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Honda’s electrification push won’t be limited to cars. The company on Tuesday announced that it will launch 10 electric motorcycles globally by 2025, and make its motorcycle lineup carbon neutral by 2040.
Honda already sells a line of small scooters aimed at fleet operators, and that are already used by the Japanese and Vietnamese postal services. The company plans to expand availability of these models to other markets, and introduce two personal-use derivatives for the European and Asian markets between 2024 and 2025.
Between 2022 and 2024, Honda plans to introduce five larger electric moped models, again in European and Asian markets. Those will be followed by three even larger models for Japan, Europe, and the United States between 2024 and 2025.
Finally, Honda plans to launch an electric motorcycle for kids. This model is also slated for 2024 or 2025, and also appears destined for the U.S.
Honda said it will equip future electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries, utilizing technology the company is also eyeing for cars. Battery swapping is also part of the company’s plans; Honda in 2021 joined fellow Japanese motorcycle manufacturers Kawasaki, Suzuki, and Yamaha in a consortium to develop battery-swapping standards for motorcycles.
In addition to electric models, Honda said it will continue to improve the fuel efficiency of its internal-combustion bikes, and investigate alternative fuels to reach its carbon neutrality goal.
There was at least one false start for these efforts. Honda originally said in 2008 that it would launch an electric motorcycle in 2010. That left room for companies like Zero and Energica to focus on electric bikes.
BMW Motorrad said in 2018 that it saw electric powertrains as the future for motorcycles. And even some traditional motorcycle makers like Harley-Davidson beat Honda to market with a fully fleshed-out electric bike.
Honda has stepped up its electric vehicle investment too. It now plans 30 EVs by 2030, globally, with two electric sports cars in development.
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Maserati’s redesigned Granturismo is almost ready for its formal debut later this year, but the Italian automaker has recently started providing sneak peeks at its new grand touring coupe.
Maserati released a video in early September that showed the new electric version, the Granturismo Folgore, and confirmed some of that car’s performance specs.
On Wednesday, the automaker revealed two additional versions, the Granturismo Modena and Granturismo Trofeo, and confirmed them to be coming with the same twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6 fitted to the Maserati MC20. The engine delivers 621 hp and 538 lb-ft of torque in the supercar, and should deliver similar numbers in the new Granturismo.
The cars were shown with Maserati’s trident logo and a “75th” script. The script is a nod to this year’s 75th anniversary of the Maserati A6 1500, the car Maserati hails as the forerunner of its grand tourer class of cars.
The electric Folgore is confirmed with a trio of motors, one at the front axle and two at the rear, which will deliver a combined output of more than 1,200 hp. That will translate to 0-60 mph acceleration in 2.6 seconds and a top speed exceeding 200 mph.
Maserati hasn’t detailed the battery but has said 100 miles of range can be added in 10 minutes of charging when using a DC fast charger, thanks to an 800-volt electrical system featuring inverters similar to those used in Formula E, the electric race series that Maserati will compete in from 2023.
Maserati, like most major automakers, is committed to an EV future. The automaker has already shown an electric Folgore version of its new 2023 Grecale crossover, and has confirmed an electric option for the MC20. We should also see a redesigned Granturismo Convertible (Grancabrio in other markets) at some point, and it will likely come in Folgore guise, perhaps exclusively.
Further out, Maserati will launch redesigned versions of the Quattroporte and Levante, likely with electric power only. The Ghibli won’t get a repeat, Maserati has confirmed, at least in its current form.
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(The Hill) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled a joint meeting to discuss pharmaceutical company Perrigo’s application for what could be the first over-the-counter (OTC) daily birth control pill available in the U.S., the company announced Monday.
The joint meeting will be held on Nov. 18 with the FDA’s Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee and the Obstetrics, Reproductive, and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee, according to Perrigo.
If approved by the FDA, Perrigo’s progestin-only daily pill would be the first non-prescription birth control pill available in the U.S. Perrigo filed its application to move its birth control pill from prescription to OTC in July.
The FDA declined to provide further comment on the meeting when reached by The Hill.
Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA), a U.S. healthcare trade association, welcomed news of the FDA’s scheduled meeting.
“Pathways like Rx-to-OTC switch are instrumental in carrying out that mission on behalf of our member companies and American consumers,” said CHPA’s CEO Scott Melville. “We are pleased to see FDA evaluating broadened access to oral contraception and we look forward to sharing industry perspectives at this joint Committee meeting in November.”
Many countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa already allow for OTC birth control pills to be sold.
Perrigo filed its application just weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, leading to several states in the U.S. enacting total or near-total abortion bans. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurring opinion sparked concerns that protected access to contraceptives could also be overturned.
The House in July passed the Right to Contraception Act, with eight Republicans joining Democrats in voting yes. The bill would codify access to contraception — including oral birth control, condoms and intrauterine devices — on the federal level.
Senate Democrats Ed Markey (Mass.), Patty Murray (Wash.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii) and Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) sought unanimous consent to quickly pass the bill in July, but were blocked by Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa), though she herself has expressed support for expanded birth control access. Ernst argued that the bill went beyond just guaranteeing access to contraception. | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/fda-schedules-meeting-on-otc-birth-control-pill-application/ | 2022-09-14T17:12:07Z | wwlp.com | control | https://www.wwlp.com/news/national/fda-schedules-meeting-on-otc-birth-control-pill-application/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
New Hampshire state Senate President Chuck Morse conceded the Republican Senate primary Wednesday morning to Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general and election denier who has embraced former President Donald Trump's approach to politics -- a letdown for the GOP establishment in the race to take on Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan.
Bolduc joins a list of candidates national Republicans worry won't be able to appeal to the broader November electorate.
The race was the final puzzle piece as 2022's primary calendar wrapped up, with the eight-week sprint to November's midterm elections now underway. New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Delaware held their primaries Tuesday.
The stakes are high, with a Senate split 50-50 on the line and Republican candidates in Arizona, Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania also struggling. The GOP hopes that New Hampshire, where Hassan won by around 1,000 votes six years ago, will be added to the list of battleground states in November.
Meanwhile, the fields were set for two of New England's most competitive House races on Tuesday, as well -- including one in New Hampshire, where a former Trump White House aide who has also parroted the former President's lies about election fraud defeated an establishment-backed candidate, further complicating the GOP's efforts to win control of the House.
Here are four takeaways from the final night of 2022's primary season:
Trump-aligned candidate triumphs in New Hampshire Senate primary
Morse was backed by establishment Republicans, including moderate Gov. Chris Sununu, and was boosted by a super PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, which pumped more than $4 million into the race in an attempt to stop Bolduc from winning the primary.
Bolduc aligned himself closely with Trump. He said he "concurred with Trump's assessment" about the 2020 election -- that is, Trump's lie that President Joe Biden's victory came as a result of widespread fraud.
"I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying Trump won the election, and damn it, I stand by" that letter, Bolduc said in an August primary debate.
Bolduc has called Sununu, the Republican governor whom national figures had attempted to recruit into the race, "a Chinese communist sympathizer." Sununu had repeatedly lambasted Bolduc and penned an op-ed in the New Hampshire Union Leader urging voters to back Morse.
Bolduc has also said he would repeal the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, which requires states to directly elect their senators, and raised the prospect of abolishing the FBI.
What was missing from New Hampshire's GOP primary was Trump. His decision not to endorse a candidate was a departure from the former President's approach to most Senate primaries this year.
In his concession posted on Twitter, Morse noted that it had "been a long night & we've come up short."
"I want to thank my supporters for all the blood, sweat & tears they poured into this team effort. I just called and wished all the best to @GenDonBolduc. The focus this fall needs to be on defeating Maggie Hassan," he wrote.
Hassan enters the general election campaign having already raised more than $31 million and launched television ads. Bolduc, meanwhile, had raised only about $600,000 by the end of the most recent fundraising period on August 24.
Trump's style trumps his substance in New Hampshire
Mimicking Trump's brash style and parroting his election denialism again proved more potent in a Republican primary than embracing the policy substance of his tenure in the White House.
That's the lesson from the Republican primary in New Hampshire's 1st District, where 25-year-old political newcomer Karoline Leavitt, a former Trump aide who more closely mimicked the brand of politics that has defined Trump's orbit of political acolytes, defeated Matt Mowers, another former Trump administration official but one who was more cautious on issues like the lie that the 2020 election was stolen from the former President.
Mowers fully embraced aspects of Trump's tenure. His website was full of positions that defined the former President, and Mowers touted the fact that Trump endorsed him in his failed attempt to win the seat in 2020.
Rhetorically and stylistically, however, the two were dramatically different.
Where Mowers had "confidence in New Hampshire elections," Leavitt said she believed "the 2020 election was undoubtedly stolen from President Trump." Where Mowers suggested hearings to determine whether Biden should be impeached, Leavitt unequivocally said the President should be impeached. And where Mowers said he "supports science" when asked about the newly rolled out coronavirus vaccine, Leavitt said it was "none of your business."
Mowers' restraint effectively opened the door for someone like Leavitt to win over Republican primary voters in New Hampshire, many of them who still support the former President.
As polls showed Leavitt rising in the closing days, outside groups like the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy-aligned Congressional Leadership Fund and Defending Main Street spent millions on ads looking to help Mowers beat back the challenge from the right. But the money was largely for naught -- and now Republicans are saddled with a more complicated nominee in a race against Rep. Chris Pappas, one of the most vulnerable Democrats in the country.
Leavitt is one of the first Gen Z candidates to ever win a primary.
Meanwhile, Republicans will nominate a Trump-aligned candidate in the 2nd District to take on Democratic Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, CNN projects. Former Hillsborough County Treasurer Robert Burns will defeat Keene Mayor George Hansel in the GOP primary. Kuster was unopposed in her primary.
Rhode Island picks candidates in competitive House race
The field is set for what's expected to be one of New England's most competitive congressional races this fall, after Rhode Island state treasurer Seth Magaziner won the 2nd District's Democratic primary, CNN projected.
He is now set to face Republican Allan Fung, the Cranston mayor, in the district where long-time Rep. Jim Langevin is retiring. Langevin, a Democrat, has won his races without serious competition since 2001, and President Joe Biden won there by 14 percentage points in 2020. But Republicans believe the seat is winnable.
Fung was the Republican candidate for governor in 2014 and 2018, losing twice to former Gov. Gina Raimondo but performing well in the district, which covers the western half of the state.
Magaziner defeated Sarah Morgenthau, who was the director of the Peace Corps Response under former President Barack Obama; David Segal, who once served in the state legislature and ran a failed congressional race in 2010; and Joy Fox, who worked as communications director for Langevin and Raimondo.
McKee hangs on in Rhode Island
One of the least popular governors in the country, Rhode Island's Dan McKee faced four primary challengers as he seeks his first full, elected term in office.
But McKee, who took over as governor last year when Raimondo left the job to join the Biden administration, is no stranger to tough primaries -- he almost lost his bid for renomination as lieutenant governor in 2018.
In the end, though, despite being weighed down by a federal investigation into the controversial awarding of a state contract to a firm with ties to an old ally -- an episode in which McKee has denied any wrongdoing -- he emerged from the packed field, likely benefiting from a split among the anti-incumbent vote.
Both of his closest rivals, former CVS executive Helena Foulkes and Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, ran as reformers with pledges to clean up government. Foulkes, who promised not to run for reelection if she didn't revitalize Rhode Island schools, was endorsed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The race was a bust for progressive favorite Matt Brown, the Bernie Sanders-endorsed former secretary of state, who trailed the leaders four years after losing a primary challenge to Raimondo.
This story has been updated with additional developments.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Parenthood and the death of his dear friend and former “Full House” co-star Bob Saget helped convince John Stamos it was time to write his memoir.
The publisher Henry Holt announced Wednesday that Stamos’ “If You Would Have Told Me” is scheduled for fall 2023.
“’If You Would Have Told Me’ is the book I never planned to write, but after losing Bob, finally becoming a father, and wanting to honor all the colorful people who have made me who I am today, I figured if not now, when?” Stamos, 59, said in a statement released through Henry Holt.
“Honestly, while writing this book I’ve realized I have about a million stories to tell, and I think you may like at least four hundred of them. It has been cathartic and healing and sometimes heartbreaking to dig in and reveal so much.”
Stamos’ long career ranges from his early appearances on “General Hospital” to his years on “Full House” as Uncle Jesse to touring with the Beach Boys. He became a father in 2018 after his wife Caitlin McHugh gave birth to their son Billy.
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Justice Department criminal prosecutors are now examining nearly every aspect of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election -- including the fraudulent electors plot, efforts to push baseless election fraud claims and how money flowed to support these various efforts -- according to sources and copies of new subpoenas obtained by CNN.
The investigation is also stretching into cogs of the sprawling Trump legal machine that boosted his efforts to challenge his electoral loss -- with many of the recipients of 30-plus subpoenas that were issued in recent days being asked to turn over communications with several Trump attorneys.
The sweeping effort has many in Trump world concerned about the potential legal significance of being caught up in a federal investigation.
The flurry of investigative activity has involved seizure warrants, including one served to Trump counsel Boris Epshteyn for his phone, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Epshteyn remains close to the former President and his political and fundraising operation.
The widening pool of recipients of subpoenas also includes prominent Trump deputies, such as his former White House adviser Dan Scavino, who continued to work for Trump after he left office.
The subpoena language and activity bring together the seemingly far-flung parts of the DOJ investigation.
The Justice Department previously obtained grand jury testimony, conducted searches and nabbed extensive documents about rally organization and fundraising, about efforts in and around the White House to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to block certification of the election results, and about the fake electors. This new round of subpoenas drills down with more specific requests about the baseless claims of mass election fraud that were being peddled to legislators, law enforcement and others.
In one of the new subpoenas viewed by CNN, along with demands for communications with a lengthy list of Trump-world figures and fake electors, the investigators ask for documents related to the raising and spending of money. Prosecutors are interested in the financing around the January 6 rally, bids to challenge the results and the Trump-aligned political organization formed after the election to push fraud claims.
The assistant US attorneys signing the subpoenas are working as part of the team led by prosecutor Thomas Windom in the DC US Attorney's Office, according to court records and multiple people familiar with the investigation. Two DC US Attorney's Office supervisors appear on the subpoenas as well, indicating the latest sweep serves both the ongoing fake elector probe and the prosecution office's larger mission to target planning of violence before January 6, according to the sources familiar with the team's work.
The subpoenas also ask for the recipients to identify all methods of communication they've used since fall 2020 and to turn over to DOJ anything the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has demanded -- whether they cooperated with the House panel or not.
"They're now encompassing individuals closer and closer to the President to learn more and more about what the President knew and when he knew it," David Laufman, an attorney and former federal prosecutor, said Monday on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
There are no public indications that the DOJ's January 6 probe is overlapping with the federal investigation into the handling of classified documents from Trump's White House and seizure of materials from Mar-a-Lago. However, the latest developments in the 2020 election investigation come as the documents probe has already put Trump allies on high alert for potential legal exposure.
While those around Trump have brushed off the congressional investigation into the riot on January 6 as political, there is a palpable shift in demeanor when it comes to the Department of Justice probe, as allies and advisers recognize the significance of being looped into a federal investigation, according to multiple people in Trump's orbit. The Trump-world figures now swept up in the investigation claim the department is on a fishing expedition that is impeding on privileged communications.
"It's all very distressing to me as an American and as a prominent attorney for Donald Trump," said Bruce Marks, an attorney whose communications are of interest to investigators, according to the recently issued subpoenas.
Marks took issue with DOJ seeking any of his communications with the campaign, claiming that those exchanges should be confidential under attorney-client communications principles. (The DOJ has used teams and additional court sign-offs to filter out privileged communications collected in other recent January 6 investigative steps, and not all communications records of attorneys are necessarily privileged.)
Notorious for leaking, a usually verbose Trump world has also fallen virtually silent in the wake of dozens of grand jury subpoenas being sent in recent days. Some subpoenaed have spent the last several days scrambling to find the right lawyers and understand the scope of what the Department of Justice is seeking from them. Others, already entangled in other Trump investigations, know the drill -- keep quiet until the dust settles.
An aggressive new phase as a pre-election quiet period starts
The burst of investigative activity came just as the Justice Department runs into its so-called 60-day rule, an internal policy that discourages prosecutors from taking public steps in cases that stand to influence a coming election.
Previously, investigators sought any records of interactions with a set of a dozen Trump officials, largely lawyers and those working with the fake electors including Rudy Giuliani, Epshteyn and John Eastman.
But the latest subpoenas also ask for communications with new names: high-profile right-wing Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Cleta Mitchell, as well as Marks, a lawyer based in Philadelphia who assisted with Trump's election appeals and in an attention-grabbing court case where Giuliani tried and failed to throw out all of Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
Marks told CNN on Tuesday that he was among Trump's lawyers after the election and was reporting to and communicating frequently with Giuliani and Epshteyn over text messages and emails about post-election efforts. Epshteyn was assisting Giuliani in much of his attempts to block the vote outcome electing Joe Biden.
The warrant served to Epshteyn, seeking his phone, is another signal of how the probe has escalated.
In June, the Justice Department seized the phone of Eastman, the Trump attorney who spearheaded the far-fetched legal theory that Pence could hold up Congress' certification of Biden's win. Federal investigators also that month searched the home of an ex-DOJ official, Jeffrey Clark, who was at the center of Trump efforts to pressure the department to support his plots.
Prosecutors' willingness to obtain a warrant for Epshteyn's phone hints that they see the campaign strategist -- who is currently an adviser to Trump -- as playing an integral role in Trump's 2020 election machinations. When the agents seized and imaged his phone, they also served him a subpoena for documents, according to some of CNN's sources.
Epshteyn did not respond to CNN's requests for comment about the search of his phone. The New York Times was first to report the seizure of his phone.
The wider net the department is now casting is also evident in the types of Trump-world figures who received the latest round of subpoenas. They include former campaign manager Bill Stepien and Sean Dollman, who worked for Trump's 2020 presidential campaign as chief financial officer, as well as Scavino, Trump's former deputy chief of staff and an architect of Trump's social media presence.
Also receiving a subpoena was Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner who worked with Giuliani to find evidence of voter fraud in the weeks following the 2020 election, as did Women for America First, the pro-Trump group that organized the rally that preceded the Capitol attack.
Kerik was approached by a handful of agents who tried to ask him questions, which he refused to answer and so they handed him a subpoena, a person familiar with the episode said. The agents asked if he would be willing to talk with an attorney present. Eventually the agents handed him the document.
This story has been updated with additional details.
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More than half of the Republican nominees for the 35 US Senate seats being contested in the 2022 midterms have challenged the legitimacy of the 2020 election -- rejecting, raising doubts about or taking steps to overturn President Joe Biden's victory.
A CNN analysis found that at least 19 of this year's Republican nominees have contested or refused to affirm the 2020 results. The list includes five incumbent senators and 11 other candidates who have at least a reasonable chance of winning in November.
The success of election deniers in Republican Senate primaries around the country -- from the southern border to the northern border; in swing states, conservative states and liberal states; among established officeholders and first-time candidates -- is yet more evidence of the broad support among party voters for former President Donald Trump's lie that the election was stolen.
The 19 Republican Senate nominees on this list of election deniers and doubters join at least 11 Republican nominees for state secretary of state and at least 22 Republican nominees for governor. US senators generally have less power over elections than secretaries of state and governors do, but they do have the power to object to certifying electoral votes, to write and vote on election legislation, and sometimes to hold hearings and issue subpoenas on election issues.
Not all election deniers are alike. Some of the Senate candidates on the list have made formal attempts to reverse the will of the American people -- for example, by voting to reject the congressional certification of electoral votes Biden won -- while others have made false claims from the sidelines. Some of the candidates have aggressively spread specific conspiracy theories; others have evasively complained of "irregularities" and refused to answer directly when asked whether Biden was legitimately elected.
We will update the list if we find evidence that additional Senate nominees should be included. (There has been little media coverage of some longshot nominees, like Bob McDermott of Hawaii and Gerald Malloy of Vermont.) Here is the rundown as it stands in mid-September now that the primary elections have concluded.
Alabama: Katie Britt
Alabama Republican nominee Katie Britt told NBC News in May 2022 that she would have objected to the 2020 election results if she had been in the Senate on January 6, 2021. The next month, she told Fox: "I've said many times that there were major problems with the 2020 election, and we have to make sure that we uphold the integrity and security of our elections. I've called for a forensic audit to make sure we get to the bottom of it and that people can have faith in our electoral process."
AL.com reported in March 2022 that Britt would not go so far as to agree that the election was "stolen," but Britt also didn't reject that false notion. Instead, she responded indirectly, saying: "I believe that there was fraud. I think you have to have a forensic audit. You have to give people peace and clear confidence that their vote is going to matter the next time."
Britt is the former chief of staff to outgoing Sen. Richard Shelby and former chief executive of the Business Council of Alabama. Her Democratic opponent is Will Boyd, a pastor who once served as a city councilman in Illinois.
Britt's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Arizona: Blake Masters
Arizona Republican nominee Blake Masters has been explicit in declaring that "the 2020 election wasn't free or fair." In an ad Masters released in November 2021, early in the Republican primary, he said, wrongly, "I think Trump won in 2020."
The rest of the ad was more subjective; Masters argued that Trump would have won in a "fair fight" without supposed anti-Trump media bias, "big tech" suppression of a late-election story about Biden's family, and some states having changed their rules to allow for easier mail-in voting. But Masters' ad-opening claim that Trump actually did win is plain false.
Masters, a venture capitalist, has also made or promoted other false claims about the 2020 election. Two days after the election, Masters chided the media for supposedly declining to investigate claims about ballots being cast in the names of dead people in some Democratic-dominated cities; the claims appeared dubious from the start, and media outlets were investigating them -- and debunking them. In September 2021, Masters echoed one of Trump's favored conspiracy theories, falsely declaring that opinion polls that showed Biden with big leads during the 2020 campaign were "designed to suppress the Trump vote."
At a campaign event in June 2022, Masters spoke supportively of the baseless suggestion that there is mass cheating in the vote-counting process. He said he couldn't prove his father wrong when his father told him that, if Masters were to win his Senate race by 30,000 votes against Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly, "I think that they'll find 40,000 for Mark Kelly." Masters added, "I think there's always cheating, probably, in every election. The question is, what's the cheating capacity? I don't know exactly how many illegal and legal votes each of Trump and Biden got in 2020, but I look at all the signs, I look at things going wrong..."
At the end of the Republican primary in early August, Masters' campaign website claimed that "if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today." After Masters won the primary, CNN's KFile team reported, that language was removed from the site and replaced with this vague declaration: "We need to get serious about election integrity."
Masters' campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
California: Mark Meuser
Earlier this year, California Republican nominee Mark Meuser told television station KPIX 5 of the 2020 election: "There are so many irregularities about this election that I do not feel any American who looks at it can have confidence that they know what the actual results are."
Meuser, a lawyer who was trounced in a California secretary of state election in 2018 and in a state Senate election in 2012, is making a longshot challenge to incumbent Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla, who beat him in the 2018 secretary of state race. Meuser's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Georgia: Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker, the Georgia Republican nominee and a former football star, has made a variety of wild false claims about the 2020 election.
In a tweet on January 6, 2021, after the Capitol was attacked by pro-Trump rioters, Walker said he wanted Trump to get to the bottom of "who stole this election."
In late 2020 and early 2021, Walker falsely declared he could "guarantee you" that Biden "didn't get 50 million people voting for him" (in fact, more than 81 million people voted for Biden), promoted a baseless conspiracy theory about Dominion Voting Systems technology and another conspiracy theory about imaginary vote-stealing software, said Georgia should refuse to certify Biden's victory Georgia victory because of "serious Election Fraud," wrongly alleged "Country wide election fraud," and proposed that all votes in Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin be tossed out and that these seven states -- six of which were won by Biden -- "vote again."
In May 2022, Walker told reporters that "I don't know" whether Biden was lawfully elected and that there were "problems" with what happened in the election, The New York Times reported.
Walker is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. Walker's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Kentucky: Rand Paul
Incumbent Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted to certify Biden's victory on January 6, 2021, noting that "it was never intended by our founders that Congress have the power to overturn state-certified elections."
But Paul has also made false claims about the 2020 election. He declared at a Senate hearing in December 2020: "The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen." As a supposed example, Paul said, "We can't just say, 'Oh, 4,000 people voted in Nevada that were non-citizens, and we're just going to ignore it. We're going to sweep it under the rug.'" There is no evidence of thousands of non-citizens voting in Nevada; an investigation by the office of Nevada's secretary of state, a Republican, later found that fraud wasn't proven by the data that Republican activists had cited to make this allegation.
Three days after the election in November 2020, Paul tweeted that while it is usually difficult for "voter fraud in absentee voting" to affect the outcome of an election, there were many more mail ballots than usual this time. (Again, voter fraud didn't affect the outcome.) Paul went further later that month, falsely claiming on Twitter, "When the media says no evidence of widespread fraud, perhaps they mean no evidence, if you look the other way..." (He linked to an article that did not demonstrate fraud.) In another November 2020 tweet, Paul asked people to "decide for yourself" whether so-called "data dumps" late on the night of the election -- in reality, just votes being counted and publicly reported -- represented fraud or statistical anomalies.
Paul has also made a subjective argument that state officials acted improperly by changing election rules without approval from state legislators. Paul spokesperson Kelsey Cooper said in an email to CNN in August 2022: "Senator Paul voted to accept the state certified electors consistent with the constitutional mandate that states conduct elections. Discussing election fraud is in no conceivable way an incitement to anything but legislative reform. Senator Paul will continue to advocate that no state official can change election law without a vote from the majority of the state legislature."
Paul's Democratic opponent is former Kentucky state representative Charles Booker.
Louisiana: John Kennedy
Incumbent Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy objected to the certification of Biden's victory in Arizona, though Kennedy voted to certify Biden's victory in Pennsylvania.
Kennedy has tried to differentiate himself from congressional colleagues who wanted to overturn the entire election. He said in a May 2021 interview with WWL-TV that he chose to object only to Biden's victory in Arizona because Biden would still have prevailed without that state's 11 electoral votes.
Nonetheless, Kennedy still attempted to override the will of millions of Americans. And he has broadly questioned the legitimacy of the election as a whole.
Days before the votes on January 6, 2021, Kennedy issued a statement, along with some of his Republican colleagues, that said: "By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes." (There were indeed many allegations of fraud, but there was a tiny amount of actual fraud.) And in December 2020, Kennedy sent out a fundraising email, previously reported by the Louisiana Illuminator, in which he wrote that there had been "a lot of tomfoolery and a few too many shenanigans with this election" and that "I'm thinking we may need to take a second look at those ballots and the legitimacy of this election."
That email also tried to straddle both sides; Kennedy wrote, "I'm not saying that something DID happen, but I'm not so sure something DIDN'T HAPPEN." Kennedy has continued to say such things since. He said in the May 2021 interview: "You will never find where I ever said, anywhere, that the election was stolen or not stolen. You won't find it." After alleging in the interview that Democrats in some states "exploited the pandemic to change their states' election laws in an unconstitutional manner," he added, "Now having said that, I have never seen demonstrated evidence, proven in a court of law, that it made a difference. I'm not saying it did, I'm not saying it didn't."
Kennedy is the top Republican in Louisiana's open primary, whose field also includes a group of Democratic candidates. Kennedy's office declined to comment for this article.
Maryland: Chris Chaffee
Chris Chaffee, the little-known Republican Senate nominee in Maryland, has falsely called the 2020 election "fraudulent" and "corrupt" and baselessly referred to "this coup against the President and the election." He has also promoted specific baseless conspiracy theories about the election, like one about voting machines.
Chaffee, who was routed in a 2014 congressional race against Democratic incumbent Rep. Steny Hoyer, is now a major underdog to incumbent Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
Asked for his stance on the legitimacy of Biden's win, and whether he stands by his expressed opinions that the election was fraudulent and corrupt, Chaffee said in an email to CNN last week: "My stance is this is September 6, 2022 and we need to move forward. The general election for 2022 is November 8, 2022. Please concentrate on that. We must ensure that in the 2022 United States elections have integrity."
Missouri: Eric Schmitt
As Missouri's attorney general, Republican Senate nominee Eric Schmitt supported a December 2020 effort to overturn the election -- signing on Missouri to the Texas-led lawsuit that sought to get the Supreme Court to rescind Biden's victory.
Schmitt is running against Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine, a nurse and an heir to the Anheuser-Busch beer fortune, for the open seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Roy Blunt.
Schmitt's office did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Nevada: Adam Laxalt
Nevada Republican nominee Adam Laxalt, who co-chaired Trump's 2020 campaign in Nevada, played a leading role in post-election legal efforts to reverse Biden's victory in the state.
Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general, wrote a November 2020 article that falsely claimed "we now know that there are thousands of illegal votes consisting of a combination of dead voters, out-of-state voters, double voters (those who cast ballots in Nevada and another state), among other improper votes." None of these claims was accurate; the subsequent review by the office of Nevada's Republican secretary of state did not find "evidentiary support" for fellow Republicans' various fraud claims.
In other comments in November 2020, Laxalt said the number of improper ballots in Nevada could even be in the tens of thousands. He also cast aspersions upon the demonstrably legal votes of members of the military who voted in Nevada after being transferred to other states.
And he continued to make false claims about Nevada elections long after Republican efforts to overturn Trump's defeat fizzled. Days after launching his Senate campaign in August 2021, Laxalt falsely said the 2020 election was "rigged" and floated the idea of filing "early" lawsuits related to the midterms. At campaign events in October 2021, NBC News reported, he baselessly told voters that elections are legitimate in the state's 15 rural counties but are untrustworthy in the two urban counties where well over 80% of the state population lives. That same month, he declined to answer directly when a reporter asked him if Biden was legitimately elected.
Laxalt is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. Laxalt's campaign did not respond a request for comment for this article.
New Hampshire: Don Bolduc
Don Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who won the New Hampshire Republican nomination on Tuesday, has been unabashed in falsely declaring that Biden's victory was illegitimate. Bolduc said at an August debate in New Hampshire's Republican primary: "I signed a letter with 120 other generals and admirals saying that Donald Trump won the election and, dammit, I stand by" it.
That comment, previously reported by The New York Times, appeared to be a reference to a May 2021 letter that vaguely suggested the election results did not reflect the will of the people.
Bolduc has been more explicit in his own comments, baselessly saying in 2021 that "I think there was a tremendous amount of fraud across this country and in every state" and falsely claiming in 2021 that New Hampshire's Republican governor and federal Democratic incumbents have won races by "mathematically impossible" margins.
Bolduc is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan. Bolduc's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
North Carolina: Ted Budd
On January 6, 2021, North Carolina Rep. Ted Budd voted to object to the congressional certification of Biden's victories in Pennsylvania and Arizona.
Budd also expressed support in December 2020 for the Texas-led lawsuit that sought to overturn Biden's win. And three days after the election in November 2020, Budd joined some of his House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the US attorney general demanding action in relation to "widespread reports of irregularities, particularly in the vote counting process" -- though the votes were counted accurately and the usual scattered errors were quickly corrected.
When an Associated Press journalist asked Budd later in 2021 if Biden won the election fair and square, Budd responded, "He did. He's the legitimate president." But after the clip of Budd's comments was circulated in early 2022 by backers of one of his opponents in the Republican Senate primary, Budd claimed he had been taken out of context. He told Queen City News in April 2022 that Biden "is the president, but I have tremendous constitutional concerns about how the election of 2020 happened."
In a CNN interview in May 2022, Budd declined even when pressed to say Biden won the election. Instead, he said that Biden is the current president but that he has "constitutional concerns" about the election.
Budd is running against Democrat Cheri Beasley, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court, for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Richard Burr. Budd's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Ohio: J.D. Vance
When J.D. Vance was asked by Spectrum News in January 2022 whether he felt the election was stolen, Vance responded, "Yeah, I do."
Vance continued: "I mean, look, I think the fundamental problem is we had a massive effort to shift the election by very powerful people in this country. I don't care whether you say it's rigged, whether you say it's stolen..."
As Ohio's Republican primary continued, Vance explicitly claimed that "I think the election was stolen from Trump."
Vance, a venture capitalist and author who won the primary in May 2022, has based some of his argument on unproven assertions that the actions of Facebook and founder Mark Zuckerberg, who donated hundreds of millions of dollars to support the activities of local elections offices around the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic, were meant to swing the election to Democrats. (A spokesperson for Zuckerberg told The New York Times this year that the donations were a one-time effort amid a national health crisis "to help ensure that Americans could vote.") But Vance has also made provably false claims about the election.
Vance told Youngstown's The Vindicator newspaper in October 2021 that "there were certainly people voting illegally on a large-scale basis," though that is not true. And though Vance said the election in Ohio was "pretty gold standard," he also said "I think it's probably true that Trump won by a larger margin in Ohio," though there is no basis for questioning Trump's certified 8-point margin of victory there.
Vance said in July 2021 that "I think Josh Hawley did the right thing" in objecting to the certification of some Biden-won states, Time magazine reported.
Vance's Democratic opponent is Rep. Tim Ryan; they are competing for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman. The Vance campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Oklahoma: James Lankford
In December 2020, incumbent Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford raised vague concerns about possible fraud in voting and in other states' vote-counting processes.
Lankford then joined Kennedy of Louisiana and some other Senate Republicans in signing a January 2021 statement in which they announced their intention to object to the congressional certification of "disputed states" and said they would push for a so-called "emergency 10-day audit" of those states' results. In his own statement the same day, Lankford cited "reports of problems with voting machines, people voting twice, non-residents voting in a state, or people mysteriously voting after their death months or years before" -- though such issues were very rare and did not affect the outcome.
After a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Lankford abandoned his plan to object to the certification of Biden victories. He also issued an apology letter that month to Black constituents, writing that he hadn't realized that the national "conversation" about Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan "was seen as casting doubt on the validity of votes coming out of predominantly Black communities like Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit."
But Lankford later continued to express doubts about the legitimacy of Biden's victory. He told CNN in July 2021: "Biden is the constitutional President. No question about that. Are there questions that are still hanging out there? Yes." When asked if those questions would have changed the outcome, he responded, "There is no way to know because we can't get a full answer to some of them." And he added: "It's unknown at this point. I just want all the questions answered so people can know one way or the other on it."
Lankford is being challenged by Democratic candidate Madison Horn, a cybersecurity professional. Lankford's office did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
- CNN's Lauren Fox and Alex Rogers contributed to this item.
Oklahoma: Markwayne Mullin
When the candidates in the Republican primary in Oklahoma's special Senate election to replace retiring Republican Sen. James Inhofe were asked during an August 2022 debate if they thought the 2020 election was a lie and if they thought Trump won, Rep. Markwayne Mullin responded by baselessly rejecting the verified fact that Biden earned more votes than any previous presidential candidate. Mullin said: "It's gonna be very hard to convince me that Joe Biden received more election -- or, more votes -- than any other president in history. It is absolutely absurd to think that's even possible."
