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Webb telescope captures 'green monster' inside a young supernova
The James Webb Space Telescope has spied colorful, never-before-seen details in one of the most well-observed remnants of an exploded star.
The glowing gas and dust of Cassiopeia A is all that remains of a star that exploded in a supernova, and its light reached Earth for the first time 340 years ago. It's the youngest known supernova remnant in our galaxy, which is why the celestial object has been studied by a multitude of ground and space-based telescopes.
Cassiopeia A is located 11,000 light-years away in the Cassiopeia constellation, and the remnant stretches for 10 light-years.
Insights from Cas A, as the remnant is also known, allow scientists to learn more about how stellar explosions occur.
Astronomers turned the Webb telescope and its instruments in the direction of Cas A to see if the observatory's infrared capabilities could pick up anything other telescopes have missed. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, allowing Webb to spy otherwise invisible aspects of the universe.
"Cas A represents our best opportunity to look at the debris field of an exploded star and run a kind of stellar autopsy to understand what type of star was there beforehand and how that star exploded," said Danny Milisavljevic, assistant professor at Purdue University and principal investigator of the Webb program that captured the new observations, in a statement.
"Compared to previous infrared images, we see incredible detail that we haven't been able to access before," said co-investigator Tea Temim, research astronomer at Princeton University, in a statement.
Webb's new infrared image of Cas A has been translated into visible light so the human eye can see the remnant's colors. Red and orange light on the remnant's exterior indicates warm dust, where material ejected from the star before it exploded is colliding with surrounding gas and dust.
Inside the bubble-like structure of the remnant, bright pink light can be seen, along with features that resemble clumps and knots. This material came from the exploded star and includes glowing heavy elements like argon, neon and oxygen.
A bright green loop along the right side of the bubble has also captured the interest of researchers.
"We've nicknamed it the Green Monster in honor of Fenway Park in Boston. If you look closely, you'll notice that it's pockmarked with what look like mini-bubbles," said Milisavljevic. "The shape and complexity are unexpected and challenging to understand."
The team is still trying to understand the sources behind all of the different colors in the image.
Studying remnants like Cas A can help scientists understand cosmic dust, a building block for stars and planets, and how exploded stars release elements crucial for life.
"By understanding the process of exploding stars, we're reading our own origin story," Milisavljevic said. "I'm going to spend the rest of my career trying to understand what's in this data set."
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2023-04-12T13:14:57+00:00
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wtae.com
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https://www.wtae.com/article/webb-telescope-captures-green-monster-inside-young-supernova/43566308
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Conservation champions protecting jaguars, penguins, chimpanzees and more in the running for 2023 Indianapolis Prize and $250,000 award
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc., the presenter of the world's leading award for animal conservation, today named the six Finalists for the Indianapolis Prize, an award that recognizes the most successful conservationists who have achieved major victories in saving an animal species or group of species. This biennial award provides the Winner with $250,000 and the remaining Finalists with $50,000 each.
"These remarkable conservationists have dedicated their lives to protecting nature," said Dr. Rob Shumaker, President & CEO of the Indianapolis Zoological Society. "Their victories are making an authentic difference in saving many animals species. They are heroes who have earned our respect and admiration."
The six Finalists for the 2023 Indianapolis Prize are:
- Christophe Boesch, Ph.D. of the Max Plank Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology and Wild Chimpanzee Foundation for his work with chimpanzees;
- Pablo "Popi" Borboroglu, Ph.D. of the Global Penguin Society for his work with Penguins
- Gerardo Ceballos, Ph.D. of the Institute of Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for his work with jaguars and black-footed ferrets;
- Karen Eckert, Ph.D. of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network for her work with sea turtles;
- Biruté Mary Galdikas, Ph.D. of the Orangutan Foundation International for her work with orangutans; and
- Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, DVM. of the Conservation Through Public Health for her work with mountain gorillas.
A nine-person committee with ties to the scientific and conservation communities, the Indianapolis Zoological society and local community selected the six Finalists for the 2023 Indianapolis Prize. The Finalists were chosen because of their significant contributions to saving an animal species or multiple species, the measurable outcomes resulting from their work, the application and quality of scientific knowledge involved in their conservation efforts, the number of years dedicated to conservation work and a demonstrated spirit of cooperation.
"The Indianapolis Prize makes tremendous contributions to advancing conservation efforts around the world by providing a bigger platform for conservationists to reach members of the public and policymakers," said 2021 Indianapolis Prize Winner and 2023 Indianapolis Prize Jury Member Dr. Amanda Vincent. "This year's Finalists are impressive not only in their dedication to saving species, but also in their huge determination to achieve an impact despite the pandemic and global conflicts. Their commitment is both admirable and inspiring."
The Winner of the 2023 Indianapolis Prize will be announced on May 16 and will receive their award on Sept. 30 at the Indianapolis Prize Gala presented by Cummins Inc. The Gala will be co-hosted by Anne Thompson, NBC News' chief environmental affairs correspondent, and Danni Washington, founder of the nonprofit Big Blue & You and a science communicator and influencer.
"The vital work of this year's Finalists to save animal species is inspiring," said 2021 and 2023 Indianapolis Prize Gala co-host Danni Washington. "I'm thrilled that their efforts are being recognized by the Indianapolis Prize Committee. Their accomplishments serve as an inspiration for the next generation of conservationists and makes me hopeful for a better future for our world."
About the Indianapolis Prize
The Indianapolis Prize recognizes and rewards conservationists who have achieved major victories in advancing the sustainability of an animal species or group of species. Winners receive an unrestricted $250,000 award. Remaining Finalists each receive $50,000. Since 2006, the Indianapolis Prize has administered more than $5.6 million in cash awards. The Indianapolis Prize is administered by the Indianapolis Zoological Society.
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2023-03-01T11:26:25+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/03/01/worlds-leading-award-animal-conservation-names-six-finalists/
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SINGAPORE, March 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FJDynamics, a robotics company, announced the launch of its newest portable power station FJD PONY 500, the latest model in the company's line of new energy products. The PONY 500 comes in half the size of competing products in the market and gaming-changing features that set it apart as a product in the market of off-grid power supplies.
After an extensive analysis of the market and product use cases, the product team at FJDynamics developed the PONY 500. The functionalities and design are based on user-driven insights resulting in a product that is superior in ease of use.
"Most portable power stations in the market are too big and heavy for people to carry them for long distances. Usage difficulty, safety and noise were the biggest user concerns", says Knut Niehaus.
This drove the design of the Pony 500, which redefines 'portability'. FJD PONY 500 provides up to 504 watt-hours of capacity while weighing only 3.6 kg, making it the lightest product in its class. By using FJDynamics' proprietary ternary lithium battery technology, PONY 500 has an energy density 30% higher than traditional lithium-ion batteries. The light and compact design, which boasts half the weight and size of power stations with the same power capacity, means that users can get the same power outdoors with less physical load. The product's leather handle allows it to be carried with one hand by anyone creating a hassle-free experience.
Its quiet operations is another game-changing feature of the Pony 500. The Pony 500 operates without a built-in fan which means it operates at 0dB while competing products operate at 55dB. This way users can be connected to power without disrupting the ambience outdoors.
The Pony 500 works flexibly for different needs and scenarios. It works in extreme temperatures from -20°C to 55°C, a wide temperature threshold from other products in the market. The product also has a modular design, allowing it to be combined with accessories from solar panel modules, MPPT or DC add-ons. In off-grid scenarios needing a higher power capacity, the Pony 500 can work with up to 10 power stations in parallel unlocking 10 times the power. With these game-changing features, the Pony 500 is the perfect companion for any outdoor environment - from camping trips and home backup power to outdoor work such as surveying or emergency rescue.
"We are redefining portability with the launch of our new PONY 500 portable power station," said Martin.Ivanov, R&D Director of FJDynamics. "By leveraging our innovative design and industry-leading battery technology, we have developed a power station that is vastly more portable and capable than any other product available today. This opens up new possibilities for outdoor adventures, field work, and emergency preparedness."
FJDynamics' PONY 500 Portable Power Station is now available on FJDynamics Official Online Store (store.fjdynamics.com). EU orders start shipping immediately, while the US orders will be shipped by May 2023.
About FJDynamics
FJDynamics is a robotics company focusing on digitization, automation and new energy. At present, our technology has been widely applied across precision agriculture, digital construction, geospatial, electrical applications, among others. The company has R&D and operation centers in Singapore, U.S., Sweden, mainland China and Hong Kong. With a commitment to use our technology to drive carbon neutrality and improve the working environment paired with our global reach, we are excited to work with our partners and customers to build a better future for our world.
For more information, please visit www.fjdynamics.com
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2023-03-31T10:27:18+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/03/31/fjdynamics-redefines-portability-with-its-new-power-station-pony-500/
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- PRO1184 first-in human study initiated and first patients dosed
- PRO1160 first-in-human study cleared for initiation in the US
- Both PRO1184 and PRO1160 are based on a novel, proprietary, and internally developed linker-drug technology platform
SUZHOU, China and WOODINVILLE, Wash., Jan. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ProfoundBio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel antibody-based therapeutics, announced that 1) dosing has initiated in the Phase 1 first-in-human clinical trial of PRO1184 (NCT05579366), and 2) the company received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate the Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating PRO1160.
PRO1184
PRO1184 is an ADC comprising a folate receptor alpha-directed antibody conjugated to the exatecan payload with ProfoundBio's novel, proprietary hydrophilic linker. The Phase 1 study will evaluate the safety, activity, and pharmacokinetics of PRO1184 in patients with ovarian, endometrial, breast, non-small cell lung cancers and mesothelioma. This first-in-human study is actively enrolling with multiple clinical trial sites across the United States.
PRO1160
PRO1160 is an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) comprising a CD70-directed antibody conjugated to the exatecan payload with ProfoundBio's novel, proprietary hydrophilic linker. The Phase 1 study will evaluate the safety, activity, and pharmacokinetics of PRO1160 in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma, metastatic or relapsed nasopharyngeal carcinoma, or advanced non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In preclinical studies, PRO1160 demonstrated the potential to be a best-in-class ADC therapeutic with a wide therapeutic window.
"We are taking a major step forward with our next generation ADCs." said Naomi Hunder, MD, CMO of ProfoundBio. "Our preclinical data support the potential for improved safety and activity over prior programs targeting folate receptor alpha and CD70, based on our novel hydrophilic linker and exatecan payload. We are excited to bring these advancements to the clinic, where we hope to help a broader patient population due to a potentially wider therapeutic window and ability to target antigens with low-moderate or heterogeneous tumor expression."
"With two clinical-stage programs, ProfoundBio is poised to validate our novel, proprietary, and internally developed ADC technology platform in the clinic and to bring a series of ADCs with best- and/or first-in-class potential to patients with unmet medical need." said Baiteng Zhao, PhD, Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chair of the Board of ProfoundBio. "We conclude 2022 with several significant accomplishments including the FDA clearance of two INDs and a Series A+ funding round. I am very excited about the momentum and look forward to continued progress of our lead programs in the clinic as well as advancing more pipeline assets through preclinical development and making further breakthroughs in ADC technologies in 2023."
About ProfoundBio
ProfoundBio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel antibody-based therapeutics with curative potential for patients with cancer. Built on internally developed, innovative, and proprietary technology platforms, ProfoundBio has developed a pipeline consisting of multiple drug candidates targeting solid tumors and hematological malignancies that are in discovery, preclinical, and clinical development stages. ProfoundBio has operations in both the greater Seattle area, WA, USA and Suzhou, China.
For more information, please visit www.profoundbio.com.
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2023-01-03T12:53:11+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2023/01/03/profoundbio-announces-initiation-first-in-human-trial-pro1184-folate-receptor-alpha-directed-adc-with-topoisomerase-1-inhibitor-payload-receives-fda-study-may-proceed-letter-pro1160-cd70-directed-adc/
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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump’s legal team is considering asking to move his criminal case from Manhattan to the more conservative New York borough of Staten Island out of concern that he won’t be able to get a fair trial, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The lawyers haven’t made a final decision and are waiting to see the charges in the indictment by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions aren’t public.
The indictment will be unsealed Tuesday when Trump is expected to appear in court to be arraigned and enter a plea of not guilty to charges stemming from a hush-money payment to a porn star before the 2016 election. Trump denies wrongdoing and says the case is part of a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
Jennifer Rodgers, a former federal prosecutor, said any attempt to move the venue is likely to fail because defendants aren’t entitled to seek out juries based on specific characteristics they find more favorable, including political views.
“The only reason he would try to move venue to Staten Island is that he thinks — based on voter registration — that that’s a friendlier potential jury pool for him,” Rodgers said. “That’s not going to fly.”
While President Joe Biden overwhelmingly won Manhattan in the 2020 election, Trump took Staten Island with a 57% share of the vote. He entered the 2024 presidential race in November.
Trump, who has issued statements attacking Bragg and the judge overseeing the case, is at risk of alienating potential jurors through his own behavior, said New York criminal defense attorney Michael Bachner, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
‘Stop talking’
“I’ve represented a bunch of celebrities and the hardest part of representing them is convincing them to just stop talking,” Bachner said. “He’ll get a fair trial, but if you start saying things that are all of a sudden going to cause jurors to be concerned, and are prejudicial to the system, it’s problematic.”
Last month, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled that Trump’s history of inflammatory remarks about the judges and jurors in past cases warranted the use of a rare anonymous jury in the trial of civil sexual-assault claims brought against the former president by New York author E. Jean Carroll. That case is set for trial starting April 25.
Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade, now at the University of Michigan’s law school, said the usual reason for asking a judge to move a trial is evidence that it’s “impossible” to find 12 impartial jurors. But finding fair jurors is possible even in Manhattan, where Trump is less popular than in many other areas, she said.
“You’d be surprised how many people out there pay little attention to the news and lack strong feelings about politics,” she said. “I am reasonably certain they can find 12 people to serve on a jury in this case.”
Claire Finkelstein, a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, said the key for Trump’s lawyers will be weeding out the most anti-Trump potential jurors during jury selection, when they’ll be quizzed extensively about their views.
“Trump has a right to a jury of his peers — that does not mean a jury of Trump supporters,” she said. “His lawyers have the right to strike anyone who appears to be unable to exercise independent judgment on the case based on the facts and the law presented.”
Richard Serafini, a criminal defense lawyer in Florida who was previously a U.S. Justice Department attorney, said a motion to change venue would assume that jurors would ignore their oaths as jurors, ignore jury instructions, ignore evidence and simply vote along political lines. That would be incorrect, he said.
“My experience in doing more than 40 years of trial work is that jurors take their oaths and responsibilities seriously, pay attention to jury instructions, and try to follow the trial evidence wherever it leads,” Serafini said.
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2023-04-02T01:54:03+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-weighs-bid-to-shift-ny-criminal-case-to-staten-island/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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PONCA, NEBRASKA (KCAU) – When Bob Hayes talks, players listen.
“You gotta listen to him, he’s the man,” Ponca senior Sam Ehlers said.
And rightfully so. Bob begain coaching at Ponca in 1984 as an assistant in football, basketball, and head of girls track, before taking the reigns of boys basketball for 17 years. Championing the program to 12 regular season conference championships and its first ever State title in 2007.
“We’ve tried to always develop a culture,” Ponca girls basketball head coach Bob Hayes said. “We were successful with the boys, establishing a culture of family. The parents bought into it, the kids bought into it and it’s evolved.”
And Bob has spread it to girls basketball in recent years. The team finished as State runners up in 2020 and 2021, but are leaving no doubt this season with a roaring 17-1 start.
“They’re playing for each other and they’re really pulling for each other,” Hayes said.
“We play a lot of big games, a lot of high intensity games and him just coming in showing how us how proud he is of us is just a great feeling,” Ponca senior Gracen Evans said. “We don’t just do it for ourselves, we do it for our coaches.”
When you’re a part of so many teams, patience is a virtue. Something Bob has learned over the years. But it’s not just the long-time coach who carries a passion for Ponca, it’s in the Hayes’ name itself. His wife Kristie has kept roughly 1700 scorebooks for Ponca basketball, missing only four games. An influence feeding into Bob’s impact on Ponca athletes, and teachers, both old and new.
“We got our 500th win a few weeks ago and I got a card from my kindergarten teacher and I was like oh my god,” Hayes said. “She’s 90-something years old and sent me a card and that really touched me.”
“Coach Poulosky our boys coach, he’s been coached by Hayes,” Evans said. “One of our assistant coaches has been coached by Hayes. Everything that he gives is not just on the basketball court, it’s also in life. So every little thing that he teaches us is just a great thing.”
Seeing former players return is special. But knowing that he’s played a large part in their lives, is a joy that Bob has cherished. So what’s kept him coming back? Well the answer is simple.
“The kids, their energy keeps you young I think,” Hayes said. “The biggest thing I want those kids to know is that I care about them.”
“He’s done so much for this school, for this community,” Ehlers said. “I think all the teams that have gone through him have gained so much. He works on and off the court. Coming from him I want to be a coach someday.”
And coming up on his 40th year, Hayes says retirement isn’t checking into the game yet. Continuing to draw up new plays, and new lessons, for Ponca posterity.
“I’ve had some of my peers step away and said how’d you know and they said you’ll know and they said it won’t be fun anymore. So far it’s still fun,” Hayes said.
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2023-02-02T01:35:59+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/sports-spotlight-39-year-ponca-coach-bob-hayes-creating-impact-on-and-off-the-court/
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I love my electric Mustang. I did not buy it to save money but I bought it to help save the environment. But according to Consumer Reports, I will save lots of money too: no oil changes, less parts to break down and the equivalent of 90 miles per gallon in energy costs.
Consumer Reports also says that most electric car owners are extremely happy with them. So don't believe the oil companies' propaganda; electric cars are a good choice for most.
William Kroll, Kenosha
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2022-08-23T20:17:12+00:00
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kenoshanews.com
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https://www.kenoshanews.com/letter-to-the-editor-william-kroll/article_1c2498dc-2248-11ed-a6f7-eb95fdcfb6f0.html
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NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Jason Kelley, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about a new Louisiana law that requires users to submit a government ID to look at pornographic material online.
Copyright 2023 NPR
NPR's Andrew Limbong talks with Jason Kelley, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about a new Louisiana law that requires users to submit a government ID to look at pornographic material online.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-01-08T23:20:53+00:00
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kunm.org
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https://www.kunm.org/2023-01-08/louisianas-new-porn-law-carries-user-privacy-risks
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Braves sixth. Marcell Ozuna strikes out swinging. Eddie Rosario lines out to center field to Brandon Marsh. Ronald Acuna Jr. hit by pitch. Dansby Swanson walks. Ronald Acuna Jr. to second. Matt Olson singles to right field. Dansby Swanson to third. Ronald Acuna Jr. scores. Austin Riley singles to shallow infield. Matt Olson to second. Dansby Swanson scores. Travis d'Arnaud singles to shallow center field. Austin Riley to third. Matt Olson scores. Michael Harris II grounds out to second base, Jean Segura to Rhys Hoskins.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Braves 3, Phillies 0.
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2022-10-13T03:43:04+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Philadelphia-Atlanta-Runs-17505651.php
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Tie-Up to Optimize Remittance, Other Financial Solutions for Unbanked
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vesto's powerful digital asset infrastructure for businesses, today announced that it has partnered with Latamex (part of Settle Network company), a fiat-crypto gateway into Latin America, namely Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
The partnership provides additional financial services for Vesto customers, allowing them to earn rewards and transact more cost-efficiently on the protocol, in addition to reducing transaction fees and time in the remittance sector. Remittance is a key use case, particularly from the U.S. to Mexico, which reached a record $51.6 billion in 2021, according to the Wilson Center. Beyond remittances, there is also a growing need for mobile money and other financial solutions to aid the unbanked.
"We offer low-cost banking and financial services to all individuals, and the increase in velocity of crypto adoption in LatAm presents a ripe opportunity," said Christopher McGregor, Vesto CEO. "Thanks to the integration with Latamex, users will enjoy much-improved experiences in crypto-to-fiat conversion and payment processing."
"Latamex is the first fiat-crypto gateway for LatAm and our liquidity and compliance features afford Vesto speed to market," said Jack Saracco, Head of Business Development and Partnerships at Latamex. "We are pleased to partner to facilitate access to crypto and its related benefits, especially as inflation and debased local currencies increase demand for stablecoins and cryptocurrencies."
Today, currency conversions and fees eat into about 6%-7% of the total amount sent in remittances. Combined with the cost of converting from check into cash and dubious conversion rates on the receiver's end, that could end up doubling, presenting a sizable loss from the original remittance figure.
"The benefits of a more affordable, efficient and transparent remittance process are far reaching. Remittance is a lifeline for many, and will have a knock-on effect as recipients retain more of the hard earned money to spend in their local markets," says Oscar Marquez-Mees, Vesto's Managing Director of Latin America.
Vesto's protocol and user-friendly app provide instant low-fee remittance, easy digital onboarding, no minimum deposit, instant liquidity, insurance options, secure wallet services and the ability to link to any existing online bank account.
About Vesto
Vesto is ushering in a new era for finance by making participation in the evolving digital asset ecosystem secure and user-friendly. Vesto delivers an end-to-end solution that allows clients to leverage crypto services via an agile, scalable, and compliant protocol (as a white label service). Its services provide access to the most advanced crypto banking, transaction, and yield generation offerings available. Follow Vesto on Twitter, LinkedIn and at vesto.io
About Latamex
Latamex is the largest fiat-crypto gateway into Latin America allowing its users and global partners to buy cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in local currencies. Latamex aims to make the fiat-crypto transition in LatAm frictionless and accessible to all. Follow Latamex on Twitter, Linkedin, and Latamex.com.
Media Contacts
Vesto: Jill Krebs, jill.krebs@vesto.io
Latamex: Ines Okecki, media@latamex.com
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2022-09-20T15:56:43+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/09/20/vesto-partners-with-latamex-add-fiat-crypto-onoff-ramp-into-latam/
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TORONTO, July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its Sales Enablement Emotional Footprint with six top software providers identified as Champions.
Buyers' mindsets are constantly evolving. With rapidly shifting market trends, sales representatives must be increasingly adaptive and prepared with solutions that meet prospects' current needs. This is why Sales Enablement software is critical. The software is responsible for providing organizations' sales teams with a repository for marketing collateral and sales playbooks. These software-managed tools and resources help sales representatives find the right content, send it to prospects, and track buyer engagement, which closes more deals more efficiently.
Traditionally, sales enablement focused on CRM strategies. However, in 2022, sales enablement is based in AI and automation to effectively complete a sales cycle. This system includes a robust marketing automation solution and pitch automation to target specific clients.
SoftwareReviews has identified the top Sales Enablement software providers organizations should consider this year. The results are based on verified survey data collected from end-user reviews. These providers recognized as 2022 Champions have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Emotional Footprint.
The Net Emotional Footprint (NEF) of each software provider is a result of aggregated emotional response ratings across the areas of service, negotiation, product impact, conflict resolution, strategy, and innovation. The NEF is a powerful indicator of overall user sentiment toward the provider and its product from the software user's point of view.
- MindTickle Sales Readiness Platform, +98 NEF, ranked high for being respectful.
- Bigtincan, +93 NEF, ranked high for enhancing performance.
- Accent, +92 NEF, ranked high for providing security protection.
- Highspot, +91 NEF, ranked high for being trustworthy.
- Allego, +97 NEF, ranked high for being efficient.
- SalesHood +92 NEF, ranked high for continually improving.
SoftwareReviews' comprehensive software reviews provide the most accurate and detailed view of a complicated and ever-changing market. The data comes from real users who use the software day in and day out and IT professionals who have worked with it intimately through procurement, implementation, and maintenance.
To compare and evaluate Sales Enablement software providers using the most in-depth and unbiased analyst reports available, visit SoftwareReviews' dedicated category page.
For more information about SoftwareReviews, the Data Quadrant, or Emotional Footprint, or to access resources to support the software selection process, visit softwarereviews.com and connect via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
SoftwareReviews is the most in-depth source of buyer data and insights for the enterprise software market. By collecting customer experience data from business and IT professionals, the SoftwareReviews methodology produces detailed and authentic insights into the experience of evaluating and purchasing enterprise software.
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2022-07-12T19:41:54+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/12/sales-enablement-software-that-will-help-sales-managers-close-deals-this-year-according-softwarereviews-user-data/
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Pearl Harbor survivor Jack Holder dies in Arizona at age 101
PHOENIX (AP) — Jack Holder, a Pearl Harbor survivor who went on to become a decorated World War II flyer who flew over 100 missions in the Pacific and European theaters, has died in Arizona. He was 101.
Darlene Tryon, a close friend and the executor of Holder’s estate, said he died at Friday at a hospital in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. The Pearl Harbor National Memorial also announced the death. Born to a farming family in Gunter, Texas, Holder joined the Navy in 1940 when he was 18.
He was on duty at Ford Island within Oahu’s Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft bombed the U.S. naval base on Dec. 7, 1941.
“The first bomb that fell on Pearl Harbor was about 100 yards from me,” Holder said, adding that he “saw guys swimming through burning oil in the water.”
Holder recalled diving into a ditch to avoid gunfire.
Hunkered down behind a fortress of sandbags, “I wondered if this was the day I would die,” Holder told the Arizona Republic in a 2016 interview. “That morning I watched as Japanese dive bombers devastated Pearl Harbor. I knew that we would no longer sit on the sidelines of the war ravaging Europe.”
Holder said he spent three harrowing days manning a makeshift machine gun pit, a ditch lined with sandbags, in the aftermath of the attack.
About 2,400 servicemen were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack, which launched the U.S. into World War II. The USS Arizona alone lost 1,177 sailors and Marines, nearly half the death toll.
Holder went on to fight in the Battle of Midway and flew missions over Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands before being transferred to England and flying missions along the French coast and the English Channel.
The Pearl Harbor National Memorial said Holder was awarded two distinguished flying cross medals, six air medals, a presidential citation and six commendation medals in his Navy career before being honorably discharged in 1948.
Holder then flew for 25 years as a corporate and commercial pilot, took up golf and moved to an Arizona retirement community. He also became an avid WWII educator and became a regular at Pearl Harbor commemorations and museums and schools, according to Tryon.
In December 2021, a nonprofit company took Holder on an honor flight out of Mesa’s Falcon Field to celebrate his 100th birthday. Asked at the event to tell his secret to a long life, Holder said “good heart exercise and two scotch and sodas every night.”
Tryon said an early April memorial service is planned for Holder in Phoenix and he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery near the nation’s capital at a later date.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t have statistics for how many Pearl Harbor survivors are still living.
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WILMINGTON, Del., May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont (NYSE: DD) today announced it has been Certified™ by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, employee experience, and leadership behaviors required for market-leading revenue, employee retention and innovation. The certification is based on what employees say about working at DuPont.
"We are thrilled to be recognized as a great place to work because it's based on the dedication and commitment of our employees," said Christopher Raia, Chief Human Resources Officer at DuPont. "At DuPont, we strive for an inclusive work environment where every colleague is respected, valued, and empowered to be their best."
The Great Place to Work Certification™ is based on results of the Trust Index™ survey administered by the Great Place to Work Institute, which assesses employee satisfaction in key areas, from credibility and respect to fairness and camaraderie. A summary of the company's scores is on DuPont's Great Places to Work™ profile, with highlights including:
- 81% of employees feel they are given a great deal of responsibility.
- 80% said when they joined DuPont, they were made to feel welcome.
- 76% indicated that the work they do makes a difference.
- 76% said they feel a sense of pride at what the company has accomplished.
"Great Place To Work Certification is a highly coveted achievement that requires consistent and intentional dedication to the overall employee experience," said Sarah Lewis-Kulin, the Vice President of Global Recognition at Great Place To Work. "By successfully earning this recognition, it is evident that DuPont stands out as one of the top companies to work for, providing a great workplace environment for its employees."
According to Great Place To Work research, job seekers are 4.5 times more likely to find a great boss at a Certified great workplace. Additionally, employees at Certified workplaces are 93% more likely to look forward to coming to work, and are twice as likely to be paid fairly, earn a fair share of the company's profits and have a fair chance at promotion.
To learn more about DuPont's people, culture and career opportunities, visit our careers page at: https://careers.dupont.com/
About Great Place to Work Certification™
Great Place to Work® Certification™ is the most definitive "employer-of-choice" recognition that companies aspire to achieve. It is the only recognition based entirely on what employees report about their workplace experience – specifically, how consistently they experience a high-trust workplace. Great Place to Work Certification is recognized worldwide by employees and employers alike and is the global benchmark for identifying and recognizing outstanding employee experience. Every year, more than 10,000 companies across 60 countries apply to get Great Place to Work-Certified.
About Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is the global authority on workplace culture. Since 1992, they have surveyed more than 100 million employees worldwide and used those deep insights to define what makes a great workplace: trust. Their employee survey platform empowers leaders with the feedback, real-time reporting and insights they need to make data-driven people decisions. Everything they do is driven by the mission to build a better world by helping every organization become a great place to work For All™.
About DuPont
DuPont (NYSE: DD) is a global innovation leader with technology-based materials and solutions that help transform industries and everyday life. Our employees apply diverse science and expertise to help customers advance their best ideas and deliver essential innovations in key markets including electronics, transportation, construction, water, healthcare and worker safety. More information about the company, its businesses and solutions can be found at www.dupont.com. Investors can access information included on the Investor Relations section of the website at investors.dupont.com.
DuPont™, the DuPont Oval Logo, and all trademarks and service marks denoted with ™, SM or ® are owned by affiliates of DuPont de Nemours, Inc. unless otherwise noted.
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Co-Sponsored by the California Transit Association, SB 922 (Wiener) To Help California Meet its Climate Goals
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2022 Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 922, authored by Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and co-sponsored by the California Transit Association, Bay Area Council, SPUR, Silicon Valley Leadership Group and LA Metro. The legislation expands the provision of SB 288 (Wiener, 2020) by extending statutory exemptions to CEQA for transportation projects that significantly advance the state's climate, public safety, and public health goals. The Association released the following statement applauding today's bill signing:
"In recent decades, CEQA has been abused to delay or stop common-sense and climate-friendly transportation projects, undercutting efforts to deliver a cleaner transportation network and environmental benefits," said Michael Pimentel, Executive Director of the California Transit Association. "With the signing of SB 922, local transit and transportation agencies will continue to accelerate the path towards safer streets, cleaner air, and more equitable transportation solutions for all Californians. By expanding and expediting CEQA exemptions for sustainable transportation, we'll unlock the bus, light rail, bike, and pedestrian projects that California needs. The timing couldn't be more critical with historic levels of state, federal and local funding for project delivery on the way. The Association applauds Gov. Newsom, bill author and climate champion Senator Scott Wiener, and the strong bipartisan support from the State Legislature for ensuring this legislation can help California reach its climate goals."
The California Transit Association is comprised of more than 240 member organizations, including all the state's largest urban transit operators, as well as dozens of transit agencies in suburban and rural areas. Its membership also extends to include commuter rail agencies, transit support groups, national and international transit suppliers, and government agencies. The Association is the leading advocate on behalf of public transit in California, representing transit's interests before the California State Legislature, the Governor and regulatory agencies on the local, state and federal levels.
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LONDON (AP) — Almost 2,000 workers at the U.K.’s biggest container port will launch an eight-day strike Sunday over a pay dispute, the latest industrial action to hit the U.K. economy.
Workers including crane drivers and machine operators will walk off their jobs at Felixstowe port on England’s east coast, which handles around 4 million containers a year from 2,000 ships.
The strike comes as people across the U.K. faced travel disruptions Saturday for the third day this week as thousands of rail workers continued a summer of strikes to seek better pay and job security amid soaring food and energy price hikes.
Only around one in five U.K. trains were expected to run on Saturday, with some areas having no services all day. Soccer and cricket fans attending sports games, as well as tourists, were among those affected. The disruptions will continue into Sunday, and union leaders say more strikes are likely.
On Friday, most of London’s underground subway lines did not run due to a separate strike.
The Unite union alleges that Felixstowe port’s parent company, CK Hutchison Holding Ltd., prioritized profits instead of paying workers a decent wage.
Port authorities, for their part, said they were “disappointed” that Unite did not “come to the table for constructive discussions to find a resolution.”
Felixstowe handles almost half of the container freight entering the country. The strike could mean vessels have to be diverted to ports elsewhere in the U.K. or Europe.
A growing number of unions are planning strikes as Britain faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades. Latest figures put inflation at 10.1% — a 40-year-high — and increasing numbers of Britons are struggling to cope with steeply rising energy and food bills as wages fail to catch up with the cost of living.
Postal workers, lawyers, British Telecom staff and garbage collectors have all announced walkouts for later this month.
Rail workers began a series of large-scale strikes that grounded national train travel in June, demanding better pay and working conditions as authorities try to reform the rail system, which has lost large chunks of its income due to the coronavirus pandemic and shifting commuting patterns.
The government and transit unions have not reached a resolution despite months of talks.
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Children treated with Dupixent and topical corticosteroids (TCS) achieved clearer skin, experienced significantly improved overall disease severity and significantly reduced itch compared to TCS alone at week 16 in a Phase 3 trial
Long-term safety data from a 52-week open-label extension trial in this age group reinforce the well-established safety profile of Dupixent observed across all other approved age groups
Dupixent is the first and only biologic medicine approved to treat moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis from infancy through adulthood
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dupixent® (dupilumab) for children aged 6 months to 5 years with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis whose disease is not adequately controlled with topical prescription therapies or when those therapies are not advisable. Regulatory filings for this age group are underway by the European Medicines Agency and regulatory authorities in additional countries.
"Moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis in babies and young children is more than just a rash – the intense itch can make them scratch uncontrollably throughout the day and night and cause their skin to crack and bleed," said Julie Block, President and Chief Executive Officer at National Eczema Association. "Caregivers do their best to manage skincare routines multiple times a day, but for many, topical treatments are not enough. We're pleased to see how scientific innovation and research continues to address unmet needs for the atopic dermatitis community, and we're hopeful for the positive impact Dupixent can have for these children and their families."
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic type 2 inflammatory skin disease. Eighty-five to ninety percent of patients first develop symptoms before 5 years of age, which can often continue through adulthood. Symptoms include intense, persistent itch and skin lesions that cover much of the body, resulting in skin dryness, cracking, pain, redness or darkening, and crusting and oozing. In the U.S., more than 75,000 children aged 5 years and younger have uncontrolled moderate-to-severe disease and are most in need of new treatment options. Moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis may also significantly impact the quality of life of a young child and their caregivers.
"Young children with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis are a significantly underserved population of patients, who spend vulnerable years of their lives suffering through the relentless and far-reaching effects of this chronic disease," said George D. Yancopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., President and Chief Scientific Officer at Regeneron, and a principal inventor of Dupixent. "Dupixent has changed the atopic dermatitis treatment paradigm – significantly clearing skin and reducing itch – by targeting an underlying cause of this disease without broadly suppressing the immune system. Today's approval brings the proven efficacy and, importantly, well-established safety profile of Dupixent to these young children, making it the first of its kind to be approved for any U.S. patient aged six months or older living with this debilitating disease."
"Until today, treatment options in the U.S. for infants and children under the age of 6 suffering from moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis have been limited to topical steroids – which may be associated with significant safety risks when used long-term. This has left patients and their caregivers in desperate need of medicines that can better address the chronic, long-term nature of the disease," Naimish Patel, M.D, Senior Vice President, Head of Global Development, Immunology and Inflammation at Sanofi. "These young people, and their families, often struggle to cope with the significant impact itch can have not only on the body, but on many other facets of daily life. This approval means that Dupixent, with its well-established safety and efficacy profile, is now available to some of the youngest people living with this disease."
The FDA evaluated Dupixent under Priority Review, which is reserved for medicines that represent potentially significant improvements in efficacy or safety in treating serious conditions. The approval is based on data that include a Phase 3 trial evaluating Dupixent every four weeks (200 mg or 300 mg, based on body weight) plus low-potency topical corticosteroids (TCS) or TCS alone. The trial met the primary and all secondary endpoints. At 16 weeks, patients who received Dupixent with TCS experienced the following, compared to TCS alone (placebo):
- 28% achieved clear or almost-clear skin compared to 4% with placebo, the primary endpoint.
- 53% achieved 75% or greater improvement in overall disease severity from baseline compared to 11% with placebo, the co-primary endpoint outside of the U.S.
- 48% achieved clinically meaningful reduction in itch compared to 9% with placebo.
The safety profile of Dupixent observed through 16 weeks in children aged 6 months to 5 years was similar to the safety profile in patients 6 years and older with atopic dermatitis. The long-term safety profile of Dupixent in children aged 6 months to 5 years through 52 weeks was also similar to the safety profile observed in the pivotal trial and consistent with what was observed in older patients with atopic dermatitis. Hand-foot-and-mouth disease and skin papilloma were, respectively, reported in 5% and 2% of Dupixent patients aged 6 months to 5 years, and none of these cases led to treatment discontinuation.
About the Dupixent Trial
The Phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of Dupixent added to standard-of-care low-potency TCS compared to low-potency TCS alone (placebo) in 162 children aged 6 months to 5 years with uncontrolled moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis.
The primary endpoints assessed the proportion of patients achieving an Investigator's Global Assessment (IGA) score of 0 (clear) or 1 (almost clear) and 75% improvement in Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI-75) at week 16. Additional outcome measures included itch reduction, which was assessed using a caregiver-reported 0 to 10 Numerical Rating Scale, with a clinically meaningful improvement defined as ≥4-point improvement at week 16.
Children who completed the trials were eligible to enroll in an open-label extension trial to assess the safety and efficacy of long-term treatment with Dupixent in this age group.
About Dupixent
Dupixent is administered as an injection under the skin (subcutaneous injection) at different injection sites. In patients aged 6 months to 5 years, Dupixent is administered with a pre-filled syringe every four weeks based on weight (200 mg for children ≥5 to <15 kg and 300 mg for children ≥15 to <30 kg). Dupixent is intended for use under the guidance of a healthcare professional and can be given in a clinic or at home by self-administration after training by a healthcare professional. In children younger than 12 years of age, Dupixent should be administered by a caregiver if given at home. Dupixent does not require initial lab testing or ongoing lab monitoring.
Regeneron and Sanofi are committed to helping patients in the U.S. who are prescribed Dupixent gain access to the medicine and receive the support they may need with the DUPIXENT MyWay® program. For more information, please call 1-844-DUPIXENT (1-844-387-4936) or visit www.DUPIXENT.com.
Dupixent is approved for use in certain patients with atopic dermatitis, asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) or eosinophilic esophagitis in different age populations in a number of countries around the world. Dupixent is currently approved across these indications in the U.S. and for one or more of these indications in the European Union and Japan and more than 60 countries. More than 400,000 patients have been treated globally.
Dupixent, which was invented using Regeneron's proprietary VelocImmune® technology, is a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits the signaling of the interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) pathways and is not an immunosuppressant. The Dupixent development program has shown significant clinical benefit and a decrease in type 2 inflammation in Phase 3 trials, establishing that IL-4 and IL-13 are key and central drivers of the type 2 inflammation that plays a major role in multiple related and often co-morbid diseases. These diseases include approved indications for Dupixent such as asthma, atopic dermatitis, CRSwNP and eosinophilic esophagitis, as well as investigational diseases such as prurigo nodularis.
About Regeneron's VelocImmune® Technology
Regeneron's VelocImmune technology utilizes a proprietary genetically engineered mouse platform endowed with a genetically humanized immune system to produce optimized fully human antibodies. When Regeneron's co-Founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer George D. Yancopoulos was a graduate student with his mentor Frederick W. Alt in 1985, they were the first to envision making such a genetically humanized mouse, and Regeneron has spent decades inventing and developing VelocImmune and related VelociSuite® technologies. Dr. Yancopoulos and his team have used VelocImmune technology to create approximately one in five of all original, FDA-approved fully human monoclonal antibodies currently available. This includes REGEN-COV® (casirivimab and imdevimab), Dupixent® (dupilumab), Libtayo® (cemiplimab-rwlc), Praluent® (alirocumab), Kevzara® (sarilumab), Evkeeza® (evinacumab-dgnb) and Inmazeb™ (atoltivimab, maftivimab and odesivimab-ebgn).
Dupilumab Development Program
Dupilumab is being jointly developed by Regeneron and Sanofi under a global collaboration agreement. To date, dupilumab has been studied across more than 60 clinical trials involving more than 10,000 patients with various chronic diseases driven in part by type 2 inflammation.
In addition to the currently approved indications, Regeneron and Sanofi are studying dupilumab in a broad range of diseases driven by type 2 inflammation or other allergic processes in Phase 3 trials, including prurigo nodularis, pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis, hand and foot atopic dermatitis, chronic inducible urticaria-cold, chronic spontaneous urticaria, chronic pruritis of unknown origin, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with evidence of type 2 inflammation, chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyposis, allergic fungal rhinosinusitis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and bullous pemphigoid. These potential uses of dupilumab are currently under clinical investigation, and the safety and efficacy in these conditions have not been fully evaluated by any regulatory authority.
U.S. Indications
DUPIXENT is a prescription medicine used:
- to treat adults and children 6 months of age and older with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (eczema) that is not well controlled with prescription therapies used on the skin (topical), or who cannot use topical therapies. DUPIXENT can be used with or without topical corticosteroids. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with atopic dermatitis under 6 months of age.
- with other asthma medicines for the maintenance treatment of moderate-to-severe eosinophilic or oral steroid dependent asthma in adults and children 6 years of age and older whose asthma is not controlled with their current asthma medicines. DUPIXENT helps prevent severe asthma attacks (exacerbations) and can improve your breathing. DUPIXENT may also help reduce the amount of oral corticosteroids you need while preventing severe asthma attacks and improving your breathing. DUPIXENT is not used to treat sudden breathing problems. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with asthma under 6 years of age.
- with other medicines for the maintenance treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) in adults whose disease is not controlled. It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis under 18 years of age.
- to treat adults and children 12 years of age and older, who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kg), with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). It is not known if DUPIXENT is safe and effective in children with eosinophilic esophagitis under 12 years of age and who weigh at least 88 pounds (40 kg).
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Do not use if you are allergic to dupilumab or to any of the ingredients in DUPIXENT®.
Before using DUPIXENT, tell your healthcare provider about all your medical conditions, including if you:
- have eye problems.
- have a parasitic (helminth) infection.
- are scheduled to receive any vaccinations. You should not receive a "live vaccine" right before and during treatment with DUPIXENT.
- are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known whether DUPIXENT will harm your unborn baby.
- are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. It is not known whether DUPIXENT passes into your breast milk.
Tell your healthcare provider about all the medicines you take, including prescription and over-the- counter medicines, vitamins and herbal supplements.
Especially tell your healthcare provider if you are taking oral, topical, or inhaled corticosteroid medicines; have asthma and use an asthma medicine; or have atopic dermatitis or CRSwNP, and also have asthma. Do not change or stop your corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine without talking to your healthcare provider. This may cause other symptoms that were controlled by the corticosteroid medicine or other asthma medicine to come back.
DUPIXENT can cause serious side effects, including:
- Allergic reactions. DUPIXENT can cause allergic reactions that can sometimes be severe. Stop using DUPIXENT and tell your healthcare provider or get emergency help right away if you get any of the following signs or symptoms: breathing problems or wheezing, swelling of the face, lips, mouth, tongue or throat, fainting, dizziness, feeling lightheaded, fast pulse, fever, hives, joint pain, general ill feeling, itching, skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, nausea or vomiting, or cramps in your stomach-area.
- Eye problems. Tell your healthcare provider if you have any new or worsening eye problems, including eye pain or changes in vision, such as blurred vision. Your healthcare provider may send you to an ophthalmologist for an exam if needed.
- Inflammation of your blood vessels. Rarely, this can happen in people with asthma who receive DUPIXENT. This may happen in people who also take a steroid medicine by mouth that is being stopped or the dose is being lowered. It is not known whether this is caused by DUPIXENT. Tell your healthcare provider right away if you have: rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, a feeling of pins and needles or numbness of your arms or legs, or persistent fever.
- Joint aches and pain. Some people who use DUPIXENT have had trouble walking or moving due to their joint symptoms, and in some cases needed to be hospitalized. Tell your healthcare provider about any new or worsening joint symptoms. Your healthcare provider may stop DUPIXENT if you develop joint symptoms.
The most common side effects include:
- Atopic dermatitis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, cold sores in your mouth or on your lips, and high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia).
- Asthma: injection site reactions, pain in the throat (oropharyngeal pain), high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), and parasitic (helminth) infections.
- Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis: injection site reactions, eye and eyelid inflammation, including redness, swelling, and itching, sometimes with blurred vision, high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia), trouble sleeping (insomnia), toothache, gastritis, and joint pain (arthralgia).
- Eosinophilic esophagitis: injection site reactions, upper respiratory tract infections, cold sores in your mouth or lips, and joint pain (arthralgia).
Tell your healthcare provider if you have any side effect that bothers you or that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side effects of DUPIXENT. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch, or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Use DUPIXENT exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. It's an injection given under the skin (subcutaneous injection). Your healthcare provider will decide if you or your caregiver can inject DUPIXENT. Do not try to prepare and inject DUPIXENT until you or your caregiver have been trained by your healthcare provider. In children 12 years of age and older, it's recommended DUPIXENT be administered by or under supervision of an adult. In children under 12 years of age, DUPIXENT should be given by a caregiver.
Please see accompanying full Prescribing Information including Patient Information.
About Regeneron
Regeneron is a leading biotechnology company that invents, develops and commercializes life-transforming medicines for people with serious diseases. Founded and led for nearly 35 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to numerous FDA-approved treatments and product candidates in development, almost all of which were homegrown in our laboratories. Our medicines and pipeline are designed to help patients with eye diseases, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, pain, hematologic conditions, infectious diseases and rare diseases.
Regeneron is accelerating and improving the traditional drug development process through our proprietary VelociSuite® technologies, such as VelocImmune®, which uses unique genetically humanized mice to produce optimized fully human antibodies and bispecific antibodies, and through ambitious research initiatives such as the Regeneron Genetics Center, which is conducting one of the largest genetics sequencing efforts in the world.
For more information, please visit www.Regeneron.com or follow @Regeneron on Twitter.
About Sanofi
We are an innovative global healthcare company, driven by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions.
Sanofi is listed on EURONEXT: SAN and NASDAQ: SNY
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2022-06-07T22:14:17+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/07/fda-approves-dupixent-dupilumab-first-biologic-medicine-children-aged-6-months-5-years-with-moderate-to-severe-atopic-dermatitis/
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MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leslee Kathryn Buhler Alexander, the wife of former Tennessee governor and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander and a longtime family and children's health advocate, has died at age 77, her family said Sunday.
Known as “Honey,” Alexander was surrounded by her family when she died Saturday at her home outside of the Tennessee city of Maryville, her family said in a statement.
She was married for 53 years to Lamar Alexander, a Republican who served as Tennessee's governor from 1979 to 1987, and campaigned for him throughout his political career. He also served as U.S. education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, ran for president and spent three terms in the U.S. Senate before retiring in 2020.
While her husband was governor, Alexander led the statewide Healthy Children Initiative, which sought to provide prenatal health care for children. She was a member of the 1985-1986 Southern Regional Task Force on Infant Mortality, the governor’s task forces on day care and youth alcohol and drug abuse, and the U.S. Health Secretary’s Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, her family's statement said.
She also co-founded Leadership Nashville in 1976 and served on many boards, including the Junior League of Nashville and the Hermitage. She also had been vice-chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and a board member of Family Service America and the National Archives Foundation, the statement said.
The Honey Alexander Center, located at the Nashville nonprofit Family and Children’s Service, opened in 2019.
“Our dear ‘Honey’ was funny, loving, always caring, unselfish and courageous,” her family said in the statement. “We are so fortunate to have spent our lives with her. We will miss her every day.”
Honey Alexander was born Oct. 12, 1945, in Los Angeles. She was working for U.S. Sen. John Tower of Texas when she met her future husband, who was a staffer for U.S. Sen. Howard Baker Jr. of Tennessee, during a softball game between the two staffs in 1967, her family said. They married in 1969.
Honey Alexander liked to jog, plant flowers and read historical novels, her family said. She also loved to spend time with her children and grandchildren, her family said.
She will be remembered at a private graveside service for family members and at a memorial service to be held later at Christ Church Cathedral in Nashville, the family said.
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2022-10-30T18:26:18+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Wife-of-former-U-S-Sen-Lamar-Alexander-dies-at-17545156.php
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LANCASTER, Ca. (AP) — Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $44 million to the Oregon-based mentoring organization, Friends of the Children, which supports children at risk of entering the welfare system by pairing them with a longtime mentor.
The unrestricted gift, announced Thursday, provides $15 million to the organization’s national headquarters and splits $29 million in direct donations to 12 of the organization’s chapters from Tampa Bay to Detroit to Los Angeles.
Terri Sorensen, the CEO of Friends of the Children, said Scott sent word through intermediaries about why she’d chosen her organization.
“She said that they were doing this because they really hoped more people would find out about Friends of the Children,” said Sorensen, adding that she worked with The Bridgespan Group as part of the vetting process for several months before the amount was finalized.
That reflects what Scott has often said about her donations, writing in a 2020 Medium post that she and her team rigorously study organizations, in part, “to pave the way for unsolicited and unexpected gifts given with full trust and no strings attached.”
“Because our research is data-driven and rigorous,” Scott wrote, “our giving process can be human and soft.”
Sorensen recalled the “surreal” moment in June when she learned of Scott’s gift. She was visiting the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where there was limited cell phone service, and had to drive around to get a signal to take the call.
“I was actually in a ditch when I got the word,” she said.
Scott’s donation nearly doubles the organization’s overall resources, since the national network’s budget for 2022 was $50 million. Founded in 1993, Friends of the Children pays a professional mentor to befriend and support children and their families for 12 years starting in kindergarten.
In 2020, the latest year federal figures are available more than 631,000 children passed through the foster care system. Often families who come in contact with the foster care system have encountered some kind of trauma and have, for whatever reason, not been able to get support at a less critical moment, Sandra Gasca-Gonzalez, a vice president at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, said.
The foundation previously supported Friends of the Children and Gasca-Gonzalez said she hopes one of the outcomes of philanthropic support is to produce evidence and research so that it can qualify for evidence-based government funding.
“The ones that wrap around the whole family are the ones that are really showing some promise,” she said.
In the past eight years, the network expanded from having five chapters to 26, with the help of a $4 million grant in 2016 from the Corporation for National and Community Service, a U.S. government agency. That grant was meant to help the organization expand its program and study the impact it had on children living in poverty.
The chapters plan to use Scott’s donation to pay higher wages to mentors, who they call “friends,” and expand to serve more children, Sorensen said, though she emphasized that each chapter is run independently.
The national headquarters will add staff to increase the administrative support like grant writing and accounting they provide to chapters and establish an impact fund for chapters seeking grants.
The gift is the latest from Scott to be made public and extends the pattern of her giving to other organizations that provide mentorship and support to children like Junior Achievement USA, Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Like nearly all of her more than $12 billion in giving since 2019, Scott’s donation to Friends of the Children was unrestricted and Sorensen said they intend to spend the funds within five years. Scott’s large gifts have challenged other wealthy donors and foundations to assess their own giving strategies.
Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett, donate in relative secrecy. Giving as individuals and not through a foundation means their donations are known only when the recipients disclose them or through her occasional blog posts. She’s written previously that she doesn’t respond to press inquiries in an effort not to overshadow the work of the organizations to which she donates.
Los Angeles, which has one of the highest number of children in foster care than anywhere in the country, is one of the chapters of Friends of the Children that will receive the gifted funds. The organization has two locations there, including one that opened in 2019 in Antelope Valley, located about an hour north of the city. That office won funding from the county mental health department to divert children at risk of being separated from their parents or guardians from entering foster care.
“We’re getting reports from there, the parents and their caregivers, that not only do they have hopes and dreams for their children, but they have their own hopes and dreams and don’t feel so alone by having a friend by their side,” Sorensen said, referring to the mentor assigned to the family.
Their chapters now partner with a range of local organizations to identify children most at risk of being involved in the welfare system and to match them with a long term mentor.
“Perhaps the parents experienced foster care, didn’t graduate from high school, have been incarcerated. Let’s get to those families before they enter the system and keep them out,” Sorensen said. “So that’s really where we like to be on the side of prevention.”
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2022-08-25T16:40:49+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-mackenzie-scott-supports-child-mentors-with-44-million-gift/
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ÅRE, Sweden — Two minutes after earning her 87th career win, Mikaela Shiffrin finally understood the significance of setting the record for most World Cup victories.
In the middle of the awards ceremony, a man in a red jacket unexpectedly stepped forward from the crowd and that was the moment Shiffrin first realized what it all meant to her.
It was her brother, Taylor, who had secretly flown in to Sweden and now came over to hug her.
“I’ve said it the whole time, I don’t know how to define that,” Shiffrin said about the record. “But when you have these special moments ... seeing my brother and (sister-in-law) Kristi and my mom (and coach, Eileen) in the finish today, that’s what makes it memorable.”
Shiffrin set the outright World Cup record for most career victories by winning a slalom Saturday, breaking a tie with Ingemar Stenmark on the all-time overall winners list between men and women. The Swede competed in the 1970s and 80s.
Shiffrin had matched Stenmark’s mark of 86 wins with victory in a giant slalom Friday.
“Pretty hard to comprehend,” said Shiffrin, who crouched and rested her head on her knees after finishing the final run. Runner-up Wendy Holdener of Switzerland and third-place home favorite Anna Swenn Larsson came over to congratulate her.
“My brother and sister-in-law are here and I didn’t know they were coming, that makes this so special,” Shiffrin said. “They flew here for this. I don’t know how they did it, I don’t know how they got here.”
The victory gave Shiffrin the outright record 12 years to the day after her first race on the World Cup, as a 15-year-old at a GS in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic.
In a course-side interview, Shiffrin said she's “so proud of the team, this whole season” for being ”strong and positive" and “having the right goals.”
Shiffrin set the record less than a month after her head coach, Mike Day, left the team in the second week of the world championships in France.
Day's departure, however, has not affected Shiffrin's achievements, as she next won GS gold and slalom silver at the worlds, wrapped up her overall World Cup title at speed races in Norway last weekend, and celebrated back-to-back wins in Sweden to become the winningest ski racer in the 56-year history of the World Cup.
Saturday’s result marked the American’s sixth slalom win of the season and the record-extending 53rd career win in the discipline.
Shiffrin also has a women's record-equaling 20 wins in GS, as well as five in super-G, five in parallel, three in downhill, and one in combined.
“It’s pretty hard to describe — and it’s not over yet, which is even more ridiculous,” said Shiffrin, who turns 28 Monday and is expected to continue until at the least the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Apart from Stenmark's record, which she never actively chased, Shiffrin had no pressure on her shoulders going into her 246th career World Cup race Saturday, having already locked up the discipline title in slalom. On Friday, she had also secured the GS season title.
“I still had the feeling at the start of this run that I have every race, it’s like, I shouldn’t feel pressure. But somehow I feel something in my heartbeat,” Shiffrin said about having to protect her lead after dominating the first run.
Shiffrin posted the fifth-fastest time in the second run to beat Holdener by 0.92 seconds. Swenn Larsson was 0.95 back and the last racer to finish within a second of Shiffrin’s time. Shiffrin’s teammate Paula Moltzan finished 1.54 behind in fourth in the American’s first race since fracturing her left hand last month.
“The best feeling is to ski on the second run when of course you want to win, you have a lead so you have to be sort of be smart but also, I just wanted to be fast, too, and ski the second run like its own race,” Shiffrin said.
“I did exactly that and that is amazing.”
The race took place at a venue where many key moments in Shiffrin’s career happened. At the Swedish lakeside resort, she earned her first World Cup win in 2012 and took slalom gold at the 2019 world championships to become the first skier to win the world title in one discipline four times in a row.
However, Are was also the place where she sustained a knee injury that kept her away from the slopes for two months in the 2015-16 season, and where she was due to race again in March 2020 after the death of her father the previous month, but those races were called off on short notice after Shiffrin's arrival in Sweden because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Shiffrin is set to compete in three more races this season at next week’s World Cup Finals in Soldeu, Andorra.
While she planned to skip Wednesday's downhill, she will race in a super-G the following day, and in a slalom and GS during the weekend.
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2023-03-11T19:45:35+00:00
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11alive.com
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https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/mikaela-shiffrin-sets-world-cup-skiing-record-with-87th-win/507-f8971021-ee07-40fe-876f-e01784d0012e
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--While those who were thought to put children at risk were viewed negatively, a large number of caregivers supported education efforts and technology use to reduce heatstroke risk–
PHILADELPHIA, June 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite prevention efforts, a child dies of heatstroke in a vehicle approximately once every 10 days. According to a new survey of caregivers conducted by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), most caregivers report they never leave children in their vehicles for any length of time. However, the attitudes toward those who were thought to put their children at risk for pediatric vehicular heatstroke are largely negative, which may cause some caregivers not to adopt important mitigation efforts to prevent these tragic deaths.
The findings were recently published in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention.
In the United States in 2019, 53 children died in hot vehicles, one of the highest incident rates in 20 years, bringing the total number of pediatric vehicular heatstroke deaths over two decades to more than 900. In 2019, slightly more than half of those deaths resulted from a caregiver forgetting a child in the vehicle. However, approximately 20% of these deaths occurred when caregivers intentionally left their children in a vehicle. The problem is a global one, with one nonprofit group in Australia reporting that 5,000 unsupervised children are rescued from vehicles each year.
Despite recognition of this ongoing issue, there is little information regarding how often, where, or why caregivers leave children in vehicles, and little is known about attitudes regarding the risks for these incidents and potential mitigation strategies for avoiding these deaths. With a long-term goal of developing effective pediatric vehicular heatstroke prevention strategies, researchers wanted to understand how caregivers perceive their own risks and their attitudes toward prevention strategies.
"We believe this is the first study to characterize the scenarios in which children may be left in the car but do not die, and determine which caregivers engage in this behavior," said lead study author Emma Sartin, PhD, MPH, a research scientist with the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at CHOP. "Going through this initial process with a large U.S. sample helps us determine who might be most at risk of engaging in this behavior and inform how we design prevention advocacy and strategy."
The study found that among 1,500 caregivers surveyed, 88% reported they do not leave their children alone in vehicles for any amount of time. There were differences among those who do leave their children behind including gender, education, income, and number of children. Few respondents (12%) believe they were at any risk for having a child suffer from heatstroke in a vehicle, and most caregivers described negative and possibly judgmental views of those who were at risk of endangering their children. Nearly everyone who participated in the survey (95%) indicated that it was important that caregivers receive education about the risk of pediatric vehicular heatstroke, and 90% would be willing to adopt risk mitigating technology themselves, many believing that they and others would be perceived as better caregivers if they adopted these strategies.
"These findings support the idea that most caregivers believe that something like in-vehicle heatstroke couldn't happen in their families, an idea which may actually increase risks. Yet our results also suggest that there is a substantial number of caregivers who are willing to change behavior if the message is framed positively and not based on threats or scare tactics," Sartin said. "This is important insight to help us identify new ways of preventing these tragic deaths from ever taking place, as well as which caregivers may be at higher risk."
"We found it very encouraging that nearly all caregivers indicated they were willing to use risk-mitigating technology to help prevent a child from being left in their vehicle," said Jalaj Maheshwari, MSE, a research associate at CIRP and co-lead author of the study. "Technology-based solutions to preventing pediatric heatstroke have been increasingly incorporated into child restraint systems and vehicles, particularly since the passage of the Hot Cars Act in 2021 which requires all new passenger motor vehicles to be equipped with a child safety alert system. But we know there is an equally important behavioral component to addressing this issue."
This study was supported by the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center.
Sartin et al, "US Caregivers' Attitudes and Risk Perceptions towards Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke: A National Survey." Accid Anal Prev. Online June 21, 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2023.107147.
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, the 595-bed hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. The institution has a well-established history of providing advanced pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as an inpatient hospital with a dedicated pediatric emergency department in King of Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of Philadelphia recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit https://www.chop.edu.
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2023-06-21T20:17:42+00:00
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/06/21/summer-heats-up-chop-researchers-study-caregiver-attitudes-toward-pediatric-vehicular-heatstroke/
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Former President Trump on Sunday said he sees “no case” in which he’d drop out of the 2024 presidential race, even as he faces down a myriad of legal challenges, including a recent federal indictment over his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
“Is there any circumstances under which you could see yourself dropping out of the 2024 presidential election?” host and longtime Trump ally Roger Stone asked the former president on the debut episode of “The Roger Stone Show” on 77 WABC.
“No. None whatsoever,” Trump said, speaking to Stone just days after he was federally indicted in a 37-count indictment over his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House. He called the indictment “a disgrace” on Sunday.
“No, I see no case in which I would do that. I just wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t do it. I had opportunities in 2016 to do it. And I didn’t do it,” Trump said of dropping out of the 2024 race.
The charges against Trump do not disqualify from running for president. The indictment has changed few minds in the GOP, with lawmakers and even his 2024 primary opponents coming to his defense along with likely Republican voters indicating in a new CBS-YouGov poll that he should still be able to serve as president even if he is convicted.
Trump, who is running to retake the White House in 2024 after losing his 2020 reelection bid to President Biden, became the first former president to face criminal charges when was charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records after an investigation from the Manhattan district attorney earlier this year.
He’s also being looked at by the DOJ’s special counsel in a probe into the transfer of power after the 2020 election, and by a district attorney in Georgia who’s investigating possible election interference attempts in the state.
Trump said in April, after the Manhattan indictment, that he wouldn’t drop out of the race for any legal reason, and doubled down on that sentiment in the wake of the federal indictment in his conversation with Stone, who he notably pardoned at the end of his presidency.
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2023-06-11T22:53:01+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/hill-politics/trump-sees-no-case-in-which-hed-drop-out-of-2024-race-none-whatsoever/
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s capital was recovering early Monday from an insurrection by thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed the country’s top government institutions, leaving a trail of destruction and testing the leadership of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva just a week after he took office.
Rioters ransacked Congress, the presidential palace and the top court in Brasilia on Sunday hoping to trigger a military intervention. It took hours for security forces to regain control of the main government buildings. Hundreds of arrests were carried out through the night, but thousands of Bolsonaro supporters remained in the area.
Lula, who was visiting a city destroyed by rains in the state of Sao Paulo, returned late to the capital to take stock of the situation. He decreed federal intervention in the security of the federal district, which was likely to be confirmed by Congress. In a show of strength, he was likely to meet with the heads of Congress and the top court, as well as state governors who are expected to fly into Brasilia.
“There’s no precedent for this in the history of our country,” Lula said in televised comments, vowing to prosecute the rioters. “We’re going to find out who the financial backers are.”
In the early hours of Monday, top court Justice Alexandre de Moraes criticized the “despicable terrorist attacks on democracy” and ordered Federal District Gov. Ibaneis Rocha removed from office for 90 days while his responsibility in the security breach is investigated.
Moraes also gave police 24 hours to disband Bolsonaro’s supporters who have been camping in front of military headquarters across the country since the conservative leader lost to Lula by a razor-thin margin in an election runoff Oct. 30.
Protesters were draped in Brazilian flags and wearing the yellow national jersey associated with conservative politics when they flooded into the country’s main government buildings Sunday afternoon in an event reminiscent of the Jan. 6, 2021, invasion of the U.S. Capitol.
Some rioters broke windows, furniture and carried out other acts of vandalism at government headquarters, while others took videos and selfies. Communications Minister Paulo Pimenta said several works of art were damaged.
Brazil’s bonds fell during the start of European trading Monday, with the yield on dollar-denominated notes rising five basis points to 6.54%. An exchange-traded fund that tracks the MSCI Brazil Index fell as much as 2.4% during early trading in London.
President Joe Biden called the storming “outrageous,” while leaders across Latin America and Europe were quick to pledge solidarity with Lula. On Twitter, Chile’s President Gabriel Boric characterized the attacks as “unprecedented,” while Colombia’s Gustavo Petro called on members of the Organization of American States to convene and apply the democratic charter.
The unrest Sunday follows months of protests in front of military installations by Bolsonaro supporters who were demanding an intervention to prevent Lula from returning to power after the runoff. In late December there was a bomb scare near Brasilia’s airport. More than 100 buses of Bolsonaro supporters arrived in Brasilia ahead of the Sunday protests.
The former president, who left the country for the United States to avoid taking part in the Jan. 1 power transition ceremony, issued hours later a half-hearted condemnation of the events.
“Peaceful demonstrations, within the law, are part of democracy. But depredations and invasions of public buildings like we saw today, similar to the acts done by the left in 2013 and 2017, are not within the rules,” Bolsonaro said on Twitter.
The events in Brazil also come at a time of intense political volatility in Latin America, a region known for its recurrent instability and social turmoil. In Peru, Pedro Castillo was ousted as president and swiftly jailed after he tried to dissolve Congress last month. In Argentina, President Alberto Fernandez is seeking to impeach the leader of the Supreme Court after a series of clashes between the government and the justice.
Local governments across Brazil and big companies have implemented measures to avoid new episodes of violence. State-controlled oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro SA is monitoring security at its refineries to make sure it isn’t exposed to protests, Jean Paul Prates, the incoming chief executive officer, said Sunday.
Gleisi Hoffmann, the president of the ruling Workers’ Party, criticized the authorities in the capital for failing to prevent the civil unrest. Lula said police who failed to confront protesters would be prosecuted.
Robert Muggah, co-founder of the Igarape Institute, a think tank in Rio de Janeiro, called the riots the most significant threat to Brazilian democracy since the 1964 coup, and said that it will be celebrated by many members of Brazil’s far right.
“They will treat this as a rallying call for future disruptions,” Muggah said. “Today’s violent insurrection is a reminder that democracy can never be taken for granted.”
Other experts said the riots are likely to hurt the support for the far right as most Brazilians condemn violence.
Christian Lynch, a political scientist at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, said Sunday’s events will do irreversible damage to Bolsonaro’s movement, and that the response from all branches of government will be swift and unforgiving.
“It will crush the legitimacy of the far right,” he said. “The system will bring an end to any tolerance for these people.”
