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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — At least five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead in the sinking of a sailboat that had been carrying migrants, Greece’s coast guard said Thursday, while a search and rescue operation continued for a further 34 people still reported missing.
Only 12 people, all men, have been found alive since the sailboat sank in the treacherous waters between the islands of Evia and Andros, east of the Greek capital, in the early hours of Tuesday. The initial nine survivors had been found on rocks on an uninhabited islet, and had told authorities they had been on a sailboat carrying a total of about 68 people that had set sail from Izmir on the Turkish coast.
They said the boat capsized and sank in rough seas. The initial rescue operation was conducted in gale-force winds seas in the Kafireas Strait between the two islands, an area notorious for rough seas.
The coast guard said Thursday that a total of 22 bodies had been retrieved from the sea, including five children — three boys and two girls — and six women.
The sinking was the latest in a series of recent deadly shipwrecks of boats carrying migrants through Greek seas.
A separate search and rescue operation was being conducted in the eastern Aegean off the island of Samos, which lies near the Turkish coast, for seven people still missing after a dinghy reportedly carrying 12 people capsized on Monday. Four people, who the coast guard said were all Palestinians, were rescued on Monday and one body was recovered on Tuesday.
Thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty in Africa, Asia and the Middle East attempt to enter the European Union through Greece each year.
Most make the short but often perilous crossing from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands in often unseaworthy inflatable dinghies. Others opt to attempt to circumvent Greece in overcrowded sailboats and yachts heading straight to Italy.
At least 27 people drowned in two separate shipwrecks last month. In one, 18 people died when a boat that had set sail from Turkey sank off the eastern Aegean island of Lesbos. In the other, a yacht carrying about 100 people sank in a gale, killing at least nine and leaving six others missing.
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Follow all AP stories on global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-11-03T10:19:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Greece-Children-among-dead-in-migrant-boat-17554727.php |
TORONTO, Aug. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT) ("Hut 8" or "the Company"), one of North America's largest, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneers and high performance computing infrastructure provider, will be releasing results for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 via a conference call on August 11, 2022.
Who: Analysts, media, and investors are invited to attend.
What: Hut 8 executives will review the company's second quarter financial results and comment on recent corporate developments.
When: Results will be shared via media release and on the Company's website at https://hut8mining.com/investors/ by 9:30 a.m. ET on August 11, 2022. The conference call and webinar will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
Where: Those joining via telephone should dial in 5 minutes early.
- Within Canada: 1-416-764-8659 access code: 62590720#
- Within the US: 1-888-664-6392 access code: 62590720#
Hut 8 is one of North America's largest innovation-focused digital asset miners, led by a team of business-building technologists, bullish on bitcoin, blockchain, Web 3.0 and bridging the nascent and traditional high performance computing worlds. With two digital asset mining sites located in Southern Alberta and a third site in North Bay, Ontario, all located in Canada, Hut 8 has one of the highest capacity rates in the industry and one of the highest inventories of self-mined Bitcoin of any crypto miner or publicly traded company globally. With 36,000 square feet of geo-diverse data centre space and cloud capacity connected to electrical grids powered by significant renewables and emission-free resources, Hut 8 is revolutionizing conventional assets to create the first hybrid data centre model that serves both the traditional high performance compute (Web 2.0) and nascent digital asset computing sectors, blockchain gaming, and Web 3.0. Hut 8 was the first Canadian digital asset miner to list on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Through innovation, imagination, and passion, Hut 8 is helping to define the digital asset revolution to create value and positive impacts for its shareholders and generations to come.
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ABIQUIU, N.M. (AP) — In 1940s America, for a woman to go camping in the wilderness was virtually unheard of.
Enter Georgia O’Keeffe.
Determined to move as close to the New Mexico landscape as humanly possible, O’Keeffe went camping in Glen Canyon, Plaza Blanca and what she termed The Black Place located 150 miles northwest of her Abiquiú home.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Welcome Center in Abiquiú is hosting its first exhibit, “O’Keeffe in the Landscape,” on display through April 2, 2023.
The exhibition showcases Marie Chabot’s photographs of the artist mid-camping, her clothing, hiking boots and equipment, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
O’Keeffe had learned to drive in Taos and bought a 1928 Ford Model T so that she could go car camping in remote locations. At the time, she didn’t need a driver’s license.
“She would set up her tent outside,” curator of historic properties Giustina Renzoni said. “She had the passenger’s seat removed so she could put a table with all her paints and her brushes. She essentially carried a moving studio.”
The artist traveled to evoke the essence of these spectacular views in her work.
Conscious of her safety, O’Keeffe never traveled alone, often taking her friend Maria Chabot, who photographed her on various trips. Chabot had worked for salon maven Mabel Dodge Luhan in Taos. She was the general contractor for O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú home. O’Keeffe also camped with such celebrated photographers as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter and Todd Webb.
“It was a very creative atmosphere,” Renzoni said.
The artist learned about these unusual sites by talking to local people. She had learned about Ghost Ranch, where she first bought a house in 1940, from acquaintances when she stayed at Luhan’s home.
“She knew she had to see it herself,” Renzoni said.
She also hired local guides.
“What she was doing was very unusual at the time, especially for a woman,” she added.
By the early 1900s, camping had grown into a leisure activity in a reaction against urbanization, Renzoni said.
O’Keeffe first went camping to Yosemite National Park with Adams in 1938. Telling herself this was a vacation, she took no canvases, paint or brushes. She regretted that decision.
“Of course, as soon as she got there she ended up borrowing supplies from people and using the charcoal from the fire,” Renzoni said.
In New Mexico, she collected rocks and bones as she moved through the ragged country.
“It’s an object of nature,” Renzoni said of the rocks. “She liked to hold them and feel the whole rock.”
The bones became part of her image repertoire.
“For her, it was representative of desert life and natural images and colors,” Renzoni added.
O’Keeffe went river rafting for the first time at age 74, invited by Webb.
They headed up to Utah’s Glen Canyon. O’Keeffe wrote to her sister about the trip. After an entire day of rafting, the group camped near the river and settled down, only to be awakened by a torrential downpour.
“She loved it; even the rain,” Renzoni said. “She thought it was a wonderful experience.”
The exhibition also includes a camping dress, complete with large pockets to collect rocks.
Established in 2018, the Georgia O’Keeffe Welcome Center is located one mile from the artist’s Abiquiú home. Visitors can take a shuttle to see her home and studio. | 2022-06-25T15:04:36+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/O-Keeffe-strived-to-be-close-to-New-Mexico-17265373.php |
POWELL, Leonard E.
Age 88, of Liberty Township, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at Hospice of Hamilton. He was born in New Miami, Ohio, on January 3, 1934, the son of Roy and Estie (McCown) Powell. Mr. Powell had been a steel worker employed by ARMCO in New Miami and later in Middletown, OH. He was a member of the Community Church.
Survivors include three children, Gregory Powell, Logan Powell, and Lindsey Powell; two sisters, Judy Lynch and Shirley Kollstedt; stepson, Eric Allen; stepdaughter, Brittany (Zach) Schulz.
His wife Ginger (Hieb) Powell preceded him in death in 2002.
Funeral services will be held at 6:00PM, Friday, October 14, 2022, in the Zettler Funeral Home, 2646 Pleasant Ave. Visitation will be from 5:00-6:00PM, Friday, in the funeral home. Burial will be in Dayton National Cemetery. Online register at
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two long-wanted Abu Sayyaf militant commanders accused of beheading two kidnapped Canadian tourists and a German in the southern Philippines have surrendered to authorities, officials said Friday.
Almujer Yadah and Bensito Quitino gave themselves up to military officials in Jolo town in southern Sulu province and surrendered their assault rifles, Sulu military commander Maj. Gen. Ignatius Patrimonio and other security officials said. The officials did not provide details of how and when the surrenders were arranged.
The two were briefly presented in a news conference in an army camp in Jolo and later turned over to police.
Sulu provincial police chief Col. Jaime Mojica said they will face multiple murder and other criminal charges, including violation of the country’s anti-terrorism law. The militants are accused of beheading the hostages after failing to obtain large ransoms they had demanded.
They also were involved in other ransom kidnappings and bomb attacks, Mojica said.
Canadian tourists Robert Hall and John Ridsdel were abducted by Abu Sayyaf gunmen from a marina on southern Samal island along with a Norwegian and a Filipino in September 2015 and taken to jungle camps in Sulu.
Hall and Ridsdel were beheaded by the militants months later after the deadline for payment of the ransoms passed. Videos released by the militants showed the victims being brutally killed in front of an Islamic State group-style black flag. The Norwegian and Filipino hostages were eventually freed.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time that he was horrified by the killings and affirmed Canada’s refusal to “pay ransoms for hostages to terrorist groups, as doing so would endanger the lives of more Canadians.” He said Canada was working with the Philippine government “to pursue those responsible for these heinous acts and bring them to justice, however long it takes.”
Other key suspects in the kidnappings and killings of Hall and Ridsdel were killed earlier in clashes with Philippine forces.
Mojica said the two militants were also involved in the 2017 beheading in Sulu of German hostage Jurgen Gustav Kantner. Abu Sayyaf gunmen seized Kantner at gunpoint and killed a woman sailing with him off neighboring Malaysia’s Sabah state. Villagers later found a dead woman on a yacht with a German flag off Sulu’s Laparan Island.
The United States and the Philippines have labeled the Abu Sayyaf a terrorist organization for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings. The small but brutal group emerged in the early 1990s as an extremist offshoot of a decades-long Muslim separatist rebellion in the southern Philippines, the homeland of minority Muslims in the largely Roman Catholic nation.
The Abu Sayyaf has been weakened considerably by decades of military offensives, surrenders and infighting, and is currently estimated by the military to have less than 200 armed fighters, but remains a national security threat. | 2022-06-17T23:55:52+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/philippine-militants-accused-of-beheading-tourists-surrender/ |
The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be coming to Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts on September 10 and there is still time to buy tickets.
With almost a month till show time, fans can shop around for tickets on resale ticket vendor websites like StubHub, VividSeats and TicketNetwork. Tickets for the show at Fenway start at $190 on StubHub, $161 on VividSeats and $209 on TicketNetwork. Prices range from $161 to $3,677.
The 32-city global stadium tour kicked off on Saturday, June 4th at Estadio La Cartuja in Seville, Spain with stops in London, Paris, Dublin, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and many more before wrapping up in Arlington at Globe Life Field on September 18.
The band’s 2022 tour will mark the return of guitarist and all-around cosmic musician John Frusciante to the group, as well as the band’s first-ever stadium tour in the U.S. The show, scheduled for Sept. 10 in Boston, will also feature opening acts St. Vincent and Thundercat. Here’s a full list of the Red Hot Chili Peppers remaining tour dates and links to buy tickets:
- Sat Aug 06 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium - Buy tickets at StubHub, VividSeats and TicketNetwork
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Arizona Western College’s women’s volleyball team (2-8) dropped its ACCAC opener to No. 4-ranked Scottsdale Community College (6-0) 3-1 Wednesday night inside The House.
The Lady Matadors got off to a good start, taking an early 5-0 lead before the Fighting Artichokes battled back. Arizona Western took their second five-point lead of the set at 149 before being outscored 16-6 by Scottsdale who won the set 25-20.
Just like in set one, the Lady Matadors built an early lead in the second set, taking a 6-2 advantage. Scottsdale however would go on a run and take a 14-10 lead before Arizona Western was forced to take a timeout. The Lady Matadors went on an 8-2 run and would eventually secure a 25-22 second set win on a Daniela Jimenez kill.
Scottsdale responded, opening up an 11-4 lead in the third set and taking a 12-point lead at 20-8. The Matadors would try and rally and cut the deficit to nine but would drop the third set 25-13 and trail the match two sets to one.
The fourth set was back-and-forth early before Scottsdale built an 8-3 lead and would go up by as many as eight points. The Lady Matadors battled back to cut the deficit to 15-12 and eventually climbed to within two points at 21-19 but fell in the set 25-20, losing the match 3-1.
Jimenez led the Lady Matadors in kills with 13 while Makayla Fonoimoana ended the night with 12. Natalia Slazynksa finished the match with 28 assists and 11 digs. | 2022-09-15T10:58:33+00:00 | yumasun.com | https://www.yumasun.com/sports/awc-volleyball/article_27b88b9c-34b1-11ed-bd71-0fb205698f75.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon pleaded not guilty Thursday to duping donors who gave money to build a wall on the U.S. southern border. The case, brought by New York prosecutors, is a state-level reboot of a federal case cut short last year by a presidential pardon.
Bannon, 68, was released after his arraignment on money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges related to the “We Build the Wall” campaign. He is the second person pardoned by Trump and later charged by the Manhattan district attorney’s office for the same alleged conduct.
“It’s all nonsense. They will never shut me up,” Bannon said as he left court.
Manhattan prosecutors working in conjunction with the state attorney general’s office say that although Bannon promised all donations would go to constructing the wall, he was involved in transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars to third-party entities and used them to funnel payments to two other people involved in the scheme.
The indictment didn’t identify those people by name, but the details match those of Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, who pleaded guilty to federal charges in April.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said that after Bannon was pardoned, Manhattan prosecutors decided they had to hold him accountable because the alleged scheme ripped off hundreds of Manhattan residents. The top charge against Bannon carries a maximum sentence of five to 15 years in prison.
“The simple truth is: It is a crime to profit off the backs of donors by making false pretenses,” Bragg said at a news conference.
Bannon’s New York charges stem from the same alleged conduct as an attempted federal prosecution that ended abruptly, before trial, when Trump pardoned Bannon on his last day in office. Manhattan prosecutors also charged WeBuildTheWall, Inc., the nonprofit entity that Bannon and his former co-defendants used to solicit donations. The company pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses. Last year, the Manhattan district attorney’s office charged Ken Kurson, a friend of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, with cyberstalking months after Trump pardoned him in a similar federal case. Like Bannon, Kurson was pardoned early in his federal case, before acquittal or conviction, negating any double jeopardy argument.
Arriving at the Manhattan district attorney’s office shortly after 9 a.m. Thursday, Bannon said it was “an irony” that New York City’s mayor has been objecting to busloads of migrants sent to the city from Texas while prosecutors “are persecuting people here, that try to stop them at the border.”
Bannon accused Bragg of pursuing “phony charges” against him, saying the Democratic prosecutor targeted him ahead of November’s midterm elections because he and his radio show are popular among Trump’s Republican supporters.
He claimed federal prosecutors had the same intent when he was first charged in August of 2020 ahead of the presidential election.
But New York Attorney General Letitia James said it was about holding “powerful political interests” to account.
“They think they are above the law. And the most egregious of them take advantage of hardworking Americans in the process. Steve Bannon stands out as a perfect example of this blatant inequality,” said James, a Democrat.
In 2020, federal agents pulled Bannon from a luxury yacht off the Connecticut coast and arrested him on charges he pocketed more than $1 million in donations to the wall-building effort. In all, more than $25 million was raised, prosecutors said.
In that case, federal prosecutors alleged Bannon and his co-defendants capitalized on public fervor over border security — a pillar of Trump’s presidential campaign — and tricked thousands of people into thinking 100% of their donations would go to building a wall along the 1,933-mile (3,110-kilometer) U.S.-Mexico line.
Instead, according to federal prosecutors, Bannon used some of the money to pay personal expenses for himself and a secret salary to Kolfage, a “We Build the Wall” co-founder.
“All the money you give goes to building the wall,” Bannon told donors at a June 2019 fundraising event, according to the New York indictment unsealed Thursday. Kolfage, who is not charged in the state case, repeatedly pledged: “I won’t take a penny from these donations, not a penny,” the indictment said.
Charitable organizations are allowed to pay their executives, sometimes handsomely, but must disclose that compensation in documents available to the public.
Bannon, who had pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, was dropped from the federal case when Trump pardoned him.
Kolfage, a U.S. Air Force veteran who lost both legs in a mortar attack in Iraq, and Badolato, a Florida financier, had been scheduled to be sentenced this week, but that was recently postponed to December. A third defendant’s trial ended in a mistrial in June after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
In another case not covered by Trump’s pardon, Bannon was convicted in July on contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October and faces up to two years in federal prison.
A voice of nationalist, outsider conservatism, Bannon led the conservative Breitbart News before becoming chief executive officer of Trump’s 2016 campaign in its critical final months. As the president’s chief strategist, he was at the forefront of many of the administration’s most contentious policies, including its travel ban on several majority-Muslim countries, but was pushed out after less than a year.
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Peltz contributed. Follow Michael Sisak on Twitter at twitter.com/mikesisak. Send confidential tips by visiting https://www.ap.org/tips/. | 2022-09-09T03:09:32+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-bannon-expected-to-surrender-in-ny-court-in-wall-donor-case/ |
Parents of young player who died struggle to find answers within hockey’s code of silence
By Shelley Ayres, Producer W5
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OAKVILLE, ONT. (CTV Network) — When I was approached about this story, I was reluctant.
Not because it wasn’t compelling, it was. I was reluctant mostly because I knew it would be emotionally difficult and because it was about a teenage boy who played AA rep hockey.
Every day I look at my teenage son. I run him to the hockey rink, I take him to team dinners, team building events and tournaments. I engage with other hockey parents and his coaches. I live the exact same sport parent life that Susan and Greg Teague were living with their son Ben in 2019.
My teenage son also plays AA rep hockey. I have witnessed the good and bad in this sport and cultural practices that involve alcohol. I have seen first-hand behaviours in hockey that don’t exist in other youth sports.
When we met with Susan and Greg in December 2022 to hear their story, I looked around their warm home. Their Christmas tree was up, they had photos of their youngest son Ben gathered on the shelf, they were putting together a wall of family photos.
This would be the third Christmas they wouldn’t have with Ben, who died suddenly at a team building camp with his hockey team in September 2019.
We interviewed Susan and Greg separately. Susan was nervous. She told us she wanted to make sure that what happened to Ben didn’t happen again and that the culture of ‘what happens on the team stays within the team’ stops. She wanted to keep investigating, to keep fighting to find out what happened to her youngest son.
Greg spoke on camera for well over an hour, a conversation that allowed him to share his fondest moments of Ben, as a six-year-old learning to skate, and his darkest moment learning that Ben had passed. The process of interviewing parents who have lost a loved one is deeply moving and never fades.
The Teagues have mounted a great effort. They have independently interviewed many of Ben’s teammates with their parents and have learned that at the 2019 camp there was a party, allegedly with drinking, vapes, and drugs in electronic vaporizers called dab pens and that the boys had all chipped in.
She also learned there was a maze at the camp where in the previous year the senior boys chased the rookies naked in a game of manhunt and that, in 2018, Ben had won.
FRUSTRATION OVER INVESTIGATIONS
They are frustrated with the police investigation, the medical investigation, and what they see as the lack of accountability by coaches. They say they believe that valuable evidence has been lost in the more than three years since Ben died.
While working through the visual elements we’d need to tell this story, I asked the Teagues if they had been to a hockey rink together since Ben had died. They hadn’t. It took them great courage to do that for this story.
I felt it would be too triggering for them to enter a rink where Ben would have played so we found a location in another city. We stood back to let them take in the empty rink we had rented.
A week or so later, I realized I would need some visuals of a teen player skating on the ice, I knew we’d want to capture images that represent Ben’s jersey, his stick, his skates.
I was thinking of creating shots that would pay tribute to Ben. I slept on it and realized how valuable those memories are of their son and that Ben’s Oakville Ranger’s uniform should not be worn again.
I asked my teenage son, who, like Ben, plays defence, if he would help me with these shots and that he could wear just a plain jersey — no logos, no numbers.
He said, “Of course mom.” I showed him Ben’s picture and a video clip of Ben skating. He said “Mom, he’s really great.” I said, “yes.” It wasn’t lost on either of us that on Saturday when this episode airs, we’ll be in an arena at a playoff game.
Watch W5’s documentary ‘What Happened to Ben” on CTV, Saturday at 7 p.m.
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Cubs first. Christopher Morel walks. Willson Contreras singles to left field. Christopher Morel to second. Ian Happ walks. Patrick Wisdom grounds out to second base. Ian Happ out at second. Willson Contreras scores. Frank Schwindel walks. Alfonso Rivas grounds out to shallow infield, Jason Alexander to Rowdy Tellez.
2 runs, 1 hit, 1 error, 1 left on. Cubs 2, Brewers 0.
Brewers third. Jace Peterson triples to right center field. Lorenzo Cain grounds out to first base, Alfonso Rivas to Kyle Hendricks. Kolten Wong singles to left field. Jace Peterson scores. Tyrone Taylor grounds out to third base. Kolten Wong out at second.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 2, Brewers 1.
Brewers fourth. Christian Yelich grounds out to shortstop, Patrick Wisdom to Alfonso Rivas. Rowdy Tellez flies out to deep center field to Christopher Morel. Keston Hiura doubles to center field. Omar Narvaez singles to shallow left field, tagged out at second, Ian Happ to Willson Contreras to Nick Madrigal. Keston Hiura scores.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Brewers 2, Cubs 2.
Brewers fifth. Mike Brosseau singles to shortstop. Jace Peterson doubles to deep left center field. Mike Brosseau scores. Lorenzo Cain grounds out to shallow infield, Kyle Hendricks to Alfonso Rivas. Kolten Wong lines out to left field to Ian Happ. Tyrone Taylor grounds out to shortstop, Nico Hoerner to Alfonso Rivas.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Brewers 3, Cubs 2.
Cubs fifth. Jason Heyward singles to shallow left field. Nick Madrigal grounds out to second base, Kolten Wong to Rowdy Tellez. Jason Heyward to second. Christopher Morel strikes out swinging. Willson Contreras singles to shallow right field, tagged out at third, Jason Alexander to Jace Peterson. Jason Heyward scores.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 left on. Brewers 3, Cubs 3.
Cubs tenth. Nick Madrigal grounds out to shallow infield to Rowdy Tellez. Jason Heyward to third. Christopher Morel out on a sacrifice fly to left center field to Christian Yelich. Jason Heyward scores.
1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 left on. Cubs 4, Brewers 3. | 2022-06-02T04:18:36+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Milwaukee-Chicago-Cubs-Runs-17213961.php |
WELDON, Saskatchewan (AP) — Canadian police hunted for the remaining suspect in the stabbing deaths of 10 people in an Indigenous community and nearby town in the province of Saskatchewan after finding the body of his brother amid a massive manhunt for the pair.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was found dead Monday near the stabbing sites and authorities believe his brother and fellow suspect, Myles Sanderson, 30, is injured, on the run and likely in the provincial capital of Regina, said police chief Evan Bray. The series of stabbings also wounded 18 people.
RCMP Commanding Officer Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said authorities are not sure of the cause of death yet but the injuries were not self-inflicted.
Damien Sanderson’s “body was located outdoors in a heavily grassed area in proximity to a house that was being examined. We can confirm he has visible injuries,” said Blackmore. Asked if Myles Sanderson was responsible for his brother’s death, Blackmore said police are investigating that possibility, but “we can’t say that definitively at this point in time.″
Leaders of the James Smith Cree Nation, where most of the stabbing attacks took place, blamed the killings on the drug and alcohol abuse plaguing the community, which they said was a legacy of the colonization of Indigenous people.
James Smith Cree Nation resident Darryl Burns and his brother, Ivor Wayne Burns, said their sister, Gloria Lydia Burns, was a first responder who was killed while responding to a call. Burns said his 62-year-old sister was on a crisis response team.
“She went on a call to a house and she got caught up in the violence,” he said. “She was there to help. She was a hero.”
He blamed drugs and pointed to colonization for the rampant drug and alcohol use on reserves.
“We had a murder suicide here three years ago. My granddaughter and her boyfriend. Last year we had a double homicide. Now this year we have 10 more that have passed away and all because of drugs and alcohol,” Darryl Burns said.
Ivor Wayne Burns also blamed drugs for his sister’s death and said the suspect brothers should not be hated.
“We have to forgive them boys,” he said. “When you are doing hard drugs, when you are doing coke, and when you are doing heroin and crystal meth and those things, you are incapable of feeling. You stab somebody and you think it’s funny. You stab them again and you laugh.”
Blackmore said police were still determining the motive, but the chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations echoes suggestions the stabbings could be drug-related.
“This is the destruction we face when harmful illegal drugs invade our communities, and we demand all authorities to take direction from the chiefs and councils and their membership to create safer and healthier communities for our people,” said Chief Bobby Cameron.
Blackmore said the criminal record of Myles Sanderson dates back years and includes violence. . Last May, Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers issued a wanted list that included him writing that he was “unlawfully at large.”
While authorities believe Myles Sanderson is in Regina, about 335 kilometers (210 miles) south of where the stabbings happened, they have issued alerts in Canada’s three vast prairie provinces — which also include Manitoba and Alberta — and contacted U.S. border officials. The manhunt entered its third day Tuesday.
Before Damien’s body was found, arrest warrants were issued for the suspects and both men faced at least one count each of murder and attempted murder.
The stabbing attack was among the deadliest mass killings in Canada, where such crimes are less common than in the United States. The deadliest gun rampage in Canadian history happened in 2020, when a man disguised as a police officer shot people in their homes and set fires across the province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people. In 2019, a man used a van to kill 10 pedestrians in Toronto.
Deadly mass stabbings are rarer than mass shootings, but have happened around the world. In 2014, 29 people were slashed and stabbed to death at a train station in China’s southwestern city of Kunming. In 2016, a mass stabbing at a facility for the mentally disabled in Sagamihara, Japan, left 19 people dead. A year later, three men killed eight people in a vehicle and stabbing attack at London Bridge.
Police in Saskatchewan got their first call about a stabbing at 5:40 a.m. on Sunday, and within minutes heard about several more. In all, dead or wounded people were found at 13 different locations on the sparsely populated reserve and in the town, Blackmore said. James Smith Cree Nation is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Weldon.
Among the 10 killed was Lana Head, who is the former partner of Michael Brett Burns and the mother of their two daughters.
“It’s sick how jail time, drugs and alcohol can destroy many lives,” Burns told the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. “I’m hurt for all this loss.”
Weldon residents have identified one of the dead as Wes Petterson, a retired widower who made he coffee every morning at the senior center. He loved gardening, picking berries, canning, and making jam and cakes, recalled William Works, 47, and his mother, Sharon Works, 64.
“He would give you the shirt off his back if he could,” William Works said, describing his neighbor as a “gentle old fellow” and “community first.”
Sharon Works was baffled: “I don’t understand why they would target someone like him anyway, because he was just a poor, helpless little man, 100 pounds soaking wet. And he could hardly breathe because he had asthma and emphysema and everybody cared about him because that’s the way he was. He cared about everybody else. And they cared about him.”
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Gillies reported from Toronto. | 2022-09-06T12:49:02+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-canada-police-hunt-remaining-suspect-in-stabbing-attacks/ |
DALLAS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The existing Texas water system has fundamental flaws that have lately surfaced, resulting in catastrophic water shortages and droughts that have harmed hundreds of thousands of Texans. Texas would need more than $80 billion in projects to meet future water demands and boost resilience, according to the state's 2022 water plan. The question is, what can we do to preserve water? We replace the natural grass in Texas with synthetic grass. SYNLawn artificial grass is recyclable, plant-based, and it is the ONLY turf on the market to be USDA-certified.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Hapbee Technologies, Inc. (TSXV: HAPB) (OTCQB: HAPBF) (FSE: HA1) ("Hapbee" or the "Company"), the digital wellness technology company is pleased to announce that it has completed a non-brokered private placement of units of the Company ("Units") for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of CAD$1,566,632 (the "Offering").
"This capital enables us to continue to evolve our products and to expand our market presence and manufacturing on the heels of the successful launch of our game-changing new device – The Smart Sleep Pad," said Yona Shtern, CEO and Executive Chairman of Hapbee.
The Company achieved a milestone in September when it pre-sold 992 devices units in the month – the most in a single month in the Company's short history - primarily driven by the popularity of The Smart Sleep Pad. It was designed especially for sleep with an easier-to-use, more comfortable form factor and a larger magnetic field diameter which early users report provides an even more effective improvement of their sleep patterns. First production shipments of the new device are expected to begin later this week and we anticipate that manufacturing will continue to ramp to meet actual and forecasted demand.
As part of the Offering, the Company issued 22,380,459 Units at a price of CAD$0.07 per Unit (the "Offering Price"), which consisted in the issuance of 22,380,459 subordinate voting shares of the Company ("Shares") and 22,380,459 Share purchase warrants ("Warrants") with each Warrant entitling the holder thereof to acquire one Share at a price of CAD$0.15 per Share for a period of 2 years from the closing date of the Offering. The expiry date of the Warrants will be subject to prior acceleration, at the discretion of the Company, should the volume weighted average price of the Company's listed Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV"), or any other stock exchange on which the Company's Shares are then listed, is greater than CAD$0.50 for a period of 10 consecutive trading days, the whole in accordance with the terms of the Warrants. Each Share and Warrant issued (including the Shares underlying the Warrants) will be subject to a hold period of four months plus one day following the closing of the Offering (the "Hold Period") pursuant to Canadian securities laws.
Certain existing insiders of the Company including members of the Executive Team and Board of Directors participated in the Offering by purchasing an aggregate of 4,416,302 Units. The portion of such participation by the insiders constitutes a "related party transaction" within the meaning of TSXV Policy 5.9 and Multilateral Instrument 61-101 – Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). The Company intends to rely on exemptions from the formal valuation and minority approval requirements of MI 61-101 as neither the fair market value of the subject matter of, nor the fair market value of the consideration for, the transaction, insofar as it involves related parties, exceeded 25% of the Company's market capitalization.
Any net proceeds received by the Company from the Offering are intended to be used for product development, manufacturing, business development, working capital and general corporate purposes.
The Offering remains subject to the final approval of the TSXV.
The securities offered pursuant to the Offering have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or the securities laws of any state of the United States (as such term is defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) (the "United States"), and may not be offered or sold within the United States, or to, or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (as defined in Rule 902(k) of Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) or a person in the United States, except in transactions exempt from registration under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities offered hereby within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons.
Option and RSU Grants
The Company is also announcing that it has issued an aggregate of 1,400,000 stock options ("Options") and an aggregate of 400,000 restricted stock units ("RSUs") to certain insiders of the Company. The Options have an exercise price of CAD$0.065 per share and are exercisable for a period of seven years from the date of issuance. The RSUs are based on a market price of CAD$0.065 and will vest in equal instalments over a period of three years.
