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Authorities ID New Mexico gunman who killed 3, wounded 6 as 18-year-old high schooler
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The gunman who killed three people and wounded six others while roaming through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood and apparently firing at random targets was an 18-year-old high school student, authorities said Tuesday.
The attack occurred Monday morning in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 people near the Four Corners, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet.
Witnesses and police say the gunman walked through a neighborhood a short drive from downtown Farmington spraying bullets at cars, homes and passersby until police arrived at the scene and shot and killed him.
San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari said at a news conference Tuesday that four officers fired a total of 16 rounds at the gunman, including one of two officers who were wounded. Authorities identified the gunman Tuesday as Beau Wilson.
Mayor Nate Duckett said Tuesday both wounded law enforcement officers — a local Farmington officer and a state police officer — were treated and released from a hospital.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The bullets that an 18-year-old high school student fired while meandering through his northwestern New Mexico neighborhood struck targets he apparently picked at random, including cars, homes and passersby. Police responded to the scene within minutes and swiftly killed the gunman, but not before he killed three people and wounded several others.
Authorities on Tuesday were trying to determine what led to Monday’s attack in Farmington, a city of about 50,000 that is a bedroom community for the oil and gas industry near the Four Corners, where New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado meet.
The attacker, whose name hadn’t been released as of Tuesday morning but who neighbors say was a student at Farmington High School, carried at least three weapons, including an AR-style rifle, according to police. Authorities also hadn’t identified the dead or six wounded, including two police officers who were treated at a hospital. Police were expected to release further details about the case at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
“At this point it appears to be purely random, that there was no schools, no churches and no individuals targeted,” Police Chief Steve Hebbe said Monday night in a recorded video statement.
Hebbe said the “suspect randomly fired at whatever entered his head to shoot at,” as bullets pierced a half-dozen houses and several cars.
It was “honestly one of the most horrific and difficult days that Farmington has ever had as a community,” he said.
Former state Rep. James Strickler said among the three killed were an elderly mother and daughter who were both over the age of 70.
“Obviously this person is not of sound mind. It’s tragic, because these poor ladies were innocent,” Strickler said.
Officers began receiving reports of gunshots at about 10:57 a.m. and the first one arrived at the scene at 11:02 a.m., Hebbe said. Three minutes later, the gunman had been killed.
A Farmington officer was wounded and taken to a hospital where he was treated and released. A state police officer who was shot and drove himself to the hospital, where he remained Monday and was doing well, Hebbe said. That officer was reported to be in stable condition.
Joseph Robledo, a 32-year-old tree trimmer, said he rushed home after learning that his wife, Jolene, and their year-old daughter had sought shelter in the laundry room when gunshots rang out. A bullet went through his daughter’s window and room, without hitting anyone.
Jolene Robledo said she and her daughter had just finished breakfast when she heard “pop, pop, pop, pop,” which she first thought was a car backfiring. She said they were going to run out the back door until she heard a male voice that sounded right outside the home say the f-word, so she quietly shut the door and hid with her daughter between the washing machine and dryer.
“I mean it was crazy. I called my husband and he could hear the gunshots over the phone,” she said. “He was freaking out and I was like ‘don’t hang up, don’t hang up!’”
Joseph Robledo said he jumped a fence to get in through the back door. Out front, he found an older woman in the street who had been wounded while driving by. She appeared to have fallen out of her car, which kept rolling without her, he said.
“I went out to see because the lady was just lying in the road, and to figure just what the heck was going on,” Robledo said. He and others began to administer first aid.
Neighbors directed an arriving police officer toward the suspect.
“We were telling (the officer), ‘He’s down there.’ … The cop just went straight into action,” Robledo said.
Robledo’s own family car was perforated with bullets.
“We’ve been doing yard work all last week. I just thank God that nobody was outside in front,” he said. “Obviously, elderly people — he didn’t have no sympathy for them.”
Downtown Farmington, which is a short drive from the residential neighborhood where the attack happened, has undergone a transformation of sorts in recent years, with cafes and breweries cropping up alongside decades-old businesses that trade in Native American crafts from silver jewelry to wool weavings.
Nick Akins, a middle school teacher who lives in the area where the attack occurred, said it’s a great place to live, with a mix of homes, short-term rental apartments and churches.
“You never think it’s going to happen here, and all of a sudden, in a tiny little town, it comes here,” Akins said.
On Tuesday, orange circles of spray paint still marked the ground where police had collected evidence in the shootings. Authorities were using metal detectors to search the grass in front of one of the churches along the street where gunfire erupted.
As night approached Monday, dozens of people gathered at Hills Church, a few miles (kilometers) from the attack scene, to pray at the base of a tall metal cross. Lead pastor Matt Mizell talked about living in a “dark and broken world” but told the crowd there was still hope and asked God to provide them strength.
Politicians also weighed in about the attack.
Mayor Nate Duckett said in a statement that the shooting “has left us reeling in anguish and disbelief.”
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a statement that she was praying for the families of those killed and that it “serves at yet another reminder of how gun violence destroys lives in our state and our country every single day.”
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, a Democrat who represents the area in Congress, said in a Facebook post that “our beautiful Nuevo Mexico is not immune to the mass shootings that occur across the country — Every. Single. Day.”
“I praise the heroes who drove to danger to stop the violence. I pray for the quick recovery of the wounded and for the families of those we lost,” she said.
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Ritter reported from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Lee from Santa Fe. Associated Press writer Terry Tang in Phoenix contributed.
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Hurts, Eagles soar into Super Bowl, rout 49ers for NFC title
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts had one of Philadelphia’s four rushing touchdowns and the Eagles soared into the Super Bowl, forcing both of San Francisco’s quarterbacks out of the game with injuries and beating the wounded 49ers 31-7 in the NFC championship game on Sunday.
The Eagles, who won the Super Bowl five years ago with a different coach and quarterback, will try to do it again behind the formidable duo of Hurts and coach Nick Sirianni. Philadelphia will play either the Cincinnati Bengals or former Eagles coach Andy Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs.
“Obviously this is something you dream about as a kid. All these guys on the team have dreamt about this their entire lives, too,” Sirianni said. “Just to be able to do this together with a bunch of men that love each other, that are connected to each other, that will do anything for each other is pretty sweet.”
Miles Sanders ran for two touchdowns and linebacker Haason Redick made the hit that forced 49ers rookie quarterback Brock Purdy out of the game with an elbow injury. Redick also recovered a fumble by Purdy’s replacement, Josh Johnson, who later suffered a concussion.
That forced Purdy back into the game, but his injury was clearly a factor as the 49ers all but gave up on throwing the ball, even while trailing by multiple scores.
San Francisco’s bad luck at quarterback was finally too much to overcome as its 12-game win streak ended. The Niners lost both Trey Lance and Jimmy Garoppolo to season-ending injuries, and Purdy — the final pick in April’s draft — lost as a starter for the first time.
Philadelphia police greased traffic and light poles in what has often proved a futile attempt to slow the revelry ahead. But a city that has been starved for a championship now has its beloved Birds in the Super Bowl just three months after the Philadelphia Phillies reached the World Series.
“You see this city and the passion they have for this team. We’re so appreciative of these fans,” Sirianni said. “Look at this place. There’s no place like this in the NFL. It’s a hard-working city, it’s a blue-collar city. We think that’s the type of team we have.”
The game disintegrated in the waning minutes and Philadelphia’s K’Von Wallace and San Francisco’s Trent Williams were ejected for their roles in a brawl. Williams yanked Wallace from behind and slammed him to the ground.
At that point, who cared? Eagles fans waved their green towels and went wild as confetti fluttered around them. They sang the fight song — one more emphatic “E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!” — in celebration of a franchise that advanced to its fourth Super Bowl.
The Eagles broke the game open in the final two minutes of the first half, getting a rise out of a crowd that had been quiet with nervous energy since a touchdown on the opening drive.
Sanders broke free for a 13-yard run for a 14-7 lead, concluding a 14-play, 75-yard drive extended by three 49ers penalties.
Johnson bobbled a shotgun snap and fumbled on the next drive, and Reddick — the free-agent pickup from Carolina having one of the great defensive seasons in franchise history — recovered at the San Francisco 30. Boston Scott scooted 10 yards for a touchdown and 21-7 lead.
Even with Hurts almost a non-factor — he had 97 yards passing in the first half — the Eagles were firmly in control. Hurts finished 15 of 25 for 121 yards. His 1-yard rushing touchdown on Philadelphia’s signature rugby-style QB sneak made it 28-7.
“It’s been a lot. I’m not going to make this about me,” Hurts said. “This city is a special city. They deserve everything, It’s a special city. We have one more.”
Purdy left the game with an elbow injury after he was drilled in the arm by Reddick on San Francisco’s first drive, leading to a fumble. The 23-year-old Purdy’s improbable rise from “Mr. Irrelevant” to playoff starter ended with a whimper as he failed to become the first rookie QB to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
He was improbably needed again in the third quarter after Johnson, a journeyman backup signed in December, was also hurt.
The Eagles used quick thinking as they scored on their opening drive for the second straight playoff game. DeVonta Smith made a sensational one-handed grab for 29 yards, but replays showed he appeared to lose control of the ball as he hit the ground. Smith popped up and frantically waved the Eagles to the line. Niners coach Kyle Shanahan did not challenge the call and the Eagles got off the next play. Sanders scored on a 6-yard run.
With little hope they could get anything going behind Johnson, the 49ers turned to Christian McCaffrey to get on the board. He broke three tackles on a 23-yard touchdown run that made it 7-7 in the second quarter.
With no quarterbacks who could throw, that was about the end for Shanahan’s Niners, who managed 164 yards of offense and 11 first downs.
IN THE HOUSE
First lady Jill Biden, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, actor Bradley Cooper, comedian Kevin Hart and several 76ers including Joel Embiid attended the game.
UP NEXT
The Super Bowl is Feb. 12 in Glendale, Arizona.
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Residents in a small Ohio town where a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed this month expressed frustration at a community meeting late Wednesday after the train's operator didn't show up -- and continued to voice their mounting distrust in assurances of their safety.
Hundreds poured into a high school auditorium in East Palestine on Wednesday night, nearly two weeks after a Norfolk Southern train carrying potentially deadly materials derailed in their hometown and upended their lives.
The massive aftermath of the derailment -- including a blaze that lasted for days -- led to the evacuation of many residents. And although the evacuations orders ended February 8, a chemical odor lingered days afterward and officials estimate thousands of fish were killed by contamination washing down streams and rivers, fueling residents' concerns about water and air safety.
Lenny Glavan, an East Palestine resident, told reporters Wednesday night at the meeting he still doesn't have answers regarding the safety of his community and family.
"Is it OK to still be here? Are my kids safe? Are the people safe? Is the future of this community safe?" Glavan told reporters. "We all know the severity of that question, and what's at stake. Some people think they are downplaying; some people don't think so -- let's find out."
Also spurring residents' questions about safety were crews' decision to conduct controlled detonations February 6 of some of the tanks that were carrying toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride that has the potential to kill at high levels and increase cancer risk.
The detonation essentially released those chemicals into the air, but officials say they didn't have other viable options.
"There (were) two options: We either detonate those tanks, or they detonate themselves," Mayor Trent Conaway told a group of reporters at Wednesday's meeting.
"Yes, harmful chemicals went into the air. I am truly sorry, but that is the only option we had. If we didn't do that, then they were going to blow up, and we were going to have shrapnel all across this town."
Conaway, who leads a town of about 5,000 people bordering the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line, appeared to be frustrated while speaking with reporters as he expressed concern for the safety of his residents
"My greatest concern is that my citizens feel safe. That's what I care about. I don't care about anything else," Conaway told reporters.
Michael Regan, who heads the US Environmental Protection Agency, plans to visit the East Palestine community Thursday to assess the ongoing federal and state response to the derailment.
Meanwhile, representatives of train's operator, Norfolk Southern, planned on attending Wednesday night's meeting to provide information to residents on how they're responding to the chemical crisis. But the company backed out, citing threats against its employees.
"We have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event stemming from the increasing likelihood of the participation of outside parties," the company said in a release.
"We are not going anywhere," the company noted, adding it's "committed to East Palestine and will continue to respond to community concerns."
The meeting came on a day when state officials again announced water coming from the municipal system was safe to drink. Test results from five wells that supply the system -- covered by steel casing -- showed no contaminants, the Ohio governor's office said.
Still, the state's Environmental Protection Agency encourages residents who get water from private wells to get that water tested, because those wells may be closer to the surface than the municipal wells, the governor's office said.
When the evacuation order was lifted February 8, officials at the time said air and water sample results led them to deem the area safe.
Resident: Company's absence was a 'slap in the face'
Nate Velez, who said he lives less than half a mile from where the train derailed, told CNN on Wednesday night that the company's absence from the meeting was "a slap in the face."
"We are all excited for this town hall meeting, and it is just a slap in the face because the people who put us out are too afraid to show up to the meeting," Velez told said.
Velez and his family are temporarily staying in rentals away from the town. He previously told CNN that when he visited the town Monday, a chemical odor left his eyes and throat burning, and gave him a nagging headache.
"Most people did not want to go home, but they had to. So, all the people who had to go home were complaining of smells, pains in their throat, headaches, sickness.
"I have gone back a few times, and the smell does make you sick. It hurts your head."
Mayor to EPA: 'I need help'
Ahead of the EPA visit to East Palestine, the town's mayor expressed that he needs all the help he can get from the federal agency.
"I need help," Conaway told reporters Wednesday night. "I have the village on my back, and I'll do whatever it takes ... to make this right. I'm not leaving, I'm not going anywhere. This is my town. I'm not going to sell my house. I'm not going to move my kids out of the school. I'm here to stay," he said.
Regan, the federal EPA administrator, plans to meet with city, state and federal leaders involved in the response, hear from impacted residents as well as discuss the agency's ongoing air, water and soil testing following the explosion.
A February 10 notice from the EPA deems Norfolk Southern responsible for cleaning up the site.
In a document sent to the EPA and recently made public by the agency, a company contracted by Norfolk Southern for cleanup efforts did not list soil removal among completed activities.
According to experts, removal of soil after it comes into contact with hazardous chemicals is a key step in the cleanup of spill sites.
CNN asked Norfolk Southern why it had not removed contaminated soil, and if it had filled in areas of contaminated soil and chemicals to reopen the rail line.
A company spokesperson said "some soil is moved around" during the initial response phase. The company is continuing to "remediate the site" including by removing soil, spokesperson Connor Spielmaker added.
The federal EPA and Ohio EPA have not responded to repeated questions from CNN about removal of contaminated soil.
Conaway said Wednesday night that he's been in regular contact with Norfolk Southern, noting that the have been cooperating with him and local officials "tremendously."
"But, they should -- because they're the ones that screwed this up," Conaway said. "They screwed up our town, they're going to fix it. If they don't, I'll be the first one calling you back to do this all over again."
How the train company is responding
Norfolk Southern on Wednesday said it plans to create a $1 million charitable fund to support the East Palestine community.
"We will be judged by our actions. We are cleaning up the site in an environmentally responsible way, reimbursing residents affected by the derailment, and working with members of the community to identify what is needed to help East Palestine recover and thrive," Norfolk Southern President and CEO Alan Shaw said in a statement.
The company described the fund as "one component of its planned support" to the community.
The company also expended $1,000 payment beyond residents who were within a mile of the spill evacuation zone and will now pay each resident in the entire 44413 ZIP code that money, a spokesman for the company told CNN.
As of Tuesday evening, Norfolk Southern has distributed more than $1.5 million in direct financial assistance to more than 1,000 families and a number of businesses to cover costs related to the evacuation, the company said Wednesday in a news release.
Those payments are in addition to the company's offer to reimburse expenses related to residents evacuating during the incident, which includes the costs of hotels stays, food and more, said Speilmaker, the company spokesman.
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Brother uses slingshot to save sister from being abducted, police say
ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WNEM/Gray News) - An 8-year-old girl in Michigan was able to escape an alleged kidnapper with the help of her older brother.
According to Michigan State Police, the girl was mushroom hunting in her backyard on Wednesday when an unknown male appeared from the woods.
The male suspect held the victim’s mouth shut before a struggle ensued and the girl was able to break free.
Police said the girl’s 13-year-old brother witnessed the assault and shot the suspect with his slingshot,
The 17-year-old suspect ended up being hit in the head and chest, according to authorities.
A family member reportedly spotted the 17-year-old leaving the area and troopers were able to find him hiding at a nearby gas station.
Police did not release the suspect’s name due to his age, but they said he was taken into custody where he confessed that he planned to severely beat the young girl.
The teen is facing charges that include attempted kidnapping and assault. Authorities said he will be charged as an adult and was booked in jail on a $150,000 bond.
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Five Social Entrepreneurs Using 5G for Good Advance to Final Round
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CTIA Wireless Foundation today announced the five finalists in Catalyst 2023, a competitive grants program accelerating social entrepreneurs using the power of 5G and leading-edge wireless technologies to enhance lives and improve American communities.
"These Catalyst 2023 Finalists personify the wireless industry's spirit of entrepreneurism," said Dori Kreiger, Executive Director of CTIA Wireless Foundation. "We are thrilled to continue supporting the work of bold visionaries who embrace the transformational power of mobile-first solutions to enrich our lives, uplift our communities and bridge the digital divide."
In its fourth consecutive year as the Foundation's signature initiative, Catalyst remains dedicated to elevating and funding solutions that leverage the speed, efficiency and versatility of 5G wireless as a platform for innovation and social good. Catalyst will award over $200,000 in unrestricted grants to this year's finalists.
The Catalyst 2023 Finalists are:
- Dope Nerds: Breaking down barriers to digital inclusion by using virtual reality to deliver STEM-STEAM curricula along with career planning to middle and high school students. Dope Nerds was founded by Ursula Spencer, a self-proclaimed nerd who started her first tech company at 21.
- Healium: An immersive, virtual solution for stress management powered by biofeedback. The company's social purpose provides virtual tours to terminally ill and aging Veterans who are unable to visit their memorials in Washington, DC. Healium was founded by Sarah Hill, a former TV journalist who covered trauma for decades.
- PONS: An AI-driven mobile technology that patients use to provide remote ultrasound imaging to doctors. PONS was founded by Soner Hacihaliloglu and two professors at Rutgers University.
- Promly: Supports teen mental health through a social platform that uses AI for age recognition, suicide risk and self-harm detection and biofeedback to monitor and manage panic attacks. Promly was founded by Jen Libby, a therapist who specializes in high-risk adolescents.
- ReThink: An app stopping digital hate by using AI and machine learning to detect online hostility before it's sent and prompting youth to "rethink" sending it. ReThink was founded by Trisha Prabhu during her high school science fair, a first-generation American who experienced online harassment.
Supporting the reach and access of 5G wireless technologies, this year, the Foundation saw a record number of Catalyst applications from diverse social entrepreneurs from across the United States. 74% of applicant organizations are led by a member/members of the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and 57% of the organizations are led by a person whose gender identity is female.
The five finalists will participate in an invitation-only second round application and three finalists will be selected as winners in fall 2023, with the first-place winner receiving a $100,000 grant, and the second and third place entries receiving $50,000 and $25,000, respectively. Additional finalists will receive honorable mentions and $10,000 grants.
Thank you to the Catalyst 2023 sponsors: Qualcomm, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, American Tower, Asurion, Assurant, iconectiv, Intel, Wiley Rein LLP and Wilkinson Barker Knauer.
30 Years of Wireless Social Innovation
For more than 30 years, CTIA Wireless Foundation has been at the forefront of wireless-driven social innovation, leading initiatives to address societal challenges such as public safety, domestic violence, children's health, mental health and distracted driving. Our mission is to fuel positive social impact by using innovative wireless technology in American communities.
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SUFFOLK, Va. (AP) — Whenever historic homes get flooded, building contractors often feel compelled by government regulations to rip out the water-logged wood flooring, tear down the old plaster walls and install new, flood-resistant materials.
It’s a hurried approach that’s likely to occur across southwest Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. But restorers Paige Pollard and Kerry Shackelford say they know something that science is yet to prove: historic building materials can often withstand repeated soakings. There’s often no need, they say, to put in modern products such as box-store lumber that are both costly to homeowners and dilute a house’s historic character.
“Our forefathers chose materials that were naturally rot-resistant, like black locust and red cedar and cypress,” said Shackelford, who owns a historic restoration business. “And they actually survive better than many of the products we use today.”
Pollard and Shackelford are part of an emerging movement in the U.S. that aims to prove the resilience of older homes as more fall under the threat of rising seas and intensifying storms due to climate change. They hope their research near Virginia’s coast can convince more government officials and building contractors that historic building materials often need cleaning — not replacing — after a flood.
In Florida, historic preservationists already fear older homes damaged by Ian may be stripped of original materials because so few craftsmen are available who can properly perform repairs.
“There are some companies that just roll through, and their job is just to come in and gut the place and move on,” said Jenny Wolfe, board president of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation.
Pollard and Shackelford’s joint venture in Virginia, the retrofit design firm Building Resilient Solutions, opened a lab this year in which planks of old-growth pine, oak and cedar are submerged into a tank mimicking flood conditions. The tests are designed to demonstrate historic materials’ durability and were devised with help from Virginia Tech researchers.
Meanwhile, the National Park Service has been working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on similar research at the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Illinois.
Researchers there have read through construction manuals from the mid-19th and early 20th centuries to assemble everything from tongue-and-groove flooring to brick walls coated with plaster. The materials were lowered into water containing bacteria and mold to simulate tainted floodwater.
The research may seem glaringly redundant considering all of the older homes that stand intact along the nation’s coasts and rivers: many have withstood multiple floods and still boast their original floors and walls.
Pollard and Shackelford say lumber in older homes is resilient because it came from trees that grew slowly over decades, if not centuries. That means the trees’ growth rings were small and dense, thereby making it harder for water to seep in. Also, the timber was cut from the innermost part of the trunk, which produces the hardest wood.
Plaster can also be water resistant, while common plaster coatings were made from lime, a substance with antiseptic qualities.
But here’s the problem: U.S. flood insurance regulations often require structures in flood-prone areas to be repaired with products classified as flood-resistant. And many historic building materials haven’t been classified because they haven’t been tested.
U.S. regulations allow exceptions for homes on the National Register of Historic Places as well as some state and local registries. But not everyone fully understands or is aware of the exceptions, which can be limited.
The far bigger challenge is a lack of expertise among contractors and local officials, Pollard said. Interpretations of the regulations can vary, particularly in the chaos after a major flood.
“You’ve got a property owner who’s in distress,” said Pollard, who co-owns a historic preservation firm. “They’re dealing with a contractor who’s being pulled in a million directions. And the contractors are trained to get all of that (wet) material into a dumpster as quickly as possible.”
In Norfolk, Virginia, Karen Speights said a contractor replaced her original first floor — made from old-growth pine — with laminate flooring after her home flooded.
Built in the 1920s, Speights’ two-story craftsman is in Chesterfield Heights, a predominantly Black neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits along an estuary of the Chesapeake Bay in one of the most vulnerable cities to sea-level rise.
“I still believe I had a good contractor, but flooding was not his expertise,” Speights said. “You don’t know what you don’t know.”
Along Florida’s Gulf Coast, there are thousands of historic structures, said Wolfe of the Florida Trust. A large number of them are wood-framed houses on piers with plaster-and-lath walls.
Many likely just need to be dried out after Ian, Wolfe said. But only so many local contractors know what to do “in terms of drying them slowly and opening up the baseboards to get circular airflow.”
Andy Apter, president-elect of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, agreed that many contractors aren’t well-versed in older building materials.
“There’s no course that I know of that teaches you directly how to work on historical homes,” said Apter, a Maryland contractor. “It’s like an antique car. You’re going to be limited on where you can find parts and where you can find someone who’s qualified to work on it.”
But interest in the resilience of older homes has grown since Hurricane Katrina, which deluged hundreds of thousands of historic structures along the Gulf Coast in 2005, according to Jenifer Eggleston, the National Park Service’s chief of staff for cultural resources, partnerships and science.
Eggleston said the park service recognized the growing need to protect older structures and issued new guidelines last year for rehabilitating historic buildings in flood-prone areas.
The guidelines recommend keeping historic materials in place when possible. But they don’t list specific materials due to the lack of research on their flood resistance.
That’s where the studies come in.
A recent study by the park service and Army Corps found that some historic materials, such as old-growth heart pine and cypress flooring, performed considerably better than certain varieties of modern lumber, Eggleston said.
Those particular floor assemblies could be dried for reuse after so-called “clean water” damage, Eggleston said. But they would likely require refinishing to remove “biological activity,” such as mold and bacteria.
Pollard and Shackelford said they’re hoping for an eventual shift in practices that will save money for homeowners as well as taxpayers, who often foot the bill after a major disaster.
In the meantime, flooding in historic areas will only get worse from more frequent rain storms or more powerful hurricanes, said Chad Berginnis, executive director of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.
“Think about our historic settlement patterns in the country,” Berginnis said. “On the coasts, we settled around water. Inland, we settled around water.”
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2022-10-10T04:05:06+00:00
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When U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued a sobering advisory on loneliness in American society last week, he spoke with urgency about the serious public health consequences of an increasingly solitary population.
“I want the entire country to understand how profound a public health threat loneliness and isolation pose,” Murthy said in an interview with The Washington Post.
Post readers took note, with hundreds commenting on our article on the advisory. Older readers, in particular, spoke up — Murthy’s advisory noted that seniors reported the highest rates of social isolation, and that the coronavirus pandemic was particularly isolating for older and sicker Americans.
In the spirit of Murthy’s call to “mend the social fabric of our nation,” readers shared touching, nuanced perspectives. Some also pushed back on the notion that isolation was bad for them, describing themselves as introverts who prefer solitude or distrust others in their community.
The Post interviewed several commenters who provided poignant snapshots of how they live their lives and how they attempt to find and nurture meaningful connection during this fractured time in America. Below are their stories.
Veronica Stevens
Another summer break looms for Veronica Stevens — it’s a time when she could go weeks without seeing another human being.
The divorced 60-year-old teacher lost both of her sons, 27 and 26, in 2020 to different health problems and has struggled to make friends at work and church. She agrees with the surgeon general that being lonely and unhealthy go hand-in-hand. The Melbourne, Fla., resident suffers from asthma, arthritis and other diseases of inflammation — which are exacerbated by chronic stress. She doesn’t exercise much with her sons no longer around to walk with her.
Remote schooling brought her peace, allowing her to grieve privately without being surrounded by co-workers talking about their spouses and children.
“I’m like, oh my God, they go home, and they go home to families, and I go home to four cats,” Stevens said. “It can hurt.”
She finds solace on social media, posting photos of her crotchet work on Facebook and Instagram and basking in the positive feedback. She recently started practicing Buddhism, meditating, reading sutra scriptures and watching videos about dharma every day.
Stevens said she is still lonely, but she can function.
“I don’t want to be in a nursing home and forced to play bingo just because people think it’s going to extend my life.”— Mary Ramsay
Mary Ramsay
Mary Ramsay questions Murthy’s implication that loneliness can kill you.
The 63-year-old Vancouver, B.C., resident likes activities done alone — she reads four or five books at a time and practices the flute and piano. To her, early-pandemic Zoom work calls in her living room felt like an intrusion. Loneliness, she said, is about lacking the social support you need — and people have different needs.
“I don’t want to be in a nursing home and forced to play bingo just because people think it’s going to extend my life,” Ramsay said. “That to me is a living death.”
Ramsay stressed that she doesn’t cast aside all human interaction. She calls her daughter regularly and wishes she lived closer. She plays cards with people, although she rarely socializes with them outside of poker nights. She used to be in a touring band for a vaudeville group, too, but it was hard to find a quiet space to read a book.
“It took me a long time to realize I am pretty solitary and that’s okay, and I’m not going to die,” said Ramsay, describing a struggle to overcome a social pressure to constantly spend time with others.
Antonia DeLuca
Antonia DeLuca used to sit alone on a bench in her southeastern North Carolina beach community, sulking through what a friend called a “Toni Pity Party.” She and her husband had moved from New Jersey a decade ago in pursuit of sunshine for their golden years, but with no family or friends nearby, DeLuca spent much of her time crying and eating.
Things changed after another older woman sat down next to her on the bench one day, and they chatted about the beautiful scenery, the nearby pelicans and herons, and people walking by. They shook hands and went their separate ways without trading contact information, but “I got in my car and thought that was a turning point for me, maybe you need to reach out to people and stop being sorry for yourself,” said DeLuca, now 76.
Today, DeLuca calls a college friend every day. She joined a spin class, book club and small Episcopal church. She strikes up conversations at the grocery store, learning a salad recipe after helping a customer track down a missing ingredient in the produce section. She lives in a mixed-age neighborhood and is invigorated by the sight of young parents pushing strollers.
“I don’t want to become bitter or angry or hateful, and that to me is part of what loneliness can do to someone,” DeLuca said. “I’ve seen it happen to many people.”
Mary Jo Drew
Mary Jo Drew can recall a time in the not-too-distant past when welcoming a new neighbor with a smile and an inviting dish was the norm.
“Even if they didn’t bring a casserole, they’d always come over and maybe invite my mother over for coffee,” said Drew, a 65-year-old retired physician based in Loveland, Colo. But, Drew added, that’s no longer the case.
Drew, who said she feels a twinge of loneliness about three or four times a week, has tried fostering kinship with others. There are the women she sees on her daily walks around her neighborhood, people she will strike up a conversation with and make tentative plans to meet up with, yet for whatever reason those plans never come to fruition.
There’s also the local church she stopped attending, one she had been going to since 2018, because of the lack of communication from members once her mother died in the early days of the pandemic. “My mom’s obituary was in the paper,” Drew said. “I never heard from the minister.”
To manage her moments of loneliness, Drew said she will typically reach out to friends via call or text, and that usually allays the feeling. She also sits on the board of a local theater, where she can indulge in her love of the arts.
Jean Raber
Jean Raber, now 69, said she believes “purposelessness” and loneliness go “hand in hand.” Raber was in her early 60s and had just started retirement when her mother died, and she felt the pangs of that “purposelessness” as she handled the ins and outs of her mother’s estate in the year following her death.
“I walked around telling everybody I knew how much I hated retirement and how I might as well die,” said Raber, who lives in Ovid, Mich.
But when her husband suffered a heart attack in the middle of the pandemic, she had an epiphany. “I started realizing, okay, you can’t just sit here and whine about how purposeless you feel,” Raber said, telling herself. “You need to be more open to people.”
Raber talked about the kindness from a nurse who “acted like I was the only person on Earth,” while providing her with updates about her husband’s condition. The admiration Raber felt for health-care employees during that saga helped her “reorder” her thoughts so she could stop being “a drag to other people.” Raber said her husband has since recovered and added she believes he was “really getting tired” of her once-negative disposition.
Raber focuses now on doing small things that have a big effect, such as knitting blankets for an organization that provides burial services for abandoned babies who have died. “Every day you need to ask yourself, how have I been useful or of service to someone?”
“Loneliness doesn’t mean that you’re by yourself. Sure, that’s a facet of it, but I think it’s about connection.”— Holly
Holly
Holly, a 62-year-old retiree in Tucson, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says she feels the grasp of loneliness “a little bit every day.”
“Loneliness doesn’t mean that you’re by yourself,” she said. “Sure, that’s a facet of it, but I think it’s about connection.” Holly pointed to what she sees as a general lack of kinship among her fellow Americans. For her, a sense of isolation can be prompted by aggressive drivers on the road, she said, bringing up examples of people who tailgate or make obscene gestures.
