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- Lonza will provide clinical drug product manufacturing for W0180, an oncology drug candidate discovered by Pierre Fabre targeting solid tumors, from its fill and finish facility in Stein, Switzerland
- Pierre Fabre will leverage Lonza's drug product expertise and fill and finish capabilities
TOULOUSE, France, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lonza, a global development and manufacturing partner to the pharma, biotech and nutrition industries, and French pharmaceutical group Pierre Fabre announced today that the companies have entered into a manufacturing agreement.
This collaboration is aimed at manufacturing W0180, an innovative monoclonal antibody discovered by Pierre Fabre targeting the VISTA checkpoint, currently being investigated as a single agent and in combination with pembrolizumab in a Phase I clinical trial (NCT04564417) in various solid tumors.
Lonza will provide cGMP drug product (DP) manufacturing services for clinical supply from its fill and finish facility at Stein, Switzerland. Lonza's ability to provide exemplary drug product development and manufacturing services offers customers innovative solutions and the possibility to supply high-quality products for clinical use.
Jean-Luc Lowinski, Pierre Fabre Medical Care CEO, said: "We are delighted to entrust the production of the W0180 Drug Product to Lonza. Its Drug Product Services are well-suited for our innovative therapy manufacturing needs. The W0180 will be manufactured in Lonza's GS Xceed® Expression CHO System, also successfully used for the IGF1R and cMet antibodies discovered by Pierre Fabre."
About W0180
W0180 is a first-in-class antibody targeting VISTA (V-domain Ig suppressor of T cell Activation). VISTA is a negative checkpoint regulator of T cell response. VISTA is expressed within the tumor microenvironment, where its inhibition can enhance antitumor immune responses. Furthermore, an increase in VISTA expression has been reported after treatment with anti-PD1/L1 and anti-CTLA4. This confirms that VISTA may play a key role as a mechanism of resistance to the currently used immunotherapies. W0180 given to patients as a single agent or in combination with anti-PD1/L1 therapy has a potential in multiple cancer indications, including those with myeloid immunosuppressive infiltrates where the VISTA pathway is expressed.
About Pierre Fabre
The Pierre Fabre Group is the second largest private French healthcare group and the second largest dermo-cosmetics manufacturer in the world. In 2021, it generated €2.5 billion in revenues, 66% of which came from international sales. Pierre Fabre employs some 9500 people worldwide and manufactures over 95% of its products in France. Its portfolio includes several medical franchises and international brands, including Pierre Fabre Oncology, Pierre Fabre Dermatology, Eau Thermale Avène, Klorane, Ducray, René Furterer, A-Derma and Pierre Fabre Oral Care.
In oncology, Pierre Fabre enjoys over 35 years of experience in discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing, with a portfolio of therapies covering colorectal, breast, lung cancers, melanoma and pre-cancerous conditions, such as actinic keratosis. Pierre Fabre's innovation and commercialization efforts in oncology are focused on targeted therapies, biotherapies and immuno-oncology.
The Pierre Fabre Group is 86%-owned by the Pierre Fabre Foundation, a public-interest foundation, and secondarily by its own employees through an international employee stock ownership plan.
Further information about Pierre Fabre can be found at www.pierre-fabre.com, @PierreFabre.
Pierre Fabre Contact Details
Laure Sgandurra
Oncology Communication Manager
laure.sgandurra@pierre-fabre.com
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2022-06-15T07:34:56+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/06/15/pierre-fabre-lonza-enter-manufacturing-agreement-w0180-antibody-drug-product/
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The first step toward handing out New Jersey state public school football championships occurred last week with quarterfinal games.
This week, we move on to 40 NJSIAA/Rothman Orthopaedics sectional semifinals around the state, and NJ.com will break down every single game.
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2022-11-02T21:44:01+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/11/south-group-2-football-semifinals-preview-top-two-seeds-facing-tougher-tests.html
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Avertium's premium MXDR service now available for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel.
PHOENIX, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Avertium announced Fusion MXDR, a new service the security partner is providing for Microsoft Security customers. This threat-informed, managed extended detection and response (MXDR) service from Avertium includes threat intelligence, attack surface monitoring, NIST CSF framework, and vulnerability management as part of a cyber maturity program for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel.
According to Jeff Schmidt, CEO at Avertium, fusing endpoint and event management technology with cyber maturity and professional services is the crux of Fusion MXDR. Companies that invest in Microsoft Security Solutions can maximize those investments by integrating new threat defense intelligence as part of the adaptable MXDR service.
"Companies that rely on Microsoft Security technology for primary threat defense can optimize those investments by fusing that technology with insights from new threat behavior," said Schmidt. "Comprehensive cyber maturity is achieved with an MXDR approach that gets stronger with new intelligence over time."
Schmidt explains Fusion MXDR is built for Microsoft Security customers that want to replace legacy tools, consolidate point solutions, and build a cyber maturity program that is integrated with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Microsoft Sentinel platforms.
"From implementation and optimization to ongoing management and tuning, Fusion MXDR allows Microsoft Security customers to adapt, attack, and evolve with emerging threats," said Schmidt.
For more information, visit www.avertium.com/fusion-mxdr-microsoft-security-solutions.
Avertium is the security partner that companies turn to for end-to-end cybersecurity solutions that attack the chaos of the cybersecurity landscape with context. By fusing together human expertise and a business-first mindset with the right combination of technology and threat intelligence, Avertium delivers a more comprehensive, more programmatic approach to cybersecurity - one with cyber fusion services that drive action on the ground and influence in the boardroom. That's why over 1,200 mid-market and enterprise-level organizations across 15 industries turn to Avertium when they want to be more efficient, more effective, and more resilient when waging today's cyber war. Show no weakness.®
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2022-07-20T12:50:27+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/avertium-fusion-mxdr-microsoft-security/
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ATLANTA (AP) — A key aide to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. who helped sustain the civil rights movement in the 1960s says she’s deeply saddened by the hate crimes seeking to terrorize people across America.
But Xernona Clayton has been working for racial harmony since the movement began, and refuses to accept mass killings as routine.
“We’re having too many racial conflicts,” Clayton, 91, told The Associated Press during an interview in her office in Atlanta. “It’s so idiotic that we’ve had that racism in the first place. Because none of us had any say-so about how we got here.”
“My mind always goes back to what Martin Luther King would have said,” she said. “He always said, ‘You know, we CAN love each other.’ He said, ‘There’s just no reason why we can’t.’ And it was hard for him to understand why we don’t.”
King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, recruited Clayton and her first husband, Jet magazine editor Edward Clayton, to bring more money and attention to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an Atlanta-based civil rights organization whose first president was King. Already enlisting movie stars to host SCLC fundraisers, Xernona Clayton was reluctant to leave Southern California.
But the two women bonded as Clayton organized Ms. King’s national singing tour. Soon, she was securing care for bloodied protesters and calling her friends Sidney (Poitier), Harry (Belafonte) and Bill (Cosby) for bail money.
In 1966, Clayton learned that Atlanta’s Black doctors were restricted to one facility, Grady Hospital, and to just one day a week. “Wednesday was the day Black people would have their babies,” she recalled. “So I organized the doctors and told them, ‘We can do something about this.’”
She found a government ally who shared how much federal money was flowing to Atlanta’s segregated hospitals and took the doctors to Washington, scoring a White House visit. President Lyndon Baines Johnson had quietly encouraged such grassroots lobbying, and surprised her by insisting that hospitals nationwide had to desegregate before getting Medicare funding.
“I’m fearless, for the most part. You know, I’m not afraid to tackle an issue,” Clayton said. “I’ll fight for what is right.”
In an era when national news organizations — including the AP — covered civil rights with all-white staffs, her friend Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, had her speak to a television industry convention. She took them to task for their hiring. Atlanta’s CBS affiliate WAGA responded in 1967 by making her the first Black talk show host in the South.
While King’s assassination only months later convulsed the nation, Clayton and her guests provided audiences with a model for racial harmony. She even persuaded a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan to renounce the white terror organization. They too became friends.
Barbara Walters recruited her for a network role, but Ted Turner hired her instead to set a tone of inclusiveness at Turner Broadcasting Service, which launched CNN. She served for years as Turner’s corporate vice president for urban affairs.
Clayton also started the Trumpet Foundation to celebrate African American achievers, and still works there amid mementos from a lifetime of activism when she’s not with her second husband, Paul L. Brady, the nation’s first Black federal administrative law judge. Her first husband died in 1966.
Clayton got her start as an “undercover agent” for the Chicago Urban League in the early 1950s, arranging job interviews only to be turned down when they saw her skin color. Confronted with proof of racism, Marshall Fields hired its first Black store employees.
“There’s something about a victory — winning is fun,” she recalled. “It gave me the assurance that I can make a change. And I still have that today, that I can make change. I CAN make change. I’ve MADE change.”
Born on Aug. 30, 1930, with her twin sister Xenobia, she was raised in segregated Muskogee, Oklahoma. Their father was a minister and Indian Affairs agent, so respected that the white police chief and mayor often came calling for guidance about the Black and Native American communities.
“He was a soft-spoken man, but softly he could make a change in a person’s life. And he did it to the authority: the police, the mayor, whatever. I often wonder if maybe I had some of that in my blood.”
She felt racism’s sting at what would become Tennessee State University, where she and her friends went for hamburgers one night in 1950.
“This guy was standing at the counter, he had a butcher knife, probably 3 feet long. I’d never seen a knife that big. But he said to us as we entered the door, ‘If you n——— don’t get out of here, I’ll cut your heads off! You know you don’t belong here!’ Scared us to death,” she recalled.
“It had a sign outside that says ‘hamburgers for sale,’ and ‘you don’t belong here?’” she said. “I still feel the pain, the embarrassment, the ridicule. I still feel it.”
Clayton earned a master’s in education at the University of Chicago, where marrying the editor of Jet put her at the center of Black culture and politics. She was by Edward Clayton’s side when he heard that the mother of Emmett Till, lynched in Mississippi, wanted the world to see his brutalized body. He stopped the presses to put the image on the cover, shocking the nation’s conscience and drawing widespread support for civil rights.
The couple then moved to Los Angeles, where Clayton said she did something “monumental.” Volunteering to take on 100 school dropouts, she discovered some just needed new clothes or hair curlers to return to class. Others were committing crimes, so she talked her way into gang meetings and urged them to study instead for corporate careers.
“And guess what? To this day, my pride and my chest stand big. Because I took 100 kids and got 82 of them back in school.”
It became her motto: “One person can make a difference. So don’t run away if you see a problem. See if there’s a way you can help,” she said. “I tell people all the time today, look around — there’s something you can do.”
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2022-06-08T21:06:26+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/civil-rights-advocate-xernona-clayton-is-still-fearless/
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President Biden became the first president to officially recognize Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2021, and did so again this year. It falls on the same day as Columbus Day, which was first founded as a way to acknowledge the mistreatment of Italian Americans.
The new holiday is a time of reflection, recognition and celebration of the role Native people have played in U.S. history, as NPR has reported. One way to mark the day — and to learn about Indigenous history year-round — is to learn which Native lands you live on.
Acknowledging an area's original inhabitants and stewards is a valuable process, albeit a complex one, as the National Museum of the American Indian explains. The museum suggests reaching out to local Indigenous communities for guidance involving formal land acknowledgements, which can be offered at the start of public and private gatherings.
"Many places in the Americas have been home to different Native Nations over time, and many Indigenous people no longer live on lands to which they have ancestral ties," the museum says. "Even so, Native Nations, communities, families, and individuals today sustain their sense of belonging to ancestral homelands and protect these connections through Indigenous languages, oral traditions, ceremonies, and other forms of cultural expression."
This map's creators want it to convey more than borders
Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada, is working to facilitate such conversations and document this history including by putting together a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties.
Users can click on labels across the Americas and around other parts of the globe — or type a specific city, state or zip code into the search box — to see which Indigenous tribes lived where. You can zoom in or out, as well as choose to apply "settler labels" to see how the map corresponds with contemporary state lines. Clicking on the name of each nation brings up links for related reading.
The map is available on the organization's website and on iOS and Android mobile apps. Native Land Digital also publishes resources to go with the map, including a teacher's guide and a territory acknowledgement generator.
The nonprofit says it aims to improve the relationship of people — both Indigenous and non-Indigenous — with the history and sacredness of the land around them. That involves "acknowledging and righting the wrongs of history."
"We hope to inspire people to gain a better understanding of themselves, their ancestors, and the world they live in, so that we can all move forward into a better future," it says.
The map itself is "more than a flat picture," as the nonprofit explains, pointing out that land is sacred to everyone regardless of how consciously they appreciate it.
"In reality, we know that the land is not something to be exploited and 'owned,' but something to be honoured and treasured," it says. "However, because of the complexities of history, the kind of mapping we undertake is an important exercise, insofar as it brings an awareness of the real lived history of Indigenous peoples and nations in a long era of colonialism."
Mapping tribal lands comes with challenges
The nonprofit acknowledges the many logistical and ethical questions that come with mapping Indigenous territories. Those range from defining "Indigenous" across time and space to engaging with those communities so they can "represent themselves and their histories on their own terms."
Native Land Digital aims to use at least two valid sources (including oral history, written documents or "maps sketched by people deemed to be reasonable authorities") when updating the map, and says in cases of conflicting maps it generally errs on the side of being "more expansive."
It cautions that the map does not represent definitive or legal boundaries of any Indigenous nations, and is a work in progress with many community contributions.
"We ... encourage people to treat these maps as a starting point and to do their own research in engaging with communities and history themselves," the group says.
The map has already made an impact
Native-Land.ca was created in 2015, and the organization was incorporated as a nonprofit in 2018. The group says it's found over the years that its maps have made a direct impact on peoples' lives.
That's been true of Indigenous people, who have been glad to see their nation mapped or surprised to see how large their traditional territories look on a standard Western map, as well as non-Indigenous people who may be "for the first time, encountering the depth, breadth and complexity of Indigenous history on the land."
"Some people may be made uncomfortable by the new information and history the map brings forth," the nonprofit adds. "But we are secure in knowing that truth is the best teacher, and we hope to provide the best information we can to help people come to their own conclusions about themselves and their place in the modern world."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-10-10T15:40:50+00:00
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kpcc.org
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https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2022-10-10/which-indigenous-lands-are-you-on-this-map-will-show-you
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Merck is suing the federal government over a plan to negotiate Medicare drug prices, calling the program a sham equivalent to extortion.
The drugmaker is seeking to halt the program, which was laid out in the Inflation Reduction Act and is expected to save taxpayers billions of dollars in the coming years.
Merck said in a complaint filed Tuesday that the program does not involve genuine negotiation. Instead, it said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selects drugs to be included and then dictates the price, threatening drugmakers with “a ruinous daily excise tax” if they decline to agree.
“It is tantamount to extortion,” the drugmaker said in the complaint, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The Rahway, New Jersey-based drugmaker added that it expects its diabetes treatment Januvia to be part of “the IRA’s scheme” starting later this year.
Representatives of the federal agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.
Merck said in the complaint that the plan laid out in the IRA suggests that federal officials will sit down with drugmakers and negotiate voluntary price agreements.
But the drugmaker said the program doesn’t involve actual negotiations or agreements. It said HHS picks the drugs to be included and then leans on the drugmakers to provide steep discounts under the tax threat.
Merck says the program violates the U.S. Constitution in a couple ways. They include the Fifth Amendment’s requirement that the government pays “’just compensation’ if it takes ‘property’ for public use,” according to the complaint.
The drugmaker noted that Congress could have simply allowed HHS to state a maximum price it would pay for a drug or use its leverage to negotiate, but that would have enabled drugmakers to walk away from talks.
Instead, Merck said the government uses the threat of severe penalties to requisition drugs and refuses to pay fair value, forcing drugmakers “to smile, play along, and pretend it is all part of a ‘fair’ and voluntary exchange.”
“This is political Kabuki theater,” the complaint states.
Republican lawmakers also have criticized President Joe Biden’s administration over the plan, noting that it could compel drugmakers to pull back on introducing new drugs that could be subjected to haggling.
The federal government is expected to soon release rules for negotiating drug prices and then will publish in September a list of 10 drugs that it will start price negotiations on next year.
The plan marks the first time ever that the federal government will bargain directly with drug companies over the price they charge for some of Medicare’s costliest drugs.
Negotiated prices won’t take hold until 2026.
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Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz contributed to this report.
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2023-06-06T16:16:40+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/business/ap-business/merck-sues-federal-government-calling-plan-to-negotiate-medicare-drug-prices-extortion/
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LONDON – The candidates to become the next British prime minister burnished their right-wing credentials Sunday, as they looked to remain in the race to succeed Boris Johnson.
Many of the five remaining hopefuls highlighted issues linked to Brexit and immigration as they attempted to woo fellow Conservative lawmakers ahead of a third round of voting on Monday, when another contender will drop out.
Even though the eventual winner will automatically become prime minister, the contenders must appeal to a narrow constituency of party members, who tend to be whiter, older and more right-wing than the general public. The candidates face a series of votes from lawmakers this week, who will narrow down the field to two, before facing a runoff among an estimated 180,000 Conservative Party members.
Writing in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper, the former Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, who is the frontrunner among Conservative lawmakers, pledged to tear up European Union laws as Britain beds down its position outside the bloc.
Appealing to the pro-Brexit party vote, Sunak wrote that he will have “scrapped or reformed all of the EU law, red tape and bureaucracy that is still on our statute book and slowing economic growth” by the time of the next election if he becomes the next prime minister.
Meanwhile, Trade Minister Penny Mordaunt, who became a surprise frontrunner and bookmaker favorite last week, was forced to challenge accusations that she had pushed through a policy to end the requirement for trans people to obtain a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria before they could legally change gender when she was equalities minister in Theresa May’s government.
She told the BBC’s Sunday Morning program that she had managed a consultation with health care professionals but no policy had been developed while she was in the job.
Despite the demographics of the members, the race to succeed Johnson has been called the most diverse for a British prime minister. Sunak and Kemi Badenoch, a former equalities minister, are both non-white, while three of the remaining five contenders are women.
Badenoch, whose parents are from Nigeria, remains little known. But she has seen her star rise after her public showing in a television debate Friday, and led a poll of party members by the ConservativeHome website on Sunday.
She would be the first Black prime minister and, at 42, the youngest in more than 250 years.
Despite her background, she has made immigration control a key pillar of her political pitch, pledging Sunday to “do whatever it takes to deal with the small boats issue.” More than 14,000 migrants have made the 20-mile journey to Britain across the English channel from France so far this year.
Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, is touting her international experience, as Britain’s top diplomat and a former trade secretary, and is vowing to take a tough line with the European Union in post-Brexit trade spats.
The final candidate, Tom Tugendhat, trails his colleagues after the second round of voting. But he is making a virtue of having never sat in Boris Johnson’s government. He is calling for a “clean start” after the months of scandals that eventually saw Johnson signal his resignation.
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2022-07-17T12:22:06+00:00
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wsls.com
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https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/07/17/candidates-for-uk-leader-seek-to-woo-right-wing-before-vote/
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Even as a controversy has erupted on Broadway over the use of pre-recorded music in the upcoming David Byrne musical, Here Lies Love, audiences for some musicals this past season are noticing the return of something that was once familiar: big orchestras.
When Sweeney Todd premiered in 1979, composer Jonathan Tunick orchestrated it for 26 musicians. But in every subsequent Broadway appearance, it's used a smaller orchestra ... until now. The new revival, starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford, features the full complement of strings, woodwinds, brass, harp and percussion.
"It feels normal," to work with an ensemble that large, said Tunick, laughing. Back in the 1970s, he orchestrated Sondheim's massive score in three-and-a-half weeks and has done 13 different versions of it since, written for everything from chamber ensembles to a full-size symphonic accompaniment on Tim Burton's film.
Tunick said audiences can feel the weight of the 26 pieces in the opening number. The orchestra is quiet, at the beginning, but then "the brass come in for the first time supporting the chorus, except for the low instruments. We hold them off to the second bar." He demonstrated, singing: "Swing your razor wide – BOOM – Sweeney!"
"This is just such a rarity, to have this many pieces underneath you," said Annaleigh Ashford, who plays Mrs. Lovett. "It's quite overwhelming and spectacular."
Ashford has been in a lot of musicals – she won a Tony for Kinky Boots – but Sweeney Todd is the first time she's working with a pit orchestra this large. "I think that anybody who has been in the American musical theater in the last 20 years has not had the opportunity to sing with an orchestra this large," she said. "It's just frankly not feasible from a financial standpoint."
Finances aren't the only reason orchestras are small
In fact, many producers have reduced the sizes of orchestras playing classic shows, citing finances. Broadway was shut down by a musician's strike 20 years ago over just this issue.
Yet finances are not the only reason to keep an orchestra small. "I think the style of music is changing," said Alex Lacamoire, who's Sweeney Todd's music director. He orchestrated and conducted 10 musicians in Hamilton. "Hamilton did not need 26 musicians."
Jeffrey Seller, who is a producer on both Hamilton and Sweeney Todd said that Sweeney is a different case, exactly because it has been revived so many times on so many different stages. "It just felt to us as if one very big reason for doing this production was to give the audience the full experience of the sound, of the orchestration of the music as Sondheim and his orchestrator Tunick imagined it," he said.
A big orchestra allows the audience to have a "goosebump experience," he said. The orchestra size has been part of the revival's marketing strategy.
"I thought we could do it responsibly so that we could make a modest profit for our investors," says Seller. "A killing? No way. A modest profit? Sure. Is that worth 26 musicians? You bet."
Golden age orchestras meant balanced acoustic sound
In Broadway's golden age, large orchestras were routine. Orchestra members and actors rarely used microphones, so orchestrators had to think about how to balance the sound so that singers weren't overwhelmed.
Kimberly Grigsby, who conducts the 30-piece orchestra for the current revival of Camelot, said the show's two original orchestrators, Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, "get out of the way of the voice. If we play what's on the page and play the dynamics that are given, no one has to be in the back of the house, [using the sound board and] pulling down the orchestra or pushing the orchestra."
In fact, in an age when most musicians listen in the pit with in-ear monitors, she's suggested the ensemble just listen to each other acoustically. "I encourage you listen to the room," she told the orchestra, "listen to the singer, listen to one another. Let's make music together."
Phillipa Soo, who plays Guinevere in the show, said she feels supported by the big orchestra, not just musically, but dramatically. "I feel so lucky that we get to have them there with us, basically being, like, the ground under our feet. And it's such a beautiful relationship that we get to have with musicians in our storytelling."
Camelot is at Lincoln Center Theater, which is a non-profit. It has the resources to present old shows with big ensembles – they have produced My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific full-out. But new shows are risky and expensive, so musical ensembles are usually kept small. Some musicals, like Six, only have a band of four.
A world of magic
Some Like It Hot, with a jazz score set during the prohibition, is at the higher end of the spectrum, with 17 musicians, said Charlie Rosen, who co-orchestrated the show with Bryan Carter.
"Outside of revivals, it's incredibly rare for a new musical to have a pit this big," Rosen said. "And that's sad, because to get this sound of this era – of musical theater and MGM movies – this is like the minimum you can get away with. And we're on the small side for that. We only have three strings and they're cranking in there!"
Ashford, starring in Sweeney Todd, said she had a suggestion for people who see musicals on Broadway, especially those coming to a show with one of these rare, large, "luxurious" orchestras: "Just take a moment and look down in the pit before you leave the house, because it's just a world of magic down there," she said.
And then, she said, they should stick around after the curtain call to hear the orchestra play the exit music – and give the musicians a hand.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-06-03T12:41:47+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/2023-06-03/after-years-of-ever-shrinking-orchestras-some-broadway-musicals-are-going-big
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Busy week ahead for lawmakers in Carson City
It’s deadline time again in Carson City, as the 2023 Legislature begins winding down to its scheduled close on June 5.
It will be a busy week in the capital, as lawmakers deal with two major bills and work toward a Friday deadline for all bills to pass out of committees in the opposite house from where they were introduced. Bills that fail to meet the deadline will be considered dead for the rest of the session.
Here’s a look at what’s coming up this week in Carson City:
Hollywood East? Lawmakers in the Senate Committee on Revenue and Economic Development on Tuesday will take up the newly introduced Senate Bill 496, a measure that will devote nearly $200 million per year over the next 20 years to try to lure production companies to Las Vegas. The bill would see production facilities built in Summerlin and off the 215 Beltway at Durango Drive. The bill goes far beyond Nevada’s existing film tax credit program, which has aimed at getting production companies to film in the state. But this bill seeks to get companies to actually relocate to Nevada.
A’s baseball stadium: Speaking of relocations, the long-awaited and much-anticipated bill that would outline the public portion of the Oakland Athletics stadium deal will be introduced this week. Most of the details have been reported in the Review-Journal previously, but final tweaks to the bill were still being made at the end of last week. Although there is less than a month left in the session, sources who’ve worked on the bill say the goal is to get it approved before lawmakers leave town in June without having to call a special session.
Baby Bonds: On Wednesday, lawmakers in the Assembly Ways & Means Committee will consider state Treasurer Zach Conine’s Baby Bonds program, also known as Assembly Bill 28. The bill would require the state treasurer to deposit $3,200 into a trust fund for every baby born after Jan. 1 whose birth was covered by Medicare or the Children’s Health Insurance Program. Beneficiaries could submit a claim once they turn 18, provided they have lived in Nevada for at least a year before claiming the money and promise to use the funds to buy a home, start a business, pay for college or invest. The program also requires each person who claims the money to take a course in financial literacy.
The committee will also hear another bill sought by Conine, Assembly Bill 45, which would create a program to repay student loans for health care providers who agree to practice in underserved rural communities in the state.
Water rules: And on Tuesday, the Senate Natural Resources Committee will take up Assembly Bill 220, a measure that would have forced some people on septic systems to switch to a municipal sewer system.An expected amendment would instead create a voluntary system to switch. The bill would also give the Southern Nevada Water Authority the ability to limit the use of water in single-family homes to 0.5 acre feet per year any time the federal government has declared a water shortage on the Colorado River.
Contact Steve Sebelius at SSebelius@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0253. Follow @SteveSebelius on Twitter.
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2023-05-15T17:34:25+00:00
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reviewjournal.com
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https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/2023-legislature/busy-week-ahead-for-lawmakers-in-carson-city-2777476/
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
1-3-9, SB: 9
(one, three, nine; SB: nine)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Three-Midday" game were:
1-3-9, SB: 9
(one, three, nine; SB: nine)
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2022-05-05T19:04:13+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Three-Midday-game-17150998.php
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(iSeeCars) — Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining market share at a rapid pace, with sales of EVs growing by 85 percent from 2020 to 2021 according to the U.S. Department of Energy. That number is expected to grow further in 2022 as more new all-electric models enter the market and as gas prices remain elevated.
As many consumers consider an electric vehicle for their next car purchase, they may be curious about how these electric vehicles work. After all, today’s electric cars look and drive like traditional gas-powered cars, but it’s important to understand the differences between these two vehicle types.
What are the Parts of an Electric Vehicle?
To understand how an electric car works, it’s important to understand its main components.
Traction Battery Pack
An electric car’s traction battery pack serves as an energy storage system. This energy, which is in the form of direct-current electricity, is then used to power the vehicle’s motor and all other electrical components. Most EVs use lithium-ion batteries due to their high energy density.
Power Inverter
The electric car’s inverter changes the direct current (DC) from the battery into an alternating current (AC), which is then used to power the motor. The inverter also changes to DC current during regenerative braking to charge the battery. Along with powering the motor and recharging the battery, the power inverter also helps control speed.
Electric Motor
The vehicle’s electric traction motor receives electricity from the inverter and provides the power that makes an electric vehicle move. Electric traction motors typically use an alternating current, which is more reliable than a direct current motor. The AC electrons cause a rotation that powers the vehicle.
Charge Port
An electric car’s charge port connects to an external power source (or car charger) to charge the battery pack
Transmission
The transmission transfers mechanical power from the electric traction motor to drive the wheels.
DC/DC Converter
This part converts higher-voltage DC power from the battery pack to the lower-voltage DC power required to run vehicle accessories, like the headlights and audio system, and recharge the battery.
Thermal System – Cooling
This system maintains a proper operating temperature range for the battery, electric motor, electronics, and other vehicle components.
EV Charging
Electric vehicle batteries differ from an internal combustion engine vehicle’s battery in that they power the entire vehicle rather than simply anchoring a gasoline-powered car’s electrical system. While traditional gasoline-powered cars refuel at the pump, electric vehicles are powered by electricity and are “refueled” by recharging the battery.
An electric car is charged by plugging it into a charger connected to the electric grid. Charging is managed by the car’s electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE). There are three levels of EVSEs:
Level 1:
The simplest way to charge a plug-in or electric vehicle is with home charging equipment. All plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) come with a 110-volt or Level 1, home charging kit that enables your vehicle to plug into a standard wall outlet with an adapter. This method doesn’t require the installation of special equipment, but it only provides three to five miles of range per hour of charging. With this method, getting a full charge can take 20 hours or more. This can be adequate for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and if you want to maximize your vehicle’s all-electric range, it’s effective and very inefficient.
Level 2:
Next is the Level 2, 240-volt charger, which can provide between 12 and 60 miles of range per hour. Level 2 charging is also what’s found in most public charging stations like Chargepoint, and can be installed in a home by a professional electrician using either a 40 or 50 amp circuit. Charging time generally takes 8-10 hours. Installation can cost between $500 and $2,000, and local tax incentives and rebates can help offset this cost.
Level 3: DC Fast Charging
Level 3 chargers, also known as DC fast charging or DCFC chargers, provide the fastest way to charge your vehicle. These fast chargers use direct current (DC) energy and require special plugs to connect. Most modern EVs now have standard quick charge ports that enable fast charging. DC fast charging stations are mainly available as public charging stations because they are too powerful and expensive to install in most homes.
A level 3 DC fast charging station can get an electric vehicle’s battery to around 80 percent of capacity in 20-30 minutes, which makes them ideal for charging during road trips.
