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It's been a pleasure writing about music for you readers these past 21 months. Relax, I'm not going anywhere, but I wanted to express gratitude for the chance to tell you about different music genres, album reviews, concerts attended, local bands and, most recently, some of my personal favorite albums.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the self-titled first album of the band Blue Oyster Cult, which is my favorite.
By the way, original BOC bassist Joe Bouchard is releasing a new solo album in a couple weeks and his record company has given your humble narrator the extraordinary opportunity to interview him by telephone for the June 2 Music Historicity column. Stay tuned!
Regardless, if you recall my music performer moniker "Grateful Gary," then you know that my overall favorite music band is the Grateful Dead.
I love BOC tunes, but I currently perform Grateful Dead music in live bands and as a solo and duo artist.
Everyone has their own favorite album and favorite band, but I beg you to indulge me as I tell you about my favorite Grateful Dead album.
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Feel free to reference the September 23, 2020, Music Historicity column entitled "Why I Like the Grateful Dead." If you've had previous negative preconceptions about the band, it beckons you to give them a second chance.
It's difficult to decide where to start the explanation, and that's because the Grateful Dead encouraged fans to record performances rather than limit the practice.
Consider theatre and big-ticket performances where recordings not only are prohibited, but some artists require audience members to place their cell phones in a high-tech carry sack that locks when a person is in the seating area. The gear is made by a company called Yondr.
The concept, in theory, is to limit over-exposure so that the public will continue wanting to see the artist in concert rather than view a performance for free on the internet.
For the Grateful Dead, the unlimited recording policy apparently worked in their favor --the band enjoyed immense popularity, sold out concert venues for decades and continuously released live and studio albums.
From the band's founding, in 1965, until lead guitarist Jerry Garcia's death in 1994, devoted fans have kept track of each of the Grateful Dead's 2,314 official concerts. In fact, there is a ridiculous book of statistics, called Deadbase, that contains set lists from each performance as well as interesting trivia such as the number of times a certain song was ever played.
Yes, your narrator owns a 390-page hardcover copy of that tome.
With over 200 albums, it's interesting that the Grateful Dead made only 13 studio albums.
Of those 200 or so studio, live, compilation and boxed set albums, 14 are certified Gold, or 500,000 units sold, two are Platinum, or 1 million sold, three are double Platinum and one album, "Skeletons From the Closet: The Best of the Grateful Dead," has sold 4 million copies.
Five of the band's 13 studio albums went Gold. "Workingman's Dead," from 1970, is Platinum, and two albums --"American Beauty" and "In the Dark"-- have sold 2 million.
Interestingly, the 1987 "In the Dark" studio album produced the Grateful Dead's only radio chart hit, "Touch of Grey," which reached Number 9 on Billboard's Hot 100 and Number 1 on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart that year.
In a broader sense, it's difficult to pick which album-- a collection of songs -- contains one's favorites, especially when this particular band was in existence for nearly 30 years and had over 400 songs in its repertoire. How do you choose?
It can be observed that musical artists have their peak years as well as times when their skills are diminished.
Crooner Tony Bennett is still managing to sing "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" at age 95, but his finest years undoubtedly were decades ago.
The Beatles had a youthful energy when they started out, in the early 1960s, however their songwriting skill matured as they conceived and produced classic albums such as Sgt. Pepper's, The White Album and Abbey Road in ensuing years.
Likewise, the Grateful Dead went through early growing pains, writing and performing musically complex and debatably inaccessible songs like "The Eleven" -- which contains a segment in 11/8 time signature.
In the 1990s, it seemed that road weariness and drugs had taken their toll on some band members. Garcia was known to have fumbled song lyrics, even with a teleprompter right in front of him.
One of my favorite years of the Grateful Dead was when Jerry was 30 years old. In 1972, the band played in San Francisco on January 2 before doing seven concerts at the New York Academy of Music. From there, the group flew across the pond and began a spring tour of 22 shows in England, Denmark, Germany, France and Luxembourg.
Although this was during a three-year period when drummer Mickey Hart was not in the band, it still ranks as a time when the Grateful Dead turned in some of their strongest performances.
Therefore, my favorite of the albums released by my favorite band is "Europe '72." Originally a triple vinyl LP, it came out in November, less than six months after the Grateful Dead returned from their shows across the Atlantic.
I particularly enjoy Jerry's lead guitar work on songs that are old favorites, like "Truckin,'" as well as newly-written compositions like "Jack Straw" and "Mr. Charlie."
Because of the album's length, you also get a generous number of songs to enjoy -- 17, in fact.
Music played on the Europe tour was strong enough that there have been several re-releases of the Europe '72 album --with bonus tracks, a Europe '72 Volume 2 album and, amazingly, a boxed set of all 22 concerts, contained on 73 CDs, which costs $2,400 and has achieved Gold sales. Fans have spent $1.2 million to buy that collection!
If all this piques your curiosity about the band, have a listen to Europe '72, a fine sampler of Grateful Dead music, and perhaps you'll agree with my assessment.
Gary Gibula is an SIU alum, musician, writer, editor and author of the Music Historicity columns. He can be reached at gary@gratefulgary.com. | https://thesouthern.com/entertainment/music/music-historicity-grateful-deads-europe-72-is-worth-hearing/article_730d0bfd-ff51-5ed4-b569-451d2af30b27.html | 2022-05-18T21:02:11Z | https://thesouthern.com/entertainment/music/music-historicity-grateful-deads-europe-72-is-worth-hearing/article_730d0bfd-ff51-5ed4-b569-451d2af30b27.html | false | 1 |
Top court strikes down plea for NGT benches in each state
New Delhi: There is no need for National Green Tribunal (NGT) benches in every state, held the Supreme Court on Wednesday as it dismissed a petition which questioned specific provisions of the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010, on allocation of benches and direct appeals against tribunal orders to the Supreme Court.
The bench of justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy said, “With the low case load, if the NGT benches are set up in all 28 States and 8 Union territories as is suggested by the petitioners, the judges and other members in these forums might be left twiddling their thumbs. Accordingly, no basis is seen to allow one NGT bench in every State.”
The Court order came on a petition filed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court Advocates Bar Association and the District Bar Association, having their registered offices at Jabalpur, which demanded for a bench in each state having a High Court. It also challenged the validity of the NGT Act for bypassing appeals to high courts as Section 14 and 22 of the Act provided for a direct appeal to the Supreme Court.
The petitioners had claimed that in environmental litigation, issues are local and tribunals should be accessible to people. The petitioners, represented by advocate Siddharth R Gupta, told the court that MP presently has a bench at Bhopal which caters to three states – MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Gupta argued for an NGT bench for MP to be located at Jabalpur.
The bench noted from a chart showing pendency figures across NGT zonal benches showed that as on March 31 this year, the zone wise aggregate pendency of cases was only 2,237, while the average annual disposal by all benches was 2,799, higher than the pendency figure. “The rate of disposal being higher than the pendency, no major backlog issue is seen before the NGT,” the bench said.
The court then dealt with the petitioners’ argument that NGT should provide for appeal to high courts. The bench refused to entertain this prayer as it said, “The provision for appeal to High Court should not therefore be created by issuing a writ of Mandamus as that would be legislating through judicial order, and would impinge upon the well-founded concept of separation of powers.”
Moreover, the Court noted that there was an option available for litigants to approach the high court or Supreme Court on any substantial question of law under Article 226 or 227 (before high courts) or under Article 136 before the Supreme Court providing for special leave to appeal.
Justice Hrishikesh Roy, writing the judgment for the bench, said, “By pleading inaccessibility, the petitioners are also incidentally questioning, the location of the Supreme Court at New Delhi. Such a contention on the face of it would be irrational and not acceptable.” He reasoned that the remedy of direct appeal to the Supreme Court under the NGT Act cannot be seen as denial of access to justice to the litigants in the field of environmental law. It further stated that if the argument that Supreme Court will be inaccessible to litigants is accepted, it would equally apply to litigants, from all across the country, who have to travel to the Supreme Court, “The Supreme Court has no other bench away from Delhi,” it added.
The Court also upheld Section 3 of the Act which gave the Centre the power to establish NGT benches. The petitioners argued that this amounted to excessive delegation and should be struck down. Attorney General KK Venugopal, who appeared for Centre, told the court that creation and setting up of the NGT benches was done under the active supervision of the Supreme Court.
“It must be borne in mind that the operationalization of the NGT, including the location of its benches, was closely monitored by the Supreme Court…Since, the Government is acting on the issue with the guidance of this Court, and the Government is obliged to follow the objectives of the NGT Act, adequate safeguards are seen to guide the government. We are therefore of the opinion that Section 3 of the NGT Act is not a case of excessive delegation.” | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/top-court-strikes-down-plea-for-ngt-benches-in-each-state-101652902663639.html | 2022-05-18T21:10:32Z | https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/top-court-strikes-down-plea-for-ngt-benches-in-each-state-101652902663639.html | true | 2 |
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper sat out a third straight game as he recovers from a platelet-rich plasma injection in his right elbow and the Phillies slugger may not play right field again until late July.
The reigning NL MVP, Harper said he was hopeful of returning at some point in the Philadelphia's three-game series against the Padres. He did not play in Tuesday's 3-0 loss. The Phillies and Padres wrap the series Thursday afternoon.
Harper had the injection Sunday because of a small tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his throwing elbow that's forced him into the role of designated hitter. He hasn't played right field since April 16 and will remain as DH whenever he returns.
Phillies manager Joe Girardi said Wednesday that doctors said Harper should not throw for at least six weeks.
“I think he has some real clarification. I think it kind of put him at peace, actually,” Girardi said. “I think knowing that he has to wait, there's not much he can do until six weeks anyway. He'll just focus on hitting. I think the concern for the player is when it comes closer to actually trying something out.”
The 29-year-old star is batting .305 with nine home runs, 14 doubles, 27 RBIs, and an .634 slugging percentage. Harper likely would have spent a chunk of the season on the injured list had the National League not adopted the designated hitter this season. Girardi said there was a chance the Phillies might have carried him on the roster as a pinch hitter.
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Nestlé loading formula on planes to fly into US from Europe
(CNN) - As stores struggle to stock baby formula, Nestlé is loading up planes full of supplies in the Netherlands and Switzerland to send to the U.S.
The company is focused on its Gerber Good Start Extensive HA and Alfamino brands, saying they serve a “critical medical purpose” because they are for babies with cow’s milk protein allergies.
Nestlé was already importing both of these formulas, but now it’s expediting shipments.
It’s also running formula factories at capacity and has accelerated product availability to retailers, online sellers and hospitals for the most vulnerable.
In the meantime, the Biden administration says it is stepping up it coordination with the industry to try to address the shortage.
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Apparently, the Carolina Panthers aren’t good enough for grass. But Chelsea F.C. sure as hell is.
In a piece on Wednesday from the Charlotte Business Journal, managing editor Erik Spanberg reports that Tepper Sports & Entertainment has agreed to provide a grass field at Bank of America Stadium for the July 20 exhibition match between Charlotte FC and the Premier League giant. The venue, as of the start of the 2021 NFL season, has been operating with an artificial turf surface.
The switch from grass to turf was fueled by Tepper’s desire to hold a wider range of events at Bank of America Stadium. The turf, of course, is a more cost-efficient method of clearing the way for, say, a Rolling Stones or a Kenny Chesney concert.
(And, hey, if you’re interested—Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Garth Brooks, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Elton John will all be there over the next four months.)
But, the turf also has a downside, at least to those actually playing football on it. The artificial surface has proven to play host to a significantly greater percentage of non-contact injuries—with data collected from 2012 to 2018 showing a 32-percent higher rate of knee injuries and a 69-percent higher rate of foot and ankle injuries as compared to natural grass.
To Chelsea F.C.’s credit, they’re very much aware of this—hence their contingency of installing grass at the stadium. Can’t be getting these valuable athletes hurt, right . . . ? | https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2022/05/18/tepper-charlotte-fc-chelsea-fc-panthers/ | 2022-05-18T21:13:59Z | https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/2022/05/18/tepper-charlotte-fc-chelsea-fc-panthers/ | true | 1 |
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Proof of Donna Air's real life Split from vaping millionaire Gunnar Winbergh: Actress spotted kissing businessman Ashley Smart at Spanish restaurant in West London
Donna Air has been unlucky in love, so friends were delighted when she started going out with vaping millionaire Gunnar Winbergh, whose vitamin vapes boast ‘inhaling your supplements supports your health’.
The actress, 42, who appeared in hit BBC drama The Split, appears, however to have, well, split, with Winbergh as, I can reveal, she’s now seeing business - man Ashley Smatt, 42.
He was seen tenderly caressing her arm as they dined a deux at a Spanish restaurant in West London.
Smatt then moved in for a kiss. Air used to go out with the Duchess of Cambridge’s brother, James Middleton, and has a daughter with casino and wildlife park owner Damian Aspinall.
Donna Air seen with Ashley Smatt canoodling as they dined al fresco in Old Brompton Road's Cambio De Tercio tapas restaurant
Donna Air has found love with Ashley Smatt who is a director of six companies
My disclosure yesterday that Bruno Tonioli has quit Strictly Come Dancing surprised Dame Arlene Phillips, who was one of his three fellow judges when it started in 2004.
However, the choreographer, 78, does not believe it will leave the hit BBC show damaged.
‘Strictly always carries on fine,’ Phillips, who was sacked in 2009, tells me at the first night of Grease The Musical at The Dominion Theatre in London’s West End. ‘If it can carry on without me, it can carry on without Bruno.
Ashley Smatt (right) is Founder and CEO of Maximus, a UK based Out-of-Home advertising company. He is also CEO of Maximus Networks, a British telecommunications company providing a network of interactive streetside hubs. Also on left Donna Air
Pop star Holly Valance appears to be secretly pleased that her husband, property tycoon Nick Candy, failed in his bid to buy his beloved Chelsea football club, despite his consortium offering more than £2.5billion.
‘I was very upset when we didn’t get it, but then my wife said: “You can have your life back now,”’ Candy tells me at a 30th anniversary party for Jonathan Shalit’s agency, Intertalent, at Bafta in Piccadilly, London.
‘I don’t think I’ll ever do a bid again for a football club. I might help with other bids, but I wouldn’t be a part of it. ‘I’m a Chelsea fan, so to have owned the club would have been amazing.’
English businessman James Middleton, brother of the Duchess of Cambridge, right, who used to date Donna Air, on left, attend a launch in 2013
Lee Cain, who stepped down as Boris Johnson’s director of communications in 2020 as vicious infighting erupted in Downing Street, has fallen on his feet.
Advisers, said to include the PM’s wife Carrie, opposed Cain’s promotion to chief of staff, so he quit.
But I can disclose that Cain, who worked closely with Dominic Cummings, made nearly £500,000 after leaving No10.
The first accounts for his new public relations business, Charlesbye Ltd, which counts the Premier League and Lottery operator Camelot among its clients, amassed assets of £479,000 in the 13 months to March, including £268,000 in cash.
After paying a £147,000 tax bill and other creditors, it was still left with almost £300,000.
Oscar winner Dame Emma Thompson’s daughter, Gaia Wise, 22, posed in a striking amber gown
Gaia dares to bare like mum
Oscar winner Dame Emma Thompson’s daughter, Gaia Wise, 22, posed in a striking amber gown by designer Julia Clancey at a Kornit Fashion Week show in London, but she’s prepared to follow her mother’s example and disrobe on screen.
Dame Emma bared all in her recent film — Good Luck To You, Leo Grande — and Gaia tells me: ‘If it’s professionally prepared, and you‘ve got the right kind of protection around you, then that’s absolutely fine.'
Balmoral has come up with a barking way to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee. It’s inviting the owners of 70 corgis to bring their pets to the castle, where they will pose for a picture.
‘We are hoping for some very special visitors,’ a spokesman confirms. ‘Fingers crossed for 70 Pembroke Welsh and Cardigan Welsh Corgis on the front lawn for a wonderful photo.’ Good luck to the photographer! | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10830753/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Proof-Donna-Airs-real-life-Split-vaping-millionaire-Gunnar-Winbergh.html | 2022-05-18T21:14:19Z | https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10830753/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Proof-Donna-Airs-real-life-Split-vaping-millionaire-Gunnar-Winbergh.html | false | 3 |
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will address the crowd at the annual Memorial Day commemoration at Oak Hill cemetery in San Jose on May 30.
State Sen. Dave Cortese, who annually participates in the event to honor fallen service members, said he was proud this year to extend an invitation to Panetta, who also served as a longtime member of the House of Representatives for 16 years, chief of staff for President Bill Clinton and director of the CIA for President Obama. Panetta, 83, will be introduced by his son, Jimmy Panetta, who has represented the Central Coast in the House since 2017.
The 11 a.m. event, organized by the United Veterans Council of Santa Clara County, will include a World War I display by the Eagle Field Foundation, with uniformed actors and restored vehicles, and a flyover by the 129th Air Rescue Squadron. It’ll continue until 3 p.m. with commemorations following the keynote to honor the Grand Army of the Republic and Vietnam veterans. Oak Hill Memorial Park is at 300 Curtner Ave.
PURPLE MUSEUM AIMS HIGH: Richmond native Cynt Marshall — the first Black woman to be CEO of an NBA team — will receive this year’s Legacy for Children Award from the Children’s Discovery Museum next month. Marshall has had a pioneering life of firsts, from being the first Black cheerleader at UC-Berkeley to blazing trails with the Dallas Mavericks in 2018 after a career as an executive at AT&T, where she did transformation work in the field of Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion.
“Cynt is such a charismatic leader who has dedicated her life to creating a better world for all children through her DEAI work, her value-based leadership, and her involvement with foster children,” said Marilee Jennings, executive director of the Children’s Discovery Museum. “The importance Cynt places on authenticity resonates at the museum where there is no prescribed way of learning and discovering.”
The 22nd annual event will take place at the Purple Museum in downtown San Jose on June 18 at 6 p.m. Get more information at www.cdm.org.
SPIN CYCLE: What was once known as Bike to Work Day is again Bike to Wherever Days, partly because a lot of us are still not back commuting to an office since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and it kicks off May 19 and runs through the weekend.
The Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition will have energizer stations set up in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, with a few available Thursday and most activated on Friday, offering refreshments and a free “Bike to Wherever Days” bag. Locations of those energizer stations and a schedule for other events, including a San Jose Bike Party ride on May 20 and Silicon Valley Bicycle Coaltion Bike Bashes on May 27 in Redwood City and Sunnyvale, are available at bikesiliconvalley.org/events/btwd.
And while we’re talking bikes, let’s congratulate this year’s Bike Champions, Ari Feinsmith for Santa Clara County and Amol Patwardhan for San Mateo County. Patwardhan, who started riding his bike while growing up in Mumbai, bikes to buy groceries and run errands while also commuting to work 14 miles round trip. Two years ago when he was 19, Feinsmith started advocating for safer bicycle policies in Sunnyvale where he lives and did his part to help, leading eight free bike repair events during which he and his team have fixed 328 bicycles (and an elderly man’s walker). | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/18/former-defense-secretary-leon-panetta-to-speak-on-memorial-day-in-san-jose/ | 2022-05-18T21:19:17Z | https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/18/former-defense-secretary-leon-panetta-to-speak-on-memorial-day-in-san-jose/ | true | 2 |
The US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall Collection tends to honor politicians and historical figures—Ronald Reagan, Sam Houston, Brigham Young, Barry Goldwater . . . you get the idea. But with-in the next year or so, a statue with a decidedly different vibe will be unveiled: an eight-foot likeness of country-music great Johnny Cash.
The Man in Black will be arriving in DC thanks to Arkansas, where he was born. Each state is allowed two entries in the Statuary Hall Collection, displayed in various places around the Capitol. Arkansas’s current contributions—which have stood in the Capitol for more than a century—depict men with ties to the Confederacy, and the state is in the process of replacing both. (Whether they’re specifically being removed for that reason depends on whom you ask.) So 19th-century attorney Uriah Milton Rose will give way to celebrated civil-rights activist Daisy Bates, while former Arkansas governor and US senator James Paul Clarke will yield his spot to Cash.
Which is why right now, in a Little Rock studio, artist Kevin Kresse is crafting the roughly 1,200-pound bronze sculpture that will—he hopes—capture Cash’s essence. Kresse, an Arkansas native with connections to Little Rock’s music scene, got the gig by answering an open call for artists. After being selected, he first needed to decide which era of Cash’s long career to spotlight. Kresse read multiple books, watched hours of documentary footage, and consulted with some of Cash’s family members. Ultimately, he settled on the early ’70s.
Then Kresse started playing around with clay. He first considered a pose that suggested Cash the superstar, but the more he thought about it and talked to Johnny—yes, he talks to his work—the more he realized he needed to show Cash the person. “He was full of contradictions, which he fully admitted to—the light and dark sides of himself,” says Kresse.
The Cash statue’s journey to the Capitol hasn’t been without some political hiccups. The Arkansas House had to approve the idea, and some Republicans objected due to “the drugs, the alcohol, the women, that kind of thing,” as one lawmaker put it in 2019. (Their alternate suggestion: Walmart founder Sam Walton.) But in the end, Cash got the nod.
Kresse sees Cash’s struggles as part of the singer’s story. That’s why, in a departure from the typical heroic poses found around Statuary Hall, the sculptor is depicting Cash in a reflective moment, his face cast downward. In one hand, he holds a Bible; the other grasps the strap of his guitar, slung over his back. “The body language from across the room has to start telling the story,” says Kresse, “and then it has to unveil itself by layers as you get closer. The payoff at the end will be the expression on the face.”
Now that Kresse has finalized the design, the next step will be to create a full-size foam version using a 3-D scanner and lathe. Eventually, the Crucible Bronze Foundry in Norman, Oklahoma, will make a negative ceramic cast, into which 2,000-degree bronze will be poured.
Kresse, who has previously sculpted musicians such as Al Green and Levon Helm, hopes his statue will be ready for an unveiling at the Capitol by the end of the year. For now, he’s just focused on getting it right. “If you were doing a documentary on him, you would have an hour and a half to flesh things out and you’d still fall short,” he says. “To try to capture Cash in a frozen moment is particularly challenging. I feel such responsibility to just nail this one.”
This article appears in the May 2022 issue of Washingtonian. | https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/17/a-johnny-cash-statue-is-coming-to-the-capitol/ | 2022-05-18T21:19:32Z | https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/17/a-johnny-cash-statue-is-coming-to-the-capitol/ | true | 2 |
Elizabeth and Paul married at Saints Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Potomac, then celebrated with a reception at the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda on August 28, 2021. Their wedding was originally featured in the January 2022 issue of Washingtonian. See the details below.
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After meeting through mutual friends on the W Hotel rooftop and later a Paris proposal, Lizzy, a US Senate counsel and former Miss DC USA, and Paul, president of a government-contracting company, planned an elaborate wedding weekend.
The black-tie ceremony and two reception tents—one for dinner and first dances, one for after-dinner dancing and festivities, each with three unique table designs—featured shades of neutrals and mauve. Fourteen-foot trees flanked the nuptials, six-foot spherical arrangements adorned tables in the dining room, and a roses-and-ribbon installation hung over the circular dance floor. The aesthetic was based on the bride’s two gowns: a custom cream-and-nude Vera Wang design with gray flowers, which influenced the invitations (delivered in hand-painted velvet boxes) as well as the place settings, and a pink-and-white floral Monique Lhuillier dress (from Carine’s Bridal Atelier), which inspired pink accents, including the flooring in the dance tent. The couple cut a seven-tier, sequined cake and sent loved ones home with sterling-silver display-box keepsakes.