That feeling of disconnection has influenced her behavior in some ways, she admitted. For example, when she eats at a restaurant, she said she positions herself somewhere in the corner of the room or close to an exit door, fully taking in her surroundings.
“There’s not a lot of kindness out there, and that gives me a sense of loneliness,” Holly said.
Holly still extends grace whenever she can.
“I try to tell myself that you never know what anybody else is going through,” she said. “And people act out usually because they’re hurting themselves. So I try to remind myself that it’s probably not even personal.”
Holly looks to and admires some of her neighbors, who have multiple generations of family sharing one home. Holly, who is married with five children — only one of whom lives at home — is trying to strengthen her family’s bonds. Among other things, she is simplifying family gatherings during the Christmas holiday season.
“We don’t spend enormous amounts of money,” she said. “We focus on just being together and enjoying one another’s company and a good meal, rather than buying a bunch of presents.”
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2023-05-12T11:33:33+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/12/loneliness-americans-public-health-stories/
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday appeared set to return to power as head of Israel’s most right-wing government ever after winning this week’s national election, with the current caretaker prime minister conceding defeat.
Final results showed Netanyahu’s Likud Party and its ultranationalist and religious partners capturing a solid majority in Israel’s Knesset, or parliament.
The strong showing promised to end the political gridlock that has paralyzed Israel for the past three and a half years. But the planned agenda of the new government expected to take office — including an overhaul of the country’s legal system and a tough line against the Palestinians — promises to further polarize a deeply divided nation and risks antagonizing Israel’s closest allies abroad.
Israel on Tuesday held its fifth election since 2019 in a race, like the previous four, that was widely seen as a referendum on Netanyahu's fitness to rule as he faces corruption charges. While the previous races ended in deadlock, Netanyahu managed a disciplined campaign that gave him the edge over a divided and disorganized opposition.
The acting prime minister, Yair Lapid, conceded defeat and called Netanyahu to congratulate him shortly before the final results were released. Lapid said he had instructed his staff to prepare an organized transition of power.
“The state of Israel comes before any political consideration,” Lapid said. “I wish Netanyahu success, for the sake of the people of Israel and the state of Israel.”
There was no immediate comment from Netanyahu.
According to the unofficial final results, Netanyahu and his ultranationalist and ultra-Orthodox allies captured 64 seats in Israel’s 120-seat Knesset. His opponents in the outgoing coalition, led by Lapid, won 51 seats, with the remainder held by a small unaffiliated Arab faction. Netanyahu still has to conduct negotiations with his partners, but is expected to form a coalition in the coming weeks.
The election focused heavily on the values that are meant to define the state: Jewish or democratic. In the end, voters favored their Jewish identity.
Netanyahu's main governing partner is expected to be Religious Zionism, a far-right party whose main candidate, Itamar Ben-Gvir has built a career on confrontations with Palestinians and espouses anti-Arab views that were once largely confined to an extremist fringe.
The party will be the third-largest in parliament.
Ben-Gvir says he wants to end Palestinian autonomy in parts of the occupied West Bank and maintain Israel’s occupation over the Palestinians, now in its 56th year, indefinitely. Until recently, he hung a photo in his home of a Jewish militant who murdered 29 Palestinian worshippers in a 1994 mosque shooting in the West Bank.
Ben-Gvir has labeled Arab lawmakers “terrorists” and called for their deportation. The far-right lawmaker, who recently brandished a pistol while visiting a tense Palestinian neighborhood in east Jerusalem, wants to be put in charge of the country’s police force.
The party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, a fellow West Bank settler who has made anti-Arab remarks, has his sights set on the Defense Ministry. That would make him the overseer of the military and Israel’s West Bank military occupation.
Party officials favor aggressive settlement construction in the West Bank. They also have made repeated anti-LGBTQ comments.
These positions have threatened to antagonize American Jews, who are overwhelmingly liberal, and put Israel’s next government on a collision course with the Biden administration.
The White House on Thursday said it was looking forward to working with Israel on “our shared histories and values.”
But in a separate comment, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. hopes Israel “will continue to share the values of an open, democratic society, including tolerance and respect for all in civil society, particularly for minority groups.” He also reiterated support for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians – an idea with little, if any, support among the incoming government.
Italy’s new far-right premier, Giorgia Meloni, congratulated Netanyahu on Twitter. “Ready to strengthen our friendship and our bilateral relations, to better face our common challenges,″ she wrote.
Hungary's nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orban, also congratulated Netanyahu, calling him “a friend of Hungary.”
As the votes were being counted, Israeli-Palestinian violence was flaring, with at least four Palestinians killed in separate incidents, and an Israeli police officer wounded lightly in a stabbing in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Ben-Gvir used the incidents to promise a tougher approach to Palestinian attackers once he enters government.
“The time has come to restore security to the streets,” he tweeted. “The time has come for a terrorist who goes out to carry out an attack to be taken out!”
While Religious Zionism could cause Netanyahu headaches abroad, it could bring him relief at home.
The party has promised to enact changes to Israeli law that could halt Netanyahu's corruption trial and make the charges disappear. Along with other nationalist allies, they also want to weaken the independence of the judiciary and concentrate more power in the hands of lawmakers. Netanyahu says the trial is a witch hunt against him orchestrated by a hostile media and a biased judicial system.
Netanyahu remains a deeply polarizing figure in Israel. If his coalition takes power and pushes forward with its war on the justice system, these divisions are likely to deepen.
Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader, was ousted in 2021 after 12 consecutive years in power by an ideologically-diverse coalition. The coalition collapsed in the spring over infighting.
The strong showing by Likud and its allies reflected a decades-long shift to the right by the Israeli electorate.
Both Likud and Religious Zionism tapped into fears over Palestinian violence in the West Bank, accused Lapid of being weak and demonized his government for being the first to include an Arab party in a coalition.
Israel’s dovish left wing, meanwhile, had an abysmal showing in the election. The Labor party, which was a dominant force in Israeli politics for decades and supports Palestinian statehood, squeaked into parliament with the minimum four seats. The anti-occupation Meretz was banished into political exile for the first time since it was founded three decades ago.
“This is a disaster for Meretz, a disaster for the country and yes, a disaster for me,” Meretz's distraught leader, Zehava Galon, said in a video.
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2022-11-03T20:08:01+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/netanyahu-set-to-return-to-power-in-israel-after-pm-concedes/4YJNFGDPBVB2LFAZ7UUSJKZ4SM/
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Store clerk shoots alleged robbery suspect who led police on chase
PALM COAST, Fla. (WJXT) - Police said a chase spanning two states and five counties came to an end when a store clerk shot the suspect eight times.
It began just north of Orlando, Florida, and ended in southeast Georgia.
Investigators said it all started when the suspect, identified as Quintavius Jordan, robbed a Shell gas station in Flagler County, taking $90 in cash.
According to a Flagler County report, after Jordan demanded all the money in the register, he walked around the store to grab several items.
Police reported he then returned to the clerk and demanded that the clerk give him a pack of cigarettes, add money to the pump where his car was located and give him quarters so he could put some air in his tires.
Once he left, officers arrived and alerted agencies from the surrounding areas.
Jordan’s car was seen traveling northbound on Interstate 95 in St. John’s County.
The Florida Highway Patrol along with local agencies followed his car through their counties until he reached the Florida-Georgia line, where the Camden County Sheriff’s Office took over the chase.
The Kingsland Police Department used a stop stick to stop his vehicle.
However, that did not stop the chase as Jordan, according to police, fled on foot to a Friendly Express convenience store and demanded the clerk’s car keys.
Police said he then took their car and started to flee but crashed it through the front of the store.
Jordan then allegedly got out of the car and began to fight with the clerk.
According to police, it was then that the clerk then shot Jordan several times. Jordan was then taken into custody.
A woman, who didn’t provide her name, who was nearby at the time recalled seeing the heavy police presence. She described seeing crime scene tape around the whole gas station and a black car close to the smashed front entrance.
“I mean, I knew something had happened. Because I mean, you don’t see yellow tape around the store unless something is very, very serious,” she said.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly released a statement commending the store clerk for their actions.
“I commend the Georgia store clerk that put a swift end to this dirtbag’s crime spree,” he said in the statement. “If he survives his injuries, he should spend a long time in prison.”
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2023-04-29T19:49:51+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/2023/04/29/store-clerk-shoots-alleged-robbery-suspect-who-led-police-chase/
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Astros vs. Cubs Probable Starting Pitchers Today - May 16
Published: May. 16, 2023 at 2:12 PM EDT|Updated: 49 minutes ago
The Houston Astros (22-19) will look to Yordan Alvarez, on a 12-game hitting streak, against the Chicago Cubs (19-22) at 8:10 PM ET on Tuesday, at Minute Maid Park.
The Astros will give the nod to Cristian Javier (3-1) against the Cubs and Justin Steele (6-0).
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Astros vs. Cubs Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023
- Time: 8:10 PM ET
- TV: TBS
- Location: Houston, Texas
- Venue: Minute Maid Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Javier - HOU (3-1, 3.47 ERA) vs Steele - CHC (6-0, 1.82 ERA)
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Astros Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Cristian Javier
- Javier (3-1) will take the mound for the Astros, his ninth start of the season.
- The right-hander gave up two earned runs in six innings pitched on Wednesday in his last outing, a matchup with the Los Angeles Angels.
- The 26-year-old has pitched to a 3.47 ERA this season with 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 1.9 walks per nine across eight games.
- He's going for his third straight quality start.
- Javier has eight starts in a row of five innings or more.
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Cubs Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Justin Steele
- Steele makes the start for the Cubs, his ninth of the season. He is 6-0 with a 1.82 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 49 1/3 innings pitched.
- The lefty last pitched on Wednesday against the St. Louis Cardinals, when he threw six innings, allowing three earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- The 27-year-old has an ERA of 1.82, with 7.1 strikeouts per nine innings in eight games this season. Opposing batters have a .214 batting average against him.
- Steele is trying to extend a third-game quality start streak in this game.
- Steele is aiming for his ninth straight outing lasting five or more innings. He averages 6.1 frames per start.
- Among pitchers who qualify in MLB action this season, the 27-year-old ranks fourth in ERA (1.82), 17th in WHIP (1.034), and 56th in K/9 (7.1).
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2023-05-16T19:01:38+00:00
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wnem.com
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https://www.wnem.com/sports/betting/2023/05/16/astros-vs-cubs-mlb-probable-starting-pitchers/
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REYNOSA, Mexico (AP) — Thousands of migrants packed shelters on Mexico’s border with the United States on Friday as an end neared to Trump-era asylum restrictions, with fresh numbers showing that fewer single adults crossed illegally last month.
Border Patrol agents stopped single adults 143,903 times along the Mexican border in November, down 9% from 158,639 times in October and the lowest level since August, according to a Justice Department court filing.
Nicaraguans became the second-largest nationality at the border among single adults after Mexicans, surpassing Cubans.
The filing in a federal lawsuit in Louisiana gave no explanation for the drop, which came ahead of Wednesday’s scheduled end to a public-health rule known as Title 42. Migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law 2.5 million times since March 2020 on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
Republican-led states have asked a federal appeals court to keep Title 42 in place. A decision could come down to the wire.
Border cities, most notably El Paso, Texas, are facing a daily influx of migrants that the Biden administration expects to grow if asylum restrictions are lifted.
Tijuana, the largest Mexican border city, has an estimated 5,000 people in more than 30 shelters, Enrique Lucero, the city’s director of migrant affairs said this week.
In Reynosa, Mexico, near McAllen, Texas, nearly 300 migrants — mostly families — crammed into the Casa del Migrante, sleeping on bunk beds and even on the floor.
Rose, a 32-year-old from Haiti, along with her daughter and 1-year-old son have been in the shelter for three weeks. Rose, who did not provide her last name because she fears it could jeopardize her safety and her attempts to seek asylum, said she learned on her journey of possible changes to U.S. policies. She said she was happy to wait a little longer in Mexico for the lifting of restrictions that were enacted at the outset of the pandemic and that have since been a cornerstone of U.S. border enforcement.
“We’re very scared, because the Haitians are deported,” said Rose, who is worried any mistakes in trying to get her family to the U.S. could get her sent back to Haiti.
In Reynosa, about 3,000 migrants are living in tents pitched on concrete slabs and rough gravel inside the walls of Senda de Vida 2, a shelter opened by an evangelical Christian pastor when his first one reached capacity. Flies swarm everywhere under a hot sun beating down even in mid-December.
For the many fleeing violence in Haiti, Venezuela, Central America and beyond, such shelters offer at least some safety from the cartels that control passage through the Rio Grande and prey on migrants.
In McAllen, about 100 migrants who avoided asylum restrictions rested on floor mats Thursday in a large hall run by Catholic Charities, waiting for transportation to families and friends across the United States.
Gloria, a 22-year-old from Honduras who is eight months pregnant with her first child, held onto a printed sheet that read: “Please help me. I do not speak English.” Gloria also did not want her last name used out of fears for her safety. She expressed concerns about navigating the airport alone and making it to Florida, where she has a family acquaintance, and she had very little expectation of what she might find, except some safety and some rest.
Title 42, which is part of a 1944 public health law, applies to all nationalities but has fallen unevenly on those whom Mexico agrees to take back — Guatemalans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans and, more recently, Venezuelans, in addition to Mexicans.
Venezuelan single adults were stopped 3,513 times by Border Patrol agents in November, plunging from 14,697 a month earlier, demonstrating the impact of Mexico’s decision on Oct. 12 to accept migrants from the South American country who are expelled from the U.S.
Mexican single adults were stopped 43,504 times, down from 56,088 times in October, more than any other nationality. Nicaraguan adults were stopped 27,369 times, up from 16,497 times in October. Cuban adults were stopped 24,690 times, up from 20,744.
In a related development, a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, ruled the Biden administration wrongly ended a critical Trump-era policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court. The ruling had no immediate impact but could prove a longer-term setback for the White House.
The “Remain in Mexico” policy was used to force about 70,000 asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. hearings after being introduced in January 2019. Biden suspended the policy his first day in office, leading down a long and tortured legal and administrative path.
The Department of Homeland Security said it disagreed with Thursday’s decision by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former President Donald Trump. It said it was well within its authority to end the policy and was evaluating its next steps.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who sued to keep “Remain in Mexico” in place, called it a victory “for now.”
“It’s a common sense policy to prevent people from entering our country illegally,” Abbott tweeted.
Kacsmaryk first ordered that the policy be reinstated in 2021. The Biden administration complied but didn’t enforce the policy widely and only a few thousand people were sent back to wait in Mexico.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in June that Biden could end the policy while sending it back to Kacsmaryk to determine whether the administration’s action was “arbitrary and capricious” and, as result, violated federal law for crafting regulations.
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Associated Press reporters Elliot Spagat in San Diego and Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report.
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This version corrects November illegal crossings to single adults only, not all migrants.
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2022-12-16T22:27:57+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/national/ap-us-judge-blocks-biden-bid-to-end-remain-in-mexico-policy/
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MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — In a universe of cloud computing, northern Virginia might be in a perpetual fog.
More of the data centers that feed the cloud are clustered in the region outside the nation’s capital than anywhere else in the world.
As cloud computing — which enables data storage and other services to be delivered over the internet — continues its exponential increase, the appetite for new data centers continues to grow. And increasingly, communities that abut the centers are complaining about their new neighbors, mostly about the noise from constantly whirring fans needed to cool the computers and servers warehoused within.
“It’s just a constant whir at a frequency that’s obnoxious,” said Dale Browne, president of the Great Oak Homeowners Association. Residents there led a protest recently outside a nearby data center in Prince William County, newly built to support Amazon Web Services.
Browne said he preferred the quarry that used to occupy the land over the data center. And he’s worried that the noise will only get worse in winter, when a line of trees that provides something of a buffer sheds its leaves.
Speakers at the protest said they fear Prince William County is on the verge of joining its neighbor, Loudoun County, which is known as the data center capital of the world.
“We are the canary in the coalmine,” Browne said.
Northern Virginia has been a tech hub since the formation of the internet, and now hosts more data centers than the next five largest U.S. markets combined, according to the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
Collectively, the northern Virginia data centers demand about 1,900 megawatts of power, said Josh Levi, president of the Data Center Coalition, an industry trade group. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire output of Dominion Energy’s nuclear reactors at its North Anna power plant.
Browne and his neighbors say noise from the data center regularly exceeds the local limit of 60 decibels for noise — a study by Amazon disputes this — but it’s largely a moot point because the county noise ordinance exempts air conditioning units. Activists say the ordinance was written more than 30 years ago and never anticipated the massive cooling systems used in data centers.
Amazon Web Services, for its part, said it’s installing acoustical shrouds at the site as part of its noise-reduction efforts.
“Addressing our neighbors’ noise concerns in Prince William County is a priority for us,” a company spokesman said in a statement.
Noise is not the only issue. Spencer Snakard, president of Protect Fauquier, worries that more data centers will require more high-voltage transmission lines to deliver the massive amounts of electricity they require, destroying views and posing their own potential health risks.
“I see these noisy monstrosities much like computers of the 1960s and 70’s: massive, bulky, ugly, and in their infant stage,” she said.
Not all residents are opposed to the data centers. In the Gainesville area, a group of property owners proposed having their land rezoned from agricultural use to allow them. County staff recommended approving this ahead of a Sept. 14 planning commission vote.
Mary Ann Ghadban of Gainesville, 68, is one of the property owners who would sell if the area is rezoned. A lifelong county resident, she built what she called her “dream barn” on her 55-acre horse farm.
“All my neighbors, we were all long-timers. We were going to live here until we died,” she said.
But after the electric company built high-voltage transmission lines through her property in 2008, she said her horses suffered ill health effects, and property values dropped. Housing developers took over nearby tracts, and her rural enclave became something else.
“It breaks our heart, but it’s a fact: It’s not rural anymore,” she said. “We should have had this area open to data centers years ago, because you’ve already ruined the property. You’ve already ruined people’s lives by adding massive transmission towers, so put the data centers where the power is already.”
There’s also opposition from the nearby Manassas National Battlefield Park. Superintendent Brandon Bies likened the threat to Disney’s bid 30 years ago to build a theme park near the battlefield — a proposal environmentalists and other activists famously scuttled — and pushed back against the notion that transmission lines have already destroyed the area’s rural character.
“While indeed unsightly, the agricultural and historic nature of the battlefield’s western edge is still largely intact,” he wrote in a letter to the county board.
Counties that snub data centers would be turning down a lucrative source of tax revenue.
Data centers now provide for more than 30 percent of the general fund budget of Loudoun County, a suburb of the nation’s capital with more than 400,000 residents.
While the windfall has been a boon to Loudoun, Phyllis Randall, chair of the county’s Board of Supervisors, has raised concerns about overreliance on the industry.
“I’m not an economist, but even I know that not diversifying your economy to that degree gets a little dangerous,” she said at a February meeting where a board committee considered plans to manage the data centers’ growth.
Levi, with the Data Center Coalition, said northern Virginia remains a particularly attractive site for a number of reasons. He points to the region’s history as an internet hub for starters — in a business where nanoseconds matter, so does proximity to those hubs, Levi said.
In addition, Virginia was one of the first states to establish tax incentives for data centers.
He acknowledged that community resistance has increased as the industry has expanded. The industry is typically tight-lipped because of its security requirements, and needs to do more to promote its beneficial impacts, along with its advances in designing centers to have less environmental impact, he said.
“I think you’ve seen a lot of continuing innovation and design changes in response to community concerns,” he said.
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2022-09-14T02:35:46+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/business-news/ap-as-data-centers-proliferate-neighbors-knock-the-noise/
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PHOENIX (AP) — A parade of character witnesses provided a judge Thursday with glowing reports about a southern Arizona woman who admitted collecting four voted early ballots in the 2020 primary election, as her lawyer seeks leniency and prosecutors urge him to send her to prison for a year.
Testimony in Yuma County Superior Court painted a picture of Guillermina Fuentes as filled with remorse and a pillar of small border community of San Luis. The 66-year-old mother and grandmother, witnesses said, has spent her life helping others while raising her children, caring for her aging mother and building a business.
Prison or jail time, they said, would hurt the community and serve no purpose.
Fuentes is a school board member and former mayor in San Luis who has pleaded guilty to a felony violation of Arizona’s “ballot harvesting” law, which bars anyone but a person’s relative, housemate or caregiver from returning ballots for them. Her codefendant, Alma Juarez, pleaded guilty to the same charge, but it was designated as a misdemeanor after she agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.
Her agreement calls for a sentence of probation. She carried four ballots Fuentes gave her into a polling place and dropped them off.
Republicans have seized on the case as a sign of widespread voting fraud, but it is the only “ballot harvesting” case ever prosecuted under Arizona’s 2016 law banning the practice, and fewer than a dozen cases from the 2020 election have been filed in a state where more than 3.1 million votes were cast.
Sherri Castillo, a defense mitigation expert who interviewed Fuentes and others in the community, told the court Thursday that her community involvement and volunteer work are hard to adequately describe.
“She puts me to shame, I can tell you that,” Castillo said. “I’ve never come across someone who gives back more to the community than Ms. Fuentes does.”
“Ms. Fuentes not being in the community would be a detriment to the community,” she added.
Others who testified before Judge Roger Nelson included the county probation officer who recommended no jail time in her report, a Yuma County supervisor and former state senator who has known Fuentes for years, and a retired San Luis police officer who has known her since 1971 when both were growing up in the then-tiny border community and serves with her now on a local school board.
“I think that in our community a lot of us look up to her,” retired police officer Luis Marquez said.
Assistant Attorney General Todd Lawson is seeking a year in prison for Fuentes, telling Nelson that the case is about the security of elections and the 2016 Arizona law barring so-called “ballot harvesting.” This is the first prosecution under that law, which was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Cour t last year.
He said that while Fuentes and Juarez were captured on video by a political rival outside a vote center examining four voted ballots, the question remains what they were doing.
“The question is, why does (Fuentes) feel the need to exert pressure over people in her community and control the flow of their ballot to the ballot box,” Lawson told the judge. “That’s the issue of public integrity here.”
Prosecutors alleged in court papers that Fuentes ran a sophisticated operation using her status in Democratic politics in San Luis to persuade voters to let her gather and, in some cases, fill out their ballots. But they dropped more serious charges of conspiracy and forgery and both pleaded guilty to a single count of ballot abuse.
A defense expert who researched election law cases in Arizona testified that no one with a clean record has ever been sentenced to jail or prison in the past 20 years. Anne Chapman, Fuentes’ lawyer, told Nelson that doing so would be a miscarriage of justice.
“She entered a plea of guilty to ballot abuse — that is, delivering four lawfully voted, signature-verified ballots,” Chapman said. “The rest of the allegations against Ms. Fuentes are untrue, unfounded, untested and largely made-up by election-denying political opponents who have a political ax to grind.”
Nelson’s court assistant previously told attorneys in the case in an email that he intends “to give them 30 days in jail.” He set sentencing for both women for next week.
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2022-10-08T02:12:11+00:00
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kfor.com
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https://kfor.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-arizona-woman-seeks-leniency-in-ballot-harvesting-case/
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BEIJING, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WeTrade Group Inc. ("Wetrade" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: WETG), an emerging growth company engaged in the business of providing software-as-a-services (SAAS) and cloud intelligent systems for micro-businesses, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering (the "Offering") of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $4.00 per share. The offering is expected to close on or about July 21, 2022, subject to customary closing conditions.
The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") has approved the Company's application for uplisting its common stock to the Nasdaq Capital Market. The Company's common stock is expected to commence trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market at the opening of the market on July 19, 2022, under the Company's current ticker symbol "WETG."
The Company expects to receive aggregate gross proceeds of $40 million from the Offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and other related expenses. In addition, the Company has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,500,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $4.00 per share, less underwriting discounts.
Net proceeds from the Offering will be used for the Company's R&D and technology development, marketing and talent recruitment in China, strategic investment in service provider and general working capital.
The Offering is being conducted on a firm commitment basis. Univest Securities, LLC is acting as the sole book runner to the Offering. Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP is acting as counsel to the Company, and Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC is acting as counsel to the underwriter in connection with the Offering.
A registration statement on Form S-1 relating to the Offering was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") (File Number: 333-252149) and, as amended, was declared effective by the SEC on July 18, 2022. The Offering is being made only by means of a prospectus forming a part of the registration statement. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the Offering, when available, may be obtained from Univest Securities, LLC by email at info@univest.us, or by standard mail to Univest Securities, LLC, 75 Rockefeller Plaza Suite 18C, New York, NY 10019. In addition, a copy of the final prospectus relating to the Offering, when available, may be obtained via the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
Before you invest, you should read the registration statement and the preliminary prospectus contained therein and the final prospectus, when available, and other documents the Company has filed or will file with the SEC for more complete information about the Company and the Offering. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company's securities, nor shall such securities be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any of the Company's securities 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 such state or jurisdiction.
About WeTrade Group Inc.
WeTrade Group Inc. is a technical service provider of SAAS and Cloud Intelligent System for micro-businesses, and a pioneering internationalized system in the global micro-business cloud intelligence field and the leader, innovator and promoter of the world's cloud intelligent system for micro-businesses. WeTrade Group independently developed the cloud intelligent system for micro-businesses (Abbreviation: YCloud). YCloud strengthens users' marketing relationship and CPS commission profit management through leading technology and big data analysis. It also helps increase the payment scenarios to increase customers' revenue by multi-channel data statistics, AI fission and management as well as improved supply chain system. As of today, YCloud's business has successfully landed in mainland China and Hong Kong, covering the micro business industry, tourism industry, hospitality industry, livestreaming and short video industry, aesthetic medical industry and traditional retail industry. For more information, please visit https://ir.wetg.group.
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2022-07-19T02:58:32+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/prnewswire/2022/07/19/wetrade-group-inc-announces-uplisting-nasdaq-capital-market-pricing-40-million-public-offering-common-stock/
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- LimeWire has inked a deal with Universal Music Group (UMG) for content licensing on a global scale, opening up the LimeWire collectibles marketplace to all artists under the Universal Music Group umbrella.
- UMG artists can now offer audio recordings, audiovisual content, backstage footage and any artwork and images as NFTs on the LimeWire marketplace and sell them directly to fans and collectors.
- LimeWire and UMG will focus on quality content, utility and accessibility for the mainstream by offering unique NFT projects for artists and fans in a trusted environment.
BERLIN and NEW YORK, May 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- LimeWire, a digital collectibles marketplace, announced today that it has struck its first major music label partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, and will collaborate on making digital music collectibles accessible to a wider audience. UMG artists, as well as many of its iconic record labels including: Interscope Records, Republic Records, Def Jam Recordings, Capitol Records, Motown Records, Geffen, EMI, Virgin Music and more, will be able to leverage the LimeWire marketplace as an additional platform to explore unique ways to engage with fans through digital music collectibles and Web3, and generate new revenue streams. As part of this partnership, UMG will provide licences that will allow LimeWire to partner with UMG artists in order to launch innovative music-based NFT projects utilising the LimeWire marketplace.
In March, LimeWire announced it is relaunching later this year as a mainstream-ready digital collectibles marketplace for art and entertainment, initially focusing on music. It will be a one-stop marketplace for artists and fans alike to create, buy and trade NFT collectibles with ease. This month, LimeWire announced it has raised USD $10.4M in a private sale of its LMWR token led by large VC firms, Deadmau5's 720Mau5 venture fund, as well as DAO Jones, a group of investors consisting of high-profile members from the music industry, including well-known electronic music artist Steve Aoki.
"We see this partnership as a true demonstration of the pace at which the music industry is embracing Web3," said Paul and Julian Zehetmayr, LimeWire Co-CEOs. "We're thrilled to open up the LimeWire NFT ecosystem to Universal Music Group artists and fans and can't wait to see the first creative projects being launched on the marketplace."
Using LimeWire, artists signed to UMG can now offer audio recordings, audiovisual content, backstage footage and any artwork and images as NFTs on the LimeWire marketplace and sell them directly to fans and collectors. Musicians can release bonus tracks and exclusive material, sell uncut or backstage content, and much more.
"Universal Music Group has always prioritised its artists' creativity and valued fans' desire to engage in innovative new ways. Now, NFTs are providing an exciting vehicle to enhance this connection between artists and audiences. This is why we are delighted to have partnered with LimeWire, who is focused on guiding everyday users into this expansive arena, in this new era of Web3 engagement and music appreciation," said Jonathan Dworkin, EVP, Digital Business Development & Strategy at Universal Music Group.
"Universal Music Group and our labels are fully embracing the exciting Web3 space and will work with our new partner LimeWire, our artists and their communities on engaging NFT projects with real utility and creating cool experiences for fans, while allowing mainstream consumers to participate in a safe and trusted environment with low entry barriers," said Holger Christoph, Universal Music Group Senior Vice President of Digital Business, Central Europe.
ABOUT LIMEWIRE
LimeWire is a digital collectibles marketplace for music and the broader art and entertainment space. The company will open up the NFT collectibles market to the mainstream by improving user experience, offering credit card payments and handling gas fees as well as technical hurdles on behalf of its users, while leveraging all the benefits of Web3.
ABOUT UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
At Universal Music Group, we exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. UMG is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content. Featuring the most comprehensive catalogue of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms, and business models to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans.
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2022-05-17T10:34:07+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/05/17/limewire-strikes-deal-with-universal-music-group-its-music-nft-licensing-platform/
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(Our Auto Expert) – Dodge signals the end of an era. After this year, V8 engines will no longer be produced as the automotive industry continues switching to electrification. And they are going out with a bang.
The Dodge Demon 170 is a beast straight from hell. Known simply as The Demon 170, this monster can reach 60 miles an hour in 1.66 seconds and has the highest g-force acceleration of any production car at 2.004 Gs. Thanks to an overwhelming 1,025 horsepower. No, that isn’t a typo.
What also helps catapult it is a brisk 945 pound-feet of torque from its supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. You need a few specialty items to ensure you obtain these over-the-top numbers.
You will need E85 gasoline and, as a result. Dodge says you can get a quarter mile time of 8.91 seconds at 151 mph on a prepared surface. However, even when burning 91 octane, the new engine makes 900 horsepower and 810 pound-feet of torque.
Depending on the situation, you might need to adjust what fuel you run.
The new Demon engine also sucks air through a more significant 105 mm throttle body. At up to 164 gallons per hour, the new injectors can flow more fuel than a typical showerhead can dispense water.
The last time we saw the Demon was in 2018. It was made especially for drag racing. However, the NHRA banned it. It was limited to only 3300 units and could be driven on the street. It burned 100-octane fuel and could hit wheelies. The quarter-mile time of 9.65 seconds at 140 mph was the reason for the ultimate NHRA ban.
Other variants have come and gone, like the Hellcat red eye in 2019. And in 2020, the 807 hp Hellcat super stock. But nothing quite like this. This year sent mixed emotions to Dodge enthusiasts, as it’s the last year for the V8, But also the year of the new 1,025 Demon 170.
Dodge launched its seven-part “last call” series of special editions last August. The Demon 170 is the last of the seven to be revealed. And it objectively is the most out there and powerful version.
Dodge wrote the blueprint for what a muscle car should be. The Demon 170 will cost $100,361 when production starts this July, but only 2,500 to 3,000 U.S. vehicles are planned through December 31. After that, V-8 Hellcats will no longer be produced.
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2023-03-21T15:52:46+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/automotive/dodge-deamon-by-the-numbers-1025-horsepower-and-more/
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GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization predicted a “bumpy and rocky” road as it opened its highest-level meeting in 4-1/2 years on Sunday, with issues like pandemic preparedness, food insecurity and overfishing of the world’s seas on the agenda.
