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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers believes he’s where he needs to be. And the New York Jets’ new quarterback thinks they can do big things together.
The four-time NFL MVP was introduced by the team Wednesday to much fanfare in the team’s auditorium, filled with media, coaches and team staffers — flanked on the stage by coach Robert Saleh to his left and general manager Joe Douglas on his right.
“This is a surreal day for me,” the 39-year-old Rodgers said.
Rodgers is well aware of the Jets’ playoff drought, which at 12 seasons is the longest active skid in the NFL. He’s also aware of the team not making a Super Bowl appearance since Joe Namath led them there in 1969.
“That Super Bowl III trophy is looking a little lonely,” Rodgers said.
The team officially announced the trade for Rodgers moments before he entered the auditorium, where highlights of his career in Green Bay played on a video screen shortly before he walked in.
The Jets received Rodgers, the No. 15 overall pick and a fifth-rounder this year from the Packers. In exchange, Green Bay got the 13th overall selection, a second-rounder, a sixth-rounder and a conditional 2024 second-round pick that could become a first-rounder if Rodgers plays 65% of New York’s plays this season.
“I’m not here to be a savior of any kind,” Rodgers insisted.
Rodgers spent his first 18 seasons in Green Bay, helping the Packers win one Super Bowl while establishing himself as one of the game’s greatest quarterbacks.
“That chapter is over now and I’m excited about the new adventure here in New York,” Rodgers said.
Rodgers said he chose the Jets because he believes in the direction the franchise is heading with a young core of players that includes Offensive Rookie of the Year in Garrett Wilson and Defensive Rookie of the Year in Sauce Gardner.
“I’m an old guy, so I want to be at a place that can win it all and I believe we can do that here,” he said.
When the rumors began about where Rodgers might play next, Namath offered to let him wear his retired No. 12 — Rodgers’ number in Green Bay — if he joined the Jets. Instead, Rodgers said “to me, (No.) 12 is Broadway Joe” and he will wear the No. 8 from his college days at Cal.
Rodgers wouldn’t commit to playing beyond this season, saying he’s focused on this upcoming year and staying in the area “for the foreseeable future” to work out with the team and get to know his new teammates. Speaking with reporters after the news conference, Rodgers was a bit more expansive on his future.
“This isn’t a one and done in my mind,” the quarterback said, acknowledging that the Jets gave up a lot in the trade to acquire him.
Rodgers spent a few days in February contemplating his life and playing future during an isolation retreat in Oregon — while fans and reporters speculated about what he would decide. He emerged and deliberated some more before deciding on March 10 he intended to play again — and for the Jets. Rodgers made his intentions official during an appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and Sirius XM on March 15.
“It was the Jets, and only the Jets for me,” Rodgers said after the introductory news conference.
Rodgers arrived at the facility Wednesday morning wearing sunglasses and a black Jets hoodie. He was greeted one by one by owner Woody Johnson, vice chairman Christopher Johnson, Saleh — who gave the quarterback a loud high-five and hug — team president Hymie Elhai, offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett and Douglas.
He spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon preparing for his Big Apple intro.
“This is a happy day,” Woody Johnson said.
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MUMBAI, India — As world leaders gather in London today for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – head of the Commonwealth's most populous country – is absent.
Seventy-five years after it cast off British colonial rule, India sent its ceremonial president – a woman from one of the country's indigenous tribes – to its former monarch's funeral. As head of state, Indian President Droupadi Murmu's presence adheres to protocol, even though a mix of other prime ministers (heads of government) and presidents and royals (heads of state) are in attendance. Murmu also paid her respects to King Charles III at Buckingham Palace separately, before the service.
Modi's absence could be seen as a sign of his political priorities. Last week, he attended a security summit in Uzbekistan with Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping. But he's skipping a chance to meet President Biden and others at the queen's funeral, as well as the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
A mixed reaction to the death of Queen Elizabeth II
It's also a sign of the mixed reaction to the queen's death in India. There was some mourning, some anti-colonial anger – but mostly indifference.
There are no major public screenings of the funeral footage. It's barely on local TV. "I did not think anything, actually!" Richa Mahapatra, a 26-year-old chartered accountant, told NPR when asked what she thought about the queen's death. "I did not have a lot of respect for her. So it didn't make any change for me, frankly speaking."
Mahapatra says she never thought much about the queen while she was alive either, and isn't grieving.
It's a sign of just how much relations have changed between Britain's royals and their former colonies. India removed the U.K. monarch as its head of state shortly after it became independent in 1947. The Caribbean country of Barbados recently did the same. Several other Commonwealth countries say they'll follow suit.
For many of the queen's former colonial subjects, her life and death are a reminder of a painful history of exploitation and racism. Some bitterness certainly persists.
"She benefited from the wealth and enslavement of colonized people and never did anything to rectify that," says Priya Atwal, a historian of empire and monarchy at Oxford University.
Since India won its freedom from the British 75 years ago, it has been changing Anglicized or European place names to indigenous ones. (Bombay became Mumbai; Madras became Chennai.)
On Sept. 8, before word of the queen's death spread, Modi was renaming a street in New Delhi that's long been known as Rajpath, or "King's Way" – originally meant to honor Queen Elizabeth's grandfather King George V. Its new name is "Kartavya Path," using the Hindi word for duty.
"King's Way, or Rajpath, the symbol of slavery, has become a matter of history from today and has been erased forever," Modi told a cheering crowd that day. "A new history has been created."
On her trips to India, Queen Elizabeth II was met mostly with flag-waving – but also some riots
The queen visited India three times while on the throne: in 1961, 1983 and 1997. She rode many elephants, posed in front of a dead tiger shot by her husband and waved at Indians from countless convertible cars.
But on her final visit, in 1997, a royal stop in Amritsar triggered some riots.
Protesters wanted the queen to apologize for the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre – one of the worst atrocities of the British Empire. On April 13, 1919, a British general ordered troops to open fire on thousands of Indian civilians in a public park. Hundreds were killed.
On her 1997 visit, the queen laid a wreath at the massacre site, but stopped short of apologizing. Instead, she told attendees at a banquet in Delhi the night before that she found Jallianwala Bagh's history "distressing."
"People kept straining their ears, but she never apologized – not for Jallianwala Bagh nor for any colonial crimes," says Aparna Vaidik, a historian at India's Ashoka University.
Vaidik says the queen was the product of a racist colonial regime and era.
"She grew up in an era where India was a colony. So those attitudes would persist. It's not like she's having her prejudices questioned," she says. "Her world remained the same."
But the rest of the world has changed.
For Britain and India, the tables have turned
One of Mumbai's most ornate landmarks is a train station that used to be named Victoria Terminus, after Queen Victoria – the so-called "Empress of India" and Elizabeth's great-great-grandmother. The station has since been renamed Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, after a 17thcentury Indian ruler. But its British-built flying buttresses and gargoyles remain.
At the station this past weekend, travelers told NPR they'd heard news of the queen's death. But they were more excited to discuss other news they'd heard recently: That this month, India's economy surpassed that of its colonial master. India's GDP is now the fifthh largest in the world, ahead of Britain's.
"They ruled us, but we'll never let that happen again," says Bipul Verma, 36, a member of the Indian Navy. "What happened in the past doesn't matter. We have to look forward."
Atwal, the Oxford historian, says the Indian economy would have surpassed Britain's much earlier if British colonial rulers hadn't extracted so much of India's wealth and resources.
Nevertheless, India is now arguably the more powerful entity in British-Indian relations — especially since Britain voted to leave the European Union, Atwal says.
"Now Britain is going through a period of a major flux. Since the Brexit referendum, Britain is the one looking for trading partners," she says. "Britain is looking to India for deals and assistance and a future economic partnership."
There is one thing some Indians would like to make a deal with Britain for: The Kohinoor diamond. It's a massive, 105-carat jewel that was mined in southern India centuries ago. Now valued at more than $500 million, it's part of the incalculable wealth extracted by the British in India, over time.
It's currently embedded in one of the British royal family's crowns.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2022-09-19T16:49:31+00:00 | kcbx.org | https://www.kcbx.org/npr-top-news/2022-09-19/india-reacts-to-queen-elizabeth-iis-death-with-grief-anger-but-mainly-indifference |
Grants to Benefit Cultural Heritage Preservation and Education through Collaborative Community Engagement and Land Development Strategies for Black heritage in Indianapolis and northeastern Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Urban Legacy Lands Initiative Inc. (ULLI), a newly-established Cultural Heritage Development Corporation (CHDC), is being supported with two $800,000 grants, totaling $1.6 million, from the New York-based Mellon Foundation and the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. The funding was awarded to the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, which is serving as ULLI's fiscal sponsor. The Diocese's leader, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, has been a leading proponent for ULLI's mission and cultural heritage commitment.
ULLI will introduce its executive team and inaugural scope of work on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, 720 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St, Indianapolis, IN, at 11:30 a.m. St. Philip's, one of the few remaining historically Black congregations in the area, has served the greater Indiana Avenue community since the 1880's.
The grants will support ULLI's focus on centering Black cultural heritage in historic revitalization, land development, and placemaking. This new CHDC will seek to create a model for the preservation and stewardship of Black heritage communities through equitable and inclusive neighborhood growth and development. ULLI's primary focus will be Historic Indiana Avenue, one of the nation's most significant Black heritage communities, which had nearly 5,000 homes and businesses razed between 1958 and 2000. Today, the greater Historic Indiana Avenue area includes Madam Walker Legacy Center*, the Indianapolis Urban League, Goodwin Plaza, Lockefield Gardens*, St. Philip's Episcopal Church*, Crispus Attucks High School *, Historic Ransom Place*, Fayette Street Historic Neighborhood, the 500 block of Indiana Avenue*, "Colored" Knights of Pythias headquarters*, and Flanner House Homes*. *listed in the National Register of Historic Places
Additional work will address preservation of Historic Fox Lake, a resort community located in Steuben County in northeastern Indiana also listed in the National Register. It is about to celebrate its one hundredth anniversary and is one of only two extant Black lake resorts in the country. Fox Lake founding families included executives from the Madam Walker Manufacturing Company who, along with other Black professionals from Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Detroit, and Chicago, sought a safe place for their families to recreate.
"We are exceedingly grateful for and incredibly proud of the support we have received from Mellon Foundation and Lilly Endowment to preserve and rebuild Black heritage communities," says Indianapolis-native and ULLI President Claudia Polley. "For generations, Indiana Avenue has suffered tremendous neglect and disrepair. This funding changes that trajectory. Instead of accepting the worst of its past, we now have an opportunity to restore the Avenue's history of vibrancy, connectivity and culture. ULLI allows us to use the best of the past as a catalyst for the best of the future."
The non-profit CHDC will champion two key projects–ULLI Land and ULLI Heritage:
- ULLI Land is the ongoing study and application of best land development planning and practice in/for Black heritage communities, beginning with Historic Indiana Avenue and Historic Fox Lake.
- ULLI Heritage will focus on Black scholarship - from within the academy and through personal investigation - and the practical application of the same to support heritage preservation in Black communities. The grants will support the establishment of the ULLI Heritage and Humanities Scholars Program at the Center for Africana Studies and Culture (CASC) at IUPUI, which will be housed at the Madam Walker Legacy Center, the district's sole National Historic Landmark. The Scholars Program is unique because CASC graduate and undergraduate students will receive immersive training and then research the history of Blacks in Indianapolis to discover how that history can inform the future. This is especially important for these research teams as it enables them to see the positive effect of the work they do in their own communities of color.
In 2020, OG Ink Ltd, a small group of Black heritage-focused elders, came together to find better solutions for the future of Historic Indiana Avenue. Their efforts followed the lead of work begun by Reclaim Indiana Avenue and has been energized by the Black Lives Matter movement because of the demand for change that emerged after George Floyd's murder. ULLI was born of those urgent and creative times.
Not just rooted in the past, ULLI is headquartered at 16 Tech, the innovation district at the northern end of Indiana Avenue, a tangible demonstration of ULLI's investment in the neighborhood's future.
Urban Legacy Lands Initiative Inc. is a Cultural Heritage Development Corporation (CHDC) centered on Black cultural heritage in historic revitalization, land development, and placemaking. ULLI's primary focus begins with the revitalization of Historic Indiana Avenue and continues its work with the preservation of Historic Fox Lake, one of only two extant Black lake resorts in the country. For more information, please visit www.ulli1.org.
Contact:
Tracey Royal
Tracey Royal Communications
(917) 309-0440
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WFO MIDLAND/ODESSA Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, August 21, 2022
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FLOOD WARNING
Flood Statement
National Weather Service Midland/Odessa TX
802 AM CDT Sat Aug 20 2022
...The Flood Warning is extended for the following rivers in Texas...
Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE affecting Presidio County.
.Thunderstorms producing heavy rainfall along the Rio Grande and Rio
Conchos have brought both rivers into minor flood in places. Rivers
are forecast to crest this morning, and slowly recede through the
afternoon. Additional rainfall could exacerbate conditions.
For the Rio Grande...including Presidio 6WNW, Presidio International
Bridge, Presidio 5SE, Castolon, Johnson Ranch, Boquillas, Dryden
16S, Terlingua 8S...Minor flooding is forecast.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the
dangers of flooding.
Motorists should not attempt to drive around barricades or drive
cars through flooded areas.
Please report observed flooding to local emergency services or law
enforcement and request they pass this information to the National
Weather Service when you can do so safely.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov.
The next statement will be issued this evening at 815 PM CDT.
...FLOOD WARNING NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL LATE TONIGHT...
* WHAT...Minor flooding is occurring and minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...Rio Grande below Presidio 5SE.
* WHEN...Until late tonight.
* IMPACTS...At 9.0 feet (2.7 meters), the river reaches minor flood
stage, and low lying areas begin to flood.
At 11.0 feet (3.4 meters), minor flooding continues along the
river. Irrigation pumps may need to be removed. No threats to
residences or other structures are known to occur.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
- At 7:15 AM CDT Saturday the stage was 10.7 feet (3.3 meters).
- Recent Activity...The maximum river stage in the 24 hours
ending at 7:15 AM CDT Saturday was 11.3 feet (3.4 meters).
- Forecast...The river is expected to fall below flood stage
late this afternoon and continue falling to 5.7 feet (1.7
meters) Thursday morning.
- Flood stage is 9.0 feet (2.7 meters).
- Flood History...This crest compares to a previous crest of
9.0 feet (2.7 meters) on 06/28/2021.
- http://www.weather.gov/safety/flood
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (feet):
Fld Observed Sat Sat Sun Sun
Location Stg Stg Day/Time 1pm 7pm 1am 7am
Rio Grande
Presidio 5SE 9.0 10.7 Sat 7am 10.3 8.6 7.5 7.3
Below are the latest river stages and forecasts (meters):
Presidio 5SE 2.7 3.3 Sat 7am 3.1 2.6 2.3 2.2
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Hong Kong bans CBD, forcing businesses to shut or revamp
By KANIS LEUNG
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong banned CBD as a “dangerous drug” and imposed harsh penalties for its possession on Wednesday, forcing fledging businesses to shut down or revamp.
Supporters say CBD, or cannabidiol, derived from the cannabis plant, can help relieve stress and inflammation without getting its users high, unlike its more famous cousin THC, the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana which has long been illegal in Hong Kong. CBD was once legal in the city, and cafes and shops selling CBD-infused products were popular among young people.
But all that has changed with the prohibition, which took effect Wednesday but had been announced by the government last year. CBD-related businesses have closed down while others have struggled to remodel their businesses. Consumers dumped what they saw as a cure for their ailments into special collection boxes set up around the city.
The new rule reflects a zero-tolerance policy toward dangerous drugs in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous southern Chinese business hub, as well as in mainland China, where CBD was banned in 2022.
The city maintains several categories of “dangerous drugs,” which include “hard drugs” such as heroin and cocaine.
In explaining the policy change, the Hong Kong government cited the difficulty of isolating pure CBD from cannabis, the possibility of contamination with THC during the production process and the relative ease by which CBD can be converted to THC.
Customs authorities vowed last week to do more to educate residents to help them understand that CBD is prohibited in Hong Kong even though it is legal elsewhere.
Starting Wednesday, possession of CBD can result in up to seven years in jail and a 1 million Hong Kong dollar ($128,000) fine. Those convicted of importing, exporting or producing the substance can face up to life in prison and a 5 million Hong Kong dollar ($638,000) fine.
Some users said the ban shows the international financial hub is going backward.
“It’s just looking less like an international city,” said Jennifer Lo, the owner of CBD Bakery, who started selling CBD-infused cheesecakes, cookies and drinks in 2021.
Her business largely dried up even before the ban took effect, she said.
“Rumors of the ban affected how I do business,” she said. “Some platforms just took me offline without telling me. And then it was not as easy to get space at markets.”
To comply with the ban, Lo dumped all her remaining stock, including dozens of cookies, and said she would have to rebrand her business.
Some other vendors, including the city’s first CBD cafe that opened in 2020, shut down.
Karena Tsoi, who used CBD skincare products for two years to treat her eczema, said she will have to find an alternative treatment.
“It’s troublesome,” she said. “The government doesn’t have to regulate like this.”
Most Asian nations have strict drug laws with harsh penalties with the exception of Thailand, which made marijuana legal to cultivate and possess last year.
Elsewhere, the debate over CBD continues.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said last week that there is not enough evidence about CBD to confirm that it’s safe for consumption in foods or as a dietary supplement. It called on Congress to create new rules for the growing market.
Marijuana-derived products have become increasingly popular in lotions, tinctures and foods, while their legal status has been murky in the U.S., where several states have legalized or decriminalized substances that remain illegal federally.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The founder of an educational program for at-risk youth in Des Moines has been released from the hospital, his family said Monday, a week after he was wounded and two students were shot dead.
Will Keeps, 49, a former Chicago gang member who moved to Iowa and later founded the Starts Right Here program, is recovering at home, his family said in a statement.
“Will still has a long recovery ahead and will require additional procedures,” the statement said. “However, he is determined to get back to fulfilling the mission of Starts Right Here after he has taken the time needed to rest and heal.”
Students Gionni Dameron, 18, and Rashad Carr, 16, were killed in the shooting at the program, which provides help to students under a contract with Des Moines Public Schools.
Phil Roeder, a spokesman for the district, said classes had not resumed at Starts Right Here, which operates in a small business park on the edge of downtown. It wasn't clear when it would reopen to students, and Roeder said Des Moines schools would resume academic aspects of the program Tuesday at a district location.
Police have charged Preston Walls, 18, and Bravon Michael Tukes, 19, both of Des Moines, with two counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of criminal gang participation. Bail was set at $2.5 million for each.
Police say Walls, a Starts Right Here participant, entered a common area of the building Jan. 23 and opened fire before fleeing in a car driven by Tukes. The two belong to a gang and committed the shootings “in connection with that gang membership,” according to police.
Walls waived his preliminary hearing and is awaiting his arraignment, according to online court records. His attorney has declined to comment.
Tukes' preliminary hearing is set for Feb. 7. He will be represented by the public defenders office, but a lawyer has not yet been named. | 2023-01-30T22:53:20+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/youth-program-leader-hurt-in-school-shooting-out-17752173.php |
Last July, The Dalles native Jeff Stewart was embarking on a long-term goal of becoming a kidney donor when testing revealed he had cancer. Not just one kind, but two.
And he is grateful for it.
It’s a blessing that gave him “the time and will” to write a book, “Living: Inspiration from a Father with Cancer,” that he’s dedicated to his seven children and “someday grandchildren in case I can’t tell you myself.”
The book, which publishes May 15, is three powerful stories woven into one page-turner: His own fascinating life story; his 100 pearls of wisdom to his children that give the book its title; and his unblinking account of his cancer diagnosis and treatment.
He has a rare gift for explaining complex things simply. And he doesn’t shy away from hard topics, be it his own deep regrets or his own mortality.
Early on he talks about waiting to hear what stage his cancer is: “Tumor staging is going to set the clock of my life.”
Treatments are now done, and a scan has shown no cancer. If it comes back, he’s got months to live. If he makes it to the two-year mark cancer-free, he’s looking at a full lifespan.
The book will be available to order at bookstores and on Amazon May 15. It will be available on Audible this summer.
Stewart, who lives in Cary, N.C, where he is a pharmaceutical consultant, gained fame in 1994 when he won Collegiate Jeopardy! Shortly after that, he narrowly lost in a Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.
Nearly 30 years later, when COVID hit, he began commenting tirelessly on community Facebook pages in The Dalles. Unfailingly kind in the face of vitriol, he used his scientific background and trademark simple explanations to counteract the endless amount of COVID misinformation.
“I spent every bit of my local fame from winning on Jeopardy! to undo COVID lies,” he wrote. “They told lies that tricked people into a gruesome death by suffocation.”
In telling his remarkable life story, Stewart describes the fierce work ethic and strong moral code learned from his parents, Joe and Sharon Stewart.
A reader by age 2, Stewart was “smart, and I liked it. I didn’t mind telling you how smart I thought I was.” He acknowledges, “My face must’ve been completely punchable.”
His inquisitive mind is on full display. He marvels at scientific explanations of how insects fly, despite their huge bodies and tiny wings. (They create cyclones under their wings that cause lift).
He thinks about how incredibly physically strong and scrappy our ancestors had to have been just to survive, even though their nutrition was terrible. He thinks about the sacrifices made during the D-Day landing in World War II.
Forming the heart of the book are his 100 life lessons for his children. Imagine if you had a deeply caring friend with encyclopedic knowledge and the insights of a sage, who just wanted the very best for you.
This is the list you’d get.
It’s a stunning breadth of wisdom, stretching from the practical to the profound.
Some samples:
Propaganda victims are victims. Don’t blame victims.
All breakups are bad. Feeling terrible doesn’t mean you should get back together.
Be excited to seek expertise and be open to changing your mind and learning new things.
Buy term life insurance. All other life insurance is term life plus overpriced investment.
Don’t cook a turkey intact.
Failure is the tuition we pay to learn compassion.
Wish everyone well. The line between Us and Them fades.
Be wary of confidence, it’s possessed by experts and incompetents alike. The key: Look for expertise.
Sometimes we wait too long to quit something.
Switch therapists if it’s not working out.
Be friends with anyone, but choose who you follow carefully.
His final, most important missive: Be kind.
He offered another insight, “Physically attractive people aren’t always taken seriously. Just ask your mother.”
He met his wife, Jen — the first person to ever beat him at Trivial Pursuit — when both played on the Brigham Young University trivia team.
She turned down her law school admission to Columbia University, the nation’s top law school at the time, to raise their growing family.
His Jeopardy! win is well known. He was recognized all over the world. “Fame is fun and creepy,” he wrote. “People stared.”
Less well known is that as a lab assistant at Princeton, he discovered one of the keys to the causes of autoimmune disease in women. When his theory — which came to him like a thunderbolt — was borne out by studies seven years later, “I cried.”
And, like a modern-day Renaissance Man with expertise across disciplines, Stewart also invented what has become the most used valuation method used in biotech today.
That’s not to say it’s all been a bed of roses. He was kicked out of Princeton after depression overwhelmed him and he failed exams, a mortifying experience. Despite three years of trying, he never got back into Princeton’s Ph.D. program. They did, however, award him a master’s degree, “which is kind of a booby prize in molecular biology.”
His cancer journey is dispassionately explained, again in simple and stark terms.
Stewart’s two cancers were in the stomach and kidney. He’s had surgery, chemo and radiation.
Chemo side effects, including nerve damage that zapped his hands when he touched things, and a painful cold sensitivity, got so bad he had to stop the treatment. His eye muscles cramped when he yawned.
He writes poignantly, “I’ll try to live the best life I can with whatever time I have. That should be enough. I want it to be enough. I know it’s not enough.”
Humor makes a regular appearance in his cancer story. He described the chemo infusion chair: “Think dentist chair plus La-Z-Boy. You can recline without it actually being comfortable.”
He explained why he was writing: “I don’t want to be forgotten …. I’m trying to live on in my kids’ minds. I want to leave them with my mental tools to pull out when they need. I want my language to live on in my kids, I want them to carry my world with them.”
The horror of a cancer diagnosis yielded the beauty of this engrossing page-turner. The wisdom and caring spun across the nearly 300 pages conjures up the title of a famous 1950s TV sitcom (and possibly a Jeopardy! answer), the very fitting Father Knows Best. | 2023-04-26T09:17:23+00:00 | columbiagorgenews.com | https://www.columbiagorgenews.com/news/td-native-pens-book-to-his-kids-after-cancer-diagnosis-jeff-stewart-s-page-turner/article_9759ff2e-e3bd-11ed-b65a-5b92bfba78ed.html |
GPARENCY signed 36 contracts in the month of July, reaching their third best month in history
HOWELL, N.J., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- GPARENCY, one of the nation's premier commercial mortgage brokers, has gained growing popularity in the CREF industry for their unique subscription-based pricing where their brokers will close your deal at their cost of $11K. GPARENCY saw one of its highest production months in the company's history in July, closing and signing on several large loans and 36 contracts within the past 30 days.
Included in these 36 contracts, GPARENCY closed on loans such as a $12.5M multifamily bridge loan in Atlanta, Georgia, and a $9.2M multifamily bridge loan in New Jersey.
When asked about the company's fast growth and increase in large deals, the owner and CEO of the company, Ira Zlotowitz, said, "Our vision for GPARENCY has always been to shift the narrative of the CRE industry with better value through execution and pricing. The borrowers who have tried GPARENCY rave about the difference, and that's the greatest satisfaction for our team at the end of the day." Zlotowitz said the GPARENCY team plans to propel forward with the same momentum as they continue in the third quarter of the year.
About GPARENCY
GPARENCY is one of America's premier commercial mortgage brokerages. Based in Zoom, USA, the company operates under an innovative pricing model that enables borrowers to secure funding using a customizable fixed-fee membership model. Founded in November, 2021, the company has attracted national attention for its disrupting pricing structure and reliable reputation for closing complex deals.
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Backyard mosquito spraying is on the rise but may be too deadly
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — It’s an increasingly familiar sight in U.S. cities and suburbs: A van pulls up to the curb. Workers wearing gloves, masks and other protective gear strap on backpack-type mechanisms with plastic hoses, similar to leaf blowers.
Revving up the motors, they drench trees, bushes and even house walls with pesticides targeting an age-old menace: mosquitoes.
The winged, spindly-legged bloodsuckers have long been the bane of backyard barbecues and, in tropical nations, carriers of serious disease. Now, with climate change widening the insect’s range and lengthening its prime season, more Americans are resorting to the booming industry of professional yard spraying.
“If you like to be outside, it certainly makes it more pleasant not to be swatting mosquitos and worrying about all the issues,” said Marty Marino, a recent customer in Michigan’s Cascade Township, a bedroom community near Grand Rapids.
But the chemical bombardment is beginning to worry scientists who fear over-use of pesticides is harming pollinators and worsening a growing threat to birds that eat insects.
“The materials these companies spray kill all bugs,” said Lynn Goldman, an environmental health professor at George Washington University and former assistant administrator for toxic substances at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“That includes bees, butterflies and all kinds of beneficial bugs that maybe people don’t love but should,” Goldman said. “It’s not good to have this kind of indiscriminate killing, messing up the whole ecosystem.”
More than 40% of insect species worldwide are threatened with extinction, including some pollinator bees and butterflies, according to the journal Biological Conservation.
Spraying companies, which have been multiplying with the surging demand, say they try to minimize pollinator losses but acknowledge there’s collateral damage.
Mosquito Joe, which treated Marino’s yard and those of several neighbors on a humid July morning, avoids spraying on windy days when poisons would blow onto flowering plants that attract bees, said Lou Schager, president of the company based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
“We need our pollinators,” said David Price, the company’s director of technical services. “They’re incredibly important. But at the same time, we need to eliminate mosquitoes that (carry) diseases.”
In 2020, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported “dramatic” increases in illnesses spread by mosquitoes and other blood feeders. Zika, Chikungunya and West Nile viruses have turned up in the U.S. And Asian tiger and yellow fever types of mosquitoes that originated in the tropics are now common in Southern states and have begun afflicting Southern California.
With climate change, Michigan’s mosquito season is about a month longer at the beginning and the end than a few decades ago, as warm-weather varieties increasingly turn up, entomology professor Edward Walker of Michigan State University said.
Meanwhile, the revenue from mosquito spraying has soared, according to Pest Control Technology, a trade publication. Exterminators are adding mosquitoes to their traditional services, and new companies are making mosquitoes their primary focus.
Overall industry totals weren’t available. But more than 70% of pest control companies surveyed last year offered the service, up from 38% in 2014. It generated nearly one-fifth of company revenue in 2021.
A Zika outbreak that began in 2015 and spread to more than 80 countries helped fuel the surge in the business, said Daniel Markowski, technical adviser to the American Mosquito Control Association, a 1,200-member nonprofit group.
“It was all over the media,” said Markowski, and “made a lot of pest control companies say, ‘Holy cow, I could make a lot of money with residential services.’”
Established in 2010, Mosquito Joe now has 173 franchises in 39 states, Schager said.
Many companies use a “residual barrier” strategy, spraying pesticide around the perimeter of a property that typically lasts several weeks. When mosquitoes settle on the bushes or trees, they get a lethal dose.
For yard treatments, companies typically use pyrethrins — bug-killing substances produced by chrysanthemum flowers — or synthetic imitators called pyrethroids.
The federal government says the chemicals are safe for humans when used as directed and mostly nontoxic to birds. But they’re deadly to fish and bees, and harm birds indirectly by killing insects they feed on, Goldman said.
A drop-off of 3 billion North American birds in recent decades has consisted largely of insect eaters, from the whip-poor-will to redwing blackbirds and barn swallows.
EPA says it is seeking more information about pollinator harm as part of a periodic review of pyrethrins and pyrethroids and could order labeling changes if needed.
Critics also contend homeowners are falling for company sales pitches when simpler methods, such as emptying stagnant water sources and running electric fans, would keep mosquitoes away.
The mosquito control association says companies should first clear out mosquito breeding areas and spray only when an inspection shows it’s needed, instead of on a set schedule.
“If I’m doing my job, you won’t need my mosquito service over time,” said Dan Killingsworth, operations director for Environmental Security Pest Control, based in Panama City Beach, Florida. “If I can reduce mosquitoes on your property to where they’re no longer a problem, we can potentially eliminate that service.”
Many companies don’t go to such lengths, Markowski said. “They’ll just come out and spray your property and leave.”
Schager said his company limits its insecticide use and usually sprays every three to four weeks, arguing that regular treatments are needed to disrupt breeding cycles.
Marino, the Michigan homeowner, says he’s trying an optional spray of water mixed with “essential oils” from plants such as garlic, lemongrass, peppermint and rosemary, which are less harmful to other insects. About 10% of Mosquito Joe’s clientele use this option, although most prefer the longer-lasting pyrethroids, Price said.
The company charges around $90 per treatment with pyrethroids, while oils cost about 20% more, he said.
“One of our dogs likes to eat wood chips from the landscaping,” Marino said. “If there’s the synthetic insecticide on it, that’s a great concern.”
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. >> Top Republicans, including some of Donald Trump’s potential rivals for the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination, rushed to his defense Saturday after Trump said he is bracing for possible arrest.
“The idea of indicting a former president of the United States is deeply troubling to me as it is to tens of millions of Americans,” said former Vice President Mike Pence, a likely Trump rival, during a visit to Iowa, an early-voting state. Tech investor Vivek Ramaswamy, campaigning in South Carolina, said he didn’t want to live in a country where “the party in power is able to use police force to arrest its political opposition.”
The reaction underscores the political risks faced by would-be opponents who are eager to convince voters that it is time to move on from the former president, but who must contend with the fact that he remains the most popular figure in the party. The multiple investigations Trump is facing — his post on social media about the Manhattan district attorney’s probe led to the public declarations of support — remain deeply unpopular with his supporters and criticizing Trump too harshly risks alienating his loyal base.
Trump garnered similar support last summer after the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago club as part of an investigation into his handling of classified documents. The search also proved a fundraising boon.
Among those coming to Trump’s defense were House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who said a possible indictment would be “an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance” against Trump.
McCarthy, R-Calif., said he would direct relevant GOP-led House committees “to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.” McCarthy has not endorsed Trump’s White House campaign, but Trump helped McCarthy secure the speakership after a contentious campaign that required multiple rounds of voting.
New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third-ranking House Republican and an early Trump endorser, said action by the district attorney would be “unAmerican.”
The comments came hours after Trump claimed in a social media post that he expects to be arrested this coming week as New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg mulls charges in an investigation into hush money payments to women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump. A Trump lawyer and spokesman said Saturday that Trump, who has long denied the charges, had been responding in that post to media reports and had no independent knowledge of any pending legal action.
Trump, in a message on his Truth Social network, nonetheless declared that, “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK.” He then called on his supporters to “PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!” recalling the pleas he made before the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Any potential violence spurred by Trump’s comments could change the tenor of reaction. But on Saturday, several of Trump’s declared and potential rivals were quick to blast the district attorney’s investigation.
