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RESTON, Va., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Comscore, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOR), a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media, today announced that it plans to hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 9th at 5:00 p.m. ET to discuss its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023.
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Ticker Symbol Non-Fungible Tokens are First to be Rendered & Minted on Demand
DETROIT, May 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shareholder loyalty platform TiiCKER® today dropped the next generation of digital signature and social media handles: your own ticker symbol.
Like a stock listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ or London Stock Exchange, the one to four letter Tii:MARK will be a one-of-one signature, and minted on the Ethereum block chain as an exclusive non-fungible token (NFT). Each Tii:MARK token will include a custom-rendered image, animation, and a physical coin, as well as utility as the NFT owners' TiiCKER user name and sign-on, exclusive access to perks, discounts and experiences, listing on the Tii:CKER Stock Exchange, and access to a Tii:MARK owners-only event in Summer 2023.
TiiCKER dropped 100 Tii:MARKs on the NFT platform OpenSea and 1,000 additional Tii:MARKs on the TiiCKER platform today. TiiCKER.com/NFT Potential buyers interested in purchasing a Tii:MARK can search for their desired symbol's availability, bid on desired ticker options, and purchase directly on the site via credit card or cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum.
TiiCKER held in reserve publicly traded "Listed Edition" ticker symbols like Tii:AAPL, Tii:AMZN, Tii:FB and Tii:TSLA, as well as select celebrity and artist tickers, allowing these companies and individuals a limited time to claim their ticker symbol before it's sold to a shareholder, fan or collector. TiiCKER is planning to drop future Tii:MARK NFTs – of a total possible four-letter-or-less universe of 475,254 options – in release waves based on bidding demand, as well as themes like sports, lifestyle or alma maters. The fintech startup also plans to host charity auctions for unique items or brands like Tii:GOAT, Tii:MVP, Tii:ARMY, Tii:YMCA or Tii:WISH.
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"I've thought for a long time that having my own ticker symbol would be Tii:SICK, and with the blockchain- prominence of NFTs, it's now possible," said Jeff Lambert (Tii:JEFE), creator of the Tii:MARK and founder and CEO of TiiCKER. "People collect all kinds of physical items based on their passions and lifestyle, they take great care to curate their personal and social brand, and we believe they will invest in an asset that blends all these things in a token as rare as they are."
Although NFTs are a digital collector's item, investors who purchase a Tii:MARK will receive an engraved, physical two-inch metal token along with their unique landing page validating and recording ownership, minting date and Blockchain ID. Tii:MARK owners also receive exclusive access to a validated swag store to purchase custom apparel and Tii:MARKed items.
"We've used the Tii prefix since the inception of TiiCKER as a universal sign of public ownership and with the plan to make it our member's username, but this is Tii:NEXT level," said Chris Tromp (Tii:GURU), chief digital officer for TiiCKER, and whose team built the on-demand rendering NFTs and utility functionality. "Unlike other icon-based or artist-based NFTs, the Tii:MARK brings NFTs to the masses, blending the real and meta worlds, and delivering both daily utility and finite exclusivity in one NFT collection."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State football’s quest to find a starting quarterback for 2023 looms as one of the most pivotal position battles in the country this offseason.
The battle between third-year Kyle McCord and second-year Devin Brown could be intense. The stakes are unquestionably massive for a team expecting to once again contend for a national championship.
As with previous duels for the starting job, though, the participants insist the competition is not personal. There can only be one winner, and the more clear-cut the victory, the better for the team dynamic moving forward. Yet McCord and Brown insist they remain in each other’s corner.
“He’ll make a good throw and I’ll be clapping in the back, and I’ll make a good throw and he’ll be clapping — whatever the case may be,” McCord said. “I don’t think that’s our relationship at all. We’re both pushing each other to get better, and we’re happy when the other one succeeds.”
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C.J. Stroud has not formally declared for April’s NFL Draft, but he is widely expected to be among the first players selected. The competition to succeed him began when McCord arrived on campus in January 2021. He benefitted from head starts in physical development, in knowledge of the playbook and Ryan Day’s system, and in the intangibles earned by showing up and doing one’s job every day for going on three years.
Brown must play catch-up. That is merely a reality of time, not a judgment. The coming months will reveal why his relatively late addition to the 2022 signing class was so important. The program needed another highly talented quarterback in place to challenge McCord and ensure two worthy options are in place by opening day in September.
A national championship-caliber nucleus remains in place for 2023. So far, the entire receiving corps returns intact. So does the backfield, now with more proven depth than it had to start the season. With a few NFL Draft decisions pending, the defense is positioned to take a bigger step forward in Year 2 under Jim Knowles.
With the arrival of DraftKings Ohio Sportsbook, in-state bettors are now able to bet. Ohioans now can also take advantage of launch offers at BetMGM Ohio and FanDuel Ohio.
The quarterback decision, however, will determine whether the Buckeyes maximize all of that other potential. The winner will have a say in whether OSU snaps its losing streak against Michigan and ends a Big Ten championship drought.
It is a major responsibility — and a massive opportunity.
“That’s all I can ask for,” Brown said. “To say I have the opportunity to compete for the starting job at Ohio State, it’s pretty spectacular. I can’t ask for anything more. I’m just ready to go out and help my team.”
The veteran
McCord already has one start under his belt. It came in 2021 as a true freshman, when Stroud sat out the Akron game to rest his injured shoulder. He said he looks back at that game occasionally and sees a “night and day” difference from the quarterback he is today.
He did not have much chance to display that progress on the field. The former five-star prospect did not attempt more than three passes in a game after Sept. 17. Yet with one start and 58 total pass attempts under his belt, he enters this fall with a wealth of experience compared to Stroud, who took over on opening night 2021 without having thrown a collegiate pass.
While McCord’s perspective has changed, his mindset has not. He arrived two years ago on a mission to become the starting quarterback. The completion of that mission has never felt more tangible. It helped that he spent the past two seasons one snap away from being thrust back into control of the offense.
Quarterbacks coach Corey Dennis said he reminds his room of the late Haskins and his 2017 season, before taking over as starter. After a less-than-satisfying relief performance in a blowout of Illinois, he refocused the following week in practice. It paid off with a crucial effort off the bench in a win over Michigan.
“Every day for a quarterback you have to work at it like you’re the starter, whether you’re (No.) 1, 2, 3, 4,” Dennis said. “Because the one thing that you don’t want if you have that opportunity and you’re not prepared and ready to go – just not ready for the moment.
“We talk a lot about winning the moment at Ohio State. Every single day those guys all prepare like they’re going to be the starter.”
McCord said a “mental rest” during the past fall helped clear his mind and narrow his focus on where he still needed to improve the most. He feels he has become more comfortable as a leader, taking more command of the huddle with the No. 2 offense. With every practice rep, as he works to read his progressions faster and make his protection checks at the line quicker, the game keeps slowing down.
“Everybody respects him,” Brown said. “He’s been a great high school player. He’s played in games. He knows the offense really well.
“I mean, what else can you say? He’s a great player.”
The newcomer
Brown similarly made an immediate impression on McCord when he arrived last winter. Now he calls him “my brother.” While McCord has a significant edge in experience in the system and game reps, Brown’s physical tools at least give him the opportunity to make some noise.
Brown has already experienced a physical transformation, coming in around 180 pounds and weighing in these days closer to 210. That hasn’t hampered the athleticism the Buckeyes say he brings to the field. Either quarterback will still be primarily a passing threat, but Brown will be able to use his legs some when the time comes.
If game opportunities were scarce for McCord, they were practically non-existent for Brown. He played 15 snaps in two appearances and never got to unleash the form that helped him throw for 4,881 yards and 57 touchdowns as a Corner Canon (Utah) High School senior.
Brown’s development depended even more on grinding away in practice reps. He showed a little of what he learned during one of the open practice windows as the Peach Bowl. Ohio State put the No. 3 offense on the field for the assembled media, and he connected with Kyion Grayes on a long touchdown bomb.
“What you appreciate about Devin is he’s a hungry kid who wants to grow, who’s working and he’s always trying to perfect his craft,” Dennis said. “He’s constantly working the game always trying to get better at every little thing.”
Brown arrived in January as the unknown commodity, compared to Stroud’s status as the returning starter and McCord’s own tenure in the program. He spent the past year working to establish his own level of respect and trust and feels he made progress.
Brown said by the fourth or fifth game of the season, he felt comfortable that he could go in and capably run the offense in a game, if needed.
“We’re always getting pretty much equal reps with all three quarterbacks — we’re always splitting stuff,” Brown said. “There’s so many opportunities to go and practice, so that the game was really just a test. We just keep on preparing without the tests.”
The battle begins
On media day prior to the Peach Bowl, many in the program took a very “Fight Club” approach to the quarterback competition. Dennis deferred most questions about the battle until the offseason. McCord only partially indulged the concept, with his focus on the possibility he would need to step in for Stroud against Georgia.
We can predict much of what Day will say about picking his next starter between now and August. To begin with, do not expect starter named prior to preseason camp. This is not a 2018 scenario, when both Dwayne Haskins and Joe Burrow were late enough in their careers that the runner-up deserved a spring declaration so he could move on. With Justin Fields in 2019 and more notably with Stroud in 2021, Day did not turn over the majority of the first-string snaps to the starter until mid-August.
The cleanest outcome for OSU would be McCord seizing the job outright despite Brown’s ahead-of-schedule performance. Brown’s vantage point resembles the one McCord held the past two seasons. He must first catch and then pass a teammate to claim the starting job. After a break-in freshman season, he may have to spend Year 2 as a backup. That is an uncommon timeline in modern college football. It worked for Mac Jones at Alabama, but hardly anyone exhibits that sort of patience anymore.
Yet how many quarterbacks who head to the portal rather than waiting for Year 3 can look forward to the payoff of eventually taking over as Ohio State’s starting quarterback?
Day called the balance “delicate,” and something he has to keep in mind throughout the process.
“If someone becomes the clear-cut No. 1, then it becomes a clear-cut No. 1 and you go from there,” Day said. “Sometimes you don’t know till you get on the field.
“Bowl practice has been good. We’ve been able to see both Devin and Kyle compete, and that’s been great. But that competition is going to go into the spring and we’ll kind of see what we’ve got when we get there.”
All eyes, not just those of Day and his staff, will be on this battle soon enough.
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Greenville woman says if she didn’t know CPR her husband wouldn’t be alive
GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - It was a crisp spring evening in April. Jay Kirkman and his wife, Mindy, were heading out to dinner in downtown Greenville. Everything appeared as normal.
“We met up with our friend Phillip and his wife,” Jay Kirkman said. “We were early and so I said let’s still down. We will wait a few minutes before we go in.”
Phillip is one of Mindy’s co-workers at the YMCA. They were all having a great time, but then Mindy noticed something was seriously wrong with her husband.
“We looked over and Jay was suddenly pale and white as a sheet,” Mindy Kirkman said. “His eyes were bugged out and he was slumped down.”
Jay was sitting on a bench experiencing a widowmaker heart attack. According to the Cleveland Clinic, this happens when there is a blockage in the biggest artery of the heart. This is where the heart receives 50% of it blood supply. Immediate treatment is needed for a person to survive.
“I yelled out to the crowd and asked someone to call 911,” Mindy Kirkman said. “I put him down on the ground. I started rescue breaths and Phillip did chest compressions.”
Mindy and Phillip both knew CPR because they received training for it at their jobs with the YMCA.
“A bystander came by, tapped me on the shoulder and said I am a nurse, let me take over,” Phillip Phillips said. “That is when I stepped up and then helped control the crowd.”
Strangers, family and friends all helped to save his life. EMS workers say the immediate response made all the difference.
“They said if Philip and I had not performed that function he would not be here today,” Mindy Kirkman said. “He had a widow-maker heart attack, which few people survive from and most who do have some sort of neurological damage.”
That is the other miracle in this story. Jay experienced no neurological damage from his heart attack. He credits it to the quick response and his consistent workouts.
“I don’t miss days,” Jay Kirkman said. “I go to the YMCA three times a week. I play table tennis.”
Now the couple can continue to enjoy their date nights for many years to come.
“The truth is, if I hadn’t known CPR and Phillip hadn’t been here to help he wouldn’t be here today,” Mindy Kirkman said. “Jay is only 65 years old and I wasn’t ready to lose him.”
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Switzerland, Finland and Sweden are considering joining the U.S. National Guard’s security partnership program in a further expansion of American military ties across Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The chief of the National Guard, Gen. Dan Hokanson, announced the discussions with each country, which had not previously been reported, in remarks at the National Press Club on Thursday.
Interest by the three countries in the program is the latest indication of how Russia’s war has led each of those nations to take steps that consider ending long-standing policies of military nonalignment.
“I’m pleased to announce that we will soon deepen and expand our security cooperation relationships throughout Europe,” Hokanson said
Finland and Sweden “are currently in discussions for partnerships,” he said, while “Switzerland is currently reviewing the relationships that other nations share with the National Guard and assessing the possibility of the program in their future.”
Finland and Sweden were the most recent countries to seek NATO membership; Finland joined in April and Sweden is waiting for approval. Longtime-neutral Switzerland began considering easing export controls on sending weapons to active war zones earlier this year.
The National Guard’s State Partnership Program is a lesser-known but key military instrument for U.S. troops to build relationships with foreign militaries by conducting regular training and education exchanges with young officers. It partners National Guard units with host nations.
The program can help foreign military better shape their own operations to reflect Western military organization and equipment. That is something seen as key to getting a host of Eastern European nations on NATO standards to ease how multinational armies could conduct operations.
The National Guard program began 30 years ago after the collapse of the Soviet Union as former Soviet states looked for ways to move away from their communist-styled military organization. Ukraine was one of the first to join the National Guard program, partnering with California’s National Guard. From the earliest days of Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s air force has reached out for support to the California National Guard partners it trained with.
Sweden and neighbor Finland ended their policy of military nonalignment after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Both applied for NATO membership, seeking protection under the organization’s security umbrella.
Finland, which shares a more than 800-mile (1,300-kilometer) border with Russia, joined NATO in April. But Sweden, which has avoided military alliances for more than 200 years, had previously been delayed due to objections from Turkey. But earlier this month, Turkey agreed to remove one of the last major roadblocks to Sweden’s membership.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Turkey had agreed to support Sweden’s NATO bid –- by putting the issue to a vote in parliament — in return for deeper cooperation on security issues and a promise from Sweden to revive Turkey’s quest for European Union membership.
The war in Ukraine has also prompted Swiss government officials to grapple with their country’s longtime conception of neutrality, which is enshrined in the constitution and prohibits exporting weaponry to active war zones. | 2023-07-28T06:24:37+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/politics/ap-sweden-finland-and-switzerland-are-considering-security-links-with-us-national-guard-general-says/ |
Netflix, a pioneer of streaming original series, hasn’t introduced many memorable shows lately. Will there be more quality shows, such as “Orange Is the New Black,” “The Crown,” “Narcos,” “Stranger Things,” “Maid,” “Russian Doll,” and “Unorthodox”? Or is the streamer on its way to becoming just a whole mess of stuff?
One of its upcoming limited series has me thinking there may still be hope. It’s a seven-part period drama called “Transatlantic,” and it’s from the creator of the extraordinary “Unorthodox,” Anna Winger. It’s inspired by the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who in 1940 created the Emergency Rescue Committee, an organization dedicated to helping intellectuals, artists, and writers flee the Nazis and come to the United States. In France, with the help of a few expatriates there, including American heiress Mary Jayne Gold, he helps Jewish and anti-Nazi figures leave, including Hannah Arendt, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall.
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The series is based on Julie Orringer’s novel “The Flight Portfolio,” which is a fictionalized version of Fry’s story. The international cast includes Cory Michael Smith as Fry, Gillian Jacobs as Gold, as well as Corey Stoll, Jodhi May, Lucas Englander, Ralph Amoussou, Deleila Piasko, and Amit Rahav. It arrives on April 7.
Matthew Gilbert can be reached at matthew.gilbert@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @MatthewGilbert. | 2023-02-10T19:57:53+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/02/10/arts/can-transatlantic-revive-slumping-netflix/ |
No matter the level, volleyball is a sport that brings out fun, competitive play, team building and athleticism. What you wear to the court counts. A simple pair of tennis shoes or running shoes does the trick for a casual game. However, if you’re looking to upgrade your game or if you play on an amateur or professional team, tennis shoes don’t cut it. Your best bet is a pair of volleyball shoes designed for the type of movement and force that the sport demands.
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What kind of shoes are volleyball shoes?
What sets volleyball shoes apart from other athletic footwear is their design, which focuses on lateral motion. Unlike running shoes, which prioritize cushioning and shock absorption, or basketball shoes, which can handle swift forward motion, volleyball shoes have a different aim. They’re made to support the rapid lateral movements you make during the game. These sideways motions are taxing on your feet, and good volleyball shoes support your legs while also helping you go in for a spike.
Sections of the sole
A volleyball shoe’s sole has three sections: an upper section, midsole and rubber sole.
- Upper section: Made out of a nylon mesh material, this front section is breathable enough to keep your foot cool. The material should be wicking and reduce the moisture caused by sweating.
- Midsole: The midsole is thick in comparison to most shoes. Volleyball players stay on the balls of their feet for most of the game, so midsole support helps take some weight off the front of your foot. Additionally, it helps you make quick movements and jumps.
- Rubber sole: A hard gum rubber sole gives good traction, helping you move seamlessly on the court. This sole support also helps lower your risk of ankle injuries. However, because it’s made of a special material, it wears down over time and should never be worn off the gym floor.
Material
The soles of volleyball shoes consist of a special type of gum. It’s non-marking, solid enough to give good ground gripping, and supportive enough to help protect your ankles. A mix of foam cushion and mesh materials make up the other two parts of the shoe.
Top brands
Notable brands for volleyball shoes include Adidas, ASICS and Nike. Be sure to consider consumer reviews for each shoe you consider. Not all volleyball shoes are created equal.
FAQ
Is it OK to wear basketball shoes in place of volleyball shoes?
A. Basketball shoes are better stand-in shoes for volleyball than tennis or running shoes. The demands of basketball and volleyball are similar. The movements of volleyball may be close to that of basketball, but the lateral motion may be more intense depending on how you play. Additionally, the give of the sole of the shoe is different as well.
Do volleyball shoes offer ankle support?
A. There is some degree of ankle support in most volleyball shoes. However, for those with previous ankle injuries or weak ankles, consider ankle braces to supplement your shoes.
How long does a quality pair of volleyball shoes last?
A. The life span of your athletic shoes depends on how often you play in them. As a general rule, if you wear one pair of shoes exclusively and play four to five times a week in them, a good pair of volleyball shoes should last at least a full season before wearing out. You can tell your shoes are wearing down when they start to lose traction in the soles; that’s a sign you need to have them resoled or replaced. If you’re more of a casual player and only play once a week, your shoes can last for years.
Can I wear my volleyball shoes off the court?
A. Don’t wear your volleyball shoes when you’re not playing. The gym floor is the only place they belong. Walking around on other surfaces, especially rough pavement, rubs off the important gum sole, aging your shoes prematurely. Be sure to bring a change of shoes for before and after your volleyball training sessions and games.
Can I wear volleyball shoes to play beach volleyball?
A. You can, but it’s much easier not to wear any shoes at all for beach volleyball.
The best volleyball shoes
Adidas Ligra 7 Volleyball Shoes
This well-balanced indoor volleyball shoe offers versatility and all-around support. The sole is resistant to abrasion and offers a solid grip while not being too heavy.
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Nike Zoom HyperAce 2 Volleyball Shoes
With patented Lightweight Zoom Wear cushioning to help you bounce higher combined with steady traction to keep you balanced, this pair of shoes offers the best of both worlds.
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ASICS Gel-Rocket 10 Volleyball Shoes
The cushion, foam and mesh on these shoes all prioritize comfort above all else, helping keep you refreshed no matter how long you play. They’re available in eight color combinations.
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Adidas Crazyflight Volleyball Shoes
Don’t let this shoe’s sleek, minimalist design fool you. It’s got ample midsole support for the ball of your foot while also offering breathable mesh to keep your feet cool.
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Under Armour Women’s HOVR Highlight Ace Volleyball Shoes
The extended ankle collar provides built-in ankle support for those who need it. Its sole is abrasion-resistant, and the sock liner molds to your foot to prevent slipping around in your shoe.
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The Panthers filed a request Thursday to interview Patriots linebackers coach Jerod Mayo for their head-coaching vacancy, according to reports.
Mayo, 36, recently completed his fourth season as an assistant in New England. He previously interviewed for head-coaching jobs in Philadelphia (2021) and Las Vegas and Denver last year. On Monday, the Browns requested an interview with him for their defensive coordinator vacancy.
It’s unclear if Mayo will interview with Cleveland. He has repeatedly said he wants to become a head coach one day.
“That’s never changed. I think I’m ready to be a head coach in the league,” Mayo told reporters last month via video conference. “But I have to say this, too: right now, my focus is on being here with the Patriots. But that’s definitely still the goal.”
Mayo is expected to explore opportunities outside New England to become a head coach and defensive coordinator this offseason, according to a source. His contract is reportedly set to expire sometime after the 2022 season.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP)Josh Oduro had 25 points in George Mason’s 70-66 victory against La Salle on Saturday night.
Oduro also contributed seven rebounds and three steals for the Patriots (16-12, 8-7 Atlantic 10 Conference). Ronald Polite added 15 points while going 5 of 13 from the floor, including 1 for 4 from distance, and 4 for 5 from the line, and he also had six rebounds and six assists. De’Von Cooper was 3 of 9 shooting, including 2 for 5 from distance, and went 5 for 7 from the line to finish with 13 points.
The Explorers (13-14, 7-7) were led by Khalil Brantley, who posted 20 points and five assists. Jhamir Brickus added 15 points and two steals for La Salle. In addition, Anwar Gill finished with nine points. The Explorers ended a five-game winning streak with the loss.
George Mason went into halftime leading La Salle 33-32.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-02-19T20:32:13+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/george-mason-defeats-la-salle-70-66/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter on Wednesday unveiled a new policy prohibiting “violent speech” on its platform, though the rules appear very similar to guidelines against violent threats that the company had on its books before Elon Musk took it over.
Among the updates, Twitter expanded its policy to include a ban on “coded language,” which is often referred to as “dog whistles,” used to indirectly incite violence. It also added a rule that prohibits “threatening to damage civilian homes and shelters, or infrastructure that is essential to daily, civic, or business activities.”
The additions come as San Francisco-based Twitter prepares to comply with new European Union rules that go into effect this fall. The new rules, called the Digital Services Act, require tech companies to better police their platforms for material that, for instance, promotes terrorism, child sexual abuse, hate speech and commercial scams.
Twitter’s new violent-speech policy states that “healthy conversations can’t thrive when violent speech is used to deliver a message. As a result, we have a zero tolerance policy towards violent speech in order to ensure the safety of our users and prevent the normalization of violent actions.”
But Twitter already had a version of this rule on the books in October 2021, a year before Musk bought the company for $44 billion, according to a snapshot of its site rules on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. The old rule stated that Twitter has a “zero tolerance policy against violent threats. Those deemed to be sharing violent threats will face immediate and permanent suspension of their account.”
Twitter also edited and reshuffled policies, though some changes appeared purely cosmetic. For instance, the prohibition of violent threats and wishing harm on a person or a group of people was previously in a section called “Abusive behavior” and now it is in a new section called “Violent Speech Policy.”
The company kept on is books a policy prohibiting the “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals,” which some transgender advocates had worried would be removed.
Of course, policies are only as good as their enforcement. Having lost the majority of its workforce through mass layoffs, firings and resignations, it is not clear if Twitter will be able to hold its users to its new — and old — policies. The system was far from perfect to begin with, especially in countries outside the U.S. and the E.U. | 2023-03-02T20:19:58+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-technology/ap-twitters-new-violent-speech-policy-similar-to-past-rules/ |
The heat is on again for Thursday in the QCA.
A Heat Advisory starts at 11 AM and continues until 9 PM tonight. Heat index values will rise to around 100° for several hours this afternoon.
In the Quad Cities, this will be the third straight day of record heat.
Some relief arrives tomorrow!
Humidity levels will slowly drop some overnight into Friday morning. Temperatures will still be hot Friday, but only in the 85-90° range. Skies will be dry and sunny up through lunchtime.
By the afternoon, a cold front will be sliding toward the Mississippi. This front will spark thunderstorms by 1-3 PM, then push those storms east into Illinois through the afternoon and evening.
A few cells could pack a couple damaging wind gusts or hail, but all will likely bring heavy downpours.
That front will then sweep away the worst of the heat & humidity heading into the weekend. | 2022-05-12T15:47:47+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/weather/one-more-heat-advisory-before-storms-bring-relief/ |
The Supreme Court’s latest climate change ruling could dampen efforts by federal agencies to rein in the tech industry, which went largely unregulated for decades as the government tried to catch up to changes wrought by the internet.
In the 6-3 decision that was narrowly tailored to the Environmental Protection Agency, the court ruled Thursday that the EPA does not have broad authority to reduce power plant emissions that contribute to global warming. The precedent is widely expected to invite challenges of other rules set by government agencies.
“Every agency is going to face new hurdles in the wake of this confusing decision,” said Alexandra Givens, the president and CEO of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based digital rights nonprofit. “But hopefully the agencies will continue doing their jobs and push forward.”
The Federal Trade Commission, in particular, has been pursuing an aggressive agenda in consumer protection, data privacy and tech industry competition under a leader appointed last year by President Joe Biden.
Biden’s picks for the five-member Federal Communications Commission have also been pursuing stronger “net neutrality” protections banning internet providers from slowing down or blocking access to websites and applications that don’t pay for premium service.
A former chief technologist at the FTC during President Donald Trump’s administration said the ruling is likely to instill some fear in lawyers at the FTC and other federal agencies about how far they can go in making new rules affecting businesses.
The court “basically said when it comes to major policy changes that can transform entire sectors of the economy, Congress has to make those choices, not agencies,” said Neil Chilson, who is now a fellow at libertarian-leaning Stand Together, founded by the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.
Givens disagreed, arguing that many agencies, especially the FTC, have clear authority and should be able to withstand lawsuits inspired by the EPA decision. She noted that Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion, repeatedly described it as an “extraordinary” situation.
Givens is among the tech advocates calling for Congress to act with urgency to make laws protecting digital privacy and other tech matters. But she said laws typically stay on the books for decades, and it’s unrealistic to expect Congress to weigh in on every new technical development that questions an agency’s mandate.
“We need a democratic system where Congress can give expert agencies the power to address issues when they arise, even when those issues are unforeseen,” she said. “The government literally can’t work with Congress legislating every twist and turn.”
Empowered by Congress in the 1970s to tackle “unfair or deceptive” business practices, the FTC has been in the vanguard of Biden’s government-wide mandate to promote competition in some industries, including Big Tech, health care and agriculture. A panoply of targets include hearing aid prices, airline baggage fees and “product of USA” labels on food.
Under Chair Lina Khan, the FTC also has widened the door to more actively writing new regulations in what critics say is a broader interpretation of the agency’s legal authority. That initiative could run into stiff legal challenges in the wake of the high court decision. The ruling could call into question the agency’s regulatory agenda — leading it to either tread more cautiously or face tougher and more expensive legal challenges.
Khan “hasn’t really been someone who pursues soft measures, so it may be a damn-the-torpedoes approach,” Chilson said.
University of Massachusetts internet policy expert Ethan Zuckerman said it would be hard to gauge any potential impact of the court’s ruling on existing tech regulation. That’s partly because “there’s just not that much tech regulation to undo,” he said.
He said one target could be the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, “a bête noire for many conservatives.” Big companies such as Facebook parent Meta could also potentially appeal tough enforcement actions on the idea that federal agencies weren’t explicitly authorized to regulate social media.
“We’re in uncharted territory, with a court that’s taking a wrecking ball to precedent and seems hell-bent on implementing as many right-wing priorities as possible in the shortest possible time,” Zuckerman said.
The ruling could dampen the appetite for agencies like the FTC to act to limit harm from artificial intelligence and other new technologies. It could have less effect on new rules that are more clearly in the realm of the agency imposing them.
Michael Brooks, chief counsel for the nonprofit Center for Auto Safety, said the ruling isn’t likely to change the government’s ability to regulate auto safety or self-driving vehicles, although it does open the door to court challenges.
For instance, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has clear authority to regulate auto safety from a 1966 motor vehicle safety law, Brooks said.
“As long as the rules they are issuing pertain to the safety of the vehicle and not anything that’s outside of their authority, as long as it’s related to safety, I don’t see how a court could do an end run around the safety act,” he said.
Unlike the EPA, an agency with authority granted by multiple, complex laws, NHTSA’s “authority is just so crystal clear,” Brooks said.
NHTSA could have problems if it strayed too far from regulating safety. For example, if it enacted regulations aimed to shift buyers away from SUVs to more fuel-efficient cars, that might be struck down, he said. But the agency has historically stuck to its mission of regulating auto safety with some authority on fuel economy, he said.
However, it’s possible that a company such as Tesla, which has tested the limits of NHTSA’s powers, could sue and win due to an unpredictable Supreme Court, Brooks said.
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Associated Press writers Marcy Gordon in Washington, Frank Bajak in Boston and Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this report. | 2022-07-03T19:09:36+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ruling-could-dampen-government-efforts-to-rein-in-big-tech/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — For years, as Donald Trump was soaring from reality TV star to the White House, his real estate empire was bankrolling big perks for some of his most trusted senior executives, including apartments and luxury cars.
Now Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, is on trial this week for criminal tax fraud — on the hook for what prosecutors say was a 15-year scheme by top officials to hide the plums and avoid paying taxes.
Opening statements and the first witnesses are expected Monday in New York. Last week, 12 jurors and six alternates were picked for the case, the only criminal trial to arise from the Manhattan district attorney’s three-year investigation of the former president.
Among the key prosecution witnesses: Trump’s longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty and has agreed to testify against the company in exchange for a five-month jail sentence.
