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MANHATTAN (PIX11) — Layoffs are coming to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
The workforce will be reduced by about 3 percent, effective mid-January of 2023, a spokesperson said. The hospital is facing financial challenges.
“Our cost-containment efforts are being carefully planned to ensure that we do not adversely impact patient care,” the spokesperson said.
The move was “reluctantly agreed on,” Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center President and CEO Dr. Selwyn Vickers wrote in an email to staff obtained by PIX11.
“This is the only way for us to preserve out ability to invest in the critical assets needed to achieve our mission for generations to come,” Vickers wrote. “As your new leader, I regret having to share this information, especially as we approach the holiday season, but I am committed to being transparent with you at every turn.” | 2022-11-15T23:16:25+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/local-news/manhattan/memorial-sloan-kettering-cancer-center-slashing-workforce/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal magistrate ruled Tuesday to make public the names of the cosigners on indicted Rep. George Santos ’ $500,000 release bond, but said she’ll keep them secret for now to give his lawyer time to appeal the decision.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields’ ruling came a day after Santos’ lawyer said the New York Republican would risk going to jail to protect the identities of his cosigners whose backing enabled his pretrial release.
The decision was a victory for news outlets including The Associated Press and The New York Times that petitioned Shields last week to unseal the names, citing a need for “the greatest transparency possible.”
Santos’ lawyer, Joseph Murray, urged Shields to keep the names secret. He suggested that the congressman’s cosigners could “suffer great distress,” including possible job losses and physical harm, if they’re identified publicly.
Murray said he, Santos and Santos’ staff have been receiving threatening and harassing calls and messages, including death threats. He said he worries Santos’ critics “are just waiting to pounce” on the people backing his release.
“My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what will inevitably come,” Murray wrote.
Shields gave Murray until 12 p.m. Friday to appeal. A message seeking comment was left with Murray.
Santos, 34, represents parts of Queens and Long Island. He pleaded not guilty May 10 to charges he duped donors, stole from his campaign, lied to Congress about being a millionaire and cheated to collect unemployment benefits he didn’t deserve.
At Murray’s request, Shields agreed at Santos’ arraignment to keep the cosigners’ names out of the public court record. In her ruling Tuesday, Shields reversed that decision.
Santos has defied calls to resign and has said he won’t drop his bid for a second term. He is due back in court on June 30.
Santos’ bond is unsecured. That means his cosigners didn’t have to put up any money up front, but could be forced to pay the full amount if he doesn’t comply with his release conditions or fails to show up for court. | 2023-06-07T01:29:30+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/politics/ap-politics/judge-rules-to-release-names-of-rep-santos-bond-cosigners-will-say-secret-for-now-as-appeal-mulled/ |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Nine men suspected of crewing a migrant smuggling ship that sank off Greece leaving more than 500 missing appeared in court Tuesday for questioning, as new accounts emerged on the sinking and the appalling conditions on the trip from Libya towards Italy.
The Egyptian suspects face charges that include participation in a criminal organization, manslaughter and causing a shipwreck. The hearing took place in Greece’s southern city of Kalamata.
Only 104 men and youths — Egyptians, Pakistanis, Syrians and Palestinians — survived one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea early on June 14; 81 bodies have been recovered. Survivors said women and children were trapped in the hold as the ship capsized and sank within minutes to one of the deepest spots in the Mediterranean.
New survivor accounts emerged Tuesday confirming that about 750 people paid thousands of dollars each for a berth on the battered blue fishing trawler, seeking a better life in Europe.
In sworn testimonies provided over the weekend, and seen by The Associated Press, survivors described shocking conditions on the five-day journey. Most of the passengers were denied food and water, and those who couldn’t bribe the crew to get out of the hold were beaten if they tried to reach deck level.
The testimonies also echoed previous accounts that the steel-hulled trawler sank in calm seas during a botched attempt to tow it. This clashes with the Greek coast guard’s insistence that neither its patrol boat that escorted the trawler in its last hours nor any other vessel attached a tow rope.
“The Greek ship cast a rope and it was tied to our bows,” survivor Abdul Rahman Alhaz said in his sworn testimony. “Then we moved forward, but not for more than two minutes. We shouted ‘stop, stop!’ because our boat was listing. (It) was in bad shape and overloaded, and shouldn’t have been towed.”
Alhaz, a 24-year-old Palestinian from Syria, said he paid $4,000 to board the ship at Tobruk in eastern Libya. He said the “people in charge” on the trawler were all Egyptians, and recognized seven suspects from pictures Greek authorities showed him.
“Most of the Pakistanis were in the hold, and were lost with the boat,” he said. “One of the crew had told me there were more than 400 Pakistanis on the boat, and only 11 were saved.”
These didn’t include the wife and two children of Rana Husnain Neseer, 23, who were in the hold. Neseer himself, who said he paid 7,000 euros for the trip, traveled on deck.
“About 750 people were on board,” he said. “(The crew) didn’t give us food or water, and hit us with a belt to keep us from standing up.”
Neseer said other passengers told him that a tow line was attached by a “big ship” just before the sinking. He didn’t see that “as I was bent low and praying.”
But he felt the vessel sharply list. “We all went to the other side to balance it, which made our boat tilt in the other direction and sink,” added Neseer, who recognized four of the survivors as crew members.
Fellow Pakistani Azmat Khan Muhammad Salihu, 36, identified three suspects, including one who hit him when he tried to leave the hold, and one who struck passengers with a belt.
Being in the hold, he had no first-hand account of why the ship sank and said there were no women and children in his section below decks.
“I was saved because I found an opening and got out,” his testimony said. “I called to the others to follow me but … nobody managed to escape”
Greece has been widely criticized for not trying to save the migrants before the sinking in international waters. Officials in Athens say the passengers refused any help and insisted on proceeding to Italy, adding that it would have been too dangerous to try and evacuate hundreds of unwilling people off an overcrowded ship.
Asked about the incident as World Refugee Day was marked across the globe Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “It is horrible, what happened, and the more urgent is that we act.”
Von der Leyen, the head of the European Union’s executive arm, said the EU should help African countries like Tunisia, where many migrants leave for Europe, to stabilize their economies, as well as finalize a long-awaited reform of the 27-nation bloc’s asylum rules.
She did not, however, mention Libya, from where the doomed trawler and many similarly overloaded Europe-bound boats depart across the particularly dangerous Mediterranean migration route.
Five other human smuggling suspects were arrested in Pakistan this week and some allegedly confessed to sending some of the Pakistanis who were on the trawler, officials in Islamabad said Tuesday.
Relatives of at least 124 people in Pakistan have contacted authorities to find out about missing loved ones believed to have been on the trawler, the officials said.
The full details of the sinking remain unclear. Photos and videos from before the sinking show people crammed on all available open spaces of the trawler.
One survivor, Ali Sheikhi from the northeast Syrian town of Kobani, told Kurdish TV news channel Rudaw that the smugglers didn’t allow life jackets and threw whatever food the passengers had into the sea.
Speaking late Sunday by phone from a closed reception center near Athens where survivors were taken, Sheikhi said he was directed to the hold but paid the smugglers to got out onto deck.
By the time the ship sank, they had been at sea for five days. Water ran out after a day and a half, and he said some passengers resorted to drinking seawater.
Sheikhi also said the trawler went down after its engine broke down and another vessel tried to tow it. “In the pulling, (the trawler) sank,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Elena Becatoros in Athens, Munir Ahmed in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Lorne Cook in Brussels, Belgium contributed to this story.
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Follow AP’s coverage of global migration at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2023-06-21T11:35:48+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/9-egyptians-appearing-in-greek-court-over-deadly-migrant-shipwreck/ |
PARIS (AP) — France was in the midst of its fourth heat wave of the year Monday as the country faces what the government warned is its worst drought on record.
National weather agency Meteo France said the heat wave began in the south and is expected to spread across the country and last until the weekend.
Overall, the southern half of France expects daytime temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) ad won’t drop at night below 20 C (68 F).
The high temperatures aren’t helping firefighters battling a wildfire in the Chartreuse Mountains near the Alps in eastern France, where authorities have evacuated around 140 people.
Meteo France said this week’s heat wave will not be as intense as the one last month, when several regions experienced record-breaking temperatures. But the high temperatures come during the most severe drought ever recorded, according to the government. Last month was the driest July since measurements began in 1959.
Some French farmers have started to see a drops in production especially in soy, sunflower and corn yields.
Water restrictions in place range from daytime irrigation bans to limiting water usage to people, livestock and to keep aquatic species alive.
The government said last week that more than 100 municipalities can’t provide drinking water through taps and need water truck supplies.
The heat also forced energy giant EDF to temporarily cut power generation at some of its nuclear plants, which use river water to cool reactors.
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Follow all AP stories on climate change at https://apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment. | 2022-08-08T18:24:45+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/science/ap-science/france-in-midst-of-4th-heat-wave-amid-historic-drought/ |
DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal divisions that threaten to plague the party into the next presidential season.
McDaniel, whom Donald Trump tapped as RNC chair in 2016, won the the secret ballot 111 to 51. The high-profile election played out inside a luxury resort on the Southern California coast as the RNC’s 168 voting members – activists and elected officials from all 50 states – gathered for the committee’s annual winter meeting.
A relieved McDaniel invited her rivals to the stage immediately after the outcome was announced.
“With us united, and all of us working together, the Democrats are going to hear us in 2024,” she declared.
With the victory, McDaniel becomes the longest-serving RNC chair since the Civil War. Yet friends and foes alike agree that she will not be leading the RNC from a position of strength.
“The party is not united,” McDaniel’s chief rival, Trump attorney Harmeet Dhillon, told reporters in the hallway soon after standing alongside McDaniel on stage. “Nobody’s going to unite around the party the way it is, which is seemingly ignoring the grassroots.”
Indeed, while Trump privately backed McDaniel, powerful forces within his “Make America Great Again” movement lined up behind Dhillon.
Backed by MAGA leaders in conservative media, Dhillon waged an aggressive challenge against McDaniel that featured allegations of chronic misspending, mismanagement and even religious bigotry against Dhillon’s Sikh faith — all claims that McDaniel denied. Above all, the case against McDaniel centered on deep dissatisfaction with the direction of the party after continuous election losses since Trump chose her to lead the committee following his upset 2016 victory.
After Dhillon’s loss was announced, conservative activist Charlie Kirk cited the Republican base’s overwhelming desire for change and said those members who voted for McDaniel would be held “accountable.”
“The RNC has contempt for their voters,” said Kirk, who sat among several Dhillon allies in the back of the hotel ballroom where the vote was held. “They basically just gave them a middle finger.”
While McDaniel prevailed, some of her supporters privately conceded they were open to a change in the committee’s leadership after three successive disappointing elections. But there were specific concerns about Dhillon – and the people around her.
The California Republican closely aligned herself with Caroline Wren, a former Trump fundraiser who was involved with raising money for the Washington rally on Jan. 6, 2021,that preceded the violent attack on the Capitol.
Dhillon’s chief surrogate at the RNC meeting this week was Kari Lake, the failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate who has spread debunked claims of voter fraud. Lake courted RNC members on Dhillon’s behalf inside the conference hotel.
From afar, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a likely 2024 presidential contender, spoke out against McDaniel on the eve of the vote as well.
“I think we need a change. I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC,” DeSantis said in an interview with Florida’s Voice, citing three “substandard election cycles in a row” under McDaniel’s leadership.
Meanwhile, Trump quietly supported McDaniel, a niece of Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, and dispatched a handful of his lieutenants to Southern California to advocate on her behalf.
The former president avoided making a public endorsement at McDaniel’s request, according to those with direct knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. McDaniel’s team was confident she would win without his public backing, allowing her to maintain a sense of neutrality heading into the 2024 presidential primary season.
According to its rules, the RNC must remain neutral in the presidential primary. Trump is the only announced GOP candidate so far, but other high-profile contenders are expected in the coming months.
McDaniel is now set to lead the RNC through the 2024 election. Under her leadership, the committee will control much of the presidential nominating process – including the debates and voting calendar — while directing the sprawling nationwide infrastructure designed to elect a Republican president.
Also in the race on Friday was MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who won four votes.
Lindell has already endorsed Trump’s 2024 campaign and said he would not change his mind if his longshot bid was successful Friday.
“I’ve never not endorsed Donald Trump,” Lindell said. “I’m never moving off that space.” | 2023-01-27T22:30:02+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ap-rnc-chair-mcdaniel-fights-for-reelection-in-leadership-feud/ |
CerTest Biotec Uses the BD MAX™ Molecular Diagnostic System Open System Reagent Suite to Develop RT-PCR Detection Kit
ZARAGOZA, Spain and FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CerTest Biotec and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today announced a collaboration to develop a molecular diagnostic test for the Monkeypox virus.
As part of the collaboration, the assay will leverage the BD MAX™ open system reagent suite to validate the CerTest VIASURE Monkeypox CE/IVD molecular test on the BD MAX™ System. The assay will be available for BD MAX™ users and may help advance understanding of the global spread of the disease.
"Enabling labs to rapidly respond to unexpected challenges is the kind of evolving health care situations for which the BD MAX™ open system reagent suite is designed," said Nikos Pavlidis, vice president of Molecular Diagnostics at BD. "Through our collaboration with CerTest and their ability to rapidly transfer assays on the BD MAX™ System, we will enable BD MAX™ System users around the world to access a test for the confirmation of monkeypox."
The BD MAX™ System is a fully integrated, automated platform that performs nucleic acid extraction and real-time PCR providing results for up to 24 samples across multiple syndromes in less than three hours. BD offers an extensive menu of tests on the system covering healthcare associated infections, respiratory infections, sexually transmitted infections, gastrointestinal infections, and women's health diagnostics. BD offers a suite of open system reagents for the BD MAX™ System that enables labs to fully automate and streamline their Lab Developed Tests, and BD can partner with customers to develop complementary assays on the system.
Nelson Fernandes, Managing Director of CerTest BioTec, added "The strong capabilities of our teams to rapidly develop molecular assays as well our experience working with the BD MAX™ System enables us to accelerate the development of an assay and further build our collaboration with BD."
As with all CerTest tests, the Monkeypox PCR Detection Kit for the BD MAX™ System will be offered in a lyophilized format. Accordingly, the test will come in a tube that snaps into the test-specific position on the BD MAX™ ExK™ TNA extraction strip, which is supplied by BD.
About CerTest
CerTest Biotec is a European company established in 2002 for the development and manufacturing of in vitro diagnostic medical devices.
Today, CerTest is a global company structured around 7 business units offering one of the widest portfolios for human In Vitro Diagnostic and Pharma. The company bases its future on a strong technical knowledge and expertise in the detection of human diseases.
CerTest last generation laboratories, state-of-the-art technical equipment and skilled professionals are the keys for providing reliable solutions for the medical diagnostic professional.
About BD
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics andbecton the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 75,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help enhance the safety and efficiency of clinicians' care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers' capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com or connect with us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/bd1/ and Twitter @BDandCo.
*BD and BD MAX trademarks are property of BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company).
*VIASURE is a registered trademark of CerTest Biotec, S.L.
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SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Matthew Tkachuk is under contract to the Florida Panthers for much of the next decade. So is fellow All-Star Aleksander Barkov. And right there are two compelling reasons for players to join the Panthers in the coming years.
The last few days might have helped the recruiting pitch, too.
Many of hockey’s best players spent three or four days in South Florida. Some got in the ocean. Some golfed. Some just enjoyed the sun.
Playing host to the NHL’s midseason showcase and showing the all-stars what hockey can be like in the Panthers’ market — in Florida, in winter — could pay off in the long run.
“Barky’s been here a long time, signed eight years, wants to be here, wants to be here for like the remainder of his time here. That shows the hockey side that it’s a great place to play hockey and it’s a great winning culture,” said Tkachuk, the MVP of the All-Star Game. “It starts with your best player, your captain. But then there’s the off-ice part and everything that comes to play in Florida. Basically, everything guys are seeing now … like, wow.”
Wow, indeed. So much about the Panthers has changed over the last few years, and All-Star weekend was both confirmation and affirmation. Long gone are the days of the team continually hearing rumors about moving out of south Florida. So, too, are the days of the franchise being a doormat.
“This franchise was never moving anywhere,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “The closest it came was when they were in Miami and we were working to get a building because they couldn’t stay in the old Miami Arena. Since they got the arena in Sunrise, there’s never been an issue. And frankly, having the Violas’ ownership of this franchise, it’s not only phenomenal, it’s game-changing — pun intended.”
This September will mark the 10th anniversary of Vincent Viola buying the franchise. Recently, attendance has gotten better. Hope has been building. The team won the President’s Trophy last season and a playoff series for the first time since 1996.
This season hasn’t gone according to plan, thanks in large part to injuries. And while the Panthers are far from doomed in the playoff race, they have some serious ground to make up over the final 30 games.
“There’s no quick-fixes,” Florida Panthers president Matthew Caldwell said. “But now, we just feel like we’re structurally, financially, long-term stable.”
They’re also investing: The Panthers are refurbishing the War Memorial in Fort Lauderdale, which will become the team’s new practice headquarters starting next season, and plan to start more community outreach programs.
The core of the team is set for years. The infrastructure is in place. Ownership has shown it’ll spend what is required. And the Panthers can only hope some All-Stars this weekend took notice.
“South Florida’s a hockey town,” Caldwell said. “It took us a long time. But here we are.”
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AP NHL: https://apnews.com/hub/nhl and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-02-06T13:58:05+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-panthers-hope-all-star-weekend-showcased-teams-investment/ |
Industry Offers Alternative Financing for Clean Energy and Resiliency
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- C-PACE Alliance (CPA), the business association focused exclusively on clean energy and resiliency financing through Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) programs across the U.S., announced today the honorees of its C-PACE Alliance Awards for projects in six categories. C-PACE financing is an alternative form of financing that enable property owners to pay for energy-efficiency improvements and renewable energy equipment.
CPA recognizes C-PACE transactions and leaders who demonstrate the high standards of quality and efficiency that characterize the industry's potential for accomplishments during 2021:
- C-PACE Policy and Program Improvements Award: Amy Wheeless and the Shift Zero coalition for their grassroots organizing and political strategizing to enact C-PACE statutes in Washington State. Shift Zero's local relationships and CPA's national expertise complemented each other's strengths throughout the multi-year journey.
- C-PACE Environmental Impact Deal of the Year: The Vortex Cold Storage Warehouse in Alberta Lea, Minnesota, financed by PACE Equity, used a new refrigeration technology with an incremental cost of $1 million and a six-year return on investment, while saving over 1,500 metric tons of carbon emissions annually.
- C-PACE Public Benefits Deal of the Year – Small Transaction. The Elevation Workspace in St. Louis, Missouri, financed by Twain Financial Partners, aims to break down barriers that segregate neighborhoods racially and economically by offering affordable office space in a mixed-use facility primarily for minority-owned businesses.
- C-PACE Public Benefits Deal of the Year – Large Transaction. The One Park Road project in Connecticut, funded by CastleGreen Finance, allowed the Sisters of St. Joseph to own and occupy one wing of its historic convent and convert the remainder into market-rate and affordable housing. C-PACE financing reduces the cost of capital and saves over 30% in energy usage as compared to the building code.
- C-PACE Innovation in Efficient Financing Award. The Indian Nations Council of Governments (INCOG) Oklahoma C-PACE Program designed an easy-to-use C-PACE program for any county in Oklahoma, and INCOG closed its first transaction within a couple of months of launch, among the fastest start-ups C-PACE Alliance is aware of.
- C-PACE Deal-of-the-Year. 111 Wall Street in New York City, financed by Petros PACE Finance, pioneered the first transaction in the City's long-delayed C-PACE program. As part of a $500 million makeover, the former bank headquarters used $89 million in C-PACE proceeds, the nation's largest C-PACE project when it closed.
C-PACE Alliance (www.c-pacealliance.com) is an association of capital providers and transaction experts who invest in or professionally advise on the vast majority of C-PACE financing nationally. Now approved in 38 states and the District of Columbia, C-PACE financing has surpassed more than $2.5 billion in energy, water resources, resiliency and related improvements for commercial real estate.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jameson Taillon pitched effectively into the sixth inning, Dansby Swanson homered among his three hits, and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 on Friday night in the opener of a four-game series.
“That is the best I have seen him I think since spring training - on the attack,” Cubs manager David Ross said of Taillon. “I thought he did spectacular - it is as good as I've seen him.”
Taillon (1-3), who came in winless over his previous eight starts with an 8.04 ERA, kept the Padres batters off-balance twice through their lineup and earned the win. He gave up three hits and one run in a season-high 5 2/3 innings.
“Been grinding, working really hard with everyone behind the scenes. It is nice to get the results," Taillon said. “I haven't felt like a huge part of what we are doing yet just because I haven't been pulling my weight, so it is nice to contribute and be part of a win.”
Padres starter Michael Wacha (5-2) struggled with control, issuing five walks in 4 2/3 innings. He gave up two runs and three hits while striking out eight.
Chicago took the lead with a fielder’s choice ground ball by Ian Happ to score Nico Hoerner from third in the third inning. Swanson hit a solo homer to left off Wacha to make it 2-0 in the fifth.
“I put a really good swing on it. It barely got out, but they all count,” Swanson said. “I really didn’t know (if it was gone), and I honestly kept running and sooner or later I found out it was a homer,”
San Diego finally broke through against Taillon in the sixth after Rougned Odor (2 for 3) led off with a double and scored Fernando Tatis Jr.'s slow infield dribbler hugging the third-base line. Odor left the game after a single in the eighth with a left groin strain.
“It doesn't feel like it is severe with what I'm told afterwards,” San Diego manager Bob Melvin said of Odor's injury. “These things typically do take a little bit of time, but it's not like he felt a pop so not sure what the timetable is going to be (for Odor's return).”
Cubs reliever Adbert Alzolay quashed a Padres threat in the eighth. He came in with no outs and runners at first and second and got Xander Bogaerts to hit into a double play and then struck out Tatis.
“You know, we come in with a lot of momentum. We felt like offensively we're starting to hit our stride. It didn't happen today,” Melvin said. “It continues to be a little bit frustrating.”
Mark Leiter Jr. finished up with a scoreless ninth for his third save.
“A real nice job by the back-end (of the bullpen),” Ross said. “Adbert comes in to get the ground ball and then the big punch-out of Tatis and then Leiter goes through the heart of their order.”
TRAINER’S ROOM
Cubs: LHP Justin Steele (left forearm strain) is day-to-day. Steele underwent an MRI exam on Thursday, and the results indicated it was a “mild” strain.
Padres: Reinstated 3B Manny Machado from the 10-day IL prior to Friday night’s game. The move comes 17 days after Machado sustained a fractured metacarpal in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch. ... Placed DH Nelson Cruz on the 10-day IL (right hamstring strain). ... Optioned OF José Azocar to Triple-A El Paso. ... Selected the contract of IB Alfonso Rivas from El Paso. ... C Luis Campusano (left thumb surgery) was moved from the 10-day to the 60-day IL.
UP NEXT
Cubs LHP Drew Smyly (5-2, 3.45) will start on Saturday night against Padres LHP Yu Darvish (3-4, 4.61).
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AP MLB: https://apnews.com/hub/mlb and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2023-06-03T05:59:31+00:00 | lmtonline.com | https://www.lmtonline.com/sports/article/taillon-swanson-lead-cubs-to-a-2-1-win-over-18133332.php |
Anti-abortion activists say Trump will still need to win them over in 2024
By Gabby Orr, CNN
Anti-abortion proponents who believe Donald Trump’s crowning achievement was the overturning of Roe v. Wade say the newly declared 2024 contender will still have to earn their support in the upcoming Republican presidential primary — and he may be off to a rocky start.
In his more-than-hour-long speech announcing his candidacy, the former president omitted any mention of his anti-abortion credentials or his appointment of three of the conservative Supreme Court justices who ultimately abolished federal abortion protections. Within hours, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, a leading anti-abortion group, released a statement pointedly dismissing candidates “who shy away from this fight.”
Though the group did not mention Trump by name, its message was clear: No matter what he did to advance the anti-abortion cause during his first term, he must continue to prove his commitment as he seeks a second term or risk losing some conservative coalition support.
Trump “raised the bar very high for what it meant to be a pro-life president,” SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser told CNN in an interview this week. For that reason, Dannenfelser said, she was “surprised” the former president didn’t do more to tout his anti-abortion bona fides in his campaign announcement.
“It’s a deep moral failure not to step up in the most important moment for our movement and if you think you can breeze through Iowa and South Carolina without a strong pro-life national vision, you’re just wrong,” she said, naming two of the early voting states that can buoy or tank a presidential candidate’s bid.
Others said Trump, who has confided to aides that he believes the abortion issue may be hurting Republican candidates, passed on a layup by touting some of his core achievements in the conservative policy sphere but declining to mention his first-term efforts to limit abortion access. Instead, Trump highlighted his deliverance of tax cuts and deregulatory and counterterrorism actions by his administration as he addressed throngs of loyalists in the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday.
“For sure it was a missed opportunity,” said Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life. “President Trump has done many, many things we are grateful for but regardless, whoever gets our vote will have to earn it.”
“We expect to be courted in the primary process and the person we want to get behind will be unapologetic in speaking up to defend the pre-born and calling for federal protections,” Hawkins said.
The demand among leading abortion opponents for unflinching advocates comes as Trump, whose muted reaction to the overturning of Roe did not go unnoticed among anti-abortion conservatives, is expected to face primary challengers whose advancement of anti-abortion efforts date much further back than his own and may be more willing to embrace more stringent restrictions on abortion access in the months to come, possibly at the federal level. Trump has also found himself weakened in the wake of midterm defeats as some deep-pocketed GOP donors and elected Republicans call for the party to move on from him, underscoring the importance of keeping the conservative grassroots in his corner.
“He does not want to risk any loss in the pro-life, evangelical or Catholic spheres,” Dannenfelser said.
“I think Republicans who are running away from the issue right now are wrong,” added Tom McClusky, director of government affairs at CatholicVote, an advocacy organization that opposes abortion and spent $9.7 million in the 2020 presidential contest to boost Trump over Joe Biden.
Trump’s apparent lack of interest in promoting his anti-abortion achievements is not new, McClusky added, saying that “he didn’t mention all that unless prodded during his presidency.” After the Supreme Court ended federal abortion rights this summer — kicking authority on the issue to state governments — Trump took a brief victory lap, declaring in a statement that the landmark ruling wouldn’t have happened without him “nominating and getting three highly respected and strong Constitutionalists confirmed to the United States Supreme Court.”