At a time when some question WTO’s relevance, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hopes the meeting involving more than 120 ministers from the group’s 164 member countries yields progress toward reducing inequality and ensuring fair and free trade.
Okonjo-Iweala acknowledged the Geneva-based trade body needs reform but said she was cautiously optimistic that a deal might be reached on at least one of the meeting’s main ambitions like fisheries or COVID vaccines.
“The road will be bumpy and rocky. There may be a few landmines on the way,” Okonjo-Iweala said. “We’ll have to navigate those landmines and see how we can successfully land one or two deliverables.”
In her opening address, she said a “trust deficit” had emerged over the years following the failure of negotiations known as the Doha Round more than a decade ago.
“The negativism is compounded by the negative advocacy of some think tanks and civil society groups here in Geneva and elsewhere who believe the WTO is not working for people,” she said. “This is, of course, not true, although we’ve not been able to clearly demonstrate it.”
She cited an array of crises facing the world such as the COVID-19 pandemic; environmental crises like droughts, floods and heat waves; and inflationary pressures that have been compounded by food shortages and higher fuel costs linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine. She noted higher prices are“hitting poor people the hardest.”
“With history looming over us, with that multilateral system seemingly fragile, this is the time to invest in it, not to retreat from it,” Okonjo-Iweala said. “This is the time to summon the much-needed political will to show that the WTO can be part of the solution to the multiple crises, the global commons that we face.”
The WTO chief insisted that trade has lifted 1 billion people out of poverty, but poorer countries – and poor people in richer ones – are often left behind.
Blockaded ports in Ukraine have impeded exports of up to 25 million tons of grain from the key European breadbasket.
Ministers at the meeting will consider whether to lift or ease export restrictions on food to help countries facing a shortage of wheat, fertilizer and other products because of the war in Ukraine. They also will decide whether to increase support for the U.N.’s World Food Program to help needy countries around the world.
“I strongly urge the WTO members with the capabilities to commit at MC12 to exempt their donations to the World Food Program from any export restrictions,” said Katherine Tai, the U.S. trade representative, referring to the 12th ministerial conference at the WTO.
Okonjo-Iweala hopes the member nations, which make decisions by consensus, also can strike an agreement about whether to temporarily waive WTO’s protections of intellectual property on COVID-19 vaccines.
The topic has generated months of contentious negotiations. The pharmaceutical industry wants to protect its innovations while advocacy groups say the pandemic’s devastation merits an exemption to the usual rules and developing countries say they need better access to vaccines.
Some experts and diplomats say two decades of WTO efforts to limit overfishing in the world’s seas appears to be as close as it ever has to reaching a deal.
The draft text on fisheries aims to limit government subsidies — such as for fuel — to fishing boats or workers who take part in “illegal, unreported and unreported” fishing, or national subsidies that contribute to “overcapacity or overfishing.” Some workers in developing countries could qualify for exemptions.
“This agreement is crucial to the 260 million people around the world whose livelihoods depend directly or indirectly on marine fisheries,” Okonjo-Iweala said. “It is also central to the sustainability of our oceans, where the latest studies show close to 50% of stocks for which we have data are overfished.”
An umbrella group of nongovernmental groups, “Our World Is Not For Sale,” said over 50 NGOs were stripped of access that they had been previously granted to attend the opening day events.
WTO spokesman Daniel Pruzin said that because of “space limitations” at WTO and events inside, “we were unfortunately unable to grant accredited NGOs access, both civil society groups as well as business groups.” He said they would be granted access for the rest of the ministerial starting Monday.
The World Trade Organization, created in 1995 as a successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, has seen a slow unraveling — often because U.S. objections have largely hamstrung its dispute-resolution system.
The WTO hasn’t produced a major trade deal in years. The last one, reached nearly a decade ago, was an agreement that cut red tape on goods clearing borders and was billed as a boost to lower-income countries.
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2022-06-13T02:36:57+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/business/ap-business/wto-chief-sees-bumpy-road-as-ministers-work-to-reach-deals/
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OXON HILL, Md. >> Harini Logan was eliminated from the Scripps National Spelling Bee once, then reinstated. She missed four words in a grueling standoff against Vikram Raju, including one that would have given her the title.
In the first-ever lightning-round tiebreaker, Harini finally claimed the trophy tonight.
The 13-year-old eighth-grader from San Antonio, Texas, who competed in the last fully in-person bee three years ago and endured the pandemic to make it back, spelled 21 words correctly during a 90-second spell-off, beating Vikram by six.
Harini, one of the best-known spellers entering the bee and a crowd favorite for her poise and positivity, wins more than $50,000 in cash and prizes.
Perhaps no champion has ever had more final-round flubs, but Harini was no less deserving.
She is the fifth Scripps champion to be coached by Grace Walters, a former speller, fellow Texan and student at Rice University who is considering bowing out of the coaching business. If so, she will depart on top.
The key moment came during the bee’s much-debated multiple-choice vocabulary round, when Harini defined the word “pullulation” as the nesting of mating birds. Scripps said the correct answer was the swarming of bees.
But wait!
“We did a little sleuthing after you finished, which is what our job is, to make sure we’ve made the right decision,” head judge Mary Brooks said to Harini. “We (did) a little deep dive in that word and actually the answer you gave to that word is considered correct, so we’re going to reinstate you.”
From there, Harini breezed into the finals against Vikram. They each spelled two words correctly. Then Scripps brought out the toughest words of the night.
Both misspelled. Then Vikram missed again and Harini got “sereh” right, putting her one word away from the title. The word was “drimys,” and she got it wrong.
Two more rounds, two more misspelled words by each, and Scripps brought out the podium and buzzer for the lightning round that all the finalists had practiced for in the mostly empty ballroom hours earlier.
Harini was faster and sharper throughout, and the judges’ final tally confirmed her victory.
The last fully in-person version of the bee had no tiebreaker and ended in an eight-way tie. The 2020 bee was canceled because of the pandemic, and in 2021 it was mostly virtual, with only 11 finalists gathering in Florida as Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American champion.
The changes continued this year with Scripps ending its deal with longtime partner ESPN and producing its own telecast for its networks ION and Bounce, with actor and literacy advocate LeVar Burton as host. The transition was bumpy at times, with long and uneven commercial breaks that broke up the action and audio glitches that exposed the inner workings of the broadcast to the in-person crowd.
The bee itself was leaner, with fewer than half the participants it had in 2019 because of sponsors dropping out and the end of a wild-card program. And spellers had to answer vocabulary questions live on stage for the first time, resulting in several surprising eliminations during the semifinals.
Harini bowing out on a vocabulary word was briefly the biggest shock of all. Then she was back on stage, and at the end, she was still there.
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2022-06-03T04:07:56+00:00
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staradvertiser.com
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/02/breaking-news/harini-logan-wins-spelling-bee-in-1st-ever-tiebreaker-2/
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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I struggled to find a safe place to store my valuables when outside," said the inventor from Miami, Fla. "I thought of this idea to help secure personal items off the ground and under cover from the elements."
He invented THE RUDY-BRELLA that provides a safe and secure location to store a vast array of items. Items could be safely stored in a concealed location for peace of mind and provide protection from inclement weather. This durable item may be employed with standard umbrellas as well as beach models. Additionally, this would be lightweight, durable and easy to secure to any umbrella.
The original design was submitted to the Miami sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-HAD-200, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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2022-11-18T16:49:30+00:00
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ksla.com
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https://www.ksla.com/prnewswire/2022/11/18/inventhelp-inventor-develops-innovative-umbrella-storage-had-200/
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Experts warn counterfeit items may pose health and security concerns
Feds issue warning after $3.3B in counterfeit items seized in 2021
InvestigateTV - Handbags, cellphones and even medicine were all part of the $3.3 billion worth of items seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2021. The CBP, which manages 328 ports of entry across the United States where they monitor imports and exports, also issued warnings against counterfeit items saying they pose legal, economic, and health risks to consumers. Alaina Van Horn with the CBP said counterfeit items are a big concern: the CBP made over 27,000 seizures in 2021 alone, totaling $3.3B in impounded goods.
Much of the contraband was counterfeit: everything from cellphones to jewelry and even toothpaste. Topping the list of seized items was “wearing apparel” (clothing) and handbags and wallets.
Van Horn said the counterfeit item’s journey usually begins with an online purchase.
“It is a huge problem, because even sales that occur in an online environment it’s a physical good that very likely has to cross the border into the United States,” she explained.
Consumer experts like Josh Planos with the Better Business Bureau said the impact of purchasing a counterfeit item can stretch far beyond your wallet: it can also harm your health.
In the CBP’s report they identified counterfeit mobile phones as a significant health and safety risk.
The report said the electronics may contain levels of chemicals such as lead and cadmium that often exceed established safety standards. In some cases, the values were 35 to 40 times higher than globally accepted limits for lead.
Along with hurting legitimate companies and potentially impacting your health, CBP officials reported that counterfeit tech could be smuggling a severe security threat.
Numerous studies, like this one from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), have found surveillance technology and malware in a lot of consumer electronics products. That brings a huge concern for identity theft, financial theft, and tracking technology.
Van Horn added that efforts have been made to make unknown surveillance a more serious crime, but it is tough to bring the international players behind it to justice.
You can report counterfeit items and other trade allegations to the CPB.
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2022-12-21T18:55:17+00:00
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kttc.com
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https://www.kttc.com/2022/12/21/experts-warn-counterfeit-items-may-pose-health-security-concerns/
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LONDON (AP) — British health authorities have recorded 50 cases of diphtheria this year among recently arrived asylum seekers, including one man who died after falling sick at a crowded migrant center.
The U.K. Health Protection Agency said Monday that the infected people likely caught the disease in their countries of origin or during their journeys to the U.K. It said a similar increase had been seen elsewhere in Europe.
In 2021 there were 11 cases in the U.K., where most people are vaccinated against diphtheria in childhood. The infection affects the nose, throat and sometimes skin and can be fatal if not treated quickly.
The outbreak comes amid criticism of the government over accommodation conditions for people who arrive in the U.K. across the English Channel in small boats. Many have been held for days or weeks at Manston, a disused airport in southeast England serving as a processing center. At one point last month more than 4,000 people were staying at the facility, designed to hold a maximum of 1,600.
Earlier this month a man staying at Manston became sick and later died in hospital. A PCR test for diphtheria was positive, though immigration minister Robert Jenrick said authorities were awaiting post-mortem results to determine the cause of death.
Thousands of migrants from around the world travel to northern France each year in hopes of crossing the Channel to Britain. There has been a sharp increase in the number of people attempting the journey in dinghies and other small craft as authorities have clamped down on other routes such as stowing away on buses or trucks.
More than 40,000 people have arrived so far this year in Britain after making the hazardous Channel trip, up from 28,000 in all of 2021 and 8,500 in 2020.
In an attempt to deter the crossings, Britain’s government has announced a controversial plan to put people who arrive in small boats on a one-way flight to Rwanda in a bid to break the business model of smuggling gangs.
Critics say the plan is immoral and impractical. It is being challenged in the courts.
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2022-11-29T01:58:14+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-uk-says-50-recently-arrived-migrants-found-with-diphtheria/
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NEW YORK (AP) — Carlos Correa responded to booing Yankees fans with a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning, and the Minnesota Twins beat New York 4-3 on Thursday night to avoid a four-game sweep.
Correa’s two-out drive off former Fordham pitcher Greg Weissert followed an unsuccessful video review called by the Yankees after what New York thought should have been the third out. The Yankees maintained Wandy Peralta (2-4) got to first in time on the flip from first baseman Marwin Gonzalez on Jake Cave's grounder, but replays showed Peralta trapped the ball with his glove against his body.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone bounded from the dugout to argue with crew chief Larry Vanover and threw his hands up in frustration before leaving the field.
One out later, Correa connected on a 1-2 slider for his 18th homer, his second in two days. It gave Minnesota a 4-2 lead and he pounded his chest in the direction of his dugout while rounding third base.
Minnesota held on to stop a 10-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium dating to May 2019.
Jorge López threw a run-scoring wild pitch in the bottom half, but the Yankees stranded the potential tying run at third in each of the last two innings. Caleb Theilbar ended the eighth by striking out pinch-hitter Giancarlo Stanton, who is 4 for his last 38. Stanton had not played since fouling a pitch off a leg on Monday,
New York loaded the bases with one out in the ninth on Oswald Peraza’s single, Aaron Hicks double and the fourth intenational walk to Aaron Judge in three games.
Michael Fullmer struck out Gleyber Torres and retired Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a groundout for his third save.
Minnesota ended a four-game winning streak by the Yankees, whose AL East lead was cut to 4 1/2 games over Tampa Bay heading into a weekend series against the Rays.
The Twins closed within 1 1/2 games of first-place Cleveland in the AL Central ahead of a weekend series against the Guardians in Minnesota.
New York went 1 for 8 with runners in scoring position and stranded 10 runners.
Griffin Jax (6-3) pitched a hitless inning.
Facing the Yankees for the first time since they traded him to Cincinnati in January 2019, Sonny Gray allowed two runs and seven hits over six innings.
Miguel Andújar hit a two-run homer in the second, his first home run since June 29 last year.
Nestor Cortes, returning from a trip to the injured list caused by a groin strain, retired his first 12 batters. Former Yankee Gary Sánchez, who had three hits, chased Cortes with a RBI double in the fifth, and Nick Gordon had a run-scoring single against Clarke Schmidt.
A MOMENT FOR THE QUEEN
A moment of silence was held prior to first pitch in honor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. A photo of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch was shown on the large video board in center field, along with a lit candle on the two smaller boards located on each side.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Twins: RHP Cole Sands (bruised elbow) was reinstated from the 15-day injured list after missing 14 games. To make room, LHP Austin Davis was designated for assignment.
Yankees: INF DJ LeMahieu (right second toe inflammation) was placed on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Monday. … 1B Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) could begin ramping up activities if his headaches are gone on Friday. … RHP Luis Severino (strained right lat) might make another rehab start, but if not is a possibility to return for a two-game series at Boston on Sept. 13-14. … RHP Scott Effross (strained right shoulder) is expected to throw a bullpen session either Friday or Saturday and could be close to returning. … RHP Lou Trivino (back spasms) was unavailable.
UP NEXT
Twins: RHP Dylan Bundy (8-6, 4.34 ERA) faces RHP Cal Quantrill (11-5, 3.55 ERA) Friday night.
Yankees: RHP Frankie Montas (5-11, 3.79 ERA) will start for the Yankees and RHP Drew Rasmussen (9-4, 2.70 ERA) for the Rays.
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2022-09-09T04:13:42+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/Correa-answers-boos-with-go-ahead-HR-Twins-top-17429255.php
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Mercedes-Benz is in the process of implementing mid-cycle updates to its compact range, and the latest to receive an update is the CLA-Class.
The updated CLA-Class is due at dealerships later in 2023 as a 2024 model, in regular CLA-Class guise and spicy CLA 35 and CLA 45 S AMG guises.
The CLA-Class is now Mercedes’ sole compact sedan offering in the U.S., as the A-Class bowed out after 2022. The A-Class is still available in other markets, where it has received its own update.
The tweaks made to the 2024 CLA-Class are mild, even by mid-cycle update standards. The exterior changes are limited to a revised front fascia and grille, and a new diffuser design at the rear. There are also new graphics for the lights at both ends, which feature standard LED technology, and the color palette has been expanded with a Hyper Blue color that’s exclusive to the CLA-Class.
Inside, Mercedes provides standard 10.3-inch screens for the instrument cluster and infotainment system, with the latter running the latest version of Mercedes’ MBUX interface complete with voice activation. The steering wheel gets nappa leather trim as standard, and an AMG Line steering wheel is available as an alternative for the first time.
Other standard features include automatic high beams, folding and auto-dimming exterior mirrors, a system that helps drivers park in tight spots (but doesn’t do it for them), and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. A Burmester audio system with Dolby Atmos is available, as is Mercedes’ Driver Assistance Package, which includes a variety of active safety features.
The 2024 CLA-Class is offered exclusively in a CLA 250 grade that comes with a 2.0-liter turbo-4. The engine is rated at 221 hp but a mild-hybrid system can provide a temporary boost of 13 hp during high-load situations. Buyers can choose between standard front-wheel drive or available all-wheel drive, and with either configuration 0-60 mph acceleration takes about 6.3 seconds.
Buyers seeking more performance will want to check out the AMG grades as these offer up to 416 hp.
Pricing information for the 2024 CLA-Class will be announced closer to the market launch.
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2023-01-18T21:11:55+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/automotive/internet-brands/2024-mercedes-benz-cla-class-arrives-with-more-standard-features/
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The Western Wyoming Community Bord of Trustees voted to accept the funds for the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant during the meeting on Thursday, Feb. 9. Pictured from left to right are Regina Clark, James Jessen and Jenissa Meredith.
ROCK SPRINGS — The Western Wyoming Community Bord of Trustees voted to accept the funds for the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant during the meeting on Thursday, Feb. 9.
The total amount of the grant is $3 million.
The money will be used to “help diversify the economy by boosting the region’s healthcare workforce,” according to the agenda.
For the EDA project, renovations will be made to the already existing facilities as well as constructing new educational spaces in order to support the creation of a health science wing on the main campus of the college.
According to the supporting documents included in the agenda, “The EDA investments will be matched with more than $5 million in state and local funds and is expected to help create 1,500 jobs, according to grantee estimates.”
In a press release sent out by the college in January, the grant will be funded under the Assistance to coal Communities (ACC) initiative.
EDA awards funds in order to assist communities that are impacted by the decline in the use of coal.
The college’s expansion is projected to add 10,450 square feet of new space. Additionally, 6,600 square feet of the existing structure that is located on the college’s main campus is projected to be renovated.
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2023-02-14T00:17:54+00:00
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wyomingnews.com
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https://www.wyomingnews.com/wyomingbusinessreport/industry_news/banking_and_finance/western-board-of-trustees-votes-to-accept-funds-for-the-3-million-eda-grant/article_aa245d50-abed-11ed-92af-5f57731a8ef4.html
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Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo are on the clock.
The sluggers have until 4 p.m. ET Tuesday to accept or reject the New York Yankees’ qualifying offer, which is a one-year deal worth $19.65 million.
It’s a foregone conclusion the 30-year-old Judge will reject the deal. Remember, he said no to a seven-year, $213.5 million contract before Opening Day, then went out and had a walk season for the ages, setting an American League record with 62 home runs and contending for the Triple Crown. The likely AL MVP could land a new deal worth more than $300 million.
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Rizzo’s decision is much tougher. He opted out of his two-year, $32 million contract after the World Series. Accepting the qualifying offer would actually be a raise over what he made last year. But it provides no job security beyond the 2023 season, and the 33-year-old Rizzo could be making a play for another multi-year contract.
However Monday’s report from The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal could convince Rizzo he can hit it big on the open market.
The Astros have identified Anthony Rizzo as their No. 1 free-agent target at first base. They also are considering Yuli Gurriel and José Abreu, but signing Rizzo would serve the dual purpose of bolstering their own roster while weakening the Yankees.
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The San Francisco Giants also have been linked to Rizzo, who tied his career high with 32 home runs this season. Expect the Yankees to make a push to re-sign Rizzo, who the club acquired from the Chicago Cubs ahead of the 2021 MLB trade deadline.
One concern for the Yankees will be Rizzo’s balky back. He played 130 of the Yankees’ 162 regular-season games and started all nine postseason games but was shut down three times this season due to back issues.
Should Rizzo reject the qualifying offer and sign elsewhere, the Yankees are guaranteed draft-pick compensation in return.
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Mike Rosenstein may be reached at mrosenstein@njadvancemedia.com.
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2022-11-15T16:01:54+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/11/yankees-anthony-rizzo-aaron-judge-face-qualifying-offer-deadline-decision.html
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP)Chase Hunter had 18 points, Hunter Tyson scored 16 and Clemson turned its first game against Richmond in 70 years into an 85-57 romp at the Greenville Classic on Saturday night.
Clemson (9-3) and the Spiders (5-6) had not played each other since 1952 when both were members of the Southern Conference. The Tigers joined the Atlantic Coast Conference the next season.
Hunter made 7 of 12 shots with two 3-pointers for Clemson. Tyson snagged eight rebounds. Brevin Galloway had 10 points off the bench. PJ Hall pitched in with nine points and eight boards.
Tyson had 13 points by halftime and Hunter scored 10 as Clemson took a commanding 47-19 lead. Tyler Burton had nine points at intermission for the Spiders. He had four of Richmond’s seven first-half baskets, but missed all four of his 3-point attempts as the Spiders made just 1 of 10 from distance and 7 of 21 overall.
Hunter hit two 3-pointers in a game-opening 13-1 run and the Tigers were never threatened.
Clemson shot 48% from the floor on the night and made 12 of 26 from beyond the arc (46%). The Tigers scored 15 points off 19 Richmond turnovers and led by as many as 35 in the second half.
Richmond came into the game with three wins in its last four games against ACC opponents. Its only loss was to Syracuse in overtime. The Spiders have lost four games by three points or less this season.
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2022-12-18T19:38:30+00:00
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/hunter-tyson-lead-clemson-past-richmond-85-57/
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SHANGHAI, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- JDDJ and Shop Now, the on-demand retail business jointly launched by JD.com, and Dada Group (Nasdaq: Dada), has reported great growth amidst significant expansion over the last 12 months in recent annual results.
In particular, the home alliance category has seen large growth. In March, JD.com published the "JD.com Helps the High-Quality Development of the Home Appliance Industry White Paper". The white paper revealed that the home appliance industry is embracing the innovative on-demand retail, to achieve growth.
In 2022, sales in this category on JD Shop Now increased by more than 9 times year-over-year, making it of the most important channels for top home appliance brands.
As the key players in JD.com's omni-channel service, JD Shop Now and JDDJ has connections to 11,000 brick-and-mortar home appliance stores, which accounts for about 60% of the top home appliance manufacturers and covered 300 cities in China.
As the on-demand retail business in JD.com's ecosystem, JDDJ provides consumers with a service of "order online, deliver from nearby stores within one hour". Based on analysis of home appliance trends, JDDJ identified the pain points of physical stores and provided integrated solutions in connecting off- and on-line inventories, user and service digitalization, to optimize cost, efficiency and experience.
As for large and heavy appliances, together with well-known merchants, JDDJ has established a "deliver and install" service, which can be fulfilled as quickly as the next day. The innovative service has greatly improved consumers' experiences in home appliance consumption.
Since last year, home appliance's on-demand retail business has been growing rapidly, and the online sales of offline stores are expected to exceed RMB 10 billion yuan in the next two years.
The key of on-demand retail is the digitalization of traditional stores. As the representative of open platform model, JDDJ does not touch the inventory, and brings high quality products and services to consumers together with all-category retailers and brand owners on-board.
By merging the borders of online and offline shopping, the omni-channel retailing model extensively integrates physical and digital channels, resources and capabilities to bring the ultimate experience to consumers while stimulating greater consumer potential.
At present, there is a surging need from retailers and brand owners for access to online traffic and efficient on-demand fulfillment solutions. More retailers are now starting to build their own O2O team and by leveraging JDDJ, they can expand their on-demand retail business rapidly.
About cooperation between Dada Group and JD.com
In October 2021, Dada Group and JD.com jointly launched the Shop Now service, and "Nearby", a new tab on the homepage of JD.com's app, which were designed to connect customers to nearby offline stores. The new business was overall undertaken by Dada Group. Shop Now service enhances on-demand location-based retail capabilities of both Dada and JD to provide one-hour retail and delivery services for consumers and partners. By clicking into the new Nearby tab, JD's roughly 588 million users will have the opportunity to discover offline stores within a 3-5 kilometer radius of their shipping address with a wide array of product offerings.
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2023-03-27T07:37:13+00:00
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2023/03/27/annual-sales-home-appliances-shop-now-platform-increases-9-fold-year-on-year/
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2-year-old drowns in family friend’s pool, mother charged
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/Gray News) – A woman was charged when her 2-year-old died after falling into a family friend’s pool on Sunday.
Domonique Murray, 36, had just returned from her honeymoon and was at a friend’s house with her two children, WRDW reported.
According to the incident report, 2-year-old Justus Hyman went outside when no one was looking and was eventually found in the pool.
“No one knew he had walked out the door. There’s no lock on the door. So, some kind of way he got out,” Murray’s aunt Katrima Smalley said. “They started looking around the house for him because they thought he was in the house playing.”
Deputies said Murray was performing CPR on the toddler when they arrived.
Justus was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Murray was charged with child cruelty in the second degree and wasn’t able to be with her son as he took his last breaths.
“My daughter is a great mother, and I am so distraught by the system because I felt like it failed her,” Murray’s mother, Demetrius Miller said. “They have her locked up. She was not allowed to come to see her son leave this world.”
According to the coroner, an autopsy has been scheduled.
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https://www.wcjb.com/2022/10/18/2-year-old-drowns-family-friends-pool-mother-charged/
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Klein Law Firm announces that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.
This lawsuit is on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired shares of Abbott common stock during the period from February 19, 2021, to June 8, 2022, inclusive.
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: October 31, 2022
No obligation or cost to you.
Learn more about your recoverable losses in ABT:
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CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: According to the filed complaint, defendants touted the strength of Abbott's infant formula brands and their contribution to the Company's sales and revenue growth, despite knowing that the facility that manufactured those products was in flagrant violations of United States Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") health, safety, and manufacturing regulations. The complaint further alleges that defendants willfully or recklessly concealed these violations from investors, even though the violations put Abbott's infant formula business in dire jeopardy and left the Company exposed to a risk of severe regulatory action, including the recall of its products and closure of the Sturgis facility. Indeed, according to the complaint, defendants received direct warnings, communications, FDA inspection reports, and consumer complaints identifying in detail the safety and regulatory violations that were rampant at the Sturgis facility.
WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU AS A SHAREHOLDER: If you have suffered a loss in Abbott you have until October 31, 2022 to petition the court for lead plaintiff status. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you purchased Abbott securities during the relevant period, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket fees.
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR FINANCIAL INTERESTS: For additional information about the ABT lawsuit, please contact J. Klein, Esq. by telephone at 212-616-4899 or click this link: https://www.kleinstocklaw.com/pslra-1/abt-lawsuit-abbott-laboratories-loss-submission-form?id=31897&from=4.
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2022-09-20T11:05:29+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/09/20/abt-alert-klein-law-firm-announces-lead-plaintiff-deadline-october-31-2022-class-action-filed-behalf-abbott-laboratories-shareholders/
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In a major reversal, a former top Bush administration official who once supported the government's decision to prosecute terrorism suspects at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is now calling that effort "doomed from the start" and urging President Biden to settle the 9/11 case rather than pursue a death-penalty trial.
During an interview with NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer, former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson said Guantánamo's war court is "clearly not working" and that brokering plea agreements with the 9/11 defendants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, is "the only practical resolution" to the case, which has still not gone to trial more than two decades after the September 11th attacks.
"It's an open sore that needs to be resolved," said Olson, whose wife Barbara died in one of the hijacked planes. "It can't go on forever."
"If these individuals are willing to plead guilty to criminal offenses against the laws of the United States, and accept a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole ... then we get to the end of this," he said. "And hopefully that will bring about the conclusion of this long, unending chapter."
Olson's comments are a significant about-face. As solicitor general from 2001-2004, he helped defend President George W. Bush's policy of holding terrorism suspects indefinitely at Guantánamo and denying them basic legal rights. But the military court is widely viewed as irreparably dysfunctional, and since its inception the 9/11 case has been mired in delays, inefficiencies and setbacks, including a judge who quit after two weeks on the job.
In recognition of these problems, settlement negotiations in the 9/11 case began in March 2022. Yet a year later, those talks are in limbo while Guantánamo lawyers wait for the Biden administration to address several key issues, such as what health care the prisoners would receive for injuries from torture and where they would serve their sentences.
A law passed by Congress in 2015 prevents Guantánamo inmates from entering the U.S. for any reason, including imprisonment. But Olson told NPR that he would "support modifying the law to allow these individuals to be kept in maximum-security prisons in the territory of the United States."
Asked if his public comments endorsing plea deals are meant to give President Biden political cover to settle the 9/11 case — a move likely to face opposition from some Republicans in Congress — Olson said, "that was not part of my motivation, but I hope that that might be a possible outcome of my speaking out."
He added: "Because I was someone whose wife was murdered on that day, and because I was a top-level official in the Justice Department in the Bush administration at that time ... [that] might give people a little bit more comfort in saying, 'Yes, we ought to resolve it in this way.'"
In addition to the five 9/11 defendants, 26 other men are being held at Guantánamo, out of roughly 780 who have passed through its prison since 2002. The majority of the remaining prisoners have never been criminally charged and have been approved for release by a parole-like board, yet remain in confinement while the U.S. searches for countries to take them. They are known as "forever prisoners." Meanwhile, the 9/11 case has been stuck in "pre-trial hearings" for more than a decade.
Olson told NPR he hopes Biden will take steps to resolve all Guantánamo litigation, which is also extremely expensive: The war court and military prison have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $6 billion since 2002.
"I don't think there's a huge downside for him communicating to the military officials involved in this decision-making process to let it go, get it over with, put it behind us," Olson said. "And I don't think there would be a huge hue and cry from the American people saying, 'How could you possibly do this?'"
He added: "I think people want to move on ... and I would hope that he and his advisors would say, 'Let's get this one off the table.'"
Olson raised another possible benefit of settling the 9/11 case: intelligence gathering.
"One of the possibilities, if they plead guilty and we take capital punishment off the table, is that they might be persuaded to tell their stories — how they were recruited, how this was all put together," he said. "We don't yet have those stories from these individuals, and I think the American people, and particularly people who were affected directly because a loved one was killed or maimed on September 11, want answers to those questions."
In the past two months, Biden has released four Guantánamo prisoners — one was sent to Belize, one to Saudi Arabia, and two to Pakistan — indicating that his administration is ramping up efforts to negotiate prisoner transfers. But he has been publicly silent about the 9/11 settlement negotiations.
"I still feel that the individuals who boarded airplanes and took the lives of thousands of innocent individuals ... and attacked this country, and attacked this country's institutions, are unforgivable," Olson said.
"But it has to come to a conclusion in the interest of everyone, including the detainees, and the people whose families were taken from them on September 11, and for this country," he added. "We can't just leave this dangling forever, and we can't have a situation where we're holding people without any kind of resolution interminably."
This story was adapted and edited for digital by Miranda Kennedy and Majd Al-Waheidi. contributed to this story
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2023-04-03T09:31:54+00:00
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Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona has won a second term, beating GOP challenger Blake Masters.
In a race called by the Associated Press, Kelly was up more than 5 percentage points over Masters. The former NASA astronaut was first elected to the Senate in 2020 during a special election following the death of Sen. John McCain.
The seat is one the Democrats needed to keep for greater control of the Senate, which has been split 50-50 with Vice President Harris breaking tie votes in the Democrats' favor.
Kelly has appealed to Arizona moderates and independents. Arizona Democrats made advances in federal-level races in 2020 when President Biden pulled support, along with Kelly winning in the special election.
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2022-11-12T17:56:58+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP)Reyne Smith scored 20 points to lead Charleston to a 77-72 victory over Towson on Monday night in the semifinal round of the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament.
Smith made 7 of 15 shots with four 3-pointers for the second-seeded Cougars (30-3), who picked up their seventh straight win and will play No. 4 seed UNC Wilmington in the championship game on Tuesday. The Seahawks beat top-seeded Hofstra 79-73 in overtime in the first semifinal.
