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- New 2-way data integration ensures reliability from start to finish for deals worked between Dealertrack Registration and Title Solutions and Reynolds and Reynolds ERA® Dealer Management System
- With a streamlined, single-step registration and title process, dealers can finalize deals faster for their customers
- Offering reduces data discrepancies while improving operational efficiencies in the sales and F&I process
ATLANTA, Dec. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cox Automotive announced today a new integration that drives dealer value by connecting Dealertrack's Registration and Title Solutions to Reynolds and Reynolds ERA® Dealer Management System (DMS). This integration gives dealers a one-step registration and title process for their staff so they can finalize deals faster for their customers.
"We listened and delivered when dealers asked us to make importing deal information directly from their DMS easier," stated Tracy Fred, senior vice president dealer solutions for Cox Automotive. "Cox Automotive is committed to increasing dealer efficiency with best-in-class technologies that can integrate with all key DMS providers in the automotive retail space."
Originally a multi-step process, the new integration expedites importing deals and exporting to the General Ledger, where supported. By simplifying the deal finalization process through improvements to the data workflow, dealers no longer need to first extract the information from the DMS. Data will populate to address information gaps that used to be caused by data conflicts between systems and by policy variances by state.
"Our collaboration with Reynolds and Reynolds takes registration and title processing three giant strides forward for our clients and their customers," commented Kait Gavin, vice president of operations and dealer services for Cox Automotive. "There is no room for error when it comes to finalizing deals and handling customer purchase information. Reducing data discrepancies improves both customer satisfaction and dealer operational efficiency during the critical sale and F&I process."
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Cox Automotive Inc. makes buying, selling, owning and using vehicles easier for everyone. The global company's more than 27,000 team members and family of brands, including Autotrader®, Dealer.com®, Dealertrack®, Kelley Blue Book®, Manheim®, NextGear Capital®, VinSolutions®, vAuto® and Xtime®, are passionate about helping millions of car shoppers, 40,000 auto dealer clients across five continents and many others throughout the automotive industry thrive for generations to come. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., a privately-owned, Atlanta-based company with annual revenues of nearly $20 billion. www.coxautoinc.com
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Michigan’s largest district court and bail reform advocates have agreed to settle a federal class-action lawsuit over cash bail practices, which activists say routinely and unconstitutionally jail poor and working class defendants despite evidence of their inability to pay.
Both sides say the reforms announced Tuesday strike at racial inequality in the criminal legal system. On any given day in Wayne County, which includes Detroit, the nation’s Blackest city, nearly three-quarters of those jailed are Black, a proportion much higher than their share of the population.
If the reforms narrow that disparity, it could be a model for court systems nationwide, where race and wealth are significant factors in the administration of justice, advocates say.
Detroit’s 36th District Court, the American Civil Liberties Union and The Bail Project, a nonprofit that pays bail for people in need, said the status quo wreaks unnecessary havoc on defendants’ jobs, homes and families.
“This is a historic agreement that we believe can and should be a template for how courts around the country can adapt their bail practices to what is lawful, constitutional and sensible,” said Phil Mayor, senior staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU.
Chief Judge William McConico of the 36th District Court said settling the class-action lawsuit, filed in 2019 just before he became the chief, presented an opportunity to show that law enforcement and activists can work together to change the criminal legal system.
“Other African American cities will be able to point to what one of the largest district courts in the country is doing to address this issue,” said McConico, who is Black. “That’s why it is so important that this is starting in a major Black city, that it is not being rolled out in a suburban city or a small court.”
The reforms, shared with The Associated Press exclusively ahead of Tuesday’s announcement, do not bar judges from imposing cash bail, especially if defendants are deemed a flight risk or a danger to the public. However, all Detroit judges and magistrates must say on the record how imposing bail would protect the community or prevent a failure to appear. Judges must also make an on-the-record determination as to how much a defendant can afford to pay.
The parties also agreed that any defendant who is at 200% of the federal poverty level or less is to be assumed unable to post cash bond. According to the 2022 federal guidelines, 200% of the poverty level is annual earnings of roughly $27,000 for an individual and $55,000 for a family of four.
“This should largely eliminate the practice of imposing what may seem to some like small amounts of cash bail, which effectively serve as a jail sentence for somebody who hasn’t yet been convicted of a crime,” Mayor said.
The sides also agreed to new rules stipulating when and what triggers a bail redetermination hearing, if a defendant’s bail has been set but goes unpaid. The hearing would allow for a bail amount to be reduced or withdrawn altogether if it is later deemed unaffordable.
The reforms in Detroit come as some states and local jurisdictions across the U.S. have either rolled back or are considering rollbacks of bail reforms in response to a pandemic-era increase in crime. From San Francisco to New York City and cities in between, rhetoric around the uptick in violence and nuisance crimes has slowed political momentum despite bipartisan agreement that mass incarceration is expensive and has no proven positive effect on public safety.
“We are still moving forward in a very thoughtful way, to say that the presumption of innocence matters, that mass incarceration of pretrial people needs to be reversed, and that racial disparities at the pretrial stage need to be addressed in a very real way,” said Twyla Carter, The Bail Project’s outgoing national legal and policy director.
The ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Bail Project and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP sued the chief judge, court magistrates and the Wayne County sheriff in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 2019, on behalf of seven Black plaintiffs. The plaintiffs alleged the only reason they remained in jail was because they couldn’t afford bail.
At the time of her incarceration in April 2019, one plaintiff, Starmanie Jackson, an impoverished single mother of 2- and 4-year-old children, had her bail set at $700 over outstanding traffic tickets and a charge alleging domestic violence. Because she could not afford to pay, Jackson, who had never been arrested before, was separated from her children for the first time in their lives.
“I was devastated,” said Jackson, 27. “It was nerve wracking, scary and disappointing, because we depend on our justice system to keep us safe and on track.”
She said her family couldn’t locate her for two days, as jail officials struggled to confirm where she was being held. As a result of her incarceration, Jackson, a certified nurse’s assistant, said she lost a new nursing home job when she didn’t show up for her first shift and was evicted from her apartment after she used her rent money to help pay her bond. The domestic violence charge was ultimately dropped and Jackson never served another day in jail.
The settlement makes for a happy ending to what ended up being a nightmare, said Jackson, now a mother of four children.
“I’m ecstatic because I’m able to help people to overcome some of the difficulties in our justice system, which is already jacked up,” she said.
As part of the settlement, Jackson and the other plaintiffs will split a payment of $14,000. Lawyers for the plaintiffs said the amount was agreed to with the knowledge that the court would also spend money to track bail and pretrial detention. The court did not admit wrongdoing as part of the settlement.
According to a 2020 report of the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration, between 2016 and 2018, Black men made up 29% of the jail admissions in the counties the task force sampled, even though they were just 6% of the resident population in those counties. Between 2018 and 2019 in Wayne County, Black people represented 70% of those detained in the local jail on any given day, even though they were only 39% of the resident population.
Nationwide, recent studies show Black defendants make up a majority of people in pretrial detention. However, the jail incarceration rate for Black people had been on the decline between 2008 and 2019, according to the latest federal data.
Former U.S. Attorney Gen. Eric Holder, who is senior counsel at Covington & Burling, commended the Detroit district court for reaching the agreement on reforms. “This is how our criminal justice system should work,” he said. “It can, and should be, a model for other jurisdictions across the country.”
Ezekiel Edwards, vice president of pretrial criminal justice at Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization supporting research and policy work on justice issues, said bail systems in the U.S. have become more reform-minded over the last decade. But the policy landscape is still a patchwork, he said.
“Cash bail is still used in most jurisdictions around the country and without the necessary regulations or limitations,” Edwards said.
As for achieving racial justice in Detroit, McConico said there will be a racially diverse bar association and a majority Black bench of judges and magistrates working together under the new administrative policies to ensure they have a chance of succeeding.
“It won’t just be symbolic,” the chief judge said. “There will be African Americans making a change on the criminal justice system that disproportionately impacts African Americans.”
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Morrison is a New York City-based member of the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/aaronlmorrison. | 2022-07-12T19:45:46+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/green-living/top-story/ap-top-headlines/detroit-cash-bail-reforms-to-strike-at-racial-inequality/ |
A small museum in Waterbury, Conn., is struggling with a big question: what to do with a set of human remains in its collection. In the next installment of All Things Considered's "Hidden Treasures" series, Harriet Baskas reports on a real skeleton in the closet.
Many people who grew up in Waterbury before 1970 remember school trips to the Mattatuck Museum to see the 10,000-piece button display, Charles Goodyear's rubber desk and colonial era tools and clothing. But for most people, one memory stands out: Larry.
"Larry was the thing to see when you go to the museum," says resident Lillian Brown. "I don't think anybody ever envisioned that this truly was a human being. It was just a skeleton and all the ghost stories that people would tell."
Some kids had nightmares about Larry, says Baskas. Others claimed he was their grandfather, or George Washington or some other Revolutionary War hero. Bill Bergin knew better. His great grandfather, in 1910, found the skeleton in a boarded-up closet when he was renovating a Waterbury building. According to newspaper clippings, the skeleton was the remains of a man enslaved to one Dr. Porter in the late 1700s. After the slave drowned, Porter boiled and stripped the body to make an anatomy display. The name of each bone was written right on the skeleton and "Larry" was inscribed on the forehead. Porter's descendants had locked Larry in the closet. When he was rediscovered, he was donated to the Mattatuck Museum.
"He was displayed the way you'd see a skeleton in a doctor's office," says Marie Galbraith, the museum's executive director. Larry hung in a glass case until 1970 when museum officials finally acknowledged that he was more than a collection of bones.
"He was a father, he was a husband, He was someone's son," Galbraith says.
Larry was boxed up and stored in the museum basement until 1999. Then, Waterbury's African-American History Project Committee learned about Larry. They started an investigation, and found out that no one named "Larry" had ever lived in Dr. Porter's house, but a slave named "Fortune" did. Local records reveal that he died sometime before 1803 and that he had a wife, Dinah, and four children. Archaeologists and anthropologists then examined the bones to get a better idea of how Fortune lived.
The Mattatuck Museum now has an exhibit dedicated to Fortune, including a poem, called The Manumission Requiem, by Connecticut Poet Laureate Marilyn Nelson. Fortune's bones, however, are not on display. They're still being studied, and, out of respect, stored away.
"I think of the Indians and their situation when their ancestors' bones were taken for display at museums," says Al Walton of the African-American History Project Committee. "They came of the mind that enough, we're going to take our ancestors, our old ones, give them a ceremony and lay them to rest. I think it's time for us to do the same, as African Americans, for Fortune."
This story is part of the Hidden Treasures Radio Project series, funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Cultural Development Authority of King County, Wash.
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Two weeks after a landmark Supreme Court ruling reversed abortion rights nationwide, President Joe Biden will sign an executive order in hopes of curtailing state bans or restrictions, the White House said.
Biden is expected to sign the executive order at 11:30 a.m. Friday from the White House.
The Biden administration said the president will direct the Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to protect access to abortion medication and contraception and ensure emergency medical care for pregnant women suffering from pregnancy loss.
He also asks agencies to develop strategies to protect abortion patients’ privacy. That step would be in an effort to protect abortion patients from potential prosecution in states where abortions are illegal or restricted.
Part of Biden’s order is to direct Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead a task force that would “provide technical assistance to states affording legal protection to out-of-state patients as well as providers who offer legal reproductive health care,” the White House said.
While leaders of Republican states might challenge these edicts in court, the executive order might not go far enough for some. There have been calls by abortion-rights advocates to use federal land for abortion clinics. Those calls, however, have been rebuffed by the White House.
According to the Associated Press, abortions are banned or restricted in more than 20 states. | 2022-07-08T12:42:27+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/news/national/president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-abortion-access |
MOSCOW (AP) — American basketball star Brittney Griner went on trial Friday, 4 1/2 months after her arrest on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a Russian team, in a case that has unfolded amid tense relations between Moscow and Washington.
The initial session of the trial, which was adjourned until July 7, offered the most extensive public interaction between Griner and reporters since the Phoenix Mercury center and two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist was arrested in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport.
Griner, 31, was escorted into the courtroom in the capital’s suburb of Khimki while handcuffed, carrying a water bottle and what appeared to be a magazine, and wearing a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt.
Police have said she was carrying vape canisters with cannabis oil when detained at the airport. She could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted of large-scale transportation of drugs.
The state-owned Tass news agency quoted Griner as saying in court that she understood the charges against her. Asked by the judge if she wanted to enter a plea, Griner responded, “At this moment, no, your honor. At a later date,” according to Mediazona, an independent news site known for its extensive coverage of high-profile court cases.
Fewer than 1% of defendants in Russian criminal cases are acquitted, and unlike in U.S. courts, acquittals can be overturned.
Two witnesses were questioned by the prosecution: an airport customs official, who spoke in open court, and an unidentified witness in a closed session. according to the state news agency RIA-Novosti. The trial was then adjourned, it said, when two other witnesses did not show up.
Alexander Boykov, an attorney for Griner, said outside court that he did not want to comment “on the specifics of the case and on the charges” because it was too early to do so.
Boykov also told RIA-Novosti that she has been exercising and taking walks in the detention area. The Russian website Business FM said that Griner, who smiled at times at reporters, said she wishes she could work out more and that she was struggling because she doesn’t understand Russian. Besides the WNBA’s Mercury, she played in Russia for UMMC Ekaterinburg.
Elizabeth Rood, deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, was in court and said she spoke with Griner, who “is doing as well as can be expected in these difficult circumstances.”
“The Russian Federation has wrongfully detained Brittney Griner,” Rood said. “The practice of wrongful detention is unacceptable wherever it occurs and is a threat to the safety of everyone traveling, working, and living abroad.”
She said the U.S. government, from its highest levels, “is working hard to bring Brittney and all wrongfully detained U.S. nationals home safely.”
At a closed-door preliminary hearing Monday, Griner’s detention was extended for another six months, to Dec. 20.
Her case comes at an extraordinarily low point in Moscow-Washington relations. Griner was arrested less than a week before Russia sent troops into Ukraine, which aggravated already high tensions between the two countries. The U.S. then imposed sweeping sanctions on Moscow, and Russia denounced the U.S. for sending weapons to Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday denied politics played a role in Griner’s detention and prosecution.
“The facts are that the famous athlete was detained in possession of prohibited medication containing narcotic substances,” Peskov told reporters. “In view of what I’ve said, it can’t be politically motivated,” he added.
Griner’s supporters had kept a low profile in hopes of a quiet resolution until May, when the State Department reclassified her as wrongfully detained and shifted oversight of her case to its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs — effectively the U.S. government’s chief negotiator.
Griner’s wife, Cherelle, has urged President Joe Biden to secure her release, calling her “a political pawn.”
“It was good to see her in some of those images, but it’s tough. Every time’s a reminder that their teammate, their friend, is wrongfully imprisoned in another country,” Phoenix Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard said Monday.
Griner’s supporters have encouraged a prisoner swap like the one in April that brought home Marine veteran Trevor Reed in exchange for a Russian pilot convicted of drug trafficking conspiracy.
Russian news media have repeatedly raised speculation that she could be swapped for Russian arms trader Viktor Bout, nicknamed “the Merchant of Death,” who is serving a 25-year sentence on conviction of conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens and providing aid to a terrorist organization.
Russia has agitated for Bout’s release for years. But the wide discrepancy between Griner’s case — which involves alleged possession of vape cartridges containing cannabis oil — and Bout’s global dealings in deadly weapons could make such a swap unpalatable to the U.S.
Others have suggested that she could be traded along with Paul Whelan, a former Marine and security director serving a 16-year sentence on an espionage conviction that the U.S. has repeatedly described as a setup.
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Andrew Katell contributed from New York. | 2022-07-02T03:06:50+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/trial-for-us-basketball-star-begins-in-moscow-area-court/ |
Correctional officer shot, killed while arriving for work in Georgia
Published: Dec. 13, 2022 at 9:46 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A homicide investigation is underway at the Gwinnett Correctional Center on Hi Hope Road near Swanson Drive, according to Gwinnett Police Department.
Officials say a senior correctional officer, identified as 59-year-old Scott Riner, apparently was arriving for work around 6:20 a.m. when someone shot and killed him in the parking lot.
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Percentages: FG .543, FT .706.
3-Point Goals: 16-30, .533 (Knox 6-6, McMillian 5-9, Baumann 4-7, Ellis 1-2, Harrison 0-2, McGlothan 0-4).
Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 4 (McGlothan 2, Baumann, Ouedraogo).
Turnovers: 9 (Ellis 2, Knox 2, McGlothan 2, Baumann, Harrison, McMillian).
Steals: 4 (Harrison 2, McGlothan, McMillian).
Technical Fouls: None.
Percentages: FG .463, FT .714.
3-Point Goals: 5-19, .263 (Grant 2-8, May 1-1, Powers 1-3, Huefner 1-5, Nicholas 0-1, Wilkerson 0-1).
Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 1 (Ezeagu).
Turnovers: 4 (Grant 3, Huefner).
Steals: 4 (Grant, Huefner, Powers, Wrzeszcz).
Technical Fouls: None.
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Credible Insurance Offers New American Funding Customers Fast, Easy Access to Home Insurance
TUSTIN, Calif., Oct. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Achieving the American dream of homeownership is the first part. Protecting the home is a close second.
Hopeful homeowners are well on their way to do both, thanks to Credible Insurance now offering fast and easy access to home insurance to New American Funding customers.
As one of the nation's largest, independent and Latina-owned mortgage companies, New American Funding has built its business and reputation on service, satisfaction and helping people of all backgrounds achieve the dream of homeownership.
"Owning a home is one of the best ways to achieve generational wealth," said New American Funding Co-Founder and CEO Rick Arvielo. "It's important you have the right protection to get there. Offering access to Credible Insurance through our platform provides a stress-free, seamless customer experience, allowing our customers to easily shop for homeowners insurance online as they're finding the right loan for them."
New American Funding services over 95% of its customers in-house, allowing the company to maintain a high level of satisfaction at all stages of the homebuying journey – from pre-approval to funding and beyond. In fact, the company has been recognized as #1 in Customer Satisfaction among Mortgage Services by J.D. Power in 2022.
The Credible Insurance iframe provides New American Funding customers an easy way to access competitive home insurance quotes at the time of loan origination. In fact, the Credible Insurance API Calculator uses data from more than 42,000 ZIP codes to tailor insurance premium estimates by a borrower's specific geographic location. By completing the Credible Insurance application, borrowers can receive up to three competitive and bindable insurance quotes that are managed and serviced by Credible.
"Credible Insurance API solutions offer customers a convenient and integrated home insurance marketplace platform that provides an easy-to-navigate application process, multiple quotes from up to 40 highly rated carriers, access to licensed insurance agents, and seamless policy renewals," said Jack Osborn, Credible Vice President, Partnerships. "Through Credible Insurance, offering access to home insurance to homeowners has never been easier for lenders and banks."
Credible Insurance offers a number of integration solutions that allow lenders to offer their customers access to home insurance within their digital environments with a few simple steps.
"Our proprietary quote engine allows New American Funding – and other lenders – to narrow coverage gaps and provide customers with access to more accurate quotes," said David Stasie, Credible General Manager, Insurance.
Credible is a San Francisco-based U.S. company operating a consumer finance marketplace that helps consumers save money and make better financial decisions. Credible has developed a proprietary technology platform that is integrated with credit bureaus and financial institutions. Credible has developed a differentiated and personalized user experience that enables consumers to compare instant, accurate prequalified rates from multiple financial institutions for insurance, student loans, personal loans and mortgage refinance loans. To learn more, visit www.credible.com/insurance.
New American Funding is an independent mortgage lender with a servicing portfolio of 237,000+ loans for approximately $62.8 billion and 163 nationwide locations. In 2022, New American Funding was ranked #1 by J.D. Power in Customer Satisfaction among Mortgage Servicers. The company was also named #18 on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2022 and has made Inc. 5000's list of Fastest-Growing Companies in America eight times. The company offers state-of-the-art career training and provides its branch Loan Officers with innovative technologies to streamline the mortgage process.
For J.D. Power 2022 award information, visit jdpower.com/awards.
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Heat still waiting to see if Butler can play in Game 3
MIAMI (AP) — NBA playoff scoring leader Jimmy Butler was with the Miami Heat for their film session Thursday, without any clarity yet if his sprained ankle will be healed enough for him to play in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the New York Knicks on Saturday.
And if Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has an answer, he’s not tipping his hand.
“No update. … I’m not going to get into all the minutiae of it,” Spoelstra said. “When we find out how he is feeling on Saturday, we’ll let you know. That’s what the deal is.”
Butler missed Game 2 of the series — a 111-105 win for the Knicks — because of the ankle, which he sprained with about 5 minutes left in Miami’s Game 1 victory at Madison Square Garden.
It was only the fourth game Butler has missed since the last week of January, and two of those were the final two games of the regular season with the Heat locked into the play-in tournament at that point.
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, after Game 2, made clear that his team will be ready for a Butler comeback.
“You already know the answer to that,” Thibodeau said. “We will. That’s sort of the nature of the beast right now for everyone. You go in, you know guys are nicked-up this time of the year and so there’s always possibilities that guys could be in or out. … If Jimmy’s available, then we’ll have a plan for him.”
The training room has been a busy place this week for Miami, which has already lost shooting guard Victor Oladipo (knee) for the remainder of the season and shooting guard Tyler Herro (hand) for several more weeks. Wing players Max Strus and Caleb Martin both were dealing with some back pain at times in Game 2, though were able to finish the game.
“I’m good,” Strus said Thursday. “Nothing’s wrong with me.”
Having Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with no games sounds like a needed breather for both sides. New York’s Julius Randle returned in Game 2 from an ankle sprain, and point guard Jalen Brunson has been playing through an ankle issue.
“I think the time off does us well, does us justice,” Heat guard Kyle Lowry said. “We’re not complaining about it at all. I think it’s good for our team. I think it’s good for our brains to kind of get a little bit of a break from it, but we still can get the mental reps and all that stuff, so it’s good from that aspect.”
Lowry indicated that he wouldn’t be surprised if Butler tries to play.
“I know how competitive he is,” Lowry said. “I would be optimistic, but who knows. Honestly, we’ve got to go day by day with Jimmy, so we’ll see what happens on Saturday at 3:30.”
Going back to the final two games of last season’s Eastern Conference finals, Butler has been on a playoff tear. He’s averaged 36.9 points — and 40.5 minutes — in his last eight postseason games, on 57% shooting from the field while averaging 7.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists.
In the six playoff games so far this season, he’s averaging the league-best 35.5 points on 59% shooting, with 6.8 rebounds and 4.7 assists per game. Included in that: a career-high 56-point effort against Milwaukee in Game 4 of Round 1, followed by a 42-point outburst two nights later as the Heat became the first No. 8 seed in NBA history to lose no more than one game on the way to beating a No. 1 seed.
Butler’s 35.5-point average is just ahead of Phoenix’s Devin Booker, who will take a 35.4-point-per-game average in these playoffs into Game 3 of the Suns’ Western Conference semifinal series against Denver on Friday.
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REGINA, Saskatchewan (AP) — A series of stabbings in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan left 10 people dead and 15 wounded, authorities said Sunday. Police are looking for two suspects.
The stabbings took place in multiple locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said.
Rhonda Blackmore, the Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP Saskatchewan, said some of the victims appear to have been targeted by the suspects but others appear to have been attacked at random. She couldn’t provide a motive.
“It is horrific what has occurred in our province today,” Blackmore said.
She said there are 13 crime scenes where either deceased or injured people were found. She urged the suspects to turn themselves in.
Police said the last information they had from the public was that the suspects were sighted in Saskatchewan’s capital of Regina around lunchtime. There have been so sightings since.
“If in the Regina area, take precautions & consider sheltering in place. Do not leave a secure location. DO NOT APPROACH suspicious persons. Do not pick up hitch hikers. Report suspicious persons, emergencies or info to 9-1-1. Do not disclose police locations,” the RCMP said in a message on Twitter.
Weldon resident Diane Shier said she was in her garden Sunday morning when she noticed emergency crews a couple of blocks away.
Shier said her neighbor, a man who lived with his grandson, was killed. She did not want to identify the victim out of respect for his family.
“I am very upset because I lost a good neighbor,” she said.
The search for suspects was carried out as fans descended in Regina for a sold out annual Labor Day game between the Canadian Football League’s Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
The Regina Police Service said in a news release that with the help of Mounties, it was working on several fronts to locate and arrest the suspects and had “deployed additional resources for public safety throughout the city, including the football game at Mosaic Stadium.″
The alert first issued by Melfort, Saskatchewan RCMP about 7 a.m. was extended hours later to cover Manitoba and Alberta, as the two suspects remained at large.
Damien Sanderson, 31, was described as five feet seven inches tall and 155 pounds, and Myles Sanderson, 30, as six-foot-one and 200 pounds. Both have black hair and brown eyes and may be driving a black Nissan Rogue.
The Saskatchewan Health Authority said multiple patients were being treated at several sites.
“A call for additional staff was issued to respond to the influx of casualties,” authority spokeswoman Anne Linemann said in an email.
Mark Oddan, a spokesman with STARS Air Ambulance, said two helicopters were dispatched from Saskatoon and another from Regina.
He said two carried patients to the Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon, while the third carried a patient to Royal University from a hospital in Melfort, a short distance southeast of Weldon.
Oddan said due to privacy laws, he could not disclose information about their ages, genders or conditions. | 2022-09-04T23:31:34+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/canadian-police-10-dead-15-injured-from-stabbings/ |
NEW YORK, Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. f/k/a Spartan Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: SUNL, SPRQ) between January 25, 2021 and September 28, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important February 14, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Sunlight securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Sunlight class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10554 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 14, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Sunlight lacked effective underwriting and risk evaluation with respect to its contractor advance program; (2) Sunlight lacked the oversight and periodic monitoring systems necessary to timely detect bad debt associated with its contractor advance program; (3) Sunlight lacked effective internal controls over accounting and reporting of non-cash advance receivables; (4) as a result, Sunlight would be forced to take a non-cash advance receivables impairment charge exceeding $30 million; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects were materially false and misleading and/or lacked reasonable basis at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Sunlight class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=10554 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jury selection begins Monday at R. Kelly’s federal trial in his hometown of Chicago, where the R&B singer faces charges that he rigged his 2008 state child pornography trial by threatening and paying off a girl who he allegedly filmed himself having sex with when he was around 30 and she was no older than 14.
Jurors acquitted Kelly on all charges in that 2008 trial, some explaining later that they felt they had no choice because the girl did not testify. The woman, now in her 30s and referred to in filings only as “Minor 1,” will be the government’s star witness in the upcoming federal trial.
Kelly, 55, goes into Chicago federal court Monday already sentenced by a New York federal judge to a 30-year prison term for a 2021 conviction on charges he used his fame to sexually abuse other young fans.
Kelly, who rose from poverty on Chicago’s South Side to become a star singer, songwriter and producer, faces multiple charges at the federal trial. They include four counts of enticement of minors for sex — one each for four other accusers. They, too, are slated to testify.
Convictions in Chicago could add decades to Kelly’s New York sentence, which he is appealing. With the New York sentence alone, Kelly will be around 80 before qualifying for early release.
Two Kelly associates, Derrel McDavid and Milton Brown, are co-defendants at the Chicago trial. McDavid is accused of helping Kelly fix the 2008 trial, while Brown is charged with receiving child pornography. Like Kelly, they have also denied any wrongdoing.
Two state cases are also still pending. One is a multiple count sex-abuse case out of Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago. The other is a solicitation case in Minnesota. No trial dates are set for either.
Minor 1 is expected to testify that she was on video having sex with Kelly. The recording was at the heart of the monthlong 2008 trial and was played for jurors almost every day.