Hapbee is a digital wellness technology company that aims to help people take control of how they sleep, perform and feel. Hapbee's digital wellness library of Blends and Routines utilizes patented ultra-low radio frequency energy (ulRFE®), designed to help optimize users' sleep, productivity, recovery, and downtime. Hapbee devices and subscriptions are available for purchase at Hapbee.com and through a growing network of select distributors.
You can learn more about how Hapbee works at www.hapbee.com/science.
Certain statements included in this news release constitute forward-looking information or statements (collectively, "forward-looking statements"), including those identified by the expressions "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "should" and similar expressions to the extent they relate to the Company or its management. The forward-looking statements are not historical facts but reflect current expectations regarding future results or events. This news release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and various estimates, factors and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Any statements about the intended use of proceeds from the Offering are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding the Company's ability to meet its planned product marketing and development initiatives and the Company's ability to achieve its e-commerce rollout and full-scale commercial launch as anticipated.
Factors that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, delays in design, production, manufacturing, development or releases of signal blends, collection of data from customer use, or the Company may not be able to achieve its targets as anticipated or at all; changes in legislation and regulations; increase in operating costs; equipment failures; failure of counterparties to perform their contractual obligations; litigation; the loss of key directors, employees, advisors or consultants and fees charged by service providers. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, but are not limited to, those described in Hapbee's annual information form dated January 27, 2021, a copy of which is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking statements. These statements should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those implied by such statements. The Company assumes no responsibility to update or revise forward-looking information to reflect new events or circumstances unless required by law. Readers should not place undue reliance on the Company's forward-looking statements.
Neither TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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VISION, Seth Patrick
It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Seth Patrick Vision, age 21, of Springboro, Ohio unexpectedly passed away on Saturday, June 25, 2022, in a motor vehicle accident. Seth was born September 21, 2000, in Kettering, OH, to Louis and Jane (Kemper) Vision. Growing up, Seth was many things to many different people. Seth was a loving son to his parents. He was a sweet brother to his three siblings. Seth was a loyal friend to almost everyone he encountered. He was the Captain of the Varsity Lacrosse team and a 2019 graduate of Springboro High School. While he'll be remembered for many things, those that knew our Seth will remember him for his big smile, joyful laugh, and kindness shown in word and deed. Seth would gladly give you the shirt off his back, be by your side in an instant if you needed him to be, and be the person to reach out to you when your life was tough. Seth enjoyed spending his free time hunting in Hillsboro, Ohio, and hanging out with friends and family in Springboro, Ohio, and his Army buddies in Alaska.
Following graduation from Springboro High School, Seth enlisted in the United States Army as a Cavalry Scout and attained the rank of Sergeant. He was stationed with Arrow Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 11th Infantry Division (Airborne), at Joint Base, Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), in Anchorage, Alaska. His "battle buddies" knew Seth as a loyal friend, a selfless leader, and a man who loved his country.
Seth whole-heartedly loved his family and is survived by his father, Louis (Faith) Vision; his mother, Jane (Andrew) Skipper; his siblings, Zach Vision, Mia Vision, Will Skipper; his grandparents, Michael (Sue) Vision, Donald (Sue) Kemper, Robert (Eileen) Skipper, Bob (Eva) Linn; his uncles Chad (Jennifer) Kemper, Scott Kemper, Nick Vision; and his cousins, Sam Kemper and Caroline Kemper.
We welcome you to join us in a celebration of life for our boy. Visitation will be Saturday, July 2, 2022, from 11am to 3pm at Fairhaven Church, 637 E. Whipp Road Centerville, OH 45459 followed by a Memorial Service at 4pm. In honor of Seth and a sport he loved dearly, donations may be made in his name to Springboro Lacrosse in support of the High School Lacrosse program. Please make checks payable to: Springboro Lacrosse Club PO Box 443 Springboro, OH 45066. Please note on the check memo line "Seth Vision".
Though Seth is not here with us anymore, Seth will live on in every person he touched throughout his life. To know Seth is to love Seth. | 2022-06-29T05:50:18+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/obituaries/vision-seth/5M4QN7A2SZHUTJUHWTAYBWFMOU/ |
INDIANAPOLIS – It looks like the Indianapolis Colts will have to shut star running back Jonathan Taylor down for the rest of the season.
An injury forced Taylor to leave Saturday’s game against the Minnesota Vikings. Taylor has been diagnosed with a high-ankle sprain, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network and NFL.com first reported news of Taylor’s injury earlier Monday morning.
The Colts will hold a team medical meeting Monday afternoon. A source said the team expected the injury to bring an end to Taylor’s season. Rapoport reported it was “highly unlikely” Taylor would play another down this year. The Colts have three games remaining.
Running backs Deon Jackson and Zack Moss carried the load for the Colts after Taylor’s early exit against Minnesota and are expected to continue to do so.
An ankle injury forced Taylor miss three games earlier this year. After posting back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons to start his career, Taylor has been limited to 861 yards and just 4 rushing touchdowns in 2022, slowed by injuries and an inconsistent offensive line. His yards per carry average dipped to 4.5, below his 2020 (5.0) and 2021 (5.5) marks.
It’s a far cry from last season, when Taylor piled up 1,811 rushing yards and 18 rushing touchdowns during his breakout year.
The Colts (4-9-1) host the Los Angeles Chargers (8-6) in a Monday Night Football showdown on Dec. 26. | 2022-12-19T16:28:20+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/sports/colts/colts-taylor-likely-done-for-season-after-injuring-ankle-vs-vikings/ |
Ipswich's Lange and Mobridge-Pollock's Thompson and Olson win three events in girls division.
GETTUSBURG —Daniel Stoll of Faulkton Area recorded four first-place finishes and three other athletes had three firsts on Saturday in the Potter County Invitational track and field meet.
Twelve schools competed. Mobridge-Pollock won the girls division with 134 points and Ipswich the boys division with 157.
Stoll not only won the boys' 100- and 200-meter dashes but also anchored the winning 400 and 1,600 relays.
In the girls division, Gracie Lange of Ipswich (high jump plus 400 and medley relays), Ryli Thompson of Mobridge-Pollock (100 and 400 dashes plus 800 relay) and Heidi Olson of Mobridge-Pollock (1,600 and 3,200 runs and 3,200 relay) each won three events.
Other area winners in the boys division were Carter Luikens of Potter County (400 dash), Simon Fried of Mobridge-Pollock (800 run), Nicholas Schlachter (1,600 and 3,200 runs), Hunter Cramer of Warner (110 hurdles), Remmi Ford of Mobridge-Pollock (300 hurdles), Carter Hinsz of Mobridge-Pollock (shot put), Dustin Wurtz of Leola (discus), Darrel Yost of Ipswich (pole vault), Trevor Heinz of Ipswich (long jump) and Lucas Gulbranson of Leola (triple jump).
Garrett Cramer and Roman DiMaria also ran on Faulkton Area's winning relays along with Cade Schick (400) and Spencer Melius (1,600). Heinz ran with Turner Thorson and Kyle and Trevor Hettich on Ipswich's winning 800 relay and Fried was joined by Turner Pfitzer, Shane Henderson and Logan Vetch on Mobridge-Pollock's winning 3,200 relay.
Camryn Rohlfs of Redfield (200 dash and long jump), Emma Schlachter of Potter County (800 run), Dannika Kaup of Potter County (300 hurdles), Savanna Hayes of Faulkton Area (shot put), Emily Hatzenbuhler of Mobridge-Pollock (discus), and Marley Guthmiller of Ipswich (pole vault) were other area event winners in the girls division.
Brianna Geditz and Vanesa Diaz also ran on Ipswich's winning 400 and medley relay teams along with Ashley Ptacek (400) and Graceyn Kadlec (medley). Sophia Overland, Jayda Thompson and Jacey Netterville also ran on the winning 800 and Netterville, J. Thompson and Faith Heil on the winning 3,200 for Mobridge-Pollock.
Schlachter and Kaup were joined by Rayel Persoon and Jadyn Ahlemaier on Potter County's winning 1,600 relay.
Potter County Invite Team Scores:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23793183-potter-county-invite-team-scores?responsive=1&title=1
Potter County Invitational Results:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23793184-potter-county-invite?responsive=1&title=1
Other Meets
The Sisseton American Legion Relays on Friday and the Running Elk Relays at Elkton on Saturday were canceled. Results were not available for the Jimmy Rearick-Warbird Invitational at Miller on Friday.
Follow Watertown Public Opinion sports reporter Roger Merriam on Twitter @PO_Sports. | 2023-04-30T14:07:22+00:00 | thepublicopinion.com | https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/sports/high-school/2023/04/29/highlights-from-the-potter-county-invitational-track-and-field-meet/70141293007/ |
Breanna Stewart and the United States used a dominant defensive effort to beat Canada and reach the gold-medal game of the World Cup for the fourth consecutive tournament.
Stewart scored 17 points and the Americans raced out to an early lead to put away Canada 83-43 on Friday. The 43 points was the fewest scored in a semifinal game in World Cup history.
“Canada has been playing really well all tournament and the goal was just to come out there and really limit them,” said U.S. forward Alyssa Thomas. “We were really locked in from the jump with our game plan.”
The Americans will face either China or Australia, who played later in the day, for the gold.
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“Our goal was to win a gold medal and we’re in position to do that,” U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve said.
The U.S. (7-0), which is on a record pace for points and margin of victory in the tournament, took control of the game early by scoring the first 15 points. The Americans contested every shot on the defensive end as the Canadians missed their first nine attempts from the field. On the offensive end, Stewart, A’ja Wilson and Alyssa Thomas basically got any shot they wanted.
“I think after that punch, it really took the air out of them,” Thomas said. “They didn’t know what to do with their offense anymore after that.”
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Laeticia Amihere, who plays at South Carolina for former U.S. coach Dawn Staley, finally got Canada on the board nearly 5 minutes into the game by making a driving layup. Amihere led Canada with eight points.
By the end of the quarter, the U.S. led 27-7. Canada had committed four turnovers — the same number the team had against Puerto Rico in the quarterfinals, which was the lowest total in a game in 30 years.
The Americans were up 45-21 at the half and the lead kept expanding in the final 20 minutes. The win was the biggest margin for the U.S. in the medal round, topping the 36-point victory over Spain in the 2010 World Cup.
Canada (5-2) advanced to the medal round for the first time since 1986 and has a chance to win its first medal since taking the bronze that year.
“We didn’t get it done today, but what we’re going to do is take this with what we learned today and how we can turn it up tomorrow,” Canada captain Natalie Achonwa said. “It’s still a game for a medal and it’s just as important for us.”
The U.S. has won seven of the eight meetings with Canada in the World Cup, although the last one came in 2010. The lone victory for Canada came in 1975.
The victory was the 29th in a row in World Cup play for the Americans, who haven’t lost since the 2006 semifinals against Russia. The Soviet Union holds the World Cup record with 56 straight wins from 1959-86. This is only the second time in the Americans’ storied history they’ve reached four consecutive gold medal contests. They also did it from 1979-90, winning three times.
This U.S. team, which has so many new faces on it, also continued to dominate the paint even without 6-foot-8 Brittney Griner, outscoring opponents by an average of 55-24.
Record Breaking
The low point total broke the 53 that South Korea scored against Russia in 2002.
“We’re starting to build that identity,” Wilson said of the defensive effort. “We’re quick and scrappy and I think that’s our identity.”
The U.S. is averaging 101 points a game. The Americans’ previous high coming into the tournament was 99.1 set in 1994.
Still Recovering
Kahleah Copper sat out after injuring her left hip in the win over Serbia in the quarterfinals. Copper landed hard on her hip driving to the basket and had to be helped off the court. She hopes to play on Saturday. Betnijah Laney, who also got hurt in the Serbia game, played against Canada.
Up Next
Canada: Plays for bronze medal on Saturday.
U.S.: Plays for gold medal on Saturday. | 2022-09-30T16:43:33+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/us-runs-past-canada-into-world-cup-gold-medal-game/2872235/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Simon & Schuster’s corporate parent has officially ended the agreement for Penguin Random House to purchase the publisher, a proposed sale a federal judge already had blocked last month.
Paramount Global also announced Monday that it still plans to sell Simon & Schuster, a nearly century-old company where authors include Stephen King, Colleen Hoover and Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster has had a strong 2022 so far, thanks in part to bestsellers by Hoover and King, who had opposed the merger and even testified on behalf of the government during last summer’s antitrust trial.
“Simon & Schuster remains a non-core asset to Paramount, as was determined in early 2020 when Paramount conducted a strategic review of its assets,” Paramount announced. “Simon & Schuster is a highly valuable business with a recent record of strong performance, however it is not video-based and therefore does not fit strategically within Paramount’s broader portfolio.”
Penguin Random House owes a $200 million termination fee to Paramount, according to the agreement’s original terms. Penguin Random House, the country’s largest publisher, is owned by the German conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Other members of book publishing’s so-called “Big Five” — which include Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishing, Hachette Book Group and Macmillan — may now try for Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins was among the losing bidders to Penguin Random House, which offered $2.2 billion. During the trial, Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch also expressed interest in Simon & Schuster.
The CEO of the Authors Guild, which represents thousands of published writers, issued a statement saying the guild would oppose any mergers among the Big Five.
“If either HarperCollins or Hachette were allowed to buy S&S, while the resulting company would not be as big as PRH and S&S combined, it would result in only four major publishers that regularly pay the kind of advances authors need to sustain a living (more or less) writing,” the Guild’s Mary Rasenberger wrote.
Penguin Random House had planned to appeal the decision, and issued a statement Monday saying it remained convinced it would have been “the best home for Simon & Schuster’s employees and authors.”
“However, we have to accept Paramount’s decision not to move forward,” the publisher’s statement reads.
The proposed merger of the two publishing giants, which would have resulted in by far the biggest book publishing house in U.S. history, was first announced late in 2020. But the Justice Department sued last year, contending that the new combination would stifle competition for best-selling books and lead to lower advances for authors. U.S. District Judge Florence Y. Pan seemed to favor the government’s arguments during the 3-week trial and issued a decision in late October agreeing that the merger would damage book publishing.
Her ruling was a break from decades of precedent, when numerous publishing mergers were allowed with little objection, and fit a larger pattern of the Biden administration’s efforts to more forcefully apply antitrust law.
On Monday, Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp issued a company memo expressing optimism about the publisher’s future.
“We will be celebrating our 100th anniversary in April of 2024, regardless of who our owner is — and we will have much to celebrate,” he wrote. | 2022-11-22T12:05:14+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-proposed-merger-of-two-publishing-giants-is-officially-over/ |
Asian shares track Wall St rally on upbeat consumer data
By ELAINE KURTENBACH
AP Business Writer
BANGKOK (AP) — Shares advanced in Asia on Thursday after a rally on Wall Street as investors welcomed a report showing U.S. consumer confidence is holding up despite the Federal Reserve’s campaign to fight inflation by raising interest rates.
Hong Kong’s Hang Seng jumped more than 2% and benchmarks also rose in Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul. Shanghai and Mumbai declined. U.S. futures and oil prices were modestly higher.
Markets got a boost from a report showing U.S. consumer confidence is surprisingly strong, despite inflation squeezing wallets. The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index rose to 108.3 in December from 101.4 in November. That pushed the index to its highest level since April. Last month’s figure was the lowest since July.
Asian markets also got a lift from the overnight rally in tech shares, which spilled into trading in Hong Kong. E-commerce giant Alibaba jumped 4.8% while online services company Tencent gained 3.9%. Online shopping and food delivery platform Meituan picked up 5.7%.
By mid-afternoon, the Hang Seng was up 2.3% at 19,595.69, while the Shanghai Composite index fell 0.3% to 3,058.71.
“Asian stocks picked up where the U.S. market left off, with technology and property companies leading the charge after a profusion of comments from regulators on supporting broader markets,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary.
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was 0.5% higher at 26,507.87 and the Kospi in Seoul rose 1.1% to 2,353.85. In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 advanced 0.5% to 7,152.50.
Bangkok’s SET gained 0.2% while the Taiex in Taiwan climbed 1.5%.
Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Wednesday, bringing major indexes into the green for the week.
The S&P 500 jumped 1.5% to 3,878.44 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1.6% to 33,376.48, helped by a 12.2% surge for Nike after its earnings results trounced analysts’ estimates.
Technology companies powered a big share of Wednesday’s rally. Apple rose 2.4%.
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose 1.5% to 10,709.37.
Small company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 index rose 28.92 points, or 1.7%, to 1,776.94.
Consumer spending and the job market are strong areas for the U.S. economy that have helped prevent it from slipping into a recession. Wall Street is hoping for a “soft landing” from decades high inflation and the interest rate hikes being deployed to tame it.
The Fed’s key lending rate, the federal funds rate, stands at a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. Fed policymakers are forecasting the rate will reach a range of 5% to 5.25% by the end of 2023 and won’t be cut before 2024.
If the Fed goes too far in raising interest rates, it could cause the economy to stall and tip into recession.
Treasury yields mostly fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which influences mortgage rates, slipped to 3.66% from 3.69 late Tuesday.
Other new data released Wednesday showed the nation’s housing market slowed further last month, as sales of previously occupied homes fell for the tenth month in a row. Rising mortgage rates are making an already tight housing market even more difficult for prospective homebuyers.
The government will release Friday a closely watched monthly snapshot of consumer spending, the personal consumption expenditure price index. The report is monitored by the Fed as a barometer of inflation, which has been easing, albeit at a slow pace. Economists expect the report to show inflation cooled in November.
In energy trading, U.S. benchmark crude oil added 33 cents to $78.62 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It picked up $2.06 to $78.29 per barrel on Wednesday.
U.S. inventory data showed the Strategic Petroleum Reserve falling to 378.6 million barrels, its lowest level since 1983, thanks to a larger-than-expected draw down last week. That overrode worries about weak demand due to the slowing economy, pushing prices higher.
Brent crude, the pricing basis for international trading, gained 29 cents to $82.87 per barrel.
The U.S. dollar slipped to 131.84 Japanese yen from 132.42 yen. The euro rose to $1.0644 from $1.0606. | 2022-12-22T07:19:22+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2022/12/21/asian-shares-track-wall-st-rally-on-upbeat-consumer-data-2/ |
WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Crews rushed to repair a levee break on a storm-swollen river in California’s central coast before yet another atmospheric river arrives Monday night, further walloping the state’s swamped farmland and agricultural communities.
The Pajaro River’s first levee rupture grew to at least 400 feet (120 meters) since it failed late Friday, officials said. More than 8,500 people were forced to evacuate, and about 50 people had to be rescued as the water rose that night.
Still, some stayed behind in Pajaro, an unincorporated community that’s known for its strawberry crops and is now mostly flooded. The largely Latino farmworker community there is already struggling to find food with so many roads and businesses closed in the storm’s aftermath.
“Some people have nowhere to go and maybe that’s why there’s still people around,” resident Jorbelit Rincon said Monday. “Pretty much they don’t know where to go and don’t have money to provide for themselves.”
A second breach opened up another 100 feet (30.48 meters) of the levee closer to the Pacific coast, providing a “relief valve” for the floodwaters to recede near the mouth of the river, officials said Monday during a news conference.
Built in the late 1940s to provide flood protection, the levee has been a known risk for decades and had several breaches in the 1990s. Emergency repairs to a section of the berm were undertaken in January. A $400 million rebuild is set to begin in the next few years.
Forecasters warned of more flooding, wind damage and potential power outages from a new atmospheric river expected to arrive Monday night in northern and central parts of the state and move south over several days. California has been pummeled this winter by 10 atmospheric rivers, which are long, narrow plumes of moisture that turn into rain and snow when they make landfall.
Water from the upcoming storm will likely go over the Pajaro River’s levee — but crews were working to make sure the rupture doesn’t get any larger, said Shaunna Murray of the Monterey County Water Resources Agency. Over the weekend, crews had to build access roads to get to the site of the breach, and bring in rocks and boulders to plug the gap.
The river separates Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of San Francisco. Several roads were closed including a stretch of coastal Highway 1, a main route between the two counties.
Monterey County officials also warned that the Salinas River could cause significant flooding of roadways and agricultural land, cutting off the Monterey Peninsula from the rest of the county. The city of Monterey and other communities are located on the peninsula.
Undersheriff Keith Boyd said first responders have rescued about 170 people who were stranded within the county’s evacuation areas since Friday, including a woman and her baby who got stuck trying to drive through high waters.
The undersheriff said 20 to 40 people remained trapped Monday near the Salinas River because the roads were impassible for rescuers.
Authorities had not received reports of any deaths or missing persons related to the storm as of Monday afternoon.
Winery and agricultural experts from the region said they are concerned about the storms’ impact on crops — both ones in the ground that are currently submerged, and ones that should be planted for the upcoming growing season.
Karla Loreto, who works at a Pajaro gas station, said she is worried about the toll the flooding will take on the area’s farmworkers.
“The fields are flooded right now,” she said Monday. “Probably no jobs there right now. For this year, probably no strawberries, no blackberries, no blueberries.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday declared a state of emergency in six more counties after earlier making declarations for 34 counties.
Last week’s atmospheric river carried warm subtropical moisture that caused melting at lower elevations of California’s Sierra Nevada snowpack, adding to runoff that has swelled rivers and streams.
But the snowpack is so deep and cold that it mostly absorbed the rain, resulting in an even greater snowpack in the southern and central Sierra, said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
California Department of Water Resources online data showed Monday that the water content of the Sierra snowpack was 207% of the April 1 average, when it is normally at its peak. In the southern Sierra it was 248% of the average.
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Antczak reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press writers Stefanie Dazio and Christopher Weber contributed from Los Angeles. | 2023-03-14T01:25:08+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/flood-problems-grow-as-new-storm-heads-toward-california/ |
Black victims of violent crime disproportionately denied aid in many states
May 16, 2023, 9:34 PM
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The cold formality of the letter is seared in Debra Long’s memory.
It began “Dear Claimant,” and said her 24-year-old son, Randy, who was fatally shot in April 2006, was not an “innocent” victim. Without further explanation, the New York state agency that assists violent-crime victims and their families refused to help pay for his funeral.
Randy was a father, engaged to be married and studying to become a juvenile probation officer when his life was cut short during a visit to Brooklyn with friends. His mother, angry and bewildered by the letter, wondered: What did authorities see — or fail to see — in Randy?
“It felt racial. It felt like they saw a young African American man who was shot and killed and assumed he must have been doing something wrong,” Long said. “But believe me when I say, not my son.”
Debra Long had bumped up against a well-intentioned corner of the criminal justice system that is often perceived as unfair.
Every state has a program to reimburse victims for lost wages, medical bills, funerals and other expenses, awarding hundreds of millions in aid each year. But an Associated Press examination found that Black victims and their families are disproportionately denied compensation in many states, often for subjective reasons that experts say are rooted in racial biases.
The AP found disproportionately high denial rates in 19 out of 23 states willing to provide detailed racial data, the largest collection of such data to date. In some states, including Indiana, Georgia and South Dakota, Black applicants were nearly twice as likely as white applicants to be denied. From 2018 through 2021, the denials added up to thousands of Black families each year collectively missing out on millions of dollars in aid.
The reasons for the disparities are complex and eligibility rules vary somewhat by state, but experts — including leaders of some of the programs — point to a few common factors:
— State employees reviewing applications often base decisions on information from police reports and follow-up questionnaires that seek officers’ opinions of victims’ behavior — both of which may contain implicitly biased descriptions of events.
— Those same employees may be influenced by their own biases when reviewing events that led to victims’ injuries or deaths. Without realizing it, a review of the facts morphs into an assessment of victims’ perceived culpability.
— Many state guidelines were designed decades ago with biases that benefited victims who would make the best witnesses, disadvantaging those with criminal histories, unpaid fines or addictions, among others.
As the wider criminal justice system — from police departments to courts — reckons with institutional racism in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd, compensation programs are also beginning to scrutinize how their policies affect people of color.
“We have this long history in victims services in this country of fixating on whether people are bad or good,” said Elizabeth Ruebman, an expert with a national network of victims-compensation advocates and a former adviser to New Jersey’s attorney general on the state’s program.
As a result, Black and brown applicants tend to face more scrutiny because of implicit biases, Ruebman said.
In some states examined by AP, such as New York and Nebraska, the denial rates for Black and white applicants weren’t too far apart. But the data revealed apparent bias in other ways: While white families were more likely to be denied for administrative reasons, such as missing deadlines or seeking aid for crimes that aren’t covered, Black families were more likely to be denied for subjective reasons, such as whether they may have said or done something to provoke a violent crime.
In Delaware, where Black applicants accounted for less than half of the compensation requests between 2018 and 2021 but more than 63% of denials, officials acknowledged that even the best of intentions are no match for systemic bias.
“State compensation programs are downstream resources in a criminal justice system whose headwaters are inextricably commingled with the history of racial inequity in our country,” Mat Marshall, a spokesman for Delaware’s attorney general wrote in an email. “Even race-neutral policy at the programmatic level may not accomplish neutral outcomes under the shadows that race and criminal justice cast on one another.”
The financial impact of a crime-related injury or death can be significant. Out of pocket expenses for things like crime scene cleanup or medical care can add up to thousands of dollars, prompting people to take out loans, drain savings or rely on family members.
After Randy was killed, Debra Long paid for his funeral with money she had saved for a down payment on her first house. Seventeen years later, she still rents an apartment in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Thousands of people are denied compensation every year for reasons having nothing to do with the crime itself. They are denied because of victims’ behavior before or after a crime.
Applicants can be denied if police or other officials say they failed to cooperate with an investigation. That can inadvertently harm people who are wary of retribution for talking to police, or people who don’t have information. A Chicago woman who was shot in the back was denied for failing to cooperate even though she couldn’t identify the shooter because she never saw the person.
And compensation can be denied merely based on circumstantial evidence or suspicions, unlike the burden of proof that is necessary in criminal investigations.
Many states deny compensation based on a vaguely defined category of behavior — often called “contributory misconduct” — that includes anything from using an insult during a fight to having drugs in your system. Other times people have been denied because police found drugs on the ground nearby.
In the data examined by AP, Black applicants were almost three times as likely as applicants of other races to be denied for behavior-based reasons, including contributory misconduct.
“A lot of times it’s perception,” said Chantay Love, the executive director of the Every Murder is Real Healing Center in Philadelphia.
Love rattles off recent examples: A man killed while trying to break up a fight was on parole and was denied compensation, the state reasoned, because he should have steered clear of the incident; another was stabbed to death, and the state said he contributed because he checked himself out of a mental-health treatment facility a few hours earlier against a doctor’s advice.
Long scoured the police account of her son’s shooting. She called detectives and pleaded to know if they had said anything to the Office of Victims Services that would have implicated her son in some kind of a crime. There was nothing in the report. And detectives said they hadn’t submitted any additional information.
Every chance Long got, she reminded detectives and the state officials reviewing her claim that Randy had never been in trouble with the police. She wanted them to understand the injustice was also being felt by Randy’s then-toddler son, who would only know his father through other people’s memories.
Long kept information about her son’s case in a box near her kitchen. As more than 20 notebooks full of conversations with detectives piled up, Long tucked the state’s rejection letter inside a folder so she wouldn’t lose it, but also so she didn’t have to see it every time she searched for something.
“What plays in their mind is that their loved one wasn’t important,” said Love of the Philadelphia-based advocacy group. “It takes the power away from it being a homicide, and it creates a portion of blame for the victim.”
In recent years, several states and cities have changed eligibility rules to focus less on victims’ behavior before or after crimes.
In Pennsylvania, a law went into effect in September that says applicants cannot be denied financial help with funerals or counseling services because of a homicide victim’s behavior. In Illinois, a new program director has retrained employees on ways unconscious bias can creep into their decisions. And in Newark, New Jersey, police have changed the language they use in reports to describe interactions with victims, leading to fewer denials for failure to cooperate.
Long, who now works as a victims advocate, was in a training in 2021 when a speaker began praising New York state’s compensation program. Long tried to stay quiet and get through the training, but couldn’t. She told the group about her experience and the weight of the letter.
Later, an Office of Victims Services employee approached Long and convinced her to reapply, saying the agency had been improved through training and other changes that would benefit her case. A few weeks later, and nearly 15 years after Randy was buried, Long’s application was approved and the state sent her a check for $6,000 — the amount she would have received back in 2006. She used part of that money to help Randy’s son, who is now in college, pay for summer classes.
“It’s not about the monetary amount,” Long said. “It was the way I felt I was treated.”
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Catalini reported from Trenton, New Jersey and Lauer reported from Philadelphia. | 2023-05-17T07:22:37+00:00 | mynorthwest.com | https://mynorthwest.com/3889803/black-victims-of-violent-crime-disproportionately-denied-aid-in-many-states/ |
WASHINGTON — Wholesale prices in the United States rose 6.2% in December from a year earlier, a sixth straight monthly slowdown and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures will continue to cool.
The latest year-over-year figure was down from 7.3% in November and from a recent peak of 11.7% in March. On a monthly basis, the government said Wednesday that its producer price index, which measures costs before they reach consumers, dropped 0.5% from November to December.
The producer price data can provide an early sign of where consumer inflation might be headed. The data reflects the prices that are charged by manufacturers, farmers and wholesalers, and it flows into an inflation gauge that the Federal Reserve closely tracks: The personal consumption expenditures price index.
Rising evidence has suggested that inflation across the economy is easing after having reached a four-decade peak last summer. At the consumer level, inflation also cooled in December for a sixth straight month to 6.5% compared with a year earlier, from 7.1% in November.
An acceleration in workers' wages has been slowing, too, which could further help control inflation. In December, average wage growth in the United States was up 4.6% from 12 months earlier, compared with a recent peak of 5.6% in March.
Over the past year, the Fed has rapidly raised its key interest rate in an aggressive drive to cool borrowing and spending and tame inflation, which began surging more than a year and a half ago.
The Fed’s rate hikes have, in turn, led to higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. The average mortgage rate is still nearly twice its level a year ago, though it has dipped in recent weeks. Loan costs for auto purchases, credit cards and a range of business borrowing are up sharply, too.
