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Kevin Leininger Transitions to Executive Chairman
Additional Executive Promotions in Solutions Delivery and India Operations
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IntegriChain, delivering pharma's only comprehensive technology, data, consulting, and outsourcing platform for data-driven commercialization, today announced the appointment of Joshua Halpern, co-founder and current President and Chief Operating Officer, to the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective February 1, 2023. Kevin Leininger, current CEO, will transition to the role of Executive Chairman and remain active in the business strategy. In addition, Sachin Sadekar has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Managing Director, India Operations, and Jeff Tanner has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Solution Delivery, also effective February 1, 2023.
"Over the last two years, IntegriChain has made incredible strides in our growth trajectory and ability to deliver solutions that overcome key commercialization challenges for our pharma customers, and we owe so much of our success to Kevin's leadership," said Halpern. "We've created the first comprehensive platform for data-driven drug commercialization and access; we've become the industry's largest provider of Contracts & Pricing managed services; we've amassed an outstanding team of world-class strategic consultants and hands-on operational consultants that spans the full spectrum of drug commercialization; we've built innovative data and technology solutions that are used in the day-to-day operations of more than 250 manufacturers; and we've become a highly visible and impactful company in the pharma commercial services market. I am forever indebted to Kevin as my mentor and partner. I'm excited about IntegriChain's future as we begin our next chapter and look forward to helping the company achieve its next set of objectives in my new role."
"Josh and I founded IntegriChain 16 years ago and have led the company's growth side by side," said Leininger. "He truly understands the challenges that pharma manufacturers face and has played a vital role in delivering a transformative data, technology, service, and consulting platform to the industry. I am proud of the outstanding team that will take IntegriChain forward, I am utterly confident in Josh's ability to seamlessly lead IntegriChain to the next level, and I consider myself lucky to continue to play an important role on the board going forward."
Josh Halpern co-founded IntegriChain in 2006 and brings more than 20 years of experience in pharmaceutical commercialization, data, and analytics. As the company's Chief Executive Officer, he will be responsible for corporate management and leadership of IntegriChain's global workforce and strategic planning for the company, focusing on driving long-term business value across the company's operations, its go-to-market strategy and teams, and its technology organization and roadmaps. From IntegriChain's founding through its initial venture capital-backed growth, Halpern led the development of IntegriChain's market leading channel and patient data aggregation solutions. Following the company's partnership with Accel-KKR in 2016, Halpern has been a key leader in five successful acquisitions and their integration within the IntegriChain business and IntegriChain's ICyte technology platform. In that time, IntegriChain has grown to become a visionary technology, data, consulting, and outsourcing platform for data-driven drug commercialization with more than 600 team members and 400 customers. Halpern is a frequent industry speaker and author on data-driven strategies for patient access and therapy commercialization. He earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University.
"I'm also very happy to announce the promotion of Sachin Sadekar, who has led the incredible growth of our India operations over the past three years, and Jeff Tanner, who has been instrumental to our ability to deliver the ICyte Platform to top-30 Pharma manufacturers," Halpern added. "Sachin's experience and insights have been critical to the success of this important team that is vital to our data and managed services businesses as well as our technology innovation and implementation. Similarly, we could not have the upmarket customer success we have without Jeff and his outstanding abilities in standing up enterprise-class commercialization and access systems."
Sadekar leads IntegriChain's India operations, including Engineering, Product Management, and Managed Services. With more than 25 years of experience, Sadekar is a seasoned technology and managed services executive with significant Life Sciences experience. Prior to joining IntegriChain, Sadekar served as an executive at Cognizant, CPG Business at Wipro Technologies, NuTech Consulting, and Infosys. His full bio is available here.
Tanner leads IntegriChain's Solutions Delivery practice, responsible for all new customer implementations, platform expansions, and systems integration. Over his 25-year career, he has delivered on more than 100 revenue management and major technology migrations. He was previously with Cumberland Life Sciences and Revitas (now Model N). His full bio is available here.
IntegriChain sits at the heart of Pharma manufacturers' interactions with the ecosystem that distributes, pays for, and supports therapy utilization. IntegriChain's technology, data, consulting, and outsourcing solutions help more than 400 Pharma manufacturers build and execute data-driven strategies for drug commercialization. The company's ICyte Platform uniquely integrates the financial, operational, and commercial business processes that underpin therapy access, helping manufacturers remove barriers to demand realization while remaining sound stewards of business profitability. With ICyte, pharmaceutical innovators can achieve strategic commercial advantage and better commercial outcomes by digitalizing daily and recurring business activities and by orchestrating those activities with increasingly diagnostic and predictive analytics. IntegriChain is backed by Accel-KKR, a leading Silicon Valley technology private equity firm, and is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, with offices in Ambler, PA; and Pune, India. For more information, visit www.integrichain.com, or follow on Twitter @IntegriChain and on LinkedIn.
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NEW YORK, April 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenFortune, one of the fastest growing media platforms that delivers creative advertising via fortune cookies at 47,000 restaurants in the U.S., has announced a transformational shift in their content creation strategy by embracing OpenAI's ChatGPT for writing fortune messages. This move will enable OpenFortune to effectively provide an unlimited number of completely new, unique fortunes to millions of consumers dining at restaurants and at home, all while maintaining the integrity of traditional fortune cookies.
Throughout the 100+ year history of the fortune cookie, only several thousand fortunes have been in circulation.
After extensive market research, OpenFortune determined that the AI-driven platform produces never-before-written and more appealing fortunes, at an exponentially faster rate. This ensures that people are less likely to receive the same message as their dining companion and creates a more personalized fortune cookie experience. As a result, OpenFortune has decided to utilize ChatGPT for their fortune content. Some examples of the fortunes generated by ChatGPT include:
- "You will soon have a delightful encounter with a stranger who will add a pinch of spice to your life's recipe."
- "A harmonious melody will soon drift into your world, guiding you to dance with destiny."
- "You will experience a serendipitous moment that will bring you closer to a long-held dream."
- "Seek harmony within yourself, and the world around you will follow suit."
"The most common feedback we receive from consumers is that they want to see new, refreshed, unique fortunes," said Matt Williams, CEO of OpenFortune. "By harnessing the power of AI, we are revolutionizing, yet maintaining, the traditional fortune cookie experience for consumers, while providing our advertising partners with seemingly endless creative capabilities."
OpenFortune's inventive approach to advertising combines the power of brand messaging with the nostalgic appeal of fortune cookies. By featuring brand messaging on the back of the fortune slip, OpenFortune provides a timely opportunity for advertisers to engage with consumers in an emotionally engaging manner.
While the integration of ChatGPT signifies OpenFortune's commitment to continuous innovation, their copywriting team will remain intact as creative thinking ultimately drives the success of this innovative media format. AI-driven fortunes set a new standard for fortune cookies, allowing them to continue to captivate audiences for generations to come.
About OpenFortune
OpenFortune is a media platform that connects brands to consumers at scale – via fortune cookies. Our clients' branded fortune cookies are distributed to over 47,000 restaurants and delivery platforms nationwide. Through our mass distribution network and sophisticated targeting capabilities, OpenFortune reaches the hands, hearts, and minds of up to 135M consumers every month. Optimism, creativity, and tradition are at OpenFortune's core.
For more information, please visit www.openfortune.com.
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SOURCE OpenFortune | 2023-04-07T13:21:44+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/04/07/your-fortune-cookie-message-will-now-be-written-by-ai/ |
American Airlines flight evacuated due to fumes in cabin
Published: Oct. 14, 2022 at 7:58 PM CDT|Updated: 7 minutes ago
MIAMI (AP) — An American Airlines flight from Miami to Barbados returned to the airport after fumes filled the cabin, officials said.
Flight 338 departed Miami International Airport on Wednesday night, but had to return due to a strong chemical odor coming from a passenger’s carry-on item, spokesman Greg Chin told The Associated Press.
Passengers and crew exited the plane on the airfield and were evaluated by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Chin said. They were then bussed back to the terminal.
American Airlines said in a statement that all customers were offered hotel accommodations. The flight was rescheduled for Thursday morning.
It was not clear how many passengers were on the plane.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-15T01:05:33+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/10/15/american-airlines-flight-evacuated-due-fumes-cabin/ |
Despite the looming threat of recession and the cacophony of mass layoff announcements, US businesses still need workers — 11.01 million of them.
The number of available jobs unexpectedly rose in December, climbing from a revised 10.44 million openings in November and exceeding economists' expectations of 10.25 million, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Wednesday. The 11 million openings for December is the highest since July.
The largest increases in job openings were in accommodation and food services, which were up 409,000; retail trade, up 134,000; and construction, up 82,000, according to the BLS report.
The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, or JOLTS, showed the labor market that entered 2022 red-hot had finished up the year still balmy: There were 1.9 available jobs for every person looking for one.
"The labor market continues to defy the recession predictions of experts," said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist with FwdBonds, in a statement. "This could well be the first recession in history without material job losses, even with production and consumer spending turning economic growth upside down."
The December JOLTS report showed that job hiring rose to 6.17 million from 6.03 million in November, according to the report. Layoffs increased to 1.47 million from 1.41 million in November, and the number of people quitting their jobs ticked down to 4.09 million from 4.1 million.
The Federal Reserve has been looking for a tighter labor market to help support rate-hiking efforts to tame inflation. While Fed officials have noted that wages don't appear to be driving inflation, they have expressed concern that a tight labor market and the imbalance of worker supply and demand could cause pay to rise and, in turn, higher prices.
Within the labor market, there's a bifurcation that's occurring in terms of people's experiences, said John Leer, chief economist for global decision intelligence company Morning Consult.
"For folks who are working and have jobs, they know that they're in demand, and they're trying to do everything they can to get a slightly higher-paying job," including quitting, he said. "But for folks who are out of the labor market and are not working or not looking for work, they're really disillusioned, despite wage growth is as high as it is. They're not being enticed to come back in and start working."
Strong 2022 but shifts likely ahead
The latest batch of turnover data caps what was a historic year in the labor market, said Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter.
The records notched during 2022 include the most completed hires (76.4 million), most quits (50 million), lowest layoffs and discharges (16.8 million) and most employee-driven turnover (70%, up from pre-pandemic 53%), according to Pollak.
Still, there may be something more than meets the eye in December's openings number, she added.
The increase is "somewhat puzzling" and stands in contrast to Federal Reserve data on business hiring plans and other leading indicators, she noted.
"It is our belief that the current number of job openings, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, vastly overstates the current strength and tightness of the labor market," Pollak said in a statement. "Hires and online job postings have undergone a slow renormalization in recent months that is not yet reflected in job openings."
Just how much and how quickly the job market cools could very well depend on consumer activity, said Leer.
In recent months, consumers have pulled back on their spending and were reporting increased stress in their finances, including spending more money than they were bringing in, Leer told CNN Business.
"We're starting to see businesses, as well, feel the pressure of elevated interest rates, tighter financing conditions and potentially weaker consumer demands, leading them to reduce some of their hiring plans," he said. "So when you put those things together, my view is increasingly it's likely that demand for labor will slow pretty dramatically over the first quarter."
"In the second quarter, I think that's when we're more likely than not to see a downright pullback and a contraction in jobs growth," he added.
There are some indications that a slowdown has already started. As of January 27, job postings on Indeed were down 4% from where they were a month prior, said Nick Bunker, economic research director for North America at Indeed Hiring Lab.
"Obviously, wait for more data on that front, but it does look like there is a moderation of demand at least so far [in 2023]," he said in an interview with CNN.
A significant portion of that data will come out Friday when the BLS releases its jobs report for January.
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Sculptures are available for purchase online and displayed across Kalahari Resorts' four locations with 100 percent of the proceeds benefiting communities in Africa
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Nelson Family Life Foundation, established by the Nelson family, owners of Kalahari Resorts and Conventions, announced the second annual Sculpting the Future, an authentic African art sale that supports artists in Africa and raises money for The Water Colors Life Project, an initiative that brings fresh, clean water to communities in Africa.
In 2021, Todd Nelson and family responded to an opportunity to support a community of sculpting artists living just outside the capital city of Harare, Zimbabwe. Many of these artists have art displayed in galleries all over the world. However, Zimbabwean sculptors rely heavily on tourism and visiting art buyers to earn a living.
When COVID-19 struck, it hit Zimbabwe's economy hard and Zimbabweans faced extremely difficult times. To help showcase their work to new audiences, the Nelson Family Life Foundation commissioned 100 artists from Harare, Zimbabwe, to interpret the word "love" in a sculpture. These original sculptures were then displayed and auctioned at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Round Rock, Texas, with all proceeds benefiting nonprofit charitable organizations.
"Sculpting the Future aligns with our foundation's mission of improving the lives of individuals in the communities we serve through health and education initiatives," said Travis Nelson, co-founder of the Nelson Family Life Foundation and President of Kalahari Resorts and Conventions. "The inspiration of our authentically African-themed resorts started with a trip to the beautiful continent of Africa. We are thrilled to be able to showcase these amazingly talented artists."
To date, Kalahari has invested more than $5.5 million to support African artists and craftsman through the purchase of art, textiles and more. Many of these items are showcased throughout the four Kalahari resorts.
This year, the Nelson Family Life Foundation wanted to expand the Sculpting the Future campaign by displaying a variety of sculptures at all four Kalahari Resort locations. These authentically hand carved sculptures direct from Africa are available for purchase online, with 100 percent of the sales being donated directly to support The Water Colors Life Project – a new initiative of the Nelson Family Life Foundation that brings fresh, clean water to communities in Africa.
To purchase one of these unique sculptures and support African artists, visit www.sculptingthefuture.org, or see the sculptures on display at Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Pocono Mountains, PA, Round Rock, TX, Sandusky, OH, or Wisconsin Dells, WI. Click here for images (CREDIT: Nelson Family Life Foundation).
Established in 2014, the Nelson Family Life Foundation has committed itself to improving the lives of individuals in the communities it serves through health and education initiatives. The foundation was envisioned as an extension of the Nelson Family, shaped with a vision of doing wonderful things. The foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities that improve the lives of those in need, those who strive to be better, and those caring individuals who share in our passion and dedication in making the world a better place. With trusted community partners, the Nelson Family Life Foundation works closely to support initiatives and projects that will make a lasting and meaningful impact. For more information about the Nelson Family Life Foundation, please visit nelsonfamilylifefoundation.org.
Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, Sandusky, Ohio, the Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, and Round Rock, Texas, deliver a beyond-expectations waterpark resort and conference experience all under one roof. The authentically African-themed Kalahari Resorts, privately owned by the Nelson family, are home to America's Largest Indoor Waterparks. All Kalahari Resorts feature well-appointed guest rooms, the full-service Spa Kalahari, a fun-filled family entertainment center, on-site signature restaurants, unique retail shops and a state-of-the-art convention center. For information, visit KalahariResorts.com.
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Q: How do I deal with carpenter bees?
Although they are too big to enter tubular flowers, such as penstemons, carpenter bees pollinate many flowers, including those of tomatoes and eggplants. And therein lies one of the problems about how to control them: You need to keep them from damaging your house, but you don’t want to kill them all off — especially now, when so many pollinator populations are in decline.
To figure out an effective strategy, it helps to understand a little about their lives and the tunnels they bore. Carpenter bees are roughly a similar size to bumblebees, up to about one inch long. There are many species of both types, but the best way to distinguish them is by their abdomens, the largest part of their bodies. Carpenter bees have shiny abdomens, often black, while bumblebees have hairy abdomens, often yellow.
Bumblebees typically nest in colonies in the ground and sting if someone comes near the nest, while carpenter bees nest alone in wood and rarely sting. Male carpenter bees can be very aggressive if you get close to where their nests, but it’s all bravado: They don’t have stingers. The females do have stingers but rarely sting unless attacked.
Because carpenter bees don’t form colonies or have a caste system with queens and workers like honeybees or bumblebees do, they are classified as solitary bees. But they are far from being loners: If you have one, you probably have many, because the kids tend to hang around in the same place as the parents. In a natural environment, they bore into dead but not decayed trees. In homes, they are often in siding, deck railings, eaves or fascia boards. Unlike with termites, you usually don’t need to worry that they have tunneled into framing or floor joists, because carpenter bees typically stay in wood that’s on the exterior surface. The holes you see go straight into the wood, but only for an inch or so, then take a turn and follow the wood’s grain lines.
Male and female adults overwinter in tunnels that were used for the previous season’s egg-laying. They emerge in spring and mate. Then the females extend existing tunnels or bore new ones, using their mandibles, or mouth parts. With the male guarding the hole, the female makes multiple trips to provision the end of a tube with a ball of “bee bread,” a mixture of pollen and nectar. On that, she lays a single egg, then walls off that cell with chewed wood pulp. This process is repeated about five to eight times, with the adults resting in the tube overnight before resuming work the next day.
The eggs hatch, and the larvae develop out of sight, feeding on the bee bread. Later in the summer, the new bees emerge and fly about the garden until the weather cools and they find an empty tube where they can overwinter and begin the process again. Female carpenter bees often live for several years, while males die after about a year.
The first year a tunnel is used, it might be only four to six inches long, which doesn’t weaken the wood significantly, although the hole can let in water, which can lead to rot. But when a tunnel is used and extended year after year, it can go much longer, up to 10 feet, according to a flier from Clemson University. These yearly additions can weaken the wood, especially if other bees bore tunnels into the same piece.
So how do you keep them from doing that? Carpenter bees almost always tunnel into bare wood, so painting exterior wood is one of the best long-term solutions. But if the bees have already been chewing on your house, you can’t just plug the holes and paint. You need to replace the wood or kill the bees hiding in the tunnels first, because any live bees left inside can chew their way out. If you don’t want to replace the wood or use pesticides, it might be possible to trap the bees, plug the holes, then look for new holes and keep trapping and plugging until no more holes appear. But you’d need to commit to frequent inspections.
If you opt for trying to eliminate the problem in one sweep, effective pesticides include sprays and powders, which you should apply just where they will target the bees in the tunnels in your house. An aerosol spray that foams or has a straw tip is much easier to use in a targeted way than a liquid that you dilute and apply with a garden sprayer. Spectracide carpenter bee and ground-nesting yellow jacket killer ($5.47 for a 16-ounce can at Home Depot) is one example of a foam product.
To apply powder in the holes, use a device with a small bellows and wand, such as the bellow hand duster ($14.98 from domyown.com). The site sells a couple of different powders, because states vary in what is legal to use. Retailers should be selling only what is allowed in your state. You can also do a Web search for your state and the words “carpenter bees” and “extension,” to get advice vetted by your state’s land-grant college or university.
After you treat a hole, wait 24 hours, then plug the hole with a short length of wooden dowel coated with wood glue or with steel wool covered with caulk. Or you can use push-in products, such as Trebor’s plastic plugs ($6.08 for a package of 20 from domyown.com).
Treat the holes in the evening, when the bees are in the tunnels. If the holes are hard to reach or if your schedule might keep you from plugging the holes 24 hours after you treat them, consider hiring a pest-control professional. Make sure you talk through their process, though, and ensure they don’t plan to spray wide areas, which could harm other insects. The pesticides labeled for use against carpenter bees can also kill other insects.
You can also purchase a trap, such as the BeesNThings outdoor bee trap ($19.98 at Lowe’s). Or you can make a trap by building a box about five inches on all sides out of wood. Drill ½-inch-diameter holes into two sides that slant slightly upward. Into the bottom, drill a hole sized for the neck of a plastic water bottle. Twist an empty bottle into the hole, and hang the trap near where the bees are active. Bees can then fly in, fly toward the light coming through the bottle below and not be able to find their way out.
Have a problem in your home? Send questions to localliving@washpost.com. Put “How To” in the subject line, tell us where you live and try to include a photo. | 2022-09-06T11:50:54+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2022/09/06/what-do-about-carpenter-bee-infestation/ |
If you’re thinking of throwing an outdoor party for an upcoming birthday, there are a few supplies that can make it a hit. The atmosphere of an outdoor party is much different than an indoor party, so it’s a good idea to stock up on a couple of things to ensure that you take full advantage of the environment and make your party one to remember.
BestReviews’ Jacob Palmer joins Olivia Horton to share BestReviews’ picks for an outdoor birthday party starter kit.
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You could use this speaker for any party, but its rugged, waterproof build and thumping bass make it perfect for outdoor gatherings. It offers 160 watts of power, up to 12 hours of listening time, an IPX4 water-resistance rating and party lights with customizable strobes and patterns.
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An outdoor party, especially in warm weather, means you’ll need something to hold your beverages and keep them cool for several hours. This cooler can fit up to 57 cans or 37 pounds of ice. It has a durable rotomolded construction with 3 inches of permafrost insulation and bear-proof MasterLock padlocks.
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Grilling burgers and hot dogs is simple and a tradition for many, but your guests might be pleasantly surprised if you switch things up and serve them fresh pizza made in this portable gas pizza oven. Taking only 60 seconds to fire up, it reaches temperatures up to 950 degrees and cooks pizza in 15 seconds.
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Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-21T12:52:31+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/reviews/br/camping-outdoors-br/backyard-br/best-items-for-an-outdoor-birthday-party-starter-kit/ |
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A fired Florida sheriff's deputy charged with failing to confront the gunman who murdered 17 at a Parkland high school five years ago said Monday that he is “looking forward” to his trial, which is scheduled to start next week.
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Former Broward County sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson told reporters after a court hearing that the public needs to know he did everything he could as Nikolas Cruz murdered 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018.
Peterson, the deputy then assigned to the school, says he didn’t charge into the three-story classroom building during the six-minute massacre because he thought the dozens of shots fired were coming from outside. He was armed with a handgun at the time.
Some victims’ parents have labeled Peterson “the coward of Broward.” Free on bail, he now lives in North Carolina and could face nearly a century in prison if convicted.
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“I want the truth to come out and if it is going to be through a trial, so be it. I’m eager,” Peterson said. “Not only the people in Florida, the country, most importantly the families, they need to know the truth about what happened, because unfortunately it has never been told.”
Peterson, 60, is charged with seven counts of child neglect and three counts of culpable negligence for the 10 people Cruz shot on the third floor, six of them fatally, after Peterson arrived at the building. The former deputy is not charged in connection with the 11 killed and 13 wounded on the first floor before he got there.
Prosecutors say Peterson's actions show he knew the shots were coming from inside and that he could have prevented some of the shootings if he had confronted Cruz, who was armed with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle.
Peterson's attorney, Mark Eiglarsh, said there are 22 defense witnesses who will testify that they also thought the shots were coming from somewhere other than inside the classroom building.
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“He’s not the only one who heard those shots and believe they were coming from a different location,” Eiglarsh said.
Peterson retired shortly after the shooting, was fired retroactively and charged a year later.
Jury selection is scheduled to start May 31 with opening statements in early June. The trial could last until August.
During Monday's hearing, Circuit Judge Martin Fein rejected Eiglarsh's request to delay the trial until August. The attorney said some of his witnesses have vacations and other conflicts and say they won't appear. Fein said if the witnesses are subpoenaed, they have no choice.
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The judge also expressed skepticism of the prosecution's request to have jurors tour the classroom building's blood-stained halls, something Cruz's jury did during his penalty trial last year. The building has been maintained and sealed since days after the shooting and is expected to be torn down after Peterson's trial.
Prosecutor Steven Klinger told the judge that the jurors need to see the distances inside the building. But Fein seemed to agree with Eiglarsh, who says there is sufficient video and photo evidence to demonstrate the distances and that having jurors tour the building would only inflame their emotions. Fein said he would issue his ruling later.
It is likely, however, that the jury will be be taken to the school to see the outside area where Peterson stood during most of the attack.
To gain a conviction, prosecutors must convince jurors that Peterson knew the gunman was firing inside the building and that his actions and inaction exposed more victims to harm.
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Security videos show that 36 seconds after the attack began, Peterson left his office about 100 yards (92 meters) from the building and jumped into a cart with two unarmed civilian security guards, according to a state report. They arrived at the crime scene a minute later.
Peterson got out of the cart near the classroom building's eastern first-floor doorway to the first-floor hallway while the gunman was at the opposite end, firing numerous shots.
Peterson, his handgun drawn, didn’t open the door. Instead, he took cover outside next to a neighboring building.
“It was so loud and so close. I thought it was probably outside,” Peterson told investigators two days after the shooting.
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He said he heard “two, three” shots, though security guards told investigators they heard many more, clearly coming from inside the building.
Inside, Cruz climbed to the building’s upper floors, firing approximately 75 more shots over nearly four minutes.
Cruz pleaded guilty to the murders in 2021, but the jury in his penalty trial could not unanimously agree that he deserved a death sentence. The 24-year-old former Stoneman Douglas student was sentenced instead to life in prison. | 2023-05-22T20:03:29+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/ex-florida-deputy-charged-with-failing-to-18112970.php |
(The Hill) – A majority of Americans say the U.S. government is corrupt and almost a third say it may soon be necessary to take up arms against it, according to a new poll from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Two-thirds of Republicans and independents say the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me,” according to the poll, compared to 51 percent of liberal voters.
Twenty-eight percent of all voters, including 37 percent of gun owners, agreed “it may be necessary at some point soon for citizens to take up arms against the government,” a view held by around 35 percent of Republicans and around 35 percent of Independents. One in five Democrats concurred.
The findings come after a House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol wrapped up its final hearing for the summer, seeking to place former President Trump at the heart of efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
The panel also said Trump readily accepted and even encouraged the attack from his supporters, watching violence play out on television for nearly three hours before finally making a statement telling them to go home.
Despite the hearings, Trump still enjoys broad support among Republicans, who are more concerned about inflation, education and crime than they are about Jan. 6.
About 56 percent of Americans say elections are fair and accurate, but that number falls to 33 percent among Republicans, according to the Chicago University poll.
The division between conservatives and liberals across the country is only growing, the poll shows, and a quarter of Americans say they have lost friends over politics.
More than 70 percent of Republicans and more than 70 percent of Democrats both agree the other side “are generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree.”
And half of all Americans believe the other side is misinformed about politics because of where they get their information and news, the poll found.
The University of Chicago-Public Opinion Strategies-Benenson Strategy Group poll was conducted May 19 to May 23 among 1,000 registered voters. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.53 percentage points. | 2022-07-25T00:30:35+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/nearly-1-in-3-americans-say-it-may-soon-be-necessary-to-take-up-arms-against-the-government/ |
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INDIANAPOLIS — A person is in serious condition after being shot on the northeast side of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officers responded to a report of a person shot in the 2100 block of North Arlington Avenue.
Upon arrival, officers located a victim suffering from a gunshot injury.
The victim was reported to be in serious condition.
This is a developing story. | 2023-06-19T01:01:08+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/1-in-serious-condition-after-being-shot-on-northeast-side-of-indy |
NEW YORK – Colts owner Jim Irsay says there’s “merit to remove” Dan Snyder as owner of the Washington Commanders, making him the first NFL owner to publicly state that his controversial counterpart should go.
Snyder’s status has been widely debated for years amid several scandals and investigations into workplace conduct in Washington. The league has been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety, a probe conducted by attorney Mary Jo White that is ongoing.
Removing Snyder would be unprecedented and requires 24 votes from the other owners.
“It’s something we have to review, we have to look at all the evidence and we have to be thorough and it’s something that has to be given serious consideration,” Irsay said Tuesday. “I believe in the workplace today, the standard that the shield stands for in the NFL, that you have to stand for that and protect that. I just think once owners talk among each other they will arrive at the right decision. Unfortunately, I believe that’s the road we probably need to go down and we just need to finish the investigation, but it’s gravely concerning to me the things that have occurred there over the last 20 years.”
A person familiar with the thinking of several owners told The Associated Press that they agree with Irsay and have serious concerns about the allegations against Snyder. The person, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the conversations are private, said a group of owners believe Snyder’s dismissal would be best for the NFL and the other 31 teams. The person doesn’t know if 24 owners would vote to remove Snyder, but momentum is building against him.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell cautioned owners to reserve judgment until the investigation is completed.
“There’s no reason for there to be any speculation at this point in time or discussion until we have the facts. That was my message to ownership,” Goodell said. “Speculation without facts is not a very positive thing to do. I think everyone deserves to have the facts and to make sure those decisions are made with facts, and the membership will have that opportunity.”
The Commanders released a statement saying the Snyders will not sell the team.
“It is highly inappropriate, but not surprising, that Mr. Irsay opted to make statements publicly based on falsehoods in the media,” the statement said. “It is unfortunate that Mr. Irsay decided to go public with his statement today, while an investigation is in process, and the team has had no opportunity to formally respond to allegations. The Commanders have made remarkable progress over the past two years. We are confident that, when he has an opportunity to see the actual evidence in this case, Mr. Irsay will conclude that there is no reason for the Snyders to consider selling the franchise. And they won’t.”
Goodell said there’s no timeline for White to submit her report. It’s anticipated she’s nearing the end of the investigation, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the investigation remains open.
Snyder’s ownership of the Commanders became a big issue again last week when ESPN reported, citing anonymous sources, that he has hired private investigators and told people he has enough information to expose fellow owners and Goodell.
The Commanders denied the contents of the report, calling it “categorically untrue” and “clearly part of a well-funded, two-year campaign to coerce the sale of the team, which will continue to be unsuccessful.”
Snyder addressed the report in a letter to owners.
“That is patently false and intended to erode the trust and goodwill between owners that I take quite seriously,” Snyder wrote in the letter obtained by the AP. “I have never hired any private investigator to look into any owner or the commissioner. I have never instructed or authorized my lawyers to hire any private investigator on my behalf for any such purpose. And I never would.”
Snyder added he did not take for granted the privilege of being able to own an NFL franchise and said he and wife Tanya are available if anyone has questions or wants to discuss any issues.
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a known supporter of Snyder, declined to throw the embattled owner under the bus, despite ESPN’s report of a rift between the longtime confidants.
“I have no knowledge of anything that has got any basis to it,” Jones said.
Tanya Snyder, the team’s co-CEO, and Commanders President Jason Wright represented the team at the meetings.
Snyder and the organization are also currently the subject of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Snyder has owned the team since 1999.
Lawyers representing dozens of former Washington employees wrote a letter to Goodell expressing concern over an element of ESPN’s report last week that indicated Snyder used the league’s independent investigation to gather information on witnesses who participated given the promise of confidentiality.
“After participating in the investigation, and after the NFL revealed witness names, several of our clients were harassed by private investigators, some were publicly disparaged and/or removed from team alumni groups and at least one who was still working for the tram was terminated,” attorneys Lisa Banks and Debra Katz wrote in the letter. “If true, (the ESPN-reported) ‘tip sheet’ allegation is not only normally reprehensible, but it also provides the basis for us to take legal action against the NFL.”
The NFL denied the allegations, with a spokesperson saying the league has repeatedly committed to protecting the anonymity of witnesses who took part in Beth Wilkinson’s investigation.
“The NFL did not share their names with the Commanders and their lawyers,” the statement said. “The allegation is false. Ms. Wilkinson and her firm kept their pledge to the witnesses and did not share their identities with the commissioner or league staff other than the limited number of participants who were willing to be identified.”
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AP Sports Writer Stephen Whyno contributed.
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More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2022-10-19T08:19:18+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/sports/2022/10/18/colts-owner-irsay-says-theres-merit-to-remove-snyder/ |
Nominee will strengthen board experience matrix with global consumer packaged goods brand building expertise
Nominee would increase the number of independent directors to six
KELOWNA, BC, July 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The Valens Company Inc. (TSX: VLNS) (Nasdaq: VLNS) (the "Company" "The Valens Company" or "Valens"), a leading manufacturer of branded cannabis products, today announced that Ms. Aïda Moudachirou-Rébois, Senior Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer at MAC Cosmetics, intends to stand for election to its Board of Directors (the "Board") at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of The Valens Company to be held on August 2, 2022 (the "Meeting").
Ms. Moudachirou-Rébois has extensive experience leading and developing global brands at major multinational corporations, where she has proven adept at building and sustaining both revenue and profit growth through innovation, new product categories, and defining consumer experiences. The nomination came as Valens continues to strengthen its corporate governance policies to support its growth, including separating the Chair and CEO roles and appointing an independent Board Chair, maintaining a majority independent Board, and combining fresh perspectives, expertise, and capabilities that reflect the continued progression of the business. Furthermore, if all nominees are elected, the Board will consist of seven directors, two of whom are female, one of whom is racially diverse and one of whom self-identifies as LGBTQIA+.