Regenerative Braking
Hybrid cars and electric vehicles use an alternative braking method compared to the traditional braking system on gasoline cars known as regenerative braking. With regenerative brakes, the energy from each wheel during braking is sent back to the battery. This, in turn, helps charge electric car batteries while the car is in use. An EV’s regenerative braking system supplements the brake pads and rotors found on traditional cars
Types of Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles can be classified into four main categories.
All-Electric Vehicles
All-electric vehicles, also known as battery electric vehicles (BEVs), contain a battery that is charged by plugging into a charging device. These have one, all-electric driving mode, and have driving ranges from 100 to 520 miles. Examples of all-electric vehicles include the Tesla Model S, the Chevrolet Bolt, and the Nissan LEAF.
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Plug-in hybrids, also known as PHEVs, include both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. PHEVs combine the best of both worlds and can operate in all-electric (or charge-depleting) mode or function as a gasoline car. PHEVs have smaller electric ranges than all-electric cars, and can typically travel up to 40 miles on electricity alone before switching to gasoline, similar to a conventional hybrid. Examples of plug-in hybrids include the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV and the Hyundai Tucson PHEV.
Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Hybrid electric vehicles, known as hybrids or HEVs, are powered by an internal combustion engine and at least one electric motor that uses energy stored in a battery. The vehicle runs primarily on gasoline, while the battery is charged through regenerative braking instead of plugging in. The electric motor serves to reduce fuel consumption, particularly at low speeds. The Toyota Prius is an example of a hybrid electric vehicle.
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, also known as FCEVs, are zero-emission vehicles that use fuel cell technology to power the vehicle. These vehicles are powered by electricity rather than an EV battery and have tanks filled with hydrogen instead of gasoline. The car’s motor is powered by electricity that is generated by the combination of hydrogen and oxygen. An example of a fuel cell electric vehicle is the Toyota Mirai.
Bottom Line:
Today’s electric cars look and drive like traditional gasoline-powered cars, but they have fewer moving parts and require less maintenance. It’s important to understand how electric cars work before you consider purchasing an EV.
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2023-01-15T17:46:24+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/automotive/how-do-electric-cars-work/
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In hopes of directing its nationally ranked boys basketball team to a second-straight Group 2 state championship this winter, published reports say Maalik Wayns will be Camden’s head coach.
The former Villanova standout replaces Rick Brunson, who stepped down to take a position on the New York Knicks coaching staff. Under Brunson, the Panthers went 31-3 last season and captured the 12th state title in program history - the first since 2000.
Camden was 73-4 overall under Brunson over the past three seasons.
Leaving Villanova after his junior season, in which he led the Wildcats in scoring at 17.6 points per game, Wayns played professionally in the NBA and Europe. He was a McDonald’s All-American at Roman Catholic in Philadelphia.
Wayns will become the 10th coach in Camden’s storied history joining Tony Alfano, Clarence Turner, Glen Jackson, Mike Stargell, Cetshwayo Byrd, John Valore, Vic Carstarphen and Brunson. Al Dyer served as interim coach in 2010-2011 after Stargell resigned four games into the season.
Camden played one of the most rigorous schedules in program history last season. Finishing No. 2 in the final statewide Top 20 rankings, the Panthers won 25 straight games before falling to Roselle Catholic in the last Tournament of Champions in NJSIAA history.
Camden’s road to the state crown included a victory over Haddonfield in the South Jersey Group 2 final, knocking off Rumson-Fair Haven in the state semifinals and a decisive 93-52 win over Newark Central to capture the title at Rutgers. After receiving a first-round bye, Camden beat Group 4 champion Elizabeth in the TOC semifinals.
In addition to its Olympic National schedule, Camden defeated state-ranked teams such as Rutgers Prep, St. Augustine, St. Peter’s Prep and Gill St. Bernard’s. The Panthers also posted wins over Philadelphia Catholic League power Archbishop Wood, Milton (GA) at the HoopHall Classic and Sierra Canyon (CA).
They opened the season with a nationally televised game on ESPNU against Roselle Catholic, rallying for a 67-64 victory in the first game ever played in the school’s new gym.
A six-month investigation by NJ Advance Media into the program found that five of the team’s top six scorers from last season did not reside in the city of Camden. The investigation found they were enrolled through an elaborate exploitation of a loophole in the state’s magnet school program and were the only out-of-district students in the schools. The NJSIAA has begun an investigation into the matter but has not yet announced any findings.
Camden, which is No. 6 in MaxPreps Preseason Top 25, is expected to play another national schedule. Included are two games at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield (MA) against Centennial (CA) and Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) in mid-January as well as a showdown with Philadelphia Public League power Imhotep Charter on Jan. 28.
Centennial is No. 3 in the MaxPreps Preseason Top 25, while Imhotep is No. 5. Bishop Gorman is No. 11.
Camden is also slated to participate in the inaugural Camden County Tournament, which is scheduled for the first two weeks of February. Quarterfinals are Feb. 11 at Winslow and semifinals are scheduled for Eastern on Feb. 14. The final is Feb. 16 but a location has yet to be announced.
The roster for the upcoming season includes five experienced seniors, led by three-time All-State selection and 2021 NJ.com Player of the Year D.J. Wagner. The son of legendary guard Dajuan Wagner and grandson of Milt Wagner, the talented guard is considered one of the top players in the country in the Class of 2023. He’ll come into the year with 1,477 career points - 16th on Camden’s all-time scoring list.
Multiple reports say Wagner is expected to announce his college decision as early as Monday. Kentucky and Louisville have been the top suitors, with Kentucky expected to get the talented teenager.
Aaron Bradshaw, a 7-footer who recently made a verbal commitment to attend Kentucky and is expected to sign a National Letter of Intent within the next week, is also expected back. He’s widely considered the top center nationally in the Class of 2023. Point guard Cian Medley (Saint Louis), 6-4 small forward Cornelius “Boog” Robinson (Albany) and 6-7 power forward Desear Haskins are also expected to return.
Camden has also added a pair of transfers that would give the team even more depth in juniors Billy Richmond and Jaylan Hornsby.
Richmond, a 6-foot-6 junior guard, holds offers from Seton Hall, Louisville, Saint Louis, Memphis and Mississippi State. He played at Memphis East High School last season
Hornsby was a two-year starter at Overbrook. The 6-3 guard averaged 20.2 points, 7.4 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.4 steals for the top team in the Tri-County Conference. While holding a few offers, Hornsby is also a four-star football recruit at wide receiver who owns nine offers - Georgia, Michigan, Penn State and Rutgers included.
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Kevin Minnick covers South Jersey boys basketball. He can be reached at kminnick@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @kminnicksports
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2022-11-11T19:34:05+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/11/still-under-cloud-of-controversy-camden-hoops-expected-to-name-wayns-next-coach.html
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FLNT – For the first time in five years, Corunna’s football team is unbeaten after the first week of the season.
The Cavaliers kicked off the 2022 campaign Friday with a 36-13 victory over host Fowlerville behind three touchdowns by junior Tarick Bower.
Bower ran for two TDs and caught a pass for another.
He caught a pass from twin brother Wyatt to open the scoring in the first quarter and then gave the Cavaliers a 15-0 halftime lead by running a 13-yard score in the second quarter.
He tacked on a 20-yard touchdown run to make it 29-6 in the third quarter.
Bower rushed six times for 84 yards, caught five passes for 88 yards and returned two punts for 22 yards, giving him 194 total yards. He also had an interception on defense.
Wyatt Bower completed 9 of 13 passes for 113 yards and added 41 rushing yards on seven carries. Dayne Zeeman had 72 rushing yards and a touchdown on five carries.
Davison 28, Clarkston 21
Jay’len Flowers rushed 22 times for 105 yards and two touchdowns to lead Davison. His first TD opened the scoring and the second gave Davison a 21-7 lead 1:37 into the fourth quarter.
Carter Herriman also ran for a Cardinals’ TD and Teon Armstrong caught a 32-yard pass from Braylen Himmelein, who completed 8 of 15 passes for 121 yards.
A.J. Hill rushed for 125 yards on 17 carries for Davison.
Herriman led the defense with 10 tackles and a sack, Tyler Dosh had two sacks and Davison got interceptions from Bryce Fortune and Yahaya Dukuly.
Brady Titsworth kicked four extra points.
The game marked the first time Davison has beaten Clarkston in five all-time meetings.
Ortonville Brandon 49, Bay City Central 35
Junior Drew Hickmott rushed 14 times for 113 yards and three touchdowns to lead Brandon, which got 146 yards and two TDs from Landin Zull on 29 carries.
Sophomore quarterback Lance Broilat completed 9 of 12 passes for 119 yards and one TD. Freshman Luke Hanson also scored a TD when he recovered a punt blocked by Danny Protiva.
Jake Difalco led the defense with nine tackles, Hickmott and Jacob Ryeson added eight apiece and Wes Atkinson had an interception.
Ben Querio kicked five extra points.
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Swartz Creek opens with Gridiron Classic blowout
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2022-08-27T10:10:17+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/highschoolsports/2022/08/flint-football-highlights-corunna-davison-orontville-brandon-open-season-with-wins.html
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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VIRTUAL – On Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 PM EST, the Aurora Institute will host a webinar laying out an introduction to competency-based education. The session will explore what competency-based education (CBE) is, how CBE culture, pedagogy, and structure can center students and equity, and what policies and practices are needed to enable a shift to CBE systems. The Aurora Institute will be joined by educators and students to examine what CBE looks like in practice in schools and discuss professional learning resources for transitioning to a competency-based approach. This webinar is free to attend.
What: An Introduction to K-12 Competency-based Education (CompetencyWorks)
Who:
Speakers include:
- Laurie Gagnon, CompetencyWorks Program Director, The Aurora Institute
- Travis Lape, Innovative Programs Director, Harrisburg School District, South Dakota
- TBD – Students
When: Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
Where: Zoom; Register Here
The Aurora Institute's mission is to drive the transformation of education systems and accelerate the advancement of breakthrough policies and practices to ensure high-quality learning for all. Aurora is shaping the future of teaching and learning through its work in policy advocacy, research, field-building, and convening. With a national and global view of education innovation, we work on systems change in K-12 education, promote best practices, examine policy barriers, and make recommendations for change to yield improved outcomes for students. Aurora envisions a world in which all people are empowered to attain the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to achieve success, contribute to their communities, and advance society.
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2023-01-17T17:13:40+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/01/17/aurora-institute-webinar-explore-an-introduction-competency-based-education/
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On Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the awarding of $199 million to help move more than 7,000 people statewide out of encampments, and into housing.
The funds are being dispersed across 22 communities in California, one of those being Santa Barbara County and its Santa Maria Riverbed.
The area is home to encampments for the city’s unsheltered population and in turn, the state is taking action.
“We know the solution to homelessness. It is shelter, services and affordable housing, and this grant will help make that possible,” said Lucille Boss, encampment response coordinator for the County of Santa Barbara.
Boss says in total, $6 million has been awarded to Santa Barbara County, which will go toward providing resources and housing for about 250 unsheltered individuals from Santa Maria down to Carpinteria.
“This funding will support specialized outreach teams, including mental health practitioners and substance abuse disorder specialists to accompany case managers and housing navigators out in the field, and will also support interim and permanent housing,” Boss told KSBY.
Meanwhile, neighbors walking the Santa Maria Riverbed trail Friday, say seeing various encampments along their strolls is nothing new.
“I live just over there, and always see many people who don’t have homes,” said Mary Gomez.
“There are encampments. I see them go down by the river sometimes. Sometimes, I see them cross over the walkway on their bikes,” added Rachelle Fraire.
Fraire says Santa Barbara County’s efforts to find shelter and housing for the riverbed’s unsheltered population would help her feel safer on her walks along the trail.
Meanwhile, Mary Gomez adds that following the impacts of this winter’s rains, right now, help for the homeless is needed more than ever.
“When it rains on the people here, the water rises and destroys the place. It destroys their homes,” she said.
Lucille Boss says in the coming weeks, qualifying agencies can apply for the newly acquired state funding, where roughly $3 million will be designated for supporting specialized outreach teams, and the other half for interim and permanent housing options.
Additionally, just over $13 million of those state funds will be going to San Luis Obispo County for encampment efforts near the Bob Jones Trail.
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2023-06-17T02:18:21+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/news/local-news/nearly-20-million-in-grants-awarded-to-santa-barbara-and-san-luis-obispo-counties-for-encampment-outreach
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Dejounte Murray Player Prop Bets: Hawks vs. Celtics - March 11
The Atlanta Hawks, Dejounte Murray included, square off versus the Boston Celtics on Saturday at 7:30 PM ET.
Below we will look at Murray's stats and trends, helping you make good predictions on prop bets.
Dejounte Murray Prop Bets vs. the Celtics
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Dejounte Murray Insights vs. the Celtics
- Murray has taken 18.0 shots per game this season and made 8.4 per game, which account for 18.1% and 17.5%, respectively, of his team's total.
- This season, he's accounted for 17.3% of his team's three-pointers made, averaging 2.0 per game.
- Murray's opponents, the Celtics, have a middling offensive tempo, ranking 14th in the NBA with 102.1 possessions per game, while his Hawks rank 13th in possessions per game with 102.3.
- The Celtics concede 112.2 points per contest, seventh-ranked in the NBA.
- The Celtics are the 18th-ranked squad in the league, conceding 43.9 rebounds per game.
- The Celtics are the best squad in the league, allowing 22.8 assists per game.
- The Celtics give up 11.8 made 3-pointers per game, seventh-ranked in the NBA.
Dejounte Murray vs. the Celtics
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2023-03-11T20:06:21+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/sports/betting/2023/03/11/dejounte-murray-nba-player-prop-bets-hawks-vs-celtics/
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Authorities in New York say they've made the biggest bust of Fentanyl in the city's history.
An extensive investigation led state officials and police to seize over 300,000 pills and more than 20 pounds of powdered drugs, CNN reported.
Two people were charged after the historic seizure.
The estimated street value, according to a police estimate, is more than $9 million.
Police didn't appear to elaborate on how they came up with that value estimate.
Recently authorities said they seized 15,000 pills in another seizure.
Police in New York have continued in an ongoing Fentanyl trafficking operating.
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2022-10-13T04:14:36+00:00
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ksby.com
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https://www.ksby.com/news/national/new-york-officials-say-theyve-made-the-largest-fentanyl-bust-in-the-citys-history
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Employees honored for stellar workplace safety record
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SEKISUI Specialty Chemicals of Calvert City has earned a Governor's Safety and Health Award for demonstrating an outstanding commitment to workplace safety, the Kentucky Labor Cabinet announced today.
Through Dec. 31, 2021, SEKISUI Specialty Chemicals employees logged 2,305,650 hours on the job without reporting a workplace injury accident or illness that resulted in lost time for the company, according to the cabinet's Department of Workplace Standards.
Gov. Andy Beshear was on hand May 10 at the annual Governor's Safety and Health Conference and Exhibition in Bowling Green to present the award to company officials. During his keynote address, he urged employers to protect Kentucky workers as construction projects across the commonwealth continue to boom and factories ramp up capacity.
"Protecting our folks on the job – it's a part of our faith; it's part of our values; it's a part of looking out for everyone and living that very simple lesson that everybody counts," Gov. Beshear said. "Every single person has value. Everyone is a child of God, and when we commit to safety, I think we live out that faith and those values."
For more than three decades, the Kentucky Labor Cabinet and Kentucky Safety and Health Network, Inc. have partnered to host the Governor's Safety and Health Conference and Exposition. The annual event provides private-sector employers an opportunity to attend technical training on a myriad of workplace safety topics and engage with safety and health specialists.
Increased attention to workplace safety by employers in recent years has continued to pay dividends, according to the Governor. The state's recordable, nonfatal private- and public-sector occupational injury and illness rate fell last year to the lowest point on record since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking it in 1996.
"No matter where you work in the commonwealth, every Kentuckian has the right to be safe and to earn a living they can raise their family on," Gov. Beshear said. "And everyone should feel confident knowing their employer is working just as hard every day to improve safety in every single way."
For more information on SEKISUI Specialty Chemicals' safety policy, visit our Environment, Safety, and Governance page.
Sekisui Specialty Chemicals' primary product is Selvol, a line of high-performance polyvinyl alcohol polymers and copolymers used in paper, adhesive, packaging, construction, personal care, and many other specialty formulations. The company also represents Durastream CPVC compounds and resins, Advancell expandable microspheres, and S-LEC BK polyvinyl acetal resins. Sekisui Specialty Chemicals is a subsidiary of the Sekisui Chemical Group, a multibillion dollar, global company that delivers a wide range of products and services to enrich people's lives. The company is comprised of core businesses and technologies in housing, social infrastructure, and chemical solutions. For more information, visit www.sekisui-sc.com/
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2022-06-14T03:38:12+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/06/14/sekisui-specialty-chemicals-earns-governors-safety-health-award/
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DOVER, Del. (AP) —
Delaware’s Supreme Court on Monday overturned a judge’s ruling upholding a decision by state officials to prohibit electric vehicle maker Tesla from selling its cars directly to customers.
In a ruling last year, a Superior Court judge determined that Delaware’s Motor Vehicle Franchising Practices Act prohibited Tesla, as a manufacturer, from selling its electric cars directly to customers in Delaware.
The Supreme Court reversed that decision and sent the case back to Superior Court, noting that the franchise act was enacted to address the disparity in bargaining power that permitted automobile manufacturers to exert economic pressure over their franchises. The justices said the law’s definitions exclude Tesla because the company sells its vehicles directly to consumers without using independent franchise dealers.
“It bears repeating that the Franchise Act regulates the business relationship between a manufacturer and a dealer,” wrote Chief Justice Collins Seitz Jr., adding that nothing in the law or its legislative history supports DMV’s interpretation that the Franchise Act is intended to prohibit the direct sales model.
The court ruling noted that Tesla has fought similar battles in several other states.
Tesla filed an application with the Delaware DMV for a dealer license in 2019. The DMV subsequently permitted Tesla to open a new car gallery in a shopping mall. The gallery allows customers to view Tesla vehicles, but Tesla cannot sell its cars from an in-state store.
Tesla submitted a second application for a dealer license in 2020. The DMV’s Chief of Compliance and Investigation denied it, noting that Delaware’s Licensing Act for automobile dealers requires that an applicant comply with state law before an application can be granted. The DMV official said Tesla’s application did not comply with the law because the Franchise Act prohibits a vehicle manufacturer from directly or indirectly owning an interest in a dealership or from acting as a dealer. Despite determining that Tesla and its direct-to-consumer sales model did not meet the definition of a “new motor vehicle dealer” under the franchise law, the official concluded that Tesla was still a “manufacturer” under the law.
An administrative hearing officer later agreed that, as a manufacturer, Tesla could not sell new vehicles directly to Delaware consumers.
Tesla then appealed to the Superior Court, where it lost again. The judge ruled against Tesla even though he agreed that its business model was likely not contemplated by the franchise law. He also found that a Tesla cannot be defined as a “new motor vehicle” because that term applies to a vehicle that has been sold to a dealer. The judge also concluded that Tesla is not a “new motor vehicle dealer” because it does not enter into franchise agreements with third parties.
“When the definitions are read together, a ‘manufacturer’ under the Franchise Act manufactures or assembles ‘new motor vehicles’ that have been sold to a ‘new motor vehicle dealer,’” Seitz wrote. “… Tesla’s electric cars will not be sold to a dealer that holds a valid sales contract by Tesla, and therefore it is not a ‘manufacturer.’”
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2023-05-16T20:21:57+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/business/ap-business/state-supreme-court-overturns-judges-ruling-prohibiting-tesla-dealership-in-delaware/
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The largest lottery jackpots in US history
(Stacker) - Lotteries have been around for a long time across cultures. From ancient Greece to the Han dynasty, people played the odds to realize an ambitious dream, while on the other end, states looked to profit. In the United States, the popularity of the lottery came with European colonization, according to historian Jonathan D. Cohen in “For a Dollar and a Dream: State Lotteries in Modern America.”
Despite Protestant misgivings, the profits generated from lotteries were used to finance civil defense, the construction of churches, and even the founding of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
While lotteries helped fortify a new country, Americans eventually eschewed their use because of widespread concern over misuse and mismanagement. In 1964, New Hampshire ran the first modern state-run lottery.
Now, only five states—Alabama, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii, and Nevada—don’t offer lotteries, while the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands all have lotteries operated by the government.
States use lotteries to raise money for different administrative fees and to fund public services such as education or support for veterans. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, lotteries provide about 1% of state revenue annually.
And what do the lucky ticket holders do with their share? Stacker compiled a list of the 15 largest lottery jackpots in U.S. history from news reports and lottery press releases, with details on how winners used the funds if available.
#15. $587.5 million
- Date: Nov. 28, 2012
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 2
- Winners’ locations: Arizona, Missouri
One of the two winning tickets belonged to Mark and Cindy Hill, who donated millions from their jackpot to help their local town build a new fire station, among other improvements. An anonymous winner in Arizona opted to take the lump-sum cash payment, which worked out to $192 million before taxes.
#14. $590.5 million
- Date: May 18, 2013
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Florida
This entire jackpot went to a single winner, a woman in her 80s in the Tampa area. While her win—about $278 million after taxes—may seem to have been an incredible stroke of luck (a mother and daughter in front of her allowed her to cut in line to buy her ticket first), that luck eventually ran out: She sued her son for millions, alleging he mishandled the windfall.
#13. $632.6 million
- Date: Jan. 5, 2022
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 2
- Winner’s location: California, Wisconsin
Two tickets split this jackpot, and the couple with the winning ticket in Wisconsin may have been in for a shock after learning how much went to the taxman. They chose the cash option for their half of the winnings, which totaled $225.1 million, though $71.2 million went straight to government coffers.
#12. $648 million
- Date: Dec. 17, 2013
- Game: Mega Millions
- Number of winning tickets: 2
- Winners’ locations: California, Georgia
Big U.S. lotteries will let players have their numbers drawn randomly, or the buyer can choose the numbers they wish to play. While choosing birthdays or lucky numbers may seem silly, that strategy worked out nicely for Ira Curry in Georgia, one of the two winners of this jackpot. Her lucky combination of family birthdays earned her $173.8 million after taxes.
#11. $656 million
- Date: March 30, 2012
- Game: Mega Millions
- Number of winning tickets: 3
- Winners’ locations: Illinois, Kansas, Maryland
A cash windfall seems to promise the recipient a lifetime of luxury and leisure, but that’s not always the case. Merle and Patricia Butler, who won a third of this jackpot, built a financial and legal team to help them stay solvent (but not before buying one of the most expensive houses in their county.)
#10. $687.8 million
- Date: Oct. 27, 2018
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 2
- Winners’ locations: Iowa, New York
Lerynne West was one of the two winners to split this payday, but she nearly lost her chance. West was in the middle of a move to her new home when she heard a winning ticket was sold nearby, but she initially couldn’t find the ticket during the chaos of moving. Thankfully, she tracked it down, earning a lump sum payment before taxes of over $198.1 million.
#9. $699.8 million
- Date: Oct. 4, 2021
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: California
Scott Godfrey, the sole winner of this drawing, chose to take home the lump sum payment of nearly $500 million before taxes. Two months after his win, Godfrey set up a foundation for charitable works and donated a carload of toys for a holiday drive. He has since spoken out on viral social media scams that use his name to dupe people with the false hope that he’ll give them money.
#8. $731.1 million
- Date: Jan. 20, 2021
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Maryland
Before selling this winning ticket at a local corner store, the tiny town of Lonaconing in Maryland was known mostly for being the hometown of Major League Baseball pitcher Lefty Grove, who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame over 75 years ago. This new influx of attention (and a $100,000 bonus to the store for selling the ticket) was an unexpected development to many in this coal-mining town of about 300 families.
#7. $758.7 million
- Date: Aug. 23, 2017
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Massachusetts
Two things happened when Mavis Wanczyk won a $336.6 million lump sum after taxes. First, she did what many aspirational lottery winners aim to do—quit her job at a hospital. Unfortunately, the massive, sudden influx of attention also led local police to set up outside her home for her security.
#6. $768.4 million
- Date: March 27, 2019
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Wisconsin
Manuel Franco said that before collecting this jackpot, his biggest financial goal was to save $1,000 in his bank account. Franco noted that the winning ticket was stuck to another ticket in his wallet, and he almost didn’t see it. He told the press that with the winnings, he plans to travel, pay for the college education of his family members, and donate to charity.
#5. $1.1 billion
- Date: Jan. 22, 2021
- Game: Mega Millions
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Michigan
Most lottery winners want to stay out of the limelight, but some states require winners to be identified. Michigan has a loophole: Registered lottery clubs can select representatives to collect the winnings. The members of the Wolverines FLL lottery club, which held this billion-dollar-winning-ticket, hired a Florida-based lawyer to represent them, keeping the members’ identities private.
#4. $1.3 billion
- Date: July 29, 2022
- Game: Mega Millions
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: Illinois
Two people in Illinois waited nearly two months to come forward and accept their prize, which they chose to take as a lump sum payment for each of $470.7 million after taxes. At least 16 states are like Illinois in that they allow winners to maintain anonymity.
#3. $1.5 billion
- Date: Oct. 23, 2018
- Game: Mega Millions
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: South Carolina
A soon-to-be anonymous winner was on a scenic drive when they pulled over at the KC Mart in Greenville and bought a ticket “never once thinking she had the slightest chance to win,” according to a statement from her lawyer Jason Kurland, who represented several lottery winners. The drive earned her a lump sum cash payment of over $877 million before taxes. The winner’s lawyer? He was later charged with swindling money from his lottery-winning clientele.
#2. $1.6 billion
- Date: Jan. 13, 2016
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 3
- Winners’ locations: California, Florida, Tennessee
Even in states where lottery winners’ names have to be made public, some winners take comprehensive steps to stay out of the glare of media attention. Marvin and Mae Acosta, who split this jackpot with two other winning tickets, not only showed up six months later with security guards to claim their winnings, the Associated Press reports they moved out of their home listed on property records the day before coming forward. A statement by the couple said they would be donating most of the prize to a trust and charities.
#1. $2 billion
- Date: Nov. 7, 2022
- Game: Powerball
- Number of winning tickets: 1
- Winner’s location: California
The winner of the first U.S. jackpot to crack the $2 billion mark has not revealed themselves as of December 2022. The ticket was sold at Joe’s Service Center in Altadena, just north of Los Angeles, and would net the winner $997.6 million before taxes in a lump sum. Should they choose to receive the money over 30 years, the jackpot works out to $68 million a year before taxes.
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2023-01-03T20:54:30+00:00
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NEW YORK (AP) — A businessman who was one of the early investors in a failed professional football league called the Alliance of American Football pleaded guilty Monday to charges accusing him in a $600 million cryptocurrency scheme.
Reginald Fowler was charged with bank fraud, wire fraud and other offenses that prosecutors say contributed to the AAF’s quick demise in 2019.
The guilty plea in Manhattan federal court comes at a time when other fledgling leagues are making longshot bids to loosen the National Football League’s grip on pro football. In 2019, the AAF shut down after eight weeks when it ran out of money.
Fowler, 63, of Chandler, Arizona, was once known for trying to buy the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings in 2005. He ended up as a minority owner before his involvement in the team ended in 2014.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said that as part of the crypto scheme, Fowler “helped process hundreds of millions of dollars of unregulated transactions on behalf of numerous cryptocurrency exchanges, skirting the anti-money laundering safeguards required of licensed institutions that ensure the U.S. financial system is not used for criminal purposes.”
Prosecutors also alleged that Fowler lied to AAF executives by claiming he controlled bank accounts with tens of millions of dollars from real estate investments and government contracts that he could use to invest in the league.
“Having accepted full responsibility in an open plea today, Reggie will have the opportunity to be heard at sentencing as to his understanding of the circumstances of the offenses and pivotal issues such as the proper amount of monetary loss attributable to Reggie,” defense attorney Edward Sapone said in a statement.
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2022-04-26T14:17:13+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/sports/pro-football-investor-pleads-guilty-in-cryptocurrency-scheme/
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AMORY, Miss. (WTVA) — An important deadline is fast approaching for FEMA assistance in the counties affected by the March 24-25 tornadoes.
May 25 is the last day residents in Humphreys, Monroe, Montgomery, Panola and Sharkey counties can apply for federal disaster assistance.
“It’s important that everyone that has sustained any type of damage, come and register with us, even if you have insurance,” Bob Rolf said. “Because after that deadline, it may be too late.”
Rolf manages the disaster recovery center in Amory. He encourages victims to visit the recovery center on Highland Drive.
Open this link to view a list of disaster recovery centers.
The public can also apply online at DisasterAssistance.gov.
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2023-05-09T20:40:02+00:00
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wtva.com
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https://www.wtva.com/news/tornado-recovery/deadline-fast-approaching-for-federal-storm-aid-in-monroe-county/article_a174a6b2-eea3-11ed-b36f-7b84211f36af.html
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It is the most wonderful time of the year! Although the holiday celebrations are a time of excitement, they can also bring challenges with sleep as we are busier causing the potential for many disruptions to arise from the changes in our schedules - from later sleep times to changes in eating and drinking habits as well as it being a time for heightened emotions. So what are some ways we can stay on track?
First, if you are traveling – especially to another time zone – start moving your sleep schedule leading up to your trip to get in sync with the new time.
Second – prepare – if you know you will be in a new environment -pack and bring the right sleep tools, From an eye mask to block light to earplugs or a sound machine to minimize awakenings due to new environmental noises. Last, remember to stay hydrated! Drinking water will help keep you fuller to minimize overeating, overdrinking and help flush out excess cortisol that can lead to added stress. Remember during this time it is even more important to prioritize sleep to manage your mental and physical health. Wishing you and your families a happy holiday season. Sleep Well.
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2022-12-30T18:25:44+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/am-buffalo/sleep-tips-for-the-holidays-with-sleep-expert-soda-kuczkowski
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NEW YORK, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Signature Bank (NASDAQ: SBNY, SBNYP) between March 2, 2023 and March 12, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 15, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline, in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Signature Bank securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Signature Bank class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12988 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 15, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose, among other things, that: (1) Signature Bank did not have the strong fundamentals that it represented itself as having in the days immediately prior to its takeover, or otherwise took action that left it susceptible to a takeover by the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS"); (2) as a result, it became a target for regulatory action by the DFS, and (3) as a result, defendants' public statements were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Signature Bank class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12988 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action
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2023-03-29T02:19:59+00:00
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Michael Conforto hit a two-run homer off Ryan Yarbrough to cap a three-run rally in the eighth inning that sent the San Francisco Giants to a 3-1 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday.