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Photographer: Abby Jiu Photography • Planning and design: Lauryn Prattes Styling and Events • Florals and decor: Birch Event Design • Stationery: Kara Anne Paper • Cake: CrumbCoat Bake Studio • Hair and makeup: Kara Knudsen • Groom’s attire: Saks Fifth Avenue • Music: The Big Beyond, Capitol Harpist, PopCulture Strings • Videographer: Aaron Novak Films • Tent: Sugarplum Tent Co. • Lighting: Technical Event Co. • Rentals: Luxe Event Rentals, Maison de Carine, Nüage Designs
This article appears in the January 2022 issue of Washingtonian. | https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/17/black-tie-wedding-at-congressional-country-club/ | 2022-05-18T21:19:51Z | https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/05/17/black-tie-wedding-at-congressional-country-club/ | false | 2 |
Netflix’s latest true crime documentary isn’t for the faint of heart. Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror chronicles the rise of two online sex trafficking rings that emerged in South Korea only a few years ago. The leaders of these organizations would gain access to intimate pictures and videos of their victims, leveraging them as blackmail as they asked for progressively more sexual and violent content. That was only the tip of the morally depraved iceberg that is this case.
Because the Nth Room and the Doctor’s Room targeted South Korea, there’s a chance you haven’t heard of one of the grisliest internet cases in recent history. Before you press play on Netflix, here’s what you need to know about this deeply disturbing true crime case.
What Was the Nth Room? What Was the Doctor’s Room?
The easiest way to describe the Nth Room was as a sexual slavery ring that unfolded between 2018 and 2020 in South Korea. It took place almost exclusively over Telegram, an encrypted cloud-based instant messaging service, and the name of the eight groups came from their ordinal numeral. Women and young girls were blackmailed into sending images and videos of themselves, many of them violent and degrading. Theses images would then be advertised and sold to selective groups.
As far as sexual exploitation schemes, the Nth Room was about as nefarious as it gets. The organization would typically find its victims in one of two ways. They would access the private photos and social media accounts of their perspective victims and threaten to reveal the photos to family, friends, and professional colleagues if they didn’t cooperate. The other recruiting option was even more disturbing. Others were recruited through job offers. They would get money in exchange for seemingly harmless tasks before the asks escalated. Before long, victims were asked to perform sexual acts or violence on themselves.
But the most horrific thing the Nth Room did pertained to location tracking. In some cases, these abusers were able to discover the location of their victims and would track them down. As they were sexually assaulted, the group would film the crime.
The Nth Room was the first of these Telegram-based sexual slavery rings to appear and was run by a user with the nickname “God God.” Roughly a year later in 2019, a copycat user appeared. Known as the “Doctor,” his group was named the Doctor’s Room. This user would recruit his victims through part-time job offerings on Twitter, using the personal information provided by applicants to track them down and blackmail them. It’s been estimated that roughly 260,000 people paid up to £1,200 to access this pornography. Because of this crime ring, 100 women and 26 minors were forced into sexual slavery.
How Did Authorities Learn About the Nth Room and the Doctor’s Room?
The credit for this case goes to the media and everyday citizens. Several men reported these child pornography groups to the police, but the authorities did not initially act on these reports. It’s unclear if this failure stemmed from not understanding what was happening or if they did not find these reports credible.
Both Seoul Shinmun and Sisa Journal, two South Korean newspapers, worked on stories about Telegram distributing child pornography. But the Electronic Times was the first outlet to report specifically on the Nth Room in August of 2019. The story immediately ignited a public fury, resulting in an online petition signed by more than 5 million people that demanded the police publicly release the Doctor’s identity.
“If (he) is not a devil, who else can you say is a devil? (He) should stand on a photo line, with his bare face … Human rights are a luxury for someone who thinks lightly of other people’s humiliation,” the petition read.
Who Was Arrested for the Nth Room and the Doctor’s Room?
Thankfully, the two biggest names in this sex ring case were apprehended. First, there’s God God himself. Before his arrest, God God taunted the police, maintaining that the authorities wouldn’t be able to charge him because he never used his own phone and only used gift vouchers that couldn’t be tracked. On that count, he was wrong. In April of 2021, Moon Hyung-wook was sentenced to 34 years in prison.
Then there was the Doctor. In March of 2020, the Doctor was revealed to be Cho Joo-bin. He was found guilty of blackmail and sexual harassment and was sentenced to 40 years in prison. In addition to these major names, Mr. Jeon was arrested for being the “Watchman,” the nickname given to the user who made the Nth Room popular. For his crimes, Mr. Jeon was sentenced to three years and six months. Mr. Shin, an Nth Room operator who took over the organization from God God, was given one year.
It’s impossible that these arrests account for all the criminals who were responsible for the Nth Room and the Doctor’s Room. Both groups were elaborate organizations that relied on systems of administrators, harassers, recruiters, and blackmailers. That’s without mentioning the people who subscribed to these groups that sold child pornography. But at this very least, this story ends with the two biggest names in this criminal case behind bars. | https://decider.com/2022/05/18/cyber-hell-netflix-guide-to-the-case/ | 2022-05-18T21:20:37Z | https://decider.com/2022/05/18/cyber-hell-netflix-guide-to-the-case/ | true | 1 |
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Rape case takes 41 years to be tried, Judiciary figures reveal
FORTY-ONE years. That’s how long it took one rape case from the filing of an indictment to its determination in 2019.
In that year, two other rape cases -30 years and 23 years respectively - also came to an end.
These were the startling revelations provided by the Judiciary in response to requests from attorneys representing a rape victim who has sued the Judiciary for the inordinate delay in treating sexual offences.
Sunday Newsday featured the victim’s story on May 8. Her constitutional claim calls on the authorities to put mechanisms in place and allocate sufficient resources to ensure criminal matters can be concluded expeditiously.
The claim says, “The criminal justice system is in crisis and the State has failed to put mechanisms in place and allocate sufficient resources to ensure that criminal matters can be concluded expeditiously.”
Statistics from the Judiciary for 2016-2021 show that 66 rape cases were determined at the High Court. The minimum length of time from the filing of an indictment to determination was nine months, while the maximum was 41 years. The average was six years.
In her lawsuit, the victim said the delays in her case have caused her psychological harm and she cannot effectively receive treatment for her trauma until the case is concluded.
“The law does not provide victims of crime with any remedy for the failure of the courts to determine their cases expeditiously.”
Her attorneys, Lee Merry and Larry Boyer, have complained that the figures from the Judiciary are lacking since they did not want statistics only for rape cases, but all criminal matters. They also wanted to know the length of time between the laying of a charge, not indictment, and the conclusion of the matter.
The civil claim also challenges the assertion that if a victim is not interested in a rape case, the matter cannot proceed. The lawsuit contends this is not true. A victim, regardless of whether she is interested in pursuing the case, is not the person bringing the case: the person in charge is the prosecutor (ultimately the DPP), and a decision can be made to go ahead with the case despite the victim’s reluctance to do so, the lawsuit maintains.
“There are specific laws which allow the prosecution to rely on a victim’s statement to the police in support of the charge even if the victim says something different while giving evidence.”
In her lawsuit, the victim said when she was asked if she was still interested in pursuing the five-year-old case, she was confused. It was also hurtful.
“I decided to report my attacker, give the police a written statement, and expected the police and prosecutors to fight my case, not second-guess whether I am interested.
“When I was asked whether I was ‘interested,’ it made me feel like, once again, I had to make the difficult decision about whether to proceed with this whole thing. It made me second-guess if I wanted to go through the whole court system.
“If I was not so determined to see my (alleged) attacker brought to justice, I might very well have said that I was not interested when I was asked by the prosecutor.
“It is a loaded question and I do not think it should be asked of any victim of crime.”
In March, the Prime Minister bemoaned the slow pace of justice. He said his Government had given it priority, providing hundreds of millions of dollars in resources to the Judiciary but, speaking as a citizen, he said he has not seen “any acceleration in the delivery of justice.”
On Monday, with the re-emergence of a 1997 report on children’s homes, Dr Rowley called on acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob to find the report of the taks force led by Robert-Sabga, investigate it and bring to justice those guilty of committing acts of abuse at these homes.
A more recent report by retired appeal court judge Judith Jones also spoke of rampant abuse at these institutions.
There is no statute of limitations for bringing a criminal complaint. Jacob has reportedly created a special team to investigate the allegations, led by acting Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne, head of the police Gender-Based Violence Unit. | https://newsday.co.tt/2022/05/18/rape-case-takes-41-years-to-be-tried-judiciary-figures-reveal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rape-case-takes-41-years-to-be-tried-judiciary-figures-reveal | 2022-05-18T21:24:01Z | https://newsday.co.tt/2022/05/18/rape-case-takes-41-years-to-be-tried-judiciary-figures-reveal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rape-case-takes-41-years-to-be-tried-judiciary-figures-reveal | true | 1 |
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Eleven attempted murder charges were dropped and a 44-year-old ex-convict pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single felony charge in a deadly shootout at a Las Vegas lounge that killed a man and injured at least 12 others.
Lee Frank Wilson admitted being a felon in possession of a prohibited firearm in a plea deal that defense attorney Joshua Tomsheck said avoids trial and is expected to get Wilson 21 to 54 months in prison at sentencing.
Tomsheck called Wilson “unequivocally” a victim in the early Feb. 26 shooting. He noted that his client was badly wounded and said Wilson was friends with Demetreus Beard, the 33-year-old man who died.
Two charges against Wilson of discharging a firearm in a building also were dropped.
Wilson has been the only arrest in the shooting that erupted during a private weekend party at a hookah lounge several blocks off the Las Vegas Strip.
A grand jury was told that as many as five people fired a total of at least 35 shots. Las Vegas police have said additional arrests were expected.
Tomsheck said an investigation “clearly revealed Mr. Wilson was not a ‘mass shooter’ as has been widely reported,” and didn’t kill Beard.
A local judge noted previously that Wilson was arrested 82 times since 1995, convicted of at least nine felonies including escape, and served prison time following his 2019 conviction in a shooting case.
Wilson remained jailed Wednesday, but Tomsheck said Clark County District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney lowered bail from $500,000 to $75,000 following Wilson’s guilty plea. Sentencing is scheduled Sept. 14.
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BERLIN (AP) — Another member of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet has tested positive for COVID-19.
A spokeswoman for U.S. Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said he tested positive for the virus on Wednesday while visiting Berlin.
Becerra was in Berlin for a two-day meeting of health ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations taking place later this week.
The secretary is fully vaccinated and was experiencing mild symptoms. The spokeswoman said he will continue to work in isolation.
Becerra was last at the White House last Thursday. He is not considered a close contact of the president. | https://www.kristv.com/news/national/us-health-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-on-germany-trip | 2022-05-18T21:29:43Z | https://www.kristv.com/news/national/us-health-secretary-tests-positive-for-covid-on-germany-trip | true | null |
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gubernatorial elections in Oregon usually result in victories for the Democrats, but this November’s contest is setting up to be a competitive and contentious three-way race.
Former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek won the Democratic nomination for Oregon governor Tuesday. She will face the winner of the GOP gubernatorial primary as well as nonaffiliated candidate Betsy Johnson in the fall. As a nonaffiliated candidate, Johnson did not need to run in a primary race to make the fall ballot.
“This will be a three-way race for the highest office in our state. And this will be an election unlike any of us have ever seen,” Kotek said in her victory speech Tuesday night.
The GOP gubernatorial nominee is still being determined, with former House Minority Leader Christine Drazan holding onto a lead in the primary over former Oregon Republican Party Chair Bob Tiernan.
Incumbent Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, can’t run again due to term limits.
While Oregon hasn’t seen a GOP governor in 35 years, political experts say Republicans have an opening amid widespread discontent in the state and a possible split in votes between Kotek, a progressive, and Johnson, a former Democratic state senator.
“I think this is the best shot they’ve had in quite a few years,” Christopher McKnight Nichols, an associate professor of history at Oregon State University, said of the GOP party’s chances in November.
In the blue Pacific Northwest state, Republican voters account for about 25% of the state’s total number of registered voters. Democrats and nonaffiliated voters each amount to 34%. Which gubernatorial candidate collects nonaffiliated votes and support from undecided Democrats and Republicans will play a major factor in the November election.
“For Johnson to win she’s going to need to get Independents, Republicans and people who weren’t the low turnout Democrat voters in the primaries — so sort of lukewarm or not as observant regular voting Democrats,” Nichols said.
The only nonaffiliated governor in Oregon’s history was Julius L. Meier from 1931 to 1935.
“The biggest change Oregon can make this year is putting the people back in charge with an independent governor loyal only to Oregonians, not the political extremes,” Johnson tweeted.
The former lawmaker, whose time in the Legislature overlapped with Kotek’s, described the Democratic gubernatorial nominee as “more Kate Brown than Kate Brown” — a common comparison by opponents of Kotek, in hopes of associating her with the current governor’s historically low approval ratings.
Kotek, who wielded the House speaker’s gavel for a record nine years as the Democratic Party increased its power and pushed ambitious progressive agendas, has called Johnson a conservative.
The Portland-based Kotek, beat her biggest Democratic challenger — Oregon State Treasurer Tobias Read — by a comfortable margin Tuesday night. But as someone who held power during a tumultuous time in Oregon, Kotek must convince voters she can improve the state while avoiding blame for its problems.
“I think it’s important to remember that all the Democrats in this race share a similar vision for what we want the state to be,” Kotek said in her victory speech. “We’re all going to work together to make sure we win. That a Democrat — that I win in November, because frankly there is just too much at stake.”
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An interior view of new barracks is shown May 18, 2022, after a special ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the new fiscal year 2019-funded transient troops training barracks at Fort McCoy, Wis. Fort McCoy’s senior leadership, state and federal representatives and staffers, and dozens of installation community members as well as several local media representatives celebrated the opening and participated in the ceremony. A $20.6 million contract was awarded to L.S. Black Constructors, Inc., in September 2019 to build the barracks, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resident Office at Fort McCoy which managed the project. The barracks, which is built in the 1600 block on the Fort McCoy cantonment area, is different than traditional barracks that are located throughout the installation. This new building is four stories and is able to house 400 people in approximately 60,000 square feet. (U.S. Army Photo by Scott T. Sturkol, Public Affairs Office, Fort McCoy, Wis.)
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You Can Fail The Iowa Drivers Test This Many Times
If it's time to take your driver's license test again in Iowa you better study. Of the 35 questions, you must get 28 correct to pass the test.
If you don't pass, no worries, you can take it again the next day if you want.
There is a practice test available online.
Try not to get too worked up about it. Just use your common sense.
The driving part of the exam has tripped-up many people who then fail the test for a variety of reasons. Speed, steering control, and the improper use of mirrors are most common.
Before you head out on vacation this summer you may want to check the expiration date on your driver's license. In Iowa, you have a 60-day grace period. Or, 30 days before your birthday.
Best to check now. Because if you are stopped with an expired Iowa driver's license it could cost you $625.
In South Dakota, you can retake the tests up to three combined times. And, yes you still have to pay a fee each time.
For those wanting to obtain a Minnesota driver's license, it can be a bit more concerning. If you fail the test four times you are tagged with completing six hours of driver's training. But you still need to take the test again.
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PractifiU provides wealth management firms personalized learning experiences, powering greater adoption and success for firms at scale
CHICAGO, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Practifi, a performance optimization platform for the wealth management industry, today announced the company has launched Practifi University ("PractifiU"), an on-demand learning platform aimed at empowering wealth management firms to unlock new insights, automate operations, build deeper client relationships and more within Practifi.
In 2021, Practifi expanded and invested in its Learning and Development team to produce content and coursework geared towards educating clients on the platform's extensive capabilities and continuous product enhancements. Emily Wilcox, Chief Operating Officer of Practifi said, "We saw the need for more flexible and accessible learning as a crucial element in helping firms achieve higher adoption rates. With PractifiU, we further our commitment to client success by delivering robust training and support to our clients when they need it and in a format that's convenient for them."
PractifiU is a self-paced, on-demand training experience that covers the fundamental workflows and day-to-day features users experience when accessing Practifi's platform. Adapted to different learning styles, PractifiU courses provide users with a variety of education methods, from process workflows to videos and flashcards. To ensure users are retaining the course information, PractifiU also implements knowledge checks and exams to reinforce concepts introduced.
Marsha O'Neal, Field Tech Specialist at Trilogy Financial shared her experience and said, "You can always learn more and PractifiU gave me the opportunity to do so. It was fun and the steps were easy to follow. I learned something new and applied it to my everyday use."
"Client feedback has already been overwhelmingly positive, and we're absolutely thrilled to see an increase in adoption and platform utilization. PractifiU continues to build upon our vision for clients to have absolute confidence in every decision they make," shared Wilcox.
About Practifi
Practifi is the performance optimization platform purpose-built for the wealth management industry. Practifi empowers teams to automate workflows, create rich client records, and access advanced analytics in a unified experience. With comprehensive APIs and an ecosystem of hundreds of integrated apps, our platform centralizes data and gives greater visibility across organizations. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Practifi enables organizations across the globe to deepen loyalty with their clients and pioneer the future of wealth management. To learn more, visit practifi.com.
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To deploy a static Next.js website to Netlify, first you need to export your Next.js site as a static build.
Go to your Next.js project’s package.json
file and make sure you have this line inside your scripts
object:
"build": "next build && next export",
For context, here’s my entire scripts object:
"scripts": {
"dev": "next dev",
"build": "next build && next export",
"start": "next start"
},
Now you can statically export your Next.js site by running one of these commands:
yarn build
Or
npm run build
Make sure your static site is pushed to GitHub or another remote repository.
Then login to your Netlify account and do this:
- Click on the New site from Git button
- Under Continuous Deployment choose one of the 3 Git Providers (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), this will show you a list all your repositories.
- Choose the project you want to deploy to Netlify and fill out the Build & Publish fields
- Build command: either
yarn build
or `npm run build - Publish directory:
out
It should look like this:
Now click on Deploy site.
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Bemidji Police still searching for girl reported missing in October
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - The search continues for a Bemidji girl who’s been missing since October.
Bemidji Police say Nevaeh Kingbird has been missing since October 22, 2021. Police say she was last seen wearing ether a black zip up hoody or a red sweatshirt, blue skinny jeans, a white t-shirt or tank top, and black and red Nike sandals. They’re also asking the public to check outbuildings or other places someone may seek shelter.
If you have any information on her disappearance, call the police at 218-333-9111. The Bemidji Police Department asks that you only share official posts from their Facebook page.
If you have information about this crime you can report it and stay anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers of Minnesota at their website www.CrimeStoppersMn.org, by calling the toll free phone number 1-800-222-TIPS [8477]; or by using the P3 Tip Submit app installable on all smartphones. All contact with Crime Stoppers is anonymous and you may qualify for a reward of up to $1,000. To eligible for the reward the tip must be submitted through Crime Stoppers.
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PHOENIX, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service today recognized CVS Health and Credit One Bank with the 2022 Partnership for Growth award on the final day of the National Postal Forum (NPF), the country's premier mailing and shipping conference. The Partnership for Growth award is bestowed annually at NPF to recognize companies that have made significant contributions to and embody forward-thinking, innovative solutions in the mailing and shipping industry.
The Postmaster General and Executive Leadership Team personally select the winners, who have successfully worked with USPS to enhance the value of what we deliver every day — mail and packages.
CVS Health is a leading healthcare company based in Woonsocket, RI. The company improves the health of communities across America through its local retail presence, digital channels and approximately 300,000 dedicated employees. CVS Health entrusts the Postal Service to reliably deliver more than 50 million prescription orders annually.
Founded in 1984, Credit One Bank is a financial services company based in Las Vegas. With a focus on providing their customers with rewards and benefits that will help them lead a "life ever rewarded," the bank serves more than 15 million accounts and employs more than 900 people at their Las Vegas-based headquarters and 4,000 associates at domestic and offshore agencies.
Credit One Bank intelligently targets direct mail offers, adding additional value to marketing communications through the mailbox, a strategy that many other companies leaned away from in recent years. Implementing this innovative strategy involved retargeting prior card members, integrating Informed Delivery campaigns and Informed Visibility data to measure the effect of their campaigns, and trying new techniques along the way. A large part of the company's continued success stemmed from combining the power of Marketing Mail with Informed Delivery and Informed Visibility. The bank's reporting, along with their targeted and retargeted omni-channel marketing campaigns, have proven to be effective tools that provided a measurable return on investment for customer acquisition.
The National Postal Forum and the Postal Service congratulate both award winners. We appreciate the continued partnerships with our mailers and their commitment to increasing the value of the U.S. Mail through innovation.
The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
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Massachusetts gas prices rise to new record high of $4.65 a gallon
BOSTON - Gas prices in Massachusetts continued a record climb Tuesday, hitting a new all-time high of $4.65 a gallon, according to AAA.
That's up five cents since Monday's record high and 23 cents in the last week.
A year ago, it was $2.91 a gallon, $1.74 less.
The national average is $4.52 a gallon, which is also a record, according to AAA. The agency says nearly every state is now above $4 a gallon.
California has the highest prices in the country, with an average of $6.02 a gallon.
Diesel prices are also at a record high of $6.40 a gallon in Massachusetts Tuesday.
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TORONTO - The number of Canadian adults infected with COVID-19 tripled during the fifth wave of the pandemic compared with the total number of adults infected in the previous four waves, according to a new study led by Toronto researchers.
More than 5,000 Canadian adults — members of the Angus Reid Forum, a public polling cohort — participated in the fourth phase of the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) study. The findings of the study were published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.
The adult participants took a self-administered dried blood spot test between Jan. 15 and March 15, 2022 and sent the blood samples back to the researchers for analysis. The research team then tested the samples for antibodies related to COVID-19.
From those results, the researchers found nearly 30 per cent of Canadian adults were infected during the first Omicron wave of infections compared with roughly 10 per cent who had been infected in the previous four waves.
Of those fifth waveinfections, one million were among the country’s 2.3 million unvaccinated adult population — representing 40 per cent of all unvaccinated adults, the study notes.
Patrick Brown, a lead author of the Ab-C study and biostatistician at the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital, said the study is meant to portray a “complete and representative picture” of COVID-19 in the country in the absence of widespread PCR testing and COVID-19 data tracking.
“This is quite important for us to be able to understand COVID in the population,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday.
“The testing data is incomplete and we’ve essentially stopped PCR testing for the most part in Canada, or in Ontario, at least, so having a representative sample of people who receive these test kits is very important to figure out how much COVID there has been and how much immunity we have in the population.”
The study also found that antibody levels were much lower amongst adults with only two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine compared to those with three doses, meaning those with three doses had stronger immunity in the face of the virus.
And amongst the unvaccinated population — including those who had a COVID-19 infection — their antibody levels were “quite” lower than people with three doses of the vaccine, Brown noted.
“(In) Canada, we had quite a bit less COVID-19 than some other countries, especially the U.S. We have less natural protection and we’re really relying on vaccines in Canada to build up immunity in our population,” he said.
“Certainly three doses plus an infection was the maximum protection, but three doses of vaccine certainly gave a very good amount of protection — a big improvement over two doses alone.”
The Ab-C study is a collaboration between Unity Health Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Angus Reid Institute and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health. It’s funded by the federal government through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.
The team of researchers has been tracking the pandemic in Canada with periodic polling about lived experience and blood sample collection since May 2020.
Brown said the next phase of the study is already being conducted. The team has started surveying roughly 1,300 Canadian adults who were not infected by the initial Omicron variant known as BA.1 to determine whether they were infected by the Omicron subvariant called BA.2 from March to June 2022.
