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Justin Bieber sells his music catalog
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Justin Bieber has sold the rights to his publishing and artist royalties from his song catalog, adding himself to a growing list of pop stars who have inked rights deals.
Bieber sold his catalog to Hipgnosis, the music rights investment company announced Tuesday.
"Justin is truly a once in a generation artist and that is reflected and acknowledged by the magnitude of this deal," Bieber's longtime manager, Scooter Braun, said in a statement. "For 15 years I have been grateful to witness this journey and today I am happy for all those involved. Justin's greatness is just beginning."
Bieber's publicist did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
The deal is valued at $200 million, according to Billboard. Rolling Stone called the sale the largest of any artist of Bieber's generation.
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks, Justin Timberlake, Sting and many others have recently sold the rights to their royalties. Warner Music Group also purchased late British rock star David Bowie's entire catalog spanning six decades.
Springsteen's deal was worth about $550 million. Other artists' catalogues have reportedly sold for an amount closer to Bieber's haul.
Many artists at the end of 2021 had rushed to sell their rights before the Biden Administration allowed capital gains taxes to increase, Hannah Karp, editorial director at Billboard, told CNN last year. Others, particularly artists nearing the end of their careers, opted to sell their rights for estate planning purposes, Karp said.
But some younger artists like Bieber have begun selling, too. Imagine Dragons sold their catalog to Concord Music Publishing in August. Shakira stuck a deal announced this month with Hipgnosis Songs Fund for her entire catalog, which includes hits like "Hips Don't Lie," "Whenever, Wherever," and "She Wolf."
But Taylor Swift is taking the opposite tactic, fighting to maintain creative control and rerecording some of her songs to gain publishing rights to her music.
CNN's Chloe Melas contributed to this report.
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2023-01-24T20:50:23+00:00
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kcci.com
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https://www.kcci.com/article/justin-bieber-sells-music-catalog/42640893
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Chef Edward Lee says food, at its best, tells a story. And the story he wants told with the meal he’s whipping up for next week’s White House state dinner is of the deep connection between the United States and its ally South Korea.
President Joe Biden is hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday for a state visit, including a glitzy state dinner, and the White House invited Lee, a Korean American chef and restaurateur, to help prepare the meal.
The White House gave The Associated Press an exclusive preview of its plans to use Lee as a “guest chef” for the meal and of its high-wattage lineup for the after-dinner entertainment: Broadway stars Norm Lewis, Lea Salonga and Jessica Vosk.
In an interview with the AP, Lee said “Korean food and American food can merge together and create this beautiful hybrid that is unique and delicious.”
He said any iconic American food, if spiked with a “little Korean flavor or Korean spice,” will still be familiar, but it will just be different and unique. Real food for thought, he said.
“Your mind becomes curious about more than just the flavors,” Lee said. “When food is at its best, it tells a story.”
A state visit is the highest diplomatic honor the U.S. reserves for its closest allies, and Biden so far has extended just two such invitations. The first went to France last December.
Every component of a state visit, from the booming 21-gun salute for the leader’s arrival, to the glitz and glamour on display at the black-tie state dinner, is designed to highlight ties between the U.S. and its ally. Yoon’s visit will mark 70 years of U.S.-South Korea relations.
White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo reached out to the New York City-born chef about two months ago to seek his help with the dinner. Lee’s cooking style is one that meshes two cuisines: Korean food and food from the Southern U.S.
Lee recently spent two days at the White House testing recipes and plating meals, offering tastes to first lady Jill Biden and her staff, who are responsible for the dinner and who helped develop the menu. He worked with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford and her staff.
The experience was nerve-wracking.
“I’ve been on ‘Top Chef,’ where I’ve had to cook for some very high-powered chefs who were critiquing my food, and this was probably more pressure than the TV show,” Lee said of having the first lady be the judge of his kitchen creations.
The 50-year-old husband and father couldn’t say what’s on the menu. The White House will be releasing those details on Monday. But the menu has been finalized, Lee said, practically breathing a sigh of relief during Thursday’s telephone interview.
Lee started working in restaurants when he was 14 years old. He attended culinary school after graduation from New York University but dropped out after a week. A restaurant he opened in lower Manhattan folded after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
He took a break to travel around the United States and visit places he’d only wondered about while growing up in New York. He was able to scratch the Kentucky Derby from his bucket list — and while there he fell in love with Louisville and its Southern culture.
It’s where, Lee said, “I found my culinary voice.”
He has one restaurant, 610 Magnolia, in Louisville, and is weeks away from opening another. He lives part time in Washington, D.C., where he is culinary director for a third restaurant, Succotash. He won a James Beard Award for his book “Buttermilk Graffiti.”
Lee says Southerners and Koreans are alike in how they eat — big tables, plenty of food, side dishes, grazing and barbecue. Different spices, flavors and techniques, he said, “but the philosophy is the same, the sensation is the same.”
The decision to recruit Lee to be the guest chef revives a practice that Michelle Obama often used when she arranged state dinners as first lady. Marcus Samuelsson, Mario Batali and Anita Lo were among the celebrity chefs she enlisted to add a splash of pizazz.
Jill Biden chose Lee because of his Korean-influenced American cuisine, her office said.
After dinner, Broadway stars Lewis, Salonga and Vosk will entertain guests with a mix of solo, duet and trio performances.
Lewis’ career spans film, television and theater. He made history in 2014 as Broadway’s first Black phantom in “The Phantom of the Opera,” which recently closed after a record 35-year run. He currently stars in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning production of “A Soldier’s Play.”
Salonga is known for her award-winning role of Kim in “Miss Saigon.” In Disney films, she was the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in “Aladdin” and Fa Mulan for “Mulan” and “Mulan II.” She also had roles in “Les Miserables” on Broadway.
Vosk is a singer and actor who has appeared in “Wicked” and in the most recent revival of “Fiddler on the Roof,” both on Broadway.
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2023-04-21T13:48:19+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/white-house-recruits-edward-lee-as-state-dinner-guest-chef/
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WFO LOS ANGELES Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Thursday, December 8, 2022
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FREEZE WARNING
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard CA
253 AM PST Thu Dec 8 2022
...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM PST THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected.
* WHERE...Ojai Valley.
* WHEN...Until 9 AM PST this morning.
* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions will kill crops and other
sensitive vegetation. Extended exposure to cold can cause
hypothermia for animals and people. Vehicle windshields will be
frosted.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold. Plan for
extra time to defrost vehicle windshields.
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Copyright 2022 AccuWeather
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2022-12-08T11:26:58+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/CA-WFO-LOS-ANGELES-Warnings-Watches-and-17639747.php
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Black Vietnam vet at last getting his due: Medal of Honor
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60 years after he was first recommended for the nation’s highest award for bravery during the Vietnam War, retired Col. Paris Davis, one of the first Black officers to lead a Special Forces team in combat, will receive the prestigious Medal of Honor on Friday.
The overdue recognition for the 83-year-old Virginia resident comes after his recommendation for the medal was lost, resubmitted — and then lost again.
It wasn’t until 2016 — half a century after Davis risked his life to save some of his men by fighting off the North Vietnamese — that a volunteer group of advocates painstakingly recreated and resubmitted the paperwork.
Some of Davis’ supporters believe racism was to blame, but Davis doesn’t dwell on it. He said he doesn’t know why it has taken decades for his heroism to be recognized.
“Right now I’m overwhelmed,” he told The Associated Press in an interview the day before he attends a White House ceremony where President Joe Biden will hang the blue ribbon holding the Medal of Honor around Davis’ neck.
“When you’re fighting, you’re not thinking about this moment,” Davis said. “You’re just trying to get through that moment.”
That moment lasted nearly 19 hours and stretched over two days in mid-June 1965.
Davis, then a captain and commander with the 5th Special Forces Group, engaged in nearly continuous combat during a pre-dawn raid on a North Vietnamese army camp in the village of Bong Son in Binh Dinh province.
He led the charge against the enemy, called for precision artillery fire, engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the North Vietnamese and thwarted the capture of three American soldiers — all while suffering multiple wounds from gunshots and grenade fragments. Davis used his pinkie finger to fire his rifle after his hand was shattered by an enemy grenade, according to reports.
Davis repeatedly sprinted into an open rice paddy to rescue each member of his team, according to the ArmyTimes. His entire team survived. Davis refused to leave the battlefield until his men were safely removed.
Davis, a native of Cleveland, retired in 1985 at the rank of colonel and now lives in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside Washington. Biden called him several weeks ago to deliver the news.
He compares receiving the medal to getting a long-anticipated ice cream cone and says the wait in no way lessens the honor.
“It’s just the antithesis of that,” he said. “It heightens the thing, if you’ve got to wait that long … It’s like someone promised you an ice cream cone. You know what it looks like, what it smells like. You just haven’t licked it.”
Davis’ commanding officer recommended him for the military’s top honor, but the paperwork disappeared. He eventually was awarded a Silver Star Medal, the military’s third-highest combat medal, as an interim honor, but members of Davis’ team have argued that his skin color was a factor in the disappearance of his Medal of Honor recommendation.
“I believe that someone purposely lost the paperwork,” Ron Deis, a junior member of Davis’ team in Bong Son, told the AP in a separate interview.
Deis, now 79, helped compile the recommendation that was submitted in 2016. He said he knew Davis had been recommended for the Medal of Honor shortly after the battle in 1965 and he spent years wondering why Davis hadn’t been awarded the medal. Nine years ago he learned that a second nomination had been submitted “and that also was somehow, quote, lost.”
“But I don’t believe they were lost,” Deis said. “I believe they were intentionally discarded. They were discarded because he was Black, and that’s the only conclusion that I can come to.”
Army officials say there is no evidence of racism in Davis’ case.
“We’re here to celebrate the fact that he got the award, long time coming,” Maj. Gen. Patrick Roberson, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, told the AP. “We, the Army, you know, we haven’t been able to see anything that would say, ‘Hey, this is racism.'”
“We can’t know that,” Roberson said.
In early 2021, Christopher Miller, then the acting defense secretary, ordered an expedited review of Davis’ case. He argued in an opinion column later that year that awarding Davis the Medal of Honor would address an injustice.
“Some issues in our nation rise above partisanship,” Miller wrote. “The Davis case meets that standard.”
Davis’ daughter, Regan Davis Hopper, a mom of two teenage sons, told the AP that she only learned of her dad’s heroism in 2019. But, like him, she said she tries not to dwell on her disappointment in how the situation was handled.
“I try not to think about that. I try not to let that weigh me down and make me lose the thrill and excitement of the moment,” Hopper said. “I think that’s most important, to just look ahead and think about how exciting it is for America to meet my dad for the first time. I’m just proud of him.”
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2023-03-03T00:31:07+00:00
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keyt.com
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https://keyt.com/news/2023/03/02/black-vietnam-vet-at-last-getting-his-due-medal-of-honor/
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PARIS (AP) — A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy-busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe passed an important hurdle on Tuesday with lawmakers overwhelmingly voting for it.
The bill will legalize the temporary use of so-called intelligent surveillance systems to safeguard the Paris Games, which run next year from July 26-Aug. 11, and the Paralympics that follow. The systems combine cameras with artificial intelligence software to flag potential security concerns, such as abandoned packages or crowd surges. Human operators would decide whether action is needed.
French authorities insist the surveillance wouldn’t involve facial recognition. Supporters of the bill argue that the technology could help avert disasters like the deadly crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people during Halloween festivities in South Korea in October.
“It’s not about recognizing ‘Mr. X’ in a crowd,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin told National Assembly lawmakers last week when they were debating the measures. “It’s about recognizing situations.”
The Senate overwhelmingly approved the draft in January, by 245 votes to 28. The National Assembly followed suit Tuesday with a 400-93 vote that the French government’s sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, hailed as “an essential step.”
The draft is now slated for further fine-tuning by assembly members and senators before its final adoption, expected in April.
Digital rights watchdog groups argue that France will violate international human rights law by becoming the first of the European Union’s 27 countries to legalize AI-powered surveillance, even if just temporarily. The bill says the technology can be used on an experimental basis to the end of 2024 to safeguard sporting and cultural events in France that are particularly at risk of being targeted by terror attacks.
The technology’s use “risks permanently transforming France into a dystopian surveillance state” and “will lead to an all-out assault on the rights to privacy, protest, and freedom of assembly and expression,” said Mher Hakobyan, an Amnesty International adviser on AI regulation.
“It has also been well-documented that hostile surveillance technologies are disproportionately used to target marginalized groups, including migrants and Black and brown people,” Hakobyan added.
Even though the draft law says the cameras won’t use facial recognition, they are still liable to scrutinize physical traits including people’s postures, walks and gestures, critics contend. Opponents also are concerned that the technology risks zeroing-in on people who spend a lot of time in public spaces, such as the homeless. The bill also clears the way for the technology’s use with cameras mounted on drones.
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More AP coverage of the Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
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2023-03-29T08:13:45+00:00
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wdtn.com
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https://www.wdtn.com/news/business/ap-business/lawmakers-vote-on-paris-olympic-law-with-surveillance-fears/
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Kremlin-controlled lower house of parliament on Tuesday approved legislation that toughens punishment for soldiers breaching their duties, in an apparent effort to boost discipline in the ranks amid the fighting in Ukraine.
The set of amendments to Russia’s Criminal Code that was quickly endorsed by the State Duma introduces severe punishments for failure to follow orders, desertion or surrendering to the enemy. The bill now needs to receive the upper house’s approval and then be signed by President Vladimir Putin to become law — steps that are considered to be formalities.
Under the new legislation, deserting a military unit during a period of mobilization or martial law would be punishable by up to 10 years in prison, compared with five years under the current law.
Those who voluntarily surrender to the enemy will also face a prison term of up to 10 years, and those convicted of looting could be handed a 15-year term.
Another amendment introduces a prison sentence of up to 10 years for those who refuse to go to combat or follow an officer’s order.
The passage of the new legislation follows media reports alleging that some Russian soldiers in Ukraine have refused to go into combat and tried to resign from service.
Unlike Ukraine, which conducted a broad mobilization with the goal of reaching an active military of 1 million fighters, Russia has continued to rely on a limited contingent of volunteers.
Some nationalist politicians have called for a mobilization to beef up the ranks, but the Kremlin so far has ruled it out.
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2022-09-21T07:19:40+00:00
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ktalnews.com
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https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/ap-russian-lawmakers-toughen-punishment-for-soldiers/
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Company marks National 10-4 Day with custom CB handle generator
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In advance of the holiday season, Truckstop surveyed 500 U.S. truck drivers, revealing 84% of those surveyed plan to take on additional loads ahead of the holidays.
To kick off the anticipated increased movement of freight for the holiday season, Truckstop is celebrating 10-4 day, also known as National CB Radio Day, by creating a fun custom CB handle generator for not only truck drivers, but for everyone. President Jimmy Carter designated 10-4 Day in 1978 to honor the citizens band, including America's hard-working freight carriers.
"Truckstop provides truck drivers with important tools to keep their businesses moving forward and 10-4 Day is another opportunity for us to provide them with something that is an integral part of the trucking culture, a personal CB handle," said Kendra Tucker, chief executive officer, Truckstop. "It's important for us to acknowledge moments that recognize the industry and our customers, and to highlight the hard work of truck drivers that take extra loads ahead of the holidays to ensure Americans have an enjoyable holiday season."
Additional survey findings reveal:
- 68% of U.S. truck drivers surveyed plan to take on 16-25% more additional shifts ahead of this holiday season (October and January 1st) to support increased seasonal demand.
- 27% of U.S. truck drivers surveyed plan to take on 26-50% more additional shifts ahead of this holiday season (October and January 1st) to support increased seasonal demand.
- 31% of U.S. truck drivers in the Northeast plan to take on 26-50% more additional shifts ahead of this holiday season (October and January 1st) to support increased seasonal demand, compared to 23% of U.S. truck drivers surveyed in the South who said the same.
To learn more about Truckstop, or to get your authority and put your new CB handle into action, please visit: https://truckstop.com/tenfour.
About Truckstop
Truckstop is a trusted partner for carriers, brokers, and shippers, empowering the freight community through a platform of innovative solutions for the entire freight lifecycle to increase efficiency, automate processes, and accelerate growth. As one of the industry's largest neutral freight marketplaces, Truckstop provides the customer service as well as scale of quality loads and trucks to give customers of all sizes, whether on the road or in the office, the transparency and freedom to build lasting relationships and grow their businesses. To learn how Truckstop is helping move the freight community forward, visit https://truckstop.com.
Methodology
Survey carried out, on behalf of Truckstop, by Censuswide. 500 Truck drivers surveyed between 08.18.2022 – 08.25.2022. Censuswide abides by and employs members of the Market Research Society which is based on the ESOMAR principles.
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SOURCE Truckstop Group LLC
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2022-10-03T17:01:59+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/10/03/truckstop-survey-data-reveals-84-us-truck-drivers-plan-take-additional-loads-ahead-holiday-season/
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Report: Livings expenses cost Americans an extra $371 per month
Published: Jan. 14, 2023 at 1:50 PM CST|Updated: 39 minutes ago
(CNN) - The typical American spent an extra $371 last month due to inflation compared to a year ago, according to a report from Moody’s Analytics.
The good news is that the cost-of-living shock appears to be easing and paychecks are starting to catch up.
At the inflation peak last June, Moody’s Analytics says the typical family spent an additional $502 per month compared with the year before.
Those extra expenses apply to everything from rent to groceries to utilities.
Families are spending around $82 more per month on shelter and $72 more on food.
Moody’s says the bright spot is gasoline, where people saved $1.55 per month compared with the year before.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2023-01-14T20:30:13+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/2023/01/14/report-livings-expenses-cost-americans-an-extra-371-per-month/
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25 of the best horror movies based on true stories
New Line Cinema
25 of the best horror movies based on true stories
The doll from “The Conjuring”
“Based on a true story” has been creatively interpreted when it comes to horror films. Director David Fincher, for example, investigated the titular serial killer of his 2007 film “Zodiac” so thoroughly that he and his team actually turned up new evidence. Others play more fast and loose with the phrase.
While “The Mothman Prophecies” remains somewhat faithful to recorded sightings of a humanoid being with moth wings and red eyes, it’s unlikely that such accounts will ever be verified. Some inspiration—like Ed Gein, a Wisconsin man who decorated his home and wardrobe with pieces of women he killed or exhumed—could have been made into gripping cinema based on just the facts; instead, he inspired varied genre canons “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” “Psycho,” and “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Horror movies frighten us so effectively because they tap into the basic human fear of the unknown and play on classic themes around grief and loss. But for the items in this list, sometimes what’s known can be just as terrifying.
Stacker researched horror film history and spotlighted 25 horror movies with at least a 6.0 IMDb user rating that were based on a true story. The 25 were then ranked amongst themselves by IMDb user rating with ties broken by votes.
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Rogue Pictures
#25. ‘The Strangers’ (2008)
Liv Tyler and Kip Weeks in “The Strangers”
– Director: Bryan Bertino
– IMDb user rating: 6.1
– Metascore: 47
– Runtime: 86 minutes
In “The Strangers,” three masked individuals commit a senseless act of violence against a randomly selected couple (Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler) whose only crime was that they happened to be at home—the ultimate nightmare “what if” scenario spun out from one of Bertino’s childhood memories.
The director’s inspiration knocked decades earlier when he was home alone for the evening with his 7-year-old little sister. While babysitting, several people came to the door and asked for someone who didn’t live there. Bertino later found out that they were would-be home invaders stalking their neighborhood, looking for empty houses to break into.
Blood Relations Company
#24. ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ (1977)
Susan Lanier and Dee Wallace in “The Hills have Eyes”
– Director: Wes Craven
– IMDb user rating: 6.3
– Metascore: 64
– Runtime: 90 minutes
The desert-dwelling cannibals terrorizing a family on a road trip to Los Angeles in Craven’s second effort are based on a centuries-old legend. Sawney Bean—a Scotsman who allegedly lived with his incestuous family in a seaside cave and devoured over 1,000 innocent travelers—may have actually been the brainchild of English authors during the Jacobite rebellion in the mid-1700s. The tale’s sheer outrageousness and historical inconsistencies suggest that Bean was a caricature drawn from the era’s anti-Scottish sentiment.
Universal Pictures
#23. ‘The Serpent and the Rainbow’ (1988)
Bill Pullman and Cathy Tyson in “The Serpent and the Rainbow”
– Director: Wes Craven
– IMDb user rating: 6.4
– Metascore: 64
– Runtime: 98 minutes
Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis wrote in his 1985 book “The Serpent and the Rainbow” that he had observed a Haitian man “zombified” by the poisonous chemical tetrodotoxin that naturally occurs in puffer fish. Although many in the scientific community discredited it, Wade’s claims provided fodder for Craven’s adaptation a few years later, which follows a Davis doppelganger’s terrifying journey into the land of voodoo.
Lakeshore Entertainment
#22. ‘The Mothman Prophecies’ (2002)
Richard Gere in a scene from “The Mothman Prophecies”
– Director: Mark Pellington
– IMDb user rating: 6.4
– Metascore: 52
– Runtime: 119 minutes
Pellington is the first to admit that “based on true events” is a generous interpretation of unverified 1960s-era eyewitness accounts of UFOs and other supernatural phenomena that inspired “The Mothman Prophecies.” Investigative journalist John Klein (Richard Gere) is based on author John Keel: In his 1975 book of the same name, Keel swore that he received premonitions for catastrophes—including the 1967 collapse of the Ohio River’s Silver Bridge and several assassinations—over the phone from a shadowy moth-human hybrid with red eyes that many West Virginians also professed to have seen.
End Cue
#21. ‘The Clovehitch Killer’ (2018)
Dylan McDermott, Madisen Beaty, and Charlie Plummer in “The Clovehitch Killer”
– Director: Duncan Skiles
– IMDb user rating: 6.5
– Metascore: 59
– Runtime: 109 minutes
Many true crime fans have noticed some specific similarities between the titular character (Dylan McDermott) and self-proclaimed BTK Killer (short for “bind, torture, kill”), born Dennis Rader; notably, both men acted out sexual bondage fantasies on their 10 victims while maintaining façades as pillars of the community, leading Boy Scout troops and assuming positions of authority in their neighborhood churches.
And yet, Skiles is reluctant to single out one person as the inspiration for “The Clovehitch Killer”—named for the type of rope knot found at his crime scenes—because he doesn’t want to give serial killers the attention he says they crave.
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Proton Cinema
#20. ‘Lords of Chaos’ (2018)
Rory Culkin in a scene from “Lords of Chaos”
– Director: Jonas Åkerlund
– IMDb user rating: 6.6
– Metascore: 48
– Runtime: 118 minutes
A former drummer for Swedish extreme metal outfit Bathory, Åkerlund adapted his vision of Norwegian black metal icons Mayhem from “Lords of Chaos,” a book written by neo-Nazi sympathizer Michael Moynihan.
The biopic stoked controversy even before its release: Mayhem’s co-founding member and bassist Necrobutcher told Rolling Stone that he would “do everything I can to stop this film.” It chronicles real-life deaths within the band—vocalist and lyricist Per Yngve “Pelle” Olin (stage name Dead; played by Jack Kilmer) died by suicide, and bassist Kristian “Varg” Vikernes (Emory Cohen) stabbed guitarist Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth (Rory Culkin) 23 times—and church burnings that swept Norway in the early ’90s.
Carver Films
#19. ‘The Snowtown Murders’ (2011)
Lucas Pittaway in a scene from “The Snowtown Murders”
– Director: Justin Kurzel
– IMDb user rating: 6.6
– Metascore: 66
– Runtime: 119 minutes
Kurzel’s directorial debut tracks nearly a dozen grisly deaths between 1992 and 1999 associated with Snowtown, a suburb north of Adelaide, Australia. Many of the characters are named after their flesh-and-blood analogs, and the official trailer emphasizes its connection to “the most notorious serial killings in the country’s history.”
“The Snowtown Murders” recreates events that led to the discovery by local police of eight bodies decomposing in acid-filled barrels that were hidden in an abandoned bank. John Bunting (Daniel Henshall, one of two working actors that Kurzel cast) recruits a sexually abused teenager, James “Jamie” Vlassakis (Lucas Pittaway), and others to help him massacre—and in some cases, torture and cannibalize—town residents he deemed “pedophiles” and “homosexuals.”
American Cinema Productions
#18. ‘The Entity’ (1982)
Barbara Hershey in a scene from “The Entity”
– Director: Sidney J. Furie
– IMDb user rating: 6.7
– Metascore: 35
– Runtime: 125 minutes
California resident Doris Bither in 1974 admitted to parapsychologist Dr. Barry Taff that she had been assaulted sexually and physically in her home by something that no one could see. Taff concluded that paranormal activity was involved in Bither’s case (although he dismissed the idea of “spectral rape” and clarified that he believed the culprit to be a “poltergeist outbreak“); later researchers have attributed her invisible attacks to severe childhood trauma that was never resolved.
Regardless of whether or not these events happened exclusively inside Bither’s mind—or the extensively debated photographic evidence that demonstrates either ghostly apparitions or malfunctioning camera equipment—they became the material for Frank De Felitta’s 1978 occult novel “The Entity,” which Furie later reimagined for the big screen.
Screen Gems
#17. ‘The Exorcism of Emily Rose’ (2005)
Jennifer Carpenter in “The Exorcism of Emily Rose”
– Director: Scott Derrickson
– IMDb user rating: 6.7
– Metascore: 46
– Runtime: 119 minutes
Splicing scenes in a courtroom with scenes from a horror movie, “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” takes place in the United States just over half a century after the young German woman who was the film’s source material, Anneliese Michel, died following 67 attempts to exorcize the demon many believed had taken possession of her.
Real and fictional juries found the priests who conducted the exorcisms responsible for the deaths of Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) and Michel, and both trials pitted science against religion to find an explanation for each victim’s disturbing behavior.
Twentieth Century Fox
#16. ‘From Hell’ (2001)
Johnny Depp and Heather Graham in “From Hell”
– Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
– IMDb user rating: 6.7
– Metascore: 54
– Runtime: 122 minutes
The account of Jack the Ripper—a still-unknown assailant who butchered five sex workers in London in the 1880s and foreshadowed 20th-century serial killers—has been adapted many times over the past century, from Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog” (1927) to Bob Clark’s Sherlock Holmes-centering “Murder by Decree” (1979).
For their stab at a retelling of the well-known tale, the Hughes twins drew from Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s 1998 graphic novel, “From Hell,” which pegged the so-called Whitechapel murders on British physician Dr. William Gull (Ian Holm). Where the written version starts with a prologue, however, the film begins with police detective Inspector Abberline (Johnny Depp) receiving premonitions in an opium-induced haze.
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ETIC Films
#15. ‘Ravenous’ (1999)
A scene from “Ravenous”
– Director: Antonia Bird
– IMDb user rating: 6.9
– Metascore: 46
– Runtime: 101 minutes
Cannibal Western “Ravenous” failed to recoup its $12 million budget upon release in 1999 but has since become something of a cult classic. A starving and frostbitten mystery man, Colonel Ives (Robert Carlyle), shows up at an army base in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the Mexican-American War, confessing that he was forced to eat his fellow travelers to survive the winter.
This premise evokes the infamous Donner Party: a group of migrants in 1846 who resorted to cannibalizing their deceased through the same mountain range. Ives’ fondness for human flesh brings to mind Alfred (or Alferd) G. Packer, a 19th-century prospector charged with eating his comrades and who allegedly called the “breasts of man … the sweetest meat I ever tasted.”
Saturn Films
#14. ‘Shadow of the Vampire’ (2000)
Willem Dafoe in a scene from “Shadow of the Vampire”
– Director: E. Elias Merhige
– IMDb user rating: 6.9
– Metascore: 71
– Runtime: 92 minutes
This film’s title is a bit of an oxymoron since according to monster lore, the undead blood-suckers don’t cast a shadow. This John Malkovich vehicle is a fictional behind-the-scenes look at 1922’s massively influential silent film “Nosferatu,” itself the copyright-infringing adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” released 25 years earlier.
Merhige’s historically referential film takes the longstanding rumor that “Nosferatu” star Max Schreck was an actual vampire and runs with it. Willem Dafoe plays a vampire masquerading as a method actor whose taste for blood is a little too realistic for the comfort of cast and crew.
Maljack Productions
#13. ‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer’ (1986)
Michael Rooker in “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”
– Director: John McNaughton
– IMDb user rating: 7.0
– Metascore: 80
– Runtime: 83 minutes
“Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” is so unsettling that even McNaughton was “shaken by the discomfort [he] felt was present in the theater” when it was screened at the Telluride Film Festival. In the actual cases of Henry Lee Lucas and his accomplice, Ottis Toole, the facts can be difficult to separate from fiction: Lucas showed signs of being a pathological liar, and Toole twice recanted his confession of abducting and decapitating 6-year-old Adam Walsh.
McNaughton imagines an alternate universe in which each man’s kill count could realistically be in the hundreds—and Henry (Michael Rooker) simply drives off into the sunset after disposing of Otis (Tom Towles) and dismembering his girlfriend (Tracy Arnold).
Toho Company
#12. ‘Cold Fish’ (2010)
Megumi Kagurazaka in a scene from “Cold Fish”
– Director: Sion Sono
– IMDb user rating: 7.1
– Metascore: 66
– Runtime: 146 minutes
Dog breeder Gen Sekine was renowned for introducing the Alaskan malamute to Japan before he, along with his former wife and an accomplice, achieved notoriety for poisoning four people over likely financial disagreements in 1993.
