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PARIS (AP) — After Milan, global fashion’s spotlight shifted to the final stretch of ready-to-wear shows in Paris on Tuesday, as the industry looks to the future with all the final fall trends.
But displays in the French capital will also revisit the past this week, with homages to recently deceased designers Vivienne Westwood and Paco Rabanne.
Here are some highlights of Tuesday’s fall-winter 2023-2024 collections, including Dior:
DIOR’S REBELS
A surreal and colorful organic world awaited guests inside Paris’ Tuileries gardens.
A spectacular Dior installation suggestive of a giant octopus spanned the length and breadth of the runway, its color-rich fabric tentacles gleaming with thousands of tiny lights. It was the work of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos, who wanted to explore how organic form interacted with the “feminine realm of artisanal savoir-faire.” It made for a dazzling backdrop especially given the flurry of paparazzi flashes snapping guests including model Elle Macpherson, K-pop star Jisoo and actresses Maisie Williams and Charlize Theron.
If the decor seemed futuristic, designer Maria Grazia Chiuri used the past as a touchstone in the clothes, resulting in less exuberance — but no less flair.
Three women — the house founder’s sister Catherine Dior, a French resistance hero, as well as French singers Edith Piaf and Juliette Greco, each described as “rebellious, at once strong and fragile” — were muses in this collection. It channeled the 1950s, Christian Dior’s heyday.
A vintage air was evoked in a faded black leather menswear coat, crumpled houndstooth skirt and wrinkled woolen socks.
Elsewhere, sweaters and skirts sported extra volume in the shoulders or hips in a nod to the thicker fabrics of the post-war period. Stand out pieces included a black textured skirt hung heavily with thousands of embellished flowers that cut a fine androgynous figure below a white shirt and tie. While mottled fabric featured a gleaming metallic thread sewn into it, revealing the skills of Dior’s atelier.
Chiuri’s empowering styles impressed Theron, who told The AP: “She loves women. And in loving women she understands that a woman is feminine but also masculine. We’re vulnerable and we’re strong. We’re contradictions. We’re a little bit of everything, and I love that she has that wisdom.”
SAINT LAURENT ACCENTUATES SHOULDERS
Haunting discordant organ music, wafting incense perfume and dark lighting led VIPs such as Dua Lipa, Rose and Catherine Deneuve to a bewitching black runway lit dimly by five hanging golden chandeliers.
The venue intended to evoke the Intercontinental Hotel ballroom, so said the house, where YSL presented its couture collections for decades until 2001.
Regardless of the inspiration, it was clear that drama was in the air for Anthony Vaccarello this fall — indicating that the lauded Saint Laurent designer is in a buoyant creative mood.
This season, theatrically sculpted and elongated shoulders defined silhouettes. The jutting shoulders — on fluid gowns, minidresses and tuxedo “tailleur-jupes” above pencil skirts — were so big that sashes and scarves were able to literally hang off, as if on scaffolding. So big in fact that one fashion insider commented that they might have been able to sweep the walls of Paris’ famously narrow hallways.
The result was a bold, top-heavy silhouette reminiscent of the 1980s – infused with styles from the early noughties, such as big hoop earrings and pointed-toe heels.
Some looks oozed mystique such as one pearly satin top with draped hood and pointy shoulders, worn atop slim pants on a model with infinitely long legs.
Elsewhere there were plays in transparency thanks to mousseline, chiffon and crepe-de-chine fabrics alongside see-through stockings.
MAME KUROGOUCHI, PAST AND FUTURE
The Japanese ready-to-wear brand of Mame Kurogouchi delves edgily between past and present, mixing traditional dressmaking with new technologies.
This was on full display at fall’s minimalist take on the 80s — as far as a decade that exuberant can be minimalist.
A gray pantsuit with crisp clean lines had a futuristic feel with a diagonal dynamic. A black scarf that gripped the neck like a hand tugged down the shoulder, complementing a black space age fanny pack that evoked a cummerbund.
A pared down color palette created a sanitized feel that worked nicely on the 80s references — broad, flat apron silhouettes, hoods and thickly textured top-heavy ensembles.
VAQUERA GETS ITS KINK ON
“Obscene dress” read one emblazoned T-shirt at Vaquera’s rather saucy collection. Although the look was among the least kinky in a show that served up inches of flesh, studded chokers, bare torsos, shredded bondage gear and multiple takes on 90s grunge and denim jeans.
This was the sophomore showing in Paris for designers Patric DiCaprio and Bryn Taubensee, who came to prominence six years ago in New York with their iconic U.S. flag gown. After a more commercial season last year, the talented duo got back to their bold antics.
Black-heavy, the concise 12-look display began with a masked headpiece and a patch over one breast on a naked female torso. The other breast was covered by the model’s gloved hand. It would be a difficult look to wear on the street, but it got guests’ cameras snapping. Next, a black cotton top constructed of myriad shreds for volume – and edge. A skirt was deconstructed in flaps to evoke a bondage outfit, worn alongside a thermal hat in a woolen take on a bondage mask. | 2023-03-01T06:39:36+00:00 | myfox8.com | https://myfox8.com/news/entertainment/ap-entertainment/ap-dior-channels-rebellious-women-at-paris-fashion-week/ |
Suns vs. Clippers Prediction & Picks: Line, Spread, Over/Under - NBA Playoffs Game 1
Published: Apr. 16, 2023 at 1:54 PM CDT|Updated: 59 minutes ago
The Los Angeles Clippers are 7.5-point underdogs heading into Game 1 of the opening round of the NBA Playoffs against the Phoenix Suns at Footprint Center on Sunday, starting at 8:00 PM ET on TNT, BSSC, and BSAZ.
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Suns vs. Clippers Game Info & Odds
- Date: Sunday, April 16, 2023
- Time: 8:00 PM ET
- How to Watch on TV: TNT, BSSC, and BSAZ
- Location: Phoenix, Arizona
- Venue: Footprint Center
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Suns vs. Clippers Score Prediction
- Prediction: Suns 116 - Clippers 110
Spread & Total Prediction for Suns vs. Clippers
- Pick ATS: Clippers (+ 7.5)
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Over (225.5)
- The Clippers (40-42-0 ATS) have covered the spread 50% of the time, 1.2% less often than the Suns (41-38-3) this year.
- As a 7.5-point underdog or more in 2022-23, Los Angeles is 1-4 against the spread compared to the 9-8-1 ATS record Phoenix puts up as a 7.5-point favorite.
- Los Angeles and its opponents have combined to go over the total in 48.8% of its games this season (40 of 82), the same percentage as Phoenix and its opponents (40 of 82).
- As a moneyline favorite this season, the Suns are 36-14, while the Clippers are 9-21 as moneyline underdogs.
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Suns Performance Insights
- Phoenix is 17th in the NBA with 113.6 points per game so far this season. At the other end of the court, it ranks sixth with 111.6 points allowed per contest.
- With 27.3 dimes per game, the Suns rank third-best in the league in the category.
- This season, the Suns are draining 12.2 three-pointers per game (13th-ranked in NBA) and are shooting 37.4% (seventh-ranked) from three-point land.
- When it comes to shot breakdown, Phoenix has taken 63.8% two-pointers (accounting for 71% of the team's baskets) and 36.2% from beyond the arc (29%).
Clippers Performance Insights
- At 113.6 points scored per game and 113.1 points conceded, Los Angeles is 17th in the league on offense and 12th on defense.
- This season the Clippers are ranked 23rd in the NBA in assists at 23.9 per game.
- In 2022-23 the Clippers are 10th in the NBA in 3-point makes (12.7 per game) and third-best in 3-point percentage (38.1%).
- In 2022-23, Los Angeles has taken 38.8% percent of its shots from behind the 3-point line, and 61.2% percent from inside it. In terms of makes, 30.9% of Los Angeles' baskets have been 3-pointers, and 69.1% have been 2-pointers.
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Golden Globes are back on TV, but are reform efforts enough?
A year of reforms were aimed at eliminating the taint of sexism, lack of diversity and ethical and financial lapses among the Hollywood Foreign Press Association members
New York — Without a TV show, starry red carpet, host, press or even a livestream, the Golden Globe Awards were in chaos last year after scandal broke over lack of diversity, accusations of sexism, and ethical and financial lapses among members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Once known as Hollywood’s biggest, booziest party that regularly drew 18 million television viewers, the doling out of statues was reduced to a 90-minute private event with no celebrities present at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Winners were announced on Twitter, often without specifying what project a person had actually won for.
What a difference a year can make.
- When: The Golden Globe Awards will air at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday on NBC and Peacock (WDIV, channel 4, locally)
After dumping the telecast in the aftermath of a damaging expose by the Los Angeles Times, NBC will put the battered 80-year-old Globes back on the air Tuesday under a one-year deal, as opposed to multi-year contracts of the past worth tens of millions of dollars.
A wave of celebrities plan to attend, along with star presenters and funnyman host Jerrod Carmichael after the embattled controllers of the Globes dug deep into the work of implementing top-down reforms.
There’s now a strict code of conduct, refreshed bylaws, a ban on gifts and new rules on accepting travel and other perks from the industry. Contentious news conferences were dumped, and the pool of awards voters was expanded beyond the 87 Los Angeles-based foreign journalists who once ruled the organization.
But are the powerful publicists, studios and other stakeholders who boycotted in protest satisfied with the changes? And are those changes the beginning — or closer to the end?
“It's, by far, not over,” said German journalist Helen Hoehne, who took over as president of the HFPA a year and a half ago. “We always said when we started this journey that it would be ongoing and that it would take some time.”
Kelly Bush Novak, CEO and founder of the A-list public relations firm ID, said more must be done, but she supports steps taken so far.
“We came together … to ensure the future of the Globes, in step with our culture and our shared values as an industry, and we see commendable and seismic progress,” she said. "I’m optimistic that the work will continue.”
Still, Novak acknowledged not all stakeholders are on board ahead of Tuesday's broadcast, despite sweeping changes aimed at restoring the luster of the Globes.
Last year, publicists like Novak banded together to battle the HFPA, and studios that included Netflix and WarnerMedia cut ties with the organization after the LA Times raised questions about corruption and a range of bias issues over race and sexual orientation.
None of the 87 Hollywood Foreign Press Association members was Black and the group had not had a Black member since at least 2002.
Now, after an effort to increase and diversify its ranks, 199 people decide who gets a Globe, a mix of 96 HFPA members and outsiders from other countries brought in to dilute the power of the old guard. Membership eligibility was expanded from Los Angeles to anywhere in the United States.
Heading into the telecast, Globes voters stand at 52% female, and 51.8% racially and ethnically diverse, including 19.6% Latino, 12.1% Asian, 10.1% Black and 10.1% Middle Eastern. Voters also include those who are LGBTQIA+. In all, 62 countries are represented.
The governing board was expanded from nine to 15 and includes three Black members, two of whom vote on rules and other matters but not awards. Overall, the organization now has six Black HFPA members and 14 Black international Globes voters who aren't members.
Perhaps the most significant change: The Globes were purchased by billionaire Todd Boehly, who also owns Globes producer dick clark productions and the Chelsea soccer team and is an investor in the Beverly Hilton. He's shifting the voting body from its founding nonprofit status to a for-profit model, pending approval by the California attorney general. He plans to preserve the HFPA's charitable work with a separate nonprofit entity.
A hotline managed by two independent law firms was opened, with complaints investigated by outsiders. A chief diversity officer was hired, and mandatory racial, sexual harassment and sexual orientation sensitivity training was put in place, required for any HFPA member casting Globe votes.
Michelle Williams, nominated for her turn in “The Fabelmans,” is among dozens of stars panning to attend Tuesday.
“It feels to me like the community as a whole has decided that this organization has really done a lot of work to reform themselves and that we can support change, like we can hold people accountable and then we can support them as they continue to journey in their path towards being a better organization,” she said.
Added Judd Hirsch, nominated for the same film: “We'll be there. We'll give them another chance.”
Dumping news conferences at the center of insensitive questions posed to talent who felt obligated to show up helped cool off some critics, but not all.
“I can’t speak for everyone. There may be some reluctance to participate," Novak said. “We must acknowledge the past and will never forget the damage done. Manifesting a new future requires it.”
Brendan Fraser, nominated for his performance in “The Whale,” will not be there Tuesday. In 2018, Fraser said he was groped by Philip Berk, a former HFPA president who is from South Africa.
Berk was expelled in 2021 after calling Black Lives Matter “a racist hate movement.”
“I just hope that we can regain his trust over time,” Hoehne said of Fraser.
The same, Hoehne said, goes for Tom Cruise. Last year, he returned his three Golden Globes in protest. With a best picture nod for his long-awaited sequel “Top Gun: Maverick,” he was snubbed for best actor this year.
Under Boehly's leadership, HFPA members will earn $75,000 a year as his employees, as opposed to current stipends closer to $5,000. They'll vote on nominations and winners among films and television series submitted for awards consideration. They'll write for the organization's website, and organize other projects, the LA Times said, citing a confidential employee memo it reviewed.
The 103 new voting non-members recruited with the help of the National Association of Black Journalists, Asian-American Journalists Association and LGBTQIA+ organizations will not be paid, setting up a two-tier structure aimed at eliminating the taint of financial compensation as more new recruits come on board.
Outraged industry stakeholders had called for the overall Globes voting body to be closer to 300. Other reforms are aimed at battling the perception of influence peddling.
As eventual paid employees, members will be subject to firing without cause. They're now required to sign a code of conduct every year covering job performance, decorum and ethical behavior.
The 80-year-old group had been stuck in its ways, Hoehne acknowledged.
“We needed to question a lot of things. We needed to look at these bylaws and say, OK, how can we make them better? How can we modernize the association? We had never really done it and not addressed it,” she said.
Although the new pay structure has not yet been implemented, over the past year the HFPA has pushed out several members it accused of violating its standards.
One was accused of forging signatures on Internal Revenue Service documents, another case related to sexual harassment and a third involved fabricating interviews that never occurred, according to an HFPA spokesperson.
Boehly himself acknowledged the future is uncertain.
“I have nightmares where it doesn’t work too, you know? I get it, you can’t convince all of the people all of the time of anything,” he told the LA Times. “We know we have to add value and we know that we have to be part of the solution.” | 2023-01-09T04:25:57+00:00 | detroitnews.com | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2023/01/09/golden-globes-awards-television-nbc-tuesday/69789292007/ |
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- First Horizon Corporation (NYSE: FHN) today announced that Chief Financial Officer Hope Dmuchowski will participate at the Morgan Stanley US Financials, Payments & CRE Conference on June 14, 2023, at 3:15 pm ET.
A live webcast of the event along with an audio replay will be available via the events and presentations section of https://ir.firsthorizon.com/.
The presentation and any related materials may contain forward-looking statements, including guidance, involving significant risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking information. Those factors include general economic and financial market conditions, including expectations of and actual timing and amount of interest-rate movements including the slope of the yield curve, competition, customer and investor responses to these conditions, ability to execute business plans, geopolitical developments, recent and future legislative and regulatory developments, natural disasters, and items mentioned in the materials, as well as critical accounting estimates and other factors described in FHN's recent filings with the SEC. FHN disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements or to publicly announce the result of any revisions to any of the forward-looking statements to reflect future events or developments.
About First Horizon
First Horizon Corp. (NYSE: FHN), with $80.7 billion in assets as of March 31, 2023, is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
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BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts woman who accused Mario Batali of kissing and groping her while attempting to take a selfie at a Boston restaurant testified Monday that she felt confused and powerless to do anything to stop the celebrity chef.
The 32-year-old said she also felt embarrassed by the 2017 incident — until she saw other women step forward to share similar encounters with Batali.
“This happened to me and this is my life,” said the woman while being questioned by prosecutors at the outset of Batali’s sexual misconduct trial. “I want to be able to take control of what happened, come forward, say my piece and have everyone be accountable for their actions.”
But Batali’s lawyer, Anthony Fuller, argued the assault never happened and that the accuser has a financial incentive to lie. He said she’s seeking more than $50,000 in damages from Batali in a separate civil lawsuit pending in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston.
During cross examination, he produced receipts showing she ate at Eataly, the Italian marketplace Batali once owned, weeks after the encounter and continued to patronize the Boston bar where the alleged assault took place.
“She’s not being truthful,” Fuller said. “This is being fabricated for money and for fun.”
The woman said she didn’t recall going to Eataly and maintained she isn’t speaking out for financial gain.
She also strongly pushed back at Fuller for questioning why none of the nearly dozen selfies taken with Batali that night showed the alleged assault.
The woman said the photos were all taken relatively close up and didn’t show how Batali was grabbing her private areas, touching her face and even sticking his tongue in her ear.
“It was all happening so quickly and it was happening essentially the whole time,” she testified. “Just a lot of touching.”
The woman also said Batali appeared drunk and invited her up to his hotel room afterward, which she said she declined.
Fuller also argued the accuser isn’t a credible witness. He said the woman, in an effort to get out of jury duty, recently pleaded guilty to lying during jury selection in another Massachusetts criminal trial because she claimed she was clairvoyant.
Monday’s trial opened after Batali — in a surprise move — waived his right to a jury trial and opted instead to have a judge decide his fate.
Batali, who pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery in 2019, could face up to 2 1/2 years in jail and be required to register as a sex offender if convicted.
Batali is among a number of high-profile men who have faced a public reckoning during the #MeToo social movement against sexual abuse and harassment in recent years.
The 61-year-old was once a Food Network fixture on shows like “Molto Mario” and “Iron Chef America.” But the ponytail-and-orange Croc-wearing personality’s high-flying career crumbled amid sexual misconduct allegations.
Four women accused him of inappropriate touching in 2017, after which he stepped down from day-to-day operations at his restaurant empire and left the since-discontinued ABC cooking show “The Chew.”
Batali has offered an apology, acknowledging the allegations “match up” with ways he has acted.
“I have made many mistakes and I am so very sorry that I have disappointed my friends, my family, my fans and my team,” he said in an email newsletter at the time. “My behavior was wrong and there are no excuses. I take full responsibility.”
Last year, Batali, his business partner and their New York City restaurant company agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve a four-year investigation by the New York attorney general’s office into allegations that Batali, restaurant managers and other workers sexually harassed employees.
In Boston, he opened the Eataly location in the downtown Prudential Center in 2016 as well as a Babbo Pizzeria e Enoteca in the city’s Seaport District in 2015.
Batali has since been bought outof his stake in Eataly and the Babbo restaurant in the city has closed. | 2022-05-09T20:01:36+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/news/national/chef-mario-batali-on-trial-in-boston-sexual-misconduct-case/ |
OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Advancing into leadership or even the executive ranks of an organization can be challenging. To help more people achieve and succeed in these vital roles, the KU School of Professional Studies has launched an online Graduate Certificate in Professional Management. The program focuses on in-demand leadership and management skills. The curriculum covers subjects including interpersonal communication, project management, financial management, and team leadership.
Stuart Day, dean of the KU Edwards Campus and School of Professional Studies, said the professional management graduate certificate program provides useful workplace skills that complement students' and working professionals' industry knowledge.
"Right now, there's an increased demand for leaders who can combine their technical and functional skillsets with executive-level leadership abilities, strong written and spoken communication, and project and financial management abilities," Day said. "This certificate's curriculum helps students develop into stronger leaders with a competitive professional advantage."
The 12 credit-hour graduate certificate is conducted completely online, allowing students to easily pursue their studies from wherever is most convenient for them and quickly earn a recognized credential. The program is offered through KU's School of Professional Studies, which is headquartered at the Edwards Campus in Overland Park, Kansas.
"It's important to reach our students where they are," Day said. "This program's online curriculum lets students complete coursework from anywhere, on a schedule that fits their needs."
Day said the professional management graduate certificate program continues the campus's commitment to serving the workforce needs of the Kansas City region.
"This certificate helps students and working professionals develop the multidisciplinary skills they need to succeed in today's workforce, across a variety of industries," Day said. "We're proud we can offer this opportunity to help prepare the next generation of leaders."
The University of Kansas is a major comprehensive research and teaching university. Its mission is to lift students and society by educating leaders, building healthy communities, and making discoveries that change the world. The KU Edwards Campus at 127th Street and Quivira Road in Overland Park brings high-quality academic, professional, and continuing education programs, as well as the research and public-service benefits of KU, to the greater Kansas City community in order to serve the workforce, economic, and community development needs of the region.
Contact:
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection process ever since it was revised in 2018, resulting in several executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs used, according to an independent review released Wednesday.
The report was requested by Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who paused all executions in May after acknowledging the state had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs were properly tested. The oversight forced Lee in April to abruptly halt the execution of Oscar Smith an hour before he was to have been put to death.
Lee’s administration has been reviewing the report for more than a week, declining to release it until the governor and his aides examined the hundreds of pages detailing the state’s death row process. Lee has maintained he is not trying to bury the report’s findings during the holidays.
Tennessee has put seven inmates to death since it ended a prior pause in executions in 2018 –- two by injection and five in the electric chair. In none of those, nor in Smith’s planned execution, did the pharmacy conducted a required test for endotoxins, the report states. In one lethal injection that was carried out, the drug midazolam was not tested for potency either.
Further, the independent review found no evidence that the state provided the pharmacy in charge of testing the drugs with a copy of its lethal injection protocol. Nor was there evidence the state ever told the pharmacy it had to test for endotoxins on all injection chemicals until the night before Smith’s planned execution, the report says.
Lee appointed former U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton to review circumstances that led to the failure and report back. Stanton also reviewed Tennessee’s lethal injection manual and Department of Correction staffing.
Stanton’s report rebuked top Correction leaders for viewing the “the lethal injection process through a tunnel-vision, result-oriented lens” and claimed the agency failed to provide staff “with the necessary guidance and counsel needed to ensure that Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol was thorough, consistent, and followed.”
The Department of Correction did not immediately return a request for comment on the report.
Lee said Wednesday he plans leadership changes in the department and will hire a permanent commissioner in January to replace the interim one. The new leaders, he said, will change the lethal injection protocol cooperating with the governor’s and attorney general’s offices and will review and revise departmental training.
“I have thoroughly reviewed the findings in the independent investigator’s report and am directing several actions to ensure the Tennessee Department of Correction adheres to proper protocol,” Lee said in a statement. A spokesperson later said “two individuals have had their service expired” because of the report.
Federal Public Defender Kelley Henry said the review exposed “troubling findings,” including the “shocking” news that the department never gave a copy of the lethal injection protocol to the pharmacist who made and tested the drugs. Henry was among the witnesses before Stanton’s team.
“The state must do everything in its power to avoid the execution botches we have seen in other states and in Tennessee in the recent past,” Henry said in a statement. “What we learned today is that secrecy in our state’s execution process breeds a lack of accountability, sloppiness, and a high risk of horrifying mistakes.”
Since 2018, Tennessee has used a three-drug series to put inmates to death: the sedative midazolam to render the inmate unconscious; vecuronium bromide to paralyze the inmate; and potassium chloride to stop the heart.
The state has repeatedly argued that midazolam renders an inmate unconscious and unable to feel pain. But the report showed that in 2017, state correction officials were warned by a pharmacist that midazolam “`does not elicit strong analgesic effects,’ meaning ‘the subjects may be able to feel pain from the administration of the second and third drugs.’”
This warning aligns with what inmates’ expert witnesses who have stated for years that the drugs can cause sensations of drowning, suffocation and chemical burning while leaving the condemned unable to move or call out.
The assessment has also led to more inmates choosing the electric chair over lethal injection, an option for some in Tennessee.
While Lee released the full report publicly Wednesday, many of the emails and text messages were redacted to shield the identities of key officials involved in the execution process — as allowed under Tennessee’s public records act.
The reported also said:
__ Tennessee’s executioner has no formal healthcare training and learned the role mainly through on-the-job experience. The unidentified executioner has overseen 13 executions in Tennessee. Stanton’s team stated that anyone with healthcare training would likely decline the role because of the Hippocratic oath.
__ The state’s system of placing all responsibility of procuring lethal injection chemicals and verifying their suitability for executions was “an enormous task to place on one individual,” particularly a person with other job requirements. The report said such a system “seems like an abdication of responsibility by TDOC leadership” and also the reason for compliance failures. | 2022-12-29T06:06:11+00:00 | pahomepage.com | https://www.pahomepage.com/news/national/ap-report-tenn-has-broken-its-lethal-injection-rules-since-18/ |
The elegant Hotel Saratoga was supposed to reopen in Havana on Tuesday after a two-year pandemic break. Instead, it's a day of mourning for the 42 people known to have died in an explosion that ripped apart the building. The search for even more victims is still on.
A spokesman for the hotel company says experts estimate that 80 percent of the hotel was damaged by Friday's explosion, which hurled tons of concrete chunks into streets just a block from the country's Capitol, and seriously harmed neighboring structures.
Fifty-one people were working to get the hotel ready for its re-inauguration and 23 of them are among the dead. Three workers remain missing.
The Ministry of Health said the overall death toll jumped to 42, including at least one Spanish tourist. Seventeen people remained hospitalized.
The head of the Communist Party for Havana, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, said that 38 homes had been affected by the explosion and 95 people had to be relocated, according to the official Cubadebate website, the Associated Press reported. | 2022-05-10T20:50:50+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/news/national/cuba-hotel-blast-toll-rises-to-42-most-hotel-workers-3-remain-missing |
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A South Florida art dealer pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday in connection with a scheme involving the sale of fake Andy Warhol paintings.
Daniel Elie Bouaziz, 69, pleaded to a single count of money laundering in Fort Pierce federal court, while prosecutors agreed to drop 16 other counts related to fraud and embezzlement, according to court records. He faces up to 10 years in prison at a May 30 sentencing hearing.
Prosecutors said Bouaziz, the owner of Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli in Palm Beach County, sold counterfeit artwork to a customer in October 2021 including pieces purportedly by Warhol.
Bouaziz told the customer that the pieces, which he was selling for between $75,000 and $240,000, were authentic originals and that some were signed by the artist, investigators said.
Officials said the customer gave Bouaziz a $200,000 down payment that was deposited into Bouaziz’s account, and then the comingled funds were wired to other accounts.
Warhol was an American visual artist and filmmaker most associated with the pop art movement of the 1960s. | 2023-02-22T04:33:02+00:00 | wtsp.com | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/florida-art-dealer-pleads-guilty-warhol-forgery-scheme/67-72503720-4be1-43b9-a2d3-865d53756175 |
HONG KONG, Nov. 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ampace is excited to announce the release of its new solar panels. This 100-watt solar panel is water, weather and dust proof. It's been created to be durable for whatever situations arise.
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Top Player Prop Bets for Twins vs. Dodgers on May 17, 2023
Freddie Freeman and Byron Buxton are among the players with prop bets on the table when the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Minnesota Twins square off at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday (at 3:10 PM ET).
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Twins vs. Dodgers Game Info
- When: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 3:10 PM ET
- Where: Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California
- How to Watch on TV: SportsNet LA
- Live Stream: Watch the MLB on Fubo!
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MLB Props Today: Minnesota Twins
Byron Buxton Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -213)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +200)
Buxton Stats
- Buxton has recorded 34 hits with nine doubles, a triple, eight home runs and 22 walks. He has driven in 20 runs with four stolen bases.
- He's slashed .234/.337/.476 so far this season.
- Buxton hopes to build on a three-game hitting streak in this matchup. In his last five games he is hitting .286 with two doubles, three walks and an RBI.
Buxton Recent Games
Carlos Correa Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -227)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +160)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +180)
Correa Stats
- Carlos Correa has collected 31 hits with nine doubles, a triple, six home runs and 16 walks. He has driven in 23 runs.
- He has a slash line of .201/.275/.390 on the season.
Correa Recent Games
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MLB Props Today: Los Angeles Dodgers
Dustin May Props
- Strikeouts Prop: Over/Under 5.5 (Over Odds: +105)
May Stats
- Dustin May (4-1) will take the mound for the Dodgers, his ninth start of the season.
- If he completes six or more innings with three or fewer earned runs allowed, he'll earn his third consecutive quality start.
- May has pitched five or more innings in eight straight games and will look to extend that streak.
- Among qualified pitchers this campaign, the 25-year-old's 2.68 ERA ranks 14th, .936 WHIP ranks eighth, and 6.1 K/9 ranks 66th.
May Recent Games
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Freddie Freeman Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 1.5 (Over Odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +500)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +195)
Freeman Stats
- Freeman has 14 doubles, seven home runs, 22 walks and 22 RBI (54 total hits). He's also swiped six bases.
- He has a .318/.392/.524 slash line on the year.
- Freeman will look for his seventh straight game with a hit in this contest. During his last 10 outings he is hitting .325 with four doubles, two home runs, five walks and eight RBI.
Freeman Recent Games
Mookie Betts Props
- Hits Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: -179)
- Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +105)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +550)
- RBI Prop: Over/Under 0.5 (Over Odds: +230)
Betts Stats
- Mookie Betts has 38 hits with 12 doubles, nine home runs, 26 walks and 24 RBI. He's also stolen one base.
- He has a .244/.353/.494 slash line on the year.
Betts Recent Games
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Florida woman’s lawsuit says Equifax error made loan pricier
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman has sued Equifax claiming she was denied a car loan because of a 130-point mistake in her credit report that she says was part of a larger group of credit score errors the ratings agency made this spring due to a coding problem.
The class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in Atlanta on behalf of Nydia Jenkins and potentially millions of others who applied for credit during a three-week period earlier this year. The Jacksonville, Florida woman was forced to accept another, less favorable loan that was $150 per month more than the one she was turned down for because of the error, according to the lawsuit.