Mullin, who went on to win the primary, voted in 2021 to object to the congressional certification of Biden's victories in Pennsylvania and Arizona. He tweeted at the time that he was objecting "due to all the fraud and uncertainty," though there was and is no evidence of fraud even close to widespread enough to have changed the outcome. Two days prior to the vote, he told constituents that he "absolutely" did not think the election was honest.
Mullin's Democratic opponent is former congresswoman Kendra Horn. Mullin's campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Oregon: Jo Rae Perkins
Oregon Republican nominee Jo Rae Perkins has been a vocal proponent of the QAnon conspiracy theory, even posting a video of herself taking a QAnon oath in 2020. Perkins has also touted baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election -- falsely proclaiming in December 2020 that "the Electoral College was stolen," calling for a recount in November 2020 to "#StopCoupDeTat" (sic), and posting on Facebook in 2021 to push false claims about how the election was supposedly rigged.
When CNN asked Perkins for comment for this article in August, and informed her for fairness that we planned to mention that she has promoted false claims about the election being rigged against Trump, she responded in an email: "I will not answer your questions since you already have a skewed opinion without talking to me directly. How do you know the claims are false?"
Perkins, a local Republican activist whose website says she has worked as a real estate agent, personal banker, financial advisor and insurance agent, was on the steps of the Capitol during the insurrection of January 6, 2021. She has said she does not support the people who broke into the building, did not go inside and was there in part as a "citizen journalist."
Perkins lost congressional races in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2020. She is now mounting a longshot effort to unseat Democratic incumbent Sen. Ron Wyden.
Pennsylvania: Mehmet Oz
Pennsylvania Republican nominee Mehmet Oz has very vaguely raised doubts about the 2020 election -- declaring during the 2022 primary that "there are so many different things that happened" and saying "we cannot move on."
Asked by a Philadelphia talk radio host in March 2022 if Biden legitimately won Pennsylvania in 2020 (Biden did, by more than 80,000 votes), and if there was fraud (there was only a tiny amount of known fraud in Pennsylvania, some of it committed by Trump supporters), Oz ignored the first question and said, "Oh, there was definitely fraud." When the host asked Oz once more if he believes Biden legitimately won Pennsylvania, Oz dodged again and said: "He's the President."
Oz has similarly avoided answering directly when asked if Biden was the legitimate winner of the 2020 election on the whole, answering that Biden is clearly the president. The Oz campaign stuck to that line in early September 2022 when CNN asked for Oz's position. (Oz has said, however, that he would have certified the election if he had been in the Senate on January 6, 2021, explaining that it isn't a senator's job at that point to question states' decisions.)
Oz is running for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. His Democratic opponent is John Fetterman, the state's lieutenant governor.
Utah: Mike Lee
Incumbent Utah Sen. Mike Lee voted to certify Biden's electoral votes on January 6, 2021, saying in his floor speech that the only constitutional role for Congress was to open and count the electoral ballots. Two weeks later, Lee congratulated Biden on his inauguration as president.
But Lee had previously tried to overturn Biden's victory.
Text messages between Lee and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, obtained by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol and by CNN, show that Lee made extensive behind-the-scenes efforts, before January 6, to try to find a way to keep Trump in office.
Lee pressed Meadows four days after Election Day to have the White House meet with attorney Sidney Powell and hear her "strategy to keep things alive and put several states back in play." Later in the month, Lee expressed concerns about Powell's wild claims. But on November 23, 2020, Lee promoted another lawyer who was trying to overturn the election, John Eastman, and also suggested an "audit" of ballots in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan -- baselessly claiming to Meadows that "something is not right in a few states."
Then, on December 8, 2020, Lee floated the idea of states won by Biden appointing fake pro-Trump electors: "If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a path." On January 4, 2021, just two days before the congressional vote, Lee texted, "We need something from state legislatures to make this legitimate and to have any hope of winning." He also texted that he had been "calling state legislators for hours today" and was "going to spend hours doing the same tomorrow."
Lee claimed to Utah's Deseret News in April 2022 that he did not urge state legislators during these phone calls to adopt alternate electors: "At no point in any of those was I engaging in advocacy. I wasn't in any way encouraging them to do that. I just asked them a yes or no question."
In June 2022, Lee spoke supportively of a right-wing film that makes baseless claims of election fraud. He said the film "does raise significant questions about what might have happened in that election" and that, although Biden was legitimately chosen by the Electoral College, "that doesn't mean that things didn't happen along the way."
Lee's main opponent in the Senate race is independent candidate Evan McMullin. Lee's office did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Washington: Tiffany Smiley
Tiffany Smiley, a nurse and veterans' advocate, has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election on her campaign website. The site's "issues" page claims that "the 2020 elections raised serious questions about the integrity of our elections and caused millions of Americans to question their confidence in our electoral process." (A redesign after Smiley won the Republican primary, previously reported by HuffPost, took the link to the "issues" page off of the site's main menu, replacing it with an "agenda" page that does not have an "election integrity" item at all.)
Smiley campaign spokesperson Elisa Carlson claimed in an August email to CNN that "Tiffany's position has always been that Joe Biden is our duly elected President. However, she acknowledges that there are many who have concerns surrounding the 2020 election." But in a July interview with FOX 13 Seattle, before Smiley became the top Republican vote-getter in the state's top-two primary in August, Smiley would not answer directly when asked if Biden was "duly elected." Smiley said instead: "I live in reality. Joe Biden is -- is our president."
When CNN asked Carlson for evidence of Smiley having publicly said Biden was "duly elected," Carlson did not provide any -- instead sending along another interview in which Smiley also said "Joe Biden is our president." And in a subsequent interview with CNN's Dana Bash in early September, Smiley would only answer confusingly when asked if Biden was legitimately elected, saying, "Yes Joe Biden is our president." (When Bash followed up by noting that Smiley didn't say Biden was legitimately elected, Smiley said, "Yes I think I made it clear: he is our president.")
Smiley is challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.
Wisconsin: Ron Johnson
Incumbent Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson played a role in the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn Biden's victory in his state, though he maintains that his involvement was brief and insignificant.
On January 6, 2021, the day Congress was to certify Biden's victory, an aide to Johnson texted an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the joint congressional session, to say that Johnson needed to hand Pence something, according to text messages disclosed by the House January 6 committee. When the Pence aide asked what it was, the Johnson aide said it was "alternate" slates of electors -- in other words, fake pro-Trump electors -- for Wisconsin and Michigan, states actually won by Biden.
Pence's aide told Johnson's aide not to hand that material to Pence, and Johnson's office did not do so; Johnson subsequently dismissed the situation as a "complete non-story." But after Johnson claimed in June 2022 that he had been "basically unaware" of the "staff-to-staff" interaction with Pence's office, "wasn't involved" and "had no knowledge of this," he acknowledged later the same week that he had personally connected his aide with a lawyer for the Trump campaign who was pushing the fake electors.
In August 2022, Johnson again acknowledged the involvement he had initially denied but said his role was trivial. He told WISN 12 News: "My involvement in that attempt to deliver spanned the course of a couple seconds; I think I fielded three texts, and sent two, and talked to my chief of staff that somebody wants to deliver something."
Johnson has been hard to pin down on the legitimacy of the 2020 election. In December 2020, he called the election legitimate and said that, although he soon planned to hold a Senate hearing on "irregularities," he hadn't seen anything that would change the fact that Biden won. In early January 2021, though, he complained of "so many irregularities," cited false allegations of tens of thousands of illegal votes in Nevada, and signed on to the joint statement, along with Kennedy, Lankford and other Republican senators, declaring his intention to reject certification of "disputed states."
Johnson ended up changing his mind and approving certification after the January 6 riot at the Capitol, saying that things were different in light of what had just transpired. Months later, he was filmed telling an undercover liberal activist that there was "nothing obviously skewed about the results" in Wisconsin and that Trump lost merely because he got tens of thousands fewer votes than Republicans running for the state legislature -- but he then went on to tell The Washington Post that he still thought there were "many" unexplained "irregularities" in the election.
Johnson spokesperson Alexa Henning said in an email last week: "The Senator accepted the results of the election over a year ago. As he has stated over and over, his goal with investigating election irregularities was to simply restore confidence in our election system by resolving suspicions with full transparency and public awareness. The Senator intended to transparently address the problem of the high level of public skepticism about the 2020 election."
Johnson's Democratic opponent is Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland will formally ask Russia to return seven paintings now in a leading Moscow museum that were looted during World War II by the Soviet Red Army, the Polish culture minister said Wednesday.
But Piotr Glinski also said that about 20 previous requests to Moscow for the return of thousands of other items stolen during WWII have fallen on deaf ears. The previously requested items included archives of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, paintings by Old Masters such as Durer, Holbein or Cranach and manuscripts by Polish authors.
“Until this day (Russia’s) government has not reviewed any of the claims,” Glinski told a press conference. He added that Russia is the only among several countries approached so far to have failed to even respond to Poland on the subject.
Poland’s historically strained ties with Russia hit a new low following Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February. A former satellite of the Soviet Union, Warsaw supports Kyiv and is pushing for more sanctions against Moscow.
The new request concerns seven paintings by Italian artists that are now at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. They date from the 14th to the 18th century and include “Two Saints” by Spinello Aretino and “Adoration of the Child” by Lorenzo di Credi.
Before the war they were in the collections of the Czartoryski family in Goluchow, at the Wilanow Palace, and in Poznan, Wroclaw and Lodz.
Glinski said it is hard to estimate how much of Poland’s art and culture was destroyed or looted by occupying Nazi German and Soviet troops during the war, but at the time it was believed that Polish museums had lost about 50% of their collections.
“Traces of hundreds of thousands of items lead to the Russian Federation and to the former Soviet republics,” Glinski said.
He said Poland “will never stop searching for … cultural items that were looted” during the war.
Since 2016 alone, Poland has retrieved more than 600 looted cultural artifacts, but none of them from Russia, Glinski said.
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A New York City woman was recently sentenced to four months in prison for interference with flight crew members, according to a Department of Justice news release.
Kelly Pichardo had previously pleaded guilty to the charge, which is a Class C felony offense. Pichardo also received 36 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay $9,123 restitution to American Airlines, the department said in the release.
The sentence was imposed on August 29, according to court documents.
"Unruly and intimidating behavior," the release says, by Pichardo and her co-defendant on a February 2021 American Airlines flight from Dallas to Los Angeles prompted the flight to reroute to Phoenix so that the two could be removed from the plane. They were traveling in first class.
Ana Laura Botello, an attorney for Pichardo, declined to comment on the sentencing.
The co-defendant, Leeza S. Rodriguez, is scheduled to be sentenced in November "pursuant to her guilty plea," the department said.
The indictment said Pichardo and Rodriguez interfered by assaulting a crew member while the aircraft was in flight.
"There is a line between boorish behavior on an airplane and criminal activity, and the defendant clearly crossed it," said US Attorney Gary Restaino in the news release. "First class passengers are not immune from prosecution."
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, a union representing more than 20,000 American Airlines flight attendants, said the violent behavior displayed on the flight diverted to Phoenix "must stop."
"APFA will continue collaborating with other flight attendant and customer service agent unions, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and Congress to ensure these offenders are prosecuted to the full extent of the law with appropriate fines and criminal penalties," said Julie Hedrick, the union's national president, in a statement provided to CNN.
The maximum fine for the violation of the Class C felony in this case is $250,000, with a maximum prison term of 20 years.
A record year for unruly passenger behavior, 2021 ended with nearly 6,000 reports to the Federal Aviation Administration.
More than 1,100 investigations and 350 enforcement actions were initiated.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from the Phoenix Police Department, conducted the investigation of the incident involving Pichardo.
At the end of 2021, the Justice Department vowed to prioritize prosecution of crimes on commercial airplanes.
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on ties with Russia and Central Asia as the ruling Communist Party promotes its strategic ambitions amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
Wearing a blue suit, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Tokayev’s government said the two leaders would discuss energy markets and global economic turmoil. Kazakhstan, a sparsely populated country of 19.4 million people and sprawling grasslands, is a major oil and gas producer. China is a leading customer.
On Thursday, Xi is due to fly to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan for a summit of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia.
Beijing and Moscow see the SCO as a counterweight to U.S. alliances in East Asia.
Other SCO governments include India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Observers include Iran and Afghanistan.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
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NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday started his first trip abroad since the outbreak of the pandemic with a stop in Kazakhstan ahead of a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and other leaders of a Central Asian security group.
Xi’s trip underlines the importance Beijing places on ties with Russia and Central Asia as the ruling Communist Party promotes its strategic ambitions amid tension with Washington, Japan and India.
Wearing a blue suit, Xi was met on the airport tarmac by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and an honor guard, all of whom wore masks.
Tokayev’s government said the two leaders would discuss energy markets and global economic turmoil. Kazakhstan, a sparsely populated country of 19.4 million people and sprawling grasslands, is a major oil and gas producer. China is a leading customer.
On Thursday, Xi is due to fly to Samarkand in neighboring Uzbekistan for a summit of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia.
Beijing and Moscow see the SCO as a counterweight to U.S. alliances in East Asia.
Other SCO governments include India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Tajikistan. Observers include Iran and Afghanistan.
The Chinese leader is promoting a “Global Security Initiative” announced in April following the formation of the Quad by Washington, Japan, Australia and India in response to Beijing’s more assertive foreign policy. Xi has given few details, but U.S. officials complain it echoes Russian arguments in support of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine.
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Mike Lindell, CEO of My Pillow and prominent backer of former President Donald Trump's false voter fraud claims, said Tuesday the FBI served him with a grand jury subpoena for the contents of his phone as part of an investigation into a Colorado election security breach.
Lindell shared on social media and conservative media copies of a subpoena he said was served by the FBI.
In an interview with CNN, Lindell said agents asked him questions about Tina Peters, the Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who is facing state charges connected to a scheme that allegedly allowed an unauthorized person to access voting machines. Peters has pleaded not guilty.
The FBI is also investigating the security breach episode, CNN has reported.
Lindell said the FBI encounter occurred Tuesday afternoon while he was in his car in a drive-thru at a Hardee's restaurant in Minnesota.
On his internet show, "The Lindell Report," he said, "Cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us and I said, 'These are either bad guys or the FBI.' Well, it turns out they were the FBI."
Lindell told CNN the agents presented him with the subpoena and asked for his phone.
On his internet show, Lindell said, "He goes, 'Well, I got some bad news ... he goes, 'We're taking your cellphone. We have a warrant for your cellphone.'"
Lindell initially objected, and consulted his attorney, but then relented and provided the device to the agents.
"I want to say this for the record, they were pretty nice guys. None of them had an attitude," Lindell said on his show.
Lindell told CNN he initially believed the agents were serving him with a subpoena as part of a large sweep of investigative activity in recent days related to the ongoing January 6, 2021, investigation. Agents told him it was unrelated.
"I said, 'Come on, bring me to January 6,'" he said he told the agents, "I want to be part of that show."
Lindell said the subpoena warned against disclosure.
"They thought they were there to intimidate me; they won't intimidate me," Lindell told CNN.
An FBI spokesperson told CNN, "Without commenting on this specific matter, I can confirm that the FBI was at that location executing a search warrant authorized by a federal judge."
CNN has reached out to Peters' attorney for comment.
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Railroad and union officials are currently meeting with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh at the Labor Department in Washington, according to the White House, as the Biden administration tries to help avoid a freight rail strike that could cause massive supply chain disruptions and have significant repercussions on the economy.
The two main unions that have disputes with the railroads -- the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and SMART Transportation Division -- were expected to send their union chiefs to the meeting with Walsh.
The meeting comes with just days remaining until a federally mandated cooling off period expires and the strike could begin. It serves as a major test for President Joe Biden and his White House, which has positioned itself as one of the most pro-labor administrations in decades but also wants to avoid any potential shocks to the economy with the midterm elections just months away.
"All parties need to stay at the table, bargain in good faith to resolve outstanding issues and come to an agreement. A shutdown of our freight rail system is unacceptable outcome for our economy and the American people and all parties must work to avoid just that," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Wednesday morning aboard Air Force One.
About 60,000 union members working for railroads are set to go on strike after midnight on Friday. These members include the engineers and conductors who make up the two-person crews on each train. Forty-five thousand other workers belong to unions that have reached tentative deals with the railroads, but a strike by engineers and conductors would bring the freight rail system to a grinding halt.
Such a shutdown could have massive effects across the supply chain and also for the nation's passenger rail system. About 30% of the nation's freight moves by rail, and gas, food, consumer goods and cars and trucks could all increase in price or become more scarce if freight trains are shutdown. Amtrak is also warning of huge effects to its service as it runs on tracks that are owned by freight rail companies. Service has already been canceled along key long-haul routes across the country in anticipation of a possible strike.
Officials have grown increasingly concerned about a shutdown, and the White House has been discussing contingency plans as labor talks remain at an impasse and agencies across the federal government are working through options available to keep critical supply chains operational.
Biden personally called rail unions and companies earlier this week when he visited Boston in an attempt to avoid a strike, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Biden continues to receive regular updates on the high-stakes negotiations.
A White House official previously told CNN the Biden administration is working with shippers, truckers and air freight to see how these other modes of transportation could keep goods moving if there is a rail shutdown. One area of key concern is how to transport hazardous materials.
One official said interagency meetings with the departments of Transportation, Defense, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency were happening daily.
This story has been updated with additional details on Wednesday.
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New Hampshire Republicans' decision to nominate Don Bolduc to take on Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan locks in the final key matchup in November's battle for control of the Senate.
Bolduc, a retired Army brigadier general who has embraced former President Donald Trump's election denialism, will defeat state Senate President Chuck Morse, who has conceded. GOP Gov. Chris Sununu and national Republicans had rushed to defeat Bolduc, whom they viewed as a weaker general election candidate against Hassan.
In an evenly divided Senate, where Republicans need a net gain of just one seat to flip the chamber, Hassan is one of four key Democratic incumbents Republicans are looking to pick off this year. But as they have across the country, some candidates following in Trump's footsteps in New Hampshire have raised concerns among GOP leaders because of their lackluster fundraising and hard-line right-wing rhetoric.
The primary in New Hampshire, which was thrown open after Sununu rebuffed national Republicans' efforts to recruit him, has been a window into the GOP struggle that's been waged across the political map over the spring and summer.
Bolduc, who lost a bid for the GOP Senate nod two years ago, had brought in just shy of $600,000 by August 24 compared to Hassan's $31.4 million. He also has a penchant for saying controversial things, some of which he's walked back. But in response, Sununu called Bolduc a "conspiracy-theorist-type candidate" and "not a serious candidate" in an interview with WGIR last month.
In a Sunday op-ed in the New Hampshire Union Leader, Sununu wrote that "the stakes are too high for New Hampshire and America," adding that Republicans needed a nominee "who will have the resources to compete in the most crucial battleground state in America."
Still, Republican voters again ignored establishment preferences and opted for the candidate who has aligned himself more closely with Trump, even if doing so comes at the cost of electability in November.
A pre-primary season of recruiting misses by top Republicans left the party without what it viewed as its strongest candidates in key races -- including governors like Sununu and Arizona's Doug Ducey, who opted against taking on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly. Then, a summer of bruising Senate primaries -- many of them shaped by Trump's endorsements and pro-Trump voters' demands for candidates who embrace his lies about election fraud -- left Republicans fretting about the quality of the party's nominees and scrambling to close Democrats' fundraising advantage.
Republicans had hoped that inflation and the backlash new presidents historically have faced in midterm elections would carry the party to House and Senate majorities in November, delivering victories in competitive races across the map no matter the individual candidates in those races.
But gas prices have dropped. Biden and the Democratic-controlled Congress have enacted more of the President's agenda. Democratic candidates have outpaced most of their GOP Senate rivals in fundraising. The FBI's search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate has once again elevated a figure who galvanizes liberals and alienates suburban voters. And perhaps most significantly, the Supreme Court's June decision to end federal abortion rights protections appears to have animated parts of the electorate that Democrats feared would slip away from the party or sit the midterms out.
The early signs of a more evenly matched midterm landscape came in Democratic victories in a special election in a bellwether House district in upstate New York and in Alaska's ranked-choice special election for the state's at-large House seat, which has been in GOP hands for nearly half a century, as well as voters' overwhelming support for abortion rights in a referendum on the Kansas primary ballot.
Meanwhile, a handful of Republican candidates who won primaries, many with Trump's backing, have struggled to expand their appeal to a broader electorate in critical states -- including Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada -- that could decide which party controls a Senate that is currently divided 50-50.
GOP ups spending and focuses on crime
As GOP groups ramp up spending on television ads, their message in several key states is shifting away from attacking Biden on inflation. Instead, those ads target Democrats on crime and policing.
The latest example: In an ad launched Monday in Wisconsin, the National Republican Senatorial Committee labeled Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, the Democrat challenging Sen. Ron Johnson, "dangerous" and a "defund the police Democrat."
Barnes, in his own ad launched two weeks ago, said Republicans are trying to scare voters, and that their charge that he wants to defund the police is "a lie."
"I'll make sure our police have the resources and training they need to keep our communities safe, and that our communities have the resources to stop crime before it happens," Barnes says in the spot.
The shifting strategy underscores how unsettled the playing field is in the battle for control of the Senate just eight weeks from the November 8 midterm elections.
In August, Republican campaigns and groups spent $25 million airing over 160 ads about inflation, while also spending about $11 million airing 80 ads about crime, according to AdImpact data. In just two weeks of September so far, Republicans have spent about $9 million airing 89 ads about inflation, while also spending about $9 million airing 54 ads about crime.
In Ohio's key Senate race, Republican J.D. Vance launched an ad last week, saying, "Streets are exploding with drugs and violence, while liberals like [Democratic opponent] Tim Ryan attack and defund our police."
Ryan has repeatedly distanced himself from "defunding the police." In a recent ad in which he throws footballs at TV screens showing Republicans' ads, he says, "Here come the culture wars; I'm not that guy," as a football crashes into a screen showing the phrase "defund the police."
Democratic Senate candidates have so far vastly outspent their Republican rivals in races in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania, forcing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell-aligned outside GOP groups to attempt to make up the difference. As the campaign season shifts into a new gear post-Labor Day, Senate Leadership Fund, for example, is set to massively ramp up its spending. The super PAC has placed nearly $200 million in ad reservations over the next two months, according to AdImpact data, the most of any political advertiser.
It's picking up attacks in the crucial Pennsylvania Senate race, for instance, with an ad that highlights Democratic nominee John Fetterman's support for various prison reforms, echoing, "far-left John Fetterman, dangerously liberal on crime." Fetterman, like other Democratic nominees this year, has explicitly talked about funding the police.
FEC filings from SLF last week showed it upping its commitment in several key states -- adding $3.7 million to Pennsylvania, $3.7 million to Georgia, $3.5 million to North Carolina, $3 million to Ohio, $2.4 million to Wisconsin, and $2 million to Nevada. The additions will complement already massive reservations in battleground states. SLF had previously booked $38 million in Georgia, $33 million in Pennsylvania, $28 million in North Carolina, $27 million in Ohio, $19 million in New Hampshire, $16 million in Nevada, $15 million in Wisconsin, and $10 million in Arizona.
The GOP spending in North Carolina and Ohio underscores Democrats' success in expanding the map of competitive races. Both seats are held by retiring Republican senators, and are must-wins for the GOP's chances of winning the chamber in November.
In Florida, Democratic Rep. Val Demings has also outspent Republican Sen. Marco Rubio. Even though Rubio has long been favored to win reelection on the same ballot that features potential 2024 Republican presidential prospect Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is seeking a second term, Demings' nearly $25 million in TV ads has outpaced Rubio and Republicans by about a 4-to-1 margin. A big part of her message has been leaning into her experience as the former Orlando police chief to try to head off Republicans' attempts to tie her to her party's most liberal members. "I'll protect Florida from bad ideas like defunding the police," she said in one recent spot.
Debate about debates
Several key midterm match-ups are now in the midst of a debate about whether, when and how many times the candidates should debate -- including in Pennsylvania, where Fetterman, the Democratic lieutenant governor who suffered a stroke this spring, has committed to only one show-down with Republican Mehmet Oz, who has sought five debates.
Fetterman has said he would only debate in October. He said in a statement that he always intended to debate Oz and that the hold-up has "only ever been about addressing some of the lingering issues of the stroke, the auditory processing, and we're going to be able to work that out," but he didn't provide specifics.
"Let's be clear - Dr. Oz's campaign won't agree to a SECRET debate. It has to be a REAL one with REAL journalists asking REAL questions. Sorry John - imaginary debates don't count!," Oz communications director Brittany Yanick said in response.
While Oz's team has been raising questions about Fetterman's health, the Democrat has hammered Oz over past remarks calling abortion "murder," with his allies warning Sunday that Oz would be a "rubber stamp" for a national ban.
"Women are the reason we can win," Fetterman said at a rally in the Philadelphia suburbs. "Don't piss women off."
In Georgia, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker, have engaged in a months-long debate about debates.
Walker refused to participate in a debate during the GOP primary. Warnock has sought three debates, and Walker has said he'd debate Warnock on October 14 in Savannah. Warnock responded by saying he would debate Walker then, if Walker would accept another debate.
A person familiar with the Republican candidate's thinking told CNN last week that Walker is not going to agree to another debate, effectively sending both candidates back to square one.
Debates typically drive news coverage of key races in their final weeks. The limited number in several key races, including Pennsylvania and Georgia, could increase the importance of television ads as the primary way of reaching voters -- a reality that explains why McConnell and other top Republicans have increased outreach to major donors and urged senators to transfer campaign cash to the Senate Leadership Fund.
"The Democrats are going to vastly outspend Republicans across the board. But as long as we have enough money to tell our story and to defend our opposition, I think we'll be fine," Texas Sen. John Cornyn, a member of McConnell's leadership team, said last week.
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Three Iranian nationals carried out a scheme to hack hundreds of organizations in the US and around the world, in some cases extorting them for personal monetary gain, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed on Wednesday.
The alleged victim organizations ranged from a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania, a power company in Mississippi and a municipality in Union County, New Jersey, according to charges brought in a federal court in New Jersey.
The indictment does not accuse the Iranians of carrying out those particular hacks on behalf of the Iranian government. However, in sanctioning the three Iranian men on Wednesday, the Treasury Department accused them of working for IT firms that are affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
In some cases, the Iranian hackers demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom payments to unlock computers, a senior Justice Department official told reporters Wednesday.
Iran's Permanent Mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Justice Department allegations.
For US officials, it's the latest example of Iran tolerating or conducting reckless behavior in cyberspace that has cost US businesses, government agencies, and NATO allies alike. In a test for the Biden administration's ability to help defend a NATO ally from hacking, the Albanian government has twice since July accused Iran of conducting hacks that have knocked Albanian government services offline.
The White House condemned Tehran for the initial hack in July and said US officials have been on the ground in Albania helping with the recovery. Iran denied the allegations.
The newly indicted Iranians -- Mansour Ahmadi, Ahmad Khatib Aghda and Amir Hossein Nickaein Ravari -- are believed to reside in Iran, according to the senior Justice Department official. The chances of the three Iranians being taken into US custody are slim unless they travel to a country with which the US has an extradition agreement.
"These three individuals are among a group of cybercriminals whose attacks represent a direct assault on the critical infrastructure and public services we all depend on," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a video statement Wednesday.
As part of the Wednesday crackdown on alleged Iranian hacking, the Treasury Department sanctioned Ahmadi, Aghda and Ravari as well as seven other Iranians, and accused them of working for Iranian IT firms affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The State Department offered as much as a $10 million reward for on Ahmadi, Aghda and Ravari.
The Treasury announcement accused the Iranian hackers of conducting a slew of ransomware attacks, including one on Boston Children's Hospital in June 2021. FBI officials say they were able to thwart the hackers and no damage was done to patient care.
Wray has called the incident "one of the most despicable cyberattacks I've ever seen." Tehran denied involvement in the incident.
To try to blunt the impact of future IRGC-linked hacks, the US and allies such as Canada and the United Kingdom on Wednesday released an advisory on defending against the hackers' tactics and techniques.
The Justice Department charges highlight the often blurred lines between the government and cybercriminal actors in countries such as Iran, according to some analysts.
"Recent announcements from US government agencies reinforce our understanding of the ecosystem of cyber operations in Iran, which is heavily reliant on third-party contractors for both the IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence and Security," said Saher Naumaan, principal threat intelligence at BAE Systems, who tracks alleged Iranian hackers closely. "The companies are often front companies for the intelligence agencies, where the individuals are directly involved in operations or they can be on the periphery in support roles such as training academies."
This story has been updated with additional developments and context.
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The Biden administration has worked with Switzerland and Afghan economists to set up a new fund to put billions of dollars in frozen Afghan money to use to promote economic stability in the country, according to two senior US officials.
The US is moving $3.5 billion to the new "Afghan Fund," but officials said they won't release the money imminently to an institution in Afghanistan because there is no trusted institution to guarantee the funds will benefit the Afghan people, the officials said.
Instead, it will be administered by an outside body, independent of the Taliban and the country's central bank.
"The Fund may use assets to provide Afghan banking sector liquidity, keep Afghanistan current on its debt service obligations, support exchange rate stability, transfer funds, as appropriate to public Afghan financial institutions, or any other use for the benefit of the Afghan people that is approved by the Fund's Board of Trustees," said a State Department official.
Down the line, transferring these funds to the Afghan central bank could happen but it would depend on two key factors: responsible management of the bank and assurances that the funds will not be diverted to terrorists or criminals, the officials added.
"We do not have that confidence today," said a senior US official. At minimum the Afghan central bank will need to "demonstrate its independence from political influence and interference." It will also need to demonstrate it has "instituted adequate anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism controls" and "complete a third party needs assessment and onboard a reputable third party monitoring," the official explained.
The US has been clear in telling the central bank -- known as the Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) -- what steps it would need to take and reiterated those steps in a letter this week from the United States deputy secretary of the Treasury, which CNN reviewed. The letter cites the need for the DAB to demonstrate independence from Taliban influence and interference, among other expectations.
Earlier this year President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing for the $7 billion in frozen assets from Afghanistan's central bank to eventually be distributed inside the country and to potentially fund litigation brought by families of victims of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. The funds were frozen by the US government after the Afghan government collapsed last year and the Taliban took over control of the country.
Afghanistan -- now under Taliban control for over a year -- is facing a potential economic catastrophe. Lawmakers have pushed the Biden administration to release the funds in order to keep the country running, for necessities such as paying teacher salaries. Last month, the UN said that the humanitarian support being provided to the country is not enough to sustain its economy.
The timing of when the central bank could meet the expectations laid out is hard to estimate, US officials said this week. In recent months US officials have said that recapitalization of the Afghan central bank is not a "near-term option."
Setting up the new fund will enable the funds to flow quickly, without having to go through the central bank to distribute funds.
"The people of Afghanistan face humanitarian and economic crises born of decades of conflict, severe drought, COVID-19, and endemic corruption," said Wendy Sherman, US deputy secretary of state. "Today, the United States and its partners take an important, concrete step forward in ensuring that additional resources can be brought to bear to reduce suffering and improve economic stability for the people of Afghanistan while continuing to hold the Taliban accountable."
The fund's board will consist of a US and Swiss government official, as well as two Afghan economic experts. The Taliban is not part of this financing mechanism, the officials emphasized.
Still, the US remains in contact with the Taliban for "pragmatic engagement" in support of the Afghan people and to advance America's interests, one of the senior US officials said.
By setting up this mechanism the US is making it clear that they intend to get the frozen funds to the Afghan people, though they do not intend to recognize the Taliban which is currently leading the country.
"I think relief organizations as well as countries that care about Afghans have sought to continue to work with almost 500,000 civil servants that continue to work on behalf of the people that includes teachers and includes health workers includes engineers, and it'll include depth technocrats as well," said the senior US official.
CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect the new fund will distribute frozen money independent of the Taliban and Afghanistan's central bank.
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When Queen Elizabeth II receives a state funeral at London's Westminster Abbey on Monday, it will be one of the largest diplomatic occasions of the century.
World leaders, politicians, public figures and European royals, as well as more than 500 dignitaries from around the world, will descend on London to pay their last respects to Britain's longest reigning monarch, who died Thursday at the age of 96.
While no official guest list has yet been published, invitations have been sent.
US President Joe Biden was among the first to confirm he will be at the event, which will be attended by up to 2,000 people.
"I don't know what the details are yet but I will be going," Biden told reporters on Friday.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol are among the presidents attending the Queen's final send-off following a series of ceremonial events.
The UK's newly elected Prime Minister, Liz Truss, will also mourn the monarch next week.
Leaders of most Commonwealth countries are expected to attend, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese making the nearly 24-hour journey.
"I would prioritize of course, alongside the Governor-General, doing our duty in representing New Zealand and to pass on the condolences of our whole nation," Ardern told TVNZ Friday. "I do expect there will be a number of leaders looking to pay respects and tribute to the Queen," she added.
Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will travel to London for the Queen's funeral, an unusual move that demonstrates the close relationship between the Japanese and British royal families.
Japanese news outlet Asahi Shimbun reported, citing Imperial Household Agency officials, that a Japanese emperor has only attended the funeral of a foreign head of state or royal family member on one previous occasion, when then-Emperor Akihito attended the funeral of Belgian King Baudouin in 1993.
Members of foreign royal families will also be seated in the pews on Monday.
Spain's King Felipe VI and his wife Queen Letizia are among the European royals who will attend.
The King and Queen of the Netherlands, together with the country's former Queen, Beatrix, who abdicated in 2013, will also be in the congregation, the Dutch royal house announced.
Jordan's King Abdullah II, who remembered the Queen as an "iconic leader" and "beacon of wisdom and principled leadership," will also be attending her funeral.
Not all world leaders have been invited, however.
Syria, Venezuela and Afghanistan are three of the countries that haven't been asked to send a representative, according to Britain's PA Media news agency.
Representatives from North Korea and Nicaragua have been invited "only at ambassadorial level," PA added.
The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Myanmar will also be absent.
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin did tweet his congratulations on King Charles III's ascension to the throne, diplomatic relations between the UK and Russia have all but collapsed since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a senior UK government source told CNN on Tuesday.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is a close ally of President Putin.
Myanmar will not be invited, following a coup in the country last year.
After the funeral, Queen Elizabeth II will be buried at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, where her parents, her sister, Princess Margaret, and her husband, Prince Philip, are also buried.
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Two brothers reunited in grief. Royal-watchers have been relieved to see the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex standing side-by-side once more as they mourn the death of their beloved grandmother.
It's been a turbulent two years since Harry and Meghan stepped back as working members of the royal family, with the rift in the clan heavily speculated upon by the public and media alike.
On Wednesday, we will see the pair -- along with other members of the family -- on foot behind the Queen's coffin as it makes its way through the streets of central London to Westminster Hall, in a procession like no other.
It will be a somber moment when the city falls silent, the only sounds the tolling of Big Ben and minute guns firing in Hyde Park.