Although Sono told the Tokyo Reporter that he researched many Japanese criminal cases while developing “Cold Fish,” it’s not much of a stretch to find similarities between its exotic fish emporium and Sekine’s kennel, or between the store’s merciless owner (Denden) and the convicted serial killer with reputed links to the yakuza. Despite the gruesome subject matter, Sono said in the same interview that he chose to lighten “Cold Fish” with humor because “when you read crime files there are extreme situations whereby interviews with people can be very funny.”
Gerald Kargl
#11. ‘Angst’ (1983)
Erwin Leder and Silvia Ryder in “Angst”
– Director: Gerald Kargl
– IMDb user rating: 7.3
– Metascore: data not available
– Runtime: 87 minutes
Kargl based his first feature-length outing on Werner Kniesek, an Austrian man who went on a rampage shortly before his 1980 release from prison where he was doing time for robbery and attempted homicide.
Driven by an apparent addiction to killing, both Kniesek and his on-screen representation, K. the Psychopath (Erwin Leder), dispatched a widow, her daughter, and her intellectually disabled son with methods including drowning, strangling, and stabbing. It wasn’t long before Kniesek, like K., was apprehended for acting suspiciously at a nearby eatery, and police discovered the deceased family in the trunk of the car that he stole from them.
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Media 8 Entertainment
#10. ‘Monster’ (2003)
Charlize Theron in a scene from “Monster”
– Director: Patty Jenkins
– IMDb user rating: 7.3
– Metascore: 74
– Runtime: 109 minutes
Despite Charlize Theron’s Academy Award-winning transformation into Florida serial killer Aileen Wuornos, Jenkins’ widely lauded interpretation of Wuornos’ crimes for the big screen has received criticism. Whether or not Wuornos acted in self-defense or cold blood is a controversial subject.
Several of her victims’ families disputed her portrayal in “Monster” as a sympathetic casualty of extreme childhood abuse and sex work, a profession in which women are not infrequently brutalized and killed. In response to these critiques, “Monster” producer Brad Wyman told ABC News that “based on a true story” should not be taken too literally in this case: “It’s not a documentary,” he said in 2004. “I mean in no way is it.”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
#9. ‘Poltergeist’ (1982)
Oliver Robins in a scene from “Poltergeist”
– Director: Tobe Hooper
– IMDb user rating: 7.3
– Metascore: 79
– Runtime: 114 minutes
The poltergeists of folklore are mischievous rather than malevolent beings. Not so the phantoms of “Poltergeist,” which invade a family’s new suburban home through a television portal, abduct their 5-year-old daughter (Heather O’Rourke), and terrorize her mother (JoBeth Williams) with unearthed corpses.
Hooper’s classic of cinema is based on the case of the Herrmanns from Seaford, New York, who in 1958 reported incidents that were so inexplicably strange—from bottles opening and knocking over by themselves to levitating sugar bowls—that they were featured in Life magazine and prompted an overwhelming amount of fan mail and telephone calls.
Vortex
#8. ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ (1974)
Marilyn Burns in “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”
– Director: Tobe Hooper
– IMDb user rating: 7.4
– Metascore: 78
– Runtime: 83 minutes
Prompted by television news coverage of the Vietnam War and serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley’s arrest in 1973, Hooper marketed “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” as almost a documentary.
While power tool-wielding cannibal Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen) is made up, the figure who inspired him, Ed Gein—aka the Butcher of Plainfield—was real. Following his ultra-religious mother’s death, Gein ransacked graves for female body parts, which he fashioned into home decorations and items of clothing (he also admitted to killing a shopkeeper, whose mangled body was discovered in his home, as well as a tavern owner).
Dimension Films
#7. ‘Scream’ (1996)
Skeet Ulrich, Matthew Lillard, and Jamie Kennedy in “Scream”
– Director: Wes Craven
– IMDb user rating: 7.4
– Metascore: 65
– Runtime: 111 minutes
Struggling screenwriter Kevin Williamson wrote the script for “Scream,” originally titled “Scary Movie,” after watching an ABC News program on Danny Rolling, who later became known as the Gainesville Ripper.
In 1990, Rolling broke into the homes of five students in the Florida college town and stabbed them to death; additionally, he raped and mutilated the four female victims. Although Rolling acted alone, law enforcement at the time speculated that there might be two suspects working together—a fact that’s referenced in “Scream”: What appears to be one killer is actually two.
New Line Cinema
#6. ‘The Conjuring’ (2013)
Lili Taylor and Joey King in “The Conjuring”
– Director: James Wan
– IMDb user rating: 7.5
– Metascore: 68
– Runtime: 112 minutes
“The Conjuring” was inspired by the alleged experiences of the Perron family in 1971 after they moved into a Rhode Island farmhouse and were reportedly bedeviled by spirits for the next nine years.
Ed and Lorraine Warren, a married team of paranormal investigators, supported the family’s allegations: In the film, the Warrens (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) drive out Bathsheba Sherman—the ghost of a rumored witch in the 1800s and a prime suspect in the hauntings—but in reality, the Perrons eventually fled. The infamous dwelling sold in 2022 for $1.5 million; its previous owners had rented the space out to ghost hunters, demonologists, and anyone else seeking things that go bump in the night.
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Paramount Pictures
#5. ‘Zodiac’ (2007)
Dermot Mulroney, Adam Goldberg, and Mark Ruffalo in “Zodiac”
– Director: David Fincher
– IMDb user rating: 7.7
– Metascore: 78
– Runtime: 157 minutes
Fincher doesn’t dramatize the transgressions of the Zodiac, an unidentified California serial killer who claimed the lives of at least five people in the late 1960s and mailed encrypted letters to newspapers about his exploits.
“Zodiac” draws faithfully from research and evidence as well as two books penned by former San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist and true crime enthusiast Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal). As such, “Zodiac” zigzags along a similar trajectory as the true unsolved mystery, only to wind up at the same dead end.
Warner Bros.
#4. ‘The Exorcist’ (1973)
Linda Blair in “The Exorcist”
– Director: William Friedkin
– IMDb user rating: 8.1
– Metascore: 81
– Runtime: 122 minutes
In the real-life exorcism that laid the groundwork for “The Exorcist” novel and film, no one projectile-vomited on a priest or desecrated their genitalia with religious iconography. But the account of Roland Doe—whose real identity was revealed in 2018 as NASA engineer Ronald Hunkeler—tracks with Regan MacNeil’s (Linda Blair) in other ways, including their beds shaking, words appearing etched into their skin, and speaking in distorted voices. In the end, MacNeil and Hunkeler were relieved of the demon that had purportedly inhabited their bodies.
Universal Pictures
#3. ‘Jaws’ (1975)
A scene from the water in the movie “Jaws”
– Director: Steven Spielberg
– IMDb user rating: 8.1
– Metascore: 87
– Runtime: 124 minutes
You won’t find the name Frank Mundus, aka Monster Man, in the official credits for “Jaws”; even Peter Benchley—who wrote the 1974 novel that gave rise to the influential summer blockbuster about a man-eating great white shark—said his fictional shark hunter, Quint (Robert Shaw), was a “composite character.”
But those that personally knew the legendary Montauk, New York-based, shark-hunter-turned-conservationist swear that the two men shared many characteristics, like the way each attached hollow barrels to the harpoons they used to catch and kill sharks.
Shamley Productions
#2. ‘Psycho’ (1960)
Janet Leigh in “Psycho”
– Director: Alfred Hitchcock
– IMDb user rating: 8.5
– Metascore: 97
– Runtime: 109 minutes
To preserve the mystery surrounding “Psycho,” Hitchcock bought every single copy of Robert Bloch’s 1959 novel “Psycho” (after acquiring the rights) so no one would know how the now-iconic film ended.
Indeed, both versions of “Psycho” follow essentially the same plot, in which deranged motel proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) lives with his mother’s preserved corpse and acts, dresses, speaks, and kills as though he is her. Like the killers of “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” and “The Silence of the Lambs,” Norman is said to have been inspired by Ed Gein.
Orion Pictures
#1. ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991)
Anthony Hopkins in “The Silence of the Lambs”
– Director: Jonathan Demme
– IMDb user rating: 8.6
– Metascore: 85
– Runtime: 118 minutes
“The Silence of the Lambs” author Thomas Harris takes the tale of Ed Gein and turns the intensity up to 11. In his novel and Demme’s screen adaptation, there are two serial killers: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) and Jame Gumb, aka Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine).
The latter skins his victims and aims to stitch together a suit from female epidermises, similar to Gein, whose wardrobe contained a shirt bearing a dead woman’s breasts and a belt adorned with nipples. Unlike Gein’s case—which a seasoned male sheriff cracked open—Buffalo Bill is brought down by a woman (Clarice Starling, played by Jodie Foster), who also happens to be an FBI agent-in-training.
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Which French books for kids are best?
When it comes to teaching any foreign language to a kid, either engaging books in the target language or books designed to help teach the language are a must. Books have long been a great resource for language immersion, and with French, the language of literature and philosophy, there are countless options.
Our top pick, “Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,” is a nostalgic read that’s great for kids who are learning French as a foreign language.
What to know before you buy French books for kids
Children’s books in French vs. French language instructional books for kids
The key thing to consider when buying French books for kids is the intended purpose of the books. Young children are exceptionally good language learners. They are less hesitant to make mistakes and are more focused on understanding new things, so younger kids do far better with a children’s book written for native French speakers rather than instructional language books.
Instructional language books or courses on the basics of language, such as “French for Kids,” have their own benefits when it comes to teaching kids that are a bit older. These books also focus on learning through reading and immersion, but offer a more guided approach.
Teaching your child a foreign language
Giving the gift of a foreign language to your child is one of the best things you can do to prepare them for their future. Children can learn and absorb the language naturally through immersion, just like how they learned their native language, due to their young age. Starting them as young as possible is best.
Why should my child learn French?
French is a great choice to teach your kid as a foreign language because of the professional opportunities that it can open up later on in their life. French is spoken in, of course, France, but also in Canada, several African countries and many other regions and countries around the world. French has about 280 million native speakers, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world.
What to look for in quality French books for kids
Easy to understand
The most important thing to look for in a French book for kids is how easy it is to understand. Even though kids are very receptive to foreign languages, giving them a copy of “Les Mis” won’t result in much. Consider your child’s reading level in English when picking a French book for them.
Focuses on one or a few key language concepts
Much like English books for kids, French books for children often focus on one key language concept. For example, the classic children’s book “The Hungry Caterpillar” focuses on the concept of food vocabulary.
Having a book that focuses on just one or a few key language concepts, whether they be grammatical concepts or a specified set of vocabulary, helps your child learn faster.
New vocabulary
The whole point of having your child read in French is so they can expand their French vocabulary. Therefore, it’s essential to consider your child’s reading level and age when buying a French book for kids.
Especially with younger language learners, the material should always be comprehensible input +1, or in other words, 80% comprehensible to the learner with about 20% new words or concepts. Look for books that feature and teach a specified vocabulary set through the story, such as “household objects,” “foods” or “things in the classroom.”
How much you can expect to spend on French books for kids
French books for kids can range from $15-$35, depending on the book.
French books for kids FAQ
Is French difficult for native English-speaking children to learn?
A. French may be a challenging language for native English speakers to learn, but it’s not as difficult as some other languages, such as Chinese, Japanese or Arabic.
Should I worry that a book in French is too difficult for my child?
A. In short, no. It depends on your child’s reading level in the language. If they’re having difficulty understanding the text, you should downgrade to simpler text.
What’s the best French book for kids to buy?
Top French book for kids
“Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry”
What you need to know: This children’s novel is a classic for a reason. It’s a charming story that touches on deep themes while still being appealing to children. It’s great for kids who have some prior French knowledge.
What you’ll love: Saint-Exupéry’s work here is beloved by people all around the world due to its charming nature and deep themes. If you’re familiar with the story from your own childhood, it’s especially worth sharing this book with your kid.
What you should consider: There are a lot of materials online to help teach this book to learners of French, but it may be too difficult for very young children.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top French book for kids for the money
What you need to know: This set of graded readers for kids is great for families that don’t have access to a fluent French speaker.
What you’ll love: “French for Kids” is a set of 10 graded readers written for children aged 3 to 8. All the readers focus on specific themes and the readers come with audio recordings to help with pronunciation.
What you should consider: This option may seem a bit more expensive than other books, but really it is a value since it’s 10 books bundled together, plus audio recordings.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
“Les 100 premiers mots pour les tout-petits (Bilingue Anglais-Francais)”
What you need to know: This is a bilingual vocabulary book for toddlers focused on sight words.
What you’ll love: The book presents every word in both French and English, accompanied by a large, brightly colored picture to help your kid learn.
What you should consider: This is a great starter book for kids, but won’t work well with children older than 5.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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By RAF CASERT and SAMUEL PETREQUIN
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders enter a crucial stretch this week to make sure runaway energy prices and short supplies do not further tank their struggling economies and foment unrest. At the same time, they need to keep all 27 members united in their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Leading up to Thursday’s start of a key summit, the EU’s executive Commission is presenting a blueprint on Tuesday that needs to reconcile the yawning gap between those who want to impose a common gas price cap to keep prices down and those who think it would primarily keep out supplies, further starving industries and businesses.
Then, going into the weekend, EU leaders will seek a compromise during two days of talks, however hard that may be.
EU council president Charles Michel told the 27 leaders in his invitation letter that there were three lines of action: reducing demand, ensuring security of supply and containing prices.
“Europe is facing its week of truth,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said. “This week it is hit or miss.”
It did not take long for EU member countries to realize that the bloc’s dependence on Russian energy was a huge political error. They figured it out almost as soon as Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24. And amid sanctions imposed on Russia’s energy sector, the wealthy bloc of 450 million has since been struggling to find ways to keep freezing temperatures from entering the homes of the poorest and businesses from going down for lack of affordable energy.
With nationalists and right-wing populists complaining ever more about the EU’s common approach, the ability to find a joint exit strategy from the crisis could have a direct impact on the bloc’s future.
“The coming winter could freeze and shatter European sentiment — the shared sense of belonging, mutual trust among European countries, and citizens’ emotional attachment to the idea of Europe,” said Pawel Zerka of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Even De Croo, leader of one of the most EU-embracing nations, knows there is no more time to waffle. “The time for excuses has gone. if the EU still wants to be meaningful, contain energy prices and better protect families and businesses in this energy war, it finally has to deliver,” he said.
De Croo has been pushing hard in recent weeks to cap the cost of all gas imports to the EU, with other countries like Poland and Greece also increasing the pressure on the EU Commission.
The bloc’s executive arm was set to come forward with a plan to deal with the shortages Tuesday. Not an easy task in the light of the fundamental differences between juggernaut Germany, which does not back a full gas price cap, and others who are convinced such a cap will not lead to a decline of offer on the market.
The Commission is expected to come forward with a compromise that would allow for a temporary correction mechanism to kick in in exceptional circumstances and the creation of a new LNG gas index better reflecting the market following the drastic reduction of imports of pipeline gas from Russia.
If any prodding was needed, the International Energy Agency did it early this month by saying that “Europe’s security of gas supply is facing unprecedented risk as Russia intensifies its use of natural gas supplies as a political weapon.”
Even if hoarding of gas supplies has gone full thrust ahead and reliance on Russian provisions has dwindled to less than 10 percent, dangers still lurks.
“The possibility of a complete cut-off in Russian gas deliveries cannot be dismissed ahead of the 2022/23 heating season — when the European gas system is at its most vulnerable,” the IEA said.
And the energy crisis is ripping deep into the fabric of European society. The ETUC European trade union group said that wages adjusted for inflation have fallen in every EU member state this year by as much as 9%. Meanwhile, corporate profits continued to rise, sometimes by as much as 6.5 percent in Romania, it said.
“People are missing meals, having to scrap the leisure activities. And families have to choose between filling up their cars or turning on the heating,” said Manon Aubry, an EU lawmaker from the Left group.
Against such a background of potential social foment, the EU leaders are in line to agree on a system to pool buying of gas to make sure member states stop bidding against one another to boost reserves and push up energy prices overall.
To counter the threat of business failures and industrial decline, EU nations have independently started subsidizing threatened sectors, at the risk of skewing the market. If a wealthy member state can throw billions of euros at an industry while a poorer one has to scrape by and look on jealously, the concept of the EU’s common market is under threat.
This is why Germany’s 200 billion-euro plan to subsidize its industry to get through the next two winters has come under criticism by many. But then again, keeping Germany’s wheels of industry going, could also benefit all. “Usually what is good for Germany is good for us,” De Croo said.
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WASHINGTON (Nexstar) – Though the country continues to deal with high inflation numbers, President Biden says things are starting to improve.
“We’ve added jobs every single month in my presidency, more than 10 million jobs total,” Biden said.
The president said there’s also good news for Americans still facing sky-high prices, stating, “the economy grew at 2.6% last quarter while inflation started to slow and unemployment stayed low.”
Meanwhile, Texas senator Ted Cruz blames the Biden administration for the pain Americans are feeling.
“You want to know why the price of everything you buy has gone through the roof?” Cruz questioned. “Because the Democrats keep spending money we don’t have, keep borrowing from the Chinese, running the printing presses.”
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh claimed that “if the senator was talking about the American Rescue Plan, well, a lot of that money went to small businesses in America so that small businesses wouldn’t have to shut their doors.”
Secretary Walsh says doing nothing in that crisis would have cost people their lives or their livelihoods noting, “people would’ve been on the street, living on the street.”
Other major spending legislation passed under President Biden included the infrastructure and chips laws, which Secretary Walsh says are rebuilding the country and creating jobs.
Biden added that “the implementation of the legislative achievements are going to be one of the key parts of the success, I believe, for the economy.”
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Releases Responsible Investment Policy Detailing Comprehensive ESG Integration Practices and Net Zero Commitments
Appoints Real Assets Sustainability Expert Beth Richtman as Operating Partner
Invests in Carbon Title, a Leading Platform Designed to Assist Real Estate Sector's Decarbonization Efforts
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPoint Partners ("GreenPoint" or the "firm"), an alternatives firm investing at the intersection of real assets, technology and sustainability, today announced a number of initiatives that significantly enhance the firm's industry-leading commitment to sustainability and responsible investment practices. The firm today released its Responsible Investment Policy and announced the hiring of Beth Richtman as an Operating Partner focused on partnering with portfolio companies to implement and enhance sustainability initiatives. Additionally, GreenPoint announced an investment in a platform to assist decarbonization efforts in the real estate sector, Carbon Title, from its Technology Fund I.
"GreenPoint was founded on the principle that real assets, technology and sustainability goals would become increasingly integrated. There is a critical need – and tremendous opportunity – to invest in and ensure these industries transition to a more sustainable and decarbonized economy," said Chris Green, Founder and CEO of GreenPoint Partners. "We are focused on partnering with the businesses and management teams accelerating that change, and these initiatives showcase our ambition."
Publishes Responsible Investment Policy and Announces Net Zero Commitments
GreenPoint's Responsible Investment Policy defines the firm's comprehensive approach and commitment to integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors throughout the investment lifecycle to have a positive, tangible impact on the environment and the companies it partners with.
Key highlights include:
- Integration of ESG factors throughout the investment lifecycle. From sourcing and diligence to execution and asset management, GreenPoint utilizes a variety of ESG considerations throughout the investment process to prioritize opportunities where sustainability and ESG performance can be improved to enhance broader business performance.
- Net Zero commitments. GreenPoint has committed to maintaining carbon neutrality of firm operations since inception and has become a signatory to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative, an international group of asset managers committed to supporting net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.
- Leveraging its portfolio to drive positive change. In partnering with portfolio companies across all GreenPoint strategies and target asset classes, the firm seeks to work closely with management teams to identify sustainable solutions and tackle the toughest challenges industries face today.
"Our Responsible Investment Policy underscores the importance of ESG in everything that we do, and the tangible actions we are taking to have a long-term, sustainable impact," said Mr. Green. "Our Limited Partners hold more than $500 billion of real assets with a $125 billion development pipeline, which enables GreenPoint to not only achieve its climate-focused objectives, but to leverage these principles across our broader ecosystem."
The full Responsible Investment Policy is accessible on the GreenPoint website here.
Adds Real Assets Sustainability Executive Beth Richtman as Operating Partner
The firm today also announced the appointment of Beth Richtman as Operating Partner, effective immediately. A seasoned executive with more than 15 years of leadership experience within the sustainable investment space, Ms. Richtman will spearhead the integration of GreenPoint's Responsible Investment Policy and essential ESG considerations into all aspects of the firm's investment and operational decision-making processes.
Ms. Richtman joins GreenPoint from the California Public Employee's Retirement System (CalPERS), where she spent nearly a decade and most recently led a team providing centralized leadership and managing the integration of ESG factors into investment decision-making across CalPERS' portfolio as the pension fund's first-ever Managing Director of Sustainable Investments. She also served as a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to this role, she oversaw a portfolio of more than $7 billion in assets across domestic infrastructure, office properties and tech-advantaged real estate. Before joining CalPERS, Ms. Richtman also served as a key member of the business development team at Enel Green Power North America (EGPNA).
"Beth brings an unmatched track record in the sustainable and ESG investment space and we are excited to welcome her to the GreenPoint team as an Operating Partner," added Mr. Green. "Beth will play an integral role in the implementation of our responsible investment policy and operational initiatives across our portfolio, and I look forward to working closely with her as we continue to grow our platform and the impact we have."
Ms. Richtman added, "I am thrilled to join such an experienced and forward-thinking team to support the transformative companies driving actionable change across the real assets space. There is so much opportunity for improvement within the industry, and I share Chris and the entire team's dedication to sustainability and look forward to leveraging my expertise and network to advance these efforts."
Partners with Carbon Title to Support Growth of Innovative, Blockchain-Enabled Platform
GreenPoint also today announced its seed-stage investment in Carbon Title, the first platform dedicated to measuring and managing the embodied carbon of existing and planned construction, as well as sourcing end-to-end the necessary carbon offsets to achieve carbon neutrality.
"Carbon Title is creating an essential opportunity for developers and asset managers alike to commit to, track and execute on sustainability-focused initiatives. The firm's proprietary platform will enhance transparency and create a more liquid and efficient carbon offset credit market within the real estate industry." said Eric Boothe, Operating Partner at GreenPoint. "At GreenPoint, we view this as a unique opportunity to work within our dedicated ecosystem of partners, investors and relationships to leverage Carbon Title as a change agent and provider of sustainability solutions."
Carbon Title's tools aim to enable property owners and developers to plan and reach net zero goals throughout the course of property development and management by utilizing lower-carbon building materials and offset the remaining emissions through the purchase of high-quality carbon removals. The product's immutable, blockchain-enabled registry will provide transparent and verifiable records of a building's emissions data and also enable the purchasers of carbon credits to track the provenance and usage of credits purchased on the platform.
Read the full press release issued by Carbon Title earlier today announcing the investment and launch of the platform.
About GreenPoint
GreenPoint is an alternatives investment firm that invests at the intersection of real assets, technology and sustainability. Founded in 2019 by Chris Green and headquartered in New York, the firm is deploying complementary strategies across technology investing and private equity to integrate the disparate worlds of real assets and technology. Green has 20 years of real assets experience, including 16 years at Macquarie Capital where he was the global head of real estate. The firm's activities are supported by a team of investors and operating partners who bring decades of experience in technology, real estate investing and operations at top firms. GreenPoint's investors include strategic real asset operators, pension funds, family offices and industry senior executives who collectively own/manage over $500 billion in global real assets with an additional $125 billion development pipeline. By combining tech venture capital investing real estate private equity, and sustainability solutions, GreenPoint can deliver unique and transformative insights into a rapidly changing industry. Visit us at www.greenpointpartners.com
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2022-09-15T14:24:31+00:00
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newschannel10.com
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BLOOMINGTON – This “European Vacation” is starring Ron Rose and Mia Smith, not Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo.
Both Illinois Wesleyan basketball teams are headed to Europe to play international competition and experience the culture of a foreign country. Rose’s men’s team leaves for Greece on Tuesday, while Smith’s women’s squad departs for Italy on Monday.
Teams are allowed 10 practices before an overseas trip.
“Losing four starters off last year’s team, it couldn’t be better timing to take a trip like this,” said Rose, whose team finished 24-6 last season and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III Tournament.
The Titans expected the departures of graduated seniors Matt Leritz, Cory Noe and Pete Lambesis. But losing point guard Luke Yoder to the transfer portal and Division I North Dakota State was a surprise.
“We all love Luke. It’s tough to lose him, but we’re rolling with the punches. And this group has something special, too,” said senior forward Cody Mitchell. “A lot of people (Titans) are going to surprise a lot of people, some under the radar guys who haven’t got their opportunity yet.”
The Titans are prepared for lower expectations entering the season, which opens with the Sikma Hall of Fame Invitational at Shirk Center. IWU will face Yeshiva on Nov. 12 and either Wisconsin-Stevens Point or Webster on Nov. 13.
“I feel like a lot of people are counting us out,” senior guard Lucas Heflen said. “We’re really excited for what we have and what we have to show. We’re ready to put everything together and have a great year.”
In Greece, the Titans will take on two professional teams and the Greek under 21 national team.
“My goal is always to challenge us,” said Rose. “It doesn’t matter if we go 0-3 or 3-0. It’s an opportunity to get out there and play, see guys in different situations and allow them to show what they’re capable of doing.
"They are highly motivated because there is opportunity. We have a very athletic, talented group that just needs to gain experience. This provides a great springboard — if we do it right — into the school year and season.”
IWU will fly into Thessaloniki and spend the first half of its trip there. The group will visit a monastery, take a day trip to the island of Hydra for a beach day and conclude with three days in Athens.
Women in Italy
Smith is taking a group of 37 (including family members) to Italy.
“We’re looking for a lot of historical aspects — places you only see in magazines and educational books,” Smith said. “It’s an opportunity to grow our team and our families together.”
The Titans posted a 20-9 record and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with three freshmen playing key roles.
“Our goal is to play all 13 players not equally but as close to equal minutes as we possibly can,” said Smith, whose squad will play three games against opponents yet to be determined. “If we’re in a situation we need to pull out a win, we’ll put our best five in.”
Smith is taking a low key approach to practices leading up to the trip.
“I want our kids just to be happy at this point,” she said. “While we want to continue to work hard, as far as critiquing or making changes, we’ve been a little more loose with that.”
The travel party will take a gondola ride in Venice, visit the Colosseum and the Vatican in Rome, go shopping in Milan and make pasta from scratch for their own meals in Florence.
“I want them to have the fullest experience they can possibly get,” said Smith.
NCAA rules prohibit incoming recruits to participate in such trips.
Photos: Millikin women's basketball vs. Illinois Wesleyan in the CCIW Tournament Championship
Contact Randy Reinhardt at (309) 820-3403. Follow him on Twitter: @Pg_Reinhardt
“We’re looking for a lot of historical aspects – places you only see in magazines and educational books. It’s an opportunity to grow our team and our families together.”
– Mia Smith, Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball coach
Along with the returning Titans, Illinois Wesleyan men's basketball coach Ron Rose has secured a seven-player recruiting class that will battle for that court time.
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2022-08-03T19:27:30+00:00
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pantagraph.com
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https://pantagraph.com/sports/college/illinois-wesleyan/watch-now-illinois-wesleyan-basketball-teams-bound-for-europe/article_d4bf16dc-12c2-11ed-a58a-271ed21a2b29.html
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Vigilantes in Haiti strike back at gangsters with brutal street justice
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti.
Gun-toting gangsters have been robbing, raping and murdering the innocent. Weak or corrupt police and officials have done little, or worse.
Now, the people are taking action and a wave of brutal vigilante justice is roiling Haiti, concentrated in this capital of about 1 million. The vigilantes close off neighborhoods. They stone and often chop the limbs of suspected gangsters, behead them and set them afire, sometimes while they are still alive.
Vigilantes have killed at least 164 people since the movement dubbed “bwa kale” began in April, according to the United Nations. The name means “peeled wood” in Haitian Creole and insinuates male dominance and power in street slang.
“If you’re not from here, we’re going to kill you,” said Leo, a community leader who granted the AP access to the Turgeau neighborhood so that journalists could see how the neighborhood is responding to the gangs estimated to control 80% of Port-au-Prince. He did not provide his last name to protect his family.
Banners that read, “We are tired of the kidnapping,” and “Watch out for one another,” are strung throughout the city, and many neighborhoods have erected barricades like those closing off Turgeau.
On a recent afternoon, Leo and neighbors guarded one of the four makeshift barriers blocking roads into their hilly community of doctors, nurses, pastors, lawyers, street vendors and engineers.
People who wanted to enter had to show their IDs, open their bags, lift their shirts to reveal any gang tattoos, and, if they didn’t live there, explain where they were going. At night, those seeking to enter Turgeau also had to provide a password, which the community changes every week.
Haitian police don't keep reliable crime statistics. But gang-related killings and kidnappings have dropped because of bwa kale, say human-rights activists, who also worry about the gruesome violence, and that innocent people could be killed.
Weslander Al Cégaire, a cook in the southern city of Les Cayes with a round face and easy smile, told the AP that his cousin was recently killed by bwa kale participants while riding with a motorcycle driver who was targeted.
“It’s a good movement, but at the same time, the innocent are paying for the guilty,” Cégaire said, adding that he left Port-au-Prince because he feared the gang violence and the bwa kale movement.
Turgeau is under siege by a gang known as “5 Seconds,” because that’s supposedly how long it takes them to kill someone. The bwa kale movement gained momentum in Turgeau after residents said the gang launched a pre-dawn attack in late April, killing nearly a dozen people.
“They burned down motorcycles. They burned down houses. They burned people. They raped. They looted,” said Kenson Dimanche, a volunteer who controls one of the barricades.