Tyler Robson, Chief Executive Officer of The Valens Company, said "We couldn't be more delighted to put forward Ms. Moudachirou-Rébois as a director nominee for our Board of Directors. Her deep brand-building expertise, along with her product development and innovation experience align with the Company's most critical priorities today. Ms. Moudachirou-Rébois' perspective and contributions will help us to strengthen and diversify the skillset of our incumbent Board and deliver value for all stakeholders. We are confident that Ms. Moudachirou-Rébois will play an important role in supporting our strategies as we progress through our next phase of growth and continue our evolution into a leading global manufacturer of branded cannabis products."
New Addition to Board:
About Aïda Moudachirou-Rébois
Aïda Moudachirou-Rébois is SVP and Global Chief Marketing Officer for MAC Cosmetics, a subsidiary of Estée Lauder Companies, responsible for all things marketing at MAC, including product development and innovation, consumer education and brand communication. She has twenty years of international executive experience, working from Paris, London, and New York, with a focus on consumer-packaged goods and personal care brands, including at L'Oreal, Johnson & Johnson and Revlon Inc. She has expertise in brand-building, global and local brand management, new product development and consumer engagement with an emphasis on modern omni-channel marketing. Ms. Moudachirou-Rébois has an MBA from ESSEC in Cergy, France during which she did an exchange period at the University of Ottawa.
Incumbent Board:
About Andrew Cockwell
Chair of Board, Independent
Mr. Cockwell was appointed Chair of the Board on May 16, 2022. He is the Managing Partner of Ursataur Capital Management, a private equity firm he founded in 2009, which strategically invests in Canadian mid-market companies across various industries. He has a track record of fostering value creation for both private and public companies, and advises on issues such as strategic realignment, operational improvement, capital allocation and governance. Previously, Mr. Cockwell was a Founding Partner of ReichmannHauer Capital Partners, a Toronto-based private equity firm targeting both domestic and international investments. He also worked in the Private Equity and Corporate Finance practices at McKinsey & Company, which he joined in 2003 and where he advised businesses, private equity firms, and hedge funds in North America and Europe. Earlier in his career, he practiced M&A and securities law as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and London. Mr. Cockwell has a breadth of experience providing financial and legal advisory services in a variety of complex business contexts across a wide range of industries, including industrial coatings, ground support, financial services, and food and retail. Mr. Cockwell holds a Bachelor of Art (Hons.) from Queen's University and a LL.B. with Great Distinction from the Faculty of Law at McGill University.
About Drew Wolff
Director, Independent
Mr. Wolff is the Chief Financial Officer of Trupanion, a leading publicly traded pet insurance provider based in Seattle. Prior to that he held various senior finance roles at Starbucks Coffee Company, including Chief Financial Officer of the International and Channel Development Divisions and Global Treasurer. His responsibilities included leading finance and accounting teams for the international retail stores and global consumer packaged goods business, global cash management, financial analytics and forecasting, and enterprise risk management. Prior to joining Starbucks, Mr. Wolff had over fifteen years of experience in senior roles in banking and financial services including seven years at Barclays PLC in London. Mr. Wolff is an audit committee member at BECU, the largest community-based credit union in the U.S. with $25 billion in assets. He holds the NACD.DC qualification from the National Association of Corporate Directors and has completed level one of the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting qualification from SASB. Mr. Wolff has an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and a B.Sc. in Economics, with distinction, from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
About Guy Beaudin
Director, Independent
Dr. Guy Beaudin is a senior partner at RHR International responsible for the firm's business development and marketing activities and providing services to the firm's global clients. He is a trusted advisor to CEOs, boards of directors, and senior executive teams across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His practice includes the full scope of RHR International's core services from the assessment and development of high-potential talent to senior team effectiveness, to board effectiveness and CEO succession. He is experienced in post M&A work in aligning teams and cultures in cross-border acquisition, building high-potential programs for clients in financial services, upgrading talent in various PE portfolio companies and assisting a pension fund in building robust and reliable succession planning. Prior to joining RHR 25 years ago, Dr. Beaudin worked as an internal HR director for an international organization. He has also worked in senior-level marketing and finance positions in manufacturing and financial services organizations. Dr. Beaudin has an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Montreal. He is actively engaged in his community and is a past director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. He is also a graduate of the ICD's Directors Education Program.
About Karin McCaskill
Director, Independent
Ms. McCaskill held the role of Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Empire Company Limited and Sobeys Inc. until her retirement in 2018. In her fifteen-year career at Empire and Sobeys, Ms. McCaskill was responsible for a full scope of legal activities focused on corporate governance together with regulatory and advisory functions for all aspects of the grocery and pharmacy businesses. She provided legal leadership on various complex, high-profile transactions, including Empire's $1 billion deal to take Sobeys private in 2007 as well as Sobeys' acquisition of Canada Safeway for $5.8 billion in 2013. Ms. McCaskill has been recognized for her various achievements and mentorship within the legal community, including receiving the award for General Counsel of the Year in 2014, and the BLG Stephen Sigurdson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019, both presented by the Canadian General Counsel Awards. Ms. McCaskill has broad non-profit board experience over the past four decades, including serving as Chair of the Downtown Halifax Business Commission and the Canadian Employers Council, and is currently a member of the Georgian Peaks Ski Club Board of Directors and Chair of the Governance Committee. She holds an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University and an LL.B from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Ms. McCaskill co-owns Tuck Shop Trading Co. Limited, a Toronto-based retail clothing business, and is owner and principal of Woodlawn Consulting Ltd.
About Ashley McGrath
Director, Independent
Mr. McGrath was the Lead Director of Valens from May 25, 2021 to May 16, 2022. A life-long entrepreneur, he has over the past 16 years built Glencoe Developments Inc. into a large western Canadian real estate development business. He has overseen all aspects of the growth of the business including land acquisition, finance and sales of over 850,000 square feet of development space. He oversees the management of a large rental portfolio of residential and commercial real estate across Western Canada. He is also a major shareholder in an agribusiness operating over 400,000 square feet of indoor livestock production as well as a 23,000-acre grain farm. Mr. McGrath has been deeply involved in Valens' business in an advisory capacity to the Company for the past several years, leveraging his entrepreneurial skills and strategic growth experience to benefit the Company.
About Tyler Robson
Director, Non-Independent
Mr. Robson was the Chair of the Board from May 2, 2017 to May 16, 2022, and is the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Prior to being appointed CEO in May 2017, he served as Chief Operating Officer, overseeing all operational functions of the business and leading various innovation and product development initiatives. Under Mr. Robson's leadership, the Company has repositioned its core offering from extraction services to branded product sales supported by a full suite of product development and manufacturing capabilities. Mr. Robson has expertise in plant genetics and extraction processes, with a strong interest in the use of cannabinoids to treat various medical conditions. He attended the University of Saskatchewan on a football scholarship, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree, then returned to Kelowna to pursue a career in life sciences. Mr. Robson was selected as a recipient of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 for 2021 and the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce's Top 40 Under 40 for 2020. He was also included in the International Forum on Advancements in Healthcare's Top 100 Leaders in Healthcare in 2019.
At Valens, it's Personal.
The Valens Company is a leading manufacturer of cannabis products with a mission to bring the benefits of cannabis to the world. The Company provides proprietary cannabis processing services, in addition to best-in-class product development, manufacturing, and commercialization of cannabis consumer packaged goods. The Valens Company's high-quality products are formulated for the medical, health and wellness, and recreational consumer segments, and are offered across all cannabis product categories with a focus on quality and innovation. The Company also manufactures, distributes, and sells a wide range of CBD products in the United States through its subsidiary Green Roads, and distributes medicinal cannabis products to Australia through its subsidiary Valens Australia. In partnership with brand houses, consumer packaged goods companies and licensed cannabis producers around the globe, the Company continues to grow its diverse product portfolio in alignment with evolving cannabis consumer preferences in key markets. Through Valens Labs, the Company is setting the standard in cannabis testing and research and development with Canada's only ISO17025 accredited analytical services lab, named The Centre of Excellence in Plant-Based Science by partner and scientific world leader Thermo Fisher Scientific. Discover more on The Valens Company at http://www.thevalenscompany.com.
All information included in this press release, including any information as to the future financial or operating performance and other statements of The Valens Company that express management's expectations or estimates of future performance, other than statements of historical fact, constitute forward-looking information or forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as of the date hereof. Forward-looking statements are included for the purpose of providing information about management's current expectations and plans relating to the future. Wherever possible, words such as "plans", "expects", "scheduled", "trends", "forecasts", "future", "indications", "potential", "estimates", "predicts", "anticipate", "to establish", "believe", "intend", "ability to", or statements that certain actions, events or results "may", "should", "could", "would", "might", "will", or are "likely" to be taken, occur or be achieved, or the negative of these words or other variations thereof, have been used to identify such forward-looking information. Specific forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the ability to regain compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules, and anticipated courses of action.
The risks and uncertainties that may affect forward-looking statements include, among others, the inability to meet the Minimum Bid Requirement or comply with Nasdaq's other listing standards within the prescribed time period, which could result in the delisting of the common shares, Canadian regulatory risk, Australian regulatory risk, U.S. regulatory risk, U.S. border crossing and travel bans, the uncertainties, effects of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, reliance on licenses, expansion of facilities, competition, dependence on supply of cannabis and reliance on other key inputs, dependence on senior management and key personnel, general business risk and liability, regulation of the cannabis industry, change in laws, regulations and guidelines, compliance with laws, limited operating history, vulnerability to rising energy costs, unfavourable publicity or consumer perception, product liability, risks related to intellectual property, product recalls, difficulties with forecasts, management of growth and litigation, many of which are beyond the control of The Valens Company. For a more comprehensive discussion of the risks faced by The Valens Company, and which may cause the actual financial results, performance or achievements of The Valens Company to be materially different from estimated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by forward-looking information or forward-looking statements, please refer to The Valens Company's latest Annual Information Form filed with Canadian securities regulatory authorities at www.sedar.com or on The Valens Company's website at www.thevalenscompany.com. The risks described in such Annual Information Form are hereby incorporated by reference herein. Although the forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current beliefs and reasonable assumptions based upon information available to management as of the date hereof, The Valens Company cannot be certain that actual results will be consistent with such forward-looking information. The Valens Company cautions you not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements. The Valens Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. Nothing herein should be construed as either an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy or sell securities of The Valens Company.
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(The Hill) — Americans continue to pay more at the grocery store as surging food inflation shows no signs of slowing down.
Grocery prices rose 13 percent over the last year and 0.7 percent in September alone, outpacing the annual 8.2 percent inflation rate for all consumer products, according to the most recent Labor Department data.
The price of fruits and vegetables increased by 10.4 percent annually, while milk rose 15.2 percent and eggs soared 30.5 percent.
Prices could keep rising well into next year, experts say, as it’s unclear when fundamental issues like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, extreme droughts and supply chain snarls will let up.
“What we’re hearing and what we expect is it’s going to be a pretty rocky fall,” said Andy Harig, vice president of tax, trade, sustainability and policy at the Food Industry Association. “I think we’re probably into the end of the second quarter next year before we get to where it’s a little bit more stable footing.”
Experts are concerned about the threat of a recession coupled with high food prices, which rose last month even as the cost of gasoline, cars and other products fell.
While the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes are slowing demand for certain discretionary goods, people will always need to buy food, limiting the impact of monetary policy on prices.
“When food prices increase, it’s an even higher percentage of lower-income households’ budgets,” said Jordan Teague, policy director at anti-hunger organization Bread for the World.
“If people need to pay rent or they have a medical bill, they have to make really hard decisions about what they’re not going to pay for, and oftentimes that means buying cheaper but less healthy foods or not buying as much food.”
War in Ukraine stifles supply
Russia’s invasion hit the global food system with a double whammy by reducing food exports from Ukraine — a top supplier of wheat and cooking oils — and prompting Russia to slow its fertilizer exports.
Fertilizer prices surged to record levels this year after Russia, the world’s top fertilizer exporter, halted its shipments in response to international economic sanctions. Belarus, another top fertilizer producer and an ally of Moscow, has also limited its exports, as has China.
That’s made growing crops more expensive than ever. Higher fuel prices brought on by Russia’s invasion make it costlier for farmers and processors to operate equipment and for manufacturers to produce food packaging.
“People knew going into the summer that we should plant extra because there’s going to be this huge global demand. But planting is so expensive now that in a lot of cases they didn’t have the money,” Harig said.
Global wheat prices spiked following Moscow’s invasion, which blocked Ukraine from accessing the Black Sea, its main trade channel. That’s translated to massive price increases for flour, cereal and bread in the U.S. and abroad.
U.S. producers have upped their exports to African countries that rely on Ukraine for food and are facing widespread famine. Russia and Ukraine struck a deal to allow for exports to proceed, but Moscow has threatened to undo it and recently annexed several regions of Ukraine that account for roughly one-fifth of the country’s wheat supply.
Supply chain disruptions remain a problem
Farmers and food processors have reported difficulties transporting grain, livestock and other products amid a shortfall of truck drivers, refrigerated trucks and railroad workers.
Freight railroads, which transport roughly one-quarter of U.S. grain, have been plagued by reliability issues that prevent food from getting to its destination on time, further shrinking supply. The industry is scrambling to hire more conductors and engineers after laying off large numbers of workers in recent years.
Since May, railroads on average failed to fulfill 14 percent of freight deliveries and arrived late 30 percent of the time, according to the Surface Transportation Board. Railroads were forced to briefly cancel agricultural shipments last month amid a potential rail strike, which was averted but could reemerge as a threat to the supply chain in mid-November.
Barges, which transport 13 percent U.S. grain, are the latest mode of transportation to face issues. Many barges are struggling to travel through the Mississippi River, a key agricultural channel, due to dangerously low water levels.
The situation is “especially problematic during the height of harvest season, when farmers are looking to move grain to storage facilities,” according to American Farm Bureau Federation economist Daniel Munch.
“Without relief, many producers will scramble to find places to store their goods or face exorbitant wait times and costs to acquire transportation,” he wrote in a post on Thursday.
Progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups have criticized large multinational corporations for failing to invest in resilient supply chains and instead using their excess funds to reward shareholders with stock buybacks.
Extreme weather and disease ravages farms
This year’s harsh droughts have devastated farms across the U.S., shrinking yields and ultimately driving up prices at the grocery store.
Climate change has hit farmers in the American West particularly hard. That’s driven up the price of tree nuts, fruits and vegetables that are almost entirely grown in states plagued by drought.
Top trade partners are also feeling the effects of heat waves. The price of coffee beans spiked this year after severe droughts hammered coffee crops in South America.
At the same time, huge outbreaks of bird flu this spring contributed to a 17.2 percent hike in the price of poultry over the last 12 months as other meats saw smaller increases.
Turkey breast prices reached an all-time high in September — 112 percent pricier than the same period last year — after widespread outbreaks curtailed production, according to the Farm Bureau. | 2022-10-17T21:36:32+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/heres-why-the-price-of-groceries-keeps-rising/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is warning people after seeing an uptick in reports about police impersonation scams.
The office said it is hearing from court staff saying they are seeing a dramatic uptick in the number of calls to their office from people who have been recently scammed. They are trying to get the word out to prevent more people from falling victim to a scam.
The Better Business Bureau says one of the most common scams in the U.S. involves people pretending to be government officials. In some cases, the caller claims to be law enforcement and threatens legal consequences in order to swindle money out of the potential victim.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said they are hearing about scams involving callers claiming they are a Sheriff’s Deputy and telling the victim that they missed jury duty, have a warrant out for their arrest, and must pay a certain dollar amount to resolve the matter.
“These swindlers are the lowest of the low,” said Sheriff Forestal. “They steal the identity of real Deputies and can even make it look like they are calling from our official telephone number. What is worse is that they often prey upon our most vulnerable citizens, including the elderly.”
So far in 2022, the Federal Trade Commission received 990 reports of police, sheriff, or FBI imposter scams nationwide. These scams resulted in a total of $5.64 million in losses, an average loss of $2,500.
Locally, the Better Business Bureau reports getting 6 reports so far this year about government agency imposters, no money was lost so far. Nationally, the BBB reports 367 reports, with people losing a total of $65,206.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office reminds people that they will never call citizens about jury duty or about outstanding criminal warrants. If a caller insists on being paid, especially in cash, gift cards, or digital currency like Bitcoin, it is certainly a shakedown.
If you get one of these calls, hang up. You can report it through several methods including:
- IRS: The Internal Revenue Service advises people to fill out the “IRS Impersonation Scam” form on the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Impersonation’s website, tigta.gov, or call TIGTA at 1-800-366-4484.
- Social Security: The Office of the Inspector General, Social Security Administration (SSA IG) has its own online form to take complaints about frauds impersonating the SSA.
- Federal Trade Commission: 877-FTC Help or ftc.gov.
- Internet Crime Complaint Center: https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/splash.aspx.
- Contact your cellphone carrier, which may offer free services such as scam call identification and blocking, ID monitoring, a second phone number to give out to businesses so you can use your main number for close friends or a new number if you get too many spam calls.
- File a report with BBB Scam Tracker. | 2022-08-23T18:09:05+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/consumer-reports/marion-county-sheriffs-office-warning-about-increase-in-imposter-scams/ |
Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Animal Enigmas
The tapir, South America's largest land mammal, plays a key role in maintaining the biodiversity of forests and wetlands. Conservation biologist Patrícia Medici works to protect this elusive species.
About Patrícia Medici
Patrícia Medici is a Brazilian conservation biologist who has dedicated her life to the conservation of tapirs and their remaining habitats in Brazil. She is a founding member of Brazilian non-governmental organization IPÊ, Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute for Ecological Research), where she has worked for over 20 years, and since 1996, she is the coordinator of the Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative. Medici has been honored with three very prestigious conservation awards: Harry Messel Conservation Leadership Award from the International Union for Conservation of Nature in 2004, Golden Ark Award from the Golden Ark Foundation in the Netherlands in 2008, and Whitley Award from the Whitley Fund for Nature in the United Kingdom also in 2008. Patrícia received the 2011 Research Prize from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom. In 2013, Patrícia was one of the 39 nominees for the Indianapolis Prize, and in 2014 she was honored with the TED Global Fellowship. Medici has a bachelor's degree in forestry sciences from University of São Paulo, a master's degree in wildlife ecology, conservation and management from Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil and a Ph.D. in biodiversity management from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent in the United Kingdom.
This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Andrea Gutierrez and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Facebook @TEDRadioHour and email us at TEDRadioHour@npr.org.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout homered in his seventh consecutive game Monday night, one shy of the major league record.
The three-time AL MVP hit a two-run drive off Cleveland’s Konnor Pilkington in the fifth inning. Trout’s 35th homer of the season traveled 422 feet to dead center at Progressive Field.
Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long share the major league record of eight straight games with a home run.
Trout can tie the mark Tuesday night when the Angels continue their series with the Guardians.
Trout is the first AL player with a seven-game home run streak since Kendrys Morales of Toronto in 2018. Cincinnati’s Joey Votto homered in seven straight last season from July 24-30.
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So many animals and birds were being brought to the Acadia Wildlife Center for rescue this summer that it has stopped taking any new animals.
According to a recording on the facility’s phone, Acadia Wildlife staff need time to catch up due to the large number of animal patients currently there. Things are so busy, they’re not even accepting phone or text messages until July 10.
That facility isn’t alone.
Animal rescue and rehabilitation facilities around the state are seeing a spike in the numbers of critters coming in this summer, experts say. But many of those animals did not need to be rescued in the first place and are taking up space and resources needed by those who really do need help.
“Our numbers have been up,” said Scott Lindsay, wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. “Some [rescues] have been at such high volume that they have close to 100 baby raccoons right now.”
That often means the volunteers running rescue facilities need to scramble to make last minute accommodations for those babies. Or, in cases like Acadia Wildlife Center, temporarily stop accepting the animals altogether.
There are around 25 wild animal and bird rescue or rehabilitation facilities in Maine, according to Lindsay who works closely with all of them. Most, he said, do this on a voluntary basis using their own money and resources. Getting overrun with animals that do not need to be there can really stretch those resources.
For the most part, people’s hearts are in the right place when they interact with wildlife in Maine, Lindsay said. But even with the best of intentions, they can still do more harm than good.
When a baby animal appears to be alone, it does not mean it’s an orphan. Often, it really means the mother has gone off to get food and will be returning to her babies.
There are those times, however, when an animal does legitimately need some help from humans. Unfortunately, humans are often the reason they need help.
“Sometimes a homeowner is live-trapping a raccoon or other mammal that’s been living in a shed or in the attic,” Lindsay said. “Then they relocate that animal far away [but] what they may not realize is that it was a female with a litter of young and they have just separated the mother from her babies.”
In that kind of situation, the young should be brought to a licensed rescue or rehabilitation facility.
“You can’t just dump the babies out in the woods,” Lindsay said. “Those are the ones ending up going where they can be fed and weaned until they are old enough to be released into the wild.”
To avoid that happening, Lindsay recommends contacting a state certified animal damage control agent. These are not state employees, but they are authorized by Maine IF&W to trap animals out of season.
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They can tell if a trapped female has a litter of babies and will take the appropriate steps to humanely trap the entire family so they can all be safely released together.
There is some good news though, according to Lindsay.
For years the state’s five deer rehabilitation facilities were seeing people bringing in fawns assumed to be orphaned. Many of those were actually fine and had been left alone only temporarily while their mother went off to feed.
Outreach and education efforts by DIF&W seem to be paying off this year, according to Lindsay. The numbers of fawns the rehabilitators are seeing this summer are below past years.
There will always be wild animals in Maine in need of rescue, Lindsay said. He just wants to make sure only the ones that really do are taken in. When in doubt, people can contact DIF&W.
“Right now rehabilitators and rescues are getting overwhelmed,” he said. “We want to make sure that when we are taking an animal out of the wild, it’s justified to take it.” | 2023-06-28T16:35:09+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/28/homestead/overrun-animal-rescues-maine-joam40zk0w/ |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democrats who run state government celebrated while announcing that tax-rebate checks — totaling more than $1.2 billion — on Monday began heading to 6 million taxpayers.
Rebates on income and property taxes are part of a $1.83 billion inflation-relief package built into this year’s budget.
“Everyone knows inflation is a global problem with local consequences,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a Chicago news conference. “Prices at the pump and at the supermarket have taken Illinois families on a roller-coaster ride over the past months. It’s exactly the kind of thing that responsible government should help our residents with and we have, starting today.”
With eight weeks remaining before the November election, the timing is perfect for Pritzker, Comptroller Susana Mendoza, who shared Monday’s spotlight, and virtually every member of the General Assembly. Rebates will arrive by mail or direct deposit in the closing days of the campaign season, when voters make up their minds.
Individual taxpayers making less than $200,000 will receive a $50 rebate, with $100 to couples filing jointly earning less than $400,000, Revenue Director David Harris said. Taxpayers will also receive $100 for claimed dependents, up to three. Property tax rebates will be equal to the amount a homeowner claimed as a credit on income tax returns last year, up to $300, Harris said.
The rebates are the capstone to the effort begun last winter by Pritzker, and beefed up by legislative Democrats, to fight near-record inflation, which ran as high as 9% this year. Other initiatives include a six-month freeze on an increased motor fuel tax, a year-long suspension of the sales tax on groceries, and a back-to-school sales tax holiday on classroom supplies during August. At the same time, more than $1 billion is put aside for future emergency expenditures.
“We’ve done something very historic. … And if I had to, in this case, sum it up into kind of two words, I would probably say ‘Cha-ching!’” said Rep. Will Davis, a Homewood Democrat who helped negotiate the package.
Pritzker’s fourth budget is extraordinary in Illinois history, particularly given the state’s woeful economic condition during a 2015 to 2017 spending stalemate between legislative Democrats and an intransigent ex-Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
But despite all the bluster about fiscal discipline and spending sanity, Pritzker and Democratic lawmakers couldn’t pull off the massive tax-savings plan without playing an old game in the Capitol — borrowing from a fund set aside for a special purpose and which has a separate funding stream.
To backfill money lost to the road fund from the freeze on motor fuel taxes, officials took $140 million from the Leaking Underground Storage Tank fund. Financed by a separate 1.1-cents-per-gallon gas tax, property owners who have cleaned up sites where leaking fuel tanks threatened the environment are already owed at least $900 million, so the diversion of money puts them further behind, advocates said.
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BERLIN (AP) — The German government said Friday it has set up an international commission of experts to review the events surrounding the 1972 attack on the Munich Olympics, a panel that was part of an agreement reached last year with relatives of the 11 Israeli team members who were killed by Palestinian militants.
The Interior Ministry named an eight-member panel of historians, most of them based in Israel or Germany. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser underlined Germany's commitment to “a thorough reappraisal of what happened.”
The commission will also “rigorously examine the period before and after” the attack, Faeser said in a statement. “It is particularly important to me for their work to also thoroughly address the treatment of the family members after the attack.”
In September, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologized for multiple failures by his country before, during and after the attack as he joined his Israeli counterpart and relatives of the slain athletes at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary.
An agreement days earlier for the relatives to receive a total of 28 million euros ($30.7 million) in compensation — a sum that includes much smaller payments made earlier — headed off a threatened boycott of the event. Germany also agreed to acknowledge failures by authorities at the time and to set up the review by historians.
Before dawn on Sept. 5, 1972, eight members of a Palestinian group called Black September clambered over the unguarded fence of the Olympic village. They burst into the building where the Israeli team was staying, killing wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano.
Some Israeli athletes managed to escape but nine were seized. The captors demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinians held by Israel and two German left-wing extremists in West German prisons.
The attackers demanded a plane and safe passage to Cairo. After a day of negotiations, the assailants and their hostages were allowed to leave aboard two helicopters for the Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield outside Munich.
Sharpshooters at the airfield opened fire. The attackers threw a grenade into one of the helicopters carrying hostages, which exploded, and shot the hostages in the other helicopter. The botched rescue attempt also left a West German police officer and five of the assailants dead.
Friday's German Interior Ministry statement said that the research project's work and findings “will be documented transparently for the public” and that other experts with “additional expertise on various topics” also will be included in the panel's work. It said that a first meeting on the project is planned around the time of the 51st anniversary later this year, but didn't specify when the commission is expected to deliver its “comprehensive scholarly account.”
It said that Germany's Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History will conduct an accompanying research project and will help the expert commission.
Ankie Spitzer, the widow of fencing coach Andre Spitzer, said in the statement that the victims' families “are very pleased that our request to open the archives and establish a commission of historians has been honored."
“We are grateful to the distinguished members of the commission that they are willing to re-examine the murderous attack and its aftermath,” she added. “This is of the utmost importance to the families and hopefully will bring justice to history.” | 2023-04-21T10:38:59+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/germany-sets-up-panel-to-review-1972-munich-17910263.php |
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to unveil his vision Friday for modernizing the military in his nuclear-armed country, taking into account the impact of the war in Ukraine and evolving threats around the world.
Macron will present the outlines of a future military spending plan for 2024-2030 meant to take into account the consequences of the war in Ukraine, and to boost defense spending in the coming years to reinforce France’s domestic security and the country’s ability to operate abroad.
Macron is laying out the plan in a new year’s speech to civilian and military staff at the Mont-de-Marsan air base in southern France. He wants France’s military strategy to strengthen the country's role as an independent global power.
Friday’s speech comes as defense officials from the U.S. and allies are meeting in Ramstein, Germany, to discuss further help for Ukraine. | 2023-01-20T10:41:13+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/macron-floats-new-military-spending-plan-amid-ukraine-war/2023/01/20/3458bb40-9895-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html |
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service’s own prescribed burn started a sprawling 2022 wildfire that nearly reached Los Alamos, New Mexico, the agency acknowledged Monday in a report published after a lengthy investigation.
The Cerro Pelado fire burned in dry, windy conditions across more than 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) and crept within a few miles of the city of Los Alamos and its companion U.S. national security lab. As the fire approached, schools closed and evacuation bags were packed before the flames tapered off.
Investigators traced the wildfire to a burn of piles of forest debris commissioned by the Forest Service. The burn became a holdover fire, smoldering undetected under wet snow, with no signs of smoke or heat for months, said Southwestern Regional Forester Michiko Martin.
The revelation prompted immediate rebukes against the Forest Service by New Mexico political leaders, including Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. She said she was “outraged over the U.S. Forest Service’s negligence that caused this destruction.” Episodes of extremely hot and dry weather in recent years have triggered concerns about prescribed burns as techniques for clearing forest debris, concerns that Grisham echoed.
The federal government already has acknowledged that it started the largest wildfire in state history, whichcharred more than 530 square miles (1,373 square kilometers) of the Rocky Mountain foothills east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, destroying homes and livelihoods.
The Forest Service last spring halted all prescribed burn operations for 90 days while it conducted a review of procedures and policies. By the end of the moratorium, managers learned that they can’t rely on past success, and must continuously learn and adapt to changing conditions, Forest Service Chief Randy Moore recently told New Mexico lawmakers.
Firefighters now monitor pile burns using handheld thermal devices and drones that can detect heat, Martin said Monday.
Examples of prescribed burns that escaped control include the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire that swept through residential areas of Los Alamos and across 12 square miles (31 square kilometers) of the laboratory — more than one-quarter of the campus. The fire destroyed more than 230 homes and 45 structures at the lab. In 2011, a larger and faster-moving fire burned fringes of the lab.
In the spring of 2022, wildfires were propelled by ferocious winds across Arizona and New Mexico, combined with extreme drought and warm temperatures, casting a pall of smoke across the region.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich urged the Forest Service to be more nimble in its investigations and decisions.
“The warming climate is making our forests more vulnerable to catastrophic wildfires. That’s a reality that our Forest Service can and must urgently respond to when deciding when and how to do prescribed burns,” he said in a statement. “We cannot catch up to this reality if it takes nearly a year to even make the findings on the Cerro Pelado Fire public.”
An initial probe into the origin of the Cerro Pelado fire was conducted by a wildland fire investigator from Washington state’s Department of Natural Resources and pointed toward an ash pit from the earlier prescribed burn as the likely source, while ruling out other potential sources such as campfires and lightning. But it stopped short of a definitive conclusion.
The Forest Service commissioned a second investigation by its own special agents and concluded that the prescribed burn and its windblown embers were the cause.
The Biden administration is trying to confront worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multi-billion dollar cleanup of forests choked with dead trees and undergrowth. Chainsaws, heavy machinery — and controlled burns — are major components of the effort, with Congress in the last two years approving more than $4 billion in new funding to prevent repeats of destructive infernos. | 2023-07-25T23:01:41+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/ap-forest-service-says-its-own-burn-started-wildfire-that-nearly-burned-into-los-alamos-new-mexico/ |
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New LendingTree Survey Finds Inflation Impact and "YOLO" Mentality Leads to Full Hearts and Empty Wallets
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Concert and festival season is among us and many Americans are ready for a music-filled summer of limited restrictions and a pre-pandemic feeling. According to a new report from LendingTree, attendance is expected to return to pre-pandemic averages this year, with many concertgoers ready to shell out big bucks to make up for lost time.
- Americans with concert plans expect to attend an average of four shows, up from three last year and in line with pre-pandemic averages.
- But it will cost them: 47% of concert attendees expect to spend between $100 and $499, while more than a quarter say they'll likely take on debt.
- Music fans are using plastic to their advantage, as more than 4 in 10 (44%) attendees will cash in on rewards or points to attend festivals or concerts.
In the era of "You Only Live Once (YOLO)," millennials (48%) and Gen Zers (41%) are more likely to splurge on nicer concert seats than they would in the past. Despite skyrocketing inflation and higher credit card bills, our survey found that Gen Zers are willing to shell out an average of $398 for their favorite artists, while millennials say they'd pay up to $383 per ticket. Gen Zers are also most likely to purchase VIP/All Access passes (18%).
