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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s main opposition party expelled a senator on Thursday after a female senator accused him of sexual assault in the latest evidence of a toxic culture in Parliament House that is hostile to women.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton said he expelled Sen. David Van from the conservative Liberal Party following allegations made in Parliament on Wednesday night by independent Sen. Lidia Thorpe of harassment and sexual assault. Van remains a senator, but no longer represents the Liberal Party.
Van denied the allegations, which were made under parliamentary privilege, under which no one can be sued for defamation over anything said in the Senate.
Political leaders apologized last year to staffers who have endured decades of bullying, harassment and sexual assault inside Parliament House which were exposed by an investigation by the national sex discrimination commissioner.
The investigation was triggered by a staffer’s allegation that she was raped while drunk by a colleague in a minister’s office in 2019.
The staffer accused the then conservative government of treating her rape allegation as a political problem and of dissuading her from complaining to police.
Thorpe told the Senate on Thursday that Van harassed her around the time that the staffer’s complaints captured national media attention two years ago.
The previous government had agreed with Thorpe’s request to shift Van to a different office to reduce their interaction walking to and from the Senate.
The Associated Press does not normally identify alleged victims of sexual assault but Thorpe made the accusations publicly.
Thorpe said Van groped her in a stairwell where there were no security cameras.
“There are different understandings of what amounts to sexual assault. What I experienced was being followed, aggressively propositioned and inappropriately touched,” Thorpe tearfully told the Senate.
She said she would not complain to police or sue in a civil court but had complained to the independent Parliamentary Workplace Support Service, which handles workplace complaints.
Van welcomed the service’s investigation of what he described as “outrageous claims.”
“Sen. Thorpe’s allegations are concocted from beginning to end. Nothing that she has alleged about me is truthful,” Van told the Senate.
There is a pattern of Australian male lawmakers using sexist and abusive behavior to undermine their female opponents.
Dutton suggested Thorpe’s allegations were not the only reason Van was expelled from the party.
“Since the airing of Sen. Thorpe’s allegation yesterday, further allegations in relation to Sen. Van have been brought to my attention overnight this morning,” Dutton told reporters.
“I’m not making any judgment on the veracity of allegations or any individual’s guilt or innocence. I make that very clear. Obviously, there’s an independent process with the Parliamentary Workplace Support service to get under way,” Dutton said. | 2023-06-15T10:16:38+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/australian-opposition-party-expels-senator-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One person has died after a three-story building under construction in northwestern Nigeria collapsed, the emergency services said Wednesday.
The victim died at the hospital where six others pulled from the rubble were treated and released, Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency said.
The building crumbled on Monday in Kano, northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, and rescue operations have ended, Nura Abdullahi, head of Kano's disaster management agency.
“We called it off because we came to the conclusion that there was nobody still under the rubble,” Abdullahi said Wednesday.
Of the eight people pulled from the rubble, “one person that has multiple fractures is still in the hospital and six people with minor injuries have already been discharged,” he said.
Kano Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje ordered an investigation to “unravel the cause of the collapsed structure.”
The building was planned as a business center and was being constructed although some businesses were already operating on the ground floor. It was located in a busy neighborhood, initially raising fears among residents that there would be a high number of casualties.
Neither residents nor local officials have explained why the building collapsed. There have been many similar building collapses in Nigeria amid criticism that some unscrupulous builders and corrupt officials do not abide by construction and safety standards. | 2022-08-31T13:06:53+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Rescue-operations-end-in-Nigeria-building-17409593.php |
NEW YORK (AP) — Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin were among the first round of All-Star selections revealed by the NHL on Thursday night.
Crosby, the longtime captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins, was selected for his ninth All-Star Game and Ovechkin his 13th, a Washington Capitals record.
The league’s hockey operations department picked the first 32 All-Stars, one from each team. Fans will choose the final 12 players who make it — three skaters and a goalie from each division — with a Twitter component involved for the first time.
Reigning Norris Trophy winner and playoff MVP Cale Makar from the defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche was also among those chosen. Vegas’ Logan Thompson was the first rookie goaltender to make an All-Star team since Anaheim’s John Gibson in 2016.
All-Star Weekend is set for Feb. 3-4 in South Florida.
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
Ovechkin, Crosby, G Igor Shesterkin (N.Y. Rangers), F Brock Nelson (N.Y. Islanders), F Jack Hughes (New Jersey), F Andrei Svechnikov (Carolina), F Johnny Gaudreau (Columbus), F Kevin Hayes (Philadelphia)
ATLANTIC DIVISION
F Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay), F Tage Thompson (Buffalo), G Linus Ullmark (Boston), F Dylan Larkin (Detroit), F Matthew Tkachuk (Florida), F Brady Tkachuk (Ottawa), F Mitch Marner (Toronto), F Nick Suzuki (Montreal)
CENTRAL DIVISION
Makar, F Jason Robertson (Dallas), F Kirill Kaprizov (Minnesota), F Vladimir Tarasenko (St. Louis), F Clayton Keller (Arizona), D Seth Jones (Chicago), D Josh Morrissey (Winnipeg), G Juuse Saros (Nashville)
PACIFIC DIVISION
Thompson, F Connor McDavid (Edmonton), F Matty Beniers (Seattle), F Troy Terry (Anaheim), F Kevin Fiala (Los Angeles), F Nazem Kadri (Calgary), F Elias Pettersson (Vancouver), D Erik Karlsson (San Jose)
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- "I am a contractor and while working on jobs we constantly find ourselves tying cords together in a knot and having to unsnag a cord off a doorway, staircase, corner, uneven board, or ladder rung," said an inventor, from Littlefield, Ariz., "so I invented the CORD CONNECTOR. My design eliminates the hassle of trying to keep your cords together while using them and without the hassle of the cord catching or snagging on everything."
The patent-pending invention provides a secure way to hold two electrical cords together. In doing so, it prevents the cords from pulling apart. As a result, it enhances safety and convenience. The invention features a practical and durable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for contractors, homeowners, office workers, etc. Additionally, a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TLP-136, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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(WJW) – McDonald’s is spreading some cheer with daily app deals this holiday season, including $0.50 double cheeseburgers Thursday, Dec. 8, and Friday, Dec. 9.
It’s part of Week 1 of the fast food chain’s “SZN of Sharing” promotion, which kicked off Monday, Dec. 5.
The deals are only available for customers who order through the McDonald’s app.
Customers also have the chance to win the “McDonald’s for Life” sweepstakes, which offers up to two free meals a week for 50 years.
This Saturday and Sunday, you can pick a McDouble or McChicken and get a four-piece McNugget, medium drink and small fry for $4.
Can’t make it this time around? The $0.50 double cheeseburgers will be back on Dec. 22 and 23, among other deals throughout the month.
“SZN of Sharing” deals will continue through Christmas. Learn more about them right here. | 2022-12-09T03:51:58+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/mcdonalds-offering-50-cent-double-cheeseburgers/ |
Oscar Colás spent a portion of Saturday afternoon at Target Field with Chicago White Sox major-league field coordinator Mike Tosar.
Secondary leads were the focus.
“I was working on how to take off,” Colás said through an interpreter before the game against the Minnesota Twins. “I’m having a little bit of difficulty with my back leg when I’m going to take off.”
Colás continues to learn, adapt and apply at the plate, on the bases and in right field since the Sox recalled him from Triple-A Charlotte on July 4. He’s concentrating on “just being more consistent.”
Colás entered Saturday slashing .200/.237/.264 with four doubles, one home run and nine RBIs in 36 games.
Manager Pedro Grifol has seen some adjustments from the 24-year-old. And he’s still working on other things.
“We have to dial down on the intensity level,” Grifol said Friday. “This might sound a little weird, but he plays the game at a 10 volume. We need to play him at an eight. A 10 makes him a little reckless, especially at the plate.
“Let his ability play as opposed to trying to do more than what he needs to do. If you look at all his metrics I think he’s in the top five or 10% in bat speed. He has all the qualities of becoming a really good hitter. He just needs to temper that down a little and let the game come to him as opposed to try and do too much.”
Grifol used the analogy of a boombox.
“If you have it cranked all the way up to 10, do you hear it good? No, I hear a little crack in it every once in a while, so when you put it at 8 1/2, nine, is that loud enough? Yeah, well that’s where we want you to play, not to where you’re out of control but to where you’re still powerful but in control,” Grifol said. “So it’s a work in progress. He’s developing. He’s developing at this level. It’s hard to do.
“If you look at the charts of how he’s been pitched, it doesn’t matter who he’s facing, he could be facing the same guy every night because they’re pitching him the same way. So until he makes adjustments, they’re not going to make adjustments because they don’t need to. Those are the things we’re talking about. And those are the things he’s going to have to start executing.”
Colás said he has played at that high intensity “ever since I started playing.”
“But here you have to understand that you have to manage the game too,” he said.
He is trying to apply those adjustments well before the first pitch of a game.
“I’ve been trying to put all of that into practice during BP,” Colás said. “That’s the only way you’ll be able to bring that to the game.”
Colás began the season with the Sox but was optioned to Charlotte on May 2. He slashed .293/.358/.508 with nine homers and 29 RBIs in 48 games with the Knights.
Colás entered Saturday 6-for-34 (.176) with two doubles and two RBIs in 11 games since returning to the big leagues.
“The first time (in the majors), I was speeding up the game when what I should do is slow down the game,” Colás said. “And now that’s one of the things I’m trying to do this time.
“I focus a lot on my defense too. If you are unable to produce on the offensive side, you have to be able to be consistent with the glove. I’m always working on both aspects of the game and try to bring whatever I can to help the team.”
Colás is taking a short-term approach when it comes to goals.
“At the end of the season, we’ll see how the results are,” he said. “My goals are daily — just try to be better every day.”
- Before the game, the Sox reinstated reliever Joe Kelly from the 15-day injured list and designated reliever Bryan Shaw for assignment. Kelly had been on the IL since July 5 with right elbow inflammation. Shaw had a 9.39 ERA in six appearances with the Sox.
Andrew Vaughn nearing return
Grifol is hopeful first baseman Andrew Vaughn (bone bruise in his left foot) will be back Tuesday when the Sox begin a two-game series against the Cubs at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Vaughn suffered the injury fouling a ball off his foot in Tuesday’s game against the New York Mets at Citi Field. He did not start Saturday for the fourth straight game.
“The good thing is the other stuff has been ruled out,” Grifol said Saturday. “Now it’s just about pain tolerance, and he’s in a lot of pain. Yesterday he tried and today he’s a little better, he came out here and did some stuff.
“He might come in (Sunday) and be available to pinch hit, but I’m hoping for Tuesday.”
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PARK RIDGE, Ill., May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- (AANA)—Michigan is now the 20th state to opt out from federal regulations that require physician supervision of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) reports that the governors of 19 additional states and Guam have exercised such exemptions.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's action in signing the opt-out ensures Michigan's patients have access to value-based, high-quality care and optimizes healthcare teams across the state, according to Adam Kuz, MS, CRNA, president of the Michigan Association of Nurse Anesthetists (MANA).
In July 2021, Gov. Whitmer signed HB4359 to remove supervision requirements for CRNAs in the state nurse practice act.
"Removing barriers to CRNA practice allows Michigan hospitals to select the anesthesia delivery model that maximizes their workforce and increases access to safe, affordable care for all patients," said former MANA president Toni Schmittling, DNAP, MBA, CRNA. "By signing this important legislation, Michigan recognizes that CRNAs are qualified to make decisions regarding all aspects of anesthesia care based on their education, licensure, and certification."
Anesthesia services are provided predominantly by CRNAs in Michigan's critical access hospitals, which offer offering surgical services in 99% of its rural hospitals. They comprise 68% of the state's anesthesia care providers.
"The AANA applauds Gov. Whitmer for recognizing the important role CRNAs have in delivery of safe anesthesia care in Michigan," said AANA President Dina Velocci, DNP, CRNA, APRN. "Increased demand, limited resources, and a state with diverse populations, both rural and urban, dictate that a system capable of meeting the needs of all Michigan residents be maintained. By signing the opt-out letter, this has been achieved."
In March 2020, to maximize healthcare resources during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Whitmer enacted an executive order removing physician supervision for CRNAs. HB4359 made that order permanent.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nurse anesthetists across the country have, in addition to providing top-of-the-line anesthesia care, served as experts in airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, management of patients on ventilators, and overall management of critically ill patients. Instrumental in addressing the deadliest part of COVID-19, CRNAs have become highly sought-after anesthesia care providers.
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165 million people impacted by China’s Covid lockdowns. Here’s what you need to know
By Jessie Yeung, CNN
China has introduced lockdown measures in its two biggest cities, Beijing and Shanghai — the twin engines that power much of the nation’s economy — in an uncompromising bid to stamp out Covid-19 outbreaks.
Shanghai is at the center of the latest outbreak, reporting upwards of 10,000 new cases a day. Authorities have responded with a city-wide lockdown that has lasted weeks, confining nearly all 25 million residents of the once-bustling financial hub to their homes or neighborhoods.
Meanwhile, Beijing officials have launched mass testing exercises, shut schools and imposed targeted lockdowns on some residential buildings in a bid to rein in infections. Those actions have sparked fears of a wider lockdown similar to Shanghai’s.
Throughout the pandemic, China has stuck to a strict zero-Covid strategy that uses lockdowns, mass testing, quarantines, and border closures to contain the virus. But the arrival of the highly infectious Omicron variant has thrown the sustainability of that strategy into question, with the virus spreading to different cities and provinces faster than the government can contain it.
Authorities are now enforcing full or partial lockdowns in at least 27 cities across the country, with these restrictions affecting up to 165 million people, according to CNN’s calculations.
Here’s what you need to know about the Covid situation in China.
Where are the lockdowns and restrictions?
Cases in China began rising in March, soon spiraling into the worst flare-up the country has seen since the initial outbreak in Wuhan in early 2020.
Northeastern Jilin province was hit hard during the early stages of the outbreak. Authorities put the provincial capital Changchun, an industrial hub, under strict city-wide lockdown on March 11, with nearby Jilin City following suit on March 21.
On Thursday, authorities in Changchun and Jilin City, which have a combined population of more than 13.5 million residents, said they would soon begin to gradually ease lockdowns — though it remains unclear what that process will look like, or under what conditions people will be permitted to leave their homes.
Authorities also locked down several other cities, including the major economic center of Shenzhen, in March — though some of these measures have since been lifted.
Shanghai, which has recorded more than half a million cases since March 1, introduced a staggered lockdown in late March. This had expanded into a full citywide lockdown by the end of the month.
Some neighborhoods can start to ease lockdown measures if they have reported no cases in the past two weeks, Shanghai authorities said on Wednesday — but it’s a tenuous freedom, with the threat of reimposed lockdown if even one local case is detected.
In Beijing, a mass testing campaign has covered nearly 20 million residents — about 90% of the city’s population. Another round of citywide testing is planned for April 27 to 30.
Targeted lockdowns in Beijing’s Chaoyang district this week barred residents of 13 buildings from leaving their apartments, and residents of another 33 buildings from leaving their residential compounds.
The capital closed schools in many of its most populous districts on Thursday. Several major hospitals also announced they were closing, and a growing number of entertainment venues including cinemas have also been ordered to close.
Full or district-wide lockdowns are in effect in more than two dozen cities including Hangzhou, home to 12.2 million people; Suzhou, home to 12.7 million people; and Harbin, home to 9.5 million people. They span 14 provinces, from far-flung northeastern Heilongjiang province to southern Guangxi and the mountainous western Qinghai province.
What is life under lockdown like?
Much of the Shanghai lockdown has been characterized by chaos and dysfunction — prompting alarm in other cities that fear they could be next.
Many residents have complained of food shortages, lack of medical access, poor conditions at makeshift quarantine camps and heavy-handed measures such as authorities separating infected children from their parents.
In March, an off-duty nurse in Shanghai died after being turned away from an emergency ward at her own hospital that was closed for disinfection. In early April, a health worker beat a pet corgi to death after its owner tested positive for Covid, the killing captured on camera. Last week, workers reportedly broke down the door of a 92-year-old woman’s home in the early hours of the morning to force her into quarantine.
These stories and many more have gone viral on Chinese social media, sparking rare outcry online.
Similar stories have been reported from other parts of the country, too. In March, students at a locked-down university in Jilin City pleaded for help, saying they had been left to fend for themselves without basic supplies. Also in March, some Changchun residents reported struggling to receive medical care for non-Covid diseases such as cancer or kidney conditions, with hospitals turning away patients.
These incidents — particularly in Shanghai, long seen as China’s most modern and cosmopolitan city — have put people elsewhere on high alert.
Though Beijing has yet to restrict people’s movement outside the designated high-risk areas, many residents — fearing a wider lockdown is on the cards — began panic buying this week, forming long lines at supermarket checkouts and emptying shelves.
What has been the economic cost?
The lockdowns and restrictions have dealt a massive blow to activity — particularly in economically important cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Unemployment hit a 21-month high in March. Many businesses have been forced to suspend operations in several locations, including automakers Volkswagen and Tesla and iPhone assembler Pegatron. The Chinese currency, the yuan, weakened rapidly this week, plunging to the lowest level since November 2020.
There are signs Chinese leaders are nervous, too. In March, President Xi Jinping said China must “minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development.” On Tuesday, Xi called for an “all-out” infrastructure splurge to promote growth — unusual for the Chinese leader, who rarely sets out detailed economic plans, typically leaving that to Premier Li Keqiang.
The Chinese government is “painfully aware of the damage to the economy,” said Jörg Wuttke, president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, earlier this month. He cited a private meeting with a Chinese ministry, but declined to name the agency.
“They’re worried about unemployment,” he added. “They’re worried about foreign companies putting money elsewhere.”
Why is China sticking to zero-Covid?
Despite rising anger at the chaotic lockdowns, and a death toll that remained relatively low until this latest outbreak, authorities and state-run media have indicated China’s zero-Covid policy isn’t changing anytime soon.
Shanghai’s severe situation “highlights the need to stick to the dynamic zero-Covid policy,” said the nationalist tabloid, the Global Times, on Wednesday.
“If Shanghai, endowed with the country’s best medical system, is in dire need of help facing rising numbers of severe cases, who will be there to offer help if other parts of China also have to battle the onslaught of the coronavirus?”
There are a few reasons why China is sticking so stubbornly to zero-Covid. Many Chinese leaders and scientists have voiced concern that easing restrictions could allow the virus to run rampant nationwide, potentially causing a spike in infections and deaths, and overwhelming the health care system — especially given lagging vaccination rates among the elderly.
While China focused massive resources on developing and manufacturing home-grown vaccines, it fell short on ensuring those got into the arms of the elderly population. Now, as authorities have upheld expectations that death rates in the country will remain low, they have no choice but to rely on lockdowns to protect the vulnerable.
There’s also a political element, with Xi placing his personal stamp firmly on the zero-Covid policy throughout the pandemic. The central government has frequently pointed to the low official death toll as evidence of the effectiveness of its strategy, and to burnish its claims of superiority over Western governments.
Xi has personally reiterated his support for zero-Covid throughout the pandemic, claiming last year that it showed China’s commitment to saving “every human life” — making the stakes especially high as the government now struggles to simultaneously contain the virus, sustain the flailing economy, and soothe public discontent.
And for Xi, it comes at a particularly sensitive time, months before his expected step into a nearly unprecedented third term in power this fall.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called on U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday to open an investigation into the undisclosed acceptance of luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife that were paid for by a Republican megadonor.
The letter said the committee plans to hold a hearing in coming days regarding the “need to restore confidence in the Supreme Court’s ethical standards.” And if the Supreme Court does not deal with the issue on its own, the committee will consider voting on legislation. Such a measure would also need support from the Republican-led House to become law.
“But you do not need to wait for Congress to act to undertake your own investigation into the reported conduct and to ensure that it cannot happen again,” the 11 Democratic senators wrote to Roberts. “We urge you to do so.”
The nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica reported Thursday that Thomas, who has been a justice for more than 31 years, has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips from Republican donor Harlan Crow nearly every year.
Thomas, 74, and his wife, Virginia, have traveled on Crow’s yacht and private jet as well as stayed at his private resort in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, ProPublica reported. A 2019 trip to Indonesia the story detailed could have cost more than $500,000 had Thomas chartered the plane and yacht himself.
The Democratic senators said Thomas’ acceptance of favors from Crow was known more than a decade ago. They noted that senators then had urged the Supreme Court court to adopt a resolution stating that the justices abide by the ethics rules that the rest of the federal judiciary follows.
“This problem could have been resolved then,” the senators wrote. “Instead, according to ProPublica’s reporting, Mr. Crow’s dispensation of favors escalated in secret during the years that followed. Now the Court faces a crisis of public confidence in its ethical standards that must be addressed.”
Thomas said Friday he was not required to disclose the trips. Supreme Court justices, like other federal judges, are required to file an annual financial disclosure report which asks them to list gifts they have received, but provides exemptions for hospitality from friends.
Ethics experts have offered conflicting views about whether Thomas was required to disclose the trips. Last month, the federal judiciary bolstered disclosure requirements for all judges, including the high court justices, although overnight stays at personal vacation homes owned by friends remain exempt from disclosure.
The Democratic senators, led by Sen. Richard Durbin, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called the bolstered disclosure requirements a “modest step in the right direction,” but said further action was needed. | 2023-04-11T12:10:40+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/democratic-senators-urge-chief-justice-to-probe-thomas-trips/ |
A Buffalo man has been charged with two felony counts of robbery stemming from incidents in Buffalo and Orchard Park within a three-week span last year.
Edward T. Turner, 38, faces one count of first-degree robbery and one count of second-degree robbery, both violent felony charges, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced Wednesday. After his indictment Tuesday in front of Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan, Turner was remanded without bail.
Turner faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years if he is found guilty of both charges, Flynn said.
About 10:30 a.m. Nov. 13, Turner was alleged to have entered a business on West Chippewa Street by Delaware Avenue before approaching an employee and reaching into his jacket pocket as if concealing a weapon. Turner then demanded money from the cash register and reached over the counter to grab it, according to the charges.
At 7 p.m. Oct. 27, Turner allegedly stole several bottles of cologne from an Orchard Park business on Amelia Drive. Store workers were said to have witnessed the crime and alerted police. Turner then entered the backseat of a vehicle and made threats to a woman inside. He then attempted to sit in the driver's seat and drive away with the woman's children in the vehicle, the prosecution alleged. The woman's children were able to exit the vehicle safely, but Turner drove away.
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The vehicle was found abandoned the next day on Georgia Street in Buffalo. In a search of the vehicle, investigators found a bottle of cologne with its security tag still on.
Ben Tsujimoto can be reached at btsujimoto@buffnews.com, at (716) 849-6927 or on Twitter at @Tsuj10. | 2022-05-18T22:46:21+00:00 | buffalonews.com | https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/buffalo-man-charged-with-two-counts-of-robbery/article_4599fe26-d6c3-11ec-9f52-679812f6ec6c.html |
Abortion at crossroads after midterms with focus on states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Democrat Tina Smith ran for the Senate, she volunteered at a Planned Parenthood clinic in her home state of Minnesota where protesters would confront women as they entered.
The experience is on her mind this Sunday, the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that ensured a nationwide right to abortion until it was overturned last year.
“It feels like such an empty day,” she said.
The White House is trying to replace that sense of emptiness with outrage and resolve this weekend by demonstrating determination to restore abortion rights even though there’s little chance of progress in Washington.
Vice President Kamala Harris is headlining the effort with a speech in Florida, where Democrats fear a renewed attempt to restrict abortion by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“America is the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Harris plans to say, according to excerpts of her speech. “But let us ask: Can we truly be free if a woman cannot make decisions about her own body? Can we truly be free if a doctor cannot care for her patients? Can we truly be free if families cannot make intimate decisions about the course of their own lives?”
The decision for Harris to speak in Tallahassee, the state capital, reflects how the battle lines have shifted since last summer. Now that there’s no more national right to abortion, debates over the issue will play out in individual statehouses rather than in the halls of Congress or before the Supreme Court. White House officials this past week convened top lawmakers from eight states to discuss pending legislation.
In addition, after performing better than expected in November’s elections, Democrats see abortion as a key issue for their party in 2024, when control of the White House and both chambers of Congress will be up for grabs at the same time. DeSantis may seek the Republican presidential nomination, the first step to challenging President Joe Biden, who has been preparing for a reelection campaign.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Florida is critical because its rules for abortion are less restrictive than its neighbors, making it a relatively safe harbor for women in the region who are trying to end their pregnancies. But more restrictions could be considered by the Republican-controlled state government.
DeSantis’ office did not respond to a request for comment.
Biden, in a statement Sunday, said “women should be able to make these deeply personal decisions free from political interference. Yet, Republicans in Congress and across the country continue to push for a national abortion ban, to criminalize doctors and nurses, and to make contraception harder to access. It’s dangerous, extreme, and out of touch.”
Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who has worked with Biden, said the White House strategy on abortion had three goals.
“You can create an atmosphere and put pressure on these states to make it more difficult to pass draconian restrictions,” she said. In addition, Lake said, “you can set up the contrast for 2024″ and “you can use this as a major motivator for people to turn out to vote.”
Democrats have concluded that the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade reshaped the political landscape for last year’s elections, rejuvenating the party’s chances when analysts had expected a Republican wipeout.
Democrats still lost control of the House and expanded their Senate majority by only one vote, meaning legislation that would create a nationwide right to abortion remains out of reach.
There are concerns that Biden and his administration have exhausted their options for executive actions.
The Food and Drug Administration announced this month that abortion pills would become more widely available at pharmacies and through the mail. The pills can also be obtained through a virtual appointment, rather than by visiting a doctor’s office.
A legal battle is now playing out in federal court in Texas, where abortion opponents have sued to undo the decades-old approval of the drugs.
“The administration is really looking at existing federal law, and trying to leverage it,” said Lawrence Gostin, who runs the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health at Georgetown Law.
Not all of the administration’s ideas have panned out. Biden announced last year that states could apply for waivers to use Medicaid dollars to pay for women to travel to get abortions. No waivers have been sought.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra declined to say why he thinks that states haven’t taken the administration up on its offer.
“I’ll let you speak to the different states,” he said Thursday. “We have made the offer out there and we continue to challenge folks to find ways to make sure no one loses access to health care.”
Becerra was in Minnesota, where Democratic leaders were finalizing legislation to codify abortion rights in state law.
“We’re going to continue to work with states like Minnesota that want to do the things it takes to embed in our laws the protections that forever prevent any American from losing access to health care,” Becerra said during an event with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz and lawmakers.
Across states, the fight to protect abortion access is playing out in courtrooms, with active litigation against abortion restrictions in 14 states, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The nonprofit health organization found that advocates have generally taken one of three approaches to mounting legal challenges against abortion laws by claiming the laws violate state constitutional protections, infringe on some states’ guaranteed rights to make health care choices, or block religious freedoms.
It’s unclear which legal arguments may be most successful, with the states’ highest courts ultimately deciding how accessible abortion will be. Meanwhile, abortion opponents are searching for ways to use the courts to further restrict abortion.
Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and executive director of the group We Testify, which advocates for women who have had abortions, said she is disappointed that Biden hasn’t done more.
“The fact that he is missing in action during this public health emergency is really embarrassing,” she said.
Smith, the Minnesota senator, had joined with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., last year to call on Biden to formally declare a public health emergency.
Biden never did, but Smith said she is satisfied with the steps he has taken.
“I’d be hard pressed to point to something that they haven’t done that they might have done with a public health emergency,” she said.
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Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Amanda Seitz contributed to this report.
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- CRHC Board of Directors Recommends that all CRHC Shareholders Vote "FOR" the Business Combination and Related Proposals -
- CRHC Shareholders of Record as of August 15, 2022 are Eligible to Vote at Extraordinary General Meeting -
LUCERNE, Switzerland and WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Allwyn Entertainment AG ("Allwyn" or the "Company"), a leading multinational lottery operator, and Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp. (NYSE:CRHC) ("CRHC") today announced that Allwyn's registration statement on Form F-4 (the "Registration Statement"), in connection with their previously announced proposed business combination with CRHC (the "Business Combination"), has been declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). The Registration Statement provides important information about CRHC, Allwyn and the Business Combination and can be found on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov under the registrant "Allwyn Entertainment AG". CRHC shareholders are encouraged to read the Registration Statement and all other relevant documents filed or that will be filed with the SEC in connection with the Business Combination before making any voting or investment decision.
CRHC also announced today a record date of August 15, 2022 (the "Record Date") and a meeting date of September 7, 2022 for its extraordinary general meeting (the "Meeting") to approve the Business Combination. The closing of the Business Combination is subject to approval by CRHC's shareholders as of the Record Date, and the satisfaction or waiver of other customary closing conditions and is expected to close shortly thereafter.
Upon closing, the combined company is expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") with its Class B ordinary shares and warrants under the new ticker symbols "ALWN" and "ALWN.WS," respectively. For more information about the Business Combination, please visit www.cohnrobbins.com/investor-relations/ or see documents filed by Allwyn and CRHC with the SEC.
The CRHC Board of Directors recommends all CRHC shareholders vote "FOR" ALL PROPOSALS in advance of the Meeting, via the Internet or by signing, dating and returning the proxy card upon receipt by following the instructions in the Registration Statement.
CRHC believes the global lottery industry has attractive characteristics, including high consumer participation across wide demographics, resiliency through market cycles and upside potential from increasing online penetration. Allwyn is a leader in the $300 billion global lottery industry, operating lotteries through both retail and online channels in multiple European countries, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy.
CRHC furthermore believes Allwyn is well-positioned to grow through both organic and inorganic growth opportunities. Allwyn's UK business, Allwyn Entertainment Ltd, was selected by the UK Gambling Commission as the preferred applicant in the competition for the fourth license to operate the UK National Lottery. If the license is awarded, this will further expand Allwyn's footprint as one of Europe's largest and fastest growing lottery companies. For further information on Allwyn, please visit the Allwyn Investor Relations Website at investors.allwynentertainment.com.
Shareholders that were CRHC shareholders as of the Record Date may attend the Meeting in person at the location indicated in the Registration Statement. Alternatively, shareholders can register to attend the meeting virtually via a live webcast starting at 9:30 am, New York City Time, on September 7, 2022. To register to attend the Meeting virtually, shareholders must enter the URL address www.cstproxy.com/cohnrobbins/2022 into a browser, enter a control number assigned by Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, and follow the instructions applicable to them provided in the Registration Statement.
Each Shareholder Vote FOR ALL Proposals Is Important, No Matter How Many or How Few Shares a Shareholder Owns. If shareholders have any questions about voting or need assistance voting, please contact Morrow Sodali LLC, CRHC's proxy solicitor, by calling (800) 662-5200 (for individuals), or (203) 658-9400 (for banks and brokers).
As previously disclosed, the Business Combination contemplates a bonus pool of up to approximately 6.6 million CRHC shares to be made available exclusively to non-redeeming CRHC shareholders.
About Allwyn
Allwyn is a leading global lottery operator. Allwyn builds lotteries that return more to good causes by focusing on innovation, technology, efficiency and safety across a growing casual gaming entertainment portfolio. The lottery-first approach of focusing on affordable recreational play has earned Allwyn leading market positions with trusted brands across Europe in Austria, Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus and Italy.
About Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp.
Founded and listed on the NYSE in 2020, Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp. is Co-Chaired by Gary D. Cohn and Clifton S. Robbins. Mr. Cohn is Vice Chairman of IBM and has more than 30 years of financial services experience spanning the private and public sectors, having served as Assistant to the President of the United States for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council from January 2017 until April 2018, and as President, Chief Operating Officer and a director of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. from 2006-2016. Mr. Robbins has more than 35 years of investment management experience, including as Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Harbour Group from 2004-2020, a Managing Member of global growth investor General Atlantic Partners from 2000-2004, and as a General Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., where he worked from 1987-2000.
Additional Information about the Business Combination and Where to Find It
Additional information about the Business Combination, including a copy of the Business Combination Agreement and prospectus, are provided in the Registration Statement. The Registration Statement is being mailed to each of CRHC's shareholders and can be found on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov under the registrant "Allywn Entertainment AG."
Contacts
For media inquiries:
Adam Weiner
Arrowpath Advisors for Cohn Robbins Holdings Corp.