One day after blowing a 4-0 lead in the eighth and losing their second consecutive game to Kansas City, the Giants turned the tables.
Bryce Johnson started the comeback with a one-out single off Yarbrough (0-1). Thairo Estrada flied out before Wilmer Flores doubled in the tying run.
Conforto then drilled a 72 mph curveball over the center-field fence for his third homer since signing with San Francisco as a free agent in January. The outfielder sat out last season while recovering from shoulder surgery.
It was Conforto's 28th career homer off a left-hander — he's hit 107 against righties. He began the day with a .225 career batting average vs. lefties.
John Brebbia (1-0) retired one batter in relief for the win. Tyler Rogers worked the ninth for his first save.
Until the eighth, the Royals appeared well on their way to completing the series sweep.
Kris Bubic was dazzling in his second start of the season for Kansas City, matching his career high of nine strikeouts in six innings. He retired 10 straight after hitting Conforto, the No. 3 batter, with a pitch in the first inning.
Bubic didn’t allow a hit until David Villar’s leadoff single in the fifth. He worked out of a two-on, two-out jam in the same inning and set down his final four hitters.
Kansas City backed him with steady relief until the Giants tied it.
The Royals again were kept mostly quiet on offense but broke through for a run against Giants starter Anthony DeSclafani in the fourth. Vinnie Pasquantino hit a two-out double and scored on Salvador Perez’s single.
A day earlier, Perez hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning to spark Kansas City’s 6-5 victory after being down 4-0.
DeSclafani, unbeaten in his past 11 appearances against American League teams, had seven strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings. He allowed three hits and walked none.
ROSTER MOVES
The Giants optioned INF Matt Beaty to Triple-A Sacramento and recalled OF Heliot Ramos, who started in left field and batted eighth.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: C Gary Sánchez could be back in the big leagues soon. San Francisco’s depth at catcher is being tested with Roberto Perez (strained shoulder) on the 60-day injured list and Joey Bart (mid-back strain) on a rehab assignment. Sánchez was the DH at Triple-A Sacramento on Saturday and went 1 for 4 with two RBIs and two strikeouts.
UP NEXT
Royals: RHP Zack Greinke (0-2, 2.38 ERA) pitches Monday at Texas.
Giants: RHP Logan Webb (0-2, 6.55 ERA) faces Dodgers LHP Julio Urías (2-0, 1.50) on Monday in San Francisco’s first game against a National League team this season.
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2023-04-09T23:48:52+00:00
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sfgate.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that it ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order in effect since December that it be reinstated.
The timing had been in doubt since the Supreme Court ruled on June 30 that the Biden administration could end the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Homeland Security officials had been largely silent, saying they had to wait for the court to certify the ruling and for a Trump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, to then lift his injunction. The Supreme Court certified its ruling last week.
The program will be unwound in a “quick, and orderly manner,” Homeland Security said in a statement. No more people are being enrolled and those who appear in court will not be returned to Mexico when they appear in the U.S. for their next hearings.
The policy “has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border,” the department said.
Many questions remain, including whether those whose claims have been denied or dismissed will get a second chance or if those whose next court dates are months away will be allowed to return to the U.S. sooner. Homeland Security said it will provide additional information “in the coming days.”
About 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy, known officially as “Migrant Protection Protocols,” from when President Donald Trump introduced it in January 2019 until President Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021, fulfilling a campaign promise. Many were allowed to return to the United States to pursue their cases during the early months of Biden’s presidency.
Nearly 5,800 people were subject to the policy from December through June, a modest number. Nicaraguans account for the largest number, with others from Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela.
Trump made the policy a centerpiece of border enforcement, which critics said was inhumane for exposing migrants to extreme violence in Mexico and making access to attorneys far more difficult.
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2022-08-09T13:13:23+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/politics/ap-politics/biden-administration-says-remain-in-mexico-policy-is-over/
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President Biden’s onstage fall at the Air Force Academy graduation put his age and fragility in the limelight at a time when the White House is in an increasingly tough spot on the issue.
While Biden supporters argue he remains physically and mentally up to the job, high profile Republicans such as presidential candidate Nikki Haley have warned on the campaign trail that a vote for Biden is a vote for Vice President Harris to eventually sit in the Oval Office.
That has raised questions about whether Biden, who would be 86 years old by the time he reached the end of a second term, could serve out another four years.
Biden allies view Republican efforts to focus on Biden’s age as a tired tactic that has failed to produce results, noting that the president’s age did not scare away voters in 2020 and that the Biden administration has produced major legislative results leading into the 2024 cycle. They view attacks on Harris similarly, noting it was a common line of criticism during the 2020 cycle.
“They should focus on selling his record over the past four years and plans for the next four years and not engage in GOP attacks. Everyone knows his age — and Trump’s — and what they care about is results,” said Steve Elmendorf, a Democratic lobbyist and donor.
But Haley’s comments reflect what has become a persistent problem for the White House, as polls have consistently shown a swath of Democrats — and voters in general — are concerned about Biden’s age.
The administration’s strategy in dealing with the fall was on full display Tuesday, when White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a brief back-and-forth with a reporter from a conservative news outlet who asked about the Air Force Academy incident in the context of changing the way advance procedures are conducted for presidential visits.
She pushed back at first by lauding Biden’s accomplishments for the first two years, including winning in 2020, overcoming 2022 doubts and compliments from Republicans last week after reaching a debt deal with Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) she cast as “the most important thing that the Americans are going to care about.”
“Isn’t that what [is] important? As a reporter, don’t you think it’s important what Americans care about?” Jean-Pierre responded when the journalist pushed back on the question of Biden’s fall.
“Here’s the thing … things happen. Other presidents have had similar situations, as you know, and I’m sure you reported on the last president, who has had a similar situation. And so look, things happen. This is a president that delivers and will continue to deliver for the American people, and that’s what he cares about,” she said before ending the briefing.
White House officials have also spent the past week pointing out that some of the same Republicans who deride Biden as being too old for the job bemoaned that the White House got the better of negotiations over the budget and debt ceiling.
Despite the messaging strategy by the White House, Biden’s age has long been an issue even among Democrats, according to polls. An ABC News/Washington Post poll released in early May found 68 percent of Americans said they believe the president is too old for another term.
His tumble onstage at the Air Force Academy put the issue back into the national conversation, despite Biden laughing it off and the White House dismissing the fervor over the president tripping on a sandbag.
GOP strategist Doug Heye argued that it’s fair game for Republicans to be focusing on the president’s age in the lens of the vice president and warning voters that she could be president.
“Because of the fall that Biden had, it’s a topic that voters talk about and not just partisan Republican primary voters, but Democrats, at least privately, will say that they have concerns and justifiable ones about somebody who’s 86 being president,” he said. “One of the core tenets of Biden’s run was that he would be a stabilizing force. And this raises questions as to whether or not that’s really true.”
Other Republican presidential contenders besides Haley have recently danced around the issue of Biden’s age. Former President Trump, who will turn 77 this month, responded to the news of Biden’s fall by saying he hoped he wasn’t hurt. Trump claimed last week that he’d asked Fox News host Sean Hannity to lay off jokes about Biden’s age.
Haley has been by far the most outspoken Republican presidential candidate in publicly questioning whether Biden would make it to the end of a second four-year term. She has repeatedly raised the issue as part of a broader attempt to break through a crowded GOP primary field by focusing on the need for generational change in presidential politics.
“A vote for President Biden is actually a vote for President Harris. We are running against Kamala Harris,” Haley said on Fox News on Monday.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who is not running for president, also previously highlighted Biden’s age and questioned Harris’s ability to take over as commander in chief at the outset of the president’s 2024 campaign launch.
The tactic has dragged Harris into the conversation, as voters weigh whether to back Biden.
Bruce Mehlman, a former official under President George W. Bush, called the GOP criticism of Harris during the reelection campaign “fair game, possibly compelling and hardly unique to 2024 and VP Harris.”
“From Sarah Palin to [former vice president] Dan Quayle to Geraldine Ferraro, running mates considered unready or unpopular are often highlighted by the other party,” said Mehlman, a founding partner at Mehlman Consulting.
Kevin Munoz, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, called Harris “an incredible governing and campaigning partner” with Biden.
“Republicans are resorting to the same tired, failed, and false attacks on Vice President Harris that they’ve used over and over again, because they can’t argue on the merits of their unpopular, extreme MAGA agenda,” Munoz said. “At some point, the Beltway media might pay more attention to views of the American people who voted in record numbers for the Biden-Harris ticket, rather than recycled bogus rhetoric of the GOP and its political operatives.”
Harris has been a highly visible surrogate on the road in the six weeks since Biden made his reelection bid official, traveling to speak with reproductive rights groups, union leaders and local elected officials about the Biden administration’s agenda.
Meanwhile, Biden’s travel has been limited to roughly one trip per week, and he hasn’t been out campaigning other than a few fundraisers with donors.
He’s traveling to North Carolina this week for a speech on workforce training programs and to meet with service members and their families. Last week, he traveled to Colorado for the Air Force Academy graduation.
The president will hold a rare joint press conference Thursday with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, amid growing calls for him to do more public events and engage with the media more, but so far the White House has been selective on granting interviews with the president.
Heye argued that voters should see more of the president as a way for the White House to respond to attacks about his age.
“They need to see him being vigorous and that comes with inherent risks,” he said. “I think that’s a challenge for them.”
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2023-06-07T12:26:46+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/hill-politics/bidens-fall-puts-spotlight-on-gops-attacks-over-presidents-age/
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President Biden said fighting inflation is his "top domestic priority" in an economic speech at the White House Tuesday morning and laid out his administration's plans to lower prices on things like gas, which has hit a record-high cost.
Biden's remarks also targeted what he called "ultra-MAGA" Republicans. His sharpened attacks against the GOP are part of the administration's effort to draw a contrast with how Republicans are planning to handle inflation and rising costs, issues that are top-of-mind for voters ahead of the midterm elections this year.
"Republicans have offered plenty of blame," Biden said of gas prices, "but not a single solution to actually bring down the energy prices."
The president said that while the pandemic and Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine have contributed to inflation, lack of competition and inhibited access to materials is why prices have continued to go up.
"Capitalism without competition isn't capitalism, it's exploitation. So we're promoting competition for everything from internet services to meat processing," Biden said.
"All of my plan is focused on lowering costs for the average family in America, to give them just a little bit of breathing room," he said. The president, however, did not offer a timeline on when costs might start to go down.
Biden's remarks are part of a series of events this week where the president will continue to talk about lowering costs. On Wednesday, the president will travel to Illinois to visit a family farm and talk about food prices. He will also address the electrical workers at the IBEW convention in Chicago.
White House is targeting GOP's 'ultra-MAGA' messages
In his speech, Biden not only laid out his own agenda but repeatedly criticized Republicans', namely one from Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Rick Scott of Florida. He charged that the GOP's "ultra-MAGA" plan increases taxes on Americans and gives tax cuts to billionaires.
"They don't want to solve inflation by lowering your costs, they want to solve it by raising your taxes and lowering your income," Biden said.
He pointed specifically to Scott's plan that asks every American to pay income tax. Currently, about half of Americans do not earn enough money to pay income taxes.
"If you look at what we've been doing the last few years is we're paying people not to work," Scott told NPR in March. "We've got people that have voted for government programs that could go work and aren't working. I'm not raising the tax rate. I'm not even raising their taxes. I'm saying we got to get these people to work so they're part of the system."
Biden called Scott's plan is part of the "ultra-MAGA agenda."
"Republicans in Congress are so deeply committed to protecting big corporations and CEOs that they'd rather see taxes on working American families and try to depress their wages than to take on inflation," Biden said.
Biden also attacked Scott's proposal to allow legislation to expire every five years unless Congress renews it, which would put legislation like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid up for a vote. The president called it "outrageous."
Inflation will dominate the midterm elections
Celinda Lake, a pollster who works with Democratic candidates, tells NPR that inflation will be a major point for voters in the midterm elections, but that people will start cementing their views on it in May and June.
She said it's important for Democrats to acknowledge inflation is a problem and repeatedly give assurances that they are doing everything that can be done on multiple fronts, on the executive and legislative levels, to lower prices. She also said it's important to point out that Republicans stand in the way of those efforts.
"People have no idea what the barriers are to those policies being implemented. It's very, very important to say that one of the things that's a problem here is that Republicans are not joining us," Lake said.
Lake says that right now, voters think Republicans are better on inflation, so Democrats have to some catching up to do.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-05-11T02:29:14+00:00
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knkx.org
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https://www.knkx.org/2022-05-10/biden-names-combating-inflation-and-rising-costs-as-his-top-domestic-priority
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Selection Sunday looms as AP Top 25 teams in major conferences get their final chances to impact where and why they play in the NCAA Tournament.
In the nation’s top leagues, there could be significant swings based on early exits or title runs. Here’s a look at what’s ahead leading up to the biggest day on the sport’s calendar on Sunday:
AAC
The American Athletic Conference Tournament begins Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas, and it gives top-ranked Houston the chance to make a final case potentially for the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAAs.
The Cougars (29-2) are the only team in the country to rank in the top 10 of KenPom’s adjusted efficiency metrics in both offense and defense.
Houston opens against the East Carolina-South Florida winner on Friday, and the tournament is one of five to end on Sunday shortly before the NCAA field is revealed.
ACC
The Atlantic Coast Conference opens its five-day tournament Tuesday in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s an event lacking a true favorite or team poised to claim a top-tier postseason seed.
Virginia and No. 14 Miami shared the regular-season title, though the Hurricanes are the top seed for the first time since winning the tournament in 2013. But 21st-ranked Duke is the league’s hottest team with six straight wins.
All three open play in Thursday’s quarterfinals, with the Cavaliers on course for a 4-seed, Miami for a 5 and Duke for a 7, according to BracketMatrix.com’s average of 100 mock fields on Monday evening.
BIG 12
Third-ranked Kansas won a national title, overhauled its roster and still finds itself in the chase for the No. 1 overall NCAA seed entering the Big 12 Tournament.
That tournament opens Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri, with the Jayhawks and other top seeds starting play on Day 2.
Kansas (25-6) has a national-best 15 wins in Quadrant 1 games that top the postseason resume, which had them as the top overall seed in ESPN’s Bracketology projection on Monday evening.
Winning a title this week won’t come easy in a league regarded as the nation’s deepest all year. The field includes No. 7 Texas, No. 10 Baylor, No. 12 Kansas State and No. 22 TCU.
BIG EAST
The Big East opens play Wednesday in New York’s Madison Square Garden with four ranked teams: No. 6 Marquette, No. 11 Connecticut, No. 15 Xavier and No. 24 Creighton.
The top-seeded Golden Eagles, who open play Thursday, have the highest projected NCAA Tournament seed at No. 3 on both ESPN and BracketMatrix, while BracketMatrix has the Huskies and Musketeers as potential 4-seeds.
The Bluejays, who re-entered the poll for a third time this season on Monday, are projected as a No. 6 seed in the NCAAs.
The tournament wraps up Saturday night.
BIG TEN
The Big Ten opens it tournament Wednesday in Chicago with No. 5 Purdue and No. 19 Indiana as the only ranked teams, though the Boilermakers are in the mix for a No. 1 regional seed in the NCAAs.
The Boilermakers are the top seed for Chicago and BracketMatrix listed them as the fourth of the top seeds.
The Boilermakers and Hoosiers both begin play in Friday’s quarterfinals with the title game coming Sunday.
PAC-12
The Pac-12 has two ranked teams in contention for lofty NCAA seeds as the league tournament opens Wednesday in Las Vegas.
Second-ranked UCLA is surging down the stretch and has its highest ranking of the season, putting it in position to contend for a No. 1 regional seed as the top No. 2 seed in BracketMatrix’s projections. Eighth-ranked Arizona is also looking likely for a 2-seed.
The Bruins and Wildcats split their regular-season meetings, with UCLA winning Saturday’s regular-season finale while holding the top seed for Las Vegas. Both teams open play Thursday.
SEC
Fourth-ranked Alabama is the top seed for the Southeastern Conference Tournament beginning Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. And the Crimson Tide could be in contention for the top overall NCAA seed with a title run.
Alabama (26-5) owns the top seed in the SEC and opens play in Friday’s quarterfinals, finishing a game ahead of No. 18 Texas A&M in the regular-season race.
The tournament also features No. 17 Tennessee, No. 23 Kentucky and No. 25 Missouri, with the title game set for Sunday.
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MAIZE, Kan. (KSNW) — The Maize Police Department is warning residents to keep an eye out for mail thieves.
The department says they have received several reports of mail being stolen from residential mailboxes. Personal checks that were in outgoing mail were altered and cashed at several locations across Sedgwick County.
Maize police say mail theft is common, with thieves often looking for cash, credit cards, or checks. They recommend that when making payments by mail, to either place the mail in a secured or locking mailbox, an outgoing mail dropbox, or drive the mail to a post office location and place it in an outgoing dropbox or mail slot.
Meanwhile, they ask residents who see suspicious activity, like vehicles driving slowly through a neighborhood or people they don’t recognize around mailboxes, to take down a detailed description and to call 911 immediately so officers can check the area.
The investigation into the mail thefts is ongoing.
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LUBBOCK, Texas – Lubbock Symphony Orchestra (LSO) announced earlier this month that season tickets were available for its 77th season titled The “Best Of.”
According to a press release, subscribers can receive five concerts in the Lubbock Symphony’s Masterworks Series for the price of four – ticket prices start at $132.
“LSO’s Music Director, David Cho, curated an enchanting season, featuring exceptional works and composers. The 13-concert season comprises of 5 Masterworks concerts, 4 Chamber concerts, and 4 Special Events,” according to a press release.
The series will include the following:
- “Rhapsodies” – experience a blend of jazz and classical with works from Peter Boyer, Gershwin, and Beethoven. Including Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5.”
- “Oratorio” – immerse in Hadyn’s “The Creation” with a large-scale orchestra and chorus.
- “Realms” – traverse scenes of Russian folklore with Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite.” Violinist Chee-Yun will join the LSO for Mozart’s “Violin Concerto No. 5.”
- “Brahms” – enjoy Brahms’ brooding Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Adam Golka.
- “Verdi” – be enchanted by Verdi’s breathtaking opera arias.
Masterworks Series ticketholders will have early access to add on the rest of LSO’s 23-24 season, including special events such as “Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert” on May 4, 2024.
For more information or to subscribe visit LSO’s Google Drive, Digital Form, or call the LSO Box Office at (806) 762-1688.
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2023-06-15T16:48:11+00:00
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/local-news/season-tickets-available-for-lubbock-symphony-orchestras-77th-season/
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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A pedestrian was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver early Wednesday morning in South San Francisco, SSFPD reported. Police said the victim was trying to walk across southbound lanes of El Camino Real.
Police responded to the call just after 1 a.m. on the 1500 block of El Camino Real. The driver fled and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, according to South San Francisco police.
The road was closed for several hours Wednesday morning but has since reopened. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information should call motor officer John Paulo at 650-877-8900.
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2023-04-05T15:16:48+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/pedestrian-killed-in-south-san-francisco-hit-and-run/
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CHARLOTTE SPORTS LIVE) — A Charlotte FC player has responded to being linked to a police investigation regarding a sexual assault.
Andre Shinyashiki, 25, is a forward for the MLS team but hasn’t played in a match since April 8.
According to a Charlotte Mecklenburg Police report, at around 11:30 p.m. March 8, the victim reported being sexual assaulted in an apartment in the 500 block of East Brooklyn Village Ave in uptown. The alleged incident occurred in the early morning hours of Feb. 26.
Shinyashiki said the following on his Twitter account Tuesday:
“I’d like to address the story that came out today. I fully cooperated with Charlotte Police and MLS in their separate investigations related to the incident and no charges have been filed against me. I’ve also been cleared by MLS to play. I’ll have no further comment.”
— Andre Shinyashiki (@AShinyashiki9)
He’s in his second year in Charlotte and has three shots taken on the season with no goals.
Charlotte FC responded to an inquiry saying over the phone that “they are aware of the incident and have no further comment.”
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2023-05-03T00:29:23+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/sports/charlotte-fc/charlotte-fc-forward-linked-to-sexual-assault-investigation-no-charges-have-been-filed/
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HARTFORD, Conn., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund (NYSE: AIO) previously announced the following monthly distribution on March 7, 2022:
Under the terms of its Managed Distribution Plan, the Fund will seek to maintain a consistent distribution level that may be paid in part, or in full, from net investment income and realized capital gains, or a combination thereof. Shareholders should note, however, that if the Fund's aggregate net investment income and net realized capital gains are less than the amount of the distribution level, the difference will be distributed from the Fund's assets and will constitute a return of the shareholder's capital. You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's Managed Distribution Plan.
The Fund provided this estimate of the sources of the distributions:
Information regarding the Fund's performance and distribution rates is set forth below. Please note that all performance figures are based on the Fund's NAV and not the market price of the Fund's shares. Performance figures are not meant to represent individual shareholder performance.
The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this notice are estimates only and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the distributions for tax purposes will depend on the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The Fund or your broker will send you a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year that will tell you what distributions to report for federal income tax purposes.
About the Fund
Virtus AllianzGI Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund is a diversified closed-end fund that seeks to provide total return through a combination of current income, current gains and long-term capital appreciation. A multi-asset approach based on fundamental research is employed, dynamically allocating to attractive segments of a company's debt and equity in order to offer an attractive risk/reward profile. Virtus Investment Advisers, Inc. is the investment adviser to the Fund and Allianz Global Investors is its subadviser. As previously announced, effective June 22, 2022, the Fund's name will change to Virtus Artificial Intelligence & Technology Opportunities Fund.
For more information on the Fund, contact shareholder services at (866) 270-7788, by email at closedendfunds@virtus.com, or through the Closed-End Funds section of virtus.com.
Fund Risks
An investment in a fund is subject to risk, including the risk of possible loss of principal. A fund's shares may be worth less upon their sale than what an investor paid for them. Shares of closed-end funds may trade at a premium or discount to their net asset value. For more information about the fund's investment objective and risks, please see the Fund's annual report. A copy of the Fund's most recent annual report may be obtained free of charge by contacting "Shareholder Services" as set forth at the end of this press release.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's electoral commission chairman has declared Deputy President William Ruto the winner of the close presidential election over five-time contender Raila Odinga, a triumph for the man who shook up politics by appealing to struggling Kenyans on economic terms and not on traditional ethnic ones.
Ruto received 50.49% of the vote, the chairman said, while Odinga received 48.85%.
But chaos emerged just before the declaration when the electoral commission's vice chair and three other commissioners told journalists they could not support the "opaque nature" of the final phase of the process.
"We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be announced," vice chair Juliana Cherera said, without giving details. At the declaration venue, police surged to impose calm amid shouting and scuffles before electoral commission chair Wafula Chebukati announced the official results — and said the two commissioners still there had been injured.
The sudden split in the commission came minutes after Odinga's chief agent said they could not verify the results and made allegations of "electoral offenses" without giving details or evidence. Odinga didn't come to the venue for the declaration.
Now Kenyans wait to see whether Odinga will again go to court to contest the results of Tuesday's peaceful election in a country crucial to regional stability. This is likely the final try for the 77-year-old longtime opposition figure backed this time by former rival and outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta, who fell out with his deputy, Ruto, years ago.
"ANY results IEBC Chairman Wafuka Chebukati announces are INVALID because he had no quorum of commissioners to hold a plenary and make such a weighty decision. The ongoing process at Bomas is now ILLEGAL," Odinga spokesman Makau Mutua tweeted.
Candidates or others have seven days to file any challenge over the election results. The Supreme Court will have 14 days to rule.
The 55-year-old Ruto, despite being sidelined by the president, fought back and told voters that the election was between "hustlers" like him from modest backgrounds and the "dynasties" of Kenyatta and Odinga, whose fathers were Kenya's first president and vice president. Odinga has sought the presidency for a quarter-century.
Ruto in his acceptance speech thanked Odinga and emphasized an election that focused on issues and not ethnic divisions, saying that "gratitude goes to millions of Kenyans who refused to be boxed into tribal cocoons." He added that people who had acted against his campaign "have nothing to fear ... There is no room for vengeance."
Turnout in this election dropped to 65%, reflecting the weariness of Kenyans seeing the same longtime political figures on the ballot and frustration with poor economic conditions in East Africa's economic hub. At the top, Kenyan politics are often marked less by ideological platforms than by alliances that create a path to power and the wealth that can come with it.
Some Kenyans also appeared wary after the Supreme Court earlier this year blocked an attempt by Kenyatta to make major changes to the constitution to, among other things, create a prime minister post that some feared Kenyatta would fill if Odinga won.
Odinga, famous for his yearslong detention while fighting for multiparty democracy decades ago and for supporting Kenya's groundbreaking 2010 constitution, now appeared to many Kenyans as part of the establishment for backing the proposed constitutional changes.
Ruto, meanwhile, portrayed himself as the brash outsider and played up his chicken-selling childhood despite his current post and wealth. Both men's careers were fundamentally marked by former President Daniel Arap Moi, who mentored a young Ruto and ruled over a one-party system that Odinga fought against.
The electoral commission improved its transparency in this election, practically inviting Kenyans to do the tallying themselves by posting online the more than 46,000 results forms from around the country. For the first time, the public could follow the election as sometimes skittish local media houses and even individuals compiled and shared findings as a check on the official process.
Such counts showed Ruto ahead, but the race remained so close that joyous supporters of each candidate gathered in their strongholds hours before the declaration in anticipation of victory. In parts of the capital, Nairobi, and other cities, streets emptied and businesses closed.
As Kenyans waited for almost a week for official results, both Odinga and Ruto appealed for peace, echoing calls by police, civil society groups and religious leaders in a country where past elections have been marked by political violence.
After the 2007 vote, more than 1,000 people were killed after Odinga claimed victory had been stolen from him in an election widely seen as compromised. Ruto, then Odinga's ally, was indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity for his role in the violence, but the case was terminated amid allegations of witness intimidation.
After the 2017 election results were overturned by the high court for irregularities, a first in Africa, Odinga boycotted the fresh vote that Kenyatta won and declared himself the "people's president" in a ceremony that led to accusations of treason. Following unrest in which dozens were killed, Odinga and Kenyatta publicly shook hands to establish calm.
Kenyans want that calm to continue. "Leaders are there to come and go," Richard Osiolo, a resident of the western Nyanza region, said over the weekend, dismissing the need to fight because rival candidates in the end make peace. "I should stay alive and see you lead, bad or good, and then I have another chance to choose another leader."
Both candidates vowed to help Kenya's poor. Odinga promised government cash handouts to families under the poverty line, and Ruto promised government spending of more than $1 billion a year to increase job opportunities in a country where more than a third of young Kenyans are unemployed.
Social media was not blocked during the election. Kenya is seen as a relatively democratic and stable country in a region where longtime leaders such as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame are widely accused of overseeing votes that are not free and fair.
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CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: IONS) today announced that management will participate in fireside chats at the following investor conferences:
- Guggenheim 4th Annual Immunology and Neurology Day on Monday, November 14, 2022
- Stifel 2022 Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 15, 2022
- 5th Annual Evercore ISI HealthCONx on Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- Piper Sandler 34th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 29, 2022
- Nasdaq 47th Investor Conference on Wednesday, December 7, 2022
- BMO 2022 Growth & ESG Conference on Wednesday, December 7, 2022
A live webcast and additional information about each presentation can be accessed on the Investors & Media section of the Ionis website at www.ionispharma.com. Replays will be available on the Ionis website within 48 hours of each event.
About Ionis Pharmaceuticals
For more than 30 years, Ionis has been the leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care with its novel antisense technology. Ionis currently has three marketed medicines and a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by industry-leading cardiovascular and neurological franchises. Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision of becoming a leading, fully integrated biotechnology company.
To learn more about Ionis, visit www.ionispharma.com and follow us on Twitter @ionispharma
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2022-11-10T13:28:07+00:00
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/11/10/ionis-present-upcoming-investor-conferences/
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BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Bossier City Council released a statement announcing that the proposed SporTran budget cut has been removed from their agenda and no changes to SporTran’s services in Bossier will be made at this time.
Earlier this year, the Bossier City Council proposed a budget cut of $400 thousand. The new budget was offering a max of $500 thousand for 2023 and SporTran CEO Dinero Washington confirmed the budget cut would greatly impact paratransit riders, individuals with disabilities who use their services to live independently.
During the city council meeting held on January 24, Mayor Tommy Chandler confirmed there are no discrepancies with the budget. Community members and Washington spoke out with their concerns to the changes.
The council decided to review other options and reconvene on February 21.
The city council has reviewed this item and removed it from the agenda until further notice. They have also requested an in-depth analysis of SporTrans services within Bossier City.
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The information collected will assist the council in developing a plan to move forward. But as of now, they believe it is in the best interest of citizens to remove this item from the agenda.
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2023-02-22T02:15:32+00:00
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/bossier-city-council-votes-to-dismiss-400k-sportran-budget/
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(NewsNation) — Bryan Kohberger, the suspect in the Idaho college killings, is behind bars after DNA from the crime scene was linked to DNA from trash at his parent’s home. But how do investigators use genetic evidence to find a suspect?
Investigators say the key, in this case, was a sample of DNA from the crime scene being compared to the trash at the Kohberger’s Pennsylvania home. They used DNA belonging to Kohberger’s father to show a familial link, which led to Kohberger’s arrest.
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore told NewsNation she thinks there’s probably more to the story than that, but it’s likely investigative genealogy played a role.
“They don’t have to include everything in the affidavit and genetic genealogy should not be used for the basis of an arrest,” Moore said.
It can be used to vet tips, like the one about the white car seen near the crime scene, she said. Police would have taken trash from the Kohberger home and used DNA from that to essentially perform a paternity test against DNA taken from the knife sheath found at the crime scene.
Kohberger is accused of killing four Idaho college students, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. All four were stabbed as they slept and as weeks went by with no suspect, speculation and rumors ran rampant online.