While 60% of concertgoers plan to spend a chunk of their money on food and drinks, millennials are more likely to buy a new outfit for the show (41% versus 32% overall).
"Plenty of Americans have been longing for concert season to feel normal again," says LendingTree's Chief Credit Analyst, Matt Schulz. "Our survey shows that music fans are more than willing to shell out top dollars to see their favorite musical acts, regardless of the impact of inflation. Coming off a pandemic, going over budget or taking on debt seems worth the experience."
With ticket prices on the rise, don't be afraid to use your reward points or travel miles to help offset the costs; signing up early can also save big in the long run. One in 5 (20%) consumers have purchased an "early bird special" ticket for a music festival, which will typically offer lower prices before full lineups are announced.
If concertgoers are looking to spend more on concerts this year but don't want to blow their budget, they should consider these tips to keep costs low:
- Budget for inflation. If they know they're going to be spending big on concerts this year, incorporating them into their budget ahead of time will allow them to plan properly and enjoy a stress-free experience.
- Compare popular credit cards for travel and airline rewards. Sign-up bonuses can give concert attendees the extra cash to splurge on their favorite show.
- Get creative and cooperative. Sharing hotel rooms with friends, splitting gas or opting for general admission seating are all creative ways to combat overspending.
To view the full report, please visit: https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/concert-plans-budgets/.
LendingTree commissioned Qualtrics to conduct an online survey of 2,072 U.S. consumers, fielded May 6-10, 2022. The survey was administered using a nonprobability-based sample, and quotas were used to ensure the sample base represented the overall population. All responses were reviewed by researchers for quality control.
We defined generations as the following ages in 2022:
- Generation Z: 18 to 25
- Millennial: 26 to 41
- Generation X: 42 to 56
- Baby boomer: 57 to 76
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More than 100 Coachella shuttle drivers sick from food poisoning
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (KESQ) - An investigation continues after more than 100 Coachella shuttle drivers fell ill due to food poisoning.
At least 46 of them were assessed in local hospitals.
“Some of those people who didn’t go to the hospital apparently didn’t feel they needed to, but they probably sought their own medical attention. We want to, we would like to speak to them as well, not just those that were hospitalized,” Riverside County Health spokesperson Jose Arballo said.
Officials say it happened at an off-site dinner for the transportation employees Sunday night.
The exact source of the food poisoning is being investigated however, the county confirmed a pasta dish and pre-packaged salad tossed with other ingredients were served to the drivers.
“We did do some inspections of the facilities when food was served beforehand. As far as I know, everything went well there,” Arballo said.
Officials are actively working with other jurisdictions to speak with as many people as possible with hopes to pinpoint the source.
“Be able to test the food, you know, and without getting too many details, when people get stomach cramps and have diarrhea, that, you know, that would also provide some, if we could get samples there,” Arballo said.
This means that the county will conduct hundred of interviews to narrow down the cause.
Arballo says they are getting a list of all employees and with that information as well as medical records, they will be able to reach many who were at the dinner.
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NEW YORK, July 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier in 2023, Wavestone earned a spot on the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) 2023 Global Outsourcing 100® list of the world's best outsourcing service providers and advisors.
Recently, IAOP announced that Wavestone had also earned an "All Star" rating as part of its Top 100 designation and swept all four sub-categories in the process. Wavestone's inclusion on this prestigious list demonstrates its outsourcing advisory practice's successful and innovative solutions provided to clients around the world.
To earn the All-Star Rating, Wavestone had to achieve an outstanding rank in these four key performance areas:
- Customer References demonstrating value created for the company's top customers
- Awards and Certifications demonstrating the expertise the Wavestone team brings to solutions custom-built for clients
- Programs for Innovation showing how Wavestone integrates innovation into its daily work and delivers value for customers
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) showing the breadth and depth of Wavestone's programs and commitments to address community, labor, human rights, operating practices, environmental impacts, consumer issues, ethical issues, and organizational governance.
The 2023 Global Outsourcing 100® recognizes the world's best in the outsourcing arena and is an essential reference for companies seeking new and expanded relationships with the best providers in the industry.
"In a year when service providers and advisors navigated new — or more intensified — challenges and disruption, the 2023 Global Outsourcing 100® demonstrated that they could and did rise to the occasion," said IAOP's CEO, Debi Hamill. "We are especially proud of these organizations that strived to excel, innovate and pave the way in unprecedented times. Congratulations, Wavestone, on being included among the very best in the world."
About Wavestone
In a world where knowing how to drive transformation is key to success, Wavestone's mission is to inform and guide large organizations in their most critical transformations, with the aim of a positive outcome for all stakeholders. This is anchored in the firm's DNA and embodied in our overarching values, known as "The Positive Way."
Wavestone draws on nearly 4,000 employees across Europe, the United States, and Asia, and is a leading independent consultancy.
Wavestone is listed on Euronext Paris and recognized as a Great Place to Work® and ranked in Forbes's World Best Management Consulting Firms 2022 List.
More information on https://www.wavestone.us/.
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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces blindfolded and detained the head of Europe’s largest nuclear plant, Ukraine’s nuclear power provider said Saturday, reigniting long-simmering fears over the plant's security.
The alleged kidnapping on Friday apparently took place shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin escalated his war in Ukraine and pushed it into a new, dangerous phase by annexing four Ukrainian regions that Moscow fully or partially controls and heightening threats of nuclear force.
In a possible attempt to secure Moscow’s hold on the newly annexed territory, Russian forces seized the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Ihor Murashov, around 4 p.m. Friday, the Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said.
Putin on Friday signed treaties to absorb the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, including the area around the nuclear plant.
Energoatom said Russian troops stopped Murashov’s car, blindfolded him and then took him to an undisclosed location.
“His detention by (Russia) jeopardizes the safety of Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant,” said Energoatom President Petro Kotin, demanding the director’s immediate release.
Russia did not immediately acknowledge seizing the plant director.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday that Russia told it that “the director-general of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily detained to answer questions.” The Vienna-based IAEA did not immediately elaborate.
The power plant repeatedly has been caught in the crossfire of the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian technicians continued running the power station after Russian troops seized it. Its last reactor was shut down in September as a precautionary measure as constant shelling nearby damaged electric transmission lines to the plant.
The plant is a strategic trophy for Russia and has triggered worldwide concern as the only nuclear plant caught up in modern warfare. Active fighting nearby means it’s unlikely to start producing electricity again soon even if Russia installs its own management.
It is like a town unto itself, with some 11,000 workers before the war. While many have fled amid the fighting, others have stayed to ensure the safety of its radioactive material and structures.
Energoatom spokespeople told The Associated Press on Saturday that employees of the Zaporizhzhia power plant are being forced to submit applications to report to Rosatom, Russia’s state-run nuclear energy giant that operates Russian nuclear plants.
Murashov was against handing the Zaporizhzhia plant over to Rosatom, but Energoatom's spokespeople couldn't confirm that this was the reason for his kidnapping.
Murashov had access to security codes, coordinated all the work at the plant, made sure protocols were being followed and reported to Kyiv, according to Energoatom’s spokespeople. Ukrainian authorities appointed him to run the plant several days before Russian troops rolled into Ukraine.
Nevertheless, Energoatom said it hasn’t lost connections with the plant and all important parameters of its work are still being reported to Kyiv.
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Karmanau reported from Tallinn, Estonia.
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SHANGHAI, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mabwell (688062.SH), an innovative biopharmaceutical company with entire industry chain, announced that its clinical trial application of 9MW2921 for advanced solid tumor was approved by the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). 9MW2921 is developed by Mabwell's novel antibody-drug conjugate plateform IDDC™.
9MW2921 is a next generation antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) developed by Mabwell based on IDDC™ (Interchain-Disulfide Drug Conjugate) plateform for the treatment of solid tumors. It is an innovative antibody molecule linked to a novel payload (TOP1i) by a novel linker with fully autonomous intellectual property right. When 9MW2921 enters the body, it can specifically bind to antigens on the cell membrane surface, be internalized and transferred to the lysosome, release cytotoxic drug, and induce the apoptosis of tumor cells.
9MW2921 is pharmaceutical characterized as stable structure, homogeneous composition, high purity, and it is suitable for industrial scale-up. Compared with ADCs of the same class under development at home and abroad, 9MW2921 is significantly improved and optimized in endocytic activity, plasma stability, drug release characteristics, bystander killing effect, etc. In vivo pharmacodynamic studies demonstrated that 9MW2921 had a better tumor killing activity. In animal safety evaluation models including cynomolgus monkeys and rats, the on-target and off-target toxicities of 9MW2921 were effectively controlled, indicating that 9MW2921 has good safety profile and pharmacokinetic properties.
Belonging to the TACSTD family, Trop-2 is a cell surface glycoprotein encoded by the TACSTD gene. It is expressed in normal tissues at low levels, while overexpressed in multiple malignant tumors. Trop-2 expression correlates with tumor aggressiveness. Trop-2 overexpression promotes the growth, proliferation, and metastasis of tumor cells.
Next generation antibody-drug conjugate plateform IDDC™
Mabwell has developed multiple ADC technology plateforms, and its anti-Nectin-4 ADC (R&D code: 9MW2821) is currently in the phase II clinical study.
IDDC™ is a next generation ADC site-specific conjugate technology plateform independently developed by Mabwell. It is composed of multiple systematized core patent technologies including site-specific conjugate process DARfinity™, special designed linker IDconnect™, novel payload Mtoxin™, and conditional release structure LysOnly™.
The next generation ADCs developed based on the above systematic patent technologies will carry better structural homogeneity, quality stability, pharmacodynamics and tolerability. Currently, the IDDC™ plateform has been validated in several products under development. It is expected multiple ADC products will enter clinical development in 2023 and 2024.
About Mabwell
Mabwell (688062.SH) is an innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company with the entire value chain of the pharmaceutical industry. We provide more effective and accessible therapy and innovative medicines to fulfill global medical needs. Since 2017, an advanced R&D system which covers target discovery, early discovery, druggability, preclinical, clinical research and manufacturing transformation was established. Mabwell has 14 pipeline products in different R&D stages based on a world-class and state-of-the-art R&D engine, including 10 novel drug candidates and 4 biosimilars. We focus on the therapeutic areas of auto-immune diseases, oncology, metabolic disorders, ophthalmologic diseases and infectious diseases, etc. Of these, 2 products have been approved and commercialized, 1 product has been filed for MA approval, 3 products are in pivotal trials. We have also undertaken 1 national major scientific and technological special project for "Significant New Drugs Development", 2 projects for National Key R&D Programmes, and several provincial and municipal science and technological innovation projects. Mabwell's Taizhou factory possesses robust in-house manufacturing capability compliant with international GMP standards regulated by the NMPA, FDA and EMA, and has passed the EU QP Audit. The large-scale manufacturing base located in Shanghai is under construction. Our mission is "Explore Life, Benefit Health" and our vision is "Innovation, from ideas to reality". For more information, please visit www.mabwell.com.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, the potential safety, efficacy, regulatory review or approval and commercial success of our product candidates and those relating to the Company's product development, clinical studies, clinical and regulatory milestones and timelines, market opportunity, competitive position, possible or assumed future results of operations, business strategies, potential growth opportunities and other statements that are predictive in nature. "Forward-looking statements" are statements that are not historical facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. These statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking expressions, including, but not limited to, "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "estimate," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would," and similar expressions and the negatives of those terms.
Forward-looking statements are based on the Company's current expectations and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which are beyond the Company's control, including, but not limited to:environment; politic; economy; society; legislation; our dependence on our product candidates, most of which are still in preclinical or various stages of clinical development; our reliance on third-party vendors, such as contract research organizations and contract manufacturing organizations; the uncertainties inherent in clinical testing; our ability to complete required clinical trials for our product candidates and obtain approval from regulatory authorities for our product candidates; our ability to protect our intellectual property; the potential impact of COVID-19; the loss of any executive officers or key personnel. In case one or more of these risks or uncertainties deteriorate, or any assumptions are incorrect, the actual results may be seriously inconsistent with the stated results.
The Company cautions all the persons not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speaks only as of the date of this press release. The Company disclaims any obligation, except as specifically required by law and the rules of the applicable Stock authority to publicly update or revise any such statements to reflect any change in expectations or in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements may be based, or that may affect the likelihood that actual results will differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking descriptions, figures and assumptions in this press release are applicable to this statement.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The board governing the state’s teacher pension fund is considering awarding $11.1 million in bonuses to its investment staff, as retirees wait to see if the fund will offer a cost-of-living adjustment amid high inflation.
The proposed bonuses for 91 investment department staff at the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio (STRS) is even higher than the controversial bonuses awarded last year, when the fund lost money during a down year for the market. Last year, the fund originally budgeted $8.5 million for bonuses but awarded $9.7 million.
The Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association, which has been critical of the fund’s management, notes that this year’s bonuses are nearly a third higher than what STRS budgeted last year. But the pension fund says the bonuses are based on hitting board-approved benchmarks.
“STRS leadership has always put their interests ahead of teachers,” said Robin Rayfield, executive director of the Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association. “After a public outcry over $10 million in contrived bonuses after losing $5 billion dollars last year, it’s shameful to ask for a 30% increase in bonuses when STRS has done nothing to provide relief to active and retired teachers. The current STRS board election is a referendum on a broken culture where STRS staff get paid first and teachers get paid last.”
The pension had around $88.1 billion in assets at the end of March. It serves about 500,000 working public school teachers who pay into the plan, former teachers and retired teachers, who receive benefits.
The Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association and STRS board have battled over austerity measures that the pension implemented over the past decade – including reducing, and then eliminating, a yearly cost-of-living adjustment.
Last year when the fund lost around $4.7 billion and investment staff got bonuses, the board also voted to give retired teachers received a 3% cost-of-living adjustment, after around seven years of no increases.
Dan Minnich, STRS’ chief communications officer, said the bonuses are based on board-approved investment benchmarks and a performance-based incentive policy. Investment performance is crucial in both up and down markets for securing the financial condition of the pension fund, he said.
The STRS performance-based bonuses are available only to staff in the investment department, which has 91 people out of a total of 489 STRS employees. No other associates, including senior management, receive a bonus, Minnich said.
The preliminary total net return in the fund from July 1 through March 31 was 4.2%, Minnich said.
“It comes down to math—if investment managers outperform the board-approved benchmarks under the board-approved PBI policy, meaning the investment managers outperform the market, the investment managers receive an incentive for that outperformance,” he said.
And there’s a possibility that teachers will get another cost-of-living increase, which would go into effect July 1.
“The board had a robust discussion with its actuary last week to determine if additional benefit enhancements might be prudent next fiscal year,” Minnich said. “This conversation will continue at the board meeting next month. The Retirement Board wants to pay retirees every penny possible. But the Board must—under Ohio law—only make benefit improvements that the Board actuary says will not materially impair the fiscal integrity of the pension fund.”
The Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association, which recently changed its name from the Ohio Retired Teachers Association, is also watching an election on the STRS board.
Arthur Lard, whose term ends Aug. 31, is up for reelection, having first joined the board in 2019. Lard is a business education teacher from Portsmouth City Schools. He’s a member of the Ohio Education Association and the union has endorsed and is actively supporting his reelection, said OEA President Scott DiMauro.
His challenger is Pat Davidson, a business and computer teacher in the Berea City School District. Davidson is a member of the Berea Federation of Teachers, and is supported by the Ohio Federation of Teachers.
The Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association is also backing Davidson, believing he’ll challenge STRS staff more than Lard does.
The election results will be announced May 6.
Laura Hancock covers state government and politics for The Plain Dealer and cleveland.com. | 2023-04-28T19:12:47+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/04/retired-teachers-criticize-111-million-bonus-proposal-for-pensions-investment-staff.html |
Pastor shoots, kills man he says his wife was having an affair with, police say
OZARK, Mo. (KY3/Gray News) – A Missouri husband has been charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting the man he says his wife was having an affair with, according to police.
Matthew Dedmon, 47, is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Joe Newburn, 57.
Dedmon told investigators he is a pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Rogersville.
Investigators said Dedmon drove to a restaurant Saturday afternoon to contact his wife. When he arrived, he found his wife eating lunch with Newburn. Dedmon confronted Newburn, saying he and the woman were having an affair, authorities said. Police said Dedmon then shot Newburn three times.
Newburn was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Police said Dedmon was arrested shortly after the deadly shooting. Investigators seized the gun he used.
He is being held without bond.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The mottled bright green leaves of a pothos plant stood out against the flashy expanse of electric vehicles and smart products at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this year. This particular version of the familiar houseplant was bioengineered to remove 30 times the amount of indoor air pollutants of a typical house plant, according to Neoplants, the Paris-based company that created it.
Customers are already joining a waitlist for seedlings still in the nursery.
Neoplants founder and CEO Lionel Mora is a passionate former Google employee who sings a bit of a different tune than other founders at the electronics convention, with its technology-can-solve-anything vibe. He says before people turn to engineering solutions, they need to address consumption. But, "when it comes to innovation, we believe that biology is the way to go because it’s sustainable by design,” he said.
As countries grapple with how to limit global warming and protect natural resources and biodiversity, more companies are growing their own commitments to building sustainable supply chains and slowing emissions. For others, like Neoplants, addressing environmental issues is their whole reason for being.
Companies and start-ups at CES touched on a broad range of those efforts. Austin-based Pivet showcased biodegradable phone cases. Electric watercraft company Candela unveiled a 28-foot electric speedboat. Ukrainian start-up Melt Water Club presented its water purification method that uses freezing.
The Department of Energy even had a booth — a first, said Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who spoke with The Associated Press ahead of her keynote on Friday.
Granholm said she is excited about a range of technologies at CES and beyond, from John Deere's newest electronic farm equipment, to battery storage using alternative materials such as sodium salt, both of which she said the Department of Energy has helped fund.
Granholm also spoke about expanding the use of clean energy, including some forms of hydrogen, fusion and geothermal energy, highlighting the latter as an opportunity for the oil and gas industry.
"If they’ve used fracking to be able to get to oil and gas, they could be using that same technology to be able to extract the heat beneath our feet,” she said.
It could be a while before the oil and gas industry walks away from extracting fossil fuels. In the meantime, more companies are taking emissions reductions seriously. And the first step to reducing emissions is having a full understanding of them, said GreenSwapp founder Ajay Varadharajan. The Dutch company intends to help online grocers and food delivery services understand their carbon footprint, including those in their supply chain or “Scope 3” — often the toughest to track.
Varadharajan wrote an algorithm that pulls information about various edible products from published research papers, which allows him to assign a carbon footprint to every food’s barcode. The algorithm then fine tunes that number with information about a product’s farming techniques and packaging.
Using GreenSwapp's app, CES attendees could scan the barcode of various milk containers on display to instantly compare their carbon footprint. The company claims this works on any food item with a barcode.
The information is helpful for conscious consumers, but Varadharajan says the real impact happens when food companies use it to track their emissions.
Some companies may want to share the information with customers. But he expects many to use it internally, preparing for possible regulations, he explained. The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to soon require publicly traded U.S. companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. The largest ones may need to disclose Scope 3 emissions related to their supply chain. Once finalized, the U.S. would join a growing number of countries including the U.K. and Japan that require large companies to disclose this information. The European Union is finalizing reporting standards.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company didn't have a booth this year, but it did demo new tires on vehicles plastered in blue and yellow that rolled around Las Vegas.
The company currently has the largest market share for replacement consumer tires in the U.S. It says its new demo tire contains 90% sustainable materials, and has improved rolling efficiency, which helps people save energy, even when the tires are on electric vehicles.
Goodyear didn’t specify how much carbon is reduced in the new tire manufacturing process, or how much energy is saved through rolling efficiency.
“It's very dependent on the type of vehicle and the type of tire being used,” said CEO Rich Kramer.
But the company’s line of ingredients appear to move in the right direction. Tires use many materials and this new one transitions away from petroleum products to surplus soybean oil to maintain pliability. It uses silica from rice husk waste residue for grip and fuel efficiency. The list goes on, and Kramer says the tire is an important step toward the company goal of reaching zero emissions by 2050.
But sourcing these materials in large quantities is an issue, he said.
“Can you get them at scale to be able to increase production? And then how do you change the manufacturing process for that? That’s a challenge, but a challenge we welcome," he said.
There’s still some room for improvement in the sourcing of Goodyear's rubber, said Sean Nyquist of Forest Stewardship Council, which works to certify sustainable rubber.
“In the last 20 years, there’s been significant deforestation as a result of natural rubber,” he said, as demand grew for rubber from trees instead of synthetic versions made in a lab.
Goodyear’s rubber sourcing follows the guidelines of the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber. Nyquist says this is an important step, but third-party certification would add even more validity to sustainability claims.
Several tire companies are on a similar path, he said. The tires Pirelli makes for the plug-in version of the BMW X5 have obtained FSC certification, which guarantees rubber was sourced ethically, including forest management and labor practices.
There may not be a simple path to reducing emissions and building sustainable supply chains. But one place U.S. companies may now get more help is the record federal funding available to decarbonize buildings and transportation through the Inflation Reduction Act. Granholm says she believes the incentives to reduce energy use and scale clean technology are powerful.
“There’s policy innovation and there’s technology innovation, she said. “We’re all scanning to see what has the best impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and getting to our ultimate goal of saving the planet.”
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Associated Press writer Suman Naishadham contributed from Washington.
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- Prioritizing the development of EO-3021, a potential best-in-class ADC targeting Claudin18.2, and additional pipeline programs including those through its existing partnership with Caris Life Sciences
- Planning to present EO-3021 preclinical proof-of-concept data at a major medical conference in the first half of 2023, and initiate Phase 1 trial in the US in the second half of 2023; CSPC is actively recruiting patients in an ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial in China
- Pausing further investment in the clinical development of seribantumab; intends to pursue further development only in collaboration with a partner
- Joseph Ferra, CFO, appointed as Interim CEO; Shawn Leland has resigned as CEO and member of the Board of Directors
- Realigning resources to focus on advancing EO-3021 and additional pipeline programs expected to extend cash runway into the fourth quarter of 2024, announces approximately 30% reduction in workforce
NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevation Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELEV), an innovative oncology company focused on the discovery and development of selective cancer therapies to treat patients across a range of solid tumors with significant unmet medical needs, today announced plans to prioritize key research and development efforts to advance EO-3021, its potential best-in-class antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) designed to target Claudin18.2, and other pipeline programs including those through its existing partnership with Caris Life Sciences.
Elevation Oncology is pausing further investment in the clinical development of seribantumab and realigning its resources to focus on advancing EO-3021 and other pipeline programs. Elevation Oncology intends to pursue further development of seribantumab only in collaboration with a partner.
In addition, the Company announced that Shawn M. Leland, PharmD, RPh, has resigned from his role as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. The Board of Directors has appointed Joseph J. Ferra as Interim Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ferra will remain as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, and lead Elevation Oncology along with Valerie Malyvanh Jansen, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer and David Dornan, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer.
"We remain focused on developing innovative cancer therapies to treat patients with significant unmet medical needs, and in EO-3021 we believe we have a potential best-in-class asset that can target solid tumors expressing Claudin18.2 and plan to enter the clinic in the US in the second half of 2023," said Joseph Ferra, Interim Chief Executive Officer of Elevation Oncology. "In light of our ongoing evaluation of our pipeline, we are pausing further investment in the development of seribantumab and the CRESTONE study. Additionally, we have made the difficult decision to reduce our workforce which will enable us to realign our resources towards advancing EO-3021 and additional pipeline programs. We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the patients and their families, the investigators and study teams as well as our employees for their invaluable contributions to the CRESTONE study."
"Shawn's dedication and leadership were instrumental in the founding and building of Elevation Oncology. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to sincerely thank Shawn for his many contributions and his stewardship of the company," said Steve Elms, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Elevation Oncology. "We have the utmost confidence in Joe's ability to lead Elevation Oncology as Interim CEO during this time of significant transition for the Company in order to realize the full potential of EO-3021, and additional pipeline programs, to benefit patients with significant unmet medical needs."
Strategic Actions Summary
- EO-3021:
- Seribantumab:
- Other Pipeline Programs:
- Leadership Transition:
- Workforce Reduction:
- Updated Cash Runway:
About Elevation Oncology, Inc.
Elevation Oncology is an innovative oncology company focused on the discovery and development of selective cancer therapies to treat patients across a range of solid tumors with significant unmet medical needs. We are rethinking drug development by seeking out innovative, selective cancer therapies that can be matched to a patient's unique tumor characteristics. Our lead candidate, EO-3021, is a potential best-in-class, antibody drug conjugate (ADC) designed to target Claudin18.2, a clinically validated molecular target that can selectively deliver a cytotoxic payload directly to kill cancer cells. We are working to rapidly advance EO-3021 into the clinic in the US across a range of solid tumor indications to demonstrate its potential, as well as exploring other opportunities through new or existing partnerships and business development opportunities to expand our novel oncology pipeline. For more information, visit www.ElevationOncology.com.
Forward Looking Statements:
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, anticipated preclinical and clinical development activities, expected timing of announcements of clinical results, potential benefits of Elevation Oncology's product candidates, potential opportunities to expand Elevation Oncology's product candidate pipeline, potential market opportunities for Elevation Oncology's product candidates, the ability of Elevation Oncology's product candidates to treat their targeted indications, the ability for Elevation Oncology to achieve cost savings and Elevation Oncology's expectations about its cash runway. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may be accompanied by such words as "aim," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "goal," "intend," "may," "might," "plan," "potential," "possible," "will," "would," and other words and terms of similar meaning. Although Elevation Oncology believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, Elevation Oncology cannot guarantee future events, results, actions, levels of activity, performance or achievements, and the timing and results of biotechnology development and potential regulatory approval is inherently uncertain. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause Elevation Oncology's actual activities or results to differ significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking statement, including risks and uncertainties related to Elevation Oncology's ability to advance its product candidates, the timing and results of preclinical studies and clinical trials, approvals and commercialization of product candidates, the receipt and timing of potential regulatory designations, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Elevation Oncology's business, Elevation Oncology's ability to fund development activities and achieve development goals, Elevation Oncology's ability to protect intellectual property, Elevation Oncology's ability to establish and maintain collaborations with third parties and other risks and uncertainties described under the heading "Risk Factors" in documents Elevation Oncology files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Elevation Oncology undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
Elevation Oncology Investor and Media Contact
Candice Masse, 978-879-7273
Senior Director, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
cmasse@elevationoncology.com
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "My mom was always cold in her nursing home and was always wrapped in a bulky blanket. I thought there could be a more comfortable option," said an inventor, from Killeen, Texas, "so I invented the HUGGEE. My design can be draped over the shoulders and around the neck to increase coziness and warmth for the wearer."
The patent-pending invention provides a wearable blanket designed to surround users in cozy comfort. In doing so, it offers an alternative to traditional bulky blankets. As a result, it increases warmth and it can be worn while seated, when using a wheelchair, at outdoor events, etc. The invention features a convenient and comfortable design that is easy to position and use so it is ideal for the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and the general population. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Austin sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-ASP-218, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A series of stabbings at an Indigenous community and at another town nearby in Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, Canadian police said Sunday as they searched across the expansive province for two suspects.
The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.
Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random. She couldn’t provide a motive.
“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” Blackmore said, adding there were 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found.
It is among the deadliest mass killings in Canadian history. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020 when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. A man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto in 2019. But mass killings are less common in Canada than in the United States.
Blackmore said police began receiving reports before 6 a.m. of stabbings on the First Nation community. More reports of attacks quickly followed and by midday police issued a warning that a vehicle reportedly carrying the two suspects had been spotted in Regina, about 335 kilometers (208 miles) south of the communities where the stabbings occurred.
Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were sighted there around lunchtime. There have been no sightings since.
“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
Doreen Lees, an 89-year grandmother from Weldon, said she and her daughter thought they saw one of the suspects when a car came barreling down her street early in the morning as her daughter was having coffee on her deck. Lees said a man approached them and said he was hurt and needed help.
But Lees said the man took off and ran after her daughter said she would call for help.
“He wouldn’t show his face. He had a big jacket over his face. We asked his name and he kind of mumbled his name twice and we still couldn’t get it,” she said. “He said his face was injured so bad he couldn’t show it.”
She said the man was by himself and “kind of a little wobbly.”
“I followed him a little ways to see if he was going to be OK. My daughter said ‘Don’t follow him, get back here.’”
Weldon residents have identified one of the victims as Wes Petterson. Ruby Works said the 77-year-old widower was like an uncle to her.
“I collapsed and hit the ground. I’ve known him since I was just a little girl,″ she said, describing the moment she heard the news. She said he loved his cats, was proud of his homemade Saskatoon berry jam and frequently helped out his neighbors.
“He didn’t do anything. He didn’t deserve this. He was a good, kind hearted man,″ said Works.
She said the event has shaken a community where the sounds of sirens are rarely heard.
“No one in this town is ever going to sleep again. They’re going to be terrified to open their door,″ she said
Weldon resident Robert Rush also described the victim as a gentle, widowed man in his 70s.
“He wouldn’t hurt a fly,″ he said.
Rush said Petterson’s adult grandson was in the basement at the time and phoned police.
At the Weldon Christian Tabernacle Church the congregation began their regular Sunday service by saying a special prayer to the victims and their families.
At the James Smith Cree Nation, a convenience store that also serves as a gas station became a gathering place for community members, who greeted each other with tears and hugs.
A sign on the door said: “Due to safety concerns with our community we will remain closed until further notice.”
The elected leaders of the three communities that make up the James Smith Cree Nation, including the Chakastaypasin Band and the Peter Chapman Band, declared a local state of emergency on Sunday.
Chakastaypasin Chief Calvin Sanderson said he’d left his phone off on Sunday morning and only learned of the tragic events when community members came to his door to check on him.
Everyone’s been affected, he said.
“They were our relatives, friends. Mostly we’re all related here, so it’s pretty hard,″ Sanderson said. “It’s pretty horrific.”
The emergency declaration, which was released by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, said two emergency operations centers have been set up.
The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended on Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″
The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was described as five feet seven inches tall and 155 pounds, and Myles Sanderson, 30, as six-foot-one and 200 pounds. They may be driving a black vehicle.
Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list last May that included Myles, writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.
“A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted that the “attacks in Saskatchewan today are horrific and heartbreaking.”
“I’m thinking of those who have lost a loved one and of those who were injured,” Trudeau wrote.
Deadly mass stabbings are more rare than mass shootings but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
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Associated Press journalist Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.
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Officer shot in head, suspect killed in domestic violence call, police chief says
WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (WXIX/Gray News) - A police officer in Ohio was critically injured in a shooting earlier this week while responding to a domestic violence call.
According to Clearcreek Township Chief of Police John Terrill, two officers responded to a reported domestic violence situation at a residence where a man was ramming his wife’s car with an ATV.
WXIX reports the man shot one of the responding officers in the head before he was shot and killed by the other officer.
The wounded officer was transported by helicopter to a hospital and was reportedly breathing on his own after the shooting.
Terrill described the officer as being in “stable but critical condition.” Later, about the officer, Terrill said, “We’re not quite sure how this is going to turn out yet.”
The chief of police declined to identify the injured officer but did say he is a 14-year veteran of the force.
Officials said the officer who shot and killed the man was not injured.
According to the police chief, the department responded to multiple domestic violence calls at the same address in the past.
“An officer-involved lethal use of force incident, when it results in a death, is a tragedy regardless of whether the officer’s actions ultimately end up being justified,” David Fornshell said, Warren County Prosecutor.
Officials said the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations will handle evidence collection and conduct interviews as part of the investigation.
According to Terrill, Tuesday’s incident was the first officer-involved shooting in the 47-year history of the Clearcreek Township Police Department.
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Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to raise the top age for military conscription, aiming to expand the pool of trained recruits who could potentially join the battle in Ukraine.
The measure, if approved by the full parliament, applies to the year of military service required of all Russian men. Starting next year, those ages 18 to 30 would be required to serve; currently, it is 18 to 27. The bill also prohibits men who have been conscripted from leaving the country, an attempt to cut down on draft dodging.
