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Sony World Photography Awards 2023: The year’s best images unveiled
Oscar Holland, CNN
An aerial view of a volcano, a shot from inside a damaged building in Ukraine and a portrait of a dog are among the best images taken globally in the past year, according to judges of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards.
Shortlisted entries and finalists in the annual competition’s 10 professional categories, which span portraiture, sport, landscape and the environment, were unveiled by the World Photography Organisation on Tuesday. The winners will be announced alongside the youth and student competitions, in addition to categories open to amateur photographers, on April 13.
More than 415,000 images were entered across this year’s competitions, with over 180,000 of them eligible for the professional categories. Organizers said that 2023 has seen the highest number of entries in the awards’ 16-year history.
Three finalists, as well as five to seven shortlisted photographers, were chosen in each category. The selected images were shot by photographers hailing from over 30 countries in locations ranging from an abandoned cement factory in China to a fish market in Somalia.
A panel of judges comprising curators, museum figures and photo editors based its decisions both on the entrants’ technical skill and whether they demonstrated “an original approach to storytelling,” according to a press release. Jury chair Mike Trow described this year’s winners as “exciting and challenging.”
“They covered the profound and ongoing discussions around narrative truth and agency in art,” he added, “as well as wider environmental, political and societal viewpoints.”
Scroll through the gallery above to see a selection of images from the Sony World Photography Awards professional categories.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities on Monday advanced a plan to build nearly 500 homes in a new Jewish settlement in Jerusalem that rights groups say will further sever it from the nearby Palestinian city of Bethlehem and the southern West Bank.
The planned Givat HaShaked settlement is part of a cluster of settlements on the southern edge of east Jerusalem, many of which have already been built up into full-fledged residential neighborhoods. Critics say they further undermine any hopes for a two-state solution.
Ir Amim, an Israeli rights group that closely follows developments in Jerusalem, said the plan for the settlement was approved on Monday to be deposited for objections, a key step in a bureaucratic process that could continue for months or years before construction begins.
There was no immediate comment from the Jerusalem municipality. City officials, who consider the settlements to be ordinary Jewish neighborhoods, have previously said they are committed to building in all areas of Jerusalem for the benefit of Jewish and Arab residents.
Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war and has built settlements across both territories that are now home to some 700,000 Jewish settlers. The Palestinians want both territories to form part of their future state and view the settlements as the biggest obstacle to peace. Most countries consider the settlements to be illegal.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem in a move not recognized by the international community and considers the entire city its unified capital. Palestinian residents of the city face systematic discrimination, especially when it comes to urban planning, making it extremely difficult for them to build new homes or expand existing ones.
The U.S. and other Western countries have pressed Israel to rein in settlements, with little success. Israel’s outgoing government, which included dovish parties and even an Arab faction, approved the construction of thousands of settler homes despite U.S. objections.
The latest settlement will be built adjacent to the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Safafa, which is already mostly encircled by settlements, further preventing its growth.
“While there’s constant investment, robust development for Israelis, there’s a complete suppression of urban planning (for Palestinians), which ultimately serves as a mechanism of displacement for Palestinians because it pushes them out of the city,” said Amy Cohen, the director of advocacy for Ir Amim. “They have no means to build or expand their neighborhoods.” | 2022-09-06T00:42:49+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/world/ap-israel-advances-plans-for-another-east-jerusalem-settlement/ |
BOYNE FALLS, MI - Even with Michigan’s penchant for rollercoaster spring weather, this past weekend served up a doozy of a day for Northern Michigan skiers. The temps hit 85 or higher in some areas and some ski runs were still open. With this backdrop, Boyne Mountain clinched the #MI Last Chair challenge - a friendly little smack-talking bet it holds with Upper Peninsula ski resort Mount Bohemia to see which spot can keep skiers on downhill runs longer each season.
Boyne Mountain was victorious this year, wrapping up its ski season on Saturday amid summer temps and snowpack still on the slopes. The winners? Late-season skiers and Top of Michigan Trails, a regional nonprofit that is focused on building and connecting recreational trails in the area.
“After years of good ol’ fashion smack talk with Mount Bohemia, we decided it’s time to get serious,” the Boyne crew posted on social media. “Officially dubbed the #MILastChair Contest, we are STOKED to be the winners this season. Shoutout to our stellar on-hill crews!!
“The bet is $1,000 to the winner’s chosen charity. Last year, we tied and both donated. This year, Mount Bohemia is donating $1,000 to Top of Michigan Trails in support of Leadership Charlevoix County’s bike trail-making efforts.”
Area leaders are working on a project to connect the Boyne Valley Trailway to the Boyne City to Charlevoix Trail by creating a bike route that runs through Boyne City’s downtown. “Mount Bohemia’s donation helps purchase safety, way-finding, and trailhead signage to mark the route and improve overall safety and navigation on the trails.”
As the ski season wrapped up at Boyne Mountain on Saturday, Mount Bohemia sent their applause:
“Congrats to @boyne.mountain for winning the last chair in Michigan this season. Sadly Bohemia skied till April 9th but we were just not able to make it to this past weekend . @boyne.mountain skied this past weekend and in doing so got $1,000 ( from us ) for its charity @topofmichigantrails in Northern Michigan . Don’t worry @coppercountryhumanesociety, we plan to prevail next season.”
Boyne’s last ski day on Saturday was actually a multi-sport day, thanks to its Hemlock Open event that meshes skiing and golf. This two-person competition kicked off with two runs of giant slalom in the morning, then a 9-hole golf scramble in the afternoon. | 2023-04-18T16:04:51+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/04/michigan-ski-resorts-talk-smack-with-lastchair-challenge-donate-1k-to-charity.html |
Which solutions for lower left back pain are best?
Lower back pain affects nearly everyone at some point, but having it on one side may unnerve you. It could be from sitting hunched over at a desk for long periods or from sleeping weirdly, but back pain can be debilitating and prevent you from being as active as you like to be. There are many different reasons your back may be hurting only on the left side. Still, unless it’s occurring in conjunction with symptoms like swelling or pain along the spinal column and trouble controlling the bowels and bladder, you’re likely experiencing muscle strain. It’s also possible that pain in the lower left back suggests a nerve issue like sciatica, as it usually only affects one side. Luckily, there are ways to treat the pain and make it manageable, from heat and over-the-counter medicines to tools for stretching or supporting your back.
7 solutions for lower back pain
What you need to know: The TOLOCO massage gun can deliver relief to the muscles in your lower back with its powerful engine. It produces consistent, strong vibration that helps loosen muscle strain.
What you’ll love: A TOLOCO massage gun has 20 different speed levels and 10 replaceable massage heads to pinpoint the knot in your lower back. Massaging can break up lactic acid and stimulate blood flow to increase healing.
What you should consider: The gun won’t break easily, but it seems to have problems keeping a charge eventually. After half a year, people report having to find a replacement for the battery.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Mighty Bliss Electric Heating Pad
What you need to know: A heating pad will encourage the muscles in your back to relax. Heat can also stimulate healing and blood flow for internal organs like your kidneys or liver that can cause left lower back pain.
What you’ll love: The heat pad immediately provides relief for the pain. Laying on the heating pad opens up blood vessels which can help break up lactic acid that causes soreness.
What you should consider: Heating pads are helpful to have and are good for all kinds of soreness and cramps, but you can’t leave it on for extended periods. This one has an auto-off feature, so you can turn it on and leave it with peace of mind.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Acumobility Foam Roller for Back
What you need to know: The foam roller will stretch you and apply pressure to your back. It will help you stretch and massage your back, even helping with chiropractic adjustment and relieving pressure on your vertebrate.
What you’ll love: The foam has give, but it’s firm, making it comfortable but effective. The raised bumps provide more focused pressure on the knots in your back.
What you should consider: Be careful not to be too intense with your stretching too quickly, as you might exacerbate the problem.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: An E-stim forces your muscles to contract by coursing controlled bursts of electricity through them. By forcing the muscle to contract repeatedly, you strengthen and repair muscle fibers that have stiffened or weakened.
What you’ll love: An E-stim is used by aching wires to patches and pacing the patches on the skin. The electricity repairs muscle and can even help with nerve pain.
What you should consider: This E-stim is affordable, but its trade-off is longevity. Customer reviews indicate the machine has problems operating consistently after a few months.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Aleve Muscle Relief for Back Pain
What you need to know: Over-the-counter medicine is effective for dealing with lower left back pain. Aleve works by blocking your body’s pain signals to the brain, effectively preventing you from feeling it.
What you’ll love: Aleve is widely available and works for up to 12 hours. All you need are two pills a day to block out your lower left back pain. It’s cheaper to buy online than in the store, and his box contains 250 tablets, so you’ll have enough Aleve to last you for years.
What you should consider: Overuse of Aleve can cause problems with your digestion and produce ulcers in the stomach. As long as you stick to the recommended doses, you won’t have to worry about it.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: These temporary patches stick to your back so that you can have relief even if you’re on the go. The patch numbs your back by delivering icy coolness and then helps to relax it and relieve soreness by heating up.
What you’ll love: The Icy Hot patch sticks fast to your back and stays secure even under clothes. It’s fast-acting and will start relieving pain by pinpointing the nerves almost immediately.
What you should consider: Some customers have reported that the patch can come loose if you move or stretch too much.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
What you need to know: A back brace can help treat the cause of your back pain. It provides structure and support to help prevent bad posture and the ensuing muscle strain.
What you’ll love: This back brace uses four memory-aluminum stays on the back and two springs along the side to keep your lower back stiff and unbent. The brace also compresses the muscles with its strong velcro. It doesn’t bunch up while you’re sitting, and the profile is nice and slim under your clothes. It won’t make you look bulky.
What you should consider: Customers report that this brace runs small, so order a size or a size up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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TORONTO (AP) — J.D. Martinez drove in the tiebreaking run when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the 10th inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 on Wednesday, avoiding a three-game sweep.
Alex Verdugo hit a two-run homer and had four RBIs, and Franchy Cordero had four hits as Boston won for the third time in 10 meetings with Toronto this season.
With automatic runner Jackie Bradley Jr. at second base to start the 10th, Blue Jays right-hander David Phleps (0-2) walked Rob Refsnyder and Rafael Devers to load the bases for Martinez, who was hitless in his previous 13 at bats.
Bradley scored when Phelps hit Martinez in the back with a 1-2 pitch. Tim Mayza came on and got Xander Bogaerts to ground into a double play but Verdugo followed with a two-run double to make it 6-3.
Matt Strahm (3-2) struck out Bo Bichette and Guerrero in the ninth, but gave up an RBI single to Santiago Espinal and an RBI double to Cavan Biggio in the 10th. Strahm ended it by getting George Springer to fly out.
Both benches and both bullpens cleared after Red Sox right-hander Nick Pivetta hit Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk on the left elbow in the third. After Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo left the dugout, Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hopped the dugout fence and started yelling at Pivetta, who yelled back. Devers stepped in front of Guerrero as other players rushed to join the melee, but no punches were thrown.
Springer hit his 15th home run for the Blue Jays, a solo shot in the fifth.
Toronto opened the scoring on Espinal’s two-out RBI single in the second, but Boston answered in the third on Refsnyder’s sacrifice fly, a drive to deep center that Springer ran down.
Springer put the Blue Jays in front with his leadoff blast in the fifth but the Red Sox reclaimed the lead in the sixth. Bogaerts reached on a two-out infield single and Verdugo followed with a drive to right, his sixth.
The Blue Jays tied it against Ryan Brasier in the eighth, rallying against Boston’s bullpen for the second straight night. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a one-out double and was replaced by pinch-runner Bradley Zimmer, who scored when Raimel Tapia followed with a double to center. The blown save was Boston’s 16th in 33 chances.
Pivetta allowed two runs and five hits in six-plus innings. He walked three and struck out five.
Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out six.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Red Sox: RHP Garrett Whitlock (right hip) threw a bullpen session before the game, his second in three days. Manager Alex Cora said Whitlock could return in a relief role when he is activated.
SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER?
One day after his team blew a ninth-inning lead and lost 6-5, Cora said he was willing to bet his roster would be more complete when Boston comes back north of the border for a three-game series beginning Sept. 30. Boston closer Tanner Houck, who has six saves, has missed two trips to Toronto this season because he isn’t vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccination status of injured LHP Chris Sale is unclear.
ROSTER MOVES
Toronto completed the signing of RHP Sergio Romo to a one-year deal. RHP Shaun Anderson was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo to make room on the major league roster, while LHP Tayler Saucedo (right hip) was transferred to the 60-day IL to open a spot on the 40-man roster. Romo was cut by Seattle June 20.
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Romo offered a wry assessment of his appeal to other big league teams after being cut by the Mariners.
“I’m 39 and throw 85,” Romo said.
UP NEXT
Red Sox: LHP Rich Hill (4-4, 4.09) starts Friday as the Red Sox visit Chicago for a three-game series against the Cubs. The Cubs have not named a starter for Friday.
Blue Jays: LHP Yusei Kikuchi (2-4, 5.08) starts Thursday as the Blue Jays open a unique five-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays, including a doubleheader Saturday. The Rays have not named a starter for Thursday.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Neil Clarke, editor-in-chief of the renowned literary journal Clarkesworld, about the deluge of submissions written by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Neil Clarke, editor-in-chief of the renowned literary journal Clarkesworld, about the deluge of submissions written by artificial intelligence software like ChatGPT.
Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-02-24T00:00:14+00:00 | kunm.org | https://www.kunm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2023-02-23/sci-fi-magazine-stops-submissions-after-flood-of-ai-generated-stories |
Even before the pandemic began, I knew what it felt like to be deemed disposable by an ableist society. I’m a queer person who came of age during the AIDS crisis, which meant that I have seen the ways that my community had to fight for our lives after being left to die by the medical establishment and the government.
As another deadly virus took hold of New York City, the mass graveyard on Hart Island that had once been the burial ground for people who died of AIDS, opened up again like an unhealed wound. This time, it was to receive unidentified bodies of people who had died after contracting COVID-19.
As a chronically ill and disabled person living with HIV, Dying of COVID-19 wasn’t my concern. My deepest fear was that life could become much harder if I survived.
In this moment of impending doom, the disability community collectively leaned on one another to survive. We gathered on Zoom to share vital data on the levels of community transmission, and information on how to protect ourselves. We organized mutual aid efforts. We processed the messaging from authorities and pundits that discounted our lives. They repeatedly stated that “healthy people” didn’t have to worry about the effects of contracting COVID-19 because “only” the elderly, the disabled and the chronically ill were at high risk.
On the third anniversary of the pandemic, this harmful messaging continues. The disabling effects of Long COVID are a politically inconvenient truth that disrupt the narrative that the pandemic is over and everyone should “go back to normal.” Yet abandoning mitigation measures like universal masking in indoor spaces has put everyone at risk of contracting COVID-19 multiple times.
I contracted COVID-19 in June of 2022, shortly after the mask mandates were lifted. In addition to HIV, I live with Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia. After COVID-19, my symptoms became more intense and unpredictable, and I developed new ones. Sound and light became painful to me. Scrolling on a screen, reading and even watching television, which used to be a way of relaxing, now cause me something akin to motion sickness.
These experiences are common among the many people who have become chronically ill after developing Long COVID and Associated Diseases (LCAD). Like me, they are living through the immense difficulty of navigating medical establishments, and experiencing the trauma of not being believed. Most have been denied disability benefits for their complex chronic illness.
People living with LCAD often go missing from public life. On a good day, you see us out in the world. But when we are not well, we simply disappear.
In a country where six out of every ten people live with at least one chronic condition, we need to promote disability justice more than ever. Even typically healthy people are at risk of developing Long COVID.
Disability justice is a liberatory framework for organizing that prioritizes the needs of the most marginalized. Created by disabled queer and trans people of color, it goes beyond the argument that people with disabilities simply deserve “rights,” but rather advocates for an inclusive world in which nobody is left behind.
I hope that the pandemic can teach the world an important lesson that we in the disability community have long known: You are only as healthy as your neighbor, and as people on the other side of the world.
The US is one of the most prosperous nations in history. We have a moral obligation to fund research and treatment that is free from the gatekeeping of greedy big pharma companies. We need global strategies to address existing pandemics, and to prevent future ones.
Everyone experiences illness and the loss of abilities to some degree in their lifetime. Recognizing our interconnectedness and building solidarity is essential for the survival of us all.
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Gabriel San Emeterio, LMSW (they/she/he) is a queer activist from Mexico City who has lived in New York City for the past 23+ years. Their passion for liberatory community work guides her life efforts, which include advocacy and grassroots organizing around policies and issues that affect the LGBTQIA+ community, welfare rights, and people living with HIV, ME/CFS and other fatiguing illnesses such as Long COVID. Gabriel has a masters degree in social work and is the co-founder of Long COVID Justice, an organization led by disabled queer and trans people that advocates to end practices and policies that ignore, marginalize and deprioritize chronically-ill and disabled people, in and beyond pandemics. | 2023-04-05T17:38:48+00:00 | cleveland.com | https://www.cleveland.com/reckon/2023/04/as-a-queer-disabled-person-heres-what-i-want-everyone-to-understand-about-the-pandemic.html |
Jury selection begins as Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson faces a rare trial over police conduct in a mass shooting on campus
By Dakin Andone, CNN
(CNN) — Jury selection is scheduled to begin Wednesday in the trial of the former school resource officer who remained outside a Parkland, Florida, high school as a gunman massacred 17 people, marking the rare prosecution of a law enforcement officer over his response to a mass shooting.
Scot Peterson – who retired from the Broward Sheriff’s Office as scrutiny of his conduct during the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mounted – has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury in connection with the shooting and statements he made afterward.
Peterson, 60, failed to follow his training by remaining behind a position of cover for at least 45 minutes, prosecutors say, while the 19-year-old shooter roamed the halls of the school’s 1200 building, killing 14 children and three staff members and leaving 17 others injured. After Peterson arrived outside that building, prosecutors allege, the gunman fired his weapon some 75 times, killing six people and injuring four.
Peterson was widely criticized after authorities revealed he had been armed but stayed outside, with then-President Donald Trump chiming in: “When it came time to get in there and do something, he didn’t have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. There’s no question about that.”
Peterson has maintained he did nothing wrong. He has claimed, in part, he didn’t enter the 1200 building because he didn’t know where the gunfire was coming from – which other officers have testified he told them as they arrived – and could not have found and engaged the shooter in time to protect the victims. And his attorneys argue he was not properly equipped to confront a shooter with an AR-15. “There was no duty on the part of Peterson to protect the victims,” they wrote.
But prosecutors argue that if Peterson had spoken to fleeing students about the suspect’s description or entered the building, he would have seen the dead bodies and could have helped determine the shooter’s whereabouts.
“The defendant could have called for rescue, heard the shots on the second and third floors, and broadcasted the shooter’s location, all without engaging the shooter in a gunfight,” said prosecutors in a court filing.
The charges against Peterson are unusual, even in a nation that tallies dozens of school shootings every year – and the case has been called a first of its kind: While Peterson was a member of law enforcement, prosecutors charged him under a statute applying to caregivers, arguing that, as a school resource officer, he had a duty to protect students and teachers but exposed the victims – namely the children under 18 – to harm through his inaction.
“I don’t think it’s something that I’ve seen anywhere else in the country,” Seth Stoughton, a University of South Carolina law professor, told CNN before Peterson’s trial, noting people are typically criminally charged for things they do, not things they don’t. And charging a law enforcement officer as a caretaker is, in his eyes, a “legal stretch, or at least uncharted territory.”
Still, the case highlights the broadly held expectation – among police and ordinary people – for how officers respond to an active shooter, even as other use of force issues are in debate nationwide. Just compare the anger elicited by the police response to last year’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to the praise heaped on Nashville officers who quickly intervened in a school attack in March.
“I think most members of the public expect the police to respond aggressively and to make every effort to quickly identify and address an ongoing threat of lethal violence,” Stoughton told CNN. “That is also what police officers trained to do. And it is what … I think most agencies expect their officers to do.”
Indeed since the deadly 1999 attack at Columbine High School, few principles in law enforcement have become so simple to explain as an officer’s obligation during an attack, especially at a school, to move toward gunfire and end the threat.
Peterson and his attorneys have argued the caretaker statute doesn’t apply to him and he had no legal obligation to confront the shooter, court records show. Even so, he is “eager” for the trial to begin, he told reporters last week.
“I’m looking forward to it, to be honest with you. I want the truth to come out,” he said, CNN affiliate WFOR reported. He wants the people of Florida and the nation and the families of Parkland to know the “truth of what happened because unfortunately it’s never been told.”
“And if it’s going to be through a trial, so be it.”
The court is expected to whittle 500 potential jurors in Peterson’s case down to a panel of six, plus four alternates, per WFOR.
The shooter, Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year after a jury declined to unanimously recommend the death penalty – a decision that upset many of the victims’ families.
Still, the father of slain 14-year-old Gina Montalto has hope for justice in the Peterson case, he told CNN.
“It’s important to remember that my beautiful daughter Gina, her 13 schoolmates and the three staff members are the real victims,” Montalto said. “We should not portray or allow the defense team or the deputy who failed to act properly to portray himself as a victim. He was charged with keeping the students and staff safe, and he failed to do so.”
“Regardless of the outcome in the trial, I hope he’s haunted every day by the fact that his actions cost lives,” he said.
Relatives of Parkland victims praised the charges against Peterson when they were announced. Among them was the father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg – one of the students killed on the third floor – who told Peterson to “rot in hell.”
“You could have saved some of the 17. You could have saved my daughter,” Fred Guttenberg said. “You did not and then you lied about it and you deserve the misery coming your way.”
‘I think we’ve got shots fired’
Peterson was at the school’s administration building on February 14, 2018, when the shooter opened fire on the first floor of another building on the school’s campus – the 1200 building – according to a probable cause affidavit. A minute later at 2:22 p.m., the school’s fire alarm sounded, and Peterson was seen running from the administration building.
Then, he and another member of the security response team were picked up on a golf cart by a third, who drove them to the southeast corner of the 1200 building, where they arrived at 2:23, according to a timeline in the affidavit.
“I think we’ve got shots fired,” Peterson said over his sheriff’s office radio. “Possible shots fired. 1200 Building.”
Seconds later, as the gunman entered the second floor hallway, Peterson moved about 75 feet away and “positioned himself behind the wall of the stairwell on the northeast corner of the 700 Building,” the affidavit says, calling it a “position of cover.” He remained there for the duration of the shooting – more than 45 minutes – it says, even as more officers arrived.
Lt. Craig Cardinale of the Sunrise, Florida, Police Department arrived at the 1200 building and saw Peterson outside breathing heavily but not taking any action, according to the affidavit. Cardinale told investigators he saw Peterson “standing outside … pacing back and forth, going, ‘Oh my God. Oh my God.’” And when Cardinale asked Peterson what was going on, Peterson allegedly replied, “I don’t know. I don’t know.”
Minutes later, just before 2:28, the shooter left the 1200 building through its west doors and fled the school, the affidavit says, leaving a path of death and carnage on all three floors. It wasn’t until 3:11 that Peterson left his “position of cover.”
Peterson told investigators he heard only two or three gunshots upon arriving at the 1200 building and retreated to cover to get a good view of the building. He didn’t know where the shots were or where the shooter was, he said, according to the affidavit.
He echoed those claims in news interviews, the affidavit notes: Peterson told the Washington Post he believed he was trained to take cover, didn’t know the shooter’s location and, if he’d heard more gunshots, “might have known where to find” the shooter; in an interview with NBC’s “Today,” Peterson added he believed there was a sniper, saying, “I never believed there was even an active shooter inside.”
Peterson conceded he “didn’t get it right” but also wasn’t scared and did not freeze up, he told “Today.”
But Peterson, prosecutors allege, was well aware Cruz was inside the 1200 building, and many witnesses later claimed to have heard more than two or three gunshots, the affidavit notes. Additionally, the timeline included in the affidavit notes at least five times Peterson indicated in radio communications a focus on the 1200 building.
‘He messed up,’ expert says
Prosecutors charged Peterson with perjury for claiming to have heard just a few gunshots after arriving at the scene.
But it’s not clear whether he qualifies as a “caretaker” under the Florida statute – or, if he does, whether he was “under an affirmative duty, a legal obligation to do what he professionally absolutely should have done,” Stoughton said.
“I want to be very clear: He messed up,” said Stoughton, a former police officer. But there’s a distinction “between actions that are professionally inappropriate and actions that are criminal.”
The Columbine High School shooting reshaped the way police respond to active shooters: Since then, the widely accepted approach is for officers to immediately go toward the threat and neutralize it as fast as possible, given most mass shootings last just minutes.
That strategy was seen this year in Nashville, where officers swiftly entered a private school, found and killed an armed attacker who’d fatally wounded three 9-year-olds and three adults – earning them praise in the law enforcement community and beyond.
But things don’t always go as they should. One year ago, officers in Uvalde waited more than 70 minutes to enter elementary school classrooms where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. A series of failures drew comparisons to Peterson’s response at Parkland, though officers in the Texas attack may never face criminal charges, experts have told CNN.
In Peterson’s case, prosecutors have argued the caregiver statute is broad and already has been used against teachers and kidnappers. Culpable negligence and child neglect charges would not generally apply to first responders, the Broward State Attorney’s Office has said, noting school resource officers have a “specific duty” to protect students and staff.
Deputy had discretion, defense unsuccessfully argued
Peterson’s attorneys unsuccessfully argued in 2019 his case should be dismissed, saying to charge him as a caregiver “did not withstand serious scrutiny” because he was operating as a law enforcement officer and so should have qualified immunity, which under Florida law would protect him from personal liability. In response, the state claimed qualified immunity applies only in civil cases.
Additionally, Peterson’s lawyers claimed the then-deputy had neither a legal duty nor a departmental requirement to confront the Parkland shooter, pointing to the sheriff’s office standard operating procedure for active shooter incidents, which, according to their motion to dismiss, said a deputy “may enter the area” of an attack if he or she has “real time intelligence.”
That language gave the then-deputy discretion over whether to enter the school, depending on the information he had available, Peterson’s attorneys argued.
On top of that, Peterson and his attorneys said that, with only a service pistol and no body armor, he was not properly equipped to confront the gunman, who wielded an AR-15 assault rifle. If he had, students and staff could have been “caught in the crossfire.” And finally, there wasn’t enough time for Peterson to enter the school and methodically clear each classroom on each floor before finding and confronting the shooter, they said.
The court, however, ruled against Peterson. The facts in dispute – including whether a school resource officer is considered a caregiver under the Florida statute – are decisions for the jury, the judge ruled.
Peterson has acknowledged he’s haunted by the day of the carnage, running through what-if scenarios in his mind, he told “Today.”
“Those were my kids in there,” he said. “I never would’ve sat there and let my kids get slaughtered.”
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TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucson man Michael Lopez-Loreto, 22 years old, has been sentenced 30 months with three years of supervised release.
The sentence was finalized by United States District Judge Rosemary Marquez last week. Lopez-Loreto pled guilty on February 9 to "Conspiracy to Transporting Illegal Aliens for Profit Placing in Jeopardy the Life of Any Person."
On January 17, U.S. Border Patrol encountered Michael Lopez-Loreto after a resident in the area reported a vehicle on their property. Agents responded and found the vehicle. They saw people from the desert run into the vehicle. The driver was later determined to be Lopez-Loreto.
The vehicle attempted to drive away but the area was blocked by agents. Lopez-Loreto sped away, nearly hitting agents outside of their vehicles. The other agents pursued Lopez-Loreto and tried to bring his vehicle to a stop with spike strips. After attempting to avoid the spike strips, he crashed into a water barrier and rolled his vehicle.
The two passengers suffered injuries in the crash and were taken to the nearby hospital. They were determined to be undocumented non-citizens.
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By JOSEPH WILSON and JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
MADRID (AP) — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shocked NATO back to first principles.
Seven decades after it was founded, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting in Madrid this week with an urgent need to reassert its original mission: preventing Russian aggression against Western allies.
Leaders of the world’s most powerful military alliance are aiming to increase support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian invasion, boost forces on NATO’s eastern flank and set priorities for the coming decade — with a new emphasis on checking China’s growing international ambitions.
But the gathering will also showcase the difficulties in keeping 30 nations — from tiny Iceland and Luxembourg to huge Turkey and the United States — aligned in an organization that must make decisions by consensus.
FOCUS ON UKRAINE
NATO was formed after World War II to counter the threat from the Soviet Union and foster cooperation in a shattered Europe. In the years after the collapse of the USSR, the alliance recast Russia not as an adversary but as a “strategic partner.”
No longer.
Russia is NATO’s dominant issue and main adversary, and the Madrid summit will be dominated by how to support Ukraine and bolster defenses along the bloc’s eastern borders, where countries from Romania to the Baltic states worry they may be next in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s sights.
Until late last year, only around 5,000 NATO troops were deployed in the Baltic states and Poland on a rotational basis. Now hundreds of thousands of troops are on heightened alert, with 100,000 U.S. troops in Europe, and 40,000 under direct NATO command, supported by air and naval power.
The summit is set to agree to stockpile weapons and equipment in eastern Europe and to dramatically increase the number of troops based in the region or on standby in their own countries as a rapid-reaction force. There will also be more support for Ukraine to upgrade its military, still reliant on Soviet-era equipment, to modern NATO-standard gear.
The alliance is trying to strike a delicate balance, letting its member nations arm Ukraine without sparking a direct confrontation between NATO and nuclear-armed Russia. That’s one reason Ukraine will not be joining NATO in the foreseeable future, despite being put on the pathway to membership, along with Georgia, in 2008.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scheduled to address the summit by video, but he has acknowledged joining NATO is a distant prospect and is instead focusing on seeking European Union membership.
Expansion of the alliance is on the cards, however. Finland and Sweden have both abandoned their nonaligned status and asked to join NATO as protection from Russia.
TURKEY AS SPOILER?
But Turkey, which has NATO’s second-largest army after the U.S., is set to play spoiler to the aspirations of Sweden and Finland — at least for now.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted that he will only allow the Nordic pair to enter NATO if they change their stance on Kurdish rebel groups that Turkey considers terrorists.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg hosted talks with Turkey, Sweden and Finland last week to work toward a breakthrough, and will meet with the three countries’ leaders on Tuesday, but there’s no guarantee the breakthrough will come in Madrid.
“Turkey has legitimate security concerns over terrorism that we need to address,” Stoltenberg said. “So we will continue our talks on Finland and Sweden’s applications for NATO membership, and I look forward to finding a way forward as soon as possible.”
A UNITED FRONT?
Russia’s invasion upended European security, but NATO’s members take comfort in the fact that the U.S. is back as the pillar of Western defense after four years in which President Donald Trump derided and undermined the alliance.
But there are differences within NATO on military spending. Currently only nine of the 30 members meet the organization’s target of spending 2% of Gross Domestic Product on defense. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently urged others to commit more, saying the 2% target is “a floor, not a ceiling.”
Cracks also could emerge over strategy on Russia and Ukraine as the war drags on and debate intensifies over what, if any, concessions Ukraine should make to end the fighting.
“There are still unresolved questions around how NATO as an alliance should deal with Russia in the long term,” said Alice Billon-Galland, research fellow at the Chatham House think-tank. “Do we consider that it’s unredeemable as a neighbor? And what does that mean? Or do we think that at some point we will have to sit down and negotiate a new security architecture with Russia? Allies have been on different pages when it comes to that.”
CHECKING CHINA
With the world in turmoil, the alliance will try to craft a long-term strategy that can stand the test of time. NATO will set out its goals for the coming decade in a new Strategic Concept, the document that identifies its most pressing security concerns and how it will tackle them.
While Russia will remain the top issue, the document will see NATO grapple for the first time with the growing military reach of China, which has set out on an ambitious plan to expand naval bases in the Pacific and in Africa.