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2023-01-10T10:26:02+00:00
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tylerpaper.com
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https://tylerpaper.com/brazil-capital-reels-after-anti-lula-rioters-storm-congress-and-presidential-palace/article_0b9225ba-907b-11ed-8f20-cb6ac19e7bec.html
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GUANGZHOU, China, Aug. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MINISO Group Holding Limited (NYSE: MNSO; HKEx: 9896) ("MINISO", "MINISO Group" or the "Company"), a global retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products, today announced a special cash dividend.
MINISO's board of directors has approved a special cash dividend in the amount of US$0.172 per ADS or US$0.043 per ordinary share, payable as of the close of business on September 9, 2022 to the holders of ADS and ordinary shares of record as of the close of business on August 31, 2022, New York Time and Beijing/Hong Kong Time, respectively. The ex-dividend date will be August 30, 2022. The aggregate amount of cash dividends to be paid is approximately US$53.5 million (RMB360.8 million), which will be funded by surplus cash on the Company's balance sheet.
For holders of ordinary shares, in order to qualify for the dividend, all valid documents for the transfer of shares accompanied by the relevant share certificates must be lodged for registration with the Company's Hong Kong branch share registrar, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, at Shops 1712-1716, 17th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong no later than 4:30 p.m. on August 31, 2022 (Beijing/ Hong Kong Time).
MINISO paid a cash dividend of US$0.156 per ADS or US$0.039 per ordinary share in September 2021. Under the Company's current dividend policy, the determination to make dividend distributions and the amount of such distribution will be made at the discretion of its board of directors and will be based upon the Company's operations and earnings, cash flow, financial condition and other relevant factors.
MINISO's net cash flows from operating activities were RMB1,038.5 million, RMB826.5 million and RMB916.3 million in the fiscal years of 2019, 2020 and 2021, and RMB918.8 million and RMB1,048.2 million in the nine months ended March 31, 2021 and 2022.
About MINISO Group
MINISO is a global retailer offering a variety of design-led lifestyle products. The Company serves consumers primarily through its large network of MINISO stores, and promotes a relaxing, treasure-hunting and engaging shopping experience full of delightful surprises that appeals to all demographics. Aesthetically pleasing design, quality and affordability are at the core of every product in MINISO's wide product portfolio, and the Company continually and frequently rolls out products with these qualities. Since the opening of its first store in China in 2013, the Company has built its flagship brand "MINISO" as a globally recognized retail brand and established a massive store network worldwide. For more information, please visit https://ir.miniso.com/.
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2022-08-17T04:44:56+00:00
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Some recent Disney price hikes outpace inflation. But the crowds keep coming for now
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By Natasha Chen, CNN
Victoria Wade flew from the East Coast to Southern California earlier this month to go to Disneyland. On the day she was set to buy her ticket, she saw the news: Prices went up overnight at US Disney parks, including admission to the original resort in Anaheim that she was about to visit.
Wade had budgeted her trip carefully. She said with a price tag that was suddenly $40 or $50 more, she cut her visit one day short.
“I had the money ready, and then they increased it,” said Wade, a content creator who lives in Maryland. “It was too much to pay.”
While many theme parks raise prices annually, some of the Disney price hikes on October 11 outpaced the US annual inflation rate of 8.2%.
Prices went up for busier-season admission at Disneyland in California, hotel valet parking, the Genie+ skip-the-line service, hundreds of food items at Disney World in Florida and custom-built light sabers and droids, among other things.
For a family of two adults and two children (ages 3 to 9) to park a car at Disneyland Resort during the busier season around Christmas, hop between its two parks and use the Genie+ service, they would now spend $1086 for that single day. That’s before they eat any food or buy any souvenirs. Before the recent price hikes, the cost was $988 (an increase of almost 10%).
Pete Werner, CEO of wdwinfo.com, one of the oldest Disney fan websites, said he thinks the Disney company has neglected its longtime fans and passholders in favor of attracting more casual visitors who generally spend more money per visit.
“The bottom line is ‘make more money with fewer people. And we don’t care who we price out to do it.’ And I’m going to tell you that the quality of the product is less, in my opinion, is less now than it was prior to the pandemic, yet the price has gone up considerably,” he said.
When asked about earning more per guest with fewer in attendance, a Disney official instead described “the positive outcome of a strategy that prioritizes the guest experience. When we focus on delivering a world-class experience, we know our guests will spend more time with us immersed in our stories.”
There are fewer of the least expensive tickets
While the cheapest single-day ticket at Disneyland has stayed at $104 since 2019, there are fewer days of the year where this kind of “low season” ticket is available.
On the other end of the spectrum, a single-day ticket in Anaheim, California, that allows entry to one park during a busy season such as Christmas jumped from $164 to $179, about 9.2%. To add the ability to hop between Disneyland and Disney California Adventure is an extra $65, up 8.3% from $60.
And some things that were once rolled in with park admission now cost extra.
Carlye Wisel, a theme park journalist and podcaster, gave an example of an extra cost that used to be included: the line-skipping service called Genie+ that has replaced FastPass.
“These parks cannot be more expensive and more difficult to visit,” Wisel said. “And what we’re seeing with Genie+ and individual lightning lanes is that you are now paying even more not just for a product that used to be complimentary, but for one that can be very burdensome to use during your visit,” she said.
Admission price increases at Disney’s main competitor in Southern California, Universal Studios Hollywood, were not so steep this year.
Universal Studios Hollywood has a more expensive “low season” ticket priced at $109, which has not changed since 2018. But its most expensive single-day ticket increased 3.9% during its last round of price hikes in January, according to MouseSavers.com. A skip-the-line service at this park can cost guests more than $100 extra per day.
“Universal’s ticket pricing is reflective of the dynamic entertainment and immersive experiences we offer, and we have a wide range of ticket options available to meet the individual needs of our guests,” a Universal Parks & Resorts spokesperson told CNN on Tuesday.
Disney crowds are still coming for now
Werner said every time prices go up, he hears the same refrain.
“For 25 years, I’ve heard that ‘I’m not going to Disney World’ on one hand, while they’re handing them their wallet with the other,” said Werner, who also owns Dreams Unlimited Travel.
And while people may be facing a potential recession, he said that is very different from actually being in a recession. Right now, he said he’s not seeing people canceling their vacations to Disney’s Florida resort.
Wade, the recent Disneyland visitor who was once a Walt Disney World employee, said she ended up visiting Disneyland in California this month on a Monday and found it “ridiculously busy.”
She said she saw a lot of people buying Genie+, which allows Disney visitors to skip the regular line for a faster one called a “lightning lane.”
The service went from a flat fee to a dynamic pricing structure dependent on demand in the October 11 price hikes. On the West Coast, the base price jumped from $20 to $25. On the East Coast, the service that launched at $15 last year is now supposed to range between $15 and $22 for October, with further increases possible.
“People were still buying them, and the lightning lanes were as long as the standby lines,” Wade said.
A park reservation system that began with the Covid-19 pandemic is still in place, and popular dates are booked up well in advance.
‘Cheaper’ season
Still, Disney touts its broad range of prices to meet all budgets.
A Disney official told CNN that the company is purposeful about creating tiers of ticket and hotel price points to allow more guests who want to visit the parks to have that opportunity.
“There are more ways than ever before to visit a Disney Park. Our focus is to provide a great guest experience, and we do that by putting choices in the hands of our guests to decide how and when to experience our resort,” a Disney official said.
For example, a Disneyland ticket for a Tuesday in February will cost much less than a crowded Saturday in December. Disney also pointed to its 35 hotels in the United States that range from AAA four-star to budget. Disney guests are also allowed to bring in their own food and nonalcoholic drinks, as long as they’re not in glass containers.
Don Munsil, president and co-owner of Mouse Savers Inc., has tracked theme park prices for more than 20 years.
“I’m a longtime fan. I don’t love this. But it’s pretty clear that it’s working. Like, Disney is making money,” Munsil said.
Munsil said the tiered pricing by season, or the optional add-on costs of Genie+, are ways to allow people of different income levels to visit the parks, rather than keeping prices flat across the board.
As far as finding those deals to go during a slower season, “Is it possible? Sure. Going to Mars is possible,” said Werner.
“It’s not just the cost of the hotel room. It’s the combined cost of all the things associated with the Disney vacation. And we haven’t even gotten to souvenirs yet. So the cost of popcorn has gone up, the cost of a hamburger has gone up. You have to take these things in totality.”
Are would-be guests going elsewhere?
Recent Disneyland guest Wade once had an annual pass at the Orlando resort, but she gave up her Disney pass this year because of the cost. She still holds annual passes at Hershey Park, Cedar Fair Parks and Universal Orlando Resort.
“They’re essentially pricing out lower-middle-class families. … They want to bring in that more luxury-brand market. I’ve seen it with certain products that they put out just testing the waters,” Wade said. “I see them losing a lot of loyalty from this generation.”
While cost is a major factor, she said there are also more burdensome rules and complicated systems to visiting Disney parks in the post-Covid era compared with other resorts.
Wade said she was recently in Orlando for a week visiting various theme parks: “I was actually just there at Disney World last month. And it was literally the most stressful day out of my whole trip.”
She said teasing out all the strategies she needed in terms of reservations, line-shortening apps and such involves much more work than visiting other resorts.
Competition to Disney
Some experts say other brands are making gains as they focus on higher quality entertainment and new attractions to draw traditional Disney fans away.
“Granted, it is not the same experience as Disney,” Wisel said. “But Universal does have a lot of really, really big banner openings coming down the pike.”
Super Nintendo World opens in the Hollywood park in early 2023. A new theme park called Epic Universe will be added to its Orlando resort in 2025.
Werner said that his travel agency is booking triple the amount of Universal Orlando trips compared with the years before the pandemic while his audience has not changed.
But he added that while fans are discovering other options beyond Disney World, his agency is booking an unprecedented number of Disney Cruise Line trips.
A Disney official told CNN that since 2016, its parks around the world have seen more than 200 new lands, attractions, experiences and festivals, citing more for guests to do and better food and beverage offerings.
While travel agents, hardcore fans and theme park journalists debate whether a product is worth the price, Wisel points out the emotional attachment that brings certain people back to a park such as Disneyland, which represents more than a place to visit.
“It is generational. It is part of our lives. And regardless of all the pricing changes and the difficulty, I think it still resonates with people so deeply that we suffer, but we suffer for what we love.”
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2022-10-19T18:28:50+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/cnn-style-video/2022/10/19/some-recent-disney-price-hikes-outpace-inflation-but-the-crowds-keep-coming-for-now/
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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BingX, one of the leading crypto exchanges, is excited to announce its sponsorship and attendance for the upcoming 2023 edition of the European Blockchain Convention, which is held in Barcelona, and running from 15 to 17 February. This year marks the fifth session of this big event, making for a three-days of activities as more than 200 speakers from the world gather at what's set to be the blockchain industry's major event in Spain.
The European Blockchain Convention is the most influential blockchain event in Europe. It was born with the mission to accelerate the blockchain ecosystem. Since its inaugural conference in 2018 in Barcelona, EBC has hosted thousands of attendees, hundreds of leading speakers, and the best startups in the blockchain & crypto space. Its global audience of founders, investors, regulators, developers, corporations, and many more come together every year to learn, get inspired, and connect.
Pablo Monti, Branding Ambassador, and Megan Nyvold, Head of Media, North America, are invited to represent BingX at this must-attend event and deliver speeches on hot topics in the industry.
The main focus of Pablo's panel is on sports and entertainment, mostly through blockchain and Web3. He gives a unique perspective from an exchange point of view. He takes an overview of the current state of the blockchain industry, and illustrates how technology could change the fan experience with some interesting use cases of blockchain technology for sports and entertainment. Pablo points out that generating new revenue flows and enhancing fan loyalty are two big benefits from the mix, while we still need to face the biggest challenge - to move away from the initial NFT boom.
Pablo also comments on the relationship between sports, esports, gaming, and blockchain, and how Web3 can bring them all together and captivate both current and young audiences. He says: "We need to face the debate about young audiences losing interest in traditional sports, and what we can use from esports, gaming and even blockchain to make a difference. Young audiences are simple: they consume what they want, when they want, and where they want. Sports and entertainment need to pay attention to this and act. We could figure out why sports events have a big impact on young audiences when they are broadcasted by streamers. Now we are going towards a scenery where streamers can coexist with traditional media. However, the problem is how to offer the best possible contents on each platform without having trouble with broadcasting rights and limitations. There's a way, we only need to take it."
Meanwhile, speaking on another occasion, Megan gives her insights into how trust can be built in digital finance. She stresses on that we all need to see the silver lining and grab all possible opportunities to develop with greater roots and confidence after a tough year, even though it is difficult for the greater crypto community. She observes how the industry gets there and what can be done to heal and thrive. According to Megan, the key is to enhance acceptance and accountability, connect communities, ensure safety and punish bad behaviors. She also emphasises the courage to use previous obstacles for growth. And last but not least, time. Time provides room to let narratives cool down, the media relax, and give people the chance to do their own research.
Megan also shares her story with BingX in her speech. Now she is motivated to focus on global implementation and education of cryptocurrency with BingX, which provides excellent services and keeps restoring trust in the industry.
"We are thrilled to sponsor and participate in this big event. It's a wonderful space to connect with the Web3 and crypto community and share brilliant ideas. This time we not only mingle with friends and industry peers and have fun, but also celebrate the resilience and growth of this industry and discuss what the future may hold. As the world's leading crypto exchange, BingX will continue to explore novel solutions and create better user experience. BingX has shown the way to change the world. And this change can start from every individual", Megan adds.
In recognition of growing excitement around the event, BingX also hosts a Cocktail Party nearby, an exclusive dinner and cocktail for partners, KOLs, and crypto professionals to network, by 16th February.
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BingX is a leading crypto exchange that offers spot, derivatives, copy, and grid trading services to over 100 countries and regions worldwide with over 5 million users. BingX continues to connect users with expert traders and the platform in a safe and innovative way.
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2023-02-17T15:00:23+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/02/17/bingxs-highlights-european-blockchain-convention-held-spain/
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BEVERLY HILLS, Mich., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Gala & Associates, Inc., announced that Hussein Elhage, former Sr. Vice President, will assume the position of President as founder Chuni Gala steps into a new role as Executive Advisor and Director.
"Hussein has been with Gala since the inception. He will continue the traditions and legacy of Gala & Associates into the future, providing continuity, stability, and sound leadership," said the outgoing President and founder of Gala & Associates, Inc., Chuni Gala. "Hussein is well respected throughout the industry, and his name is synonymous with Gala & Associates."
"The depth of leadership experience within Gala & Associates is one of the reasons The Austin Company was drawn to acquiring the company," said President and CEO of Austin, Mike Pierce. "Hussein has been with Gala since the beginning. He has progressively grown with the company, taking on additional leadership responsibilities, assisting in the development of Gala's scope of services throughout the U.S. and into Mexico, mentoring young engineers, and overseeing Gala's data and technology departments."
"I am honored to be able to continue to grow the relationships we have built over the past 35 years and lead Gala into the future. I am proud of the company we have built, the team we have assembled, and I look forward to the future," said Elhage.
Hussein holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and a master's degree in Civil Engineering from Wayne State University. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states.
Gala provides architectural engineering, design, and project management services for automotive assembly and heavy industrial facilities. Established in 1987, Gala is headquartered in Beverly Hills, Michigan (a Northern suburb of Detroit, Michigan).
Austin took ownership of Gala in 2022. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Austin has offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Irvine, California; Kalamazoo, Michigan; Merritt Island, Florida; San Luis Potosi, Mexico; and London, United Kingdom. The Austin Company is a subsidiary of Kajima.
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2023-01-11T19:08:00+00:00
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The Red Sox could use a break.
The Yankees put their northern neighbors through a wood chipper over the last two days, outscoring them by an unfathomable 27-3 margin, punctuated by a 13-2 win on Sunday.
After working tirelessly to come back from a rib injury, Boston starting pitcher Chris Sale was forced out of the game in the first inning when a 106.7 mile per hour line drive clipped him, fracturing the pinky finger on his throwing hand. The Red Sox’s bullpen could not stop feeding the Yankees delicious pitches, and the Boston offense mustered just four hits off Gerrit Cole.
Take the next few days off, Red Sox, and check back in on Friday.
On the other side, the Yankees sail into their All-Star break feeling dandy. The complete annihilation of the Red Sox was a fitting way for the team’s first half to end, as they now stand at 64-28, the club’s best record through its first 92 games since the terrific 1998 season. Besides those 1998 Yankees, only the 1927, 1928 and 1939 teams won at least 64 of their first 92 contests. Each of those four groups went on to wear World Series rings.
When Sale had to leave the game after recording just two outs, the levee really burst open. Boston had to use five relievers in Saturday night’s humiliating loss, and their bad luck on Sunday forced them to use eight. The Red Sox (48-45) end the first half having given up double-digit runs in four of their last ten games.
You know it’s a good day for the Yankees when Joey Gallo leaves the yard. The relentlessly ridiculed outfielder only got into the game in the seventh inning because the Yankees had built such a colossal lead, but he used his first at-bat since Friday to hit the 11th home run of his nightmarish year. Interestingly, two of Gallo’s last three homers have come with the Yankees ahead by seven or more runs. Perhaps the key is just to use him like a low-leverage reliever, calling his number when the game is already out of hand.
Gallo came in to give Aaron Judge a breather, but not before Judge got two more hits and one more RBI in. He’ll board a plane to Los Angeles for the All-Star Game with 70 RBI and the league lead in home runs (33) and runs scored (74) in his suitcase.
It wasn’t Judge, Gallo, or even the surface-of-the-sun-hot Matt Carpenter who played the starring role in Sunday’s rout. That went to Tim Locastro, who went 3-for-5 with two stolen bases and the home run that capped the Yankees’ eight-run fourth inning. Mostly in the lineup to give Giancarlo Stanton a day off, Locastro flashed a bit of Stanton’s trademark slugging ability. His shot into the Red Sox’s bullpen should have come with a note saying to get more people warmed up, this is going to be a long game.
Gallo’s round-tripper in the seventh gave the Yankees two more runs, and after that the only real surprise was that the Red Sox didn’t use a position player to pitch. The Yankees had no such problems, as Cole was brilliant yet again. He went seven innings with 12 strikeouts, marking his second start in a row to last at least seven frames with double-digit K’s. Cole’s day began with a close shave to Rafael Devers, his arch nemesis whose six taters are the most anyone has hit off Cole. An inside pitch to Devers in the first inning sent the Red Sox’s third baseman to the ground, giving a long stare back out to the mound while his manager spewed some choice words.
The whole ordeal was frankly very overblown, as the ball was not actually that close to hitting Devers, and Cole was not rattled by it at all. The Bombers’ ace came back with three straight strikes to retire Boston’s wiz kid, the last one a 99 mile per hour fastball up in the zone that spawned a mighty swing and miss.
Right-handed reliever Kaleb Ort took a bite out of DJ LeMahieu with a fastball in the bottom of the eighth, causing a bit of late inning commotion. It was a little unclear why LeMahieu was even still in the game — Judge and Anthony Rizzo had already been lifted — but he’ll have plenty of time to ice it before the Yankees’ return to the field on Thursday.
The first order of business after the All-Star Game is a doubleheader with Houston, but until then, they can glue a big smile to their face knowing how well they’ve played to this point.
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2022-07-17T22:24:28+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/17/yankees-drub-red-sox-13-2-head-into-all-star-break-on-high-note/
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Residents of Nebraska approved a new photo identification requirement for future elections as voters in several states decided measures that could affect the way ballots are cast in the next presidential election.
The voting-related measures were among more than 130 state proposals appearing on ballots, addressing contentious issues such as abortion, taxes, drug policy and labor laws.
Heading into Tuesday’s elections, about two-thirds of states already required some form of identification to vote, though not all of those mandated a photo ID. Nebraska was among the states without an identification requirement, even though Republicans had tried for years to pass one in the Legislature.
The photo ID measure finally made the ballot this year thanks to an initiative petition drive bankrolled by Marlene Ricketts, the mother of term-limited Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts. He said the 2020 election revealed that “people had concern about the integrity of our voting systems,” though there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
While Nebraskans opted for stricter voting rules, Arkansas residents rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made it harder to approve future ballot initiatives. The measure would have required a 60% threshold, instead of a simple majority, to pass citizens' initiatives and constitutional amendments.
Voters in South Dakota rejected a similar measure earlier this year, and Arizona voters on Tuesday also were deciding whether to require a 60% threshold to approve future ballot initiatives containing tax increases.
Alabama voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday requiring future election law changes to take effect at least six months before a general election.
Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting non-U.S. citizens from voting in local elections, becoming the seventh state to do so. The measure championed by the state’s Republican elections chief was in response to an effort to expand noncitizen voting in one small Ohio village, as well as to efforts cropping up in larger cities, such as New York and San Francisco.
Voters in Connecticut approved a measure to expand access to voting. After defeating an advance voting measure in 2014, voters on Tuesday passed a constitutional amendment authorizing the Democratic-led General Assembly to create an early voting law. That would leave Alabama, Mississippi and New Hampshire as the only states without an early in-person voting period available for all voters, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Voters in Michigan were supporting a wide-ranging initiative backed by voting rights advocates. It would expand early voting options, require state-funded return postage and drop boxes for absentee ballots and specify that the Board of State Canvassers has only a "clerical, nondiscretionary" duty to certify election results. The proposal also could preempt Republican attempts to tighten photo identification laws by amending the state constitution to include the current alternative of signing an affidavit.
Votes were still being counted for an Arizona measure that would fortify an existing photo ID law for in-person voting by eliminating an alternative of providing two documents bearing a person’s name and address. People voting by mail — the vast majority in Arizona — would have to list their date of birth and either their driver’s license number, a state identification number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.
A proposed amendment to Nevada’s Constitution would adopt an open primary election to advance the top five vote-getters. Ranked choice voting then would be used to determine the winner of the general election. If no candidate received a majority on the first count, the votes for the bottom candidate would be reassigned to voters’ next preferences until one candidate has a majority. Similar systems already exist for some elections in Maine and in Alaska. But the Nevada measure, if approved this year, would require a second approval in 2024 to take effect.
In other ballot issues, voters in Illinois and Tennessee were moving in opposite directions on labor policies. While Illinois residents were favoring a proposed constitutional right to collective bargaining, Tennessee voters passed a constitutional amendment forbidding workplace contracts from requiring union fees.
Gun policies also drew contrasting approaches in states. Iowa voters approved a measure embedding the right to bear arms in the state constitution. Oregon voters, meanwhile, were deciding whether to restrict gun rights by prohibiting magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds and requiring safety training and a permit to purchase firearms.
Voters in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont all approved constitutional measures against slavery and involuntary servitude, intending to end the potential of that being used as a criminal punishment.
Health care also was on the ballot in some states. An Oregon measure would create a constitutional right to affordable health care and obligate the state to ensure access. A measure in South Dakota would expand Medicaid coverage to adults under the terms of the federal health care law enacted more than a decade ago under former President Barack Obama.
California, as is often the case, was home to the nation's most expensive ballot battle. Hundreds of millions of dollars were poured into the campaigns of two competing initiatives to legalize sports betting — one backed by wealthy Native American tribes and the other by online gambling companies and less-affluent tribes. Both were defeated by voters.
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Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth contributed to this report.
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2022-11-09T08:40:41+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/voter-id-passes-in-nebraska-as-states-settle-ballot-items/QZIDV5CPNZE6POTO4D6SPRQBKU/
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INDIANAPOLIS — Five people were transported to local hospitals after an apartment fire Monday night.
Firefighters responded to 2847 Elwin Dr, which is not far from 30th Street and North Post Road.
The Indianapolis Fire Department says three children — a baby, toddler and possibly a teenager were taken to Riley Hospital and two adults were taken to Eskenazi.
IFD spokesperson Rita Reith tells WRTV the five were all possibly sleeping at the time.
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2023-01-10T16:05:26+00:00
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wtlcfm.com
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https://wtlcfm.com/3419223/five-taken-to-the-hospital-after-indianapolis-apartment-fire/
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(KTXL) — Wet roadways during the rain can create several risks for drivers, one of which is hydroplaning.
Hydroplaning happens when a car loses contact with the road and begins to ride on the water. The sensation of losing traction can send drivers into a panic, but the Department of Motor Vehicles advises drivers to remain calm.
When a car begins to hydroplane, drivers will feel a loss in their ability to steer and control the car. It’s crucial for drivers to not try to steer the car in another direction or press the brake — doing so could send the car into a skid.
Instead, the DMV advises drivers to ease off the gas and let the car slow down by itself. Drivers should then feel the control of the car return to the steering wheel as the tires make contact with the road.
There are various factors that can contribute to a car hydroplaning, such as speed, the amount of rain and the tread on the car tires.
“Hydroplaning is more likely if tire pressure is low, or the tread is worn. (The grooves in a tire carry away the water: if the grooves are not deep, they do not work well),” the DMV said.
Cars are at risk of hydroplaning when going 50 mph in heavy rain, but it could even happen at speeds as slow as 30 mph if there is a significant amount of rain on the road.
To learn more about driving in hazardous conditions, visit the DMV’s website.
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2023-01-14T17:00:24+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/national/what-is-hydroplaning-and-what-should-you-do-if-it-happens-while-you-are-driving/
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HANGZHOU, China, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lynk Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as 'Lynk Pharmaceuticals'), an innovative clinical stage company, announced that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase II clinical trial of its innovative drug LNK01003 in Ulcerative Colitis (UC). This Phase II clinical study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of LNK01003 in patients with active ulcerative colitis.
Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease, mainly manifested as recurrent or persistent chronic inflammatory lesions of the intestinal mucosa and the etiology is not yet fully known. LNK01003 is an oral small molecule JAK inhibitor with intestine-restricted properties. It is a potential first-in-class treatment for ulcerative colitis and other related diseases.
Professor Minhu Chen, the principal investigator of this study, director of the Chinese Medical Association's Society of Gastroenterology, and chief physician of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat Sen University, said, "Ulcerative colitis is a recurrent chronic intestinal inflammatory disease, which is mainly manifested as abdominal pain, diarrhea and rectal bleeding that greatly reduces the quality of life of patients. Current treatments cannot fully meet the clinical needs, and new treatment methods are urgently needed. LNK01003 has demonstrated a good safety profile in healthy subjects, and we expect that it will also have excellent efficacy and safety in clinical trials with patients."
Dr. Henry Wu, Chief Development Officer of Lynk Pharmaceuticals, said, "We are pleased to have completed the first patient dosing of LNK01003. As an innovative intestine-restricted JAK inhibitor with a first-in-class potential, it is exactly what we expected when we designed the drug, which demonstrated extremely low systemic exposure and good safety profile in clinical phase I trials. We will continue to accelerate the clinical studies of LNK01003 and look forward to bringing a safe and more effective treatment to patients as soon as possible."
About Lynk Pharmaceuticals:
Lynk Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage company, was founded in 2018 by senior drug R&D experts and executives from Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson. Lynk Pharmaceuticals is dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative drugs for the treatment of cancer, as well as immune and inflammatory diseases. Driven by a higher goal, Lynk Pharmaceuticals aims to be a market leader to address unmet medical demands by the development of innovative therapies. To date, Lynk Pharmaceuticals has independently developed a number of innovative new drugs, and independently as well as jointly with its US partner launched a number of clinical studies globally. For more information about Lynk Pharmaceuticals, please visit: https://www.lynkpharma.com.
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2022-12-05T12:28:23+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/12/05/lynk-pharmaceuticals-announces-first-patient-dosed-phase-clinical-study-lnk01003-patients-with-ulcerative-colitis/
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Guests include Partners in Health CEO Sheila Davis, Run for Something Co-Founder Amanda Litman, GirlTrek Co-Founders Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, bestselling author Clint Smith, and more.
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Emerson Collective is launching a new podcast series, Almost There, spotlighting extraordinary leaders working to build a more fair and just world. The weekly show will premiere on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and is hosted by acclaimed poet, lawyer, and social entrepreneur Reginald Dwayne Betts. Betts draws on his own remarkable life experiences in his interviews with Emerson Collective fellows to illuminate our collective path forward.
Almost There will introduce listeners to remarkable and creative problem solvers: architects, doctors, writers, voyagers, organizers, artists. Guests' personal stories and perspectives—on topics ranging from teaching American history in the South to building better buildings and parks—showcase progress across education, the environment, immigration, health equity, and civic participation. Each episode contains powerful, actionable lessons for listeners on how to make social change.
For two decades, Betts has used his masterful storytelling abilities and unique voice as both a poet and a lawyer to explore incarceration in America. He's been named a Senior Fellow at Emerson Collective, a MacArthur Fellow, a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Bett is also the founder of Freedom Reads, a first-of-its-kind nonprofit organization dedicated to installing hundreds of libraries inside prisons across the United States. With Freedom Reads, Betts hopes to inspire those who are incarcerated to imagine fresh possibilities for their lives through literature—an experience he had while incarcerated as a young man.
"Almost There is a platform for those who keep refusing to give up – who know there is a destination we are working towards," said Betts. "We're here to share important stories about the social change that's possible, and inspire listeners to take action in their own communities."
New episodes of Almost There will be released weekly on Tuesdays following the show's launch on June 20. The podcast is available at no cost across all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. Season one guests include:
- Bestselling author Clint Smith on how America can improve at telling the truth about slavery's history;
- Architect Michael Murphy, founder of MASS Design Group, on how better-designed architecture can improve public health;
- Social entrepreneurs Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, co-founders of GirlTrek, on how the radically simple act of walking could save the lives of millions of Black women;
- Strategist Amanda Litman, co-founder of Run for Something, on how young people can run for office and win;
- Entrepreneur Elise Smith, founder of Praxis Labs, on how we can build a better modern workplace;
- Nurse Sheila Davis, CEO of Partners In Health, on what the AIDS crisis taught her about keeping the world healthy; and
- Voyager Lehua Kamalu, Voyaging Director for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, on what she has learned sailing across oceans without a compass.
Almost There is brought to audiences in partnership with public media organization PRX––one of the world's top podcast publishers––and is produced for Emerson Collective by Eric Nuzum and Jesse Baker of Magnificent Noise. Magnificent Noise produces shows including Where Should We Begin? With Esther Perel, Together Apart for The New York Times, Far Flung for TED, and This Is Dating.
To learn more about and listen to Almost There, visit
emersoncollective.com/almost-there-podcast.
About Emerson Collective
Emerson Collective is an organization designed to develop opportunities and solutions in education, environment, immigration, gun violence, and health equity through philanthropy, creativity, and investments. Established in 2011 and led by Laurene Powell Jobs, Emerson Collective is working to create new possibilities for individuals, families, and communities.
About Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a poet and lawyer. A 2021 MacArthur Fellow, he is the Executive Director of Freedom Reads, a not-for-profit organization that is radically transforming the access to literature in prisons through the installation of Freedom Libraries in prisons across this country.
For more than twenty-years, he has used his poetry and essays to explore the world of prison and the effects of violence and incarceration on American society. The author of a memoir and three collections of poetry, he has transformed his latest collection of poetry, the American Book Award winning Felon, into a solo theater show that explores the post incarceration experience and lingering consequences of a criminal record through poetry, stories, and engaging with the timeless and transcendental art of paper-making.
In 2019, Betts won the National Magazine Award in the Essays and Criticism category for his NY Times Magazine essay that chronicles his journey from prison to becoming a licensed attorney. He has been awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard's Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emerson Fellow at New America, and most recently a Civil Society Fellow at Aspen. Betts holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.
For additional information, please contact:
Celestine Maddy | Emerson Collective | celestine@emersoncollective.com
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2023-06-06T13:55:32+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/06/06/emerson-collective-reginald-dwayne-betts-debut-almost-there-new-podcast-spotlighting-extraordinary-leaders-working-solve-our-biggest-challenges/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden launched a renewed push Thursday to reduce the costs of shipping goods across oceans, a major challenge for retailers that the White House said has pushed up prices as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic.
The White House released a video featuring Biden talking with retail CEOs and calling on the House to pass the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022, which the Senate passed at the end of March.
The measure would empower the Federal Maritime Commission to investigate late fees charged by carriers and prohibit ocean carriers and marine terminals from refusing to fill available cargo space. Biden’s broader message is that a concentration of corporate power has contributed to higher shipping costs in ways that hurt businesses and fuel inflation.
The video features Biden sitting in the Oval Office, talking by speaker phone with the heads of Tractor Supply, Jo-Ann Stores and the American Farm Bureau Federation.
“There’s only nine shipping companies, nine, N-I-N-E, major ocean line shipping companies who ship from Asia to the United States,” Biden said. “These companies have raised their prices by as much as 1,000%.”
Jo-Ann Stores, a fabric and craft retailer operating in 49 states, have seen a $100 million increase in shipping costs.
“We’re not a huge company, but that $100 million increase that they passed onto us is, you know, more than our entire profit,” Jo-Ann Stores CEO Wade Miquelon told the president in the video.
The White House said that shipping cost increases will likely add a full percentage point to the increase in consumer prices over the next year, according to research by the Kansas City Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank.
Over the past decade, the nine largest ocean carriers have increased their control of the market. They now account for 80% of global container shipping by volume and control 95% of the critical East-West trade lines, the White House said.