If convicted, the Trump Organization could be fined more than $1 million and could face difficulty in securing new loans and deals. Some partners and government entities could seek to cut ties with the company. It could also hamper its ability to do business with the U.S. Secret Service, which sometimes pays the company for lodging and services while protecting Trump as a former president.
Neither Trump nor any of his children who have worked as Trump Organization executives are charged or accused of wrongdoing. Trump is not expected to testify or even attend the trial.
Prosecutors have said they do not need to prove Trump knew about the scheme to get a conviction and that the case is “not about Donald Trump.” But a defense lawyer, William J. Brennan, said even if he’s not physically there, Trump is “ever present, like the mist in the room.”
That’s because Trump is synonymous with the Trump Organization, the entity through which he manages his many ventures, including his investments in golf courses, luxury towers and other real estate, his many marketing deals and his TV pursuits.
Trump signed some of the checks at the center of the case. His name is on memos and other company documents. Witnesses could testify about conversations they had with Trump. They are even expected to enter Trump’s personal general ledgers as evidence.
Prosecutors say The Trump Organization — through its subsidiaries Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. — is liable in part because former Weisselberg was a “high managerial agent” entrusted to act on behalf of the company and its various entities.
The Trump Organization has said it did nothing wrong. The company’s lawyers argue that Weisselberg and other executives acted on their own and that, if anything, their actions harmed the company financially.
Weisselberg, who has pleaded guilty to taking $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, pinned blame on himself and other top Trump Organization executives, including senior vice president and controller Jeffrey McConney.
But he disagreed with the notion that the company was harmed, saying the perks actually saved the company money because it avoiding having to give raises.
Prosecutors have said they expect to call 15 witnesses, including Weisselberg and McConney, who was granted limited immunity to testify last year before a grand jury.
Judge Juan Manuel Merchan expects the trial to take at least four weeks, though a defense lawyer estimated last week that the prosecution case alone could go on for two months. Court will meet for a full day on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursday and for a half-day on Friday. The trial is off on Wednesday so the judge can attend to other matters. | 2022-10-31T12:12:42+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/trump-organization-faces-criminal-tax-fraud-trial-over-perks/ |
The legal trial of a transgender woman charged with public indecency has been continued, after a pretrial hearing on Feb. 3, court records show. A rescheduled date has not yet been set.
Rachel Glines was charged in Xenia Municipal Court with three counts of public indecency, for incidents at the YMCA in September, November, and a third incident between November 2021 and 2022 in which three underage girls were present. The charges are all fourth-degree misdemeanors.
Glines’ lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the third count last Thursday, saying the vagueness of the accusation is a violation of Glines’ right to due process, according to the filing. In an objection filed the next day, the state argued the lack of an exact date is not a “material detriment” to the criminal case.
Glines was charged after Xenia police received “several complaints of a naked man in the females’ locker room” of the YMCA branch, which is located on Progress Drive in Xenia, according to the criminal complaint.
The case received national attention after Xenia city council President Will Urschel said during a meeting of the Greene County Tea Party that the city could potentially prosecute the YMCA branch, a claim that Xenia’s law department has denied, citing lack of a preponderance of evidence.
Urschel’s comments also drew criticism from LGBTQ activist groups after implying that the city could be the first in Ohio to ban LGBTQ protections for public accommodations.
Last year, Greene County Prosecutor David Hayes, at the request of Xenia officials, sought an opinion from the Ohio Attorney General about whether state anti-discrimination law applies to public restrooms in city buildings and parks as well. the Ohio AG’s office has not yet responded with that legal opinion.
About the Author | 2023-02-06T23:22:11+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/crime/trial-for-transgender-woman-accused-of-public-indecency-at-xenia-ymca-postponed/HB2Z5OYN6VGSRDNA27SPJNNATA/ |
North Korea keeps up missile barrage with suspected ICBM
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea continued its barrage of weapons tests on Thursday, firing at least three missiles including a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile that forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and temporarily halt trains.
The launches are the latest in a series of North Korean weapons tests in recent months that have raised tensions in the region. They came a day after Pyongyang fired more than 20 missiles, the most it has fired in a single day ever.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the North firing a missile it presumed as an ICBM from an area near its capital Pyongyang around 7:40 a.m. and then firing two short-range missiles from the nearby city of Kacheon that flew toward its eastern waters.
While South Korean officials didn’t immediately release more specific flight details, the longer-range missile may have been fired on a high angle to avoid reaching the territory of neighbors. Japan’s Defense Minister Yasukazu said one of the North Korean missiles reached a maximum altitude of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) and flew about 750 kilometers (460 miles).
The Japanese government initially said at least one of the missiles flew over its northern territory, but later revised its assessment, saying there were no overflies.
The office of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida issued warnings to residents in the northern prefectures of Miyagi, Yamagata and Niigata, instructing them to go inside firm buildings or underground. There have been no reports of damage or injuries from areas where the alerts were issued.
Kishida said North Korea’s missile launches are “outrageous and absolutely intolerable.” He said he will sort out further details as officials analyze the missiles.
One of the more than 20 missiles North Korea shot on Wednesday flew in the direction of a populated South Korean island and landed near the rivals’ tense sea border, triggering air raid sirens and forcing residents on Ulleung island to evacuate. South Korea quickly responded by launching its own missiles in the same border area.
Those launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” in protest of ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills that it views as a rehearsal for a potential invasion.
North Korea last flew a missile over Japan in October in what it described as test of a new intermediate range ballistic missile, which experts say potentially would be capable of reaching Guam, a major U.S. military hub in the Pacific. That launch forced the Japanese government to issue evacuation alerts and halt trains.
North Korea has been ramping up its weapons demonstrations to a record pace this year. It has fired dozens of missiles, including its first demonstration of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as it exploits the distraction created by Russia’s war in Ukraine and a pause in diplomacy to push forward arms development and dial up pressure on the United States and its Asian allies.
The North has punctuated its tests with an escalatory nuclear doctrine that authorizes preemptive nuclear attacks over a variety of loosely defined crisis situations. U.S. and South Korean officials say North Korea may up the ante in the coming weeks with its first detonation of a nuclear test device since September 2017.
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Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-03T00:48:07+00:00 | kswo.com | https://www.kswo.com/2022/11/02/south-korea-says-north-korea-has-test-fired-another-missile/ |
Angelo Badalamenti, the composer best known for creating otherworldly scores for many David Lynch productions, from “Blue Velvet” and “Twin Peaks” to “Mulholland Drive,” has died. He was 85.
He died of natural causes on Sunday, his family said in a statement.
Born in Brooklyn in March 1937 to a fish market owner father with a musical background (a percussionist in Sicily), Badalamenti grew up listening to Italian opera with his family, started piano lessons at age 8 and went on to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. During the summers he would play piano at resorts in the Catskills for the Borscht Belt acts.
After college he taught middle school. He composed a Christmas carol for his students that ended up on PBS and essentially launched his career in entertainment, where he wrote songs for Nina Simone (“Another Spring”) and Nancy Wilson (“Face It Girl, It’s Over”). He also wrote songs for films like “Gordon’s War” and “Law and Disorder” but his big break came in 1986 when, through a series of industry connections starting with unit manager Peter Runfolo, he was asked to help Isabella Rossellini sing “Blue Velvet” for Lynch’s iconic film.
“They were shooting down in North Carolina, and so they flew me down to meet with Isabella and to see what I could do. When I got there, we went into a little room with just Isabella and me and a piano. I worked with her for two or three hours straight until we got a good take on a small recorder,” he said in an interview with Culture.org. “David was shooting the last scene. We brought him the cassette tape. He put on his earphones and right away said, “That’s the ticket! This is peachy keen!” I had to ask the line producer what peachy keen meant.”
He also ended up writing the song “Mysteries of Love” and found Julee Cruise, who died earlier this year, to sing it, starting a long collaboration between the trio that would extend to Lynch’s seminal series “Twin Peaks.”
“David felt that the music of ‘Twin Peaks’ would have to cover a lot of ground, a wide range of moods: sadness, passion, ecstasy, love, tenderness, and violence. He wanted the music to be dark and abstract,” he said. “He asked me for music that would tear the hearts out of people.”
Badalamenti worked with other directors too, including Jane Campion (“Holy Smoke!), Danny Boyle (“The Beach”) Paul Schrader (“The Comfort of Strangers”) and Walter Salles (“Dark Water”). He also wrote “The Flaming Arrow” Torch Theme for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the theme for “Inside the Actors Studio.” But it’s his work with Lynch that hovers above them all, which would include “The Straight Story,” “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," “Lost Highway” and “Mulholland Drive.”
“He’s got this musical soul, and melodies are always floating around inside,” Lynch told People Magazine in 1990. “I feel the mood of a scene in the music, and one thing helps the other, and they both just start climbing.”
Badalamenti also got to exercise his acting chops in a memorable scene in “Mulholland Drive” where he plays a gangster who is very particular about his espresso.
When it came to how he approached his scores, he said he was always at the service of the director's vision.
"Sometimes you want the music to go along with what’s happening on screen. Other times I love the idea of the music going against what’s happening – that’s often a cooler way to do things," he told NME in 2011.
“I always have one major question for a director when I compose a soundtrack: what do you want your audience to feel? Do you want to scare the s—t out of them? Squirm in their seat? Feel beautiful? And how they answer that question gives me cues to work on. I translate their words into music.” | 2022-12-13T03:14:09+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/entertainment/2022/12/13/twin-peaks-composer-angelo-badalamenti-dies-at-85/ |
HMB-001 is currently in Phase 1/2 clinical study for Glanzmann Thrombasthenia—early research supports its potential expansion into Factor VII Deficiency
COPENHAGEN, Denmark and BOSTON, June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hemab Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the first prophylactic therapeutics for serious, underserved bleeding and thrombotic disorders, announced today it will present data from preclinical research of HMB-001 in Factor VII (FVII) deficiency at the upcoming International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) 2023 Congress, June 24 – 28, in Montreal.
FVII deficiency can cause spontaneous or excessive and prolonged bleeding after injury or surgery; heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding in women; and in very severe cases, life-threatening bleeding inside the skull or digestive tract.i Hemab's lead candidate, HMB-001, is a bispecific antibody that binds and stabilizes endogenous Factor VIIa (FVIIa) with one antibody arm and TLT-1 on activated platelets with the other arm. This allows for accumulation of FVIIa in the body and recruitment of FVIIa directly to the surface of the activated platelets where it is known to facilitate the formation of protective hemostatic plugs to stop bleeding.
In addition, initial findings from the Glanzmann's 360 natural history study, Hemab's research initiative in partnership with UK specialist research consultancy Haemnet, will be presented at ISTH 2023. This first-of-its-kind study was designed to better define the real-life social, economic and clinical burdens experienced by people living with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia (GT), a rare platelet disorder that causes severe, potentially life-threatening bleeding episodes.
Hemab's Presentations at ISTH 2023
HMB-001 in Factor VII Deficiency:
- Oral Presentation 07.4: HMB-001, a Bispecific anti-FVIIa/anti-TLT-1 Antibody Demonstrates Effect in Models of FVII Deficiency
First-of-Its-Kind Study of Glanzmann Thrombasthenia:
- Poster 0228: A Prospective, Observational Study of Bleeding and Quality of Life in Patients with Glanzmann Thrombasthenia in the United Kingdom: A First Report
- Poster 1375: Menstrual Bleeding in Women with Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia - Results from the Glanzmann's 360 Study (GT360)
- Poster 1377: Living with Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia: An Interim Report from the Glanzmann's 360 International Patient Survey
- Poster 1393: Living with Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia: An Interim Report on 14 Qualitative Interviews from the Glanzmann's 360 Study
About HMB-001
HMB-001 is bispecific antibody that binds and stabilizes endogenous factor VIIa (FVIIa) with one antibody arm and TLT-1 on activated platelets with the other arm. This allows for accumulation of FVIIa in the body, recruitment of FVIIa directly to the surface of the activated platelets where it is known to facilitate clotting, and avoidance of clotting activity in the absence of tissue damage. HMB-001 was designed to be a first-in-class prophylactic treatment for Glanzmann Thrombasthenia (GT) with potential for other debilitating rare bleeding disorders, including Factor VII deficiency.
HMB-001 entered Phase 1/2 clinical evaluation in late 2022 for GT, with initial data expected 2H 2023.
About Hemab Therapeutics
Hemab is a clinical-stage biotech company developing the first prophylactic therapeutics for serious, underserved bleeding and thrombotic disorders. Based in the US and Denmark, Hemab is progressing a pipeline of monoclonal and bispecific antibody-based therapeutics to transform the treatment paradigm for patients with high unmet need. The company's strategic guidance, Hemab 1-2-5TM, targets the development of 5 clinical assets by 2025 to deliver long-awaited innovation for patients with high unmet need blood clotting disorders like Glanzmann Thrombasthenia, Factor VII Deficiency, Bernard Soulier Syndrome, Von Willebrand Disease and other serious disorders. Learn more at hemab.com.
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STRASBOURG, France (AP) — A jailed Russian opposition activist was awarded a top European human rights prize on Monday, just as a Moscow court extended his detention until December.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, awarded its Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize to Vladimir Kara-Murza, whom Russian officials have accused of spreading “false information” about Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
According to the Council of Europe, Kara-Murza’s wife Yevgeniya accepted the award on his behalf. She read a statement from him dedicating the prize to the thousands of Russians who voiced their opposition to the military operation in Ukraine, and pledged that “a peaceful, democratic and Putin-free Russia” would return.
Kara-Murza, a 41-year-old journalist, was an associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was slain near the Kremlin in 2015. He himself survived poisonings in 2015 and 2017 that he blamed on the Kremlin. Russian officials have denied responsibility for the poisonings.
The 60,000 euro ($58,300) prize honors outstanding civil society actions in defense of human rights. Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright and former dissident.
In Moscow, a court on Monday extended Kura-Murza’s detention until Dec. 12, Russia’s state-run Tass news agency reported.
Kara-Murza was jailed in April on a charge of spreading “false information” about the Russian military. Russia adopted a law criminalizing spreading “false information” about its military shortly after Russian troops invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Authorities have used the law against dozens of people to stifle opposition.
Russian authorities recently added treason charges to other charges against Murza. The charges stem from speeches he gave in several Western countries that criticized the Kremlin’s rule, according to the activist’s lawyer, Vadim Prokhorov.
Kara-Murza denies committing treason, his lawyer says. If convicted, he faces a possible prison sentence of up to 20 years. | 2022-10-11T09:38:51+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-jailed-russian-activist-kara-murza-wins-europe-rights-prize/ |
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — The Texas Freedom Network, a progressive advocacy group that organized a protest against a bill that would ban minors from accessing puberty blockers and gender-transition surgery, said Wednesday the “aggression” they witnessed from Department of Public Safety troopers was “deeply disturbing.”
At least one of their members was arrested after DPS attempted to remove protesters from the area surrounding the Texas House chambers.
In a statement provided to KXAN, DPS said Speaker of the Texas House Dade Phelan requested the Texas House Gallery to be cleared. The Sergeant at Arms then notified DPS, which provides law enforcement and security at the Capitol, of the disruption and asked for help clearing everyone from the gallery. DPS said people were “escorted out of the Capitol building due to ongoing protests.”
“No tasers or pepper spray were deployed by DPS personnel at any time. Once the Gallery was cleared, proceedings in the House continued,” the statement reads.
Adri Pérez, TNF’s organizing director, was booked into Travis County Jail and held until Tuesday night before Travis County dropped all charges, the organization said. DPS said Perez was charged with assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest and disrupting a public meeting.
Another person was charged with assault by contact and released on site, DPS said.
KXAN is reaching out to the Travis County DA’s office for more information.
“Loving families, community members, and advocates were there peacefully protesting an extremist ban on transgender healthcare that puts the lives of our youth at risk. None of them deserved criminalization or brutality,” TNF said.
Protesters violated the rules of the House gallery by displaying banners and repeatedly chanting in opposition to Senate Bill 14. Phelan removed the gallery of all members of the public, including supporters of Senate Bill 14.
“Rules matter in the Texas House,” Speaker Phelan said Tuesday. “Today’s outbursts in the gallery were a breach of decorum and continued after I warned that such behaviors would not be tolerated. There will always be differing perspectives, but in our chamber, we will debate those differences with respect.”
Rule 1, Section 5 of the House Rules requires the speaker to “preserve order and decorum.” Signs and placards are explicitly prohibited in the gallery.
After the gallery was cleared, protesters began gathering and chanting in the hallway immediately outside the gallery doors. One DPS trooper announced to the crowd over megaphone that they were too loud and that the House could not conduct business. The protesters continued chanting, at which point DPS took efforts to remove all members of the public from the third floor.
Eventually, DPS decided all protesters must leave the building completely, and the protest continued on the south steps of the Capitol with more than a dozen DPS troopers present.
The All in for Equality Coalition, under the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, also said they are “deeply disturbed” by the events.
“We witnessed violence and arrests today against Texans, many of whom are queer and transgender and who would be harmed directly by this bill,” they said. “Hundreds of people came to the Capitol to express their concerns about a bill that would ban life-saving healthcare for transgender youth. That bill was halted today based on a procedural point of order, but Texas lawmakers are still threatening to advance it. We urge them to show compassion to transgender youth and will hold them to account to protect the freedoms of all Texans.”
This coverage is ongoing and will be updated throughout the day. | 2023-05-03T20:16:18+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/texas-politics/advocacy-groups-decry-dps-actions-after-protesters-removed-from-capitol/ |
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
11-15-32-33, Bonus: 32
(eleven, fifteen, thirty-two, thirty-three; Bonus: thirty-two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Monday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Two Step" game were:
11-15-32-33, Bonus: 32
(eleven, fifteen, thirty-two, thirty-three; Bonus: thirty-two) | 2022-04-12T04:33:55+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Two-Step-game-17074220.php |
Cameron DuBois is ready to 'Par-Tee Down' next month to fight Down syndrome
- Register now for the Cameron DuBois Par-Tee Down Classic Golf Tournament
- The golf tournament, shrimp boil, silent auction and concert are Oct. 6 at Lagoon Park in Montgomery.
- Funds raised benefit the Montgomery Area Down Syndrome Outreach Group.
Things should be a bit more chill the second time around at the Cameron DuBois Par-Tee Down Classic Golf Tournament, happening Oct. 6 at Montgomery's Lagoon Park Golf Course.
Last year's inaugural event took place during a blistering July. The combination golf tournament, shrimp boil, silent auction and concert raised around $16,000 for the Montgomery Area Down Syndrome Outreach Group.
"We're very thankful for how many people were supportive around the community," said DuBois, a Montgomery native singer/songwriter who has a family connection with Down syndrome in Montgomery.
DuBois is bringing the full "Par-Tee" back for year two, but it made sense on a couple of different levels to push it into fall — October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month, and it's likely to be a lot cooler than Alabama in the height of summer.
"It was fantastic, although having it in the beginning of July was super, super hot," said Trish Robinson, president of the outreach group, speaking on last year's event.
Tournament registration for October is happening now. It's $150 a person to play in the golf tournament, which includes dinner and the concert. For those who want to attend just the dinner and concert, it's $50. Tee off is at noon, with a silent auction and shrimp boil at 3:45 p.m., and DuBois with Bama Sound in concert at 4:30 p.m.
"Cameron has been a fantastic supporter of our area group," Robinson said. "We are just so blessed that she has chosen us as her beneficiary for this fundraiser."
Register online at https://playmontgomerygolf.com/cameron-dubois-par-tee-down-classic-golf-tournament
Along with bringing awareness and advocating for quality of life improvements for families throughout central Alabama, the funds help Montgomery Area Down Syndrome Outreach Group with gatherings, meals and activities for families affected by Down Syndrome. They also offer $500 grants to member families.
"The fundraiser that Cameron does is a huge part of allowing us to have those grants," Robinson.
Living with Down Syndrome in the River Region
"Every child with Down syndrome is so different," said Robinson, whose son Joseph has it as well. "It's such a broad spectrum, from their health needs to their cognitive disabilities, to their mobility needs. It's so different."
Down syndrome is a genetic condition in which children have abnormal cell division. A resulting copy of chromosome 21 leads to physical and developmental changes.
Robinson said 1 in every 650 children are born with Down syndrome. In the River Region area, her group has 98 families registered, with children that range from infants to 30-year-olds. They recently added four new families.
"I'm sure that there are more out there that we just haven't connected with yet," Robinson said.
Parents of Down Syndrome children have all the same joys, pains, time requirements, and more that all parents face. But they often need to visit specialists for extra care.
"From cardiologists to pulmonologists, endocrinologists," Robinson said. "Above and beyond the normal pediatrician appointments. We also have a tendency to have a lot of developmental delays."
Along with therapies for issues like physical and speech needs, Robinson said there's also feeding therapy.
"A lot of times, our children have to learn how to eat," Robinson said. "Our children have to learn how to chew their food, or how to suck a bottle."
Down syndrome children are frequently on the autism spectrum, Robinson said.
"That is where we are," she said. "That adds an extra layer of things, so we have to approach some of our therapies a little bit different, and add on some ADA therapy as well. The most difficult part of that aspect of things is the limited resources for ADA and autism therapy in the River Region. It's very limited. We find ourselves on waiting lists for a long time before we can get the services that we need."
Robinson said she and her husband feel blessed with their son's condition, which hasn't caused major health issues requiring surgery.
"Some of the common things with Down syndrome are heart defects," Robinson said. "About 50 percent of babies born with Down syndrome have some kind of heart defect. Some of those require surgery immediately at birth, and some don't. Our son, we have not had surgery yet. We know it's coming eventually, just not yet."
Buddy Walk for Down syndrome
Just a few days ahead of the golf tournament, the Montgomery Area Down Syndrome Group has planned its annual Buddy Walk for Oct. 1 , 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the John Mark Stallings Football Field, 5345 Atlanta Highway, Montgomery.
"Faulkner University is so kind and generous," Robinson said.
Through the Buddy Walk, the group has been able to raise funds to donate books to libraries, schools and teachers in Montgomery, Autauga and Elmore counties. They've also distributed gift baskets to new parents of babies with Down syndrome in all Montgomery hospitals, provided educational speakers, and hosted play dates, group outings and more.
New music ahead from DuBois
Following up on last year's release of "The Light," there's new music ahead from DuBois. She's recording a new project with Teddy Gentry of the group Alabama, and also working on a project called "Old Cloverdale" with her Montgomery-based band Bama Sound. No release dates yet, but DuBois said to expect music videos with them soon as well.
Besides that, DuBois said she's still doing live shows. She's got some private events ahead, but you can catch her public shows this month at:
- Sept. 10, 2 p.m. at Auburn College of Business Tailgate with Bama Sound
- Sept. 16, 7 p.m. at The Market at John Hill Store in Cecil
- Sept. 23, 6 p.m. at Common Bond Brewers Show in Montgomery
- Sept. 29, 7 p.m. at Town & Country Revel, presented by Jackson Hospital Foundation in Montgomery
"I'll be doing a lot more work with Bama Sound this year in full band shows," DuBois said.
See her full tour schedule and learn more about her music online at camerondubois.com. | 2022-09-07T20:04:19+00:00 | montgomeryadvertiser.com | https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/entertainment/2022/09/07/dubois-is-ready-to-par-tee-down-next-month-to-fight-down-syndrome/65742024007/ |
Toyota will pivot to pushing hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle sales in Europe and China as it seeks to sell 200,000 of these vehicles by 2030, Reuters reported last week.
This is a strategy shift for Toyota, which previously made North America the focal point for fuel-cell vehicles, according to Reuters. But that approach isn’t working. Toyota sold just over 3,900 fuel cell vehicles in 2022, which is less than half of 1% of its global sales of around 9.5 million vehicles, Reuters noted.
However, Toyota chief technology officer Hiroki Nakajima told Reuters that the 200,000-unit target should be easily achievable, in part because of the greater focus on Europe and China. Hydrogen production and demand is higher in those markets, Nakajima said, adding that Toyota also aims to bring costs down and rely on partnerships with other companies.
Last month Toyota announced the formation of a Hydrogen Factory business for hydrogen and fuel cells, along with a goal of getting fuel-cell systems into 100,000 vehicles annually by 2030.
Toyota still has fuel-cell plans for the U.S., however. It’s on track to start manufacturing hydrogen fuel-cell modules in Kentucky this December. And the automaker is already planning a next-generation fuel-cell system, debuting in 2026, that costs less while improving range and durability, Automotive News reports.
Toyota previously said it could achieve a 37% cost reduction “through technological progress, volume efficiency, and localization,” and cost reductions as high as 50% pending further collaboration with other companies, and secure orders for 200,000 vehicles by 2030.
Earlier this year Toyota also broadened fuel-cell semi plans for the U.S., announcing commercialized fuel-cell trucks combining its fuel-cell kits with chassis from Peterbilt and Kenworth. This follows testing of prototype Toyota-powered Kenworth trucks in California. It’s also working with the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on using fuel-cell tech to help smooth the grid.
In addition to the Mirai, the only Toyota fuel-cell passenger car currently on sale, the automaker has also announced a fuel-cell version of the Crown on the way—although not necessarily for the U.S.
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- Toyota touts 10-minute EV charging, solid-state battery due in 2027 | 2023-07-18T16:14:15+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/automotive/internet-brands/toyota-shifts-hydrogen-fuel-cell-focus-to-europe-and-china/ |
LONDON (AP) — British health authorities say they will offer a polio booster dose to children aged 1 to 9 in London, after finding evidence the virus has been spreading in multiple regions of the capital, despite not confirming any cases of the paralytic disease in people.
In a statement on Wednesday, Britain's Health Security Agency said it had detected polio viruses derived from the oral polio vaccine in sewage water from eight boroughs of London, but had not identified any cases.
Its analysis of the virus samples suggested “transmission has gone beyond a close network of a few individuals” but that it had not found anyone infected with the virus. According to the World Health Organization, only one in 200 polio infections leads to paralysis; most people don't show any symptoms.
“This will ensure a high level of protection from paralysis and help reduce further spread,” the agency said. Most people across Britain are vaccinated against polio in childhood. It said the risk to the wider population was low.
The agency said it was working closely with health authorities in the U.S. and Israel and WHO to investigate the links between polio viruses detected in those two countries.
“We know the areas in London where the poliovirus is being transmitted have some of the lowest vaccination rates,” said Dr. Vanessa Saliba, a consultant epidemiologist at the U.K. Health Security Agency. “This is why the virus is spreading in these communities and puts those residents not fully vaccinated at greater risk.”
Polio is a disease often spread in water that mostly affects children under 5. It has mostly been wiped out from developed countries, but outbreaks remain in Pakistan, Afghanistan and parts of Africa. Initial symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, vomiting, and muscle stiffness. Among people paralyzed by the disease, death can occur in up to 10% of cases when their breathing muscles become paralyzed.
In rare cases, the live virus contained in the oral polio vaccine used in the global effort to eradicate the disease can mutate into new forms potent enough to trigger new outbreaks. The vaccination booster effort in London will use injected polio vaccines that do not carry that risk. | 2022-08-10T12:33:57+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/London-kids-to-be-offered-polio-shot-after-more-17363916.php |
(NewsNation) — In the wake of inflation and high housing costs, more and more families are turning to multigenerational living at a younger age — increasing among all age groups over the past five decades, according to a report by the Pew Research Center.
Researchers said 1 in 4 U.S. adults ages 25 to 34 years old resided in multigenerational family households in 2021, up from 9% in 1971.
However, while most of these young adults are the ones moving back in with their parents, there has been an increase in a trend where more parents have begun moving in with their young adult children, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Richard Fry, a senior researcher at Pew, told the Wall Street Journal that a significant number of older adults are moving in with millennials.
As of 2021, the number of people ages 25 to 34 heading the household grew by 6%, the Pew Research Center report said.
The new trend is being called the “reverse-boomerang effect.”
The move is meant to save money during a time when inflation and high housing costs have become debilitating to many Americans. Plus, having an older adult in the home opens up the possibility for affordable child care there.
NewsNation spoke with a Florida woman who asked her dad to move in with her to help with the kids and her online business. So far, the living arrangement has proved beneficial for both parties.
Dan Kane left behind his life in Arizona and drove 36 hours six months ago to move in with his daughter, Darin Nicole, and her family.
Kane said it was one of the best decisions of his life.
“Seeing grandkids every day, seeing my daughter … it’s more than I could ever ask,” he said.
And for Nicole, having her dad there has lightened her workload.
“We have extra helping hands,” she said. “It takes a lot of stress away from me as a mother.”
Since the pandemic, Americans have been reeling from inflation, paying 12% more for groceries this year compared to last year. Plus, high housing costs are also to blame for the financial strain.
According to Redfin, the national average price of a single-family home now stands at an estimated $383,000.
And the average yearly cost to raise a child is about $17,000, according to the Brookings Institution.
Financial planner Bill Dendy said Americans should have a plan in place before anyone moves in.
“Openness and communication, laying out the boundaries and what we expect, the plans of what we are going to do in the future. Treat this like a business partnership that may dissolve. What does it look like when it dissolves?” Dendy said.
Nicole and her dad said they have worked out an agreement that everyone is happy about.
“My dad does all the grocery shopping,” she said. “We have a joint credit card … we put utilities on. The power, we split it down the middle.”
Nicole said it took some convincing to talk her dad into moving in, but so far, the only issue they’ve run into is finding a quiet place to work since she, he and both of their spouses work from home. | 2023-02-24T20:09:17+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/more-parents-moving-in-with-their-kids-amid-inflation/ |
Kyle Capener and Taylor Hale were on the eviction block on “Big Brother” on CBS last night.
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Kyle Capener was evicted last night, Sept. 1, 2022.
“Big Brother” airs on Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. The next episode airs on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. The finale is scheduled for 8-10 p.m. Sept. 25.
Originally, head of household Matthew Turner had nominated Brittany Hoopes and Taylor Hale for eviction. Michael Bruner used his power of veto to remove Hoopes from the block. Turner replaced her with Kyle Capener.