Meanwhile, other elements of Trump’s reaction to the ruling raised questions among abortion opponents about his support for new laws restricting the procedure, particularly after the former president had previously sidestepped questions about whether he supported a controversial Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for life-threatening medical emergencies.
“This brings everything back to the states where it has always belonged,” Trump told Fox News in the wake of the June 24 Dobbs decision.
At a September campaign rally in Ohio for then-Senate GOP hopeful J.D. Vance, Trump once again affirmed his believe that abortion rights or restrictions should be determined “in the states,” adding that “Republicans have to get smart with that issue.”
“It’s turned over to the states and it’s working out… The places where it’s not working out, it will work out,” Trump said.
But if he repeats that in the primary, Trump could land himself in hot water with anti-abortion groups that have been championing efforts to legislate abortion at the federal level.
“One thing that will not be satisfactory and a disqualifier is any candidate who says this is a state issue,” said Dannenfelser, who has remained in touch with Trump since he left office.
Talking about abortion
Others simply want to see Republican presidential candidates — including Trump — talking about abortion as much as possible in the months to come. Prior to the midterms elections, however, Trump expressed concern to advisers that the reversal of Roe would backfire on GOP candidates by injecting a jolt of energy into the Democratic base, according to two people familiar with his comments.
One of those sources said Trump has since griped to aides that his prediction was right, partly blaming the GOP’s underwhelming midterm performance on the attention abortion received from voters. CNN exit poll data found that 61 percent of voters were displeased with the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and about seven in 10 of those voters backed Democratic candidates running for Congress.
A Trump campaign spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.
“A lot of folks seemed skittish about talking about abortion immediately after Roe’s reversal. We believe that it’s dangerous for Republicans not when you talk about it but when you don’t talk,” said Hawkins.
Democrats have similarly taken note of Trump’s caution around the abortion subject, noting that they will continue to highlight his record.
“It’s no surprise Donald Trump is terrified about talking about his own record of paving the way for abortion bans across the country,” said Ammar Moussa, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, adding that “Democrats will remind voters how [Trump] said there should be ‘some form of punishment’ for women who get an abortion'” during his 2016 presidential campaign.
With Trump kicking off the 2024 primary earlier this week, several abortion opponents have said they have already been impressed with at least one of his potential rivals — former Vice President Mike Pence — and are closely watching to see how others handle the issue as they near possible campaigns of their own.
That includes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, potentially Trump’s leading foe if he mounts a campaign, who signed a 15-week abortion ban into law this past April but hasn’t committed to including additional legislative restrictions in an upcoming special session of the Florida state legislature, despite calls from abortion opponents to do so.
“We would like to see him do more and see him speak more loudly,” said Hawkins, who remains hopeful that DeSantis’ sweeping reelection victory will embolden him “to take on additional measures in this coming legislative session.”
Pence, for his part, has long charted a political identity with anti-abortion advocacy at its core since his days as a conservative congressman from Indiana. Just weeks after the Dobbs decision was handed down, the former vice president traveled to South Carolina to deliver a speech outlining a Republican policy blueprint for “post-Roe America.” He and his wife Karen have also been quietly raising funds for crisis pregnancy centers across the country and in keynote remarks at a gala for Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America in September, Pence also appeared to endorse Republican efforts to shepherd a national abortion ban through Congress.
“I welcome any and all efforts to advance the cause of life in state capitals or in the nation’s capital,” Pence said at the time.
At a CNN town hall this week, Pence praised the Dobbs decision, saying it gave “the American people a new beginning for life.” While suggesting that laws around abortion had been “returned to the states and the American people, where it belongs,” Pence also said he remains hopeful that all 50 states will eventually “stand for the sanctity of life.”
Marc Short, a top adviser to the former vice president, said Pence will continue to train a spotlight on the issue whether or not he decides to run for president in 2024.
“He’s always said we now have to take our case to the American people in a winsome way, while others have said, ‘just stop talking about it,'” Short said, adding that abortion “has never been a comfortable issue for President Trump and one he thinks of as a political loser.”
While Pence’s intense focus on the issue has scored him points with abortion opponents, Short said it has also rankled some donors who don’t want to see third rail issues “highlighted as much [or] don’t necessarily agree with his position.” Pence, who is in the midst of promoting his new book “So Help Me God” that chronicles his time as vice president, has “loyal supporters who don’t necessarily share his views on life” but continue to support him because they consider him “a role model in public service,” Short said.
After federal abortion rights were overturned, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — another possible 2024 contender — tweeted that conservatives would soon see “which politicians supported the pro-life cause to win elections, and which actually believed it.” But in a September interview with the Sioux City Journal during one of several visits he has made to Iowa, Pompeo also declined to offer support for Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ push to outlaw abortion after six weeks in her state.
“Iowa will sort through it for itself, the state of Kansas will sort through it for itself,” said Pompeo, a former congressman from Kansas, which earlier this year rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment that could have paved the way for a statewide ban on abortion. Pompeo described the vote as “very confusing.”
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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese depositors, including a retired police officer, stormed at least three banks in the cash-strapped country Tuesday after banks ended a week-long strike and partially reopened.
As the tiny Mediterranean nation’s crippling economic crisis continues to worsen, a growing number of Lebanese depositors have opted to break into banks and forcefully withdraw their trapped savings. Lebanon’s cash-strapped banks have imposed informal limits on cash withdrawals. The break-ins reflect growing public anger towards the banks and the authorities who have struggled to reform the country’s corrupt and battered economy.
Three-quarters of the population have plunged into poverty in an economic crisis that the World Bank describes as one of the worst in over a century. Meanwhile, the Lebanese pound has lost 90% of its value against that dollar, making it difficult for millions across the country to cope with skyrocketing prices.
Ali al-Sahli, a retired officer who served in Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, raided a BLC Bank branch in the eastern town of Chtaura, demanding $24,000 in trapped savings to transfer to his son, who owes rent and tuition fees in Ukraine.
“Count the money, before one of you dies,” al-Sahli said in a video he recorded with one hand while waving a gun in the other.
According to Depositors’ Outcry, a protest group, al-Sahli said he had offered to sell his kidney to fund his son’s expenses, after the bank for months blocked him from transferring money. With his son owing months of rent and tuition fees, the retired officer reached out to the protest group for help.
In the video he filmed on his cellphone, al-Sahli waved a handgun, threatening to shoot, if bank employees didn’t oblige. Employees struggled to calm him down, as protesters from the depositors group and bystanders watched from outside.
Al-Sahli was unable to retrieve any of his money, and security forces arrested him.
In the southern city of Tyre, Ali Hodroj broke into a Byblos Bank branch, demanding about $40,000 in his trapped savings to pay outstanding loans. He held a handgun and fired a warning shot, as security forces encircled the area. Hodroj retrieved about $9,000 worth in Lebanese pounds, following negotiations with the head of a depositors advocacy group mediating.
Hassan Moghnieh, head of the Association of Depositors in Lebanon, told The Associated Press that Hodroj’s family retrieved the money before he turned himself in to the police outside the branch.
And in the northern city of Tripoli, workers of the Qadisha Electricity Company broke into a local First National Bank branch protesting banks deducting fees from their delayed salary payments. The Lebanese Army arrived at the site in Tripoli and patrolled the area.
Some depositors’ protest groups, including the Depositors’ Outcry, have supported the break-ins and vowed to continue doing so.
“We’re sending a message to the banks that their security measures won’t stop the depositors, because these depositors are all struggling,” Depositors’ Outcry media coordinator Moussa Agassi told the AP. “We’re trying to tell the bank owners to try to find a solution, and beefing up security measures isn’t going to keep them safe.”
The general public have commended the angry depositors, some even hailing them as heroes, most notably Sally Hafez, who stormed a Beirut bank branch with a fake pistol and gasoline canister to take some $13,000 to fund her 23 year-old sister’s cancer treatment.
The banks, however, have condemned the heists, and urged the Lebanese government to provide security personnel.
The Association of Banks in Lebanon in late September shuttered for one week after at least seven depositors stormed into branches and forcefully took their trapped savings that month, citing security concerns. The banks last week partially reopened a handful of branches, only welcoming commercial clients with appointments into their premises.
Lebanon meanwhile has been struggling to restructure its financial sector and economy to reach an agreement with The International Monetary Fund for a bailout. The IMF has criticized Lebanese officials for their slow progress. | 2022-10-04T22:28:28+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-depositors-storm-3-lebanese-banks-demanding-their-own-money/ |
A roundup of the week's most newsworthy entertainment industry press releases from PR Newswire, including the return of Good Burger and the 2023 tour of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey®.
NEW YORK, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- With thousands of press releases published each week, it can be difficult to keep up with everything on PR Newswire. To help journalists covering the entertainment and media industries stay on top of the week's most newsworthy and popular releases, here's a roundup of stories from the week that shouldn't be missed.
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- Welcome to Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger!
Nickelodeon Studios and Paramount+ announced the greenlight of GOOD BURGER 2, an all-new original movie sequel to the iconic '90s feature film. The movie will follow Dexter Reed (Kenan Thompson) and original cashier, Ed (Kel Mitchell), as they reunite in the present day at fast-food restaurant Good Burger with a hilarious new group of employees. - Hulu Original 'History of the World, Part II' Becomes an Interactive Digital Gaming Experience
The interactive website version of the History of the World, Part II gaming experience embraces the crass humor and absurd silliness of the show (and makes no apologies) for an unforgettable, unique experience with plenty of memorable features. - Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Reveals Extraordinary Scale and Spectacle of The Greatest Show On Earth®
Bringing to life an arena spectacle at unbelievable scale, The Greatest Show On Earth will debut stunning feats of real human achievement, musical performances blended with aerial artistry, modern comedy, and never-before-seen acts on highwire, trapeze, bicycles, and more. - The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Announce the 100th Annual Class of National Medalists Student participation is up 15% from 2022, with more than 100,000 teens from U.S. territories, Canada, and every state in the nation participating in this year's Awards, submitting over 300,000 works of art and writing. Works by more than 40,000 teens received regional recognition, and nearly 2,000 works earned national awards.
- Newsmax, DIRECTV Finalize Renewal
"Newsmax recognizes and appreciates that DIRECTV clearly supports diverse voices, including conservative ones," said Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. - Herman Miller Opens the Vault, Reintroduces Eight Archival Alexander Girard Originals
The team at Herman Miller carefully analyzed his original screen-printed designs, finding a modern medium that not only maintained the integrity of the originals, but elevated the beloved artwork to be used in new ways and spaces. - Visit West Hollywood Announces 2023 Partnership with Outfest
As one of the only global LGBTQIA+ arts, media, and entertainment organizations, Outfest's programs empower artists, communities and filmmakers to transform the world through their stories, while also supporting the entire life-cycle of their career. - Full Pour, a New, Independent Drinks Magazine, Launches
Wine and beer, spirits and cocktails, cannabis infusions, zero-proof creations, coffee, tea and more inspire its pages. Full Pour is written for adventurous, open-minded consumers eager to drink life in to the fullest, regardless of what brims your cup. - BMG, Fremantle Documentaries, and Warner Music Entertainment Announce Newest Feature Film DEVO
The upcoming full-length documentary will also be the first-ever fully authorized film on the New Wave/Rock group. - Saweetie Teams Up with Candy Crush Saga to Reveal First-Ever $250,000 Cash Prize Pot and Limited-Edition Championship Rings for 2023 All Stars Final Winners
The three handcrafted rings for the First, Second and Third place winners will be iced out to the max with rare gems inspired by the game's iconic candies. Dripping in Amethysts, Yellow and Orange Sapphires, Rubies, Blue Topaz and Brown Tourmaline, set into the 14K Gold Candy Drip for a color-popping sensation. - Reimagined Mickey's Toontown Reopens March 19, 2023, at the Disneyland Resort, Beginning a New Era of Interactive Play for Families and Young Children
Guests will experience thoughtful elements for different needs of young families, from companion restrooms and a quieter area for decompression to a curb-free land that helps make navigation easier for guests of differing abilities. - American Greetings Unveils Idina Menzel SmashUp™ Video Ecard
With more than 1,000 names available, Idina personally sings a happy birthday greeting with the customized name and age set to the tune of the classic 1980's theme song from "FAME."
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes requested a new trial Tuesday, asserting in a court filing that a key witness for the prosecution now regrets the role he played in her conviction for investor fraud and conspiracy related to her failed blood-testing startup.
The petition centers on the reliability of testimony provided by former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff, who said he repeatedly raised concerns about the accuracy of bloods tests that were being administered to patients during his tenure in 2013 and 2014.
Prosecutors highlighted Rosendorff’s testimony during their closing arguments to a jury that convicted Holme s on four felony counts of investor fraud and conspiracy earlier this year after a nearly four-month trial. The same jury acquitted Holmes on charges of fraud and conspiracy against patients who had their blood tested by Theranos.
Rosendorff, reached via LinkedIn, said he had no comment, adding “Do not contact me.”
Holmes, 38, is currently free on bail, but is facing up to 20 years in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Oct. 17 in San Jose, California.
Her lawyers argued in a 17-page filing that Rosendorff is now expressing misgivings about his testimony, based on recent actions described in the court document.
The filing states that Rosendorff appeared at the home Holmes shares with her partner, William Evans, on the evening of August 8 in an attempt to meet with her. Evans intercepted Rosendorff, according to the document, and asked him to leave.
Before departing, according to the filing, Rosendorff told Evans that during his trial testimony “he tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everyone look bad” and now feels like “he had done something wrong.” Before he appeared at Holmes’ residence, the document said, Rosendorff left a 30-second voicemail for one of her lawyers asking for a face-to-face meeting with Holmes because he thought it could be “quite healing” for both of them.
In their filing, Holmes lawyers said they had not been able to ask Rosendorff for further information about his reflections on his trial testimony for ethical reasons. The lawyers proposed an Oct. 3 hearing to discuss why they believe Rosendorff’s recent actions merit a new trial.
Also on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila formally rejected a request to set aside the jury’s verdicts in Holmes’ trial. Davila’s decision cited Rosendorff’s testimony in support of his ruling. | 2022-09-07T18:41:21+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/money/ap-elizabeth-holmes-seeks-new-trial-cites-key-witness-regrets/ |
Election-denying former Colorado clerk guilty of obstruction
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A former Colorado clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists was convicted Friday of a misdemeanor obstruction charge for refusing to turn over an iPad she allegedly used to videotape a court hearing.
The case is separate from Tina Peters’ alleged involvement in a security breach of voting machines.
Jurors found Peters guilty of obstructing government operations but acquitted her of obstructing a peace officer, The Daily Sentinel reported.
She was charged last year after allegedly recording a court hearing involving a subordinate who was also charged in the alleged voting machine breach.
Testimony during the two-day trial included that Peters repeatedly told investigators that the iPad did not belong to her and that she could not provide the password because it belonged to someone else named Tammy Bailey. Peters’ lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, said that was an alias used by Peters, suggesting it was created for security reasons.
Peters, who is running to become the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 10. The obstruction charge carries a sentence of up to six months in jail and a $750 fine. The charge Peters was acquitted of would have carried a sentence of up to a year in jail.
Peters has pleaded not guilty to seven felony charges related to her role in allegedly accessing confidential voting machine data in 2021 while she was clerk. That trial is scheduled for August.
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Cloud-based, mobile-first solution from industry leader IDeaS prioritizes owner control and flexibility, pairing state-of-the-art capabilities with performance-driving data and analytics
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with more than 8,900 hotels across over 95 countries, today unveiled RevIQ, a next-generation, cloud-based, mobile-first revenue management system designed to help franchisees further optimize their revenue strategies and grow market share.
Created in collaboration with IDeaS, an industry leader in hotel revenue management software, RevIQ is built specifically for the needs of Wyndham franchisees and is designed to deliver top-tier performance while keeping control, flexibility and simplicity at the forefront. Leveraging real-time data and analytics to make automatic pricing recommendations and adjustments, the platform seamlessly integrates with Wyndham's best-in-class property management systems and allows franchisees to optimize their strategies based on their own market insights—a key competitive differentiator.
"No one knows their business, competition or market better than our franchisees," said Vikram Pradhan, group vice president, Global Revenue Management, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. "For those reasons, it was critical we create a platform that, while powerful and robust in its data and analytics, also enables franchisees to incorporate their own knowledge and insights. RevIQ does exactly that, making it a simple, intuitive, easy-to-use tool that is as beneficial to experienced hoteliers as it is to those running their very first hotel."
"What I love about RevIQ is it allows me to put my hotel's revenue management strategy on autopilot, freeing my time to focus on other parts of the business while helping ensure I'm always getting the best possible return on every available room," said Prativ Patel, owner of the Super 8 by Wyndham in San Bruno, Calif. and a member of the Super 8 by Wyndham Franchise Advisory Council. "It's a game changer for Wyndham franchisees."
Wyndham was the first major hotel company to introduce an automated revenue management system at scale in the economy and midscale segments, first deploying the system across its portfolio in 2015. RevIQ, the company's latest offering, builds on that leadership position by delivering smart revenue management capabilities anytime, anywhere and on any device, with core benefits falling into three distinct categories:
- Control – Hotel owners can create a custom pricing strategy based on market conditions and competition with full control over who they deem in their competitive set and the ability to change as needed. Competitors are automatically shopped five times daily, with RevIQ instantly adjusting its forecasts and recommendations.
- Flexibility – Seamless integration, combined with a cloud-based, mobile-first design and single sign-on allows hotel owners the ability to easily transition between their property management and revenue management systems anytime, anywhere and across any device.
- Simplicity – Designed with busy hotel owners and general managers in mind, RevIQ makes it easy to quickly update pricing, manage inventory, switch seamlessly between multiple hotels and more. Rate changes are immediate across all channels while a clean, intuitive interface allows for faster training of new team members.
RevIQ is available now to all Wyndham franchisees running Sabre SynXis Property Hub with plans to roll out to hotels on Oracle's OPERA Cloud Property Management later this year, with portfolio-wide adoption by 2024. Part of Wyndham's continued digital transformation, RevIQ is the latest on a growing list of strategic technology investments made by Wyndham as it looks to enhance the guest experience while delivering best-in-class resources and enhanced operational efficiencies for its franchisees. For more information, including hotel development opportunities, visit www.wyndhamdevelopment.com.
About IDeaS
IDeaS, a SAS company, is the world's leading provider of revenue management software and services. With over 30 years of expertise, IDeaS delivers revenue science to more than 18,000 clients in 144 countries. Combining industry knowledge with innovative, data-analytics technology, IDeaS creates sophisticated yet simple ways to empower revenue leaders with precise, automated decisions they can trust. Results delivered. Revenue transformed. Discover greater profitability at ideas.com.
About Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: WH) is the world's largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties, with over 8,900 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. Through its network of over 813,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveler, Wyndham commands a leading presence in the economy and midscale segments of the lodging industry. The Company operates a portfolio of 22 hotel brands, including Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Microtel®, La Quinta®, Baymont®, Wingate®, AmericInn®, Hawthorn Suites®, Trademark Collection® and Wyndham®. The Company's award-winning Wyndham Rewards loyalty program offers approximately 94 million enrolled members the opportunity to redeem points at thousands of hotels, vacation club resorts and vacation rentals globally. For more information, visit www.wyndhamhotels.com.
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WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wis. — A jury found a 15-year-old teen accused of sexually assaulting an 87-year-old woman at knifepoint at the Waukesha Public Library guilty of several charges, but not sexual assault.
A jury found Khalil Perry guilty of armed robbery, carjacking, and kidnapping. However, a jury could not reach an agreement on the sexual assault charge. Sentencing is scheduled for June 30.
Perry was charged with first-degree sexual assault - use of a dangerous weapon, armed robbery with the use of force, operate without consent - possess weapon, and kidnapping/seize or confine without consent - use of a dangerous weapon.
TMJ4 News identifies teens when they have been charged as adults in court. Perry is a member of Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson's extended family. Johnson revealed the connection following the incident in November of 2021.
- 14-year-old charged, accused of sexually assaulting elderly woman at knife point
- Jury trial begins for 15-year-old accused of sexually assaulting elderly woman at knifepoint
According to a criminal complaint, the victim approached a Waukesha Police Department School Resource Officer at Les Paul Middle School and said she had been robbed at knifepoint. She said Perry had approached her and put a knife to her throat. She said he then stole her car, her credit card, and other belongings. The victim said the defendant drove her around, then stopped and the woman got out of the car.The victim told the officer that the defendant had told her that he "was going to sexually assault her," the complaint states, and then inappropriately touched her.
The victim began to shake severely and was brought to the hospital. During another interview, she told police that she had gone to the Waukesha Public Library but found the library closed. She was approaching the container where books can be dropped off when she noticed the defendant approaching. At first, she thought he was going to help her with her books, but then he revealed the knife, according to the complaint.
Police later found someone driving the victim's car in the City of Waukesha. Police executed a traffic stop and the suspect pulled over, but he did not submit to officers or comply with commands. Other responding law enforcement eventually were able to arrest the suspect, identified as Perry, the complaint states.
During an interview with police, Perry told police he had been walking around the city, looking for a job. He visited a Mcdonald's and then arrived at the library, where he found the victim. He said he helped the woman with the books. He said he then drove the woman in her car. He eventually stopped, told her to get out, and he then drove off. He told investigators he never wanted to "hurt the old lady" but he "just wanted her car." He denied sexually assaulting her. He claimed the knife he used was one of his family member's knives.
Mayor Johnson, who was Common Council President at the time, said in a statement in December 2021, "This afternoon, I learned of an incident that occurred in Waukesha County on November 30 where a member of my extended family is accused of a horrific crime. I am saddened and troubled by this news. First and foremost, my heartfelt prayers go out to the victim and her family. No one should ever have to deal with what she is going through. I hope and pray for her full healing and recovery. If what is alleged is found to be true, the accused should absolutely be held accountable for these actions. No family deserves to endure what this family and this victim are going through, and I am praying for healing and recovery for all concerned."
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Icon is known for its FJ Toyota Land Cruiser restomods, and the California company is showcasing another impressive build based on the legendary Toyota off-roader.
Called the FJ43 Bandeirante, the vehicle is actually one of Icon’s earliest builds and is based on a model that is a rare sight on U.S. roads. Icon built this vehicle for a customer more than 20 years ago and recently reacquired it.
As the name implies, the FJ43 Bandeirante uses the body of the Toyota Bandeirante, the unique version of the Land Cruiser made exclusively for the Brazilian market from 1968-2001. Icon founder and lead designer Jonathan Ward was able to gain access to several Bandeirante bodies after some work he did with Toyota during the early 2000s.
The FJ43 Bandeirante rides on a stretched 1965 FJ40 chassis, hence the FJ43 designation, as the FJ43 was essentially a longer FJ40. It also features the dash of a 1983 FJ40, though it’s modified to match the rare U.S.-spec dash offered that year.
A Toyota engine isn’t under the hood. For this project vehicle, Icon went with a 5.7-liter V-8 sourced from General Motors. The engine is mated to a Toyota H-55 5-speed manual transmission, though, as well as a split-case, 19-spline transfer case.
While Icon has no plans to sell the FJ43 Bandeirante, the company can build customers an FJ40 or FJ43, with prices starting from $195,000 and $202,000, respectively. Icon’s website has an online configurator that lets potential buyers arrive at their ideal configuration, not only for the FJ but all current Icon project vehicles.
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As leaves across America make their annual autumn pilgrimage from the treetops to the ground, lawn and wildlife experts say it's better to leave them around than to bag them.
First, because it keeps leaves out of landfills. Every year, about 8 million tons of leaves end up there.
And second, because leaves help the grass.
Leaves are full of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
"Those nutrients are being returned to the soil," Susan Barton, a professor and extension specialist in landscape horticulture at the University of Delaware, told NPR. "But probably even more important than that, it's the organic matter. It's the fact that you've got this tissue that then eventually decomposes and improves the soil health."
They also provide a habitat for insects, spiders, slugs — and depending on where you live — possibly turtles, toads and small mammals, according to the University of Delaware's College of Agriculture & Natural Resources.
In order to optimize your fallen leaves, some maintenance is recommended. It's best to run over a thin layer of leaves with a lawn mover or cut them up via other means so that they will break down more quickly. Thick layers of leaves are actually bad for the grass as well.
"If you just leave the leaves on the grass, it will exclude light. And then the grass won't be able to photosynthesize. Eventually, it would die under a thick layer of leaves," Barton said.
Rake excess leaves into a landscape bed and it will turn into mulch. Shredded leaves can also be piled into a garden.
"Ideally, you want to let them decompose a little bit and they'll form a very nice mulch. Instead of going out and buying hardwood bark mulch, which is expensive, you can have a better mulch that's free," she said.
At the same time, city dwellers should be mindful that wind and rain can push leaves into streets and clog up drainage systems — creating a flooding hazard.
Some cities actually collect leaves for composting at a central facility, where it turns to mulch that residents can collect for free. On the other hand, leaves in landfills that don't have enough oxygen to decompose will end up releasing a significant amount of methane.
How people deal with leaves is just one part of a longer-term issue of environmental sustainability.
"We want to think about those leaves as being a resource," and not a problem, Barton said. "And when you think about sustainable landscaping, well, one of the things we say about sustainable landscaping is let natural processes happen. And that's a natural process."
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Erik Reynolds II scored 32 points to led Saint Joseph's (Pa.) past Albany (N.Y.) 99-79 on Thursday night.
Reynolds also added six rebounds for the Hawks (2-1). Lynn Greer III scored 19 points while going 6 of 7 and 6 of 8 from the free throw line, and added seven assists. Charlie Brown was 6 of 17 shooting (3 for 10 from distance) to finish with 17 points, while adding 11 rebounds.
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$2.7 million worth of swim bladders from endangered fish seized by US authorities
Published: Jun. 18, 2023 at 9:54 AM EDT|Updated: 21 minutes ago
(CNN) - Border authorities have seized $2.7 million in illegal swim bladders, the organ that helps fish control their buoyancy.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona seized 242 pounds of bladders on April 13.
Authorities say the bladders came from the Totoaba fish, which has been endangered since 1979.
They are also considered an Asian cultural delicacy and are used in traditional Chinese medicine.