The leaders of Japan, Australia, South Korea and New Zealand have been invited as guests to the summit for the first time. All four have been supportive of Ukraine, and Japan has its own territorial disputes with Moscow.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will discuss efforts toward achieving a “free and open” Indo-Pacific, because security in Europe and Asia is inseparable, according to Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno.
Insecurity in Africa’s Sahel region and its threats to southern Europe could also earn a mention, as could the threats caused by climate change and the growing waves of migration driven by global warming.
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Mari Yamaguchi in Tokyo and David Rising in Bangkok contributed.
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Furman rides balanced attack to fifth straight win, 79-58
Mike Bothwell scored a game-high 17 as one of four Paladins to reach double figures
Mike Bothwell scored a game-high 17 as one of four Paladins to reach double figures
(Furman Athletics) Mike Bothwell led four Paladins in double figures with 17 points and Furman held Chattanooga to 33.3% shooting to claim its fifth consecutive win with a 79-58 triumph over the Mocs on Wednesday evening at Timmons Arena.
The victory improved the Paladins, who completed the regular season home-and-home sweep of the Mocs, to 18-6 overall and 9-2 in Southern Conference play. Chattanooga fell to 12-12 overall and 4-7 in the league.
Leading 58-52 with 10:20 left following a 12-0 run by the Mocs, Furman’s Jalen Slawson converted on two trips to the line and Bothwell scored in the paint on consecutive possessions to ignite a 13-0 run to put the game away. The Paladins held the Mocs without a point for over five minutes and pushed their advantage to 71-52 on JP Pegues’ free throws with 5:37 remaining.
Bothwell added a career-best nine rebounds to go with his 17 points as Furman posted a 53-32 edge on the glass. The Paladins 53 boards matched their highest total since grabbing 55 rebounds against Southern Wesleyan on December 2, 2020. Slawson notched his seventh double-double of the season with 15 points and 11 rebounds while adding a game-high six assists. Marcus Foster and Pegues rounded out the double-figure scorers with 13 and 12 points, respectively.
Chattanooga led until the midway point of the first half before Furman closed the opening 20 minutes on a 20-7 run to lead 42-31 at intermission. Furman held the Mocs to just one point over the final 5:30 of the first half.
The Paladins shot 41.3% from the field and connected on 20-of-25 free throw attempts. Furman outscored the Mocs by a 38-20 margin in the paint and posted 18 second chance points on 21 offensive rebounds.
Dalvin White and Jamaal Walker led Chattanooga with 15 points apiece and Jamal Johnson contributed 12. The Mocs hit 7-of-15 three-point attempts in the first half but went just 2-for-8 from long range over the final 20 minutes.
First-place Furman continues its homestand in downtown Greenville on Saturday when it hosts the Wofford Terriers for Weekends at the Well. Tip-off at Bon Secours Wellness Arena is slated for 6 p.m. and tickets are available by clicking here. Saturday’s doubleheader begins with the Furman women’s basketball team hosting the Terriers at 3 p.m. | 2023-02-02T05:36:05+00:00 | wyff4.com | https://www.wyff4.com/article/furman-rides-balanced-attack-to-fifth-straight-win-79-58/42739408 |
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday called for Russia “to stop the bombing” of Ukraine, a pointed message during a visit to South Africa as it draws accusations of aiding Moscow’s war effort.
Annalena Baerbock’s challenge came during a one-day visit to Pretoria that had been framed largely as focused on energy and climate issues.
But South Africa’s position on the war in Ukraine has been under close scrutiny since U.S. Ambassador Reuben Brigety alleged that South Africa secretly loaded weapons onto a Russian ship that docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December.
Those allegations sparked serious concerns among South Africa’s Western allies over its position on the war. U.S. lawmakers have even called for some kind of punishment for Africa’s most-developed economy for what they view as its pro-Russian stance.
The South African government says it is neutral in the war in Ukraine and denies that an arms shipment was sent to Russia. But South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered an investigation into the visit last year of the Lady R Russian cargo ship, which is under U.S. sanctions for allegedly transporting weapons for the Russian government.
Baerbock didn’t directly refer to the weapons allegations when making comments alongside South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor ahead of their meeting Tuesday. But she said that the rising food and oil prices that are sparking hardship across the African continent were the result of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
“For this suffering to end, the war must end,” Baerbock said. “For the war to end, Russia must stop the bombing and withdraw its soldiers. This war is an attack on the U.N. charter, on the very rules that bind and protects us all.”
Pandor referred to the “very substantial” relationship between South Africa and Germany. Germany is South Africa’s third biggest trade partner behind China and the U.S.
“South Africa and Germany share many common values on matters of peace and security, human rights, climate change, sustainability and economic development,” Pandor said.
South Africa has scrambled to protect its international reputation and its relationships with Western partners following Brigety’s accusations in May.
The country also faces possible diplomatic peril in August that might further strain relationships with the West when it hosts a summit of the BRICS bloc of emerging economies that is made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
South Africa has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the summit even though he is the subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes over the abduction of children from Ukraine.
South Africa is a signatory to the ICC treaty and is obliged to arrest Putin should he set foot on the country’s territory, but has not committed to doing that.
A top official with South Africa’s ruling ANC party has said it would “welcome” Putin.
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PITTSBURGH, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I have spent a considerable amount of time and money caring for my beard. I thought there could be a better way to apply beard oil," said an inventor, from Sahuarita, Ariz., "so I invented the BEARDS BY DR3Z. My design would offer a mess-free alternative to traditional dispensing methods."
The invention provides an effective tool for applying beard oil. In doing so, it helps to prevent messes, oily hands and stained clothes. It also saves time and effort and it could contribute to a well-maintained, more manageable beard. The invention features a practical and portable design that is easy to use so it is ideal for men with beards. Additionally, it is producible in design variations.
The original design was submitted to the Tucson sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-TUC-462, 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 Golden Bachelor’ revealed: 71-year-old Gerry Turner
Posted/updated on: July 17, 2023 at 8:11 amABC has revealed that 71-year-old Gerry [GAIR-ee] Turner will be the senior singleton looking for love in the forthcoming spin-off The Golden Bachelor.
The show will debut on ABC this fall.
The network describes him as a "charming" patriarch and retired restaurateur from Indiana, who is a "doting father and grandfather" who "lives in his dream house on a beautiful lake in Indiana."
ABC continues, "He's often busy hosting barbecues, playing pickleball, cheering on his favorite Chicago sports teams, four-wheeling and spending time with friends and family at restaurants and local haunts."
The show's producers tease, "Always a romantic, Turner married his high school sweetheart, Toni, in 1974. Together, they lived a full and happy life with their two daughters, Angie and Jenny, and later two granddaughters, Charlee and Payton. Sadly, after 43 years together, Toni suddenly fell ill and passed away in 2017."
The announcement continues, "Six years after Toni’s passing and with the support of his family, Turner is ready to put himself out there and find a love that will stand the test of time in his golden years."
For the spin-off, "The women arriving at the mansion have a lifetime of experience, living through love, loss and laughter, hoping for a spark that ignites a future full of endless possibilities."
The tease continues, "In the end, will our Golden man turn the page to start a new chapter with the woman of his dreams?"
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DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm TV critic David Bianculli. Tonight on PBS, "Great Performances" presents the premiere of "Keeping Company With Sondheim." It's about how Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1970 musical called "Company," based on stories by George Furth, was adapted to the current Broadway version, pivoting on a gender switch that rewrites the central role as a woman instead of a man. But it's also about how this new "Company" survived the pandemic, New York shutdown and what this Sondheim musical and Sondheim himself means to the city and to Broadway and to musical history.
More than 50 years ago, "Company" burst onto the Broadway scene. It was 1970. And lyricist Stephen Sondheim, after a string of stellar collaborations on such musicals as "West Side Story" and "Gypsy," wrote both the lyrics and music for "Company." It demanded attention and deserved it.
SOUNDBITE OF DOCUMENTARY, "ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: 'COMPANY'"
STEPHEN SONDHEIM: "Company" is the first full-blown score I wrote that really - that's me and nobody else.
BIANCULLI: Back then, D.A. Pennebaker made a fabulous documentary about the making of the "Company" original cast album recording. It's still famous and still captivating for capturing the anguished singing of Dean Jones, who starred in the leading role of the unattached New York bachelor Bobby and who left the show shortly after it opened. That documentary also is riveting for showing how Elaine Stritch agonized to record her showstopping solo "The Ladies Who Lunch" and how with time running out on the recording session, she finally nailed it.
For this new "Great Performances" offering focusing on the reworked production of "Company," documentary director Andrew Douglas isn't interested in the recording of the cast album. He's got other things in mind, and they're all newsworthy and worthwhile - how Bobby, with a Y, played by a man in all previous versions, morphs into Bobbie with an I-E, a 35-year-old single woman played by Katrina Lenk; how this new "Company" shut down in previews just as the pandemic swept through Broadway and how it managed to come back more than 18 months later and how Sondheim himself lived to see it but only barely. Lots of interviews - some vintage, most of them fresh - put all three of those stories in perspective. Sondheim, in old clips, explains what made "Company" so groundbreaking at the time.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
SONDHEIM: "Company" is about a single moment in a man's life - literally one, maybe three seconds in which something snaps inside of his head. And he reviews his life to that moment - the business of exploding a moment like that, the business of a group of memories forming your story as opposed to a plot as in "Follies."
BIANCULLI: Producer Chris Harper wondered, what if the show was about a single moment in a woman's life, and took that idea to Marianne Elliott, who had directed "War Horse" and was intrigued by how conventional "Company" was not.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
MARIANNE ELLIOTT: It breaks all the rules. It's not really what a musical should be. No, it doesn't have a narrative. There's no narrative. There's no story. It doesn't have a beginning and a middle and an end. It doesn't have an I-want number. It doesn't have an ensemble.
BIANCULLI: As a necessary step before gaining Sondheim's approval, she mounted a workshop version featuring a female Bobbie and some other changes and filmed it and sent that film to Sondheim. In an interview where she and Sondheim were seated next to each other, he recalls his somewhat surprised reaction.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character, singing) Bobbie.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character, singing) Bobbie.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character, singing) Bobbie, baby.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character, singing) Bobbie, honey.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character, singing) Boo-boo.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #4: (As character, singing) Bobbie, darling.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character, singing) Bobbie, we've been trying to call you.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #3: (As character, singing) Bobbie, sugar.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character, singing) Bobbie, sweetie.
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (As characters, singing) You could drive a person crazy. You could drive a person mad.
SONDHEIM: I looked at it, and I thought, my goodness, it works, meaning I was able to understand what she was doing. They had a very young cameraman there. And when it was all over, he said, tell me about this show. And so when I told him about it, he said, you mean it worked with a man?
ELLIOTT: (Laughter) Yes.
SONDHEIM: That's the highest compliment she can get.
BIANCULLI: Once the production is a go, the rest of this documentary just holds on tight and tries to capture everything that happens, however unexpected. We see the revival take shape and Katrina Lenk take on the same classic "Being Alive" number as Dean Jones had half a century before.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
DEAN JONES: (As Bobby, singing) Someone to hold you too close, someone to hurt you too deep, someone to sit in your chair, to ruin your sleep.
STEVE ELMORE: (As Paul) That's true.
KATRINA LENK: (As Bobbie, singing) Someone to need you too much, someone to know you too well, someone to pull you up short, to put you through hell.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #5: (As character) You see what you look for.
BIANCULLI: "Keeping Company With Sondheim" interviews drama critics, current cast members and others, all of whom talk affectionately and perceptively about "Company" the musical, its central character and Sondheim himself. Lin-Manuel Miranda tells stories that might bring you close to tears. And so will this program's climax, which features director Elliott stepping onstage to welcome the theater audience back for the long-delayed opening night of this new "Company." In that audience is Stephen Sondheim.
(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "GREAT PERFORMANCES")
ELLIOTT: It is truly overwhelming to be back here at the Bernard Jacobs Theater after 631 days.
(APPLAUSE)
ELLIOTT: We do need to thank certain people - the crew, the cast, the musicians, the most amazing stage management team, the creative team, everybody who's worked on the show, George Furth for his madcap wild imagination.
(APPLAUSE)
ELLIOTT: And, of course, to our most generous collaborator of all, Stephen Sondheim.
(APPLAUSE)
BIANCULLI: The documentary ends with a postscript, noting that Sondheim died in his sleep 11 days later after celebrating his 91st birthday. A birthday celebration is, of course, at the heart of "Company," too. And to all fans of "Company," Stephen Sondheim and musical theater, this "Great Performances" special makes for a perfect gift.
(SOUNDBITE OF ROY HELLVIN TRIO'S "OLD FRIENDS")
BIANCULLI: On Monday's show, for Memorial Day, country music star Tim McGraw. He wins Grammys and sells out concerts, and he's an actor. He and his wife, Faith Hill, star in the Paramount+ TV Western series "1883," playing a married couple making their way in a wagon train up the Oregon Trail. It's a prequel to the series "Yellowstone." I hope you can join us.
(SOUNDBITE OF ROY HELLVIN TRIO'S "OLD FRIENDS")
BIANCULLI: FRESH AIR's executive producer is Danny Miller. Our senior producer today is Roberta Shorrock. Our technical director and engineer is Audrey Bentham, with additional engineering support by Joyce Lieberman, Julian Hertzfeld and Tina Kalakay (ph). Our interviews and reviews are produced and edited by Amy Salit, Phyllis Myers, Sam Briger, Lauren Krenzel, Heidi Saman, Therese Madden, Ann Marie Baldonado, Thea Chaloner, Seth Kelley and Joel Wolfram. Our digital media producer is Molly Seavy-Nesper. For Terry Gross, I'm David Bianculli.
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Experienced Sales Executive to Lead National Distribution Network
DRESHER, Pa., Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- FuturePlan by Ascensus, a leading national retirement TPA dedicated to helping advisors, recordkeepers, and plan sponsors deliver better outcomes for savers, has named Aaron McIsaac its new Head of FuturePlan Sales.
McIsaac will report directly to Kasey Price, president of FuturePlan, and lead sales strategy and distribution efforts across the line of business. He also will be responsible for driving a variety of market positioning and revenue enhancement initiatives focused on new and existing clients.
"Over the past few years, we've worked hard to evolve and grow the FuturePlan line of business and its capabilities, and in particular, the sales organization," said Price. "Aaron's leadership will be critical to our efforts to do more for our clients and pursue our ambitious sales and revenue goals for 2023 and beyond. He has strong client relationships and is deeply respected within the industry and across FuturePlan."
McIsaac has served as Divisional Vice President – West for FuturePlan since January 2020. He came to FuturePlan through the Goldleaf Partners acquisition in November 2019, having joined that organization in 2005 and ultimately serving as its Regional Sales Director.
Previously, McIsaac was Vice President, Sales & Services for Benefit Administration Corporation. He began his professional career in Human Resources with St. Mary's Duluth Clinic and Partridge River, Inc., after earning his bachelor's degree in Management from The College of St. Scholastica. McIsaac is a Certified Plan Fiduciary Advisor.
Recruiting efforts to backfill McIsaac's divisional vice president responsibilities are now underway.
FuturePlan is a leading national retirement TPA dedicated to helping advisors, recordkeepers, and plan sponsors deliver better outcomes for savers. Our highly responsive, personalized service is backed by the strength and security of a national leader in Ascensus. As of September 30, 2022, FuturePlan's experienced team of experts supports more than 45,000 retirement plans with more than 1.9 million participants and more than $104 billion in assets under administration. For more information, visit futureplan.com.
FuturePlan's leadership team brings decades of expertise to serve clients and partners. Ascensus began building FuturePlan in 2010, uniting more than 30 exceptional retirement TPA firms from across the nation to transform the industry. The depth of experience, diverse strengths, and specialized expertise of our legacy TPA firms make FuturePlan an industry leader.
Ascensus is a market-leading enabler of tax-advantaged savings—providing technology, services, and expertise that help more than 15 million people save for retirement, education, and healthcare.
We are a premier savings program service provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator. Our platforms, industry knowledge, and data-based insights enhance the growth and success of our partners, their clients, and savers through co-branded, private-labeled, and governmental partnerships.
Ascensus offers comprehensive qualified and non-qualified retirement plan solutions, third-party retirement plan administration, 529 education and ABLE savings program administration, health savings and COBRA administration, corporate- and bank-owned life insurance solutions, and fiduciary and total rewards services.
The company's brands include Ascensus; Newport, an Ascensus company; PAi, an Ascensus company; and FuturePlan by Ascensus. Ascensus has more than $672 billion in assets under administration and employs more than 5,700 associates as of September 30, 2022.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo continues to be the shining light in an otherwise disappointing season for Manchester United.
Make that 18 goals in the English Premier League for the Portugal superstar after he converted a penalty that he earned himself in a 3-0 victory over Brentford on Monday.
Ronaldo also had a goal disallowed at Old Trafford for a narrow offside as United saved one of its best performances of the season for its final home game. Bruno Fernandes and Raphael Varane — with his first in English football — were the other scorers.
The victory kept alive -- at least mathematically -- sixth-placed United’s chance of finishing in the top four and qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
United, though, has only two games remaining and is five points behind fourth-placed Arsenal and three behind Tottenham, with both rivals still having four to play.
Ronaldo, who has netted in each of his last four games, is third on the league's list of top scorers behind Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (22) and Tottenham's Son Heung-min (19).
And he'll be back again next season, unlike some of the other players in United's team.
United fans gave standing ovations to departing veterans Nemanja Matic and Juan Mata as they were substituted on their final Old Trafford appearances. It was also the last home game in charge for interim manager Ralf Rangnick, who will be replaced by Erik ten Hag during the offseason.
Monday marked a year since the postponement of United's home match against Liverpool, when fans made clear their anger at the ownership of the Glazer family in the wake of the European Super League debacle.
Supporters have protested at each of United’s final three home games and the anti-Glazer sentiment was apparent before and during the victory against Brentford.
It was the first match that Brentford had lost with Christian Eriksen in the team and he pulled the strings in the London club's first competitive match at Old Trafford since 1975.
Anthony Elanga set the first goal in the ninth minute, scampering down the right and crossing for Fernandes to volley home.
Ronaldo was proving a handful, forcing David Raya into an awkward save from a long-range free kick, then furiously claiming he should have had a penalty following Mads Bech Sorensen’s challenge.
Then Ronaldo smartly flicked a pass into Mata, who lashed narrowly wide of the near post on his first Premier League start of the season. The roles were reversed when Mata broke down the left and sent a low cross that Ronaldo squeezed past Raya. The provider and scorer celebrated together, only for the goal to be ruled out following a VAR review.
United created breathing space in the 61st minute when Ronaldo was bundled over in the box by Rico Henry before sending Raya the wrong way in front of an elated Stretford End.
Ahead of the final goal, Pontus Jansson nearly turned a cross from Ronaldo into his own goal but it went behind for a corner. Telles swung it in and Varane hooked home the ball via a minor deflection.
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More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-05-02T22:40:53+00:00 | sfgate.com | https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Ronaldo-scores-again-Man-United-beats-Brentford-17142766.php |
Parkland shooter prosecutors call for probe of juror threat
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Prosecutors of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz called for an investigation Friday after a juror said another panelist threatened her during the deliberations that ended with a life sentence for Cruz’s murder of 17 people four years ago at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Prosecutor Carolyn McCann told Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer during a brief hearing that prosecutors are not trying to invalidate Thursday’s jury vote and reported the threat only for safety reasons and so the Broward County Sheriff’s Office can investigate.
In their written motion asking for the hearing, prosecutors said the juror told them another juror did something during deliberations that “she perceived to be a threat.”
McCann said they did not ask any further questions because they didn’t want to taint any investigation and said the Broward state attorney’s office has no intention of getting involved further.
“We don’t want to touch this with a 10-foot pole,” she said.
Scherer agreed that if a possible crime was committed, deputies should investigate. The information has been turned over to sheriff’s investigators, who will contact the juror.
Florida criminal defense attorneys Richard Escobar and David Weinstein, who are both former prosecutors, said in interviews that even if a threat was made to a juror, the jury’s decision cannot be overturned because of double jeopardy, or trying the same defendant twice for the same crime.
Weinstein pointed to a 1990s case involving two drug kingpins who bribed a jury and were acquitted. Even under that circumstance, prosecutors couldn’t retry the duo for drug trafficking, but did convict them on charges stemming from the bribery.
Scherer said two jurors tried to speak to her after Thursday’s decision was announced, she said, but she told them that wouldn’t be appropriate.
Scherer said a bailiff told her later that one juror wanted to speak to her during Thursday’s reading of the decision. That juror sat slumped over during the 50-minute reading but did nothing obvious to indicate he wanted Scherer’s attention. When the jurors were polled, he agreed the life sentence was the panel’s decision.
Jurors have told local TV stations that the final vote was 9-3 for death, with one of the three voters for life adamant she would never change her mind. Under Florida law, a death sentence requires a unanimous vote, and jurors decided there was no point in continuing deliberations.
That means Scherer will sentence Cruz to life without parole at a Nov. 1 hearing — a punishment whose announcement left many families of the victims angered, baffled and in tears. They will be allowed to address Cruz at the hearing.
Jury foreman Benjamin Thomas told local reporters “It really came down to a specific (juror) that he (Cruz) was mentally ill.”
Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty a year ago to murdering 14 Stoneman Douglas students and three staff members, and wounding 17 others on Feb. 14, 2018.
Cruz’s jury unanimously agreed there were aggravating factors to warrant a possible death sentence, such as agreeing that the murders were “especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel.”
But one or more jurors also found mitigating factors, such as untreated childhood problems stemming from his birth mother’s excessive drinking during pregnancy. In the end, the jury could not unanimously agree that the aggravating factors outweighed the mitigators.
The jurors pledged during the selection process that they could vote for a death sentence, but some parents, including some who attended the trial almost daily, wondered whether they were all being honest.
Juror Denise Cunha sent a short handwritten note to the judge Thursday defending her vote for a life sentence and denying she intended to vote that way before the trial began.
“The deliberations were very tense and some jurors became extremely unhappy once I mentioned that I would vote for life,” Cunha wrote. She did not explain her vote. McCann said she is not the juror who reported the possible threat.
Thomas did not say whether that adamant life vote was Cunha’s.
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Izaguirre reported from Tallahassee, Florida.
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Around Siouxland: Midwest Honor Flight’s trivia night
Published: Mar. 23, 2023 at 4:27 PM CDT|Updated: 37 minutes ago
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - The Midwest Honor flight is holding a fundraiser, trivia night.
The event is to raise money for veterans to take them to DC for a day of honor.
There will be six rounds of trivia with one specifically on military history, an included meal, cash prizes, and a silent auction.
The trivia will have teams of six. The teams will have to pay $150 to enter, including a meal from Carlos Catering.
The event will be on March 25 at the South Sioux City American Legion.
If you want to learn more about the event, click here.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A building believed to be the oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children in the U.S. was hoisted onto a flatbed truck and moved a half-mile Friday to Colonial Williamsburg, a Virginia museum that continues to expand its emphasis on African American history.
Built 25 years before the American Revolution, the original structure stood near the college campus of William & Mary. The pinewood building held as many as 30 students at a time, some of them free Black children studying alongside the enslaved.
Hundreds of people lined the streets to celebrate its slow-speed trip into the heart of the living history museum, which tells the story of Virginia’s colonial capital through interpreters and restored buildings.
For historians and descendants alike, the Bray School contradicts the belief that all enslaved Americans were uneducated. But the school’s faith-based curriculum — created by an English charity — also justified slavery and encouraged students to accept their fate as God’s plan.
“Religion was at the heart of the school, and it was not a gospel of abolition,” said Maureen Elgersman Lee, director of William & Mary’s Bray School Lab.
“There was this need to proselytize and to bring salvation while still not doing anything to destabilize the institution of slavery,” Lee said. “Save the soul, but continue to enslave the body. It was the here versus the hereafter.”
It was a brand of duplicity that fit easily into the larger contradictions of the country's founding, when the Democracy being forged explicitly denied rights and freedoms to many of its people.
Williamsburg is less than 10 miles from Jamestown, which England established in 1607. The colony was supplied with enslaved Africans for labor just a dozen years later. A century and half after that, Black people, most of them still enslaved, represented just over half of Williamsburg's 2,000 people.
The Bray School was established in 1760 at the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, chairman of a London-based Anglican charity named after philanthropist Reverend Thomas Bray. The charity also set up schools in other cities, including New York and Philadelphia.
The curriculum ranged from spellers to the Book of Common Prayer. But even within the schools’ paternalistic framework, the education could still be empowering, perhaps even subversive.
“I was going through a facsimile of one of the books, and there are words like ‘liberty,’” Lee said. “What did learning those words do to expand these children’s sense of themselves? Their sense of the world?”
Isaac Bee, a Bray School student, would run away as an adult from a slave owner named Lewis Burwell. An ad that Burwell placed in The Virginia Gazette in 1774 offered a cash bounty for his return and warned that Bee could read.
The white teacher, a widow named Ann Wager, lived upstairs at the school, and taught an estimated 300 to 400 students, whose ages ranged from 3 to 10, according to surviving records.
The Williamsburg Bray School operated until 1774; only Philadelphia's reopened after the Revolutionary War. The structure became a private home for many years before it was incorporated into William & Mary’s campus.
The former schoolhouse eventually was moved from its original spot to make way for a dormitory. The original structure had 1.5 stories, with a small upstairs. It was expanded over the years to include two full stories, and was last used as an office for ROTC, the college program that prepares military officers.
Historians believed they had identified the original Bray School building, but it wasn’t confirmed until 2021, through the use of dendrochronology, a scientific method that examines tree rings in lumber to determine the wood’s harvest date.
“This is a remarkable story of survival,” said Matthew Webster, Colonial Williamsburg’s executive director of architectural preservation and research. “And for us, it’s so important to put it back (to its original state) and tell the full and true story.”
The Bray School was exceptional: Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose anti-literacy laws, white leaders across much of Colonial America forbid educating enslaved people, fearing literacy would encourage their liberty. South Carolina criminalized teaching slaves to write English in 1740.
Inside the schoolhouse, the original post at the bottom of the walnut staircase still stands, its square top rounded and nicked from centuries of use, Webster said, adding that it’s a “very powerful piece for a lot of people.”
For Tonia Merideth, the Bray School Lab’s oral historian, the building stirred up many emotions upon her first visit. It was material proof against the narrative that her ancestors were illiterate and dumb.
“Everything that I learned about my ancestors was wrong,” she said. “They could learn. They did learn. They were able.”
Merideth added: “Regardless of the intentions of the school, the children were still taking that education and possibly serving it for their own good and aiding in their community.”
Merideth can trace her roots to the Armistead family, which enslaved people in the Williamsburg area and is known to have sent at least one child, named Locust, to the Bray School. But only three years of student lists have survived.
The moving of the Bray School is part of Colonial Williamsburg's ongoing reckoning over its past storytelling of Black history and the nation's origin story. The museum was founded in 1926 but did not tell Black stories until 1979.
In 2021, it uncovered the brick foundation of one of the nation's oldest Black churches. Last year, archeologists began to excavate graves at the site.
The Bray School’s new location is right next door.
“We’re going back and we’re getting that school and we’re getting that legacy,” Merideth said. “And we’re bringing it back to the historic area.”
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This story was first published on February 10, 2023. It was updated on February 11, 2023, to correct the misspelling of the last name of the Bray School’s teacher. The correct spelling of her full name was Ann Wager, not Ann Wagner.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eric Early, Managing Partner of nationally recognized law firm Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP, has sent a letter on behalf of Herring Networks Inc., which broadcasts the One America News Network (collectively "OAN"), to Media Matters for America ("Media Matters") regarding Media Matters' attack on OAN's Constitutional and other legal rights.
The letter follows the publication by Media Matters of a January 13, 2023 article entitled, "Roku offers all the hate and conspiracies rampant on One America News to over 63 million Americans – for free."
Early's letter takes Media Matters to task for among other things, attempting to publicly shame and embarrass ROKU into dropping its carriage of One America News.
"The lengths to which far-left groups in our country like Media Matters will go to cancel speech they disagree with, continue to undermine our Constitution and our Democracy. Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro are dancing in their graves," states Early.
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BOSTON (AP) — Shohei Ohtani left his mark on Fenway Park with the finest two-way performance since Babe Ruth himself.
Pitching at the historic ballpark for the first time, Ohtani struck out 11 in seven shutout innings and added two hits — one of them a 109 mph line drive that banged off the Green Monster so hard that it knocked his No. 17 out of the pitcher’s slot on the manual scoreboard.
“I hope you don’t start taking that for granted. Like it’s old hat,” Angels manager Joe Maddon said of Ohtani’s skills. “It’s just so unusual. It’s otherworldly, on this level of this game.”
The display came during Los Angeles’ 8-0 win over Boston Thursday that included a five-run eighth inning in the ballpark where Ruth debuted in 1914 and played six seasons before the Red Sox sold him to the Yankees.
In the fourth, Ohtani hit a 389-foot single that was about a foot shy of being a home run. In the eighth, he singled off the left-field wall to drive in one run, then scored as the Angels turned a 2-0 game into a blowout.
Ohtani (3-2) also induced 29 swings and misses from Boston batters — a career high, and the most for any pitcher this year. He threw 81 of his 99 pitches for strikes, also a career high.
“It’s one of my favorite ballparks,” said Ohtani, who has batted .302 with two homers in 10 games at Fenway. “I was looking forward to pitching here.”
Ohtani’s start was pushed back two days because of groin tightness and came about 14 hours after the Angels scored six times in the 10th inning to beat the Red Sox 10-5. As the designated hitter in that contest, Ohtani walked in the ninth and walked and scored in the 10th.
“To be honest, I was pretty fatigued,” he said. “My body was pretty tired. I tried to get to sleep as early as possible and get enough sleep and rest. I think I was able to do that.”
Jared Walsh had four RBIs, curling a two-run homer around the left-field foul pole in the seventh to break a scoreless tie. Anthony Rendon followed with an RBI single to chase Tanner Houck (2-2), and Walsh added a two-run dribbler through the shifted infield to make it 7-0.
Houck gave up seven runs on five hits and a walk, striking out four in 2 1/3 innings.
Brandon Marsh added a solo homer in the ninth.
Ohtani allowed six hits and no walks in all. He also threw a wild pitch that allowed Rafael Devers to reach base on a strikeout in the first.
Ohtani gave up a leadoff double to Jackie Bradley Jr. in the fifth. In the sixth, J.D. Martinez doubled with one out but was stranded when Andrew Velazquez made a diving catch of Franchy Cordero’s blooper to end the inning.
HISTORY
Ohtani was the first pitcher at Fenway to bat in the top four of the order since Ruth, who was the Red Sox’s cleanup hitter in the first game of a Sept. 20, 1919, doubleheader.
In the fourth inning, Ohtani matched another Red Sox Hall of Famer by becoming the first starting pitcher to record a hit at Fenway since Roger Clemens in 1996. Ohtani and Clemens are the only starting pitchers to record hits at Fenway in the designated hitter era.
FOR STARTERS
Rich Hill pitched five shutout innings for Boston, allowing one hit and one walk while striking out six. He remains winless for the season despite allowing zero runs over 13 innings in his last three starts.
Hill retired the first nine batters in order, then walked Taylor Ward to lead off the fourth. With two outs, Ohtani lofted a high fly ball to center field that Bradley lost in the sun and the wind. It bounced off the wall abutting the Red Sox bullpen. Ward, who had to wait, scampered to third, but Ohtani was held to a single.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Ohtani fouled a ball off the inside of his right ankle in the seventh, but stayed in the game.
UP NEXT
Angels: Return home to open a three-game series Friday against the Washington Nationals, who will pitch RHP Joan Adon (1-4). Maddon said Thursday he was not ready to announce a starter.