The measure reflects the Kremlin’s desire to bolster the military without resorting to a general mobilization, in which Russian men who have served in the military — up to 70 years old in the highest ranks — could be called up. Russian President Vladimir Putin has carefully tried to avoid a larger mobilization in order to maintain support for the war, but one is still possible in case other measures fail to deliver a sufficient force.
The legislation, along with a number of other measures Russian legislators have approved this year, makes clear the intent of the Kremlin to strengthen the military for what it has depicted as an existential conflict with the West.
Although Russian men are required to serve a year in the military, many find ways to avoid it, including on medical grounds, for education or by going abroad. And in September, with the country at war, protesters took to the streets across Russia after the announcement of a “partial mobilization” aimed at pressing 300,000 men into service. Many other men fled the country.
For the most part, Russia has fended off Ukraine’s attempts to pierce its lines, but the fighting on Ukrainian soil has been slow and bloody. The vote by the lower house of parliament on Tuesday to expand the pool of recruits is the latest sign that Putin, facing heavy battlefield losses, is bracing for a long war.
While the Russian president has promised that conscripts serving for a year would not be sent to Ukraine, they are deployed in regions on its border and represent trained recruits who could be called upon to sign contracts and be sent to battle.
It was uncertain how long it will be before the effects of the new measures aimed at strengthening the military will begin to be seen.
“It is clear that not earlier than before the fall conscription campaign — that is, in effect, not earlier than winter,” said Dmitri Kuznets, who analyzes the war for Meduza, an independent Russian news website. “This is a preparation for the planned expansion of the army in the future.”
The draft law still needs approval by the upper house of parliament, the Russian Federation Council, whose speaker already promised support. It then goes to be signed by Putin.
When the conscription age plan was first announced by Defense Minister Sergei K. Shoigu at the end of last year, together with an effort to expand the Russian army to 1.5 million servicemen from around 1.15 million, it called for raising the age of conscription, and making the range 21 to 30. But last week, lawmakers made it 18 to 30.
Andrei Kartapolov, a Russian lawmaker and the main backer of the draft law, told the Russian news agency Interfax that the change was made because the “demographic situation is serious” in Russia, which affects “the volume of the mobilization resource” in the country.
Last week, parliament also extended by five years the maximum age at which men can be part of a general mobilization for the army, raising the age for the highest-ranking officers in the reserves to up to 70. Earlier changes to the Russian legislation also made it more difficult for potential recruits to dodge general mobilization or the mandatory draft.
The Russian Defense Ministry has also been moving aggressively to recruit new volunteers to fight in Ukraine. On July 4, Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former president and now a high-ranking security official, said that more than 185,000 recruits had joined the Russian army since the beginning of this year.
Kuznets, the war analyst, said it all appeared to be part of a larger strategy.
”I think that the increase in the draft contingent, the attempt to recruit tens of thousands of contract soldiers and the preparation for a new wave of mobilization complement each other,” he said. “This is an attempt to implement a plan for a protracted war of attrition, for which you need to replenish your resources faster than the enemy does.” | 2023-07-25T23:13:00+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/russia-seeking-a-bigger-army-moves-to-raise-top-age-for-military-service/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
New Canaan, a wealthy town in Connecticut, is a town of lawns.
Lawns, green and rolling. Lawns, trim and bug-free, lined with sculpted shrubs. Lawns, like so many lawns across suburban America, sprayed with pesticides each spring, mowed each week of summer and raked free of leaves each fall.
But Bill and Mary-Ellen McDonald have taken a different approach. They have lived in their yellow house here for more than 50 years. Over time, they started letting wildflowers grow. Bunnies appeared. Birds came back. Soon, they realized they were creating a sanctuary.
A sanctuary, specifically, for fireflies.
“These fireflies are here, and really only here,” Bill McDonald, 75, said on a recent Friday evening, the sky fading to lilac. “This is an island in the sea of lawn chemicals.”
Over the past few decades, anecdotal reports suggest that firefly populations have been declining across the country. Although the data is sparse, experts say multiple species are at risk of extinction from threats such as habitat loss and light pollution, which interrupts their mating signals.
Suburban sprawl is destroying their habitat: The insects spend most of their lives in the soil, which is threatened by development. And pesticides are killing them off.
“Fireflies are like most other wildlife: They need things a little wild,” said Candace Fallon, a conservation biologist and one of the creators of the Firefly Atlas from the Xerces Society, an international invertebrate conservation group.
For ecologists, fireflies are good ambassadors for broader environmental causes such as the dark sky movement, a campaign to reduce light pollution, and “no-mow May,” an anti-lawn credo. The insects are enchanting, even nostalgic. They flash like morse code messages from childhood, the Tinkerbells of the longest days of summer.
“I think of them sort of as the gateway bug,” said Sara Lewis, a leading firefly expert at Tufts University. “They’re a way of getting people who may not otherwise be that interested.”
Some people have created public spaces for the insects, which Lewis said inspired “firefly tourism.” Parts of Asia have large firefly populations. Many fireflies also live in the Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee. The Pennsylvania Firefly Festival is another destination.
But few people have created firefly oases on their own properties. Fewer still open up their homes to host firefly viewing parties, as the McDonalds have done every summer for the past 30 years.
Dozens of people gather over several evenings during peak season — from June to mid-July. Mary-Ellen McDonald, 74, makes ice cream sundaes with homemade fudge sauce by the half-gallon. Her husband uncorks Champagne.
“Some people used to bring their children,” he said. “Now, they bring their grandchildren.”
They let the children catch fireflies, and even let them take their new friends home in jars for just one night. The next day, they return to release them, often with hand-drawn firefly drawings in tow.
Bill McDonald’s interest in fireflies started when he was young. In recent years, he helped create a public firefly sanctuary, which is part of the New Canaan Land Trust. (It has gotten so popular that it now requires nightly reservations during peak firefly season.)
But even as Bill McDonald, a retired investment banker, has invested time and significant financial resources in creating havens for the fireflies, few of his neighbors have done the same.
Yellow pesticide signs peek out of front lawns, warning dogs to keep off the grass. A buzz-cut of grass rolls to the property line, its edges razored by landscape crews. Floodlights abound.
“Some people are basically lawn people,” Bill McDonald said. “Do they care about the fireflies? The answer is ‘no.’ It’s just not on their radar. It’s just not part of the culture.”
That’s the point of the parties, which are a hyperlocal type of environmental activism. One night with the fireflies; maybe one lawn without chemicals.
Perhaps, people will even be encouraged to “rewild” their lawns altogether. The growing movement aims to restore damaged landscapes to a more natural state, often with native plants. That, in turn, could make for better firefly habitats.
The demonstration worked for Michele Murray Sloan, a real estate agent who has lived in New Canaan all her life. She said she first visited the McDonalds’ home a few years ago and noticed the difference.
“The house next door had a sign that said ‘pesticides.’ There were no fireflies,” she remembered. “We were like: ‘Whoa, it’s almost like there’s this invisible gate right there that the fireflies know not to go past.’”
Sloan stopped using pesticides after that.
“Every single year, it feels like we have more fireflies,” she said of her own home, adding, “It makes you aware that even just on your own property, not using pesticides makes a difference.”
As the sky slipped from lilac to indigo and the trees became blurs, Bill McDonald pointed out the different species. (He can tell them apart just by their light patterns, their flight paths.)
There goes a Comet. Oh, look, a Femme Fatale. (You can see her — there. She’s flying horizontally.) By the trees, those are Heebie Jeebies. That one’s a Big Dipper. See it? Right there. See the way it blinks?
Chris Schipper, chair of the New Canaan Conservation Commission and a former president of the land trust, was there that evening. He caught a firefly, cradling it gently.
Then, he opened his hands. It jackknifed its wings open and flew away.
“To see several thousand fireflies, lighting up the sky, right in your backyard?” he said. “I think it slows you down and makes you think: ‘Maybe a perfect lawn isn’t as magnificent as something like this.’”
As the humans on the porch drained their Champagne flutes, the unwitting insect activists bobbed in the air. They blinked — on-on-off; on-on-off-on-on-off — trying to find a mate before their own little lights sputtered out for good. | 2023-07-29T23:46:34+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/a-summer-spectacle-where-fireflies-are-the-guiding-light/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
DETROIT -- Closer Gregory Soto allowed five runs and walked three straight batters in a miserable ninth inning as the Detroit Tigers lost to the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0 on Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.
The Rays (58-50) took three of four in the weekend series against the Tigers (43-67).
The Tigers and Rays entered the final frame tied 0-0. Soto retired two of the first three batters he faced before his control abandoned him.
After allowing a couple of hits, Soto walked three straight Rays, the latter two with the bases loaded. Reliever Jason Foley couldn’t bail him out, allowing three more hits. The Rays ended up scoring seven runs in the ninth.
The ugly ending spoiled what might have been the best start of Matt Manning’s career. The Tigers right-hander pitched seven scoreless innings, allowing just four singles. He walked three and struck out seven over 95 pitches.
The Tigers’ offense did little against a succession of Rays pitchers, only reaching scoring position twice -- on doubles by Riley Green and Kody Clemens.
Clemens’ hit broke an 0-for-21 skid.
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The Tigers are off on Monday and open a three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday at 7:10 p.m. at Comerica Park. Tigers lefty Tyler Alexander (2-5, 4.04 ERA) will face Cleveland ace right-hander Shane Bieber (6-6, 3.39). | 2022-08-07T20:43:27+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/gregory-soto-implodes-in-7-run-9th-inning-as-tigers-lose-series-finale-to-rays.html |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two sheriff’s deputies who have been suspended for five days for their role in the arrest of Tyre Nichols failed to keep their body cameras activated after they went to the location where Nichols had been beaten by five Memphis police officers, officials said late Wednesday.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies Jeremy Watkins and Johntavious Bowers each violated multiple policies after they reported to the location of Nichols’ violent arrest on Jan. 7, Sheriff Floyd Bonner said in a statement.
Nichols had fled a traffic stop but was caught near his home by Memphis Police Department officers who punched him, kicked him and hit him with a baton, police video footage and other documents showed.
Video released by the city showed several law enforcement officers standing around as Nichols struggled with serious injuries while he sat on the ground, propped up against a police car. Nichols was taken to a hospital in an ambulance that left the location of the beating 27 minutes after emergency medical technicians arrived, authorities have said.
Nichols died at a hospital on Jan. 10. Five Memphis officers accused of beating Nichols have been fired and charged with second-degree murder. One other Memphis officer has been fired but not charged criminally for his role in the traffic stop that preceded the beating.
The sheriff’s office previously had said two deputies who went to the scene after Nichols was beaten had been disciplined and were under investigation. But the county law enforcement office had not divulged further details, including their names and the actions they took — or did not take.
Reports released by the sheriff’s office late Wednesday showed Bowers and Watkins were suspended for five days without pay for failing to keep their body cameras and in-car video turned on while they were at the arrest location.
The deputies also did not notify dispatch or their supervisor, the reports showed. Watkins also did not report on his daily log that he went to the arrest location, according to the reports.
Bonner said the sheriff’s office does not believe that the deputies will face criminal charges.
Bowers and Watkins have been Shelby County deputies since June 2021, Bonner said. Both suspensions began Wednesday.
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This story has been updated to correct the day the reports were released to Wednesday in one reference.
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For more of AP’s coverage on Tyre Nichols’ death: https://apnews.com/hub/tyre-nichols | 2023-02-17T04:03:11+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-deputies-suspended-in-nichols-case-didnt-turn-on-body-cams/ |
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Sunday began releasing more than 1,600 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, but they didn't include any political detainees despite the country’s ruling general vowing to bring peace this year.
Myanmar has been under military rule since February last year, when the army ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. The takeover was met with massive resistance, which has since turned into what some U.N. experts have characterized as civil war.
This year's holiday celebrations, carried out over several days, were muted as opponents of military rule called for a boycott of government-supported activities.
State-run MRTV television reported that the head of Myanmar’s military council, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, had pardoned 1,619 prisoners, including 42 foreigners who will be deported.
Mass prisoner releases are common on major holidays. The spokesman of Myanmar’s Prison Department, Khin Shwe, told The Associated Press that those released were mostly drug offenders and common criminals, and that he was unaware if any political prisoners were among them.
An official from Yangon’s Insein Prison said 160 people have been released from the penitentiary but they didn’t include those convicted of political offenses.
Tun Kyi, a senior member of the Former Political Prisoners Society, said that political detainees are held as hostages by Min Aung Hlaing. He said it was not surprising if political prisoners were not released, because the general sees people who oppose his government as criminals and intends to crush them.
“He knows the political prisoners will oppose him again if they were released,” he said, adding that they were also kept to be used as bargaining chips who can be freed as a gesture of goodwill to appease other countries and groups critical of the military government.
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said Friday that 10,238 people, including Suu Kyi, are in detention. The group keeps detailed tallies of arrests and killings linked to the government's repression.
Min Aung Hlaing said in his new year’s speech that he is doing the best to bring peace in 2022. He said that he will try to achieve his two national goals -- prosperity and an abundance of food and provisions. Myanmar is one of Asia's poorer nations, and living standards have slipped due to the coronavirus pandemic and the political turmoil.
“The strength of the country comes from inside the country. I will try my best, with the strength of the people,” he said.
Myanmar's military has been carrying out full-scale offensives against militias and ethnic rebel groups in the countryside as well as urban guerrillas active in the cities.
The opponents have established their own parallel shadow government. Its acting president said in his new year speech that the militias and allied armed forces of ethnic minorities control the country’s rural areas.
“I’m happy to report to you on this auspicious Myanmar New Year that our resistance forces and ethnic armed forces are now controlling much of the country, particularly rural areas, as well as positions around several major cities,” Duwa Lashi La, acting president of the self-styled National Unity Government, said Saturday. A video of his speech was posted on Facebook.
It is impossible to confirm either side's claims of control over territory. Even though the resistance forces do not hold any areas, the repeated major offensives by the army indicate security problems in many areas. | 2022-04-17T13:16:43+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Myanmar-s-military-chief-pardons-prisoners-to-17086400.php |
NEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Fulgent Genetics, Inc. ("Fulgent") (NASDAQ: FLGT) shareholders:
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Apptio helps U.S. government agencies accelerate digital transformation through an expanded suite of secure solutions for cloud cost management and optimization
BELLEVUE, Wash., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Apptio, the leading technology spend and value management company, today made several announcements at its Public Sector Summit 2023. Apptio is uniquely focused on helping government agencies accelerate cloud adoption and innovation, while optimizing cloud and technology resources. Apptio is launching Cloudability Government, a cloud financial management (FinOps) solution that helps public sector organizations make data-driven decisions about cloud investments across all major cloud service providers. Further, the entire CloudabilityMX product family has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) authorization, expanding the list of Apptio's FedRAMP-authorized solutions and verifying their secure use within all federal agencies.
Cloudability Government is designed to enable planning and budget management while also intelligently optimizing funds to reduce waste and increase ROI. Using real-time data insights, it equips teams with greater visibility of cloud and multi-cloud usage and the flexibility to control their IT spend—keeping organizations on track without sacrificing performance.
"Demand for effective cloud cost management capabilities has grown rapidly in every domain over the past few years, and the public sector is no exception. As federal agencies adopt cloud at a greater rate, it's become increasingly crucial to offer solutions that are not only effective, but secure," said Eugene Khvostov, Chief Product Officer, Apptio. "By adopting Cloudability, government agencies gain unprecedented visibility into their cloud cost and usage, key insights to optimize cost savings, and market-leading planning capabilities —ultimately enabling them to better serve the American people."
FedRAMP is a government-wide program that promotes the adoption of secure cloud services across the U.S. public sector by providing a standardized approach to security and risk assessment for cloud technologies and federal agencies.
"At the Department of State, we see incredible value in modernizing our IT infrastructure, and trust in the services and vendors we use is paramount to our ongoing digital transformation efforts. We're thrilled to see Apptio invest in helping us better serve the people by extending its FedRAMP authorization to include Cloudability and are eager to have access to one of the industry's best cloud management tools," said Ken Rogers, Chief Digital Strategist, U.S. State Department.
The United States Secret Service (USSS) recently turned to Apptio to help create fiscal transparency, formulate and defend their budgetary position, automate reporting requirements, and reduce effort for data calls. By leveraging an IT Financial Management platform and the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework, the USSS achieved significant results through the improvement of processes, a centralized repository of information, and a common taxonomy that TBM provides. This helped the USSS increase their compliance for Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scores from 50% to 100% and raise the Department of Homeland Security compliance score from a D- in June 2019 to a B in the latest rating.
"Similar to the USSS at the start of their journey, the vast majority of government agencies are facing disjointed processes to build their cloud forecasts, leaving them to rely on ad-hoc planning methods, siloed data, and ill-fitted tooling," said Toyan Espeut, Executive Vice President, Americas, Apptio. "Over the past 15 years, Apptio has partnered with over 1,800 global customers to solve complex financial management challenges, so we're motivated to share that expertise with the public sector to effectively help manage, budget, forecast, and optimize their spend."
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP announced that 16 of the firm's attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2023 Southern California Super Lawyers lists.
Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team to be named a 'Super Lawyer.' Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area.
The following Ervin Cohen & Jessup attorneys have been selected to the 2023 Southern California Super Lawyers list:
Reeve Chudd: Estate Planning & Probate
Kelly Cunningham: Intellectual Property
Peter Davidson: Creditor Debtor Rights
Jeffrey Glassman: Business & Corporate
Geoffrey Gold: Business Litigation
Vanja Habekovic: Taxation
Randall Leff: Business Litigation
Barry MacNaughton: Construction Litigation
Byron Moldo: Creditor Debtor Rights
Kelly Scott: Employment & Labor
Russell Selmont: Intellectual Property Litigation
Peter Selvin: Business Litigation
Albert Valencia: Real Estate
Joan Velazquez: Real Estate
Pantea Yashar: Real Estate
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Man who performed illegal autopsies can’t work in Kansas
Topeka, Kan. – A Kansas man convicted of performing illegal autopsies has been permanently banned from doing business in the state and ordered to pay more than $700,000 in restitution and fines, Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced Wednesday.
Shawn Parcells, 42, who lived in Leawood and Topeka, was convicted in November of three felonies and three misdemeanors related to providing illegal autopsies in Wabaunsee County. He also pleaded guilty in May to one federal wire fraud charge related to the autopsies.
The Wabaunsee County crimes took place in 2014 and 2015. His sentencing is pending.
Shawnee County District Court Judge Mary Christopher ordered Parcells to pay $254,762 in restitution to 82 consumers related to the private autopsy services in Wabaunsee County. He was also ordered to pay the county $49,600 in damages; $400,000 for violating state laws; and $60,000 in investigative and receivership fees.
Schmidt filed a lawsuit in 2019 accusing Parcells, a self-taught pathology assistant with no formal education, of contracting with Wabaunsee County to conduct autopsies and then not completing them according to state law, including not having a licensed pathologist present.
The judge also banned Parcells and his companies from doing any business in Kansas related to the human body, or performing any services regulated as a healing art, including any COVID-related services.
During the investigation, the state took control of more than 1,700 biological samples collected by Parcells. Schmidt said Wednesday that the state’s receivership will end soon and that families will be notified when they have 30 days to seek release of the samples.
Before his guilty plea in federal court, Parcells faced 10 counts of wire fraud. Prosecutors allege that at least 375 people paid him more than $1.1 million between May 2016 and May 2019 for a full pathological study and diagnosis of a family member’s cause of death but the families never received the full autopsy reports.
His sentencing in that case has been scheduled for Sept. 15. | 2022-08-10T20:43:41+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/10/man-who-performed-illegal-autopsies-cant-work-kansas/10290023002/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Twitter slid more than 7% in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement.
Musk alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts it has. However, Twitter said last month that it was making available to Musk a " fire hose " of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets when he raised the issue again after announcing that he would buy the social media platform.
Twitter has said for years in regulatory filings that it believes about 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake but on Monday Musk continued to taunt the company, using Twitter, over what he has described as a lack of data.
Musk agreed to a $1 billion breakup fee as part of the buyout agreement, though it appears Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and the company are settling in for a legal fight to force the sale.
“For Twitter this fiasco is a nightmare scenario and will result in an Everest-like uphill climb for Parag & Co. to navigate the myriad challenges ahead around employee turnover/morale, advertising headwinds, investor credibility around the fake account/bot issues, and host of other issues abound," Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, who follows the company, wrote Monday.
The sell-off in Twitter shares pushed prices close to $34 each, far from the $54.20 that Musk agreed to pay for the company. That suggests, strongly, that Wall Street has serious doubts that the deal will go forward.
Tech industry analysts say Musk's interlude leaves behind a more vulnerable company with demoralized employees.
“With Musk officially walking away from the deal, we think business prospects and stock valuation are in a precarious situation," wrote CFRA Analyst Angelo Zino. “(Twitter) will now need to go at it as a standalone company and contend with an uncertain advertising market, a damaged employee base, and concerns about the status of fake accounts/strategic direction.”
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-- 100% ORR at both CART-ddBCMA dose levels; deep and durable responses observed in patients with poor prognostic factors --
-- 27 of 38 (71%) evaluable patients reached CR/sCR; 20 of 25 patients (80%) dosed > 12 months ago or had their 12-month follow-up visit by November 22, 2022 have reached CR/sCR --
-- No cases of Grade >3 CRS at RP2D and no delayed neurotoxicity or parkinsonian-like events --
-- First patients dosed in iMMagine-1 Phase 2 clinical trial with pivotal drug product --
-- Initiated the Phase 1 clinical trial of ACLX-002 for the treatment of patients with AML/MDS --
-- Management to host a live webcast event with an expert panel of clinicians to discuss the CART-ddBCMA clinical results on Sunday, December 11, 2022, at 11:00 AM CT --
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcellx, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACLX), a biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy through the development of innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases, today announced continued robust long-term responses from its CART-ddBCMA Phase 1 expansion trial in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, dosing of first patients in its iMMagine-1 Phase 2 clinical trial with pivotal drug product, and the initiation of the Phase 1 clinical trial of ACLX-002 for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
38 patients were evaluable for efficacy and safety analysis as of the October 31, 2022 cutoff date, based on follow-up of at least one month, following treatment. These evaluable patients comprised the dose escalation cohorts for the first dose level (100 (+/- 20) million CAR+ T cells, n=6) and the second dose level (300 (+/- 20) million CAR+ T cells, n=6), and a dose expansion cohort at 100 (+/- 20) million CAR+ T cells (n=26). The median dose administered to patients in the first dose level and dose expansion cohorts was 115 million CAR+ T cells. All patients evaluable for this analysis have poor prognostic factors with 38 of 38 (100%) patients triple-refractory, 26 of 38 (68%) penta-refractory, and 22 of 38 (58%) with at least one high-risk prognostic factor (extramedullary disease (EMD), ISS Stage 3 [beta-2-microglobulin ≥5.5], bone marrow plasma cells (BMPC) ≥60%). All 38 patients had at least 3 prior lines of therapy.
The interim CART-ddBCMA Phase 1 clinical results (October 31, 2022 cutoff date) demonstrate deep and durable responses in patients with poor prognostic factors. Based on these data, the recommended Phase 2 dose (RP2D) was selected to be 115 (+/- 10) million CAR+T cells.
All Patients:
Of the 38 evaluable patients with median follow-up of 15 months
- 100% overall response rate (ORR) achieved in all patients per International Myeloma Working Group criteria
- 27 of 38 (71%) evaluable patients achieved complete response (CR) or a stringent complete response (sCR)
- 7 of 38 (18%) patients achieved very good partial response (VGPR)
- 4 of 38 (11%) patients achieved a partial response (PR)
- 34 of 38 (89%) patients achieved > VGPR
- 22 of 38 (58%) had high risk features (EMD, ISS stage 3, and/or BMPC ≥60%)
- 13 of 38 (34%) patients have extramedullary disease
Patients dosed 12 months prior or had their 12-month follow-up visit by November 22, 2022:
- 25 of 25 (100%) ORR
- 20 of 25 (80%) CR/sCR
- 3 of 25 (12%) VGPR
- 2 of 25 (8%) PR
- 23 of 25 (92%) > VGPR
Patients dosed 18 months prior or had their 18-month follow-up visit by November 22, 2022:
- 16 of 16 (100%) ORR
- 13 of 16 (81%) CR/sCR
- 1 of 16 (6%) VGPR
- 2 of 16 (13%) PR
- 14 of 16 (88%) > VGPR
CART-ddBCMA dosed at RP2D (115 million (+/- 10) CAR+ T cells) continues to be well-tolerated:
- No tissue-targeted toxicities observed
- No cases of delayed neurotoxicity events or parkinsonian symptoms
- No cases of grade 3 (or greater) CRS and only one case (3%) of grade 3 ICANS event with no additional cases from previously reported
- Based on the observed safety and efficacy of CART-ddBCMA, a dose of 115 (+/- 10) million CAR+ T cells was selected as the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D)
Matthew J. Frigault, M.D., CART-ddBCMA study investigator and Assistant Director of the Cellular Therapy Service at Mass General Cancer Center and Instructor at Harvard Medical School said, "CART-ddBCMA continues to demonstrate deep responses. It is encouraging to see these clinical results with an autologous cell therapy, particularly in a population with high-risk features. Accessibility to treat multiple myeloma patients with CAR-T therapy remains an issue."
Arcellx's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Rami Elghandour continued, "We're excited by these long-term data as they are indicative of the potential for CART-ddBCMA to make a meaningful impact for patients and the physicians who need available therapies to treat them. These results supported the initiation of our iMMagine-1 Phase 2 pivotal trial where we recently dosed the first patients in this study. We look forward to completing enrollment of iMMagine-1 and advancing towards a BLA filing. Additionally, we are excited to have initiated our Phase 1 clinical trial for ACLX-002 utilizing our ARC-SparX platform for the treatment of patients with AML or MDS. Given the heterogeneity of these diseases, we believe that by leveraging the controllability and adaptability of ARC-SparX we can overcome a degree of the toxicity issues observed with traditional single antigen CAR-T therapies."
Presentation Details:
Title: Phase 1 Study of CART-ddBCMA for the Treatment of Subjects with Relapsed and/or Refractory Multiple Myeloma
Speaker: Matthew J. Frigault, M.D., Assistant Director of the Cellular Therapy Service at Mass General Cancer Center, and Instructor at Harvard Medical School
Session Name: 704. Cellular Immunotherapies: Early Phase and Investigational Therapies: Poster II
Session Date: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Session Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. CT
Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Hall D, New Orleans, LA
Publication Number: 3313
The presentation can be accessed on the company's corporate website here.
Webcast Event:
Arcellx will host a live webcast event with an expert panel of clinicians to discuss the clinical results on Sunday, December 11, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. CT. The event will be accessible from Arcellx's website at www.arcellx.com in the Investors section. A replay of the webcast will be archived and available for 30 days following the event.
About Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a type of hematological cancer in which diseased plasma cells proliferate and accumulate in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy blood cells and causing bone lesions, loss of bone density, and bone fractures. These abnormal plasma cells also produce excessive quantities of an abnormal immunoglobulin fragment, called a myeloma protein (M protein), causing kidney damage and impairing the patient's immune function. Multiple myeloma is the third most common hematological malignancy in the United States and Europe, representing approximately 10% of all hematological cancer cases and 20% of deaths due to hematological malignancies. The median age of patients at diagnosis is 69 years with one-third of patients diagnosed at an age of at least 75 years. Because MM tends to afflict patients at an advanced stage of life, patients often have multiple co-morbidities and toxicities that can quickly escalate and become life-endangering.
About CART-ddBCMA
CART-ddBCMA is Arcellx's BCMA-specific CAR-modified T-cell therapy utilizing the company's novel BCMA-targeting binding domain for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. CART-ddBCMA is currently in a Phase 2 study. Arcellx's proprietary binding domains are novel synthetic proteins designed to bind specific therapeutic targets. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
About iMMagine-1
iMMagine-1 is a Phase 2 pivotal, open-label, multicenter clinical trial designed to evaluate CART-ddBCMA, a BCMA-specific CAR-modified T-Cell therapy utilizing Arcellx's novel BCMA-targeted binding domain, for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the overall response rate over a 24-month period. In addition to safety, secondary endpoints include depth of disease response, duration of response, and overall survival over a 24-month period.
About AML
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also referred to as acute myelogenous leukemia, arises from cells in the bone marrow that have accumulated genetic mutations that cause the mutated cells to grow uncontrollably and disrupt the development of healthy blood cells. The aggressive growth of AML in the bone marrow and blood and the lack of durable treatments leave AML patients with an ~30% five-year survival rate. The disease is the most common acute leukemia affecting adults. According to the National Cancer Institute SEER database, there were an estimated 69,700 people living with AML in the United States in 2019. In 2022, new cases were estimated at approximately 20,050, with 11,540 deaths. Current therapies for AML have many limitations including limited efficacy and, in some cases, significant toxicities, highlighting the critical need to develop new therapies with greater safety and efficacy.
About MDS
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a closely related disease to AML in which a population of abnormal myeloid cells develop in and disrupt the bone marrow. Depending on the type of abnormal or dysplastic cell that emerges, patients may experience a specific decrease in red blood cells or in the disease-fighting cell population referred to as monocytes, neutrophils, and dendritic cells. While MDS is itself a type of cancer, about one-third of MDS patients will also subsequently become diagnosed with AML. MDS is more common in elderly patients often diagnosed in their 70s but can also occur in non-elderly patients. MDS has been estimated to be as low as 10,000 new cases per year in the United States. While stem cell transplant can cure MDS, most patients are not able to receive them due to the typical advanced age at time of disease onset and the presence of co-morbidities, resulting in new therapies being needed for MDS patients as well.
About the ARC-SparX Platform Technology
The ARC-SparX platform is designed to allow for controllability and adaptability to potentially reduce toxicities that are often associated with serious dose-limiting adverse events and to overcome tumor heterogeneity. It is a modular therapy which utilizes a universal autologous ARC-T cell combined with one or more antigen-specific SparX protein to separate the tumor-recognition and tumor-killing functions. SparX (soluble protein antigen-receptor X-linkers) proteins utilize our D-Domain technology engineered to recognize antigens on the surface of diseased cells and flags those cells for detection by the ARC-T cells. ARC-T cells express a D-Domain-based CAR engineered to specifically recognize a unique TAG sequence in the SparX protein. ARC-T cells can be dosed separately and are designed to be activated to kill the target cell only when they encounter a SparX protein bound to the target antigen and thus can be controlled through dose modulation of the SparX protein. Arcellx has developed a collection of SparX proteins that bind different antigens on the surface of diseased cells. Multiple SparX proteins with different antigen specificity can be administered to potentially address antigen heterogeneity or antigen escape that contribute to relapsed and refractory disease.
About the Phase 1 Study Evaluating ACLX-002 for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome (NCT05457010)
The Phase 1 study evaluating ACLX-002 in adults with relapsed and/or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is an open-label, multicenter, dose escalation clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety of ACLX-002. Secondary objectives are to measure anti-tumor activity and pharmacokinetics of both SparX-002 and ARC-T cells.
About Arcellx, Inc.
Arcellx, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company reimagining cell therapy by engineering innovative immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases. Arcellx believes that cell therapies are one of the forward pillars of medicine and Arcellx's mission is to advance humanity by developing cell therapies that are safer, more effective, and more broadly accessible. Arcellx's lead product candidate, CART-ddBCMA, is being developed for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma (r/r MM) in an ongoing Phase 2 study. CART-ddBCMA has been granted Fast Track, Orphan Drug, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy designations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Arcellx is also advancing its dosable and controllable CAR-T therapy, ARC-SparX, through two programs: a Phase 1 study of ACLX-001 for r/r MM, initiated in the second quarter of 2022; and ACLX-002 in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, initiated in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Visit www.arcellx.com for more information.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including Arcellx's expectations regarding the timing and outcomes of clinical trials for its product candidates; the potential impact of its product candidates and platforms on patients and cell therapy; and the timing of achievement of its milestones. The forward-looking statements contained herein are based upon Arcellx's current expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or may prove to be incorrect. These forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, including those set forth in Part I, Item 1A (Risk Factors) of Arcellx's Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other reports, such as Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, that Arcellx may file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release, and Arcellx assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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Madison is seeing a dangerous rise in pedestrian deaths as reckless driving surges, and Renee Callaway might just hold the answer. She hopes 2023 will mark a turning point.