A source exclusively told us yesterday that the brothers were expected to have dinner with other members of the royal family at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday after the Queen's coffin arrived from Scotland. The plane carrying her coffin was the most-tracked flight ever, according to aviation website Flightradar24.
Wednesday won't be the first time we've seen William and Harry together since the death of the Queen last week. The pair were joined by their wives, Catherine and Meghan, on Saturday when they all went to see the floral tributes left at the gates of Windsor Castle.
Screams erupted from royal fans as the four emerged, with many hoping the Queen's death would pave the way for a reconciliation between the brothers.
The joint appearance of William, Harry, Kate and Meghan came as a surprise and was not announced in advance. It was the first time they had been seen together since the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in June.
While the tension between the brothers is well known, and we don't know how much of that has been resolved, clearly it has been mended to a certain extent that they are able to appear together in public once more.
We understand that the Prince of Wales extended an olive branch to the Sussexes, inviting them to join him and his wife an hour before the walkabout took place. A royal source told us William thought it was an important show of unity at an incredibly difficult time for the family.
As the "Fab Four" -- as Britain's press previously dubbed the quartet -- greeted crowds, Harry told members of the public that "no matter what room of the castle you are in" the Queen's presence could still be felt. "She was a great granny," he added.
On Tuesday, as the sun set in Edinburgh, Britain's longest reigning monarch departed Scotland for the last time. It's a country she deeply adored and a place where she was often able to figuratively put the crown aside for a short while and simply be the family matriarch, away from public scrutiny.
Earlier Tuesday, King Charles III visited Northern Ireland, continuing his tour of the nations as the new monarch. The visit saw him travel to Hillsborough Castle, where he met with political leaders and spoke of his mother's contribution to the peace process. He called her a "shining example" and vowed to continue "to seek the welfare of all the inhabitants of Northern Ireland."
Join us as we continue our coverage of the Queen's final journey here.
THE QUEEN OF TRAVEL
Journeys of a lifetime.
During the Queen's reign, she visited more than 120 countries and witnessed first-hand the revolutions in global travel that shrank the world as her own influence over it diminished.
Elizabeth II lived through the advent of the Jet Age, flew supersonic on the Concorde, saw regimes change, countries form and dissolve, the end of the British Empire and the rise of globalization.
DID YOU KNOW?
Prince William just inherited a 685-year-old estate worth $1 billion.
Royal wills are never made public. That means what happens to much of the Queen's personal wealth following her death will remain a family secret.
Forbes estimated last year that the late monarch's personal fortune was worth $500 million, made up of her jewels, art collection, investments and two residences, Balmoral Castle in Scotland and Sandringham House in Norfolk. The Queen inherited both properties from her father, King George VI.
But the vast bulk of the royal family's wealth — totaling at least £18 billion ($21 billion) in land, property and investments — now passes along a well-trodden, centuries-old path to the new monarch, King Charles, and his heir.
The line of succession makes Prince William, now the first in line to the throne, a much wealthier man. The future king inherits the private Duchy of Cornwall estate from his father. The duchy owns a sprawling portfolio of land and property covering almost 140,000 acres, most of it in southwest England. Read the full story from CNN Business here.
WATCH
How Anne learned to be a royal from her mother.
Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter, Princess Anne, is being praised on social media for the way she remained by her mother's side every step of the way from Balmoral back to London. Many have been admiring Anne for her devotion as the family mourns, but the Princess Royal has always had a notable role in the monarchy. CNN's Isa Soares reports more on one of the hardest-working royals.
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DETROIT (AP) — President Joe Biden, a gearhead with his own vintage Corvette, showcased his administration’s efforts to promote electric vehicles during a visit Wednesday to the Detroit auto show.
Biden traveled to the massive North American International Auto Show to plug the huge new climate, tax and health care law that offers tax incentives for buying electric vehicles. He toured a mix of American-manufactured hybrid, electric and combustion vehicles from Chevrolet, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis on a closed-off convention center floor, and greeted union workers, CEOs, and local leaders.
The Democratic president, who recently took a spin in his pine-green 1967 Stingray with Jay Leno for a segment on CNBC’s “Jay Leno’s Garage,” hopped into the driver seat of a bright orange Chevrolet Corvette Z06 — not an EV —and fired up its engine, alongside GM CEO Mary Barra.
“He says he’s driving home,” she joked.
Biden then toured the new electric Ford Mustang Mach-E, marveling with Ford executive chairman Bill Ford at the model’s performance. “It’s amazing the speed,” Biden said, adding, “Does it have a launch button?” He also explored less-flashy vehicles, like Ford’s all-electric E-Transit van and F-150 truck.
Biden finally got behind the wheel of a Cadillac Lyriq all electric SUV, briefly driving it down an aisle in the blue-carpeted hall. It marked a rare occasion to drive — albeit at little more than a walking pace — for the president, who typically is transported in armored U.S. Secret Service vehicles when out in public.
“Jump in, I’ll give you a ride to Washington,” he joked to reporters. “It’s a beautiful car,” he added, “But I love the Corvette.”
While Biden has been taking credit for the recent boom in electric vehicle battery and assembly plant announcements, most were in the works long before the Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law on Aug. 16. Biden’s 2021 infrastructure legislation could have something to do with it — it provides $5 billion over five years to help states create a network of EV charging stations.
In Detroit, Biden was to announce approval of the first $900 million in infrastructure money to build EV chargers across 53,000 miles of the national highway system in 35 states.
Under the law, electric vehicles must be built in North America to be eligible for a new federal tax credit of up to $7,500. Batteries for qualifying vehicles also must be made in North America, and there are requirements for battery minerals to be produced or recycled on the continent. The credits are aimed at creating a U.S. electric vehicle supply chain and ending dependence on other countries, mainly China.
Passage of the measure set off a scramble by automakers to speed up efforts to find North American-made batteries and battery minerals from the U.S., Canada or Mexico to make sure EVs are eligible for the credit.
In April, Ford started building electric pickup trucks at a new Michigan factory. General Motors has revamped an older factory in Detroit to make electric Hummers and pickups.
Long before legislators reached a compromise on the legislation, each company announced three EV battery factories, all joint ventures with battery makers. A GM battery plant in Warren, Ohio, has already started manufacturing. A government loan announced in July will help GM build its battery factories.
Ford said last September it would build the next generation of electric pickups at a plant in Tennessee, and GM has announced EV assembly plants in Lansing, Michigan; Spring Hill, Tennessee; and Orion Township, Michigan. In May, Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler, said it would build another joint venture battery factory in Indiana, and it has announced a battery plant in Canada.
Hyundai announced battery and assembly plants in May to be built in Georgia, and Vietnamese automaker VinFast announced factories in North Carolina in July. Honda and Toyota both announced U.S. battery plants after the act was passed, but they had been planned for months.
Biden has been talking for a long time about the importance of building a domestic EV supply chain, and that may have prodded some of the companies to locate factories in the U.S. But it’s also advantageous to build batteries near where EVs will be assembled because the batteries are heavy and costly to ship from overseas.
And auto companies are rolling out more affordable electric options despite battery costs. The latest came last week from General Motors, a Chevrolet Equinox small SUV. It has a starting price around $30,000 and a range-per-charge of 250 miles, or 400 kilometers. Buyers can get a range of 300 miles, or 500 kilometers, if they pay more.
The Equinox checks the North American assembly box. It will be made in Mexico. The company won’t say where the battery will be made but it is working on meeting the other criteria for getting the tax credit.
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LONDON (AP) — A top court largely rejected Google’s appeal of a record European Union antitrust fine imposed for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system. It marks another win for EU regulators taking a global lead in controlling the power of big tech companies.
The European Court of Justice’s General Court mostly confirmed a 2018 decision by the EU’s executive Commission to slap Google with a fine of more than 4 billion euros ($3.99 billion).
“In order better to reflect the gravity and duration of the infringement,” it’s appropriate to give Google a fine of 4.125 billion euros, the court said. That’s slightly lower than the original 4.34 billion euro penalty, with the court saying its reasoning differed “in certain respects” from the commission’s.
“We are disappointed that the Court did not annul the decision in full,” Google said in a statement. “Android has created more choice for everyone, not less, and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world.”
The company has previously argued that free and open-source Android has resulted in low-cost phones and driven competition with its chief rival, Apple. Android is the most popular mobile operating system, beating even Apple’s iOS.
The fine is one of three antitrust penalties totaling more than $8 billion that the European Commission slapped on Google between 2017 and 2019, putting the 27-nation bloc at the forefront of the global push to rein in tech giants.
Since then, the commission has widened its crackdown on digital giants with more antitrust investigations targeting Amazon, Apple and Facebook and sweeping new rules aimed at clamping down on the biggest digital companies. Tech companies are now facing tighter scrutiny around the world: Google also got hit with a $50 million fine Wednesday by South Korean privacy watchdogs that also fined Facebook parent Meta $22 million.
In its original decision, the European Commission said Google’s practices restrict competition and reduce choices for consumers.
It determined that Google broke EU rules by requiring smartphone makers to take a bundle of Google apps if they wanted any at all and prevented them from selling devices with altered versions of Android.
The bundle contained 11 apps, including YouTube, Maps and Gmail, but regulators focused on the three that had the biggest market share: Google Search, Chrome and the company’s Play Store for apps.
Google had made some changes after the original ruling to address the issues, such as giving European Android users a choice of browser and search app and charging device-makers to pre-install its apps.
EU consumer group BEUC, which argued for the commission’s case in court hearings, said the decision “confirms that Europe’s consumers must enjoy meaningful choice between search engines and browsers on their phones and tablets.”
Google still has one more chance to appeal the decision — but only on points of law — to the EU Court of Justice, the bloc’s highest court. It didn’t say whether it would do so.
The company has already lost an appeal of its first EU antitrust penalty, which it’s now appealing to the Court of Justice. The General Court last year also sided with the commission, upholding a 2.4 billion-euro fine issued in 2017 by regulators who decided that Google unfairly directed visitors to its comparison shopping service, Google Shopping, to the detriment of rivals.
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REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Authorities are investigating a fire that broke out over the weekend at Thompson Island Brewing Company in Rehoboth Beach.
At around 11:40 a.m. Sunday, the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company, assisted by the Lewes Fire Department, responded to a report of fire coming from the roof of the business, located on Coastal Highway. Arriving units found smoke and flames issuing from an exhaust hood on the roof.
A wood burning grill unit inside the kitchen was extinguished and fire crews were able to contain the fire to the hood system on the roof. All customers and staff were evacuated from the building. Units cleared the scene after about an hour.
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GENEVA (AP) - The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak.
At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the world has never been in a better position to stop COVID-19.
“We are not there yet, but the end is in sight,” he said, comparing the effort to that made by a marathon runner nearing the finish line. “Now is the worst time to stop running,” he said. “Now is the time to run harder and make sure we cross the line and reap all the rewards of our hard work.”
In its weekly report on the pandemic, the U.N. health agency said deaths fell by 22% in the past week, at just over 11,000 reported worldwide. There were 3.1 million new cases, a drop of 28%, continuing a weeks-long decline in the disease in every part of the world.
Still, the WHO warned that relaxed COVID testing and surveillance in many countries means that many cases are going unnoticed. The agency issued a set of policy briefs for governments to strengthen their efforts against the coronavirus ahead of the expected winter surge of COVID-19, warning that new variants could yet undo the progress made to date.
“If we don’t take this opportunity now, we run the risk of more variants, more deaths, more disruption, and more uncertainty," Tedros said.
The WHO reported that the omicron subvariant BA.5 continues to dominate globally and comprised nearly 90% of virus samples shared with the world's biggest public database. In recent weeks, regulatory authorities in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere have cleared tweaked vaccines that target both the original coronavirus and later variants including BA.5.
Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, said the organization expected future waves of the disease, but was hopeful those would not cause many deaths.
Meanwhile in China, residents of a city in the country's far western Xinjiang region have said they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a lockdown prompted by COVID-19.
Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week, with residents sharing videos of empty refrigerators, feverish children and people shouting from their windows.
On Monday, local police announced the arrests of six people for “spreading rumors” about the lockdown, including posts about a dead child and an alleged suicide, which they said “incited opposition” and “disrupted social order.”
Leaked directives from government offices show that workers are being ordered to avoid negative information and spread “positive energy” instead. One directed state media to film “smiling seniors” and “children having fun” in neighborhoods emerging from the lockdown.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An abortion ban is set to take effect in Indiana, which was the first state to pass one after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
When the law starts being enforced on Thursday, Indiana will join more than a dozen states with abortion bans, though most were approved before that Supreme Court ruling and took effect once the court threw out the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.
West Virginia legislators approved an abortion ban on Tuesday and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced a bill that would ban abortion nationwide after the 15th week of pregnancy, with rare exceptions, intensifying the ongoing debate inside and outside of the GOP though the proposal has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress.
Abortion rights supporters have filed two lawsuits trying to block Indiana officials from enforcing the ban but no court rulings have been issued yet and all seven of the state’s abortion clinics will lose their licenses to perform the procedure under the new law.
WHAT’S COVERED IN THE ABORTION BAN?
The Indiana ban includes exceptions allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest before the 10th week of pregnancy and to protect the mother’s life and physical health. It also allows them if the fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. The ban will replace state laws that generally prohibited abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy and tightly restricted it after the 13th week.
Under the new law, abortions can be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics will lose their licenses. Any doctors found to have performed an illegal abortion would be stripped of their medical license and could face felony charges punishable by up to six years in prison.
HOW IS INDIANA’S ACTION UNIQUE?
Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature approved the ban during a two-week special legislative session following a political firestorm over a 10-year-old rape victim who traveled to the state from neighboring Ohio to end her pregnancy. The case gained worldwide attention when an Indianapolis doctor said the girl came to Indiana because of Ohio’s ban on abortions once fetal cardiac activity can be detected, which is usually around the sixth week of pregnancy and is often before the mother knows she’s pregnant.
The Republicans who passed Indiana’s ban were deeply divided over whether to include exceptions beyond one for protecting the mother’s life, such as for cases of rape and incest.
Similar divides among Republicans over such exceptions and whether to allow criminal charges against doctors stalled bills on tighter abortion restrictions in West Virginia and South Carolina this summer. The ban that West Virginia legislators passed Tuesday is similar to Indiana’s and it now heads to Republican Gov. Jim Justice, who is expected to sign it into law.
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO INDIANA’S ABORTION CLINICS?
Indiana abortion clinic operators have told The Associated Press that they’ll stop offering abortions when the ban takes effect but continue to support patients with information about out-of-state clinics. Planned Parenthood plans to keep its four Indiana clinics that offer abortions open and provide sexually transmitted disease testing and treatment, and contraception and cancer screenings, which it says comprise the bulk of its services.
Indiana University Health, the state’s largest hospital system, has set up advisory teams that include a lawyer for consultations on whether patients meet the legal requirements for abortions. Indiana hospitals performed 133 of the 8,414 abortions reported to the state Department of Health in 2021, with the remaining 98% taking place at clinics.
WHAT IS STATUS OF LAWSUITS?
The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed two lawsuits in the past two weeks seeking to stop the ban from taking effect.
One argues that the ban violates the Indiana Constitution by infringing on the right to privacy and the guarantee of equal privileges. The other claims the ban conflicts with the state’s religious freedom law that Indiana Republicans passed in 2015 and that sparked a widespread backlash from critics who said it allowed discrimination against gay people.
The question of whether the state constitution protects abortion rights is undecided. A state appeals court ruled in 2004 that privacy is a core value under the state constitution that extends to all residents, including women seeking an abortion. But the Indiana Supreme Court later upheld a law requiring an 18-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion, though it didn’t decide whether the state constitution included the right to privacy or abortion.
Indiana University law professor Daniel Conkle said bringing the lawsuits so soon before the ban was set to effect made it hard to get an injunction blocking it, but that it taking effect won’t end the court fight.
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Text messages link Brett Favre, welfare money, university’s volleyball facility
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The governor of Mississippi in 2017 was “on board” with a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a university volleyball facility, according to text messages between Favre and the director of the nonprofit.
Court documents filed Monday by an attorney for the Mississippi Community Education Center contain text messages between Favre and the center’s executive director, Nancy New, that include references to Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, who left office in 2020.
Nancy New and her son, Zachary New, who helped run the nonprofit, pleaded guilty in April to charges of misspending welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the nation. They await sentencing and have agreed to testify against others in Mississippi’s largest public corruption case in decades.
In May, the Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit against Favre, three former pro wrestlers and several other people and businesses to try to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars. The lawsuit said the defendants “squandered” more than $20 million from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families anti-poverty program.
In pleading guilty, Nancy and Zachary New acknowledged taking part in spending $4 million of welfare money for a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The mother and son also acknowledged directing welfare money to Prevacus Inc., a Florida-based company that was trying to develop a concussion drug. Favre has said in interviews that he supported Prevacus.
The filing in a Mississippi state court included text message exchanges between Favre and Nancy New about arranging payment from the Mississippi Department of Human Services through the nonprofit to Favre for speaking engagements, with Favre then saying he would direct the money to the volleyball facility.
Favre played football at the University of Southern Mississippi before going to the NFL in 1991, and his daughter started playing on the volleyball team there in 2017.
According to court documents, Favre texted Nancy New on Aug. 3, 2017: “If you were to pay me is there anyway the media can find out where it came from and how much?”
Nancy New responded: “No, we never have had that information publicized. I understand you being uneasy about that though. Let’s see what happens on Monday with the conversation with some of the folks at Southern. Maybe it will click with them. Hopefully.”
Favre responded: “Ok thanks.”
The next day, Nancy New texted Favre: “Wow, just got off the phone with Phil Bryant! He is on board with us! We will get this done!”
Favre responded: “Awesome I needed to hear that for sure.”
Bryant, a Republican, served two terms and governor and could not run again in 2019 because of term limits. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Mississippi.
In a July 11 court filing, Nancy New’s attorney wrote that Bryant directed her to pay $1.1 million in welfare money to Favre through the Mississippi Community Education Center for “speaking at events, keynote speaking, radio and promotional events, and business partner development.” A Bryant spokesperson said in July that the allegations against the former governor are false and that Bryant had asked the state auditor to investigate possible welfare fraud.
Favre has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing. Mississippi Auditor Shad White said Favre was paid for speeches but did not show up. Favre has repaid the money, but White said in October that Favre still owed $228,000 in interest.
In a Facebook post when he repaid the first $500,000, Favre said he didn’t know the money he received came from welfare funds. He also said his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor children in Mississippi and Wisconsin.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma City residents were on edge after a big, bad wolf was sighted Tuesday. OK, big and bad may be a tall tale.
“The dog was very timid and was not able to be caught,” said Bruce Stone, city manager for The Village, which is part of the Oklahoma City metro area.
The animal was reported wandering across the metro Tuesday morning.
The Oklahoma City Police tweeted that they were “just responding to a bunch of folks crying wolf” as they tried to get “the pup safely home.”
The animal — a female — didn’t look like she would huff and puff or blow your house down, like the wolf of “Little Red Riding Hood” fame. Stone told KFOR she didn’t make a sound.
“The dog was just sitting there quietly,” said Stone. “[It] just kind of seemed like it was lost and needed help.”
The animal had a collar, so officials knew someone owned her and were probably looking for their pet.
The animal is a hybrid: “85% wolf & 15% Alaskan Malamute pet,” according to the Oklahoma City Police. And she calmly accepted rescue from police, who called her a “cordial canine.”
“Obviously, it is a little unusual that it is a mixed breed,” said Stone.
While it is against the law in The Village to harbor a wolf, there is no mention of mixed breeds.
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Woman charged after tying up man, beating him for hours, police say
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (WNDU/Gray News) – An Indiana woman is facing multiple charges for holding a man hostage and beating him for hours, police said.
Officers responded to a residence in Mishawaka on Sept. 7 and found a 61-year-old man naked, beaten and wearing a ball gag.
The man told officers he received concerning text messages at 2 a.m. from 28-year-old Mariah Conn-Wilhelm. He feared for her safety and the safety of her 5-month-old son, so he went over to her apartment.
He told police that when he arrived, Conn-Wilhelm became angry and began hitting the man with a frying pan. Conn-Wilhelm then contacted a friend of hers who came to the apartment.
The two proceeded to tie the man up in a rope, chain and hand restraints then forced a ball gag in his mouth.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the two beat the man for a few hours with multiple objects. They then held a gun to his head and ordered him to sell one of his properties and give the money to them.
The man was able to escape and run to a neighbor’s house the next day after Conn-Wilhelm left her apartment. He was taken to the hospital with several broken bones.
Conn-Wilhelm has been charged with seven felonies, including:
- Criminal confinement resulting in serious bodily injury
- Armed robbery
- Robbery resulting in bodily injury
- Battery resulting in serious bodily injury
- Intimidation
- Neglect of a dependent
- Possession of methamphetamine
Conn-Wilhelm is due in court Sept. 27.
Police did not clarify if Conn-Wilhelm’s friend is facing any charges.
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Day 2 of jury deliberations at R. Kelly's child porn trial
CHICAGO - Jurors at R. Kelly's federal trial are deliberating for a second day in Chicago Wednesday, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on 13 charges accusing the R&B singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday after Judge Harry Leinenweber gave them instructions, including explicit descriptions of what constitutes sexual abuse.
Early Wednesday, jurors wrote several questions to the judge, at least one indicating the panelists may be grappling with some of the case's legal complexities.
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One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly's lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
In closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government's testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, "you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup," said told jurors
"There are just too many cockroaches," she said.
In her rebuttal Tuesday, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors to remember the girls and women who have accused Kelly of abuse.
"When you are in the quiet of the jury room, consider the evidence in light of who is at the center of this case. Kelly’s victims: Jane, Nia, Pauline, Tracy and Brittany," Appenteng said, referring to five Kelly accusers named in charging documents by pseudonyms or their first names.
As Kelly's fame boomed in the mid-1990s, Appenteng said, his inner circle increasingly focused on doing what the performer born Robert Sylvester Kelly wanted.
"And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls," she said.
Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York in June and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Bonjean described Kelly as a flawed genius who has been functionally illiterate since childhood and was ill-equipped to navigate his celebrity and growing wealth. She said that he was abused as a child also deeply affected him.
Known for his smash hit "I Believe I Can Fly" and for sex-infused songs such as "Bump n’ Grind," Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct circulated in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 Lifetime docuseries "Surviving R. Kelly."
Kelly and co-defendant Derrell McDavid, Kelly's ex-business manager, are accused of fixing Kelly's 2008 trial on state child porn charges by intimidating and paying off witnesses.
Kelly faces four counts of producing child pornography, one of conspiring to obstruct justice by fixing the 2008 trial, one of conspiring to receive child porn, two of actually receiving it and five of enticing minors for sex.
McDavid is charged with four counts — two for receiving child porn, one for conspiring to do so and one for conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, at which Kelly was acquitted.
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LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to flock to London’s medieval Westminster Hall from Wednesday to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth II, whose coffin will lie in state for four days until her funeral on Monday.
Here’s a look at what to expect for the occasion, including its traditions, the waiting route and what mourners will see:
HOW LONG WILL THE QUEEN LIE IN STATE?
People who want to view the queen’s coffin can do so 24 hours a day from 5 p.m. local time (1600GMT) Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. on Monday, the day of the state funeral.
THE QUEUE
British officials have published two waiting routes along the River Thames that the public need to join before they can enter Westminster Hall. The main queue begins on the Albert Embankment and stretches east for miles past the London Eye, the Tate Modern and Tower Bridge. There is a separate, accessible route that people who need it can join from the Tate Britain museum.
Mourners have been warned about long waits, possibly overnight. Extra toilets and water fountains will be placed along the route, and some venues along the way, including Shakespeare’s Globe, will open around the clock to provide refreshments and rest breaks. Airport-style security checks are in place near the front of the line before people can enter Parliament.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SEE?
The closed coffin will be draped with a royal flag and adorned with royal regalia including the Imperial State Crown — the same crown the queen wore for her 1953 coronation.
The coffin will be placed on a catafalque, or a raised platform, in the center of Westminster Hall. Royal guards will stand 24 hours a day at each corner of the platform.
When the coffin was in Scotland earlier this week, it was topped with the Crown of Scotland and a wreath of white flowers.
LEAD-LINED COFFIN
The queen’s coffin is constructed out of English oak, lined with lead and was made decades ago, experts say.
Sarah Hayes, manager for the Coffin Works museum in Birmingham, England, says former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the queen’s husband Prince Philip and Princess Diana had such coffins made for them, she said.
“It’s to preserve the body for as long as possible, it’s really about slowing down the process of decomposition,” she said. This is especially important for the queen because her coffin will be eventually placed in a church, not buried in the ground, she added.
The coffin is made of oak from the royal family’s Sandringham Estate according to royal tradition, Hayes said.
WESTMINSTER HALL
The lying in state takes place at Westminster Hall, a 900-year-old building with an impressive timber roof. Built in 1097, it’s the oldest surviving building of the Palace of Westminster.
The hall has been at the heart of British history for a millennium: It was where numerous kings and queens hosted lavish coronation banquets, and where Guy Fawkes and Charles I were tried in the 17th century. More recently, ceremonial addresses were presented in the hall to Elizabeth during her silver, golden and diamond jubilees.
WHO GETS TO LIE IN STATE?
In the U.K., lying in state is reserved for the sovereign, queen consorts, and sometimes prime ministers.
Queen Mary, King George VI and King George V were among royals who lay in state at Westminster Hall. Winston Churchill was the only British prime minister to have a lying-in-state ceremony in the 20th century.
The last person to lie in state in Britain was Elizabeth’s mother, known as the Queen Mother. Some 200,000 people paid their respects to her over three days when she died in 2002.
WHEN DID THE TRADITION START?
The tradition of lying in state stretches back to the 17th century when Stuart monarchs lay in state for a number of days.
Edward VII set the modern tradition of royal lying in state in Westminster Hall. He lay in state in 1910.
WHERE IS THE QUEEN’S FINAL RESTING PLACE?
After the state funeral, the coffin will be taken to Windsor, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) west of London. The queen will be laid to rest in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, within St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, where her mother and father were interred and her sister Princess Margaret’s ashes were placed.
Prince Philip’s coffin, which is currently in St. George’s Chapel’s Royal Vault, is expected to be moved to the memorial chapel to join the queen’s.
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IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — Hand on heart, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watched his country’s flag rise Wednesday above the recaptured city of Izium, making a rare foray outside the capital while highlighting Moscow’s embarrassing retreat from a Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces left the war-scarred city last week as Kyiv’s soldiers pressed a stunning advance that has reclaimed large swaths of territory in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region.
As Zelenskyy looked on and sang the national anthem, the Ukrainian flag was raised in front of the burned-out city hall building. After almost six months under Russian occupation, Izium was left largely devastated, with apartment buildings blackened by fire and pockmarked by artillery strikes.
A gaping hole and piles of rubble stood where one building had collapsed.
“The view is very shocking, but it is not shocking for me,” Zelenskyy said in brief comments to the journalists, “because we began to see the same pictures from Bucha, from the first de-occupied territories … the same destroyed buildings, killed people.”
Bucha is a small city on the outskirts of Kyiv that Russian forces withdrew from in March. In the aftermath, Ukrainian authorities discovered the bodies of hundreds of civilians dumped in streets, yards and mass graves. Many bore signs of torture.
Prosecutors said they so far have found six bodies with traces of torture in recently retaken Kharkiv region villages. The head of the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office, Oleksandr Filchakov, said bodies were found in Hrakove and Zaliznyche, villages around 60 kilometers (35 miles) southeast of Kharkiv city.
“We have a terrible picture of what the occupiers did. … Such cities as Balakliia, Izium, are standing in the same row as Bucha, Borodyanka, Irpin,” said Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin, listing the names of places where the Ukrainians have alleged Russian forces committed atrocities.
Local authorities have made similar claims in other areas previously held by Russia, but it was not immediately possible to verify their information. They have not yet provided evidence of potential atrocities on the scale described in Bucha, where the number and conditions of civilian casualties prompted demands for Russian officials to face war crime charges.
Moscow’s recent rout in northeast Ukraine was its largest military defeat since the withdrawal of Russian troops from areas around Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital. On the northern outskirts of Izium, the remains of Russian tanks and vehicles lay shattered along the road.
As Zelenskyy visited, his forces pressed their counteroffensive, demined liberated territory and investigated possible war crimes. He said that as Ukrainian soldiers retake occupied villages, “the life comes back.”
The Ukrainian governor of the eastern Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said Ukrainian forces were preparing to retake the region, most of which has been under Russian control since July and which borders the Kharkiv region.
He told The Associated Press that Ukrainian guerrilla forces were flying Ukrainian flags in the cities of Svatove and Starobilsk.
But in Kreminna, another city where Ukrainians raised their flag, Russians returned Wednesday and “tore down the (Ukrainian) flags and are demonstrably showing that they’re there,” Haidai said.
A separatist military leader confirmed the Ukrainian advance on the Luhansk region. Andrei Marochko, a local militia officer, said on Russian TV that the situation was “really difficult.”
“In some places, the contact line has come very close to the borders of the Luhansk People’s Republic,” Marochko said, referring to the independent state the separatists declared eight years ago.
U.S. President Joe Biden observed Wednesday that Ukrainian forces have made “significant progress” in recent days but said, “I think it’s going to be a long haul.”
In the wake of the recent gains, a new front line has started to emerge along the Oskil River, which largely traces the eastern edge of the Kharkiv region, a Washington-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, said Wednesday.
“Russian troops are unlikely to be strong enough to prevent further Ukrainian advances along the entire Oskil River because they do not appear to be receiving reinforcements, and Ukrainian troops will likely be able to exploit this weakness to resume the counteroffensive across the Oskil if they choose,” the institute said.
The counteroffensive has also left more weapons in Ukrainian hands.
Russian forces likely left behind dozens of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other heavy weaponry as they fled Ukraine’s advance in the east of the country, a Ukrainian think tank said Wednesday.
The Center for Defense Strategies said one single Russian unit that was around Izium left behind more than three dozen T-80 tanks and about as many infantry fighting vehicles known by the acronym BMP. Another unit left behind 47 tanks and 27 armored vehicles.
The center said Russian forces tried to destroy some of the abandoned vehicles through artillery strikes as they fell back. Typically, armed forces destroy equipment left behind so their opponent can’t use it.
However, the chaos of the Russian withdrawal apparently saw them leave untouched ammunition and weapons behind.
In other areas, Russia continued its attacks, causing the death toll to keep rising in a war that has dragged on for nearly seven months.
Russian shelling of seven Ukrainian regions over the past 24 hours killed at least seven civilians and wounded 22 more, Ukraine’s presidential office reported Wednesday morning.
Two people were killed and three wounded after Russia attacked Mykolaiv with S-300 missiles overnight, said regional governor Vitaliy Kim. Settlements near the front line in Mykolaiv region remain under constant fire.
The Nikopol area, which is across a river from the shut down Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, was shelled three times during the night, but no injuries were immediately reported, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko said.
In the Luhansk region, where some of the Russian troops went after retreating from the Kharkiv region, mobile internet service was down, according to Haidai, and intense shelling of Ukrainian forces continued.
Fighting also raged on in the neighboring Donetsk region, where shelling killed five civilians and wounded 16 more. Together, Luhansk and Donetsk make up the Donbas region.
“Every night in Donbas is restless. The civilians should leave the region. It’s a matter of life and death,” Donetsk governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said.
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Arhirova reported from Kyiva. Associated Press journalist Jon Gambrell in Kyiv contributed.
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South Shore man charged for pickpocketing on CTA
CHICAGO - A South Shore man was charged for pickpocketing people on the CTA over the past two weeks.
Police say Guy Davis, 57, was responsible for several pickpocket thefts that happened from Aug. 29-Sept 3.
The incidents happened at the below locations:
- On Aug. 29 in the 1200 block of West Loyola Avenue; 20-year-old female victim
- On Aug. 31 in the 500 block of North State Street; 25-year-old female victim
- On Sept. 3 in the first block of West Lake Street; 53-year-old female victim
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The offender is also charged with using credit cards belonging to two of the above victims. Davis was arrested on Sept. 12 by the Transit Security Unit in the 100 block of North Wells Street.
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South Shore man charged for pickpocketing on CTA
CHICAGO - A South Shore man was charged for pickpocketing people on the CTA over the past two weeks.
Police say Guy Davis, 57, was responsible for several pickpocket thefts that happened from Aug. 29-Sept 3.
The incidents happened at the below locations:
- On Aug. 29 in the 1200 block of West Loyola Avenue; 20-year-old female victim
- On Aug. 31 in the 500 block of North State Street; 25-year-old female victim
- On Sept. 3 in the first block of West Lake Street; 53-year-old female victim
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The offender is also charged with using credit cards belonging to two of the above victims. Davis was arrested on Sept. 12 by the Transit Security Unit in the 100 block of North Wells Street.
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Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza returning (for good this time) Sept. 15
Taco Bell's Mexican pizza will return as a permanent menu item in September after the food chain severely underestimated demand in a temporary release earlier this year.
The fast food chain brought back the Mexican pizza as a limited time menu item in May, but did not purchase nearly enough supply to meet demand. Taco Bell stated on Twitter that it would have had to purchase seven times more ingredients to meet American's orders.
The item has been off the menu for months but will return as a permanent item on September 15.
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Taco Bell stated in May that it was eyeing the fall of 2022 for the return of Mexican Pizza.
The chain's menu goes through frequent updates and changes, with some customers' favorite menu items becoming unavailable for years.
The fan-favorite Mexican Pizza will make a historic return to Taco Bell later this year. (Taco Bell / Fox News)
Fans of certain items have resorted to extreme measures in hopes that the company will reinstate their favorite items. One man, Krish Jagirdar, started a Change.org petition to bring back Mexican pizza after its 2020 hiatus.
Another fan, Chris Sandberg, created a TikTok challenge where he exercised every day until Taco Bell brought back his favorite menu item, the Grilled Stuft Nacho. It took 480 days and he lost 87 pounds.
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Target releases top toy list for 2022 holiday season
It’s only mid-September, but it’s never too early to get excited about the holiday season.
Target is getting shoppers excited about the holidays with the release of its annual Bullseye’s Top Toys list. Starting in mid-October, the retail giant announced that FAO Schwarz-branded toys will be available at Target stores, Target.com, and FAO Schwarz locations.
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Image of FAO Schwarz ride on train. (Photo courtesy of Target)
Target's new holiday toy collection features over 120 toys ranging in price from $9.99-$149.99, including 50 toys under $20. The retail giant is the latest company to include affordable toys for its new collection. Last month, Walmart released their holiday toy list highlighted by items under $25.
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Image of HarperIman Ashton Doll. (Photo courtesy of Target)
"One of the reasons families love shopping at Target is because of our incredible assortment of toys, and that selection is only getting better with our new exclusive agreement with the beloved FAO Schwarz brand," Jill Sando, executive vice president and chief merchandising officer for Target, said in a statement. From hot new items to time-tested favorites, we’ve curated our annual list of Bullseye’s Top Toys to create an easy, fun and affordable way for guests to find just the right gift for every toy lover on their list. Simply put, there’s only one place parents and gift givers need to shop for toys this holiday season — and that’s Target."