The first break in the case came as police began searching for a white Hyundai Elantra. That car, along with forensic evidence, led to Kohberger’s arrest.
Moore said technology has increased in sensitivity over the years, allowing investigators to recover DNA even in the absence of blood. Kohberger’s DNA could have been left at the scene in a number of ways, she said, including shed skin cells or hair.
“We know from the witness statement that at least his eyebrows were showing, and it sounds like his hair wasn’t even covered. So he may have left hair behind as well, which also contains DNA,” she said.
While an arrest has been made, Moore said the search for forensic evidence isn’t over as both prosecution and defense teams will be scouring the crime scene evidence for information that can be used in court.
“There’s been a lot of work on that crime scene already, gathering any possible physical evidence to the prosecution’s case, try to support their case, or in the defense’s case, to try to find somebody else’s DNA that they can try to pin this crime on,” Moore said.
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2023-01-08T18:37:27+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/national/idaho-college-killings-how-dna-led-to-the-kohberger-arrest/
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Visit Columbus hosted Coffee with a Cop
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Visit Columbus turned into a coffee shop this morning.
Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins, along with Interim Police Chief Doran Johnson were in attendance.
Visit Columbus hosted coffee with a cop until 10:30 in the morning.
It gave everyone a chance to say hello and touch base with those patrolling our streets.
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2022-09-08T22:24:33+00:00
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wcbi.com
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https://www.wcbi.com/visit-columbus-hosted-coffee-with-a-cop/
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New brand, website and docuseries guided by values of integrity, clarity, dependability, and advocacy
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wellvana, a value-based care enablement company that connects the healthy outcomes of patients directly to healthier profitability for physicians and health systems, today unveiled a new brand identity. A significant chapter in Wellvana's extraordinary growth trajectory, the enlightened Wellvana brand includes new visual components, a refreshed Wellvana.com experience, and The Way to Wellvana docuseries, featuring primary care physicians' reflections on how the transition to value-based care has had a life-changing impact on their patients and their own job satisfaction.
"Wellvana grounded our new brand in the commitment to patient care shown by our founders and our physicians," said Josh Chapman, Chief Marketing Officer at Wellvana. "A brand is a belief system — built on shared language, rooted in core values — that exists only through its relationship with the customer. As value-based care accelerates in primary care, physicians and patients need to partner with a trusted brand that prioritizes clarity and humanity in an industry prone to being abstract and academic."
"Wellvana has significantly scaled the past year, and our brand journey reflects our investment in building a differentiated culture based on core values of integrity, dependability, clarity and advocacy," said Kyle Wailes, Chief Executive Officer at Wellvana. "Today's Wellvana is inspired by the life-changing work of our nurse care managers and the meticulous diligence of our high-touch market team that works side-by-side with partner physicians to ease the path to value and improve patient outcomes."
Since 2021, Wellvana has experienced significant growth, raising more than $140 million in capital, and deepening its commitment to assuming downside risk for more than 1,000 partner physicians. Today Wellvana serves physicians and hospital systems across Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and commercial payor partnerships.
About Wellvana
Through our high-touch approach to value-based care, Wellvana is moving the industry beyond fee-for-service and helping connect the healthy outcomes of patients directly to healthier profitability for physicians and health systems. Wellvana believes value-based care succeeds when data-driven technology and high-touch human engagement align. Wellvana offers physicians a flexible model for partnership, including affiliate, joint venture, and acquisition models. Founded in 2019, Wellvana works with independent physicians, specialists, and health systems in 22 states, manages lives across multiple payors, and continues to expand its footprint in new communities. For more information, visit Wellvana.com and follow Wellvana on LinkedIn.
CONTACT:
Carrie Moore
cmoore@wellvana.com
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2023-05-23T14:51:19+00:00
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2023/05/23/wellvana-accelerates-growth-value-based-primary-care-with-an-enlightened-new-brand/
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GREAT FALLS — Erin Loecker, an oncology CNA at Great Falls Clinic, is leading an effort to help cancer patients maintain confidence and dignity by providing a comfortable space for wig fittings.
As a CNA and a licensed cosmetologist, Erin is helping patients by providing them a way to remain feeling confident with themselves as they undergo cancer treatment.
She explained, “When patients come in here and they get diagnosed, it is very hard. I think it's important that we identify those vulnerabilities and bring them into this room and give them the option to, if they need to have their hair shaved or if they want to be fitted with a wig, have that opportunity to do so.”
Departments in the Great Falls Clinic worked with Erin to develop a donation plan that will not only pay for supplies but make it so patients don’t have to worry about a payment.
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2022-12-23T01:08:02+00:00
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ktvh.com
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https://www.ktvh.com/news/positively-montana/cna-leads-effort-for-wig-fittings-for-cancer-patients
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Organizers of the Audacy Beach Festival made fans wait for it, but alas, the full lineup is here.
Two weeks after announcing Muse, Jack White, Jimmy Eat World, Phoenix, and more for day one (Saturday, December 3) of the Fort Lauderdale Beach festival, the second-day lineup (Sunday, December 4) has been solidified.
The day-two bill — the bulk of which was unveiled on 104.3 the Shark on October 5 — features Machine Gun Kelly, the 1975, the Used, Dashboard Confessional, Gayle, Waterparks, Mayday Parade, Story of the Year, Wheatus, and Giovannie & the Hired Guns. Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and Sueco were added to the lineup last week.
This year's event marks the second-ever Audacy Beach Festival. From 2016 through 2019, a similar-in-vibe shindig took place on Fort Lauderdale's sandy confines known as the Riptide Music Festival, featuring 311, the Killers, Panic! At the Disco, and dozens of other high-profile acts. The festival name change coincided with the rebranding of 104.3 the Shark's parent station from Entercom to Audacy.
Tickets for the 2022 Audacy Beach Festival went on sale in August at a discounted rate before the lineup announcement.
Currently, single-day, general admission tickets are in a "Wave 1" phase and are running $55.25 per ticket plus fees. A variety of multi-day and VIP packages are available, including a two-day general admission ticket for $94.75 and a two-day VIP ticket (including a dedicated viewing area, private restrooms, and more) for $350.
New this year is an even more exclusive VVIP section, including its own viewing deck in the VIP space, five complimentary drink tickets, and more. Two-day tickets for the VVIP section are currently running for $570.
In years past, there have been last-minute additions and changes to the lineup, so fans should stay tuned for any surprise announcements from here.
Audacy Beach Festival. Saturday, December 3, and Sunday, December 4, at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park, 1100 Seabreeze Blvd., Fort Lauderdale; audacybeachfestival.com. Tickets cost $55.25 to $570.
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2022-10-17T22:52:31+00:00
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miaminewtimes.com
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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/audacy-beach-festival-2022-day-two-lineup-mgk-the-1975-the-used-15486707
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DANVILLE, Ill. (WAND) - A 17-year-old is in custody after being arrested on charges of shooting another teen.
At 1 a.m. Sunday, the Vermilion County Sheriff's Office responded to a home on East 11th St. They found a 17-year-old with a single gunshot wound.
The victim was rushed to the hospital for treatement.
Deputies said an investigation led to them identifying a 17-year-old as a suspect. A warrant was issued Sunday morning charging him with Aggravated Battery with a Firearm.
The suspect was found in Vigo County, Indiana Sunday morning and taken into custody.
Names are not being released, because both the victim and suspect are juveniles.
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2023-07-31T18:32:47+00:00
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https://www.wandtv.com/news/teen-arrested-accused-of-shooting-17-year-old-in-danville/article_296a4d70-2fc1-11ee-9e94-3f4f2c50a730.html
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BILLINGS - Police are investigating an armed robbery.
The robbery was reported shortly after midnight at a business near the 800 block of Grand Avenue, police said on Twitter.
A suspect entered the business and pointed a handgun at the victim and demanded money before fleeing the area.
No injuries were reported.
22-64919 9/15/22 @ 0024 hrs - Robbery near 800 blk of Grand. Susp entered business and pointed a handgun at Vic and demanded money. Susp fled the area. Susp Hisp or Native male, early 20's last seen wearing dark clothing. No injuries. Investigation on-going. Sgt Peterson
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2022-09-15T16:35:58+00:00
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ktvq.com
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https://www.ktvq.com/news/crime-watch/billings-police-report-armed-robbery
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EAGAN, Minn. (AP)The new defense the Minnesota Vikings are employing this season, Patrick Peterson acknowledged, carries the potential to reduce some strain on the cornerbacks.
Let’s not get too carried away, though.
”Living on an island is always hard, so it doesn’t matter which scheme you’re in,” Peterson said with a smile, as the Vikings wrapped up minicamp and the end of their first offseason program under head coach Kevin O’Connell.
The Vikings used a lot of man-to-man, press coverage in their previous system under head coach Mike Zimmer, who directed a long-disruptive defense until untimely injuries and unproductive drafts precipitated a downfall over the past two years.
The pass rush wasn’t nearly as effective, leaving the cornerbacks in continually difficult situations, and there simply weren’t enough good ones to go around. Peterson’s arrival last season was a big lift for the secondary, but the passes from opposing quarterbacks went his way far less than the others who were in and out at this critical position.
After Zimmer was fired and his successor O’Connell appointed Ed Donatell as defensive coordinator, the Vikings squeezed Peterson under their salary cap to stabilize the secondary and bring the eight-time Pro Bowl pick back for his 12th year in the NFL.
They signed Chandon Sullivan from rival Green Bay to be the slot man in the nickel defense and used two of their first five draft picks on cornerbacks: Clemson’s Andrew Booth Jr. in the second round and Missouri’s Akayleb Evans in the fourth round.
Booth, who was limited on the field this spring by still-healing injuries – most notably a sports hernia – that factored in his fall to the 42nd overall selection, is on track to compete with Cam Dantzler and Kris Boyd for time at the outside cornerback spot opposite Peterson.
Zimmer’s scheme used plenty of pre-snap disguises, particularly with moving the linebackers in and out of blitzing positions, and Donatell’s system might be even heavier on deception. He’ll often have the safeties sell a certain coverage even after the snap before reverting to the actual assignment, part of the overarching philosophy to ”steal” an extra second of processing time from the quarterback and use it as a credit of sorts for the cornerbacks.
”For the most part, it’s not new. I’ve been in the league now 12 years, so the scheme is the scheme. For the most part, it’s understanding the different terminology, and coach Ed does a very good job of making the communication part of it very simple so we can just line up and play football as fast as we can,” Peterson said.
The new scheme, the new coaches and the new teammates have energized Peterson. He’ll certainly be leaned on hard throughout the season to help the rookies and relative newbies around him play as fast as they can. Both Booth and Evans have expressed awe at the opportunity to play next to and learn from a player they looked up to as youths.
”He was the standard,” Booth said. ”He still is.”
Said Evans: ”My favorite player growing up was Pat P.”
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2022-06-10T04:37:19+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/nfl/nfl-dallas/vikings-will-lean-hard-again-on-peterson-in-pass-coverage/
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey scored on a go-ahead 2-yard run in the fourth quarter and San Francisco’s defense did the rest, sending the 49ers to their second straight NFC title game with a 19-12 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
The 49ers (15-4) used back-to-back long scoring drives in the second half to wear down the Cowboys (13-6) and win their 12th straight game. San Francisco advanced to play the Eagles in the NFC title game next Sunday in Philadelphia after losing in that round to the Rams a year ago.
“Man, we’re just excited that we won,” rookie 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy said. “Everyone did their part. It’s playoff football, it’s never easy, but we’re moving on.”
The Cowboys lost for the record seventh straight time in the divisional round and have failed to make it to the NFC title game since winning their fifth Super Bowl title following the 1995 season.
Dak Prescott threw two interceptions and Brett Maher missed his fifth extra point of the postseason when his attempt was blocked. He later made two field goals.
The Cowboys had a shot when they took over at their own 18 with 2:59 remaining, trailing 19-12 after Robbie Gould’s fourth field goal of the game capped a nearly eight-minute drive.
But Prescott threw two straight incompletions and was sacked on third down. Coach Mike McCarthy opted to punt on fourth-and-10 with all three timeouts left.
Purdy started the next drive with a 16-yard completion to George Kittle and San Francisco didn’t give the ball back to Dallas until there were 45 seconds left. The Cowboys took over at their 6 and never got close from there.
Purdy, the last pick in the draft last April, improved to 7-0 as a starter since replacing an injured Jimmy Garoppolo early in Week 13. He went 18 for 28 for 215 yards with no turnovers against the Cowboys, joining Joe Flacco (2008) and Mark Sanchez (2009) as the only rookie QBs to win two playoff starts.
“Wow. Brock Purdy getting us to the NFC championship game? I mean, he’s only won I think like seven in a row now. Good job, Brock,” Kittle said. “He’s playing at a high level, getting our best players the football, he’s awesome and confident in the huddle. He’s just doing a great job.”
The 49ers took the lead on the first play of the fourth quarter when McCaffrey capped a 91-yard drive with a 2-yard run.
The drive featured a juggling 30-yard catch by Kittle and a pair of defensive holds against Dallas — including one on Donovan Wilson near the goal line that negated a third-down sack.
“I was like, you know what, how can I make this as dramatic as possible?” Kittle said of his spectacular catch. “Just shout-out to Brock: I actually wasn’t even in progression and he still found me, so that’s all that matters. So I just appreciate him giving me a shot at catching the ball.”
Maher made his second field goal of the game when he converted from 43 yards out to cut San Francisco’s lead to 16-12.
The NFL’s top two scoring teams over the past 13 weeks had trouble getting going as the defenses led by All-Pros Nick Bosa of San Francisco and Micah Parsons of Dallas controlled the play.
The Niners picked off Prescott twice in the first half, turned those into field goals by Gould and led 9-6 at the break.
The Cowboys scored the only TD of the first half with Prescott connecting with tight end Dalton Schultz for the third time this postseason. But Maher’s low extra-point attempt was blocked by Samson Ebukam.
Maher got some redemption when he made a 25-yard field goal that tied the game at 9 early in the third quarter after Ray-Ray McCloud fumbled a punt return at the San Francisco 21.
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2023-01-23T05:48:24+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/silver-star-nation/49ers-beat-cowboys-19-12-to-advance-to-nfc-title-game/
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Alex Jones seeks new trial after $1B Sandy Hook verdict
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked a Connecticut judge to throw out a nearly $1 billion verdict against him and order a new trial in a lawsuit by Sandy Hook families, who say they were subjected to harassment and threats from Jones' lies about the 2012 Newtown school shooting.
Jones filed the requests Friday, saying Judge Barbara Bellis' pretrial rulings resulted in an unfair trial and "a substantial miscarriage of justice."
"Additionally, the amount of the compensatory damages award exceeds any rational relationship to the evidence offered at trial," Jones' lawyers, Norm Pattis and Kevin Smith, wrote in the motion.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the 15 plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Jones, declined to comment on the filing Saturday, but said he and other attorneys for the Sandy Hook families will be filing a brief opposing Jones' request.
Twenty first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School died in the attack on Dec. 14, 2012.
An FBI agent who responded to the shooting and relatives of eight children and adults killed in the massacre sued Jones for defamation and infliction of emotional distress over his pushing the bogus narrative that the shooting was a hoax staged by "crisis actors" to impose more gun control.
Six jurors in Waterbury, Connecticut, ordered Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, on Oct. 12 to pay $965 million in compensatory damages to the plaintiffs and said punitive damages also should be awarded. Bellis has scheduled hearings for early next month to determine the amount of the punitive damages.
During the trial, victims' relatives said in often-emotional testimony that they were threatened and harassed for years by people who believed the lies told on Jones' show. Strangers showed up at the families' homes to record them and confronted them in public. People hurled abusive comments on social media. Relatives said they received death and rape threats.
Video below: Sandy Hook victims emotional after court verdict
The verdicts came after another jury in Texas in August ordered Jones and his company to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of another slain Sandy Hook child. A third trial over the hoax claims, involving two more Sandy Hook parents, is expected to be held near the end of the year in Texas.
Jones, who has acknowledged in recent years that the shooting did occur, has blasted the lawsuits and trials on his Austin, Texas-based Infowars show, calling them unfair and a violation of his free speech rights.
But he lost his right to present those defenses when the judges in Connecticut and Texas found him liable for damages by default without trials, for what they called Jones' repeated failures to turn over some evidence including financial documents and website analytics to the Sandy Hook lawyers.
With liability already established, the trials in both states focused only on how much Jones should pay in damages.
Pattis, Jones' lawyer, wrote in the motions filed Friday that there was a lack of evidence directly connecting Jones with the people who harassed and threatened the Sandy Hook families. Pattis said the trial resembled a "memorial service, not a trial."
"Yes, the families in this case suffered horribly as a result of the murder of their children," Pattis wrote, adding that Jones did not send people to harass and threaten the families.
"There was no competent evidence offered at this trial that he ever did," he wrote. "Instead, there was a shocking abuse of a disciplinary default and its transformation into a series of half-truths that misled a jury and resulted in substantial injustice."
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2022-10-22T22:45:18+00:00
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wxii12.com
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https://www.wxii12.com/article/alex-jones-seeks-new-trial-sandy-hook/41742730
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With broad-based innovation, the account-based marketing leader doubled down on intent data, CRM, sales persona, and advertising
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Account-based marketing platform RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, today announced increased momentum across its platform, customers, and partner ecosystem that are fueling RollWorks' projected 40% ARR year-over-year growth.
"Despite macroeconomic uncertainty, ABM has held strong as B2B businesses double-down on their investments that drive efficiencies," said Darragh Fitzpatrick, Chief Revenue Officer, RollWorks. "RollWorks had a solid year as we heavily prioritized investing in our customers, our own platform, and across our partner ecosystem. We're proud to have helped B2B organizations create a more holistic picture of their customers throughout their journey. In turn, we gave them more accuracy, personalization, and precision at scale."
Increased Product Innovation
RollWorks has been at the forefront of the ABM movement since the platform's launch in 2018. Since then, the company has driven ABM market innovation and adoption, including several 2022 marquee product milestones:
- Created a new standard in intent data with the debut of Keyword Intent. When combined with best-in-class Bombora Intent and G2 buyer intent, RollWorks Keyword Intent provides corroborating sources of intent and the best possible results that give organizations more certainty that an account is actually in-market.
- Deepened CRM integrations with the launch of RollWorks Journey Events for HubSpot® and Journey Events for Salesforce. The new solutions illustrate the power of ABM and CRM, giving the majority of go-to-market teams consolidated account-level visibility within their CRM solutions to unite critical touchpoints. The company also rolled out Sales Insights for HubSpot, which uses data science to provide a 360-degree view of accounts throughout the buying journey to help marketers and sales teams to create more timely and efficient sales outreach.
- Doubled Down on Advertising with Account List Builder, Pixel Assistant, and Site Traffic Revealer to give B2B organizations market-leading advertising performance to move the needle in accelerating and optimizing conversion at any stage in the sales funnel. The foundational product innovations help organizations eradicate irrelevant ad spend and focus investment by reaching the exact B2B buying audiences they need.
Expanding Partner Ecosystem
In 2022, the company saw a tremendous uptick in its tech partner program, with notable new partner integrations such as G2, Drift, Intellimize, Postal.io, and Outreach. Earlier this year, RollWorks also became the first ABM company to surpass 500 installs with HubSpot. RollWorks takes a uniquely partner-first, partner-friendly approach, where its customers first choose their preferred martech components and RollWorks then partners with those tech market leaders. Together, RollWorks and its partners help B2B teams orchestrate engagement across channels at scale, greater interoperability and data flow, which results in more efficient go-to-market efforts.
RollWorks also rapidly expanded its agency partner program, which increased by 80 partners including Boundify, 1406 Consulting, and Growth Marketing Firm since its launch one year ago. The RollWorks Agency Partner Program encompasses the industry's most respected and innovative agencies to combine the expertise of RollWorks with reputable agency partners to convert prospects into successful customers.
2023: Increasing ABM Opportunity
As B2B revenue teams continue to align around the most targeted and efficient go-to-market strategies, ABM platforms are driving results and being prioritized for 2023, like for these RollWorks customers. In a recent survey of 1,000 marketers, almost half (48%) who have ABM solutions say their current ABM partner's ability to deliver on ROI is excellent, and more than two thirds (68%) of those who don't currently have ABM say they are looking to implement ABM into their overall marketing strategy in 2023.
"Marketers will continue to face economic uncertainty and grapple with resource efficiency— while also navigating a smaller buyer market—which means it will be even more critical to identify accounts that are actually in-market to buy," said Jodi Cerretani, VP of Revenue Marketing, RollWorks. "As more marketers look to ABM to change the way they acquire new customers and generate revenue with their sales teams, RollWorks is poised to have an even more stellar 2023 with ample ABM opportunity."
If you're looking to start your ABM journey in 2023, or strengthen your existing strategies and programs, visit www.rollworks.com to connect with an ABM expert.
About RollWorks
RollWorks, a division of NextRoll, offers ambitious B2B companies an account-based platform to align their marketing and sales teams and confidently grow revenue. Powered by proprietary data and machine learning, RollWorks' solutions address the needs of organizations large and small — from those with best-in-class ABM programs to those just beginning their exploration. By empowering teams to identify their target accounts and key buyers, reach those accounts across multiple channels, and measure program effectiveness in their system-of-record, RollWorks is an indispensable platform for marketers and sellers who believe that an account-based approach is just good business. To learn more visit www.rollworks.com.
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2022-12-21T15:24:27+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/rollworks-deepened-opportunities-businesses-grow-2022/
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VALCOURT, QC, Aug. 30, 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - BRP Inc. (TSX: DOO) (NASDAQ: DOOO) will hold its second quarter FY23 financial results conference call on Wednesday, September 14, 2022.
José Boisjoli, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Sébastien Martel, Chief Financial Officer, will present the results of the second quarter of FY23 and address questions from analysts on a conference call at 9 a.m. (EDT).
The press release will be distributed on Canadian and American newswires on Wednesday, September 14, at approximately 6 a.m. (EDT).
For investors and analysts:
Telephone: 1 (888) 440-2167 (toll-free in North America)
Event code: 2279047
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Webcast: Click here to access the webcast
Business media are allowed to join the call but will not be permitted to ask questions. This webcast will also be live on the Internet here and accessible to media and interested participants. An archived recording will be available here two hours after the event for 30 days following the original broadcast.
Caution concerning forward-looking statements
Certain information included in this release, including, but not limited to, statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Canadian and United States securities laws. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by the use of terminology such as "may", "will", "would", "should", "could", "expects", "forecasts", "plans", "intends", "trends", "indications", "anticipates", "believes", "estimates", "outlook", "predicts", "projects", "likely" or "potential" or the negative or other variations of these words or other comparable words or phrases. Forward looking statements, by their very nature, involve inherent risks and uncertainties and are based on several assumptions, both general and specific. BRP cautions that its assumptions may not materialize and that current economic conditions render such assumptions, although reasonable at the time they were made, subject to greater uncertainty. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results or performance of BRP to be materially different from the outlook or any future results or performance implied by such statements. Further details and descriptions of these and other factors are disclosed in BRP's annual information form dated March 24, 2022.
We are a global leader in the world of powersports products, propulsion systems and boats built on 80 years of ingenuity and intensive consumer focus. Our portfolio of industry-leading and distinctive products includes Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles, Sea-Doo watercraft and pontoons, Can-Am on and off-road vehicles, Alumacraft and Quintrex boats, Manitou pontoons and Rotax marine propulsion systems as well as Rotax engines for karts and recreational aircraft. We complete our lines of products with a dedicated parts, accessories and apparel portfolio to fully enhance the riding experience. With annual sales of CA$7.6 billion from over 120 countries, our global workforce includes close to 20,000 driven, resourceful people.
Ski-Doo, Lynx, Sea-Doo, Can-Am, Rotax, Alumacraft, Manitou, Quintrex, and the BRP logo are trademarks of Bombardier Recreational Products Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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2022-08-30T21:36:57+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/08/30/brp-present-its-second-quarter-results-fiscal-year-2023/
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Editor’s Note: Census data show Northeast Tennessee’s population growing faster than it has in years since the COVID-19 pandemic changed migration patterns. Housing permits are being pulled at record levels. News Channel 11 is spending this year looking at the growth’s impact from every angle.
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Todd and Arielle Magnusson had never even heard of the Tri-Cities a few years ago, but the lifelong Minnesotans knew they were open to leaving the Twin Cities.
As the weather began to warm — though not in Minneapolis-St. Paul — the now-Jonesborough residents took some time out to talk about what drew them here as their daughter Freya and dog Copper played at a Johnson City playground.
“We weren’t too happy living in Minnesota with the cold winters, and it didn’t really feel like a good fit,” Arielle Magnusson said of the conversations she and Todd were having just before the COVID-19 pandemic turned life and work upside down.
“That really was a game changer for our family, because you could work anywhere,” she said of the advent of COVID.
That was certainly true for Todd, an IT worker who got the thumbs up from his company to work completely remotely. The couple, whose daughter Freya was just beginning school, began an analytical search for their best fit in late 2020.
“I started to take a look at … what states are really beneficial for taxes, like low taxes, and then I took a look at different demographics, marriages, crime rates,” Arielle said.
Those weren’t the only factors driving their search, though. Todd Magnusson had traveled to Raleigh, N.C. for a conference a couple of years earlier, and from there he had made it up to the western North Carolina mountains.
“It was beautiful,” he said. “I felt at home, and I hadn’t felt that way in Minnesota my entire life — I don’t know why. I like being closer to nature as cliché as that sounds.”
‘Looking for our soul people’
Arielle Magnusson said even though the couple had begun to look in some mountainous locales, the Tri-Cities still hadn’t entered their minds. That it did was “a complete fluke,” she said.
“I was looking at Zillow one night, and I was looking at homes and I was struggling to see ‘okay, what could we afford. I zoomed out and all of a sudden in the Tri-Cities a house popped up. I told my husband, ‘wouldn’t this be crazy? What if we were to live here.'”
It turned out to be far from crazy. The area checked a lot of boxes, such as a smaller town feel, a safe environment, with the bonus of lots of trails and waterfalls.
The couple also wanted to learn all they could about the area’s people.
“At that time, we were looking for people that have more independent kind of attitude in their philosophy of life but also had a spiritual aspect, looking for church,” Arielle said. “We were really looking for our soul people at that time.”
The couple moved to a Johnson City apartment in May 2021, leaving extended family and all that was familiar behind. They attended a lot of community events in Johnson City and Jonesborough and looked at real estate throughout the area.
“We could partake in those events, and that really helped pull us in a certain direction of, ‘this is where our daughter is going to find friends, we can have community events, meet people.’ My husband can meet other dads.”
The couple took their time, and they also lost out on some homes they wanted in the early stages of what is still a hot real estate market. Eventually, they found a farmhouse on about two acres just outside of Jonesborough, where Freya is now in second grade at Jonesborough Elementary.
Todd reflected on the benefits as he tended to one of the sapling fruit trees he has planted since their move in October 2021.
“I got more for my money,” he said. “We used to live in a rambler, 1950s rambler on a quarter acre. Came out here – we’re able to get almost two acres and a decent house. I’m happy with that.”
He’s also happy with something he’s gained that everyone would like to have more of.
“The 45-minute commutes both ways in a downtown metro, one-way traffic, losing two hours a day, that sort of stuff, I don’t have to deal with any of that. I got more time back. That’s one way to look at it.”
History, hills and howdys
Todd Magnusson said the prospect of endless hiking opportunities was a big draw for him. So far, he’s spent the most time at Carver’s Gap/Roan Mountain and, closer to home, Johnson City’s Buffalo Mountain Park.
For her part, Arielle said the mountains are a delight whether she’s in them or just taking them in. Through the bare trees in their backyard, the spine of the Blue Ridge is visible fading into the distance to the west.
“It’s such an amazing view, and it’s just like down the street, or even in our neighborhood when you’re driving home and you’re getting the mail and you can see mountains,” she said. “And we don’t have mountains in Minnesota, and waterfalls … I can’t even count.”
A fan of history, Arielle said she was also astounded by the region’s abundance of it, from Davy Crockett Park just to the west to Sycamore Shoals to the east — not to mention Tennessee’s oldest town a few minutes away.
“In Minnesota, I was a part of the Daughters of the American Revolution,” she said. “It’s a much different group here. You have a lot more representation here, and my daughter was able to join the children of the American Revolution. As someone who loves history, it’s amazing that it’s right down the road, and this is American like founding history.”
Finally, both Magnussons mentioned how much they have appreciated the people here. Arielle said Freya’s teacher was great in welcoming her and that people are warm and inviting in general as the family has started a new social life.
Todd Magnusson said it may be “outsider naivete,” but he believes people in the region “are more down to earth and don’t run you in circles.”
Checking a lot of boxes
Former Kingsport City Manager Jeff Fleming has long been an evangelist for the region. He said the pandemic may have been just the kick starter for an area that finally started coming out of flat to negative population growth around 2016.
The eight counties grew by about 1,636 from 2016 through 2019, according to the census, after losing an average of 22 people a year in the five previous years.
In 2020 and 2021, that recent growth average more than doubled, to 3,634 a year. While that only represents about an 8% growth per decade, it’s a far cry from the previous years.
Fleming, who now heads “Move to Kingsport,” said people did a “reset” during the pandemic and began putting emphasis on items similar to the Magnussons’ — low taxes, good schools, amenities, affordability.
“They started doing a personal assessment of, ‘what’s really important to me? Do I want to sit in a traffic jam? Do I have to drive into an office every day, can I work from home? Do I want to retire (and) if I do where can that money go farthest longest?’ And that’s here.”
That’s certainly the case for the Magnussons. Arielle said she understands they’re contributing to growth and that means some change. She just hopes it won’t be too much.
“We don’t want it to change here because if we wanted to live in Knoxville, we would have chose Knoxville. If we wanted to live in Asheville, we would have lived in Asheville. We chose Johnson City and the surrounding area as our home base.”
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2023-02-20T22:35:06+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/balancing-the-boom/meet-the-magnussons-part-of-a-growing-tri-cities-population/
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LANSING, Mich., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Jay Rosen, founder, president, and co-chairman of Health Management Associates (HMA), today announced the firm's acquisition of Lovell Communications, a leading strategic communications and change management firm that exclusively serves the healthcare industry.
