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The $4 million Mega Millions ticket purchased in New Jersey for Tuesday’s lottery drawing was sold at a convenience store in Camden County.
The winner bought the second-prize ticket at One Stop Shoppe on the Whitehorse Pike in Atco, New Jersey Lottery officials announced Wednesday.
The Mega Millions ticket is worth $4 million instead of the standard $1 million because the player spent an extra $1 for the Megaplier option.
A third-prize, $10,000 ticket was sold at Metro Liquors on Schuyler Avenue in North Arlington, lottery officials said. It matched four numbers plus the Mega Ball.
The $31 million jackpot for Tuesday’s Mega Millions drawing was sold for a second straight week in Massachusetts. The win marks the first time Mega Millions jackpots have been won four times in a month in the game’s 21-year history.
The jackpot-winning ticket was bought at Gibbs, a gas station in Woburn, about 12 miles northwest of Boston, according to the lottery officials in Massachusetts.
Tuesday’s winning numbers were: 7, 9, 18, 29 and 39. The Mega Ball drawn was 13, with a Megaplier of 4X.
In addition to the massive $1.348 billion jackpot won in Maine for the Jan. 13 drawing, a $20 million ticket was sold in the Bronx, New York for the Jan. 17 drawing. A week later, a $31 million ticket was purchased at Stop & Shop in Belchertown, Massachusetts.
The Mega Millions jackpot was won just six times in 2022. The jackpot for the next drawing on Friday rolls back to $20 million with a cash option of $10.6 million.
The odds of a $2 ticket matching all the winning numbers are 302,575,350 to 1. Players have a 1 in 12,607,306 chance of a ticket matching five numbers but not the Mega Ball and winning at least $1 million.
Mega Millions drawings are held on Tuesday and Friday in 45 states, along with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot has climbed to $653 million with a cash option of $350.5 million.
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Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. | 2023-02-01T17:01:36+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/lottery/2023/02/mega-millions-ticket-worth-4m-sold-at-nj-convenience-store.html |
LONDON (AP) — Twitter reported a quarterly loss Friday and declining revenue caught Wall Street off guard with the number of people using the platform on the rise.
The latest quarterly earnings figures offered a glimpse into how the social media platform has performed during a months-long negotiation with billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he said that he would buy the company, and then changed his mind.
It was worse than industry analysts had anticipated.
The company lost $270 million in the April-June period, or 8 cents per share. Wall Street was expecting a per-share profit of 14 cents, according to a poll by FactSet.
Inflation has crimped advertising spending and that was a huge drag on Twitter's quarterly revenue, which slid 1% to $1.18 billion. The company also cited “uncertainty” over the acquisition by Musk.
Twitter is holding no calls with analysts and will not publish a letter to shareholders, as is the norm, because of the pending acquisition.
The underlying numbers at Twitter, however, were good. The number of daily active users rose 16.6% to 237.8 million compared with the same period a year before.
Those numbers are particularly impressive in the wake of a quarterly earnings report late Thursday from the social media company Snap.
Snap also saw advertising tumble in the high-inflationary environment and shares plunged more than 30% Friday before the opening bell.
“When compared to the nightmare quarter of SNAP last night, it shows digital ad spending is not falling off a cliff like feared which is a positive for others in the space such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Google,” wrote Dan Ives, who covers technology for Wedbush.
Shares of Twitter Inc. slipped about 1% early Friday amid a broader sell-off on the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite.
The stock reaction may also be muted because the fight with Musk has overshadowed almost everything. Twitter is attempting to force Musk to make good on his April promise to buy the company for $44 billion. Twitter last week sued Musk to complete the deal and both sides are bracing for an October courtroom trial to resolve the dispute.
The April-June fiscal quarter encompassed a tumultuous three months for Twitter, starting with the April 4 disclosure that Musk had acquired a huge stake in the company, paving the way for his takeover bid later that month. It didn’t take long for the relationship to fray as Musk publicly tweeted his concerns about Twitter and its employees and signaled he was having second thoughts.
Twitter argued in court that Musk’s actions in and his “repeated disparagement of Twitter and its personnel” created uncertainty that harmed Twitter’s business operations, employees and stock price.
It called for an expedited trial so the company could carry on with important business decisions, while Musk sought to wait until next year because of the complexity of the case and his demands for more of Twitter’s internal data about how it counts fake and automated “spam bot” accounts — which he’s cited as a chief reason for trying to terminate the deal.
A judge this week set the trial for October, siding with Twitter’s concerns that too much delay could cause the company irreparable harm. It will be held in Delaware’s Court of Chancery, which handles many high-profile business disputes, unless Musk and Twitter settle the case before then. | 2022-07-22T13:51:51+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/Twitter-posts-270M-quarterly-loss-as-revenue-17321978.php |
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq. and the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF") are investigating the proposed merger of Brigham Minerals, Inc. (NYSE: MNRL) (the "Company") with Sitio Royalties Corp. (NYSE: STR). Under the terms of the proposed transaction, shareholders of Brigham will receive a fixed exchange ratio of 1.133 shares of common stock in the combined company for each share of Brigham that they own. KSF is seeking to determine whether the merger and the process that led to it are adequate, or whether the merger undervalues the Company.
If you believe that this transaction undervalues the Company and/or if you would like to discuss your legal rights regarding the proposed sale, you may, without obligation or cost to you, e-mail or call KSF Managing Partner Lewis S. Kahn (lewis.kahn@ksfcounsel.com) toll free at any time at 855-768-1857, or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-mnrl/ to learn more.
To learn more about KSF, whose partners include the Former Louisiana Attorney General, visit www.ksfcounsel.com.
Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
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NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Suder scored 22 points as Bellarmine beat Campbellsville Harrodsburg 86-46 on Monday night.
Suder also contributed six rebounds for the Knights (2-1). Curt Hopf scored 14 points while going 5 of 6 from the floor, including 2 for 3 from distance, and 2 for 4 from the line, and added six rebounds. Ben Johnson shot 4 for 6, including 3 for 5 from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points, while adding three steals.
The Pioneers (0-3) were led by Kereion Douglas, who recorded 14 points and two steals. Chris Rawlins added 10 points for Campbellsville Harrodsburg. In addition, Terrence McDaniels Jr. had six points.
Bellarmine visits Clemson in its next matchup on Friday.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Stephen Curry scored 34 points, Jordan Poole dazzled down the stretch to score 30 and the Golden State Warriors beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 136-125 on Tuesday night in their final regular-season home game to move into fifth place in the Western Conference standings.
On a night Klay Thompson was a late scratch with low back tightness, Poole and his backcourt mates came through. Poole raised his hands to make a 3 sign while celebrating his big make from deep with 3:17 to play that put the Warriors up 131-120. He added a 360-degree layup the next time down off Draymond Green’s steal.
Green contributed 17 points, 10 rebounds and five assists with a pair of blocked shots and steals.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points, 21 in the first half, for the Thunder. Jalen Williams added 19 points but the Thunder lost their third in a row and fourth of five.
Moses Moody’s dunk with 4:57 left in the third pulled the Warriors within 92-91 after they trailed by 10 at halftime. He finished with 13 points and five rebounds in his first game scoring in double figures since Jan. 13.
Donte DiVincenzo added 16 points and Kevon Looney grabbed 11 rebounds as the Warriors held a 54-38 advantage on the boards.
The defending champions got a nice lift before the game seeing Andrew Wiggins back with the team after he had been away since mid-February dealing with a family matter, though he won’t be ready to play immediately as he works to get his conditioning back. Wiggins received a warm ovation when announced during the first quarter and he grinned ear to ear.
HOME SWEET HOME
The Warriors won their final three at home and finished the regular season 33-8 at Chase Center and with their 471st consecutive sellout.
WIGGINS RETURNS
Wiggins has rejoined the team after being away for six weeks dealing with a family matter and is working his way back to being able to play again. That won’t be in the next few days, coach Steve Kerr said.
“When you’re in a certain situation and your family needs you, it requires your attention and your love, that’s my first priority,” Wiggins said. “My career, everything, family’s always first for me. It will always be that way. I felt like I was in a safe space to come back. We’ve got everything settled, not fully settled, but in a safe place where I can come back.”
Wiggins missed his 23rd straight game and hasn’t played since Feb. 13 versus Washington. He has missed 43 games in all — three more with left foot soreness, 10 because of a strained adductor in his right thigh, and seven games with a non-COVID illness.
TIP-INS
Thunder: Oklahoma City shot 15 for 26 in the opening quarter and 59.6% in the first half. ... The Thunder lost the season series 3-0 last year and 3-1 this season.
Warriors: Golden State has won five straight against the Thunder at home and hasn’t lost on its home floor in the series since a 100-97 defeat on Nov. 25, 2019, in Chase Center’s initial season.
UP NEXT
Thunder: At Utah on Thursday night looking to snap a four-game skid on the Jazz’s home floor and win the season series.
Warriors: At Sacramento on Friday night looking to win the season series against the playoff-bound Kings and former top assistant Mike Brown.
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AP NBA: https://apnews.com/hub/nba and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-04-05T05:19:34+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nba/2023/04/05/warriors-thunder/3085a9b2-d36c-11ed-ac8b-cd7da05168e9_story.html |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Bryce Hopkins scored 22 points as Providence beat Manhattan 99-59 on Wednesday night.
Hopkins added 11 rebounds for the Friars (7-3). Ed Croswell scored 15 points while shooting 6 of 8 from the field and 3 for 7 from the line, and added six rebounds and three steals.
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Samir Stewart finished with 17 points, five assists and two steals for the Jaspers (3-5). Raziel Hayun added 13 points for Manhattan.
Providence outscored Manhattan in the second half by 19 points, with Hopkins scoring a team-high seven points after halftime.
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2023 Barracuda Championship Schedule: Friday Start Time, How to Watch Live Stream, Tee Times & Pairings
Seung-Yul Noh is atop the field at the 2023 Barracuda Championship through one round of play, with a score of -9. Play continues at Tahoe Mountain Club (Old Greenwood) in Truckee, California, watch the second round to see how the action unfolds.
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NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP notifies investors in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. ("Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp." or the "Company") (NASDAQ: LILM) of a class action securities lawsuit.
CLASS DEFINITION: The lawsuit seeks to recover losses on behalf of Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. investors who were adversely affected by alleged securities fraud between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022. Follow the link below to get more information and be contacted by a member of our team:
LILM investors may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.
CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that defendants made false statements and/or concealed that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
WHAT'S NEXT? If you suffered a loss in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. during the relevant time frame, you have until June 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. Your ability to share in any recovery doesn't require that you serve as a lead plaintiff.
NO COST TO YOU: If you are a class member, you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out-of-pocket costs or fees. There is no cost or obligation to participate.
WHY LEVI & KORSINSKY: Over the past 20 years, the team at Levi & Korsinsky has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for aggrieved shareholders and built a track record of winning high-stakes cases. Our firm has extensive expertise representing investors in complex securities litigation and a team of over 70 employees to serve our clients. For seven years in a row, Levi & Korsinsky has ranked in ISS Securities Class Action Services' Top 50 Report as one of the top securities litigation firms in the United States.
CONTACT:
Levi & Korsinsky, LLP
Joseph E. Levi, Esq.
Ed Korsinsky, Esq.
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New York, NY 10006
jlevi@levikorsinsky.com
Tel: (212) 363-7500
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Empowering health care organizations to support end-to-end clinical workforce strategies
MINNEAPOLIS, April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Clinician Nexus, a clinical workforce technology company, announces the rollout of its Education Suite and Performance Suite - innovative software solutions designed to help health care organizations educate, engage and retain their clinical workforce throughout their journey. These product suites enable users to build high-performing care teams using cloud-based software, workflow automation tools and industry-leading compensation and workforce analytics.
"With a passion for ensuring the well-being and advancement of practicing clinical professionals and students nationwide, Clinician Nexus works tirelessly to create powerful platforms and communities in which administrators, clinicians, students and other key stakeholders can work more collaboratively to connect the dots between clinical education and practice performance outcomes. This allows organizations to plan, educate and operate to their fullest potential," said Katrina Anderson, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy.
Effectively educating, training and credentialing future clinicians to ensure a sustainable pipeline of talent is critical – especially amid an ongoing health care workforce shortage. Education Suite is a solution that enables health systems and academic institutions to co-manage the clinical experiences of medical, nursing, advanced practice and health professional students. Through a single platform, organizations can manage everything from placement to scheduling and onboarding – allowing them to communicate with students more effectively, maximize teaching engagement and accurately track progress from application through to graduation. In addition to streamlining the process for administrators and placement managers, this solution supports more than 50 types of learners as they obtain clinical experience alongside practicing clinicians.
As the industry grows increasingly more complex in a post-COVID environment, hospitals and health systems are looking for better ways to maintain the delivery of best-in-class patient care. To help support this mission, organizations must actively engage providers in performance improvement efforts through the provision of compensation and rewards more closely aligned with system-wide goals and desired outcomes. Performance Suite is a powerful collection of productivity insights, performance management tools and compensation management analytics designed to empower physicians and advanced practice providers through greater visibility into pay, performance, contracting and more.
Formerly known as Provider Performance Management Technology™, Performance Suite consists of three distinct modules and is offered in both a Base and Pro version, allowing organizations to handpick and customize the solutions that best meet their goals:
- Productivity: Track and maximize clinician utilization
- Performance: Monitor progress on value-based performance goals
- Compensation: Consolidate, manage and report critical compensation data
How We Can Help
With the ultimate goal of helping organizations to support the delivery of best-in-class patient care, Clinician Nexus connects organizations with the critical technology, data, tools and resources required to drive innovative clinical workforce strategies.
"Our mission at Clinician Nexus is to help health care organizations maximize their effectiveness by bridging the gap between medical education and clinical performance. With cutting-edge software and workflow automation tools designed to support critical stages of the clinical workforce lifecycle – from planning and training to measuring, rewarding and driving performance – we partner with clients to implement more holistic, end-to-end solutions tailored to their unique needs," said Ted Chien, President and Chief Executive Officer, Clinician Nexus.
For more information on Clinician Nexus and our comprehensive Education Suite and Performance Suite solutions, please visit www.cliniciannexus.com or contact us at 888.254.3503.
About Clinician Nexus
Clinician Nexus enables health care organizations to build thriving clinician teams with industry-leading technology products, workforce and compensation analytics and automated workflow solutions. Backed by extensive technical expertise and industry-leading data, we deliver innovative approaches to help clients to plan, educate and engage their clinical workforce at every stage of the lifecycle. We are committed to providing our clients with outstanding guidance and support as they focus on shaping the future of health care.
Contact: Becky Lorentz
Clinician Nexus
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314.414.3719
Jenni Bowring
Padilla
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BOGOTÁ, Colombia, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecopetrol S.A. ("Ecopetrol"), announced today the final tender results in connection with its previously announced tender offer for cash (the "Offer") to purchase up to U.S.$1,000,000,000 in aggregate principal amount (the "Maximum Tender Amount") of its outstanding 5.875% Senior Notes due 2023 (CUSIP: 279158 AC3 / ISIN: US279158AC30 (the "Notes"). The Offer was made pursuant to Ecopetrol's Offer to Purchase, dated January 17, 2023 (the "Offer to Purchase"), which set forth a comprehensive description of the terms of the Offer.
The Offer expired at 11:59 p.m., New York City time, on February 13, 2023 (the "Expiration Date"). Any Notes that have been validly tendered cannot be withdrawn, except as may be required by applicable law.
The following table summarizes the final results for the Offer as of the Expiration Date and the principal amount of Notes that Ecopetrol has accepted for cancellation:
(1) Principal amount outstanding immediately prior to the Early Settlement Date (as defined below).
(2) Early settlement with respect to Notes validly tendered on or prior to the early participation date of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 30, 2023 (the "Early Tender Date") and accepted for purchase occurred on January 31, 2023 (the "Early Settlement Date").
Holders who validly tendered and did not validly withdraw their Notes on or prior to the Early Tender Date, and whose Notes were accepted for purchase by Ecopetrol pursuant to the Offer, received the Total Consideration of U.S.$1,003.41 per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes (the "Total Consideration"), which included an early tender payment (the "Early Tender Premium") of U.S.$30.00 per U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes, subject to the Maximum Tender Amount.
Holders who tendered after the Early Tender Date but prior to the Expiration Date will receive the Tender Consideration only. The "Tender Consideration" means, for each U.S.$1,000 principal amount of Notes validly tendered and accepted by the Ecopetrol, the Total Consideration minus the Early Tender Premium. The applicable Consideration will be payable in U.S. dollars.
In addition to the Tender Consideration for the Notes validly tendered and accepted for purchase, Holders will also receive accrued and unpaid interest from, and including, the last interest payment date up to, but excluding, the Final Settlement Date, which will be paid in cash on the Final Settlement Date.
All the Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date but prior to the Expiration Date, and not validly withdrawn, were accepted for purchase. Since the principal amount of tenders does not exceed the Maximum Tender Amount, Ecopetrol will accept all Notes tendered after the Early Tender Date but prior to the Expiration Date.
For the Notes validly tendered after the Early Tender Date and on or prior to the Expiration Date, and accepted by Ecopetrol for purchase pursuant to the Offer, subject to the Maximum Tender Amount and proration, settlement will occur promptly after the Expiration Date (the "Final Settlement Date"). Ecopetrol expects the Final Settlement Date to be on February 15, 2023, which is the second Business Day following the Expiration Date.
Ecopetrol expressly reserves the absolute right, in its sole discretion, from time to time to purchase any Notes that remain outstanding after the Final Settlement Date through open-market or privately negotiated transactions, one or more additional tender or exchange offers or otherwise, on terms and at prices that may or may not be equal to the consideration offered in the Offer, or to exercise any of its rights, including redemption rights, under the Indenture governing the Notes.
The complete terms and conditions of the Offer are described in the Offer to Purchase, a copy of which may be obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the tender agent and information agent (the "Tender and Information Agent") for the Offer, at https://gbsc-usa.com/ecopetrol/ or by telephone at +1 855-654-2014 (Toll-Free) or +1 212-430 3774 (Banks and Brokers).
Ecopetrol engaged Citigroup Global Markets Group Inc. to act as the dealer manager (the "Dealer Manager") in connection with the Offer. Questions regarding the terms of the Offer may be directed to the Dealer Manager at +1 800-558-3745 (Toll-Free) or +1 212-723-6106 (Collect)
About Ecopetrol
Ecopetrol is a mixed economy company organized under the laws of the Republic of Colombia. Ecopetrol is the largest company in Colombia and one of the most relevant integrated energy companies in Latin America, with a presence primarily in Colombia and activities in the U.S. (U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Permian Basin), Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Bolivia. In Colombia, Ecopetrol is responsible for more than 60% of the hydrocarbon production, transportation, logistics, and hydrocarbon refining systems, and hold a leading position in the petrochemicals and gas distribution segment. Through its subsidiary, Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P., Ecopetrol has a strong position in the electric power transmission business, toll roads and telecommunications sectors throughout Latin America. The Republic of Colombia currently owns 88.49% of Ecopetrol's voting capital stock.
No Recommendation
None of Ecopetrol, the Dealer Manager, the Tender and Information Agent or the trustee for the Notes, or any of their respective affiliates, is making any recommendation as to whether holders should or should not tender any Notes in response to the Offer or expressing any opinion as to whether the terms of the Offer are fair to any holder. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Notes and, if so, the purchase price of Notes to tender. Please refer to the Offer to Purchase for a description of the offer terms, conditions, disclaimers and other information applicable to the Offer.
Disclaimer and Other Important Notices
This press release and the Offer to Purchase do not constitute an offer to buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell Notes in any jurisdiction in which such offer or solicitation would be unlawful. In those jurisdictions where the securities, blue sky or other laws require the Offer to be made by a licensed broker or dealer, the Offer shall be deemed to be made on behalf of us by the Dealer Manager or one or more registered brokers or dealers licensed under the laws of such jurisdiction. If materials relating to the Offer come into a holder's possession, the holder is required by Ecopetrol to inform itself of and to observe all of these restrictions.
The Offer to Purchase has not been filed with or reviewed by the SEC, any state securities commission or any other regulatory authority, nor has any such commission or authority passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the Offer to Purchase or any of the accompanying ancillary documents delivered herewith. Any representation to the contrary is unlawful and may be a criminal offense.
The Offer to Purchase will not be authorized by the Colombian Superintendency of Finance (Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia or the "SFC" by its acronym in Spanish) and will not be registered under the Colombian National Registry of Securities and Issuers (Registro Nacional de Valores y Emisores) or the Colombian Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de Colombia or the "BVC" by its acronym in Spanish), and, accordingly, the Offer to Purchase may not constitute an offer to persons in Colombia except in circumstances which do not result in a public offering under Colombian law and must be carried out in compliance with Part 4 of Decree 2555 of 2010.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including those related to the Offer. Forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect anticipated results in the future, and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Ecopetrol is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update forward- looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
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While Colorado was the first state to sell legal recreational cannabis, it's far from alone today; twenty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana over the past decade. Yet this state's pot industry continues to grab attention, whether by knocking out Mike Tyson's ear-shaped edibles or trying to change the name of a small town to Kush.
Here are the ten biggest cannabis stories of 2022:
Legalized Pot's Tenth Anniversary
November 6, 2022, marked ten years since Colorado voters officially legalized recreational cannabis sales by approving Amendment 64, yet our state's relationship with the plant seems to have grown in dog years, going from a Wild West of unregulated weed sales in 2013 to clearing $2.2 billion in taxable revenue in 2021. Although other states have joined the party, Colorado remains a guinea pig for the rest of the country to learn from. Some of that learning takes time: Mayor Michael Hancock and former governor John Hickenlooper, who both initially opposed cannabis legalization, have since come around. Hickenlooper, now a United States senator, has sponsored a bill that would create a federal framework similar to that of Colorado's if national legalization comes, and is now pursuing federal funding to research how cannabis intoxication impacts driving. Hancock, currently the chair of a cannabis caucus for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, has moved to clear old cannabis possession convictions in Denver. "I'm a convert today. I was wrong ten years ago. We can do this right, and we can do this responsibly," Hancock said at an anniversary celebration this fall.
Dispensary Sales Plummet
After recreational sales started in 2014, Colorado's commercial cannabis industry didn't experience a dry spell until 2021, when both wholesale prices and dispensary sales started dropping after a record-breaking year in 2020. That drop was slight, though, and somewhat expected after the COVID-19 pandemic. But as the end of 2022 nears, that dry spell is bordering on full-on drought, with the average price per pound of flower falling nearly 62 percent since last year and annual dispensary sales estimated to drop about 20 percent from 2021. Everything from stimulus checks to a weed surplus to new states allowing cannabis sales have been blamed for the decline, but a solution has yet to surface. According to economic forecasts from the governor's office, better days aren't likely to come until 2024.
Layoffs and Takeovers
The cannabis industry's dwindling profits have trickled down, leaving workers and independent operators vulnerable to layoffs and business closures. That hasn't stopped new dispensaries from opening in their places, though. The amount of money spent on cannabis business mergers and acquisitions also increased in 2022, crossing $600 million by the fall, with several announced acquisitions yet to close. The Clinic, the Colfax Pot Shop, Drift, Emerald Fields, Euflora, Green Man Fine Cannabis, Green Tree Medicinals, LivWell Enlightened Health, Lightshade, Smokin Gun Apothecary and Urban Dispensary were just some of the Denver-area dispensaries to close or change hands this year, and other deals involved cannabis growing operations, extractors or infused-product manufacturers.
Surprise Business Closures
The closures of longstanding cannabis businesses have been sad surprises this year, but the way two dispensary chains went down was especially startling. In June, Denver dispensary chain Buddy Boy told employees it was closing all seven stores with less than a week's notice because of lagging sales. However, all Buddy Boy dispensaries were actually closed before the company's planned shutdown by the Denver Department of Finance over approximately $500,000 in unpaid local sales taxes. Less than two months later, TweedLeaf, a dispensary chain with seven stores across the state, closed all of its doors for six figures in unpaid state sales taxes, as well. Owners of both businesses blamed a decline in cannabis prices and dispensary sales for their predicament.
Welcome to Kush, Colorado?
Colorado loves its Rocky Mountain High cannabis puns, but one small town took that to a new level this year. Moffat, a San Luis Valley town with a population in the hundreds, is considering changing its name to Kush, after a region in Central Asia known for producing popular cannabis varieties. Kush's arid and high-altitude climate produces cannabis similar to that of the San Luis Valley, according to the owners of Area 420, a complex of converted railroad cars and cannabis production facilities in Moffat. Area 420's owners believe that Moffat, named after railroad industrialist David Moffat, who was prominent over 100 years ago, could use a rebrand, and Kush is the way to go. The town is so serious about the idea that it garnered the mayor's support and then started gathering signatures to petition the town council for the name change, which locals expect to come up in 2023. The push isn't without opposition from longtime residents, though, who don't believe newcomers should be so quick to pursue a new identity that will affect everyone else.
Colorado Springs Rejects Recreational Sales
The cannabis industry thought it would soon have a new outlet in Colorado Springs, where medical marijuana sales are allowed but recreational sales are not. Various cannabis businesses poured over $1 million into a ballot campaign aimed at allowing medical marijuana dispensaries to offer recreational sales; before the November 8 vote, leaders of the measure's prime sponsor, Your Choice Colorado Springs, said they were confident in the outcome, pointing to local voter approval of statewide recreational cannabis legalization in 2012. An opposing campaign gained traction in the weeks leading up to the election, however, and the recreational sales measure lost by a 9 percent margin. So for now, the Springs's 100-plus medical dispensaries will remain closed to the recreational crowd, but it's almost inevitable that Colorado's cannabis industry will make another push in the state's second-largest city.
Colorado Gut-Punches Mike Tyson's Edibles
Mike Tyson's ear-shaped weed gummies, Mike Bites, are perhaps the most popular of all of the former heavyweight champion's cannabis ventures, but they can't be sold in their famous form in Colorado, thanks to state pot laws. An homage to Tyson biting flesh off of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 title bout, Mike Bites would violate a 2016 state law prohibiting cannabis edibles from being shaped like humans, animals, fruit or other objects that could attract children. Because of that law, Mike Bites have to be manufactured in the shape of a "T" in Colorado, according to the company making the gummies, Tyson 2.0. It wasn't a total knockout, though: Tyson 2.0 has since created Mike Bites in Delta-8 THC versions made with hemp extract to sell online, and has even partnered with Holyfield to give him a chunk of the profits.
Denver's Almost Tax Increase
Denver voters were all set to vote on another proposed tax increase on recreational pot sales in 2022, but the measure was suddenly pulled months before the November election. Labeled My Spark Denver and pushed by Gary Community Ventures, the initiative proposed raising local recreational cannabis sales taxes from 26.42 to 30.92 percent in order to fund stipends for Denver families who would otherwise pay for out-of-school learning. Colorado voters had rejected a Gary-backed proposal similar to My Spark Denver in 2021; even so, enough signatures were submitted to make the 2022 Denver ballot, and the Gary foundation spent nearly $300,000 on the campaign. But in September, My Spark proponents announced that the measure had been pulled and that they had partnered with the City of Denver to create a pilot program to provide free after-school and summer learning resources for more than 4,000 students. Details about the pilot program have yet to be announced; in the meantime, Gary's CEO at the time of both cannabis tax initiatives, former state senator Mike Johnston, has since stepped down and announced that he is running for mayor of Denver in 2023.
Workers' Rights
Despite several attempts at the legislature since the state's voters legalized recreational cannabis, Colorado still doesn't protect a worker's right to consume pot off the clock, leaving many users at risk of losing their jobs. Yet another bill that would've given medical and recreational users that protection failed in 2022, but workers did get a small boost from Governor Jared Polis, who issued an executive order in July
ordering state agencies regulating professional licenses to protect a person's right to legal cannabis activities. Although the order doesn't stop an employer from firing workers who test positive for cannabis, it will protect Colorado workers participating in legal cannabis activities from professional sanctions or license revocation.