Credit scores provide lenders with a picture of how big a risk a borrower is, and they typically range from 300 to 850 points, with a higher score usually resulting in better terms for people applying for mortgages, auto loans or mortgages. The lawsuit says the errors violated federal law that governs credit reporting agencies.
“In the modern economy, millions of Americans rely on credit to make the most important purchases of their lives, from homes to cars to appliances and everything in between,” John Morgan and John Yanchunis, the attorneys representing Jenkins, said in a statement. “We believe that many of the people impacted – some of whom may still be unaware of what happened – suffered severe financial consequences.”
The errors occurred over three weeks from mid-March to early April. An analysis Equifax conducted shows that there was no shift in a majority of credit scores, and for those who did experience a change, only a small number would have received a different credit decision, Equifax said in an emailed statement on Thursday.
“While the score may have shifted, a score shift does not necessarily mean that a consumer’s credit decision was negatively impacted,” the Equifax statement said.
Equifax said in another statement earlier this week that the problems stemmed from a coding issue that “resulted in the potential miscalculation of certain attributes used in model calculations.” In that statement, the firm said less than 300,000 consumers had a score shift of 25 points or more.
“Again, we do not take this issue lightly,” Equifax said.
Besides seeking an undisclosed amount of damages “to the fullest extent allowable by law,” the lawsuit is asking for an audit to identify which customers’ credit scores were affected; money for credit repair services; and the establishment of a fund to reimburse customers for any out-of-pocket expenses they incurred from the errors.
In 2017, hackers broke into Equifax in a breach that exposed the financial information of 147 million Americans. A federal court in 2020 approved a $380 million settlement of class actions lawsuits, with no finding or judgment of wrongdoing made. The settlement required Equifax to invest a minimum $1 billion over five years on data security.
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Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. | 2022-08-04T17:32:45+00:00 | kttc.com | https://www.kttc.com/2022/08/04/florida-womans-lawsuit-says-equifax-error-made-loan-pricier/ |
Actor Alan Alda held onto a pair of boots and dog tags he wore on the hit TV series “M*A*S*H” for 40 years. These treasured items are now up for auction for a good cause.
The 89-year-old Alda played Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce for 11 seasons on the groundbreaking show that told the stories of a group of Korean War doctors and nurses. Every day, as part of his costume, he pulled on a pair of combat boots and slipped on the metal dog tags to transform into the sarcastic, talented Hawkeye.
“I put these boots on every day that we shot MASH for eleven years. And the dog tags, too,” Alda wrote in a signed letter of provenance included with the items. “And every time my foot found its way into one of the boots, or the necklace of tags went over my head, I remembered: Someone had worn these once in a real war.”
The boots have “Hawkeye” written inside, and the dog tags have the names of two real soldiers.
In an interview with Heritage Auctions, Alda talked about how wearing items that actual soldiers wore (instead of his character’s name) helped him connect with his character and the legacy of the people who wore the boots and tags before him.
“They were scuffed up when we started,” he said in the interview. “And the feel of the leather on my foot, the comfort of being in the shoe, did something. I don’t know. It’s a mysterious thing. But it makes you feel more at home in the character.”
Alda kept the items in a box in the closet for 40 years. After all that time, he realized these cherished items needed to rejoin the world and decided to auction them to support his charity.
“They could come to life again and be used to help the Center of Communicating Science,” he told Heritage Auctions. “Because probably somebody would be interested in having a memento of the show.”
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The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York has become the actor’s passion project in recent years. The nonprofit center works with scientists and doctors worldwide to help improve their communication with the general public.
Heritage Auction will accept online bids for the boots and dog tags until July 28. As of this story’s publication, the current high bid is $14,500.
This story originally appeared on Simplemost. Check out Simplemost for additional stories. | 2023-07-07T16:52:19+00:00 | kivitv.com | https://www.kivitv.com/alan-aldas-mash-boots-and-dog-tags-going-up-for-auction |
SportsCollege Sports Chat replay: CU Buffs beat writer Brian Howell (May 2, 2022) Share this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Chat replay: CU Buffs beat writer Brian Howell (May 2, 2022) By Brian Howell | bhowell@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily CameraPUBLISHED: May 2, 2022 at 11:34 a.m. | UPDATED: May 2, 2022 at 1:16 p.m.BuffZone.com beat writer Brian Howell takes your questions and leads discussion about CU sports today at Noon MDT. | 2022-05-02T21:23:41+00:00 | coloradodaily.com | https://www.coloradodaily.com/2022/05/02/live-chat-cu-buffs-beat-writer-brian-howell-98/ |
LAS VEGAS, April 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
- Matt Hagan notched the third NHRA national event win of the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series Sunday in his Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Haas Automotive Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car
- Hagan, who qualified third, recorded his fifth Las Vegas victory of his career and second consecutive after winning last October in the Nevada Nationals
- In the final round Sunday, Hagan, seeking his fourth NHRA Camping World points championship, defeated Tim Wilkerson, John Force and Chad Green to score his 46th career NHRA Wally trophy
- The win for Hagan also extended his current point margin to 105 points
- Hagan's TSR teammate, Leah Pruett, put in consistent runs all three days with strong qualifying passes and a first-round victory Sunday with 3.74, 3.75 and 3.77 times, as well as 3.79 when she lost in a close second round race
- TSR team owner Tony Stewart also scored his first NHRA national win Sunday by driving to the Top Alcohol Dragster class title
- Cruz Pedregon recorded his second straight No. 1 Funny Car qualifying position Saturday with his Snap-On Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat with a time of 3.910 seconds
Matt Hagan continued his impressive 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series performance Sunday at the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Four-Wide Nationals with his third Funny Car win in four events in the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) Haas Automotive Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat.
Hagan, the three-time NHRA world champion, qualified third in the 16-car field and advanced to the final round with solid, consistent runs of 3.997 and 3.968 seconds to set up a third finals appearance in the opening four races in 2023.
Competing against John Force, Tim Wilkerson and Chad Green in the final, Hagan posted a winning time of 3.943 at 326.79 m.p.h. for his 46th career Funny Car victory and extended his Funny Car points lead to 105 entering the next NHRA national event at Charlotte, North Carolina, April 28-30.
"It was another outstanding performance by Matt Hagan and his Tony Stewart Racing team this past weekend at the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals, taking his Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car to the winner's circle," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand CEO – Stellantis. "Hagan's crew continues to prove their competitive level, and it is one of the best in all of NHRA drag racing. Led by Dickie Venables' squad, Hagan is fighting for his fourth NHRA Camping World Series championship. The TSR team has shown that Dodge lineup of vehicles and Direct Connection parts are excellent examples of premier performance. We wish Matt and the TSR team more success this year in his quest for a fourth Funny Car title."
Hagan's Funny Car victory was his second straight at the Strip after winning last October in the Nevada Nationals and his fifth Las Vegas triumph of his career. This is Hagan's seventh win with TSR dating back to the 2022 Gatornationals.
"This is so special to share the winner's circle with my boss, Tony Stewart, and his first NHRA national win too," said Hagan after his third 2023 victory and Stewart's first Top Alcohol Dragster win. "It's funny because I never followed Tony's oval racing career, and I actually had to look up his achievements when I talked with him about this new team.
"After he won here, he came to my car and said, 'Now it's your turn to win!' Wow, I wasn't feeling any pressure until then. But our crew, led by Dickie Venables, has been so good this year that I just needed to be good on the line. And that car ran strong to the finish."
TSR team owner Stewart, a three-time NASCAR Cup champion, captured his first NHRA national event Sunday by taking the Top Alcohol Dragster victory. It was Stewart's fourth race in NHRA national event competition. The Columbus, Indiana, driver has now won at all four Las Vegas Motor Speedway tracks in 1.5-mile oval, 3/8-mile Bullring, half-mile dirt oval and the Strip.
"This is the most fun I have had in a long time," said Stewart in victory lane with Hagan. "Matt and his crew are doing a tremendous job with three wins already and Leah's crew has been outstanding in this early portion of the season. Yes, it is exciting to win my first NHRA national event, but the double is very special today."
Pruett, the 10-time NHRA national winner, recorded a solid showing in qualifying to place fifth entering Sunday's eliminations with her Code 3 Associates Dodge//SRT Mopar Top Fuel dragster with runs of 3.746, 3.747 and 3.753. In Sunday's competition, Leah posted a 3.779 to win against three other drivers before falling in the second round with a 3.798 to eventual winner Antron Brown and Brittany Force.
"Our team did a great job all weekend here in Las Vegas," said Pruett, now fifth in the NHRA Camping World Top Fuel point standings. "We ran great times in the heat and the track was getting tricky. But Neal Strausbaugh and his crew really gave me a solid, strong car in every run here at the Strip. They work so hard for me and our sponsors. I'm pleased with the momentum we are making. Both Antron and Brittany are world champions, and we ran right with them. So, we may have lost that round, but we were so close to advancing to the next one. We had a very positive weekend."
Cruz Pedregon, a four-time winner at the Strip, recorded his second consecutive NHRA Camping World Funny Car pole position Saturday in the qualifying rounds for the NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. Pedregon took his Snap-On Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat machine to a time of 3.910 seconds to pace the 16-car Funny Car field.
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The @DodgeMoparMotorsports Instagram channel continues to share content capturing Dodge//SRT Mopar drivers on the track. Fans can see action from the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series and NHRA Sportsman grassroots racers, competing in classes such as Factory Stock Showdown, Stock and Super Stock, as well as additional motorsports series.
Dodge//SRT
For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with a lineup that delivers unrivaled performance in each of the segments where they compete.
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT Hellcat versions of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, as well as an R/T plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet, representing the brand's first-ever electrified performance vehicle. Dodge delivers the drag-strip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever; and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet. Combined, these four muscle vehicles make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the "#1 Brand in Initial Quality," making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS).
Fans can follow all the NHRA action this season at DodgeGarage, the one-stop portal for Dodge//SRT and Mopar drag-racing news, including daily updates and access to an online racing HQ, news, events, galleries, available downloads and merchandise. Dodge is part of the portfolio of brands offered by leading global automaker and mobility provider Stellantis (NYSE: STLA).
Mopar
This year marks the 85th anniversary of Mopar, the global name for Stellantis genuine parts and authentic accessories.
A simple combination of the words MOtor and PARts, Mopar offers exceptional service, parts and customer-care. Born in 1937 as the name of a line of antifreeze products, Mopar has evolved over 85 years to represent both complete vehicle care and authentic performance for owners and enthusiasts worldwide.
Mopar made its mark in the 1960s during the muscle-car era with performance parts to enhance speed and handling for both on-road and racing use. Later, Mopar expanded to include technical service and customer support, and today integrates service, parts and customer-care operations in order to enhance customer and dealer support worldwide.
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Kwando Buffet Chinese restaurant: Snack or Yak
Kwandos, or “Heaven on EARTH” as it says on their website, is an Asian buffet-style restaurant that has been viewed as far from heavenly by many. I went to see if Kwandos is a snack, or is going to make you yak. The restaurant is located at 740 Mangrove Ave, tucked into the corner of the shopping center.
Upon entering, the restaurant is nicely decorated with a wide waiting area and a koi pond. You can admire the shiny fish while you wait for a staff member to help you. It took less than a minute for my partner and I to be seated.
As soon as we got to our table, we got right back up to explore the unique buffet. There were various dishes to choose from, but I started my first plate at the controversial buffet sushi, chicken wings, plantains and chicken satay.
The chicken was the perfect amount of greasy with crispy skin but lacked seasoning. The chicken satay made up for the wing’s lack of flavor with a rich smokey taste and tender meat. I love plantains and consider them one of the best things you can get at a restaurant, and Kwandos didn’t disappoint, the plantains were ripe and sweet. All the food at the hot bar was the perfect temperature to eat and steaming
I was a little scared of the sushi since it is buffet style, and I was unsure of how long the fish had been sitting out, but all the raw seafood was sitting on ice. It was hard to tell which roll was which because they were clumped together, so I tried to grab one of each. The spicy tuna roll was the perfect amount of spicy and tasted fresh. As for all the other sushi, ew. The crab had grit, and most other rolls were covered in cream cheese. As for the nigiri — run the other way — the fish left a metallic taste in my mouth and had a gray tint.
After the traumatizing sushi experience, we moved on to the more traditional Chinese options. They had stir-fry and different styles of dim sum, as well as chicken feet.
I was too chicken to try the chicken feet, but the pork bao was fluffy and filled with sweet chewy pork. The smaller dumplings had a savory pork filling and tasted excellent with a side of soy sauce.
We were starting to get full, so we skipped the wok area they had. Many different types of raw meats and seafood were sitting on the table. It wasn’t the most appealing part of the restaurant, but the tables around us got bowls filled with meat.
For dessert, I got a plate of fresh pineapple. It was cold and refreshing, as well as a soft serve from their self-serve station. It was the best way to end the trip, and we could take it to go.
There was a lot of food waste from our multiple trips to the buffet. Showing that if you were to go, think with your stomach, not your eyes.
Our Thursday lunch cost us a grand total of $13.88, plus tax, but if you bring your student ID you get 10% off.
Overall Kwandos was a snack, the food was authentic and there was a wide selection to choose from. There was a small problem with the freshness of the sushi, but everything else tasted fresh and they seem to change their food by the hour. I 100% recommend you at least try Kwandos once while you’re in Chico to experience their cheap, authentic food.
Meara Hain can be reached at [email protected] | 2023-04-25T01:11:09+00:00 | theorion.com | https://theorion.com/94864/food-2/kwando-buffet-chinese-restaurant-snack-or-yak/ |
SEATTLE (AP) — Need Plan B? Tap your credit card and enter B6.
Since last November, a library at the University of Washington has featured a different kind of vending machine, one that’s become more popular on campuses around the country since the U.S. Supreme Court ended constitutional protections for abortion last year. It’s stocked with ibuprofen, pregnancy tests and the morning-after pill.
With some states enacting abortion bans and others enshrining protections and expanding access to birth control, the machines are part of a push on college campuses to ensure emergency contraceptives are cheap, discreet and widely available.
There are now 39 universities in 17 states with emergency contraceptive vending machines, and at least 20 more considering them, according to the American Society for Emergency Contraception. Some, such as the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, are in states where abortion is largely banned.
Over-the-counter purchase of Plan B and generic forms is legal in all 50 states.
The 2022 ruling overturning Roe v. Wade “is putting people’s lives at stake, so it makes pregnancy prevention all the more urgent,” said Kelly Cleland, the ASEC’s executive director. “If you live in a state where you cannot get an abortion and you can’t get an abortion anywhere near you, the stakes are so much higher than they’ve ever been before.”
Washington this year became first U.S. state to set aside money — $200,000 to fund $10,000 grants that colleges can obtain next year through an application process — to expand access to emergency contraceptives at public universities and technical colleges through the automatic dispensers.
The University of Washington’s machine was installed after a student-led campaign. It offers boxes of generic Plan B for $12.60, about a quarter of what the name-brand versions sell for in stores, and more than 640 have been sold.
The drug is even cheaper in some machines than it is in UW’s, as low as $7 per box. That’s because it is sold at just above wholesale cost, compared with pharmacy retail prices that might go up to $50.
In Illinois and New York, lawmakers are developing legislation that would require at least one vending machine selling emergency contraceptives on state college campuses.
In Connecticut, Yale had to drop plans to install an emergency contraceptive vending machine in 2019 after learning it would violate state law.
But this year the state approved a measure allowing Plan B and other over-the-counter medications to be sold from vending machines on campuses and other locations.
The machines can’t be placed in K-12 schools or exposed to the elements, and they must have temperature and humidity controls and include plans for power outages and expired items.
“This just enables people to have better access and easier access,” said Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria, one of several Republicans in Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled General Assembly who supported the measure. “You may need Plan B, as we all know, in the middle of the night, and you won’t have access to a pharmacy until the morning.”
Although the morning-after pill has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter sale, many stores and pharmacies keep it behind the counter or locked up, require identification for purchase and make the experience of purchasing it intimidating.
“There is a stigma associated with getting access to these medications,” said Zoe Amaris, a University of Washington pharmacy student and board member of UW Pharmacists for Reproductive Education and Sexual Health. “Having a vending machine is so easy. You don’t need to go to a pharmacy. You don’t need to go through your health care provider.”
Plan B is more effective the sooner it is taken, and vending machine access could be particularly crucial for victims of rape when pharmacies are closed. The anonymity the machines afford may also be important to some assault victims.
“When you have a vending machine, it takes away a lot of those barriers,” Cleland said. “Students can go on their own terms to get it when they need it.” | 2023-07-03T11:11:37+00:00 | wdtn.com | https://www.wdtn.com/news/u-s-world/morning-after-pill-vending-machines-gain-popularity-on-college-campuses/ |
Police reports for Jan. 12, 2023 Jan 12, 2023 4 hrs ago Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Following are locations and nature of offense reports received from the Lawton Police Department:Larceny, 6517 NW Columbia.Larceny, 4513 W. Lee.Auto theft, 1709 Cache Road.Larceny, 1516 SW 69th.Larceny, 30 N. Sheridan.Larceny, 1700 Fort Sill Blvd.Burglary, 3807 SW Hickory.Burglary, 24 NW 56th.Burglary, 1807 NW 22nd.Larceny, 1516½ SW A.Larceny, 612 SW 60th.Larceny, 5000 block West Lee Boulevard. Compiled by Scott Rains: scott.rains@swoknews.com. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Recommended for you Sign Up For Newsletters Success! An email has been sent to with a link to confirm list signup. Error! There was an error processing your request. Obituaries Receive the most recent obituaries from The Lawton Constitution every Morning in you E-mail. Signup today! Headlines / e-Edition Would you like to receive our daily news from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Sports Headlines Would you like to receive our daily sports from The Lawton Constitution? Signup today! Breaking News Get the latest breaking news from The Lawton Constitution. Sign up today! You must select at least one email list. Please enter a valid email address. Sign up Manage your lists | 2023-01-12T12:22:20+00:00 | swoknews.com | https://www.swoknews.com/almanac/police/police-reports-for-jan-12-2023/article_7cbc9175-313d-5898-a700-4d67fb9ef3d0.html |
President Biden is in Fort Myers, Fla., meeting with business owners and residents hit hard by Hurricane Ian, trying to assure them that the federal government will help them recover.
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President Biden is in Fort Myers, Fla., meeting with business owners and residents hit hard by Hurricane Ian, trying to assure them that the federal government will help them recover.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KRON) — COVID-19 variants keep getting sneakier at slipping past vaccines and natural immunity – meet the latest, evasive forms of the virus: two omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, which now make up a majority of COVID-19 cases around the U.S.
Even if you were infected by omicron during last winter’s surge, you can still be re-infected by BA.4 or BA.5 this summer, said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious disease expert.
“The superpower of BA.4 and BA.5 is, if you had omicron in January, you’re still going to be susceptible to getting BA.4 and BA.5. It’s the escape artist of COVID, the Houdini, because the spike protein looks so different, even (compared) to BA.1. The front guards, the antibodies, are not recognizing it,” Chin-Hong explained.
Chin-Hong stressed that even though vaccines are not 100% effective at preventing infections, they are very effective for fighting off the virus to prevent it from causing serious illnesses in most people.
“Even though (currently available vaccines) are not necessarily great right now at preventing the enemy at the front gate, when the enemy gets inside, it’s going to kick it out and you’re not going to go to the hospital,” Chin-Hong said.
Dr. Bob Wachter, chair of UCSF’s Department of Medicine, said BA.5 is destined to be the dominant strain.
That’s bad news, especially considering how immune-evasive the strain’s genetic mutations are.
“BA.5 is a different beast, with a new superpower: enough alteration in the spike protein that immunity from either prior vax or prior Omicron infection doesn’t offer much protection,” Wachter wrote on Twitter.
Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine, said BA.5 is the “worst version of the virus that we’ve seen.”
Topol explained on Twitter, “It takes immune escape, already extensive, to the next level, and, as a function of that, enhanced transmissibility, well beyond Omicron (BA.1) and other Omicron family variants that we’ve seen (including BA.1.1, BA.2, BA.2.12.1, and BA.4).”
The BA.5 subvariant first popped up as a dominant strain in South Africa, and now has been detected throughout the world.
Pandemic fatigue has lowered people’s willingness to wear masks and practice social distancing this summer.
“Mandates are gone – likely forever in most of the U.S. And most people have ditched their masks and are unlikely to put them back on, no matter how large the surge. So it’s up to each of us to determine our own risk tolerance, and then own behavior,” Wachter wrote.
Chin-Hong, Wachter, and Topol all agree that boosters are the best lines of defense to prevent a surge in COVID-related hospitalizations. A new booster aimed at omicron will be available this fall.
Wachter wrote, “Vax/boost remains hugely valuable in preventing a severe case that might lead to hospital/death. But its value in preventing a case of Covid, or preventing transmission, is now far less than it once was.”
According to Topol, “The big question now is whether an Omicron booster, directed to BA.1, will help when that variant is no longer with us, and we will be close to 100% BA.5 within a matter of weeks. And no doubt there will be further troublesome variants that lie ahead, be they more in the Omicron family or in a whole new lineage.” | 2022-07-06T21:04:52+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/ba-5-variant-is-the-houdini-of-covid-doctor-says/ |
PHOTO: Fisherman sets new state record by catching 67-pound catfish
Published: May. 20, 2022 at 5:27 PM CDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
UNION COUNTY, S.D. (Dakota News Now/Gray News) - A fisherman in South Dakota has set a new state record with his latest catch.
According to the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, Ethan Evink caught a massive flathead catfish in the Missouri River in Union City. The fish was so giant it set a new record in South Dakota.
The state agency said Evink’s record-setting catfish was 51.5 inches long and weighed 67 pounds, 8 ounces, as reported by Dakota News Now.
Evink said he made the catch early in the morning using cut bait, a popular catfish bait.
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The Treasury Department said Friday that the federal budget deficit was 562% higher on a monthly basis compared with September 2021, largely reflecting President Joe Biden's plans to forgive student debt.
Despite the monthly increase, over the fiscal year that ended last month, the federal budget deficit fell $1.4 trillion. It roughly halved in size because of the end of spending tied to coronavirus pandemic relief and higher tax revenues as more Americans found jobs.
The federal budget deficit totaled $1.38 trillion this year. That's down from $2.78 trillion in fiscal 2021. Biden intends to speak about the figures on Friday as a sign that he has been responsible with federal finances.
Still, the federal deficit jumped in the final fiscal year month of September because of the Democratic president's plans to forgive student debt as the Education Department modified the terms of its loans for college and graduate school.
Biden in August announced $10,000 in federal student debt cancellation for those with incomes below $125,000 a year, or households that make less than $250,000 a year. Those who received federal Pell Grants to attend college are eligible for an additional $10,000 in forgiveness.
Biden's plan makes 20 million people eligible to get their federal student debt erased entirely.
Federal finances improved over the past 12 months as the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5% from 4.7% in September 2021. The job gains enabled tax revenues to jump 21% from a year ago, while overall spending fell 8% as the government's coronavirus-related aid has faded.
In May, the Congressional Budget Office expected the federal deficit to fall in 2023 and then start to rise in the years ahead to $2.25 trillion a decade from now. | 2022-10-21T15:13:23+00:00 | daytondailynews.com | https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/student-debt-forgiveness-causes-monthly-deficit-to-jump-562/CPOT4SEFHJAIPO4KWIO73RS4OE/ |
LEEDS, Ala. (AP) — Pato O’Ward made a conscious decision to stop worrying about his IndyCar contract and Formula One aspirations and focus on his current job.
The effort first earned him a pending contract extension, and on Sunday, O’Ward picked up his first win of the IndyCar season.
The popular Mexican used a strong outside pass of pole-sitter Rinus VeeKay after both pitted for fresh tires to take the lead then drive away for the victory at Barber Motorsports Park. It is the third win of O’Ward’s career and broke a Team Penske stranglehold on the IndyCar results.
Penske drivers Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden swept the first three races of the season, all while O’Ward was pouting over his team-friendly contract with Arrow McLaren SP. O’Ward wanted more money, wanted more assurances McLaren has him in its F1 pipeline, and his frustration spilled over onto the track.
But on the eve of the Long Beach Grand Prix two weeks ago, the 22-year-old decided he didn’t want to throw his season away over hurt feelings. He dug deep for a fifth-place finish at Long Beach, huddled with McLaren head Zak Brown on the terms of extension, then showed up in Barber ready to win some races.
His shot came after a pit stop with 28 laps remaining when VeeKay and O’Ward pitted at the same time. VeeKay came out ahead but O’Ward hunted him through the first four turns then used a brave move — and his push-to-pass — around the Dutchman to seize control of the race.
The win kept Chevrolet a perfect 4 for 4 as IndyCar heads next to Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
“Man, it sucks to be at war within your own team, right? So I’m glad there’s been more positive talks for the future,” said O’Ward, who has agreed with McLaren on principle on an extension.
“And I wanted to do it for these guys, for Arrow McLaren SP, for Chevy — they’ve swept this year so far, so great for them. But yeah, man, I was tired of being 10th and 11th and fifth and I said ‘Let’s get a win under our belts so we can climb back into this championship race.’”
Alex Palou, the reigning IndyCar champion and defending race winner at Barber, finished second for Chip Ganassi Racing and reclaimed the points lead.
VeeKay faded to third for Ed Carpenter Racing.
“I was so much looking in my mirrors that I forgot to use my push-to-pass,” VeeKay said of not using a burst of extra horsepower to hold off O’Ward.
Will Power rallied from 19th to finish fourth, the best of the Penske drivers, while six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon was fifth for Ganassi.
There were late-race fireworks between fellow Honda drivers Graham Rahal and Romain Grosjean as the two raced for position, and an irate Rahal screamed over his radio “that guys a punk! He hit me on purpose.”
An animated Rahal was seen after smacking his arm into Grosjean teammate Alexander Rossi to demonstrate Grosjean hitting Rahal’s car.
“We touched a couple of times, but it was good racing,” said Grosjean, who denied hitting Rahal on purpose.
Rahal didn’t believe him.
“Look at that, look at how much room he has!” Rahal said watching the replay. “I’m just frustrated because this isn’t the first time. In St. Pete, he hit everybody.”
Rahal then wondered if IndyCar officials are watching Grosjean — and even if they are, will they do anything about excessive aggression?
“As another driver in the series told me, ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,’ and he’s had this reputation his whole career in Europe and we’re learning his reputation quickly here,” Rahal said. “If race control doesn’t want to do anything, then they aren’t going to do anything. But when we go and punt him, they better not do anything to me. In the past, I’ve been penalized for a lot less than that.”
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IndyCar is off next weekend and most of the drivers are headed to Miami for Formula One’s debut race on Sunday. The series returns to action May 14 on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. VeeKay is the defending race winner.
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MORELL, Louise "Mimi"
Age 98, of Miamisburg, passed away Thursday, October 13, 2022, at her home. She was born July 16, 1924, in Lincoln County, KY, to the late Richard and Ollie Belcher. Louise was a waitress at Woody's in West Carrollton for several years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; son, Terry; 6 of her siblings; and close friend, Mabel. Louise is survived by her daughter, Delores; grandchildren, Rachel, Thad (Jodi), and Todd (Amy); great-grandchildren, Trenton, Greyson, Emma, Tyler, Trevor, Haley, Channing, and Lachlyn; 2 great-great-grandchildren; daughter-in-law, Marcia; and brother, Richard. She enjoyed fishing, watching baseball, and the Cincinnati Bengals. Louise attended First Baptist Church of West Carrollton. Her family will hold private services. Condolences may be shared at www.gebhartschmidtparramore.com.
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A former Massachusetts town official pleaded guilty on Wednesday to joining a mob in storming the U.S. Capitol after she organized a bus trip to Washington, D.C., for fellow members of a right-wing group called “Super Happy Fun America.”
Before her guilty plea, Suzanne Ianni had argued in February that federal authorities had selectively targeted her for prosecution based on her political beliefs. Prosecutors said her political views played no role in charging her with crimes for her conduct at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. A judge rejected Ianni’s request to dismiss the case before she pleaded guilty.
Ianni, 60, of Natick, Massachusetts, faces a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment and five years of probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols is scheduled to sentence her on Dec. 2.
Ianni was an elected member of Natick Town Meeting in a Boston suburb while serving as operation director of Super Happy Fun America, which gained national notoriety for organizing a “Straight Pride Parade” in Boston in 2019.
On its website, Super Happy Fun America calls itself “a right of center civil rights organization focusing on defending the Constitution, opposing gender madness and defeating cultural Marxism.” The group registered as a nonprofit with Massachusetts state regulators.
A Dec. 29, 2020, post on the group’s Twitter account said Super Happy Fun America members would be in Washington “to get wild.” Ianni was listed as the contact for the trip. The account also tweeted a photo of Ianni and other members on a bus traveling to Washington on the eve of the riot.
After marching to the Capitol, she joined a crowd chanting “Fight for Trump!” and “Our house!” while rioters near her broke windows, forced open doors and breached police barricades. Surveillance video captured Ianni marching through the Capitol after she entered the building through a Senate fire-exit door. She raised her fist in the air in front of police officers who stopped her and other members of the mob, prosecutors said in a court filing.
Mark Sahady, another Super Happy Fun America member, was arrested on Capitol riot-related charges that haven’t been resolved.
In April 2021, Natick Town Meeting members voted to condemn the Capitol riot. Ianni, who was elected to a three-year term that was due to expire in March 2022, told the MetroWest Daily News that the vote represented “political persecution of conservatives.”
