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September 22, 1950 – July 24, 2022
A gathering of friends and family for Thomas “Tom” Alan Mills will be held at 12 pm, Saturday, October 1, 2022 at the Coos Bay Yacht Club.
Tom was born September 22, 1950 in Coos Bay to John Brewer Mills and Lola Dale (Lody) (Pickens) Mills. He died July 24, 2022, at his home on South Tenmile Lake.
Tom attended Coos Bay Schools, graduating from Marshfield in 1968, and from Linfield College, in 1984. This March he and his wife Anjo (Brelage) Mills celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their children and grandchildren. Tom enjoyed the outdoors and his years as a local home builder. He was an active, 40 year member of the Coos Bay Yacht Club. He loved the camaraderie and competitive sport of sailing and enjoyed sharing his knowledge with those wanting to learn. Many summer vacations and lifelong memories were centered around sailing regattas in Canada, Washington, Montana, Oregon, and California. He was active in SWOYA as a coach (soccer, volleyball, and basketball) for his three children. As a member of Forest Hills Country Club in Reedsport and the Chapala Country Club in Mexico he had many sunny days of golfing. He and Anjo spent winters in Central Mexico and enjoyed exploring the area with family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Anjo Mills; his three children, Lisa Dickover (Jason) of Winston, Tim Mills (Ilana) of Portland, and Laura Mills Stevenson of WA; granddaughters, Amy and Ally Dickover (Lisa), Alice, Lucia and Ana Mills (Tim) and Gwendolyn Shumaker (Laura); siblings, Kay Mills, and Jim Mills (Trisha); and 10 nieces and nephews.
Contributions in his memory may be made to the Coos Bay Yacht Club Foundation: P.O. Box 296, Coos Bay, OR 97420 or the ALS Association of Oregon and SW Washington: online donations can be done on their website: https://secure2.convio.net/alsa/site/SPageServer/?pagename=OR_homepage or checks can be mailed to: ALS Association Oregon and SW Washington Chapter 825 NE Multnomah St. Suite 940, Portland, OR 97232.
Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.coosbayareafunerals.com
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Department of Transportation worker stabbed to death by ex-wife at worksite, authorities say
MURPHYSBORO, Ill. (KFVS/Gray News) - The ex-wife of an Illinois Department of Transportation worker is accused of stabbing him to death at a work zone, according to authorities.
Illinois officials said IDOT worker Edward Stallman was in an altercation with his ex-wife, 41-year-old Alexis Stallman, when she stabbed him, resulting in his death.
In a release, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said it had investigated what was first thought to be a crash death at a work zone in Murphysboro, Illinois, on July 20.
The officers reportedly determined Edward Stallman’s death was a murder later based on the injuries to the victim’s body.
Jackson County State’s Attorney Joseph Cervantez told KFVS both Alexis and Edward Stallman had reportedly been in a virtual family court hearing before the ex-husband’s death.
Cervantez said the evidence shows that Alexis Stallman drove out to the worksite, where she and her husband got into an altercation. He said there was some confusion in whether it happened in the vehicle or at the job site.
What’s not confusing, Cervantez says, is how Edward Stallman died. An autopsy revealed he’d been stabbed in the chest with some kind of blade.
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said Alexis Stallman has been charged with three counts of first degree murder and one count of aggravated domestic battery.
She is being held at the Jackson County Jail with bond set at $2 million.
Alexis Stallman is scheduled to make a first appearance before the court on July 22.
If convicted, she faces up to 60 years in prison.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Two former college roommates who created a successful clothing line under the “Rhode” trademark sued model Hailey Bieber on Tuesday, saying she’s creating market confusion by marketing a skin care line under the Rhode name.
The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court asked a judge to cite trademark infringement and block Bieber from selling or marketing any products with the Rhode name. It also sought unspecified damages.
The lawsuit said court intervention was necessary because Hailey Bieber is a celebrity with over 45 million Instagram followers who launched her skin care line last week and has filed trademark applications to sell clothing.
Hailey Bieber is married to singer Justin Bieber, and the lawsuit said her husband has promoted her business to his 243 million Instagram followers, generating 1.5 million likes with one posting. Her lawyer didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
According to the lawsuit, Purna Khatau and Phoebe Vickers are seeking to protect the business they began in 2014 when they quit their day jobs to create a high-end clothing and accessories line, targeting “feminine, confident and well-traveled women.”
Since then, it said, their products have been featured in Vogue, carried in stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus worldwide and worn by celebrities including Beyonce, Mindy Kaling and Rihanna. Sales are projected to hit $14.5 million this year, the lawsuit said.
On the day her product was launched, Hailey Bieber said in a Forbes story that she’s had a “really hard time” with “a world of media that likes to perpetuate women against women,” the lawsuit said.
“But the reality is that the “world of media” Ms. Bieber describes is at her disposal. And she has chosen to use it to squash a woman and minority co-founded brand that simply cannot compete with her immense fame and following,” the lawsuit said.
When her product line was launched June 15, Hailey Bieber appeared on “Good Morning America” on ABC and “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon on NBC, the lawsuit noted.
The lawsuit said confusion and harm to the brand started by Khatau and Vickers is already widespread and it has only taken days for some consumers to believe that the 8-year-old company is trading off the name of the new competitor instead of the reverse.
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Matt James is considering taking the next step with Rachael Kirkconnell. ET's Denny Directo spoke with the former Bachelor ahead of the release of his debut book, First Impressions, and he revealed that an engagement between him and Kirkconnell isn't out of the question.
"At this point in my life, I wouldn't be dating someone that I wouldn't consider marrying," James told ET. "That's the end goal and that's what we're working towards."
James and Kirkconnell met during his season of The Bachelor, which aired in 2021. Before his season premiered, controversy swirled when a TikTok user accused Kirkconnell of previously bullying her for dating Black men. Then, another user accused her of liking racist photos. Pics also surfaced of her at an Old South plantation-themed party while in college. Kirkconnell has since apologized and asked people to stop defending her actions.
"Rachael suffered, seeing every past mistake, down to the minute, paraded across headlines," James writes in his book.
James also details the fallout from the controversy, including his and Kirkconnell's decision to "step away from each other for a time," before making their way back together. Before that could happen, though, Kirkconnell ended things when she found out that James "took advantage of our undefined, gray space and reconnected with former flings."
A mistaken location shared by Kirkconnell ended up being the thing that reconnected the pair for good, a fact James considers to be "fated."
"We talked for four hours... about all of the issues that had kept us apart -- her mistakes, my mistakes, insecurities, family drama, public perception, and everything else under the sun," he writes. "I decided to be better going forward. She had done self-work that I hadn’t reciprocated. I promised her that I was all in. It was the best decision I could have made."
Rehashing their ups and downs in his book wasn't as hard for James as some may assume.
"The hardest part was actually going on the show, because I had my doubts if something like that could work," James told ET. "I'm fortunate that I put those [doubts] aside because I'm in a great relationship now with Rachael... The hardest part for me was being vulnerable up front. When I did that, putting it on paper was easy."
Still, though, James wanted to be cognizant of Kirkconnell's feelings as he recounted the tumultuous start to their relationship.
"You're walking on eggshells when you talk about that stuff because it's real. I wanted to make sure that when I'm expressing our story... that I was in constant communication with Rachael when I'm sharing how she wants that portrayed," he said. "There was constant conversation with myself, with [co-author] Cole Brown, who I was working with, and then with Rachael to make sure that I'm not fudging the way that this needs to come together for her."
"She hasn't had a chance to speak on it [or] the light that I have with having opportunities like this," James added of speaking to ET. "I just wanted to make sure that I was doing her right and not continuing to beat a dead horse."
Even with that in mind, not including their story in his book was not something James ever considered
"I feel it would've been a cop out, because I'm telling my entire story, and it's got to include everything, the good, and the bad, the ugly," James explained. "You see it in a bunch of different people's books. I respect it when they talk about the things that are dark and that are uncomfortable, because that shows you that you're trying to embrace those things. You can't move past those things until you embrace them and you get over them."
The couple is in a good place now, and James is confident that, as he and Kirkconnell continue to live their lives, support for their relationship will grow.
"I think if people get to know Rachael and I better then they'll understand our relationship. In the context of a show and how it's presented there, it doesn't give a full picture. It's not their job to give that... They can't present everything," James said. "As we continue to live out our lives, I think people will continue to support us, because they see that we're real, authentic, we love each other, and it's not for show. It's two good people."
Outside of continuing his relationship with Kirkconnell, James is excited about the future of the non-profit organization he founded, ABC Food Tours, which educates children in underserved communities about food and exercise in New York City.
As he continues in work and in life, James is looking forward to "a lot of personal growth and a lot of giving back" in the years to come.
"If there's programs that I can put in place and educational platforms that I could build around financial literacy, food insecurity and just personal health and well-being, I've done my job," he told ET. "I saw how mental health and physical health took a toll on people during the pandemic. As someone who seemingly was thriving through that time, it sucks to say that, because so many people are still getting beat up from that. I feel a responsibility, knowing what I know, to do better and serve those people who were affected by it."
First Impressions, James' debut book, is now available wherever books are sold.
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TUESDAY
LA. OUTDOORS FOREVER TECHNICAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING: 2 p.m., Tuesday, Wildlife and Fisheries headquarters, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge.
THURSDAY
JUNIOR SOUTHWEST BASSMASTERS MEETING: 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church gym, Denham Springs. Call Jim Breaux (225) 772-3026.
FRIDAY
FRIDAY NIGHT COOKIE JAR BASS SERIES "CLASSIC": 7 p.m.-midnight, LA Express landing, Jarreau. Call Storm Randall (225) 937-0489.
SATURDAY
NRA BASIC PISTOL/CONCEALED CARRY PERMIT COURSE: 9 a.m., High Point Shooting Grounds, Belle Chasse. Provided by The Carlton Group. Fee $110 (with $20 registration deposit applied to fee). Call John Carlton (504) 329-8667. Email: jcarlton.tcg@gmail.com.
ONGOING
STATEWIDE TOURNAMENT & ANGLERS’ RODEO: CCA summer-long fishing contest through Sept. 5. Website: ccalouisiana.com
HUNTING SEASONS
TEAL: Statewide, Sept. 10-25. Also first split on rails & gallinules.
DOVES: First splits, South Zone: through Sept. 18; North Zone: through Sept. 25.
DEER/ARCHERY: Sept. 17-Jan. 15, State Deer Areas 3, 7, 8 & 10.
AROUND THE CORNER
SEPT. 12—GULF COUNCIL CORAL, SHRIMP & SPINY LOBSTER ADVISORY PANELS MEETING: Noon-3 p.m., virtual via webinar. Wedsite: gulfcouncil.org.
SEPT. 12—RED STICK FLY FISHERS MEETING: 7 p.m., Room 204, Adult Education Building, Broadmoor Methodist, 10230 Mollylea, Baton Rouge. Also Oct. 10, Nov. 14, Dec. 12. Website: rsff.org.
SEPT. 15—EAST ASCENSION CHAPTER/DUCKS UNLIMITED BANQUET: 6 p.m., Trademart Building, Lamar Dixon Expo Center, 9039 South St. Landry Avenue, Gonzales. Tickets $15-$75. Sponsorships available. Tickets website: louisianadu.com
SEPT. 16—FRIENDS OF NRA/BAYOU TECHE BANQUET: 5 p.m., Community Center, 305 La. 83-West, Baldwin. Tickets $50-$75. Tables available. Call Sandra Verret (337) 256-2848. Website: friendsofnra.org/la/events
SEPT. 17—SQUIRREL HUNTING 10: 9 a.m.-noon, Waddill Wildlife Refuge, 4142 North Flannery Road, Baton Rouge. LDWF Wildlife Division seminar. No fee. Space limited. Registration requested. Call Travis Dufour (337) 735-8685/email: tdufour@wlf.la.gov.
SEPT. 18—NSCA MONTHLY SHOOT: 8 a.m., Covey Rise Gun Club, 58256 Covey Rise Drive, Husser. 100 Main, 50 Super Sport & 50 target 5-Stand. Fees $40-$70. Lunch included. Call (985) 747-0310. Email: office@coveyriselodge.com
FISHING/SHRIMPING
OPEN RECREATIONAL SEASONS: Red snapper (Fridays-Monday, Labor Day weekend, then Fridays-Sundays only), lane, blackfin, queen and silk snappers & wenchmen among other snapper species & all groupers, except closed for goliath & Nassau groupers in state/federal waters.
CLOSED SEASONS: Greater amberjack, gray triggerfish & red grouper in state/federal waters.
SHRIMP: Fall inshore season open.
LDWF UPDATES
- Pearl River WMA (St. Tammany Parish) closed due to flooding. Also Atchafalaya Delta WMA Wax Lake Outlet campground; Pointe-aux-Chenes WMA fishing piers & boat launch next to Island Road water control structure & at northeast corner Wonder Lake; Deer Park oxbow launch (Concordia Parish); Lake Concordia public boat ramp (repairs).
- Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge (Cameron/Vermilion parishes) will close to public until noon Sept. 7-11 for controlled alligator harvest.
- Drawdowns: Under way on Lake Bruin; Sept. 6, Lake Martin & Spring Bayou.
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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota universities will begin to sell more alcohol at events next school year.
The South Dakota Board of Regents approved an expanded alcohol sales policy Thursday to include general admission areas of performing arts and athletic events.
Under the previous policy, alcohol sales were limited to select box seats and loge areas.
Six universities governed by the Board of Regent will be permitted, but not required, to sell alcohol in general admission areas. The universities include Northern State University, Black Hills State, University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University and Dakota State University.
The regents say the effort to expand alcohol sales to general admission areas came from the student government organizations on each campus. They sent a letter to the board urging it to change the policy.
“We’re seeing a move toward general admission alcohol sales at collegiate events across the country. It seemed like a good time to revisit South Dakota’s policy as well,” said the board's executive director, Dr. Brian Maher.
The new policy requires the schools to define a start and end time for alcohol sales, designate at least one alcohol-free zone and keep alcohol sales separate from other concessions, the Argus Leader reported.
It also requires anyone who is selling alcohol to receive training to recognize fake IDs, prevent serving minors, identify signs of intoxication, and learn how to handle disorderly customers.
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Priceline offers more ways to save as consumers gear up for what's expected to be a record travel season
NORWALK, Conn., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Appetite for travel is high this summer and the industry is on track for a record season. But with inflation and rising gas prices, getting away for a weekend is coming at a high cost—average hotel rates are up 14% and average roundtrip airfares are up 39% compared to last summer.1 To help travelers save on their summer vacations, Priceline is launching its Summer Sale on June 20 and sharing the most affordable destinations for the Fourth of July holiday. To keep the deals coming year round, Priceline is also launching an exciting expansion of its VIP Loyalty program called VIP Family.
"This summer, the travel industry is experiencing a significant boom, and we want to help ensure that our customers are getting the best deals, despite current economic stressors like inflation," said Brett Keller, CEO of Priceline. "With our everyday deals, Summer Sale and VIP program we're helping fight back against inflation to make travel more affordable and accessible."
Unlock More Savings—Even When You're Not Traveling
Travelers can access savings 3x faster with VIP Family, the newest benefit of Priceline's award-winning loyalty program. On average, VIP Member savings on hotels are already 50% bigger than non-member savings. Now, loyalty members can also create a VIP Family for faster access to even more exclusive discounts, coupons, and travel perks. The program is free and all you have to do is sign up to start saving.
While each member maintains their own private account, this new feature allows three users to pool status by creating a VIP Family. Individual family members' completed trip totals are tallied into one status level, helping families attain a higher status and unlock more benefits, faster. As your VIP status increases, so do your savings.
Where to Travel and How to Save this Fourth of July
For those looking to save on a last-minute Fourth of July getaway, Priceline analyzed pricing data to determine the most affordable cities available to book now. Travelers can find great deals on hotels for both international and domestic travel in these top destinations, where average room rates are less than $155 per night, as well as additional deals on flights and car rentals.
Domestic
- Dallas, Texas ($133)
- Houston, Texas ($135)
- Bloomington, Minnesota ($135)
- Charlotte, North Carolina ($148)
- Kissimmee, Florida ($151)
International
- Calgary, Canada ($127)
- Milan, Italy ($145)
- Prague, Czech Republic ($146)
- Istanbul, Turkey ($147)
- Athens, Greece ($154)
Summer Sale
Whether travelers are looking to explore a new city, head to the beach or discover new hiking routes, Priceline has a deal for everyone. To help travelers save even more this summer, including on Fourth of July travel, Priceline is kicking off its annual Summer Sale on June 20. In addition to coupons, thousands of hotels will be on sale for 15% or more.2
- Save $20 on Express Deals® hotels when spending at least $125.
- Save $100 on Express Deals® hotels when spending at least $500.
To book your trip, and for more information on the Summer Sale and VIP Family, visit Priceline.com.
1 Priceline hotel and flight data for travel scheduled between June 1, 2022 and September 23, 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021.
2 No coupon required. Valid on select hotels booked between June 20 and July 4, 2022 for travel between June 20 and August 31, 2022.
About Priceline
Priceline, part of Booking Holdings Inc. [NASDAQ: BKNG], is a leader in online travel deals. Priceline offers exclusive discounts on hotels, flights, alternative accommodations, rental cars, cruises and packages. We offer more than a million lodging properties, helping travelers find the right accommodation at the right price. We negotiate great deals every day, and put our best pricing on the Priceline app. With free cancellation for many rates, 24-hour customer assistance and the option for both pre-paid and pay upon arrival reservations, Priceline helps millions of travelers be there for the moments that matter. For us, and for our customers, every trip is a big deal.
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A frontal system has given us some pretty good areas of some showers and thunderstorms today. We have seen a few of the thunderstorms at times on the hefty side and some of the rainfall at times was on the heavy side.
We will see the aforementioned frontal system slide off to the south of our area overnight and this will take most of the rain and thunderstorms with the system to our south.
We will start off our Friday with some cloud cover and some isolated leftover rainfall. By far we will see high pressure build into our area on our Friday and this will gradually clear out our skies.
We will see the dominance of high pressure control our weather forecast for most of the upcoming weekend. This will keep us filled with sunshine and staying on the mostly dry side.
By late in the weekend, we will see some more low pressure move back into our area. This low pressure will linger well into the next work week in our area. This will give our area some isolated to widely scattered showers and thunderstorms in our weather forecast for most of the upcoming work week.
By the way, the tropics will see a little system move its way into Florida over the next few days. This system will stay away from our viewing area; however, it will give Florida some great amounts of rainfall and thunderstorm activity.
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EXPLAINER: R. Kelly acquitted on rigging trial. Here's why
Federal prosecutors this week scored multiple convictions against R. Kelly at the singer's trial in Chicago, but they lost on the headline charge — that Kelly obstructed justice by rigging his 2008 state child pornography trial, at which jurors acquitted him.
Kelly co-defendant and longtime business manager Derrel McDavid was also acquitted on the same count, as well as three other charges.
After the verdict, U.S. Attorney John Lausch expressed disappointment in not winning convictions across the board. But he said Kelly was still looking at a prison sentence of 10 to 90 years. He said he was pleased Kelly was "finally being held accountable."
Sentencing is set for Feb. 23. Kelly, 55, is already serving a 30-year prison term imposed by a federal judge in New York for racketeering and sex trafficking.
At least one legal expert said obstruction of justice charges aren't generally hard to prove. "But in this case," said Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago, "the facts just weren't there."
Jurors also acquitted Kelly of receiving child pornography and one count of producing child pornography. He was convicted of producing child pornography and enticing girls for sex. His attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, plans to appeal.
Here's a look at the trial-fixing charge:
WHAT DID PROSECUTORS ALLEGE?
The claim was that Kelly and McDavid conspired to ensure key witnesses at the 2008 trial would lie about Kelly's sexual abuse of girls and refuse to testify.
Prosecutors also alleged Kelly and McDavid concealed critical evidence. Witnesses at the just-ended trial described their frantic scramble to recover lost Kelly videos of himself sexually abusing girls.
They offered six — and in at least one case seven — figure payoffs in cash for the return of videos, which prosecutors said they knew would lead to a conviction in 2008.
The conspirators, said prosecutors, applied particular pressure on a girl — now 37 and referred to in federal court as "Jane" — and her parents. State and federal prosecutors said she was the girl Kelly is seen sexually abusing on a VHS tape that was at the heart of the 2008 trial.
DID THE PRESSURE WORK?
Prosecutors said it did.
Jane and her parents said they lied to a grand jury in the early 2000s about Kelly's sexual abuse, and they didn't testify at the 2008 trial. Jurors at that trial said they had no choice but to acquit Kelly because the victim did not testify.
"That jury was scammed. They were scammed by Robert Kelly and his fixers," prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors this week, using Kelly's given first name.
Federal prosecutors said the payoffs that started in the early 2000s included funding trips by Jane and her parents to the Bahamas and Cancun, Mexico.
Critically to their theory of the case, federal prosecutors also alleged Kelly intermittently paid Jane's rent — by then in her 30s — until just several years ago to ensure she kept quiet.
WHAT WERE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES FOR PROSECUTORS?
Steps Kelly and others allegedly took to fix the 2008 trial happened two decades ago, so memories of how the purported crime unfolded have dimmed. At least four men who may have had direct knowledge of what happened have since died.
Among them was Jane's father, who died a year ago.
For the child pornography count, the evidence included video that jurors saw. On enticement, they heard directly from Kelly accusers — Jane, Nia, Pauline and Tracy. One of the enticement counts they didn't convict him on was related to an accuser who did not testify.
WHAT WITNESSES DID PROSECUTORS CALL?
Their star witness was Jane.
On the stand, she said publicly for the first time that she was the girl in the video at the center of both the federal trial and the trial 14 years ago. She said she was 14 in the video and that the man was Kelly, who would have been around 30.
She testified she lied to a state grand jury in 2002 when she said that it was not her. She said she wanted to protect Kelly, and added: "I also did not want that person to be me. … I was ashamed."
Jane's mother, who went by "Susan," also testified. She said she lied to the state grand jury, in part because she and her husband felt threatened by Kelly and feared for their lives.
Susan said she, her husband and Kelly cried as the parents confronted Kelly about sexually abusing their daughter. While asking for forgiveness, she said Kelly also said: "You are either with us or against us."
She took Kelly's words as a threat. "We were very, very frightened," she said.
Another key witness was Kelly's ex-girlfriend Lisa Van Allen. She told jurors she stole a sex video around 2000 from a gym bag Kelly had that was full of such recordings on a rare occasion when he left it unattended.
Van Allen said McDavid told her in 2007 that she should have been killed for all the trouble she caused Kelly.
WHAT DID DEFENSE LAWYERS TELL JURORS?
They repeatedly attacked the credibility of the government's main witnesses, noting that most testified with immunity, including Jane, her mom and Van Allen.
"They came in here to tell the government's version of the truth," Bonjean, Kelly's lawyer, said.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE JURORS HAD DOUBTS ABOUT?
Kelly's payments for Jane's rent, what they were for and how long they lasted was critical to deciding guilt on the trial-fixing charge.
That's because the federal statute of limitation says someone can't be charged with such a conspiracy if it ceased within five years of an indictment.
Kelly and McDavid were indicted on that and other charges in 2019. So prosecutors had to show the conspiracy ran up to at least 2014. The rent payments to Jane after 2014, they say, was part of the continuous conspiracy.
Attorneys for Kelly and McDavid balked at the claim that the rent payments were hush money. They noted that Kelly remained friendly with Jane and her parents for many years after the 2008 trial. Jane testified, too, that she cared deeply for Kelly at least until his 2019 indictment.
Defense lawyers argued that, even if there ever was a conspiracy, it didn't last beyond 2014.
WHAT WERE SOME OF OTHER ARGUMENTS?
Defense attorneys said several core government interpretations of things Kelly said were a stretch.
For example, they said Kelly's remark to Jane's parents that "you are either with us or against us" could have meant any number of things — not only that Kelly would hurt them financially or otherwise.
Bonjean also questioned why Susan continued to mix with Kelly socially for the next 20 years, if she felt so threatened.
McDavid's lawyer, Beau Brindley, also mocked Van Allen's claim that McDavid threatened to kill her, sarcastically referring to his client as a "murderous accountant."
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Walmart announced the arrival of Walmart+ Weekend, an online savings event exclusively for Walmart+ members that stretches over three days.
The fun begins on Walmart.com at 2 p.m. CST on Thursday, June 2, with the deals ending at 6 p.m. CST on Sunday, June 5.
Some of these exclusive deals will include the following:
Electronics
- Gateway R7 Laptop was $449, will be $399 – $50 off
- Hisense 43-inch 4K TV was $258, will be $198 – 23% off
- Samsung A50 Soundbar was $179, will be $129 – 28% off
Apparel
- Champion Women’s Lightweight Tee was $30, will be $15 – 50% off
- Burnside Men’s Board Short was $42, will be $19.95 – 53% off
- Michael Kors Tote Bag was $197, will be $146.52 – 26% off
- Levi’s Boys 2-piece Outfit was $44, will be $22 – 50% off
For the Home
- Keurig K Compact Black was $89, will be $49 – 45% off
- Gourmia 8QT Air Fryer was $99, will be $59 – 40% off
- Anchorage Queen Upholstered Bed was $279, will be $199 – 28% off
- Larissa Sofa was $449, will be $349 – 22% off
Toys
- Hover-1 Blast Hoverboard for $79
- LEGO City Stuntz was $23.97, will be $14.97 – 37% off
- Krazy Kart Shift Go-Kart was $298, will be $198 – $100 off
School and Art Supplies
- 60 count of Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Markers was $38.26, will be $20 – 48% Off
- 60 pack of Elmer’s glue sticks was $19.13, will be $13.78 – 28% off
Appliances
- Pit Boss Pellet Grill was $427, will be $327 – 23% off
- GE 10,000 BTU Portable WiFi A/C was $447, will be $326 – 27% off
- Shark Auto Empty Robot Vacuum was $499, will be $299 – $200 off
Backyard & Summer Fun
- Coleman 20′ Oval 48″ Deep Metal Frame Above Ground Pool was $698, will be $598
- Licensed Disc Swings (Paw Patrol, Minnie, Mickey, Spider-Man) was $79, will be $34.44
On top of the deals, customers who sign up in a Walmart store during Walmart+ Weekend and become a paid Walmart+ member will get a $20 promo code off their next online purchase.
The Walmart+ program includes a long list of benefits including free shipping, gas discounts, early access to other savings events and more. See the full list here.
First time customers can also take advantage of its 30-day free trial to see if its the right fit.
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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WNCN) — A 22-year-old man shot outside of his apartment in North Carolina has been identified as a paratrooper in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division based at Fort Bragg.
Sgt. Nicholas Bobo, 22, of Gordova, Tennessee, was killed Tuesday night at about 11 p.m., according to Fayetteville police.
Officers say they were called to the 900 block of Enclave Dr. for reports of shots fired. When they got to the scene, they say they found Bobo suffering from multiple gunshot wounds outside of his apartment.
He died from his injuries at the scene, according to reports.
In a release from the 82nd Airborne Division, officials said Bobo was an automated logistical specialist assigned to the 407th Brigade Support Battalion who joined the Army in 2018 and arrived at Fort Bragg in 2019.
His awards and decorations include the Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, and the Army Parachutist Badge, Driver Mechanic Badge-Driver Wheeled Vehicle, and Marksmanship Qualification Badge Expert-Carbine
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, and his parents.
Investigators say after the shooting, the the paratrooper’s vehicle was taken. They did not believe the shooting was a random attack.
The incident is currently under investigation by Army Criminal Investigation Command and the Fayetteville Police Department.
Anyone with information about this investigation is asked to contact Detective S. Shirey at (910) 751-3009 or Crime Stoppers at (910) 483-TIPS (8477).
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MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scott Dixon knows IndyCar’s tightest championship race in nearly 20 years would have probably been long decided if not for a rare gaffe by “The Iceman” in the Indianapolis 500.
Dixon was the dominant car at Indianapolis in May and led 95 laps until a late speeding penalty took the New Zealander out of contention. Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Marcus Ericsson instead won the race and, because the Indy 500 is worth double points, Ericsson was suddenly thrust into the IndyCar championship race.
But if Dixon had not been speeding, he’d have maybe scored the win, or at minimum finished higher than 21st. Ericsson received 109 points for the victory; Dixon earned just 33 in a crushing disappointment that may have ultimate implications on the championship.
Will Power is the points leader headed into Sunday’s season finale, a five-driver battle that is the tightest in IndyCar since 2003 when the series was called “The IRL.” Power leads Dixon and his Team Penske teammate Josef Newgarden by 20 points. Ericsson is 39 points out of the lead, with McLaughlin of Penske in fifth and 41 points out.
Going just a touch slower down pit road way back in May would have likely sent Dixon into Laguna Seca Raceway with a sizeable lead in the standings in pursuit of a record-tying seventh championship.
“Yeah, I think had we finished even in the top-three, this championship would be pretty easy right now,” Dixon told The Associated Press. “But I can’t change that. It’s history. It’s long gone. And you’ve got to move forward.”
Dixon recovered from Indianapolis to win at Toronto, where he tied Mario Andretti for second on IndyCar’s wins list, and win No. 53 moved him past Andretti when he won at Nashville in August. That second win of the season moved him back into title contention, and his drive from 16th to third last week at Portland made him a serious challenger to Power come Sunday.
Should he win that title, it would move Dixon to the mystical number seven, the record mark across the top series in the world. AJ Foyt holds the IndyCar record with seven titles, Richard Petty, the late Dale Earnhardt and Jimmie Johnson won seven in NASCAR, and Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton each have seven F1 titles.
Dixon doesn’t even entertain the idea of joining the exclusive club.
“It’s great to talk about after your accomplishments, but I’ve got six, I don’t have seven,” Dixon told AP. “I think I like seven because it is more than six. If you look at the historical side of it, or if you look at motorsports or other sports in general, seven is definitely at the top of the heap and it would of course be very special. But I have six now and that’s the facts.”
Dixon and the Chip Ganassi Racing fleet used their final test of the season at Laguna Seca, while Team Penske used its last test at Portland and went 1-2 in the race with McLaughlin and Power. It has sent two Ganassi drivers and three Penske drivers into the title decider, and the two teams have combined to win 14 of IndyCar’s last 16 championships.
Ganassi is winner of the last two championships and has come out on top in 10 of the title fights, in part because of the Ganassi philosophy to race for the greater organization. They view Team Penske as a three singular efforts with the only team orders being that the best driver wins.
It’s made for some tension in the Penske camp, particularly during a Pebble Beach media event for the contenders, where Newgarden seemed aloof as his rivals enjoyed their morning on the iconic golf course.
Newgarden, who has won a series-high five races this year and overcame an apparent concussion suffered in August, later revealed he’s had some internal struggles this season. He’s had to apologize to his crew at times, and explained it away as “an issue with trying to be a perfectionist in everything that I do.
“The more years you do this, the more you demand that excellence and perfection,” Newgarden said. “(When) it gets derailed, the easier it is to upset you. That’s been the case for me. Because I’m such a perfectionist, the longer I’ve done this, the harder it gets. If you’re a perfectionist and you do this sport long enough, and that starts to turn into an expectation that can frustrate you when it doesn’t transpire, that can be a negative.
“I felt it was a negative the way I was reacting to it, and it was just a buildup of one too many races not going according to plan was really the issue with it.”
Things seem much calmer in the Ganassi camp, even as the team remains divided over reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou’s decision to leave at the end of the season. Ganassi says he’s got Palou under contract through 2023, but Palou says he’s signed to drive from McLaren. The dispute is winding through both mediation and the court system.
Dixon, who is in his 20th season with Ganassi and the team’s most tenured driver, does not speak to Palou and is unsure if Palou will do anything to assist him in Sunday’s championship race. Ericsson does speak to Palou (as does Jimmie Johnson) and said there is no confusion over the rules of engagement at Ganassi.