CRHCmedia@arrowpath.com
+1 212 596 7700
Dana Dvorakova for Allwyn Entertainment
dana.dvorakova@allwynent.com
For investor inquiries:
allwyn.ir@icrinc.com
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 with respect to the Business Combination between, among other parties, CRHC and Allwyn. Words such as "expect," "estimate," "project," "budget," "forecast," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "may," "will," "could," "should," "believe," "predict," "potential," "continue," "strategy," "future," "opportunity," "would," "seem," "seek," "outlook" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. These statements are based on various assumptions, whether or not identified in this press release. These forward-looking statements are provided for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to serve as, and must not be relied on by an investor as, a guarantee, an assurance, a prediction or a definitive statement of fact or probability. Actual events and circumstances are difficult or impossible to predict and will differ from assumptions. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Allwyn's and CRHC's expectations with respect to anticipated financial impacts of the Business Combination, the satisfaction of closing conditions to the Business Combination, and the timing of the completion of the Business Combination. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in the "Risk Factors" section of CRHC's registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-240277), its Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended from time to time, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Registration Statement filed by Allwyn. These filings identify and address other important risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events and results to differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Most of these factors are outside Allwyn's and CRHC's control and are difficult to predict. Many factors could cause actual future events to differ from the forward-looking statements in this document, including but not limited to: (1) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against CRHC or Allwyn following the announcement of the Business Combination; (2) the inability to complete the Business Combination, including due to the inability to concurrently close the Business Combination and the private placement of common stock or due to failure to obtain approval of CRHC's shareholders; (3) the risk that the Business Combination may not be completed by CRHC's business combination deadline and the potential failure to obtain an extension of such deadline sought by CRHC; (4) the failure to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the Business Combination, including the approval by CRHC's shareholders and the satisfaction of the minimum trust account amount following any redemptions by CRHC's public shareholders; (5) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the business combination agreement; (6) the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the consummation of the Business Combination; (7) the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of the combined company to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain key employees; (8) costs related to the Business Combination; (9) changes in the applicable laws or regulations; (10) the possibility that the combined company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; (11) the risk of downturns and a changing regulatory landscape in the industry in which Allwyn operates; (12) Allwyn's ability to obtain or maintain rights or licenses to operate in any market in which Allwyn operates or seeks to operate in the future; (13) the potential inability of Allwyn to raise additional capital needed to pursue its business objectives or to achieve efficiencies regarding other costs; (14) the enforceability of Allwyn's intellectual property, including its patents, and the potential infringement on the intellectual property rights of others, cyber security risks or potential breaches of data security; and (15) other risks and uncertainties described in CRHC's registration statement on Form S-1 and Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended from time to time, for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020 and its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the Registration Statement. Allwyn and CRHC caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive or exhaustive and not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Neither Allwyn nor CRHC gives any assurance that Allwyn or CRHC will achieve its expectations. Neither Allwyn nor CRHC undertakes or accepts any obligation to publicly provide revisions or updates to any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, or should circumstances change, except as otherwise required by securities and other applicable laws.
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(WJHL) Amy Lynn takes us to Tennessee Hills Brewstillery in Johnson City to show us the cocktail of the month called “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”. The cocktails in available at both Tennessee Hills’ locations.
(WJHL) Amy Lynn takes us to Tennessee Hills Brewstillery in Johnson City to show us the cocktail of the month called “It’s 5 o’clock somewhere”. The cocktails in available at both Tennessee Hills’ locations. | 2023-05-09T15:37:18+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/daytime-tri-cities/shot-of-knowledge-its-5-oclock-somewhere/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The repeal of Indiana’s requirement for a permit to carry a handgun in public has forced police agencies to change how they handle encounters with armed people.
Republicans pushed the repeal, which takes effect Friday, through the state Legislature this spring over the vocal opposition of the state police superintendent and several statewide law enforcement groups. They argued that eliminating the permit system would endanger officers by stripping them of a screening tool for quickly identifying dangerous people who shouldn’t have guns.
The change will allow anyone age 18 or older to carry a handgun in public except those with a felony conviction, who face a restraining order or have a dangerous mental illness. Supporters argue the permit requirement undermined Second Amendment protections by forcing law-abiding citizens to undergo police fingerprinting and background checks.
Without the permit requirement, police officers can no longer ask about whether someone is legally carrying a handgun or seize a person’s weapon unless they have adequate suspicion that person was involved in a crime, according to state police. The agency has been training its 1,200 troopers on the legal changes and providing information to the hundreds of police departments, said state police spokesman Capt. Ron Galaviz.
“We have to go through another step or two in order to be able to run a criminal check,” Galaviz said. “We won’t necessarily be able to do it there on the side of the road.”
At least 25 states have adopted permitless carry laws, with Georgia in April becoming the 10th state to do so in the past two years as the issue has become a national conservative cause that gun rights advocates call “constitutional carry” in reference to the Second Amendment. Among Indiana’s neighboring states, Ohio, which also acted this spring, and Kentucky don’t require handgun permits, while Illinois and Michigan do.
The loosening of Indiana’s already lax gun laws comes just days after President Joe Biden signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades following a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
About 1.2 million people had Indiana handgun permits as of March 1, according to state police statistics. The permit law required people to obtain a license to carry a loaded handgun outside their own homes, businesses and vehicles, although people could generally carry rifles and shotguns without a permit.
State Police Superintendent Doug Carter sharply criticized Republican lawmakers during legislative hearings on the repeal, blaming “political posturing” for their push and saying that if lawmakers “support this bill, you will not be supporting us.” Carter said following the state Senate vote giving final approval to the bill in March that “this adds a layer of danger to every police officer.”
After Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the bill, Carter said he would work toward find the best ways to “identify individuals who are not allowed to carry a firearm as defined by Indiana statute.”
Galaviz said the state can’t legally create a database of people prohibited from possessing guns and that police and prosecutors will have the burden of proving a person was illegally carrying a handgun.
The state will continue to issue handgun permits, which Galaviz said state police recommend people obtain in order to carry their firearms in other states where they are allowed and to remove questions on whether someone is legally allowed to do so in Indiana because of a past offense.
“There will be some people that they just don’t know,” Galaviz said. “There’re things that have happened in people’s past that they were like, ‘Oh, I forgot that happened.’” | 2022-06-30T20:10:41+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Indiana-police-set-as-state-handgun-permit-17277445.php |
NEW YORK — Amazon on Tuesday suspended more than two dozen employees at a large warehouse on Staten Island who had refused to work their shift the previous evening, hours after a cardboard compactor at the site had caught fire.
The paid suspensions will last while an investigation takes place, according to a company email to the employees that was shared by the Amazon Labor Union, which won a vote to represent workers at the warehouse in April.
Dozens of employees had gathered in a break room Monday night, raising concerns about fire safety and refusing to work. Some worried that the air at the warehouse might not be safe to breathe because of smoke or fumes from the fire.
The company confirmed the suspensions, saying that it respected employees’ rights to protest working conditions but that occupying work spaces was inappropriate.
Under federal labor law, employees have a right to engage in so-called concerted activity for “mutual aid or protection,” such as protesting a dangerous work environment. The union said it intended to file an unfair-labor-practice charge in response to the suspensions.
Night-shift workers complained Monday that supervisors had told them that they would have to work despite the fire earlier in the day, even though workers who had been on the job during the fire were sent home with pay.
“Workers want to go home,” Derrick Palmer, an employee at the warehouse who is vice president of the Amazon Labor Union, said in an interview Monday night. “They sent the day shift home, but they’re making the night shift stay.” (Palmer works the day shift.)
In an initial statement Monday night, Amazon said it had asked night employees to report to their shifts after the fire department certified that the building was safe. “While the vast majority of employees reported to their workstations, a small group refused to return to work and remained in the building without permission,” the statement said.
Connor Spence, another employee at the warehouse who is the union’s treasurer, said some employees had eventually returned to their workstations, while others had gone to the main office at the site to continue their protest.
Amazon has challenged the results of the union election on Staten Island, and the two sides have yet to begin bargaining over a contract. Workers at another Amazon warehouse, near Albany, New York, will begin to vote next week on whether they want to join the Amazon Labor Union as well. | 2022-10-05T12:10:38+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon-suspends-employees-who-refused-to-work-after-warehouse-fire/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nolan Arenado sparked a record barrage of four straight home runs by St. Louis in the first inning, then hit a tiebreaking drive in the ninth that sent the Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies 7-6 Saturday.
With two outs in the first, Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carson homered off Kyle Gibson. It was the first time in major league history a team connected for four homers in a row in the first inning.
“It was really cool just being a part of that,” Arenado said. “It was almost surreal. You didn’t really believe it. Those moments are special. I’m very thankful for them.”
The Cardinals tied the MLB record for any inning with four in a row. It was the first time they had done it, and the 11th time overall in big league history.
“That was incredible,” Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said. “Guys took some good swings. They were on attack.”
The home crowd at Citizens Bank Park then gasped when Lars Nootbaar followed Carlson and made solid contact on a flyball that was caught in deep left field but well shy of the warning track to end the inning.
It was 6-all when Arenado led off the ninth by clearing the wall in left field off Seranthony Domínguez (4-2) for his 17th home run. Arenando hit for the cycle on Friday night in the Cardinals’ 5-3 defeat to the Phillies.
“I just got enough of it,” Arenado said. “We’re obviously excited to win the ballgame. That’s what’s most important.”
Yairo Muñoz hit a two-run double, Matt Vierling had a pair of RBIs and Odúbel Herrera had three hits for the Phillies.
“These guys kept battling,” Phillies interim manager Rob Thomson said. “Came back to tie twice. Just couldn’t seem to get the lead, but I’m awfully proud of the way they battled.”
Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley (4-1) pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth, striking out five of the seven batters he faced.
St. Louis put on a historic power display in the first.
After Gibson got the first two outs, Paul Goldschmidt singled before Arenado’s two-run shot to left field on a slider started the long ball onslaught.
Gorman followed by driving a 2-1 cutter into the seats in right field. Yepez fouled off a 1-2 pitch before clearing the fence in left field to mark the first time since Sept. 19, 2002, that the Cardinals hit three homers in a row.
Carson finished the amazing power display by connecting on a 1-0 sinker that hit the facing of the second deck in right field.
“A lot of fun, a lot of excitement,” Carson said. “That was cool, really exciting, and something that obviously will be remembered.”
The last team to homer in four consecutive at-bats was the Chicago White Sox, who did it on Aug. 16, 2020, against the Cardinals.
Gibson had allowed just nine homers in 80 1/3 innings entering Saturday.
The Cardinals upped the win/loss record of teams that have hit four consecutive homers in an inning to 7-4.
The Phillies got a pair of runs back in the second on Vierling’s sacrifice fly and Bryson Stott’s RBI single. They tied it in the third on another Vierling sacrifice fly and Muñoz’s two-run double.
All five runs were charged to Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore.
St. Louis went ahead in the fifth. After Gibson loaded the bases with no outs, Corey Knebel came on and got the first two batters out before walking Nootbaar to give the Cardinals a 6-5 lead. Philadelphia tied it in the sixth on Nick Castellanos’ RBI single.
HICKS HEAT
Cardinals RHP Jordan Hicks threw 18 of 28 pitches over 100 mph while twice reaching 103.4 mph in 1 2/3 scoreless innings of relief.
Hicks was activated from the injured list before the game. He hadn’t pitched in the majors since May 24 before a forearm injury.
SCHWARBER SELECTED
Phillies OF Kyle Schwarber was named NL Player of the Month for June after batting .272 with 12 homers and 27 RBIs in 27 games. Schwarber went 0 for 5 with four strikeouts.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cardinals: Gorman returned to the lineup after missing the last three games. He sat the first two of those due to a bruised left hand and the final one because of Friday night’s pitching matchup.
UP NEXT
Cardinals LHP Adam Wainwright (6-5, 3.07) opposes Philadelphia RHP Zack Wheeler (6-4, 2.89) on Sunday night when the teams conclude their three-game series.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Solutions First Financial Group is proud to announce that they will be sponsoring the 2022 "Cops and Kids" program. The program is designed to unite Scottsdale Officers and public safety employees with local disadvantaged children for a special day of bonding and shopping.
The kids will shop with local officers for the items they would otherwise not receive for the school year such as new articles of clothing, school supplies, and backpacks. Children and families will be carefully selected by a committee of local law enforcement officers to reach those most in need. Solutions First Financial Group is helping make this event possible by making a generous donation so that approximately $200 will go towards the back-to-school needs of each child.
Owner of Solutions First Financial Group, Joe Donti, says, "We feel honored to be able to help those in need. Having children and grandchildren of our own, we understand how important it is for every child to have the tools they need to succeed in school so that they have the best chance to succeed in their futures. If more businesses participate in this program by helping to subsidize the gap in funding of our schools, the more profound the impact will be".
Solutions First Financial Group is a full-service financial advisory firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona. They help design plans for pre-retirees and retirees to include every aspect of their financial future and lifestyle goals into one integrated plan. The firm believes in the importance of community and understands that it takes a village to run such an organization that has the power to change the lives of many. For more information, contact Solutions First Financial Group at 9375 Shea BLVD., Suite 100 in Scottsdale, call them at (602) 492 – 9945, email them at info@solutionsfirstgroup.com, or visit https://solutionsfirstgroup.com/
Solutions First Financial Group is an independent financial services firm that utilizes a variety of investment and insurance products. Investment advisory services offered only by duly registered individuals through AE Wealth Management, LLC (AEWM). AEWM, Solutions First Financial Group, and Cops and Kids are not affiliated companies. Our firm does not provide tax or legal advice. 01392967 – 7/22
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For the first time in more than three years, the U.S. is changing its immigration policy for asylum seekers, or people who are seeking protection from persecution in their country.
Title 42, which allowed federal authorities to expel migrants without the opportunity to apply for asylum, expires on May 11. It was implemented to limit the spread of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
Once Title 42 ends, the U.S. will resume processing asylum claims at ports of entry.
This has prompted some people online to claim that the U.S. will have a “wide open border” when Title 42 ends. Other people, including a VERIFY reader, are wondering if that’s true.
THE QUESTION
Will the U.S. have an “open border” when Title 42 ends?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the U.S. will not have an “open border” when Title 42 ends. The government will transition back to immigration procedures outlined in a body of federal law known as Title 8.
WHAT WE FOUND
Title 42 ends on Thursday, May 11 and immigration procedures outlined in Title 8 of U.S. Code will resume the following day. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. border is “open” for anyone to enter the country without permission.
Though the end of Title 42 does not mean the border is “wide open,” as some people have claimed, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is expecting an increase in migration. The agency announced on May 2 that additional personnel would be sent to the border to offer assistance for 90 days after Title 42 expires.
Since the 1940s, U.S. immigration law has been governed by Title 8 of the U.S. Code. But some provisions of Title 8 were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic under a different law called Title 42.
Title 42 is a section under the Public Health Service Act, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law in July 1944. That section allows federal health authorities to prohibit people who pose a danger associated with disease from entering the United States.
In March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director under former President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. Title 42 is set to expire on the same day that the Biden administration is ending twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19.
Both DHS and the State Department explain that when Tile 42 ends, authorities will return to using immigration processes under Title 8.
Here’s a breakdown of what changes.
Under Title 42, many asylum seekers were returned back to Mexico or their home country without having their case heard, the National Immigration Forum explains. Now, with its expiration, the federal government will resume regularly processing legal claims for asylum at ports of entry beginning Friday, May 12.
Asylum status is a form of protection available to people who meet the definition of a refugee, and are already in the United States or are seeking admission at a point of entry. A person seeking asylum protection must apply for it within one year of their arrival to the U.S.
The federal government will also reimpose stricter penalties for illegally crossing the border under Title 8. Those penalties can include deportation, at least a five-year ban on reentry and criminal prosecution, DHS and the State Department say.
These penalties were not enforced under Title 42, according to the National Immigration Forum.
“Because they are not based in existing immigration or border laws, Title 42 expulsions carry zero penalties for repeat entries and they do not distinguish between those with meritorious claims to protection and those attempting to enter the U.S. undetected,” the Forum says.
DHS also says it will work to quickly remove people who arrive at the border to claim asylum, but who cannot prove they have a credible fear of persecution or harm in their home country. | 2023-05-09T15:39:19+00:00 | kagstv.com | https://www.kagstv.com/article/news/verify/immigration/title-42-end-does-not-open-us-border-what-it-means/536-b42a0230-b695-4fe5-8856-3525477dcb06 |
EDEN – Rockingham’s second chance scoring opportunities, pressure defense and steady scoring proved too much and the Cougars looked in midseason form with an impressive 57-26 win over cross-county rival Morehead in the regular season opener Tuesday night.
“We started out and got the first rebound on the first possession, but we just couldn’t get anything to go down. We forced some pressure, but just couldn’t put the ball in the basket early. Once we were able to hit one, the flood-gates kind-of opened up and we were able to do some good things in transition and half-court offense,” Rockingham head coach Jesse Wall said.
Six Rockingham players scored in the opening frame with buckets by Addie Gregson, Ana Grace Pruitt, Reese Pyrtle, Hadlee Russell and Macey Hardy, but it was sophomore Lilly Strittmatter that truly had the hot-hand, running the show at point guard. She posted eight points to help the Cougars pull ahead at 23-4. Obviously, the Cougars defense was stifling as Morehead struggled to get good looks.
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“Lilly does a good job. She’s a very hard worker. Last year, she didn’t get quite as many minutes as she hoped or I would have liked to have gotten her. She did a lot in the offseason and really worked on her craft and played with a lot of confidence. She does the little things right and she takes pride in it. I’m glad she had a good night – and number one, she is a team player. I’ve got 11 players and they are all team players on the roster and everybody buys-in,” Rockingham head coach Jesse Wall said.
That trend continued in the second quarter as turnovers led to points for Rockingham as balanced scoring kept the Panthers guessing as the lead increased to 38-8 at the half.
The Cougars outscored Morehead 13-5 in the third period instituting the running clock as Rockingham closed out the frame with a 51-13 advantage which set the stage for the win.
Strittmatter led all scorers with 15 on the night including a 3-pointer. Pruitt had a solid night as well with 10 points and Gregson had 9 points.
In addition to providing some critical scores, Gregson, regarding steals, assists, rebounds and turnovers was plus-13 on Wall’s plus-minus scale. In addition, Hardy didn’t have a turnover and had nine rebounds to go with nine points.
The Panthers are hoping to turn things around after a rough 3-20 finish last season. It’s worth noting that Morehead had only one senior last season, so they have a lot of experience players returning to begin the 2022-2023 campaign.
Meanwhile the Cougars look to take the next step up the ladder after closing out last season with an impressive 21-5 overall and second place 11-3 Mid-State 3A Conference record. Rockingham made it to the second round of the 2022 3A NCHSAA state playoffs before being ousted by North Buncombe Feb. 24.
However, the Cougars suffered some losses as well, losing heralded forward Skyler Fowler on a transfer while only returning four players from last season.
“We are young. We have got some growing pains that we have got to get out of. We scrimmaged Eastern Alamance last week and they are pretty good, but we played like freshmen and couldn’t figure things out. I’m not going to say we were disorganized, but we weren’t confident. But what I was proud of tonight was we were organized. We were very confident. We did the little things that allowed us to do the big things and we’ve just got to work to get better every day,” Wall said.
UP NEXT: Rockingham (1-0) will hit the road again to take on cross-county rival McMichael Nov. 30. The Cougars swept the Phoenix in 2021-222. Morehead (0-1) travels to take on Bethany Dec. 1. The Panthers defeated Bethany 44-13 in last season’s game.
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‘Dancing With the Stars’ judge Len Goodman dies at 78
LONDON (AP) - Len Goodman, the urbane, long-serving judge on “Dancing with the Stars” and “Strictly Come Dancing,” has died, his agent said Monday. He was 78.
Agent Jackie Gill said Goodman “passed away peacefully,” without giving a cause.
A former dancer and British champion, Goodman was a judge on “Strictly Come Dancing” for 12 years from its launch on the BBC in 2004. The ballroom dancing competition, which pairs celebrities with professional dance partners, has become one of the network’s most popular shows.
Goodman was head judge on the U.S. version of the show, “Dancing With the Stars,” for 15 years until his retirement in November.
BBC director-general Tim Davie said Goodman was “a wonderful, warm entertainer who was adored by millions. He appealed to all ages and felt like a member of everyone’s family. Len was at the very heart of ‘Strictly’s success. He will be hugely missed by the public and his many friends and family.”
Goodman was also a recipient of the Carl Alan Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to dance, and owned the Goodman Academy dance school in southern England.
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OSLO, Norway — A gunman opened fire in Oslo's night-life district early Saturday, killing two people and leaving 10 seriously wounded in what police are investigating as a possible terrorist attack during the Norwegian capital's annual Pride festival.
Investigators said the suspect, identified as a 42-year-old Norwegian citizen originally from Iran, was arrested after opening fire at three locations in downtown Oslo.
While the motive was unclear, organizers of Oslo Pride canceled a parade that was set for Saturday as the highlight of a weeklong festival. One of the shootings happened outside the London Pub, a bar popular with the city's LGBTQ community, just hours before the parade was set to begin.
Police attorney Christian Hatlo said the suspect was being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism, based on the number of people targeted at multiple locations.
"Our overall assessment is that there are grounds to believe that he wanted to cause grave fear in the population," Hatlo said.
Hatlo said the suspect's mental health was also being investigated.
"We need to go through his medical history, if he has any. It's not something that we're aware of now," he said.
The shootings happened around 1 a.m. local time, sending panicked revelers fleeing into the streets or trying to hide from the gunman.
Olav Roenneberg, a journalist from Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, said he witnessed the shooting.
"I saw a man arrive at the site with a bag. He picked up a weapon and started shooting," Roenneberg told NRK. "First I thought it was an air gun. Then the glass of the bar next door was shattered and I understood I had to run for cover."
Another witness, Marcus Nybakken, 46, said he was alerted to the incident by a commotion in the area.
"When I walked into Cesar's bar there were a lot of people starting to run and there was a lot of screaming. I thought it was a fight out there, so I pulled out. But then I heard that it was a shooting and that there was someone shooting with a submachine gun," Nybakken told Norwegian broadcaster TV2.
Police inspector Tore Soldal said two of the shooting victims died and 10 people were being treated for serious injuries, but none of them was believed to be life-threatening.
Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a Facebook post that "the shooting outside London Pub in Oslo tonight was a cruel and deeply shocking attack on innocent people."
He said that while the motive was unclear, the shooting had caused fear and grief in the LGBTQ community.
"We all stand by you," Gahr Stoere wrote.
King Harald V also offered condolences and said he and Norway's royal family were "horrified by the night's shooting tragedy."
"We sympathize with all relatives and affected and send warm thoughts to all who are now scared, restless and in grief," the Norwegian monarch said in a statement. "We must stand together to defend our values: freedom, diversity and respect for each other. We must continue to stand up for all people to feel safe."
Christian Bredeli, who was at the bar, told Norwegian newspaper VG that he hid on the fourth floor with a group of about 10 people until he was told it was safe to come out.
"Many were fearing for their lives," he said. "On our way out we saw several injured people, so we understood that something serious had happened."
Norwegian broadcaster TV2 showed footage of people running down Oslo streets in panic as shots rang out in the background.
Investigators said the suspect was known to police, as well as to Norway's security police, but not for any major violent crimes. His criminal record included a narcotics offense and a weapons offense for carrying a knife, Hatlo said.
Hatlo said police seized two weapons after the attack: a handgun and an automatic weapon, both of which he described as "not modern" without giving details.
He said the suspect had not made any statement to the police and was in contact with a defense lawyer.
Hatlo said it was too early to say whether the gunman specifically targeted members of the LGBTQ community.
"We have to look closer at that, we don't know yet," he said.
Still, police advised organizers of the Pride festival to cancel the parade Saturday.
"Oslo Pride therefore urges everyone who planned to participate or watch the parade to not show up. All events in connection with Oslo Prides are canceled," organizers said on the official Facebook page of the event.
Inge Alexander Gjestvang, leader of FRI, the Norwegian organisation for sexual and gender diversity, said the shooting has shaken the Nordic country's gay community.
"It's tough for the queer movement to experience this," he was quoted by TV2 as saying. "We encourage everyone to stand together, take care of each other. We'll be back later, proud, visible but right now it's not the time for that."
Norway has a relatively low crime rate but has experienced violent attacks by right-wing extremists, including one of the worst mass shootings in Europe in 2011, when a gunman killed 69 people on the island of Utoya after setting off a bomb in Oslo that left eight dead.
In 2019, another right-wing extremist killed his stepsister and then opened fire in a mosque but was overpowered before anyone there was injured.
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These dryer balls could save you money while helping save the environment
Smart Sheep is changing the way you’re doing the laundry, not only for the betterment of your clothes but for the betterment of the environment.
March is recognized as Women’s History Month. It commemorates the vital role of women in American history and encourages studying, observing and celebrating the contributions of women in history and the present day. In that spirit, we're taking a look at the contributions of female entrepreneurs.
Smart Sheep is run by two women – Kalpana and Christine.
Kalpana is based in Nepal and manages the felting process behind Smart Sheep’s incredible innovation: wool dryer balls.
The story goes that Kalpana mentioned to Christine the dryer balls as a sustainable way to dry your clothes after washing them.
How does it work? Throw them in the dryer, and your clothes are dried faster, softer, and with fewer chemicals.
The wool is sourced from sustainably raised sheep in New Zealand, according to Smart Sheep’s website.
Not only are the dryer balls helping the environment and helping you save time when drying your clothes, but they could be helping you save money as well. Smart Sheep says the dryer balls can last for up to 1,000 loads of laundry.
What started as Christine telling her friends about the dryer balls quickly snowballed into a viral success that had many on social media and experts like our friends at Good Housekeeping praising the healthy alternative.
Three dryer balls are great for a small to medium load, while five or six dryer balls are what’s recommended for a large load.
Hearst Television’s Chief National Consumer Correspondent Jeff Rossen told us about the dryer balls back in April of 2022 as something sustainable to use when doing your laundry, and also save you cash while you help save the environment.
The wool dryer balls are available on Amazon. A pack of three dryer balls will cost you about $12. But if you want to add some flair to them, they do come in the form of marching penguins and smiling sheep. | 2023-03-08T18:33:21+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/smart-sheep-wool-dryer-balls/43250577 |
Nashville school shooting victims include pastor's daughter
The six people who were fatally shot at a Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday included 9-year-old Hallie Scruggs, the daughter of the pastor whose church runs The Covenant School.
The massacre by a former student also claimed the life of its Head of School, Katherine Koonce, who had written on the school's website that "we are participating in the miracle of (students') development and seeing them transform into who they will be."
Three children and three adults died at the Presbyterian school, which was founded in 2001 in the affluent Green Hills neighborhood just south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
The two other children who died, Evelyn Dieckhaus and William Kinney, were also 9 years old. The other adults were Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher and Mike Hill, 61, a custodian.
Hallie Scruggs was the daughter of Chad Scruggs, the lead pastor at the Covenant Presbyterian Church, according to a statement released by a Presbyterian Church in Dallas where the elder Scruggs had served as an associate pastor.
“We love the Scruggs family and mourn with them over their precious daughter Hallie," Park Cities Presbyterian Church Senior Pastor Mark Davis said in a statement. "Together, we trust in the power of Christ to draw near and give us the comfort and hope we desperately need.”
The Covenant School in Nashville has about 200 students from preschool through sixth grade, as well as roughly 50 staff members.
Koonce, the head of school who was killed, wrote on the school's website that it has "a unique challenge — to educate twenty-first-century children in a way that prepares them to impact their culture and think in accordance with timeless Truth.
"Never before have we known more about the skills and experiences students need to be successful and develop skills. But, we must be about more."
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Finley reported from Norfolk, Va. | 2023-03-28T18:03:16+00:00 | koat.com | https://www.koat.com/article/nashville-school-shooting-victims/43441255 |
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (AP) — A federal lawsuit alleges that health insurance giant Cigna used a computer algorithm to automatically reject hundreds of thousands of patient claims without examining them individually as required by California law.
The class-action lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Sacramento, says Cigna Corp. and Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. rejected more than 300,000 payment claims in just two months last year.
The company used an algorithm called PXDX, shorthand for ''procedure-to-diagnosis," to identify whether claims met certain requirements, spending an average of just 1.2 seconds on each review, according to the lawsuit. Huge batches of claims were then sent on to doctors who signed off on the denials, the lawsuit said.
“Relying on the PXDX system, Cigna’s doctors instantly reject claims on medical grounds without ever opening patient files, leaving thousands of patients effectively without coverage and with unexpected bills,” according to the lawsuit.
Ultimately, Cigna conducted an “illegal scheme to systematically, wrongfully and automatically” deny members claims to avoid paying for medical necessary procedures, the lawsuit contends.
Connecticut-based Cigna has 18 million U.S. members, including more than 2 million in California.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of two Cigna members in Placer and San Diego counties who were forced to pay for tests after Cigna denied their claims.
The lawsuit accuses Cigna of violating California's requirement that it conduct “thorough, fair, and objective” investigations of bills submitted for medical expenses. It seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial.
Cigna “utilizes the PXDX system because it knows it will not be held accountable for wrongful denials" because only a small fraction of policyholders appeal denied claims, according to the lawsuit.
In a statement, Cigna Healthcare said the lawsuit “appears highly questionable and seems to be based entirely on a poorly reported article that skewed the facts.”
The company says the process is used to speed up payments to physicians for common, relatively inexpensive procedures through an industry-standard review process similar to those used by other insurers for years.
“Cigna uses technology to verify that the codes on some of the most common, low-cost procedures are submitted correctly based on our publicly available coverage policies, and this is done to help expedite physician reimbursement,” the statement said. “The review takes place after patients have received treatment, so it does not result in any denials of care. If codes are submitted incorrectly, we provide clear guidance on resubmission and how to appeal.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Jim Nantz will step away from calling the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament after next year and will be succeeded by Ian Eagle.
CBS Sports confirmed the move on Monday night. It was first reported by the New York Post.
Nantz has been a part of the CBS coverage of the tournament since 1986. He was the studio host for five years before calling his first Final Four in 1991.
Next year's Final Four will take place in Houston, 40 years after the University of Houston's run to the national championship game before it was upset by North Carolina State. Nantz attended the University of Houston and hosted coach Guy Lewis' television show.
The 63-year old Nantz will remain the lead voice of the network's NFL coverage, along with leading its golf team. CBS has The Masters and PGA Championship.
Eagle has been with CBS since 1998. Besides calling the tournament, he is part of the network's No. 2 NFL team. The 53-year-old Eagle is also part of Turner's NBA coverage and has called Brooklyn Nets games since 1995.
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AVON, Conn. (AP) — A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.
Workers at Taste by Spellbound in the town of Avon were loading cakes into a van for delivery on Wednesday when the bear showed up. There are between 1,000 and 1,200 black bears living in Connecticut, the state environmental agency says, with sightings last year in 158 of the state’s 169 towns and cities.
Bakery owner Miriam Stephens wrote in an Instagram post that she heard employee Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling that there was a bear in the garage.
Williams told TV station WTNH that she shouted to scare the bear off but it retreated and came back three times.
Williams said the bear charged at her so she backed out of the garage and ran.
Surveillance video obtained by WTNH shows bakery workers walking around the side of the business to try to scare the bear, but then running away after it scares them.
The video shows the bear dragging a container of cupcakes from the garage into the parking lot. Stephens said the bear ate 60 cupcakes.
A baker finally got the bear to leave by honking a car horn, Williams said.
The four-footed thief was gone by the time police and officers from the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection arrived.
No one was injured in the encounter — one in a series of troubling interactions between black bears and humans in Connecticut.
A 74-year-old woman suffered bites to her arms and legs last month when she was attacked by a bear while walking her dog in a Hartford suburb, the first such attack this year. There were two attacks last year, including one in October where a 10-year-old boy was mauled in a backyard.
“The frequency and severity of bear-human interactions is increasing,” DEEP spokesperson Paul Copleman said Friday.
Statistics compiled by the department show that there were a record 67 reports of bears entering Connecticut homes in 2022. The previous record was 45 in 2020.
On Friday, a bear cub wandered into a neighborhood near downtown Hartford and climbed up a tree. Local residents were delighted and surprised, saying it was highly unusual for bears to come into the city. Police, animal control officers and state environmental authorities responded, creating a scene for several hours.
Authorities eventually tranquilized the young bear and planned to relocate it. Its destination was not disclosed. | 2023-05-27T14:51:37+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/weird-news/ap-strange-news/ap-bear-helps-itself-to-60-cupcakes-from-connecticut-bakery-scares-employees/ |
3 men indicted in the beating death of gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
By Elizabeth Wolfe, Amy Simonson and Rob Frehse, CNN
(CNN) - Three men have been indicted in the beating death of imprisoned Boston gangster and convicted murderer James "Whitey" Bulger, prosecutors announced Thursday.
Fotios "Freddy" Geas, 55, Paul "Pauly" DeCologero, 48, and Sean McKinnon, 36, were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the death of Bulger, who was killed nearly four years ago while incarcerated at the US Penitentiary Hazelton in West Virginia, the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia said in a statement.