Pence, who has been escalating his criticism of the former president in recent weeks, said the news was particularly troubling, “happening in what appears to be a politically-charged environment in New York where the attorney general and other elected officials literally campaigned on a pledge to prosecutor the former president.”
“No one is above the law,” he added. “I’m confident President Trump can take care of himself. My focus is going to continue to be on the issues that are affecting the American people.”
Pence had been noncommittal when asked Thursday if Trump should drop out if he is indicted. “I think it’s a free country. Everybody can make their own decisions,” he said.
Trump has said he would continue his presidential campaign even if indicted.
Ramaswamy, who is already a declared candidate, earlier called on Bragg to “reconsider.”
“A Trump indictment would be a national disaster,” Ramaswamy tweeted. “It is un-American for the ruling party to use police power to arrest its political rivals.”
Representatives for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, another potential candidate who is seen as Trump’s most serious rival, did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday — a decision publicized by a super PAC supporting Trump’s candidacy. Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, another declared candidate, did not address the investigation while campaigning in South Carolina.
Ramaswamy called on Haley and DeSantis to join him in condemning the possible indictment.
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, who won his race in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement, said he had been asked by multiple reporters if an indictment would lead him to rescind support for Trump’s campaign.
“The answer is: hell no. A politically motivated prosecution makes the argument for Trump stronger,” he tweeted. “We simply don’t have a real country if justice depends on politics.”
Prosecutors have been investigating hush money payments made to two women who alleged sexual encounters with Trump decades ago. A grand jury has been hearing from witnesses including former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who says he orchestrated payments in 2016 to the women in exchange for their silence.
Trump denies the encounters and has cast the investigation as a “witch hunt” by a Democratic prosecutor bent on sabotaging Trump’s latest presidential campaign. Trump has said he believes an indictment would help him in the 2024 race.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a longtime ally, said he agreed.
“The prosecutor in New York has done more to help Donald Trump get elected,” Graham said Saturday at the Vision ‘24 conference in North Charleston, South Carolina. “They’re doing this because they’re afraid of Donald Trump.”
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Colvin reported from New York. Associated Press writers Holly Ramer in Keene, New Hampshire, and Michelle R. Smith in Providence, Rhode Island, contributed to this report. | 2023-03-18T23:15:15+00:00 | staradvertiser.com | https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/03/18/breaking-news/some-trump-rivals-rally-to-his-side-as-possible-charges-loom/ |
Local 135 Members Demand New Agreement, No Forced Overtime
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Teamsters Local 135 members at MonoSol are picketing for a second day outside the company's LaPorte, Ind., facility, demanding the packaging employer negotiate a fair contract and call off its lockout of workers.
On Nov. 26, Teamsters overwhelmingly rejected a substandard contract offer from MonoSol and authorized a strike. In advance of a potential job action, the company preemptively shut its doors to workers early Thursday. Nearly 200 Teamsters are asking for an end to forced overtime and 60-hour workweeks.
Local 135 members produce water-soluble packaging used by Procter & Gamble [NYSE: PG] to make products like Tide laundry detergent pods and Cascade dishwasher detergent pods.
"Our members work extremely hard for MonoSol, but this company needs to hire more people and treat its employees better — period," said Dustin Roach, President-Elect of Local 135. "Teamsters shouldn't have to suffer because of the employer's chronic understaffing. MonoSol management is operating this company off the backs of hardworking people, and our members deserve respect and fair treatment on the job."
"MonoSol is trying to wear us down, but we won't let them," said Eric Hoffman, Caster and Mixer at MonoSol. "All we want is an agreement with reasonable hours so we can see our families. We need fair wages that keep up with inflation and the cost of living. We aren't asking for the world here. But the company is being unreasonable and, to be honest, greedy."
The Teamsters represent more than 350 MonoSol employees nationwide, including about 200 utility operators, casters, mixers, winders, and maintenance workers at the LaPorte facility.
MonoSol, a division of Japan-based Kuraray, is the exclusive distributor of water-soluble products to Procter & Gamble nationally.
In 2020, Kuraray endorsed and became a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, which includes a pledge to uphold freedom of association in the workplace, recognize the right to collective bargaining, and eliminate all forms of forced and compulsory labor, including forced overtime. This week, Local 135 sent Procter & Gamble a letter asking the corporation to investigate MonoSol's labor practices throughout the United States.
"I have close to 200 coworkers here and we are all sticking together until MonoSol treats us right and returns to the table. We deserve a fair deal. We cannot accept a contract that includes forced labor," Hoffman said.
Contact:
Dustin Roach, (463) 217-6041
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It's quite a sight to behold as the Albuquerque sky becomes filled with hot air balloons.
The annual international balloon fiesta kicked off Saturday, marking the start of an annual fiesta that has drawn pilots and spectators across the globe to New Mexico's high desert for 50 years.
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is one of the most photographed events in the world.
On Saturday, tens of thousands of people came to check it out.
It has become an economic driver for the state's largest city and a rare — and colorful — opportunity for enthusiasts to gather.
This year, more than 20 countries are represented, including Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Croatia, Mexico, Taiwan and Ukraine.
Three of the original pilots who participated in the first fiesta in 1972 were among this year's attendees.
The festival runs until Oct. 8, KOAT reported. | 2022-10-06T03:51:41+00:00 | kjrh.com | https://www.kjrh.com/news/national/annual-hot-air-balloon-festival-draws-global-audience-to-us |
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COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Wayne Black was one of the few African Americans in the crowd as about 100 people gathered recently at the Republican Party headquarters near Columbus, Georgia, to hear from U.S. Senate candidate and football legend Herschel Walker.
A member of the Muscogee County Republican Executive Committee, Black said he found a certain promise in Walker's candidacy, a GOP voice who could appeal to African Americans and others in Georgia who have traditionally voted Democratic.
“They identify with him from the standpoint of the American dream,” Black said. “You can start from nothing and if you work hard, you can achieve the American dream.”
But that optimism ran into headwinds about 100 miles to the north. As she left an Atlanta polling site, Wyvonia Carter said her choice in what might be the most competitive Senate race this year was not particularly complicated.
“You know I’m Black, right?” the 84 year-old said. “I’m a Democrat. That’s it.”
In this Deep South state where the painful history of slavery, segregation and racial injustice is ever-present, voters for the first time have selected two Black candidates to represent the major parties in a Senate race. After handily winning their respective primaries on Tuesday, Walker will take on Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a general election campaign that could help decide control of the Senate.
The race will test whether Democratic gains in 2020 were a blip or the start of a political realignment in a rapidly changing state. In November 2020, Joe Biden was the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in 28 years, and just two months later, Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff flipped two longtime Republican Senate seats, handing their party a narrow majority in the Senate.
Black voters were crucial in helping Democrats secure those victories and will likely be decisive again this year.
The issue is less about whether Walker will break the bond that Black voters have had with Democratic candidates. It is more about whether Black voters, frustrated by a lack of progress in Washington on issues ranging from a policing overhaul to voting rights, simply sit this election out. In a close election, even a small change in voting patterns could be decisive.
Republicans hope Walker's candidacy can at least neutralize the issue of race in the campaign.
“In this race, Black Georgians will not have to contend with the race issue,” said Camilla Moore, chair of the Georgia Black Republican Council. “And I really do believe by culture, we’re socially conservative. I think Herschel just has to be Herschel and tell his conservative message.”
But in interviews in recent weeks, many Black voters said they would not give Walker a second look because of his race. They said they were driven by policy considerations, and Walker, who was backed by former President Donald Trump and is generally in line with GOP orthodoxy, does not address their needs.
Louis Harden, a 58-year-old Black voter in Atlanta, said he is backing Warnock because of the senator's support for Medicaid expansion.
“It doesn’t matter about the color,” he said. “It’s just the issues, who's going to get the job done.”
There are only a few modern instances in which two Black people have emerged as the nominees in a Senate race.
Democrat Barack Obama faced Republican radio host and former diplomat Alan Keyes in his 2004 Senate campaign in Illinois. More recently, South Carolina's Tim Scott, the Senate's only Black Republican, was unsuccessfully challenged in 2016 by Thomas Dixon, a North Charleston pastor.
But the Warnock-Walker matchup is unique because it is playing out in a far more competitive state than Illinois, a Democratic stronghold, or South Carolina, where Republicans are dominant. Also, the candidates in Georgia are already well known, representing two institutions that are revered in the South: church and football.
Walker, among Georgia's most well-known sports figures, won a championship and the Heisman Trophy while at the University of Georgia in the 1980s. Warnock is the senior pastor at the Atlanta church where Martin Luther King Jr. preached.
“This is going to be a historic matchup,” said Stan Deaton, a scholar at the Georgia Historical Society.
But to make a dent in Warnock's support among Black voters, Walker will need to do more to appeal to the Black community, said Leah Wright Rigueur, a political historian at Johns Hopkins University who has written about efforts by Black Republicans to broaden the party's largely white base.
Republican candidates who do well among African American voters have the ability to craft a political identity that is independent from the party, something she said Walker has not done so far. Black voters also consider how a candidate treats his or her community and may view African American candidates who stick to Republican talking points more harshly than their white counterparts, Wright Rigueur said.
“And the reason why is because it’s viewed as a betrayal," she said. “It’s viewed as community betrayal.”
Walker has largely hewed to Republican messaging about race. He has defended Trump against criticism that Trump was racist, he has accused Black Lives Matter of wanting to destroy the country and he has said “Black-on-Black crime” is far worse than violence by police. Walker has come under scrutiny over allegations that he threatened his ex-wife's life and dramatically inflated his record as a businessman.
Warnock, the pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church, has embraced King's legacy of racial justice and equal rights. After the killing of George Floyd by police in May 2020, Warnock expounded on the country’s struggle with a “virus” he called “COVID-1619” for the year when some of the first slaves arrived in what is now the United States. On Capitol Hill, he has attacked Republicans’ push for tighter voting rules as “Jim Crow in new clothes.”
Warnock “has a record of fighting to improve the lives of all Georgians,” Warnock campaign manager Quentin Fulks said in a statement, citing as examples Warnock's efforts to forgive student loan debt and address the high rates of maternal mortality.
"The people of Georgia, no matter their race, will make the decision about who is up for the job and best able to represent the people of Georgia,” he said.
A spokesperson for Walker's campaign, Mallory Blount, said all Georgians, regardless of race, are facing problems created by Democrats and that Walker is “sick and tired of politicians constantly dividing people based on the color of their skin.”
Walker told a House subcommittee last year while testifying against reparations for slavery that “Black power” is used to “create white guilt.”
In his memoir, “Breaking Free,” Walker said his mother taught him that “color was invisible” and doing right or wrong was what mattered.
“I never really liked the idea that I was to represent my people,” he wrote. “My parents raised me to believe that I represented humanity — people — and not black people, white people, yellow people, or any other color or type of person.”
Still, Black Republicans in Georgia expect Walker to try hard to woo the African American community during the general election. They also believe his personal story about overcoming obstacles to reach the top ranks of college football and then the NFL will find an audience among Black voters.
“Self-determination has always been a big thing in the Black community since we got out of slavery," said Leonard Massey, who is Black and is chairman of the Chatham County Republican Party in eastern Georgia. “He actually shows how to get to the next level.”
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Associated Press writer Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia, contributed to this report. | 2022-05-28T13:54:17+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/In-Georgia-2-Black-candidates-to-compete-for-17205230.php |
After falling to the Steph Curry-led Warriors by nearly 20 points on Sunday, the Celtics look to reclaim the lead at home in Boston on Wednesday. Police warn fans eager to see Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Derrick White and other Celtics players perform live this week to be wary of fraudulent ticket sales.
The Boston Police Department said anyone trying to purchase tickets for Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday and Game 4 on Friday, should only be purchased at authorized ticket sellers.
Tickets from games 3 and 4 can be purchased on Stubhub, VividSeats and TicketNetwork.
Game 3 of the NBA Finals takes place in Boston at the TD Garden on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
As of Tuesday afternoon, tickets for Wednesday’s game started at $789 on StubHub, $647 on VividSeats and $836 on TicketNetwork.
“Fans who purchase tickets from a secondary source are taking a chance and do so at the buyer’s own risk,” Boston police said in a statement. “Officers want to proactively curb such activity and encourage buyers to only purchase from official vendors. Purchasing via other means creates the potential for possessing an invalid and/or counterfeit ticket.”
With the recent advancements in printer technology, fraudulent tickets have become more common and harder to identify. Anyone who purchases a second-hand ticket can follow DoNotPay, a scam identifying website, steps to see if the tickets are legitimate:
- Look at the spelling of each word. Real tickets do not have spelling errors.
- Real tickets have a valid website link related to the event. In fake tickets, these links may have errors that are prohibited in link addresses.
- Look at the dates on your ticket. Some authorized sellers, such as Ticketmaster, avoid commas when writing their dates.
- The quality of paper in real and fake tickets varies. Real tickets use high-quality paper.
- Once you receive your e-ticket, contact the venue to confirm the validity of your e-ticket number.
The best way to avoid buying fake tickets is to purchase them from authorized sellers.
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- Company will host its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 4:30pm EST.
- Shareholders of record as of Friday November 18th, are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the meeting.
- Meeting, to be held virtually, to include remarks from Creatd Chairman & CEO Jeremy Frommer related to the Company's ongoing battle with naked shorting practices in the market.
NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Creatd, Inc. (OTCQB: CRTD) ("Creatd" or the "Company"), a creator-first technology company, today provided a final reminder that its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"), will be held virtually tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18, 2023, beginning at 4:30pm EST.
All shareholders of record as of the close of business on November 18, 2022, are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Annual Meeting. In addition, the Annual Meeting will include remarks from Creatd's founder and Chairman Jeremy Frommer, directly pertaining to what has become one of the Company's most pressing issues.
In addition to the anticipated application to the NYSE and pending application to dually list on Upstream, the Company is simultaneously pursuing the spin-off of the OG Collection media archive and web 3.0 assets. The objective is to issue the spin-off in the most transparent way possible and to facilitate dividend distributions only to shareholders with shares held of record by either such person or entity or through a broker, dealer, agent, custodian, or other nominees. In addition, the Company is engaged in ongoing discussion with GTII regarding a proposed $100 million dollar stock-for-stock acquisition. Upon completion of the proposed acquisition, Creatd's CEO & Chairman would assume the leadership role of the surviving entity.
Commented Creatd CEO and Chairman Jeremy Frommer, "We continue to stabilize revenues while at the same time drastically lowering operating expenses. We are seeing signs of an improving economic environment for the SaaS and overall technology spaces we are a part of. My days are spent protecting shareholder values and pursuing those who threaten them. Our current strategy could be described as one that kills two birds with one stone. By this I mean that the anticipated spin-off of two of our subsidiaries–first, the OG Collection in Q1 followed by Creatd Ventures in Q2–not only unlocks significant value on a fundamental basis for our shareholders, but it also creates a technical advantage by compelling shareholders who are unaware that their stock is not properly protected to create buy-ins throughout the clearing community. I'm looking forward to discussing this more thoroughly on tomorrow's shareholder call."
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Yosemite wildfire moving east into Sierra National Forest
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park was burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest on Wednesday.
The Washburn Fire is one of dozens of blazes chewing through drought-parched terrain in the Western U.S. It has increased in size to more than 5.8 square miles (15 square kilometers), pushing containment from 22% down to 17%.
“As the fire grew our containment went down,” said Nancy Philippe, a fire information spokesperson.
Firefighting preparations had already been underway in the national forest.
“We’ve brought in Sierra National Forest folks from the get-go, kind of anticipating that this may happen,” Philippe said.
Containment lines within the park, including along the edge of the grove, were holding, firefighting operations official Matt Ahearn said in a video briefing.
The fire had been entirely within the national park since breaking out July 7, when visitors to the Mariposa Grove of ancient sequoias reported smoke.
Authorities have not said how the fire started and whether it involved a crime or some type of accident.
Park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon told a community meeting this week that it was considered a “human-start fire” because there was no lightning that day.
Philippe said a park ranger who is a trained investigator was on the scene almost immediately when the fire was reported, and a law enforcement team continues to investigate.
Philippe said she believed they had found the point of ignition, but declined to release further information, citing the active investigation.
The fire in the southern portion of Yosemite forced evacuation of hundreds of visitors and residents from the small community of Wawona, but the rest of the park has remained open to summer crowds.
One firefighter suffered a heat injury and recovered, but no structures have been damaged.
Flames mostly skirted the Mariposa Grove, though it did leave its mark on some of the trees.
The Galen Clark tree, named for the park’s first custodian, and three trees that greet visitors when they arrive at the popular destination, were partly charred but none were expected to die because their canopy didn’t burn, said Garrett Dickman, a park forest ecologist who toured the site.
Dickman credited periodic intentional burns in the undergrowth beneath the towering trees with helping the grove survive its first wildfire in more than a century.
Small, targeted fires lit over the past 50 years essentially stopped the fire in its tracks when it hit the Mariposa Grove and allowed firefighters to stand their ground and set up sprinklers to further protect the world’s largest trees, Dickman said.
“We’ve been preparing for the Washburn Fire for decades,” said Dickman, who works for the park. “It really just died as soon as it hit the grove.”
The sequoias are adapted to fire — and rely on it to survive. But more than a century of aggressive fire suppression has left forests choked with dense vegetation and downed timber that has provided fuel for massive wildfires that have grown more intense during an ongoing drought and exacerbated by climate change.
So-called prescribed burns — most recently conducted in the grove in 2018 — mimic low intensity fires that help sequoias by clearing out downed branches, flammable needles and smaller trees that could compete with them for light and water. The heat from fires also helps cones open up to spread their seeds.
While intentional burns have been conducted in sequoias since the 1960s, they are increasingly being seen as a necessity to the save the massive trees. Once thought to be almost fireproof, up to 20% of all giant sequoias — native only in the Sierra Nevada range — have been killed in the past two years during intense wildfires.
Fighting fire with fire, which is used in limited applications to reduce threats to property or landmarks, is a risky endeavor and has occasionally gotten out of control.
In New Mexico, firefighters were working Tuesday to restore mountainsides turned to ash by the largest wildfire in the state’s recorded history that broke out in early April when prescribed burns by the U.S. Forest Service escaped containment following missteps and miscalculations.
The Santa Fe County Commission in an afternoon meeting blasted federal officials and unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Forest Service to conduct a more comprehensive environmental review as it looks to reduce the threat of wildfire in the mountains that border the capital city.
So far in 2022, over 35,000 wildfires have burned nearly 4.7 million acres (1.9 million hectares) in the U.S., according to the National Interagency Fire Center, well above average for both wildfires and acres burned.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-13T21:06:46+00:00 | kwtx.com | https://www.kwtx.com/2022/07/13/yosemite-wildfire-moving-east-into-sierra-national-forest/ |
URBANA — A third person wanted for allegedly trying to bribe a man to keep him from testifying in a shooting trial was arrested Sunday after he was treated for gunshot wounds.
Henry Pettigrew, 34, who listed an address in the 1600 block of Olympian Way, Urbana, was booked into the county jail just before 3 p.m. by Champaign police following his release from the hospital.
About 14 hours before Pettigrew’s arrest, Champaign police found him at the intersection of Walnut and Main streets downtown with non-life-threatening wounds to his arm and leg. No one has been arrested for his shooting and police would welcome any tips that could help them find the shooter.
An arrest warrant had been issued for him Aug. 8 after he was charged with bribery for allegedly trying to persuade a man shot in May 2020 not to testify in the trial of Coreyon Duncan, who is charged with attempted murder for shooting the man.
Police reports indicate the alleged bribing happened between September and December 2021 in a series of conversations between Duncan, 33, Pettigrew and Princess Jenkins, 39, of Champaign, that involved how to get money to pay off the 33-year-old victim and how to get the money to him. All three were charged with bribery last month.
Duncan, of Champaign, remains in jail for for the May 26, 2020, attempted murder that’s now linked to the alleged bribery, and for a Nov. 26, 2020, murder that happened in Champaign. | 2022-09-06T22:04:24+00:00 | news-gazette.com | https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/courts-police-fire/shooting-victim-arrested-on-warrant-after-being-treated/article_9aa09022-7e24-5523-982e-2c9b60ee69c9.html |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's top court on Wednesday ruled a man can be extradited to China to face a murder charge — a landmark judgment that goes against the trend set by most democratic nations.
In a 3-2 decision, the Supreme Court found that China was able to give New Zealand officials sufficient assurance that the accused, Kyung Yup Kim, could get a fair trial and wouldn't be tortured.
Concerns over those issues have been enough to stop most democratic countries from extraditing suspects to China in recent times. Like many other nations, New Zealand doesn't have a formal extradition treaty with China.
The decision is sure to be celebrated by China's ruling Communist Party as not only a legal victory but also a diplomatic and public relations success.
But Kim's lawyers said they would try to stop the extradition, first by filing a complaint with the U.N. Human Rights Committee and then, if needed, by filing a fresh judicial review based on Kim's poor health.
Lawyer Tony Ellis said Kim was very disappointed by the judgment. He said his client is in a suicidal state due to his health issues, which include severe depression, a small brain tumor, and liver and kidney disease.
Ellis said he had trouble understanding the decision given that for the past 10 years, most countries had stopped extraditing people to China. He said almost every suspect in China pleads guilty before going to trial, because they know that if they don't they'll be tortured.
He said China might see the ruling as encouragement to start extradition cases against people who have fled the country and been accused of economic crimes.
New Zealand's Minister of Justice Kris Faafoi declined to comment on the case, which has dragged on for 11 years.
In making its decision, the Supreme Court overturned an earlier appeals court ruling.
In an odd twist, two judges on the Supreme Court had recused themselves because before being promoted to the top court they had sat on the appeals court — where both had ruled against the extradition.
The Supreme Court found that China was able to give sufficient assurance that Kim would be jailed in Shanghai, where New Zealand consulate staff could monitor him before and during his trial. That would include visits at least every second day before his trial and at other times he requested.
China also told officials that Kim would serve his prison sentence in Shanghai if convicted.
The court found that “if no substantial grounds exist for believing an individual accused is at risk of torture because of the assurances provided, the individual should not avoid prosecution for a serious crime."
Kim's lawyers unsuccessfully argued that consular staff couldn't adequately monitor Kim while he was in jail, particularly if he was subject to torture that was hard to detect, like forced drugging.
Kim was arrested in 2011 after China asked to extradite him on one count of intentional homicide.
He was incarcerated in New Zealand jails for more than five years, and spent another three years on electronic monitoring, making him the longest-serving prisoner not to face a trial in modern New Zealand.
According to court documents, Kim is a South Korean citizen who moved to New Zealand more than 30 years ago with his family when he was 14.
He is accused of killing a 20-year-old waitress and sex worker, Peiyun Chen, in Shanghai after traveling to the city to visit a different woman who was his girlfriend at the time.
Chen was found in a Shanghai wasteland on New Year’s Eve 2009. An autopsy concluded she had been strangled to death, and that she’d also been hit in the head with a blunt object.
Chinese police say they have forensic and circumstantial evidence linking Kim to the crime, including a quilt found with the body. Police say a distraught Kim told an acquaintance he may have “beaten a prostitute to death.”
Kim says he is innocent. Ellis said his defense case would be that his former girlfriend, who has Communist Party connections, is responsible for the crime. | 2022-04-13T06:39:38+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/New-Zealand-court-rules-suspect-can-be-extradited-17077153.php |
Taylor Pleasants sat in the shade of Tiger Park’s scoreboard on Wednesday, searching for a reprieve from a hot May afternoon.
The All-American shortstop was asked how she broke out of an early season hitting slump. She leaned forward, elbows on her knees, and began to discuss her mechanics at the plate before trailing off.
Pleasants can recall the smallest details of her at-bats with ease, and she won’t hesitate to distill neither her mechanics at the plate, nor her adjustments from week to week. Instead, she takes this opportunity to discuss a different area of her growth: her approach to leadership.
“I feel like this year, it’s really turned to be more with my teammates,” she said, “so whatever needs to get done, trying to do it for them, not for myself, my own accolades or anything, just doing whatever the team needs.”
Temperatures are heating up, which means that postseason softball is right around the corner. Pleasants’ bat is also hot: She’s slugged five of her 12 home runs on the year in the last two weeks, catching fire just in time for LSU (32-19, 11-10 Southeastern Conference) to wrap its regular season against Mississippi State (31-12, 9-12 SEC) and move on to the SEC tournament next week.
Pleasants’ .329 batting average and .438 on-base percentage are both up from her All-American 2021 campaign, and she’s on pace to surpass her 2021 totals in hits, home runs and RBIs.
In her first two seasons in Baton Rouge, Pleasants was one of the Tigers’ best hitters. Now, in year three, the star slugger is leading her team both at the plate and in the clubhouse.
“This year has been a lot more of a vocal role,” she said. “I feel like I’ve created that spot for myself.”
Pleasants first learned how to be a leader from her time with USA Softball, when she played for the Junior Women’s World Cup gold medal-winning team and the bronze medalists at the 2019 International Cup.
Those teams were a grouping of the best of the best softball players in the country. Each player was an alpha where she came from, Pleasants said, and each had her own strengths and weaknesses. Each one brought a unique approach to leadership.
“I learned how to just find myself and be that person,” she said. “And not trying to be everyone at once. I’m not the best vocal leader. We have other people for that.”
But Pleasants spoke up for the first time this season in the team’s first meeting of the year, held at the Mike Moore Performance Center behind the Tiger Park right field fence. The players booted the coaches out of the room and met among only themselves. Georgia Clark stood before the group with Pleasants, whose palms sweated and heart thumped.
She was nervous, but she got her message across.
“After that, I saw how people responded to it,” Pleasants said, “so then it made me more confident in going to have those little conversations.”
Pleasants is not the strongest, loudest presence on the team. That’s Georgia Clark. And she’s not the most experienced, wisest voice. That’s Shelbi Sunseri.
Instead, Pleasants excels at one-on-one conversations — at pulling younger teammates aside and drawing on her experience to help them overcome the inherent failures of softball. One of them is Sydney Peterson, the freshman second baseman.
Peterson committed four errors in a three-week stretch from March 19 to April 3. Pleasants sat her down not long after.
“I know what it feels like to be a freshman starting, having to feel like you have to play perfect all the time,” Pleasants said. “Obviously we all know she’s really good at defense, so having the couple errors here and there, it really got to her a little bit.”
Pleasants told Peterson about her own freshman year, when she had “quite a few errors,” she said with a grimace. Six, to be exact, before the coronavirus cut the season short.
The advice helped Peterson, who followed the error-plagued three-week stretch with another three weeks of clean sheets, without a single error.
“Just using the moments that I’m given to make an impact on people,” Pleasants said. | 2022-05-05T22:10:25+00:00 | theadvocate.com | https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_c625bcf2-ccb8-11ec-9528-2fd735eefbec.html |
BERLIN (AP) — Police in southern Germany said Monday that an American tourist who was pushed into a ravine during an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which her 21-year-old friend was killed has been released from the hospital.
The 22-year-old woman had tried to stop a 30-year-old Michigan man from allegedly assaulting her friend after luring them onto a trail leading to a viewpoint overlooking the famous castle, which draws more than a million tourists every year.
The older woman fell nearly 50 meters (165 feet) down a steep slope but was able to leave the hospital Friday, police spokesperson Holger Stabik said.
Both women were recovered by mountain rescuers shortly after the attack Wednesday, but the younger victim later died of her injuries in the hospital.
The suspect, whose name like those of the victims wasn’t released due to German privacy rules, was arrested shortly after the incident. He is being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and attempted sexual assault.
Stabik said police have received about two dozen photos and videos on a specially created website and are appealing for anyone with additional images of the suspect and victims to come forward.
Prosecutors said the women did not know the man until the incident.
A spokesperson for the prosecutors’ office in Kempten, Thomas Hörmann, said the investigation into the incident is continuing but it may be three or four months before authorities decide on an indictment. | 2023-06-20T12:41:17+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/ap-national-news/american-woman-who-survived-being-thrown-into-ravine-near-german-castle-is-released-from-hospital/ |
DAEJEON, South Korea, July 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PharmAbcine Inc. (KOSDAQ: 208340ks), a clinical-stage biotech company focusing on the development of next-generation antibody therapeutics, announced today that the first patient has been dosed in the Phase I clinical trial of PMC-403, the Company's novel TIE2 agonistic antibody, in nAMD (neovascular age-related macular degeneration).
The study, consisting of single ascending-dose cohort and multiple ascending-dose cohort, has dosed the first of 36 planned study subjects. The Phase I clinical trial, an open-label, multi-center, single and multiple ascending-dose study, is currently enrolling patients at multiple hospitals in South Korea, including Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.
The goal of the study is to assess safety, tolerability, MTD (maximum tolerated dose), RP2D (recommended phase 2 dose), as well as clinical efficacy and pharmacokinetics of PMC-403 in subjects with nAMD,an advanced form of macular degeneration, that results in significant central vision loss due to neovascular and non-neovascular damages.
PMC-403 is a potential first-in-class antibody that activates TIE2, a receptor specifically expressed in vascular endothelial cells. Once the molecule binds to the receptors, it promotes the normalization and stabilization of pathologically leaky blood vessels. PharmAbcine has been developing this asset to treat not just AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration), but also DME (Diabetic Macular Edema), and DR (Diabetic Retinopathy). The Company also plans to further expand therapeutic scopes of PMC-403 to other systemic vessel-related diseases.
"This clinical trial is the world's first ophthalmology trial using Tie2 activation antibodies.", said Dr. Sagong Min, Professor of Yeungnam University Hospital, who conducted the first patient administration. He further added,"Tie2 activation antibody 'PMC-403,' developed by PharmAbcine, stabilizes abnormal blood vessels and reduces leakage, providing a new treatment option for patients who do not respond or have become relapsed to the existing anti-VEGF drugs."
"The initiation of the clinical trial to evaluate PMC-403's performance in nAMD is a significant step to unlocking its full potential," said Dr. Jin-San Yoo, CEO of PharmAbcine. "There are significant unmet needs in ophthalmology field as patients, who do not respond or have become relapsed to the existing anti-VEGF drugs, have no alternative therapeutic options. Our team believes that once PMC-403 shows positive therapeutic effects in one of the most prevalent vessel-related ocular diseases, it would surely be a new game-changer in the market."
For more information about the study, visit clinicaltrials.gov and search for the reference identifier NCT05953012.
About PharmAbcine Inc.
PharmAbcine is a clinical stage public company developing next generation IgG based therapeutics to treat cancer, neovascular eye diseases, and vascular related unmet needs.
The Company's main pipeline assets include olinvacimab, the lead asset in clinical stage, and IND-ready preclinical assets with first-in-class potential such as PMC-309 and PMC-403.
Olinvacimab, the Company's lead asset, is undergoing a Phase II trial in combination with MSD's pembrolizumab for mTNBC patients in Australia. The Company entered the Phase II study to reconfirm the encouraging result from Phase Ib olinvacimab-pembrolizumab trial, delivering 50% ORR, 67% DCR, and clean safety profile.
PMC-309, a novel anti-VISTA-antagonizing IgG in pan pH, is an immune checkpoint regulator that targets MDSC (myeloid derived suppressor cells) and M2 macrophages which play pivotal role in maintaining immunosuppressive TME (Tumor Microenvironment).
PMC-403 is a novel TIE2-activating antibody that stabilizes dysfunctional leaky disorganized pathological vessels and can be used for vascular-related eye disease, including wet AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration).
One of other early-stage assets, PMC-005, is an anti-EGFRviii IgG that only binds to EGFRviii expressed on cancer cells and can be applied to various modalities including CAR-T, CAR-NK, CAR-Macrophage, T cell/NK cell engager, and Radio-Immunotherapy
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- 2nd Consecutive Quarter of Record Revenues; Operating and Net Loss Narrow
- 2022 Guidance of At Least $5 Million Revenue Based on Existing Business
AIRPORT CITY, Israel, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) ("MySize" or the "Company"), an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients, today reported financial and operational results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2022.
Key Financial Highlights for the Second Quarter Ended June 30, 2022 Compared to Prior Year Period
- Revenue increased 2570% to $801,000, primarily attributable to revenue generated following acquisition of Orgad
- MySizeID revenue increased 63% to $49,000
- Gross profit increased 973% to $322,000
- Operating loss decreased 62% to $1,651,000
- Net loss decreased 60% to $1,716,000
- Cash balance at June 30, 2022 of $6.5 million
- Inventory balance at June 30, 2022 of $1.2 million
Recent Business & Operational Highlights
- 7 for All Mankind (Brazil), a premium global clothing brand, licensed MySizeID apparel sizing solution to boost sales, reduce returns, and increase environmental sustainability; MySizeID sizing solution is expected to go live for 7 For All Mankind (Brazil) customers Q3 2022
- British Luxury Brand Temperley London licensed MySizeID to support its commitment to sustainability while enhancing business economics and user experience
- Strong interest from retailers in MySize's recently launched FirstLook Smart Mirror, an interactive, mirror-like touch display that provides shoppers in physical stores with an enhanced, online shopping experience and contactless checkout
- Integrated Orgad, an omnichannel e-commerce platform, acquired Q1 2022
Management Commentary
"Revenue and gross profit growth, coupled with narrowing operating and net loss during the second quarter validate our business strategy and underscore MySize's ability to efficiently acquire and integrate accretive omnichannel retail operations. We achieved $1.2 million in revenues during the first six months of the year, and we reiterate revenue guidance of at least $5 million for 2022," stated MySize CEO Ronen Luzon.