Kettia, a resident who provided only her first name to protect her and her family, said that the gang snatched her husband, forced him to lead them out of the neighborhood, and used him as a shield as they exchanged fire with police. He survived.
Kettia, a short woman with a soft demeanor, tries to stay strong for her 4-year-old and 1-year-old, but they keep wondering if the gang will return.
“If the people doing bwa kale didn’t stand up, it could’ve been worse,” she said.
More than 1,630 people were killed, wounded or kidnapped in Haiti in the first three months of the year, a nearly 30% increase compared with the previous quarter, according to a report issued in May by the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti. In April alone, more than 600 people were reported killed, compared with a total of 846 people slain in the first three months of the year.
In October, Prime Minister Ariel Henry requested the immediate deployment of an international military force to quell gang violence, but neither the U.N. Security Council, the U.S. or Canada has acted.
María Isabel Salvador, the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, told The Associated Press that, “Haiti truly can’t take it anymore.”
“The world has to respond,” she said.
Haiti’s National Police has only some 9,000 active officers for a country of more than 11 million people. Police have arrested more than 2,700 suspected criminals and seized dozens of weapons since launching an operation dubbed “Tornado” in January to target gangs, but they are often overwhelmed. Both police and civilians are fighting against an estimated seven major gang coalitions that operate in Haiti, along with some 200 affiliated groups.
In Turgeau, some vigilantes walked around with sharpened machetes, like 63-year-old Réné Mizak, who said he was a former Tonton Macoute – a private militia that terrorized Haiti during the dictatorships of Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude.
“I bought it to defend myself,” said Mizak, a tall, slender man with a relaxed gait. “We are seeking justice our way.”
Mizak, who also declined to provide his full identity due to fear of gangsters, said he recently cut off one man’s arm and burned another’s face with gasoline because no one in the community recognized them, adding that bwa kale participants have killed at least three people in Turgeau who were suspected gang members.
The bwa kale movement began when police detained 13 suspected gang members during a traffic stop in Port-au-Prince in late April.
“We took them from the police and finished them,” recalled Israel Bien-Aimé, who said he helped stone and set fire to the group that day. “This is the only movement that can give us a solution to the gangs in Haiti.”
Bien-Aimé, a tall man with an athletic build, vowed to continue.
“If we found a bandit right now, we would hold them, beat them and kill them,” he said.
The killings have grown increasingly grisly.
Just a couple of blocks from Turgeau, a man on a motorcycle carried a decapitated head as the crowd yelled, “Bwa kale! Bwa kale!” The incident could be seen in a video that has been shared on social media and discussed among international observers.
Gangs have yet to respond to the bwa kale movement, although some neighborhoods are bracing for revenge. In a recent TikTok video, a man who said he's a member of the gang that controls the Grand Ravine area southeast of Port-au-Prince said he’s waiting for the bwa kale movement to come to the area.
With a black balaclava covering his face and a belt of .50-caliber bullets draped around his neck, the man said his gang will give Haitians their own taste of bwa kale in due time.
“We are very relaxed,” he said. “We’re not going to rush. We’re not going to fuss. We’re just going to wait.”
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Associated Press reporter Evens Sanon contributed to this report.
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2023-06-04T19:48:55+00:00
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detroitnews.com
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2023/06/04/vigilantes-in-haiti-strike-back-at-gangsters-with-brutal-street-justice/70286557007/
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NEW BERN, N.C. (WNCT) — A former school resource officer and Craven County Sheriff’s Office deputy had his first court appearance on Monday after his arrest last week.
Isaiah Bradley, 24, of New Bern was taken into custody after his first court appearance in New Bern, WNCT’s Cheyenne Pagan reports. He was charged with one count of sex act with a student and one count of indecent liberties with a student. District Attorney Scott Thomas said the student was a 16-year-old at New Bern High School, where Bradley worked.
Officials said the crime began at New Bern High School in Aug. of 2022, according to the arrest warrant. He was arrested on April 6 by Craven County deputies and released after posting a $50,000 bond.
Bradley was given a $100,000 bond during Monday’s court hearing after the judge in the case doubled it, saying it was “not high enough,” Pagan reports. He was also told by the judge that once his bond was posted, he was not allowed on any Craven County Schools property and can have no contact with the victim or anyone under age 18.
Craven County Sheriff’s Office Maj. David McFadyen said Bradley was fired on March 25 after the sheriff’s office confirmed the crime had happened. The NC State Bureau of Investigation then took over the case. The SBI and District Attorney Scott Thomas began investigating Bradley, which later led to his arrest.
Craven County Schools had no comment on the situation.
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2023-04-11T01:12:22+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/news/north-carolina/former-craven-county-sheriffs-office-deputy-sro-charged-with-having-sex-with-student/
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Marc Arsell Robinson, California State University, San Bernardino
(THE CONVERSATION) When it comes to civil rights history, the focus is often on the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and other protests that took place in the South. In “Washington State Rising,” Marc Arsell Robinson, assistant professor of African American history at California State University, San Bernardino, takes a look at the civil rights protests that occurred in a lesser-examined region of the United States: the Pacific Northwest. The following Q&A is about what Robinson found for his forthcoming book, which is set to be published in August 2023.
Why write a book on Black student activism in the Pacific Northwest?
As an African American born and raised in Seattle, I was curious to learn if and how my hometown was connected to the protests of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. I was pleased to learn the city, and region, was deeply connected to these larger movements. I felt a responsibility to share what I had learned.
Also, studies of Black protests from the 1960s tend to focus on the South. And even studies of civil rights events and groups outside the South position the Pacific Northwest as marginal. This pattern holds true of research on 1960s Black student activism, such as the studies of nationwide protest by Ibram X. Kendi and Matha Biondi.
My book shines light on Black Power’s reach beyond major cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It shows Black Power’s impact on higher education, and it details how some Black student activists used community organizing and interracial alliances to create change.
What was one of your most interesting discoveries?
The Black Student Union, or BSU, at the University of Washington helped connect the Black Panther Party to Seattle. The group formed in fall 1967, and later several of its members helped co-found the Seattle Panthers in April 1968. This includes Aaron Dixon, who confirms in his memoir that he was in the Black Student Union at UW before being appointed by Bobby Seale as Captain, or leader, of the Seattle Panthers.
Moreover, as detailed in “Washington State Rising,” Dixon and other Seattle activists were introduced to the Panthers through BSU activities, including a trip to Oakland and San Francisco in April 1968 for a Black political conference, and the BSU’s network of local campus chapters and allied groups.
What is the legacy of the Black Student Union in Washington state?
Examples of the Black Student Union’s legacy are the Black studies courses and programs that were established in the 1960s. Prior to this, very few, if any, classes or assigned materials included the perspectives and experiences of Black people. Today, students and faculty continue to study Black history, even if names of programs or departments have changed to ethnic studies and so forth.
Similarly, ongoing efforts to recruit and retain diverse students, faculty and staff are part of the Black Student Union’s legacy. The most prominent example is the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, known as OMAD, at UW. This initiative was a direct outcome of the Black Student Union’s 1968 sit-in of the UW president’s office and negotiations with campus officials. The BSU was protesting UW’s small population of nonwhite students and faculty, along with related concerns. Today, the OMAD continues to offer African American and other minority students academic advising, cultural support, tutoring, leadership development and more.
What does Black student activism in Washington state look like today?
Black Student Unions are active at numerous colleges and universities in Washington, including the two schools featured in my book, the University of Washington and Washington State University.
Like their 1960s counterparts, progressive Black students today continue to push their institutions to create, maintain and expand initiatives to graduate Black students, hire Black faculty and fund Black studies and related curricula.
In recent years, Black students across the Pacific Northwest have organized in support of Black Lives Matter and against the killings of unarmed Black people, often using social media as a tool for communication and public education. Overall, today’s Black student politics and struggles for greater equity continue the legacy of the Black Student Unions of the 1960s.
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here: https://theconversation.com/black-students-in-washington-state-played-key-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement-new-book-states-202907.
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2023-04-21T14:17:10+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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Port St. Lucie - Monday June 5, 2023: Emergency Medical Consultants (EMC) will once again be providing free CPR training for parents, grandparents, and anyone else interested in learning these life-saving skills. EMC has provided these courses free of charge each year as summer approaches and children are more likely to be in areas requiring adult supervision.
The program was started after the company’s owner, a recently retired Fire Captain and Paramedic, witnessed 13 children drown and not survive largely in part due to bystanders and family not knowing CPR.
This is the 24th year EMC has provided the CPR program free of charge.
CPR participants will learn and practice skills for children who choke, stop breathing, or suffer cardiac arrest from any cause.
This American Heart Association CPR for Family & Friends courses each take about 2 hours and will be presented on:
June 17th – 8:30am
Emergency Medical Consultants
595 SE Port St Lucie Blvd.
On-site classroom
To Register for a class, those interested can Call EMC at (772) 878-3085
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2023-06-05T13:47:32+00:00
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wqcs.org
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https://www.wqcs.org/wqcs-news/2023-06-05/free-cpr-courses-for-summer-safety
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TUCSON, Ariz., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Avionics (UA) was awarded a contract valued at $33 million to supply ClearVision™ systems –Enhanced Flight Vision Systems (EFVS) from AerSale (NASDAQ: ASLE). The solution featuring the SkyLens™ Head Wearable Display (HWD) and EVS-5000 cameras for the Boeing 737NG, is part of the AerAware™ installation, developed by AerSale.
The deal follows increasing interest in the aviation market for enhanced vision systems that provide significant operational benefits and improved situational awareness at night and in low visibility conditions.
ClearVision provides an innovative Combined Vision System (CVS) displayed to both pilot and copilot on the SkyLens HWD, a certified display for commercial aviation. The intuitive avionics suite includes UA's high-resolution EVS-5000 Enhanced Vision System (EVS) camera, composed of six sensors for a comprehensive and unprecedented multispectral coverage, and a 3D Synthetic Vision System (SVS). ClearVision greatly improves crew resource management in the cockpit of the 737NG and offers pilots the ability to overcome degraded visibility situations day and night allowing them to move in and out of airports faster, saving time and increasing operational efficiency. With SkyLens, pilots continuously operate head-up and can monitor flight information while retaining 3D situational awareness of terrain, and eventually aircraft traffic, through the system's unlimited 360-degree Field of View.
ClearVision is a trusted and certified solution, flying today on several fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, building on more than 20 years of EVS heritage and more than 3000 EVS cameras already in service.
Dror Yahav, CEO of Universal Avionics said: "The ClearVision EFVS solution brings substantial capabilities to the 737NG and has demonstrated its advantages to operations including the ability to overcome degraded visibility solutions during any time of day. I believe that the ability to allow aircraft to operate in conditions well below published minimums is a game-changer."
Nicolas Finazzo, Chairman and CEO of AerSale said: "With this contract, we're ensuring deliverability of the AerAware system to the growing number of airlines who have expressed interest in this solution. We are bringing this innovative solution to commercial operators for improved safety and operational effectiveness and we're seeing a lot of excitement as we conduct demonstration flight tests."
About Universal Avionics
Universal Avionics, an Elbit Systems Company, is a leading manufacturer of innovative commercial avionics systems offered as retrofit and forward-fit solutions for the largest diversification of aircraft types in the industry. To learn more about Universal Avionics, visit www.uasc.com/company/about.
About AerSale
AerSale serves airlines operating large jets manufactured by Boeing, Airbus and McDonnell Douglas and is dedicated to providing integrated aftermarket services and products designed to help aircraft owners and operators to realize significant savings in the operation, maintenance and monetization of their aircraft, engines, and components. AerSale's offerings include: Aircraft & Component MRO, Aircraft and Engine Sales and Leasing, Used Serviceable Material sales, and internally developed 'Engineered Solutions' to enhance aircraft performance and operating economics (e.g. AerSafe™, AerTrak™, and now AerAware™).
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2022-07-18T09:57:14+00:00
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Crash on I-380 causing delayed traffic in Cedar Rapids
Published: Jun. 15, 2023 at 3:05 PM CDT|Updated: 35 minutes ago
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - At approximately 2:55 pm, Iowa DOT reported a crash occurred southbound on I-380 at the ramp for the 7/8th Street exit near St. Luke’s Hospital.
The Right lane is blocked off while crews are working in the area.
Travelers should expect delays until the area has been cleared and the lane has been reopened.
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2023-06-15T20:41:21+00:00
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Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers.
That's what a witness said Wednesday as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.
Juan Carranza saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.
"Let's just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they are supposed to," he told the Associated Press. "More could have been done."
"They were unprepared," he added.
Officials said the incident started at a residence when the 18-year-old suspect shot his grandmother. The suspect then crashed his car and attempted to run into the elementary school. There, he was met by a school resource officer.
The officer "confronted" but did not "engage" the gunman, officials said. Then, local officers followed the gunman into the school. Lt. Chris Olivarez reported that the gunman shot two officers inside the school. The two officers had non-life-threatening injuries, he said.
The gunman barricaded himself in a classroom, shooting at will, officials said.
As of Thursday morning, Olivarez said officials are still working on a timeline of the events leading to the moment Border Patrol officers fatally shot the gunman.
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2022-05-26T12:19:58+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/onlookers-urged-police-to-charge-into-texas-school-during-massacre
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GREENSBORO, N.C., June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. (NYSE: SKT), a leading operator of upscale open-air outlet centers, announced today that its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 will be released on Monday, August 8, 2022, after the market close. The Company will host its conference call for analysts, investors and other interested parties on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
To access the conference call, listeners should dial 1-877-605-1702.
A live audio webcast of this call will be available to the public on Tanger's Investor Relations website, investors.tangeroutlets.com.
A telephone replay of the call will be available from August 9, 2022, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time through 11:59 p.m. on August 23, 2022, by dialing 1-877-660-6853, replay access code #13730784. An online archive of the webcast will also be available through August 23, 2022.
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc. (NYSE: SKT) is a leading operator of upscale open-air outlet centers that owns, or has an ownership interest in, a portfolio of 36 centers with one additional center currently under development. Tanger's operating properties are located in 20 states and in Canada, totaling approximately 13.6 million square feet, leased to over 2,600 stores operated by more than 600 different brand name companies. The Company has more than 41 years of experience in the outlet industry and is a publicly-traded REIT. For more information on Tanger Outlet Centers, call 1-800-4TANGER or visit the Company's website at www.tangeroutlets.com.
Investor Contact Information
Doug McDonald
SVP, Finance and Capital Markets
T: (336) 856-6066
TangerIR@tangeroutlets.com
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2022-06-16T14:02:11+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2022/06/16/tanger-outlet-centers-schedules-second-quarter-2022-earnings-release-conference-call/
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Updated May 9, 2023 at 6:24 PM ET
The last national head count of people living in the United States may have missed a substantial share of residents who are not U.S. citizens, according to a Census Bureau report released last week.
The finding comes after years of concern over census interference by former President Donald Trump's administration that likely discouraged many unauthorized immigrants, green card holders and other noncitizens from taking part in the count in 2020.
The Constitution requires a once-a-decade tally of the "whole number of persons in each state." The population numbers are used to reallocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes, as well as guide some $1.5 trillion a year in federal money to local communities for public services.
But the bureau's estimated tally of the U.S. population as of Census Day 2020, based on a simulated tally involving administrative records from government and third-party sources, was 2.3% higher than the count's actual result of 331.4 million.
That gap, researchers found, was likely driven by noncitizen residents who are missing from the agency's count, especially those with "unknown legal status." About 19.7% of noncitizens tallied in the simulation using administrative records had addresses that could not be matched with those counted in the 2020 census.
That raises "the possibility that the 2020 Census did not succeed in collecting data for a significant fraction of noncitizens residing in the United States," the bureau's report says.
Earlier research by the bureau warned of a scenario like this in light of the Trump administration's failed push to add to the 2020 census forms a question about a person's U.S. citizenship status. After news about Trump officials' plan began spreading in late 2017, many participants in focus groups for the count's marketing campaign said they were planning to ignore the census out of fear that the question's responses would be misused to deport unauthorized immigrants.
Using a question to produce citizenship data, the agency also found, was likely to be more costly and less accurate than using administrative records.
That campaign for a citizenship question was ultimately blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court, which was later asked to weigh in on a presidential memo by Trump that called for the unprecedented exclusion of unauthorized immigrants from the numbers used to divvy up each state's share of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. After the high court punted on that case, President Biden reversed Trump's policy as one of his first executive actions.
The bureau's latest report, however, makes no direct mention of these Trump-era census controversies.
Instead, the researchers note that noncitizens are more likely than citizens to be living at addresses that the bureau's workers did not try to contact for the 2020 census. Many of the noncitizens the bureau's simulation tallied were living in group-style living quarters or buildings with multiple housing units and near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Asked about the discrepancy between the study's estimates and the count's results, the bureau said Tuesday in a statement: "The study showed preliminary strengths and limitations of using administrative records to count historically undercounted populations, including noncitizens. We intend to conduct further research to build knowledge about the best ways to use these records in the next census and other statistical products."
The study was part of the bureau's efforts to increase its use of administrative records to more accurately tally historically undercounted populations, including residents who are not U.S. citizens, people of color and children under age 5.
In addition to noncitizens, this simulated count produced higher numbers than the 2020 census for: males, children under age 15, adults ages 25 to 64, Black and white people who do not identify as Hispanic, and Latinos.
There were lower numbers from the simulation for adults ages 65 to 74, Asian Americans who do not identify as Hispanic, and non-Hispanic people who identify with two or more races.
Edited by Benjamin Swasey
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-05-09T22:42:28+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/politics/politics/2023-05-08/the-2020-census-may-have-missed-a-big-share-of-noncitizens-the-bureau-estimates
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FLO Selects Averna for production test design.
MONTREAL, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Averna, the leading global EV test & quality solutions provider, announced a key collaboration with FLO. FLO is a leading North American electric vehicle (EV) charging company and a smart charging solutions provider. They are developing advanced solutions to improve the EV charging infrastructure in Canada and the United States and are using Averna's test expertise.
"This is one of the most impactful projects we have worked on." says Daniel Wyatt, Averna's Vice-President of Sales for Eastern USA and Canada. "Globally, we need to move quickly to limit emissions to the 1.5 degrees Celsius or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit threshold by 2100. In the US, transportation is the largest source of annual emissions at 29%. In Canada, it's number two. Working with FLO gives us the opportunity to help deliver fast, reliable charging stations with our test design. Getting their stations on the road makes it much easier for consumers to switch to an electric vehicle."
FLO has recently announced the FLO Ultra™, a new DC fast charger that reduces the typical challenges of EV ownership. With a simple but revolutionary design, the FLO Ultra™ charger features two high-powered charging ports in one rugged aluminum enclosure. It will charge most EVs to 80% in 15 minutes with up to 320 kW available using dynamic power sharing and up to 500 kW with multiple electric vehicle charging stations connected together.
"FLO is dedicated to offering the most reliable charging solutions to EV drivers, so working with Averna has been both extremely productive and valuable for our team." explains Nathan Yang, Chief Product Officer at FLO. "Averna's EV and power test expertise has allowed our team to focus on developing our products, while they take care of the tests. By trusting their vision and experience we can continue to deliver charging stations that meet our 98% uptime minimum, and EV drivers know they can rely on us."
For more information on Averna, please visit their website.
FLO is a leading North American electric vehicle (EV) charging network operator and a smart charging solutions provider. We help to fight climate change and accelerate EV adoption through a vertically integrated business model and delivering EV drivers the most dependable charging experience from curbside to countryside. Every month, we enable more than 1,000,000 charging events thanks to over 90,000 fast and level 2 EV charging stations deployed at public, private and residential locations. FLO operates across North America and our high-quality charging stations are assembled with care in Michigan and Quebec. To learn more about what "EV charging done right" means to us, visit flo.com
As a global Test & Quality Solution integrator, Averna partners with product designers, developers, and OEMs to help them achieve higher product quality, accelerate time to market and protect their brands. Founded in 1999, Averna offers specialized expertise and innovative test, vision inspection, precision assembly and automated solutions that deliver substantial technical, financial and market benefits for clients in the aerospace, automotive, consumer, energy, industrials, medical devices & life sciences, semiconductor, telecom and other industries. Averna has offices around the world, numerous industry certifications such as ISO 9001:2015, ITAR registration, and is partnered with NI, Eclipse Automation, PI, Keysight Technologies and JOT Automation. www.averna.com
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2023-06-20T11:27:27+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/06/20/averna-supports-flo-quality-testing-charging-stations/
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MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis., Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Each October, Global Handwashing Day highlights the important relationship between handwashing with soap and water and staying healthy. Whether at home or out in the community, this simple, quick and inexpensive action is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of germs and sickness.
Medical experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization agree that developing a habit of consistent and thorough handwashing with soap and water is the best way to remove cold and flu germs, and prevent the spread of other contagious illnesses seen around the globe like diarrhea, pneumonia and Covid-19.
Germs can move easily from person to person – or from surfaces to people – simply through touching. Therefore, handwashing is especially important at specific times during the day, such as after using the bathroom, when preparing food, before eating, and after coughing, sneezing, or blowing your nose.
Making a Difference through Handwashing Education
According to the Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (PPPHW), creators of Global Handwashing Day, three out of 10 people worldwide lack access to basic hygiene services. This year's theme, "Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene," calls for a global effort to educate people on handwashing, and support affordable, accessible, and desirable hand hygiene solutions for everyone, everywhere.
Teaching people about handwashing helps them and their communities stay healthier. The CDC says that focusing on handwashing education in communities can:
- Reduce the number of people who get sick with diarrhea by about 23–40%
- Reduce absenteeism due to gastrointestinal illness in schoolchildren by 29–57%
- Reduce respiratory illnesses, like colds, in the general population by about 16–21%
Bradley's Healthy Handwashing Survey
With a similar goal of stressing the importance of regular handwashing, Bradley Corporation conducts its annual Healthy Handwashing Survey™ to spotlight the state of hand hygiene in the United States.
The 2022 survey highlights Americans' self-reported handwashing behaviors, showing a 25% decline in handwashing compared with early on in the coronavirus pandemic. In 2020, Americans were washing their hands an average of 10.5 times per day. By 2022, that number dropped by one-fourth to 7.8 times per day.
"Lathering up, scrubbing thoroughly, rinsing and drying your hands is something that should be done consistently without letting our guards down," says Jon Dommisse, vice president of marketing and corporate communication for Bradley Corporation.
"Linking handwashing with certain daily habits is an effective way to establish good handwashing practices," Dommisse says. "By making it a point to wash your hands before each meal, after every visit to the restroom and after coming home from a public place, this repetitive action can become a simple and automatic healthy handwashing behavior."
Based in Menomonee Falls, Wis., Bradley is a leading manufacturer of commercial plumbing fixtures, washroom accessories, restroom partitions, emergency fixtures and solid plastic lockers. The company has conducted the Healthy Handwashing Survey since 2009. #UniteforUniversalHandHygiene #GlobalHandwashingDay #HealthyHandwashing
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2022-10-13T15:30:53+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/10/13/global-handwashing-day-supports-united-stance-simple-action/
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Back in spring training when the Chicago Cubs bullpen picture was still fuzzy, manager David Ross said he never felt the need to label anyone as his closer.
When you don’t have a closer, you can’t have a closer controversy.
Still, it was assumed veteran Michael Fulmer would inherit the role based on his recent experience closing games, and that generally was how the season unfolded in April.
But 2 1/2 months in, the look of the back end of the bullpen has changed dramatically. It now appears Adbert Alzolay has taken the closer’s role and run with it.
Or has he?
“He’s at the back end of our game, for sure,” Ross said Monday before the Cubs’ 8-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. “Is he our closer? You could say at the moment, if it matches up best … him and (Mark) Leiter, we’ve kind of flipped through those pockets. It just seems to be as of late, Leiter’s pocket has been coming in the eighth.”
It’s understandable if Ross doesn’t want to mess with success. But no one wants to call Alzolay the Cubs’ “back end of the game reliever depending on the pockets” guy, especially when the word “closer” is so much shorter and easier to remember.
Perhaps “de facto closer” works better. However you refer to him, Alzolay said he just wants to show he can do the job.
“To be honest, I do enjoy doing it,” the 28-year-old Alzolay told the Tribune before Monday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park. “I like feeling that kind of adrenaline. I really like big moments. For me, coming in the ninth inning and winning by one run, it gets me really excited out there.”
The Cubs didn’t need Alzolay on Monday in another romp over the Pirates, whom they have outscored 36-11 in their four games since June 13. Drew Smyly (7-4) scattered five walks over five shutout innings, and the bullpen contributed four more scoreless frames. Mike Tauchman drove in three runs with three hits, and the Cubs won for the eighth time in 10 games to move to within four games of .500 at 34-38.
Alzolay has three saves and one hold over eight appearances since May 26, allowing no runs over 8 1/3 innings and limiting opposing hitters to a .148 average. With Leiter and Julian Merryweather also solidifying their late-inning roles in high-leverage situations, the Cubs have the makings of a dominant trio at the end of games.
Leiter ranked ninth among relievers Monday with 13.65 strikeouts per nine innings, while Merryweather was 15th at 12.76 Ks per nine. The Cubs bullpen posted a 3.78 ERA in June following a 5.19 ERA in May. Alzolay’s emergence has allowed the rest of the bullpen to settle into more defined roles.
“We’ve seen Adbert kind of embracing that role in the back end, thriving there for a little while now,” Ross said. “You could also point to Merryweather and the job he’s done in the seventh. It feels like he’s closing some things out to get us to the back end guys, been a nice bridge.
“You’re right. I don’t like to label (guys), but as you see things shake out, Adbert’s done a really nice job on the back end.”
Only one year ago Alzolay’s career was seemingly in limbo after being hyped as one of the first real starting prospects to make it from the Theo Epstein/Jed Hoyer era. He suffered a right shoulder strain before arriving at spring training in 2022 that sidelined him for several months.
Alzolay didn’t pitch in the majors until Sept. 17, at which point no one was paying much attention to the Cubs. He was mostly used as a multi-inning reliever, which figured to be his role this season as well. But Ross has used him one inning or less in 10 of his last 11 outings since Alzolay began to establish himself as a back-end reliever.
As Cubs fans know well, Alzolay wears his emotions on his sleeve and celebrates getting big outs with a joie de vivre that seemingly rubs off on the rest of the team.
Could he still be the same pitcher without showing any emotion at all?
“I feel like I need to balance my emotions within the game,” he said. “I feel that now I’m being calm through the whole inning, and then letting my emotions out at the end. That’s helped me balance things. Before, if I got a big strikeout with no outs or one out, I would get so fired up I’d start to lose my focus to the next hitter. So I try to manage that better this year.”
Fulmer also has improved after a rocky start with the Cubs, and has provided Alzolay with advice on the intricacies of being in the closer’s role. Like Alzolay, Fulmer was a starter who transitioned to the bullpen, where he found a home.
“He’s helped me a lot,” Alzolay said. “I’ve been talking to him since the beginning of spring training about how he did it, and then taking a bigger role later in the year. You can hear all the tips and this and that, but you’ve got to go through it first. Once you go through it the first time and know you’re able to do it, it gives you more confidence.
“I already have all the confidence of what I can do with all my pitches. It’s just a matter of doing it late in the game.”
Like any closer, Alzolay is bound to go through some struggles as he navigates his way through the season. Ross might even go the rest of the year without naming him the closer.
As long as he gets the job done, any label will suffice.
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2023-06-20T14:36:13+00:00
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twincities.com
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https://www.twincities.com/2023/06/20/column-adbert-alzolay-growing-more-comfortable-as-the-chicago-cubs-de-facto-closer/
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LEWES, Del., July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Audio Series platform Pocket FM has today announced the appointment of Anurag Sharma as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He was previously Vice President - Finance at Pocket FM and has been a key driving force behind the company's financial health, fundraising, operational efficiency and driving strategic partnerships.
In his new role, he will assume overall responsibility for Pocket FM's financial operations, playing a crucial role in shaping the company's financial strategy and driving its execution. He will work closely with the executive team to identify growth opportunities, optimize resource allocation, drive strategic partnerships and enhance profitability, supporting Pocket FM's global expansions.
Speaking about Anurag's elevation, Rohan Nayak, CEO & Cofounder, Pocket FM said, "Anurag has played a pivotal role in propelling our growth journey and driving our successful global expansion. Through his strategic acumen, we have forged key partnerships that have significantly expanded our content diversity and business efficiencies. He has exhibited exceptional financial leadership, led our successful fundraising efforts and ensured a strong trajectory for the company's profitable and sustainable growth. We are confident that his strategic vision will continue to propel Pocket FM's growth trajectory."
While expressing his excitement about his new role, Anurag Sharma, CFO, Pocket FM, said, "We have made remarkable progress over the past couple of years and driven exponential growth. As we are on our path to profitability, we will continue to forge new paths and harness the power of audio entertainment to captivate audiences around the globe. With this new role, I will continue to build a robust financial foundation, drive growth, and create immense value for our stakeholders. I am bullish about Pocket FM's potential in the global landscape and will continue to contribute to strengthening our mission to revolutionize audio entertainment."
Anurag has held senior leadership positions in multinational corporations, start-ups and the Big 4s. Prior to joining Pocket FM, he was heading finance at Ninjacart. He is both a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary, apart from being a commerce graduate.
About Pocket FM:
Founded in 2018, Pocket FM was built with a vision to redefine the audio OTT space by pioneering the audio-series category. We pride ourselves in embedding storytelling elements with a layer of content personalisation in the longer format that resulted in the emergence of 'binge listening' as a consumption habit. Being the only audio entertainment OTT, we have emerged as the preferred digital audio destination for a refined storytelling experience with the audio-series format, riding on our diverse and engaging content.