Also on Wednesday, a Nevada man pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement officers at the Capitol with what appeared to be a table leg, injuring an officer. Josiah Kenyon, 35, of Winnemucca, Nevada, is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 15. Kenyon was dressed up as “Jack Skellington,” a character from the movie “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” when he attacked police.
More than 870 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riot. Approximately 400 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanors, and over 250 have been sentenced.
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This version of story has been corrected to reflect that Judge Carl Nichols did deny Suzanne Ianni’s request to dismiss her case before she pleaded guilty. | 2022-09-15T15:04:02+00:00 | cbs4indy.com | https://cbs4indy.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-ex-town-official-pleads-guilty-to-capitol-riot-charge/ |
(WIVB) — Catholic Health Home Care is hosting an on-the-spot hiring event for registered nurses (RNs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) who are looking to become home care nurses.
This event takes place on Thursday, August 11 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Buffalo Airport located at 4201 Genesee Street in Cheektowaga.
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YEONCHEON, South Korea — Jin, the oldest member of K-pop supergroup BTS, began his 18 months of mandatory military service at a frontline South Korean boot camp Tuesday, as fans gathered near the base to say goodbye to their star.
Six other younger BTS members are to join the military in coming years one after another, meaning that the world's biggest boy band must take a hiatus, likely for a few years. Their enlistments have prompted a fierce domestic debate over whether it's time to revise the country's conscription system to expand exemptions to include prominent entertainers like BTS, or not to provide such benefits to anyone.
With lawmakers squabbling at Parliament and surveys showing sharply split public opinions over offering exemptions to BTS members, their management agency said in October that all BTS members would perform their compulsory military duties. Big Hit Music said that both the company and the members of BTS "are looking forward to reconvening as a group again around 2025 following their service commitment."
Jin, who turned 30 earlier this month, entered the boot camp at Yeoncheon, a town near the tense border with North Korea, for five weeks of basic military training together with other new conscript soldiers, the Defense Ministry said. After the training involving rifle-shooting, grenade-throwing and marching practices, he and other conscripts would be assigned to army units across the country.
About 20-30 fans — some holding Jin's photos — and dozens of journalists gathered near the camp. But Jin didn't meet them as a vehicle carrying him moved into the boot camp without getting him out.
"I want to wait (for) Jin and see him go into the military and wish him all the best," Mandy Lee from Hong Kong said before Jin's entrance to the camp.
"Actually it's complicated. I wanna be sad. I wanna be happy for him," said Angelina from Indonesia. "Mixed feelings. He has to serve (for) his country." Angelina, like many Indonesians, uses only one name.
A couple dozen fans could be seen as a small turnout given Jin's huge popularity. But Jin and his management agency had earlier asked fans not to visit the site and notified them there wouldn't be any special event involving the singer, in order to prevent any issue caused by crowding.
Authorities still mobilized 300 police officers, soldiers, emergency workers and others to maintain order and guard against any accidents, according to the army. Strict safety steps were expected as South Korea is still reeling from the devastating Halloween crush in October in Seoul that killed 158 people.
Hours before entering the camp, Jin — whose real name is Kim Seok-jin — wrote on the on the online fan platform Weverse that "It's time for a curtain call." He posted a photo of himself Sunday with a military buzzcut and a message saying, "Ha ha ha. It's cuter than I had expected."
By law, all able-bodied South Korean men must serve in the military for 18-21 months under a conscription system established to deal with threats from North Korea. But the law gives special exemptions to athletes, classical and traditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers if they have won top prizes in certain competitions and enhance national prestige. K-pop stars and other entertainers aren't given such benefits even if they gain worldwide fame and win big international awards.
"Though BTS members have opted to go to the military, there are still some sort of regrets," said Jung Duk-hyun, a pop culture commentator. "Those in the pop culture sector experience little bit of disadvantages and unfairness, compared with those in the pure art sector or athletes. This will likely continue to be an issue of controversy so I wonder if it must be discussed continuously."
Exemptions or dodging of duties are a highly sensitive issue in South Korea, where the draft forces young men to suspend their studies or professional careers. Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup and Lee Ki Sik, head of South Korea's enlistment office, previously said it would be "desirable" for BTS members to fulfill their military duties to ensure fairness in the country's military service.
Chun In-bum, a retired lieutenant general who commanded South Korea's special forces, said the government must move to repeal any exemptions as the military's shrinking recruitment pool is "a very serious" problem amid the country's declining fertility rate. He called a debate over BTS's military service "unnecessary" as it wasn't raised by BTS members, who have shown willingness in carrying out their duties.
BTS was created in 2013 and has a legion of global supporters who call themselves the "Army." Its other members are RM, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook, who is the youngest at 25. The group expanded its popularity in the West with its 2020 megahit "Dynamite," the band's first all-English song that made BTS the first K-pop act to top Billboard's Hot 100. The band has performed in sold-out arenas around the world and was even invited to speak at United Nations meetings.
Hybe Corp., the parent company of Big Hit, said in October that each member of the band for the time being would focus on individual activities scheduled around their military service plans. In October, Jin released "The Astronaut," a single co-written by Coldplay.
Jung, the commentator, said sold projects could give BTS members much-needed time to develop themselves after working together as a group for many years. But Cha Woo-jin, a K-pop commentator, said it's unclear if BTS would enjoy the same popularity as a group when they get together again after finishing their military duties in a few years.
In August, Lee, the defense minister, said BTS members who are serving would likely be allowed to continue practicing and to join other non-serving BTS members in overseas group tours.
Cha said K-pop's global influence wouldn't be hurt much because of BTS members' enlistments as they "appear to represent K-pop but aren't everything of K-pop." Chung agreed, saying that other K-pop groups like BLACKPINK, Stray Kids and aespa could rise further.
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DETROIT (AP) — A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is gathering evidence in a criminal investigation of Goodyear recreational vehicle tires that the government blames for crashes that killed eight people and injured dozens of others.
The grand jury has subpoenaed Arizona lawyer David Kurtz seeking all documents and deposition transcripts in a lawsuit he filed against the Akron, Ohio, tire maker.
A letter accompanying the Jan. 4 subpoena says it was issued in an “official criminal investigation being conducted by the Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General.” It also says the Justice Department’s Consumer Protection Branch in Washington is involved, as well as the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles.
Documents from Kurtz’s lawsuit touched off a 2017 investigation of the tires by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that resulted in a recall last year. The documents also revealed Goodyear knew the G159 RV tire could fail and cause severe crashes, yet it didn’t recall them for as many as 20 years.
The Justice Department and the DOT Inspector General wouldn’t comment on the probe.
In a statement, Goodyear didn’t address the federal investigation but maintained there’s no safety defect with the tires. The company said it recalled the tires to address risks that happen when they are underinflated or overloaded.
“This tire hasn’t been made since 2003,” the statement said, adding that “it consistently met Goodyear’s demanding safety standards.”
Kurtz confirmed that he received the subpoena and provided copies of it and the accompanying letter. He said Thursday he intends to comply and produce about 200,000 documents he gathered from suing Goodyear.
The DOT Inspector General says on its website its agents have federal law enforcement authority to conduct criminal investigations, including the ability to make arrests, execute search warrants and carry firearms. “Where appropriate, we make referrals for prosecution to the Department of Justice or state and local prosecuting authorities,” the office said in a statement.
It’s not clear exactly what the grand jury is investigating. But in a letter to Goodyear seeking the recall last year, NHTSA said the company should have recalled the tires within five working days of becoming aware of a defect, which it apparently knew of as early as 2002.
“The safety-related defect is a clear, identified failure that leads to a loss of vehicle control, causing crashes and potentially catastrophic consequences such as death and serious injury,” NHTSA wrote in the letter.
Documents from the safety agency say the tire tread can separate from the body, causing drivers to lose control and increasing the risk of a crash.
Goodyear wouldn’t recall the tires even as late as March of last year, despite investigators finding that their failure caused crashes that killed eight people and injured 69 others from 1998 through 2009.
NHTSA made the allegations against Goodyear in a February 2022 letter sent to the company seeking a recall of 22.5-inch-diameter G159 tires.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. responded to the agency in a March 8 letter refusing to do a recall, but later it decided to conduct one, according to NHTSA documents.
NHTSA had threatened a public hearing and court action if the tires weren’t recalled. Goodyear then agreed to recall about 173,000 tires.
In its response letter, Goodyear maintained that the tires were rigorously tested and fully qualified to operate at highway speeds. “No subject tire inspected by Goodyear engineers ever revealed or even suggested a defect of any kind,” the company wrote.
NHTSA presented a detailed timeline of what Goodyear knew when, based on an investigation into the tires that began in 2017. It also said the company routinely settled lawsuits and got judges to seal the information, keeping it from NHTSA and other plaintiffs’ lawyers.
“NHTSA was not alerted to the extraordinary failure rate of the subject tires” until documents were released in an Arizona case in 2017, the letter said.
After the recall was announced, NHTSA, which is part of the Transportation Department, said it was closing its investigation but reserved the right to take further action as warranted.
Goodyear has said few if any of the tires are still in use. As of Jan. 13, the company had replaced only 13 of the tires, according to NHTSA documents.
News of the investigation was reported Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal.
Kurtz said he’s happy that the government seems to be moving on the investigation.
“Better late than never,” he said. | 2023-01-27T13:30:26+00:00 | mytwintiers.com | https://www.mytwintiers.com/news-cat/national-news/grand-jury-investigates-goodyear-recreational-vehicle-tires-after-8-people-die/ |
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford is recalling more than 870,000 newer F-150 pickup trucks in the U.S. because the electric parking brakes can turn on unexpectedly.
The recall covers certain pickups from the 2021 through 2023 model years with single exhaust systems. Ford’s F-Series pickups are the top-selling vehicles in the U.S.
The company says in documents posted by government safety regulators Friday that a rear wiring bundle can come in contact with the rear axle housing. That can chafe the wiring and cause a short circuit, which can turn on the parking brake without action from the driver, increasing the risk of a crash.
Drivers may see a parking brake warning light and a warning message on the dashboard.
Ford says in documents that it has 918 warranty claims and three field reports of wire chafing in North America. Of these, 299 indicated unexpected parking brake activation, and 19 of these happened while the trucks were being driven.
The company says it doesn’t know of any crashes or injuries caused by the problem.
Dealers will inspect the rear wiring harness. If protective tape is worn through, the harness will be replaced. If the tape isn’t worn, dealers will install a protective tie strap and tape wrap.
Owners will be notified by letter starting Sept. 11.
Owners with questions can call Ford customer service at (866) 436-7332. | 2023-07-28T13:38:53+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/national/ford-recalling-870000-f-150-pickups-over-malfunctioning-parking-brakes/ |
YOOM Signs Strategic Partnerships with Several of the Most Influential Leaders in Global Music, Entertainment and Culture
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, YOOM, the volumetric capture and immersive content company formerly known as Tetavi, has announced a series of actions positioning it as the leader in the creation of content experiences for the Metaverse and Web3. YOOM has received the support of leaders of content and culture, including Jimmy Iovine [Entrepreneur, Co-Founder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics, among numerous other companies]; Finneas O'Connell [Grammy Award-winning producer, singer and songwriter]; Maverick Carter [CEO of The SpringHill Company]; Justin Lubliner, [CEO of the Darkroom]; and Paul Wachter [Founder, Chairman and CEO of Main Street Advisors].
All of these artists and executives have signed agreements to help YOOM conceive, develop, and create the future of immersive and interactive content with a focus on music, entertainment, gaming, sports and popular culture. Additionally, these strategic partners have joined the company's largest existing investors and shareholders, including Insight Partners, Marc Rowan and Aaron Stone, in personal investments totalling $15 million to further YOOM's growth.
Since its founding, YOOM has used its cutting-edge volumetric technology to pave the way for the future of immersive and interactive content. YOOM has established a home for artists and creators to be at the forefront of creating new types of content that can enable novel forms of social and community experiences. Shortly, YOOM will democratize the ability to create such content and experiences by making it available to anyone and everyone, from the highest-caliber professional artist to any amateur with a smartphone and an idea. YOOM's new funding will enable it to expand its roster of influential talent and top-tier brand partnerships as well as invest more into its production, R&D capabilities and mobile app development.
To further support its strategy, and in advance of several major projects that YOOM will release over the next few months, Aaron Stone, former senior partner and Head of Media, Entertainment and Communications, and current advisor to Apollo Global Management, has been named as YOOM's first non-founder Chairman. Stone was a seed investor in the company and has partnered with YOOM's founders and senior executives to help develop the organization's strategy and structure.
YOOM CEO Gilad Talmon commented: "We are honored to receive the endorsement and investments in time, effort, and capital from these titans in the music and entertainment industries, who are among the leading global trend setters in culture broadly. We are grateful that they share our vision of a more immersive and connected future where people can engage both with each other as well as their favorite personalities in a more intimate and meaningful way."
Aaron Stone added, "We are at the inception of a period in which new AI-based technologies will revolutionize the way we create and experience content, and interact socially. YOOM will partner with artists to create content that can engender enhanced feelings of presence, enabling new and different ways for people to emotionally engage and form communities. I am particularly excited that YOOM will provide the ability to create extraordinary content and experiences previously unavailable to anyone, to virtually everyone. I am thrilled to be a part of such a talented team in developing new methods to inspire creativity and to explore and express the human condition."
The company's new branding aims to create an inclusive and authentic identity that resonates with creators, consumers and commercial partners. It signals a new era and a calling to the Metaverse. "Our new name, YOOM, reflects the universal and meaningful experiences that our technology enables. It is the combination of 'You and Me', as we want to create a deeper connection between content creators and their audiences. It is also the sound of the second syllable of the word 'volume' since our technology allows you to create a digital version of yourself in 3D and with volume. Our new logo, a butterfly with symmetrical faces that appear as mirror images of each other, aims to convey creativity, freedom, duality and metamorphosis, symbolizing the passage from the real world to the digital world. The name YOOM represents who we are both as people and as a company: Dynamic, Bold, Expressive and Playful," continued Talmon.
"I am always looking for new possibilities that advance entertainment and move the culture forward. YOOM is going to bring artists and brands into the Metaverse and Web3, and that feels really exciting." said Jimmy Iovine. "This team and the proprietary technology they've built levels the playing field for creatives and widens the space where communities can grow. I'm inspired to help define what the future of entertainment can look like."
Earlier this year, YOOM partnered with the Los Angeles Kings to become the first NHL team to enter the Metaverse. In the near-term, YOOM will introduce its first major projects in areas such as music, gaming, TV and location-based entertainment.
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As Olympic sports target new and more dynamic youth-focused formats, field hockey is making its move toward a first World Cup for a five-a-side version and one day joining the Summer Games.
The Hockey5s event this weekend in the International Olympic Committee’s home city of Lausanne, Switzerland, will launch senior tournaments for men and women in the shorter format.
Hockey5s is already played at Youth Olympics but has been resisted by some nations who dominate the traditional 11-a-side format and have feared being replaced by the IOC, or even dropped entirely.
“That was the biggest threat to them,” said International Hockey Federation (FIH) chief executive Thierry Weil, who sees a future of adding, not taking away, from the Olympic program.
“If we are clever we can increase the number of medal events” with both formats included, Weil told the Associated Press in a recent interview.
Basketball is a model for the Olympic path field hockey wants to take. At the Tokyo Olympics last year, the 3-on-3 street version of basketball debuted as the IOC pushed to promote urban events.
While the United States swept the gold medals in traditional men’s and women’s basketball, its men did not qualify for the 3-on-3 tournament that was won by Latvia. Mongolia took part in the women's 3-on-3 event that the U.S. did win.
In field hockey, the 12-nation Olympic men’s and women’s tournaments typically involve the same pool of established teams, Weil noted.
He cited Austria and Chile among the FIH’s 141 members that could thrive in Hockey5s. It's designed to be easier and cheaper to develop than the 11-a-side game, which must be played on high-quality turf and grass fields.
“It’s a really good sport,” Weil said of 11-a-side hockey, “it’s an athletic sport with good rules but it’s an elite sport. The investment you need makes it impossible to do (for many nations).”
Hockey5s is designed to be played on school yards, tennis courts and parking lots. The 20-minute games, instead of 60, and perimeter boards to keep the ball in play aim to create faster, higher-scoring games. The two-day Lausanne event will have music as a backdrop to games.
“We need to make it cool for the younger generation,” said Weil, a former marketing director at FIFA.
India has sent sides to the five-team lineups in each of the men’s and women’s competitions in Lausanne.
A traditional hockey power, India is expected to bid to host the 2036 Olympics and is a potential supporter for adding Hockey5s.
The 2032 Olympics is in Brisbane and Australia took men’s hockey silver in Tokyo, where the men’s and women’s tournaments included more than 400 athletes playing over 14 days..
Having fewer 11-a-side teams playing a shorter Olympic tournament would create space for Hockey5s in the FIH’s quota of athletes and venue time at the games, Weil suggested.
After IOC officials see the short format this weekend, a future test for Hockey5s is in January 2024 when Oman hosts an inaugural World Cup.
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More AP sports: https://apnews.com/apf-sports and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports | 2022-06-03T12:42:22+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/sports/article/Field-hockey-pushes-5-a-side-format-toward-17217103.php |
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish prosecutor in charge of the investigation into leaks from pipelines in the Baltic Sea said Tuesday that he has ordered the area to be closed as he carries out a preliminary investigation into “suspected gross sabotage.”
“I understand the great public interest, but we are at the beginning of a preliminary investigation and I therefore cannot go into details about which investigative measures we are taking,” Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said late Monday.
The Swedish coast guard said ships, divers, fishing vessels and underwater vehicles, among others, are banned from approaching within 9.3 kilometers (5.8 miles) of the two leaks off Sweden.
Last week, undersea blasts involving several hundred pounds of explosives damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in four locations off southern Sweden and Denmark and led to huge methane leaks in international waters in the Baltic Sea.
Over the weekend, authorities in Denmark said the Nord Stream 1 and 2 natural gas pipelines had stopped leaking. However, the Swedish coast guard said Monday that one of its planes had reported that the smaller leak in Nord Stream 2 had increased and was about 30 meters (100 feet) in diameter.
The coast guard offered no explanation as to why the leak had increased. The other one, in Nord Stream 1, has stopped, it said.
A Swedish submarine rescue ship capable of advanced diving missions and a Swedish coast guard vessels have been sent to the two leaks off Sweden.
It remains unclear when divers or a submarine will be able to go down to the pipelines.
Danish authorities are monitoring the two gas leaks east of the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm with ships and a a military helicopter.
In Sweden, the Security Services are also taking part in the investigation, while Copenhagen police are in charge of an inquiry in Denmark.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Denmark’s parliament as it reconvened after the summer break on Tuesday that it was “an unheard deed which we look at with the utmost seriousness.”
She said that the investigation “is now underway. Preparedness in the energy sector has been increased. And together with our partners and allies, we are raising awareness of critical infrastructure.”
The U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday on the pipeline attacks, and Norwegian researchers published a map projecting that a huge plume of methane from the damaged pipelines will travel over large swaths of the Nordic region. | 2022-10-04T22:29:31+00:00 | kron4.com | https://www.kron4.com/news/world/ap-international/ap-swedes-close-area-of-baltic-sea-around-pipeline-gas-leaks/ |
‘Nonprofit Day’ highlights local organizations tackling challenges to meet community needs
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - For nonprofits working to carryout the soul mission of helping others in their communities, keeping up to serve those in need has come with an array of challenges over the past couple years, especially from the COVID-19 pandemic.
With Wednesday, August 17 marking National Nonprofit Day, Eyewitness News spoke with two Wichita area nonprofits about how they’re rebounding, working to be better than ever.
The United Way, established in communities around the world is among the largest nonprofits that had to adapt when the pandemic shut down virtually all in-person contact. In the Wichita area, United Way of the Plains did what it could to be there for community members in need.
United Way of the Plains President and CEO Pete Najera joined the organization in August 2020, during the height of the pandemic.
“Nonprofits were challenged on how they do their charitable work when they could no longer be face-to-face with their clients,” Najera said.
While fundraising was a challenge, the nonprofit persevered.
“Our businesses have come back strong since COVID and they’re beginning to give back to nonprofits like the United Way so that we can do even more in our city,” Najera said.
The Kansas Food Bank also has struggled with challenges, first brought on by the pandemic, then by inflation. Operations were required to adapt with fewer volunteers and food shortages. The number of those needing assistance, meanwhile, jumped 40 to 50 percent.
“It was hard for us, but the way we look at it, it was a heck of a lot harder for those families we were trying to serve,” said Kansas Food Bank President and CEO Brian Walker.
With a return to some sense of normalcy, Walker said the challenges of the past two years, combined with community support, strengthened the mission and work at the Kansas Food Bank, and brought their staff together as a family.
“It made it sort of a different calling. We’re all here for a reason,” he said. “This is why we’re really here. Not that we practice for that, but let’s go do this and make sure people have food.”
To kick off its fall fundraising campaign, the United Way is holding its second annual “Impact on the Plains” competition where entrepreneurs have the chance to win $100,000 to come up with and pitch ideas that addresses and aims to solve complex community issues. You can learn more about “Impact on the Plains and how to participate here: https://unitedwayplains.org/impact-on-the-plains/.
If you would like to donate your money, food or time to the Kansas Food Bank, call 316-265-3663, or click here: https://kansasfoodbank.org/how-to-help/.
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HOUSTON — Harris County in Texas is a big and diverse county that has trended Democratic over the past decade.
And in the recently completed session of the Texas Legislature, Republican state lawmakers passed measures that specifically target how elections are run in Harris County.
Two bills sent to Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday would remove the county's elections administrator position and allow for the secretary of state — an appointee of the governor — to oversee elections in Harris County, under certain circumstances.
Harris County has struggled to conduct elections in recent years. The then-elections administrator resigned last year after issues with the state primary.
And the November general election was more of the same. Some polls in Democratic-leaning neighborhoods opened hours late. Others experienced malfunctioning machines. And then there were more than two dozen polling sites in Republican-leaning neighborhoods that were forced to temporarily shut down because they ran out of paper ballots.
"I believe, absolutely believe, it was on purpose," said Terry Wheeler, who served as a Republican election judge in Cypress, northwest of Houston. "I've never seen anything like this, the way that they blew us off over the phone and refused to get us paper ballots."
Democrats largely swept the 2022 elections in Harris County. Houston Public Media conducted a five-month investigation of the county's management of those elections, which revealed numerous problems but no evidence that the county had deliberately undersupplied polling sites in Republican-leaning areas. Nor did it determine that the number of people turned away at those sites would have significantly affected the outcome of most contests.
Nevertheless, Republicans at the state and county level decided Harris County's election system was broken and needed state intervention to fix it.
GOP state Sen. Paul Bettencourt of Houston was the author of those two bills related to his home county that are now on the governor's desk.
"Senate Bill 1750 basically returns elections in Harris County back to the elected officials — the county clerk and the tax assessor — like it was before the establishment of the now-defunct elections administrator office," Bettencourt said.
Like many Republicans, Bettencourt holds the county's appointed elections administrator, Clifford Tatum, responsible for the problems of Election Day 2022. He says the elected officials would be more responsive to voters.
But then there's SB 1933.
"[SB 1933] basically grants the secretary of state oversight under specific circumstances for Harris County elections, if necessary, through a complaint process established in the bill," Bettencourt said. In other words, it would allow the state to override, even remove, those same elected officials.
Both bills were amended after being filed to target counties with at least 3.5 million and 4 million people, respectively. That's Harris County alone.
The county's Democratic chief executive, Judge Lina Hidalgo, condemned the two measures.
"Harris County today finds itself grappling with the audacity of Republican state lawmakers, hell-bent on recklessly enhancing the election chances of one party by targeting the largest county in the state," Hidalgo said. "This sets a dangerous precedent and subverts elections in one of the most diverse counties in the nation — another step toward disenfranchisement in the name of 'election reform.' "
County Attorney Christian Menefee, also a Democrat, said, "We have a lot of elected officials, a lot of people who are voted into office to serve their community. Yet these bills target three Black elected officials in Harris County: the elections administrator, the county clerk and the tax assessor collector."
Menefee said the bills won't go unchallenged. "We're suing the state of Texas to protect Harris County, to protect Harris County residents, to protect our public officials, and to stop the state from targeting us," he said.
The current elections administrator has taken steps to alleviate the problems that have plagued voting in the county.
But his job is going away, forcing the county clerk to scramble to oversee November's general election, when Houstonians will choose a new mayor.
Other bills: Illegal voting and ERIC
Texas lawmakers passed other election-related bills with statewide ramifications.
- House Bill 1243 would increase the penalty for voting illegally from a misdemeanor to a second-degree felony, on par with manslaughter and attempted murder. That would reverse a change made by legislators a couple of years ago.
Katya Ehresman of Common Cause Texas has grave concerns about HB 1243, but she said the measure wasn't as bad as another bill the Senate tried to pass, which would have punished a person for voting illegally even if they didn't realize they were committing a crime by casting a ballot. Both measures came after several high-profile cases of individuals being arrested for voting while still on parole and not having had their voting rights restored yet.
"This version that did pass [HB 1243], while horrible — insofar as it increases the criminalization of voting, and it ultimately will intimidate people from the process because of the threat of felony penalties — it at minimum doesn't include that opened door of prosecutions of mistakes and confusion," Ehresman said.
- Senate Bill 1070 would seek to end the state's participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a voter data consortium that's been targeted in certain corners by right-wing misinformation.
Copyright 2023 Houston Public Media News 88.7. To see more, visit Houston Public Media News 88.7. | 2023-06-01T19:43:07+00:00 | kpcc.org | https://www.kpcc.org/npr-news/2023-06-01/texas-republicans-target-how-elections-are-run-in-democratic-leaning-houston-area |
Actor Jeremy Renner says he broke more than 30 bones in the New Year's Day snowplow accident that left him in critical condition.
"Morning workouts, resolutions all changed this particular new years …. These 30 plus broken bones will mend, grow stronger, just like the love and bond with family and friends deepens," Renner wrote on Instagram Saturday. "Love and blessings to you all."
Renner spent more than two weeks in the hospital after being run over by his own PistenBully snow groomer near his Lake Tahoe home. Renner had used the machine to free a relative's vehicle from several feet of snow. When he climbed out, the 7-ton machine began to roll.
"In an effort to stop (it), Mr. Renner attempts to climb back into the driver's seat. It's at this point that Mr. Renner is run over," Washoe County Sheriff Darin Balaam said earlier this month. Authorities are still investigating but have said there were no signs that Renner was impaired and no indication of any foul play.
The "Avengers" star recently left the hospital to continue his recovery at home. He hasn't shared many specifics on his condition, but a representative said he suffered blunt chest trauma and other injuries.
Emergency call logs obtained by multiple news outlets painted a grim picture, noting that Renner's upper torso was "crushed" and one side of his chest was "collapsed."
Renner scored back-to-back Oscar nominations for “The Hurt Locker” and “The Town.” His portrayal of a bomb disposal specialist in Iraq in 2009′s “The Hurt Locker” helped turn him into a household name.
“The Avengers” in 2012 cemented him as part of Marvel’s grand storytelling ambitions, with his character appearing in several sequels and getting its own Disney+ series, “Hawkeye.”
The Associated Press contributed. | 2023-01-22T12:24:35+00:00 | 5newsonline.com | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/nation-world/jeremy-renner-says-he-broke-bones-in-snowplow-accident/507-e6c34d56-3974-484c-80d4-7580e6aeb004 |
$940M Mega Millions prize just latest of massive jackpots
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Call it the Golden Age of lottery jackpots.
Or to put it another way, what’s up with all the massive lottery prizes?
The latest haul up for grabs is a $940 million Mega Millions jackpot, with a drawing set for Friday night. The prize ranks as the sixth largest in U.S. history.
That comes less than two months after a player in California won a record $2.04 billion Powerball jackpot. Players also won lottery prizes topping $1 billion earlier in 2022 and in 2021.
“It’s thrilling to see the Mega Millions jackpot grow throughout the holidays, and now, into the New Year,” said Pat McDonald, the director of the Ohio Lottery who also leads the state lotteries overseeing the Mega Millions game.
But while it may seem the lottery gods are showering players with repeated chances at hard-to-fathom riches, the credit for the big prizes is actually due to math -- and more difficult odds.
In the fall of 2017, lottery officials approved changes to Mega Millions that significantly lengthened the odds from one in 258.9 million to one in 302.6 million. They made similar changes to Powerball in October 2015, worsening the odds from one in 175.2 million to one in 292.2 million.
The idea was that by making jackpots less common, ticket revenue could build up week after week, creating giant prizes that would attract attention and pull in more players who had grown blasé about $100 million or $200 million top prizes.
In August 2021, Powerball also added a third weekly drawing, which enabled the jackpot to roll over and grow even more quickly as people had more chances to play, and lose. Mega Millions has stuck with the two weekly drawings.
Thanks to those moves, nine of the top 10 largest lottery prizes have been won since 2017.
Of course, those uber-rich winners aren’t quite as wealthy as it would seem.
That’s because the advertised jackpots are for winners who agree to take their money over 29 years in an annuity. Winners almost always choose the cash option, which for Friday’s drawing would be $483.5 million.
One-third or more of those winnings would go toward federal and in some places, state, taxes.
Still, it’s a lot of money, and lottery players at the Riverside Red X, a large grocery and liquor store in Riverside, Mo., said it would change their lives forever.