All three were incarcerated with Bulger at the Hazelton facility, where Bulger was serving two life sentences for the murders of 11 people, as well as numerous other counts including extortion, money laundering and drug dealing.
Prior to his imprisonment, Bulger ran Boston's infamous Winter Hill Gang during the 1970s and '80s. He went into hiding upon learning of his impending 1995 indictment, landing himself on the FBI's most-wanted list. He was finally found and arrested 16 years after he was indicted. The gangster's criminal reign would serve as the inspiration for Jack Nicholson's character in the Martin Scorsese film "The Departed."
Geas and DeCologero are accused of striking Bulger, 89, in the head several times in October 2018, causing his death, the district attorney's office said.
In addition to the conspiracy charge, Geas and DeCologero are charged with aiding and abetting first-degree murder and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, the statement said. Geas is also charged with murder by a federal inmate serving a life sentence and McKinnon is separately charged with making false statements to a federal agent, the office said.
Geas remains imprisoned at the Hazelton penitentiary and DeCologero is currently being held at a separate federal prison facility. McKinnon has been on supervised release and was arrested in Florida on Thursday, the statement said.
CNN is working to determine whether the men have legal representation.
After they were indicted, US Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Rachael Rollins expressed solidarity for the families of Bulger's victims.
"He was a serial murderer, and each mention of his name is a trigger to the families he devastated, reopening wounds that we can only hope had finally started to heal," Rollins said in a statement. "In the truest of ironies, Bulger's family has experienced the excruciating pain and trauma their relative inflicted on far too many, and the justice system is now coming to their aid."
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WASHINGTON, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DCI Consulting Group, Inc. (DCI) is pleased to announce that Evan Szarenski has joined DCI's Audit Strategy & Regulatory Affairs team as a Senior Consultant. The addition of Mr. Szarenski is a strategic hire for DCI, enhancing their commitment of providing the best OFCCP audit support and consulting services for their clients.
Prior to joining DCI, Mr. Szarenski spent 11 years at the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). Most recently, he served as the Director of Regional Operations. In this role, he was responsible for setting the framework for compliance reviews, investigations, and enforcement priorities for execution under Executive Order 11246, Title VII, Section 503, the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment and Assistance Act, and more.
In his new role at DCI, Mr. Szarenski will assist clients in meeting regulatory obligations and lead the full lifecycle of strategic OFCCP audit support for his clients, representing them from audit submission through audit closure.
David Cohen, President of DCI, stated that "Evan Szarenski brings incredible insight to DCI with his experience at OFCCP ensuring contractor compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures. Our clients will benefit from his breadth of knowledge."
About DCI
DCI is a human resources risk management consulting firm. Members of DCI's staff are recognized experts in a variety of spaces, including diversity, equity & inclusion metrics, pay equity, systemic compensation discrimination analyses, affirmative action plan development, employee selection and test validation, and OFCCP audit and litigation support.
About the Audit Strategy & Regulatory Affairs Team
DCI offers audit support through the Audit Strategy & Regulatory Affairs team. The team partners with clients to negotiate with OFCCP and navigate the audit process. They work with clients to assess next steps, provide additional analyses, back pay calculations, and guidance. Their holistic support has included defending their work at a high stakes national level.
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NEW YORK, July 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- QBE North America today announced the launch of a cyber insurance program with new MGA, Converge, acting as program administrator. The program will be broken down into two separate distribution structures, each with a distinct revenue focus and cyber security data access formation.
- ConvergeElements™ offers primary and excess cyber coverage through select agents and brokers for companies with up to $100 million in revenue. Converge's proprietary technology platform allows it to ingest and collate data from applications, external system scans, underwriting and claims workspaces, insured/broker portals, analytics workspaces, and other specialized data sources to underwrite cyber risks more swiftly and effectively.
- ConvergeConnect™ offers primary cyber coverage through prequalified technology provider partnerships for companies with up to $750 million in revenue. These partners provide Converge with access to insured-specific behind-the-firewall security and underwriting data to provide best-in-class customer solutions leveraging unmatched insights on cybersecurity posture.
"Converge's unique ability to access and analyze detailed cyber risk information aligns perfectly with our control-based underwriting approach," said Danielle Librizzi, Head of Professional Liability and Financial Lines Programs, QBE North America. "Furthermore, Converge's operational efficiency allows us to target small business through the program, complementing business we write through our retail Cyber practice."
Tom Kang, CEO, Converge, added, "We're thrilled to partner with QBE North America given their experience and reputation in the cyber insurance market. Their product, underwriting and claims expertise have proven invaluable as we have set up the program, and we are excited to help them tap the growing need for cyber protection for small and mid-sized enterprises in the U.S."
Cyber coverage through the Converge program will be provided on a non-admitted basis through QBE North America's A.M. Best "A" rated insurance companies.
More information about the program is available at qbe.com/us/specialty/converge.
About QBE North America
QBE North America is a global insurance leader helping customers solve unique risks, so they can stay focused on their future. Part of QBE Insurance Group Limited, QBE North America reported Gross Written Premiums in 2022 of $7.27 billion. QBE Insurance Group's results can be found at qbe.com. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, QBE operates out of 27 countries around the globe, with a presence in every key insurance market. The North America division, headquartered in New York, conducts business primarily through its insurance company subsidiaries. The actual terms and conditions of any insurance coverage are subject to the language of the policies as issued. QBE insurance companies are rated "A" (Excellent) by A.M. Best and "A+" by Standard & Poor's. Additional information can be found at qbe.com/us or follow QBE North America on LinkedIn and Facebook.
About Converge
Converge fuses cyber insurance, security and technology to provide businesses with clear, confident cyber protection. Deploying a proprietary data ecosystem underpinned by expert underwriting, it provides risk solutions that deliver high-value strategies with improved outcomes. Converge's philosophy is that insurance needs the right elements and personalized approach to mitigate risk. By partnering with its policyholders, Converge precisely formulates their business needs so they can confidently become cyber secure. Converge is headquartered in New York and operates across the U.S. Learn more at convergeins.com
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Heber Jeffs waives right to extradition hearing, held without bond in Minot
MINOT, N.D (KMOT) – A 54-year-old man wanted for child kidnapping out of Utah appeared before a judge for the first time in Minot Monday.
Heber Jeffs, the nephew of imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs, is in custody in Ward County.
Jeffs waived his right to extradition, meaning the state of Utah now has 10 days to come to pick him up to take him back to Piute County, Utah, where he’ll face charges.
The sheriff had issued a warrant for Jeffs’ arrest in December after he and a 10-year-old girl disappeared.
Jeffs was arrested Saturday in North Dakota and turned over to the Ward County Jail for holding.
The girl’s immediate family has been informed that she’s safe.
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NEW YORK – Aaron Boone doesn’t believe in statement games – not in August, anyway – so he won’t bite on the idea that Monday’s 4-2 conquest of the Mets was anything more than a night at the office. We beg to differ.
The Yankees made a dramatic statement about their slump (it’s over), their bullpen (it’s a cat with nine lives) and about Boone himself (he’s staying put, says Brian Cashman, maintaining residence in the heads of his haters.)
It’s a lot to unpack on a loud, busy night in the Bronx. The biggest crowd of the season turned Yankee Stadium into an open-air asylum. Raucous doesn’t begin to describe the energy-level as the Yankees took the ticket buyers back to June and July, when they were indestructible. Not even the great Max Scherzer could stop Boone’s posse.
If that isn’t a message in big, bright neon lights, then what is?
Except for the fly ball that Oswaldo Cabrera and Marwin Gonzalez botched in the seventh inning, the Yankees played a game so crisp you could almost forget they were tied with the Marlins for the major league’s worst record in August (5-14).
And here’s another sign of the Bombers’ shifting fortunes. They’ve been spared a run-in with Jacob DeGrom, who’s been pushed back from Tuesday night’s scheduled start to Thursday.
The Mets instead will turn to Taijuan Walker, who’s having a terrific season (10-2, 3.36 ERA) and beat the Yankees on July 26 at Citi Field. But you don’t need a scientific poll to guess who they’d rather face this evening. Hint: it’s anyone but deGrom.
Does all this mean Boone’s nightmare is over? Too early to talk macros, is what the manager told us. “A statement will be made if we’re standing at the end,” Boone said.
We should’ve known that response was coming. He is, after all, a proponent of the 162. Bigger picture only.
Still, there were a few unmistakable take-aways from the Yankees’ second impressive win in a row. We’ll refrain from calling them statements if Boone insists.
How about observations, then:
Domingo German is turning into quite the secret weapon.
Although Jordan Montgomery is making Cashman look bad in the deal that sent him to St. Louis, German has begun compensating for the void at the back of the rotation. After allowing five runs in his season debut, he’s allowed three earned runs or fewer in his last six starts (2.84 ERA) in that span.
German has even out-performed Scherzer in their two head-to-head meetings this season, as his 2.45 ERA (three earned runs in 11 innings) is fractionally better than Mad Max’ 2.63 (four in 13.2 innings).
Boone said German’s ascent “shouldn’t be that big of a surprise” considering how un-hittable the right-hander’s change-up is. The Mets saw 17 of them and put just one in play. Maximum exit velocity? A mere 76.8-mph.
German will head to the bullpen when Luis Severino returns from the Injured List on Sept. 12. But you haven’t heard the last of him. That funky, jangly delivery neutralized the National League’s No. 3 offense, which is a heck of an achievement.
Aaron Judge is back.
The big man’s home run off Scherzer in the third inning was his first in 41 plate appearance over nine games. That’s not necessarily a drought for most mortals, but Judge had previously been on a pace to pass Roger Maris’ franchise-record 61.
A grinning Judge said, “It’s news to me” when informed of slump’s exact numbers. That’s probably a fib, but either way it’s hard not to notice when an MVP front-runner suddenly vanishes (.167with just one extra-base hit in the last seven days.)
That coincided with the Yankees’ larger-scale regression (one run in 32 innings at one point) and the crisis in the standings. The Bombers’ 15.5-game lead in the East had shrunk to seven; the Blue Jays were only six down in the loss column.
Judge, however, said the Yankees weren’t freaking out. If true, they were the only ones remaining calm.
“This is a confident team,” he said. “Now it’s time get back to the way we were playing earlier.”
Say Hello To The Real Andrew Benintendi:
Benintendi is batting only .211 (including three three-strikeout games) since being acquired at the trade deadline, but there’s a ray of hope. He went 2-for-3 on Monday with two RBIs, and he has driven in four runs in the last two games.
He has always been a terrific fielder and he’s a threat on the bases. Benintendi went first to third on a single to left in the first inning, then scored on a semi-shallow fly to right to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead.
That’s the kind of performance the Yankees were envisioning when bringing Benintendi arrived from the Royals last month. But he was quickly overwhelmed by the ferocity of the Stadium’s crowds and crushing expectations.
Benintendi was starting to look like another out-of-town misfit — maybe even the next Joey Gallo – but Boone sees enough in Benintendi to have returned him to the leadoff spot in the last two days after dropping him into the six-hole last week.
*Say Hello to Boone, too. (He was never going anywhere.)
Cashman’s pre-game press conference served as a state of the team. The gist? The Yankees intend to stay the course in every one of their processes. And that means personnel, too.
Boone’s job is safe, despite the steady drumbeat on social media calling for his ouster.
“Great job,” is how Cashman evaluated Boone’s performance before adding, “I think he manages the work extremely well.’’
“I think he knows his players extremely well,” the GM said. “I think he manages, obviously, the [media] engagement - on a daily basis pre-game and post-game, which I think is extremely difficult.”
There’s more, but you get the point. Boone’s haters should accept the L. He’s here for the long haul.
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Bob Klapisch may be reached at bklapisch@njadvancemedia.com. | 2022-08-23T12:27:36+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/yankees/2022/08/yankees-deliver-a-powerful-message-to-mets-max-scherzer-not-in-our-house-klapisch.html |
Design-savvy Influencers Complete Wow-Worthy, Prize-Winning Projects with Only FrogTape® Brand Painter's Tape, Paint and $1,500
AVON, Ohio, June 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- What could you do with paint, painter's tape and $1,500? The seventh annual FrogTape® Paintover Challenge® seeks to find out. The contest begins today, and challenges five influencers in the home décor and DIY space to refresh the look and feel of a room, a piece of furniture or other home décor item using just that: paint, painter's tape and a $1,500 budget.
Here's how it works. The Paintover Challenge® puts the five participating influencers' design skills to the test as they create five unique projects, from redoing a piece of furniture to refreshing an entire room. Participating influencers are required to incorporate each of the five 2022 FrogTape® Design Trends – identified in partnership with celebrity interior designer Taniya Nayak – within each of their five projects, using one trend per project. The top five projects that best reflect the judging criteria – including workmanship, originality, use of paint, use of FrogTape® brand painter's tape and use of design trends – will be selected by Nayak for a shot at the grand prize: a $5,000 cash prize for the influencer, $10,000 for the charity of their choice and $2,500 to design and execute an interior project concept for their selected charity.
Once the top five projects are selected, it's time for the public to vote. A two-week public voting period, beginning on July 20, will determine the winner. All voters will be entered into a $1,000 sweepstakes.
The first five projects are live at FrogTape.com/PaintoverChallenge, with more projects to be revealed regularly as the contest progresses. The 2022 Paintover Challenge® participants include:
- Abby of Making it with Abby
- Kelly of City Girl Meets Farm Boy
- Danette and Kat of Material Curls
- Lynn of Pocketful of Paint
- Tina of Discovery of Design
"The Paintover Challenge has evolved over the years; however, what hasn't changed is the way it continues to demonstrate how easy it is to bring the Design Trends to life with relatable and inspirational before-and-after project reveals," said Allison Shagovac, influencer marketing manager, Shurtape Technologies, LLC, which markets FrogTape® brand products. "We can't wait to see how the influencers get creative this year."
To follow the Paintover Challenge® and learn more about the 2022 Design Trends or FrogTape® brand products, visit FrogTape.com/PaintoverChallenge.
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Leading women's primary care clinic is now offering its comprehensive membership to employers to provide affordable, accessible virtual care
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Hello Alpha, a virtual primary care group empowering women to take control of their healthcare by offering a medical team specifically trained for a woman's unique needs, announces its first enterprise partnership today. This partnership signals the growing demand for accessible healthcare solutions for women at all life stages.
Hello Alpha now services Sonrava Health employees and dependents, providing access to its full membership benefits and suite of condition treatments including mental health, menopause, and diabetes. This marks Sonrava Health's first comprehensive women's health partner and Hello Alpha's accelerated growth, driven by a shared commitment to support women.
With this collaboration, Hello Alpha continues its mission of expanding access to women's health by providing comprehensive and affordable healthcare for Sonrava Health's workforce. Hello Alpha treats all patients, and specializes in holistic women's health because the U.S.'s medical institutions were built around a standard of care for young, able-bodied men. As a result, disparities persist in the quality of care that women, gender non-conforming individuals, and historically marginalized communities receive. This partnership empowers Sonrava Health's employees to receive quality benefits from their workplace that address their specific healthcare needs.
"Many employer-sponsored benefits for women target conditions like fertility that are great for women of reproductive age, but they exclude everyone else," says Gloria Lau, Hello Alpha's Founder & CEO. "We're closing a gap in benefits plans to offer truly inclusive and comprehensive primary care for women at all life stages. Employee benefits leaders recognize that the most impactful solutions for women's health are inclusive and take a holistic approach to care."
As of 2021, 60% of women received healthcare coverage from employer-sponsored insurance.
Similar to health insurance being a traditional benefit provided by employers, telemedicine memberships will soon be an expected, critical offering. Today's generation has high expectations for their telemedicine experience, and instead of transactional, anonymous providers, they demand a dedicated care team. They reject generic, disjointed care and seek personalization that accounts for gender-specific needs and the relationship between mental and physical health. The partnership with Sonrava Health ensures that employers can meet this demand with Hello Alpha's reimagined patient experience that treats the whole person.
"Our employees show up to provide exceptional dental care to our patients. To empower them to do their best work, we look for innovative benefits that fit into their lives," said Kevin Simes, Director, Total Rewards at Sonrava Health. "We're thrilled to partner with Hello Alpha to bring holistic, virtual healthcare into the hands of our employees, and especially to the women on our teams. Hello Alpha's focus on women's health clearly resonates with them and fills a critical need— we're already seeing strong utilization results."
To learn more about Hello Alpha and its initiatives, please visit https://www.helloalpha.com/.
Hello Alpha is a virtual primary care practice specializing in women's health. To address our unique, complex, and often stigmatized medical needs, we leverage technology to deliver whole person care, attending to her behavioral and physical needs, with a dedicated PCP at the core of our practice. From birth control to menopause, our team is proudly trained to deliver gender-competent care through a holistic care model. Together, we are building a more accessible, equitable system to care for the whole person. Hello Alpha's accessible primary care is available at a demonstrably lower cost than other telehealth solutions.
Sonrava Health is the parent organization of a national family of health and wellness companies, united by a singular dedication to delivering high-quality, convenient and affordable care through innovative provider models, health coverage and product offerings. Building on a proven platform of success, the brand will continue to expand access to dental and vision care with a mission of advancing whole-person health for patients from all backgrounds.
A geographically diverse, multi-specialty organization with a unique mix of providers and payors, Sonrava Health is comprised of several companies – including Western Dental & Orthodontics, Western Dental Kids, Brident Dental & Orthodontics, Brident Dental Kids, LooksBrite Eye Centers, EyeMax Vision Plan, MIB Insurance Plans, Vital Smiles, MID-Atlantic Dental Partners, DentalWorks, and Perfect Teeth – all united in our commitment to quality, value and innovation in care.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York is kicking off her reelection campaign.
The 56-year-old sent out an email to supporters on Thursday announcing her 2024 bid. “I wanted you to hear it first,” the email said. “Kirsten is running for reelection to the United States Senate in 2024.”
Gillibrand has served as New York’s junior senator since 2009, taking over the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.
Her campaign announcement comes as Democrats are scrutinizing their performance in New York, usually considered a stronghold for the party. Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections flipped four congressional seats, including one held by the head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, while Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul defeated Republican Lee Zeldin in the narrowest win in a governor’s race in nearly three decades.
Gillibrand has made a point of carving out relationships with Republican colleagues on bipartisan legislation. She is best known as one of the leading voices in Washington against sexual harassment and military sexual assault, and is a proponent of equal pay and family leave proposals.
In 2022, she was instrumental in sending two sexual harassment measures to President Joe Biden. In milestones for the #MeToo movement, the bills that Biden signed into law curtailed the use of confidentiality agreements and gave workplace victims of sexual misconduct the right to seek recourse in the courts.
The senator has also been involved in a bipartisan push with Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., to regulate cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.
Gillibrand was first elected to Congress in 2007, winning a House seat in a conservative part of upstate New York and toppling an incumbent Republican. She won a 2010 special election for Senate and full terms in 2012 and 2018 reelection campaigns.
She was among a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination in 2020 but dropped out of the race in 2019. | 2023-01-13T10:06:19+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-new-york-sen-kirsten-gillibrand-launches-reelection-bid/ |
Ranger boys basketball team splits first two games
The Dufur High Rangers (1-1) split their first two non-league games last week, winning their opener, 66-21, on Dec. 1 against visiting Wallowa before losing Dec. 3 at Class 2A Heppner, 65-27.
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Ranger boys basketball team splits first two games
The Dufur High Rangers (1-1) split their first two non-league games last week, winning their opener, 66-21, on Dec. 1 against visiting Wallowa before losing Dec. 3 at Class 2A Heppner, 65-27.
The Rangers, guided by longtime Coach Hollie Darden, was hampered by foul trouble in both games.
“We got in foul trouble (against Heppner) and we failed to get back in our transition game and they (Mustangs) are a pretty athletic team,” said Darden. “It was a good opening game for us against Wallowa and we worked out the kinks a little bit. We had way too many fouls in both games.
“We just have to get ourselves a little bit more under control. We have to play a little smarter if we want to be successful against teams that have kids that are more athletic and have better basketball skills.”
Against Wallowa, Dufur was led by juniors JJ Johnston (26 points) and Cody Phillips (14 points). Phillips was playing his first-ever high school game.
“It’s great to be back on the court playing basketball again,” Phillips said. “We can definitely play a lot better and there’s room for improvement. We can be a really good team this year and we’ll get better if we just keep working hard in practice.”
Johnston scored nine points in the first quarter to help Dufur build a 27-6 lead and then scored seven consecutive points for Dufur at the outset of the second quarter.
In the contest against Heppner, Dufur had seven players who scored, led by Phillips with seven points.
Horizon opens season with two wins
Horizon Christian (13-8 last year) had two victories to start the season. Horizon won its opening game on the road, 43-40, over the North Clackamas Christian High Saints (1-2) at Oregon City. The Hawks followed with a 55-27 win over the Griswold High Grizzlies (0-1) in their opening home game Dec. 3 at Horizon Christian High School in Hood River.
Against North Clackamas, senior Caleb Yuan scored 19 points — most in the second half. Horizon Coach Kim Linder used the games, especially the Griswold contest, as a chance to give some of his younger players some varsity action.
Sherman County wins opener
The Sherman County High Huskies won their season opener Friday at home, 49-35, over the Culver High Bulldogs in the Sherman Invitational Tournament in Dec. 2-3 in Moro. The Huskies lost their second game Saturday, 48-45, to the Class 4A Madras High White Buffaloes junior varsity.
Lyle/Wishram splits two games
The Lyle/Wishram High Cougars (1-1) lost their season opening game, 34-26, to C.S. Lewis Academy (3-0) on Nov. 30 in Newberg. The Cougars bounced back and won their home opener, 54-48, over the Trout Lake High Mustangs (1-1) Dec. 2 at Lyle High School.
The Mustangs bounced back from the loss to Lyle and won their home opener, 51-25, over the Stevenson High JV on Dec. 3. The Mustangs equaled their win total from last year when they had a 1-12 record, which included seven forfeits.
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"Trade Tuesday" will support the skilled trades with major donations and giveaways
MELVILLE, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SupplyHouse.com, a leading e-commerce supplier for the heating, plumbing, HVAC, and electrical trades, is planning a major giving campaign that aims to provide generational support to tradespeople.
On November 25th, SupplyHouse.com will kick off their 13th annual Trade Tuesday initiative. This year's Trade Tuesday will feature social media giveaways and an engagement-based donation to both the Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors—National Association (PHCC) and the PHCC Educational Foundation – organizations dedicated to trade-based training and development.
For every like, comment, or share on their Trade Tuesday social media post, SupplyHouse.com will donate $2 to support PHCC. Last year, the initiative resulted in a donation of $60,000.
"This initiative directly supports PHCC's strategic plan and our collective goal to train the workforce of tomorrow and provide contractors with the qualified tradespeople they need," said PHCC President Dave Frame. "We're thrilled SupplyHouse.com is dedicated to giving back to the trades, and we're passionate about the shared commitment we have to help people grow and succeed in the plumbing and HVAC industries."
"Contributing to the PHCC Educational Fund through Trade Tuesday is definitely a highlight of the year for us," said SupplyHouse.com CMO, Mitch Harris. "PHCC breaks down barriers so students can get connected with the trades, develop career skills, and explore opportunities in the industry. We're huge fans of their work in this area, and we're very excited to be partnering with them again on this initiative."
In addition to their donation to PHCC, SupplyHouse.com will also be celebrating Trade Tuesday with a social media giveaway featuring thousands of dollars in prizes – including $600 gift cards.
Trade Tuesday will run from November 25th through December 8th.
SupplyHouse.com is a leading e-commerce supplier within the skilled trades. Their free TradeMaster Program supports trade pros with perks that help save time and money. Learn more at supplyhouse.com/trademaster.
The PHCC National Association provides advocacy, education, and training to thousands of plumbing and HVACR businesses and technicians. Members have access to a variety of services designed to grow their business and increase profitability. The PHCC Educational Foundation is a partnership that serves the plumbing-heating-cooling industry by preparing members to meet the challenges of an ever-changing marketplace. For more information, visit phccfoundation.org.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was a nightmare for one food truck owner – discovering that his food truck was stolen from his home. He even had just spent thousands of dollars fixing it up after a crash.
In the dead of night, thieves made off with Damien La Riva’s food truck trailer from right in front of his home near Rio Bravo and Coors at 4 a.m. on Tuesday. “Feeling a little helpless at this point, just because it was my main source of income and I had an extremely large amount of money invested into the business itself,” said La Riva.
La Riva started his business “La Riva’s Food Truck” 8 years ago after seeing the success he had when he was just doing it part-time. His business takes him all over Bernalillo and Valencia counties. “Mainly CNM, also the Facebook facility they’re building in Los Lunas. Summer Fest and other local events; I’ve also worked Downtown,” said La Riva.
He was just getting the business back on track after investing nearly $10,000 to fix it after an accident three months ago. He feels that whoever stole the truck knew what they were doing because his trailer was secured. La Riva has since filed a police report with APD but is still asking the public for help. The side of the trailer has the La Riva’s insignia and logo with a black skull on top of the Zia symbol. | 2023-06-29T15:34:53+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/albuquerque-metro/local-food-truck-owner-has-trailer-stolen-from-home/ |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — France’s defense minister on Wednesday pledged further military support for Ukraine, insisting his government’s backing is unflagging while efforts are also being made with Moscow to reach an eventual negotiated end to Russia’s invasion.
Minister for the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu said support will include French army equipment and a 200 million euro (US$212 million) fund that would allow Ukraine to purchase weapons.
While France has been less vocal about its military backing for Ukraine than the United States and Britain, the country has sent a steady supply of weapons to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24.
France hosted two aid conferences for Ukraine this month. But many in Ukraine remain critical of Paris’ response to the war because of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to maintain contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin and seek a negotiated solution.
Lecornu said France was giving military equipment from the French army to the Ukrainian army, but highlighted that this would not weaken France’s defense. France could deliver a new air-defense system in the future, officials said, without revealing details, though Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov added that France would immediately begin training Ukrainian air officers on how to use it.
Lecornu and Reznikov did not specify which new air defense system France could give Ukraine in the near future. But Lecornu later mentioned the MAMBA anti-missile system developed together with Italy, describing it as the European equivalent of the Patriot air defense system that the U.S. has given Ukraine.
Unlike the U.S. government, which announced it was giving the Patriots before teaching Ukrainians how to use them, France will train Ukrainians first so that it could potentially deliver a new system, such as the Mamba SAMP/T together with Italy, once they are ready to use it, Lecornu’s office explained to the AP.
Reznikov said Ukraine’s top priority remains “air defense, anti-missile defense, anti-drone defense, that is, the task of protecting (the) Ukrainian sky.” French Crotale air-defense systems already are “on combat duty,” said Reznikov.
“And accordingly, we agreed that we will increase (the) capabilities of our air force,” he said.
Lecornu arrived a week after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the U.S., Ukraine’s chief ally, and amid fighting focused mostly in the country’s east but with neither Moscow nor Kyiv reporting major gains in recent weeks.
After a meeting with Lecornu, Zelenskyy expressed gratitude to France on social media “for the already provided military assistance aimed at protecting the Ukrainian sky and strengthening the capabilities of the defense forces.”
Earlier on Wednesday, in his annual speech to Ukraine’s parliament, Zelenskyy urged the European Union to open membership talks with his country after granting it candidate status in June. He also praised relations with the U.S., saying its decision to send Patriot missiles is “a special sign of trust in Ukraine.”
While both Russia and Ukraine have said they were willing to participate in peace talks, their stated conditions remain far apart. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated Wednesday that any peace plan must acknowledge four regions of Ukraine that Russia illegally annexed as Russian territory, a demand that Kyiv flatly rejects.
Russian forces have pressed their offensive to capture all of eastern Ukraine by concentrating in recent weeks on Bakhmut, a city in Donetsk province. Ukrainian forces were pushing a counteroffensive toward Kreminna, a city in neighboring Luhansk province, in hopes of potentially dividing Russia’s troops in the east.
France has supplied Ukraine with a substantial chunk of its arsenal of Caesar cannons, as well as anti-tank missiles, Crotale air defense missile batteries and rocket launchers. It is also training some 2,000 Ukrainian troops on French soil. Macron pledged last week to provide a new injection of weapons in early 2023.
Western military aid to Ukraine has angered Moscow. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Washington and NATO of fueling the war with the aim of weakening Russia and warned the conflict could spin out of control.
Russia invaded Ukraine 10 months ago, alleging a threat to its security orchestrated by NATO. The war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions so far, with an end nowhere in sight.
Russian attacks on power stations and other infrastructure have left millions of Ukrainians without heating and electricity for hours or days at a time.
The latest Russian shelling wounded at least eight civilians, including three in Bakhmut, Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
In the southern region of Kherson, Russian shelling hit a maternity hospital soon after two women gave birth there, although Ukrainian officials said no one was wounded.
Ukraine’s foreign minister told The Associated Press this week that his government would like to see a peace conference by the end of February. Ukraine has said in the past that it wouldn’t negotiate with Russia before the full withdrawal of its troops, while Moscow insists its military gains and the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula cannot be ignored.
Asked about Ukraine’ intention to hold a February summit under the U.N.’s aegis, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said any peace plan could only proceed from the assumption of Russia’s sovereignty over the illegally annexed areas of Ukraine.
“There isn’t any peace plan by Ukraine yet,” Peskov said during a conference call with reporters. “And there can’t be any Ukrainian peace plan that fails to take into account today’s realities regarding the Russian territory, the incorporation of the new four regions into Russia. Any plan that fails to acknowledge these realities can’t be considered a peace plan.”
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Industrial-style ceiling fans
If you have a summer home that’s warm and sunny with a large living area, you’re probably equal parts excited to spend your summer basking in the sun and curious about how you’ll keep your household cool without running up a gargantuan bill.
Enter the ceiling fan. Industrial fans circulate a large amount of air, making a room feel substantially cooler at a fraction of the cost of AC. Their large blades and high spin rate move air throughout the room quickly and effectively, outperforming traditional fans and consuming less energy.
Top industrial ceiling fan recommendations include the Westinghouse Lighting Industrial 56-Inch Indoor Ceiling Fan. Read on to learn more about how to make the best selection to keep your summer home cool all season.
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Is an industrial-style ceiling fan a good choice for my summer home?
It’s vital to note that true industrial fans are not appropriate or safe for use in most residences. Their long blades and extreme spin rate are designed for spaces like factories, so they pose a safety hazard and require a clearance of at least 10 feet in order to be safe. Plus, they’re often pretty loud.
If you have a massive living space in your summer home, such as a den with towering ceilings and lots of windows, an industrial fan is a good option for you.
Otherwise, your best bet is to look for industrial-style ceiling fans designed for residential settings. Industrial-style fans have the aesthetics of an industrial fan and the functionality to work in a smaller space.
What to look for in an industrial-style ceiling fan
Safety
True industrial fans are only recommended for use in large industrial settings like factories because they have long, thin metal blades that spin very quickly, sometimes up to 500 RPM, and so they require a large clearance to be safe for use.
Fans approved for residential use are designed and regulated not to pose a safety hazard, even if they’re touched while in motion. They’re restricted to a much lower speed which varies based on the thickness and length of blades, closer to around 235 RPM.
Honeywell 50611 Phelix High Power Ceiling Fan
If you don’t have a ceiling higher than 11 feet, it’s recommended to purchase an industrial-style fan to achieve the aesthetic you want in your summer home without the industrial performance.
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Size of your space
For safety, the bottom of a residential fan (versus an industrial fan, whose RPM requires high clearance) needs to be at least 7 feet from the floor. The fan blades should hang at least 8 inches from the ceiling to allow for air to circulate.
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You should consider these guidelines when selecting a fan. If your space has low ceilings, such as is typical in many bathrooms or breakfast nooks, select a low-profile or flush mount ceiling fan. Flush mounts are anchored directly to the ceiling so that the base is flush, which is essential in areas with low floor-to-ceiling space.
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Westinghouse Gun Metal Ceiling Fan
A very large bedroom, family room or great room will require a larger fan than a small room for adequate circulation. A 400 square foot room will require a fan that is around 52 inches blade span, whereas an 144 square foot room will only require a fan around 42 inches blade span. This Westinghouse Gun Metal Ceiling Fan is designed for spaces up to 80 square feet.
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Design
You’re likely looking for an industrial ceiling fan because you love the aesthetics of old warehouse and factory equipment — exposed hardware, aged finish, sleek metal parts and rugged utilitarian design. Many residential fans are now designed to look like they belong as a factory as well as being efficient and budget-friendly.
Best industrial-style ceiling fans for summer homes
Top industrial-style ceiling fan
Honeywell Ceiling Fans 52-Inch Carnegie LED Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: An industrial-style ceiling fan with gorgeous modern aesthetics, an array of features and LED lights.