“Always from the first day you enter Ganassi, it’s always about the team. You work with your teammates, you win with your teammates, and you lose with your teammates,” Ericsson said. “It’s pretty clear for Chip that we want to win a championship. For me, I want it to be me, but if I can’t, I want (Dixon) to do it. I would help for sure.”
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Largest Accredited Culinary Educator in the U. S. Earns High Marks for Collaborative Culture
CHICAGO, May 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, the largest accredited provider of online and campus-based culinary training and education in the U.S., today announced it was certified as a great workplace by independent analysts at the Great Place to Work® research firm, for the third consecutive year. Great Place to Work Certification™ is recognized worldwide as the global benchmark for identifying outstanding employee experiences and is based entirely on current employee feedback.
The independent research and consulting firm and authority on workplace culture has surveyed more than 100 million employees globally since 1992. Surveys measure more than 60 elements of team members' experiences on the job including employees' overall satisfaction, sense of pride, feeling welcome, positive work environment, and how they're treated. Rankings are based on employees' experiences, no matter who they are, how long they've been with the company, or what they do within the organization.
"I am humbled that our organization earned this designation three years in a row," said CEO and president of Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, Tracy Lorenz. "In today's environment, organizations have to earn the right to retain their talent and it is a powerful testament to our talented employees and to our culture which strives to create an environment which values employee input and encourages them to share ideas," Lorenz added.ideas."
Great Place to Work's data-driven "For All" methodology revealed the overwhelming majority of Escoffier employees say it's a great place to work and they feel welcome, care about co-workers, and have a sense of pride about where they work and contribute. For more details on the employee survey results, visit Escoffier's survey results and "Great Place to Work Certification™.
"Great Place to Work Certification™ isn't something that comes easily – it takes ongoing dedication to the employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, vice president of global recognition at Great Place to Work. "It's the only official recognition determined by employees' real-time reports of their company culture. Earning this designation means that Escoffier is one of the best companies to work for in the country."
More about Escoffier
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts is the largest accredited provider of online and campus-based culinary training and education in the U.S. (based on comparable student data reported in IPEDS). With ground campuses in Boulder, Co. and Austin, TX, it is the only U.S. accredited institution, available through its Boulder campus, to offer 100% online culinary degrees which include culinary classes and hands-on industry externships. Ranked in the top 10 culinary schools in the United States by USA Today and number one in the world by Chef's Pencil, the school's professional programs offer the proven combination of a classic and contemporary approach to modern industry skills training as well as sustainability-centered and business-focused curriculum. Escoffier offers professional programs in Culinary Arts, Pastry Arts, Plant-based Culinary Arts, Holistic Nutrition and Wellness, and Hospitality and Restaurant Operations Management. For details on programs offered online and on-campus, visit Escoffier.edu. Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Boulder, Colorado is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training (ACCET). Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Austin, Texas is nationally accredited by the Council on Occupational Education (COE). Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts is a Great Place to Work-Certified™ institution, a Newsweek Top Online Learning School and its Boulder campus is designated as a Military Friendly® School.
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
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Which Nikon digital cameras are best?
Nikon’s earned its place in the modern digital camera market, but with so many options to choose from, exactly which Nikon camera to buy can still be a little daunting. Those getting their first digital cameras will likely notice how much better they can be than phone cameras, though others who aren’t beginners may need to be a little pickier to fulfill their needs.
This Nikon D780 Digital Camera DSLR Bundle is a great pick, featuring a Nikon D780 body with lenses and everything else you need to start shooting.
What to know before you buy a Nikon digital camera
Different types of Nikon digital cameras
Nikon DSLR cameras are the ones that are primarily worth checking out, though not every Nikon digital camera is a DSLR. You can also find Nikon cameras that feature point-and-shoot configurations if you’re looking for something smaller and more portable than the average DSLR. Still, mirrorless and DSLR digital cameras tend to produce the best pictures and will still vary marginally from model to model.
Nikon sensor formats
Most Nikon cameras feature one of two sensor formats, including DX sensors and FX sensors, the latter of which is sometimes known as a full-format sensor. While the DX sensor is slightly smaller than the FX format at 24mm by 16mm, FX sensors offer a 35mm format. In addition, you can find lenses that work with Nikon’s DX sensors or others for FX sensors called “non-DX” lenses. Ultimately, the camera’s sensor will determine how much detail is included in a photo, and while the FX sensors may be preferable, both configurations will produce impressive and crisp photography.
Resolution
Camera resolution is another factor worth considering, since it determines how many pixels a given sensor can capture. Cameras measure and advertise their resolutions using the megapixel unit, and most Nikon DSLRs will range from 16 to 35 megapixels of resolution, with some cheaper models offering even less.
What to look for in a quality Nikon digital camera
Strong sensor
Ultimately, a camera’s sensor will be one of the main things determining its photo-taking capabilities. While Nikon’s FX, or full-format, and DX sensors both produce super-clear, detailed images, those looking for an upgrade pick may want to consider getting a camera model with the full-format configuration, while beginners may be able to make either of them work just fine.
Nikon digital camera bundle
Many digital cameras can be purchased in bundles, which often offer a wide range of accessories for the user. While some cameras can be purchased with just the body, others will often include a lens, while larger bundles can include things like flash components, camera bags, battery chargers, tripods, extra SD cards and more.
Preferred lens type
Depending on what kind of photography or videography you’ll be shooting, you may consider whether you simply want a standard lens like an 18-55mm, or something that can focus even further like a 24-120mm lens, or something else entirely.
How much you can expect to spend on Nikon digital cameras
Nikon digital cameras can tend to span a wide range of price points, though their DSLRs are not necessarily cheap. You can find cheap Nikon digital cameras for as low as $300-$750, while higher-tier models may cost closer to $750-$2,000, with many professional-level models costing over $2,000.
Nikon digital camera FAQ
Are Nikon digital cameras better than other camera brands?
A. Nikon digital cameras aren’t necessarily better than other camera brands, and like most brands, the company has a wide range of products at varying price points and quality levels. Luckily, that means it’s hard to go wrong with whatever camera you end up with, but preferred camera brands are also fairly subjective and are up to the user.
Where are Nikon digital cameras made?
A. Nikon is a Japanese company, and most of its higher-quality cameras are made at a factory in Sendai, Japan. A number of other Nikon models are also manufactured in Ayuthaya, Thailand.
What are the best Nikon digital cameras to buy?
Top Nikon digital camera
Nikon D780 Digital Camera with AF-S 24-120mm VR Lens Bundle and Accessory Kit
What you need to know: This Nikon D780 bundle is perfect for those in need of a professional-level camera, and it comes with a lens as well as a handful of handy accessories.
What you’ll love: This full-frame camera comes with an AF-S sensor and a 24-120mm lens that’s perfect for delicate shooting. Nikon’s D780 also includes a 51-point AF system that makes focusing simple in nearly any light or setting.
What you should consider: Many users found this camera model too expensive and decided to buy something else.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Nikon digital camera for the money
Nikon D3500 Digital Camera with AF-P 18-55mm VR Lens Bundle and Accessory Kit
What you need to know: For those on a budget, this Nikon D3500 is an excellent deal with an impressive value, featuring a 24.2-megapixel resolution and a robust AF-P DX sensor.
What you’ll love: Along with coming at a reasonable price point, this D3500 model bundle comes with two 32 GB SD cards, a tripod, a flash unit, an 18-55mm lens and a camera bag, among other items. Purchase also comes with a one-year limited warranty.
What you should consider: This camera doesn’t shoot video footage, despite its supremely-fair price point.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Nikon D5600 Digital Camera with AF-P 18-55mm VR Lens Bundle and Accessory Kit
What you need to know: The Nikon D5300 offers a fairly-affordable camera option, and this bundle includes an 18-55mm VR lens along with two SD cards and a few other accessories.
What you’ll love: This camera features a 24.2-megapixel resolution with a DX CMOS sensor, as well as wireless photo sharing and video recording. In this bundle, you’ll also receive a camera bag, a battery charger, a tripod, a flash unit, two 32 GB SD cards and a number of other useful items.
What you should consider: Some buyers didn’t like how the video recording turned out on this unit, despite being 1080p.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Sweden is holding an election Sunday to elect lawmakers to the 349-seat Riksdag as well as to local offices across the nation of 10 million people. Early voting began on Aug. 24, so many people will have already cast their ballots by election day. Here are some key things to know about the vote.
WHAT IS AT STAKE?
Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson is fighting to keep her center-left Social Democrats at the helm of a left-wing coalition but is facing a strong challenge from the right.
Sweden is known for being a cradle-to-grave welfare society and Andersson would like to preserve the social protections that have long defined Sweden, and reverse some of the market-oriented changes by an earlier government. Her party feels that some of the changes, like state subsidies going to private schools, are creating greater inequalities.
The once mighty Social Democrats have been in power since 2014. But as the party's popularity sinks compared with its heyday in the 20th century, it has been forced it to preside over a weaker government relying more on other parties to pass laws, a situation which has produced political instability over the past eight years.
WHO IS LIKELY TO WIN?
There are two major blocs, with four parties on the left and four on the right. The polls leading up to the election showed the two blocs in a near dead heat, with the outcome impossible to predict.
Under Swedish law, it falls to the party that wins the most seats to form a government. Polls show that this is likely to be Andersson's party, in which case it would be up to her first to try to form a coalition government with majority support in the legislature.
But if the left as a whole has a poor showing, she might not be able to form a coalition. In that case, the baton would be passed to the second-largest party to try to form a government.
WHICH PARTY IS IN THE NO. 2 SPOT?
In the last election, in 2018, the Moderates led by Ulf Kristersson, a center-right party, won the second highest number of seats. The conservative party promotes a market economy, lower taxes and a smaller role for government in a country with a generous welfare state supported by high taxes.
But like the Social Democrats, and many other mainstream parties across Europe for that matter, the Moderates have also seen their popularity with voters decline amid a populist challenge coming from further right.
WHO ARE THE POPULISTS?
The Sweden Democrats, a populist right-wing party which takes a hard line on immigration and crime, first entered parliament in 2010 and has been growing steadily ever since.
The party won 13% of the vote in 2018, becoming the third-largest force in parliament. Polls show that is likely to improve on that showing on Sunday.
Some Swedes describe the party as Trumpist and feel put off by the fact that it was founded by far-right extremists decades ago, not quite certain whether to trust it in its transformation to a more traditional conservative party.
The party is led by Jimmie Akesson, a 43-year-old former web designer who has been the driving force in trying to moderate the party’s image.
The party has clearly tapped into the social mood, however. Its success can be measured also by the fact that other parties have been moving closer to its positions as many Swedes believe that they can long longer bear the costs of the generous refugee policies of the past, and are seeking a crackdown on crime.
Once treated as a pariah, other conservative parties have grown increasingly willing to deal with the Sweden Democrats.
HOW SERIOUS IS CRIME IN SWEDEN?
Some of the immigrants who have been welcomed in Sweden in past years have had difficulties assimilating into Swedish society, leading to segregated neighborhoods with high crime rates.
Gang violence mostly takes place among criminal networks dealing drugs or involved in other illicit activity. But there have been recent cases of innocent bystanders being hurt. So far this year, 48 people have been killed by firearms in Sweden, three more than in all of 2021.
The fears triggered by constant news of shootings and explosions in disadvantaged neighborhoods have made crime one of the most pressing issues for voters.
“Shootings and explosions of bombs have increased in the last few years and (this violence) is now considered a great social problem. I wouldn’t say that it’s as bad as Mexico, but we are on the way," said Anders Sannerstedt, a political scientist at Lund University in southern Sweden.
THE GENDER FACTOR
Andersson became Sweden’s first female prime minister less than a year ago — a milestone late in coming for a country that in many ways is an example of gender equality.
“I was really proud,” said Ulrika Hoonk, a 39-year-old who voted early in Stockholm on Friday evening, saying it took “far too long” for that to happen.
Polls show that Andersson's party is especially popular with women, with men tending to vote more conservative.
Even though Andersson is the first prime minister, there are still many women represented in positions of authority. Four party leaders are women and one party has a woman and a man sharing the leadership. In parliament, the gender balance has long been split roughly 50-50.
Several women interviewed this week said that finally having a woman in the top leadership job was very important for them, and one factor they considered when choosing which party to support.
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Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, contributed.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MonitorEDU, a leading provider of high-stakes remote proctoring using live proctors based in North America, has partnered with Paradigm Testing, a testing company that provides solutions tailored to its clients' unique needs, to offer a new modality for remote testing - which the companies call "blended event testing".
The new service was rolled out at the American Academy of Impact Dentistry (AAID) earlier this year with excellent results.
When asked about his experience with MonitorEDU, Jon Sprague, Director of Education and Credentialing at AAID, commented "When the AAID began its search for an oral examination platform, we knew there were certain requirements that were essential for success. We needed a platform that would allow us to: have multiple proctors, provide interpreters for candidates, rank candidates, build candidate self-defense cases, build standardized cases, and follow exam security protocols that meet standard exam requirements. MonitorEDU went above and beyond our expectations and with each exam year, the platform has added even more features. The staff and proctors at MonitorEDU have been incredible and helped us transition from face-to-face oral exams to virtual administration during the pandemic. In fact, the virtual exam has been so popular with candidates and examiners that it is unlikely we will return to face-to-face oral exams."
MonitorEDU and Paradigm provided AAID with a virtual process to conduct oral exams and began to offer written exams in a blended model that allowed candidates to choose between a remote or traditional testing environment…with a twist. To maintain a consistent testing experience, both the remote and test center candidate were proctored by MonitorEDU staff using Paradigm's testing platform. To see more about how this works, https://youtu.be/ISGXgiWM3YE
About MonitorEDU - Founded in 2018 by the "Godfathers of Remote Proctoring", Don Kassner and Patrick Ochoa, the company specializes in providing professionally trained proctors who proctor remote exams globally. The company provides its own technology and also offers its proctors to perform their duties on any platform. The company is based in Tennessee.
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WASHINGTON , Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA is accepting media requests for launch coverage of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) satellite. This is the third satellite in the JPSS series, which will capture data to improve weather forecasts, helping scientists predict and prepare for extreme weather events and climate change.
NASA and NOAA are targeting Nov. 1 for the JPSS-2 launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Live coverage of the launch will air on NASA Television and the NASA app. Watch live on the agency's website at:
U.S. and international media interested in attending this launch must apply no later than 5 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 15. Media accreditation requests should be submitted at:
A copy of NASA's media accreditation policy is available online. For questions about accreditation, please email: ksc-media-accreditat@mail.nasa.gov. For other mission questions, please contact Kennedy's newsroom: 321-867-2468.
Para obtener información sobre cobertura en español en el Centro Espacial Kennedy o si desea solicitar entrevistas en español, comuníquese con Antonia Jaramillo at: antonia.jaramillobotero@nasa.gov or 321-501-8425.
JPSS-2, which will be renamed NOAA-21 after reaching orbit, will join a constellation of JPSS satellites that orbit from the North to the South pole, circling Earth 14 times a day and providing a full view of the entire globe twice daily. The NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, and NOAA-20, previously known as JPSS-1, are both already in orbit. Each satellite carries at least four advanced instruments to measure weather and climate conditions on Earth.
Data from JPSS satellites feed numerical weather forecasting models and observe weather events including rainfall, snow, hurricanes, and environmental hazards such as forest fires and volcanic activity. These observations, which are critical to long-term forecasts, help people plan for extreme weather events, such as severe storms. JPSS satellites also monitor our oceans, measuring sea surface temperature and tracking sea ice and harmful algal blooms. They also provide important climate data on ozone and atmospheric temperature.
Launching with JPSS-2 is a secondary payload, the Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID). LOFTID is a partnership between NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and ULA. It will demonstrate inflatable heat shield technology that uses aerodynamic drag to slow down spacecraft in the most mass-efficient way. This technology could enable a variety of proposed NASA missions to destinations such as Mars, Venus, and Titan, as well as returning heavier payloads from low-Earth orbit. The Centaur – the second stage of the Atlas V rocket – will deliver JPSS-2 to orbit, perform a deorbit burn, and put the LOFTID re-entry vehicle on a spin-stabilized trajectory to re-enter Earth's atmosphere. LOFTID will then inflate and separate from the Centaur, where the re-entry vehicle is targeted for landing and recovery in the Pacific Ocean.
Together, NASA and NOAA partner in the development, launch, testing, and operation of all the satellites in the JPSS program. NASA's Launch Services Program at Kennedy manages launch. NOAA funds and manages the program, operations, and data products. On behalf of NOAA, NASA develops and builds the instruments, spacecraft, and ground system and launches the satellites, which NOAA operates. With this reliable national asset in place to provide critical data, NOAA and NASA can innovate the next generation of Earth-observing satellites, including NOAA's next low-Earth Orbit operational satellite constellation.
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Which tea organizers are best?
For many people worldwide, drinking tea is more than just a way to get your morning caffeine boost. It’s a daily ceremony that involves careful preparation and calm enjoyment once the brewing process is complete. An organizer box can be just as essential as a teaspoon or a favorite mug for these passionate tea lovers.
Tea organizers usually come with multiple compartments for storing different types of tea. The Zen Earth Inspired Wooden Tea Organizer is the top pick because it’s eco-friendly and contains eight divided compartments.
What to know before you buy a tea organizer
Teabags vs. loose leaf
A long-running debate among tea lovers is whether it’s better to buy tea bags or loose leaf tea. Loose tea leaves are generally considered higher quality than the tea found in tea bags, but they’re also expensive and require more work to prepare. Loose leaf tea should also be stored in dark, air-tight containers. While there are many containers specially designed for storing loose leaf tea, most enthusiasts would recommend only storing tea bags in traditional tea organizers.
Types of tea
Tea organizers typically have at least three or four separate compartments for storing tea. This is particularly useful for drinkers that enjoy many different types of tea, from the traditional white and green varieties of the Camellia sinensis plant to herbal blends and rooibos. If you’re a tea lover interested in all types, look for a container that will have space to house at least the following categories.
- White tea: These tea leaves undergo very little processing and only contain a small amount of caffeine. White tea has a mild flavor and is great for a gentle afternoon pick-me-up or an after-dinner drink.
- Green tea: This particularly ancient variety of tea is processed a little more than white tea and has a grassy or earthy flavor. It also contains more caffeine than white tea.
- Black tea: Black tea is processed more than the other tea types and contains the most caffeine and the strongest flavor. English breakfast, Earl Grey and most chai teas use black tea leaves.
- Herbal tea and rooibos: Despite the name, these beverages actually contain no tea leaves. Instead, they are a blend of natural herbs, spices and other plants to provide flavor. These teas contain no caffeine and are therefore often used to promote relaxation.
What to look for in a quality tea organizer
Materials
Tea organizers are usually constructed from wood, bamboo, acrylic or metal. Most acrylic and other plastic containers are completely clear so you can see the tea bags at all angles. These organizers are usually affordable but could break or crack if dropped. Wood and metal containers are more durable and often quite decorative, but you can expect a slightly higher price tag. Bamboo tea organizers have become very popular in recent years because they’re durable, attractive and better for the environment since bamboo is a very sustainable crop.
Lid
Most traditional wood and bamboo tea organizers have lids that are attached to the box with hinges. These lids keep your tea fresh for longer and can add a unique aesthetic to your kitchen counter. If you choose to buy a tea organizer made of solid bamboo or wood, consider one with a clear window on the lid so you can look at your tea before selecting a bag.
How much you can expect to spend on a tea organizer
The cost of a tea organizer will usually vary depending on the materials and number of compartments. That said, most people can expect to spend around $10-$50 for a solid container with at least three divided sections.
Tea organizer FAQ
Is drinking tea healthy?
A. While everything is best in moderation, studies have shown that tea is loaded with antioxidants and other compounds that could lower cholesterol and even reduce your risk of heart disease.
How long will my tea stay fresh in a tea organizer?
A. Check your expiration date to be sure, but most tea bags should stay fresh for at least 3 to 4 months. If your tea organizer is air-tight, you could even be enjoying fresh-tasting tea for up to a year.
What are the best tea organizers to buy?
Top tea organizer
Zen Earth Inspired Wooden Tea Organizer
What you need to know: This highly-rated tea container has eight compartments and sturdy bamboo construction.
What you’ll love: This organizer contains eight divided sections that can be moved around and adjusted to fit your needs. Bamboo is an environmentally sustainable material, and the box is coated with natural and food-safe vegetable oil.
What you should consider: While this may not matter to some, the lid does not have a window for viewing your teabags.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top tea organizer for the money
Utopia Home Stackable Tea Storage Organizer
What you need to know: This plastic tea organizer has a ton of compartments and a stackable design for easy storage.
What you’ll love: Each of the three stackable levels has eight compartments for tea, sugar packets, coffee pods and more, offering an endless variety of storage options. The plastic construction is also BPA-free and shatter-resistant.
What you should consider: Several users reported that the compartments weren’t big enough for their teabags.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Woodpower 24 Compartments Blue Wooden Tea Box
What you need to know: This well-constructed wooden container comes with 24 divided compartments for tea.
What you’ll love: There are many color options, and you can even have the box personalized as a gift. The wooden tea container is also handmade, durable and smooth to the touch.
What you should consider: Each compartment can only hold about five or six tea bags.
Where to buy: Sold by Etsy
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A stronger-than-expected economic recovery from the pandemic has pushed back the go-broke dates for Social Security and Medicare, but officials warn that the current economic turbulence is putting additional pressures on the bedrock retirement programs.
The annual Social Security and Medicare trustees report released Thursday says Social Security’s trust fund will be unable to pay full benefits beginning in 2035, instead of last year’s estimate of 2034. The year before that it estimated an exhaustion date of 2035.
The projected depletion date for Medicare’s trust fund for inpatient hospital care moved back two years to 2028 from last year’s forecast of 2026.
“Economic recovery from the 2020 recession has been stronger and faster than assumed in last year’s reports, with positive effects on the projected actuarial status of the trust funds in these reports,” the report states.
President Joe Biden said in a statement that the report “shows that the strong economic recovery driven by my economic and vaccination plans has strengthened programs that millions of Americans rely on and has put our nation in a better fiscal position.”
Forecasters said in the report that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will have no net effect on their long-range projections. But they also noted that assumptions for their latest report were made in February, which was before cases began climbing again nationally and inflation rose even higher.
Social Security pays benefits to more than 65 million Americans, mainly retirees as well as disabled people and survivors of deceased workers. Medicare covers roughly 64 million older and disabled people.
When the Social Security trust fund is depleted the government will be able to pay 80% of scheduled benefits, the report said. Medicare will be able to pay 90% of total scheduled benefits when the fund is depleted.
Income for Medicare’s hospital insurance fund is projected to be higher than estimates from last year because the number of covered workers who help fund it and their average wages are both expected to be higher.
A main source of financing is payroll taxes on earnings paid by employees and employers. About 183 million people paid those taxes in 2021.
The report projects the Medicare “Part B” premium for outpatient coverage to remain stable at $170.10 a month. But administration officials said that projection, based on information from earlier this year, doesn’t reflect an expected drop due to an overestimation of the cost of covering the Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm.
The trustees of Social Security and Medicare include the secretaries of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor, as well as the Social Security commissioner. They are supposed to be joined by two “public trustees,” however those positions have been vacant since 2015.
A representative from the White House did not respond to an email inquiry about whether the president intends to nominate new public trustees.
The trustees report is an added reminder of the U.S. government’s financial troubles, as it juggles historically high inflation, recovery from a pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins said the reports “send a clear message to Congress: despite the short-term improvement, you must act to protect the benefits people have earned and paid into both now and for the long-term.”
“The stakes are too high for the millions of Americans who rely on Medicare and Social Security for their health and financial wellbeing,” she said.
This year, Social Security retirees got a 5.9% boost in benefits, the biggest cost-of-living adjustment, also known as COLA, in 39 years.
Ron Thompson Jr, a 24 year-old D.C. resident, says this year’s cost of living increase has been “transformational” as a trickle-down benefit to his family, as he helps take care of his 77-year-old grandmother, who lives on the other side of town.
Transportation costs, which has surged due to high inflation, have made it difficult for Thompson and his mother to drive to take care of his grandmother.
“All of us have experienced high costs,” Thompson said.
Because his grandmother can pass on some of her Social Security benefits to her daughter to help pay for gasoline costs, “the adjustment is a cushion my mom can rest on” as she travels to care for Thompson’s grandmother.
A Treasury official said this year’s high inflation could prompt an 8% percent increase in benefits next year.
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement that “policymakers need to get their heads out of the sand and stop pretending these vital programs’ funding issues will fix themselves.”
A new Congressional Budget Office report states that the biggest drivers of debt rising in relation to GDP are increasing interest costs and spending for Medicare and Social Security. An aging population drives those numbers.
Charles Blahous, a senior economic adviser to former President George W. Bush and a public trustee of Social Security and Medicare during the Obama administration, told The Associated Press that “the first thing that’s important to do is grasp the baseline, it’s very dire,” he said.
Blahous says failing to finance Social Security and Medicare under its current structure “would subject the programs to perpetual renegotiation,” with the threat of benefit cuts or elimination in the future.
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is proposing an 11-point governance plan that would require Congress to come up with a proposal to adequately fund the programs or potentially phase them out.
Biden said to Scott’s plan: “That’s not the way to strengthen these programs.”
“I will work with anyone willing to have an open and honest conversation about growing our economy, bringing down inflation, improving our fiscal position, and strengthening the programs that millions of Americans rely on,” Biden said.
“If we were to wait until the 2030s” to take action, Blahous said, “the annual shortfall would be so large — so many times larger that it’s not possible to fathom.”
House Ways and Means Chairman, Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., said in a statement that “Democrats will continue to fight to ensure that these essential programs remain strong, through good times and bad.”
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New CFA Institute Future of Work Research Examines the Skills, Learning Trends, Competencies and Pathways for Career Success
NEW YORK, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, today released the fourth report in its Future of Work series, exploring the Context, Culture, and Content of Work in the investment industry.
Advancing technologies and hybrid working continue to change the shape of careers in finance. The Future of Work in Investment Management: The Future of Skills and Learning draws on CFA Institute survey data to identify the skills and learning equation for building talent and careers in a rapidly transforming investment industry. The report highlights current gaps between the supply and demand for skills in the investment industry, examines learning trends, and proposes changes to investment teams to better leverage diverse talent and the combined power of discrete but complementary skills.
Fewer than half of survey respondents receive support from employers to develop the new skills they need. Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, decentralized finance, and sustainability currently present some of the largest gaps between interest in learning and supply of expertise. Chief Investment Officers and those in fintech/IT, trading, sales, and accountancy positions have the highest expectation of significant change to their roles.
Rebecca Fender, CFA, Head of Strategy and Governance for Research, Advocacy and Standards, CFA Institute comments:
"The world of work has been experiencing dramatic changes, and as the investment industry competes for the best talent, an opportunity exists for investment organizations to reset and reframe their focus on talent development programs that match the pace of change. It's not only new markets, asset classes, data sources, and investing techniques that are demanding a fresh focus on skills and learning. For many, hybrid working has opened a new way of thinking about the employer-employee relationship."
Key Findings:
- The impact of new analytical methods on roles: More than a third of CFA Institute members surveyed believe the role they perform will be substantially different in 5-10 years' time, and the biggest disruptive factor will be new analytical methods, including AI and machine learning.
- The pathway of traditional investment careers: For CFA Institute members, the most common job role transition is from analyst to portfolio manager to chief investment officer. Among portfolio managers surveyed, 46 percent were analysts previously and 25 percent went on to become CIOs. Among asset management CEOs surveyed, the most common preceding roles were chief investment officers (20 percent), portfolio managers (18 percent), and relationship managers (10 percent). Some private wealth managers and financial advisers have the most varied career pathways to their respective roles.
- The outlook for less traditional investment career paths: Career paths are becoming more varied and characterized by more career breaks and greater flexibility. The primary influences on career path developments are from the technology sector (via fintech) and entrepreneurs (particularly private equity boutiques).
- The skills pathway: Technical skills are most important at career entry, with soft skills, leadership skills, and T-shaped skills (a combination of deep knowledge in a single domain and wider knowledge in other fields and the ability to connect them) growing in importance over time.
- The skills in high demand: New sources of data will affect the skills needed for investment decision-making. The skills mentioned most by investment professionals include a foundational understanding of AI and machine learning, as well as knowledge of sustainability issues. The most important soft-skill category is influencing, persuading, and negotiating. Other skills that have become more important in the new world of work include time management, direct communication, and being more resourceful. Managers and leaders will need to adapt their skillsets to succeed in a more flexible and dispersed work environment.
- Skills availability and areas for development: Investment professionals are interested in new skills but are time constrained. Of 16 trending skills areas, notable differences between "saying and doing" are evident. For AI, for every person pursuing the skill, three others intend to do so. Currently some 20 percent of respondents say they are pursuing learning in AI and machine learning, indicating how much respondents anticipate AI will change the investing landscape. Sustainability and data visualization have seen the highest overall increase in interest levels over the previous two-year period.
- The talent factors: Employers seek a combination of skills, grit, and experience.
Nick Bartlett, CFA, Head, Practice Analysis, CFA Program, CFA Institute comments:
"Today's investment industry professionals and CFA charterholders will invest in continuous professional development to stay fluent beyond their foundational studies. For graduates and early career professionals aspiring to roles within the investment profession, the CFA Program offers a comprehensive curriculum for demonstrating professional competence, and a platform from which candidates can deepen their expertise and drive forward their careers."
To access The Future of Work in Investment Management: The Future of Skills and Learning, visit here.
Methodology
Future of Skills and Learning offers new survey data collected through a "Skills and Careers Survey" of 2,137 CFA Institute members conducted in November 2021, with a margin of error of +/–2.1 percent. The complete four-part Future of Work series draws from quantitative responses from a combined group of more than 11,000 investment professionals globally across three surveys conducted between March and November 2021. The series also draws on survey input from leaders at 41 investment organizations representing more than 230,000 employees. In addition, more than 100 investment professionals and human resources professionals in the investment management industry provided qualitative input through virtual roundtables in the following markets: Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. The report also draws on research captured in previous CFA Institute Future of Finance publications, notably Investment Professional of the Future (2019).
Aligned reading
The Next 75 Years: Will Generalists or Specialists Prevail?
by Larry Cao, CFA, Senior Director of Industry Research, CFA Institute
About CFA Institute
CFA Institute is the global association of investment professionals that sets the standard for professional excellence and credentials. The organization is a champion of ethical behavior in investment markets and a respected source of knowledge in the global financial community. Our aim is to create an environment where investors' interests come first, markets function at their best, and economies grow. There are more than 190,000 CFA® charterholders worldwide in more than 160 markets. CFA Institute has nine offices worldwide and there are 160 local societies. For more information, visit www.cfainstitute.org or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter at @CFAInstitute.
For further information or to speak to the report's author, please contact pr@cfainstitute.org.
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The drug trial of American basketball star Brittney Griner in a Russian court focused Tuesday on testimony that cannabis, while illegal in Russia, is regarded in other countries as having legitimate medicinal use.
Griner has acknowledged that she was carrying vape canisters containing cannabis oil when she was arrested in February at a Moscow airport, but she contends that she had no criminal intent and that the canisters ended up in her luggage inadvertently because of hasty packing.
“We are not arguing that Brittney took it here as a medicine. We are still saying that she involuntarily brought it here because she was in a rush,” defense attorney Alexander Boykov said after the session in which a Russian neuropsychologist testified about worldwide use of medicinal cannabis.
“The Russian public has to know, and the Russian court in the first place has to know, that it was not used for recreational purposes in the United States. It was prescribed by a doctor,” he said.
Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist who plays for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. The medical testimony and Griner's admission that she had the canisters are aimed at bringing her a mild sentence.