Improving supply chains has been a major focus of the Biden administration for the past year, even as other factors — such as food and energy — are now driving inflation. The U.S. government will release on Friday its May consumer price index, which is expected to show inflation of 8.2%. That would be close to a 40-year high set earlier this year.
Biden on Friday will speak at the Port of Los Angeles, which moved last year to round-the-clock operations in order to reduce shipping bottlenecks and relieve inflationary pressures.
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2022-06-09T18:54:33+00:00
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https://kdvr.com/news/money/biden-pushing-to-lower-ocean-shipping-costs-fight-inflation/
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2023-03-03T00:18:28+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A day of terror that left four dead and three wounded in a Tennessee city this week tore a hole in the hearts of those left behind: the grandmother of three children left without parents, the man who lay down beside his fallen best friend and refused to leave, the daughter whose wounded father is her “whole world.”
Police have so far released few details of the rampage that sent Memphis into lockdown as a shooter drove around town for hours, opening fire on people and streaming some of the attacks on social media.
Police arrested 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly on Wednesday night when he surrendered after a car chase and charged him with first-degree murder in the shootings.
Although several of the victims have been publicly identified by friends and relatives, police had released the name of only the first victim, Dewayne Tunstall, on Friday.
Marcus Cash was in his house just before 1 a.m. Wednesday when he heard gunfire and ran outside to where Tunstall and some friends had gathered. Cash and Tunstall were so close that they were like brothers, he said. When Cash saw Tunstall’s body, he just lay down beside him.
“I had his blood all over me,” Cash said. “They couldn’t get me off the ground.”
After police arrived, they held Cash for hours as a precautionary measure, because he was so distraught, he said.
“They said I wasn’t in the right state of mind to be out,” Cash said. “I was emotionally torn.”
When asked what he told police, he said: “You all better catch him before I do.”
Tunstall was featured in a news story on Memphis television station WREG-TV last year after he bought gas for a stranger at a local station. Olivia Jennings told a reporter she was standing in line behind Tunstall when she started joking with him about all the orange juice he was buying. Then he offered to buy her gas.
The small act of kindness touched Jennings so much that she asked to take a photo with Tunstall to post online. She told the station she wanted others to know that while Memphis gets a bad rap, there are good people all over the city.
“The young man is about the same age as my son,” Jennings said. “I would just like to know if he did something kind, people would at least say something. You know, ‘You’re a good kid.’”
Also killed on Wednesday was Allison Parker, a mother of three who worked as a medical assistant at a clinic in nearby West Memphis, Arkansas.
Parker’s mother-in-law, Debbie Holland, said Parker’s children lost their father — her son — a couple of years ago. Speaking by phone on the way to be with her grandchildren Thursday, she said the killer “didn’t just take one life” but also left the children without parents.
“She was beautiful, intelligent, kind-hearted, giving — she would help anybody who asked,” Holland said. “She didn’t deserve to die at the hands of this monster.”
A Facebook post from Dr. Trent Pierce at the Family Practice Center of West Memphis, where Parker worked, said the office was grieving her death.
“Please pray for her family and our entire office staff as we try to process this senseless loss,” it read.
Rodolfo Berger was shopping in an AutoZone when he was shot just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to his daughter.
Police said Kelly streamed the shooting on Facebook live, casually speaking to the camera before opening the store door and firing what appeared to be a pistol. Police said the man who was injured was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Jenny Berger identified the victim as her father in a long post on Facebook.
“Today my dad was a victim of a senseless act of violence. Memphis shooting rampage. He was at the wrong place at the wrong time,” she wrote.
Berger said she was in agony for hours, not knowing what had happened to the man she considers her best friend.
“I love this man so much,” she wrote. “If you know me, you know he’s my world.”
A person who answered the phone at Jenny Berger’s office said she was not granting interviews. She wrote on Facebook that her father is recovering. A family friend has organized a GoFundMe campaign to help with expenses.
“I can feel in my heart he is so STRONG and ready for a journey of healing ahead,” Berger wrote.
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Loller reported from Nashville, Tennessee.
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2022-09-11T06:43:38+00:00
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wwlp.com
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https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/ap-day-of-terror-in-memphis-leaves-family-and-friends-bereft/
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man arrested in what authorities characterized as a terror attack last week on a solar power facility serving Las Vegas Strip casinos was removed from a courtroom Tuesday after becoming verbally disruptive, and his attorney asked a judge to schedule a competency evaluation before he faces multiple felony charges.
Mohammed Reza Mesmarian, 34, seated in shackles with other detainees, interrupted another case by complaining about a “broken” legal system before being escorted by bailiffs out of Las Vegas Justice Court.
Mesmarian, who refused to attend court following his arrest last week, returned Tuesday for a brief initial appearance on charges including terrorism, arson, destruction of property and escape. Details of the incident were not described.
Mesmarian ended by asking Justice of the Peace Nadia Wood, “OK. What are we going to do about the things I was talking about?” The judge didn’t answer.
Mesmarian’s attorney, Nick Pitaro, asked for a mental health evaluation for his client, and Wood scheduled Mesmarian to remain jailed without bail pending evaluations by doctors and a Jan. 31 appearance before a state court judge who will consider their reports.
Pitaro declined outside court to comment or identify a man and woman he conferred with and walked with out of the courthouse.
“Given the nature of the case, I would like not to make any comment,” the attorney said.
Mesmarian is accused of ramming a car through a fence surrounding a solar array about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of downtown Las Vegas and setting the vehicle afire early Jan. 4 next to an electric transformer.
The facility serves several Las Vegas Strip properties operated by MGM Resorts International, including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Aria and Park MGM. Company spokesman Brian Ahern said Tuesday the company switched to the statewide electric grid, and there was no effect at the casino resorts.
FBI Las Vegas spokeswoman Sandra Breault confirmed the bureau is involved in the case as part of a regional Joint Terrorism Task Force, but she said the investigation was headed by Las Vegas police. She declined comment about Mesmarian’s case.
Las Vegas police said Mesmarian was arrested Jan. 5 in Boulder City. KLAS-TV cited court records that said the arrest was near the Boulder Beach campground at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area; that Mesmarian doused electrical transformer wires with gasoline before setting the car ablaze; and he sat and watched the fire for 15 minutes before walking away.
Police reported finding two laptop computers in the burned vehicle, and an iPhone with an account connected to Mesmarian.
Chicago-based Invenergy, operator of the Mega Solar Array facility, notified authorities before noon Jan. 4 of damage, police said. The company said in a statement Tuesday that it shut down plant operations as a precaution, no people were injured, and the facility was expected to return to full operations this week.
The power plant has more than 300,000 solar panels in a 1-square-mile (2.6-square-kilometers) desert area near Interstate 15 and U.S. 93. It began operation in 2021 with a capacity of 100 megawatts, or about enough electricity to power 27,000 U.S. homes.
The incident in Nevada came just days after two men were arrested and charged with vandalizing electrical substations in Washington state and a month after federal regulators ordered a review of security standards at the nation’s electricity transmission network.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission action in December followed shootings that damaged two electric substations in North Carolina and caused more than 45,000 customers to lose power.
At least four electrical substations were targeted in attacks in Oregon and Washington beginning in late November that cut power to customers. Attackers used firearms in at least some of those incidents. The affected utilities — Portland General Electric, the Bonneville Power Administration and Puget Sound Energy — said they were working with the FBI.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism advisory bulletin Nov. 30, listing U.S. critical infrastructure among possible “targets of potential violence.”
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2023-01-11T11:57:53+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-man-held-in-vegas-solar-array-attack-to-get-competency-exams/
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A man walked into Boston Medical Center after he was stabbed in Roxbury on Monday, police said.
Shortly after noon, officers were called to 771 Albany St. near the troubled Mass & Cass intersection for a reported stabbing, police said. The man’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.
The man’s name and age weren’t immediately available, nor was it clear what prompted the stabbing. No arrests have been made, police said.
This is a breaking story that will be updated when more information becomes available.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.
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2022-09-26T18:17:25+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/26/metro/man-stabbed-roxbury/
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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- X Financial (NYSE: XYF) (the "Company" or "we"), a leading online personal finance company in China, today announced the Company's board of directors (the "Board") has authorized to upsize its share repurchase program to US$20 million from US$15 million (the "Share Repurchase Program"). The Share Repurchase Program will be effective through September 2023.
About X Financial
X Financial (NYSE: XYF) (the "Company") is a leading online personal finance company in China. The Company is committed to connecting borrowers on its platform with its institutional funding partners. With its proprietary big data-driven technology, the Company has established strategic partnerships with financial institutions across multiple areas of its business operations, enabling it to facilitate and provide loans to prime borrowers under a risk assessment and control system.
For more information, please visit: http://ir.xiaoyinggroup.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements are made under the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," "targets," "guidance" and similar statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward-looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Any statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements that involve factors, risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such factors and risks include, but not limited to the following: the Company's goals and strategies; its future business development, financial condition and results of operations; the expected growth of the credit industry, and marketplace lending in particular, in China; the demand for and market acceptance of its marketplace's products and services; its ability to attract and retain borrowers and investors on its marketplace; its relationships with its strategic cooperation partners; competition in its industry; and relevant government policies and regulations relating to the corporate structure, business and industry. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company's filings with the SEC. All information provided in this announcement is current as of the date of this announcement, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update such information, except as required under applicable law.
For more information, please contact:
X Financial
Mr. Frank Fuya Zheng
E-mail: ir@xiaoying.com
Christensen
In China
Mr. Eric Yuan
Phone: +86-10-5900-1548
E-mail: eyuan@christensenir.com
In US
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Phone: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@christensenir.com
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2022-09-30T11:52:30+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/09/30/x-financial-upsizes-share-repurchase-program-us20-million/
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers got a jolt offensively when they made the bold decision in October to trade four draft picks to add Christian McCaffrey to an already deep group of playmakers.
The Philadelphia Eagles made an aggressive trade of their own to supercharge their offense when they added game-breaking receiver A.J. Brown in a draft-day trade.
The two moves by the NFC powerhouses are big reasons why the Niners (15-4) and Eagles (15-3) are set to meet in the conference title game in Philadelphia on Sunday with a spot in the Super Bowl on the line.
“It’s what we expected and he’s only exceeded all our expectations,” 49ers tight end George Kittle said of the trade that brought McCaffrey to San Francisco.
McCaffrey was languishing in last place in Carolina and the Niners were sputtering a bit on offense when they sent four draft picks to the Panthers to add McCaffrey.
McCaffrey got back to performing at the star level that made him one of the league’s most dangerous players and the Niners turned into the NFL’s most diverse offense with versatile players like McCaffrey, Kittle, Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk and Kyle Juszczyk.
“He’s a guy that if you leave him one-on-one with a linebacker, good luck: He’s going to tear you apart,” Kittle said. “You have to put two guys on him. And then if you pressure at all, you’re bringing a linebacker, and every other guy on the field has a one-on-one. Whether that’s Deebo, Brandon Aiyuk, me, Kyle Juszczyk. Those are a lot of one-on-ones where I’m going to take my guy over anybody else. And if you double anyone else? Good luck on Christian McCaffrey.”
Since inserting McCaffey into the starting lineup in Week 8 against the Los Angeles Rams, the 49ers have won 12 straight games. During that span, the Niners rank second in the NFL in scoring at 30.4 points per game and second in yards per play with 6.10.
“It’s a force multiplier,” general manager John Lynch said at the time of the trade. “It makes everyone around him better.”
McCaffrey leads the NFL with 1,341 yards from scrimmage in the 11 games since he became a starter and is tied for the most touchdowns with 12, including at least one in the last eight games.
But he is far from satisfied.
“What makes it so fun is that constant pursuit for perfection,” he said. “I think everyone on this team has that.”
Brown has had a similar impact on the Eagles after being acquired from Tennessee during the draft for a first and third-round pick and immediately getting a $100 million, four-year deal with $57 million guaranteed.
The move helped Jalen Hurts develop into an MVP finalist and lifted a team that got knocked out in the wild-card round a year ago as the seventh seed into the top team in the NFC.
“I thought we had a lot of pieces to try and make a potential run,” Brown said. “We’ve just got to put it together and execute. I think things are going well, of course. We’ve still got a lot of work to do. It’s not really a time to self reflect.”
Brown had 155 yards receiving in his Eagles debut and kept on rolling all the way to 88 catches for 1,496 yards and 11 touchdowns. He topped Mike Quick’s 1,409 yards in 1983 for most in a season in team history.
Brown’s addition alongside DeVonta Smith has given the Eagles a much more difficult offense to slow down than the one San Francisco faced in Week 2 of the 2021 season.
“The first thing is his size and strength,” Niners defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans said. “That’s the one thing that separates him from a lot of receivers, but not only that, when he catches the ball he turns it to a different gear. His run after catch, it’s been pretty dynamic to watch this year. He’s big where he can go down the field and make plays on the deep balls, but also he’s just catching the 5-yard routes and turning it up field and turning that into an explosive.”
The Eagles see the difference McCaffrey has made on the 49ers offense as well.
“You just add in another really, really good player into your organization, and that shows up,” defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon said. “He can beat you a lot of different ways, and we’ll have to have a plan for all the ways that he’s beating people.”
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AP Sports Writer Dan Gelston in Philadelphia contributed to this report.
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2023-01-28T05:15:49+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-bold-trades-keyed-offensive-jolts-for-49ers-eagles/
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Lottery players can still achieve billionaire status even though the Powerball massive jackpot was claimed.
The Mega Millions jackpot is estimated to be $1.05 billion with a cash value of $527.9 million.
According to the Pennsylvania Lottery, that is the seventh-largest U.S. lottery jackpot and fourth-largest Mega Millions jackpot to date.
There is plenty of time to get tickets. The next drawing is Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Mega Millions is played in 45 states, including Pennsylvania.
The jackpot has been rolling since it was last won in New York state on April 18.
On July 19, one ticket sold in California won the $1 billion Powerball lottery drawing.
During the last Mega Millions drawing on July 28 two tickets sold in Pennsylvania were worth millions.
A ticket worth $5 million was sold in Chester County and a ticket worth $1 million was sold in McKean County.
The Chester County ticket was sold at Thorndale Inn, 430 Bondsville Road, Downingtown. The inn will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling that Mega Millions with Megaplier ticket.
Nittany Mini Mart, 18265 Route 6 in Smethport, McKean County, earned a $5,000 bonus for selling a Mega Millions ticket worth $1 million.
Players can purchase Mega Millions tickets for Aug. 1 online or at retailers.
READ MORE: Somebody at Penn National got lucky - not with the ponies but with a winning lottery ticket
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2023-07-31T19:59:39+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/lottery/2023/07/mega-millions-lottery-jackpot-estimated-at-105-billion-fourth-largest-ever.html
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The Dodge Challenger is on its way out after the 2023 model year, along with the related Charger, and just in time for the final year, the Challenger SRT Hellcat will be available once again with a manual transmission.
The manual was dropped from the Challenger SRT Hellcat for the whole of the 2022 model year. The reason was due to a revised calibration being developed, a spokesman said when the news was first reported in late 2021.
The spokesman said the manual would eventually return, and Car and Driver reported on Wednesday that the return is happening for the 2023 model year.
The manual is a 6-speed from Tremec. It continued to be available on other Challenger variants like the R/T and R/T Scat Pack, which feature 5.7- and 6.4-liter V-8s, respectively. The SRT Hellcat is powered by a supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 rated at 717 hp, and in 2018 Dodge said approximately 35% of all orders are with the manual.
Dodge has many more changes for 2023 to mark the final year of production of the Challenger and Charger muscle cars. All Challengers and Chargers built for the 2023 model year will feature special goodies signifying them as the last of their kind. While this will vary from model to model, all will come with a commemorative plaque under the hood bearing the scripts “Last Call,” “Designed in Auburn Hills,” and “Assembled in Brampton.” Popular color options will also return, including B5 Blue, Plum Crazy, and Sublime.
Dodge will also offer seven special editions with limited production that reference classic Challenger and Charger models. The first six are the Challenger Shakedown, Charger Super Bee, Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger, Charger King Daytona, and Challenger Black Ghost. The final seventh special model, which will be based on the Challenger, will be revealed in the near future after missing its November debut at the 2022 SEMA show. The reason for the delay? Dodge has been blowing up engines during the development.
Further out Dodge will switch to electric power, and that future has already been previewed with the Charger Daytona SRT concept unveiled in August and expected to spawn a production version in 2024. A high-performance version of the concept, dubbed the Banshee, was shown in November.
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2022-12-03T04:04:15+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/automotive/internet-brands/manual-returns-to-dodge-challenger-srt-hellcat-for-final-shift/
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MIDLAND, MI – Bay City Western can exhale.
Maybe – just maybe – the hardest part is out of the way.
After a regular season that saw them win a Saginaw Valley League championship and earn at No. 2 state ranking, the Warriors brought the weight of the world into the Division 1 district opener Tuesday with upset-minded Midland.
But with a 7-2 victory, Western can venture to Saturday’s district final four breathing a bit easier.
“The only advantage of playing a pre-district is you get some of that nervous energy out of the way. That’s inevitable, the district has a different feel to it,” Western coach Tim McDonald said. “So, Saturday we may be a little more comfortable than other teams that still have to get over those nerves.
“Otherwise, the pre-district is a dangerous thing.”
Going against defending district champion Midland and Central Michigan University-bound pitcher Lane Kloha only made it doubly so.
UPDATED Bay City area baseball district pairings, results
But Western (34-4-1) coolly upheld its ranking, advancing to the district semifinal to face Saginaw Heritage at 10 a.m. Saturday. Bay City Central faces host Midland Dow in the noon semifinal, with the winners meeting for the district title about 2 p.m.
It didn’t take long for Western to get the jump on the Chemics. The Warriors plated two huge first-inning runs, setting a tone it would never relinquish.
Kloha, the 6-foot-4 Midland ace, fanned eight batters in the game, but Western instantly showed it would not back down. Miles Yurgaites, Ben Kochany, Ryker DeCaire and Colton Hopp strung together four straight singles to take the 2-0 lead before Midland came to bat.
“I choose to be visitor,” McDonald said. “I’ve been doing that for as long as I can remember, and that’s the reason. My theory is you win more games in the top of the first inning than you lose in the bottom of the seventh. That may or may not be true, but it worked well today.
“If you don’t score, it’s no big deal. But if you do, it’s a big boost.”
Midland countered with one in the bottom of the first, but the Western pitching and defense made certain the Chemics never mounted a serious threat. Western ace Ben Kochany worked four innings of one-hit ball before giving way to freshman Jaxon Jenkins, who allowed one hit over the final three frames.
The duo combined for just five strikeouts, but the Western defense was stellar throughout, highlighted by a pair of nifty plays at second base by Yurgaites.
The Warriors added four runs in the fourth inning to build a 6-1 advantage. Luke LaCourse, Brayden Simmon and Bryce Neitzel all singled and Yurgaites drew a bases loaded walk to make it 4-1. Two insurance runs crossed the plate on an error off the bat of Kochany.
Singles by Neitzel and Yurgaites bumped the margin to 7-1 in the sixth.
“I figured runs would be hard to come by off their pitcher,” McDonald said. “We didn’t square up a lot of balls, but we had good at-bats, good two-strike hits, and just a lot of competitive at-bats. That all added up.”
Yurgaites finished with three hits and two RBIs while Neitzel had two hits and joined LaCourse with an RBI.
Winner of back-to-back state titles in 2013 and 2014, Western is seeking its first district championship since 2016.
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BOSTON (AP) — Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America’s shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction by the federal government.
The aim of the program run by the General Services Administration is to preserve the properties, most of which are more than a century old.
The development of modern technology, including GPS, means lighthouses are no longer essential for navigation, said John Kelly of the GSA’s office of real property disposition. And while the Coast Guard often maintains aids to navigation at or near lighthouses, the structures themselves are often no longer mission critical.
Yet the public remains fascinated by the beacons, which are popular tourist attractions and the subject of countless photographers and artists.
“People really appreciate the heroic role of the solitary lighthouse keeper,” he said, explaining their allure. “They were really the instruments to provide safe passage into some of these perilous harbors which afforded communities great opportunities for commerce, and they’re often located in prominent locations that offer breathtaking views.”
The GSA has been transferring ownership of lighthouses since Congress passed the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act in 2000. About 150 lighthouses have been transferred, 80 or so given away and another 70 auctioned, raising more than $10 million.
This year, six lighthouses are being offered at no cost to federal, state or local government agencies, nonprofits, educational organizations or other entities that are willing to maintain and preserve them and make them publicly available for educational, recreational or cultural purposes.
They include the 34-foot (10.4-meter) tall Plymouth/Gurnet Light in Massachusetts. The octagonal wooden structure dates to 1842, although a lighthouse has been at the site since 1768. A previous beacon at the site was staffed by America’s first female lighthouse keeper.
Kelly’s personal favorite is Warwick Neck Light, in Warwick, Rhode Island. The 51-foot (15.5-meter) tall lighthouse that dates to 1827 was an important navigation tool for mariners making their way to Providence.
“Warwick Neck is really at quite a prominent location up on a cliff overlooking Narragansett Bay,” he said. “That’s probably one that I would say that has a real ‘Wow’ factor when you get out and look at it.”
The other lighthouses being offered at no cost are Lynde Point Lighthouse in Old Saybrook, Connecticut; Nobska Lighthouse in Falmouth, Massachusetts; Little Mark Island and Monument in Harpswell, Maine; and Erie Harbor North Pier Lighthouse in Pennsylvania.
Some are already maintained by nonprofits, and those agencies will have the opportunity to apply to continue doing do, Kelly said.
If a new owner is not found, the lighthouse is offered for competitive bidding at auction.
The four lighthouses being sold at auction include Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Light, a 50-foot (15.5-meter) steel tower dating to 1911 that is only accessible by boat but has spectacular views of the city skyline.
The others are Penfield Reef Lighthouse in Fairfield, Connecticut; Stratford Shoal Light in the middle of Long Island Sound between New York and Connecticut; and Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light in Chassell, Michigan.
Some of the lighthouses purchased in the past have been converted into private residences by people who want a unique living situation.
“They all have their own interesting history,” Kelly said.
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2023-05-26T23:35:19+00:00
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wdtn.com
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2022-11-07T19:31:39+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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Agreement with Galaxy Provides Access to over 3.5 Million Patients Across a Network of over 400,000 Providers
LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Prelude Corporation (PreludeDx™), a leader in molecular diagnostics and precision medicine for early-stage breast cancer, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Galaxy Health Network to provide coverage for the company's novel DCISionRTâ test for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as stage zero breast cancer. Under the agreement, Galaxy's more than 3.5 million members and over 400,000 providers will now have access to DCISionRT.
"Galaxy joins the growing list of health insurance providers that cover DCISionRT, allowing even more physicians and patients access to DCISionRT regardless of in or out of network status," said Dan Forche, President and CEO of PreludeDx. "DCISionRT is the only test that predicts personalized recurrence risk and radiation therapy (RT) benefit for patients with DCIS. Our personalized results provide physicians and patients with critical information to optimize DCIS treatment plans and avoid over or under treatment. We are committed to ensuring all patients have access to the benefits of the DCISionRT test."
About Galaxy Health Network
Galaxy Health Network, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, is a national managed care provider with over 3.5 million covered lives. Galaxy Health Network's Preferred Provider Organization includes a network of over 400,000 contracted physicians, 2,700 hospitals and 47,000 ancillary providers. For more information, visit http://ghn-mci.com
About DCISionRT for Breast DCIS
DCISionRT is the only risk assessment test for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) that predicts radiation therapy benefit. Patients with DCIS have cancerous cells lining the milk ducts of the breast, but they have not spread into surrounding breast tissue. In the US, over 60,000 women are newly diagnosed with DCIS each year. DCISionRT, developed by PreludeDx on technology licensed from the University of California San Francisco, and built on research that began with funding from the National Cancer Institute, enables physicians to better understand the biology of DCIS. DCISionRT combines the latest innovations in molecular biology with risk-based assessment scores to assess a woman's individual tumor biology along with other pathologic risk factors and provide a personalized recurrence risk. The test provides a Decision ScoreTM that identifies a woman's risk as low or elevated. Unlike other risk assessment tools, the DCISionRT test combines protein expression from seven biomarkers and four clinicopathologic factors, using a non-linear algorithm to account for multiple interactions between individual factors in order to better interpret complex biological information. DCISionRT's intelligent reporting provides a woman's recurrence risk after breast conserving surgery alone and with the addition of radiation therapy. In turn, this new information may help patients and their physicians to make more informed treatment decisions.
About PreludeDx
PreludeDx is a leading personalized breast cancer diagnostics company dedicated to serving breast cancer patients and physicians worldwide. Founded in 2009 with technology licensed from University of California San Francisco, PreludeDx has focused on developing precision breast cancer tools that will impact a patient's treatment decision. Our mission is to provide patients and physicians with innovative technologies that improve patient outcomes and reduce the overall cost burden to the healthcare system. Before making a treatment decision, Know Your RiskTM. PreludeDx is a Fjord Ventures portfolio company.
For more information on how PreludeDx is making a difference for patients, please visit the Company's website: https://preludedx.com and follow us on Twitter @PreludeDx, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
PreludeDx, the PreludeDx logo, DCISionRT, the DCISionRT logo, Decision Score, The DCIS Test, Know Your Risk and Your Biology, Your Decision are trademarks of Prelude Corporation or its wholly owned subsidiaries in the United States and foreign countries.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP) (TSX: BLDP) today announced consolidated financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022. All amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted and have been prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
"We made important customer progress across our verticals during Q3, while also advancing our global manufacturing strategy and product cost reduction initiatives," said Mr. Randy MacEwen, President and CEO. "On the customer front, we continued to focus on platform wins, with commercial milestones achieved in our truck and rail verticals. In truck, we announced an order from Quantron for 140 fuel cell engines to support their planned deployment of heavy-duty fuel cell trucks in Europe. In rail, we announced orders across three continents, including an order from Siemens Mobility to power seven trains in the Berlin-Brandenburg region and an LOI for up to an additional 200 engines for the European commuter rail market. Our total order backlog grew 11 percent from last quarter to a total of $102 million, with Europe now contributing over half of our total backlog."
"As part of our 'local for local' global manufacturing strategy, we announced our plan to invest $130 million in a new MEA manufacturing facility in Shanghai, with an annual production capacity of approximately 13 million MEAs, which can supply approximately 20,000 fuel cell engines," Mr. MacEwen continued. "With the facility planned to be in operation in 2025 to support anticipated growth in MEA demand, this investment is expected to reduce MEA manufacturing costs, align with China's fuel cell value chain localization policy, and position Ballard more strongly in the large China market."
Mr. MacEwen added, "We continue to advance on our product cost reduction roadmap, with measured progress from technology innovation, supply chain developments and advanced manufacturing initiatives. We are running ahead of our cost reduction targets which we expect to enable significant gross margin expansion in our long-term financial plan."
"This quarter our revenue and gross margin were $21.3 million and (22)%, respectively. As previously communicated, we continue to see a challenging gross margin picture which we expect to persist through 2023 until our volume ramps and our product cost reduction initiatives move into production. We exited the quarter with a strong balance sheet to support our growth strategy."
Q3 2022 Financial Highlights
(all comparisons are to Q3 2021 unless otherwise noted)
- Total revenue was $21.3 million in the quarter, down 15% year-over-year.
- Heavy-Duty revenues of $12.1 million increased 8% due to increased sales in North America, Europe and other areas offsetting lower sales in China.
- Stationary Power Generation revenues of $2.1 million increased 9% due to increased sales in North America, offsetting lower sales in Europe.
- Material Handling revenues of $1.7 million decreased 46%, primarily as a result of lower shipments to Plug Power.
- Gross margin was (22)% in the quarter, a decrease of 33-points, driven by a combination of shift to lower overall product margin and service revenue mix including the impacts of pricing strategy, investment in manufacturing capacity, increases in supply costs and inventory adjustments.
- Total Operating Expenses and Cash Operating Costs3 were $40.0 million and $30.0 million in the quarter, an increase of 46% and 32%, respectively. Increases were driven primarily by higher expenditure on research, technology and product development activities. Costs were also higher as a result of increased general and administrative expenses.
- Adjusted EBITDA3 was ($35.1) million, compared to ($23.1) million in Q3 2021, primarily a result of the decrease in gross margin and increase in Cash Operating Costs.
- Ballard received approximately $31.8 million of new orders in Q3, and delivered orders valued at $21.3 million, resulting in an Order Backlog of approximately $101.7 million at end-Q3. Order Backlog growth was driven predominantly by increased orders from Europe, which now represents approximately 55% of the total Order Backlog, compared to approximately 38% at end-Q3 2021.
- The 12-month Order Book was $51.0 million at end-Q3, a decrease of $10.4 million from the end of Q2 2022.
Ballard 2022 Total Operating Expense4 and Capital Expenditure5 guidance remains unchanged, but now expects to be at the higher end of the Total Operating Expense range and the lower end of the Capital Expenditure range.
Q3 2022 Financial Summary
For a more detailed discussion of Ballard Power Systems' third quarter 2022 results, please see the company's financial statements and management's discussion & analysis, which are available at www.ballard.com/investors, www.sedar.com and www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Ballard will hold a conference call on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time (11:00 a.m. Eastern Time) to review third quarter 2022 operating results. The live call can be accessed by dialing +1.604.638.5340. Alternatively, a live audio and webcast can be accessed through a link on Ballard's homepage (www.ballard.com). Following the call, the audio webcast and presentation materials will be archived in the 'Earnings, Interviews & Presentations' area of the 'Investors' section of Ballard's website (www.ballard.com/investors).
Ballard Power Systems' (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) vision is to deliver fuel cell power for a sustainable planet. Ballard zero-emission PEM fuel cells are enabling electrification of mobility, including buses, commercial trucks, trains, marine vessels, and stationary power. To learn more about Ballard, please visit www.ballard.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements concerning the hydrogen economy and markets for our products and the effects of governmental regulations on such markets, expected revenues, operating expenses, capital expenditures, corporate development activities, impacts of investments in manufacturing and R&D capabilities and market growth, and our carbon emissions goals. These forward-looking statements reflect Ballard's current expectations as contemplated under section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any such statements are based on Ballard's assumptions relating to its financial forecasts and expectations regarding its product development efforts, manufacturing capacity, and market demand. For a detailed discussion of the factors and assumptions that these statements are based upon, and factors that could cause our actual results or outcomes to differ materially, please refer to Ballard's most recent management discussion & analysis. Other risks and uncertainties that may cause Ballard's actual results to be materially different include general economic and regulatory changes, detrimental reliance on third parties, successfully achieving our business plans and achieving and sustaining profitability. For a detailed discussion of these and other risk factors that could affect Ballard's future performance, please refer to Ballard's most recent Annual Information Form. These forward-looking statements are provided to enable external stakeholders to understand Ballard's expectations as at the date of this release and may not be appropriate for other purposes. Readers should not place undue reliance on these statements and Ballard assumes no obligation to update or release any revisions to them, other than as required under applicable legislation.
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Kate Charlton +1.604.453.3939, investors@ballard.com or media@ballard.com
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Wednesday he was “terribly glad” that a film detailing his poisoning and political activism won the Oscar for best documentary feature.
In a series of tweets that appeared on his account on Wednesday, the politician congratulated director Daniel Roher and others involved in the making of “Navalny,” as well as his wife Yulia and his allies in the Anti-Corruption Foundation.
“I am, of course, terribly glad, but while rejoicing, I try not to forget that it wasn’t me who won the Oscar after all,” Navalny said.
The documentary portrays Navalny’s career of fighting official corruption, his near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent in 2020 that he blames on the Kremlin, his five-month recuperation in Germany and his 2021 return to Moscow, where he was immediately taken into custody at the airport. He was later sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and last year was convicted of other charges and given another nine-year term.
Navalny has faced unrelenting pressure from authorities. He spent several weeks in isolation in a tiny “punishment cell” and last month was placed in a restricted housing unit for six months. He is effectively deprived of phone calls or visits from his family, while being apparently allowed to write letters or have his lawyers visit occasionally.
In the tweets, Navalny confirmed Wednesday that he learned about the Oscar while attending a court hearing via video link from his prison. He said his lawyer tried to break the news to him by placing a piece of paper in front of a camera, but Navalny couldn’t see what was written on it, so the attorney had to say it out loud — “Your film won an Oscar.”
“I had a very strange feeling at that moment,” the politician said. “It was as if those words didn’t even belong in this world, but, on the other hand, everything here is so weird and crazy that it feels like that’s the only world they belong in.”
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2023-03-16T02:03:35+00:00
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Solera's new Women's Health Network expands its extensive suite of value-based digital and community-based health programs to address the broad spectrum of women's health issues
PHOENIX, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solera Health, the premier platform for connecting people seamlessly to proven and personalized health solutions, announces the launch of a first-of-its-kind Women's Health network of digital point solutions. Solera's new network covers the spectrum of women's health needs, including those underserved by the market today, filling critical gaps in care to bring more access to women who need it.
"Women's health needs extend beyond fertility and maternity, and we have purposefully built a network that spans the lifecycle of women's unique health needs, from pelvic floor dysfunction to menopause," said Mary Langowski, CEO of Solera Health. "Women's health continues to be one of the most underserved segments in our healthcare system and we are excited to expand our offerings to address some of the most prevalent health disorders women are facing today."
