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DOVER, Del. (AP) — The Boys Scouts of America's $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan took effect Wednesday. But more time will be needed before survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of Boy Scout leaders and volunteers begin receiving compensation.
The plan became effective when the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request by the plan's opponents to issue a stay while they appeal a federal district court’s approval of the plan. The denial of the stay means the plan can formally take effect, but opponents are expected to continue to pursue their appeal.
“This is a significant milestone for the BSA as we emerge from a three-year financial restructuring process with a global resolution approved with overwhelming support of more than 85% of the survivors involved in the case,” Boy Scouts CEO and President Roger Mosby said in a prepared statement.
Doug Kennedy, co-chair of the bankruptcy’s official committee of abuse claimants, said survivors can now “take an important step toward a degree of resolution for their abuse.”
The plan allows the Texas-based Boy Scouts to keep operating while compensating tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as children. More than 80,000 men have filed claims. The plan's opponents have argued that the staggering number of claims, when combined with other factors, suggests the bankruptcy process was manipulated.
With the plan taking effect, assets will begin flowing gradually into a settlement trust that will evaluate claims and distribute payments to abuse survivors. Retired Texas federal bankruptcy judge Barbara Houser, who will oversee the trust, can begin hiring advisers, but it likely will be at least several months before any abuse survivors begin receiving payments.
Meanwhile, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein held a hearing Wednesday to consider requests that the Boy Scouts be allowed to pay more than $20 million in legal fees and expenses of attorneys for a coalition of law firms representing those who claim to have been abused. Those law firms are expected to take roughly 40% of any payments to clients from the trust.
Nevertheless, attorneys for the Coalition of Abused Scouts for Justice argued that Silverstein should grant their “relatively modest” request that the Boy Scouts of America pay a portion of their fees because of the “extraordinary contribution” they made in developing a reorganization plan.
The coalition played a dominant role in the bankruptcy, despite the existence of the official committee. Coalition law firms represent nearly 18,000 claimants and are affiliated with more than two dozen law firms that collectively represent more than 60,000 claimants. The plan's opponents have suggested that the huge number of claims was the result of a nationwide marketing effort by personal injury lawyers working with for-profit claims aggregators to drum up clients.
Silverstein in 2021 rejected a previous proposal for the Boy Scouts to pay millions of dollars in fees and expenses of attorneys hired by coalition law firms. The judge noted that any such payment would come out of the pockets of abuse claimants, a concern she reiterated Wednesday.
Silverstein noted that when the coalition was formed, she wanted to know who was funding it. “Is it coming of the claimants' pockets, or is it coming out of the law firms’ pockets?” she recalled asking. “And the answer was, ‘It’s coming out of the law firms’ pockets.' ”
The judge questioned whether the fee request isn't simply a “surcharge” to abuse claimants, because the money would otherwise go to the settlement trust. She suggested that the coalition was essentially a “splinter group” from the official committee, and that its work was duplicative of the committee's work.
“Should their fees be paid when I have a group, an official committee, that is charged and has a fiduciary obligation to the entire survivor constituency? I’m struggling with that,” said Silverstein, who did not immediately rule.
Under the plan, the Boy Scouts of America will contribute less than 10% of the settlement fund. Local Boy Scout councils, which run day-to-day operations for troops, offered to contribute at least $515 million in cash and property, conditioned on certain protections for local troop sponsoring organizations, including religious entities, civic associations and community groups.
The bulk of the compensation fund will come from the Boy Scouts’ two largest insurers, Century Indemnity and The Hartford, which reached settlements calling for them to contribute $800 million and $787 million, respectively. Those amounts represent a fraction of the billions of dollars in potential liability exposure they faced. Smaller insurers agreed to contribute about $69 million.
Other insurers, many of which provided excess coverage, have refused to settle. They contend that the procedures for distributing funds would violate their contractual rights to contest claims, set a dangerous precedent for mass tort litigation, and result in grossly inflated payments.
Under the plan, insurance companies, local Scout councils and troop sponsoring organizations will receive broad liability releases protecting them from future sex abuse lawsuits in exchange for contributing to the compensation fund. Some abuse survivors argue that releasing their claims against those non-debtor third parties without their consent violates their due process rights.
Such third-party releases, spawned by asbestos and product-liability cases, have been criticized as an unconstitutional form of “bankruptcy grifting,” in which non-debtor entities obtain benefits by joining with a debtor to resolve mass-tort litigation in bankruptcy.
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2023-04-19T23:27:58+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/bsa-bankruptcy-plan-in-effect-but-appeals-likely-17907328.php
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PITTSFORD, N.Y. – New York's love affair with Phil Mickelson still appears to run deep. No matter the part of the state. No matter what tour he calls home.
A year after the six-time major champion left the PGA Tour to become the de facto face of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf league — a move that kickstarted multiple lawsuits and a sometimes bitter war of words among the sport's biggest stars — Mickelson strolled around Oak Hill ahead of this week's PGA Championship as if nothing from his surprising triumph at Kiawah in 2021 has changed other than than perhaps his seemingly ever-shrinking waistline.
Wearing a hooded burgundy sweatshirt and his trademark aviator sunglasses, Mickelson made a leisurely tour of the front nine with fellow LIV competitors and PGA Tour defectors Dustin Johnson, Harold Varner III and Talor Gooch ahead of Thursday's opening round.
This is the state that serenaded him with “Happy Birthday” during the final round of the 2002 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black as he tried to chase down Tiger Woods for his first major; celebrated when he won his first PGA title at Baltusrol in 2005 — northern New Jersey essentially counts right? — and groaned when he double-bogeyed the 18th at Winged Foot to cost himself the 2006 U.S. Open.
The gallery drifted three-to-four deep around the tee boxes and greens, with various iterations of “Phil” and “Go Phil!" following Mickelson as he tried to get a gauge on a slightly revamped East Course that he's come to know pretty well over the last three decades.
There were hits and misses. An approach shot from the middle of the fairway on the par-4 second hole caromed into a greenside bunker. Minutes later he feathered his tee shot on the treacherous 230-yard par-3 third hole to 10 feet, only to stare in surprise when a pair of practice putts slid low and right of the cup.
At every turn, however, there were throngs of support as the two state troopers tasked with following the foursome did their best to duck out of the frame as fans pulled out their phones to capture Mickelson's every move.
It was a scene reminiscent of his stunning performance in South Carolina two years ago, when he fended off Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen to become the first 50-something to capture one of golf's four majors.
Mickelson bailed on a chance to defend his PGA title last year at Southern Hills, part of the initial fallout of comments in which he said he was fine aligning with LIV Golf in an effort to put pressure on the PGA Tour.
Three weeks later, he teed it up with LIV outside London.
Now he's seemingly entrenched on the upstart tour while calling out entities like the PGA Tour, the PGA of America and the USGA for practices he believes could exclude LIV players from opportunities to compete in majors like the PGA and the U.S. Open.
Remove the rhetoric, however, and Mickelson can still bring it. He put together a stunning final round 7-under 65 at Augusta National to charge up the leaderboard and tie for second behind Jon Rahm at the Masters.
The noise around the LIV/PGA Tour rift seems to have calmed a bit in western New York. Rahm, the world's No. 1-ranked player, said he hoped to play a practice round with Mickelson at some point. It didn't work out this week.
Maybe the nearly three-hour trip around the front nine with Johnson, Varner and Gooch was Mickelson's way of trying to give some of his LIV colleagues some pointers on a course he knows well.
Mickelson went 3-0 in his Ryder Cup debut in 1995, shot a 4-under 66 to share the first round lead at the 2003 PGA before fading to a tie for 23rd. He never really threatened in 2013, undone by a 78 on Saturday that had him finishing up his final round long before eventual champion Jason Dufner teed off.
Dufner isn't playing at Oak Hill this weekend. Mickelson, however, remains a fixture. Popular too. By the end of his round he'd shed his hoodie for one of his signature black polos and spent several minutes signing autographs or posing for selfies.
The calls of “Phil!” persisted as he slowly made his way toward the parking lot, urging those he missed to try to grab him later in the week.
Minutes later, Mickelson did a little bit of stretching then hopped into the massive SUV idling in his reserved parking space before zooming away, eyes fixated on the road ahead, not the road behind.
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2023-05-18T00:50:59+00:00
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ksat.com
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https://www.ksat.com/sports/2023/05/17/loving-lefty-support-for-phil-mickelson-remains-strong-at-pga-championship-after-liv-split/
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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has signed legislation giving Native American families preference in fostering and adopting Native children involved with child protective services, a proactive move to protect such rights as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could undercut them nationally.
Gianforte signed the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act on Monday after it passed the Legislature by a wide margin.
Governors in Wyoming and North Dakota signed similar laws this spring, while a proposal in Utah stalled in the state Legislature.
The measures are modeled after the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, which Congress passed in 1978 in response to the alarming rate at which Native American and Alaskan Native children were taken from their homes by public and private agencies and subjected to physical and emotional abuse.
A pending Supreme Court challenge has put the federal law in jeopardy. During a hearing last year, justices seemed likely to leave in place most of the law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native children. The law also requires child welfare agencies to provide services to help Native families move toward reunification.
The Montana bill was amended by lawmakers to sunset after two years. Its Democratic sponsor, Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, said he initially introduced the measure a decade ago after some state district court judges were not following the federal law in Native children custody cases.
The new law includes “specific language that strengthens the protections of the child,” Windy Boy said.
Gianforte was scheduled to be in Texas Tuesday for a Republican Governors Association meeting. His spokesperson could not be immediately reached for comment.
Ten other states already had similar laws in place, including New Mexico, whose law took effect this year. They too could be affected depending on how the justices rule. Most federally recognized tribes want the act upheld, fearing that an adverse ruling could dismantle a whole range of federal laws based on their political relationships with the U.S. government.
Opponents include non-Native families who have tried to adopt American Indian children in emotional legal cases.
A handful of white families claim the federal law is based on race and is unconstitutional under the equal protection clause. They claim it puts tribal interests ahead of children. Lower courts have split on the issue.
From 1887-1969, Native children were placed in boarding schools that used abusive practices to assimilate them into white society. Many were adopted by non-Native families, often depriving them of their tribal and cultural heritage.
In Montana, nearly 11% of all children are Indigenous, but they made up 37% of those in foster care in 2021, according to the National Indian Child Welfare Association. About 9% of North Dakota children are Indigenous, a state where they account for 44% of the children in foster care, the association said.
Montana lawmakers added language to the final bill indicating they intend to revisit the issue in future sessions.
“The Legislature does not expect this to be the final word on how we deal with Indian child welfare issues or how we seek to provide for all of Montana’s children within the child protection system,” they wrote.
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2023-05-23T20:09:10+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/national/ap-us-news/ap-montana-acts-to-protect-native-american-priority-in-adopting-native-children/
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Which Venom action figures are best?
There are a lot of legendary villains in the Marvel universe, but few are as infamous as Venom, the sinister symbiote that took over the body of journalist Eddie Brock. This iconic nemesis of Spider-Man has appeared in comic books, video games and feature films, leading many fans to seek out the best Venom action figures.
The character’s popularity has led to quite a few toys, but if you want a detailed figurine with multiple points of articulation, check out the Marvel Legends Venom Action Figure.
What to know before you buy a Venom action figure
Films vs. comics
If you’re buying a Venom action figure as a gift, think about whether the recipient is interested in the films or the comic book series. As with other Marvel toys, there can be stark visual differences between the incarnations in the comics and their cinematic counterparts. Venom toys that are inspired by characters from the films usually come with relevant accessories and might even resemble the actors who played them.
Characters
Most Marvel fans will be looking for action figures that resemble Venom (aka Eddie Brock), but there are several other characters that take on a similar visual appearance once they come in contact with an alien symbiote. Avoid the confusion by familiarizing yourself with the following characters.
- Carnage: One of Venom’s main adversaries, Carnage looks like a red version of Venom and is often depicted with long tentacles emerging from his back.
- Anti-Venom: Another one of Venom’s enemies, this character has a white and black appearance and is only in the comic books.
- Toxin: This villain is depicted as red and black and typically is more muscular than other characters from the franchise.
- Spider-Man: Most people will have no trouble recognizing this iconic webslinger, but Peter Parker’s encounters with Venom have occasionally resulted in a symbiotic version of the hero that may appear in action figure form.
Toy brands
Famous toy brands including LEGO, Hasbro and Funko POP! have introduced Venom action figures over the years. Some of these are meant to be played with while others are meant to be collected or displayed. Think about how you or your child is going to use the action figure before deciding on a particular brand’s product.
What to look for in a quality Venom action figure
Articulation
The points of articulation determine how much your figure’s body parts will move. Some simple toys only have a few points of articulation at their shoulders and legs, while other action figures can have points of articulation at the knees, elbows and even fingers. In most cases, the more points of articulation, the better.
Size and scale
Venom action figures come in a wide range of sizes, but most products usually are around 4-12 inches tall. If you’re buying this action figure for a child, take a look at their existing toy collection to make sure their new Venom toy is going to fit in.
Accessories
Many Venom action figures come with fun and immersive accessories so you can recreate memorable scenes from the films or comics. These can include interchangeable body parts, weapons and even facial expressions. Collectible action figures may come with stands or display cases.
How much you can expect to spend on a Venom action figure
The cost of a Venom action figure can vary widely depending on the size and detail of the toy. Most consumers can expect to pay $10-$40 for a detailed figure with multiple points of articulation.
Venom action figure FAQ
What is a symbiote?
A. The symbiotes are a species of intelligent parasitic aliens that bond with their hosts, altering their personalities and granting them superpowered abilities. Venom became the most famous symbiote after bonding with journalist Eddie Brock.
Is Venom evil or good?
A. Venom is usually depicted as an anti-hero, meaning he can be heroic or morally ambiguous depending on the situation. Nevertheless, Venom remains one of Spider-Man’s most legendary adversaries.
What are the best Venom action figures to buy?
Top Venom action figure
Marvel Legends Venom Action Figure
What you need to know: This intricately detailed Venom figure comes with multiple points of articulation and three accessories.
What you’ll love: Standing at 6 inches tall, this Venom action figure has impressive articulation, featuring points at the waist, knees, wrists and ankles. The accessories include an interchangeable face and two hand options.
What you should consider: Although it’s a reasonable price for many collectors, this action figure is more expensive than many kids’ toys.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Venom action figure for the money
Marvel Spider-Man Bend and Flex: Venom vs. Carnage Action Figures
What you need to know: This affordable toy set comes with two action figures that feature a bendable design.
What you’ll love: Two action figures for the price of one, these toys can be bent and flexed in nearly any position imaginable. They stand at 6 inches tall and are perhaps best suited for young children.
What you should consider: The design is not for everyone, and some users felt the action figures were too breakable.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Marvel Titan Hero Series: 12-Inch Venom Action Figure
What you need to know: Standing at 12 inches tall, this action figure is great for kids that like large toys.
What you’ll love: This Venom action figure is perhaps the most fun when paired with other figures in the same toy series. There are articulation points at the shoulders, legs and wrists, and the toy is appropriate for kids ages 4 and older.
What you should consider: A few users received an action figure that had broken in transit, while others received the wrong figure altogether.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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2022-11-22T04:47:55+00:00
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valleycentral.com
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https://www.valleycentral.com/reviews/br/toys-games-br/action-figures-playsets-br/best-venom-action-figure/
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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday cleared itself of wrongdoing in the death of a 7-year-old Palestinian boy whose family says he “died of fear” after an encounter with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
The United States, European Union and United Nations had demanded an investigation into the death of second-grader Rayan Suleiman, which became the latest lightning rod in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as outraged Palestinians blamed Israel for his death last week.
Rayan’s parents allege he was chased by Israeli soldiers on his way home from school and that he collapsed when troops appeared at his home in the Palestinian town of Tequa. They say he fell unconscious after troops interrogated his father and threatened Rayan and his brothers with arrest.
Doctors who treated Rayan said a preliminary examination showed Rayan experienced cardiac arrest induced by what could be described as a severe panic attack. A Palestinian hospital said it had conducted an autopsy but its findings have not yet been made public.
Israel closed its investigation into his death on Thursday, denying any violence in the encounter between Israeli soldiers and Rayan’s family and saying the “soldiers acted as expected of them, while adhering to the (army’s) values.”
Israeli military investigations have long drawn criticism from rights groups and Palestinians who charge that they are not independent or effective, citing a low indictment rate. The military insists the system works.
In its probe into Rayan's death, the army said one of its commanders searched several houses in Tequa for suspects who had fled after hurling stones at motorists last week.
It said the soldier summoned Rayan’s father with his two children to their doorstep for interrogation last Thursday, describing the encounter as a conversation “held in a respectful manner, without any form of physical contact and certainly without the use of verbal or physical violence.”
The troops next saw the father in a car with his son on his lap, the army said, noting that it found “no evidence” Rayan suffered physical damage as the result of Israeli military activity.
Hundreds of people attended Rayan's funeral last Friday, and his death struck a nerve with Palestinian parents. Fear for their children’s safety and the dread of soldiers knocking on the door are part of daily life under an entrenched Israeli military rule that is now in its 56th year. Human rights groups say Israeli soldiers routinely arrest children and teenagers during night raids.
Rayan's death came as violence escalates in the occupied West Bank, where nearly half a million Israeli settlers live on land that Palestinians want for a future independent state. Israel has conducted arrest raids almost every night since a series of deadly Palestinian attacks in Israel last spring. The incursions have killed over 100 Palestinians this year — a seven-year high.
Most of those killed are said by Israel to have been militants, but local youths protesting the incursions as well as some civilians have also died in the violence.
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2022-10-06T15:44:40+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Israel-army-clears-itself-in-death-of-7-year-old-17491001.php
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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Edge Impulse, the leading platform for creating and deploying AI to the edge, and Particle, the leading integrated Internet of Things (IoT) platform-as-a-service, today announced a partnership to natively support Particle's new Photon 2 board on the Edge Impulse Studio platform. This collaboration brings the power of edge AI to the Particle ecosystem, facilitating seamless deployment of trained AI models to the Photon 2 board.
Since its launch in 2019, Edge Impulse has quickly become the go-to provider for enterprises, developers, and ML experts that need to efficiently build AI and machine learning solutions for edge devices. Using its Studio platform, users are able to easily collect sensor data, refine features, build models, and deploy directly to devices, bringing powerful and valuable capabilities to industries ranging from healthcare to manufacturing to transportation.
The Particle partnership becomes the first official IoT integration for Edge Impulse.
With their easy-to-use devices and Particle Cloud, Particle has over the past decade built itself into a widely used platform for sending data to the cloud and connecting hardware of all types. Utilized by Fortune 500 companies as well as by nascent startups, the partnership means the company will now be able to offer its customers a simple yet effective solution for adding machine learning to their IoT endeavors when using the new Photon 2 board. The Photon 2 provides dual-band WiFi and BLE 5 connectivity, 2MB of Flash memory, 3MB RAM, and is powered by a 200MHz Realtek MCU.
"We're excited about this collaboration as it allows us to offer an integrated, developer-friendly platform that further enhances edge computing capabilities," said Raul Vergara, Edge Impulse's Executive Vice President of Growth. "By supporting the Particle Photon 2 board natively in our platform, we're giving developers the power to deploy sophisticated ML models directly to IoT devices, marking a significant milestone in edge technology."
"Edge Impulse's pioneering work in AI and machine learning is at the very forefront of the industry, and the integration of their technology with our new Particle Photon 2 board will greatly accelerate the development of intelligent IoT applications. The union of AI and IoT is compelling and can bring about transformative changes in various industries," said Zach Supalla, CEO of Particle. "This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to creating accessible, robust tools for developers to innovate, revolutionize, and unlock the potential of IoT ecosystems. We're not just looking at the next year or product cycle - we're looking at shaping the next decade of IoT development."
To kick off the partnership, Edge Impulse CEO Zach Shelby joined Supalla in his keynote at Spectra, Particle's virtual developer conference, on June 21.
For more information on utilizing Photon 2 with Edge Impulse, visit the integration overview.
About Edge Impulse
Edge Impulse offers the latest in machine learning tooling, enabling all enterprises to build smarter edge products. Their technology empowers developers to bring more AI products to market faster, and helps enterprise teams rapidly develop industry-specific solutions in weeks instead of years. Edge Impulse provides powerful automation and low-code capabilities to make it easier to build valuable datasets and develop advanced AI with streaming data. With over 75,000 developers, and partnerships with the top silicon vendors, Edge Impulse offers a seamless integration experience to validate and deploy with confidence across the largest hardware ecosystem. To learn more, visit edgeimpulse.com.
About Particle
Particle provides an integrated IoT platform-as-a-service that helps businesses connect, manage, and deploy software applications to connected devices, from edge to cloud and back. Particle powers IoT products from hundreds of businesses — from fast-growing start-ups to Fortune 100 companies — and is used by more than 240,000 developers for IoT product development. Our expertise goes beyond world-class technology, enabling next-generation business intelligence, insights, and expert customer support to make sure IoT projects succeed — so you can build the business of tomorrow, today.
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2023-06-27T18:15:04+00:00
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waff.com
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https://www.waff.com/prnewswire/2023/06/27/edge-impulses-new-particle-photon-2-support-puts-machine-learning-into-iot-applications/
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-- Medicaid improves Phexxi coverage for more than 3.7 million lives across 11 states --
-- Largest commercial insurer in Michigan and a marquis university plan in Pennsylvania move Phexxi to Preferred formulary position with $0 copay and no restrictions, affecting nearly 2.25 million lives in aggregate --
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Evofem Biosciences, Inc. (OTCQB: EVFM) today announced multiple new insurance wins that give millions of additional women access to Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid, potassium bitartrate) for the hormone-free prevention of pregnancy.
"Evofem's unrelenting focus and engagement with payers continues to deliver results, expanding and improving access to Phexxi for millions of women across the country," said Saundra Pelletier, Chief Executive Officer of Evofem.
Three recent Medicaid wins move Phexxi to a Preferred formulary position with no restrictions, improving Phexxi coverage for more than 3.7 million lives in 11 states.
- A leading Managed Medicaid provider removed the Prior Authorization (PA) and moved Phexxi from Non-Preferred to Preferred for 14 of its Managed Medicaid plans effective November 2, 2022. This change improved Phexxi coverage for approximately 3 million lives in nine states: Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Nevada, Nebraska and Florida.
- Mississippi Medicaid removed the PA and moved Phexxi from Non-preferred to Preferred Agent effective January 1, 2023. Mississippi has a Universal Preferred Drug List, so this change positively impacts both Fee for Service and Managed Medicaid beneficiaries – more than 600,000 lives.
- Phexxi was added to the Indiana State Medicaid Preferred Drug List with no PA effective January 1, 2023. Its prior position was Non-preferred with a PA. When Indiana transitions to a Universal PDL on July 1, 2023, the state's 1.4 million Managed Medicaid lives will also gain access to Phexxi as Preferred with no PA.
Evofem also expanded its commercial coverage for Phexxi with wins including a marquis university health plan in Pennsylvania (effective November 30, 2022) and the largest commercial payer in Michigan (effective January 1, 2023). These payers serve over 2.25 million lives in aggregate. Both payers have removed the PA and moved Phexxi to Preferred formulary status; Phexxi's new position is $0 Preferred with no restrictions.
Earlier in 2022, Evofem opened avenues for Phexxi with payers including one of the nation's largest Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs); a highly respected national-level commercial payer that added Phexxi to formulary for standard plans nationwide; large payers in California and Hawaii, both with no copay for Phexxi patients; and one of the largest payers in Utah, with no prior authorization.
Under section 2713 of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act, group health plans and health insurers are required to cover preventive care and screenings under guidelines issued by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). PHS Act section 2713 took effect when added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010. The HRSA guidelines currently in effect were issued in 2019 and require broad coverage of contraceptive care and services for women. Updated guidelines issued in late 2021 took effect on January 1, 2023, for calendar year plans.
In July 2022, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury released further guidance regarding birth control coverage clarifying that group health plans and insurers must cover contraceptives at no cost to individuals. As the new guidance reminds employers, violators of the preventive care coverage requirements may be subject to the $100 per person per day excise tax under section 4980D of the Internal Revenue Code or a civil monetary penalty under PHS Act section 2723. The guidance states that the departments "will take enforcement action as warranted."
About Evofem
Evofem Biosciences, Inc., is developing and commercializing innovative products to address unmet needs in women's sexual and reproductive health. The Company's first FDA-approved product, Phexxi® (lactic acid, citric acid and potassium bitartrate), is a hormone-free, on-demand prescription contraceptive vaginal gel. It comes in a box of 12 pre-filled applicators and is applied 0-60 minutes before each act of sex. Learn more at phexxi.com and evofem.com.
Phexxi® is a registered trademark of Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
About Phexx
Phexxi is an on-demand method of birth control used to prevent pregnancy. Phexxi is not effective when used after sex. For more information about Phexxi, talk to your healthcare provider and see full Product Information at www.phexxi.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements," within the meaning of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including, without limitation, statements related to the timing and impact of the transition by Indiana to a Universal PDL. Various factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, including market and other conditions, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which are current only as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed or implied in the forward-looking statements, or that could impair the value of Evofem Biosciences' assets and business, are disclosed in the Company's SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 10, 2022, its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 filed with the SEC on January 6, 2023 and any subsequent filings. All forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by such factors. The Company does not undertake any duty to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
Contacts
Investors:
Amy Raskopf
SVP, Investor Relations
Evofem Biosciences, Inc.
araskopf@evofem.com
(917) 673-5775
Media:
media@evofem.com
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2023-01-09T15:20:13+00:00
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kswo.com
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https://www.kswo.com/prnewswire/2023/01/09/multiple-new-insurance-wins-expand-improve-access-phexxi-millions-women/
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ATLANTA, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – A portion of I-20 eastbound near the Harrison/Gregg County line will be closed on Sunday, November 13, from midnight until 6:00 a.m., when crews will remove a dynamic message sign from the interstate.
Eastbound traffic will be detoured to the frontage road at exit 596 onto US 259 and can reenter the interstate at exit 599, also known as Loop 281.
Extra time for travel may be necessary for motorists who will be in the area during that time.
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2022-11-08T20:31:35+00:00
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cenlanow.com
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https://www.cenlanow.com/state-news/portion-of-i-20-eastbound-to-be-closed-on-november-13/
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Citizen Squad and History Remix, Currently in Development, Use Comedy to Inspire Future Citizens and Civic Leaders
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company has announced two new projects in development to focus on citizenship and activism. Citizen Squad, a witty live-action musical special, explores how kids accept the call to action of citizenship to solve real-world problems through a twisty, nonsensical adventure that yields loads of humor. The unscripted live-action series History Remix starring a mischief-making puppet host, celebrates figures who have had an impact on the world we live in as seen from the often-hilarious kid point of view.
"Citizenship and civics teach kids to care about themselves, one another, the environment, and their community. With Citizen Squad and History Remix, these big topics will be approached comedically from a kid's point of view, inspiring the audience at home to see themselves as having the power to meaningfully impact the world," said Halle Stanford, President of Television for The Jim Henson Company. "We have partnered with such passionate and talented creators and producers to develop these shows now, when kids are needing to see that they are the everyday heroes and the lifeblood of our democracy. They are the change agents in our communities and the world."
From Rana DiOrio, award-winning children's media entrepreneur and author of the What Does It Mean To Be . . .?® picture book series, and Jeannine Harvey, award-winning digital media producer and activist, along with Kellen Hertz (Tenney/American Girl; How to Become…/Netflix) attached to write, comes Citizen Squad, a musical special starring Mari, an idealistic young girl – and all new puppet character – who wants to change the world for the better, but her ideas are comically impractical. When her favorite teacher inspires her to search for ways she can be a good citizen in her own community, Mari learns what it means to have agency, and discovers that global citizenship comes from collective individual actions and efforts that can lead to big changes.
It's not history, it's "kidstory" in History Remix, a live action unscripted kids' series full of non-stop laughs and learning from Emmy-winning creator Stephanie Burns (Weird But True!/Disney+; DIY Sci/FOX) of Steve Rotfeld Productions. Real kids tell their hilarious tales of quirky, contemporary figures who changed the world as celebrities act out the stories verbatim in DIY-inspired costumes, all while lip syncing the kids' exact words.
The Jim Henson Company has remained an established leader in family entertainment for over 60 years and is recognized as an innovator in puppetry, animatronics, and digital animation. The Company is currently in production on Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio for Netflix and the feature film The Portable Door. Henson's most recent television credits include Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Harriet the Spy and Fraggle Rock: Rock On!, all for Apple TV+, Word Party Presents: Math! for Netflix, Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time for discovery+, Earth to Ned for Disney+, and the Emmy®-winning Netflix Original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Other TV productions include Word Party (Netflix), Dinosaur Train (PBS), Splash and Bubbles (PBS), Sid the Science Kid (PBS), and Julie's Greenroom (Netflix), as well as Fraggle Rock, The Storyteller, and the sci-fi series Farscape. Feature film credits include The Star (Sony Pictures Animation), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Disney), and the groundbreaking fantasy classics The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.
With additional locations in New York and London, The Jim Henson Company is headquartered in Los Angeles on the historic Charlie Chaplin lot, complete with soundstage and post-production facilities. The Company is home to Jim Henson's Creature Shop™, a pre-eminent character-building and visual effects group with international film, television, theme park and advertising clients, as well as Henson Recording Studios, one of the music industry's top recording facilities known for its world-class blend of state-of-the-art and vintage equipment. The Company's Henson Alternative credits include The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell (Netflix), the feature film The Happytime Murders, and the popular live puppet improvisational show Puppet-Up! – Uncensored.
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2022-07-18T18:33:06+00:00
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wafb.com
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https://www.wafb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/18/citizenship-activism-take-center-stage-two-new-kids-projects-jim-henson-company/
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Dayton on Wednesday announced the completion of phase one of its capital campaign to fund a new lodging facility thanks to a large donation from Ohio’s Medicaid managed care organizations.
The $13 million donation is the largest ever received by RMHC Dayton, organization officials said during a press conference. The funds, combined with $8 million in community donations, effectively complete the first phase of the total $25 million capital campaign and will go toward construction of a new Ronald McDonald House for patient families.
The new 40,000-square-foot facility will have 42 guest rooms on three floors, as well as a partial basement, communal space, and an outdoor recreation area. According to Rita Cyr, CEO, RMHC Dayton, thanks to the $13 million donation, construction could begin as soon as this fall, which is six months ahead of the original estimated schedule.
The new house will be built directly behind the existing facility on Valley Street, which Cyr said will remain open throughout the estimated 18-month construction period. Once the new facility is completed, the current building will be torn down, allowing for green space and the potential for additional expansion in the future.
Dayton has become a hub for pediatric healthcare with increased outpatient and specialty services driving growth in recent years, including the addition of Shriners Children’s Ohio, which moved to Dayton from Cincinnati in 2021.
Housing is a critical component of the continuum of care, but RMHC Dayton’s current facility across from Dayton Children’s Hospital’s main campus is unable to meet the growing need for its services, Cyr said.
“Last year, Ronald McDonald House had to turn away 63% of the families that came to us for housing,” Cyr said. “To know that we’re (no longer) going to have a waitlist, I can’t even imagine it, and I know the families are going to be so appreciative of this gift.”
Shellie Drake of Troy, a former guest of the Ronald McDonald House, shared her appreciation for RMHC Dayton during Wednesday’s event. Drake and her husband stayed in the house for months while their newborn daughter, Adelyn, was being treated at Dayton Children’s for multiple congenital defects.
“The Ronald McDonald House became our second home and we are so grateful for that,” Drake said. “They provided a welcoming place for my husband and I to learn to be a new family, to process our grief and our uncertainties, as our brand new daughter began her life living in the NICU and fighting.”
According to Ohio Medicaid Director Maureen Corcoran, more than half of the families Ronald McDonald House serves are Medicaid eligible.
“Supporting every family’s needs, while providing essential health care for their children, is the goal,” Corcoran said.
Ohio’s participating Medicaid managed care plans include Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Buckeye Health Plan, Dayton-based CareSource, Molina HealthCare of Ohio and UnitedHealthcare Community Plan.
CareSource President and CEO, Erhardt Preitauer and his wife, Kili Preitauer, Midwest Region President at ValueHealth, serve as co-chairs of the Ronald McDonald House Dayton capital campaign.
