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MIAMI (AP) — Judge approves settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of Florida condominium collapse that killed 98 people.
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In Raft, you can craft glass by making it yourself. You can’t find glass in Raft so you must make it yourself. It is quite easy to make glass with a smelter. Glass in Raft can be used to craft other materials as well. Below we will show you how to get glass and uses of glass in Raft.
How to Get Glass in Raft
To create glass, you’ll need a Smelter. You can easily craft a smelter using dry bricks. We have explained this process in our guide. With the smelter crafted, we can now proceed to make glass.
You should begin by collecting Sand. There is sand beneath the surface of the sea around islands, especially on ledges where corals and seaweed can be found. You can spot it quite easily because it blends into the floor quite well. Catch it with your hook once you’re in melee range.
You must have collected some pieces, so take them back to your raft and get them in the Smelter. The metal won’t begin melting until wooden planks are placed under the ignite the fire. One thing you must keep in mind is that it will almost take 60 seconds for one glass to be created.
Uses of Glass
Glass is required to create a lot of products. Examples include binoculars and advanced air purifiers. It’s not important to have binoculars, but you’re going to need a Purifier if you’re going to deal with water and thirst.
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Prologis Inc. (NYSE:PLD) went up by 2.76% from its latest closing price compared to the recent 1-year high of $174.54. The company’s stock price has collected 4.34% of gains in the last five trading sessions. The Wall Street Journal reported on 06/13/22 that Prologis to Buy Duke Realty in $26 Billion Deal, Including Debt
Is It Worth Investing in Prologis Inc. (NYSE :PLD) Right Now?
Prologis Inc. (NYSE:PLD) scored a price-to-earnings ratio above its average ratio, recording 23.12 x from its present earnings ratio. Plus, the 36-month beta value for PLD is at 0.88. Opinions of the stock are interesting as 11 analysts out of 19 who provided ratings for Prologis Inc. declared the stock was a “buy,” while 2 rated the stock as “overweight,” 5 rated it as “hold,” and 1 as “sell.”
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The average price from analysts is $169.44, which is $56.54 above the current price. PLD currently public float of 737.70M and currently shorts hold a 1.78% ratio of that float. Today, the average trading volume of PLD was 4.65M shares.
PLD’s Market Performance
PLD stocks went up by 4.34% for the week, with a monthly drop of -3.56% and a quarterly performance of -27.23%, while its annual performance rate touched -5.35%. The volatility ratio for the week stands at 3.94% while the volatility levels for the past 30 days are set at 3.33% for Prologis Inc. The simple moving average for the period of the last 20 days is -4.23% for PLD stocks with a simple moving average of -21.04% for the last 200 days.
Analysts’ Opinion of PLD
Many brokerage firms have already submitted their reports for PLD stocks, with Evercore ISI repeating the rating for PLD by listing it as a “In-line.” The predicted price for PLD in the upcoming period, according to Evercore ISI is $135 based on the research report published on September 20th of the previous year 2021.
Barclays, on the other hand, stated in their research note that they expect to see PLD reach a price target of $159. The rating they have provided for PLD stocks is “Overweight” according to the report published on September 01st, 2021.
Wolfe Research gave a rating of “Peer Perform” to PLD, setting the target price at $133 in the report published on June 15th of the previous year.
PLD Trading at -16.40% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought PLD to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -33.85% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 3.33%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 3.94%, as shares sank -4.17% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -31.54% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, PLD rose by +4.34%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by -16.93% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $120.30. In addition, Prologis Inc. saw -31.42% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further losses.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at PLD starting from Modjtabai Avid, who purchase 15,000 shares at the price of $118.65 back on May 20. After this action, Modjtabai Avid now owns 15,000 shares of Prologis Inc., valued at $1,779,750 using the latest closing price.
LYONS IRVING F III, the Director of Prologis Inc., sale 44,385 shares at $164.60 during a trade that took place back on Apr 25, which means that LYONS IRVING F III is holding 22,431 shares at $7,305,727 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for PLD
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- +37.54 for the present operating margin
- +42.99 for the gross margin
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – A study by Skidmore College has revealed the best time for women and men to exercise. Researchers at the college say they confirmed through a randomized, controlled trial, that the effectiveness of exercise depends on the time of day, and that these effects differ between types of exercise and between women and men.
Researchers recruited 30 women and 26 men to participate in the study. All were between 25 and 55 years old, healthy, highly active, nonsmokers, and of healthy weight according to the college. They were trained by coaches over 12 weeks, following the PRISE Program developed by Paul J. Arciero and others. Arciero is a Professor of Health and Human Physiological Sciences at Skidmore College as well as the principal investigator throughout the study.
All participants had been randomized to one of two schedules: exclusively training in the morning (60 minutes between 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m.), or exclusively training in the evening (60 minutes between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.). Those assigned to the morning ate breakfast after exercise and then ate three meals at four-hour intervals. Those assigned to the evening ate three meals at four-hour intervals before training, and another afterward, according to the college.
At the start and end of the trial, participants were thoroughly assessed for their aerobic power, muscular endurance, flexibility, balance, upper and lower body strength and power, and jumping ability. The research shows that all participants improved in overall health and performance throughout the study.
The study also shows that Exercise Time Of Day (ETOD) impacts the number of improvements in physical performance, body composition, cardiometabolic health, and mood. The study concluded that women interested in reducing belly fat and blood pressure, while also increasing leg muscle, should consider exercising in the morning.
On the other hand, women looking to gain upper body strength, power, and endurance, along with improving their overall mood state and food intake, should exercise in the evening. Men looking to lower their overall blood pressure are advised to work out in the evening time based on the results of the study. | https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/skidmore-college-study-shows-best-time-to-exercise/ | 2022-06-23T15:34:35Z | https://www.news10.com/news/saratoga-county/skidmore-college-study-shows-best-time-to-exercise/ | false | 1 |
LONDON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- London and Malta based fintech CityFALCON closed an equity fundraising campaign on Seedrs of £1.65m ($2m) to scale up the business and bring even more insightful products to market faster.
On Seedrs, the leading UK private investment platform, CityFALCON has leveraged individual investors from their growing fanbase and onboarded institutional investors.
Serial entrepreneurs took part in the round, including one that sold his last company for £500m.
Moreover, eToro, the social investing network with over 27 million registered users globally, took a small position in the company. eToro is a client and powers its News tab with CityFALCON content, providing users with a quality contextual newsfeed to inform investment decisions and increase engagement.
As further validation, The Holt Xchange, a global early-stage VC firm and platform in Canada, and Terance Butler Holdings (TBH), a property investment company in the UK, have both taken stakes.
TBH's investment enhances their portfolio of high-growth, IP-based companies. Stephen Walker, Investment Director at TBH, said "We are excited to invest in CityFALCON at what we believe is a pivotal time for the company. Having gained traction, we believe now is the right moment for the company to scale up its sales & marketing effort whilst continuing to develop the product".
Managing Partner at Holt Xchange, Elisabeth Laett, stated "The democratisation of financial information is the result of a global demand to access better education and deeper financial insights for a broader audience. We have been impressed with the team's mission at CityFALCON and pleased to further support them in this seed round".
Overall, CityFALCON boasts 2300 existing investors, with 1200 coming on in this round, including new and repeat investors.
Ruzbeh Bacha, CEO at CityFALCON, commented "We are grateful and very excited about this round, especially during these volatile and uncertain times. Our users, clients, and investors on Seedrs have been amazingly supportive".
Seedrs' Kirsty Grant, chief investment officer, added "CityFALCON's raise far outstripped their original expectations and shows the investor demand for opportunities even amidst the current economic climate. We are happy to have been able to support them in their journey."
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Prosecutors recommend Ghislaine Maxwell be sentenced to 30 to 55 years in prison for sex trafficking
By Laura Ly and Eric Levenson, CNN
Federal prosecutors asked a judge in a court filing Wednesday to sentence Ghislaine Maxwell to 30 to 55 years in prison for sex trafficking a minor and other charges related to a sprawling conspiracy to abuse young girls with the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“Maxwell was an adult who made her own choices. She made the choice to sexually exploit numerous underage girls. She made the choice to conspire with Epstein for years, working as partners in crime and causing devastating harm to vulnerable victims,” prosecutors wrote in the sentencing memo. “She should be held accountable for her disturbing role in an extensive child exploitation scheme.”
Last week, Maxwell’s lawyers asked a judge to sentence her to between 4.25 and 5.25 years in prison, saying her difficult childhood made her vulnerable to Epstein and that she shouldn’t face a harsh sentence because of his actions.
“But this Court cannot sentence Ms. Maxwell as if she were a proxy for Epstein simply because Epstein is no longer here,” her attorneys wrote in their sentencing recommendation. “Ms. Maxwell cannot and should not bear all the punishment for which Epstein should have been held responsible.”
Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019 but died by suicide in prison a month later. Maxwell, his confidante and former girlfriend, was arrested a year afterward and has been held in jail since.
In the sentencing memo, the prosecution wrote that the defense’s argument was “absurd and offensive.”
“The lenient sentence the defendant seeks would send the message that there is one system of laws for the rich and powerful, and another set for everyone else,” prosecutors wrote.
The filing comes a week before her expected sentencing on June 28. Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of five federal charges in December: sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy.
However, she will only be sentenced on three counts after the judge presiding over her case agreed that two of the conspiracy counts she faced were repetitive.
The probation department recommended a 20-year sentence, below the sentencing guidelines.
At her trial late last year, prosecutors argued Maxwell and Epstein conspired to set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships with Epstein from 1994 to 2004 in New York, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands. Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well.
Her defense, meanwhile, said she was a “scapegoat” for Epstein’s actions and attacked the memories and motivations of the women who said they were sexually abused.
What the prosecution’s sentencing memo argues
Prosecutors described Maxwell’s conduct as “shockingly predatory,” calling her a “calculating, sophisticated, and dangerous criminal who preyed on vulnerable young girls and groomed them for sexual abuse.”
“Maxwell’s victims trusted her: she was a seemingly respectable woman who showed interest in them and promised to help them. She was key to the entire operation of the scheme, and Epstein could not have committed these crimes without her,” prosecutors wrote.
US attorneys also said that Maxwell “enjoyed a remarkable life of privilege, having lived in luxury and moved in social circles among the famous and powerful,” countering her attorney’s claims that she had a difficult upbringing.
In fact, it was her wealth and status that was able to “provide a cover of respectability to Epstein that lulled the victims and their families into a false sense of security,” prosecutors argued.
“Although many defendants come before sentencing courts with compelling mitigating factors from difficult upbringings, Maxwell is not among them,” prosecutors wrote. “While the defendant may have had a marginally less positive experience than other exceptionally wealthy children, it is difficult to see how stern conversation at the family dinner table is an excuse for participating in a child exploitation scheme.”
Prosecutors said that Maxwell has shown no acceptance of responsibility for the harm she has caused her victims. Rather, she has attempted to cast herself as a victim herself, the memo states.
In the defense’s filing, Maxwell’s attorneys said her time behind bars has been a “disproportionate pre-sentence punishment” that will not end now that she’s housed with the general population. Her attorneys claimed she was most recently threatened by an inmate in her unit who allegedly told her that an additional 20 years in prison would be “worth the money” she’d get for killing Maxwell.
Her attorneys also argued she’s subject to multiple pat downs a day where she alleges “to have been touched in a sexually inappropriate manner by correction officers” several times.
However, prosecutors said her claims that she has received unfair treatment are inaccurate. Maxwell has “enjoyed remarkable privileges as a high-profile inmate that vastly exceed the benefits accorded to the average inmate,” including access to a private shower, television, desktop computer, laptop, and her own space to spend time outside of her cell, the memo states.
Prosecutors are also requesting that the court impose a maximum allowable fine of $750,000.
“As part of a disturbing agreement with Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell identified, groomed, and abused multiple victims, while she enjoyed a life of extraordinary luxury and privilege,” the prosecution wrote. “In her wake, Maxwell left her victims permanently scarred with emotional and psychological injuries. That damage can never be undone, but it can be accounted for in crafting a just sentence for Maxwell’s crimes.”
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Target Species:
· Redfish – Good. Cut baits (mullet and menhaden) are the best baits. The minimum is 20” and the maximum is 28”. The bag limit is three per person per day.
· Speckled Trout – Good. Free-lined live croaker is the best bait. The minimum is 17” and the maximum is 23”. The bag limit is three per person per day. These regulations are for areas South of FM 457.
· Flounder – Fair. The minimum length is 15”. The bag limit is five per person per day
· Black Drum – Fair. Dead shrimp on a jig-head or free-lined is best. The minimum length is 14” and the maximum length is 30”. The bag limit is five per person per day.
· Other – Spanish Mackerel are at the Port Aransas jetties.
General Fishing Notes for South Texas:
Look for areas with shell bottom and reefs. Anglers report redfish and speckled trout around the shell areas. Areas with access to deeper guts and cuts are best. Work edges and shorelines with shell areas. Water will be higher and the winds have blown out many areas. Keep these factors in mind when making your plan.
Early morning and late before sunset is likely to be the most productive times in the coming week. As is normal, look for bait working in the area. Find the bait and you will find the fish.
Forecast Fishing Conditions for the week:
Monday, June 20, 2022
Low Tide – 2:48 AM .08 ft / High Tide – 10:47 AM .82 ft
Low Tide - 5:08 PM .65 ft / High Tide – 8:40 PM .70 ft
Fish Activity Very Low (12)
Winds from the SE and moderate – Barometric Pressure falling
Waning Gibbous – illumination 55.8%
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Low Tide – 3:58 AM .31 ft / High Tide – 10:42 AM .78 ft
Low Tide – 5:58 PM .43 ft / High Tide – 11:42 PM .71 ft
Fish Activity Very Low (13)
Winds from the SE and moderate – Barometric Pressure rising
Last quarter – illumination 44.9%
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Low Tide – 5:38 AM .53 ft / High Tide – 10:37 AM .79 ft
Low Tide – 6:36 PM .21 ft
Fish Activity Low (26)
Winds from the SE and moderate – Barometric Pressure falling
Waning Crescent – illumination 34.4%
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Low Tide – 7:22 AM .70 ft / High Tide – 1:53 AM .79 ft
Low Tide – 7:09 PM .03 ft / High Tide – 10:49 AM .83 ft
Fish Activity Low (37)
Winds from the SE and moderate – Barometric Pressure falling
Waning Crescent – illumination 24.9%
Friday, June 24, 2022
Low Tide – 8:44 AM .83 ft / High Tide – 4:55 AM .95 ft
Low Tide – 7:40 PM -.11 ft
Fish Activity Average (50)
Winds from the SSE and moderate – Barometric Pressure even
Waning Crescent – illumination 16.7%
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Low Tide – 10:12 AM .91 ft / High Tide – 5:51 AM 1.05 ft
Low Tide – 8:09 PM -.20ft
Fish Activity Average (62)
Winds from the S and moderate – Barometric Pressure even
Waning Crescent – illumination 10%
*Tidal Information is for Aransas Pass, Texas. Be sure to adjust tidal activity earlier or later for your specific area on the coast.
**The fish activity forecast is based on multiple different factors, including, but not limited to solunar information, air pressure, and tidal conditions.
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Windy App
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Supreme Court strikes down New York's concealed carry law
get the free appWASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its opinion in the case challenging New York's concealed carry law.
Under the century-old law, residents seeking a license to carry a gun outside the home need to demonstrate a "proper cause," which state courts have said is a "special need for self-protection."
Challengers argued the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self defense, while supporters warned invalidating the restrictions could lead to more guns on the streets.
LINK: Read the Supreme Court's decision | Listen to or read the arguments in the case
See live updates below for the latest.
Assemblyman Lavine: "Tremendous chaos"
New York State Assemblyman Charles Lavine spoke with CBS2 shortly after the opinion was announced, saying it will cause "tremendous chaos."
He went on to say the ruling "opens the floodgates" to generations-worth of litigation.
Watch his full interview in the video above.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams: Ruling "will put New Yorkers at further risk of gun violence"
New York City Mayor Eric Adams released this statement on the Supreme Court's ruling:
"Put simply, this Supreme Court ruling will put New Yorkers at further risk of gun violence. We have been preparing for this decision and will continue to do everything possible to work with our federal, state, and local partners to protect our city. Those efforts will include a comprehensive review of our approach to defining 'sensitive locations' where carrying a gun is banned, and reviewing our application process to ensure that only those who are fully qualified can obtain a carry license. We will work together to mitigate the risks this decision will create once it is implemented, as we cannot allow New York to become the Wild West.
"One thing is certain: We will do whatever is in our power, using every resource available to ensure that the gains we've seen during this administration are not undone, to make certain New Yorkers are not put in further danger of gun violence. This decision may have opened an additional river feeding the sea of gun violence, but we will do everything we can to dam it."
New York AG Letitia James "reviewing the decision"
New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office is reviewing the Supreme Court decision and "New York's ability to regulate who can carry firearms in public."
Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg: "This decision severely undermines public safety"
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg issued the following statement about the decision, saying it impacts not just New York City, but the entire nation.
"This decision severely undermines public safety not just in New York City, but around the country. While the Court has now made it more difficult to limit the number of guns in our communities, I am committed to doing everything in my power to fight for the safety everyone in this city deserves, and we have been preparing for this decision for weeks. New York still has some of the toughest gun laws in the country on the books, and we will continue to use these statutes to hold accountable those who commit gun violence. At this very moment, my office is analyzing this ruling and crafting gun safety legislation that will take the strongest steps possible to mitigate the damage done today. Furthermore, we have already built detailed processes and put them in place to manage any litigation related to our ongoing cases. The Supreme Court may have made our work harder, but we will only redouble our efforts to develop new solutions to end the epidemic of gun violence and ensure lasting public safety."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: Decision "not just irresponsible, it is downright dangerous"
"Today's Supreme Court ruling, which guts state concealed carry permitting laws, is not just irresponsible, it is downright dangerous. Our nation is in the middle of a gun violence epidemic and instead of working to protect our communities, this court has made it even easier for potentially dangerous people to carry concealed handguns in public spaces," Sen. Kirsten GIllibrand said in a statement.
"Studies overwhelmingly show that looser restrictions on who can carry a concealed firearm in public are associated with higher rates of violent crime and homicide. So it is no surprise that law enforcement officers as well as the majority of Americans and gun owners agree, limiting concealed carry permitting laws is a recipe for disaster.
"We need to act and we need to act now. And Congress must move swiftly to pass comprehensive gun safety legislation and ensure only those who are trained and trustworthy are allowed to carry loaded firearms.
"It's time we did what it takes to stop the rise of gun violence. The lives of our friends, our law enforcement officers, and our children are at stake."
Gov. Kathy Hochul calls decision "reckless" and "reprehensible"
Gov. Kathy Hochul is responding to the Supreme Court's decision.
"It is outrageous that at a moment of national reckoning on gun violence, the Supreme Court has recklessly struck down a New York law that limits those who can carry concealed weapons. In response to this ruling, we are closely reviewing our options - including calling a special session of the legislature," Hochul wrote on Twitter. "Just as we swiftly passed nation-leading gun reform legislation, I will continue to everything in my power to keep New Yorkers safe from gun violence."
Speaking shortly after the decision was announced, Hochul had more to say.
"Today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence, and it's particularly painful that this came down at this moment. When we're still dealing with families in pain from mass shootings that have occurred -- the loss of life, their beloved children and grandchildren," she said.
"Today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence, and it's particularly painful that this came down at this moment. When we're still dealing with families in pain from mass shootings that have occurred -- the loss of life, their beloved children and grandchildren.
"This decision isn't just reckless, it's reprehensible. It's not what New Yorkers want, and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state. If the federal government will not have sweeping laws to protect us, then our states and our governors have a moral responsibility to do what we can, and have laws that protect our citizens, because of what is going on and the insanity of the gun culture that has now possessed everyone all the way up to even the Supreme Court."
What's next for New York City?
CBS2 has learned that at present only about 1,700 people have the right to carry a gun when they leave home, and 1,400 more have carry licenses issued by other counties that need New York City endorsement to carry in the five boroughs.
But the big worry is the people who have been issued permits to have guns in their homes, which can also be used on a firing range. Conceivably, they could be turned into concealed carry permits.
CBS2 has learned that:
- 16,462 city residents have so called "premise residence" permits
- 773 have "premise business" permits
- 2,403 have "carry guard" permits that can be carried while working but have to be left at the place of business at the end of the shift
John Miller, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, told CBS2 in a memo that a ruling against New York, "... does not mean that you wake up the morning of the ruling and the premises permit magically turns into a carry."
Miller said it could take a year or two to implement the changes, especially if the court allows New York to limit the places guns can be carried, so-called "sensitive places."
Supreme Court strikes down New York's concealed carry law
The Supreme Court has just issued its most significant Second Amendment ruling in more than a decade.
CBS2's Jessica Moore explains the logic behind the high court's decision, and the impact on New Yorkers.
LINK: Read the Supreme Court's decision | Listen to or read the arguments in the case
Current New York law says anyone seeking a license to carry a gun outside their house demonstrate "proper cause" to obtain one, which state courts have said is a "special need for self-protection."
"The question before the Supreme Court is whether New York can do that? Do you need to show that you have this risk to have a concealed carry, or can anyone on the R train now have a gun in their back pocket?" said constitutional lawyer Andrew Lieb.
Challengers to the law argued the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms outside the home for self-defense, while supporters warn invalidating the restrictions could lead to more firearms on the streets. Supporters also maintain the Second Amendment was adopted to allow militias to fight the government, not allow everyday citizens to carry weapons for personal defense.
"The question here is just a very narrow one: Can any state, not just New York, say can you not have a gun when you're walking around town unless you're special? So the question is, is the default rule you can have the gun, and you need to take it away only for someone with mental illness, or is the default you can't have the gun and you can only have it if you have a special need for safety?" Lieb said.
Even after the shootings in Buffalo, Texas, Tulsa, Philadelphia and Chattanooga over the course of just a few weeks, the majority conservative court ruled anyone can carry a gun anywhere.
Lieb says New Yorkers should brace for a shift in expectations.
"We've lived since 1911 with a law that says most people you're talking to don't have a gun on them. Now you're going to feel like most people you're talking to do have a gun on them. That creates a different energy going on. Most of us in New York knew if we wanted to live in that environment we could move to Texas," Lieb said.
But attorney David Schwartz says the high court's ruling simply allows regular people to carry a handgun in the state, not just the privileged few: Celebrities, ex-cops, those with cash businesses as it is currently.
"Someone who works late at night, that's leaving work late. That could be a nurse, that could be anybody who hast to work around late at night, they don't have a right, right now, to get a carry permit," Schwartz said. "The idea that criminals will now and start applying for a license to get a carry permit I think is a little bit illogical. It's going to be people who can't show an extraordinary purpose but still want to carry a gun, and that really does fall within the heart of the Second Amendment."
Schwartz says the state will still be allowed to regulate where people can carry firearms, and may exclude certain places like the subway system, ballparks, and schools.
The high court struck down the New York law on the grounds it's too strict and gives too much discretion to state licensing officials.
The ruling marks a disappointment to many New Yorkers who think federal gun regulations should be stronger, not weaker.
"The state of New York has made strides in reducing gun violence and they continue to do so. We need the federal government to step up and to prioritize life-saving gun safety measures," said Andrea Murray of Moms Demand Action.
New York state has no recourse on the Supreme Court's ruling, barring a change in justices, or a constitutional amendment.
"Biden said it recently that you're not going to win the fight – I'm paraphrasing - on what the Second Amendment says, but what we can do is take away the liability protections on the federal level for the manufacturers. And even though then the government wouldn't be restricting people from having guns, the manufacturers, based on exposure concerns, would themselves be restricting people from having guns," Lieb said.
Lieb pointed to the settlement reached in February that forced Remington to pay $73 million after the Sandy Hook massacre. Remington was the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 school shooting.
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Former Marine CWO3 to lead integration and expansion of DAI and other financial services
ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Significance Inc. announces today that Adriana G. Obogeanu, USMC CWO3 (Ret.), well known as "Obi" in Marine and DoD circles, joined Significance Inc. after a distinguished 16-year career in the US Marine Corps. During her active-duty tenure, she gained expertise in financial management, internal control evaluation, systems integration, regulatory compliance, program management, and business process reengineering. In this new role, she will be leading a team focused on maximizing the impact and expertise that Significance provides its clients in the areas of financial management, including the transition to DAI.
"The DoD is undergoing massive modernization and restructuring actions to better prepare itself for global emerging threats. Significance is positioning itself to be an integral part of this massive transformation, which includes supporting the Marine Corps in its transition to a new financial management system. We are fortunate to have someone of Adriana's caliber to lead these efforts for our organization and clients", said Mary Ahern Snyder, founder, and president of Significance.
A native of Brasov, Romania, Adriana moved to the United States at age 19 and joined the Marines almost 10 years later. "I moved to the US to live the famous 'American Dream'. I joined the Marine Corps to do my part in safeguarding this wonderful place I came to call my home. When preparing for retirement, I knew I wanted to continue supporting the Government and am thrilled for my new role at Significance, a company that values its people and fosters a culture of innovation, trust, and inclusion", said Ms. Obogeanu.
Adriana holds a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus in leadership and business administration, a MA in Public Policy (International Relations) from Liberty University, a Level III DoD Financial Management Certification, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy. After ending her military career in sunny Florida, Adriana relocated to Alexandria, VA.
Significance Inc. is designated an Economically-Disadvantaged Woman-Owned Small Business with offices in Old Town Alexandria, VA, and Annapolis, MD. Founded in 2014 by Mary Ahern Snyder, the company provides government consulting services in the areas of Financial Management & Audit Support; SAP; Business Systems; Program & Project Management; Emerging Technologies & Cybersecurity; Transformation & Strategy; and Systems Support Training. To learn more, visit www.significanceinc.com
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Parents sue Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital after premature baby's remains lost
Alana Ross had already endured two heartbreaking miscarriages by the time she became pregnant with the baby she came to call Everleigh.
Alana Ross had already endured two heartbreaking miscarriages by the time she became pregnant with the baby she came to call Everleigh.
Alana Ross had already endured two heartbreaking miscarriages by the time she became pregnant with the baby she came to call Everleigh.
Together with her partner, Dan McCarthy, they had so much hope to finally start a family.
"I just wanted to enjoy showing them the world and being there when they experience the world for the first time," Ross said in an interview. "I want to see it through their eyes. So I was really, really excited to start this next part of my life."
McCarthy couldn't wait to take her to a baseball game at Fenway Park.
"I've been a Red Sox fan my whole life. And we joked about doing stuff like that," he said.
At 18 weeks in, May 2020, they almost lost Everleigh, but a painful and invasive procedure continued the pregnancy for two more months.
Everleigh was born premature on July 25, 2020, weighing just 2 pounds and 5 ounces.
She lived for 12 days in Brigham and Women's neonatal intensive care unit. Ross's and McCarthy's hopes and dreams were crushed, again.
"They let me hold her while she died, while I was holding her. She was baptized. And then when she was gone, they took her from us, but kept her in the room and dressed her in a white gown and let us say goodbye one more time as we walked out of the room. That was the last time we saw her," Ross said.
Ross and McCarthy were promised her body would be safe in the hospital's morgue while they made burial arrangements.
They chose a cemetery near where McCarthy's grandmother was buried. But when the funeral home went to pick up her body four days after she died, no one at the hospital's morgue could find Everleigh's remains.
"I thought it was some technical error. Surely she's just somewhere else in the hospital or at the worst, she's at another funeral home by accident, and they would just go and retrieve her," Ross said.
After getting few answers from the hospital, the family called Boston police, who started an investigation.
According to the police report and the family's lawsuit, here's what police and the family believe happened:
Three employees brought Everleigh's body, swaddled in hospital linens, to the hospital's morgue. Inside the morgue cooler, another hospital employee was in the way of the racks meant to hold the bodies of children. That's where Everleigh's remains should have gone.
According to the lawsuit, the employee inside the cooler told the others, according to the lawsuit: "You can put it anywhere," so they left Everleigh's remains on the racks meant for adults.
Police believe the following day, another person working in the morgue threw her body away with soiled linens, not realizing there were human remains in the misplaced bundle.