Callaway is Madison’s pedestrian and bicycle administrator and has played a major role advocating for those not in cars as part of the city’s Vision Zero plan, a data driven strategy intended to eliminate traffic deaths and severe injuries on all roadways, bikeways and sidewalks.
She started in 2019, just before the pandemic hit and the city saw a drastic increase in serious and fatal crashes. Around that same time, officials started to have conversations about developing the Vision Zero action plan and tackling traffic safety, which Callaway called “visionary.”
Nearly three years into the pandemic, reckless driving hasn’t gone away, Callaway said. Authorities country-wide are citing factors from the rise in anxiety levels and pandemic drinking to the fraying of social norms.
“We’ve been changing speed limits (and) that is something people can see very easily. Not everyone feels like that’s going to work, but we know we also need to change the streets to be designed for those same speeds and that takes longer,” Callaway said. “We’re trying to do the things that we can do quickly while also knowing that we have bigger projects in the pipeline, like infrastructure changes.”
In the next year, the city, with Callaway’s help, will work to prioritize gaps in the local bike network, she said. While Madison was once considered the second best place for biking in the country (in 2020), that rating has dropped in recent years. There are some new projects in the works that will ensure the city has “the safest possible network we can,” Callaway said, such as sidewalk repairs, better traffic connections, a redesigned bus network and increased safety efforts.
On top of that, in 2023 Callaway hopes to start changing residents’ mentalities on traffic safety.
“All too often people just get used to the risks of traveling — but there shouldn’t be any,” Callaway said. “People just feel like it’s the inevitability of being in a crash. I’m excited to be a part of trying to change the idea that if you’re in a crash, it’s just going to be minor, it’s not going to change your life.” | 2023-01-04T21:06:49+00:00 | captimes.com | https://captimes.com/renee-callaway-madison-pedestrian-and-bicycle-administrator/article_6827e12a-8b9e-11ed-95e9-6b125945bf2d.html |
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Neonode Inc. (NASDAQ: NEON), today reported financial results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2022.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022:
- Revenue of $1.3 million, a decrease of 26.3% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Operating expenses of $2.8 million, a decrease of 13.7% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Net loss of $1.5 million, or $0.11 per share, compared to $1.7 million, or $0.14 per share, for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash used by operations of $2.9 million compared to $1.4 million for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash and accounts receivable of $13.5 million as of June 30, 2022, compared to $18.7 million as of December 31, 2021.
FINANCIAL SUMMARY FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022:
- Revenue of $2.6 million, a decrease of 23.6% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Operating expenses of $5.5 million, a decrease of 13.0% compared to the same period in the prior year.
- Net loss of $2.9 million, or $0.22 per share, compared to $3.2 million, or $0.28 per share, for the same period in the prior year.
- Cash used by operations of $5.2 million compared to $3.4 million for the same period in the prior year.
THE CEO'S COMMENTS
"Our overall sales and results for the second quarter of 2022 were below expectations and were impacted by the fact that customers in several of our key markets, particularly Asia, are still being affected by lock-downs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of our customers are also having to navigate supply chain constraints due to a shortage of semiconductor components and other issues they are faced with in the current economic climate, slowing their product sales, and in some cases their development and launches of new products, which affects our business negatively," said Dr. Urban Forssell, Neonode's CEO.
"Our products business continues to develop and we are seeing a growing interest in our Touch Sensor Modules ("TSM") from elevator customers and interactive kiosk manufacturers in the transportation, retail, hospitality, and medical segments. To date we have had the best traction in Japan and South Korea, but other markets such as China, Western Europe, and North America are also showing potential. Together with our distributors and value-added resellers we continue to work to expand the TSM business and increase our sales volumes," continued Dr. Forssell.
"In our efforts to re-vitalize our licensing business we focus on automotive OEM and tier 1 customers, and we are encouraged by the interest we are seeing for our object detection, gesture sensing and driver and in-cabin monitoring solutions. Short- and medium-term the revenue potential is sales of non-recurring engineering services in application development projects linked to new vehicle platforms. These projects pave the way for increased license revenues in the medium- and long-term when vehicles based on the new platforms start being produced. We continue to execute on our strategy and remain optimistic about the potential to grow this business in the coming years," concluded Dr. Forssell.
FINANCIAL OVERVIEW FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED JUNE 30, 2022
Net revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 were $1.3 million, a 26.3% decrease compared to the same period in 2021. For the 2022 period, license revenues were $1.0 million, a decrease of 29.8% compared to the same period in 2021. The decrease is primarily the result of component shortages within the printer and automotive markets related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which in turn impacted our license revenues for the second quarter of 2022.
Revenues from product sales during the second quarter were $0.2 million, a decrease of 39.3% compared to the same period in 2021. In the first half of 2021 several early adopters of our technology developed and launched retrofit solutions, which affected our TSM sales positively during this period. However, our product sales for the second quarter of 2022 continue to be negatively impacted by COVID-19 driven lock-downs in Asia and we are also affected by the comparatively long development and launch periods, often 12 to 18 months, or longer, for customer new equipment solutions, which slow down our sales growth.
Gross margin related to products was 55.7% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to 38.7% for the same period in 2021. Our operating expenses decreased 13.7% for the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021, primarily due to lower staff expenses and depreciation and amortization.
Net loss attributable to Neonode for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was $1.5 million, or $0.11 per share, compared to a net loss of $1.7 million, or $0.14 per share, for the same period in 2021. Cash used by operations was $2.9 million in the second quarter compared to $1.4 million for the same period in 2021. The increase is primarily the result of increased inventory to secure our future product deliveries.
Cash and accounts receivable totaled $13.5 million and working capital was $16.4 million as of June 30, 2022 compared to $18.7 million and $19.1 million as of December 31, 2021, respectively.
For more information, please contact:
Investor Relations
Fredrik Nihlén
E-mail: fredrik.nihlen@neonode.com
Phone: +46 703 97 21 09
Chief Executive Officer
Urban Forssell
E-mail: urban.forssell@neonode.com
Phone: +46 734 10 03 59
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Written by Laura Duerr
We put two Cricut machines through their paces to see which created craft perfection
Cricut machines have opened up new realms of DIY possibility since they first hit the market in 2005. From card-making to customizing T-shirts, Cricut machines let users create professional-looking craft projects thanks to intuitive controls and versatile materials. We asked our BestReviews testers to try out two popular Cricut machines: the Cricut EasyPress 2 and the Cricut Joy. Here’s what they discovered.
What is a Cricut machine?
Cricut machines perform a variety of crafty tasks. Most Cricut machines are electronic cutting machines that can quickly cut out intricate designs from a huge range of materials. Others, such as the Cricut EasyPress 2, are heat-transfer tools that can adhere your design to anything from tote bags to trays.
If you’re not feeling creative, Cricut machines can help with that, too. Cricut offers a vast asset library of artwork, letters, numbers and more that can be downloaded from your smartphone or computer.
Cricut EasyPress 2 review
If you’ve ever used an iron to transfer designs onto a T-shirt, you might have struggled with getting the design to adhere evenly. The Cricut EasyPress 2 offers the solution. Its large, square heating plate heats up evenly, allowing users to transfer designs without having to reposition the machine and risk budging their design.
Our tester was impressed by the EasyPress 2’s convenient size and how quickly it heated up. The EasyPress 2 is ready to use in less than one minute, and our tester could complete most of their projects without having to move the press. Even on larger projects, our tester found it easy to seamlessly reposition the EasyPress 2.
Due to its large, flat surface, the EasyPress 2 wouldn’t be a great choice for someone wanting to work with three-dimensional items such as hats. It also performs best with Cricut’s EasyPress Mat, which is sold separately.
Cricut Joy review
The Cricut Joy is one of the smaller, more affordable Cricut cutting machines. Our tester loved how easy it was to set up and how smoothly the design process went. The Cricut Joy guides users through all the design steps. Our tester was able to easily cut designs from iron-on vinyl, cardstock, window cling material and more.
The Cricut Joy is a compact machine, so it’s easy to store. Along with the Cricut online design library, users can upload their own patterns, but our tester found the process a little less user-friendly than designing with Cricut assets.
Our tester, who’s a regular Cricut user, wished the Cricut Joy came with more tools to help make craft projects easier. The Cricut Joy is also slower than other Cricut machines and can’t cut thicker materials. Despite these drawbacks, it’s a simple and solid machine for someone interested in getting started with Cricut.
Top Cricut machines
Available in two sizes, the EasyPress 2 lets users transfer designs onto almost any flat surface without having to lift and reposition the machine. It heats evenly and works quickly thanks to intuitive controls and a smart heating guide.
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This budget-friendly Cricut machine boasts impressively precise cuts and user-friendly operation. The compact machine can cut designs up to 4.25 inches by 12 inches from more than 50 materials.
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With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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With so much wear and tear on our bodies, a little prevention goes a long way towards preventing injuries. Life Kit presents tips on improving our posture, with stretches from a physical therapist.
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“‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.’” (Matthew 2:6)
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California Dairies Inc., the largest dairy farmer-owned cooperative in the state, has agreed to acquire DairyAmerica, effective Jan. 1.
DairyAmerica, a globally recognized supplier of dairy ingredients, is a federated cooperative currently co-owned by CDI, Agri-Mark Inc. and O-AT-KA Milk Products.
As part of the acquisition, CDI will purchase the ownership rights currently held by Agri-Mark and O-AT-KA Milk Products, making DairyAmerica a wholly owned subsidiary, according to a press release from CDI.
“This investment in DairyAmerica provides the opportunity for CDI to unlock significant synergies and represents another step towards improving efficiencies in providing world markets with high quality dairy ingredients,” said Brad Anderson, CDI president and CEO.
Founded in 1995, DairyAmerica is the largest supplier of nonfat dry milk and skim milk powder in the world, providing 500,000 metric tons a year to 60 countries.
Under the new structure, DairyAmerica will continue to market milk powders produced by Agri-Mark and O-AT-KA Milk Products.
“We continue to support the DairyAmerica vision,” said William Schreiber, CEO of O-AT-KA Milk Products.
“We are pleased to be a part of this transition and have seen the benefits of DairyAmerica’s transformation under its new leadership the past two years,” said David Lynn, interim CEO of Agri-Mark.
DairyAmerica will remain under the leadership of Patti Smith, CEO, and its office will remain in Fresno, Calif.
“As we continue to transform our business, this investment by CDI provides the framework to focus on our people and processes while strengthening our global competitiveness,” Smith said.
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The 2023 NFL Draft begins Thursday night with Round 1.
That’s followed by Rounds 2-3 on Friday night, and then Rounds 4-7 on Saturday.
Thursday’s picks begin at 8 p.m., Friday’s at 7 p.m., and Saturday’s at noon.
So let’s take a look at where the Giants pick in every round, as second-year general manager Joe Schoen tries to bolster their roster.
Round 1: No. 25
Round 2: No. 57
Round 3: No. 89
Round 4: No. 128
Round 5: Nos. 160 and 172
Round 6: No. 209
Round 7: Nos. 240, 243, and 254
Some notes on these picks ...
• Schoen had an extra third-rounder (No. 100), but he traded it to the Raiders for tight end Darren Waller. Schoen got that pick last season while trading wide receiver Kadarius Toney to the Chiefs.
• The extra fifth-rounder (No. 172) is a compensatory pick tied to the Giants losing tight end Evan Engram to the Jaguars last year in free agency.
• In Round 6, No. 209 came from Kansas City in the Toney trade. The Giants’ original sixth-rounder (No. 203) now belongs to the Texans, because they traded it for cornerback Keion Crossen in 2021.
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• In Round 7, No. 240 came from Baltimore in the Giants’ 2021 trade for offensive guard Ben Bredeson. And No. 254 is a comp pick tied to the Giants losing Crossen to the Dolphins in free agency last year. That’s the sixth-to-last pick in this year’s draft.
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Darryl Slater may be reached at dslater@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-04-27T12:05:48+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/sports/2023/04/nfl-draft-2023-heres-where-giants-pick-in-every-round-as-joe-schoen-tries-to-bolster-roster.html |
WFO AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Saturday, February 4, 2023
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Kyiv was targeted by Russian forces again Monday, this time by kamikaze drones. The attacks were unsettling and deadly, but what's less clear is whether or not they changed anything about the war.
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Kyiv was targeted by Russian forces again Monday, this time by kamikaze drones. The attacks were unsettling and deadly, but what's less clear is whether or not they changed anything about the war.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former All-Star pitcher Carlos Martínez was suspended for 80 games Friday under baseball's minor league drug program following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Ibutamoren, which increases Human Growth Hormone.
The 30-year-old right-hander signed a minor league contract with San Francisco on March 19. He was released and signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox on May 7.
Martínez made a pair of starts for Triple-A Worcester, at Toledo on May 8 and against Rochester on May 14, going 0-2 with a 20.77 ERA in 4 1/3 innings. He was released on May 17.
Martínez pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2013-21, going 62-52 with a 3.74 ERA in 139 starts and 135 relief appearances. He was an All-Star in 2015 and 2017, and Martínez made five relief appearances in the 2013 World Series loss to the Red Sox.
He was 4-9 with a 6.23 ERA in 16 starts for the Cardinals last season.
Martínez is the 23rd player suspended this year under the minor league drug program. His suspension will start when he signs with a major league organization.
Six players have been suspended this year under the major league drug program: Milwaukee pitcher J.C. Mejía and Brewers catcher Pedro Severino for 80 games each; Baltimore pitcher Matt Harvey for 60 games; and free agent outfielder/first baseman Danny Santana, pitcher Richard Rodríguez and infielder José Rondón for 80 games apiece.
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It’s a surprise of a lifetime. On Saturday, 13-year-old Isabella McCune enjoyed the second night of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Glendale, Arizona, thanks to the pop star’s promise she made to her five years ago.
In 2018, McCune went through an accident that landed her in the hospital for nine months with burns on over 65% of her body. She ended up not being able to go to the Reputation Tour, however, Taylor Swift herself visited the then-8-year-old at the hospital.
“Isabella, I hope you feel better soon. I’m so honored you’ve been listening to my music. You’re so awesome and I can’t wait to have you at a show. Stay strong, gorgeous. Love, Taylor,” Isabella read off a note that Swift wrote to her back in 2018.
McCune said Swift helped her get through some of the most difficult times of her life as she recovered from her burns.
“Her music helped me a lot while I was in the hospital,” she said.
Swift followed up on that promise five years later, as she made her way to kick off the Eras Tour in Glendale this weekend.
Swift and her team surprised McCune with four tickets to her concert Saturday night. It’s a surprise McCune will never forget.
“Not only the fact that I’m able to go and I got these tickets gifted to me, they’re from Taylor Swift and her team and they remembered me, and thought of me to give me these tickets,” McCune said.
While she dances the night way, singing the songs that helped heal her, McCune added that she is thankful for those who made it all possible for her, as she continues to help others who are going through what she did.
This article was written by Elenee Dao for Scripps News Phoenix. | 2023-03-20T21:32:05+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/taylor-swift-delivers-promise-of-tour-tickets-to-teen-burn-survivor |
Try to stay cool, hydrated: Heat to intensify through Monday
Updated July 2, 2023 - 8:13 am
The first excessive heat warning of the summer runs through Monday evening for the Las Vegas region.
A Saturday high of 107 at the Las Vegas airport is expected to reach about 111 on Sunday before a 112 on Monday, according to the latest National Weather forecast.
Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona, reached 113 unofficially by Saturday afternoon with a Sunday high of 117 expected before a 118 high on Monday.
The Death Valley Visitors Center at Furnace Creek, California, unofficially reached 121 Saturday afternoon with projected highs of 123 for Sunday and Monday.
At Mount Charleston, a Saturday low of 61 escalated to 86.
Weather officials are reminding people to avoid being outside for prolonged periods during the heat of the day, to wear light-colored clothing and to stay hydrated.
Daytime cooling centers are open across the region through Monday at these locations:
■ Libraries in the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
■ Walnut Recreation Center, 3075 E. Walnut Road
■ Pearson Community Center, 1625 W. Carey Avenue
■ Hollywood Recreation Center, 1650 S. Hollywood Boulevard
■ Cambridge Recreation Center, 3930 Cambridge Street
■ Whitney Recreation Cente, 5712 E. Missouri Avenue
■ Courtyard Homeless Resource Center, 314 Foremaster Lane
■ Downtown Recreation Center, 50 E. Van Wagenen Road, Henderson
■ Downtown Senior Center, 27 E. Texas Avenue, Henderson
■ Alexander Library, 1755 W. Alexander Road, North Las Vegas
■ American Legion, Richard Springston Post 60, 1510 Bruce Woodbury Drive, Laughlin
Overnight lows in the mid-80s will provide little if any cooling, the weather service said.
Contact Marvin Clemons at mclemons@reviewjournal.com. Follow @Marv_in_Vegas on Twitter. | 2023-07-02T15:32:43+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/weather/try-to-stay-cool-hydrated-heat-to-intensify-through-monday-2802701/ |
SANTA CRUZ
Harvest Festival at UCSC this weekend
The UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Life Lab present the annual Fall Harvest Festival from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the campus farm. There will be apple pie baking and salsa making contests, apple pressing, hands-on workshops, hayrides and live music. Plus, local food vendors like My Mom’s Mole and Fonda Felix will have items for sale. Admission is $5 for the public or free for kids under 12, UCSC and Cabrillo College students with a student ID, and Friends of the UCSC Farm & Garden members. See agroecology.ucsc.edu/news-events/events/harvest-fest.html.
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
New salad at Erik’s DeliCafé
The Castroville Queen salad is a new offering at Erik’s DeliCafé locations across the county and will be available for the next few months. It features sliced salami over mixed greens and romaine plus artichoke hearts, fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, red bell pepper, red onion, clover sprouts, sunflower seeds and balsamic vinaigrette. To locate an Erik’s DeliCafe or get contact information, visit eriksdelicafe.com.
CAPITOLA
Gayle’s adds dinner items
Gayle’s Bakery (504 Bay Ave., 831-462-1200, gaylesbakery.com) has a new dinner menu featuring several items. In addition to the one “hot Blue Plate” that’s already available each night, Gayle’s has started doing burgers, Reubens, and a few other items. You can find each week’s menu by visiting the homepage and clicking “Menus” then Hot Dinner Menus. Also, pumpkin pie has returned for the season.
In other news, Gayle’s is doing a Rosh Hashanah dinner (available cold at 7 a.m. and hot at 4 p.m.) for pickup Sunday. Order early; quantities are limited. Plus, they have a la carte selections such as matzo ball soup and Rugelach for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur available Sept. 25-24 and Oct. 4-5.
SANTA CRUZ
Tickets on sale for Bookshop Santa Cruz event at Soif
Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce are co-hosting an appearance by wine expert Karen MacNeil on Oct. 13 at Soif Restaurant and Wine Shop (105 Walnut Ave.). This celebrates the new, completely updated edition of MacNeil’s “The Wine Bible,” which is America’s bestselling wine book. Advance tickets are available for the event only, or the event plus a copy of the book. The 7 p.m. program will include a book talk, signing, and Q&A. Wine and small plates will be available for purchase. Visit bookshopsantacruz.com/wine-bible.
SANTA CRUZ
New chef at Bad Animal
Bad Animal (1011 Cedar St., 831-900-5031, badanimalbooks.com) announced their new “culinary artist in residence” is Lalita Kaewsawang of Hanloh Thai Food (visit hanloh.com or IG @hanlohthaifood). Kaewsawang, who starts at Bad Animal Oct. 6, is a Thailand native whose professional experience includes two years at Manresa Restaurant in Los Gatos. Most recently, she has been doing pop-ups and catering. As we reported earlier this month, chef Katherine Stern and her business The Midway, which provided food at Bad Animal for the last year, recently ended their residency. Bad Animal’s restaurant and bar will be closed until Oct. 6, but the bookshop remains open from noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday.
Beginning Oct. 6, the restaurant/bar is open 5-9 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday and 5-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday.
WATSONVILLE
Mr. Z’s adds weekend breakfast
Mr. Z’s Crepes and Teas (45 Aviation Way, 831-228-1588, mrzsteas.com) just started serving weekend breakfast at its Watsonville location only. Hours for breakfast dishes such as egg/cheese crepes with optional bacon or avocado are 9 a.m. to noon Saturday-Sunday (and the creperie stays open until 9 p.m. both days). Mr. Z’s, which is also open 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, serves açaí bowls, bubble waffles, smoothies and boba tea. There is a second location in Aptos (7518 Soquel Drive, 831-661-5167) open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday.
SANTA CRUZ
The Brunch Shift pops up at Apero
Chef Jessica Yarr of Chicken Foot recently launched a new popup, The Brunch Shift. Their debut appearance was last month at Apéro Club (402 Ingalls St. in Swift St. Courtyard). They are making a second Apero appearance from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Menu selections include The Hot Mess (hash browns, peppers, cheese, kimchi, fried egg and more) Rainbow Bowl (ingredients include quinoa, pickled red onion and avocado), homemade biscuits with pork gravy and gluten-free mochi donuts. Other upcoming appearances include the Saturday morning Scotts Valley farmers market Oct. 1 and Oct. 15.
SCOTTS VALLEY
Food trucks at Skypark Friday
The monthly Scotts Valley Food Truck Friday series continues 5-8 p.m. Friday at Skypark (361 Kings Village Road). Participating food trucks will be Pana, Saucey’z, Epoch Eats, Cuevas Mexican Food, Cracked Cookies, and Aunt LaLi’s. The Scotts Valley Educational Foundation is hosting a beer/wine garden to raise money for Scotts Valley schools. Cringe will perform live music. Leashed dogs are welcome. For seating, there are some picnic tables or attendees can bring lawn chairs or blankets. Visit facebook.com/events/1018225268838894.
Quick Bites, compiled by Tara Fatemi Walker, is your weekly helping of Santa Cruz County restaurant, food, and drink news. Send items to sentinelfood@gmail.com (Sunday 7 p.m. deadline for that week’s column). Want local food & drink news as it happens? Follow the Sentinel’s food crew on Twitter @santacruzfood. | 2022-09-20T23:57:02+00:00 | santacruzsentinel.com | https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2022/09/20/quick-bites-ucsc-hosts-fall-festival/ |
500+ People and 50 Brands & Organizations to Honor Birth Workers, and Push for a Culture-Shift to Uplift Maternal and Reproductive Health
Sponsors Include: March of Dimes, Irth App, Kate Spade New York, Bobbie, Ovia Health, Boram, Mahmee, Carol's Daughter, Frida, and more.
BROOKLYN, NY, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mama Glow – a global maternal health and education platform committed to advancing the next generation of doulas – announced today the return of the widely-successful Doula Expo by Mama Glow on Saturday, May 21st in Brooklyn, NYC.
Conceived by world-renowned doula Latham Thomas – the founder of Mama Glow and co-founder of the Mama Glow Foundation – the Doula Expo by Mama Glow is a day-long festival that supports birth professionals and families and prioritizes education, connection and community. The inaugural Doula Expo event took place in October 2021 in Brooklyn and hosted over 400 attendees.
Birth workers, caregivers, and families will join maternal health and wellness industry leaders and policymakers to discuss how we build a future where birth is safe and equitable for all, address policy gaps, and share powerful personal stories grounded in solutions in maternal health. The day is full of activities, including TED-style talks, panel discussions, and thoughtfully curated interactive booths and lounge experiences anchored by Mama Glow's 50 partner organizations. In addition to doulas, caregivers, and families, the 2022 Doula Expo will also feature influencers, celebrity stakeholders in maternal health, elected officials, and more.
"This unique gathering underscores the importance of leaning into community, supporting our villages, and reminds us of the power we have when we come together. Birth work is essential work, caregivers are at the crux of community, and the work of doulas is life affirming. The Doula Expo by Mama Glow is a safe space for us to gather, celebrate, and restore ourselves as we continue the path forward," said Latham Thomas.
Additional Event Details
A preview video for the event can be viewed here.
Visit the Doula Expo website for tickets and to learn more.
Media who wish to attend and cover the 2022 Doula Expo can RSVP to Hanna Hayden at hhayden@thereisgroup.com.
Ticket proceeds from the event will support the educational mission of the Mama Glow Foundation, our 501c3 non-profit committed to advancing reproductive justice and birth equity through education, advocacy and the arts.
About Latham Thomas and Mama Glow
Latham Thomas is an authority in black maternal health, and she and Mama Glow were recently chosen by Mayor Eric Adams as one of a select group to participate in the new expansion of the citywide doula program in New York City. This program strengthens maternal and infant care and reduces racial health disparities. Latham also recently joined Inside City Hall on NY1 and participated in a roundtable discussion with the US Department of Health and Human Services in recognizing Black Maternal Health Week.
Mama Glow is a Brooklyn-based, Black, female-founded organization training and supporting a global community of doulas. Through their global doula training platform they strive to advance workforce development and economic empowerment for their thriving community of birth workers.
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SOURCE Mama Glow | 2022-05-04T22:06:16+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2022/05/04/may-21-doula-expo-by-mama-glow-returns/ |
PARIS (AP) — The humble baguette — the crunchy ambassador for French baking around the world — is being added to the U.N.’s list of intangible cultural heritage as a cherished tradition to be preserved by humanity.
UNESCO experts gathering in Morocco this week decided that the simple French flute — made only of flour, water, salt, and yeast — deserved United Nations recognition, after France’s culture ministry warned of a “continuous decline” in the number of traditional bakeries, with some 400 closing every year over the past half-century.
The U.N. cultural agency’s chief, Audrey Azoulay, said the decision honors more than just bread; it recognizes the “savoir-faire of artisanal bakers” and “a daily ritual.”
“It is important that such craft knowledge and social practices can continue to exist in the future,” added Azoulay, a former French culture minister.
The agency defines intangible cultural heritage as “traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants.”
With the bread’s new status, the French government said it planned to create an artisanal baguette day, called the “Open Bakehouse Day,” to connect the French better with their heritage.
Back in France, bakers seemed proud, if unsurprised.
“Of course, it should be on the list because the baguette symbolizes the world. It’s universal,” said Asma Farhat, baker at Julien’s Bakery near Paris’ Champs-Elysees avenue.
“If there’s no baguette, you can’t have a proper meal. In the morning you can toast it, for lunch it’s a sandwich, and then it accompanies dinner.”
Although it seems like the quintessential French product, the baguette was said to have been invented by Vienna-born baker August Zang in 1839. Zang put in place France’s steam oven, making it possible to produce bread with a brittle crust yet fluffy interior.
The product’s zenith did not come until the 1920s, with the advent of a French law preventing bakers from working before 4 a.m. The baguette’s long, thin shape meant it could be made more quickly than its stodgy cousins, so it was the only bread that bakers could make in time for breakfast.
Despite the decline in traditional bakery numbers today, France’s 67 million people still remain voracious baguette consumers — purchased at a variety of sales points, including in supermarkets. The problem is, observers say, that they can often be poor in quality.
“It’s very easy to get bad baguette in France. It’s the traditional baguette from the traditional bakery that’s in danger. It’s about quality not quantity,” said one Paris resident, Marine Fourchier, 52.
In January, French supermarket chain Leclerc was criticized by traditional bakers and farmers for its much publicized 29-cent baguette, accused of sacrificing the quality of the famed 65-centimeter (26-inch) loaf. A baguette normally costs just over 90 euro cents (just over $1), seen by some as an index on the health of the French economy.
The baguette is indeed serious business. France’s “Bread Observatory” — a venerable institution that closely follows the fortunes of the flute — notes that the French munch through 320 baguettes of one form or another every second. That’s an average of half a baguette per person per day, and 10 billion every year.
The “artisanal know-how and culture of baguette bread” was inscribed at the Morocco meeting among other global cultural heritage items, including Japan’s Furyu-odori ritual dances, and Cuba’s light rum masters. | 2022-12-01T16:04:38+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/crunch-time-the-baguette-earns-un-world-heritage-status/ |
Leading Duchenne Organization Expands Certification of Clinics that Provide Optimal Care for People with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with 1st Clinic in Montana
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), announced the expansion of their renowned Certified Duchenne Care Center (CDCC) Program with the certification of the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana. This is an exciting addition to the CDCC Program as it is not only the first certification in the state of Montana, but brings comprehensive Duchenne care to a large geographic region with otherwise minimal access to comprehensive care for Duchenne.
Rachel Schrader, MS, APRN, CPNP-PC, PPMD's Vice President of Clinical Care and Education says the certification of Billings Clinic is an exciting addition to the CDCC network, particularly considering the access to Duchenne care it offers for families living in remote parts of Montana, Wyoming, and North and South Dakota. "While the clinic numbers are small, the catchment area is huge, and having a certified center in Billings serves to fill an otherwise gaping hole in our CDCC map. This allows patients to access excellent Duchenne care without having to drive as far as Washington, Colorado, or Wisconsin to access a CDCC. It's really transformational for the families in the region as well as Billings Clinic's continued growth. We are really excited to see how their program develops, and to have the opportunity to partner with them for years to come," said Schrader.
While Billings Clinic has a small Duchenne and Becker population of about 15 patients, the overall neuromuscular program has tripled in size over the last three years upon the arrival of Shelly Eagen, NP. Eagen trained under Dr. Mary Schroth at Wisconsin before relocating to Billings nearly three years ago to serve the local pediatric pulmonary needs and coordination for the neuromuscular program. Further, Dr. Elizabeth "Lynne" Wood joined the team as clinic director in 2021 after completing her training at Children's Hospital Colorado, with whom Billings Clinic has a partnership to ensure quaternary care is available to those in need.
"We are honored to be certified by PPMD as a Certified Duchenne Care Center and are committed to continuing to provide high level, comprehensive multidisciplinary neuromuscular care to patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in our region," said Elizabeth Wood, MD and Shelly Eagen, NP on behalf of the Billings Clinic team. "This could never have been achieved without the commitment and dedication of our entire team or without our wonderful patient families. Many thanks to all involved."
PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program supports standardized, comprehensive care and services for all people living with Duchenne. Certification means centers maintain the highest standards in clinical and sub-specialty services, rapidly apply new evidence-based knowledge, minimize heterogeneity in clinical research outcomes, and comply with standards in clinical care that were established by the CDC's Care Considerations. As part of its ongoing mission to end Duchenne, PPMD continues to insist that all people with Duchenne receive comprehensive care.
To learn more about PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program, visit PPMD's website. Click here to learn more about the history of PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program and to access PPMD's first published article on the program.
ABOUT PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY:
Duchenne is a fatal genetic disorder that slowly robs people of their muscle strength. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) fights every single battle necessary to end Duchenne.
We demand optimal care standards and ensure every family has access to expert healthcare providers, cutting edge treatments, and a community of support. We invest deeply in treatments for this generation of Duchenne patients and in research that will benefit future generations. Our advocacy efforts have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and won five FDA approvals.
Everything we do—and everything we have done since our founding in 1994—helps those with Duchenne live longer, stronger lives. We will not rest until we end Duchenne for every single person affected by the disease. Join our fight against Duchenne at EndDuchenne.org. Follow PPMD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
ABOUT BILLINGS CLINIC:
Billings Clinic is Montana's largest independent health care organization, serving Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas. A not-for-profit organization led by a physician CEO, Billings Clinic is governed by a board of community members and physicians. At its core, Billings Clinic is a physician-led, integrated multispecialty group practice with a 304-bed hospital and Level II trauma center. Billings Clinic has more than 4,700 employees, including nearly 600 physicians and advanced practitioners offering more than 80 specialties. Billings Clinic is the first Magnet-designated health care organization in Montana and a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network. More information can be found at www.billingsclinic.com.
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Calibr transitions investigational compound CLB073 to Gates MRI to advance development
LA JOLLA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Calibr, a division of Scripps Research dedicated to the "bench to bedside" development of transformative medicines, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI), today announced a strategic licensing agreement to advance development of a novel investigational compound for tuberculosis treatment. Under the agreement, Calibr is granting Gates MRI an exclusive license to continue the development of the investigational compound CLB073 for tuberculosis treatment. Calibr will transition CLB073 to Gates MRI for further development.