Founded in 1988 and based in Nashville, Tenn., award-winning Lovell Communications provides communication solutions and strategies for healthcare organizations across the country. Lovell has helped clients of all size manage crises, navigate change, maximize brand potential, and grow business. Services include creation of corporate communication programs, marketing and media strategies, transaction support, and helping clients navigate complex operational, reputational and regulatory issues.
"Lovell's strategists have an impressive track record of helping healthcare clients overcome challenges and seize opportunities," Rosen said. "They are a natural addition to our company as we open a Nashville office and continue to expand the depth and breadth of services we offer our clients and partners."
Lovell CEO Rosemary Plorin will continue to lead the firm, which will operate as Lovell Communications, an HMA Company. In addition to serving integrated health systems, hospitals and providers across the country, Lovell's clients include healthcare suppliers, consultants, associations and innovators throughout the industry.
"As the pace of transformation in healthcare continuously increases, the need for effective, strategic communications has never been greater," Plorin said. "We are honored to offer our expertise in support of HMA's clients and look forward to what we will accomplish together as we pursue a shared commitment to making healthcare more accessible, equitable and effective."
HMA's new Nashville office is co-located with the Lovell office in the Westpark Building at 3212 West End Ave.
About HMA
Founded in 1985, HMA is an independent, national research and consulting firm specializing in publicly funded healthcare and human services policy, programs, financing, and evaluation. Clients include government, public and private providers, health systems, health plans, community-based organizations, institutional investors, foundations, and associations. With offices in more than 20 locations across the country and over 500 multidisciplinary consultants coast to coast, HMA's expertise, services, and team are always within client reach.
About Lovell Communications
For 35 years Lovell Communications has served as strategic counsel and trusted partner to health care providers and suppliers across the country. Publicly traded companies, not-for-profit systems, early stage and mature companies draw upon the firm's vast communications expertise to support them through phases – or just moments – when it is crucial to persuade audiences or influence decision makers. Learn more about the firm at Lovell.com, or on Twitter, Facebook or the company blog.
HMA: https://www.healthmanagement.com/
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2023-02-01T17:08:29+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/02/01/health-management-associates-acquires-lovell-communications-establishes-nashville-office/
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Amazon shareholders on Wednesday voted down a proposal calling for an independent audit of working conditions at the e-commerce behemoth's warehouses.
The proposal's defeat at the Seattle-based company's annual shareholder meeting came despite calls from activist groups and unions to improve labor conditions at the warehouses where customer orders are sorted, packaged and shipped.
Amazon had recommended shareholders vote against the proposal and 14 others presented at the meeting, a record for the company. All the resolutions were voted down by a majority of shareholders, the company said, citing preliminary voting results. It did not release shareholder vote totals Wednesday, but its expected to release them in regulatory filings.
Many of the resolutions focused on workers' rights and issues such as further disclosure of the company's lobbying and taxes. The resolutions are nonbinding, but usually pressure corporate boards to take action.
Shareholders also voted to approve compensation packages for six of Amazon’s top executives, including CEO Andy Jassy. Two investor advisory firms, Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services, had recommended shareholders vote against the pay packages, arguing they were excessive.
Jassy received a compensation package worth about $214 million last year, with nearly all of money coming through Amazon shares to be vested over 10 years.
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2022-05-25T18:18:45+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Amazon-shareholders-nix-warehouse-working-17198391.php
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Miller, Alan B.
Alan Bratten Miller, 83, of Springfield, passed away peacefully on March 7, 2023 at Hospice of Dayton. He was born on August 24, 1939, the son of the late Rex K. and Mildred C. (Bratten) Miller. Alan is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Vicki (Dunn) Miller; daughters and sons-in-law, Emily and Travis Vieux and Elizabeth and Manny Matsakis; son and daughter-in-law, Jeffrey (Terah) Miller; grandchildren, Avery Miller, Theo Vieux, Spencer Miller, Camryn Miller, Elias Matsakis, Meredith Matsakis and Michael Matsakis; nieces, Jane Lemperg, Sally Nolan and Susan DeWitt; sisters-in-law, Donna Aspengren and Barbara Joseph; many other nieces and nephews; and his Bratten Cousins. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his sister, Barbara Keifer and niece, Cathy Billenstein. Alan was a proud veteran serving in the United States Army. He received his Master's degree from the University of Dayton and retired from Wright Patterson Air Force Base after 32 years of service. Alan was a member of the Rockway Lutheran Church for many years. He enjoyed golfing and was a train enthusiast, who loved collecting model trains. A celebration of his life will be held on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 1p.m. at Jackson Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center with Rev. William O. Schwochow officiating Following the service at the funeral home, the family invites everyone to stay and enjoy light refreshments that Alan loved from 2-4p.m. A time to share stories and fellowship with the family. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Dayton, 324 Wilmington Ave., Dayton, OH 45420 or to the Alzheimer's Association, Miami Valley Chapter, 6077 Far Hills Ave. Suite 117, Dayton, OH 45459. Condolences may be expressed to his family by visiting www.jacksonlytle.com.
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Jackson, Lytle & Lewis Life Celebration Center
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2023-03-12T07:09:54+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/miller-alan/HIPNRESZ7BEJFDOWA4HWHSXHY4/
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All financial figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted
CALGARY, AB, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Gibson Energy Inc. announced today its financial and operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
"We are pleased to report another solid quarter from both an operational and financial perspective, with both the Infrastructure and Marketing segments performing in-line with our expectations," said Steve Spaulding, President and Chief Executive Officer. "Beyond our consistent financial results in the first half of 2022, we are pleased to have placed the Biofuels Blending Project into service and have seen meaningful progress in our buyback initiative through the repurchase of approximately 1.6% of our outstanding shares, or $60 million, through the second quarter. We are also excited to have recently added Diane Kazarian, who brings extensive audit and risk experience, to our Board. Looking through the balance of the year, in refining our timing expectations of capital sanctions, we now expect to deploy between $100 million and $125 million of growth capital and intend to continue our share repurchases, with the potential to increase amounts allocated towards our buyback initiative as our improving business outlook is realized."
- Revenue of $3,196 million in the second quarter, a $1,521 million or 91% increase over the second quarter of 2021, a result of higher commodity prices increasing contribution from the Marketing segment
- Infrastructure Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $112 million in the second quarter, a $6 million or 5% decrease from the second quarter of 2021, principally due to a $20 million payment for the present value of the remaining term of a rail loading contract benefitting the second quarter of 2021, which was partially offset by non-recurring fees of $5 million within the second quarter of 2022
- Marketing Adjusted EBITDA(1) of $12 million in the second quarter, a $6 million or 33% decrease from the second quarter of 2021, with a weaker environment for the Crude Marketing business partly offset by a stronger contribution from Refined Products
- Adjusted EBITDA(1) on a consolidated basis of $114 million in the second quarter, a $14 million or 11% decrease over the second quarter of 2021, primarily as result of the factors described above
- Net Income of $36 million in the second quarter, a $4 million or 11% increase over the second quarter of 2021, due to higher depreciation expense in the comparative period partly offset by the factors described above
- Distributable Cash Flow(1) of $74 million in the second quarter, a $19 million or 20% decrease from the second quarter of 2021, a result of the factors described above and a slight increase in current income tax expense
- Dividend Payout ratio(2) on a trailing twelve-month basis of 73%, at the lower end of its 70% – 80% target range
- Net Debt to Adjusted EBITDA ratio(2) at June 30, 2022 of 3.0x, at the bottom end of the Company's target range
- Placed the Biofuels Blending Project at its Edmonton Terminal into service on schedule and within budgeted capital on a fixed-fee basis and a 25-year term
- Completed the Fuel Switching Project at the Moose Jaw Facility on schedule and within budgeted capital, increasing throughput capacity to 24,000 bbl/d, or by 10%, while reducing emissions intensity by 15%
- Subsequent to the quarter, announced the addition of Ms. Diane Kazarian to the Company's Board of Directors
- Repurchased 1.5 million shares for an aggregate $40 million in the second quarter, and a total of approximately 2.4 million shares or 1.6% of outstanding shares to date this year
- Performed a review of capital expenditures in 2022, with an updated outlook for growth capital of $100 million to $125 million, given timing of the sanction of certain growth opportunities, and maintenance capital of $25 million to $30 million
- Targeted share repurchases in 2022 of up to $100 million, with the potential to increase if current expectations of business performance are realized, reflecting Gibson's commitment to returning capital to shareholders
- Renewed the Company's principal $750 million syndicated credit facility, which features sustainability-linked terms, extending its maturity into 2027
The 2022 second quarter Management's Discussion and Analysis and unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements provide a detailed explanation of Gibson's financial and operating results for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the three and six months ended June 30, 2021. These documents are available at www.gibsonenergy.com and at www.sedar.com.
A conference call and webcast will be held to discuss the 2022 second quarter financial and operating results at 7:00am Mountain Time (9:00am Eastern Time) on Wednesday, August 3, 2022.
The conference call dial-in numbers are:
- 416-764-8659 / 1-888-664-6392
- Conference ID: 31070574
This call will also be broadcast live on the Internet and may be accessed directly at the following URL:
The webcast will remain accessible for a 12-month period at the above URL. Additionally, a digital recording will be available for replay two hours after the call's completion until August 17, 2022, using the following dial-in numbers:
- 416-764-8677 / 1-888-390-0541
- Replay Entry Code: 070574#
Gibson has also made available certain supplementary information regarding the 2022 second quarter financial and operating results, available at www.gibsonenergy.com.
Gibson Energy Inc. ("Gibson" or the "Company") (TSX: GEI), is a Canadian-based liquids infrastructure company with its principal businesses consisting of the storage, optimization, processing, and gathering of liquids and refined products. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, the Company's operations are focused around its core terminal assets located at Hardisty and Edmonton, Alberta, and include the Moose Jaw Facility and an infrastructure position in the U.S.
Gibson shares trade under the symbol GEI and are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For more information, visit www.gibsonenergy.com.
Certain statements contained in this press release constitute forward-looking information and statements (collectively, forward-looking statements). These statements relate to future events or future performance. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The use of any of the words "anticipate", "plan", "aim", "target", "contemplate", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "propose", "might", "may", "will", "shall", "project", "should", "could", "would", "believe", "predict", "forecast", "pursue", "potential" and "capable" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements reflect Gibson's beliefs and assumptions with respect to, among other things, future operating and financial results, future growth in worldwide demand for crude oil and petroleum products; crude oil prices; no material defaults by the counterparties to agreements with Gibson; Gibson's ability to obtain qualified personnel, owner-operators, lease operators and equipment in a timely and cost-efficient manner; the regulatory framework governing taxes and environmental matters in the jurisdictions in which Gibson conducts and will conduct its business; operating costs; future capital expenditures to be made by Gibson; Gibson's ability to obtain financing for its capital programs on acceptable terms; the Company's future debt levels; the impact of increasing competition on the Company; the impact of changes in government policies on Gibson; the impact of future changes in accounting policies on the Company's consolidated financial statements; the demand for crude oil and petroleum products and Gibson's operations generally; the Company's ability to successfully implement the plans and programs disclosed in Gibson's strategy, including advancing energy transition-aligned opportunities and its sustainability and ESG goals and other assumptions inherent in management's expectations in respect of the forward-looking statements identified herein.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Although Gibson believe these statements to be reasonable, no assurance can be given that the results or events anticipated in these forward-looking statements will prove to be correct and such forward-looking statements included in this press release should not be unduly relied upon. Actual results or events could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of, among other things, risks inherent in the businesses conducted by Gibson; competitive factors in the industries in which Gibson operates; prevailing global and domestic financial market and economic conditions; world-wide demand for crude oil and petroleum products; volatility of commodity prices, currency, inflation and interest rates fluctuations; product supply and demand; operating costs and the accuracy of cost estimates; exposure to counterparties and partners, including ability and willingness of such parties to satisfy contractual obligations in a timely manner; future capital and growth expenditures; capital expenditures by oil and gas companies; production of crude oil; decommissioning, abandonment and reclamation costs; changes to Gibson's business plans or strategy; Gibson's plans to repurchase shares and the amount thereof; ability to access various sources of debt and equity capital, generally, and on terms acceptable to Gibson; changes in government policies, laws and regulations, including environmental and tax laws and regulations; competition for employees and other personnel, equipment, material and services related thereto; dependence on certain key suppliers and key personnel; reputational risks; acquisition and integration risks; capital project delivery and success; risks associated with Gibson's use of technology; ability to obtain regulatory approvals necessary for the conduct of Gibson's business; the availability and cost of employees and other personnel, equipment, materials and services; labour relations; seasonality and adverse weather conditions, including its impact on product demand, exploration, production and transportation; inherent risks associated with the exploration, development, production and transportation of crude oil and petroleum products; risks related to widespread epidemics or pandemic outbreaks, including the COVID-19 pandemic and government responses related thereto, and the impact thereof to the other risks inherent in the businesses conducted by Gibson; risks related to actions of OPEC and non-OPEC countries, including the effect thereof on the demand for crude oil and petroleum products and commodity prices; and political developments around the world, including the areas in which Gibson operates, the development and performance of technology and new energy efficient products, services and programs including but not limited to the use of zero-emission and renewable fuels, carbon capture and storage, electrification of equipment powered by zero-emission energy sources and utilization and availability of carbon offsets, many of which are beyond the control of Gibson. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing lists are not exhaustive. For an additional discussion of material risk factors relating to Gibson and its operations, please refer to those included in Gibson's Annual Information Form dated February 22, 2022 as filed on SEDAR and available on the Gibson website at www.gibsonenergy.com.
For further information, please contact:
Mark Chyc-Cies
Vice President, Strategy, Planning & Investor Relations
Phone: (403) 776-3146
Email: mark.chyc-cies@gibsonenergy.com
This press release refers to certain financial measures that are not determined in accordance with GAAP, including non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios. Readers are cautioned that non-GAAP financial measures and non-GAAP financial ratios do not have standardized meanings prescribed by GAAP and, therefore, may not be comparable to similar measures presented by other entities. Management considers these to be important supplemental measures of the Company's performance and believes these measures are frequently used by securities analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in industries with similar capital structures.
For further details on these specified financial measures, including relevant reconciliations, see the "Specified Financial Measures" section of the Company's MD&A for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, which is incorporated by reference herein and is available on Gibson's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and Gibson's website at www.gibsonenergy.com.
a) Adjusted EBITDA
Noted below is the reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures of the Company's segmented and consolidated adjusted EBITDA for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022 and 2021:
b) Distributable Cash Flow
The following is a reconciliation of distributable cash flow from operations to its most directly comparable GAAP measure, cash flow from operating activities:
c) Dividend Payout Ratio
d) Net Debt To Adjusted EBITDA Ratio
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2022-08-02T20:20:28+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/08/02/gibson-energy-announces-2022-second-quarter-results/
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PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona voters have approved an initiative to extend cheaper in-state college tuition to some non-citizen students, cheering supporters who hope the measure’s passage Monday will help spark momentum for wider immigration reform in Congress.
The Associated Press called the race for Proposition 308 after the latest round of vote releases gave it a big enough lead that the AP determined it could not lose. Arizona joins at least 18 other states, including California and Virginia, that offer in-state tuition to all students who otherwise qualify regardless of immigration status.
“This shows there is bipartisan broad consensus about immigration solutions,” Rebecca Shi, executive director of the national American Business Immigration Coalition Action, said earlier in the day, anticipating the proposition’s success.
The measure was referred to the ballot by Arizona’s Legislature and repeals some parts of an earlier initiative that banned in-state tuition for non-citizens. It will allow all students regardless of immigration status to pay in-state college rates as long as they attended Arizona high schools for two years and graduated.
Advocates say tens of thousands of future non-citizen students who have been in Arizona for years could potentially benefit from the proposition in a state where an estimated 275,000 migrants are living without authorization.
The measure will allow qualifying non-citizen students to pay the current in-state undergraduate tuition of $10,978 per academic year at Arizona’s state universities. Those universities do not have a specific rate for non-citizens brought to the U.S. as children, but officials say more than 300 students are currently paying a non-resident rate for Arizona high school graduates that is 150% of in-state costs.
Community college students will also benefit.
The vote is a turnaround from 2006, when Arizona voters rode a widespread wave of anti-immigrant sentiment to bar students who entered the U.S. without authorization from getting in-state tuition and other financial benefits, even if they lived here most of their lives.
Subsequent years saw other anti-immigrant measures.
The Arizona legislature in 2010 passed the so-called “show me your papers” law that allowed law enforcement officers to to check the immigration status of residents during routine stops. Denounced by activists as racial profiling, the law was partially struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court two years later.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who immigration advocates accused of racial profiling, was later elected out of office and found guilty of misdemeanor contempt of court for ignoring a 2011 court order to stop the patrols. Then-President Donald Trump in 2017 issued a presidential pardon for that conviction.
Although concerns about security along the U.S.-Mexico border remain high in Arizona, advocates say that attitudes have changed somewhat concerning young people brought to the U.S. by their families when they were small children.
Supporters said they now hope approval of the measure will encourage Congress to consider wider immigration reform.
“I’m proud of Arizona and how far we have come,” said Bob Worsely, a retired Republican state legislator and co-chair of the coalition that backed passage of Proposition 308.
Volunteers in recent months knocked on millions of doors and sent out millions of text messages to assure the measure’s passage.
Hazel Villatoro, who attended schools in Arizona her whole life after her parents brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was 1, said Proposition 308 will change her future.
“I will now be able to achieve my dream of becoming an anesthesiologist,” said Villatoro. “I want to thank the voters of Arizona for doing the right thing.”
Many Arizona business owners say it makes sense to make sure the brightest young people remain and seek jobs in the state, whatever their immigration status, especially with worker shortages in some sectors.
“Proposition 308 is not only the right thing, but also the smart thing,” said John Graham, president of Sunbelt Holdings, an Arizona real estate management, investment and development firm, and board chairman of the Arizona State University Foundation.
On other ballot initiatives, Arizona voters rejected one of the three referendums placed on the ballot by Republican state lawmakers that would limit the citizen’s initiative process. The defeated measure would have allowed the Legislature to make changes to voter-approved laws if one part of it was declared to be illegal.
Two others referendums changing the initiative process were called by the AP Monday night. One changes the threshold for tax increases in initiatives to a 60% vote, while the other limits them to a single subject.
Groups that back citizen initiatives say the changes will limit comprehensive measures. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry pushed for the limits after a series of initiatives passed, including a minimum wage increase and a tax on the wealthy to fund education that was overturned by the state Supreme Court.
Arizona voters also approved a referendum creating a lieutenant governor office, but voted down a statewide sales tax increase for fire districts.
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Associated Press writer Bob Christie contributed to this report from Phoenix.
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2022-11-16T00:02:54+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-arizona-measure-gives-non-citizens-in-state-college-tuition/
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee General Assembly passed the James “Dustin” Samples Act on Friday, which aims to provide support to firefighters following a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis.
SB 856 establishes a grant program to mitigate the cost to employers providing workers’ compensation for firefighters with PTSD diagnoses. The funding is designated for the employer, which is required to provide mental health resiliency training as part of its regular education in order to qualify for the grant.
The legislation clarifies that a PTSD diagnosis connected to one or more calls of a traumatic nature qualifies as an injury suffered during employment, therefore falling under workers’ compensation benefits for firefighters.
Before this legislation, PTSD was not covered under workers’ compensation for firefighters in Tennessee, forcing fire workers to fund their own mental health treatment with personal health insurance or out-of-pocket.
“Addressing the crisis of PTSD and suicide in the fire service requires tools for both prevention and treatment,” said Sen. Paul Bailey of Sparta. “I was honored to sponsor the James ‘Dustin’ Samples Act and grateful that my colleagues in the General Assembly joined with me to prioritize funding for such a worthwhile program.”
The bill is named after Captain James ‘Dustin’ Samples of Cleveland, Tennessee, who died by suicide in 2020 after 22 years of service. Samples was only 41 years old and suffered a years-long struggle with PTSD. The legislation was sponsored by Sen. Bailey and Rep. Johnny Garrett of Goodlettsville.
“I am extremely grateful that Dustin’s legacy will live on and he will continue to do what he loved doing – helping others and saving lives,” said Samples’ widow, Jennifer Samples. “I know the funding of the James ‘Dustin’ Samples Act will continue to build awareness, support, and resources to those who have experienced unspeakable traumas. By passing this bill, the Tennessee General Assembly has shown that it is okay to reach out for help and Tennessee supports those who protect them every day.”
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2023-04-25T03:00:51+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/politics/james-dustin-samples-act-passed-by-general-assembly-supports-firefighters-with-ptsd/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Enochian BioSciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENOB) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
Class Period: January 17, 2018 to June 27, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 26, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in ENOB:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Enochian BioSciences, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the Company's co-founder and inventor Serhat Gumrukcu was engaged in a variety of frauds; (2) Gumrukcu was not a licensed doctor anywhere in the world; (4) as a result of the foregoing, Gumrukcu's purported contributions to the Company lacked a reasonable basis; (5) as a result of the foregoing, the Company had overstated its commercial prospects; (6) Gumrukcu had improperly diverted approximately $20 million from Enochian to entities he owned; and (7) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Enochian you have until September 26, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Enochian securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the ENOB lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/enochian-biosciences-inc-loss-submission-form?id=31044&from=4.
J. Klein, Esq. represents investors and participates in securities litigations involving financial fraud throughout the nation. The Klein Law Firm is a boutique litigation firm with experience in a wide range of areas including securities law, corporate finance and commercial litigation. Since 2011, our experienced attorneys have achieved superior results for our clients with a personalized focus. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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2022-08-23T11:28:57+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/08/23/enob-alert-klein-law-firm-announces-lead-plaintiff-deadline-september-26-2022-class-action-filed-behalf-enochian-biosciences-inc-shareholders/
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Pacific Advisors' Business Finance strategy (CPBF), a Seattle-based direct lender to privately-held and sponsor-backed companies, is pleased to announce that it has provided a $17 million senior secured term loan to support the acquisition of Signal Hound, Inc. (Signal Hound). The radio frequency (RF) equipment firm is set to be acquired by Portland-based independent sponsor, Bridgehouse Capital.
Headquartered in Battle Ground, Washington, Signal Hound has become a leading designer and manufacturer of RF signal generators and spectrum analyzers. Over the company's 26 years of operation, Signal Hound has built a brand synonymous with innovation, quality, and unrivaled value. The company's products are relied upon for mission-critical RF analysis by U.S. government customers, educational institutions, and electronics manufacturers around the world.
"CPBF understood the independent sponsor process and was able to perform due diligence and close in a very tight time frame," said Harrison Osbourn, CEO of Bridgehouse Capital. "As a Navy veteran who worked with signal intelligence during my years of service, I understand the importance of RF spectrum analysis to achieving mission objectives. I look forward to working with Signal Hound's dedicated employees and talented engineers to bring its robust product pipeline and expanded product suite to market."
"We are pleased to support Bridgehouse Capital and build upon Signal Hound's legacy of success in the RF signal industry," said Lawrence Litchfield, Director of Business Development for CPBF. "This transaction demonstrated CPBF's ability to partner with independent sponsors and provide creative financing solutions for acquirers of privately-held companies."
Portland based Confluence Capital Group Inc. served as the exclusive financial advisor for Bridgehouse.
ABOUT SIGNAL HOUND
Signal Hound designs and builds RF measurement equipment in varying form factors, frequency ranges, and feature sets. Their equipment is used by government, industrial, and educational customers across the world. For more information, visit www.signalhound.com.
ABOUT COLUMBIA PACIFIC BUSINESS FINANCE
Columbia Pacific Business Finance (CPBF) provides direct financing to growing midsize companies throughout the country. The evergreen fund delivers structured equity, venture, bridge, and mezzanine debt solutions, offering flexibility and creativity to support its financing partners. CPBF focuses on partnerships with privately held and sponsor-backed businesses across a wide range of sectors. Its parent company, Columbia Pacific Advisors, manages $3.9 billion of alternative assets (as of 12/31/2021), including public and private equities. For more information, visit www.columbiapacific.com.
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2022-08-09T19:03:22+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/08/09/columbia-pacific-advisors-business-finance-strategy-provides-17-million-loan-support-acquisition-radio-frequency-equipment-firm-signal-hound/
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MARSEILLE, France (AP) — On a sunny afternoon in the center of Marseille in southern France, traffic was stopped as the sound of drumming and a swarm of rollicking beasts filled the streets.
The city's unofficial yet infamous Carnaval de la Plaine had arrived — right on the precipice of a week filled with violent protests and discontent over French President Emmanuel Macron's move to force through an unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.
Organized by neighborhood residents, the independent carnival is rooted in the local community’s activism against gentrification and all forms of oppression. Residents of this ancient and diverse Mediterranean city take to the streets in the most wacky and elaborate costumes they can come up with, and exercise free rein to throw flour at anyone not in the know — or brave enough to show up in normal clothes.
Most editions in recent memory end with riot police dispersing the feisty crowd with tear gas, making police intervention almost part of the tradition.
In this year’s edition, held Sunday, a man wearing a Macron mask and dressed in a suit waltzed through the streets, covered in flour thrown by the raunchy dancing crowd.
A group of three dressed up as slices of a pizza, each with a price tag of 49.3 euros — a reference to the constitutional article 49.3, used by Macron’s government to push his pension reform through parliament without a vote after weeks of strikes.
Rising inflation and the surveillance state were common themes referenced in the bouncing costumes worn by carnival-goers, as they marched around Jean Jaures Square singing and dancing.
At sundown, carnival floats were burned so that the procession could dance rings around the flames, as French riot police took positions on the edge of the party.
Like many of the anti-government demonstrations that came earlier in the week, the Carnaval de la Plaine concluded with clashes, as French riot police cleared the square of carnival-goers and firefighters doused the remains of the burning effigies.
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2023-03-22T09:30:25+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/politics/article/ap-photos-marseille-carnival-melds-resistance-17853213.php
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No. 8 Tennessee will look to continue its dominance over visiting Vanderbilt in Southeastern Conference play on Tuesday night in Knoxville, Tenn.
The Volunteers (13-2, 3-0) have won 10 straight over the Commodores (8-7, 1-1) dating to February 2017.
Tennessee extended its overall winning streak this season to four with an easy 85-42 victory over host South Carolina on Saturday.
Vanderbilt had its three-game winning streak snapped with an 85-82 loss at then-No. 20 Missouri on Saturday.
The Volunteers overwhelmed South Carolina from the start, jumping to a 15-3 lead 5:37 into the game and leading by 22 at halftime and by as many as 45 in the second half.
Olivier Nkamhoua shot a perfect 10-for-10 from the field, including making his lone 3-point attempt, to finish with a game-high 21 points and 10 rebounds. Jonas Aidoo added 15 points, while Santiago Vescovi chipped in 12 points, four rebounds and four assists.
Josiah-Jordan James added 12 points and three rebounds for Tennessee, which has won 12 of its past 13 games and is 3-0 in conference play for the first time in four seasons.
“This team, they work,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said. “They deserve where we are right now, but I think they are smart enough to know we have got to get better. There’s so many ways we can get better, and I think they understand that. I think they understand we just now are starting to put our team together with everybody.”
Tennessee forced South Carolina to shoot just 12 of 48 (25 percent) from the field, including 4 of 26 (15.4 percent) from beyond the arc, in addition to outrebounding the Gamecocks 48-21.
“We tell our guys, the name of the game is rebounding,” Barnes said. “The ball goes up; that should be our best offense. We can get so much better there. Take our shots when they come, but on the defensive end there’s not a lot of negotiation there.”
Vescovi averages a team-high 12.8 points per game to go with 4.2 rebounds and 3.4 assists. Nkamhoua averages 12.0 points and 4.9 rebounds, while Zakai Zeigler adds 10.2 points to go with a team-high 4.1 assists per game.
Julian Phillips averages 10.0 points and is the Vols’ second-leading rebounder at 5.4 per game, just behind Aidoo, who averages 5.6 rebounds and 5.4 points.
The Commodores rallied from an 11-point, second-half deficit to tie the game at 73 following Ezra Manjon’s jumper with 3:32 remaining.
But the Tigers scored the next five points to take a lead they wouldn’t relinquish after making four free throws in the final four seconds after the Commodores pulled to 81-79.
Liam Robbins, who averages a team-high 12.9 and 6.0 rebounds per game, posted team highs of 16 points and seven rebounds against the Tigers.
Jordan Wright, who averages 10.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, added 14 points, six rebounds and an assist against Missouri. Manjon, who averages 8.9 points, finished with 12 points.
“We had plenty of opportunities to finish around the basket, plenty of opportunities to take care of the ball a little bit better,” Vanderbilt coach Jerry Stackhouse said. … “It’s just the ebbs and flows of the game that you live with, especially on the road.”
–Field Level Media
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2023-01-09T15:51:32+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/no-8-tennessee-aiming-for-11th-straight-win-over-vanderbilt/
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BROOKLYN (PIX11) — Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is recalling 4,096 pints of its Brown Sugar Chunk with Cookie Dough & Brownies French Ice Cream because it may contain undeclared walnuts, a known allergen.
The recall affects 14-ounce pints of the ice cream marked with lot number 23P102 with a Best By date of April 12, 2025, according to Van Leeuwen. Both of these are displayed under the pint’s bottom.
The pints were sold at retail stores nationwide.
Van Leeuwen, which is based in Brooklyn, says it learned of the labeling error after a customer complaint and that the cause is being investigated. The company says the recall does not affect any other Van Leeuwen products.
Customers should return these items where they were purchased for a full refund.
If you have any questions, you’re asked to call Van Leeuwen at (215) 824-6613 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST or by emailing jd@vanleeuwenicecream.com. Consumers can also find more information at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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2023-05-24T02:02:43+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/recalls/van-leeuwen-recalls-4k-ice-cream-pints-due-to-undeclared-nuts/
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BERLIN, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bluu Seafood, leading European Foodtech to produce cultivated fish and seafood, has presented the first market-ready products made from cultivated fish cells. Their fish fingers and fish balls contain cultivated fish cells as the main ingredient and have been enriched with plant proteins to optimize cooking behavior and mouthfeel.