Target’s Top Toys list 2022
Here’s the full list of toys coming soon to stores:
Inspire New Stories
- HarperIman Ashton doll – Exclusive
- Rainbow High Shadow High 4 pack – Exclusive
- Baby Alive Princess Ellie Grows Up! Doll
- Cry Babies First Emotions Dreamy / Cry Babies First Emotions Jassy
- Gabby's Purrfect Dollhouse
- Mermaze Mermaidz Winter Waves Color Change Mermaid Fashion Dolls
- What the Fluff Inspire Imagination
- Bluey Ultimate Lights & Sounds Playhouse with Lucky – Exclusive
- Barbie Vacation House – Exclusive • LEGO Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Exclusive
- Cocomelon Transforming Fire Truck – Exclusive
- Melissa & Doug Fun at the Fair! Game Center Play Tent – Exclusive
- LEGO Harry Potter The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow – Exclusive
- LOL Surprise Sunshine Gurl & Moonlight B.B Mega Family Pack – Exclusive
- Magic Mixies Magical Crystal Ball – Exclusive
- Tonies Peppa Pig Toniebox Starter Set – Exclusive
- Animal Planet Deep Sea Shark Adventure Playset – Exclusive
- Imaginext Jurassic World: Dominion Mega Stomp & Rumble Giga Dinosaur
- MEGA Pokémon Motion Pikachu Mechanized Building Set – 1,092pcs
- LOL Surprise O.M.G. Fashion Show Mega Runway Extreme Surprise Play Set
- World of EPI Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Dolls
- Got2Glow Baby Fairy Finder • Play-Doh Kitchen Creations Ultimate Ice Cream Truck Playset
- Pixobitz Studio
- Spidey and his Amazing Friends Spider Crawl-R 2-in-1 Deluxe Headquarters Playset
- Star Wars L0-LA59 (Lola) Animatronic Edition
- LEGO Friends Olivia Space Academy
Inspire Dreams and Creativity
- OSMO Creative Starter Kit – Exclusive
- FAO Schwarz Makeup Vanity Mirror Set – Exclusive
- FAO Schwarz Style Runway 4-Sided Fashion Show Playset – Exclusive
- Our Generation Hair Salon Playset
- PAW Patrol Cat Pack Playset – Exclusive
- Fisher-Price DJ Bouncin' Beats Interactive Musical Learning Toy
- Kinetic Sand Swirl N' Surprise
- 5 Surprise Disney Store Mini Brands Toy Store Playset
- PAW Patrol Big Truck Pups Truck Stop Headquarters Transforming Playset
- Cool Maker Stitch 'N Style Fashion Studio Sewing Machine
- LEGO Succulents – Exclusive
Inspire Active Play
- FAO Schwarz Ride On Train – Exclusive
- Hot Wheels Mario Kart Rainbow Road Raceway Track Set
- Target Toy Shopping Cart – Exclusive
- Monster Jam Monster Garage Playset
- NERF Elite 2.0 Motoblitz CS 10 Blaster
- Pop It Pro
- Chuckle and Roar Mini Golf Play Set – Exclusive
Inspire Fun Family Moments
- Yahtzee Frenzy – Exclusive
- Hand to Hand Wombat
Inspire Future Gamers
- Jurassic World: Dominion Epic Battle Pack Figure Set – Exclusive
- Beyblade Burst QuadDrive Collision Nebula Battle Set – Exclusive
- Bakugan Genesis Collection Pack
- Legends of Akedo Powerstorm Triple Strike Tag Team Arena
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'The Woman King' star Viola Davis on surviving in Hollywood: 'You gotta honor yourself'
CHICAGO - Oscar-Winner Viola Davis is earning rave reviews once again for her performance in the new movie "The Woman King," hitting theaters on Friday.
Davis plays the leader of the Agojie, a real life all-female fighting unit that protected the kingdom of Dohomey in West African in the 1800s.
The legendary actress sat down to talk with FOX 32 Entertainment Reporter Jake Hamilton about the comparisons between surviving the brutal on-screen battles…and surviving in Hollywood.
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"In order to survive in this business, you have to have a love affair with the work," Davis said. "Most people who enter this business – they don’t want to be an actor, they want to be a famous actor. That’s going to kill you."
The Oscar-winner added "You gotta honor yourself – in all of it.
"You have to be you – and you have to understand that you is enough."
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BOSTON (AP) — It’s a rare thing for a Red Sox fan to cheer for a member of the New York Yankees.
Aaron Judge caused some of Boston’s faithful to make an exception on his latest visit to Fenway Park
Judge hit his major league-leading 56th and 57th home runs, Gleyber Torres had a go-ahead three-run double in the 10th inning and the Yankees held on to beat the Red Sox 7-6 on Tuesday night.
Playing in New York’s 142nd game, the Yankees slugger’s second drive of the night brought fans from both sides of the rivalry to their feet in applause as he moved four from tying the American League home run record Roger Maris set with the Yankees in 1961.
“(Red Sox fans) were wearing me out on deck, I don’t know if they were cheering or not,” Judge said. “They were wearing me out. But nah, it’s all of baseball fans. Just fans all over. Red Sox, Yankees — it doesn’t matter. They came here to see a good game and to see a show. Both teams I think put on a good show for them.”
After going homerless in five games, Judge had a pair of of tying solo homers, off Nick Pivetta in the sixth and Garrett Whitlock in the eighth.
“I’m out of adjectives,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Just really impressive what he did.”
Judge has 10 multi-homer games this season, one shy of the AL record Hank Greenberg set in 1938, and 26 in his career. Judge’s three hits raised his average to .310, and he leads the major leagues in home runs and with 123 RBIs. Judge has a 1.105 OPS this season and 32 RBIs in his last 38 games.
Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber is second in the major leagues with 37 homers, making this the first time a player finished a day with a 20-homer lead since the final day of the 1928 season, when Babe Ruth was 23 ahead of Jim Bottomley and Hack Wilson, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
New York, which came from behind three times, reopened a six-game AL East lead, its largest since Sept. 1.
Torres broke a 4-4 tie in the 10th against Jeurys Familia (2-3). He has eight RBIs in his last three games after getting just three in his previous 14.
“I was telling myself: ‘Just be simple. Hit the ball the other way because I know second base is in the shift,'” Torres said. “Don’t try to do too much, just put the ball in play.”
Clay Holmes (6-3) hit Reese McGuire with a pitch and got one out in the 10th, and Alex Verdugo had an RBI single that put runners at the corners.
Xander Bogaerts popped out to shallow left, and Peralta bounced a fastball for a run-scoring wild pitch. Wandy Peralta struck out Devers on the seventh pitch of the at-bat, his first slider of the night, for his fourth save.
“It’s been like that the whole season, you know? The guys are putting in effort, putting good at-bats but we haven’t been able to put them away,” Red Sox manager Alex Cora said.
Rookie Triston Casas, McGuire and Bogaerts homered for Boston, which has lost eight of 14 to the Yankees this season.
Marwin Gonzalez hit the first of three tying homers for New York, a two-run drive in the third.
Pivetta allowed three runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings, walked two and struck out five.
New York’s Gerrit Cole struck out 10 over six innings, but was tagged for all three of Boston’s home runs over six innings.
Casas hit his first home run at Fenway Park, and McGuire hit his first home run this season.
Cole called what everyone is getting to witness with Judge “special.”
“I feel very fortunate to be able to play on the same team with him,” Cole said. “It’s one of the most historic offensive seasons of all-time. … I’m humbled to be a part of it.”
BACK IN
Aaron Hicks pinch hit for Jose Trevino to open the 10th and drew a walk in Hicks’ first appearance since he was pulled midgame of the the Yankees loss Friday to Tampa Bay.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Yankees: Anthony Rizzo (headaches from epidural injection) took some swings during batting practice and could return for New York’s next series at Milwaukee, or at home next week when the Yankees host Pittsburgh. … LHP Aroldis Chapman (infected wound) pitched an inning in a rehab appearance for Double-A Somerset, giving up a hit, with two strikeouts and a walk. CF Harrison Bader (planter fasciitis in right foot) went hitless in three at bats and struck out twice.
Red Sox: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (right shoulder inflammation) threw batting practice. He has been on the injured list since Aug. 19.
MAKING MOVES
Yankees IF/OF Tyler Wade was at Fenway on Tuesday as part of the taxi squad. . … OF Jasson Dominguez was promoted to Double-A Somerset and went 0 for 5. He hit .306 with six homers, 22 RBIs and 17 steals in 40 games at High-A Hudson Valley. The 19-year-old started the season at Class A Tampa.
UP NEXT
Yankees LHP Nestor Cortes (9-4, 7.73 ERA) will make his 25th start of the season. He is 4-3 with a 3.72 ERA over his last 14 starts. Red Sox rookie RHP Bryan Bello (1-5-5.79) will make his first career appearance against New York. He has a 3.55 ERA in his last six outings, including four starts.
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Preseason rest appeared to lead to a little bit of rust in Week 1 for several of the NFL’s top quarterbacks.
More than one-third of the league’s Week 1 starting quarterbacks didn’t play a single snap in the preseason and most of those 11 QBs didn’t play anywhere close to their usual form.
Whether the poor results were a result of rust or other factors isn’t clear but the poor results are. The only QBs to rest the entire preseason and end up on the winning side in Week 1 were Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins, Justin Herbert of the Chargers and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson.
Cousins and Herbert bested two other quarterbacks who rested with the Vikings beating Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay and the Chargers knocking off Derek Carr and the Raiders.
The other resting QBs who lost in Week 1 were Matthew Stafford of the Rams, Arizona’s Kyler Murray, Dallas’ Dak Prescott, Denver’s Russell Wilson, Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Tennessee’s Ryan Tannehill.
The 11 QBs combined for an 86.1 passer rating, 6.9 yards per attempt and a touchdown to interception ratio of 1.38. Those were steep drop-offs from 2021 numbers when those QBs posted a 100.4 rating, averaged 7.7 yards per attempt and had a 2.65 TD to INT ratio.
The rough openers from many of the league’s top passers led to a downturn in scoring across the league with the 42.1 combined points per game in Week 1 down from 48 last season and the lowest for Week 1 since 2017, when teams combined for 40.4 points per game.
SUPER BOWL HANGOVER
The Super Bowl teams from last season got off to a not-so-super start to 2022.
The defending champion Los Angeles Rams lost the opener 31-10 to Buffalo and the runner-up Cincinnati Bengals fell 23-20 in overtime to Pittsburgh.
It marked the first time since 1999 when Denver and Atlanta both lost the opener that the two Super Bowl teams began the next season 0-1.
The only other times that happened were: 1996 (Dallas and Pittsburgh), 1988 (Washington and Denver) and 1985 (San Francisco and Miami).
TURNAROUND TEAMS
There were six Week 1 matchups between teams that made the postseason in 2021 and teams that missed the playoffs last season.
Surprisingly, five of those non-playoff teams came out of Week 1 as winners with the New York Giants beating Tennessee, Minnesota topping Green Bay, the Chargers knocking off Las Vegas, Miami beating New England and Chicago toppling San Francisco.
Only Philadelphia ended up on the winning side in that group, beating Detroit 38-35.
The five wins by teams that didn’t make the playoffs the previous seasons against returning playoff teams were the most in Week 1 since it happened seven times in 2005.
WINNING TIME
The Giants comeback win at Tennessee left New York in unfamiliar territory.
For the first time since the end of the 2016 season, the Giants have a winning record. They had lost the opener each season since then and never recovered as their 22-59 record (.272 winning percentage) was tied with the Jets for the worst in the NFL from 2017-21.
Cleveland also did something new, beating Carolina 26-24 to win the season opener for the first time since 2004. The Browns were 0-16-1 in Week 1 from 2005-21 — the longest Week 1 winless streak in NFL history.
Indianapolis ended an eight-year Week 1 losing streak with a 20-20 tie at Houston. But the Colts’ nine straight openers without a win are now tied with Washington (1959-67) and Philadelphia (1968-1976) for the second longest streak in NFL history.
CLOSE CALLS
The bizarre ending to Denver’s 17-16 loss at Seattle on Monday night was the seventh game decided by three points or fewer last week, including the Indianapolis-Houston tie.
That’s the most Week 1 games ever decided by three points or fewer, topping the six close games done five times previously — most recently in 2016.
Five games were decided by a game-winning score in the final 2 minutes of regulation or in overtime, the most in Week 1 since there were six in 2002.
Indianapolis (17-point deficit), New Orleans (16), the Giants (13) and Chicago (10) all overcame double-digit deficits to win or tie, the most double-digit comebacks in Week 1 since there were five in 2002.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Sargent is back on the U.S. roster for the first time in a year, picked at forward along with Ricardo Pepi and Jesús Ferreira for the Americans’ final two World Cup warmup matches.
Defenders Sergiño Dest, Chris Richards and Sam Vines, and winger Gio Reyna also were among 26 players selected Wednesday by coach Gregg Berhalter after missing the four previous matches in May and June.
The 13th-ranked Americans play No. 23 Japan on Sept. 23 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and 53rd-ranked Saudi Arabia four days later in Murcia, Spain. Berhalter plans to announce his 26-man World Cup roster on Nov. 9, 12 days before the Americans’ opener at the tournament in Qatar.
Six players from the late spring games were dropped: defenders George Bello, Erik Palmer-Brown and Antonee Robinson, midfielder Cristian Roldan, winger Tim Weah and forward Haji Wright.
Robinson, Roldan, Weah and goalkeeper Zack Steffen have been sidelined by injuries. Steffen withdrew from the spring roster for family reasons.
Among the notable omissions were defenders John Brooks, Tim Ream and Shaq Moore, midfielder/defender James Sands, midfielder Djordje Mihailovic and forwards Jordan Pefok and Brandon Vazquez.
Back in the World Cup after missing the 2018 tournament, the U.S. opens against 20th-ranked Wales on Nov. 21, plays No. 5 England in a Black Friday matchup four days later and closes group play on Nov. 29 against 21st-ranked Iran.
Sargent appeared in the first three qualifiers last September but was dropped by the U.S. during a scoring slump at Norwich, which was relegated from the Premier League to England’s second tier. He has revived his play this season, scoring five goals in his last five matches going into Wednesday night’s game.
Ferreira is fourth in Major League Soccer with 18 goals for Dallas, but Pepi is scoreless in 30 games for club and country since he got two goals in a qualifier against Jamaica on Oct. 7. He had an assist last weekend in his debut for Groningen following a loan from Augsburg.
Injuries and lack of playing time remain a concern.
Central defender Miles Robinson will miss the tournament after tearing his left ACL on May 7. Weah has not played in the French league this season because of a foot injury. Steffen has been out since Aug. 20 due to a knee injury, and Roldan has been sidelined by a groin injury since Aug. 23. Left back Antonee Robinson hurt his right ankle on Sept. 3.
Goalkeeper Matt Turner has played just once this season at Arsenal, where he is Aaron Ramsdale’s backup. Christian Pulisic has one start this season for Chelsea, and Luca de la Torre has played just 12 minutes over two games in his first season with Celta Vigo.
Reyna, coming back from leg injuries that decimated his 2021-22 season, has been limited to four second-half substitute appearances since April 8 and Dest to one since April 24.
Berhalter’s roster will average 24 years, 201 days as of the start of training on Monday. Nine players have changed clubs in recent months. Eight players are from MLS, nine based in Europe and nine in England and Scotland.
The roster:
Goalkeepers: Ethan Horvath (Luton Town, England), Sean Johnson (New York City), Matt Turner (Arsenal, England)
Defenders: Reggie Cannon (Boavista, Portugal), Cameron Carter-Vickers (Glasgow Celtic, Scotland), Sergiño Dest (AC Milan, Italy), Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace, England), Joe Scally (Borussia Mönchengladbach, Germany), Sam Vines (Royal Antwerp, Belgium), DeAndre Yedlin (Miami), Walker Zimmerman (Nashville)
Midfielders: Kellyn Acosta (Los Angeles), Tyler Adams (Leeds, England), Luca de la Torre (Celta Vigo, Spain), Weston McKennie (Juventus, Italy), Yunus Musah (Valencia, Spain), Malik Tillman (Glasgow Rangers, Scotland)
Forwards: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds, England), Paul Arriola (Dallas), Jesús Ferreira (Dallas), Jordan Morris (Seattle), Ricardo Pepi (Groningen, Netherlands), Christian Pulisic (Chelsea, England), Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund, Germany), Josh Sargent (Norwich, England).
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HONG KONG (AP) — China’s second largest gaming firm NetEase has received its first online game license in over a year in a possible sign Beijing is gradually easing a crackdown on the industry.
The National Press and Publication Administration, which issues licenses for video games, on Tuesday published a list of approvals for 73 games, including a mobile game by NetEase called “All-Star Street Ball Party.”
In August 2021, regulators stopped issuing gaming licenses as they tightened restrictions on the tech industry. They resumed approvals in April. Tencent, the country’s biggest gaming company, has not gotten any games approved since then.
However, Nanjing Wangdian Technology, a subsidiary of Tencent, got a license for a health-education mobile game called “Defense of Health.” Tencent first unveiled plans to launch this game in May 2021. But such educational games typically are less lucrative than commercial mobile games.
In cracking down on the technology industry, Beijing implemented a raft of new regulations for online education, e-commerce, online gaming and financial technology.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – A live chat is being hosted at The Big E fair with astronauts on the International Space Station.
Students from New England Sci-Tech of Natick will have a “Space Chat” with Amateur (Ham) Radio Operators. This event allows 13 students from Sci-Tech of Natick to talk to an astronaut on the ISS as it orbits 260 miles above the earth, traveling at 17,500 miles per hour.
A specific date and time will be determined by NASA and is expected to be between September 27-29. The date and time will be announced on The Big E website.
A short program will start to explain the role that space agencies around the world have in making astronaut contact experiences happen, and the use of Amateur Radio to make the contact possible. After the introduction program, students will be allowed to ask the astronaut questions aboard the ISS.
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With Pearl and X, Mia Goth Discovers Newfound Confidence
At the end of 2020, Mia Goth was in New Zealand throwing herself into one of the most intense experiences of her acting career. Making Ti West’s horror movie, X, she played dual roles—one of which required her to spend 12 hours getting prosthetics applied so she could embody a vengeful, decrepit woman named Pearl. As soon as that wrapped, she had one day off, then went straight into dance rehearsals for its prequel, Pearl, which she co-wrote with West. (Why dance? In Pearl, her character is an aspiring chorus girl in 1919.) Goth tells me she relished all the work.
“Every time you’re able to go off and make a movie somewhere, it’s such a sacred time. Why wouldn’t you want to give your all to it?” she says when we talk on the phone.
Nearly two years later, she’s seeing the results of all that effort. X premiered at SXSW, and now, Pearl is touring another festival circuit with stops in Venice and Toronto. Goth calls me just hours after she lands in the Canadian city, her baby nearby, the infant’s coos echoing through the speaker. (In the midst of releasing two movies in 2022, she also had her first child with Shia LaBeouf, who she’s been with on and off since 2012.) “It’s been the best year of my life,” she says. “On every front, it’s been such a celebration.”
Since her film debut in Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac in 2013, Goth has been quietly building one of the most eclectic, exciting careers in Hollywood. She worked with Claire Denis in High Life and Luca Guadagnino in Suspiria, putting herself at the center of dark, boundary-pushing films, but later proved she could be charmingly funny in the 2020 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. But Pearl is her first leading role to date—and it’s one that she had a hand in creating. She makes her screenwriting debut with the serial killer origin story as well.
Whereas in X, Pearl is a horny old murderer longing for human touch and willing to brutally kill anyone who tempts or denies her, in Pearl, she’s a fresh-faced, farm-girl rebel balking at her mother’s rules. Pearl dreams of being in the pictures, but her husband’s fighting in the Great War and her strict mom is worried about the influenza pandemic. (The parallels between Covid times and Pearl’s world are not even a little bit subtle in the film.) But in addition to being ambitious, Pearl is also a bit unhinged. In the opening moments, she casually kills a goose with a pitchfork and feeds it to an alligator in a lake. When she encounters a scarecrow in a cornfield, she launches into a fantasy that ends with her humping the dummy.
Goth was about six weeks into prepping for the 1970s-set X, in which she plays an aspiring porn star in addition to the villain, when she got a text from West explaining that he had a prequel in mind. They began FaceTiming almost every night, discussing their ideas. “It snowballed and became truly one of the most creatively fulfilling experiences of my life,” she says. Those experiences aren’t slated to stop anytime soon: The next project she’s working on with West was announced during Pearl’s TIFF premiere: A sequel to X called MaXXXine, where she will be back as the final girl whose main goal is stardom.
For X, Goth says was shocked when West asked her to contribute to the screenplay, having never considered it before occasional rewrites on scripts that had already been handed to her. While West focused on Pearl’s environment—he shoots it like a Technicolor so it resembles a 1950s melodrama—Goth was able to dig into her character. She looked to Björk's turn in von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark and Bette Davis’s faded star in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? for inspiration.
After a discussion about Michael Fassbender’s extended monologue in Steve McQueen’s Hunger, she and West decided to write a version of their own for Pearl, where she confesses her misdeeds and her fears to her agog sister-in-law. Goth wanted the audience to see how vulnerable Pearl is, even while she’s murdering people willy-nilly. It’s a tour de force moment in Goth’s performance, the mania creeping into her face as her honesty becomes more horrifying. “I was really terrified to shoot that, because I never went to film school,” she says. “I didn’t have any tools to gear myself up to something like that.” West decided to schedule the scene for the end of the shoot. “That was a great move, because the emotional turbulence Pearl had gone through up until that point, and the intensity of what that shoot required from everyone, helped and informed the monologue that that came that day,” she explains.
As we reach the end of our conversation, Goth’s baby starts to vocalize, and she needs to step away from the phone for a moment, somewhat awkwardly, after I ask her a question about how she thinks about her character’s sexuality. It’s a topic Goth has been exploring since her debut, and she says she’s never been intimidated by doing so. She sees it as another way of deepening the portraits she’s creating. “I wanted to use the sexuality that’s portrayed in the film to humanize these characters,” she explains.
She’s always been fearless, but Pearl and X have given Goth a newfound confidence. She wants to be involved with projects from their inception, whether by writing or producing. She loves the “traveling circus” aspect of working on a movie, but is ready to assert herself more. “I was always quite chronically shy, and felt just happy to be on set or grateful to be there,” she says. She takes a long pause as searches for the right words. “I think Pearl has given me a new sense of self.” | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/mia-goth-pearl-x-maxxxine-movie-interview-2022 | 2022-09-14T17:23:54Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/mia-goth-pearl-x-maxxxine-movie-interview-2022 | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
MIAMI, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 777 Partners, a Miami-based alternative investment firm, has entered into an agreement to acquire a 40% stake in United Star Software Limited ("USG"), a Dublin based aggregator of regional software development groups in Central & Eastern Europe.
USG was founded in 2022 by Tomaž Sešek (an industry veteran with over 30 years of operational and consulting experience in the management of technology companies and software development across firms such as Adacta, SRC and Stern Stewart) & Ivan Bajic (an M&A and Investments specialist with a successful career across several leading institutions, including Glencore, ING, Deloitte and RBI). USG will work with public and private sector clients on highly complex custom software development and agile solutions. 777 Partners will partner with USG's management team in creating a global digital engineering champion, which aims to achieve sustainable growth by pursuing M&A, developing the current service offering and technical depth while building a deep-rooted presence and leadership positions across international markets.
"We're thrilled about what this strategic growth investment means for the platform and its clients. USG is well positioned to benefit from digitalisation and automation tailwinds and we look forward to working with management in realising their ambitious goals," said Josh Wander.
"We are very excited to be partnering with 777 Partners in building a unique global digital transformation platform. As digital transformation continues to become an ever more important driver of business growth across all industries, we will be acquiring world's best software development companies to support clients on their digitalisation paths to unlock their full potential," said Co-CEOs Ivan Bajic & Tomaž Sešek.
777 Partners has built a robust portfolio in the technology industry, focusing on undervalued businesses with best-in-class solutions, large addressable markets and management teams with industry and execution depth. Investments include AeroCRS, Air Black Box, ata football, Buff Dubs, ClaimRuler, DAMsmart, Ensurem, Fanatiz, Liquid Light, Nunchee, Synchrono Group, Uown, World Ticket.
The investment was led by Josh Wander and Steve Pasko, the founders of 777 Partners.
About 777 Partners:
777 Partners is a Miami-based alternative investment firm that invests across a number of high growth attractive verticals. Founded in 2015, 777 Partners strategically invests across seven broad industries / strategies: insurance; consumer and commercial finance; litigation finance; direct lending; sports, media and entertainment; aviation; and special opportunities. The firm seeks to acquire and build operating businesses that generate long-term, high quality predictable cash flows for its proprietary balance sheet, while consolidating operations across like businesses to create efficiencies and economies of scale. 777 Partners invests at all stages of the business cycle and targets companies accretive to its existing portfolio.
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Prince William and Princess Kate Unite with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Once Again as the Queen’s Casket Arrives in London
The Queen’s coffin arrived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, completing its journey from Scotland to London. Upon arrival, it was greeted by members of her surviving family, including King Charles III, the newly-appointed Prince and Princes of Wales, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
On Wednesday, the Queen was ceremoniously processed from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, where she will lie until her funeral on Monday, the 19th. Kate, William, Harry, and Meghan all stood solemnly during the processional, Kate and Meghan both dressed in black coats for the occasion, each wearing black hats with fishnet veils covering their eyes. They both paid tribute to the Queen in a small way with their accessories. Meghan wore a pair of pearl and diamond drop earrings gifted to her by the late monarch during their first outing together back in 2018, a month after her wedding to Prince Harry, according to People. Kate, meanwhile, pinned a pearl shamrock brooch on her jacket, a piece that previously belonged to the Queen.
Prince William wore his military uniform to the event, while his brother opted for a morning suit, as a dress code limited the uniforms to working members of the royal family, according to People. Harry did, however, decorate his suit with military medals, with a spokesperson for the Prince saying, "His decade of military service is not determined by the uniform he wears.” The brothers walked with the casket to Westminster Hall for a short service led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, while their wives rode in a car.
The death of the Queen has brought Harry, Meghan, William, and Kate together for the first time since March 2020. They first united on September 10th to greet mourners outside Windsor Castle together. According to Kensington Palace, it was William who extended this invitation to his brother and sister-in-law. Likely, they will continue this show of unity as they attend more events in honor of the Queen over the next few days. | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/prince-william-princess-kate-prince-harry-meghan-markle-queens-casket-procession | 2022-09-14T17:24:00Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/prince-william-princess-kate-prince-harry-meghan-markle-queens-casket-procession | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 5WPR, one of the largest independently-owned PR firms in the U.S., announces today it has been selected as the public relations Agency of Record for the world's largest air passenger rights advocate, AirHelp.
5W leads AirHelp's media relations strategy, aiming to raise awareness for the advocacy of air passenger rights and grow the brand's presence within the US market. By fostering relationships with media across travel, business, lifestyle, and regional outlets, 5W will insert thought leadership commentary into larger travel narratives and policy discussions. Focusing on topics specifically concerning flight disruptions, passenger rights, and flight compensation owed, 5W will use AirHelp's proprietary data to further credibility and cement their position as a leader in the industry.
"Considering the increased attention on travelers' rights following USDOT's proposal for strengthened airline compensation, we are excited for our partnership with AirHelp," said 5WPR CEO, Matthew Caiola. "5WPR's Consumer Tech team is well-experienced in pushing narratives forward throughout the media landscape, and we are confident that AirHelp's voice and advocacy will be amplified in the national conversation."
"The travel industry has seen, and continues to see, heightened focus on air passenger rights. Every year, around 10 million passengers are entitled to receive flight disruption compensation, yet 85% of all travelers don't know their rights – and only 55% will file for compensation, even when they know they are entitled to it," says Mira Poreba, Senior PR Manager, AirHelp. "There is a lot to do in terms of education and communication, which is why we chose to work with 5WPR – we need the best partners."
5W's Consumer Tech PR team is in-the-know, up to date on trends, industry norms, benchmarks, and history in the space. 5W has developed trusted connections in the media, which has a range of advantages for clients that gives a leg up on competition. These relationships have led to placements in top media across broadcast, print and digital, and billions of impressions.
Since 2013 AirHelp has grown into the world's largest air passenger rights advocate. We've helped countless through our fight for justice. We're continually investing in data and cutting-edge technology to power our easy-to-use website and make our customers' claims even smoother. We speak 17 languages, and our global staff of over 350 includes the world's largest team of lawyers specialized in air passenger rights. Combined with local knowledge from a network of partners across 30 countries, we are uniquely placed to help air passengers all around the world.
5W Public Relations is a full-service PR agency in NYC known for cutting-edge programs that engage with businesses, issues and ideas. With more than 275 professionals serving clients in B2C (Beauty & Fashion, Consumer Brands, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Travel & Hospitality, Technology, Nonprofit), B2B (Corporate Communications and Reputation Management), Public Affairs, Crisis Communications and Digital Marketing (Social Media, Influencer, Paid Media, SEO). 5W was named to Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces 2022 list, awarded 2020 PR Agency of The Year, and brings leading businesses a resourceful, bold and results-driven approach to communication.
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Dua Lipa Fuses Goth With Glamour
After about a month off from her Future Nostalgia tour during which she deservedly took a vacation, celebrated her birthday, attended a wedding, and managed to continue serving looks through it all, Lipa is back to work, and picking up in Latin America. While hitting the stage every night in Brazil and Argentina, the singer has been donning the sparkly bodysuits that have become her concert signature. So, it makes sense that, when she’s not on stage, she’s keeping it more casual these days. Of course, this is Lipa we’re talking about, and she has a slightly different definition of that word than the rest of us.
On Tuesday, ahead of her first of two concerts in Buenos Aires, the artist took to Instagram to pump up her fans, and show of photos of her exploring the city, as well as the looks she wore to do so. The first ensemble in her post features an expert mix of glam and goth. Lipa contrasted a blue, sequin-covered mini skirt she could have easily worn onstage with a Carrie-themed sweatshirt, featuring a tiara dripping with blood. She then accessorized the pieces with leather Versace cowboy boots, a brown leather shoulder bag and some red sunglasses worn on her head.
Her other look had a bit more cohesion, helped by the fact that all the pieces are by Bottega Veneta. Lipa started with Matthieu Blazy’s popular trompe l'oeil leather denim pants, and paired them with a cotton rib tank from the brand. She then topped the simple base with a butter yellow leather shirt. Barolo-hued accessories—croc leather pumps and Bottega’s new Kalimero bag—completed the look, along with mismatched earrings by Eéra.
The two ensembles show off Lipa’s style range, from edgy glam to classic lines, a switch she can make in the matter of days. Likely, we will be getting more of these off-duty looks from the singer as she continues her tour in Latin America, exploring the cities she stops in on the way.
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Kaia Gerber and Cindy Crawford Show Off Their Own Style
The spring 2023 season of New York Fashion Week has been in full swing—though for once, it’s possible that Kaia Gerber doesn’t know it. In fact, unless she shows up today, the newly 21-year-old model will have skipped out NYFW altogether.
Is Gerber pulling a Kendall Jenner and distancing herself from the catwalk? Likely not; it seems like she actually wants to just spend some quality time with Cindy Crawford, her supermodel mom. They’ve spent the past week or so traipsing around the west coast, most recently heading to Los Angeles to celebrate British Vogue editor-in-chief Edward Enninful’s new memoir, A Visible Man.
Rather than coordinate, Gerber and Crawford showcased their differing personal styles. The former was the latest to champion Nensi Dojaka, who’s become one of the biggest designers of the year since winning the prestigious LVMH Prize in 2021. She went with a black semi-sheer minidress, while her mom was in a burnt orange leather skirt and matching draped halter top.
The outing was most definitely different than their last. Gerber and Crawford celebrated the former’s 21st birthday by heading into the desert for Burning Man, where they spent time with fellow top model Karlie Kloss. “We’re so fortunate to go with experienced ‘burners’ who took us under their wings and showed us the ropes,” Crawford captioned her dispatch on Instagram. “It was everything I hoped it would be and so much more. The surreal ruggedness and inspiring beauty of the playa enabled me to reconnect to my maiden self— adventurous, fun, curious and carefree. Sometimes the roles we play in ‘real’ life disconnect us from our most joyous selves and only when we are so far out of our comfort zone, we have no other choice but to look within.”
If you’ve been missing Gerber on the runways, fret not: She’ll no doubt return to the catwalk in London, Milan, and/or Paris in the weeks to come. | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/kaia-gerber-cindy-crawford-fashion-week-burning-man | 2022-09-14T17:24:13Z | wmagazine.com | control | https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/kaia-gerber-cindy-crawford-fashion-week-burning-man | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a way to improve sighting and accuracy for archery hunters using a compound bow," said an inventor, from Elizabeth City, N.C., "so I invented the OFFSET PEEP SIGHT. My lightweight design would not have any adverse effects to the compound bow gear."
The invention provides a specially-designed peep sight for a compound bow. In doing so, it offers archery enthusiasts with a precision sighting optic. As a result, it could increase accuracy. The invention features a lightweight and durable design that is easy to install and use so it is ideal for archery enthusiasts, hunters, target shooters, etc. Additionally, it can be easily applied to the strings without a bow press and a prototype is available.
The original design was submitted to the National sales office of InventHelp. It is currently available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 20-RKH-163, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp's Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Clean Juice Provides Community with Organic High-End, Premium Juices, Smoothies, Bowls & Bites
NEW HUDSON, Mich., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- New Hudson residents now have a new go-to spot to boost their immune system, cleanse and eat and drink purely natural. Clean Juice, the original USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise, has opened its newest location at 30785 Milford Rd. on September 10.
To celebrate the New Hudson location, Clean Juice is hosting a grand opening on September 17 and will be offering free juice for a year for the first 50 customers, buy-one get-one free smoothies, complimentary smoothies for kids and a wheel to spin for prizes.
The New Hudson fast-casual juice bar is owned and operated by local residents and married couple Jill and Scott Minke. Jill has a background in the education system and has always had a passion for living healthy. Jill and Scott have made a diligent effort to find delicious and healthy food for their two daughters over the years. In 2019, the family came across a Clean Juice location in Ohio and instantly fell in love.
"Clean Juice provides the New Hudson area a fast and healthy option where people are able to try a variety of great tasting menu items," said Jill. "Our family fell in love when we first tried Clean Juice, and we are so excited to bring this kind of concept to the New Hudson area."
Minke's family believes in the core values of Clean Juice and want to encourage others to pursue a healthy and clean lifestyle. That is why bringing this new franchise to New Hudson was really important, to bring that level of a clean lifestyle close to home.