“We are preparing test kits now to send out our panel of people we’ve come back to several times, and this will be the fifth round of tests we’re sending them to better understand the second wave of Omicron,” he said.
“We found that the number of cases reported by public health isn’t as high as the previous wave, the number of hospitalizations hasn’t risen very much, but there has been a lot of infection ... so we’re expecting to see that there’s been quite a lot of COVID throughout the population.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 18, 2022.
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Western Canadian chapter of American chamber focused on expanding cross-border commerce
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The western Canadian chapter of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham West) is forging ahead with renewed enthusiasm and a new focus on better serving a wider geography after the setbacks caused by the pandemic.
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Lee Malleau, board chair of AmCham West, says she is encouraged by the loyalty and energy of her board and the support of members shown by their interest in the first two events the organization has been able to hold recently.
The first in-person event was an energy panel hosted by ARIS — SAIT’s Applied Research and Innovation Services that responds to the innovation needs of industry — moderated by Brad Robson, vice-chair of AmCham West and president and CEO of Dotted i Strategies.
The second was a sold-out luncheon at the Ranchmen’s Club when an attentive audience listened to a message from U.S. Consul General Holly Waeger Monster, followed by a fireside chat with Malleau and a lively question period.
It was a good opportunity for Monster to finally address a face-to-face Calgary business group since arriving in the city last summer amid public health restrictions.
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AmCham West serves as the first point of contact with the U.S. Commercial Service at the consulate — well represented by commercial specialist Connie Halder but expecting a new director to be posted here within a couple of months.
The local chapter has experienced and diverse board members who act as the go-to persons for any of its members needs.
Malleau is a good example.
Her education and background in journalism, communications, economics, business and management are a great asset to the organization.
She runs her own company, Globalnomics, a multidisciplinary corporation focusing on strategic and action planning, project management, research and analysis, and international investment.
In various executive roles, Malleau has facilitated new investment across Western Canada over the past 25 years, including as CEO of the Vancouver Economic Commission where she led the city’s Olympic business programs through the 2010 Winter Games.
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Also a recognized community leader, Malleau has a strong volunteer track record, including past-president of her Rotary club and recipient of the international organization’s Paul Harris Fellow Award for her service.
In her current volunteer role as chair of AmCham West, she has a mandate to broaden the organization’s focus on the energy industry and to expand services to better reflect the geographical area covered by the consulate.
That means canvassing for directors and new members in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, as well as across this province.
Patrick Lamoureux, president of Lams & Associates — a business advisement firm based in Sherwood Park — is an AmCham board member who is helping facilitate a followup energy panel in Edmonton in early June, partnering with the Edmonton Chamber, Edmonton Global and the Alberta Enterprise Group.
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In Calgary, AmCham West will be present alongside the U.S. Consulate in its booth at next month’s Global Petroleum Show. It is holding an agritech event at the Calgary Petroleum Club on June 16 and 17, and future events are planned that will embrace digital and creative media, reflecting the diversity of industries the organization serves.
Much of what it offers its members is in support of their pursuit of access to new markets through education, a willing network of business and government leaders, and as a resource of trusted information that will help stimulate and encourage positive investment both at home and internationally.
That means AmCham West has access to the right resources to help any small, medium or large company in its efforts to facilitate cross-border work.
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WINS (Women In Need Society) is celebrating its 30th anniversary in Calgary with its launch earlier this week of a fundraising campaign to raise $30,000 in 30 days. Starting with a single thrift store in 1992, WINS’ social enterprises have grown to include six thrift stores, four community resource hubs, two program centres and a bulk thrift store. In the past year alone, WINS provided more than 2,000 services to more than 14,000 Calgarians, while receiving and processing 4,556 pallets of donations.
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WHEELING, W.Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WesBanco, Inc. (Nasdaq: WSBC), a diversified, multi-state bank holding company, announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.34 per share to be paid to its holders of common stock. The dividend will be payable on July 1, 2022 to shareholders of record on June 10, 2022, and represents an annualized cash dividend rate of $1.36 per common share.
About WesBanco, Inc.
Founded in 1870, WesBanco, Inc. (www.wesbanco.com) is a diversified and balanced financial services company that delivers large bank capabilities with a community bank feel. Our distinct long-term growth strategies are built upon unique sustainable advantages permitting us to span six states with meaningful market share. Built upon our 'Better Banking Pledge', our customer-centric service culture is focused on growing long-term relationships by pledging to serve all personal and business customer needs efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, our strong financial performance and employee focus has earned us recognition by Forbes as both one of America's Best Banks and Best Midsize Employers – the only midsize bank making the top ten of both rankings. In addition to a full range of online and mobile banking options and a full-suite of commercial products and services, WesBanco provides trust, wealth management, securities brokerage, and private banking services through our century-old Trust and Investment Services department, with approximately $5.4 billion of assets under management (as of March 31, 2022). WesBanco's banking subsidiary, WesBanco Bank, Inc., operates 205 financial centers in the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Additionally, WesBanco operates an insurance agency, WesBanco Insurance Services, Inc., and a full service broker/dealer, WesBanco Securities, Inc.
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Company more than doubles loan originations vs. Q1 2021, generates over $1 million in net earnings and provides update on Post-Pandemic Growth Plan.
- Loan originations reached an all-time quarterly record US$59.6 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 20.2% over Q4 2021 (and an increase of 135.5% vs. Q1 2021).
- Loans under management of $140.6 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 17.7% over Q4 2021 (and driven by an increase of 18.8% in the servicing portfolio).
- Servicing and fee revenue of $3.9 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 22.6% over Q4 2021 (and an increase of 133.0% over Q1 2021).
- Adjusted operating expenses of $3.5 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 19.2% over Q4 2021 (and an increase of 43.1% over Q1 2021).
- Net earnings of $1.1 million in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 61.8% over Q4 2021 (and vs. a net loss of $0.1 million in Q1 2021), on an IFRS basis.
MONTREAL, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - IOU FINANCIAL INC. ("IOU" or "the Company") (TSXV: IOU), a leading online lender to small businesses (IOUFinancial.com), announced today its results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022.
"IOU Financial continues to deliver on its promise to stakeholders by growing loan originations and increasing profitability while continuing to invest the scalability of its operations and technology," said Robert Gloer, President and CEO. "IOU's record Q1 loan originations made it possible to continue investing in strategic growth initiatives while reducing corporate debt through the repurchase of an additional $1.2 million in convertible debentures."
IOU Financial originated a record US$59.6 million in loans in the first quarter ending 2022, representing an increase of 135.5% over Q1 2021 as well as representing an increase of 20.2% over Q4 2021. The Company attributes a significant portion of its strong growth in loan originations to its successful transition from a balance sheet strategy (under which the Company traditionally funded loans to its balance sheet) to a marketplace strategy under which new loan originations are primarily being sold to institutional purchasers.
Loans under management increased, on average, 83.5% (Q1 2022 vs. Q1 2021), outpacing a 43.1% growth in operating expenses (on an adjusted basis) and helping to reduce the Company's Adjusted Operating Expense Ratio to 10.7% in Q1 2022 (vs. 13.7% in Q1 2021).
The Company continued to advance on its Post-Pandemic Growth Plan, first announced as part of its Q1 2021 Financial Results, based on three strategic pillars designed to support scalability and growth:
- Technology innovation: The Company continues to invest in developing its proprietary IOU360 platform to better support Brokers, Merchants, Investors and internal stakeholders, all designed to support greater efficiencies and the long-term scalability of the business.
- Product expansion: The Company is committed to continue introducing innovative loan products to meet the needs of more small business owners as well as to achieve further differentiation in the market. The Company launched its first new lending product, the IOU Financial Cash-Back Loan, in August 2021 and the IOU Financial 24-Month Loan in November 2021. Additional product innovations are planned and will be enabled by further development of the IOU360 platform in 2022.
- Product distribution: The Company continues to expand its wholesale (IOU Financial) and retail (ZING Funding) distribution strategies to maximize its exposure to the economic recovery through both channels.
IOU Financial's strong Q1 2022 loan originations and progress towards its strategic goals demonstrate the Company's continuing ability to leverage its marketplace strategy and make strategic investments to support scalable growth and create value for all stakeholders.
OUTLOOK
For all of 2022, the Company is targeting loan originations in the range of US$220M to US$260M while continuing to invest in growth and scalability.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Company continues to focus on its marketplace strategy allowing it to accelerate loan origination growth. This strategy has the impact of placing more emphasis on servicing and fee revenue over interest revenue and cost of revenue associated with holding loans as part of a loan portfolio. Interest revenue decreased as the principal loan portfolio balance continues to wind down while servicing and fee revenue increased consistent with the increase in loan origination volume as well as the increase in the servicing portfolio.
Due to the wind down of the loan portfolio, there is no interest expense associated with the financing credit facilities in Q1 2022 as IOU's two financing credit facilities were terminated in December 2020 and October 2021, respectively. Interest expense has also decreased in the quarter as the Company was able to use its financial resources to repurchase $1.2 million of its convertible debentures in the quarter as well as to repurchase an additional $0.2 million of convertible debentures subsequent to quarter end.
In addition, the marketplace strategy will render the provision for loan losses less significant as it relates to loans held on the balance sheet. IOU will continue to focus on cash collections on the remaining loan portfolio, which may give rise to reversals in the provision for loan losses and recoveries of loans previously written off.
Please refer to the table below for adjustments made to IFRS gross revenue and operating expenses. These adjustments serve as another measure of actual operating performance of the business.
Loan Originations: In Q1 2022, the Company funded US$59.6 million in loans (Q1 2021: US $25.3 million), representing an increase of 135.5% over the same period last year and representing an increase of 20.2% over Q4 2021
Servicing and fee revenue: Servicing and fee revenue increased 133.0% to $3.9 million in Q1 2022 from $1.7 million in Q1 2021. On a sequential basis, servicing and fee revenue increased $0.7 million or 22.6% over Q4 2021. More specifically, servicing and fee revenue growth is attributable to the following:
- Servicing fees earned on the servicing portfolio increased $1.3 million or 125.6% over Q1 2021 (and increased 31.4% over Q4 2021). The average servicing portfolio increased by 113.7% quarter over quarter (and increased 18.1% over Q4 2021).
- Referral fee revenue earned by IOU's retail distribution operation (ZING Funding) increased to $0.5 million in Q1 2022 from $0.1 million in Q1 2021 as it facilitated approximately US$6.0 million in loan origination volume in Q1 2022, representing an increase of 220.4% over Q1 2021 (US$2.8 million). On a sequential basis, referral fee revenue increased 25.8% over Q4 2021.
- Administrative and other fees earned on the servicing portfolio increased $0.1 million to $0.2 million in Q1 2022 over Q1 2021.
- Accelerated recognition of transaction costs on loans sold. This represents income earned on loans after taking into consideration loan origination sales costs. This income category increased by $0.5 million or 140.7% quarter over quarter as loan origination volume increased 135.5% in the same period. On a sequential basis, this income category increased 29.8% over Q4 2021 as loan origination volume increased 20.2% in Q1 2022 vs Q4 2021.
Adjusted Gross Revenue: Adjusted gross revenue increased to $3.9 million (2021: $2.3 million), representing an increase of 73.7% for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 or 21.9% over Q4 2021.
Adjusted Net Revenue: Increased 99.6% to $3.9 million in Q1 2022 compared to $2.0 million in Q1 2021 due mainly to an increase in servicing and fee revenue of 133.0%. On a sequential basis, adjusted net revenue increased 33.8% over Q4 2021.
Adjusted Operating Expenses: Adjusted operating expenses increased 43.1% to $3.5 million for the first quarter of 2022 compared to $2.4 million for the same period in 2021 (and increased 19.2% over Q4 2021) mainly due to an increase in wages and salaries and data and IT costs as the Company continues to support the future growth in loan originations by investing in innovation and resources as part of its 2021 Post-Pandemic Growth Plan. The Adjusted Operating Expense Ratio, which is a measure of the Company's operating efficiency, decreased from 13.7% in Q1 2021 to 10.7% in Q1 2022. The ratio decreased as average loans under management for the period increased by 83.5% over the same period in 2021, outpacing the 43.1% growth in adjusted operating expenses,
Adjusted Net Earnings (Loss): IOU closed on its year first quarter ended March 31, 2022 with an adjusted net earnings of $0.5 million compared to adjusted net loss of $(0.4) million for the same period in 2021.
IFRS Net Earnings (Loss): IOU closed on its first quarter ended March 31, 2022 with IFRS net earnings of $1.1 million, or $0.01 per share, compared to IFRS net loss of $(0.1) million or $(0.00) per share for the same period in 2021.
IOU's financial statements and management discussion & analysis for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022 have been filed on SEDAR and are available at www.sedar.com.
About IOU Financial Inc.
IOU Financial Inc. is a wholesale lender that provides quick and easy access to growth capital to small businesses through a network of preferred brokers across the US and Canada. Built on its proprietary IOU360 technology platform that connects underwriters, merchants and brokers in real time, IOU Financial has become a trusted alternative to banks by originating in excess of US$1 billion in loans to fund small business growth since 2009. IOU trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol IOU (TSXV: IOU), and on the US OTC markets as IOUFF. To learn more about IOU Financial's corporate history, financial products, or to join our broker network please visit www.IOUFinancial.com.
Forward Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of IOU including, but not limited to, the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, dependence upon regulatory and shareholder approvals, the execution of definitive documentation and the uncertainty of obtaining additional financing. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements. IOU does not assume any obligation to update or revise its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Non-IFRS Financial Measures
The Company uses certain non-IFRS financial measures as an alternative method to evaluate performance. These measures include adjusted gross revenue, adjusted net revenue, adjusted operating expenses, adjusted operating expense ratio, non- recurring gains and losses, adjusted net earnings (loss), adjusted net earnings (loss) per share. These financial measures may not be comparable to similar measures used by other issuers. The definitions for certain non-IFRS financial measures are provided below
Definitions
- Adjusted gross revenue is defined as gross revenue prepared in accordance with IFRS for the period, plus amortization of servicing assets less gain on sale of loans. The Company uses adjusted gross revenue as another measure of financial performance. Specifically, it eliminates the non-cash gain on sale of loans and the non-cash amortization of servicing assets which influence operating results depending on the timing and amount of the loan sales.
- Adjusted net revenue is defined as adjusted gross revenue less cost of revenue.
- Adjusted operating expenses is calculated as follows: total operating expenses prepared in accordance with IFRS for the period less: stock-based compensation and non-recurring costs, plus non-recurring gains. The Company uses adjusted operating expenses as another measure of financial performance. Specifically, it eliminates non-cash stock-based compensation which is given at different times and prices and non-recurring costs and gains which affects operating results only periodically.
- Adjusted Operating Expense Ratio is a non-IFRS measure and is calculated as follows: adjusted operating expenses divided by the average loans under management for the period, presented on an annualized basis. The ratios are calculated on a two-point basis, using December and period end balances, presented on an annualized basis
- Non-Recurring Cost-net refers to adjustments to remove the impacts on operating expenses which are not incurred in the normal course of business and can fluctuate at different times and at various amounts.
- The calculation of adjusted net (loss) earnings is defined as net (loss) earnings for the period prepared in accordance with IFRS less: non-cash gain on sale of loans and non-recurring gains, plus: non-cash amortization of servicing assets, stock-based compensation and non-recurring costs.
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Golf-DeChambeau withdraws from PGA Championship
May 18 (Reuters) - Bryson DeChambeau has decided to withdraw from this week's PGA Championship as he continues his recovery from surgery to repair a bone in his left wrist, tournament organisers said on Wednesday.
DeChambeau, who has been limited to six worldwide starts this year due to wrist and hip injuries, underwent surgery on his left hand days after missing the cut at last month's Masters but was looking to make a return this week.
The big-hitting American, whose prodigious length off the tee has prompted many to wonder whether he is pushing his body too hard, played a practice round at Southern Hills on Tuesday with a wrap on his left wrist.
Following his practice round DeChambeau posted on Twitter that he "Held up nicely today. Lets see what tomorrow brings."
DeChambeau has not competed on the PGA Tour since he missed the cut at the Masters where he posted a 12-over total in the first two rounds.
World number 22 DeChambeau had been scheduled to play the first two rounds of the year's second major in the company of Englishman Tyrrell Hatton and Max Homa.
DeChambeau will be replaced in the field by Denny McCarthy.
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OAKLAND, Calif., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) today announced the appointment of Julia (Charter) Denman and Stephanie Plaines to its board of directors, bringing additional deep financial expertise and industry leadership experience.
Denman, 51, brings nearly 30 years of leadership and financial experience in both the technology and consumer packaged goods sectors. As corporate vice president and head of internal audit, enterprise risk and compliance at Microsoft, she provides independent and objective assessments of the company's business strategies and operations as well as oversight of its governance and strategy for global risk management and compliance. She previously served as chief financial officer of Microsoft's worldwide marketing and consumer business and, before that, its devices business. Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent 20 years with Procter & Gamble in leadership roles in the U.S. and Europe, including as assistant treasurer.
Plaines, 55, brings more than 30 years of strategic finance expertise with corporate leaders PepsiCo, Ahold, Walmart and Starbucks as well as strong board and operational leadership experience, including deep experience in the use of data analytics to develop consumer-centric marketing and brand strategies. As chief financial officer for e-commerce at Sam's Club, she helped grow that business as well as its omnichannel retail presence at a time of unprecedented expansion. She was also a key part of transformational growth at Ahold. Most recently, she served as global chief financial officer at Jones Lang LaSalle. She started her career in investment banking and mergers and acquisitions at UBS. In addition, Plaines has served on the board of Nielsen Holdings plc since 2021 and on the board of KKR Acquisition Holdings I Corp. since 2022.
"We're fortunate to add two leaders of the caliber of Julia and Stephanie to our board," said Matthew J. Shattock, independent chair of the board at The Clorox Company. "The breadth and depth of their strategic and financial leadership and track records of value creation and transformation add to the strength and diversity of our board. Their backgrounds and fresh perspectives will serve us well as we continue to position Clorox to win in the marketplace and create long-term value for our stakeholders."
With the appointments of Denman and Plaines, the board of directors has expanded from 11 members to 13, and the directors are now 46% female and 30% people of color. These additions align with Clorox's commitment to ongoing board refreshment to ensure a strong balance of qualifications, experience, diversity and tenure.
Both Denman and Plaines are expected to serve on the audit committee.
Additional information about The Clorox Company board of directors can be found at www.thecloroxcompany.com.
The Clorox Company
The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) is a leading multinational manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products with about 9,000 employees worldwide and fiscal year 2021 sales of $7.3 billion. Clorox markets some of the most trusted and recognized consumer brand names, including its namesake bleach and cleaning products; Pine-Sol® cleaners; Liquid-Plumr® clog removers; Poett® home care products; Fresh Step® cat litter; Glad® bags and wraps; Kingsford® grilling products; Hidden Valley® dressings and sauces; Brita® water-filtration products; Burt's Bees® natural personal care products; and RenewLife®, Rainbow Light®, Natural Vitality CALM™, and NeoCell® vitamins, minerals and supplements. The company also markets industry-leading products and technologies for professional customers, including those sold under the CloroxPro™ and Clorox Healthcare® brand names. More than 80% of the company's sales are generated from brands that hold the No. 1 or No. 2 market share positions in their categories.
Clorox is a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy Global Commitment. The company has been broadly recognized for its corporate responsibility efforts, included on the Barron's 2022 100 Most Sustainable Companies list, 2022 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index, the Human Rights Campaign's 2022 Corporate Equality Index and the 2021 Parity.org Best Places for Women to Advance list, among others. In support of its communities, The Clorox Company and its foundations contributed about $20 million in combined cash grants, product donations and cause marketing in fiscal year 2021. For more information, visit TheCloroxCompany.com and follow the company on Twitter at @CloroxCo.
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The Woodland City Council conducted a public hearing Tuesday to determine whether to amend the city’s zoning code to allow for cannabis retail use.
The current ordinance does not allow for dispensaries or delivery from businesses in Woodland and prevents cannabis businesses from being located any closer than 600 feet to any “sensitive use” — such as schools — as measured from parcel to parcel, according to the city staff report.
“In 2021, interested members of the community and cannabis industry approached the city to request consideration for amendments to the current regulations to allow retail cannabis dispensaries,” the report noted. “In response to the most recent inquiry from Perfect Union and their commitment to fund the city’s efforts to evaluate ordinance updates, the city initially engaged an ad hoc cannabis subcommittee made up of members of the City Council, planning commission and supported by city planning staff and the city attorney.”
Ordinance amendments were then drafted based on recommendations from the subcommittee recommending to “allow up to four commercial cannabis retail permits for storefront sales subject to the granting of conditional use permits,” according to the report.
The city currently allows up to six commercial cannabis conditional use permits in the industrial districts for cannabis manufacturing, distribution and testing, according to the report. Proposed amendments will establish standards for the review and approval of retail cannabis uses.
“Delivery only uses are not to be permitted within the city,” the report added. “Retail sales would be allowed for consideration in several commercial districts.”
These districts include corridor mixed-use districts — West Main, East Main, East Street, Kentucky Avenue — community commercial, regional commercial light industrial flex and in the downtown specific plan district A, according to the report.
Recommended edits to the zoning ordinance include;
- Requiring additional information regarding the applicant’s experience and qualifications.
- Requiring the applicant’s plans to ensure strong community relations and compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood.
- Authorizing the community development director to prepare evaluation and scoring criteria, which may be used for making recommendations to the planning commission and city council.
- Requiring that public notice be provided to all properties within a 600-foot radius of the proposed project site 10 days prior to any scheduled public hearing date.
- Requiring that a highly visible public notice (4-foot by 8-foot) be posted on site.
- Require that no cannabis retailer shall be closer than 500-feet to any other cannabis retailer and that no more than two cannabis retailers shall be located within 1,000 feet of each other in order to limit overconcentration.
- Give the council the ability to consider exemptions to the 600-foot buffer and concentration requirements based on specific findings.
Additionally, the council adopted a resolution to update regulatory permit fees related to cannabis businesses.
The council adopted a resolution in 2017 that allows for cost recovery associated with commercial cannabis activities through fees that are charged at the time of approval of a cannabis business permit and at annual renewal, according to the report.
Proposed renewal fees for dispensaries would include a $19,621 annual fee — the highest out of all the cannabis uses permitted in the city.
The report explained that these permit fees pay for program oversight, police site visits and police compliance, accounting and an annual financial audit.
“The renewal fees are based on the type of cannabis business and previously have ranged from $30,000 to $32,500,” the report clarified.
The council also directed city staff to return with a ballot measure for the Nov. 8 election to establish a cannabis business tax in Woodland.
“What this would do is replace the community benefit payment that is agreed to as part of their permit,” City Manager Ken Hiatt said during Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
Hiatt said this would establish a more consistent tax structure for potential businesses in the community while also eliminating the need to negotiate an agreement on a case-by-case basis.
“As our partner city of Davis as well as the county have already done our recommendation is to put a tax on the ballot,” Hiatt highlighted.
Several community members attended the meeting to provide public comments encouraging the council to approve the zoning amendments to allow for dispensaries within the city.
Amanda McGregor, who said she’s lived here for a majority of her adult life, said she has been confused as to why Woodland has not allowed dispensaries when other cities in the county do.
“I know my parents and I have for years now have been going out to Sacramento, and more recently Davis, to get our older family members medication and get access to things,” she stressed. “If we had a dispensary here in town they probably wouldn’t need to do that.”