"We've invested in Orgad's infrastructure and inventory with an aim to increase their SKU capacity and corresponding revenues as we look ahead to the upcoming holiday shopping season in the fourth quarter. As Orgad's business scales, we expect wider margin contributions from this business unit. We are also opportunistically evaluating additional acquisition targets that may make similar contributions to our top and bottom line."
"MySizeID sizing app revenues, 100 percent of which flow directly into our gross profits, continue to increase and we expect this trend to continue. During the third quarter, we anticipate the first revenues from our recently launched FirstLook Smart Mirror," Luzon concluded.
Financial Results for Six Months Ended June 30, 2022
- Revenue for the three months ended June 30, 2022 increased by 2570% to $801,000 compared to $30,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to $752,000 in revenue generated from Orgad during the second quarter of 2022.
- Gross profit for the three months ended June 30, 2022 increased by 973% to $322,000, compared to $30,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The resulting gross margin for the three months ended June 30, 2022 was 40%, compared to 100% for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The increase in gross profit in comparison with the corresponding period was due to the cost of goods of the revenues generated from Orgad's operations.
- Operating expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2022 decreased by 55% to $1,974,000, compared to $4,343,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The decrease was mainly due to increased costs in the second quarter of 2022 associated with the Orgad acquisition and a decrease in R&D expenses from the same period in 2021 when a one-time $2.6 million share issuance was recorded.
- Operating loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $1,652,000, a decrease of $2,661,000, or 62%, compared to an operating loss of $4,313,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
- Net loss for the three months ended June 30, 2022 totaled $1,716,000, a decrease of $2,624,000, or 60%, compared to a net loss of $4,340,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2021. The resulting EPS loss per share was ($0.07) for the three months ended June 30 2022, compared to ($0.33) for the three months ended June 30, 2021.
- Cash and cash equivalents totaled $6.5 million at June 30, 2022, a decrease of $4.2 million compared to $10.7 million at December 31, 2021.
- The Company has no material long-term debt on its balance sheet.
About MySize Inc.
MySize, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYSZ) (TASE: MYSZ.TA) is an omnichannel e-commerce platform and provider of AI-driven measurement solutions to drive revenue growth and reduce costs for its business clients. Orgad, its online retailer platform, has expertise in e-commerce, supply chain, and technology operating as a third-party seller on Amazon.com and other sites. MySize recently launched FirstLook Smart Mirror, a mirror-like touch display that provides in-store customers an enhanced shopping experience and contactless checkout. FirstLook Smart Mirror extends MySize's reach into physical stores and is expected to contribute to revenues through unit sales and recurring service fees.
MySize has developed a unique measurement technology based on sophisticated algorithms and cutting-edge technology with broad applications, including the apparel, e-commerce, DIY, shipping, and parcel delivery industries. This proprietary measurement technology is driven by several algorithms that are able to calculate and record measurements in a variety of novel ways. To learn more about MySize, please visit our website: www.mysizeid.com.
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SOURCE My Size Inc. | 2022-08-16T13:45:54+00:00 | wlox.com | https://www.wlox.com/prnewswire/2022/08/16/mysize-reports-second-quarter-financial-results-with-record-revenue-growth/ |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s State Board of Elections directed county election officials on Monday not to engage in signature matching when reviewing absentee ballot envelopes this fall after a judge rejected the GOP appeal of a state board ruling prohibiting the practice.
According to a directive sent to county election directors from the board’s legal counsel Paul Cox, the judge’s ruling maintains the status quo outlined in state law, which requires that all absentee voters fill out their ballots in the presence of two witnesses or a notary. Absentee ballot request forms in North Carolina must also include a date of birth and either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of the voter’s Social Security Number.
The North Carolina Republican Party had filed motions in Wake County Superior Court last week, asking the court to block the state board from enforcing its declaratory ruling that prevented county election officials from comparing signatures on absentee ballot request forms and return envelopes with the signatures included in voter registration records.
Superior Court Judge Stephan Futrell ruled from the bench Monday afternoon, denying the party’s motion for a temporary restraining order and preventing the use of signature matching in the 2022 general election, state board spokesperson Pat Gannon said.
“Under state law, absentee voter identity is confirmed via the confidential personal information provided by the voter in requesting a ballot, the voter’s attestation on the ballot envelope and the attestation of two witnesses or a notary that the voter voted the ballot,” Cox wrote in a directive obtained by The Associated Press.
The board’s Democratic majority in July had rejected an initial signature matching proposal introduced by Republicans, citing concerns that it could create unequal voting access and allow partisan bias to contaminate the electoral process.
Republicans, for their part, argue signature verification is another necessary element of electoral transparency. In addition to pushing for its adoption, they are also fighting the state board’s proposed restrictions on party-appointed poll watchers.
“When we have those signatures on file, it is ludicrous not to be able to use them,” said North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley. “This is a very common sense tool, and I think it’s inexplicable that the board had instructed not only that the boards don’t have to use it but that they can’t use it.” | 2022-10-04T00:46:28+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/north-carolina/judge-denies-gop-appeal-for-signature-checks-on-mail-ballots/ |
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Unborn baby killed after expectant mom, 9 months pregnant, shot in back
GREENWOOD, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) – Police are investigating a shooting in South Carolina that killed a man and killed a pregnant woman’s unborn child.
According to the Greenwood Police Department, the woman was nine months pregnant and shot in the back. Although she survived, her unborn baby did not.
Officers were called to the Cardinal Glenn apartments around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday for reports of gunshots.
By the time police arrived, the two shooting victims had already been taken to the hospital. Witnesses told officers that the man and woman were getting inside their car when a suspect approached them and shot them.
The male victim, identified as 24-year-old Gabriel Goode, was shot in the leg and died at the hospital Wednesday morning.
The female victim was shot in the back and suffered non-life-threatening injuries but lost her unborn child.
Police identified the suspect as 21-year-old Javier Williams. He was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with murder.
Records show Williams had just bailed out of jail on Monday, the day prior to the shooting, for gun and drug charges that he received a few days before.
On Wednesday, Williams appeared in court where a judge told him he could face the death penalty for the murder charge. He also faces a total of up to 45 years in prison for other charges related to the shooting, including attempted murder and possession of a machine gun.
Copyright 2022 WHNS via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-22T17:32:01+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2022/12/22/unborn-baby-killed-after-expectant-mom-9-months-pregnant-shot-back/ |
Which Finding Nemo posters are best?
“Finding Nemo” is a well-loved film from Pixar, and for that reason, a number of posters depicting characters from the film can be found for major fans. While the best Finding Nemo poster will largely depend on a person’s preferences, you can find a number of decorative posters depicting characters from the movie that are likely to suit your needs or those of the person you’re giving it to.
Out of several Finding Nemo poster options, this Uhohmate Vincent Van Gogh Style Canvas Finding Nemo Poster is a great pick for those that love art, combining the movie with the Impressionist style of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting.
What to know before you buy a Finding Nemo poster
The recipient
The margin for error in choosing Finding Nemo posters is probably pretty low, but it’s worth considering who you plan to give the poster to if you want to make sure they like what they end up with. While the best poster frames might not be so personal, choosing a Finding Nemo poster that the recipient likes can help give them something to look forward to every day, so it’s worthwhile to pick out the poster you think they’ll like best.
Posters vs. prints and other options
You can find a number of Finding Nemo posters available from multiple retailers, but another option worth considering is Finding Nemo prints. These may simply be smaller versions of full-size posters, but you can also find a wide range of unique designs in print form that may not be available as a poster. Still, you may also find Finding Nemo decorations on canvas or other materials that your Finding Nemo fan will love.
Poster sizes
Similar to considering prints, Finding Nemo posters may come in a variety of different standard and non-standard sizes. If you plan to mount your poster directly to the wall, it might not matter what size you get, but those hoping to frame their Finding Nemo posters might consider sticking to standard poster sizes like 27 by 40 inches, 24 by 36 inches or 18 by 24 inches.
What to look for in a quality Finding Nemo poster
Preferred characters
It may be a good idea to pick a poster that has your recipient’s favorite characters from the movie on them, since different poster designs may include different characters. Because of the premise of the movie, it can also be tricky to find Finding Nemo posters that include Nemo at times, so if that’s important to the person who’s getting the poster, you’ll want to find a design that does include Nemo.
Frame bundle or poster only
Most posters are fairly easy to hang, whether they’re hung straight on the wall or include a frame. You can find some Finding Nemo posters that can be purchased in a bundle with a frame, though you may also benefit from finding a frame separately from the poster, or you may not want to get a frame at all.
Design
Like choosing a Finding Nemo poster with the right characters, certain poster designs may be more enticing to certain people. If you have an idea of the tastes of the person you’re giving the poster to, you might also consider what other images, designs and posters they have chosen for their room to help inform your decision.
How much you can expect to spend on a Finding Nemo poster
Posters can vary in price, largely depending on the overall size, style and design. You can typically find cheap Finding Nemo posters for around $10, while more expensive and larger models will usually cost between $12-$45.
Finding Nemo poster FAQ
Can you frame a Finding Nemo poster?
A. You can frame a Finding Nemo poster, especially if it’s one of the standard poster sizes like 24 by 30 inches, 8 by 10 inches or something similarly sized and shaped. While custom frames are an option for irregular sizes, you can also purchase the frame with a number of posters as a part of a bundle.
Do most Finding Nemo posters have Bruce the shark on them?
A. One of the classic designs found on Finding Nemo posters includes Bruce the shark towering over Marlin and Dory, though you can also find a number of other posters that include Bruce, as well as a handful of other Finding Nemo characters.
What’s the best Finding Nemo poster to buy?
Top Finding Nemo poster
Uhohmate Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: While it isn’t exactly a poster, this Finding Nemo canvas is done in the classic Impressionist style of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” painting, and it features Marlin, Nemo and Dory on a nice painted backdrop.
What you’ll love: Art enthusiasts will love this canvas, which can also be ordered in six different sizes ranging from 5 by 7 inches to 24 by 30 inches.
What you should consider: This Finding Nemo canvas isn’t paper like most posters, and many found it more expensive than what they were willing to pay.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Finding Nemo poster for the money
Trends International Bruce the Shark Characters and Cast Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: For a more affordable price than most, this Finding Nemo poster features nearly every character in the movie with the exception of Nemo himself.
What you’ll love: This mostly blue poster features Bruce the shark, as well as Marlin and Dory front-and-center. And in true spoiler-free fashion, Nemo is nowhere to be found in the image, though it includes other movie favorites like Crush, Gill and Mr. Ray.
What you should consider: This poster is a slightly irregular size, so it may be best to purchase it with a bundled frame if you plan to frame it one day.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Crush The Turtle Finding Nemo Poster
What you need to know: For some, the surfer accent of Crush the turtle in Finding Nemo is one of the most memorable parts of the film, making this poster featuring Crush, Marlin and Dory a great pick for those that love him.
What you’ll love: This poster comes at a reasonable price, despite having the classic large poster dimensions of 24 by 36 inches. The image features Crush, Marlin and Dory, as well as a handful of other sea turtles in the background.
What you should consider: This poster doesn’t include Nemo or some of the other favorite characters captured in other posters.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Sutter to concentrate on SEC/CFTC whistleblower representation
BOSTON, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pugsley Wood LLP is pleased to announce that John H. Sutter has been elected to the Firm's partnership. Mr. Sutter has been Of Counsel with the firm since its founding in 2022.
"John is an immensely talented attorney, whose diverse background in whistleblower representation, securities litigation, and corporate M&A makes him an incredible asset to our growing partnership. I could not be more pleased to welcome him aboard," said Managing Partner Bryan A. Wood.
Pugsley Wood Partner Mark Pugsley added, "John has consistently demonstrated a deep understanding of both complex corporate structures and securities regulation. I am grateful for his past contributions to our firm's success and collegial firm culture and look forward to the positive impact he will bring in the future."
Mr. Sutter graduated from Boston University School of Law, summa cum laude, and spent many years counseling clients on M&A and securities matters before becoming a full-time securities and whistleblower litigator. Since joining Pugsley Wood, Mr. Sutter has been heavily involved in the firm's work representing whistleblowers on numerous matters that have resulted in ongoing investigations by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission, including a lead role working with clients who reported a $450 million Ponzi scheme that recently resulted in multiple claims brought by federal regulators.
"I am honored to be invited to join the firm's partnership," said Mr. Sutter. "Whistleblower work is a uniquely fulfilling way to practice law. I look forward to helping our whistleblower clients combat corporate fraud."
Pugsley Wood LLP is one of the premier SEC whistleblower law firms in the United States. Wood and Pugsley began collaborating on whistleblower cases in early 2015. In 2021 they decided to leave their respective law firms with over 20 years of experience to better serve their clients by pooling their knowledge and resources in a highly specialized law firm dedicated solely to representing whistleblowers. To date, they have received more than $100 million in whistleblower awards for their clients through the SEC, CFTC, DOJ, FIRREA/FIAFEA and other whistleblower programs.
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal’s parliament voted for the third time in almost two years Friday in favor of allowing euthanasia, though as happened in the previous attempts the country’s Constitutional Court or president could stop the bill becoming law.
Lawmakers passed a bill permitting euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in Portugal, the Speaker of Parliament said, though exact voting figures were not immediately available.
Left-of-center parties in the mostly Catholic country were the driving force behind the bill, as they were with laws allowing abortion in 2007 and same-sex marriage in 2010.
The bill requires the head of state’s approval to become law. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa could choose to block the legislation again or send it once more to the Constitutional Court for vetting. That could hold up the law for several months.
Imprecise wording and unconstitutional aspects frustrated the two previous attempts to get the law enacted.
Euthanasia is when a doctor directly administers fatal drugs to a patient. Medically assisted suicide is when patients administer the lethal drug themselves, under medical supervision.
New rules in the latest version of the bill include the mandatory involvement of a psychologist in the process from beginning to end and a minimum wait of two months between the request and death.
The bill states that the patient’s request must be “repeated, serious, made freely and informed, in a situation of very intense suffering, with a definitive injury of extreme seriousness or a serious and terminal illness.” The patient requesting death must express the wish freely at least six times.
The request is approved or rejected, and the entire procedure is overseen, by a national committee made up of two legal experts, a doctor, a nurse and a specialist in bioethics. | 2022-12-09T19:38:15+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/health/ap-health/ap-portuguese-lawmakers-make-3rd-attempt-to-allow-euthanasia/ |
(STACKER) — You’ve done everything on your checklist. Got pet insurance and found a great, affordable veterinarian. Didn’t forget to puppy-proof the house and scanned high and low for the best quality dog food. Just one important thing left to decide: What will you name your new furry family member?
In the past century, our furry best friends have had various commonly found names. Spike, Fido, and Buddy have proved popular. But whether you go with a much-loved classic or if you’re looking for something more unique, you want to make sure it’s just right. To find out which names are favorites today, Wag! ranked the top 10 most popular dog names in each of the 50 states and Washington D.C., based on data provided by its users.
So what’s in a name, you might ask? Sometimes, what you see is what you get. Other times, it’s quite the complete opposite. According to the PetHelpful, the ideal dog name should be kept to one to two syllables, which helps get your puppy’s attention faster. Another helpful tip: Pick a name you won’t get tired of repeating.
Out of all the commonly picked names, four consistently appeared in all 51 lists. Bella, Luna, Max, and Charlie rank nationally at #1, #2, #3, and #4, respectively. Number five’s entry, Lucy, didn’t make the cut in the top 10 of five states. The most unique top 10 names came from Hawaii. Alex, Koa, and Kona solely appear on the list of the Aloha state. Just six other states, plus Washington D.C., have at least one dog name that appears only on their lists. Alaska, Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming each have two unique dog names, while Idaho, Washington D.C., and New Hampshire have one each.
Find out if your canine companion’s name made the cut!
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Alabama
The most popular dog names in Alabama are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Luna
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Cooper
#7. Daisy
#8. Bear
#9. Sadie
#10. Bailey
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Alaska
The most popular dog names in Alaska are:
#1. Chara
#2. Luna
#3. Bella
#4. Max
#5. Koda (tied)
#5. Charlie (tied)
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Lucy
#10. Athena (tied)
#10. Buddy (tied)
#10. Moose (tied)
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Arizona
The most popular dog names in Arizona are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Daisy
#6. Lucy
#7. Buddy
#8. Coco
#9. Milo
#10. Lola
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Arkansas
The most popular dog names in Arkansas are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Bear
#8. Sadie
#9. Buddy
#10. Stella
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California
The most popular dog names in California are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Coco
#6. Lola
#7. Lucy
#8. Daisy
#9. Buddy
#10. Milo
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Colorado
The most popular dog names in Colorado are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Charlie
#4. Lucy
#5. Max
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Bear
#10. Lola
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Connecticut
The most popular dog names in Connecticut are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Cooper
#6. Bailey
#7. Lucy
#8. Daisy
#9. Rocky
#10. Coco
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Delaware
The most popular dog names in Delaware are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Bailey
#4. Charlie
#5. Luna
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Milo (tied)
#8. Lucy (tied)
#10. Coco
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Florida
The most popular dog names in Florida are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Coco
#5. Lola
#6. Charlie
#7. Milo
#8. Daisy
#9. Lucy
#10. Bailey
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Georgia
The most popular dog names in Georgia are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Bailey
#7. Coco
#8. Daisy
#9. Cooper
#10. Lola
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Hawaii
The most popular dog names in Hawaii are:
#1. Alex
#2. Milo
#3. Bella
#4. Luna
#5. Kona
#6. Nala
#7. Koa
#8. Buddy
#9. Max
#10. Daisy (tied)
#10. Charlie (tied)
#10. Duke (tied)
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Idaho
The most popular dog names in Idaho are:
#1. Charlie
#2. Bella
#3. Daisy
#4. Luna
#5. Max
#6. Lucy
#7. Cooper
#8. Molly (tied)
#8. Bear (tied)
#10. Winston
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Illinois
The most popular dog names in Illinois are:
#1. Bella
#2. Charlie
#3. Max
#4. Luna
#5. Coco
#6. Lucy
#7. Cooper
#8. Daisy
#9. Lola
#10. Buddy
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Indiana
The most popular dog names in Indiana are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Milo
#10. Buddy
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Iowa
The most popular dog names in Iowa are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Stella
#9. Bailey
#10. Bear
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Kansas
The most popular dog names in Kansas are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Bear
#8. Buddy
#9. Cooper
#10. Stella
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Kentucky
The most popular dog names in Kentucky are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Cooper
#7. Daisy
#8. Milo
#9. Sadie
#10. Molly
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Louisiana
The most popular dog names in Louisiana are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Buddy
#7. Daisy
#8. Cooper (tied)
#8. Lola (tied)
#10. Coco
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Maine
The most popular dog names in Maine are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Lucy
#4. Max
#5. Charlie
#6. Daisy
#7. Buddy
#8. Molly
#9. Bailey
#10. Cooper
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Maryland
The most popular dog names in Maryland are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Luna
#4. Charlie
#5. Bailey
#6. Milo
#7. Lucy
#8. Coco
#9. Rocky
#10. Daisy
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Massachusetts
The most popular dog names in Massachusetts are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Bailey
#6. Cooper
#7. Lucy
#8. Lola
#9. Daisy
#10. Buddy
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Michigan
The most popular dog names in Michigan are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Buddy
#9. Milo
#10. Bailey
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Minnesota
The most popular dog names in Minnesota are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Lucy
#4. Charlie
#5. Max
#6. Daisy
#7. Bailey
#8. Stella
#9. Cooper
#10. Lola
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Mississippi
The most popular dog names in Mississippi are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Lucy
#4. Charlie
#5. Daisy
#6. Luna
#7. Coco
#8. Bear (tied)
#8. Duke (tied)
#10. Buddy
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Missouri
The most popular dog names in Missouri are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Buddy
#10. Stella
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Montana
The most popular dog names in Montana are:
#1. Charlie
#2. Bella
#3. Luna
#4. Bailey
#5. Lucy
#6. Moose
#7. Gus
#8. Max
#9. Scout
#10. Duke (tied)
#10. Buddy (tied)
#10. Daisy (tied)
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Nebraska
The most popular dog names in Nebraska are:
#1. Bella
#2. Charlie
#3. Luna
#4. Max
#5. Lucy
#6. Buddy
#7. Daisy
#8. Cooper
#9. Stella
#10. Milo
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Nevada
The most popular dog names in Nevada are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Luna
#4. Charlie
#5. Coco
#6. Buddy
#7. Milo (tied)
#7. Daisy (tied)
#9. Lola
#10. Rocky
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New Hampshire
The most popular dog names in New Hampshire are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Tucker
#5. Daisy
#6. Bailey
#7. Max
#8. Cooper
#9. Buddy
#10. Sadie (tied)
#10. Lucy (tied)
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New Jersey
The most popular dog names in New Jersey are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Coco
#6. Milo
#7. Bailey
#8. Rocky
#9. Cooper
#10. Lola
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New Mexico
The most popular dog names in New Mexico are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Daisy
#5. Charlie
#6. Lucy
#7. Coco
#8. Milo
#9. Lola
#10. Duke (tied)
#10. Bailey (tied)
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New York
The most popular dog names in New York are:
#1. Max
#2. Bella
#3. Luna
#4. Charlie
#5. Coco
#6. Rocky
#7. Milo
#8. Lola
#9. Bailey
#10. Lucy
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North Carolina
The most popular dog names in North Carolina are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Sadie
#10. Buddy
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North Dakota
The most popular dog names in North Dakota are:
#1. Luna
#2. Charlie
#3. Max
#4. Daisy (tied)
#4. Cooper (tied)
#6. Bella
#7. Molly
#8. Bear
#9. Bailey
#10. Milo
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Ohio
The most popular dog names in Ohio are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Lucy
#6. Cooper
#7. Daisy
#8. Bailey
#9. Milo
#10. Buddy
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Oklahoma
The most popular dog names in Oklahoma are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Daisy (tied)
#4. Charlie (tied)
#6. Lucy
#7. Buddy
#8. Sadie
#9. Bear
#10. Molly
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Oregon
The most popular dog names in Oregon are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Charlie
#4. Lucy
#5. Milo
#6. Max
#7. Daisy
#8. Cooper
#9. Bear
#10. Buddy
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Pennsylvania
The most popular dog names in Pennsylvania are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Bailey
#6. Cooper
#7. Daisy
#8. Lucy
#9. Buddy
#10. Rocky
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Rhode Island
The most popular dog names in Rhode Island are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Max
#4. Bailey (tied)
#4. Charlie (tied)
#6. Milo
#7. Daisy
#8. Cooper (tied)
#8. Lucy (tied)
#10. Lola
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South Carolina
The most popular dog names in South Carolina are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Charlie
#4. Max
#5. Cooper
#6. Bailey
#7. Lucy
#8. Sadie
#9. Daisy
#10. Buddy
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South Dakota
The most popular dog names in South Dakota are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Max
#4. Lucy
#5. Charlie (tied)
#5. Bailey (tied)
#7. Murphy
#8. Stella
#9. Cooper (tied)
#9. Bear (tied)
#9. Zoey (tied)
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Tennessee
The most popular dog names in Tennessee are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Lucy
#4. Charlie
#5. Max
#6. Cooper
#7. Daisy
#8. Sadie
#9. Bear
#10. Bailey
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Texas
The most popular dog names in Texas are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Daisy
#6. Coco
#7. Lola
#8. Lucy
#9. Bailey
#10. Buddy
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Utah
The most popular dog names in Utah are:
#1. Luna
#2. Charlie
#3. Max
#4. Bella
#5. Lucy
#6. Daisy
#7. Milo
#8. Koda
#9. Bear
#10. Cooper
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Vermont
The most popular dog names in Vermont are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna (tied)
#2. Charlie (tied)
#4. Lucy
#5. Daisy
#6. Bailey
#7. Max
#8. Stella
#9. Sadie (tied)
#9. Bear (tied)
#9. Cooper (tied)
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Virginia
The most popular dog names in Virginia are:
#1. Bella
#2. Luna
#3. Max
#4. Charlie
#5. Daisy
#6. Bailey
#7. Lucy
#8. Cooper
#9. Coco
#10. Milo
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Washington
The most popular dog names in Washington are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Charlie
#4. Lucy
#5. Max
#6. Milo
#7. Cooper
#8. Daisy
#9. Bailey
#10. Buddy
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Washington DC
The most popular dog names in Washington D.C. are:
#1. Bella
#2. Charlie
#3. Luna
#4. Lucy
#5. Max
#6. Milo
#7. Coco
#8. Lola
#9. Teddy
#10. Cooper
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West Virginia
The most popular dog names in West Virginia are:
#1. Bella
#2. Max
#3. Luna
#4. Cooper
#5. Buddy
#6. Sadie (tied)
#6. Charlie (tied)
#8. Daisy
#9. Bailey (tied)
#9. Lucy (tied)
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Wisconsin
The most popular dog names in Wisconsin are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Charlie
#4. Lucy
#5. Max
#6. Daisy
#7. Cooper
#8. Bailey
#9. Buddy
#10. Nala
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Wyoming
The most popular dog names in Wyoming are:
#1. Luna
#2. Bella
#3. Daisy (tied)
#3. Charlie (tied)
#5. Cooper
#6. Max
#7. Bailey (tied)
#7. Molly (tied)
#9. Dixie (tied)
#9. Loki (tied)
This story originally appeared on Wag! and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio. | 2023-05-05T19:43:25+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/what-are-the-most-popular-dog-names-in-each-state/ |
EMILY’s List, which works to support female candidates who are pro-abortion rights, is targeting 23 House Republicans over their positions on the procedure ahead of the 2024 elections.
Punchbowl News first reported the plan on Wednesday, laying out where the group will focus its attacks in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade last year.
The GOP House members that the organization is targeting are Reps. Juan Ciscomani (Ariz.), David Schweikert (Ariz.), Ken Calvert (Calif.), John Duarte (Calif.), Mike Garcia (Calif.), Michelle Steel (Calif.), David Valadao (Calif.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Maria Elvira Salazar (Fla.), Ashley Hinson (Iowa), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa), Zach Nunn (Iowa), Don Bacon (Neb.), Tom Kean (N.J.), Anthony D’Esposito (N.Y.), Nick LaLota (N.Y.), Mike Lawler (N.Y.), Marc Molinaro (N.Y.), George Santos (N.Y.), Brandon Williams (N.Y.), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Ore.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.) and Jen Kiggans (Va.).
The Hill has reached out to EMILY’s List for confirmation.
One release announcing the group’s plan to target Ciscomani that Punchbowl obtained states that he is among 22 other “extremist anti-choice House Republicans.”
Democrats emphasized protecting abortion rights ahead of the 2022 midterms, and exit polls indicated that the message resonated with voters. The polls showed 27 percent of voters said abortion was the most important issue they were considering when deciding who to vote for, and those voters supported Democrats by more than a 3-to-1 margin.
Only inflation was named as a more important issue by voters, and only by 4 points.
Polls had showed Republicans leading in the generic congressional ballot and in key races until Democrats began to close the gap in June, when the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling.
Republicans ultimately had a disappointing performance on Election Day, failing to take back control of the Senate and only winning the House by a narrow margin. Historically, the party not in control of the White House has usually made significant gains in both houses of Congress during midterm election years. | 2023-02-22T17:52:15+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/emilys-list-targeting-23-house-republicans-over-positions-on-abortion/ |
NEW YORK – Joel Embiid scored 35 points, James Harden had 29 points and 13 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers blew by the New York Knicks in the final quarter, extending their winning streak to eight games with a 119-112 victory Sunday.
Georges Niang hit four 3-pointers in Philadelphia's fourth-quarter surge and finished with 16 points, while De’Anthony Melton added 15 as the 76ers got off to a good start on a four-game road trip after sweeping a seven-game homestand.
The Sixers never led through three quarters, then outscored the Knicks 24-9 to open the fourth, turning a one-point deficit into a 116-102 lead.
Julius Randle scored 35 points and Jalen Brunson had 23 points and 11 assists for the Knicks, who have lost three straight following an eight-game winning streak.
Embiid scored 15 points in the third quarter and Harden took over the game when Embiid went to the bench, with a four-point play and another 3-pointer that trimmed it to 96-95. He made another 3 in the opening minute of the fourth to tie it at 98, then found Niang for a 3 that gave the 76ers their first lead with 10:37 to play.
Niang hit consecutive 3s midway through the period before Embiid had two baskets and Harden made one and set up the other in a 8-0 flurry that put it away at 116-102.
Embiid, the NBA's scoring leader, started slowly and the Knicks led 37-25 after one. They were still up eight when Embiid scored with 6.2 seconds remaining, and when Brunson lost the ball as New York tried to get a final shot, Shake Milton scooped it up and banked in a 50-footer at the buzzer that made it 63-60.
TIP-INS
76ers: Coach Doc Rivers said PJ Tucker had some kind of pain or injury that was affecting his hand, but he wasn't worried about it yet. ... Rivers said the 76ers brought two busloads of families to the game.
Knicks: The Knicks fell to 23-32 in their league-high 55 Christmas appearance. ... The Knicks played their final home game of 2022. They take a three-game road trip to Texas next week that begins with Brunson's return to Dallas on Tuesday.
60-POINT PERFORMERS
Bernard King, who set the Christmas record with 60 points in 1984, was at the game. That stood as the Knicks' single-game scoring record until a 62-point performance on Jan. 24, 2014, by Carmelo Anthony, the former All-Star who was seated next to him and got a huge ovation when shown on the overhead videoboard in the first quarter.
UP NEXT
76ers: At Washington on Tuesday.
Knicks: At Dallas on Tuesday.
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DOJ, others investigating Michigan school district over use of seclusion and restraint
Federal law enforcement officials are investigating a small school district in central Michigan for its use of seclusion and restraint practices on children with disabilities, a decision that comes after a sweeping 2022 Free Press report on the use of these controversial tactics in schools across the state.
A division of the U.S. Department of Education also opened an investigation into the district, but did not disclose the nature of the inquiry.
The Free Press highlighted the frequency with which educators in the Montcalm Area Intermediate School District and other schools across the state used tactics experts say can traumatize children and lawmakers proudly considered all but banned in 2016.
Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Mark Totten, U.S. attorney for Michigan's western district, exclusively told the Free Press their office is investigating Montcalm Area ISD. She said they are working with the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division as well.
A spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights also acknowledged a separate, ongoing investigation. Neither provided specifics about the investigations. Through such inquires, federal officials often compel —and monitor — districts to change practices found to violate students' civil rights. If a school district does not comply with the office's findings, it could face legal repercussions.
Dig deeper:Michigan tried to limit 'barbaric' practice in 2016. Educators used it 94,000 times since.
The Free Press report found Montcalm isolated children with disabilities in rooms at least 4,000 times over the past five school years—more than any other school district in the state. District leaders refused to answer questions at the time about why the practice was used at such a high rate in Montcalm's schools. This trend remained consistent in the first half of the 2022-23 school year: Montcalm Area ISD educators recorded secluding children 622 times, according to the most recent state data available. That's by far the most of any district in the state over the same time period.
Montcalm Area ISD Superintendent Kyle Hamlin did not immediately respond to a Free Press request for comment. The Daily News, a small newspaper based in Montcalm County, first reported the U.S. Department of Education investigation.
Restraint and seclusion: What they are
Restraint is when an educator physically pins down or holds a student. Seclusion involves restricting students — often in crisis — to a room by themselves while an adult supervises outside. Seclusion rooms are often small and bare, with a window where adults can peer inside. A small, rectangular seclusion room used by Montcalm ISD has padded cinder block walls with a fluorescent light overhead — an image the district provided in response to a 2022 public records request is grainy and shows only a portion of the room.
In Michigan, the use of restraint and seclusion are legally prohibited except in an emergency situation, where a student poses a threat to themselves or others. The Free Press investigation. however, found that educators used the practices nearly 94,000 times in the five years after lawmakers nixed the use of either tactic outside of an emergency. The investigation determined the legal definition of emergency lacks specificity, and the state imposes no consequences upon districts violating restraint and seclusion laws passed in 2016.
After the Free Press published its investigation, a spokesman for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and some legislative leaders said it was clear lawmakers could improve laws regulating seclusion and restraint. But in the roughly eight months since those comments, the Legislature has yet to take action on any issues related to either practice.
