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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican activists filed a criminal complaint Wednesday at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, arguing authorities cooperated with or allowed drug cartels to abduct people who were never seen again.
The case involves hundreds of people who disappeared in Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz between 2010 and 2016. While many are believed to have been kidnapped and killed by drug gangs, corrupt police are believed to have abducted many, as well.
The International Federation for Human Rights filed the complaint on behalf of activist groups that have helped locate hundreds of clandestine graves in Veracruz.
The federation presented evidence of 22 cases in which there was a systematic pattern to the disappearances, which may have applied to many of the estimated 600 bodies found.
In Veracruz, members of one state police unit have been convicted for carrying out illegal detentions and disappearances of people in the mid-2010s, during the administration of then Gov. Javier Duarte.
“This is one more piece of evidence on crimes against humanity in Mexico committed by organized crime, government authorities or both acting together,” said Jimena Reyes, the Federation’s director for the Americas.
The Federation has filed similar complaints regarding cases in the states of Coahuila and Nayarit; those cases have not yet been ruled on. | 2022-10-20T03:01:24+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-mexico-activists-file-hague-case-over-disappearances/ |
The first graduating class of Buchholz High is celebrating 50 years
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Buchholz High School opened its doors in 1971.
This is also the same year that Eastside High School began.
“They were building a new high school Eastside, and Buchholz. We were over at Westwood we have double sessions because we did not have enough school places. When our Buchholz opened, we actually marched from Westwood to take over our Buchholz high school. Then from that point forward, we were the highest class, so they would add a class every year” said 1973 grad, Janet Thomas.
Thomas and her classmate, Barbara Henry said the first year was all uncharted territory.
Starting out, the two described class as a college schedule where they had longer class periods and could leave campus.
“The early days of 1973 were unique and different. We were the first we were on charting, usual territory that we have not experienced as young children, and we were moved out of familiar territory, and so we had to find our way,” said Henry.
Reunions have been a common occurrence for the class of 1973 but nothing beats a 50th anniversary!
Classmates will be coming together in Gainesville next weekend July 21-23rd where there will be dinner, dances, and a tour of the school.
“We have all remained so close. I call people when I need them because we have every profession you can think of from the class of 73″ said Henry.
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SMX provides update on Nasdaq listing
- Marker substance allows geographical origin of raw materials to be verified.
- Field testing successfully completed – marker substance can be verified throughout tire production process, to enable sustainability and circularity.
- In the long term, Continental plans to use the marker substance on a large scale in rubber products.
- SMX have active onboarding processes with other major tire manufacturers to create an industry standard.
NEW YORK, March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Continental and SMX (Security Matters) Public Limited Company (NASDAQ: SMX) (NASDAQ: SMXWW), have succeeded for the first time in verifying a marker substance for natural rubber in a tire and so throughout the entire production process. The dedicated marker technology, which both companies optimized for use in natural rubber, is designed to create greater transparency along the entire value chain of tires and technical rubber products from Continental. Provided with special security features, the use of the marker substances enables the invisible marking of natural rubber with information on its geographical origin. This means, for example, that responsibly sourced natural rubber and its origin can be verified at every stage of the supply chain all the way through to the customer. By doing so, Continental is further strengthening its pioneering role in its commitment to greater transparency along its supply chain. By 2050 at the latest, Continental expects that all materials that it uses in its tire production will originate from responsible sources.
"We see huge potential in marker technology. It will help us in the future to ensure that the natural rubber we use in our tires is grown and sourced entirely responsibly," says Claus Petschick, Head of Sustainability at Continental Tires. "Over the long term, we believe that marker technology could help to make the sometimes highly complex processes in our supply chains more transparent and verifiable. With Security Matters, we have by our side an innovative tech platform for the development and trialing of marker technology."
In the successfully completed field test, the marker substance underwent and passed a real test of resilience. The substance was added to responsibly grown latex during harvesting and withstood not only the intensive preparations involved in the production of natural rubber but also the tire manufacturing process itself. In the manufactured tire, the data was retrieved using special, purpose-built software and a reader and correctly interpreted. The appearance and performance of a bicycle tire containing the invisible marker remained unchanged.
Smallholders taught how to use the marker substance
For the field test, natural rubber grown as part of a joint project run by Continental and the German development aid agency 'Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit' (GIZ) in the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan was used and enriched with the markers. The project focuses on education and digitalization as the keys to establishing sustainable supply chains for natural rubber. Local smallholders were taught how the marker substances work and in what concentration they need to be added to the latex.
Clear ambition for the future: large-scale use in rubber products
Now that the technology has passed its first test of resilience, Continental is planning to use the new marker technology on a larger scale in the future during the process of sourcing its rubber and also to integrate it in other rubber products. As part of the industrialization of this technology, it is conceivable to link the markers with blockchain technology, which is generally considered tamper-proof. This could provide additional support for tamper-free monitoring of compliance with quality standards and quality criteria along the complex supply chain of natural rubber.
"Together with Continental, SMX will use marker, reader and digital technology to further improve the transparency of the natural rubber supply chain and enable sustainability and circularity." says Haggai Alon, CEO of SMX.
About SMX
SMX enables materials to carry a history that can be authenticated through origination, use, recycle, and multiple reuse cycles.
The company's B2B white label platforms power commercial sustainability applications across a variety of industries, including timber, rubber, palm oil, cocoa, steel, gold, luxury goods, leather, plastics, and non-ferrous metals, to transition successfully to a sustainable circular economy, thus reducing their carbon footprint and waste.
SMX offers a robust, innovative, and scalable solution for supply chain authentication, traceability, and transparency to transform businesses for participation in the circular economy. Its technology gives materials in solid, liquid, and gas forms the ability to maintain a virtual memory of origination, processing and supply chain journey, including the ability to authenticate provenance, as well as to track recycling loop counts and the percentage of authenticated and/or recycled materials contained. The data is recorded digitally on blockchain, and a linking molecular chemical marker is embedded in the product itself and can be read with a proprietary reader. The SMX technology has been in active operational use on a national scale by the Israeli Government for more than ten years, is environmentally sustainable and has a proven track record.
The SMX solution is an efficient, cost effective, drop-in solution within an existing supply chain, enabling substantial benefits for manufacturers, consumers, and others in the value chain – and the planet, including providing the necessary data for product recycling and re-use. In addition, the SMX technology addresses the issue of the increase in waste globally by enabling the increase in demand for verified, usable recycled materials by creating a commoditized, tradable certified asset which is the recycled material, which can be traded and sold to other players in the value chain and ecosystem.
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The information in this press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. The words "anticipate," "believe," "contemplate," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "forecast," "intends," "may," "will," "might," "plan," "possible," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "would" and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements in this press release may include, for example: changes in SMX's strategy, future operations, financial position, estimated revenues and losses, projected costs, prospects and plans; SMX's ability to develop and launch new products and services; SMX's ability to successfully and efficiently integrate future expansion plans and opportunities'; SMX's ability to grow its business in a cost-effective manner; SMX's product development timeline and estimated research and development costs; the implementation, market acceptance and success of SMX's business model; developments and projections relating to SMX's competitors and industry; and SMX's approach and goals with respect to technology. These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this press release, and current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing views as of any subsequent date, and no obligation is undertaken to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws. As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include: the ability to maintain the listing of the Company's shares on Nasdaq; changes in applicable laws or regulations; the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on SMX's business; the ability to implement business plans, forecasts, and other expectations after the completion of the business combination, and identify and realize additional opportunities; the risk of downturns and the possibility of rapid change in the highly competitive industry in which SMX operates; the risk that SMX and its current and future collaborators are unable to successfully develop and commercialize SMX's products or services, or experience significant delays in doing so; the risk that the Company may never achieve or sustain profitability; the risk that SMX will need to raise additional capital to execute its business plan, which may not be available on acceptable terms or at all; the risk that SMX experiences difficulties in managing its growth and expanding operations; the risk that third-party suppliers and manufacturers are not able to fully and timely meet their obligations; the risk that SMX is unable to secure or protect its intellectual property; the possibility that SMX may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and other risks and uncertainties described in SMX's filings from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- The survey shows an increase in women on boards and in leadership positions.
- Incoming board directors are increasingly bringing technology-related skills and knowledge to the role.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the authority on boardroom practices representing 23,000+ board members, today released its 2022 Inside the Public Company Boardroom report, which offers data-backed insights into the current state of the American boardroom. Based on data gathered by NACD partners Pearl Meyer, Main Data Group, and MyLogIQ, the report creates a snapshot of what the boards of Russell 3000 Index companies looked like in 2022.
"By producing this annual report, we provide valuable insight into the critical shifts and trends impacting boards today and what we can expect to see in 2023," said Peter Gleason, president and CEO of NACD. "As boards continue to lean into technology and risk-based approaches, NACD will continue to ensure that our certifications, resources, and tools are responsive to member needs and tailored to help directors meet the challenges of the environments in which they operate."
Key Findings from the 2022 Inside the Public Company Boardroom Report:
- The percentage of board seats occupied by women has slowly but consistently increased over time. This year, women accounted for 41 percent of new director appointments and only 17 percent of those departing. With increased emphasis on gender balance on the board, this trend could accelerate in the near future.
- Board independence has changed little relative to last year, though it has increased gradually over time. In 2020, only 15 percent of boards in the Russell 3000 had compositions where 90 percent of board members were independent directors. This increased to 17 percent last year and continued to increase to 18 percent this year.
- Board use of nonstandard committees such as risk, technology, and sustainability has increased over the last two years.
- A higher percentage of directors among this year's newly appointed directors have technology skills (as defined in director-disclosed biographies). Among those finishing their terms, however, are more directors with financial and strategic vision skills.
- Year over year, there is little change in the tenure of those in board leadership positions: board chair; lead director; and audit, compensation, and corporate governance committee chairs. However, across a period of three years, the tenure of those serving in the board chair role has slowly decreased.
For more information and to download your copy of the report, visit NACD 2022 Inside the Public Company Boardroom.
About NACD
The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) is the premier membership organization for board directors who want to expand their knowledge, grow their network, and maximize their potential.
As the unmatched authority in corporate governance, NACD sets the standards of excellence through its research and community-driven director education, programming, and publications. Directors trust NACD to arm them with the relevant insights to make high-quality decisions on the most pressing and strategic issues facing their businesses today.
NACD also prepares leaders to meet tomorrow's biggest challenges. The NACD Directorship Certification® is the leading director credential in the United States. It sets a new standard for director education, positions directors to meet boardroom challenges, and includes an ongoing education requirement that prepares directors for what is next.
With an ever-expanding community of 23,000+ members and a nationwide chapter network, our impact is both local and global. NACD members are driven by a common purpose: to be trusted catalysts of economic opportunity and positive change—in business and in the communities we serve. To learn more about NACD, visit www.nacdonline.org.
About Pearl Meyer
Pearl Meyer (www.pearlmeyer.com) is the leading advisor to boards and senior management on the alignment of executive compensation with business and leadership strategy, making pay programs a powerful catalyst for value creation and competitive advantage. Pearl Meyer's clients stand at the forefront of their industries and range from emerging high-growth, not-for-profit, and private companies to the Fortune 500. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Jose.
About Main Data Group
Main Data Group is a provider of executive compensation benchmarking and corporate governance analytics. Its mission is to empower boards and executive compensation professionals with comprehensive total rewards and corporate governance information in an easy-to-use online service and via custom data research. For more information, contact info@maindatagroup.com.
About MyLogIQ
MyLogIQ (www.mylogiq.com) provides 360°public company intelligence through our CompanyIQ Answer Desk. We offer an unrivaled AI-powered solution for public company disclosure, compliance, and investor communications benchmarking with real-time access to research and analytics on one platform.
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A fire broke out on a ferry in the southern Philippines and raged overnight for eight hours, killing at least 31 of the approximately 250 passengers and crew, officials said Thursday.
Many of the more than 200 people who survived the blaze jumped off the MV Lady Mary Joy 3 and were rescued from the dark sea by the coast guard, navy, a nearby ferry and local fishermen, said Gov. Jim Hataman of the southern island province of Basilan. Rescuers were still searching Thursday for at least seven missing people, he said.
Hataman said the burned ferry was towed to Basilan’s shoreline, where the bodies of 18 of the 31 victims were discovered in a budget section of the passenger cabin.
“These victims perished on board due to the fire,” Hataman said by telephone. He said more people may have been on the ferry who were not listed on its manifest.
The ferry’s skipper, however, told coast guard officials that he tried to run the burning ferry aground on the nearest shore to allow more people to survive or be rescued, regional coast guard commander Rejard Marfe said. The fire raged for about eight hours, he said.
The ferry was traveling to Jolo town in Sulu province from the southern port city of Zamboanga when it caught fire off Basilan close to midnight, Hataman said. At least 23 passengers were injured and taken to hospitals.
“Some of the passengers were roused from their sleep due to the commotion caused by the fire. Some jumped off the ship,” Hataman said.
The steel-hulled ferry could accommodate up to 430 people and was not overcrowded, Marfe said. According to the manifest, it was carrying 205 passengers and a 35-member crew, he said. In addition, it had a security contingent consisting of four coast guard marshals and an unspecified number of soldiers who were not listed on the manifest for their protection, Marfe said.
He said officials are investigating whether the 33-year-old ferry was seaworthy, if there were passengers not listed on the manifest, and whether the crew properly guided passengers to safety.
Sea accidents are common in the Philippines because of frequent storms, badly maintained vessels, overcrowding, and spotty enforcement of safety regulations, especially in remote provinces.
In December 1987, the ferry Dona Paz sank after colliding with a fuel tanker, killing more than 4,300 people in the world’s worst peacetime maritime disaster.
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Kyrie Irving going to the Dallas Mavericks
All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving is getting his wish and being traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the Dallas Mavericks, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The Mavericks will trade Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and a package of draft picks to the Nets, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither team had announced the move.
All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving is getting his wish and being traded by the Brooklyn Nets to the Dallas Mavericks, a person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The Mavericks will trade Spencer Dinwiddie, Dorian Finney-Smith and a package of draft picks to the Nets, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because neither team had announced the move.
In return, Dallas will have another star-level player to pair alongside MVP candidate Luka Doncic.
The move comes just days after Irving told the Nets that he wanted a trade. He was not with Brooklyn for its game Saturday night, with the team saying he was injured and that he was excused from being at the arena.
It also ends a tumultuous stint in Brooklyn.
Irving signed with his hometown team in 2019 with hopes of winning a title while playing alongside Kevin Durant.
But one saga followed another, highlighted by him having to miss almost the entire home schedule last season over his refusal to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and an eight-game suspension earlier this season after the team said it was dismayed by his repeated failure to “unequivocally say he has no antisemitic beliefs” following his posting of a movie link on Twitter. | 2023-02-05T23:58:20+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/kyrie-irving-dallas-mavericks-nba-brooklyn-nets/42768345 |
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Cody Proveaux makes return to competitive golf with brother, Caleb, by his side
Brothers will both tee it up at the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation
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By Adam Stanley , PGATOUR.COM
- The last time Cody and Caleb Proveaux played in the same field was an amateur tournament in South Carolina. (Grace Vroom/PGA TOUR)
The first time Caleb Proveaux topped his older brother, Cody, at golf was when he was in the fifth grade. Caleb practiced with the high school team then, and he shot even-par 36 at one of the high school practices, beating the entire team.
“I usually never let Cody live that down,” Caleb said with a smile.
“I don’t think that ever happened. I think he made that up,” Cody replied with a laugh.
The brothers Proveaux will continue their golfing adventures together this week at the Simmons Bank Open for the Snedeker Foundation, as they both earned their way into the field this week in Nashville in a unique way.
Caleb, 24, has conditional status on the Korn Ferry Tour this season and has teed it up five times so far in 2022, missing four cuts. He headed to the Monday qualifier to try to guarantee himself a spot in the field. Cody, 28, just left his job as the assistant men’s golf coach at Middle Tennessee State University last week. After a celebrated career as a youngster (he was once the No. 1 junior in the country, and was 2011 AJGA Rolex Player of the Year) he’s going to make a go of playing professionally. This week’s Monday qualifier was his first event back in the mix.
The brothers matched 7-under 65s at the Old Fort Golf Course (each recorded one eagle, six birdies and a bogey) and ended up in a 5-for-2 playoff. Cody hit it to 6 inches on the first playoff hole and Caleb fell just short.
“I saw Cody tee off in the morning and I saw he was leading the first wave with one other guy, so I was thinking, ‘If I shot 7 under, I should be in the clear without a playoff.’ But for some reason, everyone in the afternoon decided to play well,” said Caleb with a laugh.
Caleb, however, ended up moving into the first alternate position for the tournament by the time he got home from the Monday qualifier playoff. He received his spot in the field on Tuesday afternoon.
Cody’s last Korn Ferry Tour start came at the 2018 Visit Knoxville Open. Preparing to return to competition, he said golf “is like riding a bike.”
“I really had a lot of built-up nerves and emotions, and I was just trying to get myself to go out there and have fun and get back into having those competitive juices flowing,” said Cody. “I birdied the first two (on Monday) and thought, ‘Well, let’s keep it going.’”
Cody got to 7 under with three holes to play but said he missed a few good opportunities coming home, including a 6-foot birdie try on the final hole of the Monday qualifier. He was hoping, when they got in the playoff, that his brother would get through as well. It was not to be on this day, but Caleb still managed to get into the field – which was all Cody could ask for.
The brothers say the last time they were in the same field of an event would have been an amateur tournament at home in South Carolina when Cody was in college and Caleb was a senior in high school.
The elder Proveaux said this has already been the kind of week where they “can’t answer all the text messages” from family and friends because there are so many notes.
“They all kind of run together,” said Cody. “But everyone is super supportive and everyone is cheering for both of us to play well. Caleb has been doing it a little longer this year and I’m trying to get back into it now, so everyone is happy we’re both in the field and hoping we have a good week.”
Caleb, whose best finish this season is a tie for 39th at the Astara Golf Championship presented by Mastercard, said he’s “definitely hoping” something starts clicking this week. He hit it well last week at the Huntsville Championship, he said, but putted poorly. That’s been the story of his year so far, he said. But at the Monday qualifier, he was hitting it and putting it well and is hoping that’s a sign of good things to come.
Cody, meanwhile, spent the last two years at Middle Tennessee. He coached at Virginia Commonwealth University for the two years prior.
He made the decision to return to playing professionally a month ago and finished out the season with Middle Tennessee. Recently he has found himself telling people he has become a better golfer without touching a club, thanks to seeing things and visualizing shots for others.
“I told my boss, told all the players (and) they were all super excited for me. I play a lot of golf with them,” said Cody of his new journey. “They know I have the ability to do it; I just have to put one foot in front of the other and get after it.”
The first step will come this week, with his brother by his side.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — LaJoia Broughton, a 41-year-old small-business owner, considers herself a fan of President Joe Biden.
He’s provided opportunities for Black-owned business while bringing integrity to the White House, she said. Her decision for 2024 is not in doubt.
“Biden has proven himself in the last few years, and I’ll be voting for him in the next election,” said Broughton, who owns a lobbying and public affairs firm in Columbia, South Carolina’s capital city.
Destiny Humphreys is less enthusiastic. The 22-year-old senior at South Carolina State University, the state’s only public historically Black college or university, or HBCU, said she’s disappointed in the president, feeling his accomplishments have so far not lived up to his promises.
“Honestly, I feel like right now America is in a state of emergency. We need some real change,” said Humphreys, who remains unsure about her vote in next year’s election.
After a dismal start to his 2020 presidential campaign, Black voters in South Carolina rallied behind Biden, reviving his White House ambitions by driving his Democratic rivals from the race and ultimately putting him on a path to defeating then-President Donald Trump. But at the outset of Biden's reelection bid, the conflicting views among the same voters provide an early warning sign of the challenges he faces as he aims to revive the diverse coalition that proved so crucial to him before.
Black voters formed the heart of Biden's base of support and any dip in support could prove consequential in some of the most fiercely competitive states, such as Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin. Well aware of the challenge, the Biden campaign says it’s confident in its message and is planning to highlight how the president has prioritized issues that are important to Black Americans.
“The progress made in the first two years -- whether it’s the historically low black unemployment rate, unprecedented funding to HBCUs, or halving the black poverty rate in half -- is all at stake in 2024,” campaign spokesman Kevin Munoz said in an emailed statement. “The campaign will work hard to earn every vote, and expand on its winning 2020 coalition.”
Yet there are some early signs that Biden will have work to do to generate enthusiasm among Black voters for another run.
Biden’s approval rating among Black adults has fluctuated over his two years in office. As with most demographic groups, the latest Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds his 58% current approval rating among Black adults sitting well below where he began. Roughly 9 in 10 Black adults approved of Biden over his first months in office.
While only about half of Democrats overall say they want Biden to run again in 2024, 81% say they would definitely or probably support him if he were the nominee. The groundswell isn’t as stark among Black adults: 41% say they want him to run and only 55% say they are likely to support him in the general election.
APVoteCast, an extensive national survey of the electorate, also found that support for Republican candidates ticked up slightly among Black voters during last year's elections, even though those voters overwhelmingly supported Democrats.
South Carolina provides an early barometer on how Black voters are viewing Biden shortly after his quiet campaign launch, via a video message late last month.
After his 2020 campaign was rescued, Biden rewarded the Black voters who are decisive in South Carolina Democratic politics by moving the state to the head of the party's nominating schedule next year. He also followed through with his campaign pledge to appoint the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
But interviews two years into his presidency with more than a dozen Black voters representing a variety of ages and backgrounds reveal mixed views, especially between older and younger voters.
Many younger voters said they aren’t convinced that Biden has delivered on their most important priorities.
“He wouldn’t have been president without us,” said Courtney McClain, a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of South Carolina, who voted for Biden in 2020, her first presidential election.
Getting her loans forgiven, both for her bachelor’s degree and a planned master’s program, is a top priority for her. She applauds Biden’s attempt at a college loan forgiveness program, but is frustrated that the plan is now in doubt after it was challenged in the courts by Republicans.
“So, I definitely think moving forward, if he wants to promise something as large as that, I think he should put the steps in place to make sure that he’s able to go through with that before he just says it out loud,” McClain said.
Biden's plan, announced last August, would have erased $10,000 in federal student loan debt for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households earning less than $250,000, and canceled an additional $10,000 for those who received federal Pell Grants. Its fate is uncertain after the Supreme Court last December said it would deliberate over the program's future.
Many younger voters also cited the economy, especially lowering inflation, as a top priority. Several noted a lack of enthusiasm among their peers for a second Biden run, even while acknowledging they didn’t see a realistic alternative. But they wondered how lackluster support might affect turnout next year.
“For people to vote, and to be eager to vote, you have to actually want to vote for the person,” said Ace Conyers, a 22-year-old at South Carolina State.
Bailey Scott, a junior at the school, said she’s not excited about voting in the 2024 presidential election because people she would like to see in office won’t be running.”
“So I’m just going to have to pick the lesser evil,” she said. “And as of right now, that does seem like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Of course, many Black voters, especially those in the middle of their careers and beyond, said they already are looking forward to supporting Biden, who they say has a long history of advocating for the Black community. Laddie Howard, who owns a business making handcrafted leather goods in Sumter, just west of Columbia, said he would like to see other candidates enter the race but knows that’s not realistic.
“It’s going to be a battle of Biden against whoever emerges from the other side, and everything is so extreme on the other side that, you know, I can’t see many options besides Biden at this point,” said Howard, 52.
Tony Kinard, a Biden supporter, said the president has plenty of legislative wins to promote, including the Inflation Reduction Act, the roughly $740 billion program to promote clean energy, reduce prescription drug costs, shore up the health insurance marketplace and tax large corporations.
He would like to see action on gun control, especially as it edges closer to his home about an hour’s drive south of Columbia in rural Bamberg, where he runs Dot’s Flower Shop.
“I don’t like the idea of everybody being able to carry a firearm because we’re having too many young people dying behind that,” he said.
With divided government in Washington, additional action on access to firearms is unlikely. Still, the 67-year-old said it’s clear which candidate will best support the needs of Black voters in 2024.
“I’m going to vote for Biden,” he said. “We need to remember that, you know, the same where we got him in there before, we have to do the same thing by voting.” ___
Associated Press writer Hannah Fingerhut in Washington contributed to this report.
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Ship carrying debris from Titan submersible returns to port
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Debris from the lost submersible Titan has been returned to land after a fatal implosion during its voyage to the wreck of the Titanic captured the world’s attention last week.
The return of the debris to port in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, is a key piece of the investigation into why the submersible imploded, killing all five people on board. Twisted chunks of the 22-foot submersible came ashore at a Canadian Coast Guard pier on Wednesday.
Horizon Arctic, a Canadian ship, carried a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV, to search the ocean floor near the Titanic wreck for pieces of the submersible. Pelagic Research Services, a company with offices in Massachusetts and New York that owns the ROV, said in a statement on Wednesday that it has completed offshore operations.
Pelagic Research Services said its team is “still on mission” and cannot comment on the ongoing Titan investigation, which involves several government agencies in the U.S. and Canada.
“They have been working around the clock now for ten days, through the physical and mental challenges of this operation, and are anxious to finish the mission and return to their loved ones,” the company’s statement said.
Debris from the Titan was located about 12,500 feet (3,810 meters) underwater and roughly 1,600 feet (488 meters) from the Titanic on the ocean floor, the Coast Guard said last week. The Coast Guard is leading the investigation into why the submersible imploded during its June 18 descent. Officials announced on June 22 that the submersible had imploded and all five people on board were dead.
One of the experts the Coast Guard consulted with during the search said analyzing the physical material of recovered debris could reveal important clues about what happened to the Titan. And there could be electronic data, said Carl Hartsfield of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
“Certainly all the instruments on any deep sea vehicle, they record data. They pass up data. So the question is, is there any data available? And I really don’t know the answer to that question,” he said Monday.
The National Transportation Safety Board has said the Coast Guard has declared the loss of the Titan submersible to be a “major marine casualty,” and the Coast Guard will lead the investigation.
Coast Guard representatives declined to comment on the investigation or the return of debris to shore on Wednesday. Representatives for the National Transportation Safety Board and Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which are both involved in the investigation, also declined to comment.
“We are not able to provide any additional information at this time as the investigation is ongoing,” said Liam MacDonald, a spokesperson for the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the Titan, is based in the U.S. but the submersible was registered in the Bahamas. OceanGate is based in Everett, Washington, but closed when the Titan was found. Meanwhile, the Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, was from Canada, and those killed were from England, Pakistan, France, and the U.S.
Killed in the implosion were OceanGate CEO and pilot Stockton Rush; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
The operator charged passengers $250,000 each to participate in the voyage. The implosion of the Titan has raised questions about the safety of private undersea exploration operations. The Coast Guard also wants to use the investigation to improve the safety of submersibles.
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Associated Press writer Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-28T16:53:17+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/2023/06/28/ship-carrying-debris-titan-submersible-returns-port/ |
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Mechanicsburg rode a strong first half and a well-balanced offensive performance to a 36-31 divisional victory against Mifflin County Tuesday. The Wildcats led 16-8 at the intermission and held off the Huskies in the second half.
The trio of Priya Loran, Gracen Nutt, and Lauren Lebo combined for 29 points to pace the Wildcats. Loran led the way with 12 points, while Nutt and Lebo chipped in 9 points and 8 points, respectively.
For the Huskies, Marissa Gingrich turned in another superb outing. Gingrich led all players with 21 points, including 9 points from beyond the arc. | 2023-02-01T02:12:25+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/highschoolsports/2023/02/mechanicsburg-girls-hoops-clip-mifflin-county-36-31-in-mpc-keystone-tilt.html |
It’s called “standard time” for good reason.
When the U.S. Senate, without a moment’s debate or deliberation, passed a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent, there was much rejoicing. At least from folks who hadn’t bothered to consider fully what the change would mean. | 2022-11-09T00:14:59+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2022/11/ending-daylight-savings-time-would-be-aid-to-everyone-editorial.html |
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – A Florida man was arrested after police said he threw a Christmas tree at his wife after she asked him to help with dinner.