"Being thrown away like trash when so many people loved her. It just rips my heart out of my chest because so many people were so happy that she was part of the family," Ross said. "It was just so heartbreaking. We would never get to bury her and them. We wouldn't even get to know where she ended up."
Boston police retraced the route of soiled hospital linen in a last-ditch effort to find the remains. They learned the linens are picked up from the hospital three or four times a week by a linen service in Somerville. When human waste is found, it's deposited into a compactor, the contents of which are taken to a waste transfer station in Roxbury.
The refuse that most likely would have contained Everleigh's remains were taken from the linen service to the transfer station early in the morning on Aug. 10, 2020, according to the report. Waste at that station would have been taken to one of three end-points: a landfill in New Hampshire, an incinerator in Haverhill or a landfill in South Carolina.
But police did locate hospital waste inside the transfer facility, giving them hope that Everleigh's remains might be there. So police, along with transfer station staff, searched "soiled linens, towels, rags and hazardous waste such as blood and feces" for eight hours the first day, and again the next day, according to the police report.
"I would like to thank them. They did exactly what I would have done for hours relentlessly. And I am eternally grateful for them trying," Ross said.
Not only are the parents grateful for undertaking the grueling searches, McCarthy said the police are" the only ones that have really provided any answers."
To this day the parents say they have never received an adequate explanation from the hospital about what happened. And there is more troubling information in the police report.
A hospital investigator initially told police, according to the report, that "at no point does anyone leave the morgue cooler with any linens that could contain 'Baby Ross.'"
A morgue worker "was adamant to detectives that he did not observe, nor remove any soiled linens when he entered the morgue." But two days later, he admitted to hospital security that he did in fact dispose of the linen that was later believed to contain the newborn's remains.
Boston police also wrote in their report that they had incomplete information from the hospital.
"It should also be noted that detectives were not provided the complete video from the time 'Baby Ross' arrived at the morgue cooler to the time it was observed that 'Baby Ross' was known to be missing," the report says.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday, Ross and McCarthy also add that there had been a history of complaints about conditions in the morgue. The lawsuit is filed against Mass General Brigham and Brigham and Women's Hospital as well as 14 individual employees involved with the case.
In a statement, Dr. Sunil Eappen, chief medical officer at Brigham and Women's Hospital said: "We continue to express our deepest sympathies and most sincere apologies to the Ross and McCarthy family for their loss and the heartbreaking circumstances surrounding it. As with any instance in which there is a concern raised related to our standard of care or practice, we readily and transparently shared the details with the patient’s family. We always evaluate both system and human factors that contribute to errors or potential issues raised by patients, family members or staff and take action. Due to pending litigation, we are unable to comment specifically on this case."
In her interview, Ross said: "I want to know what happened. I want them to be held accountable. I just I don't want anybody else to have to go through this pain."
"Every night I go to bed and I don't know where she is. And that's a terrible feeling. I know I have to live with that for the rest of my life," McCarthy said. | https://www.wcvb.com/article/parents-bereft-after-boston-hospital-loses-premature-babys-remains/40361596 | 2022-06-23T15:49:12Z | https://www.wcvb.com/article/parents-bereft-after-boston-hospital-loses-premature-babys-remains/40361596 | true | 1 |
DIAMOND BAR, Calif., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Bedsure, a global leading home textile manufacturer with over 18 million cozy customers served to date, announces its plan to provide essential bedding solutions to make college dorms cozy like home. The move adds college dorm-appropriate Twin XL size to its product lineup with additional unprecedented discounts to help current and incoming college dorm residents prepare for a cozier and more comfortable life chapter.
Every summer, nearly two million students enter college as a freshman. Many of them are moving into a new dorm as their first step to moving out as adults, making the summer season a busy time to shop for ideal dorm supplies, such as a comfortable and cozy bedding set.
Since its founding in 2016, Bedsure has been providing customers with comfortable and cozy home textile products with great value. In an effort to help incoming and returning students find coziness even in the most uncomfortable dorms, Bedsure has added the college dorm-friendly Twin XL size to its lineup, making its coziness-providing products suitable for a college setting.
In addition to the Twin XL size in its lineup, discounts are also applied to Bedsure's Back-to-School products. Some of the Bedsure products now made available in Twin XL include the following.
An empty college dorm bed often includes a stiff bare mattress with nothing more. With high resilience, the multilayered Bedsure Viscose from Bamboo Mattress Topper brings a home-like comfort to challenging college life.
The less-than-comfortable quality of dorm mattresses presents a severe issue for college dorm residents. The stiff mattresses found in a dorm are less likely designed with ergonomics, creating body aches and sour muscles, especially for athletic individuals. Uncomfortable sleeping spaces can also increase the risk of insomnia, anxiety, and other mental issues.
The Bedsure Viscose from Bamboo Mattress Topper is one of Bedsure's solutions to provide students with home-like coziness.
The Bedsure Viscose from Bamboo Mattress Topper comes with a breathable lyocell-and-polyester top cover and an air-mesh bottom that allows more airflow for extra breathability, making hot and humid summer nights more tolerable. In addition, the infused bamboo and charcoal particles can wick away excess moisture and absorb unpleasant scents, making this mattress topper an absolute must-have for college dorm life.
Sandwiched in the middle is the high resilience foam that provides extra soft cushioning to the stiff dorm mattresses, which is the fundamental feature of this mattress topper that gives dorm residents the cozy nights of sleep they need to stay productive.
The high resilience foam provides sleepers with whole-body and even support that adapts to the body curve of the sleepers in various sleep positions. In addition, the 260 GSM quilted pillowtop on the supportive resilience foam also adds an extra softness that is super breathable and plushy.
As a part of the Bedsure's Back-to-School sales promotion, the Bedsure Viscose from Bamboo Mattress Topper is available in dorm-friendly Twin XL size and other sizes from Twin to California King. The retail price for the Twin XL option is $149.99 before deals.
According to market research conducted by Bedsure, a waterproof mattress protector is one of the most requested items by the parents of college students. Younger dorm occupants are often found eating and drinking in bed, partying in the dorm, or simply sleeping on the dorm-provided used mattress longer than usual.
The dorm-provided mattresses are often on the firmer side and consist of particles from their previous sleepers. A waterproof mattress protector on a used and public mattress serves as a two-way shield that prolongs the mattress's longevity while preventing unsanitary elements from making direct contact with the sleeper.
Made from the impermeable TPU material, the Bedsure Waterproof Mattress Protector repels fluids, such as soda, drinks, and other liquids that make their way into the bed down to the mattress, keeping the mattress free from all sorts of water damage. In addition, the 40% viscose from bamboo and the 60% polyester blend cover features the best of both materials. It is cooling, soft, breathable, and durable, making this mattress protector a perfect option for dorm life.
The Bedsure Waterproof Mattress Protector is available in dorm-friendly Twin XL and other sizes, from Twin to King. The retail price for the Twin XL option is as little as $28.99 before promotions.
Having a cloud-like fluffy comforter can make a vast difference in the sleep quality one might experience. The Bedsure Down Alternative Comforter is filled with premium 300 GSM down alternative, bringing a cloud-like coziness to sleepers as if they're sleeping in the cozy den they grew up in.
Featuring a baffle box construction and reinforced box stitching, the quilted Bedsure Down Alternative Comforter features enhanced durability with even distribution of fillings that do not shift over time. The elegant and subtle pattern also adds classic style to a dorm space.
The Bedsure Down Alternative Comforter is easy to maintain as the whole piece is machine washable, taking the stress of cleaning a bed off the to-do list of college students. It is also versatilely usable as a duvet insert and a standalone comforter.
Available in vivid and elegant color choices including White, Beige, Black, Burgundy, Dark Grey, Light Grey, Navy, Purple, Brown, Blue, and Green, as well as full-size options including Twin XL, the Bedsure Down Alternative Comforter starts at $31.99 before promotions.
In addition to adding Twin XL size to the lineup, Bedsure is offering unprecedented discounts on some of its products to make them even more affordable, as Bedsure recognizes that budget constraints are one of the top reasons students aren't getting more comfortable beddings.
Save up to 45% on the Bedsure Hotel Pillows with the stackable coupon code: U96HI4Z6. The Bedsure Hotel Pillows are manufactured to take the comfort of a luxury hotel room home. The virgin fiber fill inside the pillows provides a cloud-like experience while ensuring sufficient support. The brushed and washed cover enhances the plush feeling and offers comfortable and sound sleep at night. The Bedsure Hotel Pillows are easy to care for as they are machine-washable. They're also Standard 100 by OEKO TEX certified for being free from harmful material, making them the perfect sleep companion for college life. The sound-sleep-providing and Amazon's Choice Bedsure Hotel Pillows come in soft and firm options, and the Standard Pack of two retails at $39.99 can be bought for as little as $22.19 with the stackable coupon code.
Save up to 50% on the Bedsure Gusseted Pillows with the stackable coupon code: FWASB3QS. Finding perfectly comfortable pillows is no easy task. Doing so with a tight college budget is even more challenging. With the Bedsure Gusseted Pillows, sleepers will gain additional head and neck support from the extra filling from the gusseted edge, which also helps the pillow retain its shape after frequent usage. Filled with the 800 GSM virgin fiber filling, these gusseted pillows are extra breathable, airy, and soft to the touch. Suitable for sleepers of various positions, the Bedsure Gusseted Pillows make standard dorm rooms stand out and are perfect for incoming and returning dorm residents nationwide. The Bedsure Gusseted Pillows come in soft and firm options, and the Standard Pack of two retails at $38.99 before discounts and can be had for as little as $19.49 for a pair of two with the stackable discount code.
More of Bedsure's Back-to-School deals are available on Bedsure's official webpage and Amazon Store. For Bedsure's full catalog of Back-to-School deals, please visit https://www.amazon.com/stores/BEDSURE/page/8D364C1E-A5B5-4A23-BED7-91D5BBCF3D8E?ref_=ast_bln
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My sister was critically injured in horror holiday crash – she’s ‘worried sick’ for her boyfriend as he fights for life
A YOUNG British woman critically injured in a horror holiday moped crash is “worried sick” about her boyfriend as he fights for his life.
Brave Joella Senior, 27, has now been moved from intensive care onto a ward at the same hospital in Bali where her partner Alex Hoyle, 29, remains in a coma with head injuries and a broken back.
Her older sister Teya Brooker has told of both families’ heartache after the couple’s dream trip to the Indonesian island turned into a nightmare.
Primary school teacher Teya said: “My sister has the biggest heart and is worrying about everyone else, not herself. She said she is worried sick about Alex and knows the extent on his injuries while she is coping with her own."
“She is in so much pain herself and is exhausted but all she cares about is Alex and our families.”
Mum-of-two Teya from Corley, Warwickshire, who has spoken to her sibling by phone, said: “We’ve told her to stop worrying about us and that she needs to get better.”
Teya, 29, whose milestone 30th birthday is just weeks away, said: “We’ve got to look to the positive. She survived. But everything since the accident is such a blur.”
She told in a exclusive interview with The Sun Online how difficult it was to have a conversation with Joella, saying: “We try to talk but it’s hard for her. She is in so much pain and is exhausted so we keep it short and sweet but positive."
“She is aware Alex is in a really bad way and it is really hard for her because she can't see him. He’s still in intensive care.”
Teya, who has taken a career break to look after her baby daughter and toddler son, told their university lecturer mum Jeni Hall had flown out to Bali yesterday and had arrived safely.
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She said: “Mum’s been amazing and very strong.”
Joella, a social media co-ordinator for various companies, suffered a broken back in the crash on the third day of their “holiday of a lifetime” in Kerobokan, North Kuta, on the evening of June 12.
The couple’s Honda Vario scooter was in a collision with a car and another moped.
Joella also broke both arms, collarbone and cheekbone and has a damaged lung.
Her sister said: “The punctured lung is a problem and is causing her delay returning home. We don't know when she will be fit enough to travel home.”
She added how thankful both families and friends were to the “incredible doctors” in the Balinese main hospital.
Joella’s ex-fiancé Luke Howitt told how he is “hoping and praying that the pair make a full recovery and return home safely.”
He has been communicating with his former girlfriend, who he remains pals with, and said: “I’m trying to keep her spirits up. She has spinal and other injures and will need so much rest and physio."
“Alex is in a coma and his parents and sister are by his side."
“I haven't spoken to her about the accident but she knows how seriously injured Alex is. We all hope he pulls through and that they can come home together.”
Luke, 28, said that the huge response to the fundraiser - today standing at nearly £81,384 of its £100,000 target - to help pay for the couple’s medical bills was “just amazing.”
The building refurbishment worker told The Sun Online how he remained friends with Joella despite their break up, and knows her new boyfriend.
He said: “We were together for 10 years but grew apart. That happens. But we are still pals, after having a bit of distance, and we share our two dogs together, and I am just hoping that she is OK and Alex too."
“She is in a lot of pain and she can’t see Alex. They have been a couple for at least all of this year, maybe before, and we are thinking of them both.”
The injured couple’s close friends Georgie Steel and Oli Rowland told in a new posting on the JustGiving fundraiser how Joella had made some progress following extensive surgery.
They wrote: “Joella's operations to repair her displaced fractures in both her lower arms, stabilise fractures to the vertebrae as well as plating her collar bone and cheek bone have all gone really well.
“Whilst the operations were a success, Joella's road to recovery is still very long and she finds herself in a tremendous amount of pain post surgery as her body tries to recover from the stress that the operations have put her under.”
The picture is bleaker for Alex who remains in a critical condition sedated in intensive care with “no timescale known for when he'll wake up."
They posted: “He is requiring many further operations including repairs to serious injuries to his jaw, cheek bone and temporal bones. There is still unfortunately a long way to go for Alex's recovery.” | https://www.thesun.ie/news/8991815/brit-injured-moped-crash-bali-worried-boyfriend-coma/ | 2022-06-23T15:52:51Z | https://www.thesun.ie/news/8991815/brit-injured-moped-crash-bali-worried-boyfriend-coma/ | false | 4 |
Independent Healthcare Provider Workforce Statistics, March 2022, Experimental
Workforce information for Independent Healthcare Providers (IHP) - this was previously part of the Healthcare Workforce Statistics publication but is now a separate publication in its own right. These experimental statistics relate to the workforce directly employed in a range of independent healthcare organisations in England as at 31 March and 30 September each year from September 2016. The information provided for the IHP workforce does not represent the entire workforce employed across the whole of this sector and does not only show the staff providing NHS commissioned services. | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/independent-healthcare-provider-workforce-statistics-march-2022-experimental | 2022-06-23T15:52:54Z | https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/independent-healthcare-provider-workforce-statistics-march-2022-experimental | true | null |
EXCLUSIVE-Cisco to wind down business in Russia, Belarus
Telecoms equipment maker Cisco will wind down its business in Russia and Belarus, the company told Reuters on Thursday, as the pace of Western companies departing accelerates.
Telecoms equipment maker Cisco will wind down its business in Russia and Belarus, the company told Reuters on Thursday, as the pace of Western companies departing accelerates. The U.S. company stopped business operations, including sales and services, in the region in March.
Cisco joined U.S. sportswear maker Nike which also said on Thursday it was making a full exit from Russia, alongside others with have previously announced plans to leave, ranging from U.S. chain McDonald's to French carmaker Renault. Foreign companies seeking to exit Russia because of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine face the prospect of new laws being passed in coming weeks allowing Moscow to seize assets and impose criminal penalties. That has encouraged some businesses to accelerate their departure plans.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Students and school employees could soon be able to file grievances for all sex-based discrimination, rather than just sexual harassment and assault, the Education Department said Thursday.
The Biden administration’s proposed new guidelines, which address how schools should apply federal regulations that ensure equal access to education, dramatically expand protections beyond the current interpretation of the rule to also include discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Pan-African educator and community activist Dr. Umar Johnson described on a YouTube video posted June 20, 2022, how he was profiled by police while on his way to a Juneteenth event in South Carolina.
A video Dr. Johnson posted on his “King Kong Consciousness” YouTube channel shows he was pulled over and there were several cops involved.
A clinical psychologist, Johnson tours the country to deliver speeches and attend events as a featured guest.
He also hits the road to promote his books, as he did in March 2020 to promote “Black Parent Advocate,” which discusses navigating conflict with your child’s school.
Johnson regularly hosts the “Unapologetically Afrikan” Black College & Consciousness Tour for ages 11 thru 17-year-old boys and girls, which includes a tour of Historic Black Colleges and Universities such as Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina.
In the posted video clip, Johnson said he was in a convoy of cars driving with him on his way to be a guest speaker at a Juneteenth event at historic Black Benedict College when he was stopped and searched by 20 police officers.
“I hope you all are paying attention. We are supposed to be celebrating freedom, yet we’re here being accosted by the police,” Johnson said in the video.
He said he was being accompanied by “brothers and sisters from the Fred Hampton Gun Club,” who provided Johnson with security.
“I’m disgusted by the way we’re being treated,” Johnson said as a Black police officer can be seen going through his belongings in the back of his car.
Police told Johnson they “smelled marijuana in one of the comrade’s cars.”
He continued, “I thought we were supposed to be free; that’s what the Democratic Party tells us. I thought we were supposed to be free; that’s what the ‘coon’-gressional caucus told us,” said Johnson, referring to the Congressional Black Caucus. “I’m going to the keynote Juneteenth and see how I am being treated.”
For the past few years, Johnson has been raising money to build his new school, The Frederick Douglass and Marcus Garvey RBG International Leadership Academy for Boys in Philadelphia, PA. He said the school will be the first residential academy for Black boys founded upon the principles of pan-Afrikanism and international economics.
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The Baltimore Beat newspaper returned In May from a two-year hiatus with a new business structure and distribution strategy.
This summer, the “Black-led, Black controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet” announced it will begin publishing a free hardcopy print newspaper bi-weekly in addition to its online content.
The reason for going old school when so many media outlets have become strictly digital? Black Baltimore has need of it.
“The pandemic continues to highlight the many, many inequities that exist in our communities,” the Beat Editor-In-Chief Lisa Snowden said in a statement. “Our decision to forgo a paywall and distribute a print newspaper is our way of addressing those inequities. We want to make sure everybody can access the nuanced reporting we’ll be doing.”
The Baltimore Beat initially launched in 2017 as a for-profit weekly newspaper in response to the Baltimore City Paper closing. Since then, the publication has pivoted several times. In 2018, the Beat closed its doors before transitioning in 2019 to a nonprofit online outlet with a focus on service journalism.
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The publication went on another hiatus in 2020 to strategize becoming a nonprofit after receiving support from the Baltimore-based Lillian Holofcener Charitable Foundation – which gave the Beat a “vast majority” of its holdings after the murder of George Floyd.
The foundation had about $1 million in total in its fund, generally giving out $8,000 to $10,000 each year in grants, according to Baltimore Magazine.
“The money held by the Lillian Holofcener Foundation came from Baltimore. Divesting our assets to a Black-led news organization is what Baltimore and its majority Black citizenry need right now,” said Adam Holofcener, a local nonprofit lawyer with the Lillian Holofcener Charitable Foundation. “We hope that our model of no-strings-attached, large-scale giving to Black-run, Black-controlled local organizations inspires other Baltimore philanthropic groups to act in kind.”
Snowden said the generous donation gave her and her team a “sense of freedom” to tell imaginative stories.
“The news model I thought I’d be able to raise a family on was falling apart when I was just getting started in this industry,” Snowden wrote in a Twitter thread on May 13. “And as I’ve said millions of times, journalism has never been a welcoming place for Black and working class people. That’s a problem.
“It limits the stories we tell about ourselves. It limits our capacity to be better. It limits our imagination,” she continued. “This gift from the Lillian Holofcener Charitable Foundation is a way of changing that. It means that me and my brilliant team can do our work with a sense of freedom.”
The Beat aims to reach local readers with limited internet access who live in underrepresented communities by making it a priority to report on stories that “reflect the diversity and experiences of all Baltimoreans and hold those in power accountable through investigative work, literary storytelling, and service journalism.”
Its mission is “to honor the tradition of the Black press and the spirit of alt-weekly journalism with reporting that focuses on community, questions power structures, and prioritizes thoughtful engagement with our readers,” the website states.
The Baltimore Beat website also lists 10 core values by which staff operate. Among them are to reflect Baltimore with joy and excitement, be honest and rigorous in reporting, uplift Black and other marginalized people and not ignore issues pertinent to the welfare of Baltimoreans like many have.
In addition to Snowden, the Baltimore Beat staff includes Deputy Editor J. Brian Charles, Arts and Culture Editor Teri Henderson and Director Of Operations Brandon Soderberg.
“Baltimore has always been an important city in the story of Black America. It is a place where communities are faced with corrupt policing, substandard housing, underfunded schools, power-serving politics, and an overdose crisis, among many other issues,” Charles said. “Our publication will document the challenges facing Baltimore and show readers how communities here continue to develop ideas to address and get past those challenges.”
The Beat said it is relying on support from readers and like-minded large-scale donors to help sustain it.
For all inquiries, email lisa@baltimorebeat.com.
PHOTO: Baltimore Beat staff, left to right: J. Brian Charles, Brandon Soderberg, Lisa Snowden, and Teri Henderson (Photo by Schaun Champion via BaltimoreBeat.com) | https://moguldom.com/413111/inside-the-relaunch-of-baltimore-beat-newspaper-as-a-nonprofit/ | 2022-06-23T16:00:37Z | https://moguldom.com/413111/inside-the-relaunch-of-baltimore-beat-newspaper-as-a-nonprofit/ | true | 1 |
LANSING — State lawmakers on Thursday approved giving Ford Motor Co. a $101 million incentive to spend $1.1 billion and add 3,030 jobs at four existing Michigan plants and at a new packaging center.
The Senate Appropriations Committee's 14-3 vote came after the House Appropriation Committee voted 20-8 last week in favor of the deal that was announced weeks ago. Legislators agreed to facilitate the agreement by transferring $100.8 million from the new Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve Fund to the Critical Industry Program.
The Dearborn-based automaker will also receive a $34.4 million State Essential Services Assessment exemption to support the addition of 230 jobs at other Michigan factories.
Quentin Messer Jr., CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corp., said the state will claw back a portion of the $100.8 million grant if Ford does not create all of the promised jobs. It must add at least 90 percent of the projected jobs at each of the five sites — the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, the Monroe Packaging Center, the Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, the Rawsonville Plant in Ypsilanti Township and the Livonia Transmission Plant.
Roughly $233 million is now left in the SOAR fund, which had $1 billion when it was formed by legislators and Gov. Gretchen Whiter late last year following Ford's decision to locate two massive EV campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky.
The fund was first tapped in January when General Motors Co. announced plans to build an EV battery factory in Lansing and to convert its Orion Township plant to make electric pickup trucks. | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/economic-development/michigan-lawmakers-ok-101m-incentive-ford-add-jobs | 2022-06-23T16:01:17Z | https://www.crainsdetroit.com/economic-development/michigan-lawmakers-ok-101m-incentive-ford-add-jobs | true | 1 |
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Barcelona plan to 'reinvest' Frenkie de Jong Man Utd fee in deal that would help Liverpool
BARCELONA and Manchester United are in discussions over a Frenkie de Jong transfer.
De Jong quizzed on Man Utd transfer links
Barcelona reportedly want to reinvest the fee they are set to receive from Manchester United for Frenkie de Jong in a move that could inadvertently aid Liverpool’s Premier League title challenge. The La Liga giants are in discussions with United over a potential switch for Dutch midfielder De Jong and will apparently put the funds towards a blockbuster transfer for Manchester City ace Bernardo Silva.
United have earmarked De Jong as a top target for new boss Erik ten Hag. The pair worked together at Ajax before the 25-year-old’s move to Barca in the summer of 2019.
Ten Hag is keen to reinvigorate his midfield and has asked the Old Trafford hierarchy to go all-out to sign De Jong. According to wide-ranging reports, a deal could cost the Premier League side in the region of £70m.
Barca will reinvest any cash they receive for De Jong and are targeting a swoop for Man City playmaker Silva, transfer guru Fabrizio Romano claims. Silva was one of City’s key players during their Premier League title-winning campaign and would be a major loss to Pep Guardiola.
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Romano told Wettfreunde: "They (Barcelona) want Bernardo Silva. Barcelona's mission will be to sell Frenkie de Jong and sign Bernardo Silva with almost the same money. So they don’t want to lose in this kind of deal.
"At the same point they want to make sure that with La Liga rules, they can reinvest the full part of this money that they would receive from Man Utd Frenkie de Jong. This is why the deal is not so fast, this is why the two clubs are still in contact but there is still no agreement."
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Silva appeared 35 times as City retained the Premier League title last season. The 27-year-old started in all 11 of their Champions League clashes, with Guardiola’s side dramatically losing the semi-final against Real Madrid.
The Portugal international scored 13 goals and provided a further seven assists across all competitions. City losing a player as important as Silva could dent their title aspirations ahead of next season, even though they have upgraded their striking options by signing Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez.
Liverpool will therefore hope that northwest rivals United do them a favour by paying Barca what they want for De Jong.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man is petitioning for her release.
Morgan Geyser, 20, has asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh. Bohren scheduled a Thursday afternoon hearing about the request.
According to prosecutors, Geyser and Weier lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park following a sleepover in May 2014, and Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three girls were 12 at the time.
Geyser and Weier left Leutner for dead, but she managed to crawl out of the woods in the park and was discovered by a passing bicyclist.
She suffered 19 stab wounds and barely survived, according to medical staff who treated her. Police found Weier and Geyser later that day walking on Interstate 94 in Waukesha. They said they were traveling to Slender Man’s mansion in northern Wisconsin and attacked Leutner because they thought it would make them Slender Man’s servants and prevent him from killing their families.
Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors and a judge sent her to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after determining she had a mental illness.
Weier, 20, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also sent to the psychiatric facility after a jury found she was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the attack.
Last September, Weier was granted a conditional release to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor. Some restrictions are likely if Bohren orders Geyser's release. | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Woman-committed-over-Slender-Man-stabbing-seeks-17260790.php | 2022-06-23T16:08:27Z | https://www.bigrapidsnews.com/news/article/Woman-committed-over-Slender-Man-stabbing-seeks-17260790.php | false | 37 |
Excitement is building for the Armed Forces Weekend being hosted by the seaside town of Cleethorpes, less than an hour’s drive from Hull, with lots to do and see for visitors of all ages.
Undoubted highlights of the Cleethorpes Armed Forces Day event will be the thrilling flying demonstrations by some of the nation’s best loved military aircraft. Crowds will get a double helping of awesome airborne displays, this coming Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26.
The star attractions of the schedule are destined to be the Red Arrows, the Typhoon display team and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, as well as the helicopters of the Royal Navy Black Cats. The salute to the UK’s Armed Forces will be the biggest display seen since the resort hosted the national Armed Forces event in 2016 (Scarborough is hosting this year’s national celebration, also taking place over the weekend).
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Central Cleethorpes and the length of the seafront are expected to be thronging with people eager to take in everything that the programme promises to deliver, including two afternoons of flypasts. The day will culminate in a spectacular 20-minute long firework display.
The specific timings for the flying displays are flexible, organisers have said, adding: “Please be aware that some elements can be affected by weather and mechanical reliability, and we will keep information updated as soon as we are informed of any changes.”
What flypasts will take place on Saturday, June 25?
The opener to two days of great flying, as Cleethorpes piggy-backs on to the national event, just a few minutes’ flying time away in Scarborough, flypasts are set to include the Red Arrows, with their breath-taking aerobatic formations, and the full Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, with the Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane taking to the skies.
The flypasts are scheduled to take place between 1pm-5pm and currently included, and in planned order of appearance, are:
- Typhoon
- Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Lancaster, Spitfire and Hurricane
- Miles Gemini Display
- Aircraft (TBC)
- Starling Display
- The Red Arrows
What flypasts will take place on Sunday, June 26?
Another highlight of Armed Forces Weekend will be the magnificent sight of the Royal Navy Black Cats display team with their helicopters, along the length of the seafront.