Colorado Legalizes Psychedelics
Denver's status as a trailblazer for cannabis helped set up another first in alternative medicine and drug-policy reform: psychedelics. In 2019, Denver became the first city in the country to decriminalize consumption, possession and growth of psilocybin mushrooms. And in 2022, the state took it a step further by approving Proposition 122, legalizing psilocybin. The measure calls for creating licensed “healing centers” for therapeutic psychedelic sessions and sealing certain prior convictions by 2024. And by 2026, state regulators will be evaluating DMT, ibogaine and mescaline legalization, as well.
Although the legal framework hasn't yet been constructed, healers, sharks and everyone in between are flocking to Colorado. Underground healing centers and psilocybin edibles are popping up much like medical marijuana centers did nearly fifteen years ago, major psychedelic industry events have announced Denver stops in 2023, and many of the same lawyers, lobbyists and entrepreneurs who made money off cannabis are all suddenly interested in psychedelics. The long, strange trip has just started, but we're already intrigued. | 2022-12-29T02:48:21+00:00 | westword.com | https://www.westword.com/marijuana/biggest-colorado-marijuana-stories-2022-15629716 |
At the 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 reveal in Las Vegas on Monday, Dodge CEO Tim Kuniskis didn’t mince words when asked if an internet report stating the automaker is developing a new V-8 engine is true. “No,” he said.
But there will be a V-8 under the hood of the Dodge Durango for the immediate future. When talking about the V-8 dying Kuniskis said, “Hang on, not in that (the Durango) car.” This likely means the Durango will have a V-8 option for the 2024 model year, though it’s unclear if the V-8 would continue beyond that. The executive said he couldn’t comment on future product.
Both the 5.7-liter V-8 and the 6.4-liter V-8 in the SRT-badged Durango will continue.
Kuniskis once again confirmed the Hellcats will die at the end of 2023, and the Charger and Challenger replacement will not get a V-8. However, when the new electric muscle car’s STLA Large platform was revealed the company said it will be able to accommodate a gas engine.
Despite the fact that the Durango Hellcat came back from the dead after mechanical changes were made to meet emissions, it will be dead at the end of 2023. The V-8 will live in the Durango, but it won’t be supercharged from the factory or bear the Hellcat badge.
The Durango continues to ride on an older platform previously shared with the last-generation (WK2) Jeep Grand Cherokee. The current Grand Cherokee moved onto a clean-sheet WL platform, and Jeep already killed off the V-8 engine in the two-row model.
Kuniskis wouldn’t comment on when the Durango might be updated or whether it will move onto the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s WL platform. He did note that it will live on because it carves out its own niche and suggested it will continue into a next generation. When asked if the Durango nameplate is strong enough to live on beyond this current model, Kuniskis said, “Yes, absolutely.”
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McColgan Represents Latest Transformative Step for World's Leading Corporate Dealmaking Software Platform
BOSTON, March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Midaxo, the leading software platform for corporate dealmaking, today announced that Jude McColgan has been named the company's new chief executive officer. McColgan will leverage his background in leading technology companies focused on digital transformation and specifically on data analytics, automation, and AI to broaden Midaxo's markets, grow the customer base, and enhance the company's solutions.
"Since joining Midaxo last year, Jude has been instrumental in refocusing the company from solely serving the needs of M&A professionals to solving the comprehensive needs of corporate development teams, which increasingly rely on digital solutions to accelerate the process of finding, evaluating and realizing value from deals," said Anders Brenner, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Stella Capital and Midaxo board member. "His knowledge of the M&A process and understanding of how to automate it plus his experience as a CEO make him the ideal person to drive the next stage of growth for Midaxo."
"Midaxo helps companies grow by empowering corporate development professionals with a cloud platform and system of record for corporate development. Midaxo has been the leading M&A software provider for a decade and we are now leveraging that deep experience to provide comprehensive solutions for all aspects of corporate development. We are transforming the corporate development space and enabling the new way of doing deals with embedded AI, machine learning, and process automation as the foundation for business acceleration and greater insight," said McColgan. "As companies continue to adapt to a post-Covid world and a big global economy, they need the ability to find, evaluate, and deliver value from new assets, whether it's joint ventures, channels, partnerships, intellectual property, or traditional acquisitions. Midaxo makes dealmaking easier for companies by delivering a comprehensive technology platform that can access more market data and apply more automation and AI than any other solution to help customers deliver inorganic growth outcomes faster and more safely."
McColgan has a long history of leading and scaling mid-market technology companies. He has served as an executive at companies like Avast Software (publicly listed on the UK exchange), Nuance (acquired by Microsoft), Localytics (acquired), and TomTom. McColgan has also advised founder-led companies like Incident Management Technology and OpsMx. He is on the board of RevenueBase, a revenue database-as-a-service company. He is also an angel investor. Earlier in his career, McColgan spent nearly 10 years at Oracle in New York City.
About Midaxo
Midaxo is the leading software platform for corporate dealmaking. Digitally transforming the dealmaking process, Midaxo leverages automation, AI, and machine learning to deliver breakthrough productivity gains while decreasing deal risk. The modular Midaxo SaaS platform can be configured for each customer to enable corporate development and M&A leaders at large and medium-sized enterprises and private equity firms to find, evaluate, and deliver value from new assets with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The CRM module makes it easy to identify and manage 5x more targets. The collaborative due diligence module reduces diligence time 50% compared to traditional approaches. The integration module provides structure for post-merger integrations, accelerating time to value up to 40%. The platform functions as the system of record while reducing risk throughout the acquisition process. Midaxo customers include Ascensus, Banner Health, Cognizant, Daimler AG, Professional Services Co., and United Site Services. For more information, visit Midaxo.com.
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Each week during the season the Hawkeye Headquarters staff will predict the outcome of the Iowa football game.
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Blake Hornstein (1-1): Taking down Nevada’s 6-foot-9 quarterback Nate Cox shouldn’t be a mountain-high task. Scoring more than 7 points? Well, that just might be… or will it? Maybe facing a Wolf Pack defense that just surrendered 55 points to Incarnate Word is just what the doctor ordered. What’s also working in the Hawkeyes’ favor this week is that they’ll likely be getting one or both of Nico Ragaini and Keagan Johnson back at wide receiver. This is the weakest opponent Iowa has faced thus far. They’ll win and score their first defensive touchdown of the season.
Prediction: Iowa 20, Nevada 6
Ryan Jaster (1-1): While everyone has been looking back at the past two games, Kirk Ferentz, Spencer Petras and the Hawkeyes are definitely looking forward to Nevada. The Wolf Pack gave up 616 yards and 55 points in last week’s loss. That’s 41 more points and 300 more yards than Iowa has scored in two games. My [Incarnate] Word! So forgive the Hawks for staying the course and foaming at the mouth with excitement. Still, the totally irrelevant prediction says the Hawkeyes win 20-0, an underwhelming score that echoes a 2019 game at Northwestern that frustrated fans who believed Iowa took its foot off the gas in what should have been a blowout. Something tells me the fans would welcome some cruise control this weekend. Besides, Kirk doesn’t do “style points.”
I bet there’s a part of him that is wondering what all of the fuss is about. After all, his methods — dated as they might seem and despite everything that went wrong — still put his team in position for a tie at the end of the Cy-Hawk game. Sure, 20 yards in penalties were needed to advance the ball, but a kick in the rain just went wide, right? (Left.)
That’s football? No, that’s an oversimplification to an extremely chaotic game — even if you only look at goal line plays. But the belief remains: Keep it close, win in the end. The Hawkologist’s prognosis is Iowa won’t have to wait that long, keeping the Wolf Pack at a safe distance for most of the game. Despite all of the strife this week that commanded attention — and didn’t — it’s a 1 on the 6-point pain index.
Here’s a look at what others from near and far expect, starting with the weather from Local 4’s Tyler Ryan:
Quad-City Times
Steve Batterson: Iowa 24, Nevada 7. Ball security might be even more important this week than improvement on offense. Iowa has turned the ball over five times in two games as it prepares to face a Nevada team which leads the country with 11 takeaways through its three games. The Wolf Pack have turned nine of those turnovers into points. Expect Iowa’s defense to do what it does and I do anticipate some modest improvement on offense.
ESPN
Bill Connelly: Iowa 35, Nevada 11
Bleacher Report
Morgan Moriarty: Iowa 23, Nevada 6
Athlon Sports
Steven Lassan: Iowa
Mark Ross: Iowa
Ben Weinrib: Iowa
#IowaSim22
Cody Hills: Iowa 27, Nevada 7
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Historic Boston church where the Revolution was sparked to host its first play
BOSTON (AP) — Old North Church played a pivotal role in the nation’s fight for independence and has continued to be an active house of worship for 300 years.
Today, one of Boston’s most popular tourist attractions is also, for the first time, a theater hosting an original play.
“Revolution’s Edge,” set the day before the start of the American Revolution, is a dramatic imagining of the interactions of three real people with different views whose lives are about to be upended by the impending war, and explores what the events will mean for their families.
The play opening Thursday is set just hours before two men hung two lanterns in the church’s bell tower on April 18, 1775 — to signal that British soldiers were heading across the Charles River, and to Lexington and Concord. The event has been immortalized in the line “One if by land, and two if by sea” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
“This is a moment of intense drama and a moment of pivotal importance to the lives of these three men,” said playwright Patrick Gabridge.
One of the characters is Minister Mather Byles Jr., who remains loyal to the British crown while another, vestry member Capt. John Pulling Jr., is an ardent Patriot, and one of the two men who would hang the lanterns in the tower.
Cato, who does not have a last name, is a man enslaved by Byles.
Gabridge is the producing artistic director of Plays in Place, an organization that works with historic sites and cultural institutions to create site-specific plays and presentations. To ensure historical accuracy, he did six months of painstaking research into historical archives.
“In the end, it has to be a dramatic play that’s going to engage an audience and it has to be a play that’s going to work for a modern ear,” he said. “But we want to make sure we’re not telling things that we know aren’t true.”
A play seemed like a natural way to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the church located in Boston’s North End, said Nikki Stewart, the executive director of Old North Illuminated, the secular nonprofit that operates the historic site, which draws about 500,000 tourists per year and is also still home to an active Episcopal congregation.
The organization’s primary purpose is to teach — and a play aligns with that perfectly, she said.
“The reason we teach history at Old North Illuminated is to help people understand how we came to the present and then to help people think about and feel inspired to change the future or to impact the future,” she said.
It’s a message that Gabridge took to heart. The three people in the play are not fictional characters; they were real people. They walked the floors of the church’s sanctuary, where the play will be performed, and sat in the pews where the audience will sit.
“I think for a play like this, we want them to appreciate that the people in our past were real people who had complex decisions to make and real lives,” Gabridge said. “Sometimes we look back in history and we feel like it was easy for them to make their choices. You know, ‘It was so much simpler back then.’ But I think when we look at them as real complex humans, we realize that just like us today, they didn’t know what was going to happen next, just like we don’t.”
Nathan Johnson, the actor who plays Cato, says it is one of the most important projects in which he’s been involved.
Johnson, who is Black, promised himself early in his acting career that he would never play an enslaved person. But the depiction of Cato, and the importance of the play’s message, made the role too compelling to pass up.
“I want everyone to see that we have all something to contribute to our history,” Johnson said. “I want everyone to see that it is not a matter of white and Black. It is a matter of America. It is a matter of progress. It is a matter of stakes, it is a matter of tension. And not just for Pulling and Byles, but for Cato as well.”
The 45-minute play, funded in part by a grant from the Mass Cultural Council and will have three performances per week in the church through mid-September.
“One thing I hope people will feel is that after they’ve seen this play, they will never see Old North the same way again,” Gabridge said. “They will have a different relationship, a deeper relationship to this place than they did before.”
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College of Charleston center explains role as third party to Union Pier redevelopment
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The College of Charleston’s Riley Center for Livable Communities will act as a third party and oversee the redevelopment of Union Pier following a pause announced last week.
Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg met with the Riley Center leaders Friday to make sure everyone involved is on the same page as they move forward on the Union Pier plans.
Director Kendra Stewart said the Riley Center works with local governments and other organizations to facilitate and provide resources they may not necessarily have. For example, they have worked with the city and others to gather opinions to help make tourism more sustainable.
Stewart said cost of living, managing growth and flooding are the three most challenging areas to livability in Charleston.
She said she was surprised when the South Carolina Ports Authority approached them for Union Pier and calls it the largest endeavor they’ve undertaken to date.
The center will oversee hiring a planning firm to create a plan that the ports, city and community can agree on while acting as a neutral party between all involved.
“We are really happy to have all of these groups who we’ve worked with in different ways to be able to bring them together,” Stewart said. “We have tremendous intellectual resources in our community as well as artistic resources, so we’re really excited to be able to tap into some of that and have a role in getting to shape what the future of our city will look like.”
Stewart said the deadline of July 2024 is very tight, but they are confident and hopeful they will come up a plan that everyone can accept.
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US Marshals rescue 14 missing or endangered children
NEW ORLEANS (WAFB/Gray News) – Officials recovered 14 missing children in Louisiana and made eight arrests as part of Operation Summer Knights.
The U.S. Marshals Service Eastern District of Louisiana New Orleans said the investigation ran from April 30 to Aug. 31.
One of the children rescued was a 13-year-old girl who ran away in July and was believed to be with an 18-year-old whom she met on social media.
Another person rescued was a 17-year-old boy who told authorities he was kidnapped from his home and was being held for ransom.
Officials also said they recovered two 12-year-old girls who had run away together and were in the company of adult males, possibly planning on leaving the state.
U.S. Marshals also rescued a 15-year-old pregnant teen who said she was planning on relocating to Texas.
The New Orleans Police Department, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, and several other agencies were also involved in Operation Summer Knights.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After Michigan beat Ohio State with stunning ease for the second straight year, Wolverines defensive back Mike Mike Sainristil grabbed a huge maize and blue flag and rushed with teammates to the block “O” in the middle of the Ohio Stadium turf.
Sainristil forcefully planted that flag in the 50-yard line, and then the Wolverines mugged for the cameras.
Ohio State players leaving the field barely looked their way.
Again, Michigan was the best team in The Game, this time by a score of 45-23.
Behind career-performance by J.J. McCarthy and Donovan Edwards, the Wolverines (12-0, 9-0, No. 3 CFP) advance to the Big Ten championship next Saturday against Purdue, with hopes for a second straight playoff appearance firmly in their control.
As for the Buckeyes (11-1, 8-1, No. 2 CFP), they’ll have to hope they can back into the College Football Playoff after again crumbling in their most important game.
Jim Harbaugh and Michigan snapped an eight-game losing streak against their fiercest rivals last year with a cathartic 42-27 victory in the Big House. Now they have a two-game winning streak in The Game for the first time in 22 years.
“Could not be more proud,” Harbaugh said. “Knew the team was focused and determined as they have been all season. This is a locker room of heroes.”
Maybe the biggest hero was McCarthy, who threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score. Edwards busted the game open with two long fourth-quarter TD runs.
Playing almost the whole game without injured star running back Blake Corum (knee), Michigan was still able to beat Ohio State in Columbus for the first time since 2000.
McCarthy, the second-year quarterback who won the starting job from incumbent Cade McNamara early in the season, came up huge when Michigan needed it most. McCarthy passed for 263 yards and didn’t commit a turnover.
“He was just on fire in every way — throwing the ball, running the ball,” Harbaugh said. “So focused and determined. It was a team that was focused and determined.”
McCarthy’s previous longest pass completion this season was 42 yards, but against the Buckeyes he threw three touchdown passes of at least 45 yards, the most scoring passes of 45 or more in the history of the 105-game series.
He connected on scoring passes of 69 and 75 yards to Cornelius Johnson in the first half, then hooked up with Colston Loveland in the second half for 45 yards and the freshman tight end’s first career touchdown reception.
“I thought he did a good job of making some throws under pressure,” said Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, who was hired to fix the Buckeyes’ defensive failings in last year’s game. “Now we knew he could throw the ball. I just thought he played well when he had to.”
On third-and-10 on the Ohio State 13 early in the fourth quarter, McCarthy was on the run from Zach Harrison when he lofted a pass to the end zone toward Ronnie Bell, who drew a pass interference call on safety Ronnie Hickman.
That put the ball on the Ohio State 2, and three plays later the 19-year-old quarterback from suburban Chicago bowled over a tackler for another touchdown and a 31-20 Michigan lead.
The Buckeyes settled for a Noah Ruggles field goal to get the score to 31-23.
Then Edwards put the game away for Michigan.
Corum’s backup, who was playing with a heavily wrapped and an injured hand, raced through a hole in the right side and went 75 yards for a touchdown with 7:11 left.
After Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud was intercepted, Edwards was off again, pulling away for an 85-yard scoring run.
“This is not the outcome we all envisioned,” Ohio State coach Ryan Day said. “I thought we had good preparation. I thought we were building toward playing really well.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Michigan: McCarthy was the man. Edwards came up big late. And the Wolverines’ defense made the stops they needed in the second half. The late runs by Edwards sucked the oxygen out of the Horseshoe.
Ohio State: Heisman hopeful Stroud was 31 for 48 for 349 yards and two interceptions, but Ohio State never got a running game going and settled for field goals in the red zone. The Buckeyes had opportunities but didn’t take advantage.
“People are going to say I never won The Game, and I understand,” said Stroud, a third-year player likely to enter the NFL draft. “People are going to say I never won the Big Ten championship, I understand. When it comes to that, I just have to eat it.”
MILLER RETURNS
Former Ohio State offensive lineman Harry Miller was enthusiastically welcomed back when he ran out to be introduced as part of the Senior Day activities.
Miller revealed in a detailed Twitter post in March that he was retiring from football because of mental health issues that included suicidal thoughts. He explained the situation further during an appearance on NBC “Today” show.
The long-haired Miller got a great cheer from the crowd when he ran out wearing shorts and his No. 76 Ohio State jersey to hug Day and his mother Kris.
UP NEXT
Michigan: The Wolverines didn’t play Purdue in the regular season.
Ohio State: The Buckeyes have to hope the CFP selection committee gives them a chance to play for a national title or it will be second consecutive disappointing trip to the Rose Bowl.
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Storm Prediction Ctr, Norman, OK Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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WFO BINGHAMTON Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, December 11, 2022
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
851 AM EST Sun Dec 11 2022
...AN AREA OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT PARTS OF THE TWIN TIERS AND
THE SOUTHERN FINGER LAKES THIS MORNING...
HAZARDS...An area of heavy snow which can rapidly reduce visibility
to less than a quarter of a mile.
LOCATION AND MOVEMENT...At 850 AM EST, an area of heavy snow was
along a line extending from Caywood to near Burlington and moving
east at 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
Chemung, Ithaca, Elmira, Vestal, Cortland, Endicott, Southport,
Barton, Horseheads and Sayre.
This includes the following highway exits...
New York Interstate 81 between 10 and 12.
Interstate 86/Route 17 between 51A and 68.
SAFETY INFO...
Conditions can deteriorate rapidly in winter weather situations. Be
prepared for snow or ice covered roads. Slow down and allow extra
time to reach your destination.
LAT...LON 4287 7618 4172 7595 4163 7681 4262 7696
TIME...MOT...LOC 1350Z 250DEG 28KT 4259 7685 4174 7665
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The Porter County Sheriff’s Department received a call of shots fired on at approximately 9:52 p.m. on Dec. 2 in the area of Baltimore Road and Lahonda Drive in South Haven.
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ASHEBORO, N.C. — The North Carolina Zoo announced its record-breaking attendance record of 1 million visitors in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that ended June 30.
The previous record highest fiscal year attendance of 879,990 was set in 2018-2019.
"We're thrilled to welcome so many guests from North Carolina and around the world, " Zoo Director Pat Simmons said.
Simmons said visitors can look forward to even more reasons to visit, including the first new continent added to the Zoo since the North America continent opened in 1994.
Groundbreaking for the Asia continent is planned for later this summer and is expected to open in 2026.
"We are constantly striving to build upon our success through growing our programs and making our guest experience better than ever," Simmons added. | 2022-07-22T17:47:04+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/north-carolina-zoo-breaks-attendance-record-of-1-million-visitors/83-186e2cee-0e64-4422-939c-deb0662c4187 |
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53, Saquon Barkley, NYG at MIN 1/15 (9 att., 2 TD) | 2023-01-22T15:35:27+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/NFL-Top-Performers-Rushing-17734114.php |
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. and ST. LOUIS, July 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Elevator Service LLC ("ESI"), a leading elevator service provider in the Midwest, announced today that it has expanded its business into the St. Louis, Missouri market. This investment marks ESI's entry into the Missouri market and represents the ninth Midwest market being serviced by ESI.
ESI will operate in St. Louis under the name "ESI St. Louis". Chris Cerny will take on the role of President and will be joined by Mark Brown as lead mechanic. Chris and Mark have deep roots in their hometown of St. Louis and have spent the last 15+ years in various sales and field roles with large international elevator companies. On the opportunity to launch ESI St. Louis and join the broader ESI platform, Chris said, "The leadership team at ESI represents exactly what is right in our industry, putting the customer first, and I am excited to share that vision with the St. Louis market."
ESI was founded over 30 years ago and has been family-owned since its inception. Today, ESI operates in the nine markets of Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Detroit, Toledo, Columbus, Madison, Minneapolis, Dayton, and now St. Louis. ESI will continue its growth by partnering with leading Independents in attractive markets and recruiting talented elevator mechanics, executives, and salespeople. Jason Vallee, CEO, said "Chris will join an experienced, growth-minded leadership team that is committed to supporting our local communities, delivering uncompromised service to our customers, and being the elevator employer of choice in the markets where we operate."
Brett McCay, President of ESI, has extensive leadership experience in the St. Louis market, and was committed to expanding ESI's presence into St. Louis, which he felt would benefit from a customer-focused independent. Brett said, "We're excited to support Chris and Mark while they develop their team and provide the same exceptional customer service in St. Louis that ESI provides in its eight other markets".
About ESI
Elevator Service Holdings ("ESI"), headquartered in Grand Rapids, MI, is an elevator service platform that operates in nine markets in the Midwest and performs elevator maintenance, repair, testing, modernization, and installation for the commercial, municipal, industrial, and residential markets. ESI's companies have decades of heritage in their markets and are operated by their locally based leadership and highly skilled technician teams. ESI continues to be an independent company that is proud to provide high-quality elevator service that keeps its customers' buildings running efficiently with the utmost respect for customers' operations. For additional information, visit www.esielevator.com/
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Que Alicea is the CEO of Q&A Consulting LLC, a Bay Area-based environmental consulting firm founded in 2019. Que was the owner of a medical day spa before forming Q&A, and this paramedical aesthetician was introduced to industrial hygiene after being invited to work on a disaster site.
Que learned about hazardous materials and their negative effects on one's overall health by leveraging her scientific background. She now services commercial properties in both California and Nevada.
Her goal when starting her company, Q&A Consulting, was to make it a full-service environmental consulting firm specializing in turnkey environmental solutions and environmental compliance. Q&A is one of Northern California's leading environmental engineering firms.
Q&A Consultants specializes in asbestos and other materials such as lead, mold, and personal air exposures, as well as hazardous materials surveys, disaster recovery, and hazardous affected area clearances. Unlike their competitors, Que has special certifications that allow them to perform clearances on-site, allowing them to provide results immediately without the time and expense of a lab.
Que is recognized as a trailblazing African American woman-owned business addressing complex challenges in energy management, efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability, making her one of the industry's only African American females with WBE, WOB, LBE, and DBE certifications.
She is also an active member of the WBENC, or Women's Business Enterprise National Council. Que has returned to her hometown of East Palo Alto to educate residents about the environmental industry, resulting in community members receiving the necessary licensing, certifications, and business opportunities.
Que works constantly with the environmental industry and academic professionals to raise awareness of critical issues in the energy industry and develop solutions to address them.
She has worked on teams to address issues such as raising awareness of energy efficiency programs in low-income communities and developing sustainable practices for use at universities.
To learn more about Q&A Consulting, visit www.qaconsulting-llc.com/.
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WASHINGTON — The American consumer's confidence jumped in June to its highest level in 18 months as a strong labor market continues to buoy the U.S. economy.
The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose to 109.7 in June from 102.5 in May. That's the highest the reading has been since January of 2022 and much higher than economists had forecast.
The business research group’s present situation index — which measures consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions — rose to 155.3 from 148.9 in May.
The board’s expectations index — a measure of consumers’ six-month outlook for income, business and labor conditions — climbed to 79.3 this month from 71.5 in May.
A reading under 80 often signals a recession in the coming year. The Conference Board noted that reading has come in below 80 every month but one since February of 2022.
The board said that consumers' fears of a recession declined in June, with 69.3% of respondents saying a recession is somewhat or very likely in the next 12 months, down from 73.2% in May.
Consumer spending, which makes up about 70% of U.S. economic activity, has held up well despite the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in its effort to cool the economy and bring down persistent, four-decade high inflation. At its last meeting, the Fed elected not to increase its benchmark borrowing rate after raising it 10 straight times over 15 months.
Last month, the government reported that consumer spending jumped 0.8% from March to April, the biggest increase since January. Much of the increase was driven by spending on new cars, which soared 6.2%. The latest consumer spending report, which includes an important measure of inflation that the Fed monitors closely, comes out Friday.
Consumer prices in the U.S. rose again in April, and measures of underlying inflation stayed high. However, the latest data did provide some evidence of cooling inflation, particularly at the grocery store.
Regarding the job market, 46.8% of respondents said that jobs were plentiful, up from 43.3% in May.
The nation’s employers stepped up their hiring in May, adding a robust 339,000 jobs, well above expectations and evidence of enduring strength in an economy that the Federal Reserve is desperately trying to cool.
Economists surveyed by FactSet expected that consumer confidence rose much more modestly in June from May, to 103.9. | 2023-06-29T01:38:44+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/us-consumer-confidence-jumps/507-0d549587-8de2-4256-b41a-9f6045a92b3e |
– Evolution complements Upper Deck's online platforms for collectors to purchase and trade collectibles
– Authentic Digital Collectibles can be transferred to Upper Deck e-Pack and traded for physical items, creating an industry-first trading experience
CARLSBAD, Calif., April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Upper Deck, the worldwide leader in sports and entertainment collectibles, today launched Evolution®, a new online platform featuring Authentic Digital Collectibles easily browsed and securely purchased by collectors. Authentic Digital Collectibles bring Upper Deck's reputation as a premium brand with unparalleled designs to tokenized digital trading cards and collectibles. The new platform features what will surely be the most sought-after officially licensed digital collectibles from the best in sports and entertainment.
"We're committed to creating new ways for fans to enjoy the art of collecting and bring home their favorite moments from sports, shows, movies, and more," said Jason Masherah, president of Upper Deck. "From e-Pack to Evolution, I couldn't be prouder of the progress we've made, and to bring Authentic Digital Collectibles to Upper Deck's product suite is an exciting accomplishment. As a collector myself, it's truly thrilling to be at the forefront of this industry's continued innovation."
Within Upper Deck's digital trading ecosystem, collectors can benefit from a network of online platforms including: e-Pack® – the platform where collectors can purchase digital trading card packs and virtually open them online, with the option to obtain the physical counterpart; Collect Forever™ – Collect Forever's premier collectibles website where collectors can purchase a wide selection of physical comics and collectibles; and now Evolution®. Once an Authentic Digital Collectible is purchased on Evolution, it can remain on the platform and be traded for other Authentic Digital Collectibles. Alternatively, it can be transferred to e-Pack and traded for physical items like trading cards, coins, and memorabilia, in a safe and secure peer-to-peer platform–the first time that digital collectible items can be traded for physical items and vice versa.
Added Masherah, "It's no secret that NFTs took the world by storm, but the term 'non-fungible token' has many different interpretations. For us, it was important to continue to carry the industry standard for quality and authenticity that Upper Deck is known for, which collectors will immediately recognize when opening Authentic Digital Collectibles on Evolution."
Upper Deck launches Evolution® with an exclusive assortment of limited-edition Authentic Digital Collectibles dropping throughout the 2023 Stanley Cup® Playoffs, starting with 2015-16 Fleer Showcase. Today's release of Preview Packs gives a sneak peek of three upcoming Fleer Showcase drops and boasts 25 top players from the original 2015-16 product. Each of the 9,000 packs contain one NHL® and NHLPA licensed NFT trading card limited to 320 or fewer. Collectors who complete the Base Set can earn an Evolution® Update Achievement Set featuring Leon Draisaitl, David Pastrnak and Andrei Vasilevskiy, three current stars not featured in the original set.