According to a Fruitland Park police report, Richard Atchison, 52, said he “lost his temper” after his wife slammed a utensil into hot food and the food splashed on him on Monday.
According to the report, he packed his things and said he was leaving. But instead, he told his wife she should leave. When she attempted to leave, the victim said he blocked the door.
The victim said she sat in the living room with a friend, and Atchison picked up the tree and threw it at her. It snapped in half. The victim then called police.
Atchison faces domestic battery and false imprisonment charges.
He was held at the Lake County jail on $8,000 bond. | 2022-12-15T20:59:15+00:00 | local10.com | https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2022/12/15/police-florida-man-throws-christmas-tree-at-after-food-fight/ |
RICHMOND, Va. — Legislation that would give inmates in Virginia prisons free phone calls and email access and reduce the costs of food and other commissary items in local jails won approval Friday from a Democrat-led Senate committee. The bills are expected to face longer odds in the Republican-controlled state House.
Inmate advocates who support a bill sponsored by state Sen. Jennifer Boysko to allow prison inmates access to free communications said the costs for inmates to keep in touch with their loved ones can reach hundreds of dollars a month and often put the families of inmates in debt. They also said that keeping in touch with family members during incarceration is an important benefit that helps inmates stay connected with a support system that makes it easier for them to reenter society after they complete their sentences.
“It will allow for fathers to have a constant contact with their children, (so) that when they’re released or their time is up from prison, that will add a smoother transition for them to welcome back into the home, back into their community,” Richard Walker, a formerly incarcerated convicted felon, told the Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee.
A separate bill sponsored by Sen. Joe Morrissey would eliminate or cap fees charged to inmates in local and regional jails, including fees charged for snacks, hygiene products and other items inmates buy in jail commissaries. The bill, which calls for pricing goods sold in commissaries at a maximum of 10% above typical market rates for such items, faces strong oppositions from sheriffs, who run the jails and say the fees are used to pay for rehabilitative, educational and recreational programs for inmates.
“I’m trying to be reasonable and fair, but I also don’t want to see the value of the programs that we have go away because we lack funding,” said Henrico County Sheriff Alisa Gregory.
Morrissey said the costs for inmate communications vary widely among jails around the state, with some relatively low, but others with what he called “exorbitant” prices. He cited one jail he said charges $14.30 for a 15-minute phone call and another that charges 53 cents for every email.
“The gouging of prisoners — it’s not the way we operate in a decent society,” Morrissey said after the hearing.
It was not immediately clear how much the state would have to pay to make up for the revenue that would be lost if communications fees are eliminated and fees for commissary items are reduced. Both bills were referred to the Finance & Appropriations Committee. If approved, the bills would then go to the full Senate for a vote.
The bills are expected to face a more difficult time in the House of Delegates, where Republicans hold a 52-48 majority. A similar jail fees bill proposed by Democratic Del. Irene Shin was rejected by a House subcommittee on Thursday. | 2023-01-21T00:25:17+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bills-to-limit-inmate-fees-advance-in-virginia-senate/2023/01/20/5476e438-9917-11ed-a173-61e055ec24ef_story.html |
Snow returns to the region Friday and Saturday
Plenty of sunshine and cool today... with another winter storm coming our way Friday afternoon.
TODAY: A pleasant day with lighter winds and lots of sunshine. Highs today will top out in the upper-30s and mid-40s.
TONIGHT: Partly cloudy and cold overnight with Friday morning lows in the teens.
EXTENDED: A Winter Storm Watch has been posted for Friday afternoon into Saturday morning for Pueblo county and areas south to the boarder with New Mexico and east to the boarder with Kansas. Heavy snow can be expected Friday night and early Saturday morning. Chilly temperatures this weekend with highs in the 30s. We'll see our next chance for snow on Monday. | 2023-01-19T16:07:15+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/weather/2023/01/19/snow-returns-to-the-region-friday-and-saturday/ |
A union organizer who was fired by Amazon was reinstated by the company after she filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.
The union had said earlier this month that Jennifer Bates, who also testified before a Senate committee at a hearing on income inequality, was terminated while tending to injuries she received while working at an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama. The labor group had also said Amazon refused to make workplace adjustments for Bates, who was outspoken about workplace safety issues at the company.
“If there’s a lesson to be learned it’s that today Amazon workers everywhere now know that when you’re under attack, you have to stand up and fight back, because when we fight, clearly, we win!” Bates said in a prepared statement released by the union.
Meanwhile, Stuart Appelbaum, the union’s president, accused the e-commerce giant of attempting to stifle “one of the most outspoken leaders of the contemporary labor movement.”
″Jennifer made it clear that despite the company’s extraordinary power and resources, she would not be silenced – nor will we,” he said.
An Amazon spokesperson said during the appeals review, the company determined Bates had failed to be responsive to multiple requests for information regarding her leave. But the spokesperson said there were things the company could have done better to ensure Bates had clarity around what was needed — which is why she’s being reinstated. The company said it also encouraged her to file an appeal.
“After a full review of her case, the decision was made to reinstate her,” said Amazon spokesperson Mary Kate Paradis. “We’re pleased that our appeal process continues to work as designed.”
The RWDSU has long been a foe of Amazon, which is attempting to fend off organized labor from its vast network of warehouses. The company and the union are still contesting the results of a union election held last year in Bessemer, Alabama, which remains too close to call with 416 challenged ballots still waiting for adjudication.
Amazon said Bates will get reinstated with backpay, as would be the case for any employee in a similar situation. | 2023-06-16T16:20:13+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/business/ap-business/fired-amazon-union-organizer-in-alabama-reinstated-after-filing-a-complaint-union-says/ |
LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Discovery Behavioral Health, Inc., an expanding network of evidence-based mental health, substance use and eating disorder treatment centers, has acquired Anew Era TMS & Psychiatry, with six TMS centers in California and six in Texas.
The acquisition is part of a continued expansion initiative of Discovery MD, Discovery's Professional Psychiatric Services Division, which offers outpatient treatment in TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation), Ketamine, Medicated-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Addiction, medication management, assessment, and referral services.
Discovery President & CEO John Peloquin states, "We are pleased to welcome the team at Anew into the Discovery family. This addition builds on our strategic mission to create a fully integrative care model, with multiple treatment models, both conventional and innovative, available through one access point. A 2022 Harris Poll report revealed that a third of Americans believe it is harder to find a mental health care provider than it is to find a physical health care provider[i]. We are removing those barriers by expanding outpatient and telehealth services in psychiatry and addiction medicine which includes TMS treatment. When people can access a wide range of behavioral health services based on their needs and preferences, they have a greater chance to live happier, more rewarding lives, and that's why we're here."
Everyone deserves a happy, rewarding life. That's why Discovery Behavioral Health has made evidence-based, outcome driven healthcare accessible and affordable since inception. With a full continuum of care – detoxification, medical residences, residential treatment centers, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, outpatient, psychiatric and addiction medicine, TMS, virtual and telehealth services, we can offer the right care at the right time for adults or teens struggling with mental health, substance use or eating disorders. We are a contracted provider with 100 payers and other managed care organizations. Our portfolio of more than 145 treatment centers includes service lines in successful operation since 1985. When treatment is complete, our patients become part of Discovery's growing family of alumni, connected through free aftercare programs, support groups, activities, and a caring community. Because when quality behavioral healthcare is within reach, so is happiness.
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Leading Duchenne Organization Expands Certification of Clinics that Provide Optimal Care for People with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with Clinic in Massachusetts
WASHINGTON, June 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), a nonprofit organization leading the fight to end Duchenne muscular dystrophy (Duchenne), announced the expansion of its renowned Certified Duchenne Care Center (CDCC) Program with the certification at Boston Children's Hospital. This is an exciting step for the CDCC Program as it brings standardized Duchenne care to Massachusetts.
Dr. Mena Scavina, PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Advisor, completed a site visit for Boston Children's in the fall of 2022 as part of the rigorous application process. Scavina acknowledges the significant impact of the program to include Boston Children's. "Boston Children's comprehensive neuromuscular clinic includes sub-specialists with expertise in muscular dystrophy to address the various needs of individuals with Duchenne and Becker. Boston Children's is run extremely well with experienced and dedicated providers resulting in a positive experience for the Duchenne and Becker population and their families. We are thrilled to recognize those efforts and the excellent level of care the team provides with their inclusion in our CDCC program."
Boston Children's serves over 150 patients living with "dystrophinopathy," the spectrum of muscle diseases that are caused by a change in the dystrophin gene. The CDCC serves patients from throughout Massachusetts and surrounding states.
Under the leadership of Dr. Partha Ghosh, the CDCC director and lead neuromuscular neurologist, the team continues to grow with plans for expansion of their critical support network, including more dedicated support from their social worker and newly appointed registered dietician. This will further elevate the care they already provide to their patients, continuing to build upon the comprehensive, quality care they ensure their patients receive.
"We at Boston Children's Hospital's multidisciplinary DMD center are really excited to be part of PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Centers. Being a Certified Duchenne Care Center allows our team to collaborate with PPMD to better support patients with DMD and their families, through patient and family advocacy, educational opportunities, and networking. Also, being a certified center reflects our dedication to this patient population in providing the comprehensive, optimal care they need," says Dr. Ghosh.
PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program supports standardized, comprehensive care and services for all people living with Duchenne. Certification means centers maintain the highest standards in clinical and sub-specialty services, rapidly apply new evidence-based knowledge, minimize heterogeneity in clinical research outcomes, and comply with standards in clinical care that were established by the CDC's Care Considerations. As part of its ongoing mission to end Duchenne, PPMD continues to insist that all people with Duchenne and Becker receive comprehensive care.
Alexis Hazlett, PPMD's Associate Vice President of Clinical Care, is delighted to add Boston Children's to the growing network of Certified Duchenne Care Centers and to expand the program to include its only center in the state of Massachusetts. "PPMD and the CDCC Certification Committee are truly impressed with the work the team at Boston Children's is doing to provide and advance care for people living with Duchenne and Becker. It is clear that the clinical team and hospital administration are deeply committed to contributing to the lives of people with Duchenne and Becker, and for that we are grateful. We are excited to see what amazing things will come from this partnership for the Duchenne community, and look forward to a long and productive collaboration," said Hazlett.
To learn more about PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program, visit PPMD's website. Click here to learn more about the history of PPMD's Certified Duchenne Care Center Program and to access PPMD's first published article on the program.
ABOUT PARENT PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Duchenne is a fatal genetic disorder that slowly robs people of their muscle strength. Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD) fights every single battle necessary to end Duchenne.
We demand optimal care standards and ensure every family has access to expert healthcare providers, cutting edge treatments, and a community of support. We invest deeply in treatments for this generation of Duchenne patients and in research that will benefit future generations. Our advocacy efforts have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and won five FDA approvals.
Everything we do—and everything we have done since our founding in 1994—helps those with Duchenne live longer, stronger lives. We will not rest until we end Duchenne for every single person affected by the disease. Join our fight against Duchenne at EndDuchenne.org. Follow PPMD on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
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California Would be the First State in the Country with Public Board Member Majority
LOS ANGELES, April 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Assembly member Bill Quirk and the California State Assembly Committee on Business and Professions took an unprecedented step today to restore the public's trust in their medical board by voting to support a public board member majority. AB 2060 (Quirk) was voted out of committee today and will be heard next in Assembly Appropriations committee. This bill will make California the first state in the country to require its medical board to be led by a majority of public board members.
Seventeen families whose lives were forever altered by medical negligence, and California's cap on compensation, voiced their overwhelming support for the bill in testimony before the committee.
The idea of a public board member majority has been a topic of discussion in the legislature and before the medical board for the past year. Testimony from legions of advocate families who have themselves been harmed or lost their loved ones to medical negligence moved the medical board to support and seek legislation creating a public board member majority.
Alka Airy's sister Shilpa, a research scientist who helped develop medication for a rare children's cancer, died after enduring medical negligence at two separate San Francisco hospitals. Alka reported her sister's preventable death to the medical board who chose to dismiss her complaint with no investigation.
"We need a public board member majority to restore public trust and reiterate the medical board's independence from special interest groups," stated Alka Airy from San Francisco. "There is a troubling yet growing perception that the medical board is beholden to physicians, rather than the public it serves to protect. A public member majority is the first step in protecting the rights of Californians."
Xavier De Leon's son, Malakhi, only lived for 18 hours. His mother was denied care for undiagnosed preeclampsia. Following his birth by postmortem c-section, Malakhi experienced a cascade of errors. Xavier and his family tried to file a complaint with the medical board but were discouraged from doing so. The doctor who was found to be responsible for gross negligence in the care of his mother was a repeat offender doctor who had been harming mothers and babies in Kern County for 25 years.
De Leon attended the meeting remotely and offered his support of the bill on the day that his son died from medical negligence. Had Malakhi lived, it would have been his third birthday today. "Families need accountability from this medical board," stated De Leon. "I believe that a public board member majority will provide the first step to consumer protection."
If AB 2060 is passed, it will make California the first state in the country to have a public board member-led board. The California Medical Board is the sponsor of the bill and Board President Kristina Lawson testified in support of the bill.
Organizing by injured families in California has been the foundation of this movement for a public member majority.
California injured families are also organizing to pass the Fairness for Injured Patients Act, a movement to update California's 1975 cap on compensation for medical negligence victims. The current cap not only limits access to the courtroom but is a huge barrier to families' recovery from lifelong harm and their ability to seek accountability for their loved ones.
Read Consumer Watchdog's letter in support of AB 2060.
Learn more about California's injured families at https://patientsforfairness.org
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(NEXSTAR) – A messaging app used by teachers and parents in school systems across the country said Wednesday that an explicit image sent to parents late Tuesday was part of a “coordinated attack.”
Teachers from Illinois, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New York, South Dakota, Michigan and other states said the image was circulating at their schools, according to Motherboard.
NBC News said a screengrab from a Florida parent showed the image, which it said was a meme “infamous on the internet” that showed a man “engaged in an explicit act.”
The San Francisco-based company said in a news release that the platform itself was not hacked and that they suspect someone used compromised email-password combinations to log into Seesaw accounts.
“We have no evidence to suggest this attacker performed additional actions or accessed data in Seesaw beyond logging in and sending a message from these compromised accounts.
Seesaw did not immediately return Nexstar’s requests for comment on the number of users who might have received the image.
On the company’s website, Seesaw says that it is used by “over 10 million teachers, students, and family members every month across more than 75% of schools in the U.S.”
Troy City School District in New York warned parents Wednesday of “unauthorized messages” that could contain inappropriate photos or links.
“Please do not read or click any links until Seesaw has resolved the issue,” the District said on Facebook. “We will send an update when we receive it.”
Seesaw blamed a “credential stuffing” attack, which involves bad actors using stolen login credentials to attempt to log in to an unrelated system.
Seesaw temporarily disabled the messaging feature and adjusted its detection and blocking rules to prevent future attacks. The app is urging all users to create unique passwords that aren’t used in other services. | 2022-09-15T01:14:27+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/national-news/school-messaging-app-seesaw-responds-to-nsfw-photo-sent-to-parents/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saying he wants to clear his name, Alec Baldwin on Friday sued people involved in handling and supplying the loaded gun that he was using when it fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a 2021 filming accident in New Mexico.
Baldwin filed a cross-complaint in Superior Court in Los Angeles alleging negligence against some of the people sued by a script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell. Among other things, it seeks a share of any damages that Mitchell may win from the people Baldwin names and asks that they pay for any damages assessed against him.
Mitchell was standing behind Hutchins, who died shortly after being wounded during setup for a scene in the western movie “Rust” at a film set ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe on Oct. 21, 2021.
Mitchell sued Baldwin, who was a producer on the film, the production company and many others involved for assault and negligence.
In his cross-complaint, Baldwin says that while working on camera angles with Hutchins during rehearsal for a scene, he pointed the gun in her direction and pulled back and released the hammer of the gun, which discharged.
The shot fatally wounded Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza in the shoulder.
The actor said neither he nor Hutchins knew the weapon contained a live round.
“This tragedy occurred on a movie set — not a gun range, not a battlefield, not a location where even a remote possibility should exist that a gun would contain live ammunition,” the lawsuit said.
Baldwin has maintained he was told the gun was safe and that he did not pull the trigger. But a recent FBI forensic report found the weapon could not have fired unless the trigger was pulled.
“More than anyone else on that set, Baldwin has been wrongfully viewed as the perpetrator of this tragedy. By these cross-claims, Baldwin seeks to clear his name,” the actor’s lawsuit says.
Baldwin’s cross-complaint says he has lost opportunities and been fired from jobs because of the shooting and also “has suffered physically and emotionally from the grief caused by these events.”
New Mexico’s Office of the Medical Investigator determined the shooting was an accident. However, prosecutors are reviewing the shooting to determine whether criminal charges should be filed.
In April, New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau imposed the maximum fine of $137,000 against Rust Movie Productions and distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires of blank ammunition on set prior to the fatal shooting.
The company is challenging the fine.
Baldwin’s lawsuit alleges negligence by armorer Hannah Guttierez-Reed; prop master Sarah Zachry; first assistant director and safety coordinator David Halls, who handed Baldwin the gun; ammunition supplier Seth Kenney and his company, PDQ Arm & Prop, which also supplied prop weapons for the production.
All have previously denied responsibility for the fatal shooting.
In October, Hutchins’ family announced they had agreed to settle another lawsuit against the actor and the movie’s producers, and producers said they aimed to restart the project in January.
A lawyer for Ms. Gutierrez-Reed, Jason Bowles said he was reviewing Baldwin’s lawsuit. Attorneys for other defendants did not immediately respond to requests for comment, the New York Times reported.
A phone message left by The Associated Press seeking comment from Bowles wasn’t immediately returned Friday night. | 2022-11-12T11:24:36+00:00 | kfor.com | https://kfor.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-alec-baldwin-sues-to-clear-his-name-in-movie-set-killing/ |
Bob Penny, 'Sweet Home Alabama' and 'Forrest Gump' actor, dead at 87
Bob Penny, a character actor with roles in "Forrest Gump" and "Sweet Home Alabama," died Sunday. He was 87.
Penny's cause of death was not revealed in an online obituary shared by the Laughlin Service Funeral Home.
Additional credits included "Fried Green Tomatoes," "When Will I Be Loved," "Mississippi Burning," "My Cousin Vinny" and "The Legend of Bagger Vance," as well as seven episodes of the TV series "In the Heat of the Night."
Born in Anniston, Alabama, in 1935, Penny appeared in more than 30 films and television shows throughout his career as an actor. Prior to acting, he spent three decades as an English professor and taught poetry at the University of Alabama.
He received his master's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a doctorate from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Penny received numerous awards through the years, both for his teaching and poetry.
During the '80s, Penny found work on the side acting in TV commercials for a local department store and for a United Way campaign in Atlanta.
He retired from teaching in 1990 and pursued his acting career.
Reese Witherspoon attends the Los Angeles Premiere of Prime Video's "Something from Tiffany's" at AMC Century City 15 on November 29, 2022 in Century City, California. (Photo by Leon Bennett/WireImage/Getty Images)
"Then the movies began to come," Penny told AL.com in 2008. "I was really lucky. I had these very small roles, but they sure helped pay the mortgage."
He was credited as a "crony" in the 1994 Tom Hanks film "Forrest Gump" and appeared as small-town lawyer Wallace Buford in 2002's "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon.
"Forrest Gump" 1994 directed by Robert Zemeckis. (Photo by Sunset Boulevard/Getty Images)
Penny also participated in theater and performed onstage in productions of plays, including "The Odd Couple" and "Don Juan in Hell" in Birmingham.
"Bob Penny captivated all of our hearts at Birmingham Festival Theatre and put his all into his work," Rhonda Erbrick, chairwoman of the theater's board, said in a statement. She added that Penny "is and was always an actor and a joy to be around."
Penny is survived by his brother, sister, six nieces and one nephew.
"A special thanks is given to longtime friend/caregiver, Lakin Boyd," his online obituary states.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-12-30T19:37:55+00:00 | fox10phoenix.com | https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/bob-penny-sweet-home-alabama-forrest-gump-actor-dead-87 |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations forecast Wednesday that global economic growth will fall significantly to 1.9% this year as a result of the food and energy crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, persistently high inflation and the climate emergency.
Painting a gloomy and uncertain economic outlook, the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs said the current global economic slowdown “cuts across both developed and developing countries, with many facing risks of recession in 2023.”
“A broad-based and severe slowdown of the global economy looms large amid high inflation, aggressive monetary tightening, and heightened uncertainties,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a foreword to the 178-page report.
The report said this year's 1.9% economic growth forecast — down from an estimated 3% in 2022 — is one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades. But it projects a moderate pick-up to 2.7% in 2024 if inflation gradually abates and economic headwinds start to subside.
In its annual report earlier this month, the World Bank which lends money to poorer countries for development projects, cut its growth forecast nearly in half, from it previous projection of 3% to just 1.7%.
The International Monetary Fund, which provides loans to needy countries, projected in October that global growth would slow from 6% in 2021 to 3.2% in 2022 and 2.7% in 2023. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos that 2023 will be a difficult year, but stuck by the projection and said “we don’t expect a global recession.”
According to the U.N. report, this year “growth momentum has weakened in the United States, the European Union and other developed economies, adversely affecting the rest of the world economy.”
In the United States, GDP is projected to expand by only 0.4% in 2023 after estimated growth of 1.8% in 2022, the U.N. said. And many European countries are projected to experience “a mild recession" with the war in Ukraine heading into its second year on Feb. 14, high energy costs, and inflation and tighter financial conditions depressing household consumption and investment.
The economies in the 27-nation European Union are forecast to grow by just 0.2% in 2023, down from an estimated 3.3% in 2022, the U.N. said. And in the United Kingdom, which left the EU three years ago, GDP is projected to contract by 0.8% in 2023, continuing a recession that began in the second half of 2022, it said.
With China’s government abandoning its zero-COVID policy late last year and easing monetary and fiscal policies, the U.N. forecast that its economy, which expanded by only 3% in 2022, will accelerate to 4.8% this year.
“But the reopening of the economy is expected to be bumpy,” the U.N. said. ”Growth will likely remain well below the pre-pandemic rate of 6-6.5%.”
The U.N. report said Japan’s economy is expected to be among the better-performing among developed countries this year, with GDP forecast to increase by 1.5%, slightly lower than last year’s estimated growth of 1.6%.
Across east Asia, the U.N. said economic recovery remains fragile though GDP growth in 2023 is forecast to reach 4.4%, up from 3.2% last year, and stronger than in other regions.
In South Asia, the U.N. forecast average GDP growth will slow from 5.6% last year to 4.8% this year as a result of high food and energy prices, “monetary tightening and fiscal vulnerabilities.”
But growth in India, which is expected to overtake China this year as the world’s most populous nation, is expected to remain strong at 5.8%, slightly lower than the estimated 6.4% in 2022, “as higher interest rates and a global slowdown weigh on investments and exports,” the U.N. report said.
In Western Asia, oil-producing countries are benefiting from high prices and rising output as well as a revival in tourism, the U.N. said. But economies that aren’t oil producers remain weak “given tightening access to international finance and severe fiscal constraints,” and average growth in the region is projected to slow from an estimated 6.4% in 2022 to 3.5% this year.
The U.N. said Africa has been hit “by multiple shocks, including weaker demand from key trading partners (especially China and Europe), a sharp increase in energy and food prices, rapidly rising borrowing costs and adverse weather events.”
One result, it said, is mounting debt-servicing burdens which have forced a growing number of African governments to seek bilateral and multilateral support.
The U.N. projected economic growth in Africa to slow from an estimated 4.1% in 2022 to 3.8% this year.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N. said the outlook “remains challenging,” citing labor market prospects, stubbornly high inflation and other issues. It forecast that regional growth will slow to just 1.4% in 2023 from an estimated expansion of 3.8% in 2022.
“The region’s largest economies – Argentina, Brazil and Mexico – are expected to grow at very low rates due to tightening financial conditions, weakening exports, and domestic vulnerabilities,” the U.N. said.
For the world’s least developed countries, the U.N. said growth is projected at 4.4% this year, about the same as last year but significantly below the UN's target of 7% by 2030. | 2023-01-25T17:47:32+00:00 | springfieldnewssun.com | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/nation-world/un-forecasts-fall-in-global-economic-growth-to-19-in-2023/DOVKHJQOQNHM3DDRTZHYICSGL4/ |
WUSF reporter Steven Newborn joins Here & Now‘s Celeste Headlee to discuss what issues are driving voters to the polls in Florida, where Democrats are trying to oust Republicans Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sen. Marco Rubio.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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OAKLAND, Calif (KRON) — One person was shot near the Fruitvale BART station on Monday, the Oakland Police Department confirmed to KRON4. The incident occurred just before 6:00 p.m. in the 3300 block of East 12th Street.
Police were notified of the shooting by a ShotSpotter activation and responded to the scene, providing medical aid to the victim until paramedics arrived. The victim was hospitalized and listed in stable condition.
In an unrelated case, OPD said that a dead body was found lying in the street near Lake Merritt on Monday morning. The body was found in the 200 block of 13th Street just after 6:00 a.m. OPD is investigating the death as suspicious.
Anyone with information about Monday’s shooting is asked to contact the Oakland Police Felony Assault Unit at (510) 238-3426. | 2022-05-31T04:43:35+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/one-shot-near-fruitvale-bart-station/ |
Woman paralyzed and in ICU after a chiropractic visit
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WJCL) – A recent college graduate from Georgia is paralyzed and in intensive care after a chiropractic adjustment.
Caitlin Jensen’s brother, Caleb Johnson, said June 16 is a day the family won’t forget.
Jensen’s family said she visited a chiropractor for an adjustment and left with four dissected arteries.
“She’s able to open her eyes every now and then and wake up a little bit and kind of move her hands to squeeze a little -- but that’s it,” Johnson explained.
After a stroke, cardiac arrest and a loss of pulse for 10 minutes, her family said doctors at Memorial Health revived and stabilized Jensen.
Her family set up a GoFundMe to support current costs and long-term therapy when the time comes.
“It’s huge just to know that people are out there supporting as we get her into therapy,” Johnson said.
According to chiropractor, Dr. Steve Ranicki, Jensen’s condition is incredibly rare.
“Those dissections will often produce symptoms of headache and neck pain, which then typically drive people to a doctor’s office,” Ranicki said. “Once they’ve gone to the medical doctor or chiropractor the likelihood is, unfortunately, a stroke will occur.”
Ranicki said sometimes something as simple as going to a hair salon and having your neck tilted back in the bowl for an extended period of time can trigger a stroke if you have dissections.
Jensen’s family is focused on getting her out of the ICU and into rehab sometime in August.
Copyright 2022 WJCL via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-12T21:27:20+00:00 | wymt.com | https://www.wymt.com/2022/07/12/woman-paralyzed-icu-after-chiropractic-visit/ |
LEWISTON — Maya Johnston has joined the Creators Department at Rinck Advertising as a graphic designer, bringing her vast array of talents to the full-service agency. Johnston has several years of experience as an in-house animator, specializing in 2D vector animation and motion design, including animating over 20 logos for various brands and organizations.
Johnston will provide a variety of design solutions including video, animation, photography, typography, and color theory, for print and digital mediums for both in-house and client projects. Having Maya’s broad experience and expertise with various types of animation in-house is particularly beneficial for Rinck clients, given the increasing need for animation services.
“Maya is a very gifted designer, particularly with animation and motion design. With her skillset we’ve expanded our team’s capabilities in some important areas,” said Chad Vander Lugt, executive creative director. “Maya’s ability to create engaging and creative content, particularly with animation will be a great addition to our clients’ social media presence. And, her ability to contribute on our more traditional advertising and design work will help elevate what we can offer our clients. But, perhaps more importantly, she was the right fit for our culture. We felt like she was ‘Rinck’ from our first meeting with her. In her short time with us, she has already proven that to be the case.”