Flying times on Sunday are flexible but expected to be between 1pm and 4.30pm. The schedule currently includes, in planned order of appearance:
- Starling Display
- Royal Navy Black Cats Helicopter Display Team
- Hurricane
- Miles Gemini Display
- Aircraft (TBC)
- Typhoon
Updated details about the flying demonstrations and all the other features of Armed Forces Weekend can be found on the website.
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The results of the BNP Paribas Asset Management (‘BNPP AM’) European ESG ETF Barometer1 revealed that most investors surveyed expect further expansion of the European ESG2 ETF3 market over the next year.
The biannual barometer, conducted for the first time in April this year, monitors how European investors’ sustainable investment outlook and practices are changing over time. It canvasses the views of 250 investment executives at insurers, pension funds, asset managers and wealth managers in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK. It assesses their perspectives on the evolving ETF landscape, as well as on ESG integration, thematic opportunities, the regulatory environment and ESG investment risks. The key findings from the first survey include:
- With ESG ETFs currently accounting for 16%4 of all European ETF assets, 91% of survey respondents expect this level to remain stable or increase over the coming 12 months.
- 57% of respondents ranked asset managers’ ESG credibility and credentials as a primary consideration in deciding who to allocate to.
- Investors in Switzerland (72%) and the UK (68%) were most interested in a thematic approach to ESG investing, with the circular economy (61%) the most popular theme.
- 82% of respondents consider thematic ESG ETFs to be active strategies
Denis Panel, Head of Multi-Asset, Quantitative & Solutions (‘MAQS’) at BNPP AM, comments:
“The launch of the BNP Paribas Asset Management European ESG ETF Barometer provides us with valuable insights into the way in which investor preferences for thematic ESG ETFs are evolving. The results of the first survey highlight the growing appetite for this asset class. BNPP AM has ambitions to further develop as a key player in index solutions integrating ESG and decarbonisation. The results not only validate the necessary move towards sustainable indices, including Paris-Aligned Benchmark standards, which BNPP AM adopted at the end of 2021, but also show the increased use of ETFs as a means of accessing ESG themes, with the divide between what has previously been considered ‘active’ and ‘passive’ becoming increasingly blurred.”
Investors are expecting further growth in ESG ETF assets over the next 12 months
The European ESG ETF Barometer found that investors were particularly optimistic about the outlook for ESG ETFs, with 91% expecting the proportion of assets held in ESG ETFs to remain stable or grow. By country, respondents in the UK (96%) and Italy (96%) were the most positive about the growth outlook for the asset class. In line with these findings, only 6% of respondents expect there to be a major drop in the value of ESG assets over the next 12 months.
Asset managers’ ESG credentials matter
The survey also found that when selecting ESG ETFs, asset managers’ ESG credibility and credentials are a primary consideration for investors choosing who to allocate to, with 57% of investors ranking this among their top three criteria. However, respondents in Germany and Switzerland attached more importance to ESG fund labels and certifications, with 46% in both countries stating that these rank among their three highest priorities.
Investors were keen to see greater focus on social issues within ESG engagement and voting practices, with 43% of respondents wanting more focus on employee rights and 42% on board diversity. However, wealth management respondents were more focused on environmental issues, with 55% saying they want to see increased disclosure about climate impact, with greenhouse gas emissions prioritised in engagement and stewardship activity.
ESG integration and thematic preferences differ by client type and country
When it came to ESG integration preferences, there were notable differences between client type and country. A thematic approach to ESG investing was found to be a key approach for Swiss (72%) and UK (68%) respondents, but less so for French respondents (36%). Wealth management (63%) respondents were most likely to cite impact investing as important, while asset managers (57%) view engagement and stewardship as the most important aspect of ESG integration.
When asked which themes they were most interested in, the strongest appetite among respondents was for the circular economy. Overall, 61% of respondents expect this to be their primary focus over the next 12 months, with the greatest demand seen from those in Germany (88%), France (66%) and Italy (62%). Along with the blue (i.e. ocean) economy, the circular economy proved especially popular among asset owners, while asset managers and wealth managers view access to education as a significant focus for their thematic ESG investments.
Next-generation thematic ETFs increasingly seen as active strategies
Whereas traditional ETFs have historically been considered to be passive investments, the survey suggested that next-generation thematic ETFs are increasingly thought of as active, as investors seek to capitalise upon long-term megatrends represented by niche indices. Only 18% of respondents disagreed with a statement that such ETFs are active strategies.
BNPP AM has been at the forefront of ESG ETF innovation since 2008, when it became the first asset manager to launch a low-carbon ETF, BNP Paribas Easy Low Carbon 100 Europe. In December 2021, BNPP AM upgraded 18 of its ETFs to track ESG indices and Paris-Aligned Benchmarks standards in order to enhance the responsible credentials of its BNP Paribas Easy range. The changes mean that 89% of BNPP AM’s range of index funds, accounting for more than EUR 17 billion of assets, were classified as SFDR Article 8 or Article 9 strategies at the end of March 2022. BNPP AM’s ETF range now includes themes such as the blue economy, green real estate, sustainable infrastructure, medical technology, sustainable hydrogen and the circular economy.
Footnotes
- Survey conducted in April 2022 on behalf of BNP Paribas Asset Management by Longitude, a Financial Times company. Respondents included asset managers and asset owners based in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the UK.
- Environmental, Social & Governance
- Exchange Traded Fund
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Pittco Management, LLC, a single family office located in Memphis, TN has appointed Lorie Jernigan, CPA, as the firm's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As the CFO, Ms. Jernigan will oversee the firm's tax, accounting, and administrative groups. Ms. Jernigan will also serve on the firm's Executive Committee.
"Lorie is a smart, dedicated financial professional who is also a great leader. We couldn't be happier to have her lead our financial team," said Henry Guy, incoming Pittco President.
Ms. Jernigan combines a thoughtful, professional work ethic with deep knowledge of tax and accounting. She began her career as an audit manager at Arthur Andersen & Co specializing in SEC work and larger private clients. She then joined Pittco Management as a Vice President, Accounting and Administration and has risen steadily through the ranks ever since.
"I love what I do and who I work for a Pittco," said Ms. Jernigan when discussing her promotion. "To continue to serve the Hyde family, now as the firm's Chief Financial Officer, is an honor and a privilege."
Pittco Management is a single family office for the family of Pitt Hyde, founder of AutoZone, and his wife, Barbara. Pittco was established over 30 years ago, and provides investment, accounting, tax and financial services from its headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Named a distinguished school for STEM and career learning program
SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) announced that it has been recognized as a 2021-22 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished School. It is one of just 134 middle schools across the U.S., and one of only two in Fort Bend, to receive this honor for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW Gateway.
"Our mission at CCA is to instill in our students a strong foundation of skills for life and faith for eternity," shared Mr. Eric Nicholie, CCA's Head of School. "Receiving this honor means we are staying true to our mission by providing our students with important access to STEM programs that will prepare them for the world after graduation."
The PLTW Distinguished School recognition honors schools committed to increasing student access, engagement, and achievement in their PLTW programs. To be eligible for the designation, CCA had to meet the following criteria during the 2020-2021 school year:
- Offer at least one PLTW Gateway unit at each grade level;
- Have more than 50 percent of the student body participating;
- Have at least 25 percent of students advancing to high school participate in two or more units during their middle school tenure;
- Have strategies and supports in place that support reasonably proportional representation with regard to race, ethnicity, poverty, gender and can support such claims with relevant data.
"We are honored to recognize Cornerstone Christian Academy for their unwavering commitment to provide students with an excellent educational experience despite the last two years having been some of the most challenging in recent history for students and educators across the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr. David Dimmett, Interim President and CEO of PLTW.
"CCA should be very proud of their achievements in unlocking their students' potential and equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in life beyond the classroom no matter what career path they choose."
For more information on Cornerstone Christian Academy's PLTW Gateway program, visit www.cornerstonecca.org or contact Natalie Lange at nlange@cornerstonecca.org.
Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) is a non-denominational Christian private school in Sugar Land, Texas serving preschool through eighth grade. CCA provides a developmentally appropriate education experience in a safe and nurturing environment that supports academic growth. With access to highly qualified and passionate teachers, CCA students grow to become seekers of Biblical truth, academic knowledge, and outstanding citizens of character.
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German volleyball team refuses to play virus-hit China
Players on the German national volleyball team refused to face China rivals a few days after some of their opponents tested positive for COVID-19, costing the team a forfeit loss on Thursday.
The men's Volleyball Nations League game in the Philippines was canceled “even though the Chinese athletes were cleared by local authorities after testing positive,” the International Volleyball Federation said in a statement.
China was awarded a 3-0 victory in Quezon City.
The German volleyball federation said 21 members of the Chinese delegation had tested positive on Saturday. It requested follow-up PCR tests on the Chinese players before agreeing to play but organizers deferred to local health regulations, the federation said.
On Wednesday, China forfeited its game against France because of the virus cases.
China is scheduled to play Argentina on Friday as games continue in the Philippines through Sunday.
The Volleyball Nations League is a worldwide series played by 16 countries in June and July.
The German federation said it was concerned any positive tests in its own delegation could prevent the team from traveling to Japan for games starting July 5.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Snoop Dogg Has Funny Reaction To Man Who Proposes During Meet & Greet
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Donation to be utilized in healthcare, education, and skill development
AHMEDABAD, India, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the year of the centenary birth anniversary of Gautam Adani's father Shri Shantilal Adani, and Gautam Adani's own 60th birthday, the Adani Family has committed a donation of Rs 60,000 crore to a range of social causes. This corpus will be administered by the Adani Foundation.
To utilize the potential of India's demographic advantage, there is an ever growing need to focus on the areas of healthcare, education, and skill development. The shortfalls in each of these areas are roadblocks for an 'Atmanirbhar Bharat.' The Adani Foundation has gained rich experience in working with communities focused on integrated development efforts across all these areas. Addressing these challenges can significantly enhance the competence and competitiveness of the future workforce.
"In addition to being the 100th birth anniversary of my inspiring father, this year also happens to be the year of my 60th birthday and therefore the family decided to contribute Rs. 60,000 crores towards charitable activities related to healthcare, education, and skill development, especially in the rural regions of our nation," said Mr. Gautam Adani, Chairman, Adani Group. "At a very fundamental level, programs related to all these three areas should be seen holistically and they collectively form the drivers to build an equitable and future-ready India. Our experience in large project planning and execution and the learnings from the work done by the Adani Foundation will help us uniquely accelerate these programs. This contribution from the Adani Family intends to draw upon some of the brightest minds that have a passion to make a difference in the Adani Foundation's journey to do more towards fulfilling our 'Growth with Goodness' philosophy."
On this occasion, Mr. Azim Premji, Chairman of Azim Premji Foundation and Founder Chairman of Wipro Limited and widely recognized as one of the greatest philanthropists of our times said, "Gautam Adani and his family's commitment towards philanthropy should set an example that we can all try to live Mahatma Gandhi's principle of Trusteeship of Wealth at the peak of our business success and need not wait for our sunset years." He further added "The challenges and possibilities of our country demand that we work together as one, cutting across all divides of wealth, region, religion, caste, and more. I wish Gautam Adani and his Foundation the very best in this important national endeavor."
Over the years, the Adani Foundation has responded to society's changing needs in alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – be it sustainable livelihoods, health and nutrition, and education for all or addressing environmental concerns – with an enhanced focus on the empowerment of women, working with multiple stakeholders at the grassroots. Today, it covers 3.7 million people in 2,409 villages across 16 states in India.
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Ethan Crumbley trial pushed back to January 2023 in Oxford High School shooting
OXFORD, Mich. (FOX 2) - The trial for accused Oxford School shooter Ethan Crumbley has been adjourned until early next year.
A tentative date had been set for Sept. 6. During a pre-trial hearing Thursday, defense for Crumbley said a September date did not seem realistic. It was already expected that the trial could be delayed.
The trial will now be held at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 17, 2023.
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Since Crumbley is a juvenile, he appears in front of Judge Kwame Rowe each month, who reviews whether he should remain in the Oakland County Jail.
Typically, teens charged with crimes are housed at Children's Village. Due to the severity of Crumbley's alleged crimes, he's at the jail, where he is taking GED classes.
Another review is set for July 21 at 9 a.m.
Oxford school shooting surveillance video
Thursday's hearing comes a day after an Oakland County judge ordered the release of surveillance video from the shooting.
Judge Rae Lee Chabot ruled that attorney Ven Johnson can have access to the videos to see what happened on Nov. 30, 2021.
Johnson has filed civil lawsuits against the Oxford school district, as well as against Ethan Crumbley and his parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley.
Related: Oxford parents file federal lawsuit against district
The Oakland County Prosecutor’s office released a statement saying it "will seek to intervene" in an effort to stop the release of the documents and video citing concerns about the impact on the criminal trials and "giving the Oxford school shooter the notoriety he sought." Writing in part:
"The civil cases are also an important part of achieving justice for the victims, but we are asking that the criminal cases be allowed to proceed before more evidence is released.
"We want to avoid any public release of video or other evidence that could inadvertently encourage future shooters."
Prosecutor says evidence shouldn't be tossed from Crumbley parents' trial
As Ethan Crumbley's case progresses, his parents' cases are also moving through the system.
James and Jennifer Crumbley are both charged with involuntary manslaughter. The parents are accused of ignoring their son's mental health and providing him with access to the weapon used.
They want the case to be moved, and certain evidence to be excluded from trial.
READ: What James and Jennifer Crumbley want tossed from trial
Prosecutor Karen McDonald responded to motions filed by defense for the Crumbley parents, saying that their requests should be denied.
According to one of the filings from her office, "the defendants have important rights, but so do victims and the public. Victims have a right to a zealous advocate on their behalf. The public has a right to know what happened and to try to prevent future shootings. Above all else, the public and victims have a right to the truth." | https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/ethan-crumbley-trial-pushed-back-to-january-2023-in-oxford-high-school-shooting | 2022-06-23T16:20:56Z | https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/ethan-crumbley-trial-pushed-back-to-january-2023-in-oxford-high-school-shooting | true | 1 |
Named a distinguished school for STEM and career learning program
SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) announced that it has been recognized as a 2021-22 Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Distinguished School. It is one of just 134 middle schools across the U.S., and one of only two in Fort Bend, to receive this honor for providing broad access to transformative learning opportunities for students through PLTW Gateway.
"Our mission at CCA is to instill in our students a strong foundation of skills for life and faith for eternity," shared Mr. Eric Nicholie, CCA's Head of School. "Receiving this honor means we are staying true to our mission by providing our students with important access to STEM programs that will prepare them for the world after graduation."
The PLTW Distinguished School recognition honors schools committed to increasing student access, engagement, and achievement in their PLTW programs. To be eligible for the designation, CCA had to meet the following criteria during the 2020-2021 school year:
- Offer at least one PLTW Gateway unit at each grade level;
- Have more than 50 percent of the student body participating;
- Have at least 25 percent of students advancing to high school participate in two or more units during their middle school tenure;
- Have strategies and supports in place that support reasonably proportional representation with regard to race, ethnicity, poverty, gender and can support such claims with relevant data.
"We are honored to recognize Cornerstone Christian Academy for their unwavering commitment to provide students with an excellent educational experience despite the last two years having been some of the most challenging in recent history for students and educators across the U.S. due to the COVID-19 pandemic," said Dr. David Dimmett, Interim President and CEO of PLTW.
"CCA should be very proud of their achievements in unlocking their students' potential and equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive in life beyond the classroom no matter what career path they choose."
For more information on Cornerstone Christian Academy's PLTW Gateway program, visit www.cornerstonecca.org or contact Natalie Lange at nlange@cornerstonecca.org.
Cornerstone Christian Academy (CCA) is a non-denominational Christian private school in Sugar Land, Texas serving preschool through eighth grade. CCA provides a developmentally appropriate education experience in a safe and nurturing environment that supports academic growth. With access to highly qualified and passionate teachers, CCA students grow to become seekers of Biblical truth, academic knowledge, and outstanding citizens of character.
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PORTSMOUTH, N.H., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- TALON, an industry leader in providing innovative healthcare technology solutions, has released its latest case study, and the results reveal significant impacts for the customer in question.
According to the case study, the large New England employer group was facing a consistent annual increase in healthcare spend of 15 percent. The company's CFO was concerned at the impact this was having on their bottom line, as well as the financial burden to their employees. The employer reached out to their broker, who then brought in TALON.
The study reveals that the risks if inaction in this case included: 1) continue overpaying for healthcare, 2) $100 per employee, per day fines for non-compliance with TIC mandates, and 3) employee dissatisfaction. After implementing its solution, TALON was able to help the employer lower its healthcare spend by 20 percent (including an average 22 percent premium savings per member) and reduce employee attrition by 25 percent—all in the first year.
"Proof in practice, that's the bottom line here," said TALON Co-Founder, President, and CEO Mark Galvin. "We can talk all day about how effective our solution is at simple and seamless integration, achieving full compliance with all transparency mandates, lowering healthcare costs, and empowering members to take an active role in their own care, but the proof is in the pudding. There simply isn't another solution on the market today that can accomplish what TALON can."
The full case study can be viewed here: https://talonhealthtech.com/new-talon-case-study-reveals-significant-customer-healthcare-savings-reduced-employee-attrition/
TALON's mission is to educate, empower, and incentivize the American healthcare consumer to meaningfully reduce costs and create a healthier ecosystem. We've built the ultimate suite of software services designed to fulfill the requirements of the Transparency in Coverage Rule and No Surprises Act. Simply put, TALON protects healthcare stakeholders from overpaying for care while enabling seamless integration into the Payer's existing architecture, all without disruption or distraction. Our tools create free-market dynamics, starting with our ability to ensure full compliance with all mandates and extending through our consumer-driven MyMedicalShopper platform. Learn more at talonhealthtech.com.
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SAN MATEO, Calif., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Employee Stock Option Fund ("ESO Fund") announced the closing of ESO Venture Fund V, LP ("Fund V") which provides funding to employees of venture-backed startups to exercise their stock options. Fund V exceeded its target and raised an oversubscribed $200 million fund of limited partner committed capital with strong support from ESO's longstanding investors as well as notable new investors.
ESO pioneered the stock option financing space with its first fund in 2012 and has helped thousands of employees of venture-backed companies. ESO plans to use this new fund to continue investing in the next generation of innovative private companies by partnering with their employees to finance stock option exercises and provide liquidity for shares already purchased.
Scott Chou, co-founder of ESO Fund noted "Given the uncertainty in today's market, ESO's ability to eliminate risk for startup option holders is more important than ever. By working with ESO, employees are able to purchase the equity they've worked so hard for without having to face heightened risk or worry about uncertain liquidity timelines. For ESO, the option finance strategy allows us to create a robust, diversified portfolio at pre-IPO prices that is well positioned to generate long term appreciation."
ESO is based in San Mateo, California and was founded in 2012 by Scott Chou, Stephen Roberts, and Jimmy Lackie to partner with employees of venture backed companies to exercise their stock options with minimal risk and capture the value they worked to create.
ESO has previously raised 4 Funds: Fund I (2012), Fund II (2014), Fund III (2017), Fund IV (2020). Since originating the space in 2012, ESO has helped employees at more than 600 companies and created more than one billion dollars in wealth through exits at notable companies like Robinhood, Snowflake, GitLab, Squarespace, Roblox, Coinbase, and many others.
For more information on ESO Fund visit www.esofund.com, follow us on Twitter @esofund or contact Scott Chou - scott@esofund.com - (650) 376-4914
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The West should not underestimate Russia’s military capabilities in Ukraine, Estonia’s leader told The Associated Press, saying that as the war enters its fifth month, Moscow’s forces are in it for the long haul.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said in an interview Wednesday that Europe should ensure that those committing war crimes and attempted genocide are prosecuted, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin escaped punishment for annexing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and supporting an insurgency in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region that killed over 14,000 people even before this year’s war began.
“I’ve heard talks that, you know, there is no threat anymore because they have exhausted themselves. No, they haven’t,” she said of the Russian military, which failed to take Kyiv in the early stages of the war and is now concentrating its firepower in the east.
“They have plenty of troops still who can come (to fight) — They are not counting the lives that they are losing. They are not counting the artillery that they are losing there. So I don’t think that we should underestimate them in the longer term to still keep this up,” Kallas said, despite the low morale and corruption troubling Moscow’s forces.
Kallas praised the unity that Europe has shown in punishing Russia for the invasion that began Feb. 24, even though she said it was clear from the beginning that it would be “more and more difficult over time” to hang together.
“First, we did the sanctions that were relatively easy. Now we move to sanctions that are much more difficult. But so far, we have managed to get the unity, even if we have different opinions,” she said in the interview in Stenbock House, a government building where she has her office and holds Cabinet meetings..
“This is normal for democracy. We debate, we discuss, and then we get to the solution. So far, it has been a negative surprise to Putin that we are still united,” Kallas said.
She said she was hopeful that Ukraine will be granted candidate status for the European Union at the bloc’s upcoming summit in Brussels, despite the initial divisions over it. The EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, threw its weight behind Ukraine’s candidacy last week.
Some countries “were very skeptical two months ago,” Kallas said, but now there are “different signals coming from different member states … that they are on board.”
Estonia, which shares a 294-kilometer (about 180-mile) border with Russia, has taken a hard-line stance over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Kallas has criticized other European leaders for talking to Putin and has advocated for isolating Moscow completely, leaving the decision on how to end the war up to Ukraine.
As the war has dragged on, some in the West have suggested reaching a negotiated peace deal with Russia — even if it meant that Ukraine would give up territory. Kallas has warned against it.
In her comments to the AP, she pointed out that this is exactly what happened after Moscow annexed Crimea, backed the separatists in the industrial Donbas and seized territory in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.
“For us, it is important to not make that mistake again like we did in Crimea, Donbas, Georgia,” she said. “We have done the same mistake already three times saying that, you know, negotiations, negotiated peace is the goal. … The only thing that Putin hears from this is that ‘I can do this because no punishment will follow.’
“And every time, every next time will be with more human suffering than the last one was,” she added.
In Ukraine, those committing war crimes and “conducting or trying to conduct genocide” should be prosecuted.
Sanctions against Russia will take effect over time, she said, and one just needs to have “strategic patience.”
Kallas defended criticism that the sanctions appear to hurt ordinary Russians while failing to deter Putin so far.
“And I still think that, you know, the effects should be felt by the Russian population as well, because if you look, the support for Putin is very high,” she said.
Kallas added that Russian soldiers are bragging about war crimes they commit “to their wives and to their mothers. And if the wives and mothers say that ‘This is OK what you are doing there’ … I mean, this is also the war that Russia and Russian people are holding up in Ukraine,” she said.
On the domestic front, the 45-year-old Kallas is fighting for her political future as Estonia’s two-party government led by her center-right Reform Party fell apart early June as she kicked out junior partner Center Party following disputes over welfare and spending issues amid rampant inflation in the Baltic nation.
Kallas, who has led the Reform Party since 2018 and became Estonia’s first female prime minister in January 2021, started coalition talks this month with two other parties, and they are expected to reach a coalition deal by early July.
If not, Kallas will face the grim prospect of governing a weak one-party minority government until the next general election scheduled for March 2023.
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Jari Tanner in Helsinki contributed.
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NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- InvestorsObserver issues critical PriceWatch Alerts for NIO, XELA, SFT, XPEV, and VRM.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Proof Diagnostics, Inc., a healthcare technology company focused on delivering innovative solutions in molecular diagnostics, today announced it has appointed Adam Henry as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. Mr. Henry brings over 25 years of experience to the company, several of which were spent working directly with startups aiming to disrupt the diagnostics space. He will spearhead the company's overarching growth and business development strategy, reporting directly to CEO and co-founder, Sid Shenai.
"Adam's impressive track record of success in leading corporate strategy, business development and strategic marketing functional areas for health tech companies, combined with his passion for diagnostics innovation, makes him uniquely qualified to drive forth our corporate development initiatives," said Shenai. "We're a very mission-driven company, so it's critical that our leadership team truly believes in our ability to transform the way we approach personal health by delivering actionable insights at the point-of-care. Adam absolutely shares that belief and we're confident in his ability to build upon our early success and accelerate our company's growth even further."
Prior to joining Proof Diagnostics, Mr. Henry served as Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Roche-subsidiary GenMark Dx. While at GenMark, he developed, implemented, and actively managed the company's business development initiatives and corporate strategic planning process to inform and drive the long-term vision, direction, and new growth prospects for the company. Before Roche, he served on the Corporate Strategy team at Siemens Healthineers, where he focused on internal management consulting for the company's Diagnostics division, working across the Lab Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics, and Point-of-Care business segments. Prior to Siemens, Adam spent several years at Hologic and Gen-Probe (acquired by Hologic) serving in senior management roles responsible for corporate strategy, business development, and strategic/upstream marketing.
"What Proof has been able to accomplish with regards to developing and submitting an entirely new COVID-19 testing system for Emergency Use Authorization in just two years is incredibly impressive," said Mr. Henry. "The innovation behind Proof's molecular CRISPR-based technology will help individuals finally get the actionable health insights they need to improve their daily lives, so I'm really excited to help bring these important solutions to market."
For more information on Proof Diagnostics please visit www.proofdx.com.
Proof Diagnostics, Inc. has established itself as an innovative healthcare technology company focused on delivering innovative solutions in molecular diagnostics. Proof's mission is to empower the public to take control of, and better understand, their overall health through lab-quality molecular testing, initiating with COVID-19, that is easy to use, accurate and cost-effective. The Proof Lab Test System comprises the Proof Lab Reader, a portable, scalable diagnostic device that utilizes a Proof Lab Test Cartridge and Proof Lab Test Kit to provide lab-quality results and actionable diagnostic information, helping people lead better, healthier lives.
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The number of rats scampering across city sidewalks has soared after two years of neglected rodent inspections from the Department of Health.
In response to the uptick, a group of council members have introduced legislation to mitigate rats specifically within New York City Housing Authority buildings. One bill introduced on Tuesday would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to issue an annual report on the success of rat mitigation measures in designated areas, and for the department to report on the metrics that are being used to evaluate progress.
Another bill would mandate that before a permit authorizing building alterations is issued, the applicant must prove that rat mitigations have taken place. Other bills introduced set guidelines for trash collection, including times and receptacle material. The bills are going through the legislative process, but in the meantime, there are “bonanza festivities” of rodents occurring in the trash, said City Councilwoman Alexa Avilés, who represents District 38 in Brooklyn. | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/stats-and-city/number-rats-skyrocketing-across-new-york-city | 2022-06-23T16:28:23Z | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/stats-and-city/number-rats-skyrocketing-across-new-york-city | true | 1 |
BERLIN (AP) — The German government has managed to get more than 21,000 former local employees and other endangered people out of Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power almost a year ago, Germany’s foreign minister said Thursday.
However, around 10,000 people are still waiting for an opportunity to get out with German help, Annelena Baerbock told reporters in Berlin. These are primarily people on a so-called “human rights list” and therefore particularly at risk. Only half of this group has so far managed to leave Afghanistan.
Baerbock said that people who left Afghanistan, mostly through Pakistan, make up around two thirds of the total who have been approved for admission to Germany.
They include Afghans who either worked for Germany as local employees or were involved in efforts for democracy and human rights in Afghanistan.
About 75% of the local employees in particular have been able to leave. In addition, almost all German nationals and their families have left the country.
The minister deplored that the economic and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan continues to get worse and that human rights are being restricted on a massive scale.
“The bottom line is that the lives of people in Afghanistan have deteriorated drastically in the last few months,” Baerbock said.
One of the main obstacles that keeps people from getting out of Afghanistan is that the Taliban require those wanting to leave by plane to show a passport, which many at-risk people do not have. And neighboring countries insist on visas, which can be expensive and also require owning a passport.
“I would like to say clearly that the difficulties of getting people out of Afghanistan in the first place will unfortunately remain and that is why it will also remain our main task to simply provide support on the ground,” the minister said. | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4579261 | 2022-06-23T16:29:22Z | https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4579261 | false | 12 |
The feds officially banned the sale of Juul e-cigarettes within the United States on Thursday following years of mounting pressure to address the harmful effects of a youth vaping trend.
The US Food and Drug Administration said its ban applied to the Juul device and “all of their products currently marketed” in the US, including pods with 5% and 3% nicotine concentrations.