Minor 1 first met Kelly in the late 1990s when she was in junior high school. She had tagged along to Kelly’s Chicago recording studio with her aunt, a professional singer working with Kelly. Soon after, Minor 1 told her parents Kelly was going to become her godfather.
Prosecutors say Kelly later threatened and sought to pay off Minor 1 and her parents so they wouldn't testify at the 2008 trial. None of them did.
Double jeopardy rules bar the prosecution of someone for the same crimes they were acquitted of earlier. That doesn't apply to the Chicago federal trial because prosecutors are alleging different crimes related to Minor 1, including obstruction of justice.
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Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter at https://twitter.com/mtarm | 2022-08-15T04:20:45+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/entertainment/article/R-Kelly-trial-on-whether-he-fixed-2008-trial-set-17373438.php |
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — There will be no more going to Hel on bus 666.
The bus to the town of Hel on Poland’s Baltic coast has long been popular with tourists. But some Christian conservatives have protested the number signifying the devil on a bus leading to a place that sounds like the word “hell” in English.
The local bus operator, PKS Gdynia, announced this week that bus 666 will no longer run to Hel. It said it had flipped the last number and would now run the line under the number 669 starting on June 24.
Local media said the bus company acted under the pressure of Christian groups who had pushed for the change, but were already thinking of returning to the old number amid a public outcry over the change.
The local news portal Trojmiasto.pl said that the line operated under the number 666 since 2006, first as a local joke before attracting riders from across Poland and beyond. Some people rode the bus simply to say they had taken the 666 bus to Hel, Polish media reported.
Fronda, a Catholic publication, has for years called for the 666 bus to be renamed, arguing that it had Satanic overtones and that “to present the reality of eternal damnation as amusing in any way is just plain stupidity.”
It lamented that fact that many Polish journalists, even Catholic ones, took pleasure in the joke. | 2023-06-15T12:05:04+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/strange/ap-strange-news/no-more-rides-to-hel-on-bus-666-in-poland/ |
Former Trade Desk CMO joins performance marketing firm's talent-stacked Board of Directors to cement its leadership position on data and tech-enabled innovation that drives business growth for brands
NEW YORK, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tinuiti – the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon – today announced the addition of industry visionary and seasoned operator Susan Vobejda to its Board of Directors. Vobejda is a long-time digital executive and Chief Marketing Officer, whose background includes CMO roles at The Trade Desk, a cornerstone company in the ad tech and digital marketing space, and the global fashion brand Tory Burch. Vobejda joins industry visionaries and proven innovators Kevin Mayer, Annika Gupta, and George Gallate, each with a unique perspective and specialized expertise to fuel growth.
Vobejda also currently serves on the Board of Directors for total-vision healthcare company, MyEyeDr., and previously sat on the Board of Directors for Cision, an earned media software company. In addition, she's a member of the CMO advisory board for Ridge Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund specializing in enterprise software companies.
Vobejda brings 25 years of experience in the media, technology, and consumer sectors to the Tinuiti board. In addition to her CMO roles at The Trade Desk and Tory Burch, Vobejda has held global leadership positions at leading brands including Bloomberg, Yahoo, and Gap Inc. She started her marketing career at the advertising agency Leo Burnett in Chicago. Vobejda earned her B.A. in Economics from Carleton College and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Zach Morrison, CEO of Tinuiti, said: "Susan brings a heightened level of expertise and global perspective and is a true change agent and innovative leader in tech, media, and consumer sectors. As we bring together our patented machine learning technology for Streaming+ and Mobius, our suite of AI-enabled marketing intelligence and media activation technology, the timing couldn't be better to partner with Susan as her background and vision aligns exactly with where we're headed. Her experience working for name brands like Tory Burch and MyEyeDr., in combination with her tenure at The Trade Desk, brings the voice of our customer directly into the mix and provides the perfect addition to our board of directors."
Susan Vobejda, said: "I am thrilled to join the Tinuiti Board of Directors. Zach Morrison is an exceptional leader who has built a unique and modern culture within his company. He truly puts his team first and supports their mission to provide exceptional thinking and service to clients. I've been so impressed with his vision, and I'm excited to support Tinuiti's extraordinary trajectory and future growth."
- Kevin Mayer, former chairman of Disney's Direct to Consumer International Segment and previously CEO of TikTok, supports Tinuiti's growth plan from acquisitions to global expansion and deepening expertise in emerging social, streaming, and OTT/CTV. He leverages a 23-year career at Disney where he steered the launch of Disney Plus and led deals such as Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, Lucas Film and 21st Century Fox in addition to serving as CEO of TikTok
. - Anneka Gupta, who also serves as Chief Product Officer at Rubrik, Inc., a leading cloud data management company, brings her extensive cross-divisional product development and data transformation experience to support the evolution of Mobius, Tinuiti's proprietary suite of AI-powered marketing intelligence and media activation technology. Gupta previously served as president and head of products and platforms at LiveRamp, a data connectivity platform. During her eleven year tenure Gupta led a global team of over 450 people and was responsible for global business P&L delivering consistent year over year growth and margin expansion.
- George Gallate, a previous board member and investor in Tinuiti is also the former global chairman and CEO of Havas Digital. As a board member once again, Gallate plays an instrumental role in continuing to elevate Tinuiti's worldwide footprint, and brings international marketing expertise honed by 27 years at the global ad agency, Havas. Gallate continues to propel Tinuiti's international expansion as well as the firm's ongoing leadership across Amazon and the broader retail media landscape.
- Vobejda, Mayer, Gupta and Gallate are joined by Tinuiti CEO, Zach Morrison, Bliss Point Media CEO, Sean Odlum, and Tinuiti chief strategy officer, Nii Ahene, on the board.
Vobejda joins the board of directors at Tinuiti in the midst of a period of rapid growth and new strategic partnerships
- In 2021, Tinuiti completed two headline-making acquisitions: Amazon-specialist agency, Ortega Group, to create the industry's most robust full-service Amazon and marketplace program, and digital streaming agency, Bliss Point Media, which transformed Tinuiti into the largest independent purchaser of streaming/OTT media in the U.S.
- Since 2017, Tinuiti has experienced rapid expansion with a headcount now surpassing 1,200, the agency has experienced an unprecedented 59% year-over-year increase and is continuing to climb with an additional 10% in 2022.
- The firm's people-first culture has most recently been recognized from Inc. Magazine Best Workplaces 2022 and Ad Age's Best Places to Work four years running, including the No. 1 spot in 2019 and 2020.
Tinuiti is continuing to hire for multiple roles across divisions to keep pace with growth. For a closer look at Tinuiti's culture, please visit https://tinuiti.com/culture/.
Tinuiti is the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, with more than $3 billion in digital media under management and over 1,200 employees. With industry-leading expertise in search, social, Amazon and marketplaces, addressable TV and mobile apps, CRM and email marketing, and more, Tinuiti understands that success requires both strategy and channel expertise. Each solution is delivered through Tinuiti's performance planning framework, GAMMA, and is enabled by a proprietary suite of marketing intelligence and media activation technology – Mobius. For more information visit http://www.tinuiti.com.
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Which Bonka bird toy is best?
Pet birds give us hours of enjoyment, and some even seem to like our company. But what happens when we leave them alone? They spend too much time alone with nothing to do. Bored birds can become destructive. Toys help keep your bird occupied when you aren’t around, and they can prevent destructive behaviors such as feather pulling.
If your bird needs mental stimulation that includes sound and moving parts, the Bonka Bird Toys Spoon Delight is a good choice. It offers hours of playtime and is virtually indestructible.
What to know before you buy a Bonka bird toy
Bird size and species
The first thing to consider when buying a Bonka bird toy is your bird’s size. Large birds with tough beaks need larger toys that can handle active, aggressive play. Smaller birds might be intimidated by, or scared of, the same toy.
Personality
Some birds are active and energetic. They prefer toys that make noise and move or toys that can be shredded and played with.
Others prefer more contemplative playtime. This type of bird might prefer something that doesn’t make much noise but provides more opportunities for problem-solving. This might include finding a treat or completing a task.
These two personality types don’t depend on the species. Take the time to figure out what type of play your bird prefers, then choose the best toy for their personality.
Material
Birds love to make noise, chew and shred with their beaks and claws. Give them plenty of options with a variety of fabrics and materials. Bonka bird toys combine a variety of materials and textures for the most appropriate stimulation. Look for toys that include:
- Wood.
- Natural fiber and material.
- Metal.
- Leather.
- Plastic.
What to look for in a quality Bonka bird toy
Durability
Bonka bird toys are made to withstand even the roughest play. For example, their metal is covered with a bird-safe lead-free powder coating that won’t wear off. It’s also welded to make sure it doesn’t separate at any joints.
Many fabric toys have double-stitched edges. Even the finger traps and materials made for shredding are constructed from materials that require your bird to work hard at tearing them apart.
Bright colors
Bright colors are attractive to birds. They promote mental stimulation and keep them occupied for hours. Bonka bird toys are available in assorted colors and a variety of patterns.
Stuffable
Combining food with play is a win for birds. Some Bonka bird toys can be stuffed with millet or other bird snacks. These help engage your bird’s mind as it tries to release the food.
How much you can expect to spend on a Bonka bird toy
The price varies depending on the materials the toy is made of and how large it is. Expect to spend $8-$20.
Bonka bird toy FAQ
Do Bonka bird toys have a warranty?
A. Birds can be hard on their toys, and it can be difficult to figure out which toy they will enjoy. But Bonka bird toys come with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied for any reason, return your toy with its receipt within 14 days of purchase for a full refund.
What is the safest material for a bird toy?
A. It’s crucial that the materials you choose for your bird toy are not harmful to your bird. Always look for labeling that specifies the type of wood or fabric used as well as any safeguards that the manufacturer has taken.
The safest woods for bird toys include:
- Pine.
- Balsa.
- Birch.
- Poplar.
- Maple.
- Walnut.
- Ash.
And when it comes to fabric or fiber ropes, natural is the way to go. Choose from cotton, hemp and sisal.
As far as metal goes, stainless steel is the best bet. It is the most durable and is nontoxic, zinc-free and lead-free.
Finally, look for bird toys that are easy to clean. This prevents bacteria or germs from building up and keeps your bird safe from illness.
What’s the best Bonka bird toy to buy?
Top Bonka bird toy
What you need to know: Even the strongest birds have a hard time destroying this durable toy.
What you’ll love: Flashy spoons and colorful rings on a stainless steel chain provide visual and auditory stimulation for spunky birds who need a little entertainment. Hang it horizontally or vertically, and use it as a perch, too.
What you should consider: This is loud, and not a suitable toy for small, timid birds.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Bonka bird toy for the money
What you need to know: This is a completely shreddable toy for your feathered friend.
What you’ll love: Multiple options for play include shredder material, chew surfaces and bamboo finger traps. You can roll up the traps to change the shape for even more fun.
What you should consider: This is best for smaller birds, as large birds will destroy it quickly.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bonka Bird Toys Sola Atta Ball
What you need to know: This is appropriate and engaging for birds of all sizes.
What you’ll love: It’s made from the root of the sola plant. Each lightweight sola stem has a different color in the center for visually captivating fun and is easy for birds to pick up and chew. This is a pack of six, but they also come in packs of three.
What you should consider: Birds that enjoy hard materials to chew on may not enjoy this ball.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Copyright 2023 BestReviews, a Nexstar company. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-25T12:32:18+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/reviews/br/pets-br/bird-supplies-br/best-bonka-bird-toy/ |
Here’s a look at if this cold spell will let up soon next week or will stick around until next April.
Well it does look like we better mentally and physically be prepared for winter. It appears as though the cold snap coming won’t let up in the next few weeks. At that point the calendar will say December 1.
For an extended forecast I like to use the “ensemble” mode of the European Model and the U.S. Model. Ensemble means they run the model 30 to 50 different ways and take the average. This doesn’t produce the exact forecast, but does give a more stable, believable long-range forecast. | 2022-11-11T11:26:31+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/weather/2022/11/the-big-weather-question-is-winter-here-to-stay.html |
Man finds suspected Civil War-era belt buckle in banks of drought-afflicted river
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Gray News) – With record low water levels in the Mississippi River, people are finding lost artifacts and treasures in the Memphis area.
Metal detectorist Riley Bryant shared photos on Instagram holding what he called a Civil War-era belt buckle inscribed with the letters “US.”
“I’m walking the riverbank here in Memphis, you can see the Bass Pro Pyramid, and all this stuff is washed out, and look what I just found laying here,” Bryant said in a video of the find on Instagram. “Look at that. It’s a Civil War belt buckle. Look, it’s in perfect shape.”
Bryant said he found the buckle tucked between some rocks in a spot that would normally be underwater.
The belt buckle is not the only discovery made as the water levels have dropped, revealing long-lost relics of the past. Earlier this month, an explorer in Louisiana stumbled upon the wreck of a 20th-century boat that experts believed could be a ferry boat called the S.S. Brookhill.
The area experienced severe drought conditions over the summer, as did much of the western U.S. The Colorado River system also experienced historic lows.
The National Weather Service reported on Oct. 17 that the Mississippi River gauge at Memphis reached a record low stage of negative 10.71 feet, with measurements dating back to 1954. Officials said a negative stage doesn’t mean the river is completely dry but rather that the water’s surface is below the historic zero gauge level.
A bout of thunderstorms passed over the river on Tuesday, helping the historic drought conditions in the area.
Copyright 2022 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. TMX contributed to this report. | 2022-10-27T21:55:54+00:00 | kfyrtv.com | https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/10/27/man-finds-suspected-civil-war-era-belt-buckle-banks-drought-afflicted-river/ |
SHENZHEN, China, May 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- VIOFO, an innovative dashcam brand, has been committed to improving the image quality of dashcams. Following last year's release of the world's first 4K HDR A139 Pro featuring Sony's newest STARVIS 2 technology, VIOFO recently launched another first-ever 2K HDR dashcam A119 Mini 2, using Sony's latest STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensor and boasting a range of impressive features, which greatly enhances low-illuminance performance and ability to capture clear license plates.
A119 Mini 2 is the newly upgraded version of our A119 Mini dashcam, making leaps and bounds in both performance and functionality. Let's take a closer look at it and whether it's worth considering for your vehicle.
Mini Design
One of the standout features of A119 Mini 2 is its mini design. It is VIOFO's smallest dashcam, with a discreet dimension of 1.8 inch*2.9 inch*1.6 inch, just the size of a car key. Despite its powerful performance, A119 Mini 2 is incredibly compact and can be mounted behind the rear-view mirror, taking up minimal space on your windshield. This makes it ideal for those who prefer a more concealed installation, as it won't obstruct the driver's view or draw attention to itself.
What's new on A119 Mini 2?
Newest Sony STARVIS 2 Image Sensor
A119 Mini 2 is the world's first dashcam using Sony's newest STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensor. The new sensor employs Sony's unique STARVIS 2 technology which delivers high sensitivity and a wider dynamic range, but with approximately 30% less power consumption than conventional models such as the STARVIS IMX335 image sensor.
Main Features
- Single exposure method with approximately 2.5 times wider dynamic range than conventional models
The Sony STARVIS 2 tech uses unique processing technology to increase the area of the light-receiving unit despite pixel size limitations, resulting in a wide dynamic range in a 1/2.8-type 5.12 megapixels format. This design delivers a dynamic range approximately 2.5 times wider than conventional models, at 78 dB, thereby enabling high-precision capturing. It can record images accurately without overexposure even in situations such as nighttime roads or tunnel entrances/exits with large changes in brightness.
- Improved sensitivity in the low-light domain delivers high-quality images in dark environments
The STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensor deploys a back-illuminated structure which increases the amount of light to be captured and enables super-high sensitivity, making it possible to capture high-quality and low-noise images even in low-light scenes and at night.
- Consumes 30% less power than conventional models
The IMX675 sensor utilizes a stacked structure, employing a Cu-Cu connection between the pixel unit and circuit unit, to achieve an optimized layout for multiple high-speed signal processing circuits. This results in significantly lower power consumption, approximately 30% lower than conventional models. With this new sensor, issues such as power consumption costs, impact on the environment, and camera heat generation can be effectively reduced.
Best-In-Class 2K HDR Image Quality
Powered by a Sony STARVIS 2 image sensor, A119 Mini 2 is by far VIOFO's second most advanced dashcam. The Sony STARVIS 2 image sensor means that A119 Mini 2 can record crisp videos at 2K 60fps resolution, and at a sensitivity beyond the human eye in low light environments, bringing low noise, eliminating motion blur, and revealing more details. This is a step up from their already impressive 2K quality on other models.
The image sensor IMX675 produces sharp and detailed footage day and night with its outstanding DOL HDR technology. This tech captures a bright and dark image in succession and superimposes one over the other, which helps balance extremely bright and dark areas to accurately restore 2K details recorded at night.
A119 Mini 2 also features an F1.6 aperture with a wider-angle view than A119 Mini's 140˚, providing a good field of view for capturing everything that happens on the road.
Smart Voice Control
Voice control is another innovative A119 Mini 2 feature, which allows you to start recording, take photos, turn on WiFi, and more by giving simple voice commands in multiple languages (English, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Thai). This can be especially handy if you're driving while you keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel.
The voice control function supports up to 10 voice commands, including:
- Take Photo
- Video Start
- Video Stop
- Turn On Audio
- Turn Off Audio
- Turn On Screen
- Turn Off Screen
- Lock the Video
- Turn On WiFi
- Turn Off WiFi
Other Amazing Features
Ultra Fast 5GHz Wi-Fi
A119 Mini 2 comes equipped with dual-band 2.4GHz & 5GHz Wi-Fi. The upgraded 5GHz Wi-Fi provides 4 times faster file transfer than 2.4GHz Wi-Fi, enabling ultra-rapid file transfer, smooth video viewing, and dashcam settings adjustment. The built-in Wi-Fi feature lets you connect the dashcam to your iOS & Android smartphones using the VIOFO app, you can live stream, playback recorded videos, download, or share video files with ease, making it simple to access, store, and send over video evidence in case of any incident.
*Download a 1-minute 2K video in just 10 seconds, with a download speed up to 11MBps (data from VIOFO R&D center).
Intelligent Parking Mode
One of the most important A119 Mini 2 features is Parking Mode, providing 24/7 surveillance of your car even when you're away. The parking mode offers three options, Auto Event Detection, Time Lapse Recording, and Low Bitrate Recording, keeping your car safe while parked and giving you peace of mind no matter where you go.
Auto Event Detection
With a built-in G-sensor, A119 Mini 2 can detect any motion or impact during parking and automatically start recording for 45 seconds. Supported by a buffered function, it records a 45-second video that starts 15 seconds before and 30 seconds after the detected event, ensuring no critical moments are missed.
Time Lapse Recording
The time lapse mode condenses long periods of time into shorter video clips, recording a video at low frames at 1 / 2 / 3 / 5 / 10 fps without audio recorded, which saves storage and power. This is particularly useful for capturing road trips, scenic drives, or lengthy commutes, as it presents the entire journey in a more concise and easily watchable way.
Low Bitrate Recording
It keeps continuous recording with audio in small file sizes, helping save more space on the MicroSD card.
Voice Notification
A119 Mini 2 comes with voice notifications that serve as a virtual assistant to keep you informed of important dashcam events, such as video protection, setting changes, or memory card errors. This feature keeps you fully focused on the road.
GPS Logger
A119 Mini 2 is equipped with a GPS logger that accurately records detailed location, speed, and time data of the vehicle, making it an ideal tool for insurance claim situations. The GPS data can be viewed when playing back the video on VIOFO App or a computer.
Auto Emergency Lock
With the built-in G-sensor, when a sudden collision or crash occurs, the dashcam automatically triggers the Auto Emergency Lock feature and locks the current video file, preventing it from being overwritten. This way, the accident scene can be accurately reconstructed for your peace of mind.
Final Thoughts
Overall, the A119 Mini 2 dash cam is innovative and tech-forward. It is powered by Sony's newest STARVIS 2 IMX675 sensor, offering best-in-class 2K footage quality. Additionally, it features smart voice control, enabling hands-free operations. Whether you're looking for a way to protect yourself on the road or simply want to capture beautiful footage of your travels, the A119 Mini 2 is definitely worth your consideration.
About VIOFO Dashcam
Founded in 2011, VIOFO was started by two engineers aiming at providing the ultimate dash camera image quality for users worldwide. Attribute to 10 years concentration in dashcam imaging, VIOFO dash cameras are now distributed in over 70 countries with millions of followers. For best customer experience, VIOFO always stays ears open to feedback from both regular and professional users. For more product information, pls visit VIOFO official.
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Monday morning top stories: Disney blocks programming on Dish and Sling
Published: Oct. 3, 2022 at 8:22 AM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Your Monday morning brief,
Media titan Disney is blocking its content from Dish Satellite TV and Sling TV.
- Many people in the U.S. do not have access to Disney Channel, ESPN Sports, FX and ABC local stations in seven markets
- Disney stated Dish and Sling refused to negotiate reasonable terms and the two companies stated Disney stopped negotiating altogether
- Read more here: Disney blocks programming from Dish TV, Sling TV
The capital murder trial of 49-year-old Billy Chemirmir is set to begin Monday.
- The trial for the murder of 87-year-old Mary Brooks will begin today, one of 22 women he is suspected of killing
- He received life in prison without parole after being found guilty in April in the smothering death of 81-year-old Lu Thi Harris
- The story continues: Trial to begin for man accused of killing 22 people in Texas
A rollover on the flyover from S Loop 289 led to one person being injured.
- The person was left with moderate injuries as a result of the crash
- S Loop 289 and Interstate 27 were shut down for a time to clear the wreck
- More here: Rollover on S Loop 289 flyover leaves one injured
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Kayt C. Peck is a recently retired firefighter, so she understands the ravenous and indiscriminate appetite of wildland blazes, and feared for her two-story log cabin in Rociada.
But Peck is a poet also, and, even after she learned that the Calf Canyon Fire cremated her home, she took comfort in the fact that memories are fireproof.
Peck, 68, who is serving as the first poet laureate of Las Vegas, was thinking of her mother’s music box, one of the many things lost in the burned house, when she wrote a poem she titled “Memories Don’t Burn.”
The memory did not burn – not of the music, nor my mother’s gentle smile.
The wildfire could not rob me of that.
Memories don’t burn.
What if?
On Sunday, Peck got the grim news about her house from a text sent by neighbors. She wrote the poem on Monday.
“I got a note from a woman who had lost a house to a tornado and, years later, lost a house to a fire,” Peck said. “She said all the condolences she had received over the years had not helped her as much as my poem.”
Writing the poem was therapeutic for Peck, soothing to some degree. But the firefighter in her won’t allow her to stop second-guessing herself every now and then.
About six weeks ago, she retired as assistant fire chief for the Sapello-Rociada-San Ignacio Volunteer Fire Department, one of several northern New Mexico fire departments she has worked with since 2002.
Her house was across a road from wildland. She thought at first radiant heat might have touched off the blaze that destroyed her home.
“But now I think it was a spot fire, embers coming over,” she said. “I would not have done it, of course, because I value my life more than my stuff. But I wonder what if I had stayed with a garden hose.”
That’s just what she warned her Rociada neighbors not to do, spending most of the night that the Calf Canyon Fire exploded calling them and telling them to get out.
She has been staying with friends in Las Vegas and had also moved Charlie Horse, her 26-year-old gelding quarter horse, there.
But what now?
Peck moved to the Las Vegas area in 2001, and loves the people, the history, the stories and the landscape. But her future is uncertain. Will she remain in northern New Mexico, travel awhile, settle somewhere else?
“I’ve got all kinds of neighbors who have said they would help me clean up,” she said. “I had one who said it would be a tragedy to lose me as a neighbor.”
I got that
On Wednesday, Peck was in her pickup truck waiting for a friend who was bringing a horse trailer to help her move Charlie Horse to a more permanent living area.
One thing Peck has decided is that she is going to Odessa, Texas, for a while to help a friend get a food trailer business up and running, and she wanted to make sure her horse has a good place to be while she is away.
Charlie Horse is about 16 hands tall and was a good team-roping horse before he strained a tendon. He trotted right up to the gate when Peck and her friend, Lorenzo Montoya Jr., arrived.
Montoya, 35, works for the New Mexico Fire Marshal doing fire inspections and code enforcement. He and Peck met when he was a firefighter.
Charlie Horse was not all that anxious to get into Montoya’s trailer, but a little grain convinced him to give it a try.
It’s a short drive to Teddi Swidinsky’s 64-acre property near the Las Vegas Municipal Airport. Swidinsky, 53, is a general surgeon, but she does animal rescue as well. She has seven dogs, five cats, and had five horses before Charlie Horse’s arrival made it six.
Peck and Swidinsky do not know each other well, but Peck was looking for a place to keep a horse and Swidinsky had a place. That’s the way things go here, especially since the fires started.
You need a horse trailer. I have one. Your horse needs pasture. I got that.
Making new memories
Peck grew up on a farm and ranch near Dalhart, Texas. She loved that life, but she loves stories, too.
“I come from a long line of storytellers,” she said. “I am mostly Irish and Cherokee. When I was little, I would sneak into my dad’s (home) office and peck on his typewriter. That was before I knew how to write, but I knew the story.”
Now, she has more than a half dozen novels to her credit, a few magic realism, the others contemporary Westerns.
“I want to write my fiction. I want to write my poetry,” she said. “What I might do is get a travel trailer. I want to do some research in Oklahoma for a murder mystery involving fracking. I want to visit an elderly aunt in Arkansas. I want to make new memories.
“And I have an idea for a memoir.”
Memories don’t burn. | 2022-04-28T05:55:13+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2493698/memories-dont-burn-ex-nm-poetwriterfirefighter-plans-a-memoir-a.html |
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (WETM) — The Schuyler County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a special service on Friday, May 13, to honor law enforcement.
The service is an annual Law Enforcement Memorial Service that honors officers that have fallen from the Schuyler County Sheriff’s Office as well as several surrounding Sheriff’s Officers, Police Departments, as well as the New York State Police.
The service will be held at the memorial in front of the Sheriff’s Office on 10th Street in Watkins Glen with a start time of 11:00 a.m. | 2022-05-12T01:40:56+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/local-news/law-enforcement-memorial-service-to-be-held-friday-in-schuyler-county/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — Police have arrested a suspect in the kidnapping case of missing Memphis teacher Eliza Fletcher.
Cleotha Abston, 38, has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence, Memphis Police announced early Sunday.
Fletcher has not been located. Police said the search for her is still active.
According to records, Abston refused to provide investigators with information regarding Fletcher’s location. Records also state that the abduction, which was caught on camera, was violent in nature and may have resulted in serious bodily injury.
Police said Abston was the person who was detained Saturday when the SUV connected to the case was found.
Shelby County court records show Abston pleaded guilty to an especially aggravated kidnapping charge in 2000. He was sentenced to 24 years in that case and released in November 2020, the Tennessee Department of Corrections said.
Fletcher, a teacher at St. Mary’s Episcopal School, left her home on Carr Avenue early Friday morning and was last seen jogging on Central Avenue near the University of Memphis around 4:20 a.m. That’s when police say someone pushed her into a dark-colored SUV.
Her family is offering a $50,000 reward for information.
Fletcher is the granddaughter of the late Joseph “Joe” Orgill III, a Memphis hardware businessman and philanthropist, the Associated Press reports.
A second person was arrested in the same operation, but police say he is not believed to be connected to Fletcher’s abduction.