“I am excited to join Rinck and contribute to some fun, impactful work,” Johnston stated. “I was attracted to the agency’s in-house team of creatives, not to mention some big-league clients. I’m excited about the potential to learn from such a dynamic creative team and receive mentorship in art direction.”
Johnston joins the Creators team at Rinck, a team which is the result of a new and innovative approach to creation and integration across several areas. The Creators at Rinck are an integrated group of professionals spanning several departments within the agency including graphic designers, art directors, content creators, digital developers, and others who collaborate to develop dynamic campaigns on behalf of clients.
Johnston’s clients will include Pet Naturals pet supplements and the Intermodal Association of North America, among others. A remote employee, she lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned her bachelor’s degree in Studio Art with a concentration in graphic design from the University of Maryland in 2019. | 2022-09-24T05:03:17+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/09/22/bdn-maine/rinck-advertising-hires-johnston-as-graphic-designer/ |
Republican candidate for governor Bob Stefanowski unveils education plan
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - Bob Stefanowski says now that the summer is almost over he’s ramping up his campaign.
The Republican candidate for governor is unveiling his education agenda, which includes giving parents more control.
In two months, voters will decide who should be Connecticut’s next governor.
Education is important for a lot of people.
“I hope everybody had a good summer because the next two months are going to be rockin and rollin,” Stefanowski said.
Stefanowski is focused on what children are learning in school. He’s unveiling a parental bill of rights.
“We shouldn’t be introducing complex topics like sexual orientation or gender identification before the kids have the capacity to understand it. And in some cases before kids tie their shoes,” Stefanowski said.
Children in grades 6-8 are learning sexual orientation.
Some parents feel it should be up to them to have these conversations.
“There’s a personal responsibility for the family to step and do what they need to do,” said Steve Slattery, a Rocky Hill parent.
Stefanowski is also against transgender biological males competing against girls in high school athletics.
Cheryl Radachowsy’s daughter ran track against transgender athletes. She is suing the state.
“We are really hopeful that fairness will be restored to women’s sports,” said Radachowsky.
To improve education, the Republican gubernatorial candidate supports a voucher system in cities like Hartford to allow students to attend charter and magnet schools.
Currently there’s a lottery system and more seats have been added to give students that option.
Governor Ned Lamont supports more seats.
As for sexual orientation and transgender athletes, Lamont says leave out the politics.
“I believe in local education, they are going to make the right choices. Keep the politicians out. Two months before election day we don’t a lot of political hay at the expense of these young people,” said Lamont.
Lamont said Connecticut has some of the best schools in the country, as well as some of the best teachers.
Stefanowski said Connecticut should spend some of the surplus on school security, but the Lamont administration said the state has allocated about $100 million since the shooting at Sandy Hook.
Copyright 2022 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-09-06T23:32:45+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/09/06/bob-stefanowski-unveils-education-plan/ |
Conference call scheduled for the same day at 10:00 a.m. ET
NEW YORK, July 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK) ("Newmark" or "the Company"), a leading full-service commercial real estate services business, today announced the timing of its second quarter 2022 financial results press release and conference call. The call will take place at 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday, July 29, 2022. The Company plans to issue an advisory press release regarding the availability of its consolidated quarterly financial results by 8:00 a.m. ET on Friday, July 29, 2022. Newmark's advisory release will notify the public that a full-text financial results press release will be accessible at any of the following pages:
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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — The Wichita Falls sailing club is a small and close-knit community on Lake Arrowhead. John Kidwell reflected on his journey within this community.
The club dates back to around the start of the F.D.R. era. Some of the family members carry on their parent’s legacies
John Kidwell, the commodore of the club, has been around the club for all of his life.
“I came out here when I was probably five years old and he was a member,” said Kidwell. “You know, we’d come out here on events.”
Kidwell’s father would take his son out on the boats— which sparked the interest in sailing. One weekend, Kidwell recalled taking sailing lessons with Sheldon brown and the other little skippers.
“I would come out here with other younger kids in the junior high grade, and we would have a sail a small sunfish,” said Kidwell.
As most people do, Kidwell left the area for a little while, but eventually he found his way back home when he heard the clubhouse he used to frequent was still racing.
“I saw in the newspaper one day they’re racing out here, and I thought, ‘I’m going to go out there and see what it’s like because I haven’t been out here in a long time’,” said Kidwell.
As fate would have it, while he was watching the race, one of the gentlemen told him that there was a sail boat for sale.
“I came out here, and before I left, I talked to a gentleman, and he said, there’s a boat for sale,” said Kidwell. “I bought the boat and the next thing I know, I’m doing the bottom job, drawing and everything.”
The fire for Kidwell’s passion of sailboats was re-kindled, and he pursued leadership positions within the group.
He was voted in for rear commodore last year, which springboarded him to commodore.
“I was really kind of taken from little to big, I guess,” said Kidwell. | 2023-07-09T23:05:52+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/commodore-of-wichita-falls-sailing-club-reflects-on-his-journey/ |
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University student from Ohio who went missing near campus roughly a week ago was found dead Thursday, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri said.
Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was found by an employee at about 1 p.m. behind tennis courts on the campus facilities grounds, Onofri said. There were no obvious signs of injury and "her death does not appear suspicious or criminal in nature," but an official cause of death will be determined after a medical examiner's review, he said.
"Misrach's death is an unthinkable tragedy. Our hearts go out to her family, her friends and the many others who knew and loved her," University Vice President W. Rochelle Calhoun said in a statement.
An extensive search was launched for Ewunetie after she was reported missing. A large law enforcement presence remained on campus and in nearby areas Thursday.
Ewunetie was last seen heading into her dorm room at the Ivy League school in the early morning hours of Oct. 14, school officials said. But when her roommate returned to the dorm about 90 minutes later, Ewunetie was not there.
Family and friends said they had not heard from Ewunetie. Appearing Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America," her brother, Universe Ewunetie, said his sister's phone last pinged sometime after 3 a.m. Friday at a housing complex that's about a 30-minute walk from her dorm, which he said was out of character for her to be in such a location.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Ewunetie was a junior pursuing a sociology degree with a computer applications certificate. She was valedictorian at Villa Angela-St. Joseph high school in Cleveland, Ohio, before accepting a full scholarship to Princeton.
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"Star Trek" star and "Reading Rainbow" host LeVar Burton will be honored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the new Children's & Family Emmy Awards by receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Burton took to Twitter to react to the news announced Tuesday.
"Whoa," the beloved host said.
Whoa…😲
LeVar Burton to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at 2022 Emmys https://t.co/G46wErSL14— LeVar Burton (@levarburton) April 28, 2022
CBS News reported that this marks the first time the Emmys have been expanded since 1979.
Burton hosted the show for 23 years, with the show garnering 12 Daytime Emmys and winning a Peabody Award.
The show was canceled in 2006.
The awards show is slated to happen on Dec. 11 in Los Angeles, NPR reported. | 2022-04-29T18:31:36+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/entertainment/burton-to-receive-lifetime-achievement-award-at-new-childrens-emmys |
WEST SENECA, N.Y. — With groundbreaking for the new Bills stadium scheduled for sometime in the first week of June, building trades unions here in the Buffalo area are ready to beef up their ranks for all those construction jobs.
The site preparation work in Orchard Park is well underway. Contractors are still putting up perimeter fences and other site clearance is still going on like the removal of a stand of trees we saw Friday.
But in the coming weeks the so-called big dig begins with those large excavators slicing through soil to set up space for the stadium foundation.
The men and women in the cabs of those big earthmovers are members of the Operating Engineers Union Local 17. But there will also be, of course, ironworkers erecting the steel skeleton which is the frame like we have seen on other projects. Also, there will be skilled crane operators, pipefitters, electricians and more.
Ironworkers Local 6 Business Agent Jim Willis tells 2 on Your Side: "It's a great opportunity for us to increase our apprenticeship members and recruit people that way and also you know ramp up our organizing effort to gain membership."
Politicians like to quote the figure of 10,000 construction jobs, but that is, of course, spread out over the three years of project as per the construction schedule.
Willis points out: "About 90 percent of them are going to be local people. The 10 percent of the foremen and general foremen superintendents are people the contractor would want to bring in."
These leaders of the building trades unions are fairly confident that through their apprenticeship programs they should have enough workers in the pipeline to be able to handle the massive stadium project and various other projects in the area
Willis emphasizes: "We feel very confident with the steps we are taking that we'll have enough of our members and local members provide the manpower for the job."
Business Agent Paul Hopkins of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 17 said: "We have a four year apprenticeship program and I will say that we took in 18 apprentices, which our program started in 1973, and this is the most we've ever take in at one time."
Hopkins also is very pleased to see the inclusion of the Project Labor Agreement or PLA in the stadium contract for the Bills, Erie County, and State.
"Also in this project, which has a PLA and which makes a huge difference, because you're going to get local people working," Hopkins said. "There's been other projects, perfect example Amazon in Hamburg. You know, no PLA. You had a lot of out of town contractors, and where is their money going? You know, back home, so the PLA makes a big difference." | 2023-05-20T00:25:19+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/sports/nfl/future-of-the-bills/building-workforce-build-new-buffalo-bills-stadium/71-ae6978c1-e012-40b1-9cd6-06d3f2272f08 |
GENEVA (AP) — Russian and Belarusian sailors are set to get their only path to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics at a last-chance event in France next year – an option described as “madness” by Russia’s top sailing official on Wednesday.
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The World Sailing governing body said races next April – called the Last Chance Regatta for Olympic qualification at the French Riviera resort Hyères – are the “targeted opportunity” for sailors with a passport from Russia and Belarus to return to international competition as neutral athletes.
The decision would exclude Russia and Belarus from five European qualification events and three global ones scheduled through March, as part of the countries’ ongoing broad exclusion from international sports during their war on Ukraine.
World Sailing’s decision announced Tuesday means Russians won’t be going to The Hague for the 2023 world championships, the main Olympic qualifier, scheduled at the Dutch city in August.
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Final decisions on if and how Russians and Belarusians can return to sports has been left to individual governing bodies, after the International Olympic Committee gave guidance in March for the conditions to approve neutral athletes competing again as the Paris Games approach.
The IOC and its president Thomas Bach have suggested it would be discrimination to exclude Russians and Belarusians based solely on their passport.
World Sailing’s current position of offering just one possible, but not guaranteed, regatta to qualify for Paris was criticized by Russian sailing federation president Sergey Dzhienbaev.
Dzhienbaev said of the last-chance option “it is also madness to turn up without competitive practice and qualify for the Olympic Games,” in comments reported by Russian news agency Tass.
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Russian sailors won no medals at the Tokyo Olympics, where six athletes competed in five of the 10 medal classes. Russia has won just a single bronze medal in Olympic sailing in the past 20 years, at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
World Sailing said in a statement it “remains wholly committed to supporting Ukraine’s sailing community through what continues to be an unimaginably difficult time.”
Global qualification events in 2024 could also be the only path for Russian boxers to advance to their tournament at the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Games. They have been excluded from entering Poland for the European Games next month and seem unlikely to be approved for the Asian Games hosted by China in September.
In the Olympic sport of taekwondo, two Tokyo Olympic champions from Russia have been excluded from the world championships starting in Azerbaijan next week.
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Maksim Khramtsov and Vladislav Larin were not on the list of 23 Russian and Belarusian athletes approved to compete as neutrals by World Taekwondo. Both athletes have expressed support for the war, which breaks a condition of neutrality suggested by the IOC.
World Taekwondo said of the approved list that its eligibility review panel “was assured that no athletes were actively engaged in the military and those who had held positions have since been discharged.”
The issue of Russian and Belarusian status will be addressed at a May 31 meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, of the umbrella group of Olympic sports federations, known as ASOIF.
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AP Sports Writer James Ellingworth in Düsseldorf, Germany, contributed to this report
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The legendary instant ramen brand joins forces with the global league of competitive surfing to satisfy noodle cravings as a sponsor of upcoming competitions in the U.S.
GARDENA, Calif., May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Cup Noodles, one of the iconic brands of Nissin Foods USA, has announced a multi-year partnership with the World Surf League (WSL), the global home of competitive surfing. As an official sponsor of the league, the brand deepens its ties to enthusiastic surf fans and the professional sports community by partnering with Olympic surfer Kanoa Igarashi.
As an official partner of the WSL, Cup Noodles will engage fans as a notable sponsor of the California surf competitions including the Surf Ranch Pro in Lemoore, the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, the Rip Curl WSL Finals in San Clemente, and the World Junior Championships. The beloved ramen company will host on-site fan activations, noodle sampling, surfer meet and greets, and more throughout the 2023 surf season.
"We are proud to be partnering with a dedicated organization like the World Surf League and further strengthening our ties here to Southern California's professional sports community," said Mike Price, President and CEO of Nissin Foods USA. "Both of our organizations are built on strong values with the vision to make a positive impact globally."
Diving into the world of surf, Cup Noodles has also partnered with celebrated professional surfer and Olympic silver medalist Kanoa Igarashi, who is competing on the 2023 World Surf League Championship Tour this season.
"I'm thrilled to team up with the legendary Cup Noodles brand through this partnership," said professional surfer Kanoa Igarashi. "In addition to being a go-to meal while I'm on the road, Cup Noodles is a brand I respect for its bold approach to innovation and creative flare. I'm excited to have Cup Noodles on my side."
"We are excited to welcome this iconic Japanese brand to competitive surfing. They are partnering with one of the most talented athletes in the world, Kanoa Igarashi, an Olympian and accomplished pro. We will partner to tell his story to the world and celebrate our mutual love of international food and culture," said Cherie Cohen, Chief Revenue Officer of the World Surf League.
The WSL is the global home of competitive surfing, crowning World Champions since 1976 and showcasing the world's best surfers on the best waves. The global sports league oversees and operates more than 180 competitions around the world each year.
Nissin Foods continues to push the boundaries of innovation in the global food industry across products and environmental initiatives. Nissin Foods EARTH FOOD CHALLENGE 2030 is the company's long-term environmental strategy to create a sustainable society and address climate change through green sourcing and procurement, working with vendors that meet the brand's environmental standards, and conserving natural resources.
This new partnership will expand Cup Noodles' partnerships with major sports teams and leagues worldwide with its growing roster of partners.
ABOUT NISSIN FOODS
Nissin Foods was established in 1958 by Momofuku Ando, who invented the first instant ramen noodle in Japan inspired by his belief that "peace will come to the world when there is enough food." In 1972, Nissin Foods USA opened its first plant in Gardena, California, introducing ramen noodles to American consumers. In 1971, CUP NOODLE was launched in Japan, and then debuted as Cup O' Noodles in the U.S. in 1973, revolutionizing the industry by creating a product that could package, prepare and serve noodles all in one. For over 60 years, Nissin Foods has created delicious and convenient Asian-inspired meals at an affordable value. Nissin Foods USA develops and markets a variety of products including Cup Noodles®, Top Ramen®, Top Ramen® Bowl, Cup Noodles® Stir Fry™, Cup Noodles® Stir Fry™Rice With Noodles, Chow Mein, Hot & Spicy, and Hot & Spicy FIRE WOK. The company's corporate philosophy inspires commitment to taste, convenience, and quality. Visit NissinFoods.com for more information.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — The International Federation of Journalists has suspended with immediate effect the Russian Union of Journalists over its action since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its role in annexed Ukrainian territories.
The IFJ, which represents more than 600,000 media workers across the world, said the Russian union’s membership was suspended following an investigation then a vote by its global executive committee on Wednesday.
The vote was held after the union refused to reconsider its decision to set up branches in four regions annexed by Russia, the federation said.
“The Russian Union of Journalists’ actions in establishing four branches in the annexed Ukrainian territories have clearly shattered … solidarity and sown divisions among sister unions,” said IFJ President Dominique Pradalié.
The Kremlin in September illegally annexed the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions, where it claims its rule is welcomed. Pro-Moscow separatists have controlled part of Donetsk and neighboring Luhansk province since 2014.
The IFJ said it will continue to support independent journalists inside and outside Russia while providing aid to its Ukrainian affiliates.
According to the federation, Ukraine was the deadliest country for journalists in 2022, with 12 media workers killed while doing their work. | 2023-02-23T02:18:30+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-international-journalists-federation-suspends-russian-union/ |
Amber Alert: 10-month-old missing in Oklahoma
Published: May. 4, 2023 at 10:50 AM CDT|Updated: 24 minutes ago
(Gray News) - Officials in Oklahoma issued an Amber Alert on Thursday for a missing 10-month-old boy.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol activated the alert on behalf of Hughes County. The child, Messiah Moore, was last seen with his mother at 206 S. Burgess St. in Holdenville at 4 a.m. local time.
Tamara Tiger, the mother, assaulted the father and left with the child, officials said.
Messiah is described as 2 feet tall and 25 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. Tiger, 32, is 5-foot-1 and 105 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Hughes County Central Dispatch at 405-379-6627 or call 911.
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In this week's StoryCorps, a single mother of five recalls what happened when she agreed to take care of three more children after her friend died of cancer.
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In this week's StoryCorps, a single mother of five recalls what happened when she agreed to take care of three more children after her friend died of cancer.
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Award recognizes the most ambitious leaders who are building and sustaining successful, dynamic businesses around the world.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Carisma Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative immunotherapies, today announced that Steven Kelly, President and CEO, has been named Ernst & Young (EY) Entrepreneur of the Year® 2022 Greater Philadelphia Award Winner.
Steven was selected by a panel of independent judges for his work leading Carisma Therapeutics and joins an esteemed multi-industry community of likeminded entrepreneurs who have driven their companies' success, transformed their industries, and made a positive impact on their employees and communities.
"I am honored to be selected for this illustrious award and am proud of the entire Carisma team's incredible efforts towards meaningful scientific innovations in immunotherapy that made this possible," said Steven Kelly, President and CEO. "The opportunity to deliver potentially game changing cell therapies to patients with hard-to-treat cancers and other serious illnesses is what drives us, and we continue to dedicate ourselves to improving the lives of patients and their families."
For over 35 years, EY US has celebrated the unstoppable entrepreneurs who are building a more equitable, sustainable and prosperous world for all. The Entrepreneur of the Year program has recognized more than 10,000 US executives since its inception in 1986. Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners have exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight and wisdom of fellow alumni and other members of the entrepreneurial community in over 60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources.
As a Greater Philadelphia award winner, Kelly is now eligible for consideration for the Entrepreneur of the Year® 2022 National Awards.
Carisma Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing a differentiated and proprietary cell therapy platform focused on engineered macrophages, cells that play a crucial role in both the innate and adaptive immune response. The first applications of the platform, developed in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, are autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-macrophages for the treatment of solid tumors. Carisma Therapeutics is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.
For more information, please visit www.carismatx.com
Entrepreneur Of The Year is the world's most prestigious business awards program for unstoppable entrepreneurs. These visionary leaders deliver innovation, growth and prosperity that transform our world. The program engages entrepreneurs with insights and experiences that foster growth. It connects them with their peers to strengthen entrepreneurship around the world. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the first and only truly global awards program of its kind.
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BEIJING, Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Luokung Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: LKCO) ("Luokung" or the "Company"), a leading spatial-temporal intelligent big data services company and provider of interactive location-based services ("LBS") in China, today announced that the Company's operating affiliate, eMapgo Technologies (Beijing) Co., Ltd. ("EMG"), a leading provider of navigation and electronic map services in China, has been approved by the Ministry of Transportation of China as the first intelligent transportation pilot applications projects (automatic driving and intelligent shipping direction) service provider to form the technical guidelines and industry standard based on pilot applications of V2X autonomous trucking on open highways. With this accomplishment, the Company plans to begin commercial implementation in the near future.
This project is led by Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co., Ltd. ("SDHS"), with joint participation of several enterprises including EMG, China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd and Datang Gaohong Company. Dr. Chuanjiu Wang, the Company's intelligent transportation expert and the leader of China's transportation information service industry, and his team is responsible for the overall design. By using the key part of Shandong highway and service zones held and operated by SDHS for trials, the project aims to conduct pragmatic commercialized applications for autonomous trucking, fleet management and intelligent logistics transit scenarios based on EMG's V2X autonomous trucking management platform. This project is a significant demonstration of how intelligent transportation can help reduce logistics costs and improve traffic efficiency with lower labor intensity and higher stability of autonomous driving vehicles under adverse weather conditions, which we believe will promote the development of V2X and intelligent transportation in the industry. By leveraging the experience gained from this project, EMG, together with partners like SDHS, intend to actively promote commercialized autonomous trucking and intelligent logistics transit services across the country.
Dr. Dongpu Zhang, Luokung's President and the Chairman of EMG's Board of Directors, stated, "we believe that being selected as a service provider of the first intelligent transportation pilot applications project is a validation of the Company's technology advancement and commercialization implementation capability from the national transportation department. By incorporating the Company's leading technologies, including digital base, HD maps, digital twins, V2X, smart highway, autonomous driving and smart logistics, the company is providing systematic solutions to solve current issues in the field of autonomous trucking. We believe that this project will form a solid technical foundation for future commercial operation and will support enhancement of the Company's competitive advantage, to seize a greater market share in the fast-growing V2X and autonomous driving market.
SDHS is a leading comprehensive infrastructure service provider with registered capital of CNY45.9 billion and total assets of over CNY1 trillion. SDHS operates and manages approximately 8000-kilometers of motorway across the country. SDHS has a Level AAA credit rating in China and a Level A international credit rating.
About Luokung Technology Corp.
Luokung Technology Corp. is a leading spatial-temporal intelligent big data services company, as well as a leading provider of LBS and HD Maps for various industries in China. Backed by its proprietary technologies and expertise in HD Maps and multi-sourced intelligent spatial-temporal big data, Luokung has established city-level and industry-level holographic spatial-temporal digital twin systems and actively serves industries including smart transportation (autonomous driving, smart highway and vehicle-road collaboration), natural resource asset management (carbon neutral and environmental protection remote sensing data service), and LBS smart industry applications (mobile Internet LBS, smart travel, smart logistics, new infrastructure, smart cities, emergency rescue, among others). The Company routinely provides important updates on its website: https://www.luokung.com.
ABOUT EMAPGO
eMapgo, a variable interest entity ("VIE") of Luokung, is a leading provider of navigation and electronic map services in China, as well as a leading provider in Internet map services, geographic information system engineering and other A-level mapping qualifications. EMG possesses the National Class-A qualification certificates of navigable Surveying and Mapping, and actively develops autonomous driving and HD Map services. In March 2021, Luokung closed on the acquisition of EMG through the purchase of the equity interests of Saleya Holdings Limited, which, through a series of contracts between its wholly-owned subsidiary DMG Infotech Co., Ltd. and EMG, made EMG Luokung's VIE. For more information, please visit EMG's website: www.emapgo.com.cn.
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Mr. Jay Yu
Chief Financial Officer
Tel: +86-10-6506-5217
Email: ir@luokung.com
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Years of pandemic supply chain disruptions have left the world dealing with high inflation. Then, a war in Ukraine unfolded, one that has shaken worldwide supplies of grain and oil and gas.
There are also the natural disasters that have intensified with climate change, like the hurricane barreling toward Florida at the moment.
All of these factors have had substantial effects on the American economy. And one person whose purview it is to help the country absorb all of those impacts is Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Recently, she has been promoting the climate and clean energy goals of the Biden administration. She spoke with All Things Considered to explain these priorities and how they will affect the future of the American economy.
This interview was edited for length and clarity.
Interview highlights
On why the Biden administration connects climate change to the economy
Well, over the last several years, our economy has been struck by a series of supply shocks, the pandemic. We saw supply chain problems. And then with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's war in Ukraine we saw big increases in both energy prices and food prices. And many economists believe that supply shocks like this are only going to become more frequent, especially as the incidents of billion dollar-plus weather events and fires has increased and is likely to continue to increase.
So an important part of the Biden agenda is to try to make our economy not only more productive, but also more resilient. Three key pieces of legislation that have passed in the past year — the Infrastructure bill, the CHIPs bill and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) — all make very important contributions. And a very important area is energy security. If we were more dependent on the wind and the sun for electric power, we would be much less vulnerable to the kind of geopolitical shocks that we're experiencing with Russia and Ukraine and, of course, other parts of the world where there are issues that can lead to skyrocketing oil prices.
On how the Biden administration plans to induce large private investment to reduce emissions
So, the Infrastructure Act and the Inflation Reduction Act provide very important incentives that will generate historic investments by the private sector in expanding clean energy.
And I visited today a solar energy firm called Cypress Creek that is vastly increasing its investments in solar energy. And these investments are made possible by the fact that there are more generous clean energy incentives in the IRA to make big investments to deploy renewable energy.
On how possible it is to tackle inflation with climate change initiatives
Well, look, we have to address both short-term problems and longer-term problems. And the investments in this historic legislation are mainly geared toward the longer-term issues around climate change. Although the Inflation Reduction Act will significantly lower the cost of drugs and health insurance, and those are short-term gains that offset some of the other cost of living increases that Americans are experiencing.
And we're doing other things that are supportive of the Fed's efforts. We've had historic releases of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Americans have now seen gas prices fall substantially off their peak. We're trying to also address the cost of oil here and globally by imposing with our G-7 allies a cap on the price of Russian oil. So we're taking complementary actions, but recognize the Federal Reserve has the primary role to play here.
On whether reining in inflation is more critical than the risk of recession
Well, I think it is critical to bring down inflation. There is the risk that if it doesn't come down over the next several years, it could become endemic in the United States, which could require a significant downturn to bring it down, as we saw in the early 1980s.
We don't want to get into that kind of situation again. But the United States is better poised, I think, to see inflation coming down while maintaining all the gains we have achieved in the labor market over the last year and a half. Household finances are very solid. Our banking system is strong, and I believe there is a path to bring inflation down while maintaining a strong labor market. And while there are risks, it's not guaranteed. I'm very hopeful that we can achieve that kind of outcome. I think it's possible.
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Updated June 23, 2023 at 10:58 AM ET
One of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age, Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick, has died. He wrote Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, among other musicals. He died Friday in New York City of natural causes, according to his publicist. He was 99.
Whether he was writing about New York politician Fiorello LaGuardia, perfume shop employees in Budapest, or a Jewish dairyman in pre-revolutionary Russia, Harnick always wrote lyrics for specific characters in specific situations.
"Part of my talent, as a lyricist," Harnick told NPR in 2014, "is that I believe I think like a playwright, in terms of character, so that I can find different diction, different voices for the different characters."
Harnick's career extended for over 60 years. He came to New York from Chicago in 1950 and began writing songs – both music and lyrics – for topical revues on and off Broadway.
Harnick recalled that it was another famous lyricist, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the writer of Finian's Rainbow and The Wizard of Oz, who gave him some great career advice, after hearing some of Harnick's tunes.
He said, Harnick recounted, "'In my experience, there are more capable theater composers than there are theater lyricists, so you will get invitations to work with other people, besides yourself.' He said, 'Take those invitations. It can facilitate your career.'"
After a couple of partnerships, Harnick met composer Jerry Bock through a mutual friend. They hit it off and Harnick signed with Bock's publisher, Tommy Valando.
"And Tommy worked an actual miracle!" Harnick exclaimed. "He got Jerry and me the job of writing the songs for a new musical called The Body Beautiful, even though Jerry and I had never written a song together, which is still astonishing to me!"
The Body Beautiful was a flop, but producer and director Hal Prince liked their work and hired them for a musical called Fiorello!, which won them a Pulitzer. Prince worked together with Bock and Harnick on four shows; Prince directed She Loves Me and produced Fiddler on the Roof.
"The variety of what they could write was extraordinary," Prince told NPR. "The score of She Loves Me is as good as any score they've ever written, including Fiddler. It's so subtle and intelligent. And everything they wrote was character-driven."
Fiddler on the Roof was directed by Jerome Robbins. Prince says Robbins wasn't satisfied with the original opening number from Fiddler, a song called "We Haven't Missed a Sabbath Yet," because it didn't explain what the show was about.