Shortly after, Upper Deck will release 2022-23 Hockey Heroes, which will be the first NHL® and NHLPA licensed weekly product available on Evolution. Each week, 3,000 packs will highlight three top hockey players all with unique visual effects, starting with Upper Deck spokesman Connor McDavid. Hockey Heroes will feature superstars like Nathan MacKinnon and Alex Ovechkin and offer exclusive end of year NHL Award Winner achievements that can be acquired by collecting and completing sets of NFT trading cards.
"It's great to be working exclusively with the company that sets the precedent for innovation and authentication in the sports and entertainment collectible space. I'm so excited for fans to see these Authentic Digital Collectibles and honored to be featured in the first Hockey Heroes line," said Connor McDavid, exclusive spokesman for Upper Deck.
Upper Deck plans to expand Evolution product offerings throughout 2023, adding new properties and creating even more Authentic Digital Collectibles for collectors' enjoyment. To learn more and explore Authentic Digital Collectibles available for purchase, visit www.collectevo.com.
About Upper Deck
Upper Deck is a global entertainment company creating trading cards, memorabilia, collectibles, games, and online platforms that deliver the experiences collectors crave. Upper Deck has set the unmatched industry standard for quality, authenticity, and innovation and continues to bring generations of fans closer to their favorite athletes and characters with unique and authentic sports and entertainment product offerings, as well as its digital trading ecosystem. The company prides itself on creating collectibles that produce invaluable experiences for sports and entertainment's most dedicated and loyal fans, with a goal to deliver excellence to the community across the most coveted properties as a means to develop memorable moments for collectors of all kinds.
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Q: My thermostat knows when I’m close to home and my car automatically locks when I walk away from it. How does all this work and is it a privacy risk?
A: You’re actually asking about two very different technologies. Let’s talk about the easier one first: Your car works with something called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The key emits a very low power encrypted radio signal and the car receives that signal and compares it with the “paired” key. If they match, your car will unlock, start, open the trunk, etc.
You can experiment with this by wrapping your key in a few layers of foil and note how it blocks the signal, effectively rendering your key useless. Unwrap it, and you’re good to drive away.
Your smart thermostat, by comparison, is using a far more complicated system because it’s working with your smartphone. Every minute of the day, your phone is both identifying its exact location — open up a mapping app, it always knows where you are! — and reporting your location to the cellular network so texts and calls can be properly routed to your device.
A smart thermostat like the Nest is connected to the Internet through your home Wi-Fi connection. It connects to the online Nest software system, which is also paired with your smartphone. As you move around, your phone’s location is reported to the cellular network, which then shares that with the Nest software.
In a somewhat indirect fashion, this means that your thermostat and your smarthome know where you are at all times.
So what is Geofencing?
Imagine now that you set up your thermostat to switch from ‘away’ mode to ‘home’ mode whenever you’re within a mile of your house. When you drive away, it switches to ‘away’, turns off your lights, and adjusts your heating and cooling threshold temperatures to lower your energy consumption.
The distance from your identified location — your home, in this example — can be considered an invisible or virtual fence. A geographically-based fence. A… geofence.
It turns out that geofencing can be used in a wide variety of applications. For example, it could notify you when your kids leave campus during the school day (cellphone companies offer this service). Advertisements could pop up on your phone when you’re near their place of business. Imagine a beer promo showing up the next time you walk into Coors Field!
Finally, there are some privacy implications, but they’re more related to your smart devices staying online than any geofencing app. Want to keep your location private? You’ll need to turn off your darn phone, but then you’re offline. As with so much with technological privacy, it’s a trade-off.
Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since the early days of the Internet. He runs the popular AskDaveTaylor.com tech help site. You can also find his gadget reviews on YouTube and chat with him on Twitter as @DaveTaylor. | 2022-04-04T16:33:35+00:00 | dailycamera.com | https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/04/04/dave-taylor-what-is-geofencing-and-place-detection/ |
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic beat Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-4 at the Adelaide International on Friday to set up a semifinal with Daniil Medvedev.
The combined ATP-WTA event is a warmup for this year’s Australian Open, which the top-seeded Djokovic missed last year after being barred from the country because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Early on he was a better player. He was dictating,” said 35-year-old Serb Djokovic after improving to 8-0 against his Canadian opponent. “(Then) I started finding my serve and my groove on the court.”
The 21-time Grand Slam winner, who is preparing for a shot at a 10th Australian Open title, will face third-seeded Medvedev on Saturday.
“I don’t think there’s going to be too many short points tomorrow unless we both serve well,” Djokovic said. “Normally when you play Daniil, you have to be ready to go the distance, physically, mentally, game-wise.”
Medvedev, the runner-up last year to Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open, defeated fellow Russian Karen Khachanov 6-3, 6-3 on Friday.
“It’s never easy to play your compatriot,” Medvedev said. “I’m happy that I managed to really raise my level, especially in the end of both sets, and really happy to be through to the semis.”
Medvedev is the 2021 U.S. Open champion, but has lost twice in the finals in Australia — and in 2021 it was against Djokovic.
“For sure I played well last year and I’m playing well right now,” Medvedev said, “To be honest, that’s all that matters. In order to win a slam, or be in the final, you have to be at your best for seven matches.”
“I managed to do it once and I was really close last year,” he added. “And that’s what I’m going to try to do again in a few weeks in Melbourne.”
In other quarterfinals on Friday, American Sebastian Korda defeated sixth-seeded Jannik Sinner 7-5, 6-1 and Yoshihito Nishioka of Japan beat Alexei Popyrin of Australia. Korda will face Nishioka in the semifinals.
Teenage qualifier Linda Noskova also beat two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka. The 18-year-old Czech player overcame Azarenka 6-4, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (6) in a quarterfinal that lasted nearly three hours.
A first-round winner over third-seeded Daria Kasatkina, Noskova has now won five consecutive matches in only her sixth appearance in the main draw of a WTA event.
World No. 5 Aryna Sabalenka was the first woman through to the semifinals after beating Marketa Vondrousova 6-3, 7-5.
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More AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-01-07T03:21:40+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-djokovic-advances-to-face-medvedev-in-adelaide-semis/ |
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis expressed concern — and dismay — over the allegations of sexual abuse committed by priests in Bolivia in a letter sent Friday to President Luis Arce, as a pedophilia scandal involving priests continues to rock the the Andean country.
The pontiff pledged “the full cooperation of the Church to work alongside the government” in the ongoing investigations over the abuse allegations.
“I express my sorrow ... for the deplorable acts that have affected and continue to affect individuals who have been sexually abused by members of the church,” Francis wrote in the letter dated May 31 that was read Friday by María Nela Prada, the minister of the Bolivian presidency, at a news conference in La Paz.
In the letter, Francis says he shares the president’s “concern, outrage and condemnation” regarding the recently reported incidents, as well as for “the negligence of those who should have exercised vigilance.”
Francis was responding to a letter Arce sent him last month after allegations of pedophilia involving a Jesuit priest came to light. Alfonso Pedrajas, who died of cancer in 2009, revealed in a personal diary published by Spanish newspaper El País that he had abused dozens of minors in Catholic boarding schools dating back to the 1970s.
President Arce commented on the letter on social media, praising Francis' “willingness to take concrete, joint actions against the impunity of sexual crimes.”
Arce added that Bolivia should “strengthen controls to prevent foreign priests with a history of sexual crimes from entering the country.”
Bolivia's Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation and has asked victims to come forward. New cases of sexual abuse have been uncovered as a result of this probe and one priest was sent to pre-trial detention for three months last month.
So far, 12 judicial investigations against clergy members in Bolivia, including one which already resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for a priest charged with rape, the Bolivian Episcopal Conference (CEB) said earlier this week. In several of the cases, those who have been accused of abuse have already died.
Jordi Bertomeu, a Spanish priest who is one of the Vatican’s top sex crimes investigators, was in Bolivia last month in part to deal with the fallout from the growing sex abuse scandals. He had previously led investigations into similar accusations by priests in Chile and Paraguay. | 2023-06-16T18:43:04+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/news/world/article/pope-francis-expresses-concern-and-dismay-over-18156606.php |
Troopers buy Christmas presents for kids after arresting father for domestic violence
HILLSDALE COUNTY, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) – Troopers in Michigan pooled their own money to buy a family Christmas presents after they learned the father, whom they arrested, did not buy any gifts for his children.
According to Michigan State Police, troopers were sent to the home on Christmas Day and arrested the father for domestic violence and felonious assault.
While they were there, the troopers learned that the father had not given his four children any Christmas presents. After leaving the home, troopers decided to pool together their own money to buy and wrap gifts for the kids.
The troopers returned to the home the next day to deliver the presents. State police said the mother and children were “extremely thankful.”
“Thank you troopers for going above and beyond to serve your community,” Michigan State Police said in a tweet.
Officials did not give further details on the man’s arrest.
Copyright 2022 WILX via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-28T23:33:12+00:00 | ktiv.com | https://www.ktiv.com/2022/12/28/troopers-buy-christmas-presents-kids-after-arresting-father-domestic-violence/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After four NBA titles and two more trips to the Finals in the past eight seasons, the Golden State Warriors aren’t about to get flustered by one loss in a best-of-seven series.
The Sacramento Kings struck first in the first playoff meeting between the Northern California neighbors and have the lead in the series headed into Game 2 on Monday night.
“You just stay calm in the face of adversity,” Warriors guard Klay Thompson said. “You don’t panic when it doesn’t go your way and just be yourself. If you do those three things, it will be great.”
The Warriors have done that well over the years, building a dynasty around the core of Thompson, Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.
The Kings are in new territory, having made the playoffs for the first time since 2006, and used that emotion from their success-starved fans to fuel a late-game push that led to a 126-123 victory behind a 38-point effort from De’Aaron Fox.
The Warriors struggled to keep Fox out of the paint in the second half, sent Malik Monk to the foul line 14 times and missed a franchise playoff-record 34 attempts from 3-point range. But coach Steve Kerr had another area that was his biggest concern: Sacramento’s 17 offensive rebounds that led to 21 second-chance points.
“You can pick apart the game and there’s always going to be stuff that you can do better here or there,” Kerr said. “But when it comes down to it, you throw the schemes out the window, throw the strategy out the window. It comes down to who’s going to get the ball. Who’s going to get the long rebounds and loose balls. They did that much better than we did and that’s why they won.”
Kings coach Mike Brown, who spent the last six seasons as an assistant to Kerr on the Warriors, knows the task against a playoff-tested team like Golden State only gets more difficult as the series progresses.
“It’s not going to get any easier,” Brown said. “It’s not going to stay the same. It’s going to get a lot harder because the more games you win and your opponent loses, the desperation starts kicking in a little bit. They’re NBA champions. They’ve been through it all and they’re not going to lay down at any time in this series.”
Monday’s games:
NETS AT 76ERS
Philadelphia leads 1-0. Game 2, 7:30 p.m. EDT, TNT
— NEED TO KNOW: The Nets have lost seven straight playoff games after falling 121-101 in the opener at Philadelphia. The 76ers set a franchise record with 21 made 3-pointers.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Offensive rebounding. Led by five offensive rebounds from P.J. Tucker, the Sixers controlled the glass. They had 14 offensive rebounds in all and outscored Brooklyn 21-3 in second-chance points.
— INJURY WATCH: Philadelphia’s James Harden was slowed by an Achilles injury late in the season but looked sharp in the series opener with 23 points and 13 assists.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Brooklyn’s Mikal Bridges. Bridges kept the Nets in the game early, making 10 of 16 shots for 23 points in the first half. But he scored only seven points in the second half and will need a more complete game if Brooklyn is going to keep up in this series.
WARRIORS AT KINGS
Sacramento leads 1-0. Game 2, 10 p.m. EDT, TNT
— NEED TO KNOW: The Warriors lost the opener of a playoff series for just the fourth time in 25 postseason series since Kerr became coach in the 2014-15 season. Golden State followed up those Game 1 losses with wins the previous three times: against the Celtics in the 2022 Finals, the Raptors in the 2019 Finals and the Thunder in the 2016 Western Conference Finals. The Warriors haven’t fallen behind 2-0 in a playoff series since the second round in 2007 against Utah.
— KEEP AN EYE ON: Kings bench. Sacramento got great production from its bench players, with Monk’s 32 points the most in franchise history for a reserve in a playoff game and Trey Lyles adding 16 points. Alex Len even had four points, seven rebounds and a blocked shot in 12 effective minutes.
— INJURY WATCH: Andrew Wiggins provided a big boost for Golden State in his first game in more than two months. He had 17 points, three rebounds and four blocked shots in 28 minutes and could play even more in Game 2.
— PRESSURE IS ON: Domantas Sabonis. The Kings managed to win the opener with little production from their most important big man. Sabonis struggled against Kevon Looney and Green and shot just 5 for 17 (29.4%) from the floor in his worst shooting performance of the season. Sacramento probably can’t afford another off night offensively from Sabonis if the Kings want to take a 2-0 series lead.
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CINCINNATI (AP) — Buffalo defensive back Damar Hamlin was in critical condition early Tuesday after the Bills say he suffered a cardiac arrest on the field following a tackle hours earlier, leading to the indefinite postponement of Buffalo’s pivotal Monday night showdown against the Cincinnati Bengals.
“Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals. His heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the UC Medical Center for further testing and treatment,” the Bills said in a statement. “He is currently sedated and listed in critical condition.”
In a chilling scene, Hamlin was administered CPR on the field, ESPN reported, while surrounded by teammates, some of them in tears, while they shielded him from public view. He was hurt while tackling Bengals receiver Tee Higgins on a seemingly routine play that didn’t appear unusually violent.
The NFL announced Hamlin’s condition shortly after he was taken to a hospital, but neither the league nor the hospital released any other details about the 24-year-old’s medical condition. The team’s statement was released before its flight arrived back in Buffalo early Tuesday. There was no immediate update about the future status of the game.
On the play the 6-foot, 200-pound Hamlin was injured, Higgins led with his right shoulder, which hit the defensive back in the chest. Hamlin then wrapped his arms around Higgins’ shoulders and helmet to drag him down. Hamlin quickly got to his feet, appeared to adjust his face mask with his right hand, and then fell backward about three seconds later and lay motionless.
Hamlin was treated on the field by team and independent medical personnel and local paramedics, and he was taken by ambulance to University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Teammate Stefon Diggs later joined Hamlin at the hospital.
About 100 Bills fans and a few Bengals fans gathered on a corner one block from the emergency room entrance, some of them holding candles.
Jeff Miller, an NFL executive vice president, told reporters on a conference call early Tuesday that the league had made no plans at this time to play the game, adding that Hamlin’s health was the main focus.
An ambulance was on the field four minutes after Hamlin collapsed while many players embraced, including quarterbacks Buffalo’s Josh Allen and Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow.
“Please pray for our brother,” Allen tweeted.
Hamlin collapsed at 8:55 p.m., and when he was taken off the field about 19 minutes later in what seemed like an eternity, the Bills gathered in prayer. A few minutes after the ambulance left the field, the game was suspended, and players walked off the field slowly and into their locker rooms where they awaited word on Hamlin and the game.
“I’ve never seen anything like it since I was playing,” NFL executive Troy Vincent, a six-time Pro Bowl cornerback during his career, said in the conference call early Tuesday morning. “Immediately, my player hat went on, like, how do you resume playing after seeing a traumatic event in front of you?”
Hamlin’s uniform was cut off as he was attended to by medical personnel. ESPN reported on its telecast that Hamlin was also given oxygen.
Vincent said the league took no steps toward restarting the game and did not ask players to begin a five-minute warmup period as ESPN’s broadcasters had announced.
“It never crossed our mind to talk about warming up to resume play,” Vincent said. “That’s ridiculous. That’s insensitive. That’s not a place we should ever be in.”
Vincent said the Bills were returning early Tuesday morning to the team facility in Orchard Park, New York, with the exception of a few players who stayed behind with Hamlin.
There was a heavy police presence at Buffalo Niagara International Airport when the team arrived at about 2:45 a.m. A small group of fans gathered across the street from the players’ parking area near the airport. Police blocked off the road to allow the players to leave.
The Bengals led 7-3 in the first quarter of a game between teams vying for the top playoff seed in the AFC. Cincinnati entered at 11-4 and leading the AFC North by one game over Baltimore, while AFC East champion Buffalo was 12-3.
“The NFLPA and everyone in our community is praying for Damar Hamlin,” the players’ union said in a statement. “We have been in touch with Bills and Bengals players, and with the NFL. The only thing that matters at this moment is Damar’s health and well being.”
The unfinished game has major playoff implications as the NFL enters the final week of the regular season, with the wild-card playoff round scheduled to begin on Jan. 14.
The aftermath of the injury was reminiscent of when Bills tight end Kevin Everett lay motionless on the field after making a tackle on the second-half opening kickoff in Buffalo’s 2007 season-opening game against the Denver Broncos.
Everett sustained a spinal cord injury that initially left him partially paralyzed.
Hamlin spent five years of college at Pittsburgh — his hometown — and appeared in 48 games for the Panthers over that span. He was a second-team All-ACC performer as a senior, was voted a team captain and was picked to play in the Senior Bowl.
He was drafted in the sixth round by the Bills in 2021, played in 14 games as a rookie and then became a starter this year once Micah Hyde was lost for the season to injury.
By late Monday night, a community toy drive organized by Hamlin had surged to more than $1.2 million in donations. His stated goal was $2,500.
Kathryn Bersani and her mother, Gayle, were among the Bills fans who traveled from Buffalo for the game and went to the hospital from the stadium.
“This is our family Christmas,” Kathryn Bersani said. “We thought it would be a great game. Joe (Burrow) and Josh (Allen) are such great men. Sad, sad time. Such a shock. I just hope he can live a normal life. It stunned us.”
Chuck and Janet Kohl went to the hospital after watching the game at home.
“This is much more important than football,” Chuck Kohl said. “Had to come and pray for Mr. Hamlin.”
Entering the game, Hamlin had 91 tackles, including 63 solo tackles, and 1 1/2 sacks.
A tweet from the Pitt football account was simple and clear: “Damar Hamlin is the best of us. We love you, 3,” the tweet said, referring to Hamlin by his college jersey number. “Praying for you.”
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AP freelancer Jeff Wallner, AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi, AP Sports Writer John Wawrow and AP Sports Writer Ben Nuckols contributed to this report.
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WOODBINE, Ga. — The family of a woman killed by gunfire last year as Georgia sheriff’s deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin’s home announced a federal lawsuit Monday against the sheriff and others, claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman’s civil rights.
The civil lawsuit filed Sunday in the Georgia case comes after the district attorney for coastal Camden County decided in April not to bring criminal charges against deputies in James’ death after concluding they were justified in using deadly force.
“I can never get her back,” the slain woman’s mother, Betty James, said through tears at a news conference Monday. “I got to hear her tell me `I love you, mommy’ for the last time the night before they took her life. And I can never hear that again. My family wants justice. We deserve justice.”
The lawsuit names Camden County Sheriff Jim Proctor as a defendant as well as several deputies who took part in the fatal raid May 4, 2021. Filed on behalf of James’ 9-year-old daughter, the lawsuit seeks at least $25 million in damages. It argues deputies violated James’ rights by forcing entry without giving the home’s occupants time to answer their knock.
James was spending the night at the home of her cousin, Varshan Brown, when deputies with a warrant to search for drugs knocked down the door of the darkened house at about 5 a.m. in Woodbine, located in Georgia’s coastal southeastern corner near the Florida line.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released body camera video that showed deputies announcing themselves, then immediately forcing their way inside. Multiple gunshots were fired within seconds.
The deputy wearing the body camera was carrying a shield that obstructed much of the video. It doesn’t show who opened fire, and neither James nor Brown can be seen in the three-minute clip.
The lawsuit says James was killed by bullets striking her in the shoulder and back as deputies and Brown fired guns at each other. Brown was wounded and later charged with crimes. Attorneys for the family said he opened fire not knowing that it was law enforcement officers entering his home.
“It was under the dark of night, it was unexpected,” said Reginald Greene, an attorney for James’ family. “It was unlawful, it was unjustified.”
Capt. Larry Bruce, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday. Messages were also left with John Myers, the attorney for Camden County.
District Attorney Keith Higgins’ office and the GBI have declined to say whether it was the deputies or Brown who fired the shots that killed James. Attorneys for James’ relatives said prosecutors have told the family that she was shot by deputies.
Regardless, Higgins’ office persuaded a grand jury to indict Brown on a charge of felony murder, arguing that he was responsible for the death of his cousin, James, by firing a gun at deputies.
Under Georgia law, someone can be convicted of felony murder if they commit a felony that results in a death, regardless of intent. Brown is also charged with felony counts of aggravated assault against peace officers, possessing cocaine with intent to distribute and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Brown has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He remains jailed in Camden County. Attorneys for James’ family have called on prosecutors to drop the murder charge against him.
James’ family last week asked the Justice Department to investigate her death, saying there are striking parallels between the Georgia case and the 2020 raid by police officers in Louisville, Kentucky, that left Taylor dead. The Justice Department filed federal civil rights charges against four Louisville officers earlier this month in connection to Taylor’s death. | 2022-08-22T18:19:43+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/family-sues-georgia-sheriff-over-drug-raid-that-killed-woman/2022/08/22/05d7dd28-2239-11ed-a72f-1e7149072fbc_story.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to announce that his administration is expanding eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, according to two U.S. officials briefed on the matter.
The action will allow participants in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, to access government-funded health insurance programs. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter before the formal announcement on Thursday.
The 2012 DACA initiative was meant to shield from deportation immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as young children and to allow them to work legally in the country. However, the immigrants were still ineligible for government-subsidized health insurance programs because they did not meet the definition for having “lawful presence” in the U.S. That’s what Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services will aim to change by the end of the month.
The White House action comes as the DACA program is in legal peril and the number of people eligible under the program is shrinking.
An estimated 580,000 people were still enrolled in DACA at the end of last year, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That number is down from previous years. Court orders currently prevent the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from processing new applications. The DACA program has been mired in legal challenges for years, while Congress has been unable to reach consensus on broader immigration reforms.
DACA recipients can work legally and pay taxes, but they don’t have legal status and are denied many benefits available to U.S. citizens and foreigners living in the U.S.
In recent years, millions of people in the U.S. signed up for Medicaid, the program that provides health care coverage for the poorest Americans, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government increased federal subsidies to drive down the cost of plans on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. As of last year, just 8% of Americans were without health insurance, according to HHS.
But DACA recipients, as well as those in the country without documentation, are barred from joining those federally funded programs. About half of the roughly 20 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without documentation are uninsured, according to research from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
While there’s bipartisan support to enact some sort of protections for the immigrants, negotiations have often broken down over debates about border security and whether an expansion of protections might induce others to try to enter the U.S. without permission. Biden, a Democrat, has repeatedly called on Congress to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Other classes of immigrants — including asylum seekers and people with temporary protected status — are already eligible to purchase insurance through the marketplaces of the ACA, former President Barack Obama’s 2010 health care law, often called “Obamacare.” | 2023-04-13T10:16:32+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-officials-biden-to-expand-migrant-access-to-health-plans/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news |
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Germany’s president arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday for his first visit to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion, as Western countries mulled a massive plan for Ukrainian rebuilding when the war eventually ends.
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said after arriving that “it was important to me in this phase of air attacks with drones, cruise missiles and rockets to send a signal of solidarity to Ukrainians.”
Eight months of pummeling by the Kremlin’s forces has ruined homes, public buildings and the power grid. The World Bank estimates the damage to Ukraine so far at 350 billion euros ($345 billion).
The German president, whose position is largely ceremonial, made it to Ukraine on his third try.
In April, he was planning to visit the country with his Polish and Baltic counterparts, but said his presence “apparently … wasn’t wanted in Kyiv.” Steinmeier has been criticized in Ukraine for allegedly cozying up to Russia during his time as Germany’s foreign minister.
Last week, a planned trip was put off because of security concerns.
Steinmeier’s visit came as Ukrainians are bracing for less electric power this winter following a sustained Russian barrage on their infrastructure in recent weeks.
Citizens in the southern city of Mykolaiv lined up for water and essential supplies Tuesday as Ukrainian forces advanced on the nearby Russian-occupied city of Kherson.
In Berlin, meanwhile, European Union leaders brought together experts to start work on a “new Marshall Plan” for the future rebuilding of Ukraine — a reference to the U.S.-sponsored plan that helped revive Western European economies after World War II.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the meeting aims to discuss “how to ensure and how to sustain the financing of the recovery, reconstruction and modernization of Ukraine for years and decades to come.”
Scholz, who co-hosted the meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, said he’s looking for “nothing less than creating a new Marshall Plan for the 21st century — a generational task that must begin now.”
Even so, one of Moscow’s allies on Tuesday urged Russia to step up the pace and scale of Ukraine’s destruction.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the regional leader of Chechnya who has sent troops from the region to fight in Ukraine, urged Moscow to wipe off the map entire cities in retaliation for Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s territory. Authorities in Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine have repeatedly reported Ukrainian shelling that damaged infrastructure and residential buildings.
“Our response has been too weak,” Kadyrov said in a statement posted on his messaging app channel. “If a shell flies into our region, entire cities must be wiped off the face of the Earth so that they don’t ever think that they can fire in our direction.”
Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, sought to ease public fears over Russia’s use of Iranian drones to strike the country’s infrastructure, claiming increasing success in shooting them down.
Ukraine’s forces have shot down more than two-thirds of the approximately 330 Shahed drones that Russia has fired through Saturday, the head of Ukraine’s intelligence service, Kyrylo Budanov, said Monday. Budanov said Russia’s military had ordered about 1,700 drones of different types and is rolling out a second batch of about 300 Shaheds.
Although Russia and Iran deny that the Iranian-built drones have been used, the distinctive triangle-shaped Shahed-136s have rained down on civilians in Kyiv and elsewhere.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Russia was likely to use a large number of drones to try to penetrate the “increasingly effective Ukrainian air defenses” — to substitute for Russian-made long-range precision weapons “which are becoming increasingly scarce.”
Russia’s “artillery ammunition is running low,” the British report said Tuesday.
The Institute for the Study of War, in Washington, added that “the slower tempo of Russian air, missile, and drone strikes possibly reflects decreasing missile and drone stockpiles and the strikes’ limited effectiveness of accomplishing Russian strategic military goals.”
Kyiv also says it needs more war materiel.
“We need more weaponry, we need more ammunition to win this war,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told reporters in Berlin. He added: “We need tanks from our partners, from all of our partners; we need heavy armored vehicles, we need additional artillery units, howitzers.”
Despite the reduced attacks, at least seven civilians were killed and another three wounded in the latest Russian shelling of the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s presidential office said Tuesday.
The attacks came as the Russians pressed their offensive on the strategically placed towns of Bakhmut and Avdiivka and also shelled other areas in the Donetsk region, which is part of Ukraine’s industrial heartland of Donbas.
Ukrainian guerrillas reportedly staged several explosions in a Russian-held southern city.
A car bomb exploded Tuesday near an office building that houses the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, Russia’s top security agency, and a local television company, according to Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the city of Melitopol.
The city’s Moscow-appointed administration in Melitopol said five people were injured by the explosion.
Melitopol is in the Zaporizhzhia region, part of which was captured by the Russian military early in the invasion. It was illegally annexed by Russia last month along with three other regions of Ukraine.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The four technical colleges in South Dakota have received a big funding boost to buy modern equipment.
Governor Kirsti Noem announced on Monday that $10 million in funding for the equipment comes from the Future Funds and doesn’t require a legislative appropriation.
Noem is providing a 2-to-1 match for funding to bring the total investment to $15 million.
“This equipment will help our technical colleges train our kids and grandkids for the jobs of the future,” said Governor Noem. “We have some of the best technical colleges in the nation, and we will continue working closely with them to tackle our state’s workforce needs.” | 2023-01-23T23:02:37+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/sd-tech-colleges-receive-funds-to-buy-new-equipment/ |
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750 PM EDT Thu Oct 13 2022
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(AP) - Academy Award winning actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx said in an Instagram video that he is recovering from an undisclosed medical condition.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The summer after the pandemic hit, a Sioux Falls couple decided to start making their own kombucha.