Mario Abston, 36, was charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Fentanyl, Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Manufacture and Sell Heroin, and Convicted Felon in Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Dangerous Felony. | 2022-09-04T19:02:26+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/man-charged-in-abduction-of-missing-memphis-teacher-eliza-fletcher/ |
North Carolina gets $100M grant to help widen Interstate 85
North Carolina is getting $100 million from last year’s federal infrastructure law to widen an often-congested stretch of Interstate 85 near Charlotte and build amenities for modern travel and communications.
The state Department of Transportation’s award is one of 26 grants nationwide announced on Thursday by the federal government, at a total of $1.5 billion.
The Infrastructure Rebuilding America grant will assist the state DOT to widen 10 miles of I-85 in Gaston County from six to eight lanes, which will include improvements at interchanges, overpasses and railroad bridges.
The money also will help build several miles of sidewalks, bike lanes and paths crossing over the route, as well as install electric-vehicle charging stations and broadband improvements in Gaston and Cleveland counties, Gov. Roy Cooper’s office said.
“Strengthening infrastructure and making transportation safe, clean and more resilient will build a stronger North Carolina,” Cooper said in a news release.
The money originates from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. Thursday’s round of competitive grants included money to dismantle Interstate 375, a depressed Detroit freeway built by demolishing Black neighborhoods 60 years ago. The route is being transformed into a street-level boulevard that will reconnect the surrounding neighborhoods. | 2022-09-19T14:01:07+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/widen-interstate-85-north-carolina/41278427 |
Head of Japanese entertainment company mired in sex abuse scandal apologizes, promises fix
TOKYO (AP) — The head of a major Japanese boys-group talent agency has released a YouTube video apologizing for the sexual abuse allegedly perpetrated by her predecessor and promised to prevent a recurrence.
Allegations against Johnny Kitagawa, a powerful figure in Japanese entertainment and the founder of Johnny & Associates, have been tossed around for more than 20 years, although he was never charged with crimes. He died in 2019.
The allegations resurfaced as a hot topic of scrutiny after BBC News did a special earlier this year, focusing on several people who said they were sexually abused.
“More than anything, I apologize very deeply to the victims,” said a solemn Julie Keiko Fujishima, bowing four times during a one-minute video released late Sunday.
The scandal has served as a wake-up call for Japan’s lagging fight against sexual harassment. A consumer boycott has begun against Johnny’s, as the company is also known, making for an extensive list, as dozens of the “tarento,” or “talent,” appear in various advertisements. A petition drive expressing outrage has collected thousands of signatures.
Fujishima apologized for the “disappointment and worries” fans must be feeling. In an additional written statement, she stressed she had not known of any wrongdoing, although acknowledging that was no excuse. Compliance teams and counseling have been set up, she said, while stopping short of lining up an outside third-party investigation.
According to the allegations, Kitagawa asked fledgling singers and dancers, many of them children, to stay at his luxury home. When he told one of them to go to bed early, everyone knew “it was your turn.”
That kind of testimony from musician Kauan Okamoto, appearing at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo last month, raised the level of criticism against Johnny’s. Okamoto was the first accuser who appeared before reporters under his real name to share his story and be photographed.
He had been part of the backup group Johnny’s Jr., which also worked as a talent pool for Johnny & Associates. The company has under its wing some of Japan’s top actors.
Fujishima recently met with Okamoto.
She could not say with certainty whether his allegations were accurate or not. But she sees people are alleging abuse, and such a thing “should never happen again.”
“We are barely getting started, but he has given us an opportunity to change,” she said.
Okamoto’s reaction to his first meeting with Fujishima, whom he called “Julie san,” was overwhelmingly positive. It was like talking to a mom, he added. He understood she was genuinely sorry but had privacy and legal concerns.
Some critics said Fujishima’s apology was not sufficient, the company should hold a news conference, and she should resign to take responsibility.
Others have slammed mainstream Japanese media for long being silent, suggesting they feared retaliation and losing access to the talent pool. Shukan Bunshun, a weekly magazine, has been an exception, aggressively covering the Johnny’s scandal from the start.
Japanese entertainers have been facing serious competition from neighboring South Korea, where groups like BTS have met far greater international success. Some Johnny’s stars have been leaving the company over the years, including Okamoto.
“Everyone should come forward and tell the truth,” Okamoto said in his latest YouTube video.
He had been afraid of being rejected by Japanese society, when he had simply wanted love, as a person and a musician.
“It’s not easy to deliver dreams though entertainment and to truly move people,” Okamoto said.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ReImagine Science, a non-profit focused on transforming the way science is done, is innovating once again with a workshop co-designed with a renowned member of the North American First Nations. The session titled 'Renewed hope in a shared future for the planet – Mapping Western Science with an Indigenous knowledge system', will be presented at the World Science Forum December 6th, in Capetown, South Africa. Participants will be introduced to 'The Four Directions' Indigenous model of healing and health, based on the principles of centering and balancing dynamic systems – whether individuals, ecosystems, organizations or even nations. They will then embark on an experiential exploration of the systems of science and the bias toward intellect and technological application, which historically focuses on logic and 'doing' in western nations. This societal and cultural approach fundamentally misses aspects of connection between the parts of a system, and a grounding in values and place-based inquiry.
The session will be led by Ken Paul, a member of the Wolastoqey First Nation in the community of Neqotkuk whose traditional territory is located on the North Atlantic coast spanning the Canada/US border. Paul's extensive work includes Indigenous Knowledge Systems, economic prosperity, community engagement and resource management.
"Our work is intended to inspire hope, to honour health, healing, respect and spirit, and to enable a true holistic approach of scientific research methods for the betterment of our Mother Earth and our future generations" says Ken, who will conduct the Four Directions exploration with the gathering of scientists, students, Non-governmental organizations and policy makers from around the world.
The World Science Forum focuses on the social and economic relevance, influence and responsibilities of science and aims to find authentic responses to global challenges. The focus of this year's conference is Science for Social Justice. For more information, please visit the event's Web Site: https://worldscienceforum.org .
About ReImagine Science https://www.reimaginescience.org
ReImagine Science is a 501(c)3 organization founded in 2008 to fundamentally change the way we 'do' science in the United States. It was created on the belief that transformative change in the sciences will better serve humanity, the planet, and science itself.
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Kennan Salinero, ReImagine Science Executive Director and workshop organizer.
Phone: +01 925-584-8788
Email: kennan@reimaginescience.org
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ROZEL, Kan. (KSNW) — Two people from Oklahoma are dead following a crash in Pawnee County.
It happened around 6:45 Monday evening at the junction of U.S. Highway 183 and Kansas Highway 156, east of Rozel. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Kia Sorento, driven by 71-year-old Jackie F. Dillard of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, was heading south of 183 when she didn’t stop at the stop sign at 156.
An eastbound Peterbilt semi struck the Sorento on the passenger side. Dillard and his 69-year-old passenger Donna L. Dillard were pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Peterbilt, a Garden City man, was not hurt.
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TAIPEI, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- NEXCOM, a leading supplier of network appliances, has unveiled its latest product portfolio and expansion of its network and communication capabilities, focusing on the latest advancements in edge computing, 5G, cyber security, and OT security. With a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, NEXCOM is dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions to help businesses optimize their existing networks and build future networks to meet the demands of digital transformation and stay ahead of the competition.
NEXCOM offers a comprehensive range of solutions designed to help businesses optimize their existing networks as well as build future networks. These solutions include advanced network solutions such as Cyber Security, OT Security, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC), and 5G uCPE for public and private networks. They are designed to help businesses optimize their networks for the cloud, improve network security, scale bandwidth, and increase network agility.
"As businesses continue to embrace digital transformation, they need flexible, secure, and scalable networks," said Allan Chiu, VP of Network & Communication Solutions at NEXCOM. "We are thrilled to share our vision and our latest network product portfolio, with well-positioned additions to our product line to meet the growing demand for advanced network solutions and reliable telecom services."
The latest featured network appliances include the DFA 1163M, mmWave-enabled uCPE for 5G applications; NSA 7160, 2U performance appliance with PCIe5 interface and LAN module slots for cyber security and NFVi applications; FTA 5180, high-end Edge appliance for 5G fronthaul applications; ISA 141, fanless OT security DIN-rail with dual 5G and dual Wi-Fi.
To learn more about the NEXCOM network and communication capabilities, please watch a short video. To learn more about the latest network solutions, please refer to this PDF file.
About NEXCOM
Founded in 1992 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, NEXCOM integrates its diverse capabilities and operates six global businesses, including the Network and Communication Solutions (NCS) unit. NCS focuses on the latest network technology and helps to build reliable network infrastructure, by delivering professional design and manufacturing services for customers all over the world. NCS's network application platform is widely adopted in Cyber Security Appliance, Load Balancer, uCPE, SD-WAN, SASE, Edge Computing, Storage, NVR, and other network applications for businesses of all sizes.
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Aubrey Lynn Gaither, Jr.
Aubrey Lynn Gaither, Jr. was called home to be with his Lord and Savior on June 28, 2023 at the age of 85 surrounded by his wife and children. He was a resident of Cabot, Arkansas and a devoted husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Aubrey was born July 12, 1937 in Williston, Tennessee, the son of the late Aubrey Lynn Gaither, Sr. and Edna Price Gaither. He attended Fayette County High School and played football. He furthered his education and received his bachelor’s degree in business. A retired Vietnam Veteran, he served 23 years in the United States Air Force. He was also proud of his second career with retiring from Energy.
Aubrey was married to Patricia Pattat Gaither for 65 years. He enjoyed traveling with his family. He and his wife visited all 50 states together. Aubrey Gaither was a Deacon and active member of Southside Assembly of God and most recently attended Floyd Assembly of God in Floyd, Arkansas. He enjoyed genealogy and gardening.
Mr. Gaither is survived by his wife, Patricia Pattat Gaither; three daughters, Melissa Courtney (Doug) of California, Julie Davis (Mike) of Arkansas and Patricia Lyda (James) of Arizona; his sister, Lillian Smith of Missouri; twelve grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Robert “Bob” Gaither and his grandson, Ryan Peterson.
A visitation for Mr. Gaither will be from 10 to 11 A.M. Monday, July 3, 2023 at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel at Oakland. Funeral Services will be at 11 A.M. Monday, July 3, 2023 at the Peebles West Funeral Chapel at Oakland. Interment with Military Honors will be in the Hebron Cemetery in the Bethlehem Community of Fayette County.
Those honored to serve as pallbearers will be Harold Pattat, Eddie Pattat, Jonathan Crook, John Pattat, Brent Pattat and Connor Pattat.
The family requests that memorials be directed to Veterans Benefit Center, 901 North Maple, Searcy, AR 72143 or St. Jude Memorial Giving, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-9959. You may also Pay it Forward by giving a random act of kindness to someone else.
Condolences may be left on our online guestbook at www.PeeblesFuneralHome.com. | 2023-06-30T22:10:31+00:00 | wbbjtv.com | https://www.wbbjtv.com/2023/06/30/aubrey-lynn-gaither-jr/ |
Exclusive prizes available December 13 - 24, 2022
BIRMINGHAM, Mich., Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Quality Roots, a cannabis retailer throughout Southeast Michigan, is running an exclusive giveaway promotion to get everyone into the holiday spirit. 12 Days of Giveaways will run from December 13 through December 24, 2022.
Quality Roots has partnered with vendors such as Society C, Ripple, ProGro, Mitten Extracts, Wonderbrett, Michigrown, Jeeter, Choice Labs, Peninsula Gardens, Wyld, HYMAN, Exotic Matter, Hytek and Terpeez.
Prizes will include cannabis products such as pre-rolls, edibles, flower, concentrates, and disposable vape cartridges, along with other items such as kayaks, fire pits, skateboards, and more. Customers will automatically be entered to win these exclusive day giveaways when they spend $50 or more in-store. The Quality Roots team will reach out to the recipients of these prizes the following day after their visit.
"It's our favorite time of the year! We've teamed up with top-tier vendors throughout Michigan to give our canna-community the biggest deals and prizes in the game. Get a chance to win dope products worth thousands of dollars in value, for free. The gift that keeps on giving! Happy holidays, from our family to yours." said Aric Klar, CEO at Quality Roots.
12/13 - Society C
12/14 - Ripple + ProGro
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12/17 - Jeeter
12/18 - Choice Labs
12/19 - Peninsula Gardens
12/20 - Wyld
12/21 - HYMAN
12/22 - Exotic Matter
12/23 - Quality Roots
12/24 - Hytek + Terpeez
Quality Roots, Inc. is a Michigan cannabis company focused on providing the best service, experience and products for medical marijuana and recreational customers. With locations in Battle Creek, Hamtramck, Monroe and Owosso, Quality Roots is quickly becoming a household name in the industry. New store locations are coming soon in Waterford, Berkeley, and Ypsilanti. To learn more about Quality Roots, upcoming community events and details on products, go to https://getqualityroots.com/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a restrictive New York gun law in a major ruling for gun rights.
The justices’ 6-3 decision is expected to ultimately allow more people to legally carry guns on the streets of the nation’s largest cities — including New York, Los Angeles and Boston — and elsewhere. About a quarter of the U.S. population lives in states expected to be affected by the ruling, the high court’s first major gun decision in more than a decade.
The ruling comes as Congress is actively working on gun legislation following recent mass shootings in Texas,New York and California.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that the Constitution protects "an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home.”
In their decision, the justices struck down a New York law requiring people to demonstrate a particular need for carrying a gun in order to get a license to carry one in public. The justices said the requirement violates the Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”
California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island all have similar laws likely to be challenged as a result of the ruling. The Biden administration had urged the justices to uphold New York’s law.
Backers of New York’s law had argued that striking it down would ultimately lead to more guns on the streets and higher rates of violent crime. The decision comes at a time when gun violence already on the rise during the coronavirus pandemic has spiked anew.
In most of the country gun owners have little difficulty legally carrying their weapons in public. But that had been harder to do in New York and the handful of states with similar laws. New York’s law, which has been in place since 1913, says that to carry a concealed handgun in public, a person applying for a license has to show “proper cause,” a specific need to carry the weapon.
The state issues unrestricted licenses where a person can carry their gun anywhere and restricted licenses that allow a person to carry the weapon but just for specific purposes such as hunting and target shooting or to and from their place of business.
The Supreme Court last issued a major gun decision in 2010. In that decision and a ruling from 2008 the justices established a nationwide right to keep a gun at home for self-defense. The question for the court this time was about carrying one outside the home.
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Credit: Gemunu Amarasinghe | 2022-06-23T14:48:18+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/supreme-court-strikes-new-york-gun-law-in-major-ruling/XG4NALXOEJDI5JQRZG2URAJG6Y/ |
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will play host to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Beijing on Friday, continuing the Asian country’s international diplomacy campaign which has included meetings with Russia and Saudi Arabia.
The leaders will seek to bolster ties between two of the world’s largest developing nations. The meeting comes on the heels of China already convincing Brazil to drop the use of the U.S. dollar in some international agreements.
The meeting comes on the second day of Lula’s visit to his country.
China is Brazil’s most important trading partner and ally. Their ongoing relationship falls in hand with China’s interest in challenging Western-dominated economic institutions.
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The state visit included a swearing-in ceremony Thursday for former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who now serves as head of the Chinese-backed New Development Bank, which funds infrastructure projects in Brazil and elsewhere in the developing world.
The NDB portrays itself as an alternative to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
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The Brazilian government has said the two countries are expected to sign at least 20 bilateral agreements, underscoring the improvement in relations since Lula took over in January.
China is Brazil’s biggest export market, each year buying tens of billions of dollars worth of soybeans, beef, iron ore, poultry, pulp, sugar cane, cotton and crude oil. Brazil is the biggest recipient of Chinese investment in Latin America, according to Chinese state media.
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Lula's visit to China follows trips to Argentina and Uruguay in January and to the U.S. in February.
A key component of Lula’s international outreach is his proposal that Brazil and other developing countries, including China, mediate peace over Ukraine. His proposal, however, includes a suggestion that Ukraine cedes Crimea to forge peace, which has angered Kyiv.
China has also been active in playing a role to end the conflict, though it claims to be more objective about the situation. Beijing often makes statements supportive of Moscow.
China has refused to condemn the invasion, criticized international economic sanctions on Russia and accused the U.S. and NATO of further provocations.
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Russia and China declared a "no limits" relationship in 2022. Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed this relationship in March during a meeting in Moscow.
Xi also recently met with French President Emmanuel Macron.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-04-14T11:39:41+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/chinas-xi-to-host-brazils-lula-in-beijing-to-secure-economic-ties/article_edcfd785-6919-5244-bbbe-19d4546cd9e4.html |
SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Panacell Biotech Co., Ltd. said that NK cells, exosomes, and brown adipose-derived stem cells are effective to treat patients with long COVID conditions, or post COVID-19 conditions, as well as those with terminal illness.
Panacell Biotech is South Korea's research institute specializing in advanced regenerative medical cell therapy using adipose-derived stem cells (ADSC).
The company announced on August 10 that it will soon conduct those cells' toxicity tests through clinical trials and laboratory animals.
Currently, in South Korea, there are guidelines for plasma treatment that administers plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to other patients. Although there already exist COVID-19 treatments, such as Paxrovid, a clear therapeutic effect has not been confirmed yet.
There are over 60 long COVID conditions, including decreased libido and hair loss.
According to the Mayo Clinic, a nonprofit American academic medical center, "A whopping one in four people aged 65 or above suffer from aftereffects of COVID-19"
The Guardian also reported that people with long COVID often experience and an "extremely broad" variety of symptoms, including less well-known side effects such as amnesia, and an inability to perform familiar movements or commands."
According to the TIME magazine said about four million people – or 2.4% of the U.S. employed population – have reduced ability to work because of Long COVID.
Associate Professor Gwenaëlle Douaud at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences (NDCN), University of Oxford, and her team observed a "greater reduction in grey matter thickness and tissue contract in the orbitofrontal cortex and parahippocampal gyrus" and "greater changes in markers of tissue damage in regions that are functionally connected to primary olfactory cortex." While the long-term effects of COVID-19 on smell remain inconclusive, the study suggests a possible connection between brain changes by COVID-19 and memory.
However, there have been many clinical results in which the coronavirus causes inflammation in various organs, including the respiratory system, and chronic symptoms persist.
While research on a treatment for COVID-19 is underway around the world, Chinese researchers said they are researching ways to treat COVID-19 patients using stem cells.
Sun Yanrong, Deputy Director of China Biotechnology Development Center, asserted, "We are continuing to monitor the treatment using stem cells. In Wuhan, over 200 patients have already been treated with stem cells."
He continued explaining, "The clinical treatment results show that the stem cell therapy has good safety and has also been confirmed to have a therapeutic effect. It was also effective in recovering the lungs."
Seung-Ho Choi, CEO of Panacell Biotech, affirmed, "We expect that this clinical trial will reveal therapeutic effects of stem cell therapy along with these treatments."
Panacell Biotech is a leading bio institute in advanced regenerative medicine and cell therapy, widely recognized for its contributions to the development of biotechnology by researching stem cell culture and cell banking, focusing on the development of treatments for various cancers and incurable diseases.
The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety of South Korea approved Panacell Biotech on April 1 this year as one of the 21 licensed cell treatment facilities.
It received the K-ESG Management Innovation Award in June 2022, and is scheduled to receive the 2022 Global Clean Environment Award in the healthcare category in this upcoming October 18.
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Union criticizes Alachua County Sheriff Watson over employee lawsuits
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The union representing Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies is responding to Sheriff Clovis Watson Jr.’s decision to rescind disciplinary action on three employees.
In a statement, Joseph G. Branaman, the president of the North Central Florida Chapter of the PBA, says legal battles have become too frequent under the Watson administration. The union doesn’t believe anything will change during the remainder of his time in office.
The letter also states longtime employees are being treated like second-class citizens by the administration.
RELATED: Sheriff Watson voids investigations into employees after judge rules against him
In May, a judge ordered Watson to hold Compliance Review Hearings for three employees after they filed lawsuits claiming Adminstrative Investigations into their conduct violated Florida’s Officer’s Bill of Rights.
Instead, Watson voided the investigations after losing the lawsuits.
“I am pleased that Sheriff Watson has finally decided to rescind a punitive discipline order that was
imposed on our members. It is very unfortunate that, once again, a matter involving Sheriff
Watson and our members had to escalate to the courts before the Sheriff finally came to his
senses. These unnecessary legal battles with Sheriff Watson have become an all too frequent
occurrence. I do not believe anything will change for the remainder of his time in office. Sheriff
Watson pretends to support his employees to the public, but his actions continue to show
otherwise.
Simply responding to PBA correspondence or acknowledging any of our collective bargaining or
other issues takes weeks, if not longer, for him or his designee to respond. Long time employees
are being treated like second class citizens by this new administration. Often, it is only the threat of
litigation and public exposure that seems to garner a response from Sheriff Watson or his
administration. Our members deserve to be treated fairly and equitably as Sheriff Watson claims
he does. I would like to recognize Bobi Frank of Bobi Frank Law, who represented our members
in this most recent litigation. Bobi worked tirelessly to ensure that our members received the
justice that they deserved. We extend our deepest gratitude for the work she does on behalf of the
NCFL PBA. Sheriff Watson, who continues to operate the Sheriff's office at critical staffing levels
in almost all areas of his agency, except his own command staff, should live up to his own words
and treat those who protect and serve Alachua County daily, as they deserve to be treated."
The sheriff released a statement last week regarding the incident.
“I remain committed to the men and women of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office and it is my belief that the only fair and equitable way to ensure that Captain Butscher, Sgt. Williams and Sgt. Davis were provided with the rights that they so justly deserve, was to rescind any punitive discipline that took place as a result of investigations that I do not believe were completed in a manner that was free from mistakes.”
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — A man accused of setting a dog on fire last month in a case covered heavily by media had his bond amount increased this week when it was revealed he threatened to shoot news reporters who came to his Nutbush, Tennessee, house.
Quishon Brown, 43, is in the Shelby County Jail on felony counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and setting fire to personal property, and a misdemeanor count of assault, Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich’s office said.
Brown was arrested July 12 after he reportedly doused a one-year-old dog in accelerant and set her on fire on June 20. When he was shown pictures of the burned dog, he reportedly said, “I did good with her.”
The dog, Riona, is recovering after she was taken in by a rescue group. She suffered fourth-degree burns over 60% of her body.
Brown was arrested after someone shared surveillance video of the incident. He reportedly told neighbors that whoever gave the video to the police and the media “is going to have their houses burned down.”
Brown’s original $5,000 bond was revoked July 22 when it was found he had another dog at his property, violating the terms of his bail conditions.
While in jail, prosecutors said he had a telephone conversation with a woman at his house. The woman told him that news reporters had knocked on the door to his house seeking comment on his case.
The call was recorded and was played in court Wednesday.
In the recording, according to Weirich’s office, Brown says, “You can shoot people when they come on your property. You can shoot the reporter. Wait ’til I get out. I’m going to shoot them, and I’m going to tell them I’m going to shoot them.”
Judge Louis Montesi then set Brown’s bond at $150,000.
Brown’s next court date is Aug. 3. | 2022-07-29T21:43:29+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/you-can-shoot-the-reporter-man-accused-of-burning-dog-has-bond-increased-after-threat/ |
Actor Leslie Jordan's cause of death released
Leslie Jordan, the actor whose wry Southern drawl and versatility made him a standout on TV series including "Will & Grace" and "American Horror Story," died from natural causes and not from a car accident last year, the Los Angeles County coroner's office has concluded.
The 67-year-old actor died of sudden cardiac dysfunction due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner.
Arteriosclerosis is the hardening of the arteries that can restrict blood flow.
Jordan died at the scene after his car crashed in the Hollywood area Oct. 24.
An autopsy didn't find any signs of life-threatening trauma, according to the coroner's report, which listed the cause of death as natural.
Jordan had been sober for more than two decades at the time of his death, and toxicology tests didn't find any alcohol or drugs in his body.
The 4-foot-11 Tennessee native was known for both comic and dramatic roles. He won an outstanding guest actor Emmy in 2005 for his part as Beverly Leslie in "Will & Grace," had a recurring role on the Mayim Bialik comedy "Call Me Kat" and starred in the sitcom "The Cool Kids."
Jordan's other eclectic credits include "Hearts Afire," "Boston Legal," "Fantasy Island" and "The United States vs. Billie Holiday." He played various roles on the "American Horror Story" series. | 2023-01-20T03:40:27+00:00 | kcra.com | https://www.kcra.com/article/leslie-jordan-cause-of-death/42582556 |
New Board Members Represent Leadership from Alma, Estrella Media, Lopez Negrete Communications, Orci & Publicis
FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hispanic Marketing Council (HMC) announced Isabella Sanchez, Vice President of Media Integration at Zubi will serve as its new chair effective today. Sanchez, who previously served as HMC Treasurer, takes the helm from GroupM Multicultural President Gonzalo Del Fa. Elected as the new treasurer is Gian Pablo Kates, VP of Network Sales at Telemundo. In addition, Luis Miguel Messianu, Founder-Chairman, Alma; Steve Mandala, Chief Revenue & Local Media Officer, Estrella Media; Simon El Hage, Executive Group Account Director, Lopez Negrete Communications; Marina Filippelli, CEO, Orci; and Lisa Torres, President, Multicultural Practice, Publicis Media will also join the HMC board.
"It is an honor to continue the legacy of past Zubi visionaries, who were among the founders of HMC, and champion the Hispanic market," said Sanchez. "U.S. Latinos have the fifth largest gross domestic product (GDP) in the world, surpassing France and the U.K., and are shaping the cultural fabric of the new American mainstream. I am committed to advocate for increased Hispanic marketing investment and connect corporations with the right specialists to do it correctly and appropriately."
With more than 30 years of Hispanic media experience working with many of the largest marketers in the US Hispanic market, Sanchez oversees all Hispanic strategic media planning and execution for Zubi's clients, as well as media for new business development efforts. Her passion for marketing to diverse audiences is evidenced in her commitment to always elevating the industry profile, while helping marketers understand and capitalize on the biggest growth opportunity in the U.S.
"Isabella has a passion for cultural connections, creative innovation and technology to measure and optimize performance—she has brought invaluable insights to the board as treasurer, and I look forward to her leadership and working with her to strengthen the HMC," said Del Fa, who will stay on the HMC board as immediate past chair.
Sanchez will work closely with the HMC's governing bodies, committees and the executive director to support the organization's strategic plan, which champions the quality of Hispanic marketing in the U.S., focusing on the value of culture-driven strategies and creativity while elevating the critical role of the Hispanic marketing specialist.
The full HMC Board of Directors includes:
- Treasurer: Gian Pablo Kates, Vice President, Network Sales, Telemundo Group
- Education Chair: Victor Paredes, Executive Director, Multicultural Strategy, Collage Group
- Immediate Past Chair: Gonzalo del Fa, President, GroupM Multicultural
- Stacie de Armas, Sr. VP DEI, Diversity Insights, Intelligence & Initiatives, Nielsen
- Natalie Boden, President & Founder, BODEN
- Sarah Carberry, Acting Head of North America Google Play Partnerships, Apps & Monetization, Google
- Izzy Gonzalez, Director of Cross Platform Sales, CNN en Español US
- Greg Knipp, CEO, Dieste
- Pedro Lerma, CEO & Founder, LERMA/
- Ingrid Otero-Smart, President/CEO, Casanova//McCann
- Albert Rodriguez, President/COO, Spanish Broadcasting System
- Donna Speciale, President Sales & Marketing, TelevisaUnivision, Inc.
- Lee Vann, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer, Captura Group
- Marco Vega, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, We Believers
- Jose Villa, President, Sensis
For more information, visit hispanicmarketingcouncil.org and follow the HMC on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hmchispanic.
About HMC: Founded in 1996 as the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, the Hispanic Marketing Council is the national trade organization of all marketing, communications, and media firms with trusted Hispanic expertise.
