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Man City confirm big-money Laura Blindkilde Brown signing from Aston Villa as they look to keep chase with Emma Hayes' Chelsea in WSL title raceJames HunsleyManchester CityManchester City WomenLaura BlindkildeWomen's footballWSLManchester City have completed the signing of Laura Blindkilde Brown from Aston Villa, with the midfielder penning a three-and-a-half year deal.Article continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowCity confirm Blindkilde Brown signingMidfielder pens three-and-a-half year dealCity also complete Pritchard and O'Hanlon deals
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
Copyright 2024 NPR
The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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(All amounts are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise stated)
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 31, 2024) - Andean Precious Metals Corp. (TSXV: APM) (OTCQX: ANPMF) ("Andean" or the "Company") is pleased to announce updated mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates ("MR&RE") for its wholly owned subsidiary, Golden Queen Mining LLC, which operates the Soledad Mountain mine and heap leach operation in Kern County, Southern California.
The MR&RE and Feasibility Study Update Technical Report on the Soledad Mountain Heap Leach Project, dated January 12, 2024 (the "Technical Report"), were prepared by Kappes, Cassiday & Associates ("KCA"), Independent Mining Consultants Inc. ("IMC"), RESPEC Company LLC ("RESPEC") and George Klemmick (AIPG Certified Professional Geologist, Consulting Geologist). The Technical Report was prepared in compliance with National Instrument 43-101 - Standards for Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101") and has been filed on SEDAR+.
"We are pleased that the mineral reserve and resource estimates for Soledad Mountain fully met our base case expectations," stated Alberto Morales, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Andean. "With an updated mineral reserve and resource in hand, our team is focused on enhancing and growing the recently acquired Soledad Mountain mine. We are now identifying near-term and sustainable opportunities to optimize mine operations and production to improve margins, cash flow and costs per ounce. We are also defining and prioritizing exploration targets to help realize the potential upside at Soledad Mountain and add to the operation's life of mine."
"We see many opportunities at Soledad Mountain and look forward to realizing the project's potential to be a growth catalyst in the US, one of the world's leading mining jurisdictions."
Soledad Mountain MR&RE Highlights
- Gold ("Au")
- M&I resources of 41.8 M tonnes grading 0.62 grams per tonne ("g/t") Au for a total of 822,000 contained oz
- P&P reserves of 21.0 M tonnes grading 0.72 g/t Au for a total of 484,675 contained oz
- Inferred resources of 3.6 M tonnes grading 0.45 g/t for a total of 53,000 contained oz
Silver ("Ag")
- M&I resources of 41.8 M tonnes grading 8.37 g/t Ag for a total of 11.24 M contained oz
- P&P reserves of 21.0 M tonnes grading 10.15 g/t Ag for a total of 6.85 M contained oz
- Inferred resources of 3.6 M tonnes grading 6.27 g/t Ag for a total of 0.73 M contained oz
* Mineral resources are inclusive of reserves. See Appendix for further tables and notes.
- Life of mine (LOM): Five years from 2P mineral reserves.
- LOM average annual production: Up to 65 koz of gold and 466 Koz of silver.
- Total production: 373 Koz Au and 2.7 Moz Ag.
- Stripping ratio: 6.09:1 (waste tons: ore tons).
- Sustaining capital cost: $55.9 million.
- Project pre-tax and after-tax net present values of $116 million and $102 million, respectively, at a discount rate of 5% with a gold price of $1,850/oz and a silver price of $24/oz.
- While stacking ore stops in 2029, work is expected to continue at site for approximately 35-40 years via the sale of waste rock for aggregate, construction and landscape material in the regional area.
Soledad Mountain MR&RE Changes Since 2022
Since 2022, the reported reserves and resources have dropped slightly due to depletion by mining and to a lesser extent due to a lower estimated recovery from the Silver Queen vein structure, which is one of the many mineralized vein zones on the property. The recovery change reflects production experience and new column leach tests. Production depletion was partially offset by higher metal price assumptions used in the estimation of mineral resources and reserves.
In terms of economics, an increase in mine sustaining capital was incorporated into the Technical Report to improve mining costs as compared to those in prior studies.
Mineral Resource Estimate Methodology
The estimates of mineral resources are effective as of September 30, 2023 and are presented in Appendix - Table 1 of this press release.
The gold and silver resources were modeled and estimated by:
- evaluating the drill data statistically and spatially to determine natural gold and silver populations;
- explicitly modeling low-, medium-, and high-grade mineral-domain polygons for both gold and silver on sets of cross sections spaced at 50- and 100-ft intervals;
- projecting the cross-sectional mineral domain polygons horizontally to the drill data within each cross-sectional window;
- slicing the three-dimensionally projected mineral domain polygons along 20 foot-spaced horizontal planes and using them to guide refinement of the gold and silver mineral domain polygons on a set of 20 foot-spaced level plans;
- coding a block model comprised of 20 x 20 x 20 ft blocks to the gold and silver mineral domains for each of the two deposit areas using the level plan mineral domain polygons;
- analyzing the modeled mineralization geostatistically to aid in the establishment of estimation and classification parameters; and
- interpolating gold and silver grades into the block model by inverse-distance to the third power, using the coded gold and silver mineral domain percentages to constrain the grade estimations.
Mineral Reserves Estimate Methodology
The estimates of mineral reserves are effective as of September 30, 2023, and are presented in Appendix - Table 2 of this press release.
The following process and modifying factors were followed to calculate the mineral reserves:
- Selection of metal selling prices based on historical and projected prices.
- Review of all modifying factors including metal prices, costs, dilution, mining recovery, processing recovery, sustaining capital, royalties, and mining methods.
- Dilution is built into the model and no additional dilution is required.
- Pit optimization using all modifying factors.
- Pit design following geotechnical recommendations.
- Mine production schedules for the life of the project, based on a combination of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual periods.
- Cost model verification based on new mine schedule and inventory.
- Generation of post-tax cash flow.
Capital and Operating Cost Estimates
The Soledad Mountain project has been in operation since early 2016 providing almost eight years of historical operating data for the site. Future mining and processing at the site have recently increased due to recent improvements in operation. The historical data and experience of the site personnel will provide the best estimate of future costs.
The heap leach pad has been expanded to its final size. The capital costs are summarized as:
Total Sustaining Capital
The capital costs are sustaining costs to rebuild and replace equipment and to replace the Merrill Crowe plant with a carbon adsorption circuit at closure.
Operating Cost Summary
The columns may not sum exactly due to rounding.
The operating costs are estimated to average $23.66 per ton, including mining, processing, G&A and reclamation.
After-tax Cash Flow Analysis
The Soledad Mountain project has pre-tax and after-tax net present values of $116 million and $102 million, respectively, at a discount rate of 5.0%. The undiscounted, cumulative net cash flows for pre-tax and after-tax are approximately $145 million and $129 million, respectively. By comparison, at an 8.0% discount rate, the pre-tax and after-tax NPVs are $102 million and $89 million, respectively. Project cash flows are from October 1, 2023 through to the end of 2030.
The contribution of gold, silver and aggregate to gross revenues is approximately 91.2%, 8.6% and 0.2% respectively. The operating equivalent gold cash cost per ounce is $1,340/oz. The total cash costs per equivalent ounce including sustaining capital is $1,477/oz. Gold and silver prices used to model the cash flows were $1,850/oz and $24/oz, respectively.
The Soledad Mountain project is expected to generate positive cash flow in each year of production except 2026.
Qualified Persons
The following people served as the Qualified Persons for Golden Queen's Soledad Mountain operation as defined in NI 43-101 and have reviewed and approved this press release:
- Carl E. Defilippi, SME Registered Member, Engineering Manager, KCA, Reno NV
. - Michael M. Gustin, AIPG Certified Professional Geologist, RESPEC Principal Consultant.
- Joseph C. McNaughton, PE, Partner, IMC, Tucson AZ.
- George Klemmick, AIPG Certified Professional Geologist, Consulting Geologist, Chugiak, AK.
Donald J. Birak, Registered Member, Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) and Fellow, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), is the Independent Consulting Geologist to the Company, and a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
About Andean Precious Metals
Andean is a growing precious metals producer focused on expanding into top-tier jurisdictions in the Americas. The Company owns and operates the San Bartolomé processing facility in Potosí, Bolivia and the Soledad Mountain mine in Kern County, California, and is well-funded to act on future growth opportunities. Andean's leadership team is committed to creating value; fostering safe, sustainable and responsible operations; and achieving our ambition to be a multi-asset, mid-tier precious metals producer.
For more information, please contact:
Trish Moran
VP Investor Relations
tmoran@andeanpm.com
T: +1 416 564 4290
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, Inc. nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements and information in this release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of applicable U.S. securities laws and "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws, which we refer to collectively as "forward-looking statements". Forward-looking statements are statements and information regarding possible events, conditions or results of operations that are based upon assumptions about future economic conditions and courses of action. All statements and information other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "seek", "expect", "anticipate", "budget", "plan", "estimate", "continue", "forecast", "intend", "believe", "predict", "potential", "target", "may", "could", "would", "might", "will" and similar words or phrases (including negative variations) suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook.
Forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to, statements and information regarding the project's cash flows from October 1, 2023 through to the end of 2030, the expected timing of stacking ore termination and the length of time that work is expected to continue at site via the sale of waste rock for aggregate, construction and landscape material in the regional area. Such forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions, including, but not limited to: the Company's ability to carry on exploration and development activities; the Company's ability to secure and to meet obligations under property and option agreements and other material agreements; the timely receipt of required approvals and permits; that there is no material adverse change affecting the Company or its properties; that contracted parties provide goods or services in a timely manner; that no unusual geological or technical problems occur; that plant and equipment function as anticipated and that there is no material adverse change in the price of silver, costs associated with production or recovery. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. The Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that these expectations will prove to be correct, and you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained herein.