As the original USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise with over 130 open stores nationwide, Clean Juice sources only the highest-quality, premium ingredients for its cold-pressed juices, smoothies, açaí and Greenoa Bowls, toasts, wraps and more. Clean Juice aims to provide the perfect nutrition that comes only from organic food. Made fresh daily, Clean Juice has 10 heavily-dense nutrient cold-pressed juices made daily, which are made non-pasteurized and without heat, resulting in no enzymes being damaged. Also known for its dozens of superfood add-ons, Clean Juice offers fresh, organic spices that can be added to smoothies and juices for added health benefits.
For more information about the Clean Juice opening in New Hudson, please visit www.cleanjuice.com or call (248) 264-6288.
While the concept of juicing has been around since the 1970s, co-founders Landon and Kat Eckles discovered a market need for an all-organic juice bar and healthier fast-food options. With no existing concept, they created their own store in Charlotte, N.C. that ultimately led to franchising and a mission to provide communities with a healthy and delicious organic product. Since June 2016, the company has sold over 140 franchises in 23 states.
About Clean Juice
Realizing the importance of an organic, plant-based diet, co-founders Landon and Kat Eckles started Clean Juice in 2016 as the first and only USDA-certified organic juice bar franchise. Rooted in "healthy body and a strong spirit" (3 John 1-2) scripture, Clean Juice offers organic açaí bowls, cold-pressed juices, smoothies, and other healthy food to on-the-go families in a warm and welcoming retail experience across the nation. The brand has more than 130 locations across the country. For more information about Clean Juice, its leadership team and its core values, please visit www.cleanjuice.com and for franchise opportunities, please visit www.cleanjuicefranchising.com.
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Cause it’s a bitter sweet symphony, that’s life
Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, then you die
I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
Where all the veins meet, yeah
—The Verve
The best day of summer was the Sunday Cory and I nibbled mushrooms and spent hours lolling in a river as warm as bathwater. Lying there staring at the robin egg sky as water currents tickled my skin, I laughed until I cried. It felt like I had been born in that river. As if Earth itself had quaked and shifted, pushing me from deep inside its core in a birth gush of freshwater.
I slipped the straps of my faded Target swimsuit down my arms and pushed it downward, shimmying out of it. I dangled the dripping suit enticingly toward Cory, who was watching me from a rock on the shore, and then sank back down, letting the welcoming water consume me.
This is how it’s supposed to be, I thought. This feels so right.
We swam, we snacked, we joked and laughed. I wrapped my arms and legs around Cory’s slender body like an overgrown koala, and he waded around as the water streamed around our bodies, and we talked our talk. Alan Watts, the universe, time, metaphysics and meaning of life jazz. What it all means, who we were and are, who we want to be, and who we don’t want to be.
“I don’t want a funeral and no grave!” I tell him at one point. “Cremate my body and pick it up from the place in a brown paper sack or a shoebox. Nothing expensive. The funeral industry is a racket. You can do what you want with the ashes. Plant a tree, put me in a necklace, sprinkle me on popcorn, I don’t care. No official memorial! Have a party if you want. Play music I like, get drunk and tell funny stories about me maybe and that’s it. No formal shit. Pinky swear!”
Me, the loud one. Wildly gesticulating as I perform my tales and try to get my favorite to laugh. Him listening to my stories and theories, casually slinging brilliant observations and hilarious asides that are far more intriguing than my bullshit, loud-talking entertainment. After six years of our brand of jive, his humor and smarts still take me by surprise and make me want to hold his head between my palms and suck on his lips.
I like the way you experience the world, best friend.
Later, we lazily watched violet thunderclouds crash our technicolor universe. They moved slowly down the valley dragging a thick curtain of rain that transformed greens and blues into gray as it swallowed the summer day.
We crouched low in the water, only eyes and foreheads above the surface like hungry alligators, as raindrops spattered around us, slow at first, then faster and faster. We dared each other to stay hunkered in the river as the storm roared overhead and stayed like that, giggling like misbehaving kids, until thunder groaned, and the steely sky winked a promise of lightning. It began to rain so hard I had to shout at Cory to be heard, as we gave up and stumbled over slippery river rocks toward the safety of our car.
“Is it hailing?” I shrieked with laughter.
Getting caught in that storm with Cory felt more right than any day of work I’ve experienced in years, maybe ever.
A memory I hope flashes in my mind’s eye as I die.
*****
What if I just stopped doing all this shit, I sometimes think. Quit making meals and washing everyone’s clothes. No more keeping on top of grocery inventory like a frenzied restaurant owner, invisibly restocking the fridge and cupboards with everyone’s favorites. They don’t notice. All they know is a Twinkie is there when they want one. What if I stopped scrubbing the gag-inducing orangey piss buildup around the toilets? No more monitoring bathroom mirrors for tiny white flecks courtesy of enthusiastic brushers. Or zit poppers.
Hold on, I’ve got a Zoom meeting.
What if I stopped pulling discarded socks coated with so much dog hair, they look like they’re wearing tiny fur coats from under couches and beds?
Wait up. Gotta delete seven more work emails that don’t pertain to me, even though they infiltrate my inbox every, single, day.
What if I stopped rinsing out sinks shellacked in toothpaste after kids brushing their teeth leave unsightly turquoise globs that harden into cement if you don’t tackle them on the soon side?
Another Zoom meeting that could’ve been an email. Need to field these two Slack messages, one asking me if I can jump on a call for a “quick chat.”
It won’t be a quick chat. There is no such thing. There will be small talk, and medium talk, and big talk, then more small talk before goodbyes.
What would happen if I just stopped trying to do so much every day? Are the toothpaste police going to arrest me for sink and mirror infractions?
Gotta delete three more emails and respond to one from Violet’s teacher. Oh shit, forgot to fill out that permission slip, and the medical form for sixth graders— better do that real quick. Damn. I need to download some kind of e-signature, sign-online app thingy that’s different from the one I already have for work.
Let me just thumbs up two more messages in this Slack group chat real quick. I’m here! Monica is work work working away over here.
Fuck. Burned my stupid hardboiled eggs again because on my way to transfer the laundry, I got distracted cleaning a window covered in so many fingerprints and dog snout streaks it was opaque. The water boiled away, and the outraged eggs are laying half-exploded against the scorched bottom of the aluminum pot I should probably clean before I leave to pick up the kids from school. SHIT. The kids! School! I’m late. I’m hungry. But I’m late!
Rushing to the next thing while obsessively checking my phone for work emails I often think: This kind of life feels wrong. I’ve made a mistake. This overwhelming pace, my priorities, always clutching this stupid phone, it all feels so unnatural and bad bad bad. I created a lifestyle for myself and my children all tangled in this spiderweb before I understood what was happening, and now it feels too late to unravel. The Earth is such a miracle; just being alive is magic. There is so much beauty to experience, and it all goes by so fast, but I’m trapped. Stuck playing Bill Murray in the Groundhog Day of my bullshit busylife.
Ever feel that way?
When I was a new mom with a full-time job as a producer at a Salt Lake City news station and struggling to get an online writing career going, Sheryl Sandberg, former COO of Facebook, was urging women to “lean in” to pursue their ambitions, telling anyone who would listen that women can have it all! She wrote a book encouraging women to aspire to the leadership positions that men typically hold. Sandberg may not have been the first person with that particular message for women, but she’s the one that stands out most to me.
Next thing I remember, women everywhere weren’t just getting up in the morning, they were “rising and grinding.” That meant anything from waking up early to work out and carefully execute 30-minute skincare/makeup regimens to standing in line for a $5 Starbucks before dashing to work to grovel for a promotion and proudly hashtagging all that shit with #hustlin and #grindin’.
The woman who have it all were telling us that women can have it all so we should want it all. Right? Even if we don’t want it all. Even if we are tired as fuck.
T I R E D. AS. FUCK.
Sandberg’s message has experienced several tune-ups along the way courtesy of bloggers du jour including Rachel Hollis of Girl, Wash Your Face fame who tells us we need to get up at 5:00 in the morning if we want to be as successful as she claimed to be. Take a look at the morning schedule Hollis was not so humbly bragging about as recently as 2019:
Folks, this is just preamble shit Rachel does before she really starts her day with a workout before diving into her kids’ morning routines. “Some days I work out by myself, or I work out with a trainer. I always, always, always work out every single morning, seven days a week without question,” Hollis embellished with a third “always” just in case you missed the first two. “I also put some effort into what I wear for my workout every single day because if you go into any kind of gym that has a mirror, you want to look in the mirror and be like, “Yeah! That girl is cute. She’s killing it!”
She’s killing something alright…
My soul, my will to live.
The preachy perpetuation of the hustle mentality by women with public platforms like Rachel and Sheryl who are riding a capitalist wave of millions on the backs of those aspiring to be like them feels no less shameful to me than telling teen girls to eat less than 1,000 calories a day so they can be thinner. Might I be so bold as to suggest that glorifying the hustle & grind is as detrimental to women’s mental health as not eating enough is to our physical health?
“I have the best advice for women in business,” Kim Kardashian told Variety earlier this year. “Get your fucking ass up and work. It seems like nobody wants to work these days.”
***Record scratch***
Say whaaaaaat?
I literally do not know a woman in my online or IRL friend group who isn’t working herself into an exhausted depression just to keep up with baseline societal expectations of womanhood and/or motherhood. We all routinely talk each other through small, medium and large breakdowns several times a year.
The intense pressure to not just live but perform life like an athlete training for the Olympics is not my definition of success. “Encouragement” is typically shotgunned at us from wealthy women claiming to embody female empowerment even as they commodify a goopy Gwyneth level of “wellness” most of us will never achieve or afford. Nor should we want to! This is probably the best time to note that many women praising hustle culture have no problem affording childcare and house cleaners and neither did most of their mothers.
Clearly, Kardashian’s unfortunate statement – taken out of context as she claims or not – is privileged and problematic in myriad ways I’m not looking to get into here though you’re certainly welcome to in the comments. I share the quote specifically to highlight that hustle culture is alive and well in a 2022 post-pandemic world where people’s general health is at its lowest in decades. Bone-deep burnout is so rampant it’s harder than it’s ever been to find a therapist and we’re living through an era dubbed The Great Resignation.
Kardashian is far from the only female celeb who has glorified the grind. JLo, often lauded as a “triple-threat,” is constantly referred to admiringly as “the hardest working woman in showbiz” and not too long ago Beyonce, writer of several empowerment anthems, celebrated a version of girl power based on making and spending money.
“In the closet that’s my stuff, yes/If I bought it please don’t touch,” she sang in “Irreplaceable.” Destiny’s Child sang about “all the honeys making money,” connecting women’s independence with the work hustle. “The watch I’m wearing, I bought it/The house I live in, I bought it/The car I’m driving, I bought it.”
I get it. A rallying cry for female independence in a male-dominated culture i.e. I don’t need your money, I earn my own. But the rallying cry has dissolved into a hoarse sob of exhaustion and overwhelming feelings of failure.
For decades our culture has maintained an obsession with an unrelenting grind that pegs you as lazy if you aren’t up at 5 am cartwheeling through a jam-packed day, not to mention the ugly assumption that being poor means you simply aren’t working hard enough.
Hustle culture holds that there’s always more money to make and a bigger title or promotion to chase. But it’s not just about work. As Rachel Hollis cheerfully points out, it’s about your workout regimen and jamming as much yoga-riffic motivational schtick into your day as possible. And then there are the intense make-up tutorials or “aspirational” house renovations streaming into phones and TVs worldwide.
Nothing is ever good enough. Staying home isn’t good enough. Going to work isn’t good enough, and neither is doing both. You need to be hustling a promotion by arriving early and staying late, and by the way, you should consider updating your skincare regimen, you cheap CVS bitch. Probably if you drop $80 on the latest cream JLo is hawking you’ll land that promotion. You also need a new hairstyle. There’s a tutorial for that. Plus a better wardrobe, a new car, a new house.
Girl, wash your face and go, go, go! Hashtag feminism, I guess?
I suspect we’re getting played.
Hamster-wheeling our lives away on capitalistic endeavors in pursuit of an even busier lifestyle fed to us as aspirational by the very same hustlers making money on our grind. Also, I know we’re seeking equality in the workplace but why are women busting ass to sustain a patriarchal work culture in which men are still far more rewarded, especially when, generally speaking, we’re still working harder than men at home, too?
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.”
― John Maynard Keynes
Busyness in the 21st century is often considered the ultimate status symbol, Silvia Bellezza, an associate professor at Columbia Business School, explained to Vice. “By being busy, a person signals to others how they themselves are a scarce resource on the market. Not having time to rest indicates you’re in demand and that your intellectual capital is highly valued. As a result, others consider you to be higher status.”
Why have we collectively bought into this bullshit?
An overflowing schedule isn’t aspirational, it’s difficult and stressful. I am usually filled with anxiety over the notion of all the things I need to get done, not just for work or for myself but for everyone around me. The logistics involved in coordinating the lives of children are no joke. There is no calling in sick. Parents, often moms, are crucial cogs in the machinery of the day-to-day lives of children. Breakfasts, packed lunches, dinners, homework, chauffering to and from school, activities, events, and appointments, not to mention perhaps the most draining job of all; monitoring and regulating the emotional well-being of everyone in the household.
One orthodontist appointment leads to a kind of dual key-turning missile launch coordination that defies logic. Call the school, fill out an early dismissal form on a website, see if Grammy can pick up the elementary-age kids, reach out to this person to reschedule that meeting, take another meeting over Zoom while waiting in the parking lot then haul ass home to make dinner. Hat tip to those of us dealing with blended families and exes and the coordinating of custody schedules, pick-ups and holidays.
Words cannot accurately reflect the exhaustion that often pervades my mind and body yet when I try to sit quietly or slip into bed for a quick thirty minutes of afternoon shut-eye I somehow feel lazy. My mind won’t stop urging me to check email, move the wet clothes from the washer to the dryer, go for a run or at least stretch on my yoga mat. I cannot stop thinking of all the things I should be doing.
I deeply resent being unable to enjoy doing nothing.
Get off your ass, wake up early, work out, look cute doing it, get a raise, even our appearance has been co-opted by the hustle. Here’s a 15-minute skin care regimen including seven products none of which are available at CVS or Walmart before you move on to a make-up routine ain’t nobody got time or money for because apparently wandering around in public with your naked woman face hanging out is not advisable if you want to be perceived as “successful” and don’t enjoy being told you “look tired” by the same clueless men who tell women to smile.
We’ve been conditioned to feel apologetic for not smiling, lazy when napping, and ugly without makeup.
This summer I stopped wearing makeup most days and tried to clean my house less. Things are organized, I still wash the dishes and do the laundry but mopping, dusting and vacuuming have fallen off my regular schedule.
With four kids and several animals eating all over the place and walking in and out of the house all day long I realized I had a choice: I could bitch at them all day long and clean myself into resentment or I could let it go and live with it. Do you think any of them noticed? No. They didn’t give a shit when I mopped and they don’t care that I don’t.
It was all for me. A societal/self-imposed prison of perception.
The obsession over a clean house feeds a perception of what successful motherhood looks like forced on me by a materialistic, productivity-obsessed society. With an eye toward The Dude, I am reevaluating my priorities with a Lebowski level of productivity in mind. Beer and bowling, anyone?
Do Millennials know The Dude?
A clean kitchen floor no longer feels as successful as sitting on the porch listening to an audiobook while the kids play video games and grind flavor blasted Goldfish into carpeting I will vacuum when I’m goddamn good and ready to vacuum.
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
― John Maynard Keynes
“We’re incentivized to spend the time we’re not working figuring out how to become better, more efficient workers at the expense of our leisure,” Anne Helen Petersen notes in her 2020 book, Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. “We’re encouraged to monetize our hobbies, to turn even our smallest pleasures into another income stream.” Side hustle, it’s called.
At 45, I’m typically considered too old to be a millennial and too young to be a gen Xer. I recently learned about xennials, the so-called “micro-generation” born between 1977 and 1985 and also known as The Oregon Trail Generation.
We were the first group of high school kids to go to the library to research our papers and then transition to online study. This makes us the last group of kids to experience childhood without the internet. Although I’m technically not a millennial I am experiencing the soul-sucking burnout usually attributed to that generation and have begun cheering for gen Z who has apparently coined a new term called “quiet quitting” which, as far as I can tell, is the antithesis of hustle culture.
Despite its name, quiet quitting does not mean quitting in the traditional sense. It’s just letting go of the idea of going above and beyond at work as we’ve been conditioned to do, as TikToker @zkchillin put in his viral video. “You’re not outright quitting your job but you’re quitting the idea of going above and beyond. You’re still performing your duties but you’re no longer subscribing to the hustle culture mentality that work has to be your life. The reality is it’s not and your worth as a person is not defined by your labor.”
It’s a sign of the late capitalist times that simply doing the actual job you were hired to do is considered a form of quitting.
Always on the cutting edge, even Queen Bey is over the hustle. “I just quit my job, I’m gonna find new drive,” she sings in her new song, “Break My Soul” off her latest album, Renaissance. The song continues: “Damn, they work me so damn hard/Work by nine/Then off past five/And they work my nerves/That’s why I cannot sleep at night.”
Unlike Beyonce, most of us can’t quit our jobs. But we can change our minds about work life and adjust our definitions of success. At the very least we should consider a new work paradigm in which balance is possible and performing required duties without subscribing to hustle culture mentality isn’t a viral phenomenon it’s just considered doing your job.
These past few years, when promotions I would’ve jumped at years ago were dangled, I’ve thoughtfully turned them down. I’ve spent a lot of time considering what success looks like for me. While work is necessary – somebody gotta pay for all the health care and that still ain’t affordable without a full-time gig – devoting most of my life to title-chasing and scoring a higher salary no longer feels successful. It feels misguided. Stressful. A waste of precious moments on things that don’t and won’t matter.
“We have not to seek the Truth, we have only to remove the lie. Then the Truth stands in all of its Radiant Beauty.” – Osho
When productivity is considered king and we define success in terms of money and busyness, we become caught in a rat race of our perception of time as a resource. Obsessions like checking/deleting emails take over our existences and we judge our days based on how much we’re able to get done. We excuse the busyness by living for an event that will happen in the future; the promotion, the money, the things you can buy with your money that will somehow lead to a future where our lives are organized and calm and we’ve somehow “made it.”
Time is a game played beautifully by children.” — Heraclitus, Fragments
Thing is, there will always be too much to do. You will never permanently clear out your inbox. In fact, the more emails you return the more you receive because you’ve set that expectation. Similarly, the more money you make the more things you buy that you need to make more money to maintain. You will never get to the end of the To Do list or feel like your body/house/life is at peak levels. There is no moment of truth coming when things will finally make sense and “real life” can begin at last.
Understanding that concept is not defeat, it is liberation.
“There’s this ubiquitous, subtle sense that somehow this portion of our lives, right here, isn’t quite it. That everything we’re doing is for the purpose of some future time. Or that we’re going to get our lives figured out soon. That we’ll get on top of things and we’ll live as we want to live but for now many of our tasks are just things we have to get through to get them out of the way so that real life can begin sometime later,” British journalist and author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals Oliver Burkeman says.
Burkeman holds that we spend most of our lives avoiding the indisputable fact that our time is finite. In other words, we’re all going to die soon. He explains in his book that we each only get an average of 4,000 weeks of life. Contrast that with the fact that the whole of human civilization since the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia has unfolded over the span of only about 300,000 weeks. To think of our tiny portion of time set against the duration of the existence of the Earth itself means, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel once wrote, “Our lives are mere instants even on a geological time scale, let alone a cosmic one; we will all be dead any minute.”
The key consequence of this finitude is that our choices about how we spend our time right now truly matter yet we spend much of our life engaged in tasks we think will bring about a future that never really materializes. Burkeman continues, “We might tell ourselves, maybe subconsciously, that real life is going to begin when we finally graduate college or when we get married or when we have kids or when we retire and that’s so that we don’t have to face the anxiety of knowing that, in fact, right now, this is our only shot at life. That we need to do the things we care most about, right now.”
It’s true. We’re all dying. Right now! Don’t avoid it.
Think about it.
Understand it.
Breathe it.
Feeeeel it.
Perhaps, like me, you will become much less inclined to return that 10 pm email. Maybe you’ll spend a half hour watching a bird outside your window tomorrow! Or just do nothing. Sit there. Breathing. If death comes for you next week or in thirty years, you won’t regret these things. You will, however, most likely regret sending another email. A nurse recorded the most common regrets of the dying and one of the top regrets was people who “deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.”
“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” – John Lennon
Know what success looks like to me? Leaning out. Leaning so far back that I’m lying down. In bed. In the middle of the afternoon. So I’ve spent a lot of time this summer not wearing make-up, not mopping, not vacuuming, not emailing, not writing. Just sitting around and staring at the world. From my porch, from a river, from my minivan. Being here now.
It’s harder than it sounds. It’s uncomfortable to do nothing because it goes against all the hustle culture capitalist conditioning we’ve metabolized.
Try it. Really sit with yourself and your emotions without scrolling or cleaning or moving on to the next thing. You’ll likely experience anxiety and guilt that you’re not getting to this thing or that thing. Power through!
Keep doing nothing! Can I get that on a bumper sticker, please?
What if instead of judging we started admiring each other’s dirty floors and makeup-less faces as signs of an empowered woman breaking out of her conditioning to reframe her brief existence on this planet?
There isn’t a single experience depicted in the photos posted here that I would trade for any amount of work prestige or money. When I’m on my deathbed I will be immeasurably grateful for these moments and undoubtedly wish I’d spent more time in the river or on the porch with my people.
As musician Warren Zevon famously told Dave Letterman after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer that would kill him nine months after the interview, “You put more value on every minute…You’re reminded to enjoy every sandwich…”
We are all terminal. Enjoy your sandwiches.
Now Reading/Watching/Listening:
“Where to Start” by Bully.
What is “internalized capitalism?”
Welcome to Wrexham. A real-life Ted Lasso-style scenario wherein Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buy a football team in Wales. If you love a good underdog story or just like watching Reynolds and McElhenney (who doesn’t?!) check it out on Hulu. I couldn’t stop watching.
This essay was originally published on Monica Danielle’s blog, A Broad View, a real-time memoir about starting over in mid-life. You can keep up with her work here, or join her community at Substack. | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/a-broad-view-we-will-all-be-dead-any-minute/ | 2022-09-14T17:27:00Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/creative-voices/a-broad-view-we-will-all-be-dead-any-minute/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
Slavimir Stojanovic was 16 when he designed his first poster for the 1985 Belgrade Culture Olympiad. The piece was hung all around the city—and “I was eternally hooked,” he told me. It was at the height of socialist Yugoslavia, when culture was the “prime social identifier.” Unfortunately, in the beginning of the 1990s, nationalism imploded the country.
Graphic design served Stojanovic and friends as a creative escape. In the ’90s, he worked mainly in advertising, receiving hundreds of awards worldwide; he briefly studied in Sweden, and after the NATO bombing in 1999 he left Belgrade and started a new life in Ljubljana, Slovenia, formerly the Northern Yugoslav republic (close to Italy and Austria). He says he became a proper designer there, because both the industry and the aesthetics were already developed and creatively more demanding. After 10 years he returned to Belgrade, where he launched a creative communications studio called Futro Design, which has expanded to include the Futro lifestyle brand, with a web shop and two stores in Belgrade. He employs almost 20 people, and writes books for children and adults. He recently published Nothing Really Matters, But Everything is Very Important. I asked him to discuss his design entrepreneurship.
Why did you publish this book? And what is the inspiration for the title?
Fifteen years ago I stopped competing and sending my works abroad. It just felt counterproductive for the business since my success was oversaturating the local media space for years; it was a public relations overdrive where nobody would work with me because my image seemed too expensive and too exclusive. I also had to go back to basics and redefine my purpose in life, so this book now is meant to show what I have been doing all this time, what the backstory of it all is and, of course, to expand the influence of creativity and generate universal inspiration. The title comes from my artistic social commentary projects, where I search for the truth and all its children lost in contemporary communication.
Why are all your posters in English?
I was born and raised in Yugoslavia, in a truly cosmopolitan spirit-driven society. I always had a need to be universally understood on as large a scale as possible. The English language offers that. Maybe the fact that I spent almost two years living in Washington DC as a kid, with my grandparents who worked at the Yugoslav embassy there, has something to do with it.
After more than 30 years of all kinds of isolation, social depression, an unbearable stigma cloud above us all here and ongoing national tensions, this region needs to be heard in order to be understood worldwide. As a part of this cultural neighborhood, I have an obligation to take part in that effort.
How would you describe the “style” of the work you do?
I have a creative maxim—”Complicate Simply”—and I have been sticking to it ever since I was studying at professor H.C. Erikson’s class at HDK in Gothenburg, Sweden. I fell in love with Scandinavian functional minimalism there, but I try to combine it with the Balkan creative heritage rooted in soul-preserving disciplines: humor, irony, satire, and the works of Zenithists.
What is the intent or aim/goal of your messages?
The intent of the Futro Posters is to provoke and challenge people mentally and hopefully inspire and motivate them to do something creative, relevant and meaningful with their lives, instead of scrolling hours away. | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-posters-from-modern-belgrade/ | 2022-09-14T17:27:06Z | printmag.com | control | https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-posters-from-modern-belgrade/ | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
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Eggland's Best is the #1 branded egg in the U.S. and is an excellent source of Vitamins D, B12, E, B5 and riboflavin. Eggland's Best eggs have six times more Vitamin D, more than double the Omega-3s, 10 times more Vitamin E and 25% less saturated fat than ordinary eggs. Eggland's Best's patented method of production and verification ensures that every Eggland's Best egg has these superior qualities. Independent testing has also confirmed that Eggland's Best eggs stay fresher longer than ordinary eggs. The distinctive "EB" stamp on the shell assures consumers and food service customers that Eggland's Best eggs meet the highest production and safety standards.
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Special day of action and support dedicated to champion the estimated 4.7 million Latino business owners who contribute to their communities and the U.S. economic engine
, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Support Latino Business (SLB), a community-founded nonprofit dedicated to providing resources and opportunities for Latino small businesses, officially announces the fourth annual Support Latino Business Day tomorrow, Wednesday September 14, 2022. Intentionally kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month one day early (September 15-October 15), Support Latino Business Day highlights the transformative impact made by the driving contributors of our nation's economy - Latino Small Businesses.
Powered by volunteers and community advocates, Support Latino Business engages Mayors across the country to officially recognize and celebrate the significant contributions Latino businesses make to local communities on September 14 and everyday. Participating City Mayors in Support Latino Business Day 2022 include: Austin Mayor Steve Adler, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, Washington DC Mayor Murial Bouser, and over 50 more.
"Every single day, Latino business owners make incredible and invaluable contributions to communities here in Chicago and across the country," said Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot. "We are honored to continue our partnership with Support Latino Business this year to recognize those contributions and celebrate the positive impact Latino business owners have had on our society and economy."
In addition to working with local leadership to galvanize support for Latino-led businesses, Support Latino Business partners with Latino-focused organizations to provide mentorship, networking, and unrestricted grants to small business owners to invest back in their businesses. With support from SLB, Poderistas hosted the 2022 Jefa Nation Grant to give Latina entrepreneurs and jefas poderosas an opportunity to receive resources to help grow and scale their business.
Also, honoring and celebrating diverse small businesses across the nation and opening on Support Latino Business Day are applications for the second annual #SupportSmallBiz Grant in partnership with Small Business Majority.
"Hispanic Americans are highly entrepreneurial, launching businesses at twice the rate of native-born Americans and creating meaningful opportunities through job creation," said Xiomara Peña, Vice President, Engagement, Small Business Majority. "We know Latino small business owners help grow the economy by filling labor needs, purchasing goods and paying taxes. And despite overwhelming challenges in accessing federal aid during the pandemic, this community pushed through and started new businesses at historic rates. We are excited and honored to help kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month with partner Support Latino Business. We look forward to participating in continued efforts that will spotlight the accomplishments of Latino small business owners and celebrate the diversity and innovation that this community brings to the small business ecosystem."
Support Latino Business will also be presenting grants through the SLB Impact Fund and will also begin taking applications starting September 14, 2022. For more information on these resources, visit https://supportlatino.biz/slb-resources/.
"We are honored to work alongside community advocates, city mayors and partners across the country to uplift the Latino/x narrative in the U.S. and celebrate the vital and often unsung contributors of our nation's economy, Latino/x-business owners and entrepreneurs," said Jennifer Meza, Support Latino Business President. We look forward to advancing our mission to recognize, resource and champion diverse small business owners and entrepreneurs to continue building a thriving and equitable economy."
According to the 2021 State of Latino Entrepreneurship Report (SOLE) by LBAN and the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative (SLEI), in the past 10 years, Latino-owned businesses have started at a faster rate than other groups—a 44% growth rate—compared to only 4% for non-Latino-owned firms.
Helping more patrons connect with and find Latino businesses to support, Support Latino Business has a growing national directory of Latino owned businesses of Interested Latino business owners. Individuals can sign up for the free directory at www.supportlatino.biz/directory.
Created for the community and by the community, the Support Latino Business initiative is championed by a diverse group of partners including City Mayor offices, local chambers, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Small Business Majority, Univision, along with support from partner agencies Captura Group, The Twins PR, and APC Collective. To become part of the Support Latino Business movement, visit https://supportlatino.biz/ and to find ways to participate in this Support Latino Business Day visit https://supportlatino.biz/slb-day-toolkit/.
Support Latino Business is a national community-led initiative shining a light on the significant economic contributions Latino businesses make, the jobs they help create, and the positive impact they bring to all local communities and the U.S. economy. One of the nation's most diverse networks of partners – including business leaders, owners, entrepreneurs, local activists, community organizations, elected officials, and corporate brands – come together to tell stories about the impact Latino/x businesses have today, and the endless possibilities they'll be realizing tomorrow. For more information or to be a part of the Support Latino Business movement, visit: https://supportlatino.biz/.
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Association marks 'Back-to-School Week' with program funding for PTAs and season seven launch of its Notes from the Backpack podcast
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, National PTA is marking its annual Back-to-School Week celebration to support families, teachers, administrators and PTA leaders as the new school year gets underway. National PTA is sharing information and resources on social media using #PTABackToSchool and at PTA.org/BackToSchool to help make this a healthy, safe and impactful school year. The association is also launching the seventh season of its Notes from the Backpack podcast.
"Our goal during Back-to-School Week is to share important information, resources and expertise to help build strong partnerships between families and schools and help support families, teachers, administrators and PTA leaders' success all year long," said Anna King, president of National PTA. "There could not be a more urgent time for families, educators and schools to work together for all of our nation's students and promote learning environments where students feel safe, supported and ready to learn."
Throughout Back-to-School Week, National PTA will share resources to help PTA and school leaders plan their school year, engage their school community and support students and families. Among the resources for PTA leaders, is our new online learning community, Thrive, which features engaging, short leadership development courses and new initiative, Membership Mania, for local PTA leaders to connect with one another, gain access to resources and strengthen membership together. Among the resources to support students and families, National PTA and Future of Privacy Forum have launched resources to help parents and guardians learn more about the steps they can take to protect the privacy of their child's education record.
As part of the association's efforts to support families, schools and PTAs in the new school year, National PTA is offering over $600K to help PTAs host programs for families in the areas of digital safety, STEM, literacy, healthy lifestyles and the arts. The application period is now open. By answering only a few questions, PTAs can be eligible for $1,000 or $2,500 in program funding. The deadline to submit applications is Sept. 27 at 5 p.m. EDT. PTAs can learn more about the funding opportunities and apply at PTA.org/Grants.
Season seven of National PTA's Notes from the Backpack podcast will launch Sept. 14 and will feature episodes on supporting kids through transitions, facing math anxiety and harnessing the power of parent advocacy to help you navigate through the school year. Episodes are available to stream at PTA.org/BackpackNotes.
"PTA's role is more important than ever as we connect parents, teachers and administrators and support critical school and family needs," added Nathan R. Monell, CAE, National PTA executive director. "Through our Back-to-School Week, podcast, programs, advocacy and other initiatives all year round, we remain committed to ensuring that our families and schools have the tools to best support every student's learning, development and success."
Office Depot is the presenting sponsor of National PTA's Back-to-School Week. Additional support for the week comes from BAND, a free group communication app. The companies are Proud National PTA Sponsors. Xplora, a smartwatch designed to provide kids with a safe onboarding to the digital world, is also a supporting sponsor of the week.
National PTA® comprises millions of families, students, teachers, administrators, and business and community leaders devoted to the educational success of children and the promotion of family engagement in schools. PTA is a registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit association that prides itself on being a powerful voice for all children, a relevant resource for families and communities, and a strong advocate for public education. Membership in PTA is open to anyone who wants to be involved and make a difference for the education, health and welfare of children and youth. For more information, visit PTA.org.
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MT. PLEASANT, S.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- An addiction to Instagram caused a young Virginia woman to attempt to take her life three times as a child, a lawsuit filed by Motley Rice LLC alleges. Filed in California's Superior Court against Instagram and Meta Platforms, the case is one of multiple filed by the firm for victims who allege social media companies exploited the insecurities of children to maximize profits and user growth.
Plaintiff Laura Ashman, 21, began using Instagram when she was roughly 12 years old, according to the lawsuit, which also alleges she quickly grew addicted, scrolling the social media site for up to 10 hours a day. Laura's addictive use of Instagram eroded her self-esteem and caused her to develop a severe eating disorder and depression, she alleges. Sadly, she also began to self-harm and attempted to take her life for the first time as a freshman in high school.
"We are so proud of Laura for finding the courage to tell her story of the dark side of social media, self-harm and depression," said Laura's father, Scott Ashman. "We are forever grateful for the efforts and vigilance of the school system, county, Inova and family who helped guide her to where she is today. We applaud our daughter for recognizing that not all are afforded the same safety net and that many suffer in silence. We as a family hope Laura's voice will help upset the status quo and bring further awareness to depression and meaningful change to social media's cold grip on our children."
The complaint alleges Instagram created a mental health crisis through its use of algorithms that were designed to addict children and teens to the product. Documents revealed by a whistleblower indicate that the defendants have known for years that Instagram has a toxic effect on the mental health of children, and in particular teen girls, the complaint states.
"We believe Meta has known for years that the Instagram algorithm addicts children and leads many down a dark spiral of body dysmorphia and depression. Hopefully, this lawsuit can begin to right the wrongs we believe the defendants caused," stated attorney Previn Warren.
Motley Rice LLC is one of the nation's largest plaintiffs' litigation firms and is headquartered in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., and has additional offices in Connecticut; Washington, D.C.; New Jersey; New York; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; and West Virginia. For more information, contact Motley Rice attorney Previn Warren (DC) at 1.800.768.4026 or visit www.motleyrice.com. Motley Rice LLC, a South Carolina Limited Liability Company, is engaged in the New Jersey practice of law through Motley Rice New Jersey LLC. Esther Berezofsky is the attorney responsible for New Jersey practice.