“We have a lot of mitigating factors. So we do hope that the court will take it into consideration. And the courts in Russia, in fact, have very broad discretion with regard to the sentence," said Maria Blagovolina, another of Griner's lawyers.
The trial of the two-time Olympic gold medalist and Phoenix Mercury standout began July 1 but only five sessions have been held, some of them lasting only about an hour.
The slow-moving trial and Griner's five months of detention have raised strong criticism among teammates and supporters in the United States, which has formally declared her to be “wrongfully detained,” a designation sharply rejected by Russian officials.
Elizabeth Rood, the U.S. Embassy's charge d'affaires, attended Tuesday's court session. Griner “confirms that she is doing ok and as well as can be expected under these circumstances,” she told reporters.
Griner was arrested in February amid high U.S.-Moscow tensions ahead of Russia sending troops into Ukraine later that month. Some supporters contend she is being held in Russia as a pawn, possibly for a prisoner swap. American soccer notable Megan Rapinoe last week said “she’s being held as a political prisoner, obviously.”
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EchoStar Announces Financial Results for the Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2022
Published: Aug. 4, 2022 at 5:00 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) announced its financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 Financial Highlights:
Consolidated revenue of $499.3 million.
Net income of $10.5 million, consolidated net income attributable to EchoStar common stock of $13.9 million and basic and diluted earnings per share of common stock of $0.16.
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $167.7 million (see discussion and the reconciliation of GAAP to this non-GAAP measure below).
Six Months Ended June 30, 2022 Financial Highlights:
Consolidated revenue of $1,000.9 million.
Net income of $99.4 million, consolidated net income attributable to EchoStar common stock of $105.3 million, and basic and diluted earnings per share of common stock of $1.24.
Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $333.6 million (see discussion and the reconciliation of GAAP to this non-GAAP measure below).
"Once again, the EchoStar team delivered a solid performance in the second quarter," said Hamid Akhavan, CEO and President of EchoStar. "We are focused on optimizing operations and asset yields in order to maintain our track record of excellent fiscal responsibility, and are leveraging our engineering expertise to innovate new solutions and applications across the market segments we serve."
Three Months Ended June 30, 2022 - Additional Information:
Consolidated revenue was flat year over year. Higher equipment sales of $16.1 million to our domestic and international enterprise customers was offset by lower service revenues of $16.6 million, primarily due to lower broadband consumer customers.
Adjusted EBITDA decreased 10.2% or $19.0 million year over year.
Net income decreased $24.5 million year over year. The decrease was primarily due to an unfavorable change in investments of $53.2 million, lower operating income of $19.4 million, and losses on foreign exchange of $4.3 million. These items were partially offset by lower net interest expense of $18.4 million, lower net income tax expense of $15.8 million, and lower losses in Other, net, of $15.4 million, which included litigation expense of $16.8 million in the second quarter of 2021.
Hughes broadband subscribers totaled approximately 1,346,000, declining 60,000 from March 31, 2022. Our current capacity limitations require a balancing of capacity utilization with subscriber levels in areas of high bandwidth demand. These constraints, and increased competitive pressures, are impacting our consumer subscriber levels. In Latin America, subscriber levels were also impacted by adverse economic conditions, more selective customer screening, and capacity allocation to community WiFi and enterprise opportunities.
For the three months ended June 30, 2022, approximately 63% of Hughes segment revenue was attributable to our consumer customers with approximately 37% attributable to our enterprise customers.
Cash, cash equivalents and current marketable investment securities were $1.5 billion as of June 30, 2022.
During the three months ended June 30, 2022, we purchased 1,924,875 shares of our Class A common stock in open market trades.
The Jupiter 3/EchoStar XXIV satellite continues to progress at Maxar and is expected to be launched during the first half of 2023
Set forth below is a table highlighting certain of EchoStar's segment results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 (amounts in thousands) (all US GAAP amounts reference results from operations):
Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Measurement (amounts in thousands):
Note on Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
EBITDA is defined as "Net income (loss)" excluding "Interest income, net," "Interest expense, net of amounts capitalized," "Income tax benefit (provision), net," "Depreciation and amortization," and "Net income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests."
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as EBITDA excluding Gains and losses on investments, net, Foreign currency transaction gains (losses), net, and other non-recurring or non-operational items. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not measures determined in accordance with US GAAP. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are reconciled to Net income (loss) in the table above and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for operating income, net income or any other measure determined in accordance with US GAAP. Our management uses EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA as measures of our operating efficiency and overall financial performance for benchmarking against our peers and competitors. Management believes that these non-GAAP measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding the underlying operating performance of our business and are appropriate to enhance an overall understanding of our financial performance. Management also believes that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are useful to investors because they are frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties to evaluate the performance of companies in our industry.
The consolidated financial statements of EchoStar for the periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021 are attached to this press release. Detailed financial data and other information are available in EchoStar's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2022 filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
EchoStar will host a conference call to discuss its earnings on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. The conference call will be broadcast live in listen-only mode on EchoStar's investor relations website at ir.echostar.com. To participate via telephone and ask a question, participants must register using this online form.
About EchoStar Corporation
EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS) is a premier global provider of satellite communications solutions. Headquartered in Englewood, Colo., and conducting business around the globe, EchoStar is a pioneer in secure communications technologies through its Hughes Network Systems and EchoStar Satellite Services business segments.
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Breakthrough technology now available to help ethylene producers reduce emissions and meet sustainability goals
HOUSTON, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced the launch of a major enhancement to its leading ethane feed steam cracker that is capable of achieving zero CO2 emissions from an ethylene plant. Lummus developed this next generation design as part of its comprehensive strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from all of its technology offerings.
The cracker, which is the industry's first, is now available for commercial use to decarbonize a process in petrochemical manufacturing that is very carbon intensive. It can be incorporated into both new and existing ethane crackers, and at sites and facilities of different sizes.
"Ethylene producers are looking for solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of their investments, and this new net zero ethane cracker will help them achieve their decarbonization goals," said Leon de Bruyn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Lummus Technology. "By launching the world's first CO2-free ethane cracker, we are leveraging Lummus' innovative culture and proven ability to commercialize breakthrough technologies to play a critical role in the energy transition."
The combustion of methane or other carbon-based fuels can be eliminated through innovations to the cracking heater design, resulting in significant reductions in the fuel firing demand, enhancements in the recovery section and a partial switch from steam turbine to electric drivers on the major compressors.
Lummus' proprietary ethane feed steam cracking process is the most widely applied process for the production of polymer grade ethylene and polymer grade propylene. The process is noted for its performance including high product yield, energy efficiency, low investment cost and industry-leading reliability.
Lummus Technology is the global leader in developing process technologies that make modern life possible and focus on a more sustainable, low carbon future. Lummus is a master licensor of clean energy, petrochemical, refining, gas processing and renewable technologies, and a supplier of catalysts, proprietary equipment, digitalization and related lifecycle services to customers worldwide. To learn more about Lummus, visit www.LummusTechnology.com.
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Veterans remember Battle of Midway, one of Navy’s greatest victories, 80 years later
Eighty years ago this weekend, the U.S. Navy ambushed the Japanese fleet at the Battle of Midway and altered the course of World War II.
Saturday night, aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego — a retired aircraft carrier named after the battle — the Navy commemorated the anniversary with an invitation-only ceremony that carried an undertone of sadness.
There aren’t many veterans still alive who were there back then.
Only three were on the guest list: Ervin Wendt, Charles Monroe and Jack Holder, although Holder had to bow out at the last minute. All three men were attached to airplane squadrons during the battle. Each is pushing 100 years old or is past it.
Two made it to the event to hear Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell, commander of Naval air forces, talk about the legacy of the battle and tie it to another anniversary: the centennial of the commissioning of the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the Langley.
The Battle of Midway has long been celebrated as one of the Navy’s greatest victories, an air-sea battle that took place from June 4-7, 1942, at the Allied base at Midway Island, in the Pacific Ocean almost directly between the U.S. and Japan. Retired Navy Adm. John Richardson once told a San Diego audience that the full story of the battle “trends toward the miraculous.”
The four-day engagement has been the subject of multiple books, movies, museum exhibits and scholarly conferences that examine every facet of the battle’s planning, execution and aftermath.
“Eighty years ago, the U.S. Navy entered into what would become the pivotal battle in the Pacific during World War II,” Whitesell said during the evening ceremony. “Not only did the U.S. Navy win that battle in Midway atoll, but it established its naval dominance. When we talk about the Midway or read about it in the history books, we often use terms like combat superiority, strategic excellence, but there’s another concept we don’t mention as much, which I believe was just as imperative at Midway. And that is our people and the faith we had in our people during that time.”
Wendt, 106, likes to remind people that some things at play back then can’t easily be analyzed.
“It was a lot of good luck, too,” he told Midway Currents, a museum publication, in an interview last summer.
The battle started June 4, 1942, six months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor that pushed the U.S. into World War II.
Japan had followed up with a string of conquests in the Pacific, and Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto readied an invasion of Midway, a strategic U.S.-held atoll about 1,300 miles northwest of Oahu.
What Yamamoto didn’t know is that U.S. analysts had deciphered enough of the Japanese communications codes to recognize Midway as a coming target. Adm. Chester Nimitz organized an ambush.
Despite the element of surprise, Wendt wasn’t confident about the U.S. chances. “We were outmatched in the air with their Zeros [fighter planes] against our TBDs [torpedo bombers],” he told Midway Currents. “We were outnumbered all the way across the board in ships and planes.”
Wendt and Monroe, 99, were both attached to a torpedo bomber squadron, VT-8. Early in the battle, its planes were decimated in aerial combat. But those skirmishes unsettled the Japanese — where was the next wave coming from? — and left them vulnerable to subsequent attacks.
“We caught the Japanese at the right time when they were taking torpedoes off their planes on the flight deck and replacing them with bombs,” Monroe remembered, also in the Midway Currents interview. “Although we lost our squadron first, we later caught them flat-footed.”
By the time the fighting was over, Japan had lost more than 3,000 men, four aircraft carriers, one heavy cruiser and 250 planes. The U.S. paid a price, too — 307 men, one carrier, one destroyer, 150 planes — but the tide had turned. U.S. forces were able to go on the offensive in the Pacific.
According to biographies provided by the Navy, all three Midway veterans saw additional combat at places like Guadalcanal, Tarawa and the Solomon Islands. Holder, 100, also served in the European theater during the war.
Fast-forward to present day, Whitesell reminded his audience that the threats the world faces today are not so different from those eight decades ago.
“Today we find ourselves in a starkly similar environment to what we experienced 80 years ago as our country supports the Ukrainian people against the unprovoked attack by Russia, while simultaneously facing a very real possibility of conflict in the Pacific,” he said.
“We still carry the fighting spirit of those heroes who fought at Midway.”
Karl Zingheim, the USS Midway Museum’s historian, said it’s important to preserve the stories of those who participated in key battles, especially Midway.
“A main lesson of Midway is that individuals matter,” he said in an interview Friday afternoon. “It’s one of the few examples in the history of mechanized, industrial warfare where what someone does or fails to do can turn the course of the battle. You see that over and over at Midway. It’s a legacy worth remembering.”
Staff writer Lori Weisberg contributed to this report.
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Police: 20-year-old SUV driver killed in Lakeland crash, passenger seriously injured
Lakeland police responded to a deadly crash early Sunday morning.
The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. Sunday near the Interstate 4 access ramp and Memorial Boulevard.
According to the Lakeland Police Department, a Ford Expedition was headed west on Memorial Boulevard before the crash.
Police say the vehicle left the roadway, causing it to cross a grass median and move into eastbound lanes.
The SUV then struck a concrete median and rolled over several times after the driver, Jeison Gutierrez, 20, of Plant City tried to negotiate a curve.
Gutierrez, who police say wasn't wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the SUV.
Life-saving measures were performed on Gutierrez at the scene. He was later pronounced dead.
A 31-year-old passenger had serious injuries that weren't life-threatening.
According to Lakeland police, speed was a factor in the crash.
The Traffic Homicide Unit is leading the investigation.
Police also say toxicology tests will be conducted.
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Oracle Agent Service combines Fusion CX and utility applications to improve customer service while boosting sales
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Oracle Utilities Edge -- Oracle today announced Oracle Utilities Agent Service, a new cloud application specifically for utility customer service teams. Agent Service brings billing, usage, and interaction history together in a single dashboard to provide agents a holistic view of each customer. Combined with new AI-powered tools that guide agents to the 'next best action,' the application helps agents resolve customer issues faster, while being able to recommend relevant new services. For example, while helping a customer resolve a billing issue, an agent can notify the customer of a higher trending bill, identify ways to reduce the bill, and either enroll them in a new rate plan based on their usage patterns or provide a rebate.
With the new cloud application, agents can easily see how customers are interacting with the utility across all available service channels, including phone, web, email, chat, and SMS. This helps agents aid customers wherever they left off in the process, like getting stuck setting up an online account and needing to continue over the phone. The new agent desktop application simplifies navigation for agents and helps utilities reduce employee training time, while increasing their productivity and satisfaction.
Agent Service is the latest offering in Oracle Customer Experience (CX) for Utilities, a suite of integrated CX and utility-specific cloud applications that help water, gas, and energy providers boost results while delivering better experiences to customers.
"Celsia is changing rapidly to meet customer needs and introducing a new product or service nearly every four months," said Ricardo Sierra, CEO, Celsia. "Our legacy system had many challenges and we wanted to provide customers and clients with reliable information, along with personalized offerings. We were looking for a specific solution to enable us to compete in this market and wanted a strong partner committed to innovation. Oracle's CX for Utilities suite is the best long-term solution to help us solve these tough problems and better serve our customers."
Engaging customers across experiences
Oracle CX for Utilities is supported by proven CX and operational technology built for utilities, including billing, rating, payment processing, collections, advanced metering, and energy efficiency. By unifying customer data across operational, sales, marketing, and customer service solutions, the suite helps teams use each customer's complete profile to improve sales and service interactions and tailor communications and campaigns across every channel.
For example, using disaggregation, a utility provider identifies that a customer has likely purchased an electric vehicle (EV), leading to a higher monthly energy bill. With this intelligence available directly in the dashboard, agents can provide the customer helpful suggestions on when to charge the EV based on their current rate plan, as well as guidance to enroll the customer in a Home Energy Report program specific to EV-owners. This is just one of the hundreds of connected experiences utilities can deliver with Oracle CX for Utilities through better:
Customer service: With an AI-powered agent service solution, Oracle CX for Utilities arms service agents with context-aware information so they can speed resolution times and deliver more value to customers. In addition, self-service digital web tools and chatbots make it easy for customers to act on their own to resolve questions and manage their account in their channel of choice.
Personalized marketing: The platform unifies customer data from multiple sources so utility providers can effectively communicate with the right customers, improving campaign response rate. Using marketer-friendly tools to segment customers and create filters, triggers, and profiles, utilities can quickly generate personalized campaigns that respond according to each customer's preferences—such as location and communication channels—and use real-time insights to track their performance.
Sales effectiveness: A complete view of customer accounts and insights derived from AI provide sales teams with the information they need to make better recommendations. The suite gives managers the tools to better understand their accounts and proactively engage as trusted advisors with customers, even as their needs change.
"You can't effectively use a standard CRM system to do a utility job," said Rob Tarkoff, executive vice president and general manager, Oracle Advertising and CX. "CX for Utilities, with the addition of Agent Service, unites Oracle's 40-plus years in operational utility technology know-how with leading CX capabilities to engage utility customers in new ways that compel them to act. Whether a utility is trying to lower their service costs, increase uptake of new offers, or meet aggressive decarbonization goals, only Oracle brings all the applications and data together in an AI-backed framework to bring customers along on this digital journey."
Oracle CX for Utilities was named a leader by IDC in both its recent MarketScapes for Utilities Customer Experience Management1 and Digital Customer Engagement Solutions2. To learn more about Oracle CX for Utilities visit https://www.oracle.com/industries/utilities/customer-experience or see the platform in action at https://bit.ly/3uUF43j.
- IDC, "MarketScape: Worldwide Customer Experience Management Solutions for Utilities 2021 Vendor Assessment," Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, and Gaurav Verma, June 2021 (Doc # US46154220)
- IDC, "MarketScape: Worldwide Digital Customer Engagement Solutions for Utilities 2021 Vendor Assessment," Gaia Gallotti, Jean-François Segalotto, and Gaurav Verma, June 2021 (Doc #US46149620e)
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I had a lot of brush and pine needles in my yard that needed to be cleared for landscaping," said the inventor from Prineville, Ore. "I thought of this idea to help reduce the amount of manual labor it takes to cleanup leaves, grass clippings, pine needles, weeds and brush from my property out in the country."
He invented MY POWER RAKE, patent-pending, that eliminates the need to manually rake or displace loose yard debris. This device could help reduce physical strain on the body and help save time. It could be utilized to rake leaves, grass clippings, and even move objects such as soil or gravel for ranch, farms, ATV, horse and grooming trailers. Additionally, this could be utilized by homeowners, professional landscapers, and even forest firefighters.
The original design was submitted to the Portland sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-POO-426, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Keeping your lawn green and healthy throughout the summer
You can’t just expect something to thrive simply because it exists. Nurturing any living thing takes time, patience and care. Your lawn is no exception, especially in the summer when intense heat and drought can make it difficult for plants to survive, let alone flourish.
Luckily, even little changes to your lawn care routine can make a big impact. It is entirely possible to keep your grass green and healthy all summer long. These tips and products can help you do exactly that.
What does your lawn need to thrive?
Before you can get your lawn to be the best, most healthy version of itself, you must learn what it needs to thrive. While there are other items your grass requires, these six are the most important: suitable soil temperature, sunlight, healthy soil, oxygen, water and nutrients.
Suitable soil temperature
The effect that soil temperature has on a lawn is easy to see. In the winter, you do not have to pull out your lawn mower and cut the grass between snow storms because the cold temperatures have caused your lawn to stop growing. The same thing happens when it gets too hot — during those summer scorchers, you might notice you don’t have to cut the grass as often.
While soil temperatures play the leading role in whether your grass grows or not, unfortunately, it is not something you have control over. It is more something to recognize. If your grass stops growing and turns brown in the middle of an extended heatwave, it is a natural survival reaction. As long as you are giving your grass everything else it needs, it should come back to its full health when temperatures cool down a little.
Sunlight
Without sunlight, grass won’t survive. Depending on the type of grass you have, your lawn needs anywhere from four to six hours of direct sunlight each day. Some shade tolerant grasses, however, can survive in filtered sunlight. Also, it is important to remember that too much direct sunlight can damage your lawn. If you want the healthiest summer grass, consider the amount of sunlight it gets and if there is anything you can do to increase or limit that amount so your lawn thrives.
Healthy soil
A plant survives on the air, food and nutrients it takes in through its roots. If you don’t believe that, snip off the top of a plant, but leave its roots unharmed. Even though nearly all of the plant is gone, if the roots are safe, it will grow back.
For air, food and nutrients to get to your lawn’s root system, they have to make it through the soil. Sometimes, soil can get so compacted that it doesn’t allow these vital elements through. When that happens, you need to loosen your soil with a lawn aerator. When you aerate your soil, you put lots of holes in it or remove plugs of soil to loosen it up so air, food and nutrients can get through to the roots.
Sometimes, your soil may be fine, but a layer of organic matter builds up that doesn’t allow these three essentials through. This is called thatch. When that happens, you must remove some of that organic matter using a lawn dethatcher.
Oxygen
In school, you learned that plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis. While this is true, many of us may have reasoned that plants do not require oxygen. This is not true. For plants to convert food into energy, they need oxygen. As long as you keep your soil healthy, your thatch to no thicker than a half inch and you do not over-water, your lawn will get the oxygen it needs.
Water
One of the keys to keeping your lawn lush and green during the summer is to make sure it has enough water. If the color of your grass fades and the blades do not spring back after you walk across it, your lawn needs water.
It is best to water your lawn in the morning before the temperatures climb to keep the water from evaporating. Add enough water so a screwdriver can easily slide roughly six inches into the ground. You want the soil moist, not wet. Twice a week is sufficient unless there are abnormally high temperatures or long periods without rain.
Nutrients
Applying fertilizer is like giving your lawn a healthy meal — it will help it grow strong and endure harsh conditions. Apply the first round about the time you begin mowing your lawn and be sure to water it afterward. You may need to apply one or two more treatments of fertilizer over the summer. This is okay. Just wait at least six weeks before treatments and try to time it so you are not applying fertilizer during the hottest temperatures of the season.
What is overseeding?
If you notice your lawn has bare spots or looks a little thin, and you have tended to all the other areas, consider overseeding. This simply means you put grass seed directly on top of your lawn to bolster it. For best results, this should be done during the peak growing season.
When is peak growing season?
Peak growing season varies for grasses in the northern half of the country and grasses in the southern half of the country. In the north, you have cool-season grasses which grow the most mid spring and early fall. In the south, you have warm-season grasses which grow the most during late spring. You can easily tell when it is peak growing season because it is when your grass will grow the fastest.
Products that help your summer lawn thrive
This soil thermometer has a long stainless steel probe. Simply stick it in the ground, wait about four seconds and you’ll know the temperature of your soil. This lets you know when the conditions are right for peak growing season.
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Agri-Fab 48-inch Tow Plug Aerator
This 48-inch tow-behind plug aerator has 32 galvanized shafts that remove three-inch plugs from your lawn to help loosen up compacted soil so water, nutrients and air can get through to the roots of your grass.
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If you do not have a large area to aerate, these spikes are ideal. They quickly attach to your footwear. Once on, all you have to do is walk around to loosen up your soil.
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Brinly 42-inch Tow-Behind Lawn Sweeper with Dethatcher
If you have a mid to large-sized lawn that is being suffocated by too much thatch, this tool can help. The innovative design lets you dethatch and sweep your lawn clean in one pass.
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Worx Corded Electric Dethatcher
For people who have a smaller lawn, this electric dethatcher may be all you need. It is limited by the length of the cord, but it lets you complete your task with minimal effort. The collection bag keeps your property neat as you work.
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Orbit Three-Arm Sprinkler with Wheeled Base
One of the most important tasks you can do to ensure a lush, green lawn throughout the summer is to keep the soil moist. With a sprinkler, you can water your lawn without saturating it. This model has three arms that rotate to provide coverage of up to 24 feet in all directions.
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Scotts Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader
If you plan on feeding your lawn so it grows with a robust energy, you need a spreader. This large-capacity spreader holds enough fertilizer (or grass seed) to cover up to 10,000 square feet. It has a heavy-duty frame and disperses fertilizer or seeds in a 22-inch spread pattern.
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This all-in-one turf builder can be used throughout any season. It helps your grass develop strong roots that can keep it lush during the stress caused by harsh weather conditions. It also helps your lawn absorb more nutrients so it can thrive all season long.
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Scotts Turf Builder SummerGuard Lawn Food
If you are having problems with excessive heat and drought, this is the fertilizer you want to use because it is formulated not to burn your lawn. The product is also fortified with insect control to protect against a range of harmful bugs.
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Scotts Turf Builder Grass Seed (Sun and Shade Mix)
This mix is for people who want to overseed cool-season grasses. It is suitable for use in either sun or shade and will spread aggressively to fill bare spots. The protective coating keeps the seeds moist and helps fortify them against diseases.
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Scotts Turf Builder Grass Seed (Bermudagrass)
People who live in the south need a warm-season product. This grass seed is formulated to grow in high-traffic areas that receive little water and must endure scorching heat. The WaterSmart coating protects against diseases and keeps the seeds moist up to two times longer than uncoated seeds.
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By ADAM SCHRECK and MSTYSLAV CHERNOV
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian fighters who were holed up in a steel plant in the last known pocket of resistance inside the shattered city of Mariupol ignored a surrender-or-die ultimatum from Russia on Sunday and held out against the capture of the strategically vital port.
The fall of Mariupol, the site of a merciless 7-week-old siege that has reduced much of the city to a smoking ruin, would be Moscow’s biggest victory of the war yet and free up troops to take part in a potentially climactic battle for control of Ukraine’s industrial east.
Capturing the southern city would also allow Russia to fully secure a land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, and deprive Ukraine of a major port and its prized industrial assets.
As its missiles and rockets slammed into other parts of the country, Russia estimated that 2,500 Ukrainian troops and about 400 foreign mercenaries were dug in at the sprawling Azovstal steel mill, which covers more than 11 square kilometers (4 square miles) and is laced with tunnels.
Many Mariupol civilians, including children, are also sheltering at the Azovstal plant, Mikhail Vershinin, head of the city’s patrol police, told Mariupol television on Sunday. He said they are hiding from Russian shelling, and from any occupying Russian soldiers.
Moscow gave the defenders a midday deadline to surrender, saying those who laid down their arms were “guaranteed to keep their lives.” The Ukrainians rejected it, just as they’ve done with previous ultimatums.
“We will fight absolutely to the end, to the win, in this war,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal vowed on ABC’s “This Week.” He said Ukraine is prepared to end the war through diplomacy if possible, “but we do not have intention to surrender.”
As for besieged Mariupol, there appeared to be little hope Sunday of military rescue by Ukrainian forces anytime soon. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the remaining Ukrainian troops and civilians in Mariupol are basically encircled. He said they “continue their struggle,” but that the city effectively doesn’t exist anymore because of massive destruction.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent Easter greetings via Twitter, saying: “The Lord’s Resurrection is a testimony to the victory of life over death, good over evil.”
If Mariupol falls, Russian forces there are expected to join an all-out offensive in the coming days for control of the Donbas, the eastern industrial region that the Kremlin is bent on capturing after failing in its bid to take Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
The relentless bombardment and street fighting in Mariupol have killed at least 21,000 people, by the Ukrainians’ estimate. A maternity hospital was hit by a lethal Russian airstrike in the opening weeks of the war, and about 300 people were reported killed in the bombing of a theater where civilians were taking shelter.
An estimated 100,000 remained in the city out of a prewar population of 450,000, trapped without food, water, heat or electricity in a siege that has made Mariupol the scene of some of the worst suffering of the war.
“All those who will continue resistance will be destroyed,” Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman, said in announcing the latest ultimatum.
Drone footage carried by the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti showed towering plumes of smoke over the steel complex, which sits on the outskirts of the bombed-out city, on the Sea of Azov.
Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar described Mariupol as a “shield defending Ukraine” as Russian troops prepare for battle in the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas, where Moscow-backed separatists already control some territory.
Russian forces, meanwhile, carried out aerial attacks near Kyiv and elsewhere in an apparent effort to weaken Ukraine’s military capacity ahead of the anticipated assault.
After the humiliating sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet last week in what the Ukrainians boasted was a missile attack, the Kremlin had vowed to step up strikes on the capital.
Russia said Sunday that it had attacked an ammunition plant near Kyiv overnight with precision-guided missiles, the third such strike in as many days.
Explosions were also reported overnight in Kramatorsk, the eastern city where rockets earlier this month killed at least 57 people at a train station crowded with civilians trying to evacuate ahead of the Russian offensive.
At least five people were killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, on Sunday, regional officials said. The barrage slammed into apartment buildings and left the streets scattered with broken glass and other debris, including part of at least one rocket.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov, in an impassioned address marking Orthodox Palm Sunday, lashed out at Russian forces for not letting up the bombing campaign on such a sacred day.
And Zelenskyy, in his nightly address to the nation, called the bombing in Kharkiv “nothing but deliberate terror.”
A regional official in eastern Ukraine said at least two people were killed when Russian forces fired at residential buildings in the town of Zolote, near the front line in the Donbas.
Malyar, the Ukrainian deputy defense minister, said the Russians continued to hit Mariupol with airstrikes and could be getting ready for an amphibious landing to reinforce their ground troops.
The looming offensive in the east, if successful, would give Russian President Vladimir Putin a vital piece of the country and a badly needed victory that he could sell to the Russian people amid the war’s mounting casualties and the economic hardship caused by the West’s sanctions.
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met with Putin in Moscow this week — the first European leader to do so since the invasion Feb. 24 — said the Russian president is “in his own war logic” on Ukraine.
In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Nehammer said he thinks Putin believes he is winning the war, and “we have to look in his eyes and we have to confront him with that, what we see in Ukraine.’’
Without explicitly mentioning Putin’s decision to invade, Pope Francis made an anguished Easter Sunday plea for peace in Ukraine, decrying “this cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged.”
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Chernov reported from Kharkiv. Yesica Fisch in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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Man loses large part of arm after alligator bite in Florida lake, officials say
MYAKKA CITY, Fla. (WWSB/Gray News) – A man lost a large part of his arm when was bitten by an alligator while swimming in a Florida lake.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation said the victim, 43-year-old Eric Merda of Sarasota, was swimming at the Lake Manatee Fish Camp when he was bitten by an alligator.
Based on the severity of Merda’s injuries, the alligator was most likely a large one, according to wildlife expert Justin Matthews.
“A 6-footer can rip your arm off, this alligator here being that close to people, I think someone has fed him before,” Matthews said.
Experts urge people to not swim in these types of bodies of water or feed the alligators.
Merda was flown to Sarasota Memorial Hospital to be treated for his injuries. His condition is not being released by the hospital.
FWC says they are still working on trapping this gator and are continuing their investigation.
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US retail sales were flat in July as inflation takes a toll
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The pace of sales at U.S. retailers was unchanged last month as persistently high inflation and rising interest rates forced many households to spend more cautiously.
Retail purchases were flat in July after having risen 0.8% in June, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.
America's consumers, whose spending accounts for nearly 70% of economic activity, have remained mostly resilient even with inflation near a four-decade high, economic uncertainties rising and mortgage and other borrowing rates surging. Still, their overall spending has weakened, and it has shifted increasingly toward necessities like groceries and away from discretionary items like home goods, casual clothes and electronics.
The government's monthly report on retail sales covers about a third of all consumer purchases and doesn’t include spending on most services ranging from plane fares and apartment rents to movie tickets and doctor visits.
Though overall inflation remains painfully high, consumer prices were unchanged from June to July — the smallest such figure in more than two years.
Still, inflation is posing a serious threat to families. Gasoline prices have fallen from their heights, but food, rent, used cars and other necessities have become far more expensive, beyond whatever wage increases most workers have received.
Despite a still-robust job market, the U.S. economy shrank in the first half of 2022, raising fears of a potential recession. Growth has been weakening largely as a consequence of the Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hikes, which are intended to cool the economy and tame high inflation.
The impact of the Fed's hikes has been felt especially in the housing market. Sales of previously occupied homes have slowed for five straight months as higher mortgage rates and high sales prices have kept many would-be buyers on the sidelines.
But the most important pillar of the economy — the job market — has proved durable. America's employers added a hefty 528,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate reached 3.5%, matching a near-half-century low reached just before the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020.
As consumers have shifted their purchases more toward necessities, Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, on Tuesday reported sales and profit results that topped expectations. Walmart said more of its customers were favoring lower-priced grocery items.
But the company is benefiting from higher-income shoppers who have been trading down to Walmart to try to reduce their grocery bills. The company, long associated with price-conscious and lower-income consumers, disclosed that roughly 75% of its grocery sales last quarter were to households with incomes of at least $100,000.
At the same time, in recent week, Walmart and its rival Target have issued profit warnings, noting that their shoppers were reducing their discretionary purchases.
And last month, Best Buy, the nation’s largest consumer electronics chain, cut its annual sales and profit forecast, saying inflation had dampened consumer spending on gadgets.
Still, as a whole, America’s consumers have been showing the steady willingness to spend, thought at a more modest pace. Home Depot on Tuesday reported sustained demand among its customers for goods related to home improvement projects despite surging prices and mortgage rates for homes.