Some of the risks and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements contained in this release include, but are not limited to: risks and uncertainties relating to the interpretation of drill results, the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits and conclusions of economic evaluations; results of initial feasibility, pre-feasibility and feasibility studies, and the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with the Company's expectations; risks relating to possible variations in reserves, resources, grade, planned mining dilution and ore loss, or recovery rates and changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; mining and development risks, including risks related to accidents, equipment breakdowns, labour disputes (including work stoppages and strikes) or other unanticipated difficulties with or interruptions in exploration and development; the potential for delays in exploration or development activities or the completion of feasibility studies; risks related to the inherent uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses; risks related to commodity price and foreign exchange rate fluctuations; the uncertainty of profitability based upon the cyclical nature of the industry in which the Company operates; risks related to failure to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis and on acceptable terms or delays in obtaining governmental or local community approvals or in the completion of development or construction activities; risks related to environmental regulation and liability; political and regulatory risks associated with mining and exploration; risks related to the uncertain global economic environment; and other factors contained in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Management Discussion and Analysis dated November 29, 2023.
Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, you are cautioned that this list is not exhaustive and there may be other factors that the Company has not identified. Furthermore, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this release if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as otherwise required by applicable law.
APPENDIX
Table 1: Updated Mineral Resources - Soledad Mountain as of September 30, 2023
Notes to Table 1
- Mineral resources are inclusive of mineral reserves.
- Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability.
- Mineral resources are reported by applying cutoffs of 0.008 oz AuEq/ton (0.274 g/t) at the Silver Queen zone and 0.005 oz AuEq/ton (0.171 g/t) at all other areas to all model blocks lying within optimized resource pits, in consideration of potential open-pit mining and heap-leach processing.
- Gold equivalent grades were calculated as follows: oz AuEq/ton = oz Au/ton + (oz Ag/ton / AuEq Factor). The AuEq Factor is derived from metal prices ($2,000/oz Au and $23/oz Ag) and recoveries of 55% for Au and 40% for Ag for model blocks lying within the Silver Queen zone (AuEq Factor = 120), and 85% for Au and 40% for Ag in all other areas (AuEq Factor = 185).
- The effective date of the mineral resources is September 30, 2023.
- Tonnage and grade estimations are presented in both U.S. and metric units. Grades are reported in troy ounces per short ton (U.S.) and in grams per metric tonne.
- The Qualified Person for estimation of mineral resources is Michael Gustin of RESPEC.
- Rounding may result in apparent discrepancies between tons, grade, and contained metal content.
Table 2: Updated Mineral Reserves - Soledad Mountain as of September 30, 2023
Notes to Table 2
- Mineral reserves were tabulated based on a $1,850/oz gold price and $23/oz silver price within a pit designed.
- Mineral reserves are based on the economic input parameters provided in Tables 15.1-2,
15.1-3 & 15.1-4 of the Technical Report, which is available under the Company's profile on SEDAR+.
- The mineral reserves cutoff grade is based on a net smelter return of $8.44/ore ton ($9.30/ore tonne).
- Includes 389 ktons (353 ktonnes) from a low-grade stockpile, grading 0.48 g/t (0.014 opt) gold grade applied to probable reserves, not verified by QP, but is not material to the mineral reserves.
- Based on end of September 2023 topography.
- Imperial: ktons means 1000 short tons; where, 1 short ton = 2000 lbs.
- Metric: ktonnes means 1000 metric tonnes; where, 1 metric tonne = 2204.6 lbs.
- Gold and silver are all reported as contained grades and contained metal where:
"opt" is troy ounce per short ton and "g/t" is grams per metric tonne
"g/t" is grams per metric tonne
"oz" is 1 troy ounce.
- The columns may not sum exactly due to rounding.
The Qualified Person for the mineral reserve estimate is Joseph McNaughton, Senior Mining Engineer, P.Eng. and a partner of Independent Mining Consultants, Inc. The mineral reserve estimate was prepared in compliance with the disclosure and reporting requirements set forth in the NI 43-101. In accordance with the CIM classification system, only Measured and Indicated resource categories were converted to reserves (through inclusion within the open-pit mining limits). In this Mineral Reserve Statement, Inferred Mineral Resources are reported as waste.
To view the source version of this press release, please visit https://www.newsfilecorp.com/release/196404
SOURCE: Andean Precious Metals Corp.
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MIAMI — A federal judge has dismissed the Walt Disney Company's lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney sued after DeSantis and state lawmakers removed its self-governing status in 2023.
Backed by Republican lawmakers, DeSantis dissolved a special district near Orlando that for more than fifty years had governed Walt Disney World. He acted after Disney's CEO opposed a law limiting how sex orientation and gender identity can be discussed in the schools. The Parental Rights in Education Act was labeled "Don't Say Gay" by opponents.
At DeSantis' request, Florida's GOP-controlled legislature created a new special district, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, controlled by the Republican Governor's appointees. Disney sued in federal court, saying DeSantis was retaliating against the company, punishing it for exercising its First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Disney also canceled plans for a $1 billion campus in Florida.
In a 17-page order, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor dismissed the case, saying Disney lacks standing to sue the governor. The judge also said while Disney could sue the new DeSantis-appointed board, it hadn't shown evidence that actions by the new board had harmed the company. In addition, Winsor said the law prohibits plaintiffs from bringing a free speech challenge to constitutionally enacted laws.
A DeSantis spokesman hailed the decision saying, "the Corporate Kingdom is over. The days of Disney controlling its own government and being placed above the law are long gone. Disney is still just one of many corporations in the state and they do not have a right to their own special government."
Disney says it will "press forward with its case." In a statement after the ruling, a company spokesperson said, "If left unchallenged, this would set a dangerous precedent and give license to states to weaponize their official powers to punish the expression of political viewpoints they disagree with."
Disney and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board are also embroiled in lawsuits in state court.
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10 churches shut down, worship hall converted into mosque after terror attacks in Nigeria
ABUJA, Nigeria — Recent Muslim extremist attacks in an area of central Nigeria resulted in dozens of deaths and the closure of 10 Baptist churches, including one now used as a mosque, a denominational leader said.
The attacks in Plateau state’s Mangu County by Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists included an assault on one village that killed 24 Christians, said Plateau Baptist Conference President Koeleh Kelvin Saleh. The raids drove 500 church members from 10 villages and resulted in the closure of a Baptist church in each community, he said.
“One of the church worship places in the affected Christian communities was converted into a mosque by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who took over three communities,” Pastor Saleh told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.
An attack by herdsmen in Kantoma village on May 16 resulted in the slaughter of 24 members of Bethel Baptist Church, including Pastor Mangmwos Tangshak Daniel, while nine members of a Baptist church in Jwak Maitumbi village were killed, Pastor Saleh said.
“The sad thing is that, we didn’t have a place to bury the corpses of our church members killed in the Kantoma attack, and so corpses were dumped in a mining pit,” he said.
Officials feared that burying so many mutilated bodies would lead to further security threats, so a church leader arranged for a mass burial in a neighboring area, he said.
“An understanding was brokered with the Mararaban Kantoma community, which is of another local government area, for these bodies to buried there,” Pastor Saleh said. “Nobody was ready to release his land for such, and in fact the bodies littered the ground from morning to evening, and so when they searched and found a mining pit, an agreement was brokered with the community to push the bodies into the mining pit.”
The burial of Pastor Daniel’s body was carried out separately afterward, “so that it can be used as a contact from his family to other families who hadn’t the opportunity to give the Christian rites of burial to their relations, because they were just pushed into a mining pit,” he said.
“The mass burial was undertaken under tight security watch. It’s so pathetic that while the burial was ongoing, the Muslim Fulani herdsmen were shooting at Christians at the burial site,” he added. “The presence of police personnel who were at the burial site helped because they also fired warning shots, which halted the attacks from the herdsmen.”
The burial was completed hurriedly because of the herdsmen shootings, Pastor Saleh said.
“The Christians there lost a lot; the church was destroyed, and there’s no single house standing in Kantoma — all houses of Christians have been destroyed,” he said. “It’s one of the communities where we had the largest Baptist church. The ruins of the community have been taken over by the herdsmen who now use the place to graze their cattle.”
The herdsmen have also stolen windows and doors from destroyed homes, he said.
“The situation in Kantoma is horrible. Christians who survived the attacks have nowhere to return to,” he said. “A few Christians who attempted to return there to salvage anything they can find in their destroyed houses had to be accompanied by security agents. And this they did hurriedly.”
Accompanied by security agents, Pastor Saleh and other Christian leaders visited the affected areas and discovered that Fulani herdsmen had taken over three Christian communities, he said.
“In fact, one of the church buildings which served as a worship hall for Christians has been converted into a mosque,” he said.
Humanitarian challenge
The attacks have created a serious humanitarian challenge to try to meet the needs of church members scattered to other areas.
“We’ve had an emergency meeting of the Plateau Baptist Conference in order to map out how we’ll be able to reach out to the displaced Christians,” Pastor Saleh said. “At the moment other unaffected churches have taken in the displaced Christians, and they’re accommodated by some families and households.”
The denomination has held emergency fund collections in churches for the displaced, he said.
“We’ve had to do this because most of the victims escaped with nothing except their lives,” Pastor Saleh said. “Right now, we have about 75 families hosting the displaced members from the affected communities in their houses here in Jos. There are about 200 displaced people being cared for.”
Baptist churches also raised 2 million naira ($2,220), which along with a 1 million naira ($1,110) gift was used to purchase food, blankets and mats for more than 100 displaced people in Mangu town and in other areas.
“We have also gone there and reached out to them with food items and clothing,” he said.
Another center for displaced Baptist members in Barkin Ladi town provides aid to 35 families, he said.
“In Pankshin, the situation there is really pathetic — those who were displaced had to move into hostels at the Federal College of Education,” Pastor Saleh said.
The 78 displaced people there include members of other denominations such as the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) and Assemblies of God.
“The Christians in Pankshin are those displaced from the axis of Wokshina, Panyam, and Gindiri areas,” he said, adding that the camp there includes 44 children. “They need food, clothing, medical supplies and medicines. The needs are overwhelming, as the 3 million naira we raised is like a drop of water in an ocean. We are calling on spirited individuals all over the world to please come over to assist us. The sad reality is that no government institution has assisted these people in anyway.”
The displaced hope to return to their communities and rebuild their houses, for which they’ll need roofing sheets and other materials, but that depends on whether the government can restore a safe living environment, he said.