“Today’s action is further progress on the FDA’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public health standards,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said in a statement.
“The agency has dedicated significant resources to review products from the companies that account for most of the U.S. market. We recognize these make up a significant part of the available products and many have played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping,” Califf added.
The Post has reached out to Juul representatives for comment.
The likelihood of a ban was first reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. The ban is not expected to impact rivals such as Reynolds American, which produces Vuse, and NJOY.
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope.
The documentation contains 2,700 files of requests for Vatican help from Jewish groups and families, many of them baptized Catholics, so not actually practicing Jews anymore. The files were held in the Secretariat of State's archives and contain requests for papal intervention to avoid Nazi deportation, to obtain liberation from concentration camps or help finding family members.
The online publication of the files comes amid renewed debate about Pius’ legacy following the 2020 opening to scholars of his archives, of which the “Jews” files are but a small part. The Vatican has long defended Pius against criticism from some Jewish groups that he remained silent in the face of the Holocaust, saying he used quiet diplomacy to save lives.
One recent book that cites the newly opened archives, "The Pope at War," by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Kertzer, suggests that the people the Vatican was most concerned about saving were Jews who had converted to Catholicism, the offspring of Catholic-Jewish mixed marriages or otherwise related to Catholics.
Kertzer asserts that Pius was loath to intervene on behalf of Jews, or make public denunciations of Nazi atrocities against them, to avoid antagonizing Adolf Hitler or Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.
The Vatican's foreign minister Paul Gallagher said it was hoped that the digital release of the “Jews” files would help scholars with research, but also descendants of those who had requested Vatican help, to “find traces of their loved ones from any part of the world.”
In an article for the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, Gallagher said the files contained requests for help, but without much information on outcomes.
“Each of these requests constituted a case which, once processed, was destined for storage in a documentary series entitled ‘Jews,’” he wrote.
“The requests would arrive at the Secretariat of State, where diplomatic channels would try to provide all the help possible, taking into account the complexity of the political situation in the global context,” Gallagher wrote.
He cited one case found in the files: A Jew who was baptized Catholic in 1938, Werner Barasch, who sought help from the pope in 1942 to be freed from a concentration camp in Spain. According to the archives, his request was forwarded to the Vatican embassy in Madrid, but the documentation then went cold.
“As for the majority of requests for help witnessed by other cases, the result of the request was not reported,” Gallagher wrote. “In our hearts we immediately inevitably hope for a positive outcome, the hope that Werner Barasch was later freed from the concentration camp and was able to reach his mother overseas.”
Subsequent online research, including at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, found that Barasch did indeed survive and was able to join his mother in the United States in 1945, Gallagher reported.
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Terrell Owens is “hurting” after attending the funeral services for Marion Barber in Minneapolis, where he gave an emotional speech about his late Cowboys teammate.
Owens took the podium at Hunting Bank Stadium this week to reminisce about Barber, who was found dead in his Texas apartment earlier this month at the age of 38. Owens reflected on the memories he shared with his former teammate, notably his piano-playing, in front of a crowd that featured coaches and teammates, including Laurence Maroney, Barber’s teammate at the University of Minnesota.
In his speech, Owens admitted that Barber’s death “shook me to the core,” and added, “I knew he was a special individual… I had no idea how this guy was that gifted.”
Owens recalled living on the same floor as Barber when they were Cowboys teammates for three seasons and that he would tell Barber, “If I knew how to play that piano, I’d be walking around this floor with my shirt off, singing all the time.”
The crowd had a laugh after Owens added, “I did that anyway.”
In addition to Owens, Jesse Holley, a wide receiver who was also Barber’s teammate in Dallas, spoke at the service.
“I’ve been laughing because I’ve been watching all these posters fall down (in the wind) and we all know that’s Marion saying, ‘I don’t want this attention,’” said Holley. “No matter how big of a star he was, Marion always treated you like you were the bigger star.”
Owens reflected on Barber’s service in an Instagram post on Wednesday that featured images of loved ones placing flowers on the casket, as well as a black-and-white flyer with Barber’s photo.
“We laid our brother down to rest in heaven and celebrated his life today. Still so unreal,” Owens wrote. “We shared stories, laughs and praised him for the person and most important, the man of God he was. Thank you to the Barber Family for allowing us to share this emotional day and his homegoing with you. Mama and Daddy Barber and family, we’re praying for your continued strength and comfort during these difficult days ahead. We’re gonna miss you MB! Another one gone too soon. I’m hurting.”
At the time of his death, Barber’s father, Marion Barber II, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that a coroner in Frisco, Texas, was still determining his son’s cause of death and that no foul play was suspected.
Barber was reportedly discovered by police in his apartment in Frisco underneath a running shower, and it is believed he was there for a number of days based on the decomposition level of his body. Police reported to the apartment to perform a welfare check.
“They are just using tissue as they dig further into the cause of death,” Barber II said. “They are ruling out things. They haven’t seen any trauma, no foul substances in his body. His lungs were in working order. The heart and veins around the heart were good. They are ruling things out. Right now, we are just waiting.”
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Just a girl about town! Streep was snapped taking a subway train in New York City in August 1981. She looked casual and chic in the picture, which showed her in an off-the-shoulder floral dress with her hair pulled back.
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NY Gov. Hochul slams 'absolutely shocking' Supreme Court ruling on concealed handguns
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Governor Kathy Hochul at a news conference on Thursday called the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on concealed handguns "absolutely shocking" and said she was "sorry this dark day has come."
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unconstitutional New York state's limits on carrying concealed handguns in public, handing a landmark victory to gun-rights advocates.
(This story has been refiled to say comments were made at a news conference)
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MGEX to Provide Clearing-as-a-Service to Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX)™
MINNEAPOLIS and CHICAGO, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX™), a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), and Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX)™, developer of the first dedicated futures marketplace based on multiple aspects of the health care economy, today announced that they have entered into an agreement for MGEX to provide clearing services to IMX for certain cash-settled futures and options on futures contracts. The services will include managing exposures, clearing trades, and collecting and maintaining performance bonds and security deposits for participants.
MGEX is providing critical clearing services as IMX builds out our portfolio of innovative futures products"We are pleased to be providing clearing services to IMX as MGEX continues to execute on its strategy of providing clearing-as-a-service solutions in futures markets," said Mark G. Bagan, President and CEO of MGEX. "As a DCO with an unrestricted license that allows us to offer margin on cleared positions, we believe this agreement with IMX furthers our strategy to provide innovative products and services to the futures industry."
Earlier this month, IMX announced its plans to launch the first financial exchange focused on the health care economy. The exchange has submitted an application to become a DCM with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and expects to list a number of contracts that will enable individual and institutional market participants the ability to manage risk and invest in multiple components of the health care ecosystem.
"MGEX is providing critical clearing services as we build out our portfolio of innovative products enabling institutional and individual market participants – and those whose businesses depend on health care – to manage risk and invest in various aspects of the health care ecosystem," said James Plante, IMX CEO and co-founder. "Health care is the number one economic problem facing the country, and we believe our forthcoming suite of health care futures will offer participants a powerful tool to more effectively manage risk and participate in this vital component of the economy."
About MGEX
Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX™) is a registered exchange with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is a Notice Registered Securities Futures Product Exchange with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). MGEX serves as the exclusive market for a variety of products including Hard Red Spring Wheat, SPIKES® Futures, BRIXX™ Commercial Real Estate Futures and TAX Futures. MGEX is a Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO) under the CFTC, providing DCM, DCO and cash market services in an array of asset classes. MGEX is a wholly owned subsidiary of Miami International Holdings, Inc. To learn more about MGEX visit www.mgex.com.
About MIAX
MIAX's parent holding company, Miami International Holdings, Inc., owns Miami International Securities Exchange, LLC (MIAX®), MIAX PEARL, LLC (MIAX Pearl®), MIAX Emerald, LLC (MIAX Emerald®), Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX™), and Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX™).
MIAX, MIAX Pearl and MIAX Emerald are national securities exchanges registered with the SEC that leverage MIAX's industry-leading technology and infrastructure to provide U.S. listed options trading to their member firms. MIAX serves as the exclusive exchange venue for cash-settled options on the SPIKES® Volatility Index (Ticker: SPIKE), a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500® ETF (SPY). In addition to options, MIAX Pearl facilitates the trading of cash equities through MIAX Pearl Equities™.
BSX is a fully electronic, vertically integrated international securities market regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) specializing in the listing and trading of capital market instruments such as equities, debt issues, funds, hedge funds, derivative warrants and insurance linked securities. A full member of the World Federation of Exchanges and affiliate member of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, BSX is globally recognized, including by the SEC.
MIAX's executive offices and National Operations Center are located in Princeton, NJ, with additional offices located in Miami, FL, Minneapolis, MN, and Hamilton, Bermuda.
To learn more about MIAX visit www.MIAXOptions.com.
To learn more about BSX visit www.bsx.com.
About IMX
IMX Health, LLC, also known as Intelligent Medicine Exchange (IMX), a subsidiary of holding company IMX, LLC, is developing the first dedicated futures marketplace based on multiple aspects of the health care economy, which represents nearly 20% of the U.S. GDP. The company, based in Chicago, has filed for regulatory approval with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to be a Designated Contract Market (DCM). For more information, visit www.imxhealth.com.
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The press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any securities of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, the Company) or IMX, LLC (together with its subsidiaries, IMX), and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer; solicitation or sale would be unlawful. This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected," "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
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Gone too soon. Football fans have had to mourn many surprising deaths in 2022 including NFL athletes such as Jaylon Ferguson and Jeff Gladney.
In June 2022, the Baltimore Ravens confirmed that Ferguson passed away at the age of 26. “We are profoundly saddened by the passing of Jayson Ferguson,” a statement from the team read. “He was a kind, respectful young man with a big smile and infectious personality. We express our heartfelt condolences to Jaylon’s family and friends as we mourn a life lost much too soon.”
The outside linebacker’s agent also reflected on her client’s sudden passing, telling NBC News, “He was a wonderful young man full of love and life. He will be remembered not just as a football player, but as a great father, son, brother and friend. The family asks for your continued prayers.”
The Louisiana native, who was drafted in 2019, was reportedly found unresponsive and pronounced dead with no signs of trauma or foul play. According to ESPN, authorities responded to a call in northern Baltimore and no official cause of death has been announced yet.
Ahead of his shocking death, Ferguson celebrated Father’s Day with his son and two daughters. He shared his kids with Doni Smith. “How am I going to tell my babies,” Smith tweeted in response to the news. “Until eternity. Get your rest my love!!!”
Ferguson previously gushed about getting to expand his family. “My best friend my boy my first born my only son the one who will be the future sack daddy turned 3 years old on this date and we gone party!!!!!” he wrote via Instagram honor of his son’s special day in November 2020. “Happy birthday Jyce O’Neal Ferguson Mama and daddy love you so much and we are greatful for u.”
Gladney’s passing also shocked sports supporters when he died in a car crash at the age of 25. “We are devastated to learn of Jeff Gladney’s passing. Our hearts go out to his family, friends, and all who are mourning this tremendous loss,” the Arizona Cardinals tweeted in May 2022.
The Texas native, who was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in 2020, was a victim of a fatal accident in Dallas. His cousin Sharonda Francois reflected on his passing, telling WFAA, “He was very loved by us all. He was an all-around good kid and his contagious smile is what he was known for. He hosted football camps, he took care of our kids at family gatherings. I mean, money did not change him, he was still the same down to Earth cousin. He was just so well-loved.”
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HARRISBURG, Pa., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centric Bank, the wholly owned subsidiary of Centric Financial Corporation (OTC: CFCX), has been recognized as one of American Banker's Top 200 Community Banks in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year.
"Centric Bank is honored to be recognized by American Banker once again on this list of outstanding community banks," says Patricia (Patti) A. Husic, President and CEO. "In 2021 we continued to be the financial lifeline for the small businesses in our communities, generating an additional $91 million in PPP loans to 1,100 small businesses. Our team was laser focused on executing our strategic plan and delivered on the loan, deposit, and profitability goals for 2021. I am so proud of our Centric team, the 142 Difference Makers in our organization who live our tagline of We Revolve Around You daily."
American Banker's annual ranking is a list of publicly traded banks and thrifts with less than $2 billion in assets. The rankings are based on Return on Average Equity (ROAE) over a three-year period. Centric Bank finished in the #147 position on this year's list.
An American Banker 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Banks to Work For, four-time American Banker Most Powerful Women in Banking Top Team, three-time Best Places to Work, and Top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies for eight years, Centric Bank is headquartered in south central Pennsylvania with assets of $1.1 billion and remains a leader in organic loan growth. A locally owned, locally loaned community bank, Centric Bank provides highly competitive and pro-growth financial services to businesses, professionals, individuals, families, and to the health care and dental industries with the Doctor Centric Bank Division. Centric Bank was named one of the Top 200 Community Banks in the U.S. in 2022, 2021, 2020, and 2019.
Founded in 2007, Pennsylvania-based Centric Bank has financial centers located in Harrisburg, Hershey, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Doylestown, Devon, and Lancaster, as well as commercial loan offices in Devon, Doylestown, Lancaster, and an Operations and Executive Office campus in Hampden Township, Cumberland County. To learn more about Centric Bank, call 717.657.7727 or visit CentricBank.com. Connect with them on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Centric Financial Corporation is traded over the counter (OTC-Pink) with the ticker symbol CFCX.
Contact: Patricia A. Husic
President & CEO
717.909.8309
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Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC reduced its holdings in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL – Get Rating) by 6.6% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 688 shares of the information services provider’s stock after selling 49 shares during the quarter. Roberts Wealth Advisors LLC’s holdings in Alphabet were worth $1,928,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Morling Financial Advisors LLC bought a new position in Alphabet in the 4th quarter worth approximately $29,000. West Bancorporation Inc. bought a new position in Alphabet in the 4th quarter worth approximately $29,000. Wealthgate Family Office LLC bought a new position in Alphabet in the 4th quarter worth approximately $32,000. NS Partners Ltd bought a new position in Alphabet in the 4th quarter worth approximately $41,000. Finally, Schubert & Co bought a new position in Alphabet in the 4th quarter worth approximately $43,000. 41.70% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Alphabet stock opened at $2,229.75 on Thursday. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $2,300.45 and a 200-day moving average of $2,598.40. Alphabet Inc. has a one year low of $2,037.69 and a one year high of $3,030.93. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 2.87 and a quick ratio of 2.85. The company has a market cap of $1.47 trillion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 20.17, a P/E/G ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.13.
Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 26th. The information services provider reported $24.62 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $25.70 by ($1.08). Alphabet had a return on equity of 30.18% and a net margin of 27.57%. The business had revenue of $56.02 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $56.17 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $26.29 earnings per share. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Alphabet Inc. will post 110.83 earnings per share for the current year.
Several analysts have commented on GOOGL shares. Truist Financial dropped their target price on shares of Alphabet from $3,600.00 to $3,500.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Wolfe Research dropped their target price on shares of Alphabet from $3,500.00 to $2,900.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Jefferies Financial Group dropped their target price on shares of Alphabet from $3,400.00 to $3,100.00 in a research report on Tuesday, May 24th. Credit Suisse Group dropped their target price on shares of Alphabet from $3,450.00 to $3,400.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets dropped their target price on shares of Alphabet from $3,300.00 to $3,000.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, April 27th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating, thirty-four have given a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, Alphabet currently has a consensus rating of “Buy” and a consensus price target of $3,297.86.
In other news, Director John L. Hennessy sold 33 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, June 9th. The shares were sold at an average price of $2,348.39, for a total value of $77,496.87. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 78 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $183,174.42. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through the SEC website. Also, SVP Prabhakar Raghavan sold 490 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, May 3rd. The shares were sold at an average price of $2,335.30, for a total transaction of $1,144,297.00. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now directly owns 497 shares in the company, valued at $1,160,644.10. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. Over the last 90 days, insiders have sold 550,357 shares of company stock valued at $21,855,978. Company insiders own 11.44% of the company’s stock.
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Wimbledon Commentator Louise Pleming Touching Lives Through Rally4Ever
- Updated: June 23, 2022
Former WTA player Louise Pleming knows the value of positivity and mental strength to tennis success.
These days, TA high-performance coach Pleming is applying her coaching skills to touch lives.
Pleming, a tennis commentator who is back at SW19 covering Wimbledon this month, is a founder and driving force behind Rally4Ever, an Australian-registered charitable foundation that fosters greater community connection through physical activity.
Rally4Ever’s tennis programs in Pleming’s native Australia have helped homeless, disadvantaged and at-risk communities using tennis to help form relationships, create a positive support network and connect players to mental and physical health aid.
Rally4Ever aims to offer aid and hope to people suffering from depression, loneliness and isolation in the aftermath of the Coronavirus pandemic.
“We don’t judge,” Pleming said. “We’ve got young people that have had real breakdowns, older people that are just feeling very isolated.
“They are forming friendships and now go out and play tennis together. That’s what it’s all about.”
The idea Rally4Ever was inspired by Pleming’s personal experience that was transformative. A homeless man named Brian recognized the tennis analyst from her work at the Australian Open and asked her to hit with him.
“A gentleman by the name of Brian approached me and said: ‘I know who you are, would you play tennis with me?’” Pleming told Tennis Australia. “So a week later I met Brian, who had been living on the streets for quite a few years, and we played tennis. I saw an incredible shift in his mentality through the benefits of playing tennis and having that human connection. It’s been a relationship that has grown and I continue to play tennis with him.”
Last month, Dr. Val Kumar, working with Rally4Ever, helped restore Brian’s smile–bringing big smiles to the faces of his friends at Rally4Ever.
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Ogier pulls ahead in Safari Rally opener
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Sebastien Ogier took the lead after Thursday's opening special as he looks to win a second straight Safari Rally, while championship leader Kalle Rovanpera suffered a puncture in Kenya.
Ogier, winner in 2021 when the race returned to the WRC following a 19-year absence, faced off against Ford's Sebastien Loeb in the 4.84km two-at-a-time first special on the edge of the capital.
The two Frenchmen have a total of 17 world titles between them over the last 18 years but are now both semi-retired.
"I came back for the people," said Toyota driver Ogier.
"It's very colourful here and the people in this country give us amazing support.
"The challenge is going to be big. It's not the kind of rally I usually love because it's going to be really rough but we will try to survive it."
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Belgian Thierry Neuville, who is second in the standings, finished the stage 0.6 seonds behind Ogier in second place.
Rovanpera spun off and finished in 11th place, 11.6 seconds behind Ogier.
"It's a shame. But fortunately it's a long rally," said the 21-year-old Finn who currently has a 55-point lead in the championship over Neuville after five races.
The Superspecial followed the ceremonial flagging off by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenya, who lauded the WRC for keeping the Safari rally in the calender until 2026.
The president said the event had boosted the country's economy by injecting six billion shillings (£50 million) on its return to the WRC last year after the 19-year hiatus.
"The historic nature of the rally is undeniable," said Uhuru.
"The rally was of great benefit to the country, injecting six billion shillings in our economy, with every sector sharing the pie, including players in the hospitality and transport sectors as well as micro, small and medium enterprises in Naivasha and its surrounding towns."
The rally continues on Friday with six stages, totalling 124km, around Lake Naivasha.
Standings
1. Sebastien Ogier - Benjamin Veillas (FRA/Toyota) in 3min 18.8sec, 2. Thierry Neuville - Martijn Wydaeghe (BEL/Hyundai) at 0.6sec, 3. Ott Tanak - Martin Jarveoja (EST/Hyundai) 1.1, 4. Elfyn Evans - Scott Martin (GBR/Toyota) 1.2, 5. Sebastien Loeb - Isabelle Galmiche (FRA/M-Sport Ford) 1.8
Selected: 11. Kalle Rovanpera - Jonne Halttunen (FIN/Toyota) 11.6
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Manila: A move by the Philippine central bank to raise the policy rate on Thursday has failed to arrest the peso’s slide, as the Asian currency tumbled further to Php54.70 vs the US dollar, as per the bank’s selling rate on June 23.
This puts the local currency at its weakest since November 11, 2005, when the Philippine peso closed at 54.71 versus the greenback.
On Thursday (June 23), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) raised its benchmark rate for a second month in a row to curb red-hot inflation, but opted for a modest 25-basis-point increase, fearing that more aggressive tightening could compromise growth.
The rate adjustment, which followed a 25-bps increase in May — the first since 2018 — brought the overnight repurchase facility rate to 2.5 per cent, as expected by most economists in a Reuters poll conducted from June 13 to 20.
The BSP also raised rates on the overnight deposit and lending facilities by 25 bps to 2.0 per cent and 3.0 per cent, respectively.
“The Monetary Board believes that a follow-through increase in the policy rate enables the BSP to withdraw its stimulus measures while safeguarding macroeconomic stability amid rising global commodity prices and strong external headwinds to domestic economic growth,” BSP Governor Benjamin Diokno said in a statement.
The central bank's decision was correctly predicted by 16 of 22 economists surveyed by Reuters. The rest had expected a 50 bps increase, partly because of last week's aggressive tightening by the U.S. central bank and expectations of its future moves.
“Growth looks set to slow in the second half of the year due to a combination of high commodity prices and weaker external demand,” Gareth Leather, senior Asia economist at Capital Economics, said after the announcement. So the central bank's tightening cycle was unlikely to be aggressive, he said.
Like its global peers, the Philippine central bank is under pressure to raise interest rates further to tame inflation, which last month soared to a three-year high, and support the peso, which has become an added challenge for policymakers.
The narrowing gap between Philippines and U.S. interest rates has weighed on the peso, which slipped on Thursday ahead of the BSP policy briefing, suffering losses for the seventh session in row.
Diokno, who will take on a new role as finance secretary on July 1, said upside risks continued to dominate the inflation outlook amid high commodity prices. Diokno will be replaced by Felipe Medalla, currently a member of the policy-making board.
The BSP lifted its average inflation forecast for this year to 5 per cent from 4.6 per cent previously, well above the 2 per cent-4 per cent target band. For 2023, average inflation is seen hitting 4.2 per cent, up from a previous forecast of 3.9 per cent, also outside the same target range.
Keeping consumer prices in check will be among the key challenges for the incoming government of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos, who said this week he would take on the Department of Agriculture portfolio when he assumed power on June 30.
Medalla has signalled the prospect of a series of rate hikes this year that could extend into 2023 to bring inflation back to target, but he has also said he preferred less aggressive rate hikes.
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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — The second of two Wisconsin women who were sent to a state mental health facility after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade classmate that they claimed was to appease the horror character Slender Man is petitioning for her release.
Morgan Geyser, 20, has asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in Oshkosh. Bohren scheduled a Thursday afternoon hearing about the request.
According to prosecutors, Geyser and Weier lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park following a sleepover in May 2014, and Geyser repeatedly stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three girls were 12 at the time.
Geyser and Weier left Leutner for dead, but she managed to crawl out of the woods in the park and was discovered by a passing bicyclist.
She suffered 19 stab wounds and barely survived, according to medical staff who treated her. Police found Weier and Geyser later that day walking on Interstate 94 in Waukesha. They said they were traveling to Slender Man’s mansion in northern Wisconsin and attacked Leutner because they thought it would make them Slender Man’s servants and prevent him from killing their families.
Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors and a judge sent her to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after determining she had a mental illness.
Weier, 20, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also sent to the psychiatric facility after a jury found she was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the attack.
Last September, Weier was granted a conditional release to live with her father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor. Some restrictions are likely if Bohren orders Geyser's release. | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Woman-committed-over-Slender-Man-stabbing-seeks-17260790.php | 2022-06-23T16:43:10Z | https://www.thehour.com/news/article/Woman-committed-over-Slender-Man-stabbing-seeks-17260790.php | true | 37 |
100,000-patient prospective, observational study to evaluate ctDNA-based minimal residual disease (MRD) testing
ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Strata Oncology, Inc., a next-generation precision oncology company enabling smarter and earlier cancer treatment, today announced that Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute and the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have joined as clinical trial sites in the Strata Sentinel™ trial, a prospective, observational study of the StrataMRDTM minimal residual disease test that has the potential to shift the paradigm of cancer care, bringing the use of biomarker-matched precision therapies to earlier stages of the disease.
"The Strata Sentinel trial is a key piece of our strategy of developing integrated solutions to enable smarter and earlier cancer treatment," said Dan Rhodes, PhD, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Strata Oncology. "We are grateful to add Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute and the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center to our growing list of partners that we are working with to not only collect clinical validation and utility data, but also to learn together to create the sustainable, scalable systems necessary to deliver the best possible treatment to every patient with cancer."
"At Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute, we are continuously working to improve cancer care, including partnering with innovators to bring the latest technology to the patients we serve," said Suresh Nair, MD, Physician in Chief of the Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute. "With the Strata Sentinel trial, we aim to demonstrate the utility of detecting recurrence as soon as possible using the ctDNA-based StrataMRD test. We will also evaluate the clinical benefit of treating patients with micrometastatic disease, including with biomarker-matched therapies chosen based on the extended treatment selection data provided by Strata Oncology platform."
"By helping identify cancer recurrences as early as possible, StrataMRD has tremendous potential to change how we care for patients after initial cancer treatment," said Todd Morgan, MD, the Jack Lapides, MD, Research Professor at the University of Michigan Medical School and the Chief of Urologic Oncology at University of Michigan Health. "We are pleased to partner with Strata Oncology to not only study the impact of StrataMRD on our patient population, but to work together to establish the workflows and data management systems necessary to implement precision oncology across a health system at scale."
Patients interested in learning more about the Strata Sentinel trial can visit ClinicalTrials.gov and search for the trial identifier: NCT05082701
The Strata Sentinel trial will evaluate the ability of the investigational StrataMRD test to detect cancer recurrence in advance of standard of care techniques across solid tumors, as well as the clinical benefit of treatment in early-stage patients who are or become circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)-positive after surgery or therapy with curative intent. The Strata Sentinel trial will enroll approximately 100,000 patients with stage 1-3 solid tumors across 25 sites and is the largest trial of its kind to date. Information and samples from participants will be collected during standard of care visits with their doctors. Blood samples will be collected every 3 months and tested for the presence of ctDNA. If recurrence is detected, treating physicians may then use the comprehensive therapy selection profile information to guide treatment decisions, including enrollment in the Strata PATH™ clinical trial. All molecular profiling in the Strata Sentinel trial will be performed at Strata Oncology's Ann Arbor, MI CAP-accredited and CLIA-certified laboratory and outcomes data will be collected for up to five years.
StrataMRD is a tumor-informed, personalized circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) test to detect tumor recurrence and monitor treatment effectiveness for patients. The investigational test is available through the Strata Sentinel trial. The ultra-sensitive, individualized blood test leverages multiplexed PCR amplicon-based NGS of blood-based ctDNA to monitor for a personalized set of informative mutations. StrataMRD is performed at the Strata Oncology Ann Arbor, MI CAP-accredited and CLIA-certified laboratory.
Strata Oncology, Inc. is a precision oncology company dedicated to delivering the best possible treatment for each patient with cancer. The company combines molecular profiling, real-world data, and large-scale clinical trials to identify and deliver optimal treatments for patients with cancer. For more information visit strataoncology.com.
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MILWAUKEE, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Ademi LLP is investigating F-star (NASDAQ:FSTX) for possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law in its transaction with invoX.
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Ademi LLP alleges F-star's financial outlook and prospects are excellent and yet F-star holders will receive only $7.12 per share. The acquisition values F-star at approximately $161 million. The transaction agreement unreasonably limits competing bids for F-star by imposing a significant penalty if F-star accepts a superior bid. F-star insiders will receive substantial benefits as part of change of control arrangements.