What you’ll love: Rustic Barnwood blades, caged Edison-style light bulbs and matte black finish. Uses a remote control. Can be run in reverse during winter to rotate warm air.
What you should consider: Some users found this difficult to install, while others called it a breeze. If you aren’t super DIY-savvy, be sure to have an additional set of hands to assist in installation.
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Top industrial-style ceiling fan for the money
Westinghouse Lighting Industrial 56-Inch Indoor Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: Meant for cooling larger work and living spaces such as workshops, lofts and high-ceilinged great rooms with ceilings higher than 11 feet.
What you’ll love: Moves a lot of air quickly. Comes in a variety of colors. Excellent price for its power. Relatively quiet performance for an industrial fan.
What you should consider: Not safe in smaller spaces. No lights included.
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Worth considering
Big Ass Fans 52-Inch Haiku L Smart Ceiling Fan
What you need to know: A seven-speed fan with a sleep mode, a “whoosh” mode to simulate outdoor breezes and a remote control operation. Recommended for 225 square foot spaces.
What you’ll love: Can be used inside or outside, so it makes an excellent addition to your great room or large porch. Comes in a variety of colors.
What you should consider: An expensive fan, though worth it for people who need to move a lot of air and who value smart WiFi features.
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BOSTON (AP) — A former Massachusetts State Police lieutenant has avoided jail after admitting to his role in a widespread overtime abuse scandal that roiled the department and led to several reforms.
David Keefe, 57, the former commander of the Weston barracks, was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation after pleading guilty to larceny and violating public employee standards of conduct, the state attorney general's office said in a statement Friday.
Keefe was also ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution and complete 100 hours of community service.
Keefe submitted fraudulent claims for more than 200 hours of overtime that he did not work in 2015 and 2016, prosecutors said. At the time, he was a supervisor in the now disbanded Troop E, which was responsible for traffic enforcement along the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Dozens of active and retired troopers who worked for Troop E were implicated in the scheme in which they collected overtime pay for shifts they either did not work or did not complete, authorities said. In some cases, troopers issued falsified traffic tickets to make it appear as if they had been on duty.
The scandal led to criminal charges against many troopers and several reforms at the agency, including GPS tracking in cruisers, increased supervisory oversight, regular time and attendance audits, and additional ethical training.
Keefe, who has retired, was among three lieutenants indicted in the case. The other two have previously pleaded guilty. | 2022-10-07T17:47:24+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ex-state-police-trooper-pleads-guilty-in-OT-17493899.php |
There are a lot of people who say they like cheese, but not many can say it’s their job. Courtney Johnson is someone who can say both.
Johnson was finishing her Ph.D. in German when she got a job at Metropolitan Market, an upscale grocery chain in Western Washington. It was there that her subsequent journey into cheese began in 2015 when she became the store's cheesemonger apprentice.
Johnson said a common misconception about cheesemongers is that it's an easy job absolutely anyone can do. On the contrary, her experience taught her it takes a lot of time and learning outside of the actual job to be a good cheesemonger.
"You're dealing with culture, language, history, flavor, science," Johnson said. "We take care of cheese to make sure that the cheese the consumer goes home with is the cheese that the cheesemaker intended it to be. So we have to know a little bit about every style of cheese and how to take care of them."
It's safe to say that Johnson's love for cheese goes beyond most people's affection for the dairy product. Her right arm is covered in a tattoo sleeve dedicated to cheese. When she arrived for this interview, she wore a t-shirt that read "Last night a cheesemonger saved my life."
Johnson has moved beyond her days of apprenticeship and now co-owns Street Cheese, a mobile cheese shop that sells to and educates consumers in the Seattle region. She also is the executive director of the Washington State Cheesemakers Association and teaches cheese and fermentation classes at Seattle Central College's Culinary Academy.
Since 2019, Johnson has competed in the Cheesemonger Invitational. A sort of Olympics for cheesemongers that her mentor at Metropolitan Market originally told her about. It's held twice a year, once in San Francisco and another in New York City.
"The person who founded it, Adam Moskowitz, envisioned it as a cheese rave in its inception, so it actually comes from that history," Johnson said. "There's a DJ, there are tons and tons of cheese samples, and like, the show in the evening where they pick the winners, is absolutely like a performance."
The first year Johnson participated she placed in the top 10. In 2020 and 2022 she took second which earned her one of 13 spots in the Cheesemonger Invitational: Masters competition. The winner will secure a spot in the World Cheesemonger Championship in France, held later this year.
It will be Johnson's first trip to the Masters. Jordan Edwards, the other cheesemonger from Seattle in the competition has won the Masters once already.
Challenges like a blind taste test, aroma test, and the ability to cut the perfect half pound of an undisclosed type of cheese are given to competitors in the normal version of the Invitational. The masters edition is a little different.
"It's based on the exercises that we go through in France, if you make it to France," Johnson explained. "And those are very different from a lot of the things that many American cheesemongers do at their counters. One of the things that we have to do is build like a large-scale display of cheese that is not a grazing table."
The cheesemongers are also asked to do a "cheese transformation" in the masters edition. Which means adding flavors to a cheese to make it into something else that is then presented as a sort of restaurant dish.
Competition aside, Johnson, loves the education aspect of her jobs. One thing she hopes to help people understand about cheese, is that it's for everyone.
"I think the biggest thing that we want people to know is that cheese doesn't have to be fancy," Johnson said. "It doesn't have to be this high-brow thing that, you know, if you don't know anything about it, then you don't have any business talking about it."
Johnson is taking all of her cheese knowledge she happily imparts on others with her to New York, where she'll compete on March 12. | 2023-03-06T23:52:55+00:00 | knkx.org | https://www.knkx.org/arts-culture/2023-03-06/seattle-cheesemongers-invitational-masters |
- SVNet enables deep learning-based embedded perception algorithms for automotive developers using TI's TDA4 processors for Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and widespread driver assistance and automated driving features targeting TI's volume model
- STRADVISION will host TDA4 SoC demos during CES® 2023 in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- STRADVISION, an automotive industry pioneer in deep learning-based vision perception technology, has announced that STRADVISION's award-winning SVNet software is available for designers using the Texas Instruments (TI) TDA4 automotive processor for Level 2 advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) L2 designs and widespread automated driving features.
STRADVISION's SVNet brings state-of-the-art software that powers the perception technology behind ADAS and autonomous vehicles, enabling external vehicle perception via 18+ platforms, including the TI automotive processor platform, to detect and recognize objects (even in poor lighting or harsh weather conditions), such as other vehicles, lanes, pedestrians, animals, free space, traffic signs, and lights. SVNet was the first deep neural network to run deep learning-based object detection software using the TDA2HF processor, and now also provides deep neural networking across the TI TDA4VM processor family. The SVNet was recently recognized for the second year in a row with AutoSens Gold Award for its deep learning-based camera perception software.
SVNet's implementation for the TDA4 processor is optimized for high performance along with low power consumption and a reduced bill of materials. This brings a level of flexibility important to today's ADAS market and can enable wider mass-market production of L2 systems among automotive OEMs.
"Enabling more cars on the road with advanced driver assistance capabilities can lead to greater driver comfort and improved road safety. The hardware-optimized SVNet software makes it possible for automotive designers to leverage our automotive system-on-chip products to enable surround-view vision, helping them improve the driver experience and road safety," said Aish Dubey, general manager of automotive processors at TI.
"The software for TI's automotive processor is optimized for ADAS, and we will strive to lead the ADAS industry market trend of going beyond L2," said Junhwan Kim, CEO at STRADVISION. "At STRADVISION, our goals have always been ambitious, and the next step in our journey is providing a vision solution for OEM mass production that meets key performance requirements for L2 and the next level."
TI's TDA4 processor family offers an entry camera solution for high-volume L2 ADAS applications, and beyond. The processor is purpose-built for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) applications and builds on extensive market knowledge accumulated over a decade in the ADAS processor market. The unique combination of high-performance computing, a deep-learning engine, and dedicated accelerators for signal and image processing in a functional safety-compliant-targeted architecture also makes the TDA4 devices optimized for several industrial applications, such as ADAS, robotics, machine vision, and radar sensing.
As part of CES® 2023, STRADVISION will be hosting an SVNet product portfolio showcase (including SoC demos with TDA4 processors), which will be located at the Westgate Hotel Hospitality Suite #28127 in Las Vegas and open to the industry from January 4th - 8th. For press bookings or inquiries, please contact stradvision@rogersandcowanpmk.com. Business inquiries can be sent to contact@stradvision.com.
About STRADVISION
Founded in 2014, STRADVISION is an automotive industry pioneer in AI-based video perception technology for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). The company is accelerating the advent of fully autonomous vehicles by making ADAS features available at a fraction of the market cost compared with competitors. STRADVISION's SVNet is being deployed on various vehicle models in partnership with OEMs and powers ADAS & Autonomous Vehicles worldwide and is serviced by over 300 employees in Seoul, San Jose, Detroit, Tokyo, Shanghai, Friedrichshafen, and Dusseldorf. STRADVISION has been honored with the Gold Award at the 2021 and 2022 AutoSens Awards for Best-in-Class Software for Perception Systems, and the 2020 Autonomous Vehicle Technology ACES Award in Autonomy (Software Category). In addition, STRADVISION's software is certified to ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management System and ISO 26262 for Automotive Functional Safety.
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Age 95, of Farmersville, Ohio, passed away January 29th, 2023. Graveside service 1pm, Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2023, at Holp Cemetery. Rogers Funeral Home, New Lebanon, OH.
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NEW YORK , May 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds sellers of the common stock of Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) between March 24, 2022 and April 1, 2022, inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important June 13, 2022 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you sold Twitter securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Twitter class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5134 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than June 13, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and Space-X, and according to Forbes, the richest person in the world, began acquiring shares of Twitter in January 2022. By March 14, 2022, Musk had acquired more than a 5% ownership stake in Twitter, requiring him to file a Schedule 13 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") within 10 days, or March 24, 2022. However, Musk did not file a Schedule 13 with the SEC within the required time and instead continued to amass Twitter shares, eventually acquiring over a 9% stake in the Company before finally filing a Schedule 13 on April 4, 2022.
Upon Musk belatedly filing the required Schedule 13, which first revealed his ownership stake in Twitter to the public, the Company's shares rose from a closing price of $39.31 per share on April 1, 2022, to close at $49.97 per share on April 4, 2022 – an increase of 27%.
Investors who sold shares of Twitter between March 24, 2022 and April 4, 2022 missed the resulting share price increase as the market reacted to Musk's purchases. By failing to timely disclose his ownership stake, Musk was able to acquire shares of Twitter less expensively during the Class Period.
To join the Twitter class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=5134 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sterling Braden is taking on one of the toughest jobs in Ohio: helping people convicted of crimes start over.
For four years, Braden has worked to connect convicted felons with job and housing placement through his nonprofit, Friend A Felon. Earlier this year, he developed a mobile app from scratch by watching YouTube videos. It now serves nearly 1,000 people in search of help.
Braden knows the issues and struggles felons face. He grew up in East Cleveland and was convicted of theft offenses in 2013 and placed on probation. He said it has taken him years to gain stability for himself and his 4-year-old daughter, Quin.
“I was convicted of a felony when I was 18 and never went to prison, but I have felt the effects of it as soon as I was indicted,” Braden said. “I am now 28. [I am] a convicted felon [who] still can’t get a job, still can’t get a house in my name, still can’t provide for and protect myself and my family without worrying about going back to jail, and I’m just one of the millions.
“We get released with nothing, and they expect us to go and change our lives. How does that work?”
In Ohio, one in five felons sent to prison returns within three years after committing a new crime, according to a study by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction in 2021. When parole violations are factored in, the numbers climb to about one in three felons returning to prison.
Charles R. See was a pioneer in re-entry programs and criminal justice initiatives while working for more than 44 years at the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry in Cleveland. He retired in 2017. He said that while some good has been done in assisting returning felons, many barriers to re-entry remain. In fact, Policy Matters Ohio has reported that there are more than 850 laws and sanctions that limit job opportunities for Ohioans with felony convictions.
“While much has changed, there is still a stigma associated with having a criminal record,” See said.
He said there are several issues hindering people with criminal records: Some struggle to obtain professional licenses, while others cannot receive services such as educational grants and decent wages from their employers.
He cited some programs and laws that have gone into effect to help the re-entry process, such as “Ban the Box,” a law passed by Ohio lawmakers in 2015 that prohibits public employers from asking about a person’s felony conviction.
“But there are yet a number of barriers confronting a person with a felony record,” See said.
Braden said he hopes his app will help more felons across the state find work and housing, two meaningful ways to prevent them from returning to courtrooms and jail cells.
When he started the nonprofit in 2018, he initially just wanted to help people get their records expunged and find jobs. But he sought more. He wanted an all-inclusive helpdesk that felons could turn to when they faced issues.
He just lacked the funds to do it.
So, he built the mobile app from scratch, watching videos on YouTube on how to create it. He said it is the first of its kind, allowing users to connect with employers and property owners who post listings and can create matches within seconds.
Braden said he doesn’t consider himself a re-entry expert, but he stressed that a sound support system with a plan to move forward is vital.
“Being convicted of a felony does not have to define one’s future,” he said. “We are committed to helping felons overcome these circumstances by providing awareness of opportunities they never knew were available to them.”
Braden said more needs to be done. He wants to build offices to house his nonprofit and push for local offices in cities.
“This is about me being the change I want to see,” he said. | 2022-06-15T12:08:58+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/06/meet-the-nonprofit-owner-who-developed-an-app-to-help-people-with-felony-records-find-jobs-and-housing.html |
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, left, arrives for a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee arrives for a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, center, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, left, arrives for a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee arrives for a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
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Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, center, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week.
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will reduce the mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to three days from a week, the city’s leader said Monday.
The southern Chinese city remains one of the few places in the world, together with mainland China, to require a quarantine to guard against travelers spreading COVID-19 to the local population. The policy taking effect Friday will be Hong Kong’s shortest quarantine for arrivals since the pandemic began.
Hong Kong leader John Lee said arriving travelers must quarantine three days in a designated hotel, then undergo four days of medical surveillance during which their movements will be restricted via the use of a health code system.
Lee said that the new policy of just three days in quarantine was made after scientific evidence and data had been analyzed to control the risk factors.
“We also have to balance the risks against the economic activities and the social lives of (people in) Hong Kong,” Lee said.
“(The data) gives us the indication that the risk factor of people who have finished three days quarantine in a designated hotel ... is actually no more than the risk level of transmission in society,” he said.
The changes to COVID-19 policies come in spite of an increase in daily infections, which city health officials warn could double to 8,000 in the coming weeks.
During their week of quarantine and surveillance, travelers will also have to test regularly for COVID-19 and those who are infected must stay in isolation.
Those who test negative can use public transit and enter malls and markets, but they can't enter bars and amusement parks or visit elderly homes, schools and certain medical facilities.
For most of the pandemic, Hong Kong has imposed some of the world's strictest COVID-19 entry restrictions. At one point, Hong Kong required up to 21 days of compulsory hotel quarantine for travelers and a “circuit breaker” mechanism that would ban flights from certain airlines into the city if they import too many COVID-19 cases.
These measures have devastated the city's tourism industry and disrupted business travel in a city known for being an international financial center and a business hub.
Since the pandemic began, hundreds of thousands of residents have left Hong Kong. Many companies have also relocated to countries like Singapore where quarantine-free travel has resumed.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nicaraguan police on Friday raided the residence of a Roman Catholic bishop critical of President Daniel Ortega’s administration, detaining him and several other priests in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the church and a government increasingly intolerant of dissent.
The pre-dawn raid came after Nicaraguan authorities had accused Matagalpa Bishop Rolando Álvarez of “organizing violent groups” and inciting them “to carry out acts of hate against the population.”
President Daniel Ortega’s government has moved systematically against voices of dissent, arresting dozens of opposition leaders last year, including seven potential candidates to challenge him for the presidency. They were sentenced to prison this year in quick trials closed to the public.
The congress, dominated by Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front, has ordered the closure of more than 1,000 nongovernmental organizations, including Mother Teresa’s charity.
Early Friday, the Matagalpa diocese posted on social media, “#SOS #Urgente. At this time the National Police have entered the Episcopal rectory of our Matagalpa diocese.”
The National Police confirmed the detentions in a statement later, saying that the operation was carried out to allow “the citizenry and families of Matagalpa to recover normalcy.”
“For several days a positive communication from the Matagalpa diocese was awaited with a lot of patience, prudence and sense of responsibility, that never materialized,” the statement said. “With the continuation of the destabilizing and provocative activities, the aforementioned public order operation became necessary.”
It did not mention specific charges.
Álvarez was being held under guard at a house in Managua, where he had been allowed to meet with relatives and Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, the police statement said.
The others who were taken with Álvarez -- they did not specify who or how many -- were still being processed, police said.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemned the detentions and called for the immediate release of those held.
Edwin Román, a Nicaraguan parish priest exiled in the United States said via Twitter: “MY GOD! How outrageous, they have taken Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, with the priests who were with him.”
Streets around the cathedral in Matagalpa were relatively empty Friday. A few parishioners prayed inside, where a picture of Álvarez had been pinned to the robe of a Jesus Christ figure.
María Lacayo said she felt “very sad because we know that our bishop is innocent and an excellent man."
"We all love him very much because he is there for all of us and it’s a tremendous injustice what is being done to him. But as Catholics we leave everything in God’s hands,” she added.
Álvarez has been a key religious voice in discussions of Nicaragua’s future since 2018, when a wave of protests against Ortega’s government led to a sweeping crackdown on opponents.
“We hope there would be a series of electoral reforms, structural changes to the electoral authority — free, just and transparent elections, international observation without conditions,” Álvarez said a month after the protests broke out. “Effectively the democratization of the country.”
At the time, a priest in Álvarez’s diocese had been wounded in the arm by shrapnel while trying to separate protesters and police in Matagalpa.
Álvarez has kept up such calls for democracy for the past four years, infuriating Ortega and Murillo.
Manuel Orozco, an expert on Nicaragua at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, said that Álvarez posed a threat as an obstacle and a symbol to Ortega.
“Nicaraguans are very loyal to the church,” he said. “In a survey I did last year, 70% of Nicaraguans say that to them, the political opinion of the religious authority at the national or the parochial level was important in shaping their political views.”
“(Álvarez’s) narrative, it’s based on the religious script, the biblical script about opposing the oppressor,” Orozco said. “And he makes allusions not to incite violence or to call for resistance, but he does say there is oppression."
Orozco said the government is betting its pressure on the church won't bring a “proportional response” by the international community. "And so they continue to push the envelope because they don’t see that short of a military invasion, there is not going to be anything that can stop them.”
Friday’s arrests follow weeks of elevated tensions between the church and Ortega’s government, which has had a complicated relationship with Nicaragua’s predominant religion and its leaders for more than four decades.
The former Marxist guerrilla infuriated the Vatican in the 1980s, but gradually forged an alliance with the church as he moved to regain the presidency in 2007 after a long period out of power. Now he appears to once again see political benefit in direct confrontation.
Ortega initially invited the church to mediate talks with protesters in 2018, but has since taken a more aggressive position.
Days before last year’s presidential elections, which he won for a fourth consecutive term with his strongest opponents jailed, he accused the bishops of having drafted a political proposal in 2018 on behalf “of the terrorists, at the service of the Yankees. ... These bishops are also terrorists.”
In March, Nicaragua expelled the papal nuncio, the Vatican’s top diplomat in Nicaragua.
The government had previously shut down eight radio stations and one television channel in Matagalpa province, north of Managua. Seven of the radio stations were run by the church.
The Aug. 5 announcement that Álvarez was under investigation came just hours after first lady and Vice President Rosario Murillo criticized “sins against spirituality” and “the exhibition of hate” in an apparent reference to Álvarez.
The Archdiocese of Managua had earlier expressed support for Álvarez. The conference of Latin American Catholic bishops decried what it called a “siege” of priests and bishops, the expulsion of members of religious communities and “constant harassment” targeting the Nicaraguan people and the church.
The Vatican remained silent about the investigation of Álvarez for nearly two weeks, drawing criticism from some Latin American human rights activists and intellectuals.
That silence was broken last Friday when Monsignor Juan Antonio Cruz, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the Organization of American States, expressed concern about the situation and asked both parties to “seek ways of understanding.”
The Vatican again offered no comment Friday and didn’t report the news immediately on its in-house media portal. While staying mum, apparently in hopes of not inflaming tensions, the Vatican has been publishing regular expressions of solidarity from Latin American bishops in recent days on its Vatican News site.
The president of Nicaragua’s Episcopal Conference did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The huge street protests across Nicaragua in 2018 called for Ortega to step down. Ortega maintained the protests were a coup attempt carried out with foreign backing and the support of the church.
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Associated Press writer Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to this report. | 2022-08-20T05:11:20+00:00 | hjnews.com | https://www.hjnews.com/world/nicaraguan-police-detain-bishop-other-priests-in-raid/article_262b67f8-f963-5155-ac33-0e4976bb682e.html |
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C., June 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The Advocate: Supporting the Patient Voice is excited to announce the results of its 2021/2022 US Focused Patient Advocacy report. The report provides an in-depth look at feedback from patient advocacy organizations (PAOs) and their relationship with the pharmaceutical community. It also introduces key themes & trends impacting patients, as well as data on how PAOs, Professional Societies/Associations (PAs / PSs) seek to better engage with pharmaceutical companies. This information will help stakeholders understand new & innovative ways they can best work with PAOs to improve healthcare for all patients. The Advocate would like to thank their many sponsors in the pharmaceutical community for making this report possible & for the respondents who gave their time & feedback!
In this year's report, The Advocate evaluated many key metrics for the patient advocates & patients alike. Matt Toresco, Editor-in-Chief of The Advocate commented on a few organizations & data reflected within the report:
- "Janssen held the position of the top patient advocacy organization, with four out of five 1st place rankings & one 3rd place ranking. Janssen has been at the top of the heap for almost a decade, and they continue to be noted for their high level of support, commitment to patients & always finding a way to make patients & their partners in patient advocacy feel heard."
- "Amgen realized one of the most precipitous jumps I have seen in my time in patient advocacy research. Patient advocates noted the 'immense value over funding,' Amgen provides, 'their collaborative nature,' and how Amgen 'works closely,' with advocacy organizations in their commitment to bring the patient voice both inside of Amgen & to the broader healthcare community as well."
- "AstraZeneca also showed immense improvement in many measures within our report. With many co-promote partners in the industry, its often difficult for an organization like AZ to stand out. However, they are doing all the right things at this time with advocates noting their 'development of deep relationships' and 'educational campaigns' to drive patient education.
- "Other organizations of note include Sanofi Aventis, making great strides with respiratory advocates, Astellas leading the way in Urology/Men's Health, Eli Lilly posting impressive rankings in many disease states, perennial powerhouse Pfizer remaining strong outside of their work with the COVID vaccine, and Merck showing great strength in the areas of "advancing patient treatment & patient/professional group relations."
- "A few new names appeared in this year's data including Horizon, AbbVie (who say fantastic growth & feedback), & BMS, a perennial top 10 finisher who found first place many times this year."
- "We would be remiss if we did not also mention the smaller biotech & pharmaceutical companies with small yet impactful teams making immense progress in impacting the lives of patients every day! Organizations like Neurocrine Biosciences, and Alnylam continue to make great strides in patient advocacy and work to assist patients in both today's mental health crisis & use of telemedicine."
The Advocate: Supporting the Patient Voice's goal is to understand the relationship between advocates & the pharmaceutical industry. It's their mission to ensure that patients remain at the center of all healthcare decisions - may it be in their doctor's office, within the walls of the Payer of PBM or up on Capitol Hill. We understand that the pharmaceutical community aligns with their mission in their goals to ensure patients get access to the products they & their physicians have decided. It seeks to serve as a beacon for the pharmaceutical community to always find their way back to the patient by elevating the voice of their loudest supporters – the advocacy organizations. The Advocate does this through a syndicated market research offering for the pharmaceutical community to gain insights into the needs of the patients they serve & the patient advocate organizations they fight side by side with on numerous issues. This report is provided both in the US and ex-US with an ex-US report focused on Asia, Canada, Latin America & Europe. The Ex-US is currently in fielding with the next round of the US focused report to begin fielding later in 2022.
The research and expertise of The Advocate allows them to guide today's pharmaceutical advocacy teams, aid in the development & implementation of patient centricity programs within pharmaceutical companies & consult on the use of the patient voice throughout the products lifecycle. Reach out to Matt & his team directly with any questions about the current report, or any previous or future reports at matt.toresco@thebrooksgrouponline.com or theadvocate@thebrooksgrouponline.com.
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WHL
All Times Local
Western Conference
B.C. Division
U.S. Division
Eastern Conference
East Division
Central Division
Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.
Friday's results
Swift Current 5 Edmonton 2
Winnipeg 6 Saskatoon 3
Lethbridge 4 Brandon 3
Medicine Hat 3 Red Deer 2 (SO)
Prince Albert 5 Calgary 2
Moose Jaw 3 Kamloops 2
Seattle 6 Portland 1
Kelowna 4 Everett 2
Regina 3 Vancouver 0
Saturday's results
Lethbridge 6 Brandon 4
Swift Current 5 Edmonton 3
Saskatoon 5 Winnipeg 2
Red Deer 6 Prince Albert 1
Kamloops 4 Prince George 1
Calgary 5 Medicine Hat 2
Regina 9 Victoria 5
Tri-City 4 Spokane 2
Moose Jaw 4 Kelowna 3
Sunday's results
Vancouver 3 Portland 1
Prince Albert 4 Medicine Hat 2
Seattle at Tri-City, 4:05 p.m.
Red Deer at Calgary, 6 p.m.
Everett at Spokane, 5:05 p.m.
Tuesday's games
Moose Jaw at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.
Regina at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.
Wednesday's games
Saskatoon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.
Moose Jaw at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.
Regina at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Friday's games
Prince Albert at Brandon, 7 p.m.
Swift Current at Winnipeg, 7:05 p.m.
Saskatoon at Red Deer, 7 p.m.
Medicine Hat at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Regina at Prince George, 7 p.m.
Victoria at Portland, 7 p.m.
Vancouver at Kamloops, 7 p.m.
Lethbridge at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.
Kelowna at Spokane, 7:05 p.m. | 2022-11-28T03:04:10+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/HKO-WHL-Standings-17614503.php |
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — Roti Ware had 19 points in SFA's 82-72 win over UT Rio Grande Valley on Saturday night.
Ware had five rebounds and three steals for the 'Jacks (16-9, 8-4 Western Athletic Conference). Latrell Jossell scored 16 points, shooting 4 for 8 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 5 of 5 from the free throw line. Jalil Beaubrun recorded 10 points and finished 4 of 5 from the floor.
Justin Johnson led the way for the Vaqueros (12-14, 3-10) with 23 points, seven rebounds and two steals. Daylen Williams added 15 points, nine rebounds, two steals and two blocks for UT Rio Grande Valley. Adante' Holiman also recorded 10 points, five assists and three steals.
NEXT UP
Both teams next play Wednesday. SFA hosts Tarleton State while UT Rio Grande Valley visits Grand Canyon.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar. | 2023-02-12T04:58:32+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/sfa-beats-ut-rio-grande-valley-82-72-17779342.php |
Which flagship smartphone is better, Samsung Galaxy S22 or iPhone 13?
Samsung and Apple have been at the forefront of smartphone design and manufacturing for quite some time. The Galaxy S and iPhone families are long-running industry leaders in terms of performance and popularity, and the latest releases of each are no exception.
Each flagship family comprises three versions, including a base model, upgrade choice and top-of-the-line offering. The base models offer somewhere from mild to moderate upgrades compared to the previous generation, while the upgrade picks hit the sweet spot for many demanding users. The premium models from each company are generally favored by dedicated enthusiasts.
Samsung Galaxy S22
Samsung smartphones run Android OS, which is the most popular operating system on the planet by a wide margin. The Galaxy lineup has been out since 2009 and is, like Android, the biggest name in smartphones. For a lot of users, the customization that Android (and Samsung’s One UI flavor of it) offers makes it the ideal choice for integrating their favorite apps.
Samsung Galaxy S22 pros
- Remarkably high performance: According to benchmarks, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 CPU inside the S22 family is as good as it gets.
- High-speed charging: The 45-watt charging speed is Samsung’s fastest to date.
- A comfortable Android experience: There’s a reason why millions of users are happy with Google’s popular OS. Samsung’s OneUI variant offers a wide range of powerful features and customization options to suit anyone’s needs.
- Four years of Android OS updates: Leading Android smartphone manufacturers are promising multiple years of updates to the latest operating system versions.
Samsung Galaxy S22 cons
- Below-average battery life: Watt for watt and minute for minute, the S22 series doesn’t quite match up to the iPhone 13. This is especially true on the base models.
- No microSD card slot: You’ll be limited to the phone’s internal storage and whatever capacity your favorite cloud storage offers.
Samsung Galaxy S22 models
While it makes some sacrifices in terms of display capabilities and hardware performance, the base model S22 is the perfect upgrade for demanding users who like to buy a premium smartphone every two or three years. It’s not terribly large, the camera quality is good and Samsung’s latest implementation of Android is as user-friendly as it gets. Sold by Amazon
The S22+ is right between the base model and Ultra in a lot of ways, including its size and weight, battery life and feature set. Its combination of a high-refresh-rate display, impressive visual fidelity and snappy user experience make it one of the most desirable phones on the market. Sold by Amazon
Samsung went all out with its latest top-of-the-line mobile device. It’s a collection of the most advanced features around and is ideal for those who spend a lot of time planning, emailing, creating and taking notes on their smartphone, partly thanks to the near-perfect integration of the Samsung S Pen stylus. Sold by Amazon
Apple iPhone 13
Apple products may be somewhat niche, but that doesn’t mean they’re not excellent. After moving to in-house chipset development, Apple’s iPhones (similar to its MacBooks) have seen a significant jump in performance. This, coupled with the constantly updated iOS, makes the iPhone the top choice for millions of Americans.
Apple iPhone 13 pros
- The ultimate in a user-friendly experience: The biggest argument for Apple devices, including the iPhone 13, is that they work just about perfectly with little to no tweaking or other user input. Sure, you can customize the OS’s appearance and a number of features, but consumers can trust the iPhone 13 lineup to work right the first time without having to dig through menus to change important settings.
- Powerful camera algorithm: Another of Apple’s calling cards is the ease with which its smartphone cameras take professional-quality pictures with just a single snap. If you know nothing about photography, don’t worry; your iPhone albums will look great.
- Good battery life: The base model iPhone 13 noticeably beats the vanilla S22 in battery life, while the top models also have a small edge.
- Wide variable refresh rate range: The Pro and Pro Max can run at anywhere from 10 to 120 hertz, meaning you’ll never encounter stutter or lost frames.
- The only compact flagship: The iPhone 13 Mini is the only high-end smartphone with a comparably small stature, bar none.
Apple iPhone 13 cons
- No microSD card slot here, either: While this isn’t new or surprising, it’s odd that the two top phones in 2022 don’t allow for any storage expansion.
- Lots of storage costs a lot: As you move past the base level 128-gigabyte models, iPhone prices get expensive fast.
- Subpar base model display: The standard iPhone doesn’t support any kind of variable refresh rate.
- Lackluster physical appearance: There haven’t been any major improvements to the somewhat boxy iPhone form factor in recent years.
Apple iPhone 13 models
If you’ve been known to upgrade to the latest iPhone on a yearly or bi-yearly basis, the base level iPhone 13 is more of the same — but in a good way. It boasts a long battery life in addition to the premium screen and next-level user experience that Apple is so famous for. Sold by Amazon
Arguably the version with the most bang for the buck, the iPhone 13 Pro borrows premium features from the Pro Max such as a lidar scanner to improve photography, an ultra-high-brightness screen and a variable refresh rate. While it’s not cheap, you can expect it to perform well for several years to come. Sold by Amazon
If you insist on having the absolute best-performing iPhone, this is the one for you. While it’s extremely powerful, it’s also quite large, and one of the most expensive, so only the most dedicated enthusiasts should consider it. Sold by Amazon
There aren’t any other flagship-quality smartphones in this size. If you want something that’s easy to use with one hand but doesn’t skimp on component and screen quality, the iPhone 13 Mini is just about your only choice. Sold by Amazon
Should you get a Galaxy S22 or iPhone 13?
The full-size flagship models from both companies are direct competitors, and each level has a decent amount in common in terms of size, capabilities and overall performance.
As far as premium Apple vs. Samsung smartphones in general, the OS capabilities, app ecosystems and user experience are significantly different. It’s far more common that people stick to the operating system they’re familiar with. With that in mind, your choice between Apple and Samsung comes down to which operating system you prefer.