“Erhardt and Kili were essential to reaching this significant milestone, in record time,” Cyr said. “We are so grateful for their passion for this project and for the support from Ohio’s Medicaid managed care plans. Their collective effort demonstrates their commitment to meeting the needs of Ohio’s kids and families who rely on our services.”
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2022-04-28T01:28:28+00:00
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springfieldnewssun.com
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https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/ronald-mcdonald-house-dayton-receives-13m-contribution-to-capital-campaign/MJWVDBV2JBH73JX3MQFNK3USDM/
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Churchill Downs extends trainer Bob Baffert’s ban through 2024
(AP) – Churchill Downs is extending Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s suspension through 2024, keeping the two-time Triple Crown winner from entering horses in the Kentucky Derby and other races for an additional year.
Churchill Downs Inc. announced Monday it was continuing Baffert’s ban, citing “continued concerns regarding the threat to the safety and integrity of racing he poses to CDI-owned racetracks.”
Baffert initially was suspended for two years after 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit failed a postrace drug test and was later disqualified.
In a statement, Churchill Downs said Baffert continues to “peddle false narratives” about Medina Spirit’s failed drug test for a steroid, betamethasone, that is legal in Kentucky but is banned on race day.
“A trainer who is unwilling to accept responsibility for multiple drug test failures in our highest-profile races cannot be trusted to avoid future misconduct,” CDI said.
The company went on to say it will re-evaluate Baffert’s status after 2024.
A message left by The Associated Press seeking comment from Baffert’s camp was not immediately returned.
Asked for further comment, a CDI spokesperson deferred to the statement.
Baffert’s suspension comes with horse racing at a crossroads, following the deaths of 12 horses within a month at Churchill Downs that led the storied track to look into causes, while the Horseracing Safety and Integrity Authority launched a parallel investigation. Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. recently was reinstated by Churchill Downs after two of his horses died in the lead-up to the Kentucky Derby this year.
Baffert returned to the Triple Crown trail earlier this year at the Preakness after being suspended from that race and the Belmont in 2022 in connection with a different, 90-day ban in Kentucky that Maryland and New York honored. His National Treasure won the Preakness, giving him a record-breaking eighth victory in the race hours after another 3-year-old horse he trained broke his left front leg while racing and was euthanized on the track.
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2023-07-03T22:16:35+00:00
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wlbt.com
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https://www.wlbt.com/2023/07/03/churchill-downs-extends-trainer-bob-bafferts-ban-through-2024/
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SEATTLE (AP) — For their first venture into the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Seattle Kraken are giving their fans quite the exciting, yet stressful experience.
Two playoff series. And now, a second Game 7.
“That’s all you can ask for These games are what makes playoff hockey fun,” Seattle’s Jordan Eberle said.
Eberle scored twice, Eeli Tolvanen had a goal and two assists, and the Kraken beat the Dallas Stars 6-3 on Saturday night to force a deciding Game 7 in their Western Conference semifinal series.
Tolvanen’s goal in the opening minutes of the second period gave Seattle a 3-1 lead. Rookie Tye Kartye scored his third of the playoffs beating 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.
“We were ready tonight. I feel like last couple games they’ve been maybe the ready team at the start,” Tolvanen said. “That was the big key today. All four lines were ready to play.”
Matty Beniers and Yanni Gourde each added a goal and an assist for Seattle, which is headed to the second Game 7 in the its short playoff history after ousting defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado with a 2-1 win in the deciding game of the opening round. The Kraken are the sixth team in league history to go to a Game 7 in each of the franchise’s first two playoff series.
Philipp Grubauer stopped 20 shots for the win.
“We had a goal in mind. We wanted to make sure that we were still one of the six teams alive when we woke up tomorrow morning and have the opportunity to go and play a Game 7,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “We know the test. We know the challenge. It’ll be a big one, but we’ll be ready.”
Mason Marchment, Joe Pavelski and Joel Kiviranta scored for Dallas. Oettinger gave up four goals on 18 shots before he was pulled 4 1/2 minutes into the second period. Scott Wedgewood came on and stopped nine of the 10 shots he faced.
Game 7 will be Monday night in Dallas.
“I mean, their lives were on the line. They played desperate hockey and played a good game,” Dallas captain Jamie Benn said.
The Stars last played a Game 7 in the second round of the 2020 playoffs in the NHL bubble in Edmonton when Dallas beat Colorado 5-4 in overtime. This will be first Game 7 in Dallas since the second round in 2016, when Stars lost 6-1 to St. Louis after giving up three first period goals.
Pavelski scored his 72nd career playoff goal and his eighth of the series when he redirected Miro Heiskanen’s shot form the point during a power play in the second period. Pavelski is tied with Alex Ovechkin for the most playoff goals among active players.
And he could have had more. Pavelski nearly added a second goal in the opening seconds of the third period, but his shot hit the post and Heiskanen’s rebound attempt slid wide of the goal mouth. Moments later, Jason Robertson’s shot from the slot hit the same post and ricocheted away from danger.
Seattle appeared to put a wrap on the win when Beniers finished a 2-on-1 off a pass from Eberle with his third playoff goal at 8:43 of the third period following a key penalty kill by the Kraken. But 16 seconds later Kiviranta tipped Thomas Harley’s shot from the point past Grubauer to pull the Stars back to 5-3.
It created a unnerving final few minutes for Seattle until Eberle’s empty-netter with 58 seconds left.
“We had nothing to lose, obviously backs against the wall,” Eberle said. “So we’re going to have the same effort in Game 7.”
Grubauer was excellent in goal for Seattle, especially in the second period when Dallas made a push. He had 11 saves in the period.
Oettinger was pulled after giving up Kartye’s goal and his 24 minutes, 23 seconds time on ice was the shortest start of his career.
Gourde gave Seattle the start it needed, following up his initial shot and beating Oettinger at 8:59 of the first period. Marchment scored 31 seconds later to pull the Stars even, but Eberle’s power-play goal at 16:46 of the period restored Seattle’s advantage.
“When the other team is hungry like that in an elimination game and you’re on the road, you got to be at least be the smarter team with the puck,” Dallas coach Pete DeBoer said. “I felt we compounded mistakes and fed their energy in the first period.”
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2023-05-14T17:20:51+00:00
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wjhl.com
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https://www.wjhl.com/sports/us-world-sports/eberle-scores-2-as-kraken-outshine-stars-6-3-send-series-to-deciding-game-7/
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HOUSTON, Oct. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CITGO Petroleum Corporation recently named Kresha Sivinski the Company's newly established Vice President of Human Resources and Support Services, where she will oversee corporate human resources, aviation and corporate services functions.
Sivinski joined the CITGO Lake Charles, La. refinery after graduating with a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. During her 35-year career with CITGO, she has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility, serving most recently as General Manager Terminal Facilities and Pipeline, where she oversaw the safe operation of the Company's extensive distribution network, while also providing human resources support through the Leadership Rotation Program and leading the Employee Wellness work group. In addition, she continues to serve as President of Lake Charles Pipe Line and also serves on several corporate committees, including Secretary of the Operations Committee and member of the Real Estate Review Committee. Prior to her General Manager position, Sivinski served as Manager, Engineering Pipeline Compliance and Control; Manager Capital Planning and Budget; and Lake Charles Capital Project, Budget and Control Manager.
"Kresha's experience working inside the refinery, terminals, pipelines and the corporate environment provides unique insights into our operations and people," said CITGO President and CEO Carlos Jordá. "As our workforce continues to evolve, we look forward to her demonstrated leadership as we continue working to attract and retain the best talent for CITGO."
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CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a recognized leader in the refining industry and operates under the well-known CITGO brand. CITGO owns and operates three refineries located in Lake Charles, La.; Lemont, Ill.; and Corpus Christi, Texas, and wholly and/or jointly owns 38 active terminals, six pipelines and three lubricants blending and packaging plants. With approximately 3,300 employees and a combined crude capacity of approximately 769,000 barrels-per-day (bpd), CITGO ranks as the fifth-largest and is one of the most complex independent refiners in the United States. CITGO transports and markets transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products, and supplies a network of approximately 4,300 locally owned and independently operated branded retail outlets, all located east of the Rocky Mountains. CITGO Petroleum Corporation is owned by CITGO Holding, Inc.
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2022-10-03T15:38:27+00:00
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witn.com
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https://www.witn.com/prnewswire/2022/10/03/citgo-names-kresha-siviniski-new-vice-president-human-resources-support-services/
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Cardinals stagnated offensively, had two turnovers that led to touchdowns and struggled against New England’s pass rush.
That wasn’t even the worst part of their 27-13 loss to the Patriots on Monday night.
Quarterback Kyler Murray was carted off the field after going down without being hit on the game’s third play, suffering a potentially serious knee injury that could further derail Arizona’s middling season.
“I’ve never seen him in that kind of shape, so it doesn’t look good,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury said.
The Cardinals (4-9) have been dogged by injuries all season, but had Murray, running back James Conner, receivers DeAndre Hopkins and Marquise Brown healthy at the same time for just the second time.
That quickly changed.
Flushed out of the pocket, Murray took off to the right and tried to juke a Patriots defender. The fourth-year quarterback’s knee buckled and he fell to the turf in obvious pain. Players from both teams surrounded Murray before he was carted off the field holding a towel to his face.
“It hurts,” said Hopkins, who lost a fumble that was returned for a touchdown. “Kyler put a lot into this preparing. I hate it for him.”
Murray had been dynamic at times since the Cardinals took him with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2019 NFL draft.
The speedy, elusive quarterback was a Pro Bowler twice in his first three seasons and was the NFL’s offensive rookie of the year.
The Cardinals rewarded Murray with a $230.5 million, five-year deal in July that keeps him in the desert through 2028, making him one of the league’s highest-paid quarterbacks at $46.1 million per season.
Murray led the Cardinals to the playoffs last season for the first time since 2015, but this year has been a wash in the desert.
Arizona has been inconsistent offensively and Murray has gotten frustrated with teammates at times, even getting into a yelling match with Kingsbury during a game against New Orleans.
The Cardinals had an uneven start to the season and the loss to the Patriots was their fifth in six games. Now, they’ll likely have to finish the year without their star quarterback.
“You see teams go through that every week, but you lose your star third play of the game, noncontact, it’s tough to watch,” Kingsbury said. “You’ve just got to be able to rebound and continue to play the game.”
If Murray’s injury is serious, Arizona’s offense will be in the hands of Colt McCoy, who has spent most of his 12-year career as a backup.
McCoy was solid in two starts while Murray was out with a hamstring earlier this season, going 1-1 while throwing for a combined 456 yards and a touchdown with an interception. He threw for 246 yards on 27-of-40 passing with an interception against New England and was sacked six times.
“I’ve played for a long time and you always have to be ready,” McCoy said. “You never want to see the guy in front of you go down. You just don’t.”
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Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray was carted off the field during the team’s first offensive drive after a knee injury Monday night in Arizona’s game against the New England Patriots.
The fourth-year quarterback was flushed out of the pocket on the third play of the game and ran to his right. He tried to juke past a Patriots defender, but instead fell to the grass in obvious pain.
The Cardinals confirmed the knee injury and said the quarterback would not return.
“It’s tough,” Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury told “Monday Night Football” at the end of the first quarter. “He’ll be out the rest of the game. That’s all I know right now. You hate to see that.”
Backup Colt McCoy entered the game in Murray’s place. The 36-year-old McCoy had a 1-1 record as the team’s quarterback when Murray was out for two games last month.
Murray is a two-time Pro Bowl selection who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft out of Oklahoma. The 25-year-old signed a $230.5 million contract during the offseason that could keep him with the franchise until 2028.
Murray was playing in his 11th game this season. Coming into Monday’s game, he had thrown for 2,359 yards, 14 touchdowns and seven interceptions.
The Cardinals have been plagued by injuries this season, particularly on the offense. They’re missing four of their starting offensive linemen and lost tight end Zach Ertz for the season, also because of a knee injury.
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2022-12-13T23:37:06+00:00
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fox59.com
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https://fox59.com/sports/ap-sports/ap-cardinals-murray-hurts-knee-vs-patriots-carted-off-field/
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DENVER (KDVR) — Members of the Alpine Rescue Team rescued a dog that fell off of Torreys Peak on Sunday.
A 911 call was received around 1 p.m. after the dog fell off the east face of the mountain, according to the rescue group.
A team of seven was sent up to the summer trailhead to assess the situation. They then climbed to the summit to rescue the animal at the top of the 1,500-foot South Paw couloir.
Thankfully, the dog was OK but did suffer minor injuries and needed to be carried seven miles back to the trailhead.
According to Alpine Rescue Team, she was “extraordinarily calm” given what she had gone through, and exhibited no pain from her injuries.
The team was eventually able to reunite the dog with her owners.
Torreys Peak is a 14,272-foot mountain located southwest of the Denver metro area.
A total of 26 members of the rescue team responded to the call.
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2023-07-04T00:51:28+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/local/dog-rescued-after-falling-off-colorado-14er/
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A type of amoxicillin used by children is in short supply in the U.S., according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Amoxicillin comes as a capsule, a tablet, a chewable tablet and as a liquid to be taken by mouth, depending on the age of the patient. The FDA listed the liquid form of the drug, which is used by young children, in its drug shortage database.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, have all reported shortages of various doses of amoxicillin, which is most commonly used to treat bacterial infections in children.
The FDA’s website lists increased demand as the reason for shortages at Hikma and Teva, as well as Aurobindo and Rising.
A shortage at Sandoz was listed as “other.”
There are two primary databases that track drug shortages: the FDA and the University of Utah’s drug information service, which is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP).
The majority of the FDA’s information comes from manufacturers. The data from the ASHP is based on reports received from patients, pharmacies and the public.
The ASHP began reporting amoxicillin shortages about two weeks ago, but the FDA first reported a shortage on Oct. 28.
The FDA only lists drugs on its website once it has confirmed that “overall market demand is not being met by the manufacturers of the product.”
An agency spokesperson told The Hill on Oct. 26 it did not consider amoxicillin to be in shortage because at least one manufacturer was able to fully supply market demand.
The most common reason antibiotics are prescribed for children is to treat ear infections, though they can also be used to treat bacterial sinus and throat infections. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amoxicillin is considered a “first-line” therapy, though there are other antibiotics that can be used.
Amoxicillin is not used to treat viral infections like COVID-19, RSV or the flu, but the drug’s limited supply comes at a time when many pediatric hospitals across the country say they are reaching capacity due to an early surge in respiratory illnesses.
The supply issues don’t appear to be impacting many pharmacies, though there have been some regionalized reports of shortages in specific CVS stores.
A Walgreens spokesman said the chain was not experiencing any shortages.
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2022-11-01T23:04:41+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/hill-politics/fda-reports-shortages-of-amoxicillin/
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Border Patrol finds $60K of meth hidden in children’s car seats
Published: Jun. 19, 2022 at 1:37 AM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
(CNN) - The U.S. Border Patrol caught a suspect trying to smuggle 27 pounds of methamphetamine in children’s car seats.
A K-9 team detected $60,000 worth of meth in a car with four children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The male suspect, who is a U.S. citizen, was arrested in Murrieta, California, on Wednesday.
The driver of the car and the narcotics were turned over to the Inland Crackdown Allied Taskforce for prosecution.
While the vehicle was seized by Border Patrol agents, the four children and their mother were released.
It’s not clear if they knew they were being used as mules to smuggle drugs.
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2022-06-19T07:16:12+00:00
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foxcarolina.com
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https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/06/19/border-patrol-finds-60k-meth-hidden-childrens-car-seats/
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Brian Caubarreaux announces ‘Do It Right Scholarship’ winners
Published: Jun. 2, 2022 at 6:21 PM CDT|Updated: 31 minutes ago
CENTRAL LOUISIANA (KALB) - The Brian Caubarreaux & Associates Do It Right Scholarship Committee met and interviewed nine students for the scholarship on Thursday, June 2.
This year, the scholarships were awarded to:
- Julia Hannah Crawford from Columbia, La.
- Monica Hine from Libuse, La.
Congratulations to the winners!
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2022-06-02T23:53:54+00:00
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kalb.com
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https://www.kalb.com/2022/06/02/brian-caubarreaux-announces-do-it-right-scholarship-winners/
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Panasonic selects Kansas for vehicle battery mega-factory
Japan’s Panasonic Corp. selected Kansas as the location for a multibillion-dollar mega-factory to produce electric vehicle batteries for Tesla and other carmakers, Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday.
The decision comes five months after the Democratic governor and Republican-controlled Legislature rushed to approve a taxpayer-funded incentive package of as much as $1 billion, the state’s largest ever, to attract the company and the promised “thousands of jobs,” even though most of them didn’t know what company was in play. Kelly said Wednesday that the actual incentives will total $829 million over 10 years.
The plant will be located in De Soto, Kansas, a town with about 6,000 people and 30 miles southwest of Kansas City, Missouri.
“People across the country are looking at Kansas as a leader in economic development,” Kelly told a gathering of about 250 state officials and business leaders in downtown Topeka Wednesday.
Japanese broadcaster NHK reported this year that the company was looking to build the factory in Kansas or Oklahoma, close to Texas, where Tesla is building an electric-vehicle plant. The two companies jointly operate a battery plant in Nevada.
Kelly’s administration said the facility it was pursuing would be the largest economic development project in Kansas history. They said the company would employ 4,000 people and that other businesses supplying or supporting it would add several thousand more jobs. They said the company would pay an average of $50,000, which would far exceed Kansas’ median income for individuals of less than $32,000.
Kelly pushed for the permission to offer tax credits, payroll subsidies and training funds to lure what her administration said was a $4 billion project that at least one other state was also pursuing.
The measure requires the state to cut its corporate tax rates by half a percentage point for every big deal closed to benefit all businesses. That would save companies roughly $100 million a year and drop the state’s top rate to 6% from 7% if two deals close.
Backers of the measure argued that Kansas has lost out on other large projects because it couldn’t offer generous enough incentives.
Oklahoma’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved an incentive package this year to offer rebates of up to nearly $700 million in state funds if Panasonic reached specific benchmarks, including at least a $4.5 billion capital expenditure and the creation of at least 4,000 jobs during the project’s first four years. State officials say that money could be returned to the general fund or used to lure another major project.
Ohio recently offered Intel Corp. incentives worth roughly $2 billion to secure a new $20 billion chipmaking factory. Michigan lawmakers in December approved $1 billion in incentives, two-thirds of it for General Motors for plants to assemble batteries for electric vehicles.
Electric vehicle maker Canoo has announced plans to open a factory in northeastern Oklahoma next year that is expected to create 2,000 jobs.
But Wisconsin scaled back incentives for electronics giant Foxconn. It was supposed to invest $10 billion there and create 13,000 jobs but the deal now is for about 1,450 jobs with an investment of $672 million by 2026.
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Associated Press reporter Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, contributed to this report.
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2022-07-14T00:39:30+00:00
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kcci.com
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https://www.kcci.com/article/panasonic-kansas-vehicle-battery-mega-factory/40607235
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(KDVR) — Matthew Jamison purchased a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado at an impound lot in order to find a good deal.
“The car was inoperable. So it had engine problems and I am a mechanic, so I installed the engine,” he said.
Jamison registered the truck and the title but got a surprise several months later. A tow company repossessed the truck late at night. Jamison contacted the police.
“I thought, is my truck stolen?” he said.
The repossession was ordered by an Indiana-based finance company that had paperwork showing the truck had a lien from a previous owner, but it was a mistake.
“They weren’t going to notify me, you know. My name wasn’t on the lien,” Jamison said.
Who can sell an impounded vehicle with a lien on it?
So how did Jamison get the title?
The Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles is investigating the case but told the FOX31 Problem Solvers their records are updated to show any active liens. When a finance company lien isn’t filed or processed in time, there can be problems for the new owner.
The DMV told FOX31 that finance companies are required to file liens within 30 days at county motor vehicle offices, which will process and file the liens in the county where the owner resides.
When purchasing from an impound lot, consider that when it comes to abandoned vehicles, the impound lot or tow carrier must request a record search for the vehicle. The company in possession of the vehicle must notify, by certified mail, any owner or lienholder of the intent to sell.
If there is no response, the possessor may sell the vehicle.
Before purchasing any vehicle, check the Motor Vehicle Verification System to confirm whether it has been reported as stolen. The National Motor Vehicle Title Information System will provide the vehicle’s history.
Customers should also check the National Insurance Crime Bureau to reveal whether the vehicle has been declared a total loss.
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2023-03-17T05:59:02+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/problem-solvers/truck-repossessed-after-finance-company-mistake/
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Alex Murdaugh murder jury to hear financial crimes evidence
By JEFFREY COLLINS, Associated Press
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A judge ruled Monday he will allow jurors to hear evidence that disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh was stealing money from his law firm and clients and committing other financial crimes long before his wife and son were killed in 2021.
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Prosecutors have said those witnesses are key to their case in Murdaugh's double murder trial to show he was worried his alleged crimes were about to be discovered and that Murdaugh killed his family to get sympathy and buy time to cover up the missing money.
Murdaugh, 54, is standing trial in the shootings of his 52-year-old wife, Maggie, and 22-year-old son, Paul, on June 7, 2021, at their Colleton County home. He faces 30 years to life in prison if convicted of murder.
The defense argued that prosecutors want to smear Alex Murdaugh with details of his finances because they have lots of evidence he stole money but none on the killings. Murdaugh's lawyers said it is ridiculous that a lawyer would think scrutiny into his life would be diminished by the brutal deaths of his family.
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In explaining his ruling, Judge Clifton Newman said the jury is entitled to consider whether Murdaugh's “apparent desperation” and “dire financial situation” resulted in the killings of his family.
Newman said he didn't think the financial crime evidence alone would persuade the jury to convict Murdaugh of murder.
The decision means jurors over the next several days will hear from witnesses who testified previously before a judge about how Murdaugh secured $4 million in settlements for the family of the longtime Murdaugh housekeeper who died in a fall. He allegedly kept the money for himself.
Other testimony includes the office manager confronting Murdaugh over almost $800,000 in missing law firm fees the day of the killings and how a key hearing in a wrongful death lawsuit that might reveal the true condition of Murdaugh's finances was scheduled for three days after his wife and son were shot. The hearing was cancelled.
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Early Monday afternoon, the woman taking care of Alex Murdaugh's mother testified about how he stopped by to visit her the night of the killings. Murdaugh said he found the bodies after seeing his mother, who has dementia.
Shelley Smith testified Monday that was the first time she saw Murdaugh visit his mother during her 8 p.m. at 8 a.m. shift, although during cross-examination the defense brought up a statement Smith previously made to a state agent in which she said Murdaugh has visited late at night before and was the most frequent visitor among his siblings.
Alex Murdaugh stayed about 20 minutes or so, laying beside his mother and holding her hand, Smith said. She didn't notice any blood on him.
Smith also testified that Alex Murdaugh visited nine days after the killings at 6:30 a.m. and was carrying a blue tarp. In their opening statement, prosecutors mentioned a blue rain coat with gunshot residue on it. Defense attorney Jim Griffin spent several minutes getting Smith to say the item was big, like a tarp, not a raincoat.
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Judge Newman's decision to allow evidence of Alex Murdaugh's possible financial crimes came after hearing from a potential witness Monday — a lawyer representing a family suing Murdaugh over a boat crash killed 19-year-old Mallory Beach in 2019. Alex's son Paul Murdaugh was driving the boat and faced a felony charge of boating under the influence at the time of his death.
When Alex Murdaugh called 911 and first spoke to investigators after his wife and son were killed, he mentioned people who knew Beach being angry with his son.
Beach family attorney Mark Tinsley said Alex Murdaugh and his lawyer were working hard to keep his financial information out of Tinsley's hands when the killings happened.
“Pretty quickly I recognized, the case against Alex, if he was the victim of some vigilante, would in fact be over,” Tinsley said.
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He said Murdaugh's lawyer told him Alex Murdaugh was broke, but Tinsley didn't believe it given what appeared to be a successful law practice and his family's generational wealth. He said justice called for damages from Murdaugh because they could not bring Beach back.
“The Beach family stood on the causeway for eight days while their daughter's body was in the water,” Tinsley said. "I don’t know there is any amount of money somebody would willingly take to go through what they went through.”
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2023-02-06T21:24:46+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/alex-murdaugh-murder-jury-to-hear-financial-17767260.php
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North and South Carolinians could have access to new omicron-targeting COVID-19 boosters shortly after the Labor Day holiday. Both states' health agencies reported Friday they expect the new boosters to be in place next week.
The announcements follow the final federal approval of Pfizer's and Moderna's respective booster shots, which target the original strain of COVID-19, but more importantly, the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signed off on the administration of the two boosters Thursday night.
“They can help restore protection that has waned since previous vaccination and were designed to provide broader protection,” Walensky said in a statement.
BA.4 and BA.5 are, collectively, virtually all of the COVID-19 cases in the United States.
Dr. Kody Kinsley, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, said the new vaccines will be important headed into the fall season, with more holidays on the way.
"As the weather gets colder, and we spend more time indoors, it is important to know you are protected before you go to gatherings, which means getting your COVID-19 vaccines and boosters," Kinsley said.
Health officials recommend getting either Pfizer or Moderna booster at least two months after completing a vaccine series or an old formulation booster.
Pfizer's shot is for those 12 and older, while Moderna's is for those 18 and older.
Based on state data on full vaccination rates, up to 63% of North Carolinians could be eligible for the boosters. Up to 53% of South Carolinians could be eligible.
South Carolina's Department of Health and Environmental Control said changing the COVID-19 vaccine to target the latest variants is similar to adjusting the flu vaccine every year to match the most common influenza strains circulating at the time.
Contact Vanessa Ruffes at vruffes@wcnc.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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2022-09-03T03:15:38+00:00
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wcnc.com
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https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/nc-sc-health-agencies-new-omicron-targeting-boosters/275-71b98357-5dd5-48aa-a84e-f11430941ff9
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(WFRV) – Primal Eats takes on breakfast in this latest show.
Primal Eats is located at 14109 County Road VV in Gillett. Reach them at 855-951-3287, online at primaleats.com and on Facebook.
(WFRV) – Primal Eats takes on breakfast in this latest show.
Primal Eats is located at 14109 County Road VV in Gillett. Reach them at 855-951-3287, online at primaleats.com and on Facebook.
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2022-07-20T16:29:49+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/local5live/primal-eats-takes-on-breakfast/
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HOLTMAN, Charles R.
Age 85 of Dayton, passed away on October 19, 2022. He was a long time resident of The View at Dayton Towers. He was employed as an Auditor for the Child Support Enforcement Agency, Montgomery County. He was preceded in death by his parents Ray G. and Anne E. (Nau) and sister Maryhelen. He is survived by his brother Mark (Patricia), nephew Robert (Lauren) and great-niece Mallory. He will be missed. Services were private with internment at Calvary Cemetery on Dec. 28.
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2023-01-08T06:44:53+00:00
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daytondailynews.com
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/obituaries/holtman-charles/UVLFL3PQMFDTZLBPB7HHIGSHTM/
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Taxi driver loses eye after rock from slingshot hits him
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - A taxi driver continues to recover after a rock from a slingshot flew through his open window and hit him in the face while he was driving passengers on the Las Vegas Strip.
Taxi driver Tilahun Teginge is adjusting to his new life, preparing food and getting around, after losing his left eye in the Oct. 21 incident. He has been unable to work since that night.
“I have to practice this new life with one eye,” he said. “It’s a new experience.”
Police say Teginge was hit in the face by a rock from a slingshot. The taxi driver was taking customers to Treasure Island around 11:45 p.m. and stopped at a light on Las Vegas Boulevard to turn into the resort.
“Windows down. I was talking with my customer. I was chatting with them, and suddenly, something ‘pop, pop’ and then hurt me a lot. It was big time bleeding. I’ve never seen blood like that,” Teginge said.
His passengers dialed 911, while he tried to remain calm.
At the hospital, a doctor informed Teginge they needed to remove his eye, due to the damage he’d received.
“It’s shocking,” he said.
Teginge now relies on his 22-year-old daughter, Blane Cheru, who helps with his medication and driving him to appointments.
“My dad’s a really independent man, but this past month, trying to help someone who’s so independent after they’ve been dealing with something like this is very difficult,” she said.
Despite this setback, Teginge remains driven to chase the American Dream after immigrating from Africa in 1999. After a few years in the Midwest, he moved to Nevada in 2004 and has been a taxi driver for 14 years in Las Vegas.
“It’s the land of opportunity,” Teginge said. “Still, I am motivated to work.”
However, due to his injury, it’s unlikely he will return to work as a taxi driver.
Cheru started a GoFundMe to help her father with expenses as he adjusts to his new life.
Police arrested Enrique Duarte Hidalgo on Nov. 16 in connection with the incident. They say he and his son, who is a minor, used a slingshot to shoot rocks at buildings and cars on the Las Vegas Strip.
Hidalgo faces several charges, including battery with the use of a deadly weapon. It’s unclear if his son will also face charges.
Police say the two were shootings rocks because the son was dealing with emotional stress following his parents’ separation.
Copyright 2022 KSNV via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.
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2022-12-04T09:28:25+00:00
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newschannel6now.com
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https://www.newschannel6now.com/2022/12/04/taxi-driver-loses-eye-after-rock-slingshot-hits-him/
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Boston Grand Opening to take place on Saturday, April 16 at 11 a.m. EDT. Manhasset location set to open this Spring.
NEWARK, Calif. , April 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucid Group (NASDAQ: LCID), setting new standards with the longest range, fastest charging electric car on the market, today announced the official opening of its newest Studio location in the Seaport District in Boston, MA. Following the Boston location, another location will open at the Gate at Manhasset on Long Island, NY. These Studio openings will mark 26 Studio and service center locations open in North America. The Lucid Studio Seaport will open to the public on Saturday, April 16 with the Lucid Studio Manhasset opening later this spring.
"Our Studios in Boston and Manhasset will increase our physical footprint in a market where we see growing demand for electric vehicles – the Northeast," said Zak Edson, Vice President, Sales and Service of Lucid. "These new locations position Lucid next to likeminded, luxury brands and expose us to potential customers who might be discovering the brand for the first time."
These openings follow the recent start of deliveries for the Lucid Air Grand Touring and announcement of the new Grand Touring Performance model. More information on these models can be found, here.
Studio Experience
Every Lucid Studio offers a digitally oriented luxury experience tailored to each customer's preferences, whether they visit in-person, make inquiries entirely online, or combine the two. Lucid Studios allow customers to experience the brand and obtain information about its products in locations that underscore the company's unique design aesthetic. Visitors who explore a Lucid Studio will get a vision of how the company draws inspiration from the beauty, innovation, and diversity of its home state of California. In addition, Lucid Studios augment the physical experience of seeing and touching a Lucid Air with an elevated digital experience. Using a 4K VR configurator, Lucid's Virtual Reality Experience combines the physical and virtual worlds to showcase seamless personalization of everything from interior finishes and materials to exterior color.
Virtual Experience
Mirroring the luxury one-to-one Studio experience online, customers can also take advantage of "Lucid Studio Live," a cloud-based configuration solution powered by ZeroLight's Concierge product. From the comfort of their own homes, customers can virtually interact with a car while a Lucid representative guides them through key features and configuration options.
Future Studio & Service Centers
Additional locations will continue to open as Lucid expands its presence in North America and globally. Customers can visit during normal business hours or can book a personal appointment by contacting the Lucid team at lucidmotors.com/contact. They can always start exploring the Lucid Air through the "Design Yours" Configurator.
About Lucid Group
Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating advanced technologies and the most captivating luxury electric vehicles centered around the human experience. The company's first car, Lucid Air, is a state-of-the-art luxury sedan with a California-inspired design that features luxurious full-size interior space in a mid-size exterior footprint. Underpinned by race-proven battery technology and proprietary powertrains developed entirely in-house, Lucid Air was named the 2022 MotorTrend Car of the Year®. The Lucid Air Grand Touring features an official EPA estimated 516 miles of range or 1,050 horsepower. Customer deliveries of Lucid Air, which is produced at Lucid's new factory in Casa Grande, Arizona, are underway.
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2022-04-15T13:47:05+00:00
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live5news.com
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https://www.live5news.com/prnewswire/2022/04/15/lucid-expands-presence-northeast-us-with-boston-ma-manhasset-ny-studio-locations/
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(The Hill) — Americans are getting a crash course on the country’s borrowing limit, as a high-stakes standoff on Capitol Hill dominates national attention.