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STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Maxime Raynaud scored 15 points, Harrison Ingram had 14 and Stanford rolled to a 75-46 victory over California on Saturday night for its fourth straight win.
Isa Silva's 3-pointer just before halftime gave the Cardinal a 31-20 halftime lead. Stanford pulled away early in the second half with 19-7 run, capped by Michael Jones' 3-pointer, and led 55-31 with 11:09 remaining. Ingram also had one of his two dunks during the stretch.
The Cardinal's largest lead was 37 points with 2:42 to play.
Raynaud and Ingram were a combined 12 of 21 from the field. The 7-foot-1 Raynaud also grabbed nine rebounds and had a career-high four steals and Ingram hit two 3-pointers. Brandon Angel added nine points and eight rebounds for Stanford (9-12, 3-7 Pac-12).
Sam Alajiki scored 13 points to lead Cal (3-18, 2-18 Pac-12).
Joel Brown and Kuany Kuany each made a 3-pointer early in the first half, but the Bears then went on to shoot 4 of 23 from the field and finished 6-of-29 (21%) shooting in the first half.
Stanford wore replica jerseys from 1998 to honor the 25th anniversary of the Final Four squad that won 30 games.
Cal plays at Colorado on Thursday while Stanford is at Utah.
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Byeong Hun An shoots 2-over 73 in round one of the CJ CUP in South Carolina
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Byeong Hun An hit 12 of 18 greens in regulation during his first round at the CJ CUP in South Carolina, finishing at 2 over for the tournament. An finished his day tied for 61st at 2 over; Gary Woodland and Trey Mullinax are tied for 1st at 6 under; Tom Kim, Rory McIlroy, Aaron Wise, Kurt Kitayama, Cam Davis, and Wyndham Clark are tied for 3rd at 5 under; and Seamus Power, Tyrrell Hatton, Sungjae Im, Si Woo Kim, Viktor Hovland, and Taylor Moore are tied for 9th at 4 under.
After a 310 yard drive on the 360-yard par-4 third, An chipped his second shot to 6 feet, which he rolled for one-putt birdie on the hole. This moved An to 1 under for the round.
After hitting his tee shot into the native area, An hit his next to the native area and reached the green on his fourth shot, rolling a one-putt bogey on the 510-yard par-4 ninth. This moved An to even for the round.
After hitting his tee shot into the native area, An hit his next to the left side of the fairway and reached the green on his third shot, rolling a two-putt bogey on the 360-yard par-4 15th. This moved An to 1 over for the round.
On the 475-yard par-4 17th, An had a bogey after hitting the green in 2 and three putting, moving An to 2 over for the round.
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The 2023 Charles Schwab Challenge Odds & Preview: Will Gordon
Following the second round of the Charles Schwab Challenge, Will Gordon is in 39th at -1.
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Will Gordon Insights
- Over his last 13 rounds, Gordon has shot better than par on seven occasions, while also carding one bogey-free round and seven rounds with a better-than-average score.
- He has carded one of the 10 best scores of the day in two of his last 13 rounds.
- Gordon has registered a score within three shots of the day's best in two of his last 13 rounds, while finishing within five strokes of the top score of the day four times.
- In his past five appearances, Gordon's average finish has been 54th.
- The past five times he has played a tournament, he's made the cut three times.
- In his past five appearances, Gordon has posted a score better than average in one of them.
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Charles Schwab Challenge Insights and Stats
- In his past two appearances at this event, Gordon placed 68th in his only finish.
- Gordon made the cut in one of his past two entries in this event.
- Gordon finished 68th on the leaderboard in his previous appearance at this event, in 2023.
- The Tour has played courses with an average length of 7,297 yards in the past year, while Colonial Country Club is set for 7,209 yards.
- The average course Gordon has played in the past year has been 57 yards longer than the 7,209 yards Colonial Country Club will be at for this event.
Gordon's Last Time Out
- Gordon was relatively mediocre on the 16 par-3 holes at the AT&T Byron Nelson, averaging par to finish in the 45th percentile of the field.
- His 3.95-stroke average on the 44 par-4 holes at the AT&T Byron Nelson placed him in the 44th percentile.
- Gordon was better than 39% of the field at the AT&T Byron Nelson on the tournament's 12 par-5 holes, averaging 4.50 strokes per hole compared to the field average, which was 4.47.
- Gordon recorded a birdie or better on five of 16 par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, better than the field average of 1.7.
- On the 16 par-3s at the AT&T Byron Nelson, Gordon recorded four bogeys or worse (more than the tournament average of 1.8).
- Gordon carded more birdies or better (12) than the tournament average of 6.8 on the 44 par-4s at the AT&T Byron Nelson.
- At that most recent competition, Gordon's par-4 showing (on 44 holes) included a bogey or worse eight times (worse than the field average, 4.5).
- Gordon finished the AT&T Byron Nelson bettering the field's average of birdies or better on par-5s (4.9) with six on the 12 par-5 holes.
- The field at the AT&T Byron Nelson averaged 0.4 bogeys or worse on the 12 par-5s, but Gordon finished without one.
Charles Schwab Challenge Time and Date Info
- Date: May 25-28, 2023
- Course: Colonial Country Club
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas
- Par: 70 / 7,209 yards
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HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (NewsNation) — The suspect in a shooting on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago had planned the attack for several weeks, acted alone and wore a disguise to assist his escape, authorities said Tuesday.
Lake County Major Crime Task Force spokesman Christopher Covelli said the suspect used a high-powered rifle “similar to an AR-15,” spraying parade-goers in Highland Park from a rooftop with more than 70 rounds that were initially mistaken for fireworks.
Six people were killed Monday and 39 were injured in the gunfire, officials said. Authorities confirmed Tuesday afternoon that a seventh person died.
According to Covelli, the suspect dropped his rifle after the shooting, exited the roof using the fire escape and attempted to blend into the fleeing and frantic crowd.
Covelli said the suspect was disguised “as a woman” to assist in avoiding capture and can be seen in a surveillance photo wearing what appears to be a dress, scarf and possibly makeup.
“A wig is not out of the question,” Covelli said, possibly to hide his distinctive neck and face tattoos.
Authorities said a quick trace of the rifle, as well as witness statements, photos and videos, helped identify the suspect.
An hourslong manhunt during which residents hunkered down in businesses or received police escorts to their homes ended with a traffic stop and brief chase Monday evening, when authorities detained a man they described as a person of interest.
Covelli said a second rifle was found in the suspect’s vehicle. Both of the firearms in the suspect’s possession as well as additional firearms at his residence were purchased legally and from separate locations in the area, according to police.
Authorities have not yet identified a motive for the attack in the affluent community of about 30,000 on Chicago’s north shore.
The July 4 shooting was just the latest to shatter the rituals of American life. Schools, churches, grocery stores and now community parades have all become killing grounds in recent months. This time, the bloodshed came as the nation tried to find cause to celebrate its founding and the bonds that still hold it together.
“It definitely hits a lot harder when it’s not only your hometown but it’s also right in front of you,” resident Ron Tuazon said as he and a friend returned to the parade route Monday evening to retrieve chairs, blankets and a child’s bike that he and his family abandoned when the shooting began.
“It’s commonplace now,” Tuazon said. “We don’t blink anymore. Until laws change, it’s going to be more of the same.”
The shooting occurred at a spot on the parade route where many residents had staked out prime viewing points early in the day for the annual celebration.
Among them was the family of Nicolas Toledo, who was in his late 70s and visiting from Mexico when he was shot. He died at the scene, his granddaughter, Xochil Toledo, told the Chicago Sun-Times. Also killed was Jacki Sundheim, a lifelong congregant and “beloved” staff member at nearby North Shore Congregation Israel, which announced her death on its website.
Dozens of fired bullets sent hundreds of parade-goers — some visibly bloodied — fleeing. They left a trail of abandoned items that showed everyday life suddenly, violently disrupted: a box of chocolate cookies spilled onto the grass; a child’s Chicago Cubs cap; baby strollers, some bearing American flags, and children’s bikes.
“There’s no safe place,” said Highland Park resident Barbara Harte, 73, who had stayed away from the parade fearing a mass shooting, but later ventured from her home.
Highland Park Police Chief Lou Jogmen said a police officer pulled over Robert E. Crimo III about 5 miles north of the shooting scene, several hours after police released the man’s photo and an image of his silver Honda Fit, and warned the public that he was likely armed and dangerous. Crimo will turn 22 in September and is a resident of Highwood.
Police declined to immediately identify Crimo as a suspect but said identifying him as a person of interest, sharing his name and other information publicly was a serious step.
Covelli said at a news conference “several of the deceased victims” died at the scene and one was taken to a hospital and died there. No children died in the attack.
Police have not released details about the victims, but Toledo’s granddaughter told the Sun-Times that Toledo had spent most of his life in Morelos, Mexico. Xochil Toledo said she remembers looking over at her grandfather as a band passed them playing music.
“He was so happy,” she said. “Happy to be living in the moment.”
Xochil Toledo said her father tried to shield her grandfather and was shot in the arm; her boyfriend also was shot in the back and taken by someone to nearby hospital because they weren’t sure there would be enough ambulances for all the victims.
Roberto Velasco, Mexico’s director for North American affairs, said on Twitter that two Mexicans were also wounded.
Sundheim had spent decades on the staff at North Shore Congregation Israel, early on teaching at the congregation’s preschool and later serving as Events and B’nei Mitzvah Coordinator, “all of this with tireless dedication,” the congregation said in its statement announcing her death.
“Jacki’s work, kindness and warmth touched us all,” the statement said.
Lake County Coroner Jennifer Banek said the five people killed at the parade were adults, but didn’t have information on the sixth victim.
NorthShore University Health Center treated a total of 39 patients who arrived by either ambulance or other means after the attack. Nine patients are currently still hospitalized and range in age from 14 to their 70s. Eight of the current patients have suffered gunshot wounds.
“It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague,” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said at a news conference.
“While we celebrate the Fourth of July just once a year, mass shootings have become a weekly — yes, weekly — American tradition.”
The shooter opened fire around 10:15 a.m., when the parade was about three-quarters through, authorities said.
Highland Park Police Commander Chris O’Neill, the incident commander on scene, said the gunman apparently used a “high-powered rifle” to fire from a spot atop a commercial building where he was “very difficult to see.” He said the rifle was recovered at the scene. Police also found a ladder attached to the building.
President Joe Biden on Monday said he and first lady Jill Biden were “shocked by the senseless gun violence that has yet again brought grief to an American community on this Independence Day.”
In recent days, Biden signed the widest-ranging gun violence bill passed by Congress in decades, a compromise that showed at once both progress on a long-intractable issue and the deep-seated partisan divide that persists.
Crimo, who goes by the name Bobby, was an aspiring rapper with the stage name Awake the Rapper, posting on social media dozens videos and songs, some ominous and violent.
In one animated video since taken down by YouTube, Crimo raps about armies “walking in darkness” as a drawing appears of a man pointing a rifle, a body on the ground and another figure with hands up in the distance.
In another video, in which Crimo appears in a classroom wearing a black bicycle helmet. He says: “Everything has led up to this. Nothing can stop me, even myself.”
Crimo’s father, Bob, a longtime deli owner, ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Highland Park in 2019, calling himself “a person for the people.”
Highland Park is a close-knit community on the shores of Lake Michigan, with mansions and sprawling lakeside estates that have long drawn the rich and sometimes famous, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, who lived in the city for years when he played for the Chicago Bulls. John Hughes filmed parts of several movies in the city, including “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Weird Science.”
Gina Troiani and her son were lined up with his daycare class ready to walk onto the parade route when she heard a loud sound that she believed was fireworks — until she heard people yell about a shooter.
“We just start running in the opposite direction,” she told The Associated Press.
Troiani said she pushed her 5-year-old son’s bike, running through the neighborhood to get back to their car.
“It was just sort of chaos,” she said. “There were people that got separated from their families, looking for them. Others just dropped their wagons, grabbed their kids and started running.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-07-05T19:42:55+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/top-stories/parade-shooting-was-planned-suspect-dressed-as-a-woman-police/ |
URBANA — Phylis Jean Jarrett, 84, of Urbana passed away Thursday (Oct. 13, 2022) at Paris Health & Rehab Center, Paris, Ill.
Funeral services for Phylis will be at noon Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Renner-Wikoff Chapel, 1900 S. Philo Road, Urbana, with burial in Mt. Olive Cemetery, Mayview. There will be a visitation two hours prior to the funeral Wednesday (10 a.m. to noon) at the funeral home. Hank Sanford will officiate.
Phylis was born Nov. 22, 1937, in Urbana, a daughter of Renos and Mildred (Frederick) Rawley. She married Orval Jarrett on Nov. 16, 1958, in Champaign. He survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Kenneth (Becky) Jarrett of Urbana and John (Brenda) Jarrett of Urbana; six grandchildren, Allison, Justin, Matthew, Brooke, Laura and Jennifer; five great-grandchildren, Adalyn, Esther, Lena, Ruth, Logan and one coming in November; and a sister, Karen Rankin of Gibson City.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Mary Lou McPheeters; and a brother, Richard Rawley.
Phylis attended Champaign schools and Quest Church in Urbana. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, crafts, gardening, flowers, her cat, her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Webber Street Christan Church. Condolences may be offered at renner-wikoffchapel.com. | 2022-10-16T07:48:50+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/phylis-jarrett/article_92481e42-4cde-11ed-b4f7-7b003d476239.html |
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Is there a logical reason that Hilo can’t be another Highland Park? Is there anything that prevents Kahului from becoming another Uvalde? Will Honolulu one day have a tragedy similar to Buffalo’s?
According to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second Amendment allows civilians the “right to bear arms,” but it does not allow civilians the right to have and use whatever weapons they prefer.
Congress not only has the authority to decide what weapons civilians can have and use, it has the obligation to do so.
Is there a logical reason for non-law enforcement civilians to be allowed to own assault rifles used in many mass killings? To allow them to have high- capacity magazines and an unlimited amount of ammunition?
Are there logical reasons for Congress not to require waiting periods, so thorough background and mental- health checks can be completed before civilians can have and use a gun?
The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population and almost half of the guns and rifles. Some say we will be safer if we only had more.
Really?
Robert Griffon
Makiki
Choose elected officials who will choose life
Elections are critical on every level. Hawaii could become a “death destination.”
Hawaii is one of only 10 states, along with Washington, D.C., that legalized physician-assisted suicide. Legislation hashing out details for nurses and physician assistants to write lethal prescriptions and allowing telemedicine exams is pending. Past decisions show the majority of current lawmakers consider the ending of life to be a right.
With the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, state lawmakers will decide Hawaii’s abortion laws (“Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion,” Star-Advertiser, June 24). Correcting the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, more than half of the states now have laws with abortion restrictions. With that in mind, Hawaii could become a desirable destination to end the life of an unborn child. Legalizing abortion, even up to full-term, could happen.
Before voting, find out the candidates’ stance on these two issues. Decide “between life and death, between blessings and curses. Choose life!” (Deuteronomy).
Michele Lincoln
Lahaina
What else can states decide to regulate?
Regarding Donald Graber’s letter supporting the principle that each state can decide which rights women are allowed (“Abortion now decided by 50 states,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, July 2): Maybe he feels we could do that with their right to vote as well. With that logic, one could revisit slavery and let each state decide.
Ernie Saxton
Wahiawa
With pregnancies, it takes two to tango
If women are to be required by law in some states to bear the physical, emotional and financial costs and dangers of carrying a fetus to term, is it not also logical and just that the man directly involved in the pregnancy also be required by law to bear a portion of the costs of birthing, supporting and rearing the resulting child?
Paternity was nearly impossible to determine with certainty back in 1973, but is very easy to prove with modern genetic testing. The man can never bear the physical burden and personal medical risk of carrying a child to term, but certainly he is equally responsible for the financial burden of supporting and caring for the result of an unwanted (or wanted) pregnancy.
I suspect that a lot of the fervor to “protect the unborn” might be quickly tempered if both partners were held equally liable and legally responsible for the result, by statute.
Joel Aycock
Keaau, Hawaii island
Navy can speed up defueling of Red Hill
Now that the Navy’s water is restored, it is no longer treating the Red Hill fuel leak situation as an emergency (“Long list of failures caused Red Hill leak, Navy investigation finds,” Star- Advertiser, July 1).
Our drinking water aquifer is still in grave danger.
There seems to be some confusion about whether defueling will begin or be finished by Dec. 31, 2024, but either way it is too late.
As one woman from O‘ahu Water Protectors said, when the military really wants to do something, it can do so very quickly.
And as for what to do with the fuel: The Navy has long bragged that it can supply our airports and harbors and power plants, so that’s what it should do.
And pass the savings on to customers.
Regina Gregory
Makiki
Political sign-wavers a distraction to drivers
That time of year again! The political candidates are on the road waving like their lives depended on it.
What makes you think I will vote for you just because you are out there on the street, waving and distracting me from keeping my eyes on the road?
How am I able to drink my coffee, text, put on lipstick and drive safely when you are distracting me?
Eve Colton In
Aiea
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TORONTO, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - SoftwareReviews, a leading source for insights on the software provider landscape, has published its 2023 Data Quadrant Report on the top cloud infrastructure solutions. The comprehensive report is ready for download from the firm's website, which is updated in real time to reflect new reviews and ratings. Three providers have been identified as Gold Medalists.
Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms offer a wide array of "hosting" features in varying degrees and can be thought of as "data centers in the cloud." However, unlike traditional data center infrastructure, Cloud IaaS allows for compute, storage, and networking resource consumption via a utility cost model that enables resources to be scaled up or down as required to balance performance against cost effectiveness.
"At this point, many organizations have achieved a reasonable level of maturity for adopting and operating cloud services and understand that the cloud isn't a magic answer to every problem," says Nabeel Sherif, Principal Advisory Director at Info-Tech Research Group and SoftwareReviews. "The focus is now on being 'cloud smart'; that is, making sure you have the right visibility and tooling to understand and keep control of a more diverse IT footprint and costs while still realizing the speed and agility that brought companies to the cloud in the first place."
The top cloud infrastructure software providers of the year have been identified by SoftwareReviews based on verified survey data collected from 837 end users. These providers have received high scores on SoftwareReviews' Data Quadrant.
Providers are ranked by a composite satisfaction score, called a Composite Score (CS). The CS is the average of four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend.
The 2023 Cloud Infrastructure Software Gold Medalists are as follows:
- Google Cloud, 8.8 CS, ranked high for analytics and reporting.
- Amazon EC2, 8.7 CS, ranked high for cloud integrations.
- Microsoft Azure, 8.7 CS, ranked high for its quality of features.
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ST. PETERSBURG — In the bottom of the eighth inning Tuesday night, Michael King popped up onto the bullpen mound. The Yankees’ reliable right-hander had been noticeably missing from the game the night before. Manager Aaron Boone had explained that they were managing King’s workload carefully. As soon as Giancarlo Stanton grounded into a double play ending the Yankees’ chance at tying it, King sat right back down.
That is the tough spot Boone and the Yankees are in with their bullpen right now. King and Clay Holmes have been terrific, reliable and dominant. The bullpen has also been hit by injuries. So King and Holmes are among the 12 relievers with the heaviest workloads in baseball so far this season.
King has made 22 appearances to this point. He made 22 appearances last year in the major leagues and three in the minors. The 27-year-old has pitched 37.1 innings, including two against the Blue Jays on Saturday, which put the brakes on Boone using him Monday night. The 37.1 innings are the second most by a reliever in the majors. He trails only Baltimore’s Keegan Akin in innings thrown out of the bullpen this year. Holmes has thrown 32 innings, the 12th-most in the majors as of Wednesday morning.
No other division-leading team had a reliever in the top 12 of innings pitched.
Obviously, both King and Holmes have been affected by the Yankees taking hits to their bullpen this season. They lost Chad Green for the year when he had Tommy John surgery. Green would have shouldered some of those innings King has pitched. Jonathan Loaisiga (shoulder inflammation) and Aroldis Chapman (Achilles) have been out since late May. Loaisiga would have pitched some of those high-leverage innings Holmes has been working and with Chapman out, Holmes has been closing.
The good news is that the Yankees are expecting help in the bullpen soon. Chapman is expected to make a rehab appearance and Loaisiga is throwing. Domingo German, who is scheduled to make his first rehab appearance Wednesday night with the Low-A Tampa Tarpons, is on the clock and making his way back. He’s been a starter, but has also worked very effectively out of the bullpen. He could take some of those high-stress, high-leverage innings off the shoulders of King and Holmes too.
King and Holmes both say they feel fine and it’s easy to see why the Yankees have leaned so heavily on them. King has a 35.7% strikeout percentage, among the top two best in the majors. He’s second in the majors among relievers with 51 strikeouts, trailing only Mets closer Edwin Diaz.
Holmes just broke a franchise record 29 straight scoreless appearances set by Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera. He’s been dominant with his heavy sinking fastball. He’s walked just four of the 122 batters he’s faced this season. That 3.3% walk percentage is the best of his career. His 27% strikeout percentage is among the top 80 percentile in the league, but it’s his 87.2% ground-ball rate that is outstanding. He has just a 4.9% fly ball rate and an under 10% line drive rate. Opposing hitters have a terrible time trying to get the barrel of the bat on his pitches and are making solid contact just 2.9% of the time.
Both King and Holmes started their careers as starters, so they’ve thrown bulk innings, but it’s been a while. King threw 69 innings last season with three coming in minor league rehab work. It was 2018 in the minors when he last threw more than that. Holmes threw 70 innings in 60 appearances last season. Like King, it was 2018 in the minors the last time he threw more than that. 69 innings.
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LONDON (AP) — A marketing campaign by oil major Shell has been banned by the U.K.’s advertising watchdog Wednesday for implying a big proportion of its business was in low carbon energy even though fossil fuels make up the “vast majority” of its operations.
A television commercial, a YouTube video and a poster campaign in Bristol, England, variously described providing large numbers of British homes with 100% renewable energy, installing electric vehicle charging points and driving the energy transition.
In its written ruling the Advertising Standards Authority found consumers would interpret the marketing materials as making a “broader claim about Shell as a whole providing cleaner energy.”
Although Shell does have a clean energy business, the company estimates its operations released almost 1.4 billion tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in 2021.
In a statement, Shell spokesperson Tara Lemay said the company “strongly” disagrees with the ASA’s decision, “which could slow the U.K.’s drive toward renewable energy.”
Campaign group Adfree Cities had filed a complaint to the ASA about the commercials, arguing they left out significant information about Shell’s overall environmental impact. It also argued the claim that 78,000 homes in the southwest of England and 1.4 million homes across the U.K. use 100% clean energy from Shell was misleading.
The ASA’s ruling said the campaign gave the impression that “low-carbon energy products comprised a significant proportion of the energy products Shell invested in and sold in the UK in 2022, or were likely to do so in the near future.”
It also found Shell had proven its claims to provide 100% renewable power to many British homes, and that part of the complaint was not upheld.
The watchdog ordered Shell not to run the campaign again in its current form.
Adfree Cities campaigner Veronica Wignall, who led the complaint, said the ruling “marks the end of the line for fossil fuel greenwashing in the U.K.,” but added that the ruling “doesn’t go far enough.”
She called for robust legislation to stop fossil fuel advertising.
But Shell’s Lemay argued that “people are already well aware that Shell produces the oil and gas they depend on today.”
Lemay cited a survey of 1,700 British adults that found 83% associated the company with gas stations.
“What many people don’t know is we’re also investing heavily in low and zero-carbon energy,” she said. “That is what our adverts set out to show, and that is why we’re concerned by this short-sighted decision.”
Shell previously faced claims of greenwashing in promotional materials. In 2021, the Dutch advertising watchdog told the company to stop running a campaign saying its fuel was carbon neutral, a claim based on its offset program.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Eight children were sickened at a Los Angeles school on Wednesday after eating marijuana gummies, authorities said.
Paramedics were called to Sun Valley Magnet School shortly before 1:30 p.m. and evaluated the children, who ranged from 12 to 16 years old, the Fire Department said.
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They fell suddenly ill after eating the pot-laced candies, authorities said.
All were conscious and breathing. Three were released to their parents and five were taken to local hospitals but there was no immediate word on their conditions. | 2023-03-15T23:33:13+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/8-children-sickened-at-la-school-after-eating-17841948.php |
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Eight Croatians facing charges of child trafficking have been granted bail of about $1,000 each by a court in Ndola in central Zambia.
The charges allege that on December 7 last year the four couples acted together with a Zambian immigration official to try to traffic four children from the neighboring country of Congo, who are aged between one and three years old.
The immigration official is also facing trafficking charges and had already been released on bail.
The Croatians and the Zambian have all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The eight Croatians — four married couples — are eligible for bail and pose no flight risk as Zambian officials hold their passports, Magistrate Jennifer Bwalya said in the court Tuesday.
The child trafficking case is scheduled to begin on March 1, said the magistrate.
The eight Croatians were first arrested and charged with child trafficking in January. The charges against them were dropped on Feb. 6 and they were ordered to leave Zambia within 48 hours. But when they were about to board a plane to leave the country, they were rearrested on fresh charges. They were were held in custody since they were rearrested on Feb. 7.
The Croatians facing charges include Zoran Subosic, 52, a guitarist in a well-known band Hladno Pivo, or Cold Beer, Immovic Subosic, 41, an administrator, Damir Magic, 44, an electrical technician, Nadic Magic, 45, a technician, Ladislav Persic, 42, a medical doctor, Aleksandra Persic, 43, a hair salon attendant, Noah Kraljevic, 40, a program director, and Uvona Kraljevic, 36, a dog handler. Zambian immigration official Gloria Sakulenga, 36, is also facing the charges. | 2023-02-14T18:30:46+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-zambia-grants-bail-to-8-croatians-on-trafficking-charges/ |
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Raymondville man was sentenced Monday for the murder of Marine veteran Nora Conde Villalobos.
Juan Manuel Tobias was sentenced to 30 years in state jail on a charge of murder, according to Hidalgo County Jail records.
The indictment charged Tobias with killing Villalobos, who was his girlfriend, by “strangling her with his hand” on April 20, 2017.
According to previous ValleyCentral reports, Villalobos was last seen on April 18, 2017, wearing a black shirt and grey pants. Her body was found May 23, 2017 in a canal near the intersection of FM Road 1015 and Nittler Road. Later that day, authorities arrested Tobias on charges of aggravated kidnapping, capital murder and murder. His bond was set at $1 million.
On Monday, Tobias signed a plea agreement that dismissed the count of capital murder and aggravated kidnapping.
As part of his sentencing, he was given a jail credit of nearly six years, records show. | 2023-03-14T18:35:55+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/crime/raymondville-man-sentenced-for-murder-of-marine-veteran/ |
Gigi Hadid reportedly arrested in Grand Cayman Islands for marijuana possession: 'All's well that ends well'
Model Gigi Hadid was reportedly arrested July 10 after allegedly arriving to the Grand Cayman Islands with marijuana in her possession.
"Gigi was traveling with marijuana purchased legally in NYC with a medical license," a representative for Hadid confirmed to People magazine. "It has also been legal for medical use in Grand Cayman since 2017. Her record remains clear, and she enjoyed the rest of her time on the island."
Hadid shared a handful of photos and video from her time on the island shortly after the news broke.
"All's well that ends well," she captioned the post.
GIGI HADID ADMITS NEPO BABY STATUS, REVEALS ‘I DON’T THINK I'M THE PRETTIEST'
FILE - US model Gigi Hadid walks the runway at the Ralph Lauren Fall 2022 Collection show at the Museum of Modern Art on March 22, 2022, in New York City. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
A representative for Hadid and authorities in the Grand Cayman Islands did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Local outlet Cayman Marl Road reported Hadid and friends arrived to the island via private jet July 10 and were processed by Customs and Border control. A small amount of marijuana, seemingly enough for personal use, and other drug paraphernalia were found, the outlet reported.