Ante Brzovic finished with 19 points and nine rebounds for Charleston. Dalton Bolon scored 12.
Cameron Holden totaled 21 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals to pace the third-seeded Tigers (21-12). Nicolas Timberlake added 17 points and six rebounds.
Smith scored 15 points in the second half to help Charleston rally from a 38-33 halftime deficit.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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2023-03-07T11:40:30+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/sports/ncaa-basketball/smith-helps-charleston-beat-towson-77-72-in-caa-semifinal/
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company utilizing proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 23,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $3.50 per share, including 3,000,000 shares sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares. All of the shares were sold by Poseida. Including the option exercise, the aggregate gross proceeds to Poseida from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, were $80.5 million.
Piper Sandler and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and BTIG, LLC also acted as book-running managers for the offering.
The offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, including a base prospectus, previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The offering was made only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that formed a part of the registration statement. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering have been filed with the SEC and are available for free on the website of the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Piper Sandler, Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, by telephone at (800) 747-3924 or by email at prospectus@psc.com; or William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, by telephone at (800) 621-0687 or by email at prospectus@williamblair.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Poseida Therapeutics, Inc.
Poseida Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to utilizing our proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create next generation cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure. We have discovered and are developing a broad portfolio of product candidates in a variety of indications based on our core proprietary platforms, including our non-viral piggyBac® DNA Delivery System, Cas-CLOVER™ Site-specific Gene Editing System and nanoparticle- and AAV-based gene delivery technologies. Our core platform technologies have utility, either alone or in combination, across many cell and gene therapeutic modalities and enable us to engineer our portfolio of product candidates that are designed to overcome the primary limitations of current generation cell and gene therapeutics.
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2022-08-08T21:26:26+00:00
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https://www.kcrg.com/prnewswire/2022/08/08/poseida-therapeutics-announces-closing-public-offering-common-stock-full-exercise-underwriters-option-purchase-additional-shares/
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Man charged with murder after setting mom on fire, police say
Published: Sep. 2, 2022 at 11:39 AM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
WINSTON SALEM, N.C. (Gray News) – A man in North Carolina was charged with murder after being accused of setting his mother on fire, according to police.
Responding officers found Joanna Parker sitting on the front porch burning in flames.
Police said officers were able to put out the fire.
According to the police report, James Parker, 48, was upset with his mother, so he poured gasoline on her and set her on fire.
The 72-year-old woman was taken to the hospital where she died from her injuries.
James Parker was arrested and charged with murder in connection to his mother’s death.
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2022-09-02T17:30:08+00:00
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kxii.com
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https://www.kxii.com/2022/09/02/man-charged-with-murder-after-setting-mom-fire-police-say/
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BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County is asking residents for their opinion on three art proposals to be installed at the county’s headquarters at Alvarado Square. The deadline for comment submission is Friday, July 28, at 11:59 p.m.
The semi-finalists for the art project are Ray King, Ivan Depeña, and the team of Laura Haddad and Thomas Drugan. They each presented detailed proposals for the project earlier this month. To send in a comment, fill out the form here.
Ray King Concept
Ivan Depeña Concept
Laura Haddad and Thomas Drugan Concept
Bernalillo County’s Public Art Program and the Bernalillo County Arts Board are asking for feedback on the proposals, and based on the public comment, the selection committee will pick a finalist for the project.
The finalist will be selected at the Arts Board meeting on August 7, and work on the installation will begin this fall. For more information on the county’s Arts Board, click here.
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2023-07-18T21:01:21+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/news/community/bernalillo-county-asks-for-public-comment-on-alvarado-square-art-proposals/
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — When Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes headed up the tunnel inside Arrowhead Stadium to have X-rays taken on his sprained right ankle, and Chad Henne trotted onto the field in the second quarter of their divisional playoff game against Jacksonville, it was obvious who the backup quarterback was going to target.
Not that the Jaguars could do anything about it.
Henne’s first throw went to Travis Kelce. So did another. And another. And by the time the Chiefs were on the doorstep of the end zone, it was the All-Pro tight end whose short touchdown grab finished off a 98-yard scoring drive.
In that respect, Kelce was like a big, comfy security blanket for the Chiefs, who went on to win 27-20 and advance into a Sunday night rematch with the Cincinnati Bengals for the AFC title. Kelce finished with 14 catches, one off the NFL playoff record, and along the way continued his run on career statistical charts too numerous to count.
“Every time I step up here,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said afterward, “I feel like he breaks another record.”
Kelce isn’t the only standout tight end in the conference championships, though. The Bengals feature Hayden Hurst in their high-flying attack, and the 49ers’ George Kittle and the Eagles’ Dallas Goedert will square off in the NFC title game.
But it’s been Kelce who, over the past decade, has continued to revolutionize the position.
He is athletic enough to beat one-on-one coverage. Crafty enough to find holes in zones. And while the 33-year-old is a little bit older and perhaps a tad bit slower these days, he’s also a whole lot wiser, and his uncanny rapport with Mahomes — and Henne, apparently — makes him a matchup nightmare for defensive coordinators
“It’s like Travis knows exactly where Patrick is, what he’s going to do when he scrambles to his right or his left,” said Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo, who sees enough of him in training camp and practice.
“To me, that’s the most amazing thing,” Spagnuolo said. “How they get that, I’ll never know.”
Each of the tight ends playing Sunday brings something unique to their teams.
Hurst keeps defensive backfields from focusing entirely on Ja’Marr Chase, Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd, thus taking some of the pressure off one of the best trios of wide receivers in the game. He had four catches for 45 yards in the wild-card round against Baltimore before catching five passes for 59 yards and a score in the divisional round against Buffalo.
Goedert brings a certain physical attitude to the potent Philadelphia offense. Or, as Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts put it, when he’s on the field “he’s trying to punish somebody. He’s not trying to spare no man.”
Take their divisional win over the Giants. Hurts threw to his 6-foot-5, 256-pound tight end on the game’s third play, and Goedert proceeded to plant New York cornerback Adoree’ Jackson with a stiff arm, helping to set the tone for the rest of the night. Goedert finished the drive with a touchdown catch to kick off the 38-7 rout.
“He’s tough to tackle. He is really tough to tackle,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “I wouldn’t want to tackle him.”
His counterpart in San Francisco is equally tough to tackle, though not because Kittle bulldozers defenders so much as he makes them miss. Kittle did that on five catches for 95 yards in their divisional win over the Cowboys.
The tone the ever-smiling Kittle sets for his team? One of loose, unbridled joy.
“Times we sort of feel uptight and whatnot, Kittle is like, the guy to put a smile on your face and say, ‘Hey, we’re good enough,’ that kind of thing,” 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy said. “He does bring energy and good vibes to everyone, and honestly, I do feel like he gets us back into the zone of playing well.
“So that’s what he does, and I think he’s the best in the NFL with just his personality and everything like that, too.”
Kelce is playing in his fifth consecutive AFC title game. Hurst made the playoffs earlier in his career in Baltimore. Goedert is in the postseason for the fourth time while Kittle is playing in his third conference title game in four years.
That’s four of the game’s best tight ends, all trying to reach the Super Bowl this Sunday.
“It’s what you dreamt about since you were a kid,” Kittle said. “It’s what you dream about when you’re in high school and college. You dream about it when you’re in the NFL. You dream about situations like this. Whether it’s a hunger, starvation or desperation, you do everything you can to make sure at the end of the game you can win it.”
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2023-01-29T02:43:42+00:00
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mytwintiers.com
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https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/the-big-game/4-of-nfls-best-tes-on-display-in-title-games/
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Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of children who fell victim to their crimes.
U.S. District Judge Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 plaintiffs in a long-running civil suit against the judges.
In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal payments from the builder and co-owner of two for-profit lockups. Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, pushed a zero-tolerance policy that guaranteed large numbers of kids would be sent to PA Child Care and its sister facility, Western PA Child Care.
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2022-08-17T13:37:32+00:00
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pennlive.com
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https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/pa-judges-ordered-to-pay-200m-to-children-in-jail-kickback-scheme.html
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Full survey will help shape the work of policymakers and museum professionals in continuing to best serve their communities, while preserving our nation's historical, natural, and cultural infrastructure
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is launching a pilot National Museum Survey (NMS) as part of its ongoing mission to invest in the future of museums. The pilot survey will be fielded from July 24 through September 15, 2023, and will inform the feasibility of an annual nationwide survey that would gather and share foundational data about the essential work happening in the nation's museums.
Anticipating the successful completion of the pilot, the full annual NMS will be rolled out in 2025 and would, for the first time, capture the scope, reach, and importance of the incredible work of museums and related institutions across the U.S., collecting information that will help shape the work of policymakers and museum professionals through published data tools and topical reports.
"Currently, there is no annual federal data collection about museums in the United States, and policymakers have acknowledged that there is a real need for reliable national statistics," said IMLS Deputy Director Laura Huerta Migus. "IMLS is here to answer that call. By showcasing the scope and reach of museums in communities across the country, the NMS will inspire new ways to efficiently invest in our nation's historical, natural, and cultural infrastructure."
Approximately 7,050 museums of varying disciplines, sizes, and geographies will be invited to complete the NMS pilot in 2023. The survey will include zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and arboretums; nature and science centers; history museums and historic sites; art museums; children's museums; natural history museums; and specialized museums. The survey will capture a variety of information about the institution's characteristics and facilities; financial data; human resources information; admissions, visitors, and outreach; digital presence; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. The goal of the pilot is to explore the best ways to engage museums for successful survey participation.
"IMLS has surveyed the nation's libraries for many years, but this is the first time the organization will be reaching out to capture the work of museums and related institutions. This represents a significant investment in the field, and it will, we believe, create an understanding of the important role that museums play in our nation," said IMLS Director Crosby Kemper III. "Museum practitioners, researchers, journalists, the public, local practitioners, and policymakers can use the data for planning, evaluation, and policymaking. It will help them better engage with the public, develop connections with policymakers, and connect with others in the field."
IMLS has been engaging in the groundwork for this pilot for more than two years and will use the data from the pilot to understand how best to execute the full survey. The pilot phase of the survey will be administered via emails sent directly to selected museums.
In 2025, after the full launch is executed and completed, IMLS plans to use their findings to build dynamic dashboards and other data products that will allow users to interact with the data and enables institutions to compare themselves to others in their museum discipline.
The NMS will be a consequential tool for IMLS to determine best practices in supporting the needs of cultural institutions across the nation.
Learn more about this effort by visiting the IMLS website and searching "National Museum Survey," visiting https://www.imls.gov/research-evaluation/data-collection/national-museum-survey, and/or subscribing to the IMLS newsletter for updates.
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries and museums. We advance, support, and empower America's museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development. Our vision is a nation where museums and libraries work together to transform the lives of individuals and communities. To learn more, visit www.imls.gov and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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2023-07-24T16:24:29+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2023/07/24/institute-museum-library-services-launches-national-museum-survey-pilot/
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LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — It’s easy to tell the delivery room from the rest of the main maternity hospital in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, even from the outside. Its exterior wall is piled high with sandbags.
In the dim basement, where heavily pregnant women must bend low to avoid the water pipes, there is a delivery table in case the baby comes amid the air raid sirens.
Stress is part of childbirth, but it’s not meant to be like this.
At least 49 attacks have targeted medical facilities in Ukraine since the Feb. 24 Russian invasion, including a maternity hospital bombed in March in Mariupol, where Associated Press images of a wounded pregnant womanbeing rushed from the rubble on a stretcher were seen around the world, personifying the horror of the attack on civilians. The woman and her baby later died.
About 200 pregnant women displaced by Russia’s invasion have come to the hospital in Lviv since the warbegan. More than 100 have given birth, said Maria Malachynska, director of the Lviv state regional perinatal center. They come from some of the communities the world now knows by name: Mariupol, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Kyiv.
“This stress which women have, in times of war, it influences a lot and we see a lot of complications,” Malachynska said.
Lilia Myronovich, who heads the natal department at another hospital, Lviv municipal maternity, said she also has seen more premature births than normal. “The women are stressed,” she said. “Especially ladies who come from other districts.”
One woman from Mariupol at the Lviv state perinatal center cries all the time, traumatized after making it out of the besieged city. “They were starving,” Malachynska said. “We are even helping them with clothes, with prams, because they don’t have anything to give to their children.”
Outside the director’s window, a new shelter was being dug. It will be large enough to hold the incubators needed for babies born prematurely.
Upstairs, expectant mother Kateryna Galmalova fled Mykolaiv, a city now occupied by Russian forces, with her husband as tanks were approaching and after three nights sleeping in the hallway amid explosions.
“I had high blood pressure the first few days from this news” of the war, she said. “Because you don’t understand what to do next, where to go, where and how to give birth.”
She fled Mykolaiv with just her documents, spare underwear and the clothes she wore. She was overwhelmed by the kindness she found in Lviv, where she has no family, she said, and which quickly became a haven for hundreds of thousands of people displaced from more threatened parts of Ukraine.
Suddenly a siren sounded, sending patients and staff to the basement until the alert was lifted half an hour later.
“I do not want children to be born in war,” Galmalova said as she waited underground scrolling through social media on her phone, where she learned of a woman forced to give birth in a bunker. “And I don’t want to give birth in a basement or a bunker. I do not want any child to be born in such a place.”
Another expectant mother, Yana Tananakina, fled from the capital, Kyiv, and wants to return. “Life goes on,” said her husband, Oleksander. “Every war ends. And this one will end, too.” He was so pleasantly surprised by the Lviv maternity hospital that the couple is now considering having their next child there, too.
In a bright and quiet room, Natalya Suhotsha beamed at her newborn twins, Zlata and Sophia. She fled Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in the early days of the war when the Russians began to bombard a nearby airport. Her husband gave her five minutes to gather things and go.
She grabbed the baby clothes and little else before escaping to Lviv, where she was born and where her family has a home.
Now, looking at her baby girls makes her forget about the war. She wishes the same happy distraction for every woman.
“We just talk about pretty babies,” the 24-year-old said of her conversations with other displaced new mothers at the hospital. “We don’t talk about the war. Every time you talk about the war, you stress.”
Her mother, a nurse, had promised to be there for the twins’ birth. But she remained in Hostomel as the others fled. Natalya said she hopes to return to her mother soon. Her work in real estate is also waiting.
“My work was about the future,” she said. “It was for new families. And it’s all crushed.”
Now it’s time to rebuild, she said.
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Associated Press photojournalist Nariman El-Mofty contributed to this report.
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Follow the AP’s coverage of the war at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine
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2022-05-11T23:55:03+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/wartime-birth-amid-the-air-raid-sirens-in-ukraine-hospital/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Caribou Biosciences, Inc. ("Caribou" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: CRBU). Such investors are advised to contact Robert S. Willoughby at newaction@pomlaw.com or 888-476-6529, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Caribou and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
On or around July 26, 2021, Caribou conducted its initial public offering ("IPO"), selling 19 million shares of stock priced at $16.00 per share.
Then, on December 12, 2022, Caribou issued a press release "report[ing] new 12-month clinical data from cohort 1 in the ongoing ANTLER Phase 1 trial, which show long-term durability following a single infusion of CB-010 at the initial dose level 1 (40x106 CAR-T cells)." Among other results, Caribou reported that "3 of 6 patients maintained a durable CR [complete response] at 6 months" and "2 of 6 patients maintain a long-term CR at the 12 month scan and remain on the trial".
On this news, Caribou's stock price fell $0.81 per share, or 9.03%, to close at $8.16 per share on December 12, 2022.
Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.
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2023-01-04T08:04:58+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2023/01/04/shareholder-alert-pomerantz-law-firm-investigates-claims-behalf-investors-caribou-biosciences-inc-crbu/
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'Limiting out every day': At Oklahoma's best crappie lake, the fish are moving to the shallows
April is an outdoorsman's paradise in Oklahoma.
Turkey hunting begins, the morel mushrooms are popping up from the ground, and the fish are biting.
In April, crappie move into the shallow water along the shoreline to spawn. Fishing shallow cover with jigs and minnows during the spawn is one of the easiest ways and most fun ways to catch crappie.
"Pretty much they will bite just about anything as they are guarding their nest," said Michael Hollie, a fisheries biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Crappie will spawn around hardcover like brush, docks, long-stemmed reeds and cattails and really like gravel areas.
"They will move in and move out (of the shallow water)," said Hollie, who is the biologist on Lake Eufaula, Oklahoma's best crappie lake.
"It doesn't all happen at one time. Right now, they ought to be starting. There might be some on the banks already."
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A sweet delicacy
Crappie are ubiquitous across Oklahoma. There are very few lakes in the states that don't contain crappie, arguably Oklahoma's best freshwater table fare.
Catfish and walleye might give crappie a run for its money, but it's hard to beat a meal of fried crappie and cornbread. Throw in some morel mushrooms and not only will a country boy survive, he will be well-fed to boot.
Oklahoma is blessed with many good crappie lakes like Kaw, Texoma, Hugo, Wister, Thunderbird (although the crappie are smaller), Canton, Fort Gibson and Fort Supply, just to name a few. In the Oklahoma City area, Hefner and Arcadia are also crappie spots.
Lake Eufaula, though, is king of the crappie lakes in Oklahoma.
The lake draws many crappie anglers from neighboring states like Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas, Hollie said. But a lot of anglers also come from Illinois and Iowa, too, he said.
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Crappie talk
Lake Eufaula is Oklahoma's largest lake. It covers 105,500 surface acres with 800 miles of shoreline.
The sheer size of the lake, plus the rich nutrients in it, is why crappie thrive there, Hollie said. There is no limit in the food supply for crappie in Lake Eufaula, he said. It also has lots of shoreline with the kind of habitat crappie prefer.
The bass and catfishing can be good as well on Lake Eufaula, but it gets overshadowed by the crappie fishing.
Lake Eufaula gets 2.5 million visitors each year, and most of those are visiting the lake to fish for crappie, said Penny Hembree, executive director of the Lake Eufaula Association.
"I would say at least three-fourths of them," she said.
Hembree said when she represents the Lake Eufaula Association at an outdoors show, crappie fishing is always a topic of discussion among the showgoers.
"That is the first thing they want to talk about," she said.
In November, Lake Eufaula will be the site of a Crappie Masters tournament on Veterans Day weekend.
Crappie fishing is a huge benefit to the local economy, Hembree said.
'Moving up'
On Lake Eufaula, the crappie spawn begins on the southern half where the water warms sooner. This is the busiest time of year at Lake Side One Stop store in Crowder.
The store has a café, sells minnows and crappie jigs, and is often the place local fishing guides meet their customers.
Store owner Dale Motley said Thursday that business had really picked up in the last few days as the crappie are getting ready to spawn.
"They are moving up," Motley said. "(Anglers) are catching a bunch of them, mostly at night. The guides are limiting out every day."
Oklahoma has a liberal daily limit of 37 crappie. Motley, who has owned the Lake Side One Stop for 22 years, expects the crappie fishing to be good on Lake Eufaula for the next month.
He would, however, like to see the Wildlife Department put a length limit on crappie at Lake Eufaula to protect the big females during the spawn.
"Nowadays, they got these new Live Scopes and basically they pick out all of the big fish," Motley said. "They can see them down there. It's like a video game. They pick all the big fish out."
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Summer school
Motley gives a prize of Beaver Bottom baits each month to the angler who catches the biggest crappie and brings it to his store. The frontrunner this month is a 2.33-pounder.
The angler who catches the biggest crappie during the year receives a Todd Huckabee crappie rod.
Huckabee is one of the busiest crappie fishing guides on Lake Eufaula. He catches crappie all year on the lake, but says the easiest time is in June, July and August when the weather is consistent in the summer and the crappie are schooled up.
Huckabee said Friday that some of the crappie on Lake Eufaula have moved into the spawning areas on the banks, but most are still roaming in deeper water. The best fishing is ahead.
Motley, 56, grew up in Crowder and has been catching slabs on Lake Eufaula since he was a boy. He does admit to getting tired of fishing for crappie at times, but he has never gotten tired of eating those sweet and tasty filets.
"I ate crappie last night," he said.
Reporter Ed Godfrey looks for stories that impact your life. Be it news, outdoors, sports — you name it, he wants to report it. Have a story idea? Contact him at egodfrey@oklahoman.com or on Twitter @EdGodfrey. Support his work and that of other Oklahoman journalists by purchasing a digital subscription today.
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2022-04-25T14:37:10+00:00
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oklahoman.com
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https://www.oklahoman.com/story/sports/outdoors/fishing/2022/04/25/oklahoma-fishing-lake-eufaula-crappie-moving-shallows/7399646001/
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, whose armed wing has been waging one of Asia’s longest-running insurgencies, has died. He was 83.
Sison died peacefully late Friday after two weeks of confinement in a hospital in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the party’s spokesman, Marco Valbuena, said in a statement on Saturday. The cause of death was not disclosed.
Sison had lived in self-exile in The Netherlands since then-President Corazon Aquino released him from detention in 1986, shortly after the “People Power” revolt overthrew dictator Ferdinand Marcos, the father and namesake of the current Philippine president.
Sison died 10 days before the party he founded in 1968 was marking its 54th anniversary on Dec. 26. Its armed wing, the New People’s Army, was established months later in March 1969, numbering only about 60 Maoist fighters armed with nine automatic rifles and 26 single-shot rifles and pistols. But the movement gradually grew and expanded across the impoverished nation.
Battle setbacks, surrenders and infighting, however, have weakened the guerrilla group, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and remains a major Philippine security threat. The communist rebellion has left about 40,000 combatants and civilians dead. It also has stunted economic development, especially in the countryside, where the military says about 2,000 insurgents are still active.
Past administrations had engaged in on and off peace negotiations with communist rebels represented by the umbrella organization National Democratic Front of the Philippines, where Sison served as chief political consultant.
Former President Rodrigo Duterte ended peace talks in March 2019, and negotiations have not resumed.
“The Filipino proletariat and toiling people grieve the death of their teacher and guiding light,” the party’s statement said.
“Even as we mourn, we vow (to) continue to give all our strength and determination to carry the revolution forward guided by the memory and teachings of the people’s beloved Ka Joma,” the statement added, referring to Sison by his nickname.
Vice President Sara Duterte, daughter of the former president, issued a brief statement on Sison’s death, saying: “May God have mercy on his soul.”
The Department of National Defense said Sison was responsible for the death of thousands of civilians and combatants. It said his death “deprived the Filipino people of the opportunity to bring this fugitive to justice under country’s laws.”
A Manila court in 2019 ordered the arrest of Sison and 37 others for their alleged involvement in a massacre in 1985. A mass grave discovered by soldiers in Inopacan town on Leyte Island in 2006 supposedly contained skeletal remains of rebels killed by their colleagues on suspicion they were informants of the military.
Sison, in a Facebook post in September 2019, denied the accusations against him, saying it was a “fake plot” and that authorities had collected bones from cemeteries to frame him and the others. He said he and the other suspects were in jail at the supposed time of the killings.
Sison, a former youth activist and university professor before founding the Communist Party, played a key role in the bitter split in the ranks of the rebels in the 1990s over differences in strategies. A bloody internal purge left hundreds dead, further weakening the rebels whose numbers have dwindled from a peak of around 25,000.
“A new era without Jose Maria Sison dawns for the Philippines, and we will all be the better for it,” the Defense Department said.
The Communist Party gave no indication about a possible successor to Sison.
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2022-12-17T11:40:48+00:00
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upmatters.com
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https://www.upmatters.com/news/ap-top-headlines/ap-philippine-communist-party-founder-sison-dies-in-exile-at-83/
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LONDON (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases across Britain has surged by more than 30% in the last week, new data showed Friday, with cases largely driven by the super infectious omicron variants.
Data released by Britain’s Office for National Statistics showed that more than 3 million people in the U.K. had COVID-19 last week, although there has not been an equivalent spike in hospitalizations. The number of COVID-19 deaths also fell slightly in the last week.
“COVID-19 has not gone away,” said Dr. Mary Ramsay, of the Health Security Agency. “It is also sensible to wear a face covering in crowded, enclosed spaces,” she said. Britain dropped nearly all its coronavirus measures, including mask-wearing and social distancing months ago and masks are rarely seen on public transport.
The latest jump in coronavirus cases comes after an earlier increase of about 40% last month, following the large street parties, concerts and festivities held to mark the platinum jubilee celebrations marking 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.
British officials said the latest wave of COVID-19 infections were likely caused by omicron subvariants BA.4. and BA.5. Omicron has tended to cause a milder disease than previous variants like alpha or delta, but scientists warn its ability to evade the immune system means that people may be more susceptible to being reinfected, including after vaccination.
“The constant bombardment of waves we are seeing does cause clinical impact that is not to be underestimated,” said Dr. Stephen Griffin, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Leeds, explaining that any infection can lead to long COVID.
Despite widespread immunization across Britain, the protection from vaccines is likely fading and omicron and its subvariants have evolved to become more infectious. Britain’s Health Security Agency said they were seeing more outbreaks in care homes for older people and a rise in admissions to intensive care units of people over 65.
Dr. Jonathan Van-Tam, a former deputy chief medical officer for the U.K., told the BBC that COVID-19 is now “much, much, much closer to seasonal flu” than when it first emerged. Still, he said experts should be vigilant for any signs the virus was causing more severe illness.
Germany’s Robert Koch Institute also reported a similar rise in the coronavirus, with cases increasing especially among older people, children and teenagers. France has seen a jump in the COVID-19 hospitalization rate and officials recently recommended that people begin wearing masks again on public transport.
Globally, the World Health Organization said this week that COVID-19 is increasing in more than 100 countries worldwide. The U.N. health agency warned that relaxed testing and surveillance measures mean it may be more difficult to catch emerging variants before they spread more widely.
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Follow AP’s coverage of the pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic
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2022-07-01T22:57:52+00:00
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krqe.com
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https://www.krqe.com/health/covid-cases-up-by-more-than-30-in-britain-last-week/
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Most of us play both roles of the Caller and Callee. Guess which role rules? The Callee. I’ve lost count of how many older adults tell me, week after week, how hard it is to get through to powerful Callees. Especially by telephone. The latter include your local electric, gas and telephone company, your bank and insurance company, your members (or their staff) of Congress, and your local, state and federal government agencies. It never used to be that way.
Imagine the days when you’d pick up your phone, dial and get through to a human being. You couldn’t be waylaid by the evasive robotic operator that gives you the “press one or two or three or four” drill. Unfortunately, when you select “one” you often get another automatic recording. At some point you get a voicemail opportunity which is really voicefail.
Oh, say the younger people — what about trying email or text messaging? Clutter, filters, distractions and sheer overloads can’t adequately describe the ways Callees can keep you from getting through to a human. The more difficult it is, the more people repeat their attempts, and the more overload there is for the digital gatekeepers.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures white-collar labor productivity. If they measured the sheer billions of hours wasted by people trying to get through to do their jobs, white-collar labor productivity would be far lower than its present level.
Here are some areas of abuse. Our Constitution’s First Amendment protects more than freedom of speech, press and religion. It adds the “right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” I am confident in saying that members of Congress and their staff have never been more unresponsive to serious petitions (letters, calls, emails and old-fashioned petitions) on important issues than today.
Their prompt responses are reserved for donors and ceremonial requests. Civic groups supporting a member’s already chosen legislative priorities find their staff have a working relationship with a congressional office. But try to get through to a member of Congress to sponsor a Congressional hearing or expand their portfolio to new urgent arenas — yes, keep trying.
It is near impossible to get through to even friendly members (or senior staffers) of Congress on grave matters of undeclared wars, starving the IRS budget to aid and abet massive tax evasions by the super-rich and big companies, serial lawless rejections of Congressional authority under the Constitution by the White House, or even restoring the staff of Congressional Committees that Newt Gingrich cut in 1995 when he toppled the House Democrats.
It is so bad that we wrote to every member of Congress and asked them what their office policy toward responding to serious communications was. Only one in 535 offices responded.
Of course, there is the absorbing activity known as “constituent service” — intervening for people back home not getting responses from federal agencies for their personal complaints. Some responsiveness to constituents’ personal stories is widely believed to be good for re-election.
If the Congress in the ’60s and ’70s was as unresponsive as Congress is today, ironically in the midst of the communications revolution, we couldn’t have gotten the key consumer, environmental, worker safety and health laws, the Freedom of Information Law and other laws enacted. Clearly, if you cannot communicate consistently with the 535 members of Congress and staff, who are given massive sovereign powers by “We the People,” you cannot even start to get anything done on Capitol Hill.
There is one democracy-wrecking exception: corporate lobbyists who grease the system with campaign money and assorted inducements and temptations dangled in real time and in the future. The lobbyists for the oil, gas and coal industries; the banking, insurance and brokerage companies; the military weapons manufacturers; the drug, hospital and nursing home chains; corporate law firms; the corporate media and others of similar avarice do get access. They get the private cellphone numbers of our elected officials, because they invite members and staff to luxurious gatherings and travel junkets, as well as more formal fundraising or Political Action Committee venues.
This phenomenon of elected officials being incommunicado toward the civic communities is a controlling process by the powerful over the less powerful. Make no mistake. This same tale of two systems of access is everywhere. The big companies want customers to just give up.
The courts are culpable as well. People have complained about not being able even to get through to Small Claims Court for hours at a time. The Postal Service is not known for quick telephone pickups, still under control of Trump’s nominee Louis DeJoy. Not to mention what the GOP did to the IRS ordinary taxpayer response budget.
But some companies are a bit more responsive, such as FedEx or your local small retail family-owned business.
Fifty billion robocalls a year have disrupted seriously people answering their telephones, even from neighbors down the street. (The FCC and FTC just are not aggressively pressuring the communications companies to use the latest software to thwart these robocall outlaws). These agencies themselves are notoriously incommunicado.
What to do? Be more vociferous. Favor politicians and merchants who pledge to have humans answer phones and not make you wait to give them your thoughts, your business and your complaints.
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2022-07-30T22:14:05+00:00
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albanyherald.com
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https://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/ralph-nader-powerful-callees-just-wont-answer-the-phone/article_5553734c-0f99-11ed-a104-2722e2924c71.html
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ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Mother Nature is forcing the Buffalo Bills to shuffle off to the Motor City.
The NFL decided Thursday to shift the Bills’ home game against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday to Detroit’s Ford Field because of travel and safety concerns stemming from a lake-effect snowstorm set to hit the Buffalo region.
The move to relocate the game came before the storm even began. The forecast calls for 1 to 3 feet of snow to fall through the weekend. The switch in sites means the Bills will play back-to-back games in Detroit, one as the home team and then as visitors when they face the Lions on Thanksgiving.
To maintain continuity, Bills general manager Brandon Beane said the team has chosen to use the visitors’ locker room, sideline and coaching booths for both trips.
“It’s the home team’s choice, really, and we’re the home team,” Beane said during a Zoom call. “The only thing we want from the home-team standpoint this week is the fans.”
Beane then cracked a joke when asked about the price of tickets, which will go on sale Friday.
“They’re much less expensive,” he said, before adding with a laugh, “unless you’re a Cleveland Browns fan.”
The Bills (6-3) have lost two straight and will now play 10 “road” games — instead of nine — in the second year of the NFL’s 17-game schedule. The Browns (3-6) have lost four of five.
Two teams that share a wintry climate and a Lake Erie shoreline will instead play indoors after the NFL — with input from the Bills and New York state officials — was left with little choice but to shift the game.
The National Weather Service issued a lake-effect storm warning lasting through Saturday morning for southern Erie County, which includes the Bills’ home in Orchard Park. The storm is projected to bring wind gusts off Lake Erie as high as 35 mph, which would make travel conditions hazardous and lead to potential power outages.