Last month, the Treasury Department announced it’s implementing “extraordinary measures” to keep the nation from defaulting on its debt after it hit the roughly $31.4 trillion limit set by Congress more than a year ago.
The Treasury said the measures are expected to give Congress until at least June to reach a deal to raise the limit, which caps how much debt the government can take on fulfill its spending, and prevent what would be a first-ever default — an outcome Republicans and Democrats are hoping to avoid.
Below are five reasons why the U.S. can’t afford to default.
Recession is almost certain
Recession fears have already been on the rise for months, as economists and lawmakers have paid close eye to the Federal Reserve’s ongoing interest rate hikes in response to high inflation.
But the threat of a drastic slowdown would rise exponentially if the nation were to default later this year, experts say.
“It would affect lending and borrowing and financial markets,” New York University economics professor Mark Gertler explained, adding that the combination of less borrowing and less spending would trigger a recession.
The U.S. economy would also crater as it loses billions of dollars in federal spending that the government can no longer follow through on, including crucial social safety net programs for millions of Americans.
Federal benefits in danger
No one is sure which obligations could fall to the wayside if the Treasury is unable to fulfill all of its financial duties.
Republicans have proposed legislation seeking to prioritize certain duties as a backup plan. Proposals floated by some would put handling Social Security benefits and Treasury bonds at the top of the list, along with military salaries and veterans benefits, according to Semafor.
But that doesn’t mean everyone would get paid — including thousands of federal employees.
“If the government could legally and technologically do that, it means that more people wouldn’t get whatever is not on that list,” David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution said, pointing to IRS refunds that could also be impacted by a default, or even “paying the FBI.”
“Some obligation of the federal government is not going to be met,” he added. “And that would be a landmark and it would always raise the question in the future, ‘Are these guys going to do this again?’”
Interest rates spike
Multiple experts warn the nation could see higher interest rates on its debt as a result of default.
U.S. Treasury bonds are currently regarded as among the world’s safest assets, affording the government a reputation as a reliable borrower on the global stage. And that standing allows the government to borrow more money to fulfill its financial obligations.
“We benefit as Americans from the fact that our government can spend more than it takes in revenues to do all the things we want the government to do,” Wessel said.
“We benefit from the fact that, as a society, we don’t save as much as other societies and they lend us their savings by buying Treasury bonds.”
But if the nation defaults, Wessel and other experts warn the U.S. would be seen as less trustworthy borrower and have to pay more on its interest.
The headaches wouldn’t stop there and depend on how long a default lasts. Wessel warned that the effects would rush across the economy and even into consumers’ pockets.
“If you look at the bond market, when yields in the bond market go up, mortgage rates go up,” Wessel said. “So, everybody might have to pay a little more to borrow.”
Inflation could lower – but at a steep price
Experts say inflation could also lower, but not in the way most would hope.
Some say prices would fall as a result of a slower economy in such circumstances as demand weakens, but not if they were already hindered by shortages.
“It’s like saying, ‘Well, the good news is your arm doesn’t hurt anymore because we amputated it,’ ” Wessel said.
“It wouldn’t do anything to speed the semiconductors going to the auto industry or deal with the fact that hotels are raising prices because their electric bills are going up and they can’t hire workers,” he added.
Stock market takes a tumble
Stock portfolios would take a serious hit if the nation defaulted on its debt, sapping retirement accounts and draining crucial sources of revenue for major companies.
“The stock market would fall hard, credit markets would tighten up then that restricts the flow of credit,” said Greg McBride, an analyst at Bankrate.com. “And that’s where the economic damage really comes into play.”
That flow of credit, McBride explained, would be restricted for other borrowers, including state and local governments, corporations and consumers, who “would be increasingly locked out in a tighter credit environment.”
Likelihood of a default?
Republicans and Democrats alike want to avoid a default but are deeply divided over how to do it.
GOP lawmakers have vowed not to vote to raise the debt ceiling without major spending cuts despite promising they would not let the U.S. default. Even so, Republicans have yet to unify behind any proposal to cut down the federal debt and are sparring over how much to cut defense spending, if at all.
At the same time, Democrats have instead pressed for a clean bill to raise the debt limit without conditions, accusing Republicans of holding the economy hostage for their partisan goals.
The battle is one of the most significant tests the newly divided Congress faces this year.
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2023-02-08T17:33:44+00:00
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wcia.com
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https://www.wcia.com/news/national/5-ways-a-federal-debt-default-could-hurt-americans/
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The U.S. Forest Service's temporary ban on controlled burning, a practice seen as key to preventing huge and devastating wildfires, has now expired — with questions remaining about future burns.
Copyright 2022 NPR
The U.S. Forest Service's temporary ban on controlled burning, a practice seen as key to preventing huge and devastating wildfires, has now expired — with questions remaining about future burns.
Copyright 2022 NPR
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2022-09-05T21:40:41+00:00
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nepm.org
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https://www.nepm.org/national-world-news/national-world-news/2022-09-05/the-forest-services-ban-on-controlled-burns-has-come-to-a-close
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David Castillo roped a screaming line drive over the pitcher’s head and into center field, plating a pair of runs. Braylin Gonzalez followed, slicing an opposite-field double that rolled all the way to the right field fence, allowing Castillo to trot home.
Those two swings punctuated a four-run first inning and set the tone for English High in capturing an 8-2 win over Latin Academy on Monday in a City League matchup in Jamaica Plain. English improved to 12-0 and remains one of four undefeated teams left in Eastern Mass.
“As the games go on we gain more confidence,” said Castillo. “Scoring four runs early, it got the rhythm going. We got the rally.”
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Ranked 15th in the Globe’s Top 20 and second in the latest Division 4 power rankings, English has outscored opponents 115-25 for a plus-90 run differential.
“It’s been the buy-in from the players,” said coach Christian Ortiz. “We’re out here seven days a week and guys are showing up on time and ready to work. It’s showing in the record and the way we’re playing.”
Castillo, a 6-foot-1-inch junior shortstop and pitcher garnering interest from Division 1 programs and pro scouts, led the way Monday with four hits and four RBIs. His final knock of the game, a bloop single to shallow left field, drove in a pair of runs and fueled a four-run sixth inning, giving English a commanding 8-1 lead.
“Obviously the goal of baseball is to cross the plate the most times,” said Castillo, who moved from the Dominican Republic last year. “We’ve been doing that a lot. It’s been fun.”
On the mound, senior righthander Jeff Soto earned the win, pitching six strong innings, with one run allowed on three walks and four strikeouts. He escaped two bases-loaded jams, the final one coming in the top of sixth with English ahead, 4-1.
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Soto dropped a curveball for a swinging strikeout, then froze the next hitter with a fastball painted on the outside corner. After the final punch-out, Soto yelled and stared at the Latin Academy dugout as he walked off the mound.
“Our pitching and defense has done really well all year,” said Ortiz. “We don’t make many errors and we don’t walk people. It’s been near-perfect.”
Brothers Jack Shapiro (2 for 3, 2 runs) and Brennan Shapiro (RBI double) paced the Dragons (9-5), which entered having won six of seven.
Ortiz has high hopes for his group come the playoffs with Castillo, Dayton-bound third basemen Justin Peguero, and pitchers Soto and Nanfer Duarte headlining a talented roster. In addition to cruising through the City League, English has accrued key non conference wins over Dracut, St. Mary’s, and Swampscott.
“We want our guys ready for the state tournament,” said Ortiz. “We want to play high-level teams. We’ve been playing well and it’s all from the buy in and leadership from the group.”
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2023-05-09T01:44:52+00:00
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bostonglobe.com
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https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/08/sports/with-buy-in-across-roster-no-15-english-baseball-pens-another-win-besting-latin-academy-keep-its-record-unblemished/
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Georgia elections official to speak to federal prosecutors probing Trump’s efforts to undo 2020 loss
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is scheduled to speak to federal prosecutors from the office of special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss.
In a rambling phone call on Jan. 2, 2021, Trump suggested Raffensperger, the top elections official in Georgia, could help “find” the votes necessary to reverse Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow presidential election win in the state. The call came after Trump and his allies spent weeks insisting without evidence that widespread election fraud was the cause of his loss in Georgia and publicly berating Raffensperger for failing to take steps to reverse it.
The secretary of state’s office on Tuesday confirmed that he would speak to special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors Wednesday in Atlanta. The planned interview was first reported by The Washington Post.
Efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn his loss in Georgia are also the subject of a separate investigation by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Atlanta. Raffensperger testified before a special grand jury in that case last June. Willis has indicated that she will announce charging decisions later this summer.
Raffensperger previously received a subpoena from Smith’s team for communications “to, from or involving” Trump, his campaign, lawyers and aides. Similar subpoenas were sent to officials in other states and counties that Trump and his allies targeted as they tried to overturn the election.
Smith was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to lead teams investigating the actions by Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 election, including the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Trump’s handling of classified documents. The documents investigation resulted in a 38-count indictment against Trump and his valet Walt Nauta earlier this month. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the 37 counts against him. Nauta’s arraignment was set for Tuesday but has been delayed until next week.
Additionally, a Manhattan grand jury in March indicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to a porn actor during the 2016 presidential election.
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-06-27T16:11:29+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/2023/06/27/georgia-elections-official-speak-federal-prosecutors-probing-trumps-efforts-undo-2020-loss/
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SCHEDULE
Sunday, Sept. 11
College women’s soccer: Minnesota-Duluth at University of Mary, Noon, Bowl.
Monday, Sept. 12
College golf: University of Mary at Bemidji State tournament.
College volleyball: Bismarck State College at NDSCS, 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 13
College golf: University of Mary at Bemidji State tournament.
High school boys soccer: Bismarck at Minot, 7:30 p.m.; Century at Mandan, 7:30 p.m., Dacotah Centennial Park; Williston at Legacy, 7:30 p.m., Sanford Sports Complex.
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High school boys tennis: Mandan at Bismarck, Tom O’Leary; Minot at Century, 4:15 p.m., Sertoma.
High school girls swimming: Bismarck at Minot, 5 p.m.
High school volleyball: Legacy at Bismarck, 7 p.m.; Century at Jamestown, 7 p.m.; Mandan at Williston, 7 p.m.; St. Mary’s at Turtle Mountain, 7 p.m.; Shiloh Christian at Wilton-Wing, 7 p.m.
RADIO TODAY
MLB
1 p.m.
KBMR (1130 AM) – Cleveland at Minnesota
NFL
3 p.m.
KFYR (550 AM) and KXMR (710 AM) – Green Bay at Minnesota
TV TODAY
AUTO RACING
7:55 a.m.
ESPN2 — Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix
1 p.m.
FS2 — MotoAmerica Superbike: Day 2
2 p.m.
FS2 — MotoAmerica Superbike King of the Baggers
NBC — NTT IndyCar Series Grand Prix of Monterey
USA — NASCAR Cup Hollywood Casino 400
GOLF
6 a.m.
GOLF — DP World Tour BMW PGA Championship
1 p.m.
GOLF — LPGA Tour Kroger Queen City Championship
4 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour Champions Ascension Charity Classic
MLB
12:30 p.m.
MLBN — Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees or St. Louis at Pittsburgh
1 p.m.
BSN – Cleveland at Minnesota
3:30 p.m.
MLBN — L.A. Dodgers at San Diego or Atlanta at Seattle (joined in progress)
7 p.m.
ESPN — San Francisco at Chicago Cubs
NFL
1 p.m.
CBS — Pittsburgh at Cincinnati
FOX — San Francisco at Chicago
3:25 p.m.
CBS — Kansas City at Arizona
FOX — Green Bay at Minnesota
7:15 p.m.
NBC — Tampa Bay at Dallas
TENNIS
Noon
ESPN — U.S. Open, Doubles Championship
3 p.m.
ESPN — U.S. Open, Championship
WNBA FINALS
2 p.m.
ABC — Connecticut at Las Vegas, Game 1
PLAYBACK
10 YEARS AGO (2012): A pair of University of Mary football players were honored by the NSIC after outstanding performances against Concordia-St. Paul. Safety Scott Maldonado was named defensive player of the week after making a conference-high 19 tackles, collecting an interception on Concordia’s first drive of the game, and locking in the win by knocking down a Hail Mary pass attempt on the final play. Tyler Ryan, Mary’s punter-kicker, was named special teams player of the week after placing each of his six punts inside of Concordia’s 20-yard line, making a 24-yard field goal, and hitting all three of his extra point attempts.
20 YEARS AGO (2002): Century earned a tough 3-1 win (15-2, 15-5, 7-15, 15-6) over Minot in volleyball. Jessica Mowder of the Patriots had 10 kills to lead the game, with Sara Korte of the Patriots and Heather Lizotte of Minot having nine kills apiece. Both teams blocked extremely well; Ashley Linnertz (six) and and Lizotte (five) terrorized Century while the Patriots featured a block led by Korte (four), Gillian Gervais (two), and Cydney Froelich (two).
50 YEARS AGO (1972): Bismarck High avenged a one-point loss to Dickinson in the 1972 cross country season opener with a 43-50 victory over Dickinson at Dickinson’s home invitational. Lyle Witham of Minot won medalist honors with a 13:14 time, with Dickinson’s Dennis Feldman taking second among the 50-some racers. Three Bismarck runners finished in the top ten, with Darrell Anderson leading the winning team with a third-place finish, Brian Beattie following his teammate closely in fourth, and John Metropolos took eighth. Rounding out Bismarck’s outing were 12th-place Brad King and 16th-place David Anderson.
TRIVIA ANSWER
In 121 games, the Green Bay Packers hold a 63-55-3 series lead over the Minnesota Vikings.
CONTACT US
Dave Selvig, Tribune sports editor, 250-8246 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: david.selvig@bismarcktribune.com)
Josh Dungan, Tribune sportswriter, 355-8839 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: josh.dungan@bismarcktribune.com)
Scott Throlson, Tribune sportswriter, 250-8245 or 888-684-2293 after 3 p.m. (e-mail: scott.throlson@bismarcktribune.com)
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2022-09-11T05:27:14+00:00
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Featured keynote speaker, astronaut and geoscientist, Dr. Sian Proctor, and special guest speaker, Daniel Thompson from The Ron Clark Academy to share inspiring STEAM sessions
SEATTLE, Oct. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Join Promethean, a leading global education technology company, at its STEAM Forward online conference on Tuesday, November 8, 2022, from 1:00 – 8:00 p.m. EST. Designed specifically for educators, virtual sessions will include STEAM best practices, hands-on STEAM applications, hybrid/remote teaching, technology integration, and more.
The event will be anchored by the keynote speaker and TEDx veteran, Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, explorer, space artist, astronaut, CEO of Space2Inspire, and founder of the JEDI Space Foundation. Dr. Proctor will speak to her motto, Space2inspire, where she encourages people to use their unique, one-of-a-kind strengths, and passion to inspire those within their reach and beyond. She uses her Afrofuturism space art to encourage conversations about women of color in the space industry. To listen to Dr. Proctor's space experience and learn from other STEAM professionals, register here.
Plus, don't miss our special guest speaker, Daniel Thompson, an educator from the renowned non-profit middle school, The Ron Clark Academy, as he joins the event for a conversation in the Promethean STEAM Lab.
Additional featured sessions at STEAM Forward include:
- Digital Escape Room, Lindsay Drager | 3:30-4:00 p.m. EST
- CHA-Ching! Making Money Make Cents, Anna Tressler | 4:30-5:00 p.m. EST
- Huffing and Puffing with Fairytales and STEAM, Gretchen Weiland | 6:30-7:00 p.m. EST
- Travel on Land or Air: Virtual Field Trips | 7:00-7:30 p.m. EST
STEAM Forward will bring together innovative thinkers, bold creativity, and the latest trends in edtech. Attendees will choose from 30+ sessions to help enhance STEAM curriculum and lessons in the classroom. Promethean Education Consultants, Caiti Jones, Xan Roberti, Charlie Locke, and others, will share how to optimize ActivPanel's tools and applications to bring lessons to life and keep students engaged. Attendees can sign up for each session separately and customize their schedules to fit their professional development needs.
Event Details
What: STEAM Forward
When: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, from 1:00 - 8:00 p.m. EST
Where: Virtual on Promethean Interactive
For more information about sessions and to register for this free event, visit STEAM Forward.
Promethean is a leading education technology company working to transform the way the world learns and collaborates. From our founding in Blackburn, England, more than 25 years ago to our global operations in 22 countries today, we've continued to explore, innovate, and inspire—designing learning and collaboration tools that are built for breakthroughs. Our award-winning interactive display, ActivPanel, and lesson delivery software, ActivInspire and ClassFlow, were designed to engage students, connect colleagues, and bring out the brilliance in everyone. With headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and offices worldwide, Promethean is a subsidiary of the NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0777) group of companies. Visit us at PrometheanWorld.com.
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Retired firefighter pulls 2 children, puppy from explosive house fire
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) - A retired firefighter is being called a hero after saving two children from an explosive house fire in the Phoenix area Wednesday morning.
KPHO reports that Dana Lambert spotted smoke in the area while he was driving home from the gym. He ended up finding the house where firefighters were working to rescue two girls and their puppy.
Fire crews said they were battling heavy smoke and flames coming from the patio and backyard areas of the home when they arrived.
According to the Phoenix Fire Department, the team learned that it was a gas-fed fire with accelerants making it more difficult to put out. A hazmat unit was also dispatched to secure the gas line.
Joe Huggins with Phoenix fire reported that several propane tanks stored in the backyard had also exploded.
Lambert said he heard the girls screaming and crying in their bedroom. He climbed through a window to help get them out along with their dog.
“You don’t think about it; you assume the risk, you go in and you pull the kids out,” Lambert said.
Officials said no injuries were reported in the house fire with the cause of the blaze remaining under investigation.
Witnesses said they believed the family worked in party rentals. The girls’ parents were not home at the time of the fire.
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2023-04-05T20:27:04+00:00
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes on Ukrainian cities Monday in its latest attempt to knock out power and other basic services to civilians as the country copes with sub-freezing temperatures.
"The enemy is again attacking the territory of Ukraine with missiles," Kyrylo Tymoshenko, a top official in the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said on Telegram.
He said several homes were hit in the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, killing two people and wounding two more.
Also in the south, reports from the port city of Odesa said a large fire had broken out and the water supply had been cut off.
In the capital, Kyiv, many residents took shelter in the city's subway system.
Loud explosions were reported in several other cities around the country, though it was not immediately clear if those were incoming Russian missiles or Ukraine's air defense weapons trying to shoot them down.
Russia has been unleashing large-scale strikes on Ukraine's power systems since Oct. 10 in an effort to cut off power to civilians as the country heads into winter.
The temperature is below freezing in much of the country — it was 17 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday morning in Kyiv.
The last nationwide attack was on Nov. 23 and caused significant damage to the electricity grid, knocking out power in most major cities, including Kyiv. The blackouts caused heating and water to be cut.
Ukrainian power companies have been working to restore power, and they say the country is producing about 70% of the energy it needs.
That means power cuts are still in effect nationwide. That typically involves at least one power outage a day of four hours or so, but sometimes there can be two or three such outages.
Ukraine is scrambling to prepare for the winter. Zelenskyy says his government has set up 4,000 centers to take care of civilians if there are extended power cuts.
He calls them "points of invincibility," saying they will provide heat, water, phone charging and internet access. Many are in schools and government buildings.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has warned of blackouts that could last for days. He's urging city residents to move in with relatives in the countryside, where they can burn wood for heat. But so far, he says, they're staying put.
"I talked to our citizens and they are very angry, and ready to stay and ready to fight," Klitschko said last week.
Russian troops have been losing ground on the battlefield the past few months. But Russia is betting it can break Ukrainian resolve by making life for civilians unbearable this winter.
NATO countries have responded by stepping up assistance for Ukraine's power systems.
Ukrainians say the assistance can't get here soon enough. Some equipment, such as transformers, are extremely hard to get.
As a large country with an expansive power grid, Ukraine transmits electricity from power stations at up to 750,000 volts, energy officials say. When the electricity reaches neighborhoods, transformers greatly reduce the voltage as the power then goes to homes and businesses.
The Russians have targeted and destroyed many of these high-voltage transformers, and Ukraine acknowledges it's struggling to find replacements.
In normal times, this can take months because the transformers have to be made to Ukraine's specifications. European networks, for example, tend to use transformers that handle a maximum of 400,000 volts and therefore aren't suitable for Ukraine.
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2022-12-05T15:07:00+00:00
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ryan Garcia has already put the first loss of his career in the rearview mirror.
After being stopped in the seventh round by a vicious liver shot from Gervonta Davis (29-0, 27 KOs) on Saturday night that was billed as the year’s best fight to date, Garcia (23-1, 19 KOs) said he was disappointed and sad. But he planned on getting right back in the gym and returning whenever he can.
“I’m already looking past it,” Garcia told The Associated Press of losing the lightweight bout. “You know, it’s all good. Lost today, but ready to get back into it whenever I can, which is in like three months. So from that, get right back into it.”
Easier said than done, since Garcia will have to temporarily wear the tag of someone who appeared to get right out of the fight by taking a knee after Davis’ wicked left-handed dart to his body.
It was a shot that solidified Davis as one of the sport’s pound-for-pound best fighters, and sent Garcia back down boxing’s ladder.
Though one of the hardest things for a fighter to overcome is accepting he’s no longer undefeated, Garcia walked out of the back of T-Mobile Arena surrounded by his team with nearly the same air of confidence with which he entered.
Next stop for the 24-year-old: 140 pounds.
Garcia, who had his chance to make a bid for a title shot with a victory over Davis, shook his head in agreement when suggested he’d likely have to work his way back through a bevy of fighters before earning a shot at a championship belt, but said he is ready to tackle the junior welterweight division.
One thought is Shakur Stevenson (20-0), who by taking a step up in class would prove his worth before fighting in significant championship bouts. Though Stevenson has carved his way through most of his opponents, both could help one another’s career, as Garcia could be a legitimate contender for the 2016 Rio Olympics silver medalist.
Garcia could also turn toward George Kambosos, who would also have to move up a class.
Teófimo López and Josh Taylor are both at 140 and are scheduled to meet on June 10. The loser of that fight would also be hungry for a bounce-back fight that could be an attractive draw for Garcia.
Any of the aforementioned boxers would bring a hefty payday and plenty of attention.
Whomever Garcia faces next remains a mystery, as he wouldn’t divulge who he has his sights set on for his next bout.
“That’s gonna take some time for me to think about,” Garcia said. “Obviously I just lost, so I’ve got to go back to the drawing board before I say anything. And then from there, I’ll make my decision.”
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2023-04-24T03:19:05+00:00
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kron4.com
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Physician leaders from Pieces, Amazon Web Services, and LeanTaaS share insights on how AI can maximize its impact for clinicians with natural language processing and natural language generation
DALLAS, Aug. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pieces, a healthcare AI company, recently convened an industry roundtable with physician leaders to reflect on the current state of AI and how it is supporting physicians, nurses, and care teams. The roundtable participants shared their perspectives from both practicing in the field and working with healthcare IT companies to drive much-needed change for healthcare professionals. The consensus was that while AI has made great strides in recent years, it is ready and able to make a deeper impact on the day-to-day work of clinicians, as well as to drive a strategic shift towards re-empowering clinicians to focus more on patients and less on administrative tasks.
The roundtable participants included:
- Ruben Amarasingham, MD, Founder and CEO, Pieces
- Mark Michalski, MD, Worldwide Head Healthcare and Life Sciences for AI and machine learning, Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Jim Ritchie, MD, Consultant Renal Physician and CCIO at The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Pallabi Sanyal-Dey, MD, FHM, Director of Client Services, Inpatient Beds, LeanTaaS
"AI is beginning to help clinicians with the care and treatment of patients but we really are in the first inning here," said Dr. Amarasingham. "This roundtable discussion reflects the increasingly expressed hope that AI can bring back the joy and delight into the practice of medicine, enabling clinicians to spend all of their attention on the patient."
Key takeaways from the roundtable included:
- AI has the potential to vastly reduce charting and EMR friction that has bedeviled healthcare for decades: "One of the most exciting areas for me, coming from a clinical world, is how advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will help reduce the burden on medical professionals," said Dr. Michalski. "Our providers have had a tremendously difficult two years, and beyond the stress of increasing patient volumes, they are also grappling with alert and documentation fatigue. An exciting near-term goal is to streamline repetitive charting activity with predictive AI – and the ultimate goal is to modernize clinical documentation and charting activities altogether. This will free up medical practitioners' time from critical yet repetitive tasks, and help them focus on patient care."
Dr. Amarasingham agrees. "There is an increasing focus on AI systems and methods that can take over the documentation and communication tasks physicians have been saddled with since the advent of EMRs. For example, systems can summarize a medical record or a complicated patient history, reducing the time a physician may have to read a record or prepare a summary." - AI and NLP can help cure healthcare's workforce crisis by driving efficiency and supporting retention: "The NHS has recognized that more staff are leaving the field than ever before and has committed to taking action," said Dr. Ritchie. "Staff retention is a top priority. If we can apply AI to enable a better staff experience that is less about administrative tasks and more about safely looking after patients, it will make a difference. Similarly, if AI can help clinicians to increase the efficiency of their work with automation, they will be able to look after more patients which is a win for both organizational efficiency and our staff's quality of their working experience."
- NLP is making a difference and will make an even bigger impact as it continues to evolve: "In the last 5 years we've seen a significant development in NLP and speech recognition technology," said Dr. Michalski. "We've seen huge step changes in the capabilities of AI in those models and technologies, and I think those are making the most progress.
Dr. Sanyal-Dey sees the promise of NLP as well. "I'm most excited about the NLP arena—and really fine- tuning that functionality so that it allows physicians to not spend their time reading non-relevant information but rather focusing on what they need to make clinical decisions. NLP can help assign role-appropriate tasks so that everyone's time is spent most efficiently. Case managers are doing true case management and nurses can do nursing," she said.
Dr. Amarasingham commented, "I've heard John Bohannon say: 'It used to be, software is eating the world; then ML is eating software; and now NLP is eating ML.' That certainly feels real to me when I look at healthcare AI. NLP, and now NLG, has great power for healthcare" - Some physicians are still skeptical but others are eager to embrace AI and experience the benefits: "Skepticism absolutely remains - whenever change is introduced, especially in healthcare, because of the way we do things," said Dr. Sanyal-Dey. "I have seen people who are quite positively taken aback and impressed by what AI and machine learning can do, but it will take time for everyone to get there. After all, there's an element of trust because it's new data, new recommendations, and healthcare workers must be able to trust what they see and do. The human element is needed to balance everything else that is being captured."
Dr. Amarasingham however also emphasizes that many physicians are ready to adopt AI. "My discussion with physician colleagues is that they are hungry for advances in AI to be applied to their work to make their lives easier and their patient's outcomes even better," said Dr. Amarasingham. "There is enormous complexity and information in medicine and many physicians would like tools that make it easier to do their work, manage routine items, and reduce cognitive overload similar to what they see their smartphones doing in their lives outside of medicine."
"So much of the discussion about AI has been focused on predictive modeling or risk scores but AI must also be about helping me to get work done rather than giving me another number to think about," said Dr. Ritchie. "Helping clinicians to get work done, like streamlining the clinical handover process, improves operational efficiency and much more. It's an easier fix than the strictly clinical use cases and more appreciated in many ways." - Healthcare organizations are finding new ways to accurately evaluate AI technology, like dedicated sandbox environments: "Most healthcare organizations are not adept at evaluating AI technology, "said Dr. Ritchie. "They often lack a structured approach to evaluating features and usability outside of foundational technical requirements like cybersecurity essentials. But standards still cannot inform whether an AI technology will work in your environment, if it is the right tool for your technology infrastructure, or whether the training group is representative of the population you serve. That's why we're exploring building a sandbox environment for AI vendor testing. Even though that is costly and time-consuming, it is important."
- The future is bright for healthcare AI in the near-term and for decades to come: I'm looking forward to technology like AI and machine learning allowing clinicians to spend their critical thinking time on a patients' medical issues," said Dr. Sanyal-Dey. "Giving clinical care the space that it needs, without the clutter of administrative tasks, will free up brain space to think about our patients better."
As for Dr. Michalski, he sees talking about AI less as the future goal. "I'm hoping for a day, not too far from now, where we're talking about AI and ML less because we'll be able to incorporate AI and ML seamlessly from a product and workflow standpoint. We will view AI as a feature of a successful product as opposed to being a talking point. When that happens, the natural and healthy skepticism of the physician world about AI and ML will fade away because the product works seamlessly and improves efficiency significantly. We've seen that happen in imaging, it's no longer an AI tool, it's an effective tool that helps improve patient care"
Dr. Amarasingham notes that future iterations of AI systems will become more anticipatory. "AI will become a clinically holistic assistant to physicians, like having a really great intern to help with things," he said.
About Pieces
Pieces, Inc. is a healthcare artificial intelligence and technology company that connects health systems and the community to address clinical and social determinants of health through community networks and intelligent software and services. Our solution interprets patient information in real-time and connects health systems and community-based organizations to support healthier outcomes, both inside and outside of hospital walls. Using cloud-based artificial intelligence with clinically-based natural language processing (NLP) and physician-supervised machine learning, our tools help streamline clinician workflows and improve patient outcomes.
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2022-08-16T12:37:03+00:00
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kxii.com
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Robustel strengthen industry leading portfolio of Industrial IoT routers and gateways with a small footprint & cost-effective industrial 5G Router.
GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Robustel are pleased to announce the 5G (NSA and SA) capable R5020 Lite offering support for global 5G, 4G and 3G bands with a powerful Cat-18 LTE (4G) fallback.
With its on-board smarts, compact size and ultra-competitive price point, the R5020 Lite is one of the most attractive options for customers looking to migrate from previous generation technologies to 5G.
R5020 Lite is equipped with 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and dual-band 802.11ac Wi-Fi for low latency and reliable data transfer. Supporting 4G cellular networks, R5020 Lite is also a powerful Cat-18 LTE-A router which means that even locations without 5G coverage currently can still benefit from broadband in excess of 100Mbps using Carrier Aggregation on 4G (aka LTE-A).
The R5020 Lite leverages Robustel's "RobustOS" operating system providing a simple, secure and lightweight operator interface. RobustOS has been penetration tested by UK Cybersecurity experts Nettitude and shown to have ZERO VULNERABILITES as of Q4 2022. "Security by Design" means RobustOS continues to be monitored and updated to counter emerging security threats.
Suitable Applications
The R5020 Lite is the perfect tool to get greater bandwidth from cellular networks for any application but one of its main sweet-spots is for use in Enterprise / SD-WAN applications as a '5G managed modem'.
Existing site routers can use the R5020 Lite as a layer 2 device to add a fast cellular WAN acting as a backup to existing fixed line broadband connections.
Management is provided by Robustel's exceptionally powerful router management platform RCMS – a pane of glass through which the performance and health of all cellular routers can be observed at-a-glance.
R5020 Lite is also being considered for primary broadband access. With good antenna selection and placement and a cost-effective SIM tariff, it can now be cheaper and better to opt for a wireless internet connection.
The R5020 Lite also opens doors for Industrial IoT applications like industrial automation, autonomous robots and Smart Transportation applications including captive portals, CCTV, real-time management that need high speed internet access.
Key Features of R5020 Lite
- Global 5G/4G/3G cellular coverage
- Cat-18 LTE for ultra-fast 4G connections
- Supports Ethernet, Wi-fi and 4G/5G internet with auto-failover
- Fully programmable Operating System with a well-documented SDK
- Multiple VPN options available including DMVPN, IPsec, L2TP + more
- Powerful device management and monitoring functions through RCMS
- Industrial-grade Aluminium enclosure with a small footprint
About Robustel:
Robustel are a Wireless IoT & WAN Edge solutions provider specialising in 5G, 4G/LTE & LPWAN devices, helping the enterprise in smart cities, transportation, smart water, energy and precision agriculture industry to deliver unbreakable connectivity by Robustel's hardware and cloud.
Founded in 2010, Robustel are headquartered in Guangzhou, China with branch offices in Germany, Australia, Japan, the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. Robustel and their network of global distribution partners service enterprises of all sizes in diverse vertical markets such as smart cities, retail, energy, security, industrial automation, building automation and transportation.