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A 180-page online screed attributed to the white man accused of killing 10 people at a Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo on Saturday has brought a once-fringe white extremist conspiracy theory into the spotlight. But the underpinnings of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, which has been iterated on over time to appeal to wider audiences, has penetrated a much more mainstream portion of American society. A recent poll, conducted by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that one in three American adults now believes in a version of replacement theory.
The speed with which this false narrative has tipped into American discourse since a French ethnonationalist first coined the term roughly a decade ago has stunned even extremism experts who have tracked the spread of hate-filled ideologies. They cite the failure of major social media platforms to effectively moderate such content, the role of Fox News hosts in amplifying these ideas, and the uptake of the conspiracy's language by some elected Republican officials.
Demographic change
Between 2010 and 2020, the percentage of Americans who identified as "White Only" declined by more than 10 percent, from 72 to 62 percent. During that same decade, several Western European countries saw record influxes of migrants from Muslim nations. It is against the backdrop of this demographic change that replacement rhetoric has accelerated in recent years.
"In the U.S., [it's] often called 'white genocide.' In Europe, [it's] called 'Eurabia,' " said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, professor and director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
The baseless theories claim that these population shifts are orchestrated by elite power holders. In the U.S., Miller-Idriss said white nationalists ascribe the plot to Jews who they believe are bringing in immigrants and promoting interracial marriage to suppress whites. In Europe, the false narrative blames elite politicians for a growing Muslim population. Miller-Idriss said the coining of the term "Great Replacement" in France marked a key moment in the growth of these beliefs.
"It has unified and really spread [the conspiracies] online in memes and videos and in a lot of propaganda," she said. "It capitalized on a moment when you're not just reading written propaganda or sharing it in a newsletter or in a small group in a backwoods militia. But it's circulating in these dark online spaces where this [alleged] Buffalo shooter writes he was exposed and radicalized."
From there, the conspiracy theories migrated toward progressively less fringe conservative media platforms, said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
"We have literally watched as ideas that originate on white supremacist message boards, or like the dark web – the places that are very difficult to get to – move," said Greenblatt. "They literally jump to [Internet message boards like] 4chan and 8chan, which are much more accessible, [then] they jump to web sites like The Daily Caller or Breitbart, and then they jump to Tucker Carlson's talking points or Laura Ingraham's talking points, or other AM radio DJs' talking points. And then you have theoretically mainstream Republican politicians repeating some of this stuff."
Carlson and Ingraham are Fox News hosts.
"Sanitizing" the message
Although the roots of the Great Replacement are firmly planted in the organized white supremacist movement, a version of the baseless conspiracy has spread among a wider swath of Americans with some minor tweaking of language. Matthew Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, said that Carlson has framed the issue around voter replacement.
"What he says is that the Democrats are importing immigrants and that they are replacing Americans," said Gertz. "But no one should really be confused by what he is trying to do. The specific cases that he's talking about are Central American immigrants, they are immigrants from Africa, they are immigrants from the Middle East."
Greenblatt, whose organization has repeatedly called on Fox News to fire Carlson, said figures such as Carlson have sought language that might be palatable to more Americans. In moving away from white nationalist terms like "white genocide" and "Jewish cabal," they have repackaged the conspiracy as one driven by political partisanship.
"It has been an intentional effort ... to take these ideas and to try to sanitize them ... so they could bring their ideas into the mainstream," said Greenblatt.
Fox News declined to comment in response to questions from NPR about the role that critics say Carlson and Ingraham have played in stoking fears over replacement.
Greenblatt, Gertz and Miller-Idriss say claims of an orchestrated "immigrant invasion" have gained legitimacy through the endorsement of some elected Republicans, most notably former President Donald Trump. But they note that the messaging his continued after Trump left office.
"Elise Stefanik has pushed the same thing," said Gertz, referring to the third-highest ranking Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. "This is moving steadily into mainstream Republican politics."
How to fight a pervasive conspiracy theory?
The document believed to have been written by the suspected gunman in the Buffalo attack does not ascribe his radicalization to Fox News or rhetoric of politicians. Rather, he describes it as taking place on the same Internet chat boards that were early to adopt the language of the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory, such as 4chan.
"[Those are] still, I think, the spaces and places we should be most worried about," said Miller-Idriss.
Still, Miller-Idriss and other extremism experts say the mainstreaming of replacement theory remains alarming. Greenblatt said it isn't enough to condemn the violence, because speech that dehumanizes other people – whether Blacks, immigrants or Jews – can inspire violence.
"What I would suggest is that people in positions of authority, who have platforms, should use those platforms responsibly and call out this kind of ugliness and cease the incitement immediately because it's too dangerous to do otherwise," he said.
In the wake of the tragedy, much attention is focusing on whether stricter gun laws might have prevented it, the role of social media, whether the suspected gunman had a history of mental health problems, and whether law enforcement authorities missed early red flags.
"But all of that really doesn't make a difference if [individuals] in the end don't have a basic understanding of the legacy of racism, of structural racism [and of] systemic racism in this country," said Miller-Idriss.
She said that many young people observe the racial disparities in American society and will seek out answers to them. The document believed to be linked to the suspect pulls data from dubious online sources to support spurious claims of biological racism and crime rates.
"They may not be talking about it from good academic sources or good learning sources," Miller-Idriss said, "but they're going to be hearing about it in dark online spaces instead."
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Trend Micro cloud-based email protection blocked 33.6 million threats last year
DALLAS, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, blocked over 33.6 million cloud email threats in 2021, a 101% increase on the previous year. This stark increase in attacks proves that email remains a top point of entry for cyber attacks.
To read a full copy of the Cloud App Security Threat Report, please visit: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us//security/research-and-analysis/threat-reports/roundup/trend-micro-cloud-app-security-threat-report-2021.
"Each year we see innovation in the threat landscape and an evolution of the corporate attack surface, but each year email remains a major threat to organizations," said Jon Clay, vice president of threat intelligence for Trend Micro. "The best shot defenders have at mitigating these risks is by taking a platform-based approach, to shine a powerful light on threats and deliver streamlined prevention, detection and response without limits."
The data was collected over the course of 2021 from products that supplement native protection in collaboration platforms such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Other key findings include:
- 16.5 million detected and blocked phishing attacks, a 138% increase as the hybrid workforce continued to be targeted
- 6.3 million credential phishing attacks, a 15% increase as phishing remains a primary means of compromise
- 3.3 million malicious files detected, including a 134% surge in known threats and a 221% increase in unknown malware
More positively, ransomware detections continued to decline by 43% year-over-year. This could be because attacks are becoming more targeted, along with Trend Micro's successful blocking of ransomware affiliate tools such as Trickbot and BazarLoader.
Business email compromise (BEC) detections also fell by 11%. However, there was an 83% increase in BEC threats detected using Trend Micro's AI-powered writing style analysis feature, indicating that these scams may be getting more sophisticated.
Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro's cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.TrendMicro.com.
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PORTER, Texas, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruthmann Reachmaster announces the expansion of its team with additions, and an executive appointment. Congratulations to Mr. Tom Goyer, and welcome to Mr. Robin Paeper and Ms. Samantha Ayala-Linan.
With decades of experience in the aerial equipment industry, Mr. Goyer has been with Ruthmann Reachmaster since 2018. Ebbe Christensen, President, said, "In addition to Tom's extensive experience in sales of truck mounted aerial equipment, this appointment will leverage his operational and management experience as we grow." Mr. Goyer is looking forward to the challenge. "The whole industry has faced global supply chain & logistical issues. We have met these challenges with growing sales. This has emphasized the need for management structure in order to be able to react quickly to market changes." Since 2020, Mr. Goyer has held the role of Vice President of truck-mounted sales. "I look forward to becoming a more integrated part of daily management efforts."
The company welcomes Mr. Robin Paeper. "Robin will operate out of Los Angeles expanding our activities in the region, as well as servicing our national accounts. He brings immense industry experience from a long career as manager for national rental companies," says Christensen. Mr. Paeper stated, "I am excited to join the Ruthmann Reachmaster team, whom I have known for many years. Our combined vision for the future includes the growth of regional and national activities, this represents a great opportunity to promote the company's range of specialty aerial equipment and glass manipulators." Mr. Christensen added, "We have sales coverage on the west coast through Wirant Sales, however adding Robin to further lead these efforts reflects our focus on getting closer to our customer."
We would also like to welcome Ms. Samantha Ayala-Linan, who will begin in her new role at Ruthmann Reachmaster at the Porter, Texas headquarters. She will also serve as a liaison for the company's growing activities in Mexico.
The company has experienced profitable growth as the result of the merger between Ruthmann NA and Reachmaster, Inc., and by becoming part of Time Manufacturing Company. By strengthening infrastructure and teams as we continue to hire, the company is well positioned to meet demand while providing personal and professional service.
Ebbe Christensen, President • ehc@ruthmannreachmaster.com
Ruthmann Reachmaster - a leading North American supplier of truck-mounted aerial lifts, compact aerials, and material handling equipment. As a Time Manufacturing Company, the firm offers a premium range of equipment and has a rich history of providing customers with innovative access solutions.
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AKRON, Ohio, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NASDAQ: GT) today released its report on corporate responsibility performance for 2021. The report summarizes the progress the company made toward achieving its short- and long-term sustainability goals while further demonstrating its commitment to ethical and sustainable processes, materials and programs.
"While our 2021 report affords us the opportunity to reflect on the progress we have made along our sustainability journey, it is also an opportunity for us to look ahead," said Chairman, CEO and President Richard J. Kramer. "Sustainability is a cornerstone of our business strategy and an integral part of our culture. Our engaged team of more than 70,000 Goodyear associates around the world will continue to deliver high-quality products and advanced mobility solutions enabled by responsibly managed materials in an efficient, responsible manner. We are committed to helping our customers reach their sustainability goals and to building a better future to keep the world moving today and tomorrow."
Goodyear's 2021 report is organized around the four pillars of the company's corporate responsibility framework, Goodyear Better Future: Sustainable Sourcing, Responsible Operations, Advanced Mobility and Inspiring Culture. Some of the report's highlights are described below.
Sustainable Sourcing: In 2021, Goodyear scientists and engineers developed a demonstration tire made of 70% sustainable materials. This is significant progress toward the company's goal of creating a tire made 100% from sustainable materials by 2030. The demonstration tire has 13 featured ingredients, including three different carbon blacks produced from methane, carbon dioxide and plant-based oil; soybean oil; rice husk ash silica; and polyester recycled from plastic bottles and other plastic waste.
Responsible Operations: In addition to announcing its long-term climate ambition of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Goodyear continued its work to reduce its environmental impact. In 2021, the company achieved a 24% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions intensity and an 18% reduction in energy intensity compared to a 2010 baseline. Goodyear also reduced global water consumption by 17% compared to a 2020 baseline.
Advanced Mobility: In 2021, Goodyear continued its focus on improving fuel efficiency by achieving a 32% reduction in rolling resistance and an 8.8% reduction in tire weight in its global consumer tire portfolio, from a 2005 baseline.
Inspiring Culture: In 2021, associate membership in Goodyear's Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) continued to grow, and one additional ERG was added bringing the total number of Goodyear ERGs to eight. More than 3,300 associates worldwide are members of Goodyear ERGs.
"The accomplishments of 2021 are many, and I'm excited about the progress we are making along our journey," added Ellis A. Jones, vice president and chief sustainability officer. "This is a team effort, involving all of our associates across the globe. We have a strong foundation in place, which will allow us to continue to identify opportunities and overcome challenges."
Goodyear's 2021 report was prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards: Core option.
The 2021 Goodyear Corporate Responsibility Report can be found on the Goodyear Corporate Responsibility website.
About The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 72,000 people and manufactures its products in 57 facilities in 23 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.
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CEO Felipe Guevara Expands AWÁ Nutrition from His Home Country of Ecuador to International Markets.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As an expert food technologist, accomplished entrepreneur, and extreme sports enthusiast, Felipe Guevara continues his journey to the forefront of food innovation in his home country of Ecuador and throughout the world. In his most recent and prominent business venture, Guevara is taking his company AWÁ Nutrition internationally, developing, manufacturing and commercializing nutritional supplements made with ancestral Andean superfoods for everyday health conscious individuals, as well as dedicated athletes.
Following significant success in his home country of Ecuador, Guevara wasted no time in taking the brand to the global marketplace. When some would consider celebrating their success in developing a major national brand, AWÁ Nutrition's CEO continues to expand the company into new markets, and has most recently entered into the United States.
A Lifetime of Multinational Experience
Born and raised in Ecuador, Guevara developed a vast knowledge of the country's unique crops, agriculture, fruits and flavors at a young age. Pairing this uncommon expertise with his passions for personal fitness and adventure, Felipe would embark on a 20-year, and ongoing, journey through the food/ beverage and nutritional supplement industries. This would ultimately set the foundation for his success in founding AWÁ Nutrition, quickly becoming a global player in the protein supplements category.
At just 18 years old, Guevara dedicated himself to learning everything he could about Ecuador's agroindustrial environment. Throughout 2003 and 2006, during his studies and R&D work in Europe, he started developing the first quinoa protein concentrates, a significant and disruptive breakthrough concept at the time. After achieving a Masters Degree in Food Technology in Wageningen University in the Netherlands and having worked for major European multinational players in the protein and human nutrition industry like Friesland Campina and Arla Foods Ingredients, he then founded his first company in 2011, Alimlogia Food Consulting, where he developed the first ready to drink horchata beverage, leading a successful launch to bring the unique herbal elixir drink to consumers in Ecuador.
This food and beverage innovation experience would guide him to seamlessly incorporate AWÁ Nutrition's unique, plant-based superfood ingredient Andean lupin into their products. The use of Andean lupin fulfills a significant and continuously growing consumer trend in plant-based proteins and exotic fruits. Like acai, which is now widely popular in Western countries, was once just a staple of indigenous populations in Brazil.
The Pursuit of a High Performance Active Lifestyle
Matching his high level of entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen, Guevara incorporates an equally important passion into his daily routine — fitness and exercise. He regularly pursues his love for extreme outdoor sports throughout the landscapes of Ecuador, Isla de la Plata, the Galapagos Islands, as well as in other countries in South America and Europe. When at home managing day-to-day operations for AWÁ Nutrition, Guevara balances his work with his personal fitness routine, combining functional exercise, high intensity cardio and weight training.
"My passion for sports and fitness taught me the need to consume protein supplements and reach higher performance levels. I was always trying new supplements to improve muscle growth and recovery and had tried hundreds of brands and protein supplements. However, I just never found one that had a great amino acid profile, was easy to digest, and would cause little to no inflammation," Guevara said. "I knew there was a point of intersection between my passion for fitness and my career. Ultimately, this led me to transforming Ecuador's unique crops into amazing added value protein nutritional supplements that could be aimed at health and wellness-oriented consumers."
Assisted by his food innovation background, Guevara developed AWÁ Nutrition's products to be all natural, non-inflammatory, nutrient dense and infused with high nutritional quality vegetable protein. In pursuit of a clean label, the products are naturally flavored with fruit concentrates high in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that provide important micronutrients for metabolic health and functional benefits. Each of AWÁ Nutrition's product creations are developed with the consumer in mind — free of allergens, GMO's and added sugars.
Devotion to Ecuador and the Andes
Guevara's lifelong vision and business success comes with a deep appreciation and commitment to his Andean heritage. Ecuador's food, culture, music, family, and exotic environment of the Andes Mountains, coastal region and Amazonian influence has all contributed to the founding of AWÁ Nutrition and his passion for leading the business to global markets.
This background would culminate in the founding of AWÁ Nutrition, with their products frequently referred to as Ancestral Wellness of the Andes. As the success of his company continues far and wide throughout the United States and beyond, Guevara maintains commitment to his roots and true passion to share the beauty of Ecuador with healthy lifestyle consumers and athletes around the world.
AWÁ Nutrition's plant-based smoothie-mixes come in two lines for personalized nutrition. The Lifestyle Active series is formulated for the everyday, healthy lifestyle consumer and is available in six Andean flavor mixes. The High Performance series of mixes are ideal for more serious athletes and are available in four Andean flavor mixes.
About AWÁ Nutrition
Based in Ecuador and with offices in Santa Monica, CA, the mission of AWÁ Nutrition is to promote an active lifestyle and encourage mindfulness of nutrition through unique and natural Andean plant-based nutritional products. We source from local, small-scale producers and cater to consumers who consciously seek out quality products with greater purpose. A direct percentage of sales of AWÁ Nutrition products go toward supporting social responsibility and nutrition and sports programs for disadvantaged communities in Ecuador. Follow AWÁ Nutrition on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Associated Press
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie at 83 just became the oldest person in the world to complete a solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific Ocean — and he says he is still “in the middle of my youth” and not done yet.
Horie returned home as he crossed the Kii Strait off Japan’s western coast early Saturday, completing his trans-Pacific solo voyage in 69 days after leaving a yacht harbor in San Francisco in late March.
On Sunday, after spending the night on his 19-foot (6-meter) -long Suntory Mermaid III just off the coast, Horie was towed into his home port of Shin Nishinomiya, where he was cheered by local residents and supporters and banners that read: “Welcome back, Mr. Kenichi Horie!”
As he approached the harbor, Horie, standing in his boat, took off his white cap and waved. He got off the yacht, took off the cap again and bowed deeply on the pier before he was presented with bouquets of roses.
“Thank you for waiting!” said Horie, who appeared tanned and with his white hair longer than usual.
He carried a stock of medicine from San Francisco, he said, but only used eye drops and Band-Aids during his more than two months alone at sea.
“That shows how healthy I am,” Horie said. “I’m still in the middle of my youth.”
He said he “burned all my body and soul” on the journey but says he’s ready for more. “I will keep up my work to be a late bloomer.”
At a news conference at the yacht harbor later Sunday, he said becoming the oldest person to make the feat was a dream come true. “It was my great joy to have been able to make a challenge as a real goal and safely achieve it, instead of just holding onto it as a dream.”
“I want to be a challenger as long as I live,” he said.
It 1962, he became the first person in the world to successfully complete a solo nonstop voyage across the Pacific from Japan to San Francisco. Sixty years later, he traveled the opposite route.
This time, his preparation during the coronavirus pandemic was full of uncertainties involving vaccine requirements, testing and other logistics. “It was like walking on thin ice,” he said.
Soon after his departure from San Francisco, he was faced with a storm, but the weather gradually improved and he reached Hawaii in mid-April ahead of schedule.
He had some struggles toward the end with a few days of pushback from a strong tide. He wrote on his blog on Friday that he had succeeded but was exhausted, and he took a nap after feeling assured that his yacht was on the right track to the finish line.
Horie has completed other long-distance solo voyages, including sailing around the world in 1974. His latest expedition was the first since his 2008 solo nonstop voyage on a wave-powered boat from Hawaii to the Kii Strait.
Despite sailing on his own, technology such as ship tracking and communications allowed him to stay in touch with his family and other people throughout the journey. “I imagine my next voyage would be even more fun,” he said.
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Popular Mount Hope principal takes central office job but parents still want her back
BRISTOL — The beloved principal of Mount Hope High School told families that she is taking an administrative position with the district despite a huge campaign by families and students that she be allowed to continue at the high school.
Deb DiBiase, who was named Rhode Island Principal of the Year last year, was told last month that her contract as high school principal would not be renewed, a decision that shocked her and outraged her supporters, who flocked to school committee meetings and launched an online petition that drew nearly 1,000 signatures.
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The Bristol-Warren Regional School Committee has refused to explain why DiBiase’s contract wasn’t renewed, infuriating parents, who say she has infused the high school with a fresh sense of shared values and community spirit.
In her email to the school community last week, DiBiase said she had accepted a new position as the director of multi-tiered systems of support, which include academic and behavioral supports and interventions, attendance, dropout prevention, social-emotional learning, and school climate and culture.
“Although I will no longer be solely at Mt. Hope High School, this position will allow me to continue working in the entire community with administrators, teachers, students, families, and community partners throughout all the schools in the district,” she wrote.
“Words cannot express how grateful I am for the outpouring of support I have received from so many of you over the last several weeks,” she wrote. “Your confidence and belief in me have encouraged me to keep moving forward. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.
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The Journal has reached out to DiBiase and Supt. Ana Riley for comment along with Marjorie J. McBride, chairwoman of the school committee.
Parents are expected to turn out in droves at Monday night's school committee meeting, where the school committee is expected to approve a number of contracts, including one for the new high school principal, although a name wasn't posted.
Here's what parents are saying about Principal DiBiase
During interviews last month, parents called Dr. D, as she is known, "the anchor of the school.”
Anne Bartoszuk, a parent, said, “She cares about every single kid. In my son’s freshman year, she was an island for him.”
Last month, DiBiase said Riley told her the committee might not renew her contract.
“What can I say? I love my job,” she said then. When she started at Mt. Hope eight years ago, she said, it felt like coming home.
This is only the latest in a series of controversies that have roiled the regional school district.
Linda Borg covers education for the Journal.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. – A change of perception and hope are the goals of a walking event scheduled for Pine Bluff later this month.
The Pine Bluff Arsenal Employee Assistance Program with the Army Substance Abuse Office has scheduled a Suicide Prevention and Awareness walk for 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. this Saturday, Sept 17. The event will take place at the Jefferson Regional Medical Center Wellness Center, 1301 W. 40th Avenue, Pine Bluff.
Participants will get a suicide awareness shirt, water bottle and towel. Other goodies, the organizers state, will be given out to participants.
The announcement of the walk stated it is being used to help shift public perception while spreading hope and sharing vital information to those affected by suicide. The employee program and Army office intend to ensure individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need to discuss suicide prevention and seek help.
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The July Fourth holiday weekend is off to a booming start with airport crowds crushing the numbers seen in 2019, before the pandemic.
Travelers across the United States experienced hundreds of canceled flights and a few thousand delays on Friday, much as they did earlier this week.
Patricia Carreno arrived with friends at Los Angeles International Airport only to learn that their Alaska Airlines flight to Mazatlan, Mexico, had been canceled.
“We’re probably going to drive down to Mexico — to Tijuana, the border — and just fly from there,” she said.
The Transportation Security Administration screened more than 2.4 million travelers at airport checkpoints on Thursday, 17% more than on the same Friday before July Fourth in 2019. U.S. air travel is likely to set a pandemic-era record at least once over the weekend.
Traffic on the highway could be heavy too.
AAA predicts that nearly 48 million people will travel at least 50 miles or more from home over the weekend, slightly fewer than in 2019. AAA says car travel will set a record even with the national average price for gasoline hovering near $5.
Leisure travel has bounced back this year, and that means particularly big crowds over three-day holiday weekends.
With many flights sold out over the July Fourth weekend, airlines will struggle to find seats for passengers like Carreno whose flights are canceled. Airlines told customers to check their flight’s status before going to the airport.
If you’re already at the airport when your flight is canceled, “it’s time to flex your multitasking skills,” said Sebastian Modak, editor-at-large of travel guide publisher Lonely Planet.
Modak advised heading straight to the airline’s help desk, checking its app on your phone, and calling the airline’s customer-service line — an international number might be answered sooner than a U.S. one for airlines that have both. He said driving or taking the bus or train will be a better option for shorter trips.
“There’s no getting around the fact that this is going to be a summer of travel delays, cancelations, and frustrations,” he said.
By early evening Friday on the East Coast, airlines had canceled about 500 U.S. flights and another 5,100 were delayed, according to FlightAware. Scattered thunderstorms in the New York City area made it likely the numbers would climb. From June 22 through Wednesday at least 600 flights were canceled, and between 4,000 and 7,000 were delayed per day, the tracking service said.
Airline executives blame the recent surge of canceled flights on the Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the nation’s air traffic control system, but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg disputes that claim.
Passengers are caught in the middle.
Mari Ismail, who flew to Atlanta on Friday, said it took a long time to check in and get through security before her flight from Baltimore.
“I got to my gate right as they started boarding, so it was a very lengthy process,” she said.
Jordane Jeffrey said she booked a return trip from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for Monday, the holiday.
“I’m hoping there are no delays because I work that night,” she said.
Airlines sometimes overbook flights with the expectation that some passengers won’t show up. When there are more passengers than seats, airlines will offer cash or travel vouchers to people willing to take the next flight.
Earlier this week, a columnist for Inc. magazine wrote that Delta flight attendants offered $10,000 cash to people who would leave a plane waiting to take off from Grand Rapids, Mich.
Delta spokesman Anthony Black would neither confirm nor deny the journalist’s account, but he noted that the airline raised the compensation agents can offer in such cases to $9,950 in 2017. That move followed a public-relations nightmare at United Airlines, when airport officers bloodied and dragged a 69-year-old doctor off a sold-out plane — a case that resulted in a lawsuit, confidential settlement, and jokes on late-night TV about United customer service.
Even with vacationers crowding into airports and on planes, the total number of people flying has not fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels because of a decline in business and international travel. TSA screened 11% fewer people in June than it did in the same month of 2019.
Thursday marked only the 11th time since the pandemic started that TSA checked more people than it did on the same day in 2019, and just the second time since February.
Airlines could almost surely be carrying more passengers if they had enough staffing. Many U.S. airlines have trimmed their summer schedules after bad weather, air-traffic delays and a lack of enough employees caused widespread cancellations over the Memorial Day weekend.
Airlines paid thousands of workers to quit during the early days of the pandemic, when air travel plummeted and airline revenue dried up. They have been hiring recently, but it takes time to train pilots, who are in particularly short supply.
Now airlines competing for key employees are offering double-digit raises to pilots, who find themselves with leverage in negotiations over new contracts.
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PORTLAND, Maine -- Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey took over as the leader of the nation's nonpartisan governors' association Friday in a time of deep divide between the states over issues such as abortion and gun control.
Murphy took the reins as chairman of the National Governors Association from departing head Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark. Murphy will be tasked with fostering bipartisanship among members of the organization while some of them, such as Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., are publicly feuding with each other.
The states are also in the midst of an era of state-against-state legal battles over abortion access.
The association meeting was held in Maine, where Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has signed an executive order prohibiting state agencies from cooperating with other states' investigations into abortions. Hutchinson has signed off on a near-total ban of abortion for his state.
Members of the association sounded a cooperative tone at the meeting, and Murphy encouraged members to prioritize working together.
"I do not expect over the course of the next year we are going to take our hats off as Democrats and Republicans," Murphy said. "Remember that we are partisans third, governors second and Americans foremost."
The National Governors Association also appointed a new vice chairman, Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. The previous vice chair was Murphy. Cox also acknowledged the need for less partisan bickering.
"We fight about some really stupid [expletive] sometimes," Cox said to applause from the crowd. "My point is our ability to work together means so much more than the things we fight about."
The meeting was the first of its kind held in person since 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic. The proper response to the pandemic is one of several issues that has divided governors over the past two years.
The chasm between Democratic and Republican states has recently been widened by U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have overturned Roe v. Wade and struck down gun restrictions in New York. The agenda at this week's meeting of the governors avoided such hot-button topics, focusing instead on issues such as computer science education and travel and tourism.
After the meeting was over, Murphy and Hutchinson agreed that some issues, such as abortion laws, will remain polarizing. But both said the states can work together to serve the public interest on numerous other fronts.
"There's going to be a list of things we're not going to find common ground on," Murphy said. "That will never preclude the NGA and its members from finding common ground on the things we do agree about."
Hutchinson added that members should "do it in the right tone and remember what's at stake" when confronting divisive topics.
The governors association was founded in 1908 and its members are the governors of the 55 states, territories and commonwealths. This year's meeting attracted throngs of demonstrators to Portland. Many were criticizing the Roe v. Wade ruling and states that are moving to end or restrict abortion access.
Organizers said 19 governors were confirmed in attendance. DeSantis and Newsom were not among them.
The attendants included some who are well known in their states for working across the political aisle, such as Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Vermont Republican Gov. Phil Scott. Cox, the Utah governor, has also signaled a willingness to work with Democrats on gun control, despite the fact it would likely meet resistance in his own state.
Other high-profile governors who were not in attendance included Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
Some with national profiles, including Republican Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, did attend. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu of neighboring New Hampshire was also in attendance.
Mills delivered opening remarks at the event. It was the first time the state had hosted the summer meeting since 1983.
The Maine governor is among a group of Democratic governors that has issued executive orders to protect abortion providers and patients. Governors of Colorado, Rhode and Island and North Carolina have made similar moves.
At the same time, several red states placed new restrictions in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling. Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who was in attendance at the governor's meeting, has said his executive order was about protecting "North Carolina doctors and nurses and their patients from cruel right-wing criminal laws passed by other states."
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NASA, along with the European and Canadian space agencies, will be releasing the first science images from the brand new James Webb Space Telescope on Tuesday, and now we know what celestial bodies we'll be seeing in those historic pictures.
JWST is the long-awaited successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that finally launched on Christmas Day after years of delays.
On Friday, NASA revealed the list of cosmic objects that JWST will target for its first batch of full-color images offering unprecedented and detailed views of deep space. If the telescope's stunning first test image is any indication, it's going to be as good as any Instagram feed out there.
The targets include the Carina Nebula and Southern Ring Nebula, which are bright areas of gas and other material. The Carina Nebula (pictured above) is a so-called stellar nursery where stars are forming, and it's filled with massive stars that help make it one of the largest and brightest nebulas in the sky. The Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula -- in this case, a wide cloud of gas half a light-year in diameter surrounding a dying star -- and relatively close on a cosmic scale, at just 2,000 light-years away.
Two other targets we'll see in fantastic high resolution next week are the galaxy group Stephan's Quintet, a particularly photogenic grouping of galaxies that seem to be dancing around each other for eternity, and SMACS 0723, which is a massive galaxy cluster that can act as a so-called gravitational lens to help scientists see deeper into space and observe fainter galaxies.
JWST also is taking a look at the planet WASP-96b, a gas giant world about half the mass of Jupiter and located 1,150 light-years from Earth. The powerful new instruments on the space telescope should be able to provide new insights into the composition of the planet's atmosphere and a fun teaser of what we'll soon discover about other exoplanets, including those that are more Earth-like.
The images that the space agencies will unveil on July 12 are just the beginning. Scientists have applied to use the telescope through a competitive process, and the first year of observations have already been scheduled. It's quite likely that JWST will change our perspective on some aspects of the universe in the months and years to come.
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Global superstars BTS said they are taking time to focus on solo projects, but the company behind the groundbreaking K-pop group said they are not taking a hiatus.
The seven-member group with hits like “Butter” and “Dynamite” talked about their future in a video posted Tuesday celebrating the nine year anniversary of their debut release. They just released a three-disc anthology album, “Proof,” last week.
Band member Suga asked the group if they should talk about why they were going into a hiatus as they sat down for a group dinner. They discussed having to deal with COVID-19 interrupting their touring plans and music releases, as well as what each one thought about their individual artistic goals.
The group spoke in Korean, and the word “hiatus” was used on English subtitles included on the video.
But a statement from Hybe, the South Korean entertainment company behind BTS, said they’ll still be working on projects as a group, as well as individually. “BTS are not taking a hiatus. Members will be focusing more on solo projects at this time,” the statement said.
No details about future BTS collaborations or the solo projects were announced Tuesday. BTS has a global fanbase that follows the group and members online and in recent years the group’s profile has rose overseas. The group recently address the UN General Assembly and went to the White House to discuss with President Joe Biden ways to curb violence against Asian Americans.
The band members — J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jungkook, V, Jin and Jimin — opened up about the struggle to develop as individual artists within the K-pop genre.
“The problem with K-pop and the whole idol system is that don’t give you time to mature,” said RM. Some of the group members appeared to be crying during the conversation.
Band member V recalled a conversation he had with J-Hope in which they discussed how working on solo projects would improve their “synergy” as a band. Suga described an interest in trying out new genres.
“We’re each going to take some time to have fun and experience a lot of things,” said Jung Kook to their fans. “We promise we will return someday even more mature than we are now.”
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F-Boy? F-Bye. F-Girl? F-Hi!
