset Management, LLC ("JWAM"), have advised the Company that they hold not less than five percent (5%) of the Company's Class A common shares. JWAM had previously filed an application with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in connection with the Company's process regarding its acquisition of ownership and control of Etain, LLC and Etain IP LLC, seeking, among other things, an order that the Company repurchase all Class A common shares held by the JWAM funds. The application was heard in September 2022 and the parties are currently awaiting disposition of the matter from the Court.
The Company is reviewing and considering the requisition with its professional advisors and will respond appropriately in due course. RIV Capital's shareholders are not required to take any action at this time.
RIV Capital is an acquisition and investment firm with a focus on building a leading multistate platform with one of the strongest portfolios of brands in key strategic U.S. markets. Backed by in-house expertise and cannabis domain knowledge, RIV Capital aims to grow its own brands and partner with established U.S. cannabis operators and brands to bring them to new markets and build market share. RIV Capital established the foundational building blocks of its active U.S. strategy with the announced Transaction. Through its strategic relationship with The Hawthorne Collective, Inc. ("The Hawthorne Collective"), a subsidiary of ScottsMiracle-Gro, RIV Capital is The Hawthorne Collective's preferred vehicle for cannabis-related investments not under the purview of other ScottsMiracle-Gro subsidiaries.
This news release contains statements which constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws, including statements regarding the plans, intentions, beliefs and current expectations of RIV Capital with respect to the requisition by JWAM of a special meeting of shareholders, the disposition of the court application initiated by JWAM and future business activities and operating performance. Forward-looking information is often identified by the words "may", "would", "could", "should", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" or similar expressions and includes information regarding the Company's strategies, objectives, goals, opportunities and plans.
Investors are cautioned that forward-looking information is not based on historical fact but instead reflects management's expectations, estimates or projections concerning future results or events based on the opinions, assumptions and estimates of management considered reasonable at the date the statements are made. Although RIV Capital believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, such information involves risks and uncertainties, and undue reliance should not be placed on such information, as unknown or unpredictable factors could have material adverse effects on future results, performance or achievements of RIV Capital or its portfolio companies.
Among the key factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information are the following: the timing of any changes to federal laws in the U.S. to allow for the general cultivation, distribution, and possession of cannabis; regulatory and licensing risks; changes in cannabis industry growth and trends; changes in general economic, business and political conditions, including changes in the financial markets; litigation risks; the global regulatory landscape and enforcement related to cannabis, including political risks and risks relating to regulatory change; risks relating to anti-money laundering laws; compliance with extensive government regulation, including RIV Capital's interpretation of such regulation; public opinion and perception of the cannabis industry; divestiture risks; and the risk factors set out in RIV Capital's MD&A and AIF filed with the Canadian securities regulators and available on RIV Capital's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Company has invested in and acquired, and intends to in the future invest in and/or acquire, companies that are involved in the manufacture, possession, use, sale, and distribution of cannabis in the recreational and medicinal cannabis marketplace in the United States. Local state laws where such operations occur permit such activities, however, investors should note that there are significant legal restrictions and regulations that govern the cannabis industry in the United States. Cannabis remains a Schedule I drug under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, making it illegal under federal law in the United States to, among other things, cultivate, distribute or possess cannabis in the United States. Financial transactions involving proceeds generated by, or intended to promote, cannabis-related business activities in the United States may form the basis for prosecution under applicable U.S. federal money laundering legislation.
While the approach to enforcement of such laws by the federal government in the United States has trended toward non-enforcement against individuals and businesses that comply with recreational and medicinal cannabis programs in states where such programs are legal, strict compliance with state laws with respect to cannabis will neither absolve the Company of liability under U.S. federal law, nor will it provide a defense to any federal proceeding which may be brought against the Company. The enforcement of federal laws in the United States is a significant risk to the business of the Company and any proceedings brought against the Company thereunder may adversely affect the Company's operations and financial performance.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Although RIV Capital has attempted to identify important risks, uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially, there may be others that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. RIV Capital does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update this forward-looking information except as otherwise required by applicable law.
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Student suspended after weapon found at Muncie high school
MUNCIE, Ind. (WISH) — A security check found a weapon Tuesday morning at Muncie Central High School, and a suspended student could be expelled, the district says.
The Muncie School Board agreed in January to begin random security checks at the high school, Northside Middle School and Southside Middle School. The checks include the use of handheld metal detectors on students as they arrive at the schools. Also, the district uses police dogs from the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office to check lockers.
Muncie-based Legacy Life Security Solutions and school administrators provide security for the school district. Robert Scaife, a former school resource officer and a pastor at Muncie’s Union Missionary Baptist Church, founded the security business.
As part of Tuesday’s discovery, the district says it contacted Muncie Police Department. The district did not say if the student is facing possible criminal charges.
The school district did not disclose the type of weapon or how it was found.
The district says random checks will continue at the schools.
According to the Gun Owners’ Bill of Rights from Attorney General Todd Rokita, Indiana law prohibits the carrying of a firearm in schools.
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Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery fell $3.05 to $76.93 a barrel Monday. Brent crude for February delivery fell $2.89 to $82.68 a barrel.
Wholesale gasoline for January delivery fell 8 cents to $2.20 a gallon. January heating oil fell 17 cents to $3 a gallon. January natural gas fell 70 cents to $5.58 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Gold for February delivery fell $28.30 to $1,781.30 an ounce. Silver for March delivery fell 83 cents to $22.42 an ounce and March copper fell 5 cents to $3.80 a pound.
The dollar rose to 136.69 Japanese yen from 134.44 yen. The euro fell to $1.0493 from $1.0534.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican woman who killed a man defending herself when he attacked and raped her in 2021 was sentenced to more than six years in prison, a decision her legal defense called “discriminatory” and vowed to appeal Tuesday.
The ruling against Roxana Ruiz spurred anger from experts and feminist groups who said it speaks to the depth of gender-based violence and Mexico’s poor record of bringing perpetrators of sexual violence to justice.
“It would be a bad precedent if this sentence were to hold. It’s sending the message to women that, you know what, the law says you can defend yourself, but only to a point,” said Ángel Carrera, her defense lawyer. “He raped you, but you don’t have the right to do anything.”
The Associated Press does not normally identify sexual assault victims, but Ruiz has given her permission to be identified and participates in public demonstrations led by activists who support her.
While the Mexico State court found Monday that Ruiz had been raped, it said the 23-year-old was guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense,” adding that hitting the man in the head would have been enough to defend herself. Ruiz was also ordered to pay more than $16,000 in reparations to the family of the man who raped her.
In May 2021, Ruiz was working selling french fries in Nezahualcoyotl, one of the 11 municipalities in the Mexico State with an ongoing gender alert for femicides and another one for forced disappearances of women.
While having a beer with a friend, Ruiz, a Indigenous Mixteca woman and a single mother from the state of Oaxaca, met a man she had seen around the neighborhood. After hanging out, he offered to walk her home and later asked to stay the night because it was late and he was far from home.
Ruiz agreed to let him sleep on a mattress on the floor. But while she slept he climbed onto her bed, hit her, tore off her clothes and raped her, according to Ruiz’s legal defense. Ruiz fought back, hitting him in the nose. He threatened to kill her, and in the struggle to free herself she killed him in self defense.
In a panic, Ruiz put the man’s body in a bag and dragged it out to the street where passing police arrested her.
Despite telling police she had been raped, Carrera said a forensic exam was never taken, a crucial step in prosecuting sexual violence cases. Instead, an officer responded that she probably wanted to have sex with the man at first and then changed her mind, he said.
“I regret what I did, but if I hadn’t done it I would be dead today,” Ruiz told the AP in an interview last year, adding, “It’s evident that the state wants to shut us up, wants us to be submissive, wants us closed up inside, wants us dead.”
Women’s rights groups have repeatedly accused Mexican authorities of revictimizing survivors and failing to judge cases with a gender perspective.
Ruiz spent nine months in jail on charges of homicide with excess of legitimate self-defense, and was finally released to await trial.
Nearly half of Mexican women have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime, government data shows.
In 2022, the Mexican government registered a total of 3,754 women – an average of 10 a day – who were intentionally killed, a significant jump from the year before. Only a third were investigated as femicides.
That number is likely just a fraction of the real number due to rising disappearances and lack of reporting of violence in the country.
Angelica Ospina, gender fellow for International Crisis Group in Mexico, said she worries that the sentencing may empower victimizers while discouraging women from reporting gender-based violence or defend themselves.
The case points to just how “normalized” gender-based violence is in Mexico and other parts of Latin America, Ospina said.
“When a woman defends herself, the system is particularly efficient in processing and sentencing her without taking into consideration the conditions in which she killed the man,” Ospina said.
Meanwhile, outside the courtroom, women carried signs and chanted “justice!” A tearful Ruiz stood before the crowd, thanking feminist groups and the women who had supported her through the years-long judicial process.
Speaking to the crowd, she thought of her 4-year-old son.
“My son, I hope to see him again. I hope to stay with him, to be the one who watches him grow up,” Ruiz said.
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Rick Astley is “Rickrolling” his fans again, although he’s insisting that’s really not what he’s doing.
The “Never Gonna Give You Up” singer took to social media to help promote his friend Ricky Montgomery‘s new album, Rick, which drops September 29.
“Hi guys, this is not a ‘Rickroll,'” Astley says in the video posted to Instagram. “Yes it is me, Rick, Astley that is, but this is not a ‘Rickroll’ … this is about an album called Rick by a lovely man, a friend of mine, called Ricky Montgomery.”
He then insisted, “This is not a ‘Rickroll’ … or is it?”
And Montgomery was certainly excited by Astley sharing the news, posting, “It is now music history that Mr. Rickroll himself – Rick Astley – personally did the album announcement for my second album.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — You could look forever and never find Chris Myarick’s name among FanDuel’s seemingly endless list of prop bets for Sunday’s game between the Giants and Tennessee Titans.
What could the gambling web site have possibly offered under the third-year tight end’s name?
Over-under one offensive snap?
Over-under the number of people in Nissan Stadium who knew Myarick’s name?
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And yet at the end of a magical Musical City afternoon, Myarick was among the many heroes inside the visiting locker room after the Giants rallied for an improbable 21-20 victory over the Titans at Nissan Stadium.
His role in the Giants’ opening-day win was a single catch for a single yard. It came with a little more than a single minute remaining in the game and it pulled the Giants to within a single point of the Titans.
“That was a great feeling, a great team win,” Myarick said.
It had to be even more than that for the 26-year-old who went to the same high school in suburban Philadelphia as Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson. He only had three career catches coming into the season, although one of them was a touchdown that helped the Giants beat the Philadelphia Eagles last year at Met Life Stadium.
This, however, was a bigger moment than that. This gave the Giants a chance to start the season with a win for the first time in six years.
“It was kind of similar to the (touchdown) I had last year,” Myarick said. “I went out and blocked the defensive end and then I shed off him and they let me get free.”
The score came on a second-and-goal play from the 1-yard line, which seemed like a perfect time to hand the ball to star running back Saquon Barkley.
“That’s why it’s such a good call,” Myarick said. “They’re anticipating that run and it makes it easy for me to shed the defensive end because he’s expecting the run, too.”
Myarick now has four career catches and two career touchdowns. He had just one touchdown during his four seasons at Temple, so the more he thought about it the more he realized that what happened Sunday was special.
“Yeah, it’s definitely up there,” he said. “Opening day and to get the go-ahead score for the win, that’s huge. Overall, I would say this is one of the better wins I’ve been a part of in my life.”
The winning score actually came on the next play when quarterback Daniel Jones shoveled an underhand pass to Barkley, who fought his way into the end zone for a two-point conversion.
“I was looking over at the sideline and I saw the signal to go for two and I’m thinking, ‘Let’s go win,’” Myarick said. “Let’s go grab the lead and win.”
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The Barkley score gave the Giants the lead, but there was one final anxious moment before they could celebrate. Myarick watched from around the 50-yard line as Titans kicker Randy Bullock lined up for a 47-yard field goal attempt.
“I was locked into that,” Myarick said. “I had a great angle and I could see it hooking left.”
The miss triggered a sideline celebration for the Giants in a game that Myarick will not soon forget.
“The ones you remember the most are the great team wins,” Myarick said. “No matter whether you had a big splash play or you’re just playing your role, you still feel good when you get those great team wins.”
So was this the best team win of his life?
“I’d have to think about that,” he said. “Like I said, 13-0 going into the second half and for us to not fluster or give up led to a great result.”
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The project marks the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital's first return to in-person programming since the start of the pandemic
FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, August 8, Orbis International, with generous support from Alcon, the global leader in eye care, will kick off its first in-person training project on board the Flying Eye Hospital – a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board a plane – since the pandemic began. Over a two-week period, Orbis's clinical staff and Volunteer Faculty (medical experts) along with Alcon bioengineers and trainers will share their knowledge with nearly 50 ophthalmologists, ophthalmology residents, nurses and biomedical engineers from several countries throughout the Caribbean,1 helping them build skills to fight avoidable blindness in their communities.
The participants will hone their skills using cutting-edge ophthalmic surgical simulation training technology on the Flying Eye Hospital, which is currently at Fort Worth Alliance Airport, and additional hands-on training in the Alcon Experience Center (AEC), a state-of-the-art training facility on Alcon's nearby campus. Simulation training allows the visiting eye care teams to grow their confidence in a training environment before moving on to real-life surgical procedures.
Learning surgical skills for cataract removal will be a major focus of the training. Cataracts remain the leading cause of blindness worldwide2 despite being treatable with an operation that can take as little as ten to fifteen minutes. Participants will also learn to treat other conditions that threaten vision, including glaucoma, the most common cause of irreversible blindness. A select group of these participants, who are already highly experienced ophthalmologists, will also participate in a train-the-trainer course, which will deepen their ability to train the next generation of eye care professionals. This helps ensure ongoing continuity of and local access to eye care in their home countries.
"When the pandemic broke out in March 2020, we had to make the difficult decision to cancel the second half of a training we were delivering in Fort Worth in partnership with Alcon, so we could not think of a more fitting place for the Flying Eye Hospital to return to in-person programming," said Derek Hodkey, President and CEO of Orbis International. "While the plane has continued its mission virtually over the past two years, this is an unmistakable sign of hope, a chance to pick up where we left off and an opportunity to apply new innovations to our fight against avoidable blindness."
Alcon, through its charitable donation foundations Alcon Foundation and Alcon Cares, has been a generous supporter of Orbis for over forty years, providing monetary donations and state-of-the-art ophthalmic equipment, surgical products, and supplies for Orbis's Flying Eye Hospital and partner hospitals around the world. Alcon's expert biomedical engineers and trainers also participate in Orbis programs, sharing their skills and knowledge to help program participants learn to operate and maintain critical medical technology.
"Alcon is proud of our more than 40-year partnership with Orbis, as we've worked together to improve volume and access to quality eye care that benefits underserved populations in communities around the world," said David Endicott, CEO of Alcon. "We are pleased to welcome participating learners to our Fort Worth Alcon Experience Center where they will have hands-on experience with Alcon surgical equipment to build their skills and confidence in eye care techniques such as Phaco cataract, medical retina and glaucoma procedures."
Globally, Alcon operates 10 AECs along with 26 training centers and 42 wet labs where training is focused on upskilling ophthalmologists and optometrists so that they are proficient in the latest techniques and technologies.
This year, Orbis is also celebrating 40 years since the Flying Eye Hospital took its first flight. Since 1982, three generations of the Flying Eye Hospital have taken training to eye care teams in over 95 countries around the world. In 2020, Orbis reimagined in-person Flying Eye Hospital trainings as virtual ones to ensure that eye care teams could still access critical training safely during the pandemic. Orbis reached nine countries in 2020 and 34 countries in 2021 through virtual Flying Eye Hospital projects. With the plane now returning to in-person programming, the virtual model Orbis developed is being used in conjunction with in-person training, a concept known as "blended learning," to ensure that participants can maximize the time with their mentors, continue their education after the plane leaves and more.
Globally, 1.1 billion people live with vision loss, and 90% of cases are completely avoidable.3 Nine out of ten people with vision loss live in low- and middle-income countries,4 where quality eye care is often difficult, sometimes impossible, to access. An effective, lasting solution to this challenge is to ensure that eye care professionals in such countries can access quality ophthalmic training, building the skills they need to provide quality eye care to patients in their communities.
Over the past four decades, Orbis has conducted tens of millions of eye screenings and performed eye surgeries and laser treatments for hundreds of thousands of patients. Orbis has also trained hundreds of thousands of eye care professionals at all levels, including tens of thousands of medical doctors. The people Orbis trains go on to provide sight-saving care in their communities and, in many cases, go on to train eye care professionals themselves.