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2023-02-03T09:18:14+00:00
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TORRINGTON, Conn., Sept. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Therap Services, the leading EHR software system, providing data-driven and HIPAA-compliant electronic documentation solutions to service providers in Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS), and other human services settings, have joined the 2022 Hybrid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Conference, organized by ADvancing States, to speak about the importance of Person-Centered and Data-Driven practices on delivering long term supports and services to aging people and people with disabilities. The conference, which Therap participated in as a Platinum Sponsor, was held from August 14 to August 18, 2022, at the Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC.
On August 16, Jeff Case, National Director of Business Development, and Beverly Buscemi, Director of Government Relations of Therap Services along with Oklahoma Department of Human Services Samantha Galloway, Oklahoma House of Representatives Mark Lawson, and Liberty's Amanda Cothern-Webb, spoke about how Person-Centered data propels the practice of informed and data-driven decision-making regarding individuals with disabilities or those who need long term cares in human services community.
The Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Conference is a national conference organized annually by ADvancing States that brings together state, federal, and local policymakers as well as leaders who administer, manage, and deliver waivers and other HCBS programs. The purpose of this conference is to share practices and policies that improve state systems providing Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) to individuals of different ages and abilities. ADvancing States support visionary leadership, and the advancement of systems innovation while supporting national policies that deliver Long-Term Services and Support systems to older adults and people with disabilities.
For more information on Therap's visit to the 2022 Hybrid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Conference, please visit http://www.advancingstates.org/hcbsconference
About Therap
Therap's comprehensive and HIPAA-compliant software is used in human services settings for documentation, communication, reporting, EVV and billing.
Learn more at www.therapservices.net.
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2022-09-29T17:33:18+00:00
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Upshur County officials announced Wednesday that Jared Maddox, the owner of Firehouse 9 Farm, was killed in the explosion and subsequent fire Tuesday at the facility.
There were four other individuals injured in the explosion at 4101 Locust Road in Gilmer, though no update on their condition was made available.
According to ATF Agent Kevin Mack, the persons preparing the fireworks at the site were nearing completion of approximately three hundred 3-inch fireworks shells when the accident occurred. Evidence and witness statements indicate that the electric match that feeds a shell caused the explosion.
“When we arrived on scene we had four individuals that we identified as being injured and one that was in the structure that we believed (was) deceased,” Upshur County Sheriff Larry Webb said Tuesday.
According to Webb, at 10:33 a.m. the office received a call about a fireworks explosion at the event venue. A multi-jurisdictional response followed, with nine departments responding.
Maddox was licensed by the state as a pyrotechnics operator. To earn that certification he had to pass a Pyrotechnic Operator test, submit to a background check, and complete various state forms and applications.
Sheriff Webb, on behalf of the Upshur County Sheriff’s Office, express condolences to the family of Mr. Maddox. Webb said Maddox provided assistance to the Sheriff’s Office and other emergency services for many years and will be missed.
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2023-07-05T17:23:56+00:00
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tylerpaper.com
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https://tylerpaper.com/news/jared-maddox-identified-as-victim-of-fatal-explosion/article_63ab031c-1b44-11ee-9638-03050e263810.html
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What to consider when opting to age in place
As Americans get older, instead of setting their sights on moving to a retirement community or an assisted-living facility, more and more are determined to stay at home. This practice is called aging in place.
While it may be desirable, there are certain factors the older population must consider before deciding to live out their golden years at home. Specifically, understanding and accepting that mobility will diminish. Also, realizing there are small modifications that should be made and helpful products to buy that will reduce the chance of accidental fall and injury.
In this article: Apple Watch Series 8, Echo Dot (5th Gen) and Carex Tub Transfer Bench.
Products to age-proof your home
Beth Allen is BestReviews home improvement expert. She pointed out a few quick and easy ways to age-proof your home with affordable products.
“According to the New York Times, people ages 85 and up suffer over half of their injuries in the bathroom,” Allen informed. “Having proper stability in the bathroom can truly be a lifesaver. Even something as simple as installing a non-slip bath mat can be incredibly effective in ensuring the safety of someone who is aging in place.”
Allen added, “Having smart home technology installed can also be incredibly beneficial. This can be anything from smart switches to motion light sensors. These relatively inexpensive upgrades can make a big difference.”
Ways to upgrade your house to a forever home
If you live in a large house with two or more stories, you may want to consider downsizing to a one-story home. However, beyond that, there are a few ways to modify your house, so it is safe to live in as you age.
One option is to have a professional company upgrade the high-risk areas of your home, such as the bathroom, hallways and steps. To make these spaces safer, have the company install items such as a shower chair, a low threshold bath entrance and safety handles and railings.
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ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan's incumbent president is widely expected to secure an easy victory in Sunday's snap election that comes after bloody unrest shook the country this year and he moved to stifle the influence of his authoritarian predecessor.
Five candidates are on the ballot against President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. With a short campaign period that began in late October, they had little opportunity to mount significant challenges. Tokayev, apparently confident of holding a strong advantage, stayed away from a nationally televised election debate.
The national elections commission said about 39% of the electorate had voted by midday (0600 GMT).
The election for a seven-year term comes as Tokayev has taken steps to keep Kazakhstan’s distance from longtime ally and dominant regional power Russia. He pointedly said the country did not recognize the Ukrainian regions that Russia declared to be sovereign states at the outset of the conflict that began in February.
Kazakhstan has taken in hundreds of thousands of Russians who fled after President Vladimir Putin issued a conscription order in September.
When Tokayev became president in 2019 following the resignation of Nursultan Nazarbayev, he was widely expected to continue the authoritarian course of the man who had led the resource-rich country since it gained independence from the Soviet Union. Nazarbayev remained highly influential as head of the national security council, and the capital was renamed Nur-Sultan in his honor.
Then a wave of violence arose in January, when provincial protests initially sparked by a fuel price hike engulfed other cities, notably the commercial capital, Almaty, and became overtly political as demonstrators shouted “Old man out!” in reference to Nazarbayev. More than 220 people, mostly protesters, died as police harshly put down the unrest.
Amid the violence, Tokayev removed Nazarbayev from his security council post. He restored the capital’s previous name of Astana, and the Parliament of Kazakhstan repealed a law granting Nazarbayev and his family immunity from prosecution.
One of Nazarbayev's nephews, Kairat Satybaldy, in September was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzlement. Nazarbayev, after casting his vote on Sunday, said “It has to be thought that the decision of the court was just.”
Tokayev later pushed through reforms that included strengthening the parliament, reducing presidential powers and limiting the presidency to a single seven-year term — meaning he could stay in office until 2029, if he wins Sunday’s election.
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2022-11-20T09:47:32+00:00
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM") announces that investors with substantial losses have opportunity to lead the securities fraud class action lawsuit against Avaya Holdings Corp. ("Avaya" or the "Company") (NYSE: AVYA).
Class Period: November 22, 2021 – November 29, 2022
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: March 6, 2023
If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff of the Avaya lawsuit, you can submit your contact information at www.glancylaw.com/cases/avaya-holdings-corp/. You can also contact Charles H. Linehan, of GPM at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or via email at shareholders@glancylaw.com to learn more about your rights.
The complaint filed alleges that, throughout the Class Period, Defendants failed to disclose to investors that: (1) the Company's internal control over financial reporting ("ICFR") was deficient in several areas; (2) as a result of these deficiencies, the Company had failed to design and maintain effective controls over its whistleblower policies and its ethics and compliance program; (3) the Company's deteriorating financial condition was likely to raise substantial doubt as to its ability to continue as a going concern; and (4) as a result, Defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis at all relevant times.
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Fiona nears Dominican Republic after pounding Puerto Rico
HAVANA (AP) — Hurricane Fiona bore down on the Dominican Republic Monday after knocking out the power grid and unleashing floods and landslides in Puerto Rico, where the governor said the damage was “catastrophic.”
No deaths have been reported, but authorities in the U.S. territory said it was too early to estimate the damage from a storm that was still forecast to unleash torrential rain across Puerto Rico on Monday.
Up to 30 inches (76 centimeters) was forecast for Puerto Rico’s southern region.
“It’s important people understand that this is not over,” said Ernesto Morales, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Juan.
He said flooding reached “historic levels,” with authorities evacuating or rescuing hundreds of people across the island.
“The damages that we are seeing are catastrophic,” said Gov. Pedro Pierluisi.
Before dawn on Monday, authorities in a boat traveled through the flooded streets of the north coastal town of Catano and used a megaphone to alert people that the pumps had collapsed and urged them to evacuate as soon as possible.
Brown water rushed through streets, into homes and even consumed a runway airport in southern Puerto Rico.
Fiona also ripped up asphalt from roads and washed away a bridge in the central mountain town of Utuado that police say was installed by the National Guard after Hurricane Maria hit in 2017 as a Category 4 storm.
The storm also ripped off the roofs of several homes, including that of Nelson Cirino in the northern coastal town of Loiza.
“I was sleeping and saw when the corrugated metal flew off,” he said as he observed how the rain drenched his belongings and the wind whipped his colorful curtains into the air.
Ada Vivian Román, a 21-year-old photography student, said the storm knocked down trees and fences in her hometown of Toa Alta.
“I’m actually very anxious because it’s a really slow-moving hurricane,” she said.
She said she is also worried about whether the public transportation she relies on to get to her job at a public relations agency will be operating by the time she has to go back to the office.
“But I know that I’m privileged compared with other families who are practically losing their homes because they are under water,” she said.
Fiona was centered 15 miles (25 kilometers) west-southwest of Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph (150 kph) on Sunday night, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. It was moving to the northwest at eight mph (13 kph).
It hit on the anniversary of Hurricane Hugo, which slammed into the island in 1989 as a Category 3 storm.
As authorities continue to assess the damage from Fiona, many wondered when power would be restored.
“That’s probably the worst damage there is,” said Tomás Rivera, who co-owns a hotel in the southwest coastal town of El Combate.
On Monday, authorities announced that power had been restored to 100,000 customers on an island of 3.2 million people.
U.S. President Joe Biden declared a state of emergency in the U.S. territory as the eye of the storm approached the island’s southwest corner.
The blackout that Hurricane Maria caused was blamed for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people in the storm’s sweltering aftermath, with power in some neighborhoods not restored until a year later. Maria was a devastating Category 4 storm that struck on Sept. 20, 2017.
Luma, the company that operates power transmission and distribution, said bad weather, including winds of 80 mph, had disrupted transmission lines on Sunday, leading to “a blackout on all the island.”
Health centers were running on generators — and some of those had failed. Health Secretary Carlos Mellado said crews rushed to repair generators at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, where several patients had to be evacuated.
More than 3,000 homes still have only a blue tarp as a roof, and infrastructure remains weak, including the power grid. Outages remain common, and reconstruction started only recently.
“I think all of us Puerto Ricans who lived through Maria have that post-traumatic stress of, ‘What is going to happen, how long is it going to last and what needs might we face?’” said Danny Hernández, who works in the capital of San Juan but planned to weather the storm with his parents and family in the western town of Mayaguez.
The storm pummeled cities and towns along Puerto Rico’s southern coast that have not yet fully recovered from a string of strong earthquakes starting in late 2019.
More than 1,000 people with some 80 pets had sought shelter across the island by Sunday night, the majority of them in the southern coast.
Fiona was forecast to swipe the Dominican Republic early Monday and then northern Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands with the threat of heavy rain. It could threaten the far southern end of the Bahamas on Tuesday.
Hurricane warnings were posted for the Dominican Republic’s eastern coast from Cabo Caucedo to Cabo Frances Viejo, and for the Turks and Caicos.
Fiona previously battered the eastern Caribbean, killing one man in the French territory of Guadeloupe when floods washed his home away, officials said.
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2022-09-19T11:29:05+00:00
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Britain's privacy watchdog hit TikTok with a multimillion-dollar penalty on Tuesday for a slew of data protection breaches, including misusing children's data.
The Information Commissioner's Office said it issued a fine of 12.7 million pounds ($15.9 million) to the short-video sharing app, which is wildly popular with young people.
It's the latest example of tighter scrutiny that TikTok and its parent, Chinese technology company ByteDance, are facing in the West, where governments are increasingly concerned about risks that the app poses to data privacy and cybersecurity.
The British watchdog said TikTok allowed as many as 1.4 million children in the U.K. under 13 to use the app in 2020, despite the platform's own rules prohibiting children that young from setting up accounts.
TikTok didn't adequately identify and remove children under 13 from the platform, the watchdog said. And even though it knew younger children were using its platform, TikTok failed to get consent from their parents to process their data, as required by Britain's data protection laws, the agency said.
“TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better,“ Information Commissioner John Edwards said in a press release. The fine "reflects the serious impact their failures may have had. They did not do enough to check who was using their platform or take sufficient action to remove the underage children that were using their platform.”
The company said it disagreed with the watchdog’s decision.
“We invest heavily to help keep under 13s off the platform and our 40,000-strong safety team works around the clock to help keep the platform safe for our community,” TikTok said in statement. “We will continue to review the decision and are considering next steps.”
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2023-04-04T12:44:18+00:00
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expressnews.com
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https://www.expressnews.com/news/politics/article/tiktok-fined-15-9m-by-uk-watchdog-over-misuse-of-17877392.php
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A Sioux City project will document the diverse life experiences of the growing Latino population in northwest Iowa.
Morningside University Spanish professor Stacey Alex is collecting stories to put into an oral history of Latinos’ experiences in the region. In the future, Alex hopes that local schools can use the archive as a language-learning resource.
Alex said she wants to fill the gap in archival documentation of Latinos in the Midwest. She said the communities’ stories are excluded from these types of projects too often.
“I do really hope that by having an archive, we can continue to look at the ways that Latinx communities are experiencing success and really at the forefront of our social fabric,” she said.
Alex began the project two years ago with the help of a Morningside student, Damian Herrera, and funding from the university. The archive holds stories from students, public figures and business owners in Siouxland.
"You are part of the history of this town."Perla Alarcon Flory, Sioux City school board member
Sioux City school board member, Perla Alarcon Flory, donated her story to the archive. She moved from Iowa from Mexico in 2001 and became the first person of Latin heritage to be elected to public office in Woodbury County.
Alarcon Flory said she hopes by sharing her experiences, others in her community will feel less alone.
“We have a very diverse population that many times don't see themselves reflected anywhere,” Alarcon Flory said. “And so having their voices somehow echoed or finding someone that they can connect with becomes important.”
The video interviews, conducted in Spanish, will also be available as a resource to local schools for language learning classes. Alex said her goal is to compile the stories in a textbook that can be used to help heritage speakers, or individuals who have an initial understanding of the language from their families.
She said it’s important that students see their own communities reflected in their coursework.
“So students understand that their goal is not just this abstract idea of using language, but that we're learning language to really work with our communities and learn from our communities,” she said.
Alex said she hopes the archive can help highlight the contributions Latinos have made to Sioux City and their important role in its history.
Latinos make up 20% of Sioux City’s population, according to the 2020 Census. But, the community has a long history in the region. In 1990, more than 2,000 residents of the town were of Hispanic heritage, the third largest in Iowa.
In Alarcon Flory’s two decades of living in Sioux City, she said she’s seen the Latino population grow and change. She said she hopes the documentation of its stories will remind people of their importance to the community.
“You are part of the history of this town,” she said. “And if your life can be of service to anyone, if your experience can be of service to anyone, I think that it is a very humbling but also empowering experience.”
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2022-12-06T23:32:01+00:00
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PUBLIC RECORD Public Record for April 27, 2023 Kylie Balk-Yaatenen Kylie Balk-Yaatenen Author email Apr 27, 2023 1 hr ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email The Beloit Police Department, as well as other area police departments, mostly saw calls for service increase in 2022. File photo Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Rock CountyFelony arrestsAll of those listed below have since their arrest been formally charged with a felony (or felonies).SEVEN WHITE, 20, of Beloit, second degree recklessly endangering safety, April 6, 100 West Grand Avenue, Beloit.SHARITA PARKS, 38, of Joliet, Illinois, identity theft, April 22, 2900 block of Milwaukee Road, Beloit.REX BARTRAM, 52, of Beloit, OWI sixth offense and possession of cocaine, April 23, 1800 block of Madison Road, Beloit. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Tags Beloit Crime Log Kylie Balk-Yaatenen Author email Follow Kylie Balk-Yaatenen Close Get email notifications on {{subject}} daily! Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Save Manage followed notifications Close Followed notifications Please log in to use this feature Log In Don't have an account? Sign Up Today Recommended for you Trending Now Discover Wisconsin Beloit episode to air this week Beloit businesses, individuals honored for downtown revitalization efforts Janesville man faces OWI homicide charge in fatal crash Fishing derby fundraiser set to honor two area men Full lineup planned for Beloit's Riverside Park this summer Newsletters Sign up today!Get our newsletters delivered right to your inbox. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Screentime e-Edition Screentime
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2023-04-27T06:58:57+00:00
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(The Hill) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday announced it would review the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, Texas school shooting after officials spent days following the tragedy giving conflicting accounts of how local police and federal authorities handled the situation.
A Justice Department spokesman said in a statement that a request for a review came come Uvalde’s mayor, Don McLaughlin.
“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said, adding the department would publish a report at the conclusion of the review.
“As with prior Justice Department after-action reviews of mass shootings and other critical incidents, this assessment will be fair, transparent, and independent,” Coley added.
Local police have faced intense scrutiny from the public and from parents in the aftermath of the mass shooting, which killed 19 school children and two teachers. On Friday, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Steven McCraw, admitted it was wrong for officers to have waited for about an hour after the shooting began to confront the gunman.
“From the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. There’s no excuse for that,” McCraw said.
Officials initially said the shooter had “engaged” with a school resource officer but later contradicted that statement saying such an officer had not been on campus. Law enforcement authorities later said that 19 police officers had been in the hallway outside the classroom where the gunman had barricaded himself, but waited until a janitor could unlock the door with a key more than an hour after gunfire began.
While officers were in the hallway, at least one student inside the classroom where some were killed called 911 begging for police to be sent in.
Wide-ranging police protocol put in place following the Columbine school shooting in Colorado in 1999 states that police should confront an attacker as soon as possible. Officials in Texas said officers opted to wait to confront the gunman until reinforcements had arrived.
Videos, however, have emerged of parents pleading police officers outside the school to let them in to save their own children where some reported being threatened with tasers and handcuffed.
This is a developing story, check back for updates.
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2022-05-29T19:38:05+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The leader of a Senate subcommittee is demanding the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s LIV Golf present records about negotiations that led to their new agreement and plans for what golf will look like under the arrangement.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., sent letters Monday to PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and LIV CEO Greg Norman spelling out the “serious questions regarding the reasons for and terms behind the announced agreement.”
Blumenthal, who is chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said he also wanted to hear the tour’s plans to retain its tax-exempt status.
Last week, LIV and the tour stunned the golf world by agreeing to merge the PGA Tour and European tour with the Saudi golf interests, while also dropping all lawsuits between the parties. The governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which bankrolls LIV, will join the PGA Tour board of directors and lead a new business venture as its chairman. The PGA Tour itself will remain a tax-exempt entity.
It was a move expected to receive scrutiny from federal regulators and lawmakers, and the launch of a Senate investigation is among the first dominoes to fall.
The agreement announced last week was to combine the golf-related businesses of Saudi’s Public Investment Fund — which includes LIV Golf — with those of the PGA Tour and European tour. That would be a new for-profit company still to be named.
Among the uncertainties is how LIV Golf goes forward after 2023. PIF’s governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, is to be chairman of the new venture, with Monahan as CEO and two PGA Tour board members joining them on an executive committee.
In his letters to Monahan and Norman, Blumenthal wrote about the skepticism critics hold over the Saudis’ intent “to use investments in sports to further the Saudi government’s strategic objectives.”
“Critics have cast such Saudi investments in sports as a means of “sportswashing” — an attempt to soften the country’s image around the world — given Saudi Arabia’s deeply disturbing human rights record at home and abroad,” the letter said.
Blumenthal asked for a sweeping set of documents — essentially all communications between LIV and the tour beginning in October 2021 through the present.
Al-Rumayyan said last week that Norman was not apprised of the deal until shortly before it was announced.
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2023-06-12T17:39:56+00:00
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Travel last summer was, in a word, wild.
Pent-up “revenge” travel combined with relaxed restrictions caused a surge in demand. High fuel prices and limited airline capacity drove up costs, with overall travel prices increasing 17% over pre-pandemic levels by June 2022, according to NerdWallet’s Travel Price Index.
What about this summer? Will weakening demand lead to lower prices and thinner crowds? It’s not looking likely, according to travel experts.
“We aren’t seeing any dip in demand,” says Hayley Berg, lead economist at Hopper, a travel booking platform. “It seems incredible that the demand could be sustained, but we’re not seeing any weakness right now.”
It seems that Americans’ appetite for revenge remains unsated. And that could lead to another wild ride this summer.
No relief from high prices
Prices for flights, car rentals and hotels may have peaked last year, but they haven’t come down much.
Overall trip prices remained 15% higher in January 2023 compared with January 2020, before travel plummeted because of the pandemic.
It looks like prices could remain high through the summer, though they’re unlikely to hit the enormous year-over-year gains seen last year.
“We’re not seeing nearly the pricing increases we saw last year,” says Jamie Lane, vice president of research at AirDNA, a vacation rental data platform. Demand for Airbnb and Vrbo rentals remains high, he says, but increased supply has tempered price growth. “Average daily rates are up 4% year over year for the summer.”
Given the huge spikes in travel prices last year, a 4% increase is relatively modest. Airfares, on the other hand, could see a decrease in price this summer compared with last year.
“We are expecting domestic airfare to peak around $350 on average,” Berg says. “That’s about 10% lower than last year but 10% higher than 2019 prices.”
Car rental prices have also abated from their absurd heights but are still 43% higher than pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. And food away from home (i.e., restaurant meals) has seen some of the steadiest inflation, now costing 23% more than before the pandemic.
Different booking timelines
The pandemic may be waning, but it has significantly changed how we travel.
“What we’ve seen consistently is that people are booking a lot more last minute,” Berg says. “For domestic airfare, that’s three to four weeks in advance, where it would have been closer to six to eight weeks in advance before the pandemic.”
These short booking windows mean we won’t know how high demand for summer travel gets until, well, the summer. It could also mean that prices on transportation and lodging will rise more than usual in the final weeks before departure. Avoiding this last-minute crunch could be the budget-savvy way to plan this year.
Another trend that seems to be continuing this year: more travelers choosing to book trips during the shoulder seasons around the summer, late spring and early fall.
Lane says the shoulder season saw above-average demand last year, and so far the trend is continuing this spring. “It would start to show up if we see pacing weaker in shoulder seasons like April and May, and we’re just not seeing that.”
Asia in the spotlight
It’s not just a matter of when travelers are booking but where. International destinations that were still closed or restricted in 2022 are seeing a boom this year.
The number of U.S. passengers leaving for international destinations was up 75% in January 2023 compared with January 2022 and up 8% compared with January 2019, according to data from the International Trade Administration, a U.S. government agency. The biggest shift has been in departures to Asia, which have seen a staggering 380% increase between January 2022 and January 2023. It’s a shift that seems likely to accelerate into the summer, according to experts.
“Asia is absolutely one of the hottest regions right now,” Berg says. “The challenge there is that supply, direct flights from the U.S., is not back to pre-pandemic levels.”
So while a long-deferred summer trip to Japan might sound enticing, it’s likely to carry a high price tag.
Big questions remain
Beyond adjusting budgets to accommodate travel price changes, travelers might have other money-related concerns looking into the summer. With layoff possibilities looming and government data showing pandemic savings are dwindling and consumers piling on record credit card debt, it seems like a matter of when, not if, travel begins to slow.
Will travelers tap the brakes on spending this spring, leading to thinner crowds and lower prices come summer? Or will they continue to seek their revenge travel at all costs, leading to another summer of wild travel pricing?
Whatever happens, savvy vacationers might avoid booking at the last minute, especially for popular summer getaway destinations. And skipping Asia, at least until more air routes become available, could help them avoid some of the heftier airfare prices.
Also: Remember to pack some snacks — restaurant food is expensive.
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Sam Kemmis writes for NerdWallet. Email: skemmis@nerdwallet.com. Twitter: @samsambutdif.
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2023-03-24T19:32:41+00:00
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bostonherald.com
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https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/03/24/summer-travel-is-likely-to-remain-hot-this-year-so-book-early/
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Grayson McCall threw for three touchdowns and added a rushing score with 3:01 remaining as Coastal Carolina held off Army 38-28 on Saturday in an opener for both teams.
Army used a 53-second drive to pull within 31-28 after Cade Ballard found Braheam Murphy wide open for a 73-yard score. But McCall led a 10-play, 75-yard scoring drive, capped by his 5-yard sneak up the middle.
CCU forced a four-and-out and took over with 1:36 left in front of 21,165, setting a program attendance record at Brooks Stadium.
McCall was 12 of 17 for 174 yards. Reese White led the Chanticleers on the ground with 21 carries for 133 yards and a touchdown. CJ Beasley added 91 yards on 19 carries.
McCall led back-to-back scoring drives spanning the first-quarter break to give Coastal Carolina a 14-7 lead. McCall found White coming out of the backfield for a 6-yard score and Sam Pinckney later made a diving catch in the end zone from 26-yards out.
Coastal Carolina's defensive pressure on Tyhier Tyler on the last play of the third quarter led to a leaping interception by Tavyn Jackson near midfield as the Chanticleers held onto a 24-21 lead.
Tyrell Robinson opened the scoring for Amy with a 70-yard touchdown run up the middle. Army’s second big scoring play of the game came on a play action as Ay’Jaun Marshall was left wide open and Tyhier Tyler found him for a 54-yard connection.
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2022-09-04T03:51:48+00:00
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BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — In the cemetery where Oleksii Zavadskyi and Yurii Stiahliuk are buried, the women they loved take drags on the men’s favorite brands of cigarettes. Clouds of smoke are exhaled in silence.
Interlaced between Anastasiia Okhrimenko’s dainty fingers are Camels. Anna Korostenska lights L&M’s, her hands shaking in the cold. An intimate ritual when the men were still alive — at the end of the day, when it was just the two of them — it is now a somber tradition carried on after death.
Oleksii and Yurii were killed on Ukraine's eastern front five months apart. One was Vadym Okhrimenko’s best friend and died in his arms. “Gone, in an instant,” he says, briskly packing his combat uniform and gear. Soon he returns to the battlefield, heavy with sorrow, hungry for revenge.
The five had known each other since childhood. They came of age in Bucha, a Kyiv suburb now synonymous with the war’s most horrific atrocities. Their interwoven tales reveal how Russia's invasion of Ukraine exactly one year ago changed their lives, their neighborhood, their country.
“This war is not just about soldiers,” says Anna. “It’s about everyone connected to them, and their pain.”
With each passing month, sedimentary layers of grief formed: violent occupations followed by tearful separations and interminable waiting. Between chaotic frontlines where victory turned to attrition and homes assailed with constant air raids and power cuts, love blossomed, friendships deepened and the fear of death burrowed in.
As the conflict that killed their loved ones still rages on, Anna, Anastasiia and her brother, Vadym wrestle with a question that all of war-torn Ukraine must grapple with: After loss, what comes next?
HISTORY UNFOLDING
In Bucha, familiar childhood landmarks are imbued with a new, dark history.
There is the building behind the playground where dozens took shelter from the approaching Russian troops; the garages where Russian soldiers burned to death those sheltering inside; the supermarket, from where the funeral processions now start.
The occupation, which lasted 33 days from the start of the invasion on Feb. 24 to April 1, when Russian troops withdrew, became a potent symbol of the war’s horrors. Liberation revealed the mass murder of civilians and cruel accounts of rape. More than 450 people were killed, according to local authorities.
Anastasiia fled the area for another. Anna remained in Bucha until March 10. She spent nights in the shelter as Russian tanks rolled past her neighborhood of Sklozavod, soldiers ransacked shops and ran over a man sitting in a car. All this, she witnessed.
“We are still processing,” says Andrii Holovyn, 50, the community’s priest, who presided over Yurii’s funeral and those of countless other soldiers after him. “People are living in constant danger, without light, with no breaks in between.”
The occupation propelled the childhood friends to act. Oleksii’s mother and sister escaped to Germany. Vadym’s wife fled to the Czech Republic. Yurii asked Anastasiia to leave her job and stay at home.
They were very different, the three men. Yurii had an aura of eternal youth, the kind of guy who smiled broadly even when enraged. Oleksii was a brawler, a rebel on the outside but intensely introverted. Vadym, a terse, self-described “football hooligan,” was their leader.
Stirred by the massacre in their hometown, they joined the army in the spring of 2022. No one could afford to fold their arms and watch the war happen, said Vadym.
LIVING CALL TO CALL
This was the moment Anastasiia chose to propose marriage to Yurii.
It was her way of telling him he could count on her to wait for him. They had been together for seven years, a relationship sparked the day that Yurii, the boy she had met as a child and known only as her brother’s friend, reappeared in her life with an innocuous greeting on social media.
“I realized that he was the only person with whom I could imagine my future,” she says.
It was a no-frills ceremony. Papers were signed, rings exchanged. But future plans were elaborate. “First, we had to win this war," Anastasiia says, twirling her wedding band around her finger. “Probably the first thing we would do after is go on a honeymoon.”
Yurii arrived in the eastern city of Kramatorsk in July, heading toward the salt-mining town of Bakhmut, a fierce battlefront that would turn out to be the war’s longest. Says Anastasiia: “I lived from call to call."
Through him, she bore witness to the hellscape that was the war.
Russia had shifted tactics, withdrawing troops from the north after fierce Ukrainian resistance and focusing on what Moscow described as the “liberation” of the contested Donbas region.
His correspondence with Anastasiia over six months revealed his unit was constantly on the move. The shelling and artillery battles were relentless, he told her. After one night of extensive bombardment, he texted, “I will definitely return,” with an emoji blowing a heart-shaped kiss.
In August, he complained that the enemy had more advanced weapons while they had to make do with automatic guns. Helpless, they spent hours hiding in the trenches.
The night before Ukraine’s Independence Day on Aug. 25, Yurii said he expected the Russians would mark the occasion with missiles. He made her promise to sleep in the corridor, away from windows.
He returned to the front later. When the shelling ceased for a moment, Yurii made a dash for the car, thinking he had just enough time as the enemy reloaded weapons.
Then the shooting started again.
It was Vadym, not Yurii, who called Anastasiia that morning. He had bad news from the Military Commissariat.
“Tell me it’s not true,” reads the last text message she sent her husband. “I’m begging you, tell me you’re alive.”
A DECLARATION OF LOVE
September was a turning point.
Ukraine launched surprise counter-offensives in the northern and southern regions, denting the image of Russia’s military might. Kyiv was encouraged to seek more arms from the hesitant West to sustain the fight, and Oleksii finally summoned the courage to tell Anna he loved her for the first time.
Theirs was an affair only the two of them understood, one in which moments of affection could quickly devolve into thunderous arguments.
Oleksii was Anna’s first kiss at 15, but there was no relationship to speak of until Yurii’s death. That changed him. Oleksii revealed he had loved her his entire life but had stayed away because she had been with one of his friends. Now he didn’t care anymore.
“Yurii’s death pushed us to accept the fact that you can do anything in this life while you are still alive,” Anna says.
After Yurii's funeral, Anna planned to spend the night with Anastasiia to comfort her grieving friend. Oleksii, who had taken leave to attend the burial, walked her to the door and kissed her.
After, he called her almost every day.
In mid-September, he seemed especially tired on a video call while stationed in Zaporizhzhia. He asked Anna to help him find out how long soldiers were permitted to take leave. He sent her a link, an information page for officers looking to get time off to get married.
“Zavadskyi, do you want to go on vacation or get married?” she asked him, teasing.
“Let’s combine the practical with the pleasant,” he responded. That was Oleksii’s style. They were engaged.
Autumn turned to winter, Ukraine liberated the northern city of Kharkiv and Kherson in the south. The victories boosted morale, but were won bit by bit with the help of Western weapons that wore down Russian forces and supply lines.
In the east, gains were harder to come by. Russian forces, with Wagner mercenaries, unleashed human wave tactics to exhaust Ukrainian defenses. On January 11, Oleksii was deployed to a position near Bakhmut, very close to the same front where Yurii was killed.
On Jan. 13, he called. It was too cold to sleep, he said, quivering. The combat lines were very close; he was 15 meters away from the enemy. He was scared.