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — How much do you know about Wimbledon, the grass-court Grand Slam tennis tournament that begins Monday at the All England Club? Give this AP quiz a try:
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1st Round: In what year was Wimbledon first held — and in what year were women first allowed to compete for the singles championship?
a.) 1877 and 1877
b.) 1877 and 1884
c.) 1879 and 1879
d.) 1879 and 1886
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2nd Round: French Open champion and No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek enters Wimbledon on a 35-match winning streak. Who was the last woman to compile more consecutive victories on tour?
a.) Venus Williams
b.) Ash Barty
c.) Martina Hingis
d.) Monica Seles
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3rd Round: Roger Federer will not be participating in Wimbledon this year as he works to return from a series of knee operations, the most recent shortly after his loss at the All England Club in 2021. When was the last time the Grand Slam tournament Federer has won a men’s-record eight times was held without him?
a.) 1998
b.) 2000
c.) 2002
d.) 2004
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4th Round: When 18-year-old American Coco Gauff reached the French Open final this month, she became the third-youngest woman since 2000 to reach the title match at a Grand Slam tournament. Who was the youngest major champion this century?
a.) Maria Sharapova
b.) Kim Clijsters
c.) Jennifer Capriati
d.) Sofia Kenin
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Quarterfinals: A rendering of what kind of fruit is perched atop the men’s singles championship trophy at Wimbledon?
a.) Apple
b.) Strawberry
c.) Pineapple
d.) Cherry
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Semifinals: Novak Djokovic is the defending champion at Wimbledon for the sixth time. On the previous five occasions, how many times did he lose a match before the semifinals?
a.) Zero
b.) One
c.) Two
d.) Three
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Final: How many total Wimbledon titles have Serena Williams and Venus Williams won, adding up their individual totals for singles, doubles (each time they won together counts twice) and mixed doubles?
a.) 10
b.) 15
c.) 20
d.) 25
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ANSWERS
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1st Round. b. The oldest Grand Slam tennis tournament was first won by Spencer Gore in 1877, but the first women's championship was not held until seven years later, when Maud Watson won her first of two consecutive titles. Men's doubles was added in 1884, but women's doubles — and mixed doubles — did not get added until 1913.
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2nd Round. c. Hingis won 37 matches in a row until being beaten by Iva Majoli in the 1997 French Open final.
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3rd Round. a. Since making his debut at Wimbledon in 1999, Federer has never missed the tournament until now (it was not held in 2020, when the All England Club canceled competition entirely because of the coronavirus pandemic).
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4th Round. a. Sharapova was 17 when she won Wimbledon in 2004 for the first of what would become five Grand Slam titles during her playing career.
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Quarterfinals. c. No one seems to know exactly why there is a pineapple atop the trophy, but according to the tournament’s official website, “pineapples were prized as a rare and exclusive food” in the latter half of the 19th century.
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Semifinals. b. Coming off two championships in a row at the All England Club, Djokovic lost to Sam Querrey in the third round in 2016. Otherwise, Djokovic’s title defenses have gone this way: one semifinal defeat and four successful runs to another trophy.
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Final. d. Serena Williams has 14 total trophies from the All England Club, and Venus Williams has 11. Serena’s collection: seven in singles, six in doubles (all with her older sister) and one in mixed doubles (with Max Mirnyi in 1998). Venus’ collection: five in singles, six in doubles. The siblings also were the singles runner-up four times apiece.
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HAVANA (AP) — Olga Lidia Lahera lives with her daughter and two granddaughters in a tiny 15-square-meter (160-square-foot) apartment with peeling plaster walls that has barely enough room for a shelf with pots and a rickety sofa bed. A cloth curtain separates the space they use to wash up. There is no bathroom.
A bit farther down Gloria Street in the Talla Piedra neighborhood of Old Havana, Anet Ayala and her brother Wilmedis live on the second floor of an old building with cracks in the walls and ceilings so big that air, light and even water can pass through.
The first storm of the 2022 hurricane season, which hit Cuba in mid-June, collapsed or damaged dozens of homes in the capital that were already in poor condition, tearing off pieces of roof, balconies and facades.
That highlighted one of Cuba’s main social problems: a shortage of quality housing caused by decades of inadequate maintenance, a lack of new housing and impediments facing people trying to fix up their own homes.
An official review last year found that the island of 11.3 million people had 3.9 million homes at the end of 2020, almost 40% of which were just in fair to poor condition. Cuba needed another 862,000 homes to adequately house its people — up from an officially estimated shortfall of about 500,000 in 2005.
The government announced a major national program to solve the problem in 2018, but the latest official figures show a dramatic drop in recent construction as the country has struggled with a pandemic-stricken economy and tighter US. sanctions.
In 2019, 44,000 homes were built — 35% by the state and 65% by individual families. In 2020, that number dropped to 32,000 — 43% by the state and 57% by individuals. Last year, about 18,000 units were built (47% by the state and 53% by individuals). There are no official figures for the current year.
That leaves families like Ayala’s with little option.
“When it rains here everything gets wet, furniture, the refrigerator. We have nowhere to move things to,” said Ayala, trying to control her emotion while showing the effects of the latest downpours, including a strong musty smell.
“Tomorrow a wind will come and this (roof) will fall on us and we will be two more dead,” said Ayala, 36, whose face is partially paralyzed after surgery for a brain tumor.
She and her brother Wilmedis Horta Ayala, a 39-year-old physical education teacher at a primary school, filled out all kinds of paperwork to get authorization to legally fix the place, which is about a century old, but the building permit — mandatory in Cuba — was never issued.
Lahera, 65, was a state employee until she requested sick leave. The four of them live off what the Cuban state give her daughter to take care of her and the girls.
“When it rains, the walls here pick up a current (become electrified),” she said. “They are bad, but I don’t know to what degree they would fall. They are all cracked; the building, the structure is very old.”
For decades in Cuba, residential construction was wholly controlled by the socialist government and no legal real estate market existed. People could not sell homes.
In 2011, President Raúl Castro authorized the buying and selling of homes as a way to reactivate the economy, giving more space to private enterprise. Thousands of people acquired houses or invested in fixing up the ones they had, which suddenly gained capital value.
With an increase in tourism and a rapprochement with the United States in the middle of that decade, some areas like Old Havana saw a wave of gentrification, often aided by funds from families in the U.S. That hit a wall with the pandemic and Trump-era sanctions.
Cuba’s government has long struggled to build sufficient new housing or maintain existing structures, and tried to keep a tight hand on private efforts, believing — often correctly — that building materials had been pilfered from state stocks.
In recent years it has tried to offer more credits for construction and repairs and stimulate efforts by professional and workplace groups to build apartment buildings for themselves.
But construction materials are often hard to find at low-price official outlets — which often insist on seeing permits — and private sellers demand prices far beyond what Ayala or Lahera can afford,
Now, the first rains of the new storm season have again exposed the fragility of Cuba’s housing — much of it located in coastal cities with salt-laden air.
“You just have to walk through the city to see the profound deterioration of Havana’s buildings,” architect Orlando Inclán told The Associated Press.
Inclán was part of a team that won a competition sponsoRed by his professional association to build social housing using alternative or recycled materials.
He and some of his colleagues are urging the government to lift a ban on private architecture and construction businesses and let them participate in a movement to clean up public spaces and houses for the island’s population.
“It is time to diversify the housing policy. The actors involved must be diversified, the materials must be diversified, the ways of understanding housing must be diversified,” he said. “There doesn’t have to be only one producer of housing … The only way to find a solution to this is to think creatively.”
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Let’s promote mediation as a way to resolve IBC delays
4 min read.10:12 PM ISTAshok Haldia
It’s unfair to blame the IBC for resolution delays and the big haircuts that creditors inevitably suffer but measures to reduce the time taken are imperative to smoothen corporate insolvency.
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India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, was designed to focus on addressing stress in chronically sick companies through either resolution or liquidation, as warranted back then by mounting non-performing assets (NPAs) in our banking sector that the prevalent system could not adequately fix. Globally, a mechanism like the IBC’s corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) has been a last-resort measure; i.e., once all other alternatives like mediation, settlement and arbitration are exhausted. The IBC law and practice in India over the past 5 years has, however, matured to focus on entire value chains in addressing enterprise sickness and on the resolution of disputes through means other than litigation.
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India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, was designed to focus on addressing stress in chronically sick companies through either resolution or liquidation, as warranted back then by mounting non-performing assets (NPAs) in our banking sector that the prevalent system could not adequately fix. Globally, a mechanism like the IBC’s corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) has been a last-resort measure; i.e., once all other alternatives like mediation, settlement and arbitration are exhausted. The IBC law and practice in India over the past 5 years has, however, matured to focus on entire value chains in addressing enterprise sickness and on the resolution of disputes through means other than litigation.
While IBC critics may not be justified in blaming it for delays in resolution and the big haircuts that creditors inevitably suffer, given the chronic sickness of corporate debtors and absence of a market for stressed assets, it is imperative that measures are taken to reduce IBC delays. Longer delays result in larger haircuts, as the value of sick companies tends to diminish at an increasing pace over time. Resolution, and in some cases liquidation, has even taken as long as 450 days under the IBC, as against the mandated period of 180 days (extendible to 270), going by the record of cases till March 2022. As per a study undertaken by the Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI, every CIRP on average takes three litigation suits, involving 113 days and costing about ₹18 lakh. This is an eye-opener. The IBC’s timelines are directory and not mandatory. National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) benches are bound to adjudicate on every application filed by any stakeholder, even if later found frivolous in nature. Such an adjudication process, coupled with litigation, counter-litigation and multiple appeals, renders IBC timelines meaningless.
While IBC critics may not be justified in blaming it for delays in resolution and the big haircuts that creditors inevitably suffer, given the chronic sickness of corporate debtors and absence of a market for stressed assets, it is imperative that measures are taken to reduce IBC delays. Longer delays result in larger haircuts, as the value of sick companies tends to diminish at an increasing pace over time. Resolution, and in some cases liquidation, has even taken as long as 450 days under the IBC, as against the mandated period of 180 days (extendible to 270), going by the record of cases till March 2022. As per a study undertaken by the Indian Institute of Insolvency Professionals of ICAI, every CIRP on average takes three litigation suits, involving 113 days and costing about ₹18 lakh. This is an eye-opener. The IBC’s timelines are directory and not mandatory. National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) benches are bound to adjudicate on every application filed by any stakeholder, even if later found frivolous in nature. Such an adjudication process, coupled with litigation, counter-litigation and multiple appeals, renders IBC timelines meaningless.
The Standing Committee on Finance, in a recent report, noted that our insolvency process has been stymied by long delays far beyond the statutory limits. It recommended that the misuse or abuse of well-intended provisions and processes should be prevented by ensuring an element of finality within the statutorily stipulated period, without protracted litigation.
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An increase in NCLT benches by and in itself cannot be a lasting solution, unless the volume of litigation is reduced. The solution thus lies in promoting mediation for out-of-court proceedings, with legislative recognition for speedier dispute resolution. Mediation as an alternative mechanism for this could prove to be a cost-effective option. It being non-adversarial in approach would help in maintaining cordiality in business relationships and save honest entrepreneurs from the stigma of insolvency.
In India, there are no specific provisions for mediation under the IBC. Further, we lack uniform rules of procedure to govern mediation; thus, proceedings take place as per the rules prescribed by each high court. The Companies Act of 2013 and MSME Development Act, 2006, provide for mediation as a means of dispute resolution mechanism. However, these processes are unregulated at the pre-litigation stage, while post-litigation, these cases are governed by the Civil Procedure Code.
The US has been at the forefront of applying mediation at various stages of bankruptcy proceedings—like claims, creditors’ disputes, resolution plans, avoidance transactions and cross-border and group insolvency. Over half the US bankruptcy courts explicitly authorize mediation; it gained momentum in 1998 with the enactment of America’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Act.
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International experience suggests that mediation could be used under the IBC, too, to address disputes before and after the CIRP’s commencement, and also covering those related to the verification of claims, assets, third parties, resolution plans, avoidance action and the like.
The Mediation Bill of 2021 is a step in the right direction, as it requires disputants to try and settle civil or commercial disputes through mediation before approaching any court, within a mandated period. Agreements resulting from mediation would be binding and enforceable in the same manner as court judgements. The effectiveness of the proposed framework might, however, be diluted by the fact that unwilling parties are allowed to withdraw from mediation proceedings after communicating as much to the relevant mediator.
For mediation to be effective in cases of insolvency and bankruptcy, moratorium provisions under the country’s IBC that mandate the stalling of ongoing civil legal proceedings until the CIRP’s conclusion need to be modified appropriately. Suitable steps should also be taken to lay down mediation-related provisions that cover the enforceability of mediated settlements and the roles, rights and responsibilities of insolvency professionals, other stakeholders, etc, as such an exercise would grant out-of-court mediation the requisite legal back to ensure discipline and proper enforcement.
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Mediation under a formal insolvency resolution process may prove more helpful than a protracted resolution plan aimed at business restructuring (or liquidation). It is now well appreciated that the interests of home-buyers in cases of insolvent housing construction companies would have been better served through mediation. Insolvency is a serious matter, as seen in the case of Lehman Brothers’ collapse that triggered the financial crisis of 2008. Give mediation a fair chance.
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The Biden administration proposed a dramatic overhaul of campus sexual assault rules on Thursday, acting to expand protections for LGBTQ students, bolster the rights of victims and widen colleges' responsibilities in addressing sexual misconduct.
The proposal, announced on the 50th anniversary of the Title IX women's rights law, is intended to replace a set of controversial rules issued during the Trump administration by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
President Joe Biden's education secretary, Miguel Cardona, said Title IX has been "instrumental" in fighting sexual assault and violence in education.
"As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of this landmark law, our proposed changes will allow us to continue that progress and ensure all our nation's students — no matter where they live, who they are, or whom they love — can learn, grow, and thrive in school," he said.
The proposal is almost certain to be challenged by conservatives, and it is expected to lead to new legal battles over the rights of transgender students in schools, especially in sports. It now faces a public feedback period before the Biden administration can finalize any changes, meaning the earliest that the policy is likely to take effect is next year.
The step meets a demand from victims rights advocates who wanted Biden to release new rules no later than the anniversary of Title IX, which outlaws discrimination based on sex in schools and colleges. Advocates say DeVos' rules have gone too far in protecting students accused of sexual misconduct, at the expense of victims.
As a presidential candidate, Biden had promised a quick end to DeVos' rules, saying they would "shame and silence survivors."
In announcing its proposal, Biden's Education Department said DeVos' rules "weakened protections for survivors of sexual assault and diminished the promise of an education free from discrimination."
The new rules would protect LGBTQ students under Title IX
For the first time, the rules would formally protect LGBTQ students under Title IX. Nothing in the 1972 law explicitly addresses the topic, but the new proposal would clarify that the law applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
It would make clear that "preventing someone from participating in school programs and activities consistent with their gender identity would cause harm in violation of Title IX," according to the department. More specific rules dealing with the rights of transgender students in school sports will be released later, the department said.
Biden marked the anniversary of Title IX by acknowledging the impact the law has had in advancing equity but acknowledging there was more to do.
"As we look to the next 50 years, I am committed to protecting this progress and working to achieve full equality, inclusion, and dignity for women and girls, LGBTQI+ Americans, all students, and all Americans," he said in a statement.
Many of the proposed changes would mark a return to Obama-era rules that DeVos' policy replaced.
The definition of sexual harassment on campuses would be expanded
The definition of sexual harassment would be expanded to cover a wider range of misconduct. Schools would be required to address any misconduct that creates a "hostile environment" for students, even if the misconduct arises off campus. Most college employees would be required to notify campus officials if they learn of potential sex discrimination.
In a victory for victims rights advocates, the proposal would eliminate a rule requiring colleges to hold live hearings to judge sexual misconduct cases — one of the most divisive aspects of DeVos' policy. Live hearings would be allowed under the new policy, but colleges could to appoint a campus "decision-maker" to evaluate evidence and assess students' credibility.
If the proposal is finalized, it would mark the second rewrite of federal Title IX rules in two years. DeVos' rules were themselves intended to reverse Obama-era guidance. The Obama policy was embraced by victims advocates but led to hundreds of lawsuits from accused students who said their colleges failed to give them a fair process to defend themselves.
The whiplash has left many schools scrambling to adopt ever-changing rules. Some have pressed for a political middle ground that will protect students without prompting new rules every time the White House changes power.
"It doesn't serve anybody's interest to have this ping-pong effect of changing rules every five years," said S. Daniel Carter, a campus security consultant and president of Safety Advisors for Educational Campuses. "That's just not a good way to get things done. It's very difficult for everyone involved."
DeVos' rules gave wider rights to students accused of sexual misconduct
DeVos' rules dramatically reshaped the way colleges handle allegations of sexual assault and harassment, with an emphasis on ensuring the constitutional due process rights of the accused.
Under her rules, accused students were given wider rights to review and respond to evidence against them, and students had the right to cross-examine one another through a representative at live hearings.
The live hearing requirement was applauded as a victory for accused students, but it drew intense backlash from other advocates who said it forced victims to relive their trauma.
DeVos also reduced colleges' obligations in responding to complaints. Her policy narrowed the definition of harassment and scaled back the types of cases colleges are required to address. As a result, some campuses have seen steep decreases in the number of Title IX complaints coming in from students.
Under her rules, for example, colleges are not required to investigate most complaints that arise off campus and or take action on any complaint unless the alleged misconduct is "severe, pervasive and objectively offensive."
The overhaul was partly meant to lighten the burden on colleges as they mediate complex cases, but some say it ultimately added more work.
Leaders of some colleges have said the DeVos rules are too prescriptive and force them to turn campus discipline systems into miniature courtrooms. Many schools have continued to address all sexual misconduct complaints even if they do not meet the narrowed harassment definition, but they have had to set up separate discipline processes to handle those cases.
Advocates on both sides say that can be confusing for students.
"It shouldn't be that way. It should be, if anything, more uniform — that's the whole reason the Title IX regulations were put into place," said Kimberly Lau, a New York lawyer who represents students in Title IX cases
Biden's proposal is a major step in keeping his promise to reverse DeVos' rules. He started the process last year when he ordered the Education Department to review the rules, but the agency has been bogged down by a slow-moving rule-making process.
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Bank of South Carolina Corporation Declares Dividend
CHARLESTON, S.C., June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Board of Directors of Bank of South Carolina Corporation, (NASDAQ: BKSC) the parent company for The Bank of South Carolina, declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.17 per share to shareholders of record July 5, 2022, payable July 29, 2022. This represents the 131st quarterly cash dividend paid to shareholders.
Fleetwood S. Hassell, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "With the ongoing market volatility, we are pleased, once again, to declare this quarterly dividend."
About Bank of South Carolina Corporation
The Bank of South Carolina Corporation is the holding company of The Bank of South Carolina ("The Bank"). The Bank is a South Carolina state-chartered bank with offices in Charleston, North Charleston, Summerville, Mt. Pleasant, and the West Ashley community and has been in continuous operation since 1987. Our website is www.banksc.com. Bank of South Carolina Corporation currently trades its common stock on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol "BKSC".
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WASHINGTON, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden welcomed 27 wounded warriors at the White House today for the annual Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) Soldier Ride®. Soldier Ride is a nationally recognized adaptive cycling program that connects warriors across the country, helping to strengthen confidence as they strive toward their highest physical and mental wellness goals.
The tradition of Soldier Ride participants meeting with the commander in chief began in 2008 and has continued annually, with a brief pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. Army veteran Danielle Greene shared her story of resilience during the event, saying, "When I joined the Army, I felt I found a family I always dreamed of, but after I got hurt, I realized Wounded Warrior Project was the family I dreamed of as well. They had my back 18 years and counting, and now I'm here."
President Biden thanked her and shared encouragement to the other wounded veterans participating in the ride today.
"From your parents to your children, your siblings, and to your battle buddies – I want to thank everyone from Wounded Warrior Project and countless other organizations and tireless advocates on your behalf," President Biden said at the welcome ceremony. "Riders come from every corner of America, from all cuts of the same cloth … all bonded by a common sense of duty, honor, service, resilience, courage, optimism. Many of you come from a war abroad only to fight a battle of recovery at home that's equally as difficult. In many cases, more difficult learning to walk again, pick up your child again, to manage the effects of traumatic brain injury, to cope with post-traumatic stress that occurs and is not unusual. You are the best America has to offer.
"Remember on this ride today, you're not alone. You have the support of a grateful nation behind you today and every day. We are here to help – help each other and help you cross the finish line together."
This ride comes at a pivotal time during the global pandemic, which continues to impact warriors today. WWP offers safe in-person and virtual programs that are critical to warrior psychological well-being and resilience. The Soldier Ride program reintroduces the unique bonds of military service by connecting warriors with each other while also allowing communities to honor their service and sacrifice.
"On behalf of those we serve, we thank President Biden and the first lady for graciously welcoming and recognizing the service and sacrifice of wounded, ill, and injured warriors," said WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Mike Linnington. "The effects of war can last a lifetime – as we see with physical injuries, trauma, as well as illnesses from toxic exposure. Soldier Ride gives warriors the opportunity to connect and build camaraderie with their peers while allowing Wounded Warrior Project to spread awareness about warriors' needs to the greater community. We are thankful to the president, the first lady, and the public for their tremendous support."
Since 2003, WWP has delivered $1.9 billion in programs and services that directly serve more than 200,000 injured service members, veterans, and their families at no cost. In addition, WWP works with elected officials, VA, governmental agencies, and other veterans services organizations to improve the lives of wounded veterans and their families.
About Wounded Warrior Project
Since 2003, Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) has been meeting the growing needs of warriors, their families, and caregivers — helping them achieve their highest ambition. Learn more.
About Soldier Ride
Soldier Ride® began in 2004 when civilian Chris Carney cycled more than 5,000 miles coast-to-coast to support WWP and help raise awareness for injured veterans. Today, Soldier Ride continues to inspire warriors to heal their bodies and minds. Soldier Ride has become a gathering that connects American heroes to each other and their communities and provides the American public an opportunity to honor that service and sacrifice. Read more.
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Congress soon may pass its most significant gun legislation in three decades. Senators are working to fast-track a bipartisan gun safety bill that negotiators recently finalized, spurred by mass shootings last month in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas.
The Senate, which advanced the bill in a 64-34 vote on Tuesday, will hold a procedural vote on Thursday to end debate and prevent a filibuster from blocking the bill.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is expected to clear that vote and head for final passage in the Senate by the weekend, just ahead of lawmakers' July recess. It would then go to the House for expected passage, at which point President Biden — who has urged Congress to move without delay — has said he would sign it.
The bill's measures are narrowly focused, with lawmakers aiming to craft legislation that would earn a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the evenly-divided Senate. That means it falls short of many of the changes that Democrats long have been pushed for, including universal background checks and a ban on military-style semiautomatic rifles.
Still, Democrats and gun safety advocates are hailing the legislation as an important and incremental step in the right direction. Among other provisions, it would expand background checks for prospective gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21, incentivize states to create red-flag laws, and give states more funding for school safety and mental health resources.
It also would close the so-called "boyfriend loophole" in a law that prevents people convicted of domestic abuse from owning a gun. That law currently only applies to people who are married to, living with or have a child with the victim.
April Zeoli, a professor of criminal justice and public health at Michigan State University, says those limited categories don't reflect the fact that people spend a lot more time dating now than they did in the past, with women marrying on average in their late 20s and men in their early 30s.
"Because we spend all this time dating, it doesn't mean that violence doesn't happen," Zeoli told Morning Edition's A Martínez. "It still happens, but the dating partners right now aren't covered by the federal restriction."
A wide body of research on intimate partner violence bears that out. Nearly half of female homicide victims are killed by a current or former male intimate partner, according to a 2017 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. But about half of the intimate partner homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by an unmarried partner, a 2018 study found.
The bill would close the loophole, but add a caveat
Democrats long have tried to broaden the definition of who qualifies for the ban. Their most recent attempt, an effort to add it to the reauthorization of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act that passed in March, was unsuccessful.
While that effort was on going, some states addressed the boyfriend loophole within their jurisdictions.
Thirty-one states have policies prohibiting convicted domestic abusers from having guns, according to a tracker from Everytown for Gun Safety. Of those, 19 go beyond the federal prohibition to cover abusive dating partners.
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act is poised to finally make that change on the federal level. It adds and defines the term dating relationship as "a relationship between individuals who have or have recently had a continuing serious relationship of a romantic or intimate nature," with considerations for the length and nature of the relationship as well as the frequency and type of interactions between the individuals involved.
The bill includes a related provision, allowing people who were convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence to have their gun rights restored if their record stays clean for five years. There are some exceptions for victims' spouses, parents, guardians or cohabitants.
Zeoli says she'd like to know more about the reasoning behind that provision, as it doesn't appear to be informed by any research.
"If we're talking about dating partners versus spouses, both of them can do the same types of violence, both of them can be the same level of dangerous, get the same conviction and get the same firearm restriction," she said. "But the spouses will have this lifetime firearm restriction, and the dating partners will have this five-year restriction, and I don't know the logic behind that disparity."
Baseless fears of deception and retaliation
Why hasn't the federal law evolved with the times or research data? Zeoli offers one explanation:
"I think that there has always been a fear that women will make things up, that women will try to take revenge on their dating partners through lying about abuse and trying to get these firearm restrictions on them," she says. "And that fear is unfounded. In fact ... a large proportion of people who experience abuse never report it to the courts or law enforcement."
As a researcher, she says it's been difficult to watch as measures that data suggest could save lives — such as closing the boyfriend loophole — haven't been implemented. Zeoli says the bipartisan bill, even with its limited provisions, is a step in the right direction.
"I am encouraged by the fact that we are seeing movement at the federal level on gun safety legislation, when we haven't seen it for literally decades," Zeoli says.
The audio for this interview was produced by Jeevika Verma and Ben Abrams, and edited by Raquel Maria Dillon.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic abuse, use a safe computer and contact help. That can include a local shelter, or call 911 or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233.
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With an Eye on Growth, iN2L + LifeLoop Hires Proven Finance and Marketing Leaders
To further its mission, iN2L + LifeLoop welcomes Rachel Vincion, CFO, and Cambria Jacobs, CMO
DENVER, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- iN2L + LifeLoop, provider of the first and most comprehensive senior living technology platform developed to meaningfully impact staff effectiveness, workforce retention, staffing levels, and resident engagement, today announced the addition of Rachel Vincion as its chief financial officer and Cambria Jacobs as its chief marketing officer. Both Jacobs and Vincion will report directly to Lisa Taylor, CEO of iN2L+ LifeLoop, and will be instrumental in helping drive the organization's continued strategic growth.
"We are beyond thrilled to welcome Rachel and Cambria to our newly-expanded Executive Leadership Team," said Taylor. "Rachel is a versatile and accomplished finance executive and Cambria is a dynamic and proven growth marketing leader. They help build lasting employee, customer, shareholder, and industry relationships, and drive strong return on investment. Both new leaders share our vision for enhancing the lives of hundreds of thousands of seniors through the advanced use of engagement technology. We're lucky to count them as colleagues."
With 25 years of experience and success in leading finance and strategy for high growth healthcare SaaS companies, Rachel Vincion brings with her an extensive operational background that drives long term value for organizations. Most recently, she increased enterprise value by 40% for PlayMaker Health, where she also spearheaded three investment banking processes and oversaw the successful acquisition of a major competitor. Earlier in her career, she led organizations to profitability and helped transform early-stage start-ups to ensure their long-term success. In her new role as iN2L + LifeLoop's CFO, she will be pivotal in helping Lisa Taylor and the Executive Leadership Team define the future direction for continued strategic growth.
"There could not be a more exciting time to join iN2L," said Vincion. "Together with LifeLoop, the organization offers the industry so much value, both for resident engagement and well-being, and for staff satisfaction and retention. I am delighted to be part of such a mission-driven company that will help the industry continue its recovery, both emotionally and financially."
Cambria Jacobs has a more than 25-year track record of developing passionate, mission-driven brands and implementing marketing strategies for fast growth B2B and B2C companies in the health, wellness, and technology sectors. As the Global CMO at EGYM, a health and tech fitness company, Jacobs launched the company's first global brand and go-to-market strategies. Jacobs is also credited with the co-creation of Collaboration In Aging, an innovative new conference, designed to help solve issues faced by the longevity industry. As iN2L + LifeLoop's CMO, Jacobs is charged with developing the expanded organization's go-forward brand strategy, as well as spearheading community-centric marketing programs rooted in impacting staff efficiency, workforce retention, staffing levels, and resident engagement.