"We met and we met and we met," Prince explained, "and each time he'd say, 'But what's it about? What's it about?' And finally Sheldon – I've never heard him lose his temper before – said 'Oh, for God's sakes, Jerry, it's about tradition!' And Jerry said, 'That's it! That's what it's about. Write the opening number.'"
So Bock and Harnick wrote "Tradition." And Fiddler on the Roof ran for 3,242 performances on Broadway, has played all over the world, was made into a film and is constantly being revived. Bock and Harnick worked together on a couple more shows, then their partnership broke up. Harnick worked with other composers, among them Richard Rodgers and Michel Legrand.
New York University theater professor Laurence Maslon says he thinks Harnick's shows struck a chord with audiences because Harnick himself was such a sympathetic man.
"Sheldon doesn't have a mean bone in his body," Maslon says, "and his generosity just filters through all this characters. And I think that's why people embraced them, as shows, because Sheldon embraced the audience first, in his lyrics."
And Sheldon Harnick never stopped working in his own lifetime.
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FORT WORTH, Texas (KXAN) — A Texas man was arrested Thursday after officials said he attempted to use a drone to deliver drugs and other contraband into a federal prison.
Bryant LeRay Henderson, 42, was federally charged by criminal complaint with attempting to provide contraband in prison, serving as an airman without an airman’s certificate and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
“Contraband drone deliveries are quickly becoming the bane of prison officials’ existence. Illicit goods pose a threat to guards and inmates alike – and when it comes to cell phones, the threat often extends outside prison walls. We are determined to stop this trend in its tracks,” said U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham.
Court documents said Henderson, a Smithville resident, flew a drone into the airspace over FMC Fort Worth, a federal prison, on May 4. The drone crashed inside the facility, and it was recovered by staff.
“Affixed to the drone was a package containing 46 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 87 grams of pressed THC, two prepaid smartphones, and nine mp3 players,” a release said.
Nearby surveillance pulled by law enforcement showed a man drive up, remove a drone and a package from the vehicle, launch the drone towards the prison and then drive off.
Additional footage was reviewed by officials. The footage helped law enforcement identify the vehicle, and they were able to pull a license plate number. The vehicle was later found abandoned in the middle of the road, so it was impounded.
Officials searched the vehicle and found Henderson’s debit card, a drone controller, various drone accessories, 18 smartphones, tobacco products and vacuum-packed containers with steroid labels connected to a fishing line and a key ring.
According to reports, when powered on, the drone controller from the vehicle immediately paired with the drone recovered from the prison yard.
Flight logs from the drone showed it was flown into the FMC Fort Worth’s airspace four times and over the FCI Seagoville, another federal correctional center, twice.
A release said contraband delivered from drones was an “increasingly vexing problem” for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and state corrections officials.
If convicted, Henderson faces up to 45 years total in prison: 20 years for attempting to provide contraband in prison, five years for serving as an airman without an airman’s certificate and 20 years for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. | 2022-08-14T03:24:52+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/news/national-world-news/texas-man-accused-of-flying-drone-over-prison-to-deliver-drugs-contraband/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — When researchers at a nonprofit that studies social media wanted to understand the connection between YouTube videos and gun violence, they set up accounts on the platform that mimicked the behavior of typical boys living in the U.S.
They simulated two nine-year-olds who both liked video games. The accounts were identical, except that one clicked on the videos recommended by YouTube, and the other ignored the platform’s suggestions.
The account that clicked on YouTube’s suggestions was soon flooded with graphic videos about school shootings, tactical gun training videos and how-to instructions on making firearms fully automatic. One video featured an elementary school-age girl wielding a handgun; another showed a shooter using a .50 caliber gun to fire on a dummy head filled with lifelike blood and brains. Many of the videos violate YouTube’s own policies against violent or gory content.
The findings show that despite YouTube’s rules and content moderation efforts, the platform is failing to stop the spread of frightening videos that could traumatize vulnerable children — or send them down dark roads of extremism and violence.
“Video games are one of the most popular activities for kids. You can play a game like ”Call of Duty” without ending up at a gun shop — but YouTube is taking them there,” said Katie Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project, the research group that published its findings about YouTube on Tuesday. “It’s not the video games, it’s not the kids. It’s the algorithms.”
The accounts that followed YouTube’s suggested videos received 382 different firearms-related videos in a single month, or about 12 per day. The accounts that ignored YouTube’s recommendations still received some gun-related videos, but only 34 in total.
The researchers also created accounts mimicking 14-year-old boys; those accounts also received similar levels of gun- and violence-related content.
One of the videos recommended for the accounts was titled “How a Switch Works on a Glock (Educational Purposes Only).” YouTube later removed the video after determining it violated its rules; an almost identical video popped up two weeks later with a slightly altered name; that video remains available.
A spokeswoman for YouTube defended the platform’s protections for children and noted that it requires users under 17 to get their parent’s permission before using their site; accounts for users younger than 13 are linked to the parental account. “We offer a number of options for younger viewers,” the company wrote in emailed statement. “… Which are designed to create a safer experience for tweens and teens.”
Along with TikTok, the video sharing platform is one of the most popular sites for children and teens. Both sites have been criticized in the past for hosting, and in some cases promoting, videos that encourage gun violence, eating disorders and self-harm. Critics of social media have also pointed to the links between social media, radicalization and real-world violence.
The perpetrators behind many recent mass shootings have usedsocial media and video streaming platforms to glorify violence or even livestream their attacks. In posts on YouTube, the shooter behind the attack on a 2018 attack on a school in Parkland, Fla., that killed 17 wrote “I wanna kill people,” “I’m going to be a professional school shooter” and “I have no problem shooting a girl in the chest.”
The neo-Nazi gunman who killed eight people earlier this month at a Dallas-area shopping center also had a YouTube account that included videos about assembling rifles, the serial killed Jeffrey Dahmer and a clip from a school shooting scene in a television show.
In some cases, YouTube has already removed some of the videos identified by researchers at the Tech Transparency Project, but in other instances the content remains available. Many big tech companies rely on automated systems to flag and remove content that violates their rules, but Paul said the findings from the Project’s report show that greater investments in content moderation are needed.
In the absence of federal regulation, social media companies must do more to enforce their own rules, said Justin Wagner, director of investigations at Everytown for Gun Safety, a leading gun control advocacy organization. Wagner’s group also said the Tech Transparency Project’s report shows the need for tighter age restrictions on firearms-related content.
“Children who aren’t old enough to buy a gun shouldn’t be able to turn to YouTube to learn how to build a firearm, modify it to make it deadlier, or commit atrocities,” Wagner said in response to the Tech Transparency Project’s report.
Similar concerns have been raised about TikTok after earlier reports showed the platform was recommending harmful content to teens.
TikTok has defended its site and its policies, which prohibit users younger than 13. Its rules also prohibit videos that encourage harmful behavior; users who search for content about topics including eating disorders automatically receive a prompt offering mental health resources. | 2023-05-17T04:56:14+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/technology/ap-technology/youtube-sends-gun-videos-to-9-year-olds-its-not-the-kids-its-the-algorithms-study-finds/ |
PARIS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- May's auction results in New York showed that after all the records set by the Paul G. Allen, Anne H. Bass, and Thomas Ammann collections, 2023 began with relative sobriety. In an interview with journalist Amy Shaw for the Art Newspaper at Art Basel, art dealer Dominique Lévy said he detects the presence of a "clear correction". Artprice takes this opportunity to review the acceleration of the art market since the beginning of the 21st century, via a quick look at the works that the market values the most.
Auction turnover (2000-2022) by year of creation in painting
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The triumph of Pop Art
In 1964, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ed Ruscha were at the peak of their careers and these four artists all have auction price records for works created that year, in the midst of the Cold War, just a few months after the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy. These records, to which must be added more than thirteen thousand other auction results for artworks made that year, make 1964 the year-of-creation that generated the greatest volume of auction turnover in the period 2000 to 2023 (twenty-two years), all creative periods combined: $2.48 billion.
Having fetched the second best art auction result of all time at $195 million on 9 May 2022 at Christie's in New York, Andy Warhol's Shot sage blue Marilyn (1964) is now a sort of figurehead for that year (1964). Although from a market perspective the previous two years were just as important for Warhol, 1964 is also remembered in the art world for another reason: in 1964 Robert Rauschenberg won the Grand Prize at the Venice Biennale. Indeed, promoted by Leo Castelli (and perhaps even supported by the CIA), in 1964 Pop Art imposed itself in the art world thereby consolidating a significant shift of art (and the art market) to the West… a transfer of power from Paris to New York on the international scene. The way this transfer came about has been the subject of intense discussion.
Top 15 auction prices for artworks produced in 1964
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Abstraction, Pop Art and Expressionism
In the mid-1960s, several major artists of the first half of the 20th century were still creating important works. Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, and René Magritte were still active. In Asia, Li Keran and Fu Baoshi were perpetuating the art of traditional Chinese painting by giving it very personal touches of modernity, while in Europe Zao Wou-Ki and some of his compatriots were exploring Lyrical Abstraction. In England, a new generation was making its mark: David Hockney was 27 in 1964, Frank Auerbach was 33 and Lucien Freud was 42. They were just at the beginning of their careers, but that year Francis Bacon, aged 55, painted some of his best portraits.
In the United States, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem De Kooning, and Clyfford Still were still exploring Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollock had passed away a few year back, while a new artistic revolution was emerging: Pop Art. It was this movement that truly imposed America on the international art scene and the international art market. The works themselves were often brilliant and eye-catching but they also often contained covert or less-covert criticism of the American dream. In France, Pierre Soulages has already painted his best canvases, but a new Expressionist scene was beginning to emerge in Germany, with Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz, and Anselm Kiefer, among others. Their work unfolded over many years and therefore did not produce the same concentration of market value as the American Pop Art movement.
The success of this movement was notably due to a relatively small number of series of works on which collectors focused heavily, and these series were created by the great names of American Pop Art and were generally worked and reworked for a few years... around 1964.
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Art Basel may be busy, but cautious sales reflect a complex market picture, Amy Shaw, The Art Newspaper, le 15 June 2023.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/15/art-basel-may-be-busy-but-cautious-sales-reflect-a-complex-market-picture
1964: Pop Art arrives in Europe, a betrayal as seen from France, Thomas Snégaroff, France Info, 2 October 2015.
https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/histoires-d-info/1964-le-pop-art-debarque-en-europe-une-trahison-vue-de-france_1788541.html
Market analysis of works created by the Warhol-Basquiat duo exhibited at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, Artprice, 25 April 2023
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The season of searing temperatures will soon begin in northwestern Zimbabwe as the chilly months fade away. But for the villagers of Silewad the return of summer, storms and a new planting season increase the risk of elephants invading their land.
Silewad is near Hwange National Park, the country's premier game reserve which is roughly half the size of Belgium. Zimbabwe is home to Africa's second largest pachyderm population. It's growing at about five per cent a year, and that means competition for water and land between humans and the world's largest land mammal is increasingin and around Hwange.
During these last weeks of the cool months, the villagers rely on homemade remedies to keep elephants away from people, crops and water. In Silewad, not far from seasonal streams which attract elephants, five gloved and masked villagers use a large wooden pestle to pound a fermented mixture of chilis, garlic, ginger, neem leaves and elephant dung into a paste designed to keep the animals at bay.
Masaloni Ndlovu, 67, hangs plastic bottles of the ground chili paste on his fence to deter elephants which often wander through his homestead. Elephants hate the smell of the paste. But faced with another dry season forecast of patchy rains and poor harvests, people fear that the homemade remedies won't be enough to keep desperately thirsty elephants within the national park and out of village gardens.
Once a worker at a nearby railway station, Ndlovu recalls that elephants rarely wandered through the hamlet when he was younger, but now they are increasingly a common sight.
"We call the rangers to deal with the animals, but they don't do anything. We hardly saw elephants when I was younger but today they are everywhere and they eat everything we plant," he says.
Zimbabwe's elephant population is growing as climate change is making rainfall unpredictable. Depleting levels of groundwater in the Hwange game reserve are forcing animals to travel further in search of replenishment during the hot season. Villagers and conservationists fear that the competition for shrinking water resources could lead to deaths of local people and elephants. Already this year, at least 20 people have been killed in confrontations with elephants, according to Zimbabwe's National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks).
Growing, thirsty herds roam a drying earth
Elephants are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures. They need to drink up to 200 liters [50 gallons] per day, but during the summer they can lose up to 10 percent of body water daily. Research shows elephants migrate seasonally depending on the availability of water in Hwange National Park.
Between 1928 and 2005, during drought years with erratic rainfall, herbivore populations tended to migrate more frequently, according to another study. ZimParks has partnered with local and international donor conservation groups to drill more than 65 boreholes that create artificial watering holes throughout the year for more than 45,000 elephants that trek through Hwange. But the changing climate has raised concern among scholars and conservationists over the future sustainability of the animal sanctuary.
Dr. Simon Chamaillé-Jammes, deputy director of Hwange LTSER, the Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research center, has observed that droughts have intensified in sections of the game reserve.
"[W]e did publish a study showing that annual rainfall did not change that much on average over the 1940 - 2005 period, but that droughts, when they occurred, where much more severe than they used to be, with 50% reduction of rainfall during drought years in some areas of the park," he wrote in an email.
On the routes elephants typically take that wind through Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Botswana, an aerial survey was launched by the Kavango Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA) to count the wildlife roaming the Kavango Zambezi basin over the next four months. (Hwange Park is within the Kavango Zambezi basin.) Counting the large herds which roam this rich biodiverse area will help to determine animal numbers and the water needs of Southern Africa's mammals.
This is the first survey of its kind in this region, according to Teofilus Nghitila, executive director general of Namibia's wildlife and national parks management authority. The information gathered from the survey will also help in shaping elephant management policies, Nghitila said.
Climate change pushes elephants closer to people
Over the years, Southern Africa's climate has become increasingly vulnerable to weather patterns like El Nino, making rainfall patterns highly unpredictable, according to Narcisa Pricope, a professor of geography at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in the United States.
Some research has shown an increase in the occurrence and intensity of drought over many parts of Southern Africa, Pricope says. Rainy seasons have gotten more unreliable, with implications for humans and animals alike.
"So, local communities not only have to contend with unreliable precipitation patterns that make them food insecure in the first place," Pricope said in an email, "but on top of that, they have to live with wildlife in very close proximity as a result of the shrinking of water availability throughout the landscape in Hwange national park."
In 2019, hundreds of people were killed when Cyclone Idai struck eastern Zimbabwe. The same year, a drought in the western provinces resulted in the death of more than 200 elephants in Hwange National Park over just two months.
Pricope predicts if water scarcity persists it is likely to "amplify human wildlife conflicts especially in the areas adjacent to national parks where humans cohabit". Less water within the national park could drive animals closer to perennial water sources which are also close to human settlements.
A desperate solution to a deadly conflict
To manage the dilemmas of a changing climate and growing wildlife populations, regional governments are currently lobbying for the one-off sale of ivory stockpiles in order to finance human-wildlife conflict programs. But under a global treaty called the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), trade in ivory is strictly prohibited. CITES has previously allowed ivory sales on two occasions, but global resistance against the trade has grown stronger.
After the push to sell African stockpiles was chastised by international conservation groups, the Southern African states convened the African Elephant Conference in May and declared their intention to collectively lobby for permission to trade. The Southern African states, which includes Zimbabwe, hope to present their united position at the CITES Summit in Panama later this year.
Zimbabwe alone claims it is sitting on a 123 tonne stockpile worth an estimated $600 million, a figure questioned by environmental accountants.
Better water drilling to save people and elephants
But far from the high-powered summit and drawn out debates over the sale of tusks, villagers live with an impending crisis.
Hangani Dube, 79, bears the scars of this conflict. Dube was injured while trying to scare off a pair of intruding elephants in his vegetable garden one afternoon in May. The elephants, instead, charged and gored him with their tusks.
Writhing in pain, Dube dragged himself on his hips to the main highway where he found help to get to the nearest medical center. After a month in the infirmary, a frail Dube hobbles from place to place, unable to walk easily because of the steel plate implanted to keep his bones together. Feeling robbed of life, the old man wishes for more action to reduce the elephant herds in his area.
"I feel useless. I can't do anything for my family since I was injured. I used to take out my plough and plant with my cattle, but now I can't." he says. "I rely on my wife and sons to do everything I used to do."
He says bitterly: "The government has to cull these elephants before they hurt us all."
Zimbabwe has recently considered culling. In the past, more than 50,000 elephants were killed during culls between 1965 and 1988. However, this controversial control method would require significant financing, which the government lacks.
While the government weighs the sale of ivory or culling herds, villagers still live with the daily risk of elephants searching for water and food. When the rainy season begins in November, farmers will plant their crops, and Ndlovu will have to apply the chili fixative more regularly as his only defense against the marauding mammals. Other homegrown methods such as burning chili bricks and making chilli bombs are used in other areas, but they too have limited effectiveness in keeping elephants away.
Hwange's intermittent rain and persistent heat also harm vegetation. The elephants have to travel further in search of food as well as water. While there is no available research on Hwange's groundwater recharge rates, Chamaillé-Jammes cautions against drilling further boreholes near human settlements. His joint research has shown that more water holes tend to attract more elephants.
Chamaillé-Jammes recommends closing watering holes on the eastern section of Hwange to steer elephants away from villages and instead, drilling boreholes in the center of the game reserve with some only operating during periods of extreme drought. These "safety pans" might be one way of ensuring elephants are more likely to stay within the perimeter of the park.
As rising global temperatures signal more extreme droughts in the future, a more sustainable intervention than chili concoctions and one-off ivory sales is needed to halt Zimbabwe's deadly battle for resources in a parched land.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand the availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, seeking to reassure doctors that there is ample supply for people at high risk of severe illness or death from the virus.
Paxlovid, produced by Pfizer, was first approved in December. Supply of the regimen was initially very limited, but COVID-19 cases across the country have fallen and manufacturing has increased. The White House is now moving to raise awareness of the pill and taking steps to make it easier to access.
The White House said Tuesday it is stepping up outreach to doctors, letting them know they shouldn’t think twice about prescribing the pill to eligible patients. Also, the drug will now be distributed directly to pharmacies, in addition to existing distribution channels run by states. That is expected to boost the number of sites from 20,000 to more than 30,000 next week and eventually to 40,000 locations.
The administration used the pharmacy channel to boost the availability of COVID-19 vaccines more than a year ago.
“Paxlovid will be widely available everywhere in America,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator. The drug and antivirals like it “are the key essential tools that we’re going to need to get through the rest of this pandemic,” he said.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, is taking Paxlovid after discussing it with her physicians.
Paxlovid, when administered within five days of symptoms appearing, has been proven to bring about a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe disease. About 300 Americans are now dying each day from the coronavirus, down from more than 2,600 during the height of the omicron wave earlier this year.
The U.S. has ordered enough supply of the pills for 20 million people, which is estimated to last for several more months. The administration has warned that subsequent deliveries are dependent on Congress approving additional COVID-19 response funding.
“What we need to do is to help American physicians and nurse practitioners and others who can prescribe understand that we now have plenty available and anybody who is eligible, anybody who has high risk, should be getting Paxlovid,” Jha said.
He also encouraged people who test positive to contact their doctors to determine their eligibility for the drug that might prevent severe outcomes.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s drug for adults and children age 12 or older with a positive COVID-19 test and early symptoms who face the highest risk of severe outcomes. That includes older people and those with conditions like obesity and heart disease, though the drug is not recommended for patients with severe kidney or liver problems.
The administration is also working to expand the number of test-to-treat sites that provide a one-stop shop for those with COVID-19 to get tested for the virus, consult with a medical professional if they’re positive and fill a prescription for Paxlovid on site.
Currently, there are 2,200 locations nationwide, and the administration hopes support from the Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and pharmacy companies will enable more sites to come online in the coming weeks. | 2022-04-27T18:03:25+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/health/coronavirus/covid-19-antiviral-pill-to-become-more-available/ |
The internet is going loca, loca, loca over this post.
Gerard Piqué made his relationship with Clara Chia Marti Instagram official on Jan. 25 by sharing a selfie with the 23-year-old. In the photo posted to his profile, Piqué and Marti posed close together in matching black tops, while giving slight smiles to the camera.
The couple's social media debut comes after Shakira, who split from the soccer player in June 2022, seemingly shaded Piqué and Clara in her latest single, a collaboration with Argentine DJ Bizarrap titled, "BZRP Music Session #53."
Some of the song's lyrics translated to English read, "I wish you good luck with my supposed replacement / I don't even know what happened to you," she sings. "You are so strange that I can't even distinguish you / I'm worth two of 22 [year old] / You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo / You traded a Rolex for a Casio."
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Piqué and Shakira's former romance began when they met in 2010 while filming her "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" music video. In 2011, they went public with their relationship before welcoming sons Milan, 9, and Sasha, 7.
Flash forward almost a decade later and the pair announced their split.
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"We regret to confirm that we are parting ways," they said in a joint statement to E! News in June 2022. "For the well-being of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy. Thank you for your understanding."
Less than three months later, Piqué confirmed his romance with Marti when they were seen getting cozy together at a wedding in Catalonia, Spain, as seen in photos published by the Daily Mail in August 2022.
More recently, Shakira opened up about her and Piqué's split, declaring it was "incredibly difficult."
"It's hard to talk about it, especially because I'm still going through it," the 45-year-old told Elle in September. "And because I'm in the public eye and because our separation is not like a regular separation. And so, it's been tough not only for me, but also for my kids."
While Piqué has not publicly spoken out on their split since, he did appear to mock Shakira's lyrics by declaring he had a deal made where Casio would be the sponsor of his project King's League, per People. Despite 's claim, Casio later issued a statement, which, translated to English, denied "any agreement for this sponsorship or interest in making it happen." | 2023-01-26T03:10:33+00:00 | nbcmiami.com | https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/shakiras-ex-gerard-pique-goes-ig-official-with-clara-chia-marti/2958906/ |
BOCA RATON, Fla., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uro Medical Corporation, a privately-held urology-focused medical device company engaged in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of innovative, minimally invasive neurostimulation solutions leveraging nanotechnology creating the smallest stimulators in existence, today announced the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) coverage for participants in the GUARDIAN™ clinical trial, a multi-center randomized controlled clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of the Protect PNS neurostimulator medical device, as compared to traditional pharmaceutical medical management for the treatment for overactive bladder (OAB).
"CMS support of the Guardian clinical trial furthers our goal of establishing Protect PNS as a viable treatment option for patients suffering from refractory OAB", said Shanice Saunders, Executive Vice President of Clinical Affairs for Uro Medical. This study is expected to enroll approximately 600 subjects with refractory OAB across multiple clinical sites in the United States. The results of this study, which is the second randomized clinical trial conducted for the Protect PNS device, will be used to support long term, nationwide payor reimbursement coverage as a mainline therapy option post FDA market authorization.
"Our on-going Protect randomized controlled trial supporting registration, combined with Guardian creates a unique opportunity to examine Protect PNS clinical utility in both third and second-line applications", said Shanice Saunders, Vice President of Clinical. "As a clinician seeing patients routinely fail medical management of OAB, I'm excited to learn how Protect PNS may play an earlier role as an alternative to pharmaceuticals", said Dr. Larry Sirls, investigator in the Guardian clinical trial.
Learn more about Uro Medical Corporation at www.uromedical.com.
Protect PNS is a wirelessly powered, minimally invasive, microtechnology neurostimulator intended to treat overactive bladder (OAB). Protect PNS is currently being studied for the treatment of OAB and is under regulatory review for market approval by the FDA.
Uro Medical is a privately held medical device company engaged in the development, manufacture, and commercialization of wirelessly powered, microtechnology neurostimulators, providing patients with convenient, safe, minimally invasive, and highly cost-effective urological solutions that are easily incorporated into their daily lives. Uro Medical's goal is to evolve its patented, cutting-edge platform for neuromodulation to standard of care, increasing the accessibility for patients worldwide while lowering the economic impact of urology care management. www.uromedical.com.
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NHTSA questions GM on confidential agreements with some Lyriq customers
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is in talks with General Motors over concerns it has with GM's new program requiring some customers to sign a confidential agreement when they bought or leased a 2023 Cadillac Lyriq all-electric SUV.
GM is in the midst of launching the Lyriq, an EV that is crucial to Cadillac's future success as the brand transitions to all-electric by 2030.
On Wednesday, NHTSA spokesperson Lucia Sanchez told the Detroit Free Press the agency is "in communication with GM regarding" the nondisclosure agreements and whether they would inhibit someone from reporting safety issues with the agency.
"NHTSA relies on reports from consumers as an important source of information in evaluating potential safety defects," said Sanchez in an email. "Any agreement that may prevent or dissuade consumers from reporting safety concerns to NHTSA is unacceptable."
An NDA typically would prohibit a person from talking about their experience with the vehicle to third parties and that's what raised concerns at the government agency, especially if other automakers follow GM's lead and add similar programs.
As the Free Press first reported last week, to help ensure the Lyriq launch is flawless and any kinks are addressed quickly, Cadillac offered about 20 select customers in metro Detroit, New York and Los Angeles a $5,500 discount on a Lyriq in exchange for them signing the confidential agreements. The customers also agreed to let GM track how they use their Lyriq.
“As we transform our business, the launch of our first all-electric vehicle, Lyriq, provides Cadillac some unique learning opportunities," Cadillac spokesman Mike Albano said of the program. He added, "We're doing everything possible to get the launch right."
More:GM offers rebate on Cadillac Lyriq if drivers sign NDA, agree to be tracked
NDA could be 'unacceptable'
This program is a first. No other automaker has recruited customers to do initial studies on a vehicle rather than what is usually done: Employees drive company-owned pre-production vehicles and report any issues.
Albano said Cadillac did use employees, but added, "there's a lot we can learn from customers beyond the physical vehicle. We can see their charging behaviors, driving behaviors and how they use the vehicle."
GM will use "a variety of ways to gather information from the customers," including direct phone calls, dealer contacts and a dedicated EV concierge team. Albano did not provide specifics, including how long the NDA agreement lasts, what the penalty is for violating it and whether GM will monitor vehicle software to gather data.
GM defends the NDA
GM spokesman Dan Flores said NHTSA does not need to be concerned and, "we have advised them of this fact."
In a statement emailed to the Free Press, Flores said: "Cadillac created a small-scale Ambassador program to provide some early learnings from the first vehicles sold. ... This includes handling, performance, safety, comfort and any other feedback the Ambassadors wish to share as Cadillac enthusiasts. While the program agreement contains provisions designed to protect GM confidential and proprietary information, it is not intended to, and does not, prohibit or preclude participants from reporting any issue, safety or otherwise, to NHTSA or any other regulatory body."
To the contrary, Flores said, "We encourage Ambassadors to advise GM if they encounter any such issue while driving their all-electric Lyriq.”
To be sure that's understood by participants, GM will be sending a written communication, Flores said, to make it clear that they are not prohibited from reporting any concern to NHTSA or any other entity. He did not know the timing for when drivers would be notified.
GM said Wednesday it believed it had cleared up the matter with NHTSA, but when the Free Press asked NHTSA for clarity, the agency maintained that it was still in conversations with the automaker..
The Lyriq is being built in Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee. Cadillac opened the order banks for the Lyriq on May 19, but in two hours it stopped taking orders, saying it sold out. GM will not quantify what sold out means, but GM has told suppliers to prepare to produce 25,000 Lyriqs this year.
Don't disrupt the flow
In this situation, neither NHTSA's concerns nor GM's response surprises Erik Gordon, a business professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business and a lawyer who's followed this program.
GM just wants some breathing room to get some feedback and make corrections so that the launch is a success, Gordon said.
But he understands that NHTSA would worry.
"We're talking about automakers interfering with the flow of information to NHTSA and that is something they cannot do," Gordon said. "No. 1: NHTSA will win. But it's also a big PR disaster to have a headline that says 'an automaker interferes with consumer safety reporting.' "
Gordon said a car owner is not required by law to report any safety problems they have to NHTSA. So therein would lie the concern among regulators about an NDA. Regulators want people to know their rights to report any issues and be assured that nothing will "interfere with the flow of information," he said.