In long-range battles it’s not easy to see when you’ve killed someone, he explained. He had sent videos of himself from these positions before, shooting toward the faraway enemy lines, crying out: “For Stiahliuk!” — for Yurii. But here, he could clearly see how the bodies of the men he extinguished fell.
Anna told him, sharply. “You have to understand: If you don’t kill, they will kill you.”
He died the next day from a bullet to the neck.
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Until their redeployment to the east, they had felt invincible. In Zaporizhizhia, they had captured two prisoners after an ambush operation and pushed the Russians back by at least 10 kilometers. Oleksii was both an infantryman and drove the platoon’s armored vehicle.
In Bakhmut, they were tasked with carrying out dangerous maneuvers at the foot of the flank, close to enemy lines.
“You have to fight every day, every minute,” Vadym says. Russian attacks seemed endless; their soldiers walked passed the corpses of their own comrades in their relentless push toward Ukrainian positions.
In the middle of the shootout on Jan. 14, Oleksii suddenly collapsed. As there was no blood, Vadym thought he had suffered a shock.
He dragged his friend to cover and looked for a pulse. He could swear he felt one, but the medic at the scene said Oleksii died instantly.
This time, Vadym could not bring himself to call Anna. As the commander of their platoon, Vadym had felt responsible for protecting his best friend. He promised Oleksii’s father, Sergey, he would bring him back home alive. “I was ashamed,” he says. Yurii had been with a different unit.
“There are no golden or miraculous words that can instantly ease their pain,” says Holovyn, the priest of the parishioners who come to him with their tales of suffering. The other day, the teacher of the Sunday school told him her husband had died on the front, but that his body remains in Russian controlled territory. Lying there in the snow.
In Bucha, some people are already rebuilding. The smell of sawdust wafts in the air, as workmen repair destroyed roofs and residents embrace the precarity of living without peace.
In Oleksii’s grandmother’s home in Bucha, Anna holds her fiance’s shirts close to catch the lingering scent of him. “They say the Earth spins. My Earth has stopped,” she says.
Time hasn’t made it any easier for Anastasiia, either. “You come out of a stressful state and begin to realize what is actually happening.” Sometimes she catches herself still waiting for a call.
Side by side, both women stood together at the funerals of the men they loved. “Only Nastya understood me — like no one else,” Anna says, using a nickname for Anastasiia and clasping her hand.
For Vadym, the time to leave has come. “Only fools have no fear at all,” he says, realizing that he is the last of his brothers in arms. “But I will try to survive.”
The next day, he is gone.
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AP Baghdad correspondent Samya Kullab is on assignment in Ukraine. Follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/samya_kullab
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2023-02-16T09:58:55+00:00
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ourmidland.com
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https://www.ourmidland.com/news/world/article/in-the-lives-of-5-friends-ukraine-s-war-story-17787725.php
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce tweeted on Monday that he would return for a 13th NFL season.
Kelce has long been the heart of the Eagles and one of the top centers in the league. He played against his brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, in the Super Bowl. The Chiefs beat the Eagles 38-35 for the NFL title.
Kelce has been as durable as they come with the Super Bowl putting him at 149 consecutive games played. The 35-year-old Kelce was a sixth-round pick in the 2011 draft and is a five-time All-Pro.
“I have put much thought into whether it makes sense to play another season,” Kelce wrote. “After talking it over with my wife and many other friends and family, I have decided to return for another year. Thank you to all my supporters and detractors for fueling me, I ain’t done yet!”
The Eagles responded with a tweet of Kelce wearing a Batman mask from a game last season. Kelce was a free agent and can’t officially sign with the Eagles until Wednesday. The Eagles also tweeted a clip that said Kelce was back.
Kelce is a big fan favorite and has done it all outside the football field such as singing the national anthem at a 76ers game, partying with the Phanatic and pounding a beer to a roaring ovation at a Phillies playoff game.
But the moment that endeared him for life to the Philly faithful came at the 2018 Super Bowl parade when he dressed as one of Philadelphia’s famed Mummers and the ultimate underdog delivered a fiery, profane speech that whipped the crowd into a frenzy.
“No one likes us! No one likes us! No one likes us! We don’t care,” Kelce exclaimed. “We’re from Philly! No one likes us! We don’t care!”
Kelce made a cameo appearance this month on “ Saturday Night Live ” when Travis hosted.
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2023-03-14T10:44:18+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/news/ap-top-headlines/eagles-jason-kelce-set-to-return-for-13th-season/
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On the track in the Non-Public A girls 1,600 at Day 2 of groups in Middletown were Union Catholic’s Peyton Hollis and Kaleigh Gunsiorowski, Red Bank Catholic’s Cate DeSousa, Kent Place’s Lindsay Hausman and Immaculate Heart’s Leanna Johnston.
The race went in Hollis’s favor as she turned in a 4:53.91 to take the gold to pair with near victory in the 800, which was a near meet record.
“I was a little nervous going into it knowing that the field had some pretty good runners,” she said. “I just had to stick and make sure they didn’t break from me. It went in my favor because I could dictate it. I felt good going into the end since I knew I had more.”
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The sophomore got more rest than she would at a typical meet, running in just the two events. Factor in a 40-minute delay due to inclement weather and Hollis had all the reason to crank a great race in the 1,600.
“It definitely helped,” she said. “I didn’t have to do the 4x800 or any of the other relays. I got to focus on one race instead of a bunch of different things. I think that some of it was just pushing it and seeing how hard I could go though.”
Hausman finished second while DeSousa took third, Gunsiorowski placed fourth and the likes of Miranda Lorsbach of Kent Place and Paul VI’s Shaelan McNally respectively notched fifth and sixth ahead of Johnston.
This isn’t the first time Hollis has raced against the Non-Public best. She did have a game plan coming in.
“It was either to let them go out and stick with them if they did so a gap didn’t open up or to lead the race,” she said. “In this case, I led the race, so it was all about hitting times. They’re all talented and strategic, so I followed my plan and if they did something different, I was going to be aligned with theirs.”
Hollis and the rest of the Vikings distance standouts will travel to New Balance Nationals at Franklin Field in Philadelphia to run the 4x800 in realistic hope to clock the national record.
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2022-06-11T21:01:48+00:00
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nj.com
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https://www.nj.com/highschoolsports/2022/06/track-and-field-union-catholics-peyton-hollis-wins-loaded-non-public-a-1600.html
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ST. PAUL (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday activated the National Guard to help control record flooding in areas of northeastern Minnesota.
Emergency management officials in St. Louis and Koochiching counties requested the assistance to deal with high water caused by heavy spring rains and rapid snowmelt throughout the Rainy River Basin.
Record high water has been measured on the Rainy River Headwaters, including Lake Vermilion, and docks and boathouses have sustained damage on several lakes. Some residents are sandbagging to protect their homes, WDIO-TV reported.
More rain is forecast for the coming days, which will likely push many lake and river levels beyond their historic highs of 2014 and 1950, Walz said.
“I’ve seen firsthand the impact flooding is having on our farmers and communities, and we will ensure that our fellow Minnesotans continue to receive the support they need," the governor said.
Many parts of the state have been hampered by weather woes. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar held a virtual roundtable Thursday with local officials in areas rocked by severe storms, wind and flooding. Klobuchar said she is working on federal disaster relief funding.
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2022-05-20T00:01:48+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/National-Guard-to-help-with-northeastern-17185519.php
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Elina Svitolina vs. Aryna Sabalenka: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | French Open
Elina Svitolina (No. 192 ranking) will take on Aryna Sabalenka (No. 2) in the quarterfinals of the French Open on Tuesday, June 6.
In this Quarterfinal match against Svitolina (+360), Sabalenka is favored to win with -500 odds.
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Elina Svitolina vs. Aryna Sabalenka Match Information
- Tournament: The French Open
- Round: Quarterfinals
- Date: Tuesday, June 6
- TV Channel: Tennis Channel
- Venue: Stade Roland Garros
- Location: Paris, France
- Court Surface: Clay
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Elina Svitolina vs. Aryna Sabalenka Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Aryna Sabalenka has an 83.3% chance to win.
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Elina Svitolina vs. Aryna Sabalenka Trends and Insights
- Svitolina took down Daria Kasatkina 6-4, 7-6 in the Round of 16 on Sunday.
- Sabalenka was victorious 7-6, 6-4 versus Sloane Stephens in the Round of 16 on Sunday.
- Svitolina has played 12 matches over the past 12 months (across all court types), and 21.1 games per match.
- On clay, Svitolina has played 12 matches over the past year, totaling 21.1 games per match while winning 54.2% of games.
- Sabalenka is averaging 21.4 games per match through her 59 matches played in the past 12 months across all court types, winning 57.1% of those games.
- In 11 matches on clay courts in the past 12 months, Sabalenka has averaged 20.5 games per match and 9.0 games per set, winning 58.8% of the games.
- In two head-to-head meetings, Svitolina and Sabalenka have split 1-1. Svitolina claimed their last clash on September 25, 2020, winning 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.
- When it comes to sets, it's been very balanced between Svitolina and Sabalenka, each securing three sets against the other.
- Svitolina has the edge in 53 total games versus Sabalenka, claiming 27 of them.
- In their two matches against each other, Svitolina and Sabalenka are averaging 26.5 games and 3.0 sets.
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2023-06-05T11:05:28+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/sports/betting/2023/06/06/elina-svitolina-vs-aryna-sabalenka-tennis-prediction-betting-odds-french-open/
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The U.S. population grew by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Net international migration — the number of people moving into the U.S. minus the number of people leaving — was more than 1 million residents from 2021 to 2022. That represented a growth rate of 168% over the previous year's 376,029 international migrants, according to the vintage 2022 population estimates.
Natural growth — the number of births minus the number of deaths — added another 245,080 people to the total in what was the first year-over-year increase in total births since 2007.
This year's U.S. annual growth rate of 0.4% was a rebound of sorts from the 0.1% growth rate during the worst of the pandemic from 2020 to 2021, which was the lowest since the nation's founding.
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2022-12-22T16:54:19+00:00
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clickorlando.com
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https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2022/12/22/international-migration-drove-us-population-growth-in-2022/
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DoorDash accused in lawsuit of charging iPhone users more for delivery
DoorDash is facing a lawsuit over allegations that the company charges iPhone users more than Android users for food deliveries.
The lawsuit filed by Maryland resident Ross Hecox and his minor children seeks financial damages of no less than $1 billion for "all consumers who fell prey to DoorDash’s illegal pricing scheme over the past four years."
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DoorDash allegedly tacked on an extended range fee to the total of DashPass subscribers as a way "to subsidize lost revenues from discounted fees," according to the lawsuit.
Engadget, a technology blog, noted that DashPass is the company's $10-a-month subscription service that delivers orders over $12 for free.
In a statement from DoorDash provided to FOX Television Stations, the food delivery titan denies the allegations stating:
"The claims put forward in the amended complaint are baseless and simply without merit. Our priority is to provide the best service possible and ensure there is clarity for consumers that allows them to make informed decisions. We ensure fees are disclosed throughout the customer experience, including on each restaurant storepage and before checkout. Building this trust is essential, and it’s why the majority of delivery orders on our platform are placed by return customers. We will continue to strive to make our platform work even better for customers, and will vigorously fight these allegations."
The San Francisco-based company added that the claims that there are different prices for Android vs iOS users are "flatly wrong" explaining that they don’t charge different prices based on the type of phone a customer uses to place an order.
Citing the lawsuit, SFGate.com noted that subscribers of DoorDash’s premium DashPass service are charged the "expanded range fee" more often than standard users despite promising "reduced service fees" and that the "express delivery" upcharge does nothing to expedite deliveries.
DoorDash says it typically charges a delivery fee and a service fee, in addition to the cost of food and beverages ordered by the consumer, offering that these fees help them cover the cost of delivery drivers, technology, and marketing.
In recent years, DoorDash has expanded its delivery service beyond restaurant takeout to include groceries, beauty products, homeware products, gifts, and even COVID-19 test kits.
This story was reported from Washington, D.C.
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2023-05-23T19:44:28+00:00
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fox6now.com
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https://www.fox6now.com/news/doordash-lawsuit-alleges-iphone-users-charged-more
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Powerball jackpot surges to $675 million for Monday’s drawing
Published: Jul. 10, 2023 at 12:23 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
(Gray News) - The Powerball jackpot is still without a winner.
No one took home Saturday’s drawing of $615 million.
The pot now jumps to an estimated $675 million and would be the ninth-largest Powerball prize.
The next drawing will be Monday.
A player who wins the jackpot will have the choice between an annuitized prize worth an estimated $675 million or a lump sum payment estimated at $340.9 million. Both options are before taxes.
Copyright 2023 Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. CNN Newsource contributed to this report.
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2023-07-10T18:51:52+00:00
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ktiv.com
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https://www.ktiv.com/2023/07/10/powerball-jackpot-surges-675-million-mondays-drawing/
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Tommy Paul was too little at the time to remember watching Andy Roddick win the 2003 U.S. Open, the last Grand Slam singles title for an American man.
Paul, now 25, does recall seeing posters from that triumph displayed at the club in North Carolina where he learned how to play tennis as a kid. What stood out the most, Paul said, was the Reebok outfit Roddick wore.
“I was actually salty when he switched to Lacoste. I was like, ‘He’s not going to win another Slam now,’” Paul said with a smile after reaching the semifinals at the Australian Open, where he will face Novak Djokovic of Serbia on Friday, after Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece faces Karen Khachanov of Russia. “I thought it was the outfits.”
That championship at Flushing Meadows two decades ago remains the last in Grand Slam singles for any American man, although a trio of fellows named Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Djokovic probably (wink) had more to do with where the major trophies kept going over the rest of Roddick’s career — and beyond — than any clothing choices.
Paul’s run at Melbourne Park is one of the many examples of the ways in which U.S. men are suddenly relevant again in tennis.
“Since I was young, that’s all we’ve been hearing. Since like 14 years old, the coaches have been telling us, ‘We need new Americans. We need new Americans.’ It’s kind of engraved in my head,” Paul said, tapping his temple with his right index finger. “We all want to perform. … I mean, I think we all want it pretty bad for ourselves, but we want it for U.S. tennis, too.”
This breakthrough for Paul, who never had been past the fourth round at a major, comes on the heels of Frances Tiafoe’s trip to the semifinals at the U.S. Open last September, which included a victory over Nadal before a loss to eventual champion Carlos Alcaraz.
That makes this sequence the first time U.S. men reached the final four at consecutive Slams in 16 years, when Roddick was the runner-up to Federer at the 2006 U.S. Open and lost to him in the semifinals at the 2007 Australian Open.
There’s more evidence to support the idea that a country that produced Don Budge and Bill Tilden and Arthur Ashe and John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors and Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi and more but did not matter in men’s tennis in recent years — Serena and Venus Williams, along with others, made sure U.S. women stayed at the forefront — must be taken more seriously.
Consider:
— The Australian Open men’s bracket was filled with big wins by 20-something Americans, including Mackenzie McDonald beating defending champion and No. 1 seed Nadal, Jenson Brooksby beating No. 2 seed Casper Ruud, and Sebastian Korda beating the runner-up each of the last two years, No. 7 seed Daniil Medvedev;
— Paul, Ben Shelton, 20, and Korda, 22, became the first trio of Americans in the men’s quarterfinals in Melbourne since 2000;
— There was a stretch of 22 majors spanning about 4 1/2 years in which not a single U.S. man made the quarterfinals at any Grand Slam tournament, a drought that ended when Sam Querrey reached that round at Wimbledon in 2016;
— With Paul set to crack the top 20 for the first time by the end of the Australian Open, and big jumps by others, there are projected to be 10 Americans in the ATP top 50 on Monday, something that last happened in June 1995.
“I don’t see why, at the end of this year, we couldn’t have five, six guys in the top 20, with the way that some of these guys are playing,” said Shelton, who turned pro after winning the NCAA singles title as a sophomore at the University of Florida last year and made it all the way to the quarterfinals in Australia before losing to Paul in four sets Wednesday.
“There’s a lot of hope for American tennis,” Shelton said. “I’m really looking forward to being a part of it.”
When Paul finished off that victory, he was asked during his on-court interview at Rod Laver Arena about what fans back home might be thinking.
“It’s not just exciting for the American fans,” Paul said. “It’s exciting for fans all around the world. And for us, too. I’m really excited for Ben. I’m excited for all the players that are coming up.”
Djokovic agreed with the premise.
He thinks having successful players from the United States taking part in the latter stages of the biggest tournaments — and being part of the conversation at last — can only be a good thing for the popularity of tennis.
“America, for our sport, is an extremely important country. We have some of the biggest tournaments in the world played there, in the North American continent. I think it is important that we see successful American men and women doing well. America is producing, historically, always top players,” Djokovic said. “Now you have a list of maybe four or five young players that are knocking on the door of the top level. I think that’s great for our sport.”
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2023-01-26T22:45:29+00:00
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everythinglubbock.com
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https://www.everythinglubbock.com/sports/ap-tommy-pauls-australian-run-helps-make-us-men-relevant-again/
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Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers’ plans to open a new restaurant and drive-through in Boulder were shot down Thursday evening as the Boulder City Council opted not to call up the project after a decision by the city’s Planning Board to reject the popular Louisiana-born fast-food chain’s application.
Concerns from the Planning Board, which were echoed by some members of the City Council, centered around Raising Cane’s proposal to include dual drive-through lanes and hours that would see the restaurant open until 3:30 a.m. on weekends.
Raising Cane’s, known for its chicken tenders, special sauce and Texas toast, had planned to build a 3,716-square-foot restaurant at at 3033 28th St., adjacent to the popular Rayback Collective food hall and formerly home to a shuttered Taco Bell and drive-through liquor store.
In addition to the drive-throughs and the restaurant building, Raising Cane’s was proposing a roughly 600-square-foot patio for diners.
In a memo to project applicant and property owner Stephen Tebo, the Boulder Planning Board wrote that Raising Cane’s “failed to demonstrate, by a preponderance of evidence, that the redevelopment of the site would provide direct service or convenience to the surrounding neighborhood or uses or that it would reduce adverse impacts to the surrounding neighborhood or uses.”
The memo continued: “The site is located in an auto-oriented commercial area and adjacent to major vehicular thoroughfares. The drive-thru use caters to patrons driving to the site and coming from driving distances rather than the immediate residential neighborhood. In addition, rather than reducing adverse impacts to the surrounding neighborhood and uses, public testimony showed that the double drive-thru use and its operating hours would create additional pollution and noise impacts to the surrounding neighborhood and uses, in particular the residential use to the west of the site.”
The board also noted that most of the surrounding businesses, including restaurants, close around 10 p.m.
“The proposed hours for Raising Cane’s are expanded compared to those of similar uses around the area and these operating hours of the restaurant and drive-thru will add noises from traffic, idling cars, car music, car doors, and customers and employees in the middle of the night with negative impacts on the use of nearby residential properties to the west,” a Planning Board memo said.
Raising Cane’s senior property development manager LuAron Foster told the City Council that restaurant hours vary by location and are “based on customer needs,” but “we would be open to discussion” on shortening the operating hours.
Planning staff worked with Tebo for two years getting the application in order to present to elected and appointed officials, according to Councilman Bob Yates. That Planning Board members would so drastically disagree with staff’s recommendation to approve the project could be cause for concern, he said.
Councilwoman Rachel Friend agreed and said that “it’s always trouble when staff and the Planning Board are this misaligned.”
Councilwoman Nicole Speer diverged from her concerned colleagues and said she was quite comfortable with delegating a decision on the Raising Cane’s proposal to the Planning Board, which held a robust and public discussion on the matter prior to issuing its denial.
“This is a case where we can let one of our very well-functioning boards take something for us and allow us to work on other things,” she said.
Much of the criticism among residents and Planning Board members who opposed the Raising Cane’s centered around the presence of a drive-through, Yates said, but “there are three drive-throughs within a quarter-mile of this property already.”
While drive-throughs are typically discouraged in Boulder, a city that prioritizes businesses that are accessible to customers not in cars, they’re not specifically prohibited.
Drive-throughs can be permitted through the use-review process, which requires staff sign-off and often additional approvals from the Boulder Planning Board and the City Council.
If the City Council and Planning Board decide that they are no longer supporting new projects that include drive-throughs, “it would be a pretty important policy discussion for us to have out loud,” Yates said.
Raising Cane’s could opt to amend its application to the city and resubmit. The company is “exploring all options,” a Raising Cane’s spokeswoman told BizWest Friday.
This article was first published by BizWest, an independent news organization, and is published under a license agreement. © 2022 BizWest Media LLC.
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2022-07-22T23:56:39+00:00
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dailycamera.com
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https://www.dailycamera.com/2022/07/22/raising-canes-plans-for-boulder-restaurant-fall-amid-concerns-over-hours-drive-through/
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MILTON, Del. - Concert for the Kids, a fundraiser for nonprofit Paul Kares, is scheduled for Sunday, April 30 at 6:30 p.m. The event will feature live music, fine dining, and a live auction with some interesting options for bidders.
One of the largest prizes is a September 2023 trip to Italy. The winner will travel to Tuscany and Piedmont with Paul Cullen and his wife, Bonnie, who will act as private tour guides. The trip includes truffle hunting and private wine tastings, as well as a one during a visit to the Verrazano Castle and winery. The opening bid is $9,750.
Additionally, since Delawareans love low-digit license plates, one bidder will win valid Delaware tag PC737.
"There's a good chance that Delaware tag could fetch north of $10,000," said auctioneer Richard Bryant.
Other live auction items include a weekend getaway for two at The Quoin, a new luxury boutique hotel in Wilmington; a four-hour pontoon boat ride for 12 with a captain and beverages provided; a private cocktail party on Cullen's event patio for up to 25 guests with live music; a beach bonfire for 10 on Lewes Beach with live entertainment and charcuterie; and more.
Tickets for the event are available at a discounted rate until Saturday, April 15 and are available at paulkaresde.org.
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2023-04-10T17:52:44+00:00
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wrde.com
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https://www.wrde.com/news/unique-auction-items-available-at-april-30-concert-for-the-kids/article_b744149e-d7bc-11ed-a0b5-5b34be37b858.html
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The 2022 class of Gold Award Girl Scouts used practical leadership skills to create sustainable impact in their communities and become the next generation of influential leaders.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) is recognizing the 3,500 members of the 2022 Gold Award Girl Scout class who identified the root cause of pressing issues in their communities, created sustainable solutions, and took action to earn the Gold Award: Girl Scouts' highest achievement. This year's class of world-changers invested over 300,000 hours in addressing real-life problems such as environmental sustainability, racial justice, mental and emotional wellness, and gender inequality in STEM.
A Gold Award Girl Scout, no matter their background or ability, learns to tap into the world-changing power within them. They take the lead in designing and enacting a plan for change, providing innovative solutions to address issues in their community and beyond. In addition to leading a team, the 2022 Gold Award class generated more than $1.9 million dollars to invest in projects, amplifying their impact.
"We applaud the 2022 class of Gold Award Girl Scouts and their dedication to improving their communities and the world," said GSUSA CEO Sofia Chang. "Gold Award Girl Scouts harness their innovation, vision, and civic mindedness to identify problems, create solutions, and make a sustainable impact that will continue to benefit others for years to come. This is a significant milestone in their leadership journeys, and we know that they are just getting started."
The 2022 Gold Award Girl Scouts demonstrate the breadth of issues American teens feel are most prevalent in society today. The most frequent project focuses include:
- Environment and Sustainability (13%): including climate change, pollution, alternative energy, clean water, farming, and preserving outdoor spaces
- Education (11%): including literacy, career training, and financial know-how
- Physical health (9%): including fitness, nutrition, drug abuse, and global health
- Mental Health (9%): suicide prevention, self-esteem, self-image, self-care, and body positivity
- Arts, Culture, and Heritage (7%): including cultural awareness, languages, historic preservation, performing arts, visual arts, and music
GSUSA's 111 councils were each provided the opportunity to select one of their outstanding Gold Award Girl Scouts to receive a national scholarship for over $2,000 each. The Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award scholarship recipients represent $225,000 invested, made possible by Insight Global, The Coca-Cola Foundation, and Kappa Delta Foundation.
Gold Award Girl Scouts become innovative problem-solvers, empathetic leaders, confident public speakers, and focused project managers. They learn resourcefulness, tenacity, and decision-making skills, giving them an edge personally and professionally. As they take action to transform their world, Gold Award Girl Scouts gain tangible skills and prove they're the leaders our world needs.
According to recent research, Gold Award Girl Scouts are more likely to fill leadership roles at work and in their personal lives and are more civically engaged than their non-Girl Scout peers. Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Gold Award Girl Scouts agree that earning their Gold Award gave them skills that help them succeed professionally. Seventy-two percent (72%) said earning their Gold Award helped them get a scholarship. Changing the world doesn't end when a Girl Scout earns her Gold Award. Ninety-nine percent (99%) of Gold Award Girl Scout alums take on leadership roles in their everyday lives.
To view the list of the 3,500 outstanding Gold Award projects, visit: girlscouts.org/goldawardclass.
Girls in grades K–12 can join Girl Scouts any time during the year to begin their Girl Scout journey. As girls grow with Girl Scouts, they learn hands-on leadership skills they'll use to make their mark through the Gold Award and beyond. To join or volunteer, visit www.girlscouts.org/join.
We Are Girl Scouts of the USA
Girl Scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world. Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges—whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. To join us, volunteer, reconnect, or donate, visit girlscouts.org.
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2022-10-11T14:18:34+00:00
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wymt.com
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https://www.wymt.com/prnewswire/2022/10/11/girl-scouts-usa-celebrates-international-day-girl-by-honoring-nearly-3500-girls-2022-gold-award-class/
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US sending more warships, Marines to Gulf to counter Iran’s efforts to seize commercial ships
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending additional warships and thousands of Marines to the Middle East to increase security in the wake of Iranian attempts to seize commercial ships there.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Thursday approved the deployment of the USS Bataan amphibious readiness group and the 26th Marine Expeditional Unit to the Gulf region, according to U.S. officials. The readiness group consists of three ships, including the Bataan, an amphibious assault ship. An expeditional unit usually consists of about 2,500 Marines.
In an announcement, U.S. Central Command said the deployment will provide “even greater flexibility and maritime capability in the region.” The announcement did not name the ships, but U.S. officials detailed the units involved in the deployment on condition of anonymity to discuss troop movements.
Along with the Bataan, the group includes two other warships, the USS Mesa Verde and the USS Carter Hall. The group left Norfolk, Virginia, earlier this month. It was unclear Thursday if all three ships would continue into the Gulf region.
The deployment comes on the heels of decisions in recent weeks to send the USS Thomas Hudner, a destroyer, and a number of F-35 and F-16 fighter jets to the region. There also have been A-10 attack aircraft there for several weeks in response to the Iranian activity.
Iran tried to seize two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz early this month, opening fire on one of them. The fighter aircraft are intended to give air cover for the commercial ships moving through the waterway and increase the military’s visibility in the area, as a deterrent to Iran.
Gen. Erik Kurilla, who heads Central Command, said the additional forces “provide unique capabilities, which alongside our partner nations in the region, further safeguard the free flow of international commerce and uphold the rules based international order, and deter Iranian destabilizing activities in the region.”
Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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2023-07-21T11:27:53+00:00
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wcjb.com
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https://www.wcjb.com/2023/07/21/us-sending-more-warships-marines-gulf-counter-irans-efforts-seize-commercial-ships/
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White House Gender Policy Coordinator Jennifer Klein talks about the administration's plan to assist women now that abortion laws are being decided by states following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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White House Gender Policy Coordinator Jennifer Klein talks about the administration's plan to assist women now that abortion laws are being decided by states following the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
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2022-07-15T09:38:50+00:00
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kgou.org
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https://www.kgou.org/politics-and-government/2022-07-15/how-the-white-house-is-responding-to-roe-v-wade
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Troy Triad unveiled a blanketing defense and threw it all over Lincoln in a 28-0 shutout in an Illinois high school football matchup on October 21.
Troy Triad drew first blood by forging a 6-0 margin over Lincoln after the first quarter.
The Knights' offense struck in front for a 21-0 lead over the Railsplitters at the intermission.
Defense ruled the third quarter as Troy Triad and Lincoln were both scoreless.
The Knights' train of momentum chugged along the fourth-quarter tracks with a 7-0 points differential.
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2022-10-22T04:46:13+00:00
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pantagraph.com
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https://pantagraph.com/sports/high-school/football/boys/troy-triad-exerts-defensive-dominance-to-doom-lincoln-28-0/article_aaecf459-df07-5ec5-a53e-3353ab5901db.html
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NEW YORK, April 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) between March 10, 2021 and March 7, 2023, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important May 19, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased United Natural Foods securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the United Natural Foods class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=13471 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 19, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually litigate securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) that, despite its cost saving Value Path initiative, United Natural Foods had not invested in improving its data management and related infrastructure; (2) that, as a result, the Company could not respond adequately to cost changes, such as inflationary pressure; (3) that, as a result, the Company could not appreciate the benefits of procurement gains and inventory gains achieved during fiscal 2022; (4) that, as a result of the foregoing, the Company's profitability would be materially adversely impacted; and (5) and that as a result of the foregoing, defendant's positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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2023-04-15T10:03:28+00:00
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kcbd.com
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https://www.kcbd.com/prnewswire/2023/04/14/rosen-national-trial-counsel-encourages-united-natural-foods-inc-investors-with-losses-secure-counsel-before-important-deadline-securities-class-action-unfi/
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BERLIN (AP) — Two people were killed and several experienced a psychologically damaging shock in a train accident near the western German city of Cologne on Thursday, German news agency dpa reported.
The train apparently crashed into a group of people who were working on the tracks close to the town of Huerth. Emergency personnel, police and psychologists were at the scene and the route was closed to further train traffic.
Five people experienced psychological trauma, because they witnessed two of their colleagues being hit and killed, dpa reported.
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2023-05-04T12:50:59+00:00
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wboy.com
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https://www.wboy.com/news/world/2-people-killed-in-train-accident-in-western-germany/
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army was found guilty Friday of arbitrarily detaining and torturing prisoners perceived as supporters of Serbia and murdering one of them during a late 1990s war for Kosovo’s independence.
It was the first war crimes conviction by a special court that was established in the Netherlands to investigate crimes from the conflict.
The commander, Salih Mustafa, was sentenced to 26 years’ imprisonment for the crimes committed at a KLA compound in Zllash, Kosovo, in April 1999. He was acquitted of one charge of mistreating detainees. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Mustafa, wearing a suit and tie, stood in silence as Presiding Judge Mappie Veldt-Foglia pronounced the verdicts and his sentence. He has 30 days to file notice that he plans to appeal.
Friday’s judgment comes at a time of tense relations between Serbia and Kosovo, its former province. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday demanded that Serb security forces be allowed to return to Kosovo, which declared independence in 2008. The West has warned the demand was unlikely to be accepted and would only stoke tensions in that part of the Balkans.
Mustafa was arrested in 2020 in Kosovo and sent to the Netherlands to stand trial at the European Union-backed Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a branch of the country’s legal system set up specifically to deal with allegations of war crimes committed as ethnic Albanian rebels united in the Kosovo Liberation Army fought a bloody conflict to break away from Serbia in 1998-99.
The head of the prosecution team welcomed the verdicts.
“With today’s verdict, the Specialist Chambers has shown that it is a court for and about victims and that there is no expiration date on accountability,” Acting Specialist Prosecutor Alex Whiting said in a statement.
The court has detained Kosovo’s former president, Hashim Thaci, and he is awaiting trial with other suspects on charges that include murder, torture and persecution. He denies all allegations.
Thaci served as a guerrilla leader during Kosovo’s war for independence before rising to political prominence in the aftermath of the conflict that killed more than 10,000 people. His trial, along with three other accused, is expected to open in March.
Judge Veldt-Foglia called Friday’s judgment a “milestone for the specialist chambers” that could lead to “further reconciliation among communities in Kosovo.”
Veldt-Foglia said the trial was focused solely on Mustafa’s individual criminal responsibility for war crimes — and stressed that the KLA and the people of Kosovo were not targeted in the case. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” she said.
She also paid tribute to witnesses who testified in the trial, saying they did so “in a pervasive climate of fear and intimidation that persists in Kosovo to this day.”