“We’ve never as a church had it this bad in Plateau state,” Pastor Saleh said. “The current attacks in Plateau state in the rural communities have affected the Baptist church immensely.”
Nigeria remained the deadliest place in the world to follow Christ, with 4,118 people killed for their faith from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023, according to Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List report. More kidnappings of Christians than in any other country also took place in Nigeria, with 3,300.
Nigeria was also the third highest country in the number of attacks on churches and other Christian buildings, such as hospitals, schools and cemeteries, with 750, according to the report.
In the 2024 WWL of the countries where it's most difficult to be a Christian, Nigeria was ranked No. 6, as it was in the previous year.
Numbering in the millions across Nigeria and the Sahel, predominantly Muslim Fulani comprise hundreds of clans of many different lineages who do not hold extremist views, but some Fulani do adhere to radical Islamist ideology, the United Kingdom’s All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom or Belief (APPG) noted in a 2020 report.
“They adopt a comparable strategy to Boko Haram and ISWAP and demonstrate a clear intent to target Christians and potent symbols of Christian identity,” the APPG report states.
Christian leaders in Nigeria have said they believe herdsmen attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt are inspired by their desire to forcefully take over Christians’ lands and impose Islam as desertification has made it difficult for them to sustain their herds.
This article was originally published by Christian Daily International.
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The issue with Tuch is that his production is a bit of a mirage. He’s playing on the top line with Macklin Celebrini and is being fed from the blueline by Lane Hutson.
He’s playing with two of the best players in the country, and the production is just okay.
– Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) January 31, 2024
But since the start of the season, things haven’t necessarily been rosy, so much so that he’s dropped down the rankings of top prospects. At least, Marc Dumont’s has. The former team employee ranks the Austrian seventh.
It’s time for another edition of the #GoHabsGo prospect power rankings!
Lots of movement, with a familiar prospect taking the top spot.
Defenceman Logan Mailloux made the biggest jump on the list, while Owen Beck is back in the top 3.
Check itouthttps://t.co/yVvIQm3Lyb
– Marc Dumont (@MarcPDumont) January 31, 2024
For your information, Dumont ranked the hopefuls (a group of B/B- hopefuls, according to Simon Boisvert) using their stats from December 16 to January 30. A little over a month’s sampling, then.
Reinbacher is an excellent prospect and is in many experts’ top-3. When I saw his position in Dumont’s rankings, I jumped, especially when I saw which players are ahead of him.
Dumont is aware that Reinbacher is playing for a struggling team and that the lack of stability behind the bench is a big factor. But to put Owen Beck, a guy destined to play on the third trio, in the top-3? It’s true that he’s collected more points since leaving Peterborough, but I’m having trouble with this one. The same goes for Filip Mesar. He’s playing very well in the OHL this season, but he’s playing against young players, whereas the right-handed defender is playing against men.
The right-hander is polarizing, as Marc Dumont said, but he’s still one of the team’s best prospects. There’s a reason why several teams wanted to acquire him at the last draft.
After Reinbacher, Adam Engstrom, Bogdan Konyushkov and Cedrick Guindon complete the top-10. No Luke Tuch or Emil Heineman, then. In Tuch’s case, a Platform X user asked why he wasn’t in the team’s top 10 prospects.
In gusto
– Oh well.
Mike Ribeiro won’t testify at his sexual assault trialhttps://t.co/SfRmTYvs0u
– TVA Sports (@TVASports) January 31, 2024
– It’s time for them to move.
Tickets $5-$6 (USD) to see the Ottawa Senatorshttps://t.co/Y0CQAuOLFH
– RDS (@RDSca) January 31, 2024
– It’s a date.
The London Police Service says it will host a news conference on Monday, Feb. 5 at 2 pm to provide an update related to a sexual assault allegation involving members of the 2018 Canadian world junior hockey team.
The news conference will be streamed and shown live on @TSN_Sports.– Rick Westhead (@rwesthead) January 31, 2024
– Ah no…
Sorry Zabolotny https://t.co/1EVRt8xirT pic.twitter.com/hmg3VMVZOf
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Obituary – Samuel “Sam” Elliott
Samuel James Elliott, 86, of Success, passed away January 28, 2024, in Houston, Mo., with his family by his side. Sam was born on October 19, 1937, in Lebanon, Mo., to Samuel and Ollie (Miller) Elliott.
Sam grew up in Roby, Mo., and graduated from Plato High School in 1958. He married Ruby Darlene Campbell, in Salem, Mo., on May 18, 1970.
He enjoyed coon hunting, gardening, flowers and telling stories of back in the day even though you may have already heard them. He enjoyed visiting with anyone he met and enjoyed time spent with family and friends, and especially his grandchildren. Sam served on the Lynch Township Board and Local Water board. He’d recently rededicated his life to Christ.
Throughout his life, Sam held various jobs. He delivered mail from Houston to Success from 1959 to 1967 and only missed one day of work during those years. Sam did various timberwork including cutting pine poles, nailing pallets and Timber Stand Improvement. He also worked at several sawmills and as a laborer through the union hall in Rolla. He spoke often of his days directing traffic and working on various building projects at Fort Leonard Wood. He was always willing to help out anyone who was in need.
Sam is survived by his wife, Darlene; nine children, Judy Burch (husband, Randy), of Success, Cody Elliott, of Roby, Karen Fox (husband, Dale), of St. Louis, Cindy Warden (husband, Sonny), of Evening Shade, James Umfress, of Success, Robert Umfress (wife, Connie), of Bucyrus, Brenda Price (husband, Paul), of Aurora, Utah Elliott (wife, Melanie), of Success and Logan Elliott (wife, Kristy), of Ava; brothers, Steve (Bo) Elliott (wife, Linda), of Roby, George Elliott (wife, Jackie), of Roby, Wilson (Poncho) Elliott (wife, Carmen), of Roby; sisters, Ruth (Sally) Elliott, of Roby and Opal Myers, of Roby; 19 grandchildren; seven great grandchildren (with a few more on the way); and one great great grandchild.
He is preceded in death by his mother, Olive “Ollie” Elliott; father, Samuel G. Elliott; brother, Harold Elliott; sister, Marjorie Elliott; mother-in-law, Ruby Duben; father-in-law, Glenn Campbell; and grandson, Perry Sanders.
A visitation for Sam was held on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, from 12 – 2 p.m. at Success Baptist Church, followed by a funeral service at 2 p.m. with Bro. Ted Moore officiating. Interment followed at Old Success Cemetery. Pallbearers were Utah Elliott, Logan Elliott, Austin Elliott, Jacob Elliott, Robert Umfress and Sonny Warden. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Sam’s name may be directed to his family. Arrangements entrusted to Evans Funeral Home. Online condolences may be left at www.evansfh.com.
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Julian Alvarez celebrated his birthday in style by leading Manchester City to a comfortable 3-1 victory over Burnley on Wednesday night. Pep Guardiola made six changes to his side but Alvarez started a 21st-consecutive league game and bagged two goals in quick succession, the second helped by an audacious Kevin De Bruyne assist from a free-kick.
De Bruyne was making his first start in over five months and Erling Haaland came off the bench, with their returns potentially threatening Alvarez's place in future starting line-ups. But the Argentine showed he is worth keeping around as City continue to chase Liverpool in the title race.
Rodri put City further at ease early at the start of the second half but Burnley got a consolation goal, as Ameen Al Dakhil pounced on a blunder from Ederson in added time.
GOAL rates Man City's players from the Etihad Stadium...
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Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball's color barrier.
Major League Baseball pledged support. And the total raised just through one online fundraiser surpassed $145,000, which is far in excess of the estimated $75,000 value of the bronze statue that was cut from its base last week at a park in Wichita, Kansas. Police are searching for those responsible.
Only the statue's feet were left at McAdams Park, where about 600 children play in a youth baseball league called League 42, which is named after Robinson' s uniform number with the Brooklyn Dodgers, with whom he broke the major leagues' color barrier in 1947.
Fire crews found burned remnants of the statue Tuesday while responding to a trash can fire at another park about 7 miles (11.27 kilometers) away. A truck believed to be used in the theft previously was found abandoned, and police said the theft was captured on surveillance video.
Bob Lutz, executive director of the Little League nonprofit that commissioned the sculpture, said Wednesday in a message on X, formerly Twitter, that the MLB commissioner's office and 30 clubs had committed funding toward the cost of replacing the statue and providing other support.
“Amazing, huh?” he said.
Lutz had said earlier that the money raised also could enhance some of its programming and facilities. In April, the group opened the Leslie Rudd Learning Center, which includes an indoor baseball facility and a learning lab.
“We’re not just baseball,” Lutz said. “We have after school education, enrichment and tutoring.”
One of the largest donations is a $10,000 pledge from an anonymous former Major League Baseball player who won a World Series. Wichita police Chief Joe Sullivan, who announced the donation over the weekend, has urged anyone involved in the theft to surrender and vowed that arrests were imminent.
“The community, along with the business community and the nation as a whole, have demonstrated an incredible outpouring of support,” Sullivan said in a statement Wednesday. “This effort highlights the kindness of the people and their determination to rebuild what was taken away from our community.”
Lutz, whose friend, the artist John Parsons, made the statue before his death, said the mold is still viable and anticipated that a replacement can be erected within a matter of months.
“We value what it represents,” he said. “It’s important that our 600 kids understand what it represents. And, we make every effort to educate our kids about the role that Jackie Robinson played in life and civil rights, his life beyond sports. He’s the absolute best role model you could imagine.”
League 42 drew attention to Robinson's birthday Wednesday in a Facebook post, noting that "his legacy will hold up forever" and asking for donations.
Robinson played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers, paving the way for generations of Black American ballplayers. He's considered not only a sports legend but also a civil rights icon. Robinson died in 1972.
Lutz said that the league appeals to “all kids, but especially to kids of color" and that the connection to Robinson resonated.
“We can’t imagine, being named League 42 without a Jackie Robinson statue in our park," he said. "It was a no-brainer when we went about trying to name our league. And the name League 42 came up. It was like lightning and struck. We knew we had our name.”