Even as overall inflation gradually slows, costs continue to surge in some pockets of the economy. Particularly in the vast service sector — everything from restaurants and hotels to airlines and entertainment venues — fast-growing wages are contributing to broader inflation pressures.
But many other trends have joined to slow inflation and could eventually lead the Fed to suspend its series of rate hikes. Gas prices, for instance, have steadily dropped after hitting $5 a gallon in June. Nationally, they averaged $3.36 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA, barely above their average a year ago. | 2023-01-18T15:34:45+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/wholesale-inflation-producer-price-december/507-dec6e40e-1df9-4228-b0ed-688ffd643fe7 |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays are relocating their spring base for 2023 due to extensive damage to team training facilities caused by Hurricane Ian.
The Rays have trained since 2009 in Port Charlotte, Florida, about 90 minutes south of St. Petersburg, and intend to explore several options before making a decision on where to hold spring training and play Grapefruit League games when camp opens.
The team and Charlotte County released a joint statement Thursday, saying damage to Charlotte Sports Park in Port Charlotte can’t be repaired in time to host games this winter.
“Charlotte County supports the Rays efforts to secure alternative accommodations for 2023 spring training,” the statement said.
“We are all disappointed for the residents of Charlotte County and the fans there. The community is in the thoughts and hearts of the Rays, and the team will continue to support recovery efforts,” the statement added. “The Rays and Charlotte County intend to develop a restoration plan for Charlotte Sports Park in the coming weeks.”
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Following a 70-year reign, Queen Elizabeth II has died at her castle in Balmoral, Scotland, Buckingham Palace reported on Thursday. She was 96 years old.
We take a look at Queen Elizabeth II's extraordinary life.
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Left photo (October 9, 1926): Princess Elizabeth is pictured in her baby carriage for her first outing. Right photo (October 9, 1938): Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret ride in a carriage with the King and Queen to attend a morning service in Scotland.
Circa 1930s: King George VI rides horses with his daughter Princess Elizabeth.
July 5, 1937: Lord Elphinstone (left) greets the British Royal Family. From left: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (second from left), Princess Margaret (third from left), Princess Elizabeth (third from right) and King George VI (far right) at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dec. 31, 1939: Photograph of King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave for their Christmas break in Sandringham.
Circa 1940s: Princess Elizabeth changes the wheel of a military vehicle during World War II.
November 20, 1947: Members of the British royal family and guests pose around Princess Elizabeth and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on their wedding day in the Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, London, England.
1950 : Queen Elizabeth II makes her Christmas Day broadcast from Government House, Auckland, New Zealand.
Feb. 9, 1953: Prince Charles, with his mother, Queen Elizabeth II and his sister, Princess Anne, left, as they sit in an automobile following their arrival in London by train from a six-week Christmas vacation at Sandringham,England.
June 2, 1953: Queen Elizabeth II, surrounded by the bishop of Durham Lord Michael Ramsay (left) and the bishop of Bath and Wells Lord Harold Bradfield, walks to the altar during her coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London, as her maids of honor carry her train.
March 23, 1954: Queen Elizabeth II, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh, wearing formal dress as they are greeted on their arrival at Parliament House for the State Banquet in Australia.
April 3, 1957: Queen Elizabeth II (center) with Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the Duke of Beaufort.
October 15, 1969: Queen Elizabeth II arrives at King's Cross railway station in London, England with her four Corgi dogs after holidays in Balmoral Castle and before welcoming at Buckingham Palace the American astronauts of Apollo 11 who walked on the moon.
May 1970: Queen Elizabeth II visits the Town Hall in Sydney with Emmet McDermott, Lord Mayor of Sydney, during her tour of Australia. She is there in connection with the bicentenary of Captain Cook's 1770 expedition to Australia.
July 29, 1981: Prince Charles and his bride Diana, Princess of Wales, wave from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after their marriage at St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England.
July 26, 1981: Queen Elizabeth II presents her son Prince Charles with a trophy after the Prince's team, England II, beat Spain 10-5 for the Silver Jubilee Polo Cup at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor, England.
June 9, 1982: United States President Ronald Reagan and Queen Elizabeth II attend attend a gala dinner at Windsor Castle in London, England.
September 4, 1982: The Royal family share a joke with Geoff Capes as they attend the Braemar Highland Games in Scotland. From left: The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Prince Charles and Geoff Capes.
March 20, 1995: Queen Elizabeth II and South African President Nelson Mandela walk from the president's office to parliament in Cape Town, South Africa during the queen's week-long celebratory visit to the country.
June 4, 2002: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ride in the Golden State Carriage at the head of a parade from Buckingham Palace to St. Paul's Cathedral to celebrate the Queen's Golden Jubilee along The Mall in London, England.
November 18, 2007: Queen Elizabeth II (center) and Prince Philip (right front) are joined by Prince Charles (left front), Prince Edward (right back), Princess Anne (center back) and Prince Andrew (left back).
May 18, 2011: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, visit the Guinness Storehouse and watch the pouring of a pint in Dublin, Ireland. The Duke and Queen's visit to Ireland was the first by a monarch since 1911.
July 27, 2012: Queen Elizabeth II speaks during the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in London, England.
June 14, 2014: Members of the British royal family watch the fly-past as they stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the Trooping the Colour. From left: Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh; Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex; Prince Harry; Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge; and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge.
June 12, 2016: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, wave to guests attending "The Patron's Lunch" celebrations for the Queen's 90th birthday on The Mall in London, England.
May 13, 2017: Queen Elizabeth II drives her Range Rover around the Windsor Horse Show in Windsor, England.
June 14, 2018: Queen Elizabeth II laughs with Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, during the pair's first engagement at a ceremony to open the new Mersey Gateway Bridge in the town of Widnes in Halton, Cheshire, England. Markle married Prince Harry in May 2018.
April 17, 2021: Queen Elizabeth II watches as pallbearers carry the coffin of Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh, into St. George's Chapel in Windsor, England. He served as Prince Consort to Queen Elizabeth II until his death on April 9, 2021, months short of his 100th birthday. Only 30 guests were invited to his funeral due to coronavirus pandemic restrictions.
May 11, 2021: Queen Elizabeth II reads the Queen's Speech on the Sovereign's Throne as Prince Charles (right) listens in the House of Lords chamber during the State Opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament in London, England.
June 13, 2021: Queen Elizabeth II (center) with United States President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden in the Grand Corridor during their visit to Windsor Castle in Windsor, England.
February 5, 2022 : Queen Elizabeth II cuts a cake to celebrate the start of the Platinum Jubilee during a reception in the Ballroom of Sandringham House in King's Lynn, England.
June 2, 2022 : Queen Elizabeth II watches with a smile from the balcony of Buckingham Palace after the Trooping the Color ceremony in London on the first of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee.
September 6, 2022: Queen Elizabeth greets newly-elected leader of the Conservative party Liz Truss as she arrives at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeen, Scotland, for an audience where she will be invited to become Prime Minister and form a new government. | 2022-09-08T19:47:54+00:00 | wksu.org | https://www.wksu.org/npr-news/npr-news/2022-09-08/these-photos-follow-the-life-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-from-childhood-to-the-throne |
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Australian Defense Department to remove Chinese-made cameras
By ROD McGUIRK
Associated Press
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Defense Department will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese Communist Party-linked companies from its buildings. The Australian newspaper reported Thursday that at least 913 cameras, intercoms, electronic entry systems and video recorders from the Hikvision and Dahua companies are in Australian government and agency offices. Those places include the Defense Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Australia’s decision to remove the technology follows similar moves by the U.S. and British governments. Defense Minister Richard Marles said his department was assessing all its surveillance technology. | 2023-02-09T02:43:03+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/2023/02/08/australian-defense-department-to-remove-chinese-made-cameras/ |
Which stand and sit stroller is best?
The thought of navigating two separate strollers or double strollers side by side can be daunting and exhausting if you have multiple children. However, buying a costly double stroller isn’t the most financially friendly decision. Even so, if your older child is still unable to walk longer distances without needing to be carried, some sort of middle ground must be found.
Luckily, there are plenty of quality stand and sit strollers, like the Baby Trend Sit N Stand Ultra Tandem Stroller, which helps make life easier for everyone involved.
What to know before you buy a stand and sit stroller
Usage
While a stand and sit stroller is an excellent tool to help keep your children comfortable while shopping or out on a walk, it’s not recommended to use it while you exercise. This is because the safety measures were designed to maximize security when your child is sitting or standing when you are at a walking pace. Additionally, many of these strollers have limited maneuverability on rough terrains, like gravel, sand and grass.
The lightweight stand and sit stroller design also means that if you try jogging with them, it’s likely they’ll tip over, due to the higher speeds. If you plan on getting in a cardio workout with your infant and toddler, it’s best to use a quality jogging stroller instead.
Weight
While they may be slightly heavier than traditional products, a stand and sit stroller can weigh as little as 23 pounds, making it easy to use and pack away.
Consider the distance you’ll be walking with a small infant and older toddler in two in addition to the weight of the stroller itself. At the end of the day, your arms will thank you for a lighter load.
Kids grow at an alarming rate. To avoid purchasing a new stroller every few months, and check the maximum weight it can carry. Typically, you’ll find that most strollers can hold between 80-100 pounds.
Standing option
It’s good to note that if you only have one child, they should be at a minimum of 2 and a half years old before they start using the standing option. However, kids don’t develop at the same rate, so the best practice is to use your intuition to determine when it’s safe for them to start standing.
Compatibility
Newborns require a fully reclining seat, so it’s not a bad idea to search for a stand and sit stroller that’s compatible with your current car seat. However, once your child can support their head, you won’t have to worry about going with a stroller that doesn’t allow for a full recline.
What to look for in a quality stand and sit stroller
Safety
Arguably, the most important safety feature of a stand and sit stroller is that it has a five-point harness. While some may have less than five points, it’s best not to choose one that goes below three points.
Where safety is concerned, more is always better. That last thing you want is for your stroller to hit a bump in the road and your child take an accidental tumble.
Storage and canopy
The best stand and sit strollers all have ample storage space to carry any diaper bags, picnic items or toys. They’ll also feature separate compartments dedicated to storing adult’s phones, keys and other essentials.
Getting a tan while being pushed around sounds like an ideal vacation for some, but it’s not the best for infants and toddlers. Ensure that the stand and sit stroller you choose has a canopy that provides enough protection and shade so your child can sleep peacefully.
Designated handles
While securing your infant in the seat is important, the best strollers also feature ergonomic handles so your toddler can hold steady on your walks. While a designated handle isn’t a requirement, it often means that your child can safely hold onto the stroller instead of your arms.
How much you can expect to spend on a stand and sit stroller
Depending on the model, you can expect to spend between $100-$300 on a quality stand and sit stroller.
Stand and sit strollers FAQ
Can I go jogging with a stand and sit stroller?
A. Most stand and sit strollers are not optimized or meant for exercise or off-road activities. If you plan on exercising with your child, it’s recommended to purchase a separate jogging stroller once your baby is at least 3 months old or when they can support their head.
Can my newborn use a stand and sit stroller?
A. Using a stroller is essential to not only the parent’s wellbeing but also for the child. However, newborns can’t hold their head up themselves, so if you get a stand and sit stroller, it must be able to recline or have the ability to attach to a bassinet. Typically, stand and sit strollers aren’t appropriate for children under 6 months of age.
What are the best stand and sit strollers to buy?
Top stand and sit stroller
Joovy Caboose Too Ultralight Graphite Tandem Stroller
What you need to know: Joovy presents an ultralight stand and sit stroller that’s safe, easy to fold and perfect for travel.
What you’ll love: Joovy designed this stroller with safety and comfort for children and parents in mind. It features a five-point harness for security, and it reclines far back enough for your kids to enjoy a comfortable nap. The wheels on the stroller have sealed bearings making it easy to steer, and it comes with adequate suspension to minimize bumps. If that’s not enough, there are also two drink holders, a child tray and an extended canopy for both seats.
What you should consider: Attaching an infant seat can drastically minimize the rear seat space.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Top stand and sit stroller for the money
Baby Trend Sit N Stand Ultra Tandem Stroller
What you need to know: Finally, a stand and sit stroller that’s not only made for a toddler and infant, but also for twins.
What you’ll love: This stroller is compatible with car infant seats from most of the major brands. There is also a large storage basket under the seats and two cup holders with a covered compartment to help keep your items safe and sound.
What you should consider: This stroller is slightly heavier than other brands and can be bulky when folded down.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
Worth checking out
Graco Roomfor2 Stand and Ride Stroller
What you need to know: Graco features a comfortable stroller with suspension and lockable swivel wheels perfect for families with both a toddler and infants.
What you’ll love: This stand and sit stroller features an extra-large storage basket that hangs beneath the seating area. The large size makes it easy for parents to carry around picnic items, diaper bags and organize their kids’ toys. Graco also designed this stroller to maximize comfort for your older child with a padded rear seat and ergonomic side handles. Additionally, it comes with a one-hand fold that allows the stroller to easily collapse and lock after a walk.
What you should consider: The plastic wheels don’t allow for maximum absorption on rough terrain.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon and Buy Buy Baby
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It’s Opening Day at Progressive Field.
The tradition isn’t just about baseball here. The milestone marks the unofficial start of spring, as daffodils bloom and dog walks get a whole lot more pleasant.
This year, the fanfare of the 30th annual home opener at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario honors nostalgia, as well as optimism for the future.
Players will wear a jersey patch honoring legendary drummer John Adams in the game against the Seattle Mariners. Two-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce of Cleveland Heights and his mother, Donna, will throw out ceremonial first pitches at 4:10 p.m. And the team will unveil its 2022 American League Central Division pennant, the 11th title in franchise history, more than any other club in the division.
Let’s play ball.
-Laura
Overnight Scores and Weather
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Northeast Ohio weather forecast: Sunny and warmer
Top Stories
Home opener: When it comes to baseball, Cleveland has always been an Opening Day town, writes Terry Pluto. For many of us of a certain age, the home opener was the best day of the season – even when the weather was the worst. Cleveland players are no longer strangers to the big stage and they’re not taking anything for granted, writes Joe Noga.
Tax issues: Thousands of voters in Cuyahoga County will decide on tax issues May 2, as schools, cities and a library have levies or bond issues on the primary election ballot, reports Cliff Pinckard. Early voting has started at Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
FirstEnergy: In the wake of the criminal conviction of a former Ohio House speaker for taking a bribe, two top executives with FirstEnergy Corp. face “looming potential indictments,” their attorneys said in a civil court filing. Jake Zuckerman reports that attorneys for former FirstEnergy CEO Chuck Jones and the company’s top lobbyist, Mike Dowling, are arguing to delay their long-sought depositions in the case until September.
Today in Ohio: Less than four months after statehouse Republicans purged most August elections from Ohio’s calendar, they’re trying to square that opposition with a rushed effort to schedule an August election this year. We’re talking about hypocrisy on Today in Ohio, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
Statehouse and Politics
Abortion laws: Gov. Mike DeWine said he wants the General Assembly to make Ohio’s abortion bans stronger to hold up to court review ahead of a possible abortion-rights amendment vote targeted for November. Laura Hancock reports that DeWine said Ohio voters need a contrast between existing abortion laws – many of which have been tossed out by the courts due to issues such as vagueness, being overly broad or not explicit in their exceptions – and the constitutional amendment proposal that would generally guarantee the right to an abortion until viability, which is around 22 to 24 weeks.
Gas drilling: Environmental advocates filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to block a new state law they say could force state agencies to lease their lands to oil and gas companies looking to drill under state parks. Jake Zuckerman reports the Ohio Environmental Council, Ohio Valley Allies, Buckeye Environmental Network and the Sierra Club filed the lawsuit, naming the state and Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz as defendants.
Trump case: House Republicans on Thursday subpoenaed one of the former Manhattan prosecutors who had been leading a criminal investigation into Donald Trump before quitting last year in a clash over the direction of the probe. The Associated Press reports Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, ordered Mark Pomerantz to testify before the committee by April 30.
Northeast Ohio News
East Cleveland: City Council members went to court Thursday and accused the mayor and the finance director of dereliction of duty for failing to follow the city’s budget, Molly Walsh reports. In allegations filed in East Cleveland Municipal Court, council members accused Mayor Brandon King and Finance Director Charles Iyahen of spending $10 million more than the approximate $26 million budget council approved.
MOCA: The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, an institution in recovery mode, is improving in condition this spring after emerging from a prolonged crisis that started three years ago, reports Steven Litt. Controversies over exhibition programming and a sense of disconnectedness from Cleveland’s Black community resulted in the cancellation of two national touring exhibitions in 2020 and 2021, and the resignation in June 2020 of former director Jill Snyder.
Business and Healthcare
Smart tires: It isn’t just cellphones and homes that are getting smarter. Tires are getting more intelligent, and with electric vehicles and even autonomous vehicles down the road, Goodyear says putting tech into tires is becoming more and more important, reports Sean McDonnell.
Ohio tourism: State officials want to change the name of the agency tasked with attracting more visitors to Ohio and broaden its mission. Susan Glaser reports the Ohio Department of Development, which oversees TourismOhio, has proposed that the agency be called the State Marketing Office and that its mission be expanded to include not only attracting visitors to Ohio, but also workers, residents and students.
Free ice cream: Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream is opening its 100th store on April 20 in Rocky River. The first 100 guests that day at the 19935 Center Ridge Road location will receive free ice cream for a year, reports Paris Wolfe.
COVID-19 cases: The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ohio continued plunging, from 6,354 last week to 5,214 this week — lower than at any point since April 2022, reports Julie Washington.
Wedding cost: Jane Morice determined that her wedding (ceremony and reception) will cost about $40,000, about $10,000 more than the national average. She went through a range of emotions: genuine surprise, a severe sense of anxiety and then, suspicion.
Crime and Courts
Solon shots: A Solon elementary school was placed on lockdown Thursday after a police officer fired shots at a man who led authorities on a chase in a stolen vehicle, reports Olivia Mitchell. The pursuit began about 10:30 a.m. after police attempted to pull over a Honda minivan that had been stolen Tuesday in Cleveland.
5-year-old murdered: Two Cleveland residents are facing murder charges in the death of a 5-year-old in March, reports John Tucker. Collyn Green, 32, and Janicea Brooks, 24, were arrested on Wednesday and charged in Cleveland Municipal Court.
Stealing pills: A former Cleveland Clinic pharmacy manager has been indicted on charges that accuse him of stealing thousands of prescription antidepressant pills from the Hillcrest Hospital pharmacy. Cory Shaffer reports David Reamensnyder, 38, of Cleveland, is charged with deception to obtain a dangerous drug, drug possession and theft.
Officer impersonation: As Cleveland police piece together a spate of armed robberies committed by thieves posing as police officers, one of those crimes has been put into a clearer view following a man’s arrest. John Tucker reports the victim in this case wasn’t a random target. He was lured to the scene under the belief he would be buying cellphones.
Arts and Entertainment
Kennedy Space Center: Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the vast exhibition of space memorabilia and attractions on Florida’s east coast, has been a tourist destination since late 1963 – almost as long as it’s been a center for space flight – drawing millions of visitors annually. Susan Glaser reports the experience is at times dramatic and jingoistic, other times emotional and somber.
Cleveland Ballet: Cleveland Ballet dancers will prepare for their summer appearances when they finish the season on Playhouse Square in mid-April. Paris Wolfe reports the performances are scheduled for outdoor venues around Northeast Ohio, with the goal to build community awareness, improve appreciation for the art of ballet and offer cultural events.
Springsteen concert: Bruce Springsteen has not played arenas or Cleveland in more than six years. But his return to both Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse was beyond triumphant and welcomed by the soldout crowd. Malcolm X Abram reports the Boss disseminated the spirit of rock n’ roll to the masses who gathered to both worship BROOOSE! and his kickass revival band hailing from the Holy Land known to all as “E Street.”
Things to do: It’s a big weekend for Northeast Ohio and not just because we’re in the middle of Easter, Passover and Ramadan. Today starts the weekend with the Guardians’ home opener against the Seattle Mariners. Paris Wolfe has more than 20 things to do, including Dyngus Day events on Monday.
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Health Matters: Follow these safety tips as great baby formula shortage of 2022 continues
Last week, a patient waking up after a minor surgery asked if she could breastfeed her 3-month-old when she went home later that day. The textbook answer is to “pump and discard for 24 hours” to prevent residual anesthetics from getting into the baby. However, this patient didn’t have extra breast milk stored and given the ongoing baby formula shortage, it’d be hard to find a substitute.
Since September 2021, four infants from three states became ill with infections caused by the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii. Two of them died. The only common factor was that they were all fed with Similac brand formulas produced at a factory in Sturgis, Michigan. The cases were reported to the CDC and FDA, triggering an investigation. By mid-February, Abbott, the manufacturer, initiated a recall and closed the factory. Soon, Similac and its sister brands, Alimentum and EleCare, disappeared from stores and online vendors.
Previous column:Sangamon County's COVID cases up 18.2%; Illinois cases fall 8.3%
This isn’t the first time. Outbreaks of Cronobacter disease linked to baby formulas have been reported since the 1980s. Cronobacter lives on dry surfaces and can colonize the human gut. But in hosts with immature gut linings or weakened immune systems, the bacteria can enter the bloodstream and brain, causing serious infections with up to 75% mortality. In previous outbreaks, the bacteria were found in cans of powdered formula and on preparation tools such as spoons and blenders, resulting in some products being recalled, but never at the scale and impact of today’s crisis.
The business of making baby formulas has a high barrier to entry and low profitability. The formula composition and manufacturing facility must meet stringent federal standards. Most formulas in the U.S. are sold through the Women, Infant and Children programs to low-income mothers. Each state usually has an exclusive contract with one brand to obtain formulas at a heavy discount. The market is dominated by just a few players – Abbott mentioned above, Mead Johnson (Enfamil brand), Nestlé (Gerber Good Start brand), and Perrigo (all generic formulas sold at places like Costco and Walmart). When Abbott shut down the factory responsible for a quarter of the country’s formula supply, the other companies simply couldn’t fill the large void. Lingering pandemic supply chain issues only exacerbated the problem.
The shortage has sent desperate parents to solicit family members cross the country to search their local store shelves, pay high prices in secondary markets, turn to social media for formula sharing, and bring babies into emergency rooms to get fed. Particularly vulnerable are babies of mothers who cannot breastfeed and babies who rely on specialty formulas because of allergies or medical conditions.
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Recognizing the dire situation, the government intervened. On May 18, the White House invoked the Defense Production Act to prioritize ingredients for baby formula and launched “Operation Fly Formula” to import foreign formulas that meet the American safety standards. The first batch of European formulas landed last week. The FDA has reached an agreement with Abbott to reopen the Michigan factory on June 4, but it may take months for production to ramp up.
Knowing that the formula shortage will likely last through the summer, here are a few reminders on formula safety
* Use boiling water to dissolve powdered formula to kill any potential bacteria. Completely cool before serving
* Practice hand hygiene and regularly wash baby bottles and tools with hot soapy water
* Consume prepared formula within an hour from when feeding starts. Don’t let it sit at room temperature for more than 2 hours or in a refrigerator for more than 24 hours
* Don’t dilute the formula to stretch out your supply. Formula prepared at an inappropriate concentration can upset the electrolyte balance and make babies sick
* Contact pediatrician and ob-gyn offices for samples of formulas and regional breast milk banks for extra assistance
* If you require specialty formula, check with your pediatrician before substituting with a different product to make sure the nutrients are equivalent
* Because Abbott is the only manufacturer of several prescription formulas for babies and adults with metabolic diseases, the company is now releasing these previously held products on a case-by-case basis
* Only purchase imported formulas from brands and countries that have been FDA approved.
Qing Yang and Kevin Parker are a married couple and live in Springfield. Dr. Yang received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is an anesthesiologist at HSHS Medical Group. Parker has helped formulate and administer public policy at various city and state governments around the country. He is formerly the group chief information officer for education with the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology. This column is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. The opinions are those of the writers and do not represent the views of their employers. | 2022-06-04T21:26:23+00:00 | sj-r.com | https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/healthcare/2022/06/04/follow-these-safety-tips-baby-formula-shortage-2022-continues/7497393001/ |
An animatronic dragon caught fire at California's Disneyland park on Saturday evening, according to Disney officials.
"During the final showing of 'Fantasmic' at Disneyland park on Saturday evening, the dragon caught fire," Disney officials told CNN in an email. "Anaheim Fire & Rescue quickly responded and the fire was extinguished."
They added all cast members and guests were evacuated from Tom Sawyer Island and attractions near the island were cleared of guests due to smoke and wind.
"The cause of the fire remains under investigation at this time," the statement went on.
CNN has reached out to Anaheim Fire & Rescue for more information.
"Fantasmic" is a long-running nighttime Disney show at the company's parks in Florida and California. The show features "special effects, state-of-the-art projections and superb pyrotechnics" and "Maleficent as a 45-foot, fire-breathing dragon," according to Disney's website.
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All but five of the 111 Fort Worth ISD employees who were given three resignation options have reapplied for jobs in the district, records obtained by the Fort Worth Report show.
The employees were told to submit their plans for next school year under Fort Worth ISD’s district program change in March. While there are enough openings in the district for all of those people to remain employed by Fort Worth ISD, many are not at the same level of their previous jobs, because some positions were consolidated, Superintendent Angélica Ramsey said.
Employees will remain in their current jobs through the school year and some on two-year contracts will finish out their contract.
The district is downsizing to offset costs and some of the personnel cuts included high-level administration jobs, Ramsey said, including:
- Five from the senior officers and up level – which includes senior officers, assistant superintendent, associate superintendent, chief and deputy positions
- Seven from the executive directors level
- Eight from the directors level
Only three employees said they would retire when they leave the district; the executive director of fine arts, executive director of K-12 math and science, and a coordinator for Fort Worth After School. Two employees — executive director of CTE and a director who did not specify which department — said they would resign.
The Fort Worth Report compiled the average salary and amount of positions cut under the program change through open records requests. It totaled $3.7 million.
Of the recent hires and their salaries, the district will spend $812,000. Under the program change, the district saves around $2.9 million. Superintendent Angélica Ramsey confirmed the number.
Just before spring break in March, Ramsey announced the district would undergo a program change to help rightsize the district amid declining enrollment and offset a multi-million dollar deficit.
She called a meeting with employees in several departments and announced some jobs would be cut as administration is reorganized. Those employees were given three options:
- Resign from the district.
- Resign and reapply for a position in the district under the new program structure.
- Resign and retire with the Teacher Retirement System, the state’s teacher and school employee retirement system.
All employees had to submit a form with their decision to the district by March 27.
What is the Teacher Retirement System?
The Teacher Retirement System is a partially government-funded program for Texas public school employees.
For a public school employee to be eligible for retirement, they must meet one of the following conditions:
• Must be 65 years old with at least five years of service credit, or
• Meet the Rule of 80 (employee’s age and years of service credit total at least 80) and have at least five years of service credit.
Since then, the district has already rehired some employees in similar roles, such as Olayinka Moore-Ojo, executive director of Early Learning and Marta Plata, executive director of Student & Family Experience. Both are working in similar roles in the departments before the program change.
What will the new administration look like?
Under Ramsey’s vision, the staffing at the administrative level in the district will be slimmed down, but still proportionate to the needs of the declining student population.
For example, 36% of the district’s student population is emergent bilingual, which means the Multilingual Education Department will need more people than others, she said.
One department that will be downsized is Fine Arts, Ramsey said. The department used to have an executive director and three directors — the executive director salary was $138,611 and the director salary was $93,047.
Now, the department will have a director and three coordinators, Ramsey said.
“It was just consolidation and a reduction of the layers,” she said.
More changes on the horizon
The current program changes are just phase one of Ramsey’s plans; she expects more cuts in the upcoming years like those with one or two-year contracts.
The district will also have to determine how to spend its remaining ESSER dollars — pandemic funds districts received from the federal government — that must be spent by Sept. 30, 2024, Upcoming staffing will relfect where support is needed the most, Ramsey said. More divisions will be audited over the next few years, Ramsey said.
“We have to get that outside perspective to try to wrap our arms around to really continue making sure we right size and we are nimble enough and we exist to provide service to our schools,” she said.
Now, she said, the district’s main hiring focus is trying to get a certified teacher in every classroom.
As of the May 9 school board meeting, the district had 160 vacancies for teachers. The highest need is special education, which has 39 openings.
“They’re working really hard and we just want to be respectful of the human impact of a reorganization,” Ramsey said.
Kristen Barton is an education reporter for the Fort Worth Report. Contact her at kristen.barton@fortworthreport.org. At the Fort Worth Report, news decisions are made independently of our board members and financial supporters. Read more about our editorial independence policy here. | 2023-05-27T04:28:51+00:00 | fortworthreport.org | https://fortworthreport.org/2023/05/26/almost-all-employees-asked-to-resign-in-fort-worth-isd-intend-to-reapply-for-jobs-in-the-district/ |
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The integrated energy and sustainability advisory company significantly expands its geographic footprint to 22 European countries
LONDON and IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global energy and sustainability advisory firm Edison Energy (DBA in Europe as Altenex Energy) today announced that it has acquired the international energy and sustainability consultancy Alfa Energy Ltd., as part of its ongoing efforts to expand its impact and offerings to clients and partners.
The two entities are coming together to help the world's largest and middle-market corporate, industrial and institutional clients set and meet robust sustainability commitments and navigate the choices and opportunities that are emerging from the global transition to a net-zero future.
Based in the UK and with a Pan-European presence, Alfa Energy has worked with some of the world's largest organizations to procure and manage their energy as they seek ways to meet their energy, sustainability, and technology needs.
Alfa Energy has been a trusted Edison Energy partner for more than seven years, creating strong relationships among the organizations' leaders and team members through their mutual engagement with clients.
"With more global clients seeking ways to decarbonize their operations, the time is right for Edison Energy to expand its platform across the Atlantic, with service to 22 European countries," said Oded J. Rhone, CEO of Edison Energy. "During this time of turmoil in the energy markets, customers' needs are rapidly evolving. The combined capabilities of Edison and Alfa more fully position us to help our clients set and meet their energy and sustainability commitments in a timely and thorough manner."
As Edison Energy and Alfa Energy become one global company, its combined experience and expertise, technological capabilities and local market intelligence will allow the advisory firm to help organizations achieve their strategic, financial, and energy and sustainability goals.