The “Big Brother” house is equipped with 94 cameras and 113 microphones to “capture their every move. All summer long they will compete for safety and power.”
Each week, someone will be voted out of the house. Fans can watch the live feeds of what goes on in the house 24/7 on Paramount+.
The remaining houseguests competing to win $750,000 are:
- Alyssa Snider, 24, of Sarasota, Florida, a marketing rep
- Brittany Hoopes, 32, of Austin, Texas, a hypnotherapist
- Matt Turner, 23, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a thrift store owner
- Michael Bruner, 28, of Rochester, Minnesota, an attorney
- Monte Taylor, 27, of Bear, Delaware, a personal trainer
- Taylor Hale, 27, of West Bloomfield, Michigan, a personal stylist
- Terrance Higgins, 47, of Chicago, Illinois, a bus operator | 2022-09-02T11:01:06+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/09/who-was-evicted-from-big-brother-last-night.html |
CDC issues warning on potentially fatal Marburg virus
(CNN) - A rare but potentially deadly virus, similar to Ebola, is currently causing outbreaks in two African nations, and now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health advisory.
There are no known cases of the Marburg virus and the current risk is low in the U.S., but the CDC is warning doctors to be on the lookout for anyone with symptoms.
“Marburg virus is in the same family as Ebola virus, and it can cause a very, very severe and fatal disease,” Cleveland Clinic’s Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Kristin Englund said.
Englund said the illness is not contagious until symptoms appear. These can include fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, fatigue, loss of appetite, gastrointestinal issues and unexplained bleeding.
Right now, the Marburg virus outbreaks have only been identified in two African nations - Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania. The CDC says there is no evidence that the two outbreaks are related.
In March, the CDC warned travelers to the two countries to avoid contact with sick people and to monitor their health for three weeks after visiting.
The Marburg virus can spread through contact with an infected person’s blood or other bodily fluids or through fluids from infected animals.
It does not spread through the air like the coronavirus.
“We all need to be aware. Not afraid, but certainly aware of what’s out there,” Englund said.
If travel cannot be avoided to the areas in Africa where there are known outbreaks, the CDC says not to have contact with fruit bats and primates in those places. Both animals are known to be carriers of the virus.
Copyright 2023 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2023-04-12T16:40:59+00:00 | newschannel6now.com | https://www.newschannel6now.com/2023/04/12/cdc-issues-warning-potentially-fatal-marbug-virus/ |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Calling it a “long” couple of weeks, Golden State guard Jordan Poole is ready to chase a repeat championship alongside Draymond Green after the fourth-year pro took a punch to the face from Green at practice.
Poole wasn’t injured by the violent punch Oct. 5. Green rejoined the team after a leave of absence, and he met with Poole in the days before they played together again Friday night against the Nuggets.
“He apologized, and we plan on handling ourselves that way, we’re going to play basketball,” Poole said Sunday in his first public remarks since the fight and after video leaked from the incident. “Everybody in the locker room and on our team knows what it takes to win a championship and we’re going to do that on the court. That’s really all I have to say on the matter, we’re here to win a championship and keep hanging banners.”
The 23-year-old Poole finalized a $140 million, four-year extension with the defending NBA champions on Sunday, giving the guard something to celebrate and a bit of relief with a ring ceremony right around the corner.
Poole has previously referred to being “brothers” with Green and noted Sunday, “If I said it I meant it.”
“We’re here to play basketball, and our teammates and the coaching staff and the organization, everybody, knows what it takes to win,” Poole said.
One of those teammates who will be with Poole for the near future is Andrew Wiggins, who also signed a four-year contract extension beginning for the 2023-24 campaign. Golden State hosts the Lakers on Tuesday night to open the season.
“Obviously this is life-changing for Jordan and his family,” coach Steve Kerr said of Poole, who toiled through the G League as a rookie in the pandemic-interrupted season of 2019-20. “Pretty remarkable. You’re right, I never would have guessed it. His rookie year, he was lost, quite frankly. Most rookies are.”
Poole said he knew the time immediately after returning from two exhibition wins against the Wizards in Japan would be all about getting this deal done.
“No, the Draymond incident didn’t have any impact on how we moved through these things, these had been on-going discussions,” general manager Bob Myers said.
Before the fight, Green had said he didn’t expect his own extension before the season. He and Myers spoke Sunday.
“Draymond’s in a great spot. He’s got a player option. It’s a great position for a player to be in. You control your own destiny,” Myers said. “I think he’s excited about the year and he wants to win another championship. He sees the opportunity in front of him. I talked to him this morning, I don’t sense any issues there or any problems with that. I imagine he’s going to have a fantastic year, I actually think he will have a great year, he’s got a lot on the line. Usually when Draymond has a lot on the line he performs.”
Kerr will call on Poole to play better defense with the hopes of using him up to 32 minutes a game off the bench.
Poole has emerged as a talented scoring threat. He had 30 and 29 points, respectively, in his first two career playoff games last spring against Denver, just missing a chance to become the first Warriors player ever to score 30 in his first two playoff games.
Poole and Wiggins quickly became close once Wiggins arrived in a trade from the Timberwolves in February 2020. They both knew these big paydays were coming, even if Myers wasn’t sure they’d both get done.
“It wouldn’t have been as special if we didn’t win a championship,” said Poole, who credited his “mental toughness” and faith for overcoming any obstacle that comes his way.
“It’s a blessing, I’m happy for him,” Wiggins said. “It’s a joy. … I’m happy here. We have a chance to do something special.”
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More AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/NBA and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-10-17T13:48:50+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/sports/ap-poole-ready-to-chase-another-championship-alongside-green/ |
Company has taken part in the Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo since 2007
This year's event showcased its In-life PCR campaign and STARlet-AIOS
Seegene also displayed Novaplex™ assays, including a test for detecting the monkeypox virus
SEOUL, South Korea, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Seegene Inc. (096530), South Korea's leading molecular diagnostics company, took part in the 2022 American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Chicago between July 26-28. Seegene showcased its 'In-life PCR' campaign and its automated PCR Solution 'STARlet-AIOS,' as well as a suite of Novaplex™ assays, including a test for detecting the monkeypox virus.
The AACC meeting, now in its 74th year, is the world's largest gathering for the clinical laboratory and diagnostics industry. More than 200 global companies participated in this year's event. Seegene has taken part since 2007.
In-life PCR: Keeping communities safe through regular testing
Seegene's In-life PCR campaign is a global initiative that emphasizes regular testing of COVID-19, influenza, and cold viruses to identify infected individuals with mild or no symptoms. This, in turn, may help curb widespread transmissions within communities. The campaign will target venues that require face-to-face interactions, such as schools, workplaces, and nursing homes.
Seegene will use the Allplex™ SARS-CoV-2/FluA/FluB/RSV Assay, which can simultaneously detect COVID-19, flu A and B, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and will provide the necessary PCR instruments.
At the AACC, Seegene shared the campaign's mission with participants and potential partners. The company recently partnered with a test center in Vietnam to launch the campaign and is working to expand the initiative to other regions, including Europe and the Middle East.
Enabling PCR testing at small clinics with fully automated STARlet-AIOS
Seegene's STARlet-AIOS (All-in-One System) will provide "hands-free" PCR workflows, from nucleic acid extraction to result analysis. It is a fully automated (sample in – result out) system that can be operated by those with minimal PCR experience.
STARlet-AIOS is compatible with a wide range of Seegene's syndromic assays that can simultaneously test for multiple targets with just a single tube. The company has obtained EU-approval for over 30 tests that can detect COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, human papillomavirus (HPV), other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), gastrointestinal infections (GIs), and drug resistance (DR).
STARlet-AIOS, which has a smaller footprint compared to other solutions in the market, is composed of independent and detachable PCR component instruments. Test centers can purchase the full set or modify their systems by adding detachable modules. The latter can be an eco-friendly option as it doesn't require additional resources or manufacturing.
The modular nature of the system also makes maintenance convenient, while authorization procedures are easier as it combines pre-approved instruments. It is the world's first "assembled" solution that enables automated syndromic testing.
These features will allow small hospitals, local clinics, and public health centers to integrate STARlet-AIOS into their workflows. The STARlet-AIOS is expected to play a pivotal role in the expansion of Seegene's In-life PCR campaign.
Also, at the 2022 AACC, Seegene displayed its Research Use Only (RUO) product line, Novaplex™, for the U.S. market. This portfolio includes a dedicated test for detecting the monkeypox virus.
Seegene recently strengthened its U.S. leadership team as part of efforts to extend its global success to the U.S. market.
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SOURCE Seegene Inc. | 2022-07-29T12:02:05+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/prnewswire/2022/07/29/seegene-unveils-strategies-global-expansion-2022-aacc/ |
Canada’s history of trying to poach skilled foreign technology talent from Silicon Valley continued Tuesday with the announcement of a new program to lure away thousands of tech workers from the U.S.
“I would say the majority would come from Silicon Valley,” said Rana Sarkar, consul general of Canada in San Francisco. “This is where the talent is. This is where we’re coming to attract talent.”
The nation to the north, with a population that just surpassed 40 million thanks to high immigration numbers, is once again attempting to leverage foreign workers’ difficulties with the U.S. H-1B visa, the work permit of choice for Bay Area companies wanting to hire tech workers.
“We’re targeting newcomers that can help enshrine Canada as a world leader in a variety of emerging technologies,” Canada’s immigration minister, Sean Fraser, said in a statement.
Canada’s overt efforts to persuade Silicon Valley H-1B workers to abandon the U.S. and head northward date back a decade, when the Canadian government paid for a billboard beside Highway 101 that said, “H-1B problems? Pivot to Canada.”
Silicon Valley’s tech giants rely heavily on the H-1B visa, employing tens of thousands of foreign workers through the permit. Although the visa can provide a path to a green card and eventual citizenship, many foreign workers and their spouses, particularly those from India, face years-long waits because of country-specific quotas.
“I have been here since 2010,” said Pratima Joglekar, of Pleasanton, who works in an immigration law firm under an H-4 visa for spouses of H-1B workers. “I haven’t received my green card yet.”
News of the new Canadian program is spreading quickly through Bay Area communities, piquing the interest of many H-1B holders and their spouses, Joglekar said. “They feel that Canada might offer them stability rather than waiting here for the green card.”
Canada plans to run the program, officially known as the “H1-B specialty occupation visa holder work permit” program, for a year starting July 16. Canadian authorities will issue 10,000 permits to H-1B holders, whose spouses and dependents will be eligible to apply for residence, work and study permits, Sarkar said. Approved H-1B applicants will receive permission to work for up to three years for almost any employer nearly anywhere in Canada. “If this is a successful program, I think there’s all intention to continue it,” Sarkar said.
Participants in the program may be able to obtain permanent residence within the three years and citizenship within a few years after that, Sarkar said.
For H-1B workers, long-running uncertainties around their ability to continue to live and work long-term in the U.S. were exacerbated by attempts during the administration of former President Donald Trump to limit the use of the visa and promises by his administration to strip work authorization from the spouses of H-1B holders.
Sarkar said the new work permit program is “not just Canada taking advantage of a U.S. challenge” and that the flow of skilled workers between the two countries can benefit both. But he acknowledged the long waits for green cards confronting many H-1B workers. “This is an opportunity for families to have some security,” he said. “The feedback I always get is people just want to know where their kids are going to go to high school.”
Joglekar, an Indian citizen, said the Canadian program likely will have special appeal for H-1B holders and their spouses who have children born outside the U.S. who are likely to turn 21 before their parents obtain green cards. Those young adults would face similar uncertainties around getting authorization to live and work in the U.S., Joglekar said. “No parent wants their child to go through the same problem,” she said.
Rufus Jeffris, spokesman for the Bay Area Council, which represents hundreds of employers including heavy H-1B users Google, Apple and Facebook, said it was understandable that Canada would want to take advantage of the “mess we’ve made of our H-1B system” and the resulting uncertainty for foreign tech workers. “It’s inexcusable that the U.S. can’t provide more certainty and sanity to our immigration system, particularly for high-skilled workers that bring considerable value to our tech economy,” Jeffris said.
Heavily dependent on oil and gas production, Canada has been pouring billions of dollars into a push for clean energy to address climate change and diversify its economy as it also seeks to expand its technology industry.
The country is seeking “catalytic talent” who will “spawn future growth for existing companies and a set of future companies,” Sarkar said. “The attractiveness of H-1B workers is we have this proven pool of talent that is already working in industry in adjacent jurisdictions very complementary to ours. Talent becomes … the stem cells of growth for the future.”
Canada also plans to offer five-year work permits to foreign citizens employed by companies identified as contributing to the country’s “industrial innovation goals” and those in “select in-demand occupations.” The specific companies and occupations have not yet been publicly specified.
The country is also expanding its visa program for entrepreneurs and working to attract “digital nomads” from other countries and facilitate their transition from working remotely for employers outside Canada, to getting jobs with Canadian businesses that would lead to permanent residency and citizenship, Sarkar said. | 2023-06-29T18:03:28+00:00 | twincities.com | https://www.twincities.com/2023/06/29/h-1b-visa-canada-launches-new-bid-to-poach-skilled-tech-workers-from-u-s/ |
TORONTO (AP) — Tyrese Maxey scored a career-high 44 points, carrying the Philadelphia 76ers without Joel Embiid to a 112-90 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Friday night.
Embiid sat out because of a sore right knee. A five-time All Star and the reigning NBA scoring champion, Embiid is averaging 27.6 points and 10 rebounds in five games.
The 76ers didn’t miss Embiid and didn’t even need much from James Harden because of Maxey, who made his first 10 shots, seven of them from long range, and didn’t miss until a 3-pointer rimmed out with 8 minutes left in the third quarter.
“I just know how good we can be, I know how talented we are, but we’ve got to match our talent with the energy that we play with, and defensive tenacity,” Maxey said. “Tonight we knew it was going to be extremely hard without Joel. That made guys step up, that made guys do things they don’t normally do.”
Maxey shot 15 for 20 overall, going a career-best 9 for 12 from outside.
“Rese didn’t miss,” 76ers guard Matisse Thybulle said. “They just kept going in.”
Maxey had eight rebounds and four assists. He shot 5 for 6 at the free throw line.
“I thought he was awesome,” 76ers coach Doc Rivers said. “He led us in rebounds.”
De’Anthony Melton and Tobias Harris each scored 13 points and Harden had 11 as the 76ers never trailed and won for the second time in six games, splitting a pair north of the border against their Atlantic Division rivals.
“We’re not close to where we want to be,” Rivers said, “and we’re going to have some bumps early and we know that. But once we get there, we’re going to be a really good basketball team.”
Pascal Siakam had 26 points and 10 rebounds, O.G. Anunoby scored 19 points and Scottie Barnes had 13 for the Raptors, who lost for the first time in three home games. Toronto’s 90 points were a season low.
“We were really locked in on the defensive end,” Maxey said.
Raptors All Star guard Fred VanVleet shot 0 for 11, going 0 for 8 from 3-point range. VanVleet scored one point.
“We just weren’t very sharp at either end,” Raptors coach Nick Nurse said.
Maxey was 5 for 5 in the first, starting the quarter with four straight 3-pointers and ending it with a buzzer-beating shot to give the 76ers a 28-26 lead. Philadelphia made 7 of 14 from long range in the first.
Maxey made five more shots in the second, two of them from distance, and Harden scored eight points to give the visitors a 65-48 lead at the half. The Sixers shot 15 for 24 in the second.
“Once you get stops the game becomes way easier, honestly, not just for myself, for all of us,” Maxey said.
Anunoby cut it to 70-64 with a steal and dunk with 4:09 left in the third but Maxey replied with four points as Philadelphia took an 81-70 lead to the fourth.
TIP-INS
76ers: Melton started with Embiid out. … After shooting 25 for 44 in the first half, Philadelphia shot 6 for 20 in the third quarter. … Maxey’s previous career high was 39, set against Denver on Jan. 9, 2021.
Raptors: Toronto made 10 turnovers in the first half, leading to 18 points for the 76ers. The Raptors didn’t make a first-half turnover in Wednesday’s 119-109 win over Philadelphia, and had nine in the game. They had 17 Friday. … Toronto didn’t score a bench point in the first half. … F Otto Porter Jr. (personal reasons) was not available.
UP NEXT
76ers: Visit Chicago on Saturday night.
Raptors: Host Atlanta on Monday night.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s inaugural address clocked in at just 16 minutes. Closing arguments that are slated for Thursday in his company’s criminal tax fraud case? Prosecutors and defense lawyers say those could take seven hours or more.
Those projections speak to the complexity of the case, which stems from longtime Trump Organization finance chief Allen Weisselberg’s 15-year scheme to avoid taxes on company-paid perks including an apartment and luxury cars.
The speeches are a chance to recap key witnesses and evidence before the jury deliberates next week. Prosecutors said they might spend four or five hours summarizing the case. Defense lawyers said they’ll likely need at least three hours.
Seven witnesses testified, chief among them Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty in August to dodging taxes on $1.7 million in extras. Prosecutors charged the company because it said Weisselberg was a “high managerial agent” acting on its behalf and that it also benefitted from his scheme.
Trump Organization lawyers argue Weisselberg acted on his own, without Trump or the Trump family’s knowledge. If anything, they said, the company’s accountant should’ve caught any fraud. Trump is not charged. If convicted, his company could be fined more than $1 million.
Although there were just 10 days of testimony, the trial has stretched on since Halloween.
That’s partly because Jeffrey McConney, the Trump Organization comptroller called as the first prosecution witness, tested positive for COVID-19 early on, halting the trial for eight days.
Here’s a refresher on what’s happened so far.
EXECUTIVES ADMIT TAX DODGE SCHEME
Prosecutors built their case around Weisselberg, who testified as part of a plea deal in exchange for a promised sentence of five months in jail, and McConney, who was granted immunity to testify.
Weisselberg, 75, testified he and McConney conspired to hide extras from his income by fudging payroll records to deduct their cost from his salary and issuing falsified W-2 forms.
The arrangement reduced Weisselberg’s tax liability but also saved the company money because it didn’t have to pay him more to cover the cost of the perks.
“It was my own personal greed that led to this,” an emotional Weisselberg testified.
McConney testified that Weisselberg and another executive, Michael Calamari Sr., pressured him to alter payroll records. The company also provided no-or-low cost apartments to Calamari and Weisselberg’s son, who helped manage a company-run ice rink in Central Park.
McConney said he feared he’d be fired if he alerted Trump to the scheme.
WEISSELBERG: A STAR FOR BOTH SIDES
While Weisselberg struck a deal to be the prosecution’s star witness, he proved to be a star for the defense, too.
In three days of testimony, Weisselberg detailed how he and the Trump Organization both benefited from his scheme to avoid taxes on his company-paid perks — the crux of a prosecution that seeks to hold the company accountable for the sins of one of its most trusted figures.
But Weisselberg also testified that neither Trump nor his family knew about his scheming while it was happening — a win for the company’s defense team whose mantra is “Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg.”
Trump noticed, posting on social media while Weisselberg was testifying that the case had “fallen apart.”
Weisselberg still works for the company and had a birthday party at Trump Tower in August, around the time of his plea. He is scheduled to be formally sentenced on Dec. 19.
ONE CHRISTMAS BONUS, LOTS OF CHECKS
The trial has also spotlighted other pay practices in place at the Trump Organization before Trump became president in 2017, including a scheme to avoid taxes on holiday bonuses it paid executives.
Weisselberg said the company paid executives as independent contractors by drawing bonus payments from subsidiary entities such as Mar-a-Lago and the company he used to produce “The Apprentice” TV show. That allowed the company to avoid payroll taxes and the subsidiaries to deduct the bonuses as expenses.
Trump “always wanted to sign the bonus checks,” had then be stuffed into Christmas cards and handed them out like Santa Claus to executives around the building, Weisselberg said.
McConney said the company abandoned that arrangement at the behest of a tax lawyer brought in to audit the company’s financial practices following Trump’s election.
TRUMP’S LONG SHADOW
Trump didn’t attend the trial, but his name came up frequently in testimony — and he signaled on social media that he’s been following the proceedings closely.
“The very unfair Manhattan D.A. Fringe Benefits Case, the likes of which has never been prosecuted in our Country before, has fallen apart,” Trump wrote Tuesday on his Truth Social platform. “There was no gain for ‘Trump,’ and we had no knowledge of it.”
Prosecutors gave mixed signals about Trump’s importance to the case, telling a judge early on “This case is not about Donald Trump,” but then repeatedly asking witnesses about him. Weisselberg described Trump as a hands-on boss prior to leaving for the White House.
Defense lawyers and some witnesses made a point to refer to Trump as “President Trump,” leading to a humorous moment as McConney described his understanding of why the company had changed its pay practices.
“Nobody told me this change came specifically because Mr. Trump became President Trump,” McConney said.
CAN I HAVE THE DEFINITION, PLEASE?
How jurors decide the case could come down to semantics.
The defense and prosecution spent hours Tuesday sparring over jury instructions, turning the tax case into a syntax case as they parsed the meaning of a single phrase — “in behalf of” — in the 1965 state law underlying some of the charges.
A defense lawyer even read off a definition from a 1960s dictionary he found while digging through legislative records in Albany. It said “in behalf of” means “for the primary purpose of benefiting.”
The defense argued that the way the phrase is used in the law, prosecutors had to have shown that the Weisselberg intended to help the company’s bottom line, not just his own.
Ultimately, it’ll be Judge Juan Manuel Merchan’s definition of “in behalf of” that jurors will have to rely on. He’s expected to instruct the jury in the law either Friday or Monday.
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The industrial and medical gas provider signs long-term agreement for SymphonyAI's APM 360™ solution
WOBURN, Mass., March 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SymphonyAI Industrial, a SymphonyAI division, announced today that European industrial and medical gases company Nippon Gases has signed a long-term agreement to extend its use of APM 360™ to improve asset performance supporting plant operations and output across its fleet of European plants.
The APM 360 asset predictive maintenance solution monitors overall machine health with real-time prescriptive monitoring and predictive maintenance for critical plant equipment, such as compressors, high-voltage motors, turbines, heat exchangers, and pre-purifiers. APM 360 uses IIoT, AI, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and physics to provide anomaly detection with automated cause analysis and advisories. This combination of capabilities identifies complex, dynamic machinery patterns that ensure critical manufacturing machinery operates at its peak.
"SymphonyAI Industrial's APM 360 and its team of talented engineers have proven themselves to take our reliability program to the next level," said Nippon Gases Reliability Manager Europe Ben Engels. "The solution enabled us to take advantage of the huge amount of data we capture to make data-driven decisions that help keep our plants running with optimal performance."
"We are delighted to expand our relationship with Nippon Gases," said Dominic Gallello, CEO of SymphonyAI Industrial. "The combination of our third-generation machine reasoning-based AI capabilities and our deep engineering talent density to deliver a successful implementation is our formula for user and customer success."
About Nippon Gases
Nippon Gases, one of the leading industrial and medical gases companies in Europe, is part of Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation, which has over 100 years of experience and is also present in Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States, and Canada, with more than 19,000 employees in 31 countries. In Europe, more than 3,000 employees, 27% of whom are women, now work for Nippon Gases in 13 countries, serving more than 150,000 customers. Safety is a top priority in our company and we are continuously working to improve it even further. We analyze risk factors and risky behaviors to eliminate them, and ensure strict adherence to our safety principles by all our employees. Nippon Gases' commitment to customers, employees, and partners, as well as to the communities in which we operate, reflects our commitment to the environment and sustainability. Together, we are "The Gas Professionals" and we all share the same goal: "Making life better through gas technology".
About SymphonyAI Industrial
SymphonyAI Industrial, a SymphonyAI division, is an innovator in industrial insight, accelerating autonomous plant operations. The industry-leading EurekaAI/IoT platform and industrial optimization solutions connect tens of thousands of assets and workflows in manufacturing plants globally and process billions of data points daily, pushing new plateaus in operational intelligence.
- Digital manufacturing composable enterprise MOM/MES solutions can be operational in 90 days to connect devices, processes, people, and systems with harmonizing plant automation and control.
- Plant performance applications span asset predictive maintenance and process health and optimization, maintaining high availability of equipment, extending the life of capital assets, and reducing process variability.
- Connected frontline worker solutions mobilize people to handle complex processes with human-driven procedure and instruction support, using a combination of glasses, smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
SymphonyAI Industrial solutions provide high value to users by driving variability out of processes and optimizing operations for throughput, yield, energy efficiency, and sustainability.
About SymphonyAI
SymphonyAI is building the leading enterprise AI SaaS company for digital transformation across the most critical and resilient growth verticals, including retail, consumer packaged goods, finance, manufacturing, media, and IT/enterprise service management. SymphonyAI verticals have many leading enterprises as clients. Since its founding in 2017, SymphonyAI has grown rapidly to 3,000 talented leaders, data scientists, and other professionals. SymphonyAI is a SAIGroup company, backed by a $1 billion commitment from successful entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr. Romesh Wadhwani. Learn more at www.symphonyai.com.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP)A lot of people were shocked when Tyreek Hill, only a few months into his Miami Dolphins tenure, called Tua Tagovailoa the ”most accurate” quarterback in the NFL.
Maybe he was on to something.
At the midway point of the season, the highly critiqued Tagovailoa leads the league in several passing categories, despite missing two games, and has steered the Dolphins to a 6-3 record.
The Dolphins were expected to be a much better team this season after adding Hill and other offensive pieces in the offseason. But Tagovailoa has elevated his game, and the Dolphins are clearly better when he’s on the field.
”He’s playing at a tremendous level,” Hill said. ”He’s making me look right about everything I said about him in the offseason.”
Tagovailoa, in his third NFL season, leads the league in passer rating (115.9), yards per attempt (9.2), touchdown percentage (6.9) and net yards per play (8.5).
One of his biggest knocks since entering the league was his deep ball. Now he’s pushing the ball down the field more efficiently than he has in his professional career.
Entering Sunday’s game against the Bears, Tagovailoa had twice as many completions (32) to the middle of the field over 10 air yards as any other quarterback this season, according to Next Gen Stats.
”I think I’ve grown a lot with the deep balls, huh? Don’t we think?” Tagovailoa said sarcastically last week. ”That was probably a subtle jab, but it was a jab.”
He’s having such a good season that the Dolphins sent away their only 2023 first-round pick, once essential in case they needed to draft another quarterback, to add defensive help.
”The growth has been unbelievable in how he’s playing the position,” McDaniel said of Tagovailoa, ”learning the whole system, and then how he’s handling the ebbs and flows of natural in-game momentum.”
WHAT’S WORKING
Given how the first half of the season has gone, there’s no reason to believe a team has an answer for Tagovailoa’s connection with Hill and Jaylen Waddle. Against the Bears, Hill became the first player this year to surpass 1,000 yards receiving. He’s now at 1,104 on an NFL-leading 76 catches and is on pace for the best season of any wide receiver ever. Waddle doesn’t have nearly the amount of touches (47) as Hill, but has been incredibly efficient with the fifth-most yards receiving in the NFL (812) and six touchdowns.
WHAT NEEDS HELP
The defense. Miami’s inability to stop teams has left it in some close games. The Dolphins gave up a combined 91 points in their three losses this year and haven’t generated much pressure with their four-man rush. Miami added former Broncos pass rusher Bradley Chubb, who has 5+ sacks this season, at the trade deadline to address that.
STOCK UP
The passing game. Hill and Waddle’s speed in the open field and Tagovailoa’s improvement have elevated Miami’s passing game to a level that hadn’t been seen in recent years. Where the Dolphins defense was once the driving force behind their success, this season the offense is productive enough to outscore its opponents when the defense has struggled.
STOCK DOWN
Cornerback Xavien Howard has been playing through a groin injury and hasn’t had cornerback Byron Jones (Achilles) opposite him. That has clearly affected his play. Howard does not have an interception this season after five last year and 10 in 2020. He did have an interception wiped away by a penalty Sunday, but he also allowed a 16-yard touchdown catch from Justin Fields to Darnell Mooney.
INJURIES
Four defensive players have gone on injured reserve through the first half of the season: CB Trill Williams (knee), CB Nik Needham (Achilles), LB Trey Flowers (foot) and S Brandon Jones (knee).
CB Byron Jones, who had surgery on his lower left leg in the offseason, has not returned from the physically unable to perform list.
Miami has also had several injuries on the offensive line. LT Terron Armstead is playing through a toe injury. RT Austin Jackson (ankle) just came back from IR. LG Liam Eichenberg (knee) recently went on IR.
KEY NUMBER
14 — Tagovailoa is 12-2 in his last 14 starts and 13-1 in the last 14 games he has finished.
UP NEXT
After their bye-week break, the Dolphins return home to face the Cleveland Browns on Sunday, Nov. 13.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Days after Fox News agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle a lawsuit over its airing of 2020 election lies, you’d be hard-pressed to notice anything had changed there.
Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham led their shows Thursday talking about Hunter Biden, the president’s son. Ingraham’s show warned, “The left wants the government to be your only family.” Hannity targeted familiar villains — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Vice President Kamala Harris. Carlson mocked a speech on racial equity, saying it meant “that straight white men are bad.”
Experts doubt the settlement will lead to much of a course correction in conservative media, save for a little less specificity to avoid future lawsuits.
So far, that’s been the chief result of a Connecticut jury’s verdict last year that Alex Jones must pay $965 million to parents of Sandy Hook school shooting victims, after claiming the 2012 massacre was a hoax and that grieving parents were actors. Now Jones is more likely to keep names out of it, said Nicole Hemmer, a Vanderbilt University professor and author of “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.”
“It hasn’t changed his conspiracy theories,” Hemmer said. “He’s just a little more careful about not saying legally actionable things.”
Heading into the 2024 election, radio host Erick Erickson predicted more hesitancy in conservative media to embrace claims by former President Donald Trump or anybody in politics preaching election denialism. Fox’s response will be most watched.
If anything, Fox is just as dominant among conservatives today as it was in the aftermath of the 2020 election, the period addressed by the Dominion lawsuit. That’s when Fox aired false claims that Dominion Voting Systems helped rig the election against Trump, despite many at the network knowing the allegations were bogus.