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NPR News From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 4:39 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:17 NPR visits an emergency hotline center in the West Bank assisting first responders in the Gaza Strip. Copyright 2024 NPR
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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Updated January 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM ET
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 31, 2024) - EV Minerals Corporation (CSE: EVM) (FSE: RLC) (the "Company" or "EV Minerals") is pleased to announce that the Company has completed detailed logging of all of the core from the December 2023 exploration program on the EV Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project ("EV Nickel Project"), located in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean Region, Quebec (Figure 1). Additionally, EV Minerals has submitted a total of 559 samples from 514.41 metres of core for assaying.
The 2023 Exploration drilling campaign included 13 drill holes totalling 1,142.7 metres. A total of 6 holes for 423 metres were drilled as confirmatory drilling in the Main Zone area, and a total of 7 holes for 719.7 metres were drilled as exploratory drilling into multiple target zones on the Property. The targets of the exploratory drilling were selected based on strong geophysical anomalies (North Eastern Anomaly, Main and South, and Northern Zone) which were explained by broad (tens of metres) zones of interconnected disseminated and net suphides. The collars of the 2023 drill program are shown in Figure 2.
EV Minerals President and CEO Nicholas Konkin said: "Initial feedback from the detailed logging in both the Main zone and exploration zones supports our confidence that the EV Nickel Project is an excellent critical minerals asset. We continue to better understand the geology, mineralization, and structures on the Property using the modern day exploration practices that we adopted for our 2023 program. In conjunction with this, the exploratory drilling program has provided us with the required data so as to target our next drill campaign towards outlining a larger tonnage and higher grade area of Ni, Cu, Co mineralization than historically reported, as outlined in our press release dated January 24, 2024. A larger follow-up drill program is currently being planned for the near future. We are looking forward to receiving the assay results from the multiple zones encountered during the 2023 drill program and to initiate metallurgical testing."
Detailed Logging and Initial Exploration Commentary
Detailed logging in the Main Zone confirmed the semi-massive to massive sections of sulphide mineralization within gabbroic anorthosites and gabbros, which was expected based on historic drill log information. Semi-massive to massive sulphide zones contained pyrrhotite, pyrite, and trace chalcopyrite, such as in hole 883-23-003 (Figure 3).
Initial detailed logging in the exploratory holes drilled in the North Eastern Anomaly indicate sulphide mineralization is more uniformly disseminated over wide intersections, with local clusters/bands of pyrite and pyrrhotite present. For example, hole 883-23-008 intersected a disseminated sulphide zone containing up to 10% (visual estimate) sub-millimetres sulphides, including pyrrhotite, pyrite, and traces of chalcopyrite, over an apparent width of 56 metres (Figure 4). Interpretation of the lithology, structures, and mineralization encountered is ongoing.
Detailed logging was completed by the IOS Services Géoscientifiques (IOS) team. This involved systematic recording of all lithologies (major and minor units), alteration, mineralization, structures, and veining encountered. High-quality photos of all core boxes were taken. IOS also utilizes an Olympus Vanta portable XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) analyzer to measure in-situe nickel tenor in sulphides, which range from 1.5% in massive facies to 2.5% Ni in disseminated sulphides. Selected intersections have also been submitted to petrographic analysis to further aid in understanding the nature of the deposit as well as planning for metallurgical testing.
Figure 1: Regional Map and Historical Non-Compliant Resource Location
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Figure 2: 2023 Drill Program DDH Collars
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Figure 3: Hole 883-23-003, semi-massive sections of sulphide mineralization comprising pyrrhotite, pyrite, and trace chalcopyrite. Minute pentlandite is suspected to be associated with the pyrrhotite, but will necessitate petrographic work to be confirmed.
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Figure 4: Hole 883-23-008, disseminated sulphide mineralization comprising pyrrhotite, pyrite, and trace chalcopyrite, which can be observed over tens of metres. Yellow marking are HH-XRF copper and nickel readings in ppm.
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The samples will be shipped to Activation Laboratories ("Actlabs"), an ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 9001 accredited laboratory for multi-element analysis. Analysis will be by Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) after aqua-regia digestion, Actlabs method code 1E3, which reports results for a suite of 38 elements.
About EV Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project
The 1,792-hectare EV Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Project has been a source of ongoing enthusiasm for the EV Minerals technical team. The Project is located north of Saguenay Quebec and is easily accessible by numerous forest service roads. The EV Nickel Project has an undeveloped resource of 5.585 million tonnes with grades of 0.21% Ni, 0.11% Cu and 0.03% Co (NI 43-101 non-compliant resource)*. The EV Nickel Project (formerly, the McNickel or Poisson Blanc deposit) was discovered in 1987 with a major drilling campaign completed in 1989 by a junior explorer.
The claims host a magmatic sulphide deposit consisting of disseminated, stringer and massive nickel, copper, and cobalt mineralization in a gabbro - leucogabbro host rock. The deposit is located at the margin of the expansive Lac-St-Jean anorthosite Complex. The property lies on the far western edge of the Complex which is a major Proterozoic age formation intruding high-grade gneisses and granitic complexes. In 1998 the Quebec Government produced a detailed report on the property in the publication: "Etude Du Gite De Cu-Ni-Co De McNickel, Suite Anorthositique De Lac Saint-Jean." Thomas Clark, Claude Hebert. ET 98-02.
EV Minerals aims to update the mineral resources on the deposit, which shall be ammeanable to bio-leaching or hydrometallurgical leaching of battery grade nickel or cobalt.
Qualified Person
Rejean Girard, an independent Qualified Person ("QP") as such term is defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the geological information reported in this news release.
About EV Minerals Corporation
EV Minerals Corporation is a Canadian exploration company focused on mineral exploration and development. The current focus is the EV Nickel Project, host of the nickel-copper-cobalt McNickel deposit. The Project is comprised of 32 mineral claims covering approximately 1,792 hectares located in the Saguenay area, the Province of Quebec. This deposit is reputed containing a historical resource of 5.585 million tonnes with grades of 0.21% Ni, 0.11% Cu and 0.03% Co (NI 43-101 non-compliant resource), which is to be re-evaluated with the consideration of using either bioleaching or acid leaching and electrowinning for nickel, cobalt and copper recovery.
* The foregoing historical resource estimates presented above were completed in 1985, prior to the implementation of the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. The Company is not treating the historic resources as current. However, given the abundance and quality of the historic drill work completed, the Company is confident that a mineral resource could be generated on the deposit through sufficient confirmation drilling.
For more information, please contact:
Nicholas Konkin
President and CEO, Director
nick@evmineralscorp.ca
416-642-1807 Ext 305
This news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law. Forward-looking information is frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "would", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. These statements are only predictions. Forward-looking information is based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the information is provided and is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking information. For a description of the risks and uncertainties facing the Company and its business and affairs, readers should refer to the Company's Management's Discussion and Analysis. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change, unless required by law. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking information.
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SOURCE: EV Minerals Corporation
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6 pro-life activists convicted of FACE Act felonies, face over 10 years in prison
A devout Christian father of 11 children is facing prison time alongside five other pro-life activists after being convicted of violating a federal law against blocking access to abortion clinics.
A federal jury found Paul Vaughn guilty on Tuesday of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act when he and five others blocked access to an abortion facility in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, in March 2021.
In addition to Vaughn, the other defendants found guilty of obstructing access to the Mount Juliet facility were Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd and Dennis Green.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 2. The six pro-life activists are facing up to 10.5 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine not to exceed $260,000.
"These defendants knowingly chose to violate laws they disagreed with," said U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis for the Middle District of Tennessee in a statement released Tuesday.
"The jury's verdict today is a victory for the rule of law in this country and a reminder that we cannot pick and choose which laws we follow. It is also a testament to the outstanding work done in this case by the trial team and our law enforcement partners."
The Thomas More Society, a religious liberty law firm that helped to represent Vaughn, has expressed disappointment with the jury decision and intends to appeal the verdict.
"This was a peaceful demonstration by entirely peaceable citizens — filled with prayer, hymn-singing, and worship — oriented toward persuading expecting mothers not to abort their babies," said TMS Senior Counsel Steve Crampton in a statement.
"Unfortunately, the Biden Department of Justice decided to characterize Paul Vaughn's peaceful actions as a felony' conspiracy against rights,' to intimidate and punish Paul and other pro-life people and people of faith."
Crampton described the jury decision as "a frustrating setback, for Paul, for his family, and for the extended pro-life community," adding that he believed the Biden administration's "pattern of arresting and prosecuting peaceful pro-life advocates is disturbing."
In October 2022, Vaughn was one of originally 11 people indicted for their blocking of the entrance to the Mount Juliet clinic, which was advertised by Gallagher and Boyd on social media.
Seven of the 11 defendants faced conspiracy charges under the FACE Act, while the remaining defendants were charged with misdemeanors that carried a punishment of up to one year in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannefelser released a statement at the time condemning the indictments as the latest example of "the Biden administration's egregious abuse of the Justice Department."
"Pro-abortion Democrats will stop at nothing to protect the abortion industry that spends millions to elect them while demonizing pro-life advocates working to save lives and turning a blind eye to violence against them," stated Dannenfelser in 2022.
The FACE Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994, coming in response to a reported increase in violence against abortion facilities and personnel.
"We simply cannot — we must not — continue to allow the attacks, the incidents of arson, the campaigns of intimidation upon law-abiding citizens that has given rise to this law," said Clinton in 1994, as quoted by The New York Times.
"No person seeking medical care, no physician providing that care should have to endure harassments or threats or obstruction or intimidation or even murder from vigilantes who take the law into their own hands because they think they know what the law ought to be."
While often used against pro-life activists blocking entrance to abortion facilities, the FACE Act has been occasionally used to prosecute pro-choice vandals of pregnancy resource centers.
In 2023, for example, four individuals were indicted by a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida for their alleged vandalizing of a pro-life pregnancy care center.
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New Liverpool hero Conor Bradley left in sheer disbelief after match-winning performance in mauling of ChelseaPeter McVitieGettyConor BradleyLiverpoolLiverpool vs ChelseaPremier LeagueLiverpool starlet Conor Bradley felt like he was 'in a dream' after scoring his first senior goal as he put in an incredible display against Chelsea.Article continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowBradley was the star in Liverpool winGot his first senior goal for the RedsSpoke of 'dream' performance vs Chelsea
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Progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) has announced that she is opposed to the bipartisan tax bill currently moving through Congress that would hand major tax cuts to corporations and the rich while giving marginal benefits to working families via a partial revival of the expanded child tax credit.