Solera conducted extensive user research and found that 68% of women agree that women's health doesn't get enough attention. Furthermore, 87% of women are very or extremely interested in at least one of the tools Solera offers and 79% would like to use more than one solution at the same time, indicating that one size does not fit all for women's health.
Solera's Women's Health network will begin with five partner solutions: Frame Fertility, Origin, Pacify, RestoreBalance and Visana. This network has been carefully vetted and curated to bring the best possible solutions together in one place to address women's physical, behavioral, and social needs at each life stage. These solutions serve as a strong complement to leading maternal offerings to help a health plan or employer better serve the needs of all women in its population through a single contract and IT integration.
Solera's clinical AI and personalized matching experience pairs program participants with their best-fit program based on their clinical needs and personal preferences. This approach enables each woman to get the care they need, when and where they prefer. Furthermore, Solera's value-based payment model best aligns member engagement with clinical outcomes.
"Solera's Women's Health network is a clinically inclusive and expansive offering, addressing key women's health needs at every age, leading to a more satisfied, productive workforce that feels empowered and supported," continued Langowski. "Solera's new suite of evidence-based women's health programs continues our mission of bringing the best solutions to address the diverse clinical needs of our member populations. We are committed to ensuring that every individual receives the personalized care needed to achieve superior outcomes at a lower cost."
Frame Fertility is the first evidence-based, comprehensive platform that enables the early detection of risk and care navigation to inform family building and planning. Developed with clinical experts, Frame's approach alleviates a downstream and often costly health crisis for patients, employers, and payers. Founded by a wife and husband team that went through their own challenging fertility journey, Frame seeks to displace reactive, one-size-fits-all family planning models, offering a new way forward with tailored resources and expert support from coaches who get where you're coming from and lead you where you want to go. Frame supports people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities and sexual orientations, both single and partnered. For more information, visit framefertility.com.
RestoreBalance, a HealthFleet program, is a coach-led digital menopause support program. As part of HealthFleet's Restore Family of Products, RestoreBalance tackles the core issues so women in the workforce can feel in control of their day-to-day wellbeing with confidence. With greater than 30 symptoms and thousands of women diagnosed daily, menopause affects individuals, families, and organizations collectively. Such a large population cannot go unsupported. RestoreBalance is a digital menopausal support program with live coaching for education, accountability, and habit building. HealthFleet offers solutions that blend technology, people, and content to deliver impactful programs such as RestoreBalance. This includes personalized, actionable support for individuals that address health issues before they escalate. To learn more about HealthFleet's RestoreBalance program, visit us at www.myrestorebalance.com.
Origin is a leading provider of pelvic floor and whole-body physical therapy with a specialized focus on pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, and sexual health. Origin offers virtual and in-person PT sessions, covered by insurance, and supported by proprietary exercise programs, educational content, and community experiences. Origin is building a category-defining brand that establishes a higher standard of care for every woman and individual with vaginal anatomy. In addition to in-person locations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin, Origin provides virtual care throughout the country. Expansion continues, with new clinics in Texas set to open in early 2023. For more information, please visit www.theoriginway.com or @theoriginway.
Pacify provides 24/7 infant feeding and doula support to new and expecting parents. Pacify's nationwide network of IBCLCs and maternal health experts help families within minutes, reducing costs and improving outcomes for partners including WIC programs, Departments of Health, home visiting programs, managed care organizations, hospitals, non-profit organizations and employers. Learn more by visiting www.pacify.com.
Visana is elevating the standard of women's healthcare. Founded in 2019 by CEO Joe Connolly, Visana is a virtual-first clinic that provides whole-person clinical care for the widest range of women's health conditions. From menstruation to menopause, Visana goes beyond the narrow focus on maternity to offer the most comprehensive care for all phases of a woman's life. Visana coordinates with in-person providers for seamless end-to-end care and provides holistic support for women, including health coaching and personalized care plans. For more information, visit www.visanahealth.com.
Solera Health is changing lives by guiding people to better health solutions that work. Leveraging a dynamic digital platform, the company provides intensive, evidence-based lifestyle, behavioral and social interventions, impacting the most prevalent and costly chronic conditions across various acuity levels. Solera strategically matches consumers to their best-fit solution within carefully curated and vetted networks of digital and community-based point solutions all implemented via an innovative, value-based payment model. The company's suite of condition program offerings includes Diabetes Prevention & Management, Falls Prevention, Hypertension, Mental & Behavioral Health, Musculoskeletal, Tobacco Cessation and Weight Management. Moreover, Solera's world-class solution handles challenging administrative tasks, including claims processing, compliance, consumer engagement, eligibility checking, member matching and vendor management, giving payers and employers access to dozens of point solutions with just one contract and one technical integration. For more information, visit www.soleranetwork.com.
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SEATTLE, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Quark Expeditions, the global leader in polar adventures, has announced a brand-new cutting-edge Greenland itinerary constructed around Ultramarine's two twin-engine helicopters—and brought to life with local Greenlandic partners, enabling guests to enjoy the most innovative itinerary in Quark Expeditions' 32-year history. The 11-day Greenland Explorer: Sail and Soar the Alpine Arctic will launch in 2024.
"Being able to develop this itinerary in full collaboration with local partners in Greenland ensures our guests can enjoy truly authentic experiences no one else can provide, such as Tundra to Table: Inuit Culinary Experience and Greenland Camping along the Tasermiut Fjord," said Josh Weidman, Director of Product for Quark Expeditions. "The other gems in this new itinerary are Ultramarine's two twin-engine helicopters, which enable our expedition team to take guests to areas in South Greenland no one else can where they'll choose from the most robust portfolio of off-ship adventures in the Arctic. It's our long-standing partnerships with local Greenlanders, and our dedicated expedition team—the best in the industry—that make us the experts in Greenland adventure."
Itinerary highlights:
- The most helicopter activities in Greenland:
- Authentic Greenland Cultural Immersion:
- The Stunning Northern Lights:
Guests can book Greenland Explorer: Sail and Soar the Alpine Arctic now and get 20% off, plus an additional 10% if they pay in full at time of booking.
About Quark Expeditions: Specializing exclusively in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, Quark Expeditions® has been the leading innovator of polar adventure since the company took the first group of consumer travelers to the North Pole in 1991. Quark Expeditions has been innovating ever since. With a diverse fleet of specially-equipped small expedition vessels and icebreakers—some of them equipped with helicopters—Quark Expeditions delivers deeply immersive polar experiences—and is able to take guests deeper into the Polar Regions than anyone else. Led by passionate and seasoned expedition teams, including scientists, wildlife experts and researchers, Quark Expeditions offers an onboard program that enriches the passenger experience.
About Ultramarine:
The technologically-advanced Ultramarine, the newest addition to the Quark Expeditions fleet, is a game-changer in polar exploration. Equipped with two twin-engine Airbus 145 helicopters, 20 quick-launching Zodiacs and the largest portfolio of off-ship adventure options in the industry, Ultramarine changes the way guests explore the Polar Regions. Other features include a spa, sauna with floor-to-ceiling windows, fitness centre, yoga space, spacious rooms and two restaurants plus a lounge and presentation theatre. Ultramarine has been designed with advanced sustainability systems that help preserve the pristine Polar Regions for the next generation of explorers. Ultramarine has an Ice Class rating of 1A+ and Polar Class rating of PC6, which contribute to the vessel's superior standards of safety standard. The ship's innovative sustainability features, which help reduce its environmental footprint, include a micro auto gasification system (MAGS), which is capable of converting onboard waste into energy, eliminating the need for the transportation of waste.
About Travelopia: Travelopia is one of the world's leading specialist travel groups. A pioneer in the experiential travel sector with a portfolio consisting of more than 50 independently operated brands, most of which are leaders in their sector. From sailing adventures, safaris and sports tours, to Arctic expeditions, each brand is diverse and focused on creating unforgettable experiences for customers across the world.
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2023-01-30T21:54:57+00:00
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PARIS, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PARIS AIR SHOW -- Pratt & Whitney, an RTX business, announced today that Croatia Airlines finalized engine and aftermarket agreements for the GTF engines that will power its fleet of fifteen Airbus A220-100 and A220-300 aircraft. These include six purchased and nine leased aircraft, six of which will come from Air Lease Corporation (ALC). The first aircraft is currently scheduled for delivery in the second quarter of 2024. Pratt & Whitney will provide engine maintenance for Croatia's fleet with an EngineWise® Maintenance long-term agreement.
"This is an exciting time for Croatia Airlines as we modernize our fleet with these GTF-powered A220 aircraft," said Jasmin Bajić, CEO and president of the Management Board of Croatia Airlines. "By replacing prior-generation aircraft with the most efficient and sustainable engines and aircraft available today, we'll be able to shrink our environmental footprint and keep fares competitive."
Founded in 1991, Croatia Airlines is the national carrier of the Republic of Croatia and a member of Star Alliance. Based in Zagreb, the airline's first planes were powered by Pratt & Whitney engines, including Boeing 737-200 and McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft with JT8D engines, and ATR 42 aircraft powered by PW100 engines.
"Pratt & Whitney and Croatia Airlines have a longstanding relationship, dating back to the airline's first passenger operations," said Rick Deurloo, president of Commercial Engines at Pratt & Whitney. "With this GTF-powered A220 fleet backed by EngineWise services, Croatia Airlines will benefit from industry-leading technology and world-class service and support, with a growing GTF MRO network, including facilities like Air France Industries KLM Engineering & Maintenance, EME Aero and Lufthansa Technik Aero Alzey in the heart of Europe."
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The Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engine, featuring Collins Aerospace nacelle and engine accessories, delivers industry-leading fuel efficiency and sustainability benefits for single-aisle aircraft. It is the exclusive powerplant for the Airbus A220 family, which reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions up to 25% per seat, NOx emissions up to 50% and noise footprint up to 75%.* Certified for operation on 50% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and successfully tested on 100% SAF, GTF engines are ready to enable further reductions in carbon footprint, which will help the aviation industry meet its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. The engine's revolutionary geared fan architecture is the foundation for even more efficient and sustainable propulsion technologies in the decades ahead. Learn more at pwgtf.com.
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NAPLES, Fla., July 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bramshill Investments, an award-winning alternative asset management firm, releases its Monthly Insights: A Closer Look at Office Commercial Real Estate & Investment Opportunities within Securitized Products.
Office properties in the U.S. Commercial Real Estate ("CRE") Market have been garnering much of the attention from the markets and media, especially after the fallout from the regional banking crisis that was largely stemmed earlier in 2023. We wanted to delve deeper into the subject to discuss our thoughts and the potential opportunities within the sector. To begin, we want to discuss the size of the sector and related sub sectors. Below is an overview of how the property types of the U.S. CRE market breaks down across the approximate $10.9 trillion market value. As shown below, Offices represent approximately one quarter of the market as of the end of 2022…
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Bramshill Investments, LLC, is a fixed income investment manager with over $4.4 billion in assets under management (as of (6/30/2023) The firm was co-founded in 2012 by former GLG portfolio manager, Arthur DeGaetano. The team's core investment strategy has an established combined track record of over fourteen years with an absolute return objective that can be accessed through various vehicles. Bramshill also offers other alternative investment strategies. Bramshill is an investment adviser registered with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Registration as an investment advisor with the SEC does not imply a certain level of skill or training of Bramshill or its employees. References to awards should not be construed as testimonials for our advisory services. For more information, please visit: https://bramshillinvestments.com.
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Following the shocking death of Lisa Marie Presley at age 54, the Presley family legacy will continue on.
On Thursday, Lisa Marie was rushed to the hospital after going into full cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, California. Responders performed CPR before transporting her to the hospital. Lisa Marie died shortly thereafter.
ET learned on Friday that Lisa Marie will be laid to rest alongside her father, Elvis Presley, and other family members. A rep for Lisa Marie's daughter, Riley Keough, told ET that the singer's final resting place will be at the Presley family estate, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee.
In addition to Elvis, his parents, Vernon and Gladys, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae, are all buried at Graceland, as is Lisa Marie's son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in July 2020. There is also a smaller memorial stone for Elvis' twin brother, Jessie, who died at birth.
ET sat down with Lisa Marie at Graceland in 2013, where she opened up about the legacy of Elvis' legendary home and rumors about its future.
"It is absolutely 100 percent mine and it has always been mine, Graceland," she shared. "It will always be. And when it is no longer mine, it will be my children's. And that is that."
Lisa Marie also noted at the time that caring for and preserving Graceland, along with her father's legacy, was a "constant job."
"You have to keep striving for quality and preserving and being very protective," she said. "It's a non-stop focus and job for all of us."
As for her favorite memento or memory from Graceland, Lisa Marie said there were too many to pick just one. "Everything [in] there is kind of everything that was close to him or whatever, so it's all very important and meaningful," she noted.
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2023-01-14T05:30:51+00:00
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TIGARD, Ore. (AP) — TIGARD, Ore. (AP) — Great Ajax Corp. (AJX) on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $6.3 million, after reporting a profit in the same period a year earlier.
The Tigard, Oregon-based company said it had a loss of 30 cents per share. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs, came to 5 cents per share.
The results missed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 19 cents per share.
The real estate investment trust posted revenue of $1.4 million in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $4 million, also missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $9.8 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $15 million, or $1.26 per share, swinging to a loss in the period. Revenue was reported as $39 million.
Great Ajax shares have increased 15% since the beginning of the year. In the final minutes of trading on Thursday, shares hit $8.32, a decline of 28% in the last 12 months.
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2023-03-02T23:54:23+00:00
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expressnews.com
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SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
11-23-28-30-43, Mega Ball: 8
(eleven, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty, forty-three; Mega Ball: eight)
SACRAMENTO (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were:
11-23-28-30-43, Mega Ball: 8
(eleven, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty, forty-three; Mega Ball: eight)
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2022-12-29T05:25:09+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-SuperLotto-Plus-game-17682511.php
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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — For a decade, the parents and siblings of people killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have been tormented and harassed by people who believe the mass shooting was a hoax.
How do you put a price tag on their suffering?
That’s part of the task faced by a Connecticut jury that has been asked to decide how much Infowars host Alex Jones and his company should pay for spreading a conspiracy theory that the massacre never happened.
The six jurors deliberated for less than an hour Thursday before breaking for the evening. They didn’t reach a verdict Friday and are scheduled to resume work next week.
Jones now acknowledges his conspiracy theories about the shooting were wrong, but says he isn’t to blame for the actions of people who harassed the families. His lawyers also say the 15 plaintiffs have exaggerated stories about being subjected to threats and abuse.
Here are some questions and answers about the deliberations.
COULD THE JURY DECIDE THAT WHAT JONES DID IS PROTECTED BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
No. A judge has already ruled that Jones is liable for defamation, infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and violating Connecticut’s unfair trade practices law. The jury’s job is to decide how much he owes for harming the people who sued him over his lies.
HOW MUCH COULD JONES PAY?
Jones, who lives in Austin, Texas, could be ordered to pay as little as $1 to each plaintiff or potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to them. The decision will be based on whether the jury determines the harm to the families was minimal or extensive.
Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said the jury should award the plaintiffs at least $550 million. Jones’ lawyer, Norm Pattis, says any damages awarded should be minimal.
HOW DOES THE JURY COME UP WITH THE DOLLAR FIGURES?
In her instructions to the jury, Judge Barbara Bellis said there are no mathematical formulas for determining dollar amounts. Jurors, she said, should use their life experiences and common sense to award damages that are “fair, just and reasonable.”
The jury, however, heard evidence and testimony that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, made millions of dollars from selling nutritional supplements, survival gear and other items. A company representative testified it has made at least $100 million in the past decade.
WHAT KIND OF DAMAGES ARE THE JURY CONSIDERING?
Jurors could award both compensatory and punitive damages.
Compensatory damages are often meant to reimburse people for actual costs such as medical bills and income loss, but they also include compensation for emotional distress that can reach into the millions of dollars.
Punitive damages are meant to punish a person for their conduct. If the jury decides Jones should pay punitive damages, the judge would determine the amount.
DOES CONNECTICUT CAP DAMAGES?
No, and yes. The state does not limit compensatory damages, while punitive damages are limited in many cases to attorney’s fees and costs. So if the jury says Jones should pay punitive damages, he would potentially have to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the Sandy Hook families’ lawyers’ costs.
IS THIS THE FIRST TIME JONES HAS FACED A VERDICT LIKE THIS?
No. At a similar trial in Texas in August, a jury ordered the Infowars show host to pay nearly $50 million to the parents of one of the children killed in the school shooting for pushing the lie that the massacre was a hoax.
But legal experts say Jones probably won’t pay the full amount. In most civil cases, Texas law limits how much defendants have to pay in “exemplary,” or punitive, damages to twice the “economic damages” plus up to $750,000. But jurors are not told about this cap. Eye-popping verdicts are often hacked down by judges.
A third trial in Texas involving the parents of another child slain at Sandy Hook is expected to begin near the end of the year.
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Find AP’s full coverage of the Alex Jones trial at: https://apnews.com/hub/alex-jones
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2022-10-07T22:19:44+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-explainer-jurors-weigh-cost-of-alex-jones-sandy-hook-lies/
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(NerdWallet) – When inflation rises, child care expenses do, too. If you’re a parent, you may be hoping to get a little financial relief during the upcoming tax season through deductions or credits. But since there have been recent reductions to both of the child tax credits, you may not get as much back as you anticipated.
If you’re like me, you could end up paying the IRS instead of getting a refund from Uncle Sam. To help your money go further in 2023, you may want to reevaluate some of your recurring child-related expenses. Here are a few strategies for reducing costs, according to finance professionals.
Child care
Many of the increased tax credits and deductions parents enjoyed during the height of the pandemic are reverting to their original limits. As a result, parents should be prepared to get less back this year, says Alton Bell II, principal accountant and founder at Bell Tax Accountants & Advisors in Chicago.
“I would prepare for a tax refund reduction shock because the credit around the dependent care has significantly changed,” he says.
In 2021, the child and dependent care credit increased to make child care more affordable for working parents. It was raised to a maximum of $4,000 for one qualifying person and $8,000 for two or more qualifying persons, and potentially refundable. For 2022, the amount has gone back down to a maximum of $1,050 for one qualifying person and $2,100 for two or more. Additionally, the child tax credit is reverting to $2,000 for children of all ages for the 2022 tax year. For 2021, it increased to $3,600 for children under six and $3,000 for kids ages 6 to 17.
With these cuts in mind, I thought it might be a good idea to ditch aftercare for my 5-year-old son this year. My living room may look like the scene of a volcanic eruption more often, but I’ll save $200 a month. If you work remotely and can handle having your child home a few extra hours during the day, consider giving this a test run.
Additionally, you could contribute to a dependent care flexible savings account, which allows you to use pre-tax dollars to pay for child care. Bell suggests maxing out that account for the year and also utilizing an employer FSA match if your company offers one.
You can contribute $5,000 per household to a dependent care FSA in 2023, or $2,500 if you’re married filing separately.
Groceries
If your snack cupboard is empty within three to five business days because your kids have bottomless bellies, then you may be looking for ways to reduce your grocery bill. This may especially be the case if you’re feeling the effects of higher food costs due to inflation.
One cost-saving strategy is to plan your shopping ahead of time to avoid buying items you don’t need. Dominique Broadway, a personal finance expert and founder of Finances Demystified in Miami, Florida, switched from going to the store to using grocery delivery services so she knows exactly how much she’ll spend.
Broadway also recommends putting the same groceries in different delivery service provider carts so you can do a side-by-side comparison of the price difference.
“You’ll be surprised, the difference can be pretty large — sometimes 40, 50 bucks difference just because of delivery fees and the inflated prices. Over time that actually does add up,” she says.
Health care
Premiums can become a noticeable expense when you pay them monthly. Adding copays every time you visit the doctor increases your out-of-pocket costs even more.
If you have a relatively healthy child and can say the same for yourself, think about whether a health savings account could save you money. HSAs can be used to pay health care expenses. The limit for HSAs in 2023 is $3,850 for individuals and $7,750 for families. The contributions are made with pre-tax dollars and are also tax-deductible. You must have a high-deductible health insurance plan to contribute to an HSA. High-deductible health plans sometimes have lower premiums, which leads to some people saving money. Keep in mind that with these plans, you may end up paying a higher deductible before your insurance starts sharing health care costs with you.
I decided to give it a test run in 2022. Since my son and I went to the doctor a handful of times that year, my out-of-pocket costs came to just about $700. The cherry on top is I had $1,500 left over thanks to my employer’s contributions to my HSA account. I can now roll that money over into the new year.
Entertainment
There were so many toys in my house by the end of 2022 that my son and I gave half away. This year, I’m cutting costs by making better use of free activities.
Oftentimes, parents buy children items, only to realize what they really value is experiences, Broadway says.
“I’ve purchased a $3 activity kit from Target and gotten hours of fun and play with my children out of something like that versus just buying them a bunch of toys,” she says. “I think that alone is a great way to cut costs and build a better relationship with your children and make more memories with them, as well.”
Speaking of experiences, there is a trampoline park near our house that offers a $20 monthly subscription for endless play. It seems more cost-effective to take my son there than to buy more trucks and excavators I’ll end up tripping over.
If any of these strategies lead to savings this year, Broadway suggests investing the money in a custodial account for child-related future expenses and to help your kids build wealth.
“Take that money and invest it for your children — have it working for you and for them.”
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2023-01-28T19:40:30+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/4-expenses-for-parents-to-reevaluate-in-2023/
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Fox to pay Dominion nearly $800M to settle defamation lawsuit
WILMINGTON, Del. — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company's lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.
The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly.
“The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson told reporters outside a Delaware courthouse after Superior Court Judge Eric Davis announced the deal.
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Outside of the $787.5 million promised to Colorado-based Dominion, it was unclear what other consequences Fox would face. Fox acknowledged in a statement “the court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false,” but no apology was offered.
“We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues,” Fox said. Its lawyers and representatives offered no other comment or details about the settlement.
Asked by a reporter whether there was “anything to this other than money," Dominion CEO John Poulos did not answer.
The deal is a significant amount of money even for a company the size of Fox. It represents about one-quarter of the $2.96 billion the company reported earning last year before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — a figure often used to approximate a company's cash flow.
The settlement also follows a $965 million judgment issued against Alex Jones by a Connecticut jury in 2022 for spreading false conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Coupled with other lawsuits in the pipeline, the agreement shows there is a real financial risk for conservative media that traffic in conspiracy theories. What remains unknown is how much of a deterrent this will be. Even as the Dominion case loomed this spring, Fox's Tucker Carlson aired his alternate theories about what happened at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
Dominion had sued Fox for $1.6 billion, arguing that the top-rated news outlet had damaged the company's reputation by peddling phony conspiracy theories that claimed its equipment switched votes from former President Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden. Davis, in an earlier ruling, said it was “CRYSTAL clear” that none of the allegations about Dominion aired on Fox by Trump allies were true.
Dominion set out to prove in the lawsuit that Fox acted with malice in airing allegations that it knew to be false, or with “reckless disregard” for the truth. It presented volumes of internal emails and text messages that showed Fox executives and personalities saying they knew the accusations were untrue, even as the falsehoods were aired on programs hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Lou Dobbs and Jeannine Pirro.
Records released as part of the lawsuit showed that Fox aired the claims in part to win back viewers who were fleeing the network after it correctly called hotly contested Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden on election night. One Fox Corp. vice president called them “MIND BLOWINGLY NUTS.”
During a deposition, Murdoch testified that he believed the 2020 election was fair and had not been stolen from Trump.
“Fox knew the truth,” Dominion argued in court papers. “It knew the allegations against Dominion were ‘outlandish’ and ‘crazy’ and ‘ludicrous’ and ‘nuts.’ Yet it used the power and influence of its platform to promote that false story.”
Several First Amendment experts said Dominion’s case was among the strongest they had ever seen. But there was real doubt about whether Dominion would be able to prove to a jury that people in a decision-making capacity at Fox could be held responsible for the network’s actions.
Dominion's Nelson called the settlement “a tremendous victory” and noted that there are six more lawsuits pending regarding election claims.
“We settled because it was about accountability,” Nelson said in an interview. “Our goals were to make sure that there was accountability for the lies, and to try to make our client right. And we accomplished both goals.”
It's hard to tell what the deal will mean financially for Dominion. The company would not provide its most recent earnings, saying the figures were not public.
In the weeks leading up to the trial, Davis significantly narrowed Fox’s potential line of defense, including nixing the network’s argument that it was merely airing newsworthy allegations. Newsworthiness is not a defense against defamation, he said.
In a March 31 ruling, he pointedly called out the network for airing falsehoods while noting that bogus election claims still persist more than two years after Trump lost his bid for reelection.
“The statements at issue were dramatically different than the truth,” Davis said in that ruling. “In fact, although it cannot be attributed directly to Fox’s statements, it is noteworthy that some Americans still believe the election was rigged.”
In its defense, Fox said it was obligated to report on a president who claimed that he had been cheated out of reelection.
“We never reported those to be true,” Fox lawyer Erin Murphy said. “All we ever did was provide viewers the true fact that these were allegations that were being made.”
Dominion had sued both Fox News and its parent, Fox Corp, and said its business had been significantly damaged. Fox said the company grossly overestimated its losses, before agreeing to pay about half of what Dominion had asked for.
In a 1964 case involving The New York Times, the U.S. Supreme Court limited the ability of public figures to sue for defamation. The court ruled that plaintiffs needed to prove that news outlets published or aired false material with “actual malice” — knowing such material was false or acting with a “reckless disregard” for whether or not it was true.
That has provided news organizations with stout protection against libel judgments. Yet the nearly six-decade legal standard has come under attack by some conservatives in recent years, including Trump and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who have argued for making it easier to win a libel case.
“The larger importance of the settlement ... is that the high level of protection for news media in a defamation case remains intact from now,” said Doreen Weisenhaus, an instructor of media law at Northwestern University.
In documents released in recent months, Fox executives and anchors discussed how not to alienate the audience, many of whom believed Trump’s claims of fraud despite no evidence to back them up. Fox’s Tucker Carlson suggested a news reporter be fired for tweeting a fact check debunking the fraud claims.
Some of the exhibits were simply embarrassing, such as scornful behind-the-scenes opinions about Trump, whose supporters form the core of the network’s viewers. Text exchanges revealed as part of the lawsuit show Carlson declaring, “I hate him passionately,” and saying that “we are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.”
Fox News announced the settlement on Neil Cavuto’s afternoon news show. “It’s a done deal,” he said. “It’s a settlement and for at least Fox, it appears to be over.”
But Fox’s legal problems may not be over. It still faces a defamation lawsuit from another voting technology company, Smartmatic. Its lawyer, Erik Connolly, said Tuesday that “Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest.”
Associated Press writers Jennifer Peltz in New York and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report.
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2023-04-19T02:58:54+00:00
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yorkdispatch.com
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https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/money/business/2023/04/18/fox-to-pay-dominion-nearly-800m-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit/70128554007/
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – An investigation by Maryland's attorney general identified 158 Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore who have been accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years, according to court records filed Thursday.
Attorney General Brian Frosh announced that his office has completed a 463-page report on the investigation, which began in 2019. He filed a motion in Baltimore Circuit Court to make the report public. Court permission is required because the report contains information from grand jury subpoenas. It's unclear when the court will make a decision.
“For decades, survivors reported sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests and for decades the Church covered up the abuse rather than holding the abusers accountable and protecting its congregations," according to the court filing. “The Archdiocese of Baltimore was no exception.”
The report, titled “Clergy Abuse in Maryland," identifies 115 priests who were prosecuted for sex abuse and/or identified publicly by the archdiocese as having been “credibly accused" of sexual abuse. It also includes an additional 43 priests accused of sexual abuse but not identified publicly by the archdiocese, the court filing said.
“The Report summarizes the sexual abuse and physical torture perpetrated by all 158 priests and the Archdiocese's response to that abuse," the court filing said.
In a letter released Thursday evening, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore apologized “to the victim-survivors who were harmed by a minister of the Church and who were harmed by those who failed to protect them, who failed to respond to them with care and compassion and who failed to hold abusers accountable for their sinful and criminal behavior.”
“Upon reading today’s motion, we feel renewed shame, deep remorse and heartfelt sympathy, most especially to those who suffered from the actions of representatives of the very Church entrusted with their spiritual and physical well-being,” Lori wrote.
David Lorenz, the Maryland leader of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, described the news of the report and numbers of victims as “absolutely horrendous."
“Once again, the church has lied about the number of abusive priests," Lorenz said in a statement. "Many parishes were dumping grounds for predators, some housed almost ten. It is very clear that nobody was safe. Sadly, it is no different than any diocese or secular report in the country.”
While the court filing noted that more than 600 victims were identified, it also said “there are almost certainly hundreds more, as the Department of Justice's Annual Crime Victimization Report has demonstrated that most incidents of sexual assault go unreported."
Both boys and girls were abused, according to the court filing, with ages ranging from preschool through young adulthood.
“Although no parish was safe, some congregations and schools were assigned multiple abusive priests, and a few had more than one sexually abusive priest at the same time," the court filing said. “One congregation was assigned eleven sexually abusive priests over 40 years."
The sexual abuse was so pervasive, the court filing said, that victims were sometimes reporting sexual abuse to priests who were perpetrators themselves.
The investigation also revealed that the archdiocese failed to report many allegations of sexual abuse, conduct adequate investigations of alleged abuse, remove abusers from the ministry or restrict their access to children.
“Instead, it went to great lengths to keep the abuse secret," the court filing said. “While the Archdiocese reported a large number of allegations to police, especially in later years, for decades it worked to ensure that the perpetrators would not face justice."
In the court filing, Frosh argues that “publicly airing the transgressions of the Church is critical to holding people and institutions accountable and improving the way sexual abuse allegations are handled going forward.”
“More importantly, it is vital to protecting children an the entire community," the filing said.
The court filing also noted that of the 43 priests that have not been publicly identified or prosecuted, 30 have died.
“For those priests that have died, this additional secrecy interest is less compelling," the filing said.
The attorney general's office redacted all identifying information for for the 13 living church officials who have been accused of sexual abuse but who have not been listed as credibly accused by the archdiocese and who have not been prosecuted.
In 2019, Frosh launched a criminal investigation of child sexual abuse perpetrated by priests and other employees of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Hundreds of thousands of documents dating back to the 1940s were produced in response to grand jury subpoenas.
As part of its investigation, the attorney general's office created an email address and telephone hotline for people to report information. Over 300 hundred people contacted the office, and investigators interviewed hundreds of victims and witnesses.
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2022-11-18T03:01:48+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/national/2022/11/17/maryland-probe-finds-158-abusive-priests-over-600-victims/
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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the benefits of including more swear words in our language, which studies say may be associated with signs of intelligence.
Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy.
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2023-06-03T12:25:22+00:00
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upr.org
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https://www.upr.org/2023-06-03/you-should-probably-be-swearing-more
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At least 2,800 people have died in a massive earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria, with thousands of buildings destroyed — and rescue workers rushing to help being hindered by poor weather.
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At least 2,800 people have died in a massive earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria, with thousands of buildings destroyed — and rescue workers rushing to help being hindered by poor weather.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-02-06T23:47:34+00:00
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klcc.org
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https://www.klcc.org/npr-world-news/npr-world-news/2023-02-06/at-least-2-800-people-have-died-southern-turkey-and-syria-in-earthquake
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will turn its focus this week to former President Trump’s campaign to rally protesters to Washington, pointing to one tweet in particular as a pivotal moment in the violent effort to overturn his election defeat.
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted Dec. 19, 2020.
That message, the investigators contend, acted as a shrewd battle cry to the far-right extremist groups and other supporters who were wrongly convinced the election had been “stolen” and viewed Jan. 6, 2021 — when Congress met to certify Joe Biden’s victory — as their last best chance to keep Trump in power.
On Tuesday, lawmakers on the select committee will drill into the events both before and after the tweet, using their latest public hearing in the wide-ranging investigation to advance their case that Trump’s allies acted in cahoots with the violent extremists who would ultimately storm the Capitol.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who will help lead Tuesday’s hearing, noted that the tweet followed a Dec. 18, 2020, meeting at the White House where some of Trump’s closest allies pushed him to seize voting machines in key states. Trump ultimately decided against the idea, but as options dwindled to remain in power, he shifted gears to focus on a protest the day of the election certification — something online chatter shows Trump’s most zealous supporters took as a call to arms.
Trump’s first full-throated endorsement of that protest — the now-infamous Dec. 19 tweet, sent at 1:42 a.m. — cited a report from Peter Navarro, a top aide, claiming to demonstrate proof of massive voter fraud. “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election,” Trump wrote, before urging his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6 for the “wild” protest.
A year and a half later, the committee is leaning on that message to boost their allegations that Trump orchestrated the Capitol attack in a last-ditch effort to cling to power.
“Donald Trump sent out the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in American history when a president of the United States called a protest against his own government, in fact, to try to stop the counting of electoral college votes in a presidential election he had lost,” Raskin said Sunday in an appearance on CBS News’s “Face The Nation.”
“People are going to hear the story of that tweet, and then the explosive effect it had in Trump World and specifically among the domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country,” Raskin said.
It’s those groups — including the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, both of which were on the front lines of the Capitol insurrection — that will be the focus of Tuesday’s hearing, the seventh since the middle of June.