The model was subsequently arrested and taken to the Prisoner Detention Center and later released on bail.
Hadid appeared in summary court, where she reportedly pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000.
FILE - American model Gigi Hadid at Cannes Film Festival 2023. Red Carpet Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine). Cannes (France), May 21st, 2023. (Rocco Spaziani/Archivio Spaziani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
Hadid has been sharing photos from her vacation on Instagram.
"mornin!" she captioned a photo set four days ago.
One of the photos showed off a dragon tattoo on the Victoria's Secret model's hip.
Hadid is the mother to a daughter she shares with her ex-boyfriend, Zayn Malik.
The pair broke up in late 2021 after welcoming Khai in 2020.
FILE - Model Gigi Hadid (L) and singer Zayn Malik are seen walking in Soho on April 25, 2017, in New York City. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)
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"She has already given me so much," the model told The Sunday Times in an interview. "I always wanted to be a mom, but I was never obsessive about it or [thought that] I was put on this Earth to be a mom. I’ve always been quite organized, so having Khai at the time that I did was a blessing. I’m so glad to be a young mom." | 2023-07-19T00:52:25+00:00 | fox35orlando.com | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/gigi-hadid-reportedly-arrested-in-grand-cayman-islands-for-marijuana-possession-alls-well-that-ends-well |
NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Molecular Partners AG ("Molecular Partners" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: MOLN) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Molecular Partners investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud. This lawsuit is on behalf of a class consisting of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired: (a) Molecular Partners American Depositary Shares pursuant and/or traceable to certain documents issued in connection with the Company's initial public offering conducted on or about June 16, 2021; and/or (b) Molecular Partners securities between June 16, 2021, and April 26, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
MOLN 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 Company's product, ensovibep, was less effective at treating COVID-19 than defendants had led investors to believe; that (ii) accordingly, the the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") was reasonably likely to require an additional Phase 3 study of ensovibep before granting the drug Emergency Use Authorization ("EUA"); (iii) waning global rates of COVID-19 significantly reduced the Company's chances of securing EUA for ensovibep; (iv) another of the Company's product candidates, MP0310, was less attractive to Molecular Partners' collaborator, Amgen, than defendants had led investors to believe; (v) accordingly, there was a significant likelihood that Amgen would return to global rights of MP0310 to Molecular Partners; (vi) as a result of all the foregoing, the clinical and commercial prospects of ensovibep and MP0310 were overstated; and (vii) as a result, documents issues in connection with the Company's initial public offer and defendants' public statements throughout the class period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Molecular Partners during the relevant time frame, you have until September 12, 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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Heidi Klum just gifted her husband Tom Kaulitz a very expensive gift for Christmas -- herself!
The 49-year-old supermodel and America's Got Talent judge took to Instagram on Thursday and revealed Kaulitz's gift and how she wrapped it. The video's pretty hilarious, as it shows Klum rolling on the floor and wrapping herself. The post is set to Klum's "Wonderland" track.
Kaulitz seemed pretty nonchalant about the stunt, as he was seen in the background adding ornaments to the Christmas tree. Klum, who was laughing and smiling through the whole thing, captioned the post, "Just wrapping my husbands Christmas present 🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🎁🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🎁🎁🎁❤️❤️❤️🎁🎁❤️❤️❤️❤️🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁."
It's unclear if this stunt will top her epic giant earthworm on a fishing hook costume for Halloween, but it's worth a shot!
This Christmas will be the couple's fourth together as a married couple. Klum and the Tokio Hotel guitarist tied the knot in 2019. Back in 2021, the supermodel spoke to ET about the third time being the charm when it comes to marriage.
"I mean, I found my match, finally, like I am very romantic and I do a lot of weird things, like I leave notes everywhere and I do a lot of things for him and it's beautiful when you get that back from your partner," she said at the time. "And it's the first time I feel like I really have a partner to do everything with."
Klum was previously married to singer Seal for nine years before their divorce was finalized in 2014, and she was married to celebrity hairstylist Ric Pipino from 1997 to 2002.
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Grand jury charges Lubbock man with capital murder
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - One of five people charged in connection to a 2019 murder is now charged with capital murder for the same case. On Tuesday, a Lubbock County grand jury re-indicted 26-year-old Christopher Thomas.
On April 10, 2019, 20-year-old Tyshaun Bates was shot inside his home at Lubbock Square Apartments in the 4600 block of 50th Street. Police believe Bates was shot during a robbery. He later died at the hospital.
Daytron Hood and Christopher Thomas were both charged with murder. Lisa Morales, Quawnard Williams and James Dora were charged with aggravated robbery.
Thomas was originally indicted on the murder charge in May 2019.
If convicted, a capital murder sentence is either life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death sentence.
Copyright 2022 KCBD. All rights reserved. | 2022-05-31T20:08:03+00:00 | kcbd.com | https://www.kcbd.com/2022/05/31/grand-jury-charges-lubbock-man-with-capital-murder/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz will meet Tuesday for one of the most highly anticipated debates of the midterm elections as they wage a fierce contest for a U.S. Senate seat from Pennsylvania that could decide control of the chamber and the future of President Joe Biden’s agenda.
Much of the focus is on Fetterman, who has spent the past several months fending off an escalating series of attacks from Oz about his health and fitness for office. Fetterman, who is Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, had a stroke in May, a health scare that was so severe he said he “almost died.”
But he has insisted he is prepared for the demands of the Senate. Since his stroke, Fetterman has struggled at times to speak clearly in public events. Independent experts consulted by The Associated Press, however, said he appears to be recovering remarkably well. He will use closed-captioning during the debate to help him process the words he hears.
Still, Tuesday’s debate could prove to be a decisive moment in a race that represents the best chance for Democrats to flip a Republican-held Senate seat this year. It will provide an opportunity for Fetterman to prove that he has the stamina for the job and shift the focus to Oz, who Fetterman has argued is a carpetbagger from New Jersey with no understanding of the state. Oz, meanwhile, will have a high-profile chance to unite Republicans and appeal to moderates who could decide the race.
“The debate looms very large, bigger than usual for a Senate debate,” said Republican activist Charles Gerow, a veteran of two decades of Sunday TV political talk shows.
The high-stakes debate — the first and only in the contest — comes just two weeks before Election Day in what polls say is a close race to replace retiring two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey. It’s the only major statewide debate happening this year in Pennsylvania since Democrat Josh Shapiro and Republican Doug Mastriano couldn’t reach an agreement on terms for a gubernatorial debate.
Fetterman has grown as a national brand thanks in part to his extraordinary height, tattoos and unapologetic progressive stances. But the 53-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat’s health has emerged as a central issue over the election’s final weeks, even as candidates elsewhere clash over issues like abortion, crime and inflation.
Oz, trailing in the polls, had pushed for more than a half-dozen debates, suggesting that Fetterman’s unwillingness to agree to more than one is because the stroke had debilitated him. Fetterman has insisted that one debate is typical — two is more customary — and that Oz’s focus on debates was a cynical ploy to lie about his stroke recovery.
Meanwhile, Fetterman’s lead in polls has shrunk as Oz’s Republican allies poured tens of millions of dollars into a perennial battleground state that Biden won by just 1 percentage point in 2020.
Fetterman’s allies fear that the 60-minute live televised debate may represent a no-win situation for the Democrat, even if the typical audience for a Senate debate is quite small. Much of the attention will likely focus on how Fetterman — who is blunt and plainspoken — can communicate in a high-pressure situation.
His campaign has acknowledged the built-in disadvantage of putting Fetterman on stage with Oz, a longtime TV personality who hosted “The Dr. Oz Show” weekdays for 13 seasons after getting his start as a regular guest on Oprah Winfrey’s show in 2004.
“This was always going to be an away game for John Fetterman,” said Mustafa Rashed, a Democratic political consultant based in Philadelphia.
The debate host, Nexstar Media, declined to allow an AP photographer access to the event, and the AP declined to accept handout photos.
Fetterman’s stroke happened just days before his resounding victory in the Democratic primary. Recovery kept him out of the public eye for much of the summer, though the campaign said he was meeting with aides, taking long daily walks, driving and doing household errands.
Oz, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, barely survived his own primary, beating Republican rival David McCormick by 951 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast after a dayslong recount.
Fetterman has rebuffed calls to release medical records or let reporters question his doctors, but last week he released a note from his primary care physician, who wrote that Fetterman is recovering well, shows no cognitive effects and “can work full duty in public office.”
Fetterman acknowledges that he continues to stumble over the occasional word and that a common condition of his stroke — called auditory processing disorder — means that his brain’s language network cannot quickly and accurately turn sound into meaning. That requires him to use closed-captioning during interviews and at the debate.
Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic state lawmaker who is campaigning for Fetterman after unsuccessfully challenging him in the primary, said Fetterman should talk about his priorities as a senator and be selective about which of Oz’s attacks to respond to.
Fetterman should “to the extent possible ignore the clown show that’s happening on the other side and, if he does that, I think that’s a win,” Kenyatta said.
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Peoples reported from New York.
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The iconic ice cream stand in Parramore was set ablaze on May 20 and the stand's owner immediately suspected that their business was being targeted for reasons unknown. On Monday, police arrested 58-year-old Alfred Kirkland of Orlando on charges of arson. Kirkland was since bonded out of jail.
The arrest report claims that Kirkland was seen on surveillance video dousing the stand and setting it on fire.
"Kirkland is seen taking out what appears to be a gallon jug, pouring a flammable liquid into the plywood area and igniting it on fire," the report reads.
Goff's owner Todd Peacock originally planned to reopen the stand in July. He has rebuilt the store in part from funds gathered in a GoFundMe. However, the rebuilt stand is still waiting for the okay to reopen from the City of Orlando, according to a report from WESH. | 2022-09-01T23:40:05+00:00 | orlandoweekly.com | https://www.orlandoweekly.com/food-drink/arrest-made-in-alleged-goffs-drive-in-arson-32373519 |
MIAMI, Feb. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Invicta Watch Group and FIA Formula 2 team Virtuosi Racing have announced a long-term strategic partnership which will commence at the opening round of the 2023 FIA Formula 2 Championship the weekend of March 3rd-5th in Bahrain. The multi-year agreement between the two organizations will see Invicta become title partner of the team, to be renamed Invicta Virtuosi Racing. Invicta branding will be featured prominently on the team cars, driver race suits and team clothing. Invicta will also be investing significantly in marketing activities and activation in order to raise the profile of the team and Formula 2 alike.
As the official feeder series to the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, Formula 2 has enjoyed tremendous growth in recent seasons, with more fans than ever engaging with the championship that showcases the stars of tomorrow in Formula 1. The series produces some of the most exciting and close racing in motorsport and allows fans to engage with its leading competitors better than any other category in single-seater racing. The partnership will see Invicta become the first consumer brand to put its name to an FIA Formula 2 team, illustrating the recent growth of the series and the team itself.
Invicta will be creating a spectacular limited edition collection of watches to celebrate the partnership. Collaborations with athletes and sports teams have long been a major part of Invicta's success however this partnership is the first of its kind for Invicta in terms of seeing the company brand being adopted into the team name. The relationship also sees Invicta's presence in motorsport continue to grow following its partnership with FIA Formula 2 driver Juan Manuel Correa. Juan Manuel will continue to be Invicta's Brand Ambassador throughout 2023.
Eyal Lalo, CEO of Invicta Watch Group said, "This relationship represents a major step forward for Invicta Watch Group in terms of our involvement in racing. As one of the fastest growing watch brands in the world, and with the continued growth of our watch collector community, we saw an ideal match between F2, the Virtuosi team, and Invicta. Timekeeping is an integral part of sports, and our Swiss heritage established in 1837 is a perfect match to exemplify precision timekeeping. Invicta collectors love sports and, motor racing, in particular, and we love the Virtuosi organization, so this partnership was a no-brainer. We're incredibly impressed with what the individuals at this team have achieved in the recent past and we certainly believe that there is a shared ethos between our organizations. We are very much looking forward to being part of the team and helping to propel them to the top step of the podium in 2023 and beyond."
Declan Lohan, CEO, Virtuosi Racing said, "We're incredibly excited to be partnering with Invicta Watch Group. As Formula 2 rapidly grows around the world it's inevitable that global brands will seek involvement in the series. We believe that Invicta will help elevate our team's profile to a level previously unseen in Formula 2 whilst also aligning with our existing values."
About Invicta Watch Group - INVICTA, the flagship brand of the INVICTA WATCH GROUP was founded in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1837. Invicta has been recognized for its vast amount of designs and product innovations targeted to all demographics and age groups and a strong following from collectors worldwide. Invicta has over 4000 unique models and styles of watches, and has received over 55 design and mechanical patents and holds over 1,250 trademarks. It has received the coveted Red Dot design award for product design and innovation. This long and rich heritage in innovation and design continues to define the Invicta brand identity and its unique and exclusive positioning in the watch industry.
In addition to its iconic INVICTA brand, INVICTA WATCH GROUP owns, designs, manufactures and distributes the TechnoMarine, S. Coifman, and Glycine Switzerland brands. Additionally, it has long-standing license agreements with Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, Shaquille O'Neal, US Army, US Navy, Romero Britto, MLB and the NFL, among others, for high end collectible and limited-edition watches. From high-end, luxury Swiss time pieces to accessible fashion watches, each of the Invicta brands is recognized for inherent quality and distinctive style. Collectively, the Invicta brands are sold worldwide, including throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Please visit www.invictawatchgroup.com and www.invictawatch.com for more information on all of its brands.
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About Invicta Virtuosi Racing – Invicta Virtuosi Racing is one of the most successful teams in recent FIA Formula 2 history, winning fifteen races over the past four years and achieving three consecutive runners-up finishes in the FIA Formula 2 Teams Championship from 2019-2021. Founded in 2012, the team initially competed in the Auto GP series, finishing as runners up in the 2014 teams championship. In 2015 Virtuosi became the operating outfit for the Russian Time team in GP2 (now FIA Formula 2), winning the inaugural FIA Formula 2 Teams Championship in 2017, before fully taking over the team in 2019. For 2023 the team fields Alpine F1 Team reserve driver and Australian rising star Jack Doohan, who took three wins in his debut F2 season in 2022, and Belgium's 2018 Spanish F4 Champion Amaury Cordeel, who is also entering his second year in the series.
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OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Most film festivals can be counted on to provide entertainment, laced with some introspection.
The weeklong FESPACO that opens Saturday in violence-torn Burkina Faso’s capital goes beyond that to also offer hope, and a symbol of endurance: In years of political strife and Islamic extremist attacks, which killed thousands and displaced nearly 2 million in the West African country, it’s never been canceled.
“We only have FESPACO left to prevent us from thinking about what’s going on,” said Maimouna Ndiaye, a Burkinabe actress who has four submissions in this year’s competition. “This is the event that must not be canceled no matter the situation.”
Since the last edition of the biennial festival in Ouagadougou, the country’s troubles have increased. Successive governments’ failures to stop the extremist violence triggered two military coups last year, with each junta leader promising security — but delivering few results.
At least 70 soldiers were killed in two attacks earlier this month in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region. The fighting also has sowed discord among a once-peaceful population, pitting communities and ethnicities against each other.
Nevertheless, more than 15,000 people, including cinema celebrities from Nigeria, Senegal and Ivory Coast are expected in Ouagadougou for FESPACO, Africa’s biggest film festival that was launched in 1969.
Some 1,300 films were submitted for consideration and 100 have been selected to compete from 35 African countries and the diaspora, including movies from Dominican Republic and Haiti. Nearly half of those in the fiction competition this year are directed by women.
Among them is Burkinabe director and producer Apolline Traore, whose film “Sira” — considered a front-runner in this year’s competition — is emblematic of many Burkinabes’ suffering. It tells the tale of a woman’s struggle for survival after being kidnapped by jihadis in the Sahel, as her fiancé tries to find her.
Still, Traore is upbeat about her country’s prospects.
“The world has painted Burkina Faso as a red country. It’s dangerous to come to my country, as they say,” she told The Associated Press. “We’re probably a little crumbled but we’re not down.”
Government officials say they have ramped up security and will ensure the safety of festival attendees.
Many hope FESPACO will help boost domestic unity and strengthen ties with other countries, at a time when anti-French sentiment is on the rise in Burkina Faso.
Wolfram Vetter, the European Union ambassador in Burkina Faso, called the film festival “an important contribution to peace and reconciliation in Burkina Faso and beyond.”
The EU is the event’s largest funder after the Burkinabe government, and has contributed approximately 250,000 euros ($265,000). | 2023-02-25T18:04:09+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-africas-largest-film-festival-offers-hope-in-burkina-faso/ |
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Recovery of Louisville, a family-owned drug and alcohol addiction treatment provider, was ranked Kentucky's top addiction treatment center for the second consecutive year by Newsweek.
Landmark Recovery of Louisville, which opened in 2016, was the first of 12 addiction treatment facilities now operated by Landmark Recovery. It includes 64 beds for those in residential treatment and also offers outpatient care and office-based opioid treatment and medical detox. The 32,000-square-foot facility features a gym, basketball court, courtyard along with comfortable accommodations and meeting rooms.
"I am proud to see that Landmark Recovery of Louisville, our first facility, has again been ranked as one of the best addiction treatment centers in the country and the No. 1 in Kentucky," said Matt Boyle, co-founder and CEO of Landmark Recovery. "This ranking is a testament to Landmark's commitment to provide high quality and affordable addiction treatment options. It's also a reflection of our caring staff and the evidence-based programs we've created to help people live beyond addiction."
Newsweek partnered with global market research and data firm Statista to rank the best U.S. treatment facilities focused on addiction. They asked more than 4,000 therapists, counselors, doctors, and administrators who work in addiction treatment to rate the quality of care, service accommodations, amenities, and follow-up care of 330 treatment centers in 25 states. Data provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and nine types of accreditations were considered as well. Landmark Recovery of Louisville was awarded the No. 1 ranking in Kentucky, with an overall score of 89.84%.
Landmark Recovery, founded in 2016, is an evidence-based addiction recovery organization offering passionate, individualized treatment including detox, residential, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization. Landmark serves communities in Colorado, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Tennessee along with its sister company, Praxis by Landmark Recovery, which serves the Medicaid population. Landmark of Louisville was named the No. 1 Addiction Treatment Center in Kentucky by Newsweek in 2021 and 2022. For more information visit www.landmarkrecovery.com or call 866-504-8545.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A New Zealand-based company announced Thursday it plans to install more than 6,000 electric vehicle chargers in Florida over the coming months, mainly at commercial sites, parking lots and other developments.
Invisible Urban Charging, based in Auckland, New Zealand, is partnering with Dallas-based Lincoln Property Co. to make the chargers available for all models of electric vehicles. The first are being installed at the new Truist Plaza, a Lincoln Property building in downtown Orlando.
The goal is to encourage more people to switch to electric vehicles while at the same time providing local jobs, improving air quality, reducing oil dependence and contributing to the fight against climate change impacts, said Nigel Broomhall, co-founder and CEO of Invisible Urban Charging or IUC.
“EV charger infrastructure is a critical piece of the puzzle that will accelerate the shift to electric transport,”" Broomhall said in the company's news release.
IUC will sign contracts with real estate owners, developers, parking lot operators and other clients who pay the company a monthly fee once chargers are installed. Motorists pay to use them through an IUC charging app.
The initial phase involves 3,827 chargers being installed over the next 12 months in Florida, mainly in the Orlando and Tampa areas, with at least 50 chargers available at each site, according to the company.
Installing 6,000 EV chargers would make IUC the largest charging company in Florida, the statement said. | 2022-07-21T17:00:44+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Company-plans-6-000-electric-vehicle-chargers-in-17319881.php |
Marisa Amitie went four of six from the line in her 16 points and 10 rebounds as Wall won at home, 56-37, over Middletown South.
Maxine Erlanger added 10 points for Wall (7-11), which went on a 17-7 run in the second quarter for a 31-18 lead at halftime.
Erin Mayerhofer paced Middletown South (8-11) with 12 points, including three 3-pointers.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — All-American receiver Jordan Addison is transferring from Pitt to Southern California.
The Biletnikoff Award winner announced his decision Thursday on social media, ending weeks of speculation on where the top receiver in college football will play this season.
“The last few weeks have been very difficult,” Addison wrote. “I struggled with my decision as to whether I should exercise my right to enter the portal. Student athletes have not always had that opportunity, and I made that choice.”
Addison entered the transfer portal before the May 1 deadline. He visited Texas and USC and strongly considered Alabama before choosing the Trojans. Addison reportedly has a close relationship with new USC quarterback Caleb Williams, a fellow Washington D.C.-area native who transferred from Oklahoma earlier in the offseason.
Addison made 100 receptions for 1,593 yards and 17 touchdowns in the 2021 season, his second with the Panthers. With Pitt quarterback Kenny Pickett off to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Addison's decision to find a new home was among those that called attention to the current state of the transfer process and what role name, image and licensing considerations have in players' decisions to change schools.
Addison expressed gratitude toward Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi and his former teammates on social media.
“Winning an ACC championship is ours forever,” Addison said. “Those true friendships will last. A part of me will always be H2P (Hail to Pitt). I have now carefully considered the advice of my family and close friends and fully weighed both the risks and benefits associated with my decision. I also respect that others may make a different choice. But for me, I will continue my full development as a student athlete by enrolling at USC.”
Addison is the Trojans' latest major addition since the arrival of coach Lincoln Riley, who has thoroughly transformed their roster by adding 18 players through the transfer portal. Former Sooners receiver Mario Williams, Oregon running back Travis Dye, Arizona State linebacker Eric Gentry, Alabama linebacker Shane Lee and Colorado receiver Brenden Rice have joined USC in the past five months.
Riley is best-known as a quarterback guru who tutored Heisman Trophy winners Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray along with Jalen Hurts at Oklahoma. But Riley's offenses have also produced several elite receivers, including CeeDee Lamb, Biletnikoff Award winner Dede Westbrook and Marquise Brown.
USC went 4-8 last season under Clay Helton and interim coach Donte Williams in the school's worst season in 30 years. The Trojans have won one conference title since Pete Carroll's departure in 2009.
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More AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/college-football and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25 | 2022-05-19T23:28:27+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/USC-lands-All-American-WR-Jordan-Addison-from-Pitt-17185412.php |
The Waterfront announces daily curfew, youth supervision policy
The Waterfront shopping center has announced a daily curfew and youth supervision policy that will take effect on Monday.
The policy, which is posted on the Waterfront's website, says visitors under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult who is 21 or older with photo identification after 6 p.m. daily. No visitors under 21 are allowed on the property after midnight.
Violators can be barred from Waterfront property for a set period of time, up to and including a lifetime ban, depending on the nature of the violation, according to the policy.
It also says that accompanying adults "may be held responsible for the actions of the accompanied juveniles."
The Waterfront says the policy will be in effect throughout the property, including common areas and businesses, and will be enforced by management, security and local authorities.
"The policy is being implemented to avoid any disruptive behavior from underaged patrons, and ensure the safety and satisfaction of all Waterfront patrons, at all hours," a spokesperson said in a statement.
The Waterfront shopping district is along the Monongahela River in Homestead, West Homestead and Munhall. | 2023-02-15T22:56:01+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/waterfront-curfew-homestead-munhall-west-homestead/42925792 |
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Low-cost fashion brand H&M said Wednesday that it will be reducing its global workforce by around 1,500 positions as part of a plan to reduce costs and further improve efficiency.
The Sweden-based company said a restructuring charge of 800 million kronor ($76 million) will be booked in the last three months of the year. The staff reduction is estimated to provide annual savings of about 2 billion kronor ($190 million).
CEO Helena Helmersson said H&M was “very mindful of the fact that colleagues will be affected by this. We will support our colleagues in finding the best possible solution for their next step.”
H&M was founded in Sweden in 1947. Besides the clothing retailer, the group includes brands like COS, Monki, Weekday, Cheap Monday, & Other Stories, H&M Home, ARKET and Afound. It counts about 4,664 stores in 77 markets and has 57 online markets. | 2022-11-30T23:30:58+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/business/ap-low-cost-fashion-chain-hm-to-cut-1500-jobs-worldwide/ |
It’s no secret that communities of color have struggled with the U.S. health care system based on years of discrimination, unethical care, poor access and policies that disadvantage them. These concerns also extend to the organ donation and transplantation system, where nonwhite communities are underrepresented both as organ donors and transplant recipients.
Ethnic minorities are in desperate need of more organ, eye and tissue donors. They represent nearly 60% of the national organ transplant waiting list yet as a whole have much lower rates of transplantation.
In 2020, more than half of transplants performed were on Caucasians despite representing only 40% of transplant candidates, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health.
That is why it is critical that communities of color have accurate information and access to this critically important, lifesaving care.
There are many reasons why nonwhite communities are underrepresented. Barriers to health care remain prevalent in communities of color, which can prevent them from being added to the organ transplant waiting list. Some groups have historically been reluctant to donate organs because of religious or cultural reasons. Donating an organ as a living donor also involves surgery and recovery, something that could be especially difficult for anyone who must take time off work or lacks health insurance.
Additionally, myths still exist about organ donation, especially how one becomes a donor and the criteria that is required. At LifeCenter Northwest, we’ve heard stories of people who worry whether emergency responders will work to save their lives if they are organ donors, even though the truth is that emergency responders and hospital staff do not have access to the donor registry and their only objective is to save lives. Organ donation is still very rare and only possible after all lifesaving methods have been tried and failed. Fewer than 1% of all deaths in the United States each year result in deceased organ donation.
Additionally:
· Most major religions support donation as a humanitarian act of giving. Transplantation is consistent with the life-preserving traditions of these faiths.
· There is no cost to the donor’s family for organ, eye and tissue donation. All costs related to donation are paid by the donation agency.
· Organ and tissue transplantation is not constrained by ethnicity. However, transplant success rates increase when organs are matched between members of similar ethnic backgrounds with similar genetic composition.
Despite the numbers, there are plenty of donors of color who stand out. The late Jeremy Montoya and his parents, and George Taniwaki are local examples.
After learning that their son Jeremy would not recover from a devastating motorcycle accident in 1992, Denise and Mushroom Montoya made the heart-wrenching decision to donate his organs and tissue. The transplants that resulted from that donation saved and/or improved the quality of life of more than 120 individuals who received Jeremy’s organs, bones, ligaments, skin and other lifesaving tissues.
“Our son’s experience was a silver lining on an awful experience,” said Denise Montoya, who with her husband volunteers educating others about organ donation. Mushroom Montoya is Hispanic and Native American.
In 2020, George Taniwaki, who is of Japanese descent, became an “altruistic” donor when he gave one of his kidneys to an anonymous recipient. He said it was one of the highlights of his life. “It impacted my feeling of self-worth. I felt like I did something that was important. I saved somebody’s life and it didn’t hurt me.”
The Montoyas and Taniwaki have devoted much time to educating others in their own communities about organ donation, offering a safe touchpoint for communities of color to learn about organ donation from people who look like them.
Agreeing to be an organ donor is not hard. We encourage everyone to consider signing up as an organ donor. For those who have exhausted all other treatment options and are in need of a lifesaving gift, advocate for yourself to be placed on the transplant list so that you can increase your likelihood of receiving an organ transplant.
To register as an organ, eye, or tissue donor in Washington state, go to lcnw.org. | 2022-09-21T00:06:38+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/communities-of-color-need-facts-on-organ-donation-transplants/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Blac Chyna, the former fiancé of reality TV star Rob Kardashian, is suing the Kardashian family for more than $140 million, claiming they ruined her career and caused lost wages.