Leaders in Congress are working on a bill that would revive the pandemic-spurred child tax credit expansion, but lower the total from $3,600 per child to $2,000 per child per year and still impose an income limit that wouldn’t allow the poorest families to access the full benefit. And though the child tax credit portion of the bill has been much touted, the bill — dubbed the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act — would also hand out hugely disproportionate tax breaks to the wealthy.
In order to please Republicans and their deep-pocketed donors, bill authors inserted a number of tax-related favors for corporations, like expanding deductions that businesses can file for in the future and retroactively. These tax cuts come on top of the 2017 Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which already slashed the corporate tax rate and have allowed major corporations to owe $0 on their taxes some years despite raking in profits.
Tlaib condemned the cuts for corporations and the wealthy in a statement on Wednesday, pointing to calculations about how they would grant these groups favors at a time of already massive wealth inequality.
The press release points out that, just in the first year, the richest 0.1 percent of American households would get an average tax cut of $57,530 — nearly the entirety of what the median worker makes in a year — while the poorest 20 percent, or 88 million households, would get only $60.
Meanwhile, corporations that are “already dodging paying their fair share of taxes,” as Tlaib said, would see their effective tax rates cut even more; the effective tax rate for Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, would drop from 25 percent to -2 percent if the bill were passed, she pointed out.
The bill has been estimated to cost $78 billion — but tax experts have warned that the bill will cost far, far more if the tax cuts are extended as they’re expected to be. If implemented over the next decade, the corporate tax breaks alone would add $600 billion to the deficit, some research has found. The bill is expected to face a vote on Wednesday in the House.
“Working families in my district should never be paying higher taxes than the richest companies on earth,” Tlaib said. “I cannot support a bill that deepens wealth inequality and economic injustice to benefit the richest Americans and corporations.”
Instead, Tlaib calls for lawmakers to pass the End Child Poverty Act, which she and Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Jesús “Chuy” García (D-Illinois) introduced last year. The bill would combine provisions in the current child tax credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit in order to create a “universal child benefit” that would provide families with a payment of $428 per child per month, or over $5,000 a year.
The progressive lawmakers’ bill would cut child poverty by 61 percent, the lawmakers have found. By contrast, estimates for the bipartisan proposal find that it would still leave 93 percent of children in the poorest 20 percent of households without the full tax credit, and would lift 400,000 children out of poverty — compared to the 3.8 million children lifted out of poverty by the expanded COVID-era tax credit.
“Our families deserve bold, transformative policies that take meaningful steps to end child poverty at its roots,” Tlaib said. “We need real solutions, not more tax breaks for the rich. We should stay at the table and demand a better deal for our children, not settle for crumbs.”
Other Democrats have also cited the tax bill’s disproportionate effects as reasons they’re opposing it.
“The tax deal fails on equity,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut), who has long advocated for child tax credit expansion. “It delivers huge tax cuts for giant corporations while denying middle class families the economic security they had under the expanded, monthly Child Tax Credit. It also leaves the poorest families behind because of a policy choice. At a time when a majority of American voters believe tax on big corporations should be increased, there is no reason we should be providing corporations a tax cut while only giving families pennies.”
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Super Bowl LVIII is rapidly approaching, signaling the end of the NFL season and the start of the offseason, where teams focus on acquiring new talent. However, before the Super Bowl takes center stage, the Reese’s Senior Bowl is captivating football fans and NFL personnel alike. This prestigious college football showcase for NFL prospects is currently underway in Mobile, Alabama.
With over 900 NFL personnel from all 32 teams in attendance, the Senior Bowl promises to be an exciting event. This week of practices and interviews leading up to the game is a crucial opportunity for prospects to impress potential employers. One significant change this year is that underclassmen prospects who have declared for the NFL Draft are now eligible to participate in the Senior Bowl, regardless of whether they have completed their degrees.
The Senior Bowl features some of the top prospects in this year’s NFL Draft class. Impressive names like UCLA’s Laiatu Latu, a talented edge rusher, Oregon State’s Taliese Fuaga, an offensive tackle, and Toledo’s Quinyon Mitchell, a cornerback, are all expected to make waves during the event. Quarterbacks Michael Penix Jr. and Bo Nix are also set to face off for the third time this season, both hoping to secure a top spot in the upcoming draft. Additionally, quarterbacks Caleb Williams from USC, Drake Maye from North Carolina, and Jayden Daniels from LSU are also highly regarded prospects.
The Senior Bowl isn’t just a platform for big-name schools. Under-the-radar players from smaller schools have a chance to showcase their skills as well. Rising star Austin Booker, a junior from Kansas, is making waves in the edge rusher position, while Alabama’s Justin Eboigbe is a standout defensive tackle prospect. Kentucky linebacker Trevin Wallace, though still raw, has shown immense promise and could attract teams in need of linebacker help. Wide receiver Malachi Corley from Western Kentucky aims to display his versatility as a threat both near the line of scrimmage and vertically. Jaden Hicks of Washington State is a versatile safety capable of fulfilling multiple roles.
In a unique twist, this year’s coaching format for the Senior Bowl involves coaches being elevated to higher roles than their current positions. This allows them to gain valuable experience. Terrell Williams, the Tennessee Titans assistant head coach/defensive line coach, is leading the American team, while Jeff Ulbrich, the New York Jets defensive coordinator, is heading the National team.
As NFL enthusiasts eagerly anticipate the Senior Bowl, they should also mark their calendars for the upcoming draft. The 2024 NFL Draft is scheduled to take place from April 25-27 in Detroit.
With the Senior Bowl attracting attention from NFL personnel and football fans, the event serves as a pivotal moment for talented prospects to showcase their skills before the draft. As the clock ticks down to Super Bowl LVIII, football enthusiasts eagerly await the developments at the Reese’s Senior Bowl, where future stars of the NFL are taking center stage.
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Erling Haaland was upstaged on his return from injury by fellow striker Julian Alvarez as Manchester City strolled to victory against Burnley.
Haaland made his first appearance since fracturing his foot in the defeat at Aston Villa on 6 December when he was introduced as a 71st-minute substitute at Etihad Stadium.
However, while the Norwegian’s major involvement was to draw laughs from team-mates Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic on the bench when he mis-kicked what was intended to be a shot on the turn, Alvarez turned 24 in style.
The Argentine took man-of-the-match honours by becoming just the 10th player to score two goals or more on their birthday in a Premier League game.
Both efforts came in the opening period. Matheus Nunes chipped a superb cross into the six-yard box for Alvarez to head home in the 16th minute.
And just six minutes later, Alvarez profited from a brilliantly worked training ground free-kick routine as Kevin de Bruyne shaped to curl a cross into the box but instead rolled a perfect 20-yard pass which just needed the first-time finish.
Rodri added a third in trademark fashion in the opening minute of the second-half, driving home Phil Foden’s cut-back from the edge of the area.
Burnley boss, and former City captain, Vincent Kompany would have been pleased with the way his side kept battling until the end.
They were at least able to grab an injury-time consolation as defender Ameen Al-Dakhil bundled in their first goal in seven visits to this stadium since 2018.
They were ultimately powerless, though, to stop second-placed City’s eighth successive win all competitions and 13th consecutive victory against Burnley.
The result allows Pep Guardiola’s side to keep pace with Liverpool and Arsenal in their chase for an unprecedented fourth consecutive league title – and keeps second-bottom Burnley mired in relegation trouble, with only three victories all season.
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Updated January 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM ET
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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LOS ANGELES — (AP) — The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Known as a "Pineapple Express" because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii, the storm rolled into the far north first and was expected to move down the coast through Thursday. Forecasters expect an even more powerful storm to follow it Sunday.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as "a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
Much of the first storm’s heaviest rain and mountain snow was expected to arrive late Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
“The main impact is going to be runoff from heavy rainfall that is probably going to result in flooding of some waterways,” said Robert Hart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s western region.
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda's on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There's absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year," Whitby said.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Models suggest it could intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a “cyclone bomb.”
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
Southern California, meanwhile, would get less wind but potentially two to three times as much rain as the north because of a deep tap of Pacific moisture extending to the tropics, Swain said.
“This is well south of Hawaii, so not just a Pineapple Express,'" he said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies about 30% of California's water is only about half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
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Nic Coury contributed to this report from Capitola, California.
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NPR News Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of top social media companies in a hearing today By Dara Kerr Published January 31, 2024 at 4:21 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 31, 2024) - MineHub Technologies Inc. (TSXV: MHUB) (OTCQB: MHUBF) ("MineHub" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has closed a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement" or "Offering") for total gross proceeds of C$4,038,800. The Company issued 36,716,366 units at a price of $0.11 per unit ("Units"). Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company and one transferable common share purchase warrant exercisable at a price of $0.20 per common share for a period of 36 months from the closing date. The Company intends to use the net proceeds raised from the sale of Units for general administrative and working capital purposes.
In connection with the closing, the Company agreed to pay cash finder's fees of $137,536 and issue 1,007,329 finder warrants, each finder warrant exercisable to purchase one common share for 12 months at a price of $0.20 per common share. All securities issued under the private placement are subject to a hold period of four months and one day from closing. The Private Placement is subject to final TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") approval.
Certain directors and officers of the Company have participated in Private Placement which participation constitutes a related-party transaction, as defined under Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions. The issuance of the Units is exempt from the formal valuation requirements of Section 5.4 of MI 61-101, pursuant to Subsection 5.5(a) of MI 61-101, and exempt from the minority shareholder approval requirements of Section 5.6 of MI 61-101, pursuant to Subsection 5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101.
The securities to be offered pursuant to the Offering have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, United States persons absent registration or any applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
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MineHub provides enterprise-grade digital solutions that connect buyers, sellers, laboratories and financiers within physical commodities supply chains in a digitally integrated workflow powered by data that is useable, shareable, verifiable and unforgeable. Users of MineHub solutions are in full control of their supply chains, enabling them to optimize their use of resources, respond better and faster to disruptions, and provide a better customer service. Global enterprises already use MineHub solutions as part of their logistics, compliance, trade management and financing operations.