Mustafa was commander of the KLA’s BIA guerrilla unit that had its base at the Zllash compound where the crimes were committed in April 1999. The victims were accused by KLA fighters of collaborating with Serbs or not supporting the KLA.
As well as commanding the unit involved in the crimes, Mustafa personally mistreated two detainees, the court ruled.
“He subjected one of them to a mock execution. He also beat him repeatedly all over his body,”Veldt-Foglia said.
The murder victim died of a combination of severe mistreatment, denial of medical aid and gunshot wounds. While the court could not establish who shot the victim, it ruled that the abuse and lack of medical aid “are exclusively attributable to acts and omissions of Mr. Mustafa and his BIA subordinates.”
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2022-12-17T02:20:32+00:00
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wearegreenbay.com
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https://www.wearegreenbay.com/international/ap-international/ap-former-kosovo-rebel-commander-convicted-of-1999-murder/
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ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Josef Newgarden wanted to thank the pet service that helped him adopt his 30-pound mutt, Axel, that has become part of his family.
The Team Penske driver repaid the shelter — literally — with his performance behind the wheel.
Newgarden earned a $1 million bonus Sunday for winning at Road America, where his third win of the season completed a trifecta of victories on IndyCar’s different circuits. That means, among other things, he Nashville chapter of Wags and Walks can build a new dog adoption center.
“They solve all sorts of dogs – all sorts,” Newgarden said. “You should hear some of these heartbreaking stories these guys go through to find these dogs homes. We’re very happy to be able to get some money to this group because they’ve done a lot for us and for a lot of people in Nashville.”
Newgarden won on the oval at Texas and the street course in Long Beach this season, and headed to Road America searching for a road course win that would make him the first IndyCar driver this season to win on all three circuits.
The reward was a $1 million payout from The PeopleReady Force for Good Challenge, which split the bonus between Team Penske and charities of Newgarden’s choice. The American selected Wags and Walks of Nashville and SeriousFun Children’s Network.
“To have something like this challenge, I think, just fires you up more competitively,” Newgarden said. “You want to get it done for them.”
The heads of both charities participated in Newgarden’s post-race press conference via Zoom to thank the driver.
“We are absolutely so, so thrilled,” said Kathryn Hurley of Wags and Walks. “It’s going to impact literally thousands of dogs here in Nashville and allow us to build an amazing adoption center.”
It was the first year of the challenge and was won before the halfway point of the IndyCar season; Newgarden is the only driver with multiple wins through eight of 17 races.
Newgarden beat Indianapolis 500 winner Marcus Ericsson of Chip Ganassi Racing by 3.371-seconds following two late restarts, but Ericsson reclaimed the points lead with the runner-up finish.
It’s the seventh time the points lead has changed hands this season.
“I think it’s going to be a tough season, a long season, but we’ve put ourselves in really good position now going into this sort of second half,” Ericsson said. “We’ve just got to keep doing what we’ve been doing.”
Alexander Rossi, the Andretti Autosport driver who started on the pole in search of his first win in three years, finished third and was followed by teammates Romain Grosjean and Colton Herta.
Chevrolet won the race with Newgarden, but Honda took the next four spots. Felix Rosenqvist of Arrow McLaren SP and Scott McLaughlin of Penske were sixth and seventh for Chevy.
Newgarden had a 2.8-second lead over Rossi when Pato O’Ward’s engine failed with six laps remaining to set up the first late restart. Then Helio Castroneves spun for another caution.
Newgarden got a great jump on Rossi on both late restarts and never looked back.
Rossi had his hands full first with Ericsson, and then with his own teammates, as his losing streak extended to 45 races. His pole-winning run Saturday was his first in three years.
“It’s always a little disappointing when you start on the pole and can’t convert, but it was generally a good day,” Rossi said. “I think Josef had a little bit better pace than us. I think we were the second-best car. I got pretty aggressive on the restart there to try and do something and just kind of overstepped a little bit. That’s what allowed Marcus to get by.”
Newgarden won for the second time at Road America, as he also won here in 2018. He was headed toward the win a year ago until his gearbox failed in the closing laps and it handed the win to reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou.
“I had no thought about (last year),” Newgarden said. “I was just focused on today. The thing that I focused on is we’re in position.. You don’t have many opportunities to be in position to close. I wanted to just close.”
TITLE CONTENDERS STRUGGLE
Palou’s chances of defending last year’s win vanished almost immediately due to an early tangle with Ganassi teammate Ericsson. When Ericsson made a move to Palou’s inside, the right rear of the Swede’s car made contact with the front left of Palou’s, and the Spaniard went off course.
“He was trying to win the race on the third lap,” Palou said. “The car broke. That’s it. Game over.”
Ericsson said he did nothing wrong.
“It might have been early in the race, but this is a track position race,” Ericsson said. “If you get an opportunity, you need to go for it. There was nothing wrong with that move.”
Will Power, meanwhile, dropped from the IndyCar points lead because of his own early incident. A poor qualifying effort put Power in 15th at the start and he was hit from behind by rookie Devlin DeFrancesco just eight laps into the race. Power ended up 19th.
DeFrancesco received a stop-and-go penalty for making avoidable contact. Power dropped to second in the standings, 27 points behind Ericsson.
O’Ward’s engine failure dropped him from third to fourth in the standings; Palou dropped from fourth to fifth. The win for Newgarden, meanwhile, moved him from fifth to third.
JIMMIE’S EARLY SPIN
Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson had a frustrating day because of contact with Tatiana Calderon at the back of the pack on the first lap. Johnson went off course to bring out a full-course yellow. He finished 24th.
Calderon was in the field with Simona de Silvestro, marking the first time an IndyCar event has included two female drivers since de Silvestro and Pippa Mann entered the 2015 Indianapolis 500.
SPENDING SPREE
Not all of Newgarden’s bonus money is going to charity. He also gets quite a payout himself and isn’t sure how he will spend it all.
But he does have a good idea about his first purchase.
“Probably a bunch of McDonald’s,” Newgarden said. “Probably over $100 at McDonald’s at least.”
UP NEXT
There’s a two-week break in the IndyCar schedule before the July 3 race at Mid-Ohio in Lexington, Ohio. Josef Newgarden won at Mid-Ohio last year.
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2022-06-13T18:43:13+00:00
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pahomepage.com
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https://www.pahomepage.com/sports/newgarden-wins-at-road-america-earns-1-million-prize/
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FILE - Marion Cotillard poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Brother and Sister' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 21, 2022. Oscar-winning actresses Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French stars of screen and music, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday Oct.5, 2022 in support of protesters in Iran.
FILE - Actress Juliette Binoche poses during a photo-call at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Oscar-winning actresses Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French stars of screen and music, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday in support of protesters in Iran.
A man rides bicycle front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code. Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
Women ride bicycles front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code.Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
A woman rides bicycle front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code. Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
France: Oscar winners cut off their hair for Iran protesters
Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French screen and music stars, have filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video to support protesters in Iran
By JADE LE DELEY and JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press
FILE - Marion Cotillard poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Brother and Sister' at the 75th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Saturday, May 21, 2022. Oscar-winning actresses Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French stars of screen and music, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday Oct.5, 2022 in support of protesters in Iran.
Petros Giannakouris - staff, AP
FILE - Actress Juliette Binoche poses during a photo-call at the 70th San Sebastian Film Festival, in San Sebastian, northern Spain, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022. Oscar-winning actresses Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French stars of screen and music, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday in support of protesters in Iran.
Alvaro Barrientos - stringer, AP
A man rides bicycle front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code. Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
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Women ride bicycles front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code.Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
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A woman rides bicycle front of a mural signed by Clacks-one and Heartcraft_Street art, depicting women cutting their hair to show support for Iranian protesters standing up to their leadership over the death of a young woman in police custody, in a tunnel in Paris, France, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets over the last two weeks to protest the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by Iran's morality police in the capital of Tehran for allegedly not adhering to Iran's strict Islamic dress code. Mural reads : "I was born to know you to name you", "Woman Life Freedom".
PARIS (AP) — Oscar-winning actors Marion Cotillard and Juliette Binoche, as well as other French screen and music stars, filmed themselves chopping off locks of their hair in a video posted Wednesday in support of protesters in Iran.
“For freedom,” Binoche said as she hacked a large handful of hair off the top of her head with a pair of scissors, before brandishing it in front of the camera.
The video, hashtagged HairForFreedom, comes with Iran engulfed by anti-government protests. They were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after her arrest for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.
Some of the Iranian demonstrators have publicly hacked off locks of hair at the protests, and the gesture has spread.
Images of women elsewhere cutting their hair to show solidarity with Iranian women have gone viral — from Turkish singer Melek Mosso on stage last week, to women in Lebanon and Syria, to Swedish lawmaker Abir Al-Sahlani in the halls of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday. A museum in Rome is collecting locks of hair to present to the Iranian Embassy.
“For women to cut their hair in Iran is a form of protest ... a symbol to stand against the mandatory hijab,” said Dorna Javan, an Iranian political scientist based in France and specialized in Iran. Such a visual gesture is a way for women across the world to rally around the Iranian women’s plight, she added.
The video of Cotillard, Binoche and dozens of other women cutting off locks of their hair was released on an Instagram account, “soutienfemmesiran” — which translates as “support women in Iran.”
“These women, these men are asking for our support. Their courage and their dignity obliges us,” said a post with the video.
“We have decided to respond to the appeal made to us by cutting — us too — some of these locks.”
Some of the other women who took part included actors Charlotte Rampling and Charlotte Gainsbourg, who was also filmed cutting off a lock of hair from the head of her mother, singer Jane Birkin.
This highly symbolic gesture also echoes Iranian history and folklore in which for women to chop their hair is a sign of protest. The Shahnameh (“The Book of Kings”), a national epic of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010 A.D., refers to a princess chopping her hair to protest against the death of her husband seen as unfair.
“Women cutting their hair is an ancient Persian tradition also found in the Shahnameh, when the fury is stronger than the power of the oppressor,” tweeted Shara Atashi, an Iranian writer based in Wales.
Researcher Javan described it as a “benevolent gesture,” and called for more robust political action from the international community to support Iranian protesters.
“We can’t reduce the fight of Iranian women for their rights — which dates back to the second half of the 19th century — to the gesture of cutting their hair,” she said. “But these viral videos are a way to give an international impact to their fight.”
This story has been corrected to restore the correct spelling in the surname of Swedish lawmaker Abir Al-Sahlani.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed has resigned his post five days after federal charges were announced against him and two others for allegedly accepting bribes and misusing their offices for personal gain.
Reed announced his resignation Tuesday, saying in a statement that he could not serve constituents and juggle “my current legal challenges," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Board vice president Joe Vollmer said he will assume the role acting board president until the the Nov. 8 general election, when voters will select someone to fill the role until Reed's term expires in April and another election for the four-year term is held.
Last week, federal prosecutors revealed that Reed and former aldermen Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad were all indicted on May 25. Collins-Muhammad resigned days ahead of the indictment and Boyd resigned Friday, a day after the indictments were announced.
All three have pleaded not guilty.
They all face two bribery-related charges. Collins-Muhammad also has been indicted on one count of bribery/wire fraud. Boyd faces a separate two-count wire fraud indictment alleging he sought $22,000 in insurance claims for damage to vehicles that he didn’t own.
The main indictments allege Collins-Muhammad, Reed and Boyd helped a small-business owner receive tax abatements and other financial breaks in exchange for bribes. The indictment also alleges that Reed asked the business owner for $20,000 in campaign cash as part of an effort to redraw the ward map to protect Collins-Muhammad from activists who wanted to recall him from office.
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2022-06-08T19:02:46+00:00
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LNL: 3 children, 3 adults killed in Nashville school shooting
Published: Mar. 27, 2023 at 3:28 PM EDT|Updated: 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - LNL anchors Debra Alfarone and Nicole Neuman speak with WSMV reporter Lydia Fielder about Monday’s deadly school shooting.
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2023-03-27T21:53:36+00:00
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The Florida Legislature has tried for years to make changes to alimony laws.
In the last decade, lawmakers have sent legislation to the governor three times, and it was vetoed all three times. Now they’re trying again, with one notable change involving retroactivity.
“It eliminates the permanent alimony in Florida and replaces it with the durational alimony, which is awarded for a set period of time,” said Rep. John Paul Temple, R-Wildwood, explaining the bill he sponsors to the House Civil Justice Subcommittee.
The bill specifies how long and how much alimony judges can award. Factors like adultery and the length of the marriage can be considered. Gov. Rick Scott twice vetoed similar legislation, then Governor Ron DeSantis.
“This has been one that has been going on for quite some time," Temple said. "But I am happy to report that both sides that are involved in this, the lawyers and the reform group, agree on every piece that is in this bill.”
Attorney Andrea Reid with the Family Law Section of the Florida Bar says they’ve long fought this legislation over the retroactive component that would have opened up a slew of requests to change old agreements.
“This is a good bill this year," Reid told lawmakers. "This is not unconstitutionally retroactive, and I am proud on behalf of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the Florida Bar Family Law Section to support this bill.”
While sponsors say it doesn’t apply to non-modifiable agreements that are already in place, the legislation gives judges leeway in making decisions around alimony awards and modifications -- opening the door to some old agreements being revisited.
“We believe the entire bill is retroactive,” says Jan Killilea of Palm Beach County. She runs the First Wives Advocacy Group, which focuses on Florida alimony and custody laws.
“It really angers a lot of women because they gave up marital assets for alimony. They couldn't afford the house in the Hamptons. They couldn't afford the boat, you know, at the marina," she says. "So they gave up that asset in order to get alimony, and now (lawmakers) want to take that away.”
Under the legislation, the court may reduce or terminate alimony when the person paying has reached normal retirement age as defined by the Social Security Administration.
In addition, the court must reduce or terminate alimony if the recipient is in a supportive relationship with another person not related by blood or marriage. The payor has to prove the relationship existed in the 365 days prior to filing the petition for divorce or filing to modify the agreement.
“Does that mean if somebody was in a relationship with the opposite sex or the same sex that wasn't a family member, and they've had to live above somebody's garage in order to make ends meet during this time of inflation, would that trigger a modification of or end of alimony under the bill as a supportive relationship?" Killilea wonders. "It's very vague and very subjective.”
The biggest issue for Killilea is that the bill does nothing to enforce alimony agreements. She says she is owed more than half a million dollars, but it’s expensive to hire an attorney, so she’s been handling her own legal filings for ten years.
"I have the contempt motions granted to me. I have arrest warrants. I have an income withholding order, but as long as he's willing to stick his nose up at the court, there's nothing I can do about it," she says. "At the end of the day, I say how can we be a state of law and order or rule of law if we can't enforce the laws we already have on the books?”
She says traveling to Tallahassee to testify before lawmakers is a hardship for most of the women in her group due to finances or fear of retaliation.
Supporters say the legislation gives much needed finality to the divorce process. It’s now in House and Senate committees.
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2023-03-31T17:38:45+00:00
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy is healthy and shows little sign of an imminent recession, and can withstand higher interest rates, St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard said Monday.
Financial markets are flashing signs that an economic downturn could arrive sometime next year, as Americans grapple with the highest inflation in four decades and the Federal Reserve pushes borrowing costs higher. But Bullard said in an interview with The Associated Press that the central bank wouldn’t have to drive the economy into a recession or significantly raise unemployment to bring inflation down to its 2% target.
“Now we have lots of inflation, but the question is, can we get (inflation) back to 2% without disrupting the economy? I think we can,” he said.
Bullard’s optimism coincides with a rapid pace of interest rate increases by the Fed, intended to combat the highest U.S. inflation in 40 years.
Higher rates limit the ability of consumers and businesses to borrow and spend, which can cool growth and inflation. But they also carry the risk of tipping the economy into a downturn.
Consumer prices rose 8.6% in May compared with a year ago, and a government inflation report Wednesday could show that they’ve ticked higher.
Bullard also said he currently supports a 0.75 percentage point increase in the Fed’s benchmark short-term interest rate at its next meeting later this month. Its rate is currently in a range of 1.5% to 1.75%, after a 0.75 percentage point hike at its June meeting, the largest since 1994.
Separately, Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, sounded a more cautionary note in a speech Monday, in which she suggested the Fed’s large rate hikes could prove disruptive.
“I’m certainly sympathetic to the view that interest rates need to increase rapidly, recognizing that current rates are out of sync with today’s economic landscape,” she said, addressing a labor conference in Lake Ozark, Missouri. “However … policy changes transmit to the economy with a lag, and significant and abrupt changes can be unsettling to households and small businesses as they make necessary adjustments.”
George was the only Fed policymaker to dissent from the Fed’s June rate hike, out of concern that it was too large.
George noted after just four months of Fed rate increases, “there is growing discussion of recession risk, and some forecasts are predicting interest rate cuts as soon as next year.” Those concerns suggest the Fed is lifting interest rates “more quickly than the economy and markets can adjust,” she added.
The Fed typically moves rates in quarter-point increments, but Chair Jerome Powell has said the Fed wants to move “expeditiously” to a level of about 2.5% to 3%, which would neither stimulate nor restrain growth.
Raphael Bostic, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, said Monday that large rate increases are necessary because the Fed’s rate is currently at a level that stimulates growth, even though an overheating economy has touched off inflation.
The Fed is still getting away from boosting the economy and moving toward a more neutral stance, Bostic said, “which is quite a different thing than formally restricting the economy.”
Bostic said he also supports a 0.75 percentage point rate increase later this month, as have other Fed officials such as Fed governor Christopher Waller.
“The tremendous momentum in the economy to me suggests” that the Fed could implement such an increase “and not see a lot of protracted damage to the broader economy,” Bostic said on CNBC on Friday.
Also on Friday, the government’s jobs report showed employers added 372,000 jobs, a healthy increase, while the unemployment rate remained at 3.6% for the fourth consecutive month, slightly above the five-decade low reached just before the pandemic.
The robust figures contrast with signs of a softening economy, from falling home sales to declining factory production to slower consumer spending. The economy contracted in the January-March quarter and real-time data trackers, such as one maintained by the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, suggest it did so again in the April-June quarter.
Two quarters of shrinking output would meet one rule of thumb for a recession. But the official definition of a recession, set by the National Bureau of Economic Research, looks at a much broader range of data to determine whether a downturn has occurred.
Bullard said that other measures of the economy, such as a broad measure of workers’ and business’ incomes, suggest the economy may have expanded in the first six months of this year. Businesses and other employers also added 2.7 million jobs during that time, a robust total that reflects an optimistic outlook among businesses.
“It just doesn’t seem like the U.S. economy has been in recession for the last two quarters,” Bullard said.
Bullard also disagreed that the economy needed several years of high unemployment to get inflation back under control, a view articulated several weeks ago by former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
Unlike the early 1980s, when sharp Fed interest rate increases pushed unemployment above 10%, the Fed has more credibility now as an inflation fighter, Bullard said. As a result, an inflationary psychology hasn’t taken hold of most consumers, as it did then, and the central bank won’t have to increase rates as much.
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This story has been corrected to say that Esther George is president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, not the Cleveland Fed.
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2022-07-12T00:15:17+00:00
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LEE COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — The Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) announced the agency will repurpose 24 old bulletproof vests by donating them to Ukrainians as Russian forces continue to invade the country.
On Thursday, the sheriff’s office stated in a Facebook post that the department’s initiatives came in conjunction with a partnership between the DAAR Charitable Foundation and SigmaBleyzer’s Stand with Ukraine Fundraiser.
The efforts aim to provide Ukrainians with safety equipment and other useful resources as they continue to defend their country.
The LCSO revealed the Board of Supervisors recently purchased new vests for the agency, making the donation possible.
DAAR, according to the LCSO, has charitable connections and work in Ukraine that has spanned 20 years.
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2022-05-20T18:32:05+00:00
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HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded insurance, through which insurance products are distributed by non-insurance brands, could make significant inroads into both personal lines and small commercial insurance business, exceeding $70 billion in premium by 2030, according to a new report by Conning.
Embedded insurance has been widely hailed as a transformative trend in insurance distribution, making insurance far easier to understand and purchase while reducing the coverage gaps that currently leave consumers and small businesses underinsured in the face of many risks. Conning's report, "The Promise and Perils of Embedded Insurance," concludes that the benefits of this approach to insurance distribution have sometimes been exaggerated, but its impact could still be significant.
The report finds that multibillion-dollar investments in technology companies seeking to facilitate embedded insurance solutions have yet to result in a major shift of business towards embedded distribution, with the partial exception of extended warranty type products and some travel insurance. But there is major growth potential across the personal lines market and for standardized small business insurance coverage. The $179 billion personal auto insurance market could be ripe for disruption if manufacturers were to bring insurance in-house, as Tesla has been doing.
Conning explores two main scenarios for the future growth of the embedded insurance market. In the first, and most likely scenario, insurers and their non-insurance partners would continue to focus on maximizing the convenience of insurance purchases. The price of insurance would not materially change. It is this scenario that Conning sees as having the potential to support a $70 billion market by 2030. This would still be a noticeable slice of the total U.S. personal lines market, which was worth $362 billion in 2021.
In the second scenario, which Conning views as less likely, one or more non-insurance brands would leverage the expense savings that are possible through embedded distribution to grow the insurance market through aggressive price competition. If this succeeded the disruptive impact could be far greater, presenting major challenges for insurers employing more traditional distribution approaches.
The Conning report, "The Promise and Perils of Embedded Insurance," explores the implications of the further development of embedded insurance distribution for insurers, reinsurers, and brokers. It positions embedded insurance as a latecomer in the broader embedded finance revolution that has already shifted many of the functions historically performed by banks to non-financial platforms. The complexity of most insurance products has made a similar shift challenging in the insurance market, but significant talent and investment is now being devoted to the task.
"The Promise and Perils of Embedded Insurance," is available for purchase from Conning by calling (888) 707-1177 or by visiting https://go.conning.com/The-Promise-and-Perils-of-Embedded-Insurance.html.
Conning (www.conning.com) is a leading investment management firm with a long history of serving the insurance industry. Conning supports institutional investors, including insurers and pension plans, with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research. Founded in 1912, Conning has investment centers in Asia, Europe and North America.
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(NewsNation) —An American teacher behind bars in Russia has broken her silence.
In a letter from a Russian prison, 46-year-old Sarah Krivanek says “the road has been very hard” since she landed in legal trouble nearly a year ago.
She says her health has gotten worse and she has no medical care.
“I want to come home to you all. And when I get home, I will tell you everything. I can’t do that in a letter,” the letter reads.
She’s currently serving a year and three-month sentence in connection to assault charges from a domestic dispute. Krivanek was arrested last fall after she reportedly scratched her Russian partner’s nose with a knife.
However, her friends believe she is the one who was abused and was defending herself. According to relatives, Krivvanek suffers from a kidney disease that can be deadly if not treated.
“I’m just so worried about her because she’s not able to tell us exactly how severe her health is,” Krivanek’s close friend Anita Martinez said Tuesday night on NewsNation’s “Banfield.” “I was happy that she’s alive because I didn’t even know that. I didn’t know what was happening with her.”
According to Martinez, the prisoners rely heavily on outside sources to provide basic supplies.
“It’s my understanding that they give them a uniform and basic food. That’s it. Everything else they depend on family and friends. But the problem is that with the sanctions that are in place in Russia right now, we’re not able to send anything because they can’t have any currency or anything from outside countries,” Martinez said.
Martinez believes that a human rights organization will visit Krivvanek soon, but she’s worried that if they don’t, her situation could be dire as winter conditions worsen.
“I’m just hoping they (the U.S. embassy) do something to help get her home before it’s too late. I know she just has a few months left on her sentence, but depending on the severity of what she’s dealing with right now, I don’t know if she has a few months left, period,” Martinez said.
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2022-09-14T14:51:46+00:00
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Fourteen Southeastern Louisiana University students have been chosen as members of the 2022 Homecoming court. The seven women and seven men will reign over Homecoming festivities this week.
Chosen as members of the queen's court are seniors Kendall Adams, Prairieville; Jadi Foster, Hammond; Thais Gomes, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Kayla Lee, Loranger; Jayla Ruffin, Hammond; junior Sarah Gordon, Amite; and sophomore Ella Lombardo, Roseland.
Elected members of the beau's court are seniors Joshua Freeman, Terrytown; KeRon Jackson, Destrehan; Dominic Marino, Norco; Austin O’Brien, Marrero; Brent Scelfo, Covington; Johnathan Zeringue, Des Allemands; and junior Treylan Mouton, Baton Rouge.
The 2022 queen and beau, the top junior or senior vote-getters in the recent online campus election, will be announced Saturday, Oct. 8.
For information about Southeastern Homecoming events, contact the Alumni Association at (985) 549-2150 or (800) 758-2586 or visit www.southeastern.edu/homecoming.
Court members
Adams is an early childhood education major. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, director of communication and marketing for Student Government Association, National Panhellenic Council president, parliamentarian of the NAACP at Southeastern and a mentor for Project PULL. She is an International Baccalaureate Programme student and was 2020-21 SGA Senator of the Year.
Foster, a psychology major, is a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, where she serves as vice president of membership recruitment and formerly served as sunshine chair and recruitment round coordinator. She is a member of Psi Chi, the psychology international honor society.
Gomes majors in kinesiology and health studies. She is an SGA senator and a member of Diversity and Inclusion Council, Spanish club, Wesley Foundation, Reconnect, Southeastern Vegans, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, served as the president of the International Student Union, former track and field athlete, Tinsley Learning Center tutor and Lions Connected mentor. She is the 2022 Outstanding Woman of the Year.
Lee, a communication sciences and disorders major, is a member of Phi Mu fraternity and the National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association. She was selected as a member of Sigma Tau Gamma’s White Rose Court, was awarded the Phi Mu Patricia Catlett Fendalson Memorial Scholarship and was recently accepted into clinicals for her major.
Ruffin is a health systems management major. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority, Elite Women and Health Systems Management Club, where she serves as vice president.
Gordon, a social work major, is a member of Project PULL, Elite Women, is a housing resident assistant and is on the housing recruitment committee. Phi Sigma Theta awarded her for academic achievement.
Lombardo is a supply chain management major. She is a member of NAMI and Phi Mu fraternity, where she serves on the executive board as Panhellenic delegate, was named Phi Mu Outstanding Freshman in 2022 and received the Phi Mu Lady Award in 2022.
Freeman, a sport management major, is president and co-founder of the Kinesiology Student Association, vice president of SGA, point secretary of the Gamma Beta Phi National Honors and Service Society, a member of the Honors Student Association and an Honors Program ambassador. He was named 2021-22 Most Outstanding Honors Student of the Year and received the 2021-22 Dr. Marvin L. Yates Award of Excellence.
Jackson, is an English major. He is a resident assistant, and a member of SGA and the Southeastern Gospel Choir. Jackson is the recipient of the Housing Director’s Choice Award.
Marino is a management major. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity and is the Interfraternity Council vice president of recruitment. Marino is a TOPS Priority Scholarship and Housing Priority Scholarship recipient.
O’Brien is an English major. He is a member of Theta Chi fraternity, where he has served as secretary and historian. O’Brien is news editor of the Lion’s Roar student newspaper.
Scelfo, an accounting major, is a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, where he was voted Most Helpful Brother, and president of the Southeastern Accounting Society. He is an ExCEL scholar and a tour guide for the Office of Admissions. Scelfo is a recipient of the 2022 Green ‘S’ Award.
Zeringue is an accounting major. He is a member of Campus Activities Board, Theta Chi fraternity and Southeastern Accounting Society. Zeringue was a 2019 Orientation Leader, recipient of the 2019 Lion’s Roar story of the year award and is a former Mr. Southeastern runner-up.
Mouton is a business major. He is a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, where he serves as president. He is the community service chair for the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
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2022-10-11T07:17:08+00:00
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STAMFORD, Conn., July 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MKM Partners announced today that Leo Mariani has joined its award-winning Equity Research Department as Managing Director, Senior Energy Analyst. Leo joins MKM from KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he spent over three years covering the Oil and Gas Exploration & Production sector, as well as several Renewable Energy companies. Leo has covered the E&P sector for 24 years, 19 in equity research and 5 in investment banking, and has also worked at firms including RBC Capital Markets, Jefferies, and UBS.
Leo is a Chartered Financial Analyst and graduated with honors from Brown University with a double major in Business Economics and Organizational Behavior & Management. Leo was named the #2 stock picker globally according to TipRanks in 2021.
"I am grateful and excited for the chance to join the ongoing success of MKM's growing research team," said Leo. "This is a unique time in the markets, and I look forward to collaborating with all of MKM's business groups to assist our clients in identifying and pursuing opportunities in the sector."
"Leo is a perfect complement to both our Fundamental and Macro Research," said Sagar Sheth, CEO of MKM Partners. "He is well known for producing both industry-wide and company-specific research that's insightful and actionable, and will be another key alpha-generating resource for our clients." MKM is continuing to grow across all product lines as it celebrates the milestone of twenty years in business.
MKM Partners is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Austin. MKM combines high-impact fundamental analysis with macroeconomics, technical insights, derivatives strategies, event-driven commentary, alternative research, and first-rate execution. With over 1000 institutional clients and one of the largest trading floors in the U.S., the firm has trade execution abilities in both global equity markets and U.S. options markets. More information about MKM Partners can be accessed at www.mkmpartners.com.
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Going into his last tennis match of the school year, high school senior Lorris Nzouakeu knew he might get knocked out in straight sets. He was scheduled for one of the first matches of the day during the regionals competition in western Maryland, against a student from another school who'd won the championship last year.
"So it wasn't really looking good at the start," he laughs. "My goal was definitely to continue rallies and maintain pace and also just have fun."
"Fun" is sometimes hard to find in high school sports. Gunning for college athletic scholarships, many students and families go all in – focusing on one sport and even one position from elementary school. It's also big business – the whole youth sports industry is worth $19 billion dollars, more than the NFL.
For a lot of kids of all ages, sports are not working for them. Less than half of kids play sports at all, and those that do only stick with it for about three years and quit by age 11. That's a whole lot of kids missing out on some of the huge benefits of sports, including spacial awareness, physical activity, and team skills.
Increasingly sports educators, health researchers and parents are pushing back against this trend and arguing that playing sports should be for all kids.
During the last few pandemic years, physical activity fell, while obesity rates and mental health challenges grew, note Tom Farrey and Jon Solomon of the Aspen Institute Sports & Society Program in a 2022 handbook for reimagining school sports. At the same time, interest in sports has grown, which "presents an historic opportunity for schools to reimagine their approach to sports," they write.
But schools can create space for more types of students in sports. One example of what this looks like in practice is Nzouakeu's high school – Tuscarora High in Frederick County, Md. This school transformed its athletics program to prioritize including kids of all ability levels in sports. It's a model for handling youth sports, argues author and athlete Linda Flanagan, who highlighted the school in her book about youth sports entitled Take Back the Game.
Here's how Tuscarora High does things – plus some guiding principles for how schools can help include more kids in the fun of sports.
Offer a variety of sports to appeal to all tastes and talents
Tuscarora is a fairly big school with about 1,600 students – 40% white, a quarter Hispanic, a quarter Black. A third of students get free or reduced lunch.
Half of these students play a school sport, well above the national average of 39% participation. "That's awesome," beams Tuscarora's coordinator of athletics and facilities Chris O'Connor. "That speaks to the number of sports that we offer."
Frederick County schools, including Tuscarora, offer 17 different sports, including golf, swimming and lacrosse, and starting next year, girls flag football. It also has three unified teams, in which students with and without disabilities play together – Tuscarora's unified bocce team won Maryland's state championship this year.
Variety is key because not everyone loves playing football, basketball or baseball, notes Brian Culp, professor of health and physical activity leadership at Kennesaw State University.
"What can happen is that if you're in a school system where you, for instance, have a high amount of African-American students, and you say, 'Well, I'm going to provide basketball and I'm going to provide football,' – you've basically designed their destiny," he says. If a student isn't good at either of these sports or doesn't like it, he explains, they might feel like there's no place in sports for them.
Offering options like fencing or gymnastics can help students find what clicks. "There are things that impact what type of choices people make: Are they skiers? Are they swimmers? Are they runners?" Culp says he himself didn't play a varsity sport until his senior year, when he ran cross country.
Don't force kids – even star players – to specialize
Variety is also important for athletically gifted students to help them branch out, notes Flanagan.