Documents in the case exposed the fear within Fox that it would lose viewers if the network didn’t tell Trump fans what they wanted to hear.
A former Fox personality, Bill O’Reilly, wrote after the settlement: “This is what happens when money becomes more important than honest information.” His own experience, though, shows there was reason to be afraid. O’Reilly said he lost more than 1,000 premium subscribers to his website after telling them the election results wouldn’t be overturned.
Fox’s followers, it seems, were more upset with the election reporting than with revelations in the lawsuit about those at the network who didn’t believe the fraud charges and expressed private disdain for Trump.
There’s been little noticeable change in Fox’s television ratings in the past few months, certainly none attributable to the lawsuit. In March, Fox’s website had 88.7 million unique visitors, marking its fourth straight month of double-digit gains, said Howard Polskin, whose website The Righting monitors conservative media.
Most conservative websites either ignored the Dominion lawsuit or gave it cursory coverage, he said.
“The coverage on the right would not support at all that some landmark settlement had been reached,” Polskin said. “It was completely misaligned with the magnitude of the news event itself.”
While Fox acknowledged in the settlement the judge’s conclusion that the network had spread false material about Dominion, Fox offered no apology. That likely would have meant more to Fox’s critics than its fans, anyway, said Megan Duncan, a Virginia Tech communications professor who studies news audiences.
To Fox’s followers, criticism of the network wouldn’t matter much unless it was made by someone who shared their ideology. For the bulk of Fox’s audience, the settlement will be quickly forgotten — if it was followed at all, she said.
For Fox, that’s all an argument for the importance of keeping its audience happy.
That audience is what has made Fox the leading cable television network for several years, so profitable that it is able to absorb the $787 million Dominion settlement as a cost of doing business.
Fox still has legal challenges, with a pending defamation lawsuit by Smartmatic, another elections technology company. But Dominion also has a case against Newsmax, Fox’s chief television rival for a conservative audience. Newsmax insists its case is different and that it has better protections against defamation than Fox did.
But as a smaller company, if Newsmax is wrong, a financial judgment could cripple or kill it, to Fox’s benefit, Hemmer said.
“Fox would absolutely go after that audience,” she said.
Fox soon faces crucial negotiations with three large cable companies — Comcast, Spectrum and Cox — over carriage fees, the amount they will pay to Fox for the right to offer the network on their systems, said Angelo Carusone, president of Media Matters for America, a left-leaning media watchdog group.
Ever since an advertiser boycott against former Fox personality Glenn Beck, largely orchestrated by Media Matters, Fox has concentrated on boosting carriage fees. It has succeeded to the point where Fox would have a 35% profit margin even if it had no advertising revenue, he said.
That makes it important for Fox to illustrate to these companies that it has a large, valuable audience that can be counted on to be loyal at a time people are cutting cable service.
Fox could use the conclusion of the lawsuit to build up its news operation, which has lost personalities such as Chris Wallace and Shepard Smith in recent years, said Chris Stirewalt, an executive fired by Fox after the quick, although ultimately correct, decision on election night 2020 to call Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential race.
Fox said that it is doing just that, saying this past week that it has increased its investment in journalism by more than 50%.
“Being a news organization is expensive and dangerous,” said Stirewalt, now political editor at NewsNation. “Not just expensive because you have to pay to get news but also, expensive because you can lose your audience because sometimes you have to tell them what they don’t want to hear.”
It could be easier, and good business, to double down on programming that appeals to the attitudes and emotions of viewers, he said. Fox wouldn’t be alone in following that direction.
“I don’t envy their choices,” he said.
Erickson, the radio host, said he would expect to see greater management control of Fox’s personalities, although this wouldn’t necessarily be something that viewers would notice. That would revert back to the days of the late Fox leader Roger Ailes, drummed out of the network in a sexual misconduct scandal in 2016.
“Whether you liked Roger Ailes or not, he did understand that you should not lie to your audience,” Erickson said.
The ovations delivered on Thursday night by an audience crowded into Hannity’s studio — for him and for Carlson and Ingraham at the beginning and end of their shows — illustrated an enduring point.
Fox has several solid journalists on its payroll but its stars, the chief reason viewers tune in, are those that offer tough talk and opinion.
“I think they’ve backed themselves into a corner, and that corner is full of Trump supporters,” said Hemmer, the Vanderbilt professor. “That is the business model.” | 2023-04-23T10:57:04+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/fox-settlement-seen-as-unlikely-to-change-conservative-media/ |
How Alaska became one of fentanyl’s deadliest frontiers
An influx of fentanyl into Alaska in the last two years has vexed law enforcement, overwhelmed health systems and deeply affected struggling Native communities.
In 2020 and 2021, the synthetic opioid was a major contributor in a spike in overdoses – the nation’s largest, according to Alaska’s public health department. In 2021, overdose deaths jumped by 74% in one year, with fentanyl deaths spiking by 150%, the report said.
Drug traffickers have carved out a lucrative market for synthetic drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl in Alaska, since they can extract higher profit margins in a remote region.
Fentanyl has become a national crisis in recent years, but Alaska faces unique challenges due to its location, size and limited law enforcement resources, Alaska’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program said in its annual report to Congress.
In the summer of 2022, Alaska law enforcement seized nearly 2.5 million doses of fentanyl, HIDTA said.
Alaska has the country’s largest proportion of its population which identifies as American Indian and Alaska Native at 19.6 percent. And it is these groups – who have long struggled with systemic lack of resources, trauma and substance abuse – that are being hit the hardest by the fentanyl scourge: For Alaska Natives and American Indians, the 2021 overdose rate was 77.7 per 100,000 people, compared to a 2021 rate of 28.8 for White Alaskans.
Alaska officials struggle with intercepting shipments of fentanyl – which is mostly produced in Mexico – since large swathes of the state are only accessible by smaller boats and airplanes that help the drug reach destinations undetected.
And while an opioid pill can cost $2 in Arizona and many other parts of the contiguous U.S., the same pill can sell for $40 in Alaska. Prices can vary widely even within the state, depending on the location: in Anchorage, one dosage unit of fentanyl costs $15, while in Bethel, the hub for 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, (400 miles away from Anchorage) one dose can cost $100, according to the 2022 Alaska Annual Drug Report released in January.
“We’re the most flying state in the union,” Lt. Paul Wegrzyn, deputy commander of the Alaska State Troopers’ drug enforcement unit, told CBS News. “People think nothing of hopping on a plane. There is air travel happening all hours and all day and night. It creates a challenge to track drugs coming into these villages.”
The Biden administration has stepped up federal efforts to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into the country. But even as law enforcement efforts increase, government agencies have identified racial and class disparities in prevention and addiction treatment services.
In Alaska, the effects of fentanyl on the Native population are being felt across the state. During the pandemic from 2019-2020, overdose deaths increased by more than 40% for Native Alaskans, according to CDC data.
“Most people who died by overdose had no evidence of substance use treatment before their deaths,” according to a CDC report. “In fact, a lower proportion of people from racial and ethnic minority groups received treatment, compared with White people.”
Stevi Rae Angasan, 38, was born and raised in Naknek, a fishing village on the northeast side of Bristol Bay. Just in the past year, she has seen two overdose deaths in her community of fewer than 800 people spread among three tribal villages: Naknek, South Naknek and King Salmon.
Angasan, a member of the Naknek tribe, said she has struggled with addiction since high school. She married at 18, had a daughter at 19, and worked in the fishing industry. After the season ended, Angasan would spend all her money on heroin until there was nothing left.
Angasan, who now works as an administrative assistant at the Naknek Native Village Council and has been sober for five years, said she was grateful fentanyl wasn’t around when she was hooked on drugs.
Today, she sees “nothing but accessibility.” She said the problem is compounded by a lack of resources to fight back. Alaskan tribal courts have prosecuted drug dealers selling fentanyl and other opioids, but most communities rely on law enforcement hundreds of miles from their homes.
And there are no suboxone or methadone clinics to treat addiction in her area, Angasan said.
There are only seven treatment clinics in Alaska, according to a spokeswoman at the State Opioid Treatment Authority. There are three clinics in Anchorage, one in Fairbanks, one in Wasilla, one in Juneau, and one in Sitka. She added that there are plans to open one in the fall of 2023 on Prince of Wales Island.
The Biden administration says it is investing in overdose and addiction efforts; $1.5 billion is being distributed throughout all states for opioid and addiction issues, with $104 million to expand substance abuse prevention in rural communities. In 2021, the CDC invested $13 million to assist in drug overdose prevention in tribal communities.
Angasan says the resources are urgently needed.
“The community is at a standstill,” she said. “We ask ‘what are we going to do?'” | 2023-03-01T14:10:12+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/how-alaska-became-one-of-fentanyls-deadliest-frontiers/ |
While many Americans were nursing hangovers on New Year's Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT.
Given the buzz it's created, there's a good chance you've heard about ChatGPT. It's an interactive chatbot powered by machine learning. The technology has basically devoured the entire Internet, reading the collective works of humanity and learning patterns in language that it can recreate. All you have to do is give it a prompt, and ChatGPT can do an endless array of things: write a story in a particular style, answer a question, explain a concept, compose an email — write a college essay — and it will spit out coherent, seemingly human-written text in seconds.
The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
"I think we're absolutely at an inflection point," Edward says. "This technology is incredible. I do believe it's the future. But, at the same time, it's like we're opening Pandora's Box. And we need safeguards to adopt it responsibly."
Edward is a senior at Princeton University, where he majors in computer science and minors in journalism. Before his recent foray into the limelight, Edward's biggest plans were graduating college and getting his wisdom teeth pulled. Now he's fielding calls from venture capital firms, education leaders, and global media outlets.
Over the last couple years, Edward has been studying an AI system called GPT-3, a predecessor to ChatGPT that was less user-friendly and largely inaccessible to the general public because it was behind a paywall. As part of his studies this fall semester, Edward researched how to detect text written by the AI system while working at Princeton's Natural Language Processing Lab.
Then, as the semester was coming to a close, OpenAI, the company behind GPT-3 and other AI tools, released ChatGPT to the public for free. For the millions of people around the world who have used it since, interacting with the technology has been like getting a peek into the future; a future that not too long ago would have seemed like science fiction.
Despite having studied AI, Edward, like the rest of us, was gobsmacked by the power of ChatGPT. He and his friends used it to write poems and raps about each other. "And it was like: 'Wow, these results are pretty good,'" Edward says. It seemed like everyone on campus was talking about how remarkable this new technology was. Sure, the text it generates is pretty formulaic and not always accurate. But it also feels like the beginning of a revolution.
For many users of the new technology, wonderment quickly turned to alarm. How many jobs will this kill? Will this empower nefarious actors and further corrupt our public discourse? How will this disrupt our education system? What is the point of learning to write essays at school when AI — which is expected to get exponentially better in the near future — can do that for us?
Stephen Marche, writing in The Atlantic last month, declared "The College Essay Is Dead." He paints ChatGPT and the AI revolution as part of an existential crisis for the humanities. "The essay, in particular the undergraduate essay, has been the center of humanistic pedagogy for generations," Marche writes. "It is the way we teach children how to research, think, and write. That entire tradition is about to be disrupted from the ground up."
Edward vs The Machine
After the fall semester ended, Edward traveled home to Toronto for the holidays. He hung out with his family. He watched Netflix. But he couldn't shake thoughts about the monumental challenges confronting humanity due to rapidly advancing AI.
And then he had an idea. What if he applied what he had learned at school over the last couple years to help the public identify whether something has been written by a machine?
Edward already had the know-how and even the software on his laptop to create such a program. Ironically, this software, called GitHub Co-Pilot, is powered by GPT-3. With its assistance, Edward was able to create a new app within three days. It's a testament to the power of this technology to make us more productive.
On January 2nd, Edward released his app. He named it GPTZero. It basically uses ChatGPT against itself, checking whether "there's zero involvement or a lot of involvement" of the AI system in creating a given text.
When Edward went to bed that night, he didn't expect much for his app. "When I put this out there, I just thought maybe a few dozen people at best might try it," Edward says. "I was not expecting what happened."
When Edward woke up, his phone had blown up. He saw countless texts and DMs from journalists, principals, teachers, you name it, from places as far away as France and Switzerland. His app, which is hosted by a free platform, became so popular it crashed. Excited by the popularity and purpose of his app, the hosting platform has since granted Edward the resources needed to scale the app's services to a mass audience.
Fighting The Hallmarkization Of Everything
Edward says he has a couple primary motivations for creating GPTZero. The first is transparency. "Humans deserve to know when something is written by a human or written by a machine," he says.
Along these lines, one obvious application for GPTZero is to help teachers identify whether their students are plagiarizing their essays from ChatGPT. "Teachers from all over the world are worried about this," Edward says.
Some in the technology world, however, are not quite sold that copying and pasting what ChatGPT spits out is even a problem. "'ChatGPT plagiarism,' is a complete non-issue," tweeted Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist and Internet pioneer, earlier this month. "If you can't out-write a machine, what are you doing writing?"
Elon Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, recently tweeted, "It's a new world. Goodbye homework!" in response to reports that schools were imposing strict new measures against ChatGPT plagiarism.
Of course, these are just flippant tweets. But it really does feel like we've entered a new world where we're being forced to re-evaluate our education system and even the value — or at least the method — of teaching kids how to write.
Many of us lost our will — even our ability — to remember phone numbers when cell phones came along. By outsourcing memorization to a machine, we've become dependent on it to call our friends and family. You might say it's been for the best, and it's freed our minds to concentrate on other matters. Or you might consider it a kind of de-evolution, a dumbing down of our mental abilities. Don't lose your cell phone!
Now humanity faces the prospect of an even greater dependence on machines. It's possible we're heading towards a world where an even larger swath of the populace loses their ability to write well. It's a world in which all of our written communication might become like a Hallmark card, written without our own creativity, personality, ideas, emotions, or idiosyncrasies. Call it the Hallmarkization of everything.
But at least when we give people Hallmark cards, people know we're giving them Hallmark cards. If you use ChatGPT to write your friend a congratulations or an apology, they might not even know it was written by a machine.
Which brings us to the other purpose that Edward envisions for his app: to identify and incentivize originality in human writing. "We're losing that individuality if we stop teaching writing at schools," Edward says. "Human writing can be so beautiful, and there are aspects of it that computers should never co-opt. And it feels like that might be at risk if everybody is using ChatGPT to write."
Edward is no Luddite. He isn't trying to stop AI in its tracks. He believes that's impossible, and, he says, he opposes blanket bans against use of ChatGPT, like the one recently announced by New York City public schools. Students, he believes, will use the technology anyway. And, he says, it's important they're able to learn how to use it. They need to be aware of the technological changes that are sweeping our world. "It doesn't make sense that we go into that future blindly," he says. "Instead, you need to build the safeguards to enter that future."
As for his plans after college, Edward says, the excitement — and clear demand — for his new app has convinced him that he should concentrate on making it a better, more accurate product. "If you're a teacher or an educator, our team — which right now is just me and my best friend from college, who just joined yesterday — we would love to talk to you," Edward says.
So if you encounter some text that you suspect may be written by a machine, maybe run it through Edward's new app? You can find it at GPTZero.me.
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LIV Golf adds tournaments at 2 former PGA Tour courses
By DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Saudi-funded LIV Golf has added three more tournaments to its 2023 schedule. Two of them are at courses and markets the PGA Tour has left. LIV will go to the Gallery Golf Club north of Tucson, Arizona, in March. That’s where the Accenture Match Play was held in 2007 and 2008 before moving to another course at Dove Mountain. In August, LIV goes to The Greenbrier in West Virginia. That held a PGA Tour event from 2010 to 2019. Also on the schedule is Cedar Ridge in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It last hosted an LPGA Tour event from 2004 to 2009. | 2022-12-15T00:08:30+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/sports/ap-national-sports/2022/12/14/liv-golf-adds-tournaments-at-2-former-pga-tour-courses/ |
Senate negotiators have reached a final agreement on a narrow bipartisan gun safety bill that could become the first gun control measure to pass Congress in decades.
The legislation resulted from negotiations among 10 Republicans and 10 Democrats, and it is expected to have more than enough votes to overcome the 60-vote threshold to clear a filibuster in the Senate, which is divided 50-50 between the parties. House leaders are expected to quickly begin consideration of the bill and President Biden has encouraged Congress to pass the bill without delay.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., have both announced support for the bill and both say they will vote for it.
"Our colleagues have put together a commonsense package of popular steps that will help make these horrifying incidents less likely while fully upholding the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens," McConnell said in a statement.
Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., spent several days racing to finish the legislation in time for the Senate to begin voting this week.
"Our legislation will save lives and will not infringe on any law-abiding American's Second Amendment rights," the senators said in a joint statement. "We look forward to earning broad, bipartisan support and passing our commonsense legislation into law."
The result is a breakthrough on a narrow attempt to prevent mass shootings like the one that happened last month at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The bill would expand background checks for prospective gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21. The new process would incentivize states to provide access to previously sealed juvenile records and could add several days to the waiting period before a purchase can be completed.
"States will control what [juvenile records] they're willing to share. But our legislation provides an incentive for states to upload the records that reflect on the suitability of the individual to purchase a firearm," said Cornyn, the lead GOP negotiator, on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.
Another major change is an expansion of an existing law that prevents people convicted of domestic abuse from owning a gun. Democrats have tried for years to expand the definition of who qualifies for the ban to include dating partners, rather than just spouses and former spouses.
The gun safety legislation defines "dating relationship" as "a relationship between individuals who have or have recently had a continuing serious relationship of a romantic or intimate nature."
However, it also includes a new section to allow people who are restricted from gun access under the legislation to have their gun rights restored if their record remains clean for five years.
The legislation also includes incentives for states to create so-called red flag laws that would allow law enforcement or other entities to petition a court to remove guns from a person deemed to be a threat to themselves or others. The money is structured as a crisis intervention grant that can apply to red flag laws but also to states that add mental health courts and drug courts.
Republicans had insisted that public safety grants be available to all states, not just the ones that pass red flag laws and Murphy, the lead Democratic negotiator, said those funds would be available for some other court-based interventions.
"This bill will be too little for many. It'll be too much for others. But it is not a box checking exercise," said Murphy. "This bill is not window dressing. This bill is going to save lives."
Lawmakers also agreed to include further funding for tele-health programs to allow expanded access to mental health across the country, money for school safety and training, and community-based mental health programs.
The agreement falls far short of Biden's calls for comprehensive gun control legislation, including a ban on assault rifles and universal background checks. But many Democrats and gun safety advocates are celebrating the bipartisan legislation as an important incremental step — with Democrats promising further action on guns in the future.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Danish Energy Agency says one of two ruptured natural gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea appears to have stopped leaking natural gas.
The agency said on Twitter on Saturday that it had been informed by the company operating the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that pressure appears to have stabilized in the pipeline, which runs from Russia to Germany.
“This indicates that the leaking of gas in this pipeline has ceased,” the Danish Energy Agency said.
Undersea blasts that damaged the Nord Stream I and 2 pipelines this week have led to huge methane leaks. Nordic investigators said the blasts have involved several hundred pounds of explosives.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused the West of sabotaging the Russia-built pipelines, a charge vehemently denied by the United States and its allies.
The U.S.-Russia clashes continued later at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council in New York called by Russia on the pipelines attacks and as Norwegian researchers published a map projecting that a huge plume of methane from the damaged pipelines will travel over large swaths of the Nordic region.
Speaking Friday in Moscow, Putin claimed that “Anglo-Saxons” in the West have turned from imposing sanctions on Russia to “terror attacks,” sabotaging the pipelines in what he described as an attempt to “destroy the European energy infrastructure.”
In Washington, U.S. President Joe Biden dismissed Putin’s pipeline claims as outlandish.
“It was a deliberate act of sabotage. And now the Russians are pumping out disinformation and lies. We will work with our allies to get to the bottom (of) precisely what happened,” Biden promised. "Just don’t listen to what Putin’s saying. What he’s saying we know is not true.”
U.S. officials said the Putin claim was trying to shift attention from his annexation Friday of parts of Ukraine.
“We’re not going to let Russia’s disinformation distract us or the world from its transparently fraudulent attempt to annex sovereign Ukrainian territory,” White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said Friday.
European nations, which have been reeling under soaring energy prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have noted that it is Russia, not Europe, that benefits from chaos in the energy markets and spiking prices for energy.
The U.S. has long opposed to the two pipelines and had repeatedly urged Germany to halt them, saying they increased Europe's energy dependence on Russia and decreased its security. Since the war in Ukraine began in February, Russia has cut back supplies of natural gas sent to Europe to heat homes, generate electricity and run factories. European leaders have accused Putin of using “energy blackmail” to divide them in their strong support for Ukraine.
The attacks on the pipelines have prompted energy companies and European governments to beef up security around energy infrastructure.
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IRVING, Texas, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) ("Darling" or the "Company") today announced the closing of its private offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of its unsecured senior notes due 2030 (the "notes"). The notes bear interest at 6% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on December 15, 2022. The notes will initially be guaranteed by all of Darling's subsidiaries that are "restricted subsidiaries" under the indenture, other than foreign subsidiaries, that are borrowers under or that guarantee Darling's senior secured credit facilities under its second amended and restated credit agreement dated January 6, 2014, as amended.
Darling intends to use the proceeds from the offering of the notes (i) for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions, repayment of indebtedness and capital expenditures; and (ii) to pay the costs, commissions, fees, and expenses incurred in connection with the offering of the notes (including the initial purchasers' discount). Darling may temporarily apply proceeds to reduce revolving credit indebtedness or invest in cash equivalents, U.S. government securities and other high-quality debt investments pending application of the proceeds.
The notes and related guarantees will be offered in the United States to persons reasonably believed to be "qualified institutional buyers" in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and outside the United States to non‑U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act. The notes and related guarantees will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the notes and related guarantees, nor shall there be any offer to sell, solicitation of an offer to buy or sale of the notes and related guarantees, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) is the largest publicly traded company turning edible by-products and food waste into sustainable products and a leading producer of renewable energy. Recognized as a sustainability leader, the company operates more than 250 plants in 17 countries and repurposes approximately 15% of the world's meat industry waste streams into value-added products, such as green energy, renewable diesel, collagen, fertilizer, animal proteins and meals and pet food ingredients. To learn more, visit darlingii.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the statements. Statements that are not statements of historical facts are "forward-looking" statements and are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as "estimate," "project," "planned," "contemplate," "potential," "possible," "proposed," "intend," "believe," "anticipate," "expect," "may," "will," "would," "should," "could" and similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking" statements. "Forward-looking" statements are based on the Company's current expectations and assumptions regarding its business, the economy and other future conditions. The Company cautions readers that any such "forward-looking" statements it makes are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results may differ materially from anticipated results or expectations expressed in its "forward-looking" statements as a result of a variety of factors, including many that are beyond the Company's control. These factors include, among others, existing and unknown future limitations on the ability of the Company's direct and indirect subsidiaries to make their cash flow available to the Company for payments on the Company's indebtedness or other purposes; global demands for bio-fuels and grain and oilseed commodities, which have exhibited volatility, and can impact the cost of feed for cattle, hogs and poultry, thus affecting available rendering feedstock and selling prices for the Company's products; reductions in raw material volumes available to the Company due to weak margins in the meat production industry as a result of higher feed costs, reduced consumer demand or other factors, reduced volume from food service establishments or otherwise; reduced demand for animal feed; reduced finished product prices, including a decline in fat and used cooking oil finished product prices; changes to worldwide government policies relating to renewable fuels and greenhouse gas emissions that adversely affect programs like the U.S. government's renewable fuel standard, low carbon fuel standards and tax credits for biofuels both in the United States and abroad; possible product recall resulting from developments relating to the discovery of unauthorized adulterations to food or food additives; the occurrence of 2009 H1N1 flu (initially known as "Swine Flu"), highly pathogenic strains of avian influenza (collectively known as "Bird Flu"), severe acute respiratory syndrome ("SARS"), bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("BSE"), porcine epidemic diarrhea ("PED") or other diseases associated with animal origin in the United States or elsewhere, such as the outbreak of African Swine Fever ("ASF") in China and elsewhere; the occurrence of pandemics, epidemics or disease outbreaks, such as the current novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak; unanticipated costs and/or reductions in raw material volumes related to the Company's compliance with the existing or unforeseen new U.S. or foreign (including, without limitation, China) regulations (including new or modified animal feed, Bird Flu, SARS, PED, BSE, ASF or similar or unanticipated regulations) affecting the industries in which we operate or our value added products; risks associated with the DGD Joint Venture, including possible unanticipated operating disruptions and issues relating to the announced expansion project; risks and uncertainties relating to international sales and operations, including imposition of tariffs, quotas, trade barriers and other trade protections imposed by foreign countries; difficulties or a significant disruption in the Company's information systems or failure to implement new systems and software successfully, risks relating to possible third party claims of intellectual property infringement; increased contributions to the Company's pension and benefit plans, including multiemployer and employer-sponsored defined benefit pension plans as required by legislation, regulation or other applicable U.S. or foreign law or resulting from a U.S. mass withdrawal event; bad debt write-offs; loss of or failure to obtain necessary permits and registrations; continued or escalated conflict in the Middle East, North Korea, Ukraine or elsewhere; uncertainty regarding the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and/or unfavorable export or import markets. These factors, coupled with volatile prices for natural gas and diesel fuel, climate conditions, currency exchange fluctuations, general performance of the United States and global economies, disturbances in world financial, credit, commodities and stock markets, and any decline in consumer confidence and discretionary spending, including the inability of consumers and companies to obtain credit due to lack of liquidity in the financial markets, among others, could cause actual results to vary materially from the "forward-looking" statements in this press release or negatively impact the Company's results of operations. Among other things, future profitability may be affected by the Company's ability to grow its business, which faces competition from companies that may have substantially greater resources than the Company. Other risks and uncertainties regarding the Company, its business and the industries in which it operates are referenced from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update its "forward-looking" statements whether as a result of change of circumstances, new events or otherwise.
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Suann Guthrie, Vice President, Investor Relations, Sustainability and Global Communications
Suann.Guthrie@darlingii.com
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The Mississippi Senate on Thursday passed a bill restricting sales of electric cars to franchised dealerships, preventing automakers from selling EVs directly to customers in the state.
The bill, which was introduced by Mississippi House Republicans now heads to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, who has not indicated if he will sign it, the Associated Press reported. The bill sparked debate among Republican lawmakers on the Mississippi Senate floor before passage. Opponents said sales restrictions would interfere with the new-car market, possibly stopping automakers from bringing new jobs to the state, while proponents of the measure said that it would ensure all automakers “play by the same rules,” according to the AP.
This bill is different from one recently introduced in the Wyoming legislature, which aims to encourage the ban EV sales by 2035. The Mississippi bill does nothing to discourage or ban EV sales, but makes their sale possible only through the traditional franchise dealership model.
The bill reignites a debate from roughly a decade ago, when Tesla began opening company-owned showrooms and pushing online sales as an alternative to the traditional franchised dealerships owned and operated by third parties. This led to a state-by-state series of legislative battles between Tesla and dealership lobbyists over changing existing franchise laws to allow direct sales.
Tesla currently sells cars at one brick-and-mortar location in Mississippi, which is classified as a store, not a dealership, allowing the automaker to operate it outside of state franchise laws, the AP noted.
Other startup automakers, such as Lucid, Rivian and Vinfast, have mostly copied Tesla’s approach with company-owned showrooms and an emphasis on online sales. In some cases, that means automakers can’t directly sell the vehicles they are building, or plan to build, in states with strict franchise laws. Acura also aims to conduct only online sales of its electric vehicles.
Tesla ran into this problem after failing to get the Texas legislature to allow direct sales ahead of the ramp-up of its factory near the state capital of Austin. A 2022 report noted that a similar overhaul of franchise laws will be needed for Rivian to sell vehicles built at its second plant in Georgia, scheduled to open in 2024, directly to customers in that state.
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- VW GTI meet leaves Wörthersee due to locals’ sustainability concerns | 2023-03-04T15:16:10+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/automotive/internet-brands/proposed-mississippi-bill-restricts-electric-car-sales-to-franchised-dealerships/ |
LOYALSOCK TOWNSHIP, LYCOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police said they are investigating a credit card theft of over $14,000.
According to reports, the thefts occurred between June 2021 and October 26, 2022.
Pennsylvania State Police believe the suspect used the victim’s credit card to make several purchases racking up a tab of $14,456.95.
Troopers have not named a suspect so it is unknown whether the individual is known to the victim or state police.
State police say they are still investigating this incident. | 2022-11-10T19:39:06+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/crime-courts/psp-investigating-suspect-that-allegedly-ran-up-a-14k-tab-on-mans-card/ |
NEW YORK, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc. ("Innovative Industrial Properties") (NYSE: IIPR) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between May 7, 2020 and April 13, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Innovative Industrial Properties, contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Innovative Industrial Properties includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Innovative Industrial Properties' focus is to be a cannabis company lender rather than a REIT; (2) that the true values of the Company's properties are significantly lower than Innovative Industrial Properties represents; (3) there are existential issues in its top customers; (4) as a result, its top customers may not be able to continue making payments to Innovative Industrial Properties and the Company would face significant issues replacing these customers; and (5) as a result, defendants' statements about its business, operations, and prospects, were materially false and misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 24, 2022
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Austin Peay football player Jeremiah Collins died in a single-car crash in Tennessee Friday, officials said.
Collins, an 18-year-old defensive back, was driving too fast while exiting a highway, and his pickup truck rolled several times before coming to rest in a grassy area, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a news release.
Police said there were no signs of impairment at the crash site, and Collins was treated there. He was then transported to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
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"We are all devastated and heartbroken by the loss of Jeremiah Collins," Austin Peay coach Scotty Walden said in a statement released by the school.
"Jeremiah was an outstanding young man who brought an incredible attitude and energy every day. We grieve with the Collins family for their tragic loss and lift them up in prayer."