Karol Palmer, of Parkville, said she would “pay off everything” and take care of her three children and seven grandchildren if she won the Mega Millions prize. The 80-year-old said she also would buy a house at a lake.
“I might not be able to use (the lake house) for very long, given my age,” she said. “But who knows, I might live to be 100. You have to dream a little.”
Alvin Brockington, of Kansas City, Kansas, said his priorities would be paying his bills, helping everyone in his family, buying a house for his mother and traveling. He said he has a sister in California whom he hasn’t seen for 30 years so he would take the entire family to see her, or fly her and other relatives to visit him.
“Then I would get down on my knees and ask God to lead me to the people who really need help,” he said. “They say money is the root of all evil but it is really the person who has the money, what kind of person they are and what they do with it.”
Brockington, a retired railroad worker, said he also plays other lottery games. Noting that the Powerball jackpot was also up to hundreds of millions, he laughed and said, “I’d take that. I’d take $1 million dollars from any game. I’m not greedy. Even that would help a lot.”
Robert Bowring, 70, of Kansas City, said after sharing the prize with his family, he would find a good organization that would assist people who need help. Bowring said “everything is about sharing. If you have that much money, you have to spread it around.”
Mega Millions is played in 45 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Stafford reported from Riverside, Missouri.
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FLINT, MI – Keynote speaker and alumnus Brandon Britt left Flint Southwestern Classical Academy’s graduating class with an important message: “Always bet on yourself.”
It was one of many lessons that the 2011 graduate shared with the Class of 2023 as they donned caps and gowns at commencement ceremonies Tuesday evening. | 2023-06-07T02:55:51+00:00 | mlive.com | https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2023/06/flint-class-of-2023-walks-across-stage-always-bet-on-yourself.html |
Time’s Up, the anti-harassment group, is shutting down and giving its remaining funding to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.
Time’s Up sprung up in the early days of the #MeToo movement and was aimed at protecting women from harassment. But in 2021, two of its leaders resigned after revelations that they helped cover up allegations of sexual harassment against then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Now, the group will now stop operations and give its remaining money to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which is administered independently by the National Women’s Law Center.
Here & Now‘s Jane Clayson speaks with Emily Martin, vice president of education and workplace justice at the National Women’s Law Center. She was part of the team that created the fund she now helps to run.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. | 2023-01-27T20:48:33+00:00 | klcc.org | https://www.klcc.org/2023-01-27/what-the-end-of-times-up-means-for-the-future-of-the-metoo-movement |
Michigan official gets house arrest for 2020 ballot sabotage
FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A local official in Michigan has been sentenced to six months of house arrest after she pleaded no contest to tampering with a ballot box in her own election. Investigators say Kathy Funk broke the seal on a ballot container to ensure that votes could not be recounted. Funk won the Democratic nomination for Flint Township clerk in 2020 by just 79 votes out of over 5,000. A recount was not conducted. At her sentencing Monday, the judge said she must wear an electronic monitor and also write a public apology. | 2023-04-24T18:23:38+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/04/24/michigan-official-gets-house-arrest-for-2020-ballot-sabotage/ |
BEIJING, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hello Group Inc. (NASDAQ: MOMO) ("Hello Group" or the "Company"), a leading mobile social and entertainment platform in China, today announced that it has conducted separate, privately negotiated transactions with certain holders of its existing 1.25% convertible senior notes due 2025 (the "2025 Notes") to repurchase US$161.8 million aggregate principal amount of the 2025 Notes for an aggregate repurchase price of (i) approximately US$151.6 million plus (ii) accrued and unpaid interest. Following these repurchases, US$544.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company's 2025 Notes remains outstanding.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any offer or sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification thereof under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction,
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We are a leading player in China's online social and entertainment space. Through Momo, Tantan and other properties within our product portfolio, we enable users to discover new relationships, expand their social connections and build meaningful interactions. Momo is a mobile application that connects people and facilitates social interactions based on location, interests and a variety of online recreational activities. Tantan, which was added into our family of applications through acquisition in May 2018, is a leading social and dating application. It is designed to help its users find and establish romantic connections as well as meet interesting people. We also operate a number of other applications to serve different social and entertainment demands from our users.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Dara Mabrey scored 19 points, Olivia Miles had 13 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds, and No. 9 Notre Dame beat Ball State 95-60 on Sunday.
The Fighting Irish (4-0), who had six different players score in double figures, have won four straight contests against in-state foes in the last three seasons.
Madelyn Bischoff led the Cardinals (2-2) with 15 points, including nine of Ball State’s first 11.
Ball State led 11-6 halfway through the first quarter but the Irish closed out the period with a 21-7 run. Notre Dame was up 54-27 at the half and maintained at least a 25-point lead the rest of the way.
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Ball State: The Cardinals took down two straight in-state opponents in Indiana University East and Butler, but failed to pick up the sweep in South Bend. Ball State returns three of its top four scorers from a year ago and is expected to compete for the Mid-American Conference title this season.
Notre Dame: The Irish start 4-0 for the second year in a row. They’re scoring 91.3 points per game as they prepare for a tough December slate that features home contests against No. 19 Maryland and No. 5 UConn.
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Ball State: At Utah State on Wednesday.
Notre Dame: Travels to the Bahamas to play American University on Thursday in its first of two games in the Goombay Classic.
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Landover, MD – There were some highs, some lows, maybe few woes…but through it all…learning lessons for the Commanders and Panthers to build on.
We knew he was a stud at Virginia Tech and he gave glimpses of it today. Carolina’s first round draft pick Amare Barno brought the pressure with 3 tackles and a fumble recovery in his debut.
“Being out there was just crazy, dream come true definitely. Just staying disciplined and going back to it again just knowing what to do and stuff like that,” Barno says.
Washington was without fellow Hokie Logan Thomas who didn’t play and the offense was stagnant at times but Carson Wentz showed he can be accurate.
“Obviously a small sample size that was the biggest thing only 3 drives there for us. But definitely some things that you can glean from each of these games and opportunities to go against other opponents,” Wentz explained.
But it was former UNC signal caller Sam Howell who had some late game flare scoring two touchdowns.
“I was just happy to get out there for my first NFL game. I felt like I was getting more comfortable throughout the game and definitely cool to get the first one under my belt,” former Carolina star Howell says.
“He played like he did in college. This is a guy that’s very smart with a very good arm, very athletic, runs well with the ball. He’s a guy that with the more he learns the better he’s going to become and he’s a guy that has a bright future.” Head coach Ron Rivera says.
From here Washington will travel to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs next Saturday at 7pm. That game can be seen right here on WSLS-10. | 2022-08-14T02:40:56+00:00 | wsls.com | https://www.wsls.com/sports/2022/08/14/commanders-take-plenty-of-positives-out-of-preseason-game-loss/ |
Updated August 21, 2022 at 11:37 PM ET
Three law enforcement officers in Crawford County, Arkansas, have been placed on leave after a video shared on social media shows them beating and restraining a man in a parking lot. State police will investigate the incident, the governor said.
In the video, a law enforcement officer repeatedly and brutally punches a man that Arkansas State Police identified as Randall Worcester, 27, and slams his head against the cement ground several times. Another officer is seen kicking Worcester's lower body repeatedly while a third officer is seen holding him down.
The incident occurred at about 10:40 a.m. Sunday outside a convenience store in Mulberry, in Crawford County.
Worcester was sent to the hospital, and was later released and sent to a county jail. He is being charged with second-degree battery, resisting arrest, refusal to submit, possessing an instrument of crime, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, terroristic threatening, and second-degree assault, state police said.
Two of the officers are deputies with the Crawford County sheriff's office and the third is an officer with the city of Mulberry Police Department, law enforcement confirmed.
State police said they have opened a use-of-force investigation, and will submit their findings to the Crawford County prosecutor "who will determine whether the use of force by the law enforcement officers was consistent with Arkansas laws."
Reaction has been swift from the highest levels of state government, with Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson commenting on what he called the "arrest incident."
"I have spoken with Col. Bill Bryant of the Arkansas State Police and the local arrest incident in Crawford County will be investigated pursuant to the video evidence and the request of the prosecuting attorney," he said in a tweet.
Crawford County Sheriff James Damante said in a statement hours prior that the two deputies involved in the incident have been suspended "pending the outcome of the investigation."
"I hold all my employees accountable for their actions and will take appropriate measures in this matter," Damante said in the statement posted to Facebook.
In a separate statement from Mulberry Police, the department confirmed that the incident captured on video involved one of its officers, who it said has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of a state police investigation.
"The City of Mulberry and the Mulberry Police Department takes these investigations very seriously and holds all their officers accountable for their actions," officials said in the Facebook post. "We will take the appropriate actions at the conclusion of the investigation."
A user named Naomi Johnson uploaded a video of the incident to TikTok that she also shared on Twitter, and said: "my sister witnessed this today." Johnson's video appeared to have been removed from TikTok on Sunday evening.
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Campaign reinforces AutoNation's longstanding record of excellence, made possible by dedicated Associates from coast to coast
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE: AN), America's largest and most admired automotive retailer, today announces a new national advertising campaign celebrating its Associates coast to coast and the embodiment of the theme, "Go Be Great!" "Go Be Great" is an aspirational message that amplifies the company's commitment to delivering an unrivaled Customer Experience and world-class Work Environment.
As the next evolutionary phase of AutoNation's, "What Drives You, Drives Us" Customer-facing ad campaign, the new "Go Be Great" messaging highlights the Customer Experience as central to AutoNation's industry-leading approach to automotive sales and service.
AutoNation's multi-million dollar, omni-channel media campaign, developed in partnership with AutoNation's Marketing Team, I Think Studios, and Zimmerman Advertising, features Associates from AutoNation's dealerships coast to coast and will run across media channels including TV, radio, print, online and social media. TV commercials will start airing on ESPN, CNBC and NBC leading up to the Indy 500© on May 29th, when AutoNation's 4X Indy 500© Champion driver Helio Castroneves will "Drive for Five," in his bid to be the first five-time (5X) Indianapolis 500 winner in the history of that race.
"AutoNation's 'Go Be Great' ad campaign characterizes the collective drive, ambition and determination of our Associates to be the best each and every day, leading the way in Customer excellence," said Marc Cannon, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Experience Officer at AutoNation.
To coincide with the new advertising campaign launch, AutoNation will focus on recruitment and retention in each of its markets. From retail sales and service technicians to corporate positions, AutoNation provides comprehensive benefits packages, extensive on-the-job training and opportunities for career growth, inspiring employees to "Go Be Great."
"Our Associates are our greatest asset, and we're currently in the process of hiring more talented individuals at all levels and skill sets who are motivated and inspired to excel in everything we stand for here at AutoNation," added Cannon.
AutoNation has been recognized for greatness by many Automotive Industry authorities. In fact, J.D. Power has awarded 129 of AutoNation's stores with the coveted Dealer of Excellence award, recognizing the best dealers in Customer Experience. In addition, Reputation, the company, reported that AutoNation has received more than a half-a-million Five-Star reviews, the most of any public or private automotive dealer group. Through AutoNation's DRV PNK initiative, the company is driving towards $35 million donated to fight cancer.
AutoNation has also created ONE AutoNation to ensure that Associates feel at home in an inclusive workplace, where differences are embraced and opportunities for learning, growth and leadership are abundant.
To view the new "Go Be Great," ad campaign video, visit https://youtu.be/W4icNsddLOE .
To find out more about careers at AutoNation, visit www.jobs.autonation.com.
AutoNation, a provider of personalized transportation services, is driven by innovation and transformation. As one of America's most admired companies, AutoNation delivers a peerless Customer experience recognized by data-driven consumer insight leaders, Reputation and J.D. Power. Through its bold leadership and brand affinity, the AutoNation Brand is synonymous with "DRVPNK" and "What Drives You, Drives Us." AutoNation has a singular focus on personalized transportation services that are easy, transparent, and Customer-centric.
Please visit www.autonation.com, investors.autonation.com, and www.twitter.com/AutoNation, where AutoNation discloses additional information about the Company, its business, and its results of operations. Please also visit www.autonationdrive.com, AutoNation's automotive blog, for information regarding the AutoNation community, the automotive industry, and current automotive news and trends.
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Megan Holloway overcame a lot in her life, including an ATV accident when she was a teenager that left her with a debilitating traumatic brain injury. But it seems likely that an asthma attack is what cut her life short last week, her family said Friday.
Holloway, a 2016 Charles Page High School graduate, died Tuesday at a Tulsa hospital. She was 24.
Last Sunday, Holloway was at home with her fiancé, Jordan Simpson, when she began to feel like she couldn’t breathe, her father, Jeff Holloway, said. She used her inhaler, but it didn’t help, so she took a breathing treatment, but it didn’t help, either, he said.
So Holloway told Simpson she needed to go to the emergency room. Simpson loaded her in the car and headed out, but the couple were only a few blocks from their home just north of downtown Sand Springs when she passed out.
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Simpson called an ambulance, and the paramedics worked to revive her on site but could not, Jeff Holloway said. They rushed her to the hospital and were able to get a pulse en route, he said, but the damage from being without oxygen for so long was too great, and she died two days later.
Unfortunately, Megan Holloway was no stranger to trauma. At 15, she was in an ATV accident that landed her in the Intensive Care Unit, followed by weeks of inpatient and then outpatient therapy, her family said.
They said Holloway’s friends rallied around her, making T-shirts that read, “Team Megan” and “#prayformeganholloway.”
Holloway worked hard to regain most of the speech and mobility she had lost, although severe headaches persisted, as did some cognitive and language-processing issues, her father said. Even more, though, it changed her personality, he said.
“She was much more obvious with her emotions. She was a different person; she really was,” Jeff Holloway said, adding that his daughter no longer cared about many of the things that had always been important to her before the accident.
“She had a tough 24 years, but she was so resilient,” he said, adding that his daughter “really recognized trauma,” and not just in herself.
“This girl knew what trauma was and helped others when she could with their own,” Holloway’s mother, Renee Holloway, wrote in a Facebook post. “She always put others ahead of herself” and “was the best sister and friend to her siblings.”
The family wrote in her obituary that “from toys for her nieces, nephew and younger brother and sister, which they usually had to find via a scavenger hunt, to bringing her big brother and sister whichever Crumbl cookie she knew they would enjoy, Megan always thought of others first.”
Holloway’s love and compassion weren’t limited to humans, her family said, adding that they never knew what creature the lifelong animal lover would bring home next.
Holloway worked at the Bank of Oklahoma as a vault specialist but had always dreamed of working with animals. Not knowing whether she could deal with the pain of their illnesses or deaths was all that held her back.
Holloway never lacked for pets, having had guinea pigs, a gecko and several cats and dogs, including “two of her best friends, Zoey, a rat terrier, and Mia, part corgi/miniature pinscher,” her family said in her obituary.
Holloway is survived by her parents, Jeff and Renee Holloway; her fiancé, Jordan Simpson; siblings Ryan Holloway, Malorie Daugherty and her husband, Randy, Evin Holloway and Emma Holloway; grandparents Mike and Marilyn Elliott; two nieces and a nephew; and many aunts, uncles and cousins.
A visitation with family is planned from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Dillon Funeral Service chapel at Woodland Memorial Park, 1200 N. Cleveland Ave. Private family services will be held Tuesday, and a public celebration of life is planned for 4 p.m. Saturday at Keystone Public School.
A GoFundMe account has been established to help the family with the unexpected funeral expenses and can be found online at bit.ly/MeganHollowayFund. Any donations remaining after funeral expenses have been met will be contributed to a local animal rescue.
“It’s just been overwhelming,” Jeff Holloway said. “We’ve just been so appreciative of what everyone’s done for us.”
Renee Holloway also expressed gratitude in her Facebook post for the outpouring of support, adding that the family’s “faith will see us through this and we know we will see Megan again. She won’t be in any pain and she will live forever in a paradise.” | 2022-11-13T20:32:39+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/community/sandsprings/news/sand-springs-woman-who-suffered-lifetime-of-trauma-dies-of-apparent-asthma-attack/article_c0500150-633c-11ed-8c20-a72cbd5cf7da.html |
The Tulsa City-County Library has chosen for its annual One Book, One Tulsa reading initiative the best-selling memoir “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner.
Zauner, also known as the creative force behind the alternative pop band Japanese Breakfast, will be in Tulsa to take part in a free event that will serve as the culmination of the project, 6 p.m. July 28. During this event, held at Central Library downtown, Zauner will discuss her book, answer questions from the audience and sign copies, which will be available for purchase from Magic City Books.
Copies of “Crying in H Mart” will also be available for checkout from Tulsa City-County Library.
The annual “One Book, One Tulsa” event fosters literacy within Tulsa County through this community-wide book reading and encourages conversation about a meaningful work.
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“Crying in H Mart” began as an essay Zauner wrote and published in the New York Magazine in 2018, which dealt with Zauner’s grief in the wake of her mother’s death. She would often find herself weeping as she shopped at H Marts, a string of U.S. stores that specialize in Korean foods and products.
She later expanded the essay into a book that chronicles her often-troubled relationship with her mother, using food as a way of establishing identity, as Zauner felt that she lost her primary connection to her Korean heritage with the death of her mother.
“Crying in H Mart” was one of the best-selling books of 2021, spending more than one year on the New York Times Best-Seller List. It was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, NPR, Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly and more, and it was on former President Barack Obama’s list of favorite books of the year.
In addition to the July 28 event, the Tulsa City-County Library will host a number of events throughout the coming weeks that are designed to deepen one’s understanding of Zauner’s memoir, along with Korean-American culture and history.
For a complete list of programs, and more information on the One Tulsa, One Book program: tulsalibrary.org/one-book-one-tulsa-one-tulsa. | 2023-06-25T05:13:05+00:00 | tulsaworld.com | https://tulsaworld.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/acclaimed-memoir-chosen-for-one-book-one-tulsa/article_ac784b82-0ee6-11ee-a2ec-27787d489bfe.html |
LA PAZ – Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Bolivia acknowledged Wednesday that the church had been deaf to the suffering of victims of sexual abuse, commenting as a pedophilia scandal involving priests is rocking the country.
In a statement, the Andean nation’s Catholic bishops said that “as a church, we are facing a painful moment ... because we are certain that we have been directly or indirectly involved in the deep pain caused to innocent victims.”
The statement comes amid the fallout from the case involving a late Spanish Jesuit priest, Alfonso Pedrajas. According to a private diary accessed by the Spanish newspaper El País, Pedrajas allegedly abused dozens of minors in Catholic boarding schools in Bolivia in the 1970s and 1980s. He died of cancer in 2009.
Earlier this week, Jordi Bertemeu, one of the Vatican’s top sex crimes investigators, arrived in Bolivia.
The bishops said that while “we know there is no way to compensate for the damage caused, we are committed to do everything possible to … seek a reparation, with the support of professionals who provide assistance and help heal wounds and scars.”
The Prosecutor’s Office initiated an investigation — which remains confidential — and has called on the victims to testify. New cases of sexual abuse have been uncovered as a result of this probe and one priest was sent to pre-trial detention for three months earlier this month.
Bolivian President Luis Arce sent a letter to Pope Francis earlier this week, requesting that the church release any documents about sexual abuse by priests in Bolivia.
In the letter, Arce calls on church authorities to “move from pronouncements to concrete actions to prevent impunity.”
In their statement, the Bolivian bishops said the church would set up two commissions to “determine responsibilities.” They promised to provide updates, saying they would “contribute to a transparent investigation” by the justice system.
The Jesuit Society in Bolivia previously apologized to victims and pledged to support the investigation while denouncing Pedrajas’ superiors for an alleged cover-up. Many of the people singled out are no longer in office or have died. | 2023-05-25T02:47:56+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2023/05/25/bolivias-catholic-church-acknowledges-being-deaf-to-sex-abuse-victims/ |
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Univar Solutions Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) ("Univar Solutions" or "the Company"), a leading global solutions provider to users of specialty ingredients and chemicals, announced today that it has acquired Vicom Distribución Productos Quimicos, S.L. ("Vicom"), a leading regional specialty chemicals distributor in Spain and Portugal.
The Vicom acquisition will further expand the Company's already robust specialty portfolio of coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers (CASE) offerings by enhancing its range of additive solutions and augmenting its presence in Europe with more sustainable options.
"I am delighted to welcome the Vicom team to the Univar Solutions family," said Nick Powell, president of Global Ingredients & Specialties. "Vicom advances our strategic growth priorities by deepening our ability to offer market-leading ingredients, specialty chemicals and solutions to our customers. With a highly knowledgeable sales organization, strong partnerships with both new and existing Univar Solutions suppliers, and a proven track record of service excellence, Vicom is a highly complementary fit and will add even more value to our customers as we expand our solution offerings to meet trends and drive sustainable options as we continue growing together."
Teresa García, president of the board, Vicom, said: "We are very excited to join Univar Solutions to offer our customers an even broader portfolio of critical solutions for their applications. We share a deep commitment to customer service through an enhanced experience, and I am confident we have a very bright future ahead as part of Univar Solutions."
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, Vicom Distribución Productos Quimicos, S.L is a leading regional specialty chemicals distributor in Spain and Portugal. The company partners with a range of well-known global suppliers, including ExxonMobil, Arkema, MLPC, Synthomer, Goodyear Chemical, Sidiac and others. Learn more at https://www.vicomdistribucion.es/.
Univar Solutions (NYSE: UNVR) is a leading global commodity and specialty chemical and ingredient distributor representing a premier portfolio from the world's leading producers. With the industry's largest private transportation fleet and technical sales force, unparalleled logistics know-how, deep market and regulatory knowledge, formulation and recipe development, and leading digital tools, the Company is well-positioned to offer tailored solutions and value-added services to a wide range of markets, industries, and applications. While fulfilling its purpose to help keep communities healthy, fed, clean and safe, Univar Solutions is committed to helping customers and suppliers innovate and focus on Growing Together. Learn more at univarsolutions.com.
This press release includes certain statements relating to future events and our intentions, beliefs, expectations, and predictions for the future, which are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which may be beyond the Company's control. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations and assumptions. A detailed discussion of these factors and uncertainties is contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Potential factors that could affect such forward-looking statements include, among others: the ultimate geographic spread of the COVID-19 pandemic; the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic; actions that may be taken by governmental authorities to address or otherwise mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; the potential negative impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and our customers and suppliers; the overall impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business, results of operations and financial condition; other fluctuations in general economic conditions, particularly in industrial production and the demands of our customers; significant changes in the business strategies of producers or in the operations of our customers; increased competitive pressures, including as a result of competitor consolidation; significant changes in the pricing, demand and availability of chemicals; our levels of indebtedness, the restrictions imposed by our debt instruments, and our ability to obtain additional financing when needed; the broad spectrum of laws and regulations that we are subject to, including extensive environmental, health and safety laws and regulations; an inability to integrate the business and systems of companies we acquire, including of Nexeo Solutions, Inc., or to realize the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions; potential business disruptions and security breaches, including cybersecurity incidents; an inability to generate sufficient working capital; increases in transportation and fuel costs and changes in our relationship with third party providers; accidents, safety failures, environmental damage, product quality and liability issues and recalls; major or systemic delivery failures involving our distribution network or the products we carry; operational risks for which we may not be adequately insured; ongoing litigation and other legal and regulatory risks; challenges associated with international operations; exposure to interest rate and currency fluctuations; potential impairment of goodwill; liabilities associated with acquisitions, ventures and strategic investments; negative developments affecting our pension plans and multi-employer pensions; labor disruptions associated with the unionized portion of our workforce; and the other factors described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We caution you that the forward-looking information presented in this press release is not a guarantee of future events or results, and that actual events or results may differ materially from those made in or suggested by the forward-looking information contained in this press release. In addition, forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "may," "plan," "seek, "will," "expect," "intend," "estimate," "anticipate," "believe" or "continue" or the negative thereof or variations thereon or similar terminology. Any forward-looking information presented herein is made only as of the date of this press release, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect changes in assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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BEIJING, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- To explore the logic behind the successful financing, Nebula Brands co-founder Yanzhi Wang shared his insights in an interview with ChinaVenture.cn.
Industry reverts to the mean
After obtaining the B round of financing from L Catterton, the world's largest consumer private equity firm, Nebula Brands received another B+ round of financing from Mubadala, a large sovereign wealth fund from Abu Dhabi, in the next 6 months. William Wang, co-founder of Nebula Brands, said that this round of financing will be tapped to expand the acquisition scale of the assets of brands that "go global" from China and recruit talents from all fields. This will help consolidate its capabilities in business growth and brand building.
Founded in 2019, Nebula Brands is the first and largest Amazon brands acquisition platform in China. Such companies are referred as Amazon Aggregator (AA) overseas. AA mainly acquires Amazon brands with potential, and then integrates operations to increase profit and brand premium.
Since the end of 2020, AA has started a wave of fundraising frenzy around the world. Thrasio, the fastest US company to achieve unicorn status, is a player in this industry as well. Since more than 70% of product supply chain and 50% of third-party sellers on Amazon trace back to China, global Amazon aggregators also turn their attention to this market last year. European leading Amazon aggregators flock to Chinese market after Thrasio entered it in 2021.
However, the industry has suffered a setback this year. In May, Thrasio, the world's largest Amazon aggregator, announced it would lay off nearly 20% of its staff and replace its CEO. The scale of investment and financing is also shrinking. According to data from MarketplacePulse, an e-commerce research agency, Amazon aggregators raised more than $5.1 billion in the first half of 2021 but only managed to raise $2.2 billion in the first half of 2022. Merely12 new aggregators announced successful financing. According to the report on mergers and acquisitions of Amazon aggregators of Capstone Partners, an investment bank, the market prices of Amazon FBA brands soared last year with an influx of money for Amazon brands acquisition, the growth of AA has slowed down as a result.
So, has the AA bubble burst?
"The AA industry boomed last year thanks to multiple favorable factors that are difficult to replicate in the early days of the industry." Said William Wang, co-founder of Nebula. A core reason is that the sales of overseas e-commerce platforms have grown exponentially due to the pandemic. Against this backdrop, most of the brands acquired on the Amazon platform improve their performances amid a booming market. The rapid growth of profits has led to an increase in the valuation of such assets. This industry received an influx of money that seeks opportunities for greater profit.
In his view, the industry reverts to the mean this year in a positive manner, which is normal in market cycles. Although the growth of overseas e-commerce markets such as the Amazon has slowed down compared with the previous two years, the fundamentals remain sound. Instead, more mature channels and markets are identified after the pandemic. The need for AA is also palpable - bottom-up integration through acquisitions will continue to happen in any mature market.
"The fragmented brands will be acquired by AA, and the small AAs may be acquired by big AAs, brand groups or listed companies in the future, which are common market integrations. It is not that the market is gone for AA, but that there is no certain growth of the broader market. Therefore, you need more solid judgment and more effective operational growth ability. " William Wang reckoned.
The more difficult it is to do business, the higher the threshold will be. Different AAs that have entered the market will focus on acquisitions with dimensions where they have an edge in specific industries or product features. The acquisition platforms also have a trend of diversifying from Amazon to other channels.
With the total financing reaching $3.4 billion, Thrasio's strategy was to expand rapidly to achieve a scale effect through the Middle Platform operations. William Wang believed that there is no fundamental problem with this strategy in the market environment at that time, but there are no shortcuts for omni-channel consumer brands or Amazon's consumer brand building, so early leading AAs such as Thrasio needs to slow down and sort out specific operations. "Most AAs are still new companies, and it is unlikely to have a substantial improvement over the original operator in all fronts in the short term. Each replicable operational capability requires trial, error and iteration before it can be applied to multiple brands. After the rapid online consumption growth brought about by the pandemic slows down, the previous strategy of rapid expansion will lead to numerous fragmented brand assets and redundant workforce. Fragmented capabilities of excessive manpower do not reflect the value of AA. "
It depends more on the nature and capabilities of each AA to choose a specific category or full category for acquisition. At the same time, assets also flow between different AAs. For example, assets of some categories might be sold to have a more focused strategy in the future. At present, Nebula Brands' strategy is focused on categories such as outdoor, maternal, and infant products. Meanwhile, it plans to tap another one to two product categories with more advantages and richer product lines in the Chinese supply chain like small household appliances.
Outdoor, maternal, and infant products are chosen because many products in these categories are durable consumer goods with slower evolution. After continuous micro-level innovation of original products, they can remain their advantage in the channel. It is harder to overtake leading brands in such categories under Amazon's rules, which can ensure the relative stability of brand revenue after the acquisition. Furthermore, consumers trust brands in such categories more from the perspective of omni-channel. Consumers go beyond value for money and may have the trend to achieve consumption upgrades. With deeper understanding of users and products after the acquisition, more product innovation and brand building will help these Amazon brands evolve to omni-channel brands.
In the long run, it is of great significance for AA to create several star brands in major categories and a series of channel brands that are outstanding in a specific dimension such as category, price and positioning. User insights, supply chain integration, and migration of brand traffic facilitate cost reductions and efficiency gains. " Stated William Wang. Therefore, Nebula Brands usually carries out extended acquisitions of brands in the same category and related categories or engages in product innovation to enhance competitiveness and growth through synergy after completing the acquisition of key brands. During the last Prime Day, the synergetic strategy helped an outdoor brand acquired by Nebula to achieve more than tenfold year-on-year sales growth.
"Investment" and "Post-investment"
Capital acquisition and brand operation are the two business pillars of Nebula. These two pillars could be benchmarked against "investment" and "post-investment" if a comparison between AA and funds is drawn in terms of asset management.
The process of "investment" can be further broken down into two parts, identifying a good project and negotiating the project at a reasonable price.