Border agents say smugglers tried to hide the bladders inside of a commercial shipment of frozen fish fillets.
Authorities believe this seizure is the second-largest seizure of its kind in the U.S. and the largest Totoaba seizure in Arizona, to date.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Katten announced today that the firm has established the John P. Sieger Excellence in Mentoring Award named after the longtime partner and former chair of the Insolvency and Restructuring practice who died last year.
"We are proud to honor John's memory and spirit — his leadership talents, the care he showed for the people around him, his commitment to acting on his strong belief that Katten is better when it is diverse and inclusive. He was a tireless advocate for his clients and routinely brought out the best in those who worked with him," said Katten Chairman Roger P. Furey.
Sieger, who joined Katten in 2005 in the firm's Chicago office, demonstrated a deep commitment to talent development, serving as a mentor and sponsor to countless attorneys and business professionals across Katten. As the national head of the Insolvency and Restructuring department, he was involved in many high-profile bankruptcy proceedings and served on the firm's national Compensation Committee.
"John was a strong leader. Not only did he have excellent technical skills from which his colleagues could and did learn, but also, and perhaps more importantly, he supported his colleagues, treated everyone fairly, and motivated the team to do their best work and to keep a positive mindset. In short, his leadership made us all better," said Insolvency and Restructuring practice co-chair Peter Siddiqui.
The award in his honor will be presented annually to a Katten attorney who exemplifies Sieger's dedication to mentorship. An internal selection committee, consisting of firm leaders and representation from Katten affinity groups and other firm committees, will evaluate nominees based on the mentoring impact they have made on Katten attorneys and the overall culture of mentoring at the firm. The committee will consider criteria such as supporting a mentee's professional growth and career success, demonstrating interest in a mentee's well-being, and deepening a mentee's sense of belonging.
"John did all the things an ideal mentor should. He doled out recognition for excellent work product and strong work ethic, gave candid constructive feedback and practical advice, made introductions to key internal and external people, and said the names of his mentees in the rooms where important decisions were being made," said Litigation partner Becky Lindahl. "John influenced the trajectory of my career in ways that I will never be able to calculate, and I'm forever grateful to him."
Firm leaders plan to announce the first award recipient in November.
Katten is a full-service law firm with approximately 700 attorneys in locations across the United States and in London and Shanghai. Clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services turn to Katten for counsel locally, nationally and internationally. The firm's core areas of practice include corporate, financial markets and funds, insolvency and restructuring, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, structured finance and securitization, transactional tax planning, private credit and private wealth. Katten represents public and private companies in numerous industries, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals. For more information, visit katten.com.
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HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo., June 21, 2023 Destination Pet, a leading provider of comprehensive pet care services, is thrilled to announce its acquisition of Pet Palace Pet Boarding Resort, a premier pet care facility with 11 locations in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. This strategic acquisition strengthens Destination Pet's position as one of the fastest-growing and largest consolidators of pet care resorts in the US.
Pet Palace has built an outstanding reputation for delivering exceptional pet care services, including boarding, daycare, and grooming, since its inception in 2006. By adding Pet Palace to the Destination Pet network, the company gains access to new markets, a luxury pet resort brand, and the opportunity to extend its connected care model and innovative mobile application Yourgi to a broader customer base.
Jennifer Strickland Fowler, CEO of Destination Pet, expressed her enthusiasm for the acquisition, stating, "We are incredibly excited to welcome Pet Palace and their 500+ employees into the Destination Pet pack. This acquisition aligns with our growth strategy and reinforces our commitment to becoming the go-to destination for pet care services. Pet Palace's remarkable reputation, top-tier facilities, and multi-state footprint enhance our portfolio and their commitment to exceeding the expectations of their pet families aligns with our own. Together, we will continue to raise the bar in pet care."
Brian Hudock, Founder and CEO of Pet Palace shared his thoughts on why Destination Pet was the right company to take his company forward, "As the founder of Pet Palace it was critical to me to find the right partner to carry forward the legacy I have built over the years. I selected Destination Pet for its commitment to growth, innovation, and delivering the best possible care to pets. I am excited to see how Destination Pet will build upon the foundation we have laid and take Pet Palace even further." Brian will continue to play a strategic advisory role with Destination Pet post-acquisition.
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Last public pay phone removed from New York City
Published: May. 24, 2022 at 7:41 AM CDT|Updated: 51 minutes ago
NEW YORK (WABC) – New York has hung up its last public pay phone.
The city removed the kiosk from the street Monday.
New York started transitioning from pay phones to Link NYC kiosks in 2015. The system offers free Wi-Fi, free phone calls and charging stations.
For those who appreciate the nostalgia, you can still find some private pay phones on public property.
If Clark Kent ever needs to change into Superman, he can find four walk-in phone booths around the city.
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MacKenzie Scott’s big gifts have been a boon to the charities who received them, and widespread fears in the nonprofit world that her gifts would lead other donors to pull back their support or that small groups wouldn’t be able to handle them were largely unfounded.
That’s according to a study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy, which surveyed more than 700 nonprofits that Scott identified as grant recipients in 2020 and 2021. The center received responses from 277 nonprofits.
Among the findings:
• Nearly 90% of respondents said the gift from Scott was the largest unrestricted donation their organization had ever received.
• Almost all of the nonprofits — 98% — said they were directing the funds toward improving their existing programs and starting new ones.
• Almost three-quarters — 73% — said they were hiring more staff or consultants to take on that new work.
• More than 90% said they were using the donation to improve their charity’s financial stability.
Susan Goodell, chief executive of El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, a food bank that received $9 million from Scott in December 2020, said the money came at a pivotal time. It shored up her group’s financial health after soaring food-assistance needs forced the charity to expand faster than it could handle. The organization had taken out a loan to buy a building it could turn into a food-storage warehouse.
“Looking toward 2021, we were terribly afraid we were going to have to scale back when need was still incredibly high,” Goodell says.
Instead of scaling back in 2021 as Goodell feared, Scott’s $9 million infusion in late 2020 meant Goodell was able to pay off roughly $2.6 million in debt the food bank had taken on and buy more food to meet the growing needs in El Paso.
“It was really a shot in the arm at a time when this organization was in incredible need,” Goodell says. “Frankly, I don’t know what we would have done without this gift.”
Most of the respondents said foundations and individual donors didn’t change their support because of the Scott donation, something many nonprofits and philanthropy experts had worried about. Slightly more than half of the respondents in the study — 52% — said receiving a donation from Scott made their fundraising efforts easier, and 35% said it had no effect at all on their fundraising.
The possibility that other donors might rethink their support was on the mind of Akil Vohra, executive director of Asian American Youth LEAD, which received $2 million from Scott in 2021. So far, however, his organization hasn’t experienced a decrease in support from other donors or foundations.
“It’s still a concern for me about what that (gift) means for new funders moving forward,” he says. “But I think that’s kind of my responsibility to continue to talk about the work we’re doing and what impact it’s having and the need in the AAPI community.”
Vohra’s group provides after-school academic programs, leadership development, mentoring, and summer programs to underserved Asian-American and Pacific Islander youths in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
“Her investment put a spotlight on a community that is often seen as this model minority but that in truth has great needs,” says Vohra, who points out that the majority of the youths his group serves are on free or reduced-cost school meals, and many are recent immigrants.
Like nearly 60% of survey respondents, Vohra says Scott’s gift gave the charity a boost to improve its infrastructure. In his group’s case, that has meant purchasing new and better laptops, phones, and development technology. He was also able to give employees significant raises, something 62% of respondents said Scott’s support made possible.
Scott’s gift also enabled Asian American Youth LEAD to expand its programs. As a result, the charity now serves 30% more youths.
About 75% of respondents said receiving a donation from Scott changed their approach to fundraising because it bolstered their confidence when asking foundations or individuals for support. Some said Scott’s gift made them feel confident enough to ask foundations for larger grants than they had in the past, or it gave them greater courage to ask for larger annual gifts from donors.
Scott started giving big in the summer of 2020 when she announced her first round of unrestricted, mostly one-time donations to hundreds of charities. For many organizations, the seven- and eight-figure gifts were the largest they had ever received, and her subsequent giving has continued to follow that model.
Scott has supported a number of large, well-known charities like Easterseals, Goodwill, and Boys and Girls Clubs of America. But she has also given significant sums to historically Black colleges and universities; nonprofits led by people of color, women, and those who identify as LGBTQ; and other overlooked charities that help underserved populations.
To date, she has given more than $13 billion to charity. Nearly $8.6 billion of that went out in her first three rounds of giving, on which the study, Giving Big: The Impact of Large, Unrestricted Gifts on Nonprofits, is focused.
Advancing racial, gender, and other types of equity is an important part of the missions of many organizations that received Scott gifts.
• Nearly 70% of survey respondents said Scott’s gift allowed their organization to advance racial equity more effectively, and nearly two-thirds said they were better able to further economic mobility.
• 65% of the survey’s respondents identify as women and 40% as people of color. Among the latter, many said that receiving a donation from Scott was especially galvanizing.
Kathleen Enright, CEO of the Council on Foundations and former head of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, says Scott’s funding choices are especially important because they go against a historical trend.
“She is prioritizing nonprofits led by women and people of color for enormous unrestricted grants, whereas historically, nonprofits led particularly by people of color and sometimes also women are required to go over a higher bar of proof and oftentimes receive smaller grants,” Enright says. “So that is a positive move.”
Nonprofits in the study received donations from Scott of $1 million to $250 million. The study puts the significant size of those gifts into context. The median grant from Scott was $8 million, a monumental sum when compared with $100,000, the median grant most staffed foundations give to nonprofits, according to the study.
“This is an order of magnitude different. Even big foundations that make big grants, at the median give around $500,000, maybe $1 million at the outside,” says Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy. “These are $8 million gifts, so I don’t think the scale of these gifts relative both to the size of the organizations and to what is typical of other major donors can be overstated.”
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This article was provided to The Associated Press by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Maria Di Mento is a senior reporter at the Chronicle. Email: maria.dimento@philanthropy.com. The AP and the Chronicle receive support from the Lilly Endowment for coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits. The AP and the Chronicle are solely responsible for all content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. | 2022-11-15T22:14:14+00:00 | wate.com | https://www.wate.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-mackenzie-scott-donations-avoided-feared-pitfalls-new-study/ |
The Hyundai N performance skunkworks is close to signing off on development of the Ioniq 5 N. Hyundai announced on Thursday that the debut will take place in July.
The Ioniq 5 N is not only destined to be the first electric vehicle from Hyundai N, but also the division’s first vehicle with all-wheel drive, in this case formed by a dual-motor powertrain. All previous Hyundai N road cars have featured front-wheel drive.
Hyundai hasn’t said how much horsepower will be available, but rumors point to the Ioniq 5 N at least matching the 576 hp of the 2023 Kia EV6 GT, which features the same E-GMP platform. That output in the Ioniq 5 N should result in 0-60 mph acceleration in less than 3.5 seconds.
But Hyundai N has endeavored to make the Ioniq 5 N fun away from the dragstrip. Leveraging know-how from its successful World Rally Championship program, where it competes with the i20 N WRC, Hyundai N has finely tuned the chassis systems to deliver fun handling as well, the company claims.
This extends to development of the vehicle’s torque-vectoring system and electronic limited-slip differential. Hyundai N has also developed various drive modes, including one specifically for drifting. Called N Drift Optimizer, the mode adjusts the torque distribution, torque rate, suspension stiffness, steering effort, and wheel slip limitation, Hyundai said.
From our spy shots of prototypes, we know the vehicle will also improve on the stock Ioniq 5 via a lowered suspension, a wider track, and a high-performance brake package.
To test the Ioniq 5 N’s handling at the limit, company engineers headed to Arjeplog, Sweden, this past winter and drove prototypes on the frozen lakes found in the area. The location is ideal for testing as it provides engineers with precisely reproducible low-grip conditions.
Hyundai hasn’t said whether the Ioniq 5 N will reach the U.S., though the high-performance electric compact crossover is expected to arrive here for the 2024 model year.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ties to the Jewish American community, one of its closest and most important allies, are about to be put to the test, with Israel’s emerging far-right government on a collision course with Jews in the United States.
Major Jewish American organizations, traditionally a bedrock of support for Israel, have expressed alarm over the far-right character of the presumptive government led by conservative Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu. Given American Jews’ predominantly liberal political views and affinity for the Democratic Party, these misgivings could have a ripple effect in Washington and further widen what has become a partisan divide over support for Israel.
“This is a very significant crossroads,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, a liberal, pro-Israel group in Washington. “The potential for specific actions that could be taken by this government, these are the moments when the relationship between the bulk of American Jews and the state of Israel begins to really fray. So I’m very afraid.”
Jewish-American leaders appear especially worried about the prominent role expected to be played by a trio of hard-line, religious lawmakers. The three have made racist anti-Arab statements, denigrated the LGBTQ community, attacked Israel’s legal system and demonized the liberal, non-Orthodox streams of Judaism popular in the U.S. All vehemently oppose Palestinian independence.
“These are among the most extreme voices in Israeli politics,” said Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish movement in the U.S. “What will be the trajectory of a new Israeli government with such voices in such key leadership roles is of deep, deep concern.”
More centrist organizations, such as the Anti-Defamation League, which fights antisemitism and other forms of hatred, and the Jewish Federations of North America, an umbrella group that supports hundreds of Jewish communities, have also spoken out.
Though these groups, like J Street and the Reform movement, support a two-state solution with the Palestinians, their recent statements have focused on Israel’s democratic ideals. The Anti-Defamation League said that including the three far-right lawmakers in a government “runs counter to Israel’s founding principles.” The Federations called for “inclusive and pluralistic” policies.
For decades, American Jews have played a key role in promoting close ties between the U.S. and Israel. They have raised millions of dollars for Israeli causes, spoken out in Israel’s defense and strengthened strong bipartisan support for Israel in Washington.
But this longstanding relationship has come under strain in recent years — especially during Netanyahu’s 2009-2021 rule.
Netanyahu’s hard-line policies toward the Palestinians, his public spats with Barack Obama over peacemaking and the Iranian nuclear issue and his close ties with Donald Trump put him at odds with many in the American Jewish community.
Opinion polls show that roughly three-quarters of American Jews lean toward the Democratic Party. They tend to be more critical of the Israeli government and more sympathetic to the Palestinians than their Republican counterparts, with these divisions even wider among younger Jews in their 20s.
These trends appear set to go into hyper-drive as Netanyahu prepares to return to power after a year and a half as opposition leader, this time flanked by some of the country’s most extremist politicians.
After winning elections last month, Netanyahu and his allies are still forming their coalition. But he already has reached a number of deals that are setting off alarm bells overseas.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, a lawmaker known for his anti-Arab vitriol and provocative stunts, has been offered the job of national security minister, a powerful position that will put him in charge of Israel’s national police force. This includes the paramilitary border police, a unit on the front lines of much of the fighting with Palestinians in east Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
Ben-Gvir has labeled Arab lawmakers “terrorists” and called for deporting them. He wants to impose the death penalty on Palestinian attackers and grant soldiers immunity from prosecution.
Netanyahu also has agreed to appoint the lawmaker Avi Maoz as a deputy minister overseeing a new authority in charge of “Jewish identity” and giving him responsibilities over Israel’s educational system.
Maoz is known for his outspoken anti-LGBTQ positions and disparaging remarks about the Reform movement and other non-Orthodox Jews.
He wants a ban on Pride parades, has compared gays to pedophiles and wants to allow some forms of conversion therapy, a discredited practice that tries to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ children.
Maoz hopes to change Israel’s “Law of Return,” which allows anyone with a single Jewish grandparent to immigrate to Israel, and replace it with a much stricter definition of who is a Jew. He also opposes non-Orthodox conversions to Judaism. This is an affront to liberal Jewish groups, which have less rigid views on Jewish identity.
Bezalel Smotrich, a settler leader with a history of anti-gay and anti-Palestinian comments, has been granted widespread authority over settlement construction and Palestinian civilian life in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu has been generous toward his allies because they support major legal reforms that could freeze or dismiss his corruption trial. Critics say such moves will imperil Israel’s democratic foundations.
Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Netanyahu tried to play down such concerns as he vowed to safeguard democracy and LGBTQ rights. “I ultimately decide policy,” he said.
Halie Soifer, chief executive of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, said it is premature to judge a government that hasn’t yet taken office. But she acknowledged the concerns about issues like LGBTQ rights, Palestinian rights and respect for democracy – particularly with memories of the Trump administration still fresh.
“Many of those concerns are based on our own experience with an administration that didn’t share our values,” said Soifer.
Whether U.S. policy will be affected is unclear. The Biden administration has said it will wait to see policies, not personalities, of the new government.
But Eric Alterman, author of “We Are Not One,” a new book about relations between Israel and American Jews, says the sides are moving in opposite directions.
Progressive Democrats already have pushed for a tougher approach to Israel because of its treatment of the Palestinians.
“It may come suddenly. It may come in pieces. But there’s simply a break coming between American Jews and Israeli Jews,” Alterman said.
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As Wednesday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day:
Fighting intensified in Ukraine's east, including the Donbas region, where Russian troops have built up in recent weeks. Shelling continued on Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv in the northeast. Russia said it had control over most of the southeastern port city of Mariupol, under siege and heavy fire for weeks. Russian forces had surrounded the vast Azovstal steel plant in the city, with Ukrainian soldiers and civilians inside. Russia's military issued a renewed ultimatum for the soldiers to surrender.
More critical weaponry is heading to Ukraine, a senior U.S. defense official said. That includes 18 howitzers, and the U.S. is training Ukrainians outside the country on how to use the big artillery guns. The U.S. and its allies also have provided spare aircraft parts that have allowed the Ukrainians to fix and return to service more than 20 warplanes in the past three weeks, the official said.
More than 5 million people have fled Ukraine in the nearly two months of the war, according to the United Nations' refugee agency. Overall, more than 10 million Ukrainians have been displaced by the war. The vast majority of those who have fled the country — nearly 3 million — have gone to Poland, followed by other Eastern European countries like Romania and Hungary.
Russia test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile, which President Vladimir Putin praised as a new addition to the country's nuclear arsenal. The Sarmat missile launched from Russia's northwest and struck a target on Kamchatka in the far east. The Pentagon said Russia had notified the U.S. of the test and it was not deemed to be a threat to the U.S or allies.
Russian and Belarusian players were banned from this year's Wimbledon, including men's world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev of Russia and women's world No. 4 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus. This makes Wimbledon one of the first tennis events to suspend players from the two countries since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Twenty-two attorneys general urged a federal court Wednesday to reject a proposed $10.3 billion settlement over contamination of U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially dangerous chemicals, saying it lets manufacturer 3M Co. off too easily.
The deal announced in June doesn’t give individual water suppliers enough time to determine how much money they would get and whether it would cover their costs of removing the compounds known collectively as PFAS, said the officials with 19 states, Washington, D.C., and two territories. In some cases the agreement could shift liability from the company to providers, they said.
“While I appreciate the effort that went into it, the proposed settlement in its current form does not adequately account for the pernicious damage that 3M has done in so many of our communities,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, leader of the multistate coalition.
3M spokesman Sean Lynch said the agreement “will benefit U.S.-based public water systems nationwide that provide drinking water to a vast majority of Americans” without further litigation.
“It is not unusual for there to be objections regarding significant settlement agreements,” Lynch said. “We will continue to work cooperatively to address questions about the terms of the resolution.”
The company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota, manufactures per- and polyfluorinated substances — a broad class of chemicals used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products such as clothing and cookware, as well as some firefighting foams.
Described as “forever chemicals” because they don’t degrade naturally in the environment, PFAS have been linked to a variety of health problems, including liver and immune-system damage and some cancers.
3M has said it plans to stop making them by the end of 2025.
Some 300 communities have sued 3M and other companies over water pollution from the compounds. A number of states, airports, firefighter training facilities and private well owners also have pending cases.
They have been consolidated in U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina, where the proposed settlement was filed last month.
Although the company put its value at $10.3 billion, an attorney for the water providers said it could reach as high as $12.5 billion, depending on how many detect PFAS during testing the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered over the next three years.
The law firm representing the water providers did not immediately respond Wednesday to messages seeking comment.
EPA in March proposed strict limits on two common types, PFOA and PFOS, and said it wanted to regulate four others.
In addition to California, states urging Judge Richard Gergel to reject the deal included Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin. Also opposed were Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands.
In a court filing, the attorneys general said it would force nearly all public water providers nationwide to participate unless they withdraw individually — even those that haven’t filed suits or tested for PFAS.
“Troublingly, they would have to make their opt-out decisions without knowing how much they would actually receive and, in many cases, before knowing the extent of contamination in their water supplies and the cost of remediating it,” the officials said in a statement.
A provision in the proposed deal would shift liability from 3M to water suppliers that don’t opt out, the statement said. That could enable the company to seek compensation from providers if sued over cancer or other illnesses in PFAS-affected communities, it said.
“As such, the proposed settlement is worth far less than the advertised $10.5 billion to $12.5 billion,” the attorneys general said.
The attorneys general did not take a position on a separate $1.18 billion deal to resolve PFAS complaints against DuPont de Nemours Inc. and spinoffs Chemours Co. and Corteva Inc.
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NEW YORK, July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ally Bridge Group (the "Firm") is pleased to announce Simos Simeonidis, PhD joined the Firm as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer based in New York. Dr. Simeonidis is also assuming the role of Portfolio Manager for Ally Bridge Group's public equity strategy.
Ally Bridge Group is a global healthcare investment manager focused on high-impact life science innovation addressing unmet medical needs. The Firm manages both private equity vehicles and a long-biased public equity strategy with specialization across the medical technology, tools and diagnostics, biopharmaceuticals and digital health subsectors. Ally Bridge Group was founded in 2013 by Frank Yu and has offices in New York and Hong Kong.
In a recent letter sent to investors, Mr. Yu explained Dr. Simeonidis will partner with him in leading firmwide strategic initiatives and achieving investment objectives. Mr. Yu will remain at the Firm as Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer. For the foreseeable future, while Mr. Yu continues leading the Firm's private investment business overall, Dr. Simeonidis is focusing primarily on the public equity strategy and overseeing the Firm's biotechnology portfolio.
As explained by Mr. Yu, "It has been my deliberate long-term plan that Ally Bridge Group, an investment manager dedicated to pursuing investments in cutting-edge life science and healthcare innovators, must be led, sooner or later, by a strong biomedical scientist with extensive investment experience."
"Dr. Simeonidis has a fantastic combination of an impeccable scientific pedigree and more than fifteen years of combined equity research and investment management experience, constituting a differentiated edge as a thought leader and investor. He is a well-respected team leader and mentor to many in the Wall Street life sciences research and investment community," said Mr. Yu.
"I am thrilled to join Ally Bridge Group to leverage its already established brand and partner with its Founder, Frank Yu, to take the Firm to new heights," commented Dr. Simeonidis. "With its strong science-driven culture, global experience and diversified investment mandates across all life science sub-sectors, and my focus on improving synergies between the public and private sides of the business, we believe that Ally Bridge Group is well-positioned to capitalize on the current sharp downturn in the life sciences investment space."
Prior to joining Ally Bridge Group, Dr. Simeonidis was Partner, Senior Managing Director, Co-Head of Research and Portfolio Manager at Sarissa Capital Management ("Sarissa"), an investment manager focused on shareholder activism within the healthcare sector. Before Sarissa, Dr. Simeonidis was Managing Director and Senior Biotechnology Analyst at Royal Bank of Canada in New York and spent over a decade covering the biopharmaceutical sector at a number of investment banks, including Cowen and Company as well as Morgan Stanley. Dr. Simeonidis began his industry career as Associate Director in Business Development & Licensing at Novartis.
Before his move to industry, Dr. Simeonidis was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where his work focused on the transcriptional regulation of gene expression.
Dr. Simeonidis holds a BS in Biology from Loyola University of Chicago and an MA, MPhil and PhD in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies from Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Professor Tucker Collins at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Simeonidis also holds an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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EDMONTON, AB, March 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ - Aurora Cannabis Inc. ("Aurora" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: ACB) (TSX: ACB), the Canadian company opening the world to cannabis, today announced that it has repurchased an aggregate of approximately $46.6 million (US$34.3 million) principal amount of its convertible senior notes ("Notes") at a total cost, including accrued interest, of $45.6 million (US$33.6 million) in cash, saving $2.6 million in annualized interest payments. Following completion of this repurchase, Aurora will have approximately $103 million (US$76 million) of Notes outstanding.
The purpose of the transaction, which represents a repurchase of a portion of the Notes at a 2.5% discount to par value, was to reduce the Company's debt and annual cash interest costs, reinforcing our commitment to financial discipline. Aurora has repurchased an aggregate of approximately $366 million (US$269 million) principal amount of its convertible senior notes since December 2021, resulting in annual cash interest savings of approximately $20 million (US$15 million).
Aurora's balance sheet remains amongst the strongest in the Canadian cannabis industry. Having achieved the goal of Adjusted EBITDA Profitability for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, Aurora expects to continue to focus on profitable growth in both global medical and Canadian adult use markets.
This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offering would be unlawful.
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Aurora is opening the world to cannabis, serving both the medical and consumer markets. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Aurora is a pioneer in global cannabis, dedicated to helping people improve their lives. The Company's adult-use brand portfolio includes Aurora Drift, San Rafael '71, Daily Special, Whistler, Being and Greybeard, as well as CBD brands, Reliva and KG7. Medical cannabis brands include MedReleaf, CanniMed, Aurora and Whistler Medical Marijuana Co. Aurora also has a controlling interest in Bevo Farms Ltd., North America's leading supplier of propagated agricultural plants. Driven by science and innovation, and with a focus on high-quality cannabis products, Aurora's brands continue to break through as industry leaders in the medical, performance, wellness and adult recreational markets wherever they are launched. Learn more at www.auroramj.com and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
Aurora's common shares trade on the NASDAQ and TSX under the symbol "ACB".
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The moment that the black wall telephone rang early on the morning of Sept. 29, 1978, in Stefania Falasca’s Rome apartment is imprinted in her mind. Then 15, Falasca remembers her father answering and hearing the voice of her uncle, a priest who worked at the Vatican, coming through the receiver: “The pope is dead!”
“But he’s already dead!” Falasca recalled her bewildered father exclaiming.