The products have reached market readiness and will soon enter the regulatory approval process. Bluu Seafood targets initial approval and market launch in Singapore by the end of 2023, as the regulatory process there is already well-defined. The company will also apply for approval in the US, the UK, and the EU.
In addition to fish balls and fish fingers, Bluu Seafood has also developed first prototypes of complex products such as fillets and sashimi. The company's products are made using animal serum-free growth media and are based on proprietary, non-GMO trout and salmon cell lines.
Founder and CEO Dr Sebastian Rakers explained, "With the completion of our first products, we can demonstrate visible and edible results after less than two years of being operational. This officially makes us the first company in Europe to produce cultivated fish. We are now working closely with regulatory authorities to clear the way for market launch and focus on scaling."
Bluu Seafood combines cell and food technology to grow a variety of sustainable, tasty seafood products directly from animal cells without compromising animal welfare and with a significantly smaller environmental footprint than conventional fishing.
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About Bluu Seafood
The food technology company Bluu Seafood is the first company in Europe to specialize in the commercial production of cultivated fish. As a pioneer at the intersection of biotechnology and food technology, Bluu Seafood aims to produce healthy, sustainable, and delicious cultivated fish products. The company, based in Berlin and with scientific facilities in Lübeck, was founded in 2020 by Dr Sebastian Rakers and Simon Fabich. In research & development, Bluu Seafood cooperates closely with Fraunhofer Institute for Marine Biotechnology and Cell Technology (EMB; now Fraunhofer IMTE) in Lübeck and has a state-of-the-art R&D environment. More information at www.bluu.bio
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2022-08-09T14:32:01+00:00
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witn.com
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Radford leads Texas A&M over Prairie View A&M 86-66
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Tyrece Radford scored 20 points and Texas A&M led start to finish an 86-66 victory over Prairie View A&M. Radford buried two 3-pointers to give the Aggies (8-5) a 6-1 lead and he finished the first half with 18 points. He made 5 of 6 shots — 4 of 4 from beyond the arc — and all four of his free throws to guide Texas A&M to a 53-32 lead at intermission. Wade Taylor IV and reserve Manny Obaseki both had 11 points by intermission as Texas A&M shot 64% (16 of 25) and made 7 of 11 from beyond the arc (63.6%). Yahuza Rasas hit 5 of 8 shots and scored 10 first-half points for the Panthers (4-9), but his teammates made only 8 of 26 attempts (30.8%).
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2022-12-31T03:30:01+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/30/radford-leads-texas-am-over-prairie-view-am-86-66/
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Brazil reintroduces visa requirement for US tourists, others
By ELÉONORE HUGHES
Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil has announced it is reintroducing the requirement for tourist visas for citizens of the U.S., Australia, Canada, and Japan effective from Oct. 1. Former president Jair Bolsonaro scrapped visa requirements in 2019 to bolster the country’s attractiveness and tourism industry, but the four countries continued to demand visas from Brazilians. The foreign ministry’s statement released quietly Monday said that the decision to grant the visa exemptions had represented “a break with the pattern of Brazilian migration policy, historically based on the principles of reciprocity and equal treatment.”
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2023-03-15T17:46:35+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/news/2023/03/15/brazil-reintroduces-visa-requirement-for-us-tourists-others/
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Which teeth whitening strips are best?
Yellowing teeth is natural and happens as we age. Teeth can also become discolored due to the consumption of certain foods and drinks, but thanks to at-home whitening strips, anyone can whiten their teeth without stepping foot in a dental office.
With the abundance of teeth whitening strips on the market, you’re sure to find one that suits your lifestyle. However, if you’re looking for a short daily treatment with near-professional results, Crest 3D White Professional Effects Teeth Whitening Strips are an ideal choice.
What to know before you buy teeth whitening strips
There are many ways to whiten your teeth at home, including teeth whitening toothpaste and mouthwash. If you choose teeth whitening strips, here are some things to consider.
How do teeth whitening strips work?
All teeth whitening strips use whitening ingredients such as carbamide peroxide or hydrogen peroxide to reach below the teeth’s enamel surfaces and remove stains. These ingredients should remove superficial stains without damaging your tooth’s enamel.
The flexible polyethylene strips are then used to keep the whitening gel in place against your teeth without washing off. A package usually comes with two strips: one for the top and one for the bottom teeth.
How long does it take for whitening strips to work?
This depends on the amount of stains and the type of whitening strip. Some strips need to be worn for 30 minutes a day, while others can be used overnight. A kit usually includes treatments anywhere from 5 to 14 days while promising to make your teeth up to 18 shades whiter at the end of a treatment. However, deep-set stains may require more treatment than other stains.
What causes teeth to become yellow?
Age is one factor that causes teeth to turn yellow. As we age, the enamel on our teeth gets thinner and wears away due to constant chewing and exposure to acidic food and drinks. Common food and beverages that stain teeth include coffee, tea, wine, soda, tomato sauce, curry and many types of fruit. Nicotine from smoking can also cause significant teeth stains.
What to look for in a quality teeth whitening strip
Strength
Whitening strips come in all different strengths. Lower-strength whitening strips are designed to touch up a dull smile, while high-strength whitening strips can remove deep-set stains and whiten teeth several shades. Advanced-level strips can be harsh on teeth, so be sure to pick a level suitable to your needs.
Lifestyle
Whitening strips are not one-size-fits-all, so you should pick one that’s suits your lifestyle. For example, some strips require two hours of use every single day. If you don’t think you have hours a day to set aside for teeth whitening, choose overnight teeth whitening strips or those that only require 30 minutes.
Tooth sensitivity
Because teeth whitening strips reach below the enamel to fade deep stains, many people experience sensitivity. If you already have sensitive teeth or gums, you might consider starting with a lower-strength whitening strip and working up if you don’t experience additional pain or sensitivity.
How much you can expect to spend on teeth whitening strips
Teeth whitening strips can cost $10-$100, depending on the number of treatments per box, the strength of treatment and the brand of whitening strips.
Teeth whitening strips FAQ
Can I use whitening strips if I have a cavity?
A. Crest says on its website that it doesn’t recommend using whitening strips before consulting your dentist if you have a cavity or require dental work.
Should I brush my teeth directly after using whitening strips?
A. You should be able to brush your teeth and floss after using whitening strips. However, be sure to read the instructions on your strips to ensure brushing will not interfere with the whitening treatment.
What are the best teeth whitening strips to buy?
Top teeth whitening strips
Crest 3D White Professional Effects Teeth Whitening Strips Kit
What you need to know: Because these whitening strips use the same whitening ingredient dentists do, they provide similar results for a fraction of the price of professional treatments.
What you’ll love: Crest says these strips will get your teeth 18 levels whiter in just 20 days, using them only 30 minutes a day. They’re also enamel-safe since they use the same enamel-safe teeth whitening ingredient dentists do.
What you should consider: Some users experience increased tooth sensitivity and pain after the first few uses.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Ulta Beauty
Top teeth whitening strips for the money
Crest 3D White Vivid Plus Teeth Whitening Kit
What you need to know: These affordable whitening strips are a great alternative to premium Crest strips while using the same ingredients.
What you’ll love: All Crest whitening strips use enamel-safe teeth whitening ingredients. These strips have a no-slip grip, so you can talk and even drink while whitening your teeth. This kit also includes two one-hour express strips.
What you should consider: They’re powerful, and might not be ideal for those with sensitive teeth or gums.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Lumineux Teeth Whitening Strips
What you need to know: These dentist-formulated stripes whiten teeth without causing sensitivity.
What you’ll love: Since they don’t contain bleaches, they remove stains without stripping enamel. They’re designed to support your microbiome for optimal oral health, getting rid of bad bacteria while protecting good bacteria. They only need to be worn for 30 minute a day.
What you should consider: The results aren’t as impressive as some users would like.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2023-01-13T06:58:11+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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US Labor Market Likely to See Slowed Job Growth Ahead
NEW YORK, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) declined slightly in May to 119.77, down from 120.60 in April 2022 (an upward revision). "The Employment Trends Index fell slightly in May, signaling slowing, but positive job growth in the months ahead. The labor market may have less room for more growth with overall employment down only 0.5 percent compared to the pre-pandemic level," said Agron Nicaj, Associate Economist at The Conference Board. "However, leisure and hospitality and in-person services industries have yet to fully recover job losses incurred since the pandemic. Employment growth is still expected in these industries as consumers continue to shift more spending away from goods and towards services."
Nicaj added: "The labor market remains strong amid high inflation and the Federal Reserve is likely to continue its focus on stabilizing prices as a result. A strong response by the Fed risks higher unemployment rates by the end of 2022."
May's decline in the Employment Trends Index was driven by negative contributions from four of eight components. From the largest negative contributor to the smallest, these were: the Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find "Jobs Hard to Get", Ratio of Involuntarily Part-time to All Part-time Workers, Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales, and Industrial Production.
The Employment Trends Index is a leading composite index for employment. When the index increases, employment is likely to increase as well, and vice versa. Turning points in the index indicate that a turning point in the number of jobs is about to occur in the coming months. The Employment Trends Index aggregates eight leading indicators of employment, each of which has proven accurate in its own area. Aggregating individual indicators into a composite index filters out "noise" to show underlying trends more clearly.
The eight leading indicators of employment aggregated into the Employment Trends Index include:
- Percentage of Respondents Who Say They Find "Jobs Hard to Get" (The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Survey®)
- Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance (U.S. Department of Labor)
- Percentage of Firms With Positions Not Able to Fill Right Now (© National Federation of Independent Business Research Foundation)
- Number of Employees Hired by the Temporary-Help Industry (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Ratio of Involuntarily Part-time to All Part-time Workers (BLS)
- Job Openings (BLS)*
- Industrial Production (Federal Reserve Board)*
- Real Manufacturing and Trade Sales (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis)**
*Statistical imputation for the recent month
**Statistical imputation for two most recent months
The Conference Board publishes the Employment Trends Index monthly, at 10 a.m. ET, on the Monday that follows each Friday release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Situation report. The technical notes to this series are available on The Conference Board website: http://www.conference-board.org/data/eti.cfm.
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2022-06-06T14:15:57+00:00
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota tribe is set to get back 28,000 acres that the federal government sold off in the 19th century.
Minnesota Public Radio reported Wednesday that the land is within the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa’s reservation but the tribe lost title to it after the federal government split it into parcels and sold it under the 1887 General Allotment Act.
The nonprofit Conservation Fund bought the land as part of a larger purchase from the PotlatchDeltic lumber company in 2020 with the intent of returning it to the tribe.
Tribal Chair Cathy Chavers says the land will be used for hunting, fishing and gathering berries.
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2022-06-09T16:12:32+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Minnesota-tribe-to-get-28-000-acres-back-17230191.php
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Sydney Dettmann held on for glory in the 200 free at Friday’s Class 2A state swim and dive meet.
The Stillwater senior built a nearly one-second advantage through the first 150 yards and held off Chanhassen sophomore Avery Luedke late to capture the state title. Dettmann won with a time of 1 minute, 51.16 seconds — two-tenths clear of Luedke.
– Woodbury junior Gabby Mauder is now a two-time state diving champion. The Royals diver entered the night with a 13-point advantage on Farmington’s Jordyn Schmucker after the semifinal swims. But Schmucker nearly closed the gap Friday, only to have Mauder hang on by six-tenths with a total score of 426.90 points.
– Lakeville North’s Izzy Satterlee finished second in the 100 free with a time of 50.96 seconds, just one-tenth behind Minnetonka’s Paige Dillon.
-Stillwater’s Maddie Reed placed second in the 100 breaststroke, trailing only Andover’s Cate Pawlaski. Satterlee finished third.
-Edina won the team title with 260 points, 6 points clear of Minnetonka. Wayzata was third, and Stillwater was fourth.
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2022-11-19T20:23:48+00:00
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twincities.com
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https://www.twincities.com/2022/11/18/state-swim-and-dive-woodbury-diver-mauder-stillwater-swimmer-dettmann-win-titles/
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Elyse Welles was traveling from Athens, Greece, to Newark, New Jersey, this past spring when it finally happened: She was pulled aside for an additional security screening at her gate.
After some time searching through Welles’ backpack, the agent eventually grabbed a bullet-shaped vibrator from the bag and brandished it in the air. “Is this an e-cigarette?” the agent asked. “No, it’s a sex toy,” she responded with a smile, at which point her personal items were promptly returned to her and she was free to go.
Welles, a writer and life coach who lives in Artemida, Greece, said she didn’t give a second thought to traveling with her vibrator in tow.
While sex toys are accepted carry-on luggage in most countries, including the United States, there are certain restrictions when it comes to e-cigarettes on flights, because the devices could catch fire in transit.
As the number of air travelers rises, returning to near-pre-pandemic levels, so do questions about flying protocols and rules — particularly what travelers can and cannot take in their carry-on luggage when flying within the United States. For instance: Is guacamole a solid or a liquid? (It’s a gel, which falls under the same restrictions as liquids and is not allowed in your carry-on — unless it’s inside a 3.4-ounce container.)
Here’s a guide to help you navigate the more ambiguous carry-on rules — with some quiz questions throughout to test your knowledge, too.
Can I take my vibrator without causing a scene at security?
Let’s talk a little more about vibrators. Although most sex toys, including vibrators, are allowed in your carry-on, according to the Transportation Security Administration, they may still lead to a stop, as in Welles’ case. There are some ways to reduce the chances of these uncomfortable encounters, especially if something starts buzzing.
Shan Boodram, an intimacy expert and host of the podcast Lovers and Friends, suggests removing any batteries or running batteries of rechargeable toys out before packing them. “Or, find a hard case to put it in that’s slightly larger so the power button has less of a chance of being pressed when pressure is applied to your bag,” she said.
There are also vibrators with built-in travel settings now, to prevent them from going off at an inopportune moment, such as the Surge silicone rechargeable vibrator, which has a built-in travel lock.
What’s the liquid rule again?
“The most common mistake that we see people making in terms of prohibited items at airports are large liquids, gels and aerosols in carry-on bags,” said Lisa Farbstein, a spokesperson for the TSA.
TSA’s widely publicized 3-1-1 rule dictates that passengers may travel with liquids, gels and aerosols as long as they’re in 3.4-ounce containers in one quart-size resealable bag. So while a bottle of water won’t make it through a preflight screening, what about something in a more nebulous category, such as a jar of peanut butter?
“If you can spill it, spread it, spray it, pump it or pour it,” Farbstein said, “it is a liquid, gel or aerosol.”
This is why a Magic 8 Ball, which is filled with liquid, is not allowed through a TSA checkpoint. The same goes for a snow globe. Unless, of course, as Farbstein points out, either is a version that’s small enough to fit inside a traveler’s 3-1-1 bag.
The 3-1-1 rule was imposed after terrorists in Britain tried to sneak liquid explosives in planes in August 2006. It’s these kinds of explosives that dogs are searching for when they sniff passengers’ bags at airports, Farbstein said.
Is it OK to fly with marijuana now?
“TSA is not looking for drugs,” Farbstein said. “Our dogs sniff for explosives; they don’t sniff for drugs.”
But just because they’re not looking for drugs doesn’t mean agents never find them. If they do, TSA officers are required to report suspected violations of law to police, Farbstein said. And although marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in 19 states and for medical use in 37, it’s still illegal under federal law and is thus restricted on airplanes, even if it is technically legal in both the departure and destination states.
I bought a plant on my trip! Can I take it home?
Some plant lovers may want to fly home with a new addition for their collection.
Plants are allowed on domestic flights as long as they fit in the overhead bin or underneath the airplane seat, according to the TSA website. Returning with potted plants from abroad, however, is prohibited, although a limited number of bare-root plants (not in soil) are allowed, as long as they meet certain criteria set by the Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. There’s also additional information for travelers arriving to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
“I always have my eye out for beautiful, healthy specimens of rare plants, so I like to snag them when I see them,” said Lexi Osterhoudt, a doctoral student in Columbia University’s Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Studies. Oftentimes, she said, her plant souvenirs are impulse buys she picks up while traveling domestically, or they’re good finds that are more affordable than they would be if she bought them in New York, where she currently lives.
“I’ll Saran Wrap the pot to keep the soil together, put them in a paper bag and stick them under the seat in front of me,” she said.
Is my Harry Potter wand OK?
If any more clarification is needed, the TSA has provided an extensive and searchable list where travelers can look up whichever items they’re concerned about bringing. Knitting needles, for example, are allowed in your carry-on, as are live fish, provided they’re in water and a clear transparent container. But wait — isn’t there a liquids rule?
“Live fish are indeed allowed to be transported through a security checkpoint,” Farbstein said. “And of course to keep them alive, they need to be in water. TSA officers will screen the container of water that the fish are contained in. It will take additional time for the screening process. Live fish in water do not need to meet the 3-1-1 rule.”
Cremated human remains get a little more complicated, while cricket bats and cutting boards are best left in checked luggage. Musical instruments such as violins are allowed after they undergo a TSA screening, but for brass instruments, the suggestion is to check them. And if you’re a Harry Potter fan, fear not — wands are allowed on flights.
Despite the TSA’s rules, there’s one item in particular that Farbstein said she still sees confiscated far too often: knives. “We see knives every day,” she said.
As many as 4 tons of different kinds of knives and large tools get confiscated at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey in an average year, according to Farbstein. The TSA then sends them off in bulk to the state of Pennsylvania, she said, which sells them for profit at a surplus store in Harrisburg.
Travelers should remember that knives of all kinds are not allowed on flights, Farbstein said.
Something that won’t get confiscated? A duffel bag holding eight rolls of Goetta sausage. However, it might land you on the TSA’s Instagram account.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
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2022-08-10T08:32:19+00:00
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chicagotribune.com
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Any day now, according to the United Nations, the world’s human population will reach the nice round number of 8,000,000,000. In its latest annual report, the UN Population Division pegs Nov. 15 as the date that milestone will be achieved, but that’s just a guesstimate. No one knows precisely when or where Baby 8 Billion will make her appearance. But we can be fairly sure that she will be welcomed by her family the way most newborns are welcomed: with happiness.
It should make all of us happy that the human club is about to welcome its 8 billionth living member. UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls it “an occasion to celebrate our diversity, recognize our common humanity, and marvel at advancements in health that have extended lifespans and dramatically reduced maternal and child mortality rates.”
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Yet to many modern, educated elites, the enlargement of the human race is cause for despair and angst, not joy. In sophisticated circles, childlessness is promoted as virtuous — even stylish. In one of her Instagram videos, progressive heartthrob Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues that whether it is “still OK to have children” is a “legitimate question” since there is a “scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult.” Celebrity Miley Cyrus tells Elle magazine that she refuses to have a baby on our “piece-of-sh** planet.” Bill Maher, the host of HBO’s “Real Time,” sings the praises of young adults who steer clear of parenthood. “I can’t think of a better gift to our planet,” he told his audience, “than pumping out fewer humans to destroy it.” The BirthStrike Movement, which extols childlessness, claims that “not having children is the single most impactful decision that a person can make to reverse climate change.”
None of this is new. For centuries there have been prominent voices proclaiming that having more kids is a bad thing and forecasting that “overpopulation” will lead to disaster. Today, climate change is invoked as the looming calamity. Not long ago, it was starvation. Paul Ehrlich grew famous writing bestsellers like “The Population Bomb,” a 1968 book in which he diagnosed the booming number of people in the world as a “cancer” that would have to be excised through “brutal and heartless decisions.” Ehrlich claimed that “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death” in the 1970s and that it was too late to stop the coming annihilation. Other population alarmists, warning that “The Earth is Full,” insisted that the planet’s resources were nearing exhaustion and that if women didn’t stop having so many babies, men and women could expect a future without trees, drinkable water, or affordable energy.
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But the predicted terrors never come to pass. There has been no mass starvation, no extinction of resources, no catastrophic collapse in human living conditions. By and large, the human race has never had it so good. And the best evidence of that is the impending birth of Baby 8 Billion.
One hundred years ago, the world could barely sustain 2 billion human beings. Ten centuries ago, fewer than 500 million could keep themselves alive. For a baby born in the year 1000, surviving childhood was at best a 50-50 proposition and living past 40 was a remarkable achievement. The average baby born today, by contrast, can look forward to 70 birthdays. If she is fortunate enough to be born in a wealthy nation, her life expectancy is closer to 80.
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Is there poverty, suffering, terror, and cruelty in the world? Of course there is. There are frightful natural disasters, devastating wars, alarming new diseases — just as there always have been. Yet when parents bring another baby into a world where things sometimes go hideously wrong, they increase the odds that there will be someone to help set things right. In addition to the many other reasons to have children, there is this powerful utilitarian truth: On balance, more people make the world better.
The number of human beings has more than quadrupled since the turn of the 20th century, yet mankind is flourishing as never before. “If you had to choose a moment in history to be born,” former President Barack Obama once observed, “and you did not know ahead of time who you would be — you didn’t know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you’d be born in, whether you were going to be a man or a woman — if you had to choose blindly what moment you’d want to be born, you’d choose now.”
No one gets through life without sorrow, struggle, and disappointment, yet it is indisputably true that life on earth keeps getting better and better. In the aggregate, human beings have never been healthier, wealthier, safer, better fed, or better educated than they are right now. “From agriculture to air travel to the abundance of consumer goods,” I wrote in 2019, “the lot of ordinary men, women, and children has improved beyond anything even the most utopian optimist could have forecast in 1920.”
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The most disturbing demographic datum today is not that there are about to be 8 billion of us, but that fertility rates — the average number of children per woman — are plummeting. It takes a fertility rate of 2.1 to keep a population level. In no European or North American country is the fertility rate that high. In China, the rate is now 1.7; in Russia, 1.6; in Japan, 1.4. Even in the “overcrowded” developing world, fertility rates have plunged. We are headed for a global “baby bust,” and by the end of the century, after peaking at perhaps 10 billion, the number of human beings will begin to shrink. Then we really will have something to worry about.
In the words of the late, great optimist and economist Julian Simon, it is people that are the ultimate resource. The more babies each generation produces, the more blessed is the generation that follows.
“Humans have for tens of thousands of years created more than they have destroyed,” Simon wrote. “That is the … most fundamental of all facts about the progress of civilization.” If men and women, on average, destroyed more than they produced, our species would have come to an end long ago, Simon pointed out. “But in fact people do produce more than they consume, and the new knowledge of how to overcome material problems is the most precious product of all.”
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Yes, more babies mean more mouths and therefore more consumption. But more babies also mean more minds and arms and spines — and therefore more new ideas, more effort, more brainstorms, more imagination, more enterprise, more progress.
So welcome, Baby 8 Billion! Your arrival gives us reason to rejoice. May you be blessed with a long, fruitful, and happy life, and may you leave the world even better than you found it.
Jeff Jacoby is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at jeff.jacoby@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jeff_jacoby. This column is excerpted from the current issue of Arguable, his weekly newsletter. To subscribe to Arguable, visit bitly.com/Arguable.
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2022-10-25T18:32:36+00:00
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German government, unions reach pay deal for public workers
BERLIN (AP) — German government officials and labor unions have reached a pay deal for more than 2.5 million public-sector workers, ending a lengthy dispute and heading off the possibility of disruptive all-out strikes.
The ver.di union had pressed for hefty raises as Germany, like many other countries, grapples with high inflation. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said as the deal was announced early Sunday that “we accommodated the unions as far as we could responsibly do in a difficult budget situation.”
The deal entails one-time payments totaling 3,000 euros ($3,300) per employee, with the first 1,240 euros coming in June and monthly payments of 220 euros following until February. In March, regular monthly pay for all will be increased by 200 euros, followed by a salary increase of 5.5%. The deal runs through to the end of 2024.
Ver.di originally sought a one-year deal with a raise of 10.5%. The deal was reached on the basis of a proposal by arbitrators who were called in after talks broke down last month.
Ver.di chair Frank Werneke said that “we went to our pain threshold with the decision to make this compromise.” He said that the raises in regular pay next year will amount to an increase of over 11% for most employees.
Germany’s annual inflation rate has declined from the levels it reached late last year but is still high. It stood at 7.4% in March.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s economy is in dire straits with its usable foreign reserves down to less than $50 million, the country’s finance minister said Wednesday.
Sri Lanka is on the brink of bankruptcy and has suspended payments on its foreign loans. Its economic miseries have brought on a political crisis, with the government facing a protests and a no-confidence motion in Parliament.
The country is due to repay $7 billion this year of the $25 billion in foreign loans it is scheduled to pay by 2026.
“There is a severe risk in front of all of us,” said Sabri. He said Sri Lanka’s reserves stood at $7.6 billion at the end of 2019 and fell to $5.7 billion by the end of 2020 as payments outpaced inflows of foreign currency amid the pandemic.
The reserves declined to $3.1 billion by the end of 2021, and to $1.9 billion by the end of March, he said. With foreign currency in short supply thanks to less tourism and other revenues, official reserves were tapped to pay for importing essentials including fuel, gas, coal and medicines beginning in August 2021.
The bulk of Sri Lanka’s remaining reserves — including a $1 billion equivalent SWAP facility from China, are not usable for settling dollar-denominated payments, he said.
Sabri’s comments came a day after the country’s main opposition party issued a no-confidence motion aiming at ousting Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Cabinet.
The opposition United People’s Force blames the government of failing in its constitutional duty to provide decent living standards. It accuses top government officials of excessively printing money, hurting farm production by banning chemical fertilizers to make the production fully organic and minimize import costs, failing to order COVID-19 vaccines in a timely manner and buying them later at higher prices.
A date has not yet been announced for a vote on the no-confidence motion.
The foreign currency crisis has limited imports and caused severe shortages of essential goods like fuel, cooking gas, medicine and food. People must line up for hours to buy what they can and many return home with little, if any, of what they were seeking.
Protests have spread demanding the resignations of Mahinda Rajapaksa, who heads an influential clan that has held power for most of the past two decades, and his younger brother, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. An occupation of the entrance to the president’s office by protesters demanding the Rajapaksas resign was in its 26th day on Wednesday.
So far, the Rajapaksa brothers have resisted calls to resign, though three other Rajapaksas out of the five who are lawmakers stepped down from their Cabinet posts in mid-April.
Sabri said Sri Lanka was in the process of appointing legal and financial advisers for negotiations on restructuring its foreign debt.
“This is an economic crisis. The economic crisis has created a political crisis. It is important to resolve the political crisis in order to find solutions to the economic crisis,” Sabri said.
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A Kenosha County Board supervisor will host a Republican county sheriffs’ forum on June 28 at 6 p.m. at the Italian American Club in Kenosha.
County Board supervisor Brian Thomas will moderate the event, which is open to the public. All four Republican sheriff candidates – Kenosha Police Officer Tyler Cochran, Officer Albert Brian Gonzales, County Deputy Ray Rowe and County Sgt. David Zoerner – will attend. Thomas will not host a forum for Democratic candidates since only one Democrat, Lake County Deputy James Simmons, is running.
After Thomas welcomes the attendees, each candidate will have two minutes to give an opening statement. Thomas will then ask the candidates questions in a rotating order, and they will each have 90 seconds to respond. Thomas said some question topics will include candidates’ management styles, thoughts on the opioid crisis and how they plan to uphold the Constitution.
After each candidate has answered four questions, there will be a ten-minute break. During this time, attendees can write their questions for the candidates on index cards that Thomas will provide. After the break, candidates will answer these questions.
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Candidates will each have two minutes to give closing remarks. Thomas said he does not know exactly how long the forum will last, but attendees will have the opportunity to talk to candidates afterward. Follow-up questions will not be allowed, he said, so attendees can ask candidates any further questions after the forum.
Thomas said anyone can come to the forum, regardless of political ideology.
“We want as many people [as possible] to know where our future county sheriff [stands] on these topics,” Thomas said. “It’s finding that great combination of questions that will hopefully pull out information and answers that will give people a better idea on how they want to vote.”
Thomas said they will not be livestreaming the event, but it will be recorded and posted online afterward.
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It’ll be an evening of celebrating the life and music of a legendary star on the stage and screen, Debbie Reynolds.
The talented woman paying tribute to Debbie is Julie Lyn Barber, and she joined us Wednesday on “Life.Style.Live!” to share what you can expect from the show and to give a preview performance of the song “Carolina in the Morning” by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson.
This elegant and uplifting show is a taste of the very best of Reynolds’ nightclub and cabaret acts.
Her hits include “You Made Me Love You,” “I Ain’t Down Yet,” “Singin’ In The Rain,” “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” “Good Mornin’,“ “Belly Up To The Bar Boys” and “Moonglow.”
About Julie Lyn Barber:
Julie Lyn Barber is a Canadian singer-actor based in the Midwest. Barber’s eclectic vocal experience ranges from opera to musical theatre to jazz. She has performed with numerous theatres across the U.S. and Canada, including Portland Center Stage and Canada’s Theatre Under the Stars. Her skill with early music has led her to being a featured as soloist with Portland Opera, Trinity Consort, and Marion Philharmonic Orchestra, and to singing the role of “Titania” in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen at the Amherst Early Music Festival. Indianapolis audiences may have experienced her powerhouse vocals as “Berenice” in the 10-year run of Cabaret Poe, in stage productions including Madwomen’s Late Nite Cabaret, Menagerie Macabre and Christmas Through the Ages, or as the lead singer of the bands, The Steampunks, and Earl Eye & the Space Pirates.
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The world, especially richer carbon polluting nations, remains "far behind" and is not doing nearly enough -- not even promising to do enough -- to reach any of the global goals limiting future warming, a United Nations report said.
That “highly inadequate” inaction means the window is closing, but not quite shut yet, on efforts to keep future warming to just a few more tenths of a degree from now, according to Thursday’s Emissions Gap report from the United Nations Environment Programme.
“Global and national climate commitments are falling pitifully short,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday. “We are headed for a global catastrophe.”
The world is weaning itself from fossil fuels too slowly, the report and experts said.
“The report confirms the utterly glacial pace of climate action, despite the looming precipice of climate tipping points we’re approaching,” said climate scientist Bill Hare, head of Climate Analytics that also examines what countries are promising and doing about carbon emissions in its own analysis.