Gordon said he has read and drafted many NDAs over his career and there is usually a boilerplate that carves out exceptions to the nondisclosure stipulations in the contract.
But regulators don't want consumers to be discouraged by language in any agreement that might prevent them from "exercising their right to talk you," he said. "You can't assume that a consumer is a lawyer and knows there's an exception to an NDA."
Gordon said he would advise GM to do exactly what they are doing, "send those 20 people a separate notice ... that spells out that if there is something wrong with the vehicle, they should contact regulators."
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Roundstone traction in health insurance market continues with 127% revenue growth and 91% increase in employees over same five year-period
LAKEWOOD, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Roundstone, a health insurance provider specializing in self-funded medical group captive solutions for small and mid-sized companies, has been named one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. 5000 for the fifth consecutive year. During this time, Roundstone experienced 127% revenue growth and a 91% increase in employees.
The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy's most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Under Armour, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
"Being named to the Inc. 5000 list for five straight years means we are doing something right," said Michael Schroeder, Founder, and President of Roundstone. "We continue to gain traction in the health insurance market with growth driven largely by dissatisfaction with the status quo: rising costs, minimal transparency, and no control. We are committed to providing employees at small and midsize businesses a better alternative for healthcare benefits that offers affordability, full disclosure of information, and freedom of choice."
The companies on the 2022 Inc. 5000 have not only been successful, but have also demonstrated resilience amid supply chain woes, labor shortages, and the ongoing impact of Covid-19. Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.
Roundstone is an innovative insurance organization founded in 2003 with a vision of giving small and mid-sized businesses a proven strategy for affordable employee health insurance – our customers pay only for the healthcare they use while keeping the savings. Our unique self-funded group captive solution delivers high quality of care, mitigates risk, reduces claims volatility, controls costs, and returns savings right back to the employers and employees– a win-win all around. Hundreds of businesses rely on Roundstone as their trusted health insurance provider, saving them an average of 20 percent annually over the past decade. Roundstone is headquartered in Lakewood, Ohio with representatives throughout the United States. For more information on Roundstone, visit www.roundstoneinsurance.com
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TYLER, Texas (AP) — A car driving on the wrong side of a two-lane highway in East Texas early Friday collided with an SUV, killing all five people in the vehicles, authorities said.
The collision happened at about 5 a.m. on Texas 110, about 6 1/2 miles (10 1/2 kilometers) northwest of Tyler and 85 miles (135 kilometers) east of Dallas, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
A Dodge Charger was on the wrong side of the unlit highway and erupted into flames after rounding a curve and slamming head-on into a Chevrolet Tahoe, DPS Sgt. Jason Bundy said.
Gerardo Lopez, who lives nearby, said he and his wife were awakened by the sound of the crash.
“A big ‘BOOM,’ and I tell my wife something happened, we have to get out there and help," he told KLTV-TV of Tyler.
“I saw the car start getting on fire, and a man was asking for help. I got my little fire extinguisher for my dump truck, but that wasn’t enough,” Lopes said. “I feel bad. I still have the man's screaming in my head.”
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No evidence of alcohol or drug use was found at the crash scene, but excessive speed by the car may have been a factor, Bundy said. No identities have been released. | 2022-07-22T22:37:38+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/5-killed-in-head-on-collision-on-east-texas-highway/article_bf9d31b1-5536-551b-9c5f-280d0a038d0e.html |
Check The Oklahoman's list for details about your upcoming high school reunion
Editor's note: In an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, venues and businesses might be temporarily closed. Please confirm all reunion plans. To submit a reunion, email DLindauer@Oklahoman.com.
Del City
Del City High School class of 1970: Looking for classmates for a 50th reunion. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the date has changed to July 30. For more information, contact Debbie Paulk at paulkde@hotmail.com.
Oklahoma City
Capitol Hill High School class of 1959: Ladies monthly lunch, third Thursday. Location changes. RSVP one week before. For more information, contact Connie at 405-634-3854.
Capitol Hill High School class of 1962: Looking for classmates for a 60th reunion June 9-10. For more information, call Yolanda Birdwell 405-249-7773.
Capitol Hill High School class of 1972: Looking for classmates for a 50th reunion May 27-28. For more information, call Kathy or Ron Sanders at 405-222-2340 or Valerie Cobb-Lee at 405-659-9726.
Classen High School classes of 1964-65: Monthly lunch, 11:30 a.m. second Friday, Toby Keith’s, 310 Johnny Bench Drive. For more information, contact Ron Perkins at 405-420-5860 or oklavette00@cox.net.
Crooked Oak High School class of 1967: Looking for classmates for a 55th reunion June 10 at the Crooked Oak campus. For more information, email April Cox Pinion at aprillpinion@gmail.com.
John Marshall High School class of 1968: Monthly lunch, 11:30 a.m. first Monday, Johnnie's Charcoal Broiler, 2652 W Britton Road. For more information, contact Halcy Hall at halcy@cox.net.
Millwood High School classes of 1972-2022: Looking for classmates for an all-alumni 50th high school anniversary May 20-21. Tickets will be required for the 50 Famous Falcon Gala. For more information, call the school at 405-478-1336.
Putnam City High School class of 1972: Looking for classmates for a 50th reunion Oct. 28-29. For more information, email claudiamontgomery54@gmail.com, cmasilon@gmail.com or ima@coxinet.net.
Southeast High School class of 1958: Monthly breakfast, 9 a.m. every first Thursday, Denny's, Interstate 240 and S Pennsylvania. Call Bob at 405-634-0777 or email okcbob@sbcglobal.net.
Southeast High School class of 1962: Looking for classmates for a 60th reunion July 9 at Hidden Trails Country Club. For more information, call Dana Kelly Harsha at 405-210-3236 or email at harsha15@cox.net.
U.S. Grant High School class of 1959: 9 a.m. every second Tuesday, Denny's, Interstate 240 service road and Pennsylvania. For more information, email Robert Greenwell at rgreenwell@prodigy.net.
U.S. Grant High School class of 1965: Monthly lunch, 11:30 a.m. every last Thursday, Hollies Flatiron in Moore. For more information, contact Vickie Munsey at vmunsey101@gmail.com.
U.S. Grant High School class of 1975: Looking for classmates for 50th reunion in 2025. For more information, email Cheryl1957ann@sbcglobal.net or go to the U.S. Grant 1975 Alumni Facebook page.
Roff
Roff High School: Roff Alumni Banquet set for first Saturday in June. For more information, call Bubba Tidwell at 580-320-5181 or Shirley Boatright at 580-320-0723.
Tecumseh
Tecumseh High School class of 1972: Looking for classmates for a 50th reunion at 6 p.m. May 27 at Tecumseh City Hall. To RSVP, text Carla at 405-640-4442 or email Debbie at debomadst@gmail.com.
Yukon
Yukon High School class of 1982: Looking for classmates for a 40th reunion Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. For more information, call Kandee Barton Penwright at 405-388-5986. | 2022-04-12T16:14:42+00:00 | oklahoman.com | https://www.oklahoman.com/story/lifestyle/2022/04/12/high-school-reunions-planned-check-oklahomans-listing/9490033002/ |
There’s been talk recently about adding justices to the Supreme Court to counter the ultra-conservative majority installed by former President Donald Trump. Republicans call this “court packing.” But the truth is the court is already packed. It needs to be unpacked.
The court packing began when, after Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016, 11 Republican senators blocked committee consideration of Merrick Garland’s nomination. The Republicans claimed that because 2016 was an election year, voters must first have a say. These senators ignored their constitutional duty to review judicial nominations and, by so doing, deprived President Barack Obama of his constitutional appointment powers. Garland’s nomination languished for 293 days, far longer than any in United States history, and then expired. The result was Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch.
The court packing continued when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died shortly before the 2020 election. In a stark and hypocritical reversal, Senate Republicans rushed through Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination in 27 days, one of the quickest confirmations ever. She was sworn in just days before the election. The result of these two ploys was a 6-3 conservative majority that could instead have been 4-5. The consequences have been devastating.
In its first term, the Supreme Court invented a controversy to curb the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to address climate change. The court also overturned a long-standing New York gun safety law, impervious to daily mass shootings by deranged people purchasing assault weapons. Religious freedom was next, and the result is our forced exposure to religious doctrine in schools, government buildings and other public places.
And, most egregious, the Supreme Court reversed 50 years of precedent and overturned Roe v. Wade, depriving women of the right to control their own bodies during the first six months of pregnancy. The court’s decision was made with the narrowest possible five-vote majority. Of those five, four were men — one of whom was accused of sexually harassing Anita Hill and another who Christine Ford said tried to rape her. That’s who is deciding women’s rights these days.
The current court term is equally frightening, with the court’s hand-picked, culture-war agenda to include LGBTQ rights, affirmative action, voting rights and state legislative control over elections. With Congress paralyzed by filibuster rules and partisan politics, the court has become the de facto lawmaker of the United States. And never has the court so aggressively wielded its power to refashion American democracy with its own harsh political and religious agenda. So, what can be done?
The truth is, not much. There are a lot of ideas out there, but few will work. Term limits or age limits, or partisan balancing, likely require a constitutional amendment — a futile prospect. To actually restore the rights taken away by the current court, its makeup must be changed and recent decisions reversed. An unpacked court could do that, which means a majority in Congress must vote to change the number of justices. It also means a majority of senators must remove the filibuster as an impediment to lawmaking.
Changing the number of justices is within Congress’ power and could result in more justices, or fewer. Expanding the court to 13 would match a historic practice of having one justice for each appellate circuit. Shrinking the court could purge it of Trump’s illegitimate appointments.
Either way, the stakes could not be higher. Unless stopped, this court will continue to strip away our most basic constitutional rights. It’s time to unpack the Supreme Court.
Steven Michel is a Santa Fe attorney. In 2016, he filed a federal lawsuit to compel the Senate to consider Merrick Garland’s nomination. The case ultimately went to the U.S. Supreme Court but was rejected in favor of a lower court ruling that dismissed his case for lack of standing. Michel’s claim that the Senate had a constitutional duty to consider presidential appointments was not decided. | 2022-10-23T03:10:27+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/its-time-to-unpack-the-supreme-court/article_dc55ece4-4fd6-11ed-be28-dbd61e175331.html |
Iowa Republican U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson called on the U.S. Department of Justice to release more information about the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate.
Hinson, of Marion, tweeted this week that the "American people deserve full and immediate transparency“ and that ”it was past time for a detailed justification to prove this was not a political fishing expedition,“ even after the release of the search warrant and property receipt by order of a federal judge at the request of the Justice Department.
The seized records include some that were marked classified as top secret and also “sensitive compartmented information,” a special category meant to protect the nation’s most important secrets and those that if revealed publicly could cause “exceptionally grave” damage to U.S. interests, the Associated Press reported. The court records did not provide specific details about information the documents might contain.
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The search warrant, also unsealed Friday, said federal agents were investigating potential violations of three different federal laws, including one that governs gathering, transmitting or losing defense information under the Espionage Act. The other statutes address the concealment, mutilation or removal of records and the destruction, alteration or falsification of records in federal investigations.
Hinson’s office said House and Senate intelligence committees should be given relevant documents as well as the FBI affidavit that provide a detailed justification for the search.
“After this unprecedented raid, the American people are rightly skeptical and deserve answers,” Hinson said in a statement Tuesday. “The DOJ must stop withholding critical information from Congress and the American people — transparency brings accountability.”
Hinson added she strongly condemns any attacks or violence, including against those at the Justice Department and FBI or any member of law enforcement.
"Violence is never acceptable,“ Hinson stated about reports of increased threats against federal law enforcement following the search last week of Trump’s Florida home.
The Justice Department in court documents opposed efforts to make public the affidavit supporting the search warrant for Trump’s residence, saying the investigation “implicates highly classified material” and the document contains sensitive information about witnesses. Publicly releasing the affidavit, according to the court filing, would “cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation.”
The government’s opposition came in response to court filings by several news organizations, including the Associated Press, seeking to unseal the underlying affidavit the Justice Department submitted when it asked for the warrant to search Trump’s estate.
In a statement Friday, Trump claimed that the documents seized by agents were “all declassified,” and argued that he would have turned over the documents to the Justice Department if asked.
While incumbent presidents have the power to declassify information, that authority lapses as soon as they leave office and it was not clear if the documents in question were ever declassified. Trump also kept possession of the documents despite multiple requests from agencies, including the National Archives, to turn over records in accordance with federal law.
It remains unclear whether the Justice Department moved forward with the warrant simply as a means to retrieve the records or as part of a wider criminal investigation.
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday urging him to "correct course" and prioritize combating violent crime.
The top Republican ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with conducting oversight of the Justice Department, Grassley has been vocal about his support for making the affidavit public.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2022-08-17T02:23:49+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/hinson-calls-for-detailed-justification-of-fbi-search-of-trump-home/article_ece311ae-acba-5bde-a8cb-e4e3d36c71ac.html |
GROTON – One of the youngest teams in the ISL is now perhaps the team to beat in one of the toughest leagues to win in Massachusetts.
On Friday night at Lawrence Academy, St. Sebastian’s used a stingy defense and some timely big plays on offense to upset the Spartans, 19-14, and with it assume control of the ISL race.
“Our defense has just been unbelievable all season,” Arrows coach Dan Burke said. “They bend but don’t break and that was the case (Friday). We gave up some yards but made the plays when we needed them.”
The Arrows (5-0) forced Lawrence into four turnovers and held the potent Spartans offense under 300 yards total in the game. Offensively, St. Sebastian’s settled for a lot of little plays but it was one big one late in the first half that turned the game.
Trailing 7-0 and stuck inside its five with just 83 seconds left on the clock, the Arrows weren’t content to run off the time even though they were getting the ball to begin the second half. Quarterback Ty Ciongoli (14-of 27, 192 yards) hit Tedy Frisoli for a 10 yard gain to give the Arrows some room to work with.
He followed that with a 34-yard dart to Jack Quinn to move the ball to the Spartans 49. One play later, he dumped off a screen pass to running back George Kirby, who weaved his way through the Lawrence defense and into the end zone to tie the game.
“Scoring at the end of the half was huge. We wanted to try and see if we could get something going and we got some field position that gave us a chance,” Burke said.
The Spartans (4-1) moved the ball well at times but self-inflicted wounds ultimately proved to be their undoing.
On their first drive of the second half, quarterback Mike Landolfi (16 of 26, 182 yards) and running back Gavin Hatfield (19 carries, 106 yards) helped move the ball to near midfield. But on a second and 10 at the 44, Landolfi was picked off by a diving Charlie Hoffman at the Arrows 48.
St. Sebastian’s needed only four plays to turn the interception into the go-ahead score. Ciongoli hooked up with his brother Ace for a 31-yard gain on third and 9. On the next snap, Kirby raced around the right side for a 21-yard score and a 13-7 lead with :35 left in the third.
On the ensuing drive, the Spartans faced a fourth-and-one from the Arrows 41. They went for it as Hatfield carried but he was stripped of the ball trying to reach for the marker. Jake Mulrey scooped up the ball and took it 60 yards to give the Arrows a 12 point lead with 9:54 to go.
The St. Sebastian’s defense took it from there. They forced a turnover on downs on Lawrence’s next drive and then picked off Landolfi for a second time with 2:54 to go.
The Spartans did get within six in the final minute when Landolfi hit Hatfield for an 11-yard touchdown with :36.7 left. But Quinn recovered the ensuing onside kick to seal the win for the Arrows.
“We have such a great core of senior leaders that we can rely on,” Burke said. “But we’ve never had so many young kids playing such big roles for this team. They are doing a fantastic job.”
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) — As dawn broke Friday in Qatar, the laborers who built this energy-rich country’s World Cup soccer stadiums, roads and subway filled empty stretches of asphalt and sandlots to play the sport closest to their hearts — cricket.
The sport that spread across the reaches of the former British empire remains a favorite of the South Asian laborers who power economies across the Arabian Peninsula.
It’s a moment of respite for workers, who typically just have Friday off in Qatar and much of the rest of the Gulf Arab nations. And it’s one they look forward to all week, batting and bowling before the heat of the day fully takes hold.
“It’s in our blood,” said laborer Kesavan Pakkirisamy as he coached his team at one sandlot, the skyline of Doha visible in the distance. “We’ve played cricket since a long time. It’s a happy journey for us.”
Laborer rights have been a focus of this World Cup since Qatar won the bid for the tournament back in 2010. Workers can face long hours, extortion and low pay. Qatar has overhauled its labor laws to put in a minimum wage and untie visas from employers, though activists have urged more to be done.
On Fridays, however, laborers control their day. Just down the road from the global headquarters of Qatar’s satellite news network Al Jazeera, workers gathered in a parking lot and another large desert expanse wedged between roads.
Some appeared nervous when Associated Press journalists stopped by their matches, with several asking if they’d be in trouble for playing cricket in vacant lots in his autocratic nation. Others, however, smiled and invited visitors to watch.
Hary R., an Indian from the southern state of Kerala, showed a reporter the mobile phone app he used to keep track of runs and overs. While Friday’s match was a friendly, there are tournaments organized among the Indian and Sri Lankan communities in Qatar to vie for supremacy.
“We are working throughout the week and we need to just get relaxed and meet our friends just for time pass and entertainment,” he said. His teammates on the Strikers, some of whom wore matching uniforms, shouted at him to keep track of the game.
Pakkirisamy, who shouted encouragement near two discarded couches used by players as a bench, praised his company for helping his colleagues take part in wider competitions.
“From my father and my grandfather, they have been playing in cricket since since a childhood age,” he said, describing a lifelong love of the game.
Pakkirisamy and his teammates, while lovers of cricket, still were excited about the World Cup being in Qatar.
“We are here for work, we are here for earning something for our family,” he said, adding that being in Qatar means, “It’s easy for us to be there, to see the game on ground, not only the TV.”
Cricket, with its lush green grass pitches, may seem like an anomaly in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. However, the need for migrant labor has seen Gulf Arab nations draw cricket-playing workers to their shores for decades.
The United Arab Emirates has a cricket team that qualified for the International Cricket Council’s T20 World Cup in Australia last month.
Dubai in the UAE is even home to the ICC’s headquarters and has hosted major cricket events, including the Indian Premier League, the Pakistan Super League and the T20 championships.
But for laborers in the region, any empty patch of ground can be turned into a pitch.
“You can you can be in any road. You can be in any place,” Pakkirisamy said. “Any small place, you can play cricket.”
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Follow Jon Gambrell on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP. | 2022-11-25T16:11:03+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-laborers-play-sandlot-cricket-near-world-cup-soccer-stadiums/ |
(KRON/NEXSTAR) — The Golden State has long been an epicenter for entrepreneurship — but that reputation has been threatened since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. A variety of economic and social forces came to a head during this time, with many major companies deciding to leave.
A 2021 report by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in August 2021 found that 74 corporate headquarters left California in just the first six months of the year, in addition to 64 companies that moved out in 2020.
Bay Area counties accounted for five of the top 10 counties that saw headquarter migration — with the San Francisco Bay Area leading the way. Many of traditionally Californian companies are now resetting in the Lone Star State.
Who left California?
Tesla Motors: Palo Alto to Austin, Texas — No discussion of companies leaving California would be complete without discussing Tesla. The company officially relocated to the Lone Star State in December 2021, after a conflict between CEO Elon Musk and Alameda County health authorities over COVID-19 rules during the initial lockdown.
“California has been winning for a long time, and I think they’re taking it for granted,” Musk said when announcing the change.
Musk also moved his personal residence to Texas, which lacks a state income tax.
However it appears Musk isn’t done with California as the magnate is seeking to buy San Francisco-based Twitter.
Oracle: Redwood City to Austin — Oracle, namesake of the San Francisco Giants ballpark and the former namesake of the arena that the Golden State Warriors called home, announced its move in December 2020.
Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz were major supporters of former President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported, and company leaders felt increasingly out of sync with modern Silicon Valley. The world’s third-largest software company’s leaders had also moved its annual conference, OpenWorld, from San Francisco to Las Vegas, and the company was trying to build a younger and cheaper workforce.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise: San Jose to Spring — Hewlett Packard Enterprise moved to the Lone Star State the same month, with its moved announced by Gov. Gregg Abbot (R), as Nexstar’s KRON4 reported at the time.
“As we look to the future, our business needs, opportunities for cost savings, and team members’ preferences about the future of work, we are excited to relocate HPE’s headquarters to the Houston region,” CEO Antonio Neri stated at that time. “Houston is an attractive market to recruit and retain future diverse talent and where we are currently constructing a state-of-the-art new campus. We look forward to continuing to expand our strong presence in the market.”
Charles Schwab Corp.: San Francisco to Westlake — The financial services company merged with TD Ameritrade in 2020, which resulted in a corporate HQ move to Westlake, a suburb of Fort Worth. The move was official on January 1, 2021.
Why?
The Stanford researchers found that the regulatory climate and taxes were big reasons companies chose to make the leap east. Of all U.S. states, CEOs rated California’s tax and regulation policies the worst, including a total of 518 state agencies, boards and commissions.
“Lawmakers in Sacramento continually enact laws that expand civil liability on businesses and
property owners,” the report stated, adding that another factor is that California workers also need more money than workers in other states.
“California employees often have (or demand) elevated wages to meet the high cost of living, excessive housing prices, burdensome income tax rates, expensive utilities, and in some cases payments for private schools to avoid the failing public school systems.,” the researchers stated. “For an employer, labor costs are higher than elsewhere when comparisons are made of charges that include not only wages and salaries but employer-paid statutory benefits and fringe benefits.”
Texas is considered the most entrepreneur-friendly state, and California ranks No. 49 of 50, according to the study. Forbes reported in May that Texas is the state with the most Fortune 500 companies.
Going to Texas
Y Texas, a business resource that tracks corporate relocations to Texas, shows as many as 62 companies moved in during 2021 alone. There have been at least 14 company relocations this year.
So far in 2022, a wave of major corporations have left for the Lone Star State, including construction machinery giant Caterpillar, specialty metals producer Allegheny Technologies (ATI), and fiber sensor solutions company DarkPulse.
Data shows companies relocated from 17 other states, with popular landing sites being Austin, Irving, Houston and Dallas. | 2022-07-03T15:34:57+00:00 | wearegreenbay.com | https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/national/these-companies-left-california-for-texas-during-the-pandemic/ |
LONDON, June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Fastmarkets today announces that it has completed the planned demerger from Delinian, formerly known as Euromoney Institutional Investor plc. As part of the transaction, Fastmarkets is now backed by private equity firm, Astorg.
Fastmarkets is the industry-leading price reporting agency (PRA) serving the metals, mining, forest products, energy transition and agriculture markets with over 10,000 customers globally. Fastmarkets' growth is fuelled by its reputation as the trusted provider of mission critical price data, benchmarks, forecasts and market analyses from more than 200 reporters and analysts globally across its core commodity markets. This data helps customers navigate complex, volatile and often opaque end markets, enabling trading and risk management.
Fastmarkets is a global business with a 130-year history with more than 500 employees spread across the UK, US, China, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, and Finland.
The demerger will enable Fastmarkets to pursue a tailored strategy as an independent business led by CEO Raju Daswani and a dedicated management team. Fastmarkets will seek to continue organic and inorganic growth through the development of the business, targeting operational improvements and making strategic acquisitions.
James Davis, Partner at Astorg, said: "Since our acquisition, the Fastmarkets business has performed very strongly and having now completed the demerger, which represents a significant milestone for the business, we can focus solely on supporting Raju and the team in pursuing our growth plans."
Raju Daswani, CEO of Fastmarkets, said: "This is an exciting time for Fastmarkets given our position at the forefront of new energy transition-related markets. Being backed by an ambitious investor will help us accelerate our plans for new products and underpin the continued growth of our business."
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Arizona Governor Doug Ducey is hoping to fill more gaps along the state's southern border much like what was done at Yuma.
He is looking to close Nogales' border gaps next. About 90 shipping containers were transported to the Nogales National Guard Facility, according to Santa Cruz Sheriff David Hathaway.
KGUN 9 asked Gov. Ducey's office about the containers and they confirmed plans to use them, and are considering placing them at the border along Santa Cruz, Pima and Cochise Counties.
However, Hathaway says the shipping containers may not work in Nogales.
"The border here in Nogales is very different than Yuma. A lot of canyons. It's not very conducive to those flat shipping containers to make a fence and I understand some have fallen over in Yuma. They kind of stack them up and they weld them together so our border - it kind of snakes up and down on the hills and mountain so I don't know if that concept will here," explained Hathaway.
Ducey's administration still needs to make a decision on what to do with the containers in Nogales.
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If you’re a Target shopper, you’ve likely heard about the benefits of getting the RedCard — but now, there’s a brand-new version that is even easier to sign up for.
The new Target RedCard Reloadable Account still saves you 5% on your purchases, just like the standard RedCard, but you can sign up without a credit check or bank account. The reloadable card lets you add money to the card at Target, but you can spend it anywhere that takes Visa debit cards. That means it essentially acts as a debit card itself, with no bill to pay later.
To sign up, simply head to Target’s website. You must be 18 years old or older and will need to provide your social security number to verify your identity. Once completed, you’ll be an official Target RedCard holder and can begin saving money and getting other benefits.
Along with the 5% savings in the store, at Starbucks locations inside Target and on specialty gift cards, the Reloadable Target RedCard has no annual or monthly fees. It gives you free two-day shipping on most items from Target.com, an additional 30 days for returns and exchanges, and other special items and offers.
If you open a reloadable card before Dec. 10, you can also get a coupon for $40 off a purchase of $40 or more, which should give you a pretty good start on holiday shopping. The coupon is valid through Jan. 8, 2023, and will come in the mail, and exclusions apply.
A few features are missing from the reloadable version of the card that the other RedCards have. This includes the ability to pay for your Target purchases directly from your existing checking account, which you get with the RedCard debit card. You also will not earn 2% on dining and gas purchases or 1% everywhere else outside of Target, as you would with the credit card. You’ll have to choose which card works best for your needs.
This shopping season is a great time to open a reloadable Target RedCard account, so get to it!
This story originally appeared on Don't Waste Your Money. Checkout Don't Waste Your Money for product reviews and other great ideas to save and make money. | 2022-12-07T16:46:36+00:00 | abc15.com | https://www.abc15.com/target-just-released-a-new-reloadable-redcard |
NISHINOMIYA, Japan, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD., a global provider of the most accurate timing devices headquartered in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, is pleased to announce a new generation of time synchronization GNSS receiver modules compatible with all GNSS systems in the world. The modules deliver best-in-class nanosecond precision for 5th generation (5G) mobile systems, radio communications systems, smart power grids and grand master clocks.
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Superior Accuracy / Advanced Robustness
GNSS receivers for time synchronization are used extensively in critical infrastructure such as mobile base stations and RAN equipment, commercial and defense radio communications, broadcasting, financial trading, smart power grids and more, where there are ever-increasing needs for high robustness, reliability and security.
Three new products being released include GT-100, GT-9001 and GT-90, designed to suit different applications based on frequency bands and output signals supported. All models boast the world's highest level of time stability of 4.5ns (1 sigma) and offer superior features and performance.
- Unrivaled performance for 5G, radio communications, time servers, smart grids
- Dual band, supporting all constellations (GT-100)
- Highly precise time & ultra-low-jitter 1pps synchronized with UTC
- High robustness -- guaranteed performance even if only L1 or only L5 signals are used (GT-100)
- Programmable frequency clock outputs synchronized with UTC (GT-9001 & GT-100)
- Excellent performance even in harsh environments and urban canyons
All models are equipped with the leading Dynamic Satellite Selection (TM) (DSS) multipath mitigation technology developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) that minimizes degradation of time performance even when the antenna is installed in urban areas or near a window.