Like countless others around the globe, her father struggled to comprehend how 65-year-old John Paul I, elected as pontiff barely a month earlier — on Aug. 26, 1978 — could be dead, and confusedly first thought of Pope Paul VI, who had died in early August at age 80.
John Paul I, born Albino Luciani, is widely remembered more for his sudden, mystery-dogged death than for his life. Falasca, an Italian journalist for a Catholic publication, has toiled for more than a decade to change that and to convince the Vatican that he deserves to be a saint for how he lived his faith, as a priest, bishop, cardinal and, so briefly, as pontiff.
On Sunday, Pope Francis will beatify John Paul I, the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Formal efforts aimed at beatification can begin five years after a pontiff dies. For John Paul II, that rule was waived a few weeks after his death in 2005, in response to cries of “sainthood immediately!” rising up from the faithful during his funeral.
But it took 25 years for the beatification process for John Paul I to begin.
John Paul I “was a figure crushed between two pontificates,” Falasca said, speaking down the block from St. Peter’s Square. She was referring to his successor, John Paul II, one of history’s longest-reigning popes, and his predecessor, Paul VI, whose 15-year papacy saw him preside over Vatican Council II with its modernizing reforms. Both have been made saints.
In Luciani’s case, ”no historian was interested in the pope. Like he was passing briefly through time, forgotten,” Falasca said.
But writers seeing a best-selling who-done-it were interested.
The abrupt demise of Luciani, whose body was found in his bedroom of the Apostolic Palace and who was dubbed the “smiling pope” for his cheerful countenance, spawned instant suspicions.
In the first hours after his death, the Vatican offered differing versions, first saying that a male secretary found him, then admitting that the pontiff was found lifeless by the nuns who bring his morning coffee.
“They could have immediately said that it was the nuns and it wouldn’t have sparked any doubts, on the contrary, it would have given more guarantees,” Falasca said. One nun, Sister Vincenza, was well known to Luciani’s family.
The nuns later recounted they were told by the Vatican not to say they found him out of concerns it would seem improper for a woman to enter the pope’s bedroom.
At the same time, a monster financial scandal was growing involving an Italian bank that had links to the Vatican’s own bank. There were murky ties between a U.S. born prelate, now deceased, who was chairman of the Vatican bank and an Italian financier, dubbed “God’s Banker,” whose body in 1982 was found hanging under a London bridge in what was ruled a homicide.
Was Luciani about to crack down on officials linked to the Holy See’s secretive finances? Was he planning to root out corruption in Vatican bureaucracy?
“In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul I,” a 1984 book by David A. Yallop, sold millions of copies. The Vatican concluded that Luciani was felled by a heart attack, after suffering chest pains he played down just before going to bed his last night. But Yallop, noting that no autopsy was performed, concluded he was poisoned by plotters connected to a secret Masonic lodge with links to the Vatican and its bank.
In 1987, another British journalist, John Cornwell, came to the Vatican to research claims of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in what was then Yugoslavia. Instead, a Vatican bishop asked him to write the “truth” of John Paul I’s death and promised him access to the pope’s doctor, his embalmers and others.
Writing his own best-seller, “A Thief in the Night,” Cornwell concluded that Luciani had “died of neglect.”
“In the very heart of the Vatican, this was neglect that was psychological,” Cornwell said in a phone interview from the English countryside. “They put too much work on him without proper help. They didn’t look properly after his health.”
“In other words, they had no respect for him, they thought he was a derisory pope, they said he was like Peter Sellers,” Cornwell said, referring to the English comic actor who often played bumbling roles.
Cornwell said some people were disappointed he found no evidence of murder, including one bishop. “I came across people inside the Vatican who were convinced” there was a conspiracy to eliminate Luciani.
Falasca says John Paul I “is not being beatified because he was pope.”
“He lived with exemplary method, faith, hope, charity,” she said. “He’s a model for everyone, precisely because he had borne witness to the essential virtues.”
John Paul I also broke molds, referring to himself as “I” in papal speeches, instead of the more impersonal traditional “we.”
“He was like a light breeze sweeping away centuries” of formalities, Falasca said. “His choice of being colloquial was a theological choice.”
She marveled that among his most cherished books was secular literature —by Mark Twain, Willa Cather and G.K. Chesterton, a British author famed for his character of a sleuthing priest.
For a Catholic to be beatified, the pope must approve a miracle attributed to prayerful intercession. In Luciani’s case, that miracle was the medically unexplained recovery in 2011 of an 11-year-old girl hospitalized in Buenos Aires with brain inflammation and septic shock.
Her parents pleaded with a priest from a nearby parish to come. As he rushed to her bedside, the Rev. Juan Jose’ Dabusti wondered to whom he should pray for her to live. Inspiration struck. He prayed to John Paul I.
But why invoke the name of a largely forgotten pontiff? Falasca said Dabusti told her that when he was 15, he heard the newly elected John Paul I speak and decided to become a priest himself, because Luciani was “very simple and very happy.” | 2022-09-02T00:29:59+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/ap-international/ap-crushed-by-2-papacies-john-paul-is-death-eclipsed-life/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams eliminated No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 in the U.S. Open’s second round Wednesday night to ensure that the 23-time Grand Slam champion will play at least one more singles match at what she’s hinted will be the last tournament of her illustrious career.
The 40-year-old Williams was again buoyed by a loud crowd at a full Arthur Ashe Stadium, just as she was in the first round two days earlier.
She hit serves at up to 119 mph, stayed with Kontaveit during lengthy exchanges of big swings from the baselines and conjured up some of her trademark brilliance when it was needed most.
After pulling out a tight first set, then faltering a bit in the second, Williams headed to the locker room for a bit of a break before the third.
Something had to give, someone had to blink.
When they resumed, it was Williams who lifted her level and emerged as the better player.
Just as she’s done, so many times on so many stages, with so much at stake.
The six-time champion at Flushing Meadows will play Friday for a spot in the fourth round. Her opponent will be Ajla Tomljanovic, a 29-year-old Australian. | 2022-09-01T04:33:51+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/serena-williams-wins-again-at-us-open-beating-no-2-seed-kontaveit/ |
Getting on the board turned out to be a task too tough for Georgetown-Ridge Farm as it was blanked 14-0 by Westville in an Illinois high school softball matchup on April 10.
In recent action on April 3, Georgetown-Ridge Farm faced off against Milford and Westville took on Watseka on April 6 at Watseka High School.
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DENVER (KDVR) — With the Denver mayoral election just a few weeks away, a handful of candidates addressed the issue of public safety.
The two-day forum was hosted by the Denver Justice Project and the Denver Task Force to Re-imagine Policing and Public Safety.
Voter and Denver East High School graduate Sofia Joucovsky was in attendance.
“I do support SROs (school resource officers) being in schools,” she said. “I do not think they should have the responsibility of disciplining students.”
The forum was held in the Northfield area of Denver.
The mayoral election is April 4 and if no candidate receives the majority of votes, the top two candidates move to a runoff on June 6. | 2023-03-24T06:48:32+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/local/denver-mayoral-candidates-discuss-public-safety/ |
Federal investigators trudged through rugged terrain Monday in search of wreckage from a business jet to solve the mystery of why the plane veered off course and slammed into a mountain, killing four people.
A day after the plane flew over the nation's capital, prompting the military to scramble fighter jets, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a brief update that the pilot and three passengers were killed and that the plane was "destroyed" in the crash. Their identities weren't immediately released.
NTSB investigator Adam Gerhardt told reporters it will take investigators a while to reach the remote crash scene about two to three miles north of Montebello. They expect to be on the scene for at least three to four days. NTSB spokesperson Jennifer Gabris said that the investigators had to hike to the site on foot because of the mountainous terrain.
Attention on the crash and its cause was heightened by its unusual flight path over Washington, D.C. as well as a sonic boom caused by military aircraft heard across the capital, and parts of Maryland and Virginia. The North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a statement that military aircraft was authorized to travel at supersonic speeds, which caused the sonic boom. The aircraft also used flares to try to get the pilot's attention.
Air Traffic Control audio from the half-hour before the plane crashed captures voices identifying themselves as military pilots trying to communicate with the pilot of the plane, according to recordings on LiveATC.net.
"If you hear this transmission, contact us," said one pilot who identifies as being with the Air National Guard.
Several minutes later, a military pilot says: "You have been intercepted. Contact me."
SEE MORE: No survivors found after non-responsive plane crashes in Virginia
Speaking at a briefing Monday morning, Gerhardt said the wreckage is "highly fragmented" and investigators will examine the most delicate evidence on the scene, after which the wreckage will be moved, perhaps by helicopter, to Delaware, where it can be further examined, he said. The plane was not required to have a flight recorder but it is possible that there are other avionics equipment that will have data that they can examine, Gerhardt said.
Virginia State Police said the crash site is more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the Blue Ridge Parkway in Augusta County, near the Nelson County line. Along with NTSB, they are beginning evidence collection and body recovery efforts. Remains collected at the scene will be transported to the medical examiner's office in Virginia for autopsy and positive identification.
Investigators will look at when the pilot became unresponsive and why the aircraft flew the path that it did, he said. They will consider several factors that are routinely examined in such probes including the plane, its engines, weather conditions, pilot qualifications and maintenance records, he said.
"Everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation," Gerhardt said.
A preliminary report will be released in 10 days and a final report will be released in one to two years, he said.
Meanwhile, the White House expressed its "deepest condolences" on Monday to the family of those on board the plane.
"We need to keep them front and center," National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said.
Kirby deferred questions about a follow-up report on the security response over Washington airspace to the Pentagon and U.S. Secret Service. But he said, "What I saw was just a classic, textbook response."
The White House was continuously informed as Air Force jets tried to contact the pilot of the civilian plane and monitored the small aircraft's path from Washington airspace to rural Virginia, Kirby said.
SEE MORE: F-16's sonic boom heard over DC area in response to unresponsive plane
Police said Sunday night that rescuers had reached the crash site in a rural part of the Shenandoah Valley and that no survivors were found. Virginia State Police said officers were notified of the potential crash shortly before 4 p.m. and rescuers reached the crash site by foot around four hours later.
The FAA said the Cessna Citation took off from Elizabethton, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island's MacArthur Airport. Inexplicably, the plane turned around over New York's Long Island and flew a straight path down over D.C. before it crashed at around 3:30 p.m.
The plane flew directly over the nation's capital, one of the most heavily restricted airspaces in the nation.
According to the Pentagon, six F-16 fighter jets were immediately deployed to intercept the plane. Two aircraft from the 113th Fighter Wing, out of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, were the first to reach the Cessna to begin attempts to contact the pilot. Two F-16 aircraft out of New Jersey and two from South Carolina also responded.
Flight tracking sites showed the plane suffered a rapid spiraling descent, dropping at one point at a rate of more than 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) per minute before crashing in the St. Mary's Wilderness.
In Fairfax, Virginia, Travis Thornton was settled on a couch next to his wife, Hannah, and had just begun recording himself playing guitar and harmonica when they were startled by a loud rumble and rattling that can be heard on the video. The couple jumped up to investigate. Thornton tweeted that they checked in with their kids upstairs and then he went outside to check the house and talk to neighbors.
The plane that crashed was registered to Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc, which is based in Florida. John Rumpel, a pilot who runs the company, told The New York Times that his daughter, 2-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. They were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said.
Rumpel told the newspaper he didn't have much information from authorities but suggested the plane could have lost pressurization.
"It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed," Rumpel told the newspaper.
The episode brought back memories of the 1999 crash of a Learjet that lost cabin pressure and flew aimlessly across the country with professional golfer Payne Stewart aboard. The jet crashed in a South Dakota pasture and six people died.
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The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
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Northeastern Robertson County in central Texas...
Southwestern Leon County in central Texas...
* Until 800 PM CDT.
* At 654 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles north of
Camp Creek Lake, or 25 miles northeast of Hearne, moving southeast
at 20 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage
to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
Camp Creek Lake, Hilltop Lakes, Normangee, Marquez, Flynn, Ridge
and Easterly.
This includes Interstate 45 between mile markers 152 and 154.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection get inside a sturdy structure and stay away from
windows.
Continuous cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Move indoors immediately. Lightning can kill.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were mixed Tuesday in early trading on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat for Jul. declined 36.50 cents at $8.1550 a bushel; May corn was up 1 cent at $7.5725 a bushel; Jul. oats was unchanged at $6.77 a bushel; while Jul. fellt 23 cents at 16.12 a bushel.
Beef was lower and pork was higher on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Jun. live cattle fell 3.47 cents at $1.3360 a pound; Aug. feeder cattle was off 1.40 cents at $1.7315 a pound; May lean hogs rose .82 cents at $1.1092 a pound. | 2022-07-05T16:21:19+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Grains-mixed-Livestock-mixed-17285039.php |
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With a style both sophisticated and sanctified, Ahmad Jamal is known for an artful use of space in his music, which goes hand in hand with his dramatic sense of tension and release. He stands as an inspiration to peers like Miles Davis and countless others — including scores of hip-hop fans, who know Jamal through a few iconic samples of his work.
Zev Feldman is a record producer who has become synonymous with the discovery of archival gems, including two new volumes of live performances from Jamal that find the pianist in his prime, between the years 1963-66, they've titled Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse. Together the recordings capture a jazz master at a dynamic peak, leading a succession of trios with a light touch but absolute command.
Jamal spoke to WRTI's Nate Chinen about the new archivial collection and the process of looking, sometimes, in the rear-view mirror.
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WASHINGTON, DC – PA U.S. Sen. John Fetterman has co-sponsored four pieces of legislation. He co-sponsored a bill led by PA U.S. Sen. Bob Casey to enhance funding for Medicaid home and community-based services to benefit seniors and Americans living with disabilities. The second co-sponsorship is a bill to ban assault weapons by regulating the sale of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and other high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. The third bill would provide federal employees with an 8.7% pay increase in 2024. The fourth measure would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state, giving its citizens full representation in Congress, and ensure that the citizens and elected leaders there have full authority over local affairs. Fetterman announced his assignments to the U.S. Senate Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; and Environment & Public Works. He will also serve on the Joint Economic Committee and the Special Committee on Aging. | 2023-01-28T01:18:33+00:00 | wdac.com | https://wdac.com/sen-fetterman-co-sponsors-four-bills/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sen-fetterman-co-sponsors-four-bills |
BALTIMORE (AP) — Even as they signaled a continued hardline stance on opposing abortion and same-sex marriage, the nation's Catholic bishops acknowledged Wednesday that they're struggling to reach a key audience: their own flock.
The members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rounded out their leadership bench during the last day of public sessions of their fall annual meeting in Baltimore, which concludes with private meetings Thursday.
They also set in motion a plan to recirculate their long-standing election document in 2024 — a 15-year-old statement that prioritizes opposition to abortion — while acknowledging it's outdated and adding a cover statement addressing such things as the teachings of Pope Francis and the Supreme Court's Dobbs ruling in June that overturned the nationwide right to abortion.
The bishops elected Oklahoma City Archbishop Paul Coakley as secretary in a 130-104 vote over Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, who had been named a cardinal by Pope Francis. It's the second time in five years that the bishops have passed over a Francis-appointed cardinal for a key leadership post.
Earlier this year, Coakley had applauded the decision by San Francisco's archbishop to deny Communion to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic Democrat from that city who supports abortion rights. So had the bishops' new point man on opposition to abortion -- Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, elected Wednesday as chairman of its Committee on Pro-Life Activities.
The votes came a day after the bishops elected as their new president Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services. Broglio is also seen as more of a culture warrior than Pope Francis, though Broglio has dismissed the idea of any "dissonance" between the two.
At the same time, Coakley cited the importance of Francis' priorities in a news conference Wednesday.
Coakley is leading the bishops' review of, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," a document they have used in election years with only minor revisions since 2007.
While a full revision will take years, bishops approved Coakley's recommendation to begin drafting a new introduction to issue with the document in time for 2024's election. It would incorporate recent events such as the Ukraine war and the Dobbs decision.
The plan also includes using parish bulletins and social media to share main ideas from the lengthy document.
Coakley said the new introduction needs to reflect Pope Francis' priorities, such as promoting civil discourse and protecting the environment.
"It's a rich pontificate that offers us plenty to lay out for people … to embrace the vision that Pope Francis has articulated," Coakley said.
Bishops from both the progressive and conservative flanks of the church echoed concern that Catholics aren't reading the document.
Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, a Francis appointee, said that bishops need a statement that's relevant amid the shaken confidence in democracy following the U.S. Capitol riot and in the wake of Dobbs and defeats for abortion opponents in votes on five state ballot measures. "It's irresponsible to issue an old teaching and suggest the church has nothing new to say when so much of this context has changed," he said.
Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of the most outspoken conservative bishops, lamented the recent state ballot measures. Polls show Catholics to be mixed on legal abortion.
"I think it's a solid document," Strickland said, but "I think we have to acknowledge people aren't listening."
The gap between Francis and the U.S. bishops reflects in part the conference's continued emphasis on culture-war battles over abortion and same-sex marriage.
Francis, while also opposing both in keeping with church teaching, has used his papacy to emphasize a wider agenda of bringing mercy to those at the margins, such as migrants and other poor. The Vatican said in 2021 the church cannot bless gay unions because God "cannot bless sin," but Francis has made outreach to the church's LGBTQ members a hallmark of his papacy. As recently as last Friday, Francis met with the Rev. James Martin, an American Jesuit priest whom the pontiff has supported in his calls for dialogue with LGBTQ Catholics.
Both Pelosi and President Joe Biden, another Catholic who favors legalized abortion, have received Communion since 2021 in churches in Rome, the pope's own diocese.
The bishops also heard an impassioned talk Wednesday by Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.
Gudziak thanked U.S. Catholics for providing millions in relief for displaced Ukrainians and urged continued American support for Ukraine's self-defense, saying Russian assaults have left many vulnerable in the coming winter.
At the same time, he said that on a conference call with staff at a Catholic university in Lviv, he heard only joy and resolve even amid losses of electrical power in Russia's missile barrage Tuesday. One staff member told him, "Better without electricity and with Kherson," he said, alluding to the recently liberated city.
Gudziak accused Russia of a "genocide" through such attacks and through its denial of Ukrainians' identity as a separate people.
Also Wednesday, a small group of survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters held a sidewalk news conference outside Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, where the bishops are meeting. While this year marks the 20th anniversary of the bishops' landmark policy barring all abusers from ministry, advocates are seeking more transparency.
They called for bishops in every diocese to post detailed lists of credibly accused abusers and to stop lobbying against state legislation that would extend statutes of limitations for abuse lawsuits.
David Lorenz, Maryland director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, cited Archbishop Broglio's archdiocese as one of the few that still does not publish even a minimal list of abusers. Broglio declined to comment.
"I don't need another apology because it doesn't do anything to protect kids," Lorenz added. "I want action to help kids. I want them (bishops) to be totally, absolutely transparent."
Also Wednesday, the bishops voted to advance efforts to have three American women declared saints.
They include Michelle Duppong of North Dakota, a campus missionary who died of cancer in 2014 and is credited with showing faithfulness in suffering.
They also include two 20th century women: Cora Evans, a Catholic convert from Utah who reported mystical experiences from an early age; and Mother Margaret Mary Healy Murphy of Texas, founder of a religious order, who provided education and other ministry to African Americans.
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“Her Fiancé's Double Life″ is airing for the first time on Lifetime on Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. You can watch the film on Philo (free trial).
Here’s the information you’ll need to watch a free live stream of “Her Fiancé's Double Life″ online without cable.
How to watch ‘Her Fiancé's Double Life′ without cable
If you’re a cord-cutter or don’t have cable, you can live stream “Her Fiancé's Double Life″ on Philo (free trial) or DIRECTV Stream (free trial).
When is ‘Her Fiancé's Double Life′ on?
“Her Fiancé's Double Life″ premiered on Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime.
What channel is Lifetime?
You can use the channel finder on your provider’s website to locate it: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, DIRECTV, Dish.
How to watch ‘Her Fiancé's Double Life′ online on-demand
If you missed “Her Fiancé's Double Life″ or want to watch the movie online when it becomes available, check out Philo (free trial) or DIRECTV Stream (free trial).
What is ‘Her Fiancé's Double Life′ about?
According to the official Lifetime website: When Assistant DA Darcy Young, is invited to her estranged parents’ country home to meet her sister’s new fiancé, Thomas Schure, Darcy becomes convinced that Thomas is a danger to her entire family.
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BEIJING, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ: HOLO) ("HOLO" or the "Company"), a Hologram Digital Twins Technology provider, today announced its development of a 3D-BIM multi-user collaborative design solution based on blockchain NFT technology. The solution is the result of the Company's independent research and development, which is conducive to further improving the Company's intellectual property protection system, maintaining its technological leadership, and enhancing its core competitiveness.
HOLO applies blockchain NFT technology to achieve highly reliable and traceable data management through the distributed ledger and consensus mechanism. Each block in the blockchain contains two hashes, the "current block hash" and the "previous block hash." The latter block is linked to the previous block by the "previous block hash" to form a chain. Any slight modification to the block information will result in a change to the block hash. Therefore, if someone tries to tamper with a block in their local blockchain ledger, the block will be identified by other blockchain nodes due to a hash mismatch. And no single blockchain node can manipulate all the data in the blockchain. The blockchain can guarantee the security and trustworthiness of the data by keeping identical, immutable, and traceable copies of the complete data in each node.
The model developed by HOLO uses blockchain NFT technology to store drawing design information to protect designers' copyright interests and incorporates IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) to ensure the reliability of drawings. The model is designed with a circular division mechanism to solve the problem of synchronizing drawing information when multiple people collaborate on designs. The model adopts SDT (Syntax-Directed Translation) method to realize 3D holographic drawing updates for construction projects and reduce the redundancy of blockchain information. The availability of multi-user collaborative design can effectively ensure the reliability of the drawing and reduce the redundancy of blockchain information, thus achieving copyright protection for the designer.
The data storage under HOLO's blockchain NFT technology framework adopts a hybrid storage model. Blockchain ensures the security and reliability of the data stored on-chain. Using blockchain to store summary or design information and storing 3D-BIM drawing files off-chain (because blockchain is not suitable for directly storing large files such as 3D-BIM drawings, which will create greater data redundancy) and partitioning and encryption under the IPFS distributed file storage protocol can ensure the authenticity and trustworthiness of the stored files.
HOLO's solution addresses the security, consistency, redundancy, and copyright issues of current 3D-BIM multi-user collaborative design in mapping by using blockchain NFT technology, which mainly solves the following problems that exist in traditional methods.
HOLO uses the on-chain and off-chain collaborative storage method of blockchain NFT and IPFS to preserve data security and trustworthiness. Mutual trust and supervision among 3D-BIM drawing designers are achieved through a consensus mechanism to improve data reliability. At the same time, data security can be ensured through the tamper-proof function of blockchain NFT.
In terms of information fusion and consistency, HOLO adopts a circular division mechanism to avoid the problem of information synchronization during the design process and ensure the consistency of 3D-BIM drawings among designers,
HOLO applies blockchain NFT's SDT method to achieve incremental updates of 3D-BIM drawings. It uses blockchain information records to provide reliable proof of copyright and safeguard the copyright interests of designers, solving the problems of information redundancy and copyright issues of 3D-BIM drawings.
HOLO developed a multi-user collaborative design solution for 3D-BIM drawings based on blockchain NFT (on-chain) and IPFS (off-chain) storage. The solution stores encrypted drawing data through a collaborative approach, which ensures data security, reliability, and integrity while improving the scalability of the blockchain. In addition, the solution uses a cycle division mechanism to avoid the problem of synchronizing information during the design of 3D-BIM drawings. It adopts the SDT method to achieve efficiency in incremental updates of 3D-BIM drawings, reduces information redundancy, and applies the blockchain to record designers' incremental design information to provide designers with an accurate copyright basis. HOLO's blockchain NFT technology-based 3D-BIM multi-user collaborative design solution will provide users with a secure and efficient model.
HOLO has been developing and exploring deep in the field of blockchain NFT and digital twins technology based on numerous holographic data modeling, simulation, and bionics technologies. HOLO has built a repository of holographic digital twins based on blockchain NFT technology, which holographic developers and designers rely on. HOLO's blockchain NFT technology-based digital twins repository integrates holographic bionics and simulation digital models, as well as various holographic technologies such as holographic spatial positioning, motion capture, and hologram synthesis, and is open to all users. HOLO provides customized holographic digital technology integration services based on blockchain NFT technology for corporate clients with tailored business needs.
About MicroCloud Hologram Inc.
MicroCloud Hologram Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLO) engages in the research and development, and application of holographic technology. MicroCloud Hologram provides its holographic technology services to its customers worldwide. MicroCloud Hologram also provides holographic digital twin technology services and has a proprietary holographic digital twin technology resource library. MicroCloud holographic digital twin technology resource library captures shapes and objects in 3D holographic form by utilizing a combination of holographic digital twin software, digital content, spatial data-driven data science, holographic digital cloud algorithm, and holographic 3D capture technology. MicroCloud Hologram technology services include holographic light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions based on holographic technology, holographic LiDAR point cloud algorithms architecture design, technical holographic imaging solutions, holographic LiDAR sensor chip design, and holographic vehicle intelligent vision technology to service customers that provide holographic advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS).
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This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this press release, as well as the Company's strategic and operational plans, contain forward−looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward−looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Forms 20−F and 6−K, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward−looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; the expected growth of the AR holographic industry; and the Company's expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of its products and services. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F and current report on Form 6-K and other documents filed with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable laws.
About MicroCloud Hologram Inc.
MicroCloud Hologram Inc. engages in the research and development, and application of holographic technology. MicroCloud Hologram technology services include holographic light detection and ranging (LiDAR) solutions based on holographic technology, holographic LiDAR point cloud algorithms architecture design, technical holographic imaging solutions, holographic LiDAR sensor chip design, and holographic vehicle intelligent vision technology to service customers that provide holographic advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). MicroCloud Hologram provides its holographic technology services to its customers worldwide. MicroCloud Hologram also provides holographic digital twin technology services and has a proprietary holographic digital twin technology resource library. MicroCloud holographic digital twin technology resource library captures shapes and objects in 3D holographic form by utilizing a combination of holographic digital twin software, digital content, spatial data-driven data science, holographic digital cloud algorithm, and holographic 3D capture technology.