As a local AA in China, Nebula Brands is better positioned to target the source of the projects. Nebula can directly get access to first-hand projects by establishing a marketing and business team in China. William Wang revealed that more than 90% of Nebula's projects are identified by the in-house teams now rather than recommended by intermediaries, which is conducive to acquiring brands at a more reasonable price and establishing in-depth cooperation with original sellers.
In addition, another channel for Nebula Brands to acquire projects lies in the upstream supply chain. There are many concentrated industrial belts in China. When a good project is identified, acquisitions relevant to it could trace back to high-quality sellers with the industrial belt as the source. These actions have expanded the coverage of high-quality projects while avoiding excessive head-to-head bidding against overseas AAs.
The Nebula team has reflected on the acquisition criteria. "In the beginning, the team was eager to pursue the strategy of Thrasio by looking for the top 1-3 brands in a particular industry. With the decline of the abnormal growth of the market, this strategy of seeking fast speed is not in line with the common sense of value identification. The market is changing rapidly, and the ability to adjust acquisition strategies and standards will become the core competitiveness of AAs in acquisition. For example, one of the strengths of AA lies in the connection between acquisitions and operations in e-commerce channels. The data team boasts the resources to analyze the whole chain of data from industry competition, user reviews to the supply chain, therefore the team can adjust the judgment model according to the results in practice. Data analysis is performed to identify industries with stronger internal growth momentum to locate a desirable track for future operations. "Stated William Wang.
Specifically, in addition to the basic criteria that AAs have long adopted, other aspects also need to be reviewed. The basic criteria include a high and stable ranking in its category, sales from a limited number of SKUs, gross margin over 20%, high ratings and good reviews, etc. Besides that, Nebula Brands also focuses on "trickier" elements for integration such as the importance of China's supply chain in the value chain of a category, product innovation drive, and leveraging differentiated capabilities of the original seller teams.
As for "post-investment", since building a brand is a task with assured success, not all assets acquired by AA will develop towards omni-channel brands. At this stage, most assets acquired by Nebula Brands are those that generate sustained cash flow. To be specific, the short-term positioning of most acquired assets is being a channel brand. Aside from maintaining and growing sales on Amazon through better advertising and product micro-level innovation, these brands are also empowered to expand into high-certainty sales pipelines like Walmart, Tiktok, offline distribution, etc. As for a small number of assets that have the potential to scale into omni-channel big brands, Nebula Brands will take actions from product R&D to brand promotion with intensified, long-term input, aiming to help develop it into an influential consumer brand.
Nebula Brands can be seen as a consumer brand management business with an acquisition + operation model. In the view of William Wang, compared with Apple, DJI and other single-category technology firms in big industries, most durable consumer goods brands acquired from Amazon compete in a smaller industry. Therefore, acquisition becomes a more optimal approach to quickly create synergy matrix of these brands, which is different from the buyouts made by funds that invest in mature brands. These Amazon brands may be far from household names at this moment, but still have access to steady and growing cash flow, constant feedback from users, and highly coordinated supply chains. All of these features lay solid foundation to breed omni-channel brands especially when synergy is created among similar categories.
Another story AAs like to tell is data plus Middle Platform. William Wang pointed out that based on e-commerce marketplace like Amazon, AAs are keen to invest in technology to cope with a complex and ever-changing e-commerce landscape with data-driven decision-making, applied SOPs and efficient supply chain management, use less manpower than original sellers and reduce the likelihood of human error.
"Comparisons are drawn between AAs and P&G as both need to understand and manage channels. But offline channels are P&G's turf while AA's focus is online ones."
The operation of offline channels requires a lot of time and manpower while online channels have new rules and characteristics. For AA, investment in data is a long-term effort that yields results over time. If the company seeks to further consolidate the online market share in the long run, human judgment can never be fully relied on to have solid institutionalized capabilities. Without support from data, it is unlikely to interpret customer demand agilely, respond to competition and change rules properly or engage with supply chain partners efficiently. In particular, having been through cycles and failures, we realize that the key is to have our own data.
The advantage of being local
AA, a new model in need of issuing equities and debts, is currently more favored by overseas investors. As the debt market is still underdeveloped in China where early-stage start-ups are unable to issue debt flexibly, recent fundraising of Nebula Brands tends to turn to funds with overseas backgrounds.
Between the two rounds of financing for Nebula Brands, it is a period when both overseas e-commerce market and capital market are under pressure. William Wang said that the current circumstances are forcing latecomers like Nebula Brands to think through what their long-term and unique value is. For example, one of the major topics for the team's daily strategic discussions is what so-called China's advantage is.
One fact is that majorities of the most dynamic sellers with greatest potential on Amazon are in China. Data shows that over 63% of Amazon's top sellers are from China, of which one-third are in Shenzhen. This means Chinese aggregators that acquire third-party sellers enjoy unrivalled advantages of being local, no matter in terms of geographical location or target assessment.
Despite a raft of overseas aggregators marching into the Chinese market, William Wang believed this will not pose too much pressure to Nebula Brands. In his view, the wrestling between Nebula Brands and other AA focuses on winning high-quality projects. But since it is not a zero-sum market, players tend to find their own edges over time and competition often comes along with cooperation. "Less competition is seen this year than last one. This is because a number of AAs with established presence in China start to fade out, and meanwhile overseas aggregators tend to look for projects via intermediaries. Unlike us who seek first-hand projects on our own and compete against intermediaries for exclusivity of projects, AAs involved in projects via intermediaries may find themselves in a black-box bidding process, leading to higher purchase price than the actual value of the assets." William Wang said.
This can be evidenced by a piece of news this year. BBG, one of the leading fundraisers, has withdrawn from the Chinese market at the end of February. According to the analysis made by industry media, it is mainly due to factors such as the efficiency in decision-making and bidding mechanism.
Compared with overseas aggregators who usually only have marketing teams or even no team in China, Nebula Brands and its management are able to communicate directly with sellers when appropriate in terms of acquisition, operation and supply chain. This will boost sellers' trust in the acquirer and they are more willing to share more data and information to explore possibilities of in-depth cooperation in the future.
"For the acquisitions we have completed, many sellers are tied to us in the long term through various forms of cooperation, and have made substantial contributions to the brand growth," William Wang said. The key is to leverage the advantages of sellers in the organization and integrate them into other brands. This means sellers are given more room to perform beyond the original assets, work with exceptional talents to achieve a win-win result. This is also a key highlight to attract sellers compared with overseas aggregators.
The strength of China's supply chain is also crucial. Supply chain uncertainty caused by various reasons is one of the main detriments to sellers' business. Overseas aggregators sometimes face out-of-stock issues as well. For Nebula Brands, being in China does not guarantee an advantage in supply chain. Efforts should be made in stable production scheduling and new product R&D so as to achieve replicable optimization.
"We work with factories with sincerity to persuade them that we are not a disruptor that quickly goes in and out of the business. Instead, we will deploy more resources to make the upstream and downstream of the industry better". William Wang remarked, "Amazon is a platform where product innovation will be highly amplified. The key, as opposed to the changing rankings, is the user needs hiding in massive reviews. We know how to gain insights from reviews, and we are working together with the suppliers to achieve consumer-driven innovation."
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SOURCE Chinaventure.cn | 2022-07-29T14:05:51+00:00 | wcjb.com | https://www.wcjb.com/prnewswire/2022/07/29/interview-nebula-brands-completed-b-round-financing-how-shape-pampg-online/ |
A citizen committee in Cascade County filed a complaint with the state’s top political watchdog alleging ethics violations in the county’s election’s office.
Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Chris Gallus’ office confirmed it received an electronic version of the complaint Monday.
In the complaint, the Cascade Election Protection Committee says Clerk and Recorder Sandra Merchant this week purposefully obstructed the view of election observers and threatened police force against those taking photos of the office.
The committee also says the office didn’t vet its volunteers, 13 of whom it says signed a 2022 petition asking the county to ban electronic vote-counting machines and purge its voter rolls.
Committee member Pete Fontana says the group is preparing to take further action beyond the complaint.
“We started with the commissioner because that’s who the Secretary of State’s office told us to do, and the next thing we’re going to do is ask the county attorney to look into it,” Fontana said.
The election committee formed in early April after Cascade Election Administrator Sandra Merchant cast doubt on the ability of her office to hold upcoming special elections, citing lack of staff and the closure of a local mail-sorting business.
Separately, the Great Falls Public Library is threatening legal action if Merchant does not give them a detailed plan for its June 6 mill levy.
The Cascade elections website contained no information about the June 6 election at the time of publication.
KRTV first reported that some Cascade county residents have received multiple absentee ballots in the mail for the May 2 school board election.
Merchant has not responded to requests for comment and information from multiple media organizations, including MTPR. | 2023-04-22T00:27:59+00:00 | mtpr.org | https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2023-04-21/citizens-group-files-ethics-complaint-over-cascade-county-elections |
A library where Rosa Parks, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders forged strategies that would change the world is mired in controversy over who gets to tell its story.
On one side are preservationists who want to turn the Highlander Folk School library into a historic site. On the other, political organizers say Highlander never stopped pursuing social justice and should recover the building as a stolen part of its legacy.
Enraged by race-mixing at the Highlander Folk School in the 1950s, Tennessee officials confiscated the property and auctioned it off in pieces in a vain attempt at stifling the civil rights movement. The library is one of the few remaining campus buildings.
But Highlander as an institution never really closed — it just moved locations. It lives on today as the Highlander Research and Education Center, whose leaders are rallying opposition to listing the library in the National Register of Historic Places, saying they were frozen out of the process.
David Currey, a board member at the Tennessee Preservation Trust, has managed the library’s restoration since the trust bought the site in 2014, saving it from redevelopment. He said his goal has always been to preserve the site so that visitors can learn about the momentous events that happened there in the first half of the 20th Century. There would be few books or movies if stories could only be told by those directly involved, he said, and “Nobody owns the past.”
“It’s a myth that they are best suited to tell our history,” said Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Highlander’s first Black co-director. “People who made that history are still alive.”
A letter Highlander sent to the historic registry says the Trust is not fit to serve as stewards, stoking racial tension over a place that promoted a shared struggle for interracial harmony.
“Approving the nomination of the Highlander Folk School Library in its current form will allow an elite, white-led institution to coopt and control the historical narrative of a site most significant for its work with Black, multiracial, poor and working-class communities,” states the letter, which also accuses trust members of having glorified the Confederacy.
Currey, who is white, frames the issue much differently. He says the trust stepped in to preserve the property when no one else would, and plans to celebrate Highlander’s past accomplishments.
“Our cause from the start has been an honorable endeavor to recognize and pay tribute to the history and legacy of the early 20th century’s social justice movements in Tennessee, including labor struggles and Civil Rights, and its leaders,” Currey wrote in an email to the AP.
Founded in the 1930s as a center for union organizing, the school in Monteagle, Tenn., counted first lady Eleanor Roosevelt among its early supporters. Protest music was integral to its work, with Woody Guthrie leading singalongs to inspire future demonstrations, and Pete Seeger workshopping “We Shall Overcome” into an anthem sung by activists ever since.
Highlander’s co-founder and longtime leader, Myles Horton, a white man, created a space almost unique in the Jim Crow South, where activists white and Black could build and strengthen alliances.
Parks attended a Highlander workshop a few months before refusing to move to the back of a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. “It was one of the few times in my life up to that point when I did not feel hostility from white people,” she wrote in her autobiography.
Lewis had a similar experience, long before he became a civil rights icon and congressman. Highlander “was the first time in my life that I saw black people and white people not just sitting down together at long tables for shared meals, but also cleaning up together afterward, doing the dishes together, gathering together late into the night in deep discussion,” he wrote in a memoir.
The school’s success made it a target — labeled communist, investigated by the FBI and raided by the state of Tennessee, which eventually revoked its charter. Original buildings were destroyed. The library was converted to a single-family home.
But Highlander didn’t disappear — it just moved three hours northeast to New Market, Tenn., near Knoxville.
“The property was stolen from us because it was bringing Black and white people together to preserve democracy,” Henderson said. “The land should be repatriated, back to the Highlander Folk School, which is now the Highlander Research and Education Center.”
The trust has spent seven years restoring the library to its original form. Local Grundy County donors contributed most of the funding, but Currey said he’s also spent thousands of his own dollars. His vision is to spin off a nonprofit, separate from the trust, that would own and operate the library as both a historic site and community resource, and Highlander could run a program explaining its ongoing justice and education work.
Henderson said she’s grateful the trust stepped in when the center couldn’t afford to, but she doesn’t see the old Folk School as separate from Highlander now, which is celebrating 90 years of organizing with a homecoming later this month. She said the center recently offered to buy the library from the trust, but got no definitive answer.
“If there’s going to be a transfer, why wouldn’t it be to Highlander?” Co-director Allyn Maxfield-Steele asked. If Highlander controlled the building, it would develop a plan for its use together with “folks on the ground in Grundy County,” he said.
Currey still hopes the trust and center can work together to promote the legacy of a building both organizations see as incredibly important.
Getting listed in the National Registry would open up new sources of funding in a state that doesn’t provide tax incentives for historic preservation, Currey said. He worries that the controversy over Highlander will make preservationists less likely to take on a similar project in the future.
“It’s already so difficult in Tennessee to save some of our historic resources,” Currey said. “This may be one of the most high-profile civil rights sites — as John Lewis told me — in the nation.” | 2022-09-03T20:37:23+00:00 | kxnet.com | https://www.kxnet.com/news/national-news/ap-who-gets-to-tell-the-story-of-a-historic-civil-rights-site/ |
(The Hill) – A new study published on Wednesday found that the expanded use of telehealth services during the coronavirus pandemic was associated with a reduced risk of opioid overdoses.
Researchers from multiple federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) looked at data from more than 170,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
They analyzed receipts for telehealth services, medications for opioid use disorder (OUD) as well as medically treated overdoses.
The study split the observed beneficiaries into two groups — one that initiated OUD care before the pandemic and another that initiated care after the outbreak began.
When the pandemic began, concerns were raised among the medical community that stressors like the outbreak and the related stay-at-home orders would raise the risk of overdoses individuals with OUD.
The researchers found that beneficiaries in the COVID-19 pandemic group were likely to receive OUD-related telehealth care and were also more likely to receive corresponding medications.
Those who received OUD-related telehealth care were more likely to retain medical treatments for their conditions and had a lower risk of experiencing a medically treated overdose.
“The findings showed that telehealth improved the receipt and retention of MOUD, suggesting that this method of healthcare delivery may address common barriers to OUD-related treatment such as transportation and perceived stigma associated with OUD,” said Carla Shoff, a social science research analyst at CMS.
Despite these benefits, the study noted there were some irregularities in who was receiving telehealth care. Beneficiaries who were Black or lived in the South were less likely to receive telehealth services.
These findings come shortly after a study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy found that the large majority of people with OUD — 86.6 percent — do not receive the treatments they need. | 2022-09-21T12:43:06+00:00 | ktalnews.com | https://www.ktalnews.com/news/u-s-world/increased-telehealth-use-during-pandemic-linked-to-reduced-overdose-risk-study-finds/ |
Casper Ruud vs. Lorenzo Musetti: Prediction and Match Betting Odds | Nordea Open
Casper Ruud will meet Lorenzo Musetti in the Nordea Open semifinals on Saturday, July 22.
Ruud has -190 odds to earn a win against Musetti (+155).
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Casper Ruud vs. Lorenzo Musetti Match Information
- Tournament: The Nordea Open
- Round: Semifinals
- Date: Saturday, July 22
- Venue: Bastad Tennis Stadium
- Location: Båstad, Sweden
- Court Surface: Clay
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Casper Ruud vs. Lorenzo Musetti Prediction and Odds
Based on the moneyline in this match, Casper Ruud has a 65.5% chance to win.
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Casper Ruud vs. Lorenzo Musetti Trends and Insights
- In the quarterfinals on Friday, Ruud took down No. 58-ranked Sebastian Ofner, 6-3, 6-4.
- Musetti advanced past Filip Misolic 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 in the quarterfinals on Friday.
- Through 60 matches over the past year (across all court surfaces), Ruud has played 28.0 games per match (23.9 in best-of-three matches) and won 54.4% of them.
- Ruud has played 26 matches on clay over the past year, and 26.0 games per match (23.3 in best-of-three matches).
- In the past 12 months, Musetti has competed in 62 total matches (across all court surfaces), winning 53.7% of the games. He averages 23.8 games per match (21.7 in best-of-three matches) and 9.6 games per set.
- Musetti has averaged 21.7 games per match (21.0 in best-of-three matches) and 9.3 games per set through 27 matches on clay courts in the past year.
- On November 3, 2022, Ruud and Musetti matched up in the Rolex Paris Masters Round of 16. Musetti took home the win 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
- Musetti and Ruud have matched up in three total sets, with Musetti clinching two of them and Ruud one.
- Musetti and Ruud have squared off in 30 total games, with Musetti winning 16 and Ruud claiming 14.
- Ruud and Musetti have squared off one time, averaging 30.0 games and 3.0 sets per match.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The outcome in a string of highly competitive California U.S. House races will play into control of Congress next year, potentially helping Republicans seize control or providing a Democratic buffer as the party struggles to maintain its teetering majority.
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The stakes were spotlighted last week, when President Joe Biden traveled to Southern California to campaign on behalf of endangered Democratic Rep. Mike Levin, whose district straddles Orange and San Diego counties. It was Biden's second trip to California in less than three weeks. Meantime, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Los Angeles for a rally Monday to urge Democratic voters to get to the polls.
Republican leaders believe as many as five districts in the state could swing their way — enough to give the GOP the House gavel in a midterm-election year when voters typically punish the party that holds the White House. Should that happen, Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield would be in line to replace Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco.
For their part, Democrats are eager to claw back four House districts they surrendered in 2020 and hope to gain more to pad their dominance in the state congressional delegation. Republicans hold only 11 of the state’s 53 seats, which drops to 52 seats next year because California’s once-soaring population growth has stalled.
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Overall in the House, there are 220 Democrats, 212 Republicans and three vacancies.
Competitive districts are something of a rarity in heavily Democratic California and cut against its national reputation as a liberal stronghold. But pockets of conservative strength remain, even as Democrats hold a nearly 2-to-1 statewide edge in voter registrations.
The contests are being fought over issues that are shaping races around the country.
Democrats are stressing abortion rights and labeling GOP rivals “extremists” in a party still largely under the sway of former President Donald Trump. Republican candidates are faulting Biden and a Democratic Congress for inflation, rising crime and the long-running homeless crisis.
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The main battlegrounds are Orange County — a suburban expanse south of Los Angeles that was once a Republican stronghold but has become increasingly diverse and Democratic — and the Central Valley, an inland stretch sometimes called the nation’s salad bowl for its agricultural production.
The key races Tuesday:
TRUMP SUPPORTER SEEKS THIRD UPSET NORTH OF DEMOCRATIC LOS ANGELES
U.S. Rep. Mike Garcia is the only Republican member of Congress in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Despite a Democratic tilt in his district, the former Navy combat pilot has won two consecutive elections, but the last two years ago was by just 333 votes.
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He faces an even tougher challenge this year after his district – the 27th -- was redrawn and became more Democratic. Democrat Christy Smith is on the ballot for the third time, after two earlier losses to Garcia.
Smith, a former legislator, has spotlighted Garcia’s opposition to abortion rights and depicts him as out of step with the district: He was endorsed by then-President Trump in his 2020 contest, then joined House Republicans who rejected electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania and opposed Trump’s impeachment after the Capitol insurrection.
Garcia highlights his military service and points to his vote supporting $2,000 stimulus checks during the pandemic as one example of his political independence. The district includes a large number of veterans and is home to defense industries, which could be an asset for Garcia.
A LONGTIME REPUBLICAN LOOKS TO HOLD ON IN CHANGED DISTRICT
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Republican Rep. Ken Calvert has held his seat east of Los Angeles for nearly three decades. But the once-a-decade redrawing of district boundaries landed him in a battleground — the 41st District — where the registration is about equally split between Republicans and Democrats.
He’s a familiar name and the longest-serving Republican in the California congressional delegation. He has a fundraising advantage, but his support from former President Donald Trump poses complications in a district that now includes many transplanted Los Angeles residents and liberal Palm Springs, which has a large concentration of LGBTQ voters.
His home city, Corona, is the largest in the district, and he’s been touting his clout on the Appropriations Committee that enables him to bring home federal dollars for transportation and water projects.
He’s facing Democrat Will Rollins, a former federal prosecutor who is gay. Rollins calls Calvert an extremist and places safeguarding democracy and protecting abortion and LGBTQ rights among his priorities.
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SWING DISTRICT VOTERS GET SHARP CONTRAST IN CANDIDATES
Voters in coastal Orange County have a stark choice in selecting their next member of Congress.
Democratic Rep. Katie Porter, a national progressive star, is facing Republican Scott Baugh, a former state legislative leader and past head of the county GOP, in the 47th District that includes Huntington Beach and swaths of suburban terrain.
Baugh has been pounding on economic issues, including inflation and gas prices. He recently tweeted a picture of a gas station sign with prices topping $7 a gallon and wrote, “Biden has done nothing to stop this madness.”
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Porter is a prolific fundraiser and has pumped over $24 million into the contest, compared to about $2 million for Baugh. She’s been stressing abortion rights and her work as a consumer advocate, including fighting “abusive” credit card fees. Both candidates have depicted each other as extreme.
It was a shock in 2016 when then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton captured Orange County, a place long synonymous with conservative politics. The county that was once largely white and Republican has grown demographically diverse and increasingly Democratic. With Biden unpopular nationally, the race will test the depth of that transformation.
RESILIENT REPUBLICAN SEEKS ANOTHER SURPRISE IN FARM BELT
Republican Rep. David Valadao has persevered in a district with a strong Democratic tilt, and now is one of two Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump who could be reelected.
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Democrats hold a staggering 17-point registration edge in the 22nd District in the state’s farm belt. But Valadao has highlighted a bipartisan streak to win in left-leaning districts before. He held his seat from 2013 until January 2019, lost it for a term, then won it back in a 2020 rematch with Democrat T.J. Cox.
He’s facing Democrat Rudy Salas in a newly redrawn district. Salas, a state assemblyman who is considered a moderate, has been dueling with Valadao over gas taxes, the opioid overdose crisis and health care.
IN CHALLENGING YEAR FOR DEMOCRATS, GOP TARGETS DISTRICT ON CALIFORNIA COAST
Democratic Rep. Mike Levin carried his election two years ago by 6 points. But in a challenging year for Democrats nationally, Republicans are looking for an upset in the coastal district that runs through Orange and San Diego counties.
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Coastal California typically leans Democratic, but the race is seen as a toss-up. Democrats hold only a slight registration edge in the 49th District.
The risks for Levin were spotlighted in the final days of the campaign by the president, who visited in hopes of bolstering the incumbent's chances. Biden warned that a Republican Congress would reshape America by cutting back on health care and upending abortion rights and retirement security.
Republican candidate Brian Maryott, a businessman and former San Juan Capistrano mayor who was defeated by Levin in 2020, has been highlighting pocketbook issues at a time of high inflation, climbing interest rates and gas prices that have cleared $7 a gallon. He also says he will resist “fringe socialist interests.”
Levin has focused heavily on veterans affairs, as well as climate change and the environment, in a district that straddles Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
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NEGATIVE ADS, FINGERPOINTING, SHAPE RACE FOR DISTRICT WITH ASIAN TILT
In the 45th District anchored in Orange County, Republican Rep. Michelle Steel, a South Korean immigrant looking for a second term in Congress, and Democrat Jay Chen, a Navy reservist and the son of immigrants from Taiwan, initially made inflation and hate crimes against Asian Americans key issues.
But the race took an ugly turn and most of it has focused on accusation and recrimination.
Chen’s advertising depicts Steel as an extremist who would threaten abortion rights, while Republicans accused Chen of “racism” after he told supporters an “interpreter” was needed to understand Steel’s remarks, arguing that Chen was mocking her accented English. Chen has said he was referring to “convoluted talking points” that he said Steel uses to sidestep issues.
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Steel also has distributed flyers depicting Chen as a communist sympathizer, while Chen has said his grandmother fled China to escape communist rule.
The race is being watched nationally for what it will say about the preferences of the Asian community.
The district was specifically drawn to give Asian Americans, who comprise the largest group in the district, a stronger voice on Capitol Hill. It has a Democratic registration edge and includes the nation’s largest Vietnamese community.
A TOSS-UP RACE TAKES SHAPE FOR OPEN SEAT IN CENTRAL VALLEY FARM BELT
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A new district in the Central Valley has produced one of the closest contests this year.
The 13th District has a prominent Democratic tilt and a large Latino population, similar to other districts in the sprawling farm belt. But the most likely voters tend to be white, older, more affluent homeowners, while working-class voters, including many Latinos, are less consistent in getting to the polls.
That provides a possible opening for the GOP, despite the 14-point Democratic registration advantage.
The top finisher in the June primary was Republican John Duarte, a businessman and major grape and almond farmer whose priorities include obtaining adequate water supplies for farmers in the drought-wracked state — a perennial issue in the Central Valley — along with addressing inflation and crime.
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His opponent, Democrat Adam Gray, is a moderate state legislator. In a region heavily dependent on agriculture, he’s been critical of state water management and puts water and agriculture at the top of his issues list. He has also stressed his willingness to work across party lines, and promised to make improvements in public safety and education. | 2022-11-08T14:34:12+00:00 | seattlepi.com | https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/California-races-could-determine-control-of-US-17567394.php |
Concessions workers at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles have voted to authorize going on strike, days before the venue is set to host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
About 99% of the unionized employees who handle food and beverages voted Sunday to approve the strike, according to Unite Here Local 11, the union representing the workers.
The concessions stands are operated by Compass Group and its subsidiary, Levy Restaurants. The company employs about 1,500 people at the stadium, including food servers, bartenders, cooks, dishwashers and suite attendants, the union said.
"I voted yes to strike because I often have to pick up shifts at the Rose Bowl just to try to make ends meet," said Laura Ortiz, who has been a bartender for Compass Group for 15 seasons at the venue. "I love working at Dodger Stadium and know that our company can do better."
Compass Group was not immediately available for comment.
Sylvia Sosa has bartended at the stadium for 46 seasons and even took her engagement photos there.
"I proudly served Dodger dogs and beers for many years and want our company, Compass/Levy, to recognize our worth and raise standards for all of its stadium workers," she said.
The Major League Baseball kicks off its annual All-Star celebrations Friday. Events held at Dodger Stadium include a celebrity softball game, with Simone Biles, Snoop Dogg and Chris Rock participating, and the minor and major league all-star games.
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BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who shot and killed two jailers nearly 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an acquaintance escape from a rural jail was executed Tuesday evening.
Michael Tisius, 42, received a lethal injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre and was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m., authorities said. He was convicted of the June 22, 2000, killings of Leon Egley and Jason Acton at the small Randolph County Jail.
Tisius breathed hard a few times as the drug was administered, then fell silent. His spiritual adviser, Melissa Potts-Bowers, was in the room with him. Because the execution chamber is surrounded by soundproof glass, it’s not known what they were saying to each other.
In a final written statement, Tisius said he tried hard “to become a better man,” and he expressed remorse for his crimes.
“I am sorry,” he wrote. “And not because I am at the end. But because I truly am sorry.”
Tisius’ lawyers had urged the U.S. Supreme Court to block the execution, alleging in appeals that a juror at a sentencing hearing was illiterate, in violation of Missouri law. The court rejected that motion Tuesday afternoon.
The Supreme Court previously turned aside another argument — that Tisius should be spared because he was just 19 at the time of the killings. A 2005 Supreme Court ruling bars executions of those under 18 when their crime occurred, but attorneys for Tisius had argued that even at 19, when the killings occurred, Tisius should have had his sentence commuted to life in prison without parole.
Advocates for Tisius had said he was largely neglected as a child and was homeless by his early teens. His path to the death chamber began in 1999 when, as an 18-year-old, he was jailed on a misdemeanor charge of pawning a rented stereo system.
In June 2000, Tisius was housed on that charge at the same county jail in Huntsville with inmate Roy Vance. Tisius was about to be released, and court records show the men discussed a plan in which Tisius, once he was out, would help Vance escape.
Just after midnight on June 22, 2000, Tisius went to the jail accompanied by Vance’s girlfriend, Tracie Bulington. They told Egley and Acton that they were there to deliver cigarettes to Vance. The jailers didn’t know that Tisius had a pistol.
At trial, Bulington testified that she looked up and saw Tisius with the gun drawn, then watched as he shot and killed Acton. When Egley approached, Tisius shot him, too. Both officers were unarmed.
Tisius found keys at the dispatch area and tried to open Vance’s cell, but couldn’t. When Egley grabbed Bulington’s leg, Tisius shot him several more times.
Tisius and Bulington fled but their car broke down later that day in Kansas. They were arrested in Wathena, Kansas, about 130 miles (210 kilometers) west of Huntsville. Tisius confessed to the crimes.
Sid Conklin, now presiding commissioner of Randolph County, was a Missouri State Highway Patrol officer who investigated the killings in 2000. Conklin said the deaths of the two young jailers — both in their 30s — still haunt the community.
“I hope this brings closure for all citizens of Randolph County,” said Conklin, who witnessed the execution.
Another now-retired highway patrol investigator, Randy King, described the jailers as “good, everyday people trying to make a living.”
“I pray for the guy’s (Tisius’) soul, but it’s been 23 years and it’s time for justice to be served,” King said. He also witnessed the execution.