More:Small school district in Michigan's Montcalm County isolated kids 4,000 times in 5 years
Montcalm joins 10 other school districts in the state placed under federal investigation for restraint and seclusion issues. More Michigan school districts are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education over restraint and seclusion than any other state except for Texas, where 17 districts are under investigation. More than 5 million Pre-K-12 students attend public schools in Texas, compared with 1.4 million Michigan pre-K-12 public school students. Florida follows Michigan, with 10 investigations. Roughly twice the number of students, 2.8 million, attend public schools in Florida than in Michigan,.
Intermediate school districts offer specialized programs for students with disabilities who reside in their respective counties. Montcalm's ISD serves 485 students in special education and other programs, according to state enrollment data.
Hamlin told a Detroit Free Press reporter in 2022 that the district complied with state law in instances of seclusion.
“Maybe we’re the district that’s doing it right. … I have an associate superintendent who requires all incidents to be reported, regardless, very much by the book,” Hamlin said during a phone call in August. “I know that we certainly are beyond reproach when it comes to stuff like that.”
In 2022, Montcalm twice denied Free Press public records requests for documents showing justification for each instance of seclusion in Montcalm over two school years, 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Free Press reporters appealed Montcalm’s FOIA denial in November and July to the district’s five-member school board. In January, four board members voted to deny the appeal, with one voting in favor of releasing the documents, according to the Daily News.
At that meeting, Hamlin said the district uses seclusion in instances where a student is “having a bad day,” according to the Daily News.
Other school districts under investigation
Montcalm Area ISD is not the only district under investigation by the Office For Civil Rights in Michigan for restraint and seclusion practices: Ten other school districts since 2015 have been placed under investigation, with two investigations into school districts opened in 2023.
The districts under federal investigation are:
- Montcalm Area ISD: The Office For Civil Rights opened the investigation this year.
- Kingston Community School District: An investigation into Kingston, a district located in the Thumb, was opened on June 30, 2023.
- Ubly Community Schools: Also in the thumb, an investigation was opened on May 12, 2023.
- Northwest Education Services: Northwest, in Northern Michigan based in Traverse City, has been under investigation since Oct. 19, 2022.
- Maple Valley Schools: This district is southwest of Lansing. The federal government opened its investigation into restraint and seclusion issues on Dec. 17, 2021.
- Grand Ledge Public Schools: Grand Ledge is west of Lansing. It was placed under investigation on May 13, 2019.
- Genesee Intermediate School District: The intermediate school district, which serves Genesee County including Flint, was placed under investigation on April 19, 2019.
- Lake Orion Community Schools: The Oakland County school district was placed under investigation on Feb. 15, 2019.
- Macomb Intermediate School District: Macomb ISD in Macomb County was placed under investigation June 3, 2015.
- Inland Lakes Schools: The investigation into Inland Lakes, a district located in Northern Michigan, opened on June 3, 2015.
- Richmond Community Schools: Richmond, between Port Huron and Detroit, was placed under investigation on June 3, 2015.
The Office for Civil Rights also settled a restraint and seclusion investigation with Huron Valley Schools, a district on the outskirts of metro Detroit, in January 2022. The investigation, opened in January 2019, found that district staff did not always know when it was appropriate to use restraint or seclusion and used mechanical restraints — such devices are not allowed under state law — on a student at least five times in the period reviewed. The district also failed to document 100 out of 325 incidents of restraint and seclusion identified by the investigators.
The Office for Civil Rights found that separate students were secluded or dozens of times, including an elementary school student who was restrained or secluded 43 times by educators. The district failed to document 16 of the 43 incidents.
In its settlement with the U.S. Department of Education, the district agreed to ensure students previously restrained or secluded receive compensatory education, or education meant to make up for the time they were restrained or secluded. It also agreed to revise its documentation process and more closely monitor restraint and seclusion.
In the 2022-23 school year, Huron Valley reported restraining and secluding students fewer than 10 times in the first semester, down from at least 44 instances of seclusion in the first half of 2021-22.
The U.S. Department of Justice has several high-profile investigations into seclusion and restraint practices as well. In 2022, the department's Civil Rights Division and a U.S. attorney in Iowa announced an investigation into the Cedar Rapids Community School District's use of seclusion and restraint on children with disabilities. The district agreed to stop using seclusion, reform how it uses restraint and provide more staff training.
Contact the reporter: laltavena@freepress.com. Contact Dave Boucher at dboucher@freepress.com and on Twitter @Dave_Boucher1. | 2023-07-21T12:11:33+00:00 | freep.com | https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2023/07/21/feds-investigating-michigan-school-district-over-seclusion-and-restraint/70415971007/ |
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s anti-trust watchdog announced on Tuesday that it is blocking the buyout of cancer-screening company GRAIL by biotech giant Illumina in a rare move by European regulators against two U.S. companies.
Illumina is a major supplier of next-generation sequencing (NGS) systems for genetic and genomic analysis, while GRAIL is a health company developing blood tests to try to catch cancer early. Illumina announced an $8 billion acquisition of GRAIL in 2020.
But the European Commission, which polices competition issues, said the buyout “would have enabled and incentivized Illumina to foreclose GRAIL’s rivals, who are dependent on Illumina’s technology, from access to an essential input they need to develop and market their own tests.”
Commission Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager said that “it is vital to preserve competition between early cancer detection test developers at this critical stage of development. As Illumina did not put forward remedies that would have solved our concerns, we prohibited the merger.”
The commission said it received feedback from several customers and competitors during its probe of the buyout, but Vestager declined to name any of GRAIL’s competitors whose interests might have been hurt.
The commission said market players were concerned that “Illumina would cut access to its NGS technology to GRAIL’s rivals, or otherwise disadvantage them, to gain control over the promising early cancer-detection testing market.”
Illumina said it intends to appeal the decision, which comes just days after a U.S. Federal Trade Commission judge ruled in favor of its acquisition of GRAIL.
“Illumina can make GRAIL’s life-saving multi-cancer early detection test more available, more affordable, and more accessible — saving lives and lowering healthcare costs,” said Charles Dadswell, General Counsel of Illumina.
“We continue to believe, this merger is pro-competitive and will accelerate innovation,” he said.
Vestager also said that Illumina appears to have broken EU merger rules by completing the buyout before the commission cleared the move.
“This is unheard of. Companies abide by our rules. They require them to not implement a merger before they have been notified and cleared by the commission,” she told reporters in Brussels.
Illumina’s actions, Vestager said, have created a “troublesome situation. Illumina now needs to undo the effects of its actions and unwind the acquisition.” | 2022-09-06T19:51:50+00:00 | wric.com | https://www.wric.com/business/us-world-business/ap-eu-blocks-merger-of-us-firms-in-cancer-screening-sector/ |
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say DNA evidence has proven that a man who died in prison several years ago was responsible for the 1984 murder of a 19-year-old woman whose body wasn’t found for more than a decade after she disappeared from her family home in New Jersey.
The state attorney general and the Mercer County prosecutor’s office last week announced what they called “the conclusive identification” of Nathaniel Harvey, formerly of East Windsor, as the person responsible for the sexual assault and murder of Donna Macho.
Macho, 19, went missing from the East Windsor home where she resided with her parents and sisters on or about Feb. 26, 1984. A Boy Scout troop leader found her skeletal remains in a wooded area in Cranbury on April 2, 1995, and her identity was confirmed by dental records.
Around the time she disappeared, Harvey was arrested in several sexual assaults as well as an unrelated murder. Authorities said he was identified early on as a possible suspect in Macho’s murder “but investigative leads dissipated and the case went cold.”
“During the commission of his crimes, prosecutors say Harvey typically entered unlocked homes, where he would hold captive and rape young women,” authorities alleged.
DNA tests on evidence from the victim’s bedroom could not be matched with a specific person, but tests with current DNA technology matched it to Harvey “and determined that his DNA was the only DNA evidence in the room that should not have been present,” authorities said.
Macho’s body was found in a wooded area by a farm where Harvey briefly worked around the time of her disappearance, and her vehicle was found abandoned by a nearby sewer plant, within walking distance of Harvey’s home, authorities said.
Harvey was sentenced to death and later to life in prison in the 1985 rape and murder of a Plainsboro woman but maintained his innocence for three decades and was awaiting a third trial in the case. He was incarcerated from the time of his 1985 arrest until his death in South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton in November 2020, authorities said.
His former attorney, Eric Kleiner, said there was no evidence connecting his client to the 1985 murder “other than Harvey did a lot of bad things.” He declined comment on the announcement on Macho’s slaying but cautioned that the evidence should be carefully scrutinized given the troubled history of Harvey’s conviction.
“There’s a lot of problems with everything having to do with Harvey,” he said, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com reported.
Macho worked as a legal secretary and was hoping to make a career in modeling. Julie Burger, who was 14 when her older sister disappeared, told NJ Advance Media for NJ.com that the case “destroyed my family, the searching, the looking, the wondering.”
Speaking publicly about the case for the first time, she said the family hired “private investigators, trackers, psychics” in an effort to find the person responsible.
“We spent all the money we had,” said Burger, now a resident of Texas. “We still thought that somehow, maybe she was still alive. Maybe she was just hurt, or somebody was holding her. … I’m glad the case is closed, and it was him. But I feel he got away with it.” | 2023-04-30T19:22:25+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/authorities-man-who-died-in-prison-killed-nj-woman-in-1984/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Some parts of Twitter’s source code — the fundamental computer code on which the social network runs — were leaked online, the social media company said in a legal filing on Sunday that was first reported by The New York Times.
According to the legal document, filed with the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of California, Twitter had asked GitHub, an internet hosting service for software development, to take down the code where it was posted. The platform complied and said the content had been disabled, according to the filing. Twitter also asked the court to identify the alleged infringer or infringers who posted Twitter’s source code on systems operated by GitHub without Twitter’s authorization.
Twitter, based in San Francisco, noted in the filing that the postings infringe copyrights held by Twitter.
The leak creates more challenges for billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter last October for $44 billion and took the company private. Since then, it has been engulfed in chaos, with massive layoffs and advertisers fleeing.
Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission is probing Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter and trying to obtain his internal communications as part of ongoing oversight into the social media company’s privacy and cybersecurity practices, according to documents described in a congressional report. | 2023-03-27T00:44:17+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/twitter-parts-of-its-source-code-leaked-online/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Yankees vs. Red Sox Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - June 10
Saturday's contest between the New York Yankees (37-28) and Boston Red Sox (32-32) going head to head at Yankee Stadium has a projected final score of 5-4 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of the Yankees, so expect a tight matchup. The game will begin at 7:35 PM ET on June 10.
The Yankees will call on Domingo German (3-3) against the Red Sox and Tanner Houck (3-5).
Yankees vs. Red Sox Game Info & Odds
- When: Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 7:35 PM ET
- Where: Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, New York
- How to Watch on TV: FOX
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
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Yankees vs. Red Sox Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Yankees 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Yankees vs. Red Sox
- Total Prediction: Under 8.5 runs
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Yankees Performance Insights
- The Yankees have played as the favorite in four of their past 10 games and have gone 1-3 in those contests.
- In its last 10 games with a total, New York and its opponents have failed to hit the over six times.
- The Yankees have five wins against the spread in their last six chances.
- The Yankees have been favorites in 44 games this season and won 27 (61.4%) of those contests.
- New York has entered 39 games this season favored by -125 or more and is 25-14 in those contests.
- The oddsmakers' moneyline implies a 55.6% chance of a victory for the Yankees.
- New York is among the highest-scoring teams in the majors, ranking ninth with 299 total runs this season.
- The Yankees' 3.62 team ERA ranks fourth across all league pitching staffs.
Red Sox Performance Insights
- The Red Sox have played as the underdog in six of their past 10 games and have gone 1-5 in those contests.
- In its previous 10 games with a total, Boston and its opponents have combined to exceed the over/under on four occasions.
- The Red Sox have compiled a 1-3-0 record against the runline over their previous 10 contests (oddsmakers set runlines in four of those matchups).
- The Red Sox have won in 16, or 44.4%, of the 36 contests they have been named as odds-on underdogs this year.
- This year, Boston has won 13 of 25 games when listed as at least +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Red Sox have a 48.8% chance of coming away with a victory in the contest.
- Boston scores the sixth-most runs in baseball (319 total, five per game).
- Red Sox pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.66 ERA this year, which ranks 24th in MLB.
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Editor's note: We are updating and republishing this story to take note of the death of the photographer, Wil Riera of Venezuela. Riera, who was born in 1982, died this weekend. He had been recuperating from brain surgeries to correct a congenital disorder that can cause a brain hemorrhage.
In Riera's story for NPR, he focused on one of his concerns in the ongoing crisis in his homeland: the plight of the elderly.
Visuals editor Ben de la Cruz met Riera at a New York Times portfolio review last year. "I instantly liked him and his photos," de la Cruz says. "Wil had a warm and gentle spirit. He's someone who makes you feel comfortable as soon as you meet him. Like an old friend. As I perused his story about seniors in Caracas, he told me that he studied and worked as an engineer in Venezuela but quit not too long ago to learn to become a photographer at the International Center of Photography in New York.
"This was a young man who has the courage to follow his dreams, I remember thinking. And I was amazed by his photos. They showed his compassion for the people of his homeland with artistry and sensitivity. I told him that I would love to publish his work on the seniors. He seemed pleased and quietly excited after our conversation. That's how I'd like to remember Wil."
Venezuela is not a good place to grow old.
As president Nicolas Maduro starts his second term of office, the country is mired in an economic crisis that has brought the health care system to the brink of collapse.
The lives of the elderly are more a battle to avoid calamity than a sweet retreat.
At least 85 percent of medicines are in scarce supply, according to the Pharmaceutical Federation of Venezuela.
"It's too hard to find the medicines to treat their high blood pressure, diabetes and even prevent their epileptic seizures," says Baudilio Vega, who's in charge of the Mother Teresa of Calcutta senior home in Caracas; its 76 residents range in age from early 60s to late 80s.
Yet these seniors are the lucky ones among the 2.9 million Venezuelans over age 60.
All of them have a comfortable place to sleep and enjoy some meals for free, thanks to private donors who support the home.
As the general crisis has evolved, older citizens often must choose between buying food or drugs for their health. They can't do both due to their insufficient income.
Nearly 64 percent of Venezuelans have lost weight since 2016 because they began to skip meals because of the impact of the economic crisis, according to the latest Life Conditions National Survey, "Encovi" in Spanish, an independent census run yearly since 2014 by college professors.
The most recent survey of 6,168 citizens revealed that 79.8 percent of adult Venezuelans are now eating less than they were three months earlier. Seventy percent of them said the reason was that they didn't have enough money to buy food.
"We are not prepared at all to age here," says Luis Francisco Cabezas, head of Convite, a human rights group that seeks to aid vulnerable citizens.
Indeed, Venezuela is the worst nation in South America to age in, according to the latest Global AgeWatch Index, and ranks 76th in a survey of 96 nations.
It also has the highest inflation rate in the world. Prices of food and other consumer products went up 1.3 million percent in the year ending in November 2018.
Official help falls short. The government pays a paltry monthly pension to only a little more than half of Venezuelan seniors. Thousands wait in long lines at banks to receive the money.
Migration has deepened the elderly crisis. An estimated 3 million Venezuelans have fled the country in the past years, according to the United Nations.
"Five million more could leave this year and those people would not take their seniors with them, leaving them alone, defenseless, with just a pension that only pays for 0.5 percent of the food basket," says Cabezas.
It is, as he puts it, "the most terrible drama."
That tragedy is what drew Venezuelan photographer Wil Riera to document the lives of the residents of the Mother Teresa home. "The elder population is vulnerable, and it is good to tell their part of the story," says Riera, 36, an engineer who began his career in photography in 2013 and has contributed to numerous media outlets, including Time, The New York Times and the BBC.
"Old people are forgotten in places like this," says Riera. "The situation makes me feel angry and hopeless." But he does have some hope — that his photos will bring more concern to the plight of Venezuela's elders.
Gustavo Ocando Alex is a freelance writer in Venezuela who has contributed to BBC World News and the Miami Herald.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-05-03T20:40:10+00:00 | wqcs.org | https://www.wqcs.org/2019-01-13/remembering-wil-riera-the-photographer-with-an-eye-for-the-forgotten-in-venezuela |
TEMCO joint venture will expand market access and open new opportunities for U.S. farmers
ST. PAUL and MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- CHS Inc. and Cargill, two of the nation's leading agribusinesses, announced today the intent to expand the scope of their joint venture, TEMCO LLC, by adding the Cargill-owned export grain terminal in Houston, Texas. The addition of the Houston terminal will expand the joint venture's export capabilities, providing shipping access for grains, oilseeds and byproducts through the port of Houston.
TEMCO currently operates three facilities in the Pacific Northwest: Portland, Ore.; Kalama, Wash.; and Tacoma, Wash. These three facilities distribute grain to global markets, primarily located in the Asia-Pacific region. Through TEMCO, both companies look forward to building on 24 years of successful partnership to expand global grain market access for U.S. farmers to help meet the increasing global need for food.
"We're pleased to continue to build upon our successful relationship with Cargill to expand the reach of TEMCO," says John Griffith, executive vice president of ag business for CHS. "In keeping with our purpose of creating connections to empower agriculture, access to the Houston terminal provides additional options for area cooperatives and farmers to participate in the global marketplace, helping to advance CHS growth strategy for the region and open new opportunities for U.S. farmers."
The Houston terminal is located approximately 40 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico via Galveston Bay. With six million bushels of storage and capacity for 350 rail cars, the facility handles up to 250 million bushels annually. The terminal receives both trucks and railcars with a variety of commodities for global export.
"We look forward to expanding our joint venture by integrating the Houston terminal and leveraging the successful operating model that's in place today with TEMCO," said Sheryl Wallace, president of North America Grain for Cargill. "We are excited to provide additional market access and opportunities for our farmer customers and to better serve our global demand customers."
"The TEMCO team is excited to integrate the Houston terminal into our operations," says Brian Kubik, general manager for TEMCO. "This expansion will create efficiencies and opportunities for TEMCO and its employees."
About Cargill
Cargill helps the world's food system work for you. We connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients and families with daily essentials—from the foods they eat to the floors they walk on. Our 160,000 team members around the world innovate with purpose, empowering our partners and communities as we work to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, sustainable way. From feed that reduces methane emissions to waste-based renewable fuels, the possibilities are boundless. But our values remain the same. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing. It's how we've met the needs of the people we call neighbors and the planet we call home for 157 years—and how we'll do so for generations to come. For more information, visit Cargill.com and our News Center.
About CHS
CHS Inc. (www.chsinc.com) is a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers and cooperatives across the United States. Diversified in energy, agronomy, grains and foods, CHS is committed to creating connections to empower agriculture, helping its farmer-owners, customers and other stakeholders grow their businesses through its domestic and global operations. CHS supplies energy, crop nutrients, seed, crop protection products, grain marketing services, production and agricultural services, animal nutrition products, foods and food ingredients, and risk management services. The company operates petroleum refineries and pipelines and manufactures, markets and distributes Cenex® brand refined fuels, lubricants, propane and renewable energy products.
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NEW YORK, June 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Citizens Bank today announced that it has named noted commercial banking executive Jim Hudak as president of its CIT Commercial Finance group, a division of First Citizens Bank, effective immediately.
With more than 20 years as a commercial finance executive, Hudak is known throughout the industry for his leadership capabilities and strong commitment to customer support and satisfaction.
It is a return of sorts for Hudak, who oversaw CIT's commercial finance businesses from 2008 to 2019 when they were managed by CIT Group Inc., which merged with First Citizens Bank last year. Under Hudak's oversight and leadership, many of those businesses grew to become leading lenders in their industry verticals.
"It's a pleasure to welcome Jim back and to leverage his experience and deep industry knowledge as First Citizens Bank continues to expand its commercial lending and relationship banking expertise," said First Citizens Bank President Peter Bristow.
"Jim is a proven leader with a strong track record of supporting his bankers in serving middle market clients across a wide range of market sectors," Bristow continued. "We are pleased he has accepted this critical role and look forward to his accomplishments in leading the next leg of our growth journey."
"I am thrilled to join First Citizens Bank and to work with many of my former colleagues and many new ones as well," said Hudak, who will report to Bristow. "Strong relationships with clients have always been the keystone of our business model. As part of First Citizens Bank, the opportunities ahead are greater than ever."
During his career at the former CIT, Hudak held several roles of increasing responsibility. Immediately prior to becoming president of commercial finance in 2008, he served as senior managing director of the company's communications, media and entertainment business.
Hudak is a graduate of Bucknell University and holds an MBA from Cornell University.
About First Citizens Bank
First Citizens Bank helps personal, business, commercial and wealth clients build financial strength that lasts. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., and now celebrating the 125th anniversary of its founding, First Citizens has built a unique legacy of strength, stability and long-term thinking that has spanned generations. First Citizens offers an array of general banking services including a network of more than 550 branches in 23 states and commercial banking expertise delivering best-in-class lending, leasing and other financial services coast to coast. Parent company First Citizens BancShares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCNCA) is a top 20 U.S. financial institution with more than $200 billion in assets. First Citizens Bank, Member FDIC. Discover more at firstcitizens.com.
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The past two years have been unprecedented for small business owners. Whether it was a bakery, bar, boutique, food truck, restaurant, etc., we all experienced shutdowns and reduced hours, fewer staff and supply chain problems.
And then the other shoe dropped.
In recent months it's been inflation continuing to rise to 40-year highs. Food prices have soared. Fuel prices have skyrocketed. Essentially everything you can buy now costs more.
You've no doubt seen the memes on social media, proclaiming that we shouldn't blame small business owners for their higher prices; they're only trying to cover their costs.
And that's true.
But it's quite possible that the situation may grow worse. There is a real threat of recession, as economists and other experts fear. The stock market certainly is feeling bearish these days.
The last recession we had was the Great Recession, which officially lasted from 2007-2009. But its aftermath was felt for up to three years afterward. Northeast Mississippi's unemployment rate was in double digits for 35 of 36 months.
Now we read that confidence among small-business owners in the U.S. flatlined in May for a second consecutive month, according to the National Federation of Independent Businesses. And, "expectations for future business conditions continued to deteriorate."
"Small-business owners remain very pessimistic about the second half of the year as supply-chain disruptions, inflation and the labor shortage are not easing," NFIB Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg said.
The number of small-business owners who expect better business conditions in the next six months declined further in May, reaching a fresh new low in the near-five-decade survey's history. Respondents also became more downbeat when assessing their projections for short-term sales.
Plans to increase employment increased, but small businesses continued to struggle to fill open positions in a tight labor market. Around 51% of respondents reported job openings they could not fill, up 4 points from April, the NFIB said.
Inflation pressures broadened. The percentage of owners raising average selling prices increased two points to 72%, back to the highest reading in the 48-year-history of the survey last reached in March.
"Inflation continues to outpace compensation which has reduced real incomes across the nation," Dunkelberg said. Price growth remained the most important problem for business owners, the report said.
Supply-chain bottlenecks didn't show signs of easing, according to the survey. Almost 40% of owners reported that supply-chain disruptions have had a significant impact on their business, up 3 points compared with April.
So what can you and I do as consumers? Continue to support small businesses when you can. They are the ones supporting local organizations and sports teams. The owners are our neighbors and friends.
We will all have to cut back because of inflation, but remember the locally owned merchants are in the same boat as the rest of us. They have families to feed as well.
The economic downturn will eventually turn the other way around, as all downturns do. It won't be easy, and it won't come soon enough. But if we work together for the greater good, this too, shall pass. | 2022-06-19T13:51:54+00:00 | djournal.com | https://www.djournal.com/news/business/small-businesses-need-us-more-than-ever/article_08d11bdf-a048-50d1-a475-6af5ec47b0c6.html |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It’s a March Madness tradition as predictable as a 12-5 upset.
A successful coach at a small school enters the NCAA Tournament with speculation swirling about being a candidate at a more glamorous school, forcing that coach to dodge questions about his future before the most important games of the season.
The twist this year? That coach is a 70-year-old, two-time national champion whose Hall of Fame four-decade career has been sprinkled with scandal.
“You’re not hired by the internet,” Iona coach Rick Pitino said. “My players, it’s not a distraction for them at all. I’ve always taken it as a compliment throughout all the years that if somebody else is interested in you, very thankful for that, but I never pay attention to it.”
Pitino has the Gaels in the tournament as champions of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference for the second time in his three seasons at the private Catholic school in New Rochelle, just north of New York City.
Iona, a 13 seed, faces fourth-seeded Connecticut from the Big East on Friday in the first round of the West Region. As much as Pitino tries to keep the focus on the Gaels, it seems likely that his time at the school is winding down and he is going to land one more high-profile gig — St. John’s? Georgetown? Texas Tech? — before he calls it quits.
Or rather, if he calls it quits.
“Well, I know when he told me he was going to retire at 60 that he was full of crap,” recently retired Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim told The Associated Press. “He’ll coach until he’s 80 if he can. He loves coaching. We all love it to some extent, but I think he loves it probably more than anybody else.”
In 34 full seasons as a college head coach, he has led each of the five schools he has coached to the NCAA Tournament, won national championships at Kentucky and Louisville, and has a .741 winning percentage.
He had two stints in the NBA, one with the New York Knicks, and another with the Boston Celtics that didn’t produce a playoff appearance. But in college, Pitino has had just one losing season.
“Probably the best basketball coach I’ve seen or gone up against,” said Boeheim, who hired Pitino as an assistant at Syracuse in 1976.
Pitino is back in play for the big schools after being exonerated for NCAA recruiting violations committed by Louisville under his watch and revealed by an FBI investigation into college basketball corruption.
A few days before this season started, the NCAA’s outside arm of enforcement, the Independent Accountability Resolutions Process, announced it had found “no violation by (Pitino) occurred given that he demonstrated he promoted an atmosphere of compliance.”
Iona and Pitino celebrated the ruling, but it’s not the only blemish on his resume.
The 2013 NCAA championship won Pitino won at Louisville was later vacated after an investigation found an assistant coach paid escorts and exotic dancers to entertain players and recruits in campus dorms.
There were also personal improprieties revealed during a criminal case against a woman who was found guilt of trying to extort Pitino.
Before Pitino could serve his five-game suspension for the earlier NCAA case, he was fired by Louisville in 2017 when his program was implicated in the FBI case.
“He did have a couple of things, yeah,” Boeheim said. “That’s not a lot when you look at more than 40 years.”
New Mexico coach Richard Pitino, Rick’s son and former assistant, said that as the leader of a program, his father was accountable for the actions of those who worked for him.
“He was held responsible. If people are still outraged by it, I would just tell them they need to move on. Because it wasn’t like he didn’t go through a lot,” Richard Pitino told the AP. “You know he was fired. He ended up having to coach out of this country for two years. He then goes and takes Iona, which he was fortunate to get.”
After a season out of coaching and two coaching in Greece, Iona took a calculated risk in hiring Pitino when his reputation was tarnished, banking on him not being punished for allegations related to the FBI investigation.
While Iona was vindicated, it also became apparent quickly that it would be difficult for the school to keep its coach.
“We’re aware he might go,” Iona President Seamus Carey told The New York Post earlier this week.
Pitino said he hopes he can coach for 12 more years.
“But I’ll take six or seven,” he said.
Pitino, dressed in a roomy all-white sweatsuit, looked spry Thursday as he coached his team at practice in MVP Arena.
There was no doubt who was in charge as he called out directions at midcourt, and then jumped into the lane a couple of times to play defense against players driving to the basket.
“He loves basketball a lot, he even says it in practice a lot: ‘I’ll die for basketball. I want to die on a basketball court,’” Iona guard Berrick JeanLouis said with a smile. “He talks crazy about it.”
The Gaels missed out on the NCAA Tournament last year after finishing first in the MAAC during the regular season. They were upset in the conference tournament and MAAC champ Saint Peter’s went on to have magical run in March Madness as a 15 seed.
“I have felt more pressure at Iona than any other time, Kentucky, Louisville, the Knicks, Celtics,” Pitino said. “I feel so much pressure with these three (conference tournament) games you have to win to get in the (NCAA) tournament.”
Richard Pitino said he does not know what his father’s next move will be, but he is aware of Rick’s frustration with being in what is traditionally a one-NCAA-bid conference.
“That part of it I think is certainly the reason why maybe he would be open to something else,” Richard Pitino said.
The St. John’s or Georgetown jobs would bring Rick Pitino back into the Big East, where he led Providence to one of the most memorable Final Four runs in tournament history back in 1987, and where he won that national title with Louisville.
“Whoever hires him, they’ll be successful within two years. At the most,” Boeheim said. “That’s like a guarantee.”
There is a Providence link between Pitino and St. John’s right now.
St. John’s President, the Rev. Brian Shanley, was previously at the Rhode Island school, where he contributed to a revival of the basketball program that included investments in facilities and the hiring of coach Ed Cooley.
Pitino said Shanley tried to lure him back to Providence when he was at Louisville.
“I spoke to Ed Cooley the other day, said (Shanley’s) a superstar,” Pitino said.
Pitino talked about how good he has it at Iona, where he has a president and athletic director who provide all the support he needs and four starters expected back next season.
Is he up for another rebuild?
“It’s going to take a special place,” he said, “for me to consider leaving.”
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The New Jersey Devils, led by Jack Hughes, face the New York Rangers, led by Artemi Panarin, in Game 2 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs first round series on Thursday, April 20, 2023 (4/20/23) at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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Here is the complete Devils vs. Ranges first round TV schedule (* = if necessary):
Game 2
Date/location: Thursday, April 20, 2023 at Prudential Center
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
TV: MSGSN, MSG2 (local markets only), TBS (out-of-market)
Local stream (for MSG networks): fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Out-of-market stream (for TBS): Sling, DirecTV Stream (free trial)
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Game 3
Date/location: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at Madison Square Garden
Time: 8 p.m. ET
TV: ABC, ESPN+
Stream (for ABC): fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial), ESPN+
Tickets: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER
Game 4
Date/location: Monday, April 24, 2023 at Madison Square Garden
Time: 7 p.m. ET
TV: MSGSN (local market only), ESPN (out-of-market)
Local stream (for MSG networks): fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Out-of-market stream (for ESPN): Sling, fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Tickets: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER
Game 5*
Date/location: Thursday, April 27, 2023 at Prudential Center
Time: TBD
TV: MSGSN (local market only), TBD (out-of-market)
Local stream (for MSG networks): fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Out-of-market stream: TBD
Tickets: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER
Game 6*
Date/location: Saturday, April 29, 2023 at Madison Square Garden
Time: TBD
TV: TBD
Local stream: TBD
Out-of-market stream: TBD
Tickets: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER
Game 7*
Date/location: Monday, May 1, 2023 at Prudential Center
Time: TBD
TV: MSGSN (local market only), TBD (out-of-market)
Local stream (for MSG networks): fuboTV (free trial), DirecTV Stream (free trial)
Out-of-market stream: TBD
Tickets: STUBHUB, VIVID SEATS, TICKETSMARTER, TICKETMASTER
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Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 3, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles.
Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book’s sales were barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A (b) indicates that some bookstores reported receiving bulk orders.
Fiction
1. A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES, by Louise Penny. (Minotaur)
The 18th book in the “Chief Inspector Gamache” series. When an attic room that was sealed off 160 years ago is opened, an old enemy returns.
2. THE BOYS FROM BILOXI, by John Grisham. (Doubleday)
Two childhood friends follow in their fathers’ footsteps, which puts them on opposite sides of the law.
3. FAIRY TALE, by Stephen King. (Scribner)
A high school kid inherits a shed that is a portal to another world where good and evil are at war.
4. LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, by Bonnie Garmus. (Doubleday)
A scientist and single mother living in California in the 1960s becomes a star on a TV cooking show.
5. TRIPLE CROSS, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown)
Detective Alex Cross and true-crime author Thomas Tull search for a serial killer known as the Family Man.
6. DEMON COPPERHEAD, by Barbara Kingsolver. (Harper)
A re-imagining of Charles Dickens’ “David Copperfield” set in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
7. DREAMLAND, by Nicholas Sparks. (Random House)
Musicians from different backgrounds are attracted to each other and a mother flees with her son from an abusive husband.
8. MAD HONEY, by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. (Ballantine)
After returning to her hometown, Olivia McAfee’s son gets accused of killing his crush.
9. THE CHOICE, by Nora Roberts. (St. Martin’s)
The third book in the “Dragon Heart Legacy” series. Breen Siobhan Kelly confronts darkness during her first Christmas in both Talamh and Ireland.
10. DESERT STAR, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown)
Ballard and Bosch bury old resentments as they go after two killers.
11. TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, by Gabrielle Zevin. (Knopf)
Two friends find their partnership challenged in the world of video game design.
12. GOING ROGUE, by Janet Evanovich. (Atria)
The 29th book in the “Stephanie Plum” series. The man who abducted the office manager at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds demands a mysterious coin in exchange for her.
13. NO PLAN B, by Lee Child and Andrew Child. (Delacorte)
The 27th book in the “Jack Reacher” series. Reacher goes after a killer but is unaware of the bigger implications.
14. THE WHITTIERS, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte)
After tragedy strikes, six adult children return to the family home without their parents for the first time.