Now less than three years later, Songbird Kombucha is taking off in a big way all over southeastern KELOLAND.
“The really great thing about kombucha is it’s a whole food beverage that’s low in sugar and doesn’t come with the alcohol,” Songbird Kombucha owner Jacob Fokken said. “All of our flavors are imparted with whole fruits infusing into kombucha as opposed to using syrups.”
It’s a concept that’s taking off across the country, but the local brews Songbird Kombucha creates are already fan favorites.
“We’re competing with name brands that are nationwide,” Fokken said. “I know at the food co-op, they’re selling it as fast or faster than some of the other name brands, so the momentum seems to be picking up.”
It just started selling Songbird in cans this past November.
“In two months I’ve sold through what I thought was going to take me 10 months to sell through,” Fokken said.
Each can sold is hand poured and sealed by Jacob or Elsa, the husband and wife team running Songbird on their own.
“We don’t have any employees right now, it’s just the two of us,” Fokken said. “We don’t even have childcare for our three small babies.”
It’s why Songbird Kombucha is really a labor of love for the whole family.
“We want to create something alternative to the norm, both in the way we conduct our business and the quality of the product we want to bring to the market,” Fokken said.
It’s one of the many reasons this local brew is in such a high demand.
The Hello Hi bar in downtown Sioux Falls has carried Songbird kombucha since they opened two years ago.
“We definitely get lots of requests for it,” Hello Hi owner Sara Benson said.
Kombucha has a become more popular at bars and restaurants around KELOLAND, as many people are looking for a non alcoholic option while they’re out on the town.
“Whether it’s for dry January or throughout the year, I think its definitely important for quite a few people. We’re seeing more of a rise in non alcoholic or mocktails,” Benson said.
Benson said Kombucha also makes a unique mixer for creative cocktails, which are also some top sellers at the bar.
It’s another reason Songbird’s original business model of selling wholesale to local bars and restaurants has also taken off.
“Its grown from a couple that first winter, to we’re over two dozen now,” Fokken said. “Right now we’re in Sioux Falls, Hartford, Jefferson, Yankton, Mitchell and Vermillion.”
You can find Songbird Kombucha at their storefront near 26th and Minnesota in Sioux Falls, but also in grocery stores, coffee shops, bars and restaurants throughout southeastern South Dakota. | 2023-01-21T04:51:04+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/your-money-matters/songbird-kombucha-selling-fast-in-cans/ |
ZIROBWE, Uganda — First the bad news. The two types of coffee that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change.
Now the good news. Farmers in one of Africa’s biggest coffee exporting countries are growing a whole other species that better withstands the heat, drought and disease supersized by global warming.
For years, they’ve just been mixing it into bags of low-priced robusta. This year, they’re trying to sell it to the world under its own true name: Liberica excelsa.
“Even if there’s too much heat, it does fine,” said Golooba John, a coffee farmer near the town of Zirobwe in central Uganda. For the past several years, as his robusta trees have succumbed to pests and disease, he has replaced them with Liberica trees. On his 6 acres John now has just 50 robustas, and 1,000 Libericas.
He drinks it, too. He says it’s more aromatic than robusta, “more tasteful.”
Catherine Kiwuka, a coffee specialist at the National Agricultural Research Organization, called Liberica excelsa “a neglected coffee species.” She is part of an experiment to introduce it to the world.
If it works, it could hold important lessons for coffee farmers elsewhere, demonstrating the importance of wild coffee varieties in a warming world. Liberica excelsa is native to tropical Central Africa. It was cultivated for a little while in the late 19th century before petering out. Then came the ravages of climate change. Growers resurrected Liberica once more.
“With climate change we ought to think about other species that can sustain this industry, globally,” Kiwuka said.
At the moment, the goal is to grow high-quality Liberica excelsa for export.
Volcafe, a global coffee trading company, is hoping to ship up to 3 tons this year to specialty roasters abroad, including in Britain and the United States.
While Arabica and robusta are the two widely cultivated species of coffee, more than 100 species grow in the wild. One Liberica variety has been farmed in Southeast Asia for a century.
Another variety is Liberica excelsa, the one that is native to the lowlands of Uganda. Compared with robusta, which is also native to Uganda and the dominant coffee species grown in the region, Liberica takes longer to mature and produce fruit.
Libericas tower over robustas. Each tree can grow to a height of 8 meters (about 26 feet), so farmers need to hoist themselves up on bamboo ladders to harvest them. Or else they need to prune the trees so their branches grow wide and not up.
Around 200 farmers have been growing Liberica in small pockets, selling it to local traders together with their robusta harvest, and getting robusta prices. Kiwuka said she felt as if the farmers “were cheated.”
Liberica has a stronger aroma and is a higher quality coffee, she said; farmers should have been getting higher prices.
In 2016, she invited Aaron Davis, a coffee scientist from the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, England, to Zirobwe. He was skeptical at first. He had tasted Liberica elsewhere and found it to be like “vegetable soup,” he said.
But then, the next day, he ground the beans from Zirobwe in his hotel room. Yes, a coffee researcher always packs a portable grinder when traveling.
“Actually, this is not bad,” he recalled thinking. It had potential.
Davis is no stranger to the risks facing coffee. His research has found that climate change and deforestation are putting more than half the world’s wild coffee species at risk of extinction.
Kiwuka and Davis teamed up. They would encourage farmers to improve the harvesting and drying of their Liberica crop. Instead of tossing them in with the robusta beans, they would sell the Libericas separately. If they met certain standards, they would get a higher price.
“In a warming world, and in an era beset with supply chain disruption, Liberica coffee could reemerge as a major crop plant,” they wrote in Nature, the scientific journal, in December.
It is already a major crop in the orchards of Deogratius Ocheng.
When the rains are paltry, as they were last year, his 2 acres of robusta suffered. The leaves wilted. The cherries didn’t form properly. The same problems afflicted much of Uganda, where robusta is the dominant species.
Exports are expected to be lower this year, compared with last year, according to the Uganda Coffee Development Authority. Drought and pests are to blame. Had he relied on robusta alone, Ocheng said, “I would have been in extreme poverty.”
Thankfully, he had another 2 acres of Liberica. | 2023-04-29T02:14:59+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/african-farmers-may-have-a-coffee-robust-enough-for-the-climate-crisis/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
Religious leaders who once preferred to leave security in the hands of the divine are taking precautions that seemed unthinkable years prior. More congregants are carrying concealed handguns to services, too, according to Alon Stivi, a security consultant for synagogues, Jewish community centers and day schools. He also said some congregants are reticent to show up.
“They’re asking a lot more questions: ‘Should I come to the weekly services or just come for the holidays? And if I come, should I bring my kids?’”
“All faiths are under attack in America by radicals and extremists,” Stivi asserts.
Today an armed police officer watches over Sunday services at Mt. Zion African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, said the Rev. Kylon Middleton, who leads the congregation. When an officer is unable to be on campus for church events, members carrying concealed weapons keep watch.
“It is sad, but we are in such times where we must have armed security to protect our people,” he said.
The church is two blocks away from Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. In 2015, a self-proclaimed white supremacist opened fire during Bible study and killed nine worshippers, including the senior pastor. Middleton said the late pastor was like a brother to him.
The Rev. Steven Marsh never thought he would see the day his church in Laguna Woods, California — a town of 16,500 populated largely by retirees — would be spending $20,000 a month for security.
Then a gunman opened fire on May 15 during a luncheon at Geneva Presbyterian Church, where Marsh is senior pastor, killing one and injuring five other members of a Taiwanese congregation that met there. Officials said the man, who was motivated by political hatred against Taiwan, chained the church’s doors shut and hid firebombs inside before shooting at the gathering of elderly church members.
Houses of worship are meant to be places of shelter, reflection, and peace, where strangers are welcome. But the recent string of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. is a reminder violence can happen anywhere, prompting faith leaders to ramp up security.
At Geneva Presbyterian, armed security guards now stand watch every weekday and during Sunday services. The church also is adding more security cameras, developing an active shooter plan and applying for Department of Homeland Security funding.
“We’re not trying to militarize the church,” Marsh said. “We prayed about it and made a decision to have armed security as an act of faith.”
Historically, sanctuaries have been vulnerable to violent attacks — from bombings at Black churches during the Civil Rights era to more recent shootings in the U.S. at mosques and Sikh gurdwaras. In the U.S., FBI hate crime statistics show that incidents in churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques increased 34.8% between 2014 and 2018. | 2022-07-21T06:46:32+00:00 | miamitimesonline.com | https://www.miamitimesonline.com/faith_family/family_news/houses-of-worship-increase-security-after-shootings/article_29f7412a-07fa-11ed-b756-df7cad51059d.html |
Heading into CFP rankings, 14 teams with championship hopes
Even before the first College Football Playoff rankings of the season are unveiled Tuesday night, it is clear which teams still have a chance to play for a national championship.
A glance at the conference standings reveals 14 contenders, all in the Power Five. Sorry, there will be no Cincinnati-style interloper from the Group of Five this season for the selection committee to consider.
A conference-by-conference assessment of who is in the race and the paths to the CFP, with AP Top 25 rankings.
ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE
No. 5 Clemson (8-0)
The Tigers had their streak of six straight playoff appearances snapped last year, but are well positioned to get back, with no ranked opponents left before a likely ACC title game against North Carolina.
No unbeaten Power Five champion has ever missed the playoff. A glance at the Big Ten and SEC suggests getting in as a one-loss conference champion could be dicey for the Tigers.
No. 17 North Carolina (7-1)
Run the table, beating unbeaten Clemson in the ACC title game, gets the Tar Heels in the conversation, but they’ll need some upsets in other leagues to clear the way.
BIG 12
No. 7 TCU (8-0)
See above, re: unbeaten Power Five champions. The Horned Frogs flirt with disaster weekly and have some defensive issues. That’s a profile the selection committee tends to look upon skeptically.
They’ll probably need to stay unbeaten to get in and it’s going to be really tough for them to stay unbeaten with the way they have been playing.
BIG TEN
No. 2 Ohio State (8-0) and No. 4 Michigan (8-0)
Both have been dominant. Neither has played a particularly strenuous schedule and that won’t change much before they meet Thanksgiving weekend. Still, either is lock by winning out.
Either would stay in the mix by being a 12-1 conference champion. And the loser of the rivalry game at 11-1 probably still holds out hope to get in.
No. 14 Illinois (7-1)
The Illini have a game against Michigan the week before the Wolverines play Ohio State. That means Illinois could finish 12-1 with either two victories against Michigan or one against Michigan and one against Ohio State.
It’s not likely to happen, but that would put the Illini in the playoff.
PAC-12
No. 8 Oregon (7-1), No. 9 USC (7-1) and No. 10 UCLA (7-1)
They all need to run the table to have a chance and even then that might not be enough. The Ducks will have to overcome a 49-3 loss to Georgia in their opener. The Trojans have a a bad defense and won’t going to get much of a bump by beating Notre Dame. UCLA played one of the weakest nonconference schedules in the country.
What’s the best option for the Pac-12? The guess here is a 12-1 USC with victories against UCLA and Oregon and one-point loss to a good Utah team.
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE
No. 1 Georgia (8-0) and No. 2 Tennessee (8-0)
The loser of Saturday’s showdown in Athens is not eliminated, especially if its the Volunteers, with a victory over Alabama already in hand.
No. 6 Alabama (6-1) and No. 11 Mississippi (8-1)
The Crimson Tide and Rebels can’t afford another loss — they play each other in two weeks — but either would breeze into the CFP by winning out.
The most SEC-centric scenario the rest of the country needs to root against is Alabama winning out, beating Georgia in the SEC championship game, and leaving the Tide and Bulldogs at 12-1 and Tennessee at 11-1 with a close loss to Georgia.
No. 15 LSU (6-2)
A two-loss team has never made the playoff, but the SEC champion has never missed the playoff. If the Tigers beat Alabama and avenge a loss to Tennessee on the way to a conference title they could break precedent.
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SAN DIEGO, June 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Kiana Aran, Associate Professor of Medical Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) and Chief Scientific Officer of Cardea Bio, recently received a Research Gift from Agilent Technologies' university relations program to support her research on developing a scalable detection platform to continuously monitor the quality and health of cell cultures using Cardea's graphene-based BPU™ (Biosignal Processing Unit) platform.
Currently, a major challenge in antibody manufacturing process development is enabling continuous cell culture analysis to maintain the desired quality while reducing time to market, maintaining cost effectiveness, and providing manufacturing flexibility. Current methods are costly and inefficient.
Dr. Paul Grint, executive chairman of the board at Cardea Bio, states, "The typical biomanufacturing process is complex and includes a cell culture process that generates the molecule of interest and a purification process to remove product-related impurities. Successful development and implementation of a tech infrastructure for real-time process monitoring at critical control points of this process can significantly improve quality and reduce cost associated with loss of products as well as personnel required for comprehensive analytical testing off-line."
Conventional tools for cell culture media analysis require manual sampling and different steps of sample preparation. The sample collection process increases the contamination risk, and monitoring each cell culture bioreactor individually is a time-consuming process. Thus, bioprocessing - both for production of biopharmaceuticals and cell therapy manufacturing - can greatly benefit from automated, streamlined measurements to minimize the hands-on time required to make these critical cell-based products and therapies.
"Currently, multiple instruments are required to measure each of the biomarkers and the bioproduct. Using Cardea's platform, a significant advantage is that it's a single platform that can monitor multiple types of analytes, from glucose to protein-based biomarkers." adds Dr. Kiana Aran, and continues, "Cardea's BPU can address the traditional bioprocessing challenges by continuously sampling and monitoring the health of the cell culture in real-time. The goal of utilizing BPUs is to increase the efficiency, sensitivity, and specificity of monitoring glucose metabolite, pH level, and antibody production in order to evaluate the cell performance, growing conditions, and ideal production environment."
For the project, Dr. Aran will be working closely with Dr. Chong Wing Yung, the Associate Director for Agilent's Research Programs, and Agilent Research Scientist Dr. Kristin Bernick.
"Through Agilent's ACT-UR grant with Professor Kiana Aran, we are excited to learn more about the application of her novel graphene-based semiconductors to the bioprocessing space," Yung said. "This will be a wonderful opportunity for us to gain exposure to using this exciting technology to continuously monitor and measure key parameters of cell cultures over time. In addition, we look forward to growing our relationship with Professor Aran and KGI."
The project will draw upon prior results in which BPUs rapidly detected and quantified serum proteins such as cytokines in a small volume of plasma, with very high sensitivity and specificity, and without the need for secondary antibodies and optical labels. The sensitivity enabled by the biosensor platform dramatically reduces the sample volume and experimental complexity in comparison to standard quantitative methods, while the label-free nature of the detection platform significantly reduces the complexity and need for reagents.
Cardea Bio is the world's only mass producer of a biocompatible semiconductor, the BPU™ (Biosignal Processing Unit). The BPU is the first and only semiconductor capable of translating real-time streams of multiomics signals into digital information. Through the BPU™ platform, Cardea's long-term vision is to democratize access to the biosignals and insights behind the most advanced technology on our planet: Nature and biology. The Internet of Biology is that way becoming possible.
Cardea's rapidly expanding IP portfolio now has 29 broad patents issued and another 32 patents pending, cementing Cardea's market-leader position in the graphene biosensor industry, where they are bringing the BPU™ (Biosignal Processing Unit) Platform to market.
Cardea is headquartered in San Diego and has additional activity in Los Angeles. Cardea is a 100% American developed and built biocompatible semiconductor technology for applications across a variety of sectors including human health, agriculture, molecular diagnostics, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, and animal health.
Contact Cardea
Lasse Görlitz, VP of Communications
US phone: +1 858 319 7135
EU phone: +45 2758 2601
publicrelations@cardeabio.com
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed and has returned to Australia.
Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said.
“I’m very pleased to advise that Dr. Ken Elliott, who’s been held hostage in Western Africa for some seven years, has been reunited in Australia with his family,” Wong told reporters in Sydney.
Elliott and his wife were kidnapped in Burkina Faso, where they had run a medical clinic for four decades. Jocelyn Elliott was released three weeks later.
“We wish to express our thanks to God and all who have continued to pray for us,” Elliott’s family said in a statement released by Wong’s department.
“We express our relief that Dr. Elliott is free and thank the Australian government and all who have been involved over time to secure his release,” the family statement said.
Wong said no ransom was paid to secure Elliott’s freedom, but no other details on his release were disclosed. Media reported he was reunited with his family in Perth, the west coast city where he is from.
“At 88 years of age, and after many years away from home, Dr. Elliott now needs time and privacy to rest and rebuild strength,” the family added.
The militant group behind the kidnapping, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, rose to prominence in large part through kidnap-for-ransom operations targeting foreign aid workers and tourists.
On the day the Australian couple were kidnapped — Jan. 15, 2016 — 30 people were killed in an extremist attack in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou. Al-Qaida’s North Africa wing claimed responsibility for that attack and other high-profile strikes in West Africa months earlier, including killing 20 people in an attack on a hotel in Mali’s capital Bamako.
The Elliotts were kidnapped near the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo, near the border with Mali and Niger.
Jocelyn Elliott was freed in neighboring Niger. Niger’s then-President Mahamadou Issoufou had worked with Burkina Faso intelligence services to secure her release, his office said at the time.
Australia had not paid ransom to secure Ken Elliott’s release, Wong said.
“The Australian government has a clear policy that we do not pay ransoms,” Wong said.
“What we have done over the last seven years is ensure that we worked with other governments and local authorities in relation to Dr. Elliott,” she added. | 2023-05-19T15:55:18+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-88-year-old-australian-doctor-freed-7-years-after-kidnapping-by-islamic-extremists-in-west-africa/ |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Darren McFadden and Felix Jones make for some serious company. Rocket Sanders can now say he’s there with those all-time Arkansas running backs.
The Razorbacks’ sophomore running back ran for a career-high 156 yards and two touchdowns in helping the No. 16 Razorbacks beat South Carolina 44-30 on Saturday.
Sanders joined McFadden, twice a Heisman Trophy finalist, and Jones, the player with the sixth-most yards rushing in school history, as the only three Arkansas players to run for 150 yards and two scores against the Gamecocks.
“Um, that’s good,” Sanders said after the game. He half-chuckled his next sentence.
“Of course I want to be better than those guys.”
Sanders ran for 578 yards and five touchdowns in his first season last year. With returning starter Dominique Johnson still sidelined recovering from a knee injury suffered in the Outback Bowl, Sanders has taken nearly all of the first-team reps. The result has been a 2-0 start for his team and him becoming the first Razorbacks player since 2019 with back-to-back 100-yard games.
Sanders scored the first two touchdowns of the game as Arkansas (2-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) found the end zone on each of its first three possessions against South Carolina and opened a 21-3 lead. The Gamecocks (1-1, 0-1) responded with two straight scores at the end of the first half and the beginning of the second to pull within 21-16.
Sanders wouldn’t score again as KJ Jefferson was the keystone for a bulk of the Razorbacks’ second-half touchdowns, but he ran for 95 of his 156 yards in the final 30 minutes.
Arkansas ran for 295 yards, and AJ Green and Rashod Dubinion also chipped in touchdowns.
“I was really proud of our offensive line. We asked them to kind of control the game and I felt like they did. I think the offensive line wore them down,” Pittman said.
Jefferson led a 14-play, 59-yard drive capped with his own 2-yard rushing touchdown at the start of the fourth quarter to move Arkansas back ahead by two scores. South Carolina lost a fumble on its next possession and Jefferson added a touchdown pass to Warren Thompson in response, ultimately putting the Gamecocks too far behind to rally.
Spencer Rattler tried. The Oklahoma transfer threw for 371 yards and a touchdown on 23 of 38 passing with a touchdown for South Carolina, but was intercepted in the end zone midway through the fourth quarter by Dwight McGlothern. The Gamecocks had three turnovers.
Jefferson was 18 of 21 passing for 162 yards and a touchdown. He ran for another 67 yards and the score on 19 carries.
“I thought he played better today than he did last week. I thought he was more accurate,” Pittman said. “I thought he was in total control. … He pretty much can take over the game when he wants to.”
Johnson is expected to return in Week 3 against Missouri State. He might find himself short on carries as Sanders’ development has put the sophomore in high company.
“I think he’s becoming an all-around back a little bit more,” Pittman said. “I thought he played really, really well. Two 100-yard days back-to-back is pretty good. He’s a better back than he was a year ago.”
THE TAKEAWAY
South Carolina: The Gamecocks had moments, but consistency was lacking in coach Shane Beamer’s second year.
Arkansas: The Razorbacks’ defense held up well without two starters in the secondary, including former freshman All-America safety Jalen Catalon.
A BIG LOSS IN A BIG WIN
Pittman said after the game that preseason All-SEC safety Jalen Catalon would miss the rest of the season because of a shoulder injury. Catalon was lost midway through Arkansas’ win over Cincinnati last week.
Catalon was a freshman All-American two seasons ago, but missed the back-half of the Razorbacks’ season last year because of a shoulder injury.
IT’S BEEN A WHILE
Arkansas’ win over South Carolina was the Razorbacks’ first since 2011. The teams had met only three times since before Saturday with the Gamecocks winning each.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
Arkansas likely won’t do any worse than staying put at No. 16 when the polls are released Sunday.
UP NEXT
South Carolina: Hosts defending national champion Georgia in Week 3
Arkansas: Missouri State comes to town next week, lea by former Razorbacks head coach Bobby Petrino.
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San Francisco police can't use deadly robots for now
San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would let police use robots for deadly force.
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to explicitly ban the use of robots in such fashion for now. But they sent the issue back to a committee for further discussion and could allow it in limited cases at another time.
It's a reversal from last week's vote allowing the use of robots in limited cases. The police said they had no plans to arm the robots with guns but wanted the ability to put explosives on them in extraordinary circumstances.
Last week's approval generated pushback and criticism about the potential to deploy robots that can kill people. Several supervisors joined dozens of protestors outside City Hall on Monday to urge the board to change course.
Some supervisors said they felt the public did not have enough time to engage in the discussion about whether robots could be used to kill people before the board first voted last week.
The vote was the result of a new state law that requires police departments to inventory military-grade equipment and seek approval for its use.
Supervisor Dean Preston, who voted against the policy last week, said the spirit of the law is to make sure "strong feelings people hold" can be heard by public officials. He argued the board failed to allow enough time for that.
But others said nothing substantive had changed since the board made its vote and the policy should hold.
The policy approved Tuesday would allow police to use robots to check out potentially dangerous scenes so that police can stay back.
"Having robots that have eyes and ears and can remove bombs, which happens from time to time, is something that we want the police department to do while we continue to have this very controversial discussion," said Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who brought forward last week's motion around the use of robots.
The new policy needs another vote to take effect. | 2022-12-07T02:21:33+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/deadly-robots-san-francisco-police-cant-use-for-now/42170640 |
BURBANK, Calif., June 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CareerArc, the only social recruiting platform purpose-built for talent acquisition, today announced the launch of Magic Posts for Employer Brand, a hands-off way to automatically create and publish a steady stream of employer-branded social media posts to drive candidate engagement, improve recruiting results, and save companies significant time and money.
Magic Posts for Employer Brand, together with Magic Posts for Job Posts released late last year, makes CareerArc the only solution to power end-to-end social media automation that self-builds and self-publishes both open job posts and employer brand posts—the two main types of content companies publish today to compete for candidate attention.
"For employers, gaining and sustaining candidate attention on social media has become harder each year and nearly impossible to do without additional help. But that help usually comes at a steep price of added staff and increased workloads to maintain an adequate and steady flow of quality content on social media," said Anna Bersudsky, CareerArc's Chief Product Officer. "Through Magic Posts for Employer Brand, we give HR and talent acquisition teams—who have borne the brunt of backfilling the talent vacuum left by the Great Resignation—a real competitive edge by solving the biggest pain points in social recruiting: manual content creation and publishing. Our hope is that through strategic automation, any company can level the playing field on social media and finally get a fair chance at reaching the talent they deserve."
Applying a strategic approach to automation, CareerArc has solved the common pitfalls of automated social media posting through key features, including:
- automated post variation that ensures non-repetitive content creation;
- automated post optimization that maximizes content discoverability and conversion by applying the right image, hashtags, keywords, and more to each unique post; and
- automated employee advocacy that maximizes content reach by publishing to unlimited personal and recruiter social media profiles via frictionless one-click opt-in.
CareerArc's advanced and strategic automation capabilities are unmatched by any recruiting solution in the market and rival those found in the most popular social media tools used by marketers. CareerArc also offers an in-depth analytics platform for its customers, which features data points to track various aspects of campaign performance such as top posts over time, top posts by type, top posts by content, engagement types, an engagement heat map, and more.
"One goal that we've always had as a team is automation—getting maximum information out to potential applicants as quickly and efficiently as possible," said Jena Vonderhaar, Talent Acquisition Administrator at BCD Meetings & Events. "CareerArc's employer brand campaign capability just came to the rescue with this upgrade and it's been fantastic. We are actually working on developing all of that content to achieve another goal of showing candidates who we are as a company and what it means to work with us—and I think this employer branding is the easiest way to do that. CareerArc has made my life so much easier and it's so much fun at the same time. There are so many fun tools and customizations that we can do to really paint that picture for applicants. So our goal of having everything automated has been more than achieved with CareerArc. I really don't know what my day-to-day would look like without it."
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Police say a correctional officer was shot and killed early Tuesday outside a jail in an Atlanta suburb.
No arrests were immediately made. The investigation was ongoing and detectives were exploring all motives, police said.
Gwinnett County police spokesperson Sgt. Jennifer Richter said the Department of Corrections was stunned by his death, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
“Right now we are still early on in this investigation,” Richter told the newspaper. “The best we can tell is that he had an encounter with an individual here in the parking lot, and we are working to determine what that encounter was and what exactly led up to the shooting, as well as who that individual was.”
Police were asking anyone who was in the area of the correctional complex between 4 a.m. and 7 a.m. Tuesday to contact detectives. They said they were particularly interested in anyone who might have dash cam footage.
Riner had worked at the correctional complex for more than 10 years, police said.
Capt. Audrey Henderson told the Journal-Constitution that Riner was a hard worker who was well-liked by his co-workers on a team that takes inmates out for work detail. Even the inmates liked him because he treated them fairly, she said.
“Being in this negative environment sometimes, working here, it’s easy to come in and be negative and be unhappy, but that’s not who he was,” Henderson said. “And every day he did it on a daily basis. That’s a hard job to do.” | 2022-12-14T00:01:40+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/correctional-officer-shot-outside-jail-in-atlanta-suburb/2022/12/13/4fa784c4-7b05-11ed-bb97-f47d47466b9a_story.html |
NFL safety Damar Hamlin is in critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest during a game on Monday, Jan. 2, spurring unsubstantiated claims that his medical emergency could be tied to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Several people on Twitter shared a graph that allegedly shows 1,616 athlete cardiac arrests among athletes since the coronavirus pandemic began, with 1,114 athletes who died, following COVID-19 vaccination.
The graph comes from an online article that claims to list each of the athletes who suffered cardiac arrest or other “serious issues” after they received the COVID-19 vaccine.
“While it is possible this can happen to people who did not get a COVID vaccine, the sheer numbers clearly point to the only obvious cause,” the article says.
THE QUESTION
Does the online graph represent athlete deaths tied to the COVID-19 vaccine?
THE SOURCES
- Analysis of causes of death for current and former athletes listed on Goodsciencing.com
- Payal Kohli, M.D., assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Colorado in the Department of Cardiology and founder of Cherry Creek Heart
- Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D., director of biostatistics for the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine
- Study published by the National Library of Medicine in 2016
- Study on myocarditis in coronavirus infection vs. vaccination published in August 2022
THE ANSWER
The graph and associated online data are misleading. There’s no evidence tying athlete cardiac arrests and the subsequent deaths listed to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Some of the deaths included don’t meet the website’s own definition of an athlete, while others were attributed to factors such as cancer or heatstroke – not cardiac arrest or the COVID-19 vaccine.
WHAT WE FOUND
People who have shared the graph online claim that it shows a comparison between athlete collapses, deaths and the COVID-19 vaccine, but there are several reasons why the data is flawed.