She also stressed her frustrations with the fact that the manufacturing and cultivation aspect of cannabis has been allowed in the city’s industrial areas but that she as a consumer “can’t have access to those products being made here in our town.”
“I have to go to cities outside of our zip code to gain access to those products so I think it’s just really odd that we are a substantial part of the cannabis industry yet the residents of the city don’t have access to that unless we leave the area,” McGregor added.
Mayor Pro Tempore Victoria Fernandez voiced some concerns with the application process that seems to make it difficult for locals to get approved as opposed to other already established cannabis corporations.
“For members of our community who have lived here, who have invested their time and resources…if that is something that they want to pursue, is that door open for them or are we opening up to large companies who have companies throughout California?” Fernandez asked Cindy Norris, Woodland’s principal planner.
Norris noted that there is currently no presumed approval of any cannabis business because each interested party will need to be evaluated on a level playing field regardless of whether or not they have an identified location.
“We did investigate other communities and the types of requirements that they have so we’re not outside of the range of what others are asking,” Norris clarified. “The idea is that it would be open to everyone but they do need to have some ability to manage and follow the requirements with cannabis.”
The council voted 3-1 to adopt the resolution updating the city’s regulatory permit fees related to cannabis businesses and directing city staff to return to the council with a proposed ballot measure for the Nov. 8 election to establish a cannabis business tax in Woodland.
Fernandez was the only no vote and Councilman Tom Stallard was not present during the meeting and did not vote. | https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2022/05/18/woodland-city-council-holds-public-hearing-on-cannabis-dispensaries/ | 2022-05-18T21:59:13Z | https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2022/05/18/woodland-city-council-holds-public-hearing-on-cannabis-dispensaries/ | false | 1 |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former Minneapolis police officer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
As part of the plea deal, a count of aiding and abetting second-degree unintentional murder against Thomas Lane will be dismissed. Lane and former Officers J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao have already been convicted on federal counts of willfully violating Floyd's rights during the restraint that led to his death.
The guilty plea comes a week before the two-year anniversary of Floyd's May 25, 2020, killing. Floyd, 46, died after Officer Derek Chauvin, who is white, pinned him to the ground with a knee on Floyd's neck as the Black man repeatedly said he couldn't breathe. The killing, captured on widely viewed bystander video, sparked protests in Minneapolis and around the globe as part of a reckoning over racial injustice.
Lane and Kueng helped to restrain Floyd, who was handcuffed. Lane held down Floyd's legs and Kueng knelt on Floyd's back. Thao kept bystanders from intervening during the 9 1/2-minute restraint.
The state and Lane's attorneys agreed to a recommended sentence of three years — which is below state sentencing guidelines — and prosecutors agreed to allow him to serve that sentence at the same time as any federal sentence, and in a federal prison. He has not yet been sentenced in the federal case.
Lane, who is white, told Judge Peter Cahill that he understood the agreement. When asked how he would plead, he said: "Guilty, your honor."
Attorney General Keith Ellison, whose office prosecuted the case, issued a statement saying he was pleased that Lane accepted responsibility for his role in Floyd's death.
"His acknowledgment he did something wrong is an important step toward healing the wounds of the Floyd family, our community, and the nation," Ellison said. "While accountability is not justice, this is a significant moment in this case and a necessary resolution on our continued journey to justice."
Lane's attorney, Earl Gray, said he and Lane would have no comment. Lane was not taken into custody and a presentence investigation was ordered. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 21 on the state charge.
The hearing was streamed over Zoom for Floyd's family members. Their attorneys issued a statement afterward, saying Lane's plea "reflects a certain level of accountability," but that it came only after Lane, Kueng and Thao's conviction on the federal charges.
"Hopefully, this plea helps usher in a new era where officers understand that juries will hold them accountable, just as they would any other citizen," family attorneys Ben Crump, Jeff Storms and Antonio Romanucci said. "Perhaps soon, officers will not require families to endure the pain of lengthy court proceedings where their criminal acts are obvious and apparent."
Chauvin pleaded guilty last year to a federal charge of violating Floyd's civil rights and faces a federal sentence ranging from 20 to 25 years. The former officer earlier was convicted of state charges of murder and manslaughter is currently serving 22 1/2 years in the state case.
Lane's plea comes during a week when the country is focused on the deaths of 10 Black people in Buffalo, New York, at the hands of an 18-year-old white man, who carried out the racist, livestreamed shooting Saturday in a supermarket.
Lane, Kueng and Thao were convicted of federal charges in February, after a monthlong trial that focused on the officers' training and the culture of the police department. All three were convicted of depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and Thao and Kueng were also convicted of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin during the killing.
After their federal conviction, there was a question as to whether the state trial would proceed. At an April hearing in state court, prosecutors revealed that they had offered plea deals to all three men, but they were rejected. At the time Gray said it was hard for the defense to negotiate when the three still didn't know what their federal sentences would be.
Under state sentencing guidelines, a person with no criminal record would face a sentence ranging from just under 3 1/2 years to four years and nine moths in prison for second-degree unintentional manslaughter, with the presumptive sentence being four years. Lane's recommended sentence of three years, which still must be approved by the judge, would be less. Prosecutors served notice back in 2020 that they intended to seek longer sentences for Lane, Kueng and Thao.
If Lane had been convicted of aiding and abetting second-degree murder, he would have faced a presumptive 12 1/2 years in prison.
"That's a very sweet deal," John Baker, a former defense attorney who teaches aspiring police officers at St. Cloud State University, said of Lane's agreement. "I don't know how much sweeter the state could've been in an offer for a plea deal."
Baker said a guilty plea makes sense since Lane was looking at much more time if convicted at trial, and is likely going to serve time in federal prison anyway. He said he assumes the same offer has been extended to Thao and Kueng, and he would not be surprised if at least one of them decides to take it.
An attorney for Thao, Robert Paule, was in the courtroom for Lane's plea hearing. When asked if his client would also plead guilty, he replied "No comment."
Kueng's attorney did not immediately return a phone message seeking comment.
Barring any additional pleas, Kueng, who is Black, and Thao, who is Hmong American, are still scheduled to go to trial in June on state charges. They remain free on bond as they await trial.
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Mohamed Ibrahim is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. | https://www.city-sentinel.com/criminal_justice/ex-cop-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-george-floyd-killing/article_6d9e6e10-d6d3-11ec-a26c-1b16e67bb5ec.html | 2022-05-18T21:59:32Z | https://www.city-sentinel.com/criminal_justice/ex-cop-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-george-floyd-killing/article_6d9e6e10-d6d3-11ec-a26c-1b16e67bb5ec.html | true | 64 |
Comerica Announces 2023 Earnings Release Dates; Details for Conference Call to Review Second Quarter 2022 Earnings
Published: May. 18, 2022 at 4:25 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
DALLAS, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is expected to release quarterly earnings on the dates indicated below and will host conference calls to review results.
Details for Comerica Incorporated's upcoming second quarter 2022 earnings call on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, are now available. Additional information for remaining 2022 and 2023 earnings calls will be provided in advance of each call.
Earnings Conference Call Schedule:
In addition, the financial results and earnings presentation will be furnished on Form 8-K filings that will be available on the Securities and Exchange Commission website at www.sec.gov.
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA) is a financial services company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and strategically aligned by three business segments: The Commercial Bank, The Retail Bank, and Wealth Management. Comerica focuses on relationships, and helping people and businesses be successful. In addition to Texas, Comerica Bank locations can be found in Arizona, California, Florida and Michigan, with select businesses operating in several other states, as well as in Canada and Mexico.
The above press release was provided courtesy of PRNewswire. The views, opinions and statements in the press release are not endorsed by Gray Media Group nor do they necessarily state or reflect those of Gray Media Group, Inc. | https://www.wctv.tv/prnewswire/2022/05/18/comerica-announces-2023-earnings-release-dates-details-conference-call-review-second-quarter-2022-earnings/ | 2022-05-18T22:00:49Z | https://www.wctv.tv/prnewswire/2022/05/18/comerica-announces-2023-earnings-release-dates-details-conference-call-review-second-quarter-2022-earnings/ | false | 29 |
Two redevelopment projects in downtown Penticton that would contain a total 28 homes have been cleared to proceed to public hearings.
The larger of the two is focused on the 700 block of Westminster Avenue West, where a developer has purchased adjacent lots containing the Villa Rosa Restaurant and two single-family dwellings.
Those structures would be torn down and replaced with two new buildings, each three storeys high, containing 11 live-work units, 11 townhomes and a commercial space.
City council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to the required rezoning and scheduled the file for a public hearing June 7.
Stewart Fraser, an executive with Edmonton-based developer Cantiro Homes, told council he’s discussed the future of Villa Rosa with its owners and is “hoping to work something out with our new development.”
The development site was listed for sale last year for $3.15 million.
The other proposed development is a six-storey, 16-unit apartment building spread over three lots on the 900 block of Churchill Avenue.
The building would replace two older homes and requires both a rezoning and a site-specific variance to increase allowable density.
Council gave preliminary approval to the plan, which will also be discussed at the June 7 public hearing. | https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/article_36cd1530-d6e2-11ec-9fd9-6300bb2ba98c.html | 2022-05-18T22:02:27Z | https://www.pentictonherald.ca/news/article_36cd1530-d6e2-11ec-9fd9-6300bb2ba98c.html | false | 1 |
Yes, LA Voters Could Pick Their Next Mayor In The June Primary. Here's What Would Have To Happen
Our Voter Game Plan team is answering all your questions about voting in the June 7 primary election. Over the weekend, we got a few questions asking basically the same thing:
If a single mayoral candidate gets 50%+1 of the primary vote, do they automatically become mayor after the primary?
A viral tweet thread from comedian, podcaster and TV host Adam Conover sparked this conversation over the weekend:
It's not common knowledge, but if a single candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in the primary this June, they skip the general election and win the office outright. I think that Caruso is gunning to win this way, and I think he has a chance of making it happen.
— Adam Conover (@adamconover) May 14, 2022
So, is it true? Could a single candidate really win outright on June 7?
Yep.
Election rules for both L.A. city and county specify that in election primaries, candidates may win the office if they receive more than 50% of the vote. If they don’t, the top two vote getters advance to the general election in November.
Here’s the relevant excerpt from the city of L.A.’s election code (see page 4):
Sec. 108. Results of Elections.
(a) In the event that any candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for an office at the Primary Nominating Election, that candidate shall be elected to the office.
(b) In the event no candidate receives a majority of the votes cast for an office at the Primary Nominating Election, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes for the office shall be the candidates, and the only candidates, for that office whose names shall appear on the ballots to be used at the General Municipal Election.
Not only does this apply to the mayoral race, but all other L.A. city and county races, like county sheriff, Board of Supervisors, L.A city attorney, and L.A. City Council. (You’ll see a little note about this in each of our Voter Game Plan guides, in a box that says “How Local Primaries Work.”).
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If any one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the June primary, they will win the office outright. Otherwise, the two candidates who receive the most votes will advance to the November runoff.
However, in state-level races, like governor or state senator, the top two vote-getters will advance to the general election no matter how many votes they have.
OK, How Likely Is It?
So that answers the question of whether a mayoral candidate can win outright in June. But how likely is it?
It does happen, but usually in races that only have two or three candidates, or where one candidate has a big name-recognition advantage over their challengers. For instance, in 2020, L.A. City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Paul Krekorian, John Lee and Kevin De León all won their respective elections by getting more than 50% of the vote in the primary and bypassing the general election altogether.
Of course, all of those elections involved incumbents. The 2022 mayoral election, in contrast, has 10 candidates vying for an open seat. (You’ll see 12 candidates on your ballot because it was printed before Joe Buscaino and Mike Feuer dropped out.)
In an April poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, Rick Caruso was in the lead, with support from 24% of likely voters. Karen Bass was close behind with 23% support.
While this doesn’t seem like enough to get either candidate to that winning-outright threshold, the poll also found that about 40% of those surveyed were still undecided about their choice for mayor. With three weeks to go till Election Day, a lot can still happen.
There’s another big, contentious race that could result in a June winner under these rules, too: L.A. County Sheriff. There are nine candidates running for that seat, including incumbent Sheriff Alex Villanueva. This still makes for a pretty competitive field, and it’s unclear whether Villanueva’s incumbent status and name recognition could realistically help him rise to the 50% threshold, or if the controversies over his first term will hold him back. So far large-scale polling data on the sheriff’s race hasn’t been available. You can read more about the sheriff’s race in LAist’s Voter Game Plan.
If you have more questions about voting in the June 7 primary, check out our full list of guides and FAQs, or ask us anything below. | https://laist.com/news/politics/faq-los-angeles-primary-mayor-50-percent-plus-one | 2022-05-18T22:03:17Z | https://laist.com/news/politics/faq-los-angeles-primary-mayor-50-percent-plus-one | false | 2 |
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Demotech, Inc., the first to request a special session to address the litigation crisis affecting Florida's residential property insurance marketplace, has finalized its faculty for its June 2 webinar. Scheduled from 1100 am to 1230 pm Eastern, the webinar provides experts with a forum to share their initial opinions of the outcome of the Florida legislature's special session, as convened by Governor Ron DeSantis from May 23 through May 27.
Confirmed faculty are:
- Senator Jeff Brandes, District (24), St. Petersburg, FL
- Fred E. Karlinsky, Shareholder & Co-Chair Insurance Practice, Greenberg Traurig
- Paul Handerhan, President, Federal Association for Insurance Reform
- Robert Ritchie, President & CEO, American Integrity Insurance Company
- Mahsa Saeidi, Investigative Reporter, WFLA, Tampa
- Edouard von Herberstein, Partner, Hudson Structured Capital Management
- Adam Schwebach, Executive Vice President and Branch Manager, Tampa, Gallagher Re
- Wesley Todd, Founder & CEO, CaseGlide
- Joseph Petrelli, President, Demotech
- Barry Koestler, CFA, Chief Ratings Officer, Demotech
- Bob Warren, CPA (Inactive), CPCU, Client Services Manager, Demotech
- W. Burke Coleman, Esquire, Chief Regulatory and Compliance Counsel, Demotech.
Invited: Kevin McCarty, Founder and Principal Consultant, Celtic Global Consulting. In 2003, Kevin was Florida's initial appointed Insurance Commissioner. Kevin oversaw the industry that responded to dozens of natural events including hailstorms. In 2016, Kevin formed Celtic Global to provide financial analysis, regulatory assessment, and advocacy on insurance issues.
The link to registration is https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1465647223656015119. Questions on registration should be referred to Paul Osborne at POsborne@demotech.com.
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Jared D. McNutt, 19, pleads guilty to two rape charges
NEW PHILADELPHIA — Jared D. McNutt, 19, of New Philadelphia, has pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and one count each of gross sexual imposition and disseminating matter harmful to jurveniles.
Tuscarawas County Common Pleas Judge Michael Ernest accepted McNutt's guilty pleas Tuesday.
McNutt is being held in the county jail without bond pending final resolution of the case.
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Sentencing is scheduled for July 1.
Ernest said the potential penalty for each rape is three to 11 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. The prison term can be extended up to 50% by the Adult Parole Authority. Rape carries a mandatory prison term. The possible punishments for gross sexual imposition are one to five years in prison and a $10,500 fine. Disseminating matter harmful to juveniles is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. McNutt will spend five years on parole following release from prison.
Assistant county prosecutor Kristine Beard recommended a total sentence of eight to 12 years on all the charges. McNutt would be designated as a Tier Three sex offender, required to register his address with the local sheriff every 90 days for the rest of his life.
Defense attorneys are Kelly Murray of Canton and Tuscarawas County public defender John Watters, II.
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Police: Husband, daughter charged with abuse, neglect in death of elderly family member
VALLEY, Ala (WTVM/Gray News) - Authorities in Alabama are investigating an incident where a woman was found dead while living in poor conditions.
The Valley Police Department reports officers were called to a home to investigate living conditions at the house on March 16.
WTVM reports officers found the body of 72-year-old Janice Ramsey Hawkins in the living room. Police said a May 4 autopsy report revealed that the woman died due to a failure to thrive associated with complications of diabetes.
Authorities listed the following thrive factors in the report:
- Malnutrition, body mass index underweight, according to the National Institutes of Health.
- Sunken eyes and prominent ribs.
- Dehydration with evidence of skin tenting and deplorable living conditions.
- Dirty clothing.
- A foul odor and roach infestation.
Valley police said Janice Ramsey Hawkins’ husband, Walter Alfred Hawkins, 74, and daughter, Christy Lee Hawkins, 45, lived with her in the house. The two were taken into custody on first-degree elder abuse and neglect charges. Walter Alfred Hawkins was also charged with manslaughter.
Officers report they found through their investigation that a doctor had not seen Janice Ramsey Hawkins since 2019 without her prescriptions refilled since 2018.
Walter Alfred Hawkins and Christy Lee Hawkins were taken to the Chambers County Detention Facility.
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Peloton creditors start to spin
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Peloton Interactive needs cash. The virtual workout company is seeking $750 million from debt investors like Blackstone and Apollo Global Management, who are more than willing to lend to it, according to a story on Wednesday in the Financial Times. An investment might work out better for them if the company fails rather than succeeds.
Shares of the firm run by Barry McCarthy have fallen more than 84% in the past year, bringing its market capitalization to a paltry $5 billion. Peloton had about $850 million of debt as of the end of its most recent quarter – and about as much cash. But it’s burning through its coffers at a breakneck speed. The current debt deal would only cover half of its operating cash burn over the last nine months.
That suggests its balance sheet could keep ballooning if it needs to continue to raise money, and its equity value would dwindle as it was replaced with debt. It’s the sort of spiral that can quickly topple a company into bankruptcy, leaving creditors in a prime spot to swap their debt for equity, and get into the saddle for real. (By Lauren Silva Laughlin)
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A lot of developers use the terms HTML tags and HTML elements interchangeably, but are they the same?
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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is seeking people to help with efforts to reduce interactions between humans and bears.
Applicants are expected to have flexible work schedules and vehicles that can tow small trailers because disposing of bear carcasses is among the job requirements.
READ MORE: Housing Crisis: Many Faced With Trying To Come Up With Extra Money They Don't Have“Bear response contractors will be trained to assist with various bear conservation efforts, including but not limited to helping residents and businesses avoid conflicts with bears, collecting information from and disposing of dead bears, and setting and monitoring bear traps,” the agency said in a news release.
People hired for the efforts would respond to human-bear conflicts in Bay, Escambia, Gulf, Highlands, Lake, Marion, Okaloosa, Orange, Santa Rosa, Seminole, Volusia, and Walton counties.
They would be paid based on the activities, rather than hourly, and would be required to have their own general liability insurance.
READ MORE: Call For Bicycle Safety At Ride Of Silence On Rickenbacker CausewayThe state estimates Florida has more than 4,000 black bears.
It held a hunt in 2015 that resulted in 304 bears killed over a two-day period.
That came after the number of bear-related calls had increased from 3,340 in 2009 and 4,196 in 2010 to 6,734 in 2013 and 6,688 in 2014.
Over the past five years, the state has averaged 5,719 bear calls a year, with 5,726 calls in 2021.
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Centre graduate Carlye Deines hugs her mom after giving her a rose Sunday during commencement.
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Zoom has begun to develop A.I. technology which can reportedly scan the faces and speech of users in order to determine their emotions, which was first reported by Protocol.
While this technology appears to still be in its early phases of development and implementation, several human rights groups project that it could be used for more discriminatory purposes down the line, and are urging Zoom to turn away from the practice.
Currently, Zoom has detailed plans for using the A.I. technology in a sales and training protocol. In a blog post shared last month, Zoom explained how its concept of ‘Zoom IQ’ works for helping salespeople determine the emotions of people they are on a call with to improve their pitches.
The blog notes that Zoom IQ tracks such metrics as talk-listen ratio, talking speed, monologue, patience, engaging questions, next steps, step up, and sentiment and engagement.
Zoom also noted on its blog that the data it collects is “for informational purposes and may contain inaccuracies.”
“Results are not intended to be used for employment decisions or other comparable decisions. All recommended ranges for metrics are based on publicly available research,” the company added.
Nevertheless, over 25 rights groups sent a joint letter to Zoom CEO, Eric Yuan on Wednesday, urging that the company halt any further research into emotion-based artificial intelligence that could have unfortunate consequences for the disadvantaged. Some of these groups include Access Now, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Muslim Justice League.
ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project deputy director, Esha Bhandari told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that emotion A.I. was “a junk science” and “creepy technology.”
Beyond Zoom’s initial note in its April blog, the company has yet to respond to this critique, which began as early as last week.
We’ve recently seen brands, such as DuckDuckGo, stand up against Google in the name of privacy. After claiming to get rid of invasive cookies, on web browsers, Google has essentially replaced them with technology that can similarly track and collect user data.
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PATASKALA, Ohio (WCMH) — Five years and one week ago, a gunman killed three people at a Licking County, Ohio, nursing home.
The father of one of those victims — who was the newly appointed police chief in Kirkersville at the time — has flown a Thin Blue Line flag at his Etna home off and on since then.
But this week, which is National Police Week, he received a letter from his homeowners’ association telling him to take the flag down. And he had to call the county sheriff after a man not affiliated with the homeowners’ group walked onto his property and tried to remove it.
“It’s been flying since the 12th of May 2017,” said Thomas DiSario, giving the date his son died. “The only time it comes down [is] if it’s worn out and I buy a new one and put it back up.”
Gift from law enforcement
The flag did come down over the winter, though, as DiSario said the flagpole on his property was bent and it took until earlier this month for it to be replaced.
The original flag was a gift from law enforcement colleagues of Steven Eric DiSario, the first to respond to a call at the Pine Kirk Care Center. Sheriff deputies who responded afterward found DiSario’s body on the street outside and two employees and the gunman dead inside.
“He was answering a call in Kirkersville, and he was shot and murdered as he got there. So, he didn’t even know it was coming,” Thomas DiSario said.
From NBC4 archive: Coverage of Kirkersville tragedy
Steven Eric DiSario was 38 years-old and a father of six, with a seventh on the way.
Every year, National Police Week honors those like DiSario who have lost their lives while serving the public and protecting others.
Man in his yard
On Saturday, Thomas DiSario, a disabled veteran who needs oxygen after being exposed to sarin gas during Operation Desert Storm, found a person on his property taking down the Thin Blue Line flag and the American flag that flies above it.
“I had a gentleman come in my yard, lower the flags, and [he] wiped his face on them,” DiSario said. “I, in turn, asked him to leave. He would not, and I put him out of my yard. He came back … sat on my rock, then he proceeded to get up and take the flags down again, and I stopped him and put him out of my yard.”
DiSario eventually called the Licking County Sheriff’s Office. The deputy who responded said neighbors also saw the man and helped to describe him, but the deputy was unable to locate him.
Community association letter
Then on Monday, DiSario received a letter from the Omni Community Association Managers that said the Thin Blue Line flag was a political sign and had to be removed under association rules.
“The political sign in the form of a flag must be removed from your property. The flag on your pole is not a United States Flag. It is a political statement. Please remove the flag from your property,” the letter, dated Friday, read in part.
DiSario said he is being harassed for flying a flag that’s a memorial to his fallen son.
“I spent 23 years in the military, and there’s no way shape or form that flag is being flown disrespectful at all,” he said. “It has a 4×6 American flag above it, and the police flag is a 3×5 below it. It is no bigger than the top flag.”
“It represents my son and nothing else. So I don’t know why everybody is now harassing me that I have to take it down.”
A community with rules
David Dye, president of the Omni Community Association Managers, said the man who showed up to remove the flags was not affiliated with them. He also asserted that the community where DiSario bought his home, Cumberland Crossing, had deed restrictions put in place when it was developed, rules that he has to follow.