"Alfa Energy has made a significant service contribution to commercial and industrial clients in the UK and Europe," said Damir Ahmovic, Alfa Energy CEO. "By joining forces with Edison Energy - which has been our long-term partner in the delivery of services to global accounts - that dream is now a reality. A sustainability agenda demands systemic decarbonization. The enhanced deliverables of the combined company will position us to help our clients navigate their way towards a better future.''
"Decarbonization is a strategy that must be implemented at a global scale," said Hannah Badrei, Ph.D., Vice President of Edison's Energy Supply Advisory. "In highly volatile commodity markets, our global clients are seeking integrated energy risk management and procurement solutions that are sustainable and resilient. The integration of our companies will help our clients achieve these goals."
Edison Energy LLC (DBA in Europe as Altenex Energy) is a global energy and sustainability advisory firm that helps large corporate, industrial, and institutional clients better navigate the choices, opportunities, and risks that are emerging from the transition to a net-zero future. For more information visit https://www.edisonenergy.com/
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ATLANTA (AP) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says she is resigning effective June 30.
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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Arqit Quantum Inc. f/k/a Centricus Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ARQQ, ARQQW, CENH, CENHU, CENHW): (i) between September 7, 2021 and April 18, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) all holders of Centricus securities as of the record date for the special meeting of shareholders held on August 31, 2021 to consider approval of the merger between Arqit and Centricus (the "Merger") and entitled to vote on the Merger, of the important July 5, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline in the securities class action commenced by the Firm.
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DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period and in the Proxy Statement issued in connection to the Merger made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose: (1) Arqit's proposed encryption technology would require widespread adoption of new protocols and standards of for telecommunications; (2) British cybersecurity officials questioned the viability of Arqit's proposed encryption technology in a meeting in 2020; (3) the British government was not an Arqit customer but, rather, providing grants to Arqit; (4) Arqit had little more than an early-stage prototype of its encryption system at the time of the Merger; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s railway network ground to a crawl on Wednesday after 40,000 staff walked off the job in a dispute over jobs, pay and working conditions. Train companies said only about a fifth of services across the country were due to run.
The 24-hour strike by cleaners, signalers, maintenance workers and station staff comes a month after the country’s most disruptive rail walkout in three decades brought trains to a halt across the U.K at the start of the summer holiday season.
The dispute centers on pay, working conditions and job security as Britain’s railways struggle to adapt to travel and commuting habits changed — perhaps forever — by the coronavirus pandemic. There were almost 1 billion train journeys in the U.K. in the year to March, compared to 1.7 billion in the 12 months before the pandemic, and rail companies are looking to cut costs and staffing after two years in which emergency government funding kept them afloat.
Negotiations aimed at resolving the dispute are deadlocked. The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers says employers’ latest pay offer falls short amid soaring inflation — currently at 9.4% — and the worst cost of living crisis in decades.
It accuses the Conservative government of preventing train companies from making a better offer. The government says it is not directly involved in the dispute pitting the union against privately owned train-operating companies and the government-operated Network Rail infrastructure firm.
RMT general secretary Mick Lynch said the union “will continue to negotiate in good faith, but we will not be bullied or cajoled by anyone.”
“The government need to stop their interference in this dispute so the rail employers can come to a negotiated settlement with us,” he said.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps accused union leaders of “trying to cause as much disruption as possible to the day-to-day lives of millions of hardworking people around the country.”
He said the strike had been “cynically timed” to disrupt a semi-final of the European women’s soccer tournament on Wednesday in Milton Keynes, north of London, and the opening of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Thursday.
The union staged three one-day strikes last month that stopped services across much of the country.
More strikes are planned for Saturday, when train drivers are set to walk out, and on three days in August.
It’s turning out to be a summer of travel disruption, in Britain and around the world. Air travelers in many countries are facing delays and disruption as airports struggle to cope with staff shortages and skyrocketing demand for flights after two pandemic-hit years.
Truck drivers and Britons heading off on holiday by ferry faced hours-long waits at the port of Dover over the weekend amid delays caused by Brexit and a shortage of French border officials.
Britain’s Conservative government has put blame for the rail strikes squarely on the union, and has changed the law to make it easier for employers to recruit contract staff to do strikers’ jobs.
Polls suggest public opinion is split, with many people expressing sympathy for the rail workers.
“The workers have a right to strike,” said commuter Fabrice Kabamba at London’s Waterloo station. “As an employee myself, struggling to pay bills, I can sympathize with them.”
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Trailblazer was a word used by many to mourn the passing of actor Nichelle Nichols, who died Saturday at age 89. Nichols broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original “Star Trek” television series, and paved the way not just for future television actors of color but astronauts as well. Tributes from fellow actors poured in on social media Sunday. Her “Star Trek” co-star George Takei said he would have more to say soon but that his heart is heavy. Celia Rose Gooding, who plays Uhura on the current “Star Trek” wrote that, “She made room for so many of us.
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“I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Nichelle. She was a beautiful woman & played an admirable character that did so much for redefining social issues both here in the US & throughout the world. I will certainly miss her. Sending my love and condolences to her family.” — William Shatner, “Star Trek” co-star, via Twitter.
“A remarkable woman in a remarkable role. Nichelle, you will be deeply missed. Sending much love and respect.” — J.J. Abrams, who directed 2009’s “Star Trek” reboot and its 2013 follow-up “Star Trek Into Darkness,” on Twitter.
“I shall have more to say about the trailblazing, incomparable Nichelle Nichols, who shared the bridge with us as Lt. Uhura of the USS Enterprise, and who passed today at age 89. For today, my heart is heavy, my eyes shining like the stars you now rest among, my dearest friend.” — George Takei, Nichols’ “Star Trek” co-star who played Sulu, on Twitter.
“She made room for so many of us. She was the reminder that not only can we reach the stars, but our influence is essential to their survival. Forget shaking the table, she built it.” — Celia Rose Gooding, who plays Uhura on “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” on Twitter.
“Nichelle Nichols was The First. She was a trailblazer who navigated a very challenging trail with grit, grace, and a gorgeous fire we are not likely to see again. May she Rest In Peace.” — Kate Mulgrew, “Star Trek: Voyager” cast member, on Twitter.
“Before we understood how much #RepresentationMatters #NichelleNichols modeled it for us. With her very presence & her grace she shone a light on who we as people of color are & inspired us to reach for our potential. Rest well glittering diamond in the sky.” — Wilson Cruz, “Star Trek: Discovery” actor, on Twitter.
“Our nation is forever indebted to inspiring artists like Nichelle Nichols, who show us a future where unity, dignity, and respect are cornerstones of every society.” – President Joe Biden, statement from the White House.
“Many actors become stars, but few stars can move a nation. Nichelle Nichols showed us the extraordinary power of Black women and paved the way for a better future for all women in media. Thank you, Nichelle. We will miss you.” — Lynda Carter, “Wonder Woman” star, on Twitter.
“Godspeed to Nichelle Nichols, champion, warrior and tremendous actor. Her kindness and bravery lit the path for many. May she forever dwell among the stars.” — Stacey Abrams, politician, on Twitter.
“Nichelle Nichols told us that we belonged in outer space. We are limitless. The heavens have gained an Uhura today.” — Colman Domingo, actor, on Twitter.
“My love for the original Star Trek is profound. Nichelle Nichols was a ground-breaker and a glorious ambassador for her show, her role and science all her life. And a truly lovely person. May she have a wonderful adventure to the final frontier.” — Jason Alexander, actor, on Twitter.
“Nichelle was a singular inspiration. She’s the one who really opened my eyes to what ‘Star Trek’ is and can be. I can’t tell you how many people have told me she’s the reason they became… an astronaut, a scientist, a writer, a linguist, an engineer… it goes on and on. We stand in her light and honor her today and every day. Thank you, dear Nichelle, for leading the way.” — Alex Kurtzman, the executive producer in charge of the Star Trek Universe, via Twitter. | 2022-08-01T15:24:58+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/entertainment/ap-entertainment/star-trek-alums-more-react-to-death-of-nichelle-nichols/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Kellen Amos had 22 points to lead Central Connecticut to a 58-42 victory over Long Island University on Sunday.
Amos shot 9 for 19 from the floor with three 3-pointers for the Blue Devils (5-16, 3-4 Northeast Conference). Andre Snoddy finished with 13 points and added 13 rebounds.
Jacob Johnson had 12 points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals to lead the Sharks (2-18, 0-8), who have lost eight straight. Marko Maletic added 10 points.
NEXT UP
These two teams both play Thursday. Cent. Conn. St. hosts Merrimack while LIU visits Sacred Heart.
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The gift also permanently endows S. Kent Rockwell Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and S. Kent Rockwell Professorship of Entrepreneurship.
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa., Oct. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Morris University announced on Friday an $18 million gift from the S. Kent Rockwell Foundation and the Kent Rockwell family, the largest personal gift in the university's history and a tremendous investment in entrepreneurial and business education.
The gift, which was announced during the inauguration ceremony of President Michelle L. Patrick, names Robert Morris University's business school the Rockwell School of Business. RMU is already home to the S. Kent Rockwell Fellowship for Entrepreneurship, a two-year program for juniors and seniors designed to support students who are building entrepreneurial ventures and initiatives by providing a rich environment of knowledge, practice, coaching, and opportunity. This program, along with the newly established S. Kent Rockwell Professorship Entrepreneurship, are both endowed as part of the Rockwell gift.
"This is a transformational moment for Robert Morris University," said President Patrick, former dean of the school. "With this gift, the Rockwell family has tied its legacy to ours and propelled our institution into its next century. Inspired and enabled by their generosity, we will continue to cultivate the spirit of entrepreneurship in everything we do and change the lives of our students for generations to come."
The Rockwell School of Business is Robert Morris University's founding academic school rooted in the institution's beginning as a school of accountancy in 1921. Today the school serves almost a third of the graduate and undergraduate students at RMU. "We have been thrilled by the results of our work with RMU in creating the S. Kent Rockwell Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and are excited to be expanding our commitment to the university and its students starting with the Rockwell School of Business," said S. Kent Rockwell, chairman of the S. Kent Rockwell Foundation. "We believe the spirit of entrepreneurship moves us forward and has the potential to change the world for the better. Our partnership with RMU creates new opportunities that will ensure that its graduates continue to bring this spirit to their businesses, their careers, and their communities."
The S. Kent Rockwell Foundation aims to improve four general areas of philanthropic endeavor: conservation, education, community, and entrepreneurship and innovation. Located in Pittsburgh, PA, the foundation is particularly interested in allocating efforts to environmental improvement programs that can provide a positive impact on communities, educational systems and individual efforts and goals such as entrepreneurship and innovation.
"Robert Morris University embraces a culture of entrepreneurship not just within the business school, but across the entire institution," President Patrick said. "Like the Rockwell family, we believe that the spirit of entrepreneurship and the embrace of innovative new ideas can change the world. We're grateful for this generous gift from the S. Kent Rockwell Foundation and the many opportunities it will help create for our students."
Robert Morris University is a nationally ranked doctoral-granting university enrolling approximately 3,700 undergraduate and graduate students in more than 100 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. RMU offers fully online courses as well as a traditional residential college experience at its campus on 230 scenic acres 17 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. The Colonials compete in 15 NCAA Division I sports including basketball, football, volleyball, and lacrosse.
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Florida judge to hear arguments on state's new abortion law
Tallahassee, Fla. — Reproductive health providers have asked a state court in Florida to block a new law limiting abortion from taking effect on Friday, arguing that the state constitution guarantees a broad right to privacy including abortion.
Planned Parenthood is among those seeking a temporary emergency injunction to stop the law approved this year by Florida's Republican-controlled legislature and governor. A Florida synagogue also sued, saying the government intrusion violates the privacy rights and religious freedoms of Jewish women.
A judge set a hearing for 9 a.m. Monday in Tallahassee, days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that abortion has no basis in the U.S. Constitution.
Florida currently allows abortions up to 24 weeks. The new law prohibits abortions beyond 15 weeks except to save the life or prevent physical harm to the pregnant woman, or in cases of a fatal fetal abnormality. It mirrors the Mississippi law that conservative justices used to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Violators could face up to five years in prison. Physicians or other medical professionals could lose their licenses and face administrative fines of $10,000 for each violation.
“The ban is blatantly unconstitutional under the state constitution,” the ACLU of Florida, which is representing the plaintiffs, said in a statement.
Florida voters in 1980 amended the state constitution to guarantee a broad right of privacy, which includes the right to abortion, the abortion providers said in court papers.
In 2012, Florida voters reaffirmed the right to privacy by rejecting a ballot initiative that would have weakened its protections and would have prohibited state courts from interpreting the Florida Constitution to provide stronger protection for abortion than federal law, they said.
“Despite Florida’s history of protecting the right to abortion, the Florida legislature recently engaged in a brazen attempt to override the will of the Florida people,” the abortion providers said.
The state asked the judge to reject the request. In court papers, the state argued that abortion providers don’t have standing to make a claim of a personal right to privacy since they are acting as third parties on behalf of their patients, and failed to show they will suffer “irreparable harm” if the injunction isn’t granted.
"Doctors are not irreparably harmed simply because they cannot perform a procedure prohibited by state law,” attorneys for the state of Florida said. | 2022-06-27T15:19:22+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/27/florida-judge-hear-arguments-states-new-abortion-law/7744402001/ |
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
2-5-0
(two, five, zero)
DETROIT (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Michigan Lottery's "Daily 3" game were:
2-5-0
(two, five, zero) | 2022-05-31T01:11:24+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-3-game-17208437.php |
The University of Idaho plans to demolish the off-campus home where four of its students were killed in November.
"This is a healing step and removes the physical structure where the crime that shook our community was committed," said University of Idaho President Scott Green in a memo on Friday.
The announcement comes as the university and the community of Moscow, Idaho, continue to mourn the four deceased students: Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves. On Nov. 13, shortly before the holidays, the students were found dead in a house located on King Street.
The case initially bewildered the local authorities in the small college town for weeks. On Dec. 30, seven weeks after the tragic incident, officials arrested 28-year-old Bryan Christopher Kohberger, who is now facing murder charges. As more details are revealed about Kohberger, who has yet to enter a plea, the university is planning a memorial garden for the four slain students.
President Green said in the statement that the University of Idaho accepted an offer from the owner of the off-campus home to give the property to the school following the killings. Demolition, Green said, "removes efforts to further sensationalize the crime scene."
In addition to the memorial garden plans, the university said it's working out how to involve students on "the future development of the property" once the home is demolished.
The university said it has also created a scholarship programs in memory of Kenodle, Chapin and Mogen, and intends to create another for the fourth victim, Goncalves.
"We will never forget Xana, Ethan, Madison and Kaylee, and I will do everything in my power to protect their dignity and respect their memory," Green wrote.
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The Inflation Reduction Act includes a number of provisions to tackle climate change and health care costs. But whether it really fights inflation is less clear.
Copyright 2022 NPR
The Inflation Reduction Act includes a number of provisions to tackle climate change and health care costs. But whether it really fights inflation is less clear.
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This is the moment that made Philadelphia 76ers fans sick.
It’s the moment the James Harden trade became worth the hassle. The moment potential crystallized into reality.
For the second game in a row, embattled star forward Ben Simmons one-upped himself.
After missing the entire 2021-22 NBA season, undergoing offseason back surgery, then dealing with a swollen left knee, Simmons is finally playing with a burst. He is sprinting, leaping, dunking and defending, not to mention playmaking, the five things the Nets have needed from him to tie together a championship caliber roster.
“[He was] incredible,” Kevin Durant said of Simmons after the Nets’ 109-107 win Thursday night over the Portland Trail Blazers. “Just happy for him because he’s been trying to get his form back, trying to figure his rhythm out, and tonight I think he did a good job of just talking up, commanding the offense, commanding the team on the defensive side of the ball.
“He was incredible tonight and we want to keep building on that, and hopefully we get this next one [against the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday], but he controlled the game and was able to get us back into it.”
For the second game in a row, Simmons, who wouldn’t even look at the rim, let alone attempt to score earlier in the season, has scored in double figures.
After scoring 11 points in the Nets’ 32-point loss to the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday, Simmons played his best game as a Net in Thursday’s victory over the Blazers: He played a season-high 32 minutes. He scored 15 points. He made all six of his shot attempts. He grabbed 13 rebounds, dished seven assists and only turned the ball over once. He even made three of his four free throw attempts. After starting the season in a limited capacity, oftentimes sitting on the bench behind Nic Claxton to close games, Simmons played the star role, alongside Kevin Durant, playing critical late-game minutes to help deliver a win.
For the first time all season, Simmons’ impact on the court matched the reputation that has long preceded him. For the first time all season, he looked and played like the second-best player on the floor, even outplaying Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard, who shot 8-of-24 from the field for his 25 points. The Nets outscored the Trail Blazers by 13 in Simmons’ 32 minutes on the floor, the game’s second-highest plus-minus behind Durant (plus-15).
On one possession, Simmons grabbed a defensive rebound, rifled the ball upcourt to Royce O’Neale, then darted up the floor, got the ball back in stride and euro-stepped around Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic to finish at the rim with his right hand. Shortly after, Jacque Vaughn drew up an out-of-bounds play that led to Simmons flushing an inbounds alley-oop with two hands off a pass from under the rim. And then Simmons caught his second alley-oop, this time on a dime from Durant, who beat his man off the dribble forcing the help to come from Simmons before throwing a lob over the help for Simmons to finish with two hands.
That’s only the scoring. Simmons used his combination of court vision and athleticism to create open looks for his teammates all night. Off defensive rebounds, he’s a threat to pull a Kevin Love — like the full-court outlet pass he threw to Durant, who euro-stepped around a defender to dunk in transition. Simmons uses his speed to put pressure on the rim, then redirects his attention to an open shooter, like how he found O’Neale for a transition three in the second quarter. He’s still a threat in the dribble handoff, giving up the ball then using his size and strength to screen a defender, giving Durant a bit of daylight to get to the rack. And then, of course, there’s just the natural talent: the no-look dime in transition to Yuta Watanabe who hit a three in the fourth quarter that gave the Nets a 97-95 lead they never gave back.
“It’s very encouraging,” Vaughn said postgame. “The most minutes he’s played. Really responded well. Had a few combinations with Nic, without Nic, pushing the basketball, [playing] as a screener, so kind of what we envisioned: him doing everything for us. The defensive versatility of guarding Nurkic and guarding Damian Lillard. A lot people can’t do that, and if we can continue to grow with him and understand him, his game, how he benefits, with who, it’s very encouraging.”
This is the moment Sixers fans never wanted the Nets to have — and it’s a moment some weren’t sure would come.
Simmons had a slow start to the season. So slow, Harlem-born rapper Cam’Ron cursed him out on Instagram live for airballing a layup against the Dallas Mavericks. So slow, his teammate Kyrie Irving went viral for yelling “Shoot it, Ben!” after diming Simmons, who then declined to shoot. So slow there are reports as recent as Nov. 16 suggesting the Nets — players, coaches and executives — were frustrated with Simmons’ play style and his availability patterns.
“People make it seem like I had a sprained ankle or something,” Simmons said after the game. “I had back surgery. That’s not easy to come back from. So I take it day by day. I stay locked in. I stay focused and continue to build myself, my body and my game.”
This is the moment that makes it all worth it. It’s the moment Simmons officially takes shape as the piece that connects this roster together. And with Irving set to return from his suspension for Sunday’s game against the, it’s the moment for the Nets to build on.
It’s the moment Simmons officially arrived.
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- Acquisition Adds Deuruxolitinib, a Potential Best-in-Class Oral JAK Inhibitor for the Treatment of Alopecia Areata, to Sun Pharma's Global Dermatology Portfolio
MUMBAI, India and PRINCETON, N.J., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (Reuters: SUN.BO, Bloomberg: SUNP IN, NSE: SUNPHARMA, BSE: 524715 (together with its subsidiaries and/or associated companies, "Sun Pharma")) today announced the successful completion of its acquisition of Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company that is developing deuruxolitinib, a novel, deuterated, oral JAK1/2 inhibitor, for the potential treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe alopecia areata.
"We are excited to add deuruxolitinib, a late-stage, potential best-in-class treatment for alopecia areata, to our growing global dermatology portfolio and expand our presence in the Boston biotech hub," said Abhay Gandhi, CEO North America, Sun Pharma. "By bringing together Concert's talented team with Sun Pharma's global reach and commercial capabilities, this acquisition is an opportunity to bring deuruxolitinib to market globally and make a meaningful difference to alopecia areata patients around the world."
Sun Pharma's tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Concert's common stock for (i) $8.00 per share in cash, subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest (the "Common Cash Amount"), plus (ii) one non-transferable contingent value right (each, a "CVR") per share (the "Common CVR Amount" and together with the Common Cash Amount, the "Offer Price"), subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, which represents the contractual right to receive contingent payments of up to $3.50 per share, in cash, in the aggregate, subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, upon the achievement of certain milestones described below prior to December 31, 2029, expired one minute after 11:59 p.m. New York City time on Friday, March 3, 2023. The depositary for the tender offer has advised that, as of the expiration of the tender offer, a total of 48,220,511 shares of Concert's common stock were validly tendered and not withdrawn in the tender offer, which represent approximately 75.2% of the total number of shares of Concert's outstanding common stock.
Following the acceptance of the tendered shares, Sun Pharma completed the acquisition of Concert through the merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Pharma with and into Concert in which (i) each share of Concert's common stock not tendered into the offer (other than shares (a) held in Concert's treasury, (b) owned by Sun Pharma, any subsidiary of Sun Pharma or any subsidiary of Concert or (c) shares held by Concert stockholders who properly demanded appraisal for their shares under Delaware law) was converted into the right to receive the Offer Price and (ii) each share of Concert's Series X1 Preferred Stock (other than shares (a) held in Concert's treasury or (b) shares held by Concert stockholders who properly demanded appraisal for their shares under Delaware law) was converted into the right to receive (1) the Common Cash Amount multiplied by 1,000, in cash, subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, plus (2) the Common CVR Amount multiplied by 1,000, subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, which represents the right to receive contingent payments of up to $3.50 per CVR, in cash, in the aggregate, subject to any applicable withholding of taxes and without interest, upon the achievement of certain milestones prior to December 31, 2029. As a result of the merger, Concert became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun Pharma. The common stock of Concert will no longer be listed for trading on the Nasdaq Global Market.
For additional background on the acquisition, please read the announcement press release here.
About Deuruxolitinib and Alopecia Areata
Deuruxolitinib is an investigational oral selective inhibitor of Janus kinases JAK1 and JAK2. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently maintained Breakthrough Therapy designation for deuruxolitinib for the treatment of adult patients with moderate to severe alopecia areata and previously granted Fast Track designation for deuruxolitinib for the treatment of alopecia areata.
Alopecia areata is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks hair follicles, resulting in partial or complete loss of hair on the scalp and body. Alopecia areata may affect up to 2.5% of the United States and global population during their lifetime.1,2,3 The scalp is the most commonly affected area, but any hair-bearing site can be affected alone or together with the scalp. Onset of the disease can occur throughout life and affects both women and men. Alopecia areata can be associated with serious psychological consequences, including anxiety and depression. There are currently limited treatment options available for alopecia areata.
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References:
- Benigno M. A Large Cross-Sectional Survey Study of the Prevalence of Alopecia Areata in the United States, Clinical, Cosmetic and Investigational Dermatology 2020.
- Lee HH et al. Epidemiology of alopecia areata, ophiasis, totalis, and universalis: A systematic review and meta-analysis, J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Mar; 82(3):675-682.
- Fricke et al. Epidemiology and burden of alopecia areata: a systematic review, Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol. 2015 Jul 24;8:397-403.)
About Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (CIN - L24230GJ1993PLC019050)
Sun Pharma is the world's fourth largest specialty generic pharmaceutical company and India's top pharmaceutical company. A vertically integrated business and a skilled team enables it to deliver high-quality products, trusted by customers and patients in over 100 countries across the world, at affordable prices. Its global presence is supported by manufacturing facilities spread across six continents and approved by multiple regulatory agencies, coupled with a multi-cultural workforce comprising over 50 nationalities. Sun Pharma fosters excellence through innovation supported by strong R&D capabilities across multiple R&D centers, with investments of approximately 6% of annual revenues in R&D. For further information, please visit www.sunpharma.com and follow us on Twitter @SunPharma_Live.
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Paris Hilton becomes a first-time mom to baby boy
By The Associated Press
Socialite and reality TV star Paris Hilton has welcomed her first child with her husband, venture capitalist Carter Reum.
Hilton took to Instagram on Tuesday and posted a photo that seems to show the 41-year-old new mom holding her baby boy’s tiny hand.
“You are already loved beyond words,” she wrote, adding a blue heart emoji.
The heiress did not say when her baby was born or provide further details, including a name.
“It’s always been my dream to be a mother and I’m so happy that Carter and I found each other. We are so excited to start our family together and our hearts are exploding with love for our baby boy,” she told People magazine.
The baby boy is Hilton’s first child, while Reum shares a 10-year-old daughter with reality star Laura Bellizzi.
Best wishes flooded in from Hilton’s famous friends, including Kim Kardashian, Chrissy Teigen, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Lovato, Rosario Dawson, Poppy Delevingne, Ashley Tisdale, Naomi Campbell and Heidi Klum.
Teigen summed up their best wishes with: “Congratulations so happy for you both!!” | 2023-01-25T15:05:21+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/2023/01/25/paris-hilton-becomes-a-first-time-mom-to-baby-boy/ |
Driver in California cliff crash that injured 4 charged
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — The driver of a car that plunged off a treacherous cliff in northern California, seriously injuring himself, his wife and their two young children, was charged Monday with attempted murder.
Dharmesh A. Patel, 41, also faces enhancements for great bodily injury and domestic violence in the Jan. 2 crash, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said in a statement.
Patel was scheduled to be arraigned Monday. His attorney, Jose Bentley, did not immediately respond to a Monday email seeking comment.
The Pasadena man was seriously injured and taken to a hospital after the car went over the 250-foot (76-meter) cliff at Devil’s Slide, an area along the Pacific Coast Highway about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of San Francisco that is known for deadly wrecks. He was recently moved to a jail.
Rescuers initially hailed the family’s survival as a miracle. Firefighters had to cut open the Tesla Model Y to extract the family, including Patel’s 41-year-old wife, 7-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son.
Patel was later arrested after California Highway Patrol investigators “developed probable cause to believe this incident was an intentional act,” the agency said.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-30T23:42:07+00:00 | wbrc.com | https://www.wbrc.com/2023/01/30/driver-california-cliff-crash-that-injured-4-charged/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal grand jury has indicted an Arizona man on allegations he stalked and harassed a woman and her husband after she rejected his attempts at a romantic relationship about 20 years ago.
Prosecutors allege Patrick Kearney, 40, of Saddlebrook, Ariz., started targeting the couple as early as September 2019 because the woman rejected his advances when they went to college together in the early 2000s. The woman hadn't seen Kearney since then
Kearney made statements to the woman including ones that she should have died during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that she should eat poison, and that she should "go to hell," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana.
Prosecutors say Kearney repeatedly called the woman and left her messages that included profanity and insults. Additionally, he began harassing and threatening her husband after finding the couple's wedding website online.
Kearney made about 404 calls to the couple's phones and left at least 155 voicemails between October 2019 and September 2022, according to prosecutors.
On top of that, prosecutors say he mailed packages that contained insect poison and pornographic material.
Kearney made an initial appearance in a federal court in Arizona before he was transported to Indiana's southern district. He has been remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.
He is facing nine counts total, which include charges of stalking, transmitting threats via interstate communications and harassing telephone calls.
If convicted on all counts, Kearney could face a total maximum sentence of 27 years, plus a fine of up to $250,000 and up to three years of supervised release. | 2022-11-23T19:22:28+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/federal-jury-indicts-man-accused-of-repeatedly-stalking-harassing-indianapolis-couple |
An apartment building in Harrisburg that is being developed by former NFL football player, LeSean McCoy, Daphne McCoy and Vice Capital now has a name: Savoy.
The four-story apartment building is proposed for the site at 1520 N. Sixth St. across the street from new U.S. Federal Courthouse. The building would have 48 residential units. Ten of the units will be for affordable housing. There will be commercial space on the first floor with the apartments above. Forty-four parking spaces are proposed on the back side of the building on North Fifth street.
The land development plan and lot consolidation for the project was recommended by the city’s planning commission on Jan. 4 and still needs city council approval.
Jonathan Bowser, CEO of Steel Works Construction, the general contractor for the project, said the projected timeline includes demolition of the three buildings on the site beginning next month, construction to begin in the summer with the project completed in the fall of 2024.
The project site is comprised of 10 separate parcels totaling approximately 0.75 acres and includes two 2,600-square-foot three-story buildings at 1522 N. Sixth St and 1526 N. Sixth St. Both buildings were built in 1912. Also included is a 2,664-square-foot building at 1524 N. Sixth St. that was home to Carter’s Cut Rates, which later became Carter’s Variety Store and B Large Sound Effects. The business closed after 68 years on Feb. 18, 2022. All three buildings will be demolished.
- READ MORE: Take a look inside the new $192.7M, 243,000-square-foot U.S. federal courthouse in Harrisburg
Vice Capital said in its land development application that the cost of the project is $8 million and 80 people are expected to work in the construction portion of the project. The company also said the building will provide 20-full time living-wage jobs, 15 part-time jobs and would generate an estimated $70,000 a year in taxes.
You can follow Daniel Urie on twitter @DanielUrie2018 and you can like him on Facebook. | 2023-01-12T15:14:05+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/01/plans-moving-forward-for-lesean-mccoys-8m-central-pa-apartment-building.html |
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez have been reunited.
Fox Sports announced Sunday during its Super Bowl pregame show that Jeter will be part of the network’s studio coverage for the coming season.
Rodriguez hugged Jeter as he came on stage and presented him with a Fox Sports baseball jersey. Jeter, who was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2020, also joins fellow Hall of Famer David Ortiz and host Kevin Burkhardt as part of the studio team.
“I was on set at the World Series in Philadelphia and (David) Ortiz kept showing me his World Series rings. I figured I would join the team and humble him a little bit,” Jeter joked.