Orbis is a leading global non-governmental organization that has been a pioneer in the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness for four decades. Orbis transforms lives by delivering the skills, resources and knowledge needed to deliver accessible quality eye care. Working in collaboration with local partners, including hospitals, universities, government agencies and ministries of health, Orbis provides hands-on ophthalmology training, strengthens healthcare infrastructure and advocates for the prioritization of eye health on public health agendas. Orbis operates the world's only Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on board an MD-10 aircraft, and an award-winning telemedicine platform, Cybersight. For the past ten consecutive years, Orbis has achieved Charity Navigator's coveted four-star rating for demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency, placing Orbis in the top 3% of U.S. charities. In 2021, Orbis earned GuideStar's platinum Seal of Transparency. To learn more, please visit orbis.org.
Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning over 75 years, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people's lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. Our more than 24,000 associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with Eye Care Professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care. Learn more at www.alcon.com.
1 Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago
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MADRID (AP) — Authorities urged a town to evacuate Wednesday after a wildifire erupted in a hilly area of southern Spain, and three firefighters were injured combating the blaze, one of them with burns over 25% of his body.
The town hall of Benahavís told its 9,000 residents to evacuate as a precaution. Local authorities said buses and taxis were ready to help people leave the town in an area of Andalusia about an hour’s drive northwest of the costal resort of Marbella.
The army sent an emergency unit to assist over 200 area firefighters supported by water-dumping airplanes, helicopters and ground vehicles.
Huge plumes of smoke towered into the sky, and firefighters said that at one point winds were causing flames to advance 30 meters (yards) every minute. The fire was still spreading as night fell.
“I lament that three firefighters have been injured,” said Andalusia’s regional chief, Juan Manuel Moreno. “We send them all our support and hopes for a quick recovery.”
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NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- RapidSOS, the emergency response data platform used by over 5,300 emergency communications centers (ECCs) globally, today announced that Lemonade, the digital insurance company powered by social impact, has selected RapidSOS to support Lemonade Car's emergency services feature. In the event of a car crash, RapidSOS will route critical data from the Lemonade app to the nearest 911 center to help provide those details to first-responders.
By the year 2025, it is predicted that more than 70% of the cars sold will be connected vehicles with rich data available about the driver and telematics systems, according to a recent Counterpoint Research May 2022 Connected Car Forecast. Per a Statista report, there were about 84 million connected cars on the road in 2021. This significant expected growth is marked by a consumer that expects their car to cater to every touch point and for it to learn from their behaviors and usage and react in times of emergency. Increasingly, telematics is also being used to help insurance companies better serve their customers and reward them for safe and low-mileage driving. The next level to this connected experience is automatic crash detection and a direct data connection to 911.
When a crash is detected, for those opted-in to use telematics, the Lemonade app will attempt to contact the driver by app push notification or call from RapidSOS to confirm the crash and whether emergency assistance is needed. If the Lemonade user verifies the emergency through the app or voice, Lemonade will attempt to push data through RapidSOS to the nearest 911 center. If the Lemonade user does not respond to the crash confirmation or if emergency assistance is verified via RapidSOS's Monitoring, the local ECC will receive a phone call to confirm response and receive incident information through RapidSOS.
With Lemonade's insurance model, location-based technology is used to help make drivers' insurance better and more affordable. By tying into telematics and real-time location, we believe Lemonade can better understand a driver's behaviors and usage, and adjust their rate based on that data in all of the states where Lemonade Car currently operates.
With the new integration of RapidSOS with the Lemonade's app, we believe there is now a powerful way for drivers to confirm a crash has occurred and route data to the nearest 911 center to help quickly provide first responders with important information. At the same time, this data is also available for Lemonade users for simpler and faster claim filing after an accident or crash has occurred. Combined with Lemonade's award-winning, mobile-first customer service and claims process, we believe the combination can help take the stress out of the aftermath of an incident.
Built in partnership with public safety and leading tech companies, RapidSOS uses leading technology to help connect data from devices to first responder agencies across the U.S. The result is one API connection that enables rapid verification and the critical data that 911 needs to drive a verified, data-enriched, prioritized response.
"Lemonade has been an industry disruptor with its data-centric approach to delivering insurance for drivers of today's connected vehicles; their approach, and technology, align very much with RapidSOS," said Ed Parkinson, RapidSOS' President of Public Sector. "With our relationships and footprint within the 911 community in the US— including telecommunicators' familiarity with our dashboard, data delivery and Alerts system, together with Lemonade's location-based app and understanding of what is happening with a vehicle—the goal is to help save more lives with faster and more accurate response and a simpler and more streamlined claims process afterwards."
This new capability is available to customers today. For information on Lemonade Car, visit https://www.lemonade.com/car.
In partnership with public safety, RapidSOS has created the world's first emergency response data platform that securely links life-saving data from 400M+connected devices to emergency services and first responders. Through the platform, RapidSOS provides intelligent data that supports over 5,300 Emergency Communications Centers worldwide, across 165 million emergencies in 2021. Together with innovative companies recognized as RapidSOS Ready, RapidSOS is supporting first responders in saving millions of lives annually.
Lemonade offers renters, homeowners, car, pet, and life insurance. Powered by artificial intelligence and social impact, Lemonade's full stack insurance carriers in the US and the EU replace brokers and bureaucracy with bots and machine learning, aiming for zero paperwork and instant everything. A Certified B-Corp, Lemonade gives unused premiums to nonprofits selected by its community, during its annual Giveback. Lemonade is currently available in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and France, and continues to expand globally.
Follow @lemonade_inc on Twitter for updates.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements including, among others, statements regarding: the ability to route critical data in the event of a crash via RapidSOS to the nearest 911 center to help provide those details to first-responders, and any expected benefits from such feature; the number of connected vehicles as a percentage of total cars sold; current and future expectations of consumers regarding their car; use of telematics to help insurance companies; expectations regarding the timing or feasibility of the implementation of automatic crash detection and a direct data connection to 911; the ability to detect a crash and the Lemonade app contacting a driver in the event of a crash; expectations regarding the function of the Lemonade app in connection with RapidSOS, including the receipt of a phone call by the local ECC in the event a Lemonade user does not respond to the crash confirmation or if emergency assistance is verified via RapidSOS's Monitoring; the ability to make drivers' insurance better and more affordable; the ability of tying telematics and real-time location to better understand a driver's behavior and usage, and the resulting impacts on the affordability of drivers' insurance; the ability of RapidSOS to help drivers confirm a crash has occurred; the speed at which first responders will receive important information; the ability of the combination of Lemonade and RapidSOS to help take the stress out of the aftermath of an incident; and the ability to save more lives.
These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following: Our history of losses and the fact that we may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future; our ability to retain and expand our customer base; the fact that the "Lemonade" brand may not become as widely known as incumbents' brands or the brand may become tarnished; the denial of claims or our failure to accurately and timely pay claims; our ability to attain greater value from each user; the novelty of our business model and its unpredictable efficacy and susceptibility to unintended consequences; the possibility that we could be forced to modify or eliminate our Giveback, which could undermine our business model; the examinations and other targeted investigations by our primary and other state insurance regulators that could result in adverse examination findings and necessitate remedial actions; our limited operating history; our ability to manage our growth effectively; the impact of intense competition in the segments of the insurance industry in which we operate on our ability to attain or increase profitability; the unavailability of reinsurance at current levels and prices, which could limit our ability to write new business; our ability to renew reinsurance
contracts on comparable duration and terms to those currently in effect; our exposure to counterparty risks as a result of reinsurance; the loss of personal customer information, damage to our reputation and brand, or harm to our business and operating results as a result of security incidents or real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our systems, website or app; our actual or perceived failure to protect customer information and other data, respect customers' privacy, or comply with data privacy and security laws and regulations; our ability to comply with extensive insurance industry regulations and the need to incur additional costs or devote additional resources to comply with changes to existing regulations; our exposure to additional regulatory requirements specific to other vertical markets that we enter or have entered, including auto, pet and life insurance, and the need to devote additional resources to comply with these regulations; the ability of Lemonade to successfully integrate Metromile's operations, product lines and technology;
the ability of Lemonade to implement its plans, forecasts and other expectations with respect to Metromile's business after the completion of the transaction and realize additional opportunities for growth and innovation; the ability of Lemonade to realize the anticipated synergies from the proposed transaction in the anticipated amounts or within the anticipated timeframes or costs expectations or at all; the ability to maintain relationships with Lemonade's and Metromile's respective employees, customers, other business partners and governmental authorities; and the other risks, uncertainties and important factors contained and identified; and our inability to predict the lasting impacts of COVID-19 to our business in particular, and the global economy generally. These and other important factors are discussed under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 1, 2022 and in our other filings with the SEC could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by the forward-looking statements made in this press release. Any such forward-looking statements represent management's beliefs as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we disclaim any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.
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Police: Man shot to death at scene of child abduction identified
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Kansas City Police Department stated a 38-year-old man was killed Sunday afternoon after he was shot at the scene of a child abduction.
KCPD said Marvin Williams was found suffering from apparent gunshot wounds at a location in the 1300 block of East 89th Street just before 4 p.m. on Sunday. EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Williams died at the scene.
Law enforcement indicated 27-year-old Jordan Owsley, a suspect in the homicide, drove off from the scene with his two children, 7-year-old Marlaya and 4-year-old Cassiah Owsley.
The abduction triggered an Amber Alert Sunday afternoon, but it was canceled hours later after the two children were found safe at a relative’s house.
The vehicle was found at a separate location but as of Monday morning, the suspect remained on the loose.
Anyone with information has been asked to call detectives at 816-234-5043 or remain anonymous by calling the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
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Centerspace Reports Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
Published: Aug. 1, 2022 at 3:44 PM CDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centerspace (NYSE: CSR) announced today its financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022. The tables below show Net Income, Funds from Operations ("FFO")1, and Core FFO1, all on a per share basis, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022; Same-Store Revenues, Expenses, and Net Operating Income ("NOI")1 over comparable periods; and Same-Store Weighted-Average Occupancy for each of the three months ended June 30, 2022, March 31, 2022, and June 30, 2021.
Highlights
Net Loss was $0.30 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2022, compared to Net Income of $1.48 per diluted share for the same period of 2021;
Core FFO increased 14.3% to $1.12 per diluted share for the three months ended June 30, 2022, compared to $0.98 for the three months ended June 30, 2021;
Same-store revenues increased by 11.7% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the second quarter of 2021, driving an 11.5% increase in NOI compared to the same period of the prior year; and
Revised 2022 financial outlook, increasing our guidance range for net loss per share to $0.31 to $0.14 per diluted share. We also increased our same-store NOI growth guidance for 2022 to 10.0% to 12.0%, an increase of 2% over our previous guidance range. This resulted in an increase in the Core FFO guidance range to $4.45 to $4.61 per diluted share.
Balance Sheet
At the end of the second quarter, Centerspace had $196.2 million of total liquidity on its balance sheet, consisting of $183.0 million available under the lines of credit and cash and cash equivalents of $13.2 million.
Revised 2022 Financial Outlook
Centerspace revised its 2022 financial outlook and increased its earnings per share, Core FFO and same-store NOI guidance. For additional information, see S-17 of the Supplemental Financial and Operating Data for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 included at the end of this release. These ranges should be considered in their entirety. The table below reflects the revised outlook.
Earnings Call
Supplemental Information
Supplemental Operating and Financial Data for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 included herein ("Supplemental Information"), is available in the Investors section on Centerspace's website at www.centerspacehomes.com or by calling Investor Relations at 701-837-7104. Non-GAAP financial measures and other capitalized terms, as used in this earnings release, are defined and reconciled in the Supplemental Financial and Operating Data, which accompanies this earnings release.
About Centerspace
Centerspace is an owner and operator of apartment communities committed to providing great homes by focusing on integrity and serving others. Founded in 1970, as of June 30, 2022, Centerspace owned 83 apartment communities consisting of 14,838 apartment homes located in Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Centerspace was named a Top Workplace for 2021 by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. For more information, please visit www.centerspacehomes.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release and the accompanying Supplemental Operating and Financial Data are based on the company's current expectations and assumptions, and are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the results of operations, financial conditions, or plans expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Although the company believes the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that the expectations will be achieved. Such risks, uncertainties, and other factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to those risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in Centerspace's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" contained in its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, in its subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and in other public reports. The company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue due to subsequent events.
CENTERSPACE NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES AND RECONCILIATIONS (unaudited)
This release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures. The non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered a substitute for operating results determined in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP"). The definitions and calculations of these non-GAAP financial measures, as calculated by us, may not be comparable to non-GAAP financial measures reported by other REITs that do not define each of the non-GAAP financial measures exactly as Centerspace does.
The company provides certain information on a same-store and non-same-store basis. Same-store apartment communities are owned or in service for substantially all of the periods being compared, and, in the case of newly-constructed properties, have achieved a target level of physical occupancy of 90%. On the first day of each calendar year, Centerspace determines the composition of its same-store pool for that year as well as adjusts the previous year, which allows us to evaluate full period-over-period operating comparisons for existing apartment communities and their contribution to net income. The company believes that measuring performance on a same-store basis is useful to investors because it enables evaluation of how a fixed pool of its communities are performing year-over-year. Centerspace uses this measure to assess whether or not the company has been successful in increasing NOI, renewing the leases on existing residents, controlling operating costs, and making prudent capital improvements.
Reconciliation of Operating Income (Loss) to Net Operating Income
Net operating income, or NOI, is a non-GAAP financial measure which the company defines as total real estate revenues less property operating expenses, including real estate taxes. Centerspace believes that NOI is an important supplemental measure of operating performance for real estate because it provides a measure of operations that is unaffected by depreciation, amortization, financing, property management overhead, casualty losses, and general and administrative expenses. NOI does not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to net income, net income available for common shareholders, or cash flow from operating activities as a measure of financial performance.
* Not a meaningful percentage
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Reconciliation of Same-Store Controllable Expenses to Total Property Operating Expenses, Including Real Estate Taxes
Same-store controllable expenses exclude real estate taxes and insurance, in order to provide a measure of expenses that are within management's control, and is used for the purposes of budgeting, business planning, and performance evaluation. This is a non-GAAP financial measure and should not be considered an alternative to total expenses or total property operating expenses.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Shareholders to Funds From Operations and Core Funds From Operations
Centerspace believes that FFO, which is a non-GAAP financial measure used as a standard supplemental measure for equity real estate investment trusts, is helpful to investors in understanding its operating performance, primarily because its calculation does not assume that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time, as implied by the historical cost convention of GAAP and the recording of depreciation.
Centerspace uses the definition of FFO adopted by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. ("Nareit"). Nareit defines FFO as net income or loss calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding:
depreciation and amortization related to real estate;
gains and losses from the sale of certain real estate assets; and
impairment write-downs of certain real estate assets and investments in entities when the impairment is directly attributable to decreases in the value of depreciable real estate held by the entity.
The exclusion in Nareit's definition of FFO of gains and losses from the sale of real estate assets and impairment write-downs helps to identify the operating results of the long-term assets that form the base of the company's investments, and assists management and investors in comparing those operating results between periods.
Due to the limitations of the Nareit FFO definition, Centerspace has made certain interpretations in applying this definition. The company believes that all such interpretations not specifically identified in the Nareit definition are consistent with this definition. Nareit's FFO White Paper 2018 Restatement clarified that impairment write-downs of land related to a REIT's main business are excluded from FFO and a REIT has the option to exclude impairment write-downs of assets that are incidental to its main business.
While FFO is widely used by Centerspace as a primary performance metric, not all real estate companies use the same definition of FFO or calculate FFO in the same way. Accordingly, FFO presented here is not necessarily comparable to FFO presented by other real estate companies. FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income or any other GAAP measurement of performance, but rather should be considered as an additional, supplemental measure. FFO also does not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund all cash flow needs, including the ability to service indebtedness or make distributions to shareholders.
Core Funds from Operations ("Core FFO") is FFO as adjusted for non-routine items or items not considered core to business operations. By further adjusting for items that are not considered part of core business operations, the company believes that Core FFO provides investors with additional information to compare core operating and financial performance between periods. Core FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income, or any other GAAP measurement of performance, but rather should be considered an additional supplemental measure. Core FFO also does not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP, nor is it indicative of funds available to fund the company's cash needs, including its ability to service indebtedness or make distributions to shareholders. Core FFO is a non-GAAP and non-standardized financial measure that may be calculated differently by other REITs and should not be considered a substitute for operating results determined in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Shareholders to Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization, gain/loss on sale of real estate and other investments, impairment of real estate investments, gain/loss on extinguishment of debt, gain/loss from involuntary conversion; and other non-routine items or items not considered core to business operations. The company considers Adjusted EBITDA to be an appropriate supplemental performance measure because it permits investors to view income from operations without the effect of depreciation, the cost of debt, or non-operating gains and losses. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP financial measure and should not be considered a substitute for operating results determined in accordance with GAAP.