If you’re new to high-end smartphones, the vanilla iPhone 13 is a slightly better choice than the basic S22. Anyone who’s owned a top-of-the-line smartphone before will likely appreciate the improved features and relative value of the mid-level Galaxy S22+ and iPhone 13 Pro, and at this middle level it’s a toss-up. However, only the most seasoned smartphone enthusiasts should consider shelling out for the S22 Ultra or iPhone 13 Pro Max, both of which pack the most impressive features available.
Where Samsung can’t come close, however, is in the compact smartphone department. If you want something you can use with one hand and slide easily into your pocket, there’s no better choice than the iPhone 13 Mini.
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WFO PENDLETON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 25, 2022
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WINTER STORM WARNING
URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Pendleton OR
228 PM PST Fri Dec 23 2022
...WINTER STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM PST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Heavy mixed precipitation. Additional snow
accumulations of up to one inch and ice accumulations of up to
four tenths of an inch.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Eastern Columbia River Gorge of Oregon,
Foothills of the Southern Blue Mountains of Oregon and North
Central Oregon. In Washington, Eastern Columbia River Gorge of
Washington and Simcoe Highlands.
* WHEN...Until 1 AM PST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Power outages and tree damage are likely due to the
ice. Travel could be nearly impossible. The hazardous
conditions could impact the evening commute.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency.
The latest road conditions can be obtained by calling 5 1 1, or
by visiting online at https://tripcheck.com for Oregon or
https://wsdot.com/travel for Washington.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PST
SATURDAY...
accumulations of up to 4 inches and ice accumulations of one
tenth to one half of an inch. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.
* WHERE...East Slopes of the Washington Cascades.
* WHEN...Until 11 PM PST Saturday.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM PST
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations of up
to one inch. Ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an inch
through Saturday morning, with another round producing up to one
tenth of an inch Saturday afternoon and evening. Total ice
accumulations up to one quarter of an inch.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Lower Columbia Basin of Oregon and
Foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon. In
Washington, Lower Columbia Basin of Washington and Foothills
of the Blue Mountains of Washington.
* WHEN...Until 7 PM PST Saturday.
Slow down and use caution while traveling.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM PST
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations of 1
to 3 inches and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of an
inch.
* WHERE...In Oregon, Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon. In
Washington, Northwest Blue Mountains.
* WHEN...Until 4 AM PST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions. The hazardous
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM TO 7 PM PST
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow accumulations
of up to one inch and ice accumulations of up to one tenth of
an inch.
* WHERE...Kittitas Valley and Yakima Valley.
* WHEN...From 4 AM to 7 PM PST Saturday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT PST
SATURDAY NIGHT...
* WHAT...Periods of snow through the period, especially by the
Cascade Crest. Additional snow accumulations of 1 to 4 inches
tonight and 5 to 10 inches on Saturday through Saturday night.
Additionally freezing rain is expected to develop late tonight and
Saturday especially over the valleys of Chelan County and over the
passes. Ice accumulations around two tenths of an inch are
possible, which would include the Leavenworth area. Even heavier
ice accumulations are possible near Stevens Pass.
* WHERE...Stevens Pass, Holden Village, Stehekin, Leavenworth, and
Plain.
* WHEN...Until Midnight PST Saturday Night.
* IMPACTS...Travel could be very difficult to impossible. Power
outages and tree damage are possible due to the ice accumulations.
your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for
the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.
...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PST THIS
EVENING...
* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations up to
two inches with locally heavier amounts on the Camas prairie.
Additionally there could be light ice accumulations that develop
overnight due to freezing rain.
* WHERE...Alpowa Summit, Kamiah, Peck, Winchester, Lewiston Grade,
Craigmont, Pomeroy, Lapwai, Soldiers Meadow Road, Lewiston,
Nezperce, Clarkston, Gifford, and Culdesac.
* WHEN...Until 10 PM PST this evening.
Slow down and use caution while traveling. The latest road
conditions for the state you are calling from can be obtained by
calling 5 1 1.
* WHAT...Snow. Additional snow accumulations of 1 to 2 inches.
* WHERE...Deer Park, Clark Fork, Tiger, Sandpoint, Newport, Priest
River, Ione, Fruitland, Colville, Schweitzer Mountain Road,
Metaline, Athol, Springdale-Hunters Road, Eastport, Bonners Ferry,
Orin-Rice Road, Northport, Flowery Trail Road, Kettle Falls,
Chewelah, and Metaline Falls.
* IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will
likely become slick and hazardous.
Be prepared for slippery roads. Slow down and use caution while
driving. If you are going outside, watch your first few steps taken
on stairs, sidewalks, and driveways. These surfaces could be icy and
slippery, increasing your risk of a fall and injury.
* WHAT...Additional snow accumulations of 1 to 2 inches.
Additionally there is a small chance of pockets of freezing rain
developing late tonight over the Palouse. Ice accumulations will
be limited to a light glaze.
* WHERE...Moscow, Tekoa, Colfax, Spokane Valley, Davenport,
Potlatch, Plummer, Cheney, Airway Heights, La Crosse, Genesee,
Downtown Spokane, Oakesdale, Pullman, Coeur d'Alene, Worley,
Hayden, Rockford, Post Falls, Rosalia, Fairfield, and Uniontown.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions due to additional snow
and the possibility of freezing rain.
* WHAT...Snow expected with additional accumulations of 2 to 4
inches. There is also a small chance of some light freezing rain
late.
* WHERE...Anatone, Mountain Road, Cloverland Road, and Peola.
conditions could impact the Friday evening commute.
* WHAT...Another round of wintery precipitation is expected to
develop early Saturday and continue through the evening. Initially
the precipitation will consist of snow, sleet and or freezing
rain, but it should predominantly become freezing rain by late
morning into the afternoon hours. Total ice accumulations will
range from 0.05 to 0.20 inches.
Mixed precipitation expected. Total snow and sleet accumulations up
to two inches and ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch.
* WHERE...Badger Mountain Road, Ephrata, Wenatchee, Grand Coulee,
Ritzville, Creston, Quincy, Chelan, Number 1 Canyon, Pangborn
Airport, Odessa, Cashmere, Othello, Wilbur, Waterville, Coulee
City, Number 2 Canyon, Entiat, Moses Lake, Mansfield, and
Harrington.
* IMPACTS...Plan on the possibility of treacherous road conditions
due to accumulating ice.
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UN agency inspecting Russia’s unfounded ‘dirty bomb’ claim against Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Experts from the United Nations’ nuclear power agency inspected two sites in Ukraine on Tuesday that Russia identified in unfounded claims that Ukrainian authorities were manufacturing radioactive “dirty bombs.”
Russian strikes targeting eight regions of southeastern Ukraine killed at least four civilians and wounded four others in 24 hours, the Ukrainian president’s office said. Tens of thousands of people faced power blackouts and water shortages following Russian shelling of energy infrastructure in 10 regions on Monday.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi said the inspections for evidence of a so-called dirty bomb, requested by Kyiv in the wake of the unsubstantiated Russian allegations, would be completed soon.
Top Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, made unsubstantiated accusations that Ukraine was preparing to use such an explosive device, which scatters radioactive waste.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, alleged in a letter to Security Council members last week that Ukraine’s nuclear research facility and mining company “received direct orders from (President Volodymyr) Zelenskyy’s regime to develop such a dirty bomb.”
Western nations have called Moscow’s repeated claim “transparently false.” Ukrainian authorities dismissed it as an attempt to distract attention from Moscow’s own alleged plans to detonate a dirty bomb as a way to justify a further escalation of hostilities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said the investigated sites “are under IAEA safeguards and have been visited regularly by IAEA inspectors,” whose mission is detecting undeclared nuclear activities and materials related to the development of dirty bombs.
“The IAEA inspected one of the two locations a month ago and no undeclared nuclear activities or materials were found there,” the agency said in a statement Monday.
The U.N.’s atomic energy watchdog also has had on-site monitors at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Fighting around near Europe’s largest nuclear power station has created worries of a possibly catastrophic leak there.
The Ukrainian president’s office said Tuesday that cities and towns around the plant experienced more heavy shelling between Monday and Tuesday. In Nikopol, a city which faces the plant from across the wide Dnieper River, over a dozen apartment buildings, a kindergarten, and various private businesses were damaged, the office said.
Russian shelling hit 14 towns and villages in the eastern Donetsk region Monday and into Tuesday, destroying sections of railway track, damaging a power line and taking down mobile communications in some areas. A missile also struck the city of Kramatorsk, which hosts the Ukrainian army’s headquarters.
The shelling killed three civilians and wounded three others, the region’s governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said. Donetsk is one of four regions illegally annexed by Moscow last month, and continues to see fierce clashes as Russian forces press their grinding attack on the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka.
Another woman was killed after Russian rockets slammed into apartment buildings and a school in the southern city of Mykolayiv, its mayor reported Tuesday.
Ukraine was still grappling Tuesday with the consequences of Mondays’ massive barrage of Russian strikes, which disrupted power and water supplies in multiple Ukrainian cities and villages.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said authorities restored electricity and running water in the capital’s residential buildings but that rolling power outages would continue in the city because of significant power shortages.
Kyiv region Gov. Oleksiy Kuleba said Tuesday that 20,000 apartments remained without power.
“Russia has opened an energy front, and is using energy to blackmail the civilian population, provoking hunger and cold in Ukraine,” Kuleba said on Ukrainian TV.
Ukraine’s state energy company, Ukrenergo, said in a statement Tuesday that seven regions would experience rolling blackouts “to reduce the load on the (energy) grid, maintain a stable balance within the system and avoid repeated failures.”
In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, subway service was suspended again on Tuesday, according to the subway’s Telegram page. No reason for the suspension was given.
In the occupied Kherson region, Russian-installed authorities sought to evacuate up to 70,000 more people living within 15 kilometers (9 miles) of the Dnieper River in anticipation of a Ukrainian counteroffensive pushing deeper into the region. The effort was already underway on Tuesday morning, according to the Kremlin-appointed governor of the region Vladimir Saldo.
In Russia, the regular fall draft got underway Tuesday with a total of 120,000 men expected to be conscripted within the next two months. Russian military officials have assured that conscripts will not be sent to fight in Ukraine, including to the annexed regions.
This year’s fall draft was scheduled to start in October, but was delayed by one month because of the partial mobilization of 300,000 men, which was declared completed on Monday. Kremlin critics have warned that the call-up could resume after the fall draft is over and military enlistment offices are freed up from processing conscripts.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that of the 300,000 men drafted in the partial call-up announced by Putin on Sept. 21, 87,000 were deployed to Ukraine. Some 3,000 military instructors with combat experience acquired this year in Ukraine are involved in training draftees, Shoigu said.
Activists and reports by Russian media and The Associated Press said many of the mobilized reservists were inexperienced, were told to procure basic items such as medical kits and flak jackets themselves, and did not receive training before they were sent off to fight. Some were killed within days of being called up.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Riders who were born male will be prevented from racing in British Cycling’s elite female events under a new transgender and non-binary participation policy published by the governing body on Friday.
New rules for competitive events, due to be implemented this year, will see racing split into “open” and “female” categories, with transgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals and those whose sex was assigned male at birth eligible to compete in the open category.
The female category will remain for those whose sex was assigned female at birth and for transgender men who are yet to begin hormone therapy.
The current men’s category will be consolidated into the open category, in which those whose sex was assigned as female at birth can also compete if they so wish.
The new policy is the result of a nine-month review which included a consultation process with riders and stakeholders, including members of Britain’s team, as well as a study of available medical research led by British Cycling’s chief medical officer, Dr. Nigel Jones. That research was said to show a clear performance advantage for individuals who go through puberty as a male, and one which cannot be fully mitigated by testosterone suppression.
There is still no set date for the new regulations to be implemented, with British Cycling saying only that it will be before the end of the year, allowing time for changes to technical regulations and discussions with the UCI, cycling’s world governing body, regarding implementation.
The new policy diverges from that of the UCI, which is looking again at its own regulations after American transgender woman Austin Killips won the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico this month.
The UCI allows transgender women who have gone through male puberty to compete in elite women’s events if they have had reduced testosterone levels of 2.5 nanomoles per liter for the previous two years.
The British Cycling policy change also follows that taken by World Aquatics last year.
British Cycling suspended its previous policy last April after transgender woman Emily Bridges sought to race at the national omnium championships as a female rider.
Bridges described the move as a “violent act,” adding: “I agree there needs to be a nuanced policy discussion and continue to conduct research, but this hasn’t happened.”
Jon Dutton, chief executive of British Cycling, apologized for the anxiety and upset caused during the 13 months since the previous policy was suspended.
That previous transgender policy allowed riders to compete in the female category if they had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per liter for a 12-month period prior to competition.
The governing body will continue to study new research as it becomes available with the policy being regularly reviewed.
“It’s an incredibly emotive and at times divisive subject area,” said Dutton, who has been in his post for one month. “We have taken many months to look at three areas: firstly a consultation with the athletes affected and the wider cycling community; secondly looking at the medical research available at this point in time; and thirdly from the legal viewpoint in terms of the association with the Equalities Act.
“We’ve made a decision on the balance of all three to give clarity, to give direction and that clear way forward for any athletes affected.”
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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Whether or not you want to you’ll be hearing it all December long.
Each year, there’s discourse over which Christmas songs are “good,” “bad” and “problematic.”
This time last year YouGov surveyed 1,000 U.S. adults to find out which Christmas songs they most like and dislike.
A few songs received the same scores. However, the top two most disliked songs were clear. “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” and “Santa Baby” were the two least favorite Christmas songs this time last year. | 2022-12-03T22:39:19+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/home-for-the-holidays/most-hated-christmas-song/ |
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve launched a new instant payment service Thursday. FedNow allows banks and credit unions to sign up to send real-time payments so they can offer customers a quicker way to send money between banks.
FedNow, which was first announced in 2019, published a list of banks and credit unions that are already signed up to the service. However, it might take longer for customers to be able to use the service with their bank.
Here's what you need to know about FedNow.
HOW DOES FEDNOW WORK?
FedNow offers instant payment services for banks and credit unions to transfer money for their customers. Unlike other private money-transferring services like PayPal or Venmo, FedNow services are not offered to customers directly through a third-party app or website. The services will only be available through banks or credit unions. However, once banks have adopted FedNow, they're expected to make it available on their websites and apps.
Once a bank offers the FedNow services, customers will be able to send money instantly. The service is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Among the banks that will offer the FedNow services soon are Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase.
WHY DID THE FED CREATE FEDNOW?
By creating FedNow, the Fed is making it quicker and more accessible for people to send and receive online payments. The Fed is also catching up with other countries that already have real-time payment systems like FedNow, including England, China, Sweden and India.
FedNow will also equip banks with tools to identify and combat fraud attempts. These tools include the ability for banks to flag suspicious accounts and limit the amount and frequency of payments by those accounts.
WHO CAN USE FEDNOW?
Customers, including individuals and businesses, whose banks or credit unions offer FedNow services will be able to send and receive money in real-time. If, for example, a customer wants to send money to a friend, both people have to bank with institutions that offer FedNow services.
WHAT ARE SOME SCENARIOS WHERE I CAN USE FEDNOW?
Given the speed of transactions, this service can be beneficial for customers in many ways.
Here are some examples:
— If your employer sends your paycheck through FedNow, the paycheck will be able to clear in seconds rather than days.
— If you forgot to pay your rent until the last minute, you will be able to send the money late at night without waiting to have it cleared the next business day.
WHEN WILL FEDNOW BE AVAILABLE TO ME?
FedNow is now live but it might take months or years for customers to be able to use this service, it all depends on when your bank makes it available.
WILL MY PRIVACY BE PROTECTED WITH FEDNOW?
The Federal Reserve and the FedNow service cannot access people's bank accounts and it doesn't have the authority for additional surveillance, according to Fed officials.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE VENMO, PAYPAY OR OTHER SERVICES?
There are key differences between the FedNow service and apps such as Venmo and PayPal. FedNow is a service offered directly to banks and not to customers, which means FedNow does not have an app or website where customers will be able to send money to each other.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FEDNOW AND ZELLE?
While both FedNow and Zelle allow customers to make online transactions, there are some key differences. Zelle is a private app that works with some financial institutions while FedNow is backed by the Federal Reserve and is envisioned to be adopted by the majority of banks in the country.
Zelle lets you send and receive money instantly but the money might not be available for customers until days after the transaction. With FedNow, the Fed says the money will be available within seconds. Zelle has a customer-facing platform that allows customers to send money through their app while FedNow will not directly interact with customers but rather offer the services to banks.
WILL FEDNOW REPLACE CASH?
Fed officials have stressed FedNow is unrelated to the notion of a government-run digital currency, which social media users also falsely claim would lead to the elimination of cash.
“The Federal Reserve has made no decision on issuing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) & would not do so without clear support from Congress and executive branch, ideally in the form of a specific authorizing law,” the agency wrote in a series of tweets in April “A CBDC would not replace cash or other payment options.” | 2023-07-21T14:05:58+00:00 | 9news.com | https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/what-is-fednow/507-cd2614e1-5929-4ff0-9dcb-5b70f1de1c25 |
MBIRIKANI, Kenya (AP) — Parkeru Ntereka lost almost half of his goat herd to hungry lions that wandered into his pen located near Kenya’s iconic Amboseli national park.
The 56-year-old’s loss made headlines in the east African country as it led to the spearing to death of six lions in retaliation by the Maasai people, who have co-existed with wild animals for centuries.
The killings highlighted the growing human-wildlife conflict in parts of east Africa that conservationists say has been exacerbated by a yearslong drought.
At the same time, the predator population within the parks has increased. Hunger and thirst can send them into communities.
Ntereka said losing 12 goats is a huge loss for his large family.
“I sell these livestock in order to afford school fees. I don’t know how I will afford secondary school fees for some of my children,” said the father of eight.
The Big Life Foundation, which runs conservation programs in the area, has been offering compensation to herders who lose their livestock to predators.
But the compensation does not match the market rate for cows, goats and sheep.
Herder Joel Kirimbu said compensation should match the market rate.
“Cows are expensive and can cost as much as 80,000 Kenyan shillings ($577) each. One cannot compare 80,000 shillings to 30,000 shillings. We receive very little compensation. That is why we become angry and despite receiving compensation, we come out and kill the lions,” he told The Associated Press.
Rosi Lekimankusi, a mother of five, said 13 of her goats were killed by lions in the same village, Mbirikani in Kajiado County, just 150 kilometers (93 miles) from the capital, Nairobi.
“This is a big loss for us because my husband and I have no other jobs,” she told The Associated Press while standing outside her goat pen.
Her biggest fear is that such lion attacks will become even more common in her Maasai village that borders Amboseli national park.
The Big Life Foundation, which has run the compensation program for 20 years, said it cannot afford to pay the market price but asserted that the amount cannot be disregarded because it at least expresses solidarity with herders for their loss.
“It could be a little just to make sure your anger goes down but its better than nothing,” said Daniel Ole Sambu, who coordinates the foundation’s Predator Protection Program.
He said the foundation also gives the community scholarships for local children and support for medical facilities.
The human-wildlife conflict often makes headlines in Kenya, where tourism plays an important role in the economy.
Last month, one of Kenya’s oldest lions, Loonkiito, was speared to death as it wandered out of the Amboseli national park in search for food.
The Kenya Wildlife Service said it is working on lasting solutions that would address the conflict while protecting both humans and wildlife.
Ntereka, the herder who lost almost half his goats, lives in fear of another lion attack.
“Since the olden days, we believed that when a lion invades your home and eats your cows, it will still return even after 10 years. It will never forget that your home was once a source of food,” he said. | 2023-06-07T23:02:39+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/in-kenya-lions-are-speared-to-death-as-human-wildlife-conflict-worsens-amid-drought/ |
Flood Warning issued April 13 at 2:45PM MDT until April 14 at 3:00PM MDT by NWS Pocatello ID
* WHAT…Flooding caused by snowmelt continues.
* WHERE…A portion of southeast Idaho, including the following
county, Madison.
* WHEN…Until 300 PM MDT Friday.
* IMPACTS…Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Low-water
crossings are inundated with water and may not be passable.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS…
– At 245 PM MDT, emergency management reported flooding in the
warned area.
– http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood
deaths occur in vehicles.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely. | 2023-04-13T22:35:22+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/weather/alerts-weather/2023/04/13/flood-warning-issued-april-13-at-245pm-mdt-until-april-14-at-300pm-mdt-by-nws-pocatello-id/ |
GREENWICH, Conn., May 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- AdminaHealth®, the leading provider of employee benefits billing solutions for the healthcare, insurance, and voluntary benefits marketplace, is pleased to announce the promotion of Christopher Arcoleo to the position of Vice President of Sales.
With over three decades of successful sales leadership, national account management, and channel development, Arcoleo brings unique expertise to help clients with the digital transformation of their enrollment, benefits administration, and premium billing processes. He has worked with a variety of companies, from startups to large enterprises such as Centivo, Zywave, Liazon, bswift, Benergy and Decisely, to help them achieve their sales and revenue goals.
As VP, Arcoleo will be responsible for leading sales growth; developing consultative relationships with brokers, carriers, employers, and third-party administrators; and helping to implement customized SaaS billing solutions. Brokers and TPAs especially appreciate the significant value-add that AdminaHealth brings, along with the opportunity to increase renewals and new business. Arcoleo's experience and leadership play an important role in ensuring that AdminaHealth continues to deliver exceptional service to its clients.
"We are thrilled to promote Chris to Vice President of Sales," said Robert A. Bull, CEO and Founding Member of AdminaHealth. "His proven success in the industry has been a key contributor to our growth. We are confident that his skills and expertise will help us continue to expand our business and deliver outstanding value to our clients."
Arcoleo added, "I'm excited to take on this larger role and more responsibility. I have the privilege of working with this remarkable team of professionals who are committed to delivering an exceptional customer experience and look forward to working closely with the sales team to drive AdminaHealth's reach even further."
About AdminaHealth
AdminaHealth is the leading provider of patented billing and payment solutions for the insurance industry. The company's innovative platform simplifies the administration of benefits and streamlines payment processes for brokers, carriers, employers, and third-party administrators. Founded in 2014, AdminaHealth is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, and serves clients throughout the United States.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to poet in residence Kwame Alexander, who shares his latest community crowd-sourced poem about the goals that teachers, parents and students have set for themselves.
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STRATHAM, N.H, PENTAGON CITY, Va. and CLEVELAND, Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- BioGreen360 ("BG360"), the leading innovator in distributed food waste management solutions, today announced the successful 12-month collaboration with The Ritz-Carton and Garick resulting in the development of a 100% circular food waste solution for The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City.
On Memorial Day 2021, the Pentagon City Hotel and BG360 began the collaboration with Garick to implement a closed-loop program aimed at diverting 100% of the Hotel's food waste from landfill with the residual material being integrated into an all-natural, high nutrient organic compost product. To achieve this goal, the Hotel leveraged BG360's innovative integrated distributed technology solution including: a waterless digestor technology, proprietary bio-catalysis, an "as a service" business model and a real-time data analytics package.
Over the last 12 months operating the BG360 solution, The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City achieved its sustainability goals of successfully diverting 100% of its food waste totaling more than 27 tons, which is the CO2 equivalent of greater than 52 tons of waste diverted from landfill equating to 38 carbon offsets. The organic material created through the on-site digestion process at the Arlington Hotel has been integrated into an all-natural compost at Garick's New Milford, CT facility, and is being repurposed into organic fertilizer closing the 360 loop.
"The BG360 solution has exceeded our expectations as it both reduced our carbon footprint by diverting organic waste from landfills and reduced our overall costs associated with our food waste," said Matt Felix, General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City. "We had expected the solution would be both a sustainable and an economic win for the Hotel and it has greatly exceeded our expectations. Our sales and marketing team are excited to promote this circularity and our ability to provide zero food waste events at the Hotel."
In addition, the culinary staff at the Pentagon City Hotel has used the BG360 cloud platform and real-time data feeds to track which departments are creating waste to reduce it over time. "We believed the BG360 solution would allow us to be more efficient in the kitchen," said Executive Chef Phil Skerman, "and this indeed has proven correct. By tracking where, how much and what types of food waste are being created, we have streamlined our prep to minimize the amount of food loss created, and gained comfort the scraps we do create are turned into a sustainable natural resource rather than going to landfill."
"Over the past year, BG360, The Ritz-Carlton and Garick teams have worked closely together to create a completely circular solution for food waste," said Justin Rosberg, President & COO of BG360. "It has been a terrific collaboration and we look forward to scaling this solution with these partners."
The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City
Set against a backdrop rich in history and tradition, The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City offers a modernly elegant hotel experience near the nation's capital. Luxury accommodations and amenities, including a globally influenced restaurant and event space, are complemented by attentive service and an Arlington, VA location that is moments from historic landmarks, museums and shopping.
For more information about The Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, visit www.ritzcarlton.com/pentagoncity
About Garick
Garick a North American distributor, processor and recycler of sustainable natural resource products, prides itself on its commitment to sustainability and environmental practices. Using food, yard and forest products residuals, Garick diverts and beneficially reuses organic waste streams and creates organic mulches, soils, and other sustainable products, supplying customers with a complete range of products in bags, bales or bulk.
For more information about Garick, visit https://www.garick.com/
About BioGreen
BioGreen360 is the leader in distributed, on-site, digester technology and food waste solutions for institutional and consumer facing applications. The Company's solutions are environmentally responsible, economically sustainable and fully scalable. BioGreen360 is the only solution in the market that completely recycles food waste from the overall waste stream at its source. Through proprietary microbial formulae coupled with patent-pending mechanical and evaporation technologies, BioGreen360 completely eliminates food waste on-site through a fully automated, continual feed aerobic digesting system. It is the only triple-bottom line solution in the food waste management space.
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LONDON (AP) — Veteran counterterrorism police officer Mark Rowley will be the new chief of London’s troubled Metropolitan Police force, the British government said Friday.
Rowley, who was head of counterterrorism at the force between 2014 and 2018, becomes commissioner of Scotland Yard after a string of controversies undermined public confidence in the country’s largest police force. He will have the task of restoring the reputation of a force that was last month placed in “special measures” by the country’s police watchdog.
Rowley’s predecessor Cressida Dick quit in February after falling out with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said Dick wasn’t doing enough to tackle allegations of misogyny and racism in police ranks.
Rowley, 57, promised to “fight crime with communities – not unilaterally dispense tactics.”
“Our mission is to lead the renewal of policing by consent, which has been so heavily dented in recent years as trust and confidence have fallen,” he said.
The force has been under intense pressure to reform since a serving police officer, Wayne Couzens, was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering a stranger, Sarah Everard, while she was walking home at night in London in 2021. The police force’s subsequent handling of vigils and protests against Everard’s slaying also came under heavy criticism.
Earlier this year, an investigation slammed a culture of misogyny, bullying and sexual harassment at one London police station, Charing Cross.
The force has been criticized for the way it handled the case of two Black sisters murdered in a London park in 2020 — their bodies found by a family search party because police weren’t looking for them — and for failing to stop serial killer Stephen Port, who drugged and killed four young men he met online.
Rowley’s start date hasn’t been announced. | 2022-07-09T05:30:07+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/news/world/uk-appoints-counterterror-cop-to-head-troubled-london-police/ |
2 years into new world of NIL deals, colleges & athletes still finding their way
HOLT — A.J. Hoggard spent two days this week dashing up and down the court at Holt High School as part of the Moneyball Pro-Am league. That was sandwiched around Michigan State basketball’s summer team workouts and weightlifting.
On Friday, the senior point guard picked up his phone and put some money in his bank account. All he needed was to thumb out a tweet with a picture of himself promoting a sneakerhead store across the street from campus in East Lansing.
At its core, that was the essence of how many envisioned college athletes could capitalize on their name, image and likeness when laws went into effect two years ago. And four years after retiring, former MSU deputy athletic director Greg Ianni loves seeing that finally coming to fruition.
It is many of the other unintended happenings and consequences around the country, however — from the forming of NIL collectives by boosters of schools to players now utilizing both the opportunity to make more money elsewhere and the transfer portal as negotiating leverage — that threaten to undo the modern fabric of college sports.
“I think the athletes deserve the NIL thing,” Ianni recently told the Free Press. “But once again, there are people that are going to take a good idea and make it not such a good idea. NIL was never intended to be a recruiting benefit. It was never intended to be, but that's what it is now.”
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Collective growth
MSU is among those universities at the forefront of the NIL collectives, with the two most prominent — SD4L (which stands for Spartan Dawgs For Life) and This is Sparta — connecting high-profile donors with former athletes over the past two years to work as a conduit to current Spartans in football and basketball. Football players last year also created their own collective, the East Lansing NIL Club.
A few MSU teams also had a blanket deal with alum Mat Ishbia’s United Wholesale Mortgage to promote the company on social media the past year, though the deal ended last month because of a perceived conflict of interest when the former basketball walk-on-turned-billionaire became the owner of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. Other sports’ rosters have partnerships with other organizations, such as the women’s basketball team’s group deal with MSU Federal Credit Union.
Two years ago, none of those things existed as the first NIL laws around the country went into effect and the NCAA was forced to back away from the restrictions they had created and enforced for decades. That came about because of a few major rulings against the collection of colleges and universities in the Supreme Court in recent years.
But by the summer of 2021, the NCAA had yet to enact changes. That was, until state legislatures began forcing them to with a series of laws essentially rendering the organization toothless in enforcing its interim rules and revisions since.
Florida-based attorney Darren Heitner, who has represented former MSU basketball player Draymond Green in marketing deals, helped lead a fight that saw what was taboo in the first half of 2021 transform into an open marketplace a day after the NCAA’s interim rules went into place, on June 30 that year.
Heitner said five states recently have modified their own NIL laws “to now overtly say the NCAA can't punish or investigate schools within their jurisdiction.”
“The NCAA had years, if not decades, to plan for this. And yet, it seems as though everything … has the feel as this as though these things have not been well-thought through,” Heitner told the Free Press on Friday. “As though you get a gathering of individuals who off on the whim decide certain rules and regulations without any enforcement, without any mechanism to enforce and with a real fear to enforce any of their rules. ...
“But the rules are very basic, they're vague, they're ambiguous, they've never been enforced. And now you have states like Missouri, saying, 'To heck with your main rule,' which is that there can't be inducements to athletes to persuade them to commit to or attend a university, 'we're going to codify in our state, well, that's acceptable.' That's where we are now.”
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Along with those new rights for athletes have come a new landscape for college sports. Heitner worked with former University of Florida baseball player Eddie Rojas to form what became the Gator Collective, the first organization bringing together university donors in a group that signed athletes to relatively loose marketing deals. That launched less than two months after the first rules went into effect in the summer of 2021, with other groups at other schools popping up afterward and using a similar nomenclature.
Ianni, an MSU alum who worked for nearly 40 years in athletic administration before retiring in 2019, feels the way collectives have emerged “have widened the gap between the haves and have-nots, which I was fearful that was going to happen.”
“What the collectives have done, they collect money, and they just distribute it, they just hand it out,” Ianni said. “That's contrary, to me, to the spirit of what the rule is. That is how they're working around that. … I worked with a coach a number of years ago, when I first got in it about 40 years ago, an Ohio University football coach. Good guy. And he had one rule for his team. And the rule was, 'Abuse leads to restriction.'
“You can you could say that about so many things in life, and we can see it every day. People make rules with good intentions. But there's always going to be somebody that's going to take that rule and turn it around so it turns into something that's bad. And that's what's happened here.”
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Portal power
Both Ianni and Heitner are in agreement: The NCAA’s inaction over the past decade created the current chaos.
Ianni, a former MSU baseball player whose daughter Allison (volleyball) and son Anthony (basketball) both were Spartan athletes, said he is frustrated from afar watching the NCAA mostly avoid making decisions over the past two years.
“Anything they do, any rule they make, it's gonna get challenged (in court),” he said. “If it looks like it's restricting the opportunity for the student-athlete to do what everybody else in the country does, to have the fair opportunity to go out and make a living if you will, they know they're gonna lose those cases. ... That's what's created the wild, wild West.”
That volatility also comes with the NCAA granting athletes the ability to transfer once and be immediately eligible at their new school. It has led to players and their representation weaponizing the transfer portal for leverage in negotiations this year. MSU football, for instance, had junior wide receiver Keon Coleman leave after spring workouts for Florida State.
Heitner watched this spring as former Michigan center Hunter Dickinson transferred to Kansas and was vocal about some of the money being thrown at him as he was in the transfer portal. It confirmed what the professional sports agent predicted would happen: “Unrestricted free agency" had arrived in college.