GT-100 is the company's first timing multi-GNSS receiver module supporting concurrent L1 and L5 reception. This mitigates the effects of solar flares, which can lead to time errors, and strengthens measures against GNSS vulnerabilities such as jamming and spoofing. GT-100 delivers three outputs including 1 pulse per second (1PPS) synchronized with UTC as well as user-programmable frequencies. The outputs can be set as required to 10MHz, 2.048 MHz, 19.2 MHz, etc., commonly used in a variety of wireless communications systems. This drastically reduces the time from development to market launch for these systems as well as cost savings through reduced component needs.
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Furuno has been dedicated to development, manufacturing, and maintenance of highest-quality marine electronic equipment for navigation and communication as well as high-precision GNSS devices, life-saving medical equipment, wireless LAN systems and much more. The Furuno group incorporates an international workforce of approximately 3,000 employees with subsidiaries in over 30 countries and regions, who are all prepared to fulfill the needs and expectations of its customers. Furuno will relentlessly pursue its tradition of developing core technologies that empower customers in critical infrastructure and other fields to build robust time synchronization systems with the highest precision and reliability.
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Champion Of The Toughest Off Road Race In America Is A Wyomingite
Wyoming's own Jeremy Jones, of Laramie, is King of the Hammers.
King of the Hammers is an off-road race that's about as tough as they come.
Jones is a chiropractor from Laramie Wyoming
He drove, correction, PLOWED AND BANGED his Class 4800 Barnik Motorsports Legends race car through a 143-mile course of open desert, rocky canyons, and sedan-sized boulders.
He managed to take the overall win at the 2023 4WP Every Man Challenge in Johnson Valley, California in February.
ROAD? We don't need no stinking ROAD!
The route, not round is filled with boulders named after hammers. That's why the winner can claim the title of “King of the Hammers.”
It was Jones along with team member and navigator Dan Young, from the Laramie Fire Department.
They raced 4 hours, 42 minutes, 52 seconds. That placed them about 20 minutes ahead of the second-place finisher.
The Every Man Challenge attracts more than 80,000 race teams, vendors, and fans every year.
Despite the hard terrain, there are places where drivers reach speeds of 115 miles per hour.
In other places, they can be seen twisting through gullies, around, and even over boulders.
It's so hard drivers feel as if they are getting hammered. Hence the name.
Before the race teams are allowed up to a week to learn the course.
But, according to Jones, some just never get the hang of it.
“The race itself has — about 25% to 30% of the cars that start it, finish it,” Young said. “And that has to do with the quality of prep that they do on their race car, quality of the parts on the car in general, quality of pre-running and notes. If you didn’t take a note where something is in the desert, and we took a note and we know to slow down, we take our time, slow down through it and are able to cruise through it. If they don’t have that marked, they may not slow down enough and damage their car, wreck the car.” (Laramie Boomerang). | 2023-03-17T17:46:27+00:00 | k2radio.com | https://k2radio.com/wyoming-team-wins-toughest-off-road-race-in-america/ |
NORTH PLAINS, Ore. (AP) — The Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf tour’s second event teed off Thursday, angering a group of families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11 and want the Saudi government held to account for the terrorist attacks.
About 10 family members and survivors spoke at a small park honoring veterans in tiny North Plains, home to Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.
“This event is nothing more than a group of very talented athletes who appear to have turned their backs on the crime of murder,” said survivor Tim Frolich, who was injured in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
The LIV Golf series, funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, was making its first stop on American soil this week after a debut this month outside of London.
Carlos Ortiz took the lead Thursday with a 5-under 67. Dustin Johnson, the 2020 Masters winner, was a shot back. Pat Perez, Brenden Grace and Hideto Tadihara were two shots off the lead.
“You need to get off to a good start and obviously stay with it because there’s no real letting up,” Perez said about the 54-hole format. “Every shot, I think, means a little bit more.”
The upstart series, fronted by CEO Greg Norman, aims to challenge the PGA Tour and has lured players with big signing bonuses and rich prize purses. But critics call the tour an attempt at “sportswashing” to detract from Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses, including the murder of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Locally, opponents point to the 2016 hit-and-run death of 15-year-old Fallon Smart. The Saudi national accused in the case cut off a monitoring device shortly before his trial and vanished. U.S. officials believe he was spirited home by the Saudi government.
And then there’s the Sept. 11 families, who have reached out to some of the individual golfers involved in the tour but have not been granted an audience. The group produced an ad that has run on local television.
“These golfers that are getting in bed with the Saudis, they should know what they’re doing. Shame on them. And to the golfers that say it’s just a game of golf: Shame on them,” said Brett Eagleson, the head of the group 9/11 Justice, who lost his father at the World Trade Center. “I invite them to live with the pain in our eyes, hear our stories and walk in our shoes, hear what we have to say about the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
At Pumpkin Ridge there was a noticeable police and security presence, including officers at the front gate. There were rumors of a designated protest area in one of the parking lots, but no one was sure where it was. Tickets to the event warned fans could not display political signs.
Phil Mickelson, a six-time major winner and a top draw on the tour, had one of the bigger galleries on opening day. He was playing in a group with Charl Schwartzel, who lost his ball on his first drive of the day. Fans along the fairway said they believed it landed in a tree.
“In this area there aren’t many chances to see these guys in person,” spectator Will Knowles said. “I’m staying out of the politics.”
Because the event was played on two courses, it was difficult to get a handle on crowd sizes and LIV Golf did not disclose attendance figures.
For golfers, part of LIV Golf’s allure is the money. In addition to sizable signing bonuses, the 48-man field is competing for a $20 million purse, with an additional $5 million prize fund for a team competition. Schwartzel won the London event (and team portion) and made $4.75 million.
There’s no cut and even the last-place finisher earns a payday of $120,000. Organizers promise exciting events they say will attract new fans: With a shotgun start and Rihanna blaring out of a massive sound system near the putting green, the tournament indeed had a different vibe.
In addition to Mickelson, who shot a 75, fellow majors winners Johnson, Brooks Koepka (70) and Bryson DeChambeau (72) have also joined LIV — which rhymes with “give” — and plays on the Roman numerals for 54.
The PGA Tour responded to LIV Golf’s challenge by suspending every active member who competed in the first LIV event. Those who play in Oregon will also be suspended unless they resign their tour memberships.
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More AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-07-01T20:03:39+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/sports/liv-tees-off-in-oregon-amid-criticism-over-saudi-funding/ |
When you’re out on the golf course, when do you like to crack your first beer? There is no wrong answer.
When the clock strikes tee time, everyone is different. For some, it happens in the parking lot before you hit the pro shop. For others, it comes before you tee off on the first hole. For me, I usually wait until the second hole, at least. So, what type of golf drinker are you?
When I first started golfing, my golf bag was always packed with ice cold Miller Lite. I’m man enough to admit it. That was back before I discovered craft beer and, it was a time when the Western New York craft beer scene was not nearly as robust as it is today.
Nowadays when I’m getting in nine or 18 holes, I’m reaching for something local, the crispier the better, and preferably in 12-ounce cans, though that’s not always a possibility. Not in the mood for lager? That’s perfectly acceptable. As you’ll see on this list, there are plenty of other beer styles to keep you hydrated out in the sun, though there’s no guarantee these beers will help you cut down on your slice or finish under par.
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Smash Factor IPA, Resurgence Brewing Co.
55 Chicago St. (768-6018)
Like I said, it doesn’t have to be a lager you reach for come tee time. Resurgence’s Smash Factor, an IPA collaboration with OnCore Golf, features HBC 586 and Mosaic hops for notes of tropical fruits, dank citrus and subtle berry. And, if that doesn’t make you feel good enough, a portion of proceeds from sales of Smash Factor benefit. PGA HOPE WNY, which introduces veterans to golf as an outlet to enhance their physical, mental, social and emotional well-being. Availability: Cans, draft.
Mulligan Lager, 12 Gates Brewing Co.
80 Earhart Drive, Williamsville (906-6600)
With its latest lager, 12 Gates has created the ultimate crusher. Mulligan is light, crisp and a touch sweet with ever-so-subtle biscuit malt notes; it’s designed to be consumed rapidly. I look forward to cracking more than a few of these at golf courses this summer. I’m not saying that this beer was made specifically to fill your golf bag cooler this summer, but it’s about as close to perfect an option as you’ll get. Availability: Cans, draft.
First Line Pilsner, First Line Brewing
4906 S. Buffalo St., Orchard Park (740-8621)
As I so eloquently put it when speaking about 12 Gates’ Mulligan above, First Line Pilsner is also entirely quaffable and designed to be consumed rapidly. It is a true crusher, a clean, crisp and refreshing American-style pilsner that will quench your thirst. And if you don’t achieve that goal on the first try, just reach for another. Availability: Cans, draft.
Freshly Squeezed, West Shore Brewing Co.
10995 Main St., Clarence (998-3752)
This orange beermosa-style wheat ale was conditioned on oranges and blended with orange puree and guava. That just sounds incredibly refreshing, doesn’t it? It’s making me thirsty as I type. What better beer to accompany your early tee time than an orange beermosa? Who needs coffee anyway, right? West Shore also recently released Golden Hour, an intriguing new lager brewed with Citra, Lemon Drop and Centennial hops, which would make a fine addition to your golf game. Availability: Cans, draft.
Haggen, Pressure Drop Brewing
1672 Elmwood Ave. (551-0019)
While you’ve undoubtedly seen this lager on one of my lists before, I still can’t help but feel like I’m cheating whenever I write about any Pressure Drop beer other than Sticky Trees. I have been in love with this lager since the first time I had it (ironically on draft at West Shore Brewing) and begged for it to be canned. Pressure Drop finally granted my wish and the scene is better because of it. Haggen is downright lovely; super crisp and clean and not as bready as others of its ilk. Availability: Cans, draft. | 2022-05-10T11:59:52+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/entertainment/dining/restaurants/hit-the-links-with-these-5-local-craft-beers/article_ab49538e-cd7c-11ec-89ac-1b0df66e4a30.html |
Thousands of pro-Trump bots are attacking DeSantis, Haley
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump.
Besides posting adoring words about the former president, the fake accounts ridiculed Trump’s critics from both parties and attacked Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador who is challenging her onetime boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
When it came to Ron DeSantis, the bots aggressively suggested that the Florida governor couldn’t beat Trump, but would be a great running mate.
As Republican voters size up their candidates for 2024, whoever created the bot network is seeking to put a thumb on the scale, using online manipulation techniques pioneered by the Kremlin to sway the digital platform conversation about candidates while exploiting Twitter’s algorithms to maximize their reach.
The sprawling bot network was uncovered by researchers at Cyabra, an Israeli tech firm that shared its findings with The Associated Press. While the identity of those behind the network of fake accounts is unknown, Cyabra’s analysts determined that it was likely created within the U.S.
To identify a bot, researchers will look for patterns in an account’s profile, its follower list and the content it posts. Human users typically post about a variety of subjects, with a mix of original and reposted material, but bots often post repetitive content about the same topics.
That was true of many of the bots identified by Cyabra.
“One account will say, ‘Biden is trying to take our guns; Trump was the best,’ and another will say, ‘Jan. 6 was a lie and Trump was innocent,’” said Jules Gross, the Cyabra engineer who first discovered the network. “Those voices are not people. For the sake of democracy I want people to know this is happening.”
Bots, as they are commonly called, are fake, automated accounts that became notoriously well-known after Russia employed them in an effort to meddle in the 2016 election. While big tech companies have improved their detection of fake accounts, the network identified by Cyabra shows they remain a potent force in shaping online political discussion.
The new pro-Trump network is actually three different networks of Twitter accounts, all created in huge batches in April, October and November 2022. In all, researchers believe hundreds of thousands of accounts could be involved.
The accounts all feature personal photos of the alleged account holder as well as a name. Some of the accounts posted their own content, often in reply to real users, while others reposted content from real users, helping to amplify it further.
“McConnell... Traitor!” wrote one of the accounts, in response to an article in a conservative publication about GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell, one of several Republican critics of Trump targeted by the network.
One way of gauging the impact of bots is to measure the percentage of posts about any given topic generated by accounts that appear to be fake. The percentage for typical online debates is often in the low single digits. Twitter itself has said that less than 5% of its active daily users are fake or spam accounts.
When Cyabra researchers examined negative posts about specific Trump critics, however, they found far higher levels of inauthenticity. Nearly three-fourths of the negative posts about Haley, for example, were traced back to fake accounts.
The network also helped popularize a call for DeSantis to join Trump as his vice presidential running mate — an outcome that would serve Trump well and allow him to avoid a potentially bitter matchup if DeSantis enters the race.
The same network of accounts shared overwhelmingly positive content about Trump and contributed to an overall false picture of his support online, researchers found.
“Our understanding of what is mainstream Republican sentiment for 2024 is being manipulated by the prevalence of bots online,” the Cyabra researchers concluded.
The triple network was discovered after Gross analyzed Tweets about different national political figures and noticed that many of the accounts posting the content were created on the same day. Most of the accounts remain active, though they have relatively modest numbers of followers.
A message left with a spokesman for Trump’s campaign was not immediately returned.
Most bots aren’t designed to persuade people, but to amplify certain content so more people see it, according to Samuel Woolley, a professor and misinformation researcher at the University of Texas whose most recent book focuses on automated propaganda.
When a human user sees a hashtag or piece of content from a bot and reposts it, they’re doing the network’s job for it, and also sending a signal to Twitter’s algorithms to boost the spread of the content further.
Bots can also succeed in convincing people that a candidate or idea is more or less popular than the reality, he said. More pro-Trump bots can lead to people overstating his popularity overall, for example.
“Bots absolutely do impact the flow of information,” Woolley said. “They’re built to manufacture the illusion of popularity. Repetition is the core weapon of propaganda and bots are really good at repetition. They’re really good at getting information in front of people’s eyeballs.”
Until recently, most bots were easily identified thanks to their clumsy writing or account names that included nonsensical words or long strings of random numbers. As social media platforms got better at detecting these accounts, the bots became more sophisticated.
So-called cyborg accounts are one example: a bot that is periodically taken over by a human user who can post original content and respond to users in human-like ways, making them much harder to sniff out.
Bots could soon get much sneakier thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. New AI programs can create lifelike profile photos and posts that sound much more authentic. Bots that sound like a real person and deploy deepfake video technology may challenge platforms and users alike in new ways, according to Katie Harbath, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and a former Facebook public policy director.
“The platforms have gotten so much better at combating bots since 2016,” Harbath said. “But the types that we’re starting to see now, with AI, they can create fake people. Fake videos.”
These technological advances likely ensure that bots have a long future in American politics — as digital foot soldiers in online campaigns, and as potential problems for both voters and candidates trying to defend themselves against anonymous online attacks.
“There’s never been more noise online,” said Tyler Brown, a political consultant and former digital director for the Republican National Committee. “How much of it is malicious or even unintentionally unfactual? It’s easy to imagine people being able to manipulate that.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-06T17:21:22+00:00 | wagmtv.com | https://www.wagmtv.com/2023/03/06/thousands-pro-trump-bots-are-attacking-desantis-haley/ |
Elliott Awarded Approximately US $108.5 Million
Victory for Elliott Shows Harm Done to Investors by Corrupt Relationships between Government Officials, Chaebol
Precedent-Setting Decision Should Help Future Investors in Korea
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., June 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Elliott Investment Management L.P. ("Elliott"), today issued the following statement regarding the outcome of its arbitration case against the Republic of Korea regarding Elliott's investment in Samsung C&T:
We believe that the Tribunal's decision is solidly supported by the facts of this case – facts that have been proven and acknowledged widely over the past few years, including by the Republic of Korea's own courts and prosecutors.
To our knowledge, this is the first Investor-State Dispute case in Asia in which an investment firm engaged in shareholder activism has prevailed against a sovereign based on criminal corruption emanating from the head of state. Elliott was awarded approximately US $108.5 million, representing its damages, interest, and legal fees and costs. We are reviewing the award closely.
The decision shows the harm done to investors (both foreign investors and domestic Korean pension holders) by corrupt relationships between government officials and chaebol – the same kind of corrupt relationships that the current President and Minister of Justice have established in cases they have led in their careers as prosecutors. We hope the Republic will follow the directions of the Tribunal and pay the ultimate award rather than pursue baseless legal proceedings to challenge the Tribunal's decision, incurring further legal costs and interest at the public's expense.
We hope that the finding of clear liability on the part of the Republic under a previous administration will serve as an important event in the current administration's efforts to fight corruption. In addition, we hope that, as a result, Korea will become a more transparent and reliable destination for foreign investments.
More information regarding this matter can be found on the website of the Permanent Court of Arbitration by following the link below:
About Elliott
Elliott Investment Management L.P. manages approximately $55.2 billion of assets as of December 31, 2022. Founded in 1977, it is one of the oldest funds under continuous management. The Elliott funds' investors include pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, funds-of-funds, high net worth individuals and families, and employees of the firm.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
6-7-6, FIREBALL: 2
(six, seven, six; FIREBALL: two)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Texas Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
6-7-6, FIREBALL: 2
(six, seven, six; FIREBALL: two) | 2022-10-19T04:15:35+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-3-Night-game-17518655.php |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Justin Herbert sat in silence at his locker for roughly 15 minutes, staring into the distance. He had taken off his cleats but was still wearing most of his grass-stained uniform.
It was a defining scene for a team devastated by a collapse no one could have seen coming. And it made this much clear: Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers won’t get over this loss — the third-largest blown lead in postseason history — anytime soon.
The Chargers did little in the second half, allowing Trevor Lawrence to follow four interceptions with four touchdown passes and rally Jacksonville from a 27-0 deficit. They lost 31-30 on Riley Patterson’s 36-yard field goal on the final play.
“Obviously, it was a tough go for us,” Herbert said. “As an offense, we need to do more in the second half, and you know that falls on us offensively and as a quarterback. I needed to perform better.
“I’ve got to give them more than three points in the second half and so I feel horrible for the defense for the incredible effort they put up there today. But got to be better as a team.”
Most will point to Lawrence’s heroics as the reason for the 27-point comeback. He completed 24 of his final 31 passes for 258 yards, with four touchdowns. He connected with Evan Engram, Zay Jones, Marvin Jones and Christian Kirk, and then he scored on a 2-point conversion that left the Jaguars (10-8) down 30-28 and gave them a chance to win instead of tie with a field goal.
Even then, the Chargers (10-8) did nothing to slow them down.
“Anytime you’re up 27-7 at halftime and you’ve got four takeaways and you end up winning the takeaway margin (5-0), it’s going to be a killer,” Chargers coach Brandon Staley said. “I’m hurting for everybody in that locker room. It’s a special group of guys, and this is the toughest way that you can lose in the playoffs and certainly with the way we started the game.
“That’s the team that I know that we’re capable of being, and in the second half, we just didn’t finish the game.”
It didn’t help that cornerback Michael Davis had left the game with a pectoral muscle injury that forced rookie Ja’Sir Taylor onto the field. Not surprisingly, the Jaguars picked on him.
It also didn’t help that star pass rusher Joey Bosa lost his cool and picked up a second personal foul penalty.
“I think he was frustrated,” Staley said. “There were a bunch of things that kind of accumulated throughout the game. And he tried to talk through it with the officials. But we can’t lose our composure like that. We need to make sure that we stay on the high side of things. And you can’t hurt the team that way.”
Herbert threw for 273 yards and a touchdown without an interception, but the Chargers’ offense was largely ineffective after a 62-yard TD drive that made it 24-0 midway through the second quarter. Los Angeles finished with 320 yards of offense and 18 first downs, and it produced only three points on four second-half possessions.
Staley surely will be questioned for being too conservative, both on defense and offense — he opted for a field goal on fourth-and-3 midway through the fourth quarter that Cameron Dicker missed — and for not trying to run the ball more. LA had 23 rushing attempts for 69 yards, a 2.9-yard average, while Herbert threw 43 times.
Herbert was replaying all of it in his head as he sat silently at his locker stall.
“As an offense, we need to move the ball better,” he said. “Through the air, on the ground, you just have to be able to move the chains, and we didn’t do that enough. We didn’t score in the red zone enough.
“When we put up three points in the second half as an offense, that’s on us. Not executing, not converting on third down when we needed to, some penalties. But tough, tough.”
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Driver slams into tree in front of Southington home
Published: Jun. 5, 2023 at 9:17 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
SOUTHINGTON, CT (WFSB) - Emergency crews responded to a car crash in front of a home in Southington on Monday morning.
The scene was on Meriden Avenue.
A Channel 3 crew on the scene saw the car crashed into a tree.
There’s no word on injuries or a cause.
Copyright 2023 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-05T14:21:26+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2023/06/05/driver-slams-into-tree-front-southington-home/ |
KIRKSVILLE, Mo . (AP) — A northeast Missouri man has been convicted of shooting and killing three people, including a toddler, and wounding a fourth person.
Ray Rijos, 53, of Kirksville, was found guilty Wednesday on six of eight charges, including three counts of second-degree murder, KTVO-TV reported. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 21.
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Rijos and Anquan “AJ” Glover were charged after the Dec. 30, 2021, shootings at a Kirksville duplex.
Braxton Cottrill, 22, and 18-month-old Parker Sizemore died shortly after the shooting.
Another shooting victim, Alissa Anders, 18, of Kirksville, who was pregnant, died on Jan. 25, at a Kirksville hospital. Anders' baby was delivered by emergency C-section and survived.
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Randall Yarrington survived after being shot in the chest.
Glover faces 14 charges, including three counts of first-degree murder, when he goes to trial on June 20. | 2023-01-27T00:49:53+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/man-convicted-in-deaths-of-3-people-in-kirksville-17744847.php |
Gayle King and Charles Barkley to host new prime-time show on CNN, company announces
By Nicole Goodkind, CNN Business
CNN will be the home to a new weekly prime-time show featuring Gayle King and Charles Barkley, the news network announced on Saturday.
King and Barkley sat down together on TNT’s NBA Tip-Off Saturday to discuss the details of the live show, titled King Charles, which is set to air on Wednesdays.
“I want the show to be nonpolitical,” said Barkley, though he added that the show would touch on politics. “You know (Gayle King) is going to be a straight shooter. I’m going to be a straight shooter,” he added. “I know she’s going to be fair and honest and you know I’m going to do the same thing.”
The show will be a no holds barred look at current topics, said King. “I think that decorum and courtesy and kindness always work,” she said. “But everybody I know has an opinion on something. We just need to figure out a way to have a good conversation without tearing each other down. And I think we can do that.”
Topics covered on the show, said King and Barkley, will range from hard-hitting topics like gun control to lighter fare like food and pop culture.
“I want people to tune in to see ‘what are Gayle and Charles going to do?”’ said King. “I think it will be fun to watch the dynamic between the two of us.”
The show will also feature personalities at the center of the week’s news.
King Charles is expected to begin this fall and run into 2024, CNN CEO Chris Licht wrote in an email to staff Saturday.
The show, he said, will deliver “culturally relevant programming and unique perspectives,” adding that more information on the show’s focus will come over the next few months.
King and Barkley will both continue their current respective roles while working with CNN, with King anchoring CBS Mornings and Barkley at WBD Sports.
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HOUSTON (AP) — A man who fatally stabbed a real estate agent inside a model home in suburban Dallas faces execution Wednesday evening, more than 16 years after the slaying.
Kosoul Chanthakoummane was on parole when 40-year-old Sarah Walker was killed in July 2006. She was found stabbed more than 30 times in the model home in McKinney, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Dallas.
Prosecutors say Chanthakoummane entered the model home and then beat Walker with a wooden plant stand and stabbed her before stealing her Rolex watch and a silver ring, which were never found. DNA evidence showed Chanthakoummane’s blood was found in various places inside the model home, including under Walker’s fingernails.
Walker had been a top-seller for home builder D.R. Horton. She had two children.
Chanthakoummane, 41, has acknowledged he was in the model home but said he only went inside to get a drink of water. He had been on parole in Texas after serving time in North Carolina for aggravated kidnapping and robbery.
“I am innocent,” Chanthakoummane said in a letter filed in federal court in March.
His attorneys had asked the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his execution, challenging the DNA evidence, which was previously described by the appeals court as the “linchpin of the state’s case.” The appeals court this week denied the request. The execution was set to proceed as Eric Allen, one of Chanthakoummane’s attorneys, said Wednesday he would not file a final appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
His attorneys had argued new science raises the possibility Chanthakoummane’s DNA could have been transferred to Walker’s fingernails without any direct contact between the two.
But authorities say prior DNA testing in his case has failed to clear Chanthakoummane.
“Any belief by Chanthakoummane that further DNA investigation would yield results that will be helpful to his case is a fantasy,” lawyers with the Texas Attorney General’s Office wrote in court documents last month.
On Monday, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles declined to grant Chanthakoummane either a 120-day reprieve or a commutation of his death sentence to a lesser penalty.
Chanthakoummane’s attorneys say their concerns about the DNA evidence is part of a pattern by prosecutors of using faulty evidence in the case.
At Chanthakoummane’s trial, a forensic dentist testified the death row inmate was the source of a bite mark on Walker’s neck. Such evidence has since been discredited and in 2016, Texas became the first state to call for banning bite mark analysis in criminal cases.
The two witnesses who said they saw Chanthakoummane near the murder scene were hypnotized by officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety, or DPS, to help identify him.
A 2020 report by the Dallas Morning News found most Texas judges still allow evidence derived from hypnosis despite criticism it can distort memories and lead to wrongful convictions. In January 2021, DPS stopped using hypnosis. Last year, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill that would have banned people who have been hypnotized from testifying in a criminal trial.
In October 2020, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals found that while the bitemark testimony would no longer be admissible in court, Chanthakoummane’s attorneys had failed to discredit the hypnosis-related testimony.
The appeals court also found the DNA evidence was still strong.
At his trial, Chanthakoummane’s attorney, Keith Gore, told jurors his client was guilty “and he wanted to rob (Walker), and it didn’t go the right way, and he killed her.”
Walker’s father, Joseph Walker, who died last year, had opposed Chanthakoummane’s execution and had told the Times Union in New York in 2013 he had forgiven his daughter’s killer.
If Chanthakoummane is executed, he would be the second inmate put to death this year in Texas and the ninth in the U.S.
While Texas has been the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, the use of the death penalty in the state has reached near historic lows. Juries have continued to issue fewer death sentences and in the last couple of years most executions have been delayed by the pandemic or by legal questions over what spiritual advisers can do in the death chamber.
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Follow Juan A. Lozano on Twitter: https://twitter.com/juanlozano70 | 2022-08-17T18:57:59+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/texas-to-execute-man-for-slaying-of-dallas-real-estate-agent/ |
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MILWAUKEE (WDJT) -- Just days after Milwaukee police officer Peter Jerving was shot and killed in the line of duty, community members are stepping up to help his family, friends and loved ones.
Justin Sithivong remembers Jerving as a man who "was always happy."
"If you couldn’t smile around him you just didn’t deserve to be around him because he was just one of those guys, one of a kind for sure," Sithivong told CBS 58's Ellie Nakamoto-White.
Sithivong, who has known Jerving for a decade and is best friends with his younger brother, said he "woke up with energy and went to bed with energy."
“You’re gonna end the day with a laugh or a smile with him," Sithivong said.
When he heard the news on Feb. 7, Sithivong knew he had to do something to honor his friend.
That's why he created a fundraiser at Sussex Bowl where he works as a bartender, collecting donations for Jerving's family.
“I’m in shock from it still happening but I’m also in shock from how much support he’s getting," Sithivong said. “Any support from one cent to whatever is handed to us it’s helping.”
Rick Marino, the vice president of Shirts and Logos in Milwaukee, is also creating efforts to help as one of his employee's brothers worked with Jerving in District 4.
He helped design a shirt honoring Jerving that features his badge number and service to the Milwaukee community.
“You know when somebody’s out there protecting us and giving their life to protect my family and my city it just hurts when something bad happens," Marino said.
Currently, there have been about 600 shirts sold since production began a couple of days ago.
Each shirt is $35, and sizes range from men's and women's to youth.
All proceeds raised also go toward benefitting the Jerving family.