The graph uses data from a post on goodsciencing.com, which is run by anonymous authors who claim to be “truth seekers.” That post lists incidents the website claims are athletes collapsing or dying from cardiac problems or other serious medical issues related to the COVID-19 vaccine, linking to news articles about individual cases.
The list is not based on academic research or public health data. Instead, it’s a manually compiled list of media reports which the author says they found from “research” and reader submissions.
In many of the reports there was no indication whether a person included on the list received the COVID-19 vaccine. The list links off to news reports about the deaths, which often do not include information about vaccination status.
In addition, the site’s definition of “athlete” is not a professional athlete or even a college or high-school athlete. Instead, the site defines an athlete as a person who “is reasonably fit, healthy and does some athletic activity, rather than an ‘unfit couch potato.’”
Even with that broad definition, many of the people listed don’t meet the website’s criteria of an athlete. Some of the deaths were among senior citizens in their 80s, or people who were experiencing a prolonged illness.
One example is MLB legend Hank Aaron, who died of natural causes at 86 years old in January 2021. While the baseball star did receive the COVID-19 vaccine several weeks prior, the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said there is no indication it was a contributing factor in his death.
Mississippi State University's head football coach Mike Leach died in December 2022 at 61 years old due to complications from a heart condition.
Some of the people included on the list also died from COVID-19 itself, not the vaccine. Azorean “Zo” Tatum, a 16-year-old high school football player in Tennessee who is included on the list, died from the virus at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in August 2021, VERIFY partner station ABC24 reported.
Some of the others listed died from cancer or other causes such as heatstroke, not cardiac arrest or other medical issues that could be tied to the vaccine.
Here are several examples:
- Nine-year-old Ayla Loseth died from sepsis due to a Strep A infection in November 2022, family members told media outlets. Goodsciencing.com lists her cause of death as "sepsis from Strep A."
- Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III died of a heat stroke in June 2022, not from cardiac arrest, VERIFY partner station WFAA reported. Goodsciencing.com lists his cause of death as “unknown.”
- Dwight Garner, a former football player for the University of California, Berkeley, died at 58 years old from prostate cancer, which Goodsciencing.com notes.
- Mixed martial arts fighter Anthony Johnson, 38, died in November 2022 following a prolonged illness. Some media outlets attributed Johnson’s death to complications from cancer, which Goodsciencing.com notes.
Is there a connection between cardiac deaths and the COVID-19 vaccine?
The article and social media posts suggest it is abnormal for athletes, including many young people, to suffer from cardiac arrest or die while playing sports.
But this isn’t a new phenomenon and occurred long before the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
More from VERIFY: No, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome is not linked to vaccines
A 2016 study published by the National Library of Medicine found that sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the most frequent medical cause of sudden death in athletes. Based on estimates at that time, the incident rate was around 1 in 40,000 to 1 in 80,000 athletes per year.
“We've had athletes collapse on the field for decades – long before COVID even existed and definitely long before the COVID vaccine,” Payal Kohli, M.D., a cardiologist and professor of medicine, told VERIFY. “So to attribute this background rate of cardiac arrest that is occurring in athletes to the COVID vaccine is really connecting two dots that are completely unrelated.”
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), particularly sudden arrhythmic death (SAD), “occurs at a substantial background rate in the population, even among children and young people,” Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D., director of biostatistics for the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, said.
There are approximately 1,000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every day in the United States, according to estimates from the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation.
Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart wall, can occur in rare cases following vaccination. In severe cases, it can lead to stroke, heart attack, heart failure or death, the American Heart Association says.
But medical experts say the risk of myocarditis is far higher in people infected with the coronavirus than those who receive the vaccine.
While there have been reported cases of myocarditis from COVID-19 infection and the vaccine, a study published in August 2022 found that the risk of myocarditis in people infected with the coronavirus was more than seven times higher compared to people who were vaccinated.
“I worry much more about the infection itself setting you up to have some kind of an arrhythmia or collapse, especially during competitive sports, rather than the vaccine,” Kohli said.
While athletes sometimes experience sudden cardiac arrest, there’s no evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine increased the odds of that happening. | 2023-01-04T22:53:55+00:00 | ktvb.com | https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/verify/vaccines-verify/graph-uses-flawed-data-falsely-connecting-athlete-deaths-cardiac-arrests-to-covid-vaccine-fact-check/536-343deeff-118d-4934-b3ca-fd1f8666f9d1 |
Announces CARRERA x COACHELLA VIP Sweepstakes
PADOVA, Italy and SECAUCUS, N.J., March 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CARRERA Eyewear, a house brand of Safilo group announces its official eyewear partnership with the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival taking place over two consecutive weekends, April 14 – 16 and April 21 – 23, in Indio, California.
As an official Coachella partner, CARRERA will have category exclusivity as the only featured eyewear brand on the festival grounds. The brand will be present with a partner tent to connect and engage with thousands of festival goers while offering an immersive brand experience, including a sunglasses try-on station which will debut the CARRERA Woman collection, a global preview launching in April exclusively in North America.
To celebrate its Coachella partnership, the brand is running a CARRERA x COACHELLA VIP Sweepstakes which will include VIP passes to Weekend 1, airfare, and lodging for one lucky winner and three friends.
For the official rules and how to enter the sweepstakes, visit the home page of CARRERA U.S. at us.carreraworld.com or go directly to registration at us.carreraworld.com/pages/Coachella-VIP. Open to residents of the United States who are 21 or older, the CARRERA x COACHELLA sweepstakes ends on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 11:59pm PDT. The winner, selected at random, will be drawn and notified on Monday March 27, 2023. No purchase necessary.
CARRERA's presence at Coachella will be enriched by the attendance of a crew of top influencers crew including brand ambassadors featured in the Spring/Summer '23 eyewear campaign, selected for following their individual passions. Discover them on CARRERA social media channels.
"Coachella is much more than a music festival – it is a cultural movement. It is two weekends of creativity, inclusivity and diversity conceptualized for those who want to stand out from the crowd, and this perfectly aligns with the essence of the CARRERA brand," said Francesco Rinaldi Ceroni, President of North America, Safilo Group. "We are excited to announce this inaugural partnership and we are looking forward to connecting with CARRERA brand enthusiasts on site as well as engaging and exposing the brand to a whole new audience."
About CARRERA
Synonymous with pioneering design and outstanding quality – CARRERA is a statement brand since 1956 for people who live by their own rules, continuously defying themselves and proudly approaching life standing out from the crowd.
CARREA Eyewear is a house brand of Safilo Group, one of the eyewear industry's key players in the design, manufacturing and distribution of prescription frames, sunglasses, outdoor eyewear, goggles, and helmets.
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MASSILLON, Ohio (WJW) – Toria Townsend was in a hurry.
On June 13, she was late for a hair appointment in northeast Ohio that was 45 minutes away.
“Anybody that knows me knows when I’m in a rush, I’m not thinking,” she told Nexstar’s WJW on Wednesday.
On her drive home, she couldn’t help but notice the glares of strangers and passersby.
“People kept mugging me and giving my dirty looks. I’m like, ‘Why did everyone wake up on the wrong side of the bed?'” Townsend said.
She returned to her Massillon home that evening and dug into some chicken strips.
“Not even 10 minutes, I get a Ring … the Massillon police officers are at my door,” Townsend said.
She was nervous — so nervous that it seemed appropriate to warn the knocking officer that her breath smelled like chicken strips, she said.
“The craziest thing — you’re not gonna’ believe it,” said the officer. “We got a call. Someone was concerned. Are you like a hair stylist or something? … There’s, like, hair peeking out of your trunk.”
Then it all clicked.
“Oh my Jesus, that’s my weave,” Townsend shouted.
Everyone had a good laugh about it, she said.
In her haste to get into her stylist’s studio, Townsend tossed the wig into the trunk and forgot about it. After nearly an hour of alarming others on the road back to Massillon, someone snapped a photo of the hair hanging out of her trunk, along with the license plate, and sent it to the police.
Officers checked Townsend’s plate number, got her address and went out for a welfare check just after 7:30 p.m. according to the dispatch log. They stopped at her house just before 7:45 p.m. Then, a single line of narrative was added to the log: “WIG.”
“Honestly, I’m glad that the person called. It shows how much the community cares,” Townsend said. “Every time you look up, it’s not a good outcome when it comes to a person of color and a police officer. When you finally see that person having jokes and laughing with smiles — that’s amazing.
“The police officers were extremely nice. They didn’t make assumptions.”
Townsend, 30, works with adults with developmental disabilities and is also working toward a degree in human and social services. She’s also awaiting a certification to distribute her own wine brand called Classy Melita, named after her aunt, a wine-lover who died of COVID-19.
Townsend’s Ring doorbell camera footage was later posted to TikTok and went viral.
“Out of all things, this really happened. … It only happens to me,” she laughed. | 2023-06-29T14:14:11+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/what-cops-in-ohio-found-in-cars-trunk-had-them-laughing/ |
BOSTON, Oct. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston-based asset manager announced its first U.S. institutional investor in its Sustainable Global strategy, with a seed investment from sustainability-focused allocator McKnight Foundation. The investment underscores increasing demand in this space.
"Acadian is using natural language processing to harness growing climate disclosure and other unstructured data. This allows them to craft climate-aware strategies for their clients and add differentiated signals to their systematic model to enhance return forecasts," said Elizabeth McGeveran, Director of Investments at McKnight Foundation. "This strategy will help McKnight reach our commitment to achieving a net zero endowment by 2050 or sooner—with weighted average carbon intensity more than 30% below a 2020 benchmark baseline and on a net zero glidepath that will improve by 7% annually."
Added Ms. McGeveran, "Our seed investment in this Fund diversifies our public equity portfolio, creates additional exposure to value, and augments our approach to mission alignment."
Acadian has long been active in the ESG space and was the first systematic investment manager to sign the UN PRI in 2009. Acadian has been managing dedicated Sustainable portfolios since 2005. Other responsible investing solutions include the Emerging Markets ex-Fossil Fuel strategy incepted in 2016, as well as a significant portion of assets under management with client-driven ESG tilts—which the firm has been implementing to varying degrees since the 1990s.
The strategy employs the firm's systematic process to invest on financially material ESG alpha signals, engage in active ownership, and take advantage of flexible portfolio construction techniques to capture exclusions and climate action targets. Said Acadian CMO and Head of Global Client Group Kelly Young, "We believe that there is a considerable edge we can bring to ESG investing through our systematic approach, and we are excited by the conversations we are having with our client partners to build customizable solutions that integrate sustainability preferences."
Acadian Asset Management LLC invests on behalf of pension funds, endowments, governments, foundations and other institutional investors, with US$90.5 billion in assets under management globally, as of June 30, 2022. The firm uses an innovative array of disciplined, systematic investment techniques across stock-specific, macro, and peer forecasting models. Acadian offers systematic macro, ESG, equity alternatives, managed volatility, and long-only strategies, including emerging markets, small-cap, and international equity. Acadian has affiliated offices in London, Sydney, and Singapore.
The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. In 2021, McKnight committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its $3 billion endowment by 2050 or sooner. A leading funder of climate solutions in the Midwest, McKnight is the country's largest private foundation to pursue a net zero endowment. Learn more at mcknight.org/impact-investing.
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SOURCE Acadian Asset Management LLC | 2022-10-17T14:44:40+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2022/10/17/acadian-adds-first-us-institutional-investor-sustainable-global-strategy/ |
Orlando Arcia Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Red Sox - July 26
Published: Jul. 26, 2023 at 5:28 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
Orlando Arcia -- with a slugging percentage of .576 in his past 10 games, including three home runs -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves versus the Boston Red Sox, with Brayan Bello on the hill, on July 26 at 7:10 PM ET.
In his last game, he racked up two hits (going 2-for-3) against the Red Sox.
Orlando Arcia Game Info & Props vs. the Red Sox
- Game Day: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
- Game Time: 7:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Fenway Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Red Sox Starter: Brayan Bello
- TV Channel: ESPN
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +200)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +125)
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Orlando Arcia At The Plate
- Arcia has 12 doubles, 10 home runs and 22 walks while hitting .291.
- Arcia has picked up a hit in 65.4% of his 78 games this season, with multiple hits in 30.8% of those games.
- He has homered in 12.8% of his games this year, and 3.3% of his trips to the dish.
- Arcia has had an RBI in 24 games this year (30.8%), including 10 multi-RBI outings (12.8%).
- He has scored at least once 29 times this year (37.2%), including 10 games with multiple runs (12.8%).
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Orlando Arcia Home/Away Batting Splits
Red Sox Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Red Sox has a collective 8.8 K/9, which ranks 14th in MLB.
- The Red Sox have the 17th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.29).
- Red Sox pitchers combine to rank 23rd in baseball in home runs allowed (128 total, 1.3 per game).
- Bello (7-6) gets the starting nod for the Red Sox in his 17th start of the season. He has a 3.60 ERA in 90 2/3 innings pitched, with 78 strikeouts.
- In his last time out on Wednesday, the right-hander went four innings against the Oakland Athletics, giving up six earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- In 16 games this season, the 24-year-old has a 3.60 ERA and 7.8 strikeouts per nine innings, while allowing a batting average of .248 to his opponents.
© 2023 Data Skrive. All rights reserved. | 2023-07-26T11:10:30+00:00 | atlantanewsfirst.com | https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/sports/betting/2023/07/26/orlando-arcia-mlb-player-prop-bets/ |
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A woman’s body went undiscovered in a car in short-term parking at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas for nearly a month, in a part of the garage just yards away from passenger pickup.
The car sat undisturbed for 23 days. It was not until a parking employee noticed the smell that he called police.
“The odor around the vehicle — it’s pretty, pretty horrific,” an officer said in body-camera video Nexstar’s KLAS obtained documenting the response.
The discovery comes on the heels of a report finding thieves have stolen dozens of cars parked at the airport garages over two years. While there are cameras and license plate readers throughout the garages, KLAS found they do not always work or do not capture every vehicle. Dozens of stolen vehicle reports show surveillance and other security measures in place are not catching nor preventing all thefts.
“To me, it seems like there’s no safety in that garage, at all,” a former airport employee who requested anonymity said.
A parking employee discovered the woman’s body in the car in the short-term parking area of the Terminal 1 garage on Nov. 1, 2022, documents said.
“This is passenger pickup — short-term passenger pickup,” the Metro officer said on his body camera video as he relayed his location to dispatchers.
Short-term passenger parking is intended for stays at the airport of three hours or less, the airport’s website said. The woman entered the garage on Oct. 8 and died by suicide, a report said. The total time her body lay there, 23 days, is more than 500 hours over that 3-hour limit.
The area is also a row away from the busy road where passengers meet awaiting cars, albeit an area where no stopping is allowed.
“They’re supposed to an inventory on the short-term parking and obviously somebody just went and pencil-whipped. They never actually verified if that particular vehicle had been there and how long it’s been there,” the former employee said.
The report about the woman’s death indicates there was a record of the car entering the garage. It was unclear if employees inventoried the car, and if they did, why no one realized a body was inside. It also was not clear why a vehicle was allowed to be parked in a sensitive area for more than three weeks.
“To come to the airport and leave for a couple of days and come back and your vehicle is missing, it’s terrible,” said Chris Arencibia, whose car was stolen last year. “It’s a terrible feeling.”
KLAS found Arencibia’s car was one of about four dozen vehicles stolen from airport property that victims have reported to Las Vegas Metro police over the past two years.
“My concern is not the vehicle — it’s just at 4 o’clock in the morning, women, men, young, older people, could go up there and something could happen to them and there’s no camera to see what’s going on,” he said, adding the parking office told him there was no video surveillance of his car.
In November, KLAS interviewed an airport spokesperson as part of the station’s original story about car thefts. Unknown at the time, that interview was recorded the day after the parking employee had found the deceased woman in her car.
“There’s a lot of different components in place to check on the vehicles,” airport spokesperson Joe Rajchel said in November. “We have people who go through at night — check the license plates that are here to again keep that information and see what vehicles we have on property.”
In another interview, a Metro police captain said cameras do not capture all crimes or incidents in the garages. The ex-employee said staffing shortages and automation have led to fewer patrols. The added removal of parking booths has eliminated human interaction and instinct if a suspicious issue were to arise.
“There will be some nights when they have bike patrol that they may only have one,” they said.
While signs for short-term parking and the airport’s website claim there’s a three-hour limit, Rajchel said a car can be parked there for 30 days before it is towed.
While the car with the woman’s body in it was “logged as in pulling into the garage,” according to a report, it was unclear if there was other surveillance of it available. Reports for stolen cars KLAS obtained show a lack of surveillance, with one person reporting their car missing with “no record of the vehicle leaving.”
“Department of Aviation did not have any surveillance cameras at the location of occurrence,” one stolen-vehicle report said. Another wrote, “[airport staff] did not have any video surveillance of his vehicle entering the parking garage or leaving.”
“I can’t speak to the reports. I haven’t seen them,” Rajchel told KLAS in November. “I can’t speak to what is behind that.”
Some theft reports obtained by KLAS indicated daily car inventories as recently as December 2022, but it remained unclear why the woman’s car went unnoticed.
“We often see travelers choose to park in short term to conveniently and quickly find a parking spot, especially during busy times, when the long-term garage fills,” said Rajchel in an emailed response to queries about the woman’s discovery.
The ex-employee said garage staff is not allowed to look into vehicles nor could they see inside if the windows were obscured. A report on the incident indicates the woman’s windows were tinted, but that a sunroof was left open.
Reid Airport is one of the nation’s busiest, with tens of millions of passengers traveling through each year. That includes millions of travelers who live and work in the Las Vegas valley and who park at the airport before getting on a flight. | 2023-03-14T17:13:30+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/body-not-discovered-for-23-days-in-las-vegas-airports-short-term-parking/ |
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is certain to dominate an upcoming NATO summit in Madrid, Spain and other member nations are quietly pushing the Western alliance to consider how mercenaries aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin are spreading Moscow’s influence to Africa.
As the host of the summit taking place from Tuesday to Thursday, Spain wants to emphasize its proximity to Africa as it lobbies for a greater focus on Europe’s southern flank in a new document outlining NATO’s vision of its security challenges and tasks.
The Strategic Concept is NATO’s most important working document after the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949, which contained the key provision holding that an attack on one member is viewed as an attack upon all. The security assessment is updated roughly every decade to reset the West’s security agenda.
The current version, approved in Lisbon in 2010, stated the risk of a conventional war on NATO territory was “low.” It did not explicitly mention concerns about instability in Africa. At the time, the alliance viewed apathy as its biggest military threat; U.S. complaints that some European members were not paying their due featured heavily in summit talks.
Fast forward a dozen years, and the view looks very different from NATO headquarters in Brussels. After Russia brought war close to NATO’s eastern borders, the alliance has worked to provide Ukraine with an assortment of more powerful weapons and to avoid the very real risk of getting drawn into the fighting.
But there appears to be a consensus among NATO members heading into the Madrid summit that while Russia remains concern No. 1, the alliance must continue to widen its view globally. Spain’s position for an increased focus on “the South” is shared by Britain, France and Italy.
In their view, the security challenges in Africa arise from a Putin apparently dead-set on restoring the imperial glories of Russia as well as from an expansive China. Russia has gained traction thanks to the presence of its mercenaries in the Sahel region, a semiarid expanse stretching from Senegal to Sudan that suffers from political strife, terrorism and drought.
“Each time I meet with NATO ministers, the support of the allies is total due to the instability that we see on the alliance’s southern frontier and especially the situation in the Sahel region right now,” Spanish Foreign Minister José Albares said.
The Kremlin denies links to the Wagner Group, a mercenary force with an increasing presence in central and North Africa and the Middle East. The private military company, which has also participated in the war in Ukraine, has developed footholds in Libya, Mali, Sudan and Central African Republic.
In Mali, Wagner soldiers are filling a void created by the exit of former colonial power France. In Sudan, Russia’s offer of an economic alliance earned it the promise of a naval base on the Red Sea. In Central African Republic, Wagner fighters protect the country’s gold and diamond mines. In return, Putin gets diplomatic allies and resources.
French President Emmanuel Macron has long called for a “greater involvement” from NATO in the Sahel region. Now that Wagner has moved into Mali, French authorities underlined that Wagner mercenaries were accused of human right abuses in the Central African Republic, Libya and Syria.
Former NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana said that Russia’s brutal military campaign in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during his country’s long civil war left it emboldened.
“Syria gave (the Russians) the sentiment that they could be more active in that part of the world,” Solana told The Associated Press. “They have very good relations with Algeria and they have (…) the Wagner type of people in the Sahel, which is delicate.”
With the Sahel, Morocco and Algeria at risk of worsening instability, “the southern part of NATO, for Portugal, Spain, Greece, etc., they would like to have an eye open to that part of the world,” he said.
Italy is another NATO member attuned to the political climate across the Mediterranean Sea. The country hosts NATO’s Joint Force Command base in Naples, which in 2017 opened a south hub focusing on terrorism, radicalization, migration and other issues emanating from North Africa and the Middle East.
The Italian ambassador to NATO, Francesco Maria Talo, said in a May interview with Italian news agency ANSA that humanitarian crises in Africa must concern all NATO allies.
“Near us there’s Africa, with a billion inhabitants at risk of poverty, aggravated by food insecurity, terrorism and climate change, all factors that combine to create insecurity,” Talo said. “And Russia is present there, too.”
The importance of the other side of the Mediterranean became painfully evident to Spain over the past year due to a series of diplomatic crises involving Morocco and Algeria and their rivalry over the fate of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony.
Amid the disputes, reduced border security allowed migrants to enter Spanish territory, and there were perceived threats to energy supplies. Analysts consider both to be tactics of “hybrid warfare” when governments use them against other countries.
Speaking in Madrid last month, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace noted the problems caused last year when Belarus, a Putin ally, allegedly encouraged migrants to cross its borders into Poland and other neighboring countries.
“If the likes of Wagner get the control they have or they’d like to have in places like Libya or indeed what we see they’re already doing in Mali, do not think that Spain will be untouched by that,” Wallace said.
NATO is also expected to include in the new Strategic Document a reference to China’s growing military reach both in and beyond the Pacific theater.
U.S. Army Gen. Stephen J. Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command, warned last month that China was trying to build a military naval base on Africa’s Atlantic coast. He said Beijing “has most traction” toward establishing the base in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny oil-rich dictatorship that was once Spain’s only sub-Saharan African colony.
China only operates one acknowledged foreign military base, located in Djibouti in East Africa, But many believe its People’s Liberation Army is busy establishing an overseas military network, even if it doesn’t use the term “base.”
NATO has invited the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand to the summit to demonstrate its interest in the Asian-Pacific.
The foreign minister of Mauritania, a former French colony in West Africa, is also invited to attend a working dinner of fellow foreign ministers at the NATO summit. NATO said the country, which borders Western Sahara, Algeria, Mali and Senegal, was “closely associated with the preparatory work” for the new Strategic Concept.
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AP writers Ciarán Giles in Madrid, Sylvie Corbet in Paris, and Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to this report. | 2022-06-26T13:09:57+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-international/as-summit-host-spain-urges-nato-to-watch-its-southern-flank/ |
HONOLULU (AP) — The latest eruption at Kilauea’s summit on Hawaii’s has paused after 61 days of volcanic activity.
U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists said Tuesday lava was no longer flowing on the crater floor of Halemaumau, where all recent volcanic activity had been confined, Hawaii News Now reported.
No significant changes have been observed along the volcano’s rift zones. Scientists on Monday observed small “ooze-outs” of lava flowing sluggishly in the lava lake.
Officials said activity diminished in the afternoon, and by Tuesday, there was no active lava in the crater.
USGS said the reduction in activity was related to the “larger deflationary tilt drop” that began Feb. 17, a common process at Kilauea in which the ground deflates for hours or days. The drop in pressure can then cause eruptions to diminish.
Kilauea began erupting again Jan. 5 after scientists detected a glow within Halemaumau Crater. The latest eruption started after a nearly monthlong pause in activity.
Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. A 2018 Kilauea eruption destroyed more than 700 homes.
Before the major 2018 eruption, Kilauea had been erupting since 1983, and streams of lava occasionally covered farms and homes. During that time, the lava sometimes reached the ocean, causing dramatic interactions with the water. | 2023-03-08T23:03:55+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/science/ap-science/eruption-at-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-stops-after-61-days/ |
BOSTON (AP) _ BrightSphere Investment Group (BSIG) on Thursday reported third-quarter profit of $17.8 million.
On a per-share basis, the Boston-based company said it had profit of 42 cents. Earnings, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to 30 cents per share.
The asset manager posted revenue of $86.8 million in the period.
BrightSphere Investment Group shares have dropped 28% since the beginning of the year. The stock has dropped 39% in the last 12 months.
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Christina Applegate isn't afraid to give the haters a piece of her mind. The 51-year-old Dead to Me star shared on Twitter that after making the "unfortunate decision" to read the comments on an article about her recent appearance at the Critics' Choice Awards, she told off one troll, who commented on her changing look.
"Of course I told her that it wasn’t nice. This was her reply," Applegate wrote. "What is wrong with people. By the way, I laughed."
She then shared a screenshot of an alleged conversation with the commenter, who wrote, "MS didn't make you look that way a plastic surgeon did. And you are a scammer and are not Christina Applegate. And a bad plastic surgeon at that."
Ahead of the Critics' Choice Awards, Applegate shared some of her nerves on Twitter.
"So this Sunday will be the first awards show I have been to since 2019. And the first since MS. NERVOUS! But grateful to the @CriticsChoicefor including me," she wrote at the time.
Applegate was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021. In the year since her diagnosis, the actress completed work on Dead to Me and got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame -- which was her first event since being diagnosed.
"Shooting [Dead to Me] was the hardest thing I've ever had to do in my life," she said in December. "I was diagnosed during shooting and I didn't know what was happening to me. I couldn’t walk. They had to use a wheelchair to get me to set. I was freaking out until someone was like, 'You need a MRI.'"
She added, "Then I found out on a Monday after work that I had MS. A disease that I'm going to have for the rest of my life. And then I started thinking about the last four years and I had very small symptoms."
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IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets. Its target: a surging population of mosquitoes that can spread diseases to humans.
The drone is the latest technology deployed by the Orange County Mosquito and Vector Control District to attack mosquito development in marshes, large ponds and parks.
Mosquitoes grow into larvae from eggs laid in water, making proliferation of the biting bugs a major concern after California’s extraordinarily rainy winter.
“There’s quite a bit more mosquitoes due to the rain,” said John Savage, who recently operated the drone at San Joaquin Marsh Reserve near the University of California, Irvine. “You can see out here almost every single marsh pond is full of water.”
The district sprawling over more than 800 square miles (2,070 square kilometers) south of Los Angeles is reporting that traps are capturing three times the 15-year average number of mosquitoes.
“I would call it a huge spike,” said Kiet Nguyen, a vector ecologist for the district.
Common methods of applying anti-mosquito treatments involve use of backpack sprayers, trucks, airplanes and helicopters. The drone allows more precise treatments and avoids the need to trample through sensitive lands, according to the district.
“We’re always looking for advancements in technology — what can get the job (done) more efficient, more beneficial to the team and less invasive,” Nguyen said.
The drone is flown higher than all nesting birds and allows access to places that can’t be reached by a person with a backpack sprayer or trucks, Nguyen said.
Nguyen said the drone is able to treat 1 acre (0.4 hectares) of land in under two minutes, a task that would take more than an hour of hiking by a worker with a backpack.
As Savage finished a recent morning flight, a nearby great egret was undisturbed as it searched the tall grasses for food.
“We’ve done studies where we watched the birds,” said Savage, “And the birds usually come right back after the drone passes over. So if anything, it’s better for the environment.”
The anti-mosquito treatment is not harmful to other wildlife.
“The mosquito larvae are filter feeders, so they feed on the bacteria,” Savage said. “It enters their gut and it’s a growth regulator. So essentially — if you guys have seen the movie ‘Alien’ — it blows their stomach out.”
According to the district, the drone operators must have a Federal Aviation Administration remote pilot license as well as a California Department of Pesticide Regulation unmanned aircraft vector control technician license.
The Orange County district, which acquired its drone several years ago, does not use it in neighborhoods. Similarly, Santa Clara County Vector Control uses a drone to control mosquito larvae in nonresidential areas along San Francisco Bay.