“They bought into the community with rules,” Dye said. “He agreed by buying in this community that he can’t display what he wants to display.”
Those restrictions were included in filings with the county recorder, he said. He also explained how a flag can count as a sign.
“Sometimes signs masquerade as flags or as light displays, as examples,” Dye said. “The board has adopted this and, as a sign, we don’t get to judge what it says.
“We have had to ask people to remove a sign advertising a nativity display, as an example. It doesn’t matter whether we agree. If it’s a sign, you are not allowed to post it, according to the deed restrictions.”
The HOA tells WCMH they received a complaint about the flag, which prompted the notice sent to DiSario.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) — AAA of Michigan says the state hit a new record high when it comes to gas prices on Wednesday. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded was $4.57. Could prices be headed even higher, to more than $6 a gallon? JP Morgan analysts think so.
JP Morgan analysts are warning, as global demand for oil surges due to the war in Ukraine, oil companies in the U.S. are selling more gas to other countries.
“Typically, refiners produce more gasoline ahead of the summer road-trip season, building up inventories. But this year, since mid-April, US gasoline inventories have fallen counter seasonally and today sit at the lowest seasonal levels since 2019,” said the JP Morgan Global Commodities Oil Flashnote, published this week.
“If exports persist at this elevated pace and refinery runs—already near the top of the range for reasonable utilization rates—fall within our expectations, gasoline inventories could continue to draw to levels well below 2008 lows and retail gasoline prices could climb to $6/gal or even higher,” the report warned.
Seven Action News reached out to three economics experts to see if there is agreement on this prediction. We found varied opinions.
University of Michigan Economic Forecaster Gabriel Ehrlich is optimistic that prices will not go that high.
“That kind of prediction gets a lot of attention. My prediction is we won’t get that high this summer,” said Ehrlich.
University of Central Florida Economic forecaster Sean Snaith is less optimistic.
“I think $5 is likely and $6 is not out of the question,” said Snaith.
“It is tough to know what to expect,” said Nicholas Juhle, Greenleaf Trust Chief Investment Officer. “It is important to understand that crude oil prices account for about 60% of the cost of a gallon of gas you buy at the pump.”
So what drives crude oil prices? Economists say it is about global supply and demand. There are many unknowns that could impact supply and demand in the coming months.
One of those unknowns is war. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took a lot of supply out of the market.
“We don’t know how the war is going to unfold. Is it going to be prolonged? Will it end soon? Will Russia escalate the war? Certainly, the risks surrounding that are a big part of why prices are so high right now and why there is a risk they could go even higher,” said Ehrlich.
The International Energy Agency says Russia is the world’s third-largest oil producer behind the United States and Saudi Arabia. Before the invasion, it was the second-largest crude oil exporter in the world, behind Saudi Arabia.
“If we find ourselves not only in a war but in World War Three, with additional participants, additional sanctions go on, the entire European Union bans energy from Russia. You kind of go down a list of how bad it COULD get,” said Juhle.
Another unknown is just how much an increase in gas prices will decrease demand and increase supply. So far domestic oil companies and OPEC have not ramped up production.
“Two of the swing producers we would typically expect to make up that supply are not responding in a big way right now. OPEC has been very reluctant to increase supply quickly. And normally we would look to them to increase oil supply. And then in the United States shale oil producers have been reluctant to expand drilling activity,” said Ehrlich. “So, one of the reasons it is tough to predict what is going to happen with prices is we haven’t seen the suppliers react to the high prices we already have.”
Ehrlich says the reason is that oil producers have been recently “burned” by a roller coaster of pricing levels. Oil prices plummeted during the pandemic. The higher prices right now are resulting in high profits. Expanding drilling would require investment.
Snaith says the U.S. and other nations have sent a message that fossil fuel is not a long-tern solution, given the concerns about climate change. He says this affects confidence in the oil market’s value as companies consider investing to increase supply.
“The harsh rhetoric and some of these policy actions of the Biden administration have some of these drillers hesitant,” said Snaith.
Another unknown is the weather. Will hurricane season be bad?
“If we were to have a massive hurricane down on the gulf coast, which could take our oil platforms and refineries offline, both of those things would have an upward effect on gas prices at the pumps,” said Juhle. | https://www.wxyz.com/getting-around-metro-detroit/jp-morgan-analysts-predict-gas-will-surge-past-6-this-summer | 2022-05-18T22:29:47Z | https://www.wxyz.com/getting-around-metro-detroit/jp-morgan-analysts-predict-gas-will-surge-past-6-this-summer | false | 5 |
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ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for a Georgia man whose execution was put on hold by a judge this week are arguing that he is ineligible for execution because he has cognitive impairments that cause him to function like a young child or someone with intellectual disability.
Lawyers for Virgil Delano Presnell Jr. said in a filing with the Georgia Supreme Court on Wednesday that he is a “cognitively disabled man” whose execution is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that the execution of intellectually disabled people is unconstitutional, and Presnell's lawyers argue that includes people like him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Presnell's mother's heavy alcohol use while she was pregnant “profoundly damaged his developing brain months before he was born,” his lawyers wrote. Though he is now 68 years old, he “remains childlike and gullible” and has “enormous difficulty acquiring and processing new information, navigating social interactions, and reasoning abstractly," they wrote. His “functioning is that of an average nine-year-old child.”
Presnell killed an 8-year-old girl and raped her 10-year-old friend after abducting them as they walked home from school in Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, in May 1976. He was convicted in August 1976 on charges including malice murder, kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to death. His death sentence was overturned in 1992 but was reinstated in March 1999.
The Wednesday filing means the state Supreme Court now has two matters concerning Presnell pending before it.
He had been scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday, but Fulton County Superior Court Judge Shermela Williams stayed his execution after his lawyers filed a lawsuit and emergency motion. In those filings, they claimed that the state had violated an agreement with lawyers representing people on death row that effectively put executions on hold during the coronavirus pandemic and established conditions under which they could resume. The lawsuit alleges that those conditions were not met before Presnell's execution was scheduled.
Williams' order blocked the state for 30 days from pursuing the execution of any death row prisoner covered by the agreement. The state has appealed that order to the Georgia Supreme Court.
Also Monday, Presnell's lawyers filed a petition in Butts County Superior Court challenging the constitutionality of his sentence based on his alleged cognitive impairments. The petition was filed in Butts County because that's where the prison that houses death row is located. Chief Superior Court Judge Thomas Wilson on Tuesday rejected the petition for procedural reasons, saying it failed to cite new law or evidence.
Presnell's lawyers' filing Wednesday asks the state Supreme Court to find that Wilson was incorrect and to send the case back to him for discovery and a hearing on the petition. They're also asking the high court to stay his execution until those proceedings are complete.
They argue that there have been advancements in the medical community's understanding of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and intervening changes in the law since he previously challenged the constitutionality of his sentence.
“Mr. Presnell has been impaired since before his birth. But today our understanding of his condition has grown, and we must recognize that the ‘evolving standards of decency’ no longer permit his execution,” his lawyers wrote.
Presnell's lawyers made similar arguments of alleged cognitive impairments caused by his mother's drinking in a clemency case presented Monday to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only authority that can commute a death sentence in Georgia. After holding a closed-door hearing, the five-member board declined to grant clemency for Presnell.
Presnell abducted the two girls as they walked home along a wooded trail from school. He drove them to a secluded wooded area, had them undress and raped the older girl, according to evidence at trial outlined in a Georgia Supreme Court ruling. The younger girl tried to run, but Presnell caught her and drowned her in a creek, the ruling says.
He locked the 10-year-old girl in the trunk of his car and then left her in a wooded area when he got a flat tire, saying he’d return. She ran to a nearby gas station and described Presnell and his car to police.
Officers found him changing his tire at his apartment complex. He denied everything at first but later led police to the 8-year-old girl’s body and confessed, the ruling says. | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Lawyers-Georgia-man-s-death-sentence-is-17182562.php | 2022-05-18T22:34:12Z | https://www.darientimes.com/news/article/Lawyers-Georgia-man-s-death-sentence-is-17182562.php | false | 20 |
PHOENIX, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Postal Service today recognized CVS Health and Credit One Bank with the 2022 Partnership for Growth award on the final day of the National Postal Forum (NPF), the country's premier mailing and shipping conference. The Partnership for Growth award is bestowed annually at NPF to recognize companies that have made significant contributions to and embody forward-thinking, innovative solutions in the mailing and shipping industry.
The Postmaster General and Executive Leadership Team personally select the winners, who have successfully worked with USPS to enhance the value of what we deliver every day — mail and packages.
CVS Health is a leading healthcare company based in Woonsocket, RI. The company improves the health of communities across America through its local retail presence, digital channels and approximately 300,000 dedicated employees. CVS Health entrusts the Postal Service to reliably deliver more than 50 million prescription orders annually.
Founded in 1984, Credit One Bank is a financial services company based in Las Vegas. With a focus on providing their customers with rewards and benefits that will help them lead a "life ever rewarded," the bank serves more than 15 million accounts and employs more than 900 people at their Las Vegas-based headquarters and 4,000 associates at domestic and offshore agencies.
Credit One Bank intelligently targets direct mail offers, adding additional value to marketing communications through the mailbox, a strategy that many other companies leaned away from in recent years. Implementing this innovative strategy involved retargeting prior card members, integrating Informed Delivery campaigns and Informed Visibility data to measure the effect of their campaigns, and trying new techniques along the way. A large part of the company's continued success stemmed from combining the power of Marketing Mail with Informed Delivery and Informed Visibility. The bank's reporting, along with their targeted and retargeted omni-channel marketing campaigns, have proven to be effective tools that provided a measurable return on investment for customer acquisition.
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The U.S. Soccer Federation has agreed to pay its men’s and women’s national teams equally in a historic move that was years in the making.
The collective bargaining agreements announced Wednesday include identical pay structures and equal distribution of World Cup prize money, something that had been a major sticking point.
The men's CBA expired in December 2018 and the women's contract expired at the end of March, but talks continued after the federation and the women's team agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by some players in 2019. The settlement was contingent on the federation reaching agreements that equalized pay and bonuses between the two teams.
Those deals, which run through 2028, will likely have a far-reaching impact in the years to come.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
In 2016, a group of five players — Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, Hope Solo and Carli Lloyd — filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claiming wage discrimination by the federation.
The filing was followed by a players' lawsuit in federal court in 2019. After years of filings and hearings, the sides reached an agreement in February, with the USSF agreeing to pay $24 million — $22 million to the players and $2 million to establish a fund to benefit players after their careers. That deal was contingent on reaching a new CBA.
But the fight goes back as far as 1995, when a group of high-profile players that included Mia Hamm, Michelle Akers and Kristine Lilly were locked out of a pre-Olympic training camp by the USSF because of a disagreement over bonus pay. The federation had offered a bonus only for the gold medal, the women wanted incremental pay for other medals. The men were given bonuses per win.
The dispute was quickly settled, but it was the first of many actions — some subtle, others not so — that the women's team took over the years to secure equitable pay and treatment.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
Among the biggest components in the CBAs is the equitable distribution of World Cup prize money. There are many moving parts, but the money earned by both teams in soccer's most prestigious tournament going forward will be pooled, and then divided among the players, with U.S. Soccer taking 10% off the top in 2022-23 and 20% in 2026-27.
The men's team has already qualified for the World Cup in Qatar this year. The women's team will take part in the CONCACAF W Championship this summer in Monterrey, Mexico, which will determine four berths in the 2023 Women's World Cup, cohosted by Australia and New Zealand.
National federations earn prize money during World Cups based on how far they progress within the tournament. The U.S. women have won their past two World Cups, while the men did not qualify for the 2018 tournament in Russia.
FIFA earmarked $400 million for the 2018 men’s tournament, including $38 million to champion France, and $30 million for the 2019 women’s tournament, including $4 million to the champion United States. FIFA has increased the total to $440 million for the 2022 men’s World Cup, with the winner getting $42 million. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has proposed doubling the women’s prize money to $60 million for the 2023 Women’s World Cup, in which FIFA has increased the teams from 24 to 32.
GAINS AND LOSSES
If the top-ranked U.S. women's team continues to dominate in the World Cup, players for the men's team will get a share of that prize money. The men's qualification for Qatar ensures that the women will also benefit.
U.S. Soccer gets $10.5 million from FIFA for simply qualifying for the men's World Cup in Qatar: a minimum of $9 million in prize money and $1.5 million for preparation. In contrast, U.S. Soccer received just $4 million for winning the 2019 Women's World Cup in France plus $480,000 for preparation.
The women gave up guaranteed salaries in the new agreement. Starting in 2005, the women had included a base salary in their CBAs, while the men's contracts were based on a pay-for-play model, with earnings for appearances, wins and draws. The women's national team players will be compensated in the same way as the men going forward.
The men gain child care during all training camps and matches, something the women's team has had for 25 years.
Players from both teams gain individual retirement funds and will share commercial revenue from tickets for the teams' matches controlled by the USSF, with bonuses for sellouts. Each team will also receive a portion of broadcast, partner and sponsor revenue.
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD
The U.S. women's fight for equal pay has already spread across the globe. And it's likely other nations will follow.
But the key difference is that no other federation has agreed to split FIFA prize money, considered one of the biggest obstacles to true equality.
In 2017, Norway committed to paying its men's and women's national teams comparable salaries. The move came shortly after star player Ada Hegerberg stepped away from the team because of inequitable treatment. The first female Ballon d'Or winner recently rejoined Norway.
The Dutch federation agreed in 2019 to raise the compensation for the women’s team to equal that of the men’s by 2023. Later that year, Australia's women won equal pay and similar benefits as players on the men's team, as well as revenue sharing.
The national federations in New Zealand, Brazil and England have also made moves to achieve pay equity.
“Things just don’t move as fast as we would like them to move,” said USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone, a former national team player. “But I think that is the next step is for other federations around the world to look to see what we have done and start doing it themselves, and then also encouraging the confederations and then as well as FIFA to equalize all prize money.”
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Analysts predict that Amyris, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRS – Get Rating) will announce $81.20 million in sales for the current quarter, according to Zacks. Four analysts have issued estimates for Amyris’ earnings. The highest sales estimate is $90.00 million and the lowest is $71.98 million. Amyris posted sales of $52.32 million during the same quarter last year, which would indicate a positive year-over-year growth rate of 55.2%. The business is scheduled to announce its next quarterly earnings report on Monday, January 1st.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Amyris will report full year sales of $368.74 million for the current financial year, with estimates ranging from $342.70 million to $412.00 million. For the next fiscal year, analysts anticipate that the company will report sales of $551.66 million, with estimates ranging from $457.43 million to $682.00 million. Zacks Investment Research’s sales averages are an average based on a survey of sell-side research analysts that follow Amyris.
Amyris (NASDAQ:AMRS – Get Rating) last released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 10th. The biotechnology company reported ($0.37) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.30) by ($0.07). The business had revenue of $57.71 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $65.45 million. The company’s quarterly revenue was down 67.4% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned ($1.08) EPS.
Institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Gordian Capital Singapore Pte Ltd acquired a new position in Amyris in the fourth quarter worth approximately $26,000. Van ECK Associates Corp grew its position in Amyris by 378.0% during the 4th quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 4,732 shares of the biotechnology company’s stock worth $26,000 after purchasing an additional 3,742 shares in the last quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. purchased a new position in Amyris during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $65,000. Hudock Inc. purchased a new position in Amyris during the 1st quarter worth approximately $31,000. Finally, Prospera Financial Services Inc purchased a new position in Amyris during the 1st quarter worth approximately $39,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 49.43% of the company’s stock.
NASDAQ:AMRS traded down $0.38 during midday trading on Friday, hitting $2.26. 6,225,997 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 6,119,672. Amyris has a one year low of $1.47 and a one year high of $17.42. The company has a market capitalization of $722.55 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -1.87 and a beta of 1.63. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $3.91 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $5.21. The company has a current ratio of 1.77, a quick ratio of 1.46 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.26.
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Amyris, Inc, a synthetic biotechnology company, operates in the clean health and beauty, and flavors and fragrance markets in Europe, North America, Asia, and South America. The company manufactures and sells clean beauty, personal care, and health and wellness consumer products, as well as ingredients to the flavor and fragrance, nutrition, food and beverage, and clean beauty and personal care end markets.
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Spain and Portugal have detected over 40 suspected cases of monkeypox, a viral infection rarely seen in Europe, with both outbreaks concentrated in the Madrid and Lisbon areas, officials said Wednesday.
The announcement came just days after the British health authorities said they had detected seven cases so far this month, with the World Health Organization working with the government to investigate the outbreak.
Health officials have noted some of these infections may be through sexual contact – in this instance among gay or bisexual men – which would be a new development in understanding how the virus is transmitted.
In a statement, health authorities in the Madrid region said they had detected "23 possible cases of monkeypox", indicating all of them were believed to have been transmitted through sexual activity.
"In general, its transmission is via respiratory drops but the characteristics of the 23 suspected infections point to it being passed on through bodily fluids during sex relations," the statement said, without giving further details.
"All of them are young adult males and most of them are men who have sexual relations with other men, but not all of them," Elena Andradas, head of public health in the Madrid region, told Cadena Ser radio.
Another 20 suspected cases of monkeypox – endemic in parts of Central and Western Africa – have been detected in the Lisbon region, Portugal's health ministry said in a statement.
"The cases were all among males, the majority of them young, who had ulcerated lesions," it said.
Symptoms of monkeypox in humans include a rash which often starts on the face then moves to other parts of the body, fever, muscle ache and chills. Most people recover from the illness within several weeks.
Transmission is usually via close contact with infected animals such as rodents and monkeys, and is limited between people. It has only been fatal in rare cases.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), a public health protection body, on Monday said it had detected four new cases after registering three cases earlier in May.
All four of the additional cases were men who have sex with men or self-identify as gay or bisexual, it said.
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The number of Canadian adults infected with COVID-19 tripled during the fifth wave of the pandemic compared with the total number of adults infected in the previous four waves, according to a new study led by Toronto researchers.
More than 5,000 Canadian adults — members of the Angus Reid Forum, a public polling cohort — participated in the fourth phase of the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) study. The findings of the study were published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.
The adult participants took a self-administered dried blood spot test between Jan. 15 and March 15, 2022 and sent the blood samples back to the researchers for analysis. The research team then tested the samples for antibodies related to COVID-19.
From those results, the researchers found nearly 30 per cent of Canadian adults were infected during the first Omicron wave of infections compared with roughly 10 per cent who had been infected in the previous four waves.
Of those fifth waveinfections, one million were among the country’s 2.3 million unvaccinated adult population — representing 40 per cent of all unvaccinated adults, the study notes.
Patrick Brown, a lead author of the Ab-C study and biostatistician at the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital, said the study is meant to portray a “complete and representative picture” of COVID-19 in the country in the absence of widespread PCR testing and COVID-19 data tracking.
“This is quite important for us to be able to understand COVID in the population,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday.
“The testing data is incomplete and we’ve essentially stopped PCR testing for the most part in Canada, or in Ontario, at least, so having a representative sample of people who receive these test kits is very important to figure out how much COVID there has been and how much immunity we have in the population.”
The study also found that antibody levels were much lower amongst adults with only two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine compared to those with three doses, meaning those with three doses had stronger immunity in the face of the virus.
And amongst the unvaccinated population — including those who had a COVID-19 infection — their antibody levels were “quite” lower than people with three doses of the vaccine, Brown noted.
“(In) Canada, we had quite a bit less COVID-19 than some other countries, especially the U.S. We have less natural protection and we’re really relying on vaccines in Canada to build up immunity in our population,” he said.
“Certainly three doses plus an infection was the maximum protection, but three doses of vaccine certainly gave a very good amount of protection — a big improvement over two doses alone.”
The Ab-C study is a collaboration between Unity Health Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Angus Reid Institute and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health. It’s funded by the federal government through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.
The team of researchers has been tracking the pandemic in Canada with periodic polling about lived experience and blood sample collection since May 2020.
Brown said the next phase of the study is already being conducted. The team has started surveying roughly 1,300 Canadian adults who were not infected by the initial Omicron variant known as BA.1 to determine whether they were infected by the Omicron subvariant called BA.2 from March to June 2022.
“We are preparing test kits now to send out our panel of people we’ve come back to several times, and this will be the fifth round of tests we’re sending them to better understand the second wave of Omicron,” he said.
“We found that the number of cases reported by public health isn’t as high as the previous wave, the number of hospitalizations hasn’t risen very much, but there has been a lot of infection … so we’re expecting to see that there’s been quite a lot of COVID throughout the population.”
—Noushin Ziafati, The Canadian Press
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Payton Gendron ID’d as gunman in racially motivated mass shooting at Buffalo’s Tops supermarket
A “heavily armed ” white teenager clad in military-style tactical gear slaughtered ten people Saturday in a “racially motivated” mass shooting he live-streamed at a Buffalo supermarket, authorities said.
The shooter — identified by law enforcement as 18-year-old Payton Gendron — drove from “hours away” in Conklin, New York, to a Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, in a predominantly black neighborhood, officials said.
Eleven of the victims were black and two were white.
“We are investigating this incident as both a hate crime and a case of racially-motivated violent extremism,” said Stephen Belongia, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Buffalo field office said during a press conference.
Erie County Sheriff John Garcia gave a more blunt assessment.
“This was pure evil. It was a straight-up racially motivated hate crime,” he said.
The shooter, who sources said had the N-word scrawled in white paint on one of his weapons, arrived at the market at around 2:30 p.m. He “was very heavily armed. He had tactical gear on. He had a tactical helmet on,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said.
He also had a camera to livestream the shooting, Gramaglia said. He was armed with a semiautomatic rifle, a hunting rifle and a shotgun which were all purchased legally, NBC News reported, citing a senior law enforcement official.
The gunman opened fire in the parking lot, killing three people and injuring a fourth, he said.
He then went inside the store, where he encountered longtime “beloved” security guard and former Buffalo cop Aaron Salter, Jr., who tried to stop him, Gramaglia said.
The guard’s bullet couldn’t pierce the attacker’s armor, he said.
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The shooter opened fire on Salter, killing him, Gramaglia said, before allegedly working his way through the rest of the store.
Buffalo cops confronted the shooter, who at one point put his gun to his own neck before authorities were able to talk him into surrendering, officials said.
The gunman was arraigned on Saturday night, surrounded by police when he appeared in court masked and wearing a white paper jail gown. He was slapped with first-degree murder charges and his court-appointed lawyer entered a not guilty plea, local media reported.
Gendron was reportedly placed on suicide watch, and is due back in court Thursday. His “distraught” parents were cooperating with authorities, NBC reported.
“The shooter was not from this community. The shooter traveled hours to this community to perpetuate this crime on the people of Buffalo,” Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said.
The bloodshed occurred in the middle of a Saturday afternoon when many people were doing their grocery shopping.
The store’s operation manager told the Buffalo News she thought she heard 70 shots.
She saw the shooter and said, “He looked like he was in the Army.”
Two people who saw the gunman leaving the store described him as wearing camouflage attire with a black helmet.
“He was standing there with the gun to his chin. We were like what the heck is going on? Why does this kid have a gun to his face?” said witness Braedyn Kephart.
Kephart said the man dropped to his knees, ripped off his helmet and let go of his gun and then was tackled by police.
One regular shopper at the market told a local television station that he knew several of those killed.
“I lost three people today that I know and talk to five, six times a week. One, a friend of over 30 years, another a friend of 20 years. This is insane,” the man said.
The supermarket chain tweeted a statement saying it was “shocked and saddened by this senseless act of violence.”