"There's no end to the specializing," she says, of the trend in sports today. A parent may go beyond specializing their child in hockey, she says, to asserting: "My child's a goalie, and don't deviate from that because that's where you're going to make your mark."
She thinks this way of approaching sports robs them of the fun, while also increasing the risks of repetitive stress injuries and potentially limiting a child's identity. In her book she advises: no sports specializing before puberty.
Tuscarora's O'Connor agrees that specializing is a problem. "I think that's what's wrong with youth sports right now in America," he says. "I'm from the mindset that you should do as many different sports as possible because you don't know what you're going to like."
Give kids of varying skill levels opportunities to play
The school system today is geared toward channeling the top-performing young athletes toward collegiate and professional goals, says Flanagan. "If you're at a giant school and you're trying to make the basketball team, you are competing against four grades [worth of students] for five spots," she says. "So where does that leave the kid who's just like, 'Okay, I want to play, but I'm not fantastic'?
"The arms-race nature of it has really had such a terrible impact on kids who might ordinarily grow into it if they had space, they had time," she adds.
Not every family has the resources to develop kids' athletic talents when they're younger, and some kids don't discover an interest right away. For students like this, Tuscarora has low-key, non-competitive sports that students can play during the school day, explains O'Connor — and that have meets every few weeks.
"It's providing that opportunity for the student-athlete in the school day to just have some fun with the sport and be around an adult who knows something about it," he says.
Official school sports also help students who come in as beginners stick with it and get better, says Nzouakeu, the Tuscarora tennis player. He started as a sophomore, and his game has improved steadily, he says. "I know that when I play out there, I can definitely find out which skills I need to practice more and I can take that time to continue getting better."
Use school space and time creatively
School sports are often jammed in after a long day of sitting in classrooms. That's not the only way to do things, notes Flanagan.
"In Finland, after every 45 minutes, they have 15 minutes of recess," she says. "Just this idea of moving your body to clear your head – it's well-established in science that this is so essential for clear thinking and for emotional well-being, too."
She says recess isn't the only way to get physical activity during the school day – intramural and club sports can offer that same kind of outlet, if schools think creatively about space.
"Most gym and field space is not occupied all the time – field space in particular is typically for sports after school," she points out. Why not use that field during a flex period? Or get students scrimmaging in the gym?
To do this, says Culp, you need "a principal, a district that actively promotes physical movement as a part of the school day." He notes decades worth of research showing the benefits of physical activity for kids. "A physically, actively engaged child is a better learner in school," he says "Their self-esteem is high, their self-confidence is high, and their ability to actually deal with challenges in the world is better."
PE classes have a good ratio of teacher to student
One challenge for students who aren't confident in their sports skills is that it can be intimidating to try to join in, says Culp, especially if there are a lot of students and only one teacher or coach.
It's like being in a city waiting for a subway. "That train comes through and you're just like, 'I don't know if I want to get on that subway car because it's packed,'" he says. If there are too many other students, some kids may feel they won't get enough support from the coach.
School leadership and school boards can support physical movement, Culp says, by instituting a manageable ratio of educators to students. This can encourage students without a lot of skills (or even reluctance) to feel like they can join in.
Keep things in perspective
Yes, there are benefits to sports, says Flanagan, but they are not for everyone. With children, "you can't force them to like school or like to read or when to do sports," says Flanagan. "They have to come to it on their own."
Modeling low-key outdoor play and enjoying sports is an important thing parents can do, she says. But Flanagan – who has coached cross country and track and seen the intensity some parents bring to their children's athletic endeavors – says it's important to let kids quit when they want to.
"I don't think forcing kids to play sports is a good idea," she says. "We have this distorted notion here about grit. Obviously grit is important. But I think we shouldn't make children stick with things just because it's a virtue to stick with things and who cares how miserable you are."
That includes young people who never really took to sports at all, and talented athletes who played seriously for years and then decide they've had enough.
And maybe if you give kids a choice, and let them play without having to be the best, they'll discover a life-long love of sport. Lorris Nzouakeu, who just graduated from Tuscarora High, lost his regionals tennis match 6-0, 6-0, but that didn't bother him too much. He says next year in college, he may play on an intramural tennis team, or just recreationally.
"I'd like to continue tennis in college because not only do I think of it as a great pastime, but I also think that it's something that I can just continue doing for myself," he says. "Something I can de-stress with as I continue living my life."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Republican Rep. Chris Jacobs said Friday he will not run for another term in Congress amid backlash over his support for new gun control measures.
Jacobs, who represents suburban Buffalo, told reporters he has decided to retire instead of facing what he said would be “an incredibly divisive election," just days after voicing support for a federal assault weapons ban.
“The last thing we need is an incredibly negative, half-truth-filled media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun violence and gun control," he said, according to footage of his announcement. “Therefore today I am announcing I will not run for the 23rd Congressional District.”
Jacobs said last week that he would vote for an federal assault weapons ban if he had a chance, sparking backlash among state conservatives.
“I want to be completely transparent of where I am in Congress. If an assault weapons ban bill came to the floor that would ban something like an AR-15, I would vote for it,” he said, according to Spectrum News 1.
He also said he believed it was “perfectly reasonable” to raise the age limit to purchase semi-automatic weapons to 21.
Jacobs currently represents New York’s 27th Congressional District, but had been running for the newly redrawn 23rd District, which includes large swaths of new voters.
Gerard Kassar, who chairs the New York State Conservative Party, welcomed Jacobs' decision in a statement, saying the party had been “perplexed” by Jacobs' "recent stance on Second Amendment rights, a position well outside the mainstream of the Republican Party, the Conservative Party, and the voters of NY 23.”
“We agree that it’s the best interest of all three — and of Congressman Jacobs himself — that he forgoes a run for reelection and returns to civilian life. We wish him only the best in his future endeavors,” he said.
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LIBERTY HILL, Texas, Aug. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Rita Ranch, a 3,800-acre historical ranch redesigned as a master-planned community with world-class amenities and spectacular views near Austin, Texas has once more ranked #1 in sales in the Austin-Round Rock area, according to the 2022 RCLCO mid-year report. Santa Rita Ranch also placed 29th in the nation in total sales, up from last year's rank of 33rd.
"We have a top-notch team working hard every day to make sure that Santa Rita Ranch provides the very best possible place to live for all of our many residents," said Santa Rita Ranch Developer Ed Horne, "so recognition like this from an expert group like RCLCO is a wonderful thing. But what we love most is welcoming friendly new faces to our master-planned community, which is why we're so happy to have added 273 new families to our Ranch community so far this year!"
As a leader in real estate consulting, RCLCO has been conducting an annual national survey to identify the top-selling, best master-planned communities since 1994. It is always an honor for any community to make the list, as it shows that the community is healthy, prosperous, and growing, and Santa Rita Ranch is proud to have made the RCLCO list many times since the Austin-area community first broke ground.
The success of Santa Rita Ranch is part of a larger trend, as the Austin-Round Rock area becomes one of the fastest-growing housing markets in the nation. Ranked one of the best places to live in the U.S. due to a rapidly-growing job market, a business-friendly political environment, pleasant weather, and a low overall cost of living, Austin has seen an explosion of new arrivals as families from all over the country relocate to the region to start a new life.
This has helped to fuel the growth of master-planned communities such as Santa Rita Ranch, which offer resort-style amenities alongside houses from some of the nation's leading home builders to create welcoming, friendly neighborhoods.
The Santa Rita Ranch master-planned community in the Texas Hill Country north of Austin, offers beautiful, affordable homes and exceptional lifestyle options. It's been honored as a three-time Developer of the Year, three-time Community of the Year, and the Best-Selling Master-Planned Community in the Austin-Round Rock area.
Additional information can be found at the Santa Rita Ranch website or through the media contact.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced on Thursday to a record-setting 10 years in prison for attacking the U.S. Capitol and using a metal flagpole to assault one of the police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Thomas Webster’s prison sentence is the longest so far among roughly 250 people who have been punished for their conduct during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021. The previous longest was shared by two other rioters, who were sentenced separately to seven years and three months in prison.
Webster, a 20-year NYPD veteran, was the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge and the first to present a self-defense argument. A jury rejected Webster’s claim that he was defending himself when he tackled Metropolitan Police Department officer Noah Rathbun and grabbed his gas mask outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, to 10 years in prison plus three years of supervised release. He allowed Webster to report to prison at a date to be determined instead of immediately ordering him into custody.
“Mr. Webster, I don’t think you’re a bad person,” the judge said. “I think you were caught up in a moment. But as you know, even getting caught up in a moment has consequences.”
Webster turned to apologize to Rathbun, who was in the courtroom but didn’t address the judge. Webster said he wishes he had never come to Washington, D.C.
“I wish the horrible events of that day had never happened,” he told the judge.
The judge said Rathbun wasn’t Webster’s only victim on Jan. 6.
“The other victim was democracy, and that is not something that can be taken lightly,” Mehta added.
Federal prosecutors had recommended a prison sentence of 17 years and six months. The court’s probation department had recommended a 10-year prison sentence. Mehta wasn’t bound by the recommendations.
In a court filing, prosecutors accused Webster of “disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve.” Webster led the charge against police barricades at the Capitol’s Lower West Plaza, prosecutors said. They compared the attack to a medieval battle, with rioters pelting officers with makeshift projectiles and engaging in hand-to-hand combat.
“Nothing can explain or justify Mr. Webster’s rage. Nothing can explain or justify his violence,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell said Thursday.
Defense attorney James Monroe said in a court filing that the mob was “guided by unscrupulous politicians” and others promoting the lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent. He questioned why prosecutors argued that Webster didn’t deserve leniency for his 25 years of service to his country and New York City.
“That is not how we measure justice. That is revenge,” Monroe said.
In May, jurors deliberated for less than three hours before they convicted Webster of all six counts in his indictment, including a charge that he assaulted Rathbun with a dangerous weapon, the flagpole.
Also Thursday, a New Jersey man pleaded guilty to using pepper spray on police officers, including one who later died. Officer Brian Sicknick suffered a stroke the day after the riot and died of natural causes. He and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks as the mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.
Julian Khater, 33, pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He could face up to 20 years in prison, though will likely face a sentence ranging from about 6 1/2 to 8 years at a hearing set for December.
The case against Khater and a second man have been among the more notable brought by the Justice Department. George Pierre Tanios brought the pepper spray in a backpack. Tanios previously pleaded guilty and is also set to be sentenced in December.
Webster had testified at trial that he was trying to protect himself from a “rogue cop” who punched him in the face. He also accused Rathbun of instigating the confrontation.
Rathbun testified that he didn’t punch or pick a fight with Webster. Rathbun said he was trying to move Webster back from a security perimeter that he and other officers were struggling to maintain.
Rathbun’s body camera captured Webster shouting profanities and insults before they made any physical contact. The video shows that Webster slammed one of the bike racks at Rathbun before the officer reached out with an open left hand and struck the right side of Webster’s face.
After Rathbun struck his face, Webster swung a metal flag pole at the officer in a downward chopping motion, striking a bike rack. Rathbun grabbed the broken pole from Webster, who charged at the officer, tackled him to the ground and grabbed his gas mask, choking him by the chin strap.
Webster drove alone to Washington, D.C., from his home near Goshen, New York, on the eve of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, where Trump addressed thousands of supporters. Webster was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a Marine Corps flag on a metal pole when he joined the mob that stormed the Capitol.
Webster said he went to the Capitol to “petition” lawmakers to “relook” at the results of the 2020 presidential election. But he testified that he didn’t intend to interfere with Congress’ joint session to certify President Joe Biden ‘s victory.
Webster retired from the NYPD in 2011 after 20 years of service, which included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s private security detail. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 before joining the NYPD in 1991.
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Associated Press writer Lindsay Whitehurst contributed to this report.
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2022-09-02T16:50:09+00:00
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Landmark gifts from the Trottier Family Foundation ensure Montreal's place as a leading hub of space research within Canada and the world
MONTREAL, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - The McGill Space Institute (MSI) and the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal are at the forefront of the exhilarating pace of space research, helping to advance our knowledge of extrasolar planets, fast radio bursts, the dark universe, and other extraterrestrial mysteries. Now their stellar work and efforts to recruit top students and researchers are getting a huge boost thanks to extraordinary gifts to McGill University and the Université de Montréal from the Trottier Family Foundation.
The visionary gifts, which total $26 million, coincide with an exciting age of discovery in astrophysics, thanks in part to the development of powerful new telescopes – such as the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – that enable researchers to explore deep into our solar system and beyond. In addition to advancing our understanding of the universe, space research has contributed to the development of transformative technologies that have greatly benefitted society, including communication satellites, GPS, high-performance cameras, and high-speed wireless internet.
The McGill Space Institute will receive $16 million, of which half will go towards the construction of an annex to the Institute's current building on University Street. The other portion of the gift will be used to fund graduate and postdoctoral fellowships, as well as to expand on existing programmatic and research support. The ground-breaking work by the Space Institute's researchers includes major discoveries in the area of neutron stars and fast radio bursts by Professor of Physics and Director of the Institute Victoria Kaspi, an award-winning astrophysicist who holds the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology at McGill.
In recognition of this historic gift, the McGill Space Institute will be renamed the Trottier Space Institute at McGill.
For its part, Université de Montréal's Institute for Research on Exoplanets will receive $10 million to ensure the sustainability of its activities. Leaders in exoplanet research, iREx scientists have made discoveries that profoundly changed what we know about worlds beyond our solar system. Led by astrophysicist René Doyon, a Professor of Physics and the Canadian Principal Investigator of the James Webb mission, iREx has developed major scientific instruments, including an infrared camera that has captured remarkable and previously unseen images of space. In addition, iREx devotes great effort to sharing knowledge with the general public. The Trottier Family Foundation's major gift will allow iREx's scientific team to continue its research to discover life outside the solar system. In recognition of this exceptional donation and the support of Lorne Trottier and the Trottier Family Foundation since its inception, iREx will be renamed the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets.
"These devoted researchers scanning our skies have already broadened our horizons in a big way," said UdeM rector Daniel Jutras. "Probing the mysteries of the universe, they have helped us come to recognize the beauty and fragility of our planet. The unprecedented support for Montreal scientists offered by Mr. Trottier and the Trottier Family Foundation will also help preserve our ecosystems here on Earth. It's a gift that will continue to enrich future generations."
"We are very grateful to McGill alumnus Lorne Trottier and the Trottier Family Foundation, whose tremendous contributions to McGill and to its Faculties of Science and Engineering over many years have helped further our understanding of our world and our universe," said McGill's Interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Christopher Manfredi. "This most recent gift, spread out among two of our city's great universities, will cement Montreal's place as a leading hub of space research within Canada and the world."
"The Trottier Family Foundation is pleased to support the world-class work of the Trottier Space Institute at McGill and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal," said Lorne Trottier, the co-founder of Matrox, an industry leader in computer graphics, imaging and video products. "Science has brought untold benefits to humanity," added Trottier, who noted astronomy was the first science. "Copernicus, Galileo and Newton laid the groundwork for the scientific revolution that's transformed lives in so many ways. Understanding more about the laws of the universe and its origins leads to discoveries and innovations that are beneficial – in addition to satisfying our deep curiosity."
With a lifelong love of science and technology, Lorne Trottier earned bachelor and master's degrees in Engineering at McGill and has received several honorary degrees, including from McGill and the Université de Montréal. His family foundation has supported exoplanet research at iREx at the Université de Montréal – and provided support to many key institutions on the island of Montreal. The foundation has supported astronomy education for youth across Canada and funds various initiatives promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) throughout Canada.
The Trottier Family Foundation's generosity has made an indelible mark on McGill, including the Lorne M. Trottier Building on campus that bears his name, the creation of institutes in the Faculties of Science and Engineering and support for popular public education initiatives.
The Trottier Space Institute has flourished since its creation in 2015 with support from the Trottier Family Foundation. The interdisciplinary centre brings together researchers in Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Atmospheric Sciences, Astrobiology and other space-related areas at McGill. McGill researchers have detected thousands of fast radio bursts and identified magnetars as one likely origin of this mysterious phenomenon, helped make the first image of a black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope, and developed a microbial life detection system for space missions.
Since its inception in 2014, UdeM's Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets successfully recruited more than 60 of the world's most renowned researchers in a variety of domains of expertise related to the search for and understanding of alien worlds beyond our solar system. Over the years, the members of iREx have made major advances in astrophysical research, including, in 2019, the first detection of water on a planet, K2-18 b, in the habitable zone of the star it orbits, and in 2022, the discovery of a candidate "ocean planet," TOI-1452 b, that made headlines around the world. Researchers from iREx are also leaders in the conception and development of cutting-edge astronomical instruments that have been sent to world-class telescopes all over the globe and in space.
Founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1821, McGill University is Canada's top ranked medical doctoral university. McGill is consistently ranked as one of the top universities, both nationally and internationally. It is a world-renowned institution of higher learning with research activities spanning three campuses, 11 faculties, 13 professional schools, 300 programs of study and over 39,000 students, including more than 10,400 graduate students. McGill attracts students from over 150 countries around the world, its 12,000 international students making up 30% of the student body. Over half of McGill students claim a first language other than English, including approximately 20% of our students who say French is their mother tongue.
Deeply rooted in Montreal and dedicated to its international mission, Université de Montréal is a leading research university worldwide and among the five best French-language universities. With its affiliated schools, Polytechnique Montréal and HEC Montréal, UdeM attracts over $500 million in research funding every year, making it one of Canada's top university research hubs. UdeM has close to 70,000 students, 2,300 professors and researchers, and an active global network of 450,000 alumni.
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Man arrested in connection to Nash Street shooting
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Marquez Wilson was arrested on Jan. 31 for one count of attempted first-degree murder.
Shreveport police responded to a shooting at 9 p.m. on Jan. 26 in the 1700 block of Nash Street. Upon arrival, they discovered someone had driven past a home and open fire.
No one was injured in this incident, however, officials say the intended target of this shooting is related to one of the victims of the Sugar Lane shooting that happened on Jan. 22.
Detectives later determined Wilson was allegedly responsible for the drive-by, and he was booked into the Shreveport City Jail.
Investigation into the Sugar Lane shooting is still open. If you have any information on this incident, please contact police at (318) 673-7300 or Caddo Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7373.
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2023-02-01T16:31:36+00:00
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15-year-old arrested for stabbing newly adoptive parents, authorities say
KERSHAW COUNTY, S.C. (WIS/Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina say a teenager is under arrest after stabbing their adoptive parents.
According to the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office, 41-year-old Angelymar Morrison was killed on Monday after her recently adopted 15-year-old stabbed her and her husband with a knife.
Authorities said the teen had been living with the couple since December 2021, and the couple had finalized adoption papers the week before the stabbing.
Responding deputies that evening said they found the teen hiding in a neighborhood, about a mile away from the incident, and believed he used a car to escape before ditching it.
The woman was pronounced deceased at the scene, and her husband was in critical condition after running away to get help, according to the Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office.
The husband was reportedly treated for multiple stab wounds but expected to survive.
Authorities said the 15-year-old suspect was enrolled in the Kershaw County School District and disciplined by the district multiple times for non-violent, rebellious behavior.
However, investigators said there were no incidents reported involving the suspect or the victims prior to Monday’s stabbing.
According to the sheriff’s office, the teen will be petitioned in family court for murder, attempted murder, and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
Authorities did not immediately identify the juvenile involved but said the teen was booked into the South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice.
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2023-02-08T22:10:37+00:00
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U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Edward Davila sentenced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years in prison last week following a four-month trial in which a jury found Holmes guilty of defrauding investors at her blood-testing company.
Below is a transcript of Davila's full remarks at the end of the sentencing hearing in San Jose, Calif., just before he handed down her punishment.
Holmes, 38, has been ordered to turn herself in April, 27, 2023, and she is expected to serve her sentence at a minimum-security women's facility about 100 miles outside of Houston, where Holmes grew up.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila:
I'm a native. I was born up the street, and I remember this valley, and the innovation of this valley. The richness of the earth that is below us here in this valley at one time was agriculture. These pictures that are in my courtroom express some of that. We know that this valley at one time from the rich earth here supported the world. Food came from this valley.
Ranchers, farmers came to this valley from Europe, from Asia. From our neighbors south, and individuals who have held land from Spanish land grants, they farmed this land, they farmed this rich land, and they produced them, this was the center for the world, this agriculture. That's what provided and drove this area's economy. And farmers, ranchers, they developed this land.
They made their agreements, they exchanged business dealings, and I'm informed that more often than not those business dealings were sealed with a handshake, they were sealed with an eye-to-eye promise to perform, 'I'll bring this many bushels, tons of tomatoes, you will have strawberries, you will have cherries, you will have artichokes, you will have all of the riches that the earth below us in this wonderful, wonderful land produces.' But as all things do, times change. And on a little side street in Palo Alto in a little wooden garage, a single car garage, we know the history. We know what happened there. Two individuals put their minds together and they created something, they developed some industry and put their hard work to task and created innovation, and that changed this valley forever.
The commerce of this valley shifted then, didn't it, from agriculture to technology? And those two individuals in that small wooden garage in Palo Alto, they created the technology that changed the agricultural economy for this area. This area no longer produced the strawberries, the apricots, the cherries, the artichokes, and the tomatoes that it once did in that great abundance, but rather the technology changed, didn't it? So the Page Mill Road where we see a lot of innovation, Sand Hill Road, the valleys here, they changed, those farms are gone, and in their place are the titans of industry that have developed from that small garage. We know this local history.
It's not folklore. It's the history of this area. When they created, those two individuals, they created what they did, and they also, in creating their company, they also created an ethos and they created a way of conducting their business creating what they do, treating their employees and their business partners in a way that sought to continue innovation, to produce innovation recognizing that this area would soon be the crucible for innovation around the world as it is today.
And the world now looks to this area not so much for the agricultural gifts from the rich earth below us, but from the technology, the ideas that spring forth from the many bright minds that come here, and we welcome them. We're grateful for that technology that comes forward, and the world relies on it. They really do rely on it. Concurrent with that is — with those businesses are how do we fund that? How do we create that? How do we keep that going? And that's the issue of funding for business that we see.
This case is so troubling on so many, so many levels. There's no question that Ms. Holmes is bright. I've read her background. We read about her. We know what she has done. We know what she created. at an early age, 19, going to a
prestigious university. I think that the PSR [presentence report] had to be corrected as to the age. And she created this and immersed herself forward.
People gravitated towards her idea. She just told us about her company's what drove her.
And it's clear from her comments that that spirit, her desire to
produce, to make her company successful perhaps is what caused her to, as she told us just a moment ago, make certain mistakes. The industry that we know of here regrettably finds vectors with the financial and personal gain that clouds
sometimes the good judgment of individuals, and we see that. And Mr. Downey tells us this was not a pursuit of money. This was not a pursuit of — it's not like other wire fraud cases where an individual sought riches to buy yachts, cars,
and all of those things, and live a lavish lifestyle.
But what was it then? What was it that caused Ms. Holmes, regrettably, to make those decisions that she did? And the jury heard at least the evidence, heard the
evidence that the government put forward, statements from victims, statements from other individuals about representations that were made.
And that's the troubling part of this. Was there a loss of a moral compass here? could, regrettably, Ms. Holmes partake in the fraud that the jury found existed, the conspiracy, and the three counts that they found that her culpable of?
They heard the evidence.
They heard the statements that were made to them. they heard, saw the texts, the chain, the messages, the collaboration, if you will, between the co-defendants, and they saw that.
The tragedy of this case is that Ms. Holmes is brilliant. She had creative ideas. She is a big thinker. She was a woman moving into an industry that was dominated by, and let's face it, male ego. That young women entrepreneurs are regrettably denied access to, but she made that. She made that. she got into that world.
And as we've read and we've heard, we have heard evidence and we have heard other individuals testify in the trial as to various reasons how, how they came to know her and how they came to believe her statements, and believe the product that she was selling that we know, we know from the testimony of 29 witnesses was not working.
It didn't work. It was sent to Walgreens. I read something that suggests Walgreens had the opportunity to test it. They could have tested it. It was given to them. hTey could have looked at it, but — and then we learned that there was tape perhaps, there were secured machines, the Edisons were secured. The proper appropriate devices were not given to them so they could accurately test it.
There was significant evidence about manipulation and untruths that were being used in the negotiation of the business. And what is it that caused that? Was it hubris? What caused that? Was it intoxication with the fame that comes
with being a young entrepreneur? And Mr. Downey suggests she did not go to that, it came to her. And perhaps that's the real pity of it.
The letters that were referenced, I've read them, they were meaningful. These are letters in support of Ms. Holmes. They spoke to a different individual perhaps that the jury heard. They weren't here. Many of the letter writers weren't at the trial I don't believe, but they spoke to a different individual and their experiences. and they were moving. They talked about how Ms. Holmes would visit when they were ill, when they had a problem, she was so giving, she was always there.
The letters referenced by venture capitalists and others who mentioned innovation and they talk about the VV world and those types of things. One thing that was missing from those letters was — and I didn't see it, they talked about, well, in the industry in this valley failure is quite normal. Businesses fail all of the time. we, VCs we invest in businesses, and if we get a 10 percent return, we're successful, it's the next big thing, that's what we're looking for. So failure is not uncommon, and you should recognize that, they suggest. One thing that the letters omit, though, they did not say, they did not say anything about, nor did they endorse failure by fraud.
They did not say, well, it's okay, fraud is okay, And that's part of failure. They didn't talk about that and I don't think that they could. I don't think that they would, they would condone fraud. they couldn't do that. These letters speak to a recognition that companies fail, hey falter. There was one letter — I wrote the quote down. it's, "we believe that no one should invest no more than they are expected to lose."
So investors, sophisticated investors, it's all right to invest and lose money, that's the expectation, but the public and sophisticated investors that make those investments, they take those risks. They should take those risks free from lies and misrepresentation. That's the foundation of innovation and investment, honesty in the market. Those letter writers did not condone misrepresentations, manipulation. and I know about all of the good things that the individuals said about Ms. Holmes, and I respect that, and it's to the court.
However, if it was revealed to them what this jury heard and of the conduct that was engaged in, I am quite confident they would not, they would not condone that. so what was it that caused — was it intoxication, as I said, with the fame? We know, the record shows, that the misrepresentation, there were many. the texts between Ms. Holmes and Mr. Balwani supported the jury's finding of the conspiracy.
One letter mentioned mercy and the work of Bryan Stevenson. We all are familiar with the work of Bryan Stevenson. He represents many who find themselves disproportionately insinuated into the criminal justice system because of poverty, lack of education, opportunity for family support, and his work exposes the inequities of the treatment of many in our criminal justice system. and the author did not suggest that this case, this case was a case that was the type of case that Mr. Stevenson would handle, but the letter did use the word "mercy" and suggested then that is something that the court should also consider.
This is a fraud case where an exciting venture went forward with great expectations and hope only to be dashed by untruth, misrepresentations, hubris, and plain lies. I suppose we step back and we look at this, and we think what is the pathology of fraud? is it the inability or the refusal to accept responsibility or express contrition in any way? Now, perhaps that is the cautionary tale that will go forward from this case.
You'll recall the wonderful innovation of those two individuals in that small garage in Palo Alto. No exotic automobiles or lavish lifestyle, just a desire to create for society's benefit through honest hard work, and that I would hope would be the continuing story, the legacy and practice of Silicon Valley. In this matter, the court is going to impose a sentence that the court finds is sufficient but not greater than necessary to comply with the purposes set forth in 18 United States code section 3553.
The court has considered the history and characteristics of the defendant and the nature and circumstances of the offense, including those items that I mentioned. The court has recognized that the sentence needs to be imposed to reflect the seriousness of the offense and to promote respect for the law and to provide just punishment for the offense, to afford adequate deterrence in criminal conduct.
In this regard, the court will impose the following the court will impose a special assessment of $400, that's $100 for each count. The court will ask that the parties meet and confer regarding a restitution hearing date that we will set in the future.
As I've said, I've asked defense counsel to please check with your client to see if she wishes to waive her appearance for that. The court would accept that. The court is not going to impose a fine in this matter.
The court has reviewed the financial statements filed in this case, and the court will not impose a fine. The court will impose a period of supervised release of three years as to each count. those are concurrent, concurrent as to each count.
The court will adopt the recommendations of supervised release as indicated in the PSR. The court has reviewed those and finds that they are appropriate, and the court will order those.
In this matter, having found the guidelines as indicated, the court is going to impose a guideline sentence of 135 months. The court imposes this sentence after consulting the United States sentencing guidelines and in light of the statutory concerns expressed in 18 united states code section 3553(a).
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LUX, France — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France's Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux.
From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on major arteries like the Danube, the Rhine and the Po, an unprecedented drought is afflicting nearly half of the European continent. It is damaging farm economies, forcing water restrictions, causing wildfires and threatening aquatic species.
There has been no significant rainfall for almost two months in Western, Central and Southern Europe. And the dry period is expected to continue in what experts say could be the worst drought in 500 years.
Climate change is exacerbating conditions as hotter temperatures speed up evaporation, thirsty plants take in more moisture and reduced snowfall in the winter limits supplies of fresh water available for irrigation in the summer. Europe isn't alone in the crisis, with drought conditions also reported in East Africa, the western United States and northern Mexico.
As he walked in the 15-meter-wide (50-foot-wide) riverbed in Lux, Jean-Philippe Couasné, chief technician at the local Federation for Fishing and Protection of the Aquatic Environment, listed the species of fish that had died in the Tille.
"It's heartbreaking," he said. "On average, about 8,000 liters (about 2,100 gallons) per second are flowing. ... And now, zero liters."
In some areas upstream, some of the trout and other freshwater species are able take shelter in pools via fish ladders. But such systems aren't available everywhere.
Without rain, the river "will continue to empty. And yes, all fish will die. ... They are trapped upstream and downstream, there's no water coming in, so the oxygen level will keep decreasing as the (water) volume will go down," Couasné said. "These are species that will gradually disappear."
Jean-Pierre Sonvico, the regional head of the federation, said diverting the fish to other rivers won't help because those waterways also are affected, which will lead to overcrowding and more deaths.
"Yes, it's dramatic because what can we do? Nothing," he said. "We're waiting, hoping for storms with rain, but storms are very local so we can't count on it."
The European Commission's Joint Research Center warned this week that drought conditions will get worse and potentially affect 47% of the continent.
Andrea Toreti, a senior researcher at the European Drought Observatory, said a drought in 2018 was so extreme that there were no similar events for the last 500 years, "but this year, I think, it is really worse."
For the next three months, "we see still a very high risk of dry conditions over Western and Central Europe, as well as the U.K.," Toreti said.
The current situation is the result of long periods of dry weather caused by changes in world weather systems, said meteorologist Peter Hoffmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research near Berlin.
"It's just that in summer we feel it the most," he said. "But actually the drought builds up across the year."
Climate change has lessened the temperature differences between regions, sapping the forces that drive the jet stream, which normally brings wet Atlantic weather to Europe, he said.
A weaker or unstable jet stream can result in unusually hot air coming to Europe from North Africa, leading to prolonged periods of heat. The reverse is also true, when a polar vortex of cold air from the Arctic can cause freezing conditions far south of where it would normally reach.
Hoffmann said observations in recent years have all been at the upper end of what the existing climate models predicted.
The drought has caused some European countries to impose restrictions on water usage, and shipping is endangered on the Rhine and the Danube.
The Rhine could reach critical low levels in the coming days, making the transport of goods — including coal and gasoline — increasingly difficult. On the Danube, authorities in Serbia have started dredging sand to deepen the waterway and keep vessels moving smoothly.
In neighboring Hungary, wide parts of popular Lake Velence near Budapest, have turned into patches of dried mud, beaching small boats. Aeration and water circulation equipment have been installed to protect wildlife, but water quality has deteriorated to the point that a ban on swimming was imposed at one beach on weekends.
Stretches of the Po, Italy's longest river, are so low that barges and boats that sank decades ago are resurfacing.
The drought also has affected southern England, which received only 10% of its average rainfall in July. Firefighters are battling an unprecedented number of grass fires and people in several areas have been banned from watering their lawns.
The Rivers Trust charity said England's chalk streams — which allow underground springs to bubble up through the spongy layer of rock — are drying up, endangering aquatic wildlife like kingfishers and trout.
Even in countries like Spain and Portugal, which are used to long periods without rain, there have been major consequences. In the Spanish region of Andalucia, some avocado farmers have had to sacrifice hundreds of trees to save others from wilting as the Vinuela reservoir in Malaga province dropped to only 13% of capacity, down 55% from a year ago.