Bulington and Vance are serving life sentences on murder convictions.
Defense attorneys have argued that the killings were not premeditated. Tisius, they said, intended to order the jailers into a holding cell and free Vance and other inmates. Tisius’ defense team issued a video last week in which Vance said he planned the escape attempt and manipulated Tisius into participating.
A statement from Tisius’ legal team questioned the value of the death penalty.
“We teach our preschoolers that two wrongs don’t make a right. Today, we watch our adults casually dismiss such eternal guidance,” the statement read, in part.
The execution was the 12th in the U.S. this year, and the third in Missouri. Only Texas, with four, has executed more people than Missouri this year.
Amber McLaughlin, 49, who killed a woman and dumped the body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis, was put to death in January. The execution was believed to be the first of a transgender woman in the U.S. Raheem Taylor, 58, was executed in February for killing his live-in girlfriend and her three children in 2004 in St. Louis County.
Another Missouri execution is scheduled for Aug. 1. Johnny Johnson was convicted of sexually assaulting and killing a 6-year-old girl in St. Louis County in 2002. | 2023-06-07T02:41:24+00:00 | wjhl.com | https://www.wjhl.com/news/national/missouri-man-facing-execution-for-killing-2-jailers-in-failed-bid-to-help-inmate-escape-in-2000/ |
Triangle Crossing had its grand opening on Wednesday, November 2. The shopping center consist of Marshalls, ULTA Beauty, Petsmart, Rack Room Shoes, Aldi, and Aspen Dental. It is located right on Highway 12.
Many residents expressed their excitement about the new stores. They said it is perfect for the holidays. College students were glad to have this center to avoid driving to neighboring cities for shopping.
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EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — Border officers at El Paso ports of entry arrested 26 fugitives and seized 248 pounds of hard narcotics during nine days last month.
The drug seizures come when the nation copes with a record number of deadly overdoses in the past year.
“Every time a CBP officer stops a drug load, it can potentially save the life of one of our fellow citizens,” said CBP El Paso Director of Field Operations Hector Mancha.
Drug-sniffing dogs and X-ray scans led border officers to sizable amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine hidden within vehicles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.
- May 20: A 34-year-old female Mexican citizen had 22.75 pounds of methamphetamine at the Bridge of the Americas.
- May 21: A 51-year-old male Mexican citizen had 38.22 pounds of cocaine at the Ysleta Port of Entry.
- May 23: A 28-year-old male U.S. citizen had 24.25 pounds of cocaine at the Paso Del Norte bridge.
- May 25: A 23-year-old male Mexican citizen and a 45-year-old male Mexican citizen were caught with a total of 31.3 pounds of methamphetamine, 15.65 pounds of fentanyl and 16.62 pounds of cocaine minutes apart at the Bridge of the Americas.
- May 26: A 23-year-old female U.S. citizen had 25.52 pounds of cocaine at the Bridge of the Americas.
- May 27: A 22-year-old female U.S. citizen had 45.74 pounds of methamphetamine at the Paso del Norte.
- May 29: A 48-year-old female Mexican citizen had a mixed load of 8.46 pounds of fentanyl and five pounds of heroin at the Paso Del Norte bridge.
- May 29: A 23-year-old male U.S. citizen had 2.1 pounds of methamphetamine strapped to his body in the pedestrian lanes at the Paso Del Nort Bridge.
- May 30: An 18-year-old male U.S. citizen had 12.78 pounds of cocaine at the Paso del Norte bridge.
CBP officers the subjects and handed them over to Homeland Security Investigations or local authorities for prosecution.
CBP said officers also arrested 26 fugitives wanted for various charges, including dangerous drugs, fraud, obscenity, larceny, aggravated assault and sexual assault of a child. | 2022-06-06T13:59:29+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/news/texas/26-fugitives-arrested-248-pounds-of-hard-narcotics-seized-at-el-paso-border-crossings/ |
Mayor of northwest Georgia town dies in motocross wreck
WHITE, Ga. (AP) — A mayor of a northwest Georgia town has died in a motocross wreck.
Perry Bell was elected mayor of the Bartow County town of White earlier this year.
Murray County Deputy Coroner Jonathan Sosebee says the 54-year-old Bell wrecked and was struck by another rider at the Lazy River Motocross track near Dalton. He died from blunt force trauma to the chest.
Sosebee says Bell was too severely injured to be evacuated by helicopter and died at a hospital in Chatsworth.
Officials are investigating, but no criminal charges have been filed.
White Mayor Pro Tem Gary Crisp will take over mayoral duties. Crisp says it’s likely the town will hold a special election to replace Bell.
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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 11, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - Awalé Resources Limited ("Awalé") or the "Company") (TSXV: ARIC) is pleased to announce that, further to the Company's news release of September 13, 2022, the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") has conditionally accepted the acquisition of Colossal Gold Resources Limited ("Colossal") by Awalé (the "Acquisition") pursuant to a letter agreement dated September 12, 2022, (the "Agreement") between Awalé, Colossal and the shareholders of Colossal (the "Sellers"). Final TSXV acceptance of the Acquisition is conditional on the Company satisfying the requirements outlined in the TSXV's conditional acceptance letter in compliance with TSXV Policy 5.3 which the Company is in the process of completing.
Colossal holds, through its wholly-owned Surinamese subsidiary, Consolidated Gold Resources N.V. ("Consolidated Gold"), a 100% interest in certain existing mineral exploration and exploitation licences in Suriname (the "Licences").
In addition to final TSXV acceptance, closing of the Acquisition remains subject to receipt of the approval of the disinterested shareholders of the Company; Awalé having completed a financing to raise a minimum of gross proceeds of CAD$2,000,000 (the "Financing"); the assumption by Awalé of the Assumed Obligations (as defined below); and other closing conditions as are standard for a transaction of the nature of the Acquisition, (collectively, the "Closing Conditions"). Awalé has now completed its in-country due diligence review of Colossal's assets, which was a condition to closing of the Acquisition, and is satisfied with the results.
The Company will seek the approval of the disinterested shareholders of Awalé to the Acquisition and the issuance of an aggregate of 21,663,138 common shares of the Company to the Sellers in consideration of 100% of the Colossal shares, at the annual general meeting of the Awalé shareholders to be held on November 7, 2022. The management information circular relating to the meeting setting out the details of the Acquisition, will be mailed to shareholders on October 11, 2022. The Sellers in the aggregate currently hold approximately 24% of the outstanding Awalé shares. The Sellers will be excluded from voting any of those Awalé shares for the approval of the Acquisition.
Upon closing of the Acquisition, the Company will assume the following liabilities of Colossal and Consolidated Gold:
(a) the following payments owing to Dimitri Lemmer, one of the Sellers, in consideration of Colossal's acquisition of the Licences, (the "Assumed Obligations"):
- Payment of US$250,000 on closing of the Acquisition or as otherwise agreed;
- Payments totaling a maximum of US$1.75M following issuance of a technical report prepared in accordance National Instrument 43-101 – Standards for Disclosure of Mineral Projects establishing a mineral resource on the Project on the following basis:
(b) US$299,614 as at July 31, 2022, owing to third parties in connection with exploration expenditure being salaries, Auger drilling, assaying, logistics and related expenditure; and
(c) other monthly operating expenses from August 1, 2022 accruing and amounting to no greater than US$14,450 per month until closing.
As at the date of hereof, the pricing and terms of the Financing have not yet been determined. Other than Thierry Dalais, a Seller under the Agreement, who will become an insider of Awalé after closing of the Acquisition as he will then hold approximately 10.69% of the Awalé outstanding shares, no other insiders of the Company will be participating in the Financing. Although the Financing is a condition to closing the Acquisition, which may be waived, closing of the Financing is not contingent or conditional on completion of the Acquisition.
Under the terms of the Agreement, any party could terminate the Agreement if any of the Closing Conditions for the benefit of the terminating party was not satisfied or waived by October 15, 2022 (the "Outside Date"), unless such date was extended by mutual written consent of Awalé and Colossal. Awalé and Colossal have agreed to extend the Outside Date to November 30, 2022.
About Awalé Resources
Awalé is an exploration company focused on the discovery of large high-grade gold and copper-gold deposits. The Company currently undertakes exploration activities in the underexplored parts of Côte d'Ivoire. Awalé's success to date at the Odienné Project in the Northwest of Côte d'Ivoire has culminated in a fully funded earn-in Joint Venture with Newmont (the "Newmont JV") covering the Odienné Project where two primary targets for world-class discoveries have been made: i) the gold-rich Empire corridor and ii) the recently defined Charger, Sceptre and now Lando Iron Oxide Copper Gold ("IOCG") targets. Parts of the remaining 200km2 of granted tenure and 400km2 under application remains underexplored and offers significant IOCG potential. The Newmont JV forms the solid foundation for the Company to continue looking at new opportunities in new jurisdictions which offers significant potential for district scale discoveries. Awalé is currently in the process of completing the acquisition of Colossal Gold Resources, a private company with a highly prospective gold exploration portfolio in Suriname, which provides an excellent strategic fit and future growth potential for Awalé.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
AWALE RESOURCES LIMITED
"Derk Hartman" – Independent Director and Chairman of the Special Committee
Derk Hartman, Director
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Actual results and developments may differ materially from those contemplated by such information. The statements in this news release are made as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information except as required by applicable law.
NEITHER TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE
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BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox put All-Star third baseman Rafael Devers on the 10-day injured list Saturday because of right hamstring inflammation, making the move after his early exit in a blowout loss.
Devers was pulled in the fifth inning of a 28-5 blowout loss to Toronto on Friday night.
The Red Sox began the day trailing the Blue Jays by 2 1/2 games for the third and final wild-card spot in the American League.
Devers experienced tightness in his hamstring on a swing during his final at-bat Friday night. Manager Alex Cora said he noticed something when Devers doubled in the first inning.
“He didn’t look too good running to first. Guess he kept grinding,” Cora said Saturday. “After the swing (in the fifth inning) we asked him if he was OK. He said no.”
Devers was the lone Boston starter during this past Tuesday’s All-Star Game in Los Angeles. He ranks second in the American League in batting average (.324) and also is among the league leaders in home runs (22) and RBIs (55).
Outfielder Jaylin Davis had his contract selected from Triple-A Worcester, where he was hitting .236 with five home runs in 56 games.
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Newer cars shrink gender disparity in car crash fatalities: Officials
Posted/updated on: August 16, 2022 at 4:16 pm(WASHINGTON) -- The newer the car, the safer it is for women drivers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a new report Tuesday.
While the NHTSA’s earlier report, published in 2013, found women to be at a much higher risk of fatality in car crashes compared to men, the 2022 report said that newer car technology, in line with strengthened regulations, has decreased the disparity.
According to the National Roadway Safety Strategy published by the Department of Transportation in February, officials said that although men represent more than 70 percent of drivers involved in fatal crashes, the motor vehicle fatality risk is still higher for a woman than for a man of the same age.
The NHTSA’s new report states the estimated difference in fatality risk estimates for female versus male front row occupants is 6.3% for car models from 2010-2020. Older vehicles, with model years 1960-2009, have a disparity almost three times that at 18.3%.
For vehicles within model years 2015-2020, the disparity closed even further, coming in at 2.9%, the report said.
Newer generations of cars are equipped with dual air bags, which significantly reduces the fatality risk for women in crashes, the NHTSA said. Newer cars also have more advanced seat belts, the agency said, which further reduces women's risk.
However, NHTSA’s Administrator, Steven Cliff, said that the department is still looking to improve the impact upon women who are in car crashes.
“Advancing equity, including across our transportation system, is one of the Biden-Harris Administration’s top priorities,” Cliff said in a press release. “While NHTSA’s new report shows significant declines in differences in crash outcomes between women and men, there is more work required to eliminate any disparities that remain.”
The NHTSA said a number of developments are in action to close the remaining gap, including the development of new biofidelic crash test dummies and of sophisticated computer modeling that can evaluate the effects of different types of crashes on a large range of human body types and sizes.
Further, the agency is researching the degree to which sex disparities in injuries exist in like crashes and the evaluation of new safety standards to eliminate all remaining disparities.
Historically, car crash tests used only male dummies, according to the NHTSA. The agency has used a 4 foot 11 inch tall and 108 pound “female dummy” in some tests since 2003, the NHTSA said. However, this sizing is not accurate to the average woman’s body in America.
According to the NHTSA, new federal funding through the major infrastructure bill passed in last year will help accelerate research on this front to further close the gap in fatality rates for men and women in car crashes.
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Adolis García Player Prop Bets: Rangers vs. Yankees - June 24
Published: Jun. 24, 2023 at 10:25 AM CDT|Updated: 46 minutes ago
The Texas Rangers and Adolis Garcia, who went 1-for-5 with a home run and two RBI last time in action, take on Luis Severino and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, Saturday at 4:05 PM ET.
He notched a home run while going 1-for-5 in his previous game against the Yankees.
Adolis García Game Info & Props vs. the Yankees
- Game Day: Saturday, June 24, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Yankee Stadium
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Yankees Starter: Luis Severino
- TV Channel: YES
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +350)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Adolis García At The Plate
- Garcia has 74 hits, which ranks first among Texas hitters this season, while batting .261 with 32 extra-base hits.
- Among the qualified hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 74th, his on-base percentage ranks 74th, and he is 24th in the league in slugging.
- Garcia is batting .286 with two homers during his last outings and is on a six-game hitting streak.
- Garcia has gotten at least one hit in 62.2% of his games this year (46 of 74), with at least two hits 18 times (24.3%).
- In 14 games this year, he has hit a home run (18.9%, and 5.3% of his trips to the plate).
- Garcia has had an RBI in 33 games this year (44.6%), including 14 multi-RBI outings (18.9%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- He has scored in 38 games this year (51.4%), including multiple runs in 12 games.
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Yankees Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Yankees has a collective 8.9 K/9, the 10th-best in the league.
- The Yankees have the fourth-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (3.71).
- Yankees pitchers combine to surrender 85 total home runs at a clip of 1.1 per game (to rank 16th in baseball).
- Severino makes the start for the Yankees, his seventh of the season. He is 0-2 with a 6.30 ERA and 28 strikeouts in 30 2/3 innings pitched.
- The right-hander last appeared on Sunday against the Boston Red Sox, when he went five innings, allowing three earned runs while giving up seven hits.
- In six games this season, the 29-year-old has amassed an ERA of 6.30, with 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .279 against him.
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Georgia football player Devin Willock was not wearing a seat belt when he was ejected from the vehicle in a weekend crash that killed him and a recruiting staff member, police said.
A police report released Tuesday listed excessive speed on a road with a 40 mph (64 kph) limit as one of the primary causes of the crash.
The wreck occurred at 2:45 a.m. Sunday in Athens, less than two miles from the university campus. A few hours earlier, the Bulldogs held a parade through town and a ceremony at Sanford Stadium honoring their second straight national championship.
The 20-year-old Willock, an offensive lineman for the Bulldogs, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the vehicle, 24-year-old recruiting analyst Chandler LeCroy, died shortly after being taken to a hospital.
Two other people were in the car, including offensive lineman Warren McClendon, who had just announced Saturday he will enter the NFL draft.
Like LeCroy, McClendon was wearing a shoulder and lap restraint while seated in the right front passenger seat, police said. He sustained only minor injuries, which the report from Athens-Clarke County police described as a laceration in the middle of his head.
Another member of the Georgia football staff, Victoria Bowles, was hospitalized with multiple, serious injuries. She was sitting in the backseat with Willock and not wearing a seat belt, the report said.
Police investigators said the 2021 Ford Expedition “failed to negotiate a left curve, resulting in the vehicle striking the curb with its front passenger tire and leaving the roadway on the west shoulder.”
The SUV struck a Georgia Power pole and another utility pole, slicing them in half, before striking a tree on the rear passenger quarter panel. That sent the vehicle spinning in a clockwise direction before it slammed into another tree on the driver’s side — where both LeCroy and Willock were sitting.
“This caused the vehicle to rotate counter-clockwise prior to achieving final rest against an apartment building,” the report said, adding that a vehicle parked in front of a unit also was struck by the out-of-control SUV.
The report said no alcohol or drug test was conducted on LeCroy, though the investigation was continuing. Investigators did not give an estimated speed, nor did they know the driver’s condition at the time of the crash.
The report also listed other, unspecified factors as contributors.
The crash suddenly turned a festive mood on the Georgia campus into one of grief.
“Best roommate, teammate, and brother I could ever ask for. I don’t even have words,” Xavier Truss, who played alongside Willock on the offensive line, wrote on Twitter. “Wish I could hear that goofy laugh one last time. Heaven gained a good one. Love you forever Dev.”
Willock was a 6-foot-7, 335-pound redshirt sophomore from New Milford, New Jersey.
He played extensively as a backup during the 2022 season and started at right guard in Southeastern Conference victories over Tennessee and Kentucky.
With McClendon and offensive lineman Warren Ericson both headed to the NFL draft, Willock likely would have been competing for a starting position in 2023 as the Bulldogs go for a third straight national title.
Football programs around the country expressed their condolences. Nebraska posted the names of both Willock and LeCroy on the video board at Memorial Stadium.
“Our Hearts are Heavy Today. No words only prayers for (Georgia athletics) and the families of Devin and Chandler,” Cornhuskers coach Matt Rhule tweeted.
Georgia coach Kirby Smart posted pictures of both victims on Twitter a few hours after the crash.
“Miss you already,” he wrote of Willock. “Thinking of you tonight, Devin.”
Smart said of LeCroy: “Gone far too soon. Chandler, I will always remember you for your kind heart.”
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Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney warned graduates of Colorado College that political dissent and freedoms cannot exist without stable democratic systems in America.
"We are living in a time of testing and challenge and peril for our democracy," Cheney, a 1988 graduate of Colorado College, said.
Cheney, a Republican who lost re-election to her Wyoming House seat last year, spoke about the Jan. 6 insurrection and repeated her past criticisms of former President Donald Trump. But she did not comment on her own political future, including a potential 2024 run for president.
"After the 2020 election and the attack of January 6th, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie. They wanted me to say the 2020 election was stolen, the attack of January 6th wasn't a big deal, and Donald Trump wasn't dangerous," Cheney said Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. "I had to choose between lying and losing my position in House leadership."
Cheney emphasized the message of speaking truth, noting a Bible verse that was inscribed on a campus building that read: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
"America cannot remain a free nation if we abandon the truth. So as you go out to change the world, resolve that you will stand in truth," she told the 2023 graduates.
She also urged them to remain politically active, and protect institutions of democracy. Cheney cited a recent report from The Washington Post that spotlighted a recent audio recording of Cleta Mitchell, a former Trump adviser. Mitchell, while presenting at a Republican National Committee retreat, said that the ease of voting on college campus polling locations posed a problem.
"Those who are trying to unravel the foundations of our republic, who are threatening the rule of law and the sanctity of our elections, know that they can't succeed if you vote," Cheney said. "So class of 2023, get out and vote."
While Cheney's introduction to the stage was mostly met with applause, many graduates at the liberal arts college chose to protest her remarks by turning their chairs around during the speech. The Gazette, the local newspaper in Colorado Springs, reported that about half of the 450 graduates chose to turn their backs to Cheney.
Cheney's husband and two of their children are also graduates of the school.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Facebook users have one more month to apply for their share of a $725 million privacy settlement that parent company Meta agreed to pay late last year.
Meta is paying to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Anyone in the U.S. who has had a Facebook account at any time between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, is eligible to receive a payment. To apply for the settlement, users can fill out a form and submit it online, or print it out and mail it. The deadline is August 25.
It’s not clear how much money individual users will receive. The larger the number of people submitting valid claims, the smaller each payment will be since the money has to be divided among them.
The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.
Uproar over the revelations led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by U.S. lawmakers and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts.
Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, but the social network still boasts more than 2 billion users worldwide, including an estimated 250 million in the U.S.
Beyond the Cambridge Analytica case, Meta has been under fire over data privacy for some time. In May, for example, the EU slapped Meta with a record $1.3 billion fine and ordered it to stop transferring users’ personal information across the Atlantic by October. And the tech giant’s new text-based app, Threads, has not rolled out in the EU due to privacy concerns.
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AP Business Writer Wyatte Grantham-Philips contributed to this report from New York. | 2023-07-26T20:25:33+00:00 | wthr.com | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/applying-for-share-of-facebook-class-action-settlement/507-31f2041d-d40d-4f27-96d7-5892b921dd75 |
PUTRAJAYA – Former Prime Minister Najib Razak sought Tuesday to remove Malaysia's top judge from the final appeal against his 12-year prison sentence in a graft case linked to the massive looting of the 1Malaysia Development Berhad state fund, saying she may not be impartial.
In a new twist, Najib said in his application that the husband of Chief Justice Maimun Tuan Mat, who is leading a five-member Federal Court bench, had been critical about his leadership over the 1MDB scandal.
In his affidavit read out in court his lawyer, Najib said Zamani Ibrahim had, in a Facebook post right after Najib's ouster in 2018 general elections, concluded that Najib “had siphoned sovereign government funds" into his personal account. Najib said this was “highly disturbing" as it was likely that Zamani influenced Maimun's view on his alleged culpability.
As such, the court's findings may be seen as “tainted with bias, and the public perception of the independence of the judiciary will be in doubt," Najib said in his application.
Prosecutors accused Najib of making the application in bad faith to delay the conclusion of his final appeal.
Najib, 69, would become Malaysia’s first former prime minister to be imprisoned if his appeal fails. He has maintained he is innocent and has been out on bail pending his appeals.
His latest move came after the Federal Court last week rebuffed several attempts by Najib to delay the hearing. It rejected his attempt to introduce new evidence that could spark a retrial on allegations of bias by the high court judge who sentenced him in 2020.
The court also refused to postpone the hearing for Najib’s newly appointed lawyers to prepare for the case. Najib’s new lead counsel, Hisyam Teh Poh Teik, then asked to withdraw himself as he wasn’t given time to prepare but the court denied his request.
Hisyam then said he would not make any new submissions in the appeal. Najib has protested that his right to a fair hearing was at stake as he was left with no effective counsel or proper representation in such a case.
The hearing then began Thursday. The prosecution ended their arguments Friday, and his defense is due to start Tuesday.
But at the start of the hearing, Hisyam told the Federal Court the defense has made an application to recuse Maimun and for a new panel to hear the appeal. He said there was a real danger of bias on Maimun's part that would cause her not to be objective and impartial.
Maimun, Malaysia's first female chief justice appointed in 2019, has come under attack on social media from Najib’s supporters. Police arrested a man over the weekend in connection with death threats made against Maimun. Hundreds of Najib's supporters amassed outside the court in a show of support.
1MDB was a development fund Najib set up shortly after taking power in 2009. Investigators allege at least $4.5 billion was stolen from the fund and laundered by Najib’s associates. Najib was found guilty of abuse of power, criminal breach of trust and money laundering for illegally receiving $9.4 million from SRC International, a former unit of 1MDB.
The 1MDB scandal sparked investigations in the U.S. and several other countries and caused the downfall of Najib’s government in 2018 elections. Najib faces a total of 42 charges in five separate trials linked to 1MDB, and his wife is also on trial on corruption charges.
Still, Najib remains politically influential. His United Malays National Organization leads the current government after defections of lawmakers caused the collapse of the reformist government that won the 2018 polls. | 2022-08-23T06:47:57+00:00 | clickorlando.com | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/world/2022/08/23/najib-seeks-to-remove-malaysias-top-judge-from-graft-appeal/ |
Mormon church supports legislation for gay marriage
Published: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:38 AM CST|Updated: 30 minutes ago
(CNN) – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement Tuesday calling for federal legislation to protect same-sex marriage.
While the LDS church views marriage as a union between a man and a woman, church leaders say the Respect for Marriage Act is a way to protect the rights of LGBTQ Americans.
If the Senate passes the act, it would safeguard same-sex and interracial marriages across the country.
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Boeing CEO loses $7M bonus, keeps $22.5 million compensation
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Boeing’s CEO is missing out on a $7 million bonus because the company’s new large jet is behind schedule. But Boeing said Friday that CEO David Calhoun still got compensation valued at $22.5 million for 2022. The company says the $7 million bonus won’t vest because its new 777X jetliner won’t be ready to enter service by the end of this year. The company expects the plane to begin flying in 2025, or five years later than originally planned. Boeing lost $5 billion last year including write-downs, as it dealt with setbacks to its 787 Dreamliner passenger jet and defense projects. | 2023-03-03T23:27:43+00:00 | localnews8.com | https://localnews8.com/news/2023/03/03/boeing-ceo-loses-7m-bonus-keeps-22-5-million-compensation/ |
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of America Corporation today announced the Board of Directors has authorized regular cash dividends on the outstanding shares or depositary shares of the following series of preferred stock:
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Massachusetts man sentenced to life in prison in 2016 killing of Google employee Vanessa Marcotte
By Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN
A Massachusetts man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of Vanessa Marcotte, a 27-year-old Google employee who was killed after she went for a walk in 2016, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Angelo Colon-Ortiz, 36, of Worcester, won’t be eligible for parole for at least 45 years after pleading guilty to charges of second-degree murder and unarmed robbery, according to a press release from the Worcester County district attorney’s office.
Marcotte was an account manager at Google based in New York who had gone to visit her mother’s home in Princeton, Massachusetts. She went outside on the afternoon of August 7, 2016, and she was reported missing when she didn’t return home as expected. Her body was later found in the woods less than a mile from the home.
Previous reports of Marcotte’s death characterized her as having been out for a jog at the time she was attacked, but prosecutors say she was walking.
Even so, her death sparked a heightened awareness of the harassment that female runners regularly face, highlighted in a Runner’s World story a year afterward.
Police were able to obtain DNA evidence of the suspect from Marcotte’s hands and a description of the suspect based on tips. Eight months after her death, a state trooper stopped a driver — Colon-Ortiz — matching the suspect’s description, and his DNA matched that of the suspect, leading to his arrest.
District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. praised the work of Massachusetts State Police, Princeton Police and assistant district attorneys for the investigation and prosecution.
“We know nothing can bring Vanessa back, but we know, through the meticulous work of the prosecutors and investigators involved, justice will be served, and the plea allows Vanessa’s family to move on from this tragedy.”
In a statement, the Marcotte family said they are “thankful and gratified the legal process has accomplished what we always wished for, that this man will now be in a place where he can’t hurt anyone else like the way he hurt Vanessa.”
The Vanessa T. Marcotte Foundation, established in 2017 in her memory, has held self-defense workshops for women and educated people about violence prevention, runner safety, boundary setting and healthy relationships, according to a press release.
“Vanessa would have wanted us to take action. She’d be proud of what we’re accomplishing in her honor to make the world a safer place,” foundation co-founders Caroline Tocci and Ashley McNiff said in a statement.
Marcotte, who graduated with honors from Boston University in 2011, had worked at Google since January 2015, according to her LinkedIn profile.
“Vanessa Marcotte was a much loved member of the Google team, working in our New York office for the last year and a half, and known for her ubiquitous smile, passion for volunteer work, and love of Boston sports,” a Google spokesperson said after her death. “We are deeply shocked and saddened, and our thoughts are with her family and friends.”
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LAS VEGAS, June 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexla, a visionary in automating data engineering with a data product-centric approach whose customers include LinkedIn, Doordash, LiveRamp, Marchex, Forever 21, and Instacart, today announced at Snowflake's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2023, the launch of a new solution that will accelerate the deployment and streamline the operation of their data clean rooms, which are based on the Snowflake Global Data Clean Room framework. This expands Nexla's robust data integration and data product capabilities for businesses to securely share data with external parties at scale.
"At Kargo, we love Nexla's any-to-any data movement capability. Data clean rooms are a privacy-safe solution for collaboration among advertising and media companies. I am excited to see Nexla launch its support for data clean rooms, which make it easier for companies to set up and use a clean room with their partners," said Kartal Goksel, CTO of Kargo.
Nexla's all-in-one converged data engineering platform offers universal connectivity to hundreds of pre-built connectors. This allows data producers across different organizations to seamlessly connect to various data, such as user engagement, audience, campaign, and ad attribution, where data could be securely combined and analyzed across companies for applications, such as audience overlap and segmentation. With Nexla, data producers can easily connect to virtually any data source, transform and clean the data, create ready-to-use data products and load the data in the clean room, making it available to external partners and customers.
"Nexla brings operational scale to the process of delivering data in their data clean rooms," said Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake. "This capability empowers businesses to confidently share data at scale, while keeping it protected and complying with data privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA."
Nexla's clean room solution, which is built using the Snowflake Global Data Clean Room framework, offers three primary benefits:
- Ability to use Nexla's no-code UI to quickly create ready-to-use data products from almost any data system, and then deliver data into a data clean room
- Ability to provide searchable, discoverable, and secure access to the data products loaded in the data clean room
- Ability to easily and securely onboard additional consumers for a clean room and iterate ready-to-use data products for future projects
"Nexla's mission is to simplify and streamline data engineering through automation, while maintaining the highest standards of security and compliance," said Saket Saurabh, CEO of Nexla. "Snowflake's Global Data Clean Room framework provides us new capabilities that further enable businesses to securely share data and collaborate with external parties, leveraging Nexla's universal connectivity and iterating on ready-to-use data products to realize the full potential of business collaboration."
Additionally, Nexla has also achieved Snowflake Ready Technology Validation for data integration, confirming that the company's Snowflake integrations adhere to the platform's best practices around performance, reliability, and security. The Snowflake Ready Validation Program recognizes partners that have completed a 3rd party technical validation to confirm their Snowflake integrations are optimized with an emphasis on functional and performance best practices.