It’s not the first time Gendron has come to the attention of law enforcement, according to The Buffalo News, which reported the teen had allegedly threatened his fellow high school students in June 2021.
A school official reported Gendron “had made statements indicating that he wanted to do a shooting, either at a graduation ceremony, or sometime after,” a source told the news outlet.
State Police investigated, and Gendron was referred for counseling and a mental health evaluation, The Buffalo News said.
Gov. Kathy Hochul called the suspect a “white supremacist” at a Saturday evening briefing in Buffalo before vowing to take additional steps to crack down on illegal weapons while increasing social media monitoring by law enforcement, hours after suggesting to the Post that she did not foresee more anti-crime legislative action this year.
“Yeah, I’m angry. I’ve seen violence from guns on the Brooklyn subway. Now, in the streets of Buffalo, it has to stop. It has to stop … We had already planned to be announcing a comprehensive gun package to address further loopholes that exist in our laws. We’re doing everything we can to ensure that our laws are tight,” Hochul said at the Buffalo press conference.
The New York State Hate Crime Task Force would also investigate the incident, she added.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said President Biden had been briefed on the shooting.
“He will continue to receive updates throughout the evening and tomorrow as further information develops. The president and the first lady are praying for those who have been lost and for their loved ones,” she said.
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Two Far North iwi have travelled to Te Waipounamu (South Island) to help establish employment pathways for rangatahi (youth) in the fisheries sector.
An iwi delegation comprising Whangaroa and Te Aupōuri members was busy touring Nelson and Motueka last week, exploring opportunities for mahi (work) in both deep-sea fishing and shore-based factory processing.
Sealord and Talley's hosted the group, who were shown around each of the company's different facilities, including Talley's Motueka accommodation for shore-based northern workers and a deep-sea fishing school at Westport.
Te Aupōuri commercial manager Penetaui Kleskovic said feedback from the sector was there was dire a shortage of workers for New Zealand's deep-sea fishing fleets.
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Advertise with NZME.He said given the significant Māori commercial fishery interests, it made sense to steer rangatahi in that direction.
"We are also anxious to cement better links with the fisheries employers in the South Island as it provides a new perspective for our Muriwhenua whānau," Kleskovic said.
"Although the work is demanding, the crew can earn up to $65,000 per year.
"There are a variety of ways we can support rangatahi in securing these types of jobs and while we do want to provide practical assistance, obviously self-motivation is also critical."
Talley's was established in 1936 in Motueka and has expanded to a range of sites across the South Island, producing a variety of products including seafood, mussels, vegetables and icecream.
Tony Hazlett, Talley's CEO, said the company was very happy to work with the Far North iwi.
"We have good connections through our mussel work in the north and have had many local workers working on our boats for years," Hazlett said.
"We are very happy to strengthen ties with iwi and to provide career progression opportunities for people working with us."
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Advertise with NZME.Kleskovic said a highlight for the group was visiting Talley's mussel factory in Motueka, where they met Far North wāhine (woman) Santana Morning.
Morning (Te Rarawa) from Herekino made the long journey to Motueka by car with her māmā (mum) on Waitangi weekend, after accepting a job with Talley's earlier this year.
The almost 23-year-old works in quality control at Talley's mussel factory and is responsible for ensuring all mussel products heading out to supermarkets around Aotearoa (and the world) are of the highest standard.
Prior to her mahi (work) with Talley's, Morning worked at Kaitaia's Te Hiku Hauora as a medical receptionist and Stop Smoking Co-ordinator.
She said before moving to Motueka, she had only ever travelled to the South Island once to visit a friend.
Morning said the promise of secure accommodation and employment was a major drawcard in heading south and an opportunity too good to turn down.
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Advertise with NZME."I've been down here four months now and it's been really awesome so far," she said.
"It's a completely fresh start and so different to anything I've done before, but I'm really enjoying it.
"My friends and whānau have all said they're really proud of me and encouraged me to keep going."
As the only-known Far North employee currently working at the mussel factory, Morning said she was lost for words to see the Muriwhenua group last week.
"My manager literally pulled me off the working line in the factory and all of a sudden, wow, there was Shane Jones," Morning said.
"It was really nice seeing people from home and one of them I recognised as a former lifeguard from the Kaitaia Pools, so that was neat."
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The fishing company is 50 per cent Māori-owned and employs more than 1000 people in New Zealand and 240 overseas.
In 2019 a collaborative agreement, "Nga Tapuwae o Maui-Following in the footsteps of Māui" was signed between Sealord and 41 iwi groups.
This meant 60 per cent of the iwi quota held in deep-water fisheries (including hoki, orange roughy, jack mackerel and silver warehou) would be caught on Sealord vessels, and more than 80 per cent of profits returned to iwi.
The agreement also provides iwi members opportunities for training and employment, as well as advancement of iwi knowledge of and involvement in aspects of the fisheries value chain.
Sealord global sales manager Kleat Nepe (Rongowhakaata) said the initiative had been positive so far and the Far North iwi visit was an important step towards realising further employment opportunities in the fishing sector.
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Advertise with NZME."When people typically think of fishing, they think of work on boats or in factories, but Sealord has a very broad range of opportunities within different departments like marketing, sales, human resources and IT," Nepe said.
"We have lots of opportunities open right now and whatever roles people decide to do will help build up their toolbox to take them further within the company or career opportunities elsewhere."
Nepe said a barrier for some iwi getting their people to work in these roles was location and commitments to whānau, hapū, marae and whenua.
Sealord is therefore looking at the concept of Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) work, which is typically seen with mineworkers travelling to Western Australia for work.
Nepe said the same structure would apply with Sealord, only on a fishing boat and usually on a four- to six-week on/off basis.
"Now that a few years have gone by, our iwi partners are more educated about the challenges of fishing and are looking at what's the next step in the process in terms of career pathways for their people," Nepe said.
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Food delivery service Grubhub launched a free lunch promotion on Tuesday in New York City. It didn't go well. Both customers and restaurateurs were left frustrated.
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Idaho Airports: Which is the BEST Airport in All of Idaho?
And the Best Airport in Idaho Award goes to...
Okay, I don’t know if there’s actually an award for this, but I recently saw a list by Love Exploring — The Best Airport in Every State — and I’m here to share with you what they say Idaho’s best airport is. Even though I’m sure this won’t come as a shock for most of us.
Airports in Idaho, well, aren’t necessarily the greatest, and they’re definitely not the busiest or largest. But I guess that can be a good thing when you’re trying to beat the lines and get through security fast. It’s just not the best thing for having a larger variety of destinations.
I have personally traveled via the Idaho Falls Regional Airport (Fanning Field), Twin Falls Airport (Magic Valley Regional Airport), Pocatello Regional Airport, and the Boise Airport. And let's just say, Idaho airports are very small and kind of unimpressive, but there is clearly one airport that rises above the rest, the Boise Airport.
BOI is definitely the busiest and largest airport in all of Idaho, and the experience (speaking for myself here) has always been way better than other airports.
Love Exploring says, “Small yet perfectly formed, Boise Airport runs services to 29 non-stop destinations across the US. The single-terminal airport, located three miles (5km) south of downtown Boise, has become a well-loved local hub thanks to its short waiting times, ease of navigation and friendly staff. Food and drink options include Einstein Bros Bagels, Smashburger and Cross Grain Brewhouse.” | https://kidotalkradio.com/which-is-the-best-airport-in-all-of-idaho/ | 2022-05-18T22:51:06Z | https://kidotalkradio.com/which-is-the-best-airport-in-all-of-idaho/ | true | 2 |
Long ago (or, last year?) Ali White created this little Lucas Giolito graphic to celebrate the days he starts for the White Sox. With a little help from our tee design guy Adrian Serrano, it’s now our newest piece of merch:
This Giolito design, as well as a couple of additional new ones you can scroll to directly below, are on sale now and available in all the usual wearable and non-wearable styles. Please, take a look!
Ever wonder about the White Sox and their obsession with the longest-tenured White Sox player, Leury García? Well, we’ve got a t-shirt (and hoodie, and other products), for that:
OK, the White Sox no longer have a Top 5 payroll in baseball. We’re still in the Lucky 7!
Hey, this weekend a former White Sox folk hero decided to get a little spicy with White Sox Twitter. It had something to do with the 108 tournament, maybe? It’s a funny poem, and it’s hard to ever reject a design that includes the concept of sassy. Thus, here we go, it’s Palk Smash Block.
And hey, you might have heard, the White Sox are spending this season (oh, trust me, in the intervening years, you’re gonna hear about it from the front office, Sox fans). Spending wisely ... well ...
While the White Sox remain in the Top Five spenders for the season (they have now fallen to fifth, ahead of all teams but the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees and Padres), celebrate the achievement!
Both designs are on sale now and available in all the usual wearable and non-wearable styles. Please, take a look!
You can read more about the Players League below, in the copy for our original PL logo design. However, one of us, not gonna say who, let his frustration spill over, and a few fellow SBN writers thought it might make a nifty T-shirt.
What say you?
Oh, you say this feels more like a sticker for your Trapper Keeper or car bumper? Dig it:
Seriously, Players League gear is all the rage, and it is available only at our store, so check it out!
The Players League existed for just one season, in 1890, but was developed in times like these.
Actually, in one aspect, baseball in the late 19th Century was healthier for fans — the antitrust exemption MLB now enjoys did not exist. The Players League was launched to compete with the National League and, to a lesser extent, the American Association (AA), then a major league.
Battles between players and management had existed formally at least back to 1879, when the National League owners silently adopted the Reserve Clause, which evolved quickly into a way for teams to claim ownership of a player for the life of his career.
A decade after its invention, the Reserve Clause had grown from a novelty “keeper league” concept to a way for NL teams to claim every player in the league as lifetime property. On top of that, both the NL and the AA had established an individual salary cap, preventing any player from earning more than the equivalent of $50,000 today.
Out of this onerous climate, the Players League was born. Eight teams (Chicago Pirates, Boston Reds, Brooklyn Wonders, New York Giants, Philadelphia Athletics, Pittsburgh Burghers, Cleveland Infants, Buffalo Bisons) debuted, packed with NL and AA talent. The on-field product was both top-quality and profitable.
Merger talks, which were constant and ongoing in the wildcat baseball days of the 1800s, began almost before Opening Day, but outmaneuvering by the NL and sheer bad luck saw the Players League fall to pieces after just one season. Six of its eight teams either merged with existing NL or AA city counterparts or outright joined the majors outside of the Players League.
Throughout CBA talks, dating to before the initial impasse last December, I’ve been dropping the #PlayersLeague tag in discussions of MLB’s monopoly and/or obfuscation. With a needless lockout and truly bad-faith bargaining in the duration, maybe this hashtag should grow wings.
Thus, we present a 2020s take on a 1890s brainstorm:
Adrian has modernized the original Players League logo, combining a modern batter with some classic flourishes.
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President Biden invokes Defense Production Act to boost baby formula production
President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country's largest formula manufacturing plant.
The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill orders from those companies before other customers, in an effort to eliminate production bottlenecks. Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies that meet federal standards from overseas to the U.S., in what the White House is calling "Operation Fly Formula."
Supplies of baby formula across the country have been severely curtailed in recent weeks after a February recall by Abbott Nutrition exacerbated ongoing supply chain disruptions among formula makers, leaving fewer options on store shelves and increasingly anxious parents struggling to find nutrition for their children.
The announcement comes two days after the Food and Drug Administration said it was streamlining its review process to make it easier for foreign manufacturers to begin shipping more formula into the U.S.
In a letter Wednesday to the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, Biden directed the agencies to work with the Pentagon to identify overseas supply of formula that meets U.S. standards over the next week, so that chartered Defense Department flights can swiftly fly it to the U.S.
"Imports of baby formula will serve as a bridge to this ramped-up production," Biden wrote.
Regulators said Monday that they'd reached a deal to allow Abbott Nutrition to restart its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the nation's largest formula plant, which has been closed since February due to contamination issues. The company must overhaul its safety protocols and procedures before resuming production.
After getting the FDA's OK, Abbott said it will take eight to ten weeks before new products begin arriving in stores. The company didn't set a timeline to restart manufacturing.
Abbott's voluntary recall was triggered by four illnesses reported in babies who had consumed powdered formula from its plant. All four infants were hospitalized with a rare type of bacterial infection and two died.
After a six-week inspection, FDA investigators published a list of problems in March, including lax safety and sanitary standards and a history of bacterial contamination in several parts of the plant. Under Monday's agreement, Abbott must regularly consult with an outside safety expert to restart and maintain production.
Chicago-based Abbott has emphasized that its products have not been directly linked to the bacterial infections in children. Samples of the bacteria found at its plant did not match the strains collected from two babies by federal investigators.
But FDA officials pushed back on that reasoning Monday on a call with reporters — their first time publicly addressing the company's argument. FDA staffers noted they were unable to collect bacterial strains from two of the four patients, limiting their chances of finding a match.
"Right from the get-go we were limited in our ability to determine with a causal link whether the product was linked to these four cases because we only had sequences on two," FDA's food director Susan Mayne said.
Fixing the violations uncovered at Abbott's plant will take time, according to former FDA officials. Companies need to exhaustively clean the facility and equipment, retrain staff, repeatedly test and document there is no contamination.
As part of the FDA's new import policy, regulators said companies would need to provide documentation of their factory's inspections. | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/president-biden-invokes-defense-production-act-to-boost-baby-formula-production/40039740 | 2022-05-18T22:54:45Z | https://www.mynbc5.com/article/president-biden-invokes-defense-production-act-to-boost-baby-formula-production/40039740 | false | 16 |
PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP – Get Rating) CEO Eugene Willemsen sold 4,560 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, May 16th. The stock was sold at an average price of $175.61, for a total transaction of $800,781.60. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 8,277 shares in the company, valued at $1,453,523.97. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink.
Shares of PEP stock traded down $10.81 on Wednesday, hitting $163.65. 8,873,878 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 5,621,716. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.89, a current ratio of 0.87 and a quick ratio of 0.68. The company has a market capitalization of $226.28 billion, a PE ratio of 22.39, a PEG ratio of 3.45 and a beta of 0.58. PepsiCo, Inc. has a 1-year low of $144.08 and a 1-year high of $177.62. The company’s fifty day moving average is $168.86 and its 200 day moving average is $168.36.
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April 26th. The company reported $1.29 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.24 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $16.20 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $15.54 billion. PepsiCo had a return on equity of 53.44% and a net margin of 12.57%. The business’s revenue was up 9.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.21 EPS. As a group, equities research analysts expect that PepsiCo, Inc. will post 6.64 EPS for the current year.
PEP has been the topic of a number of research reports. DZ Bank lowered shares of PepsiCo from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and set a $180.00 target price on the stock. in a research report on Tuesday, February 15th. Guggenheim lifted their price objective on shares of PepsiCo from $188.00 to $193.00 in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Barclays reduced their target price on PepsiCo from $186.00 to $180.00 and set an “overweight” rating for the company in a report on Monday, February 14th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their target price on PepsiCo from $173.00 to $175.00 in a report on Wednesday, April 27th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on PepsiCo from $172.00 to $188.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 8th. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Buy” and an average price target of $176.56.
A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in PEP. TD Capital Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of PepsiCo by 103.0% during the first quarter. TD Capital Management LLC now owns 4,377 shares of the company’s stock valued at $733,000 after purchasing an additional 2,221 shares during the last quarter. Sawgrass Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in shares of PepsiCo during the first quarter valued at $1,574,000. Baader Bank INC lifted its holdings in shares of PepsiCo by 130.8% during the first quarter. Baader Bank INC now owns 28,848 shares of the company’s stock valued at $4,828,000 after purchasing an additional 16,348 shares during the last quarter. Range Financial Group LLC purchased a new stake in shares of PepsiCo during the first quarter valued at $247,000. Finally, Worldquant Millennium Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of PepsiCo during the first quarter valued at $36,550,000. 72.12% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
PepsiCo Company Profile (Get Rating)
PepsiCo, Inc manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells various beverages and convenient foods worldwide. The company operates through seven segments: Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; PepsiCo Beverages North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and China Region.
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Food delivery service Grubhub launched a free lunch promotion on Tuesday in New York City. It didn't go well. Both customers and restaurateurs were left frustrated.
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Food delivery service Grubhub launched a free lunch promotion on Tuesday in New York City. It didn't go well. Both customers and restaurateurs were left frustrated.
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SCARBOROUGH, Maine — A veteran from Maine is getting some much-needed repairs on his home at no cost to him. George Anderson, 77, served eight years in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War before returning to Maine.
Anderson was selected through the nationwide contest Beacon of Hope which chooses six veterans to have their roofs replaced at no cost. The roofing supply distributor Beacon coordinates the program.
"I'm elated. I'm elated," Anderson said.
On Wednesday, a team from the Maine-based company Horch Roofing installed the new roof.
"Once I heard his story, and once I got a call from Beacon, it was a done deal," Horch Roofing owner Peter Horch said.
Anderson said he's lived in his Scarborough home for 53 years. He is now unable to walk without assistance. He spent decades taking care of repairs at his home but is now unable to. Anderson also lives solely off of social security. Horch said his roof was in rough shape.
"It's a real privilege to be able to help people out who are in need. And so when we had this opportunity, it was a no-brainer for me and my team to decide that it was a great privilege to give George a new room at no cost," Horch said.
It took crews most of the day Wednesday to complete the new roof. Beacon's Portland Branch Manager Tony Eldridge said it was an honor to support someone like Anderson.
"Veterans have given so much to all of us and what we have," Eldredge said. "And this is an opportunity to give back, and I'm proud to be representing Beacon and giving back to George."
This marks the third year of the Beacon of Hope program. Anderson is one of six veteran contest winners who will receive a new roof at no cost.
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Championship favourites Golden State Warriors face off against a Dallas Mavericks side on a high after downing the much fancied Phoenix Suns in this intriguing match up for this year's NBA Western Conference Finals series. Can Steph Curry's Warriors recapture their recent glories or is it time for the Mavericks to get back in the limelight? Read on as we explain how to get a Mavericks vs Warriors live stream and watch the 2022 NBA playoffs online from anywhere.
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Key to the Dallas success has been Luka Doncic, who has been superb throughout the season. The Slovenian almost single-handily sunk the Suns with a stunning 35-point performance, marking the first time the Mavs have reached this stage since 2011.
The Warriors, meanwhile, made the Conference Finals by battled past Denver and Memphis. Steph Curry has unsurprisingly led the way with Golden State's scoring, notching up an impressive 26.9 points per game, ably abetted by the equally free-scoring Klay Thompson and Jordan Poole.
Read on for how to watch the Mavericks vs Warriors series online and get an 2022 NBA playoffs live stream from anywhere.
Mavericks vs Warriors: schedule and TV channels
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- Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors Game 1, Wednesday, May 18, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 2: Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors Game 2, Friday, May 20, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 3: Golden State Warriors vs Dallas Mavericks Game 3, Sunday, May 22, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 4: Golden State Warriors vs Dallas Mavericks Game 4, Tuesday, May 24, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 5*: Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors Game 5, Thursday, May 26, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 6*: Golden State Warriors vs Dallas Mavericks Game 6, Saturday, May 28, 9pm ET / 6pm PT / 2am BST / 11am AEST, TNT
- Game 7*: Dallas Mavericks vs Golden State Warriors Game 7, Monday, May 30, 8pm ET/ 5pm PT / 1am BST / 10am AEST, TNT
Mavericks vs Warriors live stream: how to watch 2022 NBA playoffs in the US without cable
How to watch the Mavericks vs Warriors from outside your country
Scroll down for all the ways you can watch NBA basketball online in a number of countries around the world. But first, you should know that if you're abroad at any point during the playoffs, you probably won't be able to watch the hoops like you normally would at home.
This is because of geo-blocking, a digital restriction that means certain streaming services are only accessible in the region they're based in.
When this is the case, the simplest and most reliable solution is to use a VPN service to change your IP address to a difference location. This will generally let you tune in to your local coverage, just as you would from home, and means you don't have to trawl the sketchier corners of the internet for an illegal stream.
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OSCODA — The Oscoda baseball team had four wins in league play last week. The Owls began the week at home on Monday, May 9 against Alcona, North Star League Big Dipper contests they won by scores of 5-4 and 4-3.
In game one, Michael Myles had the win, as he struck out nine batters.
Trevor Miller had a double, single, two RBI and scored twice, Gavin Hofacer had two singles and two RBI and Cameron Fabyan had a double and one run.
In game two, Miller earned the win as he struck out 10 batters. Miller also drove in the game winning run in the bottom of the seventh, sending home Carson Gooch.
Gooch had a triple, a double and two runs and Logan Williams also scored a run.
On Thursday, hosting Whittemore-Prescott, Oscoda won boy scores of 11-0 and 17-9.
Gooch had the win in the opener, striking out 10 batters.
“The lefty was crafty and had great location all game,” head coach Mark Whitley said.
Jayce Foster had three singles and scored twice, Gooch had a double, a single, two RBI and two runs, Hunter Gerow had a triple, double, single, two runs and two RBI, Myles had a double and a single to go along with one RBI and Hofacer and Alec Apsitis had a single and one run apiece.
Myles had the win in game two, striking out six batters.
Gooch had two doubles, one RBI and three runs, Dreyton Williams had two hits and one run, Fabyan had one hit, two RBI and three runs, Apsitis had one hit, two steals and one run and Miller had a single and one run. Mason Osborn also had two steals and scored a run.
Oscoda (13-5 overall, 5-1 NSL Big Dipper) was at Rogers City on Monday, hosts Tawas Area on Saturday and hosts Beaverton on Tuesday. | https://www.iosconews.com/oscoda_press/sports/article_40f4776c-d528-11ec-9eab-97dfdc74ab75.html | 2022-05-18T23:14:12Z | https://www.iosconews.com/oscoda_press/sports/article_40f4776c-d528-11ec-9eab-97dfdc74ab75.html | false | 1 |
LAS VEGAS, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc. ("Vestin," "the company," "we" or "our") and privately held Suncrest Holdings, LLC ("Suncrest") announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which Suncrest will acquire all outstanding minority shares of common stock of Vestin for $4.01 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.16 million.
The $4.01 per share price reflects a premium of approximately 90 percent to Vestin's unaffected closing stock price on May 16, 2022, the last full trading day prior to the announcement of the definitive merger agreement.
Suncrest currently owns approximately 65.6 percent of Vestin common stock. Upon completion of the transaction, Vestin will merge with and into Suncrest, its common stock will no longer be listed on any public market and its separate corporate existence will cease. Suncrest will continue as the surviving entity.
The Vestin board of directors approved the definitive merger agreement following the recommendation of a special committee of the board that had previously been formed to oversee and review strategic alternatives for the company. Vestin has also received an opinion from Cogent Valuation stating that the merger consideration is fair, from a financial perspective to the holders of shares of the company's common stock other than holders affiliated with Suncrest.
Transaction Approvals and Timing
The transaction, which was approved by the Vestin board of directors, is not subject to financing conditions and is expected to close by the end of the second quarter or early in the third quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and approval by Vestin stockholders.
Advisors
Cogent Valuation served as financial advisor for Vestin. Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP is acting as legal counsel to the special committee of the board of directors of Vestin. Snell & Wilmer is acting as legal counsel to Suncrest.
About Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc.
Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc., formerly Vestin Fund I, LLC, invests in loans secured by real estate through deeds of trust or mortgages and as defined in our management agreement as mortgage assets. In addition, we invest in, acquire, manage, or sell real property and acquire entities involved in the ownership or management of real property, as well as securities. We commenced operations in June 2001. Vestin Realty Mortgage I, Inc. is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For additional information regarding Vestin Realty Mortgage I, please visit www.vestinrealtymortgage1.com.