Though Sunday’s forecast calls for light snow and gusting winds — playable conditions — the Bills and safety officials made clear to the NFL they didn’t want to draw resources away from what’s expected to be a major cleanup effort.
“At the end of the day, the safety of this community comes first, not playing a football game,” said Ron Raccuia, executive vice president of the Bills’ parent company, Pegula Sports and Entertainment.
This isn’t the first time weather has forced the Bills to relocate to Detroit.
Another snowstorm led to them making a similar trip to Ford Field in November 2014, when the Bills defeated the New York Jets 38-3. That game was also pushed back a day to accommodate travel for both teams. The Bills arranged for snowmobiles to pick up some players who were unable to dig their cars out of the snow in order to get them to the airport.
This time, the NFL couldn’t push back the date of the game because Buffalo is already facing a short week.
The Bills plan to make the 45-minute flight to Detroit on Saturday, as they would on a normal trip, and return home immediately after the game.
The Browns also plan to travel on Saturday, and prepared for the possibility of a venue switch by putting together two offensive game plans: one outdoor, one indoor.
“We will be ready for both,” offensive coordinator Alex Van Pelt said. “That’s one thing that COVID years have done for us, we are very flexible and used to adapting and adjusting to any circumstances that come up.”
With the potential for playing in wind and blowing snow, Cleveland was set to rely on its running game with Nick Chubb getting enough carries to even satisfy those Browns fans who criticize coach Kevin Stefanski for not giving the ball to his star back on every play.
Now, a game inside Detroit’s warm and cozy dome will allow the Browns to use their complete playbook.
Trouble is, so will the Bills. Led by quarterback Josh Allen, Buffalo has a distinct advantage over a Cleveland defense that hasn’t delivered all season.
Beane said the Bills were planning to play at home, and even practiced outdoors on Thursday, until the decision was made to move the game. He said the change in location shouldn’t affect the game plan.
Players on both teams were looking forward to competing in the wintry elements.
“I would love it,” Pro Bowl left guard Joel Bitonio said. “But obviously people’s safety and the city of Buffalo. But it would be great. I grew up in California and didn’t see snow much. I was in college at Nevada, which gets snow.”
The Bills last played through a lake-effect storm in December 2017, when they defeated the Indianapolis Colts 13-7 in overtime in a game played in near white-out conditions. The storm didn’t hit until about an hour before kickoff.
“It was surreal. You come in the tunnel the grass is green, when you come back out it’s two feet of snow,” Bills safety Jordan Poyer said. “It was probably one of the most fun games I ever played in.”
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AP Sports Writer Tom Withers contributed to this report from Berea, Ohio.
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2022-11-18T15:36:32+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-nfl-has-contingencies-if-storm-disrupts-browns-game-at-bills/
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PRINCETON, N.J., March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH), owner of Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEXTM), The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX), and Dorman Trading LLC, today announces its participation in the World Federation of Exchanges' ninth annual "Ring the Bell for Gender Equality" Campaign for International Women's Day on March 8, 2023.
MIAX will host a ceremonial bell ringing in its MIH corporate headquarters in Princeton, N.J., on March 8, at 9:30 a.m., EST, to mark this event.
"MIAX is pleased to participate in the Ring the Bell for Gender Equality 2023 ceremony to show our support for women and to recognize the important contributions that they provide to our exchanges and the financial industry as a whole," said Thomas P. Gallagher, Chairman and CEO of MIH. "MIAX is committed to providing equal opportunities to all of our employees and fully supports programs that enhance the responsibilities and advancement opportunities for women in our company."
"MIAX continues to make great advances in providing opportunities for women at all of our exchanges and I am proud to have MIAX celebrate the accomplished women who contribute to our work and culture through our participation in this important event," added Barbara J. Comly, Executive Vice President and General Counsel. "At MIAX, we strive to provide an equitable and inclusive work environment in which all of our employees can be inspired to contribute to the success of our company and pave a path for future generations."
This is the ninth consecutive year that exchanges and central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs) around the world will be participating in the Ring the Bell for Gender Equality Campaign for International Women's Day. The Ring the Bell for Gender Equality Campaign is a partnership between UN Women, UN Global Compact, Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, International Finance Corporation (IFC), and World Federation of Exchanges.
The UN Women's theme for International Women's Day 2023 is "DigitAll: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality." The theme recognizes and celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education.
See the full list of global "Ring the Bell" events here.
Learn more about this year's International Women's Day theme here.
MIAX's parent holding company, Miami International Holdings, Inc., owns Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX™), The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) and Dorman Trading, LLC (Dorman Trading).
MIAX, MIAX Pearl and MIAX Emerald are national securities exchanges registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that are enabled by MIAX's in-house built, proprietary technology. MIAX offers trading of options on all three exchanges as well as cash equities through MIAX Pearl Equities™. The MIAX trading platform was built to meet the high-performance quoting demands of the U.S. options trading industry and is differentiated by throughput, latency, reliability and wire-order determinism. MIAX also serves as the exclusive exchange venue for cash-settled options on the SPIKES® Volatility Index (Ticker: SPIKE), a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY).
MGEX is a registered exchange with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and offers trading in a variety of products including Hard Red Spring Wheat Futures and also serves as the exclusive market for SPIKES Futures. MGEX is a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) under the CFTC, providing DCM, DCO and cash market services in an array of asset classes.
BSX is a fully electronic, vertically integrated international securities market headquartered in Bermuda and organized in 1971. BSX specializes in the listing and trading of capital market instruments such as equities, debt issues, funds, hedge funds, derivative warrants, and insurance linked securities.
Dorman Trading is a full-service Futures Commission Merchant registered with the CFTC.
MIAX's executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, N.J., with additional offices located in Miami, FL, Minneapolis, MN, Hamilton, Bermuda and Chicago, IL.
To learn more about MIAX visit www.MIAXOptions.com.
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To learn more about BSX visit www.bsx.com.
To learn more about Dorman Trading visit www.dormantrading.com.
The press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the Company), and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer; solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may," "future," "plan" or "planned," "will" or "should," "expected," "anticipates," "draft," "eventually" or "projected." You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
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2023-03-08T15:41:43+00:00
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kalb.com
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2022-04-26T18:47:06+00:00
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Four Marines were killed and another is missing after an Osprey aircraft crashed in the Southern California desert, a military official said Thursday, a day after the accident.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still ongoing. No additional details were available.
The MV-22B Osprey was carrying five Marines when it went down at 12:25 p.m. Wednesday during training in a remote area in Imperial County near the community of Glamis, about 115 miles (185 kilometers) east of San Diego.
The aircraft was based at Camp Pendleton with Marine Aircraft Group 39 and was part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing headquartered at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, Maj. Mason Englehart, a spokesperson for the wing, said Wednesday.
The MV-22B is a twin-engine tiltrotor aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter but transit as a turboprop aircraft.
Versions of the aircraft are flown by the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force.
Prior to Wednesday's crash, Osprey crashes had caused 46 deaths, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Most recently, four Marines were killed when a Marine Corps Osprey crashed on March 18 near a Norwegian town in the Arctic Circle while participating in a NATO exercise. In 2017, three Marines were killed when their MV-22B Osprey crashed off Queensland, Australia. In 2015, one Marine was killed and 21 were injured when their MV-22 Osprey caught fire during a “hard landing” in Hawaii.
The Osprey is a joint project of Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing.
Its development was marked by deadly crashes, including an April 2000 accident in Arizona that killed 19 Marines.
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Baldor reported from Washington.
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2022-06-09T16:09:25+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/official-4-dead-1-unaccounted-for-in-marine-aircraft-crash/GBTKJXZ3XZCYFHEHWMC5MHLRKU/
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Top Player Prop Bets for Reds vs. Dodgers on July 28, 2023
Published: Jul. 28, 2023 at 2:51 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Player prop bet options for Freddie Freeman and others are available when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Cincinnati Reds at Dodger Stadium on Friday at 10:10 PM ET.
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Reds vs. Dodgers Game Info
- When: Friday, July 28, 2023 at 10:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet LA
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Cincinnati Reds
Jonathan India Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -179)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +225)
India Stats
- Jonathan India has 98 hits with 20 doubles, 14 home runs, 39 walks and 52 RBI. He's also stolen 11 bases.
- He's slashing .251/.336/.410 on the year.
- India brings a two-game streak with at least one hit into this one. In his last five games he is hitting .222 with a double, three walks and an RBI.
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Freddie Freeman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +190)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -130)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +360)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +150)
Freeman Stats
- Freeman has put up 133 hits with 35 doubles, two triples, 21 home runs and 50 walks. He has driven in 71 runs with 12 stolen bases.
- He has a .330/.411/.583 slash line on the year.
- Freeman has hit safely in six games in a row. During his last 10 games he is batting .425 with three doubles, a triple, four home runs, seven walks and eight RBI.
Freeman Recent Games
Mookie Betts Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -270)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -164)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +235)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +125)
Betts Stats
- Mookie Betts has 26 doubles, a triple, 27 home runs, 63 walks and 68 RBI (106 total hits). He has stolen seven bases.
- He has a .277/.380/.561 slash line on the year.
- Betts has picked up at least one hit in six games in a row. In his last 10 games he is batting .195 with three doubles, eight walks and four RBI.
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2023-07-28T20:01:58+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/sports/betting/2023/07/28/reds-vs-dodgers-mlb-player-prop-bets/
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By Sriya Tallapragada
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court made the decision to eliminate the constitutional right to an abortion, overruling the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and leaving the question of abortion’s legality to the states. The reaction to this decision has been swift, with many states enacting old or completely new bans.
“We won’t go back!” is the rallying cry frequently heard in protests against this decision. As a teenage girl growing up in America, it is terrifying that access to safe abortion is no longer available as a fundamental human right but instead something that the government can take away.
This ruling sets that the embryo has more rights than the woman carrying the child. Soon, it won’t even be up to the states, and these restrictions will be nationwide.
The fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has withdrawn 50 years of constitutional protections for abortion rights signifies a worrisome trend for the future. New Jersey has become a ‘haven’ for any out-of-state residents seeking an abortion. While this is a good step in the right direction to protect a women’s right to choose, a national effort is required to fill the gap.
We are now in a time of not just unsafe abortion but also state surveillance. This would affect not only pregnant women but also doctors, friends, volunteers, family, and those involved in a pregnancy that doesn’t end in a healthy birth.
Furthermore, taking away Roe v. Wade sets the precedent that all other rulings under the right to privacy are also under the threat of being taken away. This includes same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, the right to birth control and contraceptives, etc.
This decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was in a line of recent controversial decisions that SCOTUS has made over the past term, including recognizing a Second Amendment right to carry guns outside the home, ruling that individuals incarcerated on the state level have no constitutional right to present new evidence to support claims of wrongful conviction, stripping individuals of their ability to seek a remedy for violations of their rights recognized in the Miranda warning, threatening indigenous sovereignty, making it harder to address climate change, and expanding the role of religion in public life.
These decisions, often won by a 6-3 majority, reflect a lopsided political dynamic in which a clear majority of the Supreme Court believes in conservative values. The justices on the Supreme Court insist that they are neutral apolitical public servants. Still, they are nominated by partisanship, with many of their votes leaning toward the views of the people who appoint them.
It is no surprise that considering the recent rulings, confidence in the Supreme Court has sunk to an all-time low. To restore the Court’s credibility, preserve judicial norms, and protect our country’s democracy, the Supreme Court needs reform through legislative action.
You can help by getting involved in the fight to expand the Court by contacting your elected officials in Congress and urging them to bring the Judiciary Act of 2021, which would add four seats and expand the Court to 13 justices.
SCOTUS is also the only Court in the country that does not impose a code of ethics for its judges, who are given lifetime positions and not held to any standard. You can help change this by urging your elected officials in Congress to support the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act.
Nine people should never have absolute authority over our bodily, family, marital and religious choices. The decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, among others, showed us the extent to which SCOTUS is politicized.
However, by acting, we have the power to close this divide and make sure that the voices of the American people are heard and represented in the decisions made by the Supreme Court.
Sriya Tallapragada is a rising sophomore at the Pingry School in Basking Ridge.
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2022-07-07T14:52:28+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/opinion/2022/07/what-the-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade-tells-us-about-the-supreme-court-opinion.html
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Heather Mack has already spent nearly every day behind bars since her mother’s bludgeoned body was found stuffed in a suitcase in the Bali resort where they’d been vacationing nine years ago, sparking international headlines and leading police on a trail that began in suburban Chicago.
On Friday, Mack will undoubtedly be facing many years more in prison, as she is set to plead guilty in the federal murder conspiracy case against her in Chicago rather than go to trial in August.
Mack, 27, is scheduled to enter her guilty plea during an in-person hearing before U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.
The terms of any plea deal she has struck with prosecutors have not yet been released. It’s not surprising, however, that Mack’s case would be resolved without a trial considering the breadth of the evidence against her and the fact that the charge carries a potential life sentence.
Mack was convicted in Indonesia in 2015 of helping her boyfriend with the murder and served about seven years in prison, only to be arrested by the FBI when she landed at O’Hare International Airport in 2021 on a federal indictment that had been filed under seal while she was still overseas.
The indictment charged her with conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and obstruction of justice in the killing of her mother, whose bludgeoned body was found stuffed into a suitcase outside the St. Regis resort in August 2014, sparking months of international headlines.
Also charged with the same counts was her boyfriend at the time of the murder, Tommy Schaefer, who is still in prison in Bali.
The allegations in von Wiese-Mack’s horrific slaying are well known by now. Authorities alleged Mack conspired with Schaefer to kill her mother in order to gain access to a $1.5 million trust fund set up after her father’s death. Mack was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Indonesia for the crime, but was released early for good behavior.
She has been held without bond at the Metropolitan Correctional Center since she was arrested by the FBI in November 2021 as she left the Delta Air Lines flight at O’Hare’s Terminal 5.
Schaefer, who admitted to fatally beating von Wiese-Mack, was sentenced to 18 years and remains behind bars overseas.
Federal prosecutors in Chicago had previously charged Schaefer’s cousin, Robert Bibbs, with helping in the murder plot. The FBI learned of Bibbs’ involvement after analyzing text messages found on Schaefer’s phone.
Bibbs, 32, is serving a nine-year prison sentence in Michigan for coaching the defendants on how to carry out the murder in return for a share of the anticipated multimillion-dollar estate. He is eligible for parole in 2025.
Mack’s daughter, now 7, has been placed with a relative in the U.S. after a lengthy and bitter custody battle in Cook County Circuit Court.
At a bond hearing for Mack in 2022, Bill Wiese, Mack’s uncle, said Mack continues to be a danger to anyone who crosses her, saying in a statement to the court that as recently as 2019, she threatened the life of a journalist who’d told her he thought she was being untruthful in a jailhouse interview.
“Heather said, and I quote, ‘You trust me not to come after you with a big pineapple knife or a fruit bowl when I get out on parole?’ " Wiese said.
Weise and his sister, Debbi Curran, also decried the sensationalism and profiteering that has continued in the years since their sister’s murder, but said they had to come to court to communicate the truth about Mack.
Afternoon Briefing
“Facing Heather at the hearing was one of the necessary steps for justice and healing for our entire family,” Weise said in the lobby of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse.
Prosecutors, however, argued in a motion to deny bond that Mack has a history of violent and erratic behavior brought on by mental health issues. They also detailed the brutality of von Wiese-Mack’s slaying, including how Schaefer allegedly struck the victim with a heavy fruit bowl in their hotel room while Mack covered her mother’s mouth with her hand.
In a recorded phone call, with Schaefer’s cousin, Mack explained that she covered her mother’s mouth to make sure she died, “because Schaefer would have been in even bigger trouble if (von Wiese-Mack) survived,” prosecutors wrote.
“These and other admissions indicate that Mack didn’t just conspire to kill her mother, but was directly involved in her mother’s murder,” prosecutors wrote in the motion.
In arguing for detention, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Marie Ursini said prosecutors were prepared to play a four-minute video from the hotel that allegedly depicted Mack and her boyfriend as they tried to get the bloody suitcase with her mother’s body into a cab. After the driver became suspicious, Mack and Schaefer fled and checked into another hotel using fake names but were quickly arrested.
Kennelly, however, said he didn’t need to see the video because there is no real dispute about what happened.
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2023-06-16T11:41:09+00:00
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chicagotribune.com
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-justice/ct-heather-mack-bali-suitcase-murder-federal-guilty-plea-20230616-klk2p3fssjcbfcpgmccmu77oe4-story.html
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South Korean President Yoon serenaded a crowd at the White House with his rendition of Don McLean's classic American Pie.
Copyright 2023 NPR
South Korean President Yoon serenaded a crowd at the White House with his rendition of Don McLean's classic American Pie.
Copyright 2023 NPR
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2023-04-27T20:59:16+00:00
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kosu.org
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https://www.kosu.org/politics/politics/2023-04-27/south-korean-president-yoon-serenades-white-house-with-an-american-rock-classic
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BEIJING (AP) — China’s ruling party called for strict adherence to the hard-line “zero-COVID” policy Tuesday in an apparent attempt to guide public perceptions after regulations were eased slightly in places.
The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, said in an editorial that China must “unswervingly implement” the policy that requires mass obligatory testing and places millions under lockdown to try to eliminate the coronavirus from the nation of 1.4 billion people and the world’s second-largest economy.
That comes as China reported 17,772 new cases over the previous 24 hours and follows slight changes to quarantine and other anti-virus restrictions announced last week to reduce cost and disruption.
The major provincial capital of Shijiazhuang just outside Beijing has also reopened free testing centers after just one day of closure. The move to require residents to pay for tests underscored the growing economic cost the policy is inflicting on local governments.
Beijing has also closed some testing sites in recent days, but was reopening many on Tuesday. While case numbers remain relatively low in the city of more than 21 million, a recent increase has led to some restaurants and other businesses being forced to close and villages that largely house blue-collar workers placed under lockdown.
Some lockdowns on residential compounds and entire city districts remain in place around China, including in parts of the crucial southern financial manufacturing hub of Guangzhou and other cities whose industrial bases are closely tied to global supply chains.
Local party officials are under immense pressure to curb new outbreaks, but directions from the central government have lately become harder to gauge. China appears to be cautiously attempting to join the rest of the world while refusing to drop policies in which the party and leader Xi Jinping have deeply invested their authority and reputation.
Xi himself is in Indonesia for the Group of 20 summit this week after being absent from most global gatherings throughout the pandemic.
Xi met Monday with U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the G-20 meeting and is expected to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit later in Bangkok.
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2022-11-15T06:13:13+00:00
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siouxlandproud.com
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https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/health/ap-china-state-media-demands-strict-adherence-to-zero-covid/
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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is expected to hear from a top aide in former President Donald Trump’s White House.
Cassidy Hutchinson, who is expected to testify at the surprise hearing Tuesday, is a vital witness in the sweeping investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Hutchinson, a special assistant and aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has already provided a trove of information to the committee and its investigators and sat for multiple interviews behind closed doors.
The House panel has not explained why it abruptly scheduled the 1 p.m. hearing as lawmakers were away from Washington on a two-week recess. The committee had said last week that there would be no more hearings until July. This is the fifth televised public hearing investigating the insurrection at the Capitol.
The precise subject of Tuesday’s hearing remained unclear, but the panel’s announcement Monday said it would be “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” A spokesman for the panel declined to elaborate and Hutchinson’s lawyer did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
NewsNation will live stream the hearings at 1 pm ET. You can watch the hearing live in the player above.
For prior coverage of previous hearings, click here
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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2022-06-28T16:56:56+00:00
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localsyr.com
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https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/jan-6-hearing-features-top-white-house-aide/
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Dec. 13
1942 – The Washington Redskins win the NFL Championship with a 14-6 victory over the Chicago Bears.
1958 – Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings scores his 400th NHL goal in a 2-2 tie against the Montreal Canadiens.
1981 – John McEnroe and Roscoe Tanner lead the United States to a 3-1 victory over Argentina in the Davis Cup final.
1983 – Detroit beats Denver 186-184 in triple overtime in the highest-scoring game in NBA history. Isiah Thomas scores 47 and John Long adds 41 for the Pistons. Denver’s Kiki Vandeweghe had 51 points.
1992 – Manon Rheaume becomes the first woman to play in a regular-season professional game when she appears in the Atlanta Knights’ 4-1 loss to Salt Lake City in the International Hockey League.
1995 – Detroit’s Paul Coffey becomes the first NHL defenseman to reach 1,000 career assists, setting up Igor Larionov’s first-period goal in the Red Wings’ 3-1 victory over Chicago.
1997 – Michigan’s Charles Woodson is named the first predominantly defensive player to receive the Heisman Trophy in the 63 years of the award. Woodson and the Wolverines go on to defeat Washington State in the 1998 Rose Bowl, claiming a perfect 12-0 season and a share of the National Championship.
1998 – Gary Anderson kicks six field goals, setting the NFL record with 34 straight without a miss, in Minnesota’s 38-28 victory over Baltimore.
2003 – Mount Union breaks its own NCAA record by winning its 55th consecutive game, beating Bridgewater 66-0 in the NCAA Division III semifinals.
2004 – In Sestriere, Italy, World Cup leader Bode Miller wins a slalom to join Marc Girardelli as the only men to win races in all four disciplines in a season. Miller has won slalom, giant slalom, super-G and downhill races in a span of 16 days.
2007 – Major League Baseball’s Mitchell Report is released, identifying 85 names to differing degrees in the 409-page document. The biggest name linked by former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell to illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs is seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens.
2010 – Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre, 41, is sidelined by a throwing shoulder too damaged for even him to overcome. The injury ends of one of the greatest individual streaks in all of sports. Favre had made 297 consecutive starts over 19 seasons.
2014 – Marcus Mariota wins the Heisman Trophy, becoming the first Oregon player to earn college football’s top individual honor. Mariota accounts for a Pac-12-record 53 touchdowns (38 passing, 14 rushing and one receiving) while directing the Ducks’ warp-speed spread offense, and leading Oregon to a spot in the first College Football Playoff.
2015 – Irishman Conor McGregor knocks out Brazilian Jose Aldo in 13 seconds to win his 1st featherweight title in Las Vegas
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Dec. 14
1920 – Jack Dempsey knocks out Bill Brennan in the 12th round at Madison Square Garden to retain his world heavyweight title.
1933 – Howie Morenz becomes the NHL’s all-time leading goal scorer in the Montreal Canadiens’ 2-0 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Morenz scores the 247th goal of his career to move ahead of Cy Denneny. The milestone comes at the Forum. Montreal’s Lorne Chabot gets the shutout and the a game is played without a penalty being called.
1947 – The Cleveland Browns beat the New York Yankees 14-3 in the second AAFC championship game. It’s the second straight year the two team meet in the title game, with Browns coming out on top again.
1965 – Rookie Rick Barry of the San Francisco Warriors scores 57 points in a 141-137 loss to the New York Knicks.
1975 – Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar grabs an NBA-record 29 defensive rebounds in a 110-100 victory over Detroit.
1982 – Marcel Dionne of the Los Angeles Kings scores his 500th goal in a 7-2 loss to the Washington Capitals. Dionne is the ninth player in NHL history to reach the milestone.
1985 – UCLA beats American University 1-0 in the eighth overtime period, in the longest soccer match held in the United States, to capture the NCAA soccer title.
1986 – Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins sets an NFL record with the seventh 400-yard game of his career as he passes for 403 yards and five touchdowns in a 37-31 overtime victory over the Los Angeles Rams. Marino hits Mark Duper with a 20-yard touchdown pass in overtime to win the game.
1991 – Desmond Howard, the nation’s second-leading scorer with 23 TDs, wins the Heisman Trophy by the second-biggest margin in history. The Michigan receiver beats runner-up Casey Weldon of Florida State by 1,574 points.
1995 – The first Division I-A overtime game takes place at the Las Vegas Bowl with Toledo beat Nevada 40-37.
1997 – The New York Jets equal the NFL mark for greatest turnaround in modern NFL history with their 31-0 victory over Tampa Bay. The Jets, 1-15 last season, post their ninth win of the season.
2002 – Marvin Harrison breaks Herman Moore’s 1995 mark of 123 catches. By making nine receptions in a 28-23 win at Cleveland, Harrison reaches 127 with two games remaining. He also gains 172 yards, giving Harrison 1,500 yards for the second straight season, the first player with consecutive 1,500-yard seasons.
2002 – Michael Jordan matches his career low with two points as the Washington Wizards beat the short-handed Toronto Raptors. The 39-year-old Jordan shoots 1-for-9 from the field, but has nine assists and eight rebounds as he matches his season high by playing 40 minutes.
2007 – Appalachian State, which kicked off the football season with the stunning upset of Michigan, ends the season with a historic victory. The Mountaineers are Division I-AA’s first three-peat national champion with a 49-21 win over Delaware.
2008 – Oakland becomes the first team to lose at least 11 games in six straight seasons after their 49-26 loss to New England. The Patriots’ 35 first-half points are the most scored against Oakland since the merger in 1970.
2008 – Pittsburgh holds another team under 300 yards in beating Baltimore 13-9. The Steelers tie the 1973 Los Angeles Rams for the longest streak – 14 games to start a season – since the NFL merger in 1970.
2021 Steph Curry makes his 2,974th three-point shot to pass Ray Allen as the NBA’s greatest career 3-point shooter during Golden State Warriors’ 105-96 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden.
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Dec. 15
1925 – The first NHL game is played at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The Americans score first, but the Montreal Canadiens prevail 3-1, before 17,000 in attendance.
1929 – The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-1 in their first game at Chicago Stadium. Vic Ripley scores twice in 35 seconds during the second period to the delight of the 14,212 fans in attendance.
1935 – Detroit Lions win NFL championship with a 26-7 win over the New York Giants.
1946 – Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 24-14 at the Polo Grounds for the NFL championship. A record crowd of 58,326 attend the game. Sid Luckman’s 19-yard touchdown run in the fourth puts the Bears ahead 21-14. Before the game, New York’s star fulback Merles Hapes is declared ineligible by NFL commissioner Bert Bell for not reporting bribe attempt to throw the game. New York police phone taps produced coversations with gambler Alvin J. Paris and Hapes. The Bears were 10-point favorites.
1964 – San Francisco’s Wilt Chamberlain scores 58 points, including nine in overtime, to give the Warriors a 134-132 victory over the New York Knicks.
1970 – Glenn Hall of the St. Louis Blues becomes the second goaltender in NHL history to reach 400 victories. Hall makes 38 saves in a 2-1 win against the Minnesota North Stars. Hall joins Terry Sawchuk in the 400-win club.
1973 – Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in the lowest scoring NCAA basketball game since 1938. With 11:44 left in the first half and Tennessee leading 7-5, Temple holds onto the ball without a shot. Tennessee doesn’t take a shot in the second half, but manages four free throws by John Snow.
1973 – Sandy Hawley becomes the first jockey in history to win 500 races in a single year, riding Charlie Jr. to victory in the third race at Laurel Race Course.
1974 – Oakland’s Jim ”Catfish” Hunter is ruled a free agent by arbitrator Peter Seitz when A’s owner Charles O. Finley fails to live up to the terms of Hunter’s contract.
1984 – Edmonton’s Wayne Gretzky has five goals and an assist to lead the Oilers to an 8-2 triumph over the St. Louis Blues.
1995 – The Vancouver Grizzlies avoid tying the NBA record for consecutive losses in a season by snapping a 19-game losing streak with a 104-100 overtime victory over Portland.
2000 – Georgia Southern beats Montana 27-25 for a second-straight Division I-AA championship and its a record sixth championship.
2012 – Matt Scott throws two touchdown passes in the final 46 seconds and college bowl season starts with a wild one when Arizona rallies to beat Nevada 49-48 in the New Mexico Bowl. Arizona trails 45-28 entering the final quarter. The teams combine for 1,237 total yards, the second most of any bowl game.
2013 – Jamaal Charles ties a franchise record with five touchdowns in a game as the Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland 56-31. The Chiefs become the fourth team ever to make the playoffs a year after losing at least 14 games.
2016 – In the biggest Division I women’s basketball rout ever, No. 3 Baylor overwhelms Winthrop 140-32. The 108-point margin of victory surpasses the 102 set by Grambling when it beat Jarvis Christian College 139-37 in 1986.
2017 – Mount Union wins its 13th Division III football national championship with a 12-0 victory over defending champion Mary Hardin-Baylor. The Purple Raiders (15-0) limit Mary Hardin-Baylor to 144 yards. The Crusaders (14-1) had not trailed all season and had their 29-game winning streak snapped.
2019 – Raiders play their final NFL game in Oakland conceding 17 unanswered 2nd half points to go down 20-16 to the Jacksonville Jaguars; team to play out of Las Vegas in 2020
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2022-12-09T04:16:06+00:00
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kxnet.com
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https://www.kxnet.com/scoreboard/today-in-sports-history-week-ahead-dec-9-12-2/
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NEW YORK (WPIX) – Twists on the classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich are nothing new. But have you ever tried a PB&P? As in, a peanut butter and pickle sandwich?
New York Times Cooking on Friday posted a “recipe” for the sandwich, sparking a somewhat nutty conversation on social media about what is – and isn’t – OK when it comes to peanut butter sandwiches.
In the article, the author acknowledged the sandwich “does not necessarily need a recipe, given its simplicity,” but added, “it’s an unlikely pairing … and sometimes that is what a recipe is for.”
The ingredients include two slices of bread, peanut butter, bread-and-butter pickles and unsalted butter (if desired). The instructions were just as simple: spread peanut butter on both slices of bread, add a layer of pickles to one slice, and bring the two pieces together.
The reactions on the New York Times’ Facebook page, however, were more complicated.
Some folks said they’ve been eating them for years or that they grew up eating them. And some newcomers vowed to give the recipe a shot.
“I used to eat this type of sandwich when I was younger. I loved them!” one Facebook user wrote.
Others, however, were not sold on the combo.
“I love PBJ and I love pickles but y’all need to get a hold of yourselves with this craziness!” one Facebook user commented.
“I eat peanut butter with just about anything. It’s one of my favorite foods and I’ve always been generous with it. But pickles ain’t it…” another Facebook user said.
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2023-04-28T19:57:09+00:00
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cbs42.com
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https://www.cbs42.com/news/national/peanut-butter-and-pickles-new-york-times-cooking-spurs-sticky-conversation/
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DENVER — Gabe Vincent scored 23 points. Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo both scored 21. The Miami Heat evened the NBA Finals, beating the Denver Nuggets 111-108 in Game 2 on Sunday night.
Max Strus scored 14 points and Duncan Robinson scored 10. The Heat had an early lead but dropped by as many as 15 points before reclaiming the lead in the fourth. Miami outscored Denver 36-25 in the final period.
Jokic scored 41 points and was 16 of 28 from the floor, the last of those shots a 4-footer with 36 seconds left to get the Nuggets within three.
Denver elected not to foul on the ensuing Miami possession. Butler missed a 3, and with a chance to tie, Jamal Murray missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Murray had 18 points and 10 assists for Denver, while Aaron Gordon had 12 points and Bruce Brown scored 11.
Game 3 is Wednesday in Miami. Denver had been 11-0 with a double-digit lead in the playoffs.
Strus, who was 0 for 10 in Game 1, had four 3-pointers in the first quarter of Game 2. Butler made a jumper with 4:56 left in the opening quarter to put Miami up 21-10, tying the second-biggest lead any opponent had built in Denver so far in these playoffs.
In a flash, it was gone – and then some.