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Tottenham x UFC?! Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou makes bizarre MMA threat after bad-tempered victory over BrentfordJames HunsleyGetty ImagesTottenham HotspurPremier LeagueAnge PostecoglouNeal MaupayTottenham Hotspur vs BrentfordBrentfordBrennan JohnsonAnge Postecoglou challenged his Tottenham players to sort out their differences with Brentford in a UFC ring after a full-blooded win on Wednesday.Article continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowArticle continues belowSpurs and Brentford in heated clashNorth London side prevail 3-2Postecoglou makes UFC comment
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What attracts 20,000+ 20-somethings? Orthodox Catholicism NOT liberalism
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See MoreDevotion to Jesus Christ and the orthodox teachings of His Catholic Church drew more than 20,000 Catholic youth to gather prayerfully for fellowship and inspiration at the 2024 Seek Conference, hosted by the missionary group FOCUS. Despite efforts by modernist and liberal bishops to distort the authentic teachings of the Catholic Faith and minimize Christ, attendees worshipped Christ in the Eucharist with deep reverence and homage. Liberal bishops now have reason to fear: orthodox Catholic youth are ditching the Deep Church agenda to abandon Christ and are instead increasing in their devotion and dependence upon the Holy Eucharist.
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The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) has announced that the Emissions Levy takes effect from Thursday, February 1, 2024.
The bill passed by Parliament through the Emissions Levy Act, 2023 (Act 1112) imposes an annual charge on all owners of petrol and diesel cars.
The charge varies based on the type of vehicle and its engine capacity.
Motorcycles and tricycles are required to pay GH₵75 per annum, while motor vehicles, buses, and coaches up to 3000 cc are required to pay GH₵150 per annum.
Also, motor vehicles, buses, and coaches above 3000 cc, cargo trucks, and articulated trucks are required to pay GH₵300 per annum.
The government’s objective with this tax is to encourage the use of environmentally friendly energy sources for vehicle power, aligning with its commitment to climate-positive actions and carbon offset initiatives.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) threatened to increase transport fares by 60% as soon as the levy takes place.
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Lia Thomas sues World Aquatics over policy banning men from competing against women
Trans-identified swimmer Lia Thomas, formerly known as Will, has filed a complaint against World Aquatics over the international swimming organization’s policies prohibiting men from competing in women’s sports.
In a lawsuit filed before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, Thomas is taking issue with the swimming organization’s 2022 decision to prohibit men from competing in competitions designated for women only.
In a statement to The Guardian, World Aquatics Executive Director Brent Nowicki said the policy “was rigorously developed on the basis of advice from leading medical and legal experts, and in careful consultation with athletes.”
“World Aquatics remains confident that its gender inclusion policy represents a fair approach, and remains absolutely determined to protect women’s sport,” Nowicki continued.
The Christian Post reached out to Tyr, the Canadian law firm representing Thomas, for additional details on the litigation. This article will be updated if a response is received.
Thomas, a biological male born with the name William who identifies as female, broke women's swimming records and became a national champion after he transitioned to the female swim team at the University of Pennsylvania after three years of competing on the men's team.
Thomas’ involvement on the UPenn women’s swim team received much criticism, including from multiple female teammates and competitors who expressed discomfort at sharing a locker room with him.
One former teammate, Paula Scanlan, told conservative commentator Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire last year that university officials wouldn't allow them to speak out against Thomas being on the team.
"They continued to tell us that our opinions were wrong and if we had an issue about it, we were the problem," Scanlan said, “and it's frightening, and your future job is on the line."
In July of last year, the World Aquatics Congress met in Fukuoka, Japan, and decided to create a separate category for trans-identified athletes in order to prevent biological males from competing in women’s competitions.
World Aquatics President Husain Al-Musallam said at the time that his organization has "protected the rights of our female athletes by creating an enclosure policy that has become the template which many other international [federations] are following.”
"Nobody should be excluded from our competitions. This is why I announced last year that I would set up a committee to look at the best way to implement an open category," he added.
"This is a very complex topic. But I am delighted to tell you today that we are now making ... plans for the first trial of an open category and we hope to be able to confirm all the details soon. Our sport must be for everybody."
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Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons is out for Wednesday's matchup with the Phoenix Suns, the team announced.
The 27-year-old sustained played his first game in nearly three months on Monday, coming back from a nearly three-month long absence. He recorded 10 points, 11 assists and 8 rebounds vs. the Utah Jazz in the comeback.
But the return came at a cost, as he suffered a left knee contusion after taking a hit during the game, according to The Athletic's Shams Charania. After the knee began to swell, Simmons reportedly underwent tests that showed no further issue.
It's unclear how long Simmons will be sidelined, but it seems unlikely that the injury will keep him out for as long as the last one did. He was previously hampered by a pinched nerve in his back that he began to recover from on Nov. 6.
This story will be updated.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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Updated January 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM ET
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - South Korea will on Thursday release January data for imports, exports and trade balance, highlighting a busy day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. In December, imports were down 10.8 percent on year and exports added 5.0 percent for a trade surplus of $4.46 billion.
Australia will see December numbers for building approvals and Q4 data for import and export prices. In November, building approvals were up 1.6 percent on month and down 1.6 percent on year. Export prices in Q3 were down 3.1 percent on quarter and import prices rose 0.8 percent.
Hong Kong will release December figures for retail sales; in November, sales were up 15.9 percent on year.
Indonesia will provide January figures for consumer prices; in December, overall inflation was up 0.41 percent on month and 2.61 percent on year, while core CPI climbed 1.80 percent on year.
A number of regional countries will see January results for their respective manufacturing PMIs from S&P Global, including Australia (Judo Bank), Indonesia, Japan (Jibun Bank), Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and China (Caixin).
Finally, the markets in Malaysia are closed on Thursday for Federal Territory Day and will re-open on Friday.
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Five businessmen who were arrested at the Kotoka International Airport in 2019 over the importation of 2,200 grams of cocaine have been convicted and sentenced to a combined 60 years imprisonment.
The convicts are; Frank Asante, Kweku Antwi, who has since jumped bail, Alhassan Iddrisu, Clifford Boakye and Isaac Kwakye.
This was after they were found guilty on three counts of Conspiracy to commit a crime namely possession of a Narcotic, importation of Narcotic drugs and possession of Narcotic drug by the High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo after full trial.
Justice Osei Marfo, subsequently, imposed the minimum punishment of 10 years each on all the convict under the old Narcotics Control Law PNDC law 236 which has since been amended by Act 1019.
“I have listened to Counsel on both sides and I have looked at the old (PNDC Law 236) and the new law Act 1019). And I am satisfied that, (under) the old law the punishment of the offenses for which they have been charged is lesser in severity than the new law in the same offense,” Justice Marfo said.
She explained that, “anybody that is convicted for the offenses of possession and importation of Narcotics drug is sentenced to a minimum of 10 years in prison.”
While, “the new law, however, in respect of the same offense comes with same minimum of 10 years (jail term) and some heavy fines and the two go together.”
Justice Marfo also said, the Court is minded about the constitutional provisions under Article 19(6) of the Constitution and “I cannot impose punishment stipulated under the new law.”
The Court prior to sentencing also took into consideration the mitigation factors from defense lawyers and the conduct of the convicts.
“I have considered the conducts of the accused persons except (A2) during their bail and attendance in court during the trial although some were coming from Kumasi, always were present and where they could genuinely not be present in Court, they asked permission from the court,” the Court said.
In view of the above, the Court sentenced all five into 10 years (minimum) each in prison on the charges of Conspiracy to commit a crime namely possession of a narcotic and possession of narcotic.
Asante and Kweku Antwi were separately jailed 10 years for importation of Narcotic drugs.
However, the Court said, while the four who were present in court ; Frank Asante, Alhassan Iddrisu, Clifford Boakye and Isaac Kwakye are to serve the sentence concurrently while Kweku Antwi will serve his punishment consecutively upon arrest.
Four will serve only 10 years each while Antwi will serve 20 years for jumping bail.
Brief facts
Information gathered by the Intelligence Unit of the Narcotic Control Board (NACOB) indicated that the 1st Accused person Frank Asante with his accomplices had been importing and dealing in Narcotic substances from Brazil and other countries.
It stated that, a surveillance was mounted on the travels and other activities of Frank Asante and his accomplices.
According to the facts, sometime in March 2019, the intelligence team monitoring Frank Asante observed him arrive from Brazil to Ghana where he was met and picked up at the Kotoka International Airport by the 3rd accused person Alhassan Iddrisu.
It stated that, in May 2019, the team observed Frank Asante arrive from Brazil to Ghana and he was met at the Airport by Alhassan Iddrisu, Clifford Aboagye and Isaac Kiakye.
It said, they all drove off to a spot at Achimota Mile 7, where Frank Asante was seen hand over a backpack from his traveling bag to Alhassan Iddrisu.
The Facts stated that, on July 13, 2019, Frank Asante and the accused person Kweku Antwi arrived on an Ethiopian Airline from Brazil to Ghana.
The 2nd accused person had been engaged by the 1st accused to carry narcotic drugs from Brazil to Ghana at a fee and they both carried their respective travelling bags tagged in their respective names.
It added that, in the course of the arrival formalities, two black backpacks suspected to contain narcotic drugs were seen in the traveling bags of the 2nd accused person.
It stated, that after going through disembarkation formalities, the 3rd accused person was observed pushing a trolley with the travelling luggage of the 1st accused.
The 1st accused, 2nd accused and the 3rd accused were subsequently joined by the 4th and 5th accused persons.
All the travelling bags were loaded into a vehicle driven by the 3rd accused person.
The 4th and 5th accused persons boarded a separate vehicle and all the five accused persons were arrested before they could leave the Kotoka International Airport and were taken to NACOB headquarters for further investigations.
“The two black backpacks retrieved from the travelling bags of the 2nd accused was cut open in the presence of all the accused persons.
“Whitish substances wrapped in foil was discovered in a false compartment of each of the backpacks.