Jeter and Rodriguez were teammates on the New York Yankees for 10 seasons, but their relationship wasn’t close. The two were good friends early on during their big league careers, but Jeter acknowledged during his ESPN documentary series “The Captain” last year that they had grown apart after comments Rodriguez made in a 2001 interview with Esquire magazine.
Rodriguez credited Jeter’s teammates for the Yankees’ run of four World Series championships in five years from 1996-2000.
The two, though, have seemed to put things behind them.
Jeter — who won five championships during his 20-year career with the Yankees — said last season during Rodriguez’s ESPN show, “Sunday Night Baseball,” that the two had met to talk and clear things up.
Jeter was part of the Miami Marlins’ ownership group for 4 1/2 years and was baseball’s first Black CEO. He resigned last February.
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Top Massachusetts lawmakers on Thursday announced a plan that would send taxpayers a one-time $250 rebate by the end of September to help offset rising costs, a long-awaited response to calls for tax relief on Beacon Hill.
House Speaker Ronald Mariano and Senate President Karen E. Spilka, both Democrats, said in a statement that the Legislature intends to take up the proposal, which would have to pass both branches before formal sessions end on July 31.
Dubbed the Taxpayer Energy and Economic Relief Fund, the proposal would provide one-time rebates by Sept. 30, with $250 going to taxpayers who file an individual return and $500 for married taxpayers, according to legislators. Those eligible would have to have reported a minimum of $38,000 in 2021 income, and not more than $100,000 for individual filers or $150,000 for joint filers.
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A Senate official estimated the package would cost between $500 million and $510 million, and could be paid for by an expected multibillion budget surplus from the fiscal year that ended June 30.
“Whether it is the rising price of gas, groceries, or summer clothes for kids, the Massachusetts Legislature has heard loud and clear that increased costs due to inflation have cut into family budgets,” Spilka and Mariano said in a joint statement with the Legislature’s two budget chiefs, state Representative Aaron Michlewitz and Senator Michael J. Rodrigues.
“These rebates represent the Legislature’s commitment to delivering immediate financial relief directly to residents of the Commonwealth, rather than to large oil companies that continue to profit off economic uncertainty and international conflict,” the lawmakers said.
The legislative leaders said they also are considering wider changes to the the state’s tax code, saying they “recognize the need for structural change as well.”
The state is awash in extra cash at the moment. The Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a business-backed budget watchdog, projected Wednesday that lawmakers will have a nearly $3.6 billion budget surplus from the fiscal year that ended last week, an amount it called “historic.”
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That money also comes on top of $2.3 billion in federal stimulus money that the state has yet to spend.
Lawmakers have faced increasing pressure to move on taxpayer relief before their legislative ends this month, including from Governor Charlie Baker, who in January proposed his own $700 million package of tax breaks.
They have repeatedly rejected calls to suspend the state’s gas tax, arguing there’s no guarantee that oil companies would pass the savings onto to drivers at the pump.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Matt Stout can be reached at matt.stout@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @mattpstout. | 2022-07-07T18:35:10+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/07/metro/mass-lawmakers-pledge-250-checks-taxpayers/ |
OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), the parent company of Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company ("OG&E") today reported earnings of $1.31 per diluted share during the three months ended September 30, 2022, compared to $1.26 per diluted share in the same period in 2021.
- OG&E, a regulated electric utility, contributed earnings of $1.26 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared with earnings of $1.12 per diluted share in the third quarter 2021.
- Other operations, which includes the holding company, contributed a loss of $0.03 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared to a loss of $0.01 per diluted share in the third quarter 2021.
- Natural Gas Midstream Operations contributed earnings of $0.08 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared to earnings of $0.15 per diluted share in the third quarter 2021.
"We are sensitive to the impacts the inflationary environment is having on all of us, including our customers and the communities we serve. Our continued infrastructure investments and program offerings provide customers more reliable, resilient and secure electricity and allows them to better manage their energy usage and monthly bill," said Sean Trauschke, OGE Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO. "I'm proud of our employees and their commitment to provide our customers safe and reliable service during the extremely hot summer."
Third quarter 2022
OG&E contributed net income of $253.1 million, or $1.26 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared to $223.8 million, or $1.12 per diluted share, in the same period of 2021. The increase in net income was primarily due to higher operating revenues driven by warmer weather and revenues from the recovery of capital investments, partially offset by higher income tax expense and higher depreciation and amortization expense.
Other Operations resulted in a loss of $6.4 million, or $0.03 per diluted share in the third quarter compared to a loss of $2.1 million or $0.01 per diluted share in the same period of 2021. The increase in the net loss was due to higher income tax expense, primarily from the reversal of an interim period consolidating tax benefit that was recorded in the first quarter of 2022.
Natural Gas Midstream Operations contributed net income of $16.1 million, or $0.08 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared to net income of $30.8 million, or $0.15 per diluted share in the same period of 2021. The decrease in net income was impacted by the removal of equity in earnings of Enable, which was driven by the merger of Enable and Energy Transfer closing in December 2021 and partially offset by a gain on OGE Energy's investment in Energy Transfer's equity securities.
As of September 30, 2022, OGE Energy sold all 95.4 million Energy Transfer limited partner units acquired in the merger between Energy Transfer and Enable in December 2021. OGE Energy no longer has any ownership interest in Natural Gas Midstream Operations.
OGE Energy's net income was $262.8 million or $1.31 per diluted share in the third quarter, compared to earnings of $252.5 million or $1.26 per diluted share in the same period a year ago.
2022 Outlook
OG&E is projected to earn approximately $417.0 million to $425.0 million, or $2.08 to $2.12 per average diluted share, with a midpoint of $421.0 million, or $2.10 per average diluted share, in 2022. OG&E has significant seasonality in its earnings due to weather on a year over year basis. As indicated in its 2021 Form 10-K, OGE Energy did not issue guidance for its natural gas midstream operations segment and therefore did not issue 2022 consolidated earnings guidance. OGE Energy expects a loss of $2.0 million to $6.0 million, or $0.01 to $0.03 per average diluted share, at the holding company in 2022.
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OGE Energy Corp. will host a conference call for discussion of the results on Thursday, November 3, at 8 a.m. CDT. The conference will be available through the Investor Center at www.oge.com.
OGE Energy Corp. is the parent company of OG&E, a regulated electric utility with approximately 887,000 customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
Some of the matters discussed in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements are intended to be identified in this document by the words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "objective," "plan," "possible," "potential," "project," "target" and similar expressions. Actual results may vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: general economic conditions, including the availability of credit, access to existing lines of credit, access to the commercial paper markets, actions of rating agencies and inflation rates, and their impact on capital expenditures; the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to access the capital markets and obtain financing on favorable terms, as well as inflation rates and monetary fluctuations; the ability to obtain timely and sufficient rate relief to allow for recovery, including through securitization, of items such as capital expenditures, fuel and purchased power costs, operating costs, transmission costs and deferred expenditures; prices and availability of electricity, coal and natural gas; competitive factors, including the extent and timing of the entry of additional competition in the markets served by the Company; the impact on demand for services resulting from cost-competitive advances in technology, such as distributed electricity generation and customer energy efficiency programs; technological developments, changing markets and other factors that result in competitive disadvantages and create the potential for impairment of existing assets; factors affecting utility operations such as unusual weather conditions; catastrophic weather-related damage; unscheduled generation outages, unusual maintenance or repairs; unanticipated changes to fossil fuel, natural gas or coal supply costs or availability due to higher demand, shortages, transportation problems or other developments; environmental incidents; or electric transmission or gas pipeline system constraints; availability and prices of raw materials and equipment for current and future construction projects; the effect of retroactive pricing of transactions in the SPP markets or adjustments in market pricing mechanisms by the SPP; federal or state legislation and regulatory decisions and initiatives that affect cost and investment recovery, have an impact on rate structures or affect the speed and degree to which competition enters the Company's markets; environmental laws, safety laws or other regulations that may impact the cost of operations, restrict or change the way the Company's facilities are operated or result in stranded assets; changes in accounting standards, rules or guidelines; the discontinuance of accounting principles for certain types of rate-regulated activities; the cost of protecting assets against, or damage due to, terrorism or cyberattacks, including losing control of our assets and potential ransoms, and other catastrophic events; creditworthiness of suppliers, customers and other contractual parties, including large, new customers from emerging industries such as cryptocurrency; social attitudes regarding the utility, natural gas and power industries; identification of suitable investment opportunities to enhance shareholder returns and achieve long-term financial objectives through business acquisitions and divestitures; increased pension and healthcare costs; the impact of extraordinary external events, such as the pandemic health event resulting from COVID-19, and their collateral consequences; national and global events that could adversely affect and/or exacerbate macroeconomic conditions, including inflationary pressures, rising interest rates, supply chain disruptions, economic recessions and uncertainty surrounding continued hostilities or sustained military campaigns; costs and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements, investigations, claims and matters, including, but not limited to, those described in the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission; and other risk factors listed in the reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those listed within "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Note: Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income for OGE Energy Corp., Condensed Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income for Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company, and Financial and Statistical Data for Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company attached.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — Police launched 16 raids across Belgium's capital Friday as part of a probe into corruption and money laundering involving the European Union parliament and an unidentified Gulf country, the federal prosecutor’s office said.
Four people were detained for questioning, and investigators recovered around 600,000 euros ($633,500) in cash and seized computer equipment and mobile telephones during the Brussels raids, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The statement did not name the four but said one was a former member of the European Parliament.
The raids targeted in particular assistants working for EU lawmakers, the statement said. The EU assembly has 705 elected members from the bloc’s 27 member nations. Each lawmaker has a number of assistants.
Prosecutors said Belgium’s federal judicial police suspect the unidentified Gulf country of trying “to influence the economic and political decisions of the European Parliament.”
It said this was allegedly done “by paying large sums of money or offering large gifts to third parties with a significant political and/or strategic position within the European Parliament.”
The EU parliament’s press service declined to comment on the raids while an investigation was underway, but said the assembly was cooperating fully with Belgian police. | 2022-12-09T13:45:55+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Police-move-on-suspected-influence-peddling-at-EU-17642405.php |
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri man faces two charges in relation to a shooting at a Kansas City park that critically injured a man playing in a disc golf tournament over the weekend.
Osman Ali Igal, 21, is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
Court documents state officers with the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department, responded to a shooting scene at around 2 p.m. on Saturday.
When they arrived, they found the man, whose family members identified as Jake Riley, suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower back. He was transported to an area hospital in critical condition.
Witnesses described Igal to police at the scene.
A police sergeant later spotted Igal in the area. He allegedly began running away from the police with a gun in his hand.
The sergeant told Igal to drop the gun and stop running, and he complied. He was taken into custody.
Detectives interviewed several witnesses who said Igal allegedly began following them while they were participating in the final round of the Kansas City Flying Disc Challenge.
Igal later allegedly shot several times, striking Riley.
Detectives showed the witnesses several photos, and they all identified Igal as the suspect.
Tournament director Michael Krueger had been at a different location when the shooting happened and canceled the remaining rounds at Kessler Park Saturday.
"Who would ever think whenever there's a park full of 100 people, that somebody would pull a gun and just shoot somebody randomly," Krueger said.
Family members of Riley have started a GoFundMe page, which has already raised more than $10,000 as of Monday evening.
"We're also going to collect money for him to try to help with medical bills, rehabilitation, food, housing, all that kind of stuff that you need when you're unable to work," Krueger said.
Krueger said some players decided not to continue in the tournament Sunday and were understandably shaken, especially after last week's shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas.
"It's scary, it happened at Kessler Park, but it could happen at an elementary school, it could happen at a high school," Krueger said.
Krueger said he wants to see more investment by the city into Kessler Park and Blue Valley Park to make them safer, including getting more park rangers.
"It's a wonderful land. They're in economically depressed areas, I get that, but we should as a city be able to provide a safe place for people to go and throw frisbees, and they shouldn't have to fear getting shot or getting robbed or something like that," Krueger said.
He said he wouldn't hold any more tournaments at Kessler Park until he sees changes to make it safer.
David Medina and Emma James at KSHB first reported this story. | 2022-06-01T23:12:10+00:00 | ktvq.com | https://www.ktvq.com/news/national/man-charged-in-disc-golf-tournament-shooting-at-missouri-park |
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While Martin Sheen says his name is still legally Ramon Estévez, he regrets changing it for his career.
The "West Wing" start talked to Closer Weekly about adopting his stage name.
"That's one of my regrets. I never changed my name officially," he said. "It's still Ramon Estévez on my birth certificate."
His legal name is also on his marriage license, passport and driver's license, he added.
"Sometimes you get persuaded when you don't have enough insight or even enough courage to stand up for what you believe in, and you pay for it later," he said. "But, of course, I'm only speaking for myself."
His two sons who are actors split the difference when it came to the family name - Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estévez.
The elder Sheen/ Estévez told the publication he wasn't even aware at the time that his sons had interest in his industry as he was too busy focusing on his own career to try and provide for his family.
"The only influence I had on Emilio was to keep his name," he said. "When he started out, his agent was advising him to change his name to Sheen and he wouldn't do it. And I thank God he didn't."
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A popcorn shortage might be just around the corner
(CNN) - In the wake of a record-breaking Memorial Day weekend thanks to “Top Gun: Maverick,” movie theaters are facing a new dilemma – experts are worried a popcorn shortage could be around the corner.
A popcorn shortage could wreak havoc with movie theater profits as Hollywood prepares for more summer blockbusters.
The shortage is partially because farmers are growing less corn in favor of more profitable crops these days.
But shortages in other areas that impact theater popcorn are also at play. For example, suppliers are having trouble getting the lining used inside popcorn bags.
Everything from the bags, to the oil used to pop the corn, and the glue used for the boxes that hold that oil are at risk of supply chain issues.
Since theaters sell popcorn at a massive mark-up, they rely on it and other concessions for most of their profit margins.
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More than 7 million incorrect diagnoses made in US emergency rooms every year, government report finds
By Nadia Kounang, CNN
A new study finds that nearly 6% of the estimated 130 million people who go to US emergency rooms every year are misdiagnosed, which translates to about 1 in 18 patients getting the wrong diagnosis.
The report, published Thursday by the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reviewed nearly 300 studies published between January 2000 and September 2001. The researchers estimate that 7.4 million misdiagnosis errors are made every year, 2.6 million people receive a harm that could have been prevented, and another 370,000 are permanently disabled or die because of the misdiagnosis. This equates to about 1,400 diagnostic errors every year per emergency room across the country.
The researchers noted that these rates are on par with what is also seen in primary care and hospital inpatient settings.
The top five conditions that were misdiagnosed were:
- stroke
- myocardial infarction
- aortic aneurysm/dissection
- spinal cord compression/injury
- venous thromboembolism
These five conditions accounted for 39% of all serious misdiagnosis-related harms.
Stroke was missed 17% of the time, often because people reported symptoms of dizziness and vertigo. When they entered the ER, 40% of patients who had those two symptoms had their stroke missed initially.
Nonspecific or atypical symptoms were the strongest factor resulting in misdiagnosis, the study found. Women and people of color had a 20% to 30% increase in risk of being misdiagnosed.
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Genesis doesn’t make a supercar yet, but it’s easily among the speediest brands of luxury vehicles—if we’re talking about product pace. Not even a brand a decade ago, Hyundai’s upmarket label sports a trio of gas-powered sedans and a duo of gas-powered SUVs, along with a swell battery-electric original, the Genesis GV60.
It’s so intent on capturing drivers before their eyes wander to other brands, it’s jammed batteries into two of its best vehicles, too. The Electrified G80 sedan presents one prospect to folks who want to drive without petroleum; maybe the more intriguing conversion comes this spring in the form of the 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 SUV.
A rival for the Acura RDX and Alfa Romeo Stelvio when it drinks 91-octane, the GV70 sets its sights on the Tesla Model Y when it’s configured with the new battery pack that slides beneath its floor, twinned with electric motors at the front and back. Sold in 15 states, capable of 236 miles on a full charge, and rechargeable to 80% in under 20 minutes, the Electrified GV70 can’t steal Tesla’s long-range thunder or charging network—but, boy, does it trounce it in every other way.
Electrified Genesis GV70 style
In part that’s because the startling look of the GV70 hasn’t been touched a bit in the flip-flop from cylinders to motors. The GV70 wears a broad grille and slim LED headlights, and the Electrified model only changes the grille’s texture—it’s reversed so the lines are stamped in, and there’s a charge port cut out of it. More sculpted on its sides than the Model Y, the Genesis GV70 also executes its most controversial styling piece better: the Model Y’s porpoiselike rear end comes off bulbous, while the GV70’s AMC Pacer-style sloped roofline genuinely draws battle lines between friends and family. I’m not in the love-it column, but many people I respect adore the look. Controversy grabs attention, either way—and the Electrified GV70’s body-colored skid plates and five-blade wheels only add to the drama.
No need for controversy inside, where Genesis’ fabulous sense of style washes over the mostly unchanged cabin like the first waves of spring break. Clad in a new Glacier White tone, the oval-rich environment drops in a 14.5-inch touchscreen atop the pristinely fitted dash, slips in the right knobs and buttons amid the digital gauge cluster and touch-convenient controls, and trims it out with standard leather or nappa hides with quilting and a matching sueded headliner, supported by a matte-finish metallic trim.
Genesis Electrified GV70 battery charging
The design needed no changes, but perhaps the 300-hp turbo-4 or the 375-hp twin-turbo V-6 weren’t the ideal powertrains for a personal luxury shuttle so studiously shaped like a futuristic egg. Problem solved: by ripping out those amply powerful gas engines and all their ancillary gear, Genesis leaves behind room for a 1,063-pound, 77.4-kwh lithium-ion battery pack. It slides in beneath the SUV’s floor, bracketed by twin electric motors, good for a combined 429 hp and 516 lb-ft of torque under most circumstances. With motors spinning frantically but quietly, an indelicate stomp on the accelerator will generate 0-60 mph times of about 4.5 seconds.
For neighbors and others who need show-off moments and features, a discreet button on the low spoke of the steering wheel kicks in a Boost mode that spins out 483 hp in 10-second increments, great for passing malingerers, slowpokes, and their ilk.
Power comes cheap, but not cheaply enough to get Genesis the kind of 400-mile range ratings of a Tesla. Here, the brand promises 236 miles from a single full charge of the Electrified GV70’s battery—and that’s with the standard 20-inch wheels. Our test vehicle showed 209 miles available for use, and on a drive route through the north Georgia hills of about 120 miles, it consumed its energy at a rate of 2.5 miles per kwh. That’s decent efficiency, but nowhere near the 3.0 miles/kwh and above that a ground-up, big-battery model might generate.
What’s more mixed a signal is the Genesis charging solution: though it promises 60 miles or more from a 5-minute DC fast charge of 250 kw or above at a properly outfitted station, it’s supplying owners with three years of free charging at Electrify America stations, in 30-minute increments. Many EA users find well-maintained stations ready to put out more than 200 kw, but most of our editors have documented much slower output and faulty equipment. It’s bound to be a sore spot in the otherwise immaculate Genesis luxury experience. At home on a 240-volt outlet the GV70 will recharge in about seven hours.
As a side bonus, the GV70 can charge accessories such as laptops and small appliances from a cargo-area outlet.
Electrified GV70 driving: it can handle it
Our driving experiences in the twin-turbo GV70 have been uniformly positive—and more of the same lies in wait for drivers of the battery-electric version, with some mild differences.
In gas versions, the GV70 delivers a ride somewhere between billowy and buttoned-down; the Electrified GV70 battens down the looser ride motions, in part because it weighs a thousand pounds more and can mute some of the ride motions that might upset the lighter gas model. Outfitted with a strut-and-multilink suspension and adaptive damping that uses cameras to assess the road ahead and to program a pre-action, the Electrified GV70 also wears middle-ambition Michelin Primacy tires, 265/45R20s front and back. The car’s tuned with reasonably responsive if light steering, but the drive modes should be selected carefully.
I found myself setting it into Sport mode for acceleration, which left it lurching ever so slightly as motor power engaged and disengaged, and in Normal steering mode, which felt unpressed and not overly laden with useless weight. So configured, the electric SUV rounds about wide sweepers like a glider, aided and abetted by steering that responds to inputs with detached finesse. The body, more rigid thanks to the battery underneath, can deflect some road imperfections, but thin pavement seams and train tracks are an Achilles’ heel that resonate through the pretty body and into the cabin.
Genesis equips the Electrified GV70 with four-mode regenerative braking, and its one-pedal drive mode slowed it smoothly to a stop—a good thing, since in all it tips the scales at roughly 5,000 pounds. It can tow up to 3,500 pounds, same as the gas-powered model, but I wasn’t able to test that or its charging speeds.
Electrified GV70 space and technology
There’s very little noteworthy about the changes to the Electrified GV70’s interior space and safety features. It’s more of the same compared to the gas model, though I do wish the bottom-cushion bolster would stay inflated in other drive modes like it does in Sport mode. This model is fitted with more insulation and damping to cut down on whines and whistles that EVs send to the foreground—stuff that would be masked otherwise by engine and transmission sounds.
Every GV70, electric or not, comes with automatic emergency braking, active lane control, adaptive cruise control, and blind-spot monitors. On the options list are a blind-spot camera system that projects into the digital cluster, and a surround-view camera system with exceptional clarity.
On the interface front, a standard 14.5-inch touchscreen has redundant controls available on a center console dial, as well as via voice commands or steering-wheel controls. The interface isn’t as flat as some of Hyundai’s best setups, and the rotary controller on the console takes too much time to spin, click, and tap to access functions easily found through touch inputs that require less time spent with the driver’s eyes off the road. The biggest caveat is that the infotainment system, while it has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, delivers them through a wired connection.
Electrified GV70 price: more than gas
The 2023 Genesis Electrified GV70 electric SUV hails from Hyundai’s Alabama plant, but there is no discount for local assembly, or for friends, or for family. It costs at least $66,975, and while it qualifies for the electric-car tax credit, it may not qualify for all $7,500 that some buyers can claim, since its batteries are not made in the U.S., Canada, or Mexico. Count on a $3,750 credit when those tighter EV tax credit requirements are outlined and phased in.
It’s nearly $22,000 more than a gas-powered GV70, but the Electrified model does come with leather upholstery, 20-inch wheels, a panoramic sunroof, heated and cooled power front seats, and a power tailgate. It also comes with your choice of four colors, which range from a daring black, to two very daring grays, to a daring silver. Paired with a black interior, it’s practically a Goth kid. Pick the white interior if you want to live dangerously in the drive-through lane.
Genesis also upgrades the EGV70 to a $73,775 Prestige version with a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster, a microfiber suede headliner, nappa leather upholstery, a head-up display, heated second-row seats, a heated steering wheel, and a Lexicon premium audio system. All models come with a 5-year/60,000-mile warranty and 3 years/36,000 miles of free scheduled maintenance with concierge service and a loaner vehicle.
The Electrified GV70 marks an experiment for Genesis. Built in Montgomery, Alabama, it’s a sign of the future: Genesis plans U.S. production for a range of vehicles, and some likely will come from a vast new assembly plant Hyundai is building near Savannah, Georgia. By 2030, Genesis says it will have gone all-EV, from an all-gas lineup as recently as 2021. That’s nine years to change its direction completely. That’s not just speedy, that’s supercar-speedy.
Genesis put us up in an Atlanta hotel with great connectivity, a decent gym, and walkable coffee. It’s like they know us.
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WASHINTON (Nexstar) — The federal reserve announced another interest rate hike as part of ongoing efforts to lower inflation.
The move comes as the government is quickly approaching a point in which it could default on its debts and obligations, which the Federal Reserve chairman warns would be unprecedented.
“We have raised interest rates by five percentage points in a little less than a year,” Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said.
Powell announced another quarter point interest rate hike on Wednesday and says they have worked to cool down the housing and investment markets, which is helping to lower inflation.
“We are seeing other effects of our policies tightening on demand,” Powell said.
Inflation still hasn’t decreased to the target two percent mark, but the bigger economic concern is quickly becoming whether the United States government could default on its loans and obligations.
“We understand there is more work to do,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
In Congress, Republicans are blocking the government from raising the debt limit until Democrats agree to major spending cuts.
“The underlying cause of that inflation is, make no mistake, excessive federal spending. That’s why it would be so unwise so careless, so thoughtless, so reckless to increase the debt ceiling yet again,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said.
Indiana Republican Senator Mike Braun added, “you want to replace the real economy with the sugar high of more government.”
Meanwhile, Democrats accuse Republicans of playing games with the stability of the economy and say that if Republicans want spending cuts – which means cuts to programs — that issue should be legislated separately.
“We have less than a month to go until we get close to June first, every day wasted is another day closer to catastrophe,” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said. “A Republican default would crash the economy, increase costs, kill American jobs. Unemployment would rise to at least eight percent. Mortgage and car payments would go up by a lot.”
In his remarks Chair Powell warned that if the country does default, the Federal Reserve may not be able to do much to save the economy. | 2023-05-04T21:37:29+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/washington-dc/federal-reserve-announces-interest-rate-hike-as-default-looms/ |
A Minnesota man was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for his role in distributing drugs that led to the deaths of 11 people, the United States Attorney's Office announced.
"Eleven lives lost. Families, friends, and communities forever changed by the devastation brought on by Aaron Broussard's deadly fentanyl. Although the trauma felt by the victims can never be undone and the true cost can never be calculated, Mr. Broussard will now spend the remainder of his life behind bars," U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger said in a statement.
At his trial in March, Broussard was found guilty on all 17 counts that included conspiracy, importation of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, distribution of fentanyl resulting in death, distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury, and possession with intent to distribute controlled substance analogues.
Broussard, a 31-year-old from Hopkins, Minn., would purchase controlled substances, including fentanyl, from drug suppliers in China. Once in his possession, Broussard would list the substances on his website as plant food, according to evidence presented at the trial.
Investigators found that Broussard placed an order on March 12, 2016, for 100 grams of 4-FA, a substance "with a chemical structure resembling that of amphetamine and MDMA," according to the National Institutes of Health. But instead of receiving that, Broussard's package actually contained 100 grams of fentanyl. This was not the first time there was a product mixup, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Broussard "was repeatedly told to test his drugs, and he did not do so," the office said.
Instead, Broussard sold and sent the drugs to more than a dozen people who were expecting to receive a drug similar to Adderall from March 31 to April 27, 2016. Eleven people died and four others sustained serious bodily injuries after taking the fentanyl. The U.S. Attorney's Office said these people were not opiate users and therefore had no tolerance for the drugs provided by Broussard.
News of the tragic events did not stop Broussard from continuing his illegal business, though, according to the prosecutors.
"Even after he learned that several customers had been hospitalized and nearly died, Broussard never warned his customers not to take the deadly drugs," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Instead, Broussard reached out to the suppliers in China and requested a discount on his next order.
When Senior U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson imposed the life sentence, she told Broussard, "Your disregard for human life is terrifying."
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Quarterback Justin Fields has been on a tear over the last month, not only boosting the production of his offense but putting his fingerprints — or maybe more accurately his footprints — all over the team and league record books. The Chicago Bears are 3-7 and on their way to Atlanta for Sunday’s game against the Falcons. But Fields’ recent breakthrough has created undeniable energy in Chicago while turning heads across the NFL.
Here is a Fields-centric offering of 12 record-related numbers.
67
Length of Fields’ fourth-quarter touchdown run against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, the longest ever by a Bears quarterback. Fields broke the previous mark of 61 yards — which he seven days earlier on an electric scoring run against the Miami Dolphins. Before that, Vince Evans held the team record, a 58-yarder against the Houston Oilers in November 1980.
93
NFL record for longest run by a quarterback, a 2013 dash by the Oakland Raiders’ Terrelle Pryor against the Pittsburgh Steelers. At this point it’s fair to ask whether it’s only a matter of time before Fields cuts loose and tops Pryor’s feat. In addition to Pryor, four other quarterbacks have had a run of at least 80 yards: Colin Kaepernick (90 in 2014), Marcus Mariota (87 in 2015), Kordell Stewart (80 in 1996) and Daniel Jones (80 in 2020).
178
Rushing yards by Fields in the Bears’ Nov. 6 loss to the Dolphins at Soldier Field, setting a team and league single-game record for a quarterback. The Bears’ previous record was 127, set by Bobby Douglass against the Raiders in 1972. The NFL mark was Michael Vick’s 173 in a 30-24 Atlanta Falcons overtime win against the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 1, 2002.
555
Rushing yards by Fields over the last five games, the most by a quarterback over a five-game span in the Super Bowl era. During that span, Fields has had five runs of at least 20 yards.
1,206
Rushing yards by the Baltimore Ravens’ Lamar Jackson during his MVP campaign in 2019, a single-season NFL record for quarterbacks. Jackson had 179 rushing attempts, averaged 6.9 yards per carry and scored seven rushing touchdowns.
749
Rushing yards by Fields through 10 games. He is averaging 7.2 yards per rush and at his current pace is on track for 177 rushing attempts, 1,273 yards and 10 rushing touchdowns. The yardage total would break the team’s single-season quarterback record, set by Douglass with 968 in 1972. Douglass’ achievement stood as the NFL record until Vick ran for 1,039 with the Falcons in 2006.
6
Jackson’s NFL rank in rushing yardage in 2019, which put him behind Derrick Henry, Nick Chubb, Christian McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott and Chris Carson. Fields ranks sixth in the league in rushing behind Saquon Barkley, Henry, Chubb, Josh Jacobs and Dameon Pierce.
2,974
Rushing yards by the 1984 Bears, the team’s single-season record. That team’s leading rusher was Walter Payton, who ran for 1,684 yards and 11 touchdowns for a team that won 10 games and went on to the NFC championship game.
3,296
Rushing yards by the 2019 Ravens, the best single-season rushing output during the Super Bowl era. In addition to Jackson’s historic output, running back Mark Ingram topped 1,000 yards with 1,018 plus 10 rushing touchdowns.
2,017
Bears rushing yards through 10 games, which puts them on track to amass 3,429 rushing yards. That would set a team single-season record and break the NFL mark. The 2019 Ravens, for what it’s worth, averaged 206 rushing yards in 16 games. The Bears are averaging 201.7 rushing yards per game.