The panel will also explore the role of QAnon, a far-right political movement based largely on a series of extravagant conspiracy theories including a belief that the country is governed by covert cabals of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.
“We’ll show how some of these right-wing extremist groups who came to D.C. [and] led the attack on the Capitol and had ties to Trump associates,” a select committee aide said Monday.
The most prominent connection between those two worlds, up to now, has been the association between the extremist groups and two former Trump advisers, Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, both of whom were vocal figures in the “Stop the Steal” movement and used members of those groups for protective services. Trump had urged his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to contact both Stone and Flynn on Jan. 5, according to a former West Wing aide who testified before the committee last month.
Trump communications guru Dan Scavino is another possible link between the president and extremist groups, with Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) noting “his interactions with an online forum called ‘The Donald.win’ and with QAnon, a bizarre and dangerous cult.”
Aides for the select committee said they would also have more information to offer on the efforts of Republican lawmakers, including “their involvement in a pressure campaign against the vice president specifically.”
“In the last days leading up to Jan. 6, where we did see sort of all these last ditch efforts to overturn the election results and stop transfer of power, the involvement of members of Congress became more apparent,” another aide said.
The committee would not formally disclose its witness list for Tuesday’s hearing, but reports indicate Jason Van Tatenhove, a former spokesman for the Oath Keepers who parted ways with the militia group in 2017, will appear.
According to documents already made public, Trump’s tweet appears to have mobilized a number of groups.
Stop the Steal organizer Ali Alexander applied for a permit on the Capitol grounds “on or about” Dec. 21, roughly two days after Trump’s tweet, according to a subpoena from the select committee.
Organizations like the Proud Boys were also spurred to action, with prosecutors noting that the group’s leader at the time, Enrique Tarrio, started a “Ministry of Self Defense” chapter that would serve as their “national rally planning” group and would consist only of “hand selected members,” according to Tarrio’s March indictment. His launching of the group fell roughly a week after his Dec. 12 visit to the White House — something the Trump administration said he did on a public tour.
An indictment for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes likewise indicates the far-right militia group initiated plans to travel to the rally in “late December,” coordinating their travel plans through encrypted messaging apps.
Members of both groups, including Rhodes and Tarrio, have since been indicted for seditious conspiracy, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
The tweet from Trump also ignited excitement on various pro-Trump platforms, including a page dedicated to the president on Reddit, as well as theDonald.win.
Their takeaway was that Trump was calling them to come to D.C. prepared to engage in violence.
“He can’t exactly openly tell you to revolt. This is the closest he’ll ever get,” one user wrote on Reddit.
“I read that as armed,” another user wrote.
“Then bring the guns we shall,” wrote another.
Others focused on the “wild” part of Trump’s message, with some drawing comparisons to the Wild West.
“’Will Be Wild’ is a hidden message for us to be prepared ….as in armed,” another user wrote on Reddit.
Trump supporters’ openness about their interpretation of his tweet has long been used as evidence of an intelligence failure leading up to the attack.
And documentation shows it wasn’t just chatter.
Reviews have since indicated law enforcement largely overlooked plans to storm the Capitol, including the sharing of maps detailing the Capitol’s below ground tunnel system.
And subsequent filings in the seditious conspiracy case against various Oath Keepers members show they staged a “quick reaction force” at a Comfort Inn in Virginia, wheeling in “bags and large bins of weapons, ammunition, and essential supplies to last 30 days,” according to a January court filing.
Tuesday’s hearing is the only one slated for this week, committee aides said, with another hearing planned for some point the following week.
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2022-07-11T23:21:28+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/j-6-panel-shifts-focus-to-trump-tweet-heard-around-the-world/
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Co-Founder and General Partner Recognized for Outstanding Leadership and Vision
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Oct. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HousingWire (HW) announced today that Michael Catalano, co-founder and general partner at PURE Property Management, the fastest growing residential property management and technology company in the U.S., has been named a HW 2022 Vanguard. The award recognizes 100 c-level executives in the housing economy for their outstanding leadership, vital contributions to their companies, and the dynamic way they are changing the industry.
"The 2022 Vanguard honorees represent the housing economy's elite leaders who have made an unmistakable impact on the industry at-large and continue to drive growth and inspire their organizations," said HW Media Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler. "With these leaders at the helm, companies are able to weather the current market to fight another day."
Frustrated by the complexity within a highly fragmented property management industry, Michael Catalano co-founded PURE Property Management with fintech pioneer Joseph Polverari in October 2020 with a vision to make renting a home a simple and satisfying experience for all, and at a scale never seen before. In two years, PURE Property Management has grown to manage over 20K single family residential properties across 23 states and achieved a $300 million valuation in its first 15 months of operating.
"It is an honor to be recognized as a HW Vanguard and to be associated with such an esteemed group of leaders in the housing industry," said Catalano. "We are excited to continue to scale our company with seasoned professionals and a collaborative culture of innovation focused on improving the residential renting experience for investors, residents, and property managers."
Catalano, a second generation property manager, has leveraged his 25+ years experience and network of longtime industry professionals to attract property management entrepreneurs to join PURE's mission to band together and build together. With the industry's only true seller-aligned model, PURE rapidly acquires independent property management companies, completing 55 transactions in its first two years of operating. It now counts over 2,000 years of combined property management experience within the company.
"The Vanguard award showcases the exemplary leaders in housing who are constantly innovating and evolving despite inevitable economic headwinds," said Clayton Collins, CEO of HW Media. "This year's honorees have proven to be laser-focused on the goals of their organizations, recognizing and seizing opportunities when they present themselves and refusing to settle for the status quo."
HW Media is the leading digital community for mortgage, real estate and fintech professionals to engage, learn and access the information they need to support decision making and business growth. Aligned with our mission to Move Markets Forward, we publish daily news and content through each of our core publishing brands including HousingWire, RealTrends, Reverse Mortgage Daily and FinLedger. HW Media is based in Dallas, TX with team members across the Country.
HousingWire is the most influential source of news and information for the U.S. mortgage and housing markets. Built on a foundation of independent and original journalism, HousingWire reaches more than 70,000 newsletter subscribers daily and 1 million unique visitors each month and has more than 5,000 members and event attendees. Visit www.housingwire.com or www.solutions.housingwire.com to learn more.
PURE Property Management is the fastest growing profitable residential property management and technology company in the U.S. Led by a team of experienced industry professionals and seasoned technology innovators, PURE acquires single-family residential property management companies and invests in their people and processes. By deploying technology and providing operational efficiencies, PURE enhances resident and investor experiences. To join our team and for more information, visit https://purepm.co
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2022-10-05T22:48:09+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/10/05/pure-property-managements-michael-catalano-named-housingwire-vanguard/
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) met with leaders of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank on Thursday amid financial uncertainty following the failures of two major banks in the past week.
Spokesperson Christie Stephenson said in a statement that Jeffries spoke with the bank’s leaders about the developments in the aftermath of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank as the Democratic Caucus awaits the Fed’s findings from its review of the matter.
Stephenson said Jeffries has been coordinating with federal and state regulators to monitor the situation for several days.
“The banking system remains resilient and Americans can have faith their deposits will be there when they need them,” she said.
Shock waves ricocheted through the market after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last Friday, forcing federal regulators to take over the bank on Sunday. The crash happened when the bank did not have enough cash on hand to fulfill its customers’ withdrawal requests, causing the bank to need to sell assets and leading to a bank run.
The crash was the second largest for a bank in U.S. history and the largest since the Great Recession.
Another bank collapse happened Sunday when Signature Bank, which is focused on cryptocurrency, was shut down by New York state regulators after experiencing a similar issue to Silicon Valley.
The Biden administration announced in response to the failures that customers would be able to have access to their money even if their accounts surpassed the $250,000 per account that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guarantees is protected. But President Biden has stressed that the banks would not receive a bailout and taxpayer dollars would not be used to make up for losses for the banks.
The administration has also sought to downplay the potential effects that the bank collapses could have on the broader economy, and stepping in to protect depositors’ money was meant to reduce the risk of additional bank runs.
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2023-03-16T20:00:32+00:00
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ksn.com
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https://www.ksn.com/hill-politics/jeffries-meets-with-san-francisco-fed-following-silicon-valley-signature-bank-collapses/
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The following notice is being jointly issued by Milstein, Jackson, Fairchild & Wade, LLP, The Law Offices of Howard Rubinstein, and Winston & Strawn LLP and has been authorized by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in Gilmore et al. v. Monsanto Company, et al. (No. 3:21-cv-8159).
CLASS MEMBERS WILL RETAIN THEIR RIGHT TO SUE IF THEY CURRENTLY HAVE, OR LATER DEVELOP, CANCER OR ANY OTHER ILLNESS OR INJURY FROM EXPOSURE TO THE PRODUCTS.
The lawsuit alleges that Monsanto, the manufacturer of certain Roundup®, Ace®, and HDX® weed and grass killer products (the "Products"), falsely advertised and promoted the Products by failing to disclose that they, and their active ingredient, glyphosate, could potentially cause cancer or other adverse health effects. Monsanto denies these allegations and any wrongdoing. The Settlement avoids costs and risks from continuing the lawsuit, provides relief to purchasers of the Products during the relevant time period, and releases Monsanto and others from liability for related claims.
You may be a Settlement Class Member entitled to a cash payment if you purchased certain Roundup®, HDX®, or Ace® brand weed and grass killer products containing glyphosate sold by consumer retailers during the relevant time period. This case is not a personal-injury case. Plaintiffs do not allege that they were injured or became ill from exposure to the Products. You do not have to have suffered personal injury to be a member of the Settlement Class or to file a claim. If you purchased any of the Products during the Class Period for purposes other than resale or distribution, you are in the Settlement Class and can make a claim.
The time period during which purchases are included in this Settlement differs from state to state, depending on each state's statutes of limitations. Visit the Settlement Website at www.WeedKillerAdSettlement.com for a complete list of the eligible Products and to determine if your purchase(s) are eligible for compensation.
The proposed Class Action Settlement Agreement ("Settlement" or "Agreement") will provide the Class with monetary relief in an amount not less than $23 million (the "Floor Amount") and not greater than $45 million (the "Ceiling Amount") to pay all aspects of the Settlement. Class Members will be able to make claims for payments for the qualifying Products they bought during the Class Period, equivalent to approximately 20% of their weighted average retail price during the relevant Class Period. Payments per unit range from $0.50 to $33.00, for between 2 and 11 units without proof of purchase, depending on the state of purchase (you may be able to exceed the applicable limits with valid proof of purchase). If the Court approves the Settlement and you have not excluded yourself as described below, you will be bound by the Settlement and barred from suing Monsanto and related entities for the claims released in the Settlement. The Released Claims are described in detail at www.WeedKillerAdSettlement.com.
Make a Claim. You must submit a claim by going to www.WeedKillerAdSettlement.com and submitting (or mailing) a claim form. Class Members may make a claim by either an affirmation of the identity and quantity purchased or submitting proof(s) of purchase. The deadline to postmark or submit your claim online is October 19, 2022.
Other Options. The purpose of this Notice is to inform you of this lawsuit so you can make an informed decision as to whether you should remain in or opt out of this Settlement. Your legal rights are affected, and you have a choice to make now. If you do not want to be legally bound by the Settlement, you must exclude yourself by October 19, 2022. If you do not exclude yourself, you will release any claims you may have, as more fully described in the Settlement Agreement, available at www.WeedKillerAdSettlement.com. You may remain a Settlement Class Member and object to the Settlement by December 5, 2022. You may choose to pay for and be represented by a lawyer who may send the objection for you. The Settlement Website explains how to exclude yourself or object.
The Court will hold a Final Approval Hearing on January 12, 2023, at 2:30 p.m. to consider whether to approve the Settlement, attorneys' fees and expenses, and Class Representative service awards. You may ask the Court to appear at the Final Approval Hearing, but you do not have to appear at the hearing.
This notice summarizes the proposed Settlement. For detailed information, visit the Settlement Website, contact the Claims Administrator at (833) 749-1489, contact Class Counsel at (310) 396-9600, or access the Court docket in this case, for a fee, through the Court's Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system at https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov or by visiting the office of the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding Court holidays.
PLEASE DO NOT CALL OR WRITE THE COURT FOR INFORMATION OR ADVICE.
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2022-07-06T12:36:23+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/06/if-you-purchased-certain-roundup-hdx-or-ace-weed-amp-grass-killer-products-you-may-be-entitled-cash-payment-proposed-class-action-settlement/
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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Family members of the U.S. Army private who sprinted across the border into North Korea said Wednesday that he may have felt overwhelmed as he faced legal troubles and his possible looming discharge from the military.
Relatives described Pvt. Travis King, 23, as a quiet loner who did not drink or smoke and enjoyed reading the Bible. After growing up in southeast Wisconsin, he was excited about serving his country in South Korea. Now King’s family is struggling to understand what changed before he dashed into a country with a long history of holding Americans and using them as bargaining chips.
“I can’t see him doing that intentionally if he was in his right mind,” King’s maternal grandfather, Carl Gates, told The Associated Press from his Kenosha, Wisconsin, home. “Travis is a good guy. He wouldn’t do nothing to hurt nobody. And I can’t see him trying to hurt himself.”
King was supposed to be returned to the U.S. this week to face military discipline after serving nearly two months in a South Korea prison on assault charges. But instead of boarding a flight for Texas on Monday, as planned, King slipped away and quietly joined a civilian tour group on Tuesday morning headed for the Demilitarized Zone that divides South and North Korea.
Even with legal troubles hanging over him, King’s relatives said they are at a loss to explain why he acted as he did.
King’s uncle, Myron Gates, questioned whether his nephew was experiencing a mental problem.
“I don’t understand why he would do that, because it seemed like he was on his way back here to the United States,” Myron Gates said. “He was on his way home.”
Another relative said King was despondent over the recent loss of a young cousin. Lakeia Nard said King was close with her 7-year-old son, King’nazier Gates, who died in February of a rare genetic disease.
Carl Gates said his grandson joined the military three years ago out of a desire to serve his country and because he “wanted to do better for himself.” He has an older brother who is a police officer and a cousin who is in the Navy.
King served as a cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division.
“He’s a nice, quiet guy,” Carl Gates said. “He doesn’t bother anybody. He keeps to himself.”
King was facing discharge from the Army because he was convicted of a crime in a foreign country, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
In February, a court fined King 5 million won ($3,950) after he was convicted of assaulting an unidentified person and damaging a police vehicle in Seoul last October, according to a transcript of the verdict obtained by the AP.
The ruling said King was also accused of punching a 23-year-old man at a Seoul nightclub, though the court dismissed that charge because the victim did not want the soldier to be punished. King served 47 days in prison.
According to the U.S. official, King was escorted to the airport on Monday by two U.S. service members. He was supposed to board an American Airlines flight to Texas that was scheduled to leave at 5:40 p.m. Upon arrival, he was to be met by military personnel who would escort him to Fort Bliss.
On the way to his departing flight, King was escorted as far as customs but left the airport before boarding the plane. It was unclear how he spent the hours until joining the tour in the border village of Panmunjom and running across the border Tuesday afternoon.
Sarah Leslie, a tourist from New Zealand, said King was in her tour group and was traveling alone. He initially acted like any other tourist, buying a DMZ hat from a gift shop. He was casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt.
As the tour was ending, the group members were milling about and taking photos. That’s when Leslie saw King running “really fast.” She thought it was a stunt.
“I assumed initially he had a mate filming him in some kind of really stupid prank or stunt, like a TikTok, the most stupid thing you could do,” Leslie said. “But then I heard one of the soldiers shout, ‘Get that guy.’”
Before soldiers could catch him, King was across the border. It took just a few seconds.
U.S. officials were saying little about what may have motivated King.
“We are still gathering facts,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the administration was trying to figure out where King was being held, his condition and his reason for crossing into North Korea. She said administration officials would work to ensure his safe return to his family.
King’s mother, Claudine Gates, told reporters outside her Racine, Wisconsin, home that all she cares about is bringing her son home.
“I just want my son back,” she said in video posted by Milwaukee television station WISN. “Get my son home.”
King’s grandfather called on his country to help rescue his grandson.
“We’re the United States. We make things happen. If they get him out of there, we appreciate it as a family,” Carl Gates said. “Save my grandson.”
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2023-07-20T03:18:06+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/american-soldiers-sprint-into-north-korea-leaves-family-members-wondering-why/
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
02-18-21-22-29-41
(two, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-nine, forty-one)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the Missouri Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
02-18-21-22-29-41
(two, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-nine, forty-one)
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2022-10-09T03:14:57+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Lotto-game-17496578.php
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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Porterville church is asking for the public's help finding a stolen relic.
Thursday, surveillance video captured a person walking into Saint Anne's Church and stealing the Infant Jesus of Prague statue.
The statue has been in the church for 70 years and is valued at close to $2,000.
The church posted the video on their Facebook page, saying they do not care about the monetary value but the statue meant a lot to its parishioners.
Saint Anne's says many churchgoers would seek prayer and relief at the statue throughout the years.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Porterville police department.
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2022-07-30T17:11:54+00:00
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abc30.com
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https://abc30.com/statue-stolen-porterville-church-saint-annes-jesus/12085751/
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Aetna CVS Health Individual and Family Plans combine the quality health insurance coverage of Aetna®, with affordable care options at CVS Pharmacy® and MinuteClinic® locations to help members achieve their best health.
WOONSOCKET, R.I., Sept. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aetna, a CVS Health® company (NYSE: CVS), will offer Aetna CVS Health hybrid-branded insurance through the individual insurance exchange marketplace in Florida (in select counties), by expanding the geography for available benefits for affordable access to health care for more Floridians.
"With millions of Americans being uninsured or underinsured, our plans provide quality care, at an affordable price and the ability to conveniently access this care using virtual technology and in-person care in their communities," said Angela Burrafato, MD, Sr. Medical Director, Florida, Aetna. "By bridging the gap between people and the support and services they need, we can offer a human-centered approach where, when and how they need us."
With the launch of these plans, members will have access to Aetna's comprehensive network of primary care doctors, mental health providers, specialists and hospitals. Plus, convenient and affordable care options through telehealth, participating walk-in clinics, such as MinuteClinic®, and HealthHUB™ locations – removing more barriers to accessing care.
Aetna CVS Health ACA exchange products bring together the coverage of Aetna and the convenience of CVS Health. It's health insurance done differently and features:
- Quality care with Aetna's comprehensive network of primary care doctors, specialists and hospitals
- Affordable care with plans that include in-network $0 virtual and walk-in clinic care*
- Care on your schedule with 24/7 access to virtual care, plus walk-in visits at 1,100 MinuteClinic®, locations nationwide
"We understand that everyone has their own unique circumstances and making health care simple, easy and affordable is how we are meeting them where they are on their journey," said Rich Weiss, Florida Market President, Aetna. "We're ensuring more Floridians – and Americans – can get access to Aetna's quality care. We are uniquely positioned to work with consumers to achieve better outcomes across our local provider networks along with MinuteClinic, CVS HealthHUB and CVS Pharmacy locations, and our virtual care options."
The Aetna CVS Health ACA plans are comprehensive health care plans that provide care and coverage for:
- Pediatric services, including oral and vision care
- Ambulatory patient services (outpatient services)
- Emergency services
- Hospitalization
- Maternity and newborn care
- Mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment
- Prescription drugs
- Rehabilitative and habilitative services (those that help patients acquire, maintain, or improve skills necessary for daily functioning) and devices
- Laboratory services
- Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
This offering will be available in select Florida counties, including: Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Collier, Duval, Hendry, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Martin, Miami-Dade, Orange, Osceola, Palm Beach and Saint Johns, Sarasota, Seminole and St. Lucie.
Charlotte, Clay, Collier, Duval, Indian River, Lake, Lee, Martin, Orange, Osceola, Saint Johns, Seminole, and St. Lucie are new areas for the 2023 enrollment period.
*Members may be required to pay a cost-share based on what medical services were received and the type of provider a member visits. Please consult benefit documents for more details. Includes select services. Not all services are covered. Please consult benefit documents to confirm which services are included. Members enrolled in qualified high-deductible health plans must meet their deductible before receiving covered non-preventative services at no cost-share. However, such services are covered at negotiated contract rates. This benefit is not available in all states. Access to walk-in clinics may vary by geography. For a complete list of participating walk-in clinics, log in to Aetna.com and use our provider search tool.
Filings in Florida are complete. Final approval to entry is pending state and federal reviews/certifications.
About Aetna
Aetna, a CVS Health business, serves an estimated 34 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental and behavioral health plans, and medical management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services, workers' compensation administrative services and health information technology products and services. Aetna's customers include employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. For more information, visit www.aetna.com and explore how Aetna is helping to build a healthier world.
About CVS Health
CVS Health® is the leading health solutions company, delivering care like no one else can. We reach more people and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and over 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that's managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day. Follow @CVSHealth on social media.
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Jeff Swallow
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swallowj@cvshealth.com
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2022-09-08T13:37:23+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/09/08/aetna-cvs-health-expands-reach-individual-family-plan-offerings-delivering-better-care-access-value-floridians/
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BOK Center announced this week that more tickets were released for a Feb. 21 performance by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band.
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2023-02-08T21:41:50+00:00
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tulsaworld.com
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https://tulsaworld.com/entertainment/music/additional-tickets-released-for-bruce-springsteen-at-bok-center/article_eef6c7fa-a7ed-11ed-a083-07e27148d6e0.html
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World's peoples weathering the storm, building the future
In my last column, I wrote of my hope to highlight some of the ways people all over the world are coming together to create vibrant communities despite the calamitous conditions now present everywhere. In this column, I will share some of those promising developments.
Late last year, the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the worldwide Baha’i Community, called for a series of conferences to be convened, not for Baha’is only but also for any well-wisher of humanity. These gatherings drew inspiration from Baha’u’llah’s words: “The purpose for which mortal men have, from utter nothingness, stepped into the realm of being, is that they may work for the betterment of the world and live together in concord and harmony.”
In early spring, the first of these conferences was launched and they continued to unfold throughout the ensuing weeks until an astounding total of ten thousand was reached. Hundreds were held in the United States, including one right here in Springfield, held at the BOS Center over Mother’s Day weekend.
These conferences varied in size from a few dozen participants to several hundreds, in venues large and small, settings rural and urban. They were planned to be specific to the areas in which they were held, taking into account the local populations, their needs, aspirations and cultures. However, they all had common themes as well: Baha’u’llah’s Vision for humanity, the importance of education in strengthening our communities both spiritually and materially, social transformation through grassroots action and participating in the discourses of society. Essentially, the participants were engaged in creating a pattern for how society can be. Highlights as well as music from some of these conferences can be found by typing in Baha’i global conferences, 2022 in the YouTube search bar.
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Central to the concept of that new pattern is the union of worship and service. In a 2015 message, the Universal House of Justice wrote: “Experience suggests that a discussion about contributing to the betterment of society fails to tap the deepest springs of motivation if it excludes exploration of spiritual themes. The importance of ‘doing,’ of arising to serve and to accompany fellow souls, must be harmonized with the notion of ‘being,’ of increasing one’s understanding of the divine teachings and mirroring forth spiritual qualities in one’s life.”
In our local conference last spring, planned jointly with Baha’is from Peoria and the Quad Cities, there was ample expression of this blend of spiritual themes and grassroots activism. Our hearts and souls were touched by prayer and scriptural readings from various Faith traditions and our spirits soared because of the many kinds of arts presented—music, dance, poetry, visual arts, drama and the spoken word.
Additionally, representatives from several organizations/groups made presentations and explored with us the opportunities we all have to help make our city a vibrant community. Among the groups represented were the Urban League, the District 186 School Board, First Presbyterian Church, Joy of Movement, Springfield Dominicans Anti-Racism Team, the Garvey-Tubman Cultural Arts and Resource Center, Constructive Conversations on Race and the Unity Club of Jefferson Middle School.
Along with the above groups we welcomed many individuals who fit the description of “well-wishers of humanity.” These were a diverse group with the common interest of working for “the betterment of the world” and improving our community spiritually and materially.
The aftereffects of these many conferences continue to reverberate throughout their respective communities. In ever-widening circles they embrace more and more people who, undergirded by faith in a God who has not abandoned us, and united by a common commitment to improving the life of society, are taking the first steps in building a new way of “being” and “doing.”
Again, in the words of the Universal House of Justice, “Building a society that consciously pursues this collective purpose (working for the betterment of the world and living together in concord and harmony) is the work of not only this generation, but of many generations to come, and Baha’u’llah’s followers welcome all who labor alongside them in this undertaking.”
Nancy Flood-Golembeck is a retired teacher and longtime member of the Baha’i faith.
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2022-11-13T13:27:12+00:00
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DALLAS, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce the addition of John A. Bonnet III as a partner in the Dallas office. Mr. Bonnet joins the firm as a member of Bradley's Corporate & Securities Practice Group.
"John is well-regarded for his skill and the level of service he provides to his clients, focusing on collaboration and strategy to come up with effective legal solutions," said Bradley Dallas Office Managing Partner Richard A. Sayles. "We are pleased to welcome John to the firm as we continue to deepen the capabilities that we are able to offer out of the Dallas office."
Mr. Bonnet is a transactional lawyer with extensive experience in M&A transactions, debt and equity financings, investment funds, general business transactions, contracts, corporate governance, and other business law matters. Mr. Bonnet regularly represents a diverse range of clients, including buyers, sellers, investment fund sponsors, investors, boards of directors and management, borrowers, lenders, and startups. He is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and earned his B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Bonnet is a member of the State Bar of Texas and of the Dallas Bar Association.
With the addition of Mr. Bonnet, Bradley's Dallas office has more than tripled in size over the last three years, growing into a full-service office with particular strength in its litigation, finance, corporate, government enforcement, fintech and emerging business practice areas. The firm now has more than 50 lawyers located across its offices in Dallas and Houston and has more than 70 lawyers licensed in the state, which is part of Bradley's strategic plan to prioritize high-quality, high-value legal services for its clients in Texas and beyond.
Bradley combines skilled legal counsel with exceptional client service and unwavering integrity to assist a diverse range of corporate and individual clients in achieving their business goals. With offices in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and the District of Columbia, the firm's almost 600 lawyers represent regional, national and international clients in various industries, including banking and financial services, construction, energy, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and technology, among many others.
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2022-06-27T17:37:01+00:00
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed new legislation Monday which marked the final step in outlawing gender-affirming procedures, a crippling blow to Russia’s already embattled LGBTQ+ community.
The bill, which was approved unanimously by both houses of parliament, bans any “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person,” as well as changing one’s gender in official documents and public records. The only exception will be medical intervention to treat congenital anomalies.
It also annuls marriages in which one person has “changed gender” and bars transgender people from becoming foster or adoptive parents.
The ban is said to stem from the Kremlin’s crusade to protect what it views as the country’s “traditional values.” Lawmakers say the legislation is to safeguard Russia against “Western anti-family ideology,” with some describing gender transitioning as “pure satanism.”
Russia’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ people started a decade ago when Putin first proclaimed a focus on “traditional family values,” supported by the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2013, the Kremlin adopted legislation that banned any public endorsement of “nontraditional sexual relations” among minors. In 2020, Putin pushed through constitutional reform that outlawed same-sex marriage, and last year signed a law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” among adults as well.
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2023-07-24T18:10:33+00:00
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As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources that intersperses cheeky banter with wildfire and weather warnings, watched with equal parts trepidation and fascination.
“It kind of feels like a supernova moment right now — a big, bright flash before it all goes away,” she said.
So the department stepped into the fray, taking advantage of the moment with some of its signature humor. “Update: The Twitter wildfire is 44 billion acres and 0% contained,” they posted.
But under the joke, it linked to a thread that gave helpful tips about how to review a handle to see if it’s real. Some of the suggestions included looking at how old the account is and checking to see if the public safety agency’s website links to the profile.
It underscored the challenge for the people tasked with getting public safety information out to communities. Now, they don’t only have to get information out quickly. On the new Twitter, they also have to convince people they are actually the authorities.
Government agencies, especially those tasked with sending messages during emergencies, have embraced Twitter for its efficiency and scope. Getting accurate information from authorities during disasters is often a matter of life or death. For example, the first reports this week of a deadly shooting at the University of Virginia came from the college’s Twitter accounts that urged students to shelter in place.
Disasters also provide fertile ground for false information to spread online. Researchers like Jun Zhuang, a professor at the University of Buffalo who studies how false information spreads during natural disasters, say emergencies create a “perfect storm” for rumors, but that government accounts have also played a crucial role in batting them down.
During Hurricane Harvey in 2017, for example, an online rumor spread that officials were checking people’s immigration status at storm shelters, potentially dissuading people from seeking safety there. However, crisis communication researchers have also found that the city’s mayor reassured residents and helped the community pull together with a constant stream of Twitter messages.
Amid the slew of changes at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms, the public information officers who operate government Twitter accounts are cautiously waiting out the turmoil and urging the public to verify that it really is their accounts appearing on timelines. While it’s an issue they’ve always had to contend with, it’s especially worrisome now as a proliferation of brand impersonations spreads across the platform and changes to verification take hold.
Darren Noak, who helps run an account for Austin-Travis County emergency medical services in Texas, said Twitter’s blue checkmark has often been discussed among those who operate government Twitter accounts. The badge — up until a week ago — indicated an account was verified as a government entity, corporation, celebrity or journalist.
The AP reviewed dozens of government agencies responsible for responding to emergencies from the county to the national level, and none had received an official label — denoted by a gray checkmark — by Friday. Spoof accounts are a concern, Noak said, because they create “a real pain and a headache, especially in times of crisis and emergency.”
Government accounts have long been a target of copycats. Fairfax County in Virginia had to quash fake school closures tweeted from a fraudulent account during a 2014 winter storm. And both the state of North Carolina and its city of Greensboro have had to compete with accounts appearing to speak for their governments.
It has become even harder in recent days to verify that an account is authentic.
In the span of a week, Twitter granted gray checkmark badges to official government accounts — then rescinded them. It next allowed users to receive a blue checkmark through its $8 subscription services — then halted that offering after it spawned an infestation of imposter accounts. Over the weekend, Twitter laid off outsourced moderators who enforced rules against harmful content, further gutting its guardrails against misinformation.
Twitter hasn’t responded to media requests for information since Musk took over, but its support account has posted: “To combat impersonation, we’ve added an ‘Official’ label to some accounts.”
Twitter’s changes could be deadly, warned Juliette Kayyem, a former homeland security adviser at the state and national levels who now teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy School.
Twitter has become a go-to source of localized information in emergencies, she said. But imposter accounts could introduce a new level of misinformation — or disinformation when people intentionally try to cause harm — in urgent situations. When instructing the public how to respond, the right instructions — such as sheltering in place or evacuating a certain area — can be a matter of life or death.
“In a disaster where time is limited, the greatest way to limit harm is to provide accurate and timely information to communities about what they should do,” Kayyem said. “Allowing others to claim expertise — it will cost lives.”
In the past, Kayyem had worked with Twitter to research how government agencies can communicate in emergencies. She said the leadership at Twitter’s trust and safety department “thought long and hard” about its public service role. But Twitter has lost those high-level leaders responsible for cybersecurity, data privacy and complying with regulations.
Some agencies are pushing audiences to other venues for information.
Local government websites are often the best place to turn for accurate, up-to-date information in emergencies, said April Davis, who works as a public affairs officer and digital media strategist at the Oregon Department of Emergency Management. She, like many others at emergency management agencies, said her agency doesn’t yet plan to change how it engages on Twitter, but also emphasized that it’s not the best place to turn to in emergencies.
“If it goes away, then we’ll migrate to another platform,” said Derrec Becker, chief of public information at the South Carolina Emergency Management Division. “It is not the emergency alert system.”
Twitter accounts for emergency management in Washington, South Carolina and Oregon provide public service information on preparing for disasters and weather alerts. They also tweet about evacuation and shelter orders.
Becker, who has cultivated the agency’s sizeable Twitter following with a playful presence, said emergency alerts broadcast on TV, radio or cell phones are still the go-to methods for urgent warnings.
Shortly after Becker fielded questions from The Associated Press on his agency’s plans Monday, the department tweeted: “Leave Twitter? Disasters are kind of our thing.”
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2022-11-19T19:11:59+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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States aim to boost school safety after Tennessee shooting
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In the wake of an elementary school shooting in Tennessee earlier this week that left three 9-year-olds and three adults dead, state legislatures across the country are moving forward with bills aiming to improve school safety.
The bills have been introduced in blue and red states alike and would require schools to install technology ranging from panic buttons, video surveillance and emergency communications systems. Most have bipartisan support, with lawmakers seeing them as a way to boost school security while avoiding political gridlock on the hot-button issue of gun control. But some experts say teacher safety training is more effective and less expensive than the new technologies, which also can require upgrades or ongoing maintenance that may not be funded.
That hasn’t stopped states from Oregon to Missouri to Tennessee from pursuing the systems.
“I was asked by a colleague if our schools will have to become fortresses to keep our kids safe. And I told them yes, if that’s what it takes. I don’t care if we have to park a tank outside a school,” Tennessee’s Republican House Majority Leader William Lamberth said.
While Democratic state lawmakers have called for tighter gun laws as a way to stem school shootings, many are now also supporting the school emergency measures that have largely been touted by Republicans.