Chyna alleges Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner spread false reports of her assaulting Rob Kardashian in order to have her “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” spinoff “Rob & Chyna” canceled.
During the ongoing court case, Chyna admitted to not paying taxes since 2015. The model, who says she made $2 million last year, also says she doesn’t have a bank account.
People on social media are wondering if Chyna admitted to not paying taxes because she doesn’t have a bank account.
THE QUESTION
Do you still have to pay taxes if you don’t have a bank account?
THE SOURCES
- IRS
- Mark Steber, Chief Tax Information Officer at Jackson Hewitt
- TurboTax
THE ANSWER
Yes, you still have to pay taxes even if you don’t have a bank account.
WHAT WE FOUND
“Unfortunately, just because someone doesn’t have a bank account doesn’t mean they get away with not filing their federal and state income taxes or paying taxes they may owe on earnings they have,” Mark Steber, the chief tax information officer at Jackson Hewitt, told VERIFY.
“There have been several high-profile celebrities and other taxpayers over the years who have not paid their taxes and faced serious repercussions from the IRS. Consequences for failing to pay income taxes generally correspond to the size of the violation as well as the intent. For taxpayers who don’t pay or just make a mistake and even a big mistake, that generally results in penalties and interest in addition to paying the taxes owed,” Steber said.
All employers must file a W-2 form for workers making more than $600, and the employer is required to send that information to the IRS. That means the IRS will expect to receive a tax return that matches that W-2.
Business transactions paid in cash – even paid transactions made via an app like Venmo, PayPal and Cash App – totaling over $600 also have to be reported to the IRS.
There are reportedly millions of Americans who don’t have a bank account – and most still file their taxes annually. According to TurboTax, there are ways to pay taxes or accept refunds without a bank account.
To get a tax refund without a bank account:
- It can be deposited to an existing prepaid card
- You can opt for a paper check
If you owe taxes, the IRS accepts money orders and credit cards to pay taxes due.
Details on filing a federal income tax return, including reporting income and claiming deductions and credits, can be found in the instructions to Form 1040, available at IRS.gov/Form1040.
You can also find a rundown of common types of income, and whether they are taxable or nontaxable, in IRS Publication 525, available at IRS.gov/Pub525.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-04-29T14:38:16+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/verify/money-verify/blac-chyna-kardashian-trial-taxes/536-54c5e49a-f245-4f16-806d-074b5652f690 |
DENVER — A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday.
Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. She had lost custody of him earlier that year after being accused of medical child abuse — lying about him having seizures and other health problems in order to trick doctors into providing unnecessary care.
Jurors also found Abcug found guilty of a misdemeanor count of child abuse.
Her son, now 10, is still in foster care and has not had serious health problems since being removed from Abcug, according to prosecutors.
Abcug’s lawyers suggested that a drug prescribed to treat the seizures was responsible for at least some of the boy’s health problems. Doctors had begun weaning him from the medication before he was removed from Abcug’s custody.
Abcug is scheduled to be sentenced in October. | 2022-08-26T20:32:04+00:00 | abqjournal.com | https://www.abqjournal.com/2527623/colorado-mom-guilty-of-qanon-kidnapping-conspiracy.html |
Devereaux Peters was fed up. She knew plenty of her peers were, too.
Too many times, she’d heard her athletic accomplishments belittled by those who couldn’t even be bothered to watch her play. Too many times, she’d listened to some self-deluded buffoon insist he could beat a WNBA player one-on-one.
As she detailed her exasperation on that day in 2018, her Phoenix Mercury teammate couldn’t resist chiming in. And per the Arizona Republic, that’s when Brittney Griner made her point by bringing up a famous exception.
“Nobody,” Griner said, “(is) going to Serena saying, ‘I’d beat you in tennis.’”
Nobody would dare, and that spoke to Serena Williams’ excellence. It was self-evident and indisputable, even in an age when other women in sports kept having to fight the idea their accomplishments should come with asterisks.
This isn’t to say Williams always got her due. The truth is she rarely did, despite winning 23 Grand Slam singles titles and sustaining dominance in her sport even better than Tiger Woods sustained it in his. Somehow, Williams still was underrated.
But as she prepares to walk away from professional tennis for good, Williams does so knowing that her greatness speaks for itself, and that she needn’t feel obligated to prove anything extra.
May those who’ve followed her lead feel the same way someday.
We’re not quite there yet, and Griner realizes this all too well. Four years after lamenting the lack of respect afforded to women basketball players in this country, she’s facing nine years in a Russian prison. If it weren’t for the massive discrepancy in the way NBA and WNBA players are compensated, Griner likely wouldn’t have been in Russia in the first place.
But that’s where the money was in her business, and that’s where she was arrested in an airport and charged with bringing vape cartridges with cannabis oil into the country on Feb. 17. And that’s where she’s been detained since then, with the public outcry back home noticeably — but not quite surprisingly — muted.
It's impossible to imagine a world in which Woods or Tom Brady or LeBron James was held by Russian authorities this long, at least not without it dominating newscasts and front pages every day. But Griner — a Houston native, NCAA champion at Baylor, eight-time All-Star and two-time Team USA Olympic gold medalist — just doesn’t generate that kind of attention.
Few female athletes in this country do. And in the rare instances when a generational superstar like Williams does make her way into the national conversation, it’s too often for something supposedly “controversial.”
Not embarrassing-sex-scandal “controversial,” like Woods.
Not allegedly-break-the-rules-and-deflate-the-footballs “controversial,” like Brady.
Williams’ version of “controversial” was raising her voice to a chair umpire.
In lifting her sport, she often was held to an impossible standard, and this is what Dana O’Neil of The Athletic meant when she wrote of Williams this week, “Rare is the person who has won big and lived bigger, who has refused to apologize when there is nothing in need of forgiving, and who has viewed success not as a glass cage to protect but as an open door to honesty.”
Williams was so good, she was criticized for it, which is something neither Woods nor Brady nor James ever will understand. Nor can any of those legends fathom the thought process Williams detailed in her “farewell” announcement in Vogue — that she had to choose between her career and her family.
Brady, at the age of 45, chose his family for a few weeks, then decided to forget about retirement and come back to the NFL. Williams, who won the 2017 Australian Open when she was two months pregnant, can’t be quite so impulsive.
“I’m turning 41 this month,” she wrote in Vogue, “and something’s got to give.”
Nobody begrudges her that. After her announcement this week, that she hopes to have a second child and will be “evolving away from tennis” at some point after the U.S. Open concludes in September, she’s been widely hailed. Next month should bring an even greater, and deserved, celebration.
Even now, few if any self-deluded amateur buffoons are challenging her to a match, or questioning her credentials.
But the best tribute to Williams will come later.
When she’s no longer the exception.
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After decades of inaction in the face of escalating natural disasters and sustained global warming, Congress hopes to make clean energy so cheap in all aspects of life that it’s nearly irresistible. The House is poised to pass a transformative bill Friday that would provide the most spending to fight climate change by any one nation ever in a single push.
Friday’s anticipated action comes 34 years after a top scientist grabbed headlines warning Congress about the dangers of global warming. In the decades since, there have been 308 weather disasters that have each cost the nation at least $1 billion, the record for the hottest year has been broken 10 times and wildfires have burned an area larger than Texas.
The crux of the long-delayed bill, singularly pushed by Democrats in a closely divided Congress, is to use incentives to spur investors to accelerate the expansion of clean energy such as wind and solar power, speeding the transition away from the oil, coal and gas that largely cause climate change.
The United States has put the most heat-trapping gases into the air, burning more inexpensive dirty fuels than any other country. But the nearly $375 billion in climate incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act are designed to make the already plummeting costs of renewable energy substantially lower at home, on the highways and in the factory. Together these could help shrink U.S. carbon emissions by about two-fifths by 2030 and should chop emissions from electricity by as much as 80%.
Experts say it isn't enough, but it's a big start.
“This legislation is a true game-changer. It will create jobs, lower costs, increase U.S. competitiveness, reduce air pollution,” said former Vice President Al Gore, who held his first global warming hearing 40 years ago. “The momentum that will come out of this legislation, cannot be underestimated."
The U.S. action could spur other nations to do more — especially China and India, the two largest carbon emitters along with the U.S. That in turn could lower prices for renewable energy globally, experts said.
Because of the specific legislative process in which this compromise was formed, which limits it to budget-related actions, the bill does not regulate greenhouse gas emissions, but deals mainly in spending, most of it through tax credits as well as rebates to industry, consumers and utilities.
Investments work better at fostering clean energy than regulations, said Leah Stokes, an environmental policy professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The climate bill is likely to spur billions in private investment, she said: “That’s what’s going to be so transformative.”
The bill promotes vital technologies such as battery storage. Clean energy manufacturing gets a big boost. It will be cheaper for consumers to make climate-friendly purchasing decisions. There are tax credits to make electric cars more affordable, help for low-income people making energy-efficiency upgrades and incentives for rooftop solar and heat pumps.
There are also incentives for nuclear power and projects that aim to capture and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
The bill moves to ensure that poor and minority communities that have borne the brunt of pollution benefit from climate spending. Farmers will receive help switching to climate-friendly practices and there’s money for energy research and to encourage electric heavy-duty trucks in place of diesel.
The Superfund program, used to pay for cleanup of the nation’s most heavily-polluted industrial sites, will receive more revenue from a bigger tax on oil.
The Rhodium Group research firm estimates the bill would dramatically change the arc of future U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, cutting them by 31% to 44% in 2030, compared to what had been shaping up to be 24% to 35% since 2005 without the bill, said Rhodium partner John Larsen. Clean power on the grid, an upcoming Rhodium report says, would jump from under 40% now to between 60% and 81% by 2030, he said.
“It’s not as big as I want, but it’s also bigger than anything we’ve ever done,″ said Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawaii Democrat who leads the Senate climate caucus. “A 40% emissions reduction is nothing the U.S. has ever come close to before.″
As decisive a change as it is for U.S. policy and emissions, it still does not reach the official U.S. goal of cutting carbon pollution roughly in half by 2030 to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across the economy by 2050.
Not everyone is impressed.
"This law is big for the U.S. but in global terms long overdue," said Niklas Hohne, co-founder of the New Climate Institute in Germany. "The U.S. has a long way to go on climate change and is starting from a very, very high emission level.”
When U.S. historic carbon emissions are factored in, U.S. spending still lags behind Italy, France, South Korea, Japan and Canada, according to Brian O'Callaghan, lead researcher at the Oxford Economic Recovery Project at the University of Oxford. He noted the bill has nothing to fulfill America's broken promise of billions of dollars in climate aid for poor nations.
President Joe Biden has frequently said America is back in the fight against climate change, but other leaders have been skeptical with no legislation to back his claim.
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Rhodium’s Larsen, who crunched the numbers in the bill, said it would lead to consumers paying up to $112 less a year in energy costs.
“As long as I’ve been in this game, progress on climate has always been higher costs for consumers. That’s not how this bill works,” Larsen said in an interview.
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The result is a 755-page bill that spends money without directly taking on fossil fuels, a disappointment to many on the left. Gore said the fossil fuel industry ran a decades-long “deeply unethical campaign to deceive people around the world,” casting doubt on climate change science.
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“It’s a mark of shame that it took this long for our political system to react,” said Bill McKibben, a long-time climate activist, adding that it leaves the fossil fuel industry with too much power. “But this will help catalyze action elsewhere in the world; it’s a declaration that hydrocarbons are finally in decline and clean energy ascendant, and that the climate movement is finally at least something of a match for Big Oil.”
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Adds further support for its broad-spectrum mechanism of action following other recent TBI, ALS and tropical virus studies
VIKEN, Sweden, Sept. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TikoMed today announced the inclusion in bioRxiv* of an in vitro study evaluating the ability of the company's lead drug candidate ILB® to:
- inhibit infection of human cells by the NL63 coronavirus assessed by immunofluorescence of viral particles; and
- directly block the interaction of the SARS-CoV-2 viral spike protein with the ACE2 receptor; and
- modulate the downstream consequences of viral infection including the reactive cytokine release from human microglia induced by various SARS-CoV-2 variant spike proteins.
The study shows that ILB® blocked ACE2:spike protein interaction and inhibited coronaviral infection. ILB® also attenuated the omicron-induced release of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including TNFa, from human microglia, indicating control of post-viral neuroinflammation.
"This work extends our findings of ILB®'s antiviral impact upon flavivirus infections to now include coronavirus. Furthermore, we are excited to have uncovered a potential molecular mechanism for these findings by showing that ILB® inhibited SARS-CoV-2 spike protein interacting with ACE2, the key docking site for SARS-CoV-2 to gain entry to human cells," said Professor Ann Logan PhD (Professor of Regenerative Medicine & CSO, Axolotl Ltd).
Professor Nicholas Barnes PhD PBPhS (Professor of Pharmacology & CEO, Celentyx Ltd) also commented: "In pathological post-viral fatigue syndromes such as long COVID, a key brain cell called microglia appear overactive and promote the associated neuroinflammation. This data showed that activated microglia are calmed by ILB® in vitro and suggests ILB® has the potential to inhibit neuroinflammation and hence improve symptoms of patients with conditions such as long COVID."
TikoMed recently announced the publication of a peer-reviewed article on the mode of action of ILB®. In multiple preclinical and clinical studies across a variety of neuroinflammation-driven diseases. ILB® both mobilized and modulated naturally occurring tissue repair mechanisms, released heparin-binding growth factors, and restored cellular homeostasis and function, https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.983853.
Additionally, TikoMed has reported that ILB® inhibited infection of human cells by Dengue, Zika and Yellow Fever viruses in vitro, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.31.503293v1.full.
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Coronaviruses are a large family of enveloped, positive-stranded RNA pathogenic viruses that cause infectious disease in animals and humans. For example, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 virus causes coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which causes a mild to moderate respiratory disease in most humans, but susceptible individuals can become dangerously ill, developing severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that can result in organ damage[1]. The global pandemic of COVID-19 disease that has spread since 2019 has had devastating health, social and economic consequences that remain burdensome[2]. By August 2022 that World Health Organisation report 599,825,400 confirmed cases of COVID19 and 6,469,458 confirmed deaths (https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019), representing just over 1% of those infected.
*bioRxiv is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
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Last week marked the 75th anniversary of the date (April 15, 1947) when Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the major leagues since the 1880s.
But it wasn’t just Robinson. There were others who were the first Black players on their Major League Baseball teams too.
The United States was a deeply segregated country in the 1940s. African Americans were separated from White people by laws and customs. Black people could not attend White-only schools or live in certain neighborhoods or go to many restaurants.
Sports were segregated too. Black players played in separate baseball leagues called the Negro Leagues. Many White people said that Black players were not good enough to make it in the major leagues.
In 1946, the Sporting News baseball publication wrote that there was “not a single Negro player with major league capabilities.” That wasn’t true.
When the Cleveland Indians selected Larry Doby to be the first Black player in the American League, he faced many of the same challenges as Robinson. Doby said later that “it was 11 weeks between the time Jackie Robinson and I came into the majors. I can’t see how things were any different for me than they were for him.”
Unlike Robinson, who was a sensation in his first season, Doby started slowly, hitting only .156 in 1947. But Doby improved and became a nine-time All-Star as the Indians’ center fielder.
In 1950, Sam Jethroe, who had played seven seasons for the Cleveland Buckeyes in the Negro Leagues, joined the Boston (now Atlanta) Braves and was the National League Rookie of the Year at age 33.
A year later, Minnie Minoso became the first Black player to play for the Chicago White Sox. Minoso, who was born in Cuba, played in 13 All-Star games and batted .299 for his long career.
From 1949 to 1959, 9 of the 11 players named the most valuable player (MVP) in the National League were players who had played in the Negro Leagues. These MVP-caliber players included Hall-of-Famers such as Robinson, Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron and Ernie Banks.
Still, many teams were slow to accept Black players. Three of the 16 MLB teams at the time — the Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox — waited more than 10 years after Robinson’s debut in 1947 to have Black players on their rosters.
It is important to remember and honor Jackie Robinson. But it is also important to remember the other talented and courageous players who helped change sports — and America for the better. | 2022-04-21T16:41:10+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost/2022/04/21/jackie-robinson-wasnt-only-black-player-break-barriers-mlb/ |
We regularly answer frequently asked questions about life during the coronavirus crisis. If you have a question you'd like us to consider for a future post, email us at goatsandsoda@npr.org with the subject line: "Weekly Coronavirus Questions." See an archive of our FAQs here.
COVID is surging in China, a new variant is reportedly the most contagious yet, testing is back in some airports. How do I avoid the virus while flying?
It's been nearly three years since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, but if you head to some airports right now you might think you've returned to the earlydays of the outreak.
A surge of cases in China has prompted the U.S. to require a negative COVID test for travelers flying in from the Peoples' Republic of China, Hong Kong and Macau. That went into effect on Jan. 5. The European Union recommends the same measures for its member states.
(Meanwhile, some countries never dropped their testing requirements. Venezuela and Seychelles, for example, still require proof of a negative COVID test to board a flight to those countries.)
And in the U.S. a growing number of airports are swabbing noses — of international passengers only. It's for a voluntary program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to detect new variants in travelers arriving from outside the U.S. Some 7 airports are doing the testing, including LAX and Seattle-Tacoma.
In addition to the China situation, concerns about COVID are rising because of the growing dominance of the omicron variant XBB.1.5, which the World Health Organization calls "the most transmissible variant it has yet detected" – although vaccinations and boosters appear to be holding up when it comes to protection against severe and possibly fatal disease.
"Whether more countries return to mandatory testing because of XBB.1.5 or other variants that emerge is unknown, but also unnecessary since the world is currently swimming in COVID," says Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar in residence at the Center for Health Security at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Adalja says testing is a political rather than public health decision to allay the fear of citizens. Other public health experts have noted that testing didn't prevent variants from moving around the globe – although it often delayed their arrival.
Meanwhile, an individual passenger has personal concerns: It'd be great not to catch COVID during a trip. To reduce your odds of infection, you can turn to the familiar precautions from early in the pandemic – you know, the ones that many people no longer follow.
Boost yourself
Many older adults have not gotten the latest booster, which protects both against the original virus and Omicron variants, says Dr. Preeti Malani, a professor in the department of infectious diseases at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. She calls the shot "an absolute must prior to travel."
Ahead of your flight
Since airline rules regarding precautions could change, when you book you can improve the chance of getting updates by checking the box that allows text messaging to your phone. Downloading the airline's mobile phone app will let you easily search for boarding requirements for your specific flight. Having trouble reaching customer service by phone to ask about flight rules? Direct message the airline over Twitter or use the online chat options many airlines offer.
At the airport
"My advice around international travel is to wear masks if you are in a crowded indoor space — not just on the airplanes but boarding, security lines and anywhere else that it's crowded," says Dr. Malani. "You can take a break from masks to eat/drink while waiting to board but try to find a spot that's away from the crowd."
You'll definitely want to bring your own masks. Any masks available for folks at airports or on board are likely to be paper masks; the CDC recommends "high quality masks or respirators" during travel." Respirators are masks labeled as N95s or KN95s, which provide a tighter fit and better filtration. Respirators are sold online and in stores like pharmacies. Freebies are handed out at some community health centers and public libraries.
And remember distancing? It's still a good idea during boarding and deplaning, "especially now with the highly contagious BXX COVID variant," says Leonard Marcus, co-director of the Preparedness Initiative at Harvard University.
Don't forget your hands
Research has found that bathroom door handles and seat trays and other objects are not a significant route of transmission for the virus, but it's not impossible. You can gain a bit of an edge by using hand sanitizer or an alcohol wipe. Since airlines aren't always handing out wipes these days and in-flight bottles could be depleted, the experts we spoke to advise bringing your own. "These are good public health measures so people who have concerns or heightened vulnerabilities might consider these extra steps," says Marcus. And it's not just to ward off COVID. The flu, respiratory syncytial virus and colds can also spread via droplets.
If you do bring hand sanitizer in your carry-on luggage, limit the bottle to 3.to-4 ounces so your supply doesn't have to be screened by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). If you're thinking of reaching into your cupboard for a vial you you purchased at the start of the pandemic, check the date to be sure it hasn't expired.
Create a protective zone for your airplane seat
A window seat reduces exposure to people who are standing in the aisles "and breathing down" on you, says Marcus. He's one of the authors of a 2021 study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on COVID 19 and air travel, which that found that the triple combination of masking, air cabin conditions and distancing during boarding and deplaning combine to lower your risk of contracting COVID on a flight.
He also suggests turning on the air vents: "The ventilation pushes clean air from above to the floor. The more of that the better." (Bring a sweater, though, since opening those vents can make your space colder.)
Make a plan just in case
"I would suggest having a plan for what to do if you become ill," says Dr. Malani — including where you would go to get medical care. U.S. embassies and consulates in many foreign countries have lists of doctors and hospitals that treat foreigners.
Malani also advises packing supplies-- including COVID tests and over-the-counter medications to treat symptoms like a runny nose and sore throat and fever if you get COVID-19 or other illnesses.
If your doctor has said you would be a candidate for Paxlovid if you contract COVID-19, ask for advice with regard to the drug before taking a trip.
Another recommendation from the experts: Trip insurance and travel medical insurance to help transport you back home (if severely ill in an international setting) is another consideration.
Fran Kritz is a health policy reporter based in Washington, D.C., and a regular contributor to NPR. She also reports for the Washington Post and Verywell Health. Find her on Twitter: @fkritz
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FLAMING GORGE RESERVOIR, Wyo. (AP) — Tony Valdez wasn’t worried about being left high and dry when he bought Buckboard Marina three years ago, but that’s changed with the receding waters of Flaming Gorge Reservoir.
This year, he has already dredged 10 feet (3 meters) so boats could still use the marina. Now, with Flaming Gorge becoming a crucial emergency water supply for the region, Valdez worries the reservoir has nowhere to go but lower still.
“I mean, this is our natural resource and it’s going away,” he said. “Water is the most precious thing we have.”
As a 20-year drought creeps ever farther up the Colorado River Basin and seven Western states vie for their fair share of water under the century-old Colorado River Compact, this boating and fishing paradise on the Wyoming-Utah line is a new flashpoint.
Nobody disputes the root of the problem: The agreement dates to a cooler, wetter time and is based on assumptions about precipitation that simply no longer apply, in part due to climate change.
But as business owners like Valdez are finding out firsthand, recreation is just one of many competing priorities while growing demand in the basin’s more populous downstream states — California, Nevada and Arizona — conflicts with dwindling supply from the more rural states upstream — Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a collaborative series on the Colorado River as the 100th anniversary of the historic Colorado River Compact approaches. The Associated Press, The Colorado Sun, The Albuquerque Journal, The Salt Lake Tribune, The Arizona Daily Star and The Nevada Independent are working together to explore the pressures on the river in 2022.
Amid jostling by farmers, ranchers, businesses, industries, municipalities and government officials, it’s anyone’s guess who will come out ahead or get left behind — including natural ecosystems that need water, too.
“It’s a complicated mess. And right now the environment is akin to a snake den because everybody is just out for themselves,” said Kyle Roerink, director of the Great Basin Water Network conservation group.
In August, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton agreed for now to let Upper Basin states keep working together on drought plans that emphasize voluntary water conservation rather than have the bureau dictate reservoir releases.
That’s a decision welcomed by Wyoming State Engineer Brandon Gebhart, the state’s chief water regulator. “Reclamation reinforced a position that Wyoming has long agreed with,” Gebhart said. “The solution to our challenges relies on the bedrock of a century of collaboration and partnership.”
Gebhart acknowledged, though, that continued drought could lead to an even lower Flaming Gorge, with the next decision about any new drawdowns due in April.
Fed by the Green River and rimmed by spectacular cliffs and scrubby desert, Flaming Gorge is by far the biggest reservoir in the Upper Basin, which refers to the vast area covering all waters upstream of Lees Ferry on the Colorado River in northern Arizona.
Built in the 1960s to store and control water in the Green River, which flows into the Colorado in southeastern Utah, Flaming Gorge is the Colorado River system’s third-biggest reservoir. It’s now about 75% full, compared to just 25% or so in Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the bigger reservoirs downstream.
Snaking over 66 square miles (170 square kilometers) south of Green River, Wyoming, Flaming Gorge remains a renowned spot to catch giant lake trout or take a boat to a secluded cove for a dip in cool, aquamarine waters.
Just be careful about jumping in at places that were deeper a few years ago.
In April, the Bureau of Reclamation announced that under a drought plan for the Upper Basin states, it would release enough water to draw down Flaming Gorge by 15 feet (4.6 meters). The goal is to help ensure that Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona can still generate electricity some 450 miles (725 kilometers) downstream.
So far, drawdowns this year and last have left Flaming Gorge about 6 feet (1.8 meters) lower than a year ago and 12 feet (3.7 meters) lower than two years ago, reaching lows unseen since 2005.
Besides boats not being able to use his marina, Valdez worries about the reservoir’s kokanee salmon, which are important food for prized lake trout and tasty game fish in their own right.
Lately, kokanee numbers have been down for unknown reasons. The trend could continue as the reservoir falls, reducing spawning habitat and causing lake trout to eat more kokanee, said Wyoming Game and Fish Department Regional Fisheries Supervisor Robert Keith.
“As the reservoir drops, the available habitat for the two species is going to become compacted, so they’re going to overlap more,” Keith said. “So the opportunity for predation is going to be greater.”
Although Wyoming uses only about 60% of the water it’s entitled to under the compact, Gebhart says the Upper Basin states have little to spare given recent flows.
The vast majority of Colorado River Basin water used in Wyoming goes to irrigating grass and alfalfa for cattle. Industry — mainly power plants and minerals processing — accounts for about 9% and cities and towns about 3%.
More conservation by southwestern Wyoming’s 2,500 water rights holders could help keep water in the system. For example, ranchers can install more efficient irrigation with assistance from government grants and other funding, said Cory Toye with Trout Unlimited.
The fish habitat and angler advocacy group has been working with ranchers on such projects in Wyoming for years and the Flaming Gorge drawdowns have heightened awareness of the problem, Toye said.
States in the compact have been funding efforts to boost snowfall by releasing silver iodide from airplanes and ground-based devices in Wyoming and elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains.
Cloud seeding can increase snow somewhat, research shows. But the technique is unlikely to fully offset or reverse drought or bring Flaming Gorge back up from levels threatening Buckboard Marina.
Lucerne Valley Marina, just south of the Utah line, will need to adapt if levels keep falling but could still operate.
“We’re anchoring in 200 feet (61 meters) of water when full,” owner Jerry Taylor said. “We have quite a bit of ability for lake drop. But Buckboard does not.”
In a worst-case scenario, Buckboard would be stranded some distance away from where the Green River flowed more than 60 years ago.
For now, Valdez hopes to lure back tourists who’ve stayed home amid high gasoline prices and the lower water. And he says Wyoming residents also need uncrowded places like Buckboard to enjoy.
“People just don’t get raised like this anymore, get to hunt and fish,” Valdez said. “And have a sustainable source of water.”
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday declared Senate Republicans have “no agenda” to consider cuts or reforms to Medicare or Social Security, attempting to slam the door on efforts by Democrats to link the entire GOP to a plan by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to sunset all federal legislation, including those popular entitlement programs, after five years.
Asked if Scott should disavow his plan, which has become a regular target of Democratic attacks, McConnell once again emphasized Scott’s plan doesn’t have any buy-in from the Senate Republican leadership.
“As you recall, there was some confusion last year about what the agenda of the Republican Senate might be if we were in the majority,” he said, referring to Scott’s 12-point plan, which he unveiled while he was serving as the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
The most controversial element of Scott’s proposal was a call to sunset all federal legislation after a period of five years to give Congress a chance to weed out wasteful and ineffective programs. It didn’t make an exception for Social Security and Medicare, but Scott has always insisted that he assumes Congress would renew those popular programs every five years.