Nexla continues to push the boundaries of bringing ready-to-use data to every data user, through a combination of automation and collaboration capabilities in its platform. Please visit Nexla's booth no. 1851-B to learn more about new Nexla capabilities. Be sure to check out the Snowflake Summit 2023 keynotes live or on-demand here and stay on top of the latest news and announcements from Snowflake on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Nexla is a pioneer in automating data engineering and data democratization. Nexla's modern data platform unifies multi-speed data integration, preparation, monitoring, and governance to deliver trusted and validated data to the user in their preferred system and format through the no-code/low-code creation of Data Products, enabling any data user to get ready-to-use data in the tools of their choice for their everyday work, whether in data science, operations, analytics for marketing, sales, or HR. Nexla provides data consumers a collaborative and secure method of accessing, sharing, and using any connector or data – irrespective of shape, format, or velocity.
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DUBLIN, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO), a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products, today announced that it will release its third quarter 2022 financial results on Tuesday, November 8, 2022. The Company will also host a conference call beginning at 8:30 A.M. (EST).
The conference call will be available live via webcast to interested parties in the investor relations section of the Perrigo website at http://perrigo.investorroom.com/events-webcasts or by phone at 888-317-6003, International 412-317-6061, and reference ID # 8518983. A taped replay of the call will be available beginning at approximately 12:00 P.M. (EST) Tuesday, November 8, until midnight Tuesday, November 15, 2022. To listen to the replay, dial 877-344-7529, International 412-317-0088, and use access code 7261267.
Perrigo Company plc (NYSE: PRGO) is a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions that enhance individual well-being by empowering consumers to proactively prevent or treat conditions that can be self-managed. Visit Perrigo online at www.perrigo.com.
Certain statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements." These statements include statements regarding the expected timing of the release of financial data and relate to future events or the Company's future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the Company or its industry to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statements. The Company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections. While the Company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward-looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Company's control. The forward-looking statements in this press release are made only as of the date hereof; if the timing of the earnings release or the manner of accessing the conference call should change in any material respect, the Company will make a further announcement.
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By ZEN SOO
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping officiated the swearing-in ceremony of Hong Kong’s new leader John Lee on Friday as the city marked the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule after being pulled in recent years under much tighter Communist Party control.
Lee, a former security official who oversaw the crackdown on dissent in the city since 2019 pro-democracy protests, pledged to uphold the city’s mini-constitution, the Basic Law, and bear allegiance to Hong Kong. He also pledged to be accountable to the central government in Beijing.
His inauguration followed a morning flag-raising ceremony attended by Lee, outgoing city leader Carrie Lam and several hundred other people. Xi, who is making his first trip off the mainland in 2 1/2 years, was not present at the ceremony.
On his arrival Thursday, Xi told well-wishers that Hong Kong has overcome many challenges over the years and had been “reborn from the ashes” with “vigorous vitality,” in an apparent allusion to the 2019 pro-democracy protests, which were followed by a sweeping crackdown on dissent that has transformed the economic hub once known for its political and civic freedoms.
The flag-raising ceremony was held amid strong winds, and police officers carrying the Chinese and Hong Kong flags marched into the Golden Bauhinia Square for the ceremony with the Chinese “goose-stepping” style, replacing a British-style march. Guests stood at attention as the Chinese national anthem was played.
Xi last visited Hong Kong in 2017 for the July 1 celebrations, during which he warned that there would be no tolerance for any activities seen as threatening China’s sovereignty and stability.
The months of pro-democracy protests in 2019 were seen by China’s ruling Communist Party as just such a threat, and Xi in remarks Thursday evening praised Lam for ending chaos that had gripped the city and for ensuring that only “patriots” would rule Hong Kong.
Since the protests, Beijing and Hong Kong authorities drafted a national security law that was then used to arrest scores of activists, media figures and democracy supporters; introduced a more “patriotic” curriculum in schools; and revamped election laws to keep opposition politicians out of the city’s Legislature. The changes have all but eliminated dissenting voices in the city and have driven many to leave.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. on Monday imposed its second round of sanctions in less than a week on people and firms in Africa who it says have provided financial or material support to the Islamic State group.
Government reports outline how the Islamic State group is expanding its presence in Africa, after the group faced defeats in Iraq and Syria. The State Department has designated nine groups worldwide as IS affiliates and foreign terrorist organizations.
In the latest action, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated four people and eight companies controlled by individuals that it said were in the South African Islamic State cell — including Nufael Akbar, Yunus Mohamad Akbar, Mohamad Akbar, and Umar Akbar. Their gold trading, construction and other firms are targeted for sanctions.
The move freezes and blocks any potential transactions with U.S. entities and prevents Americans from doing business with them.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement that “as part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, the United States will continue to partner with South Africa to deny ISIS the ability to exploit the country’s economy to raise and transfer funds in support of ISIS terrorist activities.”
The Islamic State group sometimes is known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.
The Treasury Department last week issued financial and diplomatic sanctions against a weapons trafficking network affiliated with the Islamic State group in Somalia and the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, which are accused of carrying out deadly terrorist acts on civilians including car bombings.
Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said the sanctions target “key individuals in ISIS’s network in South Africa, as well as their business assets, who have played pivotal roles in enabling terrorism and other criminal activities in the region.” | 2022-11-07T18:11:09+00:00 | washingtonpost.com | https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-sanctions-south-african-islamic-state-affiliated-firms/2022/11/07/f2573688-5ebd-11ed-a131-e900e4a6336b_story.html |
NEW YORK, March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of securities of Alico, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALCO) between February 4, 2021 and December 13, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"), of the important April 18, 2023 lead plaintiff deadline.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Alico 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 Alico class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=13493 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 April 18, 2023. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Many of these firms do not actually handle securities class actions, but are merely middlemen that refer clients or partner with law firms that actually litigate the cases. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, defendants throughout the Class Period made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) Alico had deficient disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting; (2) as a result, the Company had improperly calculated Alico's deferred tax liabilities over a multi-year period; (3) accordingly, the Company would likely be required to restate one or more of its previously issued financial statements; (4) the foregoing would impede the timely completion of the audit of the Company's financial results in advance of its year-end earnings call; and (5) as a result, the Company's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
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In 1977, gunmen led by a charismatic Muslim leader stormed three locations in Washington, D.C., taking more than 100 people hostage. Journalist Shahan Mufti examines the incident in a new book.
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CONRAD — Calvin Krause is a typical four-year-old boy. He loves playing with his puppy Oscar, brother Easton, and parents Tyler and Amy. About a year ago, his life took a turn his family could have never expected. When he flexes his muscles, you’ll see he’s got a patch on his arms no other Montanan can say they have—and they’re helping keep him alive.
The Krauses noticed excess water consumption and urination which ultimately led to a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis, something no parent wants to hear.
Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Marwan Bakhach explained, “It was quite a challenge at the beginning and adjusting to a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes can be very difficult because your whole life is not the same. Eventually you will establish a routine and you will know what to do.”
As quickly as doctors discovered Calvin’s diagnosis, Amy and Tyler had to adjust to an entirely new world as they learned how to take care of their son.
“We were incredibly lucky that it was found as quickly as it was. The four days and three nights we spent on the pediatrics floor at Benefis was for them to teach us how to manage this disease and how to keep our kid alive. We were holding back tears for sure,” said Tyler.
Fortunately for them, they easily got a new device that makes managing the disease much easier. It's called an Omnipod 5 insulin pump, which is the first tubeless, automated insulin delivery system and is integrated with a continuous glucose monitor sensor.
“What makes this new pump a little bit more appealing for families who were refusing pumps in the past is the fact that it’s smaller in size, it doesn’t have tubes. Especially younger kids who are very active, they’re walking around. I would say it’s definitely a huge step,” said Bakhach.
The diagnosis has put the Krauses through a lot, but the new technology from the Omnipod 5 takes a lot of the burden off Calvin’s parents’ shoulders.
“This particular pump has algorithms in it where it now knows the sugar is going up so it increases the insulin. It now knows the sugar is going down so it decreases the amount of insulin. So really working hard at keeping them out of highs and lows,” said Deb Bjorsness, Diabetes Education Care Specialist at Benefis. “It’s extremely important that we keep our families, our kids, our adults for that matter, safe living with Type 1 Diabetes. This device is extremely valuable.”
Tyler and Amy both agree it’s helped bring their house and son’s life back to as normal as possible.
Calvin’s mom beamed with pride as she talked about how strong her son has remained throughout this impossible situation.
She said, “He has been a huge trooper through it all. It has already given him his childhood back and that has given him his freedom. Before, he’d do the shots because he knew it had to be done but now, he can just run around, and we don’t have to worry as much. It was a tough pill to swallow at first, but this is much better to live with.”
The medical team at Benefis working with Calvin has also noticed lots of improvement since he got the tubeless pump.
Brianna Crowe, a registered nurse, commented, “I can see he’s always been a happy healthy kid. As far as speaking from the endocrine side, I’ve heard nothing but great things as far as how his pump and the new Omnipod 5 are correlating with it and learning with him and that his blood sugars have been much more in range and controllable since he started it. It’s been fun to watch him grow and learn all the new things for him and continue to be a kid just as he’s supposed to be.”
They expect many more kids like Calvin as well as adults to apply and get this gamechanger of a device. It is available on a case-by-case basis, but the Krauses say to fight for it if necessary because it is that valuable to them and to Calvin.
Thanks to the Omnipod, the Krauses have less to worry about - except when Calvin wreaks mayhem with his Legos and monster trucks. | 2022-06-21T16:47:49+00:00 | ktvh.com | https://www.ktvh.com/news/new-device-helps-montana-family-manage-sons-diabetes |
ATLANTA – Stetson Bennett and the Georgia defense picked up where they left off in last year’s national championship game, even with a bunch of their former teammates now playing in the NFL.
Bennett threw for 368 yards and accounted for three touchdowns, a revamped defense didn't miss a beat, and the No. 3 Bulldogs looked very much like a champion intent on repeating with a 49-3 rout of No. 11 Oregon on Saturday.
Bennett completed 25-of-31 passes with two touchdowns and ran for another score in the season opener before calling it a day in the third quarter. By that point, Georgia led 42-3 and had thoroughly ruined the debut of Oregon coach Dan Lanning.
Georgia really opened it up on offense, throwing 37 times for 439 yards.
“I think when you watch what they did today, if you're watching from home, you're saying, ‘Man, I’d love to come play in that offense,'" coach Kirby Smart said.
After spending the last three years as Georgia's co-defensive coordinator, Lanning got a look at his former team from the opposing sideline in a game played before a predominantly red-clad crowd at the home of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
He saw just how far the Ducks have to go.
“That locker room is hurting a little bit,” Lanning said. “But they’re ready to grow.”
Bennett, the former walk-on who led a storybook run to Georgia's first national title since 1980, returned for a sixth college season with a firm grip on the starting job after battling for playing time most of his career.
Bennett was the offensive MVP of both Georgia victories in last year's College Football Playoff.
He started his final season with a career high for passing yards.
“It's always good to go in being the guy," Bennett said. “It was pretty cool.”
He guided the Bulldogs to the end zone on all six possessions he played. He ran for a 1-yard score and tossed TD passes of 4 yards to Ladd McConkey — spinning away from a pass rusher who appeared to have him corralled — and 18 yards to Adonai Mitchell.
There were some questions about the Georgia defense, which had five players off the 2021 unit selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
Any doubts were quickly put to rest by a swarming group that looked very much like last year's defense for the ages, making life miserable for new Oregon quarterback Bo Nix.
“One of our mottos is, ‘No one in our end zone,'" said Christopher Smith, who had one of Georgia's two interceptions.
Nix transferred to Eugene after starting at Auburn the last three seasons. He immediately found himself facing a team he lost to three times while playing in the SEC.
Make it 0-4.
Nix's frustration was evident when he buried his helmet in his hands after a false-start penalty.
Georgia's day was epitomized by a short pass to Darnell Washington that turned into a big gain when the 6-foot-7, 270-pound tight end shrugged off one defender hitting him high and hurdled another who tried to bring him down low.
QUITE A DEBUT
Freshman Malaki Starks looks like one of the new stars of the Georgia defense.
He made a brilliant interception while falling backward at the Georgia 8 and wound up leading the team with eight tackles.
NIX IN GREEN
Despite his poor showing, Nix has a solid grasp on the Oregon quarterback job.
Nix completed 21 of 37 for just 173 yards, and his second interception — the one picked off by Smith — was an especially poor decision.
“He forced a throw he didn't need to force,” Lanning said. “Bo knows that.”
Even though he didn't name a stating quarterback leading up to the game, Lanning never considered giving someone else a shot.
Nix is still No. 1 on the depth chart.
“He's our quarterback," Lanning said. "He did a a good job handling some adverse situations. Now he's got to figure out how he can improve.”
THE TAKEAWAY
Oregon: Lanning clearly has a lot of work to do to bring the Ducks up to a truly elite level. While there's no shame in losing to a team such as Georgia, Oregon expected to be much more competitive in their new coach's first game.
Georgia: The Bulldogs are off and rolling in defense of their national championship. They weren't threatened at all by perhaps the toughest team on their schedule until a Nov. 19 game at Kentucky.
POLL IMPLICATIONS
The Bulldogs are more than worthy of their No. 3 ranking. Smart has built a program that reloads rather than rebuilds.
Oregon is sure to tumble in The Associated Press poll. But at least every game from here on out looks much easier than facing the Bulldogs.
UP NEXT
Oregon: Home opener next Saturday against FCS school Eastern Washington.
Georgia: While this seemed like a home game for Georgia, its actual home opener is next Saturday against FCS opponent Sanford.
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(WGN Radio) – A new drug that shows promising results of slowing memory decline recently received the Food and Drug Administration’s stamp of approval – but will anyone be able to afford it?
The FDA endorsed the IV drug, Leqembi, for patients with mild dementia and other symptoms caused by early Alzheimer’s disease. It works by clearing a sticky brain plaque linked to the disease, and it’s the first medicine that’s been convincingly shown to modestly slow the cognitive decline caused by Alzheimer’s.
But Leqembi doesn’t come cheap. It is priced at about $26,500 for a year’s supply of IVs every two weeks.
“If we had to pay out of pocket, you’d certainly have to have substantial funds to do this,” said Dr. Kevin Most, chief medical officer at Northwestern Central DuPage Hospital, in an interview with WGN Radio.
But the recent FDA approval paves the way for Medicare and other insurers to cover the drug.
Medicare administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, said the program will begin paying for the drug now that it has full FDA approval. But the government is also setting extra requirements, including enrollment in a federal registry to track the drug’s real-world safety and effectiveness.
“I look at it and say it’s our opportunity to prove that the drug is really working well. It will advance the other five, six, seven drugs that are in the pipeline right now that are doing similar things to remove that beta amyloid from the brain,” said Dr. Most.
Even ignoring cost or insurance coverage, not every person with Alzheimer’s will be able to get their hands on the drug. Doctors will need to confirm that patients have the brain plaque targeted by Leqembi before prescribing it.
“When you look at the 6.5 million people with Alzheimer’s, it’s going to come down to a classification of probably between 1 to 2 million individuals will be available – or will be allowed – to do it,” said Dr. Most. “Because we’re looking at those with the early stages of Alzheimer’s, the minor symptoms, to see if we can stop it in its tracks.”
Leqembi’s drugmaker Eisai has told investors that about 100,000 Americans could be diagnosed and eligible to receive Leqembi by 2026.
Eisai studied the drug in people with early or mild disease who were evaluated using a scale measuring memory, thinking and other basic skills. After 18 months, those who got Leqembi declined more slowly — a difference of less than half a point on the scale — than participants who received a dummy infusion. Some Alzheimer’s experts say that delay is likely too subtle for patients or their families to notice.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report. | 2023-07-16T14:53:08+00:00 | wwlp.com | https://www.wwlp.com/news/fda-approves-pricy-new-treatment-for-alzheimers-what-you-need-to-know/ |
Man trapped under dumpster, dies
Man was trying to connect dumpster to pickup truck
Man trapped under dumpster, dies
Man was trying to connect dumpster to pickup truck
NEWSROOM TONIGHT. HANNAH, THANK YOU. A MAN IS DEAD AFTER GETTING TRAPPED INSIDE A DUMPSTER. IT HAPPENED AROUND ONE THIS AFTERNOON AT SIXTH. AND LATHAM. POLICE SAY THE MAN WAS TRYING TO CONNECT THE DUMPSTER TO A PICKUP TRUCK. HE ENDED UP UNDERNEATH THE HYDRAULIC DEVICE ON THE DUMPSTER AND BECAME TRAPPED. OFFICE
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Man trapped under dumpster, dies
Man was trying to connect dumpster to pickup truck
A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is dead after getting trapped inside a dumpster, police said. It happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday at 6th Street and Lapham Boulevard.Police said the man was trying to connect the dumpster to a pickup truck.He ended up underneath the hydraulic device on the dumpster and became trapped.
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A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is dead after getting trapped inside a dumpster, police said.
It happened around 1 p.m. Tuesday at 6th Street and Lapham Boulevard.
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He ended up underneath the hydraulic device on the dumpster and became trapped. | 2022-10-26T02:17:19+00:00 | wisn.com | https://www.wisn.com/article/man-trapped-under-dumpster-dies/41770397 |
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines has sought an explanation from China after a Filipino military commander reported that the Chinese coast guard forcibly seized Chinese rocket debris in the possession of Filipino navy personnel in the disputed South China Sea, officials said Thursday.
Sunday’s incident off Philippine-occupied Thitu island is the latest flareup in the long-seething territorial disputes involving China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. China has denied its coast guard forcibly seized the debris from the Filipino sailors.
Department of Foreign Affairs spokesperson in Manila, Maria Theresa Daza, said without elaborating that a diplomatic note was relayed to China for “clarification from the Chinese side over the incident.”
Vice Adm. Alberto Carlos, who heads the military’s Western Command, said the Filipino sailors, using a long-range camera, spotted the debris drifting in strong waves near a sandbar about 800 yards (540 meters) offshore. They set out on a boat and retrieved the floating object and started to tow it back to Thitu Island.
As they were traveling back to the island, “they noticed that a China coast guard vessel with bow number 5203 was approaching their location and subsequently blocked their pre-plotted course twice,” Carlos said in a statement.
The Chinese coast guard vessel then deployed an inflatable boat with personnel who “forcefully retrieved said floating object by cutting the towing line” attached to the Filipino sailors’ rubber boat. The sailors decided to return to their island, Carlos said, without detailing what happened.
Chinese coast guard ships have blocked Philippine supply boats delivering supplies to Filipino forces in the disputed waters in the past but seizing objects in the possession of another nation’s military constitutes a more brazen act.
China’s Foreign Ministry in Beijing has denied that the debris was seized forcibly.
“The Philippine side salvaged and towed the object first. After friendly consultation at the site, the Philippine side returned the object to China, and China expressed appreciation for that,” ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Monday. “There was no such thing as interception or forcible seizure at the scene.”
Responding to China’s denial, top Philippine defense official Jose Faustino Jr. stood by the accounts of the Filipino navy personnel and said the debris was “rudely” taken from them by the Chinese coast guard.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he would also seek clarification when he visits Beijing in January to meet China’s leader Xi Jinping.
Faustino said a separate Philippine investigation was underway after Filipino villagers on Thitu reported hearing unexplained explosions on Sunday.
It was not clear where the thunder-like blasts, which caused slight tremors on the ground, came from and what were their nature. Villagers on the island were alarmed, officials said, adding they prepared an evacuation plan in case there would be a need for it.
Thitu, which Filipinos call Pagasa, or hope, hosts a fishing community and Filipino forces and lies near Subi, one of seven disputed reefs that China has turned into missile-protected islands in the disputed waters. U.S. security officials say that the developed islands, including three with military-grade runways, now resemble forward military bases.
The Philippines and other smaller claimant nations in the disputed region, backed by the United States and other Western countries, have protested and raised alarm over China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the busy waterway. | 2022-11-24T07:28:07+00:00 | seattletimes.com | https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/philippines-asks-china-for-explanation-over-latest-sea-feud/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_nation-world |
BERLIN (AP) — Officials at a hospital in western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation.
Public broadcaster SWR reported Friday that the incident at the Mainz University Hospital, which happened in 2020, didn’t result in any complications to the patient but the doctor has since been fired.
The hospital’s chief executive, Norbert Pfeiffer, said the surgeon wrongly decided to go ahead with the routine procedure even though no qualified assistant was available, SWR reported.
When the patient, who had received a local anesthetic, became restless the doctor asked a nearby cleaner to hold the man’s leg and pass surgical instruments, according to local daily Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung. The paper reported that the cleaner had no medical experience.
The incident came to light after a hospital manager spotted the cleaner — bloody gauze pads in hand — in the operating theater, it reported.
“This should never have happened,” German news agency dpa quoted Pfeiffer as saying. | 2023-05-19T18:39:59+00:00 | valleycentral.com | https://www.valleycentral.com/weird-news/ap-strange-news/ap-german-surgeon-fired-after-getting-hospital-cleaner-to-assist-amputation/ |
Crash, hazardous materials leak on interstate causes shelter-in-place in Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD/Gray News) - A shelter-in-place order was extended Wednesday to include a 3-mile radius around the scene of a deadly crash and hazmat spill on Interstate 10 in Arizona.
The order was re-issued at about 5 a.m. because gas was released as crews attempted to remove the load from the vehicle. The order was originally in effect for a 1-mile area around the crash site.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed a truck carrying liquid nitric acid crashed in the median around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday and the driver was killed.
The incident forced evacuations in the area. Arizona DPS said those who were evacuated should expect to remain displaced until around mid-day Wednesday.
Shortly after the shelter-in-place order was extended, the Vail School District announced that all its schools would be closed.
Interstate 10 was closed in both directions, and there is no timetable for it to reopen. Also, portions of nearby roads were closed.
“This will be an extensive closure,” Arizona DPS said in a tweet. “Motorists in the Tucson area should anticipate an impact on their Wednesday morning commute.”
Anyone within the perimeter of this incident is advised to turn off heaters or air conditioning systems that bring in outside air.
The original shelter-in-place order was lifted at 8:40 p.m. Earlier, first responders helped evacuate everyone within a half-mile of the crash site.
According to the National Library of Medicine, nitric acid is “very toxic by inhalation” and “corrosive to metals or tissue.”
“Prolonged exposure to low concentrations or short-term exposure to high concentrations may result in adverse health effects,” the NLM said on its webpage.
The main uses of the chemical are the production of fertilizers, explosives and rocket fuel.
Copyright 2023 KOLD via Gray Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved. | 2023-02-15T17:11:07+00:00 | live5news.com | https://www.live5news.com/2023/02/15/crash-hazardous-materials-leak-interstate-causes-shelter-in-place-arizona/ |
BEIJING, Nov. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Li Yingying, a young female athlete in the spotlight in the volleyball field, was born as a gifted player. At the age of 10, she was selected as a junior player and began training in north China's Tianjin.
In 2010, Wang Baoquan, head coach of the Tianjin volleyball team, discovered the talented girl in northeastern China and brought her to Tianjin for training. Rigorous training and homesickness sometimes prevented Li from adjusting properly to the new environment, but she has always been dedicated to the sport.
Over the past dozen years, Li, now 22, has overcome various difficulties and emerged as a lead player in Chinese women's volleyball team.
Her efforts paid off. In Chinese Women's Volleyball League 2017-2018, she broke the previous record by scoring 45 points in a single game.
"I was very confident at the beginning of my volleyball career, not afraid of anyone. I was very bold and had a strong desire to win," said Li.
In this video, Li's experience was recounted through her own narrative. She joined the national volleyball team as an ambitious young player but encountered a major setback in 2018 when she found her performance was holding the team back.
With encouragement from Lang Ping, the head coach of the national women's volleyball team, she regained confidence and perked up.
"I think it's normal to experience wins and losses in competitive sports," she said. "The fighting spirit of the women's volleyball team has to go on."
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Candidates for new judge seat talk tough on crime
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - As Baton Rouge struggles to get crime under control. Police say putting their life on the line to put a criminal behind bars only to see them released back out onto the streets days later is like working with both hands tied behind their back.
“Crime is terrible...and...it hadn’t gotten any better,” said candidate Jordan Faircloth, an attorney.
Faircloth is one of the three candidates running for the job after Judge Tim Kelly announced he was retiring back in December. About a year ago Faircloth ran for Judge William Morvant’s’ seat against opponent Brad Myers. Hlost in a low turnout election and lost again in a recount. He hopes this time things will go differently.
“I lost the election, I wasn’t gonna go home and pout. I called Hillar, I called the folks at the Juvenile Court and said what can I do to help. Then low and behold Judge Kelly decides to retire,” Faircloth added.
“Who remembers a time in Baton Rouge when you felt safe on our streets? Pretty much all of us,” Johanna Landreneau, another candidate, asked folks at a luncheon Tuesday.
Landreneau says she decided to run after a side conversation with police at the press conference for Allie Rice, an LSU senior who was shot and killed last fall.
“I said what is going on, what is happening. They told me they knew who the bad actors were, who they are, and they’re arresting them day after day. They arrest them, they go back and arrest them the next day for committing another crime,” Landreneau explained.
In another example for how low bond is contributing to crime, Landreneau cited a recent case at Southern University’s homecoming where a man who had just been let out, attended a party and reportedly shot 9 people.
“He went back before Judge Foxworth, she set the bail at $1.6 million I think...that was appropriate. It does make a difference. Low bail, violent criminals get out quickly,” Landreneau added.
Faircloth echoed her response.
“Those are the times when we’re dealing with the violent criminals, the ones we know are the violent criminals, that are out to repeat offend, those are the times when...You have to be right,” said Faircloth.
Louise Hines Myers is the third candidate in the race but did not speak today. Folks will be able to cast their vote in the special election on March 25, 2023. Although no Democrats are in the race right now, both candidates say they wouldn’t be surprised if one stepped up.
Qualifying for this race will be between January 25th through 27th.
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Copyright 2022 WAFB. All rights reserved. | 2023-01-11T00:09:25+00:00 | wafb.com | https://www.wafb.com/2023/01/11/candidates-new-judge-seat-talk-tough-crime/ |
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president Thursday to take charge of a nation bitterly angry he will remain in power amid an unprecedented economic crisis.
Sri Lankans have taken to the streets for months to demand their top leaders step down to take responsibility for economic chaos that has left the nation’s 22 million people struggling with shortages of essentials, including medicine, fuel and food. While the protesters have focused on the Rajapaksa political dynasty, Wickremesinghe also has drawn their ire as a perceived Rajapaksa surrogate.
The six-time prime minister had never held the top job. But he easily won the secret ballot of lawmakers Wednesday to finish the term of former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protesters stormed his residence last week and resigned.
His appointment received mixed reactions, with some supporters lighting firecrackers while protesters continued to demand that he resign.
Wickremesinghe, 73, has wide experience in diplomatic and international affairs and has been overseeing bailout talks with the International Monetary Fund. He won the support of 134 members in the 225-member Parliament.
Lawmakers apparently considered him the safer hands to lead the nation through the crisis, despite public anger at Wickremesinghe as an example of the nation’s problematic political establishment. During demonstrations last week, crowds set his personal residence on fire and occupied his office.
After Wednesday’s vote, Wickremesinghe called for politicians to work together and pleaded for the country to move on. But protesters flocked to the presidential office instead, chanting, “Ranil, go home!”
Protest leaders told reporters on Wednesday they don’t accept Wickremesinghe’s appointment and urged him to step down immediately.
Parliament’s selection goes against the “will of the people,” said Jeewantha Peiris, a protest leader and Catholic priest, adding that demonstrations against Wickremesinghe would continue.
“We are the people who sent Gotabaya home, and it’s not a difficult task for us to send you (Wickremesinghe) home,” said Tampitiye Sugathananda, a Buddhist monk and protest leader who was outside the presidential office.
Wickremesinghe took his oath as the country’s 8th executive president Thursday morning before Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya at a ceremony held in Parliament in the capital, Colombo. He now can choose a new prime minister.
In an example of the troubles caused by the economic crisis, a power outage hampered live coverage of the swearing-in ceremony at Parliament. An official at Parliament who spoke on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak to the media said the live coverage was to be done by the state-owned Independent Television Network.
In some areas, Wickremesinghe’s supporters lit firecrackers and distributed sweets to celebrate his appointment as president, local media reported.
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung wrote on Twitter that she looks forward to working with Wickremesinghe, adding, “In these challenging times, it will be essential for all parties to redouble efforts to work together to tackle the economic crisis, uphold democracy & accountability, and build a stable & secure future for all Sri Lankans.”
Wickremesinghe said Monday the negotiations with the IMF were near a conclusion and talks on help from other countries had also progressed. He also said the government has taken steps to resolve shortages of fuel and cooking gas.
On Wednesday, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told financial magazine Nikkei Asia that the organization hoped to complete the rescue talks “as quickly as possible.”
On Monday, in his role as acting president, Wickremesinghe declared a state of emergency that gave him broad authority to act in the interest of public security and order. Authorities can carry out searches and detain people, and Wickremesinghe can also change or suspend any law. Parliament can regularly review the law and it will expire without its approval.
Presidents in Sri Lanka are normally elected by the public. The responsibility falls to Parliament only if the presidency becomes vacant before the term officially ends. It has happened once before, in 1993, when then-Prime Minister Dingiri Banda Wijetunga was chosen by Parliament uncontested after former President Ranasinghe Premadasa, father of the current opposition leader, was assassinated.