Available on iOS and Android, click here to download Pocket FM.
For more information, please get in touch with communications@pocketfm.com
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2023-07-27T13:27:35+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/07/27/pocket-fm-elevates-anurag-sharma-chief-financial-officer/
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New Maryland clinic opening in post-Roe ‘abortion desert’
By LEAH WILLINGHAM
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A new Maryland abortion provider is opening next to deeply conservative West Virginia, where state lawmakers recently passed a near-total abortion ban. The Women’s Health Center of Maryland in Cumberland will open in June. The nonprofit facility is opening a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. It will provide abortions to patients across central Appalachia. Clinic operators say the region is an “abortion desert.” The clinic will be the only independent and western-most provider in the state of Maryland that offers surgical and medical abortion and gender-affirming hormone therapy.
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2023-03-27T14:44:09+00:00
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krdo.com
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https://krdo.com/news/2023/03/27/new-maryland-clinic-opening-in-post-roe-abortion-desert/
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
9-5-8
(nine, five, eight)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the New York Lottery's "Numbers Evening" game were:
9-5-8
(nine, five, eight)
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2022-09-21T03:04:17+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Numbers-Evening-game-17455849.php
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HAMBURG, N.Y. (WIVB) — Yung Gravy is coming to the Erie County Fair.
The rapper, who rose to fame in recent years thanks to the internet, is the latest performer announced as part of the Channel 4 Concert Series at this year’s Fair.
Taking the stage August 12, the Minnesota native will be joined by BBNO$ (pronounced “baby no money”).
Tickets for Yung Gravy and the other paid shows coming to the Erie County Fair this year will go on sale June 9 at 9 a.m. and will be available at this link.
Here are the other performers announced for this year’s concert series:
- Chubby Checker – August 9 at 7:30 p.m. (free)
- Fitz and The Tantrums – August 10 at 7:30 p.m.
- Flo Rida – August 11 at 7:30 p.m.
- Clint Black with Clay Walker & Tracy Byrd – August 13 at 6 p.m.
- NEEDTOBRATHE – August 14 at 7:30 p.m.
- Bailey Zimmerman with special guest Seaforth – August 15 at 7:30 p.m.
- The Guess Who – August 17 at 7:30 p.m. (free)
- The Spinners – August 18 at 7:30 p.m. (free)
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2023-05-09T16:20:40+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/erie-county-fair/yung-gravy-to-perform-at-erie-county-fair/
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US joins UN in suspending food aid to Ethiopia’s Tigray
May 4, 2023, 1:04 AM
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States aid agency says it has suspended all food assistance to the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray “until further notice” while it investigates the theft of humanitarian supplies. The U.N. confirmed earlier reports that it was doing the same.
USAID Administrator Samantha Power said that her group has “uncovered that food aid, intended for the people of Tigray suffering under famine-like conditions, was being diverted and sold on the local market.”
After discovering food was missing, the agency alerted its inspector general, who launched an investigation. “Following this review, USAID determined, in coordination with the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa and our implementing partners, that a temporary pause in food aid was the best course of action,” Power said in a statement.
She added that USAID has raised its concerns with Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigray authorities.
Nearly all of Tigray’s 6 million people rely on food aid, after two years of civil war and government-imposed restrictions on humanitarian relief pushed parts of the region to the brink of famine.
The war ended in November with a cease-fire, which also saw aid deliveries resume.
It was unclear who was responsible for the theft of the food aid and how much was taken. Last month, AP reported the missing supplies included enough food to feed 100,000 people, taken from a warehouse in the Tigray city of Sheraro.
The U.N.’s World Food Program in Ethiopia told its partners on April 20 that it had suspended deliveries of food to Tigray. Late Wednesday, the agency confirmed the suspension, which was first reported by AP. It said food relief efforts “will not resume until WFP can ensure that vital aid will reach its intended recipients.”
Getachew Reda, the interim president of Tigray, said he had formed a task force ”to prevent and investigate crimes committed in relation to humanitarian aid and enforce the supremacy of the law.”
He called the diversions of aid “a double injustice and crime that is being done to children, elderly and disabled (people) who are suffering from starvation and sickness.”
The U.S. is the biggest single humanitarian donor to Ethiopia, providing $1.8 billion in humanitarian assistance to the country in the 2022 fiscal year, according to USAID.
In addition to civil conflict, the country is also struggling with a prolonged drought.
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2023-05-04T20:29:21+00:00
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mynorthwest.com
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https://mynorthwest.com/3884901/us-joins-un-in-suspending-food-aid-to-ethiopias-tigray/
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Illyanna Maisonet's cookbook Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook doesn't fit neatly into one, set box.
Then again, neither does actually being a Diasporican — a member of the more than 5 million-strong tribe of "Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá," as Maisonet writes.
Her book is a memoir, cookbook and retelling of Puerto Rican history and it's a testament to her life's work of documenting and preserving food throughout the Puerto Rican diaspora.
Maisonet, a longtime food writer and the nation's first Puerto Rican food columnist, is herself Diasporican. She's the only child of her mother, Carmen (who was just 3 years old when her own parents arrived in California).
Maisonet, her mother and her grandmother (Margarita) all became cooks "out of economic necessity," the book details.
"We did not have the privilege of cooking for pleasure or joy. Our story is one of generational poverty and trauma with glimpses of pride and laughter, all of which have been the catalysts of ample good food in my life," Maisonet explains in Diasporican. She grew up in Sacramento, Calif., where the area's diversity influenced Masionet's "Cali-Rican" style of cooking.
Much of the writing in Diasporican pulls from her prior work in her San Francisco Chronicle column, Cocina Boricua. The column combined her matter-of-fact retelling of her personal story with recipes and other features.
That same writing, honest and weaved with ribbons of historical context, also appears in Diasporican. Maisonet includes 90 recipes; some are from her family, others are Puerto Rican classics, and still more are her own creations that rely on traditional flavors from the island.
Most importantly, though, Maisonet details how Puerto Rican cuisine came to be. She includes her deep research to give readers a broader understanding of where the island's flavors (an amalgamation of Taino, Spanish, African, and mainland U.S.) come from and how its food, culture, and people were shaped by immigration, conflict, and colonization.
The diversity of Puerto Rican culture, cuisine
With Diasporican, Maisonet celebrates the diversity that exists within the Puerto Rican community — itself tough to categorize.
"There are white Puerto Ricans getting radical and surfing in Rincón with sun-bleached blond hair, and Black Puerto Ricans with afros creating arts and crafts in Loíza. And everything in between. And our food reflects that diversity," Maisonet writes in her book.
And this struggle often means no one knows anything about Puerto Rican food. Not even Puerto Ricans, she notes in the book.
Getting Diasporican published was a years-long process, owing in part to the lack of diversity within publishing and the lack of understanding of Puerto Rican food.
"Being a writer doesn't make you a lot of money and it takes a very long time to make a name for yourself. I was fortunate enough that my subject is pretty niche and not many (or possibly any) writers were consistently writing about Puerto Rican food," Maisonet told NPR over email. "Which is why it was a hard sale to publishers, they publish what they understand."
She notes there are maybe around 10 published Puerto Rican cookbooks out there.
Developing a recipe itself is a sometimes difficult process.
"I feel like the part where you envision how the recipe comes together is easy for an experienced cook; combining flavors, how things should be cooked and for how long. Then you need to actually put it all together in real time and see if the flavors are what you want. Or, if the cooking vessel you chose nailed the texture you want. Sometimes it gets done in one take. Sometimes, like with the Mallorcas, it can take years," she said.
Mallorcas are a sweet, spiral bun, the recipe for which was first documented in 18th century Spain, Maisonet writes in her book. The actual origin of the pastry is likely older.
"When it comes to the stories that sometimes accompany the recipes, those can take weeks to months. Often sieving through Spanish documents that need to be translated. It took six years for this book to see the light of day and I worked on recipes for it up until the deadline to hand it over to the editors," she said of the process.
Maisonet says she felt no pressure to make her writing and recipes palatable for publishers.
"The only pressure I felt was to represent my grandma's recipes accurately. The beauty of being a Diasporican is you're already living outside of a defined box," she wrote to NPR. "The Puerto Ricans de la isla already aren't expecting much from you. And the publishers didn't know what Puerto Rican food was. You're basically free to do whatever. It all depends on what type of pressure you put on yourself."
The effort to continue her work can get discouraging, however.
"Everyone around me was telling me to quit, including people who are very close to me. They told me to get a 'real' job so I could make a 'real' wage. And they made sure to tell me this every month, year after year. They honestly didn't tell me I made the right decision until I was on Good Morning America," she said. "When I fail, they'll go back to telling me to get a 'real' job and pretend this success ever happened. That's what discourages me. I believe in myself. But, I also believe when others are telling me I'll fail. I already know it's only a matter of time. Everything comes to an end."
Illyanna Maisonet's Califas Shrimp
Makes 4 servings
The first time I made this recipe was for a cooking demonstration at the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. I used shrimp from one of the regular vendors, H&H Fresh Fish. I immediately became obsessed with their product—they have some of the most beautiful seafood I've encountered. Since 2003, Hans Haverman and Heidi Rhodes have been the resident seafood buyers at Santa Cruz Harbor, where H&H is based. They run a small and efficient operation that provides Bay Area residents with sustainable, regional seafood. Puerto Rico has always been an island where the regional cooking depends entirely on available local resources. Colonization didn't change that.
Then it was about local resources and the types of crops that haciendas grew, prices of imported foodstuffs and international political climate. This is why Califas Shrimp is and is not a traditional Puerto Rican dish. It's one that eats like shrimp and grits, but combining seafood and funche has been a thing since enslaved Africans were forced to work in the sugarcane fields.
Historically, bacalao was simmered with onions and tomatoes and served over funche. This cornmeal mush was cheaper than rice, which was a monetarily valuable commodity, and the mush was already something that enslaved people were used to eating.
Slavers could appear to be doing a favor for enslaved people by forcing them to eat something relatively familiar, when really it was just a cost-saving move to provide a nutrient-rich dish that could sustain a hard-working person for very little money.
1/4 cup Mexican chorizo
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice, plus 1/2 lemon
1 tablespoon sazón
1/2 teaspoon sambal (such as sambal oelek)
1/4 cup sofrito
1 cup water
Kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons salted butter
1 pound 26/30-count shrimp, peeled and deveined
Funche for serving, (see below)
Place a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chorizo and sauté for about 4 minutes, or until the meat begins to brown and renders some fat. Stir in the orange juice, lemon juice, sazón, sambal, sofrito, and water to loosen the mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Scrape the chorizo and sauce into a bowl and set aside.
In the same pan, combine the butter and shrimp, season with salt and pepper, and cook for 1 minute.
Using tongs, flip the shrimp and cook for 1 minute more; the shrimp should be slightly pink. Add the chorizo mixture and sauce and finish with a squeeze of lemon juice.
Spoon the funche into serving bowls, top with the shrimp-chorizo mixture, and serve immediately.
Funche
Makes 4 to 6 servings
2 cups water
1 cup ground polenta
1 (13.5-ounce) can coconut milk
Kosher salt
2 tablespoons salted butter
In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, bring 11/2 cups of the water to a boil.
Whisk in the polenta. When the mixture begins to thicken slightly, turn the heat to low and add half of the coconut milk. (You do not want the coconut milk to boil because it may separate.) Cover and cook for about 40 minutes, stirring every few minutes to prevent the polenta from sticking to the pan. Remove from the heat and whisk in the remaining coconut milk, then season with salt. If the polenta is still really thick, stir in the remaining 1/2 cup water. Stir in the butter and serve immediately.
Reprinted with permission from Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook by Illyanna Maisonet copyright © 2022.
Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2022-10-12T12:59:25+00:00
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nprillinois.org
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https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-10-12/illyanna-maisonets-new-cookbook-reflects-the-diversity-of-the-puerto-rican-diaspora
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Daily rain and storm chances will continue for the next several days, but the best chances for rain will stay over the mountains. Heavy rain will be possible out of these storms, which could lead to localized flash flooding.
A few isolated storms once again developed Thursday across the mountains of New Mexico. Storms are generally moving in a westerly direction as high pressure moves over northern New Mexico. Storms will taper off through the overnight. Isolated storm chances, mainly over the mountains, will continue into early next week as high pressure hovers over northern New Mexico. Not only will this still keep daily rounds of showers and thunderstorms around, but it will also keep the above-average heat in place. The heat will also continue into early next week.
A front will help to introduce more moisture back into New Mexico again around the middle of next week. That will help to increase the rain chances for many once again.
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2022-07-15T00:08:53+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/mainly-mountain-storm-chances-continue-into-next-week/
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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police kept up their siege around the home of Imran Khan as a 24-hour deadline given to the former premier to hand over suspects allegedly sheltered inside expired on Thursday.
The siege and the authorities’ demand for the suspects, wanted in violent protests over Khan’s recent detention, have angered the former prime minister’s many followers and raised concerns about more clashes between them and security forces.
Last week, Khan’s supporters attacked public property and military installations after he was dragged out of a courtroom and arrested in a graft case. At least 10 people were killed in clashes with police across the country in the days that followed. The violence subsided only when Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered Khan’s release.
The popular opposition leader was freed from custody over the weekend and returned to his home in an upscale district of Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city and the capital of the Punjab region. Dozens of his supporters have been staying there with him, along with private guards. Police, who on Wednesday surrounded the residence, say they want 40 suspects handed over.
The ultimatum for Khan ended at 2 p.m. local time, but there were no immediate signs of unusual movement by police. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, invited reporters to the house to witness any police raids on the premises.
Typically between 200 to 300 of Khan’s supporters, holding sticks, guard his residence around the clock, but most disappeared overnight. Police have barricaded a key road leading to the house and asked residents to use an alternate route.
“Probably my last tweet before my next arrest,” the 70-year-old popular opposition leader tweeted on Wednesday, after the siege started. “Police have surrounded my house.”
Later, Khan addressed his supporters saying that the police can only search his house with a search warrant and “not barge in, creating chaos.”
According to Amir Mir, a spokesman for the Punjab provincial government, police were ready to use firearms if attacked. He told a news conference Thursday that at least 3,400 suspects linked to the clashes have been arrested and that more raids are planned.
Pakistani authorities have said they would prosecute civilians involved in recent anti-government protests in military courts.
The announcement has drawn criticism from the advocacy group Amnesty International and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which oppose trials of civilians in the military courts. Military trials in Pakistan are usually held behind closed doors, depriving civilians of some of their basic rights, including contracting a lawyer of their choice.
Khan was ousted by a non-confidence vote in Parliament last year. He has claimed the ouster was illegal and a Western conspiracy.
He now faces more than 100 legal cases, mainly on charges of inciting people to violence, threatening officials, and defying a ban on rallies. He also faces a graft case along with his wife and was summoned by the National Accountability Bureau to answer questions in connection with the case on Thursday.
However, Khan is likely to ignore the summons from the anti-corruption authority to show up for questioning in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. He is expected to address a rally of supporters on the outskirts of Lahore later in the day.
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Associated Press writer Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.
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2023-05-18T13:19:01+00:00
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday blocked a freight railroad strike that would disrupt shipments of all kinds of goods for at least 60 days by naming a board of arbitrators to intervene in the contract dispute.
The widely expected move will keep 115,000 rail workers on the job while the arbitrators develop a set of contract recommendations for both sides to consider. Biden had to act before Monday to prevent a possible strike. A new round of negotiations is likely after those recommendations are issued.
The president wrote in an executive order naming the arbitrators that he’d “been notified by the National Mediation Board that in its judgment these disputes threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree that would deprive a section of the country of essential transportation service.”
If the railroads and their 12 unions can’t agree on a contract within the next 60 days, Congress would likely step in to prevent a strike by voting to impose terms or taking other action.
The United Rail Unions coalition said the labor unions are preparing to make their case to the board of arbitrators, and believe that current economic data shows the raises they are asking for “are more than warranted when compared to our memberships’ contribution to the record profits of the rail carriers.”
The National Carriers Conference Committee, which represents the nation’s freight railroads in national collective bargaining, cheered Biden’s move, noting that it “remains in the best interest of all parties — and the public — for the railroads and rail labor organizations to promptly settle the bargaining round on reasonable terms that provide employees with prompt and well-deserved pay increases and prevent rail service disruptions.”
“Throughout the bargaining round, the railroads have worked to thoughtfully address issues raised by both sides and have offered pay increases that are consistent with labor market benchmarks and reward rail employees for their essential work,” the committee said in a statement.
Any prolonged rail strike could cripple the supply chain that has been slowly recovering from the backlogs and delays that became common during the pandemic because of worker shortages at the ports, trucking companies and railroads as demand for imports surged.
“It’s really in everybody’s best interests to avoid a strike,” Edward Jones analyst Jeff Windau said.
The group that represents Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern and other railroads and the unions have expressed optimism that this new presidential board will be able to help them resolve the dispute that began more than two years ago.
Business groups had urged Biden to take this step to ensure the railroads would continue operating. They worry about what a strike or lockout would mean for the fragile supply chain because railroads deliver all kinds of raw materials, finished products and imported goods that businesses rely on. A railroad strike could jeopardize the health of the economy.
The board of arbitrators will hold hearings with both sides to learn more about their positions before issuing their recommendations about a month from now. The the unions and the railroads will have 30 days to negotiate a new deal before a strike could be permitted under the federal law that governs railroad contract negotiations.
So far, the two sides have remained far apart because workers want raises that will offset inflation and cover increased health insurance costs while reflecting the current nationwide worker shortages. Railroads maintain that the double-digit raises they are offering over the five year contract that would date back to 2020 are fair based on the kind of raises other companies gave their workers at the time.
The unions are expecting significant raises because the railroads have been reporting record profits in recent years since they eliminated nearly one-third of their employees over the past six years as they overhauled their operations.
The unions also want the railroads to back off their proposals to cut train crews from two people down to one and ease some of the strict workplace rules they have adopted in recent years that workers say make it hard to take any time off.
Agreeing to a new deal would likely help the railroads hire more workers, which they are currently struggling to do. The major railroads have said they each need to hire hundreds more workers to handle the increased demand as the economy recovers and deal with the chronic delays and missed deliveries that have plagued their service this year.
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2022-07-15T22:31:42+00:00
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/ap-us-news/biden-intervenes-in-railroad-contract-fight-to-block-strike/
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Fans finally got their hands on new Summer Walker music. The R&B singer announced a special concert to celebrate her latest release. Summer’s new EP Clear 2: Soft Life is already boasting rave reviews and now fans will have the opportunity to catch it live and in action. Read more details about the announcement inside.
Be sure to mark your calendars for an unforgettable concert from Summer Walker, who’s imprinted herself as the empress of modern-day R&B. Today (May 23), her team announced that she is set to host Summer Walker: The Clear Series – One Night Only at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia on June 1.
The multi-platinum hitmaker will take it back to her hometown alongside a live orchestra as she cycles through her countless hits, a number of fan-favorite deep cuts, and gives the live debut of new material from her CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP. The EP was released last Friday (May 19) and has already garnered rave reviews. The nine-track EP, a sequel to 2019’s CLEAR EP, boasts a starry lineup of A-list collaborators such as Childish Gambino and J. Cole and production work from Solange, Steve Lacy, John Kirby, and Jay Versace.
Be sure to listen to the full CLEAR 2: SOFT LIFE EP HERE.
Summer also claims a new No. 1 hit on Urban Mainstream radio this week with “Karma.” The song was originally released in 2018 on her Last Day of Summer masterpiece but came roaring back in late 2022 after a sped-up version from creator @whereisreese went viral on TikTok. The millions of streams it generated pushed “Karma” to platinum status, and its success sparked a full revamp of her Last Day of Summer as an entire sped-up album, Last Day of Summer (Sped Up). The project is the first sped-up album from a major recording artist and is a result of the singer listening to her devoted fanbase, who found pleasure in revisiting the classic album in a reimagined way.
Tickets to Summer Walker: The Clear Series – One Night Only will be available for artist pre-sale beginning on Tuesday, May 23 at 12 p.m. EDT through Friday, May 26 at 9 a.m. EDT. A Live Nation presale will run from Thursday, May 25 at 10 a.m. EDT through Friday, May 26 at 9 a.m. EDT. General ticket sales for the public will commence on Friday, May 26, at 10 a.m. EDT.
To purchase tickets, visit www.summerwalkermusic.com/tour.
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2023-05-24T18:18:51+00:00
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A scan done on LeBron James' troublesome left ankle and foot showed no serious issue, but the newly crowned NBA career scoring leader sat out a second straight game Saturday night since breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's mark earlier in the week.
Still, coach Darvin Ham expects to see James back on the floor before the All-Star break. When asked whether James might need to be sidelined through the break, Ham offered, "No, I don't think he'll allow us to do that."
General manager Rob Pelinka said earlier Saturday that nothing was seriously wrong for James, who topped former Lakers star Abdul-Jabbar during Tuesday's 133-130 home loss to Oklahoma City.
“LeBron did have some imaging on his foot injury, and we’re grateful that things came back clean and good.” Pelinka said.
The game with Golden State — missing reigning NBA Finals MVP Stephen Curry because of a left leg injury — marked James' seventh sidelined by soreness in the left ankle. He also missed one game with left foot soreness and another because of a non-COVID illness. He also sat out five games with a strained left inner thigh muscle.
“Just for him to continue to get treatment, stay off of it,” Ham said of the plan. “Obviously we made moves and one of the biggest moves is making sure we’re not putting him in a position where we’re putting him at risk of a bigger issue.”
James has what Ham called “normal wear and tear, little irritated in one area.”
The 38-year-old James has made his 19th straight All-Star team and has 38,390 career points.
“We’re just taking this time that we have to get him treated and hopefully get him back so we can make a good run and he can be in the midst of it down the stretch,” Ham said.
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AP Sports Writer Greg Beacham in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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2023-02-12T01:51:51+00:00
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https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/scan-on-lebron-james-sore-left-foot-shows-no-17779117.php
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief made a passionate appeal for his embattled home region of Tigray in Ethiopia on Thursday, saying he has relatives he cannot communicate with or send money to amid a blockade by government forces.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in some of his most personal comments about the region that erupted in violence again on Wednesday after months of calm, lamented his inability to help loved ones among the 6 million people all but trapped in Tigray.
“I have many relatives there. I want to send the money. I cannot send the money. They are starving. I know I cannot help them,” he said, the latest in a string of pleas about Tigray he has made during regular WHO news briefings.
“I cannot help them. I can’t help them. I can share from what I have. I cannot do that because they are completely sealed off,” Tedros added. “I can’t speak to them. I don’t know even who is dead or who is alive.”
Tedros, an ethnic Tigrayan, insisted that he’s not playing favorites with Tigray and has spoken out about humanitarian crises in many places, including Yemen, Syria, Ukraine and Congo.
But he has sought to overcome perceived inaction and inattention from a world consumed with other trouble spots and worries, and previously said he believes his people have been overlooked because of the color of their skin.
He said the Tigray crisis was exceptional because the region is all but cut off from the world — including from most humanitarian aid shipments that its people need — by government forces in Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea.
“Can you tell me any place in the same situation in the world?” he said. “We are talking about the six million people (who) are collectively being punished.”
On Wednesday, Tigray authorities accused Ethiopia’s military of launching a “large-scale” offensive for the first time in a year in Tigray. Government officials countered that Tigray forces had attacked first.
The conflict began in November 2020, killing thousands of people in Africa’s second most populous country.
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2022-08-26T16:45:40+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/on-your-side/health-watch/ap-who-chief-laments-fate-of-starving-relatives-in-tigray/
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Kids living with disabilities get the chance to play baseball with NJ Miracle League
CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. - Play ball! Baseball season is in full swing at a very special field in South Jersey.
The Camden County Miracle League is home to dozens of children living with disabilities who want to play baseball.
The league matches every player up with a buddy who help them learn and play America's favorite pastime.
Kids are cheered on by family, friends and teammates as they play on a field made just for them. The non-latex rubber surfacing is easier for people with mobility devices, such as walkers, crutches and wheelchairs, to round the bases.
The very special field makes it easier to kids with mobility issues to round the bases.
This very special field lets the kids truly the game and work on their skills.
Trevor, who goes by the name "Homerun King," appears to have an MVP title in his future.
Trevor, who goes by "Homerun King" gets a hit.
His moms says the field has been a blessing for her son and so many others.
"If it’s bumpy he could fall over. But because it’s a nice, straight field he’s golden."
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All kids with disabilities are welcome to join the league, which hosts games every Saturday.
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2022-04-25T18:06:01+00:00
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fox29.com
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https://www.fox29.com/good-day/kids-with-disabilities-get-the-chance-to-play-baseball-with-nj-miracle-league
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SAN DIEGO (KSWB) – A violent scene unfolded at an intersection in downtown San Diego after the driver of an SUV and a woman got into a shouting match, which resulted in the car jumping the curb and the woman’s friend attacking the vehicle with a bat.
Video of the incident shows the gold Toyota Highlander drive up onto the curb, nearly hitting two homeless people. A man is then seen taking a bat to the car, smashing the windows.
“They started the argument right there and escalated into madness,” said Howard Rexroad, a homeless man who witnessed the incident.
That’s when the SUV attempts to hit the man who smashed out his windows, making several passes and trying to maneuver through a parking area where the man was shielding himself and wielding the bat.
After several passes, the gold Toyota eventually speeds off.
The San Diego Police Department arrested one of the people involved in the altercation — the driver — on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence of alcohol.
The man that smashed out the windows is not facing charges, as investigators believe he acted in self-defense.
Rexroad, speaking with Nexstar’s KSWB, said the driver of the SUV had also made disparaging comments about the homeless people. That type of occurrence, however, is not entirely uncommon, according to Rexroad.
“When you walk by sometimes people say rude comments. Sometimes you let it go and sometimes you say, ‘Man, come on.'”
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2023-03-25T18:48:58+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/national/madness-driver-attempts-to-hit-pedestrian-during-chaotic-road-rage-incident-in-san-diego/
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Frisch concedes race against Boebert as it goes to recount
DENVER (AP) — Democrat Adam Frisch conceded Friday in his tight U.S. House race against Republican Lauren Boebert that is likely headed to a recount, but highlighted how his surprisingly strong showing revealed that Republican voters in the sprawling Colorado district are tiring of Boebert’s brash style.
The Associated Press has declared the election in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District too close to call. AP will await the results of a potential recount to call the race. With nearly all votes counted, the incumbent Boebert leads Democrat Adam Frisch by about 0.17 percentage points, or 554 votes out of over 327,000 votes counted.
“America is tired of the circus, tired of the lack of respect for our institutions and democracy, and tired of the lack of civility in our discourse,” Frisch said. The Democrat added that he hasn’t ruled out another bid for the seat in 2024. Prognosticators, pundits and the political establishment had largely thought Frisch’s campaign futile, but the thin margin is its own small victory for Frisch.
“We were written off by the political class, we were written off by the donor class and we were written off by the political media,” Frisch told the AP. “I wish more people didn’t take nine months to call me back.”
Frisch said he supports the recount but that it would be unrealistic to think it would flip enough votes for him to win. He called Boebert to concede the race.
In Colorado, a mandatory recount is triggered when the margin of votes between the top two candidates is at or below 0.5% of the leading candidate’s vote total. On Friday, that margin was around 0.34%.
Frisch’s comments come after Boebert claimed victory late Thursday in a tweeted video of her standing in front of the U.S. Capitol.
“Come January, you can be certain of two things,” said Boebert before thanking her supporters, “I will be sworn in for my second term as your congresswoman and Republicans can finally turn Pelosi’s house back into the People’s House.”
The unexpectedly close margin for Boebert, one of Congress’s staunchest supporters of former President Donald Trump, was the latest indication that Trump’s influence on Republican voters could be waning amid a nationwide fight over the direction of the Republican Party. It is a question some Republican leaders raised in partly blaming Trump for their dismal midterm results even as the former president forged ahead in launching his 2024 presidential bid.
Like the former president, Boebert’s provocative style has galvanized anti-establishment angst and won a loyal following on the right. With frequent TV appearances and a near-household name, the campaign cash flowed in — she raised $6.6 million in the past two years, an astronomical sum for a freshman member of the House.
Frisch campaigned on a largely conservative platform and against what he dubbed Boebert’s “antics” and “angertainment” in an attempt to build a bi-artisan coalition of supporters.
“We have shown the country that extremists politicians can be defeated, loud voices are not invincible, and shouting will not solve problems,” said Frisch.
The former city council member in the posh town of Aspen tried to capitalize on that exhaustion. He rarely mentioned he was a Democrat on the campaign trail and backed removing Democrat Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House, saying he wanted to lower the partisan temperature in Washington. It was an indirect dig at Boebert that resonated with voters in a highly rural district that, though conservative, have often backed pragmatists.
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2022-11-18T21:06:35+00:00
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an improved way to remove snow and ice from various outdoor surfaces during the winter," said an inventor, from Alsip, Ill., "so I invented the MELT AWAY. My design would save time and effort and it would reduce physical strain."
The invention provides a handheld heated device for snow and ice removal. In doing so, it can be used to remove snow and ice from driveways, walkways, steps, etc. As a result, it increases safety and convenience and it eliminates the need to scrape or shovel snow and ice. The invention features a lightweight design that is easy to use so it is ideal for homeowners, business owners, snow removal services, etc.