"Eradicating tuberculosis will require enhancing the world's current therapeutic options—meaning shortening treatment duration and overcoming drug resistance," says Case McNamara, PhD, senior director of Infectious Disease at Calibr. "At Calibr, we have been working with collaborators, through the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to discover and develop novel medicines for diseases that require improved treatment regimens, such as tuberculosis. We hope our collaboration with Gates MRI to advance CLB073 will ultimately be able to help the millions of people who contract this deadly disease."
Tuberculosis is a severe disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb is known to sequester in lung macrophages following infection. Macrophages are a type of immune defense cell that typically kill infecting microorganisms. Mtb has the ability to establish a prolonged infection in these cells and, under certain conditions, relies on the macrophage's cholesterol supply as a key carbon source for growth.
To develop a drug capable of targeting Mtb in a new way, scientists at Calibr collaborated with researchers at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, including David Russell, PhD, the William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology, and Brian VanderVen, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology & Immunology. Together, they discovered and pre-clinically studied CLB073, which uses a novel mechanism to weaken Mtb's intramacrophage survival. CLB073 works by modulating cholesterol catabolism and eliminating the bacteria's carbon source. CLB073 activates adenylyl cyclase (Rv1625c), which ultimately blocks the ability of Mtb to metabolize cholesterol. With this novel mechanism, CLB073 holds the potential to complement and potentiate the current tuberculosis standard of care, with the intent of improving efficacy and shortening the duration of treatment time. This is especially critical for multidrug-resistant Mtb, which has compromised many frontline drugs. This work was executed through the TB Drug Accelerator, a partnership for tuberculosis (TB) drug discovery and development funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In preclinical mouse studies, CLB073 significantly enhanced efficacy of the Nix-TB drug regimen1—the tuberculosis standard of care for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
"Tuberculosis is one of the world's most significant infectious causes of human disease and death," said Emilio Emini, PhD, chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute. "CLB073, discovered by Calibr scientists and now licensed to the Gates MRI for further development, may represent a potentially important constituent of future TB therapeutic regimens."
About Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global cause of illness and disability, and it is one of the leading causes of death from an infectious disease worldwide, responsible for an estimated 1.5 million deaths per year.
The most commonly used drug regimen for the treatment of drug-sensitive TB requires patients to take multiple drugs usually for a minimum of six months with routine clinical monitoring. Patients with drug-resistant forms of the infection can face longer and more complex treatment journeys, often with significant side effects that require increased monitoring. The need for drug-resistance testing prior to treatment initiation is an added challenge. A substantially shorter drug regimen for the treatment of both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant forms of TB could provide a significant benefit to both patients and health systems and may overcome the need for accompanying drug-resistance testing.
About Calibr
Calibr was founded on the principle that the creation of new medicines can be accelerated by pairing world-class biomedical research with state-of-the-art drug discovery and development capabilities. Leveraging the unique scientific framework of Scripps Research, Calibr has created a portfolio of drug candidates based on Scripps technologies and is shaping a new paradigm for advancing nonprofit biomedical research to impact patients.
About the Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute is a non-profit medical research organization dedicated to the development and effective use of novel biomedical interventions addressing substantial global health concerns, for which investment incentives are limited, including malaria, tuberculosis, enteric and diarrheal diseases, and diseases that impact maternal, newborn, and child health. For further information please visit www.gatesmri.org.
Contact: press@scripps.edu
media@gatesmri.org
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Deal is first part of a larger order of IoT Pixel tags for the global supply chain to be delivered to major new customer
FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Identiv, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE), a global leader in digital security and identification in the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced that it will manufacture a 25 million unit order from IoT software as a service (SaaS) company Wiliot for their breakthrough IoT Pixel tags that power the Ambient IoT ecosystem designed for the global supply chain.
This order represents a significant milestone for the Ambient IoT ecosystem, which is poised to revolutionize supply chain efficiency, sustainability, and productivity. Ambient IoT leverages new breakthroughs in ambient computing technology – computing that is self-powered by harvesting energy from surrounding radio waves. It connects nearly everything in the global supply chain to the internet by transmitting item-level information including location, temperature, fill rate, carbon footprint, and more. Businesses are then equipped with the data they need to create more productive, sustainable supply chains.
"The Ambient IoT builds on the foundational work done by the RFID industry and takes it to the next level, demonstrating that sophisticated devices can be made in large quantities and offered at a low cost," stated Steven Humphreys, Identiv CEO. "We're proud to be working with Wiliot, leveraging our existing RFID manufacturing processes to help build an ecosystem that promises tremendous potential in making businesses more intelligent and connected on a global scale," added Humphreys.
Ambient IoT devices can sense and protect data with encryption and privacy controls and, unlike previous-generation IoT devices, can be embedded into other products because there are no batteries that need to be changed. The tags continuously communicate in real time and do not require employees or consumers to tap or scan in order for them to communicate.
"Global demand for our IoT Pixels is surging and the collaboration with Identiv will ensure we're well-positioned to deliver," said Tal Tamir, Wiliot CEO. "The agreement demonstrates the enormous manufacturing scale the industry offers to us, while also bringing a leading producer of smart, specialized tags into the Ambient IoT ecosystem, a market that is growing to include many of the world's largest IoT and telecommunications companies."
Ultimately, Ambient IoT will extend into the home and offer item-level insights into expiry dates and when consumers need goods. Once attached, companies are equipped with real-time, item-level visibility into every product within their supply chains, which has a profound impact on both profits and the planet. Produce stays fresher longer, reducing the amount wasted due to rot and spoil; delivery routes are more efficient, requiring less fuel and emitting lower greenhouse gas; stock-checks transition from daily to real-time, resulting in supply chains both with lower carbon footprints and that can respond in real-time to online orders.
Identiv and Wiliot will announce further purchases shortly to meet the needs of customers that will scale significantly beyond this initial purchase.
Identiv's connected ecosystems put the IoT in motion, creating digital identities for every physical object. The innovative RFID team handles research, design, development, and manufacturing. The company embeds tags, inlays, and labels in billions of everyday objects, including medical devices, pharmaceuticals, luxury brands, specialty retail, athletic apparel, industrial applications, smart packaging, library media, toys, wine and spirits, mobile devices, cold chain items, and perishables.
For more information on Identiv's complete end-to-end portfolio, call +1 888.809.8880 or contact transponder_sales@identiv.com.
About Identiv
Identiv, Inc. is a global leader in digitally securing the physical world. Identiv's platform encompasses RFID and NFC, cybersecurity, and the full spectrum of physical access, video, and audio security. Identiv is a publicly traded company, and its common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market LLC in the U.S. under the symbol "INVE." For more information, visit identiv.com.
About Wiliot
Wiliot is a SaaS company whose platform connects the digital and physical worlds using its IoT Pixel tagging technology, computers the size of a postage stamp that power themselves in revolutionary ways. Our mission is to expand the Internet of Things to include every single thing, creating a massive IoT that adds intelligence and automation to reusable packaging, pharmaceuticals, food, and other products. Connecting trillions of things to the internet is transforming manufacturing, distribution, and product use to deliver on our vision: a minimum waste, full trust, perfectly timed world, where people, profits, and planet remain aligned. Visit wiliot.com to learn more.
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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman will spend three years on probation after she pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness.
During sentencing on Friday for Evana Evans, detectives said she drove Dreasjon Reed around town as he fired a gun at a residence where people were at.
Months later, Reed was shot and killed by Indianapolis police after a pursuit that was captured in part on Facebook Live. His shooting death sparked demonstrations in downtown Indianapolis.
A probable cause affidavit filed in the case against Evans said that on April 3, 2020, Evans drove Reed to a home where Reed fired at least 8 rounds at the residence and at people who were outside.
A police report shows the home and two vehicles were hit during the shooting. The homeowner told police that he was outside on his porch when the shooting happened. He grabbed his two small daughters and got down low. The owner said multiple people were over for a barbeque at the time of the shooting.
Court document detail how Reed and Evans messaged each other before and after the shooting, and how to make it seem like Reed didn’t do it.
The message thread began around 7:22 p.m. on the evening of the shooting. The document said Reed started the conversation and Evans cooperated.
In the message thread, the document said Evans asked Reed to bring a screwdriver, to which Reed responded with a message about taking the plates off.
When Evans told Reed if she should pick him up before dropping her son off, the document said he told her that he needed it to seem like it wasn’t him.
The next evening, the document depicts messages between Evans and Reed discussing the shooting. In the message thread, Evans wrote about how exciting the shooting was for her, and how it played in slow motion for her.
“I was amazed at the cases coming down my windshield,” Evans wrote.
The document states that Reed responded that the shooting was in fast motion for him, and all he saw was the little girl and avoiding her.
On April 5, the document states that Reed messaged Evans saying he was going to shoot up the house again and that he went live and “shot his [expletive] up.”
The document said the next day, Reed said he wanted to kill someone and he needed more bullets. Evans responded that Reed “done shot his [expletive] up two times now and he has yet to make a move.”
Months after Reed was killed in the police shooting, the document said detectives went to speak with Evans. She told detectives that she wasn’t there for the shooting, someone else was telling her what happened.
She claimed that while she used to hang out with Reed, they stopped talking a few weeks before his death. At the time of his death, he had a phone that she bought for him.
Evans will spend the first year of her sentence on home detention. | 2022-12-16T20:28:54+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/indianapolis-woman-sentenced-for-driving-dreasjon-reed-to-shoot-at-home-with-people-inside/ |
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has named its 2023 committee chairs and vice chairs. The NAIC also assigned members to its standing committees and named its 2023 task force chairs and vice chairs based on requirements established by the NAIC Bylaws.
"As regulators, we govern our mission by collaborating, providing innovative solutions to industry challenges, and by quickly adapting to meet the needs of the consumer," said Chlora Lindley-Myers, NAIC President and Director of the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance. "I look forward to seeing the work that the eight standing committees will produce and the lasting impact their work has on state-based regulation and the industry overall."
The 2023 NAIC committee leadership assignments are as follows. Click on the underlined names to view their official biographies on the NAIC website:
Life Insurance and Annuities (A) Committee
Chair: Judith L. French, Director, Ohio Department of Insurance
Vice Chair: Carter Lawrence, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance
Health Insurance and Managed Care (B) Committee
Chair: Anita G. Fox, Director, Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services
Co-Vice Chairs: Jon Pike, Commissioner, Utah Insurance Department, and Mike Kreidler, Commissioner, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner
Property and Casualty Insurance (C) Committee
Chair: Alan McClain, Commissioner, Arkansas Department of Commerce, Arkansas Insurance Department
Co-Vice Chairs: Grace Arnold, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Commerce, and Larry D. Deiter, Director, South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation, Division of Insurance
Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee
Chair: Jon Pike, Commissioner, Utah Insurance Department
Co-Vice Chairs: Mike Causey, Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Insurance, and Michael Humphreys, Acting Commissioner, Pennsylvania Insurance Department
Financial Condition (E) Committee
Chair: Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, Superintendent, Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation, Division of Insurance
Vice Chair: Nathan Houdek, Commissioner, Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
Financial Regulation Standards and Accreditation (F) Committee
Chair: Lori K. Wing-Heier, Director, Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development, Division of Insurance
Co-Vice Chairs: Vicki Schmidt, Commissioner, Kansas Insurance Department, and Sharon P. Clark, Commissioner, Kentucky Department of Insurance
International Insurance Relations (G) Committee
Chair: Gary D. Anderson, Commissioner, Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, Massachusetts Division of Insurance
Vice Chair: Eric Dunning, Director, Nebraska Department of Insurance
Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee
Chair: Kathleen A. Birrane, Commissioner, Maryland Insurance Administration
Co-Vice Chairs: Michael Conway, Commissioner, Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Division of Insurance, and Doug Ommen, Commissioner, Iowa Insurance Division
As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise, data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S. standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and represents the collective views of state regulators domestically and internationally.
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SOURCE National Association of Insurance Commissioners | 2023-01-18T18:10:28+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2023/01/18/naic-names-its-2023-committee-leadership/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — It's welcome week - or "Bridge Week" as IUPUI calls it, as thousands of students move in.
For the first time in more than two decades, all the freshmen - more than 3,000 - are being included.
The program has been helping first-year students for over 20 years, with a focus on making them feel acclimated and comfortable on the campus.
The university plans to offer ice breakers and other activities each day this week. They'll also fill them in on campus expectations and how to succeed.
RELATED: IUPUI splitting into 2 universities
"They have a student peer mentor that is with their section, and that's a student who's already been attending IUPUI and they're here to help bridge that gap between high school or a gap year between military coming into their college experience," said IUPUI's Rachel Swinford. "So they're able to hear from peers who were not too long ago in their position as a freshman."
This is also the first time since the pandemic that this welcome week will be all in person.
The university says freshman will end the week with a large pep rally on the football field before start of classes next Monday.
What other people are reading: | 2022-08-16T01:47:40+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/bridge-week-has-helped-acclimate-new-iupui-students-for-more-than-two-decades-school-educaton-orientation/531-674e31b7-5a1a-4108-a602-78d2e371c81e |
After Breonna Taylor shooting, Justice Dept. finds pattern of violations
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has found Louisville police have engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights following an investigation prompted by the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor.
The announcement was made Wednesday by Attorney General Merrick Garland. A Justice Department report found the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government and Louisville Metro Police Department “engage in a pattern or practice of conduct that deprives people of their rights under the Constitution and federal law.”
The report said the Louisville police department “discriminates against Black people in its enforcement activities,” uses excessive force and conducts searches based on invalid warrants. It also said the department violates the rights of people engaged in protected speech, like the street protests in the city in the summer of 2020.
“This conduct is unacceptable, it is heartbreaking,” Garland said.
The sweeping probe announced in April 2021 is known as a “pattern or practice” investigation — examining whether there is a pattern of unconstitutional or unlawful policing inside the department.
Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020. Three officers fired shots after Taylor’s boyfriend, fearing an intruder, shot an officer in the leg. Taylor was struck several times and died at the scene.
The warrant used to enter her home is now part of a separate federal criminal investigation, and one former Louisville officer has already pleaded guilty to helping falsify information on the warrant. No drugs were found in Taylor’s home.
Louisville police have undergone five leadership changes since the Taylor shooting, and new Mayor Craig Greenberg is interviewing candidates for the next chief. The city has settled a number of lawsuits related to the incident, including a $12 million payment to Taylor’s family that ended a wrongful death lawsuit.
Since 2020 the city has banned no-knock warrants, started a program that aims to send behavioral health professionals to some 911 calls, expanded community violence prevention efforts and sought to support health and wellness for officers, the report said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-08T17:46:25+00:00 | wnem.com | https://www.wnem.com/2023/03/08/justice-dept-probe-finds-reasonable-cause-believe-louisville-police-violating-civil-rights/ |
ZURICH (AP) — The six female match officials who worked at the men’s World Cup in Qatar including history maker Stéphanie Frappart were also selected Monday by FIFA for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, which will have 13 men in the video review team.
French referee Frappart made World Cup history in December handling Germany’s 4-2 win over Costa Rica in the group stage.
Frappart’s assistants for that game, Karen Diaz of Mexico and Neuza Back of Brazil, also will go on to the women’s tournament being played July 20-Aug. 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
Referees Yoshimi Yamashita of Japan and Salima Mukansanga of Rwanda, plus assistant Kathryn Nesbitt of the United States — who worked one of the lines for England’s 3-0 win over Senegal in the round of 16 — are also on FIFA’s list of selected officials.
The 33 referees and 55 assistants are all women though only six women are among the 19 video match officials chosen for the 64-game tournament. The VAR review system made its Women’s World Cup debut at the 2019 tournament in France.
The United States will seek a third straight title in the first 32-team edition of the Women’s World Cup.
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PITTSBURGH, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PNC Bank, N.A. announced an increase in its prime lending rate. The new rate of 5.50% is effective tomorrow, July 28, 2022.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A woman was found shot and killed Friday morning at a hotel on the northeast side of Indianapolis, according to police.
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were called around 10:20 a.m. to the Red Roof Inn in the 8100 block of North Shadeland Avenue. This is near East 82nd Street and Interstate 69.
Officers arrived and found a woman with at least one gunshot wound who was dead, IMPD Officer Samone Burris said. A person of interest was near the scene and taken into custody.
Officers were dispatched about 20 minutes before to the hotel on the report of a person shot but didn't locate a victim, Burris said. They were later called back to the scene and this time were directed to a specific room where they found the woman who was shot.
Additional details, including the name of the person who died, haven't been released.
Burris is asking anyone who was in the area or may have heard anything to call detectives.
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Announces First Quarter 2023 Dividend Increase of 9 Percent
Fourth Quarter 2022 Highlights
- 4Q Net Sales of $3.1 billion decreased 4%; organic sales increased 5% versus year-ago period
- 4Q GAAP Income from continuing operations of $105 million; operating EBITDA of $758 million
- 4Q GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $0.20; adjusted EPS of $0.89
- Launched $3.25 billion accelerated share repurchase program and retired $2.5 billion of long-term debt due in 2023 using proceeds from the M&M Divestiture completed on November 1
Full Year 2022 Highlights
- Full year 2022 Net Sales of $13.0 billion increased 4%; organic sales increased 8% versus prior year
- Full year 2022 GAAP Income from continuing operations of $1.06 billion; operating EBITDA of $3.26 billion
- Full year GAAP EPS from continuing operations of $2.02; adjusted EPS of $3.41
- Deployed more than $7.5 billion of capital during the year through share repurchases, dividends and debt paydown
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont (NYSE: DD) today announced financial results(1) for the fourth quarter and full year of 2022.
"Our fourth quarter results underpin the quality of our portfolio and our ability to offset a continued challenging global macro environment by focusing on the levers within our control," said Ed Breen, DuPont Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "In the face of weak conditions in certain end-markets, namely electronics and construction, we delivered revenue and operating EBITDA results in line with our expectations."
"Our leading global market positions, disciplined pricing actions and focus on execution drove sales and earnings growth for the year and these factors will be critical as we navigate continued global macro challenges in 2023," Breen continued.
"The steps completed in 2022 to further transform our portfolio advance our strategy as a premier multi-industrial company and enable us to move forward with a stronger balance sheet and increased financial flexibility," Breen said. "For the year, we deployed more than $5.0 billion of capital through share repurchase programs and dividends and retired $2.5 billion in long-term debt which highlights our ongoing commitment to a balanced capital allocation approach. We also remain focused on value creation by strengthening our position within key growth pillars through continued investment and innovation."
Fourth Quarter 2022 Results(1)
Net sales
- Net sales decreased 4% as organic sales(2) growth of 5% was more than offset by currency headwinds of 5% and portfolio impact of 4%.
- Organic sales(2) growth of 5% consisted of a 7% increase in price partially offset by a 2% decline in volume.
- 12% organic sales(2) growth in Water & Protection; 2% organic sales(2) declines in Electronics & Industrial; 18% organic sales(2) growth in the retained businesses reported in Corporate.
- Organic sales(2) growth in all regions globally, including 9% in U.S. & Canada, 7% in EMEA and 2% in Asia Pacific.
GAAP Income/GAAP EPS from continuing operations
- GAAP income/GAAP EPS from continuing operations decreased as higher net charges related to significant items(2), primarily the termination fee associated with the Intended Rogers Transaction, more than offset lower net interest expense and a lower share count.
Operating EBITDA(2)
- Operating EBITDA(2) increased as pricing actions and disciplined cost control more than offset inflationary cost pressure, currency headwinds, portfolio impact from prior year non-core business divestitures and lower volumes.
Adjusted EPS(2)
- Adjusted EPS increased due to a lower share count, lower net interest expense and higher segment earnings which were partially offset by a higher tax rate.
Operating cash flow
- Operating cash outflow in the quarter of $126 million, capital expenditures of $185 million and adjustments totaling $213 million for a tax prepayment related to the M&M Divestiture and the Intended Rogers Transaction termination fee resulted in a free cash flow(2) use of $98 million.
- Free cash flow in the quarter includes headwinds of about $200 million for transaction costs related to the M&M Divestitures and an approximately $100 million cash outflow associated with accounts payable prepaid in advance of the M&M Divestiture which was reimbursed to the Company as part of transaction closing and reported within investing activities.
Full Year 2022 Results(1)
Net sales
- Net sales increased 4% as organic sales(2) growth of 8% was partially offset by currency headwinds of 3% and portfolio impact of 1%.
- Organic sales(2) growth of 8% consisted of a 7% increase in price and 1% increase in volume.
- 11% organic sales(2) growth in Water & Protection; 5% organic sales(2) growth in Electronics & Industrial; 15% organic sales(2) growth in retained businesses reported in Corporate.
- Organic sales(2) growth in all regions globally, including 14% in U.S. & Canada, 7% in EMEA and 4% in Asia Pacific.
GAAP Income/GAAP EPS from continuing operations
- GAAP income/GAAP EPS from continuing operations decreased as higher net charges related to significant items(2) and a higher tax rate more than offset higher segment earnings, lower net interest expense and a lower share count.
Operating EBITDA(2)
- Operating EBITDA(2) increased primarily on volume gains as pricing actions were mostly offset by inflationary cost pressure driven by higher raw material, logistics and energy costs.
Adjusted EPS(2)
- Adjusted EPS increased due to a lower share count, higher segment earnings and lower net interest expense which were partially offset by a higher tax rate.
Operating cash flow
- Operating cash flow for the year of $588 million, capital expenditures of $743 million and adjustments totaling $328 million for tax prepayments related to the M&M Divestiture and the Intended Rogers Transaction termination fee resulted in free cash flow(2) of $173 million.
- Free cash flow for the year includes headwinds of about $550 million for transaction costs related to the M&M Divestitures and an approximately $100 million cash outflow associated with accounts payable prepaid in advance of the M&M Divestiture which was reimbursed to the Company as part of transaction closing and reported within investing activities.
Quarterly Dividend
The Company today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a first quarter dividend of $0.36 per share on its outstanding common stock, representing a 9 percent increase to its quarterly dividend(4), payable March 15, 2023, to holders of record at the close of business on February 28, 2023.
Segment Highlights
Fourth Quarter 2022
Electronics & Industrial
Net sales
- Net sales decreased 8% as organic sales(2) declined 2%, along with currency headwinds of 5% and portfolio impact of 1%.
- Organic sales(2) decline of 2% driven by a 5% decrease in volume partially offset by a 3% increase in price.
Operating EBITDA
- Operating EBITDA decreased as volumes declines were partially offset by disciplined cost control.
Water & Protection
Net sales
- Net sales increased 6% as organic sales(2) growth of 12% was partially offset by a 6% currency headwind.
- Organic sales(2) growth of 12% reflects broad-based pricing actions taken across the segment to offset cost inflation.
Operating EBITDA
- Operating EBITDA increased as pricing actions and disciplined cost control more than offset inflationary cost pressure driven by higher raw material, logistics and energy costs, as well as currency headwinds.
Full Year 2022
Electronics & Industrial
Net sales
- Net sales increased 7% as organic sales(2) growth of 5% and a portfolio benefit of 5% were partially offset by currency headwinds of 3%.
- Organic sales(2) growth of 5% driven by a 3% increase in volume and a 2% increase in price.
Operating EBITDA
- Increase in operating EBITDA driven by volume gains, a full year of earnings associated with the July 2021 acquisition of Laird Performance Materials and higher pricing which were partially offset by inflationary cost pressure driven by higher raw material, logistics and energy costs, as well as weaker mix in Interconnect Solutions.
Water & Protection
Net sales
- Net sales increased 7% as organic sales(2) growth of 11% was partially offset by a 4% currency headwind.
- Organic sales(2) growth of 11% consists of 12% pricing reflecting broad-based actions taken across the segment to offset cost inflation, slightly offset by a 1% decline in volume.
Operating EBITDA
- Operating EBITDA increased as higher pricing and disciplined cost control more than offset inflationary cost pressure driven by higher raw material, logistics and energy costs, as well as currency headwinds.
Outlook
"Our teams successfully navigated a challenging 2022 despite significant inflation, global supply chain constraints, geopolitical tensions, dynamic global currencies and an ongoing global pandemic," said Lori Koch, Chief Financial Officer of DuPont. "In 2023, we expect continued strength in areas such as water and auto adhesives, along with stable demand across industrial end-markets including aerospace and healthcare products. We anticipate lower volumes during the first half of 2023 in consumer electronics and semiconductors resulting from decreased consumer spending, inventory destocking and COVID-related impacts in China, primarily in E&I. We also expect ongoing softness in construction end-markets in W&P during 2023."
"For the first quarter of 2023, we anticipate continued weakness in these consumer-driven, short-cycle end-markets resulting in organic sales declines in the mid single-digits versus the year-ago period," Koch continued. "As 2023 progresses, we assume stabilization of consumer electronics demand, normalization of customer inventory levels and improved China demand to drive sequential quarterly improvement in operating results, most notably in the second half of the year."
"Within the Interconnect Solutions business, we anticipate that channel destocking and customer production rates will begin to improve during the second quarter," Koch said. "Semiconductor fab utilization rates are also anticipated to bottom during the first half and improve around mid-year. This, coupled with demand rebound from China broadly across our product lines, underpin our view for the full year."
Conference Call
The Company will host a live webcast of its fourth quarter earnings conference call with investors to discuss its results and business outlook beginning today at 8:00 a.m. ET. The slide presentation that accompanies the conference call will be posted on the DuPont's Investor Relations Events and Presentations page. A replay of the webcast also will be available on the DuPont's Investor Relations Events and Presentations page following the live event.
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™ and all products, unless otherwise noted, denoted with TM, SM or ® are trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of affiliates of DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Overview
On February 18, 2022, DuPont announced that it has entered into definitive agreements to divest a majority of its historic Mobility & Materials segment, excluding certain Advanced Solutions and Performance Resins businesses, to Celanese Corporation ("Celanese"), (the "M&M Divestiture"). On November 1, 2022, DuPont completed the previously announced M&M Divestiture. The Company also announced on February 18, 2022, that its Board of Directors has approved the divestiture of the Delrin® acetal homopolymer (H-POM) business. In addition to the entry into definitive agreements, the Company anticipates that the closing of the sale of Delrin® would be subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, (the "Delrin® Divestiture" and together with the M&M Divestiture, the "M&M Divestitures").
The M&M Divestitures represent a strategic shift with a related major impact on DuPont's Operations. As of March 31, 2022, the results of operations, including the gain on sale of the M&M Divestiture, of the M&M Divestitures are presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented. The assets and liabilities of DuPont as of December 31, 2022 presents the Delrin® Divestiture as discontinued operations, and the December 31, 2021 comparable period presents the M&M Divestitures as discontinued operations. The cash flows of these businesses have not been segregated and are included in the interim Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. Unless otherwise indicated, the discussion of results, including the financial measures further discussed below, refer only to DuPont's Continuing Operations and do not include discussion of balances or activity of the M&M Divestitures. The Auto Adhesives & Fluids, MultibaseTM and Tedlar® product lines previously within the historic Mobility & Materials segment (the "Retained Businesses") are not included in the scope of the M&M Divestitures. The Retained Businesses are reported in Corporate & Other. The reporting changes have been retrospectively applied for all periods presented.
Cautionary Statement about Forward-looking Statements
This communication contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. In this context, forward-looking statements often address expected future business and financial performance and financial condition, and often contain words such as "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "believe," "seek," "see," "will," "would," "target," and similar expressions and variations or negatives of these words.
Forward-looking statements address matters that are, to varying degrees, uncertain and subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, many of which that are beyond DuPont's control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results. Some of the important factors that could cause DuPont's actual results to differ materially from those projected in any such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: (i) the possibility that the Company may fail to realize the anticipated benefits of the $5 billion share repurchase program announced on November 8, 2022 and that the program may be suspended, discontinued or not completed prior to its termination on June 30, 2024; (ii) ability to achieve anticipated tax treatments in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other portfolio changes actions and impact of changes in relevant tax and other laws; (iii) indemnification of certain legacy liabilities; (iv) risks and costs related to each of the parties respective performance under and the impact of the arrangement to share future eligible PFAS costs by and between DuPont, Corteva and Chemours; (v) failure to timely close on anticipated terms (or at all), realize expected benefits and effectively manage and achieve anticipated synergies and operational efficiencies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other portfolio changes; (vi) risks and uncertainties, including increased costs and the ability to obtain raw materials, related to operational and supply chain impacts or disruptions, which may result from, among other events, pandemics and responsive actions, including COVID-19 related disruptions in China, decline in consumer facing markets, and geo-political and weather related events; (vii) ability to offset increases in cost of inputs, including raw materials, energy and logistics; (viii) risks from continuing or expanding trade disputes or restrictions, including on exports to China of U.S. regulated products and technology impacting the semiconductor business; (ix) risks, including ability to achieve, and costs associated with DuPont's sustainability strategy including the actual conduct of the company's activities and results thereof, and the development, implementation, achievement or continuation of any goal, program, policy or initiative discussed or expected; and (x) other risks to DuPont's business, operations; each as further discussed in DuPont's most recent annual report and subsequent current and periodic reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Consequences of material differences in results as compared with those anticipated in the forward-looking statements could include, among other things, business or supply chain disruption, operational problems, financial loss, legal liability to third parties and similar risks, any of which could have a material adverse effect on DuPont's consolidated financial condition, results of operations, credit rating or liquidity. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. DuPont assumes no obligation to publicly provide revisions or updates to any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This earnings release includes information that does not conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("U.S. GAAP") and are considered non-GAAP measures. Management uses these measures internally for planning, forecasting and evaluating the performance of the Company, including allocating resources. DuPont's management believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors because they provide additional information related to the ongoing performance of DuPont to offer a more meaningful comparison related to future results of operations. These non-GAAP financial measures supplement disclosures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, and should not be viewed as an alternative to U.S. GAAP. Furthermore, such non-GAAP measures may not be consistent with similar measures provided or used by other companies. Reconciliations for these non-GAAP measures to U.S. GAAP are provided in the Selected Financial Information and Non-GAAP Measures starting on page 14 and in the Reconciliation to Non-GAAP Measures on the Investors section of the Company's website. Non-GAAP measures included in this release are defined below. The Company has not provided forward-looking U.S. GAAP financial measures or a reconciliation of forward-looking non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable U.S. GAAP financial measures on a forward-looking basis because the Company is unable to predict with reasonable certainty the ultimate outcome of certain future events. These events include, among others, the impact of portfolio changes, including asset sales, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures; contingent liabilities related to litigation, environmental and indemnifications matters; impairments and discrete tax items. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors, and could have a material impact on U.S. GAAP results for the guidance period.
The historic Mobility & Material segment costs that are classified as discontinued operations include only direct operating expenses incurred prior to the November 1, 2022 M&M Divestiture and costs which the Company will no longer incur upon the close of the Delrin® Divestiture. Indirect costs, such as those related to corporate and shared service functions previously allocated to the M&M Businesses, do not meet the criteria for discontinued operations and remain reported within continuing operations. A portion of these indirect costs include costs related to activities the Company will continue to undertake post-closing of the M&M Divestiture, and for which it will be reimbursed ("Future Reimbursable Indirect Costs"). Future Reimbursable Indirect Costs are reported within continuing operations but are excluded from operating EBITDA as defined below. The remaining portion of these indirect costs is not subject to future reimbursement ("Stranded Costs"). Stranded Costs are reported within continuing operations in Corporate & Other and are included within Operating EBITDA.
Adjusted earnings per common share from continuing operations - diluted ("Adjusted EPS"), is defined as earnings per common share from continuing operations - diluted, excluding the after-tax impact of significant items, after-tax impact of amortization expense of intangibles, the after-tax impact of non-operating pension / other post employment benefits ("OPEB") credits / costs and Future Reimbursable Indirect Costs. Management estimates amortization expense in 2023 associated with intangibles to be approximately $590 million on a pre-tax basis, or approximately $1.00 per share.