In Oregon, where Democrats control the Legislature, a bill that would require schools to send electronic notifications to parents as soon as possible after a safety threat occurs passed the state House unanimously this week. Two Democratic lawmakers are the chief sponsors of another bill that would require all public school classrooms to have panic alert devices that would contact law enforcement or emergency services when activated.
If passed, the panic alert bill would make Oregon the fourth state—along with Republican-led Florida and Democratic-led New Jersey and New York—to enact such a law. Several other states are considering similar legislation.
“If there’s anything we know, it’s that during an emergency, time equals life,” said one of the Oregon bill’s chief sponsors, Democratic state Rep. Emerson Levy.
Some school districts aren’t waiting for legislation to implement new security measures such as panic devices.
Las Vegas’s Clark County School District, among the ten largest districts nationwide, is now using a system involving badges called CrisisAlert. The badges can be worn around the neck and pressed to call for help or trigger a schoolwide lockdown.
Olathe Public Schools, the second largest district in Kansas located in the Kansas City suburbs, has also adopted CrisisAlert. The district has yet to use it to respond to an active shooter situation, according to Jim McMullen, who oversees the district’s Safety Services Department and also serves as assistant superintendent of middle school education. But he said that school personnel use the badge every day for things ranging from student fights to medical emergencies.
“Earlier today we used it when we had a student who was unconscious. The staff member, instead of leaving the kid to go call for help, was able to just hit their button three times and had a lot of assistance real quickly,” he said on Thursday.
“We’ve gotten tremendous feedback from our staff regarding the fact that it makes them feel safer, empowered.”
Panic alert devices gained steam after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Lori Alhadeff, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alyssa, was among the 17 killed, founded the group Make Our Schools Safe and began advocating for panic buttons. She had texted her daughter as shots rang out that help was on the way.
“It’s really so important to be proactive, and to really accept the fact that unfortunately, this can happen anywhere at any time, as we’ve seen over and over again,” said Lori Kitaygorodsky, the group’s spokesperson. “There’s really nothing to lose by being prepared.”
Some Republican-led states have boosted funding for school safety in order to help schools pay for new devices like panic buttons. Installing CrisisAlert, for example, costs at least $8,000 per campus under a three- to five-year contract, according to Will Fullerton, senior vice president for government affairs at Centegix, the Atlanta-based company that makes the product.
The number of schools using CrisisAlert nearly doubled from 2021 to 2022, according to the company. The badge system delivered over 50,000 alerts in the Fall 2022 semester, a 100% increase from the same time the previous year, its vice president of marketing, Stacy Meyer, said in an email.
After a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers last May at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, state officials announced $105 million for school safety and mental health initiatives. Nearly half of that was slated for bullet-resistant shields for school police and $17 million was for districts to purchase panic-alert technology.
The Missouri House on Thursday approved a 2024 budget with $50 million for school safety grants, on top of $20 million already authorized for school safety in the current year. Schools will be able to use the money on technology including door locking devices, intercom systems and video surveillance equipment.
While one-time grants can allow schools to purchase new technology, they don’t always fund upkeep over longer periods of time. Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a consulting firm based in Cleveland, Ohio, said he’s found items like security cameras gathering dust in boxes in some of the schools that he’s worked with.
“There’s no budget to repair, replace and maintain them after they put them in ... Things are pushed into a closet and not used again,” he said.
“The basic fundamental tools are not being properly used — staff not being properly trained, doors that are propped open,” he said, adding that the focus should be on “situational awareness, pattern recognition ... and then making cognitive decisions under stress.”
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Associated Press writers Kimberlee Kruesi and David A. Lieb contributed reporting from Nashville, Tennessee and Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Claire Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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2023-04-02T13:29:23+00:00
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wlox.com
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https://www.wlox.com/2023/04/02/states-aim-boost-school-safety-after-tennessee-shooting/
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Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week:
Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling: Spielberg's latest project, The Fabelmans, is semi-autobiographical — focused on his childhood and teen years and his parents' divorce. He jokingly refers to the film as "$40 million of therapy."
Small in scope, Claire Keegan's 'Foster' packs an emotional wallop: Keegan is a writer who revels in the suspense of the unspoken, the held breath. Her new novella centers on a nameless young girl whose parents leave her in the care of relatives for the summer.
'Half American' explores how Black WWII servicemen were treated better abroad: Though more than one million Black Americans contributed to the war effort, historian Matthew Delmont says a military uniform offered no protection from racism.
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2022-11-12T11:04:24+00:00
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- Obtained ISO 37001 from Korea Compliance Initiative (KCI)
- To practice ESG management by enhancing management transparency and ethical management
YONGIN, South Korea, April 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- GC Cell (KOSDAQ: 144510), a Korean biotech company, announced on Apr. 6th that it has successfully attained the international certification for the anti-bribery management system, ISO 37001, from Korea Compliance Initiative (KCI), an international certification body.
ISO 37001 is the international standard for meeting global anti-bribery efforts, such as the OECD Anti-bribery Convention and the UN Convention against Corruption. It defines the control and prevention guidelines against corruption risks that may arise in any organization. The International Organization of Standardization issues it based on a rigorous assessment of whether an organization's management system complies with the international standards for anti-corruption.
With the accreditation by ISO 37001, GC Cell is now equipped with control measures for detecting corruption risks as well as a system to prevent corruption and misconduct.
The company plans to continue strengthening employee training on the anti-bribery management system and ensuring strict compliance with relevant laws and regulations so that all employees internalize ethical and compliant practices as they perform everyday work.
"We will practice ESG management by enhancing management transparency and further strengthening ethical management so that GC Cell can fulfill its social role and responsibilities." said James Park, CEO of CG Cell.
About GC Cell
GC Cell is an integrated corporation created through the recent merger of Green Cross Labcell and Green Cross Cell and focuses on the development and production of treatments using immune cells and stem cells. In particular, it has a variety of pipelines for autologous and allogeneic cell therapies. It also has global competitiveness based on platform technology and experience throughout the entire period from the initial research stage to the commercialization stage.
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2023-04-06T11:55:49+00:00
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Ricky Castillo won a marathon match to bring Florida back from what appeared to be certain defeat.
Georgia Tech’s Ross Steelman hit clutch shots down the stretch a day after limping to the finish in the individual championship.
There’s a reason the two seniors were in the anchor matches.
Castillo rallied from 2 down with three holes left and birdied the third extra hole to beat Brett Roberts, giving Florida a 3-2 victory over Florida State in the NCAA semifinals Tuesday at Grayhawk.
“An hour ago we were just dead. It was over,” Florida coach J.C. Deacon said. “I honestly saw no way of winning it, but if our program’s going to be in anyone’s hands I want to be in this guy’s (Castillo).”
Same with Steelman.
A day after losing his grip on the individual championship with three closing bogeys, the senior two-putted for par to beat Peter Fountain 1 up, sealing Georgia Tech a 3-2 victory over top-seeded North Carolina.
“I know he’s disappointed what happened before, but I wouldn’t trust anyone more to win a match,” Georgia Tech coach Bruce Heppler said.
The Yellow Jackets will play for their first national title in Wednesday’s title match against the Gators, vying for their first since 2001.
Castillo rallied from 2 down with three holes to go with birdies on 16 and 17. Neither player could get up and down for par on No. 18, sending the match to extra holes.
After trading three pars, Roberts missed a birdie putt on the par-4 10th hole. Putting on the same line, Castillo rolled his in, pumping his fist as the Gators rushed onto the green in celebration.
“They’re resilient and mentally tough,” North Carolina coach Andrew DiBitetto said. “We can take on any challenges and just came up short, a putt short.”
It didn’t look good for the Gators for a while.
Florida State won the first two matches, starting with freshman Jack Bigham’s 6-and-5 win over Yuxin Lin. Frederik Kjettrup followed with a 3-and-1 decision over Matthew Kress.
Florida tied it when NCAA individual champion Fred Biondi birdied the par-4 17th to beat Cole Anderson 1 up, then John DuBois beat Luke Clanton 1 up with a par on No. 18.
Castillo, a senior with three career wins, caught Roberts down the stretch with two birdies and made the final one to cap a day that started with an morning 3-2 win over Virginia in the quarterfinals.
“Neither of us had our best stuff, but I think both of us grinded it out really, really well today,” Castillo said. “Just fought hard and I ended up getting the win.”
The final match went down to the wire as well.
Georgia Tech needed extra holes to secure its quarterfinal match against Pepperdine in the morning, moving on when Hiroshi Tai birdied the 19th hole against Roberto Nieves.
North Carolina got the early lead in the semifinals when Dylan Menante won six straight holes starting at No. 6 to beat Christo Lamprecht 6 and 5.
Georgia Tech’s Bartley Forrester beat Ryan Burnett 4 and 2. Connor Howe followed with a 4-and-2 win over Austin Greaser.
David Ford then closed out Tai 1 up with a par on 18 to pull North Carolina into a tie at 2-all.
That left it up to Steelman.
The senior had three-shot lead through 15 holes Monday in the individual finale, only to end up a shot behind Biondi.
He finished it off this time.
Leading 1 up, Steelman dropped in a birdie on 17, but Fountain matched him with a birdie putt that rolled around the lip before dropping. Fountain had to lay up after hitting into a fairway bunker on 18 and Steelman hit it to the middle of the green.
Fountain conceded the winning putt after Steelman rolled it up to about a foot.
“Just knowing that my coach and teammates have confidence in me to go close it out, if it comes down to it, it’s awesome,” Steelman said. “Whenever a little bit of nerves creep in, it’s a nice reassuring factor to think about: hey, my guys wanted me in the spot, so just go do it.”
Castillo and Steelman get to do it one more time on Wednesday — they face each other in the anchor match.
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2023-05-31T14:45:15+00:00
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ksn.com
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Kidnapping victim was tied up with barbed wire, sheriff’s office says
MADISON COUNTY, N.C. (Gray News) – Officials in North Carolina said a kidnapping victim is recovering in a hospital after they were tied up with barbed wire and beaten with various weapons.
The Madison County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report over the weekend about an individual who showed up at someone’s house claiming they had been kidnapped.
The sheriff’s office said deputies responded to the home in Madison County where they found a victim with lacerations to their face, body and arms. Deputies said the victim also had multiple “cross symbols” carved into their face and body.
The victim was taken to the hospital to have their injuries treated.
Detectives with the sheriff’s office worked with the deputies to find the home where the victim was held. They eventually found a home with Patrick Banks, James Angel and Nicole Sawyer.
Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood made a post on his Facebook page saying Banks was wanted for a parole violation and had a felony warrant for his arrest. Angel also had a warrant for larceny and possession of marijuana from another county.
The sheriff’s office then executed a search warrant at the home.
During the investigation, detectives determined the victim was imprisoned in the basement and had their hands tied to a chair with barbed wire. The victim’s feet were tied together with barbed wire and their chest was also tied to a beam with barbed wire. The victim’s mouth had been taped up.
The sheriff said the victim had been punched and kicked in the head, struck multiple times with firearms and a crowbar and cut with multiple knives.
The sheriff’s office arrested all three of the suspects and charged them in connection to the kidnapping and assault.
Banks, Angel and Sawyer were all charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious bodily injury with intent to kill, first-degree kidnapping and possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Banks was also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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2023-02-22T01:23:12+00:00
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atlantanewsfirst.com
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Five big takeaways from the Fed’s extraordinary meeting
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday as it attempts to fight stubbornly high inflation while addressing risks to financial stability.
Investors and economists had widely anticipated the quarter-point increase despite the recent meltdown in the banking sector.
Still, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and policymakers entered their second policymaking meeting of the year confronted by an unusual level of uncertainty as the landscape surrounding the financial system continues to shift.
So what did we learn from the policy decision, economic projections and Powell’s press conference on Wednesday?
Here are our five largest takeaways.
No “pivot” coming this year
Investors are currently betting that the Fed will cut rates before the end of the year, with interest rates ending 2023 somewhere between a half point and three-quarters of a point lower than where they are now (a range of 4.75% to 5%). But investors are wrong, said Powell at his press conference on Wednesday.
Powell said that the central bank anticipates growth will slow and inflation will decline gradually this year and next year. “In that most likely case, if that happens, participants don’t see rate cuts this year,” he said.
While the Fed is data dependent and future changes to interest rates are “uncertain,” he said, a cut to interest rates this year is not in the central bank’s “baseline expectation.”
But maybe a pause
Policymakers in their statement on Wednesday got rid of prior language that forecast “ongoing increases” to the interest rate and instead wrote that the committee “anticipates that some additional policy firming may be appropriate.”
This is a case of classic Fed speak, where small changes to language have a lot of implied meaning. Powell urged investors at his press conference to focus less on “policy firming” and more on “some” and “may.”
So what does that mean?
Before the banking crisis, the Fed was fairly certain that more rate hikes would be coming in the future. Now, they may push the pause button.
Still, hitting pause on rate hikes is not the same as hitting stop altogether. Powell said on Wednesday that while the Fed has made some progress on bringing down inflation, there’s still a long way to go.
“The process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go and is likely to be bumpy,” he said.
The Fed will be assessing data and the impact of its rate hikes in deciding how to proceed with policy, he said. “Inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year, but the strength of these recent readings indicates that inflation pressures continue to run high,” Powell said.
More banking regulation is needed
While Powell repeatedly made assurances that the US banking system was sound and resilient, he did say that management at Silicon Valley Bank “failed badly,” and exposed its customers to “significant liquidity risk and interest rate risk.”
“My only interest is that we identify what went wrong here,” he said, adding that there needs to be stronger supervision and regulation in order to prevent more bank collapses and runs.
But Powell said the Fed wouldn’t jump to conclusions, adding that it would be “inappropriate for me at this stage to offer my views on what the answers might be.”
But the banking crisis may help bring down inflation
Wednesday’s Before the Bell focused on how the recent banking meltdown may have done some of the Fed’s work for it. Powell seemed to agree with that notion during his press conference.
The banking crunch is “likely to result in tighter credit conditions for households and businesses, which would in turn affect economic outcomes,” he said. Still, “it’s too soon to tell how monetary policy should respond.”
Fears of a bank run cause lenders to take fewer risks with their capital reserves to ensure they have enough cash to cover any potential withdrawal requests. That means banks may stop lending money to some borrowers, prevent some businesses from getting loans and issue fewer mortgages. It also means the economy would cool and potentially lead to layoffs and a housing market slowdown.
The Fed, in its fight against inflation, has been trying to do exactly that: Slow the economy. So rate hikes may not be necessary anymore to beat back rising prices.
On the other hand, the banking meltdown may not slow the economy. Powell said the Fed is watching closely.
“It’s possible that these events will turn out to have very modest effects on the economy, in which case inflation will continue to be strong, in which case, you know, the path might look different,” Powell said.
“It’s also possible that this potential tightening will contribute significant tightening in credit conditions over time. And in principle, that means that monetary policy may have less work to do. We simply don’t know.”
Job losses are a risk Powell is willing to take
The Federal Reserve expects unemployment to rise as it cools the economy in an attempt to bring down inflation.
By the Fed’s own prediction, the unemployment rate will rise to 4.5% by the end of the year, up from 3.6% last month. That could translate to more than 1 million more Americans out of work by the end of 2023.
Powell said that’s an uncertain but acceptable outcome: “We have to bring inflation down to 2%,” he told me in response to a question I asked Wednesday about the risk of snowballing unemployment. “There are real costs to bring it down to 2%. But the costs of failing are much higher.”
“If the central bank doesn’t get inflation back in place … you can have a long series of years where inflation is high and volatile. And it’s hard to invest capital. It’s hard for an economy to perform well. And we’re looking to avoid that,” Powell said.
Yellen says SVB’s ‘rapid’ bank run could happen again
As Powell spoke, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spooked markets on Wednesday about the possibility of future bank runs as she gave testimony at a Senate hearing on Financial Services and General Government.
Yellen told lawmakers that federal bank regulators have not discussed any plans to insure all US bank deposits. There have been calls for a larger guarantee of deposits following the banking turmoil over the past two weeks, and Powell said Wednesday that “all depositors’ savings are safe.”
“I have not considered or discussed anything having to do with blanket insurance or guarantees of all deposits,” said Yellen.
Yellen called the rapid collapse of Silicon Valley Bank a “new phenomenon,” and said that the circumstances that led to its meltdown could happen again.
“The Silicon Valley Bank situation showed an overwhelmingly rapid run on a bank. We’ve never seen deposits flee at this rate,” she said. “Now in the world that we live in, although this was a small community and a disproportionate share of Silicon Valley Bank deposits, this kind of thing may more readily happen.”
Yellen, like Fed chair Powell, said that regulation and monitoring of banks should be “updated and rethought.”
Markets have more to digest
Wall Street didn’t like what it heard on Wednesday — especially the apparently contradictory messaging from the Fed chair and Treasury secretary — and a broad sell-off erased gains from back-to-back market rallies earlier in the week. The Dow dropped by more than 500 points and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite each closed down more than 1.5%.
But markets tend to be fickle after Fed meetings and traders’ opinions of the meeting could change in early trading. Investors also have a lot more to digest over the coming days.
The Fed announced its rate hike on Wednesday, but more central bank announcements are coming. Norway and Switzerland hiked rates earlier Thursday, and the Bank of England is expected to do so too at 8a ET. The Fed will also publish its Balance Sheet update in the early evening — investors will watch closely to see if more banks are taking out emergency loans.
In the United States, new home sales, mortgage rates and weekly initial jobless claims will be released and Fed officials are now out of their official quiet period — meaning they can start speaking publicly for the first time since the banking meltdown.
There’s a lot more coming, hold on to your hats.
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2023-03-23T14:02:21+00:00
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localnews8.com
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https://localnews8.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2023/03/23/five-big-takeaways-from-the-feds-extraordinary-meeting-2/
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German Twp. Police Chief Joseph Andzik used to be able to drop off evidence that needed DNA testing to the local crime lab when he was already making a trip to Dayton.
Now, his and other smaller departments across the region will have to get the samples to a state-run lab out of town
Andzik, the president of the Montgomery County Association of Police Chiefs, said his and other departments are still figuring out the process they’re going to use to get DNA evidence they once took the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab’s DNA section to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s lab in London. The local lab closed its DNA section last month after facing trouble hiring a section leader.
“I have nothing going on in London unless I am going to a training,” said Andzik, who noted that London is about 30 minutes further from German Twp. than Dayton. “It’s a little harder and it has an impact on the budget to some extent. Not a huge impact, but an impact, when you’re talking about time and gas.”
The Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab’s DNA section handled more than 3,000 cases since January 2020 with more than 80% coming from Montgomery County law enforcement departments. Departments from 21 counties submitted evidence to the Miami Valley Crime Lab’s DNA section over the past two years.
The regional crime lab will continue to work with law enforcement on other priorities, including drug and property crime, and analyzing fingerprints.
Andzik said his department used to drop off about 25 samples to be tested per year. He said the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab used to do any DNA testing the department asked, but there are some restrictions with BCI.
A BCI DNA Evidence Submission Policy issued late last month says that unless a weapon was stolen, touch DNA requests for property crime evidence will not be accepted.
“Touch DNA is defined as an evidence item that has had brief skin contact with an individual,” the policy says. “Items that may contain saliva, such as beverage containers, cigarette butts, or items that have undergone prolonged contact such as clothing or tools are not considered touch DNA items and may be submitted for testing.”
The policy says the lab will test suspected blood from the point of entry connected to a property crime.
Ohio Attorney General Spokesperson Steven Irwin said the lab will work with local law enforcement officials to help solve crimes.
“BCI wants to test the items with the greatest probative results in order to efficiently process each case and get answers for the submitting agency. A conversation up front is always helpful and welcomed,” Irwin told the Dayton Daily News.
Kettering Police submitted other types of evidence to BCI in the past, Public Information Office Tyler Johnson said. He said officers will continue to collect DNA samples to get them tested.
Before evidence is submitted to a lab for testing, Johnson said it’s approved by a lieutenant to ensure it is a valuable piece that could lead to results. He doesn’t anticipate changes.
“We’re still going to take it and it will be reviewed as always,” Johnson said.
Dayton Police said previously that it started sending DNA evidence to the BCI lab in London twice per week. However, smaller departments don’t have the personnel to send officers there as regularly.
Departments in western Montgomery County have discussed teaming up and assigning one person to transport evidence from multiple agencies, Andzik said. But chain-of-custody issues will probably prevent that.
“We haven’t come up with a set-in-stone way, we are still kind of playing it by ear,” he said.
Changing DNA labs also means learning a new system to submit evidence, Andzik said. But while the local DNA section closing adds challenges to investigations timelines, he said everyone involved is doing their best to make the transition as easy as possible.
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2022-07-25T08:25:59+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/shuttered-crime-lab-dna-section-challenges-smaller-departments-in-dayton-area/NXC73HOPGVFDBIS5Z56XIR5SXU/
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal authorities spent the past few years analyzing rules for the shipping industry and are now close to releasing fresh guidelines to help protect a vanishing species of whale.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been reviewing the speed regulations it uses to protect North Atlantic right whales, and according to spokesperson Allison Ferreira, the agency will publish new proposed rules within the coming weeks. A public comment process would follow.
Environmentalists have long pushed for stricter shipping rules to protect the whales, which number less than 340 and are vulnerable to collisions with large ships. They’ve fallen in population in recent years due to high mortality and poor reproduction.
“Those are the two primary threats to the species – entanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes,” said Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.
The new rules could expand existing protections for the whales, which are currently protected by a network of “slow zones,” requiring mariners to transit slowly to avoid whale collisions.
Some slow zones are mandatory while others are voluntary. Conservationists have long sought for them all to be mandatory, and for more of them. Some have also urged NOAA to apply the rules to ships under 65 feet (19.8 meters) in length, which is the current cutoff.
More than 50 of the whales were struck by ships between spring 1999 and spring 2018, NOAA records indicate. The collisions aren’t always fatal, but wildlife advocates have cautioned that sub-lethal collisions can result in the whales becoming less likely to reproduce.
Shipping associations have cautioned NOAA over the years to make sure speed rules don’t create unsafe conditions at sea. Ferreira said any changes would “be based on the best available information and completed through public notice and comment.”
The whales were once abundant off the East Coast, but they were decimated during the era of commercial whaling. They have been listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act for over 50 years.
The whales feed off New England and Canada and migrate to the waters off Georgia and Florida to give birth. They’ve been aided by the protected zones for years, but scientists have said warming ocean temperatures are causing whales to stray more frequently into shipping lanes in search of food.
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2022-06-11T06:24:04+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/science/ap-science/new-restrictions-on-ships-to-protect-whales-coming-soon/
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MEXIA, Texas (FOX 44) – A man is dead after an early morning shooting at a Mexia hotel.
City Manager Eric B. Garretty tells FOX 44 News that at approximately 1:10 a.m. Thursday, Mexia Police Department officers responded to a call of “shots fired” at 1314 East Milam Street. When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound dead. They immediately secured the area as a crime scene.
Garretty says Mexia PD immediately opened an investigation – which is in its early stages. However, law enforcement officials have identified several individuals with direct knowledge of the incident. Multiple law enforcement agencies are actively seeking them for questioning.
Mexia Police Chief Brian Bell noted that, “We have a very talented and capable investigative team looking into this this incident, and we are confident that we will be able to locate persons who have knowledge of what happened here in the early hours of Thursday morning.”
This investigation is ongoing.
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2022-09-08T16:05:41+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/local-news/man-dead-in-mexia-hotel-shooting/
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Mobile Platform Will Offer Short-Form Live Tennis Content as Part of New Agreement with ATP Media
NEW YORK, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Buzzer, the mobile platform for short-form live sports, announced today a new agreement with ATP Media (the global sales, broadcast production & distribution arm of the ATP Tour) to distribute short form live match content, expanding Buzzer's portfolio of sports available on the platform. The partnership will allow fans to seamlessly discover and access short-form tennis content, underscoring Buzzer's commitment to serving varying fan interests, complementing growing sports industry models and driving net new fans and value for partners.
Commencing with the Rolex Paris Masters this week, short form live look ins from ATP Masters 1000s, ATP 500 and ATP 250 matches will be available on Buzzer for purchase instantaneously through secure and easy micropayments, so fans never miss the next break point, tiebreak, or epic third set comeback. Buzzer will identify, notify and provide short-form access to the best moments in tennis, personalized based on each fan's preferences, giving them the unprecedented opportunity to buy only those moments they want to watch while broadening their purchasing and viewing options.
"We're thrilled to bring the ATP to Buzzer during an especially exciting time in the tennis world," says Andrew Barge, Chief Business Officer of Buzzer. "Our mission — delivering the best live moments in sports to fans, no matter where they are — aligns perfectly with men's tennis, where tournaments happen all over the world and in different windows throughout the day. We can't wait to test and learn alongside ATP Media, while delivering revenue and a younger, incremental audience in the process."
"This partnership with such an exciting and innovative platform represents another step towards better understanding and serving our fans," says Mark Webster (ATP Media CEO). "Buzzer has a young and engaged user base and we look forward to seeing how Buzzer will continue to grow its unique offerings in the U.S. and beyond."
ATP Media is the latest partnership for Buzzer, joining NBA League Pass, WNBA League Pass, DAZN and FanDuel. Additional partnerships will be announced in the coming months as Buzzer continues to build products that deepen the fan experience and expand as a multi-sport, aggregated platform.
Buzzer is currently available for download on iOS in the App Store and Android in the Google Play Store. The platform recently completed a redesign for both iOS and Android apps that allows for further personalization and discovery, so fans never miss a moment. The redesign features a new interactive timeline and curated feed with notable storylines and news surrounding interesting games, teams, players, and bets.
About Buzzer
Buzzer is a new notification-driven mobile platform for short-form live sports personalized for fans. Founded in 2020 by Bo Han, Buzzer simplifies the discovery and viewing experience of live sports in a short-form live format, providing curated and personalized access to live sports on mobile so fans never have to miss the most exciting moments. Buzzer further enhances the fan experience with its multi-channel daily newsletter, Buzzer Beats, a one-stop digest to find why, when and how to watch live games.
Headquartered in New York, Buzzer believes in hiring the best talent and is committed to fairness and inclusion. Buzzer administers an annual mentorship program focused on cultivating a community of industry leaders across sport, technology, and media paired with mentees from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as part of its broader Strive Initiative.
To learn more, download Buzzer on iOS in the App Store and Android in the Google Play Store, visit www.buzzer.com, and follow @Buzzer on Twitter and Instagram and @BuzzerStrive on Twitter.
About ATP Media
ATP Media is the global sales, broadcast production and distribution arm of the ATP Tour. Formed in 1999 ATP Media provides the centralised exploitation and host broadcast production for worldwide television and digital broadcast rights across the ATP Tour.
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2022-10-31T12:44:54+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/10/31/buzzer-expands-sports-portfolio-with-addition-mens-tennis-partnership-with-atp-media/
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New York (AP) — President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program announced on Wednesday aims to provide $10,000 in student debt cancellation for millions of Americans.
But for federal Pell grant recipients, that amount is even higher: $20,000
So what exactly is a Pell grant? And why is there a special benefit for people who got one?
Created by the Higher Education Act in 1965 as a way to promote access to education, federal Pell grants are special scholarships reserved for undergraduates and certain other students with the most significant financial need. The grants generally don’t need to be paid back, but they often don’t cover the full cost of college — so recipients take out additional loans.
The Biden administration is targeting Pell grant recipients for additional forgiveness “to smooth the transition back to repayment and help borrowers at highest risk of delinquencies or default once payments resume,” according to the Department of Education.
Roughly 27 million recipients of Pell grants will now be eligible for loan forgiveness. But for some, the $20,000 will hardly made a dent.
Lynn Hunt, a data analyst in Portland, Oregon, is a Pell grant recipient who borrowed somewhere around $45,000 to $50,000 to attend the University of Wisconsin and has paid back about $15,000 but still owes $70,000 because of interest.
“I know (Biden) mentioned, you know, $20,000 for Pell grants, but the people that had Pell grants had to take out the most loans,” Hunt said. “So $20,000 isn’t helping most of those people in any substantial manner. And the thing that happens every time when we get one of these half measures is, the can gets kicked for another decade.”
For Yaneth Peña, however, the money will make a difference. Peña graduated from North Carolina State University in 2014. She obtained about $4,000 in grants and approximately $25,000 in federal loans. Under Biden’s forgiveness plan, her debt would be whittled down to $5,000.
Relieved of the financial burden, Peña said she could now seriously pursue a graduate degree — something she said she hesitated to consider in the past because of her loans.
“This could like really change everything,” Peña said.
Pell grant recipients typically experience more challenges repaying their debt, the Department of Education notes. In the academic year of 2020-21, around 30% of all students that enrolled in undergraduate programs in the United States were awarded Pell grants and nearly every recipient came from a family that made less than $60,000 a year.
Almost all Pell grant recipients are independent students or dependent students from the bottom half of the income distribution, according to a report from the Urban Institute on college affordability.
Through the program, lower-income Americans can currently receive up to $6,895 annually for roughly six years.
If you’re not sure if you received a federal Pell grant, review any financial aid award letters administered through Office of Federal Student Aid.
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Associated Press reporters Gillian Flaccus in Portland, Oregon, Claire Savage in Chicago and Arleigh Rodgers in Indianapolis contributed to this report. Savage and Rodgers are corps members for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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2022-08-25T11:42:22+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-whats-a-pell-grant-how-it-affects-student-loan-forgiveness/
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CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Thousands of flights are canceled Friday as one of the most treacherous holiday seasons in the U.S. has seen in decades is underway, with temperatures plummeting, coinciding with travelers trying to get to their destinations before Christmas.
As of 5 a.m. CT Friday, more than 3,700 flights within, into, or out of the U.S. are canceled and more than 3,100 flights are delayed, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
A total of 2,681 flights within, into, or out of the U.S. were canceled and 10,399 were delayed Thursday, according to FlightAware.
Airports in Chicago, Denver, New York, Boston, Detroit and Cleveland are reporting the most cancellations.
U.S. airlines are waiving change fees and fare differences for passengers in a range of affected areas.
The frigid air was moving through the central United States to the east, with windchill advisories affecting about 135 million people over the coming days, forecasters said Thursday. Places like Des Moines, Iowa, will feel like minus 37 degrees, making it possible to suffer frostbite in less than five minutes.
Forecasters are expecting a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — to develop late Thursday and into Friday near the Great Lakes. That will stir up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow, Cook said.
Amtrak canceled several dozen scheduled train trips in the Midwest through Christmas because of the weather conditions, including trains in Michigan, Illinois and Missouri and trains between New York and Chicago.
“These actions are with abundant caution and in consultation with state transportation departments, host railroads, emergency managers and weather forecasters,” Amtrak said in a service announcement.
Railroad officials said on Thursday that its Northeast Corridor, the nation’s busiest railroad line, will still continue on schedule unless the ongoing weather conditions continue to get worse, according to The Washington Post.
In the seven days ending Wednesday, the Transportation Security Administration said it screened nearly 16.2 million passengers, slightly below the 16.5 million screened in the same period in 2019, pre-COVID pandemic.
All modes of transportation have seen an increase in travelers, with nearly 113 million people estimated to travel at least 50 miles from home this year between Dec. 23 and Jan. 2 – 3.6 million more than last year, according to AAA. Of those, about 102 million will be driving.
The National Weather Service says travel may be difficult because of icy roads and reduced visibility caused by blowing snow.
Exposure to severe windchill can lead to frostbite, hypothermia and death, meteorologists warned — and will be made even more dangerous in some areas by the prospect of blizzard conditions.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-12-23T19:46:12+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/thousands-of-flight-cancellations-force-travelers-to-scramble/
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WHL
All Times Local
Eastern Conference
Central Division
East Division
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Note: x - clinched playoff berth; Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Saturday's results
Edmonton 5 Calgary 1
Saskatoon 3 Winnipeg 2
Prince George 4 Victoria 2
Portland 4 Tri-City 1
Medicine Hat 4 Lethbridge 2
Everett 1 Seattle 0
Kamloops 3 Vancouver 2
Red Deer 1 Spokane 0 (OT)
Kelowna 4 Prince Albert 0
Sunday's results
Moose Jaw 2 Calgary 1
Saskatoon 4 Brandon 2
Medicine Hat 5 Regina 1
Vancouver 4 Tri-City 1
Everett 4 Red Deer 2
Kamloops 4 Victoria 3
Seattle 3 Spokane 1
Tuesday's results
Saskatoon 4 Edmonton 0
Red Deer 5 Portland 4 (SO)
Prince George 5 Kelowna 1
Wednesday's results
Edmonton at Moose Jaw, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Thursday's games
Calgary at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Friday's games
Prince Albert at Swift Current, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 7:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.
Prince George at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Vancouver at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Portland at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Saturday's games
Moose Jaw at Regina, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.
Calgary at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.
Lethbridge at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.
Edmonton at Winnipeg, 8:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Tri-City, 6:05 p.m.
Spokane at Everett, 6:05 p.m.
Victoria at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Prince George at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Saskatoon at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
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2023-02-08T09:36:27+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/hko-whl-standings-17770888.php
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year we poll our readers to determine which facilities really came through for their meetings and events in the previous year. While the Best Of awards have traditionally focused on hotel and resort meeting facilities, Meetings Today also expanded eligible award winners to include destinations (both domestic and international) and convention centers last year.