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Practice joins Affordable Care's national network of supported dental practices
- Patients at the new practice benefit from special offers
- Variety of payment options including financing and insurance available
KENNESAW, Ga., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The new Affordable Dentures & Implants practice in Kennesaw, Georgia, located at 667 Ernest W. Barrett Parkway NW, Suite 150, in the Town Center Commons, is now open. The practice joins the nation's largest provider network of dental practices – supported by Affordable Care – that focus exclusively on tooth replacement services.
From extractions and partial dentures to full dentures and dental implants, including implant-secured dentures, Affordable Dentures & Implants in Kennesaw offers affordable tooth replacement care to create a new smile that not only looks great, but has the potential to transform a patient's life, allowing them to eat, speak and smile with confidence again. The practice features an on-site dental lab, which adds faster, more convenient services with all dental care provided at one location, and features a CBCT scanner for a more accurate image of a patient's mouth. In addition, Affordable Dentures & Implants practices provide a variety of sedation options.
Sadiq Oketade, DDS, Prosthodontist, and the Affordable Dentures & Implants team in Kennesaw are proud to offer professional and compassionate care to patients. The practice is open 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For more information, including the practice's enhanced COVID-19 safety protocols, or to schedule an appointment, visit the practice website or call (770) 783-0866.
Affordable Dentures & Implants practices make tooth replacement affordable for everyone. Founded in 1975 in Kinston, North Carolina, Affordable Dentures & Implant practices form the largest network of dental providers in the U.S., solely focused on tooth replacement solutions -- including dentures, dental implants, and fixed arch solutions -- with more than 400 locations across 42 states. The mission of Affordable Dentures & Implants practices is to provide a smile for every budget, delivered with compassion, dignity, and respect. Visit affordabledentures.com, and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Affordable Care is America's largest dental support organization exclusively focused on tooth replacement services. Our team proudly supports more than 400 affiliated dental practices, including Affordable Dentures & Implants, DDS Dentures + Implant Solutions and Advanced Dental Implant Center, in 42 states by providing innovative, non-clinical business and administrative support services to assist affiliated dental practices in providing their patients with access to high-quality, affordable tooth replacement solutions. More than 8 million patients have received care at an Affordable Care-supported dental practice. Visit affordablecare.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Cornet vs trumpet: what's the difference?
Despite looking similar the cornet and trumpet are actually two very different instruments as we explain
Both the trumpet and cornet are similar looking brass instruments but differ in tone and shape.
How does a trumpet differ to a cornet?
Though the trumpet is now the standard top – as in highest voiced – brass instrument in symphony orchestras and jazz bands or ensembles, this was not always the case. The cornet, a warmer toned and more obviously versatile instrument, in the 1890s seemed set to displace the trumpet. Significant parts were written for it by Rossini, Berlioz, Bizet and Tchaikovsky, who all appreciated both its virtuosity and its ability to blend with other instruments more easily than does the trumpet.
However, it seems that the trumpet’s more piercing tone finally trumped the cornet’s more mellow tone, and better suited the sharper style of 20th century music both for dance bands and for orchestras. The cornet today is found mainly in brass bands, where it appears in greater numbers than any other instrument.
Why is the cornet’s tone different to a trumpet's?
Unlike the trumpet, which has a cylindrical bore, the cornet has a more conical bore, giving its tone quality something of the quality of the horn, which similarly has a gradually widening rather than a cylindrical bore. The ‘cup’ of the cornet’s mouthpiece is also deeper than a trumpet’s, adding to the warmth of its tone. The instrument, thanks the width of its bore, also has greater flexibility than a trumpet, making double or even triple tonguing (the technique which enables the player to play rapid-fire staccato notes) significantly easier: there’s a quick burst of such playing in the cornet’s solo in Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien.
What are the similarities between trumpet and cornet?
Like the trumpet, the cornet works on the harmonic series, and has three keys or valves which enable it to ‘fill the gaps’ to play scales rather than just fanfares. Also, like the trumpet, there are cornets in B flat, and those in A (the difference being that one works better in flat keys, while the other works best in sharp keys); the cornet, unlike the trumpet, has a third type in E flat, which is only used in wind bands. The cornet’s similarity in technique and range means that often music originally written for that instrument, such as in Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, is nowadays played by a trumpet.
What music requires a cornet?
Even in the 20th century, when the cornet was being displaced by the trumpet, composers would sometimes write music to be played specifically by a cornet because of its particular tone quality. Examples include Vaughan Williams in A London Symphony, and Constant Lambert in Rio Grande.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Sema4 Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SMFR, SMFRW) between March 14, 2022 and August 15, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Sema4 securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Sema4 class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8672 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there was a significant risk that Sema4 would reverse a material amount of previously recognized revenue that it could not recoup from third party payors; (2) the Company was experiencing declining selling prices for its reproductive health segment; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Sema4's financial results would be adversely affected; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Sema4 class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8672 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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Rotterdam Philharmonic names Tarmo Peltokoski as its next guest conductor
The young Finn made an instant impression after standing in for Valery Gergiev in March
The Rotterdam Philharmonic has announced the appointment of up-and-coming Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski as its principal guest conductor from the start of the 2023-24 concert season.
The 22-year-old Finn made his debut with the orchestra in May, conducting works by Rachmaninov and Sibelius in place of Valery Gergiev. The latter was a former Rotterdam chief conductor, but had fallen out of favour after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, after refusing to distance himself from Putin's policies.
'Nothing short of a miracle (...) staggering, breathtaking, tear-jerking beauty,' was the verdict of Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad after the concert.
Peltokoski's next date with the Rotterdam Phil is on 17 September, when he will conduct the orchestra's Late Summer Spirit event. The special guest for that concert is Rotterdam's chief conductor Lahav Shani, who will perform as the piano soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
The young Finn is currently music director of the Latvian National Orchestra. He will hold the Rotterdam Philharmonic role for four years. At 22, he has already appeared at several festivals - and, last August, he completed his first Wagner Ring cycle at the Eurajoki Bel Canto Festival.
Peltokoski's Finnish music credentials are strong: he studied with Sakari Oramo at the Sibelius Academy, and has also been taught by Hannu Lintu, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
George Wiegel, general director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, says: 'Tarmo Peltokoski is an upcoming talent who already has much in store at his young age. Together with Lahav Shani he is a great match for our highly passionate orchestra.'
'Rotterdam is a place where young conducting talent has often risen to great heights,' adds Floris Don, the orchestra's artistic manager. 'We are looking forward to seeing how Tarmo will develop with us.'
Picture: Peter Rigaud
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The highly awaited Halloween event features a full month of activities including terrifying walks amidst haunted woods filled with frightening creatures. New this year are nightly food trucks, beer and wine, live music and much more.
DAVIE, Fla., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- This October, Tree Tops Park at 3900 SW 100th Ave; will once again become South Florida's biggest and scariest Halloween event on select dates from October 8th through October 31st.
'La Bruja' returns to cast her evil spell and release her monstrosities for the Halloween season.
With 3 new, differently themed trails, the Psycho Path, Tormented Trail and Haunted Hike, which feature horrifying zombies, evil spirits, and bloodthirsty clowns.
Each trail is a 15-20 minute walk through the dark trails filled with trained actors whose only objective is to entertain the guests and scare the daylights out of them.
Hearty laughs, food & drinks, music and live entertainment will help ease the frights, turning each night into a truly memorable and unique Halloween experience.
One feature that differentiates The Haunt from other haunted attractions is that entries into each of the trails are timed so the group in front of you can't ruin your scares. You truly feel as if you are walking through the forest alone.
There is an optional 'Touch' add-on for the truly fearless that want a more intense experience that allows specially trained talent to touch arms, legs and backs.
For the families, The Haunt offers an "after dusk" walk through the trails from 5pm-7pm on Oct. 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
The creatures in the woods are far less menacing before dark, and the experience is suitable for children under the age of 10.
New this year is a Fall Festival for adults and children, on Oct 22nd & Oct 29th starting at 3pm. There will be additional vendors, games, photo ops, and activities for everyone.
With their unique natural setting and talent, the trails keep even the most seasoned participants engaged. The Haunt is one of South Florida's most popular festivals for horror buffs and haunted house seekers.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen®, the world's leading breast cancer organization, will hold an in-person Race for the Cure to raise critical funds that support breast cancer patients by breaking down barriers to timely, quality care that create poor breast health outcomes. The Race will be held on October 2 at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
"We look forward to creating a community for anyone impacted by breast cancer as we gather, in person, for this year's Race. Funds raised from the Race for the Cure will further Komen's ability to meet the needs of patients and advance our health equity revolution, so everyone gets the care they need," said Stacie Spitzkoff, State Executive Director of New York at Susan G. Komen.
John Dias, reporter for CBS New York, and Natalie Duddridge, anchor/reporter for CBS New York, will serve as Emcees of the event.
Participants can expect to enjoy the following at the Race:
- Hope Village, a place for survivors and those living with metastatic breast cancer to gather
- We Remember Area where attendees can hang a photo or message about the person they're remembering
- Pillar Tents where attendees can learn more about Komen's four pillars – Research, Care, Community and Action
- Moving program featuring the Pathway of Hope followed by a 5K Race/Walk through Prospect Park
Komen Race for the Cure
Prospect Park
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sunday, October 2, 2022
7:30 AM EVENT OPENS
8:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY
9 AM RACE
Register Online
https://www.komen.org/greaternycrace
Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Founded by Nancy G. Brinker, who promised her sister, Susan G. Komen, that she would end the disease that claimed Suzy's life, Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures. Visit komen.org or call 1-877 GO KOMEN. Connect with us on social at www.komen.org/contact-us/follow-us/.
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Weather has long been a fickle farmhand, devastating fields one year while delivering bountiful harvests the next.
But as extreme weather events increase in frequency or become even more intense, the unpredictability is becoming more of an economic liability.
As the United States continues to battle high inflation, the effects of prolonged droughts and extreme weather events could help keep the heat on prices for a long time to come.
The Consumer Price Index, which measures price changes for a basket of goods and services, showed inflation hit 8.3% in August from the year before. But food prices rose at an even faster pace, increasing by 11.4% during that period, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Scorching heat and drought continue to bear down on the American West, forcing farmers in vital agriculture-producing states to fallow land, pull up orchards, reduce livestock herds, and slash expected yields.
"The prolonged droughts that we're seeing [present] some increased risk that inflation remains higher for a longer time," said Charlie Dougherty, a Wells Fargo economist who recently co-authored a status report on the economic state of American agriculture.
The high heat and drought have only compounded the issues facing American farmers, including supply chain ripple effects from Russia's war against Ukraine that have caused inputs such as fertilizer to surge in price; nationwide worker shortages; and inflation and high energy prices, the economists noted.
"When you've put all that together, farmers and ranchers have experienced extraordinary cost pressures," Dougherty said. "And those higher costs are being passed on to consumers." The rise in food prices is one of the key factors fueling inflation, according to recent CPI data.
The overwhelming majority of fruits, tree nuts and vegetables are sourced from drought-stricken states such as California and Texas, the American Farm Bureau Federation noted in a recent market update.
The drought and its effects "will likely result in American consumers paying more for these goods and either partially relying on foreign supplies or shrinking the diversity of items they buy at the store," according to the Farm Bureau. "Drought conditions in the US also risk global access to some items like almonds, since California produces 80% of the world's supply."
While the majority of those specialty crops are holding up, one of the hardest-hit crops in California has been rice, according to Aaron Smith, UC Davis' DeLoach professor of agricultural economics.
Rice acres have dropped by 55% this year, Smith said, noting US Department of Agriculture data showing an increase in prevented-planting acres, or land intended for a crop but prevented by natural disaster or inadequate water.
California, which is second to Arkansas in rice production among US states, generates about $900 million of rice annually, he said. California is a key producer and exporter of medium-grain rice, found in sushi and risotto dishes. While the acreage drop represents a big hit to US rice production, the effects could be mitigated by other sources, he said.
"If you look in a global perspective, which is what drives the price of rice, California is not a very big producer relative to the whole world," Smith said. "The local impact is very big; the global impact and the consumer impact for now — not so big."
The globalized economy and trade serve as a buffer to an extent, said Josué Medellín-Azuara, an associate professor of environmental engineering at UC Merced who studies climate change adaption and the economics of agricultural, environmental and urban water uses.
"I don't think we're in a situation of food insecurity at this point, but it's really just a reminder that warmer temperatures can bring some more challenges to produce many of the agricultural commodities we traditionally see," he said. "There's a recognition that the groundwater reserves won't always be there to help us weather future droughts, if we don't use those more sustainably."
Weather whiplash
In far western Minnesota, a few miles from the South Dakota border, Anne Schwagerl and her family run a 400-acre organic farm.
Last year, Schwagerl and other farmers across the North Star State endured the worst drought seen in decades. Some of the yields were halved on her family's farm, where they grow crops such as corn, soy beans, oats and rye.
This year brought the rain. By mid-June, about 75% of the state saw above-average levels of precipitation, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
"We had a really challenging fall harvest and then a wet winter, which was great," Schwagerl said. "We needed that rain, but then it kept coming, and we had a very wet late spring. So it was this whiplash feeling of knowing that this could change [at] the drop of a hat."
And in the past couple of years, the intensity of those weather events has only increased and relatively infrequent weather phenomena like derechos — long-lasting and high-powered wind storms that can crush grain bins like they were soda cans — have joined the vernacular, she said.
"2019 was a historically wet year. All throughout the year, we couldn't miss a rain for love or money," she said. "2020 was Covid, our first Covid year, where everything was locked down. And then 2021, we went through a once-in-a-generation drought."
"It feels like you can't use those words like 'once-in-a-generation' anymore because they keep happening. Does that still have meaning?" she added.
Schwagerl is feeling uneasy about what 2023 might bring in terms of input costs, commodity prices and weather.
"We're riding along on this endless roller coaster at the same time as everyone else," she said.
Compounding factors
Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, an applied economist at Cornell University working on agricultural and resources economics, is optimistic about the private and public sector investing in research and development and other mechanisms to improve productivity and conserve resources. He expressed concern about lesser-developed countries and the effect of global events such as the war in Ukraine.
"If things get more politically hairy, those [drought] events become more painful," he said.
Extreme weather also can negatively affect companies' bottom lines, according to research from Paul Griffin, professor of management at UC Davis.
Griffin's research of heat effect found that every degree over 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) translates into an annualized loss of sales of 0.63% and a profit margin decrease of 0.16%. Stock prices dropped by an average of 22 basis points in response to a heat spell, Griffin found.
"The implication there is that if sales are decreasing, then firms will have an incentive to raise prices," he said.
The exact extent to which extreme heat, drought and, more broadly, climate change will play a role in prices and inflation is extremely difficult to estimate, Smith said.
There are far more costs baked in to the price of a product than what consumers pay at the grocery store — including wages, materials, production, processing, transportation, distribution, retailing, and marketing, he said. Farmers and ranches receive an estimated 8 cents from every dollar spent on food at home and away from home, according to the Farm Bureau.
"All those costs are much bigger pieces of the food pie than the actual value of the food that's produced by the farmer," he said. "So when we're looking at food prices and worrying about things that might increase food prices, we probably should be paying more attention to those costs of processing and transportation and marketing rather than what's happening on the farm."
Russia's war in Ukraine helped fuel a sharp rise in oil prices, which filtered down through key inputs such as fuel and fertilizer; and it complicated already tangled supply chains, further raising costs for all the businesses that help bring farm products to the table.
Still, the very prospect of more extreme weather could further sap away groundwater and limit the cultivation potential in the future, Smith said.
"That's probably going to mean, as we look forward, fewer acres of the different fruits and vegetables that are grown in California and that people around the country eat," he said. "So that, inevitably, in the long run will raise prices — maybe not this year, but they will go up."
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Death at hotel investigated in Fort Smith
Cause of death pending, man had been stabbed
A death in Fort Smith over the Labor Day weekend at a hotel remains under investigation.
Police were called to the parking lot of the Fairfield Inn & Suites By Marriott, 7601 Phoenix Ave. Friday, Sept. 2 where a 60-year-old man was found dead.
"Upon arrival, it was discovered that bystanders had located the 60-year-old white male," police reported.
The hotel staff had called 911 to report the death.
Anyone with information can call police at 479-709-5000.
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An upper level-low in currently sitting over Moses Lake and slowly moving north towards British Columbia. A disturbance (short-wave) is rotating around the low and producing showers and t-storms to our east and north today. Flash flooding is also possible along the US/Canadian border today as t-storms may produce heavy rain over burn scars. The air quality will continue to improve as the upper -level low moves north, pulling the thicker smoke north of I-90. It's still hazy outside, but the air is now sitting at moderate-good. I suspect the Air Quality Alert will be allowed to expire at 1 PM today.
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United States Marine and Kennewick native Xavier Zavala, lovingly known as "X" died on August, 30th, at the age of 22. Today he will return home to Kennewick.
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After graduation he joined the Marines and rose to the rank of Corporal E4. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, when he died.
Xavier was well-loved and leaves behind extended friends and family, as well as his wife, Jaylee, and two year old daughter, Natalia.
Xavier is expected to arrive at SeaTac around 11 a.m. Wednesday, September, 14th. He will be escorted back to the Tri-Cities by a convoy of anyone who wants to ride in support of his life and service to his country.
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The 15 year old driver from Idaho and a 13 year old passenger were also expected to be fine after sustaining minor injuries.
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Starbucks __ ringing up record sales but struggling with low employee morale __ plans to spend $450 million next year to make its North American stores more efficient and less complex.
The company also said it plans to open 2,000 net new stores in the U.S. by 2025, with an emphasis on meeting the growing demand for new types of service, including drive-thru, mobile ordering and delivery. Drive-thru now makes up 50% of U.S. sales, for example, while delivery demand has grown by 24% so far this year.
“It’s clear that our physical stores have to change. Our physical stores were built for a different era,” said John Culver, Starbucks’ chief operating officer, at a day-long event for investors in Seattle Tuesday.
Culver said customizable cold drinks __ which now make up as many as 75% of Starbucks’ U.S. beverage orders __ are taxing employees in kitchens designed for simpler hot drinks. Starbucks debuted a new work station that requires less movement and can cut 50 seconds off the process of making a blended iced mocha. It also announced a new patented technology that will cut the time needed to make cold brew coffee from 20 hours to a few seconds.
The introduction of an increasing number of hot food items is also slowing Starbucks’ kitchens. Culver said Starbucks expects to serve 300 million breakfast sandwiches in the U.S. this year, each of which takes up to 85 seconds to warm in its ovens. Starbucks plans to start cooking them in batches and storing them in warmers next to the drive-thru windows.
The company touted other upcoming benefits for workers, including more flexible scheduling, more generous sick time accrual and expanded ability for mobile customers to tip.
Starbucks executives made little mention of a growing unionization effort at its U.S. stores during morning presentations Tuesday. But it has clearly been an impetus for the company to think more deeply about ways to improve employees’ work life. Since late last year, 236 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-owned U.S. stores have voted to unionize, an effort the company opposes.
“The reality is, we have a trust deficit with our partners,” said Frank Britt, Starbucks’ executive vice president and chief strategy officer. “The work we do in our stores today is too physically hard.”
It wasn’t immediately clear if the new investments and technology would be offered to non-union stores; Starbucks said the company hasn’t yet decided how the investment will be doled out. But in May, Starbucks announced $200 million in additional pay and training but said that benefit would only go to non-union stores.
Starbucks says it is required to negotiate new benefits with union stores. But in August, the Seattle office of the National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against the company, saying it was violating U.S. labor law by withholding wage increases and other benefits from workers in unionized stores. A hearing in that case before an NLRB administrative judge is scheduled for October.
Starbucks Workers United, the union organizing workers, said around 300 protesters picketed outside the Starbucks meeting on Tuesday.
Culver said the company will respect the unionization process and negotiate with the stores that vote to unionize. But he also reiterated the company’s position.
“There are two paths. We can work together as partners, side by side, or we can have a third party between us,” he said.
Leading the company’s revamp will be Laxman Narasimhan, a former PepsiCo executive who was named Starbucks’ CEO last week. Narasimhan will spend the next six months shadowing interim CEO Howard Schultz, who helped shape the company after buying it in 1987 and has been leading it on a temporary basis since April. Schultz will remain on Starbucks’ board when Narasimhan assumes the CEO position in April.
“It’s an incredible opportunity for me to be learning at the feet of one of the best entrepreneurs in the world,” said Narasimhan, who described himself as a “right-brained” operational expert who also loves art, music and writing poetry.
Narasimhan, 55, who most recently was CEO of the U.K.-based consumer health and hygiene company Reckitt, also said he agrees that Starbucks has to renew its focus on exceeding its’ employees expectations if it wants to serve its customers well.
Schultz said Starbucks notched the best sales week in its 51-year history in August when it introduced its fall drink lineup. But Schultz said Starbucks lost its way during the pandemic, when employee retention tumbled even as customers demanded new service like curbside pickup.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — The Dunkin’ Donuts Center will officially be renamed Wednesday afternoon.
The Rhode Island Convention Center Authority and Lincoln-based insurance company Amica announced the 10-year deal for the facility’s naming rights in early September. Amica will pay $900,000 annually to label the venue the Amica Mutual Pavilion — or The AMP.
Dunkin’ Donuts held the naming rights to the downtown Civic Center for more than two decades, with Rhode Islanders commonly referring to it as “The Dunk.”
Target 12 first reported in August Amica won a competitive bidding process to win the naming rights for the venue.
Mayor Jorge Elorza, Providence College men’s basketball coach Ed Cooley, Providence Bruins coach Ryan Mougenel, and incoming Amica CEO Ted Shallcross will be at a 2 p.m. ceremony celebrating the name change.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. (WPRI) — A Fall River man is facing drug charges after a long-term undercover investigation, according to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office.
Last Thursday, investigators searched the County Street home of 33-year-old Raymond Cash.
The DA’s office said officers seized more than a kilogram of suspected fentanyl, 350 grams of suspected cocaine, 25 grams of suspected crack cocaine, hundreds of round blue pills suspected to contain fentanyl, and five jars of suspected marijuana.
Multiple handguns and $13,000 in cash were also found, the DA’s office added.
Cash was arraigned on charges of trafficking fentanyl 200 grams or more, felon in possession of a firearm, possession of a large-capacity firearm, possession of a firearm silencer, distribution of marijuana, and resisting arrest.
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U.S. added to WHO's list of countries with circulating polio
The World Health Organization added the U.S. to the list of countries where vaccine-derived poliovirus is circulating according to a CDC announcement.
Why it matters: The U.S. joins a list of about 30 other countries, including Israel and the U.K., where circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses have been identified, the CDC said.
Be smart: Vaccine-derived poliovirus spreads from a person who takes the oral polio vaccine, which is no longer used in the U.S. but is in other parts of the world, who then sheds some of that weakened virus from the vaccine.
- Among the unvaccinated, it can be spread through means including person-to-person contact or droplets from a sneeze or cough, per the CDC.
"We cannot emphasize enough that polio is a dangerous disease for which there is no cure," José Romero, CDC director at the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said in a news release. | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/us-who-list-countries-circulating-polio | 2022-09-14T17:53:04Z | axios.com | control | https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/us-who-list-countries-circulating-polio | 1 | 1 | green-iguana-35 | null |
TORONTO (AP) — Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne’s careers were, perhaps, always on a collision course. Their similar red-haired, fair-skinned appearances have long been compared. At the 2017 Golden Globes when they presented together, host Jimmy Fallon introduced them by rapping “Chastain and the Redmayne” to the beat of Cypress Hill’s “Insane in the Membrane.”
Since meeting at a children’s film festival in Italy years ago, they’ve been friends, too. Even if they’ve occasionally verged on being rivals.
“I think we needed ‘The Danish Girl,’ because everyone always talks about how we look alike,” Chastain says. “I took a picture of him in costume in character and I emailed Eddie and I said, ‘Stop taking my roles, (expletive).’”
“The Good Nurse,” which premiered over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, brings Chastain and Redmayne together on screen for the first time. It’s a deft, chilling true-life drama that revolves around the case of Charles Cullen, a nurse at East Coast hospitals who murdered at least 29 patients. The film is directed by Tobias Lindholm and adapted by screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns (“1917,” “Last Night in Soho”) from Charles Graeber’s 2013 book, “The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder.”
Chastain plays Amy Loughren, a New Jersey single-mother nurse who befriends Cullen (Redmayne), after he’s newly hired. In an interview together at a Toronto hotel ahead of the film’s premiere, their easily apparent chemistry in the film was even more effusive in person.
“We play friends,” Chastain says, over-emphasizing “play.” “That was hard.”
“It was a joy,” beams Redmayne, causing Chastain to laugh and sigh: “He can’t even pretend.”
The film, which Netflix will release in theaters Oct. 19 and stream Oct. 26, deals with not just with a stealthy serial killer but the for-profit health care system that allowed him to go undetected for so long. Nnamdi Asomugha and Noah Emmerich co-star as police detectives.
“For me, the script was a complex story, a mixture of this very intimate friendship, a story of heroism by Jessica’s character, Amy,” says Redmayne. “But in some ways, it was a questioning of a system, and how that system worked or failed.”
“The Good Nurse” was initially set up several years ago, but Lindholm, the Danish writer of several Thomas Vinterberg films including the Oscar-winning “Another Round” and “The Hunt,” committed to making a sprawling Danish miniseries, “The Investigation,” about the death of 30-year-old Swedish journalist Kim Wall. The actors discussed their options and elected to wait for Lindholm.
“We had so many conversations before we even started. So we knew what we wanted with the film, and we were looking forward to it,” Lindholm says. “We came in with an extremely caring and loving energy. The three of us would be the core. My idea was that the three of us would create this film together.”
“They’re a dream, the two of them,” he adds. “They look alike. They have the same humor. They have the same energy. And yet they’re so different.”
For Chastain, 45, and Redmayne, 40, making “The Good Nurse” came with some trepidation. Working with friends, they note, can mean seeing a different side of someone. Redmayne’s character, too, is a deeply damaged person who puts up a gentle and warm facade. Redmayne’s slightly hangdog physicality in “The Good Nurse” is different than anything he’s done.
“I respect that he doesn’t need to torture other people around him to believe his performance,” says Chastain, who adds she respects any actor’s process. “I’d be talking to Eddie just as easily as this, and then ‘We gotta roll,’ and here comes Charlie. It wasn’t like we were having to work with Charlie. I was like, ‘Phew. I still like you, thank God!’”
“The Good Nurse” is Chastain’s first film since she won best actress at the Academy Awards earlier this year for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Promotions have highlighted that the two leads of the film are Oscar winners; Redmayne won best actor for his Stephen Hawking in 2014’s “The Theory of Everything.”
“I have to say when I saw the trailer of our film and it was like both of us had it, I was like, ‘Yes,’” says Chastain.
“That’s almost the best feeling,” Redmayne responds. “Because you don’t really believe it when it happens.”
Chastain had previously had a superstition about holding an Oscar, and once refused to touch Redmayne’s award.
“But now,” she says, laughing, “I’ll hold your Oscar and you can hold mine.”
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CHICAGO (AP) — Jurors at R. Kelly’s federal trial are deliberating for a second day in Chicago Wednesday, sorting through a month of evidence and arguments on 13 charges accusing the R&B singer of producing child pornography, enticing minors for sex and rigging his 2008 child porn trial.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday after Judge Harry Leinenweber gave them instructions, including explicit descriptions of what constitutes sexual abuse.
Early Wednesday, jurors wrote several questions to the judge, at least one indicating the panelists may be grappling with some of the case’s legal complexities.
One asked if they had to find Kelly both enticed and coerced minors, or that he either enticed or coerced them. Over objections from Kelly’s lawyer, the judge said they only need to find one.
In closing arguments Tuesday, Kelly attorney Jennifer Bonjean likened the government’s testimony and evidence to a cockroach and its case to a bowl of soup.
If a cockroach falls into soup, she said, “you don’t just pull out the cockroach and eat the rest of the soup. You throw out the whole soup,” said told jurors
“There are just too many cockroaches,” she said.
In her rebuttal Tuesday, prosecutor Jeannice Appenteng told jurors to remember the girls and women who have accused Kelly of abuse.
“When you are in the quiet of the jury room, consider the evidence in light of who is at the center of this case. Kelly’s victims: Jane, Nia, Pauline, Tracy and Brittany,” Appenteng said, referring to five Kelly accusers named in charging documents by pseudonyms or their first names.
As Kelly’s fame boomed in the mid-1990s, Appenteng said, his inner circle increasingly focused on doing what the performer born Robert Sylvester Kelly wanted.
“And ladies and gentlemen, what R. Kelly wanted was to have sex with young girls,” she said.
Kelly, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking in New York in June and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Bonjean described Kelly as a flawed genius who has been functionally illiterate since childhood and was ill-equipped to navigate his celebrity and growing wealth. She said that he was abused as a child also deeply affected him.
Known for his smash hit “I Believe I Can Fly” and for sex-infused songs such as “Bump n’ Grind,” Kelly sold millions of albums even after allegations of sexual misconduct circulated in the 1990s. Widespread outrage emerged after the #MeToo reckoning and the 2019 Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly.”
Kelly and co-defendant Derrell McDavid, Kelly’s ex-business manager, are accused of fixing Kelly’s 2008 trial on state child porn charges by intimidating and paying off witnesses.
Kelly faces four counts of producing child pornography, one of conspiring to obstruct justice by fixing the 2008 trial, one of conspiring to receive child porn, two of actually receiving it and five of enticing minors for sex.
McDavid is charged with four counts — two for receiving child porn, one for conspiring to do so and one for conspiring to obstruct justice by rigging the 2008 trial, at which Kelly was acquitted.
Co-defendant Milton Brown, a former Kelly associate, faces a single count of conspiring to receive child pornography.
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Missouri officials said Wednesday that Medicaid applications are now being processed within the federally-mandated timeline of 45 days, a step towards bringing the state into compliance with a mitigation plan to address a backlog of applications.
Robert Knodell, the acting director of the Department of Social Services, broke the news to lawmakers Wednesday during a hearing of the House Subcommittee on Appropriations.
“I’m pleased to tell you today that that backlog is no more and we are now processing current Medicaid applications within the federal requirement of 45 days,” Knodell told lawmakers, later adding: “Thankfully, now that backlog we are putting, as of this week, in the rearview mirror.”
In an interview following Wednesday’s hearing, Knodell clarified that there are applications older than 45 days, but in those instances the department is still waiting on the applicant to provide additional information.
“Nobody has an untouched Medicaid application older than 45 days, as of today,” Knodell said.
The state has a Sept. 30 deadline to wrangle its backlog of applications, after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took the unusual step of requiring a mitigation plan to get the state’s processing time — which averaged 115 days in June — down to a maximum of 45 days.
A spokesperson for CMS did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
In an interview, Kim Evans, the director of the Family Support Division, credited increased flexibility through the mitigation plan, like using information previously verified in other benefit programs, with helping process Medicaid applications as well as the work of department staff.
“They’ve really dug in, and just really they’ve given us overtime,” Evans said. “They’ve just really worked very hard.”
Evans told reporters late last month that the average time it took to process a Medicaid application was between 85 to 90 days, compared to the average of 106 days in July. A federal report released last month showed that roughly four in every five Medicaid applications in Missouri took longer than 45 days to process at the beginning of this year — eight times the national average.
Since July 1, 2021, the state has received over 280,000 applications for Medicaid, Evans said, with around 12,000 applications still pending as of Wednesday. As of Sept. 9, 236,677 individuals have been enrolled into the expanded Medicaid group, according to the state’s caseload counter.
Staffing shortages have been a persistent issue that has contributed to the lengthy backlog of applications, and officials said those challenges still exist.
“We’re looking to fill positions, use creative strategies to recruit candidates, job fairs, workforce development pipelines, the usage of overtime when available within the confines of our system,” Knodell said. “So it remains a challenge.”
On average, Evans said around 30 to 33 employees are leaving each month.
As part of the state’s mitigation plan with CMS, Evans said that any applications received prior to Aug. 16 needed to be completed to be within the 45-day timeframe. Evans said the state has a few remaining pieces of pending information to complete before the state can submit to CMS that it is compliant.
“They want us to be under 45 days as of September 30. We will be,” Knodell said. “We’re happy to be there today. And we will be there on September 30 and moving forward.”
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CHICAGO — The United States may be hurtling toward a freight rail strike, one that spill over into passenger service in much of the country. Railroads are cutting shipments, Amtrak has stopped some passenger routes. The sticking point isn't pay. It's the tough lifestyle railroading imposes on people who drive trains, long shifts, lots of nights away, and the need to be on-call, able to get to work in two hours or less, for weeks on end.
On a normal day about 7,000 freight trains crisscross, according to the Association of American Railroads the United states, hauling most of the stuff that makes the economy work. But, this whole system could shut down later this week, because the people who drive these trains for a living are so angry, according to Dennis Pierce who's president of the engineer's union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.
"I have never seen this level of anger," Pierce says. "Animosity, acrimony, you pick the word, he says. "That means they're pissed off, 'cause they are." He says even though freight train engineers and conductors haven't had a raise in three years, that's not the issue. "They do not have days off. They do not have a schedule." They're on call, Pierce says, for weeks on end.
Engineers and conductors want more predictable, and flexible, schedules
Railroad engineers and conductors are paid well, typically about $100,000 a year. Even so, former engineer Millie Hood who drove trains 38 years for Burlington Northern Santa Fe says the occupation is brutal. "Yeah, it sucks the life right out of you," Hood says. "You're constantly thinking about the job. when I got off work, I'd go home and go to sleep and I immediately know when I get up that they could call me to go to work."
Engineers and conductors want more predictable, and flexible, schedules. Two unions representing engineers and conductors have been bargaining with the railroads along with 10 other unions representing other railroad workers, for close to three years.
The upshot of all that talking is a compromise hammered this summer out by a Presidential Emergency Board appointed by President Biden. It would offer rail workers the biggest pay hike in decades boosting railroad wages 24% by 2024. But it doesn't get at the work schedule issues, and Pierce says the railroads can do better.
"Union Pacific reported its best year ever last year," Pierce says. "And that's like 160 years-worth of best years, billions of dollars in profits. They can afford everything their employees are asking for. ... "Like hiring enough employees to cover for employees absences when engineers or conductors need time off on short notice."
Still, all the other railroad unions have tentatively signed off on the proposal currently on the table. The engineers and conductors are holding out and they could trigger a strike Friday morning.
A railroad strike could mean "people are not going to be able to make it home"
That would cause immediate problems for manufacturers, says Lee Sanders with the American Bakers Association. This is nationwide. And a broad range of manufacturers who get parts, packaging and raw material delivered by rail would be effected.
"If we don't get the ingredients that we need to our plants, we won't be able to make the products that we need to get our wholesome products to the consumers," Sanders says.
So, empty shelves are a possibility. Farmers are worried too about shipping grain. Dangerous chemicals have already stopped moving. Especially valuable goods are next, and passengers are getting stranded too.