5
Consecutive games in which the Bears have rushed for more than 200 yards, the first team since the 1976 Steelers to do so. According to Pro Football Reference, only 10 teams have rushed for 200 yards in at least five games. The league record for consecutive 200-yard rushing outings is seven, set by the 1947 New York Yankees and later matched by the 1948 San Francisco 49ers and 1972 Steelers.
4
Consecutive games in which Fields has recorded both a rushing and passing touchdown, making him just the fifth player in league history to accomplish that feat. The others were Jim Hart for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1986; Vick for the Eagles in 2010; Ryan Tannehill for the Titans in 2020 and 2021; and Kyle Murray for the Cardinals in 2020. Murray is the only player to have a rushing TD and passing score in five consecutive games. No player has made it to six. | 2022-11-17T13:15:51+00:00 | chicagotribune.com | https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bears/ct-num-chicago-bears-justin-fields-nfl-records-bobby-douglass-lamar-jackson-20221117-bw3vv5eu4fhnhdrlwaxof52pm4-story.html |
Mayo Clinic first to enroll in registry with study of 2,000 patients being treated for obesity
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Phenomix Sciences (Phenomix), a precision obesity biotechnology company, announces today the launch of its biobanking registry and outcomes study. The registry will evaluate variability in obesity treatment response by collecting patients' DNA, metabolomics, hormones, and behavioral assessments, in relation to treatment outcomes. The data collected will supplement the 20 billion unique data points that make up the Phenomix Sciences Obesity Platform. Mayo Clinic is the first to enroll in the registry and is expected to contribute patient outcomes from 2,000 patients undergoing obesity treatment.
The biobanking registry is a critical milestone in Phenomix's mission to conquer obesity by creating unprecedented access to clinical and molecular data throughout all stages of the disease. Outcomes data from biobanks across the registry will supplement Phenomix's database of biological and clinical data matched to the four obesity phenotypes. Insights generated from the database are being used to develop the company's first therapy selection test, the first of its kind in the obesity space.
A growing body of evidence indicates that obesity is not a single disease with a single treatment type, but a constellation of diseases. Obesity's roots lie in an individual's DNA; however, evidence suggests there is a complicated web connecting obesity to age, race, gender, education, and socioeconomic status. Understanding a person's obesity phenotype — the combination of genes with environmental and behavioral factors — can help pinpoint the cause of weight gain. Phenomix's technology is based on research from its physician founders, Drs. Acosta and Camilleri of Mayo Clinic. Their research has demonstrated that when phenotyped and prescribed the right medications, patients can achieve up to twice the weight loss of those not phenotyped.
In addition to creating the first biobanking registry of this type, this is the first large scale study of variability in response in patients with obesity treated with a variety of interventions. The biobank registry's impact has the potential to change the obesity ecosystem from treatment recommendations to the way payers determine coverage and how industry combines diagnostics testing with drug therapy.
"This is an exciting time in the evolution of obesity medicine," said Mark Bagnall, CEO of Phenomix Sciences. "The justifiable excitement about new weight management products such as semaglutide and tirzepatide has highlighted the value of rigorous research in the field. Our biobanking agreement with Mayo Clinic is an important opportunity to make vast strides in how we understand the complexities of obesity treatment. We believe the biobanking registry investment will better support obesity centers by providing concrete evidence and insights into how DNA and other factors need to be considered in treatment. The upside is significant for patients and payers. Patients get the right treatment the first time and payers avoid paying for a costly trial-and-error approach."
About Phenomix Sciences
Phenomix Sciences is a biotechnology pioneer on a mission to conquer obesity globally through the science of phenotyping, the understanding of how genes combined with environmental and behavioral factors can inform obesity treatment plans. Mayo Clinic physicians, scientists, and researchers, Drs. Acosta and Camilleri, founded the company under the belief that the key to understanding obesity is unprecedented access to its clinical and molecular information throughout all stages and phenotypes of the disease. Phenomix leverages data intelligence to yield better accuracy in predicting individual patient response to specific weight loss interventions and reducing the variability in weight loss results for patients. For more information, please visit www.phenomixsciences.com.
CONTACT: Erika Beerbower, ebeerbower@ampublicrelations.com
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SOURCE Phenomix Sciences | 2022-05-25T20:33:38+00:00 | kalb.com | https://www.kalb.com/prnewswire/2022/05/25/phenomix-sciences-announces-first-precision-obesity-biobanking-registry-outcomes-study/ |
URBANA — A former Urbana High School student who threatened violence at the high school during November, particularly targeting one staff member, has been sentenced to two years of probation.
The 16-year-old had pleaded guilty a month ago to disorderly conduct, admitting that between Nov. 15 and 28, she sent several alarming emails to a teacher threatening to kill her and her students while at the school.
Judge Anna Benjamin on Wednesday called the circumstances “quite troubling” and the threats carried out “with no good reason.”
The crime is not one for which the Department of Juvenile Justice was an option, so Benjamin also sentenced the girl to 30 days in detention but gave her credit for 14 days already served and held the other 16 in remission.
If she complies with the rules set forth by probation and her mother, she will likely not have to serve the other days behind bars. She has to come back to court for a review on March 6.
Benjamin noted the girl had no prior adjudications as a juvenile but had been suspended from Urbana High once prior to the November threats, then again after she was linked to them.
She was also ordered to write a letter of apology to the teacher to whom she directed the hate-filled emails but other than that, is to have no contact with her, one other staff member, the high school property and an Urbana police officer whom she scratched and kicked as he tried to talk to her about the threats.
Assistant Public Defender Katie Jessup said the girl is now getting her education online from sources other than Urbana High School and seems to be doing better in spite of a few poor grades.
The judge ordered her to continue to take online classes, obey all household rules and perform 50 hours of public service, with any time in counseling counting toward that.
Hers was the second of two cases involving a girl threatening Urbana High students in November that had students and staff on edge for weeks and caused the school to shut down and do online classes for a few days around Thanksgiving.
The other girl, a 16-year-old from Chicago with no ties to UHS, admitted that on Nov. 7, she phoned in threats that there were bombs planted in the building and that students could be shot.
She was sentenced two weeks ago to two years of probation for disorderly conduct. | 2023-01-25T23:52:43+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/teen-sentenced-to-probation-for-emailed-threats-to-urbana-high/article_1f167cb8-b53f-5da4-80b0-e88a683132c5.html |
With the need for automation, managed security, and targeted offers increasing, the leading convenience technology innovator delivers new advances at annual NACS Show
ATLANTA, Sept. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PDI Technologies, a global leader delivering powerful solutions and insights that serve as the backbone of the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem, has announced additional innovations to help customers provide compelling experiences that drive revenue, simplify operations, and secure their operating environments.
As the industry responds to ongoing changes, PDI continues to develop new and enhanced offerings across its consumer engagement, enterprise productivity, and security solutions.
"We're committed to supporting ongoing growth for our customers and ourselves alike," said Jimmy Frangis, Chief Executive Officer at PDI. "That means we're investing in integrated innovations that elevate the transaction experience, streamline operations, and propel industry transformation so that our customers can accelerate their profitability and progress. It's all about our mission of connecting convenience."
- Retail Site Management: Automate manual processes and access data from anywhere within your business to increase efficiency, save money, and allow your employees to focus more on consumers. From foodservice to lottery and more, PDI Retail Site Management helps c-stores efficiently scale and grow.
- Firewall as a Service: Increase security to meet rising cyberthreats without adding to your IT management burden. PDI Firewall as a Service is the latest cost-effective network solution supported 24/7/365 by PDI network and security experts. Combined with PDI 5G as a Service and Wi-Fi as a Service offerings, Firewall as a Service provides a complete network management solution.
- Offer Network: Integrate PDI Age & Identity Verification capabilities with targeted offers through a new solution and collaboration that each optimize retail promotions and increase visibility and sales for brands.
- ChargeBuddy: Foster a community for electric vehicle (EV) drivers to find charging availability in real time, while serving consumers exclusive in-app offers (planned availability in 2023).
"At PDI, we are just as excited about the future of our industry as we are proud of our 40-year heritage. The investments we've been making in rich functionality, new AI and machine learning techniques, and an extensible data portfolio position us to help our industry evolve as the retail world and consumer preferences change," said Linnea Geiss, Chief Operating Officer at PDI. "The future of the convenience ecosystem will certainly bring new opportunities, and we're planting seeds now to be ready for what's to come."
The new PDI solutions will be presented at NACS Show 2022, October 1-4, at the Las Vegas Convention Center. PDI also will unveil a complete booth redesign during the show expo, which will give attendees an opportunity to see the new PDI Technologies brand firsthand.
"We first launched PDI Technologies and the 'Connecting Convenience' story a few weeks ago at our annual Users Conference. The enthusiasm from our customers and the responses we've received from the marketplace have been overwhelmingly positive," said Bethany Allee, SVP, Marketing at PDI. "Our industry is more dynamic than ever, and we are ready and committed to support change and growth across the ecosystem."
PDI can be found throughout the NACS Show expo, including PDI Technologies Booth #5837, Fuel Rewards® Booth #5859, CStore Essentials Booth #6047, and in the Cool New Products preview room. As part of the Cool New Products initiative, PDI will highlight its sustainability solutions and plant one tree for every QR code scanned. Additionally, PDI will host an educational session–Benchmarking to Improve Loyalty Outcomes–on Monday, October 3, 8-9 am with Coen Markets in Ballroom B.
To reserve an appointment with PDI Technologies at the NACS Show or to learn more about its solutions, visit pditechnologies.com/events/nacs-show-2022/.
With 40 years of industry leadership, PDI Technologies, Inc. resides at the intersection of productivity and sales growth, delivering powerful solutions that serve as the backbone of the convenience retail and petroleum wholesale ecosystem. By "Connecting Convenience" across the globe, we empower businesses to increase productivity, make informed decisions, and engage faster with their customers. From large-scale ERP and logistics operations to loyalty programs and cybersecurity, we're simplifying the industry supply chain for whatever comes next. Today, we serve over 200,000 locations worldwide with solutions like the Fuel Rewards® program and GasBuddy®, two popular brands representing more than 20 million active users. pditechnologies.com
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(NEXSTAR) – Some Facebook users received a notification Saturday that wasn’t a friend request or comment (nor a scam, for that matter). The social media platform informed users they may be eligible for a piece of the massive $725 million settlement.
Clicking on the notification leads to a badge that reads, “You may be entitled to payment from the settlement of a lawsuit.”
The lawsuit stems from accusations that Facebook allowed users’ personal data to be shared with third parties, the most famous being Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The firm harvested the data of as many as 87 million Facebook users, the Associated Press reported.
“The lawsuit claimed that Facebook shared people’s data with third parties and didn’t monitor how that data was accessed and shared,” the badge on Facebook continues.
Meta has agreed to settle the claim, but denies any wrongdoing.
Final approval of the settlement isn’t expected until September, but Facebook users don’t need to wait to file their claim.
You can verify you meet the eligibility requirements on the settlement website. The criteria is pretty simple: “all Facebook users in the United States between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, inclusive.”
If you do qualify, you can answer a few questions and file the claim online, or you can submit your answers by mail.
It’s not clear how many users received the notification Saturday. Nexstar reached out to Meta for clarification, but did not hear back by publication time. You also don’t need to have received a notification to file a claim.
The deadline to file a claim is Aug. 25. | 2023-04-23T20:44:03+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/facebook-notifies-users-who-may-be-eligible-for-725m-privacy-settlement/ |
Customers are invited to shop for special deals and discounts at Natural Grocers, June 17 – 19th
LAKEWOOD, Colo., June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural Grocers®, the largest family-operated organic and natural grocery retailer in the U.S., invites its customers to enjoy special Father's Day promotions, June 17-19th.
Natural Grocers is celebrating all the dads out there with deals, meals, gift-ideas, and a perfect summer giveaway throughout the month of June, but customers can enjoy additional promotions over Father's Day weekend.
DEALS, MEALS, GIFT-IDEAS AND GIVEAWAYS WITH NATURAL GROCERS
The month of June is associated with the sounds and smells of summer. It also holds the day we've collectively dedicated to celebrating fatherhood. Natural Grocers honors dads and non-traditional father-figures this month, while celebrating the kick-off to summer with plenty of savings and special offerings.
- June 3 – 25: All customers can save up to 49% in body care, grocery, fridge and freezer departments.[i]
- June 17 – 19: Customers can enjoy additional Father's Day deals and gifts over the weekend. With savings up to 39% off, these Always Affordablesm treats and snacks are even more economical.[ii]
{N}POWER® FAMILY PERKS
Members of {N}power, Natural Grocers' free loyalty program, will have access to additional Father's Day promotions[iii] on groceries and gifts throughout the store, including:
- June 17-19: 10% off all Craft Beer Selections (6 pack) at select Natural Grocers locations with The Cottage. Click HERE to find a Cottage location near you.[iv]
- June 19: {N}power® members will receive a FREE Epic® Snack Strip or Primal® Strip (meatless vegan jerky). Limit 1 per {N}power account, while supplies last.[v]
- Monthly {N}Power Meal Deals: {N}power members can enjoy discounts on quality ingredients for an affordable dinner on the grill or chill out with some smoothies. [vi]
{N}POWER SWEEPSTAKES WITH SOLARAY®
Take your wellness journey out on the open road this summer with Natural Grocers and Solaray. They're partnering up throughout the month of June to give away a limited-edition customized Solaray Bean Trailer to one lucky {N}power member.[vii]
- {N}power members who buy any (2) Solaray products in a single transaction between June 1 - June 30, 2022, will be automatically entered to win.
- {N}power members can also enter to win online.
GIFT OF NUTRITIONAL COACHING + $5 COUPON
For those looking for one more gift idea for dad, (or themselves) Natural Grocers invites its customers to book a FREE, one-hour in-person, phone or video nutritional health coaching session and earn a $5 Natural Grocers coupon.[viii]
- Book a session with a Nutritional Health Coach.
- Sign up to join {N}power here: www.naturalgrocers.com/join
- Follow Natural Grocers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for recipes, tips, local events and discount reminders.
- For media requests and/or press inquiries, please contact media@naturalgrocers.com.
ABOUT NATURAL GROCERS BY VITAMIN COTTAGE
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Inc. (NYSE: NGVC) is an expanding specialty retailer of natural and organic groceries, body care products, and dietary supplements. The products sold by Natural Grocers must meet strict quality guidelines and may not contain artificial colors, flavors, preservatives or sweeteners, or partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated oils. The Company sells only USDA-certified organic produce and exclusively pasture-raised, non-confinement dairy products, and free-range eggs. Natural Grocers' flexible smaller-store format allows it to offer affordable prices in a shopper-friendly, clean, and convenient retail environment. The Company also provides extensive free science-based Nutrition Education programs to help customers make informed health and nutrition choices. The Company, founded in 1955, has 162 stores in 20 states. Visit www.NaturalGrocers.com for more information and store locations.
[i] Offers are available from 06/03/22 to 06/25/22 and are redeemable only for in-store customer purchases at participating stores. Quantity limited to stock on hand, no rainchecks. Unless otherwise noted, all discounts are on regular prices, cannot be redeemed for store credit or cash and cannot be combined with other offers. Pricing excludes taxes and is subject to change without notice. Natural Grocers reserves the right to correct errors. Void where prohibited by law.
[ii] Offers are available for in store purchases at participating Natural Grocers stores from 06/17/22 to 06/19/22. Quantity limited to stock on hand; no rainchecks. Natural Grocers reserves the right to correct errors. Void where prohibited by law.
[iii] {N}power® offers are available only to registered members and are subject to program terms and conditions available at www.naturalgrocers.com/npower. Natural Grocers' loyalty program is free to join and offers exclusive discounts, digital coupons, rewards benefits, and other members-only features. To join {N}power, visit www.naturalgrocers.com/join or text 'organic' to 72345.
[iv] Offer available only to {N}power members, for in store purchases at participating Natural Grocers stores. Quantity limited to stock on hand; no rainchecks.
[v] Limit 1 per {N}power account. In-store only. Quantity limited to stock on hand; no rainchecks. This offer has been pre-loaded to{N}power accounts. Natural Grocers reserves the right to correct errors. Void where prohibited by law.
[vi] Limited time offer available to {N}power members only through 6/30/22. Enter phone number at checkout to redeem. Visit www.naturalgrocers.com/mealdeals for details.
[vii] NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. Open only to legal respondents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia, 18 years or older. Must be an {N}power member to enter. Void where prohibited by law. Natural Grocers employees, including members of their households, are not eligible for this offer. Sweepstakes starts on 6/1/2022 and ends on 6/30/2022. For official rules, complete details and alternative method of entry, visit www.naturalgrocers.com/sweepstakes. Sponsor: Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc.
[viii] No purchase necessary. Coupon is redeemable only for in-store purchases at participating Natural Grocers stores. Promotion subject to change without notice. Natural Grocers reserves the right to correct errors. Void where prohibited by law. Minimum $5 purchase required to redeem coupon.
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Ask a Trooper: Is it legal to drive without one of side mirrors?
Published 8:44 pm Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Ask a Trooper by Troy Christianson
Question: My truck was backed into yesterday and the mirror on the driver’s side broke off. It is dangling by the wire now. Will I be legal to drive if I remove it, or do I try to tape it back into position until it can be fixed?
Answer: If your vehicle has one on the windshield or even another one on the passenger’s side, you are legal in Minnesota. According to the Minnesota Driver’s Manual, all passenger vehicles must be equipped with rearview mirrors. Vehicles such as rental moving trucks, which are not designed to allow a view through the rear window, must be equipped with an additional side mirror. Pickup trucks, which are often used for hauling purposes, must also be equipped with an additional side mirror. The side mirror will provide the driver with a clear view when transported materials obstruct sight through the rearview mirror.
Without mirrors or with limited mirrors, the driver is unable to see behind them from different angles and may crash. Side mirrors help drivers see other vehicles when changing lanes, assist the driver in determining how close other vehicles are, and in the event an emergency vehicle approaches, a driver is able to slow down and safely pullover and yield the right-of-way.
In my experience over the years, I have encountered many unsafe situations while responding to emergencies with my lights and siren on where vehicles in front of me had no idea that I was behind them. When the driver finally realized there was a patrol car behind them, they would become startled and apply the brakes very hard and/or swerve into the other lanes or shoulder very quickly, creating a very dangerous situation.
I recommend that drivers have two outside mirrors, along with a rearview mirror attached to their windshield at all times. If a driver is pulling a trailer and the view to the rear is obstructed, I recommend purchasing rearview mirror extensions so the driver is able to clearly see behind the vehicle.
You can avoid a ticket — and a crash — if you simply buckle up, drive at safe speeds, pay attention and always drive sober. Help us drive Minnesota toward zero deaths.
If you have any questions concerning traffic-related laws or issues in Minnesota, send your questions to Sgt. Troy Christianson, Minnesota State Patrol, at 2900 48th St. NW, Rochester, MN 55901-5848; or reach him at Troy.Christianson@state.mn.us.
Troy Christianson is a sergeant with the Minnesota State Patrol. | 2023-01-25T04:48:11+00:00 | albertleatribune.com | https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/01/ask-a-trooper-is-it-legal-to-drive-without-one-of-side-mirrors/ |
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico privatized its electricity production on Wednesday, selecting Genera PR to take over the operation and maintenance of state power generation units in the U.S. territory as part of an initial $22.5 million annual contract.
The announcement comes as the island struggles to rebuild its crumbling power grid amid chronic power outages blamed in part on what Gov. Pedro Pierluisi called “archaic and unstable” generation units.
“I am sure that we are on the right track to give our people the reliable and affordable energy system that they deserve,” he said.
Genera PR is a subsidiary of New York-based New Fortress Energy, which works closely with Shell Oil and other oil and gas producers. Genera also will handle contracts related to fuel purchases for the island’s 12 power facilities as part of a 10-year contract with Puerto Rico’s government.
“Today is a historic day,” said Secretary of State Omar Marrero, who noted that recent hurricanes have revealed the deterioration and critical state of the island’s power grid.
Puerto Rico’s generation units, some of them more than 50 years old, have suffered blackouts at rates five times worse than the industry average in recent years, producing less than half of the power the government had forecast.
“Decades of mismanagement and neglect have left Puerto Rico with an expensive, inefficient and dated energy system,” said a federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances, in a statement supporting the contract awarded to Genera PR.
Many Puerto Ricans remain wary of this process, well aware that privatizing the transmission and distribution of power in June 2021 did not lead to an improvement in issues including the length of outages, which has worsened. The power situation on the island is so dire that the U.S. government recently announced it would supply temporary electric generation via barges and land-based generators.
Another concern is that high power bills could become even more expensive under the new public-private partnership, concerns that officials brushed aside as they noted that Genera PR will receive incentives to generate savings, of which 50% will be passed along to consumers.
The company will receive $22.5 million annually for the first five years of the contract, a payment that will drop as Puerto Rico permanently shutters generation units amid a push for more renewable energy sources. Genera PR also will receive up to $15 million during a transition period of 100 days, and up to $100 million a year in incentives, a payment that also will drop as units are shut down.
Wes Edens, founder and executive director of New Fortress Energy, said Genera PR would begin operating by mid-year.
He said power outages are unacceptable and noted that electric bills in Puerto Rico are “simply too high.”
“While we recognize the challenges that are before us…we believe the opportunities here…are tremendous,” Edens said.
Until Wednesday, the government had refused to release a copy of the contract or name the company chosen even as the governing board of Puerto Rico’s power company and the island’s Public-Private Partnerships Authority had approved of it after meeting behind closed doors.
The sole vote against the contract came from Tomás Torres, a member of the governing board that represents the public’s interest.
He said such contracts normally are done with broad citizen participation “given the impact it will have on all sectors that make up public interest.” He also noted that Genera PR will have monopoly power as the sole provider of electricity on the island.
Torres also warned that the contract represents additional costs for the state power company, which holds some $9 billion in debt — the largest of any Puerto Rican government agency — and remains mired in an acrimonious battle with creditors as it tries to emerge from bankruptcy. It remains to be seen how much of that debt consumers will have to pay.
Edens said a top priority will be saving on fuel purchases, noting that New Fortress Energy has a big portfolio of oil producers and is on the verge of producing its own fuel sources.
New Fortress Energy opened a natural gas facility in Puerto Rico in 2020. Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority later accused the company of violating its contract by supplying less natural gas than it promised, forcing the state power company to use more expensive diesel at generation units, a cost that has not been reimbursed.
Puerto Rico’s governor said that contract remains in good standing. Meanwhile, that issue remains under review by the island’s Energy Bureau. | 2023-01-25T22:50:42+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-puerto-rico-selects-company-to-privatize-power-generation/ |
NEW YORK — Utah center Rudy Gobert was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Sunday for using profanity during a live televised interview.
Gobert was then asked about the talk about what the Jazz can accomplish in the playoffs and responded with a profane response.
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-04-25T00:05:19+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nba/gobert-fined-25000-for-profanity-during-live-tv-interview/2022/04/24/97068ace-c429-11ec-8cff-33b059f4c1b7_story.html |
WASHINGTON — About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices, according to a new poll that finds a sharp increase in the percentage of Americans saying they have “hardly any” confidence in the court.
The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds 67% of Americans support a proposal to set a specific number of years that justices serve instead of life terms, including 82% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans. Views are similar about a requirement that justices retire by a specific age.
The poll was conducted just weeks after the high court issued high-profile rulings including stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion and expanding gun rights. The poll also shows more Americans disapprove than approve of the court’s abortion decision, with just over half saying the decision made them “angry” or “sad.”
The court, which is now taking a summer break, will return to hearing cases in October with diminished confidence among Americans. Now 43% say they have hardly any confidence in the court, up from 27% three months ago.
Inez Parker of Currie, North Carolina, said she’s among those who strongly favor limits on justices’ service. “I think some of those people have been up there too long. They don’t have new ideas. When you get a certain age and everything you get set in your ways just like I’m set in my ways,” said the 84-year-old Democrat.
Parker said retired justices can “work in their garden, sit on the porch and fan flies or whatever they want to do.”
The Constitution gives federal judges including Supreme Court justices life tenure, but there have been recent calls for change. A commission tasked by President Joe Biden with examining potential changes to the Supreme Court studied term limits among other issues. The commission finished its work last year and its members were ultimately divided over whether they believed Congress has the power to pass a law creating the equivalent of term limits.
Phil Boller, 90, of LaFollette, Tennessee, said he’s not totally opposed to setting a limit on years of service for justices. The Republican who worked in broadcasting and later owned his own lawn care business said that “basically it’s worked the way it’s been going and I see see no reason to change that.”
The oldest member of the current court is Justice Clarence Thomas, 74, followed by Justice Samuel Alito, 72. But recent justices have served into their 80s. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served until her death in 2020 at age 87. Justice Anthony Kennedy retired in 2018 at 81. And Justice Stephen Breyer just retired at age 83.
Ginsburg served for 27 years, Kennedy 30 years and Breyer nearly 28 years.
Four new members have joined the court in the last five years, bringing down the average age of the court’s members. Three justices are in their 60s: Chief Justice John Roberts, 67, and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, 68, and Elena Kagan, 62. The remaining justices are in their 50s. Neil Gorsuch is 54, Brett Kavanaugh 57, Amy Coney Barrett 50 and Ketanji Brown Jackson 51.
Another proposal Biden’s committee studied was increasing the number of justices on the court, and the poll shows that proposal evenly dividing Americans. Overall, 34% say they’re in favor, while 34% are opposed and 32% say they hold neither opinion. Democrats are more in favor than opposed, 52% to 14%, while Republicans are more opposed than in favor, 61% to 14%.
The poll also found increased dissatisfaction with the court since three months ago, before the court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a right to abortion.
In the April poll, conducted before a draft of the court’s decision was leaked, 18% said they had a great deal of confidence, 54% said they had only some and 27% said they had hardly any. Now, 17% say they have a great deal of confidence, 39% only some and 43% hardly any.
Patrick Allen, a Democrat from Logan, Utah, is one of those with hardly any confidence in the court. Allen, 33, said he feels as though justices generally vote on issues based on the party of the president that appointed them. “They’re sticking more to their guns along the lines of their party instead of the Constitution,” he said.
The poll shows the drop in confidence is concentrated among Democrats, adding to evidence that the court’s decision on abortion worsened and polarized already tenuous opinions of the court. A large partisan gap in views of the court that did not exist before the decision emerged; 64% of Democrats say they have hardly any confidence, up from 27% in April. Another 31% have only some and just 4% have a great deal of confidence — down from 17%.
Among Republicans, however, views of the court have improved. Now, 34% say they have a great deal of confidence, up from 21% in the earlier poll. An additional 47% have only some confidence and 18% hardly any.
Overall, more Americans disapprove than approve of the decision to overturn Roe, 53% to 30%; an additional 16% say they hold neither opinion. On that decision, too, there’s a large divide along party lines — 63% of Republicans approve, while 80% of Democrats disapprove. | 2022-07-25T13:06:49+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/poll-supreme-court-justices/507-baf8cc01-c2ee-465d-b5ff-bc7363149383 |
NEW YORK, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Spero Therapeutics, Inc. ("Spero" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPRO) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Spero investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between October 28, 2021 and May 2, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
SPRO investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (i) the data submitted in support of the New Drug Application ("NDA") for the Company's product candidate, Tebipenem HBr, were insufficient to obtain approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"); (ii) accordingly, it was unlikely that the FDA would approve the Tebipenem HBr NDA in its current form; (iii) the foregoing would necessitate a significant workforce reduction and restructuring of Spero's operations; and (iv) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Spero during the relevant time frame, you have until July 25, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
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Wauwatosa sex ed curriculum, motion to rescind dies
WAUWATOSA, Wis. - The Wauwatosa School Board met Tuesday, Sept. 27 to consider a motion to rescind a sex ed curriculum passed in August.
There was no second to the motion Tuesday evening, so it died, meaning there was no public comment and the curriculum continues.
The board approved the curriculum 6-1 Aug. 22. The one no vote (Mike Meier) said the board broke open meeting laws when members directed the administration to filter survey data to only include emails registered in the district’s system.
Kindergartners
Wauwatosa's new human growth and development curriculum will expect kindergartners to know these body part names: penis, vulva and anus. Below is an image found in the resources for the curriculum, which FOX6 blurred.
Kindergartners will also learn about safe and unsafe touches, bullying and abuse.
Second-graders
Wauwatosa's second-grade plan addresses gender stereotypes. Students would be asked if certain toys or jobs are for boys or girls. The lesson plans say, "For example, some people say only girls should play with dolls, but boys can play with dolls, too. But sometimes, we are still told that only boys should play with a certain toy or that only girls should play with a toy. This might happen with clothing, activities or jobs, too."
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Third-graders
On the issue of transgender students, a teacher resource attached to the third-grade lesson plan says, "You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal." Third-graders would also learn about consent and body image.
Sixth-graders
Sixth-graders would define different types of sexual activity: "vaginal, oral, anal sex and other forms of sexual activity (masturbation)." The same grade would learn about "a range of identities related to sexual orientation (e.g., heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, queer, twospirit, asexual, pansexual)."
The lessons would "justify abstinence as the safest, most effective method of protection from disease and pregnancy."
High Schoolers
Students in high school would learn about warning signs of abusive relationships and contraception.
Curriculum debate
Parents debated the overall curriculum.
"A lot of the objections come down to people don’t want to acknowledge that there are students who are gay, who are trans, who are non-gender-conforming, and they don’t want to acknowledge their existence and they don’t want to give those kids the vocabulary to state who they are," said Jon Etter, Wauwatosa East High School English teacher and father of two students.
'My biggest concern is I just think that bringing these issues up at such young ages, kids aren’t fully equipped to understand everything that’s being brought up. And it’s really important to reach children where they are at in terms of the appropriate stages of development," said Olivia Batzner, parent.
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Crowded board meeting
The public had the chance to speak before the board's Aug. 22 vote to approve the curriculum.
Every inch of the room was filled, and others filled a hallway, trying to listen in.
Several hundred people gathered outside before the meeting, showing their support for the new curriculum. They argue the new curriculum is more inclusive and will better prepare students to understand their bodies.
There were also a number of people who spoke against the curriculum, including several doctors who all said they do not live in Wauwatosa. They argued the children are too young for these topics.