Red Sox: Host the Chicago White Sox in the Friday’s opener of a three-game series. RHP Nathan Eovaldi (1-0) will start against RHP Vince Velasquez (1-2).
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Dr. Anthony Fauci talks about his career, COVID-19, and the threat of a Republican investigation against him.
Dr. Fauci confirmed this week he’s stepping away from his federal role in December.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Dr. Anthony Fauci is reflecting on his long career. This December he will step down from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the end of December.
He spoke one-on-one with Washington News Bureau reporter Jamie Bittner about the work ahead, COVID-19, and the Republican threat of an investigation against him.
Question:
“We’ve been hearing a lot from lawmakers like Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and a lot of Republicans are already promising an investigation against you if they would retake power in Congress. How do you respond?”
Answer:
“Well, I mean, I don’t have any idea what they would want to investigate, but I have always respected oversight authority. I think it’s an important part of government. But, I also would warn people, well not warn them, alert them that there’s a difference between legitimate and well-intentioned oversight to make things better, as opposed to character assassination, which sometimes sneaks into that little bit of oversight. So I always am very willing to cooperate in any way to help anyone understand better what has been going on over the past two and a half years.
Question:
“When it comes to your critics, how do you think that they have hurt your messaging to the American people throughout the COVID 19 pandemic?”
Answer:
“Well, that’s tough for me to gauge. But, you know, I would think that I have always been if you look at everything I’ve said, try to get the message across, to get the public to do whatever it is best to preserve and protect the health of the American public, be that wearing masks, be that avoiding congregate settings, be that getting vaccinated and boosted. And I think when you have people out there trying to diminish someone’s credibility, the ultimate result of that is to diminish the effectiveness of the public health message. So, it’s really unfortunate that that happens, but it does.”
Question:
“I have to ask you the question everyone always asks, is COVID-19 over?”
Answer:
“No. I think you just look at the numbers and it’s obvious that it’s not. We certainly are much better off now than we were several months ago when we were having 80 to 900,000 new infections and 3000 deaths per day. We are much, much lower than that, but we’re not in a place that we can feel comfortable that it is actually behind us. We want to get it to a low enough level that it doesn’t disrupt the social order, and that is not where we are. We can get to that much better by getting more people vaccinated and boosted. I mean, if you look at where we are right now, we’re still averaging about 100,000 cases a day, which is likely a rather significant underestimate because many people get in test, get infected, get tested, but don’t report their positive test. The number that you can’t run away from is that we still have approximately 400 deaths per day. And if you do the math on that, that’s close to 150,000 deaths per year. We don’t want that to be the steady state at all for COVID. We’ve got to get much lower than that. And that’s the reason why we continue to encourage people to get vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated to get boosted. It’s really a shame that in our country, which is a rich and enlightened country, that we have only 67% of the entire population vaccinated, and of that, only about half have been boosted. There are so many other countries in the world, including low and middle income countries, that are doing better than we have. But the short answer to your question is no. The outbreak is not yet behind us. I hope we’re going in the right direction to get it behind us, but we’re not there yet.”
Question:
“When could we see something like COVID-19 happen again? Could it happen within our lifetime?”
Answer:
“Absolutely. You know, I have been lecturing and talking about the potential for pandemics literally for the last 40 years. In fact, if you go back and pull out lectures that I’ve given, I predicted that in every administration, and I’ve had the honor of serving and advising seven presidents over the last close to 40 years, that almost inevitably there is some form of emerging infectious disease almost in every administration. Some of them are not globally serious, but others are transforming, like the HIV/AIDS pandemic that we began to recognize during the administration of Ronald Reagan or the pandemic flu during the Obama administration, and now spanning two administrations. We’re seeing the historic pandemic of COVID-19.”
Question:
“How do you feel your response to the AIDS epidemic helped prepare you for COVID -19?”
Answer:
“Well, any time you’ve been through the emergence of a new outbreak and realize the extraordinary unpredictability of it, there are a lot of lessons learned. I tried to make that point early on in the outbreak when I was warning that this could really get out of control and others were saying, ‘no, it’s not. It’s going to just go away in a season.’ What you learned from HIV was that you never underestimate the potential of an emerging outbreak because you never know when you first see it what its ultimate potential is. Remember, with HIV, we were seeing a number of desperately ill, mostly young gay men in the United States, and that was before we knew what the pathogen was and before we had a diagnostic test. Once we got a diagnostic test, we realized that the that the obviously ill people were only the tip of the iceberg of the number of people that had been infected, because, as you know, with HIV, you could be infected and go for years without having serious illness. That then brings you to the attention of a physician. So one of the big lessons is don’t ever under mis-underestimate the potential of a new mysterious outbreak.”
Question:
“You have a few months left on the job. What will you focus on and what is the biggest challenge that lies ahead for whoever is your predecessor?”
Answer:
”Well, I’m going to continue at full speed right up until the last day that I walk out in December. We have a lot of things. We have a lot of challenges. We have COVID. We have monkeypox. And we have all the other things that we do from a scientific and public health standpoint. So, I’m going to be going very much full speed right until the end on the things that we’re doing now, as well as we have a pandemic preparedness plan that we’ve already started on. Obviously, we need a lot more resources to really implement the plan to the extent that we want. You know, the thing that I will hope that my successor appreciates and hopefully will be able to steer this course is to stick with the science and try to the extent possible to stay away from any kind of and, you know, entrapment in the political divisiveness that we’ve have in this country. It is very difficult to do a coherent public health and scientific endeavor when there’s such a profound degree of political divisiveness in this country, which there is.
Question:
“How much of a say will you have on who your predecessor is?
Answer:
None. And, I shouldn’t. I don’t think it’s appropriate that I do. What will happen is that there will be a national search by a search committee of peers who will make recommendations to the NIH Director. And the NIH Director will make that decision.
Question:
“Take me back to your first day on the job. Can you kind of tell me what the emotions you were feeling back then and compare it to now? When you’re looking at your place in the history books, how would you want to be remembered?”
Answer:
“Well, I walked on to this campus 54 years ago, in June of 1968, just out of my medical residency at the New York hospital, Cornell Medical Center. And, this is a place that I absolutely love every aspect of it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be the director of the Institute for 38 years. So, it really has been an evolving process with me starting off as a young trainee, becoming a senior investigator, getting recognized nationally, internationally for my research, and then taking over the institute and being very much involved in building the AIDS program, developing the PEPFAR program with President George W Bush. It’s been a very long and very gratifying journey. You know, I hope that I made an impact on global health both, you know, internationally and in this country. And I hope that I’ll be remembered for that.”
Question:
“What will you do in retirement?”
Answer:
“Well, it’s not retirement. I think that’s a very misleading word. I think it’s more of a rewiring. One of the reasons I’m leaving now is because I still have the energy and the motivation and the good health and the passion to do more for the global health and scientific enterprise. And I think the best way I can do that, given my almost six decades of experience and almost four decades of leading the institute that I hopefully by reading and writing and lecturing and getting involved in different projects that I could serve as an inspiration for the younger generation of scientists and would be scientists to perhaps consider a career in public service, particularly in the arena of public health, medicine and science. So, I have no intention of retiring. So, you’re not going to see me on the golf course or lying on a beach somewhere.”
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid could be calling it a career after Super Bowl LVII.
When asked if he planned to retire following Sunday’s game, Reid told NFL insider Jay Glazer: “Look, I’m not getting any younger, I still have a young quarterback, I have a decision I have to make after this game.”
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Reid, 64, has been a head coach in the NFL since 1999 and has coached the Chiefs since 2013. Before coming to Kansas City, Reid served as the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles and an assistant coach with the Green Bay Packers.
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Reid also said he wants to enjoy this Super Bowl more than in years past, Glazer stated.
For now, Reid will shift his mind toward winning his second Super Bowl ring as head coach. | 2023-02-12T23:14:02+00:00 | wivb.com | https://www.wivb.com/the-big-game/kansas-city-chiefs-head-coach-andy-reid-mulling-retirement-following-super-bowl/ |
HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) – The Hershey Company says seasonally packaged candy “may be more limited” on store shelves in the final weeks of the holiday season, but fears of a Hershey chocolate shortage are unfounded.
During a July quarterly earnings call, officials with The Hershey Company said pandemic-induced supply-chain disruptions and the war in Ukraine limited supplies of ingredients such as cocoa and edible oil.
“Seasonal consumer engagement is expected to remain high, and we expect high single-digit sales growth for both our Halloween and Holiday seasons. Despite this strong growth, we will not be able to fully meet consumer demand due to capacity constraints,” said Michele Buck, the president and CEO of the Hershey Company during the July call.
Those comments led to headlines about a potential shortage for trick-or-treaters, but a company official told Nexstar’s WHTM on Thursday that there will be plenty of chocolate, even if Halloween packaging runs short.
Hershey representative Allison Kleinfelter said the earnings call comments were “misinterpreted as we discussed balancing production of limited release Halloween packaging and everyday candy packaging.”
In fact, the Hershey Company produced more Halloween candy this year compared to previous years, according to Kleinfelter. The product just may not be wrapped in festive foil.
“Like every season over the past few years, sell-through at retail remains high with people purchasing candy, décor and other seasonal items earlier and more often. As a result, seasonally packaged candy may be more limited on shelf as we get to the final week of the season,” said Kleinfelter. “Fortunately the same great brands in snack sizes are available to help fill trick-or-treat bags and buckets.” | 2022-10-13T22:17:31+00:00 | kdvr.com | https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/hershey-says-theres-no-risk-of-a-chocolate-shortage-for-halloween/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A Tennessee man accused of killing four people and wounding three others in a livestreamed shooting rampage that paralyzed Memphis and led to a city-wide manhunt was granted a public defender during Friday morning court appearance and will remain jailed on a first-degree murder charge.
Ezekiel Kelly, 19, told a judge he could not afford a lawyer for accusations in Wednesday’s attack that caused panic and fear across the city.
Additional charges are expected. District Attorney Steve Mulroy said outside court that bond is not warranted due to the violent nature of the alleged crimes.
The hours-long rampage had police warning residents to shelter in place, locking down a baseball stadium and university campuses and suspending public bus services as frightened residents wondered where the man might strike next. Kelly was arrested late Wednesday after crashing a stolen car while fleeing police.
The violence unfolded just a few months after Kelly was released early from a three-year prison sentence for a pair of shootings in 2020.
The bloodshed played out as the city was still reeling from the brutal killing of jogger Eliza Fletcher who was abducted during her early morning run less than a week earlier.
“This has been a horrific week for the city of Memphis,” Police Director Cerelyn “CJ” Davis said.
Authorities offered no explanation Thursday of a possible motive. Nor did they say how Kelly managed to obtain the gun or guns used in the attacks.
Memphis has also been shaken by other high-profile killings in recent weeks, including the shooting of a pastor during a daylight carjacking in her driveway and the shooting of an activist during an argument over money.
Mayor Jim Strickland told reporters Thursday he was outraged that Kelly had been released early from prison in March after pleading guilty last year to aggravated assault charges.
“This is no way for us to live, and it is not acceptable,” said Strickland, who later pounded the podium as he demanded accountability. He added: “If Mr. Kelly served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today, and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive.”
In February 2020, Kelly, then 17, was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder and other crimes in two shootings committed a few hours apart. Both victims survived but did not cooperate with prosecutors, according to court records, and Kelly pleaded guilty to reduced charges of aggravated assault in April 2021.
Kelly was sentenced to three years in prison, but was released in March after serving just over two years behind bars, including credit he received for time he was jailed prior to his plea.
Months before his release, Kelly was denied parole in September 2021.
Ahead of that decision, he said at a parole board hearing that he had left high school during 11th grade because he had an anger management problem. On an assessment for inmate risks and needs, a parole hearing official said he scored high for “violent,” according to a recording of the hearing.
“I was going to anger management,” Kelly, then 18, said at the hearing. “I didn’t know how to cope with it at the time because I was a teenager.”
He said he had been “affiliated” – meaning, with a gang – but wasn’t anymore, saying, “as I got older, I separated myself from that type of groups.” He said he previously worked at a fast-food restaurant and a poetry club.
At the time, his fiancée wrote a letter to parole officials, saying the couple had talked about Kelly going to trade school and starting a new life.
In recommending against parole, the hearing officer in part cited “the seriousness of your offense, being that someone was shot – I know that you said that you weren’t there – but you do have the conviction.”
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Associated Press writer Jonathan Mattise in Nashville, Tennessee, contributed to this report. | 2022-09-09T17:02:42+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/news/national/2022/09/09/suspect-in-memphis-shooting-rampage-granted-public-defender/ |
GREENSBORO — Police are offering up to $5,000 for information about a vehicle they say was involved in a fatal hit-and-run April 12 at Interstate 40 East at Sandy Ridge Road.
The suspect vehicle is described as a black four-door sedan — possibly a BMW, 2010-2015 year model with dark tinted windows — and should have damage along the right passenger side, according to Crime Stoppers Coordinator Stacey Finch.
Authorities initially reported that a red 1995 Jeep Wrangler driven Jeral Leroy Doyle, 58, of Dobson, was eastbound on I-40 when the vehicle left the roadway to the right and crashed just before 7 a.m. April 12. Doyle was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Crash Reconstruction Unit conducted an investigation into what caused the fatal accident.
Police are asking anyone who may have information to contact Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000 to earn a cash reward of up to $5,000 for helping law enforcement solve this case. Individuals can also share tips by downloading the mobile P3tips app to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.com to submit a web tip. | 2022-04-18T18:05:19+00:00 | greensboro.com | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-offer-cash-reward-to-find-driver-involved-in-fatal-hit-and-run-april-12/article_6ea37a70-bf23-11ec-a4d7-db0f470e4d7a.html |
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Hell began at sunset.
It was a Friday evening in Somalia’s capital. The patrons of the Hayat hotel had finished their latest prayers and settled in for coffee, tea or dinner. Families, businesspeople and government workers were there — some of the many who see the promise of their country rebuilding from decades of war.
Hotels are refuges in Mogadishu, but targets, too. The al-Shabab extremist group, affiliated with al-Qaida, for years has carried out complex attacks on them, starting with explosions and holding out for hours as a handful of fighters exchanges gunfire with security forces until a bloody morning end.
This time, about 35 hours followed the moment an explosion shattered the Hayat’s peace. It was the longest such attack in Somalia’s history.
Last weekend’s siege could be a turning point for the Horn of Africa nation and its quest for more security. In the days before the attack, new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had vowed an offensive against al-Shabab to dislodge it from the large sections of Somalia it has controlled for years.
Horrified Somalis then watched as 21 people at the Hayat were killed and some dismembered, their remains published by al-Shabab in propaganda videos.
The attack was “a window into the mindset of today’s Al-Shabab and how it has morphed into a more dark, sinister, and nihilistic movement,” the Somali Wire newsletter wrote Wednesday, noting that the hotel was not a “normal” target but “a modest hotel whose clientele were mostly ordinary people.”
Now Somalia’s president vows “total war.”
In a national address this week, he spoke with new determination. Al-Shabab “is like a deadly snake in your clothes,” Mohamud said. “There is no solution other than to kill it before it kills you.”
Standing in the rubble of his hotel still marked with blood and flesh, owner Abdulkadir Mohamud Nur could barely contemplate more death.
The 60-year-old was overwhelmed as he recounted his helplessness at being a short walk from the hotel for prayers when the attack began. Calls quickly flooded his phone. A suicide bomber had detonated at a side gate, callers said, and gunmen overran security forces and shot at everyone they found.
“I couldn’t get closer to the hotel because of the exchange of gunfire,” Nur told The Associated Press.
It was chaos. One survivor, Ibrahim Bashir Ali, joined frantic hotel patrons trying to hide in the hall where afternoon coffee had been served. Amid the gunfire, he saw the attackers wearing “battle fatigues.” Al-Shabab fighters at times disguise themselves in security uniforms.
“There were hand grenades that made everyone petrified,” Ali said. He broke two windows and leaped out the second to escape, injuring himself along the way.
Nur, the hotel owner, immediately thought of his two brothers, Abdirahman and Shuaib, who had come to have lunch with him and afternoon tea. They were still inside, but he dared not call them.
“When such attacks happen, people are advised not to call those whom they think might be at the scene of an attack,” Nur said. “The ringing phone might bring the attention of the attackers.”
It was wisdom drawn from years of watching al-Shabab attacks on the capital.
Later, Nur learned from hotel colleagues that Abdirahman had been killed near the reception area while looking for a place to hide. And on the second day of the attack, he found Shuaib’s body himself.
“We trust the fate of God,” Nur said, his face pressed with grief.
The long time it took for Somali security forces to end the siege, and even communicate among themselves, has been questioned and criticized. At first, a paramilitary force trained by Turkey deployed to the hotel but was repulsed by the attackers. Then a group trained by U.S. forces arrived and managed to start rescuing survivors on the ground floor while containing the gunmen.
Somalia’s prime minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, says those who failed in their response to the attack will be punished. Security forces did not comment.
The four-story hotel, in a highly fortified area near the international airport and government offices, has been shattered. Rebuilding, like everything else in today’s global economy, would be expensive with the rising costs of construction materials.
And yet 67 employees depended on the hotel, and on its owner, a reminder of the fragility in Somalia that remains.
“I’m wondering how these people will continue their lives,” Nur said. | 2022-08-26T17:21:08+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/news/international/ap-after-somalia-hotel-siege-a-vow-to-tackle-al-shabab-snake/ |
June 1, 1933-January 17, 2023
CEDAR FALLS-Gale Owen Johnson, 89, of Cedar Falls, died Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at the Cedar Valley Hospice Home surrounded by his family. He was born in Waterloo on June 1, 1933, the son of Edward and Doris Short Johnson. Gale married Carol Kerns in 1954 and they later divorced. He then married Joan Smelser in 1961 and they later divorced. Gale worked as a siding contractor for Community Builders.
Gale was a fix-it man. He could build or repair virtually anything. Gale built his own house in his spare time from a kit he had delivered to a lot in Cedar Falls. He built a helicopter in his basement that actually flew. That project ended in disaster since the place where Gale flew the helicopter was his basement! Projects like building a snow blower out of an old push mower was one of the many projects Gale was willing to tackle. In his spare time and over the years, Gale enjoyed golfing, bowling, country dancing, playing cards and fishing.
Gale is survived by his children Sandy (Tony) Holkan of Buckingham, IA, Randy (Janet) Johnson of Waterloo, Deborah (Kevin) Eliason of Big Lake, MN, Pearl (Jeff) Studer of Omaha, NE, Janette (Jerry) Arnold of Clear Lake, IA, and Greg (Brenda Whiteside) Johnson of Waterloo; 10 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; 6 great-great-grandchildren; a sister Margaret Grisel of Waterloo; and many other family and friends. He was preceded in death by his daughter Laura Ward; great-grandchildren Jerrad Ramon and Jessica Johnson; sisters Elaine Momberg and Sandra Johnson; and brothers Eddy and Bill Johnson.
Graveside funeral services for Gale will be Thursday, February 2, 2023, at 1:00 PM at Cedar Valley Memorial Gardens in Cedar Falls. Memorials should be directed to the family. On-line condolences may be expressed at www.lockefuneralservices.com. | 2023-01-29T07:27:46+00:00 | wcfcourier.com | https://wcfcourier.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/gale-owen-johnson/article_08ce9898-e8ce-53f6-8978-a2d6be6747a6.html |
Sub-Zero Bites and Sips
May 22, 2023 1:21PM CDT
Opening up this month is the all new Sub-Zero Bites and Sips! Here, one can enjoy over 30 selections of freeze-dried candy, gourmet sodas, including Italian sodas, flavored waters, and urban tea.
Sub-Zero Bites and Sips will be located within the hut outside of KK’s Corner Mall off 66th and Indiana.
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A very futuristic and important and facility in Holyoke in about to become even more futuristic and important.
A $5 million expansion of the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center will increase its computing center and make a quality operation even better. The facility on Bigelow Street will add thousands of new computer servers, thanks to the expansion announced by the research universities which built and opened the $165 million center in 2012.
Computing power is vital to modern scientific work. Harvard University already completed a $1.6 million expansion of the center’s computing power in 2016.
The Holyoke center supports the computing research of Boston University, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and University of Massachusetts Amherst. That’s an all-star lineup of five of the most research-intensive institutions on the eastern seaboard.
The center has been paying dividends since its inception, when the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency provided a $14.5 million new markets tax credit allocation to what was New England’s first high performance computing center. The financing helped fund the acquisition, construction, and permanent financing of the center, and supported many other aspects of its launching.
Even before this latest expansion, the Holyoke facility has been one of the largest academic computing centers on the East Coast. It can move a trillion bits of data in and out of the building ever second.
Much of the work has already been done. Designers had wisely kept expansion in mind when the center was first built.
The expansion speaks to the need to keep current with modern needs, especially at a facility such as this one, which makes possible a vast number of scientific research projects.
The center hosts millions of virtual experiments each month, supporting tens of thousands of researchers worldwide. It is powered almost entirely by by non-fossil, clean energy sources.
A diligent force of 20 employees operate the Holyoke base, and more than 100 technicians work remotely to maintain it.
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center is a Western Massachusetts treasure with a value and relevance tgat should not be overlooked. The latest expansion will ensure its place as a leader in its field on the East Coast, and globally, for years to come. | 2022-09-18T10:35:37+00:00 | masslive.com | https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2022/09/holyoke-computing-center-expansion-assures-its-leadership-role-for-years-to-come-editorial.html |
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BLANTON, Felecia B., age 65 of Trotwood OH, transitioned from earthly life on Sat, Apr 1, 2023. Funeral service will be held on Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 12:00 pm at Greater Allen AME Church, 1620 W 5th St, Dayton OH 45402, Rev John E. Kidd, officiating with Rev Carl L. Blanton, Eulogist. The family will receive relatives & friends Friday at the church beginning at 11:00 am. FACIAL MASK IS REQUIRED. Final Disposition: Cremation. For full obituary, visit https://www.loritts-neilson.com. Arrangements entrusted to the LORITTS-NEILSON FUNERAL HOME, INC. 3924 W. 3rd St.
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Companies struggle to keep up with the new reality of more frequent releases and increasing test complexity with more than 50% of organizations still using manual testing to validate applications
SAN MATEO, Calif. , July 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Applitools, provider of the next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI, today announced the 2022 State of UI/UX Testing Report. Testers, developers, QA managers and UI/UX designers from nearly 1,000 companies were surveyed.
As the first ever industry report on user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) testing, the data shows that most organizations' current testing techniques are unable to meet the quality engineering demands for their digital products and services.
The report identifies critical factors that inhibit the scalability of modern UI/UX testing, and shows that while the demand for techniques like frontend testing is increasing rapidly, only 30% of respondents are actively testing for an application's ease-of-use and visual correctness on each new deployment to production.
To download the State of UI/UX Testing Report 2022, visit: https://applitools.com/resources/insights/state-of-ui-ux-testing-2022/.
Here are the top trends and challenges identified in the State of UI/UX Testing Report:
- 38% of companies are deploying changes to production daily. This results in a significant increase in the amount of test coverage required in a shorter amount of time and expands coverage gaps. An even greater percentage of Applitools customers, nearly 2x than non-customers, deployed daily due to the confidence and coverage that they get from Applitools Visual AI.
- Manual testing is still rampant – most organizations automated less than half of their testing despite test coverage for every device being critical.
- More than 40% of test suites take more than an hour to run, creating a bottleneck for software delivery. However, respondents from companies that are using Applitools Ultrafast Test Cloud reported an average of 4x faster execution times.
- Across the industry, companies are seeing less than 50% test coverage and test suites that take more than an hour to run. However, based on survey data, Applitools customers report 75% test coverage on average and test suite execution takes less than 15-20 minutes on average (or 4x faster than non-customers using traditional methods).
- Another challenge reported by nearly 70% of respondents is that the UI is constantly changing across applications and device types causing constant test maintenance and stability issues for engineering teams.
"Achieving higher rates of automation for testing digital experiences is vital for companies to stay ahead of the competition and ensure that their users are getting a great experience on every device," said Moshe Milman, co-founder and COO of Applitools. "Automating a single test case initially is fairly simple, but maintaining it over time in a CD environment and implementing cross-device testing and improving test coverage to cover all the critical user flows is more challenging and important than ever today."
State of UI/UX Testing: Priorities and Opportunities
Nearly 80% of survey respondents reported their team is responsible for testing two or more web applications. Surprisingly, more than 50% of respondents are responsible for testing five apps or more with at least five localized languages.
- Most organizations deem "increasing test coverage" as the number one reason for test automation.
- The priority of the types of testing is changing – while unit, functional and API testing remain the most important, usability and UI testing are now more important than load, performance and security testing, according to respondents.
- Visual testing and test execution are two key areas where the majority of organizations are looking to implement AI-augmented technology.
Applitools customers are better equipped to handle the challenges of UI/UX testing and quality engineering. Marianne Epstein, Director of UX design at EVERFI explains:
"The number of permutations is overwhelming and was impossible for the UX team to navigate. Applitools provides instant access and validation to the massive inventory of screens and the peace of mind knowing that every regression is immediately spotted across all screen variations ensuring the user experience is exactly as it was intended to be. I feel like it is a transformative tool for our UX team and how we partner with development to drive user experience."
Applitools is able to visually test five applications, in five languages, across five browser types, for three different devices – with just a single line of code – in minutes, not hours. Learn more about testing with Applitools Visual AI at https://applitools.com/solutions/visual-testing/.
About Applitools
Applitools is leading the industry in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to test automation, delivering a next generation test automation platform powered by Visual AI. Over 400 of the world's top brands from verticals such as Tech, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Pharma, and Publishing -- including 50 of the Fortune 100 -- use Applitools to deliver the best possible digital experiences to millions of customers on any device and browser, and across every screen size and operating system.
Applitools' Ultrafast Test Cloud modernizes critical test automation use cases -- Functional Testing, Visual Testing, Web and Mobile UI/UX Testing, Cross Browser Testing, Responsive Web Design Testing, Cross Device Testing, PDF Testing, Accessibility Testing and Compliance Testing -- to transform the way businesses deliver innovation at the speed of DevOps without jeopardizing their brand.
Applitools is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel. To learn more, visit applitools.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
FDA’s decision came one day after an agency panel of outside advisers supported the recipe change. The agency told vaccine makers to provide protection against just one omicron strain, known as XBB.1.5.
Today’s shots include the original coronavirus and an earlier version of omicron. They do still help prevent severe disease and death even as XBB variants have taken over. But protection gradually wanes over time and was short-lived against milder infection even before the virus, inevitably, evolved again.
The three U.S. companies that make COVID-19 shots said this week they had geared up to make the formula change, in anticipation of making many millions of doses available for the fall. One company, Pfizer, said it could have at least some doses ready as early as next month.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will eventually decide whether to recommend the shot for nearly all Americans or just for certain high-risk groups.
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content. | 2023-06-17T15:03:33+00:00 | pix11.com | https://pix11.com/ap-health/next-round-of-covid-19-shots-in-fall-will-target-latest-omicron-strain/ |
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger announced Monday that he tested positive for COVID-19 and was forced to postpone the band's scheduled concert in Amsterdam.
Taking to Twitter to share the news, the "You Can't Always Get What You Want" singer revealed his coronavirus diagnosis was confirmed after experiencing symptoms.
"The Rolling Stones are deeply sorry for tonight’s postponement, but the safety of the audience, fellow musicians and the touring crew has to take priority," the statement read.
The legendary British rock band was scheduled to play at Amsterdam's Johan Cruijff Arena on Monday as the fourth stop on the "Stones Sixty" European tour.
News that the concert was postponed was not revealed until an hour and a half before the concert was due to begin. Mojo Concerts, who organized the Rolling Stones' appearance, announced the news to the awaiting crowd.
"He can't sing, he can't play," Mojo's representative said. "There is no show tonight ... it is what it is."
Jagger's Twitter statement assured fans, "The show will be rescheduled for a later date. Tickets for tonight's show will be honored for the rescheduled date. Standby for details."
Mick's COVID diagnosis comes a few years after he had to postpone shows following a heart valve procedure in April 2019. At the time, Jagger's rep told ET that the singer had "successfully undergone treatment," and was "doing very well." The rep added that he was "expected to make a full recovery."
The next stops on the Stones' European tour include Bern, Switzerland, this Friday and Milan, Italy, on June 21, before an appearance in London on June 25.
RELATED CONTENT: | 2022-06-14T03:29:26+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-tonight/mick-jagger-tests-positive-for-covid-19-rolling-stones-postpone-concert/603-6918f867-0b62-4cf5-9f41-1f6fe43cb6a6 |
New Colts tight end takes ‘great pride’ with last name in the Hoosier State
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indianapolis Colts selected a player in the NFL Draft who has a well-known last name in the state of Indiana.
Former University of Miami (Fla.) tight end Will Mallory was selected by the Colts in the fifth round of the draft. He comes from a football family, which includes connections to the Hoosier State.
His late grandfather, Bill Mallory, was a longtime Indiana Hoosiers head coach beginning in the mid-1980s. He spent 13 seasons leading the IU football program.
Meanwhile, Will Mallory’s uncle, Curt Mallory, is the current Indiana State football head coach.
“It’s awesome,” said Will Mallory. “It means a lot for me and my family to be back in Indiana. We take great pride in that – the ‘Mallory’ name in Indiana. So, just excited to be here. Grateful for the opportunity and just want to make the most of it.”
Will Mallory took part in the Colts rookie minicamp last week.
“I love what we’re doing here,” said Mallory. “Just excited to be a part of it and help in any way that I can.”
During his five seasons at Miami (Fla.), he had 115 receptions for 1,544 yards and 14 receiving touchdowns. | 2023-05-13T14:26:42+00:00 | wishtv.com | https://www.wishtv.com/sports/indianapolis-colts/new-colts-tight-end-takes-great-pride-with-last-name-in-the-hoosier-state/ |
NPR's new series is called Living Better: How Americans can take back their health By Allison Aubrey Published May 15, 2023 at 5:10 AM EDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 4:23 Americans rank poorly on many health outcomes compared to other countries. The new series Living Better explore ways to change that. Copyright 2023 NPR | 2023-05-15T09:40:17+00:00 | wbfo.org | https://www.wbfo.org/2023-05-15/nprs-new-series-is-called-living-better-how-americans-can-take-back-their-health |
As Memorial Day nears, businesses that rely on tourism worry about travel advisories issued by the NAACP and Human Rights Campaign following Gov. DeSantis policies on diversity, race and identity.
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YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenian and Azerbaijani troops exchanged artillery fire Thursday along their tense border, leaving at least one soldier dead and several others wounded in the latest bout of escalation between the longtime adversaries that threatened to derail their latest attempts at peace talks.
The two countries’ authorities traded blame for triggering the clashes and accused each other of trying to undermine negotiations on a prospective peace deal.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said that Azerbaijani forces opened artillery fire on Armenian positions near the town of Sotk in the eastern Gegharkunik province, leaving four Armenian soldiers wounded.
Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said that one Azerbaijani soldier was killed and another one was wounded by Armenian fire.
The exchange of fire follows U.S.-hosted peace talks earlier this month between the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign minister, which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said had achieved “tangible progress.” Blinken said that he believed a peace deal could be “within sight, within reach” and praised the two sides for coming together to try to find common ground.
U.S. engagement in the conflict challenged Russia’s influence in the area it regards as part of its historic sphere of influence at the time when Moscow is busy with the fighting in Ukraine.
The European Union also sought to step up mediation efforts, planning to host Sunday’s meeting in Brussels between Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
But on Thursday, Armenia and Azerbaijan quickly accused each other of initiating the hostilities to block the prospective peace talks.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry charged that Azerbaijan was trying to “derail the process of negotiations through the use of force and exert pressure on Armenia.”