“I made it quite clear that as the likely majority, as I hoped at that time, Social Security and Medicare were not on our agenda. Period,” he said.
Even so, Democrats continue to use Scott’s plan as political ammunition.
At last week’s State of the Union address, President Biden said, “Some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years.”
McConnell on Tuesday tried to quash the notion that he or anyone in his leadership team might buy into the Scott plan or any proposals to cut Social Security or Medicare.
“It continues to come up. The president was talking about it in the State of the Union,” he said. “So let me say it one more time. There is no agenda on the part of Senate Republicans to revisit Medicare or Social Security. Period.”
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At a time when inflation is pushing some prices higher and higher, we are all looking to save money on items for our homes or gifts for other people.
One new trend is return and overstock warehouses.
Some savvy shoppers are saving money thereby buying returned items that are too expensive for stores to restock. So instead, people are buying them for pennies on the dollar.
Meredith Diggs oversees a warehouse filled with bargains called All Surplus Deals, part of a growing trend of surplus stores.
Diggs showed us some of their thousands of items for sale, including brand-new air fryers, Lego sets, a Bowflex, and a ride-on Mario Kart vehicle, all selling for a fraction of the original price.
"These might be somebody returned something because it didn't work for them, but it might be right for you," Diggs said.
Retailers finding new ways to offload items
So how are deals and steals like these even possible?
Vanderbilt University marketing professor Kelly Goldsmith says in many cases, retailers are looking for new ways to offload an increasing number of returned items.
"Consumers are becoming more cautious about what they keep," she said. "They're not becoming more cautious about what they buy. They're becoming more cautious about what they keep!"
In 2022, shoppers returned over 16 percent of the items they bought.
And returns tend to be even higher when shoppers buy online.
"What that means is that they end with a lot of kind of half-used, half-open, no box item, but the parts are there," Goldsmith said. "And they need to get rid of."
With some of these warehouses, you visit in person.
At All Surplus Deals, you place bids in an online auction, then pick it up if you win.
Diggs explained, "on the website, we're going to tell you that it is assembled, that it is not damaged."
Some lucky teen will get a powered hoverboard the warehouse was selling, with Christmas wrapping paper still attached.
"It's a $150 item and will probably go for about $50," she said.
All Surplus Deals is currently operating in Phoenix and Cincinnati, with more stores planned, though there are others like it in many cities.
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SHANGHAI, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Noah Holdings Limited ("Noah" or the "Company") (NYSE: NOAH and HKEX: 6686), a leading and pioneer wealth management service provider in China offering comprehensive one-stop advisory services on global investment and asset allocation primarily for high net worth investors, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the audited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2022.
FOURTH QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB882.1 million (US$127.9 million), a 30.0% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, mainly due to 1) decreases in one-time commissions, as less insurance products distributed compared with last year and 2) less performance based income generated from public securities products and offshore private equity products amid market volatilities. Net revenues increased by 28.9% compared with the third quarter of 2022, mainly due to an increase in distribution of insurance products and performance-based income.
- Income from operations for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB219.7 million (US$31.9 million), a 66.1% increase from the corresponding period in 2021, as we recorded RMB85.6 million credit loss for our other business in the fourth quarter of 2021; income from operations decreased by 5.2% compared with the third quarter of 2022, primarily due to an increase in selling expenses and provision for credit losses.
- Net income attributable to Noah shareholders for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB139.9 million (US$20.3 million), a 50.3% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, due to a 30.0% decrease in net revenues and a 23.3% decrease from the third quarter of 2022, due to a provision of contingent litigation expenses related to the first-instance ruling disclosed in December 12, 2022.
- Non-GAAP[1] net income attributable to Noah shareholders for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB149.2 million (US$21.6 million), a 48.5% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, and a 21.9% decrease from the third quarter of 2022.
FULL YEAR 2022 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
- Net revenues in the full year 2022 was RMB3,100.4 million (US$449.5 million), a 27.8% decrease from the full year 2021, mainly due to decreases in one-time commissions and performance-based income.
- Income from operations in the full year 2022 was RMB1,088.4 million (US$157.8 million), a 9.2% decrease from the full year 2021.
- Net income attributable to Noah shareholders in the full year 2022 was RMB976.6 million (US$141.6 million), a 25.7% decrease compared with full year 2021, due to decreases in net revenue and income from equity in affiliates amid market volatilities.
- Non-GAAP net income attributable to Noah shareholders in the full year 2022 was RMB1,008.6 million (US$146.2 million), a 26.5% decrease from the full year 2021.
FOURTH QUARTER AND FULL YEAR 2022 OPERATIONAL UPDATES
Wealth Management Business
We offer investment products and provide value-added services to high net worth investors in China and overseas for our wealth management business. Noah primarily distributes private equity, private secondary, mutual funds and other products denominated in RMB and other currencies.
- Total number of registered clients as of December 31, 2022 was 437,288, a 6.1% increase from December 31, 2021 and a 0.9% increase compared with September 30, 2022.
- Total number of active clients[2] who transacted with us during the fourth quarter of 2022 was 12,904, a 26.1% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2021, and a 43.0% decrease from the third quarter of 2022. Total number of active clients who transacted with us during the full year 2022 was 35,877, a 16.1% decrease from the full year 2021.
- Aggregate value of investment products distributed during the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB18.0 billion (US$2.6 billion), a 14.5% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, mainly due to a decrease in the distribution of private secondary products due to the volatile secondary market.
- Aggregate value of investment products distributed during the full year 2022 was RMB70.3 billion (US$10.2 billion), a 27.7% decrease from the full year 2021, mainly due to a decrease in the distribution of private secondary products.
- Coverage network in mainland China included 75 cities as of December 31, 2022, compared with 76 cities as of September 30, 2022, and 84 cities as of December 31, 2021.
- Number of relationship managers was 1,276 as of December 31, 2022, a 1.5% increase from September 30, 2022, and a 3.0% decrease from December 31, 2021.
Asset Management Business
Our asset management business is conducted through Gopher Asset Management Co., Ltd. ("Gopher Asset Management"), a leading multi-asset manager in China with overseas offices in Hong Kong and the United States. Gopher Asset Management develops and manages assets ranging from private equity, real estate, public securities to multi-strategy investments denominated in RMB and other currencies.
- Total assets under management as of December 31, 2022 remained relatively stable in the amount of RMB157.1 billion (US$22.8 billion), compared with RMB156.2 billion as of September 30, 2022 and RMB156.0 billion as of December 31, 2021.
Other Businesses
Our other businesses mainly aim to provide more comprehensive services and investment products to our clients.
Ms. Jingbo Wang, co-founder and CEO of Noah, said, "I'm happy to report that our voluntary conversion to dual-primary listing in Hong Kong has been successfully completed, fully mitigating the ADR delisting risk. In the fourth quarter of 2022, we continued to see challenges in the domestic economy brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, net revenues grew 28.9% quarter-on-quarter, supported by a 169.4% increase in one-time commissions and 191.1% increase in performance based income quarter-on-quarter. Despite a challenging capital markets environment, non-GAAP net income attributable to Noah shareholders for the full year was RMB1.0 billion, in-line with our annual guidance. Furthermore, The Board has approved an annual dividend of approximately RMB176.5 million (US$25.6 million) in total, which is equivalent to around 17.5% of our unaudited annual non-GAAP net income attributable to Noah shareholders. The annual dividend payment plan will be reviewed during and announced after the Annual General Meeting, which is expected to be held in June 2023."
FOURTH QUARTER 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Net Revenues
Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB882.1 million (US$127.9 million), a 30.0% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, primarily driven by decreased one-time commissions and performance-based income.
- Wealth Management Business
- Asset Management Business
- Other Businesses
Operating Costs and Expenses
Operating costs and expenses for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB662.3 million (US$96.0 million), a 41.3% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021. Operating costs and expenses primarily consisted of compensation and benefits of RMB383.1 million (US$55.6 million), selling expenses of RMB142.8 million (US$20.7 million), general and administrative expenses of RMB84.0 million (US$12.2 million), provision of credit losses of RMB19.8 million (US$2.9 million) and other operating expenses of RMB38.3 million (US$5.5 million).
- Operating costs and expenses for the wealth management business for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB467.8 million (US$67.8 million), a 40.5% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to a decrease in relationship manager compensation, which is in line with decreased transaction value and a decrease in general and administrative expenses due to our cost control measures implemented.
- Operating costs and expenses for the asset management business for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB129.6 million (US$18.8 million), a 32.9% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to less performance fee compensation and less provision for credit losses.
- Operating costs and expenses for other businesses for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB64.9 million (US$9.4 million), a 56.5% decrease from the corresponding period in 2021, due to less credit losses recorded.
Operating Margin
Operating margin for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 24.9%, compared with 10.5% for the corresponding period in 2021.
- Operating margin for the wealth management business for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 27.7%, compared with 18.9% for the corresponding period in 2021, due to less general and administrative expenses incurred due to our cost control measures implemented.
- Operating margin for the asset management business for the fourth quarter of 2022 was 41.9%, compared with 29.5% for the corresponding period in 2021, due to less performance fee compensation recorded in 2022.
- Loss from other businesses for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB52.9 million (US$7.7 million), compared with RMB132.1 million in the corresponding period of 2021, primarily due to decreased provision for credit losses.
Investment Income
Investment income for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB62.2 million (US$9.0 million), compared with investment income of RMB3.5 million for the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to unrealized gains of fair value changes from our certain equity investments.
Income Tax Expenses
Income tax expenses for the fourth quarter of 2022 were RMB60.5 million (US$8.8 million), a 71.3% increase from the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to higher taxable income as well as dividend tax accrued in the fourth quarter of 2022.
Income from Equity in Affiliates
Income from equity in affiliates for the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB12.3 million (US$1.8 million), compared with RMB160.5 million for the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to the decrease in net income of the funds of funds that we manage and invest in as the general partner or fund manager.
Net Income
- Net Income
- Non-GAAP Net Income Attributable to Noah Shareholders
FULL YEAR 2022 FINANCIAL RESULTS
Net Revenues
Net revenues for the full year 2022 were RMB3,100.4 million (US$449.5 million), a 27.8% decrease from the full year 2021, primarily due to a decrease in one-time commissions and performance-based income.
- Wealth Management Business
- Asset Management Business
- Other Businesses
Operating costs and expenses
Operating costs and expenses for 2022 were RMB2,011.9 million (US$291.7 million), a 35.0% decrease from the full year 2021. Operating costs and expenses for the full year 2022 primarily consisted of compensation and benefits of RMB1,441.9 million (US$209.1 million), selling expenses of RMB349.0 million (US$50.6 million), general and administrative expenses of RMB235.3 million (US$34.1 million), reversal of credit losses of RMB0.4 million (US$0.1 million) and other operating expenses of RMB115.7 million (US$16.8 million).
- Operating costs and expenses for the wealth management business for 2022 were RMB1,458.5 million (US$211.5 million), a 35.8% decrease from 2021, primarily due to a decrease in compensation and benefits, as well as general and administrative expenses.
- Operating costs and expenses for the asset management business for 2022 were RMB386.6 million (US$56.1 million), a 30.5% decrease from 2021, primarily due to a decrease in compensation and benefits, as well as general and administrative expenses.
- Operating costs and expenses for other businesses for 2022 were RMB166.8 million (US$24.2million), a 37.0% decrease from 2021, primarily due to a decrease in provision for credit losses.
Operating Margin
Operating margin for the full year 2022 was 35.1%, compared to 27.9% for the full year 2021.
- Operating margin for the wealth management business for 2022 was 33.7%, compared to 28.8% for 2021, mainly due to cost control measures implemented.
- Operating margin for the asset management business for 2022 was 53.7%, compared to 46.6% for 2021, mainly due to cost control measures implemented.
- Loss from other businesses for 2022 was RMB100.8 million (US$14.6 million), compared with RMB207.8 million for 2021, due to decreased provision of credit losses.
Investment Income
Investment income for the full year 2022 was RMB85.6 million (US$12.4 million), a 30.8% increase from the full year 2021, primarily due to unrealized gains of fair value changes from our certain equity investments.
Income Tax Expenses
Income tax expenses for the full year 2022 were RMB267.1 million (US$38.7 million), a 9.1% decrease from the full year 2021, primarily due to less taxable income.
Income from Equity in Affiliates
Income from equity in affiliates for the full year 2022 was RMB89.1 million (US$12.9 million), compared with RMB302.0 million in the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to less income recognized from the funds of funds that we manage and invest in as the general partner or fund manager.
Net Income
- Net Income
- Non-GAAP Net Income Attributable to Noah Shareholders
BALANCE SHEET AND CASH FLOW
As of December 31, 2022, the Company had RMB4,403.9 million (US$638.5 million) in cash and cash equivalents, compared with RMB3,404.6 million as of December 31, 2021 and RMB4,312.8 million as of September 30, 2022.
Net cash inflow from the Company's operating activities during the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB33.0 million (US$4.8 million), compared to RMB659.2 million in the corresponding period in 2021, primarily due to the reclassification of trading debt products from cash and cash equivalents to short term investments in the fourth quarter of 2022. Net cash inflow from the Company's operating activities during the full year 2022 was RMB632.9 million (US$91.8 million), compared to RMB1,521.8 million during the full year 2021, the variance was mainly due to a decrease in net income.
Net cash inflow from the Company's investing activities during the fourth quarter of 2022 was RMB58.3 million (US$8.5 million), compared to net cash outflow of RMB67.4 million in the corresponding period in 2021. Net cash inflow from the Company's investing activities during the full year 2022 was RMB74.3 million (US$10.8 million), compared to net cash outflow of RMB2,572.1 million during the full year 2021, the cash outflow in 2021 was mainly due to cash payment for the acquisition of our new headquarter.
Net cash inflow from the Company's financing activities was RMB8.0 million (US$1.2 million) in the fourth quarter of 2022, compared to net cash inflow of RMB20.9 million in the corresponding period in 2021. Net cash inflow from the Company's financing activities during the full year 2022 was RMB233.8 million (US$33.9 million), compared to net cash outflow of RMB513.1 million during the full year 2021. The cash inflow for 2022 was mainly due to net proceeds from our initial public offering and listing in Hong Kong, and the cash outflow in 2021 was mainly due to the share repurchase program.
RECENT DEVELOPMENT
Silicon Valley Bank ("SVB") Receivership
As disclosed in the Form 6-K furnished with the SEC on March 13, 2023 (the "Press Release"), Noah informed its investors that its exposure to any liquidity concern as a result of the SVB's Receivership (as defined in the Press Release) is immaterial and that it has taken necessary measures to protect against or minimize the potential impact of the SVB's Receivership on the investment funds for which Noah acts as general partner or fund manager.
As of the date of this press release, Noah has transferred out all its cash and cash equivalents previously deposited with SVB. In addition, as general partner or fund manager, Noah has also transferred out all funds cash balances from SVB to their designated accounts. As a result, Noah has no remaining exposure to the SVB Receivership.
Resignation of Senior Management Member
Mr. Jin Chen resigned from his position as the chief executive officer of Noah Digital International, effective on March 15, 2023, due to personal reasons. Mr. Chen will assist the Company in achieving a smooth transition of his job responsibilities. His resignation was not a result of any disagreements with the Company.
CONFERENCE CALL
Senior management will host a combined English and Chinese language conference call to discuss the Company's fourth quarter unaudited financial results and full year 2022 audited financial results and recent business activities.
The conference call will be accessed via Zoom webinar with the following details:
A replay will be available on the same day of the conference call until April 18, 2023 at the Company's investor relations website under the Quarterly Results section at http://ir.noahgroup.com.
DISCUSSION ON NON-GAAP MEASURES
In addition to disclosing financial results prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, the Company's earnings release contains non-GAAP financial measures excluding the effects of all forms of share-based compensation, non-cash settlement expense and net of tax impact, if any. See "Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Results" at the end of this press release.
The non-GAAP financial measures disclosed by the Company should not be considered a substitute for financial measures prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The financial results reported in accordance with U.S. GAAP and reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results should be carefully evaluated. The non-GAAP financial measures used by the Company may be prepared differently from and, therefore, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies.
When evaluating the Company's operating performance in the periods presented, management reviewed the foregoing non-GAAP net income attributable to Noah shareholders and per diluted ADS and non-GAAP net margin attributable to Noah shareholders to supplement U.S. GAAP financial data. As such, the Company's management believes that the presentation of the non-GAAP financial measures provides important supplemental information to investors regarding financial and business trends relating to its results of operations in a manner consistent with that used by management.
ABOUT NOAH HOLDINGS LIMITED
Noah Holdings Limited (NYSE: NOAH and HKEX:6686) is a leading and pioneer wealth management service provider in China offering comprehensive one-stop advisory services on global investment and asset allocation primarily for high net worth investors. In the full year 2022, Noah distributed RMB70.3 billion (US$10.2 billion) of investment products. Through Gopher Asset Management, Noah had assets under management of RMB157.1 billion (US$22.8 billion) as of December 31, 2022.
Noah's wealth management business primarily distributes private equity, private secondary, mutual fund and other products denominated in RMB and other currencies. Noah's network covers 75 cities in mainland China, as well as Hong Kong (China), Taiwan (China), New York, Silicon Valley and Singapore. A total of 1,276 relationship managers provide customized financial solutions for clients through this network, and meet their international investment needs. The Company's wealth management business had 437,288 registered clients as of December 31, 2022. Through Gopher Asset Management, Noah manages private equity, public securities, real estate, multi-strategy and other investments denominated in Renminbi and other currencies. The Company also provides other businesses.
For more information, please visit Noah at ir.noahgroup.com.
FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION
In this announcement, the unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter of 2022 and audited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2022 are stated in RMB. This announcement contains currency conversions of certain RMB amounts into US$ at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to US$ are made at a rate of RMB6.8972 to US$1.00, the effective noon buying rate for December 30, 2022 as set forth in the H.10 statistical release of the Federal Reserve Board.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
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ALPHARETTA, Ga., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Avanos Medical, Inc. (NYSE: AVNS) today announced that Dr. Lisa Egbuonu-Davis, currently vice president, medical innovations, for DH Diagnostics, LLC, an affiliate of Danaher Corporation, has been appointed as a new independent member of the Avanos board of directors and will serve as a member of the compliance and governance committees.
"We are pleased and excited to welcome Lisa Egbuonu-Davis to the Avanos board," commented Gary Blackford, Avanos board chair. "Her deep strategic and operational expertise in the healthcare sector will be invaluable to Avanos as we continue to develop our business and pursue our mission to get patients back to the things that matter."
"I feel strongly that population health is everyone's responsibility, and Avanos is committed to creating innovative healthcare solutions to address some of today's most important healthcare needs, including reducing the use of opioids," said Egbuonu-Davis. "I am thrilled to join its board as a new independent director."
From 2015 to 2019, Egbuonu-Davis served as vice president, global patient centered outcomes and solutions, at Sanofi, Inc., where she created patient programs, services, and tools to enhance health outcomes in patients with chronic conditions.
Prior to Sanofi, Egbuonu-Davis co-founded and served as director for ROI Squared, LLC, a privately held life science company focused on diagnostic medical devices, and served as managing director for LED Enterprise, LLC, where she advised biopharmaceutical companies and trade associations on healthcare reform, technology assessment, quality metrics, and incentives and implications for research and services.
She also served in senior advisor roles for Avalere Health and Booz Allen Hamilton, as well as in various roles over 13 years at Pfizer, Inc., where she led clinical and outcomes research departments, supported product value assessments in support of reimbursement and adoption, and influenced product investment and development decisions.
Egbuonu-Davis earned a bachelor's degree in biology from MIT and an MBA in healthcare management from Wharton, as well as an M.D. and an M.S. in public health from Johns Hopkins. She completed her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (board-certified in pediatrics). She has served on the Johns Hopkins Medicine board of trustees since 2021 and the national advisory council for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education since 2007.
With this new appointment, the Avanos board now comprises six directors, five of whom are independent, including two women, one of whom is ethnically diverse.
About Avanos Medical, Inc.
Avanos Medical, Inc. (NYSE: AVNS) is a medical technology company focused on delivering clinically superior medical device solutions that will help patients get back to the things that matter. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, we are committed to addressing some of today's most important healthcare needs, including providing a vital lifeline for nutrition to patients from hospital to home, and reducing the use of opioids while helping patients move from surgery to recovery. We develop, manufacture and market our recognized brands globally and hold leading market positions in multiple categories across our portfolio. For more information, visit Avanos.com and follow Avanos Medical on Twitter (@AvanosMedical), LinkedIn and Facebook.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers and acquirers of the securities of Opendoor Technologies Inc. f/k/a Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II (NASDAQ: OPEN): (i) between December 21, 2020 and September 16, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"); and/or (ii) pursuant and/or traceable to the offering documents issued in connection with the business combination between the Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. II and Opendoor Labs Inc. completed on or about December 18, 2020 (the "Merger") of the important December 6, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you acquired Opendoor securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Opendoor class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9133 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than December 6, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, the offering documents for the Merger were negligently prepared and, as a result, contained untrue statements of material fact or omitted to state other facts necessary to make the statements made not misleading and were not prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations governing their preparation. Additionally, according to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and misleading statements regarding the Company's business, operations, and prospects. Specifically, the offering documents and defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) the algorithm ("Algorithm") Opendoor used to make offers for homes could not accurately adjust to changing house prices across different market conditions and economic cycles; (2) as a result, Opendoor was at an increased risk of sustaining significant and repeated losses due to residential real estate pricing fluctuations; (3) accordingly, defendants overstated the purported benefits and competitive advantages of the Algorithm; and (4) as a result, the offering documents and defendants' public statements throughout the Class Period were materially false and/or misleading and failed to state information required to be stated therein. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Opendoor class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=9133 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Humpback whales are enjoying a feeding frenzy close to shore in Plymouth this summer, as boaters report seeing more and more of the jumping whales “putting on a show” right near their boats.
What used to be a once-a-year whale sighting right off the coast is now happening multiple times a day for recreational boaters in the area.
“They’ve been sticking around for the last couple of weeks,” Plymouth boater Dina Butts, 52, told the Herald on Monday. “In the past, you’d usually see them once in a while, but now they’re not going anywhere.
“Just the other day, they were putting on a show over off White Horse Beach,” she added.
The humpback whales typically expel bubbles underwater before lunging at the surface with their mouths open as they feast on fish.
The whales are simply following schools of fish that happen to be right up against the Plymouth shore right now, said Charles “Stormy” Mayo, director of the Center for Coastal Studies’ Right Whale Ecology program.
The whales love to feast on herring and mackerel, he said.
“As a result, the whales are making a living close to shore,” Mayo said, adding, “It all depends on where the big resources pile up.”
The whales spend most of their time in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, which sits east of Boston between Cape Cod and Cape Ann. Big schools of fish will sometimes move to close to shore, and that high density of bait is followed by hungry whales, said Laura Howes, director of the naturalist program aboard the New England Aquarium Whale Watch.
“And if one whale figures it out, more will come,” Howes said. “It’s a really cool phenomenon.”
Boaters off Plymouth are seeing the whales start to make bubbles and breathe air out of their blow holes before they jump out of the water.
“It’s calm, and then all of a sudden they come right up,” Butts said. “They’re so beautiful.
“We try to stay away and give them breathing room, but we’ve seen them come really close to other boats,” she added.
People on the water should give whales plenty of room, Howes said. Recreational boaters should stay at least 100 feet away, she said.
If boaters see signs of a whale nearby — like it’s tail, or bubbles at the surface — they should immediately slow their boat down. Humpback whales are protected animals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. It is illegal to feed or harass wild marine mammals, including whales.
“Get a good look at the whale, but stay away,” Mayo said. “Don’t get right in their way, and let them do their thing. There’s always a chance a whale doesn’t know a boat is in the area, but that normally doesn’t happen.”
Last year, a Cape Cod fisherman said he spent nearly a minute in the mouth of a humpback whale that mistook him for a snack. Whale experts called that a freak incident off of Provincetown. | 2022-07-18T23:06:44+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/07/18/humpback-whales-are-putting-on-a-show-close-to-shore-in-plymouth-this-summer/ |
Ways to get out of debt and build savings
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - All throughout November, Channel 3 is looking for ways to save you money.
We spoke with money expert Rachel Cruze about how to get out of debt and build your savings.
Cruze says the first thing to do is to create a budget.
“I know the ‘b’ word makes people kind of cringe, but budget is the permission to spend. It is a way to live your life. You say I have control over my money vs. the money is controlling me,” says Cruze.
Cruze recommends first time budgeters should look at their checking account from the last three months to average what they spent on groceries, cable, and other charges.
Once a budget is in place, Cruze recommends tracking what you spend. She says the app Every Dollar can track and categorize what you purchase.
Cruze also recommends saving little by little to create a safety net.
“This is where the sacrifice comes in. You’re not going out to eat, you’re not going shopping, you are doing nothing, no vacations, nothing,” says Cruze.
She also recommends selling items you don’t need can help you earn a little cash.
Cruze says sticking to this plan can make you mostly debt free in about 18 months to two years.
Cruze has a golden rule to stay on track:
“If I don’t have the money, I’m not going to buy it.”
Copyright 2022 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-03T01:03:38+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/11/02/ways-get-out-debt-build-savings/ |
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ROME (AP) — The longtime secretary to Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged Sunday that his tell-all memoir, published in the days after Benedict’s death, had been criticized for casting Pope Francis in an unfavorable light, but insisted that some of the polemics were more about anti-Benedict prejudice than anything else.
In some of his first public comments since Benedict’s Dec. 31 death, Archbishop Georg Gaenswein said he remained loyal to Francis and that he was still waiting for the pontiff to give him a new job.
Gaenswein’s future has been the subject of much speculation following Benedict’s death and the publication of “Nothing But the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI.” In the memoir, Gaenswein charted his nearly 30 years working with Benedict, but also settled old scores, revealed palace intrigues and detailed some of the bad blood that accrued during the decade in which Benedict lived as a retired pope alongside Francis.
Published during the emotional period around Benedict’s Jan. 5 funeral, the book came to encapsulate the conservative criticism that has been directed at Francis and his more progressive bent by people nostalgic for Benedict’s doctrinaire papacy.
Speaking to Sky TG24 Sunday after celebrating Mass at a Rome-area church, Gaenswein acknowledged his book had raised eyebrows both for its content and the timing of its publication.
“There are and will be criticisms,” he said. “And I have to live with the criticisms.”
He said that he welcomed well-founded criticism.
“If the criticisms aren’t well-founded, but are criticisms from (anti-Benedict) prejudice or other unfounded motives, I have to accept them, but I cannot take them seriously. True criticism I accept and I learn from,” he said.
He spoke to Sky at Santa Maria Consolatrice, which was the titular church of Benedict when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. After the Mass, a plaque honoring the late pope was unveiled.
In an interview with The Associated Press on Jan. 24, Francis responded to Gaenswein’s critiques, and those of other conservatives, by saying they were natural after 10 years and proved that the prelates felt free to speak. | 2023-03-20T19:37:19+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/u-s-world/pope-benedict-xvis-aide-acknowledges-criticism-over-memoir/ |
YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote.
The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that it has taken down "tens of thousands" of videos questioning the integrity of past U.S. presidential elections since it created the policy in December 2020.
But two and a half years later, the company said it "will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections" because things have changed. It said the decision was "carefully deliberated."
"In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm," YouTube said.
The platform will continue to ban videos misleading voters about when, where, and how to vote, claims that discourage voting, and "content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes."