About Suncrest Holdings, LLC
Suncrest Holdings, LLC is a privately held firm recently formed to hold the share ownership in Vestin Realty Mortgage I. Inc. as described above. It has no operating history.
Additional Information and Where to Find It
This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or constitute a solicitation of any vote or approval.
In connection with the proposed merger, Vestin intends to mail an information statement to each stockholder entitled to notice of and to vote at the special meeting relating to the proposed merger. STOCKHOLDERS OF VESTIN ARE URGED TO READ THE INFORMATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING ALL AMENDMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PROPOSED MERGER CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED MERGER. Stockholders will be able to obtain free copies of the information statement and other documents containing important information about Vestin free of charge from Vestin by directing a request to Vestin at (702) 227-0965.
The information included herein, together with other statements and information publicly disseminated by Vestin, contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Vestin intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and includes this statement for purposes of complying with these safe harbor provisions.
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How many years does it take a WA uni graduate to pay off their HECS debt? The figure is rising.
Rising inflation will see university debt loans increase by 3.9 per cent on June 1 with many already struggling to repay their loan.
The Higher Education Loan Program, formerly HECS, is a government loan to help cover university fees. Students only begin to repay the loan when they start to earn more than a threshold currently set at $47,014.
These payments are a percentage of their annual earnings that increases as their income does from a rate of 1 per cent up to 10 per cent.
The Australian Taxation Office, which administers student loan repayments, this month set the CPI indexation rate that will be applied to all student loans on June 1 at 3.9 per cent.
That means anyone with a student loan who earns between $47,014 and up to $70,000 is likely to see their loan increase, despite paying the minimum repayment rate.
It’s a steep increase from 2021, when the indexation rate was just 0.6 per cent and the preceding five years, which were all indexed at less than 2 per cent.
Rocky McGellin, 29, currently owes $50,000 for his Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Science Communications.
“At my current repayment rate of about $3000 a year, or $110 each pay, it’ll be about 18 years before it’s paid off in full and that’s not including indexation,” he said.
“Some people say a student loan is the best debt you can get, but it’s also one of the hardest to pay off because it’s there quietly nibbling away at your paycheck each fortnight.
“With wages stagnating and the CPI indexation increasing, how am I ever supposed to pay it off in full?”
Data released on Wednesday showed wages grew just 0.7 per cent in the three months to the end of March and 2.4 per cent for the year — well below annual inflation of 5.1 per cent.
In WA, wages grew just 2.2 per cent for the year and 0.5 per cent in the quarter.
Meanwhile university fees in Australia have skyrocketed in the past 30 years, and now sit at an all-time high.
Significant changes to university funding in 2020 saw the government increase student contribution amounts towards degrees such as law and communications, and decreased it for others such as nursing, in an attempt to entice students into areas where more graduates were needed.
An undergraduate bachelor degree can cost $20,000-$45,000 with the cost of some courses such as veterinary science and medicine much higher.
Data from the Australian Tax Office shows the time taken to repay student debts has been rising, reaching an average of 9.4 years in 2020–21, more than a year longer than it was a decade ago when the average HELP balance was $15,191.
If the Greens hold the balance of power in the Senate one of their key measures will be to wipe student debt and abolish university fees.
WA Greens Senator Dorinda Cox said 2.9 million people owed an average of $23,685 in study debt in 2020-21.
“Many current MPs, including the Prime Minister, went to university when it was free,” she said.
“With the cost of living and housing prices skyrocketing, abolishing student debt is a cheaper and fairer way of tackling cost of living pressures.”
Cox said to wipe all student debt would cost $33 billion over the forward estimates and $60.7 billion over the decade, about a third of the $184 billion cost of the stage 3 tax cuts.
“Analysis prepared by the Parliamentary Budget Office finds that in 2024-25, the benefit of the government’s proposed tax cuts will overwhelmingly flow to higher income earners and men, while the benefit of the Greens’ plan to wipe student debt will flow to low and middle income earners and women,” she said.
Property Investment Professionals of Australia chair Nicola McDougall said women were disproportionately impacted by mounting student debts.
“A way to ease the [HELP] burden on women would be to apply an inflation freeze during any periods of maternity leave or when they are out of the workforce so that their university debts are not skyrocketing,” she said.
“That way, when they do return to work, they are not faced with a debt that has ballooned significantly, just because they took time out to care for their children.”
McDougall said compulsory repayment of university debt was one of the reasons women decided to leave the workforce to care for children.
“Essentially, with childcare costs and tax considerations, if they continued to work part-time they may be left with no take-home pay at all, so it makes little financial sense at the time,” she said.
Independent economist Saul Eslake said applying a freeze while women were on maternity leave was a sensible idea, but questioned the efficacy of wiping all student loans.
“Wiping student debt would help women who typically earn less than men and are more likely to spend time out of the workforce caring for children or elderly relatives,” he said.
“It would help those ex-students on lower incomes – but it would also help students who have gone on to earn high salaries soon after graduating, such as lawyers and investment bankers, and I would question why they should be assisted in that way.
“A better policy would be to erase or reduce student debt for ex-students whose income falls below some threshold, with a phase-out for people on incomes above that threshold.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Massachusetts on Wednesday reported a rare case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada, and health officials are looking into whether it is connected to small outbreaks in Europe.
Monkeypox is typically limited to Africa, and rare cases in the U.S. and elsewhere are usually linked to travel there. A small number of confirmed or suspected cases have been reported this month in the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain.
U.S. health officials said they are in contact with officials in the U.K. and Canada as part of the investigation. The U.S. case poses no risk to the public, and the Massachusetts resident is hospitalized but in good condition, officials said.
The case is the first in the U.S. this year. Last year, Texas and Maryland each reported a case in people who traveled to Nigeria.
Monkeypox typically begins with a flu-like illness and swelling of the lymph nodes, followed by a rash on the face and body. In Africa, people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals, and it does not usually spread easily among people.
However, investigators in Europe say most of the cases have been in gay or bisexual men, and officials are looking into the possibility that some infections were spread through close contact during sex.
Monkeypox comes from the same family of viruses as smallpox. Most people recover from monkeypox within weeks, but the disease is fatal for up to 1 in 10 people, according to the World Health Organization.
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Celebrations include a tower lighting and ceremony, and a life-size photorealistic avatar of B.I.G. on the building's 80th Floor
NEW YORK, May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Empire State Building (ESB) today announced plans to mark the 50th birthday of The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) – aka Christopher Wallace – with celebrations that will include a tower lighting and ceremony with participation from his friends and family.
"From one icon to another, the Empire State Building is honored to celebrate the life and legacy of the Notorious B.I.G. with an authentic experience for his family, friends, and fans in the heart of New York City," said Abigail Rickards, senior vice president of marketing, public relations, and digital at the Empire State Building. "Fans will have a unique opportunity to connect with two New York City icons for a once in a lifetime experience."
- ESB Lights for B.I.G. – On May 21 – what would have been Wallace's 50th birthday – the Empire State Building will shine its world-famous tower lights in a dynamic red and white flashing light show, with a crown and the number "50" rotating in the building's mast. The building will host a special lighting ceremony with his children T'yanna Wallace and Christopher Wallace, Jr., his mother Ms. Voletta Wallace, and close friends James Lloyd (Lil' Cease), Kimberly Denise Jones (Lil' Kim), Faith Evans, and Jason Terrance Phillips (Jadakiss) on May 20.
- A Legend Lives On – The Empire State Building Observatory Experience will feature a life-size, photorealistic avatar of B.I.G. on the 80th Floor on Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21. The avatar photobooth will be available for guest viewing and photographs from 4 p.m.–9 p.m. each night.
- Only at ESB – On Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21, from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Empire State Building will host a pop-up cart to feature exclusive Notorious B.I.G. merch sold only at the Observatory. The pop-up will offer limited-edition hats, t-shirts, and sweatshirts. The cart will also allow an exclusive pre-order opportunity for the Notorious B.I.G. 8-LP Box Set – slated for release on June 10 – and Biggie's 11x platinum album Life After Death cassette for purchase.
The Empire State Building Observatory's celebration of this genuine New York City cultural icon will be joined by the Estate of the Notorious B.I.G., Rhino Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, and Atlantic Records.
The Empire State Building Observatory Experience recently underwent a top-to-bottom reimagination that added a dedicated guest entrance, a digital and tactile museum that celebrates the icon from the moment it was conceived to its current place in pop culture, and a completely re-imagined 102nd Floor Observatory. More information about the Empire State Building and its Observatory Experience can be found at www.esbnyc.com.
Hi-res imagery of B.I.G. and the Empire State Building tower lights can be downloaded here.
About the Empire State Building
The Empire State Building, the "World's Most Famous Building," owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (ESRT: NYSE), soars 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan from base to antenna. The $165 million reimagination of the Empire State Building Observatory Experience creates an all-new experience with a dedicated guest entrance, an interactive museum with nine galleries, and a redesigned 102nd Floor Observatory with floor-to-ceiling windows. The journey to the world-famous 86th Floor Observatory, the only 360-degree, open-air observatory with views of New York and beyond, orients visitors for their entire New York City experience and covers everything from the building's iconic history to its current place in pop-culture. Learn more at www.esbnyc.com. Declared "America's Favorite Building" by the American Institute of Architects, as well as the world's most popular travel destination by Uber and the #1 New York City attraction by Lonely Planet, it welcomes more than 4 million annual visitors from around the world.
Since 2011, the building has been fully powered by renewable wind electricity, and its many floors primarily house a diverse array of office tenants such as LinkedIn and Shutterstock, as well as retail options like STATE Grill and Bar, Tacombi, and Starbucks. For more information and Observatory Experience tickets visit esbnyc.com or follow the building's Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Weibo, YouTube, or TikTok.
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Silas Dean, 94, of Richmond, passed away peacefully Friday, May 13, 2022, at Kenwood Health and Rehabilitation
Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 20, 2022, at Lakes Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Madison County Memorial Gardens in Richmond. Visitation will be Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
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Indiana man charged with murder withdraws from township race
LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man who was one of three Republican candidates who advanced in the primary for a township board position has withdrawn after being charged with murder in connection with the March death of his wife.
Andrew Wilhoite’s withdrawal form signed Wednesday doesn’t list a reason for why he was removing himself from the Clinton Township Board race in Boone County, WRTV -TV reported Wednesday.
Wilhoite, 40, of Lebanon received 60 of the 276 total votes for Republicans for three positions on the Clinton Township Board, Boone County election results show.
Wilhoite was arrested in late March in the death of 41-year-old Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite. He’s been held since then in the Boone County Jail without bond.
Indiana State Police have said Andrew Wilhoite struck Nikki Wilhoite in the head with a blunt object, knocking her out. He then put her in a vehicle and drove to a creek a few miles (kilometers) from their home and dumped her body there, police said.
Police found Nikki Wilhoite’s body on March 26 partially submerged in about 3 feet (1 meter) of water.
Court records indicate Nikki Wilhoite filed for divorce on March 17. The couple had been married for 12 years.
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Body of missing Cherry Creek Reservoir tuber found
CHERRY CREEK RESERVOIR, Colo. ( KDVR ) — One week after a tuber went missing at Cherry Creek Reservoir , the body of the 29-year-old man has assumably been found.
The man was discovered at 11:11 a.m. Saturday morning on the bottom of the reservoir. Dive teams used a Marine Sonic Technology tow-fish sonar device to locate the body.
CPW’s Marine Evidence Recovery Team then deployed a remote-operated vehicle to get video confirmation of what the sonar device discovered. The man was then brought to the surface.
“Everybody involved didn’t give up, no matter what the circumstances were and this is a great result of that,” said Jason Trujillo, Cherry Creek State Park manager. “We offer our deepest condolences and hope that this recovery will bring a little comfort to the family and friends as they mourn the loss of their loved one.”
South Metro Fire Rescue responded to a call on Saturday, May 7 of a missing man who was tubing behind a boat when he went under.
The man was not wearing a personal flotation device.
Boulder massage therapist sentenced for series of sexual assaultsThe rescue turned into a recovery and Colorado Parks and Wildlife continued to search the reservoir for a week. The boat ramp was closed through Tuesday while the recovery team continued to search.
Colorado’s second drowning of the year reminds water recreationists to be careful when it comes to windy conditions on the water. Gusty winds created obstacles for the recovery team , rescuers had to pull off the water numerous times out of caution.
CPW urges everyone venturing out on the water to wear a life jacket, especially when spring weather poses hazardous conditions.
The victim has been turned over to the Arapahoe County Coroner who will determine the cause of death and the man’s identification.
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This past weekend came another uniquely American tragedy: several mass shootings. Among modern industrialized nations, only the United States endures the current public health epidemic of firearm-assisted injury and death. In 2020, over 41,000 people were shot to death in the U.S. Gun deaths have now surpassed auto accidents as the leading cause of death in our children.
We want our families to be safe and live in a country where they do not have to fear some crazed shooter with a self-destructive agenda. We all want to stop avoidable accidental firearm injuries. Only by studying the epidemiology of firearm morbidity and mortality, as any other public health issue, will we decrease firearm injury and associated mortality.
The automobile industry, collaborating with the federal government, uses safety research to make our cars and travel much safer. Anti-lock brakes, seat belts and crumple technology save lives daily. All vehicles are registered and tracked with vehicle identification numbers — so why not firearms? Automobile operators are licensed, with mandatory periodic testing. Universal background checks and mandatory safe firearm storage would be a good start for guns.
However, there is much more to this issue. What motivates someone to stalk strangers with an assault-style rifle? Hatred, racism and political polarization are certainly fueling the violence.
It is time for a bipartisan federal task force to examine this national epidemic of firearm violence. We must study the root causes and approach it as any other national epidemic.
Only by applying a scientific approach will we make gun ownership and use safer — and reduce our nation’s shameful gun-related injury and mortality record.
It is time for our leaders to put political parties aside for the sake of the nation.
— Dr. Charles Nozicka, clinical professor of emergency medicine, Rosalind Franklin University, Libertyville
Giving up freedom of movement
When did we Americans surrender our freedom of movement to safely attend a religious service, go to the grocery store or shopping mall, cheer a favorite team, or engage in other quotidian behaviors to those obsessed with protecting the Second Amendment at all costs?
— Paul L. Newman, Merion Station, Pennsylvania
Democrats at fault for gas prices
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was alive during the 1970s. I was too, and I remember long gas lines because the federal government put price caps on gasoline. The proposed Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act would do just that.
How does it make sense that the gas prices are going up because the gas companies got greedy all of a sudden under Joe Biden’s watch? The Biden administration and the Democrats have canceled federal oil and gas leases and erected regulation hurdles and, in doing that, have dried up the oil supply! Less supply, the higher the price.
Put a price cap on gas, and the supply will dry up even more. According to basic economics, price caps create shortages.
I place the cause of the high gas prices on this administration, the Democrats and Pelosi. There were long lines at the pump during the 1970s, and if Pelosi and the Democrats have their way, we will have them again.
— John Zitkus, Mundelein
Filibuster is old and archaic
All it takes is one person to screw up a funeral procession, and all it takes is one United States senator to screw up aid to Ukraine. That senator was Rand Paul, and because he wanted something in the bill, he blocked it. Just like one senator can stop a nomination or hold it up.
That is a big reason why nothing gets accomplished in the Senate, and people wonder why. Maybe it is time to get rid of the filibuster and the 60 votes and just have a simple majority. Maybe they needed the filibuster in the 1960s, but it’s old and archaic and senators play games with it and use it as a threat.
It’s time to have term limits for senators and also Supreme Court justices.
— Gerald Bernson, Tinley Park
Corrupt officials serving time
The fact that Rita Crundwell, who embezzled $53.7 million out of Dixon, is now free after serving less than half her sentence really stinks. As the Tribune Editorial Board points out (“Official who bilked Dixon out of $53.7M should go back and finish her sentence,” May 9), in Illinois you can commit the crime, cop a plea and avoid the time.
What message does this send to future politicians? Fake a little contrition, get a doctor’s note on how bad your health is and, bingo, you’re out. What we should be saying is, if you commit the crime, you will do the time, all of it. No compassion, period.
— Howard Kirschner, Morton Grove
Discounting Ukraine’s will
I read Dan Schuchardt’s letter on Friday (“Biden isn’t helping Ukrainian people”). I hope that he will write again in a few months, eat the “can’t win” crow and apologize to the wonderfully brave Ukrainian people.
— Martin Pierce, St. Charles
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 911 dispatcher has been put on administrative leave for her handling of a call about the mass shooting at the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.
Poloncarz said what happened regarding the call was “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” According to him, the call came from someone who was inside the store during the shooting that killed 10 people and injured three others.
Erie County is pushing for the dispatcher’s termination, Poloncarz said.
A Tops employee inside the store when the gunman opened fire Saturday told the Buffalo News when she called 911 to report the active shooter, the dispatcher asked why she was whispering, then hung up on her.
“She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,'” Latisha, who only wanted to be known by her first name, said in an interview with the newspaper. “And I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. Can you please send help?'”
The Buffalo News reports a disciplinary hearing will be held for the unnamed dispatcher on May 30.
The gunman started shooting around 2:30 p.m. Saturday outside Tops Friendly Market, a supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in the western New York city.
The gunman began shooting in the parking lot. Inside, he exchanged gunfire with a security guard, who was killed, as he stalked through the aisles shooting shoppers.
Wearing a helmet camera, the gunman livestreamed the shooting on Twitch. The gaming platform said it took down the video in less than two minutes.
At one point, the video shows, he aimed at a white person hiding behind a checkout counter, but said “Sorry!” and didn’t shoot.
When police confronted the gunman as he exited the store, he put his rifle to his neck. He then dropped the gun and surrendered.
A screed apparently authored by the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Payton Gendron, says the attack was meant to terrorize nonwhite, non-Christian people into fleeing the U.S. The diatribe resounds with white supremacist, anti-immigrant and antisemitic beliefs that reflect an increasingly prominent conspiracy theory about a plot to reduce white people’s global influence by “replacing” them.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia has called the massacre “an absolute racist hate crime” by a man with hate in his “heart, soul and mind.”
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Liverpool Defeats Chelsea on Penalties in FA Cup Final After Mo Salah's Injury
Liverpool has won the FA Cup after defeating Chelsea in penalties on Saturday from London's Wembley Stadium. WE ARE THE <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EmiratesFACup?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EmiratesFACup</a> WINNERS!!!!!!! <a href="https://t.co/eZMe5IRbB2">pic.twitter.com/eZMe5IRbB2</a>. Liverpool and Chelsea were scoreless after 120 minutes before the Reds won 6-5 in a shootout. Konstantinos Tsimikas converted Liverpool's final penalty. Liverpool now...
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Bruce Willis’s Plans for Private Idaho Airport Could be Over
Camas County Commissioners have postponed any action until June. Last week I mentioned a small group of citizens approached the commission with a claim that a county road ran dead smack through the proposed land where Willis plans to build his private airport. I also wrote that if the county didn’t maintain the road and hadn’t maintained it for several years then the objections would be moot.
Maybe the commission doesn’t see it that way. A little research buys some more time and possibly the board can better gauge overall public opinion, which does periodically change. Not that politicians ever wet an index finger and raise it in the air to determine which way the wind is blowing!
An Economic Boost Could be Lost
I believe Willis's plan would be a slight boost for the local economy. Because we’re talking about a private facility, you wouldn’t likely see an overwhelming number of locals employed, however. Those who would get jobs could be well compensated. Then there’s the matter of construction work. It would keep more than a few people busy for a lengthy period of time. None of this may matter to people who don’t like change and I understand how they feel. One day you live in isolation and if you like it, you don’t want to wake up the next day to more traffic in the air and on the ground. On the flip side, if your kids need to move away to find a job, any new business could keep some of them close to home.
Commissioners May Try and Run Out the Clock
There may be another factor here. Willis is struggling with an illness and maybe the commissioners believe he’ll give up and then they can skirt any controversy. The thing is, while he’s struggling with sorting out language, he isn’t stupid. He also doesn’t give the impression he’s a quitter. | https://newsradio1310.com/bruce-williss-plans-for-private-idaho-airport-could-be-over/ | 2022-05-18T23:46:56Z | https://newsradio1310.com/bruce-williss-plans-for-private-idaho-airport-could-be-over/ | false | 1 |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden and Jill Biden, has COVID-19 and is no longer accompanying her mother on a trip through Latin America, the White House said Wednesday.
She is not considered a close contact to either of her parents, said Michael LaRosa, the first lady’s spokesperson. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it had been “several days” since the president and first lady last saw their daughter.
Ashley Biden’s positive test result was announced just before Jill Biden’s flight Wednesday to Ecuador, the first stop on her six-day Latin America trip. The first lady also planned to visit Panama and Costa Rica before returning to Washington next week.
It’s the second time that the coronavirus has caused Ashley Biden, 40, to miss out on traveling abroad with her mother.
Earlier in May, she was bumped from the first lady’s trip to Eastern Europe to visit with Ukrainian refugees after learning that she had been a close contact of someone who later tested positive for COVID-19. Ashley Biden had tested negative after that exposure, LaRosa said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines “close contact” with an infected person as spending 15 minutes or more with them over a 24-hour period. The CDC says people with “close contact” do not need to quarantine if they are up to date on their vaccines but should wear well-fitting masks around other people for 10 days after the contact. | https://www.wjtv.com/health/coronavirus/ashley-biden-positive-for-covid-19-skips-latin-america-trip/ | 2022-05-18T23:52:38Z | https://www.wjtv.com/health/coronavirus/ashley-biden-positive-for-covid-19-skips-latin-america-trip/ | true | 30 |
COVID-19 infections continue upward trend in Tennessee, signaling a potential summer wave
COVID-19 infections in Tennessee and Davidson County continued to climb last week, as trends suggest another infection wave may be on the horizon, according to state Department of Health data.
But, for now, hospitalizations resulting from the novel coronavirus are increasing at a slower pace, the numbers show.
As of last May 14, the date of the state's most recent public information on the pandemic, the seven-day average of new cases rose to 944. That's a 34% increase over the previous week's average of 697. Just over a month ago the average was 192.
For Davidson County, the seven-day average as of May 14 was 169.6 — nearly a 36% increase over the previous week's average of 124.9. The week before that the average was 100.1 cases.
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The statewide average test-positivity rate (the rate of people who get tested and are positive for COVID-19) last week was 10.87%, the health department reported. The seven-day average rate in Davidson County was 17.1% as of Saturday, up from 14.1% the week prior.
Higher test-positivity rates in a given community suggest that COVID-19 is spreading widely, public health officials say. The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health generally considers rates above 5% as "too high."
COVID-related hospitalizations increased modestly, with 187 such cases reported on May 14, compared to 153 cases the week prior.
State public health agencies have counted more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 in Tennessee since the start of the pandemic. Of those, 26,263 have died as a result of the novel coronavirus.
About 54.7% of Tennesseans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national average is 66.5%.
Frank Gluck is the health care reporter for The Tennessean. He can be reached at fgluck@tennessean.com. Follow him on Twitter at @FrankGluck. | https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2022/05/18/covid-19-infections-rising-tennessee-summer-wave-coming/9828777002/ | 2022-05-18T23:53:19Z | https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2022/05/18/covid-19-infections-rising-tennessee-summer-wave-coming/9828777002/ | true | 1 |
Which blackhead removal tool is best?
Even with a thorough and strict skin care regimen, it can be tricky to keep blackheads at bay. Once they appear, getting rid of them requires the right tools or you risk damaging your skin. Blackhead removal tools provide a simple and straightforward solution.