15. OUR MISSING HEARTS, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press)
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner goes on a quest to find his mother, a Chinese American poet whose work he was taught to disavow.
Nonfiction
1. THE LIGHT WE CARRY, by Michelle Obama. (Crown)
The former first lady shares personal stories and the tools she uses to deal with difficult situations.
2. FRIENDS, LOVERS, AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING, by Matthew Perry. (Flatiron)
The actor, known for playing Chandler Bing on “Friends,” shares stories from his childhood and his struggles with sobriety.
3. I’M GLAD MY MOM DIED, by Jennette McCurdy. (Simon & Schuster)
The actress and filmmaker describes her eating disorders and difficult relationship with her mother.
4. SURRENDER, by Bono. (Knopf)
The lead singer of Irish rock band U2 offers details of his life, career and activism.
5. AND THERE WAS LIGHT, by Jon Meacham. (Random House)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer portrays the life of Abraham Lincoln.
6. SO HELP ME GOD, by Mike Pence. (Simon & Schuster)
The former vice president gives an account of his career, including his time in the Oval Office and during the Jan. 6 insurrection.
7. THE REVOLUTIONARY, by Stacy Schiff. (Little, Brown)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer details Samuel Adams’ contributions to the American Revolution.
8. THE SONG OF THE CELL, by Siddhartha Mukherjee. (Scribner)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author chronicles the discovery of cells and describes how modern medicine uses them.
9. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG, by Bob Dylan. (Simon & Schuster)
In a collection of more than 60 essays, the musician and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature explores the nature of popular music.
10. THE COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE BOOK, by Jerry Seinfeld. (Simon & Schuster)
Behind-the-scenes photos and stories of the streaming series about the art of comedy.
11. A HEART THAT WORKS, by Rob Delaney. (Spiegel & Grau)
The comedian describes moving his family to London and dealing with tragedy.
12. WHAT IF? 2, by Randall Munroe. (Riverhead)
The creator of the web comic “xkcd” and former NASA roboticist looks into hypothetical and oddball scenarios.
13. CINEMA SPECULATION, by Quentin Tarantino. (Harper)
The filmmaker shares his love of cinema with special attention given to key American films of the 1970s.
14. THE MOSQUITO BOWL, by Buzz Bissinger. (Harper)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist depicts the service of college football players who served in the Marines during World War II.
15. RADIO’S GREATEST OF ALL TIME, by Rush Limbaugh with Kathryn Adams Limbaugh and David Limbaugh. (Threshold Editions)
A collection of the late conservative commentator’s on-air moments, with memories from his widow and brother. (b)
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Fort Smith is getting its first-ever Whataburger restaurant, which is set to open this fall.
Whataburger and its franchise group WAB Venture Inc. are breaking ground on the new eatery on Friday, July 15. This restaurant is the first of multiple locations that the franchise group is opening with future sites planned in Arkansas and Oklahoma as part of the Whataburger expansion into the two states.
Currently, Whataburger and its franchisees have six Arkansas and 34 Oklahoma restaurants. The Arkansas locations include two Fayetteville units and restaurants in Rogers, Springdale, Magnolia and Texarkana.
The Fort Smith restaurant plans on bringing over 100 jobs to the local community. The restaurant is currently in the hiring process for Restaurant Managers while hiring for Team Leaders and Team Members will begin in the coming months.
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Robert Harvey Elementary School, identified as a school in need of a turnaround in 2017, was removed this year from the state’s list of schools needing comprehensive support and improvement.
Robert Harvey Elementary School, identified as a school in need of a turnaround in 2017, was removed this year from the state’s list of schools needing comprehensive support and improvement.
ALBANY — Along with the recent announcement that three Dougherty County elementary schools were being designated in need of comprehensive support and improvement came the news that another county school had come off that state list.
Robert Harvey Elementary School had been previously designated as an underperforming school as early as 2017, but even through COVID-19 the work of improving learning at the school, which currently has an enrollment of 464, continued.
To get there, the entire campus embraced the mission to, more importantly than shaking the designation, make sure that students were prepared, said school Principal Karen Riggins, who was not in that position when the school was added to the turnaround list.
The effort included work by students, their parents and staff, both on campus and at the administrative level.
“We have strong parental support here,” Riggins said. “We have a strong teacher and staff support system here. You will find, in the Dougherty County School System, in my opinion, our principals, our staff, all the way up to the superintendent level, we care about these kids.
“We all understood the goal, and we wanted to make that happen.”
Schools on the turnaround list, now dubbed CSI for comprehensive support and improvement, receive extra resources from the state level as well as the Southwest Regional Education Service Agency office located in Pelham.
Part of the job included analyzing data on student performance and providing feedback and direction to teachers. The process paid off and produced the desired result, Riggins said.
“When you ensure that these processes are done with consistency and fidelity, you are assured of a positive result,” she said. “We received rich professional learning.”
Students also participated in programs such as enhanced summer learning and weekend and after-school sessions.
All students are encouraged to participate in those programs.
“We work to get as many students in Saturday school as we can,” Riggins said. “It doesn’t have to be a student who is struggling.”
Outside groups also played a role, including Greater 2nd Mt. Olive Baptist Church and other business partners.
“This is the first system I’ve been in where business partners come in,” said Riggins, who worked in other school systems before coming to Dougherty County in 2018. “It says a lot about this community. They want these students to be successful.
“It is my job to ensure that all of these pieces come together, and we are constantly keeping these students’ faces at the top of our focus. We have had so much support.”
Ultimately, it was not a single element but a combination that resulted in the turnaround at Robert Harvey, said Vinson Davis, assistant superintendent for district effectiveness. But it was a data-driven process.
“It’s just continually how we use qualitative and quantitative data to see where students are,” he said. “(Staff) really differentiate and individualize the efforts to make these students succeed. It comes down to analyzing data — where they are from week to week and month to month, and how do we put the processes in to accelerate learning.
“At Robert Harvey we invested in early literacy and with professional learning” to help teachers “be more effective in the classroom.”
Staff from the district level down formulated a plan and put that plan into action.
The same will be the case with the three schools placed on the CSI list this year, Alice Coachman and Northside elementary schools and Radium Springs Middle School, Davis said. As was the case with Robert Harvey, the state school system will provide extra support through the process, and the the school system, from Superintendent Ken Dyer down to the school level, will work to formulate and implement plans of action.
“We don’t focus on being off the list as (much) as the structures and processes,” Davis said. “If you do that, the list will take care of itself.” | 2022-12-20T22:46:24+00:00 | albanyherald.com | https://www.albanyherald.com/news/robert-harvey-proves-that-three-dougherty-county-schools-placed-on-improvement-list-can-succeed/article_ab273b76-80a7-11ed-a226-5ff74d7bd48e.html |
CEO of Limitless X Talks from Hustle to Health, His Entrepreneurial Journey to Founding a Health & Wellness Brand Ecosystem
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jas Mathur, CEO of Limitless X Inc., (OTCQB: VYBE) ("the Company"), a creative and empowering lifestyle agency, was featured today on The Wolf's Den, a podcast hosted by Jordan Belfort, a former stockbroker and notoriously known as, "The Wolf of Wall Street."
In this episode of The Wolf's Den, Mr. Mathur discusses how his incredible entrepreneurial fitness journey has inspired millions to adopt a more health and wellness-focused lifestyle and speaks about the negatives of those who oftentimes neglect their health in the pursuit of their business goals.
To listen to the interview, please visit: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/founder-of-limitless-inspires-with-insane-fitness/id1464461126?i=1000580432767
Jas Mathur, CEO of Limitless X, commented, "I enjoyed the opportunity to speak with Jordan and share the journey of my health transformation and how that has shaped the vision of our company, which is to help accelerate the achievement of people's health, wellness, and business goals- as it is possible to have that all align harmoniously. Additionally, the appearance on this show has provided us with the platform to discuss recent current important milestones, our long-term strategic goals, and the future market and financial goals for Limitless X."
The Wolf's Den is a podcast featuring Jordan Belfort, the REAL Wolf of Wall Street. In each episode, he discusses some of the craziest moments of his life, as well as interviews the biggest celebrities, entrepreneurs, scientists, and anyone else that may pique his interest.
About Jas Mathur
Jas Mathur is an investor and entrepreneur who has developed multiple brands in the marketing, health, and wellness spaces generating tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year. The digital marketing and branding firm he founded, Limitless X, has launched numerous industry-leading products in the dietary and CBD supplement sectors. He is a trendsetter with more than 7 million Instagram followers and frequently collaborates with leaders in the sports and entertainment industries.
Jas' passion is helping accelerate the achievement of people's health, wellness, and business goals, inspired by his personal transformation story of losing over 250lbs in his twenties. Now a sought-after expert in developing fitness and training programs, he's helped many high-profile figures embark on their own health journeys and seeks to do the same for today's youth. Suitably, Jas recently partnered with Dr. Oz's nonprofit, Healthcorps, to jumpstart health and wellness programs targeted at teens and young adults.
As Jas transformed his life and body, he applied his newfound passion for health and wellness towards launching Limitless X. Prospective services he is blueprinting for the company include personality development, life coaching, and educational platforms, in addition to the brand portfolio.
About Limitless X
Limitless X is a creative and empowering lifestyle agency specializing in the full spectrum of digital advertising and marketing. The Company has a global eco-system with three verticals and a series of unique product and service-oriented businesses within each, focused on the Health & Wellness, Beauty & Skincare, and CBD Industries.
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After five years as chief executive of Boston financial services giant John Hancock, Marianne Harrison will retire in April and be succeeded by Brooks Tingle, who runs the company’s core insurance business.
Harrison, 60, is the first woman to run Hancock since it was founded in 1862. In a note to 6,000 employees on Thursday night, Harrison expressed gratitude. Much of her time as CEO was spent navigating a global pandemic that required a dramatic shift to running the business remotely.
“When you love what you do, a decision like this is never easy,” she wrote. “As I look back on my twenty years with the company and five leading John Hancock, I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished together, and I do mean together, as it is all about the people and I will miss you all very much.”
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Hancock, one of the largest life insurers in the United States, is a unit of Manulife Financial Corp. in Toronto. Prior to taking the helm at Hancock, Harrison ran Manulife’s Canada division and served as Manulife’s corporate controller. Taking the top job at Hancock marked Harrison’s return to the Boston market; the Canadian native previously was the general manager of Hancock’s long-term care business.
In an interview, Harrison said she came in with a five-year plan to digitally transform the company and drive efficiency, all the while creating a more inclusive culture. On her watch, Hancock has grown total sales from $464 million in 2017 to $633 million in 2022.
Harrison said that in recent years she has been grooming Tingle as her successor.
“We’ve just come to the perfect spot, where I know I’m now ready to move on and he’s ready to take it,” she said.
In turning to Tingle, Manulife is promoting an executive who has been at Hancock for 35 years, working his way up from the customer service department to running the insurance business. A native of New Hampshire, Tingle studied economics at the University of New Hampshire and received his MBA from Boston University.
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Tingle, 57, made his mark in the insurance division, which he has overseen since 2018, by reimagining the way life insurance is sold. Instead of a focus on death, Hancock took a behavioral approach offering customers savings and rewards for living healthy through a product line called Vitality. (Think free Fitbits to encourage people to exercise more.)
The concept became a win-win: Life insurers lose money when customers die prematurely. But if they stay healthy, customers pay more premiums because they are living longer lives.
In an interview, Tingle said he and Harrison have focused on creating life insurance products that get people excited.
“We woke up as leaders a few years ago and said, ‘Hey, we’re leaders in an industry where nobody really gets any joy out of owning our products, and they’re incredibly hard to buy,’” explained Tingle. “That’s really what Marianne and I’ve been setting out to do, is have more digitally engaging and rewarding relationships with our customers and make our solutions easier to buy.”
Tingle said he is passionate about the role insurance plays because he has seen the difference it can make in people’s lives. He recalled being approached by a college student at a career fair who recounted how a Hancock agent had been bugging his father to buy life insurance. His father kept saying no, but the agent persisted.
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“I just want to thank you and your company,” Tingle was told. “He finally got it and was killed in a car crash six months later on his way to work. My brother and I would not be attending this university, going to this career fair, if it hadn’t been for your company.”
In addition to selling life insurance, Hancock offers retirement planning and manages investments for individuals. Tingle sees an opportunity in inextricably linking the company’s core business units.
“This nexus between health and wealth is today — and I think will be even more going forward — an important part of our story,” he said.
Prior to Harrison, there had been a revolving door of leaders since Manulife completed its acquisition of Hancock in 2004. Despite its foreign ownership, Hancock has remained civically engaged locally from creating thousands of summer jobs for teens through its MLK Scholars program to sponsorship of the Boston Marathon.
This year, however, Hancock is ending its nearly four-decade relationship as the Marathon’s lead corporate sponsor. That comes on the heels of Hancock severing a 30-year partnership with the Boston Red Sox at the end of last season.
Rather than a pull back in local investment, Tingle said, Hancock is reallocating money into areas that better align with the company’s mission. For example, he expects Hancock to deepen its partnerships with universities on health and wellness, such as by working closely with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab.
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“There’s so much more we can do with that and helping Boston become that longevity hub,” he said.
As for Harrison, she plans to stay in Boston and sit on more public and nonprofit boards. She already serves on the board of the Boston Medical Center and Canadian aerospace company CAE.
Another reason Harrison is staying local: Three of her four adult children live in New England. Two of them are in the Boston area, while one is studying at St. Michael’s College in Vermont.
“My family probably in Canada is not going to be happy to hear that I’m not planning to move back,” said Harrison. “My kids are down here. ... Two of them just got engaged. So I’m hoping for grandkids coming soon, and I don’t want to be too far from them.”
Shirley Leung is a Business columnist. She can be reached at shirley.leung@globe.com. | 2023-03-03T04:33:43+00:00 | bostonglobe.com | https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/02/business/john-hancock-is-getting-new-leader/ |
Angler sets new record by reeling in massive 66-pound catfish
LANCASTER CO., Pa. (Gray News) - A Pennsylvania angler caught a massive catfish from the Susquehanna River and set a new state record in return.
According to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, angler Michael Wherley was out with a friend on a 16-foot boat last month in Lancaster County when he was able to catch the record-setting fish.
The flathead catfish weighed in at 66 pounds and 6 ounces, according to state officials, breaking the record by nearly 10 pounds.
The previous mark was set in 2020 when an angler caught a catfish weighing 56 pounds and 3 ounces.
Wherley shared with officials that it took him almost 30 minutes to reel in the record-setting fish.
“It was a little bit crazy. When it finally came to the surface, all I could think was that it was humungous!” Wherley said. “When I got the fish next to the boat, I stuck both hands in its mouth and pulled as hard as I could to bring it aboard.”
After being caught and recorded, state officials said the catfish was released back into the river.
“I’m really glad we were able to release the fish back into the river. I’ll enjoy this record as long as it lasts,” Wherley said.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said the network could take on a sports league as a minority partner as the network continues its transition from a cable channel to a digital company.
“I will emphasize that we believe there are parties out there that can help us on the content side. So you can draw whatever conclusions you want from that,” Pitaro said Tuesday during a seminar sponsored by CNBC and Boardroom, a sports media company founded by Kevin Durant.
Pitaro declined to say which leagues have been in talks with him and Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger, but he said there has “been a healthy level of interest” from leagues as well as technology, marketing and distribution companies.
Pitaro also said it is not a question of if but when ESPN will roll out a direct-to-consumer product to view its offerings.
A league having an equity stake in a network like ESPN would be groundbreaking and would pose some questions about fairness and objectivity in coverage. It would mark another step in sports’ relationship with its broadcast partners.
Some teams have equity stakes in regional sports networks, while all four major U.S. professional leagues have their own channels.
Some have also wondered about ESPN’s future within the framework of Disney, which Pitaro tried to address by saying, “Bob (Iger) has been clear about the power of live sports and power of the ESPN brand, how important it is to the future of the Walt Disney Company.”
With cable audiences continuing to shrink, a direct-to-consumer option would help recoup some financial losses. According to its most recent filing, ESPN has 72.5 million cable subscribers and 25.3 million for its ESPN+ streaming service.
There is no timetable for ESPN releasing a direct-to-consumer product, which would give consumers a way to view programming from ESPN’s channels without a cable subscription. ESPN+ subscribers currently still need a cable subscription to access that content.
LionTree Chairman and CEO Aryeh Bourkoff said it would be tough for ESPN to go it alone as it transitions from linear to digital and that partnerships have become as crucial for businesses as much as mergers and acquisitions.
Bourkoff compared ESPN’s transition to Netflix’s move from a DVD-by-mail service to streaming, and Amazon expanding from online book sales into Prime Video and its own branded products.
“You are shifting from a linear model that has existed for a long time to a model where digital and technology companies are all competing against each other,” Bourkoff said. “You have to be properly aligned. I think there’s a way to bring all that together that preserves the upside but also cash flow. I think people have to come together to make this happen.”
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In her foreword to Inside the Curve: Stories From the Pandemic, Jill Tiefenthaler, National Geographic Society's chief executive officer, writes: "The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world."
That short first sentence contains a world, as does the book — both literally and figuratively. Visually striking (NatGeo and superb photography have always walked hand-in-hand) and incredibly complete, deep and nuanced, this is a book that attempts the impossible task of offering a full overview of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic everywhere. It comes so close to pulling it off that it can't be called anything but a resounding success.
As the pandemic evolved and began to change the way we lived our lives, the National Geographic Society launched the Global Emergency Fund for Journalists in March of 2020 to "support individuals who wanted to report on the impacts of the virus in their communities." After receiving thousands of applications, 324 projects were selected and fully funded. The focus was on reporting about the pandemic in underserved communities, but the end result is far richer than anything that focus might suggest.
From burials in Bangladesh to urban farming aimed at fighting hunger in Johannesburg, and from Indigenous communities in Peru treating Covid patients with traditional medicine to an LGBTQ-led group fighting food insecurity in New York, Inside the Curve takes readers on a visual tour around the world and shows them just how much the pandemic affected us in a variety of ways. It also shows just how people adapted and survived their new reality.
Inside the Curve is packed with information and contains touching essays written by some of the photographers who received funding, but it's the images that make this a truly outstanding chronicle of the pandemic. Using everything from photojournalism to self-portraits, photographers in places as diverse as Chile, Norway, Brazil, England, Kenya, Italy, Venezuela, the United States, Australia, Russia, Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, Ukraine, Singapore, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, to name a few, captured the essence of what they were living and seeing through their lenses with a combination of authenticity and immediacy that infuses every image in this book with undeniable power.
There are photos and stories about hospitals, nurses, doctors, treatments, burials and patients here, which is inevitable because those individuals and places were at the forefront of the war against the virus. But the best thing about this book is the way many of the images and stories come from unexpected angles and tackle narratives that were left out of mainstream media coverage. From the way the pandemic affected migrants on the move in many countries — including slowing down everything for asylum seekers — and its impact on assisted-living facilities to its impact on education across the world and how sex workers were hit harder than other communities, the richness and scope of the storytelling in Inside the Curve is outstanding.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and that's because visual storytelling manages to convey ineffable things that words simply can't describe. Inside the Curve is packed with images that prove the old adage right time and time again. People alone at home, trapped in their own little world because of Covid restrictions and lockdowns. The same tired faces and haunted eyes of overworked medical staff in different countries. The raised hands, dancing bodies, and smiling faces of resilient communities refusing to let desperation get the best of them. Families stuck together for better or worse (there was a lot of love, sure, but also women trapped with their abusers for long periods of time). Breastfeeding mothers contemplating the future. Busy bodies working in protective gear because life simply couldn't stop and people had to eat. And masks. A lot of masks. It seems like, if it happened during the last two years, it's in the pages of this book, and that is a testament to the vision of the many people who came together to make Inside the Curve as rich as it is.
Tourism, religion, education, ancient traditions, traveling, food and water supplies, politics, funeral practices; the COVID-19 pandemic affected everything around us, and most of it was negative. However, the last portion of Inside the Curve is the opposite of that. The pandemic taught us a lot about love, camaraderie, mutual support, and resilience. We now have not only awful memories but also stories of local heroes and people who, in the face of a new problem, came up with innovative solutions.
The virus is still around and people are still dying, but cultural objects like this book serve as a collection of memories and an invitation to move forward, to keep going, to remember just how strong we can be.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-14T15:50:04+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/2023-01-14/inside-the-curve-attempts-to-offer-an-overview-of-covids-full-impact-everywhere |
Playwright Arthur Miller’s old studio is in a Connecticut parking lot, awaiting its next act
By SUSAN HAIGH
Associated Press
ROXBURY, Conn. (AP) — The shingled one-room structure where Arthur Miller worked at his home in Connecticut, from 1958 until his death in 2005, has been sitting behind the Roxbury town hall. His daughter Rebecca Miller and a group of residents are trying to raise $1 million to renovate the 300-square-foot structure and move it to the grounds of a local public library, where it will become a focal point of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer’s legacy. However, the group has so far raised less than $20,000 and the town needs the building moved. It’s currently sitting in a parking lot used by the highway department. | 2023-07-03T06:19:50+00:00 | krdo.com | https://krdo.com/news/ap-national-news/2023/07/02/playwright-arthur-millers-old-studio-is-in-a-connecticut-parking-lot-awaiting-its-next-act/ |
UN-backed inquiry accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine
Geneva – Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity, according to a report from a U.N.-backed inquiry released Thursday.
The sweeping human rights report, released a year to the day after a Russian airstrike on a theater in Mariupol killed hundreds sheltering inside, marked a highly unusual condemnation of a member of the U.N. Security Council.
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Among potential crimes against humanity, the report cited repeated attacks targeting Ukrainian infrastructure since the fall that left hundreds of thousands without heat and electricity during the coldest months, as well as the “systematic and widespread” use of torture across multiple regions under Russian occupation.
"There were elements of planning and availability of resources which indicate that the Russian authorities may have committed torture as crimes against humanity," said Erik Møse, a former Norwegian Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights judge who led the investigation.
The investigation also found crimes committed against Ukrainians on Russian territory, including deported Ukrainian children who were prevented from reuniting with their families, a “filtration” system aimed at singling out Ukrainians for detention, and torture and inhumane detention conditions.
A commission of inquiry is the most powerful tool used by the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council to scrutinize abuses and violations around the world. The investigation released Thursday was set up during an urgent debate shortly after Russia’s invasion last year.
The commission's three members are independent human rights experts, and its staff gets support and funding from the council and the U.N. human rights office.
The report's authors noted a “small number” of apparent violations by Ukrainian forces, including one they said was under criminal investigation by Ukrainian authorities, but reserved the vast majority of their report for allegations against Russia.
Russia did not respond to the inquiry's appeals for information.
Most of the abuses highlighted by the investigation were already well known, and the report is far from the first to accuse Russia of war crimes. However, the inquiry's findings come with the imprimatur of the international community: The experts work under a mandate overwhelmingly created last year by the Human Rights Council, which brings together the governments of 47 U.N. member countries.
Møse, who served as president of an international tribunal established to prosecute genocide cases from the massacre of members of Rwanda's ethnic Tutsi minority in 1994, said investigators have created a list of individuals to hold accountable for human rights violations in Ukraine.
He said the list would be "submitted to the relevant authorities in this issue,” but the team acknowledged the difficulty of investigations involving a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
Ultimately, the report may add to efforts to boost accountability for crimes committed in the war – whether by the International Criminal Court or by some individual countries that have taken on the right to apply “universal jurisdiction” to prosecute atrocities, wherever they may take place.
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Hinnant reported from Paris. | 2023-03-16T15:47:12+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/world/2023/03/16/un-backed-inquiry-accuses-russia-of-war-crimes-in-ukraine/70015716007/ |
By T.J. Grant, Staff Writer
“MAKE ME A FIST”
The simple image Anthony Kiedis conjures in the first line of “These Are the Ways” wouldn’t mean much coming from any other singer, or any other band. But Kiedis isn’t any other singer. And the Red Hot Chili Peppers aren’t just any other band.
The band’s newest album, Unlimited Love, came out just in time for summer. It’s their 12th studio LP and first release since 2016’s The Getaway.
The first single from Unlimited Love, “Black Summer,” came out in February along with a music video. “These Are the Ways'' debuted on March 31st — one day before the full album — as the second and final single.
AN UNUSUAL SUSPECT
At the tail end of last summer, word got out that there was new music on the horizon for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The person responsible for many of these rumors comes as a bit of a surprise. His name is Shampoolio (a.k.a Julio Romano), and he’s the barber of recently-returned lead guitarist John Frusciante. While in the barber’s chair, the guitarist shared details on the band’s unreleased material, his vaccination status, and even which guitar he used on the album (his 1962 Fender Stratocaster). This all spread swiftly by word of mouth and, of course, Reddit.
FRUSCIANTE FOREVER
The magnitude of this leaking comes down to the fact that John Frusciante last worked with the Chili Peppers for their 2006 album Stadium Arcadium. Frusciante decided to leave the band in 2009, being replaced by Josh Klinghoffer until 2019.
For a whole decade, Chili Peppers’ fans have been patiently waiting for the mastermind guitarist to return, and now he finally has.
Frusciante is solely responsible for the sweet licks heard on everyone’s favorite RHCP songs, like “Under the Bridge,” “Californication,” and “Snow (Hey Oh).” He brings appropriate tone, intricate harmonies and vast musicality to the band’s foursome.
With “These Are the Ways,” Frusciante contributed a version of the melody which later became transformed by Kiedis. Kiedis told Apple Music: “I’m never able to recreate his melodies perfectly — he’s just on a different melodic level — so I usually put it through a simplification machine.”
Along with Frusciante, legendary producer Rick Rubin has rejoined the group for their newest release. The last time Rubin worked with the Chili Peppers was for I’m With You in 2011. He’s noted for producing their biggest successes and defining albums including Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Californication.
POLITICAL UNDERTONES OF “THESE ARE THE WAYS”
“These Are the Ways” is a neutral reflection on life in America, according to Anthony Kiedis. And like the melody, the contents and themes of the song aren’t overthought. However, the imagery within the music video overshadows the band’s apolitical stance.
The video, directed by Malia James, shows Kiedis stealing from a convenience store, being caught by police, and then chased by them through strangers’ bedrooms and backyards. This makes the band’s impartiality feel insincere.
Then again, considering the stenographic observations in the chorus’ lyrics, maybe RHCP really isn’t trying to make a statement. “These are the ways when you come from America. The sights, the sounds, the smells” doesn’t say a whole lot. But when paired with a divisive subject like law enforcement, it comes across as conflicted.
“FEELS LIKE COMING HOME”
Political or not, “These Are the Ways” features all the best parts of the Chili Peppers: drummer Chad Smith’s heavy-handed rimshots, Flea’s intuitive bass playing, Frusciante’s remarkable soloing, and, of course, Anthony Kiedis’ bombastic rhyming. As Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos noted in her review of Unlimited Love: “this album feels like coming home.” And that it does. Just like that, the Chili Peppers are back.
Every Monday, our music staff brings you a new Pick of The Week, detailing some of our favorite songs. Check out our previous Picks of the Week here, and make sure to tune in to WERS 88.9FM! | 2022-06-07T15:02:02+00:00 | wers.org | https://wers.org/pick-of-the-week-red-hot-chili-peppers-these-are-the-ways/ |
STOCKHOLM, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Loomis AB has resolved to during the third quarter continue the repurchase of own shares that was initiated earlier this year, by virtue of the authorization granted by the annual general meeting 2022.
The repurchase may commence on July 25, 2022, end not later than on September 28, 2022, and comprise an amount up to a maximum of SEK 200 million. Repurchase shall be made on Nasdaq Stockholm, on one or more occasions, at a price within the prevailing price interval registered at each point in time (being the interval between the highest buying price and the lowest selling price). Payment for repurchased shares shall be made in cash. Nordea Bank Abp will administrate the repurchase and, based on the trading order given by Loomis, take trading decisions independently of Loomis with regard to the timing of the acquisitions.
Reporting will be made via the stock exchange in accordance with applicable rules.
The repurchase is made for the purposes set forth in the general meting's authorization.
The total number of shares in Loomis is 75,279,829 and the company holds 2,257,782 own shares.
This press release is also available on the company's website, www.loomis.com
July 21, 2022
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Summer concerts in Beachwood: The city of Beachwood has announced its schedule of concerts, both outdoor and indoor, for this summer. The city’s community services department has also announced a new name for the series, “Beachwood Beats.”
Outdoor concerts will again take place at the Family Aquatic Center on Tuesdays, while indoor concerts will be held Thursday at the Beachwood Community Center, 25225 Fairmount Blvd. All concerts, outdoors and indoors, will start at 6:30 p.m. and will be free of charge. The series kicks off June 7 with the Beatles tribute band Revolution Pie at the aquatic center.
Other outdoor shows scheduled at the aquatic center are: June 14 -- Hip to That, playing jazzy pop; June 21 -- the swing and blues of Blue Lunch; June 28 -- Masterpiece, performing Motown, funk and R&B; July 5 -- boogie woogie sounds from Red Light Roxy; July 12 -- Billy & The Biscuits performing zydeco and Cajun music; July 19 -- FM77 and sounds of the 70′s; and July 26 -- the big band music of the Dan Zola Orchestra. The July 26 show will also include the annual salute to residents who have marked 50 years of living in Beachwood.
The indoor schedule looks like this: June 9 -- Cliff Habian & Jeff Slater, playing piano and the upright bass, respectively; June 16 -- the Calathea String Quartet & (pianist) Isabel Mearini; June 23 -- Virginia Crabtree & Marshall Griffith, performing on flute and piano, respectively; June 30 -- the string music of Opus 216; July 7 -- pianist Harry Bacharach; July 14 -- pianist Julia Russ; July 21 -- violinist and pianist Mary Beth Ion & Mike Leamons; and July 28 -- pianist Moss Stanley.
CWRU used book sale: The Annual CWRU/ACE Book Sale hasn’t taken place the couple of years, no thanks to COVID. But that just means that the supply of books has accumulated, making for more good finds this year. To check out what’s for sale, plan on being, some time between June 4-7, at Case Western Reserve University’s Adelbert Gym, 2128 Adelbert Road in Cleveland.
You’ll find books about art, literature, history, politics and travel, home, sports and leisure, foreign language, and the rare and unusual, as well as multimedia and paperbacks in 20 categories. To learn more, take a look at the ACE book sale Facebook page.
The sale preview happens from 10 a.m. to noon June 4 (admission is $20). The sale then begins that day (June 4) at noon, and goes to 5 p.m. (no admission is charged).
Then, hours will be noon to 5 p.m. June 5. This will be Shopper Card Coupon Day. Coupons can be found on the Facebook page.
There will be reduced pricing from noon to 5 p.m. June 6, while hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 7.
Juneteenth celebration at Ursuline College: Ursuline College and the city of Pepper Pike are holding a Juneteenth celebration in the college’s academic quad from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 18.
Music will be provided by The Cover Girls and the band Ikembe. The event is free. A traditional Juneteenth meal will be available for $5.
Featured will be vendors, Juneteenth swag, storytelling, a drum circle, face painting, an art station, and more. Juneteenth, which actually takes place June 19, has been made a federal holiday. It celebrates the freeing of enslaved people following the Civil War.
Ursuline College is located at 2550 Lander Road in Pepper Pike.
Taste of Pepper Pike: While we’re on the subject of Pepper Pike, tickets are on sale for it popular Taste of Pepper Pike event, scheduled for 5-8 p.m. June 26. The event is returning for the first time since 2019, again because of COVID.
Nineteen restaurants have signed on to tempt you with their best offerings that you can sample under a big tent. Tickets cost $40 per person and include all food and beverages. The city notes that this is an event for adults.
Purchase tickets online here, or in person, from 7 a.m.to 2 p.m.at the Pepper Pike Service Department, 28000 Shaker Blvd. Taste of Pepper Pike will take place at Ursuline College.
A new brand for Beachwood temple: As part of its 2017-22 strategic plan, Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple set out to develop and launch a strong new brand and presence. At its May 15 annual meeting, the branding -- including a new logo and website, mission and vision statements, and outdoor signage in front of its property, 23737 Fairmount Blvd. -- were unveiled.
The temple’s senior rabbi, Robert Nosanchuk, said that these additions are just the start of what is to come. Temple clergy, in a video created by Steven Hacker Films, explains the changes. You can see that four-minute video here.
College news: Congratulations to University Heights’ Aaron Clements, who was named to the Southern New Hampshire University dean’s list for the winter semester.
Also sue congratulations is Shaker Heights’ Evan Muzilla, a mechanical engineering major, who received his bachelor’s degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts, on May 14.
Meanwhile, those earning dean’s list status for the spring semester at Bowling Green State University are Cleveland Heights’ Danajah Mills and Malachi Jenkins; Shaker Heights’ Amanda Woolley and Lauren Hussell; and Beachwood’s Thomas Ziebro and Kyle Oliver.
And, among those making the dean’s list at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio were Caroline Kiker and Sonia Levin, of Shaker Heights.