Mosquito-borne diseases have long been recognized as a public health threat, and the concern is rising.
The European Union’s disease prevention authority warned this month that warming caused by climate change is raising the risk of mosquito-borne viral diseases. And this week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported five cases of malaria spread by mosquitoes in Florida and Texas, marking the first local spread in 20 years.
In California, West Nile virus is the most common and serious mosquito-borne disease, accounting for more than 7,500 human cases and more than 300 deaths since 2003, according to the state Department of Public Health.
So far this year, West Nile has not been detected in the Orange County district but Nguyen is nowhere near declaring victory over the pests.
“It’s more of a battle,” he said. “You’re not going to win the war against mosquitoes, but you can gain some ground. And with advancements in technology, we’re gaining ground.”
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Associated Press writer John Antczak in Los Angeles contributed to this report. | 2023-06-29T20:13:49+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/drone-deployed-to-fight-mosquitoes-in-southern-california/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation and Compass Inc., today announced a partnership to integrate Risk Factor - property specific, climate risk intelligence - into Compass listings. Risk Factor was designed to improve the agent and client experience by enhancing the understanding of property climate risk for homes across the United States. Compass, the largest residential real estate brokerage in the country, will integrate climate risk analytics as part of the home buying and selling process for both agents and clients.
Using the Compass platform, Compass agents will be able to view property-specific, climate-adjusted data to understand the 30-year risk profile for more than 140 million homes covered by RiskFactor.com The partnership provides Compass agents with valuable information while working with homebuyers and sellers who are interested in better understanding the impact of environmental changes when making long-term purchasing decisions.
"Compass exists to help our agents grow their businesses, serve more clients, and stand out as trusted, professional, advisors in real estate transactions," said Joseph Sirosh, Chief Technology Officer at Compass. "Integrating Risk Factor will give our agents access to insight from the world's leading climate modelers, allowing them to factor-in potential environmental risks when advising their clients. We're excited to be able to provide yet another tool that assists our agents and their clients in navigating the ever-changing housing market."
Compass selected Risk Factor after a thorough market search to find an accurate and intelligent physical climate risk provider in direct response to agent and client requests. The integration will initially include Flood Factor and Fire Factor data for all properties on Compass.com and will be added to with subsequent Risk Factor data launches.
"We applaud Compass for integrating physical climate risk data for both agents and clients" said Matthew Eby, Founder and CEO of First Street Foundation "This integration will engender trust and place Compass at the forefront of the industry as it confronts the challenges of a changing climate."
First Street Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) research and technology group working to define America's climate risk. The Foundation uses transparent, peer-reviewed methodologies to calculate the past, present, and future climate risk of individual homes and commercial properties across the United States. The Foundation's data addresses an asymmetry of information in the U.S., empowering Americans to protect themselves from increasing climate risk.
Founded in 2012, Compass is the largest residential real estate brokerage in the United States. The technology-enabled brokerage provides an end-to-end platform that empowers its residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. The platform includes an integrated suite of cloud-based software for customer relationship management, marketing, client service, brokerage services and other critical functionality, all custom-built for the real estate industry. Compass agents utilize the platform to grow their business, save time and manage their business more effectively. For more information on how Compass empowers real estate agents, one of the largest groups of small business owners in the country, please visit www.compass.com.
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NEW YORK, June 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Attention Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. ("Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp.") (NASDAQ: LILM) shareholders:
The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that a class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of investors who purchased between March 30, 2021 and March 14, 2022.
If you suffered a loss on your investment in Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp., contact us about potential recovery by using the link below. There is no cost or obligation to you.
ABOUT THE ACTION: The class action against Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. includes allegations that the Company made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Lilium materially overstates the design and capabilities of the Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft for use in a new type of high-speed air transport system for people and goods; (2) Lilium materially overstates the likelihood for the Lilium Jet's timely certification; (3) Lilium misrepresents its ability to obtain or create the necessary batteries for the Lilium Jet; (4) the special purpose acquisition company merger would not and did not generate enough cash to commercially launch the Lilium Jet; (5) Qell Acquisition Corp. did not engage in proper due diligence regarding its merger with Lilium GmbH; and (6) as a result, Defendants' public statements and statements to journalists were materially false and/or misleading at all relevant times.
DEADLINE: June 17, 2022
Aggrieved Lilium N.V. f/k/a Qell Acquisition Corp. investors only have until June 17, 2022 to request that the Court appoint you as lead plaintiff. You are not required to act as a lead plaintiff in order to share in any recovery.
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Trump team, Justice Dept. spar over seized Mar-a-Lago docs
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former president can assert executive privilege over documents seized from his Florida estate to shield them from investigators and over whether he can treat the records as his own personal belongings.
Dueling legal briefs unsealed Monday lay bare a continuing dispute over the status of thousands of records taken during an Aug. 8 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Justice Department investigators want broad access to the documents as they consider whether to bring charges for the retention of top-secret information at the Palm Beach property, but Trump’s lawyers are resisting that.
The disagreement is playing out before a veteran Brooklyn judge, Raymond Dearie, who was appointed to conduct his own review of the seized records and to resolve disputes between the two sides over claims of executive privilege and attorney-client privilege.
Both sides submitted written arguments on points of disagreement, including whether Trump could designate records created or received during his administration as personal records after leaving the White House and whether he could assert executive privilege to withhold certain documents from investigators.
The Trump team argued in its filing that Trump exercised his authority under the Presidential Records Act to designate the records that were later seized from Mar-a-Lago as his own personal belongings. It says that once a president has designated a record as personal, “the inquiry ends regardless of the content of a given document.”
“President Trump was still serving his term in office when the documents at issue were packed, transported, and delivered to his residence in Palm Beach, Florida,” the Trump team wrote.
“Thus, when he made a designation decision, he was President of the United States; his decision to retain certain records as personal is entitled to deference, and the records in question are thus presumptively personal,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.
The Justice Department, for its part, accused the Trump team of “gamesmanship” and said that Trump was not entitled to claim as personal records documents that were clearly presidential. It also argued that Trump can not invoke executive privilege, a legal principle that permits the president to keep certain information secret to protect the confidentiality of presidential decision-making, as a way to now block the FBI from reviewing certain records.
The FBI seized roughly 13,000 documents during its search of Mar-a-Lago, including about 100 with classification markings. A federal appeals court in September lifted a judge’s hold on the Justice Department’s ability to use the classified documents as part of its criminal investigation, but department lawyers want to be able to review the unclassified records as well because they say they may contain evidence of a crime.
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January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month
SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
Local law enforcement officials warn residents that the dangers of trafficking can be seen in many different ways and that anyone is susceptible to being trafficked.
Some of the most common forms of trafficking include, forced labor trafficking and sex trafficking.
Sgt. Brett Mullen from the Sherman Police Department said, in a lot of cases, people being trafficked know the person in charge and that there are ways to stay aware.
he explained, “So I think one of the most important things, especially for parents, is just tell your kids, your juveniles, your teenagers that this threat is out there, that this danger does exist. Just being aware that there are people out there that may wish to do them harm, not everyone is your friend. a lot of times education and awareness is the key to help prevent this sort of things.
Sgt. Mullen also said it’s important for parents to teach their kids about healthy relationships and creating boundaries to understand what is okay and what is not okay.
Copyright 2023 KXII. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-06T00:06:38+00:00 | kxii.com | https://www.kxii.com/2023/01/05/january-is-national-human-trafficking-prevention-month/ |
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I got the idea from riding 4 wheelers and watching others ride motorcycles and I felt there needed to be a safer way to have passengers on board" said the inventor of the BUDDY BELT from Line Fork, Kentucky; "My invention is unique because it makes riding more comfortable and easer to hold on."
This patent-pending intention fulfills the need for enhanced passenger stability and safety on motorcycles and ATVs. Would help improve safety, comfort, and balance.This would keep the extra rider stabilized, supported, and comfortable while also making machine operation more enjoyable for the operator. This innovative product would be lightweight, affordable, reliable, adjustable, and attractively-styled.
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. 20-AVT-125, 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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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (AP) _ Twist Bioscience Corp. (TWST) on Friday reported a loss of $51.1 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The South San Francisco, California-based company said it had a loss of 91 cents per share.
The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of three analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for a loss of $1.28 per share.
The maker of synthetic DNA for the biotechnology industry posted revenue of $57.3 million in the period, also beating Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $57 million.
For the year, the company reported a loss of $217.9 million, or $4.04 per share. Revenue was reported as $203.6 million.
For the current quarter ending in December, Twist Bioscience said it expects revenue in the range of $54 million.
The company expects full-year revenue in the range of $261 million to $269 million.
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Pack up the umbrella and the beach towel and head back to the car: The Fed's Hot Pause Summer is officially over.
The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it would raise interest rates a quarter percentage point (or 25 basis points), to a 22-year high. It marks a return to the long, steady climb interest rates have been on for the last year, as the Fed attempts to beat back inflation.
"The Committee remains highly attentive to inflation risks," the Fed said in a press release.
Last month, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell hit the pause button on those rate hikes, which was like an economic beach holiday for consumers and Wall Street.
It meant credit card interest rates wouldn't keep rising and that loans people and businesses wanted to take out for things like houses weren't getting more expensive by the day.
And, even with the interest rate steady, inflation continued to fall, to roughly 3% (very near the Fed's goal rate of 2%) and the unemployment rate remained near historic lows.
Why is the Fed back to raising rates?
After nearly a year of aggressive action and rates at decades-long highs, why not keep the pause in place?
"I think the message they wanted to send is that things are moving in the right direction, but we need to wait and see," says economist Raghuram Rajan, former head of India's Central Bank and professor at The University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
"Rather than, 'We're done,' they're waiting to see how the economy reacts and then deciding how much more medicine it needs," he says.
In a press release, the Fed wrote: "Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated."
The Fed is trying to strike a tricky balance right now, Rajan says, what economists often call a "soft landing": Raising interest rates just enough to slow the economy down to where inflation falls, but not so much that the economy ends up in a recession.
The Fed's tricky balance
When interest rates rise, people and businesses have to pay more on their loans. They then borrow — and spend and buy — less. Companies sell less stuff because there are fewer buyers, and that usually brings prices down. And, voila: Inflation comes down.
The trouble is, when companies make less money, they also don't expand, and will often lay people off. Those things can cause a recession.
Now that things are moving in the right direction, says Rajan, the Fed probably doesn't want to take its foot off the brake and risk inflation getting out of control.
Then the U.S. will be caught in the dreaded inflationary spiral, when prices rise out of control, and our savings and paychecks are worth less by the day.
The cautionary tale
An inflationary spiral took hold of the U.S. economy back in the 1970s and the Fed had to take aggressive action that caused a deep recession and high unemployment for years.
Right now, in spite of everything looking good, it's important for the Fed to be cautious, says economist Matthew Slaughter, Dean of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business.
"I've always been Team Soft Landing, aspirationally," he says. "But the empirical economist in me thinks that's pretty unlikely."
Slaughter points out that historically, when countries try to get back to a low target inflation rate, it almost always causes a recession.
The economy on ice
Slaughter says big economic actions, like raising interest rates, can take time to play out. He compares monetary policy to the sport of curling, which was popular in Minnesota, where he grew up:
"You've got the puck... and you push it and the team can try and direct it and brush the ice... but in the end, they just have to wait and watch it move down the ice," he says.
The Fed stressed this, saying: "The Committee is strongly committed to returning inflation to its 2% objective."
Slaughter expects more interest rate hikes this year, but says we could see more pauses as well, as the Federal Reserve watches to see where the economy moves in coming months.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-07-26T19:13:42+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2023-07-26/the-feds-hot-pause-summer-gets-an-ice-bath-interest-rates-rise-again |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A founder of a local animal shelter is leading the charge to change state regulations that place an unfair burden on Massachusetts animal shelters.
Massachusetts is the only state that requires shelters to isolate pets from out of state for 48 hours even though they come in with health certificates.
Pet supply stores generously offer free adoption centers, but the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture treats the animals as if they are now owned by the pet supply stores, requiring shelters to pay for a vet exam every 7-days instead of what is in the shelter regulations. No pet that has already been deemed healthy and ready for adoption needs to go to the vet every 7 days, instead of every 180 as is required in the shelter regulations.
22News spoke with Sheryl Blancato, CEO & founder of Second Chance Animal Services and whose leading the charge for change about the situation.
“We’re trying to raise awareness about this issue and how serious it is because there are shelters and rescues that are struggling to survive because they cannot keep up with the financial burden of this,” Blancato said.
Blancato authored an online petition to change regulations which have already received over 3,500 signatures.
For more information or if you’d like to sign the petition, click here. | 2023-03-07T05:55:01+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/local-news/push-to-change-state-regulations-for-massachusetts-animal-shelters/ |
TransPerfect Welcomes Hiventy Team and Pledges Continuity to Staff and Customers
NEW YORK and PARIS, Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, today announced that it has acquired France-based media house Hiventy Group. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Hiventy specializes in technical audiovisual services including post-production, localization, distribution, and film restoration. The company is based in Paris and serves a multinational client base through its global locations, which include Warsaw, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Casablanca, Nairobi, and Lagos.
Thierry Schindelé, CEO of Hiventy Group, commented, "This acquisition is recognition of the success of Hiventy's employees in growing our company into the leading media service provider in the industry. Congratulations to all who have had a role in bringing us to this momentous day."
Bertrand Chalon, EVP, Strategy and Business Development for Hiventy, added, "Being part of a much larger, successful global enterprise will provide increased growth opportunities for our business and employees as well as access to new markets. For our customers and users, Hiventy will continue to deliver the same premium solutions and service excellence they expect from us, supplemented by the sizable global resources TransPerfect can now provide."
Technical audiovisual services has been an important growth market for TransPerfect, and this acquisition brings its total owned-and-operated footprint to over 90 recording rooms and eight theatrical rooms worldwide, expanding capacity for post-production, subtitling, dubbing, and audio description services, as well as strengthening its content distribution and restoration offerings.
"We have long admired Hiventy's leadership position and the stellar work they produce for the entertainment industry," stated TransPerfect President and CEO Phil Shawe. "We'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Hiventy team, and we look forward to servicing our combined clients as a one-stop shop for localization and post-production."
TransPerfect was advised on the transaction by law firms Baker Botts and Gide Loyrette Nouel.
About Hiventy
Hiventy has been providing high-end technical solutions to the entertainment industry for more than 35 years and is a trusted partner of a large number of producers, distributors, broadcasters, and media companies worldwide.
Hiventy covers the full range of services required to create, conform, and deliver audiovisual content: image and sound post-production, secure storage and media asset management, image and sound restoration, subtitling, dubbing, and deliveries to cinemas, TV, or digital platforms on any file format. These services are provided in the best security conditions.
Paris-based with branches in Eastern Europe (Warsaw), Asia (Ho Chi Minh City, Singapore), and Africa (Nairobi, Lagos, Casablanca), Hiventy relies on experienced project managers, skilled technicians, up-to-date equipment, and a strong IT department offering technical solutions to any specific requests. Hiventy guarantees top-quality services in the best possible timeframe.
About TransPerfect
TransPerfect is the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business. From offices in over 100 cities on six continents, TransPerfect offers a full range of services in 200+ languages to clients worldwide. More than 6,000 global organizations employ TransPerfect's GlobalLink® technology to simplify management of multilingual content. With an unparalleled commitment to quality and client service, TransPerfect is fully ISO 9001 and ISO 17100 certified. TransPerfect has global headquarters in New York, with regional headquarters in London and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit our website at www.transperfect.com.
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Intruder arrested after allegedly attacking 77-year-old woman in home invasion
HONOLULU (KHNL/Gray News) - Authorities in Honolulu say they have arrested a suspect in connection with a violent home invasion.
KHNL reports a 77-year-old woman was setting her home’s alarm Monday night when it alerted her that an upstairs window was open. She went to check the window but came face-to-face with an intruder.
The 32-year-old suspect allegedly pushed the woman down the stairs and punched her several times in the face before she was able to make it outside of the home.
When police arrived, they reportedly found the suspect in a bedroom where they were able to take the man into custody.
The 77-year-old victim was reportedly taken to the hospital for treatment for injuries to her face, arm and hip.
According to KHNL, the intruder struck another house in the neighborhood that evening near the Mililani Golf Course.
Several neighbors said the break-ins have left them in disbelief.
“It’s shocking,” said resident Ann Kakuni. “It’s usually quiet.”
Kakuni said the community is made up of a lot of retirees and that everyone tries to keep an eye out for one another.
Honolulu Crimestoppers Sgt. Chris Kim said the home invasion appears to be a crime of opportunity.
“A lot of times we’ve heard of cases where these burglars are actually driving up and down the neighborhoods, casing the place,” he said.
Kim advised homeowners to keep their doors and windows locked.
“We’re also encouraging seniors to invest in emergency bracelets,” Kim said. “In the event that you’re home and something medical or an emergency like this happens, you’re able to activate that medical bracelet to notify police.”
Honolulu police said charges against the suspect are currently pending.
Copyright 2023 KHNL via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-12T04:35:37+00:00 | uppermichiganssource.com | https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/01/12/intruder-arrested-after-allegedly-attacking-77-year-old-woman-home-invasion/ |
AUTO RACING
4:55 a.m.;ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Marina Bay Street Circuit, Marina Bay, Singapore
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11 a.m.;NBC — IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: The Petit Le Mans, Road Atlanta
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3 p.m.;USA — NASCAR Xfinity Series: The Sparks 300
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TENNIS
5 a.m.;TENNIS — Tallinn-WTA Semifinal
8 a.m.;TENNIS — Tel Aviv-ATP, Sofia-ATP, Tallinn-WTA Semifinals | 2022-09-30T23:44:46+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/sports/tv-listings-for-october-1/article_a9307416-410c-11ed-954a-1382046873d1.html |
ST. LOUIS -- The St. Louis Cardinals placed right-hander Drew VerHagen on the 15-day injured list because of a right hip impingement and recalled left-hander JoJo Romero from Triple-A Memphis on Sunday before the Cardinals' game against the New York Yankees.
VerHagen, 32, is 4-0 with a 4.78 ERA in a team-leading 35 appearances for St. Louis this season.
VerHagen allowed three runs on one hit and walked three batters pitching the ninth inning during a steady downpour in St. Louis' 11-4 win in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader.
"I've been trying to manage it," VerHagen said. "I just feel like, at this point, I can't really do what I need to do because of it. I just feel like yesterday I just kind of did something more on the wet mound, maybe. I'm not sure."
Manager Oliver Marmol said he first learned about the injury when he was informed VerHagen was being placed on the injured list following Saturday's games.
VerHagen was placed on the injured list last season from April 22 through May 15 and again from July 15 through the end of the season because of the same injury and underwent a surgical procedure on a hip in August.
St. Louis signed VerHagen to a two-year contract before the 2022 season after he pitched for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in Japan for two seasons. | 2023-07-02T19:30:04+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/37949821/cardinals-put-rhp-drew-verhagen-il-hip-impingement |
How to Watch Xavier vs. Kennesaw State on TV or Live Stream - NCAA Tournament First Round
Published: Mar. 16, 2023 at 11:16 PM MDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
A first-round NCAA Tournament matchup will see the 3-seed Xavier Musketeers (25-9) play against the No. 14 seed Kennesaw State Owls (26-8) on Friday at Greensboro Coliseum. The matchup starts at 12:40 PM.
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Xavier vs. Kennesaw State Game Info
- When: Friday, March 17, 2023 at 12:40 PM ET
- Where: Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Xavier Stats Insights
- The Musketeers are shooting 49.4% from the field this season, 6.5 percentage points higher than the 42.9% the Owls allow to opponents.
- In games Xavier shoots higher than 42.9% from the field, it is 23-6 overall.
- The Owls are the 202nd-ranked rebounding team in the country, while the Musketeers sit at 35th.
- The Musketeers average 12.5 more points per game (81.4) than the Owls give up (68.9).
- Xavier is 23-3 when scoring more than 68.9 points.
Kennesaw State Stats Insights
- Kennesaw State has put together a 15-4 straight-up record in games it shoots higher than 44.3% from the field.
- The Musketeers are the rebounding team in the country, the Owls rank 266th.
- The Owls' 75.3 points per game are only 1.2 more points than the 74.1 the Musketeers allow to opponents.
- When Kennesaw State gives up fewer than 81.4 points, it is 22-3.
Xavier Home & Away Comparison
- Offensively Xavier has performed better at home this year, scoring 83.6 points per game, compared to 80.5 per game on the road.
- The Musketeers surrender 71.7 points per game in home games this year, compared to 77.1 in away games.
- When it comes to three-point shooting, Xavier has performed worse when playing at home this year, sinking 7.2 three-pointers per game with a 38% three-point percentage, compared to 8.1 per game and a 40.5% percentage on the road.
Kennesaw State Home & Away Comparison
- In 2022-23 Kennesaw State is scoring 9.2 more points per game at home (80.4) than on the road (71.2).
- At home the Owls are allowing 65.7 points per game, 5.5 fewer points than they are away (71.2).
- Beyond the arc, Kennesaw State makes fewer 3-pointers away (7.9 per game) than at home (8.4), but shoots a higher percentage on the road (37.7%) than at home (35.5%).
Xavier Schedule
Kennesaw State Schedule
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We're excited to announce that applications for the Code Switch Fellowships Class of '22 are now open. The deadline to apply is September 15, 2022.
We launched the fellowships last year as a way to help develop experienced journalists interested in telling thoughtful, nuanced stories about race and identity from people and places we might not otherwise hear. Our fellows produced three of our most compelling episodes of the past year: how "Pretendians" hurt real Indigenous people and communities, tackling racism through therapy and the experience of POCs with albinism.
This year, there are two fellowships designed to allow experienced, working journalists to develop and report an in-depth story about race, identity and social justice. The story will air on the Code Switch podcast and radio show, with editorial help and support from the editors and producers at Code Switch and NPR. We'll work with your current employer to coordinate schedules, timing and publication.
Fellowships are open to all mid-career journalists and storytellers. If you're at an NPR member station in the U.S., we'd especially love to hear from you!
Here are the details:
What we're looking for in a fellow
What you should expect
These fellowships are designed to be flexible, so that fellows can continue working their current jobs while crafting their stories for Code Switch. Fellows will receive a stipend of $12,000 to cover travel and reporting affiliated costs, worked out in conjunction with the fellow's current employer. Up to two candidates will be selected.
How to submit an application
Applicants must submit a detailed proposal for the story or project they wish to pursue and the resources and financial support they'll likely need to complete it. Applicants should submit their proposal and a resume (attached as PDFs) to codeswitch@npr.org, with the subject line "Code Switch Mid-career Fellowship Application."
The deadline for applying to this reporting fellowship is September 15, 2022. If you have any questions, reach out to the Code Switch editors at codeswitch@npr.org with the subject line "Mid-career Fellowship Questions" and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Here's some advice from last year's fellows
Our first two mid-career fellows were Kamna Shastri and Isabeth Mendoza. Kamna explored how people of color with albinism conceptualize race and Isabeth used therapy as a lens to tell the stories of two Latinx people struggling with anti-Blackness.
After six months of reporting and crafting their stories, we ask our inaugural fellows for their advice for future fellows:
"Pick a topic that you're really excited about, even if other people have said no," said Isabeth Mendoza. "If you believe in it, pitch that because you're going to need that fire burning up until the very end."
Kamna Shastri says it is important to trust your experience as you go through the process.
"As a fellow you're learning, but you're also bringing the expertise you have gained up until this point," said Kamna Shastri. "Find a balance because nobody else can tell that story but you."
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-08-04T19:30:26+00:00 | iowapublicradio.org | https://www.iowapublicradio.org/2022-08-04/apply-now-for-code-switchs-mid-career-fellowships |
Wyoming tornado injures 8 people and flips buses and train cars at mine site, report says
CAMPBELL COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — A tornado touched down at a mine in Wyoming Friday evening, injuring eight people and knocking over employee transport buses and empty train cars at the facility, a news report said.
The tornado hit the North Antelope Rochelle Mine in Campbell County around 6 p.m. during a storm complex that also delivered tornadoes to neighboring Natrona and Johnson counties, the Gillette News Record reported.
The Campbell County Fire Department responded to the open-pit coal mine about 64 miles (103 kilometers) south of Gillette.
Six people with non-life-threatening injuries were transported by ambulance to Gillette, one victim was transported to Douglas and another refused treatment, the newspaper reported.
The tornado struck during a shift change and flipped buses waiting to transport workers, although it was not immediately clear if there was anyone on the vehicles at the time, Campbell County Public Information Officer Leslie Perkins said.
All workers were accounted for after a search by the mine’s search and rescue team, which was assisted by the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said.
The storm also knocked over 12 unoccupied train cars, the News Record reported.
Melissa Smith, a meteorologist and hydrologist with the National Weather Service office in Rapid City, South Dakota, told the newspaper that the storm system scattered tornadoes throughout Campbell, Natrona and Johnson counties.
“The tornadoes would form, come down, stay on the ground and come back up,” Smith said.
Peabody Energy Inc., the operator of North Antelope Rochelle Mine with headquarters in St. Louis and South Brisbane, Australia, did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking additional information.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-06-24T10:24:40+00:00 | kaaltv.com | https://www.kaaltv.com/news/us-world-news/wyoming-tornado-injures-8-people-and-flips-buses-and-train-cars-at-mine-site-report-says/ |
A Florida sheriff penned a stern letter to President Biden reminding him of his "duty to protect the people of the United States" after dozens of illegal immigrants were detained last week while trying to land ashore near Hutchinson Island.
"Last night, my Marine Patrol deputies assisted in intercepting 59 undocumented aliens attempting to come ashore our beach," Martin County Sheriff William Snyder wrote in a letter Thursday to the president.
"Had these individuals succeeded, they would likely have dispersed through our community undetected," he wrote. "With unknown ties to this area, it is difficult to envision how they would have assimilated and become law-abiding citizens."
Snyder said a federal officer told him his unit was "overwhelmed and desperate for additional resources," and that he believed they were missing many more illegals than they were apprehending.
DEMS CALL FOR ADDITIONAL $20 MILLION IN FUNDING FOR CONTROVERSIAL DHS PROGRAM AIDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
"I will continue fulfilling my oath to protect my constituents and uphold the Constitution and the laws of the State of Florida," Snyder wrote. "With all due respect, I urge you to reflect on the oath you took to dedicate yourself and your administration to protecting our borders and, by extension, protecting the citizens of this country."
Local media reports said the group of migrants detained last week were aboard a boat that was apprehended, and the group included children and pregnant women. They were put in the custody of the United States Coast Guard and will eventually be deported.
Gov. Ron DeSantis unveiled his immigration package last week, which includes stricter penalties for human smuggling and strengthening statutes for the detention of illegal immigrants. In January, the Republican governor activated the Florida National Guard to respond in the uptick in beach landings by Cuban immigrants.
DESANTIS RACKS UP WINS WHILE TRUMP, POTENTIAL 2024 OPPONENTS TAKE SWIPES AT FLORIDA GOVERNOR
Snyder said the federal government needs to step in to provide more resources.
"Here's the thing, we know that for every boat that's intercepted there are innumerable boats that are slipping in under the cover of darkness, and people are getting off and disappearing in our community without a trace," he told WPBF.
"At least I've made my thoughts known and done the best I could, first of all, to keep my community safe and then to urge the president to do the same throughout the country," he said.
The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. | 2023-02-27T18:11:09+00:00 | foxbangor.com | https://www.foxbangor.com/news/national/florida-sheriff-pens-stern-letter-to-biden-after-59-illegals-detained-offshore-you-are-the/article_be049c9e-e472-5316-bb79-cb87ae4c3efd.html |
Woman killed in Hartford fire
HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) - A woman was killed in a fire on Monday morning.
According to the Hartford Fire Department, crews responded to Francis Avenue around 7:30 a.m.
“Upon arrival, there was heavy smoke and fire coming out of the front windows, some of the side windows, and [there was] an abundance of fire,” said fire Chief Rodney Barco, Hartford Fire Department.
Firefighters and Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin told Channel 3 that the layout of the building presented challenges. They said the fire generated a lot of heat. At one point, the visibility was at zero.
Crews tried to make entry into the second floor apartment, but had to change their tactic because of the difficulties.