“The substances which were field tested proved positive for cocaine. A subsequent search at the residences of the 3rd accused person at Race Course and New Fadama, Accra, disclosed 4 similar backpacks, 2 of which had their bottoms ripped off, weighing scales suspected to be used to weigh the narcotic substances, a test tube, different passports and gallons containing liquid substances.
“A similar gallon also containing liquid substance was retrieved from the vehicle of the 3rd accused person at the time of arrest.
“The whitish substances and the gallons containing the liquid substances were forwarded to the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) for analytical examination.
“The report from the GSA indicated that the substances from the 2 backpacks retrieved from the travelling bags of the 2nd accused tested positive for cocaine with an 82.5 percentage purity and a net weight of 2,200.0 grams.
“Two of the gallons containing the liquid substances were identified as alcohol and a 3rd gallon tested positive for an organophosphorus pesticide,” it stated.
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Mike Johnson warns of global threats to religious freedom, calls on Biden to protect Uyghurs
WASHINGTON — The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson urged the Biden administration to take stronger action against the Chinese Communist Party as the ruling government's treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uyghur minority group continues to invite allegations of human rights and religious freedom violations.
Johnson, R-La., addressed the crowd gathered at the annual International Religious Freedom Summit Wednesday, highlighting his background as a religious freedom litigator and discussing the threats to religious freedom worldwide.
"North Korea's Kim Jong-un, for example, continues to exercise a dark influence in denying all freedoms to his people, especially religious freedom," the 52-year-old lawmaker said.
"The regime in Myanmar continues to engage in genocidal attacks against the Rohingya Muslims. In Nigeria, Christians and minority Muslims are attacked and killed by mobs of terrorists. Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Miguel Diaz-Canel in Cuba hunt down and imprison Catholic priests and Baptist pastors who simply preach the Gospel and speak out against the regime."
Johnson singled out the Chinese Communist Party's religious freedom violations, noting that "Tibetan Buddhists and Falun Gong practitioners are placed in forced labor camps, and they have their organs harvested by the Chinese Communist Party."
He detailed how "in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, Uyghur Muslims are suffering under the Chinese Communist Party's genocidal campaign of forced sterilization, forced detention and re-education."
"Millions of Uyghurs have been detained in these camps where they're kept in cramped cells, and they're tortured and brainwashed," he added. "At this moment, the U.S. has an opportunity and an obligation to prevent genocide and punish those who commit it."
After the crowd erupted into applause, Johnson issued a plea to the White House: "As China makes its forced labor efforts harder to detect, we call on the Biden administration to fully enforce the letter and the spirit of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act."
"This should not be a partisan issue," he continued. "We should all be united on this. It's who we are as Americans. And we must use all of our resources to prevent American involvement in Uyghur genocide."
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in December 2021, was approved by the U.S. Senate in a unanimous vote in July 2021, while the U.S. House of Representatives approved it in a 428-1 vote in December 2021.
The law established the policy of the U.S. to "prohibit the import of all goods, wares, articles, or merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured, wholly or in part, by forced labor from the People's Republic of China and particularly any such goods, wares, articles, or merchandise produced in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China."
Additionally, Johnson shared his belief that there is a direct connection between the treatment of religious minorities in the aforementioned countries and the lack of opportunity for their citizens.
"All these countries, some of the most repressive in the world, also have the least to offer their citizens in terms of economic prosperity and social mobility. And that's no surprise because if you're going to restrict and torment people for their religious beliefs, it's going to be a tyrannical regime."
"Economic prosperity grows when the people are allowed to follow their faith. Freedom flourishes where freedom is allowed," he declared.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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Nick Dunlap didn’t need much time to make his decision after hoisting the trophy in Southern California earlier this month.
The 20-year-old sophomore from Alabama, who made history with his win at The American Express two weeks ago, officially turned pro. He will now make his professional debut this week at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which marks the second designated event on Tour so far this season.
"Hectic, but also really cool," Dunlap said on Wednesday of what the last few weeks have been like. "I've had numerous moments where you just kind of have to take it all in, it's overwhelming. But also I've dreamed about doing this my whole life and playing golf on the PGA Tour. To finally be here and to be able to do that as a 20-year-old is pretty cool."
Dunlap won The American Express in La Quinta, California, two weeks ago after posting a 60 in the third round. That made him the first amateur to win on the PGA Tour since Phil Mickelson did so in 1991, and the youngest amateur to do so since 1910.
Dunlap, who won the U.S. Amateur, was already set to play in the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open this season. Now that he's turned pro, he will have full Tour status and exemption through the 2026 season. His win jumped him up 4,061 spots to No. 68 in the Official World Golf Rankings, which was the highest one-week jump in the rankings' history.
"I would say I knew that I was probably going to turn pro just with the opportunity that had been presented, but also I wanted to go back and talk to my teammates and talk to my parents and my coach and get their opinion and their two cents worth before I did anything," Dunlap said.
Once he did that, Dunlap made the trip to the Monterey Peninsula for this week’s tournament. Just like that, he was right in the mix. Fellow Alabama star Justin Thomas actually caught up with Dunlap and others at dinner on Monday night.
"Nick was there and he looked tired. He was like, 'Man, I'm so tired.'" Thomas said on Tuesday. "I was like, 'Dude, I don't really care. You should be sleeping right now and getting ready to go to class tomorrow morning and I'm pretty sure all of your teammates would happily switch with you, so be careful who you say that to.'
"I was needling him, giving him a hard time … I just think it's important that whatever he's always done, to continue to do that because I think it's easy to get a little bit taken over by the opportunity."
Dunlap will go off with Xander Schauffele on Thursday afternoon at Pebble Beach. He’ll then play at Spyglass Hill on Friday, where he’ll attempt to make a second straight cut before trying to compete into the weekend yet again. That’s no easy task, especially with the stronger field in play this week.
But regardless of how it goes, Dunlap knows how special it is to get to make his pro debut at Pebble Beach of all places.
"I remember playing this place on the PGA Tour PlayStation game, so to be out here and to see it for the first time is pretty cool," he said.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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Donald Trump has yet to officially clinch the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already begun to tease about a running mate. The NPR Politics Podcast dives into who might be on his list.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 31, 2024 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) today announced it has been recognized on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list as part of its "All-Star" top-50 companies. This annual list is considered one of the leading measures of corporate reputation among global organizations.
"We are honored to be recognized among the most admired companies in the world. This marks our first year on Fortune's esteemed list and builds on the recognition of our transformative platform technology," said Stéphane Bancel, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna. "We remain focused on being a company where people can do the best work of their lives as we advance our mission to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines."
Moderna is committed to expanding the field of mRNA medicine into new frontiers, entering 2024 with 45 therapeutic and vaccine programs, nine of which are in late-stage development. This commitment is mirrored in its work to positively impact communities around the globe by promoting public health, access and equality. Moderna is consistently recognized for its investment in its people and innovation.
Since 1997, Fortune has collaborated with management consulting firm Korn Ferry to determine the 50 best-regarded companies, considering 1,500 candidates across 52 industries. This includes surveying more than 3,700 executives, directors and analysts, who are asked to rank enterprises in their own industry on nine criteria related to financial performance and corporate reputation, from investment value and quality of management and products to social responsibility and ability to attract talent.
To learn more about the Fortune 2024 World's Most Admired Companies list, visit https://fortune.com/ranking/worlds-most-admired-companies/2024.
About Moderna
Moderna is a leader in the creation of the field of mRNA medicine. Through the advancement of mRNA technology, Moderna is reimagining how medicines are made and transforming how we treat and prevent disease for everyone. By working at the intersection of science, technology and health for more than a decade, the company has developed medicines at unprecedented speed and efficiency, including one of the earliest and most effective COVID-19 vaccines.
Moderna's mRNA platform has enabled the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and autoimmune diseases. With a unique culture and a global team driven by the Moderna values and mindsets to responsibly change the future of human health, Moderna strives to deliver the greatest possible impact to people through mRNA medicines. For more information about Moderna, please visit modernatx.com and connect with us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
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If we could be friends with any celebrity, we’d probably choose Jennifer Garner. Between her sunny demeanor and her relatable social media presence, she truly is America’s Sweetheart! It’s refreshing to see a star who is so comfortable in her own skin that she often opts for a fresh face rather than full glam. In fact, the Alias alum recently revealed that during the pandemic, her makeup artist taught her tips over Zoom “because I [had] no idea what was going on.” That’s how Garner figured out “the importance of a bronzer!”
Chanel’s Les Beiges Bronzing Cream, to be exact. In a recent Vogue Beauty Secrets video, she said, “I do a little of this [applying the bronzer on a fluffy brush] and then I put a little on my hand so it’s all mushed in. You gotta do the neck. You don’t want to look like a popsicle.” (Did we mention she was funny too?!) After application, Garner cooed, “Ooh! Look who’s coming to life!” That’s how we feel every time we get a spray tan!
If you want to glow like Garner, then keep scrolling to shop this luxury bronzer.
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Now we know the secret behind Garner’s healthy glow — it’s the Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream. This lightweight cream-gel bronzer delivers a sun-kissed complexion with a velvety matte finish. We love a creamy bronzer that just melts into your skin! Not heavy or cakey.
Formulated with mineral waxes and soft-focus powders, this bronzer smooths your skin while adding natural-looking color. Meanwhile, the light-reflecting pigments illuminate your skin for a radiant effect. Oh, and since this product is non-comedogenic, it helps prevent clogged pores and breakouts.
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It should come as no surprise that this top-rated bronzing cream has earned rave reviews from Chanel customers. “This is the best bronzer ever,” one shopper declared. “I use it for contouring and the buttery feel on my skin and ease of blending is so satisfying and therapeutic.” Sounds divine! Another customer agreed, calling this product the “best bronzer and so beautiful!! It’s creamy, pigmented and so easy to blend. Literally makes you look like you been in the sun.”
You can use this bronzer as contour to accentuate your cheekbones, sculpt your jawline and create the illusion of a smaller forehead and nose. But you can also use this cream for a bronzed glow all over your face, shoulders and décolleté.
It may be the winter, but you can shine like it’s summer with the Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Bronzing Cream!
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Conor Bradley produced a memorable display by scoring his first Liverpool goal and grabbing two assists as the Reds beat Chelsea to maintain their grip on first place in the Premier League.