The original design was submitted to the Chicago sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-CHK-299, 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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2022-12-13T19:31:06+00:00
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https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/prnewswire/2022/12/13/inventhelp-inventor-develops-improved-snowice-removal-device-chk-299/
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Ukraine nuclear plant shuts down after outside power restored
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Europe’s largest nuclear plant has been reconnected to Ukraine’s electricity grid, allowing engineers to shut down its last operational reactor in an attempt to avoid a radiation disaster as fighting rages in the area.
The six-reactor Zaporizhzhia plant lost its outside source of power a week ago after all its power lines were disconnected as a result of shelling. It was operating in “island mode” for several days, generating electricity for crucial cooling systems from its only remaining operational reactor.
Nuclear operator Energoatom said one of those power lines was restored “to its operational capacity” late Saturday, making it possible to run the plant’s safety and other systems on electricity from the power system of Ukraine.
“Therefore, a decision was made to shut down power unit No. 6 and transfer it to the safest state – cold shutdown,” the company said in a statement.
Energoatom said the risk remains high that outside power is cut again, in which case the plant would have to fire up emergency diesel generators to keep the reactors cool and prevent a nuclear meltdown. The company’s chief told The Associated Press on Thursday that the plant only has diesel fuel for 10 days.
The plant, one of the 10 biggest atomic power stations in the world, has been occupied by Russian forces since the early stages of the war. Ukraine and Russia have blamed each other for shelling around the plant that has damaged the power lines connecting it to the grid.
Energoatom renewed its appeal for Russian forces to leave the Zaporizhzhia plant and allow for the creation of a “demilitarized zone” around it.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog which has two experts at the plant, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Sunday. Its director has called for a safe zone around the plant to avert a disaster.
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2022-09-11T07:45:03+00:00
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/09/11/ukraine-nuclear-plant-shuts-down-after-outside-power-restored/
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LONDON — The British composer who created one of the most famous musical movie intros in history has died.
According to a statement on his website, Monty Norman died Monday after a short illness.
He was 94.
Looking for a musical intro for the first James Bond film, "Dr. No," producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli hired Norman to compose a theme for the 1962 movie, the Associated Press reported.
Norman rearranged some parts around the musical piece he'd written for the proposed musical adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s “A House for Mr. Biswas.”
Changing the key riff from sitar to electric guitar resulted in the now-infamous opening musical sequence that's been used in all 25 Bond films, the AP reported.
According to the news outlet, it's been widely assumed that John Barry, not Norman, wrote the theme.
Barry, who died in 2011, was hired by producers to rearrange the theme, and composed scores for several Bond movies, including "Goldfinger" and "You Only Live Twice."
To defend his credit as the composer, Norman went to court and sued the Sunday Times newspaper for libel over a 1997 article that identified Barry as the composer.
In 2001, Norman won the suit and was awarded 30,000 pounds in damages, the AP reported.
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2022-07-11T19:12:26+00:00
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ktvh.com
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https://www.ktvh.com/entertainment/composer-of-james-bond-theme-monty-norman-dies-at-94
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Top business leaders are preparing for the worst.
Federal Reserve officials maintain they'll be able to get surging inflation under control without triggering a recession, but almost every chief executive in the United States is getting ready to face an economic downturn in the next 12 to 18 months, according to a recent survey from The Conference Board.
"Our CEOs are overwhelmingly bracing for a recession — both in the United States, and in Europe," says Steve Odland, the head of the business trade group.
It seems almost impossible to find one who doesn't foresee a global downturn, with 98% of chief executives in the survey gearing up for a recession in the United States, and 99% prepping for one in Europe.
CEO confidence has now eroded to lows last seen during the Great Recession, the survey found.
The Fed's fight against high inflation has been getting tougher, stoking worries that the rapid fire of aggressive interest rate hikes will lead to a downturn. Executives and professional investors have begun issuing more somber warnings.
One of the world's most powerful CEOs, Jamie Dimon, delivered a gloomy assessment that startled Wall Street this week during an interview with CNBC.
The head of JPMorgan Chase & Co. said he expects the United States will be in a recession "six, nine months from now," and Europe is already in one.
Back in June, Dimon forecasted an economic "hurricane" on the horizon. That storm seems to have strengthened, and now he seems sure it's about to hit.
CEOs are battening down the hatches even though most are expecting a mild recession
Before he became The Conference Board's CEO, Steve Odland ran Office Depot, and he said companies want to do everything they can to cut back on overhead before a recession hits.
"You want to batten down the hatches," he says. "You really want to constrain the cost side while maximizing the revenue side."
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly told his staff to expect layoffs in the near future. And FedEx, which is seen as an economic bellwether, is closing stores and cutting back on deliveries as its CEO warns of a global recession.
On Wall Street, the conversation has shifted from "Will there be a recession?" to "What would a recession look like?"
"I don't see a Great Recession," says David Rubenstein, the co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and the author of "How to Invest: Masters on the Craft," referring to the downturn that stretched from December 2007 to June 2009.
"I see, if we have a recession, a modest recession — a two-quarter type of recession, not a one-year type of recession."
That prediction is in line with what CEOs told The Conference Board, with 85% of those surveyed expecting a "brief and shallow" recession.
There's still a lot of strength in the U.S. economy that could keep it from falling apart as it did during the Great Recession, when a housing downturn led to the collapse of banks as well as household savings.
Right now, people are still spending, and many of them are not overextended. On top of that, companies have sound balance sheets, and the jobs market is incredibly strong. In September, the unemployment rate fell to 3.5%.
And there is no indication CEOs expect that strength to diminish dramatically anytime soon.
Almost half of those surveyed said they plan to hire more workers over the next 12 months, and 85% of them said they expect to boost pay by 3% or more.
"That's unheard of from this group, going into a recession," says Odland. "Typically, you would hear that they're cutting back. That that they are not going to increase wages."
What if you threw a recession and nobody came?
No one can accurately predict what a recession will be like, how long it will last or even if it will happen.
"There is a lot of people who think that we will likely head into a recession in the United States at some point next year," said Rubenstein. "But nobody knows for certain."
There have been two consecutive quarters of negative growth in the United States, and that is seen as a rule of thumb for a determining when the economy is in a recession. But it is actually up to a non-profit group not tied to the government, the National Bureau of Economic Research, to officially determine that the economy is, in fact, in a recession. And that determination could take months.
Fed officials, including Chair Jerome Powell, still say they can nail a so-called "soft-landing," where high inflation is vanquished without pushing the country into a recession. But policymakers, economists, and investors agree that path has gotten narrower, and most business leaders expect the landing will be a little rocky, at least.
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2022-10-14T10:00:02+00:00
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https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-10-14/its-almost-impossible-to-find-a-ceo-who-isnt-bracing-for-a-recession
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New nasal spray approved to treat migraines in adults, Pfizer says
(CNN) – Migraine sufferers will soon have something new to try to relieve their headaches fast.
Pfizer said the Food and Drug Administration has approved its new nasal spray for adults with migraines.
The drug manufacturer said the spray is called Zavzpret and is considered a rapid rescue treatment.
Pfizer said the nasal spray could relieve migraine pain within 15 minutes.
There are a number of oral medications on the market for migraines, and Zavzpret uses the same chemical mechanism as some of them.
Many people with migraines have significant nausea and can’t tolerate medications they have to swallow, so this is an alternative treatment method.
Zavzpret is also an option for people who have heart disease or other conditions preventing them from safely using some other kinds of migraine treatments.
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2023-03-10T20:07:26+00:00
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wfsb.com
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https://www.wfsb.com/2023/03/10/new-nasal-spray-approved-treat-migraines-adults-pfizer-says/
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It’s officially time to say goodbye to The Wendy Williams Show. The long-running syndicated talk show will end without its host sitting in the purple chair. Instead, a video montage will be played in her honor.
ET can confirm that the final original episode of The Wendy Williams Show will air on Friday, with a video tribute to the iconic host. The series comes to an end after 13 successful years in syndication.
Williams, who has been the original host of the show since its debut in 2009, has not been on to host since 2020, when she began battling a series of health concerns and financial issues.
In her absence, a number of guest hosts, including Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Leah Remini, Michael Rapaport and Sherri Shepherd have stepped in to talk “Hot Topics” and interview celebrity guests.
In February, it was announced that the show would officially end in the fall, and that Shepherd will have her own daytime talk show, titled, Sherri. While making the announcement about the show, Shepherd promised that she was not going to “replace” Williams.
"This show was specifically crafted for her. No one can do this format but Wendy, nobody can sit in a purple chair and sip the tea like Wendy Williams," Shepherd said. "... Wendy Williams created a unique brand that folks are always gonna love and talk about."
In May, after a bit of back and forth and admitting that she would not be tuning into Sherri, Williams told ET that she would like to have the opportunity to sit down and meet with Shepherd.
"I have tons of support around me and I am working on projects," Williams said. "I would love the chance to actually speak with Sherri and sit down and meet."
Williams’ lawyer, LaShawn Thomas, told ET at the time that Williams is preparing to "get her show back in motion" and called a meeting with Shepherd "the perfect solution."
"Wendy requesting to have a sit-down with Sherri to have a meeting of the minds is the perfect solution as she has no ill will or intent," Thomas said. "Wendy is preparing to get her show back in motion."
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BERLIN — More than 60 police officers raided a luxury yacht in northern Germany linked to a Russian businessman in connection with alleged breaches of sanctions and money laundering rules, officials said Tuesday.
Frankfurt prosecutors said the suspect of their investigation is alleged to have conducted several transactions between 2017 and 2022 using a complex network of offshore companies to hide the origin of the payments, which amounted to millions of euros.
Usmanov is subject to sanctions in the United States and the European Union.
The raid comes the week after state and federal police searched 24 properties connected to Usmanov in the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
A spokesman with the Frankfurt prosecutor’s office confirmed that Tuesday’s yacht raid was part of the same investigation.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Springsteen takes on the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and other soul legends in an album of cover songs due out next month.
The disc “Only the Strong Survive” is named for the Jimmy Butler song, among the 15 other cover songs, which will be released on Nov. 11.
“I wanted to make an album where I just sang,” Springsteen said in a statement. “And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies? I’ve taken my inspiration from Levi Stubbs, David Ruffin, Jimmy Ruffin, the Iceman Jerry Butler, Diana Ross, Dobie Gray and Scott Walker, among many others.”
Those who’ve seen Springsteen perform live know that he’ll frequently pull out some soul covers. The disc arrives three months before the beginning of his tour with the E Street Band.
Among the songs he tackles are the Commodores’ “Nightshift,” The Walker Brothers’ “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore” and the Four Tops’ “When She Was My Girl.”
Other covers are “I Wish it Would Rain” by The Temptations and “Someday We’ll Be Together” by Diana Ross and The Supremes.
Soul legend Sam Moore sings on two of the cuts.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state’s near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abortion when pregnancy risks their health, not just in a medical emergency.
It was a narrow win for abortion rights advocates since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the landmark Roe v. Wade last year. Since then, conservative states including Oklahoma have enforced restrictions on abortion.
Oklahoma’s top court ruled that a woman has the right under the state Constitution to receive an abortion to preserve her life if her doctor determines that continuing the pregnancy would endanger it due to a condition she has or is likely to develop during the pregnancy. Previously, the right to an abortion could only take place in the case of medical emergency.
“Requiring one to wait until there is a medical emergency would further endanger the life of the pregnant woman and does not serve a compelling state interest,” the ruling states.
In the 5-4 ruling, the court said the state law uses both the words “preserve” and “save” the mother’s life as an exception to the abortion ban.
“The language ‘except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency’ is much different from ‘preserve her life,’” according to the ruling.
“Absolute certainty,” by the physician that the mother’s life could be endangered, “is not required, however, mere possibility or speculation is insufficient” to determine that an abortion is needed to preserve the woman’s life, according to the ruling.
The court, however, declined to rule on whether the state Constitution grants the right to an abortion for other reasons.
The court ruled in the lawsuit filed by Planned Parenthood, Tulsa Women’s Reproductive Clinic and others challenging the state laws passed after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade, which had guaranteed a nationwide right to abortion for nearly half a century.
Since then, a patchwork of laws has meant some patients have had to travel to other states to get abortions when it was outlawed where they lived.
“This ruling leaves out too many Oklahomans. Oklahomans shouldn’t have to travel across state lines just to reach an abortion clinic, and it is heartbreaking that many will not be able to do so,” said Dr. Alan Braid, an abortion provider and plaintiff in the case said in a statement.
The ruling in Oklahoma is unlikely to mean abortion becomes widely available.
In a lawsuit filed earlier this month over Texas’ abortion ban, five women said they were denied abortions even when pregnancy endangered their lives. The suit claims the Texas law is creating confusion among doctors, who are turning away some pregnant women experiencing health complications because they fear repercussions.
Emily Wales, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Great Plains called the ruling a small step toward restoring the right to abortion.
“The Oklahoma Supreme Court recognized one fundamental truth: patients must be permitted to access critical care to save their lives,” she said. “But the right recognized today is so limited that most people who need abortion will not be able to access it.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Five years after women's stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in the city where he once was a colossus at the Oscars.
Already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault in New York, the 70-year-old former movie mogul faces different allegations including several that prosecutors say occurred during a pivotal Oscar week in Los Angeles. Jury selection for an eight-week trial begins Monday.
Weinstein has been indicted on four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts involving five women, who will appear in court as Jane Does to tell their stories. He has pleaded not guilty.
Four more women will be allowed to take the stand to give accounts of Weinstein's sexual assaults that did not lead to charges, but which prosecutors hope will show jurors he had a propensity for committing such acts.
Starting in the 1990s, Weinstein, through the company Miramax that he ran with his brother, was an innovator in running broad and aggressive campaigns promoting Academy Award nominees. He had unmatched success, pushing films like “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Artist” to best picture wins and becoming among the most thanked men ever during Oscar acceptance speeches.
Miramax and its successor The Weinstein Co. were based in New York, where Weinstein lived and did business, but that didn't diminish his presence in Hollywood.
"He was a creature of New York, but he was also a creature of Los Angeles," said Kim Masters, editor at large for The Hollywood Reporter and a longtime observer of the movie industry. “He had this huge Golden Globes party that was always well beyond capacity when he was in his heyday. He was the King of Hollywood in New York and LA.”
It was during Oscars week in 2013 when Jennifer Lawrence would win an Academy Award for the Weinstein Co.'s “Silver Linings Playbook" and Quentin Tarantino would win for writing the company's “Django Unchained,” that four of the 11 alleged crimes took place.
Like most of the incidents in the indictments, they happened under the guise of business meetings at luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, which Weinstein used as his California headquarters and where he could be seen during awards season and throughout the year. He was treated as more than a VIP. At a pre-trial hearing, the chauffeur who drove Weinstein around Los Angeles testified that even he was allowed to take as much as $1,000 in cash in Weinstein’s name from the front desk of the hotel where the mogul was staying.
By the time stories about him in The New York Times and The New Yorker in October of 2017 brought about his downfall, Weinstein's power to seemingly will films to win awards had diminished, and his company had fallen into financial trouble.
“His stature changed, he was no longer the king of Oscar, which was really what made him vulnerable,” Masters said.
The Los Angeles trial is likely to be far less of a spectacle than the New York proceedings, and not merely because it's a sequel and Weinstein is already serving a long sentence.
Foot traffic is sparse and there is no grand entrance at the downtown LA courthouse that's hosting the trial. Weinstein will not be visible to any media horde or protesters outside as he was in Manhattan, as he'll be ushered into the courtroom straight from jail — once he's changed from his prison garb into a suit — across a short hallway where no cameras are allowed that could capture him.
Only a dozen reporters, including two sketch artists, will be allowed into the small courtroom each day, compared to several dozen in New York.
Weinstein will also be represented by different lawyers in Los Angeles, Alan Jackson and Mark Werksman. They have expressed worries that the movies may play a role in the trial.
The film “She Said," which fictionalizes the work of two New York Times reporters and their bombshell stories on Weinstein, is set to be released midway through the trial on Nov. 18.
Weinstein's lawyers lost a bid to have the proceedings delayed over the film, with the judge rejecting their argument that publicity surrounding it would prejudice a potential jury against him.
“This case is unique," Werksman said at a pretrial hearing. "Mr. Weinstein’s notoriety and his place in our culture at the center of the firestorm which is the #MeToo movement is real, and we’re trying to do everything we can to avoid having a trial when there will be a swirl of adverse publicity toward him," Werksman said at a pretrial hearing.
Weinstein's trial is one of several with #MeToo connections that have begun or are about to begin as the fifth anniversary of the movement's biggest moment passes, including the rape trial of “That ‘70s Show” actor Danny Masterson just down the hall from Weinstein’s and the New York sexual assault civil trial of Kevin Spacey.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF/NEXSTAR) – Masters champion Scottie Scheffler has announced the menu for the upcoming 2023 Masters Club Dinner scheduled for April.
Scheffler, the winner of the 2022 tournament and the current number-one ranked golfer on the Official World Golf Ranking, revealed his menu choices on Wednesday during a video call ahead of his title defense at Augusta National on April 6–9.
Appetizers include cheeseburger sliders (served “Scottie-style”) and firecracker shrimp. The second course, tortilla soup, is followed by entrees of either Texas ribeye steak or blackened redfish, with sides of mac & cheese, jalapeno creamed corn, fried brussels sprouts, and seasoned fries served family-style.
For dessert, guests will be served warm chocolate-chip cookie skillets alongside “milk & cookies ice cream,” according to the menu.
The Masters Club dinner dates to 1952, an idea started by Ben Hogan for all the Masters’ champions to have dinner. The only other person in the room is the club chairman — currently Fred Ridley — by invitation of the winners.
Honorees (i.e., each previous year’s winner) traditionally decide on a menu reflective of their favorite foods or hometown dishes, meaning the cuisine can range wildly from year to year.
2021 Masters champion Hideki Matsuyama, for instance, served assorted sashimi, wagyu ribeye, and strawberry shortcake with imported Japanese strawberries at his 2022 dinner. Previous champions have served up cottage pie and Yorkshire pudding (Danny Willet), Argentine barbecue (Angel Cabrera), or even just burgers, fries, and milkshakes (Tiger Woods).
The menu for Scheffler’s upcoming dinner, meanwhile, has been earning mixed reviews on Twitter.
“This is a fire menu,” one commenter wrote, while another said Scheffler has “exceptional taste in food.” But others found the menu to be a little “mid,” as one Twitter user put it, and took issue with Scheffler’s choices.
“Gotta love Scottie. He just told the chefs to order some Chili’s to go,” another user said. “A man of the people.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Patriot Growth Insurance Services, LLC (Patriot) announces Jorge Martinez has recently joined the firm as the Vice President of Carrier and Wholesale Relationships. Martinez will work closely with Patriot's Carrier Administration team and partner agencies.
In this newly created role, Martinez is responsible for developing and maintaining key insurance company and wholesale relationships. This includes maximizing current relationships and exploring new opportunities, representing the best interests of Patriot's partner agencies and clients. He will also conduct in-depth business reviews utilizing Patriot's data optimization strategy to gather business insights to identify new opportunities for clients with key carrier partners. Martinez has 15 years of insurance industry experience.
"I'm excited to be part of the Patriot team, and I look forward to making a positive impact," said Jorge Martinez, Vice President of Carrier Relations at Patriot. "I have experience working on the carrier and agency sides of the business, so I feel uniquely qualified and prepared for this role. Patriot has a very collaborative model, and I look forward to working with the team."
Prior to joining Patriot, Martinez was the Senior Vice President of Carrier Relations at ISU Insurance Agency Network. He was responsible for reporting, managing, and optimizing a $1.7 Billion portfolio of written premiums.
"I am thrilled Jorge joined Patriot because I'm confident he will make a meaningful contribution in this important role," said Patrick Savage, Senior Vice President of Operations at Patriot. "As Patriot continues to grow at an accelerated pace, Jorge's background is ideal to build upon the strong carrier relationships we have already established and to help our agency partners maximize those relationships."
Founded in 2019, Patriot is a growth-focused national insurance services firm that partners with employee benefits and property & casualty agencies across the United States. Patriot is ranked as the 35th largest broker in the U.S. by Business Insurance. With over 1,600 employees operating in 125 locations across 24 states, Patriot's collaborative model delivers resources and strategic support to its agencies, whose leaders continue to operate with a high degree of autonomy in their local markets. Patriot creates true alignment with its partner agencies, and its operating philosophy fosters enhanced career opportunities for its dedicated and professional team. Patriot is backed by GI Partners and Summit Partners. For more information, please visit www.patriotgis.com.
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Here at Simplemost, we’re fans of Dudolf puzzles. These visual delights give your brain a workout as you struggle to seek and find one item (or animal) among many similar ones. Think “Where’s Waldo,” but without the guy in the striped red-and-white shirt.
The Dudolf puzzles come from Gergely Dudás, who has more than 167,000 followers on Facebook and another 49,000 on Instagram where he gets a touch more personal by showing off his tattoos and wedding pictures (we had no idea he was so young). His illustrations are whimsical and way cuter than Wordle. Just saying.
In one of his latest puzzles, you have to find a cat among owls. Given both these animals have pointy ears, this is harder than you might think. Here’s the pic from Facebook, but note that (as always) you may have to go to the Dudás website to see the entire original image at a larger size that might make the puzzle easier to solve.
Having trouble? Here are some hints. First, go through the whole puzzle, scanning slowly. Pay particular attention to the right middle of the page.
The trick is to look for the cat’s muzzle. While the owls all have orange dots for beaks above their rounded chests, the cat’s orange dot is actually a nose, so the muzzle’s curve is different.
This one is tough! If you need the solution, you’ll want to visit the blog.
And now, if you’re hooked on all things Dudolf, you’ll want to try more. From locating a chick among ducks to mice among squirrels, you’ll have a blast seeking out the one animal you want.
Of course, Dudolf does different kinds of puzzles as well. Here’s one from Facebook that’s math-related:
And here’s one that has you locating six differences between the two images:
So, if you’re looking for a break from the daily grind that will tease your brain and challenge your abilities, may we recommend more Dudolf as part of your daily regimen?
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories.
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I'm a contractor and I needed a quick and effective way to remove paint from filled paint roller covers," said an inventor, from Defuniak Springs, Fla., "so I invented the ROLLER WASHER. My design enables you to easily maintain paint roller covers and it could eliminate the need to purchase additional covers."
The invention provides an automated way to clean paint roller covers. In doing so, it eliminates the need to clean covers by hand. As a result, it saves time and effort and it helps to reduce waste. The invention features a simple and effective design that is easy to use so it is ideal for painting contractors, homeowners, do-it-yourself enthusiasts, etc. Additionally, a prototype model is available upon request.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-MOT-148, 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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Tennessee State University announced Wednesday that it will become the first historically Black college and university to introduce ice hockey.
The school plans to have a men’s team playing at the club level in 2024, with a goal of fielding Division I men’s and women’s teams “in the near future.”
The Tennessee State program has been created in partnership with the National Hockey League, the National Hockey League Players' Association and the Nashville Predators. The announcement was made hours before the start of the NHL draft, which is being held at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, the city where the university is located.
“Together, we celebrate the power of collaboration as we dismantle barriers, diversify the game, and propel hockey into a new era of inclusivity,” Tennessee State athletic director Mikki Allen said in a statement. “This partnership serves as a catalyst, driving change and ensuring that the game we love embraces the beauty of diversity."
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Since 2017, the NHL and the players' union have sponsored feasibility studies for U.S. colleges and universities interested in exploring the addition of Division I men’s and women’s programs. The study for Tennessee State began in 2021.
Tennessee State's addition follows a trend of HBCUs adding sports outside their more traditional offerings of football, men's and women's basketball and men's and women's track and field. Earlier this year, The Associated Press contacted 46 Division I and D-II HBCUs and five conference offices about the trend. Twenty schools responded, saying they had added at least 42 NCAA championship or emerging sports since 2016, including at least 32 sports since 2020 alone.
In 2022-23, Fisk University became the first HBCU to offer women's gymnastics. Morgan State will become the only HBCU offering Division I men's wrestling this coming school year.
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“Bringing ice hockey to Tennessee State University is a part of our continued commitment to provide our students with new opportunities and to broaden new interests in areas where they have traditionally had limited or no access,” university president Glenda Glover said.
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) is investigating after a 17-year-old teen was found dead at his home.
According to the release, SCSO officers responded to a home in the 100 Block of County Hill Road in Blountville. Upon arrival, police met with a family member that found Gavin Brown, 17, dead in the home.
Anyone who recently spoke to Gavin or anyone that may have observed anything suspicious near the home is urged to contact officials at (423) 279-7330.
“I urge anyone with information to contact the sheriff’s office,” Sheriff Jeff Cassidy said. “The
circumstances lead us to believe that this is an isolated incident and that the public is not in any
danger.”
The body was reported to be sent for an autopsy and the investigation remains ongoing.
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In September of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera's gala opening night, the curtain rose not on Puccini or Verdi, but on an opera by the American jazz trumpeter and film score composer Terence Blanchard. Fire Shut Up in My Bones wove together jazz, blues, and symphonic sounds to tell the true story of a Black man confronting the traumas of his childhood. It was the first time in the Met's 138-year history that America's leading opera house presented an opera by a Black composer.
I couldn't be there that night. I was in California, working on an album of music by Scott Joplin that begins with music from Treemonisha, which he finished in 1910, hoping to produce the first great Black American opera. The complete work was finally staged in 1972, some 55 years after Joplin's death. It wasn't until 1949, when William Grant Still's Troubled Island came to New York City Opera, that an opera by a Black composer was performed on a major American stage.
Being "the first" can be very lonely, unless you wrap yourself in the embrace of the ancestors who came before you. As he returns to the Met with his opera Champion, Terence acknowledges, with gratitude and humility, the lineage of Black composers whose music was often unrecognized in its time, but whose work ultimately made his success possible today. He's hopeful about what can come next, and recognizes his role in leading change that is such a long time coming.
The triumph of Fire Shut Up in My Bones prompted the Met not only to present Champion this season and reprise Fire next year, but also to shift the balance of its programming, with a commitment to commissioning works that tell diverse stories. As Terence's music invites new audiences into the velvet splendor of the opera house, it is redefining this art form, and welcoming the next generation of composers and singers into a future full of possibilities.
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200-pound dinosaur skull expected to sell for $15 million
NEW YORK (AP) - A Tyrannosaurus rex skull unearthed in South Dakota is expected to sell for $15 million or more at auction in New York next month, officials with Sotheby’s said Tuesday.
The 200-pound (91-kilogram) skull fossil, nicknamed Maximus, is being sold on Dec. 9 by an owner who wishes to remain anonymous, the auction house said.
The skull was excavated in 2020 and 2021 in Harding County, South Dakota, where other T. rex skeletons like Sue and Stan were found, according to Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s head of science and popular culture. She called the area “the world capital for T. rexes.”
Most of the rest of this T. rex’s remains were destroyed over time by erosion, but Sotheby’s experts said the skull was a major find. Hatton noted, “When you think about it, more people can fit a skull in their home than people who could fit a full dinosaur.”
The 6 1/2-foot (2-meter) fossil is about 76 million years old and still has most of the external skull bones and numerous teeth, Sotheby’s experts said.
Hatton said two large puncture holes in the skull are evidence of a big fight, probably with another T. rex. “We don’t know that this is what caused the death of this animal, but we can tell that it did have a major battle during its lifetime,” she said.
Marks on the skull are interesting to study “because they give us an idea about what life was like during the Cretaceous period,” Hatton said.
This specimen may not be headed to a research institution, though. “It’s the ultimate trophy,” Hatton said. “To place in one’s home.”
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David’s Bridal announces massive layoffs ahead of wedding season, files for bankruptcy
Posted/updated on: April 17, 2023 at 12:46 pm(NEW YORK) -- David's Bridal has filed for bankruptcy and announced massive layoffs just weeks before wedding season.
One of the country's largest bridal retailers, the company revealed plans to eliminate 9,236 employees across its hundreds of stores.
"They may shut some stores down," The Stylish Bride founder Julie Sabatino told ABC News' Good Morning America. "If that happens, you're probably just going to need to go a little bit further to find a David's."
Layoffs have already begun in Pennsylvania and will continue to roll out through Aug. 11 at up to 15 stores in the state.
"Over the last several years, we have taken meaningful strides in our transformation to fulfill the needs of the brides of today and tomorrow," David's Bridal CEO James Marcum said in a statement. "We have successfully modernized our marketing and customer interaction processes and driven our retail service levels to best in class."
He continued, "Nonetheless, our business continues to be challenged by the post-COVID environment and uncertain economic conditions, leading us to take this step to identify a buyer who can continue to operate our business going forward. We are determined to stay focused on our future, because we believe we have an important role in ensuring that every bride, no matter her budget, can have her perfect dress."
In 2022, weddings hit their highest number in four decades as the result of a pandemic backlog, according to CEO of the Wedding Report Shane McMurray.
However, not as many people are expected to tie the knot this year due to post-pandemic obstacles, such as supply chain issues, that have continued to affect the wedding industry.
"What we're seeing right now is dresses are taking anywhere between nine and 12 months to be produced, which is a much longer lead time than we were dealing with pre-pandemic," said Sabatino.
Many people have also opted to pivot toward changing trends that lean toward second-hand shopping or non-traditional options.
Bride-to-be Jenn Leonard told GMA she found her wedding dress at a consignment shop and saved more than $1,500 off the retail price.
"My buying this dress is actually helping out the previous bride. That is a huge thing," said Leonard. "You know, I've always firmly believed in paying it forward."
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Hong Kong is one of the planet's most densely packed urban areas. Not far from its concrete jungle is a real jungle with free-roaming wild cows and water buffalos. One woman is trying to save them.