Safe Harbor Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "will," "expects," "anticipates," "future," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates" and similar statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the Company's beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Among other things, the business outlook and quotations from management in this press release, as well as the Company's strategic and operational plans, contain forward−looking statements. The Company may also make written or oral forward−looking statements in its periodic reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on Forms 20−F and 6−K, in its annual report to shareholders, in press releases and other written materials and in oral statements made by its officers, directors or employees to third parties. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward−looking statement, including but not limited to the following: the Company's goals and strategies; the Company's future business development, financial condition and results of operations; the expected growth of the AR holographic industry; and the Company's expectations regarding demand for and market acceptance of its products and services. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the Company's annual report on Form 20-F and current report on Form 6-K and other documents filed with the SEC. All information provided in this press release is as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, except as required under applicable laws.
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AGUADA, Puerto Rico (WFLA) – A “short-lived tornado” formed over Aguada, Puerto Rico, Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
Residents captured footage of the tornado, which lasted about four minutes.
Janely Ivette was inside her car when she captured footage (above) of the wind howling and whipping around during the storm. Large branches can be seen piling up on the roadways.
From afar, Amarilys Ruiz took a video of the funnel appearing to stay behind a hilltop.
Tornadoes are rare in Puerto Rico, the Associated Press reports. Only 24 – including Sunday’s – have touched down in the U.S. territory since 1950.
“The majority of them don’t even cause any damage,” Emanuel Rodríguez González, a National Weather Service meteorologist, told the AP. “They’re quite weak.”
Multiple homes were damaged and a landslide was triggered by the storm, but no injuries were reported.
Sunday’s twister appeared to be one of the stronger tornadoes to hit the island in recent decades, but the National Weather Service said it was still assessing the damage Monday. The agency’s personnel take a close look at the destruction left behind by the tornado to determine its strength and classification. | 2023-07-17T22:40:51+00:00 | cenlanow.com | https://www.cenlanow.com/national/watch-intense-videos-show-short-lived-tornado-form-over-part-of-puerto-rico/ |
NEW YORK (AP) — Christopher Paolini will have new adventures out this fall from Alagaësia and the world of Eragon, featuring the Dragon Rider Murtagh.
Random House Children’s Books announced Wednesday that Paolini’s “Murtagh,” a standalone novel that takes place a year after the events of his blockbuster “Inheritance Cycle,” will be published Nov. 7 with an announced first printing of 2 million copies. According to Random House, the novel is an “epic journey into lands both familiar and untraveled” as Murtagh and his dragon Thorn confront a “mysterious witch.”
“’Murtagh’ is the novel I’ve been waiting to write for over 13 years,” Paolini said in a statement.
“It’s a deep dive into the life of our titular character and his dragon, Thorn. Here you’ll find mystery, magic, and revelations as Murtagh attempts to answer some of the deepest questions in the land, as well as those of his own life,” he said. “I’ve had a ridiculous amount of (sometimes devilish) fun writing MURTAGH, and I can’t wait for readers to experience it for themselves. Welcome back to Alagaësia!”
Paolini, 39, had yet to turn 20 when his debut novel “Eragon” made him one of the world’s most popular fantasy writers. His four “Inheritance” books — “Eragon,” “Eldest,” “Brisingr” and “Inheritance” — have sold more than 40 million copies, according to his publisher.
To mark the 20th anniversary of “Eragon,” Alfred A. Knopf House is releasing an illustrated version of the book on the same day “Murtagh” comes out. New paperback editions of the “Inheritance” novels will be published April 25 by Knopf, which, like Random House, is part of Penguin Random House.
Another new Paolini book, “Fractal Noise,” will be released May 16 by Tor Publishing Group. | 2023-03-08T17:32:09+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/news/us-world-news/eragons-world-returns-with-new-novel-from-christopher-paolini/ |
How to get your share of a $725 million Facebook data privacy settlement
(Gray News) - If you used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, you can fill out a claim to receive your share of a $725 million Facebook data privacy settlement.
If you were a Facebook user during this time, you can submit a claim until August 25. The claim form asks for some personal information and information about your Facebook account.
The settlement is open to anyone who had a Facebook account during that time, even if the account was deleted.
The payments given out will depend on how many settlement class members submit valid claims.
The final approval hearing for the settlement is on September 7, according to the claim website.
Multiple lawsuits were brought against Facebook by users who allege that the company shared their data with third parties such as business partners, advertisers and data brokers.
The litigation began after Facebook was involved in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica.
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has denied any liability or wrongdoing, according to the claim website.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — During a recent performance at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, indie musician Caroline Rose disappeared from the stage and emerged moments later atop a table in the back of the room.
“We’re going to do a trust fall,” they told the audience, encouraging concertgoers to gather around before plunging backward into the sea of people and letting it carry her back to the stage.
The stunt was emblematic of her latest album — admittedly, their most unguarded yet — about a breakup and its aftermath. One to always hide behind humor, Rose said this level of vulnerability was new for her and that she is still processing whether it was even the right choice.
“When I’m writing the material, it feels really cathartic. And I’m like, ‘Wow, I made something beautiful from this really dark time.’ But performing the songs has been totally different,” they said of having to recount those dark memories over and over.
But despite having some “huge moments of regret,” the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist tends to think it was ultimately worth it. “Because I’m fine. And, you know, hopefully, my ex is fine,” they grinned sheepishly.
The thoroughgoing melancholy sound of “The Art of Forgetting,” Rose’s third studio album, is complemented by lyrics of grief and frustration, such as her allusion to arguments with her mom in the song, “Miami.”
“Your father and I are in the last stage of our lives, so for God’s sake, no more talk of how you imagine dying,” she sings of her mother’s grievances and counsel to be stronger.
But the breakup and her ways of dealing with it were not the only intimate aspects of the album. Woven between songs are voicemails from her grandmother, who died shortly after the album was finished and would often call in the months before her passing, sometimes forgetting she was on the phone.
“There were like these different motifs that came up throughout the album. One of them was this theme of memory,” they said. “She’s losing her memory and all she wants to do is like, remember everything. And I’m just like, ‘I want to forget my life ever happened.’”
Rose has always known they wanted their personal life to inform her art, though they initially struggled with how best to balance the two.
After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in architecture, they formally began their music career in Americana, a combination of country, bluegrass and folk music. But they eventually left after struggling with how to be frank about their sexuality within the genre.
“It was really confusing too, because I was dating a guy and I’ve known I was gay since I was, like, three,” they recalled of how much more difficult it was to come out just a decade ago. “I would have been very alone in that world.”
But Rose’s departure from any genre would have perhaps been inevitable, given their rejection of what they refer to as the “McDonald’s hamburger mentality.”
“You develop a brand and then you sell that brand. I never really do that. All my records sound different,” she said. “So long as people are cool with that and just let me kind of do my thing and express myself in whatever way comes naturally in that moment, that’s really all I want. It’s just freedom.”
In keeping with her early days in music as a self-described itinerant street busker, Rose maintains they are motivated more by a love for art and self-expression than by money and fame. “I’m not really out there looking to fill stadiums,” they said.
That ethos frees her from a lot of what many consider to be part and parcel of the job nowadays, such as maintaining a strong social media presence or making songs that go viral on TikTok.
But their aversion to social media is not necessarily a reflection of Luddite tendencies. As both a producer and savvy instrumentalist, she knows music has and always will evolve with technology.
“Musicians are already kind of cyborgs,” she said when asked if they object to recording artists using artificial intelligence in production. “Everybody tunes their vocals. There’s machines all over music and there has been for decades now.”
Although ostensibly not utilizing their degree – Rose said if they could do it over, they would skip college and go straight into making music – she relied heavily on her knowledge of architecture and her days as a “theater nerd” to design the set for this tour.
The set design is just one aspect of the “experimental theater” experience Rose tries to create in their performances. And although she has enjoyed the high-level production of this album’s show compared to the DIY ethos of her last one, she is looking forward to this tour ending and to being “as far away” as possible from the memories she keeps reliving.
“I’ve always been a person with very unbridled emotions,” they said of the growing pains this album has laid bare. “I’ve learned so much in the process of the last few years of how to handle stuff better, difficult things and letting them go.” | 2023-06-09T21:59:15+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/indie-artist-caroline-rose-is-proud-of-new-albums-vulnerability-despite-moments-of-regret/ |
Left-hander David Peterson, regarded just last month as the New York Mets’ sixth- or seventh-best starting option, is already in the two-hole.
Peterson, 27, will face the host Miami Marlins on Friday night after the Mets won 5-3 on Opening Day.
The reason for Peterson’s promotion is the Mets have two starters on the injured list. Projected fifth starter Jose Quintana (rib surgery) isn’t expected back until at least July, and new co-ace Justin Verlander, who pitched for the Houston Astros last year and won his third Cy Young Award, was placed on the injured list Thursday due to a muscle strain.
“This isn’t the best-case scenario,” Verlander said of his injury. “But it’s probably the second-best case, very minimal.”
This is Peterson’s fourth year in the majors. Last season, he won a career-high seven games, going 7-5 with a 3.83 ERA in 28 appearances (19 starts).
Peterson has been good in five career appearances (four starts) against the Marlins, going 2-1 with a 2.74 ERA.
New York’s bullpen entered this season as a source of concern after closer Edwin Diaz was lost to a knee injury during the World Baseball Classic earlier this month. But on Opening Day, the Mets got three scoreless relief innings — one each from Drew Smith, Brooks Raley and David Robertson (save).
This series features the two reigning batting champions: New York’s Jeff McNeil and Miami’s Luis Arraez, who came over from the Minnesota Twins in an offseason trade. Both play second base and both went 2-for-4 on Thursday.
From the perspective of the Marlins, who have an $110.2 million payroll compared to $377 million for the Mets, Thursday’s result gave them a confidence boost.
“The Mets are a really good team,” new Marlins manager Skip Schumaker said. “But we showed we can play with them.”
Marlins first baseman Garrett Cooper certainly showed that as he slugged a game-tying, two-run homer in the sixth inning.
Cooper said it wasn’t easy to deal with baseball’s new pace of play rule.
“The pitch clock messes with hitters,” Cooper said. “These pitchers can use all 20 seconds (with a runner on base) if they want. It’s something we’re going to have to get used to. It’s a battle.”
Cooper also made two outstanding catches at first base Thursday — one to his left that saved a run and one to his right.
Another rule in baseball this year also factored into his defense.
“We don’t have the shift anymore,” Cooper said. “So, I have to cover more ground, especially against lefty hitters who like to try to pull the ball down the line. I need to be as athletic as possible as use my wingspan.”
Miami is expected to start lefty Jesus Luzardo on Friday. In four career starts against the Mets, the 25-year-old is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA.
Last season, Luzardo tied his career high with 18 starts, posting a 4-7 record with a career-best 3.32 ERA.
His fastball command improved last year, although he did have lapses when his four-seamer caught too much of the plate. His fastball averaged 96 mph, but his curve was his best pitch and he also has a nasty changeup.
–Field Level Media | 2023-03-31T19:34:06+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/sports/mlb-baseball/mets-david-peterson-moves-up-rotation-to-face-marlins/ |
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said early Sunday that he was undergoing a procedure to receive a pacemaker.
In a short statement, Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s leader would be placed under sedation. A top deputy, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, was to stand in for him.
The procedure comes one week after Netanyahu was hospitalized for what his office described as dehydration.
Netanyahu’s office made the announcement as Israel faces widespread street protests over Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul plan. The plan has triggered months of protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets Saturday night to demonstrate against it ahead of a key parliament vote Monday.
Levin is the mastermind of the overhaul plan.
Netanyahu’s office said the prime minister would receive the pacemaker at Israel’s Sheba Hospital, where he was treated last week as well.
It gave few other details but quoted Netanyahu as saying, “The efforts to reach a wide agreement are continuing.” | 2023-07-23T00:48:43+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/israels-netanyahu-taken-to-hospital-for-heart-procedure-placed-under-sedation/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Jacob Meyers Player Prop Bets: Astros vs. Nationals - June 13
Published: Jun. 13, 2023 at 4:24 PM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
Jacob Meyers -- with a slugging percentage of .500 in his past 10 games, including two home runs -- will be in action for the Houston Astros versus the Washington Nationals, with Patrick Corbin on the hill, on June 13 at 8:10 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-3) against the Guardians.
Jacob Meyers Game Info & Props vs. the Nationals
- Game Day: Tuesday, June 13, 2023
- Game Time: 8:10 PM ET
- Stadium: Minute Maid Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Nationals Starter: Patrick Corbin
- TV Channel: SportsNet SW
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -208)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +600)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +180)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +135)
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Jacob Meyers At The Plate
- Meyers has nine doubles, a triple, six home runs and 14 walks while batting .248.
- In 29 of 49 games this season (59.2%) Meyers has had a hit, and in 10 of those games he had more than one (20.4%).
- In 12.2% of his games this season, he has homered, and 3.3% of his trips to the plate.
- In 26.5% of his games this year, Meyers has driven in at least one run. In six of those games (12.2%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- In 19 games this year (38.8%), he has scored, including multiple runs twice.
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Nationals Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Nationals has a collective 7.6 K/9, the second-worst in the league.
- The Nationals' 4.65 team ERA ranks 25th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Nationals pitchers combine to rank 23rd in baseball in home runs surrendered (86 total, 1.3 per game).
- Corbin makes the start for the Nationals, his 14th of the season. He is 4-6 with a 4.89 ERA and 46 strikeouts through 73 2/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Wednesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, when the lefty tossed six innings, surrendering three earned runs while allowing 11 hits.
- The 33-year-old ranks 64th in ERA (4.89), 66th in WHIP (1.520), and 67th in K/9 (5.6) among qualifying pitchers in MLB action this season.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The European Union on Thursday urged Algeria to reverse its decision a day after the gas-rich north African country ordered the suspension of a two-decade-old friendship treaty with Spain.
The move was the latest by Algeria to ratchet up pressure on Madrid after Spain’s government changed is long-standing policy regarding the contested territory of Western Sahara, whose independence movement from Morocco is supported by rival Algeria.
Algeria recalled its ambassador to Spain in March after Madrid came out in support of Morocco’s pretensions to keep Western Sahara under its rule.
Spain was the former colonial power in Western Sahara until it was annexed by Morocco in 1975. Since then, Algeria and neighboring Morocco have had tense ties over the fate of the Western Sahara, at one point fighting a desert war.
Algeria’s now openly hostile turn against a member of the 27-country EU bloc comes while Spain and the rest of the continent is hustling to find alternatives to Russian energy imports in retaliation to its invasion of Ukraine.
European Commission spokeswoman Nabila Massrali told reporters Thursday that the decision is “deeply worrying, and we therefore call on the Algerian authorities to review their decision.
“Algeria is an important European Union partner in the Mediterranean (region), and a key actor for regional stability,” Massrali said. “We are evaluating the impact of the decision, and solutions must be found through dialogue and diplomatic means.
“We hope that Algeria will reverse its decision and work with Spain to overcome the current disagreement.”
The true impact of the diplomatic move is yet to be seen, although Algeria has reportedly ordered its national bank to stop facilitating payments with Spain, which could disrupt trade.
The Spanish government quickly moved to assuage fears that Algeria’s important supply of natural gas that it pumps and ships across the Mediterranean could be at risk.
Spanish Foreign Minister José Albares said that so far no Spanish companies working with Algeria have reported any “inconveniences.”
And, he added, “what the gas companies are telling us is that the decision has not caused any difficulties.”
Algeria’s Sonatrach was Spain’s leading supplier of natural gas last year with more than 40% of its imports. Coinciding with the fraying of relations with Algeria, Spain has since pivoted to the United States, which has become its leading supplier of gas in recent months ahead of Algeria.
Algeria, whose fragile economy depends heavily on its energy exports, signed a new deal with Italy in April to increase the gas flow through the pipeline connecting the two countries.
Spain imports large amounts of fertilizers in addition to gas from Algeria, while Spanish companies send primarily soy oil and meat products the other way.
While thousands of migrants from Africa leave from the coasts of Morocco for Spain each year, Algeria also plays an important role in controlling unauthorized migration from its coasts.
Spain, Morocco and Algeria have been caught in a three-way diplomatic tug-of-war over Western Sahara for the past year.
Trouble started when Spain allowed the leader of Western Sahara’s separatist movement enter Spain to receive treatment for COVID-19 in May 2020. Morocco responded by dropping its border controls around the Spain’s north Africa enclave of Ceuta, which was quickly overwhelmed by thousands of migrants including many young Moroccans.
Relations only normalized between Madrid and Rabat after Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez took the unpopular decision at home to back Morocco’s plan to keep Western Sahara under its control as an autonomous area.
But that, in turn, has pushed Algiers away.
The crisis with Algeria comes with Sánchez’s government facing intense criticism at home for its siding with Morocco and with Spain’s economy struggling with high energy prices driven by global inflation.
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Lorne Cook in Brussels, and Ciarán Giles in Madrid, contributed to this report. | 2022-06-09T15:05:14+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/international/eu-urges-algeria-to-restore-friendship-treaty-with-spain/ |
PITTSBURGH, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "Sanitization has become a major concern for citizens and I believe that high-foot traffic areas need to be sanitized in a timely manner," said the inventor from Napoleonville, La. "I created this invention in order to provide a device that will distribute sanitation in a timely manner to high populated areas."
He invented the patent-pending AUTOMATIC U V PROTECTION that ensures all surfaces within a specified area would not transfer surface-contact contaminants to any person. This device would be effective in the killing of microorganisms, virus's, germs, bacteria, and fungus on all surfaces. This could allow for normal human activity while keeping areas clean and safe. Additionally, this could help provide business associates with confidence by removing the risk associated with contamination of materials surfaces.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-TNO-114, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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The Denver Nuggets’ star power reemerged on Wednesday as Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray combined for historic efforts in a 109-94 win over the Miami Heat. The Nuggets now lead the series 2-1 with Game 4 coming Friday in Miami.
For the first time in NBA Finals history, Jokic notched at least 30 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in a single game. Only five times in NBA Playoff history has a player notched 30-20-10; Jokic did so three times. Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the only other players.
That’s not the only history set on Wednesday. Murray also had a triple-double (at least 10 points, rebounds and assists in a game). Jokic and Murray became the first teammate duo in NBA history to notch triple-doubles in the same game.
Murray is also the first player to notch at least 10 assists in the first three games of the NBA Finals.
“I've always felt that Nikola and Jamal Murray are one of the most elite and lethal two-man game combos in the NBA, and we've seen that growing for seven years now and I think it was on full display once again tonight,” said Nuggets coach Michael Malone. “A lot of guys play with each other. I think those two guys play for each other and off of each other and they read each other so well.”
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Following the Nuggets’ Game 2 loss, he chided the team for not playing with as much effort as the Heat. Malone liked his team’s response on Wednesday.
“Our guys understood Game 2 was not who we are,” Malone said. “It's not who we can be, especially at this stage of the season, and they responded like they always do. That's one thing I know about our group: When we don't play well, we own it, and we find a way to be resilient and get back to playing Denver Nugget basketball, and that's what we did tonight.”
Even for a star player like Jokic, Game 2 was a wake-up call. This year marks the Nuggets’ first NBA Finals appearance.
“When you lose the game, of course it's a bad atmosphere, whatever, it's a bad momentum,” he said. “But maybe help us to refocus and just be better in the details. But that doesn't mean that we can relax now or whatever. We need to have the same effort because they're going to be even better. So we need just to have the same or better focus and effort in Game 4.”
So far in the NBA Playoffs, whenever the Miami Heat has faced adversity, they have found a way to respond. That was evident in the Eastern Conference Finals when the Heat let a 3-0 series lead slip only to dominate the Boston Celtics in Game 7 to win the series.
For a team entering the NBA Finals as a massive underdog, the Heat know that they have to do the little things correctly in order to win.
“ I just think sometimes, for us, when we lose a lot of those physical battles, the effort plays, the loose balls, the rebounding battles, that's our identity, and sometimes that can affect the flow of the rest of your game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “That's not an excuse. I think the thing that we've proven over and over and over is we can win and find different ways to win regardless of whether we have confidence, regardless whether the ball is going in. We have a determination to impact the game and find a different solution or different way to win a game regardless of whether the ball is going in.”
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-08T13:31:50+00:00 | tmj4.com | https://www.tmj4.com/nuggets-jokic-murray-make-history-in-nba-finals-win-over-heat |
BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — New Colorado coach Deion Sanders can’t yet point to any on-field wins in Boulder, but signs of a massive shift in mood and expectation abound at this school and in this city around what has been a forlorn football program.
Hired in December after a highly successful run as Jackson State’s head coach, the NFL Hall of Fame cornerback is in the midst of running practices with his new team in preparation for Colorado’s annual intrasquad spring game on April 22.
The school announced earlier this week that the game, which is also being nationally televised on ESPN, had sold out with more than 45,000 people expected to be on hand. It would stand out as the highest attendance ever for Colorado’s spring game, eclipsing the previous high of 17,800 in 2008. Indeed, according to the school, the anticipated attendance will be higher than the combined total for the previous nine spring games.
“We haven’t won a game. There’s no impact right now,” Sanders said at a news conference Saturday. “The financial aspect of what’s going on, that’s a blessing. Somebody’s profiting really well and I’m happy for that, especially this university because they deserve it. And to display and show what’s here, in your beloved city, I think that’s a beautiful thing to bring that to fruition.”
Sanders, popularly known as “Primetime” in his playing days but better known now as “Coach Prime,” said he likes the way the team is starting to mesh. He can sense the eagerness and desire among his players and the students he’s met to turn around the program.
“I can’t wait for the spring game, really looking forward to it, because I want to see the difference in the atmosphere and the feeling and the spirit of everything,” said Sanders, who is taking over a program that has had a losing record in its last six seasons, including a 1-11 finish last season.
“I spoke to the School of Business yesterday and it was phenomenal,” Sanders said. “Those kids were hungry. Every kid had a pencil and piece of paper and taking notes and they were on every darn word, every thought, everything I uttered, they were on it. They wanted it. I loved that.”
Sanders insists change has to be made by both players and fans.
“If we’re going to change the game here, that means the fans have got to change, too,” he said. “We want to impact them as well. We want them to be ready for us like we want to be ready for them.”
If his players are anything like their coach, they’ll be ready, for primetime. Sanders attended the conference wearing a cowboy hat with a gold chain and traditional coach’s whistle draped around his neck. He was asked if he would like to see some of his players, which include his son, quarterback Shedeur Sanders, take on any of his football characteristics as is sometimes wont between players and coaches.
“I hope so,” Sanders said with a smile. “God, I hope so. That’s what I want. That’s what I’m looking for.”
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) – Just three weeks after a cougar attacked and killed a Chihuahua that was leashed and going for a walk in the Hollywood Hills, another Chihuahua was injured in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The attack occurred around 11:55 p.m. Friday.
Ring video provided by Jeff Kelly shows the cougar, which had a tracking collar, walking in front of his home just as his neighbor was leaving to walk his dog.
Moments later, the Chihuahua named “Taz” can be heard yelping. The owner picks up his dog and runs back into his home.
Shortly afterward, the owner went outside to scare the big cat away. The video shows Kelly stepping outside to talk with his neighbor.
“It bit up Taz,” the dog’s owner tells Kelly. “We’re going to take him to the vet right now.”
The video shows the mountain lion continued to roam the neighborhood even after the attack.
A GoFundMe started by a friend indicates Taz “received some pretty deep bite marks and scratches that required stitches and medical attention.”
Authorities believe the mountain lion in the previous dog attack in November was P-22, the famous tracked and collared cougar which was first identified in 2012.
The attacks on dogs in Los Angeles come as another mountain lion attacked a border collie inside its home in Santa Rosa, California, last week, according to KRON.
Video from that attack shows the mountain lion after it had dragged the 12-year-old dog outside through an open sliding door. A neighbor was able to scare it away from the dog by firing a shot into the air, but the big cat remained outside the house and continued staring through the glass door for several hours. It later killed two goats before it was euthanized by state wildlife biologists over the weekend.
Mountain lions’ primary source of food in California is deer.
“The deer are dwindling, and these kinds of things are going to happen more often. I’m 49, and when I was in high school, there were no sightings. The (cougar) population was not as big as it is now,” neighbor Ron Crane said.
California is not the only state to see mountain lions in urban areas. One seen wandering around a northwest Las Vegas neighborhood was euthanized after being “safely captured” early Wednesday morning, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife.
Wildlife officials advise people not to run if they see a mountain lion because it can trigger an instinct in the animal to chase. Instead, it’s advised you raise your hands over your head, act big, and back away slowly. | 2022-12-08T19:51:36+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/national-world/mountain-lion-attacks-another-leashed-chihuahua-in-los-angeles/ |
BEIJING, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- China Liberal Education Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: CLEU) ("China Liberal," the "Company," or "we"), a China-based company that provides smart campus solutions and other educational services, today announced that effective April 30, 2023, it terminated its previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") with AIWAYS Holdings Limited ("AIWAYS"), a global new energy vehicle brand, by sending written notice to AIWAYS.
The board of directors of China Liberal held a meeting at 8:00 a.m. on April 26, 2023, Eastern Time, and unanimously approved the termination of the Merger Agreement.
Ms. Ngai Ngai Lam, Chairwoman and CEO of China Liberal, stated, "Although the proposed business combination with AIWAYS did not come to fruition, China Liberal's strength as a standalone business is indisputable. Our strategic plan offers a clear roadmap for future growth, and we are eager to build on our leadership position and capitalize on numerous promising opportunities ahead. Our focus has always been on creating shareholder value, and we remain committed to this vital objective as we move forward."
About China Liberal Education Holdings Limited
China Liberal, headquartered in Beijing, is an educational service provider in China. It provides a wide range of services, including those under sino-foreign jointly managed academic programs; overseas study consulting services; technological consulting services for Chinese universities to improve their campus information and data management system and to optimize their teaching, operating and management environment, creating a "smart campus"; and tailored job readiness training to graduating students. For more information, please visit the Company's website at ir.chinaliberal.com.
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The video shows the woman in a spaghetti strap top and very short shorts strolling outside a mall in central Singapore. She looks around to make sure no one can see her. Then she pulls down her top, revealing a breast to her partner, who is filming her.
The woman, Nguyen Thi Anh Thy, and her husband, Jeffrey Chue, say no one saw them make the video in May 2020. A day later, Chue uploaded it to a private channel he had created on the messaging app Telegram mostly for people who participate in group sex and partner swapping.