Instead of limiting warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, the global goals set by 2015 Paris agreement, the way the world is acting now, warming will hit 2.8 degrees (5 degrees Fahrenheit) by the year 2100, the UN report said. Countries concrete pledges would bring that down to 2.6 degrees (4.7 degrees Fahrenheit). It’s already warmed 1.1 degrees (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times.
“In all likelihood we will pass by 1.5,” UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen told The Associated Press in an interview. She didn't say when she thinks that would happen. “We can still do it, but that means 45% emissions reductions” by 2030.
“It’s really about understanding that every little digit (tenth of a degree of warming) that we shave off is a lesser catastrophic outlook,” Andersen said.
The emissions gap is the difference between the amount of carbon pollution being spewed between now and 2030 and the lower levels needed to keep warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees.
Guterres said “the emissions gap is a by-product of a commitments gap. A promises gap. An action gap.”
Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the independent Global Carbon Project that tracks carbon dioxide emissions around the world but wasn’t part of the UN report, said “another decade of fossil emissions at current rates and we’ll zip past 1.5C.... The way things are going though we’ll zip past 1.5C, past 2C and -- heaven help us -- even 2.5 or 3C.”
“We’re failing by winning too slowly,” Jackson said in an email. “Renewables are booming and cheaper than ever. But COVID stimulus plans and the war in Ukraine have disrupted global energy markets and led some countries (to) revert to coal and other fuels. This can’t continue in a safe climate.”
In 10 days, yearly international climate negotiations will begin in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, and in the run up to the United Nations conference, several reports highlight different aspects of the world's battle to curb climate change. Wednesday, a different UN agency looked at countries' official emission reduction targets. Thursday's Emissions Gap report looks at what countries are actually doing as well as what they promise to do in the future in various pledges.
The G20 nations, the richest countries, are responsible for 75% of the heat-trapping pollution, Andersen said, adding “clearly the more those G20s lean in, the better we will be.”
The report said “G20 members are far behind in delivering” on their promises to reduce emissions. Taking out the special cases of Turkey and Russia, current polices by G20 nations fall 2.6 billion metric tons a year short of the 2030 goal, the report said. Both Turkey and Russia's targets for 2030 have higher pollution levels than current policies project and using their projections would make the G20 emissions gap artificially low, the report said.
"It's critical that China, as well as the U.S. and other G20 countries, actually lead," Andersen said. She hailed the newly passed $375 billion American climate- and inflation-fighting law as an example of action instead of just promises.
The report said that by 2030 the U.S. law should prevent 1 billion metric tons of carbon emissions, which is much more than other nations efforts made this year.
“What we’re calling for is an accelerated pace because there are good things happening out there in a number of countries, but it’s just not fast enough and it’s not consistent enough,” Andersen said.
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LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) — The Long Island University football team welcomed the Beautiful Lives Project to The Bethpage Federal Credit Union Stadium on Friday.
The Football teamed welcomed a group of adults with severe disabilities to have some fun with the athletes on the field.
The Beautiful Lives Project gives people with disabilities the opportunity to actively participate in activities and events that may not have been available to them previously due to physical or facility limitations.
Photo Journalist Keith Lopez was there to capture the heartwarming story.
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WASHINGTON , June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading Ukrainian businessman, Dmytro Firtash, continues to take steps to assist the Ukrainian people to oppose Russian aggression, including utilizing his Ukrainian plants and other resources to help his employees and the Ukrainian people. Here is Lanny Davis's statement on behalf of Mr. Firtash:
As Russian troops intensify their attacks on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sjewjerodonezk, around 800 civilians have sought refuge in bunkers under the Azot chemical factory owned by Dmytro Firtash's company, Group DF. These 800 civilians include around 200 out of the plant's 3,000 employees and approximately 600 inhabitants of the city of Sjewjerodonezk. The contingent of 200 workers has remained at the facility to secure and professionally safeguard as best as possible what is left of the plant's highly explosive chemicals.
In addition, reports indicate further targeted destruction of Ukrainian economic infrastructure by Russian troops. The port complex "Nika-Tera," south of Mykolayiv at the mouth of the Bug-Dnieper River to the Black Sea, has come under massive shelling. The Nika-Tera terminal (part of Mr. Firtash's Group DF) includes three specialized cargo areas: a grain complex, a fertilizer complex, and a complex handling other bulk cargo. On Saturday (June 4, 2022), the port terminals suffered from the most massive attacks thus far, rendering the port facilities entirely unusable. Mr. Firtash said:
"Apparently, the Russians are concerned with getting the Black Sea ports either under control or destroying them. By thus cutting off Ukrainian grain exports, they can and will use the hunger of millions of people in much of North Africa as another weapon in this cynical war."
Mr. Firtash said Group DF was working with other major Ukrainian agribusinesses to find alternative export routes, but it was unlikely that current export volumes could be shifted easily and quickly overland.
Mr. Firtash further said last week:
"This war is completely pointless and cannot be justified in any way, it only brings suffering and misery on all sides. This humanitarian tragedy is intolerable."
Background statement by Lanny J. Davis, attorney for Mr. Firtash:
Months ago, Mr. Firtash denounced the wholly unjustified Russian invasion of his mother country, Ukraine, and has worked to assist President Zelensky and his government in financial and other ways however he could. In the last several months, Mr. Firtash worked with President Zelensky's administration and the nation's three other TV station owners to establish a 24/7 TV news network. This network was formed to tell the truth about the Russian inhumane invasion and military attacks on civilians, women, and children. It is broadcast in Kyiv, in Warsaw, Poland, and in Russian on YouTube so that the Russian people can hear the truth.
Mr. Firtash's commitment to a free, strong, and independent Ukraine and his opposition to the Russian invasion is entirely consistent with his position for many years – contradicting the politically motivated false charges made against him that have led to widespread false U.S. and European media reporting based entirely on innuendo and no facts. See, e.g., this op ed in the Kyiv Post as long ago as 2014: Kyiv Must Be Strong and Independent.
Dan Webb, former U.S. Attorney in Chicago, and Mr. Davis, who once served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton and a special privacy and civil liberties advisor, along with four other commission members, to President George W. Bush, have repeatedly reminded the U.S. media that the case brought against Mr. Firtash more than 9 years ago by Chicago prosecutors alleging a "scheme" to bribe Indian officials regarding a mine that never happened is utterly factually baseless.
According to Davis: "As we have said, it is hard to understand why so many resources and so much time has been devoted to a case against someone who isn't even accused of paying a bribe – and, in fact, has never been to the U.S. or has any agent or conducts any business in the U.S."
Davis continued: "Mr. Firtash asks only for an opportunity to help Ukraine, and for the U.S. and the EU to help him help Ukraine defeat this brutal, senseless, and inhumane Russian invasion – without asking for any impact on the current prosecution case in the U.S."
DISSEMINATED BY DAVIS, GOLDBERG & GALPER PLLC, A REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT, ON BEHALF OF DMITRY FIRTASH. MORE INFORMATION IS ON FILE WITH THE DEPT OF JUSTICE, WASHINGTON DC.
Contact: Alex Lange, 202-480-4309, alange@dggpllc.com
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If Egyptian comics artist and writer Deena Mohamed ever encountered a genie, she knows what she'd wish for. She'd wish for everyone she loved to live to age 120. And she'd wish for any book she ever wanted to read to appear right in front of her eyes.
"If I ever come across a genie, I have to be ready," she says. "They have to be smart wishes."
Wishes are the theme of her debut graphic fantasy novel, Shubeik Lubeik, Arabic for "your wish is my command," published this week by Pantheon Books. The book follows Shokry, a kiosk owner in Cairo, Egypt, as he tries to sell off three wishes he inherited from his father. A pious Muslim, he refuses to use the wishes on himself because he worries they might not be in the spirit of Islam — but meets three Egyptians whose lives can be radically transformed by the power of a wish.
The book highlights the fantastical — there are dragons, talking donkeys and a hilarious scene where someone wishes for a BMW and gets a toy car. But the story is also remarkably grounded in the realities of modern life in Egypt, a country where nearly 70% of citizens live on less than $5.50 a day. Along with authentic illustrations of Cairo's locals and cityscape, the book has characters who grapple with poverty, economic inequality, a poor health-care system and preventable disease.
The book also confronts the bureaucracy of living in a low-resource nation, where the poor must navigate labyrinthine processes to get what they need. One character, an impoverished woman named Aziza, picks up trash, scrubs floors and works menial jobs to buy a wish – only to find that before she can use it, she must register her wish with Egypt's Ministry of Wishes. When she finally gets in front of a government worker, they assume she has stolen the wish and confiscate it. Mohamed writes, "What stands between you and your wish could be a government employee with paperwork on the fourth floor."
Mohamed, 28, who was born and raised in Cairo, didn't know how to tell the story in any other way. "It's just the way I've experienced the world. So it's the way I built my own world."
The book was originally self-published as a trilogy in Arabic from 2017 to 2021 while Mohamed studied graphic design at the American University in Cairo. In 2017, the trilogy won the top prize at the Cairo Comix Festival, an annual comics convention for cartoonists in Egypt and the Middle East. She's excited to see how an English-speaking audience will react to her creation.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
You started working on Shubeik Lubeik when you were just 21 years old. What inspired you to make this comic with such a fantasy plot — a kiosk that sells wishes?
I knew I wanted to build a story around the Egyptian kiosks, the kind you would see on the street.
These kiosks in Egypt are everywhere. They're where people can buy a bottle of Coke, cigarettes, the newspaper, a phone card, a bag of chips or a popsicle.
I like how they look and how each one is unique because it's customized by the person who builds it. And I knew for my story I wanted one to sell a magical object. At first I wasn't sure what that magical object should be. But once I decided on a wish, I started to build my story around it. What kind of world would have to exist for someone to be able to buy a wish from a kiosk?
Even though it's a fantasy world, it's definitely similar to our real world.
When I was thinking about wishes sold at a kiosk, I constructed the idea of [low-quality] cheap wishes, called "third-class" wishes, and [high-quality] expensive wishes, called "first-class" wishes. So if there is a sort of commodification happening, there is immediately an issue of access. If you're poor, the [high-quality] wishes will be out of reach. But if you're rich, you will be able to afford mountains of wishes.
And like many precious resources found in low-resource nations, rich countries find a way to exploit wishes. In your book, British explorers discover a trove of wishes in a tomb and begin "extracting" them and splitting them into first-, second- and third-class wishes, of which are sold for profit. Are wishes a symbol for something we might encounter in the real world?
I didn't want it to be like a metaphor for something directly. I did, however, use several models for how wishes would be controlled [in the real world]. Whenever I felt a little lost for how something like wishes could exist, I realized that it's similar to money. It can make things possible if you have access to it. And the way that wishes are extracted and regulated is similar to oil.
In the book we meet several characters who need wishes, like Shawqia, an older Christian woman who is diagnosed with cancer but has a hard time finding medical treatment in Egypt. Is she based on anyone in real life?
No one is based on a real person, but I might base some aspects of the characters on different situations I've experienced. For example, I had an aunt who had cancer and she had trouble finding a bed [at a hospital] even though she could afford one. There wasn't anyone willing to admit her because she was so sick. So there was this race across Cairo to try to find all the different hospitals she could go to.
In another scene, Shawqia begs her husband to let her use her wish to save their two children, who are dying of hepatitis. They had contracted the disease via an infected needle for treatment for schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
Schistosomiasis has been a widespread problem since the Pharaonic times. Everyone in Egypt knows the dangers of swimming in the Nile [where the parasitic flatworms lurk and spread disease]. It was so common for people to have blood in their urine [a symptom of schistosomiasis] that they thought men could menstruate.
Because of schistosomiasis, [Egyptian health officials and the World Health Organization] had a campaign to treat the disease [from the 1950s to the 1980s]. They administered a course of shots with glass syringes, which were then reused. And that resulted in a very bad hepatitis epidemic in Egypt.
What was the significance of telling that story in Shubeik Lubeik?
The theme of Shawqia's section was health and I wanted her story to feel grounded in what was happening in Egypt at that time. And schistosomiasis was a real struggle that actually affected people.
You were very intentional about drawing your book in the style of traditional Egyptian comics. What does that look like?
Egyptian cartooning is influenced by political satire, so it has a style of cartooning that exaggerates features. It isn't concerned with making people look beautiful. It's more about facial expressions. You cannot be shy to draw people with ugly features.
Why was it important for you to draw in this style?
I wanted the book to be something that Egyptians would be comfortable with, so it had to have a visual identity that felt Egyptian.
The concept of wishes is distinctly Middle Eastern — many people learn about them from the story of Aladdin in the fairy tale collection Alf Leila w Leila, or One Thousand and One Nights. And even though your book is very modern, it follows the morals of that classic book.
I conceptualized wishes the way other people might conceptualize prayer. You pray when you want something the most. This would be done most likely in the event of regret, if you lose something, or when you really want something. There's a theme for each wish in the book: grief, happiness and health. These are very universal themes, things that people wish and pray for the most.
Malaka Gharib is a comics artist and the author of two graphic memoirs, I Was Their American Dream, about her Egyptian Filipino American identity, and It Won't Always Be Like This, about her summers in Egypt.
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Nobel panel to announce winner of chemistry prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will be announced Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
Last year the prize was awarded to scientists Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that the Nobel panel said is “already benefiting humankind greatly.”
A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with Swedish scientist Svante Paabo receiving the award in medicine for unlocking secrets of Neanderthal DNA that provided key insights into our immune system.
Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday. Frenchman Alain Aspect, American John F. Clauser and Austrian Anton Zeilinger had shown that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when separated, a phenomenon known as quantum entanglement, that can be used for specialized computing and to encrypt information.
The awards continue with literature on Thursday. The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday and the economics award on Monday.
The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10. The money comes from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, in 1895.
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DALLAS, Oct. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Associates of Ear, Nose & Throat Surgery, a comprehensive ENT practice with locations in Flower Mound and Lewisville, Texas, has joined the growing physician-led community of practices at ENT Specialty Partners.
Led by board-certified otolaryngologists Thomas C. Bramhall, MD, and M. Bradley Evans, MD, the practice has served patients in Flower Mound and the surrounding communities since 1996. They provide a wide range of ENT, hearing, sinus, and head and neck cancer treatments for pediatric and adult patients.
"The goal of our practice has always been to provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients," said Dr. Evans. "By joining forces with ESP and having the opportunity to collaborate with other like-minded physicians across the DFW Metroplex, it will greatly enhance our ability to offer more services to accomplish those goals. I am excited to be a part of this unique, cutting-edge organization."
Dr. Bramhall established Associates of Ear, Nose & Throat Surgery after completing his training at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Evans, who trained at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX, joined the practice in 2006. The practice also includes two clinical audiologists trained in a wide range of hearing care services.
"For more than 25 years, we've been honored to bring excellent ENT care to the Lewisville and Flower Mound communities," said Dr. Bramhall. "This partnership with ESP will further our impact on the health of the families we serve by providing our team with enhanced resources and support of a network of quality practices across the state."
The ESP practice community is one of the largest independent ENT practices in the country, now including 24 ENT physicians, 21 audiologists, 10 advanced practice providers, and numerous support staff providing a wide range of services in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, audiology, and allergy treatments. ESP partner practices are located across 16 Texas locations: Allen, Bellville, Brenham, Bryan-College Station, Carrollton, Celina, Dallas, Flower Mound, Frisco, Giddings, Huntsville, La Grange, Lewisville, McKinney, Plano, and Wichita Falls. Learn more about ESP at ENTSP.com.
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2022-10-26T15:50:29+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/10/26/north-texas-ent-practice-associates-ear-nose-amp-throat-surgery-joins-ent-specialty-partners/
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Drake’s Tucker DeVries was an interested spectator when the father-son team of Greg McDermott and Doug McDermott helped Creighton make consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in 2013 and 2014.
DeVries’ father, Darian, was an assistant on Greg McDermott’s Creighton staff back then as Doug McDermott led the nation in scoring and earned national player of the year honors. Now it’s Darian DeVries who will be coaching his son on the March Madness stage.
Tucker DeVries is the Missouri Valley Conference player of the year after turning down some high-major offers to enroll at Drake. DeVries said watching the McDermotts helped give him an idea of what it might be like to play for his dad.
“I think there was a lot to be learned from, being able to experience and see how that relationship worked,” the sophomore guard/forward said. “Part of what went into me wanting to come and play for my dad here is being able to have a little taste of that myself.”
So far, it’s been just about everything DeVries could have imagined.
DeVries averages 19 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, and he has shot 38.7% (87 of 225) from 3-point range. He was named the most outstanding player in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
“I grew up at Creighton my whole life,” DeVries said. "When they decided to recruit me, it was tough to turn that down – playing in the Big East where I grew up. Iowa State, 45 minutes away. Oregon. Just some of those schools are obviously schools you grow up watching on TV, dreaming about playing for. But I don’t think any of them had what was home for me here.”
Now he has the chance to find out what it’s like to play for his father in the NCAA Tournament. Drake (27-7) is the No. 12 seed in the Midwest Region and will face Miami (25-7) on Friday.
“To be able to experience it with my dad as a coach is definitely pretty cool and special – to be able to experience it together,” DeVries said.
DeVries is one of several players from one-bid conferences who bear watching this week. Here’s a look at some others.
MAX ABMAS, ORAL ROBERTS
Abmas already has shown he can make an impact in March. Abmas averaged 26.8 points in the 2021 NCAA Tournament while leading Oral Roberts to the Sweet 16. This season, the 6-foot senior ranks seventh among all Division I players in points per game (22.2) and sixth in 3-pointers per game (3.5). The two-time Summit League player of the year has scored over 22 points per game each of the last three seasons. First-round game: Thursday vs. Duke.
JORDAN BROWN, LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
Brown isn’t the typical under-the-radar recruit who ends up at a mid-major program. The 6-foot-11 forward was a 2018 McDonald’s All-American. He began his college career at Nevada and was a Pac-12 sixth man of the year at Arizona last season before transferring to his third school. Brown earned first-team all-Sun Belt honors while averaging 19.4 points and 8.7 rebounds, including 20 points in a loss to Texas. First-round game: Thursday vs. Tennessee.
SINCERE CARRY, KENT STATE
Carry has earned first-team all-Mid American Conference honors and has made the league’s all-defensive team each of the last two seasons. He was named MAC player of the year last season. He has averaged over 17 ½ points each of the last two seasons at Kent State after transferring from Duquesne. The 6-1 guard has scored at least 21 points in four of his last five games. First-round game: Friday vs. Indiana.
RAY HARRISON, GRAND CANYON
Harrison helped Grand Canyon get here by collecting 31 points, eight rebounds and eight assists against Southern Utah in the Western Athletic Conference Tournament championship game. The 6-4 guard has scored at least 25 points in four of his last six games. Harrison, a Presbyterian transfer, has averaged at least 17 points each of the last three seasons. He has 17.7 points, 4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game this season. First-round game: Friday vs. Gonzaga.
DREW PEMBER, UNC ASHEVILLE
This Tennessee transfer has emerged as a star in two seasons at UNC Asheville. This year, he became the first player to lead the Big South in scoring (20.4), rebounding (9.2) and blocks (2.3) in one season. Pember leads all Division I players in free throws made (262) and attempted (314). The 6-11 forward averaged 29.7 points and 11.3 rebounds in three Big South Tournament games. First-round game: Thursday vs. UCLA.
TUCKER RICHARDSON, COLGATE
Richardson had a triple-double in the Patriot League Tournament championship game with 14 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists as Colgate defeated Lafayette, 79-61. The 6-5 guard was named the Patriot League’s overall player of the year and defensive player of the year. He’s the first player in league history to combine 1,600 career points, 700 rebounds and 600 assists. Richardson had 15 points and seven rebounds last year in an NCAA Tournament loss to Wisconsin. First-round game: Thursday vs. Texas.
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2023-03-14T21:35:04+00:00
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kimt.com
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https://www.kimt.com/news/drakes-devries-among-under-the-radar-march-madness-stars/article_048f7d0e-c293-11ed-8e26-2364dd14fa40.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump is suing the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to avoid cooperating with a subpoena requiring him to testify.
The suit filed Friday evening contends that, while former presidents have voluntarily agreed to provide testimony or documents in response to congressional subpoenas in the past, “no president or former president has ever been compelled to do so.”
“Long-held precedent and practice maintain that separation of powers prohibits Congress from compelling a President to testify before it,” Trump attorney David A. Warrington said in a statement announcing Trump’s intentions.
Warrington said Trump had engaged with the committee “in a good faith effort to resolve these concerns consistent with Executive Branch prerogatives and separation of powers,” but said the panel “insists on pursuing a political path, leaving President Trump with no choice but to involve the third branch, the judicial branch, in this dispute between the executive and legislative branches.”
The committee declined to comment on the filing, which comes days before the the deadline set by the committee for Trump to begin cooperating. But the suit likely dooms the prospect of Trump ever having to testify, given that the committee is expected to disband at the end of the legislative session in January.
It also comes just days before Trump is expected to formally launch a third campaign for president at his Mar-Lago club.
The committee had voted to subpoena Trump during its final televised hearing before the midterm elections and formally did so last month, demanding testimony from the former president either at the Capitol or by videoconference by mid-November, and continuing for multiple days if necessary.
The letter also outlined a sweeping request for documents, including personal communications between Trump and members of Congress as well as extremist groups. Trump’s response to that request was due last week, but the nine-member panel extended its deadline to this week.
In his suit, Trump’s attorneys attack the subpoena as overly broad and frame it as an infringement of his First Amendment rights. They also argue other sources besides Trump could provide the same information the committee wants from him.
The panel — comprised of seven Democrats and two Republicans — issued a statement last week saying it was in communication with Trump’s attorneys.
The committee’s decision to subpoena Trump in late October was a major escalation in its investigation, a step lawmakers said was necessary because, members allege, the former president was the “central player” in a multi-part effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“I think that he has a legal obligation to testify but that doesn’t always carry weight with Donald Trump,” committee vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said during an event last week.
In addition to demanding that Trump testify, the committee also made 19 requests for documents and communication — including for any messages Trump sent on the encrypted messaging app Signal or by “any other means” to members of Congress and others about the stunning events of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
The scope of the committee’s request was expansive — pursuing documents from Sept. 1, 2020, two months before the election, to the present on the president’s communications with the groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — as the panel looks to compile a historical record of the run-up to the Capitol attack, the event itself and the aftermath.
Trump’s lawsuit was filed in the Southern District of Florida, where other Trump lawyers successfully sued to secure a special master who has been tasked with conducting an independent review of records seized by the FBI during an Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago.
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2022-11-12T05:24:40+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trump-files-lawsuit-to-avoid-jan-6-committee-subpoena/
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HARDCOVER FICTION
1. “The House of Wolves” by Patterson/Lupica (Little, Brown)
2. “Hell Bent” by Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
3. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday)
4. “The House in the Pines” by Ana Reyes (Dutton)
5. “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
6. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday)
7. “Without a Trace” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
8. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
9. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner)
10. “Just the Nicest Couple” by Mary Kubica (Park Row)
11. “Mad Honey” by Picoult/Boylan (Ballantine)
12. “Verity” by Colleen hoover (Grand Central Publishing)
13. “Dreamland” by Nicholas Sparks (Random House)
14. “Desert Star” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
15. “Triple Cross” by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
1. “Spare” by Prince Harry (Random House)
2. “The Light We Carry” by Michelle Obama (Crown)
3. “One: Simple One-Pan Wonders” by Jamie Oliver (Flatiron)
4. “The Good Life” by Waldinger/Schultz (Simon & Schuster)
5. “I’m Glad My Mom Died” by Jennette McCurdy (Simon & Schuster)
6. “The Galveston Diet” by Mary Claire Haver (Rodale)
7. “The Nazi Conspiracy” by Meltzer/Mensch (Flatiron)
8. “Good Boundaries and Goodbyes” by Lysa TerKeurst (Thomas Nelson)
9. “Faith Still Moves Mountains” by Harris Faulkner (Broadside)
10. “Go-to Dinners” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter)
11. “An Immense World” by Ed Yong (Random House)
12. “Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing” by Matthew Perry (Flatiron)
13. “The elven Cookbook” by Robert Tuesley Anderson (Thunder Bay)
14. “Fast Like a Girl” by Mindy Pelz (Hay House)
15. “Lighter” by Yung Pueblo (Harmony)
MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
1. “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosake (Plata)
2. “High Stakes” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
3. “Desperation in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)
4. “The Mysterious Amish Nanny” by Patrice Lewis (Love Inspired)
5. “Preacher's Purge” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
6. “A Gambling Man” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
7. “Smoke Screen” by Sandra Brown (Pocket)
8. “The Judge’s List” by John Grisham (Vintage)
9. “Steal” by Patterson/Roughan (Grand Central Publishing)
10. “Navy Grooms” by Debbie Macomber (Mira)
11. “Invisible” by Danielle Steel (Dell)
12. “A Face to Die For” by Iris Johansen (Grand Central Publishing)
13. “Secret Getaway” by Nora Roberts (Silhouette)
14. “A Slow Fire Burning” by Paula Hawkins (Riverhead)
15. “Bad Days for Bad Men” by Johnstone/Johnstone (Pinnacle)
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1. “It Starts with Us” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
2. “Reminders of Him” by Colleen Hoover (Montlake)
3. “Things We Never Got Over” by Lucy Score (Bloom)
4. “Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 5” by Naoya Matsumoto (Viz)
5. “The Maid” by Nita Prose (Ballantine)
6. “Loathe to Love You” by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley)
7. “Twisted Love” by Ana Huang (Bloom)
8. “Hour Game” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
9. “Maybe Now” by Colleen Hoover (Atria)
10. “Spare” (large-print ed.) by Prince Harry (Random House)
11. “Spare” (Spanish ed.) by Prince Harry (Plaza & Janes)
12. “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
13. “You Just Need to Lose Weight” by Aubrey Gordon (Beacon)
14. “The Housemaid” by Freida McFadden (Grand Central Publishing)
15. “A Court of Silver Flames” by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury)
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2023-01-19T19:48:13+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/US-Best-Sellers-Books-PW-17728527.php
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Federal authorities say they busted an elaborate human smuggling scheme in Maine this week that involved more than a dozen people being housed in a single home as they provided labor for a Massachusetts company.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents working in Lisbon, Maine on Tuesday identified the location of the single house that was allegedly being used to house the 17 people. The federal agency says the individuals are migrants from Guatemala and Nicaragua and do not have proper documentation.
The Customs and Border Protection agents assigned to the Rangeley Border Patrol Station were conducting a follow-up investigation on information provided by the Lisbon Police Department related to a hit-and-run crash when they were led to the alleged stash house and discovered the 17 individuals, according to a statement from the agency.
Authorities found out the 17 people worked for a Massachusetts-based company, which federal authorities did not disclose the name of publicly, that rented the house to provide a residence for them. The individuals living in the home were taken to Rangeley, Maine for immigration processing, the statement says.
Two of the individuals, both from Guatemala, were found to have allegedly re-entered the United States after previously being removed. Four others are accused of having entered the U.S. without documentation along the southwest border. They were already going through removal proceedings and were released to await further immigration proceedings. The remaining people living in the home were entered into removal proceedings under Title 8, according to the statement.
Customs and Border Protection said the discovery of the stash house adds to the growing trend of people who are migrants without documentation traveling in and out of Maine.
“We are seeing a sharp increase in the flow of illegal labor in and out of Maine,” said William Maddocks, chief patrol agent of the Houlton, Maine sector of Customs and Border Protection. “Housing 17 people in one house is unsafe and degrading. The exploitation of the undocumented population will continue as long as there is no consequence.”
This incident remains under investigation, according to Customs and Border Protection.
News outlets have reported on the notable increase in people who are migrants without documentation traveling to the United States and enduring dangerous working and living conditions. A recent New York Times investigation found migrant children in particular are coming to the U.S. without their parents in record numbers and entering brutal labor and housing environments. The Times reported that the children in this exploitative industry are primarily from Central America and are acting out of economic desperation that was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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2023-03-25T21:29:43+00:00
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masslive.com
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https://www.masslive.com/police-fire/2023/03/human-smuggling-scheme-busted-in-maine-17-people-lived-in-1-home-feds-say.html
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, July 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ITE HCMC 2023 – The largest and most established travel event in Vietnam and Mekong sub-region will take place from 07 – 09 September 2023 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
On June 24th 2023, Vietnam National Assembly approved the amendments and supplements of the Law on Foreigners' Entry into, Exit from, Transit through, and Residence in Vietnam, including extending the e-visa validity period to 90 days. This policy is expected to enhance the competitiveness of Vietnam's tourism industry and create a boost to promote its development, attracting international visitors in the coming time. Furthermore, promotion and marketing are essential activities to boost tourism development and enhance destination's competitiveness. ITE HCMC is considered one of the important and effective solutions for this purpose.
The 17th International Travel Expo Ho Chi Minh City, themed "Connectivity, Growth, Sustainability", offers three full days of opportunities to network with international and local exhibitors, as well as high-level forums, informative seminars, and top-notch entertainment experiences.
This year, ITE HCMC 2023 will double its scale compared to last year with exceptional quality. Therefore, the event is expected to attract leaders in the international travel industry and over 400 exhibiting companies & brands, of which, the booths from domestic units make up more than 70% and about 30% are international units. As of the end of June 2023, the exhibition has covered over 70% of the exhibition area, with the participation of National Tourism Organizations (NTOs) from countries such as Cambodia, Chile, Taiwan (China), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Japan, the Philippines, and Thailand; Regional Tourism Organizations (RTOs) from St.Petersburg (Russia), Seoul (South Korea), and over 45 provinces and cities of Vietnam, including Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho City, Da Nang City, Hai Phong City, An Giang, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Bac Lieu, Ben Tre, Binh Dinh, Binh Phuoc, Binh Thuan, Ca Mau, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Dong Nai, Dong Thap, Gia Lai, Ha Giang, Ha Tinh, Hau Giang, Kien Giang, Kontum, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Lang Son, Lam Dong, Long An, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Binh, Ninh Thuan, Nghe An, Phu Yen, Quang Binh, Quang Nam, Quang Ninh, Quang Tri, Soc Trang, Tay Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Tien Giang, Thua Thien - Hue, Tra Vinh, Vinh Long, and Yen Bai.