“We want you here, we know you’re looking down already and we love you," Sithivong said. | 2023-02-12T22:29:07+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/news/wisconsin/we-love-you-multiple-fundraising-efforts-begin-for-fallen-milwaukee-police-officer/article_1a0aaec4-6b53-58fd-a295-39ae0ad33c3f.html |
Angie McClendon has been roller skating since she was 5 years old. Now 61, she's a veteran of the Detroit skating community. McClendon is a Detroit style skater – every move is rhythmic, following and matching a beat. "Everything is in sync because it's from the Motown era," McClendon explains.
Motown's music legacy is well known — think: Smokey Robinson, The Supremes and The Temptations — but not everyone is aware of the lasting impact it had on roller skating.
Take, for example, "the Hatch": Three to four skaters hold hands and turn their bodies right to left as they're skating. "Three becomes one," McClendon says. "It's important that we in sync together. If I don't hold your hand, how we gon' keep up with each other?"
Here's what it looks like:
Toe stops — round rubber balls attached to the bottom of the skates – make it possible for skaters to move their bodies while staying in one place. And that "allows you to put it on a stage," says Tasha Klusmann, the historian behind the National African American Roller Skating archive.
"With Motown, they were learning to smile and how to carry an audience, and how to present themselves," says Klusmann. "They were already thinking about stage and performing because that was very much in the air. Roller skating was just another vehicle to do it."
Chicago's J.B. style has a similar upright stance as the Detroit style, but involves a lot of intricate footwork. "In Detroit, it wasn't just the tempo," said Klusmann. "It was the polish. Very versatile style. Very showy."
And that's largely because of Motown.
Building a resilient roller community
From the 1910s to the 1970s, during the Great Migration, many Black families fled the South seeking safer, better lives. The auto industry in Detroit was a major draw. "Ford represented an opportunity to work and make money — and with that, the opportunity to buy houses and cars, and own businesses," Klusmann says.
The segregation in the city forged a tight-knit community, where Black-owned businesses supported one another. "That uniqueness, not only did it give fruit to Detroit style skating, but things like Motown and that work ethic that came out of the factory — it's all part of that culture and that community," Klusmann explains.
It's a community and culture that lives on at the RollerCade rink in southwest Detroit. Founders Johnnie Mae Folks and Leroy Folks migrated to Detroit from Alabama. They fell in love with roller skating after several summer trips to Idlewild, Mich., says their grandson, Kyle Black.
Back in Detroit, "there was only one skating rink in the neighborhood and they only allowed Black people one day out of the week," says Black. "And they wanted to skate more frequently."
That motivated his grandparents to open a space for their children and community to roller skate in. So they established RollerCade in 1955, and passed it down to their sons, who then passed it down to Black. "I would say RollerCade represents perseverance and the will to be of service to people," Black says.
A new generation of Detroit style skaters
Nearly 70 years later, the original rink is still standing – along with an additional location in downtown Detroit. "During the pandemic, roller skating was one of the few outlets that people had that was safe which led to an immediate spike in skate sales ... and participation," Black says.
Skyrocketing sales led to a worldwide shortage of skates in 2020 and 2021. Nolan Edwards, founder of the Detroit-based skating company and collective Motown Roller Club, says this resurgence is thanks to social media. Videos on Motown Roller Club's TikTok typically attracted 50 to 60 likes every month – and then increased to thousands. "During the COVID time frame, one of our videos got about a half a million views on it ... " says Edwards. "Thanks to the Internet, [people] just fell in love with roller skating and it just absolutely blew up."
Edwards started posting instructional skate videos on social media. He's also been able to establish partnerships and work with local non-profits. The club now hosts weekly skate classes and sessions across multiple rinks in Detroit. These classes allow a younger generation of skaters – some new to Detroit style and its history – to join in the fun.
Elijah Smith, 19, has been skating for just a few years. In 2022, he started his own skate page on Instagram. He loves that he can contribute to Detroit style. These are decades-old moves, Smith says, but over time, "people were able to mix it up ... add little twists to it." And now Smith, and other skaters in this new generation, are helping evolve the tradition.
Detroit style is "not a set thing that you have to do every time," Smith says. "When you comin' out on the floor, it's just always something brand new, every single time."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-12-29T11:31:03+00:00 | nepm.org | https://www.nepm.org/2022-12-29/rooted-in-motown-detroit-style-skating-rolls-on-into-the-next-generation |
INDIANAPOLIS – Another day with abundant sun and dry air has taken over Central Indiana. This is the first time in 2022 that three consecutive days have started in the 50s and ended in the 80s. The dry air & abundant sun are to thank for these comfortable days and larger temperature swings. Another cool night is ahead on this Wednesday, but higher heat is not far behind.
Changes in late week weather
Temperatures increase as we head into Thursday, but not after another cooler than average start. Lows will fall into the low 60s, but dry air in place will warm up quickly in the sun. Temperatures should reach mid 80s by the lunch hour, and should hit 90 in the afternoon. This will be a comfortable heat, but remember to keep the sunscreen & water bottle handy. Comfortable evening conditions will follow. Without rain expected, this will likely cap off a June precipitation deficit of nearly four inches…
More changes come into play on Friday, but the most noticeable will be the humidity. Large scale conditions will favor further warming regardless and highs should climb into the low 90s. A partly cloudy sky will develop in the afternoon with the greater moisture content, though isolated downpours & storms should be around too. We stay humid & mild Friday night into Saturday.
True summer-like weekend conditions
The first weekend of July will be feeling like it out there! Saturday may be a tad cooler thanks to a weak frontal passage, but highs should still reach the mid 80s. Humidity & isolated daytime storms will be present once again. A downpour or storm can’t be ruled out on Sunday, but it appears to be our best bet for dry weather in this upcoming stretch of days. Highs will be near 90 once again with some humidity.
On Independence Day we will really feel like summer! It will feel sticky outside with humidity and hot with highs reaching 90 degrees. Isolated storms will be present in the afternoon. This may be the first of many in a warmer than average stretch with quite a bit of humidity. | 2022-06-29T23:14:43+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/weather/dry-comfortable-conditions-begin-to-wane-late-this-week/ |
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A month ago I wrote that it bordered on dereliction how the Honolulu Police Commission outsourced to a $145,000 mainland consultant most of the selection of a chief to replace Susan Ballard — and took a year in the process as the department swirled in disorder.
Now I’m ready to drop the word “bordered” and call it outright derelict in the tumult surrounding its appointment of Maj. Gen. Arthur “Joe” Logan just before news broke that his 36-year-old son was arrested for attacking a man with a metal hook — the latest of more than 40 arrests and citations, including a felony theft case awaiting trial.
I’m not among those demanding Logan step aside because of his son. He can’t fairly be held responsible for the actions of an adult child, though he should have mentioned it during the application process to save himself inevitable grief.
It’s members of this inept commission who should rethink the value of their services after their lazy vetting failed to bring this basic information to their attention and the public’s.
Drug addiction and mental illness have brought anguish to the best of local families, including public officials.
The late Mayor Frank Fasi had a son often in the news for the same kinds of legal trouble as Zane Logan. Fasi once called me to talk about it, and it was the only time I ever sensed anything resembling helplessness in the voice of “Fearless Frank.”
Nobody suggested it disqualified him from being mayor.
I only hope those scorching Logan for being unable to “control” a drug-addicted adult child never have to find out in their own families how near-impossible this is.
The matter would disqualify Logan from the job only if he breaks his promise to maintain hands off and be sure there’s no special treatment by HPD in cases involving his son.
Of greater concern is the persistent bumbling of the Police Commission in vetting the candidates for chief.
Commissioners have one major function: hiring and firing the chief. They took a year to do it, mainly so they could lay most of it off on a consultant and not have to break a sweat themselves.
Yet in all that time and after spending all that money, they failed to uncover information that could have been found in the most basic background check.
The information almost certainly would have come out if they’d left the public comment period open longer instead of rushing to vote soon after their consultant unveiled the finalists.
Asking candidates whether they have anything to add at the end of interviews doesn’t constitute vetting.
The shame is if they’d done a decent background check, they could have questioned Logan about it publicly to clear the air before making an appointment instead of leaving it to roil the air afterward.
Now we’re left to argue whether to live with a distraction that, fingers crossed, will blow over or prolong the never-ending chaos that holds down HPD by reopening the hiring process.
Reach David Shapiro at volcanicash@gmail.com. | 2022-06-05T10:43:10+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/05/hawaii-news/volcanic-ash/david-shapiro-with-our-honolulu-police-commission-stability-for-hpd-is-elusive/ |
EARTHBOUND APPOINTED TO STEER LEGENDARY GLOBAL BRAND TOWARDS NEW PRODUCT OFFERINGS & EXCITING PROGRAMS
NEW YORK, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Earthbound, a leading product design, licensing and brand growth company, today announced that they have been chosen as the exclusive licensing and brand extension agency for Hallmark, the beloved brand that helps people live caring connected lives full of meaningful moments.
Founded in 1910 by teenage entrepreneur J.C. Hall, Hallmark's businesses employ approximately 20,000 people worldwide and generate revenues of approximately $3.8 billion. In addition to greeting cards, Hallmark produces ornaments, gift wrap, and a range of home décor and gift products. The company also operates Hallmark Media, an entertainment business which includes Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Hallmark Drama, and Hallmark Movies Now, a streaming app. Hallmark also owns Crayola, the leader in children's creative expression products.
For the last 10+ years, Hallmark has successfully licensed its brand into new product categories by utilizing the brand's strong equity and vast portfolio of creative assets and character properties to create differentiated products globally. Hallmark will be expanding these licensed product offerings by tapping into the industry experience and creative expertise of Earthbound Brands.
Earthbound has been chosen to helm Hallmark's expansion into a wide range of categories, including celebrations, seasonal décor, publishing, toys and games, experiential and much more. In a digital age where people are tethered to the internet or social media platforms, Hallmark fulfills the need for more authentic, meaningful connections to friends, family and loved ones. With Earthbound at its side, Hallmark will continue to find ways to expand into new categories while helping consumers celebrate their relationships and share meaningful moments.
"We are a creative company at heart, crafting emotional products that people love from a brand they trust. Earthbound understands our commitment to creativity and to offering emotionally relevant licensed products to our consumers and has a unique and creative approach that closely aligns with our needs. We are more than excited to announce this partnership and build out our brand licensing portfolio of products with their talented and committed team!" said Stacey Howe, Vice President Hallmark Global Licensing & Business Development.
Beyond the hero Hallmark brand, the company will also leverage its other successful brands and properties in its portfolio for new opportunities with Earthbound's guidance - including its Shoebox, Signature, and Hallmark Keepsake brands, Rainbow Brite and more.
"Hallmark is an amazing legacy brand that is completely synonymous with all things holiday, celebrations, relationships and meaningful milestones. While the brand has an incredibly strong foothold in its core categories, there is enormous potential to leverage their IP for extensions across multiple categories. We can't wait to build the business alongside the Hallmark team." stated Jeff Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Earthbound.
For more information and for licensing inquiries, please contact Jacob Cohen (jacob@earthboundllc.com).
Earthbound is a leading product design, licensing, and brand growth company that expands the reach of brands in the market on a global scale. With 22 years of expertise in retail brand licensing, product development, and product design, Earthbound augments brand potential by offering unprecedented growth potential for powerhouse brands. For more information, please visit www.earthboundbrands.com.
For more than 100 years, family-owned Hallmark Cards, Inc. has been dedicated to creating a more emotionally connected world. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri and employing approximately 20,000 worldwide, the approximately $3.8 billion company operates a diversified portfolio of businesses. The Hallmark Global business sells greeting cards, gift wrap and related products in more than 30 languages with distribution in more than 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide, including its own network of Hallmark Gold Crown stores in five countries. Crayola® offers a wide range of art materials and creative play toys designed to spark children's creativity around the globe. Hallmark Media operates three cable channels — Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama — in addition to Hallmark Movies Now, a subscription-based streaming service. Crown Center is a real estate development company that manages the 85-acre hotel, office, entertainment and residential campus surrounding Hallmark's headquarters. For more information, visit Hallmark.com. Connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn and YouTube.
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LITCHFIELD -- The Kennebec County Sheriff's Office has issued a Silver Alert for 84-year-old Leland Hopkins of Litchfield.
According to a State Police spokesperson, the last known contact with Mr. Hopkins was on Sunday, when he spoke with a family member over the phone.
When the family member went to check on him at his home on Hallowell Road in Litchfield on Monday, he and his vehicle were gone.
He normally does not leave his home.
It is unknown what he was last wearing or where he may be going.
Hopkins suffers from memory issues and cognitive difficulties.
He is a white male, 5’11”, with gray hair and hazel eyes.
He is driving a Silver Chevy Cruze, Maine license plate 8082SM.
If you see Hopkins, you should call State Police at 624-7076. | 2023-03-28T03:00:47+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/silver-alert-issued-for-litchfield-man/article_4b03578e-cd0a-11ed-b394-97eba91c303f.html |
Mall of America shooter sentenced for firing inside Nike store after dispute
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (FOX 9) - A man has been sentenced for his role in the 2022 shooting inside the Nike store at the Mall of America that happened following a dispute that began at the checkout register.
Shamar Alon Ramon Lark, 21, was charged with second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon, intentional discharge of a firearm that endangers safety and carrying a pistol in public without a permit. He pleaded guilty to second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon in exchange for the other two charges being dropped.
On Tuesday, July 26, he was sentenced to three years in prison, a guideline sentence for assault that prosecutors had pursued. During the sentencing, state prosecutors said they did not believe Lark was amenable to probation due to his criminal history and previous possession of firearms.
"Mr. Lark was a victim of a vicious attack … They attempted to flee, and their attackers continued to pursue them. It was only then that they turned back," said Lark’s defense attorney Bruce Rivers prior to sentencing. "They were misidentified as gang members by the other party, and this is a situation where he acted quickly, and was in perfect self-defense … He thought he was in fear for his life, and that is where his head was at."
Rivers had requested a downward departure in sentencing from Judge Kerry W. Meyer.
Prior to sentencing, Lark shared prepared remarks, in part saying, "A few words I can use to describe myself is reserved, compassionate, and accountable. I’m a person that people can get along with … The day of the incident I was really scared. I didn’t know where to turn, and it was a fight-or-flight moment. As you see in the video they attacked us while shopping. The decisions I made I look back at and see that it really changed me. I’m not a bad person, I was scared for my life."
Nike store shooting
On Aug. 4, 2022, a fight broke out between six people inside a Nike store in the front of the checkout area around 4:15 p.m. Two men were seen leaving the store briefly, then Lark returned and fired a handgun several times toward the others involved in the fight. There were people and children inside the store at the time.
No one was injured in the shooting, but the mall went into lockdown.
In the immediate aftermath, authorities put out an all-points bulletin for the two main suspects, Shamar Lark and Rashad May, who were eventually arrested in Chicago.
May avoided prison time by claiming self-defense during his sentencing in June, pleading guilty to aiding an offender to avoid arrest for helping coordinate the get-away. | 2023-07-26T16:05:59+00:00 | fox9.com | https://www.fox9.com/news/mall-of-america-shooter-sentenced-nike-store-dispute |
There’s democracy at the federal level. Then there’s the states, once called the laboratory of democracy.
Political scientist Jake Grumbach decided to measure the health of democracy at the state level. Take for example, Tennessee.
“Do Tennessee’s democratic institutions allow for the broad participation of Tennesseans? That’s a really important part of democracy,” he says.
Grumbach says democracy in Tennessee is in trouble.
“The state legislature has been on a steady … march for the last decade of preempting overturning local laws,” Sekou Franklin says.
“They’ve targeted cities and prevented us from establishing an affordable housing policy. Local officials are reluctant to do anything about it because they feel that it will be overturned by the state.”
Today, On Point: Tennessee and a case study of the health of democracy in America’s state legislatures.
Guests
Blaise Gainey, political reporter for Nashville Public Radio.
Sekou Franklin, professor of political science at Middle Tennessee State University. Author of Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics and After the Rebellion: Social Movement Activism and Popular Mobilization among the Post-Civil Rights Generation.
Gino Bulso, Republican state representative representing District 61.
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Jake Grumbach, political scientist at the University of Washington and author of Laboratories Against Democracy.
Greta McClain, executive director of Silent No Longer Tennessee.
Sheila Clemmons Lee, led an effort to establish a Community Oversight Board in Nashville.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Martha Stewart, the famous television host, found herself in one of the top-rated food cities in America, Portland, Maine, on Sunday morning.
Stewart shared a photo on Instagram with the caption “great ‘foodie’ morning in Portland Maine.”
Martha said she stopped at Standard Baking Co, located on Commercial Street, for some coffee and bread then went to Norimoto Bakery, located on Stevens Avenue, “to taste Atsuko Fujimoto’s delicious baked foods.”
The caption was posted with a photo of freshly baked sesame rolls and a few photos of herself with the workers.
The post quickly gardened the attention of Mainers who told the star that she made a great choice in bakeries, and many were happy to have her visit Maine. | 2022-10-23T23:59:35+00:00 | newscentermaine.com | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/entertainment/martha-stewart-stops-portland-maine-foodie/97-4d623573-27d4-4484-98d7-841bf2ccc4b2 |
Scattered showers expected for the week ahead: Weather forecast
Yorkers can expect milder weather with a chance of afternoon showers throughout most of this week, according to the National Weather Service in State College.
Monday has been overcast with a high of 74 degrees and a 40% chance of rain this afternoon. The sky is expected to clear up and be partly or slightly cloudy for the remainder of the week.
Monday evening will remain cool and cloudy, hitting a low of 62 degrees with a 20% chance of rain before midnight, the weather service said.
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Here is the outlook for the rest of the week according to the NWS:
Tuesday: Calm winds in the morning and partly sunny with a high of 81 degrees and a 20% chance of rain.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy and a low of 61 degrees.
Wednesday: Sunny with a high of 81 degrees. Small chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy and a low of 62 degrees.
Thursday: Sunny and with a high of 84 degrees.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy and low of 63 degrees.
Friday: Sunny and warm with a high of 86 degrees.
Friday Night: The evening will be cloudy but stay around 65 degrees.
Saturday: Partly sunny with a high of 86 degrees and potential showers with a 40% chance of precipitation.
Saturday Night: Cloudy with continued 40% chance of precipitation but a low of only 67 degrees.
Sunday: Partly sunny with a 40% chance of showers and a high of 80 degrees. | 2022-08-16T00:05:55+00:00 | yorkdispatch.com | https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/08/15/mild-weather-and-scattered-showers-expected-for-the-week/10330701002/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were back up this week, just as the latest government data shows inflation has not slowed, meaning the Federal Reserve is almost certain to raise its benchmark borrowing rate later this month.
Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year rate rose to 5.51% from 5.30% last week. One year ago the average 30-year rate was 2.88%.
The average rate on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, popular among those refinancing their homes, rose to 4.67% from 4.45% last week. A year ago, the rate was 2.22%.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a half-point in May and another three-quarters of a point last month, the biggest single hike since 1994. Fed policymakers have signaled that much higher interest rates could be needed to reign in persistent, four-decade high inflation. Most economists expect the Federal Reserve to jack up its borrowing rate another half-to-three-quarters of a point when it meets later this month.
Fed officials acknowledge that their rate hikes could weaken the economy, but suggested that such steps were necessary to slow price increases back to the Fed’s 2% annual target.
The Labor Department reported Wednesday that its consumer price index soared 9.1% over the past year, the biggest yearly increase since 1981. On Thursday, Labor released data showing that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it reaches consumers — rose by 11.3% in June compared with a year earlier.
The Fed’s benchmark short-term rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, will now be pegged to a range of 1.5% to 1.75% — and Fed policymakers forecast a doubling of that range by year’s end.
Higher borrowing rates have discouraged house hunters and cooled what was a red-hot housing market, one of the most important sectors of the economy. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed for the fourth consecutive month in May.
Home prices kept climbing in May, even as sales slowed. The national median home price jumped 14.8% in May from a year earlier to $407,600 — an all-time high according to NAR data going back to 1999.
Mortgage applications have declined 14% from last year and refinancings are down 80%, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported this week. Those numbers could retreat further with more Fed rate increases a near certainty.
Layoffs in the housing and lending sectors have already begun. On Tuesday, the online mortgage company loanDepot said it was cutting 2,000 jobs.
Last month, the online real estate broker Redfin said it was laying off 8% of its workers and Compass said it was letting go of 450 employees.
The nation’s largest bank by assets, JPMorgan Chase, is laying off hundreds from its mortgage unit and has reassigned hundreds of others to jobs elsewhere in the firm. | 2022-07-15T04:19:14+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/business/average-long-term-us-mortgage-rates-bounce-back-up-to-5-51/ |
Zoo’s iconic white rhino, Polly, dies after days of deteriorating health
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT/Gray News) - Zoo Knoxville announced the passing of its southern white rhinoceros named Polly this week.
WVLT reports Polly was well-known at the zoo after being a resident for more than 45 years. But on Friday she was euthanized due to failing health.
Polly was 54 years old and was being treated for pain and mobility issues related to her old age, zoo representatives said.
However, Polly’s health began to rapidly deteriorate over the past few days, and her care team decided to euthanize her so she would not endure any more suffering.
“The zoo has been here for 74 years, and Polly was here for 46 of those years,” said Phil Colclough, an animal care director at the zoo. “She is deeply a part of Zoo Knoxville.”
According to the zoo, Polly was one of the oldest rhinos in the country. She came to Zoo Knoxville in 1976 and gave birth to 10 calves over her lifetime.
“During her reproductive years, she helped make Knoxville one of the most successful breeding programs for southern white rhinos in the country. Her offspring have gone on to ensure a future for this species,” Colclough said.
Zoo officials reported all of Polly’s offspring have joined other herds and have had progeny of their own.
“Polly was always an iconic ambassador,” Colclough said. “She left a legacy to be proud of.”
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 20 Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against President Joe Biden's administration over a Department of Agriculture school meal program that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The challenge, led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery, claims that the federal government is attempting to force states and schools to follow antidiscrimination requirements that “misconstrue the law.”
The coalition of attorneys general are hoping for a similar result to a separate challenge from earlier this month when a Tennessee judge temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by Biden's administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.
The judge sided with the attorneys general, ruling that the directives infringed on states’ right to enact laws, such as banning students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.
“This case is, yet again, about a federal agency trying to change law, which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative,” Slatery said in a statement. “The USDA simply does not have that authority. We have successfully challenged the Biden Administration’s other attempts to rewrite law and we will challenge this as well.”
In May, the USDA announced that it would include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as a violation of Title IX, the sweeping 1972 law that guarantees equity between the sexes in “any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” The directive requires states to review allegations of discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, as well as update their policies and signage.
The agency warned that states and schools that receive federal funds, which include the national school lunch program overseen by the USDA, have agreed to follow civil rights laws. Although the agency says it wants voluntary compliance, it also has promised to refer violations to the Department of Justice. It is not clear whether the federal government would hold back funding for school meal programs as part of its enforcement.
The directive followed a landmark civil rights decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 that, under a provision called Title VII, protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in the workplace.
According to the lawsuit, the attorneys general allege that the USDA's new directive is based on a “misreading” of the Supreme Court's ruling and did not provide states and other groups the opportunity to provide public comment.
The attorneys general involved in the lawsuit filed Tuesday are from Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
A spokesperson for the USDA did not immediately return a request for comment. | 2022-07-26T22:37:38+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio/republican-ags-sue-us-agency-over-lgbtq-school-guidance/OFJ5IO5D3FEBNKUR7MBFGUXLIE/ |
Nearly 6 years later, man indicted for mother’s death at sea
HARTFORD, Conn. - The circumstantial evidence against Nathan Carman had been lying in plain sight for years before his surprising indictment and arrest this month on allegations he killed his mother at sea off New England in a plot to inherit millions of dollars.
Federal prosecutors in Vermont are not commenting on the timing of their decision to put the case before a grand jury, and the indictment offers no clues and no new information on the case, which included a dramatic rescue at sea and the suspicious deaths of two members of a wealthy New England family.
Legal experts and other law enforcement officials say the delay in bringing a criminal case could be the result of several factors, including that his mother and his boat have never been found.
"It’s very difficult to charge murder federally ... so I think what the government has been doing for the last six years is to build its case to charge him with mail fraud and wire fraud," said Jessica Brown, a former state and federal public defender who is now an assistant professor at Vermont Law School.
The grand jury indictment accuses Carman, 28, of Vernon, Vermont, of murder and fraud in the killing of his mother, Linda Carman, during a fishing trip that began in Rhode Island. Carman made international headlines when he was found alone in a life raft near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, eight days after he and his mother left port.
The indictment also accuses him of fatally shooting his millionaire grandfather, John Chakalos, in 2013 in Connecticut, but does not charge him with that killing. He has repeatedly denied any involvement in both deaths.
Federal prosecutors say their deaths paved the way for Carman to inherit an estimated $7 million — his mother’s share of Chakalos’ estate. The inheritance remains tied up in probate court in Connecticut, where his mother's three sisters are seeking to bar Carman from receiving any money from his grandfather’s estate.
Seven of the eight counts in the indictment are charges related to what prosecutors allege were fraudulent efforts to get money from his grandfather’s estate or insurance companies. The other count accuses Carman of killing his mother.
Vermont U.S. Attorney Nikolas Kerest, through a spokesperson, declined to comment on the case.
Federal Public Defender Michael Desautels, whose office is defending Carman, also declined to comment on the indictment.
"His state of mind is strong, and he knows he has a good team of defense lawyers working for him," Desautels said.
Some law enforcement officials who were involved in the investigation said the indictment could be the result of new evidence that is not being disclosed. Or, perhaps, federal prosecutors in Vermont were more aggressive in assembling all the evidence collected by a variety of local, state and federal agencies and presenting it to a grand jury.
"One of the issues is jurisdiction, especially when you cross state lines, and who has the ability to bring all that together under one roof," said Donald Melanson, police chief in Windsor, Connecticut, where Chakalos was killed. "And I think that’s why, rightfully so, the U.S. attorney’s office took that and took responsibility for that and brought everything together."
"When you look at the overall picture ... it brings, to me, a very clear picture of how everything tied together to achieve his (Carman's) goals," he said.
In 2014, before Melanson joined the department, Windsor police drafted an arrest warrant charging Carman with murder in his grandfather's death, but a state prosecutor declined to sign it and requested more information, according to a search warrant for Linda Carman's home in Middletown, Connecticut, obtained by police after she disappeared at sea. Neither state nor federal prosecutors in Connecticut or Rhode Island ever brought any charges against Carman.
The case went cold. Then came the ill-fated fishing trip, which roused investigators' suspicions about Carman. But the probe into Linda Carman's disappearance also failed to produce an arrest.
In 2017, investigators began keeping tabs on a lawsuit filed in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, where insurers and Carman were suing each other over his rejected $85,000 claim for the loss of his boat, named the "Chicken Pox." The insurance case tied all the evidence together and may have spurred a new effort to charge Carman, current and former investigators said.
The insurers' lawyers laid out a case accusing Carman of plotting both killings and covering them up, using police investigation findings and information they obtained themselves, including:
- A month before Chakalos’ shooting, Carman bought a rifle that can fire the same bullets as the ones used in the shooting. Carman invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a deposition when asked about the rifle, which was never found.
- Carman destroyed his laptop computer's hard drive and a GPS device in his truck after his grandfather was killed. He again took the Fifth when asked why.
- Before the 2016 fishing trip, Carman had altered the boat in ways that contributed to its sinking, the judge in the Rhode Island case found in rejecting Carman's insurance claim. Witnesses testified he removed two stabilizing trim tabs from the stern, near the vessel’s waterline, leaving holes that he tried to seal with an epoxy stick.
- An expert on tidal patterns testified the life raft could not have floated toward Martha’s Vineyard from the spot Carman claimed the boat sank, but in fact would have drifted in the opposite direction. Carman’s attorneys said that it was the first time he had used sea charts and that he was confused about the boat’s location.