Membership in the channel grew, and the video quickly found its way beyond the members — to the internet.
Two years later, a court in Singapore fined the couple $17,000, saying the video as well as other photos of Nguyen in various states of undress violated the country’s laws against nudity and obscenity. The couple were also convicted of providing and abetting false information.
In Singapore, the prosecution made headlines not only for its details but also because it touched on a topic that remains sensitive to many Singaporeans: sex.
Singapore has long imposed numerous restrictions on behavior and expression in pursuit of conservative views of morality as well as an enviable public safety record. But the wealthy city-state has slowly loosened some of those restrictions. In the early 2000s, a ban on oral sex was lifted. Last year, after years of activism and a growing social acceptance of homosexuality, the government repealed a ban on sex between consenting men.
In Asia, Singapore is not an outlier when it comes to nudity and obscenity laws, but it has, in some cases, adopted a strict stance on violations, even when they are in the confines of one’s home. The government does not offer statistics of how many people are prosecuted on similar charges, although legal experts say such cases are still rare.
In 2009, a court fined a man $1,900 for being naked in his own apartment while in clear view of his neighbors. Last year, the government fined Titus Low, a content creator, $2,200 for uploading photos and videos on OnlyFans, a website that offers sexually explicit photos to paying subscribers.
Supporters of Chue and Nguyen have questioned why sexual activity between consenting adults is still criminalized. And rights groups have called on the government to use consent as a deciding factor to determine whether sexual acts are illegal.
The couple point out that Singapore allows prostitution in a regulated district, while hundreds of sex workers operate in karaoke bars that are loosely policed. They argue it is hypocritical for the state to go after them when such venues exist.
But Singapore’s minister for communications and information, Josephine Teo, said last year, answering a question about OnlyFans, that the government had to “ensure that such content creation platforms do not expose Singaporeans to the risk of exploitation and abuse, especially our youth.”
Eugene Tan, an associate professor of law at Singapore Management University, said, “People might regard Singapore laws as being somewhat prudish, that these people should be free to express themselves.” He added, “In Singapore, certainly, we don’t regard this as freedom of expression, particularly when it seems to have a negative effect on society’s social mores.”
After their conviction, Chue and Nguyen left for Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where Nguyen is from. They say they were unfairly penalized as sexual deviants when all they were doing was exploring an alternative lifestyle consensually.
“We didn’t do what we did at the expense of anyone,” Chue said in an interview with The New York Times. “Our point is, what they’ve done to us — do we deserve this?”
Vanessa Ho, the executive director of Project X, an advocacy group that supports sex workers, compared the couple’s plight with sex workers who “feel like they have been unfairly portrayed and persecuted as beacons of immorality.” She added, “In order to portray a certain sense of morality, you have to police it, and you have to police it in very obvious, sometimes spectacular ways.”
Many of the couple’s supporters say the case has prompted them to remove their own erotic photos and videos from private websites that cater to people who swap sex partners or engage in group sex.
Nguyen, 30, the owner of a label-printing company for clothing in Vietnam, said that in 2019, before their marriage the next June, she and her husband joined an online forum — the Undertable Swingers’ Community — which has more than 50,000 members, based in Singapore. Many members say they quickly became one of the most popular couples on the platform for their daring photos in public spaces.
In March 2020, Chue, 50, started the Telegram channel, charging $19 a month and $52 for three months to gain access to the couple’s photos. A former CEO of an international table tennis league, he said he was trying to offset the costs of hosting drinks for people who wanted to meet the couple but would leave without paying their portion of the bill.
At its height, the channel had 320 members.
A few months later, Chue uploaded the video of Nguyen outside the mall. Soon, the couple discovered that the clip — as well as other photos of Nguyen that the couple had shared in the channel — were spreading on WhatsApp, Instagram and various public internet forums.
Chue scrambled to delete the content, but it was too late.
The next day, the front page of the Shin Min Newspaper, a Chinese broadsheet, carried photos of Nguyen with the headline: “Husband takes nude photos of wife on street.” An anonymous person later filed a police report by email, attaching the clip.
Two days later, around 10 officers raided the couple’s apartment, they said, and arrested them.
“I was in a complete state of shock,” Chue said.
Prosecutors accused Chue of using social media “to entice followers” to subscribe to the Telegram channel, which amounts to violating laws on the distribution of “any obscene object.”
Lawyers for Chue called for “the adaptation and evolution of the law” to keep up with “the evolving standards of morality and normalcy” in Singapore. They argued that the pictures should not be considered obscene because they were available only to consenting adults and “must be viewed in the context it was made.”
But Tan, the professor, said paid subscriptions for content would “certainly be regarded as being very much in the public domain.”
In October, Chue and Nguyen were found guilty. In her ruling, Janet Wang, a district judge, said it was “irrelevant that the platform caters to consenting parties and that the objection lies in the obscene nature of the materials being disseminated.”
Chue acknowledged that he “made a stupid mistake” and that he takes the blame for it.
In November, the Chues moved to Vietnam, where they are expecting a baby boy in May. Chue, who is interviewing for jobs, said he had not been able to find employment because of the media coverage of the case.
To pay the fine, the Chues say they had to sell everything. They have no intention of ever returning to Singapore. | 2023-03-06T00:34:01+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/world/they-shared-erotic-images-in-a-group-chat-the-fine-17000/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_world |
Gov. Ron DeSantis wields his administrative power like a spoiled toddler with a chainsaw.
He could care less how his ill-conceived retaliatory actions affect the citizens of Florida. He was elected governor, not king. DeSantis has shown the world that he is an authoritarian strongman. He can only preach freedom for so long before the American people see how he’s stripping it from anyone who questions him. He has demonstrated that he should be nowhere near the levers of power.
If he spent half as much time working to fix the real problems that affect his constituents daily lives as he does harassing and threatening business and citizens, he could make Florida a better place to live. I urge the Legislature to stop rubber-stamping his every whim and do what he won’t, and represent all the citizens of Florida.
Lanny Budd, Fort Lauderdale
State-enforced malpractice
There are real issues addressing Floridians, but DeSantis and the Legislature continue their crusade to create the most authoritarian government we have ever known.
The latest example (SB 252, HB 1013) would prohibit private businesses and governments from requiring masks or COVID tests. This intrusive legislation has a section that would require medical practitioners to obtain informed consent before prescribing medications to treat coronavirus, with an explanation of “treatment alternatives,” including those that have no scientifically proven effect against coronavirus, such as Hydroxychloroquine.
Clearly, DeSantis and his toadies in the legislature think they know more than physicians. But requiring medical professionals to provide unscientific information amounts to state-enforced malpractice. But state-enforced intrusions into our personal and private lives is the new norm under DeSantis.
Janet Fiber, Delray Beach
(Editor’s Note: This bill has bipartisan support. Several Democrats have voted for it, including Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book of Davie and Sen. Rosalind Osgood of Fort Lauderdale, voting records show).
Trump’s dirty laundry
We should be reminded that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. To settle this, why not ask Donald Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen whether there’s merit to the charges against Trump. Hell, Cohen got thrown under the bus for following his boss to the brink.
Better yet, ask Melania Trump what she thinks. There’s dirty laundry as far back as when he was in diapers.
Keith Zambrano, Delray Beach
Trump lacks self-control
Donald Trump’s rhetoric is atrocious. He repeatedly makes ad hominem attacks on his adversaries.
He doesn’t know the meaning of ethos, logos or pathos. As Carl Sandburg said: “If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell.”
Trump built a real estate business. He had a TV show. His “Make America great again” campaign was highly effective with voters.
But just because you’re rich doesn’t mean you’re qualified to be president. He lacks self-control. He called New York City’s district attorney a “Soros-backed animal.” He threatened to refuse to leave the White House after he lost. These latest charges may be politically motivated, but there was ample evidence to bring them. He may face charges in other jurisdictions. Regardless of guilt or innocence, Trump does not have the moral compass to lead this nation.
Steven Weil, Boynton Beach
Critiquing Fox
Kudos to letter writer Charles Terban for his critique of Fox News and its viewers. Fox is rife with dangerous, inflammatory lies and unsubstantiated rhetoric. My only issue with Terban’s critique is that Fox “news” is a form of brainwashing. Such a statement erroneously implies that Fox viewers possess the washable.
Rita Ouellette, Margate | 2023-05-12T06:42:47+00:00 | sun-sentinel.com | https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/04/16/he-was-elected-governor-not-king-letters-to-the-editor/ |
‘I’ve been growing my own vegetables in containers for several years, but I think I am ready to build a raised bed. What do I need to know before I do that?” — W.H.
Raised beds are a great option when it’s time to expand your vegetable garden. Let’s talk about some of the things to factor in when planning to build your raised beds.
The first thing you will need to decide is where you are going to build your raised bed and what size you want it to be. If you are fortunate to have an area of your yard that gets full sun, (full sun is over eight hours per day; 10 to 12 would be better) that is where you want to locate your new bed. If you don’t have an area that gets full sun, spend some time outside and locate a spot that gets the most sun.
Next, you’ll need to decide how big you want to make your new garden. It’s a good idea not to go over about 4 feet in width because with anything wider, it’s going to be problematic to work the soil without walking around in your garden. Walking around in your garden isn’t terrible, but it will result in some soil compaction, which could ultimately affect your plants. With a maximum width of 4 feet, you can still reach into the middle of the bed from outside the bed, so plan on a max width of about 4 feet. There’s no real limit on how long your garden can be.
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One question we are asked fairly often is about how deep a raised bed needs to be. The answer is not really that deep, depending on what you want to grow. If you are planning on growing root crops like carrots or potatoes, you need a deeper bed, but for most crops like tomatoes and cucumbers etc., 6 to 8 inches is plenty.
Raised beds can be built out of a variety of materials, but most owner-made beds tend to be constructed out of either wood or concrete blocks. There’s also no reason you need to limit your bed to a standard square or rectangle. Feel free to be a little creative with the shape of your bed. Interesting gardens add interest to your entire landscape, so you have my permission to go for it. If you are not into construction, there are a variety of kits available, or you can just go to one of the local farm supply stores to purchase a livestock watering tank and voila, you bed is built.
If you are going to build your raised bed out of wood, we recommend you do not use railroad ties since they can release creosote vapors that could potentially burn your plants. Treated wood doesn’t contain the chemicals it once did, so it is OK. Just be sure to wear a dust mask and protective clothing when sawing to protect yourself from the dust. I love the rough-cut cedar, but cedar can get a bit pricey.
If you are building your raised bed in a location that was grassy, you’ll need to do something about that grass, especially Bermuda. Some people cover the bottom of their beds with cardboard or even garden cloth. When I built mine, I also used a tiller to break up the soil and then I raked out as much of the grass as I could get before putting a layer of garden cloth down.
Next up would be the soil. There are a lot of options concerning soil for your new raised bed. You can do a little math and figure out how many bags of soil from the garden center you need, but usually a more cost-effective option would be to purchase your soil in bulk from a local vendor. Businesses that offer bulk garden soil offer a variety of grades. The recommendation is to buy the best soil you can afford since the key to growing anything ultimately lies in the soil.
While most places will offer delivery of your soil, if you have a trailer available or a pickup truck, they will load the soil for you, which saves the delivery fee. Also, if your bed is kind of deep, you can visit Tulsa’s Green Waste facility to get some free mulch and use that mulch as the bottom layer in your raised bed.
Next, you’ll need to think about how you plan to irrigate your new raised bed. I would suggest you think about installing a drip irrigation system. Drip irrigation systems provide water at a slow rate, allowing it to sink deep into the soil. Some people will install their drip irrigation system before planting, turn it on, and then locate their plants near the spots where the drip line puts out its water. That’s not a bad idea.
The Tulsa Master Gardeners website has a lot of great information on growing vegetables. Just visit tulsamastergardeners.org and click on Lawn and Garden Help to learn more. See you in the garden!
You can get answers to all your gardening questions by calling the Tulsa Master Gardeners Help Line at 918-746-3701, dropping by our Diagnostic Center at 4116 E. 15th St. or email us at mg@tulsamastergardeners.org. | 2023-03-14T13:15:52+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/master-gardener-tips-for-building-raised-vegetable-gardens/article_7f3faaf8-bf80-11ed-b743-7ff5681a4758.html |
'Terrible tragedy': French teacher killed in attack by student who claimed to 'be possessed'
A teenage student killed a teacher at a school in southwestern France on Wednesday, authorities said.
The 50-year-old female teacher died from injuries inflicted by the attacker, a 16-year-old student, said French government spokesman Olivier Veran.
The assailant was a teenager suffering from psychological troubles who claimed to "be possessed" after stabbing the teacher in the chest, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
BFMTV reported that, following the attack in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz, the assailant fled into a neighboring room where he told a teacher that a voice had told him to commit the attack. The teacher took the weapon from the student and remained with him until police arrived, BFMTV said.
The incident occurred at the Saint-Thomas d'Aquin secondary school, in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region of southwestern France, according to the local prefecture.
Veran paid his condolences to those affected by the attack.
"I can hardly imagine the trauma that this can represent, locally and more generally on a national scale," Veran told journalists Wednesday, adding on Twitter that there are "no words to describe the tragedy."
French Education Minister Pap Ndiaye traveled to the school where the attack took place Wednesday and spoke to reporters there. Ndiaye said that 90 students from the suspect's class and two others from the same age group were being offered psychological support and that a minute's silence will be held in schools across France at 3 p.m. on Thursday for the murdered teacher.
"Nothing suggested the occurrence of such a terrible tragedy," Ndiaye said, adding that, "It's a sad day for the French education system, a sad day for this school."
Local prosecutor Jerome Bourrier said authorities have launched an investigation to determine whether the suspect committed "premeditated murder."
Bourrier said that the suspect — who was not known to the police — is in custody. A news conference will be held Thursday with French judicial authorities regarding the attack, the prosecutor added. | 2023-02-22T17:23:48+00:00 | wtae.com | https://www.wtae.com/article/french-teacher-killed-attack-by-student-who-claimed-to-be-possessed/43020675 |
Just six months after being diagnosed with stage 4 non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Chicago White Sox pitcher Liam Hendriks notched his first win since returning to the mound — and it just so happened to coincide with National Cancer Survivors Day.
The White Sox and Detroit Tigers were knotted up 2-2 heading into the 9th and final inning Sunday night when Chicago manager Pedro Grifol called on his Australian All-Star to keep things close. Hendriks worked flawlessly, striking out two of the three batters he faced and keeping the game tied for his offense to try and win it.
And win it they did, thanks to a four-run game-ending grand slam off the bat of Alex Lange. The 385-foot bomb not only secured the win for Chicago, but also gave Hendriks his first win of the season.
"It's one of those scripts," he said after the game. "I mean, my wife texted me and was like 'You got your first win in National Cancer Survivors Day' and that's one thing that's pretty special."
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After finding some lumps on his neck last summer, Hendriks was diagnosed with advanced stage blood cancer in December and immediately stepped away from baseball to undergo a grueling treatment regimen that included immunotherapy and chemotherapy. Then in April, Hendriks posted a video online of him ringing the "victory bell" after receiving his final round of treatment.
"Being able to ring this victory bell has been one of the most emotional things I've ever done," he said. "I cannot thank my team of doctors and nurses enough for coming up with the best medical plan for me. No words can express the gratitude I have for them saving my life."
Just 15 days later, Hendriks announced he was officially cancer-free.
With his health restored and his spirit unyielding, Hendriks returned to the White Sox on May 30, a moment that was a testament not only to his physical recovery but also his mental resilience. His story is one that transcends sports and truly embodies the meaning of "inspirational." It's a story that Hendriks hopes can serve as a beacon of hope for many others.
"As soon as you get diagnosed, you're considered a survivor. You've lived through this," he said. "Hopefully I can continue moving forward and continue somewhat at least doing the right thing on the field and give some people some hope to continue fighting."
Trending stories at Scrippsnews.com | 2023-06-05T21:35:47+00:00 | kgun9.com | https://www.kgun9.com/on-national-cancer-survivors-day-white-sox-pitcher-notches-first-win |
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LONDON — People in Britain are voting Thursday in local elections that will decide the makeup of local authorities across the country — and possibly the fate of embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In Northern Ireland, voters are electing a new 90-seat Assembly, with polls suggesting the Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein could win the largest number of seats, and the post of first minister, in what would be a historic first.
The local-authority elections will decide who collects garbage, fixes potholes and handles other essential services across the country. Conservative Party Chairman Oliver Dowden said the elections “are about one thing: who do you want running your council?”
But many voters also have other things on their mind. Across the U.K., the elections are dominated by increasing prices for food and fuel, which have sent household bills soaring.
Opposition parties are demanding the government do more to ease the cost-of-living crunch — driven by the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 pandemic disruption and economic aftershocks from Britain’s exit from the European Union. Both left-of-center Labour and the centrist Liberal Democrats advocate a windfall tax on energy companies, which have reported record profits amid rocketing oil and gas prices.
Johnson’s Conservative government argues taxing big firms like Shell and BP would deter much-needed investment in renewable energy that’s key to meeting Britain’s climate commitments.
The election also comes after months of turmoil for Johnson, in which he became the first prime minister to be sanctioned for breaking the law in office. He was fined 50 pounds ($62) by police for attending his own surprise birthday party in June 2020 when lockdown rules barred social gatherings.
Johnson has apologized, but denies knowingly breaking the rules. He faces the possibility of more fines over other parties — police are investigating a dozen gatherings — and a parliamentary investigation into whether he misled lawmakers about his behavior.
The prime minister also faces discontent within his own party. A bad result for the governing party on Thursday could lead Conservatives to try to replace Johnson with a less tarnished leader.
Labour leader Keir Starmer said the government was consumed by “a constant drip-drip of sleaze and scandal.”
“Their failure to get on with their jobs would be shameful at any time,” Starmer wrote in the Daily Mirror newspaper. “But during a once in a lifetime cost-of-living crisis, it’s a disgrace.” | 2022-05-05T10:02:30+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/uk-votes-in-local-polls-dominated-by-cost-of-living-crisis/2022/05/05/95c24b64-cc51-11ec-b7ee-74f09d827ca6_story.html |
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PLATTEVILLE, Colo. — Video from police body cameras obtained by Denver7 on Friday shows the Sept. 16 incident of a train hitting a Colorado police patrol car with a woman in custody in the back seat.
The Fort Lupton Police Department released an edited eight-minute video of several officers’ and deputies’ body cameras who responded to the initial call and after the woman was hit by a train while handcuffed inside the police cruiser.
On the evening of Sept. 16, a Platteville officer located a suspect vehicle on US Highway 85 and County Road 38. Police said the pickup truck and driver were reportedly involved in a road rage incident involving a firearm in Fort Lupton earlier that night.
The video starts with two Platteville police officers following Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, of Greeley, with their lights on, then turning off of U.S. Highway 85 onto Weld County Road 36.
Rios-Gonzalez, driving a pickup truck, pulls over on the other side of the train tracks just a few dozen feet down CR 36 from U.S. 85.
One officer, a man referred to as “Vasquez,” stops his cruiser directly on the train tracks, and the female officer who was driving behind him stops hers behind his cruiser.
The female officer goes to the passenger side of Vasquez’s cruiser with her gun drawn and pointed at the pickup truck. The other officer gets on a loudspeaker and tells Rios-Gonzalez he wants to see her hands.
They tell her to put her phone down and both hands out the window.
The female officer goes around to the left side and stands behind Vasquez.
Rios-Gonzalez is out of the truck with her hands up.
She complies with officers’ orders to keep walking back to them with her hands in the air, then gets on her knees as ordered and is handcuffed by the female officer.
Rios-Gonzalez asks, “What’s going on? Why am I being arrested?” and asks where she is going.
The officer tells her she is going to the car.
Rios-Gonzalez tells the officers there are no weapons in the car and keeps asking what’s going on. She is put into the police cruiser that is directly over the tracks.
The video then cuts to another officer or deputy who is armed with a rifle and clearing the pickup truck.
Officers with the Fort Lupton Police Department assisted with the arrest. The officer or deputy tells dispatch the vehicle is clear.
As officers are looking through the vehicle, they find a holster. One officer says multiple times that it took Rios-Gonzalez a very long time to pull over as they speculate whether Rios-Gonzalez tossed a weapon out of the truck.
At 7:54 p.m., the officer starts to hear a train horn in the background, and the female officer turns around to see train lights and yells an expletive, then the Union Pacific train hits the cruiser, as seen in the video.
The video shows multiple other angles of the train hitting the vehicle. One of the cuts then shows an officer telling dispatch the cruiser the woman was in was hit by a train and calls for paramedics.
The video cuts again to another officer’s body camera, which is running toward the cruiser, which sustained severe damage to its passenger side. The video shows the curtain airbags deployed in the vehicle. There is debris scattered across the area.
The video cuts to another body camera that shows Weld County sheriff’s deputies continuing to search Rios-Gonzalez’s vehicle. They find a round in a door as they are looking for the woman’s identification, then one of the deputies says they found a gun in the truck’s center console.
The video ends there.
Rios-Gonzalez was transported to a Greeley hospital with serious injuries, but authorities said Monday that she was expected to survive. No police officers were injured.
On Monday, the Platteville Police Department confirmed that the officer involved in the incident, whose name has not been released, was placed on paid administrative leave.
The Fort Lupton Police Department is investigating the alleged road rage incident.
Colorado State Patrol is reviewing the crash, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating how Rios-Gonzalez was injured while in police custody.
Blair Miller and Stephanie Butzer at KMGH first reported this story. | 2022-09-23T20:54:55+00:00 | wrtv.com | https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/video-shows-train-hit-colorado-police-car-with-woman-in-custody-inside |
(The Hill) — An internal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report examining what went wrong with the federal government’s response to the infant formula shortage earlier this year found 15 different areas where the FDA could have better managed the crisis.
The report from Steven Solomon, director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, recommended the agency update emergency response systems, increase staff training and modernize information technology, among other changes.
Solomon has been at the FDA for 32 years, 23 of which he spent in the agency’s Office of Regulatory Affairs, which houses the FDA’s inspectional programs.
The infant formula shortage drew national headlines earlier this year as families scrambled to get the product for their young before the shortage eased in the summer.
The FDA report says agents who inspect infant formula plants need more training and investigators who are part of the foods division of the federal agency are understaffed.
Solomon also found fault on the FDA’s communication and coordination efforts on managing the crisis, citing “inadequate processes and lack of clarity” on handling whistleblower complaints; and outdated information systems where reports and product complaints are submitted.
Solomon said many of the findings he has outlined, along with the recommendations to fix them, are already being addressed.
“This is one of our most important obligations,” Solomon wrote. “As public health servants, our commitment to protecting the nation’s food supply should be never-ending.”
The formula shortage was sparked primarily by the shutdown of a major production plant earlier this year run by Abbott Nutrition in Michigan.
The plant was shut down after the Cronobacter pathogen was detected in the pathogen supply and led to at least four infant illnesses.
One of Solomon’s solutions includes increasing understanding about Cronobacter, finding “scientific gaps” in understanding the bacteria’s contamination and illness capabilities. | 2022-09-22T13:48:10+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/national/fda-blames-baby-formula-crisis-on-outdated-systems-training-other-missteps/ |
CHIPPEWA FALLS (WQOW) - This month's recipient of the Jefferson Award is Dr. Tim Wolter, the founder of the Chippewa Falls High School robotics team, Team 5826 Avis Automata. Under his guidance, students have been competing in FIRST Robotics competitions since 2015.
“He is the entire reason that this program even exists," Megan Schutte, a junior member of the robotics team, said. "It is incredible that he is willing to put in so much time and effort into giving us these opportunities and without him, none of this would be a thing.”
“He’s not a boss. He’s a leader," Elleana Kenney, another junior on the team said. "Which is really amazing, because he comes to us with so much experience and with so many new ideas.”
Wolter started in robotics doing projects with his son, when he was in the fifth grade. He launched a middle school program that he went on to run with the help of his son for nearly two decades. For the high school program, FIRST Robotics competitions require adherence to strict deadlines. The robot -- under close supervision and control by the team -- must perform a variety of specific tasks under pressure and with speed and precision.
“The remarkable thing is they can go from concept to this -- a fully operational, well-driven, well-programmed machine -- in seven weeks," Wolter said. "How many of you with kids this age can get them to clean their rooms in seven weeks? But this is what’s possible.”
Showing these students what’s possible can be a gamechanger for their life journey. Seeing those pathways open up for his students has helped Wolter to continue to give up countless hours teaching and mentoring.
“I love this program because it helps me learn about things that I would never learn in an actual school," Jameson Hawkins, another member of the team, said. "I feel absolutely lucky that I’m able to be provided this at my age and where I’m at. No matter what field I go into it’s going to help me throughout my whole life.”
“I have been in robotics and robotics-related activities since the sixth grade, at this point, it’s my entire life outside of school," Schutte added. "I want to be an electrical engineer when I get older, and I’m looking into colleges now that are accredited for electrical engineering and also offer ‘first scholarships.’”
Even outside of careers in engineering and related fields, the program is challenging these students and teaching them how to work as a team.
“A lot of the people here have very different personalities and have incredibly different interests as well, and it’s crazy to see that two people are bonding over something so similar,” robotics team member Brett Schaefer said."
“Robotics, really just has something for everybody," Kenney added. "If you enjoy talking to people, we have PR. If you really want to know how to code, we have software. There’s just so Many different opportunities for people to come together.”
Over the last seven years, the team has grown from about 17 students to over 30. None of this would be possible without the vision and volunteer efforts of Wolter.
“It may seem like what they are doing is hard. It is," Wolter said. "It may seem like what I’m doing is hard. It’s not. These kids are all smarter than me. My job is just to get some good tools, put them in their hands, and get out of their way.” | 2023-03-28T17:37:07+00:00 | wqow.com | https://www.wqow.com/community/jefferson-awards/jefferson-award-winner-tim-wolter/article_cb129262-cd75-11ed-9ab7-df5fff4e50b6.html |
Monday night in Ohio, Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan meets his Republican challenger, author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, on the debate stage. It's their second and final encounter.
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Monday night in Ohio, Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan meets his Republican challenger, author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance, on the debate stage. It's their second and final encounter.
Copyright 2022 NPR | 2022-10-17T13:16:47+00:00 | mainepublic.org | https://www.mainepublic.org/2022-10-17/its-been-a-pretty-contentious-debate-season-for-senate-midterm-races |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Most pets hate visiting the vet. Now it’s becoming a lot more unpleasant for their owners, too.