Reconciliation of Net Income (Loss) Available to Common Shareholders to FFO and Core FFO
The following table presents reconciliations of Net income (loss) available to common shareholders to FFO and Core FFO, which are non-GAAP financial measures described in greater detail under "Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Reconciliations." They should not be considered as alternatives to net income or any other GAAP measurement of performance, but rather should be considered as an additional, supplemental measure. FFO and Core FFO also do not represent cash generated from operating activities in accordance with GAAP, nor are they indicative of funds available to fund all cash needs, including the ability to service indebtedness or make distributions to shareholders. The outlook and projections provided below are based on current expectations and are forward-looking.
Reconciliation of Operating Income to Net Operating Income
Net operating income, or NOI, is a non-GAAP financial measure which the company defines as total real estate revenues less property operating expenses, including real estate taxes. Centerspace believes that NOI is an important supplemental measure of operating performance for real estate because it provides a measure of operations that is unaffected by depreciation, amortization, financing, property management overhead, casualty losses, and general and administrative expenses. NOI does not represent cash generated by operating activities in accordance with GAAP and should not be considered an alternative to net income, net income available for common shareholders, or cash flow from operating activities as a measure of financial performance.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc.
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Chinese automaker Dongfeng has launched a production model with in-wheel motors from supplier Protean Electric.
In press releases, Protean claims the Dongfeng Fengshen E70 is the “world’s first fully homologated passenger car” equipped with two ProteanDrive in-wheel motors. A conventional inboard motor drives the front wheels, while the in-wheel motors power the rear wheels, enabling all-wheel drive. Each rear in-wheel motor produces 104 hp and 922 lb-ft of torque.
According to Protean, Dongfeng has found that this configuration is lighter than a conventional all-wheel-drive EV setup. The companies also claim a 50% increase in storage space, a 0-62 mph time 42% quicker, and 18% higher cornering speeds thanks to the torque-vectoring capability of the in-wheel motors. Protean also claims increased efficiency, and 83 fewer parts than a comparable inboard motor setup.
The initial batch of Dongfeng Fengshen E70 sedans are undergoing “fleet trials” in China, according to Protean. Dongfeng has also unveiled a second model with in-wheel motors, the Voyah Zhuiguang, a luxury sedan from the company’s Voyah brand.
There’s been a lot of interest in in-wheel motors but relatively low-volume use so far. Lightyear claimed its 0 had the most efficient production powertrain in the world but it’s already scrapped production. The Lordstown Endurance also used them, but production of that vehicle has stalled as well. That leaves Aptera, which also plans to use in-wheel motors for its three-wheeler—although it will be an autocycle, not a passenger vehicle.
That said, mass-produced in-wheel motors for cars have been on the horizon for some time. And perhaps racing tech—and the threat of the a newcomer from China—will help get them there.
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The mother of a 25-year-old Black man who was shot to death by Mississippi Capitol Police last year told some state lawmakers Monday that she strongly opposes giving the state-run law enforcement agency wider territory to patrol inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson.
“That terrifies me. It also angers me,” Arkela Lewis said of the proposal.
She said her son, Jaylen Lewis, was followed by a white officer in an unmarked car Sept. 25, and the officer shot him in the head during a traffic stop. She said Capitol Police leaders never called her to acknowledge her son’s death and she has not yet received an investigative report or autopsy results.
Mississippi Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell recently said in response to questions from The Associated Press that the death of Jaylen Lewis remains under investigation.
The assistant chief of the city-run Jackson Police Department, a district attorney and several other officials appeared before legislators Monday to denounce a bill that would expand Capitol Police territory within Jackson and create courts with appointed rather than elected judges.
Opponents said the bill would take away voting rights and give white state officials control over what should be locally led law enforcement decisions in Jackson, which has the highest percentage of Black residents of any major U.S. city.
Jackson Police Department patrols the entire city. Capitol Police currently patrols in and near downtown, where state government buildings are located.
The majority-white and Republican-controlled state House voted last month to expand Capitol Police territory to include shopping and residential areas, including some predominantly white neighborhoods. The bill, which awaits Senate debate, would also establish courts with judges appointed by the chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court — a position currently held by a conservative white man.
“This is the first time we’ve been invited to the table to discuss this bill,” Jackson Police Assistant Chief Joseph Wade said Monday at a hearing hosted by Jackson’s legislative delegation.
The sponsor of the bill, Republican Rep. Trey Lamar is from Senatobia, a rural town more than 170 miles (275 kilometers) north of Jackson. He has said it’s aimed at making Mississippi’s capital safer and at reducing a backlog in the judicial system.
Lamar and other supporters of the bill did not attend Monday’s hearing.
About 83% of Jackson residents are Black. The city is in Hinds County, with an overall population that’s about 74% Black.
Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens said legislators have funded additional assistants for district attorneys in other parts of the state but not for Hinds County.
“I continue hearing so many people say they love Jackson, they love the capital city,” Owens said. “If you love us, fund us appropriately so we can give you a safer city of Jackson.”
Hinds County public defender Gail Lowery said her office is “woefully underfunded” and she has trouble keeping attorneys because they can earn $41,000 more per year by working as assistant district attorneys in the same county. Lowery said 90% of people facing criminal charges in Hinds County rely on the public defender’s office, which receives all of its financial support from county coffers.
Hinds County has four elected circuit court judges. Lowery said that for decades, the county has needed two more to help carry the caseload.
“Our citizens deserve to have representation by judges who are elected by them,” Lowery said.
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PARIS (AP) — French investigators searched the headquarters of Paris Olympic organizers on Tuesday in a probe into suspected corruption, according to the national financial prosecutor’s office.
The Paris organizing committee said in a statement that a search was under way at their headquarters in the suburb of Saint-Denis, and that “Paris 2024 is cooperating with the investigators to facilitate their investigations.” It would not comment further.
Paris becomes the third straight Summer Games organizer implicated in investigations led by anti-corruption authorities in the French capital.
Vote-buying allegations linked to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and the Tokyo Games in 2021 previously removed several members of the International Olympic Committee from that organization.
An official with the financial prosecutor’s office said Tuesday the searches are linked to two preliminary investigations related to the Paris Olympics that had not previously been made public. The official was not authorized to be publicly named according to prosecutor’s office policy.
According to Le Monde newspaper, raids also took place at the offices of the public body in charge of Olympic infrastructure, and at the headquarters of several companies and consultants linked to the organization of the games.
Paris organizers declined to comment.
One of the probes was opened in 2017 — the year Paris was picked by the IOC as the 2024 host — into suspected embezzlement of public funds and favoritism, and concerns about an unspecified contract reached by Paris organizers, the prosecutor’s office said.
The other was opened in 2022 following an audit by the French Anti-corruption Agency. The prosecutor’s office said that case targets suspected conflict of interest and favoritism involving several contracts reached by the organizing committee and Solideo, the company in charge of Olympic facilities.
The Paris Olympics are scheduled for July 26-Aug. 11, 2024.
The raids unfolded at the same time as the IOC executive board began a two-day meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, expecting to praise Paris organizers for their progress.
IOC president Thomas Bach told reporters early Monday the meeting “of course will be about Paris, where we have some good news after the visit of the coordination mission and after my visit to France, to President Macron, and also the organizing committee.”
The IOC said it expected to release a statement Tuesday about the raids in Paris ahead of a previously scheduled online news briefing once its meeting closed for the day.
While French sports have triumphed on the fields of play, led notably by victory in the 2018 soccer World Cup, they’ve been rocked by multiple leadership changes in the run-up to the Paris Olympics.
Just last month, the president of the French Olympic Committee resigned following a period of intense infighting, prompting calls from Paris organizers for sports leaders to set differences aside and focus on delivering the Games.
Also, Noël Le Graët resigned as president of the French soccer federation in February after a government audit found he no longer had the legitimacy to lead because of his behavior toward women and his management style. Bernard Laporte resigned as president of the French Rugby Federation in January after he was convicted of corruption and illegally acquiring assets and handed a suspended prison sentence.
Last October, Claude Atcher was fired as chief executive of the Rugby World Cup. That event opens in France in September, and also will serve as a test of France’s security preparations for the Olympics. Atcher’s removal followed an investigation by French labor inspectors into his workplace conduct.
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SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY
URGENT - MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area
249 AM PDT Mon Aug 8 2022
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt.
* WHERE...Coastal Waters from Point Pinos to Point Piedras
Blancas California out to 10 nm.
* WHEN...Until 9 PM PDT Tuesday.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in hazardous conditions.
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...Northwest winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt.
* WHERE...Waters from Point Pinos to Point Piedras Blancas 10-
60 NM.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM PDT Tuesday.
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM THIS MORNING
TO 9 PM PDT THIS EVENING...
...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM PDT TUESDAY...
* WHAT...For the first Small Craft Advisory, west winds 15 to 25
kt with gusts up to 35 kt expected. For the second Small Craft
Advisory, west winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt
expected.
* WHERE...Monterey Bay.
* WHEN...For the Small Craft Advisory, from 9 AM this morning to
9 PM PDT this evening. For the Small Craft Advisory, from 9 AM
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* WHAT...West winds 10 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and
choppy waters expected.
* WHERE...San Pablo Bay, Suisun Bay, the West Delta and the San
Francisco Bay north of the Bay Bridge.
* WHEN...From 9 AM this morning to 9 PM PDT this evening.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Legislation moving in the Florida House would ban discussion of menstrual cycles and other human sexuality topics in elementary grades.
The bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Stan McClain would restrict public school instruction on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases and related topics to grades 6 through 12. McClain confirmed at a recent committee meeting that discussions about menstrual cycles would also be restricted to those grades.
“So if little girls experience their menstrual cycle in 5th grade or 4th grade, will that prohibit conversations from them since they are in the grade lower than sixth grade?” asked state Rep. Ashley Gantt, a Democrat who taught in public schools and noted that girls as young as 10 can begin having periods.
“It would,” McClain responded.
The GOP-backed legislation cleared the House Education Quality Subcommittee on Wednesday by a 13-5 vote mainly along party lines. It would also allow parents to object to books and other materials their children are exposed to, require schools to teach that a person's sexual identity is determined biologically at birth and set up more scrutiny of certain educational materials by the state Department of Education.
McClain said the bill's intent is to bring uniformity to sex education across all of Florida's 67 school districts and provide more pathways for parents to object to books or other materials they find inappropriate for younger children.
At the committee meeting, Gantt asked whether teachers could face punishment if they discuss menstruation with younger students.
“My concern is they won't feel safe to have those conversations with these little girls,” she said.
McClain said “that would not be the intent” of the bill and that he is “amenable” to some changes to its language. The measure must be approved by another committee before it can reach the House floor; a similar bill is pending in the Senate.
An email seeking comment was sent Saturday to the office of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is widely seen as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.
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GreenPal app helping homeowners hire on-demand services in Phoenix
PHOENIX - How’s your lawn looking after all the monsoon activity the last couple of weeks?
If it needs some love, an app that just launched in Phoenix can help you with any outdoor projects by connecting you with local landscapers immediately.
GreenPal.com is in 48 states, 200 markets, and is now officially launching in Phoenix, and beyond.
Alan’s Landscaping it’s a traditional family business in Buckeye that's getting a high-tech boost from the app. They've found dozens of new customers.
"We've gotten elderly people, snow birds, we've gotten young people who like to make it easier," says Fernanda Lopez, with Alan’s Landscaping. "It's like Uber Eats for lawn mowing."
Based in Nashville, Gene Caballero launched the business because he thought lawn mowing on demand might have the same appeal as ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft.
"I knew that if a stranger was going to summon a stranger to take them to restaurants or take them home, that at some point they would do the same with lawn care. That's kind of how the idea came about" Caballero said.
Here’s how it works.
As a vendor, Lopez will get an alert of a job for her to bid on in her area.
"We give them the Google Aerial view, the street view and also the square footage of the property and what the homeowner truly needs. With that information, the vendor can then give a quote to that homeowner for the services they need done," Caballero explained.
Lopez says it helps cut down on business costs, too.
"It helps us. It helps them save time. Also, with inflation, gas prices going up, we don't have to go to properties to give an estimate. We know what they're expecting from us," she said.
The client pays through the app once they’ve inspected the work and approve it. The company takes 5% of the transaction, the vendor gets the rest.
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VENICE, Italy (AP) — Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei warns against hubris with his first glass sculpture, made on the Venetian island of Murano. The artwork’s title is intended as a warning to the world: “Memento Mori” — or Latin for “Remember You Must Die.”
Ai did not have to search hard for evidence that the planet is in “such a troublesome time.” Russian bombs are falling daily on Ukraine. China is flexing its military muscle in the Taiwan Strait. Migrants die repeatedly at sea as smugglers’ boats sink. The Earth warms, creating drought, collapsing glaciers and triggering violent storms. The pandemic that killed at least 6.4 million people lingers.
“We are talking about many, many things. We are talking about immigrants, about deaths, about the war, about many, many issues,″ Ai told The Associated Press in Venice on Friday.
He stands by his 9-meter (29.5-foot), nearly 3-ton black glass sculpture, which is suspended over the central nave of the deconsecrated church of San Giorgio Maggiore, located opposite Venice’s St. Mark’s Square. Titled “The Human Comedy: Memento Mori,” the sculpture is the centerpiece of an Ai exhibit at the church that opens Sunday.
The massive piece is replete with symbols lampooning social media and the surveillance state: intricately hung, molded glass skeletons and skulls, both human and animal; scattered likenesses of the Twitter bird logo; and surveillance cameras.
“We see the environment completely disappearing, being destroyed by humans’ effort … and that will create a much bigger disaster or famine. Or war, there’s a possible political struggle between China and the West″ as China asserts greater control over Hong Kong and threatens control over Taiwan, Ai said.
“We have to rethink about humans and legitimacy in the environment. Do we really deserve this planet, or are we just being so short-sighted and racist? And very, very just self-demanding, selfishness,″ the artist added.
The exhibit also features smaller glass sculptures. One depicts Ai himself as a prisoner. Another imposes his distorted face on a replica of an 18th-century statue titled “Allegory of Envy.″ A wooden sculpture of a tree trunk fills a sacristy. Colored glass hard hats save places in the choir. Lego-brick portrait replicas of famous paintings and the Chinese zodiac line the church’s walls.
It’s easy to spot the references from his life. After speaking out against the Chinese government and championing free speech, Ai was arrested and imprisoned by Chinese authorities for more than two months in 2011. He now lives in exile in Europe.
Ai said he thinks Russia’s invasion of Ukraine gave Chinese authorities a “potential model” to understand how such an operation might play out in Taiwan, without serving either as encouragement or warning. He called it more of a “mental exercise.” The artist says any Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be a mistake and a misunderstanding of Taiwan’s history.
“Taiwan has been apart for over 70 years. They have their own social structure, which is more democratic and more peaceful than in China,″ he said. Any moves by China to claim Taiwan by force will result “in the ultimate struggle.″
He sees the struggle in China as one for legitimacy of authorities’ control, while the challenge in the West is the continual need to defend democracy and with it freedom of speech. The West’s Achille’s heel is its economic dependency on China’s cheap manufacturing, he said.
“That is why China is so confident,″ Ai said. ”They know the West cannot live without China.”
He cited instances of Western hypocrisy, including the rejection by festivals in Europe and the United States of films he made during the pandemic depicting Wuhan’s first lockdown and the struggles in Hong Kong.
After praising the films, festivals ultimately give “the last words, we cannot show it,″ out of fear of losing access to the Chinese market, Ai said.
His artworks travel more smoothly, he said, because his artistic language is harder to interpret.
Tourists wandering in from the water bus were delighted that they had stumbled into an exhibit by the renowned dissident artist.
“It is metal? When I first saw this I thought it represented hell,″ Kenneth Cheung, a Hong Kong native now living in Toronto, Canada, said as he checked out the imposing glass sculpture. “Being in a church, it is even stronger, more powerful.”
The main sculpture took three years to realize with assistance from artists at a glass studio on Murano employing three techniques: traditional Murano blown glass, wax molds and injection molds. Studio owner Adriano Berengo said he pursued Ai for years to secure a collaboration with an artist he admires for his strong political beliefs.
“He shows his face. He doesn’t hide. He is ready to risk his life, and he did in China,″ Berengo said.
The exhibit runs through Nov. 27 in Venice. From there, the hanging sculpture will go to the Design Museum in London and then, hopefully a buyer, Berengo said.
“It has to be a big museum. Otherwise, how can you keep an artwork like that?” he said.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe says it is on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large part to efforts to overcome food supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine. But bush fires and impending rains are threatening crops yet to be harvested.
Like other African countries, Zimbabwe has for decades relied on imports to offset low local production. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in global shortages and price hikes, the country wanted to ensure “self-sufficiency at all costs,” Deputy Agriculture Minister Vangelis Haritatos told The Associated Press this week.