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The incoming defensive back was a three-star recruit in Austin Peay's 2023 class. He was born in Louisville, where he played high school football.
He transferred to Oakland High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, for his senior season.
He graduated in the spring.
"All of our thoughts and prayers are with the Collins Family today," Austin Peay athletic director Gerald Harrison said in a statement.
"We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Jeremiah, and we will do everything we can to support his friends, family and teammates at this time."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-07-23T01:00:55+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/sports/national-sports/austin-peay-football-mourns-loss-of-freshman-player-jeremiah-collins-who-died-in-car-crash/article_d44d242c-25ef-5c8a-9b0a-7ed03ba41d76.html |
Annual wheat event in Frankenmuth Feb. 22nd
Register now for the MI Wheat Program’s 11th annual Winter Grower Meeting
The Michigan Wheat Program’s 11th Annual Winter Grower Meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22nd from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Saginaw Valley Research & Extension Center in Frankenmuth. Registration, pre-registration check-in and the tradeshow begin at 8:15 a.m. with the presentations beginning at 9 a.m.
“The goal of the 2023 Annual Grower Meeting is to share production information with growers in the Great Lakes state,” said Jody Pollok-Newsom, executive director of the Michigan Wheat Program. “We’re able to do this through presentations and also our annual tradeshow of industry stakeholders in the wheat industry.”
“We’re sticking with the February meeting date, which has proved very convenient for growers and researchers,” said Jeff Krohn, chairman of the Michigan Wheat Program and an Owendale wheat grower. “The recap of YEN and the presentations on improving wheat yield and quality are very important to wheat growers looking to get more out of their wheat crop. Of course, our program is free of charge to all wheat growers and industry stakeholders.”
The Michigan Wheat Program Annual Meeting will recognize 2022 Michigan Wheat Yield Contest winners, MI Wheat board members and several topics of current interest to growers. The schedule is as follows:
8:15 a.m. – 9 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m. – 9 a.m. Industry Displays
9 a.m. Welcome and Introductions, Jeff Krohn, Michigan Wheat Program Chairman
9:10 a.m. Wacky Weather and What it Means for Wheat, Dr. Jeff Andresen, State Climatologist
10:15 a.m. BREAK – Industry Displays
10:45 a.m. Announcement of New Varieties to be Released, Dr. Eric Olson, MSU Wheat Breeder
11:40 a.m. 2022 Michigan Wheat Yield Contest, Dennis Pennington, MSU Wheat Specialist
12 noon Industry Displays and Lunch
1 p.m. Year #1 of Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network, Dennis Pennington
1:30 p.m. Grower Roundtable Discussion, Dennis Pennington, moderator
2 p.m. MI Wheat Program Update, Jody Pollok-Newsom, MI Wheat Program Executive Director
2:20 p.m. New Production Research for Planting, Dr. Manni Singh, Michigan State University Agronomist
3 p.m. Production Thoughts and Reminders as You Hit the Field in 2023
Dennis Pennington
3:30 p.m. Adjourn, Jeff Krohn, Michigan Wheat Program Chairman
Register now or get more information by clicking here. Meeting attendance is free to wheat growers and stakeholders, but pre-registration is requested to ensure adequate food, seating and handout materials. RUP and CCA credits will be available. Lodging is available at many Frankenmuth-area hotels. | 2023-01-22T17:18:42+00:00 | wsgw.com | https://www.wsgw.com/annual-wheat-event-in-frankenmuth-feb-22nd/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — New IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel delivered a tax-season pledge Tuesday that the agency will use an $80 billion infusion of cash to become faster, more tech-savvy and provide “real-world improvements” to taxpayers.
Werfel, as he was ceremonially sworn in on Tuesday, said he would release a Strategic Operating Plan later this week laying out how the agency will use the money approved in last year’s Inflation Reduction Act
“This is our moment in history to transform the IRS,” said Werfel, who began working at the agency in mid-March.
“We have a great deal of work ahead of us to ensure a more modern and high-performing IRS that provides world-class services to taxpayers,” he said.
Some of the planned improvements include hiring more people to end long call wait times, additional locations for IRS staff to provide in-person service and expanded online accounts, so taxpayers and professionals will be able to address tax issues through electronic means, instead of paper mail.
President Joe Biden nominated Werfel to steer the IRS as it receives the new funding, which has come with much political consternation. Republicans have suggested without evidence that the agency would use the new money to hire an army of tax agents with weapons. They also say the IRS would increase audits on middle-class taxpayers.
Werfel navigated some of that controversy during his February confirmation hearing.
He pledged before senators not to expand tax audits on businesses and households making less than $400,000 per year, as he faced rounds of questions before the Senate Finance Committee on how he would spend the agency’s big new infusion of money. He drew praise for being willing to leave a private consulting job to take on the top job at the troubled agency.
Werfel formerly led Boston Consulting Group’s global public sector practice and has previously served as an acting IRS commissioner.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who presided over Werfel’s swearing in, said in a speech to IRS and Treasury employees that he will be tasked with “dramatically improving taxpayer service and ensuring that large corporations and the wealthy pay the taxes they owe.”
“The IRS will invest in data and analytics to help the agency audit large corporations, high earners, and complex partnerships that have not paid their full bill,” Yellen said. “The technology will be complemented by hiring more top talent – including accountants and attorneys.”
While the administration has showcased the boosting employee ranks with 5,000 new workers and investments in new technology, a March Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report on the 2022 tax season states that the “ongoing backlogs of tax returns and other account work continued to challenge the IRS during the 2022 Filing Season.”
In a March 13 letter to employees, Werfel said “I returned to government to work with you and focus on this tremendous opportunity we have with the resources available under the Inflation Reduction Act.” | 2023-04-05T05:00:23+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/new-irs-leader-promises-faster-easier-tax-filing-process/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of rapper Theophilus London filed a missing persons report with Los Angeles police this week and are asking for the public’s help, saying he hasn’t been seen in months.
London’s family and friends believe someone last spoke to the musician in July in Los Angeles, according to the family’s statement released Wednesday from Secretly, a music label group that has worked with London.
London’s relatives have been trying to determine his whereabouts over the last few weeks and filed a police report earlier this week, the statement said.
Officer Annie Moran, an LAPD spokesperson, confirmed Wednesday that a report for London had been taken. London was not yet listed on the LAPD’s online missing persons database by Wednesday afternoon.
“Theo, your Dad loves you, son,” his father, Lary Moses London, said in the statement. “We miss you. And all your friends and relatives are searching for you. Wherever you are send us some signal. No matter what we will come get you son.”
London, 35, was born in Trinidad and Tobago and later raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York. He was nominated for a 2016 Grammy for best rap performance for a featured spot on Kanye West’s “All Day.” | 2022-12-28T23:03:22+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/themissing/family-files-missing-persons-report-for-rapper-theophilus-london/ |
Motel 6 explores reunions of people and places this summer in a new creative campaign
DALLAS, July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Family and friend reunions bring the most joyful vacations during the summer months (65%), new data from Motel 6 reveals. The leader in economy lodging releases a study and new creative campaign celebrating reunions with the people and places travelers love.
The poll of 2,000 adults traveling this summer revealed a majority (57%) plan to attend a family or friend reunion this summer. The average respondent has not gathered with extended family in four years, so it's no surprise that on average, American travelers will journey nearly 80 miles to reunite with their favorite people and places, while about one-third (32%) will venture more than 100 miles.
"There's nothing quite like a big family or friend gathering and the opportunity to connect with the people and places you love," said Rob Palleschi, CEO of Motel 6. "Whether Motel 6 is part of your journey or the destination, you can count on us to provide a clean, comfortable and affordable place to rest your head at night."
Now more than ever, reunions will look and feel different than in previous years, respondents (51%) say. Americans' reunion invite lists include friends (42%), significant others (39%), neighbors (34%) and pets (36%).
Reunions allow friends and family to re-establish and refresh traditions. The majority (55%) of those attending a family reunion this year look forward to celebrating both old traditions while creating new ones. Almost two-thirds of respondents (64%) are interested in becoming more connected to their family traditions.
The new Motel 6 advertising campaign captures what it means to reunite this summer by featuring a real-life family's reunion story. Their reunion in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. will be showcased via a longform video and advertisements this summer, which can be viewed here. Within the story, the Payne family honors their traditions while preparing family meal favorites ahead of a beach picnic that reconnected 15 family members across three generations.
"Cooking together is our family's way to embody the traditional culture of our roots. We celebrate these roots running deep for generations to come, together," said Stephanie Payne, a participant of the family reunion.
For those hitting the road this summer, check out travel tips and a curated playlist to inspire your upcoming trip on the Open Road blog. Guests can also join the My6 member program which includes exclusive access to the best available rates and expedited booking processes online.
Motel 6 is an economy lodging brand with company-owned and franchised locations throughout the United States and Canada. Motel 6 has used the tagline, "We'll leave the light on for you®" for more than 30 years, earning the chain the highest brand recognition in the economy lodging segment. Motel 6 offers standard amenities including free Wi-Fi Internet access, free local calls, no long-distance access charges and expanded cable channel line-up. Most locations offer guest laundry facilities. For more information, visit www.motel6.com.
Studio 6 helps travelers save more for what they travel for at its more than 125 locations in key extended stay markets in the U.S. such as Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Seattle. The first Studio 6 location opened in El Paso, TX, in 1998 with the transformation of an existing Motel 6, allowing guests to "Extend your stay, not your budget®" as the brand's tagline suggests. The brand was recently named "Home Away From Home" by the Franchise Times' Zor Awards. The studios feature living areas and fully furnished kitchens along with linens and cookware and free Wi-Fi at an inclusive, transparent rate, competitive to the economy extended stay tier. Studio 6 is managed and operated by G6 Hospitality LLC. For more information, visit staystudio6.com.
The survey was commissioned by Motel 6 through SWNS Media Group, who conducted an online survey among n = 2,000 U.S. adults aged 18+ who plan on traveling this summer (with quotas for ethnicity). The survey was conducted on May 20–26 and has a margin of error of +/- 2.2 percentage at a 95% confidence level.
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Christmas tree cutting is one of the most beloved seasonal traditions. It also comes with its own set of laws.
“When cutting down your Christmas tree, you want to be at least 150 feet away from the nearest recreation site, campground or roadway,” Jamie Ollie with the Deschutes National Forest Service said. “You also want to make sure that you’re on national forest lands and that you’re not on private property.”
Trees also have a size limit. They must be under 12 feet and within 20 feet of the nearest tree.
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Christmas tree cutting also requires a permit. You can buy one here.
Ollie says the popular seasonal practice has environmental benefits.
“Forests in central Oregon have historically seen disturbance every five to 15 years, whether that’s a fire regime or any other type of disturbance,” Ollie said. “So when you do come out her and cut down the Christmas tree, you are helping out the forest by removing some of that loading of excess trees in the environment.”
Permits are valid through Dec. 31. | 2022-12-08T04:03:53+00:00 | centraloregondaily.com | https://centraloregondaily.com/oregon-christmas-tree-cutting-rules/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by Republicans to investigate the 2020 election in Wisconsin has appealed a contempt ruling against him related to his response to an open records request and heated appearance in court.
Michael Gableman last week appealed the June 15 order from Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington fining Gableman $2,000 a day until he complies with open records requests from the liberal government watchdog group American Oversight. Remington, in a scathing order, also accused Gableman of unprofessional and misogynistic conduct related to his appearance in court earlier this month where he refused to answer questions and made sarcastic remarks about a female attorney.
Remington also forwarded his contempt order to the committee that disciplines attorneys for possible further action, including suspension or repeal of Gableman's law license.
In his appeal filed Friday, Gableman argued that the penalties handed down were “grossly disproportionate to the violation.” His attorneys also argued that the judge was wrong to deny Gableman's motion to adjourn the contempt hearing and to force him to testify without his attorney present.
His attorneys said the judge mistook Gableman's refusal to testify at the June 10 hearing as his invoking Fifth Amendment rights. Gableman should not have been found in contempt, his attorneys argued.
Gableman has also been subpoenaed by American Oversight to appear at a Thursday court hearing in another open records case filed by the group. It has filed three open records lawsuits against Gableman, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who hired Gableman, and the Assembly.
American Oversight has won a series of victories before Remington and Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn.
Gableman, in his appeal, asked that the case be heard by a three-judge panel in Wisconsin's 2nd District Court of Appeals, which is based in Waukesha.
American Oversight spokesman Clark Pettig said Tuesday that Gableman's appeal was being reviewed and he had no further comment.
Gableman was hired a year ago by Vos, under pressure from Donald Trump to investigate the former president’s loss to President Joe Biden by just under 21,000 votes in Wisconsin. The investigation has cost taxpayers about $900,000 so far. Biden’s victory has survived two recounts, multiple lawsuits, a nonpartisan audit and a review by a conservative law firm.
Gableman has issued two interim reports, but his work has faced a barrage of bipartisan criticism. Vos put his work on hold this spring pending the outcome of lawsuits challenging his ability to subpoena elected officials and others who worked on elections. | 2022-06-21T19:58:31+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Wisconsin-election-investigator-appeals-contempt-17255958.php |
Spirit Airlines said Thursday it was again postponing a shareholder vote on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines to continue talks with Frontier and rival bidder JetBlue Airways.
The vote was delayed from Friday until at least July 15.
It was the third time that Spirit called off a vote on the Frontier deal that is favored by the Spirit board. The delay appeared to indicate that the merger of the two discount airlines lacks shareholder support in the face of a JetBlue bid that is higher in current value.
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said he was encouraged by recent talks with Spirit officials “and are hopeful they now recognize that Spirit shareholders have indicated their clear, overwhelming preference for an agreement with JetBlue.”
Frontier declined to comment.
Florida-based Spirit, the nation’s largest discount airline, struck a deal with Frontier in February and has stuck with it as a bidding war heated up between Denver-based Frontier and New York-based JetBlue.
The zeal of JetBlue’s pursuit has surprised many in the airline industry and been met with skepticism on the stock market. Through Thursday, shares of JetBlue have tumbled 43% since it entered the bidding war, more than any other major U.S. airline. Frontier, now seen as unlikely to get Spirit, has dipped 10% during the same stretch.
JetBlue is offering Spirit shareholders $33.50 in cash, or $3.6 billion. Frontier’s bid is mostly stock and only $4.13 per share in cash. At Frontier’s current stock price, the airline’s bid is worth about $22 per share, or $2.4 billion.
Spirit and Frontier argue that over the long run, their combined company will be worth more than JetBlue’s offer. They also argue that antitrust regulators will block JetBlue from buying Spirit.
JetBlue says it can win antitrust approval, and that Spirit shareholders who believe airline shares will rise can plow the cash they get from JetBlue back into airline stocks. | 2022-07-08T09:46:46+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/business-news/ap-business/spirit-airlines-again-postpones-vote-on-frontier-merger/ |
BOBRYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them.
Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world. Yes, this has to do with the war, and yes, they have the blessing of their local church.
The idea of commemorating the birth of Jesus in December was considered radical in Ukraine until recently, but Russia’s invasion changed many hearts and minds.
In October, the leadership of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, which is not aligned with the Russian church and one of two branches of Orthodox Christianity in the country, agreed to allow faithful to celebrate on Dec. 25.
The choice of dates has clear political and religious overtones in a nation with rival Orthodox churches and where slight revisions to rituals can carry potent meaning in a culture war that runs parallel to the shooting war.
For some people, changing dates represents a separation from Russia, its culture, and religion. People in a village on the outskirts of Kyiv voted recently to move up their Christmas observance.
“What began on Feb. 24, the full-scale invasion, is an awakening and an understanding that we can no longer be part of the Russian world,” Olena Paliy, a 33-year-old Bobrytsia resident, said.
The Russian Orthodox Church, which claims sovereignty over Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and some other Eastern Orthodox churches continue to use the ancient Julian calendar. Christmas falls 13 days later on that calendar, or Jan. 7, than it does on the Gregorian calendar used by most church and secular groups.
The Catholic Church first adopted the modern, more astronomically precise Gregorian calendar in the 16th century, and Protestants and some Orthodox churches have since aligned their own calendars for purposes of calculating Christmas.
The Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine decreed in October that local church rectors could choose the date along with their communities, saying the decision followed years of discussion but also resulted from the circumstances of the war.
In Bobrytsia, some members of the faith promoted the change within the local church, which recently transitioned to being part of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, with no ties to Russia. When a vote was taken last week, 200 out of 204 people said yes to adopting Dec. 25 as the new day to celebrate Christmas.
“This is a big step because never in our history have we had the same dates of celebration of Christmas in Ukraine with the whole Christian world. All the time we were separated,” said Roman Ivanenko, a local official in Bobrytsia, and one of the promoters of the change. With the switch, he said, they are “breaking this connection” with the Russians.
As in all the Kyiv region, Sunday morning in Bobrytsia began with the sound of sirens, but that didn’t prevent people from gathering in the church to attend a Christmas Mass on Dec. 25 for the first time. In the end, there were no attacks reported in the capital.
“No enemy can take away the holiday because the holiday is born in the soul,” the Rev. Rostyslav Korchak said in his homily, during which he used the words “war,” “soldiers,” and “evil” more than “Jesus Christ.”
Anna Nezenko, 65, attended the church in Bobrytsia on every Christmas since the building was inaugurated in 2000, although always on Jan. 7th. She said she did not feel strange doing so Sunday.
“The most important is the God to be born in the heart,” she said.
In 2019, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, granted complete independence, or autocephaly, to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Ukrainians who favored recognition for a national church in tandem with Ukraine’s political independence from the former Soviet Union had long sought such approval.
The Russian Orthodox Church and its leader, Patriarch Kirill, fiercely protested the move, saying Ukraine was not under the jurisdiction of Bartholomew.
The other major branch of Orthodoxy in the country, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, remained loyal to Moscow until the outbreak of war. It declared independence in May, though it remains under government scrutiny. That church has traditionally celebrated Christmas on Jan. 7.
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Arhirova reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. The Associated Press religion correspondent, Peter Smith, contributed from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine: https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine | 2022-12-26T05:03:19+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-some-ukrainians-move-christmas-to-detach-again-from-russia/ |
powell's "Targeted Universalism" Envisions Equity-Based Policies Meeting Needs of All Groups
WASHINGTON , June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading researcher and thinker about strengthening American pluralism john a. powell today received the 2022 Convergence Bridge-Building Leadership Award. Convergence Center for Policy Resolution (Convergence) -- which works to build trust, bridge divides and identify solutions to critical issues and strengthen America's democracy and society, grants the award to one leader each year who demonstrates exceptional bridge-building efforts across ideological and partisan lines and embodies the imperative to bring people together to solve problems.
Presenting the award at today's Convergence Leadership Council Meeting, CEO David Eisner lauds powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, for his storied expertise and leadership in a host of civil society issues of equity and inclusion, and especially for creating and advancing his breakthrough framework of "Targeted Universalism." The Center's primer, "Targeted Universalism: Policy & Practice," offers a roadmap to design policies that can simultaneously meet critical universal needs of all people, while formulating equity-based solutions for groups that have been traditionally marginalized and excluded.
"In our painfully polarized environment, too many can see work to advance the equity and belonging of marginalized communities as a zero-sum approach in which their own critical challenges go unmet and are even exacerbated," Eisner said. "With his brilliant 'Targeted Universalism,' john has envisioned and constructed an evidence-based approach that allows for urgent progress for communities that have been left behind, without that progress coming at the cost of addressing the pain that other communities are currently experiencing. This is bridge-building at its finest, pointing directly toward solutions for some of America's most intractable challenges."
"I am glad to see the rapid growth of the bridge-building community of people and organizations who understand that bringing us together is essential to solving America's toughest challenges," said powell. "We see Targeted Universalism as a way to ensure that the needs of all groups are addressed, including those that are traditionally more favored or resourced, while outgroups who have been neglected are also placed in the center of societal care. We must work as though our fates are intertwined, because they are. Thanks to Convergence for recognizing this as an important contribution to bridge-building, for lifting up the work of the whole team at the Othering and Belonging Institute, and for Convergence's own contributions to bridging divides and fostering solutions through collaboration."
Previous recipients of the Convergence Bridge-Building Leadership Award include Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), Co-chair of the Bipartisan Working Group in Congress (2021), and Congressman Derek Kilmer (D-WA), Chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress and co-chair of the Bipartisan Working Group (2020).
To watch the presentation of the Convergence Bridge-Building Award and to hear powell's discussion with Eisner, tune into the YouTube live stream on Wednesday, June 22 at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT.
At Berkely, in addition to his leadership of the Othering and Belonging Institute, powell holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion and is a Professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies. He was previously the Executive Director at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Ohio State University, and prior to that, the Founder and Director of the Institute for Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota. powell formerly served as the National Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and has taught at numerous law schools including Harvard and Columbia University. He is one of the Co-Founders of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council and serves on the board of several national and international organizations, including More in Common, the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and Open Society Foundations.
Convergence is a national non-profit with locations in Washington, D.C. and the Bay Area that builds trust and bridges divides to solve critical issues and strengthen our democracy and society. Convergence Dialogues convene individuals and organizations with divergent views to understand each other, find common ground, develop groundbreaking, consensus solutions, and build unusual alliances to see those solutions enacted. Dialogues usually address critical national issues in impact focus areas, including economic opportunity, health and wellness, and democracy and society. Learn more at: https://convergencepolicy.org.
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A crew of four astronauts, on a private Axiom Space trip run by SpaceX, has reached the International Space Station. Among them: mission commander Peggy Whitson, 63, and no stranger to orbit.
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A crew of four astronauts, on a private Axiom Space trip run by SpaceX, has reached the International Space Station. Among them: mission commander Peggy Whitson, 63, and no stranger to orbit.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-22T23:19:02+00:00 | publicradioeast.org | https://www.publicradioeast.org/2023-05-22/astronaut-peggy-whitson-unretires-for-a-fourth-trip-to-space |
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the Wall Street Journal's Noemie Bisserbe about French lawmakers, who are expected to vote Thursday on a pension reform plan that has sparked massive protests.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to the Wall Street Journal's Noemie Bisserbe about French lawmakers, who are expected to vote Thursday on a pension reform plan that has sparked massive protests.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-03-16T10:45:39+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-03-16/french-lawmakers-will-vote-on-whether-to-raise-the-countrys-retirement-age |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — On the 75th anniversary of U.N. peacekeeping, the United Nations chief said Thursday that peacekeepers are increasingly working in places where there is no peace and praised the more than 4,200 who have given their lives to the cause of peace since the U.N. authorized its first military deployment in 1948.
It was a day to look back at the successes of peacekeeping from Liberia to Cambodia and its major failures in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, but also to the challenges ahead, including dealing with more violent environments, fake news campaigns, and a divided world that is preventing peacekeeping’s ultimate goal: successfully restoring stable governments.
And it was a day to honor the more than 2 million peacekeepers from 125 countries who have served in 71 operations since the U.N. Security Council sent those first military observers to supervise implementation of Israeli-Arab armistice agreements following their war.
At a ceremony honoring the fallen peacekeepers, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asked the hundreds of uniformed military officers and diplomats to stand for a moment of silence in their memory and then presented medals for the 103 peacekeepers killed in 2022 to ambassadors from their 39 home countries. And at the start of a U.N. Security Council meeting on peace in Africa shortly after, all those in the chamber stood in tribute to peacekeepers who paid the ultimate price.
The secretary-general told the ceremony, after laying a wreath at the Peacekeepers Memorial on the lawn at U.N. headquarters, that what began 75 years ago “as a bold experiment” in the Mideast “is now a flagship enterprise of our organization.” For civilians caught in conflict, he said, peacekeepers are “a beacon of hope and protection.”
But peacekeepers trying to help countries move away from conflict are now “on the front lines in some of the world’s most dangerous places,” he said.
Guterres stressed the need for “a new generation” of regional operations to end conflicts and combat terrorism that are mandated and financed by the U.N.’s 193 member nations.
That has been a major goal of the African Union for years, and the continent’s nations are urging quick action to make this happen.
At the Security Council meeting, there was widespread support for Guterres’ view but differences on how the U.N. should do this.
U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the council that putting AU peace operations “on solid footing is increasingly pressing” and the case for adequate financing is “beyond solid.” The U.N. therefore hopes the council will provide financing from U.N. member states for AU-led peace operations, she said.
Adeoye Bankole, the African Union commissioner for political affairs, peace and security, welcomed “the very constructive and positive thrust” of the secretary-general’s comments.
“We cannot continue to use traditional peacekeeping methods in the face of the complex nature and scope of conflicts that traverse our beloved continent, particularly violent extremism, ideology of hate, terrorism, rebellion and insurgency,” he said.
U.N. peacekeeping operations have grown dramatically. At the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, there were 11,000 U.N. peacekeepers. By 2014, there were 130,000 in 16 far-flung peacekeeping operations. Today, 87,000 men and women serve in 12 conflict areas in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
There have been two kinds of successes, U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said in an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press. Those are the long list of countries that have returned to a reasonable degree of stability with the support of U.N. peacekeeping, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, Angola and Cambodia, and the countries where peacekeepers are not only monitoring but preserving cease-fires like in southern Lebanon and Cyprus.
As for failures, he pointed to the failure of U.N. peacekeepers to prevent the 1994 Rwanda genocide, which killed at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus, and the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia, Europe’s only acknowledged genocide since the Holocaust during World War II.
The U.N.’s reputation has also been tarnished by numerous allegations that peacekeepers charged with protecting civilians sexually abused women and children, including in Central African Republic and Congo. Another high-profile blunder was the cholera epidemic in Haiti that began in 2010 after U.N. peacekeepers introduced the bacteria into the country’s largest river by sewage runoff from their base.
Despite that, Richard Gowan, the International Crisis Group’s U.N. director, said “U.N. peacekeeping has a surprisingly decent track record” and “has done a good job of tamping down crises, protecting civilians and rebuilding broken states in cases from the Suez crisis in the 1950s to Liberia in the 2000s.”
Looking ahead, the U.N.’s Lacroix said the major challenge peacekeeping is facing is the divided international community and especially divisions in the U.N. Security Council, which must approve its missions.
“The result of that is that we’re not able to achieve what I call the ultimate goal of peacekeeping — to be deployed, support a political process that moves forward, and then gradually roll down when that political process is completed,” he said.
Lacroix said peace processes aren’t moving or aren’t going fast enough so the U.N. has to be content with “what I call the intermediate goal of peacekeeping — preserving cease-fires, protecting civilians, we protect hundreds of thousands of them … and doing our best, of course, to support political efforts wherever we can.”
Lacroix pointed to other challenges peacekeepers are facing: more violent and dangerous operating environments and more sophisticated attacks and fake news and disinformation which are “a massive threat to the population and the peacekeepers.” And old and new drivers of conflict — including transnational criminal activities, trafficking, drugs, weapons, the illegal exploitation of natural resources, and the impact of climate change exacerbating competition between herders and farmers — are also having an “absolutely massive influence.”
The Crisis Group’s Gowan told AP it’s pretty clear that the U.N. is “trapped” in some countries like Mali and Congo where there aren’t enough peacekeepers to halt recurring cycles of violence. Some African governments, including Mali’s, are turning to private security providers like Russia’s Wagner Group to fight insurgents, he said.
“I think we should be wary of dumping U.N. operations outright,” Gowan said. “We have learned the hard way in cases like Afghanistan that even heavily armed Western forces cannot impose peace. The U.N.’s track record may not be perfect, but nobody else is much better at building stability in turbulent states.” | 2023-05-26T10:18:44+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/ap-un-peacekeeping-on-75th-anniversary-successes-failures-and-challenges-ahead-in-a-divided-world/ |
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The Blackhawks fell to the St. Louis Blues 5-2 at the United Center on Wednesday.
Here are 10 observations from the loss:
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1. The Blackhawks rank 30th in goals per game at 2.53. The Blues rank 32nd at 2.43. So naturally, the two teams combined for seven goals — five of them came in a span of 6:25 during the second period. Go figure, right?
2. The Blackhawks have given up the first goal in 12 of 16 games this season. It was the eighth time they fell behind by two or more goals. Not a great recipe for success.
3. Caleb Jones was on the ice for all five goals against. Alec Regula was on the ice for three of them. They really struggled as a pairing, and head coach Luke Richardson separated them after St. Louis made it 4-2.
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4. This game was a snoozefest in the first period. Things really opened up in the second, with both teams trading chances like crazy. The Blackhawks were outshot 18-10 in the middle frame and just couldn't muster any offense in the third period. The shorthanded goal against in the second period wasn't ideal.
5. Arvid Soderblom made his fifth start — sixth appearance — of the season, and the Blackhawks did him no favors in this game. I don't think you can blame him for any of the five goals against.
6. Andreas Athanasiou was reunited with Max Domi and Patrick Kane, and he snapped his four-game point streak and six-game goal drought by finding the back of the net twice. The Blackhawks need him to get going again.
7. Jonathan Toews' faceoff heater continued. He won his first 13 faceoffs and finished with 18 wins and only five losses for a win percentage of 78.3. He's now won 71 of his last 90 faceoffs over the last four games for a win percentage of 78.9. Unbelievable.
8. Jordan Kyrou registered a goal and an assist in this game, but he had a really tough start to the season with a -17 rating through 13 games for the Blues, which ranked dead last among all NHL skaters. To put a more positive spin on it, he would've run away with The Masters with that kind of number.
9. The Blues absolutely dominated the Blackhawks 6-0 in the final preseason game, which was the dress rehearsal for both teams. Who would've thought Chicago would be ahead of St. Louis in the standings 20 percent into the regular season?
10. The Blues have won four in a row and have a +7 goal differential over that span. They previously lost eight straight games and had a -26 goal differential during that stretch. Are they turning a corner?
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Capitalizing on the TikTok Cloud Bread craze, Which Wich is giving guests the opportunity to make any Wich into a Cloud'WICH
DALLAS, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Which Wich® Superior Sandwiches is giving guests a new choice with the unveiling of the all-new Cloud'WICH. Created with an exclusive partnership in the sandwich space with The Cloud Bread Company, customers can now order their favorite Wich on healthy, great-tasting Cloud Bread.