"The iN2L + LifeLoop mission is very close to my heart," said Jacobs. "I couldn't be more honored to join an organization dedicated to enhancing the aging experience. I look forward to joining this industry and helping shape the future of senior living with fresh ideas, bright spot discussions, and new technologies that deliver real change for seniors, their families, and community staff and leadership alike."
Click here to view iN2L + LifeLoop's leadership team.
About iN2L + LifeLoop
iN2L + LifeLoop, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, is on a mission to enhance the aging experience. Together, they offer the first and most comprehensive senior living technology platform designed to drive measurable impact across strategic priorities such as resident satisfaction, staff retention, workflow efficiencies, and occupancy rates to demonstrate clear value and achieve substantial ROI. Trusted by 4,500+ nursing homes, assisted and independent living communities, memory care settings, and adult day programs across North America, iN2L + LifeLoop's powerful system holistically supports the entire senior living ecosystem. One mission. One solution. For more information, visit iN2L.com.
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Burlington Bees finally get timely hits to rally past Clinton
If you say something often enough, it just might eventually come true.
For a week or more, Burlington Bees field manager Owen Oreskovich has been saying his team needs timely hitting. Wednesday night, that’s exactly what they got.
A two-run eighth inning lifted the Bees to a 7-5 victory over the Clinton LumberKings in a Prospect League baseball game at Community Field.
The Bees, now 7-14, had lost seven of their previous eight games.
“It’s a swing point,” Oreskovich said. “It’s just huge for these kids’ confidence.”
The game was scoreless, and hitless for Clinton, the first 4 2/3 innings for Burlington left-handed starter Osvaldo Mendez on the mound, then the LumberKings’ Jeremy Conforti ripped a two-run homer over the left-field barrier.
Mediapolis native Cauy Massner relieved Mendez and ended the inning by fanning Joe Simpson on five pitches.
“Great job by all the pitchers,” Oreskovich said. “Massner coming in, and we had a few errors that they scored on, he did a good job of holding his composure and keeping us in that game. Then Owen Rice coming in and shoving two. (Kyle) Maurer at the back end, that was awesome.”
Mendez had runners in scoring position each inning he pitched, but managed to escape the jams the first four innings. He struck out the first two batters he faced, then walked three straight. Simpson’s popup to shortstop ended the threat.
In the second inning, Mendez walked leadoff hitter Isaiah Thompson and Thompson stole second. Mendez then retired the next three batters. In the third, Matt Scherrman drew a two-out walk and stole second, but Clinton left him stranded. With two outs in the fourth, Mendez walked a batter and hit another with a pitch. But Adam Weed flied out to left to end that threat.
In the fifth inning, Mendez walked the leadoff batter and, two outs later, Conforti hit the home run.
Mendez gave up just the one hit, but walked seven.
Mendez “competed every pitch,” Oreskovich said. “Even when he got 3-2 counts he was still making good pitches. Just one pitch (Conforti’s home run), he felt so bad about it. It was awesome because then Cauy comes in and gets that guy out (for the third out) and Mendez is the first one out of the dugout to congratulate him. That’s awesome to see a real team player.”
Massner gave up three runs, two earned, on three hits and no walks in two innings. Rice kept the LumberKings hitless and scoreless in 1 1/3 innings. Maurer walked one, but struck out the last two batters he faced in the scoreless ninth inning.
The Bees got on the board in the fifth on a Trey Adams RBI-single and a throwing error brought the second Bee run home for a 2-2 deadlock. Clinton scored twice in the sixth, then Luke Ira tripled and scored on a wild pitch for a 5-2 lead in the seventh.
The Bee tied it at 5-5 in the bottom of the seventh on four singles, a walk and a Marcos Sanchez sacrifice fly. In the eighth, Clinton reliever Nick Scanlon walked the first three Bees he faced, then Spencer Nivens sent Brandon Bickford home when he bounced out to first base. An out later, Kevin Santiago walked to load the bases again and Sanchez beat out an infield single, scoring Sam Monroe. That took the score to its final.
Adams, batting in the ninth position, and Chase Honeycutt had two hits each for the Bees.
“I like (Adams) there (in the bottom of the order) because I know he’s going to compete and put the ball in play,” Oreskovich said. “Earlier in the year he was putting them in play, but right at shortstop or right at second base. Now he’s finding those holes. It’s truly great to see because he’s a good kid, too. (A second leadoff hitter) is the idea of it. He’s got a great eye. He doesn’t strike out a ton and he’ll put the ball in play. So that’s basically the reason for it.”
The Bees are off Thursday, then host O’Fallon at 6:30 p.m. Friday and the Cape Catfish Saturday. Fireworks will follow Saturday’s game.
Thursday is the Bees’ second day off this week. “When we’re still at home it helps the guys relax, maybe get tweaked up a little bit because they get another day off, see the trainer, whatever they’ve got to do,” Oreskovich said.
He sees Clinton as a natural rival for the Bees.
“They’ve got a lot of Mount Mercy players,” he said. “They’ve got like five and then they’ve got some (University of) Iowa kids. And we’ve got some Iowa kids. We’ve got a lot of kids kind of from the same schools so they kind of know each other. So that makes even a little bit more of a rivalry. And since they were the minor league teams, too, so it was already kind of a rivalry.”
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WP – Owen Rice (1-1); LP – Nick Scanlon (0-1). Leading hitters — Clinton: Adam Weed 1-5, Luke Ira 1-4, Jeremy Conforti 1-4, Isaiah Thompson 1-3; Burlington: Spencer Nivens 1-5, A.J. Henkle 1-5, Kevin Santiago 1-3, Marcos Sanchez 1-3, Chase Honeycutt 2-4, Brandon Bickford 1-3, Sam Monroe 1-3, Trey Adams 2-3. 3B – Ira. HR – Conforti. RBI – Clinton: Weed, Conforti 2; Burlington: Nivens, Santiago, Sanchez 2, Honeycutt, Adams.
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Police in Northampton have appealed for witnesses after a cyclist was pulled from his bike and attacked by a motorist during a road rage incident in Northampton last week.
Officers say the driver, described as a stocky white man in his late 30s or early 40s and wearing a white vest top and jogging bottoms, punched the cyclist repeatedly in the head following a reported rush hour row on the busy Mill Lane between the suburbs of Kingsthorpe and Dallington.
The cyclist’s bike was also damaged during the confrontation, which occurred around 8am on 15 June.
“Between 7.50am and 8.05am a cyclist was pulled off his bicycle at the entrance of Thornton Park following an incident with the driver of a silver SEAT Alhambra in Mill Lane,” a Northamptonshire Police spokesperson said.
“Once on the ground, the driver got on top of the cyclist and repeatedly punched him, causing minor injuries to both his head and face.
“The bicycle also sustained damage during the incident.
“Officers believe the road may have been busy at this time of day and would like to speak to anyone who may have witnessed or captured the incident on dashcam footage to contact them.”
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Data integration provider expands European presence with new office for tech talent
DENVER and MANCHESTER, England, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Matillion, the leading enterprise data integration platform provider, today announced the opening of its first office in Madrid, Spain to expand its engineering talent network. The new office, located in the city center, will hold our inaugural group of Madrid-based engineers. This team will contribute to product innovation on our award-winning solution, helping our customers make their data useful across the business.
A British unicorn and burgeoning software platform with offices in the US and UK, Matillion's momentum last year saw the company raise two triple-digit rounds of funding for a $1.5 billion valuation and grow its global team to over 500 employees. This year, the company welcomed three new executive members and received accolades for its culture and work environment.
"Madrid is a hub for enterprise technology companies and engineering talent, which is the right environment for us to find great team members looking to work for a high-growth company," said Naggi Asmar, Chief Engineering Officer at Matillion. "At Matillion, we value different perspectives and we are excited to strengthen our team with brilliant engineers in a new city."
Matillion has been recognized as one of the UK's 290 Best Workplaces™ (2022) by Great Place to Work®, the global authority on workplace culture, and ranked 10th in the Medium category. Additionally, the team was named to Inc. Magazine's 2022 list of Best Workplaces in the U.S.
For more information about the open roles in Madrid, visit the Matillion careers page: https://www.matillion.com/about/careers/. For further data transformation industry updates and perspectives, follow Matillion on Twitter @Matillion and LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/matillion-limited/.
Matillion makes the world's data useful with an easy-to-use, cloud-native data integration and transformation platform. Optimized for modern enterprise data teams, only Matillion is built on native integrations to cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Delta Lake on Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure Synapse to enable new levels of efficiency and productivity across any organization. Learn how Matillion delivers rapid returns on cloud investments for global enterprise customers at www.matillion.com.
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A poll of 2,000 young women aged 13 to 19 found a third (33 per cent) of those likely to choose a traditionally male career path would be interested in pursuing a career in science, while 31 per cent are keen to explore a job in engineering.
More than eight in 10 of these believe they are just as capable as their male counterparts of performing certain roles.
And 28 per cent of those who feel this way, think they are in fact more capable.
While more than 81 per cent say it is important their career makes a ‘positive contribution’ to society.
The research was commissioned by energy and home services provider, British Gas, which has committed to creating 3,500 apprenticeships over the next decade with the ambition for half of all new recruits to be women.
Jessica Rawstron, British Gas smart energy engineer, said: “My inspiration initially came from my dad, who specialised in the gas field for many years.
"And with the support of my family, friends and colleagues, my confidence has grown ever since the day I first started as an apprentice.
"There are no stereotypes to conform to and we value the diversity in our team.”
It emerged 36 per cent of girls who are keen to pursue a career in a traditionally male field have been positively influenced by their teachers and 44 per cent have been inspired to do so by their family.
This is despite 56 per cent saying none of their own female family members work in any of these industries.
Improving gender quality
Nonetheless, an encouraging 64 per cent believe it’s easier for women to get a role in an industry like energy, construction or engineering today, compared to when their mum was the age they are now.
But 62 per cent are convinced their gender will still have some sort of impact on their future job prospects, with seven in 10 (70 per cent) saying there are still barriers that make it difficult for females to land a particular role.
More gender equality within the workplace is the top improvement those polled would like to see for working women in the future (43 per cent).
While having the same job opportunities as men (42 per cent), better help with childcare (39 per cent) and better pay (38 per cent) also featured high on the list.
The study, conducted via OnePoll, found 73 per cent of girls are confident we will see more women in traditionally male dominated roles in the near future.
And although the average female teen reckons it will take 15 years until there is total gender equality within the workplace, 72 per cent agree their generation will be the ones to make this change happen.
Jessica Rawstron added: “Young women have more opportunities than ever before – both in terms of the roles available to us, and the impact we can have on the world around us.
“The need to reduce emissions and reach Net Zero is critical, and the skills we learn as Smart Energy Engineers can make a real difference. I’m proud to be playing my part in fighting climate change.” | https://www.donsidepiper.co.uk/read-this/millions-of-teenage-girls-want-to-break-the-glass-ceiling-with-a-career-in-a-male-dominated-field-3743560 | 2022-06-23T17:14:17Z | https://www.donsidepiper.co.uk/read-this/millions-of-teenage-girls-want-to-break-the-glass-ceiling-with-a-career-in-a-male-dominated-field-3743560 | true | 24 |
Accomplished Marketing Professional Continues Leading Safelite's Brand and Customer Experience Strategies
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Safelite, the nation's leading vehicle glass services and recalibration company, today announced the appointment of Christina Pletnewski to Chief Marketing Officer.
"Christina's journey since joining our business in 2016 as Vice President of Marketing demonstrates her vast talent and ability to manage multiple key areas of our business successfully," said Renee Cacchillo, Safelite's President and CEO.
As Vice President, Pletnewski led TV creative and media, market research, B2B marketing, corporate communications, internal creative and ancillary products and services. Under her leadership, Safelite experienced substantial growth in top-of-mind awareness, brand visibility and brand recognition.
Pletnewski expanded her role by building a new customer experience team in 2020, focusing on creating meaningful experiences for customers, clients and associates, resulting in additional business value and results.
Cacchillo added, "Christina is a seasoned marketer, and through her new role as CMO, she will continue to lead Safelite's marketing vision through new and innovative brand and customer experience strategies."
Before joining Safelite, Pletnewski held marketing leadership roles for leading companies, including Abbott, Nestle, SC Johnson and L Brands. She earned her bachelor's degree in business administration and MBA at The Ohio State University.
Safelite is a multi-faceted vehicle glass and claims management service organization based in Columbus, Ohio, and operating company-owned facilities in 50 states. The company, which has been in business since 1947, is comprised of two major business operations: Safelite AutoGlass®, a vehicle glass repair, replacement and recalibration services provider and Safelite® Solutions, which offers fleet and insurance claims management services for vehicle glass and other claims. The company employs nearly 16,000 people throughout the United States. Safelite is a subsidiary of Belron®. Safelite AutoGlass is the largest vehicle glass repair, replacement and recalibration company under one brand in the world.
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BEIJING – Stocks gave up an early gain and turned mixed in afternoon trading on Wall Street Thursday as investors remain focused on inflation and rising interest rates.
The S&P 500 was down 0.2% as of 12:45 p.m. Eastern. It was up as much as 1% earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 137 points, or 0.4%, to 30,349 and the Nasdaq rose 0.3%.
Major indexes are still on track for weekly gains. Trading has been turbulent in recent weeks, and the benchmark S&P 500 has fallen for 10 of the last 11 weeks. Stocks have swung between sharp gains and losses as investors try to determine whether a recession is looming.
The Federal Reserve is attempting to temper inflation's impact with higher interest rates, but Wall Street is worried that it could go too far in slowing economic growth and actually bring on a recession.
Investors are monitoring Fed Chair Jerome Powell's second day of testimony to Congress. He testified to a House committee Thursday, a day after testifying to a Senate committee.
“Our whole framework is about keeping inflation expectations well and truly anchored,” he said Thursday. Powell emphasized the importance of getting inflation down to the Fed's goal of 2%. “We can’t fail on this,” he said.
Powell has previously acknowledged that a recession is ”certainly a possibility" and that the central bank is facing a more challenging task amid the war in Ukraine essentially pushing oil and other commodity prices even higher and making inflation even more pervasive.
On Thursday, Powell stressed: “I don’t think that a recession is inevitable.”
Powell is speaking to Congress a week after the Fed raised its benchmark interest rate by three quarters of a percentage point, its biggest hike in nearly three decades. Fed policymakers also forecast a more accelerated pace of rate hikes this year and next than they had predicted three months ago, with its key rate to reach 3.8% by the end of 2023. That would be its highest level in 15 years.
Earlier Thursday the Labor Department said fewer Americans applied for jobless benefits last week, though it was slightly more than economists expected. The solid job market is a relatively bright point in an otherwise weakening economy, with consumer sentiment and retail sales showing increasing damage from inflation.
Companies are signaling slower-than-expected growth, however, according to surveys from IHS Markit. While weak economic data is discouraging for the broader economy, it could also mean that the economy is already slowing enough to allow the Fed to ease up on its planned rate hikes.
Inflation remains stubbornly high, squeezing consumers with higher prices on everything from food to clothing. That has pressured people to shift spending from big ticket items like electronics to necessities. The pressure has been worsened by record-high gasoline prices that show no sign of abating amid a supply and demand disconnect.
Big technology and health care companies did much of the heavy lifting. Microsoft rose 1.2% and Johnson & Johnson rose 1.3%. Energy stocks fell as oil prices slipped. Valero fell 6.9%.
Bond yields fell significantly. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which helps set mortgage rates, fell to 3.05% from 3.15% late Wednesday.
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Affinix recognized in the top 1% of firms for Best Advance in Practical AI
CHICAGO, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- PeopleScout's proprietary talent technology Affinix™ has won Best Advance in Practical Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the 2022 HR Tech Awards.
According to Lighthouse Research & Advisory data, more than 5,000 providers exist across the HR technology landscape today, with more entering the space every single day. This year, the HR Tech Awards are recognizing approximately 1% of those firms for their focus on creating solutions that solve problems their customers care about.
"Our newest research shows that employers don't just want service from their recruiting service partners —they want innovation," said Ben Eubanks, Chief Research Officer, Lighthouse Research & Advisory. "To that end, PeopleScout has developed the Affinix solution to support faster hiring at scale, enabling its team to support enterprise customers as they hire tens of thousands of staff each year."
Designed with changing candidate expectations in mind, Affinix brings together artificial intelligence, recruitment marketing and machine learning to drive fast and effective talent sourcing and engagement.
"As our clients face the challenges of the current talent shortage, providing a personalized and engaging candidate experience at every touchpoint in the hiring process is an imperative," said Taryn Owen, President & COO of PeopleReady and PeopleScout. "With Affinix, we are able to do just that, and we appreciate this recognition for that work from HR Tech."
Embedded within PeopleScout's talent solutions, Affinix delivers speed and scalability while leveraging artificial intelligence, recruitment marketing, machine learning, predictive analytics and other emerging technologies. PeopleScout adds Affinix enhancements on a quarterly basis in order to provide a best-in-class experience for candidates and our clients. This iterative approach allows PeopleScout to leverage the latest technologies all within one seamless ecosystem.
PeopleScout continues to lead the talent acquisition industry with its innovation and unique talent solutions. Recent recognition for PeopleScout's Affinix includes:
- Bronze winner for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Solution and Big Data Solution in the 20th Annual American Business Awards® Program for 2022.
- Best Business Technology Solutions – Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in the 2022 TITAN Business Awards.
- Best Advance in Diversity and Inclusion Innovation in Brandon Hall Group's Fall 2021 Excellence in Technology Awards Program.
To learn more about the winners in the 2022 HR Tech awards, visit the website.
About PeopleScout
PeopleScout, a TrueBlue (NYSE: TBI) company, is a leading RPO provider managing talent solutions that span the global economy, with end-to-end MSP and talent advisory capabilities supporting total workforce needs. PeopleScout boasts 97% client retention managing the most complex programs in the industry. The company's thousands of forward-looking talent professionals provide clients with the edge in the people business by consistently delivering now while anticipating what's next. Affinix™, PeopleScout's proprietary talent acquisition platform, empowers faster engagement with the best talent through an AI-driven, consumer-like candidate experience and optimizes the talent process through data and actionable insights. Leveraging the power of data gleaned from engaging millions of candidates and contingent associates every year, PeopleScout has served clients in more than 70 countries with headquarters in Chicago, Sydney and London and global delivery centers in Toronto, Montreal, Bristol, Krakow, Gurgaon and Bangalore. For more information, please visit www.peoplescout.com.
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Today is Thursday, June 23, the 174th day of 2022. There are 191 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlights in History:
On June 23, 1888, abolitionist Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first Black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
On this date:
In 1860, a congressional resolution authorized creation of the United States Government Printing Office, which opened the following year.
In 1931, aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on a round-the-world flight that lasted eight days and 15 hours.
In 1947, the Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.
In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser was elected president of Egypt.
In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin opened a three-day summit at Glassboro State College in New Jersey.
In 1969, Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States by the man he was succeeding, Earl Warren.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon signed Title IX barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” (On the same day, Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)
In 1985, all 329 people aboard an Air India Boeing 747 were killed when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ireland because of a bomb authorities believe was planted by Sikh separatists.
In 1994, the movie “Forrest Gump,” starring Tom Hanks as a simple yet kindhearted soul and his serendipitous brushes with greatness, was released by Paramount Pictures.
In 1995, Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical pioneer who developed the first vaccine to halt the crippling rampage of polio, died in La Jolla, California, at age 80.
In 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling Prime Minister David Cameron, who had led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
In 2020, the Louisville police department fired an officer involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor more than three months earlier, saying Brett Hankison had shown “extreme indifference to the value of human life” when he fired ten rounds into Taylor’s apartment. (A second officer was also fired; Hankison was found not guilty on charges that he endangered neighbors.)
Ten years ago: Syria and Turkey desperately sought to ease tensions following an incident in which Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane, saying the plane had entered its airspace. Ashton Eaton broke the world record in the decathlon, finishing with 9,039 points at the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon. (Eaton later surpassed his own record with 9,045 points at the 2015 Beijing world championships.)
Five years ago: President Donald Trump signed a bill making it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees, part of a push to overhaul an agency struggling to serve millions of military vets. California Gov. Jerry Brown blocked parole for Charles Manson follower and convicted killer Bruce Davis.
One year ago: A 49-year-old Indiana grandmother became the first person to be sentenced in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol; Anna Morgan Lloyd was sentenced to probation and community service and had to pay $500 in restitution after pleading guilty to a single misdemeanor charge. A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group, Graydon Young, pleaded guilty in a conspiracy case stemming from the Jan. 6 attack, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. After 13 years of near silence in the conservatorship that controlled her life and money, pop star Britney Spears told a judge in Los Angeles that the conservatorship controlled by her father and others had made her feel demoralized and enslaved, and that it should come to an end. (The judge would agree to that request in November 2021.)
Today’s Birthdays: Singer Diana Trask is 82. Actor Ted Shackelford is 76. Actor Bryan Brown is 75. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is 74. Actor Jim Metzler is 71. “American Idol” ex-judge Randy Jackson is 66. Actor Frances McDormand is 65. Rock musician Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth) is 60. Writer-director Joss Whedon is 58. R&B singer Chico DeBarge is 52. Actor Selma Blair is 50. Actor Joel Edgerton is 48. Rock singer KT Tunstall is 47. Actor Emmanuelle Vaugier is 46. Singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is 45. Football Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson is 43. Actor Melissa Rauch is 42. Rock singer Duffy is 38. Country singer Katie Armiger is 31. | https://whnt.com/news/national/this-day-in-history/this-day-in-history-june-23/ | 2022-06-23T17:20:24Z | https://whnt.com/news/national/this-day-in-history/this-day-in-history-june-23/ | true | 18 |
Task automation platform PowerShell, which is often abused by threat actors distributing malware (opens in new tab), can also be used for attack detection and prevention. This is the advice the US National Security Agency (NSA) recently gave to system administrators everywhere.
Alongside cybersecurity centers in the UK and New Zealand, the NSA published a security advisory in which it argues that blocking PowerShell, a common security practice, actually lowers organizations’ defensive capabilities against ransomware (opens in new tab) and other forms of cyberattacks.
Instead, system admins should use it to boost their forensics and incident response, as well as to automate as many repetitive tasks as possible.
Numerous recommendations
“Blocking PowerShell hinders defensive capabilities that current versions of PowerShell can provide, and prevents components of the Windows operating system from running properly. Recent versions of PowerShell with improved capabilities and options can assist defenders in countering abuse of PowerShell,” the NSA stated.
The advisory comes with a number of recommendations, including leveraging PowerShell remoting, or using Secure Shell protocol (SSH) to improve the security of public-key authentication.
“Proper configuration of WDAC or AppLocker on Windows 10+ helps to prevent a malicious actor from gaining full control over a PowerShell session and the host,” the document explained.
System admins can also hunt for signs of abuse on their endpoints (opens in new tab) by recording PowerShell activity and monitoring logs.
The advisory also recommends admins turn on features such as Deep Script Block Logging, Module Logging, or Over-The-Shoulder Transcription, as the former create a log database, handy for spotting aggressive PowerShell activity.
The latter allows admins to record every PowerShell input and output, getting a better understanding of the attackers’ goals.
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Study is designed to assess immunologic responses, efficacy and safety of a novel self-assembling vaccine candidate
Data may support filing of an Investigational New Drug Application (IND)
NEW YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lucius Partners, LLC today reported that its portfolio company, Voltron Therapeutics, Inc., had announced the initiation of a preclinical study of its novel vaccine candidate VTX-067 in an immune-oncology model. This study, if successful, may support filing of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the US Food and Drug Administration.
Initiation of this study was the culmination of a tremendous effort by our highly skilled team of scientists, physicians and manufacturing experts to design and manufacture VTX-067 to bolster the immune system against a validated oncology target. Results are expected in the coming months.
Previous preclinical studies have evaluated the self-assembling vaccine technology, which consists of an immune activating MTBhsp70-avidin component and an antigen targeting biotinylated immunogenic peptides, for its impact on immune response relative to controls or peptides alone. Results have demonstrated that the SAV construct significantly increased both helper and cytotoxic T cell responses to the vaccine targeted antigens, when compared to controls. These proof-of-concept efforts utilizing the SAV platform will drive continued development of both oncology and infectious disease targeted vaccines
VTX-067 was developed using Voltron's vaccine platform, which was designed by scientists at the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, to meet an important unmet medical need in the treatment of certain cancers.
"Voltron is excited to advance our vaccine candidate to this important step in product development," said Pat Gallagher, Chief Executive Officer, Voltron Therapeutics, Inc. "We have taken exceptional science and pressure tested it with a very rigorous clinical and regulatory assessment process. I am delighted with how Voltron's multifunctional team integrated the outstanding research from the VIC, our internal development and operating group and TD2, our CRO partner, to identify ideal patient populations and optimize the ultimate targeting peptide selection and protocols. We aim to file an IND for at least one cancer indication in the coming months."
James Ahern, Founding Partner, Lucius Partners, LLC added, "Advancing development of VTX-067 has the potential to create value for our shareholders and stakeholders and significant potential treatment solutions/options for patients. This is another testament to the quality of the companies we continue to incubate, the operating teams we establish and the unique investment opportunities they present our investors. We will continue to fully vet new opportunities moving forward, focusing on our ability to add value for our companies and investors."
About Voltron Therapeutics, Inc.
Voltron Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation, was founded in 2017 to lead and accelerate the development of the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC), and the Massachusetts General Hospital's novel Self Assembling Vaccine technology in a variety of indications, including in Oncology and emerging Infectious Diseases. Voltron holds an exclusive worldwide license to this technology. With the work of our world class team of researchers and physicians, this technology has shown in certain pre-clinical studies initial proof of concept in two infectious diseases (Lassa Fever and Q Fever) as well as two oncology indications (Ovarian and HPV Related Cancers). For more information please visit www.voltrontx.com.
About Lucius Partners, LLC
Lucius Partners is a consultancy that provides a broad suite of services to help healthcare companies grow, achieve milestones and generate value for their shareholders.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements that relate to the advancement and development of the VaxCelerate Platform, the commencement of clinical trials, the availability of data from clinical trials and other information that is not historical information. When used herein, words such as "anticipate", "being", "will", "plan", "may", "continue", and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. In addition, any statements or information that refer to expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, performance or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking. All forward-looking statements are based upon Voltron's current expectations and various assumptions. Voltron believes there is a reasonable basis for its expectations and beliefs, but they are inherently uncertain. Voltron may not realize its expectations, and its beliefs may not prove correct. Actual results could differ materially from those described or implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including, without limitation, market conditions and any Voltron filings made with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Consequently, forward-looking statements should be regarded solely as Voltron's current plans, estimates and beliefs. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Voltron cannot guarantee future results, events, levels of activity, performance or achievements. Voltron does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update, republish, or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, future events or circumstances or to reflect the occurrences of unanticipated events, except as may be required by law.
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During the recent session, XP Inc. (NASDAQ:XP)’s traded shares were 0.44 million. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $19.35, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.26% or $0.24. The 52-week high for the XP share is $53.08, that puts it down -174.32 from that peak though still a striking 7.55% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $17.89. The company’s market capitalization is $10.64B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 4.3 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.56 million shares over the past three months.
XP Inc. (XP) received a consensus recommendation of an Overweight from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 2.20. XP has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 11 analysts who have looked at this stock. 3 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 8 recommend a Buy rating for it. 0 analyst(s) has rated the stock Underweight. Company’s earnings per share (EPS) for the current quarter are expected to be $0.31.
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XP Inc. (NASDAQ:XP) trade information
XP Inc. (XP) registered a 1.26% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.26% in intraday trading to $19.35 this Wednesday, 06/22/22, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 1.38%, and it has moved by -10.58% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is -58.16%. The short interest in XP Inc. (NASDAQ:XP) is 12.49 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.14 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $175.92, which implies an increase of 89.0% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $128.02 and $331.41 respectively. As a result, XP is trading at a discount of -1612.71% off the target high and -561.6% off the low.
XP Inc. (XP) estimates and forecasts
Statistics show that XP Inc. has outperformed its competitors in share price, compared to the industry in which it operates. XP Inc. (XP) shares have gone down -33.90% during the last six months, with a year-to-date growth rate more than the industry average at 15.52% against 2.30. Yet analysts are ramping up their growth forecast for the fiscal year 2022. Revenue is predicted to grow 6.90% this quarter and then drop -8.80% in the quarter after that. In the rating firms’ projections, revenue will increase 8.70% compared to the previous financial year.