The country expects to harvest 380,000 tons of wheat, “which is 20,000 more than we require as a country,” Haritatos said. That is up from about 300,000 tons produced last year.
“We are most likely to get the highest tonnage since 1962, when wheat was first introduced to Zimbabwe. A lot of countries are facing shortages, but the opposite is happening in Zimbabwe,” Haritatos said.
While other hunger-stricken African countries are struggling with reduced wheat imports due to the war in Ukraine, Zimbabwe is looking at using its anticipated surplus of the grain to build “a small strategic reserve” for the first time in its history, agriculture minister Anxious Masuka told journalists earlier this month. This would cushion Zimbabwe against future shocks.
Masuka said Zimbabwe plans to bump up wheat production to about 420,000 tons next season, giving the country room to keep building its strategic reserve and become an exporter of the grain. Wheat is Zimbabwe’s most important strategic crop after corn.
African countries — which imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, according to U.N. figures — were hit hard by the global shortages and price hikes of grains as a result of the war. The African Development Bank has reported a 45% increase in wheat prices on the continent.
African nations were at the center of Western efforts to reopen Ukraine’s ports as the United States and allies accused Russia of starving the world by denying exports from Ukraine, a key global grain exporter. African leaders also visited Russia to meet with Putin over the issue.
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa in April described the war in Ukraine as a “wake-up call” for countries to grow their own food.
The answer in Zimbabwe has been to empower local farmers, said Haritatos, the deputy agriculture minister.
That included roping in hundreds of small-scale, rural farmers to start growing a crop that was traditionally reserved for large-scale commercial farmers, improving water supply infrastructure and distributing fertilizers to small-scale farmers as well as increasing private-sector participation. The crop was introduced for the first time to areas and farmers who had never grown wheat before.
Winter corn production has given way to wheat in many areas, with Zimbabwe banking on corn reserves to meet demand for the staple food. Land used for growing wheat increased from 66,000 hectares (163,089 acres) in 2021 to 75,000 hectares this year and will grow to 100,000 hectares next season.
“A lot of countries discount small-scale farmers because they are so small that individually they cannot effect much change,” Haritatos said. “But we organized them into clusters and convinced them that it was possible. The quality of most of their crops is premium.”
He said the war in Ukraine had made Zimbabwe “realize that we shouldn’t rely on other countries for food that we can grow on our own.”
However, Zimbabwe’s wheat is predominantly soft, and there is a need to blend it with imported hard wheat varieties to produce quality flour for bread, according to the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe. But the government has ruled out imports amid the surplus, saying a special permit would be needed.
The wheat harvest runs from October to December. However, both farmers and the government are concerned by the threat of raging bush fires and imminent rains. They say the fires are more devastating than in previous years as climate change contributes to an extended dry season.
“Farmers are increasingly getting worried about the time factor. It looks like the rains will be upon us soon. Wheat should be out of the fields,” said Paul Zakariya, director of the Zimbabwe Farmers Union, which represents small-scale growers.
Officials said bush fires destroyed wheat worth nearly $1 million in a single week in mid-October. Zimbabwe is amid the “fire season,” characterized by severe heat and strong windy and arid conditions that precede the rainy season.
The government says it has deployed more combine harvesters to help farmers speed up the harvest and is carrying out fire prevention awareness programs. The country’s environmental management agency has described bush fires as “one of the greatest environmental challenges of our time.”
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Fossil shows fish evolved to walk on land — then went back to the water By Kai McNamee, Ashley Brown Published July 26, 2022 at 4:26 PM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 2:28 After an ancient fish developed legs, its newly discovered descendent Qikiqtania wakei went back to swimming in open water. Copyright 2022 NPR
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni Family of Services, a national leader in child welfare and behavioral health, in collaboration with the Hope Research Center and Attend Behavior technology platform, is pleased to announce the formation of the Hope Collective. This partnership has been selected as the recipient of a four-year Tennessee Department of Children's Services ACEs Innovation Grant, funded by the Tennessee State Legislature, beginning July 1, 2023. The Hope Collective is designed to reduce the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) for families throughout the state.
This funding will allow the Hope Collective to develop a practice model based on the work of the Hope Research Center to guide family serving organizations. This evidence-based approach improves community outcomes by reducing the impact of ACEs, increasing client goal achievement, and retaining family-serving staff. The Attend Behavior platform will support the project with data collection and evaluation. Over four years, Omni Family of Services staff will receive training and consultation to identify and research best practices in service delivery. Nurture the Next, an in-home parenting support organization, will also participate in the Hope Collective to broaden the impact across Tennessee.
ACEs are traumatic events that occur before a child reaches the age of 18. ACEs include all types of abuse and neglect, such as parental substance use, incarceration, and domestic violence. The CDC-Kaiser ACE study in the 1990s, considered to be a landmark study on ACEs, found a significant relationship between the number of ACEs a person experienced and a variety of negative outcomes in adulthood, including poor physical and mental health, substance use, and risky behaviors. The more ACEs experienced, the greater the risk for these outcomes.
In partnership with Omni Family of Services, Omni Family Institute will manage the project's implementation. With a focus on driving innovation to child welfare and behavioral health, Omni Family Institute delivers evidence-based models and training.
About Omni Family of Services
Omni Family of Services is a multi-state human services agency serving children and adults. Our organization bridges the gap between behavioral and physical health services and social services to help keep kids, families, and the communities they live in strong and healthy. To learn more, visit our website at www.theomnifamily.com.
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VANCOUVER, BC, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Yumy Candy Company Inc., (CSE: TYUM) ("Yumy" or the "Company") Canada's first publicly traded low sugar, plant-based confectionery company, is pleased to announce its partnership with Sungiven Foods, a top-quality large Asian conglomerate supermarket chain with more than 200 stores and over 3,000 employees worldwide. The partnership will consist of a co-branded line of Yumy Candy products, which will specifically target Sungiven Foods valued Asian clientele. Yumy will manage all aspects of the supply chain and production of the products, with Sungiven managing the distribution to their locations and sales.
Sungiven Foods launched in the North American market after achieving tremendous success in China, with over 200 locations worldwide Sungiven Foods is committed to serving Asians of all generations and all customers who love enjoying and cooking healthy Asian cuisine. They are focused on "more natural, less processed, and fewer additives" products, while advocating for local, organic, and healthy foods. Sungiven Foods offers a full range of healthy foods, with thousands of globally sourced, and affordable private-label products — including fresh fruits from around the world, and organic vegetables from Canada and Central America. In Metro Vancouver, Sungiven Foods opened nine locations with plans to expand to 20 stores in Canada, along with a simultaneous expansion into the U.S. market. Sungiven Foods has leveraged its global supply chain resources to further grow its wholesale channels and global import and export business, while actively developing an e-commerce platform. Sungiven has various white label brands, which they prioritize through their wholesale channels. Including selling their own products within Canada, as well as distributing and selling to other local markets and retailers, allowing the business to position themselves in all aspects of food industry. Sungiven also manages import/export of products between Canada and Asia.
Yumy has confirmed production capabilities to ensure volumes and quotas can be fulfilled, moving forward with global expansion objectives. "We are proud to announce our partnership with Sungiven Foods, adding another large-scale global customer we can count on contributing to the company's bottom line. Having Sungiven Foods stand behind our project in Asia gives our company a new level of credibility and helps us moving forward with our global expansion. We aim to see Yumy entering more strategic partnerships like Sungiven in the near future." States Cassidy McCord, Director of The Yumy Candy Company.
The co-branded items will consist of Yumy's signature Strawberry Kiwi, Peach and Sour Watermelon gummy bears in a 50g bag, as a custom 24-pack variety. The packaging design has been tailored to best fit the Sungiven clientele, as the stores focus many of their marketing efforts and promotions towards their in-house brands. The minimum volume commitment for the agreement is 38,880 units per quarter, with intent to increase volumes by promoting in-house brands. The partnership will consist of two phases, having the initial launch within their Canadian locations and the second phase to export to China to supply to the remainder of the Sungiven supermarkets.
Erica Williams, Chief Executive Officer
Telephone: (604) 449-2026 Email: investors@yumybear.com
The Yumy Candy is an affordable health-conscious low-sugar plant-based confectionery company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and it has developed a portfolio of healthier gelatine-free candies made from non-GMO ingredients with proprietary recipes. All of its products are free of gelatin, soy, gluten, nuts, dairy, eggs, sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners and genetically modified organisms.
Except for the statements of historical fact, this news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of the applicable securities legislation. The information in this news release about future plans and objectives of the Company, are forward-looking information. This forward-looking information is based on reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company at the time it was made, and involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, among others: general business, economic and social uncertainties; local and global market and economic uncertainties arising in respect of the COVID-19 pandemic; litigation, availability of key product ingredients, legislative, environmental and other judicial, regulatory, political and competitive developments; the ability to effectively expand manufacturing and production capacity; the ability to obtain retail partners to distribute Company products, the success of market initiatives and the ability to grow brand awareness; the ability to attract, maintain and expand relationships with key strategic vendors; our ability to predict consumer taste preferences; delay or failure to receive regulatory approvals; the sufficiency of our cash to meet liquidity needs; those additional risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com; and other matters discussed in this news release. Accordingly, the forward-looking statements discussed in this release may not occur and could differ materially as a result of these known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting the Company. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking statements are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on these statements, which only apply as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. Except where required by law, the Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward- looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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AMSTERDAM, Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands: SmallRig will be introducing many new exciting, innovative products at the International Broadcasting Conference - IBC 2022 from September 9 – 12 at Hall 11, Booth B22.
As one of the world's most respected content and technology events, IBC 2022 provides the perfect platform for SmallRig to offer hands-on presentations of their impressive products and discuss future plans and design projects with attendees.
SmallRig, well-known for its professional line of Camera Cages, Follow Focus, Matte Boxes and accessories, has greatly expanded its product range in 2022 into the field of Sound, Lighting, and Gimbal shooting. The new COB Studio Video Lights, Dual-Channel W60 Wireless Microphones, V-Mount Battery Packs and Wireless Control Operating System for DJI RS 2 / RS 3 Pro are just a hint of what's to come next from SmallRig.
In addition to showcasing the full SmallRig product mix, they will be highlighting their innovative DreamRig Co-design Project where users personally participated in product development and have jointly created more than 2,000 customized products with SmallRig.
As a thank you for checking out their extensive range of products, SmallRig will be giving every visitor to the booth a Special Gift Pack. SmallRig can't wait to meet all the creators in this gathering opportunity.
About SmallRig
Founded in 2012, SmallRig designs and builds complete accessory solutions for content creations with cameras, gimbals, and mobile phones. Our accessories are widely used in live broadcasting, Vlogging, professional video production, and other fields supported by over two million creators worldwide. SmallRig pioneered the User Co-Design (UCD) mode and DreamRig program with the ultimate goal to co-design with global creators and make their big dreams achievable.
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Inside the NHL
NEWARK, N.J. — With the Kraken preparing for Thursday night’s game here against the New Jersey Devils, it seemed time to chronicle how their playoff push won’t be what most Seattle sports fans are used to.
Unlike the NFL, MLB and NBA, the NHL awards a bonus point for losing in overtime or a shootout. Now, I use “bonus” loosely as seasoned NHL-watchers have coined “loser point” as the term best describing it.
The one thing these “loser points” do is make it difficult for NHL teams to gain separation in the standings. The flip side, though, is that once there is separation, it’s tough to catch up.
And that’s why, despite the Kraken’s 4-0 loss to the New York Islanders on Tuesday night, they remain in excellent position to qualify for the postseason with 32 games to go. Sure, it appears they’ll spend time without Andre Burakovsky, who was still being evaluated for a leg injury suffered Tuesday and didn’t practice Wednesday with the team.
But with 32 games remaining, most prognostication systems give the Kraken at least a 95% chance at the playoffs.
And a big reason is, the Kraken haven’t just compiled a record inflated by “loser point” pickups. They’ve gained a full two points enough times either by winning in regulation or — and this looms large — in overtime to separate a bit from “loser point” teams.
Remember back in November when Kraken coach Dave Hakstol devoted two days of practice to helping his team have some semblance of an overtime plan? Hakstol knew what every longtime NHL observer does: Getting beyond an acceptance of collecting “loser points” matters. And picking up two points instead of settling for one after a regulation tie really starts to pay dividends as a season progresses.
“Those points are extremely important,” Hakstol said in November after his team lost its first three overtime games. “We all know that as the league continues to tighten up, the potential for more of those overtime games and overtime points is going to be there.”
Since then, the Kraken have won their past four games decided in overtime. And those extra points loom large.
Despite Tuesday’s flop, the Kraken are 29-16-5. They’re a true eight games above .500 — having won eight more than they’ve lost, overtime points be darned. Another NHL term in vogue during the “loser point” era is “fake .500” and describes teams padding records with single points from overtime and shootout losses.
The Philadelphia Flyers, who the Kraken visit Sunday, are perhaps the fakest .500 team going. The Flyers exited the break just six points out of the final Eastern Conference wild-card spot at 21-21-9, which seemed a perfect .500 record until you consider they’re really nine games under with zero playoff chance. Actually, make that 10 games under with a 1.2% playoff hope — according to the Money Puck analytics website — after the Islanders dumped them Monday before beating the Kraken.
So there’s a lot of “fake .500” helping teams stay closer than they should be. The good news for actual .500 or better teams such as the Kraken is they’ll eventually pick up a few “loser points” of their own to supplement their winning, and that’s usually enough to keep pretenders at bay.
In the Kraken’s case, they’ve gained five “loser points” of their own from the three overtime losses plus two subsequent shootout defeats. Throw those on top of their 29 two-point games, and you see why teams chasing them face such an uphill climb.
A glance at the Western Conference standings entering Wednesday’s games showed the Kraken only five points ahead of the closest team contending for the final wild-card spot. That would be the Calgary Flames, on the outside looking in at 58 points compared with 63 for the Kraken.
But a deeper look showed the Flames were 24-17-10, meaning they’ve stayed close because of 10 “loser points” while playing one additional game. In reality, they’re three games below .500, and to catch the Kraken would need to win at a much higher clip. And the Kraken would need to start losing in regulation at a far greater rate.
That’s why Kraken playoff odds remain so high. They play a bunch of bottom-dwelling teams the final few weeks, and even winning just half their remaining 32 contests probably gets them in.
Remember, it isn’t just the Flames needing to win more for the Kraken to miss the postseason. The Kraken have the conference’s best points percentage because they’ve played fewer games than everybody else. So they’d need the Flames and seven other teams to start winning far more than them.
And that’s not very realistic, as those teams also play each other a fair bit. Some will inevitably lose.
Still, the Kraken haven’t clinched yet.
One thing that could send playoff odds tumbling would be going 0-5 this trip. They have tough games upcoming against the Devils, New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets. Sure, the “fakest .500” Flyers are also mixed in, but the Islanders were supposed to be an easier test, so who knows?
Even minus Burakovsky, the team must generate more offense and start working those games in hand to their advantage to broaden separation from other squads. They began Wednesday a point behind the division-leading Vegas Golden Knights but had played two fewer games. They were also tied with the Los Angeles Kings but held three games in hand.
Had the Kraken gone 5-0 this trip, they’d probably have ample separation to settle the playoff question once and for all. The only unresolved issue would be whether they’d win the division.
That perfect trip can’t happen now, so the door remains open just a crack for some team — remember, the Flames won the division last season — to creep up and bump them out of the conference’s top eight if the Kraken go on an epic losing streak. But the opening is not as wide as “loser points” make it appear.
In fact, despite this tough upcoming stretch, the Kraken have enough cushion to lose more games than they win for a while no matter how close the standings seem. As long as they don’t yank out their own steering wheel, they remain in the playoff driver’s seat.
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For months, Rory McIlroy walked the ramparts of the PGA Tour fortress, besieged by the Saudi-funded LIV Golf. He and other holdouts spoke about staying true to the PGA's traditions, even as their peers accepted millions and millions of dollars in incentive money and guaranteed payouts to join its rival.
Now, McIlroy says, he feels like "a sacrificial lamb," after the PGA Tour made a deal to merge with LIV Golf's backers, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
That's not all he's feeling: McIlroy, ranked the world's No. 3, still sees LIV Golf as the enemy.
"I still hate LIV. Like, I hate it. I hope it goes away and I will fully expect that it does," he said.
If he sets his personal feelings aside, McIlroy acknowledged, the deal might prove to be a good thing for pro golf. But he also said many details still need to be worked out — from how to compensate golfers who stuck with the PGA, to how to handle pros who want to return from LIV.
PGA players are "furious"
"Players on the PGA Tour are furious," after standing on principles and refusing to accept Saudi money, Brendan Porath, co-host of The Shotgun Start golf podcast, told NPR this week.