Azerbaijan, in turn, accused Armenia of a “deliberate provocation” reflecting the lack of interest in the peace process. “All responsibility for the deliberate aggravation of the situation lies with the military-political leadership of Armenia,” the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Despite Thursday’s clashes, Pashinyan confirmed his intention to travel to Brussels on Sunday for talks with Aliyev, but said that chances for reaching a quick deal are small. Azerbaijan also confirmed that Aliyev was set to attend the meeting.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies within Azerbaijan but in 1994 came under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia, which also seized sizable surrounding Azerbaijani areas.
In six weeks of fighting in 2020, Azerbaijan reclaimed control of a large part of Nagorno-Karabakh and all the surrounding territory previously occupied by Armenians. The hostilities ended with a Moscow-brokered truce that saw the deployment of a Russian peacekeeping force of about 2,000 troops.
In an apparent effort to retain its position as a key power broker in the region, Russia also has recently tried to prepare the talks between the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders.
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Aida Sultanova in London contributed to this report. | 2023-05-11T23:23:41+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/national-world/ap-international/1-soldier-killed-several-others-wounded-in-clashes-between-armenia-azerbaijan/ |
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy's analysis finds that 46% of Safe Streets and Roads for All Construction Grants Address the Need for Traffic-Separated Walking and Biking Routes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- This week's announcement of grantees under the federal Safe Streets and Roads for All program reinforces a growing trend nationwide, says Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, the nation's largest trails and active transportation advocacy organization—that investing in connected walking and biking infrastructure, separated from vehicle traffic, is a critical strategy for stemming the tragic trend of fatalities and serious injuries among pedestrians and bicyclists, a social crisis that is quickly worsening and has disproportionately impacted communities of color and low-income communities nationwide.
In particular, construction grants funded under the program illustrate the ways that communities are integrating traffic-separated walking and biking infrastructure, including multiuse trails, protected bike lanes and sidewalks, into their strategies to address rising fatality and injury rates of bicyclists and pedestrians, while also providing equitable transportation access and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging more people to walk and bike instead of drive. Nearly half of all construction grants (46%) funded projects that include elements that provide traffic-separated connectivity and nearly all the grants (94%) account for the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians, the fastest growing segment of traffic fatalities and injuries.
"Since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in late 2021, we're seeing a significant shift in how communities are prioritizing the needs of bicyclists and pedestrians in their grant applications and how the U.S. Department of Transportation is supporting that shift in their funding decisions," said Kevin Mills, RTC's vice president of policy. "They're validating what we've long championed—that it takes both more money and strategic focus to build active transportation infrastructure that addresses critical issues communities are facing. We need to leverage existing infrastructure with strategic investments in connectivity to create safe walking and biking routes that are separated from traffic and connected to places people want to go. That's what it takes to reduce traffic fatalities, provide equitable access to economic opportunities for everyone, whether or not they drive, and to enable more people to swap a car trip for active transportation."
Several of the Safe Streets and Roads for All grantees stand out as examples of places where this federal funding will have an outsized impact because of the investment in connectivity of traffic-separated active transportation infrastructure. Providence, Rhode Island, received $27.2 million to construct the Urban Trail Network, providing "last mile connections to residential, employment and cultural activity centers between the city's 25 neighborhoods while significantly reducing fatal and serious crashes for vulnerable road users." Atlanta, Georgia, received $30 million for protected bicycle and pedestrian facilities that connect the Southside of Atlanta and the Southside BeltLine trail to Atlanta's downtown—addressing the void in active transportation infrastructure connecting north and south through the city and providing the necessary facilities to encourage more people to safely walk and bike instead of drive. In Maryland, $7.5 million will be invested in improved safety of trail crossings alongside bicycle and pedestrian education programs, addressing barriers to trail use that exist in this region, especially in underserved neighborhoods reached by the Capital Trails Network, one of RTC's TrailNation™ projects.
The program, funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, provides $5 billion over five years for comprehensive safety action plans and for planning, design and construction of projects to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. This first round of funding totaled $800 million in planning and construction grants.
"These awards are encouraging as they signal a deeper understanding that how we invest in walking and biking infrastructure makes a significant difference for the safety of our communities and the health of our planet," said Mills. "While these competitive multimodal grant programs have proven to be an important funding source for trail and active transportation networks, they aren't enough if communities can't plan around these resources for the long-term. This is why it's essential that Congress fully fund the Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program and sustain and grow it over time to provide the dedicated funding necessary to bring safe, connected active transportation infrastructure to every neighborhood."
The Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP) is a new program that provides dedicated funding for the planning and construction of safe and connected active-transportation networks and long-distance spine trails. The program was authorized in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and received its first appropriation in the Fiscal Year 2023 federal funding bill. RTC, Congressional champions, and partners across the country are continuing to advocate for full program funding in the FY 2024 federal budget. Learn more about the demand for trails, walking and biking infrastructure and available federal funding at railstotrails.org/policy/funding.
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy is the nation's largest trails organization—with a grassroots community more than 1 million strong—dedicated to building a nation connected by trails, reimagining public spaces to create safe ways for everyone to walk, bike and be active outdoors. Connect with RTC at railstotrails.org and @railstotrails on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday he was following security officials’ advice in managing bilateral relations with the Solomon Islands after the South Pacific neighbor’s leader alleged he’d been threatened “with invasion.”
Solomons Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare told Parliament on Wednesday that opponents of his new security pactwith China had threatened his country and insulted it.
Sogavare did not name the United States or Australia. Both countrieshave told the Solomons that a Chinese military presence in the Solomons less than 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) off the northeast Australian coast would not be tolerated.
“We deplore the continual demonstration of lack of trust by the concerned parties, and tacit warning of military intervention in Solomon Islands if their national interest is undermined in Solomon Islands,” Sogavare said.
“In other words, we are threatened with invasion,” Sogavare added.
On the threat of invasion, Morrison said: “Of course, none of that’s true.”
Morrison rejected the center-left opposition Labor Party’s advice to telephone Sogavare.
“I can tell you very clearly that I am following very carefully the advice that I get from our security intelligence agencies in how we are responsibly managing the issues in relation to this matter,” Morrison told reporters. “That is exactly what I’m doing.”
Morrison added that he had had contact with Sogavare “in the last few months,” but did not specify when.
Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has promised closer engagement between Australia and its South Pacific neighbors if Labor wins elections on May 21.
“The fact that the prime minister hasn’t picked up the phone to Prime Minister Sogavare says an enormous amount … about what is needed in terms of that relationship,” Albanese said.
“The government has dropped the ball on the Pacific right now,” Albanese added.
Morrison said last month that Australia and the United States shared the same “red line” when it came to opposing a Chinese military base on the Solomons. Neither Australia nor the United States have said how they might respond to such a Chinese presence.
Sogavare has maintained that there would be no Chinese base in his country.
“We are being treated as kindergarten students walking around with Colt .45s in our hands, and therefore we need to be supervised. We are insulted,” Sogavare said on Wednesday.
Morrison said Australia needed to be “calm and composed” in dealing with the Solomons.
“Mr. Sogavare has entered into a secret arrangement with the Chinese government, he has done that with a number of his Cabinet ministers,” Morrison said.
“That did not come as a surprise to our government and so now we just work responsibly with our partners to manage that situation to first protect the security interests of Australia but also of the Solomon Islands,” Morrison said.
“We are very concerned for the Solomon Islands. We’re very concerned for the broader security in the Southwest Pacific. Other leaders that I’ve been in regular contact (with) are equally concerned,” Morrison added.
Labor has condemned the China-Solomons pact as Australia’s biggest foreign policy failure in the Pacific since World War II.
Morrison said Australia remained the Solomons’ preferred security partner despite the new pact.
Australia already has a bilateral security pact with the Solomons and Australian police peacekeepers have been in the capital, Honiara, since riots in November. | 2022-05-05T09:49:28+00:00 | siouxlandproud.com | https://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/international/morrison-defends-management-of-australias-ties-to-solomons/ |
LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time since announcing their multi-year partnership with McLaren Racing, LA based tennis performance and heritage footwear brand K-Swiss will be releasing the first of their three collaborative collections.
This partnership is based off both brand's values of innovation and passion for cutting-edge design. K-Swiss's The Tubes Technology is an example of this, which is known for its comfort, cushioning, and performance qualities. As a team of race car engineers who are on their feet for upwards of 12 hours a day and work in extreme weather conditions, it was imperative they have shoes that can perform for as long as they do. Using the DNA of The TubesTechnology, K-Swiss worked closely with McLaren in order to customize shoes that met all of the specific needs; and just like that, Tubes shoes became the official 2023 team footwear for all McLaren Racing mechanics, engineers, and VIP staffing.
With rich history in performance embedded into the culture of both brands, expansion and development were inevitable. After spending creative time together the collaboration partners broadened the scope of their product range beyond original expectations. As a way of introducing K-Swiss to the McLaren and Formula 1 world, there was no better way to kick off the partnership than by introducing iconic heritage styles that have been known and loved by K-Swiss consumers for decades. Although these styles already exist, it is the way the collection encapsulates the mutual sophistication and long-standing legacy of both brands that brings the footwear to life.
"There is an unspoken strength in being able to stand the test of time. Partnering with McLaren was a decision that felt right from both ends. Our experience and expertise in our respective fields allowed us to come together to expand our reach and establish a new milestone in the storied histories of both brands." Rob Langstaff, International Brand President of K-Swiss.
For their first drop, K-Swiss and McLaren have put together the ultimate Fan's Starter Pack - so you can expect to see McLaren's well known papaya color displayed! By reimagining the proprietary McLaren Team shoe, K-Swiss will offer the same Tubes Technology for day-to-day wear so that fans can feel like a real part of the team. Alongside the Tubes Technology will sit a beautiful offering of footwear inspired by both heritage, lifestyle, and performance: the perfect blend for the incredible fans.
"We are excited to announce our collaboration with K-Swiss, a brand with so much history. K-Swiss understand our team's need for high-quality, adaptable and comfortable footwear, alongside our passion for pushing boundaries and innovating in all areas," says Lindsey Eckhouse, Director, Licensing and Digital Products, McLaren Racing.
The K-Swiss x McLaren collection will consist of 3 product launches throughout the year and will be available to the public for purchase on Kswiss.com, McLaren.com, and for a limited time available for in-store purchase at Addict.
ABOUT K-SWISS
From the beginning, K-Swiss was driven by an entrepreneurial spirit when two Swiss brothers moved to California to create a footwear brand focused on tennis. As avid skiers, the brothers took inspiration from leather ski boots to create a supportive, leather tennis shoe. Introduced in 1966, the K-Swiss Classic was the world's first all-leather tennis shoe. It quickly gained worldwide acclaim and became a style statement both on and off the court, worn casually in country clubs and just as fashionably on city streets. Now, 57 years later, K-Swiss is building from its heritage as an American tennis brand and writing new chapters in its storied history. Paying homage to the hard work of our founders and the competitive nature of the game that inspired it all, K-Swiss is dedicated to outfitting and inspiring the next generation of tennis players and injecting that same inspiration and energy into other racquet sport and lifestyle products.
ABOUT MCLAREN RACING
McLaren Racing was founded by racing driver Bruce McLaren 60 years ago in 1963. The team entered its first Formula 1 race in 1966. McLaren has since won 20 Formula 1 world championships, 183 Formula 1 grands prix, the Indianapolis 500 three times, and the Le Mans 24 Hours at its first attempt.
McLaren Racing competes across five racing series. In 2023, the team will compete in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship with McLaren F1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, the NTT INDYCAR SERIES with Arrow McLaren drivers Pato O'Ward, Felix Rosenqvist and Alexander Rossi, the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship with NEOM McLaren Formula E Team drivers René Rast and Jake Hughes, and the Extreme E Championship with NEOM McLaren Extreme E Team drivers Emma Gilmour and Tanner Foust. The team also competes in the F1 Esports Pro Championship as McLaren Shadow, having won the 2022 Constructors' and Drivers' Championships.
McLaren is a champion for sustainability in the sport and a signatory to the UN Sports for Climate Action Commitment. It is committed to achieving net zero by 2040 and fostering a diverse and inclusive culture in the motorsport industry.
McLaren Racing – Official Website
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, completed a Critical Design Review for the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command's Missile Track Custody, or MTC, program mission payload.
"This initial CDR process marks 18 months of hard design work that is necessary to build the next generation of affordable OPIR sensors that can detect and maintain custody of emerging missile threats," stated Lt Col Gary Goff, materiel leader, Resilient Missile Warning/Tracking/Defense Space, Resilient Missile Warning/Tracking/Defense Acquisition Delta, Space Systems Command's (SSC) Space Sensing (SN) Directorate.
The MTC payload takes advantage of five years of development work at Boeing, employing high levels of on-board track autonomy to enable exceptional booster and hypersonic glide vehicle target detection and tracking.
"We're marching forward to meet the threat," said Jason Kim, chief executive officer, Millennium Space Systems. "We developed a world-class system and digital model that gives our customer the ability to accurately track hypersonic glide vehicles and modern threats."
Millennium will transition into space and ground segment development for a projected launch in 2026. As shown during the mission payload CDR, a wholly-digital engineering environment will continue to be employed to shorten design cycles and further reduce cost.
The initial contract delivers and validates missile tracking designs and verifies predicted performance. MTC is paving the way for operational systems and is key to SSC's digital engineering strategy – the "try before you buy" approach.
About Millennium Space Systems
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing Company, delivers high-performing prototype and constellation solutions across advanced national security and environmental observation missions. Founded in 2001, the company's small satellite missions support government, civil and commercial space customers' needs across orbits.
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Eberle scores 2 as Kraken outshine Stars 6-3, send series to deciding Game 7
Posted/updated on: May 14, 2023 at 5:09 amSEATTLE (AP) — Jordan Eberle scored twice, Eeli Tolvanen had a goal and two assists, and the Seattle Kraken beat the Dallas Stars 6-3 to force a deciding Game 7 in their Western Conference semifinal series. Tolvanen’s goal early in the second period gave Seattle a 3-1 lead. Rookie Tye Kartye beat Jake Oettinger with a wrist shot less than three minutes later, and the Kraken withstood several pushes by the Stars to send the series back to Texas. Matty Beniers and Yanni Gourde each added a goal and an assist for Seattle. Philipp Grubauer stopped 20 shots. Mason Marchment, Joe Pavelski and Joel Kiviranta scored for Dallas. Oettinger allowed four goals on 18 shots before he was pulled early in the second period. Game 7 will be Monday night in Dallas. | 2023-05-14T11:38:36+00:00 | ktbb.com | https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1226104 |
BUFFALO – Sabres center Tage Thompson gutted out his upper-body injury once, playing less than a day after colliding with New Jersey Devils star Timo Meier.
But Thompson, 25, was a non-factor March 25 in a 2-0 road win over the New York Islanders. So the Sabres’ leading scorer has sat out the last three games.
“It just got to a point where it was hindering me too much to where I couldn’t really play my game and be effective,” Thompson said following Monday’s practice at KeyBank Center. “So I figured it was time to take some time and get healthy so we could be healthy for the last push here. I think it was probably a smart approach.”
Thompson said he “felt pretty good” skating in his regular spot between Jeff Skinner and Alex Tuch during his first session back. Coach Don Granato said he planned to talk to Thompson later Monday during the team’s flight to Florida, where they play their biggest late-season game since 2012 tonight against the Panthers.
No official determination has been made for Thompson. Still, Granato said he liked what he saw.
“It’s just one of those injuries, it’ll impede until it resolves completely, and that could happen overnight,” he said. “And today was a very good sign.”
Thompson, who has scored 44 goals and 89 points this season, said he responded well after skating on his own Saturday and Sunday.
“The last few days I’ve been making some good strides,” he said. “Today was a good test to get back out there and just kind of get a little more battles and kind of just feel it a little bit more.”
The Sabres went 2-0-1 without Thompson, moving to within five points of the Pittsburgh Penguins, who own the Eastern Conference’s final wild card spot. They’re four points behind the Panthers, the only team that separates them from the Penguins.
They have two games in hand on both Pittsburgh and Florida.
With Thompson back Monday, center Casey Mittelstadt, his replacement on the top line, moved between Tyson Jost and Victor Olofsson, both of whom took reps at right wing, and Jordan Greenway.
Mittelstadt registered six assists during Thompson’s absence, including three in Saturday’s 6-3 road win over the Philadelphia Flyers.
“Mittsy did a really good job filling in,” Tuch said. “… He’s been playing some of the best hockey of his career over the last 10 to 15 games.” | 2023-04-04T01:05:58+00:00 | niagara-gazette.com | https://www.niagara-gazette.com/thompson-progresses-uncertain-for-tonights-game/article_5e0840c2-d27a-11ed-9e77-2fcb37b1716b.html |
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House on Thursday approved sharply scaled-down legislation targeting the dominance of Big Tech companies by giving states greater power in antitrust cases and increasing money for federal regulators.
The bipartisan measure, passed by a 242-184 vote, pales in comparison with a more ambitious package aimed at reining in Meta, Google, Amazon and Apple and cleared by key House and Senate committees. That proposal has languished for months, giving the companies time for vigorous lobbying campaigns against it.
The more limited bill would give states an upper hand over companies in choosing the location of courts that decide federal antitrust cases. Proponents say this change would avert the “home-court advantage” that Big Tech companies enjoy in federal court in Northern California, where many of the cases are tried and many of the companies are based.
Many state attorneys general have pursued antitrust cases against the industry, and many states joined with the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission in their landmark lawsuits against Google and Meta (then called Facebook), respectively, in late 2020.
The bill also would increase filing fees paid by companies to federal agencies for all proposed mergers worth $500 million or more, while reducing the fees for small and medium-sized transactions. The aim is to increase revenue for federal enforcement efforts.
Under the bill, companies seeking approval for mergers would have to disclose subsidies they received from countries deemed to pose strategic or economic risks to the United States — especially China.
“We find ourselves in a monopoly moment as a country,” Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., said before the vote. “Multibillion-dollar corporations have grown into behemoths, eliminating any real competition in their industries and using their dominance to hurt small businesses and consumers. Meta’s monopoly power has enabled it to harm women, children and people of all ages without recourse. Amazon has used its dominance to copy competitors’ products and run small businesses into the ground.”
The Biden administration, which has pushed for antitrust legislation targeting Big Tech, endorsed the bill this week.
Even in reduced form, the legislation drew fierce opposition from conservative Republicans who split from their GOP colleagues supporting the bill. The conservatives objected to the proposed revenue increase for the antitrust regulators, arguing there has been brazen overreach by the FTC under Biden.
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., described the FTC's leader, Lina Khan, as a “a radical leftist seeking to replace consumer decisions with her own.”
Another California Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa, told his colleagues: “If you want to stifle innovation, vote for this.”
If Republicans win control of the House or Senate in the November elections, they are certain to try to crimp the activism of the FTC and to challenge its broader interpretation of its legal authority.
The broader antitrust package would restrict powerful tech companies from favoring their own products and services over rivals on their platforms and could even lead to mandated breakups separating companies’ dominant platforms from their other businesses. It could, for example, prevent Amazon from steering consumers to its own brands and away from competitors’ products on its giant e-commerce platform.
The drafting of that legislation marked a new turn in Congress’ effort to curb the dominance of the tech giants and anti-competitive practices that critics say have hurt consumers, small businesses and innovation. But the proposal is complex and drew objections to some provisions from lawmakers of both parties, even though all condemn the tech giants’ conduct.
Lawmakers have faced a delicate task as they try to tighten reins around a powerful industry whose services, mostly free or nearly so, are popular with consumers and embedded into daily life.
So with time to act running out as the November elections approach in about six weeks, lawmakers extracted the less controversial provisions on antitrust court venues and merger filing fees, putting them into the new bill that passed.
Lawmakers added the provision targeting foreign subsidies to U.S. companies. Republicans especially have vocally criticized the Chinese ownership of popular video platform TikTok.
In the Senate, Republican Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Chuck Grassley of Iowa came out this week in support of the new House legislation. There hasn’t been public discussion of a similar bill in the Senate, however. | 2022-09-29T19:49:46+00:00 | ourmidland.com | https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/House-approves-scaled-down-bill-targeting-Big-17476061.php |
BOSTON, Oct. 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A team from Analysis Group, one of the largest international economics consulting firms, supported Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and its client Credit Suisse in their successful defense in a long-running antitrust class action over alleged manipulation of foreign exchange currency markets.
In the matter In re: Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation, the plaintiffs, including hedge and pension funds, alleged Credit Suisse and 15 other banks agreed to widen the difference between the prices at which they buy and sell currencies (i.e., bid-ask spreads) between 2007 and 2013, in violation of federal antitrust law. Credit Suisse was the sole defendant to proceed to trial after the other banks agreed to settlements.
Analysis Group Managing Principal Divya Mathur testified at the trial on the economics of cartels, and affiliated expert Professor Michael Melvin, Executive Director of the Master of Finance Program at the Rady School of Management at University of California, San Diego, testified about the dynamics of the foreign exchange marketplace and the economics of bid-ask spreads. Their testimony was supported by an Analysis Group team led by Managing Principal Samuel Weglein, Principal Brian Ellman, Vice Presidents Chris Feige and Rebeccah Filsoof, Manager Hadrien Vasdeboncoeur, and Associates Riccardo Marchingiglio and Ivan Kirov.
Following an eight-day trial in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, the jury found that Credit Suisse did not participate in any conspiracy to widen, fix, stabilize, or maintain bid-ask spreads in the forex market.
To learn more about Analysis Group's capabilities, visit AnalysisGroup.com.
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New York (CNN) — In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has replaced Twitter’s iconic bird logo with X.
Musk made the shock announcement of his plans early Sunday. By Monday morning US time, he tweeted that X.com now points to Twitter.com.
“Interim X logo goes live later today,” he wrote, shortly before sharing a photo of Twitter’s headquarters lit up by a giant new X.
The Twitter website now features the same logo, while the familiar blue bird is gone.
Previously, Musk said he was bidding “adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Twitter (TWTR), founded in 2006, has used its vivid, globally recognized blue bird emblem for more than a decade.
The renaming could be seen as something of a brand overhaul “Hail Mary” for the company: Musk in recent months has repeatedly warned that Twitter, facing steep losses in ad revenue, was on the edge of bankruptcy.
Increasing the pressure, earlier this month rival social media platform Threads launched from Facebook (FB) parent Meta. It surpassed 100 million user sign-ups in its first week.
Twitter had 238 million active users prior to being taken private by Musk in October 2022.
Spats, mass layoffs
One of the world’s richest men, Musk was once best known for his innovative efforts through companies SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) to launch rockets and build electric cars.
Now, many of the headlines he makes are for his eccentric remarks on his personal Twitter account – often sharing conspiracy theories and getting into public spats on the social media platform.
Musk overhauled the site after acquiring it for $44 billion in late October, then followed with mass layoffs, disputes over millions of dollars allegedly owed in severance and Musk’s note to employees that remaining at the company would mean “working long hours at high intensity.” He wrote: “Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.”
The upheaval prompted organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, Free Press and GLAAD, to pressure brands to rethink advertising on Twitter.
The groups pointed to the mass layoffs as a key factor in their thinking, citing fears that Musk’s cuts would make Twitter’s election-integrity policies effectively unenforceable, even if they technically remain active.
Musk also began overseeing controversial policy changes which led to frequent service disruptions at Twitter and upended his own reputation in the process.
‘A second chance’
In June, Musk named Linda Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal marketing executive, CEO of the company.
She commented on the name change on Twitter Sunday afternoon: “It’s an exceptionally rare thing – in life or in business – that you get a second chance to make another big impression. Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”
As the new venture begins, it faces challenges. Musk recently disclosed that the platform still has a negative cash flow due to a 50% drop in advertising revenue and heavy debt loads.
Criticizing the exit, or pause, of such Twitter advertisers as General Mills (GIS), Macy’s (M) and some car companies that compete with Tesla, Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist” and said he wanted to buy Twitter to bolster users’ ability to speak freely on the platform.
Musk explained his approach to free speech by saying: “Is someone you don’t like allowed to say something you don’t like? And if that is the case, then we have free speech.”
He added that Twitter would “be very reluctant to delete things” and that the platform would aim to allow all legal speech. Many users have worried that could mean a rise in hate speech.
Meanwhile, the initial frenzy around rival Threads appears to have come back to earth, especially as it has been plagued with spam and lacks several user-friendly features Twitter, or, now X, offers.
Adam Mosseri, who is overseeing the Threads launch for Meta, has hinted at plans to add features such as a desktop version of the app, a feed of only accounts a user follows and an edit button.
Its ability to draw advertising support is, as yet, unproven.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On the meaningful occasion of India's 74th Republic Day, NY-based RIST and AIF have renewed their commitment to India's nation building by announcing a $7.6 million (INR 60 crores) investment on girls' education, maternal and newborn health, and strengthening the bridge between the civil societies of these two largest democracies in the world.
A major supporter of AIF for over a decade, in 2022, RIST expanded their investment in AIF's multi-award award winning Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) with a $3M grant to reduce neonatal and infant mortality by 25% and 20% respectively, across 6 blocks in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand over 5 years. On this Republic Day, RIST announced a deepened and expanded commitment to AIF through a $1.6M investment in its Digital Equalizer (DE) program for school children and a $3M grant in support of the Banyan Impact Fellowship (BIF) program to nurture the next generation of social impact leaders.
This new grant for AIF's award-winning DE program will help train 120 government school teachers on DE-designed techno-pedagogy and expose over 12,000 students–especially girls–to STEM-based learning. It will also provide technology and STEM infrastructure in 40 schools in Uttarakhand, amplifying the impact of their investments in the state.
The grant for BIF ensures sustainability for the program in collaboration with the $5 million grant from the Krishnan Shah Family Foundation (KSFF). Together, these two investments will enable 300 young professionals the opportunity to contribute to sustainable development and civil society strengthening in India and the U.S., creating future social impact leaders in the US-India corridor.
"Since inception in 2007, RIST has been dedicated to supporting organizations like AIF that create solutions to social inequity and poverty by designing bold solutions to complex problems for communities that need it the most. Through this multi-pronged and expanded investment in AIF's programs, RIST can generate sustainable positive impact for thousands and catalyze transformation at the systemic level to leverage this change, over time, at scale. We are excited to deepen this partnership and amplify our impact across the communities we serve," said Shweta Rawat, Managing Director of RIST.
Nishant Pandey, Chief Executive Officer, American India Foundation said, "There are no words for how grateful we are for RIST's continued partnership. These generous, multi-year grants and project scale-ups are a testament to the trust and collaboration that comes with our partnership, the dedication of our implementing team on the ground, and the impact that the two organizations make together. Since our partnership began, RIST has pushed us to be better, think bigger, and has supported us all along the way. We are thrilled for this next phase of work and the lives we'll be improving together."
About American India Foundation (AIF)
Founded in 2001 at the initiative of President Bill Clinton following a request from Prime Minister Vajpayee, AIF is committed to catalyzing social and economic change in India and building a lasting bridge between the United States and India through high-impact interventions in education, livelihoods, public health, and leadership development, with a particular emphasis on empowering girls and women to achieve gender equity. Working closely with local communities, AIF partners with NGOs to develop and test innovative solutions and with governments to create and scale sustainable impact. Driven by values of transparency, secularism, and non-partisanship, AIF remains staunchly dedicated to executing initiatives to further equity, inclusion, and opportunity for marginalized communities in India. To date, AIF has impacted 13 million lives across 35 states and union territories in India.
About Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST)
Rural India Supporting Trust (RIST) was established in 2007 by two families with concerns about the well-being of communities in India. Our roots in India have shaped our vision, efforts, and mission. In order to address these matters, RIST awards grants to organizations that work on solutions to societal inequities and poverty. At our core, we focus on Health, Education, Disability, Environment, and Emergency Response.
Since 2015, we've implemented more than 120 projects across 19 states in India. With The Hans Foundation as a main implementing partner, RIST activities have benefited over 300,000 people.
Our mantra is: "To bring about positive change, we must pay attention to the story of every person".
For queries on the RIST-AIF partnership, please contact Jeanine Racioppo, Development Director, East Coast at jeanine.racioppo@aif.org, or Kalpana Kanthan, Chief Development Officer, at Kalpana.Kanthan@aif.org. For inquiries in India, please contact Shreya Ralli, Director of Communications, at shreya.ralli@aif.org.
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AILSA CHANG, HOST:
Nora and Arthur from the new movie "Past Lives" have a loving marriage and a fulfilling creative partnership. She's a playwright. He's an author. But they're so different in so many other ways.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "PAST LIVES")
JOHN MAGARO: (As Arthur) Is this what you imagined for yourself when you left Seoul?
GRETA LEE: (As Nora) When I was a 12-year-old?
MAGARO: (As Arthur) Yeah. Is this what you pictured for yourself - laying in bed in some tiny apartment in the East Village with some Jewish guy who writes books?
CHANG: That's Greta Lee starring as Nora, who left Korea as a kid and left behind her childhood sweetheart, Hae Sung. Hae Sung tracks her down decades later in New York. Reconnecting with him prompts all kinds of questions for Nora about the path she chose in life and how her decisions have reshaped her identity.
(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "PAST LIVES")
LEE: (As Nora) He still lives with his parents, which is really Korean. He has all these really Korean views about everything. And I feel so not Korean when I'm with him but also, in some way, more Korean - so weird.
CHANG: It's a sentiment that felt so familiar to me as a Taiwanese American woman, that feeling of living in between - between Western and Eastern, between kinship and distance. Greta Lee and I talked about how her character, Nora, embodied that tension in this film.
LEE: In Nora's case, she's Korean Canadian. But if you look at, let's say, the language aspect of it, it was so important to accurately convey the fluidity of language. And when you mention, like, OK, feeling more Asian around certain people or less, that kind of fluctuation is something that is so real and personal to me. And we wanted to bring that to the character in this story.
CHANG: Yeah.
LEE: So in certain ways, it was so crucial to really hone in on and be really specific in certain cases about, well, is she going to sound - how Asian does she sound? How Korean does she sound at the beginning of a scene as opposed to the end of the scene after, let's say, several hours of talking to Hae Sung in Korean? And just being mindful of all of that, I mean, was a reflection of what this experience is that we're talking about - of living in the in-between, experiencing that full spectrum of Western and Eastern and - you know?
CHANG: Oh, my God, like, especially that moment when Nora's lying in bed with her husband and he mentions that she talks in her sleep in Korean. And...
LEE: Yeah.
CHANG: She didn't even know that that was what was happening.
LEE: Well, there's something so exposing about language, right? I mean, my language, my Koreanness (ph) is something that's so private. And actually, you know, I was, like, surprised and kind of tickled by the response from my friends and family initially when they heard that I was taking this on - this kind of reaction collectively of, like, oh my God. But can you actually speak Korean? You can speak Korean? How good is your Korean? Oh, no. And - but what I feel like what that was honing in on is there is so much to the way we hold on to - whether it's our native language or our second language and what that relationship is like. So that scene - yeah, that scene when she's talking to Arthur about it - it is so personal the fact that her husband can identify that that is something that is a place that he can't go.
CHANG: He can't access.
LEE: He can't, and he is fully cognizant of that.
CHANG: Did you surprise yourself that you could speak Korean so well in this movie? Were you, like, kind of re-accessing this deep reservoir in your own brain? Like, oh, I know this. I can speak so much better than people are giving me credit for.
LEE: I never expected to do a movie in Korean with this much Korean - a movie in any other language...
CHANG: (Laughter).
LEE: ...Other than my primary language, which is English. And being immersed and re-immersed in my Korean and Koreanness - it unlocked a lot of different things. It cracked open, for me, recognizing all the shifts that I'd made in my life and my career, this trajectory of what this means to have this immigrant experience. Yes, we have academic ideas of what assimilation is, but it became really personal. And it was - I think, in a way, it matched maybe Nora's experience of feeling the heartbreak and the loss of identity, letting go of former selves and just reconciling that, you know, the choices that we make - where we live, who we're surrounded by...