Voting is available at www.meetingstoday.com/best-of-awards and open until June 1, 2023. Winners will be showcased in the October issue of Meetings Today.
The following criteria applies to the nomination of meeting facilities, where applicable: quality of meeting space; guest rooms; guest services and amenities; food and beverage service; efficiency and helpfulness of staff; availability of tech; recreational facilities and activities; cleanliness; and overall value and experience. The criteria for nominating destinations is the overall service they have provided to meeting planners for their meetings and events.
About Meetings Today
Meetings Today is a business-to-business brand of Stamats, a leading marketing and research company providing a complete range of services, including websites, mobile, PPC, SEO/SEM, content marketing, email, magazines, video, research, traditional media, live events and audience data and marketing. Stamats focuses on distinct markets to gain unique category knowledge and experience that it brings to bear for the benefit of Stamats' clients. These markets are higher education, professional meetings and events planning, and healthcare and consumer marketing. Stamats was founded in 1923 and maintains offices in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (headquarters).
Contact:
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2023-03-29T05:02:40+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/prnewswire/2023/03/28/meetings-today-announces-official-opening-nominations-its-best-awards/
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2022-12-21T17:57:46+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/sports/2022/12/21/ap-top-sports-news-at-1136-a-m-est-4/
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Strong Revenue Momentum with Solid Growth and Global Expansion, Continue Leading the Wellness Ecosystem
HONG KONG, Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sisram Medical Ltd (the "Company" or "Sisram", stock code: 1696.HK; together with its subsidiaries collectively referred to as the "Group"), a global consumer wellness group, featuring a first-of-its-kind synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from Energy Based Devices, injectables, aesthetics and digital dentistry, personal care and more, today announced its unaudited consolidated interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2022 (the "Reporting Period"). Sisram will host a corresponding conference call at 8:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 a.m. ET on August 22, 2022 (Monday) to discuss the interim results and provide a business update, registration shown as below.
- Revenue was US$174.5 million, representing an increase of 39.3% compared to the six months ended June 30, 2021.
- Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent company was US$20.6 million, an increase of 25.9% compared to the six months ended June 30, 2021.
- Revenue derived from direct sales for the period represented 64.8% of total revenues, compared to 59.7% for the corresponding period in 2021.
- The Company saw significant growth in all regions, mainly in North America and APAC. North America's revenue accounted for US$69.9 million during the Reporting Period, representing an increase of 42.2% from US$49.1 million for the corresponding period in 2021. Revenue generated from APAC increased by 42.0% to US$47.9 million in the Reporting Period from US$33.7 million for the corresponding period in 2021.
- Consistent investment on R&D, successful introduction of three new products: "Alma TED™," "CBD+ Professional Skincare Solution™" and "LMNT one™".
- Diversified and enriched injectable business lines: Sisram has invested in a company focused on research and development of silk fibroin-sodium hyaluronate composite gels and facial implant thread products. An innovative regenerative material new to the injectable market, silk fibroin and its derivatives are expected to enrich Sisram's comprehensive portfolio and solution offerings for the wellness ecosystem.
- Expansion of aesthetics and digital dentistry business lines: An investment in innovative bio-glass materials, combined with high-end technologies, is enhancing Sisram's product portfolios with computer-aided aesthetic design, restorative products, and non-invasive veneers.
- Established a new direct office in the United Kingdom to support the rapid growth in demand for Sisram products and services on the European continent.
- Enhanced brand awareness and improved customer stickiness: We discussed industry developments and trends with hundreds of physicians, academics, and business partners worldwide at Global Alma Academy Events. Meanwhile, the Company continuously improves the global customer experience, reaches potential customers from multiple channels, achieves a considerable conversion rate, and explores cross-selling opportunities in the wellness ecosystem.
In the first half of 2022, Sisram recorded revenue of US$174.5 million, representing an increase of 39.3% compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The increase is primarily attributable to Sisram's continued expansion of its existing distribution network, the successful introduction of new products, and new B2C activity.
Profit for the period attributable to owners of the parent company was US$20.6 million, increased by 25.9% as compared to the corresponding period in 2021. During the first half of 2022, the Group's gross profit was US$99.6 million compared to US$71.5 million for the corresponding period in 2021, representing an increase of 39.4%, driven by the Company's continued expansion of direct sales and launches of high-profit products into leading markets. During the period, revenue derived from direct sales amounted to 64.8% of total revenues versus 35.2% of the total revenues attributed to sales via distributors.
During the Reporting Period, the Group recorded profit before tax of US$23.1 million and recorded profit for the period of US$20.5 million, representing an increase of 14.6% and 18.2%, respectively, when compared to the corresponding period in 2021. The increase in profit before tax and profit for the period was mainly due to the increase in sales volume and the increase in gross profit.
During the Reporting Period, the Group recorded an adjusted net profit of US$24.9 million, representing an increase of 27.5% when compared with the corresponding period of 2021.
As a multinational entity, Sisram makes significant efforts to adjust operations in its headquarters to local country/state characteristics, while simultaneously building an ecosystem brand experience. During the Reporting Period, revenue in all regions increased substantially, with North America demonstrating an increase of 42.2%, APAC with an increase of 42.0%, Middle East and Africa with an increase of 40.5%, Latin America with an increase of 38.2% and Europe with an increase of 28.9%.
Regarding diversified ecological product portfolio, Sisram will continue introducing innovative technologies and products through on-going R&D investment. With the expansion of direct sales, we can also effectively collect customer feedback to close the loop with R&D and meet the needs from different regions. Eventually enhance the impact of our global brand family.
In the second half of 2022, Sisram intends to follow its constructive disruption strategy by evaluating and implementing near-future technologies, ventures, and synergies to bolster its global position. The Group's efforts throughout 2022 will strategically focus on lean innovation, digitalization, and wellness ecosystem building.
Upholding its corporate vision of "Enhancing Quality of Life," Sisram will continue to establish its global positioning as a one-of-a-kind business group in the greater wellness industry by enhancing global direct operations and exploring untapped direct opportunities in North America, APAC, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition, the Company will expand Energy-Based Device product offerings into greater wellness areas with a leading product focus on global sexual wellness, as well as continue investing in research and development in injectables and aesthetics and digital dentistry business lines in China.
Looking forward, Mr. Liu Yi, Chairman and Executive Director of Sisram, commented: "Sisram has always adhered to customer-centric philosophy, providing consumers and beauty-seekers with effective wellness solutions. Looking back on the first half of the year, Sisram has continued to consolidate its global layout in an orderly manner. Looking forward to the second half of the year, we will stick with the company's mission, promoting the synergy of four business lines and providing customers with diversified and beneficial wellness solutions around the world."
Mr. Lior Dayan, CEO of Sisram and Alma, said: "During the first half of 2022, significant efforts were invested in ramping up production to accommodate the growing global demand. For the second half of the year, we will focus on following our ecosystem's strategic planning by strengthening our R&D capabilities, products portfolio, and distribution channels, to achieve internal organic growth as well as external expansion."
Sisram will host a conference call at 8:30 p.m. PT / 8:30 a.m. ET on August 22, 2022 (Monday) to discuss the interim results and provide a business update. Individuals interested in listening to the conference call may do so by registration using the following link:
https://AlmaLasers.activetrail.biz/Sisram-IR-form.
After registration, you will receive dial-in information immediately. To avoid delays, we encourage participants to dial into the conference call fifteen minutes ahead of the scheduled start time.
A replay will also be available on Sisram Medical's Event's page at:
Sisram Medical Ltd (1696.HK) is a global consumer wellness group, featuring a first-of-its-kind synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from Energy Based Devices, injectables, aesthetics and digital dentistry, personal care and more. The company is majority-owned by Fosun Pharma, one of China's leading healthcare groups. On September 19, 2017, Sisram Medical went public, becoming the first Israeli company ever to trade on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Exchange.
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(Bloomberg) — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the current focus of the war is Donetsk, describing the heavily industrial eastern region as the “primary target” for both Ukraine and invading Russian forces.
The situation in Donetsk is “especially tense,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly address. In a separate tweet, he urged the international community to step up pressure on Russia with sanctions and called for a decisive response to what he called “sham referenda” in the four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, which include Donetsk.
Germany suspects sabotage is behind damage to the Nord Stream pipeline system that usually transports Russian gas to the region. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is “extremely concerned” about the reports, which prompted a surge in gas prices even though the flows have been halted for months.
(See RSAN on the Bloomberg Terminal for the Russian Sanctions Dashboard.)
Key Developments
- Putin’s Mobilization Hits Russia’s Economy in Its Weak Spots
- Energy Crunch Will Hurt Like 2009 Crash If Europe Gets It Wrong
- Nord Stream Says Gas Pipeline Damage is Unprecedented
- Putin Raises Stakes on Ukraine’s Bid for More Powerful Weapons
- Putin Gives US Fugitive Edward Snowden Russian Citizenship
On the Ground
Russian forces hit Kryvyi Rih airport in the Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region with a missile, rendering it inoperable, local authorities said late Monday. Russian rockets also struck the city of Zaporizhzhia. Ukraine’s General Staff reported that the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant remains tense, with staff reluctant to work with Russians and trying to flee occupied territories. In the south, Russia attacked the Odesa region with drones, all three of which were shot down by air-defense forces, while the city of Mykolaiv was heavily shelled overnight, local authorities said. Ukrainian forces continued to make advances north of Lyman and on the eastern bank of the Oskil River, according to the latest report by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.
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Danish Video Shows Extent of Pipeline Damage (3:20 p.m.)
The leaks on the Nord Stream pipelines are forming an area of natural gas bubbles about 1 kilometer (1,090 yards) in diameter in the Baltic Sea, a video released by the Danish army showed.
Another smaller area with gas bubbles measured about 200 meters in diameter, according to the footage, which the Danish Defense shared on its website and via its Twitter account.
UN Recorded Near 6,000 Civilian Deaths in Ukraine (3 p.m.)
United Nations specialists recorded 5,996 civilians being killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, including 382 children, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in a new report.
The mission reported 8,848 corroborated civilian injuries, noting that actual figures may be much higher as hostilities severely hinder information gathering and verification.
Most of civilian casualties were due to the use of explosive weapons in populated areas. The UN also recorded willful killings and numerous cases of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment, as well as conflict-related sexual violence, mostly in the territories controlled by Russian armed forces or affiliated groups.
Meta Blocks Propaganda Accounts From Russia (2:45 p.m.)
Meta Platforms Inc. has blocked thousands of “inauthentic” accounts, pages and groups from Facebook and Instagram that originated in Russia and spread propaganda about that country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The group behind the accounts created 60 websites “carefully impersonating legitimate news organizations in Europe,” Meta said.
Russian Billionaire Fights UK Sanctions Probe (2:40 p.m.)
Russian billionaire Petr Aven, fighting a UK investigation for evading sanctions, used companies supposed to manage his luxury mansion as a personal “piggy bank,” according to British authorities.
The investigation has focused on around 3.7 million euros ($3.6 million) routed to the UK from an Austrian trust in the hours before European sanctions were imposed.
Read more: Billionaire Without a Bank Account Fights UK Sanctions Probe
Denmark Says Pipeline Sabotage Can’t be Ruled Out (12:50 p.m.)
Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, echoed Peskov is saying that sabotage cannot be ruled out as the cause of damage to Nord Stream infrastructure off the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.
“It’s hard to imagine that these are coincidences,” the prime minister said in an interview with broadcaster TV2 from Poland, where she’s attending the opening ceremony of Baltic Pipe, a separate gas link between Norway and Poland.
Ukraine Slams Lufthansa Over Stake in Russian Airline Caterer (12:15 p.m.)
Ukraine’s foreign minister accused airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG of taking “blood money” and damaging Germany’s reputation over its minority stake in Russian airline caterer Aeromar.
“I urge the company’s management to immediately withdraw from Aeromar and stop supporting Russia’s war crimes,” Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF. Responding to ZDF’s inquiry about the Aeromar stake, Lufthansa said it’s not in breach of European Union sanctions on Russia and as a minority shareholder had no influence over a decision to establish a facility in Russian-annexed Crimea, the broadcaster said.
Nord Stream Says Pipeline Damage Unprecedented (10:45 a.m.)
Nord Stream said the damage to its key pipeline to Germany is “unprecedented” and it’s impossible to say when flows could resume.
Germany is probing the incidents in the Baltic Sea on the two idled Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia, while Denmark steps up security on its energy installations. It’s the clearest signal yet that supplies won’t resume this winter. European Union officials have repeatedly accused Moscow of weaponizing energy.
Latvia ‘Taking Russian Nuclear Threats Seriously’ (10:20 a.m.)
Russia wouldn’t be making threats about deploying nuclear weapons if it was winning its war in Ukraine, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said in an interview with TV3.
“A cornered rat is a dangerous rat” and Latvia is preparing for all scenarios, Rinkevics said. Latvia is supplying Ukraine with all the military equipment it has available and a swift end to the conflict isn’t in sight, he added.
Lithuania Arms Donations Constrained by NATO Needs (10 a.m.)
Lithuania cannot immediately hand over some critical military equipment that Ukraine needs such as NASAMS air-defense systems or howitzers without compromising operations with its NATO partners, according to an adviser to the Baltic nation’s president.
Lithuania is looking to find replacements for the equipment but this is unlikely to happen quickly, Kestutis Budrys, the president’s chief national security adviser, told radio broadcaster LRT. Lithuania has already supplied Ukraine with 50 armored personnel carriers, according to Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas.
Russian Traffic on Finnish Border Easing Further (8:45 a.m.)
Traffic on Finland’s eastern border remained busy on Monday, even as numbers of Russians crossing fell from a weekend peak, the Nordic country’s Border Guard said. Some 7,743 Russians entered via the land border, with about half that number returning to Russia.
Europe Ready for Winter Without Russian Gas: BNEF (8:30 a.m.)
Europe’s frenzied buying of liquefied natural gas means it’s likely to have enough of the power-generation fuel this winter to offset supplies from Russia, according to BloombergNEF.
The region may import almost 40% more LNG during the coming winter than the prior year, and it may increase purchases next summer by about 14% to rebuild lost inventories, BNEF said in a report. Along with demand destruction from higher energy prices, those shipments are enough to cover a complete halt in Russian pipeline flows from Oct. 1, it added.
Russia Expels Japanese Diplomat on Spying Charges (2:32 a.m.)
Russia expelled a Japanese consul in Vladivostok, accusing the diplomat of paying for sensitive information.
Tatsunori Motoki was given 48 hours to leave the country, the Foreign Ministry said, according to Tass. Earlier, the Federal Security Service said the envoy in the Far Eastern city had been caught collecting “restricted information” about Russia’s ties with an unspecified country in the region, as well as on the impact of sanctions on the local economy.
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2022-09-27T13:55:30+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/27/ukraine-latest-zelenskiy-says-situation-in-donetsk-most-tense/
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NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s telecast for the 80th Golden Globes on Tuesday averaged a near-record low of 6.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen, the second-smallest audience for the annual ceremony and only slightly better than the viewership garnered by the Globes press conference held during the 2008 writers’ strike.
After a diversity and ethics scandal caused NBC to take the Globes off the air last year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s attempted comeback didn’t gain back viewers and instead may have lost them. The 2021 edition, held bicoastally during the pandemic, was watched by 6.9 million. The pre-pandemic 2020 Globes drew an audience of 18.4 million.
There were several differences in the broadcast this year. NBC moved the show from its traditional Sunday slot to Tuesday. That meant no competition from the NFL but also no football lead-in. The awards were also live streamed on Peacock for the first time. (Digital viewership wasn’t released Wednesday.)
Awards show ratings have steeply fallen in recent years. But Tuesday’s Golden Globes, hosted by Jerrod Carmichael, was a pivotal moment for the embattled HFPA, which puts them on.
After a 2021 report revealed the press association had no Black members, stars and studios boycotted the Globes. Last year’s awards were unceremoniously held in a Beverly Hilton ballroom without any stars in attendance. Over the last year and a half, the HFPA has enacted reforms and revamped its membership to now number 96 people, including six Black voting members.
In the interim, NBC reworked its contract with the Globes and was broadcasting this year’s Globes on a one-year basis. The HFPA sold the Globes last year to Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries, which is turning it from a nonprofit to a for-profit venture. The firm also owns Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes, and the award show’s longtime home, the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California.
Tuesday’s Globes featured wins for Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” the indie sci-fi hit “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” the Irish dark comedy “The Banshees of Inisherin,” the HBO series “White Lotus” and the public school sitcom “Abbott Elementary.”
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2023-01-12T20:45:06+00:00
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cbs4indy.com
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https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-golden-globes-telecast-draws-near-record-low-audience/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. ("Vintage Wine") (NASDAQ: VWE) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between October 13, 2021 and September 13, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Vintage Wine, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
https://www.wongesq.com/pslra-1/vwe-lawsuit-loss-submission-form?prid=35375&wire=4
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Vintage Wine includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) due to a material weakness related to its inventory controls and procedures, the Company lacked a reasonable basis to report inventory metrics; (2) the Company understated its overhead burden in certain quarters, thereby overstating its adjusted EBITDA; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Vintage Wine was reasonably likely to incur significant charges to restate prior reporting; and (4) 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.
DEADLINE: January 13, 2023
Aggrieved Vintage Wine investors only have until January 13, 2023 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
Vincent Wong, Esq. is an experienced attorney who has represented investors in securities litigations involving financial fraud and violations of shareholder rights. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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2023-01-09T12:10:54+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/09/class-action-alert-law-offices-vincent-wong-remind-vintage-wine-investors-lead-plaintiff-deadline-january-13-2023/
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WASHINGTON – The Senate passed legislation Thursday to fund the government for an additional week as lawmakers race to finish work on a full-year spending package before they head home for the holidays and a new Congress is sworn in.
Congress in September passed a bill to keep the government running through midnight Friday. The latest extension, which now goes to President Joe Biden's desk to be signed into law, funds federal agencies through Dec. 23. It passed by a vote of 71-19.
“Negotiations keep trending in the right direction, but we still have a lot of work left to do and not enough time to do it, unless we extend government funding for another week," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in urging lawmakers to support the stopgap measure.
The roughly $1.7 trillion package being negotiated would finance the day-to-day operations of government agencies for the current fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Federal spending on programs such as Social Security and Medicare is not part of the annual appropriations process and is not included in the package.
House Republicans overwhelmingly have called for a longer-term extension into early next year so they could have a bigger role in setting spending levels for the agencies. Democrats in the House were able to advance the bill with little GOP support earlier this week.
But Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, has made the case that passing a full-year spending bill this Congress is better than the alternatives because it ensures a sizable increase in spending for defense.
“If a truly bipartisan full-year bill without poison pills is ready for final Senate passage by late next week, I’ll support it for our Armed Forces,” McConnell said Wednesday. “Otherwise, we’ll be passing a short-term continuing resolution into the new year.”
Some Senate Republicans disagreed with efforts to pass a spending bill before House Republicans could take charge. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., said he supported providing a short-term extension into next year because that would mean “more Republican priorities" in the final package.
Sen. Richard Shelby, the lead Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, has said the two parties were about $25 billion apart on overall spending. But lawmakers announced Tuesday night that they had reached agreement on a “framework” that should allow negotiations to be completed by next week.
The final bill is also expected to include the Biden administration’s request for another $37 billion in aid to Ukraine as well as other bipartisan priorities, including an election measure designed to prevent another Jan. 6 insurrection. The bill would make it more difficult for lawmakers to object to a particular state’s electoral votes and make clear that the constitutional role of the vice president in the proceedings is solely ministerial.
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2022-12-16T03:04:57+00:00
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local10.com
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https://www.local10.com/news/politics/2022/12/16/senate-sends-biden-bill-to-keep-govt-open-through-dec-23/
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Percentages: FG .441, FT .722.
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3-Point Goals: 8-24, .333 (Hartwell 3-4, Cameron 3-8, Olbrich 1-1, Tattersall 1-4, Salaridze 0-1, Owens 0-3, Pullin 0-3).
Team Rebounds: 2. Team Turnovers: 2.
Blocked Shots: None.
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Turnovers: 9 (Pullin 4, Cameron, Martinez, Owens, Tattersall, Turner).
Steals: 4 (Owens 2, Cameron, Olbrich).
Technical Fouls: None.
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Percentages: FG .435, FT .588.
3-Point Goals: 2-11, .182 (George 1-1, A.Traore 1-2, Hunter 0-1, Stroud 0-1, Tsohonis 0-1, Jones 0-2, Murray 0-3).
Team Rebounds: 4. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 2 (Jones, L.Traore).
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Turnovers: 8 (Hunter 2, A.Traore, George, Jones, L.Traore, Murray, Stroud).
Steals: 4 (A.Traore, Hunter, Jones, Murray).
Technical Fouls: None.
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A_1,143 (4,000).
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2023-01-01T02:39:50+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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Hearing for Iowa teen who killed rapist moved to January
Published: Nov. 18, 2022 at 3:55 PM EST|Updated: 10 minutes ago
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A judge has set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim who killed her rapist in Iowa and pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury.
Pieper Lewis was sentenced on Sept. 13 to probation for five years to be served at a Des Moines women’s shelter, but less than two months later she walked away.
She was arrested five days later and taken to jail.
Judge David Porter had set a hearing for Friday to consider whether to revoke the probation, but after meeting briefly with lawyers, he scheduled a new hearing for Jan. 18.
It wasn’t immediately clear why the hearing was postponed.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2022-11-18T21:06:41+00:00
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Few had heard of Alex Palou when he arrived in IndyCar after several years of racing in Japan. It was 2020, during the pandemic and a season of no spectators, and the Spaniard drove for one of the smallest teams in the series.
But the next year he moved to Chip Ganassi Racing. And won the season-opening race. Then he finished second in the Indianapolis 500. He capped it by winning the IndyCar championship in just his second season in the series.
Now the 26-year-old starts on the pole Sunday for the Indy 500 seeking the biggest win of his life. He is the FanDuel Sportsbook favorite, and his steely demeanor and strong Ganassi car make him a solid bet.
Palou is unflappable, rarely makes mistakes and has an unbelievable ability to focus on his job and tune out all distractions.
Consider this: It was only 10 months ago when Palou found himself entangled in a nasty contract spat with Ganassi and McLaren Racing, and in the fallout, he was pretty much iced out by his teammates. But during qualifying this weekend, Scott Dixon stopped Palou as Palou headed out to qualifying to offer animated tips for his run.
All is well again in Palou’s world, even as he straddles both the Ganassi and McLaren lines. Mediation determined that Palou was contractually bound to Ganassi through this season, but he will move to McLaren next season in IndyCar and already is one of McLaren’s reserve F1 drivers.
Palou is permitted to participate in McLaren F1 duties — he was wearing its papaya orange color and was lent a special Richard Mille watch given only to McLaren drivers at the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month — when it doesn’t conflict with his Ganassi obligations.
The drama didn’t slow him last year — he won the season finale and finished fifth in the standings — and he has opened his final year with Ganassi with a bang. He won the road course race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to open the month and take over the IndyCar series points lead, then won the pole for the 500.
Although he doesn’t address his future with Ganassi or McLaren, he was adamant this week he will be in IndyCar next season, although F1 is his goal.
“Yes, yes, I will be in IndyCar next year,” Palou said. “I always said that F1 was not my target. But once I won the championship, I saw that there could be a slight opportunity. I was like, ‘I want to try and see if I can pursue that, because why not?’ And I still want to have that chance. But if it doesn’t come, I’m going to be completely happy in IndyCar.”
RAHAL’S ROUGH WEEK
Bobby Rahal, the 1986 Indy 500 winner and part owner of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, has had perhaps his worst trip to Indianapolis Motor Speedway since 1993, when he was bumped from the field in the last minutes of qualifying.
Three of the team’s four cars were in the last-four shootout to make the field last weekend, and his son Graham Rahal was bumped by teammate Jack Harvey as time expired in qualifying. Then, the following day, a crash in practice by Stefan Wilson opened up a ride for the younger Rahal, putting him against his dad’s team in the Dreyer & Reinbold entry on Sunday.
“It’s been a tough week on him. It’s a tough week on all of us,” Graham Rahal said after final practice on Friday. “I don’t think people realize how much Dad puts in all of this. He loves this. He doesn’t need to do this. He wants to win it; he wants to win with me. I think it’s been very disappointing for the cars not to be better.”
WILSON GETS WALKING
IndyCar driver Stefan Wilson, who had surgery to stabilize a fractured vertebrae earlier this week, posted a video on social media Saturday that showed him gingerly standing up from his hospital bed and taking a few careful steps toward the door.
“I’m back,” he said with a smile, pointing at his back, which was in a brace.
Wilson’s car was struck from behind by Katherine Legge in practice on Monday, sending both cars careening into the outer wall in Turns 1 and 2. Legge walked away uninjured, but Wilson was transported to Methodist Hospital with a back injury.
Graham Rahal was hired to replace him in the No. 24 car. The driver change means Rahal will start last on Sunday.
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AP Sports writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report.
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2023-05-28T10:03:11+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/sports/ap-palou-balances-plans-with-ganassi-vs-mclaren-as-spaniard-tries-to-win-indy-500/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers may be without All-Star Paul George to start the postseason.
The team said Wednesday that George has a sprained right knee and he will be reevaluated in two to three weeks.
The Clippers began the day in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 38-35 record. They end the regular season on April 9 at Phoenix, a team they could meet in the first round of the playoffs, which begin six days later.
Even if George recovers before the playoff opener, he’ll need time to get back in the swing after not seeing game action for a couple of weeks.
George got hurt after going down hard late in a 101-100 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. His knee made contact with the Thunder’s Luguentz Dort, who was going for a rebound with 4:38 remaining.
George needed help to leave the court, appearing unable to put any weight on his right leg, and once inside the tunnel he was carried to the locker room. He later left the arena on a cart with his right leg extended.
“Appreciate y’all,” George tweeted Wednesday.
Losing George for any length of time would be a major blow to the Clippers. He is averaging 23.8 points, 6.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists for a team that has championship aspirations.
The Clippers did not practice Wednesday.
Asked Tuesday night how the team would adjust without George, Kawhi Leonard said: “Next man up. We’ve got a group of guys that still want to win and like to play basketball, so we’ll see what happens.”
The 32-year-old George has been out for extended periods of time in his career because of major injuries.
He sprained his right elbow in December 2021. A couple of weeks later, the Clippers said he suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. He was out for three months and returned to play the final few weeks of the season.
George had twin surgeries in his right and left shoulders in spring 2019 while with Oklahoma City. A few months later, he was traded to the Clippers and missed the first 11 games of the 2019-20 season while recovering.
Leonard suffered a partial ACL tear in his right knee during the 2021 Western Conference semifinals and didn’t return. The Clippers recovered and advanced to the conference finals for the first time in franchise history before losing to Phoenix in six games.
Leonard missed all of the 2022 season while recovering from the ACL injury. Without him, the Clippers went 42-40 and lost in the play-in tournament.
He has been mostly healthy this season, although the team regularly gives Leonard games off to rest as part of his load management.
The Clippers already are without reserve Norman Powell, whose shoulder injury could keep him out at least until next week.
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2023-03-23T10:22:11+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/clippers-george-out-with-sprained-right-knee-out-2-3-weeks/
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DENVER (KDVR) — Across the country, kids are headed back to school for the new school year. That means your social media feed is probably getting flooded with first day of school photos.
You have also likely seen a lot of photos with kids holding chalkboard signs that show:
- Name
- The school they’re attending
- Age
- Teacher’s name
- Height/weight
- Favorite activities
But officials warn this can actually be dangerous. A sheriff’s office in Woodstock, Illinois started a campaign called “Think Before You Share.”
The campaign is warning parents that the popular back to school photos could be used by predators, scammers, and other people looking to endanger your child, family, or finances. The sheriff’s office said it doesn’t matter if your privacy settings are set to share with your friends only.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said families should also avoid sharing overly personal information, like words or phrases related to your passwords or security answers. Additionally, details about your kid’s favorite things (colors, TV shows, etc.) could be used as an “in” by predators pretending they know a child.
While you might want to share out all the exciting details, the sheriff’s office suggests thinking about how anything you add to photos of your kids could be used by bad actors.
It’s also important for families to be aware of how and when children are most likely to be abducted or fall prey to child predators.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children explains attempted abductions happen more often when children are going to or from school. School-age children are more likely to experience an attempted abduction are school days from 7 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m.
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2022-08-18T01:59:01+00:00
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wate.com
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https://www.wate.com/news/back-to-school-chalkboard-photos-could-be-an-invite-for-predators-scammers/
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Six days earlier, the Knicks had clobbered the Celtics with a try-hard formula.
More foul shots, more rebounds, more purpose over a 15-point blowout in New York.
Two days earlier, the Nets had out-worked Boston on their way to completing a 28-point comeback, the largest of the NBA season.
On Sunday night, tested again by the tireless Knicks, the Celtics looked primed to seize a modicum of revenge and apply the week’s lesson by outlasting New York in their longest game of the season.
They didn’t.
The Knicks survived a missed Al Horford 3 on the final possession of double overtime to leave town with a 131-129 win. Jayson Tatum led all scorers with 40 points, but dished to Horford on the final play after drawing defensive help away from Horford’s position in the right corner. For all of Tatum’s efforts, no one could match indefatigable Knicks guard Immanuel Quickley, who recorded 38 points, eight rebounds and seven assists over a game-high 55 minutes.
“Situations like this, it’s good players making good plays,” Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said. “And they made one more shot than we did.”
Quickley scored a game-tying basket in the final seconds of the first overtime and opened the second with a 3-pointer. After two Celtics misses, he dropped the hammer with a wide-open dunk that put New York up by five at 3:47 to play. The Knicks led by two possessions for most of the rest of the night, though tense moments rose after a Tatum layup cut New York’s lead to two at 46 seconds left, and the Knicks turned it over on their next possession.
Instead, Boston (45-20) lost and fell 1.5 games behind the conference-leading Bucks, who won at Washington on Sunday. Despite Jaylen Brown’s 29 points and 20 points and 14 boards from Horford, the Celtics have now lost three of their last four.
“We just gotta kind of get our swagger back,” said Derrick White, who added 12 points. “Find a way to play with each other, have fun out there, and I’m sure we’ll get it back soon.”
Tatum, Brown, Horford and Grant Williams all played more than 44 minutes against the Knicks, and now head to Cleveland for the second night of a back-to-back Monday.
Their problems Sunday night felt familiar, as a large third-quarter lead evaporated against a fiesty, undermanned underdog. While star guard Jalen Brunson rode the bench, Knicks forward Julius Randle poured in 31 points around nine rebounds and four assists, and R.J. Barrett scored 29. The Knicks again shot more free throws (32 to 25), though the Celtics matched them in the paint.
Together, Randle and Quickley combined for 11 unanswered points heading into the fourth quarter and took an 88-87 lead when Randle canned a buzzer-beating, step-back 3. The Knicks stretched their lead to 11 early in the fourth on the back of a 21-2 run. After calling timeout and reinserting their starters at 9:04 left, the Celtics stabilized and cut their deficit to 102-99 on a thunderous Tatum dunk.
Two scoreless minutes of physical, up-and-down play followed, highlighted by Brown’s block of Randle in the mid-post. Second later, Brown tied the game by dropping an and-1 transition layup through at 4:08 remaining. Undeterred, the Knicks hit two foul shots on their next possession, and Williams answered with a put-back score.
But between three empty Boston possessions, New York scored on every trip and staked a 111-104 lead on another Randle 3 with a minute and a half left. Dusting themselves off, Horford splashed a triple, and the Celtics defense forced a shot-clock violation. Then, Williams wrestled away an offensive rebound off a missed 3, Smart misfired from downtown, and Brown tapped out another board.
This time, Smart hit from the left corner and cut Boston’s deficit to one with 17.9 seconds left. A Smart foul sent Randle back to the line, where he hit both shots to lift New York to a 113-110 advantage. Breaking from a timeout, Brown drew a foul and scored on a mid-post turn-around at 12.9 ticks to go left in regulation.
After drilling the game-tying free throw, Brown poked the ball away from Randle on a double-team with seconds left to force overtime.
Neither team could pull away by more than a possession in the first period, despite an opening 3-pointer from Smart and another trey from Horford with less than a half-minute to go. All of the Celtics’ shots from the field in the first overtime came from behind the arc, signs of tired legs against a tireless opponent.
Malcolm Brogdon and Robert Williams were ruled out pregame with injuries.
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2023-03-06T05:05:43+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/05/celtics-drop-131-129-heartbreaker-to-knicks-in-2ot-on-horfords-missed-3/
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
708 PM CDT Tue May 2 2023
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM
CDT/630 PM MDT/ FOR SOUTHEASTERN LEA...NORTHWESTERN ANDREWS AND
SOUTHWESTERN GAINES COUNTIES...
At 707 PM CDT/607 PM MDT/, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles
east of Nadine, or 12 miles southeast of Hobbs, moving north at 25
mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Public reports quarter-sized hail 6 miles northeast of
Eunice, NM.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
Hobbs, Nadine and Paynes Corner.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Copyright 2023 AccuWeather
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2023-05-03T00:38:25+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-midland-odessa-warnings-watches-and-18074869.php
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