Beachwood Arts Council presents “Botanical Resurgence”: The Beachwood Arts Council will sponsor the art exhibit, Botanical Resurgence, from June 1-25 at the Beachwood Community Center, 25225 Fairmount Blvd.
Thirteen artists from Allegheny Highlands Botanical Art Society will display their work, including watercolors, pencil drawings and prints. Through artwork, AHBAS seeks to educate the public about plant diversity, native plant ecology, and conservation. Based in Pittsburgh, the organization includes members from western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia.
Exhibit hours for Botanical Resurgence are 9 a.m.to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. For additional hours, call the city of Beachwood, weekdays, at 216-292-1970. An opening reception will take place from 4-6 p.m. June 4, during which visitors will have an opportunity to meet the artists and watch a painting demonstration.
Both the art exhibit and the reception are free. For more information, call Beachwood Arts Council at 216-595-3400, or visit beachwoodartscouncil.org.
Creating ‘Shared Space’ in Cleveland Heights: The city of Cleveland Heights has rolled out a permanent program that allows the city’s businesses to create temporary “Shared Spaces” for outdoor dining. The program grew out of a 2021 pilot program for approving “parklets” as a tool to help businesses survive the COVID-19 health crisis and give patrons more dining opportunities.
The Shared Spaces program focuses on creating additional private seating areas managed and maintained by private businesses. These spaces are not intended for one-time events, large gathering opportunities or parties. They are meant, instead, to provide additional flexibility for local businesses to activate the area outside their operations during warmer months.
To launch the program, the city added a new Shared Spaces page to its website and published a Shared Spaces Program Application Manual, which leads applicants through the application process for authorization to install a temporary outdoor-dining facility or parklet within the public right-of-way or on private property. Approved outdoor dining facilities may be located on sidewalks or private property, while parklets are to be located in parking lanes adjacent to curbs and are designed to be an extension of the sidewalk.
The Shared Spaces program is for temporary outdoor dining space installations that are intended to be installed no earlier than May 1, and removed no later than Nov. 1 each year. The city has established a renewal process for temporary installations that would re-occur from year to year.
All materials, furniture and barriers used as part of the Shared Spaces program -- whether on private property or in the public right-of-way -- must be easily removable and cannot be affixed to the ground.
“We are still working to recover from the pandemic -- economically, socially and emotionally,” said Mayor Kahlil Seren, in a release. “The city is dedicated to helping find ways to econnect as a community and support our small businesses. Our Shared Spaces program is a big step in the right direction.”
Heights Libraries happenings: The Coventry Village Library will host an author’s chat with Dan Chaon, whose newest newest thriller, SleepWalk, is described by the library as a “high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary.” The event is being held in partnership with Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry. The event will take place outdoors in the PEACE Park, across the street from the library, weather permitting. A book signing will follow.
The event will take place from 2-3 p.m. June 4.Register here.
And, the University Heights Library will host a children’s (up to the age of 11) “Arts and Crafts in the Park” event, from 1:30-2:30 p.m. June 8, at Walter Stinson Park, 2313 Fenwick Road. Register here.
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LONDON (AP) — Detectives in England are investigating an attack in which a man was set on fire as he walked home from a mosque, police said Tuesday. A suspect has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
The West Midlands Police force said the victim was walking home in the central city of Birmingham on Monday when he was approached by a man who sprayed him with an unknown substance, “and then his jacket was set alight, causing burns to his face.”
The victim is hospitalized with serious but not life-threatening injuries, police said.
Chief Superintendent Richard North said police were “keeping an open mind to the motive of the attacker” and that a counterterrorism police unit with “specialist capabilities” was supporting the investigation.
“This is a really serious incident, as I have said, and we are using all the resources that are available to us at this time, and that does include the Counter-Terrorism Unit,” North said.
North said police were working to establish whether there is a link to a similar incident in London. The Metropolitan Police force has said that an 82-year-old man was set alight as he left the West London Islamic Center on Feb. 27.
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The Luxury Retailer Models Its Health Benefits on a "One Size Fits One" Philosophy, Allowing Associates – including Fathers – the Opportunity to Prioritize their Family
DALLAS, June 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In honor of Father's Day on June 19, Neiman Marcus Group ("NMG" or the "Company") is highlighting associate testimonials and stories of "Fathers of All Kinds," from new fathers to father figures, to associates celebrating fathers in their lives. The Company is also spotlighting recent benefit enhancements that support new fathers and promote a healthy work-life balance.
Focused on cultivating a culture of Belonging and supporting associates in all stages of life, NMG is proud to offer 16 weeks of Paid Parental Leave (PPL) as of January 1, 2022, to all associates welcoming a new child – including fathers. This policy is not just applicable to birthing parents, but also covers those welcoming a child by adoption, surrogacy, or foster care.
Further supporting fathers' journeys into parenthood, NMG provides eligible full-time and part-time associates, who have been with the Company for at least a year, with up to $3,000 per year for the process of adoption. The funds can be used towards agency and placement fees, legal expenses, medical expenses, and multiple other related costs.
In addition, NMG also recently announced a new Paid Family Leave program, which will provide two weeks of paid leave for situations requiring an associate to take time off to care for a child, spouse, partner, parent, or other family member, as defined by the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), effective August 1, 2022.
"At NMG, we believe 'one size fits one' when it comes to family, and we offer a variety of medical plans and work schedules that are tailored to the needs of each individual associate and the needs of their family," said Eric Severson, Chief People & Belonging Officer, NMG. "Our Power of One people strategy empowers associates to prioritize themselves and their families in order to make their lives extraordinary."
NMG leads with love through its NMG|Way culture. One of the five components of the luxury retailer's culture is NMG|Way of Working (NMG|WOW) which encourages associates to integrate life and work to accommodate their professional and personal commitments in a way that prioritizes the health and well-being of their families and themselves.
Neiman Marcus Group is a relationship business that leads with love in everything we do for our customers, associates, brand partners, and communities. Our legacy of innovating and our culture of Belonging guide our roadmap for Revolutionizing Luxury Experiences. As one of the largest multi-brand luxury retailers in the U.S., with the world's most desirable brand partners, we're delivering exceptional products and intelligent services, enabled by our investments in data and technology. Through the expertise of our 9,000+ associates, we deliver and scale a personalized luxury experience across our three channels of in-store, eCommerce, and remote selling. Our NMG|Way culture, powered by our people, combines individual talents into a collective strength to make life extraordinary. Our flagship brands include Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. For more information, visit www.neimanmarcusgroup.com.
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Driven by moral outrage over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, U.S. governors and other top state officials made it clear: They wanted to cut their financial ties with Russia.
A few states quickly followed through. Idaho sold $300,000 of bonds in a Russian oil company in early March. A day before the invasion, the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System sold its shares in the Russian bank Sberbank.
But those examples are outliers. Six months into a war that has killed thousands of Ukrainians and displaced over 12 million more, most of the pledges to drop Russian investments — some made with great fanfare during news conferences — have gone unfulfilled, according to an Associated Press review, state retirement administrators and firms that invest state funds.
Swift global reaction has cut off much of Russia's economy from the rest of the world. That has made it nearly impossible for divestment by state pension funds, university endowments and other public-sector holdings — as well as private investments such as those in 401(k) accounts.
“These pension funds want to get out, but it’s just not realistic to sell everything in the current environment,” said Keith Brainard, research director at the National Association of State Retirement Administrators.
Benjamin Smith, a spokesperson for the Rhode Island treasury, said the factors that make it hard to divest also show that a worldwide effort to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin is working.
“This is good news because it means that pressure from investors across the world, including Rhode Island, is succeeding in exacting a toll on the Russian economy, making it more difficult for Putin to fund his military operation, state-owned companies, and corrupt network of oligarchs,” he said in an email, noting that Rhode Island's pension plan exposure in Russia never exceeded 0.3% of its assets.
Any pre-war investments in Russia are now worthless, or nearly so. That's raising questions from some officials and fund managers about whether divesting is even necessary.
In Hawaii, one of a handful of states where top administration officials did not pledge to divest, Gov. David Ige said at a May 5 news conference that the state's employee pension system had “very little to almost nothing” invested in Russia.
“The few remaining investments are quite small, and so I didn’t feel compelled to just make a statement for political reasons that we would be divesting,” he said.
Before Russia's invasion in late February, many government-controlled investments had only small holdings — a fraction of 1% in every reported case — in Russian investments. But even that could amount to millions of dollars.
The largest U.S. public-sector retirement fund, California’s CalPERS, said just 17 cents of every $100 of its portfolio was in Russian investments as the war broke out. Even so, that translated into $765 million worth of stocks, real estate and private equity.
By the end of June, the value had shrunk to $194 million. The entire loss was because the holdings dropped in value; none had been sold.
There is no way to know how much state government entities in the U.S. have invested in Russia or companies based there, but collectively they were worth billions of dollars before the war. Much of the money was invested in Russian government bonds, oil and coal companies as part of emerging-markets index funds.
Quick to condemn the invasion, state officials said they could put pressure on Putin by dumping their Russian investments.
“Our moral imperative before these atrocities demand that you act to address Russia’s aggressions and immediately restrict Russian access to California’s capital and investments,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote in a letter Feb. 28 to the boards overseeing the massive pension funds that serve teachers, state and local government workers and university employees.
Across the country, governors and other top officials made similar statements.
Just after the invasion began, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order calling for divestment “to the extent possible,” while Arizona's Board of Regents voted to exit any Russian investments.
The treasurers for 36 states plus the District of Columbia and U.S. Virgin Islands signed a joint letter in March advocating divestment of publicly controlled funds from Russia. They noted a financial reason for doing so: “The current crisis also constitutes a substantial risk for states’ investments and our economic security.”
A major chunk of the government holdings in Russia are in the form of index funds that investors use to mimic overall stock market performance. Russian stocks were commonly part of funds specializing in emerging markets. MCSI and other firms that decide which stocks should be in the funds quickly dropped Russian securities.
But the companies that sell investment products based on those indexes were left in the lurch, still leaving pieces of Russian stocks in their investors' portfolios.
As part of the sanctions, stock markets in the U.S. and elsewhere stopped the trading of Russian stocks. And the Moscow Stock Exchange was closed for nearly a month, reopening with tight controls that keep U.S. investors from selling.
The assets sank in value amid the invasion, though the precise value isn't always clear.
Maryland said that as of the beginning of February, $197 million of its state retirement and pension system funds were invested in Russian assets. A month later, the state estimated the value had plunged and amounted to just $32 million. The state has been unable to unload its investments.
For the handful of states in which top officials have not endorsed divestment, eroding values like that are a main reason.
Shortly after the invasion, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said the amount of state investments in Russia was “miniscule” and noted that the value was about to “shrink to almost nothing as the Russian economy is being virtually shut off from the world.”
In Florida, Lamar Taylor, the interim executive director of the agency that oversees investments of pension funds, said during a cabinet meeting that some investment managers might seek to unload Russian assets as soon as they’re able, while others could hold on in case they’re worth more later.
At the meeting, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the State Board of Administration has a legal responsibility to try to make money for the retirement system.
“That would violate your fiduciary duty, if you liquidated at massive losses for political reasons rather than for the best interests of the beneficiaries,” he said.
But DeSantis said there was a way to make it easier: Lawmakers passing a bill banning investment in Russia.
“If the Legislature could speak clearly, that would be something we’d welcome here, just to make sure we’re not furthering investments in parts of the world that are not reflective of our interests or values,” he said.
Hank Kim, executive director of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems, said he has told member pension funds that taking steps to divest is important even if it can’t be completed right away.
"The public has a right to know that it was debated in a serious manner,” he said.
___ Mulvihill reported from Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Associated Press writers Kimberly Chandler in Montgomery, Alabama; Amy B. Hanson in Helena, Montana; Kimberlee Kruesi in Nashville, Tennessee; and Audrey McAvoy in Honolulu contributed to this report.
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SAN DIEGO -- Guardians’ right-hander Cal Quantrill could throw a bullpen session on this six-game western swing after being placed on the injured list with a sore right shoulder on June 2.
Second baseman Andres Gimenez, who left Sunday’s game against Houston with a sore left hamstring, was not in the lineup Tuesday against San Diego. Manager Terry Francona said that Gimenez should be back in the lineup on Wednesday.
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“Cal is doing good,” said Francona. “He’s on this trip and we’re trying to figure out what day he’ll throw a bullpen (session) on. It should be fairly soon.”
Quantrill said he’s been dealing with soreness in the shoulder since late last year.
“At the end of last year, it wasn’t perfect, but I had the offseason to get back to where I wanted to be,” said Quantrill. “I thought we had it in a good spot for the first two or three starts this season, but the last month and a half just hasn’t been good.
“I wasn’t able to get the quality of work between starts that I think is necessary, and I suffered because of it.”
Quantrill (2-4, 5.61) lost his last two starts allowing 14 runs on 12 hits in 8 1/3 innings.
“It wasn’t all my shoulder,” said Quantrill. “I just wasn’t making good pitches. It just seemed like the right time. We’ve got to go solve this issue and make sure when I step out on the field, I’m giving the team a chance to win.
“It was the right time to do it. Maybe I wish I wouldn’t have waited quite so long. But it is what it is.”
Quantrill pitched for Canada in the World Baseball Classic during spring training. He did not think that played a part in his injury.
“No, like I said I had a good offseason,” said Quantrill. “I had it in a spot where we were OK with it. But as the season got going, I let it get a little too far. I take a lot of pride in taking the ball every fifth day. It’s something to learn from and I’m lucky that it wasn’t anything structural.”
Tyler Freeman started at second in place of Gimenez on Tuesday.
“Andres is doing pretty good,” said Francona. “James (Quinlan, trainer) said he’s about 95%, which is better than expected. So we’re going to let him run and take BP. He’ll play Wednesday, but we just felt it made more sense to give him another day.”
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As Walmart CEO warns of crime wave's impact on retail, reports show how thieves brazenly rip off stores
Businesses across the country have been battered by crime this year, including retail behemoth Walmart. As shoppers flock to stores this holiday season, even Walmart’s CEO warned this month that the uptick in crimes need to end or consumers could see higher prices and even stores shutting down.
"Theft is an issue. It’s higher than what it has historically been," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon told CNBC’s "Squawk Box" earlier this month. He added that if the crime wave is not halted soon and if prosecutors don't bring charges against shoplifters, "prices will be higher, and/or stores will close."
Crime has weighed heavily on retailers across the country this year, ballooning to a $100 billion problem, the National Retail Federation reported earlier this year. Walmart competitor Target reported this year that shoplifting incidents have increased 50% year over year, causing $400 million in losses.
Some criminals, however, have gotten even more creative and bolder than shoplifting just a few items in well-known and relied upon stores such as Walmart, reports show.
WALMART CEO DOUG MCMILLON SAYS THEFT IS 'HIGHER THAN WHAT IT HAS HISTORICALLY BEEN'
This month, a pair of Pennsylvania residents were busted by police for participating in a multi-state Walmart crime spree that has left the store with at least $25,000 in losses.
Police were called to a Walmart location in Clearfield, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 5 and arrested 37-year-old Tammi Koch, who is accused of repeatedly filling shopping carts with items ranging from baby clothes to computer accessories and brazenly walking out the doors of the stores. Police also arrested 21-year-old John Setser in the scheme, and authorities say there are other suspects in the case.
Koch would allegedly fill a shopping cart with goods, then pass the cart off to Sester in the self-checkout line to subvert security at the stores and then simply walk out with the merchandise.
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In another case last month, a couple managed to confuse a Walmart cashier and stole more than $6,000 in merchandise and gift cards, according to authorities. They allegedly went to the checkout line with a cart full of expensive merchandise, and tricked the cashier into believing they paid by using multiple credit cards and then asked the cashier to use the "cash" button to ostensibly make a credit card work. The sale was then rung up as a cash payment so that no card was charged.
In Texas, a man described as a "magician" by local police managed to steal $2,700 from Walmart cashiers with "a quick-change scheme" in two separate incidents in January and February.
The scheme is when criminals use large bills for inexpensive products at checkout, and when the cashier hands back the change, the criminal will slip some of the money into their pocket and tell the cashier they miscounted. The cashier will then recount the money and make up the difference that the thief has already taken.
Walmart employees and customers have recently pointed to self-checkout lanes as helping fuel the theft surges. Dishonest people are reportedly using the lack of supervision at self-checkout lanes to slip unpaid merchandise into their carts and walking out of the stores.
"Theft is horrible at my store," an anonymous Walmart employee in Spokane, Washington, told Insider this month. "If corporate actually visited at the store level and spoke with actual employees that deal with the theft, they might see how to fix the problem.
"They are converting stores to more self-checkouts with less employees. Self-checkout is where most theft happens."
A Walmart representative told Insider the store is "continually exploring effective ways to protect merchandise, keep prices low and provide a safe environment for the millions of customers we serve weekly."
Thefts aren’t the only crimes that unfold at Walmarts.
FLORIDA MAN BUSTED AFTER TRYING TO STEAL FROM WALMART FILLED WITH COPS: 'BAD IDEA, BRAD'
There have been at least three shootings at Walmart locations in the last month, including a mass shooting carried out by a Walmart employee.
Chesapeake, Virginia, Walmart supervisor Andre Bing shot and killed six employees at the store in November. The big box store had investigated Bing two years prior to the tragedy for his odd behavior.
"Andre did a lot of weird things," former co-worker Nathan Sinclair said, according to the New York Post. "Andre was an aggressive person."
Andre Bing, 31, of Chesapeake, Virginia. (Chesapeake Police Department)
Days after the shooting in Virginia, a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in a Walmart parking lot.
On Dec. 7, shots rang out at a suburban Atlanta Walmart near the store’s automotive repair center. Two groups of people reportedly got into a dispute at the Walmart, leading to one person getting shot.
A security consultant and former police chief, Mike Jones, told WRIC following the fatal shooting of the 17-year-old in Virginia that "parking lots are the Wild West of the retail market."
"You need to be very careful when you go in there, especially this time of year," Jones said. "Take those extra few seconds to look around. Familiarize yourself with your environment and who and what is out there."
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Fox News Digital reached out to Walmart about its security measures, but did not receive a response by time of publication.
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Walmart has a slew of security measures in place to prevent theft and violence, according to a review of its website. The company has teams of security analysts who work to identify threats and vulnerabilities in their stores, as well as investigators who look into crime and fraud and security risk managers who assess the stores.
"We’ve got safety measures, security measures that we’ve put in place by store location. I think local law enforcement being staffed and being a good partner is part of that equation, and that’s normally how we approach it," Walmart CEO McMillon added in his interview with CNBC.
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MILAN (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo simply took over with the game on the line.
And as usual, he did it on both ends of the floor.
Antetokounmpo scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds, Tyler Dorsey also finished with 27 points and Greece held off Croatia 89-85 in the opening Group C game for both teams at the EuroBasket tournament on Friday.
“Giannis, he did his job," Croatia coach Damir Mulaomerovic said.
That he did, especially in the final moments.
Croatia had the ball, trailing 84-82, with 57 seconds left when Ivica Zubac tried to score from down low. Antetokounmpo blocked that shot, then got a dunk on the ensuing Greece possession to push his team's lead out to four.
Jaleen Smith tried a 3-pointer with 10 seconds left to get Croatia within one, but Antetokounmpo blocked that as well — then got a three-point play the other way to clinch the game with 4.9 seconds remaining.
Smith had 23 points for Croatia, which got 19 from Bojan Bogdanovic, 18 from Krunoslav Simon, 11 from Zubac and 10 from Mario Hezonja. Croatia scored the game's first seven points, then got outscored 40-14 on the way to falling behind by 19 before trying to rally.
Dario Saric, who hasn't appeared in an NBA game since hurting his right knee in Game 1 of the 2021 NBA Finals for Phoenix, played for Croatia but missed all six of his shot attempts.
Dimitrios Agravanis scored 11 for Greece.
GROUP C
ITALY 83, ESTONIA 62
Simone Fontecchio scored 19 points to lead a balanced attack, and Italy built a 19-point lead by halftime on the way to an easy opening win.
Nicolo Melli scored 17, while Achille Polonara finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds for Iraly. Nico Mannion added 12 points and Luigi Datome scored 11 for the winners.
Kerr Kriisa led all scorers with 20 points for Estonia.
UKRAINE 90, GREAT BRITAIN 61
Svi Mykhailiuk scored 17 points, Alex Len added 13 and Ukraine rolled in its EuroBasket opener.
Bogdan Bliznyuk and Illya Sydorov each scored 10 points for Ukraine, which forced 20 turnovers and turned them into 24 points. Ukraine shot 45% to Great Britain's 33%.
Luke Nelson scored 16 for Great Britain, while Myles Hesson and Gabriel Olaseni each scored 10.
GROUP D
SERBIA 100, NETHERLANDS 76
At Prague, two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic scored 19 points for Serbia, while Vanja Marinkovic had 18 and Vasilije Micic finished with 15 points and 12 rebounds.
Serbia also got 11 points from Dusan Ristic and 10 from Nikola Kalinic.
Worthy De Jong led the Netherlands with 28 points on 11 of 14 shooting. Keye van der Vuurst de Vries added 11 points.
ISRAEL 89, FINLAND 87, OT
Israel rallied from an early 14-point deficit to win its opener behind a 23-point, 15-rebound effort from Deni Avdija.
Tomer Ginat scored 13 for Israel, which got 10 points apiece from Nimrod Levi and Guy Pnini, plus 10 assists from Tamir Blatt.
Lauri Markkanen had 33 points and 12 rebounds for Finland. Alexander Madsen scored 13 and Edon Maxhuni added 11.
Neither team led by more than six points over the game's final 18 1/2 minutes.
POLAND 99, CZECH REPUBLIC 84
Mateusz Ponitka scored 26 points, A.J. Slaughter added 23 and Poland led most of the way against the host Czechs.
Aleksander Balcerowski scored 14 points, Michal Sokolowski finished with 12 and Michal Michalak had 10 for Poland.
Jan Vesely led the Czech Republic with 17 points, while Jaromir Bohacik had 13 and Patrick Auda added 10.
SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE
All 24 teams in the tournament are in action Saturday.
At Tbilisi, Georgia, in Group A, Montenegro (0-1) meets Belgium (1-0), Bulgaria (0-1) faces Turkey (1-0) and Georgia (0-1) plays Spain (1-0).
Group B, at Cologne, Germany, has Germany (1-0) against Bosnia and Herzegovina (1-0), Lithuania (0-1) facing France (0-1), and Hungary (0-1) playing Slovenia (1-0).
In Group C, at Milan, Great Britain (0-1) plays Croatia (0-1), Estonia (0-1) meets Ukraine (1-0) and Greece (1-0) faces Italy (1-0).
And in Group D, at Prague, Finland (0-1) faces Poland (1-0), the Czech Republic (0-1) meets Serbia (1-0) and the Netherlands (0-1) then plays Israel (1-0).
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Ahead of its grand opening next month, SeaWorld Orlando has released a new video showing what riders can expect on the anticipated new attraction, “Pipeline: The Surf Coaster.”
The attraction, which is currently scheduled to open next month, will take guests on an incredible journey with five different airtime moments as it races up to heights of 110 feet in the air.
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The virtual POV video shows the surfboard style trains racing along the 2,950-feet of track. Leaders said the ride will blast out of the attraction’s station at 60 miles per hour where it will hit its first surfing maneuver and into an impressive “hammerhead wave.” The 110-second ride will then send riders into several back and forth surfing-style cutbacks, maneuvers, a splash down experience and an impressive 360-degree inversion.
When the attraction opens, Pipeline will become SeaWorld Orlando’s seventh coaster as the park.
SeaWorld Orlando’s annual passholders will be among the first riders to access to “Pipeline: The Surf Coaster” when it opens this spring. The minimum height requirement is 54 inches, and the maximum height is 78 inches.
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Still time to save: Today’s 30-year mortgage rates hold steady | Jan. 30, 2023
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Check out the mortgage rates for Jan. 30, 2023, which are largely unchanged from last Friday. (Credible)
Based on data compiled by Credible, mortgage rates for home purchases have risen for one key term and remained unchanged for three other terms since last Friday.
- 30-year fixed mortgage rates: 6.625%, unchanged
- 20-year fixed mortgage rates: 6.500%, unchanged
- 15-year fixed mortgage rates: 6.375%, up from 6.250%, +0.125
- 10-year fixed mortgage rates: 6.625%, unchanged
Rates last updated on Jan. 30, 2023. These rates are based on the assumptions shown here. Actual rates may vary. Credible, a personal finance marketplace, has 5,000+ Trustpilot reviews with an average star rating of 4.7 (out of a possible 5.0).
What this means: Mortgage rates for home purchases were largely stable over the weekend, except for 15-year rates, which edged up. Still, homebuyers who want to save the most on interest may want to consider a 15-year term today: Rates for this mid-length repayment term are a quarter of a percentage point lower than rates for 10- and 30-year terms. Though shorter terms come with a higher monthly payment, they offer the most interest savings and allow buyers to pay off their mortgages much sooner.
To find great mortgage rates, start by using Credible’s secured website, which can show you current mortgage rates from multiple lenders without affecting your credit score. You can also use Credible’s mortgage calculator to estimate your monthly mortgage payments.
Based on data compiled by Credible, mortgage refinance rates are mixed today, with two key rates falling, one rising and another holding steady since last Friday.
- 30-year fixed-rate refinance: 6.500%, down from 6.750%, -0.250
- 20-year fixed-rate refinance: 6.125%, down from 6.375%, -0.250
- 15-year fixed-rate refinance: 6.125%, unchanged
- 10-year fixed-rate refinance: 6.375%, up from 6.250%, +0.125
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What this means: Mortgage refinance rates fell for 20- and 30-year terms over the weekend, giving homeowners an opportunity to save a bit on interest. At 6.125%, homeowners looking to refinance into a longer repayment term may want to consider 20-year rates, which are more than a quarter of a percentage point lower than rates for a 30-year term. But homeowners who can manage a larger monthly payment will stand to see greater interest savings with a 15-year term.
How mortgage rates have changed over time
Today’s mortgage interest rates are well below the highest annual average rate recorded by Freddie Mac — 16.63% in 1981. A year before the COVID-19 pandemic upended economies across the world, the average interest rate for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage for 2019 was 3.94%. The average rate for 2021 was 2.96%, the lowest annual average in 30 years.
The historic drop in interest rates means homeowners who have mortgages from 2019 and older could potentially realize significant interest savings by refinancing with one of today’s lower interest rates. When considering a mortgage refinance or purchase, it’s important to take into account closing costs such as appraisal, application, origination and attorney’s fees. These factors, in addition to the interest rate and loan amount, all contribute to the cost of a mortgage.
How Credible mortgage rates are calculated
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The rates assume a borrower has a 740 credit score and is borrowing a conventional loan for a single-family home that will be their primary residence. The rates also assume no (or very low) discount points and a down payment of 20%.
Credible mortgage rates reported here will only give you an idea of current average rates. The rate you actually receive can vary based on a number of factors.
How to get low mortgage rates
If you want to get the lowest possible monthly mortgage payment, taking the following steps can help you secure a lower rate on your home loan:
- Improving your credit score
- Paying down debt
- Making a bigger down payment
It’s also a good idea to compare rates from different lenders to find the best rate for your financial goals. According to research from Freddie Mac, borrowers can save $1,500 on average over the life of their loan by shopping for just one additional rate quote — and an average of $3,000 by comparing five rate quotes.
If you’re trying to find the right mortgage rate, consider using Credible. You can use Credible's free online tool to easily compare multiple lenders and see prequalified rates in just a few minutes.
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The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol says it is considering “next steps” after former President Trump failed to appear for his Monday deposition following a subpoena last month.
In a joint statement from Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the panel bashed Trump for filing a lawsuit Friday challenging the subpoena, accusing him of “hiding” after he was compelled to appear for testimony Monday.
“Even though the former President initially suggested that he would testify before the committee, he has since filed a lawsuit asking the courts to protect him from giving testimony. His attorneys have made no attempt to negotiate an appearance of any sort, and his lawsuit parades out many of the same arguments that courts have rejected repeatedly over the last year,” the two said in a statement.
“The truth is that Donald Trump, like several of his closest allies, is hiding from the Select Committee’s investigation and refusing to do what more than a thousand other witnesses have done,” they added.
The committee has in other cases extended deadlines for those who have engaged with it, and it has likewise acted swiftly in cases where people have defied subpoenas, including forwarding votes to hold those such as former White House strategist Stephen Bannon in contempt of Congress.
“In the days ahead, the committee will evaluate next steps in the litigation and regarding the former president’s noncompliance,” Thompson and Cheney wrote.
It’s unclear if the committee would move to hold Trump in contempt of Congress while Democrats remain in control during the lame-duck session or if the Department of Justice (DOJ) would pursue the recommendation.
But the justice system in this instance won’t move swiftly enough to aid the committee, which is due to sunset at the end of this Congress and holds little chance of being revived by Republicans should they overtake the House, as is expected after last week’s midterm elections.
The suit initiated by Trump will take months at a minimum to move through the courts, as would any prosecution from the DOJ.
The Justice Department, however, has two ongoing investigations involving Trump, one probing Jan. 6 and the other his role in mishandling national security information by transporting government records to Mar-a-Lago.
The committee subpoenaed Trump in its last hearing on Oct. 13.
“He is the one person at the center of the story of what happened on Jan. 6. So we want to hear from him. The committee needs to do everything in our power to tell the most complete story possible and provide recommendations to help ensure that nothing like Jan. 6 ever happens again. We need to be fair and thorough in getting the full context for the evidence we’ve obtained,” Thompson said at the time.
The next day, Trump issued a 14-page response, trumpeting many of his earlier false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. | 2022-11-15T01:47:38+00:00 | qcnews.com | https://www.qcnews.com/hill-politics/jan-6-panel-weighs-next-steps-after-trump-fails-to-show-for-deposition/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge refused Friday to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban, keeping the case inching toward a final decision in a perennial presidential battleground state where abortion has become a key issue.
Wisconsin lawmakers enacted statutes outlawing abortion in all cases except to save the mother's life in 1849, a year after the territory became a state. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nullified the ban, but legislators never repealed it. Then, the high court's decision last June to overturn Roe v. Wade reactivated the statutes.
The state's Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, has vowed to restore abortion access. He filed a lawsuit in Dane County days after Roe v. Wade was overturned, seeking to repeal the ban.
Kaul argues that the ban is too old to enforce and that a 1985 law that permits abortions before a fetus can survive outside the womb supersedes the ban. Three doctors later joined the lawsuit as plaintiffs, saying they fear being prosecuted for performing abortions.
Kaul has named district attorneys in the three counties where abortion clinics operated until the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade as defendants. One of them, Sheboygan County's Republican district attorney, Joel Urmanski, filed a motion seeking to dismiss the case in December.
Urmanski maintained that it's a stretch to argue that the ban is so old it can no longer be enforced and that the 1985 law and the ban complement each other. Since the newer law outlaws abortions post-viability, it simply gives prosecutors another charging option, he contends.
Kaul's attorneys have countered that the two laws are in conflict and doctors need to know where they stand.
Dane County Circuit Judge Diane Schlipper explained in a written ruling denying Urmanski's dismissal motion that she interprets the 1849 law as prohibiting people from killing fetuses by assaulting or battering the mother. The law doesn't apply to consensual abortion, she wrote.
Andrew Phillips and Jacob Curtis, two of Urmanski's attorneys, didn't immediately respond to emails seeking comment on the decision.
The ruling means that the lawsuit will continue in Schlipper's courtroom. Regardless of how the judge ultimately rules, the case carries so much weight for the future of the state that it almost certainly will rise to the state Supreme Court, which is exactly where Democrats want it.
Liberal justices will control the court with a 4-3 majority after progressive Janet Protasiewicz is sworn in on Aug. 1. She stopped short on the campaign trail of saying how she would rule on a challenge to the 1849 ban but said repeatedly she supports abortion rights.
Evers tweeted Friday that Schlipper's decision to allow the case to continue is “good news and a critical step” toward restoring reproductive rights. | 2023-07-09T10:42:08+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/news/wisconsin-judge-lawsuit-to-repeal-abortion-ban-can-continue/article_58f4736e-1cfb-11ee-91d1-7bb757e28da1.html |
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry is expected to testify in a London courtroom in June in one of his phone hacking lawsuits against British tabloids, lawyers said Wednesday.
A trial in a case involving the Duke of Sussex and three others against the publisher of The Mirror is due to start May 9 in the High Court and last six to seven weeks.
While the trial begins three days after the coronation of his father, King Charles III, Harry is is not expected to take the witness stand until early or mid-June, according to a preliminary schedule of witnesses. It’s not clear if Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, will attend the coronation.
Harry’s testimony will be the second time he’s been in the High Court in three months after his surprise appearance last week in a similar case.
Harry sat through parts of three days of hearings to see if the phone hacking suit he brought with Elton John, actresses Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, and others survives a legal challenge by the publisher of The Daily Mail.