CHANG: Yes.
LEE: They have incredible, massive impacts on the full trajectory of our lives.
CHANG: Yes. Well, you segued beautifully into my next question. A Korean concept known as inyeon comes up in this story. Explain what that is really briefly to people who have no idea what this term means.
LEE: Inyeon, to me as I know it, is just about human connectedness. It's rooted in ideas of reincarnation. And it could be as slight as two people walking down the street and brushing up against each other. And it could also be as deep and vast as the connection that we would have with a parent or a spouse, spanning over multiple lifetimes, even.
CHANG: Exactly. Can I ask you, Greta, have you ever felt inyeon before, this feeling of, I've met you before; I feel like I already know you, when you meet somebody for the first time?
LEE: Something that springs to mind is I felt a deep inyeon with the script, actually (laughter).
CHANG: Ah, yeah. Yeah.
LEE: A deep connection with the script. It cut through me. I had such a profound experience in reading the gorgeous words that Celine had written.
CHANG: That's Celine Song, the writer and director.
LEE: Yes. And it wasn't until a year later that the job came to fruition. So for me, like, this idea of destiny and fate and connectedness - it's just embedded in so many aspects of this job and this process. And, yes, I also feel inyeon with, you know, maybe - there was a boy in kindergarten named Jimmy (ph). Jimmy, if you're out there, I think we had - we have inyeon (laughter).
CHANG: You met Jimmy in a past life...
LEE: Yes.
CHANG: ...Way before kindergarten.
LEE: Yeah.
CHANG: You know, I cried so much, well, throughout the movie but especially at the end. And I'm not going to give anything away, but it filled me with such hope, the end, because it was, like - there is such beauty in committing to one path. Yes, you lose something. You sacrifice something with each choice you make, but you also gain something, right?
LEE: Yeah. I mean, there's that beautiful moment in the beginning of the movie when Nora's mother says - and hopefully I'm not messing up this quote - that in order to gain something, sometimes you have to lose something. So exactly. I mean, and I can definitely relate to that idea of love and destiny not as sort of, like, these neat constructs but just as a living and breathing entity in and of itself that evolves with us over the course of our lives.
CHANG: Absolutely. Greta Lee stars in the new film "Past Lives." Thank you so much for sharing this time with us, Greta.
LEE: This was such a pleasure. Thanks so much for having me.
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With over 10 years of experience, Evonne Chen will serve as the firm's new Tax Partner
LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazars, a leading audit, tax and advisory firm in the US, recently announced that Evonne Zhiyun Chen has been appointed as the firm's new Tax Partner in the Los Angeles office. With over 10 years of experience, Evonne will deliver her expert tax services to the Mazars practice in California across key sectors, while also overseeing Mazars China Tax Services.
"Evonne's years of experience delivering corporate tax compliance and consulting across a range of industries, including international touchpoints, will help further the growth and success of our Los Angeles Office. We are excited to welcome Evonne and her excellent skill set to the Mazars family," said Mazars USA National Tax Practice Leader Tifphani White-King.
With a tax career that began in 2013, Evonne is well known in the Los Angeles marketplace. She has extensive knowledge in corporate tax compliance and consulting across a range of industries, including manufacturing and distribution, food and beverage, private equity, health and wellness, and software as a service (SaaS). Evonne also has deep expertise working with large multinational corporations on their domestic, international and multistate tax structures and filings. Her experience also includes providing US inbound tax due diligence, transaction planning and deal structure optimization to cross-border clients.
"Within my career, I've had the opportunity to work with many clients across national and international markets, and I am honored to bring my experience to Mazars to help grow the tax practice in the Los Angeles market and lead the inbound tax services from China," says Evonne. "I look forward to serving our clients as the Mazars Los Angeles Office Tax Partner."
Evonne received her Bachelor of Arts in business economics with a minor in accounting from the University of California, Los Angeles. Evonne is also a Certified Public Accountant in California and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of CPAs.
For more information on Mazars' Tax Practice, please visit: https://www.mazars.us.
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About Mazars in the US
Mazars USA LLP is an independent member firm of Mazars Group, an international audit, tax and advisory organization with operations in over 90 countries. With roots going back to 1921 in the US, the firm has a significant national presence in strategic geographies, providing seamless access to 26,000+ professionals around the world. Our industry specialists deliver tailored services to a wide range of clients across sectors, including individuals, high-growth emerging companies, privately-owned businesses and large enterprises.
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DULLES, Va., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Unanet, the leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM solutions for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries, today released its 2022-2023 AEC Inspire Report providing fresh insights for AEC leaders to benchmark their firms against peers, and glean best practices for growing their business.
Based on a survey of almost 400 high-level decision-makers representing the full spectrum of AEC firms across the U.S., the report uses data to document several key storylines in the AEC industry, one of which speaks to the challenges firms face in maintaining elevated profitability. While 43 percent of AEC firms reported 2022 produced extraordinary profits, and 58 percent expected this profitability to continue in 2023, many firms also reported concerns about the rising cost of doing business, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty, along with continued challenges in hiring and retaining talent.
The 2022-2023 AEC Inspire Report also reveals a strong connection between a firm's embrace of technology and its performance. Firms that are tech-forward — those using cloud-enabled software, data-driven strategies, mobile capabilities and integrated business applications — had significantly better business outcomes than firms that are considered 'tech-static.'
The report found that tech-forward firms hold advantages over tech-static firms in:
- Profitability in 2022 and expectations for profitability in 2023.
- Recruiting, staffing and retention levels.
- Capture rates of new business pursuits.
- Ability to leverage data for strategic decision making.
- Maturity of project and resource management.
"Plain and simple, it pays to be a tech-forward AEC firm," said Akshay Mahajan, General Manager, AEC, for Unanet and one of the report's co-authors. "In turbulent times, tech-forward firms have more tools at the ready to help guide them through uncertainties and work most efficiently with limited resources. This produces better outcomes for their clients, while ultimately benefitting the AEC firm's bottom line."
Another driver of success among tech-forward firms is the ability to maintain high productivity in hybrid and remote-work environments. More than half of AEC firms surveyed reported they have a policy that allows employees to work remotely at least some of the time, and those firms that embrace modern technology have more seamless business operations than tech-static firms.
"For people to be productive in hybrid work arrangements, it's essential that they have remote access to digital tools, systems and data," said Lucas Hayden, AEC Inspire Report co-author and Director, AEC Strategy, for Unanet. "Web-enabled apps for time, expense, and project management are critical, particularly with remote work. Firms with these digital tools in place are poised for more success."
Now available for free download https://info.unanet.com/inspire-report-2022-23, the second annual AEC Inspire Report provides in-depth analysis and best practices directly from companies regarding accounting and finance, HR benefits and compensation, invoicing, project execution and more. It's full of actionable insight to help AEC firms improve their business performance and compare their capabilities with those of other firms.
"Sharing this data helps AEC firms benchmark against their peers and incorporate success strategies into their businesses," continued Mahajan. "It's another way Unanet invests in our customers, to always provide them with added value. It's part of our unrelenting customer-first ethos."
About Unanet
Unanet is a leading provider of project-based ERP and CRM solutions purpose-built for Government Contractors, architecture, engineering, construction, and professional services. More than 3,700 project-driven organizations depend on Unanet to turn their information into actionable insights, drive better decision-making, and accelerate business growth. All backed by a people-centered team invested in the success of your projects, people, and financials. For more information, visit www.unanet.com.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Houston’s Kyle Tucker was thrown out Thursday night when he tried to steal home while New York Yankees starter Luis Severino tinkered with his malfunctioning PitchCom device.
Alex Bregman had just hit a two-run double to put Houston up 2-0 and Tucker was on third with two outs in the third inning.
With Yuli Gurriel at-bat, a frustrated Severino took off his cap and held the PitchCom speaker to his ear, apparently unable to hear instructions from catcher Jose Trevino.
Tucker saw Severino was distracted and tried to sneak home. Severino had the PitchCom earpiece in his right hand and had to quickly maneuver to get the baseball back in his throwing hand. He threw home while still holding his cap, and his throw narrowly beat Tucker and ended the inning.
The PitchCom digital pitch-calling devices, which transmit signals from the catcher to the pitcher, were introduced to the majors this season. The system was designed to halt sign stealing in the wake of the Astros’ 2017 scandal.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KSHB) — A bus stop in Kansas City was turned into a pop-up food pantry.
Nathan Howard, food plus manager at Harvesters Community Food Network, said the pop-up food pantry is geared to provide bus riders an increased opportunity to access food.
“Getting to either a traditional food pantry or one of our mobile food distributions sometimes requires a car,” Howard said. “Putting this conveniently on a bus line really addresses that transportation barrier.”
Breaking down that barrier was important for Sterling Oleson, who rides the bus.
“I was riding the bus and I saw something,” Oleson said. “I saw Harvesters set up and I was like, ‘Whoa, I gotta get to this.’”
The food pantry features items that are easier to travel with, such as canned foods and cold drinks.
“We like to provide a bit of variety and also things that are easy to carry on and off the bus,” Howard said.
This story was originally reported by Lindsay Shively on kshb.com. | 2022-09-01T19:42:07+00:00 | news5cleveland.com | https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/national/bus-stop-turned-into-pop-up-food-pantry |
Six players in the Dominican Summer League were suspended 60 games each by Major League Baseball on Wednesday after testing positive for performance-enhancing substances.
New York Mets pitcher Richard Cardoza, Kansas City pitcher Jeremy Castro, Arizona pitcher Miguel Gonzalez, Houston pitcher Jose Serrano and Atlanta infielder Christian Suarez were penalized after testing positive for stanozolol.
San Francisco pitcher Ricardo Estrada was suspended for testing positive for drostanolone.
The suspensions for each player are effective immediately.
Thirty-nine players have been suspended this year under the minor league drug program.
Seven players have been suspended this year under the major league drug program: San Diego shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. for 80 games; Milwaukee pitcher J.C. Mejía and Brewers catcher Pedro Severino for 80 games each; Baltimore pitcher Matt Harvey for 60 games; and free agent outfielder/first baseman Danny Santana, pitcher Richard Rodríguez and infielder José Rondón for 80 games apiece. | 2022-08-25T00:19:56+00:00 | espn.com | https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/34454894/mlb-suspends-six-players-dominican-summer-league-60-games-peds |
Deputies find woman who went missing near Prescott campground alive
Yavapai County Sheriff's deputies founda woman following a multi-day search that began after she was reported missing on Sunday. .
Authorities said 30-year-old Whitney Collins had been seen walking away from the Friendly Pines Campground on Sunday.
A forest patrol deputy told reporters earlier on Tuesday that multiple searchers have been out looking for Collins since Sunday afternoon but her whereabouts remained unknown despite searching numerous roads and hiking trails.
Kristin Greene, a YCSO spokesperson, said on Tuesday evening that Collins was found safe in Prescott Valley and is with deputies. Greene did not provide a reason behind Collins' disappearance or how she was found.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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$1.15M contribution from Lilly will fund the purchase and installation of 150 refrigeration units by Direct Relief in low- and middle-income countries around the world
INDIANAPOLIS and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and Direct Relief today announced a new initiative to expand access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries by boosting cold chain capacity in 17 countries. Supported by $1.15M in funding from Lilly, Direct Relief will purchase and install an estimated 150 medical-grade refrigeration units at 25 Life for a Child partner facilities in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Southeast Asia.
Cold chain – the transportation and storage of temperature-controlled medications – is a vital component of medical logistics, especially as the global pharmaceutical industry shifts towards the production of biologics and other temperature-sensitive molecules. The World Health Organization's Global Diabetes Compact calls on the private sector to do more to support capacity building in supply chain management, including cold storage.
"We appreciate Direct Relief's extensive expertise in logistics and end-to-end supply chain management and know this effort will make a substantial difference in providing patients around the world with medicines they need to address serious health issues like diabetes," said Leigh Ann Pusey, executive vice president, corporate affairs and communications for Lilly. "Efforts to expand access to medicines, especially insulin, are only beneficial when effective cold chain systems are in place to keep them at the right temperature on their way to patients."
The manufacturing of insulin requires consistent refrigeration at between two and eight degrees Celsius. Lilly's support of Direct Relief's cold chain initiative is part of Lilly 30x30, an effort which aims to improve access and address barriers to quality healthcare for 30 million people living in limited-resource settings annually, by 2030. The initiative builds on decades of Lilly's global health work to improve equitable access to diabetes care and medicines. In 2022, Lilly and its affiliates provided insulin and reusable pens to Direct Relief related to support of the Life for a Child program, impacting more than 30 countries worldwide.
"We are grateful to Lilly for their support of this crucial initiative. Their dedication to global health and access to essential medical products is making a real difference in the lives of those in need," said Direct Relief President and CEO Thomas Tighe. "The lack of cold chain distribution capacity in much of the world already prevents many people from accessing the medications and therapies they need, even when they are free. If this issue is not addressed, the divide between those who have access to essential medical products and those who don't will only widen."
In its 2022 fiscal year, Direct Relief delivered more than 47 million defined daily doses, the average dose per day, of temperature-controlled medications valued at $656 million (wholesale acquisition cost), a 600% increase from five years earlier in 2018. The organization operates 8,300 square feet of refrigerated warehouse space capable of storing up to 677 pallets of temperature-sensitive medicine.
By ensuring that resource-constrained regions of the world have medical refrigeration capacity at the last mile of delivery, more people will have access to the medications they need to live healthy lives.
About Lilly
Lilly unites caring with discovery to create medicines that make life better for people around the world. We've been pioneering life-changing discoveries for nearly 150 years, and today our medicines help more than 47 million people across the globe. Harnessing the power of biotechnology, chemistry and genetic medicine, our scientists are urgently advancing new discoveries to solve some of the world's most significant health challenges, redefining diabetes care, treating obesity and curtailing its most devastating long-term effects, advancing the fight against Alzheimer's disease, providing solutions to some of the most debilitating immune system disorders, and transforming the most difficult-to-treat cancers into manageable diseases. With each step toward a healthier world, we're motivated by one thing: making life better for millions more people. That includes delivering innovative clinical trials that reflect the diversity of our world and working to ensure our medicines are accessible and affordable. To learn more, visit Lilly.com and Lilly.com/newsroom or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. I-LLY
About Direct Relief
Direct Relief is a humanitarian aid organization that works to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest. For more information, please visit directrelief.org
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements (as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995) about Lilly's support of an initiative to expand access to medicines in low- and middle-income countries by boosting cold chain capacity and reflects Lilly's current beliefs and expectations. However, there can be no assurance that the company's support of this initiative will achieve Lilly's objectives or that Lilly will execute its strategy as planned. For further discussion of risks and uncertainties relevant to Lilly's business that could cause actual results to differ from Lilly's expectations, see Lilly's Form 10-K and Form 10-Q filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, Lilly undertakes no duty to update forward-looking statements to reflect events after the date of this release.
Refer to: Carrie Munk, munk_carrie@lilly.com; 317-416-2393
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With billions in unclaimed property, ways you can find if any is owed to you
About 1 in 7 people have unclaimed property
InvestigateTV - More than $4 billion in unclaimed property was returned to rightful owners in fiscal year 2022, according to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA).
Unclaimed property can include physical property, but most often it refers to money in the form of unclaimed paychecks, apartment deposits, overpayments, credit balances, or insurance refunds.
Each state has a website where individuals can check if they have unclaimed money owed to them. The NAUPA also has a map where you can click on any given state and be directed to the appropriate location.
In most cases, searching for unclaimed property is as easy as typing in your name. Some states even provide the monetary amount of your unclaimed property.
Missing Money, which is operated by NAUPA, allows you to search all states at one time.
If you ever worked for the federal government, you can search for any unclaimed property here: https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money.
Each site will give you a step-by-step guide on how to make an official claim for your money. The claim could take a few weeks or months to process.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-03-30T19:58:46+00:00 | kcrg.com | https://www.kcrg.com/2023/03/30/with-billions-unclaimed-property-ways-you-can-find-if-any-is-owed-you/ |
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — 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. | 2023-07-27T16:15:23+00:00 | wgrz.com | https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/nation-world/22-attorneys-general-oppose-3m-settlement-water-contamination/507-dba92f01-2cab-4216-94cc-d3410b04f2c7 |
WFO SEATTLE Warnings, Watches and Advisories for Sunday, January 22, 2023
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Outlander has a return date!
Starz's popular time-traveling period drama will kick off its seventh season -- which will be split into two parts of eight episodes each -- on Friday, June 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, the premium cable network announced Thursday. The second half of the season will premiere in 2024.
New episodes will also drop Fridays at 12 a.m. ET on the Starz app, as well as Starz streaming and On Demand platforms.
A previously relased 40-second early look at Part 1 of season 7 sees Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie (Sam Heughan) discussing a dream Jamie had.
"There was light all around you," Jamie tells his wife amid a series of dramatic and emotional scenes from the new episodes. "I heard it wasn't a candlelight or a firelight. I thought, 'Now that must be what an electric light is like.'"
"How can you recognize something you've never seen in real life?" Claire responds.
"I dream of the past, why would I not dream of the future?" Jamie says. Watch the teaser below.
See more newly released photos from season 7 below.
Outlander was previously renewed for an eighth and final season. A prequel series focused on Jamie's parents, Outlander: Blood of My Blood, has already been greenlit for a first season.
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HONG KONG, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lion Group Holding Ltd. ("Lion" or "The Group") (NASDAQ: LGHL), operator of an all-in-one trading platform that offers a wide spectrum of products and services as well as a developer of new growth products including SPAC sponsorship, NFT and metaverse-related initiatives, today announced that the Group will formally apply to the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong ("Hong Kong SFC") for a Virtual Asset Trading Platform (VATP) license ("SFC Type 7 license") to further expand its digital business footprint.
Presently, Hong Kong is establishing a standardized global virtual asset (VA) trading market. According to the Hong Kong SFC's position paper on the regulation of VA trading platforms in Hong Kong, issued in 2019, a firm that operates a centralized VA trading platform in Hong Kong and intends to offer trading of at least one security token on this platform may apply for a license from the SFC to conduct regulated activities, Type 1 (dealing in securities) and Type 7 (providing automated trading services (ATS)). In particular, VAs are digital representations of value which may be in the form of digital tokens (such as digital currencies, utility tokens or security or asset-backed tokens), any other virtual commodities, crypto assets or other assets of essentially the same nature, irrespective of whether they constitute "securities" or "futures contracts" as defined under the Securities and Futures Ordinance.
A SFC Type 7 (ATS provider) license will allow the Group to provide customers with automated financial services covering multiple industries including securities, futures, foreign exchange, bonds and other financial products. The requirements for this license are more stringent than other financial service licenses given the high technological content of the industry and the involvement of VA transactions. Currently, only two companies have been approved by the Hong Kong SFC for this licensing, and there is no doubt that the first compliant virtual trading platform should witness broad development opportunities.
Lion remains focused on cultivation in Hong Kong and Singapore, which are both global financial centers and also competing global virtual asset hubs. With a commitment to create an extremely complete compliance trading system guarantee for customers, Lion always upholds the concept of license first. Up to now, Lion Group holds various licenses, including SFC Type 1 (dealing in securities), Type 2 (dealing in futures contracts), Type 4 (advising on securities), Type 5 (advising on futures contracts), and Type 9 (asset management) licenses issued by the Hong Kong SFC, the Capital Markets Service (CMS) license issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore , Full Securities Investment Business License issued by Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) as well as a Crypto License from the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC). The Group's VATP license application in Hong Kong will enable Lion Group to further expand in the fintech sector and opens new revenue opportunities.
Mr. Wang Chunning (Wilson), CEO of Lion Group Holding Ltd, said, "Lion not only has a unique financial innovation business model, but also holds a competitive edge when it comes to compliance, with a complete array of operating licenses for its financial activities. Our Lion World metaverse project and our "MetaWords" NFT project developed early-on in collaboration with world-renowned artist Xu Bing, were all breakthroughs at the frontier of digital innovation."
"After successfully obtaining the SFC Type 7 VA trading license from the Hong Kong SFC, Lion will meet the relevant compliance requirements making it eligible as a VATP. Lion will not only provide professional investors with automated trading services such as encrypted digital transactions and other innovative digital assets, but also allow customers access to the digital assets market with greater convenience whilst meeting compliance requirements."
"In the future, we will continue to expand the scope of financial technology, including but not limited to areas such as VAs, ESG, and Web3.0. We will strive to both contribute and promote the high-speed construction and high-quality sustainable development of the financial digital ecological business system, while delivering meaningful value growth for our shareholders."
About Lion
Lion Group Holding Ltd. (Nasdaq: LGHL) operates an all-in one, state-of-the-art trading platform that offer a wide spectrum of products and services, including (i) Total Return Service (TRS) Trading, (ii) Contract-for-difference (CFD) trading, (iii) Insurance Brokerage and (iv) Futures and Securities Brokerage.
In addition, Lion owns a professional and experienced SPAC sponsorship team to become a leader in the SPAC arena, helping guide private companies through their listing journey while creating value for Lion itself. Lion is also committed to building the world's top one-stop, cross-chain, high-expansion non-fungible token (NFT) trading marketplace as well as operating and managing innovative projects in areas such as the Metaverse, Web 3.0, and ESG through advanced technology research and development.
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SOURCE Lion Group Holding Ltd. | 2022-11-17T11:51:59+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/11/17/lion-announces-hong-kong-virtual-asset-trading-platform-license-application-strengthen-digital-business-footprint/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — A year and a half after the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, the most memorable recounting of former President Donald Trump’s behavior that day came from a young woman who had graduated from college just a few years earlier.
Cassidy Hutchinson gave two hours of testimony on national television that cast Trump as enraged by efforts to keep his armed supporters from attending his speech before many marched to the Capitol and her boss at the time, chief of staff Mark Meadows, as unwilling to confront Trump and staring unresponsively at his cellphone during key moments.
Having once shed tears of joy after getting a White House internship, Hutchinson, now in her mid-20s, described how she grew disgusted by Trump’s refusal to stop the rioters. And in a single afternoon, she went from being a former junior White House staffer, to high-profile star witness, with the scrutiny that comes with it.
“We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie,” she said.
The testimony helped fill in several key gaps about Trump’s level of direct involvement that day, and placed Meadows and other key Trump officials at the center of events critical to investigations by the House committee and the Justice Department.
It amplified calls for Meadows to drop his fight against the committee’s subpoena and raised new questions about whether officials around Trump could face criminal charges.
“I knew her testimony would be damning,” tweeted Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former White House communications official who said she was friends with Hutchinson. “I had no idea it’d be THIS damning. I am so grateful for her courage & integrity.”
Hutchinson showed her familiarity with better-known officials in the White House, referring at times to Meadows, security official Tony Ornato, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien by their first names. Meadows, in turn, called her “Cass,” in her retelling of one story.
Her voice never broke as she recounted quotes from Trump and Meadows in her video depositions and under questioning from the committee’s Republican vice chairman, Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming. Both women embraced after the hearing.
Cheney, a 55-year-old former State Department official and daughter of a vice president, spent decades in public life before her criticism of Trump led many in the GOP to turn against her.
Hutchinson, meanwhile, became Trump’s focus for the first time. He pumped out harsh attacks on Truth Social, the website he created after Twitter banned him following the insurrection.
“I hardly know who this person, Cassidy Hutchinson, is, other than I heard very negative things about her (a total phony and ‘leaker’),” he wrote.
He continued to post throughout the afternoon, accusing Hutchinson of lying, saying her body language “is that of a total bull…. artist,” and describing her handwriting as “that of a Whacko?”
Allies of Trump and Meadows questioned some details of her testimony, which included stories she said she heard second-hand. One story that drew pushback was her allegation that Trump lunged for the steering wheel and assaulted a Secret Service agent when his detail wouldn’t take him to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger, told The Associated Press that Hutchinson’s testimony “could not withstand even five minutes of fundamental cross-examination.”
“Most of it is based on hearsay, lack of first-hand knowledge and even just pure speculation as to what others were thinking, said or did,” he said.
Several high-profile Republicans said Tuesday that Hutchinson was known to be close to Meadows and often accompanied him in meetings. The committee early in her testimony showed photos of her with Trump and other top officials.
Mick Mulvaney, who preceded Meadows as Trump’s chief of staff, tweeted during the hearing that “things just got a lot more interesting.” He added that “if the President knew the protesters had weapons, and still encouraged them to go to the Capitol, that is a serious problem.”
Although the White House is perhaps the world’s most prestigious office building, much of the staff is young, sometimes even fresh out of college like Hutchinson. They often previously worked on the president’s campaign or the national party, and they’re distinguished by their ambition and willingness to work long hours for little pay.
They’re also critical to any administration’s machinery. They help with the logistics of media coverage, prepare for public events and answer the phones. Because they’re often within earshot as the country’s most powerful people gossip and plan, discretion is expected.
Young aides often go on to bigger government roles or prestigious positions in business or the media. Some run for office themselves.
Hutchinson had the same ambitions when she graduated, telling a college publication in 2018 that she wanted to be an “effective leader in the fight to secure the American dream for future generations.”
She described having been “brought to tears” when she received an email telling her she’d been accepted to a White House internship program.
“As a first-generation college student, being selected to serve as an intern alongside some of the most intelligent and driven students from across the nation – many of whom attend top universities – was an honor and a tremendous growing experience,” she is quoted in a profile published by her alma mater, Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
She says in the article that she attended numerous events hosted by Trump and often watched out her window as Marine One would depart the White House’s South Lawn.
“My small contribution to the quest to maintain American prosperity and excellence is a memory I will hold as one of the honors of my life,” she said in the piece.
She joined the White House shortly after graduation and became Meadows’ aide in March 2020. Several months later, she would be in rooms where top Trump aides discussed how they could overturn his election loss.
She saw the aftermath of Trump’s rage at Attorney General Bill Barr for telling The Associated Press that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud. Entering a private dining room, she saw a valet cleaning up a mess after Trump smashed a plate and the remains of his lunch on a wall.
“There was ketchup dripping down the wall, and there was a shattered porcelain plate on the floor,” she said Tuesday. “The valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the attorney general’s AP interview and had thrown his lunch against the wall.”
She grabbed a towel to help the valet clean up, she said.
There was no widespread election fraud. Trump lost more than 60 court cases attempting to prove wrongdoing.
On the morning of Jan. 6, she said Ornato, a Secret Service agent detailed to the White House, came to warn Meadows that many rallygoers waiting to hear from Trump had guns and other weapons, including spears attached to the end of flagpoles. Meadows didn’t immediately look up from his cellphone, then later asked to confirm that Ornato had briefed Trump, she said. He had.
Terwilliger defended Meadows as able to multitask and to maintain calm during crises. And another former Meadows aide, Ben Williamson, tweeted criticism of what he called the “nonsense suggestion that Meadows somehow didn’t care about initial violence at the Capitol.”
Hutchinson said she was close enough to Trump at one point to hear him demand that attendees not be screened so that they could fill the crowd, saying, “I don’t effing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”
And she alleged Trump became so irate at being driven back to the White House after his speech — when he exhorted his supporters to “fight like hell” — rather than the Capitol that he tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential vehicle away from a Secret Service agent who was driving.
“I’m the effing president,” Hutchinson said she was told Trump had said.
Hutchinson recently switched lawyers, going from a former Trump White House official to Jody Hunt, a veteran former Justice Department official who served as chief of staff to former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and who emerged as a key witness for special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
“While she did not seek out the attention accompanying her testimony today, she believes that it was her duty and responsibility to provide the Committee with her truthful and candid observations of the events surrounding January 6,” said Hunt and co-counsel William Jordan in a statement. “Ms. Hutchinson believes that January 6 was a horrific day for the country, and it is vital to the future of our democracy that it not be repeated.”
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Associated Press writer Chris Megerian contributed to this report. | 2022-06-29T04:30:40+00:00 | wboy.com | https://www.wboy.com/news/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-trump-white-house-aide-now-in-spotlight/ |
EDITORIAL: Court must defend Nevada’s shield law
January 23, 2023 - 9:01 pm
It would be a tragedy upon a tragedy if the horrific murder of Review-Journal reporter Jeff German resulted in the gutting of laws designed to promote the First Amendment.
On Wednesday, the Review-Journal is scheduled to appear before District Court Judge Michelle Leavitt seeking sanctions on the Metropolitan Police Department. The case involves the investigation of Mr. German’s murder last September. Metro searched Mr. German’s cellphone despite telling the newspaper it hadn’t. That’s an affront to Nevada’s shield law and the constitutional protections afforded to the press. Shield laws prevent the state from forcing journalists and newsgatherers from revealing confidential sources.
As part of their investigation, the police sought to search Mr. German’s cellphone and computers for information about the crime. That’s an understandable instinct, but it ignores the unique variable in this case. The law protects the confidential sources of journalists. It would be a truly perverse incentive if that protection disappeared after someone took the life of a journalist.
It’s essential to understand how shield laws benefit the public more broadly. Mr. German’s career exemplified that. He spent decades developing sources throughout the community. One of the reasons for Mr. German’s success was that people knew they could trust him to keep their identity a secret.
Imagine you see something illegal going on at your work. You want to blow the whistle. But what if the offender finds out that you exposed him? The more powerful the person who is committing the offense, the harder it would be to cross him. But it’s in the public’s interest to learn the truth. Shield laws solve this dilemma by allowing reporters to protect the identity of their sources.
Metro is well aware of this dynamic. Within days of Mr. German’s murder, Metro asked the newspaper for permission to search devices that contained his professional work. On Sept. 16, a Metro attorney emailed Review-Journal counsel that “no search has commenced” of his newsgathering materials. Days later, the newspaper went to court seeking to prevent such a search.
But a search warrant for former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles told a different story. Police said they honed in on Mr. Telles based partly on “legally obtained data from German’s phone.” The warrant was granted on Sept. 7. The Review-Journal didn’t obtain an unredacted copy until November. Metro told the court its lawyer’s email was a mistake. Come on.
Mr. German spent his career exposing corruption throughout the Las Vegas Valley. To further expose those who helped him do that would be a grave injustice. The court must sanction Metro. | 2023-01-24T05:46:02+00:00 | reviewjournal.com | https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-court-must-defend-nevadas-shield-law-2717398/ |
Antoine Davis has ended his pursuit of “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s NCAA scoring record.
The Detroit Mercy guard finished four points shy of breaking Maravich’s mark earlier this month in a loss during the Horizon League Tournament.
While it looked like Davis’ college career was over when the College Basketball Invitational did not extend an invitation to the Titans, he held out hope until Monday that he would get another chance to play, possibly in an inaugural College Hoops Postseason 8.
“I’m upset about it,” Davis said in a phone interview with The Associated Press. “I feel like I got cheated out of something that they can’t ever give back to me. I think it’s selfish — and weird — that people emailed or called the CBI to say we shouldn’t be in the tournament because they didn’t want me to break the record.
“But there’s nothing to hold my head down about. I still feel like I’m the best scorer in my generation, especially finishing No. 2 behind him.”
The CBI, which started Saturday, posted pictures on its Twitter account of Maravich and Davis shortly after Detroit Mercy lost at Youngstown State and had talks with the school about a potential invitation. Ultimately, the CBI decided not to give the Titans (14-19) an opportunity to pay $27,500 to play in the 16-team tournament.
“We did receive unsolicited emails and voicemails about Detroit Mercy and some said we don’t ever want Pete Maravich’s record broken,” said Rick Giles, president of the Gazelle Group that runs the CBI. “The decision we made wasn’t based purely on whether we wanted him to break the record or not.”
Jaeson Maravich said he did not have a personal problem with Davis, but he wasn’t happy that his father’s record had a chance to be broken in a lower-tier, pay-to-play college basketball postseason tournament.