“They started extinguishing the bulk of the fire from the exterior in order to make their way inside,” Barco said.
During a secondary search, firefighters said they found the body of the woman.
One firefighter suffered a minor injury.
“He just has some superficial burns and some steam burns,” Barco said.
The identity of the victim has yet to be released.
A cause for the fire remained under investigation.
Copyright 2022 WFSB. All rights reserved. | 2022-06-20T15:47:38+00:00 | wfsb.com | https://www.wfsb.com/2022/06/20/woman-killed-hartford-fire/ |
Commencing on July 25th, INX Securities, LLC, a member of FINRA and SIPC, will enable a primary raise of the first Digital Security Token for Trucpal, a blockchain-based SaaS Platform serving the Chinese freight market
NEW YORK, July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The INX Digital Company, Inc. (NEO: INXD, INXATS: INX), the owner of blockchain-based trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, announced that its subsidiary, INX Securities, LLC, will support HGC (BVI) Info Tech Co. Ltd.("HGC"), the owner of Trucpal, a blockchain-based SaaS platform serving the Chinese freight market, in its upcoming Trucpal digital security token offering. The offering will be available for potential US accredited investors as well as non-US investors starting July 25th.
INX Securities, LLC offers new opportunities for raising capital, under its broker dealer license through the issuance of digital securities using the INX Platform and the opportunity to list that same security on its Alternative Trading System ("ATS") after holding periods and other regulatory requirements are satisfied. Following months of rigorous preparations and technology development, INX Securities, LLC will enable the offer of the Trucpal Digital Security Token through the INX Platform.
Shy Datika, Founder & CEO of INX: "The INX Digital Security Tokens were bought by individual and institutional investors in 75 countries, raising $85MM. We are now happy to assist other companies in maximizing their raise potential, and among these, we are thrilled to bring HGC's Trucpal capital raise to the market. Their decision to raise capital with INX under U.S. securities laws is a pioneering step. We are delighted to offer our global traders an opportunity to participate in this rapidly growing company and industry."
Wendong Zhang, Founder of HGC: "We are excited to collaborate with INX, the world's first SEC-registered IPO of blockchain security. HGC envisions the rapid development of blockchain technology and views the token economy as the new paradigm in business development. Innovation aside, we also recognize the importance of remaining compliant while democratizing the industry. With this goal, HGC is offering the Trucpal Digital Security Token to the Trucpal ecosystem. The token can be widely used in different transactions within the trucking ecosystem in compliance with regulatory standards. We are seeking to motivate and sustain a loyal and thriving community and promote ecosystem sustainability."
This material is provided for informational purposes and is not a solicitation or an offer to buy or sell any financial instruments. The information provided here is for general informational purposes only and should not be considered an individualized recommendation or personal investment advice.
The Company is the holding company for the INX Group, which includes regulated trading platforms for digital securities and cryptocurrencies, combining traditional markets expertise and an innovative fintech approach. The INX Group's vision is to be the preferred global regulated hub for digital assets on the blockchain. The INX Group's overall mission is to bring communities together and empower them with financial innovation. Our journey started with our initial public token offering of the INX Token in which it raised US$83 million. The INX Group is shaping the blockchain asset industry through its willingness to work in a regulated environment with oversight from regulators like the SEC and FINRA.
In addition to operating two regulated trading platforms for blockchain assets, the Company's interdealer broker, I.L.S. Brokers, plans to offer non-deliverable cryptocurrency forwards to Tier-1 banks in the future. For more information, please visit the INX Group website here.
The Trucpal Digital Security Token offering is being made inside the United States to accredited investors in reliance on Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), pursuant to Rule 506(c) thereunder, or outside the United States to non-U.S. persons in offshore transactions in reliance on Regulation S of the Securities Act. Any non-U.S. persons shall be deemed to have represented that they are eligible to purchase the Trucpal Digital Security Token in accordance with the securities laws of their jurisdiction and, if applicable, that they qualify under the equivalent of an accredited investor under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. Investors will be subject to a lock-up period in connection with this Offering that will restrict their ability to lend, offer, pledge, sell, resell or otherwise transfer the shares issuable upon conversion of the Trucpal Digital Security Token for a period of 40 days for non-US persons and one year for US persons following the closing date of the Offering, subject to customary exceptions. This shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities, nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, and investment time horizons carefully before investing. The offering documents will contain important information about Trucpal and should be read carefully before investing in the security token.
This release contains forward looking statements based on assumptions and reflects the company's expectations, estimates, and projections of future events. Forward looking statements include, without limitations, statements regarding the performance, prospects, opportunities, priorities, targets, goals, objectives, strategies, growth, and outlook of the company. Often, but not always, forward looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "seeks," "intends," and "targets," "projects," "forecasts," or variations (including negative variations) of such words and phrases, or state that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "would," "might," or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. The company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward looking statements as a result of certain factors not within the control of the company.
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SOURCE The INX Digital Company, Inc. | 2022-07-20T14:48:11+00:00 | kwch.com | https://www.kwch.com/prnewswire/2022/07/20/inx-announces-agreement-facilitate-digital-security-token-offering-trucpal-blockchain-based-saas-platform-through-inx-platform/ |
On Friday, Andre and Rebecca Adams, owners of Snap Fitness, located at 5506 75th St., donated food items collected from gym members to families of the Kenosha Unified School District Head Start Program at the Cesar Chavez Learning Station, located at 6300 27th Ave.
From Nov. 4 to Nov. 25, gym members were encouraged to bring in non-perishable food items in and would have the chance to receive a free InBody scan, free PT consultation and $10 credit toward supplements.
To be entered, members recorded how many items they donated along with their names. The more donated, the better the chance to achieve the incentive.
"People don't think of having a gym fundraiser," Rebecca Adams said. "The drive was successful and we were pleasantly surprised at first because we are a gym holding a food drive."
Head Start was selected because the program serves children and families that demonstrate economic need.
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"For us, the donations are very important as a way of giving back to our community and families in need," Andre Adams said in an email. "As a minority-women owned small business, we understand how difficult it can be for underprivileged families to provide adequate nutrition and education for their children. With Rebecca’s background in education and myself as a minority business owner, we value the health and education focus of the Head Start program by KUSD."
Andre and Rebecca Adams are continuing their philanthropical efforts in December with a donation drive for Kindred Kitties and the Safe Harbor Humane Society.
From Dec. 6 to Dec. 25, the gym is collecting non-scented clay cat litter, washable dog toys, wet and dry dog food, canned cat food (pate or classic), leashes, collars and harnesses of all sizes, stretch and scratch scratch posts and Fancy Feast Wet Kitten Food - Tender Turkey Feast, Tender Ocean Whitefish Feast or any other brand pate-style wet kitten food.
The drive will also have incentives for donations. The person who donates the most items will receive a free copy of the eight-week shred eBook, a $10 supplement credit and 50% an InBody scan.
For more details, email Kenosha2@SnapFitness.com. | 2022-12-14T19:06:50+00:00 | kenoshanews.com | https://www.kenoshanews.com/chavez-learning-station-head-start-program-receives-food-donations-from-snap-fitness/article_bc9cd934-74bc-11ed-bf6d-73938588567e.html |
Authorities search for “dangerous” inmate who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail using sheets
WARREN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities were searching Saturday for an inmate described by police as “very dangerous” who escaped from a jail in northwestern Pennsylvania using bed sheets, officials said.
Michael Burham was last seen wearing a blue denim coat from the jail, white and orange pants, and orange shoes, Warren police said Friday.
Burham was being held on arson and burglary charges and was a suspect in a homicide investigation, police said. He was also associated with a prior carjacking and kidnapping of a local couple, police said.
“He is considered very dangerous, and the public is asked to be vigilant and report anything out of the ordinary,” police said in a Facebook post.
Officials say he escaped by climbing on exercise equipment and using bed sheets tied together.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. | 2023-07-08T14:14:43+00:00 | kob.com | https://www.kob.com/news/us-and-world-news/authorities-search-for-dangerous-inmate-who-escaped-from-a-pennsylvania-jail-using-sheets/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News lost an attempt Tuesday to shut down a multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuit that accuses the network of spreading lies that a voting-technology company helped “steal” the 2020 election from then-U.S. President Donald Trump.
New York’s Supreme Court Appellate Division, a mid-level appeals court, ruled against the network, which wanted judges to dismiss the $2.7 billion defamation case.
The company that brought the case, Smartmatic, has said it played a valid and small role in the election. It hailed the ruling as a step toward holding Fox News accountable for amplifying unsupported and damaging claims from Trump’s lawyers.
Fox News cast the case as an attempt to chill journalism, expressing confidence the network ultimately would prevail.
Tuesday’s decision means Smartmatic’s suit continues against Fox News, hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro, former host Lou Dobbs, and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani. A claim against Trump lawyer Sidney Powell was dismissed earlier because she doesn’t have ties to New York, where the case was filed.
The five-judge ruling concluded there were “significant allegations” that Giuliani and Powell defamed the company.
“The complaint alleges in detailed fashion that in their coverage and commentary, Fox News, Dobbs, and Bartiromo effectively endorsed and participated in the statements with reckless disregard for, or serious doubts about” whether there was any reliable evidence for them, five judges wrote in a unanimous opinion. Citing “the same reasoning,” they also reinstated Smartmatic’s claims against Pirro, which a lower court had thrown out.
Federal and state election officials, exhaustive reviews in battleground states and Trump’s own attorney general found no widespread fraud that could have changed the outcome of the 2020 election. Nor did they uncover any credible evidence that the vote was tainted. Trump’s allegations of fraud also were roundly rejected by dozens of courts, including by judges whom he had appointed.
The ruling comes as Fox News fights a separate, $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit from Denver-based Dominion Voting Systems, with a trial date in April. The network also is fighting lawsuit from a Venezuelan businessman who said he was wrongly accused of trying to corrupt the election.
Florida-based Smartmatic said that in the 2020 presidential election, its technology and software were used only in California’s Los Angeles County. The Democratic bastion went, as expected, for Democratic nominee and now-President Joe Biden.
But Smartmatic says Fox News and the three hosts repeatedly allowed Trump’s lawyers to falsely portray Smartmatic as a foreign company involved in a sprawling, multi-state operation to “flip” votes to Biden from the Republican incumbent.
During a series of post-Election Day appearances, Giuliani asserted that the company had been “formed in order to fix elections.” Powell called it a “huge criminal conspiracy,” and the two claimed that proof would be forthcoming.
After Smartmatic’s lawyers demanded a retraction, Fox News aired an interview with an election technology expert who said there was no evidence that the company’s technology had monkeyed with the election results. He refuted various claims that Giuliani and Powell made.
“Fox News, its news anchors and guests knowingly and falsely published lies,” Smartmatic lawyer J. Erik Connolly said in a statement Tuesday. The company maintains that the network can’t claim free speech protections for its conduct.
Fox News argues that it can, saying it was informing the public about newsworthy, if controversial, claims from an important figure about a matter of public concern.
“There is nothing more newsworthy than covering the president of the United States and his lawyers making allegations of voter fraud,” the network said, adding that it was confident it would be vindicated. Fox News called the damages claim “outrageous” and “nothing more than a flagrant attempt to deter our journalists from doing their jobs.”
A message seeking comment on Tuesday’s ruling was sent to Giuliani’s lawyers. They have said Giuliani’s statements were protected by the First Amendment and other laws and principles.
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Associated Press writer Randall Chase contributed from Dover, Delaware. | 2023-02-15T15:17:57+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/ap-us-news/ap-ny-court-nixes-fox-news-bid-to-end-voting-tech-firms-suit/ |
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of stories about how Latinos are redefining narratives within Hollywood. Click here to read the first in our series. Both pieces first appeared on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
By Saida Pagán
José Manuel “Lico,” Jiménez was a child prodigy and one of the first Afro-Latinos to leave Cuba in the 1860s to study classical music and perform in Europe. Although he received standing ovations in cities across the continent, when he returned to his beloved homeland he found that, sadly, his talent as a classical musician was not as widely appreciated by some in colonial Cuba.
But the pianist known as “The Ebony Liszt” persevered – and his tale of strength and triumph against incredible odds is an authentic Latino story that is about to be told. Preserving his legacy is one of the goals of his great-granddaughter, actor Julie Carmen, who is executive producing a documentary on Jiménez’s life.
“There is part of Black (Afro-Latino) history that has been erased – and the whole range of my family is coming together to reintroduce the world to their accomplishments,” Julie said in an interview with palabra.
Best known as the star of films such as “The Milagro Beanfield War,” “Windows on the World,” and programs such as “The Tales of the Walking Dead” anthology and “Grey’s Anatomy,” Julie is a veteran performer – and now producer, who understands the business of moviemaking. She is active in Latino Hollywood, organizing table reads to support both performers and writers and as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences she has the opportunity to sponsor qualified actors for membership.
Julie is also among the many Latino creatives who are networking and collaborating on projects that shine a bright light on the complex and nuanced narratives of the Latino experience seldom seen on screen. She is especially proud of the documentary currently in progress, “Lico Jiménez, the Ebony Liszt,” which showcases the remarkable life of her great-grandfather, an acclaimed pianist and composer.
He “was discovered at age 12 en el Palacio de Cantero in Trinidad, Cuba,” said Julie. “At age 15 he was in the Paris Conservatory and won first place ahead of (his classmate, French composer) Claude Debussy.”
Julie said Jiménez, along with his father and brother, were among the first Afro-Cuban musical artists to travel throughout Europe in the 1800s. Jiménez performed for audiences filled with the most accomplished musicians of his generation and was often compared to the famed Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.
But when he returned to Cuba a few years later, he faced obstacles. “At the time that my great-grandfather went to Europe, classical music was not acceptable for people of African descent to perform in Cuba,” she said.
Although Jiménez and his family had been born free, that was not the case for thousands in Cuba for much of the 19th century. “Slavery was still legal,” Julie explained. Consequently, Jiménez decided to move to Germany, where he married and started a family.
Nowadays, Lico Jiménez’s descendants live all over the world, and while working on her documentary this spring, Julie got to meet some of them for the first time. “Basically, the story that I am producing now is the coming together of the two branches of the family, the Cuban branch that we knew nothing about, and the European branch,” Julie said.
The cousins immediately bonded, and organized a special concert celebrating both their great-grandfather’s music and the inauguration of a plaza named after him. It was an event that made national news on the island.
Isidro Betancourt, the film’s director, tells palabra that being involved with the documentary is an honor for him. “Directing this documentary with Julie is a new experience for me and I’m fulfilling a dream of making this great musician known, (because he was) someone who was unknown and unfairly forgotten. Getting him (and his music) to be known, studied, and played is the key objective of this documentary.”
Julie shares the same vision and describes her film as a compelling work of art that she believes will resonate with people everywhere.
“Race and tribalism and nationalism are really polarizing the world, and people are gravitating toward what they feel is their little tribe,” she said. “Through the generations in our family we have seen a lot of multiculturalism and mixed marriages and people from all different backgrounds falling in love, marrying, having children, and raising those children with progressive values,” she added.
Defying stereotypes
The Lico Jiménez documentary is being produced at a pivotal moment in the history of American entertainment. Calls for a more balanced media portrayal of Latinos have grown louder, with advocates voicing concerns that Latinos — who comprise nearly 19% of the U.S. population — are often erased or misrepresented.
While Hollywood has recently expressed an interest in Latino projects, research suggests that the industry needs to more carefully consider how its content is depicting various communities and, in turn, impacting society.
A 2021 study about Latinos in film by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that in top-grossing movies from 2019, “39.3% of all characters were part of gangs, involved in sex trafficking, or members of crime syndicates. Of the top-billed Hispanic/Latino characters shown as criminals, nearly half (40%,) were violent 21.4% of all Hispanic/Latino characters (were) depicted as violent criminals.”
These statistics are part of the reason why many in Latino Hollywood are working hard to change the narrative. “They end up publishing stories that are all about drug dealers; that are all about criminals,” Julie said. “And it just cements in the minds of the general population that Latinos are marginalized criminals who are only coming here to take something from America.”
In addition to her documentary, Julie is also developing other projects – many with Latino storylines – that defy the stereotypes. And like-minded professionals have joined her.
Writer-producer Nancy De Los Santos is one of Julie’s industry connections. De Los Santos was the associate producer of such iconic films as “Selena,” “My Family,” and is currently in pre-production with “The Answer to My Prayer,” a Latino-themed romantic comedy.
“I think the collaboration between Latinos in this business is super important. I say I work in Latino Hollywood, and I really do.” De Los Santos said. “I know that we share information as much as we can.”
As a show of camaraderie, Julie and De Los Santos have teamed up and secured the film and life rights to the dramatic, true story of Frank Gallegos, a lawyer from New Mexico and his wife Marta, a doctor from El Salvador. The couple’s experiences include outstanding personal achievement attained through hard work, as well as unimaginable tragedy brought on by war and the whims of fate.
Gallegos was just 21 when a devastating car accident in New Mexico left him comatose for weeks and partially paralyzed. Marta was only 25 and was completing her medical training in the jungles of Guatemala when she was shot in the face during a massacre in a village during the country’s decades-long civil war.
They endured excruciating pain and years of medical treatment and surgeries. Yet, in spite of their formidable challenges and physical disabilities, they never gave up. Frank was determined to become a lawyer, and Marta, who later emigrated to the U.S. had no doubt that someday she would practice medicine again.
Frank and Marta Gallegos eventually went on to become successful professionals, finding love along the way, starting a family and leading happy, purposeful lives. Today both are in their late 60s. Marta is still a doctor and Frank continues to practice law part-time.
“It is not a Latino story. It is a story of human beings, and tenacity, and love and overcoming tremendous barriers,” De Los Santos said.
“I think it’s important at this particular time, to tell this particular story because Latinos are being marginalized – scapegoated politically,” Julie said. “And there aren’t enough positive role models to point to and say: ‘There is a doctor who changed history. There is a lawyer who moved the needle.’ We need positive role models.”
Frank and Marta Gallegos are also hopeful that their arduous journey will serve as inspiration for the kind of literary and theatrical projects that many are yearning for.
“That is such a great movement in the industry to start telling these stories,” said Frank Gallegos in an interview with palabra. “They haven’t gotten to our level yet, as far as (Latinos making it) from the ground up – making it into the highest level of society and changing laws and saving lives. (Hollywood) has a ways to go, and I think that this where (our) story can be a bridge.”
De Los Santos agrees. “I know our stories will resonate with the mainstream community. They just need to be given that pedestal – like any other movie. Put it on the pedestal and see what happens.”
De Los Santos adds that if anyone can help bridge the gap, whether it be through the Gallegos’ story or the Lico Jiménez documentary, it’s Julie. “I truly believe that Julie Carmen is the missing link between Latino Hollywood and Hollywood,” De Los Santos observed. “She knows a lot of people, and has the (confidence) to just go and talk to them about things. She has no fear.”
Julie simply smiles when asked about this assessment, and quietly points out that her knowledge about the business and large network are the result of decades in the industry. But she says what’s most important today is that with the entertainment industry showing signs of change, it may be the right time for Latinos to tell their own stories.
“The wave (of interest) in Latino-themed films…is coming back in full force. There are more projects right now,” said Julie. “There are more powerful people doing great projects. American Latinos are doing solid work.”
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Saida Pagán is a Los Angeles-based journalist and the winner of three recent Los Angeles Press Club Awards for entertainment reporting and a first-place award in the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards competition. In 2021, she received two first-place awards from the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors for her documentary work. Pagán was born and raised in New York City, and is of Puerto Rican heritage. She has worked as a newscaster for television stations across the United States, and has appeared in nearly 100 primetime television programs, major motion pictures and other on-camera projects. Pagán holds a master’s degree with distinction in Strategic Communication, and also conducts webinars on the media and communication. | 2022-09-07T16:51:43+00:00 | pennlive.com | https://www.pennlive.com/palabra/2022/09/actor-producer-is-on-mission-to-tell-real-life-stories-about-the-latino-diaspora-without-stereotypes.html |
The U.S. Senate voted narrowly Thursday to overturn two Biden administration policies intended to protect endangered species.
Senators called for reinstating a rule adopted under former President Donald Trump but rescinded by the Biden administration that limited which lands and waters could be designated as places for imperiled animals and plants to receive federal protection.
They also proposed dropping a 2022 federal designation of the northern long-eared bat as endangered.
Earlier this month, the Senate voted to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a rare grouse found in parts of the Midwest and Southwest.
The actions, backed mostly by Republicans, represent rare congressional involvement in matters usually left to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Endangered Species Act tasks those agencies with deciding which animals and plants to list as endangered or threatened and how to rebuild their populations.
President Joe Biden threatened to veto the resolutions, which await action in the House.
“We are in the midst of a global extinction crisis for which the chief driver is the destruction, degradation, and loss of habitat,” a White House statement said.
A 2019 United Nations report said about 1 million species are in danger of extinction, with losses accelerating up to hundreds of times faster than before.
The Biden administration last June withdrew a Trump definition of “habitat” that environmental advocates said was too narrow to provide essential protection. Supporters said it would give landowners incentives to help troubled species while securing property rights.
Restoring the Trump habitat definition, the White House said, would “severely limit” federal agencies’ ability to help troubled species survive and recover.
Senators backed a resolution to reinstate the definition, 51-49. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a Wyoming Republican and its chief sponsor, argued that uncertainty about what qualifies as habitat lowers property values and hampers crucial infrastructure projects.
“Two-thirds of all endangered species are located on private lands,” Lummis said. “For these species to be recovered, private landowners must be part of the solution and not treated as the enemy.”
Joining Republicans in voting for reinstating the Trump definition of habitat were Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Independent Angus King of Maine, who often caucuses with Democrats.
The Trump rule was among several steps his administration took to scale back or alter endangered species policies, including lifting blanket protections for animals newly listed as threatened and setting cost estimates for saving species. Biden ordered a review of his predecessor’s environmental rulemaking shortly after taking office.
Under the 1973 law, federal agencies cannot fund, permit or take actions that would destroy or severely damage critical habitats. It doesn’t restrict activities on private land unless government approval or financial support is involved.
The Trump rule’s habitat definition was “unclear, confusing and inconsistent with the conservation purposes” of the law, the Fish and Wildlife Service and Marine Fisheries Service said previously.
It prevented agencies from selecting areas that don’t presently meet a species’ needs but might in the future as a result of restoration work or natural changes, they said. Global warming is expected to alter many landscapes and waters, attracting species that migrate from places no longer suitable for them.
The Fish and Wildlife Service declared the northern long-eared bat endangered last November, raising its status from threatened. It is among 12 bat types hammered by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease that has reduced its numbers by 97% or more in some areas.
The bat is found in 37 eastern and north-central states, plus Washington, D.C., and much of Canada.
Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat and chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said bats contribute $3 billion annually to the nation’s agricultural economy through pest control and pollination.
Critics of the endangered listing contend it would hamper logging and other land uses that weren’t responsible for the bat’s sharp decline.
The vote on removing the listing was 51-49, with Manchin and Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar voting with Republicans. Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California opposed both measures after returning to the Capitol following a long illness.
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Follow John Flesher on Twitter: @johnflesher | 2023-05-12T11:17:58+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/national/senate-votes-to-limit-critical-habitat-designation-for-imperiled-species-and-drop-bats-protections/ |
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Installing an elevator doesn't normally involve a 2,000-year plunge into an ancient city's history. But in Jerusalem, even seemingly simple construction projects can lead to archaeological endeavors.
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say they have made numerous discoveries, including an ornate first-century villa with its own ritual bath, after a project began to increase access for disabled people to Jerusalem's Western Wall.
The villa, located footsteps from where the biblical Jewish Temples stood, was uncovered during several years of salvage excavations in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's historic Old City. Archaeologists perform salvage excavations to make a scientific study of ancient artifacts and buildings before they are removed to make way for modern construction.
Jerusalem's Western Wall is the holiest site where Jews can pray and millions of worshipers and tourists visit it each year. But to get to the site from the adjacent Jewish Quarter, visitors typically have to descend 142 steps, or take a long detour around the city walls to one of the nearby gates.
In 2017, the Jewish Quarter Reconstruction and Development Company got the green light to begin construction of two elevators to let visitors make the 26-meter (85-foot) descent with greater ease. The location was a narrow sliver of largely undeveloped slope abutting the existing staircase on the eastern edge of the Jewish Quarter.
“The Western Wall is not a privilege, it's elemental for a Jew or for any person from around the world who wants to come to this holy place,” said Herzl Ben Ari, CEO of the development group. “We have to enable it for everybody.”
However, like modern development projects in other ancient cities, such as Istanbul, Rome, Athens and Thessaloniki, archaeological finds slowed progress to a crawl.
“This plot of land where the elevator is going to be built remained undisturbed, giving us the great opportunity of digging through all the strata, all the layers of ancient Jerusalem,” said Michal Haber, an archaeologist from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Five years into the undertaking, the archaeological work is nearing completion, but the elevators are only expected to be brought online in 2025.
During their dig, the archaeologists carefully peeled back successive layers of construction and debris that had accumulated over two millennia, over 9 meters (30 feet) in total. Historical waypoints included Ottoman pipes built into a 2,000-year-old aqueduct that supplied Jerusalem with water from springs near Bethlehem; early Islamic oil lamps; bricks stamped with the name of the 10th Legion, the Roman army that besieged, destroyed and was afterwards encamped in Jerusalem two millennia ago; and the remains of the Judean villa from the final days before the ancient Jewish Temple’s destruction in the year 70.
Archaeologist Oren Gutfeld said they were surprised to uncover traces from Jerusalem’s reconstruction as the Roman city of Aelia Capitolina in the 2nd century.
Fragments of frescoes and intricate mosaics from the villa indicated the wealth of the home’s occupants. But upon reaching bedrock, Gutfeld and Haber’s team made one last find: a private Jewish ritual bath hewn into the limestone mountainside and vaulted with enormous dressed stones.
Haber said the most significant thing about the bath, known as a mikveh, was its location overlooking the Temple esplanade.
“We are in the wealthy neighborhood of the city on the eve of its destruction,” she said.
While the elevator project is less contentious, development or archaeology excavations in Jerusalem, a city is holy to three faiths, often take on a political dimension. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state and Israel views the entire city and its eternal, undivided capital.
Israel captured east Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and holy sites to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 war. It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move unrecognized by most of the international community.
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Credit: Maya Alleruzzo | 2022-07-20T09:06:04+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/elevator-project-in-old-jerusalem-leads-to-surprising-finds/XUH3COUFBNHVHKQKJJ6EPQIFLU/ |
DA: Man sentenced up to 96 years in prison for sexually assaulting his children
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Gray News) - Authorities in Pennsylvania say a man will spend years behind bars for sexually assaulting his children.
According to the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, Jorge Caraballo, Sr., was convicted of multiple sexual offenses, including the rape of a child, incest and unlawful contact with a minor, in December 2021.
State officials said Judge Scott Arthur Evans deferred Caraballo’s sentence to obtain a sexually violent predator assessment. On July 15, the court determined Caraballo was a sexually violent predator.
The district attorney’s office reported that Dr. Robert Stein testified during the hearing that Caraballo’s exploitation of the children was particularly callous and noted that the children endured sexual abuse by him for years.
After the ruling, Judge Evans sentenced Caraballo to 48 to 96 years of imprisonment in a state correctional institution.
Pennsylvania authorities praised the victims’ strength shown in the case after coming forward soon after Caraballo had moved out of their home.
Judge Evans ordered all of Caraballo’s sentences be served consecutively.
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Ashish Jha, the Ivy League doctor who begins this week as President Biden’s new coronavirus czar, has never held a full-time federal job, let alone one in the political crosshairs. Skeptics question his ability to navigate Washington’s toxic politics. Those who know Jha counter with stories like how he single-handedly short-circuited a Harvard faculty revolt.
Dozens of faculty members had filed into a conference room in December 2018, prepared to vote they had no confidence in the dean of the public health school — until Jha talked them out of it. As Harvard’s global health leader, Jha warned his colleagues that publicly airing their concerns would weaken confidence in the school, with consequences for them all. Instead, he took their complaints to dean Michelle Williams and attempted to quietly broker a solution, even though her removal could have opened a path for Jha to succeed her, said four people familiar with the situation.