After his grandfather was killed, Carman inherited about $550,000.
By late summer 2016, prosecutors said Carman, who had moved from Connecticut to Vermont, was unemployed and low on funds after quickly burning through most of that money, much of which he spent on his new home.
It was then that he set up the fishing trip with his mother with plans to kill her, authorities said. The relationship between mother and son was strained, but fishing was one of the ways they were still able to connect.
Carman remains detained while his case is pending.
Federal prosecutors argued in court documents that he should remain locked up while awaiting trial because he poses a flight risk and is a danger to the community.
Prosecutors cited the violence and planning involved in the two killings and his apparent lack of ties to his community — a factor in bail arguments. They said he has little personal interaction with other people, having alienated his family because of his conduct.
They also said he discontinued the mental health treatment he had received from early childhood until he was 17. They wrote that Carman was diagnosed with potential mood and psychotic disorders in 2011, and that he had a history of hostility and aggression.
Carman and his relatives also have said he has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that can be characterized by social awkwardness and repetitive behavior but is not associated with an increased likelihood of violence.
Carman has said he is misunderstood and an easy target for police because he has Asperger's.
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Man charged after 10-year-old girl kidnapped, murdered, police say
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR/Gray News) - Officials in Illinois say a registered sex offender is suspected of kidnapping a 10-year-old girl playing in her yard and strangling her to death.
Antonio Monroe, 44, faces several charges after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Rockford. He is a registered sex offender in Blue Island, WIFR reports.
Police were called to the kidnapping and murder just after 12 p.m. Saturday when a woman said her 6-year-old daughter told her a man took her 10-year-old sister, according to Rockford Police Chief Carla Redd.
Officers found a girl outside around 12:40 p.m. in the 1200 block of 9th Avenue. They performed lifesaving measures on her, but she later died at the hospital.
“From the time my phone rang yesterday in regards with this incident, my stomach has been in a knot,” Redd said. “No one ever wants to get a knock on the door and hear from the police that your child has been murdered, especially an innocent child.”
Both Redd and Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara described their reactions to the girl’s death as “outrage.”
“This is a real life nightmare with a real life monster,” McNamara said. “This is also one of those crimes where there’s not going to be anyone who’s not impacted.”
Police eventually located a man who matched the description of the suspect near 9th Avenue and Woodruff Avenue. He was later identified as Monroe. He was taken into custody then taken to the hospital for an unrelated issue. He will be taken to the Winnebago County Jail upon his release from the hospital.
“We’re not living in a time where you just leave your kids outside playing and no one to watch over them,” Redd said. “Kids aren’t doing anything wrong, but unfortunately, there’s individuals out there that will cause harm to them.”
Monroe faces charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, two counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated battery via strangulation.
Police say the 6-year-old girl who reported her sister missing was also strangled by the suspect. She was treated and released.
“I have a 7-year-old daughter, and I just don’t understand how someone has this in their being to do something like this to something as sweet and beautiful as that,” McNamara said.
Family and friends of the 10-year-old victim gathered Sunday night to celebrate her life with a balloon release. The girl’s mother told WIFR her daughter liked playing basketball and wanted to be a nurse.
A GoFundMe has been set up for the girl’s family.
This is an active investigation.
Local police records show no prior contact with Monroe.
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House Republicans passed legislation Friday aimed at boosting parents' access to information about their child's education, fulfilling a midterm pledge that GOP lawmakers hope will be a galvanizing issue for their base next year.
"The Parents Bill of Rights is an important step towards protecting children and dramatically strengthening the rights of parents," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on the House floor ahead of the bill's passage.
Five Republicans joined Democrats in voting against the legislation. Republicans hold a narrow majority in the chamber, but several Democratic absences enabled the legislation to pass despite the handful of GOP defections.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has already said the bill has no political future in the Democratic-controlled Senate, but the legislation does send a message about GOP priorities and indicates a further leaning in on culture war issues ahead of the 2024 election.
What does the bill do?
The bill, introduced by Louisiana Rep. Julia Letlow, requires schools to notify parents that they have the right to review the curriculum and school budget, inspect books and other library materials, and receive information about any violent activity in the school.
The bill would also prohibit schools from selling student information. Elementary schools or schools housing grades 5-8 would be required to obtain parental consent before changing a student's pronouns or preferred name or allowing a student to change their sex-based accommodations, like locker rooms or bathrooms.
"[This legislation] is not an attempt to have Congress dictate curriculum, or determine the books in the library," Letlow said on the House floor Thursday. "Instead, this bill aims to bring more transparency and accountability to education, allowing parents to be informed, and when they have questions and concerns to lawfully bring them to their local school boards."
Schools that don't comply with the bill would be in danger of losing federal funding.
Democrats tie legislation to other efforts to curb what's being taught in schools
Democrats are fiercely opposed to the bill, dubbing it the "politics over parents act." They claim it seeks to codify already existing parental rights and politicizes the classroom.
"Rather than actually invest in empowering parents, making sure parents have the opportunity to be engaged and involved in the education of their children, the extreme MAGA Republicans want to jam their rightwing ideology down the throats of students, teachers and parents throughout America," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters Friday.
During floor debate on the bill this week, House Democrats argued the bill puts LGBTQ students at risk.
"This Republican bill is asking the government to force the outing of LGBT people before they are ready," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said.
Despite Republican lawmakers repeatedly claiming the legislation doesn't ban books, Democrats argue the bill could provide a legal basis for book bans and censorship in schools.
In the 2021-22 school year, more than 1,600 book titles were banned, according to a report by PEN America, which advocates for freedom of expression.
Political fissures about parents rights and what's being taught in classrooms have also been on display at the state level. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is widely considered a viable presidential contender in 2024, signed the controversial "Parental Rights in Education" bill last year, which critics refer to as the "Don't Say Gay" bill. DeSantis' administration is currently moving to expand on that policy by prohibiting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation to all grade levels.
Last year, at least a dozen states considered measures that mirrored the Florida legislation.
"Democrats are now trying to take advantage of the extremes that we're seeing in some parts of the country, the strong curricular efforts in Florida, for example, the images of libraries with yellow tape across the books," said Jeffrey Henig, a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
"That's because there still are a lot of Americans, including Americans in purple states or swing areas, who value the notion that education ought to stretch their kids' minds and understandings, the notion that we have a complicated history in the U.S. and that children as eventual citizens need to understand that complicated history."
Education as a culture war issue
The issue of parental involvement in education has been brewing as a culture war issue for years and was accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic where school shutdowns and mask mandates energized parents.
As schools reopened, concerns among conservatives grew about curricula in schools, particularly on topics of race, gender and sexual orientation.
Critical race theory, an academic approach taught in college and post-grad that examines how race and racism function in American institutions, was brought to the forefront of political discourse as House Republicans argued the theory was being taught to K-12 students.
The issue was encapsulated in the 2021 Virginia governors race, where Republican Glenn Youngkin trumpeted parents' rights.
"What we're seeing now in terms of the Parents Bill of Rights is really an outgrowth of Glenn Youngkin's victory," said nonpartisan election analyst Dave Wasserman of The Cook Political Report.
"It was a message that struck a chord as we were coming out of the pandemic, and it helped Youngkin win that race," he told NPR. "His crusade for parental rights kind of became a catch-all for voters' frustrations with schools and logistics in the pandemic. And now as we've emerged from COVID, these issues are more of a partisan culture war that divides Democrats and Republicans."
Wasserman says the bill is a sign Republicans view parental rights as a winning issue in 2024, but cautions the "jury's out" for now on how independent voters and voters in swing districts view this type of legislation.
"Republicans believe that attacking Democrats as a party beholden to teachers unions and siding against parents on a variety of cultural war topics — be it transgender athletes, or what Republicans would say is 'woke indoctrination' and libraries and curriculums — they believe that will resonate," he said. "And yet we haven't really seen this issue take center stage in a presidential campaign lately, so it'll take time to to see whether independent voters warm up to Republicans' message or whether this falls flat."
Henig, of Columbia University, says part of the political appeal of the messaging over parents' rights is that it's adaptable to local audiences.
"So when Republicans talk about parents choice to voters in suburban, moderate communities, they can bang on COVID kinds of issues, which generate some sympathy among parents who had to deal with kids at home or unpredictable schooling or the complications of online schooling," he said. "Then when they're speaking to voters in red states, or MAGA voting districts, they can turn the dial to the end of the culture wars issues — the anti-critical race theory, the teaching about sex to young children, the issues related to how to treat transgender athletes."
While that could be effective at the district level, the strategy becomes trickier on the presidential level. The nature of the Republican primary means candidates are likely to cast themselves further right than some moderate Republicans or swing voters might be comfortable with come November.
"In general elections, most of the strategy depends on perceptions of the audience in a small number of purple states," he said. "That's where Republicans for national office want to be able to reserve the ability to swing back to the less controversial version of parents rights," he said.
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By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JENNIFER PELTZ
Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — State and military police were sent Tuesday to keep people off Buffalo’s snow-choked roads, and officials kept counting fatalities three days after western New York’s deadliest storm in at least two generations.
Amid some signs of progress — suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened — County Executive Mark Poloncarz warned that police would be stationed at entrances to Buffalo and at major intersections to enforce a ban on driving within New York’s second-most populous city.
“Too many people are ignoring the ban,” Poloncarz, a Democrat, said at a news conference.
Officials said more than 30 people had died in the region, including seven storm-related deaths that Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown’s office announced Tuesday. The toll surpasses that of the historic Blizzard of 1977, blamed for killing as many as 29 people in a region known for harsh winter weather.
The National Weather Service predicted that as much as 2 inches (2.5 to 5 centimeters) more snow could fall Tuesday in Erie County, which includes Buffalo and its 275,000 residents. County Emergency Services Commissioner Dan Neaverth Jr. said officials also were somewhat concerned about the potential for flooding later in the week, when the weather is projected to warm and start melting the snow.
The rest of the United States also was reeling from the ferocious winter storm, with at least an additional two dozen deaths reported in other parts of the country, and power outages in communities from Maine to Washington state.
On the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservation in South Dakota, there were plans to use snowmobiles Tuesday to reach residents after food boxes were delivered by helicopter and trucks over the weekend, the tribe said.
In Buffalo, the dead were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Some died while shoveling snow, others when emergency crews could not respond in time to medical crises. Poloncarz called the blizzard “the worst storm probably in our lifetime,” even for an area known for heavy snow.
The winter blast stranded some people in cars for days, shuttered the city’s airport and left some residents shivering without heat. More than 4,000 homes and businesses were still without power late Tuesday morning.
Trisha LoGrasso and her family were still huddled around a space heater in a makeshift hut in her Buffalo living room Monday. She was without heat because of a gas leak, the temperature inside the home was 42 degrees (5.5 Celsius), and burst pipes left her with no running water.
“I’ve lived here my whole life, and this is the worst storm I’ve ever seen,” said LoGrasso, 48.
President Joe Biden offered federal assistance Monday to New York, allowing for reimbursement of some storm-relief efforts. Gov. Kathy Hochul toured the aftermath in Buffalo, her hometown, and called the blizzard “one for the ages.” Almost every fire truck in the city became stranded Saturday, she said.
Hochul, a Democrat, noted the storm came a little over a month after the region was inundated with another historic snowfall. Between the two storms, snowfall totals are not far off from the 95.4 inches (242 centimeters) the area normally sees in an entire winter season.
The National Weather Service said the snow total at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport stood at 49.2 inches (1.25 meters) at 10 a.m. Monday. Officials said the airport will be shut through Wednesday morning.
More than 2,900 domestic and international U.S. flights were canceled Tuesday as of about noon Eastern time, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said it will look into flight cancellations by Southwest Airlines that left travelers stranded at airports across the country amid the winter storm. Many airlines were forced to cancel flights, but Southwest was by far the leader.
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Peltz reported from New York. Associated Press journalist Julie Walker also contributed from New York.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The experience is evident in the salt that peppers the beard of Chiefs quarterback Chad Henne.
The 37-year-old journeyman has hung around the league for nearly 15 years, his days as a starter in Miami and Jacksonville long distant memories. For the past five years, Henne has been little more than a backup quarterback for Patrick Mahomes in Kansas City, his job to hold clipboards and provide encouragement more so than to throw any passes.
It would’ve been easy to grow complacent over all that time. Yet the consummate professional has learned to be ready for anything, and anything happened in the first half of Saturday night’s playoff game against the Jaguars.
Pressed into service when Mahomes hurt his right ankle, Henne responded by leading the Chiefs on a 98-yard touchdown drive, which not only kept Jacksonville from seizing control but eventually provided the winning margin in a 27-20 victory that advanced Kansas City to its fifth consecutive AFC championship game.
“Definitely, nerves are high,” Henne said afterward, “but once you get in the game and get going, it’s just like, repetition. It’s not like I’ve never done it before. I played in enough games. When the opportunity is called upon, I’m ready.”
Mahomes returned after halftime and finished things out, and he intends to start next week’s AFC title game. But Henne proved once more the importance of a capable backup quarterback, an often-thankless job typically filled by failed starters, players long past their prime or young prospects not yet ready to take over a team.
Henne fits that mold, and there he was, watching from the sideline amid sleet and snow Saturday night as Mahomes was dragged to the turf by Jaguars pass rusher Arden Key, whose full body weight landed on the MVP candidate’s ankle.
Mahomes slowly stood up, barely able to put pressure on it, as a nervous hush descended over Arrowhead Stadium. He gutted out three more plays to finish the first quarter, then two more to set up a field goal, before Chiefs coach Andy Reid cornered him on the sideline and gave his star an ultimatum.
“I thought I could play through it,” Mahomes said, “and he said, ‘I’m not putting you back in so you might as well go get the X-ray, and then if it’s negative or whatever, I’ll put you back in.”
So, throwing his winter coat to the ground in frustration, Mahomes headed up the tunnel to the Kansas City locker room.
Henne traded his baseball cap for a football helmet and headed onto the field.
The Jaguars didn’t do him any favors, backing the Chiefs up to their own 2 with a punt. But the confidence that Reid and offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy had in him was evident by their first play call: a pass play from his own end zone.
Henne completed it to Travis Kelce, one of 14 on his night. Then he hit Kadarius Toney later in the drive, and found Kelce twice more, on one of them getting crushed late by Key and drawing a personal foul penalty.
On the 12th and final play of the drive, Henne hit the All-Pro tight end one last time for the touchdown.
“To come in a hostile game, backed up to your 2, go 98 yards,” Kelce said, “that just shows the type of competitor he is.”
It wasn’t the first time Henne has saved a season. In another divisional game two years ago, when Mahomes was forced into the concussion protocol, he guided the Chiefs through the final two quarters to a 22-17 win over the Browns.
“It’s not a one-man show,” Henne said. “There’s a lot of great guys on our offense that really stepped up and helped me.”
Kelce topped the list. But Isiah Pacheco, a seventh-round draft pick, had the bulk of his 95 yards rushing on Henne’s drive, and his offensive line largely kept one of the league’s best defenses from laying a finger on him.
Perhaps they were inspired by Henne. Or put at easy by the fact that he was cracking jokes in the huddle.
“I don’t know if it was the jokes,” he said. “It was looking the guys in the eye, exemplifying some of the words in the offense that we do, and just really getting their attention and knowing that you believe in them as well as them believing in me.”
Henne was ready to play the rest of the way. But after X-rays on Mahomes came back negative, and he had proved to Reid that he was mobile enough to protect himself, he successfully negotiated his way back into the game.
With Henne again watching from the sideline, the All-Pro quarterback led the Chiefs the rest of the way to victory.
Mahomes was due to get an MRI exam Sunday, but he vowed to be ready for next week’s AFC championship game against the winner of the Bengals-Bills game. You can bet one thing, though: Henne will be ready, too.
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AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL | 2023-01-24T09:06:41+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/sports/chiefs/ap-chiefs-henne-delivers-with-mahomes-hobbled-in-playoff-win/ |
Woman pleads guilty to another crime 11 days after sentence reduction by Noem
A woman released from prison less than two weeks ago by Gov. Kristi Noem has pleaded guilty to another criminal charge that was pending while the woman was in prison.
Danielle Blakney, 30, of Spearfish, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Lawrence County court to one count of simple assault.
As part of a plea agreement, the prosecutor dropped another count of simple assault and a charge of intentional damage to property. A judge sentenced Blakney to 30 days in jail but suspended all of that time on several conditions, including that Blakney remain law-abiding for 360 days.
Blakney was one of seven people who received a reduced prison sentence — known as a “commutation” — from Gov. Noem on Christmas Eve. Noem reduced the seven prisoners’ sentences to supervised parole for the remainder of their terms.
More:Noem goes against board, victims’ families and review process to reduce prison sentences
“These seven individuals have each earned a second chance,” Noem said in a news release at the time. “Each of these individuals has demonstrated a low risk of recidivism.”
Blakney’s path to prison, a commutation from the governor, and back to a Lawrence County courtroom started with a lengthy criminal history culminating in a 2021 arrest.
In August of that year, a law enforcement officer pulled Blakney over for expired license plate tags and found marijuana, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in her vehicle. Blakney faced charges including possession of a controlled drug or substance and driving under the influence. Court documents in the case said she already had multiple felony convictions on her record.
While Blakney was on supervised release awaiting the outcome of that case, court documents say she was at a home in Spearfish in July 2022 when she allegedly knocked over a TV tray, pushed a woman to the floor, and smashed the windshield of a man’s car. That incident resulted in the assault and property-damage charges.
Blakney pleaded guilty to the drug and DUI charges in September 2022 and was sentenced to eight years in prison, with four suspended on the condition that she pay several hundred dollars in costs associated with the case.
The judge wrote in the sentencing order that Blakney “is not a candidate for probation and needs a structured environment to continue her necessary sobriety.” The judge noted her long criminal history, use of a variety of drugs and previous probation violations.
More:Gov. Kristi Noem terminates contract for transgender advocacy group
Blakney had served about three months of that multi-year prison term when Noem commuted the sentence on Christmas Eve and ordered Blakney’s release on parole.
The assault and property damage charges remained pending while Blakney was in prison, which led to her court appearance this week. Attorneys on both sides of this week’s court appearance did not immediately return phone messages from South Dakota Searchlight.
Gov. Noem has not publicly revealed the process she used to consider the seven Christmas Eve commutations, or how the seven people who benefitted from the commutations came to Noem’s attention from a state prison population of more than 3,000 people. Noem’s spokesman, Ian Fury, has not responded to phone messages or emails from South Dakota Searchlight seeking an interview or answers to questions, other than to acknowledge a Searchlight document request.
At least one of the seven people had been denied a commutation recommendation by the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. South Dakota Searchlight could find no record of the other six cases being considered by the board. The state constitution allows Noem to bypass the board, but she issued an executive order in 2019 requiring that commutation applications go to the board for its consideration and recommendation. | 2023-01-06T20:04:25+00:00 | argusleader.com | https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2023/01/06/woman-pleads-guilty-to-another-crime-11-days-after-sentence-reduction-by-noem/69784380007/ |
July 31, 2023 Press Release from GasBuddy: Average gasoline prices in Ohio have risen 23.7 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.48/g today, according to GasBuddy's survey of 5,345 stations in Ohio. Prices in Ohio are 18.6 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 44.5 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has jumped 15.5 cents in the last week and stands at $3.99 per gallon.
According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Ohio was priced at $2.99/g yesterday while the most expensive was $3.99/g, a difference of 100.0 cents per gallon. The lowest price in the state yesterday was $2.99/g while the highest was $3.99/g, a difference of 100.0 cents per gallon.
The national average price of gasoline has risen 16.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.72/g today. The national average is up 21.4 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 45.6 cents per gallon lower than a year ago, according to GasBuddy data compiled from more than 11 million weekly price reports covering over 150,000 gas stations across the country.
Historical gasoline prices in Ohio and the national average going back ten years:
July 31, 2022: $3.93/g (U.S. Average: $4.17/g)
July 31, 2021: $3.02/g (U.S. Average: $3.16/g)
July 31, 2020: $2.10/g (U.S. Average: $2.18/g)
July 31, 2019: $2.70/g (U.S. Average: $2.72/g)
July 31, 2018: $2.78/g (U.S. Average: $2.87/g)
July 31, 2017: $2.30/g (U.S. Average: $2.31/g)
July 31, 2016: $2.08/g (U.S. Average: $2.13/g)
July 31, 2015: $2.35/g (U.S. Average: $2.66/g)
July 31, 2014: $3.43/g (U.S. Average: $3.51/g)
July 31, 2013: $3.54/g (U.S. Average: $3.62/g)
Neighboring areas and their current gas prices:
Akron- $3.49/g, up 24.0 cents per gallon from last week's $3.25/g.
Dayton- $3.46/g, up 28.5 cents per gallon from last week's $3.17/g.
Columbus- $3.52/g, up 23.9 cents per gallon from last week's $3.28/g.
"Gas prices suddenly soared over the last week due to heat-related refinery outages that impacted some of the largest refineries in the country, at a time when summer gasoline demand peaks and as gasoline inventories slid to their lowest July level since 2015," said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy. "In addition, oil prices surged to their highest level in months, rising to over $80 per barrel due to SPR releases coming to an end and concerns over cuts in supply from Saudi Arabia and Russia, the second and third largest oil producers in the world. Motorists have seen average gasoline and diesel prices rise at the fastest pace in over a year, but the rise seen in the last week should now start slowing. However, as we get ever closer to the peak of hurricane season, any new issues could easily push the national average over $4 per gallon for the first time in 2023. Drivers may want to brace for potentially higher prices yet."
GasBuddy is the authoritative voice for gas prices and the only source for station-level data. GasBuddy's survey updates 288 times every day from the most diverse list of sources covering nearly 150,000 stations nationwide, the most comprehensive and up-to-date in the country. GasBuddy data is accessible at http://prices.GasBuddy.com. | 2023-07-31T23:36:29+00:00 | hometownstations.com | https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ohio-weekly-gas-price-update-from-gasbuddy---july-31-2023/article_37dfa544-2fb2-11ee-9522-eb7bb0b93365.html |
Tanker truck overturns, causing massive fuel spill in Pa.
Published: Nov. 17, 2022 at 11:54 AM CST|Updated: 1 hour ago
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (KYW) - A tanker overturned in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania overnight, causing a major fuel spill.
Officials believe all 6,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel leaked out of the tanker.
The spill forced the evacuation of hundreds of people from their homes.
Cleanup is expected to continue throughout the day.
A middle school is being used as a shelter for displaced families.
The driver was hospitalized with a broken pelvis, clavicle and rib.
Authorities are investigating what led up to the crash.
Copyright 2022 KYW via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-11-17T19:16:57+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2022/11/17/tanker-truck-overturns-causing-massive-fuel-spill-pa/ |
SYDNEY, Sept. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health analytics pioneer, Prospection has announced a unique global data access agreement with leading Japanese medical data company Medical Data Vision Co., Ltd. (MDV) to accelerate healthcare analytics globally.
The agreement, covering the world's second largest pharmaceutical market, will provide global pharmaceutical companies and researchers access to comprehensive and longitudinal data covering more than 40 million people in Japan at more than 470 hospitals.
Combining predictive analytics and machine learning with real-world healthcare data, Prospection's agreement with MDV will provide pharmaceutical companies across the world with unique access to patient diagnostic and medication data from hospitals across Japan, unlocking potential to assess an unlimited number of treatment programs in the region.
The agreement also enables access to patient history and prefecture level data, allowing analysis of disease progression, disease outcomes and the mapping of disease courses to provide evidence on areas where development can address unmet needs. When distilled further, this creates an opportunity to assess patient data on a regional level to find geographical areas where patients or health centres require additional support for specific disease and conditions.
Prospection's access to Japan's most comprehensive medical data sets is a significant milestone for the company. Prospection currently provides real-time access to longitudinal patient data across 15 regions globally including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, USA and the UK. The company's latest announcement with Medical Data Vision will build on this work, providing Prospection with access to one of Japan's largest healthcare databases.
Global Healthcare Benefits
According to academic research,* only 60% of healthcare is in line with evidence-based guidelines, with the remaining 40% being classed as wasteful, low value or in some cases harmful. Through the analysis of the longitudinal history of hundreds of millions of patients, Prospection's database can help the healthcare industry to assess the use, value and outcomes of treatments to find that 40% and identify how it can be optimised.
By enabling pharmaceutical companies and health researchers across the globe to better understand the full cycle of health conditions and disease journeys, this data will allow global life science companies to:
1. Collect patient and market insights
Through the analysis of specific health conditions and patient journeys, pharmaceutical companies can determine where, when and how to invest their resources and how to position their brand within the Japanese pharmaceutical market while forecasting supply chain, and developing models for market access.
2. Find patients and develop tactical plans
Life science companies can utilise the data to identify where patients with the highest disease burden for their treatment offerings are being treated geographically. Companies can then deploy their regional in-field teams with the right messages to support clinicians to help these patients requiring treatment.
3. Publish data
Access to one of the most comprehensive Japanese medical data sets also creates an opportunity to add to the clinical body of evidence for health conditions to help inform a better understanding of specific diseases.
4. Receive decision support
Provide healthcare providers with trigger events to assist with targeted education when it is needed most, supporting clinician at point of care with the patient.
Kaoru Sato, Country Manager, Prospection, Japan, said:
"We are delighted to announce our latest agreement with Medical Data Vision. This partnership demonstrates a shared commitment to improving patient outcomes and marks a significant milestone in Prospection's mission to deliver real community benefits to patients across the globe.
"As one of the largest pharmaceutical markets in the world, Japan has incredibly rich datasets. Working with Medical Data Vision gives us the opportunity to access a dataset of approximately 40 million patients, creating a unique opportunity to use advanced analytic tools to accelerate precision medicine to enable the right patient to receive the right treatment at the right time in their journey.
"The outcomes of this partnership will play a key role in understanding the full cycle of patient health conditions and disease journeys in areas including immuno-oncology, immune disorders, cardiovascular and metabolic conditions allowing researchers and pharmaceutical companies globally to better understand the different patient characteristics, treatments and respective outcomes."
Eric Chung, CEO and Co-founder, Prospection said:
"We are very excited to be working with MDV in our latest data access agreement. Combining MDV's large and comprehensive dataset with Prospections global reach and extensive expertise working with datasets across the world will not only allow MNC pharmaceutical companies to work with patient data from Japan, but will also open a broader understanding of different health conditions across the world. This agreement brings us one step closer to enhancing precision medicine to find the 40% of patients that can be optimised."
Sources
* BMC Medicine : The three numbers you need to know about healthcare: the 60-30-10 Challenge
About Prospection
Prospection is a pioneer in health data analytics technology. We are on a mission to make advancements to precision medicine through real world evidence, with an aim to put the right patient on the right treatment at the right time. Applying advanced ML algorithms to real-world data we unearth health journey and treatment insights by analysing longitudinal data for hundreds of millions of patients to see how drug treatments are used after the clinical trial. Delivering actionable real-world evidence that enables better outcomes for patients, across the world.
Prospection is guided by credentialled experts and innovative leaders within their respective fields. Globally, we work with over 15 large health data sets (Claims, EMR, Registry & Commercial), applying our expertise to examine health patterns. Working with government and researchers through to our core client base in the pharma/biopharmaceutical industry, we have delivered insights across more than 90 therapeutic indications. Including rare and complex diseases such as oncology, immuno-oncology, virology, metabolic conditions, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Prospection is backed by investors including Ellerston, Horizons Ventures and Main Sequence, and commercially with CRO Novotech.
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About Medical Data Vision (MDV)
MDV is an accumulation of anonymously processed data with secondary usage permission from medical institutions. The actual number of patients in the "hospital data" centered on the acute phase is 40.42 million (counted at the end of July 2022). In addition, by holding data from the health insurance association, data on the recovery period and chronic period has been enhanced, and in addition to information by hospital/clinic, it has become possible to track information on transfer destinations. "Health insurance data" was 7.84 million people (same).
https://en.mdv.co.jp/about-mdv-database/
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