The Nuggets outscored Miami 32-11 over the next 9 minutes, turning the double-digit deficit into a double-digit lead thanks to an absolute 3-point barrage.
In a 70-second span early in the second quarter, Denver got four 3s – more points than Miami got in that entire 9-minute stretch – and they came from four different players: Bruce Brown, then Jeff Green, then Murray, then Gordon.
Boom, boom, boom, and boom. Murray had five straight points to end the flurry, and Denver led 44-32 when it was over. The Heat managed to close the gap to 57-51 by the half, but whatever good feeling Miami had after the opening minutes was long gone.
From there, the fight was on. Miami didn’t let Denver get away – then found a way in the fourth.
The loss for Denver comes despite Jokic making more history Sunday night.
He became the first center in the history of the game to record 500 points and 100 assists in a single postseason, according to the NBA's Twitter account.
Game 2 of the Finals also made Jokic the third player at any position to log 500 points, 200 rebounds and 150 assists in one postseason.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, he joins LeBron James and Larry Bird as the only players to ever achieve that postseason stat line.
TIP-INS
Heat: Miami changed its starting lineup, with Kevin Love back in the opening five and Caleb Martin – who missed practice Saturday with an illness – coming off the bench. … The Heat got their 13th win of these playoffs, breaking a tie with the 1999 New York Knicks for the most ever by a No. 8 seed.
Nuggets: Denver hadn’t lost a game since May 7 – four weeks ago. … Nuggets legends Alex English, LaPhonso Ellis (who actually ended his NBA career with Miami) and David Thompson were among those in attendance.
HERRO UPDATE
Injured Heat guard Tyler Herro played 2-on-2 on Saturday as he continues his efforts to try to return from a broken hand at some point in these finals — but remained out. Herro got hurt in the first half of Game 1 of Round 1 at Milwaukee. His status for Game 3 is unclear
EXPANSION TALK
Commissioner Adam Silver told NBA TV before the game that negotiations for the next media rights deal are now a priority since the new Collective Bargaining Agreement has been ratified — and how expansion talk will come after that.
Silver said he thinks the media deal negotiations will begin “in earnest probably this next spring.” And after that, plans to add franchises will be the next item on the to-do list.
“We don’t have anything specific in mind right now,” Silver said. “But I think it makes sense over time if you’re a successful organization to continue to grow. There’s no doubt there’s a lot of great cities we’re interested in having in the NBA.”
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2023-06-05T19:30:07+00:00
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koaa.com
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https://www.koaa.com/sports/nuggets-lose-finals-game-2-to-heat-111-108-first-postseason-home-loss
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A SWAT team that entered a house after a single shot was heard while Douglas County deputies and Lone Tree police officers were serving an eviction notice found the body of an adult man.
According to a Douglas County Sheriff’s Department tweet, the shelter-in-place issued for residents in the area of Aspen Hill Circle off Heritage Hills Parkway was lifted and there is no threat to the public.
The SWAT team made entry into the home and the body of an adult male was found. This will now be a death investigation handled by the @CityofLoneTree Police Department. The shelter-in-place notification has been lifted. There is no longer any threat to the public. https://t.co/tAAGldi3V5
— DC Sheriff (@dcsheriff) January 17, 2023
The tweet stated the Lone Tree police will investigate the death.
According to an earlier sheriff’s department tweet, deputies and officers heard a gunshot from the second floor of the house while they were serving the eviction notice. The units backed out of the residence, set up a perimeter and sent a Code Red notification to the area as a precaution.
The SWAT team was then sent to the residence.
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2023-01-17T18:18:10+00:00
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denverpost.com
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https://www.denverpost.com/2023/01/17/lone-tree-shelter-in-place-gunshot-eviction-notice/
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is taking a first-in-the-nation step to tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining, under legislation that Gov. Kathy Hochul signed Tuesday.
The measure comes amid growing scrutiny of the cryptocurrency industry following this month’s collapse of the FTX exchange. But New York’s measure, which passed the state Legislature in June, is specifically concerned with the environmental aspects of crypto.
“I will ensure that New York continues to be the center of financial innovation, while also taking important steps to prioritize the protection of our environment,” Hochul, a Democrat, said in a message explaining her approval.
The new law sets a two-year moratorium on new and renewed air permits for fossil fuel power plants used for energy-intensive “proof-of-work” cryptocurrency mining — a term for the computational process that records and secures transactions in bitcoin and similar forms of digital money. Proof-of-work is the blockchain-based algorithm used by bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies.
The law also requires the Department of Environmental Conservation to asses how cryptomining affects the state’s ability to meet its climate goals.
Environmentalists said New York was undermining those goals by letting cryptomining operations run their own natural gas-burning power plants.
Cryptocurrency advocates, meanwhile, argued that the measure would crimp New York’s economic development, and singled out crypto while not addressing other fossil fuel use.
Cryptocurrency mining requires specialized computers that consume large amounts of energy. One study calculated that as of November 2018, bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption was comparable to Hong Kong’s in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Some miners are looking for ways to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels to produce the necessary electricity.
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2022-11-23T20:43:53+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/tech-news/ap-technology/ap-ny-gov-signs-novel-law-that-limits-cryptomining-for-now/
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Friday, Aug. 5
Crystal Palace vs. Arsenal, 3 p.m.
England Championship
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Friday, July 29
Huddersfield vs. Burnley, 3 p.m.
England League One
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Saturday, July 30
Accrington Stanley vs. Charlton, 10 a.m.
Bristol Rovers vs. Forest Green, 10 a.m.
Cambridge United vs. Milton Keynes Dons, 10 a.m.
Cheltenham vs. Peterborough, 10 a.m.
Derby vs. Oxford United, 10 a.m.
Ipswich vs. Bolton, 10 a.m.
Lincoln vs. Exeter, 10 a.m.
Morecambe vs. Shrewsbury, 10 a.m.
Plymouth vs. Barnsley, 10 a.m.
Port Vale vs. Fleetwood Town, 10 a.m.
Sheffield Wednesday vs. Portsmouth, 10 a.m.
Wycombe vs. Burton Albion, 10 a.m.
England League Two
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Saturday, July 30
AFC Wimbledon vs. Gillingham, 10 a.m.
Bradford vs. Doncaster, 10 a.m.
Carlisle vs. Crawley Town, 10 a.m.
Harrogate Town vs. Swindon, 10 a.m.
Leyton Orient vs. Grimsby Town, 10 a.m.
Northampton vs. Colchester, 10 a.m.
Rochdale vs. Crewe, 10 a.m.
Salford vs. Mansfield Town, 10 a.m.
Stockport County vs. Barrow, 10 a.m.
Sutton United vs. Newport County, 10 a.m.
Tranmere vs. Stevenage, 10 a.m.
Walsall vs. Hartlepool, 10 a.m.
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2022-06-30T15:29:38+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/sports/article/English-Standings-17276431.php
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LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clubhouse Media Group, Inc. (OTCMKTS: CMGR) ("CMGR"), a social media firm and digital agency, announced that they have finalized various brand promotional deals so far in the month of March 2023. The talent includes (but is not limited to) names such as The Game (rapper), Austin & Landon McBroom (YouTubers), Sommer Ray (social media star), Jonathan Cheban of Foodgod (reality TV star and Kardashian family friend), Nate Duncan (podcast host), Kirk Goldsberry (writer), Marco Antonio (content creator), and Erin O'Brien (content creator).
"We are closing deals at a steady pace this month" said Amir Ben-Yohanan, CEO of CMGR. "Our agency is working with a diverse pool of talent which spans social media, sports, and television."
Visit us @ clubhousemediagroup.com
About Clubhouse Media Group, Inc.
CMGR offers management, production, and deal-making services to its handpicked influencers, a management division for individual influencer clients, and an investment arm for joint ventures and acquisitions for companies in the social media influencer space.
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2023-03-22T13:23:02+00:00
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wsfa.com
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https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/03/22/clubhouse-media-group-inc-announces-month-date-brand-deal-update/
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
1-3-6-5, SB: 6
(one, three, six, five; SB: six)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Indiana Lottery's "Daily Four-Midday" game were:
1-3-6-5, SB: 6
(one, three, six, five; SB: six)
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2022-09-15T18:50:03+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Daily-Four-Midday-game-17444231.php
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The sister of a 9-year-old girl killed in the Uvalde school shooting rampage tearfully pleaded with Texas lawmakers to pass tougher gun laws and questioned why so many security measures failed.
Jazmin Cazares on Thursday begged lawmakers to do something. Her young sister Jacklyn was one of 19 children shot dead inside Robb Elementary School on May 24 before police stormed the classroom and killed him.
Two teachers also died in the massacre. The gunman was a former student. Cazares' testimony came just as the U.S. Supreme Court announced a decision allowing a major expansion of gun rights, saying Americans have a right to carry firearms in public.
“I’m here begging for you guys to do something," she said. “People who were supposed to keep her safe at school didn’t,”she added. “They failed.”
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2022-06-23T19:10:47+00:00
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wkbw.com
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https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/uvalde-victims-sister-pleads-for-gun-safety-measures
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LONDON (AP) — Police in Northern Ireland said Monday they were looking into an unverified statement by an Irish Republican Army splinter group claiming responsibility for the shooting of a senior police officer.
A statement purportedly from the dissident group known as the New IRA appeared on a wall in Londonderry late Sunday, claiming it was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell.
Two masked men shot Caldwell in front of his young son after the off-duty officer coached a children’s soccer team in Omagh, about 60 miles (nearly 100 kilometers) west of Belfast. Caldwell remained in critical condition in hospital.
Assistant Chief Constable Mark McEwan said Monday police were aware of the claim of responsibility and was “reviewing its contents as part of the overall investigation.”
Police said last week they were treating the attempted murder of Caldwell as terrorism-related, and that the New IRA was its primary line of enquiry.
Six men were detained for questioning.
Paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland put down their arms after the 1998 Good Friday peace accord largely ended three decades of violent conflict, known as “the Troubles,” between Irish republican and British loyalist groups and U.K. security forces.
But small IRA splinter groups have continued to launch sporadic attacks on security forces. The last fatal attack on a police officer in Northern Ireland was the April 2011 killing of Constable Ronan Kerr, who died when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car in Omagh.
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2023-02-27T18:54:24+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/ap-ira-splinter-group-claims-responsibility-for-police-shooting/
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court has again blocked construction on a contentious natural gas pipeline being built through Virginia and West Virginia, this time doing so even after Congress ordered the project’s approval.
The stay issued Monday by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond comes after Congress passed legislation last month requiring all necessary permits be issued for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The law also stripped the 4th Circuit from jurisdiction over the case.
Environmentalists, though, argued that Congress overstepped its authority by enacting the law, saying it violates the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
“Congress cannot pick winners and losers in pending litigation by compelling findings or results without supplying new substantive law for the courts to apply,” lawyers for the environmentalists wrote in court papers.
Equitrans Midstream, one of the companies building the pipeline, issued a statement Tuesday saying it is considering an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. It said the ruling jeopardizes its plan to complete the pipeline by the end of the year.
“The court’s decision defies the will and clear intent of a bipartisan Congress … to expedite completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, which was deemed to be in the national interest, the company said.
The law greenlighting the pipeline was passed last month as part of a bipartisan bill to raise the debt ceiling. The provision that deals exclusively with the Mountain Valley Pipeline was included after negotiators failed to reach an agreement on broader regulatory reform.
The White House supported putting the provision in the debt ceiling bill — over the objections of environmentalists and some Democrats — as a concession to Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat and pipeline supporter who was a key vote for last year’s sweeping legislation that included deep investments in climate programs.
The stay issued Monday focuses on a 3-mile (5-kilometer) section of that cuts through the Jefferson National Forest. Environmentalists say the construction plan will cause erosion that will ruin soil and water quality. On Tuesday, the court issued a similar stay in connection with parallel litigation alleging the pipeline would violate the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists made similar constitutional arguments in that case.
“Congress cannot mandate that federal regulators throw caution to the wind — environmental laws are more than just mere suggestions, and must be adhered to,” Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous said in a statement.
The Fourth Circuit has blocked construction of the pipeline on multiple occasions over the years.
In court papers, lawyers for the pipeline say Congress is within its rights to strip the court from jurisdiction over the case. They also say that any debate over the law’s constitutionality should be heard not by the 4th Circuit but by an appellate court in Washington, because the law passed by Congress last month spells out that precise scenario.
“Granting a stay of any kind would fly in the face of this recent, on-point, and emphatic Congressional command that the remaining construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline must proceed without further delay,” the project’s lawyers wrote in court briefs.
Mountain Valley Pipeline says the project is already substantially complete and that only three acres (one hectare) of trees need to be cleared, compared to more than 4,400 acres (1,700 hectares) already cleared.
The $6.6 billion, 300-mile (500-kilometer) pipeline is designed to meet growing energy demands in the South and Mid-Atlantic by transporting gas from the Marcellus and Utica fields in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
The stay includes no explanation of the court’s rationale. It remains in place only until the court issues a full ruling on the merits of the case.
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2023-07-11T22:43:25+00:00
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keloland.com
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https://www.keloland.com/business/ap-business/ap-appeals-court-again-blocks-construction-on-mountain-valley-pipeline/
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Police: Woman, 44, killed in skydiving accident in Oklahoma
SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — Police in eastern Oklahoma say a 44-year-old woman was killed after crashing to the ground while skydiving.
Heather Glasgow, of Poteau, died at a hospital after the fall Saturday afternoon, according to police in Sallisaw.
“An unknown issue arose during the skydive,” according to a statement from Sallisaw police.
Witnesses told investigators that Glasgow’s parachute had opened, but she was spinning and did not recover before hitting the ground in Sallisaw, near the Arkansas state line and about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, police said.
It was not clear how far Glasgow fell and a police spokesman was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
Police said Glasgow had completed a tandem jump before the solo jump in which she fell to her death.
The Federal Aviation Administration is assisting in the investigation.
The FAA said in a statement that it is investigating the packing of the main and reserve parachutes while local authorities are in charge of other aspects of the investigation.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-02-21T22:55:13+00:00
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mysuncoast.com
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https://www.mysuncoast.com/2023/02/21/police-woman-44-killed-skydiving-accident-oklahoma/
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BEREA, Ohio — The Cleveland Browns will be without one of their newest receivers for the start of training camp after some unexpected health news.
Wide receiver Marquise Goodwin will not participate in the start of training camp activities after being diagnosed with blood clots in his legs and lungs, the team announced Friday.
Goodwin, who the Browns officially signed in free agency back in April, had experienced discomfort in his legs and shortness of breath during OTAs and minicamp at the training facility in Berea.
A check-up revealed the cause to be blood clots in his legs and lungs.
"It was really alarming at first because I've experienced injury throughout my career, but it's never been anything like this that could turn into something detrimental if it's not taken care of," Goodwin told the team. "It was frightening at first, but now I'm at ease with it. I've prayed and just given it over to God. It's out of my control, and the only thing I can control is my effort and attitude and how I approach each day moving forward."
Over his career, Goodwin, who is 32 years old, has played in 102 games, recording 187 catches for 3,023 yards and 18 touchdowns.
The receiver shined in spring training despite the health complications, showing off his speediness and pass-catching abilities in 7-on-7s and 11-on-11s with quarterback Deshaun Watson. He also brought fiery energy to practice each day which served to motivate his teammates on both sides of the ball.
While the on-field work will have to wait while Goodwin focuses on his health, he told the team he plans to be with them and will continue participating in meetings as training camp gets underway beginning Saturday.
"It's one of those things that is totally out of my control, out of the doctor's control and out of the trainer's control," he told the team. "Hopefully, this thing gets back under control, and I can feel my body and what I need to feel so I can help this team make this run."
Goodwin isn't the only player dealing with health concerns.
The Browns also officially declared three players as having non-football injuries. Guard Colby Gossett has a foot injury, wide receiver Anthony Schwartz has a hamstring injury, and wide receiver Mike Woods II has an Achilles injury that occurred earlier this offseason while training that is expected to see him miss the entire season.
Browns rookies and quarterbacks reported for training camp on Wednesday, and all other players reported Friday. The Browns will kick off their training camp work on Saturday for a week-long road experience at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia.
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2023-07-21T23:10:08+00:00
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news5cleveland.com
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https://www.news5cleveland.com/sports/browns/browns-wr-marquise-goodwin-to-miss-start-of-training-camp-due-to-blood-clots
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SKOWHEGAN, Maine — In downtown Skowhegan Saturday, a group of festivalgoers wore white T-shirts adorned with Sharpie marker tallies to track the number of drinks they consumed — an homage to sitcom “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” they said. On the opposite end of Water Street, a father and daughter donned homemade pretzel necklaces — the perfect salty snack to reset their palates between sips of beer.
They were part of an estimated 1,300 beer lovers from around Maine and New England in town to sample specialty brews during the sixth annual Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival.
Attendees tasted an array of Maine craft beers, wine, cider and spirits from nearly 30 brewers, plus bites from local vendors and food trucks. Ticket sales benefit nonprofit Main Street Skowhegan and its revitalization projects in town, including the $8.6 million proposed Skowhegan River Park.
“The day is going fantastic,” said Kristina Cannon, Main Street Skowhegan executive director. “I think this was our biggest fundraiser probably ever for the organization.”
The number of attendees was consistent with previous years, but the organization sold more sponsorships this year, she said. Main Street Skowhegan also had fewer expenses because it already had certain equipment on hand, like tents to house the brewers and their products.
The total funds raised were not immediately available Saturday.
Heather Davis, who co-owns Cayford Orchards with her husband, served up the family farm’s artisan hard cider — a combination of sweet and tart flavors. Davis grew up in Skowhegan and has attended the festival as a brewer since its inception.
“I just love this festival,” she said. “The vibe here from the other brewers and patrons is amazing. You get the live music and food trucks, which are driving me a little crazy because they smell so good.”
In a nearby tent, Katie Sawicki poured drinks from Penobscot Bay Brewery and Winterport Winery for a long line of patrons waiting. As a new owner — she’s among a group who bought the business earlier this year — this was Sawicki’s first time at the festival, and it did not disappoint, she said. The winery’s blackberry cider seemed to be a crowd favorite.
Dexter resident Nate Wyman returned to the festival this year after discovering it last summer. The music is better this time around, he said, and he enjoyed a wasabi pale ale from Olive Pit Brewing Co., based in Lisbon Falls.
“I think my favorite part is the drinks and just being able to get out again,” he said. “It’s the normalcy.”
Water Street was blocked off to allow space for brewing companies, food vendors and Maine musicians such as the Rob Burnell Band and Cryin’ Out Loud. Brewers included Bigelow Brewing Company in Skowhegan, Fogtown Brewing Company in Ellsworth, Moderation Brewing Co. in Brunswick, Mossy Ledge Spirits in Etna, among others.
Mollie Sharples, who is from Detroit but lives in New York, traveled home to attend the festival with her boyfriend, Ben Fisher, and brother, Quinn Sharples.
“The best part is being able to come back to my state and be with my family and bring my boyfriend,” Mollie Sharples said. “Just getting to experience it all is really special.”
Mindy Davis, who lives in Boston, attended with her father, Bob McGorty, for the fourth time. VIP tickets allowed the pair — they were the ones with the pretzel necklaces — to sample delicious pours ahead of other patrons who were admitted an hour later, and many of the brewers ran out, she said.
Davis was glad that small brewers had the chance to share their beers with the community. Not all are able to can drinks and get them to the masses, but the festival gets good beer into people’s hands — that’s the whole point, she said.
“It’s comfortable,” McGorty said. “It’s very safe. And it’s really good for the town of Skowhegan.”
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2022-09-04T14:22:27+00:00
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bangordailynews.com
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https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/03/news/central-maine/back-for-its-6th-year-skowhegan-craft-brew-festival-draws-1300-visitors/
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Three journalists went on trial Thursday in Finland on charges of revealing national defense secrets for allegedly publishing classified documents in a newspaper article.
The Dec. 16, 2017, article in daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat focused on the activities of the Finnish Intelligence Research Center, a military intelligence agency. The investigative report revealed the rough location and tasks of an intelligence unit of the defense forces.
Reporters Tuomo Pietilaina and Laura Halmi, and the paper's acting manager at the time, Kalle Silfverberg, have denied wrongdoing.
If convicted, they face prison sentences of up four years, according to Finnish broadcaster MTV. The trio was not present at the District Court of Helsinki but are scheduled to testify at the end of November, MTV reported.
A planned follow-up article was not published on the order of the editor-in-chief after the first story drew criticism, according to MTV.
On Thursday, a prosecutor demanded the removal of the online version of the original story from the newspaper's website, MTV said.
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2022-08-25T10:22:33+00:00
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lmtonline.com
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https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/3-Finnish-journalists-on-trial-for-revealing-17397044.php
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LAS VEGAS, July 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Route Consultant, the leader in education and brokerage in the logistics space, is partnering with some of the biggest names in the logistics industry to host its fifth annual Contractor Expo + Party on July 29-30 at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas.
Last year's Expo brought together approximately 3,500 logistics professionals, industry analysts and special guests. This year, the Expo takes place as FedEx Ground contractors—a substantial portion of the Expo attendees—navigate substantial volume fluctuations due to the consolidation of FedEx Express packages into the FedEx Ground network. Additionally, Amazon DSP contractors attend the event as pockets of the service network call for unionization. Perhaps most notably, the Expo takes place on the eve of a potential UPS workers' strike.
Still recovering from pandemic and supply chain disruptions, a potential UPS strike could seriously disrupt the delivery network in the United States.
"There are few industries that impact the American public as directly as the last-mile delivery space," said Spencer Patton, Founder and President of Route Consultant. "FedEx Ground, UPS and Amazon collectively deliver hundreds of millions of packages annually and create hundreds of thousands of jobs in our communities. These are real drivers of our economy, and bring complex issues to the surface – disruptions of any type are felt across all sectors.
"The Expo creates an environment where owners and investors in the logistics industry can learn from some of our brightest minds, network with one another, share best practices and be better together."
Kevin O'Leary, one of North America's most successful entrepreneurs, will be the keynote speaker at the Expo on Saturday, July 29 at 5:00 pm PDT. In his keynote address, O'Leary will share his personal advice for contractors, focusing on building a dream team, transforming adversity into opportunity, and strategies for making and growing a business (and its money).
"We are thrilled to host Kevin O'Leary as our keynote speaker for our 2023 Contractor Expo," said Annalee Cate, CEO of Route Consultant. "This is a year where we are connecting with our fellow entrepreneurs to diversify and build on existing businesses. Mr. O'Leary speaks directly to that growth mindset, and coupled with tailored programs related to specific aspects of the logistics space, the Expo aims to not only inform, but inspire."
The entire event, including food and drink, is free of charge for registered attendees. Contractor Expo attendees have access to a discounted room block at the Paris Hotel.
Route Consultant's Expo headline and premier sponsors include Bridgestone, BrightDrop, Bright Flag Recruiting, GroundCloud, Hello Truck Lease, Realm Health, and Xos Trucks.
To learn more about the event, visit https://www.routeconsultantexpo.com/
About Route Consultant
Route Consultant is the definitive resource in the logistics space. The professional team knows this industry inside and out and brings decades of combined contracting experience. Additionally, Route Consultant has evaluated the financial and operational data of thousands of companies in the FedEx Ground and Amazon DSP logistics space.
The Route Consultant training programs offer new investors and current contractors a clear path toward profitability and operational success.
Route Consultant is not endorsed by and is not recommended by Federal Express Corporation and FedEx Ground and Amazon. Route Consultant is not sponsored by, is not approved by, is not associated with, and has no connection whatsoever with Federal Express Corporation or FedEx Ground or Amazon.
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2023-07-24T16:37:50+00:00
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kmvt.com
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https://www.kmvt.com/prnewswire/2023/07/24/contractor-expo-set-take-place-amidst-potential-ups-strike-fedex-consolidation/
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon man was found guilty of several crimes after an FBI bomb technician was injured by a boobytrap the man had placed inside his former home.
In Sept. 2018, FBI agents and officers with the Oregon State Police went to a home formerly owned by Gregory Lee Rodvelt, 71, who had previously lost the house in a lawsuit. Rodvelt, apparently unhappy with the decision, had set several boobytraps throughout the property after learning it would be sold off, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Oregon.
Upon arrival, officials said Rodvelt had set multiple boobytraps, including spike strips on the road, and steel animal traps on the gate and under the hood of a minivan. They said they also found that the gate was rigged so that when opened, a hot tub — which had been placed on its side — would roll toward the person who had opened the gate.
In the house’s garage, the technicians said they found a rat trap that had been modified to fire a shotgun shell and it was rigged to go off when the garage door opened.
The house itself had been barred from the inside with security doors at the front and back entrances. Bomb technicians used an explosive charge to gain entry to the front door.
Inside the house, the technicians said they found a wheelchair in the center of the entryway.
“When the wheelchair was bumped, it triggered a homemade shotgun device that discharged a .410 shotgun shell that struck the FBI bomb technician below the knee,” reads a release from the Oregon U.S. Attorney’s Office.
The FBI technician was treated at the scene and transported to a hospital.
Rodvelt was ultimately found guilty of assaulting a federal officer and discharging a firearm “during and in relation to a crime of violence” — crimes punishable by up to 20 years and up to life in prison, respectively. He has yet to be sentenced.
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2023-06-09T15:38:56+00:00
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wnct.com
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https://www.wnct.com/news/oregon-man-boobytrapped-house-with-rolling-hot-tub-rigged-wheelchair-that-fired-shotgun-at-fbi-technician-officials-say/
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Negotiators at a United Nations biodiversity conference Saturday have still not resolved most of the key issues around protecting the world’s nature by 2030 and providing tens of billions of dollars to developing countries to fund those efforts.
The United Nations Biodiversity Conference, or COP15, is set to wrap up Monday in Montreal and delegates were racing to agree on language in a framework that calls for protecting 30% of global land and marine areas by 2030, a goal known as “30 by 30.” Currently, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas globally are protected.
They also have to settle on amounts of funding that would go to financing projects to create protected areas and restore marine and other ecosystems. Early draft frameworks called for closing a $700 billion gap in financing by 2030. Most of that would come from reforming subsidies in the agriculture, fisheries and energy sectors but there are also calls for tens of billions of dollars in new funding that would flow from rich to poor nations.
“From the beginning of the negotiations, we’ve been seeing systematically some countries weakening the ambition. The ambition needs to come back,” Marco Lambertini, the director general of WWF International said, adding that they needed a “clear conservation target” that “sets the world on a clear trajectory towards delivering a nature positive future.”
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault expressed more optimism. Guilbeault told The Associated Press Saturday morning that he has heard “few people talk about red lines” and that means “people are willing to talk. People are willing to negotiate.”
“I’ve heard a lot of support for ambition from all corners of the world,” Guilbeault said. “Everyone wants to leave here with an ambitious agreement.”
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, the executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, told reporters Saturday afternoon that she was encouraged by the progress especially around committing resources but that a deal had not been reached yet.
“The negotiating teams have more work to do. They have to turn promises made into plans, ambitions and actions,” she said.
The ministers and government officials from about 190 countries mostly agree that protecting biodiversity has to be a priority, with many comparing those efforts to climate talks that wrapped up last month in Egypt.
Climate change coupled with habitat loss, pollution and development have hammered the world’s biodiversity, with one estimate in 2019 warning that a million plant and animal species face extinction within decades — a rate of loss 1,000 times greater than expected. Humans use about 50,000 wild species routinely, and 1 out of 5 people of the world’s 8 billion population depend on those species for food and income, the report said.
But they are struggling to agree on what that protection looks like and who will pay for it.
The financing has been among the most contentions issues, with delegates from 70 African, South American and Asian countries walking out of negotiations Wednesday. They returned several hours later.
Brazil, speaking for developing countries, said in a statement that a new funding mechanism dedicated to biodiversity be established and that developed countries provide $100 billion annually in financial grants to emerging economies until 2030.
“You need a robust and ambitious package on finance that matches the ambition of the Global Biodiversity framework,” Leonardo Cleaver de Athayde, the head of the Brazilian delegation, told the AP.
“This will cost a lot of money to implement. The targets are extremely ambitious and cost a lot of money,” he continued. “The developing countries will bear a higher burden in implementing it because most biodiversity resources are to be found in developing countries. They need international support.”
The donor countries — the European Union and 13 countries — responded Friday with a statement promising to increase biodiversity financing. They noted they doubled biodiversity spending from 2010 to 2015 and committed to several billion dollars more in biodiversity funding since then.
Zac Goldsmith, the U.K.’s minister for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment, acknowledged the focus cannot only be on popular protection measures like the 30 by 30 goal.
“The 30-by-30 is a headline target, but you can’t deliver 30-by-30 without a whole range of other things being agreed as well,” he said. “We’re not gonna have 30-by-30 without finance. We’re not going to have it unless other countries do as Costa Rica has and break the link between agricultural productivity and land degradation and deforestation. And we’re not gonna be able to do any of these things if we don’t address … subsidies.”
Even protection targets are still being squabbled over. Many countries believe 30% is an admirable goal but some countries are pushing to water the language down to allow among other things sustainable activities in those areas that conservationists fear could result in destructive logging and mining. Others want language referencing ways to better manage the other 70% of the world that wouldn’t be protected.
Other disagreements revolve around how best to share the benefits from genetic resources and enshrining the rights of Indigenous groups in any agreement. Some Indigenous groups want direct access to funding and a voice in designating protected areas that impact Indigenous peoples.
“Any protected areas that affect Indigenous peoples need to have the free prior informed consent of Indigenous peoples, otherwise there will be the same old patters of Indigenous peoples being displaced by protected areas,” Atossa Soltani, the director of global strategy for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative, an alliance of 30 Indigenous nations in Ecuador and Peru working to working to permanently protect 86 million acres of rainforest, said in an email interview.
The other challenge is including language — similar to the Paris Agreement on climate change — that creates a stronger system to report and verify the progress countries make. Many point to the failures of the 2010 biodiversity framework, which saw only six of the 20 targets partially met by a 2020 deadline.
“It’s very important for parties to see what others are doing. It’s important for civil society, people like you to track our progress or sometimes unfortunately lack thereof,” Guilbeault said. “It’s an important tool to help keep our feet to the fire. If it’s effective on climate. We should have it on nature as well.”
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2022-12-18T14:06:56+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/ap-biodiversity-talks-in-final-days-with-many-issues-unresolved/
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson on Friday denounced a protest by Kurds in central Stockholm, where an effigy of Turkey’s president was hung from a lamppost, as an act of “sabotage” against Sweden’s bid to join NATO.
The protest outside City Hall on Wednesday drew an angry backlash from Turkey, a NATO member which already had held off on approving Sweden’s application to become part of the Western military alliance until the government in Stockholm satisfies its demands.
The speaker of Turkey’s parliament, Mustafa Sentop, canceled a visit by Andreas Norlén, the speaker of the Swedish parliament, that was scheduled for next Tuesday. Turkish lawmakers need to ratify Sweden’s NATO application for the Nordic nation to become a member.
Turkey has made its approval conditional on Stockholm cracking down on exiled Kurdish militants and other groups that Ankara considers a threat to its national security. The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish ambassador on Thursday over the Stockholm demonstration.
Kristersson condemned the incident involving the effigy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“People tried to show their views on the Swedish NATO accession through a disgusting way of portraying president Erdogan in almost something looking like an execution.” Kristersson told reporters after a meeting with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. “That is bad in every sense.”
Kristersson said he understood why Turkey is outraged, saying “we would show the same reaction if this was aimed at a Swedish leader.”