“Every single athlete has a one-time shot to basically enter into free agency and, if he or she so chooses, go to the highest bidder,” Heitner said. “I saw (Dickinson’s) quote where he ultimately said, 'Well, I didn't go to the highest bidder,' but then also either expressly or impliedly stated that there were multiple offers on the table — which, by the way, it's against NCAA rules for there to be offers while a player is in the transfer portal — and that they were at a very high clip, a big amount of money that was being offered from multiple schools.
“It's not true for every athlete. But the more marketable ones, the ones who have the talent, they can use the transfer portal as an opportunity to really explore the market and pit schools against each other and collectives against each other and go to the highest bidder if they so choose. It's quite a bit of empowerment for the athlete, for sure.”
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All this leaves athletes such as Hoggard, who arrived at MSU the year before NIL rules went into effect, learning along the way about the new power they possess. Staying in college no longer is just about improving your game but also part of the business equation for high-end athletes — should they test the pro path early or stay in school?
Hoggard, a 22-year-old advertising management major, said another unintended consequence of gaining that ability to market himself is getting contacted constantly over social media by people and companies who are seeking his services. He said he hired a representative to handle those inquiries, to help keep most of his focus on basketball and chasing his NBA dream.
“The ultimate goal is to play professionally. And when you're a professional, you get paid,” said Hoggard, who entered and withdrew from the NBA draft in the spring. “And when you're a professional, you got to carry yourself at a certain level. So just being part of that now early, you always had to be a professional whether you were getting paid or not as a college athlete or as an athlete in general. You'd have to conduct yourself with good character and high integrity.
“But also with this, it's just another compartment that's preparing us for the next level. I think it's just helping us get ready to learn how to use our money, how to spend our money, how to use our money wisely. And just be smart with things that's going on.”
Just how much athletes are making remains shrouded in mystery to athletic administrators, a point new Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti made at his first news conference in late April. That leads to supposition and innuendo on whether a player is getting paid more or less than they or their NIL agents claim.
Ianni pointed to one recruiting website that hypothesizes an athlete’s “NIL valuation” and thinks it is critical for the schools and NCAA to create a public database with firm numbers like professional leagues offer. Of course, he also believes that might lead to something else Petitti brought up: College athletics adopting a professional model to pay players.
“I think the only way it's gonna get resolved is, I think the players have to become unionized. And to me, I think they're gonna end up being employees of the institution,” Ianni said. “That way, you can negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with them, so that everybody in the country is reading from the same sheet of paper. That's the only way it's going to stop. Because right now, everybody's kind of on their own.”
Heitner took it a step further, saying he feels athletes should earn salaries as well as a share of the revenue. That's something he acknowledged would move college sports even farther from where it was a little over two years ago.
“It's immense athlete empowerment,” he said, “but I think also a lot of uncomfort for schools and policymakers at the NCAA.”
Contact Chris Solari: csolari@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @chrissolari.
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COLUMBIA – Gov. Henry McMaster and S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce Executive Director Dan Ellzey announced that South Carolina’s unemployment insurance tax rates will decrease or remain the same for all employers in 2023.
This is the 10th year in a row that the agency, the General Assembly and the governor’s office have been able to maintain or lower UI business tax.
“Today’s announcement will save South Carolina’s businesses millions of dollars, allowing them to create new jobs for people and invest more in their companies and communities,” McMaster said. “South Carolina is booming and employers are excited to do business in our state. The strength of the unemployment insurance trust fund demonstrates the wise decisions we’ve made that have helped us maintain one of the strongest economies in the nation.”
With a strong balance of approximately $1.4 billion, South Carolina will:
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• Set tax year 2023 rates to raise approximately the same level of revenue as 2022 and 2021.
• Rates will either be the same or lower than the prior three years.
• No tax rate class will experience an increased tax rate for 2023.
• Rates will be lower for rate classes 2-19 by an average of 15.5% compared to 2022 levels.
• Not require any solvency surcharge due to the sufficiently high trust fund balance.
• Maintain a balance that ensures the state could withstand a moderate economic contraction.
“Strong economic and wage growth have helped keep the trust fund at or above its statutorily required balance,” Ellzey said. “For a decade our agency has been able to maintain or lower tax rates and our UI Trust Fund balance is now at a record high. Our unemployment rate continues to be near record lows and substantially below what economists have typically considered full employment. Estimates are that revenue needs for 2023 will be approximately $10 million lower than the estimate for 2022, which will mean additional tax savings for most tax rate classes.”
Each year, the agency estimates the unemployment benefits that will be paid in the following year and sets the tax rate to ensure that the trust fund has the revenue to make the payments. The process to determine the tax rates involves an extensive analysis of the economy, the current level of the UI Trust Fund, expected unemployment, estimated benefits that will have to be paid, and revenues that will need to be generated to pay such benefits.
“Our agency is always looking for ways to build the workforce, help fill current jobs, and support employers. In addition to having record employment in 2022, South Carolina’s average hourly earnings have been growing, up more than $3.00 an hour since January of 2020,” continued Ellzey. “If you are a new employer, the maximum tax you would pay per worker has decreased by 73.9% in the past decade. That is substantially lower than both North Carolina and Georgia. And, in that same time period, the number of South Carolina businesses liable for UI taxes has increased 36.7% which helps abate tax charges for everyone.”
During the Great Recession, South Carolina borrowed nearly $1 billion from the federal government in order to continue to provide unemployment benefits. The agency was able to pay off the loan early, saving businesses roughly $12 million in interest. After the loan was paid off in 2015, the Legislature passed new regulations requiring DEW to rebuild the trust fund within five years to a level that would cover potential benefit needs of a typical recession cycle without borrowing from the federal government. The agency completed the rebuild effort in 2019.
Although most pandemic unemployment benefits were paid through federal programs such as Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), the trust fund balances of states were also depleted as UI payments were dispersed. Twenty-three states borrowed money from the federal government to help support UI benefits when claims rose exponentially across the nation, but South Carolina was not one of them.
Because of the forethought of the General Assembly and the Governor’s Office, $836.4 million of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act money was applied to the balance of South Carolina’s Trust Fund. This allowed the state’s businesses to recover faster from the pandemic and shift our efforts from unemployment to reemployment.
Although tax rates for most tax classes are lower than their 2022 levels, individual businesses may still move between classes based on their unemployment claim activity. All businesses with charges against their accounts are provided a “charge statement” quarterly to review and have 30 days to protest any charges that they do not believe should be on their account. Tax rate notices will be mailed to businesses on Thursday, November 10, but employers can log into their State Unemployment Insurance Tax System (SUITS) account beginning Monday, November 7, to see their 2023 tax rate.
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TRIBECA, Manhattan (PIX11) — Bed Bath & Beyond CFO Gustavo Arnal’s Friday death was ruled a suicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
The 52-year-old CFO’s body was found near Leonard Street and West Broadway with injuries “indicative from a fall from an elevated position,” police said. Arnal started at Bed Bath & Beyond in May of 2020, according to the company. Before that, he worked in finance at Avon, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and Procter & Gamble.
He was facing a lawsuit accusing him of taking part in a scheme to inflate the company’s stock price to sell shares for a huge profit.
The news of Arnal’s death came just days after Bed Bath & Beyond said that it would close stores and lay off workers in a bid to turn around its beleaguered business.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion would never have subjected herself to the torrent of public abuse she’s received if she wasn’t telling the truth about rapper Tory Lanez shooting her in the feet and wounding her in the summer of 2020.
Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott said the jury should believe Megan’s anguish — evident in her testimony last week — and her courage in fighting through it. Jurors should also provide Megan with justice by convicting Lanez, he said, citing the scorn she received online and in parts of the hip-hop community.
“Why would she lie?” the Los Angeles County DA said. “She’s been subjected to a stream of hate. For what? For coming forward as a victim of domestic violence?”
In his own closing, Lanez’s defense attorney George Mgdesyan gave jurors what he called a perfectly good reason for Megan to lie: Being victimized by Lanez was a better public story than the embarrassing, potentially career-damaging truth that she was shot by her best friend — not Lanez —in a jealous dispute over him.
“Megan Pete is a liar. She lied about everything in this case from the beginning,” Mgdesyan said. “She lied under oath here.”
He said that Lanez actually struggled with Megan’s former friend Kelsey Harris to stop her from shooting, and that a pause heard on an audio recording amid the five shots fired on the night of July 12, 2020 was evidence of that.
“He was trying to protect her,” Mgdesyan said.
Mgdesyan mocked Megan’s experience in the years that followed.
“It’s been so bad for her,” he said. “She’s won Grammys. She’s had number ones on the Billboard charts.
“You know who it’s been bad for? That man right there,” Mgdesyan said, pointing at Lanez. “He hasn’t been able to work. He’s had to go through this with his family for 2 1/2 years.”
The Canadian rapper Lanez, 30, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, has pleaded not guilty to discharging a firearm with gross negligence, assault with a semiautomatic firearm and carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle. The counts could lead to up to 22 years in prison and deportation.
Bott said Megan’s testimony was in itself sufficient to convict, but it’s supported by layers of other evidence, including the accounts of other eyewitnesses and apologies from Lanez.
Megan testified that she left a gathering at the Hollywood Hills home of Kylie Jenner in an SUV with Lanez, his bodyguard and Harris. Megan and Harris have since become estranged.
She said a dispute broke out that led to her insulting Lanez’s music, which made him especially angry. She testified that as she began walking away from the SUV, he fired at her feet and yelled, “dance, b—-!”
Megan had to have surgery to remove bullet fragments.
When Harris took the stand, she said she didn’t remember seeing Lanez shooting the gun, and that she only assumed he did when she sent a text minutes later saying “Tory shot Megan” to a man who worked as security for Megan. She denied shooting the gun herself.
But prosecutors were then allowed to play an interview Harris did with them in September, in which she clearly identified Lanez as the shooter.
In an email to The Associated Press, Harris’ attorney Daniel Nardoni would not comment on her role, saying he urged her to invoke her 5th Amendment rights on the stand, despite partial immunity provided by prosecutors.
Mgdesyan asked jurors to weigh the likelihood of violence stemming from insulting someone’s music or a dispute between two women over a man.
“What’s more likely to lead to a shooting?” he said.
He told jurors it was clear Megan was lying because she denied being in a dispute of any significance with Harris, despite a defense witness who saw the stopped SUV from his nearby balcony and said he saw the two women in the car violently fighting. The witness, Sean Kelly, also testified that he saw muzzle flashes come from a woman as the shots were fired.
But prosecutors also used the testimony of the man, who said he saw a small man “firing everywhere.”
Mgdesyan said Megan had changed over time to say she walked toward the front of the SUV rather than the back, so that it would match her description of Lanez firing at her from over the open car door. He said she invented the “dance, b—-!” line, which no else testified to hearing, to explain why she was looking over her shoulder to see he was doing the shooting.
The lawyer used the image to joke about his client’s size.
“He’s 5-foot-2, I don’t know if he can even get over a car to shoot!” Mgdesyan said, bringing a laugh from Lanez, who watched from the defense table in a blue suit and black turtleneck.
Mgdesyan told the judge earlier in the day that Lanez would not testify. The defense was set to finish its closings on Thursday, with the jury getting the case after the prosecution’s rebuttal.
Bott ended his presentation Wednesday with a quote from Megan’s testimony, in which she said there have been times that “I wish he would have just shot and killed me.”
“Megan does matter,” Bott said. “This case matters. Hold him accountable for shooting Megan over nothing more than a bruised ego.”
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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said it was unclear whether the global pressures that kept price increases slow and steady for years before the pandemic would ever return — and he underlined that it was critical for the central bank to stabilize prices in a new and more disrupted world.
“We’ve lived through a period of disinflationary forces around the world,” Powell said Wednesday, speaking on a panel alongside the heads of the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. “Since the pandemic, we’ve been living in a world where the economy is being driven by very different forces, and we know that. What we don’t know is whether we will be going back to something that looks more like, or a little bit like, what we had before.”
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He added, “We suspect that it will be kind of a blend.”
The Fed chair said that the central bank’s job was to find price stability and maximum employment in the new economic situation.
Inflation is high across many developed economies, bolstered by rapidly climbing gas prices, high food costs, and supply chain issues that started early in the pandemic and have cascaded since. Some of the inflation the United States is experiencing is driven by strong underlying domestic demand — apartment rents are increasing sharply, hotel room rates are way up, and a variety of services have grown more expensive. But those shared global problems are also causing a big portion of recent price increases.
As inflation runs at the fastest pace in four decades in the United States, Fed policymakers have been raising interest rates quickly to try to wrangle it back under control, lifting their main policy rate by a quarter point in March, half a point in May and three-quarters of a point in June. Central bankers have indicated that they want to raise rates well above 3 percent, compared with their current 1.5 percent-1.75 percent range, by the end of the year.
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“The aim of that is to slow growth down so that supply can have a chance to catch up,” Powell said Wednesday. “It’s a necessary adjustment that needs to happen.”
Powell acknowledged that slowing the economy to try to control inflation is “highly likely to involve some pain.” But he noted that “the worse pain would be from failing to address this high inflation and allowing it to become persistent.”
The Fed is trying to cool off the job market and slow consumer and business spending, hoping to bring demand into balance with constrained supply, which would help to tame prices.
The job market is unusually hot right now, which has been helping to push up wages. Unemployment has dropped rapidly from double-digit levels in 2020 to 3.6 percent, near its lowest level in half a century, and there are now nearly two job openings for every applicant in the United States. Fed officials have been hoping that given that underlying strength, they might be able to slow conditions substantially without tipping the economy into a full-on recession.
But central bankers, including Powell, have emphasized that achieving that optimistic outcome has become more challenging.
“We don’t have precision tools,” Powell acknowledged Wednesday, adding that “the events of the last few months have made it significantly more challenging, thinking there particularly of the war in Ukraine, which has added tremendously to inflationary pressures” in commodities.
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“It’s gotten harder, the pathways have gotten narrower,” Powell said of a so-called soft landing. “Nevertheless that is our aim.”
While some economists have warned that inflation could slow faster than expected and the Fed might unnecessarily hurt the labor market and broader economy in its quest to cool it down, Powell said that the bigger risk is that consumers and businesses will come to expect higher prices, making it harder to bring prices back under control.
“Is there a risk that we would go too far? Certainly there’s a risk,” Powell said. “But I wouldn’t agree that it’s the biggest risk to the economy. The bigger mistake to make would be to fail to restore price stability.”
The Fed chair acknowledged that it is difficult to understand what is happening with prices at a moment when big hits to supply — like goods shortages and the war in Ukraine’s effect on fuel and food — are driving so much of the situation.
And after a year in which economists have been repeatedly surprised by how long those shocks have lasted, he expressed humility about policymakers’ ability to understand what might come next.
“We now understand better how little we understand about inflation,” Powell said. | 2022-06-29T22:04:25+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/29/business/powell-says-fed-will-find-price-stability-new-economy/ |
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister urged President Joe Biden and Western powers to call off an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, saying that negotiators are letting Tehran manipulate the talks and that an agreement would reward Israel’s enemies.
Yair Lapid called the emerging agreement a “bad deal” and suggested that Biden has failed to honor red lines he had previously promised to set.
“The countries of the West draw a red line, the Iranians ignore it, and the red line moves,” Lapid told reporters at a press conference in Jerusalem. An emerging deal, Lapid said, “does not meet the standards set by President Biden himself: preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear state.”
Biden has been eager to revive the 2015 deal, which offered sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. The original deal unraveled after then-President Donald Trump withdrew from it in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, with strong encouragement from Israel.
It remains unclear whether the United States and Iran will be able to reach a new agreement. But the Biden administration is expected to weigh in on Iran’s latest offer in the coming days. With an agreement appearing close, Israel has stepped up its efforts to block it.
Iran insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only, though U.N. experts and Western intelligence agencies say Iran had an organized military nuclear program through 2003.
Nonproliferation experts warn Iran has enriched enough uranium up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90% — to make one nuclear weapon should it decide to do so. However, Iran still would need to design a bomb and a delivery system for it, likely a monthslong project.
Israel is widely believed to have acquired nuclear weapons decades ago, something it has neither confirmed nor denied in keeping with a policy of nuclear ambiguity.
Tehran has increasingly claimed that the Americans are now delaying the deal, even though Iran spent months in back-and-forth negotiations that previously stalled in both Vienna and Qatar.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said it has begun a “precise review “ of the U.S. response to a European proposal and would submit its own response to the Europeans, Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Kanaani did not elaborate.
Lapid warned that Iran would divert billions of dollars in unfrozen funds to hostile militant groups, such as Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon, that threaten Israel.
“This money will fund the Revolutionary Guard,” Lapid said, adding later, “It will fund more attacks on American bases in the Middle East. It will be used to strengthen Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad.”
He stopped short of blaming any one power for the apparent progress of the talks, but he opened his statement Wednesday by singling out the European Union and suggesting that those nations and other negotiating powers are caving in to last-minute Iranian demands.
“The Iranians are making demands again. The negotiators are ready to make concessions, again,” Lapid said.
He was careful to repeat that Biden, who visited Israel last month during a trip through the Middle East, remains a strong ally.
Israel’s national security adviser, Eyal Hulata, is in Washington this week for talks with Biden administration officials, and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz will head to the U.S. on Thursday for meetings with the head of the U.S. military’s Central Command, which oversees operations in the Middle East, and national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
Lapid is serving as Israel’s caretaker prime minister until elections on Nov. 1, when he will face off against former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other rivals. While the two men have deep differences, they hold virtually identical positions when it comes to Iran. In 2015, Netanyahu, now opposition leader, delivered a speech to Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to derail what would become President Barack Obama’s signature foreign policy achievement.
Israel has long said it would not allow its regional archrival Iran to obtain nuclear weapons, and that it was not bound by the agreements between world powers and Tehran. It also has called for diplomacy to be accompanied by a “credible” threat to take military action against Iran if needed.
“We are not prepared to live with a nuclear threat above our heads from an extremist, violent Islamist regime,” Lapid said Wednesday. “This will not happen. Because we will not let it happen.”
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Associated Press writers Ilan Ben Zion in Jerusalem and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
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Massive waterspout spotted outside Florida resort
Updated: 2:51 PM EDT Aug 16, 2022
A massive waterspout was captured on video in Florida Tuesday morning. Boo Freeman took the video in Destin outside the Silver Shells Beach Spa and Resort. Freeman said he took the video just before 6 a.m. In the video, you can hear Freeman say "That's a biggun!" as the waterspout moves east across the ocean. Sister station WDSU meteorologist Lee Southwick said this waterspout is a tornadic waterspout. "There are two types of waterspouts: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts," Southwick said. "This is a tornadic waterspout, which is what it sounds like - a tornado over water. It forms the same way a tornado would form from a thunderstorm over land."Southwick also explained how tornadoes form. "Warm air rising, cooler air falling, and strong wind shear causes wind to start rotating," said Southwick. "The rotating wind will tilt, turn, vertical, and drop down out of the cloud forming a tornado."
DESTIN, Fla. — A massive waterspout was captured on video in Florida Tuesday morning.
Boo Freeman took the video in Destin outside the Silver Shells Beach Spa and Resort.
Freeman said he took the video just before 6 a.m.
In the video, you can hear Freeman say "That's a biggun!" as the waterspout moves east across the ocean.
Sister station WDSU meteorologist Lee Southwick said this waterspout is a tornadic waterspout.
"There are two types of waterspouts: fair weather waterspouts and tornadic waterspouts," Southwick said. "This is a tornadic waterspout, which is what it sounds like - a tornado over water. It forms the same way a tornado would form from a thunderstorm over land."
Southwick also explained how tornadoes form.
"Warm air rising, cooler air falling, and strong wind shear causes wind to start rotating," said Southwick. "The rotating wind will tilt, turn, vertical, and drop down out of the cloud forming a tornado." | 2022-08-16T19:28:24+00:00 | wmur.com | https://www.wmur.com/article/florida-destin-waterspout-resort/40910456 |
NEW YORK (AP) — Casper Ruud claimed a 55-shot point to end the first set of his U.S. Open semifinal while building a big lead against Karen Khachanov and held on for a 7-6 (5), 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory Friday that put him in his second Grand Slam title match of the year.
When it ended, spectators in Arthur Ashe Stadium called out his name, “Ruuuuud!” — and it sounded sort of as if they were booing, rather than saluting.
Ruud, the runner-up to Rafael Nadal at the French Open in June, is a 23-year-old from Norway who can move from No. 7 to No. 1 in the rankings by winning the championship at Flushing Meadows on Sunday.
“After Roland Garros, I was, of course, extremely happy,” Ruud said, “but also humble enough to think that could be my only final of my career.”
Well, here he is, back at that stage just a few months later. His opponent in this final on Sunday will be No. 3 Carlos Alcaraz of Spain or No. 26 Frances Tiafoe of the United States. Like Ruud, Alcaraz went into Friday with a chance to rise to replace 2021 U.S. Open champion Daniil Medvedev atop the rankings after the tournament.
All four men’s semifinalists were making their debuts in that round in New York. That had not happened at the event since 1881, when it absolutely had to: That was the inaugural edition of what was then known as the U.S. Championships.
Ruud is coached by his father, former professional player Christian, and the game plan worked perfectly for most of the day against the 31st-ranked Khachanov, a 6-foot-6 Russian with a powerful serve who eliminated Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios in five sets in the quarterfinals.
To mitigate the effect of Khachanov’s serves, Ruud would stand way behind the baseline to return, then look to dominate exchanges from the baseline. Ruud used flawless footwork for side-to-side defense and found openings to deliver deep groundstrokes that could finish off points.
He came up with occasional brilliance, such as the over-the-shoulder volley winner that put him ahead 6-3 in the tiebreaker. Moments later came the point of the match, on Ruud’s third opportunity to end that set. It lasted 75 seconds and contained 19 more strokes than the second-longest rally of these entire two weeks, culminating with a down-the-line backhand by Ruud that drew a netted forehand in response.
Dad smiled. His kid raised both arms and put up two fingers on his right hand. Could have been just the index finger to signify No. 1, which could be next to his name soon.
Ruud broke to go up 2-1 in the second set and was on his way there. After Khachanov surged late in the third to make things slightly more intriguing, Ruud broke to lead 2-1 in the fourth, ripping a down-the-line forehand winner from the doubles alley.
This marks the latest step in a real move forward for Ruud in Grand Slam play.
He came into this year with a record of just 14-13 at the sport’s most important events — 3-4 in New York, where his best previous showing was a third-round appearance in 2020 — then needed to sit out the Australian Open in January after twisting his ankle in practice the day before the tournament began.
Since then? He’s 13-2 at the majors in 2022.
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TORONTO (AP)After pushing the Toronto Raptors to the brink of elimination, Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid pledged to finish the job as quickly as possible.
Embiid made a 3-pointer with 0.8 seconds left in overtime to give the 76ers a 104-101 victory on Wednesday night and a 3-0 lead in their first-round series.
”I’m coming for the sweep, too,” Embiid told rapper Drake as he passed the Raptors’ celebrity fan on his way off the floor.
”I’ll be there,” Drake replied about Game 4, which is set for Saturday afternoon in Toronto.
After 76ers coach Doc Rivers called timeout to save the possession as the shot clock was running down, Embiid took an inbounds pass from Danny Green and hit a turnaround shot from near the sideline before running back to his bench in celebration.
”Great play call,” Embiid said. ”Tobias set an amazing screen, Danny threw a great pass. All I had to do was finish, and I’m glad I did.
”It felt great but the job’s not done,” Embiid added. ”We’ve got to get one more.”
Embiid’s shot came from near the spot where he missed a 3 at the end of regulation that could have won the game for the 76ers.
”For him, that’s a high-percentage shot, especially on that wing,” Harris said of Embiid’s decisive basket. ”We got the ball to our best player, somebody who makes plays, makes shots.”
Toronto’s OG Anunoby couldn’t get a shot off before the buzzer.
Embiid wouldn’t admit it, but all series he has seemed intent on avenging Philadelphia’s second-round defeat to Toronto in the 2019 playoffs, when Kawhi Leonard hit the game-winning shot in Game 7.
”Me and Joel have talked about that,” Harris said. ”We understand coming to this arena, what happened to us last time we were here.”
While the subject may have come up before the playoffs, Embiid insisted it’s not on his mind right now.
”During this whole series I haven’t really thought about coming in here and trying to get my revenge,” he said. ”I think I’m more focused on trying to win the whole thing.”
Embiid had 33 points and 13 rebounds, helping the 76ers rally from a 17-point deficit. James Harden had 19 points and 10 assists before fouling out in the closing seconds of regulation.
Embiid heard boos from the sellout crowd of 19,800 every time he touched the ball, and was targeted by profane chants at times, but stepped up when it mattered most.
”We’ve been watching his skill set all year long and how great he’s been,” Harden said. ”Tonight was no different. He did all the right things, and when it was time for him to finish the game off, he did that.”
Tyrese Maxey scored 19 points and Tobias Harris had 11 points and 12 rebounds for the Sixers, who can complete the sweep Saturday.
”We’re playing for our pride,” Toronto guard Fred VanVleet said. ”Pride is on the line.”
Anunoby scored 26 points, Gary Trent Jr. had a playoff-high 24, and Precious Achiuwa had 20 for the Raptors.
Pascal Siakam and VanVleet each had 12 points. VanVleet shot 3 for 13, going 2 for 10 from 3-point range.
”There’s no room to look around and feel sorry for ourselves,” VanVleet said. ”We did a lot of good things tonight, we played a lot of minutes of great basketball and we’re going to have to do it again.”
Philadelphia never held a lead in regulation, finally grabbing a 99-97 edge on Maxey’s shot with 3:27 left in overtime.
”It took us all game to take the lead,” Maxey said. ”When we got it, we didn’t keep it, but we won so it’s all good.”
Anunoby’s 3 briefly put Toronto back on top, but Embiid’s basket with 2:36 left made it 101-100 for the Sixers.
Embiid fouled Anunoby with 26 seconds left, and the Toronto forward made the first but missed the second, knotting it at 101-all.
Embiid shot 2 for 5 and scored five points in the first half but broke through with 18 points in the third.
Raptors rookie Scottie Barnes sat for the second straight game because of the sprained left ankle that knocked him out of Game 1. Toronto coach Nick Nurse said Barnes is making progress and could return Saturday.
The 76ers, who shot at least 30 free throws in each of the first two games of the series, went 15 for 20 from the line in Game 3, with Embiid making six of nine attempts.
Trent was limited to 10 minutes of action in Game 2 because of illness, and didn’t play in the second half Monday. After battling a fever and losing almost eight pounds, Trent played 45 minutes Wednesday, shooting 9 for 19.
”Just trying to push through,” Trent said.
Ahead 75-74 through three quarters, Toronto held a 95-90 lead on Achiuwa’s basket with 2:03 left.
Maxey scored to make it a three-point game, and Anunoby was called for goaltending on Harden’s shot with 1:14 left, cutting it to 95-94. After missing at one end, VanVleet fouled Harden with 49 seconds to play, but the Sixers guard missed his first shot before tying it 95-all with his second.
Harden fouled out with 27 seconds left, sending Achiuwa to the line, but the Toronto forward missed both shots.
Philadelphia had two chances to win it in regulation, but Embiid missed a 3 and Harris couldn’t convert after grabbing the rebound.
MISSING MATISSE
The 76ers played without guard Matisse Thybulle. Philadelphia’s defensive specialist is not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, making him ineligible to cross the Canadian border. Thybulle also missed an April 7 regular-season loss to the Raptors.
”It was difficult without Matisse,” Rivers acknowledged.
NORTHERN EXPOSURE
The Raptors hosted a postseason game north of the border for the first time since Game 5 of the 2019 NBA Finals against Golden State. The Warriors won that game, but Kevin Durant injured his Achilles tendon and the Raptors won the series in Game 6.
TIP-INS
76ers: Green had to be restrained by teammates after he was called for a technical foul late in the second quarter. . Outscored 13-4 on fast break points. . Made 24 turnovers, leading to 27 points.
Raptors: C Khem Birch made his first start of the series, replacing Achiuwa. . VanVleet got a technical foul for arguing after he was called for pushing Embiid out of bounds in the second. . Trent’s previous playoff high was 16, set Aug. 29, 2020 with Portland against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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For the first time, autism is being diagnosed more frequently in Black and Hispanic children than in white kids in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
Among all U.S. 8-year-olds, 1 in 36 had autism in 2020, the CDC estimated. That's up from 1 in 44 two years earlier.
But the rate rose faster for children of color than for white kids. The new estimates suggest that about 3% of Black, Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islander children have an autism diagnosis, compared with about 2% of white kids.
That's a contrast to the past, when autism was most commonly diagnosed in white kids — usually in middle- or upper-income families with the means to go to autism specialists. As recently as 2010, white kids were deemed 30% more likely to be diagnosed with autism than Black children and 50% more likely than Hispanic children.
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Experts attributed the change to improved screening and autism services for all kids, and to increased awareness and advocacy for Black and Hispanic families.
The increase is from “this rush to catch up,” said David Mandell, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor.
Still, it's not clear that Black and Hispanic children with autism are being helped as much as their white counterparts. A study published in January found Black and Hispanic kids had less access to autism services than white children during the 2017-2018 academic year.
Autism is a developmental disability caused by differences in the brain. There are many possible symptoms, many of which overlap with other diagnoses. They can include delays in language and learning, social and emotional withdrawal, and an unusual need for routine. Scientists believe genetics can play a role, but there is no known biological reason why it would be more common in one racial or ethnic group than another.
For decades, the diagnosis was given only to kids with severe problems communicating or socializing and those with unusual, repetitive behaviors. But around 30 years ago, the term became shorthand for a group of milder, related conditions known as ″autism spectrum disorders."
There are no blood or biologic tests for it. It's diagnosed by making judgments about a child’s behavior.
To estimate how common autism is, the CDC checks health and school records in 11 states and focuses on 8-year-olds, because most cases are diagnosed by that age. Other researchers have their own estimates, but experts say the CDC's estimate is the most rigorous and is considered the gold standard.
The overall autism rate has been rising for decades and it remains far more common among boys than girls. But the latest study also found, for the first time, that more than 1% of 8-year-old girls had been diagnosed with it.
A second CDC report issued Thursday looked at how common autism was in 4-year-olds. That research is important because diagnoses are increasingly happening at younger ages, said Kelly Shaw, who oversees the CDC autism tracking project.
Black children with autism have historically been diagnosed at later ages than their white peers, said Rose Donohue, a psychiatrist at Washington University. But the study of 4-year-olds likewise found that autism was less common in white kids in 2020 than it was among Black, Hispanic and Asian and Pacific Islander children.
The 4-year-olds, however, were less likely to have been evaluated for autism than kids in the past. That was likely due to interruptions in child care and medical services during that first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shaw said. | 2023-03-24T01:39:42+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/health/autism-now-more-common-among-black-hispanic-kids-in-us/3102515/ |
Rep. Scott Perry says FBI agents seized his cellphone
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Scott Perry said his cellphone was seized Tuesday morning by FBI agents carrying a search warrant.
The circumstances surrounding the seizure were not immediately known. Perry, though, has been a figure in the congressional investigation into President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Former senior Justice Department officials have testified that Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, had “an important role” in Trump’s effort to try to install Jeffrey Clark — a top Justice official who was pushing Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud — as the acting attorney general.
In a statement Tuesday, Perry said three agents visited him while he was traveling Tuesday with his family and “seized my cell phone.” He called the action “banana republic tactics.”
“They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish,” Perry said. “I’m outraged – though not surprised - that the FBI under the direction of Merrick Garland’s DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting Member of Congress.”
The lawmaker, representing Pennsylvania’s 10th District, was cited more than 50 times in a Senate Judiciary report released in October 2021 outlining how Trump’s effort to overturn his election defeat to Joe Biden brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos and prompted top officials there and at the White House to threaten to resign.
Perry, who has continuously disputed the validity of Biden’s victory in Pennsylvania, has said he obliged Trump’s request for an introduction to Clark, then an assistant attorney general whom Perry knew from unrelated legislative matters. The three men went on to discuss their shared concerns about the election, Perry has said.
The Justice Department found no evidence of widespread fraud in Pennsylvania or any other state, and senior Justice officials dismissed Perry’s claims.
The Senate report outlined a call Perry made to then-acting Deputy Attorney General Rich Donoghue in December 2020 to say the department wasn’t doing its job with respect to the elections. Perry encouraged Donoghue to elicit Clark’s help because he’s “the kind of guy who could really get in there and do something about this,” the report said.
Perry has said his “official communications” with Justice Department officials were consistent with the law.
The Justice Department’s inspector general conducted a search in June of Clark’s Virginia home.
Perry slammed the Justice Department’s decision to serve him with a warrant as an “unnecessary and aggressive action.”