His presence in court for the dense legal arguments indicated the importance of the case to Harry in his broader battle against the British press. He has several lawsuits against the news media and has said he wants to reform the tabloid press as part of his life’s work.
British tabloid publishers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims dating back well over a decade that journalists and private investigators hired by them hacked the voicemails of celebrities, politicians and others in the public eye.
The case against Mirror Group Newspapers alleges that Harry’s voicemail messages were intercepted.
The Mirror publisher is contesting the claims and argues they were brought too late.
The May trial is a test case by four claimants against the Mirror out of a larger group of well-known people who sued the publisher.
Other claimants are Coronation Street actress Nikki Sanderson, comedian Paul Whitehouse’s ex-wife, Fiona Wightman, and actor Michael Turner. | 2023-04-05T19:55:02+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/prince-harry-due-to-testify-in-phone-hacking-case-in-june/ |
Pingy is always up for a challenge. It is constantly seeking opportunities to play strong competition. It doesn’t always come to fruition all the time, the Big Blue don’t back down.
This fall, Pingry wasn’t thought of as the best team in the state. Having lost to Marlboro in the Tournament of Champions final a year ago and with the Mustangs bringing nearly their whole team back, Marlboro began the year at No. 1 and Pingry was No. 2. The two remained in those spots all season until now. | 2022-11-07T13:11:43+00:00 | nj.com | https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/11/pingry-is-the-njcom-girls-tennis-team-of-the-year-2022.html |
Dream vs. Mystics Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - July 30
The Atlanta Dream (13-11) welcome in the Washington Mystics (12-11) after Allisha Gray scored 25 points in the Dream's 95-84 loss to the Liberty. The game airs on ESPN3, NBCS-DC, Monumental, and BSSO at 3:00 PM ET on Sunday, July 30, 2023.
Bookmakers have not yet set a line for this matchup.
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Dream vs. Mystics Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 3:00 PM ET
- Where: Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia
- TV: ESPN3, NBCS-DC, Monumental, and BSSO
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Dream vs. Mystics Score Prediction
Prediction: Mystics 82 Dream 77
Spread & Total Prediction for Dream vs. Mystics
- Computer Predicted Spread: Washington (-4.6)
- Computer Predicted Total: 158.5
Dream vs. Mystics Spread & Total Insights
- Atlanta has 13 wins in 23 games against the spread this year.
- Atlanta has played 23 games this year, and 12 of them have gone over the total.
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Dream Performance Insights
- The Dream are fourth in the WNBA with 85.0 points per game this season. At the other end of the court, they rank ninth with 85.1 points allowed per game.
- Although Atlanta is allowing 35.9 rebounds per game (second-worst in WNBA), it ranks third-best in the league by collecting 37.0 boards per contest.
- While the Dream rank in the bottom five in the WNBA in turnovers per game with 14.3 (third-worst), they rank sixth in the league with 13.2 forced turnovers per contest.
- The Dream are draining 7.1 threes per game (seventh-ranked in WNBA) this season, while owning a 35.5% three-point percentage (fourth-ranked).
- The Dream are allowing 7.5 treys per game this year (seventh-ranked in WNBA), and they are allowing a 32.7% three-point percentage (third-best).
- Atlanta is attempting 49.5 two-pointers per game this year, which account for 71.3% of the shots it has taken (and 76.5% of the team's baskets). Meanwhile, it is attempting 20.0 treys per contest, which are 28.7% of its shots (and 23.5% of the team's buckets).
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent who took more than $1.4 million in cash and diamonds to trade secrets with Moscow in one of the most notorious spying cases in American history, died in prison Monday.
Hanssen, 79, was found unresponsive in his cell at a federal prison in Florence, Colorado, and later pronounced dead, prison officials said. He is believed to have died of natural causes, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The person was not authorized to publicly discuss details of Hanssen’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
He had been serving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole since 2002, after pleading guilty to 15 counts of espionage and other charges.
Hanssen had divulged a wealth of information about American intelligence-gathering, including extensive detail about how U.S. officials had tapped into Russian spy operations, since at least 1985.
He was believed to have been partly responsible for the deaths of at least three Soviet officers who were working for U.S. intelligence and executed after being exposed.
He got more than $1.4 million in cash, bank funds, diamonds and Rolex watches in exchange for providing highly classified national security information to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
He didn’t adopt an obviously lavish lifestyle, instead living in a modest suburban home in Virginia with his family of six children and driving a Taurus and minivan.
Hanssen would later say he was motivated by money rather than ideology, but a letter written to his Soviet handlers in 1985 explains a large payoff could have caused complications because he could not spend it without setting off warning bells.
Using the alias “Ramon Garcia,” he passed some 6,000 documents and 26 computer disks to his handlers, authorities said. They detailed eavesdropping techniques, helped to confirm the identity of Russian double agents, and spilled other secrets. Officials also believed he tipped off Moscow to a secret tunnel the Americans built under the Soviet Embassy in Washington for eavesdropping.
He went undetected for years, but later investigations found missed red flags. After he became the focus of a hunt for a Russian mole, Hanssen was caught taping a garbage bag full of secrets to the underside of a footbridge in a park in a “dead drop” for Russian handlers.
The story was made into a movie titled “Breach” in 2007, staring Chris Cooper as Hanssen and Ryan Phillippe as a young bureau operative who helps bring him down.
The FBI has been notified of Hanssen’s death, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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Associated Press writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report. | 2023-06-05T22:46:42+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/politics/former-fbi-agent-robert-hanssen-who-was-convicted-of-spying-for-russia-dies-in-prison/ |
MINNEAPOLIS, M.N. (KELO) — Meanwhile, a southern Minnesota city is under a flood warning.
Northfield is already seeing some standing water.
The snow melt is feeding the rushing waters of the Cannon River, which runs right through the city.
The river is expected to keep rising overnight. The National Weather Service says river cities south of Saint Paul could also start to see flooding soon. | 2023-04-04T20:02:03+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/minnesota-city-prepares-for-possible-flooding/ |
Classified documents keep showing up where they shouldn’t be.
The discovery of documents with classified markings at former Vice President Mike Pence's home in Indiana follows the revelation of classified materials at President Joe Biden's Delaware home and former office — and the seizure last year of hundreds of documents marked classified from Mar-a-Lago, the Florida residence of former President Donald Trump.
A look at similarities and differences among the various situations:
HOW MANY CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
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PENCE: “A small number of documents bearing classified markings” were discovered last week at Pence's home north of Indianapolis, Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, wrote in a Jan. 18 letter to the National Archives and Records Administration shared with The Associated Press.
In all, four boxes containing copies of administration papers — two in which “a small number” of papers bearing classified markings were found, and two containing “courtesy copies of vice presidential papers” — were discovered, according to Jacob. The discovery came almost two years after Pence left office.
BIDEN: It's unclear precisely how many classified papers have been recovered from Biden's home and former office. Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, said earlier this month that “a small number of documents with classified markings” were discovered on Nov. 2, 2022, in a locked closet at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, a think tank in Washington, as Biden's personal attorneys were clearing out the offices.
Sauber said Jan. 12 that a second batch of documents with classified markings — a “small number," he said — had been found in a storage space in Biden's garage near Wilmington, Delaware, along with one document located in Biden's personal library in his home. Days later, Sauber clarified that six pages, not a single one, had been found in the library.
During a nearly 13-hour search on Jan. 20, FBI agents searching Biden’s Delaware home located six additional items that contained documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes, the president’s lawyer, Bob Bauer, said Saturday.
TRUMP: Roughly 300 documents with classification markings — including some at the top secret level — have been recovered from Trump since he left office in January 2021.
In January 2022, the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents, telling Justice Department officials they contained “a lot” of classified material. In August, FBI agents took more than 33 boxes and containers totaling 11,000 documents from Mar-a-Lago, including roughly 100 with classification markings found in a storage room and an office.
HOW QUICKLY WERE THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TURNED OVER?
PENCE: Jacob said the records were discovered on Jan. 16, secured in a locked safe and retrieved by FBI agents on Jan. 19. The four boxes of papers were delivered to the Archives on Jan. 23.
BIDEN: After the materials were discovered at the think tank on Nov. 2, Biden's personal attorneys immediately alerted the White House counsel's office, which notified the National Archives, Sauber said. The Archives took custody of the documents the next day.
Biden’s personal lawyers then began examining other locations where records might have been shipped after Biden left the vice presidency in 2017. They found documents on Dec. 20 in his Wilmington garage and on Jan. 11 and 12 in his home library.
Sauber said that the Justice Department was “immediately notified” and took custody of the records.
On Jan. 20, Biden voluntarily allowed the FBI to search his Wilmington home, where additional documents were located.
TRUMP: A Trump representative told the National Archives December 2021 that presidential records had been found at Mar-a-Lago, nearly a year after Trump left office. Fifteen boxes of records containing some classified material were transferred to the Archives in January.
A few months later, investigators from the Justice Department and FBI visited Mar-a-Lago to get more information about classified materials taken to Florida. Federal officials served a subpoena for some documents believed to be at the estate.
In August 2022, FBI agents conducting a search retrieved 33 boxes from Mar-a-Lago while executing a warrant that showed they were investigating possible crimes including the willful retention of national defense information and efforts to obstruct the federal probe.
The search came after lawyers for Trump provided a sworn certification that all government records had been returned.
WHAT ABOUT POSSIBLE CHARGES?
PENCE AND BIDEN: There is no indication either was aware of the existence of the records before they were found and turned over.
It appears both sides turned over the records quickly, without intent to conceal. That’s important because the Justice Department historically looks for willfulness, or an intent to mishandle government secrets, in deciding whether to bring criminal charges.
In Biden's case, even if the Justice Department were to find the case prosecutable on the evidence, its Office of Legal Counsel has concluded that a president is immune from prosecution during his time in office. Former special counsel Robert Mueller cited that guidance in deciding not to reach a conclusion on whether Trump should face charges as part of his investigation into coordination between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
On Jan. 12, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to investigate the discovery of documents in Biden's possession. Robert Hur, the former Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Maryland, will lead the investigation.
TRUMP: The former president possibly faces exposure for obstruction over the protracted battle to retrieve the documents. And, since he's no longer in office, he wouldn't be afforded protections from possible prosecution.
In November, Garland appointed Jack Smith, a veteran war crimes prosecutor with a background in public corruption probes, to lead investigations into Trump's retention of classified documents, as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.
WHAT HAVE THE THREE MEN HAD TO SAY?
PENCE: In August, Pence told The Associated Press that he did not take any classified information with him when he left office, answering, “No, not to my knowledge” when asked directly if he had retained any such information.
As vice president, Pence would have had the power to declassify some documents, though he hasn’t said that he did.
BIDEN: Biden said earlier this month that he was “surprised to learn" that documents had been found at his think tank. He said he didn't know what was in the material but took classified documents “very seriously.”
His team did what they should have done,” Biden said. “They immediately called the Archives.”
Biden told reporters at the White House Jan. 12 that he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Department investigation into how classified information and government records were stored.
TRUMP: Trump, who had the ability when he was president to declassify documents, has contended at times that he did so regarding the documents that he took with him — though he has provided no evidence of that. He said in a Fox News interview in September that a president can declassify material “even by thinking about it.”
The former president has called the Mar-a-Lago search an “unannounced raid” that was “not necessary or appropriate” and represented “dark times for our nation.”
WHAT ARE THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS?
PENCE: As he lays the groundwork for a possible 2024 White House bid, the document discovery thrusts Pence into the debate over the handling of secret materials by officials who have served in the highest ranks of government. He had previously insisted that he followed stringent protocols regarding classified documents.
BIDEN: His document disclosure could intensify criticism by Republicans and others who say that if Trump is guilty of anything, so is he.
There are also possible ramifications in a new, GOP-controlled Congress where Republicans are promising to launch widespread investigations of Biden’s administration.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, has said, “I think Congress has to investigate this." The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Ohio Rep. Mike Turner, has requested that intelligence agencies conduct a “damage assessment” of potentially classified documents.
TRUMP: The documents probe is one of many that complicate the former president's bid for the White House in 2024, particularly after it became clear that the DOJ had launched a criminal investigation into the retention of top secret government information.
Trump and his supporters have described the Mar-a-Lago search as a partisan attack from Democrats.
During his 2024 campaign launch in November, at the same club agents had searched months earlier, Trump cast himself as “a victim” of wayward prosecutors and “festering, rot and corruption of Washington.”
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Christmas tree farm helps ministry spread holiday cheer to families in need
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Wichita-area tree farm teamed up with a local ministry to spread holiday cheer to families in need. Prairie Pines Christmas Tree Farm donated a number of fresh-cut trees to His Helping Hands, a community-service ministry run by Central Christian Church in northeast Wichita. The group offered Christmas trees free of charge to anyone wanting one.
His Helping Hand provides help to families in need through a variety of services, including outreach efforts that provide necessity items including clothing and furniture. Recently, the ministry received a donation of mattress sets, as well as bedding and toys. You can learn more about the distribution process for His Helping Hands and how those interested in volunteering can contribute on the ministry’s website: https://www.ccc.org/hishelpinghands.
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NEW YORK, April 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS) between March 10, 2022 and March 20, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the pendency of a securities class action lawsuit. The Class Period was expanded to include more investors. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 8, 2023.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Credit Suisse securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Credit Suisse class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=12359 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 8, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) contrary to Defendant Lehmann's representations in December 2022, the sharp increase in customer outflows Credit Suisse began experiencing in October 2022 remained ongoing; (2) accordingly, Credit Suisse had downplayed the impact of the Company's recent series of quarterly losses and risk and compliance failures on liquidity and its ability to retain client funds; (3) as a result, Credit Suisse had overstated the Company's financial position and/or prospects; and (4) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
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Two adults were killed and a child was seriously injured in a shooting during a domestic disturbance early Sunday morning in Jasper County, Indiana, according to authorities.
At around 1 a.m., deputies with the Jasper County Sheriff's Office were notified of a "rolling domestic disturbance," the sheriff's department said in a Facebook post. Deputies later obtained information that led them to a home about five miles south of Wheatfield, authorities said. Wheatfield is a town about 20 miles north of Rensselaer.
Once deputies arrived at the home, they immediately heard gunshots and went inside to find a man and woman who had been shot. The woman died at the scene while the man was taken to an area hospital where he later died, authorities said.
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A child, whose age hasn't been released, was found outside the residence, suffering from gunshot wounds. She was transported to an area hospital in critical condition, according to police.
Sheriff's deputies are continuing to investigate, but say the incident was isolated and that there remains no ongoing threat to the community. | 2023-03-26T22:46:14+00:00 | nbcchicago.com | https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/jasper-county-shooting-wheatfield-domestic-disturbance/3104308/ |
BOSTON and PARIS, Sept. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Shift Technology, a provider of AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions for the global insurance industry today announced the formation of the company's Healthcare Advisory Board and the appointment of Seema Verma, the former administrator for Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as a strategic advisor to the company and the inaugural member of the Healthcare Advisory Board. The Shift Healthcare Advisory Board will help the company address the key issues facing the healthcare payor system, and support the continued development of the technology solutions required to solve these complex challenges.
According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA), the impact of healthcare fraud in the United States could be close to $300 billion. When considering other forms of waste and abuse, the total is estimated to be over $1.5 trillion. Through the company's Healthcare Improper Payment Detection solution, Shift is working to mitigate the impact of FWA in both private and public healthcare payor organizations. Shift's AI-native improper payment detection platform leverages advanced data science techniques to allow for the discovery of a significantly higher percentage of FWA, with greater accuracy and efficiency. The platform leverages sophisticated AI and ML healthcare models, built on internal and external data, and a comprehensive health plan data model to spot hidden FWA.
"There is an amazing opportunity to drive significant bottom-line improvement for health plans and we are thrilled to collaborate with one of the best minds in the industry to help us realize our vision," said Salil Punalekar, head of U.S. healthcare, Shift Technology. "Traditional static rule-based decision models are outdated and insufficient to identify the wide scope of improper payments plaguing payors. There is a clear need for comprehensive data driven approaches and technologies to help payors dramatically reduce the impact of FWA on their organizations and their members."
"What Shift brings to the fight against health insurance FWA is truly exceptional and could help the industry save billions of dollars in improper payments," continued Verma, Healthcare Advisory Board member, Shift Technology. "I am proud to share what I have learned throughout my career with this industry pioneer to help make health insurance better for everyone involved in the process."
Verma is a national health policy expert and was the longest serving Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) Administrator in modern history. At CMS, she oversaw health insurance programs for over 140 million Americans; managed a budget of $1.3 trillion, which represents almost a third of the federal budget; and led over 6,000 employees. Further, she spearheaded the implementation of more than sixteen strategic initiatives aimed at transforming the American health care system to lower costs, improve quality, and increase access. Her leadership of federal government efforts to infuse market competition, empower patients, and unleash innovation – including efforts to require price and quality transparency while ensuring patients have ownership over their portable medical records – produced historic reforms across CSM.
"Seema's belief in the Shift platform, its ability to drive intelligent decisioning throughout payor organizations, and its potential to drive meaningful impact to our customers makes her an ideal member of our advisory board," said Jeremy Jawish, CEO and co-founder, Shift Technology. "That she decided to participate is further validation of our value proposition and the hard work that has gone into building our products."
Shift Technology delivers AI decisioning solutions to benefit the global insurance industry and its customers. Our products enable insurers to automate and optimize decisions from underwriting to claims, resulting in superior customer experiences, increased operational efficiency, and reduced costs. The future of insurance starts with Decisions Made Better. Learn more at www.shift-technology.com.
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By GRAHAM DUNBAR
AP Sports Writer
GENEVA (AP) — Ukraine’s top soccer club on Monday urged FIFA to remove Iran from the World Cup because of the country’s alleged military support to the Russian invasion.
Shakhtar Donetsk chief executive Sergei Palkin accused Iran of “direct participation in terrorist attacks on Ukrainians,” suggesting his own country’s team should play in Qatar instead as a replacement.
“This will be a fair decision that should draw the attention of the whole world to a regime that kills its best people and helps kill Ukrainians,” Palkin said in a statement one day before his team plays at Celtic in the Champions League.
The White House said Thursday that the U.S. has evidence that Iranian troops are “directly engaged on the ground” in Crimea supporting Russian drone attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population. And the head of Ukraine’s intelligence service, Kyrylo Budanov, said in a published interview on Monday that Russian forces had used about 330 Iranian-built “Shahed” drones as of Saturday — and that more had been ordered.
Russia and Iran have both denied that the drones used were Iranian-built.
Iran plays in the second game of the World Cup, on Nov. 21 against England, and then faces Wales and the United States in Group B. Wales qualified by beating Ukraine in the playoffs in June in a game that was delayed from March by the war.
FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, if an Asian team was suspended there would be no precedent for FIFA to replace it with a European team at the World Cup.
Soccer’s world body does not typically suspend member federations because of military decisions by a national government, though Yugoslavia was barred from trying to qualify for the 1994 World Cup after United Nations sanctions were imposed during the war in the Balkans.
FIFA has suspended Russian teams following its invasion of Ukraine, which barred Russia from playing in the World Cup qualifying playoffs in March. FIFA cited risks to the security and integrity of its competitions, and Russia’s scheduled opponent Poland had refused to play that game.
FIFA is also resisting calls this month from Iranian fan groups to suspend the national team during a national crackdown on street protests in support of women’s rights and because of a long-time policy stopping women from freely attending games in soccer and other sports.
FIFA normally only suspends national teams when the country’s government is judged to have interfered in the independent running of the national soccer federation.
Five Asian confederation teams advanced to the World Cup to join host Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates was the next best in qualifying. The UAE lost a regional playoff in June to Australia ahead of the intercontinental playoffs.
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ATLANTA, April 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), (the "Company"), will announce first quarter 2023 financial results before the market opens on Tuesday, May 2nd, with a call to discuss results at 10:00 a.m. ET.
The conference call will be webcast and can be accessed from the investors section of the Graphic Packaging website at www.graphicpkg.com. Participants may also listen via telephone by using the following dial-in numbers:
- United States (Toll-Free): +1 833 470 1428
- Canada dial-in number (Toll Free): 1 833 950 0062
- All other locations: 1 929 526 1599
Telephone participants are required to provide the access code 073165 and should call at least 10 minutes prior to the start of the conference call. The webcast will be archived and available for replay beginning at approximately 1:00 p.m. ET on May 2nd.
The Company has also set Tuesday, August 1, 2023 as the tentative date for the release of second quarter 2023 financial results.
About Graphic Packaging Holding Company
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is committed to providing consumer packaging that makes a world of difference. The Company is a leading provider of sustainable fiber-based packaging solutions to the world's most widely-recognized food, beverage, foodservice and other consumer products companies and brands. The Company operates on a global basis, is one of the largest producers of folding cartons and fiber-based foodservice products in the United States and Europe, and holds leading market positions in coated recycled paperboard, coated unbleached kraft paperboard and solid bleached sulfate paperboard. Additional information about Graphic Packaging, its business and its products is available at www.graphicpkg.com.
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Trump requests meeting with Meta to discuss ‘prompt reinstatement’ to Facebook
Posted/updated on: January 18, 2023 at 2:18 pm(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump is looking to get back on Facebook.
Attorneys for Trump, who was banned from Facebook after the Jan. 6 insurrection, have written to executives of Meta requesting a meeting to discuss "prompt reinstatement to the platform," according to a copy of the letter reviewed by ABC News.
The letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two other executives, claims the ban on Trump's account "has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse," and represents "a deliberate effort by a private company to silence Mr. Trump's political voice."
"Moreover, every day that President Trump's political voice remains silenced furthers an inappropriate interference in the American political and election process," the letter states.
The letter does not address the reason Trump was kicked off the platform in the first place -- it does, however, note that Trump was allowed back on Twitter. Twitter CEO Elon Musk lifted Trump's ban on the platform in November after putting the decision up to a poll.
He has not used the account despite being unbanned, and has said he plans to stick with TRUTH Social, the platform he founded after being banned from most social media sites.
Trump was removed from Facebook in January 2021, in the wake of the insurrection, over concerns his posts were inciting violence.
The company later said the removal was set to last for two years, at which point it would come under reassessment.
"We therefore write to request a meeting to discuss President Trump's prompt reinstatement to the platform," the letter says.
However, even as Trump announced his run for president in 2024, Facebook said in November it did not plan to reinstate him.
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Two people have been taken to the hospital in the aftermath of an 11-vehicle crash around the 9600 block of Milwaukee Avenue early Saturday afternoon, according to the Niles Police Department.
Per a news release from the department, the crash knocked northbound traffic on Milwaukee Avenue down to one lane for about 45 minutes.
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Investigators said the crash occurred due to a commercial truck striking two vehicles. One of the drivers of the struck vehicles was reported to have lost control of his car, per police, causing the driver to sideswipe eight more vehicles.
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- Italian luxury carmaker Automobili Pininfarina strengthens its management team with the appointment of a new Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO)
- Andrea Crespi is promoted to the position of CTO with Andrea Novello promoted into role of COO in the company's management team led by CEO Paolo Dellachà
- The evolution of Automobili Pininfarina coincides with the fifth anniversary of the business, which was launched in Rome, Italy in April 2018
- Automobili Pininfarina will celebrate its fifth year of growth and rich brand heritage with the unveiling of its next limited edition hyper GT this summer
- The award-winning and record-breaking achievements of the Battista were celebrated as the first Canadian Battista was presented in Toronto last week
CAMBIANO, Italy, April 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Marking its fifth anniversary, Automobili Pininfarina today reveals news of actions it is taking to strengthen its position as the creator of the most desirable pure-electric luxury cars in the world.
Alongside presenting its new management team appointed by CEO Paolo Dellachà, it has confirmed plans to launch an exclusive new limited-edition car designed for discerning collectors this summer.
Automobili Pininfarina CEO Paolo Dellachà said: "The fifth anniversary of Automobili Pininfarina is a moment to celebrate the remarkable achievements of the diverse group of experts we have brought together at our European bases in Cambiano and Munich. We are very proud to promote from within and both Andrea Crespi and Andrea Novello possess the experience, talent, and ambition to ensure we accelerate the growth of Automobili Pininfarina in a progressive and sustainable way.
"After bringing Battista to life and breaking production car world records, it is the first electric hyper GT in the hands of clients around the world, across Europe, the USA and now Canada. It was a pleasure to personally present this vehicle at our exclusive retail partner in Toronto last week.
"We are committed to delighting even more clients in future, and our team is excited to present the first in a series of spectacular new cars we have prepared for our growing client community this summer. We will showcase a new dimension of our design creativity while honouring the legacy of the Pininfarina name."
Andrea Crespi has been appointed to the position of Chief Technical Officer, elevating from his current role as ePowertrain and High Voltage Systems Director at Automobili Pininfarina. Crespi is highly experienced in electrification architectures and electric vehicle design for luxury brands, formerly holding senior positions at Aston Martin and Maserati before joining Automobili Pininfarina in 2018.
Crespi has played a leading role in delivering the record-breaking performance of Battista from its advanced EV architecture and will now lead technical development of all future luxury cars from Automobili Pininfarina.
On his appointment, Chief Technical Officer Andrea Crespi said: "This is an incredibly exciting moment of evolution for Automobili Pininfarina, as we enhance our technical vision and prepare to broaden our portfolio of luxury electric vehicles. The entire Automobili Pininfarina team is driven by innovation and craftsmanship – it is in the DNA of our internationally-experienced engineers, designers, and business experts. I look forward to leading a technical team that will create products, services, and experiences with these values at heart for our discerning customers all over the world."
Automobili Pininfarina also welcomes Andrea Novello to its management team as Chief Operating Officer, a promotion from his current role as Production Director. Novello is a highly experienced engineer in luxury vehicle and body development and has previously held positions at Maserati and Pininfarina S.p.A before joining the Automobili Pininfarina family in its first year, in 2018.
Andrea Novello said: "I have a deep personal connection with the Pininfarina brand through my previous work in Cambiano and through family members that worked in this famous facility before me. I consider it my second home!
"I am highly motivated to be part of this great new team as we build a bright future for the company, striving to provide an impeccable ownership experience for our valued clients from start to finish. My team and I are proud to be crafting an exceptional luxury car in Battista today, and we are ready to bring our incredible brand and the next in a series of incredible pure-electric vehicles to our customers this year."
The two new appointments join existing management team members Dave Amantea (Chief Design Officer), Dan Connell (Chief Brand Officer) and Gösta Henning (Chief Sales Officer). This year the strengthened team plans to unveil a thrilling new pure-electric car that responds to demands from its clientele to create rare and beautiful masterpieces befitting the revered Pininfarina name.
Automobili Pininfarina now employs 116 people across its sites in Cambiano, Italy and Munich, Germany. The Battista pure-electric hyper GT entered series production in the summer of 2022, with deliveries to clients worldwide beginning in the same year. In February this year, the Battista broke a series of speed records at India's Natrax facility, including achieving an astonishing world record ¼ mile sprint time of just 8.55 seconds.
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THE AUTOMOBILI PININFARINA BATTISTA (LINK TO PRESS KIT)
The Battista will be the most powerful car ever designed and built in Italy and it will deliver a level of performance that is unachievable today in any road-legal sports car featuring internal combustion engine technology. Faster than a current Formula 1 race car in its 0 -100 km/h sub-two second sprint, and with 1,900 hp and 2,340 Nm torque on tap, the Battista will combine extreme engineering and technology in a zero emissions package. The Battista's 120 kWh battery provides power to four electric motors – one at each wheel – with a combined WLTP range of up to 476 km (U.S. combined EPA: 300 miles) on a single charge. No more than 150 examples of Battista will be individually hand-crafted at the Battista Atelier in Cambiano, Italy.
ABOUT AUTOMOBILI PININFARINA
Automobili Pininfarina is based in operational headquarters in Munich, Germany, with a team of experienced automotive executives from luxury and premium car brands. Designed, engineered, and produced by hand in Italy, the Battista hyper GT and all future models will be sold in all major global markets under the brand name Pininfarina. The new company aims to be the most desired, sustainable luxury car brand in the world. The company is a 100 per cent Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd investment.
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US blizzard expected to impact millions in Rockies, Midwest
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A massive winter storm blowing toward the center of the United States on Monday is threatening millions of people with heavy snow, freezing rain and flooding. The National Weather Service warned that there would be “numerous, widespread, and impactful weather hazards in the heart of the country this week.” Across the Rockies and into the northern Plains and parts of the Midwest, people were warned to prepare for blizzard-like conditions. Those farther south in Texas and Louisiana could see severe hail, winds and tornadoes by Tuesday. The storm will continue southeast into Florida later in the week, forecasters said.
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas
NEW YORK (AP) — The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas at the request of U.S. authorities. That's according U.S. and Bahamian authorities Monday. Bankman-Fried is under criminal investigation by U.S. and Bahamian authorities following the collapse last month of FTX. The firm filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when it ran out of money after the cryptocurrency equivalent of a bank run. Bankman-Fried’s arrest comes just a day before he was due to testify in front of the House Financial Services Committee, along with the company’s current CEO, John Ray III.
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Breonna Taylor's boyfriend settles lawsuits over shooting
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Can James Cameron and 'Avatar' wow again? Don't doubt it.
NEW YORK (AP) — Thirteen years after the original “Avatar” and five years after production started on its sequel, “The Way of Water,” James Cameron is finally unveiling the long-awaited follow-up to the highest grossing film of all-time. For a long time, the “Avatar” sequel was the “Waiting for Godot” of blockbusters — more theoretical than real, with release dates that kept spiraling into the future. Meanwhile, an unending parade of pieces pondered the original’s curious place in entertainment: a box-office behemoth with little cultural footprint, a $3 billion ghost. But the first look at Cameron’s “Avatar” sequel has thrown some cold water on that notion. The overwhelming reaction to the director’s latest three-hour opus? Never bet against James Cameron. | 2022-12-13T02:31:12+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/news/national/ap-news-summary-at-8-47-p-m-est/article_953aa453-61fa-5c8f-82ff-0fb796b8aedc.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service plans to substantially increase the number of electric-powered vehicles it’s buying to replace its fleet of aging delivery trucks, officials said Wednesday.
The Postal Service anticipates boosting electric vehicles from 20% to 50% in its initial purchase of 50,000 vehicles — with the first of them rolling onto delivery routes next year. It also proposes buying an additional 34,500 commercially available vehicles over two years, officials said.
The proposal, to be posted in the Federal Register on Thursday, came after 16 states, environmental groups and a labor union sued to halt purchases of next-generation delivery vehicles under the initial plan that was skewed heavily toward gas-powered trucks.
The new environmental proposal effectively pauses the purchases at 84,500 total vehicles — 40% electric — even as the Postal Service seek to buy up to 165,000 next-generation vehicles over the next decade to replace aging delivery trucks that went into service between 1987 and 1994.
Future purchases would focus on smaller amounts of vehicles in shorter intervals than the original 10-year environmental analysis, officials said.
The goal is to be more responsive to the Postal Service’s evolving operational strategy, technology improvements and changing market conditions, the Postal Service said in a statement. A public hearing on the new proposal will be held next month.
The next-generation delivery vehicles are taller to make it easier for postal carriers to grab packages and parcels that make up a greater share of volume. They also have improved ergonomics and climate control. | 2022-07-20T15:59:26+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-postal-service-to-boost-purchases-of-electric-vehicles/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_business |
China announced for the first time in nearly six decades that deaths outnumbered births last year. A shrinking Chinese population will have dramatic economic and social effects over the long term.
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China announced for the first time in nearly six decades that deaths outnumbered births last year. A shrinking Chinese population will have dramatic economic and social effects over the long term.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — As the former captain in charge of the Hollywood Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, Cory Palka was a star himself.
The towering cop with a telegenic smile hobnobbed with celebrities getting stars on the Walk of Fame, ran security for the Oscars awards show and even landed a bit part playing himself on the television drama “Bosch” about a talented but troubled maverick LAPD detective.
But Palka’s ties to the entertainment industry and his allegiances were under scrutiny Thursday after prosecutors said he leaked a sexual assault victim’s confidential police report to the accused, former CBS leader Les Moonves, for whom Palka served as a private bodyguard for years.
The LAPD said it was conducting an internal affairs investigation into Palka's conduct and the state attorney general was probing any criminal elements after a report said he conspired with CBS to conceal sexual assault allegations against Moonves.
The report, which didn't name Palka, was part of a settlement announced Wednesday by New York Attorney General Letitia James in which CBS and Moonves, its former president, agreed to pay $30.5 million. About $6 million is going to sexual assault and harassment programs. The rest will go to shareholders kept in the dark while executives tried to prevent allegations from becoming public and at least one benefited by unloading shares before news broke.
Weeks after the #MeToo movement erupted with sex abuse allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2017, Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb reported to police in the Hollywood Division that she had been sexually assaulted by Moonves in 1986 and 1988 when they worked together at Lorimar Productions, the studio behind “Dallas” and “Knots Landing.”