Revenue for the current quarter is expected to be $608.88 million as predicted by 5 analyst(s). Meanwhile, a consensus of 5 analyst(s) estimates revenue growth to $683.58 million by the end of Jun 2022.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 78.90%. While earnings are projected to return 68.50% in 2022, the next five years will return 18.40% per annum.
XP Dividends
XP Inc. is due to release its next quarterly earnings between August 01 and August 05. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance.
XP Inc. (NASDAQ:XP)’s Major holders
XP Inc. insiders own 70.58% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 69.59%, with the float percentage being 236.54%. General Atlantic, L.P. is the largest shareholder of the company, while 401 institutions own stock in it. As of Mar 30, 2022, the company held over 50.54 million shares (or 11.91% of all shares), a total value of $1.52 billion in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 26.4 million shares, is of Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc’s that is approximately 6.23% of outstanding shares. At the market price on Mar 30, 2022, these shares were valued at $794.76 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of XP Inc. (XP) shares are Europacific Growth Fund and Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund. Data provided on Mar 30, 2022 indicates that Europacific Growth Fund owns about 11.26 million shares. This amounts to just over 2.65 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $338.85 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 10.51 million, or about 2.48% of the stock, which is worth about $316.4 million. | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/06/23/the-future-belongs-to-xp-inc-nasdaq-xp-for-risk-tolerant-investors/ | 2022-06-23T17:23:12Z | https://marketingsentinel.com/2022/06/23/the-future-belongs-to-xp-inc-nasdaq-xp-for-risk-tolerant-investors/ | false | 1239 |
Flights resume at Syrian capital airport after Israel strike
The international airport in Syria’s capital of Damascus resumed flights on Thursday after nearly two weeks following an Israeli airstrike that caused serious damage to the facility, a private company said.
Cham Wings Airlines said it had four flights that took off from the Damascus International Airport on Thursday for Kuwait, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Iraq.
The June 10 Israeli airstrike caused significant damage to infrastructure and runways and rendered the main runway unusable.
Shortly after the strike, work began to repair the damage and flights have been mostly diverted to the international airport in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.
Israel’s military has declined to comment on the airstrike. The facility is located just south of Damascus, where Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed militiamen are active and have arms depots.
Israel has staged hundreds of strikes against targets in Syria over the years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations. The airport strike marked a major escalation in Israel’s campaign, further ratcheting up tensions between Israel on one side and Iran and its Lebanese ally, the militant Hezbollah group, on the other.
Israel says it targets bases of Iran-allied militias, such as Hezbollah, which has fighters deployed in Syria fighting on the side of President Bashar Assad’s government forces and ships arms believed to be bound for the militias.
On Tuesday, a Cham Wings Airlines flight from the United Arab Emirates landed at an airport used by Russia’s military in the coastal province of Latakia in western Syria. The flight was the first to land at the airbase since the strike at Damascus airport.
It was also the first Syrian international flight to land at the facility since Russia took it over after joining the war in Syria in September 2015, helping tip the balance of power in favor of Assad’s forces.
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NEW YORK (AP) — How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously.
“Listen, let’s face it, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has sort of become something else," he says. "The video and the song have drifted off into the ether and become something else, and I’m ever so grateful for it.”
That song turns 35 this year and is still very much alive, buoyed by a second chapter as a gentle joke wherein someone baits you with an enticing online link, which points instead to the video for this 1987 dance-pop smash. It's called Rickrolling.
Thirty-five years later, Astley is singing it this summer on tour with New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue for the 57-date “The Mixtape Tour 2022.” A remastered version of his 1987 debut album also has been released featuring, of course, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
“I’m never going to have a song as big as that ever, and I kind of knew that while it was happening. I kind of thought, ‘We’re never going to beat this.’ But I also kind of thought, ‘Well, how bad is that?’”
There has always been much more to Astley than just that song. After blowing up in the late 1980s, he left show business frustrated and has only recently reemerged with the strong albums “50” in 2016 and “Beautiful Life” in 2018.
“Often the second act can be more enjoyable because you’re more in control and you savor every minute,” said Alistair Norbury, president of repertoire and marketing at BMG UK, which signed Astley.
The passage of time — and the fact that Astley is such a sweet guy — has softened any sharpness. He says he understands how the past can look different with rose-colored glasses. Rock stars have lately told him they love his voice.
“And I’m like, 'Really? I thought you would have strung me up in the village square,” he says, laughing. “They probably would have done at the time, but I think over time, I think it just changes your perspective.”
Astley, 56, is the youngest of four who grew up near Manchester, England. His sister played a lot of progressive rock and adored David Bowie. A brother was a huge Queen fan, and he remembers Queen's “Night at the Opera” album played on a loop. Astley soaked it all in, from Stevie Wonder to The Smiths.
He was in a band in school — they once performed “So Lonely” by The Police with Astley on drums and singing — that wiped the floor with rivals at a battle of the bands. He would go to gigs and dream of being a music star.
He remembers being astounded one day when he spotted the bass player of The Smiths walking through town. “This can happen?” he recalls thinking. “You can be from a town that I buy my records in but last week you were on ‘Top of the Pops?’”
Astley was only in his early 20s while recording his debut album, “Whenever You Need Somebody,” with the songwriting and record production trio known as Stock Aitken Waterman, who had crafted songs for Bananarama and Dead or Alive.
“I sold a lot of records. I was having a lot of hits, and then it was getting to a point where it's like touch and go — how is this going to go now because you have to make another record?”
Burned out and frustrated, he walked away at 27. “I think I just didn’t have it in me. I just didn’t. I didn’t want to do it,” he says.
He admires pop stars like Madonna or Kylie Minogue for their longevity. “I actually don’t know how they’ve done it,” he says.
Being a pop star messes with your head and Astley says that happened to him, too. “I think my days were numbered anyway, but I think I just managed to get out before they threw me out, you know?” He didn't perform for 15 years.
Unlike other pop stars, he hadn't invested his ego in his looks or others' perceptions. “I was never cool. I wasn’t cool when I had my hit records,” he says. Astley has nothing but compassion for those chewed up by the fame monster. "It must be unbelievably painful.”
Astley reemerged from self-exile in 2016 with “50,” named, with a hat-tip to Adele, for his age at the time, a strong album that veers from gospel to electro-funky.
Norbury recalls hearing the first few demos on the album and being impressed. He asked Astley's manager who wrote them. The answer was “Rick Astley.” He asked who was the co-writer?” The answer was, "Nobody." Who produced? “Rick.” Then who played all the instruments? “He played all the instruments.”
Norbury calls Astley “probably one of the hardest working people in this business and always does it with good humor and with a spirit of collaboration and partnership.”
Rickrolling started in 2007 — at the infancy of YouTube — and it confused Astley at the beginning. His song and video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” were being used as part of an internet bait-and-switch, but what did it mean?
“I was overthinking it and worrying about it and wondering what it was. And our daughter said to me — she was about 15 at the time — she just kind of said, ‘You do realize it’s got nothing to do with you?’” She also predicted: “There’ll be something else next week or tomorrow.”
“She was slightly wrong because it’s still kind of kicking around here and there,” says Astley. “But the sentiment of what she was saying was, I think, really, really valuable. I embrace my past, but I don’t have to embrace the Rickrolling thing in the same way because I accept the fact that it's got nothing to do with me to some degree.”
The song has racked up 1.2 billion streams on YouTube and 559 million Spotify listens. Time Out magazine was always a little puzzled by Rickrolling, asking why anyone wouldn’t want to hear the buoyant megajam, saying it is “three and a half of the most effervescent minutes in the ’80s canon.”
Astley, of course, sees “Never Gonna Give You Up” differently than the people who use it to try to mess with friends. He acknowledges the video is “unbelievably late-’80s cheesy” but “it’s a good memory. It’s like a fond memory.”
For Astley, it is the song that led him to Copenhagen, where he met his wife, Lene Bausager. Without that song, he wouldn't have his daughter or have traveled the world. “I’ve been to some of the most amazing places in the world that most people have on a bucket list.”
He thinks back to the days when he was a new artist looking up to established acts. Now he's a seasoned pro with an arsenal of songs, including an instant crowd-pleaser.
“At the time, I was like green with envy and felt totally insecure and all the rest of it. Now, when I walk out on a stage and sing those songs, I just kind of think, ‘Yeah, how lucky am I? Ain’t that great?’”
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Stop What You’re Doing and Visit Home Depot for This Big Ryobi Sale
We check Home Depot’s Ryobi sale every day, and it keep getting even better.
This is not a drill. We might be witnessing the greatest power tool sale of our lifetimes. Well, at least my lifetime. You may have noticed we’ve paid a lot of attention recently to Home Depot's Ryobi sale, and there’s a good reason. It keeps getting better. We here at The Drive are looking on in astonishment, wondering when these offers will end.
We have some theories as to the reason behind these outrageous sales, but Ryobi hasn't confirmed anything yet. The only thing we're sure of is that they can't continue much longer. The best deal I’ve found is a free One+ 18-Volt High-Performance tool when you buy a discounted battery and charging kit. If you pair that deal with this One+ Half-Inch Impact Wrench, you’ll save an incredible $320. But you don’t have to opt for an impact wrench, as you can pair the deal with one of Ryobi’s many power tools.
Normally, I wouldn’t suggest buying something you don’t need just because it’s on sale. But if you do any DIY home or automotive maintenance, these deals are too good to pass up. I’d be amazed if one of these offers doesn't make you hit Add to Cart.
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- One+ 18-Volt High-Performance Starter Kit for $199 (save up to $320)
- One+ 18-Volt Five-Tool Combo Kit with two batteries and charger for $139 (save $227)
- One+ Five-Tool Combo Kit for $239 (save $286)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless 3/8-inch Impact Wrench for $99 (save $99)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Compact Router for $99 (save $69)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Orbital Jig Saw for $99 (save $69)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Planer for $99 (save $79)
- One+ 18-Volt Cordless Three-Speed Half-inch Impact Wrench Kit with Battery and Charger for $129 (save $93)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Multitool for $99 (save $79)
- One+ 18-Volt High-Performance Batteries and Charger Kit with Brushless Ratchet for $199 (save $169)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Three-Speed Impact Driver for $99 (save $79)
- One+ 18-Volt Compact Battery and Charger Kit with free Cordless Hammer Drill for $99 (save $79)
- One+ 18-Volt Two-Tool Combo Kit with Multitool and Five-Inch Random Orbit Sander for $59 (save $45)
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FIFA Officially Expands World Cup Rosters From 23 to 26
National team rosters for the upcoming World Cup in Qatar will expand from 23 to 26 players, FIFA announced Thursday.
The long-expected decision comes as no surprise after rosters at last summer’s Euros were set at 26 while both the Copa América and the African Cup of Nations were played with 28-man squads. The rosters were originally expanded during pandemic-era tournaments to counter the possibility of players testing positive for COVID-19.
The news comes less than two weeks after the International Football Association Board formally changed the game’s rules to allow for five substitutions in a match, meaning there will be two significant changes at the fall World Cup. Leagues and competitions, including the Champions League, had adopted the temporary change in 2020 until it was formally written into law.
The maximum number of players on the release list will be also increased from 35 to 55.
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Meanwhile, club teams and domestic leagues are required to release their World Cup-bound players by Nov. 13. The Premier League, for example, will pause for more than a month after the Matchday 16 weekend of Nov. 12 with England playing on the opening day of the World Cup.
The World Cup will begin with Senegal vs. Netherlands on Nov. 21 and end with the Dec. 18 final.
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CODORUS VALLEY BANCORP INC Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership: Matsumoto Kent K. (Form3)
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Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Pakistan has bagged two silver medals in the fourth Mas-Wrestling World Championship held at Yakut, Russia.
According to information provided by officials of the Pakistan Mas-Wrestling Federation, Pakistani athlete Waqas Afzal Bhatti earned the silver medal in 125kg category while Saad Mohammad earned the silver medal in 60kg weight category competition.
Waqas, according to PMWF, had also outclassed his opponent from India Sheikh Abdul Ahad Yunus in a qualifying round bout before winning his semi-final on way to the final.
Saad, meanwhile, defeated wrestlers from Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan in initial bouts before outclassing the Serbian opponent in the semifinal. He couldn’t continue his winning run momentum in the final and had to settle for the silver medal.
The championship that kicked off yesterday in Russia features athletes from 45 countries.
Pakistan has sent 11 athletes to the championship, including one female.
Pakistan’s other participants in the tournament Aurangzaib Shah, Shaffat Ullah, Natasha Amani Khan, Afshal Anser, Ali Azhar, Sheraz Ali, Muhammad Alam and Muhammad Ibrahim Baig have their bouts scheduled for Friday. | https://www.geo.tv/latest/423999-pakistan-bags-two-silver-medals-in-fourth-mas-wrestling-world-championship | 2022-06-23T17:32:25Z | https://www.geo.tv/latest/423999-pakistan-bags-two-silver-medals-in-fourth-mas-wrestling-world-championship | true | 1 |
Lawrence Bishnoi admits to planning Moosewala killing since last August, say police
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Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has admitted that he was the ''mastermind'' in Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala's killing and the planning was going on since last August, Punjab Police ADGP Pramod Ban said on Thursday.
Ban, who is also the head of the Anti-Gangster Task Force, said another accused, Baldev alias Nikku, a resident of Haryana's Sirsa district, was arrested on Thursday.
Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, also known as Sidhu Moosewala, was shot dead in Mansa district on May 29, a day after the Punjab government pruned the security cover of the singer and 423 people temporarily.
''We had recently arrested Lawrence Bishnoi in the case and his remand was extended till June 27. He has admitted that he was the mastermind (in Moosewala's killing),'' Ban told reporters here.
''The plan to carry out the killing was being hatched since August last year. According to our information, recce was done thrice. In January too, a different group of shooters had come to kill Moosewala but could not do so,'' the ADGP said.
''We have arrested 13 people so far and the entire conspiracy has been unravelled,'' Ban said, adding that Lawrence has also admitted to using a mobile phone in Tihar Jail.
Asked if the weapons recovered from the arrested shooters in the case by the Delhi Police were used in Moosewala's killing, he said they are waiting for the forensic analysis.
''We will have to get those weapons forensic checked to see whether those were used in this case, that is part of the investigation.'' Ban said that fake passports made outside Punjab were used by Lawrence's brother Anmol and his associate Sachin Thapan to travel abroad earlier this year.
Bishnoi made them settle abroad from where they could coordinate, facilitate and successfully execute the crime without being noticed or held culpable, the police officer said.
A separate FIR has been lodged in Mohali in connection with the case of the fake passport, he said.
Bishnoi has confessed to hatching the conspiracy with Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar, Sachin Thapan and Anmol, he said.
Ban said the police have got details of associates, weapons suppliers, financers and others helping this gang in various activities. The police in various districts of the state have arrested 19 people linked to this gang.
The ADGP said a Punjab Police team is in the national capital for the questioning of arrested shooter Priyavrat alias Fauji and others who are in the custody of the Delhi Police.
He said that within hours of Moosewala's killing, the Punjab Police made the first arrest in the case. Some of the accused involved in the crime had reached Mansa three to four days before the crime.
''As far as the arrest of the other accused goes, eight to nine teams of the Anti-Gangster Task Force are at the job. We are also in touch with other states and are hopeful of nabbing them soon,'' the ADGP said.
About the accused arrested on Thursday, Ban said Baldev was the main person who carried out recce with Sandeep, who has also been arrested. Baldev took a selfie with Moosewala and he spoke to Goldy Brar and Sachin Thapan over the phone and passed on information to the conspirators who had direct contact with the shooters, he said.
A court in Mansa had recently extended the police remand of Lawrence Bishnoi who was brought to the state by the Punjab Police from Delhi last week for questioning in the Moosewala murder case.
The Delhi Police had arrested three persons, including two shooters, in the case, officials had said on Monday adding that one of them was in touch with Canada-based gangster Goldy Brar at the time of the incident.
Eight grenades along with an under-barrel grenade launcher, nine electric detonators, one assault rifle along with 20 cartridges, three sophisticated pistols, 36 rounds and part of an AK series assault rifle had been seized from them, police said.
The explosives were a part of a backup plan in case the weapons did not function, they had said, adding the accused were identified as Priyavrat alias Fauji (26), a resident of Sonipat in Haryana, Kashish (24), also from the state's Jhajjar district, and Keshav Kumar (29), a resident of Bhatinda in Punjab.
The police had said that Priyavrat led a team of shooters and was in direct contact with Brar at the time of the incident. He is the main shooter and executioner of the murder, the Delhi Police had said.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Brittney Griner will have a place at the WNBA All-Star Game, being named an honorary starter Wednesday by Commissioner Cathy Engelbert.
Griner has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17 after authorities at an airport outside of Moscow said she had vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her bag.
“During each season of Brittney’s career in which there has been an All-Star Game, she has been selected as an All-Star,” Engelbert said. “It is not difficult to imagine that if BG were here with us this season, she would once again be selected and would, no doubt, show off her incredible talents. So, it is only fitting that she be named as an honorary starter today and we continue to work on her safe return to the U.S.”
The State Department in May designated Griner as wrongfully detained, moving her case under the supervision of its special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, who is effectively the government’s chief hostage negotiator.
Russian state-run news agency Tass reported last week that Griner’s detention was extended until at least July 2. Another American, Paul Whelan, has been held in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges he and the U.S. government say are false.
Breanna Stewart and A’ja Wilson received the most votes from fans and were selected as co-captains for the event. They will be joined by Sue Bird and Sylvia Fowles, who both have announced they will retire at the end of the season. Bird will set a record with her 13th All-Star appearance. Fowles, who is injured right now, was selected for her eighth game.
Stewart and Fowles will be paired up as co-captains, as will Wilson and Bird, and will choose their teams.
Joining Wilson, Stewart and Fowles in the frontcourt are Connecticut’s Jonquel Jones, Los Angeles’s Nneka Ogwumike and Chicago’s Candace Parker. The starting guards, in addition to Bird, are New York’s Sabrina Ionescu and Las Vegas teammates Kelsey Plum and Jackie Young.
““For icons like Sylvia and Sue to be voted into the AT&T WNBA All-Star Game as starters in their 15th and 19th seasons, respectively, is extraordinary,” Engelbert said. “And when you see the starting lineups dotted with first-time All-Stars like Sabrina Ionescu, Kelsey Plum, and Jackie Young, it just seems right that Sylvia and Sue — who have said this will be their final season — join A’ja and Breanna as co-captains for an All-Star event that will in some ways symbolize the passing of the torch to a new generation of WNBA stars.”
Starters were chosen by a combination of fan, media and player voting.
The league’s coaches will vote for the 12 reserves and the co-captains will draft their rosters on July 2. The game will take place on July 10 in Chicago with a 3-point competition and skills challenge the day before.
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Classic Milk Truck Delivers Over 114 Miles Per Hour At The Drag Strip
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This incredible truck is likely a one of a kind masterpiece.
We have all seen some pretty crazy classic cars receiving complete restoration and racing treatment these days. However, it's unlikely that you've ever heard of a vehicle like this insane Milk Truck from the early days of automotive transportation. So, after an exciting week at the track, the builder and his dad set out to find their own racing vehicle. While most would have sought after a Camaro, Mustang, Challenger, or Firebird, these guys had a new idea. Eventually, the pair found a rusty old milk delivery truck and got to work building something that would catch everyone's attention at the race track.
Nowadays, under the hood, you will find a 496 cubic inch big-block V8 engine, which has apparently been about six years in the making. Along with being absolutely massive, this engine also supports two turbochargers, making producing power significantly more attainable. All in all, this truck is sending around 815 horsepower to the rear wheels, which seems like a ridiculous figure but is quickly proven on the race track. The truck is described by the owners as a drag racer and a street rod, which means it spends a lot of time at the drag strip while still being daily drivable.
All that power is then sent through a Turbo 400 three-speed automatic transmission, making quick gear changing and hard acceleration an easy feat. These mechanical features help the 4,500 lbs beast reach speeds of over 100 mph with a top speed of about 114 mph. With A/C, bucket seating, and a great stereo system, this is also an excellent daily driver that catches the attention of all sorts of drivers. Overall, this incredible truck is likely one of a kind, and we're excited to see more people making crazy builds like this soon.
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Key Companies Covered in the Licensed Sports Merchandise Market Research are Nike, Adidas, G-III Apparel Group, Under Armour, Fanatics, Inc., VF Corporation, Puma, Li Ning Company Limited, DICKS Sporting Goods, ANTA and other key market players.
Sports merchandise licensing is a method used to curb the manufacturing of counterfeit products of sports teams and sports merchandise brands. Licensing reduces infringements on the trademarks of teams and players to a great extent. As of 2018, sports goods merchandising accounts for nearly 10% of the global sports industry.
The global licensed sports merchandise market is expected to reach a revenue of USD 33.99 Bn by 2023, from USD 26.47 Bn in 2018, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.1%.
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COVID-19 Impact Analysis
The pandemic of COVID-19 has also reduced the availability of and demand for non-COVID-19-related medical treatment. A wide range of treatments, including emergency care for acute diseases, routine check-ups, and recommended cancer screenings, are being postponed or avoided by patients. Undiagnosed illnesses and a failure to intervene early will have serious long-term health consequences. COVID-19 has accelerated a variety of existing and emerging healthcare trends, including changing consumer attitudes and habits, the convergence of life science and health care, rapid advances in digital health technologies, and new talent and care delivery models, to name a few.
The market is classified into three segments based on products (apparel, footwear, accessories, and others), distribution channels (online distribution and offline distribution), and end users (men, women, and children).
Product segment insights:
The licensed footwear segment is expected to expand at a CAGR of 5.4% through the forecasted period of 2018-2023, and will account for a market share of around 42% by 2023. The growing popularity of sports leagues is creating direct demand from fans for different types and styles of licensed footwear. To cater to this demand, manufacturers are offering innovative, high-quality, and cost-effective products. The apparel segment is close on its heels it is expected to witness a CAGR of 5.1% through the forecasted period of 2018-2023 and account for a market share of around 36% by 2023.
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Distribution channel segment insights:
The offline distribution channel held the largest market share (66%) in 2018. This is because most fans prefer to be physically present while buying their favorite gear to ensure a perfect fit and to check its authenticity. However, the online distribution channel segment, with a 34% market share in 2018, is expected to witness a higher CAGR of 6.3% during the 20182023 period. Companies like Amazon are gaining popularity among consumers since retailers and manufacturing companies are using technology and social media to encourage consumers to buy merchandise online.
End user segment insights:
Although the mens category held the largest market share (58%), the womens segment is expected to witness a higher growth rate (5.5%) through the forecasted period. Womens participation in sports has improved over time – the number of women playing sports regularly in England has reached an all-time high of 7.21 Mn – along with an increase in the number of female sports viewers. Women account for over 40% of the National Football League fan base. As a result, major companies such as Nike and Adidas have increased their merchandise marketing efforts, even in the Middle East, which is boosting the growth of the womens segment.
Regional insights:
Based on regions, the global licensed sports merchandise market is segmented into North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa.
In 2018, North America accounted for an approximately 65% share of the market. The revenue from licensed sports merchandise in North America increased by 4.65% in 2017, driven majorly by an increase in TV viewership of sports leagues in the region. Latin America is expected to witness the highest growth rate over the forecasted period.
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Skeptics call the Congressional hearings on the January 6th siege of the U.S. Capitol show business. On Fox News, critics call them "show trials."
Yet the House select committee investigating the attack is achieving something rare on Capitol Hill: Hearings that are surprisingly tangible, understandable, and substantive instead of the typical Congressional ping-pong match of clashes, arguments and even more arguments about whose turn it is to argue.
The committee is making a dual argument. It is laying out the case that rioters who attacked the Capitol were intentional insurrectionists. It is also arguing that then President Donald Trump embarked on a pressure campaign that he knew was illegal and could end in violence as he tried to deny President Biden his win in the 2020 elections.
The headlines and stories that have emerged are clear-cut. "Trump knew plan was illegal," The Washington Post told readers atop its paper after one hearing. "Jan. 6 committee leaders say Trump broke the law by trying to pressure Pence," said NPR. "Trump, Told It Was Illegal, Still Pressured Pence to Overturn His Loss," The New York Times reported.
Techniques taken from TV news to tell a story grounded in facts
To achieve that, the hearings relied on subtle television news techniques and choices, rather than sensationalism. And they did so in two ways.
The first involves how the material is shaped.
With each day's hearing, the Jan. 6 committee has committed to a single story with a narrative arc, consisting of main characters and dramatic conflicts. Each panel assembled fits in with the larger theme of the day, building to a larger point. And the investigative panel has drawn upon a raft of authenticating sources — audio, depositions, emails, memos, social media posts, texts, video, and more.
Take Tuesday's hearings. Viewers heard of phone calls Trump and his advisers made with an "ask" — inappropriate and likely illegal demands. (We heard recordings of Trump on one of those calls Tuesday.)
'Do you know how it feels to have the President of the United States target you?'
And the public heard of the real-life harm done to people unwittingly caught up in the former president's efforts.
A House Speaker in Arizona — a Trump-supporting Republican — who received threats. A Secretary of State in Georgia — a Trump-supporting Republican —whose wife received death threats and whose widowed daughter-in-law's home was broken into. Presidential arm-twisting was followed by in-person menace, believed to be from Trump supporters.
And a mother-and-daughter team of election workers in Georgia, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, revealed how their lives were upended.
"Do you know how it feels to have the President of the United States target you?" Freeman asked in her videotaped testimony. She said she was advised by the FBI to move out of her home for two months.
No 5-minute opening statements, so no grandstanding
These presentations relied on a second television news technique, which is to maintain a clear story told at a brisk pace and focused on the desired subjects. The committee hired former ABC News President James Goldston. Associates tell NPR he sees the job as a civic contribution rather than a partisan task.
As a result, lawmakers on the committee dispensed with the usual five-minute opening statements that are often an opportunity for grandstanding for hometown coverage or viral moments. They did not engage in round-robin questioning, but designated a specific panel member for each session.
Instead it's short excerpts of video testimony, individual texts and tweets
In this way, the committee sidesteps confusion of whom to listen to. Excerpts of taped testimony or public speeches are rarely longer than a minute or two — often far shorter. Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr — a Trump appointee who says he would still vote for Trump for president if he were the Republican nominee — proves a favorite source of quotations for the committee. Viewers have heard him dismiss Trump's talk of election fraud in a variety of colorful phrases.
When there are text exchanges or Twitter threads, each statement is unveiled on the screen individually, with pauses for the implications to seep in. To vary the voices, different committee investigators narrate what happened in specific elements, introducing video and audio clips. The camera lingers on footage or images of the person being talked about — not the person talking, whether Trump, his chief of staff, his legal advisers, or those acting in his name among the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
Focus on substance of topic rather than prestige of speaker
The viewers absorb the importance of what is being talked about, not the prestige of who is speaking.
This represents an extraordinary demonstration of discipline for a congressional committee, with a minimum of showboating, yielding hearings put together like a Ted Koppel-vintage episode of Nightline or Dateline NBC or a taut investigative podcast.
There's even a brief video teaser for what's ahead in the next session. The sole witness who delivered live testimony haltingly — retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig — acknowledged later he was picking words with excruciating care for posterity.
Republican calculation not to participate means they have no influence on shaping the narrative
Part of this was enabled by a political calculation — probably a miscalculation — by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who decided to pull all Republicans he proposed for the committee. Speaker Nancy Pelosi knocked two Republican lawmakers from joining the committee, saying they might themselves have questions to answer about their conduct. So McCarthy decided to boycott it in an effort to gut the committee's credibility.
As a consequence, McCarthy has no influence on shaping the hearings.
Pelosi and Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, pulled in Republicans Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is serving as his vice chair, and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. Both have assailed Trump's moves to undermine democracy.
"You have nobody to give the opposing point of view," Trump complained to Punchbowl News on Wednesday.
A damning investigation presented as compelling TV
Writ large, the committee hearings are a damning work of investigation presented as compelling TV. With one key exception, no assertions presented as fact by the committee have been credibly knocked down.