America’s worst bout of inflation in four decades has swollen the cost of your dog or cat’s visit to the animal doctor. Prices for vet services have jumped 10% in the past year, government data shows — the biggest such spike on records dating back two decades.
The surging cost of veterinary services illustrates how high inflation has spread well beyond physical goods, such as cars, that became scarce as the economy accelerated out of the pandemic recession, to numerous services of which pet care is one example. The trend has stoked fears that inflation is growing more entrenched and that the Federal Reserve will feel compelled to keep raising interest rates at an ever-higher risk of causing a recession.
From dental care and apartment rents to auto repairs and hotel rates, prices for services keep going up. Such inflation is especially hard to quell, because it’s driven mainly by a tight labor market and consumer demand, which won’t likely cool unless the economy slows drastically or sinks into a recession.
The cost of housing is the biggest driver of higher services prices. But even excluding rents, services prices rose 7.4% in August from a year ago.
The Fed’s rate hikes, which affect consumer and business loans, aren’t ideally suited to taming services inflation. And in today’s economy, the service sector accounts for the bulk of consumer spending.
“It takes more to move the prices of services,” said Joseph Gagnon, a former Fed official who is a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “The real question is: What level of unemployment is going to be needed to cool off all this pressure?”
On Thursday, when the government issues consumer inflation data for September, it’s expected to report that prices jumped 8.1% from a year earlier. Though that would be down from an 8.3% jump in August, it would still far exceed Americans’ average wage gains.
Even as services grow costlier, goods inflation is slowing. Excluding volatile food and energy, price increases in goods have eased from a 12.4% annual rate in February to 7% in August. By contrast, services inflation has marched steadily higher, to a 6.1% annual rate from just 2.7% a year ago.
Spiking services prices are a big reason why Fed officials have stressed their determination to keep raising rates to move inflation back toward their 2% target, even as worries have grown that they’ll go too far and derail the economy.
Speaking last week, John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, likened inflation to the layers of an onion, with goods representing the outer layers that are peeled first and services prices the stickier underlying layer.
“Therein lies our biggest challenge,” Williams said. “Prices for services have been rising at a fast rate. … And labor shortages are everywhere, leading to higher labor costs.”
Like many services, veterinary care is labor-intensive; worker pay makes up about half the cost of running a practice. With wages rising nationally at the fastest pace in decades, many clinic owners have had to pay more to find or keep employees. Those wage increases have typically been passed on to pet owners in the form of higher prices.
Other vet costs, including for medical supplies, lab testing fees and advanced pharmaceuticals, have accelerated, too.
The industry has also been transformed by corporate purchases of vet clinics and hospitals — a trend that some independent vets blame for increasing prices. The Federal Trade Commission has responded by forcing some large chains to cut back their acquisitions after concluding that they threatened competition.
Like many industries, veterinary care endured wrenching changes after the pandemic struck in 2020, driven by increased demand from pet owners and a shift in how they do business.
Alexandra Kintz-Konegger, who owns K.Vet Animal Care outside Pittsburgh, said the combination of more visits and the need to implement new protocols overwhelmed her staff. She soon lost eight employees, about a quarter of her workers.
“We were literally working tirelessly … just because the demand for our services had definitely increased and we were less effective,” she said.
Nationally, traffic at vet clinics rose 4.5% in 2020 and an additional 6.5% in 2021, according VetSuccess, a data analytics firm.
Yet at the same time, a survey by the American Veterinary Medical Association found that the number of pets that veterinarians treated per hour declined 25% in 2020. Such a steep drop in efficiency, combined with increased demand, left vets and their staffs burned out. Many left the field for other jobs.
Kintz-Konegger boosted wages 25% to 30% from pre-pandemic levels, which initially helped her replace many of the staffers she lost, only to see more departures. She’d still like to hire five more technicians and assistants.
Government data shows that hourly pay in the vet industry jumped 7% in August from a year earlier, well above the 5% average for all workers. Measured year over year, pay leapt 14.2% in January, the highest jump on records dating from 2007.
The cost of surgical supplies, medicines and lab tests are still increasing, too. Kintz-Konegger said her fees for blood tests and other lab work rose 8% both in January and August.
She passes those costs on to consumers and has raised her fee for a basic wellness exam 10% to $62. She also raised prices for sick and emergency visits.
“I feel very squeezed in the cost of services, cost of staff, cost of supplies,” she said. “It’s getting to a point where I’m going, ‘How much higher can this spiral before something gives here?’ ”
Kintz-Konegger said she’ll probably have to raise prices again soon, unless her costs stop rising.
Across the economy, other services are skyrocketing, too. The cost of dental care spiked 1.9% just in June, the biggest one-month increase since record-keeping began in 1995, and 4.7% in August from a year earlier, the most in 14 years.
Auto insurance prices have been accelerating, a result of the big jump in vehicle prices since the pandemic. Pricier cars cost more to insure. And the price of medical care for people is also increasing, fueled largely by higher labor costs.
One factor in the rising cost of pet care is that it’s increasingly mimicking human health care. Specialty pet hospitals use MRI machines, expensive drugs have become available to fight cancer in pets and cats can receive kidney transplants. Vets and their technicians require advanced training to deliver such sophisticated services, which also can further inflate costs and the prices paid by consumers.
Many pet owners are increasingly willing to spend more, and large corporate providers of vet services are happy to cater to them. Though the industry began consolidating long before the pandemic, the pace has accelerated in the past two years.
John Volk, a senior consultant at Brakke Consulting, estimates that 25% of the 30,000 vet clinics in the United States are owned by large chains. The consolidation is much higher among the 1,200 emergency and specialty vet hospitals, about 75% of which are owned by chains.
Mars, the candy and pet food company, is the biggest owner of vet practices, with 2,500 clinics and hospitals worldwide. Another chain, National Veterinary Associates, owns 1,400 vet practices in the U.S. and overseas. It was acquired in 2020 by a Luxembourg-based private equity firm, JAB, and has recently come under scrutiny by the FTC.
In June, the FTC forced it to sell some vet hospitals in order to complete two new acquisitions. FTC Chair Lina Khan asserted that “serial acquisitions” by private equity firms and big corporations allow them “to accrue market power and reduce incentives to compete, potentially leading to increased prices and degraded quality.”
Some industry experts say larger chains can hold prices down by using their size to secure lower prices for supplies and drugs. How much the industry’s consolidation has contributed to higher costs is hotly debated within the vet industry, just as it is in the broader economy.
In the meantime, many vets are still looking to hire, a sign that the inflationary pressure from rising wages may take a long time to ease.
“We still don’t have enough veterinarians to handle all the demand that’s out there,” said Michelle Vitulli, who owns eight vet clinics in Northern Virginia and Maryland. | 2022-10-13T13:42:19+00:00 | ourquadcities.com | https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-what-spiking-us-veterinary-prices-reveal-about-inflation/ |
Alexis Molina speaks Tuesday about her experience surviving a 2017 shooting in a Clovis library as Zaneya Alzubidi, 7, brother of Bennie Hargrove, looks on during a news conference at the Roundhouse. Molina praised the passage of House Bill 9, a gun safety storage bill intended to keep guns out of the hands of children and teens and dubbed the “Bennie Hargrove Act” to honor the 13-year-old killed by a classmate with their father’s gun at an Albuquerque middle school in 2021.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hugs Vanessa Sawyer, the grandmother of Bennie Hargrove, after signing House Bill 9 into law Tuesday. The legislation, dubbed the Bennie Hargrove Act after the Albuquerque 13-year-old who was shot and killed in 2021 by another student who took a gun to their middle school, holds gun owners liable if a firearm is stored “in a manner that negligently disregards a minor’s ability to access” the weapon.
Alexis Molina speaks Tuesday about her experience surviving a 2017 shooting in a Clovis library as Zaneya Alzubidi, 7, brother of Bennie Hargrove, looks on during a news conference at the Roundhouse. Molina praised the passage of House Bill 9, a gun safety storage bill intended to keep guns out of the hands of children and teens and dubbed the “Bennie Hargrove Act” to honor the 13-year-old killed by a classmate with their father’s gun at an Albuquerque middle school in 2021.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham hugs Vanessa Sawyer, the grandmother of Bennie Hargrove, after signing House Bill 9 into law Tuesday. The legislation, dubbed the Bennie Hargrove Act after the Albuquerque 13-year-old who was shot and killed in 2021 by another student who took a gun to their middle school, holds gun owners liable if a firearm is stored “in a manner that negligently disregards a minor’s ability to access” the weapon.
With three bullets in her body, Alexis Molina said she could think of only two things as she heard the sound of pistol shots all around her in the library.
She prayed — and held her little brother Noah close to her bleeding body as she told him to play dead.
Molina was one of the victims in a 2017 shooting at a Clovis library that left two women dead and Molina and her brother, among others, wounded.
The teen shooter was believed to have access to the handguns at home.
Molina was present Tuesday when Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed House Bill 9, a gun safety storage bill intended to keep guns out of the hands of children and teens.
The legislation would create two crimes: negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor who brandishes it or uses it to threaten someone, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail; and negligently making a firearm accessible to a minor resulting in great bodily harm or death, a fourth-degree felony carrying an 18-month prison term.
Supporters have dubbed the bill the “Bennie Hargrove Act,” in honor of the 13-year-old who was shot and killed at Washington Middle School in Albuquerque in August 2021 as he tried to intercede in a bullying incident.
Authorities say the boy who shot Hargrove brought his father’s gun to school to commit the crime.
“This bill would hold people accountable for their firearms,” Molina said during a news conference held at the Capitol on Tuesday.
Lujan Grisham was surrounded at the bill signing by lawmakers, survivors of shootings and law enforcement officials. It was the first gun safety bill introduced this session to clear both legislative chambers and reach her desk.
In a session largely focused on improving public safety, battling crime and reducing gun violence, it was a late-in-the-game victory; the 2022 legislative session ends Saturday.
Other gun bills have either stalled — including an assault weapons ban the governor called for in her State of the State address — or await hearings.
House Bill 100, which would impose a 14-day waiting period before the completion of a firearm sale, is on the agenda before the House of Representatives, but it’s not moving quickly enough for some gun safety advocates.
A few hours after the governor signed HB 9, New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence issued a call to its supporters, asking them to put pressure on House Speaker Javier Martínez, D-Albuquerque, to get HB 100 on the floor before the legislative session ends. A similar bill is awaiting a hearing on the Senate floor.
“It is frustrating to see a gun violence prevention bill that has the legislative votes and support of many New Mexicans stalled on the Senate and House floors,” Miranda Viscoli, co-president of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote in a text message Tuesday.
A spokeswoman said House Democrats will “continue to prioritize passing bills we think will have the most impact on improving safety” in the last few days of the session.
Lujan Grisham said during the news conference she expects HB 100 will get heard and said despite having roughly four days left to the session “there’s still time” to enact more public safety laws.
Though the governor previously had hinted she might call a special session to bring lawmakers back to the table on some violence-prevention initiatives, including the ban on assault weapons, she backed away from the notion Tuesday.
“You don’t call a special session as a political point to just belabor a debate that has not been settled,” she said. “Special sessions are for getting things done or because we ran out of time on a specific issue.”
She said she will continue to fight for more public safety initiatives during her term, in part because, “we just have too many guns readily accessible to too many populations.”
Robert Nott has covered education and youth issues for the Santa Fe New Mexican. He is assigned to The New Mexican's city desk where he covers a general assignment beat. | 2023-03-15T05:48:42+00:00 | santafenewmexican.com | https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/legislature/governor-signs-bill-requiring-adults-to-secure-guns/article_2aa3d838-c26f-11ed-91cc-3773e89629bb.html |
PITTSBURGH, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ: VTRS), a global healthcare company, today announced that as part of its ongoing board refreshment efforts, Leo Groothuis has been appointed as Viatris' newest member of its board of directors. Groothuis fills the vacancy created by the previous departure of Michael Goettler in April of this year.
Groothuis has significant international experience and serves as General Counsel of HAL Investments, the Dutch investment subsidiary of HAL Holding N.V., an international investment company listed on the Amsterdam stock exchange, which is focused on increasing shareholder value. In addition to his strategic, financial and governance focus, he has also been actively involved in the development and execution of HAL Investments' ESG strategy.
Throughout his career, Groothuis has been a trusted C-suite and board advisor to some of the largest companies in both Europe and the U.S. Prior to his role at HAL Investments, he served as practice leader at NautaDutilh, an international law firm, where he guided numerous multi-national companies on significant and complex transactions. As a result, he is recognized as a top lawyer and thought leader in corporate governance, capital markets and M&A.
Viatris Executive Chairman Robert J. Coury said, "We are extremely pleased to welcome Leo Groothuis, a recognized top international executive to the Viatris board. We believe his proven strategic, corporate governance and capital markets experience should serve as a tremendous asset for Viatris, as we continue to look for ways to build and unlock value for our shareholders."
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Viatris Inc. (NASDAQ: VTRS) is a global healthcare company empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life. We provide access to medicines, advance sustainable operations, develop innovative solutions and leverage our collective expertise to connect more people to more products and services through our one-of-a-kind Global Healthcare Gateway®. Formed in November 2020, Viatris brings together scientific, manufacturing and distribution expertise with proven regulatory, medical, and commercial capabilities to deliver high-quality medicines to patients in more than 165 countries and territories. Viatris' portfolio comprises more than 1,400 approved molecules across a wide range of therapeutic areas, spanning both non-communicable and infectious diseases, including globally recognized brands, complex generic and branded medicines and a variety of over-the-counter consumer products. With more than 38,000 colleagues globally, Viatris is headquartered in the U.S., with global centers in Pittsburgh, Shanghai and Hyderabad, India. Learn more at viatris.com and investor.viatris.com, and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.
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BURLEY — Guadalupe Cano, 85, of Burley, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2022, at her home. A viewing with recitation of the Rosary will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, October 17, 2022, at Morrison Payne Funeral Home. The funeral Mass will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at St. Therese Little Flower Catholic Church in Burley with burial to take place at the Paul Cemetery following the service. Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Payne Funeral Home in Burley.
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Analyzed data from 500+ Event Planners delivers actionable insights in free upcoming webinar: Advancing the Next Generation of Events
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Community Brands is proud to announce a big reveal webinar on May 24 to unveil the results of the 2023 Event Trends Study, "Advancing the Next Generation of Events: How technology empowers organizations and inspires higher attendee engagement, growth, and ROI." Community Brands – the leading provider of software and payment solutions for associations, nonprofits, and K-12 schools – launched this study to help guide strategies and offer actionable take-aways based on survey results from 500+ events industry professionals.
The free on-demand webinar features Community Brands experts in event technology and product marketing, plus survey conductors from Edge Research, to deep-dive into the comprehensive findings from professionals who plan events for corporations, government organizations, nonprofits, and associations. Discussions will highlight "Advancing the Next Generation of Events" insights into the shifts that emerged during the last several years of change and shine a light on future improvement areas, including:
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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A homeowner shot and killed a possibly intoxicated college student who was trying to get into his house and ignored both orders to leave and a warning shot, Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Tony Mancuso said Tuesday.
Joseph Tezeno, 21, of Lake Arthur, died about 10:30 p.m. Monday at a home in Lake Charles, about 35 miles east-northeast.
“This is a sad and tragic situation for both families involved," Mancuso said in a news release. He described Tezeno as “a good kid that attended college locally.”
“Unfortunately Tezeno was believed to be under the influence and his actions ... caused the homeowner to fear for his life,” the sheriff said.
Surveillance video shows Tezeno walking toward the homeowner after being told to leave, and after the homeowner fired a shot into the ground, Mancuso told The American Press.
The newspaper said Tezeno attended McNeese State University, which is in Lake Charles.
Mancuso said deputies were sent to the house after a woman called, saying someone was refusing to leave the house. She then said her husband had shot the man after he tried to get into the house.
Detectives asked any neighbors with security cameras to get in touch. | 2022-07-06T01:38:48+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Sheriff-Homeowner-shot-killed-student-trying-to-17286366.php |
It’s official former President Donald Trump is under arrest on criminal charges in Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon (April 4, 2023). Donald Trump made 34 false statements to cover up other crimes, therefore, being charged with 34 counts of felony counts of falsifying business records before the 2016 presidential election.
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- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842457, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 842460, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about February 14, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated February 14, 2017, bearing check number 000138, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about March 16, 2017 through March 17, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated February 16, 2017 and transmitted on or about March 16, 2017, marked as a record of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about March 17, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, bearing voucher number 846907, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about March 17, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust Account check and check stub dated March 17, 2017, bearing check number 000147, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about April 13, 2017 through June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated April 13, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858770, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017, bearing check number 002740, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about May 22, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated May 22, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about May 22, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 855331, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.>
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about May 23, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated May 23, 2017, bearing check number 002700, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 16, 2017 through June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated June 16, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858772, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated June 19, 2017, bearing check number 002741, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about July 11, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated July 11, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about July 11, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 861096, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about July 11, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated July 11, 2017, bearing check number 002781, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about August 1, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated August 1, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about August 1, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 863641, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about August 1, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated August 1, 2017, bearing check number 002821, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about September 11, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated September 11, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about September 11, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 868174, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about September 12, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated September 12, 2017, bearing check number 002908, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about October 18, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated October 18, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about October 18, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 872654, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about October 18, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated October 18, 2017, bearing check number 002944, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about November 20, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated November 20, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about November 20, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 876511, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about November 21, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated November 21, 2017, bearing check number 002980, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about December 1, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an invoice from Michael Cohen dated December 1, 2017, marked as a record of Donald J. Trump, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about December 1, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 877785, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
- The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about December 5, 2017, with intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof, made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, a Donald J. Trump account check and check stub dated December 5, 2017, bearing check number 003006, and kept and maintained by the Trump Organization.
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Woman facing animal cruelty charge after leaving dog in hot car, police say
SOUTHINGTON, Conn. (WFSB/Gray News) - A woman in Connecticut is facing an animal cruelty charge after police say she left her dog in a hot car last month.
The Southington Police Department reports Denise Kedzierski, 58, was arrested on Monday.
According to WFSB, police were called to a parking lot at a care center on June 30 at about 1:45 p.m. with a report of an unattended dog in a white Jeep Cherokee.
Authorities said an arriving officer found the dog inside the vehicle along with Kedzierski.
The pet owner reportedly told police she had left her dog in the vehicle for no more than 20 minutes with the windows down while she was inside the business.
Both officers and witnesses reported that the dog had been in the vehicle for at least 25 minutes, with the two front windows open approximately two to three inches.
According to witnesses, the woman’s vehicle was parked directly in the sunlight and the dog appeared increasingly lethargic, was breathing heavy and panting.
The officer at the scene noted the temperature was nearly 84 degrees at the time of the call.
On July 25, police said Kedzierski was taken into custody on an animal cruelty charge based on their investigation.
Kedzierski was released on a $5,000 bond with a scheduled court date on Aug. 8.
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Oregon vs. BYU picks, predictions, odds: Who wins Week 3 college football game?
The BYU Cougars face the Oregon Ducks in a Week 3 college football game on Saturday.
Which team will win the game?
Check out these picks, predictions and odds for the game, which is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. MST and can be seen on Fox.
Oregon is a 3.5-point favorite in the game, according to Tipico Sportsbook.
College football Week 3 picks, predictions, odds:
- Cal vs. Notre Dame | BYU vs. Oregon | Mich. St. vs. Washington
- San Diego State vs. Utah | Fresno State vs. USC | EMU vs. ASU
- NDSU vs. Arizona | Georgia vs. S. Carolina | Penn St. vs. Auburn
- Miami vs. Texas A&M | Texas Tech vs. North Carolina State
Picks and Parlays: Oregon 28, BYU 27
It writes: "The BYU Cougars are 2-0 against the spread heading into Oregon. BYU has played two quality teams this season while Oregon has only beat up on a much smaller school. The Cougars are an underdog but show a ton of bark in this matchup. Grab those free points in what should be a tight game."
Odds Checker: Take BYU with the points vs. Oregon
Jason Radowitz writes: "Oregon has blocked well for Bo Nix, the quarterback for the Ducks. He's thrown for five touchdowns and two interceptions on the year. He's got the ability to make plays with his feet, but he'll also have time in the pocket to make plays. Unfortunately, like BYU, Oregon's run blocking isn't nearly as good so far this year. The Ducks also lack receivers. Their top receiver is Troy Franklin, who has 12 catches for 118 yards through two games. BYU should take advantage of Oregon's broken coverage. The Cougars' defense will be better in this game, and with the way Oregon's defense played against Georgia, I'm not ready to take Oregon as favorites, even at home. Give me BYU with the points."
Sports Chat Place: Go with BYU with the points vs. Oregon
Randy Chambers writes: "The Oregon Ducks are going to get the benefit of the doubt because they’re at home, where they usually always take care of business. However, it’s fair to say BYU has shown us more through 2 games than Oregon has. Sorry, a blowout win over East Washington doesn’t move the needle for me. BYU went on the road and waxed USF in humid conditions and then muscled through a top-10 Baylor team even if the contest was ugly for the most part. BYU plays with a physical style in the trenches, the sort of team that’s given Oregon issues in the past. Don’t be surprised if the Cougars win this game outright. Give me the points."
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Doc's Sports: Oregon will cover against BYU
Tony Sink writes: "Oregon has conceded a total of 232 rushing yards (116.0 yards per outing) in addition to 4 touchdowns rushing for the campaign. They have given up 5 touchdowns through the air in addition to 263.0 yards/outing, which has them ranked 98th in D-1. The Ducks defense has participated in 113 plays, ranking them 17th in Division 1. The Ducks are relinquishing 31.5 points per game, which has them ranked 100th in the country. This season, they have allowed 63 points in total."
Odds Shark: Go with the Cougars with the points against Oregon
It writes: "If Nacua or Romney are still sidelined for this contest, the Cougars will need to get more out of their running game to keep up with the high-scoring Ducks. Fortunately for BYU, Oregon has been vulnerable on the ground this season, allowing five yards per carry to Georgia and then giving up 100 yards last week against Eastern Washington."
ESPN: Oregon has a 54.3% chance to win the game
The site gives BYU a 45.7% chance to win the Week 3 college football game in Eugene.
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WALTHAM, Mass., May 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ardelyx, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDX), a biopharmaceutical company founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs, today announced that on May 9, 2022, the compensation committee of the company's board of directors granted three new non-executive employees options to purchase an aggregate of 26,953 shares of the company's common stock, and granted an aggregate of 29,250 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) to six new non-executive employees. Each stock option has an exercise price per share equal to $0.72 per share, which was the closing trading price of the company's common stock on the date of grant. The stock options and RSUs were granted as inducements material to each employee's decision to enter into employment with Ardelyx, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).
Each stock option vests over four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the first anniversary of the employee's first date of employment, and the remaining 75% of shares vesting monthly thereafter. Each RSU vests over four years, with 25% vesting on the first company designated quarterly RSU vest date following the first anniversary of the employee's first day of employment, and the remaining 75% of shares vesting quarterly thereafter. Each stock option has a 10-year term, and each option and RSU is subject to the terms and conditions of the company's 2016 Employment Commencement Incentive Plan and the award agreement covering the grant.
Ardelyx was founded with a mission to discover, develop and commercialize innovative first-in-class medicines that meet significant unmet medical needs. Ardelyx's first approved product, IBSRELA® (tenapanor) is available in the United States. Ardelyx is developing XPHOZAH® (tenapanor), a novel product candidate to control serum phosphorus in adult patients with CKD on dialysis, which has completed three successful Phase 3 trials. Ardelyx has a Phase 2 potassium secretagogue program, RDX013, for the potential treatment of elevated serum potassium, or hyperkalemia, a problem among certain patients with kidney and/or heart disease and an early-stage program in metabolic acidosis, a serious electrolyte disorder in patients with CKD. Ardelyx has established agreements with Kyowa Kirin in Japan, Fosun Pharma in China and Knight Therapeutics in Canada for the development and commercialization of tenapanor in their respective territories.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The family of a teen killed in a boat crash, which prosecutors say began the financial downfall of double murderer Alex Murdaugh, has reached a $15 million deal to settle a lawsuit against a convenience store chain that sold Murdaugh’s son alcohol while underage.
Sunday’s deal came after a judge refused to allow the Parker’s Kitchen chain to be separated from Murdaugh in a wrongful death trial next month in Hampton County, South Carolina, where Murdaugh was once a powerful and well-known attorney.
Murdaugh is serving a life sentence without parole the 2021 killing of his wife and the son involved in the drunken boat crash.
Under South Carolina law, even if the jury found Parker’s Kitchen was only 1% responsible, since Murdaugh is now nearly broke, the chain with its deeper pockets would likely have to pay almost the entire settlement.
The family’s attorney, Mark Tinsley, told media outlets the $15 million settlement that will be paid by the convenience store chain’s insurance was a large enough amount that Mallory Beach’s family felt would show the stores have to take alcohol laws seriously.
The Parker’s Kitchen clerk did not stop Paul Murdaugh, then 19, from using his older brother’s ID to buy beer, according to an investigation into the crash. Paul Murdaugh was facing a charge of boating under the influence causing death when he was killed at the family’s home.
The settlement doesn’t require Parker’s Kitchen to admit responsibility in the case. A lawyer for the stores said owner Greg Parker felt like he had no choice but to settle because Alex Murdaugh and the chain would be tried together in the wrongful death suit.
On Friday, a judge refused to separate Parker’s Kitchen from Murdaugh and declined to move the case out of Hampton County.
“The unfairness of that caused Parker’s insurance carriers to resolve these suits to avoid paying the likely award intended to punish Alex Murdaugh,” attorney P.K. Shere said in a statement, which also said he was disappointed the Beach family’s attorney revealed details of the settlement before it could be approved by a judge.
Beach, 19, was killed and three other teens in the boat were hurt in February 2019 after Paul Murdaugh steered the boat into a bridge piling, authorities said.
Her family has already settled lawsuits with another family who held an oyster roast the group was attending, a bar that served Paul Murdaugh liquor just before the crash, and Murdaugh’s older brother Buster.
Parker’s Kitchen also agreed to settlements with the three teens who survived the crash, lawyers said.
Nurses at the hospital where the injured teens were taken said Alex Murdaugh and his father arrived not long after the crash and tried to talk to them alone in the emergency room. One teen said it appeared the family was trying to convince them to say someone other than Paul Murdaugh was driving the boat.