"Rory McIlroy passed up an upfront sum of, it could have been $400-$500 million, because he did not like where the money was from and he wanted to defend the status quo," Porath said.
When McIlroy spoke to reporters on Wednesday ahead of the Canadian Open, many were eager to hear his comments about the blockbuster merger between the PGA Tour, Europe's DP World Tour and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
A players' meeting after the announcement was "heated," McIlroy said in Toronto. In public remarks, several players are airing frustrations with the secrecy of the deal.
"Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we're merging with a tour that we said we'd never do that with," golfer Mackenzie Hughes said.
Not every player is furious. Padraig Harrington, a PGA loyalist who recently revealed he turned down a chance to join LIV, welcomed news of the merger. While he was surprised the deal came together so quickly, Harrington said, the PGA Tour was right to act, as pressure on the tour would have continued to build.
"Definitely in the financial interest of both sides," he said. "Definitely in the financial interest of the players even though some of those who gain will feel like they're losing."
LIV's ties to Saudi money are a flashpoint
"Critics accuse the LIV players of taking blood money due to the Saudis' abysmal human rights record," as NPR's Tom Goldman reported after LIV Golf launched last summer.
Detractors cite Saudi Arabian nationals' prominent role in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and the U.S. assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved the operation leading to the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
The merger fed accusations of "sportswashing" — that the PGA Tour is allowing a wealthy and oppressive regime to improve its global image not by atoning for its misdeeds, but by attaching itself to pro golf.
Many are also calling PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan a hypocrite, noting that he said one year ago, "I think you'd have to be living under a rock to not know there are significant implications" to players aligning themselves with Saudi Arabia.
The Canadian Open is this week. Here is what PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said at that event one year ago. pic.twitter.com/CtmnK74kbd
— Brendan Porath (@BrendanPorath) June 6, 2023
Invoking families who lost loved ones on 9/11, he added, "I would ask any player that has left or any player that would ever consider leaving, have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?"
When asked about those comments, McIlroy stated, "I said it to Jay yesterday: 'You've galvanized everyone against something, and that thing that you galvanized everyone against, you've now partnered with.' "
LIV's defenders say critics are holding the outfit's deep-pocketed sponsor to an ethical standard they don't use either for other sports or for other entities — such as governments — that do business with Saudi Arabia. They also say pro golfers should be allowed to play where they want, without fearing punishment from the PGA Tour.
Harrington acknowledged the criticisms, but he also said he hopes that including the Saudi fund could help open avenues for change.
"Yes this is sports washing and yes unfortunately it proves sports washing works," the Irish golfer said via Twitter. "But maybe one positive, inclusion and trade has shown to improve and change countries involved for the better.
"My own country thought it was acceptable to lock up unmarried mothers as late as 1996," he added.
The war may be over, but battles remain
When LIV Golf teed off last June, the PGA Tour immediately suspended 17 LIV players, including Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson and Kevin Na. That didn't stop other top talents from leaving, including Brooks Koepka and Bubba Watson.
For a sense of how deep and wide golf's divide is, consider what retired golfing great Jack Nicklaus said last week, when asked about PGA tournaments barring top LIV players such as reigning PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka and British Open winner Cameron Smith.
"I don't even consider those guys part of the game anymore," Nicklaus said. "I don't mean that in a nasty way," he added.
The new deal could bring out more ire, and not only for golfers at the top of the rankings like Scottie Scheffler, Jon Rahm and McIlroy, who missed out on lucrative paydays. If golfers who defected from the PGA are allowed to return, they could crowd out golfers on the tour's lower rungs.
For context, LIV opened its current season with 48 players, on 12 four-person teams. The PGA Tour would struggle to absorb them all, as it reserves tour cards for the top 125 players from each year, although golfers get exemptions and other chances to enter tournaments. Overall, the FedEx Cup standings currently list 233 players.
"There still has to be consequences to actions," McIlroy said. "The people that left the PGA Tour irreparably harmed this tour, started litigation against it. Like, we can't just welcome them back in. That's not going to happen."
When he was asked whether players who stayed should be made financially whole, McIlroy didn't hesitate.
"I mean, the simple answer is yes," he said. "The complex answer is, how does that happen?
That's just one of many details that are not yet known, including how much self-direction the PGA Tour will be able to maintain, and what pro golf will look like.
LIV Golf sought to transform how people watch pro golf, whose hushed tones have accompanied many an afternoon nap. Instead, LIV offered a louder, faster, made-for-TV product. Its tournaments stand apart with their aspect of team play and shotgun starts, in which players tee off on different holes simultaneously.
The rancor around the rift — and now, around the merger — suggests the sport still has some ways to go to heal itself and achieve the global success that Monahan and others in the deal say is now within their grasp.
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(NEXSTAR) – Inflation is now at a four-decade high, and efforts by the Federal Reserve to curb it aren’t taming it thus far. Some fear an impending decision by the Biden administration regarding student loan forgiveness could only make it worse. But will it?
President Biden is expected to make a decision on federal student loan forgiveness within the next two months, according to reports. In April, multiple sources confirmed to The Hill that Biden was considering expunging at least $10,000 per borrower.
An analysis by the Federal Reserve found that sort of forgiveness would result in roughly 11.8 million borrowers – slightly more than 31% – having their entire balance eliminated. That would result in an estimated $321 billion in federal student loans being forgiven.
Some have argued student debt cancellation could lead to an economic boost, giving currently debt-burdened borrowers the opportunity to spend money on items they may have been holding out on, like a car or a house. That spending boost may not be ideal in the eyes of the Fed, which is trying to stabilize costs by making borrowing more expensive.
Still, some experts believe student loan forgiveness won’t have a large impact on inflation, including White House Senior Advisor Brian Deese. While speaking with reporters in May, Deese said that the economic impact of any student loan forgiveness proposal “would be across the course of years or a couple of decades.”
He added that the impact on inflation “in the near term is likely to be … quite small.”
Student loan forgiveness wouldn’t put money directly in borrowers’ pockets like stimulus checks, which were intended to be used for spending and stimulating the economy. Instead, forgiveness would either end or reduce the payments borrowers need to make on their federal student loans.
David Lazarus, business and consumer news contributor for Nexstar’s KTLA, agreed forgiveness would have a limited impact on inflation but noted that “it could affect the Fed’s efforts to cool the economy, which would create more urgency for further rate hikes.”
“Loan forgiveness could provide people with more disposable cash,” he explained. “While it’s not a certainty that people would go on spending sprees, it would allow for more shopping. That, in turn, would strengthen the economy, making it even more difficult to bring down sky-high consumer prices.”
In February, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a non-profit public policy organization, estimated canceling all of the $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt held by Americans would increase the inflation rate by anywhere from 10 to 50 basis points, or 0.1 to 0.5 percentage points in the 12 months after repayment is scheduled to begin. The current U.S. inflation rate is 8.6%.
The Committee hasn’t released an estimate on how inflation would be impacted by forgiving $10,000 per borrower, but the organization continues to call both the payment pause and debt cancellation “regressive and inflationary.”
Payments on federal student loans remain paused until August 31. Biden could approve another extension on the payment moratorium in light of rising interest rates, and depending on the state of the economy in August, according to the Associated Press.
Since Biden took office, his administration has approved $25 billion in student loan forgiveness.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Iran have summoned each other’s ambassadors in a diplomatic spat triggered by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s comments describing Iran as the “enemy” of the United Arab Emirates during a trip to that country this week.
While visiting South Korean special forces stationed in the UAE on Monday, Yoon described the hosts as South Korea’s “brother nation” tied by growing economic and military cooperation, and then compared the threat he said UAE faces from Iran to the threat South Korea faces from nuclear-armed North Korea.
“The security of our brother nation is our security,” Yoon said. “The enemy of the UAE, its most-threatening nation, is Iran, and our enemy is North Korea.”
Yoon’s remarks triggered an irritated response from Iran’s Foreign Ministry, which said it was investigating Yoon’s “interfering statements.” South Korea’s government insists Yoon was trying to encourage the South Korean troops in the UAE and didn’t intend to comment on Iran’s foreign relations, urging against an “unnecessary overinterpretation” of his comments.
About 150 South Korean troops are stationed in the UAE, engaging in combined special forces training and other joint military activities. The deployment, which began in 2011, grew out South Korea’s deal with the UAE to build the country’s first nuclear power plant.
South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong on Thursday called Iranian Ambassador Saeed Badamchi Shabestari to the ministry to explain Seoul’s stance “once again,” ministry spokesperson Lim Soo-suk said in a briefing.
Lim said the meeting came in response to the summoning of South Korea’s ambassador to Tehran by the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday over Yoon’s comments.
Lim said Shabestari told Cho that he would “faithfully” convey Seoul’s explanation of Yoon’s comments to his bosses in Tehran, but didn’t provide further details about the conversation.
“As we explained several times, (Yoon’s) reported comments were meant to encourage our troops serving their duties in the UAE, and had nothing to do with Iran’s foreign relations, including South Korea-Iran relations,” Lim said. “Our government’s will to develop relations with Iran remains unchanged.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on its website that its deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Reza Najafi, lodged a “strong protest” over Yoon’s “meddlesome comments” after summoning South Korean Ambassador Yun Kang-hyeon.
Najafi said during the meeting that Yoon’s comments were “tantamount to interference” in what he described as Iran’s friendly relations with most Gulf states and undermined “peace and security in the region,” the ministry said.
Najafi also mentioned friction between Iran and South Korea over billions of dollars in Iranian funds remaining in Seoul, frozen by American sanctions over Iran’s collapsed nuclear deal with world powers.
Najafi said South Korea’s failure to resolve the dispute could prompt Tehran to reconsider bilateral ties, according to his ministry. Iran held a South Korean oil tanker for months in 2021 amid the dispute.
Yoon’s comments, which have been criticized by his political opponents at home as a “diplomatically disastrous,” came as the UAE attempts to hedge in its relationship with Iran, a major business partner. The UAE also is home to around 3,500 American troops at Al Dhafra Air Base, a naval outpost in Fujairah and other locations.
The UAE has spent billions of dollars purchasing South Korean surface-to-air missile systems in part of efforts to protect itself against aerial threats. Those threats include long-range drone attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels — weapons likely built by or with Tehran’s help.
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Khloe Kardashian has some wise words for those who have been keeping up with her life.
The Good American founder, 38, recently shared knowledge that she's learned from all of the ups and downs in the business aspect of her life.
"We're all going to make mistakes," Khloe said in an interview with Elle published Aug. 30. "If you don't make mistakes, I think that's weird. You're supposed to fail. You're supposed to crash and burn. You have to experience things for yourself."
The Kardashians star added, "It's like when you have a teenage daughter, and you know they're going to mess up and do crazy things, but you have to let them do it themselves, so they learn. It's the same thing in business."
Khloe noted that people shouldn't be embarrassed to ask others for help if they don't understand something.
"It's okay to ask questions regardless of how silly you think they are because if you don't know, you're never going to know unless you ask someone more seasoned than you to explain it and walk you through it," she continued.
"It's okay to look like you don't know everything. Sometimes that takes more confidence than it does to be the one who knows it all and is super arrogant."
Khloe—who shares daughter True, 4, and a newborn son with ex Tristan Thompson—also opened up for the first time about how life has been since she and the NBA star welcomed their son by surrogate earlier this summer.
"I know it's cliché, but I love everything, even the hard parts," she told Elle, adding that her kids "challenge me as a person" and "being able to shape little people into really incredible big people is an honor and a gift."
Khloe noted that she takes her role as a mother seriously, "especially in today's day and age, with how much accessibility children have and the information they're exposed to so young. It's super scary, but I take my job very seriously. I love it so much."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday morning in Missouri left three people dead and two injured, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
Officers responded to the shooting at around 1:25 a.m. Sunday at the Klymax Lounge nightclub in Kansas City. They found five victims on the scene, all believed to be adults.
Police said two of the victims died at the scene — one was found inside the bar and the other was outside the building. A third victim died at the hospital. Details about the circumstances that led to the shooting were not immediately available, and it wasn’t immediately clear where the victims were when they were shot.
Of the two injured victims, one suffered critical injuries, while the other was in stable condition Sunday.
The bar featured a performance by a local rap artist Saturday night who performs under the name “Nutty Still Gassin.” He posted a live video from the club earlier in the night before the shooting happened on his Facebook page. No one answered the phone at the bar Sunday morning two hours before it was scheduled to open.
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were at the scene early Sunday, gathering evidence and talking to potential witnesses, police said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Ohio House passes bans on transgender student athletes and gender-affirming care for minors
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Minors in Ohio would be prohibited from receiving gender-affirming care and transgender student-athletes would be banned from participating in girls’ and women’s sports under a multifaceted proposal that cleared the state’s Republican-dominated House on Wednesday.
The measure folded together two contentious bills that could drastically change the way LGBTQ+ youth live in the state, and it has parents of transgender children scrambling to figure out how to care for them as the proposal heads to the GOP-led Senate.
These aren’t the first attempts at such proposals by Ohio’s Legislature — a gender-affirming care ban, which “Jeopardy!” champion Amy Schneider testified against, died in a House committee last year. A sports ban nearly made it through both the House and Senate last fall, but it fell short after being tacked onto an education overhaul bill that had mixed reviews among GOP legislators.
Here’s a look at the latest proposal and how it could affect Ohio’s transgender youth:
GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE BAN
Minors in Ohio would be prohibited from taking puberty blockers and undergoing other hormone therapies or receiving gender reassignment surgery in an effort to further align them with their gender identity.
Should the bill become law, doctors who violate it could lose their licenses to practice if they provide care other than verbal therapy for transgender children. Transgender children currently undergoing hormone therapies would have to stop treatment or leave the state to receive it elsewhere.
Bill sponsor Rep. Gary Click, a Northeast Ohio Republican and Baptist preacher, said the measure is about protecting children as they cannot provide “informed consent” for these surgeries and that they could be pushed into making choices they regret later in life.
But parents of transgender children say that their kids’ medical care is none of the Legislature’s business. They point out that major cosmetic surgeries for minors such as breast implants and liposuction are legal for minors in Ohio with parental consent.
Giles Roblyer, an attorney and father of a 12-year-old transgender boy, has worked with a team of doctors, therapists and endocrinologists for the nine years his son has expressed a gender identity different from the one he was assigned at birth.
And as a parent, Roblyer says he has the right to create that care team and make decisions for his child — just like he has the right to decide where his kids go to school, go to church or what they read.
“But with these bills, just for the parents of trans kids, they’re carving out a place where you have no parental rights whatsoever,” Roblyer said.
At least 20 states have now enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most of those states face lawsuits.
A federal judge struck down Arkansas’ ban as unconstitutional on Tuesday, and federal judges have temporarily blocked bans in Alabama and Indiana. Oklahoma has agreed to not enforce its ban while opponents seek a temporary court order blocking it. A federal judge has blocked Florida from enforcing its ban on three children who have challenged the law.
TRANSGENDER SPORTS BAN
The proposal would require K-12 schools as well as universities to designate “separate teams” for male and female sexes, but it explicitly bans transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports.
At least 20 other states have imposed similar bans at the K-12 or collegiate level.
Supporters say the proposal is about fairness and maintaining the integrity of women’s sports. But Republican lawmakers and those who have testified supporting the proposal have not been able to offer specific instances where transgender participation has been a problem in Ohio.
Opponents — including Democrats, teachers, physicians, faith leaders and transgender athletes themselves — describe the bill as cruel.
“This bill makes it impossible for trans and non-binary youth to be their authentic selves and still get the same opportunities to learn sportsmanship, self-discipline and teamwork,” said Melissa McLaren, a nurse and mother to Conner, a transgender 17-year-old girl who loves field hockey and the community that comes with it.
Opponents also say that the Ohio High School Athletic Association already has sufficient policies in place for transgender athletes. Those include requiring transgender girls to have completed at least one year of hormone therapy and to demonstrate that they do not “possess physical or physiological advantages over genetic females.”
No complaints against transgender athlete participation in sports have been brought to the high school sports governing body since it first implemented its transgender athlete policies in 2018, spokesperson Tim Stried said.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine previously questioned the need for such a ban.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Katie Dankowski about Michael Jordan's record-breaking $10 million donation. Dankowski met Jordan herself, as her wish as a child battling a brain tumor.
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Have you seen this video? Sesame Place Philadelphia is being accused of having racist character workers who blatantly ignored Black children during a parade over the weekend! A mother shared a video of her children reaching to get the attention of Rosita, a popular character on the children’s show who seemingly ignores her kids but is seen embracing children of other races!