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Reverend Dr. Wayne L. Moore, President and Pastor of Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, joined us today to discuss the church’s Emancipation Proclamation Services.
The services will be held on Monday, January 2 at Olivet Missionary Baptist Church at 4141 N. High School Road in Indianapolis. The church invites the faith-based community at large to discuss the state of our state, city, and national government.
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(AP) – As investigators dig deeper into the law enforcement response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a host of disturbing questions remain about what officers on the scene knew as the deadly attack was unfolding.
Did they know children were trapped in a classroom with the gunman? Was that potentially critical information relayed to the incident commander on the scene? And did officers challenge the commander’s decision not to promptly storm the classroom?
Authorities have not released audio of the 911 calls or radio communications but have confirmed dispatchers received panicked 911 calls from students trapped inside the locked classroom with the gunman while officers waited in a hallway outside.
In an apparent breakdown in communications, Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez said Thursday that the commander overseeing police at the crime scene, school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, was never informed that children were calling 911 from inside the school.
Gutierrez told The Associated Press on Friday that the state agency investigating the shooting determined Arredondo was not carrying a police radio as the massacre unfolded.
Arredondo also has come under criticism for not ordering officers to immediately breach the classroom and take down the gunman. Steven McCraw, the head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that Arredondo believed the active shooting had turned into a hostage situation, and that the chief made the “wrong decision.”
Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in the attack last week at Robb Elementary, the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade. Seventeen others were injured. The funerals began this week.
Arredondo has not responded to repeated interview requests from The Associated Press, and telephone messages left at the school police headquarters were not returned.
There have been other cases in which officers on the scene of a crime were not relayed critical information by a police dispatcher, often because the dispatcher wasn’t following protocols, said Dave Warner, a retired police officer and an expert at the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch.
He cited a 2009 domestic disturbance call in Pittsburgh in which a woman told a 911 operator that her son was armed. That information was never relayed to responding officers. When they arrived, the man opened fire, ultimately killing three officers and seriously wounding two.
“It’s an old case, but it’s still very relevant today,” Warner said.
Protocols for 911 dispatchers handling calls in active-shooter situations also specifically caution against changing a law enforcement response based solely on the amount of time that has elapsed since shots were last heard, Warner said.
Warner said those protocols were developed in part as a result of the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, where a student killed 32 people.
In that case, the gunman first killed two people at a dormitory. Police and school authorities thought that the gunman had fled the campus and that the danger had passed. But he instead moved on to another part of campus a couple of hours later and continued his murderous rampage.
Warner said the protocols stress that dispatchers should not think a shooting is over “just because that caller can no longer see the shooter or hear shots being fired.”
The protocols also outline key questions for 911 dispatchers to ask callers in active-shooter cases, including the types of weapons involved, the number and location of suspects and whether the caller can safely evacuate the building.
The gunman in Uvalde, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, spent roughly 80 minutes inside the school before law enforcement officers killed him, according to an official timeline.
Since the shooting, law enforcement and state officials have struggled to present an accurate account of how police responded, sometimes providing conflicting information or withdrawing some statements hours later.
Many of those details are likely to become clearer after reviewing 911 calls and police radio communications, said Fritz Reber, a 27-year veteran and former captain with the Chula Vista, California, Police Department who has studied 911 dispatch systems.
Call takers at a 911 center typically relay information from callers in writing to a dispatcher, who then passes it along to officers in the field over the radio.
On the scene of major events, a specific radio channel is typically established so that all local, state and federal agencies can communicate with one another, Reber said. It is not clear whether that was done in Uvalde.
Reber said one reason information may not be relayed by dispatchers to officers on the ground is that dispatchers don’t want to overload the channel with details they assume police on the scene would already know.
“The assumption is the officers are there and will know more about what’s going on than the people calling 911,” he said.
Thor Eells, former commander of a 16-member SWAT team in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and director of the National Tactical Officers Association, said another key question is how many people were staffing the 911 call center covering Uvalde.
“A lot of 911 calls were being placed, and in my experience that can lead to information overload,” he said. “When the 911 call center is being overwhelmed, it is extremely difficult to make sure you have a timely flow of information.”
There have been communication breakdowns during other mass shootings in Texas, and experts say smaller, regional dispatch centers are often inundated with calls during a major emergency.
Police communications were a problem in 2019 when a gunman shot and killed seven people and wounded more than two dozen during a rampage in Odessa, Texas.
Authorities said 36-year-old gunman Seth Aaron Ator called 911 before and after the shootings, but a failure in communication between agencies — they were not all operating on the same radio channel — slowed the response. Ator was able to cover about 10 miles before officers shot and killed him. | 2022-06-03T20:41:29+00:00 | upmatters.com | https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/what-did-police-know-as-the-texas-school-shooting-unfolded/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A year and a half after Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, Donald Trump is still pushing for decertifying Biden’s win, particularly in Wisconsin.
One of the loudest advocates in the battleground state, a Republican state lawmaker who is running for governor, wants the Legislature to rescind Biden’s 10 Electoral College votes from Wisconsin. The resolution on decertification that he hopes to submit in August claims, despite the evidence, that there was widespread fraud in the election. He said he is not seeking to undo victories by anyone else in 2020, including his own race.
Legal experts, including Republican attorneys, say there is no legal means to decertify the past election and no evidence to support such action.
Nevertheless, decertification continues to be a rallying cry among many Republicans in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Here’s a look at what’s happening.
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IS DECERTIFICATION POSSIBLE?
Trump continues to make baseless claims about widespread fraud in the 2020 election, even though dozens of lawsuits have failed and multiple reviews, recounts and audits have upheld Biden’s win.
Trump’s latest effort to reverse his loss is focused on Wisconsin, where Biden beat him by about 21,000 votes. The Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling this month, said absentee ballot drop boxes are illegal. Those are secure containers that absentee voters can use, usually set up at such locations as government buildings. An Associated Press survey of state election officials nationwide showed that an expanded use of drop boxes due to the coronavirus pandemic did not lead to any widespread problems, including in Wisconsin.
Trump and his supporters argue the recent state Supreme Court ruling means ballots cast in drop boxes in Wisconsin in 2020 were invalid.
“When the ballot drop boxes were used illegally, anything and all things that went into them made them null and void the moment they went into the box,” said Wisconsin state Rep. Tim Ramthun, a candidate for governor, when arguing for his resolution to decertify the election.
Not true, said law professor Rick Hasen, director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at the UCLA Law School. The court ruling does not apply retroactively, and even if it somehow did, there is no mechanism in the Constitution for decertifying an election after Electoral College ballots have been certified, he said.
“The whole theory is ludicrous,” Hasen said. “Even accepting the idea that the use of most drop boxes was illegal in 2020, that would do nothing to call into question the validity of the votes that were cast through drop boxes. There’s been no indication whatsoever that drop boxes were used to facilitate any amount of fraud.”
Edward B. Foley, a law professor who heads The Ohio State University’s election law center, said the claims don’t seem serious from a legal perspective.
“The presidential election is the one where it’s most clear that decertification is impossible,” Foley said. “Once a president is inaugurated, impeachment is the only way to remove the incumbent president from office.”
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WHAT DOES TRUMP SAY?
Trump has argued that it would have been impossible for other Republicans to win in 2020 and for him to lose.
“People that thought they were going to lose races, they won races — Republicans,” Trump told The Associated Press in a telephone interview last December. “And they say the only reason they won is because I was at the top of the ticket. I brought people in like they’ve never seen before, and they won a race that they didn’t think they were going to win.”
Earlier this month, he posted on social media and targeted Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican who is not in favor of decertification. Trump posted that the court’s ruling meant it was “time to act!”
“Robin, don’t let the voters of Wisconsin down!” Trump wrote.
Trump then personally pushed for it in a phone call with Vos.
“He would like us to do something different in Wisconsin,” Vos told WISN-TV about the conversation. “I explained it’s not allowed under the Constitution. He has a different opinion.”
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WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHER RACES?
Trump and his supporters pushing for decertification are not trying to overturn the results of any other races on the 2020 ballot, including scores of them won by Republicans.
Drop boxes also were used in the 2016 election, which Trump won. But no one is calling for those results to be overturned. When asked why, Ramthun, the state lawmaker pushing for decertification, said, “That’s an interesting question.”
He said he wanted to wait and see what happened with his resolution to undo the 2020 election. The two other Republican candidates running for governor are not calling for decertification.
When asked why he is pushing to decertify only the presidential results and not every other race that was on the 2020 ballot, Ramthun said that was the only statewide contest that year and because the Electoral College applies only to the presidential race.
Foley, the Ohio State law professor, said he was reluctant to even discuss Ramthun’s argument because it was so ridiculous.
“That’s obviously not logical or theoretically consistent,” he said. “If there’s something wrong with a ballot that’s put in a drop box, it affects everything on the ballot.”
There are strict rules and timelines for how and when to bring challenges, and that time has long passed, Foley said.
An Associated Press review in 2021 of all cases of potential voter fraud in the six battleground states where Trump disputed his loss found just 31 cases in Wisconsin, representing about 0.15% of Biden’s margin of victory in the state. To date, 24 people have been charged with election fraud-related crimes stemming from the 2020 election in Wisconsin.
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WHAT ARE OTHER REPUBLICANS SAYING?
Wisconsin is not the only place where prominent Republicans are calling for decertification.
In Arizona last week, Republican secretary of state candidate and state Rep. Mark Finchem tweeted “TRUMP WON.” He called for decertifying results in two counties won by Biden and a third that Trump won but where a man was convicted for illegally collecting four ballots early in the 2020 primary.
Another Republican, Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers, testified at a June meeting of the congressional Jan. 6 committee about phone calls from Trump and his allies asking him to decertify Arizona’s legitimate electors and replace them. He made no such effort. Bowers said he repeatedly asked Trump’s attorneys to show evidence of widespread fraud, but they never provided any.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also rejected Trump’s call to “find 11,780” votes that could flip the state to prevent Biden’s victory. Georgia House Speaker David Ralston said in January 2021 that a week after the election Republicans lawmakers there had been discussing fraud and the possibility of a “redo.” And I said, ‘Well I’ll tell you one race you’re not going to redo, and that’s mine.”
He also noted that Georgia’s election results had been subject to three counts, an audit and at least six lawsuits that had all been dismissed: “Which kind of begs the question: Well, if there were in fact significant wrongdoing, would it not have been disclosed?”
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Associated Press writer Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed to this report. | 2022-07-26T21:15:34+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/explainer-whats-behind-efforts-to-decertify-2020-election/ |
WASHINGTON – The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot is returning to prime time with a Thursday evening hearing that will examine the three-hour plus stretch when Donald Trump failed to act as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
The committee is racing to gather newly emerging evidence and the session could be the final one in a series of public hearings that began in early June. A lawyer for former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, who faces criminal charges after months of defying a congressional subpoena, told the committee over the weekend that Bannon may now be willing to testify, according to committee members.
“I expect that we will be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him,” said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif. She and other committee members said they want to hear from Bannon in a deposition, with sworn testimony.
Thursday's hearing will be the first in the prime-time slot since the June 9 debut that was viewed by 20 million people. A hearing Tuesday will focus on the plotting and planning of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, by white nationalist groups such as the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.
Investigators are digging deeper into the mounds of evidence collected so far about the role extremist groups played in the deadly insurrection and what the former president was doing as the violence ensued down the street from the White House.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who will lead Thursday's hearing with Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., described the upcoming testimony as key to providing an extensive timeline of what Trump did and did not do in those critical hours on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021. That includes Trump's tweet criticizing Vice President Mike Pence for lacking “courage” as angry protesters outside the Capitol were heard chanting “Hang Mike Pence” for not challenging Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.
“We want to show the American people what was the president doing during that time,” Kinzinger said Sunday. “The rest of the country knew that there was an insurrection. The president obviously had to have known there was an insurrection. So where was he? What was he doing? It’s a very important hearing. Pay attention. Because I think it goes to the heart of what is the oath of a leader.”
News of the hearing comes as Congress returns to Washington after a two-week recess. Lawmakers on the committee had indicated in mid-June there would be no more hearings until July, but in late June they held a surprise hearing for the testimony of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
Her explosive testimony provided the most compelling evidence yet that Trump could be linked to a federal crime. Since then, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans has seen an influx of new information and confidential tips.
Tuesday's hearing will explore efforts to assemble the mob on the National Mall and then organize the march down Pennsylvania Avenue, where some rioters — armed with pipes, bats and bear spray — charged into the Capitol, quickly overrunning the overwhelmed police force. More than 100 police officers were injured, many beaten, bloodied and bruised, that day.
Lawmakers also plan on examining the financing of the various rallies and gatherings around Washington that were planned that day.
Bannon’s apparent turnabout in testifying comes as he faces a criminal trial this month on two counts of contempt of Congress for defying the committee’s subpoena. He has argued that his testimony is protected by Trump’s claim of executive privilege, a claim the committee has countered as dubious because Trump had fired Bannon from the White House in 2017 and Bannon was thus a private citizen when he was consulting with Trump in the run-up to the riot.
The committee has said there is evidence that Bannon “had specific knowledge about the events planned for Jan. 6 before they occurred." It cited as an example comments that he made on his podcast the day before the riot.
“It’s not going to happen like you think it’s going to happen. OK, it’s going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is strap in,” Bannon said in that podcast. “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. ... So many people said, ‘Man, if I was in a revolution, I would be in Washington.’ Well, this is your time in history.”
Kinzinger spoke on ABC's “This Week" and Lofgren was on CNN's “State of the Union.”
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Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, contributed to this report. | 2022-07-10T18:32:22+00:00 | ksat.com | https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2022/07/10/jan-6-panel-sets-prime-time-hearing-on-trump-awaits-bannon/ |
McNeill Brings a Proven Record Scaling Software Businesses into Large Enterprises
VANCOUVER, BC, March 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Conexiom, the only platform that maximizes the efficiency of trade document workflows, today announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed John McNeill as Chief Executive Officer. McNeill, a 25-year internet technology industry veteran, most recently served as CEO of Phlexglobal, an electronic trial master file services company for pharma, biotech & Medtech industries. He will assume day-to-day leadership of Conexiom and join its Board of Directors.
"We are thrilled to have someone of John McNeill's caliber and track record in scaling market-leading software businesses step in to lead Conexiom. John's experience and background position him to build on the company's momentum and take advantage of the market opportunities ahead. McNeill is an inspirational leader with a deep customer focus. He's also a strong operator who excels at understanding the big picture while building organizational capability," said Mark Pierce, Chairman of the Board and Operating Partner at Luminate Capital Partners.
Before joining Conexiom, while serving as CEO, McNeill successfully led the sale of Phlexglobal to Pharmalex in early 2022. He then stayed on in a dual role, helping to integrate the two companies as Phlexglobal CEO and also serving as interim Chief Digital Officer for Pharmalex as they were going through their own sale process, which completed in late 2022. Prior to that he spent seven years at Sparta Systems where he ultimately served as the President, leading sales, professional services, customer success and marketing. During his tenure at Sparta, John saw them through two transactions: one in 2014 to Thoma Bravo and another in 2017 to New Mountain Capital. McNeill has a deep understanding of how to transform emerging businesses into world-class enterprises and how to grow and inspire talented teams.
"I am incredibly excited to join the Conexiom family and to help lead the company to actualize its extensive potential to serve more customers through organic growth and an incredibly strong product-market fit," said McNeill. "There is an exceptionally talented team at Conexiom that is focused on taking decisive actions to transform the business, continuing to innovate our products in new and diverse ways, and unlocking future growth opportunities."
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Conexiom is the only platform that leverages proprietary Trade Document Automation technology to ensure that it delivers automation with 100% data extraction accuracy, transformed with predetermined business rules and logic, and delivered directly to any ERP. Conexiom streamlines the processing of emailed purchase orders, AP invoices, and order acknowledgements. Manufacturers and distributors across the globe, such as Genpak, Rexel Canada, and Werner Electric, trust Conexiom to create resilient operations that scale, drive growth, reduce costs, and build frictionless relationships with their customers and suppliers.
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Tigres striker and 2022 Clausura leading scorer Andre-Pierre Gignac was left out of Liga MX's 25-man roster for the MLS All-Star Game at Allianz Field on Aug. 10, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Sources told ESPN Mexico on Wednesday that Gignac opted out of the exhibition in order to avoid possible regulatory problems due to being unvaccinated for COVID-19. Last month, Gignac was also unavailable for a Tigres friendly in San Antonio, Texas, and Liga MX's Balon de Oro awards in Los Angeles.
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Another report from Milenio cited a source at Tigres that said: "Andre is not the only player in Liga MX who is not vaccinated" and that the move was a "personal decision" from the player.
The 36-year-old France striker took to Instagram and posted a story that read: "Good morning. On the topic that came up today, I want to clarify that I spoke with the [Tigres] board and asked them to respect this matter, which for me is a point of belief, from personal development and something that comes from my childhood and my origin. I appreciate the support and respect for my decision on this issue, which is 100% personal. Thank you very much."
Liga MX responded later on Wednesday with a statement that said it "respects the reasons why Andre-Pierre Gignac, Tigres player, will not attend the All-Star Game."
Earlier this month, MLS named its 26-man roster for the upcoming All-Star Game. In last year's first meeting between the two leagues in the exhibition match, MLS defeated Liga MX 3-2 on penalties after the game finished 1-1 in regulation time at LAFC's Banc of California Stadium.
The first 14 players from Liga MX's roster were selected through the 2021-22 Balon de Oro awards, with the rest chosen by Liga MX All-Star head coach Diego Cocca from Atlas. A 26th player will be added by league president Mikel Arriola.
Liga MX All-Star roster
Goalkeepers: Camilo Vargas (Atlas), Oscar Ustari (Pachuca)
Defenders: Kevin Alvarez (Pachuca), Diego Barbosa (Atlas), Luis Reyes (Atlas), Brayan Angulo (Toluca), Hugo Nervo (Atlas), Lisandro Lopez (Club Tijuana), Matheus Doria (Santos Laguna), Jesus Angulo (Tigres)
Midfielders: Aldo Rocha (Atlas), Luis Chavez (Pachuca), Erik Lira (Cruz Azul), Fernando Beltran (Chivas), Alvaro Fidalgo (Club America)
Forwards: Julian Quinones (Atlas), Angel Mena (Leon), Aviles Hurtado (Pachuca), Alexis Vega (Chivas), Julio Furch (Atlas), Juan Dinenno (Pumas), German Berterame (Monterrey), Uriel Antuna (Cruz Azul), Jordan Carrillo (Santos Laguna), Heriberto Jurado (Necaxa) | 2022-07-20T23:09:09+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/soccer/liga-mx-all-stars/story/4704026/tigres-andre-pierre-gignac-not-in-liga-mx-all-star-team-to-face-mls |
NEW DELHI (AP) — India and Britain on Friday called on Russia to begin an immediate cease-fire in Ukraine, as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced an expansion of economic and defense ties that could help India reduce its dependence on Moscow.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he and Johnson discussed the situation in Ukraine during a meeting in New Delhi and underscored the importance of diplomacy and dialogue.
Johnson did not pressure Modi to take a tougher stand against Russia over its actions in Ukraine, said Harsh Shringla, India’s foreign secretary.
Modi has called the situation in Ukraine “very worrying” and has appealed to both sides for peace. While India has condemned the killings of civilians in Ukraine, it has so far not criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin, and abstained when the U.N. General Assembly voted this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council.
India was an ally of Moscow during the Cold War but has since sought to maintain ties with both Russia and Western nations.
Johnson used the Hindi language to describe Modi as a “Khaas Dost,” or special friend, and said, “Our relations have never been as strong or as good between us as they are now.’’
He told reporters that the world “faces growing threats from autocratic states which seek to undermine democracy, choke off free and fair trade and trample on sovereignty.”
“Our collaboration on the issues that matter to both our countries, from climate change to energy security and defense, is of vital importance as we look to the future,″ Johnson said.
He said India had come out strongly against killings in Bucha earlier this month, and that Modi had “already intervened several times with Vladimir Putin to ask him what on Earth he is doing and where it is going.”
Modi has responded coolly to pressure from U.S. President Joe Biden and others to curb imports of Russian oil in response to the invasion.
India is the world’s third-largest consumer of oil after the United States and China, over 80% of which is imported. Last month, state-run Indian Oil Corp. bought 3 million barrels of crude from Russia to secure its needs, resisting Western pressure to avoid such purchases.
In the early 1990s, more than 70% of Indian defense equipment was of Soviet origin. India is now diversifying its defense procurement, but experts say up to 60% of its current military equipment was acquired from Russia.
“India has a historic relationship with Russia and everybody respects it,” Johnson said.
India and Britain have agreed to collaborate on the manufacturing of defense equipment, systems, spare parts and components through a transfer of technology and setting up of joint ventures.
Johnson said Britain will issue an open general export license to India, reducing bureaucracy and shortening delivery times for defense procurement.
He said he and Modi also discussed new cooperation on clean and renewable energy, aimed at supporting India’s energy transition away from imported oil and increasing its resilience through secure and sustainable energy.
India welcomed Britain’s commitment to invest $1 billion in climate-related projects in India between 2022 and 2026, according to a joint statement issued after the talks between the leaders.
Johnson said a collaboration between the two countries on energy security, including solar and offshore wind power, will help reduce dependence on imported hydrocarbons.
He said the two countries will try to conclude a free trade deal by October that is expected to double their current $50 billion trade by 2030.
“There are some difficult issues,” he said. “But there are big opportunities, we can get it done. I’m optimistic.”
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Associated Press writer Krutika Pathi contributed to this report. | 2022-04-22T23:45:30+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/britain-to-offer-next-generation-defense-weapons-to-india/ |
Manchester, York Township come out on top in league playoffs
With just under a week before the Tom Kerrigan Memorial Tournament commences, the local participants in this season’s draw have finally been determined.
Those teams already included Central League and York County champion Stoverstown as well as Susquehanna League champion Windsor.
This weekend both Manchester (Central League playoff) and York Township (Susquehanna League playoff) cashed their tickets to the big dance with victories in their respective league playoffs.
Here’s a rundown of the action:
Manchester 4, Jefferson 0: After the Titans pulled out Game 2 to force a winner-take-all Game 3 Saturday, the Indians turned to one of the most dominating pitchers in the CL this season to close out Jefferson.
Jordan Nichols shut down the Titans, limiting the visitors to just four hits while fanning 11 over seven scoreless innings to earn the victory.
Nichols has come up big time after time for the Indians this season. The right-hander is 7-1 with a 1.29 ERA over 65 innings pitched this year. He’s surrendered just 37 hits while fanning 105.
Manchester gave their ace all the run support he would need in the bottom of the second inning. After Joe Capobianco singled to begin the frame, Adam Kipp drove a double to right that plated Capobianco with the game’s first run.
After a walk, Will Kitts drove in Kipp with a single to center to make it 2-0.
The closest the Titans threatened to break up Nichols’ gem came in the sixth. Back-to-back one-out singles by Joe Jasinski and Sam Crater preceded a double steal that moved both runners in to scoring position.
Nichols, however, fanned Tyler Troxel before retiring Jordan Witmer on a comebacker to escape unscathed.
Capobianco, Kipp and Kitts all collected two hits and one RBI apiece off Jefferson starter Jon Kibler, who struck out three in the setback.
After winning the best-of-three series, the Indians now join the Tigers in the Kerrigan Tournament, which begins Saturday.
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York Township 10, Windsor 1: Township jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead against the Cardinals and never looked back Sunday en route to clinching the best-of-five SL series, 3-1.
A leadoff triple by Dennis Porter Jr. set the stage early for YT. Tyler Page singled in Porter before a double off the bat of Stephen Miele put runners on second and third.
Page scored the second run a batter later when Dave Miele’s grounder to short was booted. The third run scored when Robert Leon grounded into a double-play.
Those runs were more than enough for Brenden Petersen, who scattered a walk and six hits over seven innings. The lone run to score off Petersen came in the fifth as a result of an error.
Porter finished with three hits and two RBIs in the victory while Stephen Miele and Andrew Freeburger both collected two hits.
Zach Gettys and Tyler Stabley both registered two hits each for the Cardinals, with Stabley driving in the lone Windsor run.
Unlike Manchester, which was forced to win the CL playoff for a Kerrigan berth, Township had already secured their berth by virtue of making the finals against the regular season champs. | 2022-08-28T22:00:34+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/sports/2022/08/28/manchester-york-township-come-out-top-league-playoffs/7926379001/ |
GUIYANG, China, May 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report by Huanqiu.com:
The Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Metaverse Forum, with the theme "Digital New World and the Future of Intelligence", was successfully held in Guiyang, Guizhou Province on the morning of May 27, 2023. As one of the flagship sessions of the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2023, this forum was hosted by the Organizing Committee of China International Big Data Industry Expo and organized by People's Daily Digital Communication Co., Ltd. This event witnessed the participation of over 300 guests, including representatives from government departments, industry associations, scientific research institutes and leading enterprises from both domestic and international sectors. Through keynote speeches, high-level discussions and results releases, the forum explored the development trends of artificial intelligence and the industrial metaverse. These discussions aimed to promote the establishment of a framework for digital cooperation and contribute to the global sustainable development.
The forum was graced by the presence of esteemed guests including Cui Shixin, Deputy Editor-in-chief of People's Daily; Lu Yongzheng, Member of the Standing Committee and Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee; Wang Jianhua, President of China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association; Wang Yuxiang, Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of the Insurance Association of China; Qaiser Nawab, Founder and Executive Director of Global Strategic Institute for Sustainable Development (GSISD); Yudil Chatim, the Education and Culture Attaché of the Embassy of Indonesia to China; along with other distinguished participants.
During his speech at the forum, Cui Shixin, Deputy Editor-in-chief of People's Daily, emphasized the increasingly prominent role of artificial intelligence within the communication field. He highlighted that artificial intelligence, as a key aspect of digital technology, is driving integrated media development. He also stressed the importance of actively innovating mechanisms to facilitate the seamless integration of elements, transforming artificial intelligence into a "smart driving force" behind the advancement of media integration. Furthermore, he advocated for the creation of innovative mechanisms for intelligent content production, based on intelligent technologies. This, in turn, would enrich the media communication ecosystem driven by intelligent technologies. He also emphasized the need to apply intelligent technologies to support and secure the production of media content as well as strengthen the construction of new mainstream media. By doing so, China's digital economy would experience sound and sustainable development.
Lu Yongzheng, member of the Standing Committee and Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee, delivered a speech in which he shared the development journey of Guizhou Province, which has thrived and transformed through the power of big data. He expressed Guizhou's commitment to constructing a stronger communication bridge, persistently hosting the China International Big Data Industry Expo as a globally recognized event and a world-class platform. Lu Yongzheng emphasized the importance of harnessing the vitality of scientific and technological innovation, leveraging the advantages of being home to the first national key laboratory and the first national technical standard innovation base in the field of big data in China. He stressed the need for integrating the digital and real economies, actively promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, accelerating the concentration of big data industry, and implementing the "Hundreds of Enterprises Leadership" Action Plan and the "Thousands of Enterprises Integration" Empowerment Action Plan. These initiatives are poised to propel Guizhou forward, embracing a vibrant future colored by the realms of big data and cloud technology.
During his speech, Qaiser Nawab, founder and executive director of GSISD, emphasized the importance of considering the ethical dimensions when exploring the realms of artificial intelligence and metaverse. He stressed the need for a strong focus on data privacy, network security and ethics as key priorities in socially responsible science and technology innovations. This emphasis is critical in ensuring the fair and equitable distribution of the benefits derived from these technologies. Qaiser Nawab further highlighted the necessity of building a sustainable, inclusive and people-oriented digital ecosystem. This can only be achieved by safeguarding the rights, interests and trust of all stakeholders involved. By placing a strong emphasis on ethical considerations, it becomes possible to create a digital landscape that benefits society as a whole.
During his speech, Yudil Chatim, the Education and Culture Attaché of the Embassy of Indonesia to China, highlighted the strong foundation and promising prospects for cooperation between China and Indonesia in the field of artificial intelligence and related fields. He emphasized that artificial intelligence goes beyond being a mere technology; it represents a vision for creating a better future for humanity through innovation and cooperation. Yudil Chatim further emphasized the importance of joint efforts between China and Indonesia to promote cooperation and development in artificial intelligence and related fields. This can be achieved by enhancing policy coordination and strategic alignment, expanding practical collaboration to foster mutual benefits, and strengthening the exchange of talent and mutual learning.
Wang Jianhua, president of China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association, highlighted that the realm of artificial intelligence and industrial metaverse represents a comprehensive engineering endeavor encompassing multiple segments. Likewise, Industry-University-Research Institute collaboration serves as a resource-integrated systematic engineering that transcends sectors, regions, industries, disciplines and borders. By enhancing the interaction and cooperation among the government, industries, universities, research institutes and users, the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association has garnered valuable experience in integrating innovation resources. The association has played a pivotal role in establishing innovation platforms, fostering synergies between innovation, industry and talent chains, and nurturing the development of innovative talents.
During the forum, participants engaged in insightful discussions under the theme of "Work Together to Build the Digital Silk Road". Noteworthy speeches were delivered by esteemed individuals, including Wu Qimin, Chairman and General Manager of People's Daily Digital Communication Co., Ltd.; Sheheryar Nafees Zakaria, technical consultant of the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS) ; and Christine Susanna Tjhin, Director of Strategic Research at Gentala Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. These speakers delivered remarkable presentations on a range of topics, including "Formulating a Pattern for Digital Cooperation as a Shared Aspiration", "Digital Corridor within the Belt and Road Initiative", "Exploring Big Data Research and Opportunities in Pakistan" and "Indonesia-China Strategic Partnership 4.0: Advancing an Inclusive and Ethical Digital Order". Their speeches not only provided valuable insights but also offered suggestions for promoting the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Artificial intelligence, as a foundational technology and inherent capability in the digital era, has emerged as an effective tool for enterprises to realize digital transformation. During the keynote speech session titled "Sharing the Future of Intelligence" distinguished speakers shared their valuable insights. Li Anmin, Co-Chairman of China Mobile Communications Association Metaverse Consensus Circle; Xue Chao, an algorithm scientist at JD Explore Academy; Wang Yuan, Vice President of NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd.; and Yan Yanchun, founder and chairman of Shanghai Hill United Health Management Co., Ltd., offered their perspectives on various engaging topics. These included "Promoting High-quality Integrated Development of AI and Industrial Metaverse", "Leveraging New-generation Artificial Intelligence Technology for New Business Formats Integrating Digital and Real Economies", "Empowering Enterprises with Productivity Transformation in the Digital Age through AIGC", and "Unlocking Three Structural Benifits in the Era of Intelligent Civilization Era amid AMW Context".