In addition, the exhibition has attracted the leading tourism businesses such as Saigontourist Group, BenThanh Tourist, Vietravel, Tan Son Nhat Hotel, Holiday Inn & Suites Saigon Airport, Melia Hotels International, Movenpick, Tam Chuc National Tourism Area, Tung Lam Tourism Area, Muong Thanh Hospitality, and other sponsor in-kind: The Cocoon Vietnam, BLUSaigon and many more.
ITE HCMC 2023 will be held in a hybrid format, combining physical booths and 2D online booths. These online booths will inform international buyers about products, services and a pre-appointment booking system to connect with sellers. Furthermore, the local experience areas will also be the highlight of this year's expo when displaying and introducing the unique cultural features of Vietnam to international firms and the public through handicrafts, coffee, traditional art workshops, and many more.
Moreover, ITE HCMC has the exclusive Hosted Buyer Program which provides an opportunity for international tourism businesses to grow their markets and broaden tourism partners' networks in Vietnam and the Lower Mekong region. The Organizing Committee, together with the Advisory Board comprised of the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham), and leading tourism businesses, to select and invite over 200 international buyers from 20 countries and territories (increasing by more than 25% compared to 2022). The Hosted Buyer Program is expected to welcome decision makers from international travel agencies, MICE travel companies, luxury travel companies from key inbound markets and potential markets like mainland China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Australia, India, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and many more.
Within the framework of ITE HCMC 2023, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism also cooperates with the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism to organize many exciting activities such as Gala Dinner x World Travel Award – Asia & Oceania Ceremony, Seminar on the introduction of key tourist markets, ITE HCMC Awards 2023, Travel Fun Fair Day and many more.
ITE HCMC 2023 is organized under the guidance of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, organized by Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism and Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Promotion Center, CIS Vietnam, and Le Bros.
Event information:
Exhibition date: 07 – 09 September 2023
- 09:00 - 16:00, 07 - 08 September 2023: exclusively for business visitors
- 16:00 - 18:00, 07 - 08 September 2023: for both business visitors and the public
- 09:00 - 18:00, September 9th, 2023: open to the public
Venue: Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC), 799 Nguyen Van Linh, District 7, Ho Chi Minh City.
Highlight events:
- Ribbon-cutting Ceremony
- Business matching program between international buyers and exhibitors
- High-level Tourism Forum on "Digital Transformation Driving Tourism Development" chaired by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
- ASEAN Public Relations and Communications Forum "Destination Marketing & Sustainable Communications"
- Series of tourism industry seminars
- ITE HCMC Award 2023
- World Travel Awards - Asia Pacific Ceremony
- ASEAN PR Excellence Awards 2023 Ceremony
- Vietnam Night
- Cambodia Night
- Welcome Dinner and Destination survey program for international buyers and press
- Thank you Party
The travel agents who are sourcing for Vietnam's tourism services and products may apply for Hosted Buyer Program via https://itehcmc.travel/buyer-3/buyer-registration/
For National Tourism Organizations (NTOs), Regional Tourism Organizations (RTOs) and travel businesses, who want to showcase their travel services and products may book a stand via www.itehcmc.travel.
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2023-07-03T02:14:50+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/07/03/ite-hcmc-2023-discover-vietnam-global-top-travel-destinations/
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Canal Run organizers still looking for volunteers for Saturday’s race
TV6′s Tia Trudgeon chats with race organizers about how you can participate, whether or not you want to run
HANCOCK, Mich. (WLUC) - The 48th annual Canal Run is happening on Saturday, July 15.
Race organizers say there are a number of ways you can participate, whether or not you plan to run.
They hope to draw a crowd of 1,000 runners and say they still need more volunteers to make sure the race runs as smoothly as possible.
Race Director Angela Luskin tells TV6′s Tia Trudgeon that the race needs about 150 volunteers in total.
While the race will take over the streets of Downtown Houghton and Hancock on Saturday, the fun actually begins on Friday with Key Ingredients.
Todd Gast says Quincy Street in Hancock will be lined with music and the nearby restaurants are prepped for an influx of customers.
That event is happening on Friday, July 14 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and Gast recommends that you bring your own chair.
Online registration for the Canal Run ends on Thursday, July 13 at midnight but you can register in person at Quincy Green on Friday.
There is no same-day race registration.
Quincy Street will be closed from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Friday and from 6:30 to 11:00 a.m. Saturday.
M203 will also have a reduced speed limit of 25 miles per hour during the morning time frame.
Organizers want to limit as much traffic on the race route as possible. You can park your car at the Church of the Resurrection at 900 Quincy St. and take a shuttle to the start of the race.
You can register to race or volunteer at canal.run.
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2023-07-12T15:22:34+00:00
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uppermichiganssource.com
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/07/12/canal-run-organizers-still-looking-volunteers-saturdays-race/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This press release provides shareholders of Cohen & Steers Limited Duration Preferred and Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: LDP) (the "Fund") with information regarding the sources of the distribution to be paid on January 31, 2023 and cumulative distributions paid fiscal year-to-date.
In December 2016, the Fund implemented a managed distribution policy in accordance with exemptive relief issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The managed distribution policy seeks to deliver the Fund's long-term total return potential through regular monthly distributions declared at a fixed rate per common share. The policy gives the Fund greater flexibility to realize long-term capital gains throughout the year and to distribute those gains on a regular monthly basis to shareholders. The Board of Directors of the Fund may amend, terminate or suspend the managed distribution policy at any time, which could have an adverse effect on the market price of the Fund's shares.
The Fund's monthly distributions may include long-term capital gains, short-term capital gains, net investment income and/or return of capital for federal income tax purposes. Return of capital includes distributions paid by the Fund in excess of its net investment income and net realized capital gains and such excess is distributed from the Fund's assets. A return of capital is not taxable; rather, it reduces a shareholder's tax basis in his or her shares of the Fund. The amount of monthly distributions may vary depending on a number of factors, including changes in portfolio and market conditions.
At the time of each monthly distribution, information will be posted to cohenandsteers.com and mailed to shareholders in a concurrent notice. However, this information may change at the end of the year because the final tax characteristics of the Fund's distributions cannot be determined with certainty until after the end of the calendar year. Final tax characteristics of all of the Fund's distributions will be provided on Form 1099-DIV, which is mailed after the close of the calendar year.
The following table sets forth the estimated amounts of the current distribution and the cumulative distributions paid this fiscal year-to-date from the sources indicated. All amounts are expressed per common share.
You should not draw any conclusions about the Fund's investment performance from the amount of this distribution or from the terms of the Fund's managed distribution policy. The Fund estimates that it has distributed more than its income and capital gains; therefore, a portion of your distribution may be a return of capital. A return of capital may occur, for example, when some or all of the money that you invested in the Fund is paid back to you. A return of capital distribution does not necessarily reflect the Fund's investment performance and should not be confused with 'yield' or 'income'. The amounts and sources of distributions reported in this Notice are only estimates, are likely to change over time, and are not being provided for tax reporting purposes. The actual amounts and sources of the amounts for accounting and tax reporting purposes will depend upon the Fund's investment experience during the remainder of its fiscal year and may be subject to changes based on tax regulations. The amounts and sources of distributions year-to-date may be subject to additional adjustments.
*THE FUND WILL SEND YOU A FORM 1099-DIV FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR THAT WILL TELL YOU HOW TO REPORT THESE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR FEDERAL INCOME TAX PURPOSES
The Fund's Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return for fiscal year 2022 (January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022) is set forth below. Shareholders should take note of the relationship between the Year-to-date Cumulative Total Return with the Fund's Cumulative Distribution Rate for 2022. In addition, the Fund's Average Annual Total Return for the five-year period ending December 31, 2022 is set forth below. Shareholders should note the relationship between the Average Annual Total Return with the Fund's Current Annualized Distribution Rate for 2022. The performance and distribution rate information disclosed in the table is based on the Fund's net asset value per share (NAV). The Fund's NAV is calculated as the total market value of all the securities and other assets held by the Fund minus the total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares outstanding. While NAV performance may be indicative of the Fund's investment performance, it does not measure the value of a shareholder's individual investment in the Fund. The value of a shareholder's investment in the Fund is determined by the Fund's market price, which is based on the supply and demand for the Fund's shares in the open market.
Fund Performance and Distribution Rate Information:
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expense of the Fund carefully before investing. You can obtain the Fund's most recent periodic reports, when available, and other regulatory filings by contacting your financial advisor or visiting cohenandsteers.com. These reports and other filings can be found on the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR Database. You should read these reports and other filings carefully before investing.
Shareholders should not use the information provided here in preparing their tax returns. Shareholders will receive a Form 1099-DIV for the calendar year indicating how to report Fund distributions for federal income tax purposes.
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About Cohen & Steers. Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
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Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual outcomes or results to differ materially from those indicated in these statements. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
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2023-01-30T23:21:52+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/01/30/cohen-amp-steers-limited-duration-preferred-income-fund-inc-ldp-notification-sources-distribution-under-section-19a/
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South Korea's official entry at the Oscars this year is a murder mystery-romance blend. Like 2019's "Parasite", it shows how Korean directors are making their mark across the spectrum of film genres.
Copyright 2022 NPR
South Korea's official entry at the Oscars this year is a murder mystery-romance blend. Like 2019's "Parasite", it shows how Korean directors are making their mark across the spectrum of film genres.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-11-06T13:28:12+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/2022-11-06/south-koreas-official-entry-to-the-oscars-is-a-muder-mystery-romance
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- Over 75% of stroke, traumatic brain and spinal cord injury patients face long-term disabilities because of insufficient neurorehabilitation and a shortage of occupational therapists
- Neurofenix's patient-focused approach combines sensor-based technology and telemedicine to personalize rehab and improve recovery
- Founded in 2016 by Imperial graduates and Entrepreneur First alumni Guillem Singla Buxarrais (CEO) and Dimitrios Athanasiou (CTO)
ATLANTA, Aug. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurofenix, the neurological rehabilitation platform that uses sensors to improve patient outcomes, has raised $7 million in Series A funding. This funding was led by AlbionVC, with additional participation by HTH, InHealth Ventures, and existing investors. This will enable Neurofenix to build out its product line and invest in US expansion, including funding US clinical trials.
In the US, where around 795,000 people suffer strokes annually, rehab costs can exceed $17,000 per patient. Neurofenix is the only player in the space providing clinically-validated neuro-rehab combined with patient-centric proprietary technology to enable better patient outcomes.
Neurofenix's rehab program focuses on arm and hand therapy through its NeuroBall™ platform. Designed with input from over 300 therapists and patients, the tool is personalized to each patient based on their needs and enables them to perform increasingly challenging, repetitive movements to build up strength. The advanced sensors detect the smallest of movements so it can be used by impaired patients, while the wi-fi connected app has activities and digital games to motivate patients to use it regularly. Real-time feedback and leaderboards encourage them to continue. In three separate trials carried out at Brunel University London between 2017 and 2021, patients achieved 20x more movement repetitions at home compared to other methods and the portable platform can be taken anywhere.
The proprietary portal enables remote patient monitoring, proving popular in the US with occupational therapists who increased trust in digital care delivery during Covid-19.
Guillem Singla Buxarrais, CEO and Co-Founder, Neurofenix, said: "Over the last six years, we have been developing our patient-centric sensor-based technology and platform to transform neuro-rehab. This has proven transformative as previously patients would not have access to in-person physical or occupational therapy due to insurance, financial, transportation and health barriers."
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2022-08-30T14:09:34+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/08/30/digital-rehabilitation-platform-neurofenix-completes-7-million-series-transform-stroke-brain-injury-recovery/
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DUBLIN — DUBLIN — Allegion PLC (ALLE) on Wednesday reported second-quarter profit of $142 million.
The security device maker posted revenue of $912.5 million in the period, falling short of Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $927 million.
Allegion expects full-year earnings in the range of $6.70 to $6.80 per share.
Allegion shares have climbed 21% since the beginning of the year, while the S&P’s 500 index has climbed 19%. The stock has increased 23% in the last 12 months.
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2023-07-26T11:24:03+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/26/earns-allegion/3137435e-2b99-11ee-a948-a5b8a9b62d84_story.html
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Deep beneath Yellowstone National Park’s exploding geysers and bubbling hot springs — shaped by 2.1 million years of volcanic force — Earth’s tectonic plates are constantly on the move. The strain sends ripples of vibration to the planet’s surface, but the vast majority of the earthly hums and murmurs are imperceptible to the human senses.
Scientists and musicians have teamed up to uncover what it sounds like.
A computer program coded by Domenico Vicinanza, a particle physicist and composer at Britain’s Anglia Ruskin University, converted those underground tremors into a musical score. The result: an oddly beautiful woodwind track.
Musician Alyssa Schwartz performed the score on flute for a live audience in Atlanta on Tuesday, in what she calls a “sonification” of the raw data collected from a Yellowstone seismograph hours earlier. Using separate data, she performed a preview for The Washington Post.
“By listening to the sound, you can actually have a mental image of what’s happening there,” Vicinanza said in an interview.
The music helps “you perceive the quietness or the agitated, frantic state of the earth in that particular region of Yellowstone,” one of the most seismically active places in the United States.
“You can feel how regular or irregular, how smooth and quiet — or how absolutely dramatic” it sounds, he added. “It’s not like language. It can get immediately to this dedicated part of the brain that is connected to feelings and memories.”
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Translating underground oscillations recorded by a seismograph at Yellowstone’s Mary Lake into a musical beat, his technology conveys the data onto a scale familiar to the human ear and constrained within three octaves.
Performing a score generated by computer requires different skills, too.
Moments of musical predictability that a human composer could have written are followed in quick succession by an element no composer would have come up with, flutist Schwartz said.
“Playing music that comes from scientific data is unique, because it doesn’t follow the types of patterns — chords, arpeggios — that musicians are typically trained in,” she said.
But it is also nature’s unpredictability that enables the music to surprise the listener pleasantly.
In the musical sample performed for The Post by Schwartz on the flute Tuesday, derived from Yellowstone data recorded earlier in the day, the score appears mostly in the G major key. “And then there’s this really beautiful moment, about halfway through the clip, that implies D minor. And it moves to this minor tonality,” Schwartz explained. The tonal shift can be heard at approximately 1:08 in the clip.
“There are moments of things that sound human, that sound familiar,” she said. “The data didn’t have that in mind.”
One problem for those performing Earth scores is finding a moment for an intake of breath. The raw data leaves no room for natural pauses or space to set the performer up for a tricky section. “A lot of the music is written in a way that you can detect the missing human,” Schwartz said.
The input data is collected from a seismograph station at Mary Lake, in the park’s center, which Vicinanza selected from among Yellowstone’s network of dozens of seismographs for the varied nature of its tremors.
“The tremor of the earth is essentially something that has a very structural nature. So what I’m doing is trying to extract and highlight and filter the regular part of the structure, and use them in this case to make music,” he said of the “sonification” process.
The program then maps the Earth’s oscillations onto a musical score by translating ground motion data, traditionally represented by the position of a needle on a seismograph, into a pitch. The more dramatically the needle oscillates, the more dramatically the rendered pitch will jump up and down.
“What you hear is a melody that has a very familiar structure because it uses the notes of a scale that we consider familiar, that we are comfortable with,” he said. “What I’m doing is essentially tracing the seismogram on a piece of music.”
The music builds upon previous work by Vicinanza, who has pioneered software’s use in turning scientific data into musical sound — a practice that has become increasingly popular in recent years. Listening to data points, rather than looking at visual representations of them, can help scientists interpret complex data, as our ears can be more sensitive to patterns than our eyes.
In March, Vicinanza translated the waveform data of interstellar space into a separate flute melody. The score represents the moment NASA’s Voyager 1 left the bubble around the sun and entered interstellar space, billions of miles away from Earth — gradually increasing in loudness as the spacecraft crosses the threshold.
Each note represents one day of average readings of plasma waves, caused by the oscillation of charged particles in space. Toward the end, as Voyager 1 struggled to beam data a greater distance back to Earth, the notes become more sparse.
Kasha Patel contributed to this report.
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2023-05-10T10:46:08+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/05/10/yellowstone-flute-music-seismic-activity/
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Through Thursday, March 16, 2023
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- Woman wanted for murder in Ohio arrested in Laredo
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- Man robbed of car after picking up woman at 'prostitute alley'
- Firearms, ammo and cash found after shots fired report
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- Two arrested in human smuggling attempt
- LTX helping shape Laredo's volleyball future
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- Laredo unveils accessible playground at North Central Park
- Woman arrested in relation to three shootings
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2023-03-16T14:50:14+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/nhl-scoring-leaders-17842961.php
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Potato farming innovations on display at Spudnik company open house
BLACKFOOT, Idaho (KIFI) - Innovations in potato farming equipment are being made at Sputnik in Blackfoot, Idaho. With a shrinking labor force, the right tools for the job mean everything.
"Some of these farms now are harvesting, you know, 80, 9000 thousand sacks a day," Spudnik regional sales manager Brent Rigby said. "You've got to run that amount of product over both the harvester and your cleaning and your pilots. That's why the size is getting bigger all the time to handle that volume."
More than 12 million pounds of steel come through the factory each year where it's cut, welded and assembled into planting and harvesting equipment.
Each innovation is designed to increase farming yield in a small window of opportunity.
"What you're looking at in the potato industry is when we start in the spring, we have a window that we can play. In that window, we need to be very careful that we hit both soil temperatures and also growing degree days so that we can get the best truck that we so we get the yield and the quality that we need," Rigby said. "A lot of times, as these farms have got bigger, we're trying to do more acres with less equipment. But, we still have got to get across to the time time-frame."
Depending on their soil, farmers have to choose which planter or harvester works best for them. For example, sputnik designs harvesters to sort rocks from potatoes for sandy rocky soils like California or planters to increase yield for Idaho soil.
And that's not all they're working on. Spudnik is also designing a self-propelling Harvester.
"We started designing it over a year and a half ago and we started putting it together. Our goal is, is that we'll get it down into Arizona about May time so that we can put it in the field and start digging with it," Rigby said.
Farmers can see Sputnik's innovations at the company open house on Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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2023-01-14T04:57:19+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/news/blackfoot/2023/01/13/potato-farming-innovations-on-display-at-spudnik-company-open-house/
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Columnist Eugene Robinson is online every Tuesday for a reader Q&A where he’ll talk about the latest political and cultural developments. Submit your question or comment below. The live discussion will start on this page at 1 p.m. Eastern.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
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2022-06-28T18:31:52+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/05/eugene-robinson-reader-qa/
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WFO SAN DIEGO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, November 9, 2022
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WINTER STORM WATCH
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service San Diego CA
232 AM PST Sun Nov 6 2022
...WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY EVENING
THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON ABOVE 6000 FEET...
* WHAT...Heavy snow and strong winds expected. Total snowfall
accumulations of 2 to 5 inches between 6000 and 7000 feet, 6 to
12 inches between 7000 and 8000 feet, and 1 to 2 feet above 8000
feet are expected. Elevations above 7000 feet will have the
potential to see a foot of snow, with localized higher amounts
above 8000 feet. Strong south to southwest winds of 30 to 40 MPH
with gusts to 50 MPH.
* WHERE...Elevations in the San Bernardino County Mountains and
Riverside County Mountains generally above 6000 feet. Snow
levels will be near 8000 feet through Tuesday but will fall to
around 5500 feet by Wednesday morning. The strongest winds will
occur near ridge tops and along desert slopes.
* WHEN...From Tuesday through Wednesday afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible due to
dense fog, and heavy blowing snow at times. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute. Gusty
winds could bring down tree branches.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Monitor the latest forecasts for updates on this situation.
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2022-11-06T11:26:58+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-SAN-DIEGO-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17562276.php
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NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Veru Inc. ("Veru" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: VERU) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Veru investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of all investors who purchased or otherwise acquired Veru Inc. common stock between May 11, 2022 and November 9, 2022, inclusive. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
VERU investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: 1) the Company had withheld material adverse facts about the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial and the Company's interactions with the United States Food and Drug Administration; 2) defendants misled Veru's shareholders to believe that the data from the sabizabulin Phase 3 trial was sufficient to support Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA") and even the submission of a New Drug Application without any further studies; and 3) the Company's filings concealed the true risks faced by Veru in gaining approval for its EUA request.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Veru during the relevant time frame, you have until February 6, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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2023-01-19T11:17:11+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/01/19/veru-lawsuit-alert-levi-amp-korsinsky-notifies-veru-inc-investors-class-action-lawsuit-upcoming-deadline/
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The White House hasn’t focused on hunger since a game-changing gathering in 1969. Last week, though, President Joe Biden invited experts on food policy to the White House, returning attention to this important issue.
That kind of attention to hunger and nutrition from the very top matters.
For a wealthy nation, U.S. rates of hunger are unacceptable, as we know all too well in New Mexico. Here, it is experienced by one of every six people and one of every four children. Too many of our neighbors don’t know where their next meal will come from — a reality that must change.
As it did with so many societal ills, the pandemic underscored the challenges people in the United States face because of food. We saw long lines at food banks when people lacked the necessities to keep their families fed. We also saw unhealthy people — many with diet-related illnesses such as hypertension or diabetes — were at higher risk for hospitalization or dying.
Which reveals another key point: Too much of the food people eat lacks nutritional value. It is unhealthy, and so are the people who eat it.
Fortunately, the White House conference is aiming at developing a national strategy on hunger, nutrition and health.
The 1969 gathering, organized by President Richard Nixon, produced important advancements in combating hunger. It led to the creation or strengthening of foundational programs — expanding food stamps (now called SNAP) and the federal school lunch program, as well as establishing the supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children and permanent authorization of the national school breakfast program.
As with so many issues, there are different approaches to tackling this monumental problem. But fighting hunger must not become a victim to partisanship.
President Biden wants to see Congress extend the child tax credit permanently, raise the minimum wage and expand nutrition assistance programs. When people have more money, they can buy the food they need. When they are short of funds, well-supported nutrition assistance programs can fill the gaps.
An innovation this time around is the long-overdue recognition that food is medicine. Health care programs are going to be able to pay for medically tailored meals, which would help poorer people afford nutritious food.
Alleviating hunger and improving nutrition go hand in hand, Biden told the gathering.
“If you look at your child and you can’t feed your child, what the hell else matters?” Biden said. “In America, no child should go to bed hungry. No parent should die of disease that can be prevented.”
For those words to become reality, much remains to be done. With many pandemic benefits coming to an end — the child tax credit already has expired — food insecurity likely will rise, just as winter comes on.
Members of Congress must work together on this issue, and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, an Albuquerque Democrat, is a leader in fighting hunger through advocacy and proposed legislation. As a member of the Hunger Caucus in the House, Stansbury was an invited guest at the conference, designed to raise awareness and bring together resources — Biden has the ambitious goal of ending hunger by 2030.
Eight billion in private- and public-sector dollars already have been committed and a detailed plan developed that is designed to end hunger, link nutrition and health, and empower consumers to make better eating choices. All of this while making sure healthy food is available in all parts of the country. By 2030, Walgreens is committing to increasing fresh food in its stores by 20 percent. Family farms will increase their donations of produce to food banks, and meal delivery services are promising to take food to people without resources.
Eliminating hunger is far from a simple task. But with the White House focusing on the problem — and bringing in the knowledge of private and nonprofit food experts — this is one war the country can win.
No one should be hungry in the United States because they can’t afford the price of a meal. No one.
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2022-10-02T07:42:32+00:00
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santafenewmexican.com
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https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/editorials/white-house-hunger-conference-means-business/article_6003bb74-40f6-11ed-8fe4-134fce9f298e.html
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SHENZHEN, China, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kandao Technology, a leading provider of intelligent hybrid collaboration solutions, is thrilled to announce Kandao Meeting Ultra and Kandao Meeting Ultra Standard are now available for purchase. This innovative 4K all-in-one AI 360 conference camera sets a new standard for 360 hybrid conferencing. Kandao Meeting Ultra is a conference system with two fisheye cameras that captures and stitches 4K 360 views on top, two 15.6-inch IPS touchscreen displays that double as a control panel, a 10-watt Hi-Fi speaker, and eight omnidirectional microphones. Exterior connections include a single HDMI IN, two HDMI OUT, an ethernet port, a single USB-C connection and multiple USB A ports. It is a complete, portable conferencing solution with built-in Android OS and AI auto-framing and tracking algorithm. Kandao Meeting Ultra Standard is released at the same time as a screenless and even more cost-effective version.
Why 360-degree AI conference camera?
Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard both have 360 degree views so that the entire meeting room can be captured and all local attendees are equally shown when joining hybrid meetings. Speaking participants do not need to squeeze together around single webcams. They can move around the room while always being auto-framed and focused by state-of-the-art audio and video AI algorithm. This huge step forward help meeting attendees achieve seamless hybrid collaboration with hardware features such as 8-core CPU, 4-core GPU, and 6-Tops NPU in, realizing stable transmission, precise human face and voice detection, and low-latency tracking.
What makes Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard stand out?
To solve the center-of-table conference camera issue, where participants unnaturally turn their heads towards the TV or webcam in the front of room, Kandao Meeting Ultra positions two FHD screens right underneath the camera. This creates a more natural face-to-face collaboration by displaying the meeting right in front of you while showing the front face of local users to the remote attendees. Users have become accustomed to the single webcam and laptop experience, and we've extended this experience to multiple participants in a huddle room or conference room.
Two huge feature upgrades for image quality are the High Dynamic Range and noise reduction. Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard output streams at 4K 30FPS HDR video to avoid overexposure when conferencing near windows, while brightening up shady areas. Plus built-in noise reduction algorithm, faces can be recorded and displayed vividly and clearly. Users can also manually adjust exposure values in the settings to brighten dark spaces or lighten dark environments, to create the ideal lighting for meeting experiences.
In order to ensure every idea can be well-conveyed and heard, Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard sport a premium full-duplex audio system and implements an ambient noise cancellation AI algorithm. Without affecting the clarity and quality of spoken voices, it cancels distracting noises such as keyboard typing, car honking, doors opening and closing, and pen clicking, creating a focused meeting environment.
Flexible and customized conference view
There are three discussion modes for multi-attendee framing, main-speaker focusing, and all-attendee displaying. The device can automatically reframe views to capture up to eight detected local attendees. Similar to previous Kandao Meeting conference device models, the Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard have a panorama on top to show all attendees and are now upgraded to provide the option of removing this panorama.
One special feature on top of the AI speaker tracking algorithm is the ability to manually control viewing angles and zoom functionality. Users can simply lock the views in place (gallery view or speaker view with up to 8 participants shown simultaneously), then tap on individual frames to adjust the view and zoom in on speakers to provide even greater accuracy in tracking active speakers. The 360 panoramic viewing angle can also be adjusted and ignore zones can be set up to prevent the algorithm from auto-framing.
BYOD and Screensharing
Both Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra standard are robust 360 conferencing systems that operate as standalone devices supporting any video conferencing platforms. However, they also can still be used as computer USB peripherals for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments. You can use an HDMI cable to easily share your screen during meetings or share through wireless screen mirroring from iOS devices, Mac OS devices, Android devices, or Windows-system devices. Having two HDMI OUT ports enables connection to two external screens creating more possibilities for sharing in larger spaces. Users can connect a USB-C cable to a power supply or even use an Ethernet cable for Power over Ethernet capabilities, cutting down on the wiring in the room.
Data protection and privacy
Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard prioritize user privacy and data security. IP addresses or locations will never be stored and does not have open API to connect to outside sources. It has a one-step video conferencing log out and turn Bluetooth on/off functionality.
Which one is right for you?
Kandao Meeting Ultra is the best option to be used as a standalone product, especially for huddle rooms or meeting pods that are currently not video call enabled, such as having a full set up with monitors, cameras, mics, and speakers.
Kandao Meeting Ultra Standard is better for those who prefer to use it as a USB peripheral.
With innovative designs and advanced features, Kandao Meeting Ultra and Kandao Meeting Ultra Standard represent the next standard of 360 hybrid meetings, providing users with a comprehensive and immersive conferencing experience. Kandao Meeting Ultra and Ultra Standard are now available for pre-order. Kandao will hold a manufacturer training session at Infocomm 2023 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando Florida. The event will take place from 2:30-4:30 PM on Thursday, June 15th in room W310AB. Join us today by registering for Infocomm here: bit.ly/Infocomm-MT46
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2023-05-09T15:08:41+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/05/09/kandao-meeting-ultra-kandao-meeting-ultra-standard-revolutionary-4k-all-in-one-ai-360-conference-cameras-standard-now-available-purchase/
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Forecast Outlook 4/11/2023
Record Heat on Tuesday
Temperatures peak on Tuesday with highs in the mid to low 90s around the Las Vegas Valley. The forecast high of 93° in Las Vegas would break the daily record-high temperature of 92° set back in 2014.
Along with the heat, the breeze is picking up as well this afternoon and evening. Along with the breeze, more cloud cover is moving in tonight. Those clouds stick around on Wednesday with high temperatures falling back into the mid 80s. The wind will be sticking around with gusts in the 35-45 mph range on Wednesday.
Temperatures continue to fall Thursday and Friday with highs in the mid 70s. Weekend temperatures rebound back into the mid to low 80s with only a slight breeze between 10 and 20 mph. The potential for stronger wind is back in the forecast early next week with temperatures holding in the 80s and upper 70s. No rain is in the forecast for the next 7 to 10 days.
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2023-04-11T22:16:39+00:00
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fox5vegas.com
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https://www.fox5vegas.com/2023/04/11/forecast-outlook-4112023/
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Wheat for Sep. advanced 36 cents at $8.1275 a bushel; Sep. corn was up 8 cents at $6.1225 a bushel, Sep. oats rose 15.25 cents $6.80 a bushel; while Aug. gained 5.75 cents at $14.66 a bushel.
Beef and pork were higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aug. live cattle rose .70 cent at $1.3562 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle was up .32 cent at $1.7667 a pound; while Aug. lean hogs gained 2.30 cents at $1.1212 a pound.
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2022-07-18T20:47:37+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Grains-higher-Livestock-higher-17312772.php
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