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The video went viral reaching thousands sparking a debate if this was just a coincidence or not. Even singer and children’s author, Kelly Rowland spoke out regarding the actions saying “Oh hell naw!” You know we had to ask the Hustlers’ what they thought! Listen below…
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After the incident, representatives from the Philadelphia market where the incident took place made a statement denying racist claims and said that they planned to make things right by inviting Jodi and her two girls back to Sesame place for a better experience. Not only did Jodi deny claims that she had been reached out to but more parents have began sharing their videos from the park of their Black children being ignored and even pushed down by various characters!
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LEILA FADEL, HOST:
For years, the Grammy Awards have celebrated the best in music in categories like pop...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DRIVERS LICENSE")
OLIVIA RODRIGO: (Singing) I guess you didn't mean what you wrote in that song about me.
FADEL: ...Rap...
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "FAMILY TIES")
KENDRICK LAMAR: (Rapping) I'm not a trending topic. I'm a prophet. I answer to Metatron...
FADEL: ...Or country.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "YOU SHOULD PROBABLY LEAVE")
CHRIS STAPLETON: (Singing) Yeah, you should probably leave.
FADEL: This year's ceremony will recognize a new award - best song for social change.
MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF: These types of songs - they bring about understanding where there was none.
FADEL: That's singer-songwriter Maimouna Youssef, one of the minds behind this award. After spending years in the music industry, Youssef felt compelled to join the academy.
YOUSSEF: A lot of my peers - they really started talking to me about, hey, look, if you're going to be in the music industry, be in it, be a decision maker. Like, you got to sit at those tables because decisions are being made for you, and you're not in the room. So I joined the academy, and I started - I realized how many artists had never created social justice music, didn't know how to do it and were really afraid of it.
FADEL: Afraid of it?
YOUSSEF: Oh, yeah. They felt like it would cost them their livelihood. If they said something that someone didn't like, they'd be blackballed - and in the spirit of a woman like Billie Holiday, who risked her livelihood to bring awareness to lynchings that were happening predominantly in the Southern states of the United States, where Black bodies could frequently be seen hanging from trees. She decided in the height of this political climate to sing a song called "Strange Fruit" about Black lynchings in the South.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STRANGE FRUIT")
BILLIE HOLIDAY: (Singing) Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
YOUSSEF: She was threatened not to sing it. The Feds told her she couldn't sing it - a song. That's the power of music, though, that it brings an awakening where there was none.
FADEL: This special merit award wasn't created overnight. It took over a year and a half to get it approved by the academy.
YOUSSEF: You had some people that were receptive and some people that were not, some people that felt like it's not time - 'cause there're some people that you have to convince that social justice as a concept matters - period...
FADEL: Wow.
YOUSSEF: ...That is something that artists should even be involved with. A lot of people feel like artists should mind their business. They should shut up and sing.
FADEL: Right.
YOUSSEF: And that, for me, is what I was fighting against. So we started reaching out to artists that we know who make this kind of music and explain to them why it's important. Just because someone wins for a song that is socially conscious once every 10 years for some people will justify why this is not necessary. And our sentiment was, it should not only be allowed to happen when there's a trend. It should be the norm.
FADEL: Did you have pushback, though, when you went with your presentation and when you went with your signatures? And...
YOUSSEF: Always. But I'm really happy that the majority was receptive. And I think is important too, again - like, when people don't do this kind of music and they don't - they're not from communities that are under attack all the time. They don't have a real reference point for why it's urgent. Luckily, I was able to speak from that community - you know, from Indigenous community, from an African American community, from an urban community, from a community of underground artists who are underground because we make conscious music and we make a conscious choice that we would rather speak the truth than get a deal.
FADEL: Recently, this new award captured national attention when over a hundred thousand submissions came in for one song. "Baraye," which means for or because of in Persian is by the Iranian composer Shervin Hajipour.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BARAYE")
SHERVIN HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
FADEL: His song is the anthem of protests across Iran right now. Those mass demonstrations started after a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Zhina Amini, died in police custody, detained for wearing her hijab too loosely. The revolt played out on Twitter, too, with people sharing all the reasons they protest. And those tweets formed the lyrics of Hajipour's song.
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HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
FADEL: For my sister, your sister, our sister, he sings.
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HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
FADEL: For living a simple, ordinary life.
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HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
FADEL: Because of the imprisoned intellectuals.
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HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
YOUSSEF: That a song that gives voice to the voiceless, when it is like a wildfire that you cannot stop - you can arrest the writer, but you can't arrest the song. It's already out there. It's in the hearts of the people. People will chant it. They'll march with it. That's exactly the spirit that we wrote this in, is that you can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill a revolution. When I see the women singing for freedom, for the students, for our futures, this right to freedom, this right to my humanity, to be valued as a person is so powerful that even with the media blackout, they could not silence the song.
FADEL: Wow.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BARAYE")
HAJIPOUR: (Singing in Persian).
YOUSSEF: I really wanted to incentivize young artists who don't feel like they can make a living. If you make conscious, driven music, if you speak about things that are important to you, you have to be authentic. I want you to be authentic. Your story matters.
FADEL: What does having the spotlight mean for an artist behind such a song like Shervin Hajipour's song "Baraye."
YOUSSEF: I'm hoping that - just the heightened awareness. I didn't know this composer before this situation. I saw on the news what had happened to Mahsa Amini, and it really, really - like, it made me cry when I realized like, oh, my God...
FADEL: Yeah.
YOUSSEF: ...This - you know, this song is speaking for her and for so many. For me, this award is just so multifaceted and layered. Me being an artist, being a woman, you know, being a Muslim woman, being in this industry is so layered. And I really think - I think it's important that we - that the song is not an indictment on Islam. It's an indictment on a regime and a take on Islam, how Islam is used in a particular regime.
And he brought all those things to the forefront and just sewed it together in such a beautiful, melodic way that just evoked so much emotion. And I'm really, really praying for the writer of the song, for the artists, and for the family of Mahsa Amini and for all the women that are putting their lives on the line every time they sing that song, every time they march, every time they say, hey, you're not God; you don't get to police me.
FADEL: Maimouna Youssef, thank you so much for talking with us.
YOUSSEF: Thank you for having me.
FADEL: With the media blackouts across Iran, it's hard to know exactly how many people have been killed or detained in protests. But human rights groups estimate more than 200 are dead. And the government announced that 1,000 people will face public trials. Some are already facing the death penalty.
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June 6, 1947, in The Star: Larry Cate, son of Mr. and mrs. O. C. Cate of Anniston, Rt. 3, who was rushed to Atlanta yesterday to have an upholstery tack removed from his windpipe, is feeling fine today after the tack was removed through the use of a bronchoscope. The tack was removed by Dr. Murdace Equin, throat specialist, shortly after Larry’s arrival.
June 5, 1997, in The Star: Members of the legendary county-pop band Alabama said yesterday that the "June Jam" concert set for June 21 would be finale of a string of June Jams that haven generated millions of dollars for northeast Alabama charities. The band issued its decision last night from Westbury, N.Y., where it was performing.
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Aflac invests additional dollars for advertising and activations in women's basketball this March
COLUMBUS, Ga., Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aflac Incorporated, a leading provider of supplemental health insurance in the U.S., announced plans to boost its support for the upcoming NCAA® Division 1 Women's Basketball Championship in an effort to draw attention to funding gaps that exist in women's athletics. As part of its 2023 March Madness® spend, Aflac is allocating a larger portion of its on-site activation and advertising budget specifically to focus on women's basketball.
The brand will also work with women's college basketball 2022 National Championship head coach, Dawn Staley, to determine how to best distribute the increased funding to drive impact for players and fans during the tournament. Coach Staley will also co-star in Aflac's March Madness advertising spot that debuts ahead of the tournament that will also feature another soon-to-be-announced coaching legend. Advertising will continue to focus on reminding Americans that Aflac is committed to helping close the medical debt gap.
"I've always said that equity in sports is more than swag bags, branding and signage. It's about working with partners and advertisers like Aflac that use their dollars to truly close the gap," said Staley. "Change is long overdue, and I'm proud to partner with Aflac and show the power of investing in women's basketball."
Aflac has been an official NCAA Corporate Partner since 2021 and has committed to a third year. For the 2023 tournament, Aflac's plan includes bolstering brand visibility with a diverse audience by advertising during women's basketball with more than 30 spots — that's in addition to running 10 spots during the men's tournament.
"Aflac is proud to help shine a bright light on some of the best female athletes in the world as they compete for a chance to fulfill their dreams of a national championship," said Garth Knutson, Head of Marketing, Aflac. "With the help of Coach Staley, the NCAA and other influential individuals interested in growing women's sports, for 2023, we made the call to distribute additional advertising and marketing dollars to help support and advocate for a better player and fan experience in the women's tournament."
Aflac Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is a Fortune 500 company helping provide protection to more than 50 million people through its subsidiaries in Japan and the U.S., paying cash fast when policyholders get sick or injured. For more than six decades, the insurance policies of Aflac Incorporated's subsidiaries have given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the U.S., Aflac is the number one provider of supplemental health insurance products.1 Aflac Life Insurance Japan is the leading provider of medical and cancer insurance in Japan, where it insures 1 in 4 households. In 2021, the company was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and became a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). In 2022, Aflac Incorporated was proud to be included as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere for the 16th consecutive year, Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies for the 21st time and Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for the third consecutive year. To find out how to get help with expenses health insurance doesn't cover, get to know us at aflac.com or aflac.com/español. Investors may learn more about Aflac Incorporated and its commitment to ESG and social responsibility at investors.aflac.com under "Sustainability."
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Tita Freeman and Lenny Alcivar Add Advocacy, Association Expertise to Strengthen Firm's DC Offering
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prologue, a consulting firm specializing in leadership strategy and corporate reputation, today announced veteran communications strategists Tita Freeman and Lenny Alcivar have joined their growing Washington, D.C., practice. Freeman has led communications for Washington's top trade associations including the Business Roundtable, National Retail Federation, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Alcivar has served on numerous presidential and statewide campaigns and was a former administration spokesman under President George W. Bush.
"Tita and Lenny will significantly strengthen our ability to advance clients' leadership agendas and engage on public issues, having spent decades at the highest levels of industry positioning, trade association strategy, politics and policy," said Kendall Bentz, Prologue's managing partner in Washington, D.C. "Our clients will benefit tremendously from their experience and counsel."
Prologue helps businesses and organizations lead, position and advocate for their highest strategic priorities, with a client list spanning Fortune 50 companies and D.C.'s most prominent industry trade groups. Prologue's services include defining corporate and association leadership platforms, issue advocacy, reputation strategy and brand protection.
Freeman has more than 25 years of expertise counseling industry associations on strategic communications, reputational positioning and advocacy leadership in Washington, D.C. She has advised association and corporate leaders on defining and championing winning advocacy agendas, driving thought leadership and strengthening client visibility and influence. She founded the D.C. Communicators group, the first group of its kind convening association and corporate communications leaders to network and share best practices.
"The Prologue team has distinguished itself from the rest when it comes to shaping leadership agendas and helping organizations and executives achieve their policy and business goals," said Freeman. "What sets them apart is how their top people partner closely with clients to examine goals and opportunities and devise an effective strategy that will drive results."
Alcivar will develop advocacy and visibility strategies for Prologue clients, helping them promote public policy priorities and advising them on issues management and positioning. A top national consultant, Alcivar creates winning message and advocacy campaigns and manages effective leadership platforms for CEOs. Early in his career, Lenny served the George W. Bush Administration as Public Affairs Director for the U.S. Department of Transportation under Secretary Norman Y. Mineta. He was a senior strategist for two presidential campaigns, Bush/Cheney '04 and Romney/Ryan '12, and in 2020 was named among the "50 Most Powerful New Yorkers in Political Public Affairs" by City & State magazine.
"Top associations and brands choose Prologue as a trusted partner for developing strong leadership platforms and advocacy agendas that build visibility and achieve success in Washington, D.C.," said Alcivar. "I look forward to serving and delivering for our clients."
Prologue is a strategic consulting firm that helps leaders, companies and industry associations navigate issues and shape reputation in the public arena. Prologue's service offering includes public affairs advocacy, corporate reputation, leadership agendas, communications strategy and execution, issues management, ESG and corporate responsibility.
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How would Mesa County Valley School District 51 be impacted if it lost access to U.S. Department of Education funding?
The county’s U.S. House representative, Lauren Boebert (R-Silt), last Friday made the argument that the Department of Education should be abolished during a debate about H.R. 5 (118), the Parents Bill of Rights that would codify federal education law to give parents access to school curricula, library books and other teaching materials.
That bill passed the House 213-208 but is expected have a difficult time passing the Democratic-majority Senate. However, Boebert passionately supported an amendment proposed by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) that would eliminate the department entirely. The amendment aimed to “add a sense of congress that the authority of the Department of Education and the secretary of Education to operate or administer any office or program related to elementary or secondary education should be terminated on or before Dec. 31, 2023.”
The amendment failed by a 265-161 vote, with 60 Republicans opposing it along with all 205 Democrats. After the vote, Boebert posted a video to her Twitter account elaborating on her stance.
“Our public schools should have local control, not a centralized federal government pushing curriculum that’s way, way far away from reading, writing and arithmetic,” Boebert said. “One hundred and 61 Republicans voted to get rid of the Department of Education, but we still had 60 Republicans join every Democrat to defeat that amendment. The unfortunate reality is that our federal government is going to continue to have a big say on pushing drag shows, gender ideology, Critical Race Theory and all this other woke BS.”
Boebert isn’t the only political figure openly talking about their hopes to eliminate the Department of Education. According to the Washington Times, former President Donald Trump told reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that, should he retake the White House in the 2024 election, he plans to shut down the department as part of his education platform.
With the elimination of the federal government’s education department becoming more openly spoken about by both congressional representatives of Mesa County and one of the leading candidates to become the next president of the United States of America, The Daily Sentinel spoke to District 51 Chief Financial Officer Melanie Trujillo about the scope of federal funding the district receives and what would happen if the Department of Education were to cease.
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According to Trujillo, about 15% of revenue the district receives each fiscal year comes from federal funds.
Trujillo provided the district’s state of revenues for the 2022 fiscal year, which concluded June 30 of last year.
Of the more than $254 million in district revenue expenditures last year, more than $37.6 million (about 14.8%) came from federal government funds.
Of that total, $29.7 million in district expenditures came from the Department of Education.
“Some of those federal programs, they’re all for designated purposes, so that’s why a lot of them are held in separate funds,” Trujillo said. “Some of the major ones we receive are our nutrition services funding from the Department of Agriculture and some of our other funding is from the U.S. Department of Education. There’s different federal sources within that queue. The Department of Education provides things like Title I, which is for our schools that have the highest at-risk student population. Migrant education is a piece of that. There’s some other title programs. Special education is the main federal funding grant that we receive, as well.”
One of the funds the district has been receiving from the Department of Education — ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) — is set to end for schools nationwide after the 2023-2024 school year. In the 2022 fiscal year, the district received just short of $17 million in ESSER funding.
The remainder of Department of Education-provided expenditures, however, are annually provided to the district.
In 2022, this included This included more than $10 million in Title 1 grants and special education grants combined.
ROLE OF FEDERAL FUNDS
Should the Department of Education be eliminated, the district would still receive grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to go toward nutrition services. These grants totaled more than $10.5 million in 2022.
However, the district would have to shift its budget to account for the loss of Department of Education funding, further stretching its budget to cover more D51 initiatives and programs.
“Fifteen percent of our revenue is significant and the needs wouldn’t really change. We would still need to provide meals for our students, we would still need additional interventions for our students that are at-risk, and we would still have the special education services that we’re required to provide,” Trujillo said.
Trujillo added that the district currently does not have a solidified contingency plan in place yet should the U.S. Department of Education be shut down in the coming years because of how heavily the district depends on those dollars for programs like Title I and special education.
“The one source of federal funding that we know is temporary is ESSER, those COVID after-dollars,” Trujillo said. “We’ve known all along those are temporary, so with some of the items that we’ve used those SNAP funds for, we know that, if we want to keep those things, we need to reallocate some other resources for those. That’s one we knew going into it was never going to be a permanent thing. The other ones — Title I, special ed — we rely heavily on those funding sources.”
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A first human clinical trial of an experimental brain injury treatment has gotten underway in Hungary, an exciting next step in translating concepts discovered in labs at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio into a therapy for stroke, severe to mild brain trauma, and other conditions.
SAN ANTONIO and GROTON, Conn., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- An experimental brain injury medication conceived in laboratories at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) was tested Tuesday, June 14, in the first human subject, a clinical trial participant in Hungary. If the drug, called AST-004, performs well in human studies, it will be an urgently needed and novel treatment for stroke and traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims, including those with concussions. Plans are to study it as a chronic therapy for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, as well.
The first trial is evaluating the safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic profile of AST-004 in healthy volunteers. Pharmacokinetics is the study of how drugs move within the body. AST-004 currently is an intravenously delivered medication, although an oral form is also being developed.