"Not knowing that I could be anything but cisgender and straight forced me into a box and put me into so much pain, and I don’t want that for anyone else. That’s why it’s important for the Wauwatosa School District to have inclusive sexual education in human growth and development," a student said.
"There is no doubt in my mind that future generations will observe the damage that occurred when this teaching method is used which they will find harmful and regrettable," one adult said.
Wisconsin sex education
Wisconsin law does not require sex education, but if schools teach it, they have to include abstinence education. Statute requires the curriculum to teach "…abstinence from sexual activity as the preferred choice of behavior for unmarried pupils…Emphasizes that abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the only reliable way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome."
Also, in this state, parents can opt their kids out of sex education classes.
The issue of how to teach about human sexuality has sparked debate across the country, including in Wisconsin.
The Kettle Moraine School Board kept a policy that bans pride flags and prevents teachers from including preferred pronouns in their email signatures. In fall 2021, Waukesha's superintendent stopped safe space signs. In August 2021, the Cedarburg School Board removed a mural with rainbow and trans flags. | 2022-09-28T00:42:55+00:00 | fox6now.com | https://www.fox6now.com/news/wauwatosa-sex-ed-curriculum-motion-rescind-dies |
The new brick-and-mortar location will offer drinkers and culture seekers a fully immersive Truly experience led by flavor and variety
BOSTON, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Truly Hard Seltzer, a leader and innovator in the hard seltzer category, will officially open its first brick-and-mortar location, Truly LA, in Downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 25. The fully immersive seltzer taproom will offer drinkers and culture seekers innovative flavors that push traditional seltzer boundaries, as well as an exciting menu of seasonal shared plates. It will also feature live entertainment from local up-and-coming musicians, comedians and artists.
Truly fans are all about exploration and discovery, and as a pioneer in innovation, Truly LA will deliver that in a way no one else in the category has done before. The 8,000 square foot indoor/outdoor taproom will bring Truly to life in a new, dynamic way. From tasting exclusive new flavors from one of ten taps, to indulging in the globally inspired food menu, or discovering new cocktail-inspired seltzers that push traditional seltzer boundaries, visitors from all walks of life can experience everything Truly Hard Seltzer has to offer.
"Innovation and exploration are at the core of our mission at Truly LA," said Operating Manager Bradford Fullerton. "We are providing something entirely new for our drinkers while creating a vibrant, fully immersive venue to attract new fans and culture seekers."
Embedded in the heart of the downtown Los Angeles Arts District, Truly LA is a cultural hub with local artist-commissioned murals adorning the exterior and a regular calendar of entertainment in the space. Art and creativity will thrive on the Truly LA stage, which will feature intimate shows in partnership with Live Nation. To bring visitors ongoing cultural entertainment, select performances will be live streamed from the taproom to drinkers around the world.
After almost a year of collaboration with design collaborative Bergmeyer, Truly LA was "purposefully designed to galvanize the connections between brand and consumer while setting the baseline for an authentic hard seltzer experience," said Brian Perlow, Principal of Bergmeyer. "Truly LA blurs the lines between the hardscape of the Arts District and a lush outdoor garden area before transitioning to a bright and inventive pavilion. This is where Truly Hard Seltzer is the star of the show, tapping into the creative culture of the neighborhood and engaging Truly drinkers in an experience that emphasizes fresh-flavored adventure and discovery."
Truly LA is the twelfth of Boston Beer Company's hospitality locations, joining the Sam Adams Taproom in Boston; the historic Sam Adams Brewery and Taproom in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston; the Sam Adams Taproom in Cincinnati; four Dogfish Head locations in Delaware and one in Miami; the Angry Orchard Innovation Cider House in Walden, N.Y.; the Angel City Brewery in Los Angeles; and the Coney Island Brewery in New York City.
Truly LA is located at 218 Traction Ave in Downtown Los Angeles, adjacent to the Angel City Brewery. For more information, visit: www.trulyhardseltzer.com.
About Truly Hard Seltzer
Since its inception in 2016, Truly has been the most innovative brand in the category, breaking the boundaries of what consumers expect from hard seltzer. Truly believes no one is just one flavor, which is why its hard seltzer is available in 31 total flavors: 12 delicious original flavors, plus five flavors of Truly Lemonade, four flavors of Truly Iced Tea, four flavors of Truly Punch, two flavors of Truly Extra and four flavors of Truly Margarita. Truly is perfect for any occasion from beach days to backyard barbecues and beyond. Additionally, Truly has now entered the spirits category with Truly Flavored Vodka, a premium vodka available in three flavors inspired by its fan-favorite hard seltzer styles. To learn more about Truly, visit www.trulyhardseltzer.com.
About Boston Beer Company
The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (NYSE: SAM) began in 1984 brewing Samuel Adams beer. The Samuel Adams brand is currently recognized as one of the largest and most respected American craft beer brands. Our portfolio of brands also includes Truly Hard Seltzer, Twisted Tea, Angry Orchard Hard Cider and Dogfish Head Brewery, as well as other craft beer brands such as Angel City Brewery and Coney Island Brewing. For more information, please visit www.bostonbeer.com.
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Updated May 31, 2023 at 3:54 PM ET
Tara Reade, who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her while she was working in his Senate office in 1993, says she will apply for Russian citizenship.
Reade appeared in an event hosted by the Russian state news outlet Sputnik on Tuesday and said she came to the decision after she says she received threats in the United States.
"I feel really happy to be here, and I feel safe," she said from Russia.
The event also featured convicted Russian agent Maria Butina, who is now a member of the Duma, the lower house of Russia's legislature. Reade said she hoped Butina could help her with her citizenship application.
"I don't know what will happen with that, but I do promise to be a good citizen and I promise to move forward with my life in a positive way," Reade said, adding that she wants to keep her U.S. citizenship as well.
White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said Wednesday that the administration would be "loath to comment on the musings of a potential Russian citizen."
Kirby said it would be "difficult to say" if Reade's allegations against Biden had anything to do with her affinity for Russia, but added that her claim that her life was at risk by the U.S. government is "absolutely false, baseless, there's nothing to that."
Months before the 2020 presidential election, Reade publicly accused Biden of sexually assaulting her while she was a junior staffer in his Senate office in the early 1990s.
Reade said she never disclosed the assault to other members of Biden's staff but that she filed a complaint about harassment and was later fired. Several people close to Reade have said she told them about the alleged assault at the time.
Biden has vigorously denied the allegations, saying the alleged assault "never happened." Members of his Senate staff at the time said the office had a professional atmosphere and that Reade never went to them with her claim of harassment.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-31T20:28:08+00:00 | wlrn.org | https://www.wlrn.org/national-politics/national-politics/2023-05-31/tara-reade-who-accused-biden-of-sexual-assault-will-apply-for-russian-citizenship |
The Southeastern Conference spring meetings will be held in person for the first time since 2019 in a little less than two weeks.
It is unlikely two of the league’s superstar coaches will be chumming around Destin, Florida, together.
Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher called Nick Saban a “narcissist” on Thursday after the Alabama coach accused the rival Aggies of using name, image and likeness deals to land their top-ranked recruiting classes. Saban apologized a few hours later but generally stuck to his stance and SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey followed soon after with a public reprimand for both.
So much for a quiet offseason.
The public spat is perhaps the ugliest display of the growing angst among college coaches who are wrestling with two big changes: the NIL compensation era that launched last July and its impact on recruiting, and the ease with which players can now transfer. Both have upset the landscape veteran coaches are used to, leading to complaints and now scathing accusations.
Less than 24 hours after Saban said Texas A&M was essentially “buying” players, Fisher called an impromptu news conference to blast college football’s most accomplished coach and his former boss at LSU.
“It’s despicable that a reputable head coach can come out and say this when he doesn’t get his way or things don’t go his way,” Fisher said in College Station, Texas. “The narcissist in him doesn’t allow those things to happen — it’s ridiculous — when he’s not on top. And the parity in college football he’s been talking about? Go talk to coaches who have coached for him. You’ll find out all the parity. Go dig into wherever he’s been.”
Texas A&M had the consensus No. 1 recruiting class in the country for 2022 after beating Alabama during the regular season. The Tide’s class was No. 2. In his session with reporters, which lasted about 10 minutes, Fisher declared: “We never bought anybody, no rules are broken. Nothing was done wrong.”
Saban said he has reached out to Fisher but “never got a response.” He apologized for singling anybody out but stood by the gist of his message about booster-backed collectives helping to recruit players.
“I feel bad about it. But I’m not changing my philosophy,” Saban said on SiriusXM radio. “I look at the betterment of college football. What is good for the game?”
When asked if he wanted to address the conflict with Fisher at the upcoming SEC meetings, Saban said he’s hoping to work on big-picture issues.
“I really wasn’t saying that anybody did anything illegal in using name, image and likeness,” Saban said. “I didn’t say that. That was something that was assumed by what I said, which was not really what I meant. Nor was it what I said. There’s nothing illegal about doing this. It’s the system that allows you to do it. And that’s the issue that I have.”
Sankey issued a “public reprimand” for both coaches, but acknowledged there’s “tremendous frustration” about the lack of consistency in NIL rules in different states.
“The membership of the Southeastern Conference has established expectations for conduct and sportsmanship that were not met last night nor today,” Sankey said.
The Crimson Tide lost to the Aggies in 2021, but went on to win the SEC championship and play for the national title. The Aggies finished 8-4 in their fourth season under Fisher, who, like Saban, is among the highest-paid coaches in the game at more than $9 million per season.
Saban, who has won six national championships at Alabana, another at LSU and is widely regarded as one of the greatest coaches in the history of the game, has called the current state of affairs unsustainable. At an event in Birmingham, Alabama, earlier this week he said some schools were spending “tons of money to get players.”
“We were second in recruiting last year. A&M was first. A&M bought every player on their team. Made a deal for name, image and likeness. We didn’t buy one player,” Saban said Wednesday night.
Fisher was an assistant under Saban in the early 2000s at LSU, working as offensive coordinator on the Tigers’ 2003 national title team. That relationship appears to be badly damaged now.
“We’re done,” Fisher said. “He showed you who he is. He’s the greatest ever, huh? When you got all the advantages, it’s easy.”
He said Saban’s comments were insulting to Texas A&M and the families of the players who signed with the Aggies.
Texas A&M plays at Alabama on Oct. 8, but Fisher and Saban won’t have to wait that long to cross paths with the SEC meetings just around the corner.
“I don’t cheat. I don’t lie. If you did my old man slapped me across the face. Maybe someone should have slapped him (Saban),” Fisher said.
The 56-year-old Fisher won a national championship in 2013 as head coach at Florida State before receiving a 10-year contract for $75 million to leave Tallahassee for Texas A&M in 2017. Fisher was hired to deliver a title to a program that has not won a national championship since 1939 despite its deep-pocketed boosters, resources and access to talent.
Aggies athletic director Ross Bjork echoed Fisher’s defense of the program and said he believes some rivals might feel threatened that A&M is finally starting to put the pieces in place to reach its potential.
“So, why we’re the target, is that a threat to the power system of college football? SEC? State of Texas?” he asked. “I don’t know. You’d have to ask all the other people why they’re talking about A&M so much.”
The NCAA lifted most of its rules barring athletes from earning money from sponsorship and endorsement deals last July, but there are concerns among many in college sports that NIL deals are being used as recruiting inducements and de facto pay-for-play. Last week, the NCAA issued guidance to Division I members to clarify rules against boosters being involved in recruiting.
This was the second time this year Fisher issued a fiery public defense of his program. In February, he went off on competitors who were pushing rumors that Texas A&M had spent $30 million on NIL deals to secure one the highest-rated recruiting classes in history.
The 70-year-old Saban didn’t stop at just Texas A&M during is speaking engagement Wednesday night. He also mentioned Jackson State and Miami in his critique of NIL.
Jackson State coach Deion Sanders, a Pro Football Hall of Famer, landed one of the top recruits in the country in cornerback Travis Hunter, who had been committed to Florida State until a signing-day flip in December.
Sanders has denied Hunter received any impermissible deals before signing and told Andscape.com that he would like to have a public conversation with Saban about the accusations.
“I still love him. I admire him. I respect him. He’s the magna cum laude of college football and that’s what it’s going to be because he’s earned that,” Sanders said. “But he took a left when he should’ve stayed right. I’m sure he’ll get back on course. I ain’t tripping.”
As for Fisher, he said he’s looking forward to the Destin meetings.
“I don’t mind confrontation. Lived with it my whole life,” Fisher said. “Kind of like it myself. Backing away from it isn’t the way I was raised.”
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More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-05-20T22:19:33+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/sports/ap-sports/sec-star-coaches-spar-over-nil-compensation/ |
EMERYVILLE, Calif., July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: DVAX), a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines, will report second quarter financial results on Thursday, August 4, 2022, after the U.S. financial markets close.
Dynavax will host a conference call and live audio webcast on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. (ET)/1:30 p.m. (PT).
The live audio webcast may be accessed through the "Events & Presentations" page on the "Investors" section of the Company's website at https://investors.dynavax.com/events-presentations. A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the live event.
To dial into the call, participants will need to register for the call using the caller registration link. It is recommended that participants dial into the conference call or log into the webcast approximately 10 minutes prior to the call.
About Dynavax
Dynavax is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing innovative vaccines to help protect the world against infectious diseases. The Company has two commercial products, HEPLISAV-B® [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant), Adjuvanted], which is approved in the U.S. and the European Union for prevention of infection caused by all known subtypes of hepatitis B virus in adults age 18 years and older, and CpG 1018 adjuvant, currently used in multiple adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccines. Dynavax is advancing CpG 1018 adjuvant as a premier vaccine adjuvant through global research collaborations and partnerships. Current collaborations are focused on adjuvanted vaccines for COVID-19, plague, shingles, Tdap, seasonal influenza and universal influenza. For more information about our marketed products and development pipeline, visit www.dynavax.com and follow Dynavax on LinkedIn.
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Nicole Arndt
Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
narndt@dynavax.com
510-665-7264
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Investor Relations Advisory Solutions
derek.cole@IRadvisory.com
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — An early morning crash left one person dead and another injured in Tuscaloosa on Saturday.
According to Tuscaloosa Police, officers responded to the two-vehicle crash around 4:30 a.m. on the 3100 block of University Boulevard E. A victim in one of the vehicles died at the scene of the crash.
Police said a victim from the other vehicle involved was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.
University Boulevard is expected to remain closed in both directions as officers investigate the crash. | 2022-11-05T15:14:24+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/top-stories/1-dead-1-injured-in-tuscaloosa-crash/ |
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida renewed Japan’s no-war pledge at a somber ceremony Monday as his country marked the 77th anniversary of its World War II defeat, but he did not mention Japanese wartime aggression.
In his first address as prime minister since taking office in October, Kishida said Japan will “stick to our resolve to never repeat the tragedy of the war.”
Kishida did not mention Japanese aggression across Asia in the first half of the 20th century or the victims in the region. The omission was a precedent set by the assassinated former leader Shinzo Abe, who had pushed to whitewash Japan’s wartime brutality.
Kishida largely focused on the damages Japan suffered on its turf — the U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, massive firebombings across Japan and the bloody ground battle on Okinawa. He said the peace and prosperity that the country enjoys today is built on the suffering and sacrifices of those who died in the war.
Beginning in 2013, Abe stopped acknowledging Japan’s wartime hostilities or apologizing in his Aug. 15 speeches, scrapping the tradition that began in 1995.
Emperor Naruhito repeated his “deep remorse” over Japan’s wartime actions in a nuanced phrase in his speech, like his father, Emperor Emeritus Akihito, who devoted his career to making amends for a war fought in the name of the wartime emperor, Hirohito, the current emperor’s grandfather.
Some 900 participants observed a minute of silence at noon during the ceremony held at the Budokan arena. The crowd was reduced from about 5,000 before the pandemic, participants were asked to wear masks, and there was no singing of the national anthem.
While Kishida on Monday stayed away from praying at the Yasukuni Shrine and sent a religious ornament instead, three of his Cabinet members visited — Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi and Disaster Reconstruction Minister Kenya Akiba earlier Monday and Trade and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura on Saturday.
“I paid respects to the spirits of those who sacrificed their lives for the national policy,” Takaichi told reporters, adding that she also prayed so that there will be no more war dead in Ukraine.
Victims of Japanese actions during the first half of the 20th century, especially China and the Koreas, see the shrine as a symbol of Japanese militarism because it honors convicted war criminals among about 2.5 million war dead.
China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, on Sunday after Nishimura’s visit, criticized it as “Japanese government’s erroneous attitude toward historical issues.”
Wang urged Japan to “deeply reflect on its history of aggression, properly handle relevant issues with a sense of responsibility and win the trust of its Asian neighbors and the larger international community through concrete actions.” | 2022-08-15T20:57:56+00:00 | cbs42.com | https://www.cbs42.com/news/international/japan-marks-wwiis-end-kishida-doesnt-mention-aggression/ |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Supreme Court was back after the holiday, hearing arguments around a case involving a private citizen and bribery.
In 2018, Joseph Percoco was convicted of taking a bribe from a real estate developer. At the time, the former advisor to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was working for his re-election campaign, and not the state.
“Without an agency relationship, the whole concept of bribery really doesn’t make any sense,” Percoco’s attorney Jacob Roth said.
Roth argues because he was a private citizen at the time, taking the money cannot be considered corruption.
“That person is not representing anyone else and doesn’t have a fiduciary duty to anyone else other than his new employer,” Roth said.
Several of the Justices expressed concern that siding with Percoco could open the door for future corrupt politicians.
“A very high public official goes off the government payroll and onto the campaign payroll,” Justice Elena Kagan said.
Kagan said if former government employees aren’t held to some standard, nothing may stop them from resigning before accepting a bribe and then resuming their position over and over again.
“He’s not called the executive secretary anymore, but there’s no other executive secretary around and he has the trust of the Governor,” Kagan said.
But Justice Neil Gorsuch said for private individuals, it may be difficult to separate bribery from legally hiring a lobbyist.
“Why not? This town is full of such persons. Presidents have had kitchen cabinets since the beginning of time,” Gorsuch said.
A ruling is expected sometime before next summer. | 2022-11-28T23:57:04+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/washington-dc/scotus-concerned-about-future-political-corruption-during-percoco-case/ |
RI Senate confirms transportation head Peter Alviti Jr. for another term, 35-to-1
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation and its chief, Peter Alviti Jr., will roll along over the objections of mass transit and climate activists.
Alviti, the longest-serving state Cabinet member, was confirmed Tuesday by the state Senate, 35 to 1, as DOT director.
Although Alviti's reappointment was never really in doubt, it drew opposition last week from dozens of residents and organizations who want the state to take a new approach to transportation less oriented to the automobile. They objected to Rhode Island's highway projects at a time when the state is trying to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and minimize bicycle and pedestrian deaths.
But senators credited Alviti with overhauling a dysfunctional DOT over the last eight years and getting long-stalled bridge reconstruction projects going.
"Director Alviti has shown the ability to take on some of the state's most deep-seeded problems and seen positive results," DiPalma said. "Perhaps most importantly, progress has been made to repair our ailing bridges."
Three senators noted that Alviti always returns their phone calls and responds promptly to constituent concerns.
The lone vote against Alviti came from Providence Democratic Sen. Sam Bell, who blamed lack of DOT oversight for failing to stop the contractor rebuilding the Route 6-10 interchange from dumping contaminated fill in the area. In particular, he took aim at the state's shift to a project-management process that puts a contractor in charge of both design and construction, instead of just construction.
"We've seen a lot of disasters come out of this system," he said.
On the bigger-picture complaints about the DOT's direction, Bell said "I think it is important we position our transportation system away from uses that cause carbon pollution, and I don't think Director Alviti shares that broader philosophy."
One of Alviti's first jobs after being appointed in 2015 was to help pass a controversial truck-toll system in the General Assembly. Last year a federal judge struck down truck tolls, a decision Gov. Dan McKee is appealing.
Despite opposing truck tolls, all five Senate Republicans voted to reappoint Alviti.
Gordon Rogers, R-Foster, said Alviti is taking the DOT "in the right direction."
The debate comes as Senate President Dominick Ruggerio moves to have the Department of Transportation take over the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, the quasi-state agency that runs the state's bus network.
On Monday night, Ruggerio grilled RIPTA CEO Scott Avedisian over an $84,000 lobbying contract RIPTA awarded to the law firm that employs former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung. Avedisian approved the contract without getting approval from the RIPTA board, something that is allowed under that agency's regulations.
In other votes Tuesday, the Senate voted to confirm State Police Superintendent Col. Darnell Weaver and Department of Labor and Training Director Matthew Weldon. Both those votes were unanimous. | 2023-03-08T00:06:56+00:00 | providencejournal.com | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/politics/state/2023/03/07/dot-chief-alviti-confirmed/69981483007/ |
PARIS (AP) — French environmentalists prepared Tuesday to move a beluga whale that strayed into the Seine River last week to a saltwater basin in Normandy, hoping to save the life of the dangerously thin marine mammal.
A medical team plans to transport the 4-meter-long (13-foot-long) whale to a coastal spot in the northeastern French port town of Ouistreham for “a period of care,” according to Lamya Essemlali, president of the conservation group Sea Shepherd France.
Experts think the whale is sick and in a race against time for survival, she said.
The whale would remain in its temporary saltwater home for “two to three days” of surveillance and treatment before being towed out to sea, according to Isabelle Dorliat Pouzet, deputy prefect of the town of Evreux.
“Then, nature will take its course,” Pouzet said. “We have to be optimistic… the work has been painstakingly prepared.”
A team of some 80 people, including veterinarians and environmentalists, gathered Tuesday near a Seine River lock in the Eure region to plot the exodus of the new local celebrity.
Conservations groups said it would take 24 people to load the beluga into a refrigerated truck for the approximately 160-kilometer (99-mile) trip to Ouistreham, describing the the saltwater transfer as an “enormous operation.”
Because the region is experiencing extreme heat, the team plans to wait until nightfall before moving the ethereal white creature. It weighs about 800 kilograms (1,764 pounds).
Rescuers hope to spare the whale the fate of an orca that strayed into the Seine and died in May.
Authorities said that while the move carries its own mortality risk because of the stress on the animal, the whale can’t survive much longer in the Seine’s freshwater habitat.
They remain hopeful it will survive after it responded to a cocktail of antibiotics and vitamins administered in the last few days and rubbed itself on the lock’s wall to remove patches that had appeared on its back.
Sea Shepherd’s Essemlali said medical surveillance at the saltwater basin would help establish whether whale “is suffering from something we can help it with or from an incurable illness.”
Drone footage shot by French fire services last week showed the whale meandering into a stretch of the Seine between Paris and the Normandy city of Rouen that is far inland from the sea.
Conservationists have tried unsuccessfully since Friday to feed fish to the beluga. Sea Shepherd fears the whale is slowly starving in the waterway. | 2022-08-10T04:44:09+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/national-world/ap-international/rescuers-to-move-whale-stranded-in-french-river-to-saltwater/ |
Engaged Georgia firefighters hospitalized after fire engine rolls over in on-duty crash
THOMASTON, Ga. (WANF/Gray News) - Two Georgia firefighters are in the hospital fighting for their lives after their firetruck overturned while responding to an incident, WANF reports.
The couple is engaged to be married in October.
According to Monroe County Emergency Services, Logan Gordy and Trista Cheeks were responding to a car accident when their fire engine rolled, leaving the volunteer firefighters with life-threatening injuries.
Cheeks was rushed into surgery, and Gordy had to be placed in a medically induced coma due to the severity of his condition.
Her family told MCES she is responsive but still has a rough road ahead.
“She opens her eyes when they move her. She did pretty good with her neuro checks last night, still sluggish, but that’s OK …” her mother wrote. “Pray that EEG doesn’t show seizures, her brain continues to heal, and that we continue to see more alertness and response. We have lots of people ask if we need anything and we just want your prayers. Pray like you have never prayed before that Logan & Trista are healed and can have their dream wedding. I know this is a long road of recovery, but that’s OK. We just want both of them well!”
In the Facebook post, MCES said Gordy will need a miracle.
“There are prayers coming from all over the country. Please keep them coming, we are asking for some good news. Our hearts are overwhelmed with sadness and love. We love this boy, he is a fighter. God bless you all,” said his father.
Upson County Sheriff Dan Kilgore said 22-year-old Gordy works for him as a jail officer while volunteering as a firefighter with his fiancé. The sheriff added that Cheeks just joined the volunteer force about three weeks ago.
“It’s just absolutely heartbreaking,” Kilgore said. “What should be a happy time in their life this fall has been delayed because of this tragedy.”
Friends and family are asking for your prayers.
“Unfortunately, this tragic event happened while they were out trying to help someone else,” Kilgore said.
The Upson County community is also set to come together for a benefit for Gordy and Cheeks on July 29 at the Rock Hill Volunteer Fire Department in Thomaston, Georgia.
Copyright 2023 WANF via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-18T15:28:51+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2023/07/18/engaged-georgia-firefighters-hospitalized-after-fire-engine-rolls-over-on-duty-crash/ |
Next generation RU that combines the power of vRAN and open standards to accelerate 5G deployment
NEW DELHI, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- HFCL Limited (HFCL), a leading telecom equipment manufacturer and technology provider today announced the launch of 5G 8T8R Macro Radio Unit (RU), the first product from its 5G product family. HFCL's 5G 8T8R Macro RU is a next generation RU that has a compact form factor, improved energy efficiency, supports digital beamforming and zero touch provisioning.
5G will accelerate the adoption of virtualization and cloud native technologies. However, most of the current implementations of virtual RAN (vRAN) are based on proprietary technologies. HFCL's 5G 8T8R Macro RU combines the power of vRAN and O-RAN based open standards. Unlike traditional RAN where all components of RAN must come from the same vendor, HFCL's 5G 8T8R Macro RU can integrate with any vendor's virtual baseband unit (vBBU) that is compliant with O-RAN fronthaul specification.
HFCL's 5G 8T8R Macro RU is 3GPP Release 15 and 16 compliant. It supports n78 frequency band (3.3 – 3.67 GHz) with 8T8R MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) configuration. It is lightweight and compact in form factor and supports natural convection air cooling. It will aid operators in providing better 5G coverage and address capacity requirements in urban, suburban and rural areas. It is modular in design and can be easily customized to support any Sub-6 GHz frequency band to address the global markets. It supports multiple mounting options and can be easily deployed on poles, rooftops, and walls. Security by design is built into the 5G 8T8R Macro RU and it supports secured boot, digitally signed applications, and is hardened against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Commenting on this product launch, Mr. Mahendra Nahata, MD, HFCL said, "HFCL is proud to bring the world class 5G 8T8R Macro RU product that has been designed and developed completely by our indigenous R&D team to address India and global markets. It also supports needs of rural mobile broadband in the country. Reliable and ubiquitous 5G networks has a critical role to play in making India a digital economy."
With a distinct set of features designed for improved energy efficiency, HFCL's 8T8R Macro RU also supports digital beamforming with excellent steering capability for improved customer experience. It supports improved radio resource management and provides seamless interoperability with any industry leading AI/ML powered RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC). In addition, HFCL's 5G 8T8R Macro RU supports zero touch provisioning & closed-loop automation and enables faster time-to-market for launch of new 5G services.
About HFCL
HFCL is a leading technology company specialising in creating digital networks for telcos, enterprises and governments. Over the years, HFCL has emerged as a trusted partner offering sustainable high tech solutions with a commitment to provide the latest technology products to its customers. Our strong R&D expertise coupled with our global system integration services and decades of experience in fibre optics enable us to deliver innovative digital network solutions required for the most advanced networks.
The Company's in-house R&D Centres located at Gurgaon & Bengaluru along with invested R&D houses and other R&D collaborators at different locations in India and abroad, innovate futuristic range of technology products and solutions. HFCL has developed capabilities to provide premium quality Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Cables , state-of-the-art telecom products including 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) products, 5G Transport Products, WiFi Systems (WiFi 6, WiFi 7), Unlicensed Band Radios, Switches, Routers and Software Defined Radios.
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Research shows breast cancer mortality rate has fallen 43% since the ‘80s
(CNN) - Fewer people are dying from breast cancer, according to a report from the American Cancer Society.
However, the latest numbers from the organization show disparities continue to significantly impact the health of Black women.
Improved research, better treatments and screenings have all led to fewer people dying of breast cancer.
“The peak year was 1989. And since then, the breast cancer mortality rate has actually fallen by 43%,” Dr. Bill Dahut, chief scientific officer with the American Cancer Society, said.
But the latest numbers from the American Cancer Society aren’t shifting fast enough in the right direction for Black women.
The organization says overall, a Black woman is about 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than a white woman.
”If you’re a Black woman between the ages of 20 and 29, you’re actually at double the risk of dying from breast cancer than a white woman of the same age,” Dahut said.
The American Cancer Society says it’s important to make sure health care is adequate for everyone.
”Women of color, particularly Black women, are not always having their mammograms, or their facilities are not always the best. They’re not always called back as appropriately, and not always given the same opportunities for some of our newer therapies,” Dahut said.
Screenings are key, but the organization says there was a dip in mammograms during the height of the pandemic and over a million fewer people went to their annual screening.
”It’s important if you do have cancer, that we find it really early because then we can do something about it,” Dahut said.
Over the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the American Cancer Society has started a campaign called “Grab Your Girls” to encourage women to get screened.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-10-06T21:51:37+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/10/06/research-shows-breast-cancer-mortality-rate-has-fallen-43-since-80s/ |
KABUL, Afghanistan – In the year since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, they have used their muscle to restrict the education and curiosity of girls. They've been banned from high school, told to cover up and stay home. But in one secret book club in Kabul, about a dozen teenagers are defying the Taliban to continue learning – and along the way have connected to a girl from a different time and place who was also forced to live her life in secret.
"She had hope. She was fighting. She was studying. She was resisting her fate," says Zahra. She's in the basement of a building on a side alley on the outskirts of Kabul where the book club met on a recent August day with two young volunteers who act as facilitators, steering the conversation and asking questions.
Zahra is speaking of Anne Frank.
The girls are reading and discussing the teenager's famous diary, which she began writing at age 13. And they are struck by the parallels: Just like them, Anne was only a kid – one who was starting to learn about the world – when she was forced into hiding because of a violent, oppressive government.