FBoy Island's second season came to a shocking conclusion on Aug. 4, with the HBO Max reality dating series delivering yet another twist that had us scrapping the remnants of our jaws off the floor. Warning: Spoilers ahead, proceed with more caution than an F-Boy entering Limbro!
After courting controversy in its first season for taking the prize money away from winner and self-proclaimed F-Boy Garrett Morosky, FBoy Island's creator Elan Gale decided to introduce a new wrinkle in season two's final episode: The three leads had the option to keep all the money for themselves and leave the show single.
So, Mia Jones and Louise Barnard each decided to take risks and pick F-Boys, with Peter Park and Mercedes Knox proving to have reformed when they both chose to split the money. But Tamaris Sepulveda revealed herself to be the show's first F-Girl when she chose the $100,000 over continuing her relationship with nice guys Casey Johnson and Niko Pilalis.
So why did the producers decide to add in this last-minute twist?
"We always knew we were going to give the women the option because we wanted to level the playing field," Gale exclusively told E! News. "We wanted to change the rules to give the men the option to actually win this time, but it doesn't make sense for the men the be the only ones capable of winning $100,000."
So," he continued, "that was the one way we could assure the women were still in control and had the ultimate decision. We wanted to honor what the audience wanted, which was making sure the men could actually win, but we also don't want to punish the women."
Sure, Tamaris' decision was astonishing, but it wasn't all that surprising if you picked up on the various breadcrumbs she dropped about her F-Girl ways over the course of the season. For Gale, however, he really wasn't sure what was going to happen after the three leads learned about the option to keep the money.
"I thought there was a very, very, very good chance that we were going to have three couples in the end," he said, going on to reveal he "blasted through the roof like it was the moon landing" when Tamaris made her choice.
"It was an exceptionally brave thing to do in my opinion and I don't think it was an easy thing for her," Gale explained. "I don't think her feelings for Casey weren't real, she just thought about what kind of experience she was having and what she wanted and she just made a really interesting, smart play."
However, Gale's heart goes out to Casey. "I don't think either of them were being disingenuous," he said, "but I think that Tamaris just wanted to put Tamaris first and I was thrilled for her and sad for Casey simultaneously."
After Tamaris' decision, her fellow leads Mia and Louise commended her and so did her two rejected suitors, a far cry from the outraged reaction Garrett received when he chose to keep the $100,000 after Sarah Emig picked him in the season one finale. It's an interesting double-standard that Gale is excited to see viewers discuss.
"We want these conversations about what's right and what's wrong and what's working and what isn't to change every season," he shared. "We don't want you to know how you feel when people make decisions. The truth is that there is no right answer and that's what's so fun about the show. We are not trying to create a moral scale, we are trying to ask interesting moral questions."
And just because Tamaris left single doesn't mean her time on FBoy Island wasn't a success. Sure, it's a reality dating series, but Gale doesn't believe happily ever after has to mean a traditional ending.
"To me, a successful relationship on FBoy Island is two people who feel like their soul has been affected by the other person," he explained. "That can last a day or that can last a lifetime and I'm not sure I can see the difference."
Still, he does have hope for Mia and Peter, as well as Louise and Meredes.
"They really, really fully immersed themselves in each other," Gale mused. "When Louise was really concerned about how Mercedes would be outside of there, I don't think any of that was for show. I really believe her. I really believe Mia's concerns."
And, ultimately, Gale said, "Mia, Louise and Tamaris are three entirely different individuals and they all told the story that made sense for them."
F-Yeah they did.
FBoy Island season two is streaming on HBO Max.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelly Nugent was recently promoted to Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Wright National Flood Insurance Company.
Nugent has more than 30 years of flood insurance experience. She quickly advanced through the ranks of customer service, underwriting, marketing representative and national sales manager. Most recently, she had worked as one of Wright Flood's vice presidents of sales and marketing, leading both inside and outside sales departments as well as the company's in-house agency and corporate communications.
Wright Flood is an insurance company that provides federal and excess flood insurance on home and business properties. It is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.
"Kelly has been a key part of our success, and we were thrilled to promote her to this important position of Senior Vice President," said Wright Flood President Patty Templeton-Jones. "Kelly has a wealth of experience with Wright Flood, and we're excited about her new role here. She joined the company more than 30 years ago and it has been my pleasure to work with Kelly for a vast majority of that time. She has played a key role during our growth as a company, and I look forward to watching her continued success in the years to come."
Nugent earned a B.A. from the University of South Florida and also attended the University of Virginia Darden School of Executive Management. She holds a Florida Property & Casualty Insurance License.
About Wright National Flood Insurance Company
Wright Flood, the largest provider of federal flood insurance in the nation, also offers its ResiFlood program as a suite of admitted and surplus line private and excess flood programs in as many as 42 states. With leading industry specialization and rated A (Excellent) by AM Best, Wright Flood takes pride in user-friendly technology, exceptional claims reputation, and providing service customers deserve. Wright Flood enjoys a strong reputation for excellence with FEMA and participates on industry councils and advisory boards in Washington, D.C., to strengthen the flood program that serves 5.6 million flood policyholders. Agents and consumers may visit us at www.wrightflood.com and www.wrightfloodadvice.org. To find an agent, call (866) 373-5663.
Contact:
Rob Langrell
Senior Communications Manager, Wright Flood
rob.langrell@weareflood.com
(727) 422-8854
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- Multi-metals processing plant to be operated by Nyrstar, a Trafigura Group company
SINGAPORE and IRVING, Texas, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecobat, the global leader in battery recycling, and Trafigura ("Trafigura" or "the Trafigura Group"), a leading global supplier of commodities, are pleased to announce that they have entered into a binding agreement for the sale of Ecobat Resources Stolberg GmbH (ERS) which owns the Stolberg multi-metals processing plant in Germany. The Stolberg plant will be operated and managed by Nyrstar, an international multi-metals mining and smelting company and market leader in the production of zinc and lead metal. Nyrstar is 98 percent owned by the Trafigura Group.
Ecobat is a leader in the collection, recycling, production, and distribution of energy storage solutions. It has operations in Europe, the United States, and Africa, and focuses on lead and lithium battery collection and recycling management services to empower sustainability efforts around the world.
"The sale of ERS is consistent with our strategy to concentrate on our core business of battery recycling and represents a significant step in the rationalization of our portfolio," said Marcus Randolph, CEO of Ecobat.
"Combining the Stolberg plant with Nyrstar, which operates three European zinc smelters within a 300-kilometer radius of the Stolberg plant, offers a unique opportunity to leverage several of Nyrstar's by-products as feed material for the Stolberg multi-metal business, offering locally produced strategic materials to Europe's critical growth markets with a reduced carbon footprint and increased efficiency," said Daniel Vanin, CEO of Nyrstar. "We look forward to welcoming the highly engaged Stolberg team to Nyrstar and are excited to continue to grow a business which offers highly relevant materials for the fast-evolving European green transition."
The transaction is subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions precedent including the receipt of certain regulatory approvals. Completion is expected to occur in the third quarter of 2022.
Rothschild & Co acted as financial advisor and White & Case acted as legal advisor to Ecobat on the transaction.
For further information please contact:
Ecobat Press Office: ecobat@edelman.com
Nyrstar Press Office: +31 (0) 495 512 930 or media@nyrstar.com
Trafigura Press Office: +41 (0) 22 592 4528 or media@trafigura.com
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About Ecobat Resources Stolberg GmbH (ERS)
ERS was founded in 1848 and is one of the largest and most modern primary multi-metal smelters in the world. This facility can produce 155,000 tonnes of lead and more than 100 different specifications of market-leading lead alloys, and produce 130,000 tonnes of sulphuric acid. Due to its on-site silver plant the facility has a capacity of producing up to 1,200 tonnes of Doré silver, or Güldischsilber. The plant has been under repair since a major flood event occurred in July 2021. The restoration program is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2022.
About Ecobat
Ecobat is the world's biggest recycler of batteries. With operations in Africa, Europe and North America, we fully recycle nearly 80 million lead car batteries each year. For nearly a century, Ecobat has been making the business of batteries safer and more sustainable. Now, we're continuing to invent ways to harness lead, lithium, and other materials that power everyday lives more efficiently. For more information on how we are transforming energy storage, visit www.ecobat.com
About Trafigura
Founded in 1993, Trafigura is one of the largest physical commodities trading groups in the world. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects the world with the vital resources it needs. Through our Oil & Petroleum Products, Metals & Minerals, and Power & Renewables divisions, we deploy infrastructure, skills and a global network to move commodities from where they are plentiful to where they are needed most, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable.
Trafigura also owns and operates a number of industrial assets including a majority share of global multi-metals producer Nyrstar and fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy; and joint ventures Impala Terminals, a port and logistics provider, and Nala Renewables, a power and renewable energy investment and development platform. Trafigura is owned by its employees and employs over 13,000 people working in 48 countries. Visit: www.trafigura.com
About Nyrstar
Nyrstar is an international multi-metals business, with a market leading position in zinc and lead. Nyrstar has mining, smelting and other operations located in Europe, the United States of America and Australia and employs over 4,000 people. The company's operations are located close to key customers and major transport hubs to facilitate delivery of raw materials and distribution of finished products. In July 2019, Nyrstar's operating business became majority owned by Trafigura, one of the world's leading independent commodity trading companies. Visit www.nyrstar.com
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Gov. Phil Murphy will make what he termed in a “major” announcement toward the full reopening of New Jersey at his 1 p.m. coronavirus press conference on Monday.
It will be streamed from the George Washington Ballroom in Trenton on the governor’s YouTube.com channel. State Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli, communicable disease service medical director Ed Lifshitz and State Police Superintendent Colonel Pat Callahan will join Murphy.
While Murphy hasn’t said exactly what restrictions he’ll be loosening at a time when cases, the rate of transmission and hospitalizations continue to plummet, it could be related to indoor and outdoor dining with Memorial Day weekend later this month. In teasing the announcement Murphy also said Sunday it will be related to “ramping up our vaccinations.”
Last week, Murphy announced increased outdoor capacity limits New Jersey’s from 200 to 500 people, while capacity limits for large outdoor sports and entertainment venues will rise to 50%. Those changes take effect May 10.
He also announced indoor catered events in the state, such as weddings and proms, will be able operate at 50% capacity, with a maximum of 250 people, starting that day.
The rate of transmission dipped to 0.46 on Sunday, down from 0.54 on Saturday and the lowest it has been in a year since hitting .60 in May 2020. Any number under 1 indicates the outbreak is slowing and each new case is leading to less than one additional case.
There were 3,081,748 people fully vaccinated in New Jersey as of Sunday afternoon — roughly 44% of the state’s 6.9 million adults. The state’s goal is to have 70% of the state’s eligible population — about 4.7 million people — vaccinated by the end of June. Demands has waned of late, though and the state’s six “mega-sites” are now accepting walk-ins.
As of 10 p.m. Sunday, there were 1,424 patients in the state’s 71 hospitals with the coronavirus or a case under investigation, down 40 from the previous 24-hour period. Hospitalizations have dropped 38% since April 1 when there were 2,294 patients.
Officials said there were 197 patients on ventilators Sunday night (down 29 from Saturday night) and 325 in intensive care (down 2).
Murphy announced 1,048 cases and 19 COVID-19 deaths on Sunday.
At 2:15 p.m. Murphy will announce his nomination for the Adjutant General of the state’s Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The announcement will take place at the War Memorial’s Patriots Theater.
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NJ Advance Media staff writer Brent Johnson contributed to this report.
Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com.
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(The Hill) – The Senate on Tuesday broke through nearly 30 years of stalemate on gun control legislation by voting 64 to 34 to advance an 80-page gun safety bill to respond to the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, that left 31 people dead, including 19 school children.
The Senate voted to proceed to the bill just more than an hour after negotiators unveiled its text, giving lawmakers little time to digest its details.
The bill had strong momentum after a group of 10 Republican senators led by Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who has an A-plus rating from the NRA, earlier this month signed onto a bipartisan framework of principles with 10 Democrats.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) gave the effort another boost last week when he announced that he supported the bipartisan framework and would also support legislation based on its key points.
Every Senate Democrat was expected to support the bill, even though it didn’t include more far-reaching reforms that many of them support, such as bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and universal background checks.
The vote shakes up the politics of the gun violence debate in Congress as many of the Republicans who voted to proceed to the bill have A or A-plus NRA ratings.
Here are the 14 Republicans who voted yes:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)
Cornyn is a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who negotiated with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) last year on legislation to expand background checks for commercial sellers but without success.
Cornyn scored one of the few notable accomplishments on gun violence legislation in recent years when he coauthored and helped pass the Fix NICS Act in 2018. The legislation required federal agencies to produce plans for uploading all relevant information to the National Instant Criminal Background Checks System.
McConnell tapped Cornyn to lead the negotiations for Republicans shortly after a bipartisan group of senators met in Murphy’s basement to begin talks in hopes of finding a way to respond to the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings.
Cornyn has an A-plus rating from the NRA and McConnell has praised him for knowing more about gun-safety policy than anyone else in the Senate GOP conference.
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
McConnell showed his interest in passing a bill to respond to the violence in Buffalo and Uvalde when he tapped Cornyn to lead the negotiations with Democrats.
A Republican senator close to McConnell said the leader’s decision to task Cornyn with the job showed that he wanted to get a positive result.
McConnell later said as much when speaking to reporters this month.
“I am hopeful that we could come up with a bipartisan solution that’s directly related to the facts of this awful massacre,” he said in late May.
McConnell announced last week that he would support the gun-safety bill if it hewed to the bipartisan framework endorsed by 10 Republican and 10 Democratic senators on June 12.
McConnell also has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)
Tillis made up the core negotiating group along with Cornyn and Democratic Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
He was initially seen as skeptical toward gun-safety legislation when early on during the debate he raised concerns about red flag legislation but once Cornyn and McConnell brought him into the talks he turned out to be a valuable asset to the negotiations.
Tillis is viewed as a good political barometer of the Republican Party and his support for the framework likely encouraged other Republicans to sign on.
He has an A NRA rating.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Collins is one of the principal dealmakers in the Senate and she attended the first meeting in Murphy’s hideaway in late May. Collins was particularly active in the talks to combat illegal straw purchasing and firearms trafficking.
She introduced the Stop Illegal Trafficking in Firearms Act in April of last year.
Collins has a B rating from the NRA.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)
Graham cosponsored legislation with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in 2018 to amend the federal criminal code to authorize and establish procedures for a family member or law enforcement officer to request a court order to take away a firearm from someone judged to pose a risk to himself or others.
Graham attended the first meeting of the bipartisan group in Murphy’s hideaway and said afterward that he supported legislation to create incentives for states to administer red flag laws if they chose.
Graham has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
Cassidy worked on the mental health component of the gun safety bill and participated in the first bipartisan discussion in Murphy’s office via telephone.
Cassidy is building a reputation for himself as a bipartisan dealmaker. He signed a statement last year endorsing a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure framework, which paved the way for the deal eventually passing.
He’s not up for re-election until 2026.
Cassidy has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
Blunt is the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee and a close ally of McConnell’s.
He’s not as moderate as other Republicans who signed onto the bipartisan framework on gun-safety principles earlier this month.
McConnell’s desire to get a result on gun-safety legislation may have helped Blunt vote yes. He is retiring from Congress at the end of the year.
Blunt has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.)
Burr is another McConnell loyalist who is retiring from Congress at the end of this year.
The prominent role that his home-state colleague Tillis played in the talks gave Burr more incentive to vote for proceeding to the bill.
He also signed onto the bipartisan framework of principles released on June 12.
He has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah)
Romney has emerged with Collins and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as the three most likely Republican swing votes in this Congress.
He voted twice to convict former President Trump on impeachment charges.
Romney kept his involvement in the discussions pretty low-profile but he signed the June bipartisan framework.
He played a prominent role in negotiating last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill and earlier this bill hashed out a compromise with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a $10 billion COVID relief package.
He is one of the biggest bipartisan dealmakers in the Senate and has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
Portman was one of the 10 Republican senators who endorsed the June framework along with 10 Democrats.
He is an advisor to McConnell’s leadership team and will retire from Congress at the end of the year.
Portman was one of the lead negotiators on last year’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. More recently he has emerged as the Senate’s leading champion for supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion.
He has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.)
Capito was one of the four surprise Republican votes for proceeding to the gun safety bill Tuesday evening.
Capito did not endorse the June framework and when asked about it said she would have to review the details of the legislative text before rendering an opinion on whether she would support or oppose the bill.
Capito is also an advisor to McConnell’s leadership team and her home-state colleague Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was an early participant in the bipartisan discussions on responding to the violence in Uvalde.
Capito has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)
Ernst didn’t endorse the bipartisan framework when it was first unveiled this month and also said she wanted to review the legislative text before making a decision.
Ernst is a member of McConnell’s leadership team as the vice chairwoman of the Senate Republican Conference.
She was seen as a possible yes vote after she signaled willingness to consider raising the minimum age for buying an AR-15-style rifle to 21.
She has an A rating from the NRA.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Murkowski was viewed as a mystery vote heading into floor consideration of the gun safety bill.
Murkowski deflected reporters’ questions about the various gun-safety proposals in recent weeks by saying she was focused on other issues.
She played a leading role in negotiating last year’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill and isn’t afraid to break with the majority of her conference on big votes.
She famously opposed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation in 2018 and voted to impeach Trump for inciting insurrection last year.
Murkowski is up for re-election in November but she has a built a political base for herself in Alaska that includes many moderate Republicans, independents and Democrats.
She has an A rating from the NRA.
Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.)
Young was one of the biggest surprises to emerge on Tuesday after he voted to proceed to the legislation.
He’s a former member of McConnell’s elected leadership team as someone who chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2019 and 2020.
Young has a pragmatic streak and knows that showing independent voters and suburban women, two key electoral blocs, that Republicans know how to govern is good politics in general elections.
Young is a former Marine Corps intelligence officer and has an A-plus rating from the NRA.
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WFO SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, July 20, 2022
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BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT
Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service San Francisco CA
903 PM PDT Mon Jul 18 2022
...SNEAKER WAVES AND ENHANCED RIP CURRENTS THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING...
.A long period southerly swell arrived this afternoon. The long
period swell will result in increased risk of sneaker waves and
strong rip currents for south-facing beaches. Strong currents also
possible for west-facing beaches. Individuals going to the coast
should use caution and are advised to remain off of exposed
coastal rocks and jetties.
...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH WEDNESDAY
EVENING...
* WHAT...Increased risk of sneaker waves and strong rip currents
along the coast for south facing beaches.
* WHERE...Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National
Seashore, Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast, San
Fransisco Peninsula Coast, San Francisco and Northern Monterey
Bay.
* WHEN...Through Wednesday evening.
* IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and
localized beach erosion.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Highest risk of sneaker waves and strong
rip currents this afternoon through Wednesday.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a jury to reject a retired New York City police officer’s argument that he was acting in self-defense when he swung a flagpole at police officers and tackled one of them during the U.S. Capitol riot.
Thomas Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, is the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a jury with a self-defense argument.
Jurors went home for the weekend about 30 minutes after getting the case. They’re due back Monday for deliberations.
During the trial’s closing arguments, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brian Kelly urged jurors to use their common sense and trust what they saw on several videos that captured the confrontation. Kelly said the videos show Webster swing his metal flagpole like a club, “bull rush” Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and then grab the officer’s gas mask with both hands.
“Don’t let the defendant off the hook for what he did that day,” Kelly said.
Webster, 56, testified Thursday that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster as a mob attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, disrupting Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
Defense attorney James Monroe said Webster had a right to defend himself against a “bad cop” who was using excessive force.
“Acquit this man. Send him back to New York,” Monroe told jurors. “Get behind the truth. And I’m talking about the whole truth.”
Webster’s jury trial is the fourth for a Capitol riot case. The first three defendants to get a jury trial were convicted of all charges in their respective indictments. A judge decided two other cases without a jury, acquitting one of the defendants and partially acquitting the other.
A grand jury indicted Webster on six counts, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, a metal flagpole. He wasn’t accused of entering the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a U.S. Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he approached the Capitol, after listening to then-President Donald Trump address thousands of supporters.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify the Electoral College vote.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. Webster said he was attending his first political protest as a civilian and expressing his free speech rights when he yelled at officers behind a row of bike racks.
The body camera video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face. Webster said it felt like he had been hit by a freight train.
Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flagpole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask.
Rathbun testified that he started choking as the chinstrap on his gas mask pressed against his throat.
Webster said he grabbed Rathbun by the gas mask because he wanted the officer to see his hands and know that he didn’t pose a threat.
“Does that make any amount of sense to any of you?” Kelly asked jurors.
Rathbun reported a hand injury from a separate encounter with a rioter inside the Capitol. He didn’t report any injuries caused by Webster, but jurors saw photos of leg bruises that Rathbun attributed to his confrontation with the retired officer.
Webster faces six counts: assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer using a dangerous weapon; civil disorder; entering and remaining in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; disorderly and disruptive conduct in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; and engaging in an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
More than 780 people have been charged with riot-related federal crimes. The Justice Department says over 245 of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
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(WWTI) — Several varieties of pierogis have been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration.
According to the FDA, Dymski Pierogies dba Grandma’s Cuisine of East Stroudsburg, PA has recalled cheese-filled pierogi products due to an undeclared milk allergen.
Recalled products were sold in 1 pound and 3 pound plastic bags under the brand’s Grandma’s Cuisine, Berant’s Golden Eagle. There were distributed between April 2021 and April 2022.
The FDA said that this recall was issued after it was discovered that the product containing milk was distributed in packaging that did not declare milk presence. This poses risks for those with milk allergies or sensitivities.
This recall includes Grandma’s Cuisine pierogi products distributed in Restaurant Depot chains stores and local retail stores in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Bernat branded pierogis distributed in Massachusetts, and Golden Eagle pierogi’s distributed in New Jersey.
The affected products are listed below:
As of May 9, no illnesses had been reported on this recall.
Those who purchased Grandma’s Cuisine, Golden Eagle or Bernat’s pierogis are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund.
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PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS), the nation's leader in advancing the quality of children's eye care, joins Safe Eyes America to strongly oppose legislation now under consideration in the California legislature which lowers the education and surgical training requirements necessary for licensure to perform eye surgery.
California bill AB2236 would if enacted authorize optometrists to perform laser and scalpel surgeries on children without any specific pediatric training. Christie Morse, MD, AAPOS, EVP a children's eye physician and surgeon said: "There is nothing more important than helping children successfully see their way into adulthood. It is this commitment and dedication to children that drives pediatric ophthalmologists – (medical physicians and surgeons) to deliver the highest standard of treatment and surgical care to our pediatric patients. The delivery of such care requires years of medical and surgical training. AB 2236 which is now under consideration in the California legislature poses a threat to this high standard of care for California's children."
The eye is one of the most delicate and complex human organs. For the child's eye, that delicacy and complexity is raised exponentially. AB 2236 assumes that a child's eye and the adult eye are one in the same. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children are not simply small adults. AAPOS stands in opposition to AB 2236 alongside Safe Eyes America.
It is imperative that Californians contact their state Senator NOW and urge them to Vote NO on AB 2236. To find your state Senator click on the following link (https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/). The California legislature adjourns for the 2022 year on August 31
Safe Eyes America is a 501(c) 4 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the delivery of the highest quality medical and surgical eye care to the American public. SafeEyesAmerica.org.
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WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Northeastern Pennsylvania is once again the focus of the political world this week.
President Joe Biden paid a visit to Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday and former President Donald Trump will hold a rally on Saturday at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza.
Political passions are running high across the nation and here in our region, Thursday Trump protestors were met by a counter-protest of Trump supporters.
The two groups came together and had times some heated debate but overall a peaceful exchange of political ideas.
Gene Stilp is a well-known Democratic activist he is known for stunts that catch the attention of the public to make a political point.
On Thursday he was in Wilkes-Barre Township to protest the Saturday visit of former President Donald Trump.
“We are going to see in the country that Trump basically going to be guilty of these crimes he’s being investigated for now. You’re going to see the downfall of trump very quickly,” stated Stilp.
Stilp also took aim at republican candidates who support trump and who are expected to speak at the rally on Saturday.
“Basically we want to represent Donald Trump, MAGA conservatives, people who are proud to be Americans. We are not hateful people. We are loving we want to accept everybody in the world and in our country. Especially local Democrats who don’t believe what the national Democrats are doing,” explained TJ Fitzgerald, MAGA conservative.
These folks say they are being misrepresented by many democratic leaders and the mainstream media and want to set the record straight that the protest included burning a trump flag.
“We just want to show the people we are basically here for the first amendment for the second amendment for making our country great again,” said Fitzgerald.
Both Stilp and the Trump supporters say there can be an open exchange of ideas without any trouble.
The arena complex opens at 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning the doors open at 2:00 p.m. Former President Trump is expected to speak at 7:00 p.m.
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Alabama football win over Texas peaks at 15.1 million viewers
Big games mean big viewers, that especially is true when Alabama football is playing a big game.
The Crimson Tide's matchup this past weekend with the Longhorns saw an average of 10.595 million viewers on the Fox network. The game peaked at 15.1 million viewers from 3:15 to 3:30 p.m. ET, near the end of the game that saw Texas take a late lead before Will Reichard made a 33-yard field goal to secure a 20-19 win for Alabama.
It is the most-watched college football game this season, barely passing the Ohio State-Notre Dame week one matchup that brought in 10.5 million viewers in the ABC primetime slot. Both games surpassed all viewership counts from the 2021 regular season, minus the Ohio State-Michigan game.
Fox previously announced the Alabama-Texas game was the most-streamed game in Fox history, for both college and NFL. It was the fourth-most-watched regular-season game on Fox, only behind three Ohio-State Michigan games.
The game was the most-watched Alabama regular-season game since 16.64 million tuned in to watch LSU beat the Crimson Tide in 2019.
The second most-watched game on Saturday was Tennessee's overtime win against Pitt with 4.46 million tuning into ESPN.
The Game:Bryce Young saves Alabama football in Texas thriller vs. Steve Sarkisian
Evaluation:Nick Saban evaluates receivers, cornerbacks and offensive line
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Discussion with CEO Aaron Speach Set for Wednesday, May 18 at 8:00 am EDT
LAS VEGAS, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- EBET, Inc. (Nasdaq: EBET), a leading global provider of advanced wagering products and technology, announced that CEO Aaron Speach will participate in a virtual fireside chat at this year's 17th annual Needham Technology & Media Conference. Speach will be presenting tomorrow on Wednesday, May 18 from 8:00 to 8:40 am Eastern.
The Needham Technology & Media Conference, being held May 16–19, features public and private company presentations, themed panel sessions, fireside chats, and one-on-one meetings for qualified institutional, private equity, and venture capital investors.
Speach commented, "On behalf of EBET, I'm deeply honored to participate in this fireside chat at the Needham Technology & Media Conference. This event offers a prime opportunity to connect with investors and provide insight on the company's progress and growth plans."
About EBET, Inc.
EBET develops award-winning, groundbreaking and engaging wagering products for bettors around the world. The company is focused on bringing better odds and technology solutions to cater to the Millennial and Gen-Z demographics. It has an expanding portfolio of intellectual property with patents pending around odds modeling simulation, an electronic sports betting exchange system, live streaming odds integration and enhancing modeling probabilities in multi-player games. EBET operates online sportsbook and casino brands Karamba, Hopa, Griffon Casino, BetTarget, Dansk777, GenerationVIP and Gogawi, which have over 1.25 million deposited customers in more than 15 countries. The company recently was awarded Esport Product of the Year at the 2021 SiGMA Europe and 2022 SiGMA Asia Awards, and its brand Karamba received SBC's award for Innovation in Casino & Gaming Entertainment. EBET, Inc. is listed on the Nasdaq under the symbol EBET (CUSIP 278700109). EBET, Inc. was previously Esports Technologies Inc. The name changed on May 5, 2022, to better reflect the company's business and mission.
For more information, visit: https://ebet.gg/.
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DJIBO, Burkina Faso (AP) — African leaders gathered for a summit Friday in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to address growing humanitarian needs on the continent, which is also facing increased violent extremism, climate change challenges and a run of military coups.
Leaders called for increased mobilization to resolve a humanitarian crisis that has left millions displaced and more than 280 million suffering from malnourishment.
For people in Djibo, a town in northern Burkina Faso near the border with Mali, any help can’t come soon enough.
The city in the Sahel region — the large expanse below the Sahara Desert — has been besieged since February by jihadis who prevent people and goods from moving in or out and cut water supplies. Few truckers want to run the jihadist gauntlet. Residents are suffering with no food or water, animals are dying and the price of grain has spiked.
“The goods are not arriving anymore here. Animal and agricultural production is not possible because the people cannot go back to their villages,” U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator Barbara Manzi told The Associated Press from Djibo this week. “Unless (a solution) is found, it’s going to be really a tragedy for the entire group of people that are here.”
Djibo has been at the epicenter of the violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group that has killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million people. While Djibo — and Soum province where the town is located — experienced periods of calm, such as during a makeshift ceasefire between jihadis and the government surrounding the 2020 presidential election, the truce didn’t last.
Since November, insecurity in the region has increased. Jihadis have destroyed water infrastructure in the town and lined much of Djibo’s perimeter with explosives, blockading the city, say locals.
The town’s population has swollen from 60,000 to 300,000 over the last few years as people flee the countryside to escape the violence.
Blockading cities is a tactic used by jihadis to assert dominance and could also be an attempt to get Burkina Faso’s new military junta, which seized power in January, to backtrack on promises to eliminate the jihadis, said Laith Alkhouri, CEO of Intelonyx Intelligence Advisory, a group that provides intelligence analysis.
“Militants resort to blockading when they see an opportunity to gain incentives in negotiating with the government and simultaneously send a message to their base that they are in control. It’s a bargaining card and a winning one,” he said.
A U.N. team flew in briefly to assess the situation. The AP was the first foreign media to visit the town in more than a year.
“Today there is nothing to buy here. Even if you have cash, there is nothing to buy. We came here with four donkeys and goats and some of them died because of hunger. We were forced to sell the rest of the animals and unfortunately prices of animals have decreased,” said cattle owner Mamoudou Oumarou.
The 53-year-old father of 13 fled his village in February and said the blockade in Djibo has prevented people from coming to the market to buy and sell cattle, decreasing demand and lowering prices for the animals by half.
Before the violence, Djibo had one of the biggest and most vital cattle markets in the Sahel and was a bustling economic hub. Some 600 trucks used to enter Djibo monthly, now it’s less than 70, said Alpha Ousmane Dao, director of Seracom, a local aid group in Djibo.
Burkina Faso is facing its worst hunger crisis in six years, more than 630,000 people are on the brink of starvation, according to the UN.
As a result of Djibo’s blockade, the World Food Program has been unable to deliver food to the town since December and stocks are running out, said Antoine Renard, country director for the World Food Program in Burkina Faso.
Efforts to end the blockade through dialogue have had mixed results. At the end of April, the emir of Djibo met with Burkina Faso’s top jihadist, Jafar Dicko, to negotiate lifting the siege. However, little progress has been made since then.
Locals say the jihadis have eased restrictions in some areas allowing freer movement, but that the army is now preventing people from bringing food out of Djibo to the surrounding villages for fear it will go to the jihadis.
The army denied the allegations.
Meanwhile residents in Djibo say they’re risking their lives just trying to survive.
Dadou Sadou searches for wood and water in the middle of the night outside of Djibo, when she says the jihadis are not around.
“We no longer have animals, we don’t have food to buy in the market … If you have children, you don’t have a choice,” she said.
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A man charged with setting a fire at Las Casa Sena earlier this week concealed his true identity from law enforcement during his arrest, Santa Fe police said Thursday.