U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, denied he preemptively sought a pardon from then-President Trump in January 2021. The committee had alleged he did. It will presumably need to show some documentation or vindicate him. (That's leaving aside Rudy Giuliani's contention he was not intoxicated at a key moment when others say he was.)
Different news outlets have offered their own assessments. The Washington Post's Dana Milbank catalogued the repeated times Fox News journalists and pundits said the hearings wouldn't "move the needle" in public opinion about what happened on January 6th. The former president's apologists on Fox, Newsmax and elsewhere have discounted it as old news, fake news, no news.
Heartfelt testimony from regular Americans is forcing people to pay attention
More than 20 million people watched the first night of prime-time hearings; fewer have watched the daytime sessions since. (Fox News didn't cover that first hearing live, preferring to protect its star programs and to send viewers looking for the hearing to its less-watched sibling Fox Business. For that matter, NBC dropped out of some daytime coverage in favor of the U.S. Open golf tournament.)
Some of Trump's defenders have taken those numbers to mean the hearings are a flop. Pro-Trump voices are attempting to discount the words even as — even before — they come out of the mouths of witnesses.
Yet those numbers best the audience for Trump's first impeachment. And the nation is hearing heartfelt testimony by people in difficult jobs trying as best they can to live up to their oaths. In many cases, they are Republicans. By and large, their accounts have forced the nation's news outlets to pay attention, distributing their message to a far wider audience on the air and online.
The vast majority of Americans, 70% according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll, say it's important for Congress to hold these hearings so the public can learn what led to the Jan. 6 attack.
What we can learn from the ancient Greeks about prophecy and hyperbole
The ancient Greeks left us with two big stories about how unheeded warnings are treated. Cassandra the prophet was invariably prescient. And she was equally invariably ignored. The people she sought to warn were time and again overtaken by violence and doom. There was a lot of that going around. It was the Trojan Wars, after all.
The other story is a fable, courtesy, we are told, of a storyteller named Aesop. There's a boy with ominous concerns of a wolf and hoax cries for help. The boy repeatedly makes the equivalent of classical Greek prank 911 calls. The wolf ultimately devours the town's flock of sheep as everyone tunes out the warnings.
The legacy of the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol attack will hinge on whether viewers and the voting public treat it as prophetic or hyperbolic. Thanks to careful adaptation of TV techniques, the committee has proved, so far, to have a strong and disturbing story to tell.
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Rick Astley revisits his career-making song with 'gratitude'
How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time
Rick Astley revisits his career-making song with 'gratitude'
Show all 7How does Rick Astley handle one of his songs being part of the biggest internet meme of all time? He rolls with it, obviously.
“Listen, let’s face it, ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ has sort of become something else," he says. "The video and the song have drifted off into the ether and become something else, and I’m ever so grateful for it.”
That song turns 35 this year and is still very much alive, buoyed by a second chapter as a gentle joke wherein someone baits you with an enticing online link, which points instead to the video for this 1987 dance-pop smash. It's called Rickrolling.
Thirty-five years later, Astley is singing it this summer on tour with New Kids on the Block, Salt-N-Pepa and En Vogue for the 57-date “The Mixtape Tour 2022.” A remastered version of his 1987 debut album also has been released featuring, of course, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
“I’m never going to have a song as big as that ever, and I kind of knew that while it was happening. I kind of thought, ‘We’re never going to beat this.’ But I also kind of thought, ‘Well, how bad is that?’”
There has always been much more to Astley than just that song. After blowing up in the late 1980s, he left show business frustrated and has only recently reemerged with the strong albums “50” in 2016 and “Beautiful Life” in 2018.
“Often the second act can be more enjoyable because you’re more in control and you savor every minute,” said Alistair Norbury, president of repertoire and marketing at BMG UK, which signed Astley.
The passage of time — and the fact that Astley is such a sweet guy — has softened any sharpness. He says he understands how the past can look different with rose-colored glasses. Rock stars have lately told him they love his voice.
“And I’m like, 'Really? I thought you would have strung me up in the village square,” he says, laughing. “They probably would have done at the time, but I think over time, I think it just changes your perspective.”
Astley, 56, is the youngest of four who grew up near Manchester, England. His sister played a lot of progressive rock and adored David Bowie. A brother was a huge Queen fan, and he remembers Queen's “Night at the Opera” album played on a loop. Astley soaked it all in, from Stevie Wonder to The Smiths.
He was in a band in school — they once performed “So Lonely” by The Police with Astley on drums and singing — that wiped the floor with rivals at a battle of the bands. He would go to gigs and dream of being a music star.
He remembers being astounded one day when he spotted the bass player of The Smiths walking through town. “This can happen?” he recalls thinking. “You can be from a town that I buy my records in but last week you were on ‘Top of the Pops?’”
Astley was only in his early 20s while recording his debut album, “Whenever You Need Somebody,” with the songwriting and record production trio known as Stock Aitken Waterman, who had crafted songs for Bananarama and Dead or Alive.
“I sold a lot of records. I was having a lot of hits, and then it was getting to a point where it's like touch and go — how is this going to go now because you have to make another record?”
Burned out and frustrated, he walked away at 27. “I think I just didn’t have it in me. I just didn’t. I didn’t want to do it,” he says.
He admires pop stars like Madonna or Kylie Minogue for their longevity. “I actually don’t know how they’ve done it,” he says.
Being a pop star messes with your head and Astley says that happened to him, too. “I think my days were numbered anyway, but I think I just managed to get out before they threw me out, you know?” He didn't perform for 15 years.
Unlike other pop stars, he hadn't invested his ego in his looks or others' perceptions. “I was never cool. I wasn’t cool when I had my hit records,” he says. Astley has nothing but compassion for those chewed up by the fame monster. "It must be unbelievably painful.”
Astley reemerged from self-exile in 2016 with “50,” named, with a hat-tip to Adele, for his age at the time, a strong album that veers from gospel to electro-funky.
Norbury recalls hearing the first few demos on the album and being impressed. He asked Astley's manager who wrote them. The answer was “Rick Astley.” He asked who was the co-writer?” The answer was, "Nobody." Who produced? “Rick.” Then who played all the instruments? “He played all the instruments.”
Norbury calls Astley “probably one of the hardest working people in this business and always does it with good humor and with a spirit of collaboration and partnership.”
Rickrolling started in 2007 — at the infancy of YouTube — and it confused Astley at the beginning. His song and video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” were being used as part of an internet bait-and-switch, but what did it mean?
“I was overthinking it and worrying about it and wondering what it was. And our daughter said to me — she was about 15 at the time — she just kind of said, ‘You do realize it’s got nothing to do with you?’” She also predicted: “There’ll be something else next week or tomorrow.”
“She was slightly wrong because it’s still kind of kicking around here and there,” says Astley. “But the sentiment of what she was saying was, I think, really, really valuable. I embrace my past, but I don’t have to embrace the Rickrolling thing in the same way because I accept the fact that it's got nothing to do with me to some degree.”
The song has racked up 1.2 billion streams on YouTube and 559 million Spotify listens. Time Out magazine was always a little puzzled by Rickrolling, asking why anyone wouldn’t want to hear the buoyant megajam, saying it is “three and a half of the most effervescent minutes in the ’80s canon.”
Astley, of course, sees “Never Gonna Give You Up” differently than the people who use it to try to mess with friends. He acknowledges the video is “unbelievably late-’80s cheesy” but “it’s a good memory. It’s like a fond memory.”
For Astley, it is the song that led him to Copenhagen, where he met his wife, Lene Bausager. Without that song, he wouldn't have his daughter or have traveled the world. “I’ve been to some of the most amazing places in the world that most people have on a bucket list.”
He thinks back to the days when he was a new artist looking up to established acts. Now he's a seasoned pro with an arsenal of songs, including an instant crowd-pleaser.
“At the time, I was like green with envy and felt totally insecure and all the rest of it. Now, when I walk out on a stage and sing those songs, I just kind of think, ‘Yeah, how lucky am I? Ain’t that great?’”
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Indian junior women's hockey team beats USA 4-1
Hannah Miller 46th scored the lone goal for the Americans.The Indian team got off to a fast start, winning the first penalty corner of the game inside 10 minutes.
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The Indian women's hockey team recorded a comprehensive 4-1 victory over the United States in the U-23 5-Nation tournament here on Thursday.
Annu (49th, 52nd) netted a brace, while Nikita Toppo (48th) and Vaishnavi Phalke (58th) scored one goal each for India. Hannah Miller (46th) scored the lone goal for the Americans.
The Indian team got off to a fast start, winning the first penalty corner of the game inside 10 minutes. Although it didn't translate into a goal, India made their intentions clear as they tried to attack early in the game to grab the lead. Despite their best efforts, neither India nor the United States was able to break the deadlock as the first quarter came to an end.
India took charge early in the second quarter and were rewarded for their efforts when they won their second PC. However, the United States' defence held firm and prevented India from converting it. After that, the USA mounted a counter-attack, which resulted in their first penalty corner of the game, but it did not result in a goal, forcing both teams to enter the half time break with no advantage.
Similar to the first and second quarters of the game, India and the USA fought it out to control the pace of the game in the third quarter without producing any clear opportunities. The final quarter turned out to be the most exciting as both teams scored all their goals in the last 15 minutes.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
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Dunkin' customer throws beverage, pulls gun on workers, Dartmouth police say
A Dunkin' customer is accused of throwing a drink and pulling a gun on employees at Dunkin' in Dartmouth on Sunday, police say.
Zachary Nordstrom, 19, of Dayville, Connecticut, was arrested following the incident after surrendering to police in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Dartmouth police say.
Nordstrom surrendered to the Brock Avenue station in New Bedford, where police contacted the Dartmouth police department where he was placed under arrest. He informed officers that after fleeing Dunkin', he threw the gun out of his vehicle, which was later found by police, according to the Dartmouth police.
Officers found a 9 mm handgun and ammunition during their search of the area.
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WBOY) — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reported 602 new COVID cases and 36 additional deaths on June 23.
On Wednesday, the DHHR reported 612 new COVID cases and no additional deaths.
The DHHR has reported 528,651 (+602) total cases and 7,054 (+36) total deaths. According to the DHHR dashboard, there are currently 1,924 (+42) active cases.
According to the DHHR, from June 6-20, 2022, the National Center for Health Statistics was unable to certify deaths due to a data system update affecting all 50 states, including West Virginia. Thursday morning’s report reflects the outage in reporting.
Included in the total deaths reported on the dashboard as a result of the Bureau for Public Health’s continuing data reconciliation with the official death certificate are a 53-year old male from Kanawha County, a 68-year old female from Boone County, a 79-year old female from Marshall County, a 75-year old male from Wyoming County, a 39-year old female from McDowell County, an 81-year old female from Raleigh County, a 91-year old female from Logan County, a 91-year old female from Kanawha County, a 59-year old male from Mason County, an 81-year old male from Kanawha County, a 93-year old female from Harrison County, a 66-year old female from Kanawha County, an 89-year old female from Clay County, an 84-year old male from Kanawha County, a 76-year old male from Logan County, a 91-year old male from Jackson County, an 81-year old male from Nicholas County, an 89-year old male from Cabell County, a 79-year old female from Kanawha County, a 71-year old male from Preston County, an 80-year old female from Ohio County, a 107-year old male from Logan County, a 50-year old female from Cabell County, an 84-year old female from Wood County, a 91-year old female from Clay County, an 80-year old female from Morgan County, a 68-year old female from Braxton County, an 81-year old female from Ohio County, an 87-year old female from Kanawha County, a 61-year old male from Wayne County, a 66-year old female from Putnam County, a 68-year old female from Raleigh County, a 68-year old female from Wyoming County, a 75-year old female from Putnam County, a 71-year old female from Putnam County, and an 84-year old male from Kanawha County. These deaths range from February through June 2022.
CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (21), Berkeley (108), Boone (24), Braxton (12), Brooke (15), Cabell (101), Calhoun (14), Clay (4), Doddridge (2), Fayette (39), Gilmer (9), Grant (19), Greenbrier (42), Hampshire (19), Hancock (25), Hardy (23), Harrison (104), Jackson (21), Jefferson (80), Kanawha (160), Lewis (24), Lincoln (11), Logan (42), Marion (79), Marshall (38), Mason (31), McDowell (28), Mercer (73), Mineral (36), Mingo (18), Monongalia (119), Monroe (26), Morgan (9), Nicholas (23), Ohio (27), Pendleton (1), Pleasants (9), Pocahontas (3), Preston (17), Putnam (80), Raleigh (84), Randolph (21), Ritchie (5), Roane (39), Summers (15), Taylor (17), Tucker (2), Tyler (7), Upshur (28), Wayne (23), Webster (9), Wetzel (23), Wirt (3), Wood (79), Wyoming (33).
According to the dashboard, 1,135,271 first doses of the vaccine have been administered to West Virginians, and 981,583 or 54.8% of West Virginians, have been fully vaccinated. The dashboard also reported that 515,158 boost doses have been administered.
West Virginians, including children under five, are now eligible for the COVID vaccine. West Virginians who are five and over now qualify for the COVID booster vaccine, and at-risk people and people over 50 now qualify for a second COVID booster. To learn more about the vaccine or to find a vaccine site near you, visit vaccinate.wv.gov or call 1-833-734-0965.
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PONCA CITY – Police in Ponca City fatally shot a man Monday who had robbed a liquor store, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Police were called Monday night after the man left the store located in a strip mall on foot with alcohol, the OSBI said.
Officers later spotted the man carrying a gun and walking in a city street where he then forced a woman from her vehicle and stole the vehicle, driving it back to the strip mall where the liquor store is located, the OSBI said.
The man then drove into a field behind the strip mall where he abandoned the car and ran into a wooded area, chased by officers. He then turned toward the officers and appeared to have the gun when police shot and killed him, according to the OSBI.
The man’s weapon was recovered at the scene, the OSBI said.
The OSBI said the man has not been identified and his body was sent to the state medical examiner’s office for identification.
The names of the officers were not released, and Ponca City police declined to comment. | https://journalrecord.com/2022/06/22/police-fatally-shoot-liquor-store-robber-in-ponca-city/ | 2022-06-23T17:43:35Z | https://journalrecord.com/2022/06/22/police-fatally-shoot-liquor-store-robber-in-ponca-city/ | false | 12 |
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Standard variable rates hit 13-year high
The average Standard Variable Rate (SVR) for June reached 4.91% said Moneyfacts.
This was up 0.13 percentage points compared to May and is at the highest level recorded by the financial information provider since February 2009.
Both average mortgage rates and product availability have shifted since the first of the recent Bank of England base rate rises in December 2021.
Fixed rates up
The average overall two-year fixed rate has risen for eight months in a row.
At 3.25%, it’s up by 0.22% since last month, and by 0.91% since December 2021. The average two-year fix is now at its highest level since 2014.
The overall five-year fixed rate average sits at 3.37%, it’s highest level in seven years and 0.73% higher than the equivalent rate in December 2021.
This also means that the margin between the average two- and five-year fixed rates is now just 0.12% – the smallest this differential has been since February 2013.
The average two-year tracker rate has climbed to 2.54%, also its highest level since 2014.
Mortgage product availability has also changed, this month dipping by 100 products to leave 4,987 deals for would-be borrowers to choose from. This is a fall of 328 when compared to December 2021, although the level of choice in the market remains up when compared year-on-year.
Eleanor Williams, finance expert at Moneyfacts, said: “The average SVR rate of 4.91% is the highest recorded in over 13 years, having risen by 0.51% since December 2021.
“The difference between the average SVR and the average two-year fixed rate was 2.06% in December 2021, and over recent months this difference has shrunk to 1.66% as lenders react to a changing economic landscape.
“However, the motivation to secure a new deal remains clear, as those eligible could still potentially make significant savings, and gain peace of mind with a new fixed deal.” | https://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/news/standard-variable-rates-hit-13-year-high/ | 2022-06-23T17:47:26Z | https://www.yourmortgage.co.uk/news/standard-variable-rates-hit-13-year-high/ | true | 1 |
Evergrey’s Tom S. Englund Thinks Society Needs to ‘Reset’ + Reevaluate ‘Human Morals’
Evergrey singer Tom S. Englund was the latest guest on Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio program following the release of A Heartless Portrait: The Orphean Testament, the band's second album in as many years and 13th overall.
To help expand on the concepts of the record, the band cut multiple music videos that followed one long narrative arc, which Englund took delight in being able to pull off.
While the pandemic was a challenge for everyone, the singer found a silver lining in having such unprecedented free time and found ways to keep his brain engaged through different creative endeavors.
Read the full interview below.
It's been decades since bands releasing two albums in just over a year was commonplace. What did you appreciate most about A Heartless Portrait coming together rather quickly?
Having all the time I needed for writing was one thing we never had for a good while. The pandemic sucked, but, for us, writing and creatively, we couldn't have asked for more than that. We took the opportunity to really make use of our time.
The music videos for "Save Us" and "Midwinter Calls" are installments in a three-part storyline. How does an elaborate visual component help give the songs and the album as a whole much greater impact?
It's just fun to make something outside of music. Since we have such a great team (Patric Ullaeus and rEVOLVER Film) working with the visuals, we like to expand on our audio ideas and put them into visual ideas.
For this trilogy of videos, we wrote a script after the album was done to make it look sassy and cool. It also features our acting debut, but I don't know how seriously you should take that.
Evergrey, "Midwinter Calls"
Evergrey songs tend to observe human nature, especially within the context of society. How does narrating the ills of humanity actually replenish your hope for people?
I don't know if it does. I'm just trying to tell a story — my story — and how I see myself in a world where I don't feel like I belong or never felt like I belong that much.
Lately, the world has become more vile and hostile and brutal.
We released our first single "Save Us" which was the same day Russia went into Ukraine. That sort of just proved the point. I think we need to reset and go back to our human moral values and see what they are. That that's my main goal for this album.
Evergrey, "Save Us" Music Video
In addition to the new Evergrey album, a Silent Skies album was released earlier this year as well. Why is a constant state of creativity necessary for your personal well-being?
I'm glad that you see it that way. My ADHD brain needs to be stimulated at all times. I also think I discovered something during this pandemic — the more I use my brain, the bigger that sort of area in my brain gets. The more I write, the more creative I get in a sense and vice versa. It's just something that I need to do to feel stimulated.
Silent Skies, "Leaving"
When Evergrey returns to the road this year, you'll actually be supporting two albums. How will the dynamic of the shows change with so much new music to play?
We have a problem [to contend with] with that. This is our 13th album, but we've [amassed] our biggest fan base from the last five albums. So 70 percent of our fans consist of those people that came in from 2014 and forward. We need to base our set on the last four to five albums. We've been around for almost 30 years, so it's impossible to play everything.
Thanks to Tom S. Englund for the interview. Get your copy of Evergrey's 'A Heartless Portrait: The Orphean Testament' here and follow the band on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Spotify. Find out where you can hear Full Metal Jackie's weekend radio show here. | https://loudwire.com/evergrey-tom-s-englund-interview-heartless-portrait-orphean-testament/ | 2022-06-23T17:56:56Z | https://loudwire.com/evergrey-tom-s-englund-interview-heartless-portrait-orphean-testament/ | false | 1 |
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TULSA, Okla. – An Ottawa County man convicted of assaulting a classmate leaving him a paraplegic and bragging about his injuries will be sentenced on Friday.
Jace Christian Williams, 23, of Miami entered the guilty plea in February in U.S. District Court to assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country.
His sentencing hearing is set for 10:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell.
Williams’ decision to plea came just as closing arguments were about to begin in his federal trial.
Federal prosecutors filed a motion earlier this month asking the Court to increase Williams’ sentence above the federal sentencing guidelines to account for Owen Looper’s “significant physical injuries,” according to online documents.
Trial testimony showed in the days leading up to the crime, Williams told a student that he was going to make sure Looper could not “use his arms or legs for five months,” according to a prepared statement released in February by U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
Multiple witnesses saw Williams suddenly approach Looper from behind and before the victim could turn around, Williams wrapped his arms around Looper’s body, lifted him backward, and slammed him head-first onto the ground. Williams proceeded to punch the victim in the back repeatedly and then spat on him, according to the statement.
Another witness said Williams ripped off his own shirt and bragged that what he had done to the victim was “fun” and that he wanted to do it again, the statement says.
The assault left Looper with a C6-7 fracture and paralyzed.
Williams’ attorney, John Dunn, filed a sentencing memorandum calling his client “an All-American boy” and asked for leniency, including probation and community service where he could educate “teenagers as to the hazards of unforseen (sic) consequences that can occur when people get into fights.”
The court document refers to the assault as a “school yard fight” between Williams and Looper.
Dunn’s motion details the 2017 assault.
“After staying up all night texting each other and sharing their troubles about Jace’s girlfriend, things change. In the morning of November 2, 2017, Mr. Looper texted Mr. Williams and was met with a hostile response,” the court document states.
A rumor circulating indicated Williams was going to have a threesome sexual act, the court document states.
“This caused trouble in their relationship and Mr. Williams was angry at Mr. Looper,” the court document states.
Throughout the next couple of days, the friends exchanged hostile words and text messages with each other, the court document states.
Williams has a criminal history of a 3-year deferred sentence for knowingly concealing stolen property, according to online documents. | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/local-news/okla-man-to-be-sentenced-in-an-attack-that-paralyzed-victim/ | 2022-06-23T18:02:26Z | https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/news/local-news/okla-man-to-be-sentenced-in-an-attack-that-paralyzed-victim/ | true | 1 |
Ukrainian Family Prays for Peace at World Meeting of Families
Wolodymyr and Tatiana Korczyński arrived in Rome on June 21 with a Ukrainian flag and a desire to pray at St. John Paul II’s tomb for peace in their home country.
A Ukrainian family of 10 is participating in the World Meeting of Families this week.
Wolodymyr and Tatiana Korczyński arrived in Rome on June 21 with a Ukrainian flag and a desire to pray at St. John Paul II’s tomb for peace in their home country.
As Catholics from 120 countries are gathered at the Vatican to discuss the joys and challenges of family life, the Ukrainian family, currently based in Poland, has shared how war can weigh heavily on children.
“I see that the current situation in Ukraine requires more responsibility from children. They grow up faster,” Tatiana told CNA on June 22.
The mother of eight has seen this especially in her 13-year-old son, Franciszek, who often accompanies his father on trips across the Polish border to provide aid and support for the Ukrainian cause.
“Franciszek often goes to Ukraine, but he also stays at home ... to support and help me a lot. This is because more responsibilities fall on his shoulders,” she said.
While the war has forced her kids to grow up faster, Tatiana has also observed that her children have also grown in compassion, knowing that many of their peers have lost parents in the war.
“I have more than once sensed that my children would want to adopt those children who stay in Ukraine, who have lost their families,” she said.
A Pilgrimage of Prayer
Amid the upheaval and uncertainty that their home country has faced, the Korczyński family sees their participation in the World Meeting of Families as an opportunity to pray for Ukraine.
“We feel very honored to represent Ukraine at this congress and to participate. For us, it is a great gift and at the same time a task to be done,” Tatiana said.
“All our prayers and the prayers of the people in Ukraine, who are now praying for peace, we can bring to God here in Rome and implore in an extraordinary way for a miracle, for God’s lavishing his grace on our nation.”
Wolodymyr pointed out that the timing of the World Meeting of Families coincides with the anniversary of John Paul II’s apostolic journey to Ukraine in June 2001.
“It is no coincidence to be here now, to ask John Paul II for his mediation, for peace in Ukraine. I think God runs all this,” he said.
Faith Passes Through the Family
“I can honestly say that Wolodymyr and I grew up at a time when the Catholic faith was being persecuted in Ukraine,” Tatiana recalled.
“Our grandmothers taught us the catechism. … I think family is the bedrock and the very beginning of the Church,” she said.
Tatiana sees the World Meeting of Families as a celebration of how “we come to know God through love for our neighbor, first of all in the family.”
The Korczyńskis’ daughters, 12-year-old Teresa and 9-year-old Magdalena, added that they like being a part of a big family because of all the time spent together.
The girls dressed up in matching blue dresses, white hats and pigtail braids for their Vatican visit, alongside their elder brother, Franciszek. The Korczyńskis’ four youngest children stayed in Poland in the care of their oldest daughter.
The Korczyński family are Latin Rite Catholics originally from the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi in western Ukraine. The family relocated to Poland five years ago in an effort to keep the family together after their eldest daughter was accepted to a school in Szymanów.
“We decided to move and stay together because we think that the greatest gifts of a family are unity, collective prayer and being together in everyday life,” Tatiana said.
Tatiana remembered how the family all prayed the Rosary together for peace in the days leading up to Pope Francis’ consecration of Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
“We took part in the consecration. We prepared ourselves by confession, participated in the service, and prayed together at home,” Tatiana said.
She added: “At this moment, when Ukraine is suffering, when a lot of people are experiencing great suffering, more people are asking and turning to God. I think it was very timely at that moment to talk about reparation, prayer, repentance,and forgiveness.”
Justyna Galant provided the translation for this interview from Polish to English.
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Tom DeLonge Is Turning His Sci-Fi Novels Into a New TV Series
Tom DeLonge continues to channel his fascination with UFOs in interesting ways, the latest being an adaptation of his Sekret Machines sci-fi novels that are being adapted into a television series.
Deadline reports that Legendary Television has acquired the rights to the novels, that were penned by DeLonge and A.J. Hartley, with the intent of turning them into a new series. DeLonge will also serve as an executive producer on the series.
The Sekret Machines story played out over two books, "Sekret Machines: Chasing Shadows" and "Sekret Machines: A Fire Within." In the books, a U.S. Air Force pilot, a British heiress, a New York journalist and a former WWII prisoner of war find their lives intersecting as they uncover details of a global cover-up concerning UFO technology that is being used to create unstoppable next generation aircraft. The novels were based off actual events, written with guidance from U.S. government officials.
“Sekret Machines is a non-stop action-packed conspiracy thriller, and we are thrilled to be working with Dan and Tom to bring this story to television audiences,” said Jennifer Breslow, EVP, Television & Digital Media at Legendary Television. “The novels are inspired by real events that bring to it a level of authenticity that will generate conversation and make us question everything we know.”
DeLonge, who was with Blink-182 when recording the song "Aliens Exist," has taken his fascination with UFOs further in recent years launching his To The Stars academy and dedicating plenty of time to researching UFOs. The academy famously published a trio of videos in 2017, 2018 and 2019 that the U.S. Navy officially acknowledged, categorizing “the phenomena contained/depicted” in all three clips as “unidentified” rather than attempting to classify the objects as drones or weather balloons, etc. All three videos were later officially published by the Navy, stating that they were “original, unaltered, and not computer generated or artificially fabricated.”
As for the pending TV adaptation of his books, DeLonge stated, “My book franchise, Sekret Machines, is a result of everything I have learned, and continue to learn, about the realities of the U.S. government’s interactions with UFOs and related matters. With an elevated, thrilling, and commercial adaptation in mind, I’m very honored and excited to have partnered with someone as experienced and talented as Dan Farah, who produced the blockbuster adaption of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, and Legendary Entertainment, who produced the recent blockbuster adaptation of Dune. Two of my favorite modern sci-fi classics.”
“Tom and A.J.’s Sekret Machines books deliver an extremely original, gripping, epic, and sprawling thriller set around the long-standing global mystery involving UFOs, a topic I’ve been fascinated with since watching Close Encounters as a kid,” said co-executive producer Dan Farah. “I couldn’t put the books down and can’t wait to bring the story to the screen.”
DeLonge's ventures into visual media aren't just relegated to this new TV series adaptation. He's recently been behind the camera working on his directorial debut for the coming-of-age film Monsters of California. The film centers on a California teen and his "misfit friends" as they attempt to unearth the answers to a series of mysterious, paranormal events happening around their SoCal surroundings. A trailer for the film was released last month. | https://loudwire.com/tom-delonge-turning-sekret-machines-sci-fi-novels-into-tv-series/ | 2022-06-23T18:04:52Z | https://loudwire.com/tom-delonge-turning-sekret-machines-sci-fi-novels-into-tv-series/ | false | 2 |
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