During the digital product release session, People's Daily Digital Communication Co., Ltd. unveiled its highly anticipated next generation of autonomous and controllable digital smart media broadcasting and control platform. This cutting-edge platform harnesses the power of the Internet, Internet of Things (IoT) and various frontend interaction technologies. Equipped with features such as real-time remote control, hardware status monitoring, online content monitoring, communication effect feedback and other functions, the platform enables multi-dimensional analytical processing of backend big data. This capability allows for the graphical and stereoscopic representation of outdoor building communication through the concept of digital twins.
Additionally, the forum featured insightful dialogues on two key themes: "Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences - Opportunities and Challenges" and "Metaverse Aggregates New Growth Drivers - Integrating Digital and Real Economies Boosts Industrial Development". These dialogue sessions provided a platform for participants to engage in-depth discussions and exchanges regarding the current state and future prospects of artificial intelligence and metaverse industry. Taking into consideration the ongoing development trends, application scenarios and technical characteristics of artificial intelligence and metaverse, the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association and the Blockchain Association for Finance organized the release and opening ceremony of metaverse demonstration results during the forum.At the event site, the application cases of metaverse were showcased, featuring Tangdai Liquor, Nobel Family and Alcohol Wonderland. The attendants were treated to a captivating metaverse world that seamlessly integrated immersive experience, a robust content ecosystem, hyperspace socializing and cutting-edge virtual reality technology.
According to reports, this Forum was support from esteemed organizations including the China Industry-University-Research Institute Collaboration Association (CIUR) Metaverse Technology and Industrial Innovation Platform, Beijing Franchise Equity Exchange, China Mobile Communications Association Metaverse Consensus Circle and Guizhou Tangdai Liquor Co., Ltd.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — FIFA official Arsène Wenger took a shot at World Cup teams who tried to make political statements in Qatar, saying Sunday they lacked focus for their first games.
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Wenger said teams who had a good opening game were mentally ready to focus on the competition and "not on political demonstration.” The former Arsenal manager did not specify which teams he was talking about while speaking during an analysis of group games at a FIFA-hosted media event as Chief of Global Football Development.
Denmark and Germany both under-performed in their first games. The Danes drew 0-0 with Tunisia and the Germans lost to Japan 2-1.
They were among seven European soccer federations at the World Cup who wanted their captains to wear an armband as part of a Dutch diversity and anti-discrimination campaign to expose the host nation’s poor human rights record.
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However, Wenger overlooked the part FIFA played in the dispute by avoiding the issue before teams arrived at the World Cup. Then, seemingly under pressure from Qatari authorities, letting it spill into Nov. 21, hours before England and the Netherlands played and won their first games.
Hours before those games, FIFA forced a climbdown from the European federations by threatening to ensure England captain Harry Kane and Netherlands counterpart Virgil van Dijk would be shown a yellow card. They would have risked getting a second yellow and being sent off and suspended for the next game.
Denmark played on Nov. 22 without protest, one day before Germany's players lined up for their pregame team photo and covered their mouths to show they felt silenced by World Cup organizers. Both teams later failed to advance to the knockout round.
The Danish soccer federation was consistently critical before the tournament of Qatar’s treatment of the migrant workers who helped build World Cup projects, and brought toned-down uniforms with a black option to represent the color of mourning. The black jersey was not worn in Denmark’s three games.
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Wenger, who is a long-time commentator for Qatari broadcaster beIN Sports, also said Sunday the World Cup games had been popular around the world “despite all the negative publicity we got before.”
Sharing the stage with Wenger, German soccer great Jurgen Klinsmann highlighted the mental demands on European players in Qatar and offered a different theory.
Klinsmann is analyzing games for FIFA and noted players in Europe’s biggest leagues had to adapt from playing club games until only one week before the World Cup started. Teams usually have at least two weeks to prepare after the European season for a typical World Cup starting in June.
“For coaches to prepare a team with one week is very, very difficult, obviously,” said Klinsmann, who was twice a World Cup coach, with Germany in 2006 and the United States in 2014.
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“There have been extreme mental challenges for the teams,” he said, adding that the expanded squads with 26 players instead of the usual 23 left coaches “dealing with 15 unhappy players.”
Two tactical trends were highlighted by Wenger from the 48 games in the group stage — the importance of attacking from wide positions on the field and goalkeepers’ ability to pass the ball as an outlet for teammates being pressed by opponents.
“I personally think the team with the best wide players will win this tournament,” Wenger said.
He said attacking teams were forced to find space on the flanks because opponents now better protect the center of the field, and this also led to fewer long-distance shots being taken.
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Evolution of the “sweeper keeper” role pioneered by Germany captain Manuel Neuer saw a 70% increase since the 2018 World Cup of goalkeepers offering to receive the ball with their feet.
“It is a fascinating development of the position of the goalkeeper,” Klinsmann said, adding youth training likely needs to adapt so potential keepers also spend time playing an outfield position to develop their ball control and passing skills.
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AP World Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/world-cup and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-12-04T14:59:33+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/FIFA-official-Wenger-knocks-teams-protesting-at-17630137.php |
By MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Elon Musk’s company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites.
The plan called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf. After separating, the spacecraft was supposed to continue east and attempt to circle the world, before crashing into the Pacific near Hawaii.
Throngs of spectators watched from South Padre Island, several miles away from the Boca Chica Beach launch site, which was off limits. As it lifted off, the crowd screamed: “Go, baby, go!”
The company plans to use Starship to send people and cargo to the moon and, eventually, Mars. NASA has reserved a Starship for its next moonwalking team, and rich tourists are already booking lunar flybys.
It was the second launch attempt. Monday’s try was scrapped by a frozen booster valve.
At 394 feet and nearly 17 million pounds of thrust, Starship easily surpasses NASA’s moon rockets — past, present and future. The stainless steel rocket is designed to be fully reusable with fast turnaround, dramatically lowering costs, similar to what SpaceX’s smaller Falcon rockets have done soaring from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Nothing was to be saved from the test flight.
The futuristic spacecraft flew several miles into the air during testing a few years ago, landing successfully only once. But this was to be the inaugural launch of the first-stage booster with 33 methane-fueled engines.
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Eight-acre Montgomery County campus adds upscale facility for executives and professionals seeking treatment
ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Valley residential treatment center, a privately owned and operated treatment center is breaking ground on a new 6400+sq ft luxury treatment residence at 19120 Muncaster Road, Rockville, MD 20855. The Executive Program at The Valley will serve professionals that would otherwise have left the state to find the level of amenities and understanding of treatment needs. The new center sits on an additional 1.5 acres of land connected to the 8 acres currently home to The Valley treatment center. With the addition of the Executive Program, the campus will have a total of 28 beds. The Valley offers evidence-based inpatient treatment programs that integrates addiction treatment, substance use treatment, mental health treatment, and behavioral healthcare in a comprehensive, person-centered, therapeutic method. The new program will build on these methods in a new, separated home on the campus.
"Building a new home on The Valley's campus catering to executives and professionals who don't always have time to put their life on hold to seek treatment is the goal for this program" said James Peters, The Valley founder. "Individual, private or semi-private, five-star residential suites, a business center, fitness center and media room are amenities that allow professionals to thrive while receiving treatment. We saw the need for an elevated space in our community and acted swiftly to fill the void."
The new residential facility has enhanced treatment options like individualize attention, small group therapy sessions and opportunities for residents access to stay connected to work responsibilities in a private, secure setting. Residents will benefit from a home-like feel in a rural environment where patients are fully supported on their path to recovery. A forward approach to treating addiction, substance misuse, anxiety, depression, alcohol and prescription medication use disorder and other conditions is facilitated by qualified, experienced, and caring team of counselors, trauma therapists, nurses, clinical and medical professionals, case managers, and support staff. The program provides residents with a full day of clinical and therapeutic services with catered meals, fitness programs, yoga, acupuncture and recovery time. Therapy sessions focus on topics such as relapse prevention, life skills, self-care, trigger warnings and healthy communication.
For more information about the new residence at The Valley contact Brett Goldenberg, Executive Director at The Valley Treatment Center : 301-665-7940 or bgoldenberg@thevalleymd.com
The Valley is a residential rehabilitation center in Rockville nestled in a valley surrounded in a beautiful natural environment. The Valley accepts most forms of insurance including Tricare, Virginia Medicaid and offers flexible payment options. If you are in need of treatment or think you might need help, call 301-355-7455.
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Quinten Post scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Boston College to an 82-76 victory over Virginia Tech on Wednesday night.
Boston College had a double-digit lead for most of the second half, but a 15-6 surge in about a two-minute span pulled Virginia Tech within 80-76 with 18 seconds left. Chas Kelley sealed it with a pair of free throws with 14 seconds remaining.
Boston College (12-13, 6-8 ACC) has won five straight in the series against Virginia Tech (14-10, 4-9).
Post, who entered averaging 20.6 points and has scored 20-plus points in four straight games, was 9 of 14 from the floor and made all three of his 3-point attempts against the Hokies.
BC shot 49% (29 of 59) overall, including 12 of 24 from long range, and had 24 assists. Kelley finished with 17 points, Devin McGlockton added 14 points and Ashton-Langford had nine points and 12 assists.
Grant Basile scored a season-high 33 points on 12-of-21 shooting for Virginia Tech. Justyn Mutt added 16 points and Sean Pedulla had 12. Basile and Pedulla combined for seven of the Hokies’ 10 3-pointers.
BC closed the first half on a 22-7 run for a 39-27 lead. Kelley sparked the surge with consecutive 3s and Post added two more from distance and had 11 points during the stretch. The Eagles led by as many as 15 points in the second half.
Boston College hosts North Carolina State on Saturday while Virginia Tech is at Notre Dame. | 2023-02-09T03:32:15+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2023/02/09/boston-college-deals-hokies-acc-loss-at-cassell/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding almost $1.7 billion in grants for buying zero- and low-emission buses, with the money going to transit projects in 46 states and territories.
The grants will enable transit agencies and state and local governments to buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses, nearly half of which will have zero carbon emissions. Funding for the grants come from the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden. The Democratic president has made it a priority to put more electric vehicles on the road — especially for schools and public transit — in an effort to contain the damage from climate change.
“Every day, millions of Americans climb aboard over 60,000 buses to get to work, to school, doctor’s appointments, everywhere they need to be,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters. “These are unprecedented levels of investment when it comes to putting modern cleaner buses on the road.”
Monday's announcement covers the second round of grants for buses and supporting infrastructure. All told, the U.S. has invested a total of $3.3 billion in the projects so far. Government officials expect to award roughly $5 billion more over the next three years.
The Biden administration said that the new buses will improve public health as diesel exhaust will no longer be going into the air and that the new buses will be easier to maintain.
The government received 475 project proposals for the grants that totaled roughly $8.7 billion, a sign of the demand for the funding.
The Seattle area will be getting $33.5 million to purchase 30 electric battery buses and chargers. The Washington, D.C., transit authority will use $104 million to make a bus garage an electric facility and buy roughly 100 electric battery buses. But money also is going outside of major U.S. cities, with Iowa City, Iowa, and the Seneca Nation in Western New York also receiving grants.
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Credit: AP | 2023-06-26T09:47:26+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/the-us-government-is-awarding-17-billion-to-buy-electric-and-low-emission-buses/GWSWX4QM5RA5XHIBPRREZNAIWE/ |
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh were still struggling Monday to determine the cause of a devastating fire that killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media reported, as experts have raised concern over the safety standard in the country’s industrial sector.
Efforts to extinguish the fire at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture, continued overnight after the inferno broke out around midnight Saturday following explosions in a container full of chemicals.
Authorities say there were more than 4,000 containers at the depot spanning over 24 acres of land when the fire and subsequent explosions broke out, and about 1,000 containers had goods including chemicals at that time.
On Monday, nearly 40 hours after the first explosion occurred, smoke was still coming out of containers at the scene. Firefighters called in from nearby districts and from the capital, Dhaka, were extra-careful during their work.
A soldier speaking into megaphone urged people to move.
“We have found more containers with chemicals, please go out,” the man shouted.
As many as 21 firefighters were either killed or injured, and the scene became a nightmare for them.
“Working at BM Depot, it was so difficult to carry them (firefighters) on my shoulders, those that I have seen like my own sons, worked with them,” said Purna Chandra Mutsuddy, deputy assistant director of the Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defense.
“I feel in this world nothing can be more painful than this,” he added.
Officials said the number of casualties rose over the weekend as many workers and firefighters were unaware of chemical storage at the depot, and after the initial fire they got close to the explosive containers. A few hundred workers and dozens of firefighters were attempting to extinguish the fire when the first explosion took place.
The depot is located near country’s main Chittagong Seaport, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) southeast of the capital, Dhaka, and it is one of 19 such depots in the region.
The latest fire has raised the concern over whether such facilities in Bangladesh, a burgeoning economy in South Asia, is maintaining safety standards.
Khairul Alam Sujan, vice president of Bangladesh Freight Forwarders Association, said Sunday that containers with hazardous chemicals were kept with those full of garment products ready for exports.
He said it was important to maintain distance from containers with any hazardous chemicals.
Firefighters said more than one dozen containers had hydrogen peroxide, which helped spread the fire after the explosion, but it was not clear what caused the initial explosion to be so powerful.
The head of the country’s fire service department regretted that they did not get anyone from the depot’s management to get details about the containers and the chemicals when they were working at the scene.
Bangladeshi media were critical of the institutional capacity in ensuring safety at such facility.
“The fire … is the latest in an ever-growing list of tragedies that put Bangladesh’s appalling industrial safety record once again under the spotlight,” the Daily Star newspaper said in an editorial on Monday.
“The poor infrastructure and institutional preparedness for industrial safety … makes such fire incidents almost inevitable,” the Daily Star said.
The International Labor Organization said in a 2020 report that industrial safety in Bangladesh is very much in a nascent stage.
“A comprehensive framework covering all the safety-related issues across different sectors, economic activities and commercial establishments — with a reference to emergencies such as COVID-19 — needs to be developed,” it said.
The ILO said Bangladesh needs a “credible and accountable industrial safety governance structure.”
On Monday morning, authorities started collecting DNA samples from the family members of the people who died in the fire as burns made many of the bodies unrecognizable.
Explosives experts from Bangladesh’s military were called in to assist the firefighters. The explosions shattered the windows of nearby buildings and were felt as far as 4 kilometers (2 1/2 miles) away, officials and local media reports said.
The death toll remained 49 on Monday, according to Ekattor TV station. But the area’s civil surgeon said the number could still rise as the fire raged for a second night.
More than a dozen victims have been airlifted and brought to a specialized hospital in the capital, Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock at the accident and ordered adequate arrangement for medical treatment of the injured.
Bangladesh has a history of industrial disasters, including factories catching fire with workers trapped inside. Monitoring groups have blamed corruption and lax enforcement.
In the country’s massive garment industry, which employs about 4 million people, safety conditions have improved significantly after massive reforms, but experts say accidents could still occur if other sectors do not make similar changes.
In 2012, about 117 workers died when they were trapped behind locked exits in a garment factory in Dhaka.
The country’s worst industrial disaster occurred the following year, when the Rana Plaza garment factory outside Dhaka collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
In 2019, a blaze ripped through a 400-year-old area cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses in the oldest part of Dhaka and killed at least 67 people. Another fire in Old Dhaka in a house illegally storing chemicals killed at least 123 people in 2010.
In 2021, a fire at a food and beverage factory outside Dhaka killed at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door.
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Alam reported from Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital. | 2022-06-07T01:34:58+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/bangladeshs-latest-depot-fire-raises-concern-over-safety/ |
Warming Up
Published: Jan. 12, 2023 at 7:49 PM CST|Updated: 30 minutes ago
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - After a breezy cool day on Thursday, highs warm into the 60s through the weekend. Temperatures will be chilly, in the 20s, early Friday. A southerly wind and plenty of sun will see afternoon highs about 10 degrees above average. By Saturday highs will be near 70 and Sunday the wind will pick up again with gusts near 40. By the middle of next week there is a small chance of some showers late Tuesday into Wednesday.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OneOncology, the platform for the nation's leading independent oncology practices, announced two nationally renowned keynote speakers for the first OneOncology Annual Conference (OOAC) for providers scheduled for November 11-13 in Nashville. Adam Boehler, former director of the Center for Medicare and Medicare Innovation (CMMI), and Kavita Patel, MD, a senior health policy advisor to former President Barrack Obama, will each deliver remarks focused on the future of healthcare and value-based care.
"From precision medicine to value-based contracting, our inaugural provider conference is an exciting opportunity to do a deep dive into the latest in clinical and business innovation at OneOncology," said Davey Daniel, MD, OneOncology's Chief Medical Officer. "Equally important is the opportunity for our nearly 800 providers to gather together in person for information sharing, engagement and fellowship."
The conference will feature content in two tracks: 1) the latest evidence-based clinical information relevant to community oncologists; 2) business content including the latest research and key learnings in value-based care and value-based contracting.
Boehler, who is currently the CEO of Rubicon Partners, will address his expectations for the future of healthcare for physicians, including value-based care. Dr. Patel, who has deep policy expertise in value-based frameworks, will address the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) recently published Enhancing Oncology Care Model (EOM).
The conference, which is free for all healthcare providers, will be held in person for those on the OneOncology platform. Providers not on the OneOncology platform are invited to join virtually.
Registration for providers is open.
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NEW YORK – And back down goes Wall Street.
After getting mauled most of the year, prices for all kinds of investments steadied in the summer and were heading back up. The recovery was so strong that some investors wondered if Wall Street's “bear market” was coming to an end.
Now, such questions are getting more muted. On Monday, the main measure of the U.S. stock market tumbled to its worst loss in two months. That followed its first losing week in the last five. It's the latest reminder that the main constant for Wall Street this year has been volatility.
Here's a look at what's happening in financial markets, what's driving it and what may lie ahead:
THE SUMMER HAS BEEN GOOD FOR WALL STREET?
Very. The U.S. stock market roared upward by a little more than 17% between its bottom in the middle of June and last week, which is better than it does in many full years. The powerful run meant it recovered more than half its losses from earlier in the year. That's when it dropped more than 20% from its peak to put the S&P 500 into what's known as a “bear market.”
WAS IT JUST STOCKS RISING?
No. Prices also climbed for everything from bonds, which tend to attract more conservative and older investors, to cryptocurrencies, whose traders often welcome big risks.
WHAT DROVE THE RALLY?
Hope that the Federal Reserve may not raise interest rates as aggressively as feared in its battle against inflation.
The Fed has already raised short-term rates four times in 2022, after keeping them pinned at virtually zero for two years because of the pandemic. The fear on Wall Street has been that accelerating inflation would force the Fed to hike rates by market-shaking margins.
But investors saw signs that inflation may be near its peak. A highlight was a report earlier this month that showed a hefty drop in prices at the gasoline pump, some relief on airfares and better-than-expected numbers on consumer prices broadly.
That raised speculation the Fed could downshift the size of its increases sooner than expected and may not ultimately raise rates as far as earlier feared. That allowed markets to rally even though inflation is likely to stay high for a while.
WHY DO THE FED'S INTEREST RATES DICTATE SO MUCH?
They help set prices for almost everything on Wall Street.
When interest rates are high, new bonds coming from the U.S. government pay more in income. That makes investors less willing to pay high prices for investments with more risk of losing value, such as stocks or bitcoin. Higher rates also push down prices for older bonds already in the market, because they have lower yields in comparison.
In the meantime, higher rates slow the economy by making it generally more expensive to buy a house, car or anything else bought on credit. That’s why the Fed raises interest rates: It wants to restrain the buying that pushes upward on inflation. But if the Fed is too aggressive, it could choke off the economy and cause a recession.
WHY ARE STOCKS FALLING AGAIN?
Recent comments from the Fed are causing those hopes for less-aggressive rate hikes to fade.
Last week, the central bank released the minutes from its July policy meeting, which described how officials want to move rates high enough to slow the economy in its battle against inflation.
Later in the week, several officials gave speeches that investors saw as pushback on Wall Street's hopes for a less aggressive Fed, including by speakers who aren't usually biased toward raising rates sharply to control inflation.
Among others, economists at Deutsche Bank highlighted how Mary Daly, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said it is “way too early to declare victory on inflation.”
AND WHAT'S HAPPENING OUTSIDE STOCKS?
Bond prices have dropped, and yields have climbed as investors dial back their hopes for a less-aggressive Fed.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which acts as a benchmark for many kinds of loans, has climbed back to 3%, for example. It was around 2.60% at the start of the month.
WHAT'S THE NEXT BIG DATE ON WALL STREET'S CALENDAR?
Friday. That's when the chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, is scheduled to give a speech at an annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Jackson Hole has been the site of several market-moving speeches by Fed chairs in the past. Investors hope Powell will give more clues about the central bank's next move with short-term interest rates.
SO, DID THE BEAR MARKET END?
No. For that to happen, the S&P 500 would need to rise at least 20% above its low and remain there through the end of a trading day. It hasn't done that.
If and when that happens, what’s called the “bear market” would be over, and Wall Street will have moved on to its next “bull market.”
The last bull market for U.S. stocks began in March 2020 after the crash caused by the pandemic and lasted until early this January. The one before that barreled through more than a decade, from March 2009 to February 2020.
CAN STOCKS RISE AS MUCH AS THEY DID IN THE SUMMER AND NOT START A NEW BULL MARKET?
Yes. It’s routine for stocks to stage rallies, only to lose momentum again, while in the middle of deep downturns. Wall Street calls them “bear market rallies,” and some cautious investors with decades of experience had been warning to expect one since before this latest upturn began.
SO, IS THIS A NEW BULL OR THE OLD BEAR?
No one knows. A new bull market is something that people can identify only in hindsight.
On the encouraging side for stocks: Inflation has indeed eased a bit. That has some optimists calling for a “Goldilocks” outcome where the economy is strong enough to avoid a recession but not so strong that it pushes the Fed to aggressively raise rates.
But many challenges remain for Wall Street. Chief among them is that inflation has appeared to peak before, only for prices to accelerate and pull the rug out from underneath investors.
The U.S. economy has already contracted for two straight quarters The possibility of recession in the United States and around the world is still not off the table. And even if the worst of inflation is about to pass, central banks will still continue to raise interest rates.
Regardless of whether stocks are heading up or down in the long term, both sides seem to agree that markets will continue to be very shaky along the way. | 2022-08-23T19:38:00+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/business/2022/08/23/explainer-why-is-wall-street-back-on-the-roller-coaster/ |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A 19-year-old was shot and killed early Thursday in Daytona Beach, according to police.
The fatal shooting was reported just before 2 a.m. near Forest Glen Boulevard and Oak Tree Circle.
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The victim was shot multiple times, according to police, who said there’s no information about the suspected shooter.
No other details have been released.
A homicide investigation is underway.
Check back for updates. | 2022-06-23T14:26:49+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/23/19-year-old-shot-to-death-in-daytona-beach/ |
A cold front will bring even colder temperatures Friday afternoon across New Mexico. A slow warming trend begins this weekend that will bring close-to-average temperatures by the middle of next week.
A weak upper-level disturbance is bringing light snow to the northern mountains of New Mexico Thursday afternoon. A cold front will begin pushing into the state tonight, and bring more light snow to far northeast New Mexico into early Friday morning. A few mountain passes may get icy overnight as the snow moves in, but total accumulations will be only a couple inches at most. This cold front will bring even colder high temperatures Friday afternoon though, especially with breezy conditions making it feel even colder.
The good news is that Friday will be the coldest day for many of us for a while. A slow warming trend will begin Saturday as the jet stream starts turning southwesterly. This will work to bring in warmer temperatures through next week. Eventually highs will climb back to near and above-average for this time of year by Wednesday. However, another blast of cold, arctic air will move into the central U.S. late next week. This cold pool of air may make it into eastern New Mexico by next Thursday, bringing another round of colder temperatures late next week to the eastern half of the state. | 2022-12-16T01:23:13+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/weather/video-forecast/colder-friday-but-starting-to-warm-again-this-weekend/ |
Elizabeth Mandlik 2023 French Open Odds
Elizabeth Mandlik's round of 128 match in the French Open will be versus Simona Waltert. Mandlik currently has +40000 odds to be crowned champion at Stade Roland Garros.
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Mandlik at the 2023 French Open
- Next Round: Round of 128
- Tournament Dates: May 21 - June 10
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Mandlik's Next Match
Mandlik is in the round of 128, where she will play Waltert on Sunday, May 28 at 5:00 AM ET (after beating Laura Pigossi 6-2, 2-6, 7-5).
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Elizabeth Mandlik Grand Slam Odds
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Mandlik Stats
- In the qualifying round, Mandlik was victorious 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 against Pigossi on Thursday.
- Through 13 tournaments over the past 12 months, Mandlik has yet to win a title, and her overall record is 11-13.
- In four tournaments on clay over the past 12 months, Mandlik has gone 4-3.
- Through 24 matches over the past 12 months (across all court surfaces), Mandlik has played 22.6 games per match. She won 48.3% of them.
- In her seven matches on a clay surface over the past year, Mandlik has averaged 21.4 games.
- Over the past 12 months, Mandlik has won 57.1% of her service games, and she has won 44.0% of her return games.
- On clay over the past year, Mandlik has been victorious in 64.9% of her service games and 55.6% of her return games.
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By Mary Ann Paliani
In this society, I feel like the helpless occupant of a rudderless boat trapped in a raging storm without a skilled crew. The name of our country — the United States — contradicts the actual state of our nation. We are no longer united. Instead, our nation consists of a sea of opposing factions — many of which represent hostile and toxic ideologies. We are in a state of chaos! Let’s take a look at what’s happening across the human landscape.
Through our advanced information technology people are drowning in tidal waves of false or misleading news from information media sources like Fox News, Twitter, Facebook and QAnon. A whole spectrum of conflicting opinions, theories and speculation on political, social and ethical issues flood the airwaves. Meanwhile, we fail to sort through and analyze this information overload. Instead, we rely on how a given message resonates with our personal agendas, grievances, and biases to choose a position.
Moral and societal issues like abortion and gun rights have become politically weaponized. These influences lead the masses to take sides, Democrats versus Republicans, with violence ensuing against the perceived opponent. For example, an extremist pro-abortion group, Jane’s Revenge, is responsible for destroying numerous pro-life “crisis pregnancy centers.” Not to be outdone by their adversaries, pro-life extremists have reciprocated in a like manner towards many abortion clinics. In the end, abortions will continue, the extremist elements on both sides of the abortion issue will pursue their destructive battles, the political party that wins the most emotion-based popular support will prevail in government and the underlying ethical and legal questions related to these critical societal problems will remain unresolved.
In the United States, the Constitution is the law of the land. Yet, we forget that this body of law was created at a time and in a society quite different from our own. Then, the nation lacked the technologies that exist today. These technologies, for example, those related to weapons, have generated moral, ethical and legal issues that are not addressed in the Constitution. Yet, the Supreme Court upheld a recent gun rights issue based on the Second Amendment, an anachronistic body of law that is not relevant to the world of the 21st century.
Wars, massacres and abortions are robbing society of its most critical resource — people. Can you imagine the host of far-reaching societal contributions these lost lives could have made had they survived? Could that aborted fetus have developed into someone like Steve Jobs who effectively shaped an entire industry? Could that 20-year-old boy gunned down by a white supremacist have fathered a future statesman with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln? Sadly, we’ll never know. Society hasn’t received the existential bill that details the value of these losses.
I believe the Ten Commandments are the ethical foundation of our society. But who follows these precepts? People like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, not to mention countless people in leadership positions, routinely violate them. More perversely, they inject the general population with their toxic ideologies in an effort to win the power they crave. They are creating a toxic mentality that is corrupting the very core of our society. To illustrate, consider the video that one participant in the Jan. 6 attack sent to her children saying: “We broke into the Capitol. … We got inside, we did our part. We were looking for Nancy [Pelosi] to shoot her in the friggin’ brain, but we didn’t find her!” Imagine a parent actually boasting to her children about her bloodthirsty intentions to kill someone she considered a political enemy. Further, she considered her actions a public duty!
Today, the quote, “United we stand, divided we fall,” is more apt than ever in a polarized world. The existential question for our society is: Can it survive these malignant currents — and for how long?
Mary Ann Paliani is a member of a senior writing group. Paliani lives in Boulder. | 2022-07-15T16:03:24+00:00 | coloradodaily.com | https://www.coloradodaily.com/2022/07/15/guest-opinion-mary-ann-paliani-malignant-currents-threaten-our-society/ |
The U.S. National Park Service has closed Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys after hundreds of migrants arrived on the islands over the New Year's weekend.
The NPS temporarily closed the park to public access on Monday morning after an estimated 300 migrants landed in the park, according to a news release. It said the park has seen an increase in people arriving by boat from Cuba.
"The closure, which is expected to last several days, is necessary for the safety of visitors and staff because of the resources and space needed to attend to the migrants," the NPS said.
First responders at the park are providing food, water and basic medical needs until the Department of Homeland Security arrives, the statement noted. Concession-operated ferry and sea plane services are temporarily suspended.
Rear Adm. Brendan C. McPherson, director of Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast, said in a statement Sunday that the task force is aware of "multiple migrant landings this weekend" on the park.