Another book club member summarizes the diary at a facilitator's urging: "In the beginning Anne has a good life, but after Hitler takes over, he places strict laws and regulations against Jews. They go into hiding. They can't make noise. They have to walk softly."
Four volunteers set up this weekly book club for teenage girls shortly after the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August last year.
(NPR is only using the first names of the girls to protect them from any Taliban reprisals for violating the education ban and not identifying the club's organizers, who fear the Taliban could shut down the book club and punish them for educating the girls.)
The origins of the secret book club
The girls in this book club come from a heart-wrenching cohort: Nearly all of them have survived suicide bombings over the past few years. Some were wounded; others suffered psychological harm. Some lost family. They lost friends. They all belong to a persecuted ethnic minority called Hazaras. Living under the Taliban's rule has added to their hardships..
The four volunteers are young men and women who have worked in education and community service for years. They hope the girls will be able to process the events of their own lives through reading and talking about the classics of Persian and Western literature, translated into Farsi.
"We come here, we talk about the books, and then we understand ourselves, our thoughts," says one of the young book club members, Arzou. "It is like, so amazing."
Some of the books are intended to show the girls how other minorities have survived persecution – or not – through personal stories of resistance and suffering, like Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
Bringing a Jewish voice to Kabul
It is a remarkable effort in a culture and region where there have been no substantial Jewish communities for decades and where clerics have often maligned Jews, without evidence, as seeking to undermine Muslim communities and Islam itself.
But the Hazara volunteers who lead this book club understand the European Jewish experience differently: a minority that was once unspeakably persecuted as part of the Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish people, with millions killed, but which has since thrived. They hope the girls will see that too.
Volunteers who facilitate the book club assigned Frank's diary to the girls in late July. They agreed to meet weeks later with NPR to talk about it.
The book, which has been translated into over 70 languages and sold some 30 million copies, was translated into Farsi by a 61-year-old Afghan refugee named Khalil Wedad who lives in the Netherlands.
Wedad said when he first came across the book in a class he attended on Dutch language and culture, he was taken by how Anne Frank's story of a girl in hiding resonated with the experience of many Afghans living through decades of war. He hoped that if he were to translate the book, Afghan girls would see themselves in her story.
Wedad told NPR that he was supported by the Anne Frank House, which oversaw the translation and paid for publishing about 1,500 copies.
"At first it may seem surprising that these girls relate so powerfully to Anne Frank, but for young people who experience terror and oppression who have to hide for their lives, there's somehow comfort to know they're not alone," says Doyle Stevick, executive director of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina. (The center is the official partner of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam).
"The diary helps us recall our common humanity no matter what our differences may be," Stevick says. "Anne's strong spirited determination not to give into despair has inspired people around the world."
In 2005, after the Farsi edition of the book was published, Wedad said he traveled back to Afghanistan and held small meetings with journalists and civil society activists to introduce the book. He even held readings with Afghan teenage girls.
Wedad said he hadn't heard about the secret book club but was pleased to learn that young Afghan women are finding meaning in Anne Frank's story. "It feels like his mission was kind of fulfilled," Wedad's son Khaled told NPR, translating for his dad, who does not speak English.
'I think Anne Frank is ... a friend for me.'
Arzou, one of the book club participants, said it was the first time they had read the firsthand account of a teenage girl living through extreme hardship. "I think Anne Frank is like, as a friend for me," she said.
"Something is in common with me and Anne Frank," Arzou says. "We are both the victims of war. I mean, Anne Frank is suffering from war and I am too. And Anne Frank cannot go to school, cannot, like go out very freely. And I have the same situation."
Like Anne Frank, Arzou says, "we are just in a dark place and there isn't any light," she says. "And we don't understand what would come after this."
Before the Taliban came to power, Arzou says her grades were so high that she expected to apply to colleges abroad to study computer science. That dream is over.
She's 17, but her hair is streaked with gray – a startling sight set against the pimples on her teenage face. She thinks the grays are because she holds in the suffering she's experienced.
But she says she's learning that other people, like the Jews of Europe, like Anne Frank, lived through worse.
"I found the Anne Frank situation more harder than us," Arzou says. "They cannot go out, and every minute they are thinking of being free, but in the end, they even die. So if I think of my situation. I am very grateful because I have these people that I can share my ideas with. We can gather together and talk about anything that we want."
Another girl, 17-year-old Masouma, wearing a lavender headscarf and purple robe, raises her hand to talk. She says she relates to how Anne Frank faced the real fear that she'd be killed even as she wrote about her typical teenage problems, including her crush on a teenage boy who shared their hiding place and her clashes with her mother.
"I loved the whole book. It was like a friend of mine telling me her pain, her stories. When she called her diary Kitty, I smiled and I imagined that I was Kitty, and that we are best friends," Masouma says smiling.
Masouma is referring to this moment in Frank's diary: "All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. This is why I've started the diary."
"To enhance the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination, I don't want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I'm going to call this friend Kitty."
Masouma says she admires Anne Frank for trying to have a sense of perspective: She was sad because she couldn't go to school in hiding. But she knew it was worse out in the world. She wrote in her diary in 1942 about Jews being transported to camps: "We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed. Perhaps that's the quickest way to die."
And she says, Anne Frank didn't give up on education. She tried to continue her education in secret, even taking a shorthand course by correspondence. Masouma is trying to keep up her education as well.
Despite the Taliban's ban on secondary education for girls, Masouma and other girls were sneaking into a high school that was secretly letting them attend the boys-only classes. They were ducking into the school gate in tiny numbers, hoping they wouldn't be noticed.
"But there were too many of us," Masouma says. She says the school principal feared local Taliban security forces would notice the girls coming in and out, and so they were told to go home. "The girls were all crying," Masouma recalls. "My sister is still traumatized and now she doesn't want to try to get an education."
Masouma and the other girls say they find comfort in Anne Frank's diary, even though they know how it ends. Anne Frank died of typhus in 1945 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after her family was betrayed and their hiding place revealed. She was 16.
Zahra, the young woman who described Anne Frank as resisting her fate, says knowing the end didn't depress her at all. "Nobody knows how long I will live, or when I will die," she shrugs. "The only thing you can do is leave something behind for the world that gives your life meaning."
Like Anne Frank, who left behind her diary, published in 1947.
"Right now, the Taliban are in power," Zahra says. "One day, they will be gone. Maybe people will forget what they did to girls like me."
She says that she wants to write a book as Anne Frank did so the world will know about the teenage girls of Afghanistan as well.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-14T21:56:53+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/2022-09-11/in-a-secret-kabul-book-club-teen-girls-find-comfort-in-the-diary-of-anne-frank |
BEIJING, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- WeTrade Group Inc. ("WeTrade" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WETG), a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries, today announced that the Company has launched a large-scale language model generated by artificial intelligence, continuously increasing its technical reserves in the field of artificial intelligence, and increasing the application of large model technology and products for industry applications.
The intelligent language generation and processing function launched this time can handle article tag excerpts, news content abstract production, text error correction, text information extraction, short text similarity filtering, etc.
At present, this language mode is in the trial stage. Interested users may follow the Tencent's WeChat official account of "WeTrade Group AI", and conduct interactive dialogu and eclick the button of Smart AI below to enter the background to test.
During the trial period, each following user has three free experience opportunities. The WeTrade's AI intelligent system function is still being updated, and welcome more friends to pay attention to use it.
Hechun Wei, Chief Executive Officer of the WeTrade, commented, "Since 2023, in response to the changes in global business morphology, WeTrade has gradually shifted its business focus to overseas. In addition to the underlying product sectors such as AI intelligent products, the new energy business and cross-border financial business will become the focus of the group's business.Users can download and experience the WTPay global payment system APP that meets the payment needs of over 60% of global enterprises, as well as the APP of the Renren Power Plant , through the official website or through Google Play and APP Store, to view the progress of various projects of WeTrade."
About WeTrade Group Inc.
WeTrade Group Inc. is a global diversified "software as a service" ("SaaS") technology service provider which is committed to providing technical support and digital transformation tools for enterprises across different industries. The four business segments of WeTrade Group are YCloud, WTPay,Y-Health and YG.
YCloud is a micro-business cloud intelligent system launched by WeTrade, serving global micro-business industry. YCloud strengthens users' marketing relationship and CPS commission profit management through leading technology and big data analysis. It also helps increase the payment scenarios to increase customers' revenue by multi-channel data statistics, AI fission and management as well as improved supply chain system.
Independently developed by the Company, WTPay supports multiple methods of online payment and eight mainstream digital wallets in over 100 countries to help customers quickly realize global collection and payment business.
Y-Health is the sector focusing on public health business, which engages in developing global business for biological health and medical enterprises. Currently, Y-Health mainly focuses on detection and prevention of epidemic, daily healthcare, traditional Chinese medicines, and others.
YG is the new energy business segment which mainly provides tools and technical support for the digital new energy industry in the Middle East and Central Asia.
For more information, please visit https://ir.wetg.group.
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McPerson County man wanted since 2020 arrested in Missouri, now accused of rape
Bond has been set at $50,000 cash for a man wanted in McPherson County on charges of rape and sexual contact with a child between the ages of 13 and 14.
Henry T. Berryhill, 44, was arrested June 14 by the Oregon County Sheriff's Office in Thayer, Mo., said McPherson County State's Attorney Austin Hoffman.
According to court documents, Berryhill had been wanted since Sept. 9, 2020, after he left South Dakota while on state-supervised probation. That was in connection to a felony grand theft charge resulting from his passing checks without sufficient funds, according to the paperwork.
Hoffman said a new arrest warrant was issued for Berryhill this year on the rape and sexual contact charges. According to court documents, those crimes are alleged to have occurred between Oct. 1, 2019, and July 31, 2020. Hoffman said those charges were filed this year after the victim reported the incidents.
While he's been in law enforcement custody for about a month, Hoffman said, special transportation accommodations had to be made to get Berryhill back to South Dakota. He's now in custody at the Brown County Jail.
In addition to the probation violation and the new felony charges, Berryhill has a second pending criminal case from 2021 in which he is charged with one count of grand theft in connections to a host of items that went missing. The items were locked in a shed on a Eureka property that Berryhill was renting, according to court paperwork. He is accused of stealing the items between Nov. 15, 2019, and July 20, 2020.
Berryhill's arraignment is set for Aug. 23. | 2022-07-21T20:19:35+00:00 | aberdeennews.com | https://www.aberdeennews.com/story/news/courts/2022/07/21/bond-set-50-000-mcpherson-county-man-charged-rape/10112574002/ |
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Solon junior Dominic Roberto won his third consecutive OHSAA Division I boys diving state championship on Tuesday, leading the field with a final score of 600.40.
New Albany’s Amish Patel was runner-up (552.45). Roberto and Patel separated themselves from the pack as qualifiers prior to the state meet. Roberto qualified with a 625.32, while Patel was next at 622.29.
Roberto’s Solon teammate, freshman Mitch Caldwell, finished fourth on Tuesday (485.30). Hudson’s Jack McDaniel reached the awards podium by finishing seventh (460.20). | 2023-02-22T01:52:25+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/highschoolsports/2023/02/solons-dominic-roberto-wins-3rd-consecutive-ohsaa-division-i-boys-diving-state-championship.html |
(WGHP) — FOX8 is recognizing all of our veterans in the Piedmont Triad through our Salute to Veterans.
Corris A. Brown served in the U.S. Marine Corps.
Thank you for your service, Corris!
See all of the veterans highlighted in the 2022 Salute to Veterans. | 2022-11-16T18:02:48+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/community/salute-to-veterans/salute-to-veterans-corris-a-brown/ |
AHMEEK VILLAGE, Mich. (WJMN) – One person has been arrested following an alleged knife chase last week. The Keweenaw County Sheriff’s Office says the office responded to a call at approximately 2:53 p.m. on Thursday, June 30, reporting a man with a knife chasing a woman in Ahmeek Village.
The suspect was later located and arrested at a Dollar General store in New Allouez, according to the sheriff’s office.
The sheriff’s office was assisted at the scene by troopers from the Michigan State Police Calumet Post.
No additional details are known at this time. | 2022-07-05T21:31:11+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/local-news/one-arrested-after-knife-chase-in-ahmeek-village/ |
Plug-in hybrids are a great way to adapt to the electric-car future without having to rely on it, cold turkey. Those considering plug-in hybrid models this year have a number of better product choices than in previous years—with longer electric range, better drivability and additional off-road capability.
Yet suddenly, far fewer of them are making as much financial sense versus hybrids, due to the abrupt loss of the federal EV tax credit for many of the market’s PHEVs after President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The revamped credit under IRA, called the Clean Vehicle Credit, only applies to plug-in hybrids and EVs that are American-made. And with the exception of a handful of PHEVs from Chrysler, Ford, Jeep, and Lincoln, plus a few more select models from Audi, BMW, and Volvo, EV tax credit eligibility has been drastically cut.
Do your calculations on cost, fuel, electricity
Until recently, plug-in hybrids have been a smart choice if you value low operating costs and the best overall value—while maximizing battery resources and making, in most cases, a greener choice versus hybrids.
Loren McDonald, founder and chief analyst of the consultancy EVAdoption, cites the Kia Niro Plug-In Hybrid as an example. It previously qualified for a $4,585 tax credit, nearly negating the $4,900 price difference with the Niro Hybrid. But now? Well, it depends on whether or not you still might be eligible for state or even local incentives applying to plug-in hybrids.
“Opting for the PHEV version may have been a no-brainer for many buyers,” McDonald notes, when adding in state and utility incentives, plus lower fuel costs, but now it will require more consideration.
While it’s certainly too early to tell based on market data, there may be cases where prospective buyers turn around and get a hybrid instead.
PHEVs have seen steady growth along with EVs over the past few years. And while EVs appear to be locked onto a rapid-rise trendline, there’s not as strong a long-term prognosis for PHEVs. As of July—before the passage of the IRA—S&P expected that in 2030 just 5% of U.S. new vehicle sales would be plug-in hybrids, versus 47% fully electric vehicles. That’s up from the 1.5% PHEVs and 5.5% EVs anticipated by EV Adoption for the second quarter of 2022.
No tax credit, yet PHEV sticker prices rising?
There have been a few plug-in hybrid market introductions in recent weeks, and the pricing decisions have been a bit surprising. Despite the loss of the tax credit, these prices on newly ineligible PHEVs have gone up versus eligible predecessors.
Mitsubishi confirmed one such example this past week. Its 2023 Outlander Plug-In Hybrid will start at $41,190, including the mandatory $1,345 destination fee. That’s up nearly $3,000 in sticker price, from $38,240 for 2022.
In bottom-line money for most purchasing households, the Outlander PHEV is up more than $9,500 versus last year. The Outlander PHEV used to be eligible for the federal EV tax credit—an amount of $6,587 based on its battery capacity. The 2023 version, with its larger 20-kwh battery pack, would have been eligible for the full $7,500 amount had it reached the market before the August 16 signing.
As we reported in a first drive of the Outlander PHEV, this model’s bigger battery, stronger electric motors and expanded electric-only operation provide an excellent 38 all-electric miles of operation plus a seamless transition between power sources in hybrid mode. It represents the best technology from the Japanese brand and is a strong alternative to the Toyota RAV4 Prime, best that vehicle with an additional row of seats.
Kia also, since the tax credit demise, hiked the base price of its Sorento Plug-In Hybrid by more than $5,000 for 2023, versus 2022. That roomy, three-row model was also eligible for $6,587 under the outgoing EV tax credit, meaning that the 2023 Sorento PHEV, at $51,185, now costs about $11,600 more than last year’s model. That’s for a “streamlined” lineup putting all the focus on the top-of-the-line SX-P trim, including all-wheel drive, a suite of driver-assistance features, and an AC inverter good for powering a laptop.
Will more PHEVs be made in America?
While Stellantis’ Jeep Wrangler 4xe and Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid are two of the top-selling American-built plug-in hybrids for which the EV tax credit still apply, the buyers of the popular Toyota RAV4 Prime and Prius Prime can no longer claim it due to their Japanese assembly.
The loss of the EV tax credit for imported models also includes some of the PHEVs with the longest electric range, such as all but one of Volvo’s Recharge PHEVs recently given larger battery packs. While the XC60 Recharge PHEV we drove last year is among those counted out for their European assembly, Volvo’s South Carolina–built S60 T8 Recharge sedan, at 41 EPA-rated electric miles, is its sole PHEV that currently qualifies.
McDonald doesn’t see that the IRA will necessarily cause a shift of more plug-in hybrids from foreign-made to American-made. That’s because one of the key issues isn’t just the potential sales volume that might make U.S. assembly worthwhile, but whether or not they can meet future battery cell and mineral requirements as laid out for the Clean Vehicle Credit.
“Since they are both selling at a significant volume (from an EV perspective) and assembled overseas, they may not believe it is worth the investment to shift manufacturing to North American factories,” he says about the Toyotas.
California’s 50-mile requirement
Furthermore, the tighter regulations from California—adopted by at least nine other states—are another factor. They require that PHEVs deliver 50 miles of electric range, starting with the 2026 model year, to earn the full ZEV credit amounts from the state’s Air Resources Board.
That requirement could be a last straw for automakers, in terms of the number of PHEVs they can produce with bigger batteries and added complexity while also adding more fully electric models, and it might potentially swing automakers that are currently very bullish on PHEVs, like Hyundai and Kia, away from them. They might instead focus on a few U.S.-sourced, U.S.-assembled EVs that would qualify and be more cost-effective.
“Some automakers may simply use this requirement as a catalyst to exit the PHEV business and focus on regular hybrids and full BEVs,” said McDonald.
Market forces could fix this
Michael Fiske, associate director for powertrain forecasting at S&P Global Mobility, suggested that the market forces around simple supply and demand might be limiting the growth of PHEVs as a greener possibility for some shoppers.
Demand far outpaces supply, and it will for the next year or so, said Fiske, inflating sticker prices and transaction prices. “These vehicles are positioned to be competitive in the current environment, and the current environment is anything but normal,” he said.
“The manufacturers, they have shareholders, and need to maximize their profits, and that’s an easy way to do it,” Fiske added. “There’s no need to try to discount it to try to attract more buyers because you’re going to be selling out no matter what.”
Fiske said there’s a sense within the industry that the market will normalize and prices may need to come back down, but as some manufacturers will qualify for the new credit and others won’t, pricing will be readjusted differently. As such, some automakers will decide that plug-in hybrid is a good transition technology and others won’t.
Model lineups will change
How the combination of the IRA and the California requirements will affect plans for PHEVs vs. EVs remains to be seen, and it’s going to be a new and different calculation for each company.
“Manufacturers trying to figure out how to qualify or if it’s worth it anymore—that’s definitely going on,” Fiske said. “But as well, we still have a continuing semiconductor shortage, and that is playing a significant role, along with this overall inflation.”
Some automakers, including General Motors and Volkswagen, have years ago decided that plug-in hybrids aren’t worth it for the U.S.
With an arguably far more complex supply chain than EVs, involving engines, transmissions, battery packs, clutches, and many more components, shifts in plug-in hybrid manufacturing seem less likely in the near future—pegging PHEVs as less of the fiscally sensible technology bridge for automakers they might have once seemed.
The analysts we polled collectively said that the ones to watch as this unfolds will be Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, and Kia, all of which were at least mulling plug-in hybrids as a transitional tech toward more EVs. With product cycles of at least three years, it’s not going to be immediate.
Just a little patience?
In this current market of short supply and overheated demand, it could just take some patience. Prices settling under market forces and incentives from California states may help align PHEVs back to a spot in which their operating costs make more sense for more families.
“The IRA, when we look at it holistically and not because of the current challenges in the market, is going to be more impactful on the types of decisions we’re seeing consumers make probably closer to 2025-2026, when they can see that normalization of the market,” anticipated Fiske.
So don’t write off PHEVs as a good solution to help shift drivers away from gas stations—but for another year or two, the choice may not be nearly as clear-cut as it was.
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- 2023 Kia Sorento Hybrid starts $2,500 higher than 2022 in “optimization” of lineup | 2022-10-08T12:42:07+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/automotive/internet-brands/phevs-are-no-longer-a-no-brainer-vs-hybrids/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Another Assembly Democrat is calling it quits.
Rep. Gary Hebl of Sun Prairie announced Wednesday that he won’t seek reelection this fall. He said he wants to focus on his personal life, travel with his wife and family and spend more time with his grandchildren.
Hebl, 70, has served in the Assembly since 2004. Seven Assembly Democrats have now announced they won’t run again in November.
Thirteen Republicans have announced their retirement from the chamber. Six senators, including three Democrats and three Republicans, have said they’re not running again. | 2022-04-13T17:29:51+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Hebl-becomes-7th-Democrat-to-retire-from-17078189.php |
Chess club at a Gainesville private school made history at tournament in Orlando winning every section
Published: Mar. 21, 2023 at 1:35 AM EDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A Gainesville private school’s chess club team made history.
In a state tournament this month in Orlando, Oak Hall’s Elementary School division team won every section, becoming the first in the tournament’s history to do so.
The next big tournament the school’s teams will face will be in April for the Jacksonville Spring Scholastic Championships.
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US authorities charge man in case of missing Navajo woman
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A New Mexico man is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Native American woman, whose case has garnered national attention as tribal leaders and law enforcement address an epidemic of missing person cases and unsolved slayings in Indian Country.
Preston Henry Tolth, 23, has been accused of assaulting Ella Mae Begay and taking her pickup truck. It will be up to a federal magistrate to decide whether Tolth will remain in custody pending trial.
Federal prosecutors said the indictment naming Tolth marked an important step in determining the truth about what happened to Begay, a Navajo woman who was 62 when she disappeared. Her truck was seen on the morning of June 15, 2021, leaving her home in the remote community of Sweetwater in the Navajo Nation, not far from the meeting point of Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado.
The investigation is ongoing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona said.
Navajo Nation authorities previously identified Tolth as a person of interest in Begay’s case. Tolth has a criminal history including charges of aggravated battery, resisting arrest, residential burglary and drug possession dating back to 2019, according to New Mexico court records.
Tolth was already in custody pending the outcome of a 2022 case in which he was accused of stealing a man’s wallet while armed with some kind of sharp weapon, court records show.
Begay’s family has remained committed to finding her and bringing her home. A year after Begay disappeared, her niece began walking from the Navajo Nation to Washington, D.C., to bring attention to a decades-long epidemic of violence disproportionately affecting Indigenous people.
The investigation into Begay’s disappearance is part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s efforts to address cases involving missing and slain Native Americans.
Begay’s family members also have met with U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who recently joined Justice Department officials in hosting the first in-person session of the Not Invisible Act Commission in Washington. The commission is developing recommendations for preventing and responding to violence affecting tribal communities. | 2023-04-07T13:57:21+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-colorado/2023/04/07/us-authorities-charge-man-in-case-of-missing-navajo-woman/ |
Today in Sports History, Feb. 15-1978 – Leon Spinks wins a 15-round split decision over Muhammad Ali to take the world heavyweight title at Las Vegas
By The Associated Press=
Feb. 15
1932 – Eddie Eagen, as a member of the four-man U.S. bobsled team, wins a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He previously won a gold medal in boxing light heavyweight division at the 1920 Summer Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
1936 – Sonja Henie of Norway, wins her third consecutive Olympics figure skating gold medal in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
1953 – Tenley Albright becomes the first American woman to win a world figure skating title beating Germany’s Gundi Busch at the World Championships in Davos, Switzerland.
1964 – Ken Hubbs, the 22-year-old Chicago Cubs second baseman, dies when his private plane crashes in Utah. The 1962 NL Rookie of the Year had his pilot’s license for two weeks and was flying in bad weather.
1974 – Boston’s Phil Esposito scores his 1,000th point with an assist in the Bruins’ 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
1978 – Leon Spinks wins a 15-round split decision over Muhammad Ali to take the world heavyweight title at Las Vegas.
1980 – Rookie Wayne Gretzky ties the NHL record with seven assists in a game and sets a scoring record for first-year players in Edmonton’s 8-2 victory over the Washington Capitals.
1986 – A crowd of 44,180, at the time the largest to attend an NBA game, turned out at the Pontiac Silverdome to watch the Pistons beat the Sixers 134-133 in overtime.
1994 – Kentucky makes one of the greatest comebacks in college basketball history with a 99-95 victory over LSU after trailing by 31 points with 15:30 to play.
1994 – Freshman Ila Borders becomes the first woman to pitch in an NCAA or NAIA game. The left-hander pitches a complete-game for Southern California College, allowing five hits in the Vanguards’ 12-1 win over Claremont-Mudd.
1995 – Charlie Standish sets a PBA record by rolling three perfect games in the first round of the Peoria Open bowling tournament. Standish rolls the 300s in the second, fourth and sixth games of the six-game round and at one point has 23 consecutive strikes.
1998 – Dale Earnhardt takes the Daytona 500 on his 20th try and ends a 59-race winless streak on the day NASCAR begins celebrating its 50th anniversary.
2002 – The worst judging scandal in Winter Olympics history is resolved, with Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier declared co-gold medalists with the Russian winners.
2004 – Dale Earnhardt Jr. barrels past Tony Stewart to win the Daytona 500 on the same track that claimed his father’s life three years ago. Junior wins this race in his fifth try, the same race that bedeviled his later father for 19 years.
2007 – Joe Sakic scores twice, including his 600th career goal, and adds three assists and Milan Hejduk has three goals to lead Colorado to a 7-5 win at Calgary.
2010 – American Seth Wescott defends his Olympic title in Vancouver, British Columbia, overtaking Canada’s Mike Robertson to win the gold medal in the wild sport of men’s snowboardcross. Didier Defago wins the gold in the Olympic downhill and American Bode Miller breaks his personal streak of major championship mishaps by taking the bronze.
2013 – Ted Ligety becomes the first man in 45 years to win three gold medals at a skiing world championships. French great Jean-Claude Killy took home four golds in 1968. Ligety wins giant slalom by a massive margin for his third gold. Earlier in the championships held in Schladming, Austria, Ligety won the super-G and super-combined – both events he had never won on the World Cup circuit.
2014 – Renaud Lavillenie breaks Sergei Bubka’s 21-year-old indoor pole vault world record in Donetsk, Ukraine. Lavillenie clears the bar comfortably at 6.16 meters (20 feet, 2 1/2 inches) in Bubka’s home city, almost to the day the pole vault great cleared achieved 6.15 (20-2) on Feb. 21, 1993.
2018 – German figure skaters Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot set new ISU best free skating score of 159.31 on their way to pairs gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
— | 2023-02-15T09:06:36+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/today-in-sports-history-spinks-wins-over-ali-to-take-title/ |
LANCASTER, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio farmer whose photo became a widely used meme has died, but not without leaving behind a legacy in the agricultural world alongside his internet fame.
On Thursday, 76-year-old Dave Brandt was driving home to his Fairfield County farm after picking up red corn near Champaign, Illinois, when his truck crashed. Emergency crews took him to the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Randall Reeder, a friend and colleague, confirmed to Nexstar’s WCMH that Brandt died overnight Saturday.
“I got the call about 7 a.m. Sunday morning,” Reeder recalled.
Called “the godfather of soil health” by Reeder, Brandt also became a staple in internet culture thanks to a 2014 U.S. Department of Agriculture article about his farming techniques. A Redditor picked up the attached photo of Brandt four years later and added the text, “It ain’t much, but it’s honest work,” according to Know Your Meme. The picture birthed a new meme format that rapidly spread across Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms.
Reeder didn’t know if Brandt ever actually said the phrase, but noted that honest work “does fit him.”
“It got spread around the world pretty quick,” Reeder said. “He was pleased with it, he had fun with it, and didn’t object to it at all. It’s a good saying!”
However, there was more to the farmer than his image on the internet. Brandt, a Vietnam War veteran who earned three Purple Hearts, picked up farming in the 1970s. More specifically, Brandt was an avid proponent of no-till farming, a version of the trade that skips tilling or plowing for potentially healthier soil. The resource-conserving practice also cuts down on the chance of soil erosion and the need for pesticides and fertilizer.
Reeder serves as the executive director of the Ohio No-Till Council, of which Brandt was also president for 14 years. During the decades they spent together, Brandt made a name for himself as one of the county’s major no-till experts.
“I’ve been working with him maybe 30 years altogether,” Reeder said. “He was a real innovator in what we refer to as cover crops.” Cover crops are not planted for harvesting but simply to cover an area with vegetation that helps crowd out weeds, reduce erosion and fertilize soil, among other benefits.
Brandt had been no-till farming since 1971, taking on the practice thanks to blooming research on it at Ohio State University in the 1960s. A few years later, in 1978, Brandt added cover crops to his toolbelt. Rather than leaving his fields bare in between planting seasons for cash crops like corn or soybeans, Brandt would plant a crop like Austrian winter peas to improve the soil health and keep the ground covered. He normally wouldn’t harvest the cover crop, but during its life cycle, it would store nutrients like nitrogen in the soil, something he would need to manually add anyway for his cash crops.
“His goal was that he would get enough nitrogen from that cover crop to offset the nitrogen cost,” Reeder said.
The farming strategies that Brandt religiously applied for more than 40 years led the USDA, as well as foreign governments, to look to him as a role model. When the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service launched a program emphasizing soil health, Brandt’s farm became the poster child. He held annual soil health workshops in partnership with the NRCS and let crowds tour his farm during “no-till field days.”
French Minister of Agriculture and Food Stéphane Le Foll also toured Brandt’s farm during a 2015 visit to Ohio State University. He was so impressed by the farmer’s work, Reeder said Le Foll invited Brandt to France to work with no-till farmers there.
In a previous role, Reeder frequently organized agricultural conferences. The meme-famous farmer never charged to speak at the ones in Ohio and was happy to share his experience.
“If I have a conference, Dave Brandt’s going to be on it,” Reeder said.
“Honest work” meme attention aside, Reeder remembers his friend as an inspiration in the agricultural field.
“He was recognized nationally and also internationally as a top example of how farming could and should be done, promoting soil health in a way that is also saving the soil and profitable for the farmer,” Reeder said. “He’s not gonna be forgotten.” | 2023-05-23T19:03:16+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/ohio-farmer-known-for-it-aint-much-but-its-honest-work-meme-dies-at-76/ |
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