“I think it’s a terrrible look,” Jaeson Maravich told the AP. “Your season should be over if you’re 14-19.
“This situation is very personal and sensitive to me. But to be clear, I’m not mad at Antoine Davis and I have nothing bad to say about Antoine Davis. My beef is with these tournaments.”
In mid-March of last year, the Titans were below .500 and still played in the postseason. Davis scored 24 points in a loss to Florida Gulf Coast in The Basketball Classic, and Fresno State went on to win the tournament’s championship.
Maravich closed his three-season, 83-game career at LSU with 3,667 points in 1970, and his mark has stood for more than a half-century. The dazzling guard, who went on to become a five-time NBA All-Star in a 10-season career, died in 1988 at 40 after suffering a heart attack in California while playing in a pickup game.
Davis scored 22 points in a 71-66 loss at Youngstown State in the 144th game of his five-year career. He missed four 3-pointers, one of them a wide-open look, in the final two minutes of his last college game.
“I had opportunities to do it in the Youngstown game,” Davis said. “I can’t be mad about it, but I just don’t get why people would go out of their way to say we shouldn’t have an opportunity.”
Davis, like all NCAA athletes enrolled when the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S., was granted a fifth year of eligibility.
The 6-foot-1 guard does own some NCAA records, including 144 straight games with double figures in scoring and 588 career 3-pointers. He led the nation with 28.2 points per game this season and 159 3-pointers, four shy of surpassing the single-season record set by Stephen Curry at Davidson during the 2007-08 season.
Detroit Mercy coach Mike Davis said his son’s pursuit of the scoring championship was not the only the reason the Titans were trying to play again. He said the postseason would have given previously banged-up players a chance to play for a team that was not healthy all season.
“People were trying to paint a picture of us that wasn’t true,” Mike Davis said. “The picture painted was that we were tyring to buy a record. The CBI was never going to let us in because of the backlash. The PS8 had teams pulling out, saying they wouldn’t play if we were going to be in the tournament.
“It’s disappointing that people were calling our school president and athletic director and the people running these tournaments to say don’t let us in. We just had to let it go.”
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Biden to reveal first image from NASA’s new space telescope
(AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday will reveal the first image from NASA’s new space telescope — the deepest view of the cosmos ever captured.
The first image from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope is going to show the farthest humanity has ever seen in both time and distance, closer to the dawn of the universe and the edge of the cosmos. That image will be followed Tuesday by the release of four more galactic beauty shots from the telescope’s initial outward gazes.
NASA said Biden will show a “deep field” image. That shot is likely to be be filled with lots of stars, with massive galaxies in the foreground distorting the light of the objects behind, telescoping them and making faint and extremely distant galaxies visible. Part of the image will be of light from not too long after the Big Bang.
The images to be released Tuesday include a view of a giant gaseous planet outside our solar system, two images of a nebula where stars are born and die in spectacular beauty and an update of a classic image of five tightly clustered galaxies that dance around each other.
The world’s biggest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away last December from French Guiana in South America. It reached its lookout point 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth in January. Then the lengthy process began to align the mirrors, get the infrared detectors cold enough to operate and calibrate the science instruments, all protected by a sunshade the size of a tennis court that keeps the telescope cool.
The plan is to use the telescope to peer back so far that scientists will get a glimpse of the dawn of the universe about 13.7 billion years ago and zoom in on closer cosmic objects, even our own solar system, with sharper focus.
Webb is considered the successor to the highly successful, but aging Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble has stared as far back as 13.4 billion years. It found the light wave signature of an extremely bright galaxy in 2016.
Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief said, with the new telescope, the cosmos is “giving up secrets that had been there for many, many decades, centuries, millennia.”
“It’s not an image. It’s a new world view that you’re going to see,” he said during a recent media briefing.
Zurbuchen said when he saw the images he got emotional and so did his colleagues: “It’s really hard to not look at the universe in new light and not just have a moment that is deeply personal.”
NASA is collaborating on Webb with the European and Canadian space agencies.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-07-11T16:30:28+00:00 | kmvt.com | https://www.kmvt.com/2022/07/11/biden-reveal-first-image-nasas-new-space-telescope/ |
Fairstead and KeyBank will preserve affordability for the 950-unit portfolio
16 properties join Fairstead's Kentucky affordable portfolio, which has grown to nearly 1,300 units of affordable housing
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairstead, a purpose-driven, vertically integrated real estate company committed to sustainable development and the creation and preservation of high-quality housing, and KeyBank Real Estate Capital today announced the acquisition of 950 units of affordable housing for families and seniors across Kentucky. Home to more than 1,500 residents, the 16 properties are located in Louisville and the surrounding communities, as well as in Lexington and across the southwest of the state. With this acquisition, Fairstead now owns nearly 1,300 units across Kentucky.
"Fairstead is expanding its portfolio throughout the U.S. to foster vibrant communities, ensure that our families and seniors have an affordable, stable place to live, and drive a sustainable future so our neighborhoods can grow and thrive," said Jeffrey Goldberg, CEO of Fairstead. "From launching Fairstead Ventures, our new venture capital arm dedicated to bringing sustainable new technologies to affordable housing, to monumental new acquisitions, 2022 is shaping up to be our company's biggest year of growth, including this important partnership with KeyBank for a substantial portfolio in Kentucky."
"KeyBank has a steadfast commitment to helping the clients and communities we serve thrive," said Eric Steinberg, a Senior Banker at KeyBank. "We're excited to be part of Fairstead's efforts to preserve affordable housing in Kentucky. Their resources and expertise are making a real difference in neighborhoods around the state."
The 16 properties are located in the Louisville, Bardstown, Barbourville, Hardin, Hodgenville, Lexington, Mayfield, New Haven, Scottsville, Shepherdsville, and Radcliff communities. The residences are a mix of family and senior housing and are affordable through U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 8 and LIHTC programs.
"Fairstead's commitment to Kentucky means working with communities to preserve long-term affordability and promote housing stability for families and seniors," said Estelle Chan, Director, Development at Fairstead. "We are proud to partner with KeyBank to preserve the homes of thousands of Kentucky residents across the state."
Fairstead entered the Kentucky market in 2020 with the acquisition of the Colony Apartments, a 137-unit affordable senior housing property in Covington. Fairstead, in partnership with the Kentucky Housing Corporation and the City of Covington, recently celebrated Colony Community Day, marking the completion of renovations at the property with a celebration for residents and local partners. In 2021, Fairstead acquired Cambridge Square, a 200-unit affordable property for families also in Covington that is undergoing a $12 million overhaul.
Fairstead is a purpose-driven vertically integrated real estate developer specializing in creating sustainable, high-quality housing. The firm's national footprint includes more than $7.9 billion in assets and identified pipeline. With offices in New York, Maryland, and South Carolina, Fairstead's team manages 90+ communities across the country and runs its comprehensive real estate platform, which includes acquisitions and development, venture capital investments in prop tech, design and construction, energy and sustainability, property management, marketing, and leasing. The firm also administers one of the industry's most proactive community impact programs to provide on-site support services to residents. For more information, visit www.fairstead.com.
KeyBank Real Estate Capital is a leading provider of commercial real estate finance. Its professionals, located across the country, provide a broad range of financing solutions on both a corporate and project basis. The group provides interim and construction financing, permanent mortgages, commercial real estate loan servicing, investment banking and cash management services for virtually all types of income producing commercial real estate. As a Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriter and Servicer, Freddie Mac Program Plus Seller/Servicer and FHA approved mortgagee, KeyBank Real Estate Capital offers a variety of agency financing solutions for multifamily properties, including affordable housing, seniors housing and student housing. KeyBank Real Estate Capital is also one of the nation's largest and highest rated commercial mortgage servicers.
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Berkeley Co. receives money for National Opioid Settlement
BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Berkeley County receives over $350,000 to help local organizations and nonprofits fight against the opioid epidemic.
This money comes from a $26 billion National Opioid Settlement. In response, the state has set up the South Carolina Opioid Recovery Fund to distribute its settlement share of more than $360 million. At least 92% of these funds will be used to address the opioid crisis across the state.
“You know, I think everyone is realizing and recognizing that we got a need here for doing something about it,” John Williams, deputy county supervisor and county attorney for Berkeley County, said. “This is the first time we’ve had any kind of funding whatsoever to tackle that problem.”
Funding can be used for approved opioid remediation uses, such as naloxone, prevention programs, pregnant women and more.
“I think the county wants to look and see what nonprofits have already been doing it, which ones are doing it well and trying to get the money in the hands of those organizations that are best prepared and best equipped to tackle these problems,” Williams said.
Eligible organizations and nonprofits can click here to apply. The application period will be open until 5 p.m. on Jan. 31.
To read the full press release, view this document from Berkeley County.
Copyright 2023 WCSC. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-06T03:58:18+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/01/06/berkeley-co-receives-money-national-opioid-settlement/ |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Jeremy Renner says he is out of the hospital after being treated for serious injuries from a snow plow accident.
In response to a Twitter post Monday about his Paramount+ TV series “Mayor of Kingstown,” Renner tweeted, “Outside my brain fog in recovery, I was very excited to watch episode 201 with my family at home.”
Renner was run over by his own 7-ton Pistenbully snow groomer in Nevada while trying to use it to free a relative’s vehicle on a private road near Lake Tahoe on New Year’s Day, authorities said.
The accident left him in critical condition with major chest trauma and other injuries, according to a Renner representative.
Authorities are still investigating but have said there were no signs that Renner was impaired and no indication of any foul play.
The 52-year-old two-time Oscar nominee plays Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has a recurring role in the “Mission Impossible” franchise. | 2023-01-18T01:20:28+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/entertainment-news/ap-entertainment/ap-renner-says-hes-home-from-hospital-after-snow-plow-accident/ |
Olivia Newton-John dies at 73
Olivia Newton-John, the Australian singer whose breathy voice and wholesome beauty made her one of the biggest pop stars of the '70s and charmed generations of viewers in the blockbuster movie "Grease," died on Monday, according to a statement from her husband. She was 73.
"Dame Olivia Newton-John passed away peacefully at her Ranch in Southern California this morning, surrounded by family and friends. We ask that everyone please respect the family's privacy during this very difficult time," her husband, John Easterling, wrote in a statement on the singer's verified Instagram account. "Olivia has been a symbol of triumphs and hope for over 30 years sharing her journey with breast cancer."
The singer revealed in September 2018 that she was treating cancer at the base of her spine. It was her third cancer diagnosis, following bouts with breast cancer in the early '90s and in 2017.
Related video above: Newton-John aiming to rid the world of cancer in her lifetime
Her rise to fame
Thanks to a string of country and soft-rock hits, Newton-John was already a popular singer by the late 1970s. But her co-starring role opposite John Travolta in 1978's "Grease," arguably the most popular movie musical of all time, lifted her to a new level of stardom.
Although she had little acting experience (and turned 29 during filming), Newton-John gave an indelible performance as Sandy, a sweet-natured Australian transfer student who romances Travolta's alpha greaser Danny at a Southern California high school in the 1950s.
Their onscreen chemistry as mismatched lovebirds who undergo final-act makeovers to win each others' hearts — she ditches her frilly dresses for heels, leather, spandex and a cigarette — anchored the movie and inspired repeat viewings by legions of fans.
"I don't think anyone could have imagined a movie would go on almost 40 years and would still be popular and people would still be talking to me about it all the time and loving it," Newton-John told CNN in 2017. "It's just one of those movies. I'm very lucky to have been a part of it. It's given so many people pleasure."
File video below: Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta reunite for the 40th anniversary of "Grease" in 2018
Newton-John sang on three of the movie's biggest hits: the duets "You're The One That I Want" and "Summer Nights" with Travolta, and her swoony solo ballad, "Hopelessly Devoted To You."
Born in Cambridge, England in 1948, Newton-John moved with her family to Melbourne, Australia, when she was five. After winning a talent contest on a TV show, "Sing, Sing, Sing," as a teen she formed an all-girl group and began appearing on weekly pop music programs in Australia.
Newton-John recorded her first single in England in 1966 and scored a few international hits, but she remained largely unknown to US audiences until 1973, when "Let Be There" became a top-10 hit on both the adult contemporary and the country charts.
A series of No. 1 easy-listening hits followed, including "I Honestly Love You," "Have You Never Been Mellow" and "Please Mr. Please."
Then came "Grease," which was 1978's top-grossing movie and became an enduring cultural phenomenon.
The movie gave Newton-John an opportunity to change her squeaky-clean image. The cover of her next album, "Totally Hot," featured the singer in black leather, while its songs had an edgier, more contemporary pop sound.
'Physical'
In 1981, she took her new, sexier persona a step further with "Physical," a dance number with such suggestive lyrics as, "There's nothing left to talk about unless it's horizontally." Banned by several radio stations, it became her biggest hit, spending 10 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.
She also appeared in several more big-budget movies, including the musical fantasy "Xanadu" with Hollywood legend Gene Kelly in his final screen role. The film bombed, but its soundtrack sold well and spawned "Magic," a No. 1 hit.
In 1983 she teamed with Travolta again for "Two of a Kind," a romantic comedy-fantasy, but it failed to recapture their "Grease" spark.
Over a lengthy career, Newton-John won four Grammy Awards and sold more than 100 million albums.
"I've had many lives in music. I've had country when I started, then I crossed over into pop," she told CNN. "I had 'Xanadu' and 'Grease,' many songs in between. I feel very grateful. I have such a large repertoire to choose from."
Overcoming tragedy
But Newton-John also faced her share of troubles and tragedy. Her breast cancer diagnoses forced her to postpone and cancel several tours.
And in 2005 Newton-John's then-boyfriend, Patrick McDermott, disappeared at sea while on a fishing trip off the coast of California. He was never found — an unsolved mystery that haunted the singer for years.
"It's very hard to live with that," she told CNN's Larry King in 2006. "It's probably the hardest thing I've ever experienced, and I've been through a lot of things." Although her career profile dimmed in her later years, Newton-John never stopped recording and performing. Among her highlights were guest appearances on "Glee," a long-running "Summer Nights" residency at the Flamingo Las Vegas and a dance-club hit, "You Have to Believe," recorded with daughter Chloe.
"I love to sing, it's all I know how to do," she told CNN in 2017. "That's all I've ever done since I was 15, so it's my life. I feel very grateful that I can still do it and people still come to see me." | 2022-08-08T20:28:27+00:00 | wxii12.com | https://www.wxii12.com/article/olivia-newton-john-dies-at-73/40838193 |
PHOENIX — Devin Booker scored 47 points, Kevin Durant added 39 and the Phoenix Suns beat the Denver Nuggets 121-114 on Friday night to cut Denver's lead to 2-1 in their Western Conference semifinal series.
Booker — who came into the game averaging 35.4 points in these playoffs — had another massive offensive effort, shooting 20 of 25 from the field, including 5 of 8 from 3-point range. Durant shot just 12 of 31 from the field, but made 14 of 16 free throws.
The Suns will try to even the series in Game 4 on Sunday in Phoenix.
The Suns took a 90-88 lead into the fourth quarter, retaking the lead after the Nuggets erased a 15-point halftime deficit. Phoenix scored the first nine points of the fourth — including the final two on Durant's fastbreak dunk — to push their advantage to 99-88.
They wouldn't trail in the fourth quarter.
Denver's Nikola Jokic — who finished second in the MVP voting on Tuesday to Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid — finished with 30 points, 17 assists and 17 rebounds.
Jamal Murray led the Nuggets with 32 points, while Michael Porter Jr. added 21 points and 12 rebounds.
The Suns had a 67-52 halftime lead, but coughed up that advantage in a hurry. Murray made a layup to give Denver a 79-78 lead with about five minutes remaining in the third.
The Suns put Cameron Payne in the starting lineup to take the place of 12-time All-Star Chris Paul, who suffered a strained left groin in the Game 2 loss and didn't play on Friday. Payne — a playoff hero for a few games two seasons ago when Paul was out — scored seven points, including a big 3-pointer early in the fourth.
Suns coach Monty Williams also shook up the bench rotation, giving Terrence Ross, Jock Landale and TJ Warren more minutes. Landale finished with six points and nine rebounds, while Warren hit a couple crucial buckets in the final minutes to help the Suns keep the lead.
Booker scored 27 points in the first half on 12-of-15 shooting to push the Suns ahead 67-52 by halftime. Durant added 21, including 11 points on free throws.
TIP-INS
Nuggets: Jokic had 10 assists in the first half. ... Had a 51-41 rebounding advantage.
Suns: Durant hit just one of his first nine shots from the field. ... Deandre Ayton had just four points and nine rebounds. He was benched in favor of Landale late in the game.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried will have a hearing Wednesday in a Bahamian court on his possible extradition U.S. in the coming days to face criminal charges related to the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, a source familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
The source spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record. In a court in Nassau, Bahamas, on Monday, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said he had agreed to be extradited to the U.S., but the necessary paperwork had not yet been written up.
It was not immediately clear when Bankman-Fried’s extradition could occur once it is approved by the Bahamian court.
Bahamian authorities arrested Bankman-Fried last week at the request of the U.S. government. U.S. prosecutors allege he played a central role in the rapid collapse of FTX and hid its problems from the public and investors. The Securities and Exchange Commission said Bankman-Fried illegally used investors’ money to buy real estate on behalf of himself and his family.
The 30-year-old could potentially spend the rest of his life in jail.
Bankman-Fried was denied bail Friday after a Bahamian judge ruled that he posed a flight risk. The founder and former CEO of FTX, once worth tens of billions of dollars on paper, is being held in the Bahamas’ Fox Hill prison, which has been has been cited by human rights activists as having poor sanitation and as being infested with rats and insects.
Once he’s back in the U.S., Bankman-Fried’s attorney will be able to request that he be released on bail. | 2022-12-21T02:28:42+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/technology/ap-hearing-on-ftx-founders-extradition-to-us-set-for-wednesday/ |
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers rookie quarterback Kenny Pickett will practice on Wednesday and will play next Sunday night against Miami if he clears the NFL’s concussion protocol.
Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday that Pickett will have “no restrictions” in practice this week and the plan is to stick with Pickett if he’s available rather than turn to backup Mitch Trubisky, who played well in relief of Pickett in a 20-18 victory over Tampa Bay last week.
“If Kenny Pickett is cleared to play, he’ll play,” Tomlin said.
Pickett left in the third quarter against the Buccaneers after being legally knocked to the ground by Tampa Bay linebacker Devin White. He lay on the Acrisure Stadium turf for several moments, stood up but then sat back down as officials ordered members of Pittsburgh’s medical staff to tend to Pickett.
The 20th overall pick in the draft made his way to the sideline and then to the training room for the examination and did not return. Trubisky, who was benched for Pickett at halftime of a loss to the New York Jets on Oct. 2, passed for 144 yards and a touchdown as the Steelers (2-4) snapped a four-game losing streak.
Tomlin praised Trubisky for his contributions, but has no plans to go back to Trubisky if Pickett is good to go.
“We’re not going to blow in the wind,” Tomlin said. “We’re going to be somewhat steady. I’ve been consistent in my messaging regarding the decision-making at that position. I think it helps those that are playing. I think it helps the team in terms of who to follow. And we’re not going to flip the script now.”
Pickett completed 11 of 18 passes for 67 yards and his first NFL touchdown pass before leaving. The former University of Pittsburgh star is 55 of 83 for 514 yards with a touchdown and four interceptions in a little more than two games.
Pickett is the fifth Steelers player to enter the concussion protocol this season. Safety Minkah Fitzpatrick did not miss a game after going into the protocol following a loss to Cleveland last month. Safety Terrell Edmunds missed one game after getting hurt against the Jets.
Tight end Pat Freiermuth and cornerback Levi Wallace sat out last week after sustaining concussions against Buffalo. Tomlin indicated both players could possibly be available on Sunday night.
The Steelers could have the majority of their starting secondary available after only one regular — Edmunds — played against the Buccaneers. Wallace, Fitzpatrick (knee), Ahkello Witherspoon (hamstring) and Cam Sutton (hamstring) all sat out as Pittsburgh beat Tom Brady for just the fourth time in 16 tries during Brady’s long career.
Tomlin said the play of little-used backups or practice squad players such as Elijah Wright and Quincy Wilson is Tomlin’s “standard is the standard” cliche come to life.
“When guys get an opportunity to ascend and make plays and positively contribute to a winning effort, it solidifies and hopefully is inspirational for those that are still very much in development awaiting their opportunities,” he said.
NOTES: Tomlin declined to confirm or deny a reported confrontation between Trubisky and wide receiver Diontae Johnson at halftime of the Jets’ game, right before Trubisky was benched. “If it transpired, good. It probably means there’s a couple of guys that wanted to win,” Tomlin said. “If it didn’t transpire, that probably means that it should have because we are aggressively pursuing victory.” … Tomlin also called the return of former Miami head coach Brian Flores — now a senior defensive assistant in Pittsburgh — a “non-factor.” Miami fired Flores last January, starting a series of events that concluded with Flores suing Miami and the NFL among others alleging racist hiring practices. The civil case remains in the courts.
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The Inc. 5000 company is the leading innovator of dental practice management technology and is the first to standardize EHR dental data.
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- tab32, the #1 all-in-one cloud technology dental platform, is celebrating 10 years of innovation. Founded in 2012, the company has seen ten years of industry highs and has been a key part of the evolution of dental practice management technology, working with some of the largest DSOs in the industry. tab32 has continuously led the way in innovation as the first to market with the Open Data Warehouse and 2-way text within PMS, the first to standardize EHR data in dentistry, and the first platform to build from the ground up to include patient communication, radiology, and claims.
"The democratization of data in dentistry is something that has, unfortunately, been on the back burner for the industry for decades, until now," said Dr. Roshan Parikh, Senior Strategic Advisor for tab32. "With hundreds of private-equity backed DSOs and many more consolidated platforms, it's no longer acceptable to wait on data. DSOs need it to make real-time decisions related to patient care and to drive their businesses forward. tab32 is the first dental platform that offers this, and I'm proud to join them in, not only, democratizing data, but also modernizing the backbone of the dental office: the practice management software."
tab32 was recently included in Inc. 5000's list of fastest-growing companies for 2022. Since its founding, tab32 has opened offices in Rocklin, CA, Miami, FL, and Mumbai and Vadodara, India. It now employs close to 200 of the best and brightest in their fields, including a leadership team made up of former researchers, data scientists, and engineers coming out of the University of California system. Recently, CEO Kiltesh Patel was appointed to the Forbes Tech Council as a thought leader, driving a stronger understanding of the dental tech industry to a vast audience of business, finance, and tech leaders. Additionally, Chief Strategy Officer, Melissa LuVisi joined the Newsweek Expert Forum and took home the 2022 Sacramento Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business Award.
Previous awards that tab32 has been honored with include the 2015 Dental Excellence Readers Award by Dr. Bicuspid, Best Dental Software of 2021 by Digital.com, and they were Sacramento Business Journal's runner-up in the 2021 MedTech Innovation Awards. In 2019, tab32 was voted as the #1 user-rated platform leading in all three core practice areas - Practice Management, Patient Communication, and Dental Imaging from Capterra, Get App, and Software Advice.
Through the years, tab32 has continuously sought visionaries and heavyweights to join their advisory board, ensuring they have top minds directly impacting their work. Their current Board of Advisors includes Emmet Scott, President of the Association of Dental Support Organizations (ADSO), Dr. Roshan Parikh, former Head of Dentistry at Walmart U.S., Dr. Ellen Polsky, co-founder and partner at Visio, Dr. Anna Cowdin, owner of Cowdin Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr. Janice Keally, periodontist and owner of Progressive Periodontics and Implant Dentistry, Dr. Bill Sorvino, dentist and owner of Smileologie, and Lee Harris, dentist and educator. Previous members include Dr. Aman Kaur, founder and president of Women in DSO, CEO of AiM Dental Alliance, and Ryan Morrison, dentist and owner of Millard Family Dentistry.
tab32 was born from the mind of Kiltesh Patel, who has spent the last 20 years in enterprise technologies and medical informatics. Having dedicated his career to positively impacting patient care, focusing on connecting oral health to the overall wellness of the human body to his expertise in Health Information Technology (HIT) strategies, Patel noticed an ever-widening gap in how oral healthcare was falling behind in mainstream health conversations and care. Understanding the importance of oral health to overall health outcomes, Patel implemented his vision to improve care models through technology while keeping the patient experience at the center of the care continuum by founding tab32.
"I am extremely proud of the work that tab32 has done in the past decade," said Kiltesh Patel, CEO and co-founder. "Not only have we seen 100% year-over-year growth, 120% year-over-year client growth, and 200% growth in active patients, our technology has repeatedly led the way in the evolution of the dental industry, which has been found wanting compared to other healthcare verticals. It's time that dental gets the label of importance it deserves, directly driving healthcare outcomes, and tab32 is excited to help pave that road."
tab32, an Inc. 5000 company, is the industry's #1 all-in-one cloud technology platform with three major products, Open Data Warehousing™ (BI and analytics tool), Dental Practice Management System (Dental PMS), and their stand-alone Image Cloud for radiology. Headquartered in Sacramento, California, the leadership team is made up of former researchers, data scientists, and engineers coming out of the University of California system. Providers use tab32 to track 17.2M appointments, 13M patients, and over 100M radiology xrays, with over 1.8M monthly patient text messages (not including email engagements) and $1.8B annual revenues flowing through the platform. tab32 has pioneered many first-to-market innovations such as Open Data Warehousing™, integrated texting, VoIP, e-forms, mobile payments, cloud imaging, and a Standard Model for open data sharing in dental. The multi-tenant platform uses Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and is built for scale and stability. tab32 has been recognized for its growth and leadership by making the Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies list in 2022, coming in at #1314. Learn more at tab32.com
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced a new initiative Monday that would eventually allow consumers to see a more complete price on airline tickets — including baggage and change fees — before they buy, as the White House continues to search for ways to lower costs for Americans amid persistently high inflation.
The White House says the proposed rule from the Transportation Department will prevent airlines from hiding the “true cost” of airline tickets, which would help consumers save money up front and encourage more competition among airlines to offer better fares. The requirement will apply not only to airlines directly but also to third-party search sites such as Kayak and Expedia.
“You should know the full cost of your ticket right when you’re comparison shopping,” Biden said Monday, citing fees charged by airlines to check luggage or to seat families together. The new rule, the president said, will help consumers “pick the ticket that actually is the best deal for you.”
Airlines made nearly $5.3 billion in baggage fees and nearly $700 million on cancellation and change fees last year, according to Transportation Department figures. Airlines charge a variety of other fees for extra legroom and other perks that are not tracked by the government.
A trade group for the largest U.S. airlines said carriers already disclose terms and the total cost of a ticket. “This includes transparency regarding taxes and government fees on airline tickets, which account for more than 20% of many domestic one-stop, roundtrip tickets,” said Katherine Estep, a spokeswoman for Airlines for America.
The proposed rule seeks to target a typical situation faced by consumers where a ticket price is listed on an airline or search website, but with information often listed elsewhere about any additional airline fees, such as for checking or carrying on a bag, getting a guaranteed seat next to your child or changing or canceling a flight — fees that vary widely by airline and could quickly tack on up to hundreds of dollars more to a price of a ticket after the initial purchase. Under the proposal, that information would be made available upfront when the quoted airfare is first displayed.
The fare information would be required for all commercial flights to, within, and from the United States.
The proposal dates back to the Obama administration and was scrapped in 2017 by then-President Donald Trump after airlines complained that it was unnecessary and would incur significant costs. It must now go through a 60-day comment period before final approval.
The proposed rule comes as tension grows between the Biden administration and the airlines, with each blaming the other for an increase in canceled and delayed flights this summer.
The Transportation Department also began posting information to help consumers learn what each airline provides when flights are canceled or delayed for reasons within the airline’s control. That prompted several airlines to update policies around finding a new flight and covering hotel and meal expenses for stranded travelers.
Biden made the announcement on Monday afternoon at a meeting of the White House Competition Council, established last year as a way for his administration to find cost-saving measures for consumers. It was the third meeting of the group, chaired by National Economic Council director Brian Deese.
“Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” Biden said at the event, held in the State Dining Room at the White House. “It’s exploitation.”
At the meeting, Biden also pushed other federal agencies to take similar cost-saving actions, particularly by increasing transparency on hidden fees that can balloon the true cost of goods and services.
One example is a proposal from the Federal Communications Commission that would require internet service providers to better outline fees and charges on what the administration calls a “broadband nutrition label.” And the Agriculture Department on Monday will also unveil new actions meant to encourage competition in various agricultural markets.
The administration has taken similar actions when it comes to bank and credit card fees, which the White House says have saved consumers $3 billion annually compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Koenig reported from Dallas. Associated Press writer Hope Yen contributed to this report. | 2022-09-27T05:14:26+00:00 | ksn.com | https://www.ksn.com/news/business/ap-business/ap-white-house-new-rule-will-show-true-cost-of-plane-tickets/ |
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Alex Palou sent an early message by aggressively passing pole-winner Christian Lundgaard on the first lap of the Indianapolis Grand Prix.
He was driving to win — and wasn’t leaving anything to chance.
The Spaniard delivered on his promise, too. After inheriting the lead on Lap 65, he pulled away from the 27-car field and beat Pato O’Ward of Mexico across the yard of bricks by 16.8006 seconds on Saturday.
“We missed a little bit in qualifying, but we knew we had a fast car,” Palou said after producing IndyCar’s widest victory margin since his 30-second season-ending win in 2022. “I knew when we started on the alternates (red tires), we had to go hard. It was right, it was perfect.”
Palou’s Chip Ganassi Racing team got everything right, including the crucial tire strategy — opting to start on reds before switching to new primaries, then scuffed primaries and finally sticker primaries on his final pit stop.
As a result, the 2021 series champ dominated the race, leading 52 of 85 laps to claim his first win of the season and his first in 11 career starts on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s two race courses. He’s also the series’ only driver to complete every lap of this season’s first five races, and Palou now owns five career wins with at least one coming in three straight seasons.
It put Ganassi back in victory lane for the first time since Marcus Ericsson’s season-opening victory in March.
Palou also leapfrogged his teammate, Ericsson, in the season standings. Palou has a six-point lead on O’Ward by six points while Ericsson fell from first to third, 19 points behind.
O’Ward has been the runner-up three times this season but believes Arrow McLaren is poised to make a big move after putting all three of the team’s cars in the top five Saturday. Alexander Rossi, the 2016 Indianapolis 500 champ, was third while Felix Rosenqvist was fifth.
“We’ve been knocking on the door every single week,” O’Ward said. “I’m just really enjoying it. We’re growing massively as a team.”
IndyCar’s first Danish pole-winner, Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, was fourth. Defending race winner Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport wound up ninth after moving from 14th on the starting grid into the top five.
Palou was surprised by others who opted not to start on primary tires.
“For us it was clear. We were struggling a little bit more than some of the guys on used reds in the warmup,” he said. “We knew we didn’t want to use used reds, that’s why we started on new alternates, try to get the lead, try to get a big gap, like two, three, four, seconds, then work on our pace on the black (tires).”
That decision perfectly positioned Palou for his final 20-lap run after Rossi pitted on a warm, mostly sunny day. O’Ward changed to reds on his final pit stop to try something different after Palou and Lundgaard both went with the black tires.
It allowed Palou to keep padding his lead as the laps wound down and his tires started wearing down while the cars behind him vied for track position.
“We’ve been close here, we’ve had a little bit of bad luck,” Palou said. “Super proud. It’s a special place. You can feel that in the car just with the fans that we had already since practice one. There’s something about this place, obviously. Even if it’s not the big one, it’s still special.”
SUSTAINABILITY PUSH
The speedway may have a different feel and look to fans this May.
Speedway president Doug Boles outlined a revamped sustainability plan that includes adding recyclable aluminum cups in hospitality tents and suites, recyclable bags made out of plant-based material at its merchandising stores and new LED lighting in Gasoline Alley.