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Hong Kong is one of the planet's most densely packed urban areas. Not far from its concrete jungle is a real jungle with free-roaming wild cows and water buffalos. One woman is trying to save them.
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Skimmer continues to redefine its category with software that makes managing pool and spa service businesses simpler, more efficient, and more transparent.
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Skimmer, the leader in Pool Service Software, announced Skimmer Billing, a new payments solution created to help their Skimmer Pros get paid faster. With Skimmer Billing, Pros can request, collect, and manage customer payments without paper, and without ever leaving the Skimmer platform. Skimmer Billing is available now with every new Skimmer subscription.
"Skimmer exists to help pool and spa pros build great businesses. Now, we're doubling down on that promise," said Skimmer's CEO, Jack Nelson. "Skimmer Pros want to create value, not juggle multiple payment tools or sift through stacks of paper invoices. Skimmer Billing is the best way to make billing simpler and more transparent so businesses can focus on growth."
Skimmer Billing enables pool and spa servicing & repair businesses to offer their customers more ways to pay by accepting credit and debit cards, Google Pay, Apple Pay, or ACH with a one-time payment or the convenience of AutoPay for routine services. Skimmer Billing calculates, emails, and tracks invoices for payment. That means no more waiting on checks, incomplete bills, or wasted time in the back office. Skimmer will maintain its current integrations with third-party accounting tools.
"Since we transitioned over to Skimmer Billing, it's really streamlined the entire process," said Chantel Dooley of Dazzle Pools. "It's allowed me more time to work more strategically and be more proactive with our customers. I have time for my passion projects now that my time is not spent chasing down payments."
About Skimmer
Skimmer's Pool Service Software Platform has helped thousands of pool service and repair businesses engage efficiently and professionally with pool & spa owners across the United States and Canada. The SaaS platform provides pool and spa service and repair businesses of all sizes features that simplify work orders, optimize routes, manage labor, streamline billing and payments, and communicate with customers. Learn more at getskimmer.com.
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EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Rookie Minnesota Vikings cornerback Andrew Booth Jr. had knee surgery to repair meniscus damage and will be sidelined indefinitely, coach Kevin O'Connell announced on Monday.
Booth was held out of Minnesota's win over New England last week because of his injury. The Vikings were waiting for further medical assessment on Booth before determining whether he'll be able to return to action this season. He's likely to land on injured reserve, meaning he'd have to miss at least four weeks.
With Cameron Dantzler Sr. (ankle) and Akayleb Evans (concussion) also out against the Patriots, the Vikings started Duke Shelley at cornerback. Dantzler must miss at least one more game on injured reserve. Evans has been progressing through the concussion protocol and it's not clear whether he will play Sunday against the New York Jets.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Jim Brown was both extraordinary and extraordinarily complicated.
One man. Many versions.
His greatness on the football field is beyond reproach. For generations, Brown, who died Thursday night peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, has long been the standard of excellence for running backs, a freakish blend of brute power and blazing speed who in many ways changed the NFL forever.
Cleveland’s No. 32 is in a class by himself.
“He’s (No.) 1,” said Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, the league’s career rushing leader. ”(Walter) Payton, two. I fall three.”
But there is so much more than broken tackles and shattered records to Brown, who walked away from the game at his physical peak to pursue a film career, helping break barriers in Hollywood for Black actors.
There’s the social activist and civil rights champion who used his platform to promote change during one of the most turbulent decades in U.S. history.
And there’s a much less flattering personal side to Brown, who was accused of domestic violence during a time when women’s cries for help were often completely ignored or muted.
Although he was arrested more than a half-dozen times, Brown was never convicted of a serious crime as many of his accusers refused to testify or he was cleared in court. Those transgressions, however, tarnished his image and made it tough for even the most loyal Browns fans to support him.
As a football player, he was nearly flawless.
An All-American at Syracuse, where he also starred in lacrosse, the 6-foot-2, 230-pound Brown, born in Georgia and raised on Long Island, was nothing like the NFL had ever seen when he burst on the scene in 1957.
Flattening tacklers with a deadly stiff arm, making them miss with a stutter step or simply outrunning them, he led the league in rushing as a rookie. He didn’t stop there.
Over the next eight seasons, Brown racked up 12,312 yards rushing, scored 126 touchdowns and averaged 5.2 yards per carry. Despite playing in just 118 games — he never missed one — he still ranks among career leaders in average (third), rushing TDs (sixth) and rushing yards (11th).
But perhaps more significantly, Brown, who ran for a career-high 1,863 yards in 1963, became a sports symbol of Black excellence at a time when the U.S. was beginning to .
“Jim Brown really represented achievement for the Black community and he was so good that it didn’t matter what color they were, they had to acknowledge him as the best in his field,” NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said. “And that meant a lot to Black Americans in the 60s when anything that any Black person achieved was questioned.
“There were no question marks about Jim Brown.”
Those would come later.
After he rushed for 1,544 yards, scored 17 TDs and won his third league MVP in 1965, Brown retired, informing the Browns while on the set of “The Dirty Dozen” in England. While his decision stunned the team and shocked sports world, it was vintage Brown.
He always did things his way.
During an era when athletes, especially Black athletes, were reluctant to speak their minds for fear of backlash or worse, Brown stepped forward.
While he was still playing, Brown founded the Negro Industrial and Economic Union, an organization focused on creating jobs and supporting Black entrepreneurs.
In 1967, Brown invited some of the nation’s top Black athletes, including Boston Celtics star Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (later to be known as Abdul-Jabbar), to the Economic Union office in Cleveland to support Muhammad Ali, who had been stripped of his title for refusing to be drafted in protest of the Vietnam War.
It was that sense of power, fearlessness that drove Brown and empowered generations that followed.
“I hope every Black athlete takes the time to educate themselves about this incredible man and what he did to change all of our lives,” LeBron James posted shortly after Brown’s death. ”We all stand on your shoulders Jim Brown. If you grew up in Northeast Ohio and were Black, Jim Brown was a God.”
James has emulated Brown, perhaps more than any other star athlete in the past 60 years. Growing up in Northeast Ohio, he learned about Jim Brown the football player before recognizing there was so much more to him.
“I really just thought of him as the greatest Cleveland Brown to ever play,” James wrote on his Instagram page. “Then I started my own journey as a professional athlete and realized what he did socially was his true greatness. When I choose to speak out, I always think about Jim Brown. I can only speak because Jim broke down those walls for me.”
As he readied for the opening tip of Game 3 in the 2015 NBA Finals in Cleveland, James noticed Brown sitting in a courtside seat. He turned toward the football icon, placed his hands together and bowed in respect, only to have Brown nod in return.
One year later, the two legends stood side by side on a stage after the Cavaliers ended the city’s 52-year championship drought. Brown handed James the Larry O’Brien Trophy in a symbolic passing of the torch.
He had already given him everything else.
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Lexus is working on a mid-size electric SUV with a third row of seats, and recent trademark activity may point to the vehicle being called the TZ.
A user on the Lexus RX Owners forum has discovered that Toyota in July filed trademark applications for the TZ designation with the European Union Intellectual Property Office.
Among the trademarks were the names “Lexus TZ 450e” and “Lexus TZ 550e.”
Lexus has already launched its first dedicated EV in the form of the 2023 RZ crossover, whose pricing and positioning are similar to the RX five-seat crossover.
Similarly, the TZ may be positioned alongside the new 2024 Lexus TX, a gas-powered mid-size SUV with third-row seats.
Lexus hasn’t said when it plans to launch its three-row electric SUV, but we already have a good of how it may look.
Toyota shocked the automotive world in the closing days of 2021 by confirming plans to launch 30 electric vehicles by 2030, many of which are to wear a Lexus badge.
Late in 2021, Lexus previewed many of the vehicles with the reveal of some thinly veiled concept versions, one of which was a three-row SUV dubbed the Lexus Electrified SUV concept.
The trademark filings may also indicate Lexus’ naming strategy for its upcoming EVs. In addition to the three-row SUV, Lexus is known to be working on an IS-like sport sedan that may end up as the IZ. An LFA-inspired supercar is also planned, possibly as the LFZ.
Under new Toyota President Koji Sato, Lexus is the focus of the company’s EV push. The plan is to make zero-emission vehicles, which includes hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, 100% of Lexus’ sales in the U.S., Europe, and China by 2030, and the rest of the world by 2035.
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TechFin partnership to transform credit union with state-of-the-art digital banking platform
PLANO, Texas, July 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) ("Alkami"), a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for banks and credit unions in the U.S., today announced that Massachusetts-based IC Credit Union has selected the Alkami Digital Banking Platform to lead its tech stack transformation.
The partnership is part of IC Credit Union's full tech stack evolution, designed to deliver a modernized, state-of-the-art user experience for its members. "We set out to reinvent our online experience and were blown away by what Alkami had to offer," said Christopher Hendry, chief executive officer of IC Credit Union. "Most importantly, we saw Alkami as a true growth partner, one with an unparalleled user experience, a forward-thinking mindset, and the extensibility to execute on their best-in-class roadmap."
IC Credit Union plans to leverage the full extent of the Alkami Platform, including its modern user experience (UX) for streamlined digital account opening and its Data & Marketing Solutions for advanced analytics to better serve its existing users and grow its member base.
"IC Credit Union is setting a foundation for success. Their tech-savvy leadership team has prioritized UX and extensibility, which will significantly enhance their member experience now and in the future," said Wayne McCulloch, chief customer officer for Alkami. "We are looking forward to partnering with them to create a member experience that will build loyalty, drive engagement and empower future growth."
About Alkami
Alkami Technology, Inc. is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that enables clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital communities. Alkami helps clients transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening, payment security, and data analytics and marketing solutions. To learn more, visit www.alkami.com.
About IC Credit Union:
Founded in 1928 in Fitchburg, Mass., IC Credit Union serves 37,000 members in six counties in the Commonwealth including Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, and Worcester. Throughout their history, IC has been committed to improving the well-being of their members and the community through education and exceptional quality products and services. To become a member or for more information, call 800.262.1001 or visit www.iccreditunion.org.
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How to Watch the Rangers vs. Angels Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for June 15
Shohei Ohtani will look to slow down Marcus Semien and the Texas Rangers when they take on his Los Angeles Angels on Thursday at 8:05 PM ET.
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Rangers vs. Angels Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023
- Time: 8:05 PM ET
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Location: Arlington, Texas
- Venue: Globe Life Field
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Rangers Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Rangers average 1.3 home runs per game to rank seventh in MLB play with 90 total home runs.
- Texas' .456 slugging percentage ranks fourth-best in MLB.
- The Rangers have an MLB-leading .272 batting average.
- Texas scores the most runs in baseball (415 total, 6.2 per game).
- The Rangers are the top team in baseball this season with a .341 on-base percentage.
- The Rangers strike out 8.8 times per game to rank 15th in baseball.
- The pitching staff for Texas has a collective 8.4 K/9, which ranks 23rd in the majors.
- Texas has a 3.80 team ERA that ranks sixth among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Rangers pitchers combine for the No. 2 WHIP in MLB (1.198).
Angels Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Angels have hit 98 homers this season, which ranks fifth in the league.
- Los Angeles ranks sixth in the majors with a .432 team slugging percentage.
- The Angels' .255 batting average is among the best in baseball, ranking 10th in MLB.
- Los Angeles is among the highest scoring teams in baseball, ranking sixth with 343 total runs this season.
- The Angels are among the best in the league at getting on base, ranking eighth with an OBP of .329.
- The Angels rank 21st in MLB in strikeouts per game with an average of 8.8 whiffs per contest.
- Los Angeles has an 8.8 K/9 rate this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 12th in the majors.
- Los Angeles has pitched to a 4.24 ERA this season, which ranks 16th in baseball.
- Angels pitchers have a 1.338 WHIP this season, 20th in the majors.
Rangers Probable Starting Pitcher
- Nathan Eovaldi looks for his 10th victory when he makes the start for the Rangers, his 14th of the season. He is 9-2 with a 2.49 ERA and 83 strikeouts in 86 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday against the Tampa Bay Rays, when he tossed 6 1/3 innings, allowing four earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- Eovaldi has collected eight quality starts this year.
- Eovaldi is looking for his 14th straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 6.6 innings per appearance on the hill.
- He has had five appearances this season in which he held his opponents to zero earned runs.
Angels Probable Starting Pitcher
- The Angels will hand the ball to Ohtani (5-2) for his eighth start of the season.
- The right-hander's last appearance came in relief on Saturday when he threw five innings out of the bullpen against the Seattle Mariners, giving up three earned runs while allowing three hits.
- He's going for his sixth quality start in a row.
- Ohtani has 12 starts of five or more innings this season in seven chances. He averages 5.8 innings per outing.
- In 13 appearances this season, he has finished three without allowing an earned run.
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WFO NEW YORK CITY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Friday, August 26, 2022
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SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service New York NY
637 PM EDT Fri Aug 26 2022
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR NORTHEASTERN NEW LONDON COUNTY...
At 637 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Norwich,
moving east at 25 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to trees and power lines.
This severe storm will be near...
Griswold around 640 PM EDT.
Voluntown around 655 PM EDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
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Comprehensive New Senior Center to Open
LAKEHURST, N.J., Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Beacon of LIFE PACE Center Ocean County will celebrate its grand opening on Thursday, September 29 from 2 pm to 5 pm. The Center offers eligible seniors support services to allow them to comfortably age at home. It is located at 800 Route 70, Lakehurst, NJ 08733.
Lakehurst Mayor Harry Robbins and other special guests will attend the ribbon cutting followed by refreshments, giveaways, and tours of the facility. The event is open to seniors, caregivers, community organizations, neighbors, and job seekers. For planning purposes, attendees are asked to RSVP by calling (732) 716.4600 or emailing kcollins@beaconpace.com.
"Beacon of LIFE PACE Center Ocean County is an outstanding alternative to nursing home care," said Greg Pulley, Center Director. "We are a reliable, professional, senior-friendly drop-in center dedicated to helping our participants be independent in their homes for as long as possible. We give them and their caregivers critical support."
Eligible individuals must live in Ocean County, be 55-years of age or older, eligible for nursing home care, and able to live safely in the community alone or with caregivers.
Participants can choose from a wide range of preventive, primary, acute, and long-term care. "We offer a team of healthcare professionals who get to know you and your goals," said Bobbi Runyon, Executive Director for Beacon of LIFE PACE's Monmouth County and Ocean County locations. "There is a day center with activities and meals, and also social services, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, hairdressers, and much more."
An enrollment specialist from Beacon of LIFE PACE will assess the needs of participants in their homes. Services may include housekeeping, meals, and assistance with showers or bathing. Caregivers may also turn to Beacon of LIFE for respite, as needed.
An Interdisciplinary Team considers the participant's and caregiver's needs, recommends services, and creates an ongoing relationship with the participant. Medicaid completely covers the cost of the program; Medicare covers a portion, including Medicare Part D drug coverage. Private pay is also an option to join PACE. Beacon of LIFE provides all transportation to the PACE Center for activities or medical appointments.
"We're excited that the Grand Opening September 29 coincides with National PACE month," said Mary Austin, CEO of BoldAge, which operates Beacon of LIFE PACE in New Jersey as well as PACE programs in three other states. "Beacon of LIFE is helping older adults live happily and healthfully in their own homes for as long as possible."
PACE programs serve approximately 60,000 participants across the U.S. More than 96 percent of family caregivers of older adults report they are satisfied with the support they receive through PACE, and 97.5 percent would recommend PACE to someone in a similar situation.
Program of All-Include Care for the Elderly (PACE), is an integrated, person-centered model of care dedicated to helping participants maintain independence to live at home instead of a nursing facility. It is centered on the belief that it is better for the well-being of seniors with chronic care needs and their families to be served in the community whenever possible. PACE programs are governed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Beacon of Life PACE Ocean County joins Beacon of Life PACE Monmouth County, NJ, as its second location, and is the seventh PACE Center in New Jersey. It is part of BoldAge, which operates PACE Centers in several states. For more information, call 888-25-BEACON or visit BeaconPACE.com.
More info: Bobbi Runyon, Executive Director,
Beacon of LIFE PACE's Monmouth County and Ocean County
732-716-4600, BRunyon@beaconpace.com
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Jurors at Alex Murdaugh’s double murder trial in South Carolina heard evidence Tuesday that gunshot residue was found inside a rain jacket found at his mother’s home three months after his wife and son were killed.
A judge’s decision to allow the testimony was the second win for prosecutors in as many days. Judge Clifton Newman on Monday allowed prosecutors to call witnesses to testify that Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before the killings.
Later Tuesday, once of Murdaugh’s law partners testified about how his firm found out Murdaugh was stealing money and also about trying to collect birdshot from the scene of the shootings at the Murdaugh property the day after the deaths but stopping because they were sickened by the gore still around after the crime scene agents left.
Murdaugh, 54, is standing trial in the shootings of his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021, near kennels at their home. He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.
Defense attorneys asked the judge to prevent further testimony about the raincoat after the caretaker for Murdaugh’s ailing mother testified that she saw him bring a “blue something, looked like a tarp” into his mother’s home nine days after the killings.
State agents got a search warrant four months after the killings and found a tarp but also a blue rain jacket.
State Law Enforcement Division agent Megan Fletcher testified she found a large amount of gunshot residue inside the jacket and said it was consistent with either firing a gun while wearing it inside out or being wrapped around a recently fired weapon. Court ended Tuesday before she could be cross examined.
Defense attorneys said prosecutors didn’t connect the jacket to Murdaugh through the caretaker’s confusing testimony and that it would be unfair and harmful to his case to let state agents testify about what the testing on the jacket found. Witnesses have testified the Murdaugh family often shot guns and hunted on their property and the defense said residue can’t be linked to a specific weapon.
The defense did an “effective job in cross-examination in raising questions as to the credibility of the witness. And that is the exact job the jury has to do — weigh the credibility of the witness,” the judge said.
But Newman’s decisions could also help the defense. If Murdaugh is found guilty, the decisions could be brought up on appeal.
The extra witnesses will extend a trial that reached its 12th day on Tuesday with no end to the prosecution’s case in sight.
Jurors heard Tuesday from Ronnie Crosby, a law partner with Murdaugh for more than two decades.
Crosby testified for the prosecution that Murdaugh told him and other law partners he was never at the kennels the night of the shootings and later became the third witness to identify Murdaugh’s voice along with his wife and his son on a video from the kennels about five minutes before investigators say they were killed.
Crosby became emotional and took his time answering several times during his testimony. Prosecutor Creighton Waters asked Crosby if he had a drink after a partner called him to his home and showed a folder of evidence that Murdaugh was stealing money.
“Yea, ultimately more than one,” Crosby said.
Crosby didn’t go to a meeting the next day where other partners confronted Murdaugh and he resigned. But he said he was told that Murdaugh told his colleagues “he knew he was going to get caught at some point.”
On cross-examinaton, Crosby said he arrived at the Murdaugh home about an hour after the bodies were found the night of the killings. He got close enough to the bodies to know what kind of ammunition was fired and said it never looked like state agents searched the Murdaugh home.
The next day after state agents left, Crosby said he and another partner saw birdshot still near the shooting scene and thought about collecting it in case it was important evidence.
“It was so bad. We thought at some point we were going to clean it up. But it overwhelmed both my partner Mark and I,” Crosby said.
Tuesday’s testimony started with Jeanne Seckinger, who is the office manager and chief financial officer for the law firm Murdaugh’s family founded more than a century ago.
Murdaugh took money from legal settlements that was supposed to go to clients by routing it to a fake company that he created and that had a similar name to the company the law firm had intended to send it to, Seckinger said. The real company would have then dispensed the money to the firm’s clients.
Seckinger said she confronted Murdaugh about almost $800,000 in missing law firm fees on the day of the killings. But during the conversation, Murdaugh found out doctors had told his father he would die within days. Seckinger said all the grief ended the investigation into the missing fees until things settled down.
After an extensive investigation, the firm determined that Murdaugh took more than $5 million from clients, and it is in the process of paying them everything they were owed, Seckinger said.
For nearly two hours, Seckinger went over dozens of checks Murdaugh sent to his fake company. Then he asked why the law firm had to pay the money back.
“Alex had stolen it,” Seckinger said again and again.
On cross-examination, she agreed with defense attorney Jim Griffin that Murdaugh faces criminal charges for each client.
Griffin also asked Seckinger if it was true that Murdaugh started stealing in 2011, “Some 10 years before the murders of Maggie and Paul?”
“That’s correct. He managed to fool a lot of people, myself included,” Seckinger said.
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Eye Care of San Diego adds three new clinics and an ambulatory surgery center which strengthens UVP's West Coast Presence
DALLAS, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unifeye Vision Partners ("UVP"), a leading network of comprehensive eye care providers, today announced the completion of a strategic partnership with Eye Care of San Diego, based in Mission Hills, California. This represents UVP's ninth practice partnership in the state of California and the 13th member of the growing UVP community.
Delivering world-class medical and surgical eye care since 1994, Eye Care of San Diego's physicians and staff provide laser eye surgery, glaucoma medications and treatment, cornea and cataract surgery, and the full range of optical services. In addition, the team operates an ambulatory surgery center, utilized by their highly skilled team of fellowship-trained ophthalmologists. Led by John Bokosky, M.D., F.A.C.S., the team of five ophthalmologists and optometrists serves patients from three clinic locations in Hillcrest, Escondido, and La Jolla and from the ambulatory surgery center in Hillcrest.
Dr. Bokosky is a highly respected surgeon who specializes in cornea surgery and vision correction. He is on staff at multiple hospitals throughout San Diego County, including Scripps-Mercy Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital. He is also the former chief of ophthalmology at Scripps-Mercy Hospital and Medical Center and currently serves as Medical Director for San Diego Eye Bank. To learn more about the physicians or the practice, visit www.eyecareofsandiego.com.
"This partnership has been in the works for some time and I'm extremely proud to bring it to completion, officially becoming a part of the UVP community," said Dr. Bokosky, founder of Eye Care of San Diego. "I'm extremely proud of the team I get to work with every day, offering state-of-the-art ophthalmic treatment and care for patients who need the simplest to the most complex vision correction services."
"As we continue to grow in the California market, we are excited by the quality of ophthalmic practices and physicians who lead the industry in their communities, and that so many of our new partnerships are brought to us by providers already within our community," said Martin Rash, CEO of Unifeye Vision Partners. "The addition of Eye Care of San Diego greatly expands our presence in Southern California and further demonstrates our commitment to our West Coast patients and referring physicians."
Unifeye Vision Partners was formed to partner with leading eye care providers in targeted markets throughout the United States. The company provides management and support services to ophthalmology and optometry practices, as well as single-specialty eye surgery centers. UVP extends its operations to a network of 114 providers, 40 clinic locations, and 10 ambulatory surgery centers. For additional information on UVP, visit the Company's website at www.uvpeye.com.
Waud Capital Partners is a leading growth-oriented private equity firm with total capital commitments of approximately $3.6 billion since its founding in 1993. The firm partners with exceptional management teams to build market-leading companies within two industries: healthcare services and business and technology services. Since its founding, Waud Capital has successfully completed more than 400 investments, including platform companies and follow-on opportunities. For additional information on Waud Capital, visit the firm's website at www.waudcapital.com.
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It’s the night of the election. Polls have been closed for hours. Why don’t Americans know the winners?
In 2020, President Donald Trump proclaimed that the lack of final results on election night could be an indicator of something nefarious and used it to assert without evidence that the election was stolen: “We don’t want them to find any more ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list,” he said.
In reality, however, results released on election night are unofficial and always incomplete. They inevitably change as more ballots are counted.
Unlike in many countries, elections in the U.S. are highly decentralized, complex and feature long lists of races, from president and Congress all the way down to local measures and town council seats. Some states give local election offices several weeks before Election Day to process mailed ballots, including checking signatures and verifying ID information. In other states, that process can’t start until Election Day or shortly before, meaning those ballots might not get counted until the next day or even later.
Here’s why results are not always known the night of an election.
SHOULD WE KNOW THE WINNERS BEFORE GOING TO BED?
Republicans in particular have pointed to perceived delays in knowing results as a reason to be suspicious about the integrity of elections.
“We’ve got to get our elections reformed so that every Arizonan, whether they be Democrat, Independent, or Republican, when they go to bed on Election Night they know the winner and they’re satisfied that it was a fair election. We don’t have that right now,” Kari Lake, the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate for governor in Arizona, said in August on Twitter.
Not knowing the winner on election night says nothing about the fairness of an election or the accuracy of results. Under Arizona law, all ballots including those that were mailed must be returned by 7 p.m. on Election Day, but officials have 20 days to finalize their counts.
In Nevada, counties have four days to count late-arriving mailed ballots and give voters two more days to fix mailed ballots that arrive in envelopes with errors or missing information. This week, the elections official in the county that includes Reno reminded voters of that extended timeline and said final, official results are unlikely until the actual canvass of the vote on Nov. 18.
“It will definitely be more than the day after the election for final results of the election,” said Jamie Rodriguez, Washoe County’s interim registrar of voters.
WHY CAN’T WE BE LIKE FRANCE?
A close Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania last May triggered comparisons to the French presidential election, which had been held a few weeks earlier.
Trump, in a social media post two days after the Pennsylvania primary, questioned why it was taking so long to find out the winner: “France, same day all paper, had VERIFIED numbers in evening,” Trump wrote. “U.S. is a laughing stock on Elections.”
But in France there was only one contest on the ballot. Presidential and parliamentary elections are held on separate dates. In Pennsylvania, the U.S. Senate GOP primary was just one of several contests being decided, including races for governor, attorney general, Congress and state legislature.
U.S. elections also are not nationalized, but rather overseen by states and run by local officials at the county or even township level. The U.S. has some 10,000 jurisdictions charged with overseeing the voting process.
For presidential elections in France, the Ministry of Interior distributes election-related materials, including ballots, while local officials coordinate staffing of polling places. France also has a Constitutional Council that decides election-related complaints and announces results.
Noah Praetz, the former elections clerk in Cook County, Illinois, said it’s possible to have quick results, but the U.S. has “decided to make voting accessible to everybody and let us vote on everything.” He noted that ballots in the U.S. typically include dozens of offices in contrast to some countries where voters might simply back a party whose leadership then fills many of those positions.
In France, voters choose from lists of local candidates usually associated with a party. The candidate list gaining the most support will receive the most seats in the city and regional councils.
“It’s a fundamentally different view of democracy,” Praetz said.
In addition, voters in France can vote by proxy — designating someone else to vote for them if they are unable to cast a ballot in person on Election Day, which is not allowed in the U.S.
DO MAIL BALLOTS AFFECT THE REPORTING OF RESULTS?
They can. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, states were expanding the use of mail ballots and early in-person voting to reduce lines on Election Day and provide more flexibility to voters.
Mail ballots are subject to various security checks, varying by state. Some require voter signatures or ID information to match their registration files, while others require witnesses or notaries to affirm a voter’s identity.
In most states, including Florida and Georgia, the process of validating mail ballots begins well ahead of Election Day — providing a huge advantage in reporting results quickly. That’s not the case in a few political battleground states. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin officials are not allowed to begin that work until Election Day, while Michigan officials can start just two days before. This means most results being reported from these states on election night will be from in-person voting on Election Day or during the early voting period.
“Counting votes and reporting the results take time,” said Leigh Chapman, acting secretary of state in Pennsylvania. “Election officials are focused on accuracy over speed.”
WHAT OTHER FACTORS CAN SLOW RESULTS?
While most states require mail ballots to be received on or before Election Day, 19 states provide a grace period as long as ballots were sent through the mail by Election Day. Such ballots in California can be received up to seven days later.
Voters may not know the outcome of a close race for several days if a significant number of those ballots arrive at local election offices after Election Day.
This also can change results over time. If Democratic voters dominate mail voting while Republican voters largely cast ballots in person, this can mean that early results heavily favor a Republican candidate who then sees that lead slip away as the late-arriving mail ballots are counted.
WOULD HAND COUNTING HELP SPEED UP THE PROCESS?
No. Hand counting of all ballots happens primarily in small towns in the Northeast. For places with a lot of ballots, experts consider it to be more time-consuming and susceptible to human error. Hand tallies are used in post-election reviews to ensure accuracy of tabulator machines, but that usually involves only a sample of ballots and is done without the time pressure of trying to report results quickly.
Republican activists and candidates have been pushing for hand counts, based largely on conspiracy theories that voting systems were manipulated to steal the 2020 election. There is no evidence of widespread fraud or tampering of machines.
Also, hand counts would by themselves prolong the reporting of results, perhaps by several days.
Cobb County, Georgia, performed a hand tally ordered by the state after the 2020 election. It took hundreds of people five days to count just the votes for president on roughly 397,000 ballots. A county election official estimated it would have taken 100 days to count every race on each ballot using the same procedures.
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Associated Press writers Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; Ali Swenson in New York and Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
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2022-10-27T19:54:42+00:00
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Maine-based internet service provider will utilize Tarana's next-generation fixed wireless technology to bring fast, affordable monthly packages to two new communities
HALLOWELL, Maine, Dec. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In partnership with the Maine Connectivity Authority (MCA) and as part of the Jumpstart Connectivity Initiative Outer Reach Broadband (ORB), a Maine-based internet service provider, announced today that it was awarded a $500,000 grant to build high-speed broadband networks in Lee and Lakeville, Maine. Utilizing next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) technology from Tarana Wireless, an industry-altering broadband solution provider, Outer Reach will be able to provide over 570 Lee and Lakeville homes with high-speed, reliable internet service. Monthly internet packages will start at just $44.99. Project planning and contracting have already begun in earnest and network operations are expected to commence in Summer 2023.