“My phone contains info about my legislative and political activities, and personal/private discussions with my wife, family, constituents, and friends,” Perry said. None of this is the government’s business.”
The seizure of Scott’s cellphone was first reported by Fox News Channel.
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The wife of a Chicago firefighter died Thursday from injuries she sustained during a house fire – shortly after her 7-year-old son died from the same cause.
Summer Day-Stewart, 36, died at 7:30 p.m, following her son Ezra who died Wednesday. She was the wife of local firefighter Walter Stewart.
The house fire originated in the household's kitchen on Tuesday night.
Day-Stewart and all four of her children suffered from smoke inhalation.
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLS FOR MASS CASUALTY BUS AFTER EXPLOSION AT RESIDENTIAL BUILDING
The couple's other two children – a 2-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter – remain in critical condition. They have been unconscious since the fire broke out.
Walter was working when the fire broke out at his home.
Though his truck was not assigned to the fire, the father quickly recognized his address. He left in an SUV with the battalion chief and was driven to his home.
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Fire department spokesman Larry Langford said that Stewart performed CPR on his wife at the scene.
"It’s a living hell he’s going through right now," Union Local 2 spokesperson Pat Quane told FOX 32 Chicago.
Ignite the Spirit, a Chicago-based nonprofit, is collecting donations for the Stewart family. | 2023-03-11T04:59:11+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/chicago-firefighter-performs-cpr-on-dying-wife-as-blaze-ravages-own-home/article_7995fb70-39cf-5fb6-8928-328b98b1219c.html |
- For the second year MediPharm Labs' pharma-quality CBD dominant oil line has been awarded the CBD Brand of the year by KIND Magazine.
- MediPharm Labs was also awarded the CBN Product of the Year and the Kindest Health and Wellness Brand of the Year Awards.
- MediPharm Labs' wellness products, lead by our CBD oils, have seen steady revenue and popularity growth in 2022, as it's second full year in market.
BARRIE, ON, Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - MediPharm Labs Corp. (TSX: LABS) (OTCQX: MEDIF) (FSE: MLZ) ("MediPharm Labs" or the "Company") a pharmaceutical company specialized in precision-based cannabinoids, is pleased to announce the recognition of CBD brand of the year from Kind Magazine, as voted by front line retail staff across Canada.
"MediPharm Labs is honoured to be selected as CBD Brand of the Year for the second year in a row. The MediPharm Labs CBD SKUs lead our wellness line of products which is produced to a pharmaceutical quality standard in a GMP licensed facility. The addition of CBN Product of the Year and Kindest Health and Wellness Brand Award shows our focus on the wellness segment is resonating with consumers across Canada" said David Pidduck, CEO, MediPharm Labs. "The award being voted by front line staff of cannabis retailers is a testament to our pharma-quality brand to fulfill the wellness consumers needs."
Kind Magazine is published across Canada and distributed in cannabis retail stores. The Kind Awards were determined by a panel of over 300 frontline cannabis retail staff. MediPharm Labs has built a reputation for pharma-quality CBD, THC, CBG and CBN oils, which consumers seek for wellness solutions. The advanced quality manufacturing process of MediPharm Labs has allowed us to achieve the number two spot in sales in the oil category, according to HiFyre data.
The Company looks forward to launching further innovative CBD and other wellness products to improve revenue from Canadian distribution. As well act as proof of concept for international distribution and large pharmaceutical and natural health product contract manufacturing service, in accordance with their unique GMP Drug Establishment and Natural Health Product manufacturing licenses.
Founded in 2015, MediPharm Labs specializes in the development and manufacture of purified, pharmaceutical-quality cannabis concentrates, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and advanced derivative products utilizing a Good Manufacturing Practices certified facility with ISO standard-built clean rooms. MediPharm Labs has invested in an expert, research driven team, state-of-the-art technology, downstream purification methodologies and purpose-built facilities with five primary extraction lines for delivery of pure, trusted and precision-dosed cannabis products for its customers. Through its wholesale and white label platforms, MediPharm Labs formulates, develops (including through sensory testing), processes, packages and distributes cannabis extracts and advanced cannabinoid-based products to domestic and international markets.
In 2021, MediPharm Labs received a Pharmaceutical Drug Establishment License from Health Canada, becoming the only company in North America to hold a domestic Good Manufacturing License for the extraction of natural cannabinoids.
Website: www.medipharmlabs.com
This news release contains "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements" (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects", or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", "plans", "budget", "scheduled", "forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking statements. In this news release, forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, statements regarding: success of wellness sector; future revenue growth; and sales of CBD products. Forward-looking statements are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the inability of MediPharm Labs to obtain adequate financing; the delay or failure to receive regulatory approvals; and other factors discussed in MediPharm Labs' filings, available on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements and information contained in this news release. Except as required by law, MediPharm Labs assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements of beliefs, opinions, projections, or other factors, should they change.
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Authorities in New Zealand say the human remains found in suitcases that a family bought as part of a storage unit auction online belonged to two children.
At a press conference, New Zealand Police Detective Inspector Tofilau Faamanuia Vaaelua said Thursday that they were working on identifying the children, who they believe had been dead “a number of years,” The Washington Post reported.
Vaaelua said the children were likely between the ages of 5 and 10, the New York Times reported.
The Counties Manukau Police said they were alerted about the discovery by the unsuspected family on Aug. 11 after they went through the suitcases back at their residence.
The newspapers reported that during the press conference, Vaaelua said the suitcases had been in the storage center for three or four years before the family purchased them.
Police said they the family who made the discovery were not involved in the incident, the newspapers reported.
Police said they are investigating the incident as a homicide.
Police said they were working with Interpol, the newspapers reported. | 2022-08-19T23:43:53+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/police-remains-found-in-suitcases-by-new-zealand-family-were-of-2-children |
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Serbia won’t allow a pan-European LGBTQ Pride event to take place in Belgrade next month, the president said Saturday, citing threats from right-wing extremists and fears of clashes.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced the decision to cancel the Sept. 12-18 EuroPride celebration during a news conference where he also proposed extending the term of Serbia’s prime minister, who identifies as a lesbian.
Members of the European Pride Organizers Association chose Serbia’s capital three years ago to host the annual event. Vucic said a crisis with neighboring Kosovo and various economic problems were among the reasons why the Balkan nation’s authorities did not think they could handle EuroPride, which features a Pride parade.
“This is a violation of minority rights, but at this moment the state is pressured by numerous problems,” he said.
EuroPride organizers said Serbian authorities must provide security against “bullies” who threaten the march and seek to discredit it. European Pride Organizers President Kristine Garina urged Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to honor a promise to support the event.
“President Vucic cannot cancel someone else’s event,” Garina said. “The right to hold Pride has been ruled by the European Court of Human Rights to be a fundamental human right.”
An organizer in Serbia, Goran Miletic, said police must formally ban the march to prevent it from happening. If they issue a ban, organizers would file a complaint at Serbia’s Constitutional Court. He insisted that indoor events planned as part of the week-long celebration can’t be banned.
“The only thing that can happen is for the police to ban the (pride) march,” Miletic said. “However, such a hypothetical decision would be contrary to the constitution.”
Serbia pledged to protect LGBTQ rights as it seeks EU membership, but increasingly vocal right-wing supporters harass and sometimes attack people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Serbia’s right-wing and pro-Russian groups have gained strength in the past several years and some secured parliament seats during the country’s April general election. Several thousand people recently joined a march in Belgrade against LGBTQ Pride.
“It’s not the question of whether they (extremists) are stronger, but you just can’t do it all at the same moment, and that’s it,” Vucic said. “I am not happy about it but we can’t manage.”
Vucic won another five-year term in the first round of April’s vote, and his Serbian Progressive Party won the general election in a landslide. The president said Saturday that Brnabic, who has led the previous two governments in Serbia, should lead the new Cabinet that is expected to be formed in the coming weeks.
Brnabic first became Serbia’s prime minister in 2017, in what was seen as major change for the country that is predominantly conservative and male-dominated. Brnabic lives with her female partner, but LGBTQ groups have criticized the prime minister, saying she has done little to improve the position of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals in Serbian society.
After Belgrade’s 2010 pride march produced clashes, subsequent marches took place with strong police protection.
EuroPride was first celebrated in London in 1992, and Belgrade was set to be the first city in southeast Europe to host the event, according to organizers. Next month’s event was expected to attract thousands of people from throughout Europe.
Vucic said the celebration could be postponed for “happier times.” He insisted that state authorities must plan instead for energy problems anticipated for the winter, partly as a result of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Serbian government has condemned the Russian invasion but has refused to join Western sanctions against Russia.
Vucic said tensions with Kosovo, a former Serbian province whose independence the government in Belgrade has refused to recognize, were another source of pressure on authorities.
The tensions soared last month from a dispute over travel documents and license plates, and have raised concerns about instability in the Balkans, where multiple wars were fought amid the breakup of Yugoslavia. Serbia relies on support from Russia and China to continue claiming that Kosovo is part of its territory.
Washington and most EU countries have recognized Kosovo independence. U.S. and EU envoys visited Kosovo and Serbia earlier this week in an effort to ease the tensions. | 2022-08-27T12:43:00+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-serbias-leader-says-europride-wont-happen-due-to-threats/ |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A mentally ill man froze to death at an Alabama jail, according to a lawsuit filed by the man's family who say he was kept naked in a concrete cell and believe he was also placed in a freezer or other frigid environment.
Anthony Don Mitchell, 33, arrived at a hospital emergency room with a body temperature of 72 degrees (22 degrees Celsius), and was pronounced dead hours later, according to the lawsuit. He was brought to the hospital on Jan. 26 from the Walker County Jail, where he'd been incarcerated for two weeks.
An emergency room doctor, who tried unsuccessfully to revive Mitchell, wrote, “I do believe hypothermia was the ultimate cause of his death,” according to the lawsuit filed Monday by Mitchell's mother in federal court.
Mitchell, who had a history of drug addiction, was arrested Jan. 12 after a cousin asked authorities to do a welfare check on him because he was rambling about portals to heaven and hell in his home and appeared to be suffering a mental breakdown. Jail video shows Mitchell was kept naked in a concrete-floored isolation cell, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit speculates that Mitchell was also placed in the jail kitchen’s “walk-in freezer or similar frigid environment and left there for hours” because his body temperature was so low.
“It is clear that Tony’s death was wrongful, the result of horrific, malicious abuse and mountains of deliberate indifference,” Jon C. Goldfarb, a lawyer representing the family, wrote in the lawsuit. “Numerous corrections officers and medical staff wandered over to his open cell door to spectate and be entertained by his condition.”
The lawsuit also accuses the sheriff’s office of a cover-up. The sheriff’s office issued a statement after the death saying Mitchell “was alert and conscious when he left the facility." Jail security footage provided to The Associated Press by lawyers for Mitchell’s mother shows officers carrying Mitchell’s limp body to a transport car, then putting him on the ground before placing him in the car.
The suit names Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith and jail officers as defendants.
Lawyers representing the Walker County Sheriff's Office said it could not comment before the conclusion of a requested investigation. The sheriff's office, following routine procedures, contacted the State Bureau of Investigation after Mitchell's death to ask for the investigation, according to a statement from Jackson, Fikes & Brakefield.
“The WCSO offers and extends its condolences to the family of Mr. Mitchell and asks for your support and patience for the men and women of the WCSO,” the firm wrote in the statement.
A photo of of Mitchell being arrested was posted by the sheriff’s office on its Facebook page, adding that Mitchell “brandished a handgun, and fired at least one shot at deputies” before running into the woods.
The photo shows Mitchell’s face is painted black. According to the lawsuit, officers told a family member that Mitchel said he spray painted his own face black in preparation to enter the portal to hell. An officer told family members they planned “to detox him and then ‘we’ll see how much of his brain is left,’ or words to that effect,” according to the suit.
According to the lawsuit, a doctor wrote in emergency room notes that Mitchell was “unresponsive apneic and pulseless and cold to the touch” when he arrived.
“I am not sure what circumstances the patient was held in incarceration but it is difficult to understand a rectal temperature of 72° F 22° centigrade while someone is incarcerated in jail. The cause of his hypothermia is not clear. It is possible he had a underlying medical condition resulting in hypothermia. I do not know if he could have been exposed to a cold environment,” the lawsuit quotes the doctor as writing.
Cameron Mixon, a spokesperson for Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, said the office is aware of the matter and it's “being investigated by the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” He said the office will ensure that any appropriate action is taken after the investigation is complete.
The allegations of death by hypothermia come as the state prison system also faces a lawsuit over the death of a mentally ill man who “baked to death” in an overheated prison cell. Thomas Lee Rutledge died of hyperthermia on Dec. 7, 2020, at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer. Rutledge had an internal temperature of 109 degrees when he was found unresponsive in the mental health cell, according to the suit filed by his sister. It names prison staff, wardens and contractors as defendants. | 2023-02-18T00:09:55+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/politics/article/lawsuit-mentally-ill-man-froze-to-death-in-17791817.php |
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Council for International Business (USCIB) has joined forces with businesses based in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Japan to issue a statement urging swift and timely adoption of the "EU Cybersecurity Certification Scheme for Cloud Services (EUCS)" without sovereignty requirements. This effort was organized by AMCHAM EU.
Additionally, CCIA, a USCIB member, also issued a similar statement co-signed by the U.S. business community, including USCIB, and shared with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, in advance of the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting taking place in Sweden this weekend.
USCIB recognizes its members' acute concerns that the EUCS unfairly undermines U.S. competitiveness in Europe.
According to USCIB, such restrictive sovereignty restrictions do not add value to cybersecurity of cloud services in the EU. For well over a year, many European and international associations, industry actors and Member States have continued to publicly express their concerns with the lack of progress and the ongoing examination of restrictive sovereignty requirements in the EUCS. In addition, several Member States have proposed alternative options to end the stalemate, such as a European evaluation mechanism based on trustworthiness for non-EU cloud providers. Discussion on these proposals could offer a robust alternative that would meet the desired high level of cybersecurity requirements, while keeping the market open to all cloud providers.
The CCIA letter states that the business groups have called for removing discriminatory ownership requirements that would prevent American cloud service providers from bidding on public sector and critical infrastructure cloud contracts across Europe.
Other industry concerns about the EUCS include its limited transparency and lack of stakeholder engagement, conflicting views of Member States and legal confusion and uncertainty caused by the interplay with other EU legislation.
Click here to read the AMCHAM EU letter.
Click here to read the CCIA letter to U.S. Government.
About USCIB
USCIB promotes open markets, competitiveness and innovation, sustainable development, and corporate responsibility, supported by international engagement and regulatory coherence. Its members include U.S.-based global companies and professional services firms from every sector of our economy, with operations in every region of the world. As the U.S. affiliate of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Organization of Employers (IOE) and Business at OECD (BIAC), USCIB provides business views to policy makers and regulatory authorities worldwide and works to facilitate international trade and investment. More at www.uscib.org.
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The decision whether to indict former President Donald Trump over hush-money payments made on his behalf during his 2016 presidential campaign lies with a Manhattan grand jury that has been hearing evidence in secret for weeks.
An indictment of Trump, who is seeking the White House again in 2024, would be an unprecedented moment in American history, the first criminal case against a former U.S. president.
Law enforcement officials are bracing for protests and the possibility of violence after Trump called on his supporters to protest ahead of a possible indictment.
An indictment could also test a Republican Party already divided over whether to support Trump next year, in part due to his efforts to undermine his 2020 election loss.
Trump denies any wrongdoing and has slammed the Manhattan district attorney’s office probe as politically motivated.
Here’s a look at the hush-money probe, grand jury process and possible ramifications for his presidential campaign:
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WHAT’S THE PROBE ABOUT?
The grand jury has been probing Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to the porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public about a sexual encounter she said she had with him years earlier. Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, through a shell company before being reimbursed by Trump, whose company, the Trump Organization, logged the reimbursements as legal expenses.
Earlier in 2016, Cohen also arranged for former Playboy model Karen McDougal to be paid $150,000 by the publisher of the supermarket tabloid The National Enquirer, which then squelched her story in a journalistically dubious practice known as “catch-and-kill.”
Trump denies having sex with either woman.
Trump’s company “grossed up” Cohen’s reimbursement for the Daniels payment to defray tax payments, according to federal prosecutors who filed criminal charges against the lawyer in connection with the payments in 2018. In all, Cohen got $360,000 plus a $60,000 bonus, for a total of $420,000.
Cohen pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance law in connection with the payments. Federal prosecutors say the payments amounted to illegal, unreported assistance to Trump’s campaign. But they declined to file charges against Trump himself.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s team appears to be looking at whether Trump or anyone committed crimes in New York state in arranging the payments, or in the way they accounted for them internally at the Trump Organization.
BUT CAN A FORMER PRESIDENT BE INDICTED?
In a word, yes. Longstanding Justice Department policy prohibits the federal indictment of a sitting president, but Trump, two years out of office, no longer enjoys that legal shield. And the New York case is not a federal probe anyway.
WHAT IS THIS GRAND JURY?
A grand jury is made up of people drawn from the community, similar to a trial jury. But unlike juries that hear trials, grand juries don’t decide whether someone is guilty or innocent. They only decide whether there is sufficient evidence for someone to be charged. Grand juries exist in the federal court system and in many states.
Proceedings are closed to the public, including the media. There is no judge present nor anyone representing the accused.
Prosecutors call and question witnesses, and grand jurors can also ask questions. In New York, the person who could be indicted may ask for a certain witness, though it’s up to grand jurors.
New York grand juries have 23 people. At least 16 must be present to hear evidence or deliberate. Twelve have to agree there is enough evidence in order to issue an indictment. The grand jury may also find there is not enough evidence of a crime or direct the prosecutor to file lesser charges.
Centuries-old rules have kept grand juries under wraps to protect the reputations of people who end up not being charged, to encourage reluctant witnesses to testify, to prevent those about to be indicted from fleeing and to guard against outside pressure.
Grand juries have long been criticized as little more than rubber stamps for prosecutors. Former New York Judge Sol Wachtler famously said that prosecutors could convince a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” Defenders of the process say it is a crucial safeguard against politically motivated prosecutions.
WHO HAS TESTIFIED IN THIS CASE?
One of the final witnesses being called was Robert Costello, who was once a legal adviser to Cohen, the government’s key witness in the investigation.
The men have since had a falling out, and Costello has indicated that he has information he believes would undercut the credibility of Cohen and contradict his current incriminating statements about Trump.
Costello contacted a lawyer for Trump saying he had information that could be exculpatory for Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss secret legal proceedings. The lawyer brought it to the attention of the district attorney’s office, which last week subpoenaed Costello’s law firm for records and invited him to testify.
He was at the building where the jurors were meeting on Monday, invited by prosecutors, ensuring the grand jury had an opportunity to consider testimony or evidence that could weaken the case for indicting.
Trump was also been invited to testify, but his lawyer has said the former president has no plans to participate.
WHAT ABOUT THE POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS?
Trump says charges would actually help him in the 2024 presidential contest. Longtime ally Lindsey Graham, senator from South Carolina, said Saturday that District Attorney Bragg “has done more to help Donald Trump get elected.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considering joining the Republican field, criticizes the Trump investigation as politically motivated, “fundamentally wrong.” But he also threw one of his first jabs at the former president in a quip likely to intensify their rivalry. DeSantis said he personally doesn’t “know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some kind of alleged affair.”
Comments by other potential rivals, eager to convince voters it is time to move on from the former president but also contending with the fact that he remains the most popular figure in the party:
— During a Saturday visit to Iowa, former Vice President Mike Pence called the idea of indicting a former president “deeply troubling.”
— Asa Hutchinson, the former Arkansas governor mulling his own 2024 bid, said he didn’t expect Trump to withdraw from the race after an indictment, though that would be the “right” thing to do.
— Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a declared candidate who also served as Trump’s U.N. ambassador, said Monday on Fox News that Bragg’s case was an attempt at scoring “political points,” adding, “You never want to condone any sort of prosecution that’s being politicized.”
“At the end of the day, not one single person’s opinion of him will be any different after indictment than it was before,” veteran GOP operative Terry Sullivan said in an interview. “All of his perceived negatives are already baked into his name ID with voters.”
WHAT ABOUT OTHER TRUMP INVESTIGATIONS?
The New York probe is among many legal woes Trump is facing.
The Justice Department is investigating his retention of top secret government documents at his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, after leaving the White House, as well as possible efforts to obstruct that probe. Federal investigators are also still probing the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to overturn the election Trump falsely claimed was stolen.
Portions of a report from a special grand jury in Georgia that investigated whether Trump and his allies illegally interfered in the 2020 election in Georgia shows jurors believed “one or more witnesses” committed perjury and urged local prosecutors to bring charges. The former president never testified, but the report didn’t foreclose the possibility of other charges.
WHAT’S NEXT IN NEW YORK?
It’s unclear. Trump declared in a social media post over the weekend that he expects to be taken into custody on Tuesday and urged supporters to protest his possible arrest. However, there has been no public announcement of any time frame for the grand jury’s secret work. A Trump spokesperson said there has been no notification from Bragg’s office.
Law enforcement officials have been making security preparations for the possibility of an indictment in coming days or weeks — or a court appearance by the president himself.
WILL TRUMP BE HANDCUFFED?
Anna Cominsky, a New York Law School professor and former criminal defense lawyer, said that her best guess is that Trump’s lawyers will work out a deal with the prosecutor’s office to avoid the spectacle of an indictment with handcuffs and a perp walk.
“There is a great likelihood that he will self-surrender, which means you won’t see a 5 a.m. knock on Mar-a-Lago’s door, officers swarming his house and arresting him and bringing him out in handcuffs,” she said. “He would appear at the prosecutor’s office voluntarily and then be processed, fingerprinted and his picture taken. ”
Cominsky is less sure that Trump would want to avoid a public appearance for his arraignment, which would come within two days of an indictment. At that time a judge lists the charges and asks if the defendant pleads guilty or not guilt.
“He doesn’t shy away from the chaos, so he may want to use this to his advantage,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington, Anthony Izaguirre from Tallahassee, Florida, and Bernard Condon and Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report. | 2023-03-21T21:04:54+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/politics/ap-politics/trump-indictment-would-be-unprecedented-moment-in-us-history/ |
CHICAGO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a leading provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, announced today that Brian Schell, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and Chris Isaacson, Chief Operating Officer, will present at Morgan Stanley's U.S. Financials, Payments & CRE Conference on Tuesday, June 14, at 9:30am Eastern Time.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
6-7-5, Fireball: 5
(six, seven, five; Fireball: five)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the "Pick Three-Midday" game were:
6-7-5, Fireball: 5
(six, seven, five; Fireball: five) | 2022-09-17T18:14:04+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/lottery/article/Winning-numbers-drawn-in-Pick-Three-Midday-game-17448712.php |
MUNCIE, Ind. — Inflation is down to 3-percent so far in 2023, which is down from 7-percent in 2021. Those numbers were released by the White House on Thursday and are backed up by US Inflation Calculator.
The stats are a good thing when it comes to the overall health of the economy, says Ball State economist Mike Hicks. But he said the economy is still in a fragile state with interest rates still high to stave off high inflation.
“Raising interest rates, which reduces the cost of consumer borrowing, or consumer debt, which causes us to borrow less, to spend our money paying off debt, rather than going on vacation and buying a new car,” Hicks said on WISH-TV.
Then there is the price of everyday goods like food and gas. Gas prices have increased again in Indiana this week, but that was after seeing a month straight of declines. But, Hicks said you should not expect similar decreases in the price of food at the grocery store.
“There shouldn’t be any expectations that prices in general are going to come back down, just that the increase in prices will be more like it normally is, about 2-percent to 2.5-percent per year,” he said.
COVID lockdowns and a labor shortage weren’t the only factors that caused prices to skyrocket over the past year. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and an outbreak of avian flu last year caused prices to go up. | 2023-07-14T15:34:56+00:00 | wibc.com | https://wibc.com/154775/prices-stay-put-despite-falling-inflation/ |
KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — Jon Rahm is starting to get used to low scoring on the Plantation Course at Kapalua. He can only hope this start leads to a better finish in the Sentry Tournament of Champions.
One year after he was 33-under par and still finished second, Rahm birdied three of his last four holes for a 9-under 64 and shared the lead Thursday with Colin Morikawa and J.J. Spaun in an idyllic start to the year.
Morikawa began the back nine with six straight birdies, his longest such streak on the PGA Tour. Spaun, at Kapalua for the first time, had four straight birdies on the back and had only one complaint.
“My toes hurt,” he said. “It’s a long walk, even if it can play like a short course.
Cameron Smith won last year at 34 under, a PGA Tour record to par, during a week of hardly any wind. Whether the week is set up for more scoring records depends on the trade win which, like most who come to Maui, was on vacation Thursday.
As for whether Kapalua owes him one, Rahm wasn’t buying.
“I can’t make a case for that on a lot of golf courses,” Rahm said. “I can’t say much, man. I shot 33 under. I got beat by 34 under. That’s just what it is. We both played really good golf. It was a great battle. Hopefully, if we get to that point again, hopefully it’s me and hopefully I end up winning by one.”
The Plantation Course is in prime shape, fast without being firm because of severe slopes that can make shots roll longer on the ground than they fly in the air.
Morikawa is among 10 players who failed to win last year and still got into the Tournament of Champions. Under the bold new PGA Tour schedule of elevated tournaments — the purse this week is $15 million — the Kapalua field was expanded to include anyone who reached the Tour Championship.
The two-time major champion is determined to fix deficiencies that slowed him last year, hiring a putting coach Stephen Sweeney and turned to former player Parker McLachlin for help with his short game.
“I just have answers,” Morikawa said. “Before when I was putting it was like it was guess work. I might have putted well today and then thought I was doing something, but in reality it was something else.”
Whatever he had Thursday was working, and it helped to see a 20-foot putt drop early. And then he ran off those six straight birdies, only two of them outside 10 feet.
Tom Kim had two eagles, holing out from 116 yards on the downhill sixth hole and drilling a fairway metal to 5 feet on the par-5 15th. He was at 65, one shot behind.
Jordan Spieth was up to his high-wire act, missing a 2-foot par putt on one hole and holing a flop shot from the collar of a bunker just off the back of the 16th green to save par. He wound up with a 67.
Billy Horschel was the only player in the 39-man field who failed to break par with a 76.
Among those at 66 were Masters champion Scottie Scheffler, who can return to No. 1 in the world with a third-place finish, and Tom Hoge, who has a big travel schedule ahead.
Hoge played college golf at TCU. He earned his spot at Kapalua for the first time, and he’ll be on Oahu next week for the Sony Open, a trip that will be some 5,000 miles. Hoge said he’ll leave Maui on Sunday night for Los Angeles to watch the Horned Frogs play for the national championship against Georgia, and then head back to Honolulu.
“We haven’t won since 1938,” Hoge said. “I might not get another chance in my lifetime.”
Xander Schauffele, who won at Kapalua in 2019 and lost in a playoff the following year, scratched out a 70 while dealing with a back issue that first surfaced a month ago in the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. He’s not sure what’s wrong, only that he couldn’t swing very hard.
“I’m 29 and Hero was like the first like issue I’ve ever had, so this is new to me,” Schauffele said. “That’s why I don’t know how to answer these questions. I’ve never had to do this. Hopefully we don’t have these conversations more often.”
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The first phase of a broad effort tackling America's overdose crisis targeting youth taps former drug dealers to deliver the facts on fentanyl in a new platform, "Real Deal on Fentanyl," created by JOAN Creative
NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ad Council, as part of a coordinated public awareness effort announced earlier this year, today launched part one of a holistic approach to tackle the overdose crisis. Educating young Americans about the dangers and prevalence of fentanyl, the first phase of the campaign is funded by leading technology companies Snap and YouTube, with a separate campaign in partnership with Meta that focuses on informing parents of the drug's dangers launching this Fall.
Drug overdose-related deaths have skyrocketed in recent years, with 2021 seeing a 52 percent increase over the previous two years. The rise in deaths is largely due to the growing presence of synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, which were involved in an estimated 66% of overdose deaths during this time period.1 Over 190 people die each day from overdoses involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl. While 79% of teens say stress and anxiety are common reasons to misuse prescription medicine, 73% report they hadn't heard of the risk of fentanyl being added to counterfeit pills.2
"Young Americans are dying of fentanyl overdoses at a staggering rate and the time to act is now," said Lisa Sherman, President and CEO of the Ad Council. "We're so grateful to all our partners who are joining us in the fight against the overdose crisis and delivering critical information during a time of need. This powerful coalition is uniquely qualified to reach and influence young people and will allow us to make an extraordinary difference and save lives."
Illegally manufactured fentanyl has become increasingly prevalent, appearing as a contaminant in illicit powdered drugs and being used to create counterfeit prescription pills. Many young people are unaware of this shift, meaning that there is an increased risk of unexpectedly coming into contact with fentanyl. The campaign, Real Deal on Fentanyl, is funded by Snap and YouTube and looks to educate young Americans on the dangers of fentanyl and the likelihood of it being in counterfeit prescription pills and illicit drugs.
Developed pro bono by creative agency JOAN and produced by JOAN Studios, the youth-oriented work aims to help young Americans understand the deadly reality of fentanyl-laced drugs, working with unexpected yet highly qualified sources to educate them on these fake drugs: former drug dealers. Shatterproof, a national non-profit dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the U.S., served as an issue advisor to the campaign production – in conjunction with Second Chance Studios and JOAN who worked hand-in-hand with these former drug dealers to develop classroom-style lessons that offer hands-on learning opportunities to educate young people on the dangers of fentanyl. The content was captured at Holyoke High School in Holyoke, Massachusetts, an area especially affected by the crisis. Taking over the school for the day, former drug dealers stepped in as teachers – or "substitute dealers" – to educate students about the fentanyl crisis through the lens of their everyday class subjects. The pilot effort was captured by a documentary team, and the lessons will be edited into snackable content custom-tailored for social, digital and linear media. The lessons and resources for youth to learn about the dangers of fentanyl, how to reduce their risks, ways to help a friend, and other life-saving tools will also be available at RealDealOnFentanyl.com, the campaign website developed by Viget and Good Works, Inc. Additionally, as part of this national youth fentanyl awareness campaign, Snap will launch a series of new Augmented Reality lenses, filters, stickers and content that amplify the campaign's messaging across its platform and SXM Media's Studio Resonate has developed a series of audio PSAs to run in targeted donated media across their platforms and additional publishers. This multi-channel effort is designed to reach young adults across the country, getting them the facts on fentanyl through an interactive yet unconventional program in hopes that intercepting them during this impressionable time will potentially save their lives.
WATCH THE PSA HERE: https://youtu.be/JcAT6x8tY1I
The former dealers featured in the Real Deal on Fentanyl campaign creative – Didi, James and Kyle – come from diverse backgrounds, each with different experiences with drugs, fentanyl and recovery education: an addiction recovery coach, a substance abuse counsellor and a member of Second Chance Studios which helps formerly incarcerated people find new careers as digital educators. All of them are people who have dedicated their lives to helping educate and help people avoid substance use or recover from it. They were instrumental in developing this work, candidly sharing their personal stories and connections to fentanyl with the production team and youth, as well as their personal work as sober coaches and helping others through the recovery process. Audiences are encouraged to learn more about them and their individual journeys on the campaign website.
"We're proud to be partnering with the Ad Council on this unprecedented effort to raise awareness and educate young people and parents around the dangers of counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl," said Jennifer Stout, VP of Global Public Policy at Snap, Inc. "As we continue to do our part to combat this national epidemic, support law enforcement investigations and educate our community through in-app tools, we recognize an industry-wide approach is needed. That's why we're grateful for this collaboration and remain committed to bringing every resource to bear to keep fighting this crisis both on our app and across the tech landscape."
"Fentanyl has permanently altered the course of so many people's lives, leaving devastated families and communities in its wake. It's critical that we educate young people on the dangers and prevalence of fentanyl and help them understand the threat. We're proud to be a part of this initiative and hope that it helps turn the tide on a deadly epidemic that has ended far too many lives far too soon." -- YouTube
"It may seem strange at first to think these students might trust a former drug dealer more than a traditional authority figure. But Gen Z is notoriously independent – they use information to make their own decisions. That's why we took this pioneering new approach. It's hands-on fentanyl education from former dealers, frankly discussing the things that grownups normally wouldn't dare. Yes, it's unorthodox, but we must keep kids alive. We are so proud to partner with the Ad Council on this urgently important campaign" said Jaime Robinson, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, JOAN Creative.
This unique set of partners, in addition to trusted messengers will play a significant role in the campaign's success reaching young adults. These digital content creators and influencers will be sharing experiences they have had with fentanyl in their families and communities, providing real world examples in addition to relevant lifestyle creators sharing information on the drug's dangers. Understanding that teens and young adults ages 16-24 spend an average of over three hours on social each day, ensuring that messaging resonates with our audience and reaches them where they spend much of their time is incredibly important.