Behind the scenes, Boles also said the facility will donate prepared, unused food to a local food bank while perishable food will be composted along with grass clippings and wood pallets. Speedway officials also are seeking ways to recycle old LED lights, radios and other electronics.
The series has used 100% renewable fuel from Shell this season and this month will use tires made out of recycled materials.
THE FAN BASE
Denmark’s most famous driver, Tom Kristensen, has followed his countryman Lundgaard’s career closely. So when he found out Lundgaard won his first IndyCar pole, the nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans champion wasted no time jumping on the bandwagon.
“Look guys he told me back in the day,” he posted on Instagram. “Now he is the very first Dane on pole position in an IndyCar race. Have a nice day everyone — and a great race today Christian!”
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Practice for the Indianapolis 500 begins Tuesday on the track’s historic 2.5-mile oval. Pole qualifying will be held next Saturday with Bump Day set for May 21. IndyCar’s biggest race of the season will be run May 28. | 2023-05-14T03:17:32+00:00 | fox59.com | https://fox59.com/news/indy-500/alex-palou-wins-gmr-grand-prix-moves-into-indycar-points-lead/ |
VIDEO: Residents join forces to move ‘floating island’ with their boats
CHIPPEWA FLOWAGE, Wis. (KBJR/Gray News) - This week in Wisconsin, it was a group effort when community residents used their boats to move a giant floating bog on the Chippewa Flowage.
“It’s one of the first things you look for when you come here in the morning: ‘Where’s the bog?’” Denny Reyes said, who owns The Landing Restaurant and Resort nearby.
KBJR reports the bog is several decades old and formed when the Chippewa River was dammed roughly 100 years ago.
As soil and plant matter combined, patches of peat began to float around the Chippewa Flowage. The fertile soil was the perfect habitat for plants and animals, and soon an entire ecosystem began to thrive on the bog.
However, for Reyes and other residents near the lake, the bog slowly floats into shore and blocks a nearby bridge regularly.
“It’s almost every year. It takes a community effort, and you have to have the winds at your back to push,” Reyes said.
With all of the animals that call it home, the state government considers it a protected habitat, meaning residents cannot break the bog up.
On Tuesday, 25 boats came together to push the bog away from the bridge, which is the only passage between the sides of the flowage.
Property owners in the community lent a helping hand, but the bog got stuck on a pile of rocks despite their efforts.
“When we move it, you got to get it in the right spot, or it can be back in a couple of days,” homeowner Greg Kopke said.
The residents said if the blog moves back to the bridge, they will be ready to push it away once again.
Updates continue with the Lake Chippewa Flowage Resort Association.
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- Funding will support 34 nonprofits, government agencies across state.
- Grants up to $20,000 will pay for training, life-saving equipment, new technology to aid in disaster planning, recovery operations.
GREENVILLE, S.C., June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As hurricane season begins, first responders and emergency managers turn their eyes to the tropics as they continue to prepare their communities for the possibility of impacts from severe weather.
Duke Energy is preparing as well and stands in support of these communities across South Carolina by announcing more than $500,000 in microgrants to help increase their resiliency and their ability to help residents prepare for and recover from the devastation brought by significant weather events.
"The key to successful emergency preparedness and recovery after a major storm begins and ends at the local level," said Mike Callahan, Duke Energy's South Carolina state president. "Households and businesses across the state in recent years have endured a number of significant and costly storms. Helping our communities prepare for and recover from these events takes significant resources and these grants will help give our fellow first responders the tools and training they need to tackle whatever Mother Nature throws our way."
Duke Energy's Emergency Preparedness and Storm Resiliency Grant Program was designed to help organizations with roles in emergency preparedness increase their resiliency to these events through advanced preparation, planning, equipment and training. The program was first announced in March at the annual gathering of the state's emergency managers in Myrtle Beach, and grantees were notified of their successful requests for funding mid-May. Applicants could request funds up to $20,000. Nonprofits and governmental entities across all regions of the state were eligible to apply.
A complete list of recipients can be found here.
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- "The American Red Cross is honored to partner with Duke Energy to build resilience in the Pee Dee region through community preparedness programs. This grant will power outreach initiatives, equipping local families with essential skills so that they may respond whenever disaster strikes," said Michael Hesbach, Executive Director for the Eastern Chapter of the American Red Cross of South Carolina. "Prepared communities are resilient communities. Knowing how to act in an emergency, big or small, empowers individuals to better protect their homes and loved ones."
- "Sumter County has a long history of working side-by-side with Duke Energy before, during and after major storm events," said Donna Dew, Emergency Management Director for Sumter County. "This grant will supply our team the equipment necessary to clear hazards and open roadways faster following severe weather situations, making it easier for all first responders to quickly and safely restore our communities back to normal. As a critical first responder, Duke Energy has always worked alongside Sumter County to prepare for and respond to storms, and we value our partnership."
- "With the implementation of a mass notification system, we will now be able to quickly broadcast reliable emergency information to the public and our employees through virtually any communication device available," said Travis Glatki, Emergency Management Division Manager for the City of Myrtle Beach. "This grant from the Duke Energy Foundation opens up a world of opportunities for the City of Myrtle Beach to evolve and adapt our level of emergency preparedness to meet the needs of our community, our visitors and our employees."
- "Oconee County Emergency Services is incredibly grateful for the grant from the Duke Energy Foundation which will allow us to better serve the citizens of Oconee County and the surrounding areas," said Scott Krein, Director, Oconee County Emergency Services. "The UTV purchased with these funds will be used to bring critical supplies to remote areas during severe weather events."
- "This grant will allow the purchase of solar- and battery-powered weather radios that provide real-time hazardous weather and emergency news information to our community even in the event of a power outage," said Josh Hawkins, Director, Anderson County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management. "We are always grateful for our strong partnerships with Duke Energy and look forward to this grant positively impacting our community."
The Duke Energy Foundation provides more than $30 million annually in philanthropic support to meet the needs of communities where Duke Energy customers live and work. The foundation is funded by Duke Energy shareholders.
Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), a Fortune 150 company headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is one of America's largest energy holding companies. Its electric utilities serve 8.2 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, and collectively own 50,000 megawatts of energy capacity. Its natural gas unit serves 1.6 million customers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky. The company employs 28,000 people.
Duke Energy is executing an aggressive clean energy transition to achieve its goals of net-zero methane emissions from its natural gas business and at least a 50% carbon reduction from electric generation by 2030 and net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 net-zero goals also include Scope 2 and certain Scope 3 emissions. In addition, the company is investing in major electric grid enhancements and energy storage, and exploring zero-emission power generation technologies such as hydrogen and advanced nuclear.
Duke Energy was named to Fortune's 2022 "World's Most Admired Companies" list and Forbes' "America's Best Employers" list. More information is available at duke-energy.com. The Duke Energy News Center contains news releases, fact sheets, photos and videos. Duke Energy's illumination features stories about people, innovations, community topics and environmental issues. Follow Duke Energy on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook.
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(KRON) – Frontier Airlines is facing some criticism over a policy that pays gate agents a bonus for catching oversize bags, and it’s getting attention on social media.
A source familiar with the situation tells Nexstar’s KRON that if the policy is being used to charge customers without cause, the airline could be breaking the law.
Flying a budget airline can have its advantages if you need the most affordable ticket or want to get somewhere last-minute for a low price. However, when the “hidden” fees start piling on, you may find yourself with a much bigger bill than you anticipated.
Customers flying on Frontier Airlines have brought their complaints about one such fee to TikTok, and the videos are going viral. One user shows how she and another customer’s personal bags both fit easily into the personal carry-on baggage checker at the departure gate. However, she and the other passenger were required to pay a $99 personal item fee when the gate agents said the bags were too big.
The user explains in later videos that she and the other traveler were denied boarding after filming their bags fitting into the baggage measurer. She said both had already paid the personal item fee when they were then denied entry onto the plane. Frontier’s baggage fees fluctuate depending on when you pay, with a fee booked online over 24 hours before the flight nearly half the cost of a fee paid at the departure gate.
When KRON reached out to Frontier Airlines for comment on these complaints, the media team said that the “carry-on bag size requirement” the airline had established was not “consistently applied” to all customers. The airline says this was unfair to the “majority” of customers who do pay for carry-on bags in advance.
Some commenters on the viral videos pointed out that Frontier Airlines has rolled out a new policy that reportedly pays gate agents a $10 bonus for each bag they can charge for at the gate. When asked about the bonus, a Frontier representative said it is only meant to “incentivize” their team members “to ensure compliance with the bag size requirements to ensure all customers are treated fairly, including the majority who comply with the rules.”
DOT’s Office of Aviation Consumer Protection is the main investigator of baggage complaints in regard to airlines. This agency provides a detailed dashboard for flyers to understand their rights when traveling with airlines.
An incentive program where agents can earn bonuses for flagging oversize bags doesn’t violate the law. However, if that incentive program ultimately causes agents to improperly classify a bag as oversized in order to charge an additional fee without cause, that would be a violation of the law, a source told KRON.
The DOT also lays out what consumers can expect from airlines that “involuntarily bump” them from a flight. The DOT website states that the first step is to file a complaint with the airline. If that does not resolve the issue, the customer can then file a complaint with DOT.
Frontier Airlines provided the following statement to KRON on the viral videos:
“Customers are clearly informed about our bag size rules during the booking process and are reminded prior to check-in and again during the check-in process. Signage at our ticket counters and gates also provide reminders. Bags can be purchased at any point prior to boarding at reduced cost.
As customers are boarding, those with personal items that may be oversized are asked to place their bags in the sizer. Bags must fit completely in the sizer without sticking out. It is also important to note that each customer is allowed only one personal item. Customers who wish to bring a second bag onboard, even if it is of a personal item size, need to purchase a carry-on bag.
We have on a number of occasions investigated specific claims by customers who say they were unfairly charged for a bag at the gate and typically find there is more to the story. All complaints are taken seriously and consumers are encouraged to contact our Customer Care team with any concerns.” | 2023-05-25T02:03:23+00:00 | nwahomepage.com | https://www.nwahomepage.com/news/national/frontier-airlines-confirms-gate-agent-incentive-for-baggage-fees-after-viral-tiktoks/ |
DALLAS, May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) ("Ashford Trust" or the "Company") today announced that it has successfully refinanced its mortgage loans for the 157-room La Posada de Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which had a final maturity date in November 2023, and the 252-room Hilton Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia, which had a final maturity date in June 2023. These two loans were the Company's only final debt maturities in 2023.
The new, non-recourse loan totals $98.5 million and has a three-year initial term with two one-year extension options, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions. The loan is interest only and provides for a floating interest rate of SOFR + 4.00%.
"We are very pleased to complete the refinancing of these loans during a challenging time in the hotel financing market," commented Rob Hays, Ashford Trust's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Importantly, this refinancing did not require any paydown from the previous loan balances and pushes out the maturities. We continue to focus on our upcoming extension tests and believe our portfolio is well-positioned to outperform."
Ashford Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on investing predominantly in upper upscale, full-service hotels.
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These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including, without limitation: our ability to repay, refinance, or restructure our debt and the debt of certain of our subsidiaries; anticipated or expected purchases or sales of assets; our projected operating results; completion of any pending transactions; our understanding of our competition; market trends; projected capital expenditures; the impact of technology on our operations and business; general volatility of the capital markets and the market price of our common stock and preferred stock; availability, terms and deployment of capital; availability of qualified personnel; changes in our industry and the markets in which we operate, interest rates or the general economy; and the degree and nature of our competition. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in Ashford Trust's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The forward-looking statements included in this press release are only made as of the date of this press release. Such forward-looking statements are based on our beliefs, assumptions, and expectations of our future performance taking into account all information currently known to us. These beliefs, assumptions, and expectations can change as a result of many potential events or factors, not all of which are known to us. If a change occurs, our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, plans, and other objectives may vary materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. You should carefully consider these risks when you make an investment decision concerning our securities. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The Company can give no assurance that these forward-looking statements will be attained or that any deviation will not occur. We are not obligated to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances, changes in expectations, or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — Syracuse University Athletics will host a press conference to formally introduce the new men’s basketball head coach, Adrian Autry.
It will be held on Friday, March 10, at 10 a.m. in the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.
You can watch this conference live on NewsChannel 9 or stream on Localsyr.com. | 2023-03-09T18:44:21+00:00 | localsyr.com | https://www.localsyr.com/orange-nation/syracuse-athletics-to-introduce-adrian-autry/ |
Boise State defeats Wyoming 85-68
By The Associated Press
LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Chibuzo Agbo had 18 points in Boise State’s 85-68 victory against Wyoming on Saturday.
Agbo also contributed nine rebounds for the Broncos (14-4, 4-1 Mountain West Conference). Naje Smith added 18 points while going 7 of 15 (4 for 8 from distance), and he also had seven rebounds. Max Rice recorded 17 points and was 7-of-10 shooting (2 for 4 from distance).
The Cowboys (5-12, 0-5) were led in scoring by Noah Reynolds, who finished with 13 points. Hunter Maldonado added 12 points, four assists and two steals for Wyoming. Ethan Anderson also had 11 points and six rebounds. The loss is the seventh straight for the Cowboys.
Boise State took the lead with 17:25 remaining in the first half and did not relinquish it. The score was 41-33 at halftime, with Rice racking up 12 points. Boise State outscored Wyoming by nine points in the second half, and Agbo scored a team-high 16 points in the second half to help his team secure the victory.
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Both teams play again on Tuesday. Boise State hosts Nevada and Wyoming travels to play Air Force.
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NCHSAA
Area teams
BASEBALL
West Regional semifinal
Friday's game
No. 13 West Forsyth (25-5) at No. 1 Charlotte Providence (30-0), 6:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL
West Regional semifinal
Friday's game
CLASS 4-A
No. 5 East Forsyth (24-1) at No. 1 Alexander Central (25-2), 7 p.m.
GIRLS SOCCER
Second round
Thursday's matches
CLASS 4-A
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No. 12 Page (15-4-2) at No. 5 Northwest Guilford (17-2-2), 7 p.m.
No. 11 Northern Guilford (16-3-2) at No. 6 Asheville Roberson (16-3-1)
CLASS 3-A
No. 11 Northwest Cabarrus (15-4-0) at No. 6 North Davidson (15-4-3)
No. 23 North Iredell (13-7-1) at No. 7 Atkins (15-1-3)
CLASS 1-A
No. 12 N.C. Leadership Academy (12-3-1) at No. 5 South Stokes (17-4-0)
No. 14 Cornerstone Charter (13-5-1) at No. 3 Huntersville Christ the King (13-2-0)
No. 15 Misenheimer Gray Stone Day (10-9-1) at No. 2 Bishop McGuinness (16-4-0), 6:30 p.m.
NCISAA
Area teams
BASEBALL
Championships
(Best-of-three)
Friday and Saturday
CLASS 3-A
At Moor Park, Mooresville
No. 3 High Point Christian (24-8) vs. No. 1 Huntersville SouthLake Christian (16-6)
CLASS 2-A
At Rocky Mount Faith Christian
No. 2 (West) Westchester (17-4) vs. No. 1 (West) Burlington School (20-6)
BOYS LACROSSE
DIVISION II
Championship
At Concord Cannon School
Saturday's game
No. 2 Wilmington Cape Fear Academy (11-6) vs. No. 1 Forsyth Country Day (12-3), 3:30 p.m.
GIRLS LACROSSE
DIVISION II
Championship
At Charlotte Latin
Saturday's game
No. 2 Forsyth Country Day (13-4) vs. No. 1 Davidson Day (14-1)
GIRLS SOCCER
CLASS 3-A
Championship
Saturday's game
No. 1 Wilmington Coastal Christian (16-4) at No. 2 Forsyth Country Day (16-0), 2:30 p.m.
SOFTBALL
CLASS 3-A
Championship
(Best-of-three)
At North Davidson HS
Friday and Saturday
No. 1 High Point Christian (14-6-1) vs. No. 2 Charlotte Hickory Grove Christian (13-6)
BOYS TENNIS
DIVISION II
Championship
At Rocky Mount Faith Christian
Saturday's matches
No. 2 Wilmington Cape Fear Academy (14-1) vs. No. 1 Forsyth Country Day (15-3)
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Stocks turned higher on Wall Street in midday trading Thursday after shaking off an early slide following a report signaling the U.S. economy is either already in a recession or well on its way.
The S&P 500 was up 0.7% as of 12:03 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.6% and the Nasdaq was 0.5% higher. Smaller company stocks also rose, lifting the Russell 2000 by 0.7%.
The indexes fell in the early going after the Commerce Department reported that the economy shrank from April through June, contracting at a 0.9% annual pace. The latest decline in the gross domestic product — the broadest gauge of the economy — followed a 1.6% annual drop from January through March. Consecutive quarters of falling GDP constitute an informal, though not definitive, indicator of a recession.
The GDP report for last quarter pointed to weakness across the economy. Consumer spending slowed as Americans bought fewer goods. Business investment fell. Inventories tumbled as businesses slowed their restocking of shelves, shedding 2 percentage points from GDP.
The Federal Reserve is trying to slow the U.S. economy to fight inflation without tipping it into a recession. The central bank raised its key short-term interest rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday, bringing it to the highest level since 2018.
The move sparked a broad market rally led by technology stocks that helped give the Nasdaq its biggest gain in over two years. The major indexes are now all on pace for a weekly gain, extending Wall Street’s strong July rally.
Technology stocks and retailers, restaurant chains and other companies that rely on direct consumer spending helped lift the S&P 500 Thursday. Microsoft rose 2%, Target gained 2.6% and McDonald's was 1.1% higher.
Communication services stocks were the only laggards. Meta Platforms fell 5.3% after the social media giant said its revenue fell last quarter for the first time ever, dragged down by a drop in ad spending.
In a busy week of corporate earnings reports investors have focused on what companies are saying about inflation and the impact rising interest rates are having on their business and customers.
Markets were spooked Monday after retail giant Walmart warned that its profits are being hurt by rising prices for food and gas, which are forcing shoppers to cut back on more profitable discretionary items such as clothing.
Stanley Black & Decker slumped 12.7% Thursday after the tool maker's second-quarter results fell short of Wall Street's estimates. The company noted that demand significantly slowed in May and June.
Oshkosh fell 7.3% after the company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results and lowered its 2022 profit guidance, citing lingering supply chain disruptions and inflation.
Meanwhile, Spirit Airlines shares rose 4.2% after JetBlue said it agreed to buy the budget airline for $3.8 billion to create the nation's fifth largest airline. The agreement, which still requires regulator and shareholder approval, comes a day after Spirit's attempt to merge with Frontier Airlines fell apart.
Bond yields were broadly lower. The two-year Treasury yield, which tends to move with expectations for the Fed, fell to 2.88% from 2.98% late Wednesday. The 10-year yield, which influences mortgage rates, fell to 2.69% from 2.74%.
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Working for Fun
Fun is an integrated state, impossible to achieve when the mind is in one place and the body is somewhere else. Wishing for a different scene robs from the one you’re in. The lunar square to Venus suggests that it will be work to make fun, but the aspect also offers a cosmic shovel with which to dig into the task at hand to excavate its fun potential.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Circumstances aren’t perfect, but you’ll perform well with the right-size challenge. Resist the temptation to overcommit yourself. Think of your entire situation and take on responsibilities that fit comfortably into your life.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). “Can I talk to you?” can be an innocent request, though more often it grabs attention and inspires fear. Most feel-good messages need no such fanfare. You’ll be careful not to let simple things become dramatic.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The old way is barely working. People follow the recipe, read from the script, fulfill the programming -- to meager or hollow results. If anyone can finagle a new and better way, it’s you. Apply yourself to figuring this out.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If left unguarded, leisure time can get eaten up by obligations. Protect your fun! Treat your playtime as sacred, and if you planned to give yourself a reward, make sure you really give it to yourself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Experience is a fantastic teacher, but it’s not the only teacher. Follow the instructions left by your predecessors. This race is like a relay in which you start where the torch is passed to you, not back at the beginning.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Everything comes to fruition through labor. You have no problem motivating yourself to get a job done. You’ll bond with others through thinking and talking about work, and get tips and tricks that make it easier.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Like spotty cellphone service, you’ll get moments of clarity and blanks to fill in, which you’ll do like a pro. You could see this as an annoyance, though you might just as easily see it as a puzzle or game.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If you only fulfill one directive today, let it be this: accept yourself. Everything springs from your relationship with yourself. When that relationship is solid, others will be open to you and all you contribute.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Everyone in your immediate vicinity is at a similar skill level or concerned with the same topics as you are. It’s bad for productivity. Go where this isn’t the case. Once you get objectivity, you’ll know exactly where best to focus.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Watch what people are sharing and what gets noticed. People want to know things that you already know. There is a huge opportunity for you in this, should you decide to start sharing more of what you do.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To some extent, you can pick and choose the beliefs that suit you. Though, unfortunately, many beliefs come as a package deal. You can always try an idea on for fit. If doesn’t feel right, try another.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Some people act nice because they want you to think well of them and perhaps reciprocate. Others do nice things because they’re nice people. Life is dreamy when you’re surrounded by the latter category.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 17). Natural environments will speak to you. You’ll walk to the water’s edge and listen to the wisdom of wind and wave. The elements can change in a moment or an eon. You’ll take charge of your life’s timing and set defining rhythms with your decisions that stick. Success will be attributed to your incredible gift of tenacity. Libra and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 3, 38 and 18.
CELEBRITY PROFILES: Multiple Academy Award-winner Robert De Niro teams a warrior spirit with a workman approach to craft. This Leo is busier than ever with six projects in post-production and more on the way. De Niro was born with Mercury and Venus in Virgo, the sign of industriousness and growth. The Pisces moon of artistry is guided by his sun, Jupiter and Pluto in Leo, the sign of entertainment.
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WILMINGTON, Del. — WILMINGTON, Del. — The Bancorp Inc. (TBBK) on Thursday reported net income of $49.1 million in its first quarter.
The bank, based in Wilmington, Delaware, said it had earnings of 88 cents per share.
The Bancorp expects full-year earnings to be $3.60 per share.
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Webb telescope captures its first direct image of an exoplanet
Astronomers have captured the first direct image of an exoplanet with the James Webb Space Telescope.
The exoplanet, or planet outside of our solar system, is a gas giant about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter. The planet, called HIP 65426 b, is about 15 to 20 million years old — just a baby planet when compared to Earth, which is 4.5 billion years old.
It's located about 385 light-years away from Earth.
The planet can be seen in four different bands of infrared light as taken by Webb's different instruments. Webb sees the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye — and makes it the perfect space observatory to reveal details about distant worlds.
"This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for astronomy generally," said Sasha Hinkley, associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, in a statement.
Hinkley led the observations within an international collaboration.
The exoplanet was first discovered in 2017 using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and its SPHERE instrument, located in Chile. The instrument took images of the planet then through short infrared wavelengths, but Webb's ability to see longer infrared wavelengths can shed light on new details.
Scientists are analyzing Webb's data of HIP 65426 b and a forthcoming study will be submitted to journals for peer review.
The exoplanet is about 100 times farther from its host star than Earth is from the sun, which allowed Webb and its instruments to separate the planet from its star. Some of Webb's instruments are armed with coronographs, or masks that can block starlight, enabling the telescope to capture direct images of exoplanets.
Stars are much brighter than planets and in this case, HIP 65426 b is more than 10,000 times fainter than its host star in near-infrared light.
"Obtaining this image felt like digging for space treasure," said Aarynn Carter, analysis lead for the images and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in a statement. "At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet."
While the Hubble Space Telescope was the first to capture direct images of exoplanets, Webb's infrared exploration of exoplanets is just beginning. The telescope has already shared the first spectrum of an exoplanet by detecting a water signature in its atmosphere and found the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet's atmosphere.
And the space observatory only began making scientific observations this summer.
"I think what's most exciting is that we've only just begun," Carter said. "There are many more images of exoplanets to come that will shape our overall understanding of their physics, chemistry, and formation. We may even discover previously unknown planets, too." | 2022-09-01T16:58:33+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/webb-telescope-direct-image-of-an-exoplanet/41055243 |
The Minnesota Vikings have acquired backup quarterback Nick Mullens from the Las Vegas Raiders for a conditional 2024 seventh-round draft pick.
The Vikings announced the deal Monday and said it will be finalized as soon as Mullens passes a physical. The Raiders will get the 2024 pick only if Mullens is on the active roster for at least one game this season.
Mullens will compete with second-year player Kellen Mond and veteran Sean Mannion to be the No. 2 quarterback behind Kirk Cousins.
Mond and Mannion have split time this preseason with Cousins sitting out. Mond, the team's third-round pick in 2021, threw two TD passes in the Vikings' exhibition opener against Las Vegas but had two interceptions on Saturday night against San Francisco.
Mannion, who has thrown 110 passes in seven seasons as a backup in the NFL, also struggled to move the ball against the 49ers.
Mullens has appeared in 20 career games with 17 starts with San Francisco and Cleveland since entering the league as an undrafted free agent with the Niners in 2017.
He has completed 64.6% of his passes, averaging 267.8 yards passing in his starts, with 26 TDs, 22 interceptions and an 87.3 passer rating. He went 20 for 30 for 147 yards and a TD in his only appearance last season for the Browns.
Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah knows Mullens well, having spent time with him during his tenures in both San Francisco and Cleveland.
Mullens was 21 for 29 for 205 yards and a TD in three exhibition games for the Raiders this summer.
The trade by Las Vegas clears the way for Jarrett Stidham to be the backup behind Derek Carr. Stidham had started all three preseason games, going 25 for 40 for 244 yards, no touchdowns and no interceptions. He also ran for two scores.
Stidham has thrown 48 passes in three seasons as a backup in New England before following coach Josh McDaniels to Las Vegas this offseason.
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Florida teen may be forced to give birth after court rules she is not 'mature' enough for abortion
A pregnant 16-year-old in north Florida may be forced to give birth after an appeals court ruled on Monday that is not “mature” enough to get an abortion.
According to the ruling, the teen initially went to an Escambia County circuit judge last week when she was ten weeks pregnant and said she “is not ready to have a baby,” doesn’t have a job, is “still in school,” and the father is unable to help her.
In Florida, people under 18 need written consent from a parent or legal guardian to have an abortion. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed that requirement into law in June 2020.
The young woman does not have parents according to the ruling and is asking the court to bypass the requirement.
An opinion from one of the appellate judges also mentions that the teen’s “guardian is fine with what [she] wants to do.”
The initial judge denied her request last week, and the three judges on the appellate court sided with the first judge on Monday.
Michele Herzog is the director of Pro Life Action Ministries Central Florida.
As a staunch abortion rights opponent, she said she absolutely supports the Florida court’s decision.
“They’re protecting children. They’re protecting the 16-year-old and they’re protecting the child in the womb,” Herzog said. “Abortion is not good for any woman.”
Herzog calls abortions “crimes against humanity” and said she wants them completely banned in Florida.
“If a teenager is going to school, they have to get parental consent to even take an aspirin. They are not considered mature enough to take an aspirin on their own. So in my opinion, they are certainly not mature enough to have an abortion,” she said.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Florida Democrats voiced their outrage about the court’s ruling for the pregnant teenager.
“So she’s not mature enough to say, ‘I’m not ready to parent.’ But apparently, she’s mature enough to be forced to give birth. And that is the anti-freedom reality of Florida,” said Democratic state Rep. Anna Eskamani.
Eskamani said this marks the latest move in a state where Republicans are further restricting reproductive rights.
In April, DeSantis signed a 15-week abortion ban into law. And earlier this month, he suspended a state attorney who vowed he would not criminalize women who seek abortions.
“Our governor calls us the freest state in the union, and yet we are taking away the freedoms of our constituents through these policies,” Eskamani said. “Gov. Ron DeSantis has been so hesitant and shy and even scared to talk about his platform on abortion.”
WESH 2 News reached out to the governor’s office for his response but has not heard back.
Meanwhile, this may not be the end for the teen’s push to get an abortion.
In a partial dissenting opinion, one of the appellate judges noted that the initial trial court “‘may re-evaluate its decision’ in a renewed hearing for the minor to adequately articulate her request.”
The opinion mentions the trial judge’s ruling was a “very close call” considering the teen “showed, at times, that she is stable and mature enough to make this decision” and “evaluated the pros/cons in making her decision.”
The opinion continues on to say: “Reading between the lines, it appears that the trial court wanted to give the minor, who was under extra stress due to a friend’s death, additional time to express a keener understanding of the consequences of terminating a pregnancy. This makes some sense given that the minor, at least at one point, says she was open to having a child, but later changed her view after considering her inability to care for a child in her current station in life.”
The appellate judge who wrote the partial dissenting opinion also pointed out that if the teen’s guardian consents to an abortion, the guardian could sign a written waiver which would allow her to get an abortion and they could bypass the back and forth in court. | 2022-08-17T22:14:03+00:00 | wesh.com | https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-teen-abortion-ruling/40923396 |
(The Hill) – A primary pitting two powerful Democrats against each other. A special election that could provide some clues about how Democrats might fare in November. Two well-known Democrats duking it out for the chance to face Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in November.
Tuesday will feature one of the last sets of competitive primaries ahead of November, and New York, Florida and Oklahoma will hold closely watched races.
Here’s a look at nine races to watch on Tuesday:
New York’s 10th Congressional District Democratic primary
New York’s new congressional map set off a scramble among Democrats after redistricting created several awkward member-on-member primaries and caused some lawmakers to switch districts.
New York’s 10th Congressional District, which covers portions of northwest Brooklyn and lower Manhattan, drew a crowded Democratic field, including Rep. Mondaire Jones, who currently represents the 17th Congressional District; Dan Goldman, Democrats’ lead counsel in the first impeachment trial against former President Trump; New York City Council Member Carlina Rivera; New York state Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou and former New York City Comptroller Liz Holtzman.
Jones opted not to run in his current district in an effort to avoid going head-to-head with Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Democrats’ campaign arm. Maloney currently represents the 18th Congressional District but announced he would run in the 17th.
Goldman received a major endorsement from The New York Times editorial board, which strategists said would be a major boost in the primary. But he is not without fierce competition.
Niou notched endorsements from the New York Working Families Party and former New York gubernatorial candidate and actress Cynthia Nixon. Rivera, meanwhile, has received endorsements from several New York City borough presidents in addition to key health care workers union SEIU 1199.
Holtzman is a former congresswoman who drew national attention when she beat Democratic incumbent Rep. Emanuel Celler (N.Y.) in the 1972 primary by a margin of more than 600 votes, going on to win the general election with two-thirds of the vote.
New York’s 12th Congressional District Democratic primary
At least one high-profile Democrat will see their career in Congress come to an end as Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney battle it out in a primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District.
Maloney and Nadler, the chairs of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and House Judiciary Committee, respectively, have served in the lower chamber for decades, both starting their careers in Congress in the 1990s.
Nadler currently represents the 10th Congressional District, while Maloney represents the 12th, but they found themselves facing each other following redistricting. Progressive attorney Suraj Patel is also vying for the seat.
Nadler received a boost to his campaign when both The New York Times and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) endorsed him.
Maloney responded that “it doesn’t surprise me. The old boys network is very, very close and they support each other.”
Meanwhile, Patel has touted himself as a forward-looking fresh face, telling The Hill in an interview last week that both incumbents “are campaigning on accomplishments or press releases or statements, frankly, from 1998 and 2006 and 2009. Neither of them are talking about 2024 or 2026, or what New York needs today.”
The district leans heavily Democratic, so Tuesday’s winner will likely come out ahead in November as well.
New York’s 19th Congressional District special election
Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Marc Molinaro are facing off in a special election to serve out the remainder of Rep. Antonio Delgado’s (D) term after Delgado was appointed to serve as New York’s lieutenant governor.