Williams ended up staying but Jha did not, as his star dramatically rose during the pandemic: He became dean of rival Brown University’s public health school, was courted with job offers from multiple TV networks, commended by Fortune Magazine as one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders for his online and cable-news commentary and, most recently, picked to oversee the nation’s sprawling coronavirus response.
Now, the amiable academic faces a real-world test of his pithy TV advice: If the government fails to secure enough vaccines and tests, forcing Americans into long waits, it’s his problem. If a new variant causes a sixth pandemic wave, or besieged hospitals cannot handle an avalanche of cases, those are his problems, too — and ones that can’t be explained away in a cable-news segment.
The longtime physician has admitted to friends that he’s never faced challenges like running a White House team and navigating the bitter partisanship that animates the nation’s capital. But his defenders say he’s more than well-equipped and point to episodes like the faculty rebellion, first detailed in a Harvard Crimson investigation, that they say show his political savvy and powers of persuasion — traits they insist will serve him in his new role, along with his pandemic expertise.
“He could just see these complex things playing out in a way that other faculty maybe couldn’t,” said Julia Adler-Milstein, a University of California, San Francisco medical professor and close friend of Jha, who said she discussed the events with him and other professors.
“Academia is pretty political in its own way,” added former Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust, who chose Jha to lead Harvard’s global health efforts in 2014, but said she had no details about the faculty revolt because she had stepped down earlier that year. “I think he’ll adapt well.”
Through a spokesperson, Williams declined requests for comment. Jha declined an interview request for this story and referred questions to the White House. The Washington Post interviewed more than two dozen of Jha’s colleagues, administration officials and other experts about his background and upcoming role, with many supportive but others skeptical.
Jha, who officially begins his role with a tour of TV morning shows on Monday, inherits significantly different challenges than the ones that confronted the White House last January, when cases and deaths were spiking, few Americans were vaccinated and lawmakers agreed the virus was the nation’s top priority.
Today, Congress is increasingly balking at funding the response, hindering the administration’s ability to secure additional vaccines, treatments and supplies and threatening to pause a global vaccination campaign. While U.S. infections have plunged from their record-breaking highs, health officials are still bracing for the prospect of a resurgent virus in the form of variants that might evade the protection from vaccines.
“Let me tell you something. If I were in Jha’s position, I’d be nervous as hell,” Philip Rocco, a Marquette University political science professor, said on a recent episode of “Death Panel,” a left-leaning health policy podcast, where the hosts spent more than an hour last month analyzing Jha’s comments, questioning his qualifications and prognosticating about his new role.
The administration also has faced criticism on all sides, from mostly Republican lawmakers who want more accountability for the trillions of dollars in pandemic spending, progressive advocates who worry federal guidance has moved on too quickly — and experts like Jha himself, who has often praised the White House response but repeatedly urged a different emphasis or messaging tack.
“I think the White House needs to get its messaging discipline together, needs to make sure that people are speaking from the same page,” Jha said on “Fox News Sunday” in January, criticizing officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration, among others, for sometimes offering conflicting guidance. “It would be enormously helpful to the American people if that messaging was more consistent.”
Now, it is his responsibility to shape that message in a job that was a crucible for his predecessors. Deborah Birx, the nation’s first coronavirus coordinator under former president Donald Trump, was pilloried for failing to rein in his misstatements about the virus. Jeff Zients, the outgoing czar who Jha shadowed last week, faced pickets outside his house and calls to resign from advocates who said he failed to prioritize the global response.
White House officials and colleagues insist Jha is ready for the challenge, having informally advised the nation’s coronavirus response for months, counseled state officials, such as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), and girded in his new role by allies like Ron Klain, Biden’s chief of staff and Jha’s top booster in the administration.
“I think that Ashish really is the right person for where we are in the response right now,” Klain said in an interview, adding that Jha’s messaging skills and policy knowledge would be essential as “we transition to a new phase” of fighting the virus.
Three administration officials working on the coronavirus response agreed Jha’s background as a public health expert and physician would allow him to foresee some challenges his predecessor missed.
“While Zients has executed quite a lot … what he really understood and reacted to is the political optics. And so when the lack of tests becomes a bad political optic, which it did in December, that’s when we get testing strategy,” said one of those officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized. “He brings an understanding of the fundamentals that [Zients] never had.”
Outside experts praised Jha’s skills but worried that his talent for communicating difficult public health messages in accessible language might be used to play down the threat of the virus in an election year.
“The Biden administration has really seized on a narrative that it’s time for us to turn the page on the pandemic,” said Joshua Salomon, who leads the Prevention Policy Modeling Lab at Stanford University. “The problem is that we’re doing that at a time when the pandemic is very far from over. I would just remind people that in 2022, so far there have been almost 150,000 covid-19 deaths recorded and the administration seems to be actively encouraging us to see that as unremarkable.”
A ‘reluctant academic’
Jha, an immigrant who was born in India, has said he didn’t learn to speak English until he was 9 years old and his family had moved to Canada. But after relocating to New Jersey five years later, he became a straight-A student drawn to the most competitive institutions in the country, earning a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, medical and public health degrees from Harvard and a management consulting job offer from McKinsey — the last of which he turned down in 2001, opting to become a practicing physician at a Veterans Affairs facility instead.
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— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) September 1, 2020
Long ago, I lived at 30 Charles St in Toronto. Was an immigrant kid...didn't speak a word of English
Years later, I mentored brilliant @drandrewb who grew up in same building where generations of immigrant kids had been raised
Immigrants. We get the job done https://t.co/OKGGpftr56
Jha later joined the Harvard faculty, where he often described himself as a “reluctant academic,” even as he became known as one of the nation’s most prolific health policy researchers.
“His office had no windows in it — a signal of where he was on the totem pole,” Adler-Milstein recalled of her first meetings with Jha when she was a young PhD student in 2006. The two researchers bonded over their shared curiosity about why it was so hard to share patients’ digital health data, sparking a project that ultimately debunked claims about electronic health records and got them invited to testify before Congress on their findings.
“Ashish senses where the hype or the narrative might be getting ahead of the measures of the data,” she said.
Atul Gawande, a surgeon and best-selling author who now leads global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development, also frequently collaborated with Jha and praised his fresh thinking about old problems.
“Ashish was, and is, exceptional at the hard work of compiling, and extracting very complex data … to see patterns and to understand the truth of what is happening,” Gawande said. He credited Jha’s insights on their 2011 study on how patients at the end of life frequently undergo unnecessary surgeries. “That was some of my earliest work around care at the end of life and underlay thinking that went on to become my book, ‘Being Mortal,’” Gawande said.
Jha also worked to translate his research findings into action, whether as a senior adviser to the Department of Veterans Affairs or in other forums. Adler-Milstein described how Jha, at a meeting a decade ago, convinced an international coalition to adopt a shared way to measure health data progress around the world — but a representative from Italy was balking at changing his country’s measurements.
Then the man went for a smoke break — and Jha saw his opportunity, following him out and leaning into the cigarette vapor, as he sought to make the coalition’s decision unanimous, which he did.
“He’s both the big national thinker, but he’s also super effective at those one-on-one relationships, where he can kind of see who might need a little extra convincing and how to do it,” Adler-Milstein said.
After being tapped to lead Harvard’s global health institute during the 2014 Ebola outbreak despite scant global health expertise — a choice that frustrated some of his longer-tenured Harvard colleagues, according to three faculty members who spoke on the condition of anonymity — Jha assumed an increasingly public role. He was one of the chairs of a panel that faulted the World Health Organization for its slow response to the Ebola cases surging in West Africa. He also began sounding the alarm about virus outbreaks, warning the world was unprepared for the next big one.
“The biggest global health threat … is pandemics,” Jha said on a Politico podcast in February 2017. “It’s also pretty preventable, and we’re spending way too little time talking about it.” The work pulled Jha into the orbit of the Obama administration, where he offered advice to officials, and struck up a friendship with Klain, who served as President Barack Obama’s Ebola czar and became a vocal supporter.
I don't want to scare anybody, but, um, everybody should be scared. Great leadership from @ashishkjha & the team at @HarvardGH https://t.co/yimZj86dPJ
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) November 9, 2017
“Listen to @ashishkjha as if your life depends on it, because, well, it does,” Klain wrote on Twitter as the pandemic raged in April 2020.
Developing a reputation for accessible, often evenhanded media commentary, Jha’s profile soared as coronavirus cases exploded and he became a go-to expert for TV news and in hearings on Capitol Hill. In the days before the virus was first detected in China, Jha had fewer than 22,000 Twitter followers. Today, he has more than 343,000. After leaving Harvard to join Brown in 2020 — three years after the school had first tried to hire him as dean — the public health school saw a spike in enrollments that outpaced its peers, which the Boston Globe dubbed “the Ashish Jha effect.”
“When we hired him, the pandemic hadn’t really got started yet and we had no idea that we were getting somebody who would have so much to contribute publicly,” Brown president Christina Paxson said in an interview. “It’s put the Brown School of Public Health on the map in a way that it hadn’t been before.”
Television networks like ABC, CNN and MSNBC tried to hire Jha as an exclusive contributor, too, said a person familiar with the efforts who agreed to talk on the condition of anonymity. (The networks did not respond or declined requests for comment.) But he remained a free agent, becoming a morning-show staple.
Bonding with Biden
Television was also where Biden first discovered Jha, becoming a fan from afar. The president met him for the first time on March 9 in an Oval Office meeting slated for just 25 minutes as the Ukraine conflict, legislation and other priorities competed for Biden’s attention.
But the conversation ballooned to over an hour as they shared their perspectives on the pandemic — agreeing the virus, then in retreat, could soon surge back, said three people with knowledge of the conversation.
Biden and Jha “really hit off when they met,” Klain said in an interview. “And it just kind of sealed the deal.”
Some experts contend that Jha, who has often echoed Biden’s positions while privately advising administration officials, has blind spots about how he regards a pandemic that continues to sicken vulnerable members of society.
“For me, it’s not really a question of personality but of policy. And I’m concerned that this [selection] doesn’t signal the covid policy reset that we urgently need,” said Anne Sosin, a health policy fellow at Dartmouth, calling for a renewed focus on protecting the most vulnerable, improving access to treatment and being more “data driven” about decisions like mask recommendations.
Jha also has faced accusations of coordinating with the administration, with critics pointing to his recent New York Times opinion piece that cheered the CDC for issuing new guidelines that gave cover to state and local decisions to roll back masking rules. The piece, which appeared several hours after the guidelines were released on Feb. 25, was swiftly amplified by the White House, as advocates alleged Jha was defending a policy they said would jeopardize the most vulnerable.
But the piece was conceived by an editor at the New York Times, who had encouraged Jha to finish the piece so it could run after the CDC announcement, according to four people familiar with the story and emails reviewed by The Post.
“We reached out to Dr. Jha based on his position at Brown University, and did not know of his future role in the Biden administration,” said Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesperson for the New York Times. “The timing of our publication was in relation to public reports of an expected upcoming announcement (a standard ‘news peg’), but scheduled in line with our own editorial calendar and not coordinated with anyone in the CDC or Biden administration, nor at the request of Dr. Jha.”
Looking ahead
White House officials have said that Jha’s role is “temporary” but declined questions about its projected length, as did Paxson, the president of Brown.
Some friends and administration officials predict Jha could be embarking on a new career — depending on his success helping to manage the coronavirus response and his ability to bond with Biden. How that relationship plays out between a president who surrounds himself with longtime advisers like Klain and a new deputy fresh to the White House remains to be seen.
Gawande, his friend and fellow official, said that Jha had already absorbed a key management lesson of surrounding himself with the right people, as Jha looks for aides with strong government experience, who can shore up places where he is “incomplete” as a leader. He also predicted that Jha’s ability to deliver tough messages would translate to his new role in the White House.
“Government is about the art of the possible and navigating your way through a world where you have enormously conflicting values,” Gawande said, adding that Jha’s been “communicating on very contentious issues throughout the pandemic, in every atmosphere possible, Fox News, CNN, and willing to tell truths to all sides that can be hard for people to hear.” | 2022-04-10T12:36:24+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/09/ashish-jha-coronavirus-czar-biden/ |
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- For the first time since 2018, the Cleveland Cavaliers are not picking in the top five of the NBA Draft. When a team holds the No. 14 pick -- the last selection of the lottery -- they aren’t in control of the outcome. There’s no Evan Mobley or Darius Garland coming. It’s not a small pool of prospects to choose from this year. Sources tell cleveland.com that the front office has about 10 players on its first-round radar, trying to identify the best combination of talent and fit.
The countdown is on. June 23 is fast approaching.
In the days leading up to the draft, cleveland.com will examine a handful of prospects that could realistically be in play for the Cavs in their expected range.
Next up: Kansas swingman Ochai Agbaji.
Bio:
2021-22 stats: 8.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.6 steals, 1.6 assists, 47.5% FG, 40.1% 3P, 74.3% FT
Age: 22
Height: 6-5 ¾
Weight: 217
Wingspan: 6-10 ¼
Position: shooting guard/small forward
Things to know:
In his blood -- Agbaji grew up in Milwaukee, Wisc, where both of his parents played collegiate hoops at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Moving to the Kansas City area and attending Oak Park High School, he flew under the radar, barely cracking the consensus top-200 prospects in the high school class of 2018. ESPN’s recruiting service considered him a three-star prospect. With little interest until Kansas made an offer, Agbaji signed with the Jayhawks. Initially expected to redshirt as a freshman, a few players leaving program allowed Agbaji to receive a bigger role.
Testing the waters -- Making steady improvements each year while at Kansas, Agbaji declared for the 2021 NBA Draft, attended the combine, received feedback about his draft positioning, took it to heart and returned to Kansas for his senior campaign. There were lofty expectations for Agabji upon his return. He exceeded all of them, taking Big 12 Player of the Year honors, being named a consensus First-Team All-American and leading the Jayhawks to their first NCAA championship since 2008. He capped his improbable star turn with Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Final Four. That exceptional senior year has elevated Agbaji from second-round pick into the lottery conversation.
Notable workout partner -- Every now and then, Agbaji works with Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard. So, what’s the connection? Phil Beckner, who was Lillard’s college coach and now serves as a trainer, has been working with Agbaji during the pre-draft process.
Inside the numbers -- There’s something to be said about a player who improves every season. While some of that can be attributed to a bigger role, it’s tough to overlook an increase from 8.5 points as a freshman to 18.8 by the end of his collegiate career. His 3-point shooting kept ticking up as well, going from 30.7% on 3.4 attempts as a frosh to 40.7% on 6.5 attempts as a senior.
This past season, Agbaji averaged 1.27 points per catch and shoot jumper, which ranked in the 94th percentile. He also showed an ability to smoothly rise up off screens and dribble hand offs. Complementing his accomplished outside game, Agbaji used his power and athleticism when he had a clear path to the rim, averaging 1.45 points per shot around the rim in the halfcourt (94th percentile).
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About the fit:
Is it possible we are all overthinking the 14th pick? Among other things, the Cavs covet a two-way wing who can shoot from the outside. That’s Agbaji. Adept in catch-and-shoot situations, not needing to hijack offensive possessions and powerful and athletic (the fourth-highest vertical leap) in transition, Agbaji is a plug-and-play 3-and-D wing -- the archetype missing from the roster, the one needed to have success in this era. While he’s a bit smaller than desired to play full-time at the 3, his toughness and 6-foot-10 wingspan could make up for that.
Because of his age and experience, Agbaji is further along on the developmental curve, lacking the kind of upside and future star power some of his other classmates possess. But he’s also polished and mature enough -- physically and mentally -- to provide rookie minutes for a team looking to take another step forward and reach the playoffs. Plus, his obvious weaknesses -- a lack of shot creation and inability to get to the free-throw line -- may not be as detrimental with All-Star Darius Garland, Caris LeVert, Collin Sexton (if he’s retained in restricted free agency), maybe Ricky Rubio (there remains mutual interest in a reunion) and Evan Mobley (his offensive role is expected to expand) serving as the primary initiators this coming season.
Maybe Agbaji -- who worked out for the Cavs and would likely project as an off-the-bench sniper unless he takes someone’s starting gig in training camp -- is rightly viewed as a high-floor/low-ceiling player. Or maybe he’s just a late bloomer. After all, he’s already gone from unheralded recruit to NCAA champion and Kansas’ best player. No matter his individual ceiling, Agbaji’s shooting skill set would help elevate Cleveland’s.
He’s not exciting but he’s needed.
What they’re saying:
Agbaji, when asked about who he molds his game after -- “Great example would be Desmond Bane. I played against him when I was a freshman and sophomore. Kind of have similar games. Athletic, bigger-type wing that can defend and knock down shots. I watch his game and see my game in his game too.”
Jonathan Wasserman, Bleacher Report, NBA Draft Analyst -- “Not very creative. But a 3-and-D guy who can be used right away for rookie minutes. If you’re a rebuilding team in the lottery you have no interest in Agbaji. He reminds me of Quentin Grimes who comes off as kind of a steal for the Knicks even though he has no creation. He’s pretty much a catch-and-shoot guy, make good decisions and defend your position. That’s pretty much how I see Agbaji. He can help a team like Cleveland right away and will be useful from Day One. Will he get much better in Year 3 or Year 4? Probably going to be the same player that he is as a rookie. But that rookie is useful.”
NBA executive -- “Streaky shooter. But probably the best one in the late lottery range. He’s also a fantastic finisher. Won’t make many mistakes. His shooting creates natural space. If his defense translates from Kansas, you’ve got a startable two-way wing.”
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LANE COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) — The Lane County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), as well as the Kansas Municipal Energy Agency (KMEA), helped rescue a great horned owl chick Tuesday.
According to the LCSO, Game Warden Reisch called and asked for help with the chick.
It had apparently “decided to leave the tree a little early.”
The LCSO says this left the chick at risk of being injured by dogs and vehicles, etc.
A rehab facility told Reisch to try and put it back by its nest in the tree.
Because of the height of the tree, KMEA was called.
Steven Porter, with the KMEA, was called. He put on animal gloves and secured the chick in a blanket before maneuvering the bucket up to the nest and placing the chick as close as possible. | 2023-06-06T22:00:47+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/state-regional/lane-county-sheriffs-office-rescues-great-horned-owl-chick/ |
Hockey Canada has a new board of directors. Now the real work begins.
The national sport organization’s members elected a slate of candidates to fill nine vacant board seats with a vote Saturday at its annual winter meeting.
Retired judge Hugh L. Fraser is Hockey Canada’s new chair, while former women’s national team captain Cassie Campbell-Pascall has joined the board.
The federation’s 13 provincial and territorial bodies had the choice to accept or reject the nine names, which included five women and four men, who were put forward earlier this week by an independent nominating committee.
Hockey Canada’s previous board quit in October — the same day embattled president and CEO Scott Smith stepped aside — amid blistering criticism of the federation’s handling of sexual assault allegations and hushed payouts to victims.
Grant Borbridge, Julie Duranceau, Dave Evans, Marni Fullerton, Jonathan F. Goldbloom, Marian Jacko and Andrea Poole were also voted in as board members Saturday.
“We are determined to enact the changes Canadians expect,” Fraser said in a statement. “Hockey means so much to our country and we will be committed to making sure that Hockey Canada is an organization that is transparent and accountable to all Canadians, and is worthy of their trust.”
Among the board’s first orders of business will be to hire a new CEO and rebuild public faith in the organization. It was first revealed in the spring that a woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by eight players, including members of the 2018 world junior team, following a Hockey Canada gala in London, Ontario.
The fallout was swift. Hockey Canada had its federal and corporate funding either cut off or redirected as more ugly stories surfaced before a string of disastrous heritage committee meetings on Parliament Hill that saw officials past and present grilled by MPs. It led to the board’s resignation and Smith’s departure.
With nearly three decades experience at the Ontario court of justice, Fraser has been on the Court of Arbitration for Sport since 1995 and served on the first ad hoc court at the 1996 Olympics. Born in Jamaica and raised in Kingston, Ontario, he also competed in the men’s 200-meter track and field event at the 1976 Olympics and is the father of former NHL defenseman Mark Fraser.
Campbell-Pascall brings the most Hockey Canada experience to the table.
The three-time Olympian, who helped the women’s national team win gold at both the 2002 and 2006 Games, currently sits on the board of its foundation and was the first female hockey player inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.
Campbell-Pascall was also the first woman to provide color commentary on “Hockey Night in Canada” broadcasts and is a regular on Sportsnet’s NHL telecasts.
Her husband, Brad Pascall, is an assistant general manager with the Calgary Flames and worked in senior management roles at Hockey Canada from 1995 through 2014, according to his LinkedIn page.
Former Supreme Court judge Thomas Cromwell headed an independent review into Hockey Canada’s governance. His report provided a number of recommendations, including that moving forward no more than 60% of Hockey Canada’s board members be of the same gender. He also recommended the new board serve a special one-year term focused improving the organization’s governance as well as safety across the sport on and off the ice. | 2022-12-18T16:11:30+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/sports/ap-hockey-canada-elects-a-new-board-of-directors-after-scandal/ |
MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) _ Globe Life Inc. (GL) on Wednesday reported third-quarter profit of $186.8 million.
The McKinney, Texas-based company said it had net income of $1.90 per share. Earnings, adjusted for investment costs, were $2.15 per share.
The results beat Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of six analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of $2.11 per share.
The life and health insurance company posted revenue of $1.29 billion in the period. Its adjusted revenue was $1.32 billion, falling short of Street forecasts. Five analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $1.33 billion.
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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Events over the weekend have prompted a new look in Israel at how it should handle Jewish extremists.
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KELLY: That is from Sunday. The chant there, death to Arabs, rang out from nationalists marching through the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. They went on to harass and assault Palestinians who live there. NPR's Daniel Estrin witnessed this. He is in Jerusalem and joins us now to talk about whether Israel might take new steps to control these extremists. Hey, Daniel.
DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Hi, Mary Louise.
KELLY: I want to hear a little more. I want to understand more what exactly you saw on Sunday.
ESTRIN: I saw groups of Israeli teens roaming the Muslim quarter of the old city of Jerusalem. They assaulted Palestinians. They taunted them. I also saw some Palestinians curse at Israelis, too. And that was for hours even before the flag parade began. I then saw tens of thousands of Israelis marching through an area that's usually a bustling gathering place for Palestinians. There were all kinds of people, mainly fairly mainstream orthodox Jewish groups, chanting religious songs. But then the most common chants that I heard were, death to Arabs, may your village burn and insults of the Prophet Muhammad.
I saw a lot of T-shirts with rifles inside stars of David. I watched a mob lurch at a Palestinian video journalist, try to grab his equipment. Reporters from the BBC were also assaulted, too. And these are the kinds of scenes we see every single year when this march takes place. Last year there was so much consternation and threats of violence from Hamas that the march was actually canceled, but it was too late. Hamas launched rockets, and the Gaza war began.
KELLY: Well, so that prompts a question. If, last year, a war began and I know, in years past, this march has sparked violence, why did Israel allow it to go ahead this year?
ESTRIN: The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, says he did not want to give in to threats from Hamas this year. He said it was important to demonstrate Israel's control over East Jerusalem, which is predominantly Palestinian. He considers the parade on Sunday a success - no deaths. And he said that the ugly scenes were the work of a small minority. He ordered police to prosecute people. In reality, police only arrested two Israelis that day. Israel is now singling out two far-right groups as being responsible for the extremism.
KELLY: Yeah, I was going to ask how organized this is. Who are these two far-right groups?
ESTRIN: Well, they're both anti-Arab groups. And the most prominent one is called Lehava. It's a group that's against romantic relationships between Arabs and Jews - a lot of teens in this group. The defense minister is saying that these groups should be outlawed. But there have been calls to outlaw these groups for years, and Israel has not. So, you know, Palestinians and Israeli liberal groups say that the government does not take Jewish extremists seriously. Israel, of course, points to Palestinian extremist groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad - which have committed deadly attacks on Israelis. And Israel, says Palestinian officials, have not done enough to rein them in. But, you know, Palestinian property is vandalized. Israeli settlers in the West Bank attack Palestinians - very few prosecutions against Israelis.
KELLY: And this is a big question. But what is fueling this extremism?
ESTRIN: There are bigger trends in Israeli society. The far right is represented in parliament. They conflate Arab citizens, 20% of the population, frequently with terror. And I spoke to the former foreign minister in Israel, Shlomo Ben-Ami, and he said what we saw on Sunday was not just a couple of extremist groups.
SHLOMO BEN-AMI: I am ashamed. I am ashamed. Jewish supremacism - this is what it is. I think it is a direct representation of Israeli power. I have no doubt about it.
ESTRIN: Now, Mary Louise, I should let you know that there are, of course, Israeli groups trying to do the opposite and promote reconciliation. There was a group handing out flowers to Palestinians the day of the march in Jerusalem. And, you know, I heard one story recently about high schoolers that were from a Jewish Orthodox high school shouting at Arab elementary school kids in a public park, calling on them to leave the country. And you know what? The Jewish principal came to the Arab school, apologized and sent the kids on a free trip to the zoo.
KELLY: NPR's Daniel Estrin reporting there on so much complexity in Jerusalem. Thank you, Daniel.
ESTRIN: You're welcome. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | 2022-06-13T05:38:41+00:00 | wyomingpublicmedia.org | https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/2022-06-02/a-look-at-jewish-extremism-in-israel |
DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — A Dover-Foxcroft man accused of assaulting a local day care’s owner and an employee and fleeing with his two children was convicted of assault during a trial this week, according to the Piscataquis County District Attorney’s Office.
The jury convicted Scott Harmon, 50, of two counts of assault, a Class D crime, after deliberating a little more than an hour, Assistant District Attorney R. Christopher Almy said.
The jury trial, which was held before Superior Court Justice William Anderson on Wednesday and Thursday, stemmed from the incident at Little Organics Early Learning Center, a day care in Dover-Foxcroft, more than a year ago.
“I’m happy with the outcome,” said Ashley Cookson, who co-owns the day care with her husband, Benjamin Cookson. “I’m frustrated that it’s not a felony to force your way into a day care or a school.”
Cookson, who testified during the trial, called 911 from the day care at 7:50 a.m. on May 25, 2021, to report that Harmon and two others had barged inside and assaulted her and another employee, according to information provided by the district attorney’s office.
At the time, it was common for people to knock on the day care’s door because it shares a building with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cookson said Friday.
Inside the day care, Harmon reportedly pushed through Cookson, who fell backward into her youngest student who was eating breakfast, she said. Cookson fought back and tried to push him out of the building, according to the district attorney’s office. Harmon wrestled the other employee — who no longer works at the day care — because she was holding one of his sons, the office said.
Harmon took his twin sons and, along with his two companions, drove away in a black GMC Acadia. Cookson did not know at the time that Harmon was the father of two of the day care’s students, according to the office.
The incident left Cookson with bruises on her neck and arm, and the employee had bruises on her neck and shoulders, she said. Twelve students witnessed the incident, and one was left with a black eye, she said.
A Dover-Foxcroft police officer later found Harmon at his residence and spoke to him with a lawyer present. Harmon said he went to the day care to see his sons because the boys’ mother had not allowed him to visit for some time, according to the district attorney’s office.
The incident lasted only several minutes, but children at the day care were afraid and left traumatized, Cookson said.
Her 5-year-old son asks at least once a week when Harmon will return, she said. Cookson had to toilet-train three of the children again — including one of her own — because they regressed after the incident. Another child still has nightmares, she said.
“I have an audio recording, and it sounds like an attack,” she said. “They [children] were all screaming at the top of their lungs. A couple of parents were in court yesterday and heard it for the first time and had to walk out.”
Shortly after the incident, Cookson had a child psychologist come in to help students cope with any trauma they might have experienced, she said.
Cookson now has a sign on the day care’s door that tells people not to knock. Instead, they should use the doorbell, call the facility or communicate through the window near the door, she said. The day care also has video surveillance in the front and back of the building.
Erik T. Crocker, Harmon’s lawyer, declined to comment Friday. Harmon’s sentencing is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sept. 26. | 2022-07-23T14:16:49+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/07/22/news/piscataquis/dover-foxcroft-man-who-barged-into-day-care-and-took-his-children-convicted-of-assault/ |
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