According to an amended criminal complaint, the alleged arsonist — whose real name is Oryan Yazzie — had a Social Security card belonging to Joseph Duran in his possession when he was accused of breaking into the complex and setting fire to La Casa Sena's storage room.
Yazzie is now awaiting trial in First District Court, where state prosecutors filed a motion for pretrial detention Thursday. He is facing a new concealing identity charge in addition to previous charges of arson, burglary and criminal damage to property.
The amended criminal complaint says Yazzie, 40, is suspected of breaking into La Casa Sena through a second-story window around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Once inside, it says, he entered a storage room and set three piles of clothes on fire. He then broke the storage room window to get back onto the complex's roof.
At that point, the complaint says, hotel maintenance employee Sergio Ruiz, who happened to be in the Sena Plaza parking lot, heard Yazzie break the second-story window and saw him on the roof.
Ruiz grabbed an ax from his car and began yelling at Yazzie, court documents say. He told Yazzie to remain on the roof until police arrived or he would kill him. Police then came and helped Yazzie down from the roof.
Capt. Jimmy St. James of the state Fire Marshal's Office said Yazzie told police he was under the influence of methamphetamines when he broke into La Casa Sena.
Yazzie told police that, prior to his arrest, he had been running away from a group of approximately 20 unidentified people, according to the amended criminal complaint. Yazzie claimed members of the cartel were after him because he had information on their international drug trade, and that he set fire to La Casa Sena to get law enforcement's attention because he didn't have a cell phone.
Yazzie had been charged with multiple crimes this year prior to Tuesday's incident, according to court records, including criminal sexual contact, battery, non-residential burglary and criminal damage to property. These charges are all pending.
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Back for the 31st year, the Commemorative Air Force AirSho will take place Saturday and Sunday at Midland International Airport. A strong community event, the crew at the CAF hangar invite any and everyone out for two days full of loud noises, exciting sights and educational activities.
Patrons can expect a Pearl Harbor reenactment with pyrotechnics by “Tora, Tora, Tora,” the longest running AirSho act celebrating 50 years. Other performances include the P-40 Warhawk fighter plane from World War II, the B-25 Devil Dog bomber, formation demonstrations by the High Sky Wing, the “Hot Streak II” jet truck, Mike Gallaway in an Extra 300 high-performance aerobatic airplane and Aaron Taylor in his Super Stearman biplane. After the show, some planes will offer rides for a fee.
Some other attractions of note include the new Chevron STEM Zone (located in the Kids Korral), which offers seven stations of interactive learning in relation to science, technology, engineering and math. There will also be a TradeSho, CarSho & Shine, food, vendors, inflatables for little ones and more.
Tickets + Parking
- $5 general admission, adults and kids 6+, buy tickets at www.airsho.org
- Kids 5 and under free
- Upgrade to seating and shade in Flight Line Chalet for $25/person
- VIP parking $25/car
- CarSho & Shine parking $25/car
- General admission parking $10/car, note: please bring in cash, supporting the Boy Scouts
Schedule
Note: times subject to change
Gates open for volunteers – 8 a.m.
Gates open to public – 9 a.m.
Worship service in the CAF Chapel – 10 a.m. (Sunday only)
Bomber and fighter ramps, static displays close – 11 a.m.
Flying begins – 11:15 a.m.
Presentation of colors –11:45 a.m.
Opening remarks – 11:50 a.m.
National anthem, flying continues – 12 p.m.
Flying finishes – 3:30 p.m.
Vendors, concessions, TradeSho close – 4 p.m.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The W-Foundation (Wook Lee, Chairman of the W-Foundation), official partner of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), successfully held the 1st Conference of Global Climate Action Fund at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul, Korea from August 22 to 24, ahead of the upcoming COP 27, which is being held in Egypt November of this year.
The Conference's view is that despite concerted global efforts by institutions and governments to promote innovations that can help address and mitigate climate change, many promising technologies and ideas remain stalled in development due to barriers in finance, policy and management resources.
The mission of the global alliance for Global Climate Action Fund (GCAF) is to identify and support promising climate action technologies and ideas globally. By bringing to the table a close-knit community of cross-disciplinary practitioners and experts in finance, policy and management, the Conference is well positioned to help promising climate technology projects overcome these barriers in a spirit of radical collaboration.
Over 6 widely attended sessions covering ESG, Finance, Action, Technology, Innovation and Transportation, this year's inaugural conference highlighted the global private sector's leadership and participation in high-impact initiatives for Net-Zero. The Conference of Global Climate Action Fund will be an annual event. While the inaugural conference was held in Korea, where the W-Foundation is headquartered, the venue for next year's event will be decided in Egypt at COP 27.
Along with the UNFCCC and representatives of governments and institutions, global leaders from leading companies around the world such as S&P Global, YIDO, GroupM, Loreal, Deutsche Bank, Schneider Electric, Schlumberger, Borealis Group, SBS, Techstars, CGI, Globe Telecom, Oriental Brewery (AB InBev Family) participated in the Conference. These companies and organizations agreed to join in alliance with the Global Climate Action Fund over coming years to identify and support innovative climate technologies and ideas.
The W-Foundation Chairman Wook Lee highlighted that, "It was a privilege to bring together the leaders and experts of global companies that are leading the private sector's efforts to address and mitigate climate change. We look forward to working closely with these alliance partners to identify and help promising technologies and ideas overcome barriers and find ways to achieve scale and relevance in the market. We believe this will be critical to our path to getting to Net-Zero."
W-Foundation (Official partner of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012. W-Foundation is committed to leading and enabling a broad-based public support for nature conservation, climate change mitigation and immediate relief for refugees impacted by climate change and natural disasters. W-Foundation partners with like-minded individuals, corporations and organizations around the world to build and sustain a broad-based movement to making a difference for our shared future.
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The digital program provides nurse educators with 16 weeks of content that perfectly align with community health course curriculum standards, eliminating the need for textbooks.
WATERBURY, Conn., June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentinel U®, a provider of web-based simulation education technology solutions for nursing schools, hospital systems and healthcare professionals, has introduced ALIGN℠ Community Health Course Digital Teaching Resources, its first academic course for community health nursing.
Available this fall as an add-on bonus to the award-winning Sentinel City® v.5 and Sentinel Town® virtual simulations, two top resources in the industry for community and population health, ALIGN provides nurse educators with a continuously updated, complete course curriculum featuring 16 topical areas. Content areas include disaster management and preparedness, mental health and substance abuse, environmental health and safety, vulnerable populations, and global health, among others. Course exercises utilize best practices from organizations such as the American Red Cross and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as pre-brief resources.
The ready-made and easily adoptable community health course alleviates the stress and time involved with curriculum planning. Each content area features objectives, intros, assessments, summary recaps and recommendations for activities within Sentinel City® v.5 and Sentinel Town®, available to users through a searchable e-catalog. Each activity is aligned with industry standards with objectives, prebrief and Sentinel U's EMPOWER™ debrief.
"We designed this program as a valuable resource and time saver for nurse educators," said Jeffrey Caplan, president of Sentinel U. "Building or refreshing a curriculum can take months, but Sentinel U's ALIGN Community Health resource does the heavy lifting for nurse educators with the added benefit of being easily adapted to reflect major changes to the continuously evolving healthcare landscape."
Developed in Sentinel U's signature style utilizing robust experiential scenarios, the community health course will appeal to the next generation of learners accustomed to using technology to augment learning. The digital course eliminates the need for a textbook, making it a more convenient solution for students and faculty.
"Today's students are digital natives who learn best when immersed in a scenario and actively participating in their education, not reading core competencies from a textbook. We are excited to elevate learning to the next level with our new enhancement," said Dr. Laura Gonzalez, vice president of clinical learning resources at Sentinel U.
Webinar training is available for faculty. For more information about Sentinel U, please visit https://www.sentinelu.com/.
About Sentinel U®
Sentinel U® is a leading provider of health care simulations and learning innovations for nursing students and healthcare professionals. Its authentic virtual simulations and clinical experiences are the best practice in engaging learners in real-world scenarios to gain unparalleled clinical judgement and critical thinking experience. A division of American Sentinel College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Post University, Sentinel U is an industry leader in virtual simulation education for more than 130,000 learner experiences worldwide. To learn more about Sentinel U and its full portfolio of virtual simulation products, visit www.sentinelu.com.
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Offset is giving fans more looks at his adorable baby boy! On Tuesday, the rapper took to his Instagram page to share two photos of him holding Wave, his 7-month-old son with Cardi B.
"BIG WAVE 🌊," the Migos member captioned the post, which showed him cradling Wave to his chest. The baby isn't as iced out as his father, who sports several chains with a pink and white v-neck sweater, but he is irresistibly cute in a light blue Mickey Mouse onesie and matching cap.
Cardi and Offset welcomed the baby boy in September. Although the "Up" rapper gave fans a tiny peek at the couple's second child back in March, it wasn't until April that they finally revealed his face and full name.
On April 14, Cardi shared two photos showing her son sitting in a comfy rocker and dressed to the nines in a baby blue puffer jacket, a matching beanie and white kicks. The baby shined in more ways than one, thanks to an iced-out chain with a pendant that appears to show a smiling blue shark riding a diamond-encrusted wave.
Offset revealed the baby's full name -- which is Wave Set Cephus -- in an accompanying photo post, showing Wave seemingly getting a bath with his aforementioned chain. The baby boy also appears to have one of his ears pierced.
Cardi made her grand return to the Met Gala on Monday, marking the first time the rapper has attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit since 2019.
The "WAP" emcee arrived in a stunning Versace look that had her covered head-to-toe in shimmering gold. The elaborate ensemble featured golden embellishments across the entire gown, as well as interwoven lengths of gold chains that made up her necklace and adorned her arms.
Cardi's striking look took the Gilded Age theme up several notches, and made her look, quite literally, like a gilded goddess.
See more of her Met Gala look in the video ahead.
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(The Conversation) – The Food and Drug Administration took 130 enforcement actions against counterfeit medication rings from 2016 through 2021, according to my new study published in the journal Annals of Pharmacotherapy. Such actions might involve arrests, confiscation of products or counterfeit rings being dissolved.
These counterfeiting operations involved tens of millions of pills, more than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds) of active ingredient powder that could be turned into pills in the U.S. and hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. Unfortunately, with over 11,000 rogue pharmacy sites selling drugs on the internet, these actions barely scratch the surface.
The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations conducts and coordinates criminal investigations into manufacturers and individuals violating federal drug laws. The agency maintains a database with links to press releases for their enforcement actions. Overall, in 64.6% of cases in that five-year period, the counterfeit products were sold over the internet, and in 84.6% of the enforcement actions taken, the products were obtained without a prescription.
Many of the counterfeit drugs were for controlled substances like opioids such as oxycodone and hydromorphone and stimulants such as those commonly used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, as well as benzodiazepines, which are used for anxiety and sleep. China, India, Turkey, Pakistan and Russia were the most common countries supplying U.S. consumers with counterfeit drugs.
Why it matters
The World Health Organization states that approximately 11% of medications sold in developing countries are counterfeit, resulting in 144,000 additional deaths annually from imitation antibiotics and anti-malarial drugs alone. My previous study also documented 500 childhood deaths attributed to diethylene glycol – a common additive in antifreeze – being added to knockoff cough suppressants as a sweetener.
In addition, from November 2021 to February 2022, counterfeit versions of drugs used for chronic conditions – such as the transplant medication tacrolimus, sold under the brand name Limustin, and the anticoagulant rivaroxaban, or Xeralto – were found on Mexican pharmacy shelves.
In the U.S., the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013 secures the medication supply through a national electronic track-and-trace system that allows a specific medication to be followed from the manufacturer to the pharmacy. While the medications in licensed U.S. pharmacies are secure, a Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 19 million people in America obtained prescription medications that are likely counterfeit through non-U.S. licensed internet pharmacies or while traveling abroad. The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy found that 96% of the 11,688 internet pharmacies they analyzed did not comply with U.S. federal or state laws. Of these, 62% did not reveal their physical location and 87% were affiliated with “rogue networks of internet drug outlets.”
The FDA offers some guidance to help consumers determine whether an online product is legitimate.
Opioids, benzodiazepines and stimulants are highly addictive and dangerous when taken inappropriately or when used together. While these counterfeit medications may look legitimate, the active ingredients that are supposed to be in these controlled substances are frequently replaced with more dangerous alternatives like fentanyl. Four in 10 counterfeit opioid pills containing fentanyl harbor a potentially lethal dosage.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. confiscated 9.5 million counterfeit pills from April 2020 to April 2021 – more than the previous two years combined. This is a likely driver of the 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. over that time.
Rogue online pharmacies frequently use social media platforms to reach potential customers. This suggests that more needs to be done by online platforms like social media, online forums and search engines to identify and stop illegitimate sellers of prescription drugs online.
People buying controlled substances over the internet are usually trying to circumvent physician control over the medication or the quantities they can receive. However, most people accessing noncontrolled substance counterfeit medications are simply trying to buy them at an affordable price. These trends make clear that the U.S. needs a long-term strategy to lower the cost of prescription medications to diminish demand for counterfeit medications, though there are some money-saving strategies that can be used in the short term.
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s government is reassessing the presence of United Nations peacekeepers after protests against the force in the country’s east have killed at least 36 people.
President Félix Tshisekedi chaired a crisis meeting as demonstrations escalated after U.N. peacekeepers opened fire on civilians, killing three, in Kasindi, an eastern border post with Uganda.
In addition to the deaths in Kasindi others have died in the eastern towns of Goma, Butembo, Uvira and Kanyabayonga, Congo’s government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said in a statement Tuesday.
He said the government had consulted civic groups in the affected areas and “the populations made a clear request: that of seeing (the U.N. peacekeepers) leave Congo,” he said.
At the crisis meeting, Congo’s president said that he spoke with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who expressed deep condolences after the killings at the Kasindi post, according to the statement.
Tshisekedi said shared his total disapproval of the behavior of the U.N. peacekeepers and told the secretary-general that those guilty of the violence must be severely punished. Guterres had called for justice over the weekend.
The government will convene a meeting with the U.N. mission to discuss the possibility of its withdrawal, Muyaya said in the statement. No date has been set for the meeting.
The U.N. force in Congo, known as MONUSCO, has about 16,000 uniformed personnel but has not succeeded in stabilizing the country’s volatile east. Recently the M23 rebels have carried out numerous attacks.
The U.N. force has already withdrawn from two provinces of Congo, Kasai and Tanganyika.
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The family of the young girl who lost her leg after a shark attack has received a huge out pouring of support.
Recently, the Bethea family crossed the $75,000 threshold of monetary support on GoFundMe, nearly doubling their original goal of $40,000 to help 17-year-old Addison’s hospital costs.
Now, they’re looking to reach $100,000.
On June 30, Addison was scalloping with her brother, Rhett Willingham, in Keaton Beach — Taylor County — when a shark pulled her underwater. The shark was estimated to be about 9 feet long and attacked Addison several times before departing. The attack left the teen with massive damage to her upper right leg, causing Addison to lose her quadriceps, according to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare.
Addison, a former cheerleader and tennis player, was able to survive thanks to the quick actions of her brother, a firefighter EMT, and several local boaters, who tied a tourniquet to control the bleeding until Addison was taken to TMH, according to the GoFundMe page.
On Monday, Addison was able to leave the hospital and head to in-patient rehab, according to the Fight Like Addison Facebook page.
Last week, the hospital said Addison was continuing to show signs of improvement and allowed her and the family to go outside for some fresh air and to take pictures.
The family has also received incredible community support with Leon County Sheriff’s Office stopping by to encourage Addison, a motorcycle rally and concert in Perry in Addison’s honor as well as large monetary support.
If you’d like to donate to Addison’s family you can do so by visiting their GoFundMe page.
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The specialty retailer expands New Mexico footprint, bringing its signature next-day white glove delivery and array of financing options to local customers
HOUSTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is expanding in New Mexico with the opening of a new 40,000 square foot retail location in the Santa Fe Place Mall at 4350 Cerillos Road in Santa Fe. A grand opening celebration is scheduled for Saturday, June 25, 2022, featuring food trucks and special promotions, including coupons and free prizes for guests.
Conn's HomePlus, based in The Woodlands, Texas, offers a wide selection of home goods, including furniture, appliances, and consumer electronics, from national brands such as G.E., Samsung, LG and more. Conn's offers white-glove, next day delivery service on all in-stock items so customers don't have to wait to enjoy their purchase. Through a personalized selection of payment options, including flexible in-house financing, Conn's strives to help all customers create a home they love.
Customers shopping at any of the five Conn's HomePlus stores in New Mexico can also expect store promotions through August, including next-day delivery on all major appliance purchases, TV purchases over $999, all mattress purchases over $999, all major fitness equipment purchases over $999 and select furniture purchases.
"We're excited to grow our presence in New Mexico and introduce our wide selection of home products to customers in the Santa Fe area who are looking to turn their home life to home love," said Chandra Holt, President and CEO of Conn's HomePlus. "We believe customers here will appreciate our next-day delivery service, and their ability to choose the payment option that works best for them."
Conn's HomePlus has over 160 locations across 15 states. For more information on Conn's HomePlus, please visit http://www.conns.com.
Conn's HomePlus (NASDAQ: CONN) is a specialty retailer of home goods, including furniture, appliances and consumer electronics, with a mission to elevate home life to home love. With more than 160 stores across 15 states and online at Conns.com, our over 4,000 employees strive to help all customers create a home they love through access to high-quality products, next-day delivery and personalized payment options, including our flexible, in-house credit program. Additional information can be found by visiting our investor relations website at https://ir.conns.com and social channels (@connshomeplus on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn).
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Videos reveal animals kept in awful conditions at popular sanctuary, activists say
(CNN) – Animal lovers are shocked and horrified to discover that a popular sanctuary was not the model home for its animals that people thought.
On social media and on its website, the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation looked like what every animal sanctuary should be: full of happy and well-fed animals playfully enjoying themselves in wide, open areas.
However, according to animal rights activists, a Mexican animal protection group and Mexican authorities, these idyllic images were far from reality.
The animal sanctuary became so popular that even celebrities like Katy Perry, Paris Hilton and the Kardashians visited the site in Mexico City’s south side and posted selfies on social media. A former Mexican president was also among the guests.
But videos of the real conditions the animals endured, recorded by former employees and animal protection groups, shocked and horrified many when they first surfaced earlier this summer.
Some of the footage shows a sick lion lying motionless on the ground, another lion biting its own tail because it was apparently too hungry, and severely emaciated exotic animals, seemingly too weak to run or play.
The Mexican Association of Zoos, Breeders and Aquariums reported that the animals received no medical care and not enough food, especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ernesto Zazueta, president of the organization, said the conditions of the animals were very poor.
“You could see their bones, some had scabies, some are missing an eye, another an ear, another the tail. They have eaten themselves,” he said.
Eduardo Serio is the man behind the Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation.
For years, “Papa Bear,” as he called himself, was very public about his work at the sanctuary, sharing it widely on social media.
His success was such that the Mexican government agency in charge of animal protection would send confiscated animals to Serio’s sanctuary.
CNN’s calls and messages to Serio received no response, but they said his attorney told them he is not currently doing any interviews.
On his foundation’s Instagram account, Serio said that the sanctuary depended on private donors and that donations considerably decreased at the beginning of the pandemic.
“We lost 70% of our donations,” Serio said. “When people lost their jobs, they had to cut any gifts. Those horrible videos that they took are definitely true. But as I was telling you, I am not a zoo, I do not hold pure, precious, beautiful animals, like works of art in a museum. No. I dedicate myself to rescuing all kinds of animals.”
Serio’s attorney, Salvador Padilla Estrada, has filed a motion seeking to prevent his client’s arrest. He said that Serio is someone whose only goal was protecting abandoned animals, some of which were already in bad shape when they were taken in by the foundation.
“What happened was that ... due to the situation of the pandemic, donations dropped, and as a consequence, they tried to adjust with good quality food, but that did not arrive with the same frequency, which does not mean that they were not fed,” Estrada said. “All was done under the care of a veterinarian who tried to meet the needs of the animals.”
In early July, heavily armed Mexico City police in tactical assault gear raided the Black Jaguar-White Tiger animal sanctuary.
The more than 200 lions, tigers, jaguars and other exotic animals at the site were sent to zoos and animal shelters around Mexico where animal protection groups hope they will be properly fed and taken care of.
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Unleashing New Digital Opportunities
TAIPEI, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today (May 24) marked the opening of COMPUTEX 2022, held until May 27 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. Among the distinguished guests in attendance at the opening ceremony to witness the rapid development of new digital technology were President Tsai Ing-Wen, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-Hua, Chairman of Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) James Huang, and Chairman of Taipei Computer Association Paul Peng.
President Tsai Ing-wen stated, " COMPUTEX is an important platform for the global technology industry, which not only enables Taiwanese companies to strengthen their international collaboration and connect to the global market, but also shows the capabilities of Taiwan's ICT industry to the world. In the future, the development of advanced technologies such as AI, quantum computers, and cloud computing will be highly dependent on chips. Therefore, Taiwan will leverage its strengths in high-end hardware manufacturing and empowering ICT innovations in various industries to make the overall economy more competitive. Also, we will actively work together with enterprises to accelerate the digital transformation process and to build the next golden decade of Taiwan's technology industry. "
"Over the past twenty years, technology, our shared global language, has empowered the world and resulted in important milestones. Even when facing urgent challenges such as the pandemic and supply chain disruptions, technology has allowed infinite possibilities," said TAITRA Chairman James Huang. "COMPUTEX's mission has always been to introduce technologies to the world and help make a difference, and this year's event offers an upgraded, hybrid exhibition experience. We look forward to stimulating technological innovation and heading into the future with global technology companies."
The leading global ICT companies showcase their innovative technologies and solutions at COMPUTEX. GIGABYTE showcased high-performance computing applications, including AI, 5G, edge computing, intelligent traffic management, security, and gaming and entertainment. Delta Electronics chose to focus on sustainability and presented energy and thermal management solutions for applications such as industrial automation, data center infrastructure, and EV charging. KIOXIA displayed its XG8 series of client SSDs for high-end notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Furthermore, Garage+ Pavilion selected 48 startups to showcase innovative capabilities in numerous fields, including AI, IoT, health care, and green technology.
COMPUTEX 2022 Provides an Overview of the Global Technology Ecosystems
COMPUTEX 2022 features six main themes: Accelerating Intelligence, Connected X-Experience, Digital Resilience, Innovative Computing, Innovations & Startups, and Sustainability. In addition, a virtual exhibition, COMPUTEX DigitalGO, is held from today to June 6. By making use of diverse channels, COMPUTEX 2022 has created an interactive platform for global engagement and provided a comprehensive overview of the future developments in the global technology ecosystems.
In addition to the comprehensive exhibition, COMPUTEX also offers keynote speeches and forums. This year's CEO Keynotes, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), NXP Semiconductors (NXP), Micron Technology, and Supermicro will share their corporate visions from a technology perspective. Microsoft and NVIDIA will also give keynote speeches, streaming live on COMPUTEX's Youtube channel.
The COMPUTEX Forum will be held on May 26 at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, Section J. In the morning, in the first session titled "Technology Empowerment," Texas Instruments, Ericsson, NXP, NVIDIA, and Micron Technology will discuss how global technology giants find partners, achieve new advancements, and embrace change.
In the afternoon, in the second session, Delta Electronics will talk on "Unceasing Innovation for a Net Zero Future" and demystify how businesses are leveraging digital technology to achieve sustainability and reach the 2050 net-zero carbon emissions target. Finally, in the third and final session themed "Application Advancements," HTC, IBM, Dassault System, and Nokia Taiwan will discuss the metaverse and how businesses can actively deploy smart living and successfully create new work modes.
Furthermore, "Live Studio," a new addition to this year's event, will serve as the official news channel for COMPUTEX 2022 and provide participants with the most up-to-date and complete event coverage throughout the show. The "Guided Tours" are another highlight of the event. Industry KOLs will personally lead the tours, take fans around the booths, and put a brand new spin on technology discovery. In addition, media outlets, including Embedded Computing Design from the US, Dempa Publications from Japan, and IT Chosun from South Korea, will cover COMPUTEX, showing Taiwan's scientific and technological achievements and potential to the world.
This year, COMPUTEX 2022 is being held at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1. In addition to technology trend sharing, industry application demonstrations, and the fun and interactive live studio and guided tours, there are photo booths for each of the six themes. Participants who take photos in each booth and upload the photos will be entered to win the event organizers' limited edition COMPUTEX 2022 NFT. With so many exciting activities to enjoy, COMPUTEX 2022 is an event not to be missed.
To learn more about COMPUTEX, please visit:
COMPUTEX: https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/
COMPUTEX Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/COMPUTEX.TAITRA/
COMPUTEX Forum: https://events.computextaipei.com.tw/
Digital GO: https://www.computexonline.com.tw/?userlang=tw
InnoVEX: https://www.innovex.com.tw/
About COMPUTEX
COMPUTEX was founded in 1981. It has grown with the global ICT industry and become stronger over the last four decades. Bearing witness to historical moments in the development of and changes in the industry, COMPUTEX attracts more than 40,000 buyers to visit Taiwan every year. It is also the preferred platform chosen by top international companies for launching epoch-making products.
Taiwan has a comprehensive global ICT industry chain. Gaining a foothold in Taiwan, COMPUTEX is jointly held by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council and Taipei Computer Association, aiming to build a global tech ecosystem. COMPUTEX uses cross-domain integration and innovation services as the most powerful driving forces for achieving the goal of becoming a new platform for global technological resources.
About TAITRA:
The Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) is Taiwan's foremost trade promotion organization. TAITRA is a public-benefit corporation founded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs by uniting industry and commerce groups from the private sector with the purpose of helping them expand their global reach. Currently, TAITRA has a team of more than 1,300 trade professionals, both domestically and abroad. Headquartered in Taipei, TAITRA operates 5 local offices in Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, as well as 63 branches worldwide. It has also signed cooperation agreements with 319 sister organizations that promote international trade. By forming a comprehensive trade services network that provides zero-time-difference and borderless real-time services, TAITRA continues to work with enterprises to jointly pursue the steady development of Taiwan's economy. It is the best partner for your success in business expansion.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — U.S. captain Christian Pulisic was critical of the level of American support from the crowd of 19,512 at TQL Stadium during a 3-0 victory over Morocco on Wednesday night in the first of four World Cup warmup matches in June.
“For whatever reason, I’m not super happy with the amount of Americans here, however, that works out, if I’m being completely honest,” the 23-year-old Chelsea forward told a live audience on ESPN2. “But thanks to the ones who did come, and the support is always great from them.”
The U.S. had drawn a sellout crowd for its first match at the stadium, a 2-0 win over Mexico in a World Cup qualifier on Nov. 12.
Brenden Aaronson and Tim Weah scored midway through the first half and Haji Wright converted a second-half penalty kick in his international debut.
The 15th-ranked Americans, using a roster at about 75% of full-strength, won for the first time in four matches with No. 24 Morocco, also preparing for the November tournament in Qatar.
Wearing rainbow numbers on white jerseys for LGBTQ Pride month, the U.S. extended its home unbeaten streak to 24 matches since a September 2019 loss to Mexico, two shy of the team record.
Pulisic set up Aaronson for his sixth international goal in the 26th minute after pulling down a 50-yard pass from Walker Zimmerman, taking touches with both feet to spin defender Samy Mmaee and passing off.
Weah scored in the 32nd minute for his third international goal, a 22-yard shot off the goalkeeper’s glove.
Pulisic drew a penalty kick from Achraf Hakimi in the second half and handed the ball to Wright, his teammate at the 2017 Under-17 World Cup, and Wright beat goalkeeper Yassine Bounou in the 64th minute.
“We go way back,” Pulisic said. “He needed that goal, and he said he was confident to go step up and take it, so I wanted him to get that confidence, and I’m glad he scored.”
Wright and left back Joe Scally entered at the start of their second half in their U.S. debuts and midfielder Malik Tillman came on in the 65th for his debut, a day after FIFA approved his change of affiliation from Germany.
The U.S. has used 118 players in this World Cup cycle, including 91 under coach Gregg Berhalter — 56 making debuts.
Central defender Cameron Carter-Vickers, a son of former NBA player Howard Carter, entered at the start of the second half in his first international appearance in three years and Weston McKennie, returning from a broken foot, came on in the 72nd.
Berhalter is using the June matches to mix look at players beyond the 38 used in World Cup qualifying. He also experimented by moving Aaronson from a wing to central midfield.
American goalkeeper Matt Turner wasn’t tested until the 52nd minute, when he dived to parry Tarik Tissoudali’s one-hop header. Selim Amallah hit the crossbar with a penalty kick in the 76th minute after referee Ismael Cornejo called Scally for a foul on Soufiane Rahimi, even though replays showed Scally had not made contact.
The U.S. plays an exhibition against Uruguay on Sunday at Kansas City, Kansas, then has CONCACAF Nations League matches against Grenada on June 10 in Austin, Texas, and at El Salvador four days later. The other World Cup prep matches for the U.S. are a pair of exhibitions in Europe in September.
The Americans open the World Cup in Qatar on Nov. 21 against the winner of Sunday’s Wales-Ukraine playoff. They play England four days later and close group play against Iran on Nov. 29.
Morocco lost for the second time in 35 matches. In its second straight World Cup and sixth overall, it opens Group F against 16th-ranked Croatia on Nov. 23, plays No. 2 Belgium four days later and faces No. 38 Canada on Dec. 1.
Hakim Ziyech was left off Morocco’s roster by coach Vahid Halilhodžić.
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- License enables BMO to engage in the marketing, sale and distribution of foreign fixed income securities
TORONTO, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - BMO Financial Group (TSX: BMO) (NYSE: BMO) today announced its registration as a Securities Licensed company in Japan, marking the expansion of its footprint in the world's third largest economy and Canada's fourth largest export partner. The license enables BMO to enhance the service it provides to existing clients, attract new clients who prefer to deal with onshore banks, and engage in the marketing, sale and distribution of foreign fixed income securities including US & Canadian Rates, Credit and Securitized Products, setting the foundation for expansion of other BMO businesses.
"We're excited about our growth potential in Japan and the opportunity to better serve our growing onshore client base with product expertise well suited to the needs of domestic Japanese investors," said Rob Yeung, Country Head of International & Head of Global Equities and Financing Solutions, BMO Capital Markets. "Expanding our business in Japan aligns with BMO Capital Markets' strategy to build a premier distribution capability both Internationally and in North America. We're looking forward to being able to tap into a deep pool of Global Markets talent to complement our Asia coverage efforts."
"BMO applied for a Securities license after a strategic review that showed a high correlation between our Global Markets products and demand in Japan," said Yuko Kamiya, Representative Director, BMO Japan Securities Ltd. in Japan. "Japan is the largest foreign holder of US Treasuries, large investors of mortgages and securitized products and one of the most active foreign participants in Canadian bonds."
BMO opened its first Representative office in Japan in 1962, followed by a bank branch that operated from 1981 until 1996. Since then, BMO's Japanese clients have been served from its Hong Kong branch. In 2020 BMO established a Tokyo Representative office, paving the way for the establishment of the newly licensed BMO Japan Securities Ltd.
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $1.04 trillion as of April 30, 2022, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.
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Public health has been top of mind for many the last couple of years, but a public health problem has largely flown under the radar: a growing rate of sexually transmitted diseases and infections.
The number of STD and STI cases among Americans has been rising steadily each year since 2014. Even the pandemic, which trapped millions inside their homes, didn't make a dent in those numbers, and it might have worsened.
These rising numbers have led many health officials to raise an alarm and urge action. Many experts believe one of the causes behind this problem is the lack of knowledge about the basic principles of safe sex, typically taught in sex education classes.
In fact, a Centers for Disease Control survey from 2019 showed that nearly 46% of sexually active high school students did not use a condom the last time they had sex. That's a huge problem considering the fact that out of all new STDs reported to the CDC each year, half were among young people aged 15 to 24.