Media partners and social platforms including CSMG/EsportsU, Reddit, Reddit's KarmaLab, Snap, SXM Media, TikTok, Twitter and VICE Media Group will also provide resources to extend the youth-targeted campaign messaging and creatives. These partners will play a critical role in donating media space as well as the development and distribution of content to educate young people about fentanyl and its dangers. Non-profit Song for Charlie is serving the campaign in an advisory capacity alongside a panel of public health organizations and issue experts to provide key insights, data and ensure all aspects of these initiatives are accurately and medically informed.
As a follow up to the youth-targeted campaign funded by Snap and YouTube, Meta's Creative Shop is launching a creative campaign this Fall focused on informing parents and caregivers about the dangers of fentanyl. The new work centers on education and honest conversations, ensuring families are prepared to create open, candid and meaningful dialogue. In addition to video content, Meta has developed supplementary tools designed to engage audiences like polls, stickers and more. They will also be donating advertising space across Facebook and Instagram to increase the reach of this campaign.
Additional efforts from the Ad Council's holistic approach to the overdose crisis to help individuals with substance use disorders navigate resources and start their recovery journey are currently in the research and development phase. The subsequent efforts will feature a suite of PSAs in addition to platform-specific activations and robust ground game components such as faith-based programs, trusted messenger strategies, employer engagement and open-source toolkits. These components are designed to also equip other organizations and nonprofits, enabling them to leverage the Ad Council's research and content to bring important messaging to their communities.
To learn more about the Real Deal on Fentanyl campaign, or to access information about the dangers of fentanyl, please visit RealDealOnFentanyl.com.
The Ad Council has a long history of creating life-saving public service communications in times of national crisis, starting in the organization's earliest days during World War II to September 11th and natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Sandy and, most recently, leading the industry's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Its deep relationships with media outlets, the creative community, issue experts and government leaders make the organization uniquely poised to quickly distribute life-saving impactful information to millions of Americans.
The Ad Council is where creativity and causes converge. The non-profit organization brings together the most creative minds in advertising, media, technology and marketing to address many of the nation's most important causes. The Ad Council has created many of the most iconic campaigns in advertising history. Friends Don't Let Friends Drive Drunk. Smokey Bear. Love Has No Labels.
The Ad Council's innovative social good campaigns raise awareness, inspire action and save lives. To learn more, visit AdCouncil.org, follow the Ad Council's communities on Facebook and Twitter, and view the creative on YouTube.
1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts – United States. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm
2. According to research by Morning Consult commissioned by Snap Inc. in July 2021. Available at: https://assets.ctfassets.net/gqgsr8avay9x/5EolnMWMUxEQdvGoMVFFJW/92e882a47bc8119aead9589ca95631dd/Dangers_of_Counterfeit_Drugs_and_Fentanyl_-_Key_Findings.pdf
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The concept of voting can be simple, but many ballots are not that easy to understand, especially ballot questions that are often wordy and complicated.
Ahead of the 2020 midterm election, Whitney Quesenbery, the executive director of the Center for Civic Design, is researching what trips voters up.
“Our motto is, 'Democracy is a design problem,'" she said.
Quesenbery said the recent abortion rights question in Kansas was likely confusing for many voters.
The question was 240 words and voting "Yes" would have meant supporting restricting the right to an abortion through a change to the state’s constitution.
“A vote for the Value Them Both Amendment would affirm there is no Kansas constitutional right to abortion or to require the government funding of abortion, and would reserve to the people of Kansas, through their elected state legislators, the right to pass laws to regulate abortion” the question read.
“It was ones that I find hardest because you have to repeal something to make something happen," Quesenbery said.
Confusing questions can be found on ballots across the nation.
In May, voters in Texas were asked a question about property taxes for the elderly. The 77-word question was one sentence.
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the reduction of the amount of a limitation on the total amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed for general elementary and secondary public school purposes on the residence homestead of a person who is elderly or disabled to reflect any statutory reduction from the preceding tax year in the maximum compressed rate of the maintenance and operations taxes imposed for those purposes on the homestead," the question read.
Quesenbery says questions like the one in Texas can be confusing for a lot of people, especially those who don't read well or someone who doesn't understand the intricacies of government.
States have different rules for who writes ballot questions. Questions often go through state legislatures or citizen groups that received enough signatures to get the issue on a ballot.
"There is no law that says they have to be written in confusing language. It’s habit. It’s habit of the legal profession and how laws work. You think you’re being very grown up to use those big words,” Quesenbery said.
Quesenbery believes some questions are purposely confusing.
"I’m sure there are questions that are confusing on purpose, or they're either deliberately confusing on purpose or they’re written in a way that puts the framers in the best possible light," Quesenbery said.
Quesenbery's work is having an impact in Georgia ahead of the midterms.
The Center for Civic Design reworked a large chunk of copy into bullet points and fewer words.
"Now we’re at 147 words. This was 178 words," Quesenbery said. “It says exactly the same thing. We didn't change the law, we changed how it said it.”
For voters in other states, Quesenbery said voters should go in prepared.
“I would urge you to look at multiple sources so you don't just get one viewpoint, and find the one or find the combination of two, help you make the decision," She said. "But you can't do it in the ballot box, when you’re there and you have a couple of minutes, you start marking your ballot, that's not the time to parse things out. This is something you really need to make a plan for and if you think it’s too hard, tell your state legislator.” | 2022-09-02T14:27:01+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/news/national-politics/the-race/why-ballot-questions-can-be-so-confusing |
BEIRUT – Satellite imagery showed widespread destruction at a giant military facility in western Syria targeted in a recent Israeli airstrike, and the head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said Sunday the strike targeted a depot housing hundreds of middle-range missiles for Iran-backed fighters.
Syrian state media reported after the Thursday night attack near the cities of Tartus and Hama that two people were wounded and fires were sparked in nearby forests. It added that the missiles were fired from over the Mediterranean and most of them were shot down.
Syrian opposition activists at the time said the strike targeted an arms depot and a scientific research center near the central town of Masyaf, a government stronghold. Masyaf is almost half way between the coastal city of Tartus and the central city of Hama.
The Times of Israel on Sunday published images taken by Planet Labs PBC and provided by Aurora Intel, a network that provides news and updates based on open-source intelligence.
Aurora Intel tweeted that initial analysis of satellite imagery showed that some buildings and areas sustained heavy damage from the reported airstrikes. It added that areas around the Scientific Studies and Research Center sustained “heavy fire damage due to the secondary explosions.”
The imagery showed that part of the green areas surrounding the facility had been burned.
Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the Britain-based opposition war monitor known as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the Israelis struck several positions but the main target hit was a giant arms depot housing about 1,000 precision-guided middle-range missiles. He said the explosions at the facility lasted for more than five hours after the strike.
Abdurrahman added that an underground facility to develop missiles in the area under the supervision of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was not affected by the strikes, probably because it was dug deep in the mountains. He said the strike left one Syrian army captain dead and 14 other Syrians wounded.
“The explosions were among the largest since Israel began carrying out airstrikes in Syria,” he said.
There was no official comment from Israel’s military.
Israel has made hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria over the past decade of its civil war, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
It has, however, acknowledged that it targets bases of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s allies, including Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group and other Iran-backed militias. Israeli military officials have said in the past that the strikes are against Iranian entrenchment in Syria.
Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, the top U.S. Air Force officer in the Middle East, said he was “certainly aware” of reports that Israel targeted an arms depot in Syria in recent days but stressed there was “no connection” between that attack and the U.S. airstrikes that hit Iran-linked targets in Syria last week.
He said that the recent actions that the U.S. military took “are entirely disconnected from any other actors, whether the Israelis or anyone else.”
On the tit-for-tat attacks that raised tensions between the U.S. and Iran-backed militias in Syria last week, Grynkewich said he hoped “things have de-escalated and now we’ve reached a point where deterrence is once again established.” | 2022-08-28T22:30:49+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/world/2022/08/28/war-monitor-israeli-strike-targeted-missile-depot-in-syria/ |
Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, accused Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) of encouraging the hate that led to Saturday’s deadly shooting in Colorado and told her to “Get off Twitter.”
Five people were killed and at least 25 were injured after a shooter, believed to be 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, opened fire at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Calif. on Saturday night.
Boebert acknowledged the shooting in her home state shortly after news broke and called for an end to the violence.
“The news out of Colorado Springs is absolutely awful,” she tweeted on Sunday morning. “This morning the victims & their families are in my prayers. This lawless violence needs to end and end quickly.”
Chasten Buttigieg tweeted in response, “You encourage this type of hatred. Get off Twitter and start looking inward,” he wrote.
In a separate tweet, Buttigieg directly linked the GOP to violent rhetoric against the LGBTQ community.
“Republicans continue to run on and spread anti-LGBTQ ideology and hatred while refusing to lift a finger on gun violence. This is preventable, but only if they start seeing LGBTQ people as equals, and themselves as leaders,” he wrote.
Other Democrats joined Chasten in accusing Boebert of hypocrisy, including Rep.-elect Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), the first openly LGBTQ+ immigrant elected to Congress.
“I am furious that members of Congress like Boebert have the f—ing audacity to say anything when they spread this hate constantly,” he tweeted. | 2022-11-21T12:58:11+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/news/politics/chasten-buttigieg-tells-boebert-to-get-off-twitter-after-colorado-shooting/ |
WATERLOO — A course currently sitting about a dozen students will now be able to enroll at least 400 annually after the Board of Education approved the expansion of a manufacturing program.
The board unanimously approved the $373,910 purchase of manufacturing equipment Monday for the IGNITE program for East and West high schools. IGNITE is a foundational skill development program designed to stimulate student interest in manufacturing and industrial careers.
The purchase will be paid for with Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding — part of the federal American Rescue Plan.
The district has offered IGNITE for the past two years at TechWorks in downtown Waterloo, but the program is limited to 16 students per session. That will grow to more than 200 at each school per year.
Introductory classes will be offered in materials science, advanced manufacturing, systems, mechatronic systems, digital manufacturing systems, advanced materials and design, and industrial internet of things data analytics and networking. There will also be a “fast track” course to prepare students for certification exams.
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Jeff Frost, Waterloo Community Schools’ director of career technical education, told the board that the purchase creates elective courses in the trade sector that are currently not available.
He said mechanical trades and engineering is one of the five service areas in which the district offers programs. Currently, it is the only one of the areas without any programming in between the middle school’s Project Lead the Way and the Waterloo Career Center. Frost said IGNITE will help “keep the connection alive” and hopefully enroll more female students.
The programs will be housed in each high school’s shop areas.
In other business, the board:
- Accepted an award from MidAmerican Energy stating it was named a recipient of the Excellence in Energy Efficient Design for the construction of Lowell Elementary. The school achieved 49% annual energy savings since opening in January.
- Requested $1.14 million in modified supplemental spending authority from the state’s School Budget Review Committee to cover per-pupil funds being paid to other districts for students open enrolling out who weren’t included in last year’s certified enrollment count. The board also requested $458,049 in modified supplemental authority for the cost of providing instructional services to English language learners beyond the five years that extra funding is provided to districts.
- Submitted an application to the School Budget Review Committee for 2023-24 special education administrative costs the district is responsible for totaling $46,822 at River Hills School in Cedar Falls and $13,614 at the Lied Center in Waverly. | 2022-11-16T11:55:45+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/waterloo-school-board-expands-manufacturing-program/article_29daedb9-d862-5eb8-9bbe-7b1875d1bf6a.html |
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The FBI is looking into the death of an intellectually disabled inmate at a Virginia prison who’s been identified as “a possible victim of a crime,” the agency said in a document reviewed Monday by The Associated Press, months after a federal lawsuit was filed alleging the man was fatally beaten by correctional officers.
The February 2022 death of Charles Givens, who was serving time for murder at the Marion Correctional Treatment Center, is the subject of a federal lawsuit alleging Givens was “sadistically tortured” and beaten before being found unresponsive at the southwest Virginia facility.
“This case is currently under investigation by the FBI,” said an email from an FBI victim specialist addressed to an attorney for Givens’ sister. “A criminal investigation can be a lengthy undertaking, and, for several reasons, we cannot tell you about its progress at this time.”
The email was dated Sunday and shared with the AP by Kym Hobbs, Givens’ sister and the plaintiff in the lawsuit filed in February. Nothing in the message indicated the scope or target of the apparent investigation.
Hobbs, who said the email marked the first correspondence she’d had with the FBI about her brother’s death, said she welcomed the development.
“I’m hoping somebody will actually do something,” she said.
Dee Rybiski, an FBI spokeswoman in Richmond, declined to comment, noting the agency does not usually confirm or deny the existence of investigations.
Hobbs’ lawsuit alleges her brother had suffered routine abuse at Marion before a last fatal encounter. Details of the suit were first reported by NPR, which published a lengthy report in June that also raised broader questions about conditions at the facility that houses inmates with mental health issues.
According to the lawsuit, Givens suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling down a flight of stairs as a young child. It says that his intellectual and emotional development was limited to that of a 2nd- or 3rd-grade child and that he needed assistance and supervision with daily functioning the rest of his life. He also had Crohn’s disease, which caused him to sometimes defecate on himself, according to the lawsuit, which alleges that made Givens a “target of the Defendant correctional officers’ abuse.”
Hobbs said she was initially informed by a prison official that her brother, who had other underlying health conditions and had been recently ill, had died of natural causes. But around a week later, she received a call from a woman who said she’d heard through another inmate that Givens had been beaten.
An autopsy report reviewed by AP determined Givens’ cause of death was blunt force trauma of the torso and his manner of death was undetermined.
Attorneys for four correctional officers accused in the lawsuit of participating in beating Givens did not respond to emails or telephone messages seeking comment on the lawsuit and the letter describing the FBI investigation.
An attorney for a fifth officer accused of negligence for failing to intervene did not respond to an email and a phone message seeking comment.
All five have denied the allegations in their answer to the complaint and none has been charged with a crime.
The Department of Corrections has not responded to emailed questions about the matter, including queries sent last week and again Monday.
According to the lawsuit, Givens had been incarcerated at Marion since shortly after he pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the fatal 2010 shooting of Misty Leann Garrett. Garrett, 22, had been employed as a home health nurse for Givens’ mother, according to local news accounts.
The lawsuit and public records surrounding the case have raised broader questions about the conditions at the facility, including the disclosure that Givens and other inmates, according to the complaint, were hospitalized for hypothermia.
A special grand jury impaneled last year that found Givens’ death was “suspicious” said in a report that “nearly every witness” described living conditions in the prison sector housing mentally ill inmates as “unsuitable.”
“More than one witness had observed ice formed on the water in toilets. We find these conditions to be inhumane and deplorable,” the report said.
During Givens’ time there, he was taken to a hospital numerous times for what the lawsuit alleges were “injuries that are highly suggestive of correctional officer abuse and/or neglect,” including one incident in April 2018 for “assault by hot tap water.”
And in the last year of his life, Givens was taken to the emergency room four times for treatment of hypothermia, according to the lawsuit and medical records reviewed by AP.
The string of hospitalizations began in Feb. 2021, when Givens was treated for “hypothermia” and “hypothermic shock,” the lawsuit states. His initial body temperature was 87.2 Fahrenheit (30.6 Celsius), well below the normal body temperature of 97.6 to 99.6 (36.4 to 37.5 Celsius). A hospital admission record states that Givens was “found down on the cold concrete and hypothermic.”
On Feb. 5, 2022, Givens was declared dead at the treatment center after what the lawsuit alleges was a beating in an off-camera shower area of the facility. | 2023-07-25T00:45:19+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/death-of-intellectually-disabled-inmate-at-virginia-prison-drawing-fbi-scrutiny-document-shows/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
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New parents looking to take their first trip with their new baby face a lot of challenges. Even with the rising costs of hotels, airfare and gas prices, more people are eager to go on vacation. These factors can complicate a new family’s vacation plans if they don’t plan accordingly.
Whether parents and baby are hitting the highway for their first road trip or preparing for baby’s first flight, there are a number of tips, tricks and even products experts recommend to make a new family’s first vacation a memorable one, and in the best way possible.
Here is a roundup of the most helpful hints for what new parents need to know when traveling with a baby for the first time.
1. Always Arrive/Leave Earlier Than You Expect
We know that getting out of the house with a baby on a normal day can be a challenge. However, with record numbers of people traveling during the summer season, you will want to leave plenty of time to get to your destination, especially if you’re heading to the airport. The last thing you want to do is worry about missing a flight while juggling a new baby.
Fatherly recommends arriving at least 90 minutes to 2 hours before your flight’s departure time. This not only allows for long lines through ticket counters and TSA but also gives new parents a chance to catch their breath before getting on the plane, leaving time for a bit of shopping in the terminal or lunch for you and baby.
2. Bring A Portable Changing Station With You
The biggest worry most new parents have when going anywhere, even just to the store, is having a clean, reliable place to change diapers. That’s why we recommend picking up one of the best portable changing stations to bring along for your baby’s first major trip.
When looking for the best portable changing station, you want a compact but roomy carrier (backpack or duffel-style bag) that can hold plenty of diapers, wipes, changes of clothes and even some bottles or food. Then, when necessary, the bag (either part of it or the whole thing) can be transformed into a diaper changing station or even a crib. Some of the newest portable changing stations even have a USB charging port for your smartphones or other devices!
Our top pick for the best portable changing station, based on customer and expert reviews, is the Happy Luoka Diaper Bag Backpack with Foldable Travel Bed/Changing Station.
As a reminder, TSA allows for baby formula, breast milk and juice (up to 3.4 ounces) to be placed in carry-on bags. When bringing bottles or liquids through TSA, make sure to follow the agency’s guidelines.
3. Resist The Urge To Overpack
Of course, new parents don’t want to be caught without something important. However, when traveling there is minimal space to pack in either a suitcase or even a car. You simply can’t bring everything with you. That’s why experts recommend thinking like a minimalist when packing for baby’s first trip.
For international travel, Vogue offers two practical tips that really apply to all trips to help parents make sure they have what they need to take care of the baby at their final destination, even if they are staying stateside.
First, consider shipping larger items ahead to where you’ll be staying. Many locations offer grocery pre-ordering so you can make your list and have it ready for either pickup or delivery when you arrive and are ready. You can also use services like Amazon to purchase diapers and formula and have them shipped to your accommodations.
Finally, if you need things like a pack-and-play or high chair, consider using a rental or shipping service such as Baby’s Away or Luggage Free to reduce your baggage load.
4. Use Gate Check for Car Seat and Stroller
Even with the possibility of shipping items to your destination, there are two essential items for the baby that always prove to be a hassle: the car seat and the stroller. New parents can’t live without them, but traveling with them is a chore, for sure.
Plan to gate check these items. When you gate check an item, it means you can bring the items with you through TSA security and to the gate. This is so convenient when you’re carrying a baby and all the necessities. However, once you get to the gate, the items will need to be stored properly on the plane. This is when an agent will tag your car seat and/or foldable stroller for luggage workers to stow on the plane.
Then, when you arrive at your destination airport, your tagged items will be waiting for you when you get off the plane. That means no going to the luggage carousel and praying that the stroller or car seat made the trip with you!
5. Travel During Baby’s Nap Time, If Possible
Anyone who is a parent knows that naps can be so unpredictable. However, when you’re planning your travel schedule, if your little one does have a regular snooze time, then use that nap knowledge to your advantage.
Whether you’re scheduling a flight or plotting out a driving schedule, try to work in the baby’s nap time into the peak travel time. A sleeping baby is a happier baby (and parents and fellow passengers, too!).
Setting out on a vacation with a new baby can be an adjustment, but with these tips, your family will turn into travel masters before you know it!
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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give up his parliamentary seat amid a long-running ethics investigation that is expected to produce a report into his behavior as prime minister next week.
In a blistering statement announcing his resignation from the legislature, Johnson described as a "kangaroo court" the parliamentary committee tasked with examining whether he lied to fellow lawmakers about social gatherings inside government buildings that had flouted his own COVID-19 social distancing regulations.
The committee had provided him with a preview of its report, apparently prompting his decision. His departure statement, the investigative committee responded, had further "impugned" Parliament. Opposition parties termed the turmoil a "soap opera" and wished Johnson "good riddance."
He and others — including current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak — had previously received criminal fines for their behavior during the pandemic. But Johnson has long insisted that incorrect and misleading accounts he gave on several occasions to Britain's legislators denying these "lockdown parties" — as they became known — had not amounted to intentional lies.
A magazine editor who became a member of parliament then mayor of London, Johnson took power at a time of chaotic division inside his own Conservative Party, stemming from Britain's botched Brexit negotiations with the European Union.
After helping oust, then replace Theresa May, he led his party to a seismic victory in a 2019 general election, with Brexit as a rallying cry — allowing him to force through Britain's eventual departure from the European Union.
But soon after, the pandemic upended his premiership, and his own personal behavior became problematic for much of the public, and many in Parliament too.
Controversies centered around those in Downing Street — including Johnson — dominated Britain's politics, frustrating his legislative agenda and further fragmenting the Conservatives.
For months, eyewitness accounts, photographs and other evidence about parties piled up, infuriating a British citizenry wounded by more than 200,000 COVID-19 deaths and angered by the apparent hypocrisy of those in power.
Johnson eventually apologized — and narrowly stayed in the post despite deep discontent among many of his fellow lawmakers.
But a subsequent scandal involving allegations of sexual assault by a close parliamentary colleague — after Johnson's appointment of the man to a prominent role — moved many members of his government to resign en masse, and soon after he too was forced to depart from Downing Street.
A year and two prime ministers later, the ongoing enquiry into Johnson had once more begun to overshadow U.K. politics — and its findings were expected to force a recall vote over Johnson's parliamentary seat.
In his late-night and lengthy resignation statement designed to counteract publication on Monday, Johnson also criticized the policies of his successor Sunak, who served as his finance minister until last July.
His allies describe him as a "political titan" whose treatment was "disgraceful," and Johnson left out hope for supporters that he might one day return to frontline politics. He has bounced back from successive scandals before, and opponents know he is unlikely to disappear from Britain's public life for long.
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‘Couldn’t have come at a better time’: Single mom wins top lottery prize
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) – A single mother in North Carolina said winning the lottery came at just the right time.
Natalie Carraway won a $200,000 prize while playing the Hot 5′s scratch-off game.
The 46-year-old mother told anyone who listened that she would win the top prize, and on Friday her prediction came true.
“I kept saying I was going to win the $200,000,” she said. “I was adamant about it.”
Carraway celebrated the win with her daughter in Circle K, where she bought the winning ticket.
“I just looked at her and started jumping up and down,” she said. “And then I just started crying.”
Carraway knew the store owner since she lives close by and said he was excited for her to have won.
“He told me he wouldn’t have wanted it to happen to anyone else,” she told NC Education Lottery officials.
Carraway went to lottery headquarters Monday to claim her prize of $142,501 after required state and federal tax withholdings.
“This couldn’t have come at a better time,” Carraway said. “It is such a blessing.”
Carraway said the winnings will help her pay for necessities for her family.
She explained that, as a single mother, money had been tight recently. She said that winning will allow her to pay off bills and purchase school supplies for her daughter.
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- Third edition of Tripadvisor's Review Transparency Report analyzes full year of community contributions from 2022 to reveal review submission trends
- Total reviews increased by +20% to more than 30.2 million, while business listings hit 11.1 million, up +16% from the previous report in 2020
- 1.3 million reviews were identified as fake and removed, with 72% of these caught before being posted, up from 67% in 2020
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tripadvisor®, the world's largest travel guidance platform, released the third edition of its Review Transparency Report, revealing detailed trends around review contributions and the steps taken to ensure the integrity of user-submitted content.
The report, which is published biennially, analyzed a full year's worth of community contributions - over 73 million reviews and opinions in total - to give readers a deep dive into global submissions. The report also reveals how review trends have shifted since 2020, when the previous edition of the report was published. Key trends include:
The report reveals a significant increase in the volume of reviews left on the platform during 2022 - up +20% from 2020 levels to 30.2 million - as the world's explorers returned in force following two years of lockdowns, and restrictions. During 2022, Tripadvisor also saw business owners respond to over 10 million reviews, while community members asked and answered more than 940,000 questions from fellow users.
As global recovery continued in 2022, the platform saw an influx of new listings created, with 1.3 million new businesses added to the site, leading to a record 11.1 million listings at year end, up +16% from 2020's total of 9.6 million. Regionally, two out of five newly listed businesses were located in Europe, while Asia and North America each accounted for about 23% of the total.
Only a fraction of total review submissions from 2022 (4.4%) were determined to be fake or fraudulent, totaling just over 1.3 million. Of these, Tripadvisor's robust detection and moderation processes prevented 72% of submissions from ever making it onto the platform, a significant improvement on the 67% prevented during 2020.
Reviews from paid review companies represent an even smaller proportion of fraudulently submitted content, but have the very real capability to negatively impact consumer trust. In total, Tripadvisor removed 24,521 reviews associated with paid review companies in 2022. Nearly half of these originated from just six countries: India, Russia, U.S., Türkiye, Italy, and Vietnam.
Once fraudulent content has been identified and removed, Tripadvisor takes a range of actions against offending businesses, including content bans, ranking penalties and for the most severe cases, red badges. The Review Transparency Report reveals that Tripadvisor applied a ranking penalty to more than 33,000 businesses for fraud and issued 341 red badge warnings in 2022, each of these enforced with a ranking penalty.
"Tripadvisor is built on trust, and we will never stop improving our systems to ensure our community has access to reliable content and the businesses listed can compete on a level playing field," said Becky Foley, Vice President, Trust & Safety at Tripadvisor. "The findings from this report show that our approach is working; we're catching a higher proportion of fraudulent content before it is published, with nearly three-quarters of fake reviews never even making it to the platform."
During 2022, almost 600 reviews were posted by Tripadvisor's community that described a serious safety incident during a travel or dining experience. Listings associated with these types of reviews, are subject to additional measures, aimed at increasing awareness among travelers.
Tripadvisor is able to place additional filters on listings associated with reviews that contain warnings or serious allegations, helping users more easily identify potentially problematic businesses. And this approach is clearly working, with reviews that reveal a serious safety incident over 10 times as likely to be read, than reviews that do not.
"I'm incredibly proud of our efforts to shine a light on the more troubling review content submitted by our community," added Becky Foley. "Sharing details of distressing incidents requires courage and all those who have been brave enough to share their experiences will hopefully take heart from the fact that their reviews are being seen by others and are making a real-world difference."
The 2023 Tripadvisor Review Transparency report can be viewed in full at this link: http://tripadvisor.com/TransparencyReport2023
Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform*, helps hundreds of millions of people each month** become better travelers, from planning to booking to taking a trip. Travelers across the globe use the Tripadvisor site and app to discover where to stay, what to do and where to eat based on guidance from those who have been there before. With more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses, travelers turn to Tripadvisor to find deals on accommodations, book experiences, reserve tables at delicious restaurants and discover great places nearby. As a travel guidance company available in 43 markets and 22 languages, Tripadvisor makes planning easy no matter the trip type. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRIP), own and operate a portfolio of travel media brands and businesses, operating under various websites and apps.
* Source: SimilarWeb, unique users de-duplicated monthly, January 2023
** Source: Tripadvisor internal log files
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The program features more than 25 CEOs and 65 C-suite professionals, as well as founders, board members, U.S. Representatives, and more.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Fortune announced nearly 80 preeminent women in business, along with select leaders in government, philanthropy, education, sports, and the arts, who will speak at the 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, on October 10-12. This year's program is supported by Premier Partners Deloitte, Diligent, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, Heidrick & Struggles, Insigniam, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, Salesforce, TPG, and Workday, and Partners AARP, Unstoppable Domains, the Walton Family Foundation, and YPO.
This year's theme, "Realizing Your Power," will be threaded through the three-day event in conversations with speakers, including U.S. Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Katie Porter from the 45th District of California; Rosalind Brewer, Chief Executive Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance; Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO, TIAA; Melinda French Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Founder, Pivotal Ventures; Esther Perel, Psychotherapist, Author, and Host of the Where Should We Begin? podcast; and Lisa Su, Chief Executive Officer, AMD.
Started more than 20 years ago as an annual list in the magazine, Fortune MPW has evolved into an extraordinary leadership community, convening its members throughout the year for wide-ranging conversations that inspire and deliver practical advice. This year's Summit will explore this new era for both business and leaders, diving into how recent crises have forced leaders to reassess priorities and values, both personally and professionally—and the opportunity and empowerment that comes with that reevaluation. Programming will address some recent difficult and controversial issues head-on, from regulatory crackdown to restrictions on reproductive health, and it will explore how leaders are responding, and what they can learn from each other.
To apply to attend the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, or for information about speaker and partnership opportunities, please visit https://fortune.com/conferences/fortune-most-powerful-women-membership-2022/.
The 2022 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit program includes these confirmed speakers:
Alissa Abdullah, Deputy Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Iman Abuzeid, Co-founder and CEO, Incredible Health
Amrita Ahuja, Chief Financial Officer, Block
Peggy Alford, Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Customer Success, PayPal
Angela Baker, Chief Sustainability Officer, Qualcomm
Maryam Banikarim, Co-founder, NYCNext; Founder and Managing Partner, MaryamB
Michelle Banks, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Kohl's
Tarika Barrett, Chief Executive Officer, Girls Who Code
Shideh Bina, Founding Partner, Insigniam
Alicia Boler Davis, Chief Executive Officer, Alto Pharmacy
Gail Boudreaux, President and CEO, Elevance Health
Anne Bramman, Chief Financial Officer, Nordstrom
Dalana Brand, Chief People and Diversity Officer, Twitter
Rosalind Brewer, Chief Executive Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Vanessa Broadhurst, Executive Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Johnson & Johnson
Hayden Brown, President and CEO, Upwork
Wanda Bryant Hope, Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Amanda Carty, General Manager, ESG and Data Intelligence, Diligent
Christine Cefalo, Chief Marketing Officer, Workday
Liz Cheney, U.S. Representative, Wyoming
Emily Chiu, Chief Operating Officer, TBC, Block
Anne Chow, Founder, The Rewired CEO
Annette Clayton, Chief Executive Officer, Schneider Electric North America
Kat Cole, President and COO, Athletic Greens
LaFawn Davis, Senior Vice President of Environmental, Social and Governance, Indeed
Dr. Sumbul Ahmad Desai, Vice President, Health, Apple
Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon, Guest Co-chair, Fortune MPW Summit; Chief Executive Officer, All Raise
Thasunda Brown Duckett, President and CEO, TIAA
Lisa Edwards, President and COO, Diligent
Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO, GLAAD
Janet Foutty, Executive Chair of the Board, Deloitte US
Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President, People eXperience and Technology, Amazon
Michelle Gass, Chief Executive Officer, Kohl's
Melinda French Gates, Co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Founder, Pivotal Venture
Lisa Gevelber, Founder and Head, Grow with Google
Ashley Goldsmith, Chief People Officer, Workday
Elizabeth Gore, Co-founder and President, Hello Alice
Kirsten Green, Founder and Managing Partner, Forerunner Ventures
Desiree Gruber, Founder and CEO, Full Picture
Bonnie Gwin, Vice Chairman and Co-managing Partner, Global CEO and Board of Directors Practice, Heidrick & Struggles
Kara Helander, Managing Director, Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer, The Carlyle Group
Angela Hwang, President, Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, Pfizer
Stacy Janiak, Managing Partner and Chief Growth Officer, Deloitte
Liz Jarvis-Shean, Vice President of Communications and Policy, DoorDash
Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Gina Ortiz Jones, Under Secretary, U.S. Department of the Air Force
Carol Juel, Executive Vice President, Chief Technology and Operating Officer, Synchrony
Edna Kane Williams, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, AARP
Kerry Kennedy, President, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Elena Kvochko, Chief Trust Officer, SAP
Nickle LaMoreaux, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, IBM
Barbara Larson, Chief Financial Officer, Workday
Tracy Layney, Senior Vice President and CHRO, Levi Strauss & Co.
Aileen Lee, Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
Marne Levine, Chief Business Officer, Meta
Susan Li, Vice President of Finance and Incoming CFO, Meta
Deb Liu, President and CEO, Ancestry
Cynt Marshall, Chief Executive Officer, Dallas Mavericks
Lynn Martin, President, NYSE Group
Gina Mastantuono, Chief Financial Officer, ServiceNow
Kellie McElhaney, Founder and Executive Director, Center for Equity, Gender and Leadership, University of California, Berkeley
Judith McKenna, President and CEO, Walmart International
Emily Melton, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Threshold Ventures
Sarah Mensah, Vice President and General Manager, North America, Nike
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