"Joining the Lee and Lakeville communities and partnering with the Maine Connectivity Authority is a huge thrill for us," said Tom Kirby, President of Outer Reach Broadband. "These are special towns that will benefit from accessible high-speed internet subscriptions in exciting new ways. Our home-grown approach to connecting communities was made for Maine towns just like Lee and Lakeville, so we're really looking forward to these new opportunities."
The Lee and Lakeville networks will rely on the deployment of Tarana Wireless's G1 radios which represent an investment in cutting-edge, industry-leading fixed wireless technology. This network also represents Outer Reach's second deployment of the G1 series radios after their use by Outer Reach in Millinocket, Maine.
Beyond the fixed wireless network, Outer Reach's team will also begin the planning, design and equipment testing phases to prepare Lee and Lakeville for an anticipated Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) deployment to fill in areas that are not able to be covered by the new fixed wireless networks. The combination of a fixed wireless network and a FTTP network will also serve as a pilot for how this process could proceed in other communities.
Outer Reach Broadband is a Maine broadband company founded in 2020, on a mission to close Maine's digital divide by providing fast, reliable and affordable internet access. Outer Reach is committed to delivering dependable customer service and cutting edge fixed wireless technology. For more information, visit https://outerreachbroadband.com.
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2022-12-21T14:16:20+00:00
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/12/21/outer-reach-broadband-partners-with-maine-connectivity-authority-build-new-broadband-networks-lee-lakeville-maine/
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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) _ Arrow Financial Corp. (AROW) on Thursday reported third-quarter earnings of $12.2 million.
The Glens Falls, New York-based bank said it had earnings of 74 cents per share.
The bank holding company posted revenue of $42 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $38.7 million, beating Street forecasts.
Arrow Financial shares have dropped roughly 10% since the beginning of the year. The stock has decreased 11% in the last 12 months.
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This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on AROW at https://www.zacks.com/ap/AROW
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2022-10-27T13:30:59+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Arrow-Financial-Q3-Earnings-Snapshot-17538052.php
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) —
New Jersey would change the age for purchasing rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21 under legislation an Assembly committee advanced on Wednesday, part of new bills aimed at tightening the state's already strict gun laws.
The measure comes after fatal shootings in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, where authorities identified the shooters as 18-year-olds. The fate of the bill, though, is uncertain because the state Senate has not so far taken up the measure.
New Jersey's bill follows New York, which earlier this month adopted legislation setting 21 as the age at which residents could buy semiautomatic rifles — weapons already banned in New Jersey. Rhode Island adopted a similar measure just this week.
Under current law, New Jersey requires residents to be 21 to purchase a handgun. The new measure would raise the age threshold to 21 for those seeking to purchase rifles and shotguns, but also include several carveouts. Under the bill, those younger than 21 could possess a long gun under the direct supervision of a parent or guardian or another person permitted to carry a firearm; or for military drills, target practice, instruction, or training; or for hunting during the designated season along with holding a valid hunting license and taking a safety course.
The committee also considered eight other bills, broadly in line with Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy's repeated calls for more gun safety measures. The other measures include legislation sought by Murphy to allow the state attorney general to probe and seek injunctions against gun manufacturers whose weapons go against the state's public nuisance laws.
The hearing unfolded over nearly four hours, with a handful of advocates and opponents in attendance.
Wearing a red Moms Demand Action T-Shirt, Amy Faucher directly linked the bill increasing the firearm purchase age to the shootings in Texas and New York.
“Our nation has been shook to the core over the past month with two horrific mass shootings," said Faucher, a volunteer with Moms Demand Action. "If this bill can save one life in one city somewhere, to me it’s worth it.”
Darin Goens, a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, criticized the bill, indicating it amounted to turning 18-to 20-year-olds into a second class of citizens who couldn't exercise a constitutional right. He predicted the bill would be challenged all the way up to the Supreme Court if it becomes law in New Jersey.
“In our estimation this is a complete violation of the Second Amendment,” Goens said.
Bills that pass out of committee typically head next to the full Democrat-led Assembly for consideration. The Democrat-controlled state Senate is considering the same legislation Thursday, except for the increase in the purchase age.
Asked recently about the bills, Senate President Nicholas Scutari said he was evaluating the bills and “making sure that we bring common sense gun solutions ... not just bills to pass bills but bills that are focused on a specific issue that could solve issues in our society."
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2022-06-22T20:01:13+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/NJ-Assembly-advances-bill-raising-firearm-17258691.php
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Embecta Corp. ("Embecta" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: EMBC). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Embecta and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On December 20, 2022, Embecta issued a press release announcing the Company's Q4 and full year 2022 financial results Among other things, Embecta reported Q4 revenue of $274.6 million, down 8.7% year over year, a $58.9 million impairment charge "related to the abandonment of certain manufacturing production lines in the United States that are no longer expected to be completed," and "a $5.5 million charge related to purchase commitments associated with the abandonment of the [production lines]."
On this news, Embecta's stock price fell $5.08 per share, or 15.64%, to close at $27.40 per share on December 20, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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2023-01-04T08:40:02+00:00
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One of the perks, or drawbacks, depending on one’s perspective, of playing football outdoors in the winter is that conditions can be downright frigid, and Saturday’s game between the Chicago Bears and Buffalo Bills has the potential to be one of the coldest in the storied history of the Monsters of the Midway.
According to NBC 5 Storm Team Meteorologist Paul Deanno, the forecasted high temperature on Saturday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport is 10 degrees, and while that temperature wouldn’t quite crack the top-10 coldest games in the history of the Bears, it would certainly be close.
Using the Stathead tool on Pro Football Reference, we have compiled a list of the 10 coldest games in Bears history, using wind chill as a tiebreaker for the five games that had a kickoff temperature of 8 degrees above zero.
Currently, there is a tie for the coldest game ever played at Soldier Field, with 1978 and 1983 contests between the Bears and Green Bay Packers both clocking in at just 1 degree above zero at kickoff. The 1983 game had a wind chill of minus-17 degrees, which is the coldest recorded wind chill in Bears history.
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The latter record could potentially be challenged this weekend, as gusty winds are forecasted to stick around the area through at least Christmas Day. More clarity will emerge on that forecast as the weekend approaches.
A 1963 game between the Bears and Detroit Lions, played at Wrigley Field, also featured a kickoff temperature of just 1 degree.
The coldest game in Bears history was actually played in Minneapolis, with the Bears and Vikings facing off in a contest where the kickoff temperature was minus-2 degrees.
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Here is the full list of coldest games in Bears’ history, with home games listed in bold.
12/3/72: Bears at Vikings (-2 degrees, wind chill negative-15)
12/18/83: Packers at Bears (1 degree, wind chill negative-17)
12/10/78: Packers at Bears (1 degree, wind chill negative-16)
12/15/63: Lions at Bears (1 degree, wind chill negative-15)
11/28/76: Bears at Packers (2 degrees, wind chill negative-16)
12/22/08: Packers at Bears (2 degrees, wind chill negative-13)
12/11/77: Packers at Bears (3 degrees, wind chill negative-10)
12/20/81: Broncos at Bears (6 degrees, wind chill negative-9)
12/10/95: Bears at Bengals (8 degrees, wind chill negative-9)
12/9/13: Cowboys at Bears (8 degrees, wind chill negative-9)
Three other games also had kickoff temperatures of 8 degrees above zero. In the 13 games the Bears have played when the game time temperature has been below 10 degrees, they are 8-5.
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2022-12-20T00:15:20+00:00
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The American Red Cross is ready to help local residents during the 2023 Mississippi River flood.
They’ve opened a shelter at 1111 W. Kimberly Road in Davenport that’s available for people affected by the flooding. Pets are allowed, as long as owners bring a kennel and all necessary supplies, such as food, dishes, etc. Residents should also bring any necessary personal supplies, including medications, toiletries and other similar items. Meals and water will be available at the shelter.
The Red Cross has also set up feeding locations for residents who have been affected by the flooding and need a meal. They will begin serving food at 5 p.m. today and will continue until further notice. Dinner will be available at these locations from 5 to 7 p.m. and lunch will be available from noon to 2 p.m. daily. Bottled water will be available at all locations.
Iowa Locations
• Pleasant Valley Fire Station parking lot at 24495 Valley Drive in Bettendorf
• Parking lot at the corner of South Concord Street and Utah Avenue in Davenport
Illinois Location
• Parking lot at the old fire station on Campbell’s Island in East Moline
If you have been impacted by flooding, call 800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767) for assistance and information. For more information from the Red Cross on what to do during a flood, click here.
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2023-04-27T19:53:33+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/red-cross-sets-up-shelter-feeding-stations-to-help-those-impacted-by-flooding/
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Officials: Doctor pleads guilty to sexually assaulting coworker
Published: May. 7, 2023 at 6:58 PM CDT|Updated: 22 minutes ago
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - An Ohio doctor pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a coworker earlier this week.
The Summit County Prosecutor said David Meranda pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual battery.
Officials said Meranda, a contracted emergency room physician, sexually assaulted a coworker at a Summit County home in 2021.
A grand jury indicted Meranda on Feb. 22, 2022, according to court records.
Copyright 2023 WOIO via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2023-05-08T00:21:02+00:00
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https://www.kcbd.com/2023/05/07/officials-doctor-pleads-guilty-sexually-assaulting-coworker/
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NINA LOPEZ
LYNDSAY WISNESKI
Greater Yuma Economic Development Corp. recently onboarded two new team members to meet growing organizational demands. Nina Lopez is now the administrative officer, and Lyndsay Wisneski is filling a new position as the digital marketing officer.
GYEDC touted both as talented young professionals who bring their own valuable assets and are excited to promote economic growth in the organization.
Lopez relocated to Yuma from San Diego, California, after a rigorous interviewing process and finally accepting the job offer. She was anxiously awaiting an opportunity to join the community.
GYEDC noted that her upbeat personality and experience made her the ideal candidate. She will be managing the office, organizing events and working closely with GYEDC’s investors.
“I absolutely love Yuma because it is my perfect environment. I love that great mix of city living like the foodie scene and shopping but also those small-town charms that I love from my hometown of El Centro. I am so excited to finally be living here and to say I am a Yuman,” Lopez said.
Wisneski brings several years of marketing experience from her time at Visit Yuma and has a degree in marketing. She is a military spouse who has lived in Yuma off and on for 15 years.
At GYEDC, Wisneski will help expand marketing efforts designed to attract business and talent to the region.
“I am honored to join the amazing team at GYEDC. I’m looking forward to developing marketing strategies that will effectively position the greater Yuma area by creating awareness of its advantages and strong labor force. These efforts will undoubtedly contribute to continuing GYEDC’s mission of driving economic growth in our area,” Wisneski said.
Julie Engel, president and CEO of GYEDC, noted that Greater Yuma is an oasis of professional opportunities and growth for individuals like Lopez and Wisneski.
“We are very excited to have this new talent on our team. Both individuals bring a wealth of experiences and ideas to the table. We are excited for our future,” Julie Engel said.
JIM DAILY
After 38 years, Jim Daily worked his last day with agri-business Wilbur-Ellis on July 7. Daily started farming on the family farm as a young man then transitioned into the private sector with Wilbur Ellis, where he walked hundreds of miles of fields helping protect crops in the Yuma region, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture.
“Jim, thank you for doing your part to help feed the world. It’s time to enjoy retirement with your family and friends,” Yuma Area AZDA stated.
KATHRYN ‘KC’ RODRIGUEZ
After three years as an events specialist with the City of Yuma, Kathryn “KC” Rodriguez returned to the Texas Roadhouse in Yuma as service manager.
“Time to dust off the old manager name tag and get back to the restaurant. I have loved my time at the Civic Center and greatly appreciated everyone I have worked with,” Rodriguez said.
As a “true Roadie (who) exemplifies integrity and having fun at work,” Rodriguez is excited to be back at the restaurant.
EDITH MEDEROS
Edith Mederos is the new local store marketer for Texas Roadhouse in Yuma. She is charged with helping build sales at the local level by establishing relationships within the community and increasing guest loyalty.
“I truly look forward to continuing our current partnerships and creating new ones with our amazing Yuma community,” Mederos said.
To partner on fundraisers and events, reach out to Mederos at store_yuma@texasroadhouse.com or call 928-329-7427.
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2023-07-24T04:28:54+00:00
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https://www.yumasun.com/business/name-dropper-nina-lopez-lyndsay-wisneski-jim-daily-kathryn-kc-rodriguez-edith-mederos/article_f16b5c94-25fb-11ee-9225-3bac177c30d9.html
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin has shown what physicians treating him are calling “remarkable improvement over the past 24 hours,” the team announced Thursday, three days after the player went into cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated on the field.
“While still critically ill, he has demonstrated that he appears to be neurologically intact,” the Bills said in a statement. “His lungs continue to heal and he is making steady progress.”
Hamlin’s agent, Ronald Butler, told The Associated Press that Hamlin was awake and has been able to grip the hands of family members at his hospital bedside.
The developments came as the Bills were scheduled to return to practice on Thursday for the first time since Hamlin collapsed when his heart stopped after making a tackle and was rushed to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center during the first quarter of Buffalo’s game against the Bengals on Monday night.
The second-year player spent the past two days sedated and listed in critical condition.
Bills rookie cornerback Kaiir Elam posted a message Thursday on his Twitter account that said Hamlin “is doing better, awake and showing signs of improvement.”
The Bills' announcement comes as they prepare to play a home game against the New England Patriots on Sunday, and with the team still dealing with the shock of seeing their teammate collapse on the field, his heart not beating.
After returning home early Tuesday once the game was suspended, the Bills held meetings and a walkthrough practice without any media availability on Wednesday. On Thursday, players were spotted arriving at the facility, though the team has not yet released a practice schedule.
Numerous players across the league — former teammates and those who didn’t know Hamlin until Monday — voiced their support, while saying they were shaken by what happened.
Colts safety Rodney Thomas made the two-hour drive from Indianapolis to Cincinnati on Tuesday just to be by the side of his former high school teammate.
“He’s a fighter. I know he’s a fighter and there’s no other thought in my mind other than him walking out under his own power,” Thomas said Wednesday.
Minnesota Vikings defensive tackle Harrison Phillips, who spent the previous four seasons playing for Buffalo, had dinner delivered to the hospital for Hamlin’s family and medical staff.
Hamlin’s marketing representative, Jordon Rooney, said Wednesday that the player’s family was buoyed by the words and acts of kindness.
“They are elated right now,” Rooney said. “Damar is still their first concern. But for them, they always look at how they can turn a somewhat troubling situation into a good one. The bounce back from this, for him and his family is going to be incredible.”
What remains unclear is whether the NFL will reschedule the Bills’ game against the Bengals, which has major implications in determining the top spot in the AFC. The playoffs are set to open on Jan. 14.
The Chiefs (13-3) have a half-game lead over Buffalo (12-3), with the Bills owning the tiebreaker after beating Kansas City this season. The Bengals (11-4) are currently the third seed and have also defeated the Chiefs.
Hamlin was hurt in the first quarter when he was struck squarely in the chest while making what appeared to be a routine tackle of Bengals receiver Tee Higgins. Hamlin briefly got up and adjusted his facemask before collapsing backward.
Hamlin was selected by Buffalo in the sixth round of the 2021 draft out of Pitt. He spent his rookie season limited to special teams roles, and took over the starting safety job in Week 3 in place of veteran Micah Hyde, who remains sidelined by a neck injury.
Fans, team owners and players — including Tom Brady and Russell Wilson — have made donations to Hamlin’s Chasing M’s Foundation, which had raised more than $7 million by Thursday morning.
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2023-01-05T17:29:01+00:00
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sfgate.com
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HONG KONG, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Alma, the world leader and innovator in providing energy-based medical and aesthetic solutions and a wholly-owned company by Sisram Medical (1696.HK), announced today that it has completed the acquisition of PhotonMed International Ltd ("PhotonMed"), the leading Chinese distributor of energy-based devices, and is establishing a direct operation in mainland China.
According to the announcement released in March this year, Alma paid 270 million RMB (approximately $40 million USD) to secure a 60% stake in the business, establishing itself as the major shareholder in the new joint venture formed by the companies. Based on PhotonMed's projections, revenue is expected to reach 500 million RMB in the next year.
Since 2003, when Alma first entered the Chinese market, PhotonMed has been an important long-term strategic partner of Alma, distributing Alma's flagship energy-based devices through the "Feidun" channel. This enduring strategic partnership has empowered Alma to expand its market presence and influence, establishing itself as a pioneer in the Chinese market for energy-based devices. PhontonMed has held a strong position and significant presence in mainland China for many years, including 14 offices all over China. The new subsidiary established in mainland China is the 10th direct branch of Alma, joining the company's presence across the globe and its direct operations in UK, UAE, India, US, Australia, Israel, South Korea, Hong Kong S.A.R and Germany.
This acquisition represents a significant milestone in Sisram's direct sales expansion and consumer-centric strategy, aimed at enhancing its market positioning and strengthening brand recognition among consumers. By establishing a direct presence and transitioning from a distribution model, the company not only brings itself closer to its clients but also consolidates its leadership position within the industry.
Mr. Lior Dayan, CEO of Alma and Sisram, said, "PhotonMed's strong market presence and direct sales channels will enable us to be closer to our valued Chinese customers and reinforce our brand recognition in the region."
"The establishment of direct operation in the mainland China following the recent launch of our new subsidiaries in the UK and UAE, perfectly aligns with Alma's commitment to delivering innovative and customer-focused solutions that meet the evolving needs of our global customer base" he added.
"We are happy to become part of the Sisram family and look forward to contributing to further strengthening Sisram's leadership position through our strong market presence and consumer education," stated Ms. Debbie Zhou, CEO of PhotonMed.
She continued, "By leveraging the exchange of technological innovations within Alma and fostering synergistic interactions among Sisram's diverse business units, we will accelerate the synchronous deployment of Alma's latest technologies in China and enhance the responsiveness of our customer technical services. Besides, we remain committed to exploring and realizing our collective vision of establishing a comprehensive wellness ecosystem focused on meeting the increasing demand for light-based anti-aging medical aesthetic solutions."
About Sisram Medical Ltd
Sisram Medical Ltd (1696.HK) is a global consumer wellness group, featuring a first-of-its-kind synergistic ecosystem of business building blocks and consumer-focused branding, ranging from Energy Based Devices, injectables, aesthetics and digital dentistry, personal care and more. The company is majority-owned by Fosun Pharma, one of China's leading healthcare groups. On September 19, 2017, Sisram Medical went public, becoming the first Israeli company ever to trade on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Exchange.
About Alma
Alma is a world-leading innovator and provider in the aesthetic and surgical markets, offering holistic cutting-edge solutions such as Laser, Light-based RF, Plasma, and Ultrasound technologies. We enable practitioners to deliver safe, effective and life-transforming treatments to their patients, utilizing state-of-the-art and clinically proven solutions. For more than two decades, Alma's multiple award-winning products have established a new benchmark in the medical aesthetic industry, both in terms of clinical excellence and innovative breakthrough.
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2023-07-03T08:36:13+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/07/03/alma-sisram-medical-company-is-establishing-direct-operation-china-after-completing-acquisition-photonmed/
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Red sox second. Xander Bogaerts flies out to Nate Eaton. Alex Verdugo doubles to deep left field. J.D. Martinez grounds out to third base, Hunter Dozier to Nick Pratto. Eric Hosmer doubles to deep right field. Alex Verdugo scores. Reese McGuire flies out to center field to Kyle Isbel.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Red sox 1, Royals 0.
Red sox fourth. Rafael Devers pops out to shallow infield to Nick Pratto. Xander Bogaerts singles to left field. Alex Verdugo doubles to left field. Xander Bogaerts to third. J.D. Martinez doubles to deep left field. Alex Verdugo scores. Xander Bogaerts scores. Eric Hosmer grounds out to shortstop, Hunter Dozier to Nick Pratto. Reese McGuire flies out to deep right field to Nate Eaton.
2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Red sox 3, Royals 0.
Red sox fifth. Yolmer Sanchez singles to shallow infield. Jarren Duran grounds out to second base, Michael Massey to Nick Pratto. Tommy Pham walks. Rafael Devers walks. Tommy Pham to second. Xander Bogaerts singles to left field. Rafael Devers to second. Tommy Pham scores. Alex Verdugo flies out to deep center field to Kyle Isbel.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Red sox 4, Royals 0.
Royals fifth. MJ Melendez lines out to center field to Jarren Duran. Michael Massey grounds out to first base, Eric Hosmer to Josh Winckowski. Salvador Perez homers to left field. Vinnie Pasquantino grounds out to shallow right field, Yolmer Sanchez to Eric Hosmer.
1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on. Red sox 4, Royals 1.
Red sox sixth. J.D. Martinez called out on strikes. Eric Hosmer reaches on error to deep left field, advances to 2nd. Fielding error by MJ Melendez. Reese McGuire singles to left center field. Eric Hosmer scores. Yolmer Sanchez singles to right field. Reese McGuire to second. Jarren Duran reaches on a fielder's choice to second base. Yolmer Sanchez out at second. Reese McGuire to third. Tommy Pham flies out to deep right center field to Kyle Isbel.
1 run, 2 hits, 1 error, 2 left on. Red sox 5, Royals 1.
Red sox eighth. Eric Hosmer walks. Reese McGuire walks. Eric Hosmer to second. Yolmer Sanchez out on a sacrifice bunt to shallow infield, Hunter Dozier to Nick Pratto. Reese McGuire to second. Eric Hosmer to third. Jarren Duran doubles to left field. Reese McGuire scores. Eric Hosmer scores. Tommy Pham called out on strikes. Rafael Devers lines out to shortstop to Nicky Lopez.
2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 left on. Red sox 7, Royals 1.
Royals eighth. Vinnie Pasquantino singles to shallow center field. Hunter Dozier walks. Vinnie Pasquantino to second. Nick Pratto walks. Hunter Dozier to second. Vinnie Pasquantino to third. Nate Eaton out on a sacrifice fly to deep left field to Tommy Pham. Vinnie Pasquantino scores. Michael A. Taylor pinch-hitting for Kyle Isbel. Michael A. Taylor singles to shallow center field. Nick Pratto to second. Hunter Dozier to third. Nicky Lopez strikes out on a foul tip. MJ Melendez doubles to left center field. Michael A. Taylor to third. Nick Pratto scores. Hunter Dozier scores. Michael Massey flies out to left field to Tommy Pham.
3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Red sox 7, Royals 4.
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2022-08-06T07:54:57+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/sports/article/Boston-Kansas-City-Runs-17355960.php
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Earlier this week, House Republicans passed a bill that would raise the debt ceiling — but dramatically cut spending. It is unlikely to pass in the Senate, which is controlled by Democrats.
But as the country inches closer to a potential default, when does the political gamesmanship stop and the negotiating begin?
We put that question to Rep. Jim Clyburn, assistant House Democratic leader.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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2023-04-28T18:17:30+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/2023-04-28/rep-jim-clyburn-weighs-in-as-congress-remains-divided-over-the-debt-ceiling
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(The Hill) — JPMorgan Chase has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit with victims of Jeffrey Epstein.
“The parties believe this settlement is in the best interests of all parties, especially the survivors who were the victims of Epstein’s terrible abuse,” the bank said in a statement on Monday, according to The Associated Press.
In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court last year, the victims had accused JPMorgan of providing Epstein loans and allowing cash withdrawals when he was a client of the bank despite knowing about his sex trafficking activities. Exact terms of the settlement were not disclosed on Monday.
Epstein, who was accused of decades of abuse against young women and girls, died in prison after he was arrested in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. His longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, was found guilty and sentenced for grooming young girls for Epstein to abuse, some as young as 14 years old when the abuse began.
JPMorgan has denied wrongdoing. The bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, testified last month that he never heard of Epstein and his crimes until Epstein’s 2019 arrest.
A related lawsuit has been brought against JPMorgan by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which alleges the bank enabled the trafficking of minors for Epstein to abuse and knowingly benefitted from the financier’s sex trafficking. That lawsuit is pending.
Last month, Deutsche Bank agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit from Epstein victims.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2023-06-12T15:55:19+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/jpmorgan-reaches-settlement-with-epstein-victims/
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SINGAPORE, June 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Zeta Surgical, a surgical robotics and mixed reality company, has successfully treated its first patient using the Zeta Cranial Navigation System as part of their first-in-human trial at Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute (NNI).
The clinical trial at NNI, whose hospitals rank among the world's top 10 hospitals according to Newsweek, aims to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and feasibility of the Zeta Cranial Navigation System for pin-less bedside ventriculostomy procedures. The trial is led by NNI Associate Consultant Dr. Min Wei Chen and conducted at Singapore General Hospital and Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
"I'm very impressed with the underlying technology and its accuracy," said Dr. Chen. "We're very excited to be the first institution to run this trial on human patients and to have successfully onboarded our first participant with promising early results. We're looking forward to the rest of the trial."
Dr. William Gormley, Chief Medical Officer of Zeta Surgical and Harvard Medical School Associate Professor, commented on the study: "Placing a navigated bedside ventricular catheter in a mobile, non-cranially-pinned patient is truly a landmark accomplishment. It brings the extraordinary precision found in the neurosurgical operating room of select institutions in the world to all patients, irrespective of if they are in the emergency room, the intensive care unit, or the operating room. It is truly an accomplishment that democratizes medicine and will make an enormous difference across a broad range of procedures."
"This trial marks our first step towards making surgical guidance truly accessible across neurosurgery and neuroscience," says Raahil Sha, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zeta Surgical. "We are thrilled to be partnering with NNI in our mission to make surgeries more precise, safe, and effective."
About Zeta Surgical
Zeta Surgical is a digital surgery company focused on improving the accuracy, safety, and accessibility of image guided procedures. Its navigation and robotics platform, Zeta, leverages cutting-edge computer vision and artificial intelligence to enable image guidance directly at the point-of-care, creating new possibilities in fields such as emergency care, interventional medicine, and drug delivery. Zeta Surgical was founded by Harvard graduates and faculty and is backed by leading investors. To learn more, visit: www.zetasurgical.com.
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2023-06-22T10:42:39+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/prnewswire/2023/06/22/zeta-surgical-announces-successful-treatment-first-patient-neurosurgical-navigation-clinical-trial-singapores-national-neuroscience-institute/
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Free-agent reliever Seth Lugo and the San Diego Padres finalized a $15 million, two-year contract on Thursday.
Lugo gets a $7.5 million salary next season, and his deal includes a $7.5 million player option for 2024.
He could earn $500,000 in performance bonuses for games as a relief pitcher: $100,000 each for 40, 45, 50, 55 and 60. Lugo also could earn $1.5 million for starts: $250,000 each for 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 and 30.
He gets a hotel suite on road trips.
A 33-year-old right-hander, Lugo went 3-2 with a 3.60 ERA and three saves over 62 outings and 65 innings with the Mets last season. A converted starter, the versatile right-hander spent his first seven big league seasons with New York.
San Diego finished second in the NL West at 89-73 in manager Bob Melvin’s first season and lost the NL Championship Series to the Philadelphia Phillies.
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2022-12-23T01:01:44+00:00
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seattletimes.com
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https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/reliever-seth-lugo-padres-finalize-15m-2-year-contract/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all
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WFO ALBANY Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Monday, January 23, 2023
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Albany NY
414 PM EST Mon Jan 23 2023
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON...
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to one inch.
* WHERE...In Connecticut, Litchfield County. In Massachusetts,
Southern Berkshire County. In New York, Dutchess County.
* WHEN...Until 5 PM EST this afternoon.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions could impact the evening commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST THIS
* WHAT...Heavy snow. Additional snow accumulations of up to one
inch.
* WHERE...In Massachusetts, Northern Berkshire County. In New
York, Eastern Rensselaer County. In Vermont, Bennington and
Windham Counties.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions may impact part of the evening commute. Downed tree
limbs due to combined weight of snow from the previous storm,
and the additional heavy wet snow could result in power outages,
especially across higher elevations.
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED...
Some spotty light snow will continue into early this evening,
although any additional accumulations will only be a dusting.
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2023-01-23T21:46:52+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/weather/article/NY-WFO-ALBANY-Warnings-Watches-and-Advisories-17736695.php
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NEW YORK (AP) — HarperCollins Publishers plans to cut its workforce by 5% in the U.S. and Canada by the end of June, citing increased costs and lower sales in a statement released Tuesday.
The announcement comes the day before HarperCollins and the union representing some 250 striking employees are to meet with a federal mediator, the first negotiations since the strike began more than two months ago.
HarperCollins cited similar issues in laying off a “small number” of staff members last fall. A new round of layoffs has already started, although the company expects reductions to come through a combination of layoffs and positions left unfilled.
“As noted last October, HarperCollins continues to experience unprecedented supply chain and inflationary pressures resulting from the pandemic, including increased paper, manufacturing, labor, and distribution costs,” according to the company’s statement. “Coupled with declining sales over the last few quarters, these issues have resulted in us having to make difficult decisions to realign the needs and resources of the business.”
The company said it will implement “a variety of cost-saving measures” in addition to the workforce cuts in North America.
HarperCollins, part of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, has around 4,000 employees worldwide, more than half located in North America.
Editorial assistants, production designers and other mid- and entry-level employees have been on strike since Nov. 10, with salaries among the issues. The employees, who have been without a contract since last spring, are represented by Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers.
“The company has not communicated with us on this matter so we are still investigating the scope of layoffs,” Olga Brudastova, the local’s president, told The Associated Press.