He previously told Swedish broadcaster TV4 on Friday that it was “extremely serious” to stage a “mock execution of a foreign democratically elected leader” in a country where two leading politicians have been killed. Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated in 1986 and Foreign Minister Anna Lindh was fatally stabbed in 2003.
“I would say this is sabotage against the Swedish NATO application,” Kristersson said. “It is dangerous for Swedish security to act in this way.”
He expressed hope that the meeting between the Turkish and Swedish parliament speakers would take place at a later date.
Photographs posted on social media showed a mannequin resembling Erdogan hanging upside down. A group calling itself the Swedish Solidarity Committee for Rojava claimed it was behind the protest. Rojava is a Kurdish name for north and east Syria.
A man only identifying himself as Andreas told Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet that he was among those who put up the effigy “to create a reaction. To show that Turkey is not a democracy. And we succeeded.”
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu described the protest as a racist act and a hate crime. Sweden would not be able to “get away” with a simple condemnation of the incident, he said.
“This action took place in the center of the city, right in front of the municipality, in front of everyone,” Cavusoglu said. “Sweden has a responsibility here.”
“Sweden and Finland made a commitment concerning what they can do and put their signature on it,” the minister said, in reference to a memorandum of understanding under which Sweden and Finland pledged among other things to crack down on the activities of militant groups. “We want nothing more or nothing less. Whatever was agreed upon, we want that to be fulfilled.”
Earlier on Friday, Cavusoglu said the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, and affiliated Kurdish groups in Syria were “laying mines on the path of Sweden’s NATO membership.”
“It is Sweden’s decision whether it wants to clear these mines or knowingly step on them,” he said in an interview with Turkish state-broadcaster TRT.
The Ankara chief prosecutor’s office launched an investigation into the incident following a criminal complaint filed by Erdogan’s lawyers and immediately sent a formal request for information and evidence from Swedish authorities, TRT reported.
In Ankara on Friday, about 50 members of an association representing families of soldiers or police killed in conflict with Kurdish rebels protested outside the Swedish Embassy, the private DHA agency reported.
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström said the protest “now risks complicating and delaying the process that Sweden and its future NATO ally Türkiye have begun, working step by step to build faith in each other.” He used the Turkish government’s preferred name for Turkey.
“This act plays directly into the hands of Russia and weakens our country, and it happened during the most serious security situation since the Second World War,” the Swedish foreign minister said.
Alarmed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Sweden and Finland dropped their longstanding policies of military nonalignment and applied to join NATO in May. All 30 member countries must agree to admit the two Nordic neighbors into the security organization.
The Turkish government has pressed Finland and Sweden to crack down on groups it considers to be terrorist organizations and to extradite people suspected of terror-related crimes. Cavusoglu said last month that Sweden was not even “halfway” through addressing his country’s concerns.
Meanwhile, Cavusoglu said a third meeting between Turkish, Swedish and Finnish officials would take place at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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Jan M. Olsen reported from Copenhagen, Denmark. Samuel Petrequin contributed to this report from Kiruna, Sweden.
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2023-01-13T19:56:46+00:00
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myfox8.com
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https://myfox8.com/international/ap-international/ap-sweden-erdogan-effigy-act-of-sabotage-against-nato-bid/
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(WXIN) – Walmart hopes to entice customers to its Walmart+ service by adding some free streaming.
The retailer will soon be offering a Paramount+ subscription to Walmart+ members at no additional charge.
The new benefit will be available starting next month, Walmart announced. Members will be subscribed to the Paramount+ Essential tier, which is the service’s ad-supported version.
The company’s Walmart+ service currently offers free shipping with no minimum order, free same-day grocery delivery from local Walmart locations and fuel discounts, among other benefits. But Walmart is apparently aiming to grow its subscriber base as it tries to compete with Amazon, whose Prime subscription boasts a number of consumer benefits, including Prime Video.
Walmart+ currently costs $12.95 a month, or $98 per year. A subscription to the Paramount+ Essential tier typically goes for $4.99 a month, or about $60 a year.
Paramount+ began its life in the streaming world as CBS All Access. The service was rebranded under the Paramount banner in March 2021. The platform offers CBS and Paramount content, including Paramount Movies, select sports, several “Star Trek” shows and more.
Paramount+ is also home to original content and recent theatrical releases such as “The Lost City,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 2” and “Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins.”
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2022-08-16T16:56:22+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/national-news/walmart-adds-free-paramount-streaming-for-subscribers/
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SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Self-care and TED X speaker Patrina Wisdom, creator of the Pure Abundance Retreat in Belize, was inspired by her own healing journey following the suicide death of her husband and the impact that attending and customizing healing retreats had on her family. This three-day retreat takes place in Belize from October 18 to October 23, 2022. Pure Abundance is a week-long transformational experience with multi-generational guides, lush, luxurious jungle surroundings, and personal development for a life of greater abundance.
More than ever, the world requires more self-assured, empowered, and wealthy women who embody their femininity as leaders.
At Pure Abundance, Inc., we understand that women cannot create a life of abundance in an environment that fostered struggle, fear, or scarcity. At the retreat, women will remove themselves from their normal environment and create the space to center themselves and focus on self-care.
"Our retreat participants enjoy six days and five nights of healing and expansion in paradise. A time for sacred self-care, childlike play, healing, sisterhood, and community, as well as the release of the abundance they deserve. says Patrina.
Patrina adds, "If I'm being honest, I'm typically the only woman of color in personal/spiritual development-focused retreat spaces. I desired to create a space where all high-achieving women from diverse cultures and backgrounds could be vulnerable and supported by the community. A place where you can arrive feeling burned out, overwhelmed, stagnant, or even broken during a time of transition and leave feeling re-energized, re-imagined, and as the most powerful and abundant version of yourself".
Pure Abundance is a purposefully designed and meticulously curated boutique retreat. They only accept 10 participants per retreat and tailor each retreat's journey to fulfill the intention of each individual participant and provide the transformation that each woman came to the retreat seeking.
Attendees have reported leaving the retreat with a renewed sense of self, sacred self-care practices that they can implement once they return home, and the tools and confidence to establish and maintain better boundaries in their lives.
Visit https://pureabundanceretreat.com/ for additional details on the Pure Abundance Retreat.
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Everything you need to know about Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds
While we’re not getting any new devices — such as a VR headset — from Apple this fall, last week’s Apple Event did reveal some remarkable upgrades to its existing line. One product graduating into the second generation is the immensely popular Apple AirPods Pro. Although you can’t buy these high-tech earbuds yet, you can preorder them right now on Amazon. We highly recommend you do just that if you want to be one of the first to own this upgraded version.
In this article: Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds, Beats Fit Pro x Kim Kardashian and Powerbeats Pro Wireless Earbuds
What’s new on Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds?
H2 chip
The big upgrade to the Apple AirPods Pro is the addition of the powerful new H2 chip. This meticulously designed chip not only offers high-bandwidth connectivity and seamless handoff between devices but enhanced audio. Apple’s AirPods Pro have a low-distortion driver paired with a custom amplifier to deliver greater clarity across a wider range of frequencies.
Personalized Spatial Audio
The revolutionary Spatial Audio feature that makes it sound like you’re in the middle of the music has been upgraded as well. You can now make a personal profile that takes into account the size and shape of your head and ears to customize Spatial Audio for an even better listening experience.
Advanced Active Noise Cancellation
Thanks to the H2 chip and a couple of other tweaks, Apple was able to upgrade its Active Noise Cancellation feature. The technology is so adept at identifying disruptive sounds that it offers up to double the amount of noise cancellation as the original AirPods Pro earbuds. The addition of a set of extra-small ear tips helps people with smaller ears have a better listening experience as well.
Adaptive Transparency
The big change to the Transparency Mode is it can selectively limit high-decibel sounds. For example, if a fire engine races by while you’re in transparency mode, the AirPods will protect your ears from the potentially damaging volume.
Increased battery life
While the increased performance would seem to mean a decrease in battery life, the H2 chip has an energy-efficient design, which actually increases battery life by up to 33%. This means you can get up to six hours of listening on a single charge, or up to 30 hours by using the included charging case. Additionally, the case can now charge on your wireless Apple Watch charger or any MagSafe or Qi-compatible chargers.
Precision finding
Each AirPod can individually play a sound to help you locate the earbuds if you ever misplace one or both, and the case now has a built-in speaker that helps you know when the AirPods are finished charging. Even better, the case is compatible with Apple’s Find My app so you can pinpoint its exact location if it’s ever lost. You can also trigger the case to play a sound when it’s nearby and you just can’t see it.
How much do Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds cost?
With all the inflation and rising prices we’ve been experiencing since the pandemic, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to learn that Apple has not raised the price of its AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds. They still cost $249.
How to preorder Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds
If you’d like to be one of the first to receive the new Apple AirPods Pro 2nd Generation earbuds, all you have to do is go to Amazon and click the orange “Preorder now” button on the right-hand side of the screen. The earbuds will be released on September 23.
Other earbud options
If you’d like to consider other earbud options from Apple, you can still get the original Apple AirPods Pro Wireless Earbuds (while supplies last), Powerbeats Pro Wireless Earbuds or Beats Fit Pro x Kim Kardashian.
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2022-09-14T20:03:58+00:00
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wnct.com
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NCAA President Mark Emmert stepping down no later than 2023
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA President Mark Emmert is stepping down after 12 tumultuous years leading an association that has become increasingly marginalized while college sports has undergone massive changes and been besieged by political and legal attacks.
NCAA Board of Governors Chairman John DeGioia announced the move Tuesday and said it was by mutual agreement. The 69-year-old Emmert will continue to serve in his role until a new president is in place or until June 30, 2023.
The move is not entirely a surprise. The NCAA remains the biggest governing body in college athletics, but it is has been under sharp criticism for years as too heavy handed and even out of date with Emmert serving as the prime target.
Emmert has guided the NCAA through the most transformative period in the history of the more than 100-year-old organization. During the past decade, athletes have gained more power, benefits and ability to earn money than ever before. Amateurism has been redefined.
But Emmert has been viewed by some as not a catalyst for change but as an obstacle standing in the way — or at the least reactive instead of proactive.
“Throughout my tenure I’ve emphasized the need to focus on the experience and priorities of student-athletes,” Emmert said in a release from the NCAA. “I am extremely proud of the work of the association over the last 12 years and especially pleased with the hard work and dedication of the national office staff here in Indianapolis.”
The announcement comes one year after the board approved a contract extension for Emmert that ran through the 2025, a move that left many in college sports bewildered. Emmert’s salary was nearly $3 million in 2021.
The NCAA has suffered a series of damaging court losses in the past decade that peaked with last year’s 9-0 Supreme Court ruling against the association in an antitrust case. The decision undercut the NCAA’s ability to govern college sports and prompted a total overhaul how it operates.
Years after losing an antitrust case over the NCAA’s use of athletes’ names, images and likenesses, the association finally changed its rules last June to allow the athletes to profit as paid sponsors and endorsers. The move came only after state lawmakers passed laws to neuter the NCAA’s power. With Congress unwilling to provide federal protection, the NCAA has been unable to regulate NIL activity with uniform rules — leading to fresh criticism.
Emmert has been called before lawmakers in Washington numerous times over the past two years. Attacking Emmert and the NCAA has become one of the few things that has united Democrats and Republicans during these divisive political times.
Emmert was appointed to the job in April 2010. He had led the University of Washington and LSU prior to taking over in Indianapolis. He replaced Myles Brand, who held the position for seven years before dying of cancer in 2009.
The job Emmert stepped into became increasingly more difficult as big-time college sports such as major college football and basketball grew into billion-dollar businesses.
NCAA revenue has reached more than $1 billion per year under Emmert, primarily through the TV deals for the men’s college basketball tournament, and most of the money is redistributed to more than 1,100 member schools with nearly 500,000 athletes.
Still, the disparity between what the wealthiest schools bring in compared to what the vast majority of schools spend on athletics has made it difficult for them all to coexist under one umbrella organization.
NCAA member schools adopted a new constitution in January and are in the process of “transforming the structure and mission to meet future needs.”
“With the significant transitions underway within college sports, the timing of this decision provides the association with consistent leadership during the coming months plus the opportunity to consider what will be the future role of the president,” DeGioia said. “It also allows for the selection and recruitment of the next president without disruption.”
In a lengthy interview with AP in August, just months after being hammered by criticism for the NCAA’s inability to provide equitable facilities and amenities for the men’s and women’s basketball players participating in the Division I tournaments, Emmert said he was still passionate about the mission of a leading college sports during volatile times.
“And I’m not surprised that people say, ‘You know, why isn’t this getting fixed? What’s Emmert doing?’” he told AP. “And people also, they want to look to somebody and say, ‘Well, fix this, damn it!’ And I get that. I understand. And I say it in the mirror sometimes. But the truth is, it’s a very complex system. I think we do need to find ways to fix that and streamline it.”
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Khiron's Medical Clinics and Distribution Growth Throughout Europe Follows Success in Latin American Marketplace
- Since establishing a Spanish subsidiary in 2019, Khiron's scientific and medical team is recognized as cannabinoid experts in Spain
- Khiron continues its long-standing relationship with the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) and actively contributes to several educational initiatives in Spain
- Khiron provides comprehensive and certified medical education, used worldwide to successfully educate thousands of prescribers and created in close cooperation with renowned University Tecnologico of Monterrey in Mexico
TORONTO, July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Khiron Life Sciences Corp. ("Khiron" or the "Company") (TSXV: KHRN) (OTCQX: KHRNF) (Frankfurt: A2JMZC), a global leader in medical cannabis throughout Europe and Latin America, applauds recent developments regarding the regulation of medical cannabis in Spain. The company now looks forward to bringing its clinical expertise and evidence from Khiron-owned Zerenia™ Clinics in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and the UK to Spanish patients to guide medical professionals for the benefit of Spanish patients.
Spain has been an important exporter of medical cannabis in Europe, but Spain itself has not had national medical cannabis legislation in place. With a population of more than 47 million people in Spain, experts in the medical cannabis industry in Europe estimate that the potential market size for the medical cannabis market is at least 700,000 patients or 1.5% of the country's total population.
Khiron has been active in Spain since establishing its subsidiary Khiron Life Sciences Spain in 2019. For the past 3 years, Khiron has worked to encourage this regulatory shift in Spain by promoting educational initiatives together with a network of national collaborators such as the Spanish Society for Research on Cannabinoids (SEIC), the Iberoamerican Cannabinoid Research Network (CANNALATAN), Cannabmed (ICEERS), the Cannabis Hub (Polytechnic University of Barcelona), the Sociedad Clínica de Endocannabinología (SCE) and the Technological Agroalimentary Center in Extremadura (CTAEX).
For Khiron, which already offers its cannabinoid-based medicines and clinical services in two of the largest markets for medical cannabis in Europe (Germany and the United Kingdom), it is a logical step into Spain, one which the company has been preparing for years. This process is further supported by the steady expansion of Khiron Europe's medical portfolio, which will grow with the recent acquisition of an EU GMP-certified German pharmaceuticals manufacturer and wholesaler. The acquisition will accelerate Khiron's growth in Europe by controlling the complete value chain for its products and gaining direct access to European pharmacies.
Franziska Katterbach, President of Khiron Europe, said: "We welcome the planned regulation for medical cannabis in Spain. For Khiron, Spain is another important European market with great potential in which we have been active since 2019 - but the opening of the market for medical cannabis in Spain is even more important for the hundreds of thousands of potential patients in Spain who do not have access to cannabinoid-based therapies.
As a company, we look back on years of operational and physical presence in Spain, with participation in medical congresses, lectures at universities, long-standing business relationships with national partners, and cooperation with Spanish institutions. Khiron is well prepared for the coming developments in Spain."
About Khiron Life Sciences Corp.
Khiron is a leading global medical cannabis company with core operations in Latin America and Europe. Leveraging wholly-owned medical health clinics and proprietary telemedicine platforms, Khiron combines a patient-oriented approach, physician education programs, scientific expertise, product innovation, and a focus on creating access to drive prescriptions and brand loyalty with patients worldwide. The Company has a sales presence in Colombia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Peru, and Brazil and is positioned to commence sales in Mexico. The Company is led by its co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Alvaro Torres, together with an experienced and diverse executive team and board of directors.
Visit Khiron online at https://investors.khiron.ca
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2022-07-06T14:17:52+00:00
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The Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned the precedent set by Roe v. Wade was a moment roughly 50 years in the making for many anti-abortion activists.
And while it was a monumental victory for the movement, it also marked a turning point for activists who had spent decades hoping to see the end of the landmark decision that protected access to the procedure.
Various pro-life groups had been planning extensively for the fall of Roe, seeking to lay the groundwork for the ensuing battles in state legislatures and push for a federal standard limiting abortion access.
But the reality of a post-Roe landscape has forced anti-abortion activists to recalibrate and find ways to keep supporters energized and focused at a time when the court decision reinvigorated the abortion rights movement and helped boost Democrats in 2022.
“We had been preparing for that ruling in many ways for years, because we understand that this battle plays out in state legislatures and federally, but it also plays out in the court of public opinion and hearts and minds,” said Lila Rose, president of Live Action.
“We have our work cut out for us,” she added. “It’s time not to just rest on our laurels. We need to double down on our work to pass pro-life laws.”
Shift to the states
With Democrats controlling the White House and Senate, much of the focus for anti-abortion groups for the past year has been directed toward state legislatures.
The Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe came down in June 2022. By September, Concerned Women for America, a Christian Women’s group, was holding a summit in Washington, D.C., where leaders broke down abortion laws state-by-state and determined how best to advocate for stronger pro-life protections in each one.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, one of the largest anti-abortion groups in the country, has taken a three-pronged approach to continuing the work of the movement. One aspect is to work with states to put pro-life protections in place; another is to support pregnancy resource centers and pass laws that provide resources for mothers, and the third is ensuring GOP lawmakers and presidential candidates communicate clearly about their views on abortion.
Live Action, another major group in that movement, turned its focus to a widespread education campaign with the ultimate goal of “complete legal protection” for a fetus, as well as pushing for additional resources for pregnant mothers and families.
A year after Dobbs, anti-abortion groups touted that 24 states have enacted some type of abortion restrictions. Rose estimated that there have been at least 24,000 fewer abortions nationally in the year since the ruling, and there have been more than 300 pro-life bills filed in state legislatures across the country.
Activists have also focused their work on improving education around the issue, seeking to frame it as a matter of human rights, and have pushed for legislation that would increase resources for mothers, including during pregnancy.
Anti-abortion groups have backed a bill introduced last year sponsored by Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) that included a child tax credit, provisions that would require biological fathers to help cover health care costs during pregnancy, and a federal clearinghouse of resources for pregnant women.
Public opinion shifts in favor of access
But while anti-abortion groups have seen gains at the state level, the battle in the court of public opinion has been a separate challenge entirely.
Numerous polls have shown solidifying support for abortion access in the year since Roe fell. A Gallup poll published last week found 69 percent of Americans believe abortion should generally be legal during the first three months of pregnancy, a record-high for the survey. The poll also found record high support for legal abortions in the second and third trimesters at 37 percent and 22 percent, respectively.
The issue drove turnout in the 2022 midterms, helping Democrats to keep their majority in the Senate and minimize losses in the House. Additionally, voters in several states approved referendums to affirm abortion access, or rejected referendums that would have stripped abortion access.
But anti-abortion groups believe those results overshadow the fact that many Americans support some limits on abortion.
A poll conducted by the Tarrance Group for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America released this week found 77 percent of voters agree with at least some limits on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy, while only 15 percent believe abortion should be allowed throughout pregnancy without limits.
The survey also found nearly 60 percent of voters would support Congress passing legislation to protect fetuses capable of feeling pain after 15 weeks, with exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.
Kellyanne Conway, a former senior aide in the Trump White House, said there is a “flawed perception” around public views on abortion that has become a “harsh reality.”
“It was a half-century battle for many pro-lifers,” Conway said in a virtual call with reporters to mark a year since the Dobbs ruling. “I believe that if it’s going to take 50 years for Roe v Wade to be overturned, it has to take more than 50 minutes, or 50 hours or even 50 weeks, almost a full year, to explain to many people what that decision means and what it doesn’t mean and many of the actions that have been taken in our states since.”
Abortion and the 2024 election
The next major test for the anti-abortion movement will come in the 2024 presidential election.
Groups were frustrated by the Republican approach to abortion in the 2022 midterms. Strategists and leading activists are hoping the party has learned its lesson and will tackle the issue head on moving forward.
Activists are closely watching how presidential candidates are handling the issue of abortion and are pushing those vying for the GOP nomination to embrace federal legislation that would restrict abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, like the bill introduced by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) last year. And they are prepared to try and rally lawmakers and the public around the cause.
Grassroots leaders are prepared for that fight to be a lengthy one.
“Some people think with the repeal of Roe, now pro-life has won,” said E.V. Osment, vice president of communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. “No, we have won the right to fight, the ability to sit at the table with the other side.”
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2023-06-25T04:49:04+00:00
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PARIS, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China General Nuclear Power Group ("CGN") (003816. SZ) announced the release of its 2023 Sustainable Development Report at a press conference that took place in Paris on the morning of June 23, with the aim of globally sharing CGN's efforts in implementing sustainable development principles, fulfilling social responsibilities, and protecting the environment.
The report was presented in three languages, Chinese, English, and French. The event was attended by several notable figures, among them, Jean Philippe Dugoin-Clément, vice president of the Regional Council of Île-de-France (Paris); Bernard le Guen, vice-president for international nuclear energy projects at Électricité de France (EDF); Jan Noterdaeme, co-founder of CSR Europe (CSRE); Michel Derdevet, associate professor and lecturer at Sciences Po and professor at the College of Europe; Guillaume Moukala Same, economic research analyst at Paris-based think tank Asterès; Li Wenguo, secretary-general of the France-China Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Li Li, director at CGN; representatives from Chinese-funded institutions in France; international partners of the group; and journalists from leading media outlets, among others.
During her speech, Ms. Li, emphasized that CGN, as an international clean energy company, is committed to nuclear power as its cornerstone while actively pursuing the development of clean energy sources including nuclear, wind, and solar power. Through tangible actions, CGN has successfully turned the corporate vision of "developing clean energy for the benefit of human society" into a reality.
CGN currently supplies clean electricity to 15 countries and regions worldwide, including large projects in France, Malaysia, and Brazil. From 2018 to 2022, CGN's facilities outside its home market generated 237.8 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity, equivalent to a reduction in standard coal consumption of 71.697 million tons (or CO2 emissions by 191.429 million tons) and the afforestation of an area spanning 535,100 hectares. CGN plays an active role in contributing to the global low-carbon energy transformation and in fostering sustainable development.
In addition to expanding its business presence, CGN actively cultivates environmental cooperation with the local communities where its projects are located. They have made several modifications to the design plans of the Husab uranium mine in order to protect Namibia's national flower, the Welwitschia mirabilis, ensuring its sustainability and continued blossoming in the desert. CGN facilitates local employment and talent development through localized hiring practices. The company also values and encourages cultural diversity and inclusiveness by organizing a series of cultural exchange events, among them, the Husab Cup marathon in Namibia, the Harvest Festival in Brazil, and the Night of Chinese Costume, fostering strong bonds.
During the press conference, Mr. le Guen shared photos of his work in China, highlighting the long-standing friendship between EDF and CGN. Jan Noterdaeme provided a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of CGN's Sustainable Development Report, emphasizing the crucial role of biodiversity and environmental protection in CGN's sustainable development roadmap.
"Looking ahead to 2030, the growth of wind power as a viable energy source is expected to have a tremendous economic impact, with a projected net value of 1.1 billion euros and the creation of 17,500 additional jobs." During the panel discussions, Mr. Moukala Same underscored the importance of wind power development, while Mr. Derdevet explained the significance of Sino-French cooperation and the close relationship between nuclear energy and Europe. "Cooperation between Europe and China in nuclear technology presents an opportunity for a rapid transition from fossil fuels to the extensive development of wind, photovoltaic, and nuclear power. Given the long-standing history of nuclear cooperation between France and China, the development of this partnership is vital for jointly constructing a sustainable energy future."
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2023-06-26T06:19:18+00:00
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- Eviation signs letter of intent with Aerolease, a U.S.-based leasing company focused on sustainable aviation
- Under the deal announced at the 2023 Paris Air Show, Aerolease orders up to 50 Alice electric aircraft
- Orders for Alice now valued over US$ 4 billion
PARIS, June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eviation Aircraft, a manufacturer of all-electric aircraft, today announced that Aerolease, a leasing company based in Miami, U.S., has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for up to 50 commuter Alice aircraft. Aerolease is focused on sustainable aviation and will provide financing and leasing solutions for the Alice to a global customer base of operators.
Leading The Aviation of Tomorrow
The Eviation Alice is a nine-passenger electric aircraft – the only flight-proven all-electric commuter aircraft of its size. Built from a clean-sheet design around magniX's industry-leading electric propulsion system, Alice produces zero carbon emissions and features lower operating costs per flight hour compared to light jets or high-end turboprops – thereby providing the opportunity to activate more routes, improving the convenience of air travel.
"As we gather for the Paris Air Show, the aerospace industry is facing increasing pressure to turn sustainable solutions into reality," said Eddie Jaisaree, Vice President, Commercial Sales at Eviation. "The Alice aircraft meets the demand for zero-carbon technology that we are seeing from governments, regulators, and the public, while offering a more enjoyable flight experience and lower operating costs. Aerolease further demonstrates the commitment of leasing companies to revolutionize air travel and we are very pleased to receive this order."
"We work with major airlines around the world, and we know from many conversations that sustainability is a major concern," said Jep Thornton, Managing Partner of Aerolease. "New projects that address sustainability are key to our future strategy and we are excited to be working with Eviation to offer our global customers a zero-emissions solution that is good for the planet and provides an exciting means of opening up new regional routes."
"In the four years since the last edition of the Paris Air Show, Eviation has achieved the world-first test flight of the Alice, and secured over US$ 4 billion in orders," said Gregory Davis, CEO of Eviation. "Our aircraft has captured the hearts and minds of the marketplace with its beautiful design, low cost of operation and environmental credentials. The leasing community has an important part to play in creating a long-lasting future for our industry, and we are delighted to work with Aerolease, our latest leasing customer."
About Eviation Aircraft
Based in Washington State, U.S., Eviation Aircraft Inc. develops and manufactures electric aircraft to delight operators and passengers with green, cost efficient and convenient regional transportation. Its electric propulsion units, high-energy-density batteries, mission-driven energy management, and innovative airframe are designed from the ground up for electric flight. Please visit us at www.eviation.com.
About Aerolease
Aerolease Aviation has been active in leasing and trading commercial aircraft since it was founded in 1986. To date, it has carried out hundreds of commercial aircraft transactions with customers around the world. Since its inception, Aerolease has made markets in the DC-8, A300B4, and 757, with a focus on Passenger-to-Freighter (P2F) conversion programs for these types. It operates as a privately held boutique firm with an industry-leading team that is responsive and creative in areas including marketing, sourcing, financial structuring, and technical management for commercial aircraft transactions. For more information, please visit www.aerolease.aero.
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2023-06-20T08:34:58+00:00
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The “Donkey Kong defense” came into play Monday at a civil trial over sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, as his attorney pressed a key witness over previous statements that she had played the arcade game during a visit with Cosby to the Playboy Mansion in 1975, six years before its release.
The testimony came in the trial over the lawsuit of Judy Huth, who alleges Cosby sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion when she was 16. Cosby denies her allegations.
Donna Samuelson, a high school friend of Huth’s who accompanied her and Cosby on a visit to the mansion, returned to the stand Monday, testifying about the game room with an adjacent bedroom where Huth says Cosby forced her to perform a sex act.
“You testified multiple times that you were playing Donkey Kong,” Cosby attorney Jennifer Bonjean told Samuelson, referring to a 2014 police interview and a 2016 deposition in Huth’s case.
“If I did I did,” Samuelson said. “I understand it wasn’t around yet.”
Bonjean played a clip from the deposition, in which Samuelson referred to the game several times.
“I was playing pinball and Donkey Kong,” she says at one point in the video.
Asked Monday to explain the discrepancy, Samuelson answered, “I got the name wrong. I just kept saying that because it was a game. It could have been Atari.”
She also said she was playing the game when Cosby came up behind her and put his hands on her shoulders before she shook them off.
Bonjean showed Samuelson and the jury a photo of the game room taken in 2016, where a Donkey Kong game could be seen, and asked whether similar photos taken years after 1975 could have affected her memory and testimony.
Samuelson replied that she hadn’t seen such an image until the 2016 photo was shown to her in court during her testimony last week.
During his opening statement on Wednesday, Huth's attorney Nathan Goldberg sought to head off the issue, telling jurors they were going to be hearing “the Donkey Kong defense” from Cosby’s lawyers.
“So she got the name wrong,” Goldberg said, “so what?”
Bonjean embraced the term in her opening, saying Huth’s similar prior statements about Samuelson playing the game, and photos showing it in the room later, were evidence that the two women were coordinating a false story.
Samuelson testified last week that she hadn’t noticed that Cosby and Huth had gone into a bedroom, but that Huth told her after Cosby left the two friends alone that he had molested her.
The trial represents one of the last remaining legal claims against Cosby after his Pennsylvania criminal conviction was thrown out and other lawsuits were settled by his insurer against his will.
Cosby’s attorneys acknowledge that he took the girls to the mansion, but deny any sex assault occurred. Photos taken by Samuelson show the comedian and Huth together. They say visitors logs show it was on April 5, 1975.
Bonjean also challenged Samuelson over the timing of the visit changing in her and Huth’s accounts by about a year.
The initial lawsuit filed in 2014 alleged that the incident took place in late 1973 or 1974, when Huth was 15 and Samuelson 16. A few weeks before the trial began, Huth and her attorneys said that further investigation of the evidence allowed them to determine that it actually happened in the spring of 1975, when Huth was 16 and Samuelson 17.
“You always knew you were a senior in high school when you met Mr. Cosby, right?” Bonjean asked. Samuelson answered yes.
“So you knew you weren’t 16?” Bonjean asked.
“I didn’t realize that I said the wrong year,” Samuelson said. She added that when she spoke to Huth about the incident for the first time in decades in 2005, “she said she was 15 and I was 16 and I went along with it.”
Huth has yet to testify in the trial, but is expected to take the stand soon after Samuelson.
The Associated Press does not normally name people who say they have been sexually abused, unless they come forward publicly, as Huth has.
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2022-06-06T22:30:02+00:00
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washingtonpost.com
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/donkey-kong-defense-arises-at-bill-cosby-sex-abuse-trial/2022/06/06/f840c55c-e5da-11ec-a422-11bbb91db30b_story.html
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CORAL SPRINGS, Fla., Aug. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AmBase Corporation ("AmBase" or the "Company") (OTC: ABCP) announced today a net loss of $983,000 or $0.02 per share for the three months ended June 30, 2022 and a net loss of $2,040,000 or $0.05 per share for the six months ended June 30, 2022.
For the three months and six months ended June 30, 2021, the Company recorded a net loss of $1,234,000 or $0.03 per share and a net loss of $2,869,000 or $0.07 per share, respectively.
Statements made in this press release may be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted or quantified. Forward-looking statements can be identified by such words as "estimates," "expects," "anticipates," "believes," "plans," "intends" and variations of such words and similar expressions. The Company cautions readers that a variety of factors could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from the anticipated results or other expectations expressed in the Company's forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control, include, but are not limited to those set forth under the heading "Forward-Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Reports on Form 10-K, as may be supplemented or amended by the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which are incorporated herein by reference. The Company assumes no obligation to update or supplement forward-looking statements that become untrue because of subsequent events, new information or otherwise.