The crash also left Alex Murdaugh fearful of a wrongful death lawsuit. Prosecutors at his double murder trial earlier this year said he worried financial disclosures in the suit would show he’d been stealing millions from clients and his law firm for a decade.
Tinsley testified at the trial he wanted Murdaugh to pay $10 million, and Murdaugh’s lawyer said he was broke and might be able to scrape together $1 million.
Tinsley said that didn’t make sense with Murdaugh’s reputation and outward signs of wealth so he asked for records of all of Murdaugh’s finances, a request being put before a judge at a June 10, 2021, hearing that was postponed after Murdaugh’s son and wife were killed.
Murdaugh killed his son Paul with two shotgun blasts and his 52-year-old wife Maggie with four or five rifle shots outside their home, authorities said.
Alex Murdaugh told investigators who arrived while the bodies were still on the ground that he wondered if the anger toward his son over the boat crash led to the killings. But prosecutors said they were instead a sinister, methodical plan to buy time to straighten out his finances and derail the wrongful death suit over the boat crash.
Murdaugh, 55, testified he didn’t kill his family. He is under protective custody at a South Carolina prison serving his life sentence. His lawyers have indicated he plans to settle his part of the Beach family’s wrongful death lawsuit.
State agents have been investigating whether Murdaugh obstructed the criminal investigation into the boat crash. No charges have been announced.
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This story has been updated to correct that the Murdaugh family allegedly tried to convince the injured teens that someone other than Paul Murdaugh was driving the boat, not Buster Murdaugh. | 2023-07-18T19:20:11+00:00 | keloland.com | https://www.keloland.com/news/national-world-news/ap-store-that-sold-alex-murdaughs-son-beer-must-pay-15-million-to-family-of-teen-killed-in-boat-crash/ |
MADISON, Wis. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Wisconsin Lottery's "All or Nothing Midday" game were:
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Officials and lawmakers push for more government transparency on UFOs
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By Jeremy Herb and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN
(CNN) — Three retired military veterans testified Wednesday at a House hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena – commonly known as UFOs – warning that the sightings are a national security problem and that the government has been too secretive about them.
A House Oversight subcommittee convened Wednesday’s hearing on UFOs, as the lawmakers who pushed for the hearing are calling for the government to be more forthcoming about the unidentified anomalous phenomena.
“If UAP are foreign drones, it is an urgent national security problem. If it is something else, it is an issue for science. In either case, unidentified objects are a concern for flight safety,” said Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who now runs Americans for Safe Aerospace, a group he founded to encourage pilots to report incidents of UAPs.
The government characterizes the unexplained sightings as UAPs and has released reports on the cases in recent years. Some of them still have not been explained, while others have been attributed to “balloon or balloon-entities,” as well as drones, birds, weather events or airborne debris like plastic bags.
Graves and David Fravor, a retired US Navy commander, both testified about their own sightings of UAPs while they were serving in the military. David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, alleged that the government has covered up its research into the unidentified sightings and said he reported information to the intelligence community inspector general.
“The technology that we faced was far superior than anything that we had,” Fravor said of the episode he witnessed in 2004, when asked why UAPs are a national security threat.
The hearing is the latest push by lawmakers, intelligence officials and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena to probe the issue on a national platform.
“This is an issue of government transparency,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, a Tennessee Republican who pushed to hold Wednesday’s hearing. “We’re not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing. … We’re just going to get to the facts. We’re going to uncover the cover up, and I hope this is just the beginning of many more hearings.”
No government officials testified at Wednesday’s hearing. In April, Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which Congress created to focus on UAPs, told a Senate subcommittee the US government was tracking 650 potential cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, playing video from two of the episodes. Kirkpatrick emphasized there was no evidence of extraterrestrial life and that his office found “no credible evidence” of objects that defy the known laws of physics.
Lawmakers have pressed the Department of Defense on the sightings, describing them as potential national security threats.
“UAPs, whatever they be, may pose a serious threat to our military and our civilian aircraft, and that must be understood,” Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California said. “We should encourage more reporting, not less on UAPs. The more we understand, the safer we will be.”
Both Garcia and Rep. Jared Moskowitz, a Florida Democrat, said that it was important for Congress to work on the issue in a bipartisan manner in order to press for more government transparency.
“Many Americans are deeply interested in this issue, and it shouldn’t take the potential of nonhuman origin to bring us together,” Moskowitz said.
Grusch claimed that the US government not only has UAPs in its possession but also the remains of the allegedly “non-human” pilots of the aircraft. However, when he was pressed, he made it clear this was what he has been told by others, and he did not have firsthand information. “That’s something I’ve not witnessed myself,” he said.
Grusch told the panel he could provide a list of “cooperative and hostile witnesses” who could provide Congress with more information about the programs related to UAPs.
Grusch said that he had reported his allegations as a whistleblower to the Intelligence Community inspector general. A spokesperson for the office of the Intelligence Community inspector general declined to comment.
The witnesses, as well as several lawmakers, complained that information related to the unidentified sightings was overly classified by the US government.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, said that he sought information about an incident he was told about from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Gaetz said when he went to Eglin, he was initially denied but eventually shown an image of the episode, of which, he claimed: “I am not able to attach to any human capability, either from the United States or from any of our adversaries.”
Graves said that a stigma remains for both commercial and military pilots when it comes to reporting UAP incidents.
“Right now we need a system where pilots can report without fear of losing their jobs,” Graves said. “There is a fear that the stigma related to this topic is going to lead to professional repercussions either through management or through their yearly physical check.”
Last year, the House Intelligence Committee held the first congressional hearing on UAPs in decades, and Kirkpatrick’s testimony was the first Senate hearing on the matter in recent memory.
Of the 650 cases the government is tracking, Kirkpatrick said, “We’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’”
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A heist, a fleece, a savage swindle — all seemingly fair descriptions of the Seahawks’ Russell Wilson trade last March. Seattle gave up a quarterback that “led” the Broncos to the lowest point total in the NFL last season, and received first and second-round picks along with impact players such as Noah Fant and Shelby Harris.
It helped put Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and general manager John Schneider back on the elite executives list in the minds of the media — and there has been plenty of acclaim in this space as well. But as commended as that deal was, there was one a couple years earlier that has been criticized — the acquisition of safety Jamal Adams for two first-round picks and a third-rounder to boot.
I bring this up because a $2.56 million salary guarantee just kicked in for Adams, all but ensuring he will be with the Seahawks next season. That wasn’t a surprise (the real shock would have been if they released him), but it does make you wonder if Adams will ever influence the win column the way the team hoped he would. Could 2023 be the blue-and-green breakthrough season for the 27-year-old? Or will those dealt draft picks continue to haunt?
It’s hard to get too upset with Carroll and Schneider for wanting to bring Adams on board in 2020. The Seahawks were coming off an 11-5 season, had a Pro Bowler-in-his-prime QB in Wilson, and had all the markings of a team in “win-now” mode. Adams, meanwhile, was coming off a first-team All-Pro season with the Jets as a 23-year-old.
So the Seahawks swung and seemed to square up on the pitch. Key word being seemed.
In his first year in Seattle, Adams set the single-season sack record for a defensive back with 9.5 sacks. This came in a span of 12 games, as injuries precluded him from playing in the other four. But sexy numbers don’t always equate to a superior season.
Analytics site Pro Football Focus broke down every one of Adams’ plays in 2020 and ranked him 53rd overall among safeties in the league and 78th on pass defense.
This didn’t stop the Seahawks from extending Adams and making him the highest-paid safety in football, but in 2021, Adams ranked 63rd overall, according to PFF, and 85th in pass coverage.
It’s just a website, I know. The graders aren’t wearing headsets and don’t know all the details of the coverage designs. But 53rd one year and 63rd the next? It was clear Adams hadn’t stood out in either season.
But 2022 seemed to have promise. One of the first calls new Seahawks defensive coordinator Clint Hurtt made after his promotion was to Adams. The feeling was that he wasn’t being used optimally in his first two years here.
Perhaps training camp was a sign that was true. Jamal impressed teammates in the weeks leading up to the season, including receiver DK Metcalf, who said Adams “caught like 10 picks” during camp.
Alas, a quadriceps tendon tear Adams suffered in Week 1 vs. Denver last year ended his season. He has played in just 25 of a possible 50 games for the Seahawks since signing. So is there any way this trade can ever pay off?
Well, it’s important to note that Adams’ three major injuries with the Seahawks have been on different parts of the body (groin, quad and shoulder). It’s not as if he has one particularly vulnerable joint or limb. However, his aggressive style of play is such that he is more susceptible to getting hurt. The health bug could strike again next season.
The source of hope, though, is that we still haven’t seen Adams — who’s still in his athletic prime — used in Hurtt’s defense for more than a half. With him joining fellow safety Quandre Diggs and Pro Bowl cornerback Tariq Woolen — might Seattle have one of the more formidable back ends in the NFL?
That’s what the coaching staff and front office is counting on. It’s just that recent history has shown that may be a pipe dream.
Few question Adams’ natural gifts. He was the sixth pick in the draft for a reason and he has been outstanding at various points in his career.
But that trade, frankly, has looked worse and worse with each passing season. If it doesn’t look better in 2023, it likely never will. | 2023-02-21T02:31:34+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/is-there-any-way-the-jamal-adams-trade-can-still-pay-off-for-the-seahawks/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_all |
Supreme Court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
The court’s action follows a decision in December in which the justices declined an emergency request to halt the requirement. At the time, doctors, nurses and other medical workers who said they were being forced to choose between their jobs and religious beliefs.
Three conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — dissented earlier and did so again Thursday.
New York is one of three states, along with Maine and Rhode Island, that do not accommodate health care workers who object to the vaccine on religious grounds.
The court had previously turned away health care workers in Maine, who filed a similar challenge, with the same three justices in dissent.
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AWP's partnership with leading car donation organization grows in impact
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- America's Warrior Partnership (AWP) and Vehicles for Veterans, a subsidiary of Car Donation Foundation, announce the results of July – September 2022, third quarter of collaboration- $76,817.98. Starting in January 2022, AWP and Vehicles for Veterans began working together to raise money and generate support for veterans through car and vehicle donations. Their total collaborative effort has raised $353,318.30. Today, Vehicles for Veterans and their collaborating partners announce they have raised over $30,204,831.99 since their inception in 2015.
"We believe this partnership is a game changer for veterans," said Jim Lorraine, president and CEO of America's Warrior Partnership. "Vehicles for Veterans doesn't just help both ordinary Americans and veterans raise money; most importantly, it donates vehicles and funds to help veterans who most need our support. We're thrilled by the results of our partnership so far, and want to encourage more people to donate through Vehicles for Veterans and help make a difference."
Vehicles for Veterans uses its tax-exempt vehicle donation program designed with veterans in mind. Proceeds from vehicle donations are given to a wide variety of programs and partners.
"America's wounded heroes deserve help, and vehicle donations are a way to help them that also helps everyone who donates," said Loren Dorshow Executive Director of Car Donation Foundation. "We're always happy to experience growth in donations, and look forward to the future of what our program and partnership with AWP can do for America's veterans."
For more information on America's Warrior Partnership and their collaboration with Vehicles for Veterans, subscribe to America's Warrior Partnership newsletter by visiting https://www.americaswarriorpartnership.org.
America's Warrior Partnership is committed to partnering with communities to prevent veteran suicide. We fill the gaps between veteran service organizations by helping nonprofits connect with veterans, their families, and caregivers. Our programs bolster nonprofit efficacy, improving their results, and empowering their initiatives. Increasing the quality of veterans' lives, thus helping to end veteran suicide.
Car Donation Foundation is a 501(c)(3) vehicle donation organization d/b/a Vehicles For Veterans which supports disabled and other veteran programs across the U.S. with the proceeds from vehicle donations. Vehicles For Veterans donors receive free towing and a tax-deductible receipt.
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX hauled in 9% more profit in the fourth quarter as the railroad hauled less cargo but charged higher shipping rates and tacked on more fuel surcharges.
The Jacksonville, Florida-based railroad said Wednesday that it earned $1.02 billion, or 49 cents per share, last quarter. That’s up from $934 million, or 42 cents per share, the year before.
That topped the 47 cents per share that the 27 Wall Street analysts surveyed by FactSet expected.
President and CEO Joe Hinrichs, who joined CSX in the middle of last fall’s difficult contract fight with 12 rail unions, said he’s “really proud of the progress we’ve made. We’re now at levels we haven’t seen in quite some time. We need to deliver that consistently throughout the year and that’s a really big focus of ours.”
CSX’s trains are running more smoothly now because the railroad has hired hundreds of additional employees over the past year to help handle the freight. CSX said it had 6,886 train crew employees on average in the fourth quarter, up from 6,397 a year earlier. Nearly 800 more conductors are in training.
Hinrichs said his main focus now is on continuing to improve customer service by reliably picking up and delivering shipments on time and by addressing some of its employees’ quality-of-life concerns. Throughout the contract negotiations, workers said they were frustrated by demanding schedules that put many of them on call 24-7 and the lack of paid sick time.
CSX eased its attendance policy this month to ensure workers aren’t penalized for medical appointment or hospitalizations, and it tweaked the way workers are assessed points for missing shifts. But Hinrichs didn’t specify what other changes are in the works.
“We are having meaningful conversations with our union partners on a number of these topics — listening to each other and challenging each other to find creative solutions that can work for the employees, our customers and the company,” he said.
CSX said its revenue increased 9% to hit $3.73 billion, which was in line with Wall Street expectations. Increases in fuel surcharges and shipping rates drove revenue higher even though volume slipped 2%. The railroad said last month’s severe winter weather modestly hurt volume in December.
The railroad said its expenses jumped 10% to $2.27 billion with fuel costs increasing 46%.
Hinrichs said he expects volume to grow faster than the roughly 0.5% rise in gross domestic product that’s forecast this year as the railroad’s service continues improving.
CSX is one of the nation’s largest railroads, and operates more than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of track in 26 Eastern states and two Canadian provinces. | 2023-01-26T13:21:18+00:00 | wnct.com | https://www.wnct.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-csx-railroad-profit-up-9-on-higher-fuel-surcharges-rates/ |
A Waterville woman driving along Norridgewock Road crashed through the guardrail and went down an embankment into a brook on Tuesday evening.
Vanessa Poirier, 25, was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence, driving to endanger and failure to stop at a stop sign, according to the Fairfield Police Department.
Poirier was allegedly speeding west on Center Road about 5:26 p.m. when she failed to stop at the intersection of Norridgewock Road. Poirier nearly struck two other vehicles before crashing through the guardrail and ending up in Fish Brook, Fairfield police said.
Poirier was taken to Thayer Center for Health in Waterville, where she was treated for minor injuries.
Poirier is scheduled to appear at Skowhegan District Court on June 14. | 2023-02-15T18:04:21+00:00 | bangordailynews.com | https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/02/15/news/central-maine/fish-brook-fairfield-crash/ |
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Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida's Lee County on Wednesday afternoon, producing winds of 150 miles per hour and a storm surge over 7 feet high in Naples before coming ashore.
The National Hurricane Center predicts Ian's high winds and rain will cause intense storm surge and flooding, resulting in catastrophic damage to homes and businesses.
The hurricane, located 100 miles southwest of Orlando as of 7 p.m., lost strength as it made its way across Florida. It was downgraded to a category 3 hurricane, still a major storm, with sustained winds of 125 mph, the NHC said in an update.
More than 1.5 million homes and businesses are without power as of Wednesday night.
305 PM EDT 28 Sep -- Hurricane #Ian has made landfall as an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane near Cayo Costa, Florida with maximum sustained winds at 150 mph. The minimum pressure from Air Force Reconnaissance Hurricane Hunters was 940 mb.
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The National Hurricane Center's Acting Director Jamie Rhome said in an advisory that the time for evacuation has long passed. Those who remain in the storm's path need to hunker down in the center of their home and prepare for sustained devastating winds.
The hurricane's eyewall reached Sanibel and Captiva islands, west of Fort Myers, shortly after noon. A webcam on Fort Myers Beach showed palm trees bending in the wind as waves toss furniture around in the surf.
Ian is forecast to continue making its way northeast across Florida. The situation on the ground will likely get worse before it gets better, as high tide isn't until 7:06 p.m. Wednesday, which will contribute to storm surge conditions.
The storm is expected to weaken after landfall, but could be near hurricane strength as it makes its way over Florida's east coast on Thursday, the NHC said. Ian will continue north toward Northeastern Florida, Georgia and South Carolina on Friday.
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LONDON (AP) — Winners of the 2023 British Academy Film Awards, announced Sunday:
Film — “All Quiet on the Western Front”
British Film — “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Director — Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Actor — Austin Butler, “Elvis”
Actress — Cate Blanchett, “Tár”
Supporting Actor — Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Supporting Actress — Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Rising Star (voted for by the public) — Emma Mackey
Outstanding British Debut — Writer-director Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun”
Original Screenplay — Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Adapted Screenplay — Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Film Not in the English Language — “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Musical Score — Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Cinematography — James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Editing — Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Production Design — “Babylon”
Costume Design — Catherine Martin, “Elvis”
Sound — “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Casting — Nikki Bartlett and Denise Chamian, “Elvis”
Visual Effects — “Avatar: The Way of Water”
Makeup and Hair — “Elvis”
Animated Film — “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
British Short Film — “An Irish Goodbye”
British Short Animation — “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse”
Documentary – “Navalny”
BAFTA Fellowship — Sandy Powell | 2023-02-20T08:44:27+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/entertainment-news/ap-winners-of-the-2023-british-academy-film-awards/ |
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The wife of Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday alongside her recovered husband and youngest daughter about their experience with their middle daughter, who has mental illness. | 2023-01-21T06:57:11+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/4-bedroom-home-in-broken-arrow---368-618/article_379cf40e-4011-5750-a618-4d80f99b6dc5.html |
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a new rule that would designate PFAS, a class of man-made chemicals that is a likely carcinogen, as a hazardous material.
The chemicals, often used for waterproofing, have been used in everything from Scotchgard to Teflon to a special foam used for fighting airplane fires. In recent years, PFAS has been found in drinking water sources in places including West Virginia and Michigan.
The hazardous designation under the Superfund Act would trigger faster cleanups when PFAS contamination is found and require companies that make PFAS to regularly report pollution. It would also ensure those companies are on the hook for cleanup if they are found to be responsible for water contamination.
“Up to now, what it’s been is a huge fight in the courts, where the companies have been denying, (saying), “This stuff isn’t harmful, you can’t prove that it’s causing any harm,'” environmental attorney Rob Bilott said.
He has spent decades in courts trying to prove communities that have recorded a spike in illnesses were poisoned by nearby factories that used PFAS.
“Having the U.S. EPA designate and declare this hazardous … (and) confirming these health effects is incredibly helpful,” Bilott said.
Melanie Benesh of the D.C.-based activist nonprofit Environmental Working Group called it “one of the most important steps that the EPA can take to address existing PFAS contamination.” For years, she has been working with U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., to urge the EPA to take action.
“Too many people do not understand that they are encountering this chemical every single day,” Dingell said.
She said it’s important to hold companies accountable, but also said to fully protect Americans’ health, Congress should establish a national standard for the acceptable level of PFAS in drinking water.
The EPA is expected to move forward with its own rules establishing such a standard by the end of the year. All rules are subject to a public comment period in which companies have an opportunity to push back. | 2022-09-02T21:16:48+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/washington-dc/epa-moves-to-designate-pfas-as-hazardous-material/ |
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Monday they have found the bodies of seven migrants they believe may have drowned while trying to reach Spain in a boat.
The bodies were found between Sunday and Monday in waters in three areas off southeastern Spain, the Civil Guard said in a statement. Police believe the seven were of north African origin. They are investigating if they had been in a boat that was found adrift on Saturday with one migrant alive onboard.
Thousands of migrants from northwest and sub-Saharan African countries try to reach Spain by boat each year. Many die in the attempt.
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Follow AP’s coverage of migration issues at https://apnews.com/hub/migration | 2022-08-30T14:14:30+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/international/ap-international/ap-bodies-of-7-migrants-found-off-spains-southeastern-coast/ |
Boston Celtics assistant Will Hardy has accepted an offer to become the coach of the Utah Jazz, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Tuesday.
Hardy and the Jazz were in the process of finalizing contract language, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither side announced the deal publicly.
Hardy will become an NBA head coach for the first time. He will replace Quin Snyder, who decided to leave the Jazz earlier this month after eight seasons.
ESPN and The Athletic first reported the agreement between Hardy and the Jazz.
Hardy spent one season in Boston, helping the Celtics reach the NBA Finals. His previous 11 seasons were spent with the San Antonio Spurs, starting as a basketball operations intern, moving into the video room and eventually becoming an assistant under all-time wins leader and five-time NBA champion Gregg Popovich.
Hardy also assisted Popovich during USA Basketball’s appearances at the 2019 Basketball World Cup and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Hardy left San Antonio for Boston to work for another former Spurs assistant, Ime Udoka, who took the Celtics to the finals in his first season as a head coach.
And given the success of the Popovich coaching tree in the NBA, it's no wonder the Jazz decided Hardy was the right hire.
Consider the roster of current NBA and WNBA coaches who have played for, worked for, coached under Popovich, or some combination thereof.
Golden State's Steve Kerr just won his fourth title as a coach — beating Udoka, Hardy and the Celtics in that series — and ninth championship overall. Milwaukee's Mike Budenholzer led the Bucks to the 2021 NBA title. Phoenix's Monty Williams guided the Suns to the NBA's best record this season and made the finals last year. Memphis' Taylor Jenkins led the Grizzlies to the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference this season. Philadelphia's Doc Rivers has won an NBA title, Sacramento's Mike Brown went to the NBA Finals in his second season as a head coach in Cleveland and Becky Hammon has the Las Vegas Aces off to the best start in the WNBA in her first season.
Clearly, those who learn from Popovich know how to win.
And Hardy has had the can't-miss coaching label on him for some time.
“It's always just been about being selfless," Hardy said while appearing at a Rising Coaches seminar last year. “Coach Pop says all the time: ‘Get over yourself. It ain't about you.'"
Utah was the only team in the NBA with a coaching vacancy and became the fourth team to complete a hiring since the regular season ended. Sacramento hired Brown, the Los Angeles Lakers hired Darvin Ham, Charlotte brought back Steve Clifford for a second stint and now the Jazz are turning their team over to the 34-year-old Hardy, who is younger than some players in the NBA.
Hardy also inherits a roster that's capable of winning.
The Jazz are one of three teams to make the playoffs in each of the last six seasons; Boston (with eight) and Milwaukee (six) are the others. Utah won 49 games this season and Snyder went 372-264 with the Jazz.
But he decided he needed a change, and Utah set out on its process. The Jazz talked to several assistants from all over the NBA before selecting Hardy, who will become only the fourth Utah coach in a span of 33 years — following Jerry Sloan, Tyrone Corbin and Snyder.
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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Weber Inc. ("Weber" or the "Company") (NYSE: WEBR).
Class Period: August 2021 IPO
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: September 27, 2022
Investors suffering losses on their Weber investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors: (1) that Weber was reasonably likely to implement price increases; (2) that, as a result, consumer demand for Weber's products was reasonably likely to decrease; (3) that, due to the resulting inventory buildup, Weber was reasonably likely to run promotions to "enhance retail sell through"; (4) that the foregoing would adversely impact Weber's financial results; and (5) that, as a result of the foregoing, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects, were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis.
To be a member of the class action you need not take any action at this time; you may retain counsel of your choice or take no action and remain an absent member of the class action. If you wish to learn more about this class action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to the pending class action lawsuit, please contact Howard G. Smith, Esquire, of Law Offices of Howard G. Smith, 3070 Bristol Pike, Suite 112, Bensalem, Pennsylvania 19020, by telephone at (215) 638-4847, toll-free at (888) 638-4847, or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com, or visit our website at www.howardsmithlaw.com.
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NEW YORK, May 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- TIAA has been named one of DiversityInc's 2023 Top 50 Companies, ranking at number eight. TIAA has now been included on this list for over a decade. DiversityInc has also included TIAA on several other lists, such as Top Companies for Board of Directors, Top Companies for People With Disabilities, Top Companies for Employee Resource Groups, Top Companies for Supplier Diversity, Top Companies for ESG, Top Companies for Talent Acquisition for Women of Color, Top Companies for Executive Diversity Councils, High Potentials, Top Companies for Latino Executives, Top Companies for Asian American Executives, Top Companies for Executive Women and Top Companies for Native American/Pacific Islander Executives.
"At TIAA, we believe our business is only as strong as our team, and the best team is one that is as diverse as the clients we serve," said Claire Borelli, TIAA Chief People Officer. "We appreciate DiversityInc's recognition of our work and remain committed to maintaining a workplace in which we can all belong and engage for the benefit of our clients."
TIAA is dedicated to promoting inclusion, diversity and equity. The company is working toward making the workplace a more welcoming environment through initiatives such as its Future500 ID&E client engagement program, designed to share best practices TIAA developed over the years to help client institutions implement and advance their own ID&E plans, and the TIAA People Equity Index, created to measure and improve leaders' equitability and inclusiveness across their teams.
TIAA also addresses systemic issues and promotes diversity with its Business Resource Groups, a place for associates from underrepresented communities and allies to come together, and its Be The Change program. Be The Change focuses on taking meaningful action to help build future leaders and empower community impact.
Companies on DiversityInc's Top 50 list are evaluated and ranked based on six areas of diversity and inclusion: human capital diversity metrics, leadership accountability, talent programs, workplace practices, supplier diversity and philanthropy.
The DiversityInc Top 50 list, issued yearly since 2001, recognizes the nation's top companies for workplace fairness.
View the entire Top 50 list and specialty lists here.
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TIAA is a leading provider of secure retirements and outcome-focused investment solutions to millions of people and thousands of institutions. It is the #1 not-for-profit retirement market provider1, paid more than $6.4 billion in lifetime income to retired clients in 2021 and has $1.2 trillion in assets under management (as of 3/31/2023)2.
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- As of July 21, 2022. Based on data in PLANSPONSOR's 403(b) 2022 DC Recordkeeping Survey, combined 457 and 403(b) data.
- As of March 31, 2023, assets under management across Nuveen Investments affiliates and TIAA investment management teams are $1,240 billion.
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