Some European farmers are using water from the tap for their livestock in areas where ponds and streams have gone dry, using up to 100 litres (26 gallons) a day per cow.
In normally green Burgundy, home to the source of Paris' Seine River, the grass has turned yellow-brown and tractors churn up giant clouds of dust.
Baptiste Colson, who owns dairy cows and grows feed crops in the village of Moloy, said his animals are suffering in the drought, with the quality and quantity of the milk decreasing.
The 31-year-old head of the local Jeunes Agriculteurs (Young Farmers) union said he has been forced to dip into his winter supply of fodder in August.
"That is the biggest concern," Colson said.
EU corn production is expected to be 12.5 million tons below last year and sunflower production is projected to be 1.6 million tons lower, according to a report from S&P Global Commodity Insights.
Colson expects at least a 30% drop in corn yield, a major problem for feeding his cows.
"We know we'll have to buy food ... so the cows can continue producing milk," he said. "From an economic point of view, the cost will be high."
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2022-08-12T09:25:58+00:00
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On Election Day Tuesday, voters across Chicago will fan out to vote and 944 polling places will open their doors to those who have not yet cast their ballots by early voting or mailing them in.
With recent significant changes to Chicago’s electoral precinct map, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners has said that approximately half of Chicago’s voters have been assigned to a new polling place this year.
Because of all the changes, the potential for confusion and voters showing up at the wrong place seems more possible on this Election Day than in many others in recent years. In case you didn’t get to check your polling place assignment ahead of time, you still have options.
If your polling place has closed since the June 28 primary election, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners plans to post signage at former polling places with information on the correct location and other helpful resources.
[ Attention Chicago voters: Find your new polling place for the 2022 general election on Nov. 8 ]
If you arrive at an open polling place but it isn’t the correct one for your address, election staff should be able to help you find your assigned polling place, according to Max Bever, spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. When you check in, an election judge should direct you to the correct polling place for your precinct.
Poll workers may also suggest you visit one of the 51 citywide early-voting locations, or “vote centers,” which will remain open on Election Day. You can find the full list of vote centers, all of which are open to any Chicago voter regardless of registration address, on the Chicago Board of Elections website.
If time or transportation constraints mean you can’t make it to a different polling location, you also have the option of casting a provisional ballot.
Bever called provisional ballots “the last safety net option,” as they differ from ballots found at local precincts and early-voting sites in key ways.
When voting with a provisional ballot, voters will be directed to a touch screen that allows them to enter their voter information to pull up the races on their specific ward and precinct ballot.
Voters will make their selections on the touch screen and then the completed ballot will be printed. But instead of being counted in the ballot-counting machine after being filled out, it is sealed in a provisional ballot envelope and counted after Election Day.
As provisional ballots can also be used if someone’s identity is questioned at a polling place, they undergo a separate adjudication process in which the board will reach out to ask the voter to provide verification of residence. This happens within seven days of the election, and voters can track the status of their ballot online to ensure that it was counted.
Election judges should be able to help you with any questions you may have about how to obtain a provisional ballot and fill it out.
To learn more about the key issues and races on the ballot this Tuesday, check out the Tribune’s midterm voter guide. If you are still experiencing difficulty accessing the polls on Election Day, the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners will take calls at 312-269-7870.
Kinsey Crowley is a freelance reporter.
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2022-11-07T21:58:39+00:00
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chicagotribune.com
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/elections/ct-chicago-polling-places-provisional-ballots-20221107-lv7c55hxvjebpjlawojcatorcq-story.html
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President Joe Biden will visit the Detroit Auto Show on Wednesday, where he is expected to promote his administration’s electric vehicle policy.
The White House said Biden’s goal is to make 50% of all auto sales in the U.S. electric vehicles by 2030.
As part of an infrastructure bill passed by Congress, $7.5 billion has been earmarked to build a network of 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations throughout the U.S.
According to Fox Business, Biden will announce the first tranche of stations will be built along 53,000 miles of the national highway system at a cost of $900 million.
Biden also signed the Inflation Reduction Act in August. The bill has new provisions for Americans seeking a tax credit for purchasing an electric vehicle.
While there has been a $7,500 credit for electric vehicles, the credits were capped at 200,000 per manufacturer. The new law eliminates that limit.
While at the Detroit Auto Show, Biden will view several new electric vehicle models as manufacturers grow their EV portfolios.
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2022-09-14T13:48:58+00:00
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https://www.wrtv.com/news/national/biden-to-promote-electric-vehicles-charging-network-in-visit-to-detroit
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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sempra (NYSE: SRE) (BMV: SRE) today announced that its board of directors has declared a $1.145 per share quarterly dividend on the company's common stock, which is payable Jan. 15, 2023, to common stock shareholders of record at the close of business on Dec. 22, 2022.
About Sempra
Sempra's mission is to be North America's premier energy infrastructure company. The Sempra family of companies have 20,000 talented employees who deliver energy with purpose to nearly 40 million consumers. With more than $72 billion in total assets at the end of 2021, the San Diego-based company is the owner of one of the largest energy networks in North America helping some of the world's leading economies move to cleaner sources of energy. The company is helping to advance the global energy transition through electrification and decarbonization in the markets it serves, including California, Texas, Mexico and the LNG export market. Sempra is consistently recognized as a leader in sustainable business practices and for its long-standing commitment to building a high-performing culture focused on safety, workforce development and training, and diversity and inclusion. Sempra was named the top-ranked utility in the U.S. for environmental, social and governance scores and financial performance by Investor's Business Daily and is the only North American utility sector company included on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for four consecutive years. Sempra was also named one of the "World's Most Admired Companies" for 2022 by Fortune Magazine. For additional information about Sempra, please visit Sempra's website at sempra.com and on Twitter @Sempra.
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2022-11-16T03:21:01+00:00
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Known as a rapper, super producer and music mogul, Jermaine Dupri is astonished that 30 years have passed since he founded his label, So So Def. That milestone comes as Dupri leads a celebration of 50 years of hip-hop on Saturday at the Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans.
Missy Elliott, the first woman in hip-hop to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will headline the night inside the Superdome, but Dupri is curating a center stage segment that lets everyone know “The South Got Something To Say.”
“Atlanta’s dominance in rap is an unheard of force,” Dupri said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And I think we have to recognize that.”
Dupri, for the first time, brings together a group of artists — Big Boi, T.I., Ludacris, Gucci Mane and Lil Jon — all on one stage.
“I’m just trying to represent my city the best way that I feel I can,” Dupri said when asked what festival fans can expect. “It’s about the unity, having this much power on stage together at one time, man! We all have had shows together but not as one unit. This is almost like the super friends coming together. Be excited. We have like an hour of nonstop hits coming.”
Dupri notes that the festival usually skewed its concert series talent toward an older hip-hop demographic through artists whose shows were considered “clean.”
“I remember performing there a few years back and we were told we cursed too much on the show, that we had too much profanity for the audience. That was the last time Frankie Beverly and Maze performed so you can imagine the audience was in the 40- to 70-year-old demographic,” he said. “This is the first time Essence is showcasing hip-hop at this level. I asked them if they are prepared for us to do a real, uncensored show and they said they’re ready. I hope you all are too.”
Dupri said he plans to reflect the genre’s lifestyle as well as the music during this one-night-only experience.
“I’ve asked Karl Kani to dress me for this event so I can feel as nostalgic as possible. I want to make sure I have all the elements or at least try to capture all of them, including the fashion, the dances, the emcees, the DJs and be a true B-Boy,” he said.
Dupri said he understands why people are still questioning whether hip-hop is here to stay.
“I think people have always felt that hip-hop was lesser than the music that came before, like R&B and rock. I think a lot of times when hip hop artists don’t take the performance aspect as serious as they should I can see why. That’s what creates that conversation. That’s why I’m taking this show as serious as possible,” he said. “Hip-hop comes with so many different layers. You’ve got Pharrell as men’s creative director for Louis Vuitton, Future as creative director for Lanvin. That’s indicative of what hip hop does and how it infects the human race and the places we live in. It’s hard to think it would ever go away. It’s a lifestyle that will continue to keep growing.
“Once I was infected with this as a kid, you realize it’s not going anywhere. I started in 1984, an era of music that was addictive as I could ever imagine crack was.”
Dupri described the longevity of his career as “amazing.”
“It’s almost unbelievable,” he said. “I remember thinking back then whether I would even last a year. When Kris Kross came out, I asked myself how long would this group be around. When So So Def celebrated 25 years, it felt like we were celebrating 100. To get past that, that 25th, is just amazing.”
Dupri said he’s proud of the work he’s done and the artists he’s been able to find and mentor along the way, including Da Brat and Bow Wow and more recently, Latto and J.I The Prince — products of his talent competition show, “The Rap Game.”
“When I see how far these artists are and those that came from my show, I wonder do people realize how far ahead of the game I am,” he said. “This is a very competitive space we live in. True statement. The world met this girl (Latto) on a TV show and we chose her as the first winner. Does that mean JD knew or saw something way before the rest of the world? Yes. Now, we have nothing to do with her success to date, but she’s still a branch from the JD tree, from me keeping my ear to the streets and being able to spot talent.”
“The majority of artists I find, usually are someone no one wants to sign at the time. This was not something I wanted to do at first,” he added. “But God put me here to work with younger talent and artists and create a space to see them win. All it does when I see their success is it feels like a graduation to me. I’m proud to see that.”
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2023-07-01T12:29:20+00:00
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — South Florida kept a wary eye on a forecast that called for rain Thursday, a day after nearly a foot (30 centimeters) fell in a matter of hours, causing widespread flooding, closing the Fort Lauderdale airport, and turning thoroughfares into rivers.
Fort Lauderdale issued a state of emergency as flooding persisted in parts of the city. Emergency crews had worked through the night to attend rescue calls, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths.
Stranded cars littered streets around eastern Broward County, where rains started Monday, with the heaviest downpours coming Wednesday afternoon and evening. Crews worked to clear drains and fire up pumps to clear standing water. People were told to stay off roads until it drained.
The Red Cross arrived at 5 a.m. Thursday and set up a staging area to help residents whose homes were flooded, providing them with blankets and coffee, officials said. The staging area also acted as a reunification point for families.
Fort Lauderdale City Hall remained closed Thursday with ground-floor flooding and no power.
More showers, thunderstorms and local flooding were in the forecast from the National Weather Service on Thursday morning. An additional 2 to 4 inches of rain was possible on top of the 14 inches that fell in recent days.
Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport remained closed through at least noon Thursday, with many flights canceled and some passengers stranded. Roads around the airport flooded and became congested with stalled traffic.
By early Thursday, enough water had drained to allow people to drive on the upper level — or departures — road to pick up waiting passengers. But the entrance to the lower-level, or arrivals, road remained closed, officials tweeted.
Video taken by witnesses showed water coming in the door at an airport terminal and a virtual river rushing down the tarmac between planes.
In downtown Fort Lauderdale, video showed a man swimming to the curb along Broward Boulevard on Wednesday afternoon as as cars rolled by. Drivers also recorded themselves rolling through streets where brown, swirling water rose nearly to car hoods.
Hollywood Mayor Josh Levy told CNN it was the worst flooding he’d experienced.
“The ground was already saturated so there is extensive flooding all over our city and throughout South Florida. Many roadways are impassable. Lots of vehicles got stuck and left abandoned in the middle of our roadways,” Levy said. “I’ve lived here my whole life. This is the most severe flooding that I’ve ever seen.”
Broward County schools canceled classes Thursday, including after-school and extracurricular activities.
“We had schools experiencing severe flooding,” Toni Barnes, Broward Schools director of emergency management, told WPLG-TV. “The water made its way into the hallways, into the classrooms. … The schools became inaccessible to parents, parents attempting to pick up their students. Staff members attempting to leave campuses — they were unable — they were trapped in their cars. We had to call fire rescue to assist our parents out of their cars to get them into the school because they were trapped.”
The heavy rains also shut down South Florida’s high-speed commuter rail service, called Brightline. It tweeted Wednesday evening that train service between Miami and Fort Lauderdale was suspended.
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2023-04-13T14:07:28+00:00
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BOSTON, July 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Goulston & Storrs, an Am Law 200 firm, is pleased to announce that director Martha Nahill Frahm, who co-chairs the firm's Tax Group, has been named a 2022 Go To Tax Lawyer by Mass Lawyers Weekly for her long record of success as a tax lawyer in the Commonwealth.
In more than 20 years of practice, Frahm has developed a reputation as one of the most respected, knowledgeable, and experienced tax attorneys in the region and beyond. Her work spans a wide range of practice areas at Goulston & Storrs, including real estate joint ventures and structuring, representing educational, medical and cultural institutions, and closely held businesses and entrepreneurs; mergers & acquisitions (M&A), advising on incentive tax credits such as the historic rehabilitation credit; and providing private client wealth transfer and philanthropic planning.
Beyond her work advising business and individual clients on federal and state tax planning, Frahm also advises tax exempt and charitable organizations, including educational institutions, academic medical centers, health care organizations, and foundations, on their most complex tax issues. With deep expertise in non-profit management structuring, operational and investment matters, governance, policy development, M&A, technology transfer, and licensing agreements, Frahm is considered one of the leading attorneys in this specialized area.
In addition to her client work, Frahm co-chairs both the firm's Tax Group and Associate Development and Training Committee, and serves on numerous firm committees focused on mentoring, training, education, and relationship-building skills. She is also a leader in the legal community, serving on various Boston Bar Association Boards throughout her career. In 2010, she founded and co-chaired the BBA's Tax Exempt Organizations Committee. She has also served on the Board of the Governance Committee and as a member of the Chapter 180 working group. Frahm currently serves as pro bono counsel to numerous non-profit organizations including Oxfam America, YouthBuild, Endeavor Global, and All Hands and Hearts.
She received her J.D., cum laude, and LL.M. from Boston University School of Law and her B.A. from Tufts University.
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Collaboration is not just a pillar of our strategy; it is the key to our competitive advantage and approach to clients, community, and each other. At Goulston & Storrs, we practice law with excellence and integrity. We are a place where mutual respect and collaboration drive open discussion, transparency, creativity and optimal results for our clients. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where sophisticated business is conducted with genuine camaraderie. To learn more about us, visit www.goulstonstorrs.com.
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2022-07-27T15:54:02+00:00
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia will receive an additional $27 million in federal funding for abandoned coal mine cleanup.
Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding Tuesday from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. The office's Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization program, established in 2016, pays for projects that return ex-coal mining sites to productive uses.
In February the state received $141 million for reclamation projects at former coal mines from President Joe Biden's $1 trillion infrastructure deal.
Also Tuesday, Manchin announced that projects in two southern West Virginia communities will receive federal COVID-19 relief funds. The McDowell County Public Service District will receive $6.5 million for water and fire protection services to about 50 businesses in Welch, while Regional Optimal Communications in Princeton will receive $1.2 million to complete the design of a statewide broadband implementation plan.
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2022-05-18T08:19:17+00:00
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seattlepi.com
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https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/WVa-gets-more-federal-funding-for-abandoned-mine-17180777.php
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intel Corp. will break ground Sept. 9 on its planned $20 billion Ohio semiconductor facilities with President Joe Biden in attendance, the company and the the White House said Thursday.
When the company's two factories, known as fabs, open in 2025, the facility will employ 3,000 people with an average salary of around $135,000. Building the fabs is expected to require 7,000 construction workers.
Total investment could top $100 billion over the decade with six additional fabs, Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger has said. It's Ohio's largest ever private economic development project.
Biden will speak on "rebuilding American manufacturing" through recently passed laws boosting the semiconductor industry and U.S. infrastructure, the White House said.
Expanding semiconductor manufacturing domestically took on new urgency during the pandemic and as most production has shifted overseas. The U.S. share of the worldwide chip manufacturing market has declined from 37% in 1990 to 12% today, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association, and shortages have become a potential risk.
To win the project, Ohio offered California-based Intel roughly $2 billion in incentives, including a 30-year tax break. Intel has outlined $150 million in educational funding aimed at growing the semiconductor industry regionally and nationally.
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2022-08-25T22:39:19+00:00
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sfgate.com
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https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Biden-to-attend-groundbreaking-of-Intel-s-20B-17398570.php
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HERSHEY, Pa. (WHTM) — Three Pennsylvania brothers — Brian, Greg, and Steve Allen — are celebrating a second chance at life after they successfully received heart transplants at Hershey Medical Center over the last few years.
“It was a miracle. The whole thing is a miracle,” Greg Allen, who had his transplant seven months ago, said.
After losing six family members to congestive heart failure, the Allen boys always knew there was a chance they would be diagnosed with it, too.
“We lost our father at age 58, his mother at 42, and he also lost brothers in their 30s and 40s. It’s like a curse,” Greg Allen said.
But what Greg Allen and his two brothers didn’t know was that unlike those who came before them, they would receive a second heart and ultimately, a second chance at life.
“I was gonna beat it, I was gonna get out ahead of it,” Brian Allen said. “We realized this was a very aggressive disease, so the doctors at Hershey put me on a transplant list right away.”
Despite being on the list, Brian Allen almost didn’t receive a new heart.
“It was one of the last days they would have been able to treat me before the organs deteriorated to the point they couldn’t give me a transplant,” Brian Allen said.
But then a family friend — who is also a pastor — came to visit him.
“He prayed, ‘Lord, if it’s in your will to give this man a heart, give it to him now,'” Brian Allen said. “Twenty minutes later they came down the hall and found me a heart.”
It was that faith, the Allen brothers say, that kept them going.
“We’ve each been on a very long journey over the years, through the heart failure, surgical procedures, and then finally the transplant,” Steve Allen, who got his new heart in 2015, said.
The brothers celebrated their newfound life with family, friends, and Hershey Medical Staff on Sunday. Though they said they couldn’t have done it without their support system, they also recognize that they would not be alive had it not been for the generosity of a stranger.
“It was a gift from God that we were all able to get transplants through the generosity of organ donors,” Brian said.
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2022-10-17T18:25:57+00:00
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kdvr.com
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https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/3-brothers-receive-heart-transplants-at-same-hospital/
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By LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Long before the bobbleheads and the “Fauci ouchie,” Dr. Anthony Fauci was a straight-shooter about scary diseases — and “stick with the science” remains his mantra.
Fauci steps down from a five-decade career in public service at the end of the month, one shaped by the HIV pandemic early on and the COVID-19 pandemic at the end.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Fauci said he leaves excited by the prospect of advances such as next-generation coronavirus vaccines — but worried that misinformation and outright lies mark a “profoundly dangerous” time for public health and science.
“Untruths abound and we almost normalize untruths,” Fauci said. “I worry about my own field of health, but I also worry about the country.”
Fauci, who turns 82 on Christmas Eve, has been a physician-scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 54 years, and its director for 38 of them.
Because he candidly puts complex science into plain English, Fauci has advised seven presidents, from Ronald Reagan to Joe Biden, about a long list of outbreaks — HIV, Ebola, Zika, bird flu, pandemic flu, even the 2001 anthrax attacks.
“Stick with the science and never be afraid to tell somebody something that is the truth — but it’s an inconvenient truth in which there might be the possibility of the messenger getting shot,” Fauci said. “You don’t worry about that. You just keep telling the truth.”
He added, with characteristic understatement: “That’s served me really quite well with one exception that, you know, the truth generated a lot of hostility towards me in one administration.”
For all his prior influence on national and even global responses to infectious diseases, it wasn’t until COVID-19 paralyzed the world in early 2020 that Fauci became a household name — giving the latest updates at daily White House press conferences and in frequent media interviews.
But eventually, Fauci found himself having to contradict then-President Donald Trump’s attempts to downplay the severity of the viral threat and promote unproven treatments. Trump and his allies began attacking Fauci, who even received death threats that required a security detail for his protection.
As the world enters another year of COVID-19, Fauci still is a frequent target of the far right — but also remains a trusted voice for millions of Americans.
Under his watch, researchers at the National Institutes of Health laid the scientific groundwork for the speedy development of powerful coronavirus vaccines. An analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund last week found the shots saved 3.2 million lives in the U.S. alone and prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations.
With another winter uptick underway, Fauci’s disappointed that just 14% of people eligible for the updated COVID-19 boosters — shots that add protection against omicron strains — have gotten one.
“That doesn’t make any sense at all, when you have a vaccine that you know is life-saving,” he said. But he’s also looking forward to next-generation vaccines that do a better job of preventing infection, citing promising leads like nasal vaccines.
For all the political attacks, the public did struggle to understand why some of his and others’ health advice changed as the pandemic wore on — such as why masks first were deemed unnecessary and later mandated in certain places.
Fauci said one of the pandemic’s lessons is to better convey that it’s normal for messages to change as scientists make new discoveries.
“That doesn’t mean you’re flip-flopping. That means you’re actually following the science,” he said.
Fauci has had a hand in life-saving scientific advances for decades. As a young researcher at the National Institutes of Health, he helped develop highly effective therapies for rare but once-fatal blood vessel diseases known as vasculitis syndromes.
Then came the AIDS crisis and days that Fauci, treating patients in NIH’s hospital, recalled as “very dark and very difficult.”
“As a physician you’re trained to heal people. And we weren’t healing anybody. Everybody was dying in front of us.”
Fauci created an AIDS division that, together with drug companies and universities, led research into drugs that eventually transformed HIV into a manageable chronic disease. Later, under President George W. Bush, Fauci helped develop PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to bring those HIV medications to poor countries. The program is credited with saving more than 20 million lives over the past 20 years.
But it took years to get even the first anti-AIDS medications — and in the late 1980s and early ’90s, furious activists protested what they saw as government indifference. Fauci brought the activists to the table, making it standard practice for patient advocates to have a voice in government decisions about drug research.
Unfortunately, he said, that experience can’t help bridge today’s political divisions that are hurting public health.
The AIDS activists “were theatrical. They were iconoclastic. They were provocative. They were confrontational, all of the above. But the fundamental core message that they had was a correct message,” Fauci said. “That is enormously different from what is going on right now with COVID, where untruths abound, conspiracy theories abound, distortions of reality abound.”
Despite that kind of rancor, Fauci is excited about recent scientific progress against a list of other scourges such as work toward vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and maybe one day HIV. That’s why even though he’s leaving the government, Fauci says he’s not retiring.
“I’m going to continue to lecture and to write and to try and encourage and inspire people to go into science, medicine and public health,” he said. “There are a lot of things that are unfinished business and they will be finished sometime because science is going to do it.”
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2022-12-19T18:47:28+00:00
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wtmj.com
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https://wtmj.com/national/2022/12/19/loved-or-hated-faucis-parting-advice-stick-to-the-science/
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The IT Staffing Services Segment Achieved 4% Sequential Revenue Growth during the Quarter
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mastech Digital, Inc. (NYSE American: MHH), a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services, announced today its financial results for the third quarter ending September 30, 2022.
Third Quarter 2022 Financial Highlights:
- The Company delivered consolidated revenues of $63.2 million in the third quarter of 2022, which represented organic growth of 6% over revenues of $59.5 million in the 2021 third quarter;
- The Company's Data and Analytics Services segment reported revenues of $10.1 million, a decline of $0.4 million over last year's $10.5 million;
- The IT Staffing Services segment achieved revenues of $53.1 million, an increase of $4.1 million or 8% over last year's $49.0 million;
- GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.20 in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $0.28 in the third quarter of 2021; and
- Non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was $0.33 in the third quarter of 2022 compared to $0.38 in the 2021 third quarter.
Third Quarter 2022 Results:
Revenues for the third quarter of 2022 totaled $63.2 million compared to $59.5 million during the corresponding quarter of 2021. Gross profits in the third quarter of 2022 declined year-over-year by $0.3 million to $16.3 million due to a revenue shortfall and a fixed price project over-run in the Data and Analytics Services segment. GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2022 totaled $2.4 million or $0.20 per diluted share, compared to $3.4 million or $0.28 per diluted share during the same period of 2021. Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2022 was $4.0 million or $0.33 per diluted share, compared to $4.6 million or $0.38 per diluted share in the third quarter of 2021.
Third quarter 2022 GAAP net income was impacted by two pre-tax charges booked during the quarter which totaled $570,000. First, we experienced a cyber-security breach of a single employee email account for which we reserved $450,000 related to the costs of engaging cyber-security advisors to assist us in properly closing this matter and for other potential losses associated with the breach. Also, during the quarter, we made a decision in the Data and Analytics Services segment to close our underperforming operations in Singapore and Ireland and to rationalize our operating cost structure in the UK. Accordingly, we reserved $120,000 of severance expense related to these actions.
Activity levels at the Company's Data and Analytics Services segment were down from the previous quarter as bookings were light and new pipeline opportunities were below expectations. Accordingly, Data and Analytics revenues underperformed and gross margins declined due to low utilization and a $0.3 million cost over-run on a fixed price project – our first such over-run since 2018. Demand for the Company's IT Staffing Services segment showed some weakness in assignment starts compared to the previous quarter. Additionally, project ends remained elevated during the quarter, which resulted in a decline of 30-consultants on billing.
Commenting on third quarter financial results, Vivek Gupta, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer stated, "Both of our business segments came under a bit of stress during the quarter. Our Data & Analytics Services segment was unable to fully deploy the second quarter ramp-up of billable resources, resulting in lower revenues and sub-par utilization. There was also a project cost over-run that impacted our gross margin performance in this segment. Our IT Staffing segment, on the other hand, delivered positive financial results in third quarter, although we did experience some decline in staffing demand as we've seen customers controlling their staffing spend in anticipation of potential recessionary conditions."
Addressing the cyber-security breach, Mr. Gupta said, "Thankfully our investigation of the matter revealed that only two clients were impacted by the breach, and the majority of our pre-tax reserve was for cyber-security expertise expense to help with containment and compliance action steps."
Addressing the Company's financial position, Jack Cronin, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, stated, "On September 30, 2022 we had cash balances on hand of $3.5 million, outstanding bank debt of approximately $2.2 million, no borrowings under our revolving credit facility, and cash availability of $36.4 million, excluding our term loan accordion feature which can provide us with additional term-loan capacity of up to another $20 million. During the third quarter 2022, we elected to early-pay $7.6 million of our outstanding term loan with excess cash balances."
About Mastech Digital, Inc.:
Mastech Digital, Inc. (NYSE American: MHH) is a leading provider of Digital Transformation IT Services. The Company offers Data Management and Analytics Solutions, Digital Learning, and IT Staffing Services with a Digital First approach. A minority-owned enterprise, Mastech Digital is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA with offices across the U.S., Canada, Europe and India.
Use of Non-GAAP Measures:
This press release contains non-GAAP financial measures to supplement our financial results presented on a GAAP basis. The presentation of these financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Investors are cautioned that there are material limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures as an analytical tool. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP measures to their comparable GAAP measures are included in the attached financial tables.
We believe that providing non-GAAP net income and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share offers investors useful supplemental information about the financial performance of our business, enables comparison of financial results between periods where certain items may vary independent of business performance, and allows for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management in operating our business. Additionally, management uses these non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating the Company's performance.
Specifically, the non-GAAP financial measures contained herein exclude the following expense items:
Amortization of acquired intangible assets: We amortize intangible assets acquired in connection with our June 2015 acquisition of Hudson IT, our July 2017 acquisition of the services division of InfoTrellis, Inc. and our October 2020 acquisition of AmberLeaf Partners. We exclude these amortization expenses in our non-GAAP financial measures because we believe it allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies within our industry and facilitates a helpful comparison of our results with other periods.
Stock-based compensation expenses: We incur material recurring expense related to non-cash, stock-based compensation. We exclude these expenses in our non-GAAP financial measures because we believe that it provides investors with meaningful supplemental information regarding operational performance. In particular, because of varying available valuation methodologies, subjective assumptions and the variety of award types that companies can use under ASC 718, we believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude these expenses allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies within our industry and facilitates comparison of our results with other periods.
Severance charges: From time to time, we incur severance expense related to the termination by the Company of leadership and other key personnel. We believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude these expenses allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies within our industry and facilitates comparison of our results with other periods.
Cyber-security breach: In July 2022, we incurred a cyber-security breach of a single employee email, which resulted in potential damages and the incurrence of expenses related to the engagement of cyber-security experts to assist with containment and compliance action steps associated with appropriate closure of incident. While there are no guarantees that other security breaches will not occur in the future, we believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude these expenses is useful for investors to understand the effects of these items on our total operating expenses and facilitates comparison of our results with other periods.
Contingent consideration liability revaluation: In connection with the AmberLeaf acquisition, the Company was required to pay future consideration contingent upon the achievement of specific financial objectives. As of the acquisition date, the Company recorded a contingent consideration liability representing the estimated fair value of the contingent consideration that was expected to be paid. In the second quarter of 2021, this contingent consideration liability was reduced by $2.0 million to $900,000, and in the fourth quarter of 2021 the liability was reduced to $0, after the Company determined that relevant conditions for the payment of such liability were unlikely to be satisfied. We believe that providing non-GAAP financial measures that exclude these adjustments to expense is useful for investors to understand the effects of these items on our total operating expenses and facilitates comparison of our results with other periods.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements contained in this release are forward-looking statements based on management's expectations, estimates, projections and assumptions. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "believes," "scheduled," "estimates" and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which include but are not limited to projections of and statements regarding the Company's ability to generate revenues, earnings, and cash flow. These statements are based on information currently available to the Company and it assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements as circumstances change. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual future results and trends may differ materially from what is forecasted in forward-looking statements due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation, the level of market demand for the Company's services, the highly competitive market for the types of services offered by the Company, the impact of competitive factors on profit margins, market conditions that could cause the Company's customers to reduce their spending for its services, the Company's ability to create, acquire and build new lines of business, to attract and retain qualified personnel, reduce costs and conserve cash, the extent to which the Company's business is adversely affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and governmental responses to limit the further spread of COVID-19 and other risks that are described in more detail in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
For more information, contact:
Donna Kijowski
Manager, Investor Relations
Mastech Digital, Inc.
888.330.5497
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2022-11-02T12:30:12+00:00
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kfyrtv.com
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https://www.kfyrtv.com/prnewswire/2022/11/02/mastech-digital-reports-6-increase-revenues-third-quarter-2022/
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BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — Scott Piercy shot a 7-under 64 on Friday at TPC Twin Cities to take a three-stroke lead in the 3M Open.
Piercy had a 13-under 129 total. The four-time PGA Tour winner opened with a 65 on Thursday in windy conditions.
Emiliano Grillo was second after a 65. Callum Tarren had a 63 to reach 8 under and Tony Finau (68) was 7 under with Robert Streb (67), Tom Hoge (68), Sungjae Im (70) and Doug Ghim (68).
Starting his afternoon round on the back nine, Piercy birdied the first four holes. He added birdies on No. 2, 6 and 7 coming home to extend his lead and made a 10-footer for par on the par-3 eighth.
“It’s been a little bit since I’ve played like I feel like I should play,” said Piercy, who had missed four of his last six cuts. “To kind of prove it to myself again, I know it’s in there, it’s just like, okay, how do we get it out of me.
“There’s a lot of business to take care of this weekend, but to come out the first two days and do what I did gives me a lot of confidence going into the weekend.”
The 43-year-old Piercy, at 138th place in the FedEx Cup standings with only the top 125 making the playoffs and keeping full PGA Tour status, needs a strong finish over the final three weeks of the PGA Tour season.
“I’ve been out here a long time, I know what I need to do,” he said. “Just wishing I’d have done it earlier in the season.”
Grillo eagled the par-5 6th.
“Obviously that one on 6, it’s a big plus to steal two and it’s a hole that’s kind of hard to get in two, so solid day,” Grillo said.
Tarren was a stroke off the 3M Open tournament record.
“I hit every green today, so I had so many chances,” Tarren said. “I actually missed probably four or five inside 10 feet, so it could have been ridiculous.”
Unaware he was close to the scoring record, the Englishman birdied 15 and 17 and narrowly missed a 46-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th.
Cameron Champ, the 2021 winner, birdied four of his last five holes for a 68 to make the cut on the number at 1 over.
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2022-07-23T23:34:27+00:00
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texomashomepage.com
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https://www.texomashomepage.com/sports/scott-piercy-shoots-64-takes-3-shot-lead-in-3m-open/
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