The Company's measure of profit/loss for segment reporting purposes is Operating EBITDA as this is the manner in which the Company's chief operating decision maker ("CODM") assesses performance and allocates resources. The Company defines Operating EBITDA as earnings (i.e., "Income from continuing operations before income taxes") before interest, depreciation, amortization, non-operating pension / OPEB benefits / charges, and foreign exchange gains / losses, excluding Future Reimbursable Indirect Costs, and adjusted for significant items. Reconciliations of these measures are provided on the following pages.
Operating EBITDA Margin is defined as Operating EBITDA divided by Net Sales.
Significant items are items that arise outside the ordinary course of the Company's business that management believes may cause misinterpretation of underlying business performance, both historical and future, based on a combination of some or all of the item's size, unusual nature and infrequent occurrence. Management classifies as significant items certain costs and expenses associated with integration and separation activities related to transformational acquisitions and divestitures as they are considered unrelated to ongoing business performance.
Organic Sales is defined as net sales excluding the impacts of currency and portfolio.
Free cash flow is defined as cash provided by/used for operating activities less capital expenditures and excluding the impact of cash inflows/outflows that are unusual in nature and/or infrequent in occurrence. As a result, free cash flow represents cash that is available to the Company, after investing in its asset base, to fund obligations using the Company's primary source of liquidity, cash provided by operating activities. Management believes free cash flow, even though it may be defined differently from other companies, is useful to investors, analysts and others to evaluate the Company's cash flow and financial performance, and it is an integral measure used in the Company's financial planning process. Free cash flow conversion is defined as free cash flow divided by net income adjusted to exclude the after-tax impact of non-cash impairment charges, gains or losses on divestitures, amortization expense of intangibles and tax benefit/expense from discontinued operations.
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SHANGRAO, China, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd. ("JinkoSolar" or the "Company") (NYSE: JKS), one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world, today announced that Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. ("Jiangxi Jinko"), its majority-owned principal operating subsidiary, intends to issue convertible bonds (the "Convertible Bonds") in the principal amount of up to RMB10 billion (the "Convertible Bond Issuance"). The Convertible Bonds, which will be listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Sci-Tech Innovation Board, have a term of six years and are convertible into Jiangxi Jinko's ordinary shares. The net proceeds from the Convertible Bond Issuance will be used for (i) construction and development of certain solar cell and module production projects by Jiangxi Jinko, and (ii) working capital for Jiangxi Jinko.
The completion of the proposed Convertible Bond Issuance is subject to the review process by the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the registration process by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
The Company currently owns approximately 58.62% equity interest in Jiangxi Jinko and has special preemptive rights to subscribe for a portion of the Convertible Bonds.
About JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS) is one of the largest and most innovative solar module manufacturers in the world. JinkoSolar distributes its solar products and sells its solutions and services to a diversified international utility, commercial and residential customer base in China, the United States, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, Chile, South Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Greece and other countries and regions. JinkoSolar has built a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 40.0 GW for mono wafers, 40.0 GW for solar cells, and 50.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2022.
JinkoSolar has 12 productions facilities globally, 21 overseas subsidiaries in Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, India, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, UAE, and Denmark, and global sales teams in mainland China, the United States, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Turkey, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Hong Kong, as of March 31, 2022.
To find out more, please see: www.jinkosolar.com
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This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements constitute "forward-looking" statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and as defined in the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Among other things, the quotations from management in this press release and the Company's operations and business outlook, contain forward-looking statements. Such statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in JinkoSolar's filings with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 20-F. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
For investor and media inquiries, please contact:
In China:
Ms. Stella Wang
JinkoSolar Holding Co., Ltd.
Tel: +86 21-5180-8777 ext.7806
Email: ir@jinkosolar.com
Mr. Rene Vanguestaine
Christensen
Tel: +86 178 1749 0483
Email: rvanguestaine@ChristensenIR.com
In the U.S.:
Ms. Linda Bergkamp
Christensen, Scottsdale, Arizona
Tel: +1-480-614-3004
Email: lbergkamp@ChristensenIR.com
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We've seen some high-profile bank failures this year. All of them, including First Republic, borrowed money from Federal Home Loan Banks before their demise. Darian Woods and Wailin Wong from our daily economics podcast, The Indicator, explain how this 90-year-old piece of financial architecture works and why it might need an update.
DARIAN WOODS, BYLINE: If you're not working in the banking or housing industries, you might not ever have heard of the Federal Home Loan Bank System.
WAILIN WONG, BYLINE: They provide funding to other banks in the form of loans. That money goes towards helping banks that might be struggling with declining deposits or liquidity issues.
WOODS: And the Federal Home Loan Bank System has been playing this role since 1932.
WONG: At first, membership in the system was limited to financial institutions that provided mortgages. But in 1989, the system was opened up to commercial banks and credit unions. Aaron Klein is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.
AARON KLEIN: The home loan bank system has one of the great business models of society.
WONG: So here's what the Federal Home Loan Banks do. They raise money by selling bonds, then they lend money to their members, often at lower rates than what their member banks can get elsewhere.
WOODS: Now, a bank that wants one of these loans has to provide collateral, and a common form of collateral is a mortgage.
WONG: Let's say a bank that's taken out one of these loans gets into trouble and fails.
KLEIN: The home loan bank gets to go in first through a legal mechanism called a super lien and be made whole.
WOODS: Federal Home Loan Banks get to jump at the front of the queue to get paid back.
WONG: But Aaron says this super lien has created a bit of a problem. It's made the Federal Home Loan Banks more willing to lend money to banks that could be considered risky borrowers.
WOODS: And this dynamic became important in the 2008 financial crisis, with financial institutions like Washington Mutual and Countrywide Financial.
KLEIN: They had these kind of crummy subprime mortgages on their books, and the market started to get a little skeptical of them in 2007. Hey, wait, the Home Loan Banks will take them.
WONG: In other words, the Federal Home Loan Banks will accept these crummy subprime mortgages as collateral because even if the financial institutions fail, the super lien means that the Federal Home Loan Banks will still get paid before everyone else. Ryan Donovan, the head of the trade association for Federal Home Loan Banks, he's described the banks as shock absorbers in times of crisis.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
RYAN DONOVAN: ...That they're providing critical access to liquidity for community banks, credit unions.
WONG: He was speaking at an event last year to discuss the future of the system.
(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)
DONOVAN: They were the unsung heroes of the global financial crisis.
WOODS: But Aaron Klein at Brookings thinks that the Federal Home Loan Banks actually made the subprime crisis worse by lending so much money to financial institutions that were already doomed.
WONG: Fast forward to this year's turbulence in the financial system, and some of the same red flags have reappeared. Silicon Valley Bank, which failed in March, had $15 billion in outstanding loans from the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco at the end of 2022.
WOODS: The other major banks that have collapsed this year also borrowed billions of dollars from the Federal Home Loan Bank.
WONG: Aaron believes the Federal Home Loan Banks do a lot of good but need reform. And he's not alone in scrutinizing the system. The government agency that regulates these banks recently wrapped up a monthslong listening tour as part of a comprehensive review of the entire system.
WOODS: Darian Woods.
WONG: Wailin Wong, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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The Amber Heard and Johnny Depp legal saga has just taken another wild and twisted turn. The Aquaman actress' legal team filed new legal docs Friday in Fairfax County, Virginia, court claiming the wrong person served on the jury that awarded the Pirates of the Caribbean star a sweeping victory in his defamation case against his ex-wife.
According to the legal documents, obtained by ET, Heard's team claims that the legal snafu occurred when an unidentified 77-year-old living at an address in Virginia was summoned to jury duty. Problem is, Heard's team claims, an unidentified 52-year-old living at that exact same address with the exact same last name instead showed up for jury duty, and somehow managed to get picked for the six-week trial and serve as a juror.
As a result, Heard's team argues, the judge should declare a mistrial and order a new trial. ET has reached out to Depp's legal team for comment.
"Based on newly discovered facts and information that Juror No. 15 was not the individual summoned for jury duty on April 11, 2022, and therefore was not part of the jury panel and could not have properly served on the jury at this trial," the documents read. "Therefore, a mistrial should be declared and a new trial ordered."
The documents also stated, "In this case, the Jury Panel List included an individual named [redacted] with a listed Date of Birth of [redacted], 1945 residing in [redacted], Virginia. This means the individual would have been 77 years old at the time of trial.”
Heard's team claims that "the 52-year-old sitting on the jury for six weeks was never summoned for jury duty on April 11 and did not appear in the list as required."
“The attached voter registration information lists two individuals with the last name residing in Virginia, ‘DOB XX/XX/1945 (77)’ -- the same person listed on the Jury Panel List, and a 'DOB XX/XX/1970 (52)' Both of these individuals apparently live at the same address. The individual who appeared for jury duty with this name was obviously the younger one."
Heard's legal team noted that the court has safeguard measures to ensure that the person called for jury duty is the person arriving for jury duty, and they point to the Fairfax County’s Juror Questionnaire webpage, which requires all residents to login using the 7-digit Juror number, zip code and birth date.
"Those safeguards are in place and relied upon by the parties to verify the identity of the correct juror, to ensure due process and a fair trial for all litigants," the documents state. "When these safeguards are circumvented or not followed, as appears to be the case here, the right to a jury trial and due process are undermined and compromised."
Furthermore, Heard's team argues that the actress "has a right to rely on the basic protection, as prescribed by the Virginia Code, that the jurors in this trial would be individuals who were actually summoned for jury duty. In this case, it appears that Juror No. 15 was not, in fact, the same individual on the jury panel. Ms. Heard’s due process was therefore compromised."
The new legal filing comes after Heard's attorney asked the judge to toss out the $10.35 million verdict against her, after claiming in court docs that the evidence presented in the case didn't support the verdict. She had also raised concerns that one of the jurors had not been properly vetted, but Friday's filing offered the specifics.
Back in June, Judge Penney Azcarate made the verdict official when she entered it into the docket. That hearing officially sealed the June 1 verdict the jury reached, which awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The punitive damages, however, were reduced to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.
Heard, who still faces legal trouble in Australia stemming from a separate case, was awarded $2 million by the jury in compensatory damages for her counterclaim but nothing in punitive damages. The jury found Depp liable after his attorney referred to Heard's claims as a "hoax."
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Newark Public Schools began the fourth academic year of the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday with hundreds of new hires to address a teacher shortage and a lingering mask mandate even after the governor made masks optional for districts in March.
The schools were following the lead of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, who maintained some of the state’s strictest masking policies for non-district spaces, in not relaxing the requirement for the state’s largest district, which includes 65 traditional public schools with more than 35,000 students, plus 6,000 teachers, administrators, counselors, maintenance workers and other staff. | 2022-09-07T00:19:38+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2022/09/first-day-of-school-in-njs-largest-district-includes-new-teachers-and-a-lingering-mask-mandate.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not always emphasized, given that she’s one of the most groundbreaking still photographers of the past 50 years. But Nan Goldin is a movie buff. Big time.
Seeing Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” as a 15-year-old is what made Goldin want to be a photographer in the first place. She thinks of “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” — her signature collection of some 700 unfiltered images of Goldin’s life, friends and lovers in early ’80s downtown New York — as a film that she continues to edit and reedit. She’s long harbored dreams of making a movie, and still does.
“It’s still my obsession,” says Goldin, sitting in the booth in a Fort Greene, Brooklyn, restaurant on a recent rainy afternoon. “I watch a movie a day, normally. I watch what’s on TCM.”
So it’s perhaps not surprising that Goldin, whose life and activism are vividly profiled in Laura Poitras’ Oscar-nominated documentary “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is excited, even thrilled, about going to the Academy Awards. She blames it on Barbara Stanwyck and Judy Holliday and Marlene Dietrich.
“I do really want an Oscar,” says Goldin, smiling. “I didn’t expect to but I do.”
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” currently in theaters and on video-on-demand, is quite different from a traditional biopic. It juggles the story of Goldin’s life as a New York photographer of raw and radical intimacy and her demonstrations with the group Prescription Addiction Intervention Now as they pressed the world’s elite museums to eradicate the Sackler name from their halls. The Sackler family owns OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.
The film is a rich, provocative fusion of art and activism. Poitras, who won best documentary for the 2014 Edward Snowden film “Citizenfour,” juxtaposes exchanges with Goldin surveying her life and work with footage of Goldin leading dramatic protests at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and elsewhere.
Poitras, who joined Goldin for the interview, wanted the film to have historical sweep, from the sexual repression of the 1950s, Goldin’s portraits of queer life in the ’70s and ’80s, the AIDS crisis and Goldin’s present-day transformation into activist. PAIN’s demonstrations resulted in the Sackler name being wiped from most museums, including the Louvre and the Tate Modern.
“It speaks to both the power of the artist in society and the power of the artist to communicate the moral outrage of the failure of the government,” says Poitras. “I wanted it to be epic.”
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” won the prestigious Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and will now bring Goldin, one of the foremost image-makers of many of the things Hollywood tends to shy away from — complex sexuality, LGBTQ lives, unfiltered reality — into the industry’s glitzy epicenter on March 12.
“I don’t think there as too many movies that are as raw as my work. But I don’t think it’s against my integrity to love Hollywood,” says Goldin. “I don’t think documentary is given enough credit, though. It’s not sexy.”
“I was around when there were no queer people that had films made. So they’re trying,” she adds. “But they’re rich people and I never trust rich people.”
Watching the documentary, Goldin says, is “a painful experience.” She’s a producer and believes in it, but seeing her life condensed into two hours is hard for her to watch. Still, Goldin, 69, is enjoying much of the journey and finds it gratifying to see younger generations responding to her work.
“I like doing the Q&As,” Goldin says. “I like waking people up.”
The opioid crisis has been linked to more than 500,000 deaths in the U.S. since 1999. Goldin was nearly one of them. While living in Berlin in 2014, Goldin overdosed on fentanyl. After wrist surgery, she became addicted to OxyContin for several years. But she doesn’t see her activism in personal terms.
“It had nothing to do with my addiction to OxyContin, or very little to do with it. It was about the overdose crisis,” she says. “The group was never anti-opioid. It wasn’t against the drug. It was about the use and marketing and addicting of America.”
Purdue Pharma and three executives pleaded guilty in 2007 and agreed to pay more than $600 million for misleading the public about the risks of OxyContin. Both Goldin and Poitras have lobbied the Justice Department to file individual criminal charges against the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma executives. In 2020, Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to the marketing of OxyContin. Lawsuits have continued.
Five years after Goldin led protesters in throwing prescription bottles into the moat in the Met’s Temple of Dendur, the museum hosted a screening of “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.” Poitras jokes the White House never invited her to screen “Citzenfour.”
“I’m proud of these museums. But there are still problems,” says Goldin. “The rest of the board, we’ve just scratched the surface. Their money isn’t exactly ethical, either. So that’s the problem. Where are the ethical billionaires?”
But the experience has left Goldin feeling emboldened as to what kind of change is possible — if people are willing to put up a fight. The night before, Goldin attended an event with Bernie Sanders and Cornel West.
“It was pretty much entitled Brooklyn kids,” she says of the crowd. “They applaud wildly but I don’t know what they’re actually doing. Everyone has to get on the street because nothing’s going to change otherwise.”
Documenting history — whether personal experience or political reality — is something Poitras and Goldin have in common, albeit typically from very different points of view. Poitras has intrepidly chronicled government surveillance and the whistleblowers who bring state secrets to light.
“Images can have this way of reminding us of our history, what people suffered, what they went through,” Poitras says.
Back in Goldin’s studio, photographs of her old friends, many of them now dead, hang.
“They’re all there,” she says. “I keep them alive every day.”
In the days prior, Goldin and Poitras had been at the film academy’s annual nominees luncheon and at the BAFTAs, in London. Goldin has made some new pals on the awards circuit.
“I’ve gotten to be a little bit of friends with Paul Mescal. I hung out with him in London. We went to see Caravaggios together,” says Goldin, smiling.
After a long hiatus, Goldin is starting to pick up her camera again. But what her eye is drawn to isn’t the same.
“I just started again. But I don’t photograph people. I photograph places,” Goldin says. “I just fell out of the habit. I usually do what I have to do, urgently. And I urgently had to photograph people all those years. I don’t have that urgency anymore.”
But one ambition has been rekindled: She’d like to make a feature film, and even has a book adaptation in mind “about the mundanity of violence, how non-descript violence is.”
“Until I became 65, I was immortal. Now I’m mortal,” Goldin says. “So I don’t have that much time. That’s what happens when you reach a certain age. The glare of mortality is bright. So I don’t want to waste it now.” ___
Follow AP Film Writer Jake Coyle on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/jakecoyleAP
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For more coverage of this year’s Academy Awards, visit: https://apnews.com/hub/academy-awards | 2023-03-04T15:21:06+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/nan-goldin-is-going-to-the-oscars-and-she-wants-to-win/ |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, giving the Republican a major conservative policy victory as he prepares to launch an expected presidential candidacy.
DeSantis signed the measure late Thursday night in a private ceremony without fanfare, hours after the Republican-dominated statehouse approved the bill.
The law will take effect only if the state’s current 15-week ban is upheld in an ongoing legal challenge that is before the state Supreme Court, which is controlled by conservatives.
For DeSantis, the late night, closed door bill signing was a departure from his usual bombastic style and signals the difficult political line he is walking on abortion politics ahead of his anticipated White House run. Restrictions, popular among some conservative GOP primary voters, are seen as potentially damaging among the broader electorate and have led to bruising losses at the ballot box for Republicans in recent months.
“We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida. I applaud the Legislature for passing the Heartbeat Protection Act that expands pro-life protections and provides additional resources for young mothers and families,” DeSantis said in a statement.
A six-week ban would diminish the Florida’s status as destination for the procedure in a region that has severely tightened access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi have banned abortion at all stages of pregnancy, while Georgia forbids the procedure after cardiac activity can be detected, which is around six weeks.
“This ban would prevent four million Florida women of reproductive age from accessing abortion care after six weeks — before many women even know they’re pregnant,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement issued after the bill passed the Legislature. “This ban would also impact the nearly 15 million women of reproductive age who live in abortion-banning states throughout the South, many of whom have previously relied on travel to Florida as an option to access care.”
The law contains some exceptions, including to save the woman’s life. Abortions for pregnancies involving rape or incest would be allowed until 15 weeks of pregnancy, provided a woman has documentation such as a restraining order or police report. DeSantis has called the rape and incest provisions sensible.
Drugs used in medication-induced abortions — which make up the majority of those provided nationally — could be dispensed only in person or by a physician under the Florida law. Separately, nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone is being challenged in court.
DeSantis, who has rocketed to Republican stardom through his focus on divisive cultural issues, had been uncharacteristically tepid in his support for the six-week ban, typically only saying, “We welcome pro-life legislation,” when asked about the measure. Last year, DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban in a large public ceremony at an evangelical church.
The governor is expected to announce his presidential candidacy after the session ends in May, with his potential White House run in part buoyed by the conservative policies approved by the Republican supermajority in the statehouse this year.
“DeSantis signed the extremist 6-week abortion ban into law just before 12 am, hoping Floridians won’t notice he stripped away a right most people agree with,” House Democratic Minority Leader Fentrice Driskell said on Twitter. “If we don’t want FL’s present to become America’s future, we must stop him in ’24.”
Abortion bans are popular among some religious conservatives who are part of the GOP voting base, but the issue has motivated many others to vote for Democrats. Republicans have recently lost in elections centered on abortion access in states such as Kentucky, Michigan and Wisconsin.
“Ron DeSantis, continues to put his political ambitions over the rights and well being of Floridians. He’s not looking out for their best interests — he’s thinking only of himself and his future presidential campaign. Make no mistake: this dangerous decision will backfire and harm the very people he is supposed to protect,” Jenny Lawson, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Votes, said in a statement. | 2023-04-15T13:09:05+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/politics/ap-politics/desantis-signs-6-week-abortion-ban-in-closed-door-ceremony/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Want to live in the iconic house that was featured in the “Full House” credits? You’ll need a decent chunk of change.
The house, located at 1709 Broderick Street in San Francisco, was listed on Zillow for $37 million. It last sold on October 2, 2020 for $5.4 million, according to its Zillow page. The Zillow estimate for the house’s market value is $6,519,900.
The residence is listed at 3,728 square feet and contains five bedrooms and four bathrooms. It was built in 1783 and has a parking garage attached.
It was previously owned by “Full House” executive producer and creator Jeff Franklin, who sold it in 2020. Franklin intended for the house to look like it did on television, but neighbors opposed renovations due to a possible influx in tourists. | 2022-05-18T00:45:25+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/full-house-house-on-sale-at-37-million/ |
Gas prices down due to low demand, AAA says
(CNN) - While the price of groceries and other goods skyrocket, gas is declining.
The fears of a global economic recession have led to a drop in the price of crude oil. It is down $7.
According to the Energy Information Administration, gas demand decreased nationally last month as well.
The national average for gas dropped by three cents over the last week. It is down to $3.88, according to AAA.
It is still 20 cents higher than a month ago and 56 cents more than a year ago.
You can see the biggest decreases in California, where it is down a whopping 28 cents, along with Wisconsin, Oregon and Nevada.
Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Arkansas have the least expensive gas in the country.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 50 points and 13 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks trounced New Orleans 135-110 on Sunday, handing the Pelicans their eighth straight loss.
Anteotkounmpo’s 50 points were five off the career high he set Jan. 4 in a 123-113 victory over the Washington Wizards. He shot 20 of 26 from the floor, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, and went 7 of 12 on free-throw attempts.
The Bucks never trailed and won their fourth straight as they opened a four-game homestand. They also reached the 130-point mark for the fifth time in their last seven games.
Antetokounmpo collected 29 points and 10 rebounds in the first half alone, helping the Bucks build a big lead early. This was Antetokounmpo’s 10th game this season with at least 40 points, tying the career high for 40-point games that he set last season.
New Orleans was missing its top three scorers: Zion Williamson, Brandon Ingram (toe injury on left foot) and CJ McCollum (sprained right thumb). Jose Alvarado stepped up to lead the Pelicans with 18 points, while Trey Murphy III and Jonas Valanciunas had 16 each. Jrue Holiday scored 17 and Brook Lopez added 15 for the Bucks, who shot 55.2%.
Antetokounmpo’s sizzling start put the Pelicans in an early hole. The two-time MVP already had 16 points midway through the first quarter. He went 8 of 9 for 18 points in that opening period, nearly matching New Orleans’ scoring total while helping the Bucks build a 37-19 advantage.
TIP-INS
Pelicans: Kira Lewis Jr. played for the first time since Jan. 18 and scored 15 points. …. Larry Nance Jr. had a season-high 12 rebounds … The Pelicans were outrebounded 57-38. They had a minus-11 rebound margin Saturday against the Wizards.
Bucks: Antetokounmpo played his 695th career regular-season game to tie Sidney Moncrief for second place on the Bucks’ all-time list. The franchise record is owned by Junior Bridgeman, who played 711 regular-season games in two stints with the Bucks from 1975-84 and 1986-87. … Middleton came off the bench for a fourth straight game as the Bucks continue to monitor the three-time All-Star’s workload in his return from right knee soreness. Middleton has played just 11 games this year, missing time first to recover from offseason wrist surgery and later to deal with his knee issue.
UP NEXT
Pelicans: At Denver on Tuesday in the second game of a three-game road swing. The Pelicans have split two home matchups with the Nuggets this season.
Bucks: Host Charlotte on Tuesday. The Bucks won at Charlotte, and a month later lost to them at home.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois’ attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday, saying investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950 — far more than the 103 individuals the church had named when the state review began in 2018.
At a news conference announcing his office’s findings, Attorney General Kwame Raoul credited accusers for making the review possible. He said state investigators found that 1,997 children across the state were abused by clergy between 1950 and 2019.
“It is my hope that this report will shine light both on those who violated their positions of power and trust to abuse innocent children, and on the men in church leadership who covered up that abuse,” Raoul said. “These perpetrators may never be held accountable in a court of law, but by naming them here, the intention is to provide a public accountability and a measure of healing to survivors who have long suffered in silence.”
According to a preliminary investigation conducted by Raoul’s predecessor, the state’s dioceses deemed only 26% of the allegations they received to be “credible,” while either not investigating or deeming remaining 74% to be unsubstantiated.
In a statement released Tuesday, The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests called the report “stunning” but emphasized that the numbers of victims and abusers cited by state investigators are likely undercounted.
“There is no questioning the facts of the report — until 2018 when the investigation began, hierarchs in every Illinois diocese kept known abusers under wraps, declined to include them on their accused lists, and refused to acknowledge the truth that survivors of abuse who came forward to make a report shared with them,” the statement said. It is to us, in a word, disgusting that these supposed shepherds would lie so blatantly.”
The preliminary report conducted under Raoul’s predecessor, Lisa Madigan, found that the church’s six dioceses had done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations, and in some cases didn’t investigate them at all or notify the state’s child welfare agency. The abuse claims dated back decades and were made against some priests who had since died, but the preliminary report didn’t include certain key details such as when allegations were made.
The Madigan report didn’t accuse the dioceses of withholding the names of clergy who the church deemed had been “credibly” accused or against whom abuse claims had been “substantiated” — the church’s own investigation standards. However, it did point out that the overall list of accused clergy was far longer than the church had made public.
Madigan’s office said the problems went beyond a lack of effort by the church, and that in some cases, the church sought to work against the accusers.
Illinois church leaders expressed regret at the time about the abuse, but they pointed to steps they had taken to address what has become an international crisis for the church.
Madigan said in 2018 that notifying authorities is critical and pointed to instances in which dioceses used personal information about people to discredit them and their accusations.
“The preliminary stages of this investigation have already demonstrated that the Catholic Church cannot police itself,” she said.
Similar government-led investigations detailing reports of clergy sexual abuse and church leaders’ failure to hold perpetrators accountable have rocked archdioceses in other states, including Pennsylvania and Maryland.
In its statement Tuesday, SNAP also called on other attorneys general and prosecutors to initiate similar investigations of Catholic dioceses under their authority.
“For many survivors, secular investigations like this will open an area for new conversations, healing among fellow victims, and assisting communities to comprehend the horrors of their past and the risk of their present,” the group said. “When the legal system fails to provide victims with justice, statewide investigations can assist citizens and survivors in communicating essential facts about the global scourge of child sexual abuse.”
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Find more AP coverage of the church sexual abuse scandal: https://apnews.com/hub/sexual-abuse-by-clergy | 2023-05-23T16:47:14+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/ap-illinois-ag-probe-catholic-clergy-sexual-abuse-of-kids-was-far-more-common-than-church-acknowledged/ |
NPR's A Martinez talks to gun violence expert Allison Anderman about three shootings tied to mistakes: going to the wrong door, driveway and car. Are these as unusual events, and how is this tracked?
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NPR's A Martinez talks to gun violence expert Allison Anderman about three shootings tied to mistakes: going to the wrong door, driveway and car. Are these as unusual events, and how is this tracked?
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Re: WEBER, KEITH & DEBORAH
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Pursuant to the Revised Code of Washington 61.24, et seq.108 1st Ave South, Suite 450 Seattle, WA 98104 Trustee Sale No.: WA-22-944371-RM Title Order No.: 2226960 Reference Number of Deed of Trust: Instrument No. 201210310917 Parcel Number(s): 0318245022 Grantor(s) for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015: KEITH E. WEBER AND DEBORAH K. WEBER, HUSBAND AND WIFE Current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust and Grantee (for Recording Purposes under RCW 65.04.015): FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION Current Trustee of the Deed of Trust: Quality Loan Service Corporation of Washington Current Loan Mortgage Servicer of the Deed of Trust: Freedom Mortgage Corporation I.NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, the undersigned Trustee, will on 3/17/2023, at 9:00 AM At the Pierce County Superior Courthouse, 930 Tacoma Avenue South, Tacoma WA 98402, at the 2nd Floor Entry Plaza outside the county courthouse sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable in the form of credit bid or cash bid in the form of cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of PIERCE, State of Washington, to-wit: Parcel A: Lot 3, Pierce County Short Plat recorded October 28, 1983 under Recording No. 8310280353, being a re-record of Short Plat No. 8211020163, recorded November 2, 1982, Records of Pierce County, Auditor. Parcel B: A non-exclusive easement for ingress, egress over, under and across a strip of land 60 feet in width, the center line of which is described as follows: Beginning at the monument marking the North Quarter corner of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 East of the W.M.; thence South 00°23’00” East along the West line of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of said Section, a distance of 1335.36 feet to the South line of said Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter. Except the North 30 feet for 240th Street East. Parcel C: A non-exclusive easement for ingress, egress over, under and across a strip of land 60 feet in width, the center line in which is described as follows: Commencing at the monument marking the North quarter corner of Section 24, Township 18 North, Range 3 East of the W.M., thence South 00°23’00” East along the West line of the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of said Section, a distance of 682.68 feet to the true point of beginning; thence North 88°54’52” East 1357.20 feet to the East line of said subdivision and the terminus of said center line description. Except the West 30 feet thereof. Also except that portion lying within Parcel A. All Situate in the County of Pierce, State of Washington. More commonly known as: 4813 242ND STREET EAST, GRAHAM, WA 98338 Subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 10/16/2012, recorded 10/31/2012, under Instrument No. 201210310917 records of PIERCE County, Washington, from KEITH E. WEBER AND DEBORAH K. WEBER, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as grantor(s), to JOHN HEINEMANN, as original trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR FIRST MORTGAGE CORPORATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, as original beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was subsequently assigned to FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION, the Beneficiary, under an assignment recorded under Auditors File Number 202208240350 II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust as referenced in RCW 61.21.030(4) is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: $10,600.57. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $137,680.35, together with interest as provided in the Note from 4/1/2022 on, and such other costs, fees, and charges as are due under the Note, Deed of Trust, or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on 3/17/2023. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 3/6/2023 (11 days before the sale date), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 3/6/2023 (11 days before the sale), or by other date as permitted in the Note or Deed of Trust, the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 3/6/2023 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s) by both first class and certified mail, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. The list of recipients of the Notice of Default is listed within the Notice of Foreclosure provided to the Borrower(s) and Grantor(s). These requirements were completed as of 9/26/2022. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You may be eligible for mediation. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Toll-free: 1-877-894-HOME (1-877-894-4663) or Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 or National Web Site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD or for Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/hcc/fc/index.cfm?webListAction=search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc=dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 or Web site: http://nwjustice.org/what-clear Additional information provided by the Trustee: If you have previously been discharged through bankruptcy, you may have been released of personal liability for this loan in which case this letter is intended to exercise the noteholders rights against the real property only. The Trustee’s Sale Number is WA-22-944371-RM. Dated: 10/31/2022 Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington, as Trustee By: Jeff Stenman, President Trustee’s Address: Quality Loan Service Corp. of Washington 108 1 st Ave South, Suite 450, Seattle, WA 98104 For questions call toll-free: (866) 925-0241 Trustee Sale Number: WA-22-944371-RM Sale Line: 800-280-2832 or Login to: http://wa.qualityloan.com IDSPub #0181958 IDX966209 2/10/2023 3/3/2023 | 2023-02-11T01:21:59+00:00 | tacomadailyindex.com | https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/blog/re-weber-keith-s-sale/2464794/ |
Outfitting your bedroom in the farmhouse style
Decorating your bedroom in the farmhouse style creates a cozy and inviting space, whether you live on a farm in the country or in an apartment building in a bustling city. From antique metal bed frames to barnyard-inspired wall mirrors, farmhouse decor creates an atmosphere like you’re living in the countryside. Once you know the elements of farmhouse style, it’s relatively easy to create the look for your bedroom.
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Defining the farmhouse style
Distressed finishes and reclaimed materials feature heavily in farmhouse decor. The wood and metal finishes are designed to look weathered like the furniture and decor have been left to rust in the barn or stable. The farmhouse style overlaps with other types of decor, especially rustic and industrial; think of the shared elements of a farmhouse with a country cottage, or how items in a factory could resemble agricultural equipment.
The wood and metal pieces featured in the farmhouse style typically have a gray, black or brown finish. You can add more visual variety to the space by incorporating mismatched finishes and adding more colors through ornaments, bedspreads, pillows and wall decor. However, keep in mind that the farmhouse aesthetic favors neutrals and earth tones.