The numbers show there were 2.4 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in 2020, which is the most recent year of data.
Chlamydia is currently the most common STD in the U.S., with 1.6 million cases reported to the CDC that year. While its numbers saw a slight drop from 2016, the CDC notes that the drops are probably not really because of an actual drop in infections. Since chlamydia is usually asymptomatic, case rates are heavily influenced by screening coverage, which the pandemic worsened.
Although overall cases of STDs and STIs fell in the pandemic's early months, the CDC acknowledges that's likely due to the reduced frequency of in-person health care services, resulting in fewer screenings. STD test and lab supply shortages, the diversion of health workers to pandemic response teams, and lapses in health insurance due to unemployment also contributed. Plus, the pandemic came after years of cuts to public health funding.
As anticipated by many experts, numbers picked up again at the end of 2020, with other diseases like gonorrhea and syphilis surpassing 2019 levels, according to CDC data. Preliminary data from 2021 shows there were more than 2.5 million reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in that year, meaning STDs and STIs continued to increase during the second year of the pandemic too, with no signs of slowing.
The CDC says it's likely, "...we may never know the full impact of the pandemic on STDs. What is clear, however, is the state of STDs did not improve in the United States. Prevention and control efforts remain as important as ever."
But, the country's prevention and control methods need work. Comprehensive sex ed programs would be a start on prevention among the most commonly affected age group, but robust public testing and information campaigns could help all Americans. Public health funding, however, has faced slashes for years, taking a toll on STD screening and prevention efforts.
"Public funding cuts will prevent the public health system, the safety net, of being able to track down people's partners so that your index patient doesn't get reinfected because their partner was also treated appropriately," said Dr. Anna Maya Powell, co-director of the Johns Hopkins HIV Women's Program. "It's easy to say, 'People should take personal responsibility and come in for care,' but I think the picture is much more complex than that."
Only 2.5% of all U.S. health spending— about $3.8 trillion — is spent on public health and prevention programs. Last year, the Biden administration did announce a $1.13 billion investment to strengthen the disease intervention specialists (DIS) workforce at the CDC. Still, much of that funding seems to be for the agency's pandemic response.
Still, there's a reason for some optimism: There has been progressing on STDs and STIs since the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 90s. The STI spread rapidly in the country then, especially among certain groups, like men who have sex with other men.
Years of public information campaigns and research into treatment brought numbers down through the early 2000s and to a stable level by 2013. More recent figures may seem to hint at further progress on the overall HIV cases during the early pandemic, but those figures are also misleading because of the sharp drop in testing.
Plus, many experts have criticized the focus of historic HIV treatment and prevention efforts as largely being focused on treating rich, white, gay men and transgender groups, leaving out many lower-income Americans, people of color and women.
Women generally face a greater burden when it comes to sexual health. Many studies have established that women have a higher biological risk for contracting many STIs and HIV than men, with a higher probability of transmission from men to women.
"Women tend to be more asymptomatic for a lot of a lot of the conditions we're talking about," Dr. Powell said. "Not having symptoms maybe gives people a false sense of security, and then they don't come in to get the routine screening that they might have otherwise if things were open and accessible."
Black women, in particular, suffer higher numbers of both HIV and other STDs like herpes, and many experts say public prevention efforts have failed to address these groups adequately. Overall, inconsistent access to health care and prevention programs across different demographics throughout the country has affected our national battle against STDs and STIs.
"We have had data that shows consistently what we need to be doing in the sexually transmitted infections, those cases in reproductive health," said Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, director of health for the city of St. Louis, Missouri. "We need to make sure that those policies are as standardized as possible so that they're easily implementable and therefore easy to track data, data that then feeds back into the funding."
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Many outsiders associate Wawa, the popular convenience store brand, with the state of New Jersey.
The company is giving them yet another reason to do so with the opening of its newest Garden State store.
Wawa opened a new location at 600 White Horse Pike in Egg Harbor City on June 30.
This marks the company’s 14th New Jersey store to open in 2022.
In April, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens told the Philadelphia Business Journal the company wants to operate about 1,800 locations by 2030 — doubling its current store count.
The convenience chain most recently opened Garden State stores in North Bergen and Vineland.
Additional stores will open in Frankford Township, Hamilton Township, Orange, Union, and Voorhees, but opening dates have not been announced.
Wawa is popular for its hoagies, coffee, snacks and drinks.
The Egg Harbor City store offers gas as part of its fuel court, like many other Wawa stores throughout the state.
There are currently more than 270 Wawa locations in New Jersey and more than 900 stores throughout the East Coast.
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NEW YORK — The first words from the greatest voice that baseball ever might have been mama and dada back in the day in the Bronx.
Broadcasting legend Vin Scully, who died Tuesday night at age 94, was born in the borough. He grew up in Manhattan, but returned to the Bronx to attend high school at Fordham Prep and college at Fordham University.
The Yankees honored Scully before their Wednesday’s game at Yankee Stadium with a moment of silence that was followed by cheers from the crowd.
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Baseball fans everywhere loved Scully, who was the voice of the Dodgers for 67 amazing years, the first eight when they were still located in Brooklyn from 1950-57 and then 59 more in Los Angeles from 1958-2016.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone spent part of his childhood in Southern California after his father, former big-league catcher Bob Boone, was traded by the Phillies to the Angels in December 1981.
He, too, became a big Scully fan.
“Growing up in this game … growing up as a fan of this game, I have a romantic relationship with the radio and baseball,” Boone said before the Yankees and Seattle Mariners’ series finale. “I like to drive my car and now with satellite radio. Driving home, I’ll turn on a local team’s broadcast and I love listening to them paint that picture.
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Following his playing days, Boone tried to do the same thing during his years as an ESPN broadcaster.
“I remember being part of the broadcast for my first radio game and I was like, ‘This is my opportunity to paint that picture,’” he said. “I grew up falling asleep at night (in Philadelphia) listening to Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn paint the picture for me. And I think nobody’s painted the picture better than Vin Scully in baseball, but obviously he’s a giant in all sports broadcasting.”
Boone says he met Scully several times and it was always a thrill.
“I think anyone that had the pleasure of coming across him or meeting him, as I was fortunate enough to do many times, his kindness jumped out at you, resonated with you and stuck with you,” he said. “That’s what I’ll remember. Obviously it’s a sad day, but I think more an opportunity to celebrate a great man and a giant in sports.”
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Photographer: Russ Stamp
Photo taken: May 31, 2022, at Steptoe Butte
Photographer’s description: “Made the trip to Eastern Washington from our home on the Olympic Peninsula. After researching different areas of the Palouse to photograph, I knew one of the places I wanted to photograph was Steptoe Butte. After spending most of the late afternoon on top of the butte with mostly flat light, we began to make our way down the road when this light happened. So thankful to witness light like this, considering we were only there a few days. Shot with a Fuji X-T2 and 55-200 mm lens.”
Critique: “The Palouse in the spring is one of my favorite sights/sites in all of the Northwest, and this definitely does justice to the area’s reputation for stunning beauty. I’m glad you caught a break with the light, as the colorful softness of it fills the entire frame. I also like the pop of contrast that the massive wind turbines provide, but this is all about that sweet, sweet light. Nicely done, and thanks for thinking of Reader’s Lens!”
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Bed, Bath & Beyond releases store closure list
(Gray News) - Bed, Bath & Beyond has released an updated list of the stores it will close this year.
The document named more than 50 stores designated for closure so far this year. The list was included in the company’s news release on Thursday giving details about when its second quarter earning results will be released.
The national retailer announced at the end of last month it will close about 150 stores and lay off about 20% of its workers in an attempt to improve the company’s performance.
Bed, Bath & Beyond has been hurt by a slump in sales. It also faced challenges brought on during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the temporary closure of stores and supply-chain issues, the Associated Press reported.
As of May, it operated 955 stores, including 769 Bed Bath & Beyond stores, 135 buybuy Baby stores and 51 stores under the names Harmon, Harmon Face Values or Face Values. The retailer had about 32,000 employees in February.
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Beshear weighing executive action on medical cannabis
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Governor Andy Beshear said in a tweet that if the general assembly does not pass legislation, he is weighing taking executive action to provide access to medical cannabis for those suffering from chronic pain or veterans suffering from PTSD.
His message comes ahead of a third town hall set to be held by the Team Kentucky Medical Cannabis Advisory Committee tomorrow in Hopkinsville.
Gov. Beshear said that 90 percent of Kentucky adults support the legalization of medical cannabis. At the latest town hall in Frankfort, state representative Al Gentry, D-Jefferson County, said his surveys reflect that.
“This question about medical cannabis is almost always on my survey and over the last five years has drawn between 85 and 91 percent approval,” said Gentry.
Gentry says he’s been a primary co-sponsor on these pieces of legislation since arriving in Frankfort in 2017. A Republican-led bill passed the house in the most recent session. But it never was heard in committee in the senate, despite overwhelming public support for the change.
“It is my belief that the intent of the constitution was to put the power in the hands of the people and there’s no way you can exercise that if you don’t engage in the process,” Gentry said.
As Kentuckians engaged in the town hall to voice their opinion, multiple veterans were on hand - a group Beshear says he’d like to bring access to.
”I hope I’ll be able to say someday that I haven’t broken the law for the past 50 years,” said one veteran in attendance.
Whether it could be counteracting PTSD, chronic pain or another ailment…this veteran and many others are calling for change.
” A lot of people talk about supporting veterans. One thing that you can do to support our veterans is to allow the people to use this… and not have these men die as criminals.”
The committee says it wants to hear from all sides of the issue, and some groups and legislators are still opposed to the legalization of medical cannabis.
During the last legislative session...Senator Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown, acknowledged the widespread support but still came out against it.
Senate president Robert Stivers, R-Manchester, believes there could be benefits but says he wants to see more Kentucky-based research.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nakia Watson scored two touchdowns against his former team as Washington State beat No. 19 Wisconsin 17-14 on Saturday.
Watson scored on a 2-yard run in the second quarter and put the Cougars (2-0) ahead for good by turning a short completion into a 31-yard score with 5:12 left in the third quarter. Watson rushed for 522 yards and five touchdowns at Wisconsin from 2019-20 before transferring.
“He represented himself and all the work he's put in,” Washington State coach Jake Dickert said. “I'm proud of him.”
A game that featured three turnovers by each team and multiple bizarre plays produced a happy homecoming for Dickert.
Dickert was born in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, about 65 miles east of Camp Randall Stadium. Dickert played for Wisconsin-Stevens Point from 2002-06, and about 200 friends and relatives gathered for a pregame tailgate Saturday.
“My grandma told me something today, your grandpa would be so proud if my grandpa was still here,” Dickert said. “That's a special moment. Special people that just know me as Jake Dickert. That's always what we've been. I'm just proud to be able to win this game with all of them here cheering us on.”
This game featured two separate plays in which one team intercepted a pass and then fumbled the ball away, creating a first down for the team that threw the pick.
Wisconsin (1-1) trailed 17-14 and faced third-and-6 from the Washington State 9 midway through the fourth quarter when defensive tackle Christian Mejia picked off a Graham Mertz pass before losing the football. Wisconsin recovered at the Washington State 20, but a personal foul on Badgers tight end Clay Cundiff after the play pushed them back to the 35.
Cundiff then caught a 24-yard pass, but Quinn Roff forced a fumble that Sam Lockett III recovered at the 12 with 5:14 left.
Washington State never gave up possession the rest of the way.
Wisconsin’s two touchdowns came in the second quarter on passes from Mertz to Cundiff. They connected on a 17-yarder and a 10-yarder, the latter coming 20 seconds before halftime.
These were Cundiff’s first touchdowns since the tight end dislocated his right ankle, broke a fibula and tore a foot ligament in a victory over Iowa last October. His first game back from that injury came in Wisconsin’s 38-0 victory over Illinois State last year.
Washington State rallied from a 14-7 halftime deficit. The Cougars capitalized on Wisconsin's 11 penalties and two missed field-goal attempts.
“We didn't help ourselves,” Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst said.
The Cougars trailed 14-10 and had third and 10 from their 47 when Ward was hit by Kamo’I Latu just as he threw a pass that Wisconsin’s Jay Shaw picked off. Washington State receiver Lincoln Victor then applied a hit that knocked the ball loose, and center Konner Gomness recovered the fumble at the Wisconsin 49.
Instead of losing the ball on the turnover, Washington State suddenly had a first down just beyond midfield.
Six plays later, Watson caught a pass just beyond the line of scrimmage, made a spin move to get past Latu at the 30 and raced untouched the rest of the way for a 31-yard touchdown that put the Cougars ahead 17-14.
THE TAKEAWAY
Washington State: The Cougars overcame an injury to defensive backs Derrick Langford Jr. and Ward's two interceptions to produce a major road victory.
Wisconsin: The Badgers controlled the ball for over 38 minutes but had continual breakdowns. Vito Calvaruzo missed field-goal attempts from 51 and 43 yards out, and the Badgers had 103 yards in penalties.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Wisconsin figures to fall out of the poll, while Washington State should at least get some votes.
UP NEXT
Washington State: Hosts Colorado State on Saturday.
Wisconsin: Hosts New Mexico State on Saturday.
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Michael Feinstein was supposed to play the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Mother’s Day in 2020. COVID-19, however, intervened and Feinstein was scheduled to make up the day on Valentine’s Day 2021.
Another COVID-19 surge scrubbed that performance, too.
So he’s coming to Lincoln on Friday, two days before Father’s Day, to finally play the show.
“Some things have been postponed multiple times. I’ve learned firsthand to go with the flow and that things happen in the way they’re supposed to,” Feinstein said by phone. “It’s made me very Zen.”
The routine is much the same in his lead-up to his shows.
“I really don’t put together a set list until just before I'm going to perform. It has to do with how I’m feeling at that time and what I feel should be performed that night.”
He'll sing some songs from “Gershwin Country,” the album he released this year on which he duets with country artists.
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“Obviously, I’ll be doing them solo — along with some some “standards" associated with me — because I haven’t been in Nebraska often, some of the songs will be vintage Michael Feinstein.”
“Gershwin Country,” which was recorded in 2019 but held for release until March of this year, brings the Ambassador of the Great American Songbook to Music City, paired with the likes of Rosanne Cash, Lyle Lovett, Allison Krauss and Lee Ann Womack on songs by George and Ira Gershwin.
“That was the idea, to try and bring together two great traditions,” Feinstein said. ”I just got an inspiration that the Gershwin songs are great stories in the lyrics and country is the last stronghold of singers doing songs that tell stories.
“When I’d tell people about it, they looked at me like I was ready for the loony bin. After it was finished, everybody got it. It turned out exactly as I had hoped. The end result is great singers doing great classics.”
The arrangements of songs are distinctly country, including “Someone to Watch Over Me,” sung with Krauss; “I Got Rhythm,” with Paisley; and “Soon,” with Womack, the album’s standout — “I’m glad you said that,” Feinstein said. “That’s not one of the best-known songs. But it might be my favorite."
That won’t be the case Friday, when Feinstein sings the songs that, over the last century, have become enduring classics.
“The craft of the songs are timeless, just as Shakespeare is timeless, or listening to Beethoven’s Ninth or seeing a Da Vinci drawing,” Feinstein said. “They’re all art that transcends the ages. I believe these songs, standards, have that resonance today.”
Feinstein, 65, was drawn to the Great American Songbook for as long as he can remember. His older brother and sister listened to pop while they were growing up in Ohio. But not little Michael.
“It was these songs that appealed to me as a child,” he said. “At 5 years old, I started picking them out on piano. It’s the music I love, that has stayed with me for my whole life. … It’s gratifying to be able to sing them for multiple generations.”
A musical anthropologist as well as the most acclaimed interpreter of the Great American Songbook going, Feinstein worked extensively with Ira Gershwin, including creating an archive of his work and that of his brother. Feinstein is a member of the National Recording Preservation Board, dedicated to preserving America’s musical treasures and founded the Great American Songbook Foundation.
That foundation, Feinstein said, not only preserves and researches the songbook, but through its camps and scholarship programs is bringing a new generation of singers to follow in Feinstein’s footsteps.
Feinstein will be able to show the new generation how to do it later this summer during a run of shows in Carmel, Indiana, the home of the foundation and its “boot camp.”
His Lied performance will showcase his ability to sing the timeless classics so effortlessly.
“It comes from a deep connection with the songs themselves, with experience having performed them for years,” Feinstein said. “It’s storytelling, it’s acting. It’s the most natural thing. I’ve done it for so many years. I’m happy I get to keep doing it … and to get to Lincoln to sing.”
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Police Search for Suspect in Armed Robbery at Saint John Restaurant
The Saint John Police Force is searching for a suspect in an armed robbery Monday evening at a restaurant on Fairville Boulevard.
Shortly after 8:00 p.m., a masked man with a weapon robbed the business of an undisclosed amount of cash, according to a news release from the Saint John Police. The suspect was described as being in his mid-thirties. Police say he was wearing a blue hoodie and pants and carrying a green reusable shopping bag.
Police were called to the restaurant in the Lancaster Mall area at approximately 8:10 p.m. Monday. The police department did not disclose the name of the eatery.
Police Search Area Monday Night for any Signs of Robbery Suspect
Witnesses said the man fled on foot around the back of the restaurant and was seen headed west towards Highway #1 near the intersection of Bleury Street and Fairville Boulevard.
Saint John Police say a K9 search of the area yielded a number of items of evidence including a weapon, but officers did not apprehend the suspect. Police did not disclose what type of weapon was found.
There were no physical injuries reported.
The Major Crime Unit and Forensic Identification Unit are investigating the robbery. Investigators are appealing for witnesses or anyone in the area who has dash-cam or video surveillance of the incident from Monday evening.
Anyone who witnessed the alleged crime or anyone who has information that may be helpful in the investigation is asked to call the Saint John Police Force at (506) 648-3333. If you wish to remain anonymous, please contact New Brunswick Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477(TIPS).
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THE NEW HAMPSHIRE economy has emerged from the pandemic stronger than ever. We have the lowest unemployment in decades, more revenue than expected, and our Rainy Day Fund at its highest level in history. While the accomplishments of Republican leadership in the Legislature have paved the way for this success, we must not be complacent. The national economic forecast is bleak due to failed federal policies and failed leadership in Washington. We are facing record inflation, historically high gas prices, and continuous supply chain issues. It is going to take Republican leadership to steer the ship and weather the storm coming as a result of the rudderless federal government.
It is no secret that Granite Staters are facing a rough winter ahead, with rising electric rates and fuel prices. However, it is absolutely accurate to say that without Republican state leadership over the last two years that ratepayers would have seen even larger increases. Republicans rejected bills to eliminate RGGI rebates and to expand net metering, both of which would have increased rates more than $100 million. Also, after the elimination of important energy efficiency programs by the state Public Utilities Commission, the Legislature restored them while ensuring ratepayers are protected. We are also looking at fossil fuel alternatives, such as safe and clean next generation nuclear energy, and looking to reduce regulations that contribute to artificially high electricity prices.
On top of those accomplishments, our fiscally responsible budget cut taxes for all New Hampshire residents and still ends the biennium with a surplus of several hundred million dollars. With that surplus we are looking for ways to give that money back to you, the taxpayer, through programs like assisting with paying your energy bills this winter.
Families are worried about more than that. They are worried about their children, which is why we are proud to have passed Education Freedom Accounts. Education is not one-size-fits-all, and many of our students were struggling to keep up. The goal is having each child in our state succeed in their studies and achieve their full potential, regardless of how or where they are educated.
We cannot stop there, which is why one of our main objectives in the coming term is to increase choice, transparency and efficiency in our school system. I think it is pretty clear that when children need help, their best chance of getting it is when their parents know what is going on. As has already been stated in previous court cases, “It is not educators, but parents who have primary rights in the upbringing of children.”
Democrats believe that giving parents the final word on their child’s health, education, and welfare is dangerous. They don’t believe that it is the basic job of being a parent. Educators and parents should be partners in a child’s education, and parents should not be misled or left in the dark regarding their children’s activities.
In the budget, Republicans finally passed legislation to make us a truly income-tax-free state by phasing out the Interest and Dividends Tax. This will be a huge benefit to our retired citizens who may rely on that type of income to pay their ever-rising bills. We reduced taxes on our business community — again — realizing that helping them cut the cost of doing business directly relates to their ability to create jobs, invest in capital equipment, and take care of their employees. Lastly, we allocated $100 million to offset the Statewide Property Tax burden on property tax payers across the state.
Smart budgeting and smart fiscal management pay dividends to our state and its citizens. Rest assured that as we are confronted by the devastating consequences of federal policy, having Republicans in control in Concord will ensure we continue to build responsible state budgets, minimize tax burdens, and promote pro-jobs and pro-economy policies that will get us through it.
As families and businesses across the state will need to tighten their belts, the state government must do the same. We cannot allow Democrat control of the Legislature to grow state spending and drain our Rainy Day Fund. We cannot allow them to repeal successful programs, such as Education Freedom Accounts, which gives families options of where to send their children to school, and we cannot allow them to pass programs that will increase electric and fuel rates when they are already at astronomical levels. Just remember when you go to polls this November that Republicans want government out of your everyday lives, Democrats want to control it.
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The Los Angeles Angels finally ended their 14-game losing streak.
If Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and Co. can rebound from that and make the playoffs, it would be unprecedented.
No team has reached the postseason after a losing streak of more than 11 games, according to Sportradar. The Angels played well enough before their skid that they're still in the thick of the playoff race now. Los Angeles fired manager Joe Maddon last week, but with Trout and Ohtani in the fold, a 3 1/2-game deficit in the wild-card race is certainly surmountable.
Three teams lost 11 games in a row and made the postseason anyway. It happened first during one of the most famous pennant races in baseball history. The New York Giants lost 11 straight in April of 1951, but they eventually ran down the Brooklyn Dodgers and advanced to the World Series on Bobby Thomson's famous home run.
In 1982, the Atlanta Braves started the season with 13 straight wins. That helped them withstand an 11-game skid in August and win the NL West anyway. In 2017, the Los Angeles Dodgers won 104 games. They might have challenged the all-time record for victories if not for an 11-game losing streak that September.
The longest losing streak by an eventual World Series champion was nine games by the 1953 New York Yankees.
The Angels certainly hope the worst is behind them. Ohtani pitched seven innings and hit a two-run homer Thursday night, when they snapped their skid with a win over Boston. Trout hit two homers Saturday night in a victory over the New York Mets.
ALSO SLUMPING
Milwaukee lost eight in a row before a victory over Washington on Sunday. The Brewers now trail St. Louis by a half-game atop the NL Central.
It's not all that unusual for a team to make the postseason despite an eight-game losing streak, however. In fact, the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals had two separate eight-game losing streaks on their way to a World Series title.
A total of 34 teams have made the postseason despite losing streaks of eight games or more. Of those teams, 30 did it after the start of divisional play, 22 during the wild-card era, and seven in the last decade after a second wild card was added to each league.
As the standard for making the postseason has become more forgiving, it's become easier for teams to overcome an awful week or two.
TRIVIA TIME
Who is the most recent team to make the postseason despite an eight-game losing streak?
LINE OF THE WEEK
Matt Carpenter homered twice and drove in seven runs Sunday to lead the Yankees to an 18-4 rout of the Chicago Cubs. New York signed Carpenter on May 26, and he became the first Yankees player to hit six homers in his first 10 games.
COMEBACK OF THE WEEK
Tommy Edman's two-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning gave St. Louis a 5-4 win over Cincinnati on Saturday. The Cardinals trailed 4-1 in the eighth before Tyler O'Neill's two-run double. In the ninth, Dylan Carlson led off with a walk for St. Louis, but Yadier Molina hit into a double play. Juan Yepez's single gave Edman his chance.
TRIVIA ANSWER
Cleveland lost eight straight in 2020, yet made the playoffs. That was the season that was shortened to 60 games because of the pandemic, so that skid comprised 13% of the schedule. But Cleveland went 35-25 and easily qualified for that year's expanded postseason.
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ATLANTA, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- INROADS College Links is a college and career readiness program for high school students. Each year, it culminates with the National Career Academy (NCA), a weeklong virtual training conference for career exploration and skills development. This esteemed program provides students with professional and soft skill tools, goal setting and planning skills, and access to career immersion activities. The virtual event took place June 13-17, 2022.
The rise in technology enrichment for families has caused an increasing growth in popularity in the INROADS program. The high school scholars participate in STEM workshops and professional development programs to create an interactive learning experience. This year's theme was Level Up Leadership in order to Aspire, Achieve, and Ascend. Students participated in a number of activities to exercise their knowledge in technology and leadership, such as creating vision boards, coding activities, Environmental Justice Team Showcase Challenges, and a senior salute to celebrate our graduates.
"LINGO lessons are hands-on coding projects that help learners discover their true potential. This summer, students will gain exposure to the internet of things (IoT) and explore the intersection of sports & technology while creating their own game. LINGO lessons are designed to further enhance their critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and creativity. We are honored to play a role in preparing the next generation of leaders with the skills and confidence they need to lead in a digital world," said Aisha Bowe, founder and CEO of LINGO.
For years, INROADS has offered students the opportunity to enhance their technological and leadership abilities for the societal and economic growth of underrepresented people. Its goal is to prepare the next generation to be game changers in every area of their career.
"INROADS' mission is to cultivate the brightest and most diverse minds for the future. The National Career Academy achieves this by providing training and development for economic and social impact," said Forest T. Harper, Jr., president and CEO, INROADS.
"I am excited to have this opportunity to participate in such an enriching experience. INROADS NCA is providing me a leadership advantage that will pay off in the classroom and professionally," said Danielle Rhodes, INROADS College Links scholar from Atlanta, GA.
Learn more about INROADS and its programs at http://INROADS.org.
INROADS was founded more than 50 years ago. Inspired by the famed I Have a Dream speech, Frank Carr founded INROADS to remove career barriers to corporate opportunities for people of color. It is the largest nonprofit organization committed to leadership and career development for underrepresented talent in the world. INROADS has prepared more than 154,000 diverse leaders with pre-employment skills and graduated more than 30,000 alumni into full-time professional positions with more than 1,000 corporate partners. Currently, INROADS serves 800-1,300 interns and 200 corporate clients. Learn more at http://INROADS.org and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn: @INROADSInc.
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LORDSTOWN, Ohio, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lordstown Motors Corp. (Nasdaq: RIDE), ("Lordstown Motors"), an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of electric vehicles focused on the commercial fleet market, today announced that it will release its second quarter 2022 financial results before market open on Thursday, August 4, 2022. The company will then host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
The call can be accessed via a live webcast accessible on the Events page of Lordstown Motors' Investor Relations website at https://investor.lordstownmotors.com/. An archive of the webcast will be available shortly after the call.
Lordstown Motors is an electric vehicle (EV) innovator with a mission to develop high-quality, light duty commercial fleet vehicles, with the Endurance all electric pick-up truck as its first vehicle being launched in the Lordstown, Ohio facility. Lordstown Motors is also the primary development partner with Foxconn for MIH based vehicles in North America through its recently established joint venture. Lordstown Motors has corporate, engineering, and research and development facilities in Lordstown, Ohio, Farmington Hills, Mich. and Irvine, Calif. For additional information, visit http://www.lordstownmotors.com/.
This release includes forward looking statements. These statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by words such as "feel," "believe," "expects," "estimates," "projects," "intends," "should," "is to be," or the negative of such terms, or other comparable terminology. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained herein due to many factors, including, but not limited to: the need to raise substantial additional capital to execute our business plan, achieve our production targets for the Endurance in 2022 and beyond, achieve scaled production of the Endurance, to continue ongoing operations and remain a going concern, and our ability to raise such funding on a reasonable timeline and with suitable terms; the cost and other impacts of litigation, regulatory proceedings, investigations, stockholder letters and claims and availability of insurance coverage and/or adverse publicity with respect to these matters, which may have a material adverse effect, whether or not successful or valid, on our liquidity position, business prospects and ability to obtain financing; our limited operating history and our ability to execute our business plan, including through our relationship with Foxconn; our ability to raise sufficient capital in order to invest in the tooling that we expect will enable us to eventually lower the Endurance bill of materials cost, continue design enhancements of the Endurance and fund any future vehicles we may develop; the rollout of our business and the timing of expected business milestones, including our ability to complete the engineering of the Endurance and Foxconn's completion of the conversion and retooling of the Lordstown facility, to establish and maintain appropriate supplier relationships, to successfully complete testing, homologation and certification, and to start production and delivery of the Endurance in accordance with our projected timeline; our ability to successfully identify and implement actions that will lower the Endurance bill of materials cost; supply chain disruptions, inflation and the potential inability to source essential components and raw materials, including on a timely basis or at acceptable cost, and their consequences on testing, production, sales and other activities; our ability to obtain binding purchase orders and build customer relationships; the risk that our technology, including our hub motors, does not perform as expected and our overall ability to deliver on the expectations of customers with respect to the pricing, performance, quality, reliability, safety and efficiency of the Endurance and to provide the levels of service and support that they will require; our ability to conduct business using a direct sales model, rather than through a dealer network used by most other OEMs; the effects of competition on our ability to market and sell vehicles; our inability to retain key personnel and to hire additional personnel; the ability to protect our intellectual property rights; the failure to obtain required regulatory approvals; changes in laws or regulatory requirements or new or different interpretations of existing law; changes in governmental incentives and fuel and energy prices; the impact of health epidemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic, on our business; cybersecurity threats and compliance with privacy and data protection laws; failure to timely implement and maintain adequate financial, information technology and management processes and controls and procedures; our ability to remain in compliance with our debt covenants, our ability to repay the obligations when due, and the risks associated with having pledged significant assets as collateral for recently obtained indebtedness; and the possibility that we may be adversely affected by other economic, geopolitical, business and/or competitive factors, including the direct and indirect effects of the war in Ukraine. In addition, the transactions entered into with Foxconn are subject to risks and uncertainties. No assurances can be given that we will successfully implement or that we will realize the anticipated benefits from the recently completed transactions with Foxconn, including the contract manufacturing agreement and the joint venture to jointly develop additional EVs for launch. If we are unable to maintain our relationship with Foxconn or effectively manage outsourcing the production of the Endurance to Foxconn, we may be unable to ensure continuity, quality, and compliance with our design specifications or applicable laws and regulations, which may ultimately disrupt and have a negative effect on our production and operations. The success of the joint venture depends on many variables, including our ability to utilize the designs, engineering data and other foundational work of Foxconn, its affiliates, and other members of the MIH consortium to commercialize, industrialize, homologate and certify a vehicle in North America, along with variables that are out of the parties' control, such as technology, innovation, adequate funding, supply chain and other economic conditions, competitors, customer demand and other factors that impact new vehicle development. If we are unable to develop new vehicles for ourselves and potentially other OEM customers, our business prospects, results of operations and financial condition may be adversely affected. We will need additional funding to execute our 2022 business plan and achieve scaled production of the Endurance. As we seek additional sources of financing, there can be no assurance that such financing would be available to us on favorable terms or at all. Our ability to obtain additional financing in the debt and equity capital markets is subject to several factors, including market and economic conditions, the significant amount of capital required, the fact that our bill of materials cost is currently, and expected to continue to be, substantially higher than our anticipated selling price, uncertainty surrounding regulatory approval and the performance of the vehicle, meaningful exposure to material losses related to ongoing litigation and the SEC investigation, our performance and investor sentiment with respect to us and our business and industry. Additional information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of the Company and its forward-looking statements is included in its most recent Form 10-K and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, and Lordstown Motors undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this release.
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Scattered storm chances will continue through the evening hours Saturday. A few storms could be on the strong to severe side with strong winds and hail as the primary threat. The storms are slow moving, so localized flooding could also cause some issues.