Most of the major New York publishers saw sales decline after 2021, one of the best years in recent memory for the industry, although none have announced the kinds of reductions intended by HarperCollins. In its most recent earnings statement, which came out in November, the publisher reported an 11% drop in revenue and a 54% drop in earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2023.
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2023-01-31T18:25:59+00:00
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wivb.com
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https://www.wivb.com/news/u-s-headlines/ap-harpercollins-to-cut-north-american-workforce-by-5/
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BrightPlan 2023 Wellness Barometer Survey reveals financial stress has skyrocketed amid economic uncertainty, affecting employee well-being and organizational success
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BrightPlan, a leader in Total Financial Wellness, today announced the results of its third annual Wellness Barometer Survey on the state of workforce well-being. Among the survey's key findings is that an overwhelming 92% of employees are stressed about their finances. And leaders are by no means immune — 76% of the C-suite and HR leaders report financial stress. This high level of stress is impacting employees' overall well-being and productivity, potentially costing U.S. employers nearly $200 billion annually.*
A majority of those dealing with financial stress say it has worsened their mental and physical health (72% and 60%, respectively), and 64% say it's impacted their social well-being (i.e., their relationships with friends and family). 72% of respondents have passed up opportunities to spend time with family, friends, and co-workers because they couldn't afford to, skipping important events like weddings and birthdays or turning down invitations to get drinks or food.
Uncertain economic conditions are a top source of financial stress, with both employees and leaders concerned about:
- High inflation (96%)
- A potential recession (93%)
- Rising interest rates (90%)
- Market volatility (89%)
These concerns are reflected in a notable shift in how leaders rank their biggest people-related challenges this year. Supporting the holistic well-being of employees emerged as a top challenge, along with career growth and development (both 53%). This is in stark contrast to the challenges facing leaders a year ago when attracting and retaining talent and engaging employees topped the list.
Cost of Financial Stress
In addition to impacting employees' health, financial stress is negatively affecting people's engagement (50%) and productivity (48%) at work. Respondents say, on average, they lose over one day of work per week due to financial stress, which potentially costs U.S. employers nearly $200 billion annually.*
Notably, the C-suite and HR leaders are significantly more likely than employees to say financial stress has worsened their productivity at work, with C-suite reporting an average loss of 16.8 hours per week and HR leaders reporting 12.4 hours per week.
"The impact of financial stress on people's mental and physical health is well-established, but few studies have examined how this can affect our relationships and our social health," said Marthin De Beer, founder and CEO, BrightPlan. "Employers need to recognize that when workers are stressed about their finances, this carries over into all aspects of their well-being, which ultimately affects their performance and engagement at work."
Financial Preparedness is Low
The survey points to an overall poor state of financial well-being and low financial preparedness. Most respondents (85%) have debt, and 48% have more debt than is manageable. Over a third have no emergency savings or only enough for up to 2 months, and 52% are only setting aside less than 10% of their income each year for retirement, or nothing at all.
Low financial literacy is partly to blame. However, the survey revealed that most people don't realize their financial knowledge is lacking. Just 18% of respondents answered at least 4 out of 5 basic financial literacy questions correctly, yet 73% think their financial literacy is "high" or "very high."
Benefits Utilization is a Problem
Although 95% of leaders agree that their company should offer financial wellness benefits, almost three-quarters of employees are not satisfied with the financial benefits available to them and many aren't using them. Other than retirement matching (used by 87% of employees who have this benefit) and company stock options (used by 58%), less than half of employees use any of their other financial benefits.
"By not using their benefits, workers are missing out on important opportunities to improve their financial situation," said Dan Schawbel, managing partner, Workplace Intelligence. "Employers need to upgrade the quality of these benefits, and they also need to ensure people know what's available to them. For most of the financial benefits we asked about, we found that around 1 out of 4 employees have no idea if their company even offers them."
Employer Trust is Declining
When it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), 81% of respondents say their company is doing a good job. However, feelings of trust, safety and belonging are dwindling. Only 63% of workers trust HR and upper management (down from 83% in 2022) and 64% believe that their organization places more importance on profits than employee well-being.
To view the complete results, read the 2023 BrightPlan Wellness Barometer Survey report. Register for the May 11 webinar for a live walkthrough of the findings.
About BrightPlan
BrightPlan is a leader in Total Financial Wellness. The company provides a comprehensive global solution that addresses all aspects of employees' financial health at every stage of life, and empowers HR teams to enhance the employee experience and better attract, retain, and engage talent. Its unique combination of digital platform and financial planners enables employers to deploy at scale while delivering personalization for employees. The company is the first digital Investment Advisor certified for fiduciary excellence by the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX). For more, visit brightplan.com.
Disclosures:
On behalf of BrightPlan, Walr and Workplace Intelligence surveyed 1,400 knowledge workers at companies with 1000+ employees in the US between February - March 2023. This included a mix of C-Suite, HR decision-makers and employees in various industries including technology, healthcare, financial services, education, manufacturing, energy, accounting, and government.
*Assumes there are 100,206,000 knowledge workers in the U.S. with an hourly wage of $38.6. Source: Federal Reserve Economic Dataset, BrightPlan. For more information see the full report.
BrightPlan LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser that offers digital and human investment advice to US residents. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training nor does it imply endorsement by the SEC. BrightPlan is neither registered with any international agency to provide, nor does it provide, any investment advice to non-U.S. residents. BrightPlan is a registered trademark of BrightPlan, LLC. BrightPlan is certified by the Center for Fiduciary Excellence, LLC ("CEFEX") as having met their standards for Fiduciary Practices for Investment Advisors.
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2023-05-04T12:47:35+00:00
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kcrg.com
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2023/05/04/new-study-64-workers-say-financial-stress-has-impacted-relationships-nearly-three-quarters-have-passed-up-social-opportunities-due-it/
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Oregon lawmakers approve $200M for housing, homelessness
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers passed a sweeping $200 million housing and homelessness package on Tuesday, displaying a bipartisan will to tackle two of the state’s most pressing crises.
The vast majority of the funding — about $157 million — is aimed at boosting homelessness and eviction prevention services. The money will go toward increasing shelter capacity, addressing youth homelessness, and funding rapid rehousing efforts and rental assistance programs.
“This bill will help us build more housing, get people off our streets and make our communities more safe,” Democratic state Sen. Aaron Woods, who carried one of the two bills in the package, said on the Senate floor.
Like much of the U.S. West, Oregon has struggled with a surge in homelessness driven in part by high costs and a lack of affordable housing options. Analysts and agencies estimate Oregon is short 140,000 housing units, and federal data shows its homeless population has increased by 22% since 2020.
The crises are affecting both cities and rural regions. About 4,000 of the nearly 18,000 homeless people in the state live in rural areas, according to the latest 2022 federal point-in-time count.
The Senate approved the package Tuesday night, with half of the chamber’s Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Tim Knopp, voting in favor. The legislation passed the House last week with support from both parties.
Lawmakers pointed to the package’s investments outside cities — nearly $27 million is earmarked specifically for rural areas to combat homelessness — as the fruits of cross-aisle negotiation.
“I have rural communities in my district as well that need this housing opportunity for our homeless. Homeless don’t just reside in urban communities,” Republican state Sen. David Brock Smith, who represents a rural southern Oregon district, said on the Senate floor. “I’m going to be a yes vote so that I can be a part of the solution.”
The package will also direct $20 million to ramp up factory-produced modular housing, in a bid to meet Gov. Tina Kotek’s housing construction target of 36,000 units per year — an 80% increase over current production.
Republican state Sen. Daniel Bonham, who voted against the package, said cutting bureaucratic red tape and creating more incentives for housing developers would better address the issue.
Some members of the public submitted written testimony opposing the high spending. But most nonprofits and housing groups expressed support, saying it would help communities that are disproportionately impacted by homelessness and the affordable housing shortage.
“Promoting stability in the state’s housing laws will increase the wellbeing of communities of color in Oregon,” Jenny Lee, deputy director of the Coalition of Communities of Color, said in written testimony.
The package will now head to Kotek’s desk for her signature.
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Rush is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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2023-03-22T06:27:46+00:00
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kob.com
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https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/oregon-lawmakers-approve-200m-for-housing-homelessness/
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Overnight, mostly clear. Low temperatures will be around 30 or the 30s. Light and variable wind.
Thursday, partly cloudy to mostly sunny. High temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. Variable wind 5 to 15 MPH.
Thursday night, mostly clear. Low temperatures will be around 30 or the 30s. East to northeast wind 5 to 15 MPH.
Friday, mostly sunny. High temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. East to northeast wind 5 to 15 MPH with a few higher gusts.
Friday night, clear skies. Low temperatures will be in the 30s to around 40. East to northeast wind 5 to 15 MPH with a few higher gusts.
Saturday, mostly sunny. High temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. East to southeast wind 5 to 15 MPH with a few higher gusts.
Saturday night, mostly clear. Low temperatures will be in the in the 30s and 40s. South to southeast wind 5 to 15 MPH with a few higher gusts.
Sunday, partly cloudy to mostly sunny. Some gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the 50s and 60s, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. South to southeast wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Sunday night, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. Low temperatures will be in the 40s to around 50. South to southeast wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Monday, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the 60s to around 70, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. South to southeast wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Monday night, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. Low temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s. South to southeast wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Tuesday, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the 60s and 70s, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. South wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Tuesday night, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly cloudy to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. Low temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s. South to southwest wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
Wednesday, a slight chance of rain. Otherwise, partly sunny to mostly cloudy. Some gusty winds. High temperatures will be in the 60s to around 70, locally colder near some shorelines of the Great Lakes. South to southwest wind 10 to 20 MPH with some higher gusts.
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2022-05-05T06:51:26+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/weather/local-3-wednesday-overnight-weather-forecast-5-4-2022/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Friday effectively killed President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts for millions of Americans. But he declared, “This fight is not over.”
The 6-3 decision, with conservative justices in the majority, said the Biden administration overstepped its authority with the plan, and it left borrowers on the hook for repayments that are expected to resume in the fall.
The court held that the administration needed Congress’ endorsement before undertaking so costly a program. The majority rejected arguments that a bipartisan 2003 law dealing with national emergencies, known as the HEROES Act, gave Biden the power he claimed.
Biden, who once doubted his own authority to offer student loan forgiveness, said later Friday he would push ahead with a new debt relief plan while blaming Republican “hypocrisy” for the decision that wiped out his original effort.
The president said he would work toward a new path for student debt relief, using the Higher Education Act, which he called “the best path that remains to provide as many borrowers as possible with debt relief.” He also moved to create an “on ramp” that would help ease the risk of default for students who fail to make payments when the current pause ends.
The president said he would work under the authority of the Higher Education Act to begin a new program designed to ease borrowers’ threat of default if they fall behind over the next year.
The Supreme Court ruling was blunt in rejecting Biden’s first plan.
“Six States sued, arguing that the HEROES Act does not authorize the loan cancellation plan. We agree,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.
Justice Elena Kagan, wrote in a dissent, joined by the court’s two other liberals, that the majority of the court “overrides the combined judgment of the Legislative and Executive Branches, with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million Americans.” Kagan read a summary of her dissent in court to emphasize her disagreement.
Roberts, perhaps anticipating negative public reaction and aware of declining approval of the court, added an unusual coda to his opinion, cautioning that the liberals’ dissent should not be mistaken for disparagement of the court itself. ”It is important that the public not be misled either. Any such misperception would be harmful to this institution and our country,” the chief justice wrote.
Biden blame Republican officials for causing the dispute that led to Friday’s ruling.
They “had no problem with billions in pandemic-related loans to businesses. … And those loans were forgiven,” Biden said. “But when it came to providing relief to millions of hard-working Americans, they did everything in their power to stop it.”
Loan repayments will resume in October, although interest will begin accruing in September, the Education Department has announced. Payments have been on hold since the start of the coronavirus pandemic more than three years ago.
The forgiveness program would have canceled $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 or households with less than $250,000 in income. Pell Grant recipients, who typically demonstrate more financial need, would have had an additional $10,000 in debt forgiven.
Twenty-six million people had applied for relief and 43 million would have been eligible, the administration said. The cost was estimated at $400 billion over 30 years.
Advocacy groups supporting debt cancellation condemned the decision while demanding that Biden find another avenue to fulfill his promise of debt relief.
Natalia Abrams, president and founder of the Student Debt Crisis Center, said the responsibility for new action falls “squarely” on Biden’s shoulders. “The president possesses the power, and must summon the will, to secure the essential relief that families across the nation desperately need,” Abrams said in a statement.
The loan plan joins other pandemic-related initiatives that faltered at the Supreme Court.
Conservative majorities ended an eviction moratorium that had been imposed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and blocked a plan to require workers at big companies to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing and wear a mask on the job. The court upheld a plan to require vaccinations of health-care workers.
The earlier programs were billed largely as public health measures intended to slow the spread of COVID-19. The loan forgiveness plan, by contrast, was aimed at countering the economic effects of the pandemic.
In more than three hours of arguments last February, conservative justices voiced their skepticism that the administration had the authority to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions.
Republican-led states arguing before the court said the plan would have amounted to a “windfall” for 20 million people who would have seen their entire student debt disappear and been better off than they were before the pandemic.
Roberts was among those on the court who questioned whether non-college workers would essentially be penalized for a break for the college educated.
In contrast, the administration grounded the need for the sweeping loan forgiveness in the COVID-19 emergency and the continuing negative impacts on people near the bottom of the economic ladder. The declared emergency ended on May 11.
Without the promised loan relief, the administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer told the justices, “delinquencies and defaults will surge.”
At those arguments, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her fellow justices would be making a mistake if they took for themselves, instead of leaving it to education experts, “the right to decide how much aid to give” people who would struggle if the program were struck down.
The HEROES Act — the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act — has allowed the secretary of education to waive or modify the terms of federal student loans in connection with a national emergency. The law was primarily intended to keep service members from being hurt financially while they fought in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Biden announced the program last August and legal challenges quickly followed.
The court majority said the Republican-led states had cleared an early hurdle that required them to show they would be financially harmed if the program had been allowed to take effect.
The states did not even rely on any direct injury to themselves, but instead pointed to the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority, a state-created company that services student loans.
Nebraska Solicitor General James Campbell, arguing before the court in February, said the Authority would lose about 40% of its revenues if the Biden plan went into effect. Independent research has cast doubt on the financial harm MOHELA would face, suggesting that the agency would still see an increase in revenue even if Biden’s cancellation went through. That information was not part of the court record.
A federal judge initially found that the states would not be harmed and dismissed their lawsuit before an appellate panel said the case could proceed.
In a second case, the justices ruled unanimously that two Texans who filed a separate challenge did not have legal standing to sue. But the outcome of that case has no bearing on the court’s decision to block the debt relief plan.
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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley, Colleen Long and Darlene Superville contributed to this report.
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2023-07-01T01:29:09+00:00
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kron4.com
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https://www.kron4.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-the-supreme-court-rejects-bidens-plan-to-wipe-away-400-billion-in-student-loans/
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FLINT, MI – Louis Brown took a deep breath to compose himself.
He was seated on the witness stand, motionless now; the frequent swiveling of his chair had ceased.
Brown looked down at his hands, clasped together in front of him.
He exhaled then began to recount the final moments he shared with Alicia Jackson-Skaggs, his girlfriend of about four months before she died on March 29.
“She was bleeding, she was coughing, and she died,” Brown said. “I was (holding her) while screaming for help.”
Jackson-Skaggs, 20, was killed on March 29 during a shooting in the parking lot of the Golden Corral on Miller Road in Flint Township.
Two people – Deondre McLilly and McLilly’s mother, Windy Weatherford – have been charged in connection with her death.
Brown’s testimony came during the first day of McLilly and Weatherford’s preliminary examination – a hearing at which prosecutors are required to put forth enough evidence to show probable cause that the defendants committed the crimes they are charged with.
McLilly faces single counts of first-degree murder, discharging a weapon from a vehicle, assaulting, resisting, or obstructing police causing injury, five counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon, two counts of aggravated stalking, two counts of domestic violence and 11 counts of felony firearm.
Weatherford is charged with single counts of first-degree murder, discharging a weapon from a vehicle, five counts of assault with intent to murder, two counts of carrying a weapon with unlawful intent, two counts of carrying a concealed weapon and nine counts of felony firearm.
The two defendants appeared in court Thursday wearing orange jumpsuits. They sat in the courtroom jury box, a couple of seats apart, flanked on both sides by Genesee County Sheriff’s deputies.
Related: Burton woman critically injured after shooting along Miller Road in Flint Township
Brown was the first witness to take the stand. Called by the prosecution, Brown said he was the passenger inside a black Chevrolet Impala along with his friend, Caleb Stemple, and Jackson-Skaggs, who was driving.
The three went to Meijer so Jackson-Skaggs could fill a prescription and then to Walmart because Stemple needed to make a copy of a key.
After the shopping trip, Jackson-Skaggs received a call from McLilly and put the call on speaker phone.
“He wanted to know where she was,” Brown said, describing the call.
He said McLilly had a threatening tone and wanted a set of keys to his home that Jackson-Skaggs had. She said she would give them to Weatherford, but he wanted to see her, Brown said. He said her voice got low during the call.
“She was scared,” he said.
Brown said he told Jackson-Skaggs to block McLilly’s phone number. They began driving and stopped at a church parking lot on Atherton Road, where Jackson-Skaggs switched spots with Brown, who began driving.
The three pulled into a Culver’s fast-food restaurant on Miller Road and were a vehicle or two away from ordering in the drive-thru when Brown said he looked in his rearview mirror and saw a white SUV he was told belonged to McLilly’s mother.
He said he saw McLilly get out of the vehicle’s front passenger side holding a gun and drove off. As he turned out of the Culver’s parking lot, Brown said he heard multiple gunshots and later noticed the vehicle had been shot.
“I felt like I was gonna die,” he said.
Driving down side streets, Brown said he pulled into the parking lot for the Golden Corral off Miller Road, believing they had lost McLilly. But once again, the three noticed the white SUV following them.
Brown said he saw the white SUV stop. McLilly got out of the vehicle and began shooting at the Impala, eventually walking in front of the vehicle and continuing to shoot.
Brown said he accelerated the vehicle, attempting to hit McLilly. Missing the alleged shooter, the vehicle crashed into a roadside sign near the restaurant’s entrance.
Once the vehicle crashed, Stemple got out and returned fire at the white SUV, according to Brown. After a few shots, Stemple and the white SUV fled. Brown said he ran halfway into Miller Road before returning to the vehicle and trying to resuscitate Jackson-Skaggs.
“I checked her pulse, to see if she was alive, and I seen that she had a bunch of blood all over her,” he said.
First responders arrived at the scene and took Brown to the hospital, where he said he was treated for a concussion. Jackson-Skaggs died on March 31.
Dressed in a blue button-down shirt with a dark tie, Brown fidgeted throughout his testimony Thursday. He frequently repeated the questions from attorneys back before answering, and when asked to identify McLilly in court said he’d rather not look at him, before finally doing so.
He took noticeably deep breaths whenever Jackson-Skaggs’ death was referenced during testimony and spoke briefly about the impact the incident still has on him.
“I wake up at night in tears because of what happened,” he testified.
At the hospital, Brown said, he first told police a narrative of the incident that did not include Stemple, who was on probation at the time of the shooting. But police returned and confronted him about his story, and he eventually told them about Stemple’s involvement and his returning fire.
Read more: Mother, son charged with murder of 20-year-old Burton woman in Flint Township shooting case
Stemple was the final witness called by prosecutors Thursday. He wore a dark shirt and drank from a water bottle throughout his testimony.
As he entered the courtroom and during much of his testimony, Stemple stared directly at McLilly. Deputies mouthed to him to stop at several points.
Stemple said he got the gun he shot at McLilly with from Jackson-Skaggs inside the vehicle, while the vehicle was on its way to the Golden Corral.
He said after the vehicle crashed outside the Golden Corral, he shot at the white SUV three times – with one shot jamming.
“She’s hit,” Stemple testified Brown said after the vehicle crashed. “Do something, bro.”
He said he “had to do what he had to do,” and called his actions self-defense.
Stemple was on probation at the time of the shooting. He was given immunity for his testimony Thursday.
Several of the actions he said he made on March 29 could have been probation violations – some punishable by up to life in prison were he convicted.
Stemple said he fled the area at the same time as Brown, but instead of returning, he went to a nearby restaurant where he ordered a table for two, waited about 20 minutes, and then got a ride away from the scene. He said he hid the gun he used the next day at a nearby gas station.
Flint Township police contacted Stemple afterward, and he later told them where they could find the gun.
The firearms found inside Weatherford’s vehicle were registered to Stemple. He had previously reported them stolen in November 2021 – an event he accused McLilly of committing.
McLilly and Weatherford drove off in the white SUV following the shooting, according to testimony.
Michigan State Police Sgt. Jared Chiros testified that upon responding to a call of a shooting along with MSP Sgt. Craig Winnie, the duo took their marked MSP cruiser east on Miller before catching up with Weatherford’s vehicle as it exited off I-75 onto Bristol Road.
They noticed a man run from the vehicle; Winnie chased after him while the white SUV slowly stopped. Weatherford exited the vehicle with her hands raised. Chiros said he handcuffed her and noticed two bullet holes as well as a broken windshield on the vehicle.
Chiros searched the vehicle and said he found two handguns. One handgun had been shoved into a tin of popcorn. Another gun was found inside the glove box.
Meanwhile, Winnie chased down the man – later identified as McLilly. The two fought – an altercation that left the MSP sergeant with a cut on his finger – before McLilly was apprehended and placed in the custody of Flint Township police.
Thursday’s hearing, which began around 10 a.m. and concluded about 4:30 p.m., included testimony from five witnesses.
Alex Minto, the lead detective on the case from the Flint Township Police Department, is expected to testify on the second day of the examination, which is scheduled for June 27.
Genesee County District Court Judge Tabitha Marsh, whose hearing the evidence in the case, will ultimately decide whether the case will be bound over to Genesee County Circuit Court for trial or if there was insufficient evidence to maintain the charges against the two defendants.
Read more at The Flint Journal:
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Flint woman killed, child injured in Wednesday morning shooting
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2022-06-03T13:25:05+00:00
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mlive.com
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https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2022/06/victims-boyfriend-recounts-moments-leading-up-to-after-fatal-flint-township-shooting.html
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A 76-year-old woman who had been declared dead and surprised her relatives by knocking on her coffin during her wake earlier this month has died after seven days in intensive care, her family said Saturday.
Gilberto Barbera Montoya, the woman’s son, told The Associated Press that doctors at the state hospital where she was rushed after the incident said that she died on Friday evening.
Ecuador’s health ministry confirmed in a statement that Bella Montoya died from an ischemic stroke after spending a week in intensive care. It added that Montoya had remained under “permanent surveillance,” but didn’t provide further information on the medical investigation surrounding the case.
Barbera Montoya said that he hadn’t yet received any report from the authorities on the medical explanation of what happened and warned that things “are not going to stay like this.” He added that a sister of the deceased woman had formally complained about the incident, seeking to identify the doctor who declared her dead to begin with.
Bella Montoya reportedly woke up and started knocking on June 9 after spending five hours inside her coffin at a funeral home in Babahoyo, about 208 kilometers (about 129 miles) southwest of Quito.
The remains of Montoya, who was a retired nurse, are back at the same funeral home where she woke up. Her son told the AP that she will be buried at a public cemetery.
A technical committee has been formed to review how the hospital issues death certificates, the country’s ministry of health said last week.
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2023-06-18T19:19:54+00:00
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ourquadcities.com
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https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/national-news/woman-who-knocked-on-inside-of-coffin-during-her-wake-dies/
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1/6 panel: Told repeatedly he lost, Trump refused to go
Washington — Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election.
But in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden, the defeated Trump publicly, privately and relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged 2020 election and intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
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The scale and virulence of that scheme began to take shape under the glare of the House hearing investigating 1/6. When the panel resumes Monday, it will outline the stark reality that Trump and his advisers knew early on that he had in fact lost the election but engaged “in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information” to convince the public otherwise.
When all else failed in his effort to stay in power, Trump beckoned his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, the day the Congress traditionally certifies the electoral results from the states, and told thousands of people who gathered outside the White House to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Extremist groups led the way, breaking into the historic seat of democracy, and laying siege.
“Over multiple months, Donald Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power," Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., told the hearing Thursday night. “Trump’s intention was to remain president of the United States."
The House panel investigating the 1/6 attack on the Capitol is prepared next week to reveal more details and testimony about its assessment that Trump was made well aware of his election loss. With testimony from some 1,000 interviews and 140,000 documents over the year-long probe, it will lay out how Trump was told repeatedly that there were no hidden ballots, rigged voting machines or support for his other outlandish claims. Nevertheless Trump refused to accept defeat and his desperate attempt to cling to the presidency resulted in the most violent domestic attack on the Capitol in history.
By Wednesday, the panel will hear testimony from the highest levels of the Trump-era Department of Justice — Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, his top deputy Richard Donoghue and Steven Engel, the former head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel — according to a person familiar with the situation and granted anonymity to discuss their appearances.
The testimony from the three former Justice Department officials is expected to center on a chaotic stretch in the final weeks of the administration when Trump openly weighed the idea of replacing Rosen with a lower-ranking official, Jeffrey Clark, who was seen as more willing to champion in court the president’s false claims of voter fraud.
The situation came to a head in an hours-long meeting at the White House on Jan. 3, 2021, attended by Rosen, Donoghue, Engel and Clark, when top Justice Department officials and White House lawyers told Trump they would resign if he went ahead with his plan to replace Rosen. The president ultimately let Rosen finish out the administration as acting attorney general.
Thursday will turn to Trump’s remarkable efforts to press Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count electoral votes on Jan. 6, a scheme proposed at the White House by an outside lawyer, John Eastman. During the insurrection, rioters prowled the halls of the Capitol shouting “hang Mike Pence” when the vice president refused Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election.
“I’d like to see the truth come out," said Ken Sicknick, whose brother, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, died after suffering a stroke defending the Capitol.
“There’s a lot of fog out there,” Ken Sicknick said Friday on CNN, “especially the people that are defending Donald Trump.”
He said while the family received countless condolences after his brother died, including from the vice president, “not one tweet, not one note, not one card, nothing” from Trump.
"Because he knows he’s the cause of the whole thing.”
The hearings may not change Americans’ views on the Capitol attack, but the panel’s investigation is intended to stand as its public record and could result in referrals for prosecution. With Trump considering another White House run, the committee’s final report aims to account for the most violent attack on the Capitol since 1814, and to ensure such an attack never happens again.
Early Friday morning, Trump responded on his social media site, decrying the “WITCH HUNT!” even as he fully acknowledged he refused to accept defeat.
“Many people spoke to me about the Election results, both pro and con, but I never wavered one bit,” he said, pushing his false claim of a stolen election.
Trump declared that Jan. 6 “represented the greatest movement in the history of our country.”
The start of the monthlong hearings opened Thursday in prime-time with the panel laying the blame for the 1/6 insurrection squarely on Trump, saying the assault was not spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president's effort to overturn the 2020 election.
With a never-before-seen 12-minute video of extremist groups leading the deadly siege and startling testimony from Trump's most inner circle, the 1/6 committee provided new detail of an imperiled democracy.
“Jan. 6 was the culmination of an attempted coup,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the panel, during the hearing, timed for prime time to reach as many Americans as possible. "The violence was no accident.”
In a previously unseen video clip, the panel played a remark from former Attorney General Bill Barr, who testified that he told Trump the claims of a rigged election were “bull——.”
In another clip, the former president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, testified to the committee that she respected Barr's view that there was no election fraud. “I accepted what he said.”
Others showed leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers and Proud Boys preparing to storm the Capitol to stand up for Trump. One rioter after another told the committee they came to the Capitol because Trump asked them to.
In wrenching testimony U.S. Capitol Police officer Caroline Edwards told the panel that she slipped in other people’s blood as rioters pushed past her into the Capitol. She suffered brain injuries in the melee.
“It was carnage. It was chaos,” she said.
The riot left more than 100 police officers injured, many beaten and bloodied, as the crowd of pro-Trump rioters, some armed with pipes, bats and bear spray, charged into the Capitol. At least nine people who were there died during and after the rioting, including a woman who was shot and killed by police.
Among those testifying was documentary maker Nick Quested, who filmed the Proud Boys storming the Capitol — along with a pivotal meeting between the group's then-chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and another extremist group, the Oath Keepers, the night before in nearby parking garage. Quested said the Proud Boys later went to get tacos.
Court documents show that members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were discussing as early as November a need to fight to keep Trump in office. Leaders both groups and some members have since been indicted on rare sedition charges over the military-style attack.
The Justice Department has arrested and charged more than 800 people for the violence that day, the biggest dragnet in its history.
Associated Press writers Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amir, Kevin Freking and Michael Balsamo and Alanna Durkin Richer in Boston contributed to this report.
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2022-06-10T20:30:23+00:00
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detroitnews.com
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/10/capitol-riot-jan-6-investigation-trump/7584229001/
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NEW YORK, July 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Upstart, Inc. (NASDAQ: UPST).
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Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until July 12, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Upstart, Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Upstart's AI model could not adequately account for macroeconomic factors such as interest rates that impact the market-clearing price for loans; (2) as a result, Upstart was experiencing a negative impact on its conversion rate; (3) as a result, the Company was reasonably likely to use its balance sheet to fund loans; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially false and/or misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
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2022-07-01T11:24:21+00:00
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wagmtv.com
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https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/01/upst-shareholder-alert-jakubowitz-law-reminds-upstart-shareholders-lead-plaintiff-deadline-july-12-2022/
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