The X-Cheng Blackhead Removal Pore Vacuum Cleaner is a reliable and effective tool for removing blackheads of all sizes. It’s easy to use, has a rechargeable battery, and is effective on whitehead and dead skin removal, too.
What to know before you buy a blackhead removal tool
Types of tools available
There are a wide range of blackhead removal tools available. Some less-expensive options include masks and pore strips. Other options include manual tools, such as metal comedone extractors. The more upmarket (and often more effective) tools include electric blackhead removers that use motorized suction to pull blackheads from the pores.
If you’d like a combination of these items, you can also look for blackhead removal kits, which typically contain a combination of masks, pore strips and manual tools.
Skin type and sensitivity
If your skin is very sensitive, a mask or pore strip may be preferable. Manual tools or electric blackhead removers can irritate and inflame sensitive skin, particularly in an unpracticed hand. You may even find blackhead removal quite painful with these tools.
In these instances, using harsher tools can make the problem worse in the long run, so you might want to opt for a gentle mask instead.
Versatility
Blackheads can be small and almost invisible until you’re right up close to the skin. Or they can be large and stuck deep within the pore. Some people may have both and require a tool that’s equipped to deal with a range of blackhead sizes and severity.
In that case, you should look out for a blackhead removal kit with multiple tools or an electric extractor that allows you to adjust the suction head and power.
Contents and ingredients
Like all skin care products, check the ingredients of a blackhead remover carefully before you use it. Certain ingredients can actually clog your pores and potentially result in more blackheads. Other ingredients, such as alcohol, can dry out your skin and cause irritation.
What to look for in a quality blackhead removal tool
The main differentiating factors when it comes to masks and pore strips are the ingredients and materials used. But high-quality blackhead removal kits and electric extractors can have some features that you should look out for.
Multiple settings
The best electric blackhead removers come with multiple settings so you can adjust the suction level depending on the sensitivity of your skin and the severity of the blackhead.
Similarly, kits with manual tools may include comedone removers that have loops with different thicknesses on the end. That way, you can choose a lighter, less harsh loop for smaller blackheads and a thicker, more durable looped remover for bigger blackheads.
Adjustable head sizes
Many electric tools come with multiple attachments such as a skin roller or even a microdermabrasion needle. Not only does this make for more effective blackhead removal, but it has other benefits such as deep cleaning the skin and removing dead skin cells.
Additional tools
Whether you’re buying an electric blackhead removal tool or a manual comedone remover kit, try to find one that gives you a little extra. Many kits include items such as heat plates, travel cases, tweezers, lancets, a hand mirror and more.
How much you can expect to spend on a blackhead removal tool
Overall, blackhead removers can range from as little as $5 all the way up to $75 or more. Most products under $30 will be masks, pore strips or manual tools. Above the $30 mark, you can find full blackhead removal kits and electric blackhead removers.
Blackhead removal tool FAQ
What is the best type of blackhead removal tool?
A. This depends entirely on your skin type, the sensitivity level of your skin and how large or deeply embedded the blackhead is. Moderate and severe blackheads will usually require manual or electric tools, but these can cause irritation and damage to sensitive skin.
What is the best blackhead removal tool for sensitive skin?
A. Pore strips and masks are typically best for sensitive skin and mild blackhead cases. If you have sensitive skin and these tools are not working on your blackheads, look for an electric tool with the option of a low suction setting.
How hard should you apply manual or electric blackhead tools onto the skin during use?
A. No matter what type of blackhead remover you’re using, it’s always best to apply the minimal amount of pressure needed to remove the blackhead. Start off by pressing down gently and work the pressure up only as needed.
What’s the best blackhead removal tool to buy?
Top blackhead removal tool
X-Cheng Blackhead Removal Pore Vacuum Cleaner
What you need to know: This electric blackhead remover takes care of blackheads while thoroughly cleaning out pores to prevent blackheads from reoccurring.
What you’ll love: With six different suction attachments and three levels of suction power, this tool is suitable for all skin types and is capable of handling even severe blackheads. It’s easy to hold and is powered with a rechargeable battery.
What you should consider: It may irritate highly sensitive skin, and the lack of detailed instructions means it comes with a learning curve.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top blackhead removal tool for the money
The Good Stuff Professional Pimple Popper Tool Kit
What you need to know: This kit of tools includes everything you need to manually remove blackheads from the skin.
What you’ll love: This kit travels well as it comes with a zip case to store your tool together. It also includes a mirror and tools to reduce bruising from manual extraction such as a lancet and tweezers.
What you should consider: If you’re not accustomed to manual blackhead removers, the tools may cause bruising and damage to the skin.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Bioré Charcoal Blackhead Remover Pore Strips
What you need to know: For skin that’s too sensitive for more powerful tools, these pore strips effectively attach to blackheads and lift them from the pore.
What you’ll love: These nose strips are simple to use and work well on mild to moderate blackheads. The charcoal ingredient also helps to cleanse the skin as the blackheads are removed to stop them from coming back.
What you should consider: These strips are only made for the nose and may not be effective on more severe blackheads.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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Sunday's regular-season finale for the Rams will come packed with a preseason vibe.
Locked in for a home playoff game, Los Angeles plans to rest a handful starters against the 49ers in Week 17, coach Sean McVay announced Wednesday.
Quarterback Jared Goff and MVP candidate Todd Gurley will sit out, McVay said. All Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald, bookend Andrew Whitworth and center John Sullivan will also miss the tilt.
Sean Mannion will take over under center against San Francisco while running back Malcolm Brown is expected to see plenty of work in place of Gurley.
"There's four potential teams we could play," McVay said Tuesday per The Los Angeles Daily News. "All of them are very, very good football teams, and however it plays out, you're going to be on the road the following week (if the Rams win). When you think about the risk-reward, we feel like that's probably going to be the best decision, to rest some guys."
One of the healthier teams league-wide, it's hard to argue with McVay's logic headed into Sunday. | https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-gurley-jared-goff-aaron-donald-to-sit-out-finale-0ap3000000899194 | 2022-05-18T23:59:21Z | https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-gurley-jared-goff-aaron-donald-to-sit-out-finale-0ap3000000899194 | false | 1 |
YUMA, Ariz. (Border Report) — Rosa and her family left Venezuela almost two months ago out of fear for their lives and lack of opportunities in their country.
They started their journey long before President Joe Biden announced intentions to end Title 42, the public health order designed to stop the cross-border spread of COVID-19 that allows border agetns to expel migrants immediately after being apprehended before they can ask for asylum.
“The goal was to get here and better my life,” Rosa said in Spanish.
Border Report spoke with her minutes after she, her husband and daughter entered the U.S. through a gap in the border barrier Wednesday morning just west of Yuma, Arizona.
When asked if she had heard of Title 42 and whether it was a factor in her decision to come to the United States, she said she had heard of it, but “it had no bearing.”
“All migrants think about is getting here, that’s all we focus on, the rest is politics,” she said.
Recently, after states such as Arizona, Texas and Missouri filed a lawsuit to keep Title 42 in place, a judge in Louisiana ordered it must continue for the time being.
That same judge has said he will issue a final ruling by Monday on whether the Biden administration can repeal the order.
“If the virus didn’t kill us, crime and violence likely would have in our countries,” said Rosa. “Crossing the border doesn’t make us criminals, we’re fleeing delinquency in our countries, all we need is a chance.”
There has been speculation that when Title 42 does come to an end, it will prompt migrants to rush the border and try to seek asylum.
As for Rosa, she told Border Report her goal is to get to New Jersey and live with relatives.
In recent months, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics, apprehensions were down four percent in the Yuma sector for the month of April when compared to March.
But Border Patrol is reporting a surge so far in the month of May, saying agents are seeing 1,000 to 1,500 migrants per day. | https://www.kget.com/border-report-tour/title-42-has-no-bearing-on-decision-to-cross-border-venezuelan-asylum-seeker-says/ | 2022-05-18T23:59:47Z | https://www.kget.com/border-report-tour/title-42-has-no-bearing-on-decision-to-cross-border-venezuelan-asylum-seeker-says/ | false | 24 |
Ex-Seattle safety Earl Thomas arrested over protective order
DALLAS — (AP) — Former Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas has been arrested in Texas more than two weeks after a warrant was issued over an alleged violation of a protective order.
Beaumont, Texas, television station KBMT reported Thomas was arrested Friday in Orange, where he played high school football. The station reported the three-time All-Pro was recognized at a restaurant.
The arrest warrant was issued last month in Austin, Texas, where Thomas played in college for the Texas Longhorns. Police said Thomas violated the court order by sending threatening messages to a woman about her and her children, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
Orange is near the Texas-Louisiana state line, about 275 miles from Austin.
Thomas' attorney, Trey Dolezal, told the Austin newspaper the warrant stems from Thomas reaching out to the woman to see their children.
The 33-year-old Thomas is a free agent and has said he wants to resume his career. He spent his first nine seasons with the Seahawks before a year with Baltimore after signing with the Ravens as a free agent.
Thomas hasn't played since 2019. He was released by the Ravens in training camp in 2020 after punching teammate Chuck Clark during a practice.
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KENOSHA, Wis. — A 27-year-old Georgia man pleaded guilty to one count of cyberstalking Kenosha government officials on Wednesday.
The charges against Minjie Cao are related to death threats Cao sent to Kenosha government officials in August of 2020 during the protests and unrests in Kenosha.
According to court documents, between Aug. 27, 2020 and Aug. 29, 2020, Cao, who was living outside of Atlanta, emailed death threats to three Kenosha government officials.
The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that Cao also made several phone calls to the offices of the individuals, "all for the purpose of causing them distress during the unrest in Kenosha."
Cao is facing a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison, up to $250,000 in fines, and up to three years of supervised release. Sentencing is set for Oct. 19. | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/georgia-man-pleads-guilty-to-cyberstalking-kenosha-government-officials-during-unrest | 2022-05-19T00:01:14Z | https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/georgia-man-pleads-guilty-to-cyberstalking-kenosha-government-officials-during-unrest | false | null |
Over the past 12 months, Mark Bellringer has travelled around the region, visiting picturesque places in Taranaki.
He's captured some of the landscapes he's seen in the form of oil paintings for his new exhibition 'From the last 12 months' showing at Fenton Street Art Collective.
The exhibition features about 20 landscapes from Eltham, to Whangamomona.
"I live in Eltham and I've always really loved Bridge Street. I travelled around the region on my motorbike. I also did a lap of the South Island in the past 12 months as well so there's an oil painting of a view I saw down there."
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Advertise with NZME.Mark completed the paintings out of his home studio at The Bank Eltham. He says owning an old building has given him an appreciation of old places and buildings around the region.
"I'm capturing history."
Over the past 12 months, Mark has sold about 30 paintings out of his studio.
"They've been really popular. I think everyone who lives in Taranaki appreciates the beauty of the region. If people are interested in buying these artworks in the exhibition, I have plenty more to hang up in the exhibition to fill the space."
Mark picked up the paintbrush again 18 months ago after taking a break.
"I stopped painting when I was 32 and about 18 months ago I started again and haven't stopped. I did an exhibition here over a year ago featuring hills and tunnels and out of the four pieces I had, three of them sold."
He says he has a good relationship with Fenton Street Arts Collective owners Jo Stallard and Stuart Greenhill.
"They're lovely people. I believe my art fits the vibe of their place and hope the paintings strike a chord with people."
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PENNSYLVANIA, USA — All eyes remain on Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate Primary race. The razor-thin race may be headed for a recount as the candidates sit just tenths of a percentage point apart.
Two big money Republican candidates were still neck-and-neck for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat nearly 24 hours after polls closed. The race has become a test of former President Trump’s influence.
Trump endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz in April. His support provided a minor boost for the celebrity heart surgeon. Oz had a narrow lead by about 2,000 votes as of Wednesday afternoon.
“We are making a ferocious charge, but when it’s this close, what else would you expect? Everything about this campaign has been tight,” Oz told his supporters on election night.
Former hedge fund CEO, Dave McCormick, remained confident in his support from Pennsylvanians. The candidate was trailing Oz by just 0.2%. The automatic recount threshold in Pennsylvania is 0.5% or less.
“We knew our message was resonating with the voters of Pennsylvania, and they showed it today and we’re so incredibly grateful. Thank you all so much,” McCormick said at his watch party in Pittsburgh.
Commentator Kathy Barenette’s sudden surge in support fizzled out. The candidate headed towards a third-place finish with roughly 25% of the vote. Late Wednesday afternoon, she posted a video on social media thanking her supporters in what appears to a concession speech.
“Over 300,000 Pennsylvanians came out and voted for me yesterday. I love you guys,” Barnette said on Twitter. “I will always be here in the battle. Blessings! And I will see you guys on the other side.”
As county election boards tally mail-in ballots, Allegheny County still has thousands of election day votes uncounted. These ballots could have a large impact in settling the race.
McCormick is winning in his home county by 6,699 votes. The Board of Elections stated online that there will be no more updates until after the Return Board convenes on Friday, May 20 at 9:00 a.m. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/politics/elections/pa-gop-senate-primary-tight-race-dr-oz-mccormick/521-fe969c1d-07eb-4efc-8ee6-4fa31151e797 | 2022-05-19T00:04:15Z | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/politics/elections/pa-gop-senate-primary-tight-race-dr-oz-mccormick/521-fe969c1d-07eb-4efc-8ee6-4fa31151e797 | false | 2 |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A former football player for the University of Alabama at Birmingham was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison in the death of a nursing student who was shot during an online sale that went bad.
Carlos Stephens, 24, was convicted in April of capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of Destiny Washington, 20.
The shooting happened on UAB's campus during the sale of $90 AirPods. Stephens claimed he fired in self-defense after Washington's boyfriend pulled a gun first.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Kechia Davis said the case was "tragic on so many levels," al.com reported.
"This is so sad for me because two young lives were taken from Jefferson County. Two young Black lives, and I feel like they were both on the road to being very successful – Destiny Washington and Mr. Stephens," she said.
The shooting happened during the sale of a pair of AirPods that Washington's boyfriend was selling to Stephens' girlfriend. The transaction went sour amid accusations of counterfeit money and a fake product and ended with a deadly shot fired by Stephens.
Stephens surrendered to police two days after the shooting. His attorneys claimed their client fired in self-defense only after Washington's boyfriend pulled a gun and threatened to "blow him away."
Washington's parents, Randy and Tora Washington, stood before the court Wednesday and delivered an emotional impact statement, at one point addressing Stephens.
"Destiny did not get a choice on Dec. 17, 2020. The choice that you made on that night to discharge a gun toward her vehicle comes with consequences,'' Tora Washington said. "It may not be a consequence that you think is fair, but your parents will get a chance to hear your voice, see your face, and hug you. I will never get to do those things again with Destiny on this earth."
Tora Washington said her daughter was set to graduate with a nursing degree from Lawson State in May 2021. She was in a dual enrollment program at UAB and was looking forward to furthering her education at UAB.
"She knew at an early age that she wanted to help people,'' she said. "For career day at age 6 – she dressed the part. She wanted to be a nurse. She was a people person and did not mind helping anyone."
Following sentencing, more than a dozen of Stephens' family members were allowed to hug him and briefly speak with him one at a time. | https://www.startribune.com/man-gets-life-in-shooting-death-at-online-sale-that-went-bad/600174426/ | 2022-05-19T00:05:40Z | https://www.startribune.com/man-gets-life-in-shooting-death-at-online-sale-that-went-bad/600174426/ | false | 10 |
The number of Canadian adults infected with COVID-19 tripled during the fifth wave of the pandemic compared with the total number of adults infected in the previous four waves, according to a new study led by Toronto researchers.
More than 5,000 Canadian adults — members of the Angus Reid Forum, a public polling cohort — participated in the fourth phase of the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) study. The findings of the study were published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday.
The adult participants took a self-administered dried blood spot test between Jan. 15 and March 15, 2022 and sent the blood samples back to the researchers for analysis. The research team then tested the samples for antibodies related to COVID-19.
From those results, the researchers found nearly 30 per cent of Canadian adults were infected during the first Omicron wave of infections compared with roughly 10 per cent who had been infected in the previous four waves.
Of those fifth waveinfections, one million were among the country’s 2.3 million unvaccinated adult population — representing 40 per cent of all unvaccinated adults, the study notes.
Patrick Brown, a lead author of the Ab-C study and biostatistician at the Centre for Global Health Research at St. Michael’s Hospital, said the study is meant to portray a “complete and representative picture” of COVID-19 in the country in the absence of widespread PCR testing and COVID-19 data tracking.
“This is quite important for us to be able to understand COVID in the population,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday.
“The testing data is incomplete and we’ve essentially stopped PCR testing for the most part in Canada, or in Ontario, at least, so having a representative sample of people who receive these test kits is very important to figure out how much COVID there has been and how much immunity we have in the population.”
The study also found that antibody levels were much lower amongst adults with only two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine compared to those with three doses, meaning those with three doses had stronger immunity in the face of the virus.
And amongst the unvaccinated population — including those who had a COVID-19 infection — their antibody levels were “quite” lower than people with three doses of the vaccine, Brown noted.
“(In) Canada, we had quite a bit less COVID-19 than some other countries, especially the U.S. We have less natural protection and we’re really relying on vaccines in Canada to build up immunity in our population,” he said.
“Certainly three doses plus an infection was the maximum protection, but three doses of vaccine certainly gave a very good amount of protection — a big improvement over two doses alone.”
The Ab-C study is a collaboration between Unity Health Toronto, the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, the Angus Reid Institute and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health. It’s funded by the federal government through its COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.
The team of researchers has been tracking the pandemic in Canada with periodic polling about lived experience and blood sample collection since May 2020.
Brown said the next phase of the study is already being conducted. The team has started surveying roughly 1,300 Canadian adults who were not infected by the initial Omicron variant known as BA.1 to determine whether they were infected by the Omicron subvariant called BA.2 from March to June 2022.
“We are preparing test kits now to send out our panel of people we’ve come back to several times, and this will be the fifth round of tests we’re sending them to better understand the second wave of Omicron,” he said.
“We found that the number of cases reported by public health isn’t as high as the previous wave, the number of hospitalizations hasn’t risen very much, but there has been a lot of infection … so we’re expecting to see that there’s been quite a lot of COVID throughout the population.”
—Noushin Ziafati, The Canadian Press
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DigitalBridge (DBRG) Loses 3.16% on May 18
Equities Staff Follow |Today DigitalBridge Group Inc - Class A (NYSE: DBRG) is trading 3.16% down.
The latest price, as of 11:53:40 est, was $5.99. DigitalBridge has moved $0.195 in trading today.
852,111 shares exchanged hands.
As of the previous close, DigitalBridge has moved YTD 25.93%. The company is set to release earnings on 2022-08-04.
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About DigitalBridge Group Inc - Class A
Colony Capital, Inc. is an American international investment firm based in Boca Raton, FL. The company has over 350 employees operating in 20 offices around the world. Colony Capital invests in real estate and real estate-related debt investments, real estate-dependent operating companies, non-performing loans, distressed assets and select development opportunities throughout the world. Colony's dealings in distressed assets has led to several sources citing it as an example of vulture capitalism.
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QUINCY — Quincy fire crews battled a blaze Wednesday at a southwest side apartment building Wednesday.
The Quincy Fire Department responded to a call just before 6 p.m., and upon arrival found the building fully involved, with flames and smoke from the upper floor.
Fire Chief Bernie Vahlkamp said the building was empty, as was the house next door.
He said his firefighters were working to keep the fire from spreading to that house, while fighting a defensive fire, meaning no firefighters would enter it.
The building did have electricity connected which Ameren disconnected, but there was no natural gas service.
As of 7 p.m., the Fire Department had declared a three-alarm fire, bringing every on-duty firefighter, plus more than a dozen off-duty fighters.
The building was empty and no injuries have been reported.
This report will be updated. | https://www.whig.com/news/firefighters-battle-apartment-building-blaze-at-seventh-state/article_78cb3f8c-d702-11ec-aacf-73cf732a09bc.html | 2022-05-19T00:17:34Z | https://www.whig.com/news/firefighters-battle-apartment-building-blaze-at-seventh-state/article_78cb3f8c-d702-11ec-aacf-73cf732a09bc.html | true | null |
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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Lawmakers want the IRS to treat all Americans fairly and equitably, but fear the tax system is split into two tiers.
“There cannot be one tax system for the wealthy, and another for everyone else,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said.
Pascrell worries the IRS isn’t being fair to average Americans.
“Millionaires and billionaires have vastly different experiences with the IRS than the average American,” Pascrell said.
A report from the Government Accountability Office found that while audit rates for taxpayers making more than $200,000 have declined, “the audit rates for taxpayers claiming the earned income tax credit is three times the average rate for all taxpayers,” GAO Strategic Division Director James McTigue said.
McTigue says the earned income tax credit is helpful to low- and moderate-income taxpayers but is often misused.
“Why does the IRS focus on low-income audits rather than those of the wealthy,” Pascrell asked.
“The one tool the IRS has to ensure compliance with the program is audits,” McTigue said.
Some lawmakers, like Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.), say the problem isn’t new and a fix will require more than just talk.
“I’d like to see us work on some solutions to address the drivers of the high earned income tax credit error rate,” Rice said.
IRS Chief Taxpayer Experience Officer Ken Corbin promised the IRS is focused on improving customer service by clearing the current tax backlog and modernizing the agency.
“To ensure the IRS meets the needs of all types of taxpayers and stakeholders who rely on us for information,” Corbin said. | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-question-irs-treatment-of-taxpayers-based-on-income/ | 2022-05-19T00:23:40Z | https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/washington-dc/lawmakers-question-irs-treatment-of-taxpayers-based-on-income/ | true | 17 |
Landsea Homes (LSEA) Drops 2.99% on May 18
Equities Staff Follow |Shares of Landsea Homes Corporation - Class A (NASDAQ: LSEA) moved 2.99% Wednesday.
As of 11:41:19 est, Landsea Homes is currently sitting at $7.55 and has fallen $0.23 per share in trading so far.
Landsea Homes has moved 7.56% over the last 30 days and has moved YTD 5.19% based on the most recent close.
The company is set to release earnings on 2022-08-05.
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About Landsea Homes Corporation - Class A
Landsea Homes Corporation is a publicly traded residential homebuilder based in Newport Beach, CA that designs and builds best-in-class homes and sustainable master-planned communities in some of the nation's most desirable markets. The company has developed homes and communities in New York, Boston, New Jersey, Arizona, and throughout California in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and Orange County.
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Taylor Swift tells grads to embrace cringe in NYU commencement speech
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN
Taylor Swift famously sang about “feeling 22.” A decade later, she’s celebrating it — the class of ’22, that is.
The prolific pop singer received an honorary doctorate of fine arts on Wednesday from New York University, and also delivered this year’s commencement speech at Yankee Stadium.
“I’m 90% sure the main reason I’m here is because I have a song called ’22’,” she joked.
Despite not receiving a four-year college experience, Swift used her almost 20-minute speech to give the recent graduates “life hacks” on navigating post-graduate and early career life, including “life can be heavy,” to “learn to live alongside cringe.”
“Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. As long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out,” she said. “And I’m a doctor now, so I know how breathing works.”
Swift was first announced as the commencement speaker for NYU back in March to mass excitement from fans of the 11-time Grammy winner. Some even tried to buy tickets to the ceremony from graduating students.
Prior to the graduation, NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music also featured an entire course on Taylor Swift this year, taught by Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos. The course covered Swift’s rise to pop stardom, as well as her public persona.
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