The information in this press release should be read in conjunction with the AmBase Corporation's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the year-to-date period ended June 30, 2022, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. A more complete discussion of the Company's annual results and the Company's affairs is included in AmBase Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the annual period December 31, 2021, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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2022-08-05T20:15:38+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2022/08/05/ambase-reports-results-second-quarter-six-months-ended-june-30-2022/
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SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A homicide investigation is underway Wednesday morning at a strip mall in Salisbury, according to police.
Salisbury Police said the incident happened in the area of 2143 Statesville Boulevard.
Authorities did not release any more details but said the investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Lt. Crews with the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333.
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2022-09-23T02:42:16+00:00
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qcnews.com
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https://www.qcnews.com/crime-and-public-safety/detectives-investigating-homicide-at-salisbury-strip-mall-police-say/
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MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer from Raymondville was found guilty in a drug smuggling attempt, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office announced.
A federal jury convicted Juan Posas Jr., 51, of distribution of a controlled substance and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, a release stated.
During trial, the jury heard that Posas traveled from Raymondville to a Home Depot in Weslaco where he met with 25-year-old Mexican national, Alexis Soria-Soria.
At the meeting location, Soria transferred a box containing 44 pounds of cocaine into Posas’ truck, the U.S. District Attorney’s Office stated in a release.
The trial proceeded with the jury hearing phone conversation recordings in which the former CBP officer helped plan the drug smuggling attempt.
The defense attempted to convince the jury that Soria approached Posas in the parking lot and asked if he wanted free fruits, then placed a box of fruits in his car.
According to Alamdar S. Hamdani U.S. Attorney with the Southern District of Texas, Posas never checked the box to see what was inside and was later found guilty.
Posas faces between 10 years and life in prison. He also faces a possible $10 million maximum fine.
His sentencing date is scheduled for Sept. 14.
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2023-06-28T01:16:28+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/former-cbp-officer-found-guilty-of-trafficking-cocaine-feds-say/
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The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors.
Southern Baptist church representatives at their annual meeting here also rejected a similar appeal by a smaller church, Fern Creek Baptist of Louisville, Kentucky, which is led by a woman pastor.
The results of the Tuesday votes were announced Wednesday morning on the concluding day of the the two-day annual meeting here of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, whose statement of faith asserts that only qualified men can serve as pastors.
The convention hall packed with about 12,000 Southern Baptists was quiet after the announcement, appearing to have listened to the earlier urging by SBC President Bart Barber for them to show restraint.
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“I know sometimes there are churches where people wind up in biblical divorce,” he said. “But we don’t throw divorce parties at church. And whatever these results are, I’m asking you, behave like Christians.”
Saddleback had been the denomination’s second-largest congregation and until recently was widely touted as a success story amid larger Southern Baptist membership declines.
With the 9,437-1,212 vote, delegates rejected an appeal by Rick Warren, the retired founding pastor of Saddleback and author of the best-selling phenomenon, “The Purpose Driven Life.” Warren had urged Baptists to agree to disagree “in order to share a common mission.”
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“Messengers voted for conformity and uniformity rather than unity. The only way you will have unity is to love diversity. We made this effort knowing we were not going to win," Warren said at a news conference after the results were announced.
Church representatives also voted 9,700-806 to deny an appeal by a smaller congregation, Fern Creek Baptist Church of Louisville, Kentucky, which has had a woman pastor for three decades but came under heightened scrutiny this year.
Warren and the Rev. Linda Barnes Popham, pastor of Fern Creek, made their final appeals to Southern Baptists here on Tuesday during the denomination's annual meeting.
Warren has been a lifelong Southern Baptist, and the church he founded being removed from the denomination was something he might have never expected even though he has pushed the boundaries for several years now, said Scott Thumma, a sociology of religion professor and director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research.
“It’s pretty clear (from his speech Tuesday) that Warren did not think the SBC was going to reinstate Saddleback,” he said. “But, he’s had a platform to say what being Baptist means, what the Scripture says about women in ministry, that Southern Baptists are under a big tent and what is means to exclude any congregation. This is all probably more symbolic.”
Following the vote results, Warren issued a critique of the direction of the SBC that contributed to Saddleback's ejection.
“There are people who want to take the SBC back to the 1950s when white men ruled supreme and when the woman’s place was in the home. There are others who want to take it back 500 years to the time of the Reformation," he said. "I say we need to take the church back to the first century. The church at its birth was the church at its best.”
In February, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee voted to oust the two congregations, along with three others that chose not to appeal, for having women pastors.
All Baptist churches are independent, so the convention can’t tell them what to do, but it can decide which churches are “not in friendly cooperation,” the official verbiage for an expulsion. The SBC’s official statement of faith says the office of pastor is reserved for qualified men, but this is believed to be the first time the convention has expelled any churches over it.
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Bharath reported from Los Angeles.
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2023-06-15T09:40:57+00:00
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nbcchicago.com
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https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/southern-baptists-vote-to-expel-2-churches-because-they-have-female-pastors/3161404/
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WFO AMARILLO Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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AREAL FLOOD ADVISORY
Flood Advisory
National Weather Service Amarillo TX
654 AM CDT Wed Apr 26 2023
...FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM CDT THIS MORNING...
* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues.
* WHERE...A portion of the Panhandle of Texas, including the
following counties, Collingsworth, Donley, Gray and Wheeler.
* WHEN...Until 800 AM CDT.
* IMPACTS...Minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 654 AM CDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to
thunderstorms. Minor flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly in the advisory area. Between 0.5 and 1 inch of rain
has fallen.
- Some locations that will experience flooding include...
Shamrock, Mclean, Dozier, Samnorwood, Lela, Lutie and Quail.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Turn around, don't drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
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2023-04-26T12:51:32+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/weather/article/tx-wfo-amarillo-warnings-watches-and-advisories-17919425.php
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) – Low 90s throughout the weekend with lows in the 70s can be expected overnight.
A light breeze of SE 15-20 MPH will be keeping us fresh this Easter Weekend during our egg hunt. Sun will be peeking in and out of clouds Saturday morning followed by clear skies in the afternoon.
As we approach overnight hours, clouds will settle into our area leaving partly cloudy conditions for Sunday morning and into the evening.
As we look forward to Sunday night, a week front will be entering the RGV bringing a chance of showers for Monday morning. Temperatures will drop into the upper 80s to start off the week.
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2022-04-15T04:01:21+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/weather/easter-weekend-looking-to-be-a-warm-one/
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Synchronoss Technologies Inc. (SNCR) on Tuesday reported a loss of $13.7 million in its fourth quarter.
On a per-share basis, the Bridgewater, New Jersey-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring costs and amortization costs, were 8 cents per share.
The results fell short of Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 3 cents per share.
The mobile services company posted revenue of $61.6 million in the period, also missing Street forecasts. Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $65.4 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $7.7 million, or 20 cents per share. Revenue was reported as $252.6 million.
Synchronoss expects full-year revenue in the range of $242 million to $255 million.
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This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on SNCR at https://www.zacks.com/ap/SNCR
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2023-03-07T22:15:15+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/synchronoss-q4-earnings-snapshot-17825512.php
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The Summit of Americas is underway. But with discord over attendance and low expectations of a major breakthrough among those who will be there — how much need is there for such a gathering?
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The Summit of Americas is underway. But with discord over attendance and low expectations of a major breakthrough among those who will be there — how much need is there for such a gathering?
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-06-06T10:50:37+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-06-06/the-summit-of-americas-in-los-angeles-is-mired-in-tension
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto became the first catcher to hit an inside-the-park home run in postseason history, circling the bases Saturday when his drive in Game 4 of the NL Division Series bounced off the angled wall and Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. failed to back up the play.
It was the 18th inside-the-park homer in postseason history and first by a Phillies player, according to ESPN Stats & Info. Boston’s Rafael Devers hit the previous one, for Boston in the 2017 ALDS against Houston.
Realmuto connected to lead off the third inning against Braves reliever Collin McHugh. The ball hit the angled portion of the wall at Citizens Bank Park beyond the reach of center fielder Michael Harris II, and the carom rolled along the warning track toward right-center.
Acuña stood in right watching the play, and didn’t start running toward the ball until Realmuto was well past first base.
Realmuto, who runs extremely well for a catcher, made a headfirst slide into the plate, well ahead of the relay.
Realmuto, a three-time All-Star, had 22 home runs this season. He stole 21 bases and was caught just once.
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2022-10-16T00:16:26+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-phils-realmuto-1st-postseason-inside-the-park-hr-by-catcher/
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David Smith
Published 3:58 pm Monday, July 10, 2023
Dodgeville, WI – David Ell “Bagger” Smith, age 76, of Dodgeville, previously of Albert Lea, MN passed away on Saturday, July 8, 2023 at his home surrounded by his family after a hard fight with dementia.
David was born March 21, 1947 to Herschel and Dorothy Smith in Albert Lea, MN. He farmed on the family farm until 1979. David served in the US Navy from 1964 to 1968.
David married the love of his life, Lonna Jorgenson in 1974. They welcomed 2 sons into their lives, Troy in 1976 and Travis in 1979.
In 1979, David and Lonna moved to Wisconsin where David worked for Jacques Seed Co. and later for Fuch’s Trucking as an over the road truck driver until his retirement in 2013.
David was an avid outdoorsman. He loved hunting, fishing, four wheeling, gardening and hiking. He also loved golfing, bowling and had a special love for baseball. Especially watching his grandson play.
David loved his family and friends with all his heart. He loved being involved in all the boy’s activities by being the boy’s Boy Scout Leader, Treasure Hunt Maker, Baseball Coach, Fishing Guide and everything he could get involved in. He was then very active in his grandchildren’s lives and was loved dearly.
He is survived by his wife Lonna; his sons Troy (Jackie Wilson) and Travis (Jenny); his Granddaughter Lillian (Spencer Dunham) and his Grandson Gabriel. He is further survived by his sister-in-law Candy Jorgenson of Albert Lea, MN; brother-in-law Ronald (Cindi) Jorgenson of Red Wing, MN; niece Sara (Travis) of Faribault, MN; niece Amy Gant of MN; nephews Scott Smith and Benjamin Smith of Albuquerque, NM as well as many, many friends.
He is preceded in death by his grandson, Ethan Smith; his parents, Herschel and Dorthy Smith; brother James Smith, his mother and father-in-law Kenneth and Matilda Jorgenson; Grandparents Don and Hazel Smith; N Vere & Hazel Sanders; Fred and Carrie Weseman; and Einer and Lillian Jorgenson.
A Visitation will be held 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 13, 2023 at the GORGEN-McGINLEY & AYERS FUNERAL HOME in Dodgeville, WI. A celebration of life will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to Ethan’s Shining Light Foundation. A foundation Dave was very involved in from its inception.
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2023-07-11T02:39:55+00:00
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albertleatribune.com
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https://www.albertleatribune.com/2023/07/david-smith/
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Employee priorities are changing as the labor market and economy continue to shift, and the way organizations think about employee engagement must change alongside them.
TORONTO, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Like everything else in the world, employee engagement has gone through significant upheaval over the past several years. Employees' relationships with their organizations shifted with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to remote and virtual work, with employee priorities undergoing a considerable change in tandem with these necessary adjustments to the way we work. To assist HR leaders in understanding and evaluating the causes, significance, and impacts of these changes, leading HR research and advisory firm McLean & Company has released its annual Employee Engagement Trends Report 2023. The timely industry report combines insights, analysis, and benchmarking data obtained from 2021 to 2022.
In the report, the firm defines employee engagement as "an overall sense of being energized by and passionate about one's work and dedicated toward one's workplace" and notes it is important to differentiate this concept from employee satisfaction. Employee engagement is also a component of the overall employee experience (EX), with EX remaining a high priority for organizations because of its impact on outcomes such as productivity and retention.
"In a challenging labor market and economy, employee engagement plays an even more critical role in talent retention," says Amanda Chaitnarine, director of Advisory Services at McLean & Company. "Individual employee engagement is the outcome of a strong overall employee experience, which is measured simply by asking 'How likely would you be to recommend this organization to a friend or family member as a great place to work?' If the answer isn't 'yes,' it's a good indication that an organization's employee engagement and experience need evaluation and intentional effort to improve."
To inform organizations' efforts to improve engagement, the firm identified and measured three key driver categories for employee engagement via a survey distributed to over 157,000 employees in 179 organizations. Those three drivers are outlined below:
- Organizational – Organizational drivers impact an employee's satisfaction and commitment to their organization. They include department collaboration, executive and departmental leadership, company potential, culture, and inclusion.
Organizational drivers saw mixed results, with department collaboration and executive leadership ranking lowest, signalling a need for improved communication. Culture and inclusion were viewed most positively and should remain a high priority. - Job – Job drivers affect an employee's motivation for and commitment to their day-to-day role. They consist of career advancement and development, recognition, employee empowerment, manager relationships, and co-worker relationships.
Employees viewed job drivers most positively, with career advancement and development increasing from the previous year by an average of 3.3 percentage points from 54.4% to 57.7%, and co-worker relationship drivers increasing by an average of 2.9 percentage points from 78.9% to 81.8%. - Retention – Retention drivers influence an employee's desire and likelihood to stay at an organization. An organization cannot make progress on engagement without satisfying a minimum requirement in these drivers. They include total compensation, working environment, and work-life balance.
Retention drivers were the lowest scoring area, likely due in part to economic uncertainty and inflation throughout the year impacting total compensation drivers, which decreased by 2.5 percentage points. Work-life balance and workload continue to be areas of opportunity for improvement.
With the talent acquisition and retention challenges that organizations are facing in the current labor landscape, it is unsurprising that retention drivers were the lowest performing of the three categories in this year's report. While prioritizing job and organizational drivers remains important to overall engagement success, there is a clear and critical need to put intentional effort into improving retention driver scores. Developing the retention driver areas of total compensation, working environment, and work-life balance can ultimately lead to increased talent attraction and retention and should be a primary focus for organizations in 2023 and beyond.
The firm advises that some of the ways organizational and HR leaders can work to improve employee engagement within their organizations are:
- Focusing on providing career and skill development opportunities for all employees by developing a high-potential program and creating a learning and development strategy.
- Revisiting career pathing and succession plans to ensure they are inclusive and free from barriers for all employees.
- Creating or revamping employee recognition programs for a quick win that leverages manager and co-worker relationships and that can be built on to create a culture of recognition and appreciation in the future.
McLean & Company also reminds HR leaders that employing benchmark engagement data when evaluating their organization's employee engagement is a key component in the process to provide direction, but it is not a final solution. Employee engagement action planning should always be based on feedback from an organization's employees, not on how other organizations are performing.
HR leaders seeking to understand, assess, and improve their organization's employee engagement can download the full Employee Engagement Trends Report 2023.
Additional resources from McLean & Company to support improving retention drivers include:
- Build a Total Rewards Strategy
- Create a Talent Acquisition Strategy
- Redesign the Talent Acquisition Structure
- Design a High-Value Succession Planning Program
The firm also offers various levels of support and practical resources to best suit organizations' unique, individual needs, including DIY toolkits, guided implementations, workshops, and consulting. For additional support in determining where to start in resolving engagement and retention challenges, visit mcleanco.com/services or follow McLean & Company on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Through data-driven insights and proven best-practice methodologies, McLean & Company offers comprehensive resources and full-service assessments, action plans, and training to position organizations to meet today's needs and prepare for the future.
McLean & Company is a division of Info-Tech Research Group.
Media professionals can register for unrestricted access to research across IT, HR, and software and over 200 IT and industry analysts through the Media Insiders program. To gain access contact pr@mcleanco.com.
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2023-04-19T14:03:42+00:00
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kwtx.com
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https://www.kwtx.com/prnewswire/2023/04/19/new-employee-engagement-trends-report-mclean-amp-company-highlights-critical-need-measure-act-with-purpose-improve-employee-engagement/
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(The Hill) — The Mississippi Board of Education voted Thursday to repeal a policy barring guns in state public schools in order to comply with the state’s enhanced-carry law.
The Board voted to repeal a 1990 policy prohibiting “the possession of pistols, firearms, or weapons in any form by any person other than duly authorized law enforcement officials on school premises or at school functions.”
The Board ruled that the policy, which last underwent revisions in December 2015, conflicted with Mississippi’s 2011 enhanced-carry law, which authorizes individuals with the enhanced license to enter areas where those with a standard license cannot, including “any elementary or secondary school facility” and “any school, college or professional athletic event not related to firearms.”
The temporary policy requires “each local school district (to) have a policy concerning weapons on school premises.”
The Mississippi Free Press was the first to report on the Board ruling.
General Counsel Erin Meyer referred to an opinion issued in 2013 by then-Attorney General Jim Hood (D), which said that an individual with an enhanced concealed carry permit may carry a concealed weapon on a Mississippi public school campus. He noted that schools “may restrict individuals to parts of the campus generally open to the public.”
During the Board meeting Thursday, Meyer said the 1990 policy “predates any notable school shootings or the adoption of our enhanced carry permits.”
“This rule currently conflicts with Mississippi’s enhanced carry statutes, so the enhanced carry statute authorizes individuals who have the proper certification to carry weapons in certain areas that are enumerated in statutes,” she said. “That includes elementary and secondary school facilities, so our policy is currently in conflict with that. State board policies can’t prohibit something that is authorized in law.”
When asked if educators would be allowed to have weapons on campus, Meyer said the revision puts the decision on restrictions related to weapons on campus into the hands of the local districts.
Brian McGarity, Director of the Department of Education Office of Safe and Orderly Schools, also spoke at the Board meeting. McGarity said he and other school officials have also held discussions to enhance school safety in the state, and aim to hold such discussions monthly. He said the talks will ensure that those allowed to carry weapons on campus “are held accountable.”
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2022-07-22T02:40:16+00:00
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nwahomepage.com
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https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/mississippi-school-board-removes-policy-barring-people-with-guns-on-school-campuses/
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The official start to hurricane season is around the corner but this week you can prepare with Florida’s Disaster Preparedness Tax Holiday.
The holiday begins on Saturday and runs through June 10.
And it’s better to get what you need now to avoid big crowds if you decided to procrastinate.
There’s no storm brewing right now but that’s when Art Stoddard knows is the perfect time to prepare.
“I’m a Florida native and spent 22 years in the Navy but I remember Hurricane Andrew and going through that as a kid,” Stoddard said.
And he is ready for whatever storm might come our way.
“The first thing we always do is have a shelter in place, kit built in our house. It has supplies to last us an extended amount of time, things like water and extra food,” Stoddard said.
Starting this weekend you can put your kit together at a discount.
Batteries, smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, and even food for your pets are tax-free.
“The little things do matter especially when it comes to cases of natural disasters,” Stoddard said.
Stoddard said everything being so expensive right now adds up.
For some, this tax holiday could bring some relief.
“Each storm brings its own difficulties and not all families are the same,” Stoddard said. “Not all families have the same access to everything so something like that is a huge incentive to families.”
For the full list of eligible tax-free supplies, click here.
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2022-05-31T14:24:32+00:00
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winknews.com
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https://www.winknews.com/2022/05/26/disaster-preparedness-tax-free-week-begins-on-saturday/
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NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Unity Software Inc. (NYSE: U).
To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form:
https://claimyourloss.com/securities/unity-software-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=30775&from=4
The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholders who purchased Unity between March 5, 2021 and May 10, 2022.
Shareholders interested in acting as a lead plaintiff representing the class of wronged shareholders have until September 6, 2022 to petition the court. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
According to a filed complaint, Unity Software Inc. issued materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i) deficiencies in Unity's product platform reduced the accuracy of the Company's machine learning technology; (ii) the foregoing was likely to have a material negative impact on the Company's revenues; (iii) accordingly, Unity had overstated the Company's commercial and/or financial prospects for 2022; (iv) as a result, the Company was likely to have to reduce its fiscal 2022 guidance; and (v) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Jakubowitz Law is vigorous in pursuit of justice for shareholders who have been the victim of securities fraud. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.
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2022-08-12T10:50:03+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2022/08/12/u-shareholder-alert-jakubowitz-law-reminds-unity-shareholders-lead-plaintiff-deadline-september-6-2022/
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Strategic Radiology has chosen to partner with Ferrum's privately deployed enterprise AI platform for its member practices to discover, validate, and manage their AI algorithms.
CHESHIRE, Conn., Nov. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Radiology, the nation's largest coalition of independent, wholly physician-owned private radiology practices in the United States, has chosen Ferrum Health to support and accelerate the discovery, validation, and management of clinical AI across its member institutions. In response to the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) across all imaging modalities and the explosion of FDA clearances over the past several years, Strategic Radiology's adoption of the Ferrum Health platform ensures that its members have a secure, standardized, and cost-effective way to enable member groups to continue to lead in both clinical technology adoption and quality of care. Strategic Radiology will use Ferrum to monitor for algorithm performance, bias, and drift across its practices, as well as to share learnings on clinical impact and business ROI of the 50+ algorithms available on the Ferrum platform.
One of the top concerns the partnership will seek to address is the emerging recognition amongst radiologists that many AI tools available on the market are insufficiently validated and run the risk of being biased. Ferrum Health will work with Strategic Radiology members to provide a standardized method of sharing AI performance across demographics, allowing for Strategic Radiology to uncover AI blind spots putting patients at risk that may not be visible to individual practices without Ferrum. In addition, Ferrum is working with Strategic Radiology practices to quantify and share the ROI they are seeing from the AI tools they pilot. These insights will be presented and shared among Strategic Radiology members to further accelerate AI adoption as the healthcare industry emerges from the financial pressures placed on it by COVID-19.
Within Strategic Radiology, early adopters like ARA Health Specialists, Asheville, NC, and The Hill Medical Corporation, Pasadena, CA, have been using Ferrum Health over the past several quarters, validating and deploying AI applications across diverse workflows that includes oncologic, cardiovascular, and orthopedic indications. "AI is a priority for our membership and will fundamentally transform how radiology is practiced, but comes with clinical, technical, and business risks," said Scott Bundy, MD, FACR, Chair and CEO, Strategic Radiology. "SR needs to support our members and has chosen Ferrum to help them navigate these challenges. What made Ferrum's platform stand out is that it is privately deployable into member's existing data centers and clouds and it features robust validation and monitoring tools to build trust with our members."
In addition to providing technical and business support to Strategic Radiology's members as they adopt clinical AI, Strategic Radiology and Ferrum Health will allow their members to share data and insights on AI performance with a partnership between their respective Patient Safety Organizations. This partnership will ensure that the data and insights into algorithm performance being generated by the AI tools on the Ferrum platform will remain protected and non-discoverable under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 while giving Strategic Radiology members a confidential and legally protected forum in which to exchange case studies and best practices to improve quality and patient safety.
"We founded Ferrum Health with the mission of making intelligent health care accessible to all, and I am beyond excited about the passion and enthusiasm Strategic Radiology's leadership and its members have for improving patient care," said Pelu Tran, CEO of Ferrum Health. "We've spent years building up a best-in-class library of clinical AI partner applications from all over the world, and we can't wait for these tools to start improving the care of the millions of patients served by Strategic Radiology's radiologists every year."
Ferrum Health provides a fully private AI infrastructure to allow health systems to securely deploy the most innovative and impactful clinical AI technologies worldwide without patient data leaving their firewall. Ferrum's private AI Hubs allow health systems to run dozens of third party applications across service lines and patient populations. As of 2022, more than 750,000 patient records have been analyzed via the Ferrum AI Hub platform. For more information, visit www.ferrumhealth.com and follow Ferrum on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Strategic Radiology (SR) is a national coalition of privately owned, independent, radiology practices representing 1500+ radiologists that have come together to improve quality, gain operational efficiencies, and innovate the future of radiology's private practice model. SR established the nation's first radiology-specific PSO listed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and also provides its member groups value through shared savings via a group purchasing program, strategic partnerships, and proprietary products and services. To learn more, visit www.StrategicRadiology.org and follow SR on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
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2022-11-22T18:35:24+00:00
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wbrc.com
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https://www.wbrc.com/prnewswire/2022/11/22/strategic-radiology-partners-with-ferrum-health-standardize-validation-management-clinical-ai-across-its-members/
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(The Hill) – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has picked up support for his presidential campaign from what might at first appear an unlikely place: people who had worked for former President Trump’s campaign or administration or supported him.
Multiple former Trump supporters are backing DeSantis’s challenge to Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Here are the most notable former Trumpers currently on Team DeSantis:
Ken Cuccinelli
Cuccinelli, a former senior Trump administration official who served as Homeland Security acting deputy secretary, has been among the most vocal and upfront former Trump supporters who have shifted to DeSantis.
He launched the “Never Back Down” super PAC in March to urge DeSantis to run for president. He said at the time that he had been speaking to “many grassroots conservative activists” who wanted DeSantis to run.
“Ron DeSantis doesn’t just talk, he acts, but most of all he never backs down,” Cuccinelli says in the video announcing the super PAC. “Gov. DeSantis, today I’m asking you to run for president. You’ve had our back, now we will have yours.”
The super PAC has since launched ads attacking Trump and promoting DeSantis as the leader of the country’s future. One ad last month slammed Trump as a “gun-grabber” over comments that he has made in support of gun control legislation, while another tried to position DeSantis as the rightful successor to Trump.
Cuccinelli is also reportedly part of “The Eight-Year Alliance,” a coalition of various former Trump officials supporting DeSantis.
Steve Cortes
Cortes served as a senior adviser to Trump’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, but he now works as an adviser and surrogate for Never Back Down.
He threw his support behind DeSantis earlier this month as “the best possible option to win the presidency” in 2024. He said in an op-ed in Newsweek that he did not arrive at his decision to support DeSantis lightly, having served as a spokesperson and adviser to Trump for much of the past seven years, but that the “America First movement” is bigger than any one individual.
Cortes pointed to polls showing widespread dissatisfaction with the country’s direction and that voters do not want to see a rematch of the 2020 race between Trump and President Biden.
He noted the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections in which Republicans had disappointing performances with Trump as the GOP’s leader and argued “there is no substitute for victory.” DeSantis demonstrated his appeal, Cortes and other supporters say, in a landslide victory to be reelected as Florida’s governor by almost 20 points.
Cortes also argued DeSantis has discipline and has demonstrated results in policy while avoiding the “chaos” of the Trump presidency.
“Now it’s time to take that same approach for the nation. In Ron DeSantis, Republicans can rally to a fresh, vibrant, and optimistic agenda, one that includes electoral victory followed by disciplined and focused policy achievements,” he said.
Chip Roy
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) became the first sitting member of Congress to endorse DeSantis for president in March, more than two months before DeSantis officially announced that he was running. Roy was one of a few House members to preemptively endorse DeSantis.
Roy said in an email to his supporters that the next president “must be a vibrant and energetic leader with the faith, vision, and courage to chart a new course.”
He previously supported Trump for reelection in the 2020 presidential election, and texts obtained by CNN revealed he sent messages to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows trying to help with Trump’s legal challenges to the election results.
But Roy had a falling out with Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, criticizing the former president for trying to pressure Republicans to reject the results.
He said in his endorsement that DeSantis rejects “woke corporate America and higher education” and takes stances that are not politically correct. He added that the GOP needs a “new generation of leadership.”
Thomas Massie
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) supported Trump during the 2020 election, but he and the former president have not always been on the best of terms in the past few years, and Massie endorsed DeSantis last month.
Trump slammed Massie as a “third rate grandstander” and called for him to be kicked out of the Republican Party in 2020 over Massie’s opposition to the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package that passed at the outset of the pandemic.
Massie said during his 2022 reelection campaign that he expected Trump to stay out of his primary race, but Trump endorsed Massie as a “Conservative Warrior” and “first-rate Defender of the Constitution.”
Massie became the second House Republican to preemptively endorse DeSantis for 2024, saying that DeSantis is a “proven energetic leader” who has fought for economic freedom, personal liberty, fiscal responsibility and limited government.
“America needs a leader who is decisive, respects the Constitution, understands policy, puts family first, and leads by inspiring,” Massie said. “That’s why I’m endorsing Ron DeSantis for President.”
Bob Good
Never Back Down announced earlier this month that Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.) was endorsing DeSantis because he has demonstrated that he can produce “effective results for every man, woman, and child.” He said at the time that he expected DeSantis to win the presidency if he decided to run.
“Courageous conservative leadership is what America needs to stand against the insanity of woke corporations, corrupt Washington politicians, and continued attacks on our faith, families, and freedoms,” he said.
Good, who received an endorsement from Trump in his 2020 race and supported Trump’s reelection bid, said DeSantis has shown “strength in the face of adversity.”
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2023-05-28T14:38:28+00:00
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fox44news.com
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https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/five-high-profile-trump-supporters-whove-switched-to-ron-desantis/
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Minot-area administrators sound off on three-class basketball
MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - Wednesday morning, the NDHSAA Board of Directors voted to accept a move toward a three-class system in basketball.
Several Minot-area school administrators attended and spoke at the meeting in Valley City that spanned nearly four hours.
The most controversial section of the proposal appears to be the policy of multiplying private school enrollments by two.
“We don’t feel like the multiplier is a just means of measuring enrollment. It’s not a clear way to do things and I think a lot of schools felt the same way, public and private alike,” said Roger Coleman, the athletic director at Bishop Ryan Catholic School.
Students who attend schools with open enrollment policies, such as South Prairie, and live outside of the school’s boundaries will also count as two students toward the enrollment number.
“The multiplying factor is the biggest hang-up that I have. For South Prairie, you’re trying to tell me that kids who have been in my school since kindergarten aren’t members of my school because they live across the street from the school district. Because they’re out of the boundaries, they’re going to count as two (students),” said Wayne Stanley, the South Prairie School District superintendent.
Bishop Ryan, Dickinson Trinity and Shiloh Christian will all compete in the middle-tier Class A under the proposal.
“I don’t know if the three-class plan will be the save-all, be-all, end-all component, but I think it will definitely help. I’m sitting low with numbers right now. My (girls basketball) varsity team has seven (girls). I think it will help things in respect of, you’re not going to lose by 80 points anymore,” said Dr. Nick Klemisch, Garrison Public Schools superintendent.
The NDHSAA Executive Board will now review the plan and make changes as it sees fit before implementation.
Copyright 2022 KFYR. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-02T05:20:41+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/2022/12/02/minot-area-administrators-sound-off-three-class-basketball/
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3 missing kids found dead in Texas pond
CASS COUNTY, Texas (KSLA) - Three young children’s bodies were recovered from a private pond after they were reported missing in Cass County, Texas.
Officials say 9-year-old Zi’ariel Oliver, 8-year-old Amiyah Hughes and 5-year-old Temari Oliver were reported missing at around 10 p.m. Friday night, KSLA reports.
Multiple agencies responded to the search, including the Texas Parks and Wildlife, Cass County Sheriff’s Office and volunteer firefighters. The agencies received reports around 2 a.m. Saturday of three young children located in a private pond near Highway 77.
“We located items of clothing around a pond and in a pond. So, we centered the search around that small body of water, and with the use of divers, we were able to recover three victims at approximately 2 a.m. this morning,” Texas Game Warden Shawn Hervey said.
All three juvenile victims’ bodies were recovered from the pond, which is on a neighboring property to their home. The bodies have been sent for autopsies.
Authorities have not confirmed if all three girls are related.
The circumstances of the incident are under investigation.
“This is not an everyday occurrence, but it does happen,” Hervey said.
Copyright 2022 KSLA via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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2022-08-01T04:23:11+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/2022/08/01/3-missing-kids-found-dead-texas-pond/
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