A law enforcement official briefed on the matter confirmed that Golden-Gottlieb, who died this summer, was the woman involved in the leak by Palka. The official was not authorized to speak publicly and did so on condition of anonymity.
Jim Gottlieb said in an email to The Associated Press that he was “shocked and very disappointed” that his mother's report was leaked to CBS. He said his mother was never looking for money, she just didn't want Moonves to “get away with what he did” and was satisfied that her report contributed to his downfall.
“We would like to think the police are looking out for us, the victims, and not the perpetrators," Gottlieb said. "This sounds just like what you hear about certain police departments being in cahoots with organized crime.”
Attorney Gloria Allred, who represented Golden-Gottlieb, said in nearly a half-century of legal practice, she had never heard of police tipping off a suspect to an investigation and said it could have a chilling effect on other women coming forward to report abuse.
“It’s very, very disturbing,” Allred said. “It’s really outrageous if they did that. And I have to ask, what were their motives if that, in fact occurred? Why were they, for example, trying to curry favor with CBS? Did they receive anything in return?”
Golden-Gottlieb went public with her accusations at the time Ronan Farrow reported on allegations against Moonves in The New Yorker in September 2018. Within hours of that publication, Moonves quit.
Nearly a year earlier, the ink was just drying on her police report — which was marked “confidential” in three places — when Palka tipped off CBS, the report said. Palka then met personally with Moonves and another CBS executive.
The New York AG's report said the complainant had requested confidentiality. It cited the California Constitution, which prohibits disclosure of confidential information to “a defendant, a defendant’s attorney, or any other person acting on behalf of the defendant that could be used to locate or harass the victim or the victim’s family.”
The captain told CBS that he instructed police officers investigating the complaint to “admonish” the woman not to go to the media with her allegations. He also put CBS officials in touch with the lead investigator.
CBS immediately went into damage control mode, with an executive alerting a member of the news staff to stay close to the phone because they “have a situation.” He told another staffer not to miss any messages and added: “I wouldn’t bother you if this wasn’t serious.”
When the allegations ultimately became public, Palka sent a note to a CBS contact saying, “We worked so hard to try to avoid this day.” He sent Moonves a note saying he was sorry and, "I will always stand with, by and pledge my allegiance to you.”
From 2008 to 2014, Palka had provided private security for Moonves at the Grammy Awards, which CBS produced.
Jessica Levinson, a professor at Loyola Law School and former president of the Los Angeles Ethics Commission, said a police officer has to adhere to legal and ethical obligations as a member of the force and can't violate those duties when providing private security. Typically, those two roles wouldn't be in conflict.
“The question is on a case by case basis as to whether or not it leads to divided loyalty,” Levinson said. “But the truth is, most of the time it really shouldn’t be a tough call."
Patti Giggans, executive director of the nonprofit Peace Over Violence in Los Angeles, said she expects the scandal to have repercussions that extend beyond victims being afraid to report assaults to the LAPD to advocates reevaluating relationships they have built with detectives.
Palka, who retired as a commander last year after nearly 35 years with LAPD, said in his LinkedIn profile that he grew up with eight siblings in a low-income housing project in the Mar Vista community and had spent most of his life in Los Angeles.
Video footage of Palka went viral during the racial injustice protests in Los Angeles in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death when he took a knee with protesters on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.
He was incident commander at the Academy Awards and “numerous high profile events related to the entertainment industry,” his profile said.
In Hollywood, he was a frequent fixture on red carpets and at Walk of Fame ceremonies, posing with celebrities like Lynda Carter, Jack Black and Stacy Keach. He was personally thanked during Mark Hamill’s star ceremony and posed with Hamill, Harrison Ford and George Lucas.
The Hollywood Chamber Community Foundation’s honored him in 2019 as one of the “Heroes of Hollywood.”
“Celebrity always equates to power and influence,” said attorney Debra Katz, who specializes in sexual-harassment law. “It becomes very troubling when you have a town of celebrities that have access to the police — when they have a dual role where they provide security and they hobnob with one another.”
Palka did not return requests for comment Thursday, nor did an attorney for Moonves and CBS.
Moonves acknowledged having relations with three of his accusers, but said they were consensual. He denied attacking anyone, saying in a statement at the time that “Untrue allegations from decades ago are now being made against me.”
The Los Angeles County district attorney declined to file criminal charges against Moonves in 2018, saying the statute of limitations from Golden-Gottlieb's allegations had expired.
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Associated Press writer Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed. | 2022-11-04T20:40:02+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Ex-LAPD-captain-s-loyalties-scrutinized-in-tip-to-17559149.php |
(NEXSTAR) — Grab your tickets, the winning numbers for the $820 million Mega Millions jackpot have been drawn.
If your ticket matches the numbers drawn Tuesday, seen below, you could be the winner of the fifth-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history. It would also rank among the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history.
The winning numbers are 3, 5, 6, 44, and 61, and Mega Ball 25. The Megaplier was 4X.
This jackpot has been brewing since April when a $20 million prize was won by a ticket sold in Syracuse, New York, just four days after a $483 million Mega Millions jackpot was hit by a ticket sold in Queens.
Ahead of Tuesday’s drawing, Mega Millions officials estimated the jackpot’s size at $820 million with a cash value of $418.3 million. That puts it as the fifth largest in the game’s history behind a $1.05 billion prize won by a 2021 ticket sold in Michigan. It also ranks among the largest U.S. lottery prizes:
- $2.04 billion (Powerball): Nov. 7, 2022; California
- $1.586 billion (Powerball): Jan. 13, 2016; California, Florida, Tennessee
- $1.537 billion (Mega Millions): Oct. 23, 2018; South Carolina
- $1.348 billion (Mega Millions): Jan. 13, 2023; Maine
- $1.337 billion (Mega Millions): July 29, 2022; Illinois
- $1.08 billion (Powerball): July 19, 2023; California
- $1.050 billion (Mega Millions): Jan. 22, 2021; Michigan
- $820 million (est. Mega Millions): July 25, 2023
- $768.4 million (Powerball): March 27, 2019; Wisconsin
- $758.7 million (Powerball): Aug. 23, 2017; Massachusetts
Should you be the lucky winner, you’ll be able to either take the cash lump sum payment or the annuity option, which offers one immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments that grow by 5% each time.
Without a winner in Tuesday’s drawing, the jackpot could reach an estimated $910 million ahead of the next drawing.
Regardless of which payout you select, how much money you actually take home will vary by state.
You may want to think twice before collecting the cash option though. Winners of giant jackpots nearly always take the cash, and financial advisers say that might be a mistake.
Your odds of winning any prize (there are nine total ways to win) while playing Mega Millions is 1 in 24, but your odds at landing the jackpot are 1 in 302.6 million.
Winner or not, the next Mega Millions drawing will be at 11 p.m. ET on Friday. Tickets start at $2 each, and are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. | 2023-07-26T04:49:59+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/check-your-tickets-winning-numbers-drawn-for-820m-mega-millions-jackpot/ |
Police reports for Nov. 27, 2022 Nov 26, 2022 Nov 26, 2022 Updated 4 min ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following are locations and nature of offense reports received from the Lawton Police Department:DUI, Northwest 67th Street and Ferris Avenue.Burglary, 1509 NW 48th.Burglary, 622 SW Bishop.Larceny, 1201 SW 24th.DUI, Northwest 50th Street and Cache Road.DUI, 6800 Cache Road.Burglary, 2523 NW 38th.Burglary, 835 NW Runyon.Vandalism, 610 SW 52nd.Burglary, 6106 Cache Road. Compiled by Scott Rains: scott.rains@swoknews.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you Sign Up For Newsletters Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Obituaries Receive the most recent obituaries from The Lawton Constitution every Morning in you E-mail. Signup today! Headlines / e-Edition Would you like to receive our daily news from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Sports Headlines Would you like to receive our daily sports from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Breaking News Get the latest breaking news from The Lawton Constitution. Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists | 2022-11-26T21:30:15+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/almanac/police-reports-for-nov-27-2022/article_24ec4bc3-7239-59b4-8fe9-c8dd1d410d16.html |
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s easy to forget how many hit songs Drake created in his nearly 15-year musical career. But he presented an emphatic reminder with an intimate concert at Harlem’s Apollo Theater on Saturday, his first-ever show at the legendary venue.
During the performance, the four-time Grammy winner teased that new music could be on the way, despite releasing two albums last year.
“I thought about a bunch of things in life, but at this moment in time, none of those things are stopping making music for you,” Drake told the doting crowd. “I hope I can strike up some more emotions for you, maybe this year — I might get bored and make another one.”
The first night of two Apollo weekend shows presented by SiriusXM, featured the 36-year-old ripping off songs at a frantic pace — most with just a verse and chorus — satisfying day-one fans with fan-favorite, deep non-radio cuts as well as those only familiar with his No. 1 hits. The recorded performances will air on Drake’s SiriusXM Sound 42 channel in the coming weeks.
Noting this was his first show in about five years and later stating “I’ll be out and about on the road a lot this year,” Spotify’s most-streamed artist in the U.S. last year told his captivated audience the show was about gratefulness.
“I wanted to make this a show about gratitude,” Drake said. “This is a little story we put together: my deep love for my family, for my dear friends and each and every one of you that have been supporting me for a long time.”
Donning cornrows while wearing baggy jeans and a blue and yellow Jimmy Brooks basketball jersey — a nod to his days as an actor on the teen drama series “Degrassi” — Drake opened the performance with “Over My Dead Body” as celebrity guests such as Justin and Hailey Bieber, former NBA MVP and current Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant, NFL star Odell Beckham Jr., rappers A$AP Ferg and A Boogie wit da Hoodie watched.
Sitting on a bed positioned stage-right, modeled after his bedroom in his mom’s Toronto basement where he said he wrote songs, Drake belted out many of his down-tempo, B-side hits such as “Wu-Tang Forever,” “Trust Issues,” “Practice” and “Feel No Ways.”
He also sang his most popular deep cut, “Marvin’s Room,” as the standing-room only crowd joined him word-for-word before transitioning into his hook from Timbaland’s “Say Something” as the “Marvin’s Room” beat continued.
As the bedroom set dimmed and the light shifted to the left side of the stage, revealing a board room, Drake changed into a black leather hoodie with his OVO owl symbol. The rapper stood in front of a performer playing a record label exec who skeptically noted it was “interesting” he was a rapper from Canada, before saying, “Alright, let’s see what you got.” (Drake would later remind the crowd how every major record label in New York passed on him.)
Starting with “Best I Ever Had,” the R&B smash that jump-started his career, he continued his musical journey with early Young Money-era hits such as Headlines, “HYFR,” “Started From the Bottom” and “I’m on One.” The crowd also two-stepped to his more danceable records like “Massive” from last year’s “Honestly, Nevermind” project, as well as “Hold On, We’re Going Home,” “One Dance,” “Passionfruit” and “In My Feelings.”
The final leg of the 90-minute set opened with a surprise performance by the popular early 2000s Harlem rap collective, The Diplomats, which featured Drake wearing Cam’ron’s signature pink hoodie and headband. He was then joined by 21 Savage to perform songs such as “Rich Flex,” “Spin Bout You” and “Knife Talk” from their joint project, “Her Loss,” released in November.
The longtime tagline for the Apollo is “Where Stars are Born and Legends are Made!” So it was either strategic or serendipitous that he ended the show with “Legend.” While it might be too soon to drape him with the legend moniker in the manner that Apollo Walk of Fame icons such Michael Jackson, Prince, Aretha Franklin James Brown carry, he left no doubt that he is well on his way.
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Follow Associated Press entertainment journalist Gary Gerard Hamilton at: @GaryGHamilton on all his social media platforms. | 2023-01-23T09:06:08+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/ap-drake-delivers-nostalgia-teases-new-music-at-apollo-show/ |
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Record rainfall caused widespread flash flooding across the St. Louis area early Tuesday, closing multiple roadways and prompting rescues from vehicles stranded by high waters, authorities said.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Rainfall of between 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 centimeters) was reported overnight, the National Weather Service said on Twitter. St. Louis recorded more than 7 inches of rainfall Tuesday morning, surpassing the record of 6.85 inches from Aug. 20, 1915, the weather service said.
The rainfall was expected to wrap up by late-morning, forecasters said.
The St. Louis Fire Department said it was responding to stranded vehicles. A stretch of Interstate 70 was flooded and closed in the St. Louis area. And rising waters threatened homes in the suburb of Ladue. | 2022-07-26T12:40:43+00:00 | expressnews.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Record-rainfall-causes-flash-flooding-in-St-17329189.php |
Setting gridlock aside, Congress set to OK gun violence bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is on the verge of approving a $13 billion bipartisan gun violence bill that seemed unimaginable a month ago. House approval is expected Friday on legislation that would be lawmakers’ most sweeping answer in decades to brutal mass shootings that have come to shock yet not surprise Americans. The Senate approved the measure Thursday, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats in backing passage. The election-year vote was coming just weeks after gunmen massacred elementary school students and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and 10 Black grocery shoppers in Buffalo, New York. Lawmakers of both parties said the public outcry for action could not be ignored.
States brace for fight over gun laws after high court ruling
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Governors, lawmakers and attorneys general in states with strict gun-permitting laws are strategizing over how to shore up their restrictions after Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision expanded gun rights in a New York case. They also are bracing themselves for a longer fight as gun rights groups prepare to challenge a range of other gun control laws. The justices said that a New York state law in place since 1913 that restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public conflicts with the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island all have similar laws.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former top Justice Department officials have testified to the Jan. 6 committee that President Donald Trump hounded the department to pursue his false election fraud claims. They say he contacted the agency’s leader “virtually every day” and strove in vain to enlist the government’s top law enforcement officials in his desperate bid to stay in power. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol also revealed Thursday that several Republican loyalists in Congress who trumpeted the president’s claims later sought pardons from the White House after the effort failed.
Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors of devastating quake
GAYAN, Afghanistan (AP) — Villagers rushed to bury the dead and dug by hand through the rubble of homes in search of survivors after a devastating earthquake in eastern Afghanistan. Residents appeared to be largely on their own Thursday to deal with the aftermath as their new Taliban-led government and the international aid community struggled to help. State media said Wednesday’s quake killed 1,000 people. An independent U.N. court said around 770 people had been killed in Paktika and Khost provinces. It's unclear how either sum was tallied given the difficulty of accessing or communicating with the affected areas, but the devastation was clear. Under a leaden sky, men dug several long trenches on a mountainside overlooking their village to bury the dead.
UK Conservatives lose 2 elections in blow to PM Johnson
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership of the Conservative party suffered a heavy double blow as voters rejected the Tories in two by-elections. In the the southwestern constituency of Tiverton and Honiton, the Liberal Democrats overturned a 24,000 Conservative majority to win, while the main opposition Labour Party reclaimed Wakefield in northern England. The contests, triggered by the resignation of Conservatives hit by scandals, offered voters the chance to give their verdict on the prime minister just weeks after 41% of his own MPs cast their ballots against him
European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s leaders have agreed to make Ukraine a candidate for EU membership, setting in motion a potentially yearslong process that could draw the embattled country further away from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West. Ukraine applied for membership less than a week after Moscow invaded on Feb. 24. The decision by the 27-nation bloc to grant Ukraine candidate status Thursday was uncharacteristically rapid. But the war and Ukraine’s request for fast-track consideration lent urgency to its cause. The EU also granted candidate status to Moldova, which borders Ukraine. Gaining membership could take years or even decades. Countries must meet a host of economic and political conditions, including the embrace of certain democratic principles.
A world apart, Lebanon and Sri Lanka share economic collapse
BEIRUT (AP) — A shared history of political turmoil and violence in two countries a world apart, Lebanon and Sri Lanka, led to the collapse of once-prosperous economies that have been bedeviled by corruption, patronage, nepotism and incompetence. The toxic combinations have led to currency collapse, energy shortages, triple-digit inflation and growing hunger in both countries. Their middle class is decimated, and there has been an exodus of professionals who might have helped to rebuild the countries one day. Experts say about a dozen countries could suffer similar fates as the post-pandemic recovery and war in Ukraine spark global food shortages and a surge in prices.
Hong Kongers reflect on Taiwan, an imperfect exile
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Coming to Taiwan was a logical step for Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookstore owner who was held by police in China for five months for selling sensitive books about the Communist Party. An island just 400 miles from Hong Kong, Taiwan is close not just geographically but also linguistically and culturally. It offered the freedoms that many Hong Kongers were used to and saw disappearing in their hometown since Beijing launched a crackdown on pro-democracy activists. While Taiwan has seemed an ideal hub, many Hong Kongers struggle trying to navigate the immigration system and suspicion by the self-ruled island's authorities who worry about a constant threat from mainland China. Some have gotten their residency permits but others went on to the U.K. and Canada.
A year on, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Friday marks the anniversary of the oceanfront condo building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, Florida. The 12-story tower came down with a thunderous roar and left a giant pile of rubble in one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history. The disaster at Champlain Towers South also turned into Florida's largest-ever emergency response that didn't involve a hurricane. Its victims are being honored Friday at events on the ground where the grueling two-week search and rescue unfolded. Only two teenagers and a woman survived the fall and were pulled from the rubble, while others escaped from the portion of the building that initially remained standing. First Lady Jill Biden is expected at a public event organized by the town of Surfside.
At Pride, celebrations amid a darker national environment
NEW YORK (AP) — Pride commemorations that sometimes have felt like victory parties for civil rights advances are grappling with a darker atmosphere this year. There's an environment of legislative and rhetorical attacks over sexual orientation and gender identity that members of LGBTQ communities are decrying as attempts to push them back into the shadows. Crowds are expected this weekend at Pride events in New York City and other places including San Francisco, Chicago, Denver and Toronto to wrap up Pride month. But it’s a month that’s been marked by disruption at other Pride and LGBTQ-affirming events around the country, from protests and harsh language to violent threats.
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Civil rights activist John Lewis to be honored on US Postal stamp next year
Published: Dec. 13, 2022 at 4:05 PM EST|Updated: moments ago
(CNN) - The U.S. Postal Service is honoring the late civil rights trailblazer and congressman John Lewis with a stamp in 2023.
The Forever Stamp will show Lewis in 2013 from a photograph taken by Marco Grob for an issue of Time Magazine.
The Georgia Democrat was a keynote speaker at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
Lewis dedicated his life to activism, spending more than three decades of his life fighting for civil rights.
Lewis died in 2020 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will also be honored on a USPS postage stamp in 2023.
Copyright 2022 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved. | 2022-12-13T21:11:23+00:00 | mysuncoast.com | https://www.mysuncoast.com/2022/12/13/civil-rights-activist-john-lewis-be-honored-us-postal-stamp-next-year/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The sign was posted at the register, "Our deepest apologies. Due to a recent string of counterfeit bills we can no longer accept bills over $20".
2WTK asked Greensboro Police if counterfeit cash was on the rise in the city.
They said there hasn't been a rash lately, but the police get reports of counterfeit bills every month.
If it happens at restaurants, it happens at yard sales, it happens at gas stations, counterfeit cash gets passed around sometimes unknowingly.
HOW TO SPOT A REAL BILL
Since the $20 bill is the most commonly counterfeited bill, let's show you how to spot a real bill. You hold it up to the light. You'll see the security strip on the left side of the bill, going from the top to the bottom of the bill.
When it comes to a $10 bill, looking at it face on you can't see the security measure. But again, tip the bill to the light, and on the right side of this bill, you'll see the faint watermark of Hamilton's image.
THE TRIED AND TRUE WAY TO KNOW IF A BILL IS REAL
Officers say you should be able to feel the bill is fake. but what if you're on the fence about if it's real or not? There's a way to know for sure.
You can buy a counterfeit pen. It's like $3 at Walmart. A yellow mark means the bill is real. A black mark means it's fake. It's that easy.
If you sell items at yard sales or Facebook Marketplace, you definitely want to have this pen.
CHECK OUT THIS RESOURCE FROM THE US CURRENCY
The US Currency Education Program has a resource where you can look up each bill and see the security measures. On each bill, there will be security points you can click on and get a full description. | 2023-06-29T16:24:25+00:00 | wfmynews2.com | https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/2-wants-to-know/counterfeit-cash-is-going-around-how-to-spot-fake-bills-greensboro-money-fake-police-security-strips-watermarks-us-currency/83-8d111181-44f5-418a-ac2e-f78ab5c4d6f2 |
Condos spared from morning vehicle fire
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - A small work van caught fire near occupied condos in Santa Barbara Tuesday morning, but the structure was not damaged.
The van was parked on the curb inside the parking lot of the multi-story complex at 521 West Montecito Street.
The owner of the van was spraying water on the burning vehicle as Santa Barbara City Firefighters arrive.
They quickly pulled a line and dumped a full spray of water into the interior of the vehicle.
Smoke could be seen for several blocks.
Special tools were used to cut open the hood and the back doors to see if there were any other fire sources or risks.
Many work tools were inside. Some had rechargeable batteries.
The condos nearby had some residents inside who were still home and a few self evacuated.
There were no injuries.
A Santa Barbara City Fire Investigator came to the scene. | 2022-12-06T21:43:24+00:00 | keyt.com | https://keyt.com/news/fire/2022/12/06/condos-spared-from-morning-vehicle-fire/ |
By Staff Sgt. Noshoba Davis, Louisiana National Guard Public Affairs Office
PINEVILLE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard, along with the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and the Urban Land Institute Louisiana Chapter hosted a showcase of the historic Hufft Hall at Jackson Barracks in New Orleans, Oct. 12.
Hufft Hall was originally built in 1891 and used as a hospital in the early 1900s. After being used as a hospital, Hufft Hall was used as the office of the adjutant general and officer quarters. In the present, the LANG is preparing to make renovations to Hufft Hall.
Hufft Hall is named after the late Maj. Gen. Raymond F. Hufft, who was the youngest appointed LANG adjutant general and most decorated member of the Louisiana National Guard Hall of Fame.
The showcase of Hufft Hall allowed the LANG to improve and build on community relationships.
“We are hoping to better connect Jackson Barracks and the many treasures we have here to the New Orleans community as a whole,” said Col. Scott Desormeaux, Jackson Barracks post commander. “We have a special shared history that should be celebrated at every opportunity.”
In addition to the showcase of Hufft Hall, the LANG provided a tour of historic Jackson Barracks.
Desormeaux explained that these types of events create opportunities to display the LANG’s unique history in New Orleans, and that the relationships within the community improve readiness within the LANG.
“I hope to attract the community to visit our installation and our museum,” said Desormeaux. He also shared that he plans to do more events like the showcase in the future to generate community interest. | 2022-10-18T22:06:43+00:00 | bossierpress.com | https://bossierpress.com/louisiana-national-guard-showcases-historic-building/ |
US announces new $2.1 billion package of military aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon announced Friday that it will provide an additional $2.1 billion in long-term weapons aid for Ukraine. The new assistance package will include funding for more Patriot missile battery munitions, Hawk air defense systems and missiles, and small Puma drones that can be launched by hand.
The latest infusion of funding, one of the larger packages the U.S. has provided, comes as there are signs that Ukraine is beginning — or about to begin — the much-anticipated counteroffensive to try to take back territory that has been seized by Russia.
Unlike the U.S. equipment, weapons and ammunition that are more frequently sent from Pentagon stocks and delivered quickly to Ukraine, this money would be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and is meant to be spent over the coming months or even years to ensure Ukraine’s future security needs.
In a statement, the Pentagon said the package shows America’s continued commitment “to both Ukraine’s critical near-term capabilities as well as the enduring capacity of Ukraine’s Armed Forces to defend its territory and deter Russian aggression over the long term.”
The aid also will include munitions for laser-guided rockets, an undisclosed amount of artillery rounds, and funding for training and maintenance support.
A number of administration officials have acknowledged that the fighting in Ukraine has intensified in recent days, but much of the focus turned early this week to the collapse of the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper River. The White House and the Pentagon insisted Thursday they are still working to determine who caused the damage, which set off a scramble to evacuate residents in dozens of flooded areas and get aid to those still there.
Although the U.S. has been willing to provide billions of dollars in military weapons and other aid, the Biden administration has been clear that there will be no U.S. combat forces inside Ukraine. In that vein, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said Thursday the military had no plans to directly provide transportation or other support to the areas damaged by the dam collapse.
The Biden administration has provided more than $37.6 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2023-06-09T16:10:43+00:00 | ksla.com | https://www.ksla.com/2023/06/09/us-announces-new-21-billion-package-military-aid-ukraine/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered on Wall Street Thursday in another round of choppy trading that has mostly held back major indexes following a weekslong run of gains.
The S&P 500 rose 0.1% as of 1:21 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 88 points, or 0.3%, to 33,890 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%.
Technology companies had some of the strongest gains. Cisco Systems rose 6% after reporting solid financial results.
Energy stocks made solid gains as U.S. crude oil prices rose 3.1%. Devon Energy rose 4.7%.
Department store Kohl’s fell 6.5% after issuing a disappointing financial forecast.
Bond yields fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which affects mortgage rates, slipped to 2.87% from 2.90% late Wednesday.
Bed Bath & Beyond fell 21.7% after investor Ryan Cohen proposed selling his entire stake in the struggling retailer.
The choppy trading for stocks follows a four-week winning streak for the benchmark S&P 500. Investors remain concerned about stubbornly hot inflation and its impact on consumers and businesses. Financial results from big retailers and economic updates throughout the week have shown that the economy remains under pressure from inflation, but has several pockets of resiliency.
“The market is looking for direction and it seems people are caught between the idea of slowing economic growth and slowing inflation,” said Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer at Independent Advisor Alliance.
Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the Labor Department, as the labor market continues to stand out as one of the strongest segments of the U.S. economy. The solid update on the employment market follows an encouraging report on Wednesday that showed retail sales remain solid despite the hottest inflation in four decades.
Investors have been closely watching the Federal Reserve for any reaction to shifts in inflation or the economy. The central bank has been raising interest rates in an effort to slow the economy and cool inflation, but Wall Street is concerned it could slam the brakes too hard and veer into a recession instead.
Any sign that inflation is peaking or cooling has given Wall Street hope that the Fed could consider easing up on rate hikes. It raised its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a point for a second-straight time during its meeting in July and is expected to raise the rate by a half-percentage point at its upcoming meeting.
The minutes from last month’s meeting of Federal Reserve policymakers showed that policymakers expected the economy to expand in the second half of 2022, though many suggested that growth would weaken as higher rates take hold. The Fed intends to continue raising rates enough to slow the economy.
Wall Street continues monitoring potential trade issues between the U.S. and China after the U.S. government said it will hold trade talks with Taiwan in a sign of support for the island democracy that China claims as its own territory, prompting Beijing to warn that it will take action if necessary to “safeguard its sovereignty.” | 2022-08-18T18:15:31+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/business/asian-stocks-follow-wall-st-down-after-fed-inflation-report/ |
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — In Gee Chun breezed to an 8-under 64 on Thursday to jump out to a big early lead in the first round of the Women's PGA Championship.
While most of the field slogged through the day on the wet Blue Course at Congressional, Chun birdied seven of eight holes during one stretch. She was seven shots better than anyone else who started in the morning, making her a threat to break the record for the largest 18-hole lead in a women's major — set by Mickey Wright, who led this tournament by five shots after 18 in 1961.
“I don’t know what golf course In Gee is playing,” defending champion Nelly Korda said after finishing her round of 71.
Chun was playing the same course as everyone else — one that went through a full restoration last year. There was heavy rain in the area overnight and more precipitation during play Thursday morning. That softened the course but also made Congressional’s length — 6,809 yards for this first round — more of a factor.
No big deal for Chun, a two-time major winner.
“The course, after a lot of rain, feels longer,” the 27-year-old South Korean said. “At the same time, greens were softer. So I think it was just a balance.”
Although there was plenty of golf left to play, Chun's early seven-shot lead certainly turned heads.
“I can’t stop staring at the leaderboard,” Justin Thomas tweeted. “Leading by 7 halfway thru day 1!!!!”
Hye-Jin Choi was 3 under through 11 holes in the afternoon, one of several players who threatened to shrink Chun's lead — but not by much.
Chun, who started on the back nine, birdied Nos. 15, 16, 17 and 18. After a bogey on No. 1, she rebounded with three more birdies in a row.
Chun set a major championship record — male or female — when she won the Evian Championship in 2016 at 21 under. She also won the U.S. Women's Open the previous year.
Korda was part of a group at 1 under, along with playing partner Brooke Henderson. One example of how challenging the course was: Korda hit driver, hybrid and 7-wood while making par on the 587-yard ninth hole.
“That’s the longest par 5 I’ve ever played,” she said. “I was happy to play the front nine even.”
Chun hit all 14 fairways and said she passed the time by discussing non-golf topics with caddie Dean Herden.
“We talk about the kiwis because I love to eat kiwis on the course,” she said. “It’s really tough to find a good kiwi from the supermarket. Luckily, we have a good Korean supermarket near here, so I got a good gold kiwi from there.”
If Chun keeps playing like this, she might find it easy to relax on the course, but she'll have a talented group of challengers chasing her. Jennifer Kupcho, who won her first major at the Chevron Championship earlier this year, was 1 under. Pornanong Phatium aced the second hole and was 2 under through eight.
All those players could feel pretty close to the lead — if not for Chun.
“I feel like I played really well. The course is really hard,” Kupcho said. “I don’t really know how In Gee is 8 under right now. That’s definitely an outlier.”
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Credit: Terrance Williams | 2022-06-23T21:09:33+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/in-gee-chun-shoots-64-races-to-early-lead-at-womens-pga/W6CNC7NO5RFCPDDL375KVDM2AE/ |
On Monday, Delaware was the next stop for the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services on his National Tour to Strengthen Mental Health. Secretary Xavier Bacerra gathered with lawmakers and stakeholders at the Nemours Estate to talk about what Delaware wants for mental health services.
“We heard some very dramatic things, but very American things today," Bacerra said.
At a round table discussion, Caesar Rodney High School Senior Andrew Celio shared his story, demonstrating a strong need for services in schools.
“When my school counselors found out about the way that I was coping, they provided me with weekly scar checks instead of the counseling I needed due to a lack of resources," Celio said. "It was really hard. One of the battles I had to overcome was the stigma that my parents always had that mental health wasn’t real and that it wasn’t a big deal and that people get sad sometimes. I wasn’t just sad though.”
Celio says policy leaders haven’t heard enough from young people about their own mental health issues and what they need amongst youth, emphasizing that young people need to be included more in the conversation.
And State Senator Sarah McBride added that students learn better when they are in a safe environment, with teachers and staff that look like and represent the student body.
This means increasing diversity in race, gender and sexual orientation, cultures and religions.
A common theme at the round-table was providing wrap-around services earlier in schools.
House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst touted HB100 which increased the number of social workers and counselors in elementary schools, so there is one for every 250 students, and one psychiatrist for every 700 students. And Longhurst says that’s still not enough.
“With that legislation, I found out that 86% of the elementary schools did not have social workers in their schools," Longhurst said. "That blew my mind. I don’t know how we expect to help children if we don’t provide the services for them. I went up and down this state and I listened to teachers. Teachers were not teaching. They were being mental health providers.”
Nemours President Dr. Larry Moss added that in the last 12 months, 1-in-5 children in the United States had a diagnosable mental illness, and 1-in-5 teenagers seriously contemplated suicide, what he says are staggering and unheard of numbers.
This tour is part of HHS' ongoing efforts to support the Biden-Harris Administration's whole-of-government strategy to transform mental health services for all Americans—a key part of the President's Unity Agenda that is reflected in the President's Fiscal Year 2023 budget. | 2022-08-02T04:42:11+00:00 | delawarepublic.org | https://www.delawarepublic.org/delaware-headlines/2022-08-01/hhs-secretary-visits-delaware-on-strengthen-mental-health-tour-discusses-need-for-help-in-schools |
NEW YORK, April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashland Place Finance LLC ("Ashland Place"), a commercial aviation financing platform, today announced the completion of a new financing facility involving two 737-800s for World Star Aviation ("World Star"), a leading full-service aircraft management company.
"We are thrilled to welcome World Star to Ashland Place's growing platform," said Jennifer Villa, Ashland Place's Executive Director and Group Head. "Our understanding of the unique needs of this customer allowed us to provide them a comprehensive and innovative solution."
Allen & Overy LLP served as legal counsel for Ashland Place and Pillsbury Winthrop represented World Star on this transaction.
About Ashland Place Finance LLC
Ashland Place Finance LLC is an institutional financing platform offering innovative capital solutions to the global commercial aerospace industry. Ashland Place is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP. Additional information can be found at: www.ashlandplace.com.
About World Star Aviation
World Star Aviation is a full-service aircraft management company with headquarters in London with key expertise in mid-to-late life model, high quality commercial and freighter aircraft. World Star currently owns and/or manages a fleet of 109 aircraft and engines with 45 lessees in 28 countries globally.
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SOURCE Ashland Place | 2023-04-19T13:46:12+00:00 | wsfa.com | https://www.wsfa.com/prnewswire/2023/04/19/ashland-place-completes-financing-two-737-800s-world-star-aviation/ |
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