For an authentic appearance, consider decorating with vintage farmhouse classics such as plaid quilts, milk jugs used as flower vases and metal wall decor. The farmhouse style is all about simplicity and practicality, so avoid overdecorating with knick-knacks or creating a cluttered effect.
Best furniture for farmhouse bedrooms
This traditional farmhouse bed frame is crafted from solid wood that’s been kiln-dried for enhanced durability. The woodwork is simple yet elegant with molded trim and panel details. This bed frame comes in five finishes and does not require a box spring.
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Lark Manor Lissette Coverlet Set
This quilted coverlet’s fleur-de-lis stitching looks right at home in a farmhouse or country cottage. The microfiber coverlet has an antimicrobial treatment that keeps the fabric fresh for longer. The light cotton filling makes it comfortable for summer use or layering in the colder months. This charming reversible coverlet comes in 12 colors with two shams included.
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Grain Wood Furniture Montauk Nightstand
This solid pine nightstand features a distressed finish that gives it a distinctly rustic look. It’s available in five colors with two 5-inch-deep drawers that offer plenty of bedside storage. If you want a coordinated look, pair it with the matching chest of drawers or dresser.
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One Allium Way Machesney Resin Table Lamp
This set of two lamps looks great on either side of a farmhouse bed. Made of resin, the gray lamps are designed to mimic the look of distressed wood. Each off-white empire shade houses an included LED bulb.
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Ophelia & Co. Moneta Upholstered Bench
This upholstered bench has a classic weathered appearance, with a half-moon silhouette and sturdy wooden legs. The tufted linen cushion contains a comfortable foam filling.
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Best decor for farmhouse bedrooms
Rosalind Wheeler Peggie Metal Mirror
With an arched top, distressed metal finish and windowpane aesthetic, this accent mirror looks like it belongs in another time. The antique bronze finish complements other rustic items in the room. You can prop up the mirror using a horizontal dresser or hang it on the wall — either way, it’ll have an eye-catching effect.
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Sand & Stable Elio Metal Table Vase
This hammered steel milk jug has gray dimpling and a rusted rim effect for an authentic vintage appearance. You can fill it with real or faux flowers and place it on a nightstand or dresser. Conveniently, it comes in three different sizes.
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Three Posts Tabletop Candlesticks
These rustic candlesticks are well suited for romantic or ambient lighting. While coastal-inspired, they still pair well with farmhouse decor. The set of three candle pillars contains high-quality mango wood available in three weathered finishes.
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Andover Mills 4-Piece Wall Decor Set
This four-piece wall decor set can liven up your bedroom walls. The botanical-themed wall art is made of sturdy iron in an antique bronze finish. The trellis-like design on each piece is different for a unique visual effect. You can show off this wall decor above a dresser or let it hang alone on the wall.
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Williston Forge Calera Sculpture
This industrial-inspired gear ornament resembles reclaimed farm equipment. The handmade poly-stone sculpture is painted in rust and dark brown colors for a classic worn look. It acts as a nice accent on a nightstand or dresser.
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Multi-City Cannabis-focused CEO Intensive, Launches its Midwest Cohort
CHICAGO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Black CannaBusiness (BCB) and Parallel are collaborating on a national education series aimed at CEOs of color in the cannabis industry. The Black Cannabusiness CEO Intensive Program is a free, six-week, executive training program for cannabis business owners, featuring both virtual and in-person workshops and training. The initiative began with a Northeast cohort in Boston on 4/20 of this year and is now heading to Chicago to work with entrepreneurs from the Midwest.
Minority cannabis business owners will participate in a two-day in-person session with cannabis founders and professionals, completing structured exercises and receiving expert mentorship from leading subject matter experts and practitioners in the industry.
Developed by Brandon L. Wyatt Esq. and Todd Hughes, Co-founders of the BCB CEO Intensive, the curriculum draws on the experiences of advisors and business leaders in the industry from across the country. In addition to the two-day intensive in-person session, the course also includes twice-a-week virtual training sessions, providing robust tools to catapult minority owners to the next level.
An instructor in the program, Todd Hughes says access to knowledge is fundamental for new business owners in the space. "Increasing BIPOC ownership in cannabis is what we, the BCB Team stands for. The goal is to provide each cohort with access to foundational knowledge, a network, and the capital needed to excel in business. We are already seeing the seeds that we've planted in the Northeast cohort beginning to bear fruit," said Hughes.
With their 'hands-on' industry experience and advocacy, BCB Instructors understand the barriers to entry for cannabis business owners. With the personalized and open format learning process, program participants will increase their knowledge and real-world application.
"It is one thing to seek a cannabis business education, but one focused on minority executives is unique and vital. Learning styles are important, and these minority business owners and executives deserve to have minority facilitators like the BCB team to provide a pathway to success as they define their business", said Brandon L. Wyatt Esq.
Partnering with a multi-state cannabis company like Parallel provides an extra level of industry insight for entrepreneurs. Additionally, this paring is a unique way to increase participation in the industry through access and business connections.
"Members of the Northeast cohort are continuing to enhance their expertise virtually, while the Midwest cohort kicks off in person in Chicago. It's encouraging to tap into each region and watch the collaboration of an established cannabis operator and BCB become a growth engine that drives minority business ownership success in the cannabis industry," said James Jackson, Senior Director of Social Equity at Parallel.
The programming for the Midwest cohort also includes a panel discussion moderated by Kiana Hughes, Executive Director at Chicago NORML, on June 24th. With a focus on the Illinois market, "it's time for us to go beyond basic theoretical discussions about the concept of social equity and move on to practical solutions that enable those disproportionately affected to be full, thriving participants in the industry," Hughes said. "This CEO Intensive does just that, and Chicago NORML is proud to be a supporter and participant."
Following a panel discussion there will be an advocacy awards ceremony and celebration of the Midwest cohort.
WHAT: Panel discussion, mixer, and celebration
WHERE: Chemistry Hyde Park, 5121 S Harper Ave, Chicago, IL 60615
WHEN: June 24th, 2022
TIME: 5pm-9pm
RSVP: Guests are encouraged to RSVP for free entry at https://bit.ly/MidwestMixer
Parallel is a privately held, vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company with a mission to pioneer well-being and improve the quality of life through cannabinoids. Parallel has ongoing operations in five medical and adult-use markets under the retail brands of Surterra Wellness in Florida; goodblend in Texas and in Pennsylvania; New England Treatment Access (NETA) in Massachusetts; and a joint venture with the Cookies retail brand in Nevada. Parallel offers a diverse portfolio of high quality, proprietary and licensed consumer brands and products including Surterra Wellness, Float and Heights. Parallel operates 50 store locations, and cultivation and manufacturing sites nationwide. Parallel follows rigorous operational and business practices to ensure the quality, safety, consistency, and efficacy of its products and follows values that put the well-being of its customers and employees first. Find more information at www.liveparallel.com, or on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Black CannaBusiness programming is a cross-discipline diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative for the Cannabis industry. The Black CannaBusiness CEO Intensive program offers executive MBA level training, mentorship, and community to BIPOC cannabusiness entrepreneurs 1–3 years into their business and exposes companies to diverse next-gen brands in a world that thrives on innovation, culture, and community. For more information visit, https://blackcannabusiness.com/ceo-intensive/
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TAMPA, Fla. — Founded or not, there’s been no shortage of rhetoric regarding ballots cast in the 2020 election.
For some, that’s undermined voter confidence.
On Thursday, Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections held a pair of public events aimed at restoring that faith in our electoral system.
First, workers at Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections Office sealed, loaded and shipped-out more than 322,000 vote-by-mail ballots for the upcoming midterm elections.
“People should start watching their mail,” said Hillsborough Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer. "Their ballot is on the way.”
Latimer says each of those ballots was requested by the person it’s being sent to. Signatures are checked and then checked again when the ballots come back.
“I am very confident in vote by mail,” said Latimer. “I have not seen any great fraud that’s taking place with it at any time.”
Latimer says they’re sending out fewer mail-in ballots this year than they did in 2020. He chalks that up to a number of factors. First, this is a midterm election rather than a presidential election. Also, more people are confident to vote in-person again.
“Generally, in Hillsborough County, a third of our voters vote by mail. A third vote early vote. And a third vote election day. The pandemic in 2020 skewed that just a little bit,” said Latimer. “We had a much higher vote by mail.”
The elections office also held a state-mandated public test of its voter tabulation machines.
A handful of observers came to watch, making sure the scanners were working accurately, which they did.
But some observers also wondered why they weren’t allowed to take photos even as news cameras did.
“Why would I not be able to take a picture? What am I going to see here that’s different than what you see?” asked Hillsborough Republican party Chairman Jim Waurishuk.
“What do they have to hide?” asked observer Jeanne Webb.
Latimer said there is nothing to hide. That’s the point of doing these things in public. But the elections building, where the tests were being run, do present security issues, he explained.
“We have the public here. We have media here. Everything is wide-open,” said Latimer. “This building that you’re in right now is considered critical infrastructure by the federal government. There are also numerous security issues. The media knows exactly what they are allowed to photograph in here and where those photographs are going. We can’t ensure that anybody else that just picks up their iPhone and starts taking pictures is going to have the same integrity that the media is going to have.”
Latimer hopes overall this kind of transparency will restore confidence in the integrity of the election process, which has come under what’s proven to be unfounded suspicion over the past two years.
“Well, I think it’s very important. I mean, it’s the first end of the accuracy of the election,” said Latimer.
The mail-in ballots will be sent around the nation and the world to registered voters who’ve requested them.
Also, the 28 randomly-chosen voter tabulation machines used for the accuracy test will now be reset, resealed, and securely stored until election day.
Latimer says occasionally they do see a case of voter fraud. But it’s rare.
When they do, he says it usually involves someone voting twice in separate counties or making an unauthorized ballot request for someone else.
He says in total he’s aware of 14 such incidents in Hillsborough over the past five years. | 2022-07-21T23:25:55+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/politics/elections/hillsborough-elections-office-voter-confidence/67-cd928597-dabc-4941-83d7-375cfd15f57c |
The stories of refugees crossing the border from Sudan to Chad, tell of horror, destruction and nonstop fighting, in a dreadful deja vu of Darfur's genocidal past.
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The stories of refugees crossing the border from Sudan to Chad, tell of horror, destruction and nonstop fighting, in a dreadful deja vu of Darfur's genocidal past.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-06-04T22:28:04+00:00 | lakeshorepublicmedia.org | https://www.lakeshorepublicmedia.org/2023-06-04/thousands-of-refugees-fleeing-fighting-in-sudan-keep-streaming-into-neighboring-chad |
BERLIN (AP) — Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change ’s future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists said Monday.
But doing so requires quickly slashing nearly two-thirds of carbon pollution by 2035, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said. The United Nations chief said it more bluntly, calling for an end to new fossil fuel exploration and for rich countries to quit coal, oil and gas by 2040.
“Humanity is on thin ice — and that ice is melting fast,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “Our world needs climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at once.”
Stepping up his pleas for action on fossil fuels, Guterres called for rich countries to accelerate their target for achieving net zero emissions to as early as 2040, and developing nations to aim for 2050 — about a decade earlier than most current targets. He also called for them to stop using coal by 2030 and 2040, respectively, and ensure carbon-free electricity generation in the developed world by 2035, meaning no gas-fired power plants either.
That date is key because nations soon have to come up with goals for pollution reduction by 2035, according to the Paris climate agreement. After contentious debate, the U.N. science report approved Sunday concluded that to stay under the warming limit set in Paris the world needs to cut 60% of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2035, compared with 2019, adding a new target not previously mentioned in six previous reports issued since 2018.
“The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts for thousands of years,” the report, said calling climate change “a threat to human well-being and planetary health.”
“We are not on the right track but it’s not too late,’’ said report co-author and water scientist Aditi Mukherji. “Our intention is really a message of hope, and not that of doomsday.’’
With the world only a few tenths of a degree away from the globally accepted goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, scientists stressed a sense of urgency. The goal was adopted as part of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and the world has already warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit).
This is likely the last warning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning collection of scientists will be able to make about the 1.5 mark because their next set of reports may well come after Earth has either breached the mark or is locked into exceeding it soon, several scientists, including report authors, told The Associated Press.
After 1.5 degrees “the risks are starting to pile on,” said report co-author Francis X. Johnson, a climate, land and policy scientist at the Stockholm Environment Institute. The report mentions “tipping points” around that temperature of species extinction, including coral reefs, irreversible melting of ice sheets and sea level rise on the order of several meters (several yards).
“1.5 is a critical critical limit, particularly for small islands and mountain (communities) which depend on glaciers,” said Mukherji, who’s also the climate change impact platform director at the research institute CGIAR.
“The window is closing if emissions are not reduced as quickly as possible,” Johnson said in an interview. “Scientists are rather alarmed.”
Many scientists, including at least three co-authors, said hitting 1.5 degrees is inevitable.
“We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. “There’s very little way we will be able to avoid crossing 1.5 C sometime in the 2030s ” but the big issue is whether the temperature keeps rising from there or stabilizes.
Guterres insisted “the 1.5-degree limit is achievable.” Science panel chief Hoesung Lee said so far the world is far off course.
“This report confirms that if the current trends, current patterns of consumption and production continues, then … the global average 1.5 degrees temperature increase will be seen sometime in this decade,” Lee said.
Scientists emphasize that the world, civilization or humanity won’t end suddenly if and when Earth passes the 1.5 degree mark. Mukherji said “it’s not as if it’s a cliff that we all fall off.” But an earlier IPCC report detailed how the harms – from Arctic sea ice absent summers to even nastier extreme weather – are much worse beyond 1.5 degrees of warming.
“It is certainly prudent to be planning for a future that’s warmer than 1.5 degrees,” said IPCC report review editor Steven Rose, an economist at the Electric Power Research Institute in the United States.
If the world continues to use all the fossil fuel-powered infrastructure either existing now or proposed Earth will warm at least 2 degrees Celsius since pre-industrial times, the report said.
Because the report is based on data from a few years ago, the calculations about fossil fuel projects already in the pipeline do not include the increase in coal and natural gas use after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It comes a week after the Biden Administration in the United States approved the huge Willow oil-drilling project in Alaska, which could produce up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day.
The report and the underlying discussions also touch on the disparity between rich nations, which caused much of the problem because carbon dioxide emissions from industrialization stay in the air for more than a century, and poorer countries that get hit harder by extreme weather. Residents of poorer climate vulnerable nations are “up to 15 times more likely to die in floods, droughts and storms,” Lee said.
If the world is to achieve its climate goals, poorer countries need a three-to-six times increase in financial help to adapt to a warmer world and switch to non-polluting energy, Lee said. Countries have made financial pledges and promises of a damage compensation fund.
The report offers hope if action is taken, using the word “opportunity” nine times in a 27-page summary. Though opportunity is overshadowed by 94 uses of the word “risk.”
“The pace and scale of what has been done so far and current plans are insufficient to tackle climate change,” IPCC chief Lee said. ”We are walking when we should be sprinting.”
Lee said the panel doesn’t tell countries what to do to limit worse warming, adding “it’s up to each government to find the best solution.”
Activists also found grains of hope in the reports.
“The findings of these reports can make us feel disheartened about the slow pace of emissions reductions, the limited transition to renewable energy and the growing, daily impact of the climate crisis on children,” said youth climate activist Vanessa Nakate, a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. “But those children need us to read this report and take action, not lose hope.”
Peter Thorne, a researcher at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth and one of the report’s authors, said the responsibility for action rests with everyone.
“The reality is we at all levels — governments, communities, individuals — have made climate change somebody else’s problem,” he said. “We have to stop that.”
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-03-20T15:41:35+00:00 | everythinglubbock.com | https://www.everythinglubbock.com/science/ap-science/un-science-report-to-provide-stark-climate-warning/ |
Shareholders for the coffee giant Starbucks approved an independent review of the company’s labor practices as it has come under federal scrutiny of its treatment of union organizing efforts.
The results of the vote by 52 percent of shareholders to approve the review came on the same day that the company’s recently-departed CEO Howard Schultz testified in a much-awaited hearing in front of the Senate on Wednesday.
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who filed the request for the independent review of the company’s labor practices, said in a statement that the results of the vote showed that investors want the company to be transparent about its treatment of union organizers.
“Investors who want to see a thriving, successful and flourishing Starbucks sent a strong message that the company must live up to its own policies and values,” Lander said in a statement after the vote. “The majority support from shareholders for our proposal reflects a growing demand for an honest accounting of the discrepancy between Starbucks’ purported values and management’s anti-union behavior.”
Starbucks said that it was “undertaking an independent, third-party human rights impact assessment, which will include a deeper-level review of the principles of freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining.”
Starbucks has been under intense scrutiny for its treatment of labor organizers. Earlier this month a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled that Starbucks committed “egregious and widespread” violations of federal law in its campaign to halt unions. More than 280 Starbucks locations have voted to unionize in the U.S. since 2021, but the company has very publicly clashed with organizers in that time, firing 200 of them.
Schultz clashed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) at the hearing on Wednesday, with Sanders blasting Starbucks, under Schultz’s leadership, for waging “the most aggressive and illegal union-busting campaign in the modern history of our country.”
Schultz, who has been at the head of the company three different times, denied that Starbucks has ever broken the law.
“My involvement and engagement in union activities, despite this event today, has been de minimis. I was not involved in any issue of closing stores,” Schultz said. | 2023-03-30T02:01:22+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/starbucks-shareholders-back-independent-review-of-companys-labor-practices/ |
Man charged in Takeoff’s death released on $1 million bond
HOUSTON (AP) — The man charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Migos rapper Takeoff in Houston has been released on $1 million bond.
Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, was released from the Harris County jail Tuesday, according to court records.
Clark was arrested Dec. 1 on a murder charge. His attorney, Letitia Quinones, has said Clark has a “valid and meritorious claim for self-defense.”
Takeoff, 28, was shot in the head and back on Nov. 1 as more than 30 people were leaving a private party at a bowling center. Houston police have said the gunfire followed a disagreement over a “lucrative” game of dice, but that Takeoff was not involved and was “an innocent bystander.”
Born Kirsnick Khari Ball, Takeoff was the youngest member of Migos, the Grammy-nominated rap trio from suburban Atlanta that also featured his uncle Quavo and cousin Offset.
Clark, under conditions of his release, is under house arrest, must wear a GPS tracking device and avoid contact with anyone involved in the shooting investigation.
Clark is scheduled to appear in court again March 9.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-05T13:47:24+00:00 | newschannel10.com | https://www.newschannel10.com/2023/01/05/man-charged-takeoffs-death-released-1-million-bond/ |
(NEXSTAR) – Singer and actress Irene Cara, perhaps best known for the hit songs “Fame” and “Flashdance… What a Feeling,” has died at the age of 63, her publicist confirmed.
“It is with profound sadness that on behalf of her family I announce the passing of Irene Cara,” wrote Judith A. Moose, the president of the JM Media Group, in a statement posted to Cara’s official Twitter account. “The Academy Award-winning actress, singer, songwriter and producer passed away in her Florida home. Her cause of death is currently unknown and will be released when information is available.”
Cara, originally from New York City, began her show-business career at an early age, performing on children’s albums and appearing in television programs and theater productions in New York, among other projects. But her biggest break came in 1980, after she was cast as Coco Hernandez in “Fame.”
Cara was also chosen to record the title song of the film, as well as “Out Here On My Own” — both of which would be nominated for Best Original Song at the Academy Awards in 1981.
Just a few years later, Cara would win an Academy Award herself, as well as a Grammy and a Golden Globe, for cowriting and performing the title track from “Flashdance” (“Flashdance… What a Feeling”).
Cara’s other credits included film appearances, including “City Heat” with Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds and “Certain Fury” with Tatum O’Neal. More recently, she also continued to perform and record with her longtime band Hot Caramel.
A memorial service specifically for fans is being organized for a later date, according to Judith A. Moose, Cara’s publicist.
“She was a beautifully gifted soul whose legacy will live forever through her music and films,” Moose wrote. | 2022-11-26T15:36:34+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/irene-cara-who-sang-hits-from-fame-and-flashdance-dies-at-63/ |
Todd and Julie Chrisley learn where, when they’ll serve prison sentences
Published: Dec. 15, 2022 at 4:07 PM EST|Updated: 1 hour ago
ATLANTA, Ga. (WANF/Gray News) – Reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley must report to federal prison by noon on Jan. 17, 2023.
The Chrisleys were sentenced last month on federal charges of conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans and several tax crimes including attempting to defraud the IRS.
Todd Chrisley was sentenced to 12 years in a minimum-security prison in Pensacola, while his wife will serve seven years at a medium-security prison in Marianna.
Each will also serve three years of supervised release, according to authorities.
Copyright 2022 WANF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report. | 2022-12-15T22:34:26+00:00 | witn.com | https://www.witn.com/2022/12/15/todd-julie-chrisley-learn-where-when-theyll-serve-prison-sentences/ |
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres named seven young climate leaders Thursday to be his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change, underlining the role of youth advocates in climate action.
They include advocates, tribal land defenders, educators, and activists and will serve through the end of next year. They’re the second-ever group of climate youth advisers, the first having been selected in 2020.
They were selected by Guterres from Poland, the Gambia, Saint Lucia, Philippines, Colombia/Paraguay, Ireland and the U.S. The team will advise the United Nations on climate action and policies.
At the announcement, Guterres urged young climate advocates around the world to continue raising their voices and said that the “unrelenting conviction” of young people is essential to keeping climate goals within reach, lowering fossil fuel emissions, and delivering climate justice.
Fatou Jeng, a climate educator and frontline activist from Gambia, now a U.N. advisor, said she’s devastated that her generation will have to bear the burden of the “climate destruction done by the older generation.”
“Youth constitute the majority of the population of the African continent and play a crucial role in addressing the impacts of climate change,” said Jeng. “Young people should be at the center for justice and action.”
In accepting her new advisory role, Ayisha Siddiqa, a Pakistan-American human rights and tribal land defender, said all communities can protect their environment.
“It’s too big of a responsibility to try to save everything all at once,” Siddiqa said. “We need people working towards protecting their little corners of the world … My message is: You don’t have to do it all, but give your little corner of the world, your all.”
From the Fridays for Future movement spearheaded by Greta Thunberg to the recent viral #StopWillow protests on TikTok, young people are credited as playing a significant role in challenging global leaders to take action against the fossil fuel industry.
At a Youth Climate Summit in September 2019, Guterres said that his generation had failed at preserving both justice and the environment and said that youth are essential to holding older generations accountable to “make sure that we don’t betray the future of humankind.”
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Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-03-17T05:56:26+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/world-news/ap-international/un-announces-new-advisers-to-bolster-young-voices-on-climate/ |
Use auto pay to simplify your money management
Review your cash flow before automating
InvestigateTV - Setting up automatic payments for bills could save you money and paying bills easier, but there are a few things you should know before you start.
Kim Palmer, a personal finance expert with NerdWallet, said automating your finances is a good idea because it saves time and eliminates any chance of forgetting a bill and accruing late fees.
However, she suggested an important first step: review your cash flow.
“You want to make sure you have a really solid understanding of the money coming in and the money going out each month before you set up any automation,” Palmer said.
In some cases, you can set the date you want bills withdrawn from your account, which allows you to schedule payments after your paycheck clears.
Palmer said start with bills that are predictable, where the number is reliable and does not fluctuate. She gave examples of condo fees, rent, insurance payments, phone, or cable bills.
Auto-paying bills that can vary widely or seasonally, like utilities or credit card bills, could cause you to overdraw your account, Palmer said. For these types of bills, plan for the variance before committing to automated payments.
Also, Palmer said don’t automate and then just forget about it. She suggested reviewing all the payments coming out of your account every month to make sure nothing has changed and there are no mistakes.
One thing to investigate is whether the business or service your using give discounts or rewards for setting up automatic payments.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-07T20:06:26+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/07/07/use-auto-pay-simplify-your-money-management/ |
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — In one moment, thousands of Halloween revelers crammed into the narrow, vibrant streets of Seoul’s most cosmopolitan neighborhood, eager to show off their capes, wizard hats and bat wings.
In the next, a surge of panic spread as an unmanageable mass of people jammed into a narrow alley in Itaewon. Toppled revelers were trapped for as long as 40 minutes, stacked on one another “like dominoes” in a chaotic crush so intense that clothes were ripped off.
A stunned Seoul was just beginning on Monday to put together the huge scope of the crowd surge on Saturday night that killed at least 154, mostly people in their 20s and 30s, including foreign nationals. Officials said they expected more deaths because there were nearly 150 others injured, 33 of them in serious conditions.
Witnesses described a nightmarish scene as people performed CPR on the dying and carried limp bodies to ambulances, while dance music pulsed from garish clubs lit in bright neon. Others tried desperately to pull out those trapped at the bottom of the crush of people, but often failed because there were too many of the fallen on top of them.
“We were just stuck together so tightly we couldn’t even shift to call out and report the situation,” said one survivor, surnamed Lee. “We were strangers, but we held each others’ hands and repeatedly shouted out, ‘Let’s survive!’”
Kim Mi Sung, who works for a non-profit organization in Itaewon, told The Associated Press that nine out of the 10 people she gave CPR to eventually died. Many were bleeding from their noses and mouths. Most were women who dressed as witches or were in other Halloween costumes; two were foreigners.
“It was like a hell,” Kim said. “I still can’t believe what happened.”
In this ultra-wired, high-tech country, anguish, terror and grief — as well as many of the details of what happened — are playing out most vividly on social media. Users posted messages desperately seeking friends and loved ones, as witnesses and survivors described what they went through.
“I thought I was dying,” one woman said in posts on Twitter. “My entire body was stuck among everyone else, while people laughed from a terrace and videotaped us. I thought I would really die if I cried out. I stretched my hands out to (others) who were above me and I managed to get out.”
An unidentified woman in her 20s wept as she described the scene to the Yonhap news agency: “It looked like the graves of people piled upon one another. Some of them were slowly losing consciousness and others seemed to have already died.”
A man, surnamed Kong, said he managed to escape to a nearby bar with his friends after the crush happened. He saw through the bar windows that people were falling on top of each other “like dominoes,” Yonhap reported.
When a 27-year-old office worker who gave only his surname, Choi, left the bar he’d been in during the crush, he saw dozens of police and paramedics. “It kind of looked like a war zone,” he said.
The bodies of 10 to 15 people were lined up in front of the King Kebab restaurant on the asphalt and were being covered up with blue tarps as he walked by.
“It looked like they were sleeping — eyes closed, mouth opened. They looked like mannequins,” Choi said.
Friends and family members gathered at a local government office to try to find news about the missing.
One Twitter user posted a series of messages asking for information about a 17-year-old friend who had gone to Itaewon to celebrate wearing a hairband that looked like cat ears.
“I lost contact with her. She’s been a friend of mine for 12 years, and we were like family. Please help me,” the message said.
Even after the crush, witnesses said they saw some revelers not immediately making way for emergency vehicles, rescuers and police officers. One viral video clip on Twitter showing a crowd of young people dancing and singing near the carnage drew several insults from South Koreans.
Ken Fallas, a Costa Rican architect who has worked in Seoul for the past eight years, watched stunned as a dozen or more unconscious partygoers were carried out from a narrow backstreet packed with youngsters dressed like movie characters.
Fallas said police and emergency workers pleaded with people to step up if they knew how to give CPR because they were overwhelmed by the large number of injured.
“I saw a lot of (young) people laughing, but I don’t think they were (really) laughing because, you know, what’s funny?” Fallas said. “They were laughing because they were too scared. Because to be in front of a thing like that is not easy. Not everyone knows how to process that.”
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AP journalists Juwon Park in Seoul, South Korea, and Jee-won Jeong and Kiko Rosario in Bangkok contributed to this story. | 2022-10-31T07:47:09+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-witnesses-say-it-was-like-a-hell-inside-south-korean-crush/ |
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WINNSBORO, La. (AP) — State prosecutors have charged three Louisiana State Police troopers accused of beating a Black motorist, hoisting him to his feet by his hair braids and bragging in text messages that the “whoopin’” would give him “nightmares for a long time.”
The misdemeanor simple battery charges in the 2020 arrest of Antonio Harris come amid mounting scrutiny of the state’s premier law enforcement agency over allegations of excessive force — particularly against Black people — and an institutional instinct to cover it up.
Jacob Brown, Dakota DeMoss and George “Kam” Harper, who are white, were seen on body-camera video piling onto Harris following a high-speed chase that ended next to a cornfield in rural Franklin Parish, kneeing, slapping and punching him even though he had surrendered face down with his arms and legs splayed.
The troopers’ attorneys declined to comment Thursday. State police spokesperson Lt. Melissa Matey said the troopers’ actions “are inexcusable and have no place in professional public safety services.”
State police had arrested the troopers in February 2021 on felony charges of malfeasance in office, but local prosecutors elected not to bring that count last week when filing a bill of information in Franklin Parish. Misdemeanor simple battery in Louisiana carries up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
“Obviously we would have liked stronger charges but we’re still hopeful the Department of Justice will bring a case,” said Harris’ attorney, Michael Sterling.
A federal grand jury in Lafayette has been hearing testimony in the case following a months-long investigation into whether the troopers used excessive force. But it remains unclear whether the U.S. Justice Department intends to move forward with a civil rights case.
A similar uncertainty hangs over the federal investigation into the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, another Black motorist beaten by state police. A federal grand jury also has been hearing testimony in that case, in which troopers stunned, punched and dragged Greene before he died on a rural roadside in Union Parish, outside Monroe. The Associated Press reported this week that the Justice Department is increasingly skeptical it can bring a successful case against the troopers.
State lawmakers, meanwhile, are probing allegations of a cover-up in Greene’s death and voted Wednesday to hold the former head of thestate police in contemptfor defying a subpoena and refusing to turn over the handwritten journals he kept while leading the agency. Former Col. Kevin Reeves was separately held in contempt Thursday for not complying with a subpoena from the commission that oversees discipline of state troopers. Reeves’ attorney, Lewis Unglesby, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
In the Harris beating, an internal investigation found the troopers filed “wholly untrue” reports claiming the man kept trying to flee, refused to obey commands and fought with troopers before they began to pummel him with what Brown called “tactical strikes.”
“They kept saying ‘Stop resisting’ but I was never resisting,” Harris told investigators. “As soon as they got to me, one of them kneed me in my face. One of them was squeezing my eyes.”
The troopers also later exchanged 14 text messages peppered with “lol” and “haha” responses in which they boasted about the beating and mocked Harris, who spit up blood and suffered from sore ribs and stomach pain for days after the arrest.
“He gonna be sore tomorrow for sure,” Brown wrote in one of the texts. “Warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man.”
Brown, Harper and DeMoss, who were part of a notoriously violent division of troopers patrolling the northeastern part of the state, were arrested in the case last year. DeMoss and Harper were fired and Brown, who in October pleaded not guilty in a separate federal case accusing him of pummeling another Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight, resigned.
DeMoss has also come under investigation for his role in Greene’s death, which authorities initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a chase before the AP last year published troopers’ long-withheld body-camera video showing a violent arrest.
Greene and Harris’ arrests were amongat least 12 cases over the past decade in which an AP investigation found troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers told the AP the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotismand, in some cases, outright racism.
Harris’ case began after Brown pulled him over for a minor traffic violation on Interstate 20. The trooper conducted a criminal history check and discovered Harris had a suspended driver’s license and outstanding warrants.
Harris sped away from the traffic stop in a Hyundai Sonata, leading troopers on a 29-mile (47- kilometer) chase that reached speeds of 150 miles (241 kph) before it was finally stopped with the help of a tire-puncturing spike strip.
Even though Harris had already surrendered, DeMoss, the first arriving trooper, “delivered a knee strike” and slapped him in the face with an open palm before powering off his body-worn camera, court records show.
Harper, meanwhile, punched Harris in the head several times with a fist “reinforced” by a flashlight and threatened to “punish” Harris, while Brown pulled the man’s hair, an internal investigation concluded. DeMoss can later be seen on the footage lifting Harris to his feet by his braids.
Investigators determined Brown never informed state prosecutors that any body-worn camera video of the arrest existed. | 2022-05-13T03:10:25+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/louisiana-state-troopers-charged-in-beating-of-black-man/ |
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