Amtrak is already shutting down some of its long-distance routes. Like the Southwest Chief, from Chicago to Los Angeles, the Silver Star, from New York to Miami and the Empire Builder from Chicago to Portland and Seattle. That's because, outside of the Northeast, most Amtrak trains use tracks that are owned and operated by the big freight railroads. So, if there's a strike, those trains can't run.
At Union Station in Kansas City, Tia Henderson and her baby daughter waited Tuesday for their regular train to St. Louis.
"People need to travel back and forth. People that don't have as much finances, that don't have a car," Henderson says. "So I feel like them stopping that'll be a horrible thing to do because people are not going to be able to make it home."
So a railroad strike could cost billions of dollars and derail lots of travel plans. It's a political nightmare for the party in power. The Biden administration is leaning on the railroads, and holdout unions to come to an agreement.
If they don't and there's a strike, or a lock out, Congress will likely move to force the two sides to accept a deal, and go back to work.
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CINCINNATI (AP)Kevin Newman hit an RBI single in the seventh inning and four pitchers combined on a one-hitter that led the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 Tuesday for a day-night doubleheader sweep.
Bryan Reynolds homered for the second straight game and drove in two runs as Pittsburgh hit three home runs for the second game in a row and won the opener 6-1.
Cincinnati has lost five in a row and was held to one hit for the second time during the skid. The Reds got one run and six hits in the doubleheader.
”We pounded the zone,” Shelton said. ”We went right after them and got the ball on the ground. We played well all day long. There were a lot of positives tonight.”
Pittsburgh is (54-88) assured of its fourth straight losing season and the Reds (56-85) of their seventh in nine years but first since 2019. The last-place Pirates have won three in a row for the first time since sweeping Milwaukee from Aug. 2-4.
Rodolfo Castro doubled with one out in the seventh off Raynel Espinal (0-1), who lost in his Reds debut and second big league appearance after an outing with Boston in August 2021. One out later against Ian Gibaut, Newman singled just off the glove of leaping shortstop Matt Reynolds.
”It’s just really awesome to come through in a scenario like that,” Newman said, ”In a situation like that – low-scoring, one run wins it – to deliver is an excellent feeling.”
Luis Ortiz, a 26-year-old right-hander making his major league debut, allowed one hit in 5 2/3 innings with theee walks and five strikeouts.
”From the moment I woke up, my mindset was to focus on my plan,” Ortiz said through an interpreter. ”I stayed with the plan, and I’m glad the results came through.”
”You have to give their pitcher credit,” Reds manager David Bell said. ”He was outstanding – 100-101 with a tight slider and change up. We believe we’re going to score better than that, but it does start with the pretty impressive stuff that he had.”
Chase De Jong (5-2) allowed one walk over 1 1/3 innings, Yohan Ramirez pitched a perfect eighth and Duane Underwood Jr. worked around a walk in the ninth for his first professional save.
The opener drew 9,338, the Reds’ fourth-lowest at home this season. Three of Cincinnati’s six home crowds under 10,000 have been for games against the Pirates
Cincinnati’s Jake Fraley was hit on the head by Manny Banuelos’ 93.5 mph fastball in the eighth inning of the opener. Down for several minutes, Fraley got to his feet and was led off the field by an athletic trainer. He did not play in the second game.
”It’s part of the game,” Fraley said. ”Any time you go to the plate, there is a chance that it could happen. … It could have been a lot worse. It hit me straight between the C-flap and the brim. It was straight off the helmet. Most of the time when it hits you that square, the manager doesn’t give you a choice. Being that late in the game, it is better to check and make sure everything is good.”
Cal Mitchell hit a two-run shot for his first homer since July 22 and Ke’Bryan Hayes added his first home run since Aug. 7,
Johan Oviedo (1-1) pitched hitless ball into the fifth and allowed one hit over five shutout innings for his first win since his Sept. 1 recall from Triple-A Indianapolis. He struck out four and walked two while lowering his earned-run average to 3.34 in the longest of his three Pittsburgh starts.
”He’s made some adjustments,” Shelton said. ”He was more clean on the mound. His slider was really good and effective.”
”I got more work in the bullpen,” Oviedo said. ”I was trying to get ahead. That’s my best five innings in a while. I was just trying to get through five. Next time, I hope to go deeper.”
Luis Cessa (3-3) gave up five runs and eight hits – including three homers – in his sixth start since being moved from the bullpen. He struck out five and walked one in 5 2/3 innings while slipping to 0-2 as a starter.
CROWDED CLUBHOUSE
Using Kyle Dowdy, promoted as Cincinnati’s 29th player for the doubleheader, and Espinal boosted the Reds’ players-used count to a major league-leading 65 this season. The team already had set a club record for players used in one season. The Pirates reached 64 in the nightcap with Ortiz and Zack Collins.
FAMILIAR FACES
The Reds and Pirates have played three doubleheaders in one season for the first time since 1965. They split the first two. The sweep was Pittsburgh’s first of a nine-inning doubleheader in Cincinnati since Sept. 17, 2016.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Pirates: Reds reliever Kyle Dowdy hit Tyler Heineman with his first pitch after relieving Cessa in the sixth. Heineman stayed in the game.
UP NEXT
Pirates RHP Roansy Contreras (5-4, 3.29) goes up against Reds rookie LHP Nick Lodolo (4-5, 3.78) in Wednesday’s series finale. Contreras allowed one run and four hits in six innings during win against Cincinnati on July 7. Lodolo has never faced the Pirates.
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WASHINGTON (AP)Baltimore Orioles first baseman Ryan Mountcastle told former teammate and current Washington Nationals reliever Hunter Harvey over dinner Monday he would take him deep if he got the chance during a two-game series this week. Harvey countered he would he hit Mountcastle in the back.
Mountcastle’s trash talk proved prophetic Tuesday night, as he homered off Harvey to help the Orioles beat the Nationals 4-3.
”I got him,” Mountcastle said. ”It’s probably one of my favorite home runs I’ve ever hit.”
Mountcastle and the Orioles moved within five games of Tampa Bay for the AL’s final wild-card spot. The Nationals have lost four in a row and six of their last seven to fall a season-high 44 games under .500 at a majors-worst 49-93.
Mountcastle led off the fifth with his 22nd homer, a shot to right-center off Harvey (1-1) to tie it at 3. The former Baltimore prospect said he was not surprised he couldn’t calm down facing his former team.
”I figured it would be, especially with Mountcastle,” Harvey said. ”The dude was in my wedding. I talk to him (just) about every night. When he got in the box, I was like `Oh, here we go.’ I just couldn’t calm down.”
Mountcastle grinned as he rounded first base, and Harvey couldn’t help but to smile as well.
”I started laughing,” Harvey said. ”That’s the first time I ever laughed giving up a home run. It was hard to hide that emotion just because we’re so close. We talk so much trash. He looked at me and was laughing and I knew my phone was going to get blowed up and I knew he was going to wear me out. I was like `This is the worst-case scenario.”’
Gunnar Henderson then doubled, went to third on Ramon Urias’ single and scored on Austin Hays’ bloop double for the go-ahead run.
Mountcastle also singled and walked twice.
”For me, that was the best at-bats he’s taken in months,” Baltimore manager Brandon Hyde said.
Baltimore’s Dean Kremer (7-5) allowed three runs in five-plus innings, yielding eight hits while striking out one. Felix Bautista worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his 13th save in 14 attempts.
Bautista has retired 33 of the 38 batters he has faced since surrendering a home run to Boston’s Xander Bogaerts on Aug. 21.
Baltimore opened the scoring in the first on Henderson’s RBI single. The Nationals tied it in the bottom of the inning on Luis Garcia’s run-scoring double, then went ahead on Luke Voit’s RBI single and Garcia’s RBI grounder in the third. The Orioles cut it to 3-2 when Cedric Mullins grounded into a double play in the fourth.
Washington starter Cory Abbott allowed two runs and struck out three in three-plus innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Orioles: 2B Rougned Odor, who left Sunday game after being hit on the right hand, was available to pinch hit. . RHP Rico Garcia cleared outright waivers and was assigned to Triple-A Norfolk.
Nationals: Manager Dave Martinez said LHP MacKenzie Gore (elbow inflammation) would throw a bullpen session Wednesday with the hopes of making another rehabilitation start Friday. Gore threw 1 2/3 scoreless innings Sunday for Triple-A Rochester. . DH Nelson Cruz (blurry vision) was removed for a pinch hitter in the fifth.
UP NEXT
Orioles RHP Tyler Wells (7-6, 3.91 ERA) will make his second start Wednesday night since returning from the injured list as the two-game series concludes. Nationals LHP Patrick Corbin (6-18, 6.30) leads the majors in losses.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — It’s less than ten minutes walk from the Falls Road to the Shankill Road in Northern Ireland’s capital, where Catholics and Protestants still live in segregated enclaves.
But to hear people in these adjoining neighborhoods explain their almost diametrically opposite views of the British monarchy, it might as well be 1,000 miles.
And so as King Charles III arrived in Northern Ireland for the first visit since his mother’s death elevated him to the throne, the voices of Belfast offered a sharp reminder of the country’s persistent, complicated and, at times, bloody political realities.
On the street residents call The Shankill — center of a Protestant neighborhood with a long history of loyalty to the crown — British flags fluttered over shops and from light poles. At the foot of a giant mural of a young Elizabeth II proclaiming her “the people’s monarch,” many proud to be her subjects came bearing flowers and notes of emotional farewell.
“We swore our allegiance to the queen and she stuck by us,” said Jacqueline Humphries, 58, once a soldier in the Ulster Defence Regiment, established by the British Army to police Northern Ireland during the decades of sectarian violence known as The Troubles. “I think Charles will do just as good a job. She trained him well.”
Not half a mile away on the Falls Road — the nationalist stronghold that served as base for the Irish Republican Army and its decades-long guerrilla campaign against British rule — those heading to work Tuesday brushed off any suggestion that Charles’ visit could validate the crown’s claim to Northern Ireland.
“They can believe that, but we still believe we will get a united Ireland,” said Paul Walker, 55, walking past a 3-story-high mural of Bobby Sands, an IRA militant who died while on a hunger strike in prison in 1981.
Charles is “not our king. Bobby Sands was our king here,” said 52-year-old Bobby Jones. “Queen never done nothing for us. Never did. None of the royals do.”
Walker and others said Queen Elizabeth II had earned a measure of respect, if never affection, for her decision in 2012 to shake hands with Martin McGuinness, the former IRA commander who went on to serve as Northern Ireland’s deputy first minister. But Charles is unwelcome.
“He won’t be up here much. We don’t have a place for Charles,” said a man named Christy, 61, who like others declined to provide his full name, pointing to Belfast’s fading, but brutally memorable, record of retribution on both sides.
The new king walked a delicate line Tuesday, thanking Northern Ireland officials for their condolences and praise of his mother for her efforts to foster reconciliation.
The queen, he said, “felt deeply, I know, the significance of the role she herself played in bringing together those whom history had separated, and in extending a hand to make possible the healing of long-held hurts.”
It’s not clear, though, if Charles will benefit from goodwill earned by his mother. She had decades to build a reputation as a steadfast leader even in the most difficult of times; not so, her son, who some see as aloof. And nowhere else in the lands that make up this less than United Kingdom is the divide over the crown so fierce.
Most of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1921 after a guerrilla war. But Northern Ireland, where a Protestant majority favored Britain, remained a part of the United Kingdom.
The shaky peace exploded in August 1969 with sectarian violence after protests by the Catholic minority for civil rights. The British Army sent in forces, ostensibly to contain the violence and protect Catholics.
“Army in Control Here For At Least Four Months,” warned the front page of The Irish News, now displayed in a museum of IRA history just off the Falls Road.
Instead, The Troubles lasted nearly 30 years, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people.
A few minutes in either neighborhood is all it takes to unearth memories of the violence and the gaping divide over the role of the British government.
“Once you saw the Brits, once you saw the police, you went running the other way because you were guilty before you innocent,” said Damian Burns, a postal worker, walking to work past the offices of Sinn Fein, the political party long affiliated with the IRA that is now the largest in Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government.
The Sinn Fein bookstore onsite sells posters with a portrait of Sands over the slogan: “England Get Out of Ireland.”
Over on the Shankill, Humphries, now a housing assistance counselor, recalled that when The Troubles started she was living in an area mixed with both Protestants and Catholics. After joining the British-allied military she received death threats from the Irish National Liberation Army, forcing a move to the loyalist neighborhood where she has lived ever since. Others on both sides also moved to be near those like them, and the city became even more divided.
The royal family was not immune to the violence. In 1979, the IRA assassinated Lord Louis Mountbatten, a cousin of the queen and mentor to Charles , detonating a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat. Three others also died.
The Troubles finally ended with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. But all these years later, the Falls Road and the Shankill remain divided from one another by a “Peace Line” — high walls with steel gates that are still closed each evening.
Charles, unwanted by some here and unproven to others, will have to thread his way carefully through the volatility. But it could offer valuable lessons – at least in what not to do – for the new monarch. In Scotland, where a referendum on independence from Britain was narrowly defeated in 2014, rhetoric remains heated and officials are pushing for a follow-up vote. In Wales, too, some people bridle at being kept under London’s control.
Residents of Belfast will be watching closely, regardless of their allegiances.
On the Falls Road of 25 or 30 years ago, the queen was vilified as a symbol of British oppression, said Walker, who is confident the two Irelands will eventually be united.
He won’t change his mind about that, he said, but even with a bitter past, he’s become more willing to see the queen, who was 96, as more than a foe.
She was, after all, someone’s grandmother.
“It’s always in the back of your mind who these people are,” he said, “and not just that they’re the head of military forces.”
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MEDINA — It has been little more than year since Roger and Heather Hungerford opened the doors at the restored Bent’s Opera House, a project more than three years in the making.
The building boasts an upscale restaurant staffed by world-class chef Lionel Heydel on the first floor, themed and professionally designed boutique hotel rooms on the second floor and the majestic opera house on the third floor.
The Hungerfords are beginning to promote the opera house as an event/entertainment venue. They’re encouraging the community to think of it when looking for a place for private or public events. Swing dance lessons and swing dancing are underway on the third Thursday every month. People can register for lessons online or just show up at the door; a 45-minute lesson starts at 6:30 p.m. and is followed by open dancing at 7:15.
Heather Hungerford, who is managing Bent’s, is aiming to have one or two major events in the opera house each month. The Easy Street Big Band played a concert there on Sept. 9. Planning is underway for a New Year’s Eve ball with a Great Gatsby theme. Packages including a hotel room and / or dinner will be offered.
At Harvest Restaurant, Wine Paired Dinner is featured on the last Sunday of the month. Each of seven courses is paired with a wine chosen by that evening’s featured sommelier. The next dinner on Sept. 25 will feature the head sommelier from Disney Cruise Lines.
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Roger Hungerford purchased Bent’s from Orleans Renaissance Group, which had been given the building when Bank of America left Medina. Shortly after the purchase, an engineer’s inspection showed the ancient building is in danger of collapse due to deterioration of a main beam holding it up. Hungerford said previously that had he known what he was getting into, he might not have signed on for it, but since he did, he wouldn’t let a historic building in the center of his hometown fall to ruin. Restoration design began in 2016. The work cost millions and took 3-1/2 years, counting Covid-related shutdowns.
While Bent’s was being restored, Hungerford formed Talis Historic Restoration to to deal with two other properties he had acquired in the village: Medina High School on Catherine Street and the Luther mansion on West Center Street.
The old high school, renamed Mustang City, has a new roof and all restored and winterized windows. Design of high end loft apartments is in progress, according to Talis Historic Restoration’s Travis Farnsworth. The Luther mansion, now called Stonehurst, will be restored as a historically consistent single-family home, Hungerford said.
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Hungerford, who is well-known in the medical industry, considers his primary focus to be the design of high-acuity electronic medical devices and software. In the Olde Pickle Factory, his industrial park, AMGIS (led by Jason Maine) is working on a revolutionary approach to intravenous fluid and drug delivery. This past December, Hungerford sold a company in that space, Talis Clinical of Cleveland, which is now owned by Getinge.
Hungerford’s involvement in the medical industry goes back to his father Van Hungerford, who worked at and later owned Sigmamotor. His father is credited with inventing the world’s first heart pump, and Roger’s contributions to the industry include inventing an intravenous delivery pump and a cardiopulmonary bypass pump and developing an advanced clinical guidance software tool that electronically connects and integrates all manner of patient data. This is used especially for patients who are on multiple units, such as seizure pumps, infusion pumps and cardiopulmonary pumps.
So, where to from here?
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden made a quick jaunt to his home state on Tuesday evening to vote in Delaware’s primary, one of the last round of contests ahead of the November elections.
Biden is well known for taking any excuse to escape the White House for his family home, but most of his trips are during weekends. This time he and first lady Jill Biden were gone for only a few hours, which still required the usual assortment of security and motorcades, plus a flight on Air Force One.
The president didn’t say why he declined to cast a mail ballot, which is allowed in Delaware, a voting strategy that Democrats have emphasized to increase turnout.
Biden voted at the Laird Performing Arts Center at the Tatnall School before making a quick stop at his house in Wilmington. During the last election, when he was the Democratic presidential candidate, he cast an early ballot at the Carvel State Office Building in October 2020.
Presidents often look for opportunities to return to their home states to vote in person. In October 2020, Donald Trump voted early at his West Palm Beach, Florida, precinct before a full day of campaigning in key swing states for his failed reelection bid. Barack Obama did the same in Illinois during the 2014 midterms as he campaigned for the state’s incumbent governor and Democratic senator.
Rhode Island and New Hampshire also are holding primary contests on Tuesday.
The sole competitive statewide contest in heavily Democratic Delaware is for state auditor, where incumbent Kathleen McGuiness is running for reelection despite being convicted of conflict of interest and other misdemeanor charges in July. Under Delaware law, McGuiness — who is awaiting sentencing — was allowed to stay on the ballot.
The conviction, stemming from the hiring of McGuiness’s daughter in her office, made the auditor the first statewide elected official in Delaware’s history to be convicted of criminal charges while in office. She is being challenged by Lydia York, a lawyer who has the backing of the state’s Democratic Party and would be the first Black person in that role if elected.
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Which Playmobil set is best?
There’s nothing better than watching a child engage with a world of their own creation. Playmobil sets let them build simple to elaborate scenes, using scenarios based on their real-world experience or a fantasy world full of knights and fairies. These toys build on each other so kids can collect more to tell increasingly complex stories.
For a set that includes multiple figures and features a favorite childhood place, the Playmobil Adventure Playground is the best.
What to know before you buy a Playmobil set
Assembly
Many of the accessories and figures are ready to use out of the box, but expect to help your child put a new Playmobil set together if they are under the age of 6. Older children can use the included instruction booklet to assemble their set. Some of the attachment points require some force to get together securely.
Once the set is put together, your child will not need to disassemble it to add elements to their play.
Size
All Playmobil toys are a standard size, whether they’re from the City Life line or a Dino Rise set. Some include small accessories. These are recommended for children age 3 and older.
Keep in mind that these small pieces, such as the water bottle included with the Adventure Playground set or the coins in the Pirate Raider set, cannot be purchased on their own. Make sure you establish a reliable way to store them so they do not get lost.
Compatibility
All Playmobil sets are compatible with each other, one of their top benefits. Children can combine toys to play together in an entire world of their own design. The figures of one set can also be used in other vehicles, houses and structures. This means the pirate can fly a jet while the pilot steers the pirate’s ship. This open-ended play encourages kids to use their imaginations.
What to look for in a quality Playmobil set
Realistic figures
The City Life, Family Fun and Country sets are designed to provide realistic play scenarios that replicate common events and places in a child’s life. These include playing at the park on the swings or slide, going camping or visiting the pediatrician. These sets are ideal for letting your child learn more about these places and situations through play. They also let them form their own opinions and connections about things that are parts of their life.
Engages interest
Playmobil sets have something for every child, from fairies and princesses to dinosaurs and fire rescue vehicles. Look for a set that caters to your child’s likes. One of the best aspects of the compatibility between sets is it does not limit your child to one interest. They can crew a pirate ship with farmers and firemen from other sets, pushing them to think of new stories.
Included storage
Some sets come with a storage case, loved by parents trying to keep track of all the pieces. Most storage cases are large enough to hold multiple sets. If you are looking for your child’s first Playmobil toy, consider one with storage you can use for future additions as well.
Toys designated as Starter Sets usually include a case and are some of the most budget-friendly.
How much you can expect to spend on a Playmobil set
They cost $9-$190, depending on size and included accessories.
Playmobil set FAQ
How many Playmobil sets are there?
A. Playmobil has made thousands of sets since launching in the 1970s, although not all are currently in circulation. The most common sets include the City Life and Family Fun themes. Some are made with popular characters, such as those from “Star Trek” and “How to Train Your Dragon.”
Is Playmobil better than Lego?
A. Playmobil encourages open-ended play and world-building. It also has more real-world scenarios and figures that let children create stories that fit into their actual everyday experiences. Lego sets have more opportunities for mechanical construction. They also have more characters based on popular movies and TV shows.
What’s the best Playmobil set to buy?
Top Playmobil set
Playmobil Adventure Playground
What you need to know: Your child can act out playing on the playground with their figures, just like they do in real life.
What you’ll love: The set includes an adult, two children and a toddler. The playground structure has everything from a slide to a rock wall and swing. It also comes with separate accessories to make play even more realistic, including a seesaw, stroller, sandbox kit and scooter.
What you should consider: There are a lot of small pieces and no included storage.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Top Playmobil set for the money
Playmobil Camping Adventure Carry Case Set
What you need to know: The included carrying case can hold multiple sets as your child builds their collection.
What you’ll love: It includes everything for camping, such as a tent, campfire and backpack. The two figures fit in the canoe and can hold the fishing poles, cooking sticks and canoe paddles. This is the ideal set for portability and storage.
What you should consider: This set is recommended for kids ages 4 and up.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
Worth checking out
Playmobil Volkswagen T1 Camping Bus
What you need to know: It engages adults’ nostalgia as much as kids’ imaginations.
What you’ll love: It uses the iconic look of the Volkswagon camper van, from the red-and-white vehicle exterior to the plaid seats that fold down to create a bed. It comes with two figures and plenty of accessories, such as toothbrush and toothpaste, luggage, map, camera and food. Everything fits inside the van or on the roof luggage rack when you are done playing.
What you should consider: There aren’t any child figures with this set, which may limit the way your child can play and envision themselves in their story.
Where to buy: Sold by Amazon
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With soaring utility prices mounting great pressure on the hospitality industry and winter right around the corner, the owner of a beloved Herne Bay café has aired her fears of losing her "dream shop". Gingerbreads Snack Bar, on Stanley Road, has been a feature of the town for some 20 years, but as gas and electricity bills skyrocket, owner and single mum Emma Webb has growing fears of closure.
It has recently been confirmed that the energy price cap will soar to £3,549 a year in October for domestic properties. However, businesses will not enjoy such a cap, and are beginning to feel the pressures brought about by the utility crisis.
Some businesses have reported seeing their energy bills triple over the last year. Meanwhile, others have raised concerns about simply getting customers through the door, as the cost of living crisis has left countless families with very little month to month spending money.
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For Emma, it has been a combination of the two factors, so she has now resorted to creating a GoFundMe page to help Gingerbreads get the financial boost it so desperately needs at this time. Since going live at the start of the week, the page has amassed nearly £400 in donations, but the café still has a way to go before reaching the set goal of £7,000.
‘To not succeed in something I love doing is devastating’
Emma, who has now been running the café for six years, described the role Gingerbreads has played within the community from its ideal location near Herne Bay Infant School. She said: “It’s amazing, everyone comes and meets you in the morning, we have meetings.
“Carers come in with their kids, doctors come in, all the parents, the children. I feel I’m quite loved in Herne Bay, and I do feel lucky. It’s a lovely little place, people love coming here.”
However, the pressures have started to build. Emma continues: “The last year’s been quite bad, I thought I was in control of it at the beginning, but no, it’s just getting worse and worse.
“The toughest part is just how expensive the world’s got for a little shop. I’m a single mum, I’ve got my own house, my own bills and things, I should be coming to work and making profit, getting a nice income.
“Overall, I’m just a bit heart-broken with it all, it’s my little dream shop. To not succeed in something that I love doing, when I have succeeded in the beginning, is devastating really.
“I’m starting to have to pay to come to work, it’s not how it should be. Before I think of selling, or closing down, getting another job, I’ve got to try just to see how it goes, do whatever I can I guess.”
‘I don’t want to lose Gingerbreads’
Emma continued on to talk about the response from the local community as the business has begun to struggle. She said: “I think everyone’s quite shocked I wasn’t doing as well as what they thought I was doing.
“They don’t want to lose Gingerbreads, I don’t want to lose Gingerbreads. Just everything is restricting people to spend money and come out.”
Like many other businesses at this time, Emma has had to raise prices to compete with rising bills, but has reservations around doing so. “I put my prices up about a month ago, but I only put them up about 25p,” she said
“I don’t want to charge too much, I know I need to put things up a bit more but on the other hand, everything’s gone up but people’s wages, so people can’t spend extra. If I put my prices up in the shop, people can’t afford that. Everyone’s in the same boat at the moment.”
Emma finished by saying: “I just need some help to stay open. So just come in, shop local, use Gingerbreads, I just need more customers to come back in.”
The GoFundMe page for Gingerbreads Snack Bar can be found here.
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While countless homes across the nation continue to wrestle with the ever tightening cost of living crisis, perhaps the expense that has sparked the most conversation this year has been that of fuel prices. Earlier this year, Kent saw some forecourts selling fuel for nearly £2 a litre.
While prices have gradually fallen back down somewhat, supermarkets have been slammed for not bringing these prices down quick enough. When looking for fuel these days, you will still find great fluctuations in prices and not just between individual forecourts, but between districts in the county also.
If we look at the differences between East and West Kent for example, these differences become rather apparent. East Kent contains the districts of Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet, while West Kent comprises Sevenoaks, Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.
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Looking for the cheapest petrol prices in East Kent, PetrolPrices.com tells us that Sainsbury’s Ashford Bybrook holds the cheapest, at 163.p per litre. Meanwhile the cheapest diesel can be found at Low Prices Always Ashford (Ashford Service Station), costing 178.8p per litre.
In West Kent, the cheapest petrol was found at Shell Tunbridge Wells (Shell St Johns) at 166.9p, a noticeable difference from its East Kent counterpart. The cheapest diesel was also higher, at 179.9p from Tesco Sevenoaks Riverhead, with diesel seeming noticeably more expensive across the board in West Kent.
Below are the cheapest choices for petrol and diesel in East and West Kent. All information is accurate as of September 14 2022.
East Kent
Ashford - petrol
Sainsbury’s Ashford Bybrook - 163.9p
Esso Hythe Road - 164.9p
BP Brookfield Road - 164.9p
Ashford - diesel
Low Prices Always Ashford (Ashford Service Station) - 178.8p
Sainsbury’s Ashford Bybrook - 178.9p
Tesco Ashford Park Farm - 178.9p
Canterbury - petrol
Asda Canterbury - 168.7p
Tesco Whitstable Extra - 168.9p
Morrisons Canterbury - 169.7p
Canterbury - diesel
Asda Canterbury - 179.7p
Tesco Whitstable Extra - 179.9p
Esso Wincheap - 181.9p
Dover - petrol
Tesco Dover Extra - 168.9p
BP Limekiln Street - 169.0p
BP Folkestone Road - 169.9p
Dover - diesel
Tesco Dover Extra - 179.9p
BP A2 (Whitfield Services) - 181.9p
BP Folkestone Road (MFG Priory) - 184.9p
Folkestone & Hythe - petrol
Gulf Folkestone (Hawkinge Fuel Express Automat) - 165.7p
BP Hythe (Hythe Service Station) - 167.9p
Esso Hythe (MFG Central Garage, Hythe) - 167.9p
Folkestone & Hythe - diesel
Sainsbury’s West Park Farm - 179.9p
Tesco Folkestone - 179.9p
Shell Folkestone - 181.5p
Thanet - petrol
Gulf Broadstairs (Broadway Garage) - 166.9p
Gulf Ramsgate Road (Richborough Service Station) - 166.9p
Shell Ramsgate (Shell Royal Oak) - 167.9p
Thanet - diesel
Tesco Ramsgate Manston - 179.9p
Shell Ramsgate (Shell Royal Oak) - 179.9p
Sainsbury’s Thanet - 179.9p
West Kent
Sevenoaks - petrol
BP Sevenoaks (MFG St Johns Hill) - 167.9p
Shell Seal Road (MFG Sevenoaks) - 167.9p
Tesco Sevenoaks Riverhead - 168.9p
Sevenoaks - diesel
Tesco Sevenoaks Riverhead - 179.9p
Sainsbury’s Sevenoaks - 180.9p
Harvest Energy London Road (Hildenborough Service Station) - 182.9p
Tonbridge & Malling - petrol
Shell Tunbridge Wells (Shell St Johns) - 166.9p
BP Tunbridge Wells (Church View SF Connect) - 167.9p
Sainsbury’s Tonbridge - 168.9p
Tonbridge - diesel
Harvest Energy London Road (Hildenborough Service Station) - 182.9p
Esso Pembury (RSS Pembury) - 182.9p
Esso Eridge Road (RSS Pantiles) - 182.9p
Tunbridge Wells - petrol
Shell Tunbridge Wells (Shell St Johns) - 166.9p
BP Tunbridge Wells (Church View SF Connect) - 167.9p
Sainsbury’s Tunbridge Wells - 168.9p
Tunbridge Wells - diesel
Esso Eridge Road (RSS Pantiles) - 182.9p
Sainsbury’s Tunbridge Wells - 182.9p
Esso Pembury (RSS Pembury) - 182.9p
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
- 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona traces its lineage to the 1960s and 1970s West Coast drag-racing scene
- Special-edition 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona bumps the Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody to 807 horsepower
- Only 300 of the 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona special-edition vehicles will be produced
- 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona pairs Go Mango exterior with unique orange interior appearance
- Exterior stands out with Satin Black King Daytona rear fender graphics, Satin Carbon Warp Speed wheels, Satin Chrome exterior badging and more
- Black Nappa/Alcantara "Daytona" seats with orange stitching and King Daytona orange instrument panel badge highlight the interior
- Orange interior stitching accents the instrument panel, console, steering wheel and door trim
- Sixth special-edition Dodge "Last Call" model will be revealed on Sept. 21, 2022
- Seventh and final 2023 special-edition model — the very last of its kind — will be revealed at the 2022 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, scheduled for Nov. 1-4, 2022
- Like all 2023 Dodge Challenger and Charger models, Dodge Charger King Daytona will carry a commemorative "Last Call" underhood plaque
- Details and specific information on Dodge "Last Call" models available at Dodge.com
- Information on the Never Lift 24-month road map to the Dodge brand's future is available at DodgeGarage.com
The Dodge brand's "Last Call" lineup heads into the homestretch with a special-edition Dodge vehicle that owns a royal racing pedigree: the 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona.
The 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona traces its lineage to a famous monarch of the 1960s and 1970s West Coast drag-racing scene: William "Big Willie" Robinson, who nicknamed his 1969 Dodge Charger "King Daytona" and used it not only in claiming victory at the drag strip, but also in keeping racers on the track and off the streets. The 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona honors the original by bumping performance to 807 horsepower and pairing a Go Mango exterior with unique orange interior accents.
The 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona represents the fifth of seven special-edition Dodge "Last Call" models that celebrate the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger, which in their current form are coming to an end. The Dodge Charger King Daytona follows previously announced Dodge Challenger Shakedown, Dodge Charger Super Bee and Dodge Challenger and Charger Scat Pack Swinger models.
Only two more Dodge "Last Call" models will be announced: one on September 21, 2022, and the seventh and final special-edition model — the very last of its kind — at the 2022 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, scheduled for Nov. 1-4, 2022.
"The special-edition Dodge Charger King Daytona honors a true icon of muscle car history," said Tim Kuniskis, Dodge brand chief executive officer – Stellantis. "The final Dodge 'Last Call' models will continue to celebrate the legacy of the Dodge Charger and Challenger by paying tribute to two vehicles that hold a special place in our brand's history."
2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona
Only 300 of the 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona "Last Call" models will be produced, all based on the Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody in vivid Go Mango exterior color. The 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona adds:
- Extra 10 horsepower that takes the Charger SRT Hellcat Redeye from 797 to 807 hp
- Satin Black King Daytona rear fender graphics
- Satin Black hood and roof graphics
- 20-by-11-inch Satin Carbon Warp Speed wheels
- Satin Chrome exterior badging
- Orange six-piston Brembo brakes
- Bright Mopar hood pin kit
- Satin Black spoiler
- Black Nappa/Alcantara "Daytona" seats with orange stitching
- King Daytona interior instrument panel badge
- Orange interior accent stitching on the instrument panel, console, steering wheel and door trim
- Suede headliner
- Carbon fiber interior bezels
- Alcantara steering wheel
- Harman Kardon premium audio system
- Power sunroof
- Navigation package
The 2023 Dodge Charger King Daytona, as with all seven of the "Last Call" special-edition models, will be allocated to specific dealerships, with pricing and dealer information shared on DodgeGarage.com when vehicle ordering opens later this fall.
Details on the Dodge "Last Call" models are available at Dodge.com. Information on the Never Lift 24-month road map to the Dodge brand's future is available at DodgeGarage.com.
"Last Call" Highlights
In addition to the seven "Last Call" special-edition models, Dodge brand will also celebrate its 2023 model lineup by bringing back three beloved heritage exterior colors: B5 Blue, Plum Crazy purple and Sublime green. One popular modern color, Destroyer Grey, also returns to the fold. Charger and Challenger will each offer 14 total 2023 exterior color options. 2023 Charger and Challenger R/T models will also feature new "345" fender badging, a callout to the 345-cubic-inch HEMI® engine under the hood.
All 2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger models will also carry a special commemorative "Last Call" underhood plaque, making every 2023 Charger and Challenger especially desirable. The brushed aluminum underhood "Last Call" plaque features the vehicle name and a vehicle silhouette, as well as "Designed in Auburn Hills" and "Assembled in Brampton" to proclaim each vehicle's origin.
The brand is also expanding the reach of its popular SRT Jailbreak models, which were introduced earlier this year for the Dodge Charger and Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Widebody, unlocking color combination ordering restrictions and exclusive content. For 2023 model year, Jailbreak models will also be available for the 717-horsepower Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat, providing even more owners the option of building their own one-of-a-kind muscle car.
Dodge is taking a new approach in getting the Charger and Challenger in the hands of its enthusiasts. The entire 2023 Charger and Challenger model-year run will be allocated to dealerships all at once, helping customers to identify and secure their dream cars more easily. Dodge will provide customers a guide for locating their desired Charger or Challenger at DodgeGarage.com, which will include information on all 2023 Charger and Challenger inventory at each Dodge dealership.