It also prohibits some false claims about election fraud or errors in other countries, including the 2021 German federal election and the 2014, 2018, and 2022 Brazilian presidential elections.
YouTube's reversal of its prohibition on false claims about U.S. elections comes as the 2024 campaign is already underway, and former president and current Republican candidate Donald Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that he lost to Joe Biden in 2020 because of widespread fraud.
"YouTube was one of the last major social media platforms to keep in place a policy attempting to curb 2020 election misinformation. Now, it's decided to take the easy way out by giving people like Donald Trump and his enablers free rein to continue to lie without consequence about the 2020 elections," said Julie Millican, vice president of liberal watchdog Media Matters for America. "YouTube and the other platforms that preceded it in weakening their election misinformation policies, like Facebook, have made it clear that one attempted insurrection wasn't enough. They're setting the stage for an encore."
YouTube's policy went further than Facebook and Twitter, which said they would label but not take down false election claims.
Twitter stopped labeling false claims about the 2020 election early last year, saying it had been more than a year since the election was certified and Biden took office.
Facebook has pulled back on its use of labeling, according to a 2022 Washington Post analysis of unfounded election fraud claims on the platform.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-06-02T21:52:51+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2023-06-02/youtube-will-no-longer-take-down-false-claims-about-u-s-elections |
PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Almost five years after law enforcement found the skeletal remains of Shain Donofrio, police are saying he died due to long-term neglect at the hands of his mother, Linasheri Donofrio.
On Wednesday, February 15, 2023, almost five years later, Pennsylvania State Police Captain Patrick Dougherty, Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce, and Plains Township Police Chief Dale Binker announced the arrest of 55-year-old Linasheri Donofrio for the death of her son Shain Donofrio.
According to a criminal complaint, on Saturday, February 24, 2018, just after 5:00 a.m., the Plains Township Fire Department responded to the East Mountain Ridge Mobile Home Park, 740 Jumper Road, for a reported shed fire.
As a firefighter was raking embers, a burned blanket containing bones and a partial skull was found, and Plains Township police immediately responded and began processing the scene, officials say.
The PSP Fire Marshal says the shed fire was examined and the cause of the blaze was determined to be arson.
As the criminal complaint reads, a limited autopsy was performed on the remains due to the lack of tissue and organs. The autopsy report from Dr. Samuel Land said the death was highly suspicious and needed to be investigated further, as it was likely Shain was already dead and his body was decomposing at the time of the fire, officials say.
According to law enforcement, Shain was born with cerebral palsy and a bone density test conducted on the remains revealed low density for someone of Shain’s age, 24, consistent with starvation and malnutrition.
As the complaint states, a forensic anthropology unit recovered the remains and confirmed they were of a human male, with a small body frame, between the ages of 18 and 30, and they were partially clothed, with a toddler-aged diaper found on the torso.
Police say after conducting a search warrant of Linasheri’s mobile home lot, a motorized wheelchair was found along with the same type, style, and pattern of diapers that were found on the remains.
Officers said they interviewed Linasheri in February of 2018 regarding Shain’s whereabouts which she claimed he was living with his grandmother, Rose Mikulak, however, she would not provide addresses or phone numbers for either claiming they were under the “Witness Protection Program.”
Police then took a swab of Linasheir’s DNA which proved she was the mother of the person’s remains that were found. Search warrants secured from Geisinger Hospital also showed Linasheri provided false information to doctors regarding Shain and showed a pattern of failure to keep required appointments and treatments, officials say.
Investigators note Linasheri was not regularly filling necessary prescriptions for Shain as required.
According to Dr. Debra Eserino-Jensen, the Chief of Child Protection Medicine at Lehigh Valley Reilly Children’s Hosptial, all the evidence said Shain would have suffered greatly from lack of nutrition saying at some point near the end of his life, Shain would like have been too weak to move or cry out.
Dr. Eserino-Jensen concluded Shain died from severe malnutrition and “egregious neglect.” Dr. Jensen said that it would have been clear to any reasonable caregiver that Shain was deteriorating, starving, and unable to physically move or communicate.
Police say Linasheri has made inferences in the past concerning her son and has even reported him missing, however, when confronted with DNA evidence indicating the remains were the burned body of her son Shain, she denies the body is that of her son and has never made any attempts to claim the body of Shain Donofrio for a proper burial.
As stated in the affidavit, the evidence, in this case, shows a pattern of neglect and lack of care that eventually led to Shain Donofrio’s death.
Detectives believe that Shain’s body was stored, dead, from at least September 5, 2017, until the morning of February 23, 2018, at which point she removed Shain’s body from the home, placed him in the shed, and set the shed on fire, as a way to dispose of the body due to an eviction notice place on her door on February 22, 2018.
The PSP Fire Marshall says the examination of the fire showed no signs of possible accidental ignition sources and traces of fire accelerants were found in the area Shain’s remains were found.
Linasheri Donofrio was arraigned in front of MDJ Spagnuolo Jr. and denied bail. She faces charges of neglect of care for a dependent person and reckless burning or exploding in places uninhabited or unoccupied; structure in danger.
Donofrio is being held at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, March 1 at 9:30 a.m. | 2023-02-15T23:36:22+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/mother-charged-with-sons-death-5-years-after-remains-found/ |
Several Republican lawmakers are accusing the highly publicized Warner Bros. film "Barbie" of pandering to Chinese censors.
The issue at hand pertains to a scene in the film that the lawmakers say features a cartoon map (pictured above) illustrating and endorsing China's assertion of control over disputed territories in the South China Sea.
"China wants to control what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think, and they leverage their massive film markets to coerce American companies into pushing CCP propaganda—just like the way the Barbie film seems to have done with the map. Sen. Cruz deserves credit for reversing these trends," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spokesman said in a statement obtained by Scripps News.
Earlier this week, Cruz also took to Twitter to double down on his opinion, writing, "I guess Barbie is made in China...."
Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher is also condemning filmmakers and Hollywood, telling Scripps News that the map shows the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Hollywood.
"While it may just be a Barbie map in a Barbie world, the fact that a cartoonish, crayon-scribbled map seems to go out of its way to depict the PRC's unlawful territorial claims illustrates the pressure that Hollywood is under to please CCP censors," Gallagher said in a statement.
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Florida Rep. Mike Waltz added to the accusations by telling Fox News that the American film industry is catering to China's extensive audience while turning a blind eye to the country's troubling human rights violations.
"This is yet another disgraceful example of Hollywood being in the pocket of communist China. Not only does it undermine our national security but exposes the film industry's blatant hypocrisy on social justice and human rights," Waltz told Fox News.
This controversy comes as Vietnam banned the highly anticipated film over this same map.
According to Vietnamese state media, Vietnam Express, Chinese maps use a U-shaped "nine-dash line" to illustrate Beijing’s territorial claims over large portions of the South China Sea, including waters that fall within areas claimed by Vietnam and other nations. The map has been "internationally condemned and rejected" by Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, and the Philippines.
Scripps News reached out to Warner Bros. for comment but have not heard back. However, in a statement obtained by Variety, the film company says the map was taken completely out of context.
"The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing," a spokesperson for the Warner Bros. Film Group told Variety. "The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the 'real world.' It was not intended to make any type of statement."
This summer blockbuster starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set to hit theaters on July 21, and it's expected to have an estimated $31 million in opening weekend earnings.
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-07-07T20:11:45+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/gop-lawmakers-slam-barbie-movie-over-a-cartoon-map-of-china |
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — A group of 142 migrants was detained near North Macedonia’s southern border with Greece early Thursday, authorities said.
A police statement said the detainees were mostly from Syria and Pakistan, and had entered from Greece. They were taken to a shelter pending deportation to Greece.
Police say the number of people illegally entering North Macedonia has doubled so far this year, compared to the same period in 2021.
More than 11,000 people — mostly from Pakistan, Syria and India — have been stopped this year. They usually pay criminal gangs to be smuggled through the Balkans to Europe’s prosperous heartland.
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Follow AP’s global migration coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-09-16T04:35:20+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-north-macedonia-detains-142-migrants-near-border/ |
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Shohei Ohtani pitched six innings for his first victory in five starts and matched the MLB lead with his 22nd homer as the Los Angeles Angels beat the AL West-leading Texas Rangers 5-3 on Thursday night.
Ohtani (6-2) had already thrown the last of his 99 pitches before Mickey Moniak's tying homer leading off the top of the seventh against Nathan Eovaldi (9-3), who lost in his bid to become only the second 10-game winner in the majors this season.
Still in the game as the designated hitter, Ohtani hit a two-run homer in the eighth. It was a 443-foot opposite-field blast that landed in the second deck in left-center field. His 10th homer over the past 16 games, and the second pitching start in a row when he also went deep, matched Pete Alonso for the big league lead and extended his hitting streak to 12 games.
The Angels (39-32) won three of four in Texas, and have won nine of their last 11 overall. They are still 4 1/2 games behind the Rangers (42-26), who have dropped six of eight.
After Angels reliever Carlos Estevez walked the bases loaded to start the ninth, Jacob Webb got his first save. He got two outs, then had a bases-loaded walk before striking out slugger Adolis Garcia to end it.
Ohtani's homer came soon after Rangers second baseman Marcus Semien, pitching coach Mike Maddux and manager Bruce Bochy were all ejected by first base umpire Ramon De Jesus.
In the bottom of the seventh, with the Rangers down 3-2 and a runner at third base with one out, Semien thought he had drawn a walk. He was heading toward first base after the full-count pitch when De Jesus instead signaled he had not held up his swing.
Semien took a long walk to the dugout, even pointing at his eyes while glaring toward the umpire. Play continued when Corey Seager was intentionally walked before Nathaniel Lowe’s inning-ending groundout.
When Semien went out on the field for the eighth, he stopped and had a brief discussion with De Jesus, who ejected him. Maddux then ran out of the dugout to get in between them and was also thrown out before Bochy followed — and was also ejected.
In the series opener Monday, De Jesus ejected Angels infielder Brandon Drury after he got into the umpire's face to argue a called third strike. He was suspended by MLB for one game for making slight contact with De Jesus, and was sitting out Thursday's game to satisfy that suspension.
Ohtani struck out three and walked one, allowing six hits and two runs — in a three-batter stretch with two outs in the third when Lowe and Garcia had back-to-back doubles before Jonah Heim's RBI single.
Eovaldi struck out nine and walked two over seven innings. He allowed three runs on five hits.
Chad Wallach hit a solo homer in the second for the Angels. Moniak got them even with an RBI single in the fourth.
The Angels had the bases loaded in the first before Gio Urshela grounded into a double play. Urshela, who was out of the starting lineup the past four games because of back soreness, was tended to by a trainer for several minutes after he stumbled and fell while trying to beat out the inning-ending play.
Urshela initially stayed in to play first base in the bottom of the first, but Jared Walsh replaced him in the field an inning later.
Walsh ended an 0-for-25 skid at the plate with a double in the fourth before scoring on Moniak's single.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Angels: Rookie SS Zach Neto was placed on the 10-day injured list with a left oblique strain. He left Wednesday night's game after only one inning because of discomfort and had an MRI on Thursday. Andrew Velazquez was called up from Triple-A Salt Lake and started at shortstop.
UP NEXT
Angels: Patrick Sandoval (3-6, 4.52 ERA), who has lost his last five starts, goes Friday night in the opener of a weekend series at Kansas City.
Rangers: Left-hander Martín Pérez (6-2, 4.67) is set to pitch the opener of a three-game series against Toronto after allowing 14 runs over 15 innings his last three starts. Kevin Gausman (5-3, 3.12), without a loss in his last seven starts, is the scheduled starter for the Blue Jays.
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Chris Pine says Harry Styles did not spit on him at the Venice Film Festival
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN
The internet is not done talking about “#spitgate” — the term born online last year when viral footage from the Venice Film Festival showed singer and actor Harry Styles making a motion that caused some to believe he had spit on his “Don’t Worry Darling” co-star Chris Pine.
Months after the September 2022 controversy, Pine himself has finally entered the conversation to put it to rest.
“Harry did not spit on me,” Pine told Esquire in an interview that was published on Wednesday. He added that he thinks Styles is a “very, very kind guy.”
Pine said he had seen the footage and admitted that “it does look, indeed, like Harry’s spitting on me.”
The “Star Trek” actor went on to clarify what actually happened, explaining that Styles leaned down toward Pine to say, “It’s just words, isn’t it?” The comment, according to Pine, boiled down to a “little joke” that the “Don’t Worry Darling” cast had with each other about interacting with the media while promoting the film, which was the purpose of their appearance in Venice at the time.
While this is the first time Pine has directly addressed the incident, a rep for the actor had previously released a statement denying that anything nefarious occurred between Pine and Styles.
Olivia Wilde, who directed and also starred in “Don’t Worry Darling,” echoed the sentiment weeks later, telling Stephen Colbert that Harry “did not spit on Chris.”
She added that the viral video is “a perfect example of people will look for drama anywhere they can,” which was seemingly a reference to the many buzzy narratives that came out of the movie’s production and subsequent promotion.
Even Styles himself joked about the incident during one of his concerts.
It seems now there’s no need to worry, darling. All is well between Styles and Pine.
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LOS ANGELES — Trea Turner launched a two-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers finally caught up to some record-setting heat from Cincinnati rookie Hunter Greene, beating the skidding Reds 5-2 on Saturday night for their fifth consecutive victory.
In his highly anticipated homecoming, Greene threw an astounding 39 pitches 100 mph or faster — most in a single game since pitch tracking began in 2008.
Making his second major league start on a cool Southern California evening, the 22-year-old right-hander, who went to high school in nearby Sherman Oaks, also fired 13 pitches at least 101 mph — another record.
But with his velocity dipping slightly later in his outing, it was a 99 mph fastball to Turner that ended up in the left-field seats to break a scoreless tie in the sixth inning.
Turner finished with three hits, including an infield single off Greene in the first. The speedy shortstop has a hit in all eight games this season, and in 27 straight going back to last year. It is the third-longest hitting streak in the team’s Los Angeles history.
Dodgers starter Julio Urías, his velocity down during the spring and through his first outing of the season, managed to outpitch Greene by giving up one hit over five shutout innings.
The Reds didn’t get their first hit until Tyler Stephenson ripped a single past Dodgers second baseman Max Muncy in the fifth. An inning later, the Dodgers finally broke through.
Austin Barnes led off the sixth against Greene with a single. Turner followed by hitting a 1-1 fastball halfway up the bleachers in left field for his first home run of the season.
Freddie Freeman followed with a strikeout but reached first base on Stephenson’s passed ball. Justin Turner popped out and Reds manager David Bell replaced Greene with right-hander Buck Farmer.
The Dodgers added two more runs, one charged to Greene, when Chris Taylor hit a two-run single with two outs.
About the Author | 2022-04-17T06:42:58+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/sports/greene-brings-record-heat-for-reds-but-dodgers-win-5-2/NJ66OTUKONFXHPUADZJCIMRSSQ/ |
The sound that established the career of 83-year-old Jose Manuel Cobles lies buried beneath layers of musical and political history. His stage name, Puerto Plata, refers to the resort town where he was born. But Cobles made his mark in La Joya, the storied red-light district of Santiago, one of the Dominican Republic's largest cities.
In the late '40s, when he got his start, Puerto Plata's signature style was son. Son is typically associated with Cuba, but it can be heard all through the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Dominican son was overshadowed because that country's notorious dictator, Rafael Trujillo, preferred merengue, effectively making it the national music by the time of his assassination in 1961. It's no surprise, then, that Puerto Plata also cranks out a mean merengue.
Puerto Plata is the only surviving member of his original group, Trio Primavera. But he's pulled together an impressive ensemble of veterans for a twilight-years release, a long-overdue solo debut called Mujer de Cabaret. The two lead guitarists provide the real fireworks: Edilio Paredes and his protégé, Frank Mendez, drive Mujer de Cabaret.
A song called "Los Piratas" functions as Puerto Plata's response to the Sept. 11 attacks. Merengue tradition has always called for commentary on contemporary events, even from musicians whose mission is to revive the sound and spirit of the past. Mujer de Cabaret is Afro-Latin roots music at its best: passionate, brisk, and, coming from an all-but-forgotten octogenarian, delightfully unexpected.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-07-27T09:59:43+00:00 | kgou.org | https://www.kgou.org/2008-01-14/a-dominican-guitar-legends-historic-debut |
Ex-ABC journalist charged with child pornography offense
(AP) – A well-known former investigative journalist for ABC News has been arrested on a charge of “transporting” images depicting the sexual abuse of children, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested Tuesday, months after his home was searched by federal authorities.
Authorities found images of children engaged in sexually explicit conduct on electronic devices taken from his home. Authorities also discovered multiple conversations in which “participants expressed enthusiasm for the sexual abuse of children,” according to court papers.
He faces a charge of transportation of child pornography, which calls for a minimum of five years behind bars and up to 20 years in prison, officials said. An email seeking comment was sent to Meek’s attorney.
ABC News declined to comment Wednesday. Meek resigned from ABC News last year.
The FBI’s investigation was prompted by a tip from Dropbox about child pornography found in a Dropbox account that was associated with Meek, according to court papers. Federal authorities searched his home in April and took multiple devices.
Authorities say investigators also found that Meek engaged with minors on platforms like Snapchat. A minor interviewed by law enforcement told authorities that Meek approached her through Snapchat and pressured her to provide sexually explicit photos, according to court papers.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-01T19:27:46+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/02/01/ex-abc-journalist-charged-with-child-pornography-offense/ |
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks OB-GYN Kristin Lyerly what doctors and patients in Wisconsin have been dealing with before the Supreme Court election — and how it affects abortion in the region.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly asks OB-GYN Kristin Lyerly what doctors and patients in Wisconsin have been dealing with before the Supreme Court election — and how it affects abortion in the region.
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Houghton High School to host inaugural Community Track Night on Wednesday
HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) - Who wants to race? That is the question the organizers of Wednesday’s Community Track Night in Houghton want to know.
The upcoming event is being held at the Houghton High School track. Races will include a youth 400-meter dash, as well as 800 and 1600-meter runs open to any participants.
The event is sponsored by MTU, UP Health System - Portage, and the Copper Country Running Company. Organizers are encouraging everyone who can to either participate or watch.
“It will be organized based off of how many sign-ups we have,” said Race Director Clayton Sayen. “Likely there will be just one heat of each event. Pending how many entries we have, we’ll break it up between men’s and women’s, and maybe even age groups.”
Sayen has been working with the Houghton High School (HHS) Athletic Department to make this possible.
“Several months ago, Clayton and I started having a conversation about this idea,” said HHS Athletic Director John Sanregret. “And it just seemed to be a perfect idea to promote not only his success and his career as a track athlete but at the same time bringing awareness to a great sport.”
The event also serves another purpose. After all races are completed, Sayen will be attempting to break the U.P. 1-mile record. The time to beat is 4 minutes, 12 seconds. A Houghton alumnus, Sayen is eager to attempt this on his home turf.
“To do it on my home track, in my hometown, there’s not much more I could want out of this,” continued Sayen.
All proceeds from the event will go to the athletic department to be used for training equipment.
“Track and field is a pretty equipment-intensive sport,” added Sanregret. “There’s a lot of events that require everything from port-o-pits to hurdles to shot and discuss. We have a lot of ways to use the money to enhance our program.”
You must register online or at the track ticket booth to participate. To register online, check out the event’s Facebook page by clicking here. The entry and admission fee is $5.
Copyright 2023 WLUC. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-06T01:08:53+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/06/05/houghton-high-school-host-inaugural-community-track-night-wednesday/ |
ADVENTDALEN, Norway — Kneeling by his crew as they drilled steel bolts into the low roof of a tunnel miles-deep into an Arctic mountain, Geir Strand reflected on the impact of their coal mine’s impending closure.
It’s scheduled to be shut down in two years, cutting carbon dioxide emissions in this fragile, rapidly changing environment, but also erasing the identity of a century-old mining community that fills many with deep pride even as the primary activities shift to science and tourism.
“We have to think what we’re going to do,” Strand, a 19-year mining veteran, told two Associated Press journalists as his headlamp spotlighted black dust and the miners’ breath in the just-below-freezing tunnel. “(Mining) is meaningful. You know the task you have is very precise. The goal is to get out coal, and get out yourself and all your crew, safe and healthy.”
After the main village of Longyearbyen, 16 kilometers (10 miles) away, announced it would switch its only energy plant from coal-fired to diesel this year, and later to greener alternatives, mining company Store Norske decided it would close its last mine in Svalbard. The date was then postponed to 2025 because of the energy crisis precipitated by the war in Ukraine.
Puzzlement over the future mingles with grief for the end of an era. It permeates the underground room where the last five dozen soot-covered miners take a break during their 10-hour shifts and the stylish café where their retired predecessors gather on weekday mornings to trade news.
“A long, long tradition is fading away,” said foreman Bent Jakobsen. “We’re the last miners. Makes me sad.”
The history of mining and its perils are etched on the mountainside in Longyearbyen. Below abandoned coal conveyor towers on a mid-January day, a trail of footprints in the snow led to a memorial monument, floodlit in the constant darkness of winter’s polar night, listing the 124 miners who have died on the job since 1916.
“I’ve been there, and families go there,” said Trond Johansen, who worked in mining for more than 40 years.
The half dozen other retired miners sipping their morning coffee were quick with more examples of the sacrifice that mining entailed, citing the exact ages and dates when colleagues were killed.
Among the last was Bent Jakobsen’s older brother, Geir, who was 24 when he was crushed to death inside Gruve 3 in 1991. Their eldest brother, Frank, who also worked at the mine, rushed to the scene only to be told by the doctor that it wasn’t survivable. Frank did most of the research for the memorial, erected in 2016.
“We have a place to go and put flowers on Christmas Eve,” Frank said. “It’s not only our brother, it’s other colleagues, too.”
Longyearbyen’s only pastor, the Rev. Siv Limstrand, whose Svalbard Kirke was founded by the mining company a century ago and still plays a critical role in the community, said it’s important to recognize the pain.
“People ask themselves the question, ‘Was it (worth) nothing?’ So there’s a kind of sorrow,” Limstrand said in the church’s cabin, a retreat built in the broad valley below where Gruve 7’s entrance lights shone in the polar night. “It should upset us in the community.”
In nearly two decades at Gruve 7, Bent Jakobsen rose to production manager and is now working on the clean-up processes needed for the closure.
His pride in the job is palpable, whether he’s driving down a 6-kilometer (3.7 mile) tunnel dug with “a lot of time, a lot of sweat, a lot of swearing,” or scraping off a piece of 40-million-year-old coal, or checking one of the steel bolts, each 1.2 meters long (4 feet), that hold up 400 meters (1,300 feet) of mountain above the workers.
“We’re a really tight-knit group in the mine, because you actually trust and lay your lives in the hands of others every day,” he said.
Jakobsen has seen how the landscape outside the mine is rapidly changing, too. Scientists say this slice of the Arctic warms up faster than most of the rest of the world.
From his childhood, the Svalbard native recalls the rhythmic clanking of the coal carts making their way across town, every day except Sunday. Today, herds of reindeer dig through the snow for moss and grass by the disused mining conveyances.
Jakobsen remembers when the archipelago’s fjords regularly froze over in winter, giving polar bears easy passage, while earlier this month it was all open water. He’s unconvinced, however, that closing the mine will make a significant difference.
Environmental scientists agree that Svalbard’s own emissions are minuscule – its coal reserves could keep the global economy running for about 8 hours, according to Kim Holmén, a special advisor at the Norwegian Polar Institute and professor of environment and climate. But they counter that every pollutant counts, and the archipelago can set an example.
“We’re all part of the problem and should become part of the solution ... every action has a symbolism, is a value, period,” Holmén said.
Most of all, Jakobsen and others in mining worry about the alternatives, especially since Gruve 7 exports coal for Europe’s metallurgic industry – like car engine construction in Germany – in addition to feeding the local energy plant.
“If you don’t take coal from us, you’ll take coal from someone else where it’s not that good – the world needs to take coal for your Tesla battery,” he said.
Even windmill components need coal, added Elias Hagebø, his face smeared with coal dust as he grabbed a quick lunch in the mine’s underground break room.
“If they just throw away coal, it’s stupid,” he said. At 18, he’s the youngest worker, and hopes he’ll be able to make a career in the mine just like his father.
Furthermore, Russia has operated mines in Svalbard for 93 years under an international treaty that gave Norway sovereignty on the archipelago while allowing all signatory nations equal rights to commercial enterprise.
“There are no plans to decrease this operation,” Ildar Neverov, director general of Russia’s mining company Arcticugol, told AP in an email from Barentsburg, a village about 37 miles (60 kilometers) from Longyearbyen.
Given the race by global powers, including China, for increasingly profitable natural resources in Arctic, some in Longyearbyen worry that Norway might give up precious rights by closing the mine.
“It will be an unusual situation if the only nation doing mining is the Russians. This is a very geopolitical place,” Arnstein Martin Skaare, a businessman and former shareholder in Store Norske, said at the retired miners’ coffee hour in Longyearbyen’s café.
Back inside Gruve 7, crouched in a 1.3-meter-high (4.1 foot) tunnel, Jonny Sandvoll said he wished people understood more about coal and its uses before deciding to close the mine.
“It’s not the right way to do it,” said Sandvoll, a miner’s son with 20 years in mining. Then he refocused on the huge machine next to him that loudly burrowed into the shining black vein and extracted more coal.
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The interior of the Terre Haute Regional Airport terminal will soon be remodeled to accommodate new flight school classrooms.
The airport’s board of directors Wednesday approved a request from Hoosier Aviation to install moveable glass panel walls that will create six individual classrooms in a 570-aquare-foot area.
The classrooms, each about 8-feet by 12-feet, will have walls that can be moved to make the entire area open for larger events.
Additionally, an east entrance into the airport will be remodeled, removing a reverse L-shaped entrance and converting that into a straight entrance.
The change will allow more visibility to the airport’s restaurant. As part of the remodeling, the airport will install a dual swinging glass door into the main hallway that can be locked in the evening. That door also will have fold-away capability, allowing the entire space to be opened if desired.
Airport Director Jeff Hauser said the area currently has couches and is an unused space.
“It would quite the area,” Hauser said, adding the project is estimated to cost $50,000 to $75,000 to be paid by Hoosier Aviation.
Jordan and Nicole Brown, the owners and operators of Hoosier Aviation, purchased the fixed base operator (FBO), which provides fuel and aviation services, at Terre Haute’s Hulman Field in late October 2011. The company also offers flight instruction.
“Each room will be big enough for a student and instructor,” Nicole Brown said, and have a white board for instructors to use to draw visual aids for students. Hoosier Aviation will build furniture for the space. Students currently use a pilot lounge or a small conference room.
“We need this for our growth,” Brown said. “Since Zach (Belford) took over as our full-time chief flight instructor a year and half ago, our flight school has increased 75%, which is huge growth, so we need to be able to offer this service to our students so they can better focus and be better pilots.”
Brown said the remodeling could take up to six months.
In other business, the board voted to place 4%, or $118,000, of remaining funds from its 2022 budget into the airport’s Rainy Day Fund.
That fund currently has $550,000. The airport last year used $240,000 in Rainy Day funds to improve the exterior of the hangars at the front of the airport property.
Also, the airport will be the location for a third Vintage Runway Market. The event is sponsored by Hoosier Aviation and will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 1 at the airport’s Thompson hangar.
The market will have more than 70 small business vendors, as well as food trucks. Some new vendors include Proverbs 31 Boutique and Indiana Whiskey Co. | 2023-03-09T04:05:51+00:00 | tribstar.com | https://www.tribstar.com/news/local_news/airport-terminal-to-be-remodeled-for-classroom-space/article_ef74dc4c-bdcf-11ed-aaab-b3413aea2aad.html |
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