"They will be removed, provided food, water & basic first aid before transfer to federal [law enforcement] agents in the Keys for processing by [Miami Sector U.S. Border Patrol] to determine their legal status to remain in the United States or be processed for removal and repatriation to their country of origin," McPherson said.
#Breaking: During the past 24 hours, U.S. Border Patrol agents & LE partners responded to 5 migrant landings throughout the Florida Keys and encountered 88 Cuban migrants. @USCGSoutheast @mcsonews @CBPAMORegDirSE #NewYearsEve #Saturday #florida #Cuba pic.twitter.com/Aq415sNGDa
— Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar (@USBPChiefMIP) December 31, 2022
A former Florida resident camping on the park over the weekend captured footage of some of the migrant landings. Migrants can be seen leaping off their makeshift chug boats, hugging each other, and cheering with joy after making it to land. He told NPR member station WGCU that the migrants' supplies included life vests and bags of crackers.
About 70 miles west of Key West, Fla., the 100-square mile park consists of seven small islands accessible only by boat or seaplane. It is about 100 miles north of Havana, Cuba's capital.
Here is one chug landing ~8am New Year’s Day. The shouts of relief and tears of joy will stick with me for the rest of my life. pic.twitter.com/xeSxxB7SKx
— Enid Magari (@enidmagari) January 2, 2023
As Cuba experiences its worst economic downturn in decades, Cubans are coming to the U.S. in record numbers. U.S. authorities recorded more than 220,000 Cubans at the U.S. southwest border in fiscal year 2022, a nearly 500% increase from the same period in 2021. Experts call it the largest exodus from Cuba in history.
More than 160 refugees had landed mostly in the Middle and Upper Keys in addition to the 300 people in the Dry Tortugas, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Monday. Sheriff Rick Ramsay called it a "humanitarian crisis" created by "federal failure."
"This shows a lack of a working plan by the federal government to deal with a mass migration issue that was foreseeable," Ramsay said.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-04T23:15:32+00:00 | kosu.org | https://www.kosu.org/u-s-news/u-s-news/2023-01-03/an-influx-of-300-migrants-forces-closure-of-a-national-park-in-the-florida-keys |
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As announced on its official Twitter page on June 27, the non-league football club AFC Croydon Athletic have just been bought by Stormzy, Wilfried Zaha and Danny Young. You’ve probably heard of two of these men. The third is a former head of player care for Crystal Palace.
Though never publicly expressing any interest in the team prior to now, Stormzy has previously shown explicit support for Manchester United. He has done this specifically through his inclusion of Jose Mourinho, former manager for Manchester United, in a music video. He also told Sky Sports that ‘the stars aligned’ when he chose to support the Red Devils. Wilfried Zaha, most famous for playing for Crystal Palace and Manchester United, has also never shown clear support for the team.
Where the men relate is the place they were raised - the London Borough of Croydon. Stormzy in South Norwood and Zaha in Thornton Heath. Neither have any direct connections with the club itself, yet their pasts align themselves with the same London District and their purchase of the Club could be seen as them honouring the place of their youth.
According to the team’s formal statement about their ownership, completion will still be subjected to various procedures before it can be finalised, but in the words of Wilfried Zaha:
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Four London boroughs have been named as having the longest life expectancy in the UK | 2023-06-30T20:23:12+00:00 | timeout.com | https://www.timeout.com/london/news/stormzy-and-wilfried-zaha-have-gone-and-bought-a-football-club-062923 |
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ashwin Vasavada, the head scientist for the Curiosity Mars rover, about the rover's 10 years of exploration.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Ashwin Vasavada, the head scientist for the Curiosity Mars rover, about the rover's 10 years of exploration.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-08-04T20:59:57+00:00 | nprillinois.org | https://www.nprillinois.org/2022-08-04/what-curiositys-10-years-on-mars-have-taught-us |
HOUSTON, May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nutex Health Inc. ("Nutex Health" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: NUTX), a physician-led, technology-enabled integrated healthcare delivery system comprised of 19 state-of-the-art micro hospitals in 8 states and primary care-centric, risk-bearing physician networks, today announced that leadership is participating at the following investor conferences:
RBC Global Healthcare Conference
Date: May 16, 2023
Venue: InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel
Benchmark Company Healthcare House Call Conference
Date: May 23, 2023
Venue: Virtual
Management will be participating in one-on-one meetings at these events with investors. The Company's presentation has been filed as an 8-K with the SEC.
About Nutex Health Inc.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas and founded in 2011, Nutex Health Inc. (NASDAQ: NUTX) is a healthcare management and operations company with two divisions: a Hospital Division and a Population Health Management Division.
The Hospital Division owns, develops and operates innovative health care models, including micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals, and hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs). This division owns and operates 19 facilities in 8 states.
The Population Health Management division owns and operates provider networks such as Independent Physician Associations (IPAs). Through our Management Services Organization (MSO), we provide management, administrative and other support services to our affiliated hospitals and physician groups. Our cloud-based proprietary technology platform aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers, allowing us to deliver greater quality care more efficiently.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information included in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Act of 1995. When used in this press release, the words or phrases "will", "will likely result," "expected to," "will continue," "anticipated," "estimate," "projected," "intend," "goal," or similar expressions are intended to identify "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are subject to certain risks, known and unknown, and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company. Such uncertainties and risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to successfully execute our growth strategy, changes in laws or regulations, including the interim final and final rules implemented under the No Surprises Act , economic conditions, dependence on management, dilution to stockholders, lack of capital, the effects of rapid growth upon the Company and the ability of management to effectively respond to the growth and demand for products and services of the Company, newly developing technologies, the Company's ability to compete, conflicts of interest in related party transactions, regulatory matters, protection of technology, lack of industry standards, the effects of competition and the ability of the Company to obtain future financing. An extensive list of factors that can affect future results are discussed in the Current Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2023 under the heading "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item IA thereof, and other documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such factors could materially adversely affect the Company's financial performance and could cause the Company's actual results for future periods to differ materially from any opinions or statements expressed within this press release.
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WHEELING, W.Va – The WVSSAC high school golf state championships got underway today in Wheeling as West Virginia’s best took on the Jones course at Oglebay.
In Class AAA, it was a solid day for Morgantown as the Mohigans finished fifth out of the eight teams but 19 strokes back of first place Wheeling Park.
The Mohigans’ Solas Chhin-Kreiner wrapped up the opening round in a tie for eighth with an 83 round.
In Class AA, Fairmont Senior is tops among the local teams, also wrapping the day in fifth of eight. Lincoln and Lewis county closed the day in seventh and eighth respectively.
The Polar Bears’ Caden Musgrove shot an 84 for the day and enters day two in a tie for eighth place in the individual competition.
In Class A, Gilmer County is the lone local team in the competition, and it was a rough first 18 holes for the Titans today.
With a team score of 332, Gilmer County finished day 1 of the two-day tournament eighth out of the eight Class A teams.
The West Virginia state golf championship finishes tomorrow. | 2022-10-05T03:58:32+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/sports/day-one-of-state-golf-championship-closes/ |
BIOGGIO, Switzerland (AP) — BIOGGIO, Switzerland (AP) — Guess Inc. (GES) on Tuesday reported fiscal fourth-quarter profit of $95.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Bioggio, Switzerland-based company said it had profit of $1.42. Earnings, adjusted for one-time gains and costs, came to $1.74 per share.
The clothing company posted revenue of $817.8 million in the period.
For the current quarter ending in April, Guess expects its results to range from a loss of 31 cents per share to a loss of 25 cents per share.
The company expects full-year earnings in the range of $2.45 to $2.80 per share.
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A West Texas A&M student-led LGBT+ organization and its leaders have filed a federal lawsuit after a student drag show was canceled Monday by the university's president, who called such shows "derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny," drawing backlash from students and free speech advocates.
The lawsuit filed Friday by the student organization, Spectrum WT, against university President Walter Wendler and other school leaders alleges that Wendler "is openly defying the Constitution."
"In a published edict, President Wendler barred a recognized student group, Spectrum WT, from exercising its clear First Amendment right to put on a PG-13 charity drag show at a campus event hall with the aim of raising funds for LGBTQ+ suicide prevention," the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in the Northern District of Texas, reads.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to stop the school from preventing the drag show from moving forward on March 31, and from holding similar future events on campus. They seek damages and attorneys' fees for the school administration's alleged First Amendment violations.
In an email to the school community Monday, Wendler said drag shows "discriminate against womanhood," compared them to blackface and said there was "no such thing" as a harmless drag show.
"A harmless drag show? Not possible. I will not appear to condone the diminishment of any group at the expense of impertinent gestures toward another group for any reason, even when the law of the land appears to require it," the email reads.
At the time, a university spokesperson declined to provide further comment on the president's email, citing pending litigation.
"President Wendler's edict canceling the student group's charity drag show is textbook viewpoint discrimination. Of course, as a private citizen, President Wendler enjoys the First Amendment right to criticize expression he finds offensive, distasteful, or immoral. But as a public official, he cannot bar Spectrum WT and its members from exercising their First Amendment rights merely because he believes his personal opinions override the Constitution," the plaintiffs say in their 45-page complaint.
CNN has reached out to Wendler, the university's vice president, chancellor, and members of the Board of Regents of the Texas A&M University System for comment.
Proceeds from the show were due to support The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people.
Wendler's decision and remarks drew backlash from both students and advocates.
A Change.org petition has previously said the university's student body "is calling for the reinstatement" of the performance on campus and called its canceling an "indirect attack on the LGBT+, feminist, and activist communities of the WTAMU student body."
The president's comparison of blackface and drag performances was a "gross and abhorrent comparison of two completely different topics" and "an extremely distorted and incorrect definition of drag as a culture and form of performance art," petition organizers write.
According to the university's website, as of fall 2022, 9,275 students attend the school in the city of Canyon, about 20 minutes south of Amarillo.
As transgender issues and drag culture have increasingly become more mainstream, a slew of bills -- mostly in Republican-led states -- have sought to restrict or prohibit drag show performances.
LGBTQ advocates have told CNN those bills add a heightened state of alarm for the community, are discriminatory and could violate First Amendment laws.
Earlier in March, Tennessee became the first state this year to restrict public drag show performances. Its law will go into effect on July 1.
A Texas House bill introduced this year also seeks to regulate public venues hosting drag performances.
At least nine other states are also considering anti-drag legislation.
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ATLANTA, Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second year in a row, Quatrro Business Support Services ("Quatrro"), a channel-friendly Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) and Finance-as-a-Service (FaaS) provider focused on delivering technology-enabled, and cloud-based technology, finance, accounting, and HR services, has been named to the Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Elite 150 category for 2023 by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company.
CRN's annual MSP 500 list identifies the industry-leading service providers in North America who are driving a new wave of growth and innovation for the channel through forward-thinking approaches to managed services, helping end users increase efficiency and simplify IT solutions, while maximizing their return on investment. The Elite 150 section of the MSP 500 recognizes the large, data center-focused MSPs with a strong mix of on- and off-premises services. MSPs not only empower organizations to leverage intricate technologies but also help them keep a strict focus on their core business goals without straining their budgets.
"Managed services offer a path for businesses of all sizes to remain efficient and flexible as they grow," said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. "The solution providers on our 2023 MSP 500 list are bringing innovative managed services portfolios to market, helping their customers win by doing more with the IT budgets they have and freeing up resources to focus on mission-critical activities to drive future success."
C M Sharma, Chairman and CEO at Quatrro, said, "We are thrilled and honored to once again be listed in the Elite 150 category of the CRN MSP 500 List. We live by our customer-first, own-the-resolution, personal touch approach towards our clients to give them more to go on so they see further, scale smarter, and stand stronger in their business. This is how Quatrro creates transformative value for our clients by exponentially increasing efficiencies and providing active contributions to business outcomes with resiliency and agility."
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The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled part of a bill signed in 2021 gave the governor's office authority it doesn't have over schools.
A portion of the bill, SB 658, required the governor to issue a state of emergency before schools could implement mandates, such as mandatory masking.
The Supreme Court ruled that part of the bill an overreach, and said the governor does not have constitutional authority over the operation of schools.
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Google to erase more location info as abortion bans expand
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies.
The company behind the internet’s dominant internet search engine and the Android software that powers most of the world’s smartphones outlined the new privacy protections in a Friday blog post.
Besides automatically deleting visits to abortion clinics, Google also cited counseling centers, fertility centers, addiction treatment facilities, weight loss clinics, and cosmetic surgery clinics as other destinations that will be erased from users’ location histories. Users have always had the option edit their location histories on their own, but Google will proactively do it for them as an added level of protection.
“We’re committed to delivering robust privacy protections for people who use our products, and we will continue to look for new ways to strengthen and improve these protections,” Jen Fitzpatrick, a Google senior vice president, wrote in the blog post.
The pledge comes amid escalating pressure on Google and other Big Tech companies to do more to shield the troves of sensitive personal information through their digital services and products from government authorities and other outsiders.
The calls for more stringent privacy controls were triggered by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. That reversal could make abortion illegal in more than a dozen states, raising the specter that records about people’s location, texts, searches and emails could be used in prosecutions against abortion procedures or even for medical care sought in a miscarriage.
Like other technology companies, Google each year receives thousands of government demands for users’ digital records as part of misconduct investigations. Google says it pushes back against search warrants and other demands that are overly broad or appear to be baseless.
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MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Citi Bahrain has celebrated the first anniversary of its Global Technology Hub, which is on track to employ 1000 Bahraini coders over ten years. Currently, the hub comprises of 110 Bahraini employees, out of which 91 Bahrainis have started at the Citi Seef premises, with 19 additional hires set to join soon. Female participants at the Hub make up 22% of the total Bahrainis, outperforming the average of females in other Citi tech hubs around the world.
When selecting a country for its Global Technology Hub, Citi conducted a rigorous technical coding test and interview process, with Bahraini talent showing the highest pass rate when compared to other regions. Even more encouraging was the level of female talent in Bahrain's candidate pool, as Bahrain ranks first globally in multiple subindices according to Meta's Inclusive Internet Index (2022), including female digital skills training and STEM education, open data policies, and privacy regulations.
Commenting on the anniversary and the contribution of female participants in the hub, HH Shaikha Hessa bint Khalifa Al-Khalifa, Member of the Supreme Council for Women and Chairwoman of the Bahrain Women in Fintech Committee, said: "We are pleased to see Citi's achievements a year after the Hub's launch. Such initiatives contribute positively to achieving the goals of the Women in Fintech Committee working under the National Plan for the Advancement of Bahraini Women, and the National Gender Balance in Future Sciences Initiative, in line with the directions of Bahrain's Economic Vision 2030 as well as the Kingdom's digital transformation initiatives. It makes us proud to see Bahraini women directly contributing to the operations and growth of Citi's Global Tech Hub."
Furthermore, commenting on the occasion, HE the Governor of the Central Bank of Bahrain, Mr. Rasheed Mohammed Al Maraj, said: "The Financial services sector has progressed over the last decade, and we expect more changes in the coming years as the pace of digitisation increases. We are proud to see Bahraini talents and competencies benefiting and contributing in developing global centres affiliated with reputable financial institutions in order to promote digital solutions in the financial sector".
According to Citi Bahrain's CEO, Michel Sawaya, Citi has witnessed great results since the launch. "The coders had a big impact on developing our digital platforms, such as Citi Velocity and CitiFX Pulse. Their positive contribution helped implement important features, and subsequently take part of bigger projects that have helped us serve Citi clients globally" he said.
Citi launched its Global Tech Hub last year as part of a strategic partnership between Tamkeen, Bahrain's labour fund, and the Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB), the Kingdom's investment promotion agency. A first in the region, the Hub aims to develop and improve digital solutions for Citi's regional and global clients while creating 1000 tech jobs for Bahrainis over ten years.
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The Librexia program evaluating milvexian is unrivaled as the most comprehensive factor XIa inhibitor clinical development program to date and will provide extensive data from nearly 50,000 patients, with all three studies underway
RARITAN, N.J., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced that all three prospective indications for milvexian, an investigational oral factor XIa (FXIa) inhibitor (being developed in collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb), have now been granted Fast Track Designation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The designations cover all three indication-seeking studies within the Phase 3 Librexia development program (Librexia STROKE, Librexia ACS and Librexia AF), which are all dosing patients. The Librexia program is unrivaled as the most comprehensive FXIa clinical development program to date and will provide extensive data from nearly 50,000 patients.
"Despite major advances in cardiovascular and stroke treatment over the past two decades, millions of patients currently remain untreated or undertreated due to the risk of bleeding, but for whom thrombotic events could be prevented," said Robert Harrington, M.D., Arthur L. Bloomfield professor of medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Librexia program chair.i "If successful, milvexian could open the door to treat an entirely new set of patients who are currently overlooked due to bleeding risk."
All three indications being studied in the Phase 3 Librexia program were granted Fast Track Designation from the FDA. Fast Track Designation is intended to expedite development and review timelines when preliminary nonclinical and clinical evidence indicates the drug may demonstrate substantial improvement over available therapies to address unmet medical need for serious or life-threatening conditions. Fast Track Designation encourages close communication between the FDA and sponsor to improve the efficiency of product development, with the aim of getting new therapeutics to patients faster.
"For milvexian to receive Fast Track Designation from the FDA for all three indications demonstrates the enormous unmet need that still exists for the treatment of thrombotic events, like heart attack and stroke," said James F. List, M.D., Ph.D., Global Therapeutic Area Head, whose team oversees a portfolio of programs, including milvexian, at Janssen Research & Development, LLC. "We are now focused on enrolling patients to these trials with urgency, bringing us one step closer to potentially improving outcomes in a wide range of patients with thrombotic diseases."
Phase 2 AXIOMATIC-TKR and AXIOMATIC-SSP proof-of-concept data for milvexian demonstrated a differentiated antithrombotic profile as both a monotherapy and in combination with antiplatelet therapy. These data also suggest a positive efficacy and bleeding profile in stroke patients where FXa inhibitors are not indicated.
About Milvexian*
Milvexian is an investigational, oral factor XIa (FXIa) inhibitor (antithrombotic) being studied for the prevention and treatment of major thrombotic conditions as part of the Librexia program, the most comprehensive FXIa clinical development program to date.
*Milvexian is an investigational agent and has not been approved for use in any country, for any indication.
About the Librexia Program
The Librexia program is unrivaled as the most comprehensive FXIa clinical development program to date, studying nearly 50,000 patients across three parallel clinical trials (Librexia STROKE, Librexia ACS and Librexia AF). Grounded in positive Phase 2 efficacy and safety data, the Librexia program aims to investigate whether milvexian can enhance the benefit-risk profile associated with treating patients with these three conditions by delivering reduced thrombotic events with no increased risk of bleeding. The program is designed to potentially advance beyond the standard of care and help improve outcomes in a wide range of patients with thrombotic diseases. Each indication under evaluation in the Librexia program has received Fast Track Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Librexia STROKE, Librexia ACS and Librexia AF are dosing patients.
About Librexia STROKE
Librexia STROKE is a Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled study to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of milvexian in addition to single or dual antiplatelet therapy for stroke prevention after an acute ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA). More information can be found on http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05702034).
About Librexia ACS
Librexia ACS is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, event-driven study to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of milvexian after a recent acute coronary syndrome. More information can be found on http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05754957).
About Librexia AF
Librexia AF is a randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, parallel group, active-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of milvexian versus apixaban in participants with atrial fibrillation. More information can be found on http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT05757869).
About the Bristol Myers Squibb/Janssen Collaboration
Bristol Myers Squibb and the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen), two unsurpassed leaders in cardiovascular care, are determined to close the gap in unmet needs in thrombosis management by overcoming the limits of today's treatments. The collaboration to develop and commercialize milvexian aims to leverage the combined scientific heritage and world-class commercial capabilities of each company, all in service of improved patient outcomes. The alliance is uniquely equipped to deliver on the promise of FXIa inhibitors and is working diligently to ensure cutting-edge safe and effective treatment options are available for patients.
About the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
At Janssen, we're creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We're the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular, Metabolism & Retina; Immunology; Infectious Diseases & Vaccines; Neuroscience; Oncology; and Pulmonary Hypertension.
Learn more at www.janssen.com.
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 regarding milvexian. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. These statements are based on current expectations of future events. If underlying assumptions prove inaccurate or known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results could vary materially from the expectations and projections of Janssen Research & Development, LLC, any of the other Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies and/or Johnson & Johnson. Risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research and development, including the uncertainty of clinical success and of obtaining regulatory approvals; uncertainty of commercial success; manufacturing difficulties and delays; competition, including technological advances, new products and patents attained by competitors; challenges to patents; product efficacy or safety concerns resulting in product recalls or regulatory action; changes in behavior and spending patterns of purchasers of health care products and services; changes to applicable laws and regulations, including global health care reforms; and trends toward health care cost containment. A further list and descriptions of these risks, uncertainties and other factors can be found in Johnson & Johnson's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 1, 2023, including in the sections captioned "Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements" and "Item 1A. Risk Factors," and in Johnson & Johnson's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Copies of these filings are available online at www.sec.gov, www.jnj.com or on request from Johnson & Johnson. None of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies nor Johnson & Johnson undertakes to update any forward-looking statement as a result of new information or future events or developments.
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BERLIN (AP) — Voters in Berlin go to the polls this weekend to decide on a proposal that would force the city government to drastically ramp up the German capital’s climate goals.
Sunday’s referendum, which has attracted considerable financial support from U.S.-based philanthropists, calls for Berlin to become climate neutral by 2030, meaning that within less than eight years the city would not be allowed to contribute further to global warming. An existing law sets the deadline for achieving that goal at 2045, which is also Germany’s national target.
The center-right Christian Democratic Union, which won a recent local election in the capital and is likely to lead its new government, opposes the earlier target but would be bound to implement it if the referendum passes.
Jessamine Davis, a spokesperson for the grassroots group that initiated the vote, said Berlin’s current target isn’t in line with the 2015 Paris climate accord, which aims to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) compared with the pre-industrial average.
“This is a very ambitious target, we’re clear about that. And it won’t be easy,” she said of the plan to cut almost all emissions by 2030. “But the climate crisis is an even bigger challenge.”
Davis pointed to the flood disaster in western Germany two years ago that killed more than 180 people and caused tens of billions of euros (dollars) in economic damage. Scientists say such disasters could become more likely as the planet warms. By contrast, redesigning Berlin’s city-wide heating network so it becomes carbon neutral is estimated to cost 4 billion euros, she said.
Polls show Berliners are narrowly in favor of the proposal, but the law also requires that it win the support of at least 25% of the city’s 2.4 million eligible voters to pass — something that could be harder to achieve on a day when no elections or other votes are taking place.
To draw attention to the referendum, Davis’ group has conducted a large-scale advertising campaign, helped by donations of almost 1.2 million euros ($1.3 million). While about 150,000 euros came from crowdfunding, most of the money was provided by philanthropic organizations and individuals.
The biggest chunk — over 400,000 euros — came from German-American investors Albert Wenger and Susan Danziger.
In emails to The Associated Press, Wenger said the U.S.-based couple had “a long history of supporting climate movements and making investments in innovative solutions to the climate crisis.”
“The Berlin ballot initiative demonstrates that citizens in a democratic process are demanding faster and stronger climate action,” he said. “This is a replicable model for the rest of the world and could result in achieving climate neutrality by 2030 before major tipping points are crossed.”
Stefan Evers, a senior lawmaker for the Christian Democrats, said his party acknowledges the “historic challenge” of climate change and the impacts it is already having on Berlin and its 3.7 million inhabitants.
The party has proposed increasing the budget for climate-related measures by 5 to 10 billion euros, but Evers said the investments required if the referendum passes would break the bank.
“Everybody who votes ‘yes’ on Sunday needs to ask themselves: Do we want to make drastic savings on kindergartens, schools, public sports facilities, homeless aid and social housing because of this referendum, or not,’” he told fellow lawmakers Thursday.
Evers warned that if estimates of a 100 billion-euro price tag for the measures are accurate, “then in a few years Berlin won’t be climate-neutral but bankrupt.”
Strong criticism of the plan has also come from newspapers owned by German media giant Axel Springer. Its biggest shareholder is American investment firm KKR, which has sizeable financial interests in the fossil fuel industry.
In a statement, Axel Springer dismissed as “absurd” any suggestion that its publications could be influenced by the interests of its owners. “Economic interests or those of third parties don’t play a role in the coverage by our media,” it said.
Davis said she’s optimistic about the referendum’s chances, “but what really counts now is that everybody goes to the polls.” Days before the referendum her group complained that many voters who requested postal ballots had not received them. | 2023-03-25T11:36:57+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/news/world-news/berlin-vote-could-turbocharge-german-capitals-climate-plans/ |
(NEXSTAR) – The roller coaster selection at Disney World will be a bit less “rockin’” in 2023.
Walt Disney World has confirmed that the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster — officially known as the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith — will temporarily shutter for refurbishment beginning Feb. 20, 2023.
The indoor ride, located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, will reopen during the summer, Walt Disney World confirmed on its website.
The Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster has been in operation at Disney World since 1999. Riders play the part of VIP guests being whisked off to an Aerosmith concert, with the band’s songs pumping in their “limousines” as they fly down the track at speeds of up to 57 miles per hour. Aerosmith also appears in a pre-recorded segment shown to guests before the ride.
A version of the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster previously operated at Disneyland Paris between 2002 and 2019, as well.
A representative for Disney World was not immediately available to comment on what the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster’s refurbishment would entail. The upcoming changes, however, wouldn’t be the first for the ride in recent years: In 2016, Disney World digitally replaced one of Steven Tyler’s hand gestures in the pre-recorded segment, reportedly because it resembled a gesture associated with a sex act, the Associated Press reported at the time.
The Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster isn’t the only ride scheduled to close in 2023. Earlier this month, Disney World confirmed that Splash Mountain will close in January for “reimagining,” with plans to reopen as Tiana’s Bayou Adventure — a flume ride themed after the 2009 Disney film “The Princess and the Frog” — in late 2024. | 2023-01-01T15:28:31+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/longtime-disney-world-roller-coaster-to-temporarily-close-in-2023/ |
BENICIA, Calif. — Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo" is a hunk of bread.
That's what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot bread sculpture of the “Star Wars" character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back."
Hanalee Pervan and her mother, Catherine Pervan, co-owners of One House Bakery in Benicia, California, spent weeks molding, baking and assembling the life-sized sculpture using wood and two types of dough, including a type of yeastless dough with a higher sugar content that will last longer.
The two worked at night, after the day's business was done. The lovingly crafted details show Han Solo's anguished face and his hands straining to reach out.
Hanalee said she might have gotten a bit obsessed.
“Mom made me leave it because I was obsessing over the lips,” Hanalee Pervan told the New York Times. “She was like, ‘You need to walk away.’”
Creating Pan Solo was particularly meaningful, she told the paper, because she contracted COVID-19 in January 2021 and lost much of her senses of smell and taste.
“So just to find joy in a different part of food is really important,” she said.
The sculpture is now on display outside of the bakery, located about a half-hour's drive north of San Francisco.
Pan Solo is the bakery's entry in the annual Downtown Benicia Main Street Scarecrow Contest. The public will get to vote on their favorites from among more than two dozen creations entered by local businesses.
The Pervans, who are big science-fiction and fantasy fans, entered another “Star Wars"-themed creation in 2020 featuring the Mandalorian and Baby Yoda.
Unfortunately, Pan Solo won't last forever. The dough eventually will be composted, not eaten.
So as a wise Jedi might warn: Don't use the forks, Luke. | 2022-10-16T23:23:47+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/han-solo-bread/507-bee5d92f-1ac3-47df-bad7-58b0702b53a3 |
Report: Uvalde police chief told kids were alive in school
UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A police commander at the scene of the Uvalde massacre was informed that children were alive in a classroom with the gunman more than 30 minutes before officers breached the room.
A dispatcher can be heard on audio recordings obtained by CNN telling the acting city police chief that there were “eight to nine” kids alive and in need of help in the classroom.
The call came as hundreds of officers gathered outside Robb Elementary School, where 19 students and two teachers were killed.
The call with Lt. Mariano Pargas underscores that law enforcement personnel were aware that children were in danger even as they waited more than 70 minutes to confront the gunman.
Pargas has been placed on leave.
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2023 Corales Puntacana Championship Betting Odds, Favorites & Insights – Round 3
Matt Wallace is the current leader (+800) at the 2023 Corales Puntacana Championship after two rounds of play.
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- Start Time: 6:50 AM ET
- Venue: Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course)
- Location: Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Par/Distance: Par 72/7,670 yards
- TV: Golf Channel
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Ben Martin
- Tee Time: 11:50 AM ET
- Current Rank: 10th (-6)
- Odds to Win: +450
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Wyndham Clark
- Tee Time: 12:45 PM ET
- Current Rank: 2nd (-10)
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- Tee Time: 12:55 PM ET
- Current Rank: 1st (-11)
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Brice Garnett
- Tee Time: 12:35 PM ET
- Current Rank: 4th (-8)
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Orangeburg folks should be prepared for high temperatures. The forecast calls for it to be a balmy 82 degrees. A 67-degree low is forecasted. Keep an eye on the radar before you head outside today, there is a slight chance of rain. Today's UV index is medium. Seek shade during late morning through mid-afternoon. When outside, generously apply sunscreen, wear protective clothing, a wide-brimmed hat, and sunglasses. The Orangeburg area should see a light breeze, with forecast models showing only 11 mph wind conditions coming up from Southeast. This report is created automatically with weather data provided by TownNews.com. Keep an eye on thetandd.com for forecast information and severe weather updates.
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Orangeburg people will see temperatures in the 60s today. It looks to reach a mild 67 degrees. Expect a drastic drop in temperatures though, w… | 2022-11-05T11:55:15+00:00 | thetandd.com | https://thetandd.com/weather/here-is-todays-weather-outlook-for-nov-5-2022-in-orangeburg-sc/article_5e77d0a5-9bb8-566b-a33a-840d7ae3f581.html |
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