James D. Lechleiter, PhD, professor of cell systems and anatomy at UT Health San Antonio, made the discoveries that enabled AST-004 development. After a decade of research, he was the inventor of record on the first U.S. patent awarded in 2013 for a class of small molecules that showed neuroprotective effects. Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals, a privately held pharmaceutical company in Groton, Conn., entered an exclusive worldwide license agreement with UT Health San Antonio on the invention in 2015, and the health science center maintains an equity interest in its commercialization. The Office of Technology Commercialization at UT Health San Antonio played a strong assistive role, particularly during the years Dr. Lechleiter was seeking a patent and continuing through the licensing agreement process.
"We started with preclinical experiments and next moved through a series of animal studies, beginning with mice and continuing in larger, more complex models," Dr. Lechleiter said. "In each species, AST-004 protected the brain effectively and safely. Now, after these successes and approval by regulatory authorities, we have reached trials in humans. The science we delineated, and the results every step of the way, give us a measured confidence that this treatment will in the future be used in everyday life, including with mild concussions."
Translating laboratory discoveries into practical applications used by people is central to UT Health San Antonio's role as the largest research university in South Texas.
"We are proud of Dr. Lechleiter's research contributions that have led to this first-in-man clinical trial," said Andrea Giuffrida, PhD, vice president for strategic industry ventures at UT Health San Antonio. "A novel treatment for TBI, stroke and neurodegenerative diseases will significantly impact the field of neurology and improve the lives of countless patients."
Read more: Brain injury therapy advancing toward human studies (Oct. 4, 2021)
The first-in-human study will include up to 52 healthy participants ages 18 to 55, according to a press release by Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals. The study is funded in part by the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium in cooperation with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command of the U.S. Department of Defense.
"The collaboration with UT Health San Antonio has been sustained for almost eight years, and it has been a fantastic partnership," said Ted Liston, PhD, vice president of research at Astrocyte Pharmaceuticals. "Our future plans are to continue to advance AST-004 and conduct clinical trials with patients in the U.S. and other countries, and then to seek approval of AST-004 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other world regulatory agencies."
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio(UT Health San Antonio) is a primary driver for San Antonio's $42.4 billion health care and biosciences sector, the city's largest economic generator. Driving substantial economic impact with its five professional schools, a diverse workforce of 7,200, an annual operating budget of more than $1 billion and a clinical practice that provides more than 2 million patient visits each year, UT Health San Antonio plans to add more than 1,500 higher-wage jobs over the next five years to serve San Antonio, Bexar County and South Texas. UT Health San Antonio is the largest research university in South Texas with an annual research portfolio of approximately $350 million. To learn about the many ways "We make lives better®," visit https://www.uthscsa.edu.
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GREENSBORO — Are you still smarting from paying your tax bill after last year’s property revaluation?
You might be able to get some of that money back from the city if you meet certain qualifications.
The City Council voted 8-0 Tuesday night to spend $250,000 on a pilot program to reimburse a portion of city taxes to low-income homeowners. Councilman Zack Matheny was not present.
“We think the typical applicant is going to qualify for something in the neighborhood of $150,” Assistant City Manager Larry Davis said at the council’s work session Thursday. “So at $250,000, we're going to be able to serve somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 applications.”
The maximum assistance allowed is the difference between city taxes paid for tax year 2021 and subsequent tax years beginning with tax year 2022. The minimum allowed is $50.
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The program only applies to the city portion of the homeowner’s tax bill. “There's nothing we can do about what (is paid) to Guilford County,” Davis said.
To be eligible, applicants must:
• Have incurred and paid the taxes (or paid the mortgage if taxes are included in escrow).
• Live in the home as principal residence.
• Owned the home for the previous five years. “We are looking for some level of commitment to the home itself,” Davis said.
• Have had a property revaluation increase as part of the 2022 Guilford County property revaluation with a city tax increase of at least $50 over the prior year.
• Be able to document a total household gross income equal to or less than $41,000 (one person) or $47,000 (two or more people).
• Have no outstanding liens, assessments or delinquent taxes owed to the city of Greensboro.
• Have not received assistance from County Homestead Tax Exclusion Program.
The total property tax value also is limited to $250,000, which Davis said is roughly the median value of homes in Greensboro.
The assistance is available for single-family homes, townhomes and condos, but not homes held with title and not a deed, such as some mobile homes.
The city hopes to have an application form created and available online and at various locations, such as libraries, by April 15. The deadline for submittal likely will be June 15.
“Our hope is that we can process those applications and get the money back out to those who are eligible no later than September,” Davis said.
“We really don't know what the demand is like,” he said of the program. “Is a person going to be willing to fill out a form and submit a tax return and so forth for $53? Some will and some will be like ‘that it's not worth my time,’” Davis said.
However, if the program proves popular, Davis said the council could consider allocating additional money to it.
In other action at Tuesday’s council meeting, the board:
• Approved a $1 million contract with the YMCA of Greensboro to support the Restoring Hope Project. The project will add a second floor to the Hayes-Taylor YMCA child care center. The expansion will allow 100 additional children access to after-school care and summer camp.
• Established an account to accept a $32,722 donation from Building Greensboro Together to help build a new bridge along the Lake Daniel Greenway at Elam Avenue.
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The state-by-state winning lottery numbers through Friday:
9-3-0
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8-9-4
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2-4-3-6
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0-5-3
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AC-QD-JH-3D-4H
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06-07-36-38-39, Bonus: 1
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7-4-2
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8-5-1
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7-1-4-0
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04-06-15-21-29
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9-6-7
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7-9-6
(seven, nine, six)
2-1-9
(two, one, nine)
9-1-9-1
(nine, one, nine, one)
0-9-6-5
(zero, nine, six, five)
04-05-07-14-27
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02-03-09-29, Bonus: 6
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Month: 2, Day: 17, Year: 8
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4-4-8
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01-20-26-33-37
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4-7-8, Fireball:
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5-0-5-7, Fireball:
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4-4-8, Fireball: 3
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9-5-0-8, Fireball: 3
(nine, five, zero, eight; Fireball: three)
3-7-4
(three, seven, four)
9-1-9
(nine, one, nine)
8-8-1-2
(eight, eight, one, two)
4-4-4-1
(four, four, four, one)
01-05-08-10-13
(one, five, eight, ten, thirteen)
13-25-33-35-36
(thirteen, twenty-five, thirty-three, thirty-five, thirty-six)
0-5-5
(zero, five, five)
2-8-1-0
(two, eight, one, zero)
6-7-8
(six, seven, eight)
9-5-1-2
(nine, five, one, two)
13-18-21-25-34
(thirteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-five, thirty-four)
01-02-11-15-16-18-21-22-24-27-36-48-50-52-60-64-67-71-73-80
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03-05-12-28-37
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0-8-4, Fireball: 9
(zero, eight, four; Fireball: nine)
8-9-7, Fireball: 9
(eight, nine, seven; Fireball: nine)
7-3-8-6, Fireball: 2
(seven, three, eight, six; Fireball: two)
0-3-5-6, Fireball: 9
(zero, three, five, six; Fireball: nine)
0-0-3
(zero, zero, three)
7-2-2
(seven, two, two)
2-3-8-8
(two, three, eight, eight)
1-7-0-5
(one, seven, zero, five)
2-2-8-5-6
(two, two, eight, five, six)
9-2-4-0-8
(nine, two, four, zero, eight)
07-09-29-30-34
(seven, nine, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-four)
01-06-10-14-23
(one, six, ten, fourteen, twenty-three)
2-0-7
(two, zero, seven)
04-07-12-15-17-21-27-31
(four, seven, twelve, fifteen, seventeen, twenty-one, twenty-seven, thirty-one)
0-1-8-9
(zero, one, eight, nine)
7-6-8-1
(seven, six, eight, one)
8-7-5-2
(eight, seven, five, two)
9-7-4-6
(nine, seven, four, six)
06-07-19-20-23
(six, seven, nineteen, twenty, twenty-three)
01-09-21-25-42-48
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8-2, Wild: 3
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9-1, Wild: 8
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4-3-5, Wild: 3
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2-1-8, Wild: 8
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2-5-4-1, Wild: 3
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2-5-3-8, Wild: 8
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1-1-2-9-5, Wild: 3
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8-9-4-8-3, Wild: 8
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02-03-11-15-23
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3-9-6-1
(three, nine, six, one)
1-4-2-2
(one, four, two, two)
03-14-29-31-34, Extra: 12
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17-20-24-27-34, Power-Up: 5
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6-6-8, FB: 4
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2-3-3, FB: 4
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1-6-7-9, FB: 4
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2-7-2-7, FB: 4
(two, seven, two, seven; FB: four)
9-2-7, Wild:
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7-8-7, Wild: 7
(seven, eight, seven; Wild: seven)
3-2-4, Wild: 8
(three, two, four; Wild: eight)
2-6-5-6, Wild: 8
(two, six, five, six; Wild: eight)
2-4-1-2, Wild: 7
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2-4-4-8, Wild: 4
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01-12-17-22-27, Bonus: 5
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03-04-05-06-07-08-09-11-13-14-20-24
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01-02-04-07-12-13-14-15-16-18-19-22
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02-06-07-08-09-10-12-14-19-20-21-22
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01-05-06-07-09-11-12-13-15-17-20-23
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01-05-13-16-23
(one, five, thirteen, sixteen, twenty-three)
1-5-4-2, FIREBALL: 7
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6-7-0-5, FIREBALL: 1
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8-5-8-1, FIREBALL: 3
(eight, five, eight, one; FIREBALL: three)
6-7-2-2, FIREBALL:
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6-2-9, FIREBALL: 6
(six, two, nine; FIREBALL: six)
9-7-1, FIREBALL:
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8-8-3, FIREBALL: 4
(eight, eight, three; FIREBALL: four)
1-0-6, FIREBALL: 1
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10-17-24-28-31
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2-9-2, FB: 4
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1-6-7, FB: 6
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2-9-0-2, FB: 8
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5-3-9-9, FB: 3
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5-9-3
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03-09-16-22-39
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13-15-17-18
(thirteen, fifteen, seventeen, eighteen)
04-06-14-16-18-22
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1-0-0
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2-6-9-5
(two, six, nine, five)
04-06-08-09-11-12-14-16-17-19-21
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02-04-07-12-14-15-16-17-18-19-21
(two, four, seven, twelve, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty-one)
0-2-1
(zero, two, one)
5-2-0-8
(five, two, zero, eight)
08-09-10-15-22-38, Doubler: Y
(eight, nine, ten, fifteen, twenty-two, thirty-eight; Doubler: Y)
14-15-20-26-28
(fourteen, fifteen, twenty, twenty-six, twenty-eight)
2-7-8
(two, seven, eight)
6-1-8-5
(six, one, eight, five)
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A man riding an e-bike in Queens was blindsided by three men who beat and robbed him in an attack that was so brutal, he spent the night in the emergency room.
With his arm in a sling and seven staples in his head, Jose DeJesus Ortega-Mendoza is in constant pain and is constantly reminded of the night he was beaten and sent to the hospital by these strangers.
Earlier this week, the 23-year-old rode his e-bike around 9:30 p.m a couple blocks from his home in Astoria to pick up dinner at 14th Street and 30th Road. Ortega-Mendoza said he bought his food and had just left the corner deli.
That's when the three men tackled him and then smashed him in the head with bottles as he was on the ground. The trio then took off with his e-bike.
"They hit me in the head with hard objects," Ortega-Mendoza told NBC New York in Spanish. The men didn't saw a word during the attack, he said.
Healing from his physical injuries, Ortega-Mendoza is wrestling with emotional scars, as he’s frightened to leave the house at night and wonders how he will be able to pay rent.
The e-bike was his livelihood, necessary for his job delivering food. A a new bike will cost hundreds of dollars, something Ortega-Mendoza doesn’t have right now.
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Ortega-Mendoza said the pain he feels in his arm and his head keeps him from sleeping, but he said he was willing to share his terrifying ordeal in order to hopefully lead to an arrest, which he said would bring some comfort.
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon sees life, death and his career in a new way: Dr. Henry Marsh felt comfortable in hospitals — until he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer. "I was much less self-assured now that I was a patient myself," he says. His book is And Finally.
A therapist stumbles on a whole new way to treat patients in 'Shrinking': Jason Segel and Harrison Ford play therapists who're sometimes too honest with their patients — and not honest enough with themselves — in this winning new Apple TV+ comedy series.
'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a Trojan horse for women's stories, says Lizzy Caplan: Caplan started out on Freaks and Geeks and now plays the narrator of Fleishman Is in Trouble. She says Fleishman seems like a story about a man going through a divorce, but it turns into much more.
You can listen to the original interviews and review here:
After cancer diagnosis, a neurosurgeon sees life, death and his career in a new way
A therapist stumbles on a whole new way to treat patients in 'Shrinking'
'Fleishman Is in Trouble' is a Trojan horse for women's stories, says Lizzy Caplan
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MIDLAND, Texas — Since the weather outside is frightful, Senior Life Midland is doing something delightful. They set up their annual Warming Tree for the public to drop off donations for homebound seniors to stay warm this winter.
“It is very cold outside, and we are getting a lot of calls from seniors that are cold," said Kathleen Kirwan-Haynie, Executive Director at Senior Life Midland. "We know that our seniors are in need of warming items, everything from socks, slippers, blankets, mid-size heaters, they really need to have just a little warmth in their life."
All the donations dropped off under the tree will be hand-delivered to nearly 500 seniors, along with a meal.
"Then we have volunteers who will come and pick up the items, the meals along with the items that we collect, and they deliver those right to the doors of our homebound seniors," said Kirwan-Haynie.
A warm gesture that makes all the difference.
"Our seniors just love getting these new warming items, and it really helps them out because many times they can't afford to run the heater, or maybe their heater doesn’t work, or they have a draft in the home, so we just want to help them out and let them know they're loved at the same time," said Kirwan-Haynie.
Because after all, spreading love and kindness to those who need it is what the holidays are truly about.
"It also teaches them that at the holidays, I'm not forgotten, people love me and care about me," said Kirwan-Haynie. "Our homebound often times do get forgotten, people don’t see them, and we don’t want them to ever be forgotten, so this is a great time have our volunteers come and pick up warming donations that are given to us for our seniors, and the volunteers love to spread that warmth to the seniors of meals on wheels."
For more information on the organization and how you can do your part to help, click or tap here.
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John Wall and the Houston Rockets have agreed that his contract will be bought out, a move that will free him to sign with any team of his choosing, two people with knowledge of the situation said Monday night.
Wall’s preference will be to sign with the Los Angeles Clippers, according to one of the people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the five-time All-Star guard had not announced his intentions publicly.
Wall will receive roughly $41 million from Houston, according to the other person who spoke with AP. Wall was scheduled to make $47.4 million this coming season, his last in what was a four-year contract.
Yahoo first reported that Wall and the Rockets came to the buyout decision. ESPN first reported that Wall intends to join the Clippers, presumably for the taxpayer mid-level exception of about $6.4 million — basically the same amount he’s giving back to the Rockets to become a free agent. No agreement can be struck between Wall and any team until he clears waivers and becomes a free agent.
Wall has been working out in recent weeks, including some sessions at the University of Miami.
Wall played in 40 games with Houston in the 2020-21 season, averaging 20.6 points and 6.9 assists. He played his first nine seasons in Washington and, for his career, has averaged 19.1 points and 9.1 assists in 613 regular season games.
Wall did not appear in any games for Houston this past season. The Rockets are rebuilding around a young core, and Wall — who will turn 32 in September — wasn’t going to be in their plans going forward.
He was selected for the All-Star Game in five consecutive seasons from 2014 through 2018. Since the last of those selections 4 1/2 seasons ago, he has played in exactly 82 games, including playoffs — the equivalent of one NBA season — while making $150 million in salary and seeing his career derailed by injuries.
Wall has a lengthy injury and surgical history. He underwent surgeries on both knees in 2016, had his 2018-19 season end prematurely because of surgery for bone spurs in his left heel, then a tear of his left Achilles tendon necessitated another operation in 2019 and a yearlong recovery plan.
He has not appeared in an NBA game since April 23, 2021.
The development of Wall and the Rockets striking a buyout deal comes on the same day that another high-profile point guard — Brooklyn’s Kyrie Irving — announced that he is exercising his $36.9 million option for the final year of his deal with the Nets.
NBA free agency officially opens with the start of negotiating windows on Thursday. In most cases, new contracts can be signed starting July 6.
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Meta is threatening to block users in California from sharing news articles on its social media networks to protest a state legislative proposal that would force tech companies to pay publishers for their content.
Meta’s stand mirrors its responses to a wave of regulatory proposals around the world that aim to bolster the struggling news industry by requiring social media platforms to negotiate deals with news outlets for content shared on their platforms. Over the years, traditional news publishers have lost key revenue sources while tech companies such as Facebook and Google became the predominant beneficiaries of the digital advertising market.