Ordering information for the 2023 Dodge Charger and Challenger will be announced fall 2022.
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For more than 100 years, the Dodge brand has carried on the spirit of brothers John and Horace Dodge. Their influence continues today as Dodge shifts into high gear with a lineup that delivers unrivaled performance in each of the segments where they compete.
Dodge drives forward as a pure performance brand, offering SRT Hellcat versions of the Dodge Challenger, Dodge Charger and Dodge Durango, as well as an R/T plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) version of the all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet, representing the brand's first-ever electrified performance vehicle. Dodge delivers the drag-strip dominating 807-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Super Stock; the 797-horsepower Dodge Charger SRT Redeye, the most powerful and fastest mass-produced sedan in the world; and the 710-horsepower Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat, the most powerful SUV ever; and best-in-class standard performance in the compact utility vehicle segment with the Dodge Hornet. Combined, these four muscle vehicles make Dodge the industry's most powerful brand, offering more horsepower than any other American brand across its entire lineup.
In 2022, the Dodge brand ranked No. 1 in the J.D. Power APEAL Study (mass market), making it the only domestic brand ever to do so three years in a row. In 2020, Dodge was named the "#1 Brand in Initial Quality," making it the first domestic brand ever to rank No. 1 in the J.D. Power Initial Quality Study (IQS).
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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- "The BED ASSIST is an aid for daily living designed to provide added independence when getting into or out of bed. This practical product would be employed by anyone who has difficulty getting in and out of bed, such as the elderly and disabled individuals." said inventor from Riverside, CA "I created this idea for my mother who needed help getting in and out of bed, and wanted to help others who are also dealing with disabilities."
This innovative invention would be convent, safe, easy to use, efficient, as well as the reduce risk of injury, offering peace of mind. The BED ASSIST would allow independence, increased self-esteem, dignity, comfort, and a reduced risk of injury with this product. Also this practical product could save individuals money that may have been used to purchase a hospital bed or Hoyer lift.
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In the June primary election, we strongly endorsed former Long Beach police Chief Robert Luna for sheriff of Los Angeles County.
In the November general election for which he has emerged as the key challenger to disastrous current Sheriff Alex Villanueva, we strongly endorse Luna again.
We noted then that we believe it is time for a change at the top in county law enforcement. Plain and simple, Sheriff Villanueva has proven on numerous fronts to be incapable of doing the crucial job in a sensible manner.
In the months since the primary, Villanueva has only reinforced the clear fact that his vindictive, personality-based, go-it-alone approach to policing and to politics is, to put it mildly, the wrong fit for the job. He continues to lash out at his fellow elected county colleagues on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, all of whom have endorsed Luna for sheriff. He refuses to cooperate with the oversight of Inspector General Max Huntsman. He blows off subpoenas to appear before the Civilian Oversight Commission. In a dangerous challenge to free speech and the press, he launched a smear campaign against a reporter who covers his office objectively. He has to go.
In a recent editorial board interview, Luna noted that “Villanueva can’t go five days without being in the news, in a bad way. It’s almost like a TV reality show — a bad one.”
Luna has concrete plans: “The first thing that I’m going to focus on is reducing crime and making our streets safer. We are going to hire the best people — job No. 1 is keeping people safe. You can’t reduce crime unless you are working very hard to restore public trust and credibility. I will bring new leadership and accountability, and all of my employees will be held accountable. I will assemble a team of the best and the brightest — it’s about integrity. You have to be loyal to the oath of our office. Sometimes people forget about that. I will not forget.”
Luna’s goal is “to repair all the damaged relationships this man has destroyed, relationships across the board — with the people, the Board of Supervisors, community groups, the oversight organizations — no more us vs. them mentality. I want to hire an independent entity to do a top-to-bottom assessment of the Sheriff’s Department: the budget, the way we investigate.”
On deputy gangs that plague the department: “The first thing is you acknowledge the problem, which he won’t do. Then you fix it. … Let’s roll up our sleeves. Let’s reduce crime through community partnerships, through data, through cooperation. Let’s stop blaming.”
Let’s elect Robert Luna to do just that.
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Keeping Disneyland’s 17,000 trees green and 1,000 floral beds blooming takes a mammoth effort by the Anaheim theme park’s horticulture team that’s focused on reducing water consumption during Southern California’s latest drought.
Constant readings from Disneyland’s weather station in the Toy Story parking lot combined with a sophisticated irrigation control system have allowed the horticulture team to cut water usage by 13% compared to the same period last year, according to Disneyland officials.
”We have almost 1,000 floral beds if you add them up resort wide including the hotels,” Disneyland Horticulture Manager John Schrimsher said. “Figuring out what goes where is a very complicated piece of logistics.”
Disneyland is currently ahead of schedule on its commitment to reducing irrigation usage by 11% under a plan approved by the state, according to Disneyland officials.
To keep that pace up, Disneyland is relying on rain, temperature, wind, sunlight, evaporation and “plant sweat” data from the park’s weather station to determine how much to water and when to turn off the spigot.
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Disneyland has its own distinct climate thanks to the earthen berm that surrounds the perimeter, miles of reflective hardscape and rivers of man made waterways. All of Southern California’s heat waves, cold spells, rain storms, droughts and Santa Ana winds add to the calculations that must be factored into determining just how much water Disneyland’s trees and planter beds need on any given day.
“Our weather station tells us basically how much water we need to replenish plants with,” Disneyland Irrigation Specialist Craig Landis said. “That’s all automated once it’s all set up.”
Neighboring weather stations in central Orange County and long-term forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supplement data from Disneyland’s weather station.
Moisture sensors at 60 locations throughout Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and the three Disneyland resort hotels calculate the amount of water depleted daily from the resort’s 1,000 planter beds and the data allows the horticulture team to determine how much water to apply each day.
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The process of water moving from the ground to the atmosphere is known as evapotranspiration — or more commonly as “plant sweat.”
“Plants actually sweat,” Landis said at Disneyland’s irrigation command center. “Water enters the plant through the roots and works its way through the capillary system. It cools the plant and it’s part of photosynthesis.”
Plant sweat calculations from the Disneyland weather station allow the park’s horticulture team to adjust watering runtimes for planters and trees — with an eye toward saving water.
Irrigation and water lines throughout the 500-acre resort can be controlled by a click of a mouse by the Disneyland water management team. The park’s central water control system immediately shuts down irrigation lines if it starts raining and cancels watering plans for the next day.
“It doesn’t anticipate whether it’s going to rain, but if it does rain then it’s going to shut the system down,” Landis said.
A tipping rain bucket at the Disneyland weather station tied into the irrigation system measures moisture within one-hundredth of an inch.
“We have it set at four hundredths of an inch,” Landis said. “So if we get to four tips, then it’ll shut the system down.”
If a storm rolls in, Disneyland’s water management system determines the holdover amount and doesn’t turn on the park’s irrigation system for two or three days until the holdover is depleted.
More than 100 internet-connected controllers manage nearly 1,000 irrigation valves that feed more than 60 miles of sprinkler and drip lines throughout the resort.
Flow sensors in the drip and sprinkler lines send readings to the park’s irrigation control center that allow the Disneyland water management team to make real-time watering adjustments and manage leaks and breaks.
The flow sensors are everywhere at the 21-year-old Disney California Adventure and Downtown Disney, but less so at the 67-year-old Disneyland — providing the park’s water management team the opportunity to make continued conservation strides in the future.
While drip lines that use 50% less water can run anytime, Disneyland doesn’t run water sprinklers while visitors are in the park. Watering is done nightly within a very tight window of 2 to 6 a.m.
Disneyland doesn’t take a one-size-fits-all approach to watering. Varied planting themes in Frontierland, Tomorrowland and Main Street U.S.A. present a number of issues to consider — from soil type and root depth to ground slope and shade level.
“Control of water is really important for us,” Landis said. “The idea is if you’re irrigating an area to keep the water only in that area. No overspray. No runoff. Because if it runs off it just either goes down a drain or it evaporates.”
SEE ALSO: How does Disneyland make Halloween food scary? By making it spicy
A wealth of data takes the guesswork out of watering — helping Disneyland to use less water today than 10 years ago while the resort continues to strive toward its water conservation goals.
“We don’t want to overwater. We don’t want to under-water,” Landis said. “We want to supply just the amount of water that’s necessary so the plants and trees can thrive.”
Disneyland uses other water saving efforts that don’t involve pinching the hose and minding every drop.
Drought tolerant plants dominate the landscapes in Frontierland and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. In other parts of the park, the groundscape needs to thematically match the themed land. The plant life in New Orleans Square needs to look like it fits in the Big Easy and the shores of the Rivers of America must evoke the environs of the Mississippi, Missouri, Columbia and Rio Grande rivers that the man-made waterway navigates. Main Street U.S.A. bursts with seasonal color that changes at least six times a year.
Plants from other regions of the United States don’t always thrive in Southern California — and often need more water to do so. Non-native plants — often from Australia, which has a climate similar to here — play the role of thematically accurate trees and plants while using much less water.
Mulch is used extensively throughout Disneyland planters to help keep soil temperatures down, prevent water evaporation and serve as an insulating blanket.
Artificial turf that requires zero watering is replacing natural grass at an increasing rate throughout the Disneyland and across the resort as the ultimate drought-fighting solution.
Disneyland brings in truckloads of plants every week to replace flower beds that have been trampled by unsupervised children and plucked by curious adults who don’t believe the flora in the land of make believe are real.
The Disneyland resort replaces enough plants and flowers every week to fill two NBA basketball courts from a backstage nursery staging area packed with enough perennials, annuals and autotrophs to give Mickey Mouse a green thumb.
“The guests can be a little damaging to the park sometimes,” Schrimsher said. “A lot of folks will come in and they’ll think something’s not real. They might even grab the flower and pull the whole plant out of the ground.”
Some of the daily nursery deliveries are trucked in for seasonal installations that turn Main Street U.S.A. from Fourth of July red, white and blue to Halloween orange and gold — but a shocking number of plants and flowers in the resort’s 1,000 planter beds are destroyed by Disneyland visitors.
Disneyland’s flower and plant beds are damaged daily by children playing in floral displays, riders waiting in attraction queues and visitors walking through railing-less planters.
For every planter surrounded by a railing on Main Street U.S.A. or in Fantasyland, there are just as many planters without railings in Frontierland and Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
The scale of Disneyland’s garden operation is staggering by backyard horticulturist standards.
Disneyland’s mammoth backstage garden nursery is 180 feet long by 50 feet wide — the size of two NBA basketball courts. Just under half the Disneyland nursery space is covered for shade plants with the uncovered half filled with a flowery rainbow of colors.
Both the sun and shade areas of the nursery are divided into lands just like Disneyland — with low tables for Galaxy’s Edge, Critter Country, Adventureland, Mickey’s Toontown, Fantasyland, Tomorrowland, New Orleans Square, Frontierland and Main Street U.S.A.
Most of the plants in Disneyland’s nursery rarely sit backstage for more than 24 to 48 hours — with most of the plants in the ground the day they arrive or the next day.
The size and scope of Disneyland’s horticulture operation is staggering. The Mouse House buys plants at an industrial scale. The Disneyland nursery team off-loads 18-wheeler trucks daily with enough planting material to cover nearly an acre every month.
Disneyland’s horticulture team works six months ahead of time to create planting scheme storyboards for every area of the park. The nursery industry is consulted a year in advance to figure out what will be available. Supply chain issues aggravated by a burst in pandemic-induced home gardening have boosted nursery sales to record levels and made some popular items scarce. The one constant that isn’t going away anytime soon: “Guest damage” as the Disneyland horticulture team politely calls the constant and persistent irritant.
What would Disneyland be like without wild children trampling planter beds and curious adults plucking flowers at an alarming rate?
Disneyland got a taste of what life would be like without visitors during the 412-day pandemic closure of the parks. Weeds sprouted in Disneyland walkways that lacked constant foot traffic. Floral planter beds lay bare due to staff reductions during the closure. A corn stalk grew several feet high next to a popcorn cart on the Sleeping Beauty Castle hub — left undisturbed as a way of gauging the length of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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A brand new music festival will be taking over Los Angeles State Historic Park Dec. 10-11 as the LA3C comes to town with hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion, Colombian singer-songwriter Maluma, Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg, K-pop boy band Seventeen and more.
According to promoters, Penske Media Corporation, LA3C stands for “Los Angeles, the Capital of Culture & Creativity,” and the two-day event is meant to be a celebration of the city’s musical talent, as well art and the multicultural food scene. Additional acts, chefs and artists and other details will be announced in the coming weeks.
Tickets are $125 for two-day general admission; $199 for two-day general admission plus, which includes expedited entry; and $499 for two-day VIP passes. This event is for those 21-and-older only. All tickets are available now at la3c.com.
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Honey is the food most associated with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on Sunday evening, Sept. 25. Traditionally the holiday meal begins with honey, and in many households, also ends with honey. Apples dipped in honey are the starter, and honey cake is often served for dessert.
For the festive dinner we like to use honey in other dishes as well, both savory and sweet, and to include favorite Rosh Hashanah fruits such as pomegranates and dates.
Which honey to use in cooking and baking is a matter of taste. The flavor of honey depends on the kinds of flowers from which the bees collected nectar. As with wine, wrote Marie Simmons in “Taste of Honey,” honey’s character is influenced by its terroir, the environment in which the flowers grew. “Lighter-colored honeys generally have a milder flavor but with a pronounced floral aroma often accompanied by herbal, spice, vanilla … or other flavor notes.” Darker colored honeys have more distinctive aromas and tastes and are often described as robust or assertive.
Mani Niall, author of “Covered in Honey,” finds fruity and floral honeys the best all-round honeys for baking. Some examples he mentions are alfalfa honey, orange blossom honey, raspberry honey and safflower honey.
For baking we usually choose light or golden, mild flavored honey. For sauces and dressings we like either light or dark honey. For Rosh Hashanah, you might want to serve two or three kinds of honey for dipping apple slices, and taste the difference.
Store honey in a cool, dark place. If it crystallizes, you can liquefy it by placing the honey jar in a large bowl of warm water; you may need to change the water once or twice.
Since the weather in Southern California is quite warm around Rosh Hashanah, we plan to include light dishes like Arugula and Apple Salad with Saffron-Honey Vinaigrette in our menu. We will prepare desserts with relatively short baking times, like Orange Honey Cakes with Dates and Pecans, or simple no-bake desserts like figs with ice cream and honey.
Orange Honey Cakes with Dates and Pecans
The recipe for these individual honey cakes, dotted with dates, pecans and oat flakes, is adapted from “Orange Appeal” by Jamie Schler. For kosher meals that include meat, make them with nondairy milk and vegan butter.
Yield: 12 muffins
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup oat flakes or rolled oats chopped into flakes in a food processor
1/2 cup chopped pecans, plus 12 pecan halves for garnish
2 or 3 oranges
2 large eggs
1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup whole or low-fat milk
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup pitted dates in bite-size pieces
PROCEDURE
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a standard 12-cup muffin tin with cupcake liners; butter or oil the liners.
2. In a large mixing bowl, sift flour with baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Stir in oat flakes and pecans.
3. Squeeze enough oranges to get 1/2 cup juice. Coarsely chop half a squeezed orange with its pulp and peel. Place chopped orange in a food processor with the juice and blend for 30 seconds or until peel is finely ground and mixture is liquid. Add eggs, honey, maple syrup, milk, melted butter and olive oil. Blend until mixture is smooth. With a spoon, stir in dates.
4. Pour orange mixture into flour mixture and stir to combine, just until all the dry ingredients are moistened and batter is well blended and smooth. Do not overmix.
5. Pour or spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until muffins are risen, set and golden brown, and are just beginning to pull away from the sides of the muffin cups. Cool on racks.
Thumbprint Cookies with Exotic Flavors
Cardamom, orange blossom water, rose water and honey flavor these cookies, which are filled with walnuts and dates. For kosher meals that include meat, make them with vegan butter. The recipe is from The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook by Beth A. Lee.
Yield: 24 cookies
INGREDIENTS
Dough:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (8 ounces) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons orange blossom water
1/2 teaspoon rose water
Filling:
1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts (divided)
1/2 chopped pitted Medjool dates
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
2 teaspoons honey
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
About 1/4 cup powdered sugar (for dusting)
PROCEDURE
1. In a medium bowl, whisk flour with salt, cardamom and baking powder.
2. In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, beat butter with sugar on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add egg, orange blossom water and rose water. Mix on medium speed until just combined.
3. With mixer on low speed, add flour mixture in 2 batches, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl as needed; you may need to incorporate the last bit of flour with your hands.
4. Transfer dough to a piece of plastic wrap, shape it in a disk and wrap it. Refrigerate for 2 hours until firm but still flexible.
5. Filling: In a small saucepan combine 1/4 cup walnuts with dates, cinnamon, orange juice, honey and salt. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Simmer uncovered over low heat, stirring often, for 5 to 7 minutes, until mixture forms a thick paste. Transfer to a bowl. Cool to room temperature.
6. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. To shape a cookie, wet your hands and break off a walnut-size piece of dough. Roll it into a ball. Flatten it with your hand until about 1/2 inch thick. Place on a lined baking sheet. With your thumb make an indent in the center. Repeat with remaining dough.
7. Fill each indent in dough with 1/2 teaspoon of date mixture. Sprinkle some of remaining walnuts on top.
8. Refrigerate cookies uncovered 45 minutes until firm.
9. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To bake both sheets at once, place oven racks on top and bottom thirds of oven.
10. Bake cookies about 25 minutes, until just beginning to brown and undersides are golden. If baking 2 sheets, switch their positions halfway through baking. Transfer cookies to a rack; cool completely. Before serving, dust cooled cookies with powdered sugar.
Arugula and Apple Salad with Saffron-Honey Vinaigrette
Vinaigrette flavored with saffron honey syrup beautifully complements this salad, which is topped with pomegranate arils and feta cheese. The recipe is from “Saffron” by Emily Brooke Sandor and Christina Xenos. For kosher meals that include meat, use vegan feta or omit it.
The saffron honey syrup is also delicious over ice cream.
Yield: 4 to 6 servings
Saffron Honey Syrup:
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon saffron threads
1/2 cup honey
Salad:
14 ounces arugula or other tender greens
2 red-skinned apples, cut in thin wedges
2 mini cucumbers, cut in half slices
1/4 cup red onion slivers
Dressing:
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or rice vinegar
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons Saffron Honey Syrup
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Topping:
1/4 cup feta cheese cubes, or to taste
Arils of 1/2 pomegranate, or to taste
1/4 cup chopped almonds
PROCEDURE
1. Saffon honey syrup: Combine water, sugar and saffron in a small saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. Stir in honey. Let mixture steep for 10 minutes. Pour into a glass jar and seal; let cool to room temperature before using or storing.
2. Salad: Combine arugula, apples, cucumbers and onion in a large mixing bowl.
3. Dressing: In a small bowl, whisk vinegar with mustard and syrup. Add olive oil and salt and whisk until dressing is well emulsified. Dip an arugula leaf into dressing; taste and adjust seasoning.
4. Pour half of dressing over salad and toss. Add more dressing if needed.
5. Top with cheese, pomegranate and almonds.
Roasted Bok Choy with Orange Honey Miso Dressing
This flavor-packed, easy way to serve baby bok choy is from Katie Chin’s “Global Family Cookbook.”
Yield: 4 servings
INGREDIENTS
4 to 6 baby bok choy, halved or quartered lengthwise
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 garlic clove, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dressing:
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
2 tablespoons orange juice
2 tablespoons mirin or rice vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon white miso paste
2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
1 teaspoon minced peeled gingerroot
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
1 to 2 teaspoons Sriracha sauce
Sesame seeds (for sprinkling)
PROCEDURE
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Toss bok choy with oil, garlic and salt in a medium bowl.
2. Place coated bok choy on a baking sheet. Roast on oven’s lowest rack, stirring twice, until bok choy is wilted and tender-crisp, about 6 minutes.
3. Dressing: Combine vegetable oil, orange juice, mirin, honey, miso, sesame oil, gingerroot, orange zest and Sriracha. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring, until warm. Serve bok choy drizzled with the dressing and sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Figs with Ricotta, Honey and Pine Nuts
We love fresh figs in simple desserts like this, which is perfect as a light finale for the Rosh Hashanah dinner. Instead of ricotta, you can use vanilla ice cream; for kosher meals that include meat, use vegan ricotta or vegan ice cream. Instead of honey, you can use Saffron Honey Syrup. (See the recipe for Arugula and Apple Salad with Saffron-Honey Vinaigrette.)
Yield: 2 servings
INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup ricotta
4 fresh figs, halved
1 tablespoon honey, or to taste
1 to 2 teaspoons pine nuts
Scoop ricotta into dessert dishes. Add fig halves. Drizzle with honey and sprinkle with pine nuts.
Faye Levy is the author of 1,000 Jewish Recipes.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --
WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Sema4 Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SMFR, SMFRW) between March 14, 2022 and August 15, 2022, both dates inclusive (the "Class Period"). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022.
SO WHAT: If you purchased Sema4 securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.
WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Sema4 class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8672 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than November 7, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.
WHY ROSEN LAW: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm has achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers.
DETAILS OF THE CASE: According to the lawsuit, throughout the Class Period, defendants made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (1) there was a significant risk that Sema4 would reverse a material amount of previously recognized revenue that it could not recoup from third party payors; (2) the Company was experiencing declining selling prices for its reproductive health segment; (3) as a result of the foregoing, Sema4's financial results would be adversely affected; and (4) as a result of the foregoing, defendants' positive statements about the Company's business, operations, and prospects were materially misleading and/or lacked a reasonable basis. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages.
To join the Sema4 class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=8672 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email pkim@rosenlegal.com or cases@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action.
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The interactive, immersive experience brings products and expertise straight to customers' door
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SPX FLOW, Inc., a leading provider of process solutions for the nutrition, health and industrial markets, is launching a unique, tailored opportunity for the company's top experts to interact with customers in-person and one-on-one through their "Solutions in the Making" roadshow.
Kicking off in Germany, SPX FLOW solution makers – from engineers to product managers – have the opportunity to interact with their customers across Europe. Each stop features products tailored to the customers' specialized needs, along with the experts to go with it.
"This outdoor, customized roadshow platform allows our customers the opportunity to get up close and personal with our products and innovations," said SPX FLOW Chief Communications and Marketing Officer Melissa Buscher. "By bringing the products to their front door – literally – our experts will be able to hear from more people from a wider variety of our customers' departments, whether that's marketing, customer service, engineering or more."
The roadshow features an 11-meter (more than 36 feet) trailer with fold-out wings. Included is an augmented reality interactive display to show a variety of process lines, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) interactive display allowing for a scan-and-see view of which components go into the making of the item and demo units of SPX FLOW products.
"Helping our customers solve their most complex challenges begins with a conversation," Buscher said. "These interactions are some of the most valuable and important aspects for our solution makers as they work to design the best products available to meet our customer's needs."
To learn all about SPX FLOW's "Solutions in the Making" roadshow, visit: https://www.spxflow.com/about/spx-flow-roadshow/
About SPX FLOW, Inc.
Based in Charlotte, N.C., SPX FLOW, Inc. improves the world through innovative and sustainable solutions. The company's product offering is concentrated in process technologies that perform mixing, blending, fluid handling, separation, thermal heat transfer and other activities that are integral to processes performed across a wide variety of nutrition, health and industrial markets. SPX FLOW had approximately $1.5 billion in 2021 annual revenues and has operations in more than 30 countries and sales in more than 140 countries. To learn more about SPX FLOW, please visit www.spxflow.com.
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Innovative multipurpose port injector also can deliver compressed natural gas, and dimethyl ether (DME) fuels
DETROIT, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stanadyne, a leading global fuel and air management systems supplier, is unveiling a new alternative fuel injector for medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial vehicle powertrains at the 2022 North American International Auto Show (aka Detroit Auto Show). The company has developed a multipurpose port injector for delivering hydrogen, compressed natural gas, and dimethyl ether (DME) fuels.
"Demand for gaseous fuel injection is expected to increase significantly on the path to net zero, driven by the transport market (heavy trucks, trains)," said Stanadyne CEO John Pinson. "Our alternative fuel delivery systems lower emissions, increase efficiency, and improve performance on the path towards zero-carbon fuel compatibility."
Stanadyne's new low-pressure fuel injector is capable of high flow rates and has flexible packaging for a variety of port fuel injection applications. The higher flow capacity and fuel-air mixing features of the new injector permit equivalent energy density fuel delivery when compared to traditional hydrocarbon fuels. Its modular design is based on improved materials for robust hydrogen, compressed natural gas, and DME compatibility.
"Stanadyne is working hard on near-term solutions bridging the significant adoption gap between fossil-fueled propulsion and low-carbon or zero-carbon fueled vehicles," said Pinson. "Decarbonization of the transportation sector is, and will remain, a defining global priority."
Natural gas, diesel, and gasoline internal combustion engines are forecasted to remain the dominant medium-duty and heavy-duty commercial vehicle powertrain through at least 2040. Renewable fuels offer an effective means to reduce the carbon footprint of these powertrains on the way to reaching global climate goals.
Stanadyne's hydrogen-compatible injector is making its industry debut at the Detroit Auto Show. It will be on display at the company's Automobili-D vehicle pod during Industry Days being held September 14-15, 2022.
Stanadyne designs, manufactures, and remanufactures fuel delivery systems and components for gasoline and diesel engines, as well as low-carbon alternative fuels. Founded in 1873, the company specializes in pioneering technology for engines that move our world and remanufactured components that help keep them operating efficiently. The company provides customers with customized design, engineering, and manufacturing solutions from its United States, China, Italy, India, and United Arab Emirates locations in partnership with its global aftermarket service dealers and distributor network. For more information, visit stanadyne.com.
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United to launch new nonstop flights between Newark/New York and Dubai starting in March of 2023;
United customers can soon connect through Dubai to more than 100 destinations and Emirates customers can more easily fly to nearly 200 U.S cities through Chicago, San Francisco and Houston
CHICAGO and DUBAI, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- United and Emirates announced a historic commercial agreement today that will enhance each airline's network and give their customers easier access to hundreds of destinations within the United States and around the world*.
United will launch a new direct flight between Newark/New York and Dubai starting in March 2023 – from there, customers can travel on Emirates or its sister airline flydubai to more than 100 different cities. Tickets for United's new Dubai flight are now on sale.
Starting in November, Emirates customers flying into three of the nation's biggest business hubs – Chicago, San Francisco and Houston – will have access to nearly 200 U.S. cities in the United network – most of which only require a one-stop connection. At eight other U.S. airports served by Emirates – Boston, Dallas, LA, Miami, JFK, Orlando, Seattle and Washington DC – both airlines will have an interline arrangement in place.
United and Emirates announced their agreement today at a ceremonial event at Dulles International Airport, hosted by United CEO Scott Kirby and Emirates President Sir Tim Clark, featuring United and Emirates Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and flight crews from each carrier.
"This agreement unites two iconic, flag carrier airlines who share a common commitment to creating the best customer experience in the skies," said United CEO Scott Kirby. "United's new flight to Dubai and our complementary networks will make global travel easier for millions of our customers, helping boost local economies and strengthen cultural ties. This is a proud moment for both United and Emirates employees, and I look forward to our journey together."
"Two of the biggest, and best-known airlines in the world are joining hands to fly people better to more places, at a time when travel demand is rebounding with a vengeance. It's a significant partnership that will unlock tremendous consumer benefit and bring the United Arab Emirates and the United States even closer," said Sir Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline. "We welcome United's return to Dubai next year, where our hub Dubai essentially becomes a gateway for United to reach Asia, Africa and the Middle East via the combined network of Emirates and flydubai. We look forward to developing our partnership with United for the long term."
Soon customers of both airlines can book these connecting flights on a single ticket – making check-in and luggage transfer faster and easier. For example – travelers will be able to visit United.com or use the United app to book a flight from Newark/New York to Karachi, Pakistan or go to Emirates.com to book a flight from Dubai to Atlanta or Honolulu.
This agreement will also give the loyalty program members of both airlines more opportunities for more rewards: United MileagePlus® members flying on United's Newark/New York to Dubai flight can soon earn and redeem miles when connecting beyond on Emirates and flydubai and Emirates Skywards members will be able to earn miles when they travel on United operated flights. Eligible United customers will also soon have access to Emirates lounges when connecting to and from United's new Dubai flight.
Both airlines have recently announced significant investments in the customer experience. Emirates will retrofit more than 120 aircraft as part of a $2 billion effort that includes elevated meal choices, a brand-new vegan menu, a 'cinema in the sky' experience, cabin interior upgrades, and sustainable choices. At United, the airline will add 500 new Boeing and Airbus aircraft to its fleet with a focus on a new signature interior that includes seat-back screens in every seat, larger overhead bins, Bluetooth connectivity throughout, and the industry's fastest available in-flight WiFi.
* Codeshare activities and United's new flight to Dubai are subject to government approvals.
About United
United's shared purpose is "Connecting People. Uniting the World." From our U.S. hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark/New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., United operates the most comprehensive global route network among North American carriers. United is bringing back our customers' favorite destinations and adding new ones on its way to becoming the world's best airline. For more about how to join the United team, please visit www.united.com/careers and more information about the company is at www.united.com. United Airlines Holdings, Inc., the parent company of United Airlines, Inc., is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol "UAL".
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This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements that are not statements of historical facts are, or may be deemed to be, forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on historical performance and current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our future financial results, goals, plans, commitments, strategies and objectives and involve inherent risks, assumptions and uncertainties, known or unknown, including internal or external factors that could delay, divert or change any of them, that are difficult to predict, may be beyond our control and could cause our future financial results, goals, plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the statements. These risks, assumptions, uncertainties and other factors include, among others, any delay or inability of United Airlines to realize the expected benefits of the commercial cooperation agreement. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the many risks and uncertainties that affect United's business and market, particularly those identified in the "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and "Risk Factors" sections in United's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, as updated by our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this document are made only as of the date of this document and except as otherwise required by applicable law or regulation, United undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
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Workforce well-being program offers coaching and guidance for chronic pain management
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- As more than one in five Americans struggle with chronic pain, WebMD Health Services today announced a new partnership with Fern Health, a leading digital platform giving employees and health plan members the guidance and tools they need to address the underlying causes of persistent pain.
The new offering, available through WebMD ONE, features programs for chronic pain conditions such as musculoskeletal pain, migraines, and fibromyalgia. The Fern Health program, developed in partnership with leading pain physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital, supports participants in identifying how pain impacts their life and helps them set goals related to exercise therapy, emotional health, movement, sleep, and nutrition.
Uniquely combined with WebMD Health Services certified pain coaches, individuals are supported through a self-paced digital journey via mobile and web browser-enabled applications, chats and telephone check-ins.
Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and impacts mental health and overall quality of life for more than 50 million Americans. The economic impact is estimated at more than $500 billion annually, more than any other chronic health condition.
"Millions of people live with chronic pain, and most do not have access to true multidisciplinary pain management," said Bruce Foyt, WebMD Health Services Vice President, Partnerships. "With Fern Health, we can offer employers and health plans evidence-based programs to fill this enormous gap, while helping to reduce the social and economic impact of chronic pain both in and out of the workplace."
"Chronic pain is developed by both psychological and physical factors. Our clinically validated, holistic pain programs deliver meaningful and life-enhancing results for chronic pain sufferers," said Brad Lawson, Chief Executive Officer at Fern Health. "Partnering with WebMD Health Services gives us an opportunity to extend the work we do -- offering employers and health plans the opportunity to help their employees and plan members live better, more functioning lives, while potentially reducing health costs. We look forward to making a difference with WebMD Health Services, their health coaches, and their customers."
About WebMD Health Services
WebMD Health Services, a part of WebMD Health Corp., has over 20 years of experience driving positive behavior changes. Consumers trust WebMD for reliable, accurate, and clear answers to their most pressing health-related questions. At WebMD Health Services, we tap into these valuable consumer insights to design and implement successful, engaging solutions to help individuals meet their well-being needs. We understand that there are numerous paths to reach well-being goals. Our expertise, combined with a variety of third-party partner integrations, enables us to deliver unique and personalized experiences across a wide range of industries. See how we support these diverse populations at webmdhealthservices.com.
About WebMD Health Corp.
WebMD, an Internet Brands company, is at the heart of the digital health revolution that is transforming the healthcare experience for consumers, patients, healthcare professionals, employers, health plans and health systems. Through public and private online portals, mobile platforms, and health-focused publications, WebMD delivers leading-edge content and digital services that enable and improve decision-making, support and motivate health actions, streamline and simplify the healthcare journey, and improve patient care.
The WebMD Health Network includes WebMD Health, Medscape, Jobson Healthcare Information, MediQuality, Frontline, Vitals Consumer Services, Aptus Health, Krames, PulsePoint, The Wellness Network, SanovaWorks, MedicineNet, eMedicineHealth, RxList, OnHealth, Medscape Education, and other owned WebMD sites. WebMD®, Medscape®, CME Circle®, Medpulse®, eMedicine®, MedicineNet®, theheart.org® and RxList® are among the trademarks of WebMD Health Corp. or its subsidiaries.
About Fern Health:
Available through employers and health plans, Fern Health's digital pain platform addresses the underlying causes of persistent pain, not just the symptoms. Guided programs deliver exercise therapy, interventions for sleep, nutrition, daily movement, and emotional health. Every member is supported through pain-focused 1:1 clinical coaching and pain neuroscience education to improve function, reduce pain, and avoid unnecessary healthcare costs. Fern Health is majority owned by German life science company Grünenthal International, with other minority investors. Learn more at www.fernhealth.com.
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Actor Brie Larson known in the MCU as Captain Marvel, stopped by to share how Disney impacted how she sees the world. Larson also graced the D23 Expo stage to share the new trailer for “The Marvels” coming soon to Disney plus.
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Disney has succeeded once more by bringing diversity to their characters with Halle Bailey starring as the lead actress for the live-action The Little Mermaid.
Recently, Disney released a 90-second trailer that displayed Bailey under the sea with the iconic purple shell top and a shimmering green fin. The caption for the video reads, “Out of the sea, wish I could be, part of that world.”
The trailer gained traction on Twitter and made young Black women and girls emotional worldwide. There was a similar reaction when Brandy graced the small screen as Cinderella and Whitney Houston played her fairy godmother. Now we have Bailey coming to the silver screen as an iconic Disney character with her bright orangey-red locks and heavenly voice. The reaction videos say it all.
These reaction videos of little girls seeing Ariel from Little Mermaid are really giving me life today. ❤️❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/s42tN0VVa7
— Brooke Hammerling (@brooke) September 13, 2022
i’m absolutely crying over these reaction videos of the little mermaid trailer. representation is so important 🥺 my heart can’t take it. how can anybody be mad at this??? pic.twitter.com/cbDe2HZNkj
— kat (@katxwing) September 13, 2022
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