The race is considered a bellwether for the November midterms, with Molinaro focusing on economic issues and crime and Ryan keying in on abortion.
The decennial redistricting process makes competing in the special election especially convoluted given that Ryan and Molinaro are seeking a seat that will not look the same beginning next year. Ryan is also on the ballot for the 18th District Democratic primary, while Molinaro will be the GOP’s midterm nominee in the redrawn 19th District.
Delgado won his seat in 2020 by double digits, but the data website FiveThirtyEight rates the seat a partisan lean of plus 1 point Republican under the old maps.
New York’s 23rd Congressional District special election
New York will also be holding a special election in its 23rd Congressional District after former Rep. Tom Reed (R) resigned from his House seat to join government relations firm Prime Policy Group. He had earlier said he would not seek reelection following allegations that he had groped a former lobbyist. Reed apologized for the incident, saying the situation occurred “at a time in my life in which I was struggling.”
Republican Joe Sempolinski, a former district director for Reed, is vying for the open seat against Democrat Max Della Pia, the Tioga County Democratic Committee chairman who ran in the Democratic primary in 2018 and lost.
While Della Pia is running separately in the Democratic primary for the full two-time term that starts next year, Sempolinski is not, meaning he would be in Congress for only a short time.
But Sempolinski seems likely to prevail given that FiveThirtyEight gives the seat a partisan lean of plus 15 points Republican.
Florida’s Democratic gubernatorial primary
Four Democrats are running to take on DeSantis, with state Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and Rep. Charlie Crist (Fla.), a former Republican governor-turned-Democratic lawmaker, considered the two front-runners.
Crist has been seen as the favorite, notching endorsements from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), former Democratic National Committee chairwoman and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and the AFL-CIO, among others. In recent weeks, Fried and Crist have sought to portray each other in campaign ads as insufficiently Democratic.
A poll out last week from the Public Opinion Research Lab at the University of North Florida, conducted via email, showed Fried receiving 47 percent support among likely Democratic primary voters polled, compared to 43 percent for Crist.
Meanwhile, a St. Pete Polls survey conducted via landline found that 59 percent of likely Florida Democratic party voters who said they either planned to vote or had already voted would back Crist, compared to 30 percent for Fried, according to Florida Politics.
The more difficult task that lies ahead is beating DeSantis, regularly floated as a 2024 GOP presidential hopeful who has stoked culture wars on issues ranging from critical race theory to transgender girls and women participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
Florida’s 7th Congressional District GOP primary
Florida’s 7th Congressional District has attracted a crowded field of eight Republicans running for a seat that is likely flip red in November after moderate Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D) said she wouldn’t seek reelection.
Trump hasn’t waded into the GOP primary, but that hasn’t stopped some candidates from embracing him in an attempt to win over voters.
Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) touted his conversative track record and legislation he sponsored, including to rename a highway to include Trump’s name. Cory Mills, another candidate, touted his appointment by Trump to be a Pentagon adviser.
Others have sought to show their ties to the governor, such as Rusty Roberts, who serves on the Florida Transportation Commission as a DeSantis appointee.
Former Navy Seal Brady Duke has a serious financial advantage, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
FiveThirtyEight gives the seat a partisan lean of plus 14 points Republican.
Florida’s 10th Congressional District Democratic primary
Ten Democrats are looking to get their party’s nod on Tuesday in a seat considered to heavily favor Democrats in November. The seat opened when Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) opted to run for Senate.
Democrat Maxwell Alejandro Frost, a 25-year-old who previously worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, could have a shot at becoming one of first Gen Z lawmakers in Congress. Democrats such as Former Rep. Alan Grayson (Fla.), the Rev. Terence Gray, state Sen. Randolph Bracy and former Rep. Corrine Brown (Fla.) are also seeking bids.
FiveThirtyEight gives the seat a partisan lean of plus 29 points Democratic, meaning that the Democrat who prevails Tuesday is likely to win in the midterms.
Florida’s 13th Congressional District GOP primary
Crist opted not to run for another term in the House, instead seeking to return to the governor’s mansion and opening up the seat to a sea of challengers.
Trump waded into the primary, backing Air Force veteran Anna Paulina Luna. Luna ran against Crist in 2020, losing to him by single digits. The Air Force vet has also raked in endorsements from top Republican names such as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Scott Perry (Pa.), and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.).
Other Republican candidates include attorney Amanda Makki; attorney Kevin Hayslett, who received the endorsement of former Trump White House national security adviser Michael Flynn; law student Moneer Kheireddine; and business owner Christine Quinn.
The Cook Political Report rates the seat as “likely Republican.”
Oklahoma Senate GOP primary runoff
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) handily won reelection in 2020 but announced in February he wouldn’t finish out his term, triggering a special election to fill the seat.
Former state House Speaker T.W. Shannon and Rep. Markwayne Mullin (Okla.) were forced into a runoff for the Republican nod after neither candidate received at least half of the vote outright in the crowded June 28 primary.
Several polls within the last week show Mullin leading Shannon. Trump endorsed Mullin, and the runoff will be considered another test of the former president’s power.
Whoever wins will face former Rep. Kendra Horn (D-Okla.) in the general election.
The Cook Political Report rates the Senate seat as “solid Republican,” meaning whoever wins Tuesday will be considered the likely winner in November. | 2022-08-23T13:40:34+00:00 | fox44news.com | https://www.fox44news.com/hill-politics/nine-races-to-watch-in-new-york-florida-and-oklahoma/ |
MIAMI (AP) — It’s time for residents along the southeastern U.S. coastlines to make sure their storm plans are in place as the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season gets underway on Thursday.
Forecasters are predicting a “near-normal” season, but Mike Brennan, the new director at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, stressed during a Wednesday news conference that there’s really nothing normal when it comes to hurricanes.
“A normal season might sound good in comparison to some of the hurricane seasons in the past few years,” he said. “But there’s nothing good about a near-normal hurricane season in terms of activity.”
WILL THE 2023 ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON BE BUSY?
Uncertainty is the key word, Brennan said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted in late May a 40% chance of 2023 being a near-normal hurricane season, a 30% chance of an above-average season, which has more storms than usual, and a 30% chance of a below-normal season, which has fewer.
“So we’re expecting a busy season with 12 to 17 named storms,” Brennan said, adding that five to nine of those storms could become hurricanes, with one to four growing into major hurricanes.
“It only takes one storm affecting your area to make it a busy season for you,” he said.
WHAT’S NEW THIS SEASON?
This year, the hurricane center is rolling out a new storm surge model that Brennan said “helps push real-time storm surge prediction out to 72 hours in advance of the storm” in hopes of getting life-saving information to emergency managers regarding evacuation orders.
In addition, tropical weather outlooks have been extended from five days out to seven days, providing “an additional heads up” for residents to make decisions about whether to evacuate in advance of a storm, Brennan said.
WHAT IS EL NINO? HOW WILL IT AFFECT THE 2023 SEASON?
El Nino is a natural temporary warming of the Pacific Ocean that occurs every few years, changing weather patterns worldwide.
Generally, the Atlantic is quieter and has fewer storms during El Nino years. That’s because the warmer waters of El Nino make warmer air over the Pacific reach higher into the atmosphere and affect wind shear that could head off storms.
Brennan noted there are other factors that add to the uncertainty of the effects of El Nino, such as very warm sea surface temperatures, weaker low-level easterly flows and a more active African monsoon season.
“So these forces are going to kind of fight it out over the course of this hurricane season,” Brennan said. “We don’t know how this season’s going to play out.”
WHAT IS THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY’S ROLE?
FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said her agency is working to protect residents in hurricane zones by getting them the “critical information that they need” and making it easier for people to apply for help.
She said the summer doesn’t just bring the start of hurricane season, but it’s also the beginning of wildfire season.
“So we are in the summer season of severe weather events, but I think as many of you know, it’s not just a summer season of severe weather anymore,” she said, noting weather-related events take place throughout the year.
WHY DO HURRICANES HAVE NAMES? WHEN ARE THEY RETIRED?
Hurricanes are named primarily to eliminate confusion if there are two or more storm systems occurring at the same time.
The United States began using female names for storms in 1953 and began alternating male and female names in 1978.
There is a rotating list of Atlantic hurricane season names every six years. The list can then be repeated, with names being eliminated if they are retired from the rotation, according to the National Hurricane Center’s website.
The 2023 hurricane names are: Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Don, Emily, Franklin, Gert, Harold, Idalia, Jose, Katia, Lee, Margot, Nigel, Ophelia, Philippe, Rina, Sean, Tammy, Vince and Whitney.
Hurricane names are routinely retired if a storm was so deadly or caused so much destruction that using the name again would be inappropriate. It’s not up to the National Hurricane Center to retire a name, however. That practice is left to an international committee of the World Meteorological Organization, which selects another name to replace the retired one.
The most recent names to be retired include Ian, which struck southwest Florida as a Category 5 hurricane in September 2022 with ferocious winds and storm surge as high as 15 feet (4 meters). Ian killed more than 156 people in the U.S., the vast majority in Florida, according to a comprehensive National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report on the hurricane.
Other retired names include Katrina, Harvey, Charley, Wilma, Matthew, Michael and Irma.
WHAT HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE WORST HURRICANES TO HIT THE UNITED STATES?
In August 1992, powerful Hurricane Andrew struck south of Miami, crossing Florida and making a second landfall in Louisiana. For years, it was the costliest and most damaging hurricane to ever hit the U.S. coastline, resulting in around 65 reported deaths and causing more than $27.3 billion in damages at the time. The Category 5 storm destroyed more than 65,000 houses.
Hurricane Katrina, which struck Louisiana as a Category 3 storm in August 2005, still ranks as one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the United States. Katrina caused about 1,400 deaths and produced catastrophic damage along the Gulf Coast.
Hurricane Harvey struck Louisiana before slamming into Houston as a Category 4 storm in 2017, causing severe flooding. Harvey killed more than 80 people, including 50 in the Houston area.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Katrina and Harvey are listed as the two costliest U.S. hurricanes on record with total costs over $160 billion and $125 billion, respectively.
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This story was first published May 31, 2023. It was updated June 1, 2023 to correct that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana as a Category 3 storm. | 2023-06-01T22:51:19+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/its-time-to-prepare-for-the-2023-atlantic-hurricane-season/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Hundreds of Sri Lankans on Tuesday rallied against a government crackdown and the use of emergency laws against peaceful protesters demanding answers to the country’s worst economic crisis.
Protesters led by religious and trade union leaders marched to the Independence Square in Colombo and made several demands to the government including the withdrawal of emergency laws, an end to the arrests of peaceful protesters, the immediate dissolution of Parliament and relief for those burdened by the hardship and shortages of basic supplies.
Four months of street protests culminated last month when former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to Singapore and resigned after demonstrators stormed his official home and occupied several key government buildings. His brother Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as prime minister in May and four other family members had quit as ministers before him.
Protesters accuse the Rajapaksa family of plunging the country into the crisis through mismanagement and corruption.
The former prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was elected by Parliament to complete Rajapaksa’s five-year term until 2024, but many of the protesters are unhappy with him and say he was backed by lawmakers who are still loyal to the Rajapaksas to protect the former ruling family from being held accountable.
Several groups had initially called a major rally to force Wickremesinghe out of office but a lack of support forced them to hold smaller protests. They called for a temporary government, the dissolution of Parliament and fresh elections.
Since his election, Wickremesinghe has authorized the military and police to violently dismantle protest camps and arrest those they identified to have trespassed the presidential palace and other state buildings.
Wickremesinghe on Tuesday visited the army headquarters and thanked soldiers who protected Parliament when protesters tried to enter last month.
“If we had lost Parliament, it would have created a big problem … we would have lost the governance system that we know,” Wickremesinghe said, adding that now it was up to lawmakers to win over the confidence of the people. | 2022-08-10T15:38:45+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/international/ap-international/sri-lankans-rally-against-crackdown-on-protesters/ |
Boston University and the Travis Roy Foundation have created a scholarship fund that honors the life and legacy of the late Travis Roy, providing awards to BU scholars studying paralysis and spinal cord injuries.
Roy, a promising freshman BU hockey player, was paralyzed 11 seconds into the first hockey game of his college career.
With the help of rehab professionals, he returned to the university 10 months after his injury, earned a degree in communications, and began a career as a motivational speaker while helping others living with paralysis. In 2020, Roy died after being a quadriplegic for 25 years.
Now, BU’s Sargent College and the Travis Roy Foundation — which Roy launched in 1996 — have created the Travis M. Roy Endowed Scholarship Fund, established through a $1 million gift from the foundation.
“This is a tangible living legacy to Trav’s life and impact, pursuing his quest for ‘how good can I be’ and enabling Sargent’s programs and its students to do the same,” Roy’s parents Brenda and Lee said in a statement. “The Travis Roy Endowed Scholarship Fund highlights Travis’ passion for helping others and his life of gratitude in the face of adversity.”
The fund will provide annual scholarship awards to one or more doctoral candidates enrolled in BU Sargent College’s Department of Occupational Therapy or Department of Physical Therapy.
Roy and Sargent College have a long-standing relationship. When he returned to BU after his injury, Roy worked with Sargent physical therapists and occupational therapists to continue his recovery and help make his dorm room more accessible.
In 2015, Sargent College Dean Chris Moore announced a $2.5 million gift from a group of anonymous donors to establish the Travis Roy Professorship in Rehabilitation Sciences, currently held by Sargent Physical Therapy Professor LaDora Thompson whose research focuses on muscle weakness and dysfunction.
“The Travis M. Roy Endowed Scholarship Fund will be an enduring celebration of Travis’ relationship with BU and Sargent College,” Moore said. “It reflects our shared commitment to supporting everyone’s participation in their lives and communities to the fullest extent possible.”
Both the Travis Roy Scholarship Fund and the Professorship at Sargent College are endowed in perpetuity, part of Roy’s legacy to improve the lives of those with spinal cord injuries and his belief in the crucial work of rehabilitation professionals.
“BU always meant so much to Travis, and was so good to him over the years,” said Roy’s sister and brother-in-law Tobi and Keith VanOrden. “The idea that this scholarship will, in Trav’s name, help people continue to give back, both to BU and to spinal cord injury survivors, means so much to all of us.” | 2023-05-24T23:19:11+00:00 | bostonherald.com | https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/24/boston-university-and-travis-roy-foundation-create-fund-for-scholars-studying-paralysis-spinal-cord-injuries/ |
The Washington Commanders and Events DC set to deliver world-class experience
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Military Academy and United States Naval Academy have announced Washington, DC as the host of the 2024 Army-Navy Football Game presented by USAA at FedExField on Saturday, December 14, 2024. The Washington Commanders and Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, will deliver a world-class experience for one of college football's most long-standing rivalries.
"Few events can capture the pageantry, servant leadership, and values of our proud military like the Army-Navy game, and we are especially proud, as the Washington Commanders, to host and stage a world-class experience for the academies, their players and fans, and our entire sports region," said Washington Commanders President Jason Wright. "We are also grateful for this opportunity to stand alongside the strong military and alumni community throughout the DMV, as well as partners in the District and Maryland, to welcome this storied rivalry to FedExField in 2024."
This will be the 125th Army-Navy game dating back to 1890 and will be only the second time the Washington metro area has been selected to host this game, which was also played at FedExField in 2011. The location of the game varies from year-to-year and is typically played in a neutral east coast venue.
"This historic rivalry offers our regional military and civilian communities a front row seat to the spirit and excitement surrounding the game," said Max Brown, chairman, Events DC Board of Directors. "We will unite our city's passion and commitment to hosting world-class events with one of the most storied sporting traditions. Given our proximity to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and the vast military population in our area, we anticipate our city will be packed with supporters."
Traditionally, this event generates more than $30 million in revenue. DC will host a number of signature events in the days leading into the game including the Army-Navy Gala, the Patriot Games showcasing the Cadets versus the Midshipmen and, unique to the District, the Army-Navy Block Party on The Wharf.
"Beyond the pageantry of the game, this is a tremendous opportunity for our city to facilitate our joint armed forces coming together off the field and uniting over their shared service experience," said Samuel Thomas, interim president and chief executive officer at Events DC. "We are immensely proud of those who have taken the oath to protect and defend this country and we are eager to pay homage to their continuing sacrifices through a week of celebrations and commemorations."
This game marks the end of the college football regular season, and the winner is awarded the Secretary's Trophy. This is also the third and final game in the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy series, played among the U.S Naval Academy, U.S. Military Academy, and U.S. Air Force Academy. Navy leads the all-time series against Army 62-53-7.
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Owned by Dan and Tanya Snyder since 1999, the Washington Commanders were founded in Boston in 1932 and are one of the original members of the NFL's Eastern Division. The Washington Commanders relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1937 and have since become one of the most recognizable professional sports franchises in history, featuring multiple Hall of Fame coaches, 19 members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and one recipient of the Walter Payton Man of The Year Award, Darrell Green. A proud and storied franchise, the team has won five World Championship titles including the 1937 and 1942 National Football League Championship games, as well as Super Bowls XVII, XXII and XXVI. Since 1997, the Team has played their home games at FedExField, a multi-purpose stadium located in Landover, MD. Washington Commanders Football Operations are headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, and its Business Operations are headquartered at FedExField.
Events DC, the official convention and sports authority for the District of Columbia, delivers premier event services and flexible venues across the Nation's Capital. Leveraging the power of a world-class destination and creating amazing attendee experiences, Events DC generates economic and community benefits through the attraction and promotion of business, athletic, entertainment and cultural activities. Events DC oversees the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, an anchor of the District's hospitality and tourism economy that hosts more than 1.7 million visitors and generates more than $400 million annually in direct economic impact, and the historic Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square. Events DC manages the RFK Stadium-Armory Campus (RFK Campus), including Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Festival Grounds at RFK Campus, the non-military functions of the DC Armory, and the Skate Park at RFK Stadium. Stay current on the 190-acre RFK Campus Redevelopment Project at www.RFKFields.com. Events DC also built and serves as landlord for Nationals Park, the first LEED-certified major professional sports stadium in the United States. Events DC manages Gateway DC, R.I.S.E. Demonstration Center and Entertainment & Sports Arena all conveniently located in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.eventsdc.com and find us on social media – Facebook, Instagram and YouTube (Events DC), and Twitter (@TheEventsDC) — and on our new hub for live and on-demand event programming on GATHER by Events DC at www.gatherbyeventsdc.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has labeled National Public Radio as “state-affiliated media” on the social media site, a move some worried Wednesday could undermine public confidence in the news organization.
NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president and CEO, calling it “unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.”
It was unclear why Twitter made the move. Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk, quoted a definition of state-affiliated media in the company’s guidelines as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
“Seems accurate,” Musk tweeted in a reply to NPR.
NPR does receive U.S. government funding through grants from federal agencies and departments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The company said it accounts for less than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget. But until Wednesday, the same Twitter guidelines said that “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the United States, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.”
NPR has now been removed from that sentence on Twitter’s website.
Asked for comment, Twitter’s press office responded with an automated poop emoji.
The move came just days after Twitter stripped The New York Times of its verification check mark.
“NPR and our member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide,” Lansing said. “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable.”
The literary organization PEN America, in calling for Twitter to reverse the move, underlined that NPR “assiduously maintains editorial independence.”
Liz Woolery, PEN America’s digital policy leader, said Twitter’s decision was “a dangerous move that could further undermine public confidence in reliable news sources.” | 2023-04-06T11:06:51+00:00 | texomashomepage.com | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/national-news/npr-protests-as-twitter-labels-it-state-affiliated-media/ |
DigiCert experts forecast future threat vectors most likely to affect organizations worldwide in the New Year
LEHI, Utah, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- DigiCert, Inc., a leading global provider of digital trust, today released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the new year and beyond. These projections — authored by DigiCert experts Dr. Avesta Hojjati, Dean Coclin, Mike Nelson, Srinivas Kumar, Stephen Davidson, Steve Job and Tim Hollebeek — are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture and decades of combined experience.
"These predictions come on the heels of our 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey that found that almost half of consumers (47%) have stopped doing business with a company after losing trust in that company's digital security," said Hojjati, VP of Research and Development at DigiCert. "The more CISOs and other IT staff understand the security implications of evolving technologies and threats, the better prepared they are to make the right investments for their business to ensure digital trust."
Prediction #1: Quantum Computing Will Force Crypto-Agility — Cracking a 2048-bit encryption would take an unfathomable amount of time with current technology. But a capable quantum computer could conceivably do it in months. We predict an increased focus on the need to be crypto-agile as quantum computers pose a signifcant future threat for secure online interactions. Crytographic-agility will be a competitive advantage in the very near future.
Prediction #2: Matter Will Become a Household Standard — Matter is a smart home standard and common language for smart home devices which are secure and trusted to communicate and connect seamlessly. DigiCert predicts the Matter logo will become the symbol that consumers look for in smart home technology.
Prediction #3: Code Signing Will Prompt A Race to the Cloud — OV code signing certificates are changing. They will soon be issued on physical security hardware in a similar way to how EV code signing certificates are issued. In June 2023, according to the CA/B Forum, a voluntary group of certification authorities (CAs), vendors of internet browsers and suppliers, notes that private keys for OV code signing certificates must be stored on devices that meet FIPS 140 Level 2, Common Criteria EAL 4+ or equivalent security standards. We predict that these changes will mean customers move to cloud signing in large numbers, instead of dealing with replacing their hardware token. We also expect all code signing will be cloud-based in the future, as customers will prefer cloud over having to keep track of a hardware key.
Prediction #4: Software Supply Chain Attacks Will Make 2023 the Year of the SBOM — An SBOM is a list of every software component that comprises an application and includes every library in the application's code, as well as services, dependencies, compositions and extensions. Because of the information and visibility it provides into software supply chains, we predict the SBOM will be widely adopted in 2023. While most of the requirements are taking place at the federal level now, expect the SBOM to spread to commercial markets soon to secure software.
All of this means software producers will be required to get more involved in the process of ensuring their products are secure — and visibility will be key to that.
Prediction #5: Physical SIMs Will be Replaced by eSIM and iSIM Technology — The introduction of the integrated SIM (iSIM), which does not require a separate processor, is smaller, and does not take up much room on hardware such as mobile phones. We predict the next generation of smartphones will remove traditional SIM hardware functionality and move to eSIM and iSIM as the root of trust.
Prediction #6: EU Digital Identity and European Digital Wallet Will Become the Worldwide Model — The EU Digital Identity Wallet is a European Commission initiative under the eIDAS Regulation that will create a unified digital identification system across Europe. The EU Digital ID Wallet will allow European citizens to carry eID versions of their official government ID documents in a secure mobile wallet application for use in online authentication and electronic signatures. We predict that much like Apple Pay and Google Pay have become widely adopted as a means for digital payments, the EU Digital Identity Wallet will become the model for digital identity that the rest of the world will seek to emulate. With the legal framework and policies in place for adoption on the continent, users will begin to feel more comfortable turning to a digital wallet to store and share credentials when needed.
Prediction #7: DNS will continue to grow in importance — Infrastructure as code will continue its growth as being a best practice for organizations of all sizes. DNS services that have high uptime, fast speeds and fast DNS propagation will be crucial for organizations to have as a toolset. Well-defined APIs, SDKs and integrations will be highly vital to the success of organizations' efforts to be productive and reliable.
Prediction #8: Criminals Will Exploit Zero Trust — Adversaries will deploy new technologies as well to increase their success rate in future attacks. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Adversarial Machine Learning could potentially be deployed by a properly versed attacker to find weaknesses in an improperly deployed zero trust framework. As zero trust becomes the standard security approach for IT systems, we predict adversaries will change their attack approach to be able to overcome zero trust frameworks.
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By HOWARD FENDRICH
NEW YORK (AP) — The next woman who must deal with the daunting task of playing Serena Williams at the U.S. Open, Ajla Tomljanovic, considers herself an admirer of the 23-time Grand Slam champion.
“I’ve been a Serena fan,” Tomljanovic said, “since I was a kid.”
Tomljanovic, an Australian who is 29, will face Williams, who turns 41 next month, for the first time on Friday night — in front of what is sure to be another exuberant and partisan full house — in the third round at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
“She kind of has that aura, like Roger (Federer), Rafa (Nadal), and deservedly so,” Tomljanovic said. “I always get happy when she says ‘Hi’ to me.”
Tomljanovic recalled watching on TV as Williams won major trophies. Also tuning in over the years — but never across the net from Williams in a match until this U.S. Open — was the player Williams beat in the second round on Wednesday, No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit, who’s 26. Same for the player Williams beat in the first round on Monday, Danka Kovinic, who’s 27.
This is not why Williams is winning these contests in what is expected to be the last tournament of her career, but it sure can’t hurt.
Must not be easy to try to defeat someone whose success is oh-so-familiar, someone you looked up to before you turned pro yourself, someone you admire to this day.
“Oh, it factors in a lot. When I was young, I knew I had to beat members of a certain generation to move up. And Serena’s always been the one to beat,” said Billie Jean King, the Hall of Famer who won 12 Grand Slam singles titles in the 1960s and 1970s, plus another 27 in women’s doubles and mixed doubles.
“It can work in your favor if you thrive on playing the best player ever and you know it’ll help your career if you win,” King said in a telephone interview Thursday. “But the other side of the coin is, ‘Oh, no! I have to play her?’ And with the crowd, the history, you really have to try to embrace the situation and the occasion.”
That certainly is not easy.
Especially when Williams is playing as well as she did against Kontaveit, particularly in the moments that mattered the most in the 7-6 (4), 2-6, 6-2 victory — the first-set tiebreaker and the third set.
“Well,” Williams said with a laugh, “I’m a pretty good player.”
Sure is.
And her opponents sure know it, of course.
Back when Williams and her older sister Venus — they were scheduled to play in the first round of doubles together Thursday night — were swapping the No. 1 ranking the way other siblings might share clothing and meeting each other in nine all-in-the-family finals at Grand Slam tournaments, they often took the court with something of an advantage that went beyond their considerable talents.
Some other players were simply in awe.
So even though Williams plays less, and wins less, nowadays than she used to in her heyday — her 2022 record was 1-3 before this week — listen to what Kovinic had to say about learning she was drawn to face the American at Flushing Meadows: “I was happy. I won’t lie. I’m honored to play against her, never mind whether I win or lose. It’s a privilege to share the court with Serena.”
How did that go? Williams won 6-3, 6-3.
Here is what Kontaveit’s thoughts were when her matchup against Williams was assured: “I’m really excited. I was really rooting for her to (advance to the second round). I’ve never played against her. I mean, this is the last chance. Better late than never.”
Kovinic and the 46th-ranked Tomljanovic expressed similar sentiments.
Jessica Pegula, a 28-year-old American who is seeded No. 8 in New York and won Thursday to reach the third round, played Williams once, losing to her in the final of a tournament at Auckland, New Zealand, in January 2020.
“I knew it was a big moment. … I felt OK, but then once we started playing and you could kind of feel her power — and feel her hitting a winner, coming at you, serving — I think that’s when you’re like, ‘Oh, wow, I’m playing Serena,’” Pegula said. “I think we all kind of have those moments for the first time.”
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Agency Requesting Feedback on the Draft Recommendations and How They Should Be Applied to Increasingly Diverse Trial Types and Data Sources
SILVER SPRING, Md., June 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of a draft guidance with updated recommendations for good clinical practices (GCPs) aimed at modernizing the design and conduct of clinical trials, making them more agile without compromising data integrity or participant protections. The updates are intended to help pave the way for more efficient clinical trials to facilitate the development of medical products. The draft guidance is adopted from the International Council for Harmonisation's (ICH) recently updated E6(R3) draft guideline that was developed to enable the incorporation of rapidly developing technological and methodological innovations into the clinical trial enterprise.
"A more robust clinical trial ecosystem that is capable of producing reliable evidence more efficiently may support more informed decision-making in developing medical products to help patients," said FDA Commissioner Robert M. Califf, M.D. "These draft recommendations propose a major step forward in this work. Building quality into the design and conduct of trials and encouraging the use of innovative trial designs and health technologies are essential to truly advance clinical trials and generate meaningful results."
GCPs are essential to help ensure the safety of trial participants, as well as the integrity of the data generated from trials. Over the years, the clinical trial enterprise has been viewed as costly, inefficient and constrained by inadequate collaboration and insufficient utilization of technology, data sources and innovations in design and conduct. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted many of these challenges, while also spurring the development of new approaches.
"These draft recommendations were developed with the aim to streamline trials, making them more efficient and flexible as the trial enterprise continues to evolve," said M. Khair ElZarrad, director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research's Office of Medical Policy. "We hope these recommendations, once finalized, will encourage thoughtful approaches to conducting clinical trials with a focus on participant safety and data integrity."
ElZarrad led the ICH Expert Working Group in developing the ICH E6(R3) draft guideline. Academic clinical trial experts from various ICH member countries also played an important role in informing the work of the expert group.
This draft guidance, once finalized, would update the existing guidance titled, E6(R2) Good Clinical Practice: Integrated Addendum to ICH E6(R1) (March 2018). The revised draft recommendations are designed to be applicable to a broad range of clinical trials including those with innovative design elements. These elements have the potential to make trials more efficient and less burdensome. Additionally, the modernized GCP recommendations encourage the use of fit-for-purpose innovative digital health technologies (DHTs). DHTs, such as wearable sensors could potentially facilitate more agile data collection and assist with patient recruitment.
The FDA recently issued other documents that complement these draft recommendations. The agency supports the adoption of innovative trial designs, when appropriate, and in May released draft guidance proposing recommendations for the implementation of decentralized clinical trials. Regarding DHTs, the agency also recently released a DHT framework document to guide the use of DHT-derived data in regulatory decision-making for drugs and biological products.
In addition to the recommendations supporting the modernization of trials, the principles outlined in the draft recommendations aim to make trials more efficient and potentially accelerate evidence generation for medical products by:
- Emphasizing the use of risk-based and proportionate approaches across the lifecycle of a clinical trial (e.g., data collection, monitoring, quality management). With this approach, investigators are encouraged to determine which data and clinical trial processes are most important to participant safety and data integrity, and focus efforts accordingly. This helps ensure investigators are allocating resources and efforts toward collecting and analyzing key data for the trial; and
- Encouraging sponsors to be proactive when it comes to a trial's quality considerations. Quality considerations include attributes of a trial which are fundamental to the protection of participants, the reliability of trial results and the decisions made based on those trial results. Having an early focus on these factors helps ensure trials are designed efficiently, avoiding possible delays from unnecessary complexities and burdens.
As part of the FDA's established process, this draft guidance will be open for public comment for 60 days. The ICH Expert Working Group will review and consider comments on this draft guidance, as well as feedback from other ICH member countries before finalizing the ICH guideline.
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- E6(R3) Guideline for Good Clinical Practice
- Decentralized Clinical Trials for Drugs, Biological Products, and Devices
- Framework for the Use of Digital Health Technologies in Drug and Biological Product Development
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On another episode of people of wildin’ in the airport, a woman was arrested after attacking an American Airlines employee.
According to reports, police arrested 25-year-old Camilia McMillie at the Miami International Airport after she “took her frustrations out on a gate agent when she couldn’t find her two children, who had walked off to use the bathroom.”
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McMillie was traveling from Alabama to New York City with her kids and had a layover at the south Florida airport.
Reports. state that she began screaming, went behind the desk, tossed keyboards, and ripped the boarding pass reader off the wooden counter causing around $10,000 worth of damage. She also grabbed a computer monitor and threw it at the gate agent hitting her in the shoulder.
American Airlines spokesperson Derek Walls gave a statement saying, “Acts of violence against our team members are not tolerated by American Airlines, and we are working closely with law enforcement in their investigation.”
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The mother was booked on an aggravated battery charge, among others with a $13,000 bond. The American Airlines employee suffered bruising on her right shoulder area.
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