Sunday will start off dry and sunny, with storm chances returning by the afternoon and evening hours. Northwest Arkansas is under a level 3 risk for severe storms, with the rest of Arkansas is under a level two risk. Strong winds and damaging hail will be the primary threats. The tornado risk is low.
After Sunday, sunny and dry weather looks to return on Monday with temperatures warming into the mid 80s. Rain chances return on Tuesday with temperatures remaining in the mid 80s. Temperatures will continue to warm by mid week with highs back in the 90s under mostly sunny skies.
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(The Conversation) – When Politico published Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that would undo Roe v. Wade, a number of commentators observed how hard it would be for women in states that had made abortion illegal to safely travel to abortion clinics elsewhere. Their phones’ location histories would give them away, or maybe their search histories would. Even their texts might do so.
If people want to travel incognito to an abortion clinic, according to well-meaning advice, they need to plan their trip the way a CIA operative might – and get a burner phone. As a cybersecurity and privacy researcher, I know that wouldn’t be good enough to guarantee privacy.
Using a maps app to plan a route, sending terms to a search engine and chatting online are ways that people actively share their personal data. But mobile devices share far more data than just what their users say or type. They share information with the network about whom people contacted, when they did so, how long the communication lasted and what type of device was used. The devices must do so in order to connect a phone call or send an email.
Who’s talking to whom
When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed that the National Security Agency was collecting Americans’ telephone call metadata – the Call Detail Records – in bulk in order to track terrorists, there was a great deal of public consternation. The public was rightly concerned about loss of privacy.
Researchers at Stanford later showed that call detail records plus publicly available information could reveal sensitive information, such as whether someone had a heart problem and their arrhythmia monitoring device was malfunctioning or whether they were considering opening a marijuana dispensary. Often you don’t have to listen in to know what someone is thinking or planning. Call detail records – who called whom and when – can give it all away.
The transmission information in internet-based communications – IP-packet headers – can reveal even more than call detail records do. When you make an encrypted voice call over the internet – a Voice over IP call – the contents may be encrypted but information in the packet header can nonetheless sometimes divulge some of the words you’re speaking.
A pocket full of sensors
That’s not the only information given away by your communications device. Smartphones are computers, and they have many sensors. For your phone to properly display information, it has a gyroscope and an accelerometer; to preserve battery life, it has a power sensor; to provide directions, a magnetometer.
Just as communications metadata can be used to track what you’re doing, these sensors can be used for other purposes. You might shut off GPS to prevent apps from tracking your location, but data from a phone’s gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer can also track where you’re going.What the sensors in your phone do and how they add up to a lot of data about you.
This sensor data could be attractive to businesses. For example, Facebook has a patent that relies on the different wireless networks near a user to determine when two people might have been close together frequently – at a conference, riding a commuter bus – as a basis for providing an introduction. Creepy? You bet. As someone who rode the New York City subways as a young girl, the last thing I want is my phone introducing me to someone who has repeatedly stood too close to me in a subway car.
Uber knows that people really want a ride when their battery power is low. Is the company checking for that data and charging more? Uber claims not, but the possibility is there.
And it’s not just apps that get access to this data trove. Data brokers get this information from the apps, then compile it with other data and provide it to companies and governments to use for their own purposes. Doing so can circumvent legal protections that require law enforcement to go to court before they obtain this information.
Beyond consent
There’s not a whole lot users can do to protect themselves. Communications metadata and device telemetry – information from the phone sensors – are used to send, deliver and display content. Not including them is usually not possible. And unlike the search terms or map locations you consciously provide, metadata and telemetry are sent without you even seeing it.
Providing consent isn’t plausible. There’s too much of this data, and it’s too complicated to decide each case. Each application you use – video, chat, web surfing, email – uses metadata and telemetry differently. Providing truly informed consent that you know what information you’re providing and for what use is effectively impossible.
If you use your mobile phone for anything other than a paperweight, your visit to the cannabis dispensary and your personality – how extroverted you are or whether you’re likely to be on the outs with family since the 2016 election – can be learned from metadata and telemetry and shared.
That’s true even for a burner phone bought with cash, at least if you plan on turning the phone on. Do so while carrying your regular phone and you’ll have given away that the two phones are associated – and perhaps even that they belong to you. As few as four location points can identify a user, another way your burner phone can reveal your identity. If you’re driving with someone else, they’d have to be equally careful or their phone would identify them – and you. Metadata and telemetry information reveals a remarkable amount about you. But you don’t get to decide who gets that data, or what they do with it.
The reality of technological life
There are constitutional guarantees to anonymity. For example, the Supreme Court held that the right to associate, guaranteed by the First Amendment, is the right to associate privately, without providing membership lists to the state. But with smartphones, that’s a right that’s effectively impractical to exercise. Unless you’re working in remote parts of the nation, it’s nearly impossible to function without a mobile phone. Paper maps and public payphones have virtually disappeared. If you want to do anything – travel from here to there, make an appointment, order takeout or check the weather – you all but need a smartphone to do so.
It’s not just people who might be seeking abortions whose privacy is at risk from this data that phones shed. It could be your kid applying for a job: For instance, the company could check location data to see if they are participating in political protests. Or it could be you, when the gyroscope, accelerometer and magnetometer data gives away that you and your co-worker went to the same hotel room at night.
There’s a way to solve this chilling scenario, and that’s for laws or regulations to require that the data you provide to send and receive communications – TikTok, SnapChat, YouTube – is used just for that, and nothing else. That helps the people going for abortions – and all the rest of us as well.
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UppaBaby has recalled its All-Terrain Ridge Jogging Stroller after a child lost a fingertip. The stroller's rear disc brakes have openings that are big enough to get a child's fingertip caught in them while the stroller is rolling, according to the recall notice. This can cause amputation or laceration.
Around 14,000 of the $600 strollers were sold at BuyBuyBaby, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Pottery Barn Kids, Amazon and other baby stores between October 2021 and August 2022.
The serial numbers of the recalled strollers begin with 1401RDGUS, which you can find on the stroller frame above the rear wheels.
If you've got an UppaBaby All-Terrain Ridge Jogging Stroller, you should stop using it immediately and contact the company for free replacement disc brakes.
The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.
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https://www.cnet.com/health/uppababy-stroller-recalled-after-childs-fingertip-amputated-by-brake-disc/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) General Counsel Douglass Selby confirmed that lawyers hired by the church filed a lawsuit against former AMEC Department of Retirement Services Executive Director Rev. Dr. Jerome Harris ("Dr. Harris") and ten other individuals and entities some of which were involved in a sophisticated scheme to embezzle funds and defraud the AMEC's Ministerial Retirement Annuity Plan. Other defendants named in the complaint are cross-defendant Symetra Financial Corporation, and third-party defendants Robert Eaton, Jarrod Erwin, Randall Erwin, Financial Freedom Group, Inc., Motorskill Asia Venture Group, Motorskill Asia Ventures 1, LP, Motorskill Venture Group, Motorskill Ventures 1, LP, and Rodney Brown & Company. The nine-count complaint (2:22-cv-02136) was filed in United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee in Memphis.
The complaint details a complex scheme perpetrated over more than two decades by Dr. Harris in his role as Executive Director of the AMEC Department of Retirement Services. Along with Robert Eaton and Financial Technologies, LLC, who were retained by Dr. Harris as the AMEC's exclusive broker, and other parties, Dr. Harris is alleged to have used his position to "defraud and steal from AMEC, including using "Department and/or Annuity Plan funds to make payments to himself and other individuals."
As part of this scheme, Dr. Harris repeatedly represented to the AMEC "a deceptive, false, and grossly inflated value for the Annuity Plan." The discrepancy between the value of Annuity Plan funds invested in Symetra reported by Dr. Harris verses the actual value of the plan was significant. The complaint states, "only about $37,000,000.00 of Dr. Harris's previously reported $128,000,000.00 valuation of the Annuity Plan was held by Symetra." There is no evidence that the total value of the retirement fund reported by Dr.. Harris was ever the actual value of the funds. As stated in the complaint, "The $128,000,000.00 valuation reported by Dr. Harris was a baseless representation recklessly and deceptively made to plan participants without any third-party verification."
"This financial crime has been committed against the AME Church community, and specifically our clergy, lay and Church employees," said Anne Henning Byfield, President of the AMEC Council of Bishops. "With the help of our legal team, the AMEC community is committed to holding those responsible accountable and recovering embezzled funds."
The AMEC has also committed to restoring the full initial investment plus interest to each retirement plan participant.
AMEC uncovered the fraudulent scheme following the 2021 election of a new Executive Director. AMEC immediately engaged experienced legal professionals and forensic experts to conduct a comprehensive and independent investigation. The findings of the investigative team led to AMEC's decision to bring this lawsuit against Dr. Harris and other defendants. The actions of Dr. Harris and others are also the subject of an ongoing law enforcement investigation.
Please direct all media inquiries to mediainquiries@amecnational.org.
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BEIJING, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "To both the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains you can see lush pasture; The Gobi Desert has been turned into fertile fields with melted snow irrigating farms..." The lyrics of the popular folk song named "Xinjiang Is a Wonderful Place" offer a true picture of China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The Tianshan Mountains, stretching for thousands of miles across China's northwestern frontier, divides Xinjiang in half. Chinese President Xi Jinping has always held great affection for the Tianshan Mountains as well as Xinjiang. During his recent visit, Xi witnessed both the peace and stability of Xinjiang's society and the prosperity resulting from its flourishing economy, on both sides of the Tianshan Mountains.
President Xi visited Xinjiang between July 12 and 15. He inspected nine places in three cities and attended a debriefing session and seven meetings. The president's high expectations were clearly shown by his packed schedule and the vigor and intensity of discussions he attended.
From a remote corner to a core hub
Xinjiang, the relatively enclosed hinterland, now plays a vital role in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the foreign trade value reaching over 67.4 billion yuan ($9.99 billion) in the first five months of this year, up 30.9 percent year on year.
Containing the Urumqi China-Europe Railway Express Hub and a comprehensive bonded zone, the Urumqi International Land Port area is a landmark project in the construction of the BRI in the region.
Since its construction in 2015, the land port area has drawn over 30 billion yuan (about $4.44 billion) in investment and attracted more than 340 enterprises. A cross-border e-commerce project has also been implemented.
By June 2022, the land port area had operated more than 5,900 China-Europe freight train trips via 21 routes linking 26 cities in 19 European and Asian countries and regions. The trains carry over 200 categories of goods, ranging from daily necessities and garments to mechanical equipment and building materials.
"With Belt and Road cooperation advancing, Xinjiang is no longer a remote corner but a core area and a hub," Xi said while visiting the Urumqi International Land Port area.
A new vision
Accounting for one-sixth of China's land territory, Xinjiang is home to 13 ethnic groups, six major religions and more than 25 million people. It has always been a region with strategic value.
"On our journey in the new era, we will endeavor to build Xinjiang into a beautiful place that is united, harmonious, and prosperous, with an advanced culture, a happy life for all and sound ecological environment," Xi noted in the tour, calling for striking a proper balance between economic and social development and eco-environmental protection.
The region has seen a robust ecological development from 2010 to 2019, with a net increase of over 113 million mu (around 7.53 million hectares) of ecologically functional land as the latest land and resource survey of Xinjiang showed.
By 2019, the region had registered over 183 million mu (around 12.2 million hectares) of forests, 780 million mu (about 52 million hectares) of grasslands, 22.87 million mu (about 1.52 million hectares) of wetlands, and 33.18 million mu (about 2.21 million hectares) of rivers and lakes.
Xinjiang has planned to establish Kalamaili National Park and Kunlun Mountains National Park, the first of their kind in the region, to protect endangered species and local ecosystems.
According to the local government, it has set the region's average annual GDP growth target for above 6 percent during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) and planned to create an average of 460,000 new urban jobs each year and bring the urban unemployment rate under 5.5 percent.
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Whether presenting a closing argument to a jury as a lawyer or singing on stage as a professional musician, Valerie Giglio of Stoneham, Massachusetts, knows how to work a crowd.
"You're performing either way," she said.
When she was 42, she lost the ability to do both. All because of a sudden head turn.
The motion caused a sharp pain in her neck that persisted for several days. It bothered Giglio enough that she went to the hospital. Doctors told her it was probably a pulled muscle and sent her on her way.
The next morning, she felt dizzy and had double vision; the world was spinning. Her husband called 911. The ambulance transported her to the same local hospital she had just visited.
Still unable to definitively diagnose the cause of her symptoms, doctors transferred her to another hospital. Testing revealed a stroke caused by bleeding in her brain. Known as a hemorrhagic stroke, it was caused by a weakened vessel that ruptured. About 13% of strokes are caused by such hemorrhages. Her delayed diagnosis likely happened because strokes aren't expected among people her age and with her overall health.
"About one out of every six to seven strokes actually affects young people, but this isn't the sort of fact that is widely recognized, even by physicians," said Dr. Aneesh Singhal, a neurologist who treated her that night. "As a result, there's often a missed opportunity to give lifesaving treatments."
The longer it takes to treat the problem, the more time there is for physical problems to set in. Giglio couldn't swallow for a week. Speaking clearly was difficult, and singing was impossible. Her left side was paralyzed.
"It was like somebody had taken a pen and made a line right down the middle of my body. I was robbed of almost everything," she said. "But luckily, I had my mind."
Giglio spent a week in the hospital followed by two months at an inpatient rehabilitation facility. The magnitude of her disability became clear when during a music therapy class she struggled to bang on a cup as if it were a drum.
"I cried my eyes out," she said.
But she improved week by week. Walking with a cane was one of her first big milestones. Walking without one was an even bigger one. And simply opening her left hand felt like a major victory.
"I wanted my life back, and I went the extra mile," she said. "I did everything they told me to do and more."
Determined to regain her singing voice, Giglio also started working with a voice coach, relearning how to breathe properly and practicing one note at a time. "I had no tone, no vibrato, nothing that would make me a professional singer," she said.
The stroke occurred in 2014. By 2016, she felt confident enough to audition for the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a vocal principal. They offered her admission.
"That felt triumphant," she said.
It's one of Giglio's many accomplishments in the years since her stroke.
She's published a book about her stroke journey and she's advocated for legislation to improve critical care for stroke patients. Inspired by her classes at Berklee, she founded her own music publishing company to produce her own songs, a fusion of old-timey classics and electronic dance music called electro-swing.
Earlier this year, at the invitation of the American Heart Association, she performed the national anthem at a Boston Bruins NHL game. Televised to millions, it was by far her largest audience.
"It was great hearing the audience cheer when I made those high notes," she said. "Hopefully I can shatter some stereotypes about what's possible."
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1 missing, 1 dead and 11 hospitalized after boat capsizes in Colorado
PUEBLO, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) — One person is still missing after a boat capsized in Lake Pueblo Sunday night, killing one and injuring nearly a dozen others.
Eight kids and five adults were on board when the boat was knocked over.
“At 7:37 tonight our wildlife officers received a call that a boat has capsized near the North Shore area here at Lake Pueblo,” said Travis Duncan with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Sunday. “When they responded, they found a large flat-sized boat capsized with 13 folks on board.”
One woman died before help arrived, presumably from drowning, though the county coroner will release the official cause of death. Eleven others were rescued from the water and transported to area hospitals.
“The water here is 60 degrees so it’s very cold, so we’re getting them checked out for hypothermia,” Duncan said. “We did have one child who went on a Flight for Life tonight, so just concerned about that and continuing to check in on that.”
A search is currently underway for the 13th person on board.
“It is 80-90 feet of water and we expect it to be a difficult search,” Duncan said.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife is asking boaters to avoid the area Monday while the recovery operation is underway.
The missing person has only been identified as one of the adults from the boat. All of the kids involved in the incident are accounted for.
Exactly what caused the boat to capsize is still under investigation. KKTV reports that 40-50 mph winds crossed over the lake around 7:30 Sunday evening as a front blew in, but it’s unknown if that played any role in the incident.
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STS XPJ-1682D 64" DTF Printer from Japan Has a Staggered Dual-Head Design that Provides Ultra-Fast Print Speeds, Smooth Gradations, and High Quality Printing
BOCA RATON, Fla., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- STS Inks, a global leader in the wide format, industrial and household inkjet ink market, today announced the launch of the STS XPJ-1682D 64" Direct to Film (DTF) Printer from Japan. The first units of the product will be distributed to dealers in the United States in September 2022.
The XPJ-1682D has a staggered dual-head design that provides ultra-fast print speeds. It also produces smooth gradations while delivering high-quality printing even with reduced resolution. The printer as SAI's Flexi DTF Edition RIP Software, bundled with Flexi DTF Editor. The XPJ-1682D also features automatic bi-directional alignments, a user-friendly touch panel, added LED lighting, and an upgraded media feed flange that allows operators to load media and exchange multiple roles easily and quickly.
Specific features of the XPJ-1682D printer include the following:
- STS DTF Inks (CMYK Lm Lc White White)
- Built-in color sensor for auto bidirectional alignments
- Improved feed mechanism corresponding to a wide range of media
- MUTOH Status Monitor (MSM) checks printer status in real time and print history
- Media flange allows for easy media loading
- White ink circulation
- Nozzle area selection
- Drop Master 2 Technology
"The printer's features are designed specifically to increase user friendly operation and maintenance while continuing to offer high production, high-quality output," said Shahar Turgeman, who founded STS Inks in 1999. "The printer is paired with STS's DTF ink, which of course offers users excellent color gamut and outstanding durability."
With the first units of the product being distributed to dealers in the United States in September 2022, customers should contact their dealers directly.
For more information, please visit www.STSInks.com.
STS Inks® is the largest digital ink production company in the United States and global leader in the wide format, industrial and household inkjet ink market. The company's 35,000 square foot U.S. manufacturing facility located in Boca Raton, Florida handles the development, production, packaging and distribution of a huge variety of products, including premium quality inks compatible with most major brands of large format printers. STS Inks was founded by Shahar Turgeman in 1999 and he was joined by his business partner Adam M. Shafran in 2009. The company has a worldwide network of distributors in the United States as well as over 150 countries throughout South America, Europe and Asia. The company has offices in the U.S., Amsterdam and Medellin and warehouses in the U.S., Europe and South America for fast and easy delivery. For more information, please visit www.STSInks.com.
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MENLO PARK, Calif., July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) announced today that the company's second quarter 2022 financial results will be released after market close on Wednesday, July 27, 2022.
Meta will host a conference call to discuss its results at 2 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. ET the same day. The live webcast of the call can be accessed at the Meta Investor Relations website at investor.fb.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables, and slide presentation.
Following the call, a replay will be available at the same website. A telephonic replay will be available for one week following the conference call at +1 402 977 9140 or 800 633 8284, Conference ID: 22019375. Transcripts of conference calls with publishing equity research analysts held on July 27, 2022 will also be posted to the investor.fb.com website.
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Survey reveals difficulties for Hispanics to achieve financial stability
The study, with 840 people, was conducted by Consolidated Credit, a nonprofit organization. It reveals the evolution of of shopping habits.
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September 8th, 2022Consolidated Credit's mission is to help families solve their financial crises through financial education, credit counseling and debt management programs.
“Online shopping may be convenient, but if you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, it’s almost certainly going to make it harder to maintain a budget and avoid debt problems,” says April Lewis-Parks, Consolidated Credit’s director of education.
Findings
The survey, conducted in English and Spanish, yielded the following results:
- Most of consumers (64%) started shopping online more as a result of the pandemic, and the majority of those who started shopping more (52%) haven't slowed down.
- Spanish-speakers report having greater difficulties paying for online purchases. Across all ethnic groups, 78% of shoppers who use credit cards to make purchases pay for them in the first billing cycle, while among Hispanics 57% say they can't pay charges as quickly.
- The Hispanic community is more likely to use Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services. Less than half of the general population (46%) have used BNPL, compared to 71% of Spanish speakers.
- Budgeting is difficult for 56% of Hispanics surveyed, compared to 40% of the general population.
Lewis-Parks highlights:
Credit card bills drain income needed to cover daily costs in the face of record inflation. Consumers who are struggling to make ends meet need to reach out for help. Nonprofit organizations like Consolidated Credit can help.
Financial Education
Consolidated Credit offers free debt and credit management counseling in English and Spanish, as well as a series of free courses in both languages where people can educate themselves on managing their finances.
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The organization, which has worked closely with local governments and nonprofits for 29 years to help underserved communities solve their financial problems, encourages people to budget rigorously to control the increase in costs.
“That’s what we see in these results. We know the Hispanic community was hit harder by the pandemic and these results affirm that as a community they may be having a harder time achieving financial stability in today’s economy,” underlines the Director of Education for Consolidated Credit.
“For those carrying credit card balances, now is the time to get help,” added Lewis-Parks.
Consumers facing financial problems can call 1-888-899-3492 for free financial counseling.
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I must have been 13 when I first discovered the Regency romances of Georgette Heyer. She plunged me headlong into a world of defiant young women in sprig muslin dresses who are plucked from country obscurity and allowed to lay siege to the haute social world of London or Bath.
A Heyer heroine may be orphaned, of restricted means, thrust into a fake betrothal or threatened by a cruel guardian, but she always becomes all the rage at Almack's in London or the Bath Assembly Rooms; favorably noticed by the fastidious Beau Brummell (who appears as early as Heyer's first romance, Regency Buck, published in 1935).
Invariably a Heyer heroine holds her chin a little higher than the other simpering misses, as the good-for-nothing rakes and dandies of Regency England lay siege to her heart. Meanwhile, standing in a reserved and haughty silence, there is some brooding gentleman, a "true Corinthian" and "Pink of the ton," who will prove himself of exceptional moral fiber and swift action when her virtue is finally threatened.
At 13, I was deeply interested in the dashing hero -- his lips crushing hers, as he holds her in his firm embrace on the last page -- and also the mending of dresses, trimming of old hats with ostrich feathers with signaled the start of adventure and eventual end of constrained circumstances.
But now I am what Georgette would consider a married matron, what excuse do I have for slyly grabbing up her books at the yard sale, the beach book -- swap or the hotel library? Was she not merely a gateway drug to Jane Austen? Am I not beyond reading of a fine leg in a yellow pantaloons and a snowy white cravat, tied just so?
Today, Heyer is recognized for her substance and her immaculate historic research.
Her book, An Infamous Army, contains a description of the Battle of Waterloo so detailed that universities have included it in their history reading lists. When I read these books, I revel in this level of detail. When the heroine drives out in Beau Brummell's curricle, Heyer makes sure I know the difference between this lightweight, two-wheeled racing rig and the more staid barouche favored by dowagers.
But, isn't the point of a guilty pleasure that one should not attempt to defend it, or to rediscover its historic or intellectual depths?
One should merely enjoy hiding the book behind a beach towel. At 13 years old, I skipped all the boring Waterloo descriptions and lived for details of the heroine, Lady Barbara, tending wounded soldiers and waiting to learn the fate of a certain dark and brooding Colonel Charles. Today, Lady Bab still has all my attention. Pass the smelling salts, please.
Helen Simonson is a British-born former advertising executive who lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C. area. She is the author of the novel Major Pettigrew's Last Stand.
My Guilty Pleasure is edited and produced by Ellen Silva.
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Vince McMahon retires from WWE
(Gray News) - World Wrestling Entertainment chairman and CEO Vince McMahon announced Friday that he would be stepping down.
“As I approach 77 years old, I feel it’s time for me to retire as chairman and CEO of WWE,” he said in a statement. “Throughout the years, it’s been a privilege to help WWE bring you joy, inspire you, thrill you, surprise you and always entertain you.”
McMahon said he was confident in the continued success of the “sports entertainment” empire he has helmed for decades and grown into a worldwide brand. He said in the news release that his daughter, Stephanie McMahon, would take on the roles of chairwoman and co-CEO, along with co-CEO Nick Khan.
“Our global audience can take comfort in knowing WWE will continue to entertain you with the same fervor, dedication and passion as always,” he said.
The announcement was made two weeks after a Wall Street Journal report said McMahon agreed to pay more than $12 million over the past 16 years to suppress allegations of sexual misconduct and infidelity.
Earlier, he announced in mid-June he would temporarily step down as CEO and chairman during an investigation into a $3 million payoff to a former paralegal who said he sexually harassed her on the job. He said at that time he would continue in his role of overseeing WWE’s creative content.
McMahon did not specifically mention in Friday’s statement whether he would step down from the creative role as well.
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LONDON (AP) — The Bank of England raised interest rates by a quarter-percentage point Thursday, shrugging off pressure for a bolder move to combat price increases that have pushed inflation to a 40-year high.
The bank’s monetary policy committee voted 6-3 to boost its key rate to 1.25%, with the dissenters supporting a larger half-point increase. The U.S. Federal Reserve acted more aggressively on Wednesday, raising its benchmark rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to a range of 1.5% to 1.75%.
The United Kingdom’s central bank said its decision was based on an effort to contain inflation without choking off economic growth, which was just starting to recover from the coronavirus pandemic when food and energy prices began to rise worldwide. But the bank indicated it was ready to act more decisively if inflation becomes more deeply embedded in the economy.
“The scale, pace and timing of any further increases in bank rate will reflect the committee’s assessment of the economic outlook and inflationary pressures,” the bank said. “The committee will be particularly alert to indications of more persistent inflationary pressures, and will if necessary act forcefully in response.”
The decision came as the bank said it expects inflation to peak at more than 11% in October, a full percentage point higher than its previous forecast. The consumer price index rose by 9% in April, the highest since 1982 and more than four times the bank’s 2% target.
While the Bank of England began raising rates before its counterparts, it has now fallen behind the Fed in the worldwide fight against inflation fueled by soaring food and energy prices. None of the bank’s five consecutive increases since December has been more than a quarter-point.
Some analysts criticized the bank for failing to act more decisively in the face of a worsening economic picture.
“With the BoE seeing CPI at 11% — no less — in October, saying it will act forcefully if needed, and that it is particularly alert to more persistent inflation pressure … this begs the question: Why not hike more aggressively now? Why wait?” said Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at StoneX.
The war in Ukraine has boosted food and energy prices as the fighting disrupts shipments of oil, natural gas, grain and cooking oil. That is adding to price increases that began last year as the global economy started to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bank of England policymakers have been cautious about raising interest rates too quickly, arguing that many of the price pressures facing the British economy are external and beyond the bank’s control.
But price increases are now becoming embedded in the economy, fueling demands for higher wages and slowing economic growth as consumers and businesses curtail purchases.
Figures released this week by the Office for National Statistics showed that economic output stagnated in February and shrank by 0.1% in March, raising concerns that Britain may be headed for a recession.
The World Bank last week downgraded its outlook for the global economy and raised concerns about the return of “stagflation” — the combination of high inflation and sluggish growth last seen in the 1980s.
Nevertheless, a majority of the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee indicated that there had been “fairly limited” economic developments since the bank’s last report in May, according to the minutes of their meeting.
The three members who voted for a bigger increase were more pessimistic about the strength of the causes of inflation.
“These members also judged that monetary policy should lean strongly against risks that recent trends in pay growth, firms’ pricing decisions, and inflation expectations in the economy more widely would become more firmly embedded,’’ the minutes said. “Faster policy tightening now would help to bring inflation back to the target sustainably in the medium term, and reduce the risks of a more extended and costly tightening cycle later.’’
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Broadway's next "Funny Girl" will be Lea Michele, who is replacing Beanie Feldstein after the "Booksmart" star announced she'd exit the show earlier than expected.
The production revealed Monday that the "Glee" star would succeed Feldstein, whose run will end July 31, in the leading role of Fanny Brice, the famed comedian and vaudeville performer.
Feldstein announced her departure on Sunday, writing that after the production "decided to take the show in a different direction, [she] made the extremely difficult decision to step away sooner than anticipated." She said playing Fanny had been a "lifelong dream."
She'll end her "Funny Girl" run almost two months earlier than her previously announced date of September 25.
CNN reached out to representatives for Feldstein and "Funny Girl" for comment.
Michele will begin her tenure on September 4. After Feldstein exits, her standby Julie Benko will perform until Michele joins the cast, the production said.
Feldstein's costar Jane Lynch will depart the production in September, "Funny Girl" producers announced, and will be replaced by Tony nominee Tovah Feldshuh. Lynch appeared on "Glee" alongside Michele.
Poor reviews plagued 'Funny Girl' revival
Broadway's first revival of "Funny Girl" has been beleaguered by poor reviews, many of them taking aim at Feldstein's performance. New York Magazine's Helen Shaw wrote that Feldstein's "voice lets her down" throughout the show and that when it comes to the musical's beloved melodies, "Feldstein cannot sing them."
Even if reviews had been more favorable, Feldstein had massive shoes to fill: Barbra Streisand originated the part on stage and in the film adaptation, winning an Oscar for her performance. The climactic Act One closer, "Don't Rain on My Parade," became one of Streisand's most iconic songs, and Fanny became synonymous with Babs.
This year's production of "Funny Girl," a musical retelling of Brice's career and love affair with a con artist, premiered in April. It received only one Tony nomination, for scene-stealing dancer and supporting actor Jared Grimes.
Michele performed a well-known version of "Don't Rain on My Parade" on "Glee," and her character angled to play the lead role on Broadway in a fictional revival. Her casting was expected among some Broadway fans, but not all welcomed the news.
In 2020, Michele was accused by "Glee" costar Samantha Marie Ware of creating a toxic environment on the set, and online, some "Funny Girl" fans said that her casting dishonored Ware's allegations.
Though Feldstein's Broadway run was cut short, her summer kicked off strong: Last month, she got engaged to her partner, producer Bonnie Chance Roberts.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that its highly profitable GoPro subscription service has surpassed two million subscribers.
"Our subscription service is having a profoundly positive financial impact on our business, and we're excited to announce that we've surpassed the two million subscriber mark," said Nicholas Woodman, GoPro's founder and CEO. "We expect subscriber growth to continue to impress as we roll out new features and benefits on a regular basis, driving subscriber value further."
The GoPro Subscription provides customers with unlimited cloud storage, the ability to auto upload footage to the cloud directly from GoPro cameras, premium editing tools in the Quik App, a private livestreaming platform, guaranteed damaged-camera replacement, exclusive savings on GoPro cameras, and up to 50% off at GoPro.com on accessories.
"In addition to providing our customers with immense value, subscription has become a powerful financial engine for GoPro, representing the fastest-growing, highest-margin and most profitable product we offer," said Brian McGee, GoPro's CFO and COO. "Two million GoPro subscribers translates into $100 million in annual recurring revenue with gross margin of 70-80%, positively impacting our bottom line, and we expect subscription growth to continue as we add significant new features and benefits on an ongoing basis."
For details about the GoPro subscription, visit GoPro.com.
About GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022, GoPro helps the world to capture and share itself in immersive and exciting ways.
For more information, visit GoPro.com. Open roles can be found on our careers page. Members of the press can access official logos and imagery on our press portal. GoPro customers can submit their photos and videos to GoPro Awards for an opportunity to be featured on GoPro's social channels and receive gear and cash awards. Connect with GoPro on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, and GoPro's blog The Current.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI), a leading provider of software, data and analytics solutions to the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate and capital markets verticals, today announced it will report its second quarter 2022 financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at approximately 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time via press release. This release will be available on Black Knight's Investor Relations website at https://investor.blackknightinc.com. Due to the proposed transaction with Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., Black Knight will not host a conference call or provide forward-looking guidance in connection with the release of its quarterly results.
About Black Knight
Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) is an award-winning software, data and analytics company that drives innovation in the mortgage lending and servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Businesses leverage our robust, integrated solutions across the entire homeownership life cycle to help retain existing customers, gain new customers, mitigate risk and operate more effectively.
Our clients rely on our proven, comprehensive, scalable products and our unwavering commitment to delivering superior client support to achieve their strategic goals and better serve their customers. For more information on Black Knight, please visit www.blackknightinc.com.
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