In response, media advocates have been pushing a string of bills that would force the Silicon Valley giants to share more of their revenue with publishers, arguing the companies are benefiting from the content that news outlets pay to produce. Tech companies oppose such proposals, saying they fail to take into account the value their platforms provide to the news outlets by distributing their content.
In recent years, Meta has threatened to pull news from its platforms in protest of similar proposals in Australia and Canada. The law eventually passed in Australia and has been credited with directing an estimated $130 million annually to news outlets from Meta and Google. The Canadian proposal is still under consideration.
Lawmakers in Washington D.C. dropped a measure last year that would have created a temporary carve-out in antitrust law to allow publishers to band together to negotiate with the tech giants over the distribution of their content after Meta said it would “consider removing news from our platform” if it passed.
The California bill calls for large tech companies to pay a “journalism usage fee” whenever they run ads next to news content. The bill also would require publishers to spend the majority of the money they receive through the law to hire and retain journalists.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone in a Tweet said the bill would primarily benefit out-of-state media companies “under the guise of aiding California publishers.”
“The bill fails to recognize that publishers and broadcasters put their content on our platform themselves and that substantial consolidation in California’s local news industry came over 15 years ago, well before Facebook was widely used,” Stone wrote.
The bill is sponsored by Assembly member Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), who has proposed a number of bills targeting the tech giants, including a bill signed into law last year that requires tech companies to vet their products for potential harms to children before rolling them out. NetChoice, a trade group that counts Meta, Amazon and other tech companies as members, is suing to block the measure, arguing it is unconstitutional. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
“This threat from Meta is a scare tactic that they’ve tried to deploy, unsuccessfully, in every country that’s attempted this,” Wicks said in a statement. “It’s egregious that one of the wealthiest companies in the world would rather silence journalists than face regulation.”
The bill has cleared two key state committee votes, and a vote on the measure in the Assembly is expected Thursday, Wicks’s office said.
“The bigger picture here is that a ban on publisher content would be a lose-lose situation for Facebook and for publishers,” said Jasmine Enberg, an analyst who covers social media for analytics firm Insider Intelligence. “ Despite what Meta says, news does generate a ton of engagement for Facebook in particular, which brings in ad dollars.”
Meta’s threat arrives at a moment of economic vulnerability for both internet platforms and media outlets that are reliant on advertising dollars. Rising inflation, new privacy rules from Apple and slowing demand for e-commerce goods have hurt the digital marketing industry in recent months.
Meta, which is facing intensifying competition in the social media market, has slashed more than 20,000 jobs, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has warned that the company may face tough economic challenges for years. Last month, BuzzFeed News announced it was shutting down, citing declining advertising and “a tech recession.” Other outlets such as NPR and CNN have also laid off workers.
If California enacts the law and Meta follows through on its threat, it would mark the first time the company has blocked news content in the U.S.
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U.S. food aid is taking months to reach needy nations despite an urgent global food crisis, a bipartisan group of senators said Tuesday, urging the Biden administration to accelerate delivery as the war in Ukraine pushes more countries closer to famine.
“Unless the United States translates well-meaning rhetoric and appropriated dollars into a swift humanitarian response, Russia’s crimes against humanity and weaponization of the global food supply will go unpunished,” the senators wrote. “The most significant proposal of humanitarian aid in modern U.S. history must be accompanied by an infrastructure that assumes more prudent risk and quickly delivers support.”
In the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Post, the lawmakers asked for “an explanation of why such lifesaving aid may take half a year to deliver.”
The request comes as the United Nations’ World Food Program warns about what it is calling a global emergency, saying the number of people who are acutely food insecure has nearly tripled since 2019 to some 345 million. The agency, which provides food relief, requires some $22 billion to meet emergency needs in 2022 but faces a major funding gap given soaring prices of basic commodities.
Experts say the war in Ukraine, normally a major grain exporter, has worsened a slow-building crisis created by a combination of global conflict, climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and increasing concentration in the worldwide food production and distribution system.
The United States and its allies, seeking to help Ukraine repel Russia’s invasion, have promised strong support for food insecurity, but advocates say more is needed. Countries in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, among those who typically rely on imports from Ukraine, are among the worst affected.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, USAID has provided more than $2 billion for emergency food assistance, the agency has said.
But the senators allege that USAID is moving too slowly, failing to get approved funding out the door, meaning that aid approved in a March assistance package for Ukraine may not reach recipients until the fall. They said the agency has a woefully inadequate system for overseeing food aid contracts, with a staff of fewer than five contracting officers to manage more than 1,200 contracts.
The lawmakers, led by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), also cited reports that USAID leaders were “responsible for the relatively slow rate of programming by second guessing humanitarian priorities and seeking to deviate funding to support irrelevant development priorities, thereby undermining humanitarian requirements to scale-up and respond quickly to save lives and alleviate human suffering.”
USAID’s press office did not provide an immediate response to the letter, whose signatories also included Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Sen. James E. Risch (R-Idaho), the top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, respectively.
Ernst, along with Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Delware), is spearheading a separate effort to waive requirements that half of U.S. food aid under certain authorities be transported on U.S.-flagged vessels, which can make aid delivery slower and more costly.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dave Martinez and Mike Rizzo are signed through the 2023 season after the Washington Nationals exercised their contract options for the World Series-winning manager and GM.
Managing principal owner Mark Lerner announced the moves Saturday before the team's 80th game of a season that has already included 50 losses. Martinez and Rizzo are now overseeing a rebuilding effort after helping the Nationals win their first championship in 2019.
"I’m just really happy that I’ll be here and I get to see this thing through," Martinez said. “This my home. I love it here. I love the people I work with.”
Getting Martinez and Rizzo under contract is of particular importance given the anticipated ownership change facing the franchise. The Lerner family began exploring selling the Nationals in April.
“I think it does bring some continuity not only to this organization but to the players, as well, which is nice,” Martinez said. "It’s nice to know that we’re going to be together and that we’re going to continue to work the way we do.”
Lerner said it was only right to move forward with Martinez, who was hired after the 2017 season, and Rizzo, who is in his 14th year running the club's baseball operations.
“Mike has led us through many different phases of our organization, and we believe his work during this current phase will pay off in the end,” Lerner said in a statement. “Davey has done a tremendous job in the clubhouse and in the dugout for five seasons. His continued determination and unwavering support of his players makes us proud.”
The biggest question facing the Nationals now is the future of superstar outfielder Juan Soto. While Martinez has acknowledged many of his current players won't be with the team when it returns to contention, the soon-to-be 24-year-old Soto has become the face of the franchise and efforts are ongoing to sign him long term — well before he can become a free agent after the 2024 season.
Martinez may not be around that long if new ownership makes wholesale changes, but he was glad Washington's coaching staff all got two-year deals when hired. Now he and Rizzo are set to be back, as well.
“I couldn’t see myself doing this without Rizz," Martinez said. “He’s guided me through my first year here through thick and thin. He’s like a brother to me.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has pledged to do whatever it takes to curb inflation, now raging at a four-decade high and defying the Fed’s efforts so far to tame it.
Increasingly, it seems, doing so might require the one painful thing the Fed has sought to avoid: A recession.
A worse-than-expected inflation report for May — consumer prices rocketed up 8.6% from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1981 — helped spur the Fed to raise its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of point Wednesday.
Not since 1994 has the central bank raised its key rate by that much all at once. And until Friday’s nasty inflation report, traders and economists had expected a rate hike of just half a percentage point Wednesday. What’s more, several more hikes are coming.
The “soft landing” the Fed has hoped to achieve — slowing inflation to its 2% goal without derailing the economy — is becoming both trickier and riskier than Powell had bargained for. Each rate hike means higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. And each time would-be borrowers find loan rates prohibitively expensive, the resulting drop in spending weakens confidence, job growth and overall economic vigor.
“There’s a path for us to get there,” Powell said Wednesday, referring to a soft landing. “It’s not getting easier. It’s getting more challenging”
It was always going to tough: The Fed hasn’t managed to engineer a soft landing since the mid-1990s. And Powell’s Fed, which was slow to recognize the depth of the inflation threat, is now having to play catch-up with an aggressive series of rate increases.
“They are telling you: ‘We will do whatever it takes to bring inflation to 2%,’ ” said Simona Mocuta, chief economist at State Street Global Advisors. “I hope the (inflation) data won’t require them to do whatever they’re willing to do. There will be a cost.”
In Mocuta’s view, the risk of a recession is now probably 50-50.
“It’s not like there’s no way you can avoid it,” she said. “But it’s going to be hard to avoid it.’’
The Fed itself acknowledges that higher rates will inflict some damage, though it doesn’t foresee a recession: On Wednesday, the Fed predicted that the economy will grow about 1.7% this year, a sharp downgrade from the 2.8% growth it had forecast in March. And it expects unemployment to average a still-low 3.7% at year’s end.
But speaking at a news conference Wednesday, Powell rejected any notion that the Fed must inevitably cause a recession as the price of taming inflation.
“We’re not trying to induce a recession,” he said. “Let’s be clear about that.”
Economic history suggests, though, that aggressive, growth-killing rate hikes could be necessary to finally control inflation. And typically, that is a prescription for a recession.
Indeed, since 1955 every time inflation ran hotter than 4% and unemployment fell below 5%, the economy has tumbled into recession within two years, according to a paper published this year by former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Harvard University colleague Alex Domash. The U.S. jobless rate is now 3.6%, and inflation has topped 8% every month since March.
Inflation in the United States, which had been under control since the early 1980s, resurged with a vengeance just over a year ago, largely a consequence of the economy’s unexpectedly robust recovery from the pandemic recession. The rebound caught businesses by surprise and led to shortages, delayed shipments — and higher prices.
President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus program added heat in March 2021 to an economy that was already warmed up. So did the Fed’s decision to continue the easy-money policies — keeping short-term rates at zero and pumping money into the economy by buying bonds — it had adopted two years ago to guide the economy through the pandemic.
Only three months ago did the Fed start raising rates. By May, Powell was promising to keep raising rates until the Fed sees “clear and convincing evidence that inflation is coming down.”
Some of the factors that drove the economy’s recovery have meanwhile vanished. Federal relief payments are long gone. Americans’ savings, swelled by government stimulus checks, are back below pre-pandemic levels.
And inflation itself has been devouring Americans’ purchasing power, leaving them less to spend in shops and online: After adjusting for higher prices, average hourly wages fell 3% last month from a year earlier, the 14th straight drop. On Wednesday, the government reported that retail sales fell 0.3% in May, the first drop since December.
Now, rising rates will squeeze the economy even harder. Buyers or homes and autos will absorb higher borrowing costs, and some will delay or scale back their purchases. Businesses will pay more to borrow, too.
And there’s another byproduct of Fed rate hikes: The dollar will likely rise as investors buy U.S. Treasurys to capitalize on higher yields. A rising dollar hurts U.S. companies and the economy by making American products costlier and harder to sell overseas. On the other hand, it makes imports cheaper in the United States, thereby helping ease some inflationary pressures.
The U.S. economy still has strength. The job market is booming. Employers have added an average 545,000 jobs a month over the past year. Unemployment is near a 50-year low. And there are now roughly two job openings for every jobless American.
Families aren’t buried in debts as they were before the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Nor have banks and other lenders piled up risky loans as they had back then.
Still, Robert Tipp, chief investment strategist at PGIM Fixed Income, said that recession risks are rising, and not only because of the Fed’s rate hikes. The growing fear is that inflation is so intractable that it might be conquered only through aggressive rate hikes that imperil the economy.
“The risk is up,” Tipp said, “because the inflation numbers came in so high, so strong.”
All of which makes the Fed’s inflation-taming, recession-avoiding act even more treacherous.
“It’s going to be a tightrope walk,” said Thomas Garretson, senior portfolio strategist at RBC Wealth Management. “It’s not going to be easy.’’
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Which Victorinox luggage is best?
Initially gaining fame thanks to its line of high-quality Swiss Army knives, the Victorinox brand has expanded to become one of the most well-respected names in the world of luggage. Victorinox luggage has combined elegance, security and functionality from small to large capacity bags to create numerous sought-after luggage collections. With various sizes, styles and built-in features, Victorinox is a worthwhile luggage choice for anyone who values a high-end design and high-quality construction. If you are in the market for a protective suitcase with an elegant design, the top choice is the Victorinox Swiss Army VX Avenue Medium Hardside Spinner Suitcase.
What to know before you buy Victorinox luggage
Size
The first thing to consider while shopping for your new Victorinox luggage is how big of a bag you need. Large suitcase options can fit a whole lot more, but they may require a long check-in process or added travel fees. Many smaller bag options fit airline carry-on size requirements, meaning fewer travel fees and less time spent at baggage claim. However, smaller bags do fit a lot less, so they may not be the best choice for long-term travel.
Construction
When it comes to construction, Victorinox luggage withstands even the most brutal aspects of travel. Most hard-side luggage options use polycarbonate. This durable plastic material is the best choice for protection, but it offers little give if you are trying to stuff your suitcase. For consumers who prefer more give, many soft-side luggage options feature expandable capabilities. Constructed using water and tear resistant fabric, soft-side luggage options are sure to last but may not be the best option when it comes to protecting your belongings.
Ease of transport
Most carry-on and large-sized Victorinox luggage options feature 360-degree spinner wheels and extendable handles. These durable features make it easy to quickly transport your luggage through the airport and onto the aircraft. Some smaller Victorinox options, such as weekender bags or duffles, have molded handles for comfortable carrying.
What to look for in quality Victorinox luggage
Modern features
Some Victorinox luggage options feature built-in USB charging ports. While these options are more expensive, they provide on-the-go charging for your electronics, making it easy to keep you in contact with your loved ones during hectic travel.
TSA-approved locks
When it comes to traveling, having added security for your most essential items is always a plus. Thankfully, many Victorinox bags feature built-in TSA-approved locks making it easy to lock up your valuables without interfering with TSA guidelines.
Internal and external pockets
If you prefer to stay organized while you travel, opt for a luggage option that features a variety of internal and external pockets. These pockets make it easy to keep everything separate and in place, allowing easy access to all your essentials.
How much you can expect to spend on Victorinox luggage
Depending on the size and features, you can expect to spend anywhere from $150-$900 on Victorinox luggage.
Victorinox luggage FAQ
How do I know if my Victorinox luggage counts as a carry-on?
A. While most Victorinox carry-on-sized luggage meets the TSA-approved carry-on standard, many different airlines have different carry-on size requirements. To ensure the best travel experience, always double-check your bag with the airline-specific carry-on standards before traveling.
How do I unlock my Victorinox luggage?
A. If you have never set the luggage lock, the default lock combination should be “0-0-0”. Once you’ve entered the code, pull the lock shackle up the unlock. To re-lock, rotate the lock shackle 180 degrees and push down on the lock shackle.
What’s the best Victorinox luggage to buy?
Top Victorinox luggage
Victorinox Swiss Army VX Avenue Medium Hardside Spinner Suitcase
What you need to know: This durable suitcase is perfect for long-term domestic or international travel.
What you’ll love: The polycarbonate construction ensures full protection for all your travel essentials. With large capacity and 360-degree spinner wheels, this suitcase can fit a lot without being hard to carry. The added expandable cube and padded pocket make it easy to transport hygiene items and expensive electronics. Many consumers also love the built-in multi-tool, ID tag and recessed TSA lock. The scratch-resistant finish ensures a pristine look even after years of use.
What you should consider: The dimensions of this bag do not meet the carry-on guidelines of most airlines.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top Victorinox carry-on luggage
Victorinox Swiss Army Nova 2.0 Soft Side Frequent Flyer Carry-on
What you need to know: Designed to combine modern features and high-quality construction, this bag is the ideal carry-on for any traveler.
What you’ll love: Constructed using water-resistant fabric and high-grade aluminum, this bag is built to last. With a large capacity and zippered interior pockets, there is plenty of space to pack all your travel essentials. The large, 360-degree spinner wheels and aircraft aluminum handle make transport a breeze. The built-in USB charging port, ID tray and TSA-approved combo lock offer on-the-go security and convenience.
What you should consider: This bag does not have a hard exterior, so it may not be ideal for consumers who prefer the optimal travel protection.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
Top Victorinox luggage for the money
Victorinox Swiss Army VX Avenue Soft Side Weekender Duffel
What you need to know: This multipurpose bag is perfect for short-term travel.
What you’ll love: The water and tear-resistant fabric provide complete protection for your belongings. With multiple interior and exterior zippered pockets, this bag offers plenty of variety when it comes to packing. The lockable zippers ensure extra security for expensive electronics and personal items. The molded handle makes it easy to carry.
What you should consider: This bag is for short-term travel, so it is not as spacious as other options.
Where to buy: Sold by Macy’s
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