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Associated Press writer Krishan Francis contributed to this report. | 2022-07-21T20:26:05+00:00 | wcia.com | https://www.wcia.com/news/international/sri-lankas-newly-elected-president-sworn-into-office/ |
DNC approves new calendar for presidential nominating process
South Carolina, not Iowa, will be the first state to vote
South Carolina, not Iowa, will be the first state to vote
South Carolina, not Iowa, will be the first state to vote
Iowa has lost its first-in-the-nation status.
The Democratic National Rules and Bylaws Committee approved a new calendar Friday for the presidential nominating process.
Iowa will no longer hold the first spot in that process.
The committee officially voted to remove Iowa from the top spot and early window entirely.
Members from Iowa and New Hampshire were the only two to vote against the plan.
Every other state celebrated it, saying the new early window prioritizes diversity and will make Democrats more competitive as a party.
Scott Brennan, Iowa’s only member on the DNC Rules & Bylaws committee, argues booting Iowa means Democrats are leaving rural and middle America behind.
In April, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee approved a new plan which requires states to make the case that they should be first in the nominating process.
Iowa competed against 15 states and Puerto Rico for those spots.
On Thursday night, DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee members were attending a members-only dinner when President Joe Biden released a letter indicating which states he would prefer to go first during the presidential nominating process. Biden recommended the following early voting lineup: South Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia and Michigan.
KCCI obtained a copy of the letter which states, in part, "Our party should no longer allow caucuses as part of our nominating process.”
Iowa is one of the only states that hold a caucus as part of its presidential nomination process. Other states, such as those Biden suggested, hold primaries.
Iowa Democrats have held the first spot since 1972, playing a key role in the Democratic presidential nominating process.
The decision Friday will have a significant impact, not only on the political role of Iowa Democrats, but also on Iowa’s economy, as the caucuses bring in a lot of business for the state.
The decision will not impact the Iowa Republican Caucuses, which will remain first in the nation after the Republican National Committee voted to reaffirm its rules in April. | 2022-12-02T21:42:39+00:00 | kcci.com | https://www.kcci.com/article/dnc-iowa-plans-presidential-nominating-process/42135267 |
Company to Host Conference Call on Friday, Feb. 24, 2023, at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. ET
ALHAMBRA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. ("ApolloMed," and together with its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, the "Company") (NASDAQ: AMEH), a leading physician-centric, technology-powered healthcare company focused on enabling providers in the successful delivery of value-based care, today announced its consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022.
Financial Highlights for the Year Ended December 31, 2022:
- Total revenue of $1.14 billion, an increase of 48% from $773.9 million for the prior year
- Net income attributable to ApolloMed of $49.0 million
- Earnings per share - diluted ("EPS – diluted") of $1.08
- Adjusted EBITDA of $140.0 million, an increase of 5%, compared to $133.5 million for the prior year, resulting in an Adjusted EBITDA margin of 12.2%(1)
- Cash and cash equivalents of $288.0 million at December 31, 2022
(1) See "Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA" and "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for additional information.
Financial Highlights for Fourth Quarter 2022:
- Total revenue of $294.2 million, an increase of 51% from $195.1 million for the prior-year quarter
- Net loss attributable to ApolloMed of $2.6 million
- Adjusted EBITDA of $23.7 million, an increase of 54% from $15.4 million for the prior-year quarter
Guidance:
ApolloMed is providing the following guidance for total revenue, net income, EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and EPS - diluted. The net income and EBITDA guidance ranges below include the impact of the excluded assets held by Allied Physicians of California, a Professional Medical Corporation's ("APC"), which are solely for the benefit of APC and its shareholders. Any gains or losses associated with these excluded assets do not have an impact on Adjusted EBITDA and EPS - diluted. These guidance assumptions are based on the Company's existing business, current view of existing market conditions and assumptions for the year ending December 31, 2023.
See "Guidance Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA" and "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for additional information. There can be no assurance that actual amounts will not be materially higher or lower than these expectations. See "Forward-Looking Statements" below for additional information.
Management Commentary:
Brandon Sim, Co-Chief Executive Officer of ApolloMed, stated, "In 2022, we continued to position our Company for long-term growth while remaining focused on our mission of empowering physicians in the successful delivery of value-based care and driving superior outcomes for their patients. We were pleased with the strong financial and operational results our team achieved during 2022, including 48% growth on the top line and 5% growth in Adjusted EBITDA to $140.0 million, a margin of 12.2%. This was a result of strong organic membership growth in our core risk-bearing provider groups, favorable trends in membership mix, and participation in a value-based care model for the Medicare fee-for-service population.
"The investments made during 2022 position us for strong growth as we continue to execute against our operating priorities: scaling our care delivery model across core and new geographies, effectively taking on additional risk in our value-based contracts, and delivering industry-leading patient outcomes through our care delivery network and value-based care enablement platform.
"I would like to thank our team of over 1,300 employees for their dedication to ApolloMed's mission. We remain committed to empowering our providers, which will accelerate us towards a future where all Americans have access to high-quality, value-based and evidence-driven healthcare."
GAAP Financial Review for the Year Ended December 31, 2022:
- Total revenue of $1.14 billion for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 48%, compared to $773.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, primarily due to (i) an overall increase of $336.9 million in capitation revenue primarily driven by organic membership growth in ApolloMed's consolidated IPAs and participation in a value-based Medicare fee-for-service model, and (ii) an increase of $23.0 million in fee-for-service revenue from ApolloMed primary, multi-specialty, and ancillary care delivery entities.
- Capitation revenue, net, of $930.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 57%, compared to $593.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. Capitation revenue represented 81% of total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022.
- Net income of $50.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 3%, compared to $49.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
- Net income attributable to ApolloMed of $49.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $73.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
- EPS - diluted of $1.08 for the year ended December 31, 2022, compared to $1.63 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
GAAP Financial Review for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2022:
- Total revenue of $294.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 51%, compared to $195.1 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. This was primarily driven by organic membership growth in ApolloMed's consolidated IPAs and participation in a value-based Medicare fee-for-service model.
- Capitation revenue, net, of $252.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 63%, compared to $154.9 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. Capitation revenue represented 86% of total revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2022.
- Net income of $0.5 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to net loss of $19.3 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021, which was primarily a result of significantly lower unrealized losses in fair value of a payer partner's shares held as marketable securities and other investments of $2.8 million, which compares to $33.0 million in unrealized losses as a result of a 1-to-3 conversion of a payer partner's preferred shares to common stock in the prior-year period. These payer partner shares are deemed "Excluded Assets" that are solely for the benefit of APC and its shareholders and do not impact net income attributable to ApolloMed.
- Net loss attributable to ApolloMed of $2.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to net income attributable to ApolloMed of $13.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. The loss was primarily a result of a $13.1 million increase in income tax expense compared to the prior-year period.
Non-GAAP Financial Review for the Year Ended December 31, 2022:
- EBITDA of $110.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 11%, compared to $99.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $140.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 5%, compared to $133.5 million for year ended December 31, 2021.
Non-GAAP Measures for the Fourth Quarter Ended December 31, 2022:
- EBITDA of $15.8 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, compared to EBITDA of negative $17.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
- Adjusted EBITDA of $23.7 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, an increase of 54%, compared to $15.4 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021.
Balance Sheet Highlights:
- As of December 31, 2022, ApolloMed's cash and cash equivalents and investments in marketable securities were $293.6 million, working capital was $287.8 million, and total stockholders' equity increased to $555.0 million; from cash and cash equivalents and investments in marketable securities of $286.5 million, working capital of $283.4 million and total stockholders' equity of $460.5 million, respectively, as of December 31, 2021.
- In December 2022, ApolloMed's Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program authorizing the purchase of up to $50 million of its shares of common stock on the open market or through privately negotiated transactions. As of February 1, 2023, the Company had not yet purchased any shares under this share repurchase program. This repurchase program does not have an expiration date. The Board may suspend or discontinue the repurchase program at any time. This repurchase program does not obligate ApolloMed to make additional repurchases at any specific time or in any specific situation.
See "Reconciliation of Net Income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA" and "Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures" below for additional information.
For more details on ApolloMed's financial results for the year ended December 31, 2022, please refer to ApolloMed's Annual Report on Form 10-K to be filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission ("SEC"), which is accessible at www.sec.gov.
Conference Call and Webcast Information:
ApolloMed will host a conference call at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. ET today (Friday, February 24, 2023), during which management will discuss the results of the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022. To participate in the conference call, please use the following dial-in numbers about 5 minutes prior to the scheduled conference call time:
The conference call can also be accessed at: https://event.choruscall.com/mediaframe/webcast.html?webcastid=0Kd2PA99.
An accompanying slide presentation will be available in PDF format on the "IR Calendar" page of the Company's website (https://www.apollomed.net/investors/news-events/ir-calendar) after issuance of the earnings release and will be filed as an exhibit to ApolloMed's current report on Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC, accessible at www.sec.gov.
Those who are unable to attend the live conference call may access the recording at the above webcast link, which will be made available shortly after the conclusion of the call.
Note About Consolidated Entities
The Company consolidates entities in which it has a controlling financial interest. The Company consolidates subsidiaries in which it holds, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the voting rights, and variable interest entities ("VIEs") in which the Company is the primary beneficiary. Noncontrolling interests represent third party equity ownership interests in the Company's consolidated entities (including certain VIEs). The amount of net income attributable to noncontrolling interests is disclosed in the Company's consolidated statements of income.
Note About Stockholders' Equity, Certain Treasury Stock and Earnings Per Share
As of December 31, 2022, 140,954 holdback shares had not been issued to certain former shareholders of the Company's subsidiary, Network Medical Management, Inc. ("NMM"), who were NMM shareholders at the time of closing of the merger, as they have yet to submit properly completed letters of transmittal to ApolloMed in order to receive their pro rata portion of ApolloMed's common stock and warrants as contemplated under that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated December 21, 2016, among ApolloMed, NMM, Apollo Acquisition Corp. ("Merger Subsidiary") and Kenneth Sim, M.D., as amended, pursuant to which Merger Subsidiary merged with and into NMM, with NMM as the surviving corporation. Pending such receipt, such former NMM shareholders have the right to receive, without interest, their pro rata share of dividends or distributions with a record date after the effectiveness of the merger. The Company's consolidated financial statements have treated such shares of common stock as outstanding, given the receipt of the letter of transmittal is considered perfunctory and ApolloMed is legally obligated to issue these shares in connection with the merger.
Shares of ApolloMed's common stock owned by APC, a VIE of the Company, are legally issued and outstanding but excluded from shares of common stock outstanding in the Company's consolidated financial statements, as such shares are treated as treasury shares for accounting purposes. Such shares, therefore, are not included in the number of shares of common stock outstanding used to calculate the Company's earnings per share.
About Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc.
ApolloMed is a leading physician-centric, technology-powered, risk-bearing healthcare company. Leveraging its proprietary end-to-end technology solutions, ApolloMed operates an integrated healthcare delivery platform that enables providers to successfully participate in value-based care arrangements, thus empowering them to deliver high quality care to patients in a cost-effective manner.
Headquartered in Alhambra, California, ApolloMed's subsidiaries and affiliates include management services organizations (MSOs), affiliated independent practice associations (IPAs), and entities participating in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center (CMMI) innovation models. For more information, please visit www.apollomed.net.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, such as statements about the Company's guidance for the year ending December 31, 2022, continued growth, acquisition strategy, ability to deliver sustainable long-term value, ability to respond to the changing environment, operational focus, strategic growth plans and merger integration efforts, as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company's business, operations and financial results. Forward-looking statements reflect current views with respect to future events and financial performance and therefore cannot be guaranteed. Such statements are based on the current expectations and certain assumptions of the Company's management, and some or all of such expectations and assumptions may not materialize or may vary significantly from actual results. Actual results may also vary materially from forward-looking statements due to risks, uncertainties and other factors, known and unknown, including the risk factors described from time to time in the Company's reports to the SEC, including, without limitation the risk factors discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, which will be filed with the SEC, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Investor Relations
(626) 943-6491
investors@apollomed.net
Carolyne Sohn, The Equity Group
(408) 538-4577
csohn@equityny.com
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures
This press release contains the non-GAAP financial measures EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA, of which the most directly comparable financial measure presented in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") is net income. These measures are not in accordance with, or alternatives to GAAP, and may be different from other non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. The Company uses adjusted EBITDA as a supplemental performance measure of our operations, for financial and operational decision-making, and as a supplemental means of evaluating period-to-period comparisons on a consistent basis. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, excluding income or loss from equity method investments, non-recurring and non-cash transactions, stock-based compensation, and APC excluded assets costs. Beginning in the third quarter ended September 30, 2022, the Company has revised the calculation for Adjusted EBITDA to exclude provider bonus payments and losses from recently acquired IPAs, which it believes to be more reflective of its business.
The Company believes the presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures provides investors with relevant and useful information, as it allows investors to evaluate the operating performance of the business activities without having to account for differences recognized because of non-core or non-recurring financial information. When GAAP financial measures are viewed in conjunction with non-GAAP financial measures, investors are provided with a more meaningful understanding of the Company's ongoing operating performance. In addition, these non-GAAP financial measures are among those indicators the Company uses as a basis for evaluating operational performance, allocating resources, and planning and forecasting future periods. Non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for, GAAP financial measures. To the extent this release contains historical or future non-GAAP financial measures, the Company has provided corresponding GAAP financial measures for comparative purposes. The reconciliation between certain GAAP and non-GAAP measures is provided above.
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Search for escaped Alabama inmate, corrections officer enters day 10
LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) - Sunday marks day 10 of the search for an escaped inmate and former Assistant Director of Corrections from Alabama.
Over 100 investigators are involved in the search for Vicky White and Casey White, according to WAFF. Border Patrol has been on alert since April 29.
The Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office reported on Friday that the 2007 Ford Edge that authorities believe Vicky White and Casey White were driving was found in Tennessee.
According to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton, the car was found east of I-65 near Spring Hill.
The car was a gold/copper color and had damage to the left rear bumper. It also appeared to have been spray painted in a few areas in an attempt to change the color.
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office, where the car was found, reported the car appeared to have been abandoned a week ago and there was no sign the two were still in the area.
During a press conference, Singleton said that Vicky White stayed at a hotel near where the getaway car was parked. Video shows Vicky White at the hotel the night before helping Casey White escape.
On May 5, U.S. Marshals released new photos of Casey White and Vicky White.
Vicky White has long blonde hair, but newly released photos show what the former corrections officer would look like with dyed or longer/shorter hair. She is 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighs approximately 145 pounds and reportedly has a waddling gait.
Casey White stands at 6 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs approximately 330 pounds. According to an official with the U.S. Marshals, he also has a tattoo of eyeballs on the back of his head. Additionally, Casey has tattoos on his chest, arms and upper back including some affiliated with the Alabama-based white supremacist prison gang Southern Brotherhood.
On April 29, the inmate and the former Assistant Director of Corrections were reported missing.
Vicky White and Casey White left the Lauderdale County Detention Center at 9:30 a.m. allegedly heading to the courthouse. Vicky White said she was taking Casey White to a mental health evaluation and then to seek medical care because she was not feeling well. Singleton later confirmed there was not a scheduled mental health evaluation.
A warrant has been issued for Vicky White’s arrest on first-degree permitting or facilitating escape charges. The maximum time in prison is 10 years with a $15,000 fine.
According to WAFF’s independent investigation, the two had a “special relationship.
The U.S. Marshal Service announced that it will be offering up to $10,000 for information regarding Casey White. The Marshal Service is also offering up to $5,000 for information regarding Vicky White.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey has also issued two rewards for information leading to the apprehension and arrest of Vicky White and Casey White.
“Both Casey White and Vicky White pose a major threat to the public, and they must be apprehended. I am pleased to offer this support as law enforcement works diligently to get these dangerous criminals behind bars,” Ivey said.
Both rewards are in the amount of $5,000.
Vicky White and Casey White are considered armed and dangerous. If you see them, you should not approach them and call 911.
To submit information regarding the Casey White or Vicky White, call 1-800-336-0102 or download the U.S. Marshals Tip App.
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Sen. J.D. Vance’s (R-Ohio) call for a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)-style plan to help workers and businesses affected by the East Palestine train derailment is being greeted skeptically by Senate Republicans as they think about the best way to deliver aid to the community.
Vance has been among the leaders calling for increased attention and resources for East Palestine and a region that is still in the midst of a toxic waste cleanup following the Feb. 3 derailment.
But while most senators say they’re open at looking ways to help the area recover but they caution it’s too early to make that determination and question whether a PPP-type program is necessary.
“It’s something I’d be willing to look at. … I think it would be difficult. We want to see those small businesses get back up on [their feet], and I know they’re having trouble with that, but how do you quantify a train derailment disaster over some other kind of thing?” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), the ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. “It’s something to consider. I’d have to see how he would enact something like that.”
Vance’s call for an aid package along the lines of the pandemic program that provided billions of dollars for small businesses came as part of an op-ed in The Washington Post where he relayed anecdotes from residents of the town who are concerned about the financial viability of staying in the area.
Financial assistance from Congress is not likely to come immediately, however, as lawmakers await investigations by the National Transit Safety Board and other agencies to be completed and cleanup to be concluded, which they hope give them a better idea of what the area needs.
“I understand where Sen. Vance is coming from. We’ve all had natural disasters. When we do, we all try to help each other. … But it needs to be thought through. A little time needs to pass. We don’t even know what the health impacts are going to be yet of train derailment, much less the economic impacts. I would look at anything that JD wants to propose,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told The Hill.
Kennedy also noted that a major question surrounds how much Norfolk Southern will be on the hook for when all is said and done.
In total, the railway has committed nearly $8 million to the area in various ways, but lawmakers indicated they are nowhere close to being finished on that end. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told reporters on Tuesday that the federal government should not have to provide assistance to the area and believes Norfolk Southern should cover more than the lion’s share of what is needed.
“Norfolk Southern’s paying for all of this. … There shouldn’t have to be federal dollars. Norfolk Southern’s paying for this. They’ve committed to that and we’re going to hold them to it,” Brown told reporters.
Brown added that he is “open to anything” on Vance’s PPP idea and that they have discussed it.
Vance told The Hill on Tuesday that he and his staff are still figuring out the nuts and bolts of the PPP-type proposal, adding that it is “one piece” of the financial response and will be thought through over the “next couple of weeks.”
“We’re still thinking through what exactly it would look like, but the PPP program is a pretty good structural basis for it, which is effectively income replacement for people who lost their job through no fault of their own. That’s the baseline of how we think this would work,” Vance said in a brief interview, adding that questions surrounding where the funds would come from and underwater mortgages also need to be addressed.
While popular when it passed, the Paycheck Protection Program has drawn the ire of many Republicans in recent months as experts estimate that $80 billion of the $800 billion in PPP loans that were doled out to small businesses were fraudulent. Unlike that system, any proposal for those in eastern Ohio would be on a much smaller scale, though it would be unprecedented for a non-COVID situation.
“I’m open to helping. I’m not sure that’s the right model,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said of the PPP idea. “That’s been the norm around here when there are disasters like this, the federal government steps up and tries to help, and I wouldn’t expect this to be any different.”
Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), a longtime House Ways and Means Committee member, indicated he is open to the idea. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told The Hill that he would discuss the possibility with Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), who represents the area.
On the disaster front, lawmakers OK’d more than $40 billion for victims of storms and wildfires as part of the year-end omnibus spending bill.
One entity that is not aiding financially is the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which said that the derailment does not qualify as a traditional disaster. The agency has, however, dispatched multiple staffers to the area.
But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on the Senate floor on Monday that lawmakers will work with Vance “to ensure the people of Ohio are appropriately informed and supported in the months to come.”
Mychael Schnell contributed. | 2023-03-01T14:33:31+00:00 | krqe.com | https://www.krqe.com/hill-politics/vance-pitches-ppp-for-ohio-while-other-republicans-say-to-wait/ |
NEW YORK, May 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Aloe Care Health ("Aloe Care")—known for developing voice-activated medical alert and communication service for eldercare—will now be available through QVC®, a world leader in video commerce (vCommerce). Aloe Care will be available to QVC's millions of on-air and online customers as of May 26, 2022. (Item E241329)
Aloe Care's proprietary solutions include its in-home Smart Hub for secure, two-way, hands-free voice calls and is bolstered by 24/7/365 access to a Five-Star-rated emergency response team. It also features a private, secure family app for real-time status-checks, voice calls directly into the Smart Hub, and care collaboration with family and professional caregivers.
About 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day in a country that already has more than 55 million older adults, and 80% would prefer to age in their homes.
"This is a significant opportunity for us to increase awareness of Aloe Care's suite of products," said Ray Spoljaric, CEO and Co-founder of Aloe Care. "QVC's customers know they can trust the products shared on their multiple platforms and we're thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce this discerning audience to our modern, comprehensive approach to aging in place and caregiving."
With millions of active customers In the U.S. alone, QVC currently reaches 92 million American homes across the U.S. via its broadcasts, streaming service, website, mobile apps, social pages, and other digital platforms.
ABOUT ALOE CARE HEALTH:
Aloe Care's voice-activated system is the world's most-advanced in-home medical alert and communication system for older adults. Aloe Care's, award-winning solution was created by caregivers, for caregivers. More than 70 percent of the team actively supports aging-in-place parents and grandparents. The company is headquartered in New York.
For more information, visit www.aloecare.com.
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Have you started planning your spring awakening in your garden yet? Before you “bah-hum-bug” us, you’re going to want to hear what today’s guest had to say.
Cami Jacobsen is the president of the Minnehaha County Master Gardeners. She joined us to show us how to force bulbs to bloom in our homes, so we don’t have to wait for spring to enjoy growing fresh flowers.
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The final few active-roster cuts are annually some of the toughest decisions NFL teams have to make as August turns to September and training camp turns into regular season prep.
Miami Dolphins general manager Chris Grier and coach Mike McDaniel have several questions to answer by the Tuesday 4 p.m. deadline to cut their roster from 80 to 53 players, with just a Saturday preseason finale against the Philadelphia Eagles remaining for players to make their lasting impression. They then will find out which cut players aren’t claimed by other teams, and those players remaining make up their 16-player practice squad. The Dolphins can also add other teams’ cuts, if they find them worthy of a roster spot.
Do the Dolphins keep three quarterbacks? How many and which running backs and receivers nab the final spots? How many decisions will be determined by special teams contributions? Which players won their position battles?
Here’s a projection of the Dolphins’ 53-man roster ahead of Saturday’s final exhibition:
QB (2) — On: Tua Tagovailoa, Teddy Bridgewater; Off: Skylar Thompson
The hot topic is whether to keep Thompson, the rookie seventh-round pick, on as a third quarterback. He has looked fine in camp and preseason, but it hasn’t come against starting-caliber NFL defenders, so let’s not get carried away. Everyone always becomes enamored with third-string quarterbacks this time of year. Reid Sinnett was plucked from the Dolphins last year, people were up in arms, and look how quickly Miami found the next third-stringer you love. With Tagovailoa the starter and Bridgewater one of the league’s top backups with ample starting experience, the Dolphins will be fine this season if they just hope to keep Thompson on the practice squad.
RB/FB (4) — On: Chase Edmonds, Raheem Mostert, Alec Ingold (FB), Sony Michel; IR: John Lovett (FB); Off: Myles Gaskin, Salvon Ahmed, ZaQuandre White, Gerrid Doaks
Edmonds, Mostert and Michel were the running backs McDaniel specifically brought in via free agency for his offense. The Dolphins could save $2.5 million by cutting Gaskin. Michel hasn’t had a great camp or preseason, but the veteran is a between-the-tackles presence. Ahmed has shown flashes and fits the offense. He or Gaskin could be an extra tailback, especially given Mostert’s injury history, but the Dolphins also must use a roster spot on the fullback Ingold.
WR (6) — On: Tyreek Hill, Jaylen Waddle, Cedrick Wilson Jr., Erik Ezukanma, Trent Sherfield, Lynn Bowden; Off: Preston Williams, River Cracraft, Mohamed Sanu, Braylon Sanders
Bowden and Williams are possible trade pieces. Williams hasn’t shown anything in this offense in camp. Bowden had a great preseason opener in Tampa and has been on kick and punt returns in the exhibition season. He could contribute there while allowing Hill and Waddle to stay away from the return game, even though McDaniel has expressed a willingness to use his stars there.
TE (4) — On: Mike Gesicki, Durham Smythe, Hunter Long, Cethan Carter; IR: Adam Shaheen; Off: Tanner Conner
Carter makes the team as a strong special teams contributor who is also a proficient blocker offensively that can be Ingold’s backup in a fullback/H-back role.
O-line (8) — On: Terron Armstead, Liam Eichenberg, Connor Williams, Robert Hunt, Austin Jackson, Michael Deiter, Robert Jones, Greg Little; Off: Solomon Kindley, Larnel Coleman, Adam Pankey, Kion Smith, Kellen Diesch, Blaise Andries
Kindley has looked better in recent practices, but is it enough for the 340-pound guard to earn a spot in a blocking scheme that requires athleticism on the line? Coleman has had ample opportunity in camp to snag a backup tackle spot but probably didn’t show enough. With only Little as a backup tackle, if Armstead goes down, the Dolphins can insert either Jones or Deiter on the interior of the line and shift Eichenberg to left tackle, where he played as a rookie.
D-line (5) — On: Emmanuel Ogbah, Christian Wilkins, Zach Sieler, Raekwon Davis, John Jenkins; Off: Benito Jones, Niles Scott, Owen Carney, Ben Stille
That’s a really solid top group, and Jenkins is a serviceable backup nose tackle. The Dolphins don’t need more than five on the active roster with how often they’re in a three-man front and how many versatile outside linebackers can play the edge.
LB (10) — On: Jerome Baker, Elandon Roberts, Jaelan Phillips, Melvin Ingram, Andrew Van Ginkel, Duke Riley, Channing Tindall, Sam Eguavoen, Brennan Scarlett, Porter Gustin; Off: Cameron Goode, Darius Hodge, Calvin Munson
It’s good competition for those final spots. I like what Gustin has shown in camp and the preseason, and he can put his hand in the ground as a backup defensive end for Ogbah, which is where he’s listed on the depth chart. Scarlett has missed time in practice with an undisclosed injury, but he has also said he has experimented with playing end this offseason. Coaches can be fluid with their decisions here as Goode, the rookie seventh-round pick, and Hodge have also had their moments this preseason.
CB (6) — On: Xavien Howard, Byron Jones, Nik Needham, Keion Crossen, Noah Igbinoghene, Kader Kohou; IR: Trill Williams, Mackensie Alexander; Off: Elijah Hamilton, D’Angelo Ross
We’re assuming Jones will be ready for the season here to be that cornerback opposite Howard that frees up other Dolphins defenders to blitz. This unit has been devastated by injury this preseason between Jones’ recovery from lower leg surgery, Williams and Alexander’s placement on injured reserve and minor ailments for Needham and Crossen. Igbinoghene has his spot, although he hasn’t impressed. Kohou is an undrafted player out of Texas A&M-Commerce who earned big guaranteed money for an undrafted player and can grab a sixth spot.
S (5) — On: Jevon Holland, Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, Clayton Fejedelem, Elijah Campbell; Off: Verone McKinley, Quincy Wilson
Wilson, the South Florida local, and McKinley, the undrafted rookie who was Holland’s teammate at Oregon, are candidates for a spot after flashing at times this training camp, but Campbell may earn it over them with special teams contributions the factor. Fejedelem also has his spot again due to special teams play.
Special teams (3) — Jason Sanders, Thomas Morstead, Blake Ferguson
The three specialists in the kicker Sanders, punter Morstead and long snapper Ferguson all have their jobs secured. Miami had two other punters between FIU’s Tommy Heatherly and Sterling Hofrichter during camp, but each was later waived.
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LONDON, May 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A subsidiary of Aquadrill LLC ("Aquadrill" or the "Company") has entered into a memorandum of agreement (the "Agreement") for the sale of the semisubmersible drilling unit the "Capricorn" (the "Rig"), in its current condition together with everything belonging to it on board or onshore, with PETRO RIO JAGUAR PETRÓLEO LTDA., a subsidiary of Petro Rio S.A. (the "Buyer") for USD 40.0 million (the "Purchase Price"). Arctic Offshore Rig acted as the broker in the sale and purchase of the Rig.
The Rig is expected to be used by the Buyer on its own acreage in Brazil, thereby removing it from open market tenders for drilling units.
As partial payment of the Purchase Price, Aquadrill has received a non-refundable exclusivity fee of USD 1.0 million. Under the terms of the Agreement, a deposit of USD 4.0 million is due from the Buyer on or before June 22, 2022. If this agreement is terminated prior to payment of the deposit, only the exclusivity fee is retained by Aquadrill. The balance of the Purchase Price is due upon delivery and completion of the sale, which must take place by August 5, 2022.
Closing of the transaction is subject to customary closing procedures and conditions.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release includes forward looking statements. Such statements are generally not historical in nature, and specifically include statements about the Company's plans, strategies, business prospects, changes and trends in its business, the markets in which it operates and its restructuring efforts. These statements are made based upon management's current plans, expectations, assumptions and beliefs concerning future events impacting the Company and therefore involve a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release. Consequently, no forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the risks described from time to time in the Company's regulatory filings and periodical reporting. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for the Company to predict all of these factors. Further, the Company cannot assess the impact of each such factor on its business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to be materially different from those contained in any forward looking statement.
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