Jurgen Klopp’s side went into this round of fixtures five points clear at the top and, with Arsenal and Manchester City winning their games against Nottingham Forest and Burnley respectively, the Anfield club needed to do likewise against the Blues.
Having beaten Bournemouth 4-0 in their previous league outing, they once again put in a confident and dominant display to sweep Chelsea aside.
Darwin Nunez twice hit the woodwork in the opening stages – and four times in total – before Diogo Jota showed great persistence to force his way through defenders to slot in from Bradley’s pass.
The 20-year-old Northern Ireland international, who has emerged as a very exciting talent at Liverpool this season, then got the goal his recent impressive displays have warranted as he raced into the box from the right before driving into the far corner.
Liverpool should have been 3-0 up at half-time but Nunez struck the post from the penalty spot after Jota was brought down.
Mykhailo Mudryk missed a glorious chance to halve the deficit after the break when he lashed high over the bar with just Alisson to beat.
Dominik Szoboszlai punished Chelsea for that miss as he got Liverpool’s third, heading home Bradley’s cross, and although Christopher Nkunku drove in a consolation for the visitors, Luis Diaz added a fourth late on with a close-range strike.
It was the perfect result for the Reds both in retaining their advantage at the top of the Premier League as well as boosting confidence before they face Chelsea again in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on 25 February.
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Kenya to buy back Eurobond in February or March
Wednesday January 31 2024
Kenya is looking to buy back in February or March at least some of its $2 billion Eurobond, President William Ruto told Reuters on Tuesday, dismissing any risk the country would default.
Falling hard currency reserves, a steep weakening of the local currency and revenue challenges have raised questions about Kenya's ability to pay off the bond, which matures in June.
President Ruto had told Parliament in November that Kenya would buy back $300 million of the Eurobond before the end of 2023, but he said the government's transaction advisers ultimately recommended against doing so.
Read: Kenya calms markets with $300m early Eurobond repayment
"What they have recommended is we do a buyback in February, March, and then we go to the market," he said in an interview in Rome, on the sidelines of the Italy-Africa summit.
"Thank God they were right. In fact, the markets have opened for Kenya, as it has for most other countries," Dr Ruto said.
After surging over the past two years due to concerns about heavy indebtedness and high interest rates in advanced economies, yields on dollar bonds issued by frontier economies have started to come off in recent months.
Cote d'Ivoire successfully raised $2.6 billion this month through two bonds that were both oversubscribed.
Dr Ruto also said the government was no longer counting on the Trade and Development Bank (TDB), an African development finance institution, to organise a $1 billion syndicated loan for Kenya, as initially planned.
Read: Kenya taps $500m Trade Bank syndicated loan
Treasury said earlier this month that TDB had lent Kenya $210 million of that total, but that the remaining funds had not been delivered.
"Because of the situation that we now see in the market, we believe that it would be a lot easier even for us to raise that money in the market, rather than through syndication," President Ruto said.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Navy vet who toppled satanic display slapped with 'hate crime' charge, felony mischief
A U.S. Navy veteran who toppled a satanic display in the Iowa state Capitol shortly before Christmas has been charged with felony mischief and a hate crime.
Michael Cassidy, 35, made headlines in December when he traveled from Mississippi to Des Moines and pushed over a red-cloaked statue of Baphomet where it stood near a Nativity scene.
The statue, which had been erected by the Iowa chapter of The Satanic Temple, was in front of a candle-lit altar adorned with the seven "Fundamental Tenets" of the organization, which claims not to believe in a personal devil.
Cassidy, a former GOP candidate for the Mississippi House of Representatives, tossed the statue's silver ram's head in the trash before turning himself in to authorities, who issued him a citation for fourth-degree criminal mischief, a misdemeanor.
The charges against him have since escalated, with the Polk County Attorney's Office charging Cassidy with felony third-degree mischief and a hate crime under Iowa state law, according to a charging document made public Tuesday and reported by The Des Moines Register.
"Evidence shows the defendant made statements to law enforcement and the public indicating he destroyed the property because of the victim's religion," Lynn Hicks, a spokesman for the Polk County Attorney's Office, told the local outlet.
The estimated repair costs for the Baphomet statue are between $750 and $1,500, according to Hicks.
In a social media post on Wednesday responding to the charges, Cassidy cited John 16:33.
"Thanks to everyone who’s been supportive, I truly appreciate it," he wrote. "It’s important to remember what Jesus said in John 16:33 '…In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.'"
A hate crime, as defined under the statute, includes criminal mischief "when committed against a person or a person's property because of the person's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, or disability, or the person's association with a person of a certain race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, political affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, age, or disability."
Polk County Attorney Kimberly Graham, a Democrat whose campaign was flooded with hundreds of thousands of dollars from a George Soros-backed organization, was elected top prosecutor in June 2022 after pledging to reduce incarceration rates by easing up on low-level crimes such as marijuana possession.
Before Cassidy toppled it, the Baphomet statue stoked fierce debate even among Christian state lawmakers, who disagreed on whether it was legally protected.
State Rep. Jon Dunwell, a Christian pastor, acknowledged in a viral thread on X at the time that while he personally finds the altar "objectionable" and "evil," he didn't think the government should be arbitrating religious displays.
Iowa state Rep. Brad Sherman, also a pastor, argued otherwise, claiming that the display violated the Iowa State Constitution and appealing to Iowa's Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds to take it down.
Reynolds also denounced the statue, though she fell short of calling for its removal.
"Like many Iowans, I find the Satanic Temple's display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable," Reynolds said in a statement at the time. "In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech, and I encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display — the true reason for the season."
During an interview with The Christian Post in December, Cassidy was adamant that he did the right thing and suggested Christians who believe the U.S. Constitution protects a satanic display on government property are "overcomplicating" blatant evil that they should be resisting.
"The people who wrote our Constitution would be shocked to think of defending Satan as consistent with their beliefs when they wrote the laws that govern our nation," he said.
Simply because The Satanic Temple filled out a government form and checked the right boxes does not mean their display deserves to be equivalent to a Nativity scene and displayed on government property, Cassidy argued.
"People start overcomplicating the truth, which is that God is great and should be honored, and the devil is evil and should not be honored," he said. "I think people are tying themselves in knots trying to justify it, and it's really a lot simpler than that."
Cassidy noted that despite legal arguments that provide "a lot more intellectual heft" than he can, he said that his moral argument is not complicated.
"The devil is evil, and we should not pretend or act as if he is equal to a Nativity scene," he said.
Cassidy's legal defense fund has raised over $100,000 as of Wednesday.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
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The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde devote today’s episode to Tennessee’s lawsuit against the NCAA after reports that the University of Tennessee is under investigation for NIL violations. The school has received help from both the Tennessee and Virginia attorneys general in a lawsuit against the NCAA in attempts to get a court’s ruling to absolve them. The guys dive into whether or not Tennessee committed any violations, as well as if the NCAA can retroactively enforce any punishments.
The podcast then debates about whether or not the current college athletics structure should involve guardrails and, if found guilty, whether or not the NCAA could invoke the death penalty on the Volunteers.
Later in the show, with March Madness nearing, the podcast takes a look at this weekend’s packed college hoops action.
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San Francisco, CA – Plaintiffs in Coalition on Homelessness v. City of San Francisco filed a brief in federal district court in response to the City’s motion to stay, or suspend, the entire lawsuit. In today’s brief, plaintiffs argue that the case against San Francisco should proceed while the Supreme Court reviews Grants Pass v. Johnson.
The lawsuit Coalition on Homelessness v. City of San Francisco challenges San Francisco’s costly and ineffective practices that criminalize homelessness. The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a preliminary injunction issued in the case by the district court. Because both Grants Pass and Coalition on Homelessness have some underlying case law in common, San Francisco submitted a brief asking the district court to stay the San Francisco case until the Supreme Court issues its decision in Grants Pass.
“The parties can and should continue to work toward resolving the claims at issue in the San Francisco case while the Supreme Court considers Grants Pass.,” said Nisha Kashyap, Senior Staff Attorney with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. “We all recognize the urgency in addressing San Francisco’s affordable housing and homelessness crisis. Putting this case on hold for months will only delay our ability to come to a meaningful resolution on the many issues covered in the San Francisco case.”
In today’s filing, plaintiffs argue that the majority of the legal issues in the San Francisco case are not under review in the Grants Pass case. Only one of thirteen claims in the San Francisco lawsuit directly builds on the findings in Grants Pass. Grants Pass is silent on the issues of San Francisco’s destruction of unhoused people’s personal property that they need to survive, the City’s failure to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, and whether the manner in which encampments are cleared unlawfully endangers people’s lives. A ruling in Grants Pass from the Supreme Court will not resolve those claims.
The City’s proposed stay also would suspend the City’s obligation to provide regular disclosures related to the City’s ongoing encampment resolutions to the plaintiffs. This would hamstring the plaintiffs’ and public’s ability to monitor the City’s compliance with the preliminary injunction.
Instead of a total stay, plaintiffs have proposed a sensible extension of the court deadlines to allow all the parties to continue to make progress to resolving all of the claims in this lawsuit, while the Supreme Court reviews Grants Pass.
“Once again, we see the City of San Francisco engaging in legal maneuvering rather than problem solving or more investment in known solutions when it comes to addressing homelessness,” added John Do, senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California. “We hope the City will refocus its energies on commonsense solutions to get folks on the street housed.”
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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OTTAWA (dpa-AFX) - The Canadian market ended notably lower on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it does not expect it will be appropriate to lower rates until it has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%.
Due to widespread selling, all the sectoral indices ended in negative territory. Technology, healthcare, utilities, financials and energy stocks were among the major losers.
The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index ended down 205.99 points or 0.97% at 21,014.17.
Healthcare stocks Tilray Inc (TLRY.TO) and Bausch Health Companies (BHC.TO) ended down 4.3% and 3.8%, respectively.
Technology stocks Hut 8 Corp (HUT.TO) and Docebo Inc (DCBO.TO) lost 4.2% and 3.3%, respectively. Converge Technology Solutions (CTS.TO), Tecsys Inc (TCS.TO), Softchoice Corp (SFTC.TO), Quarterhill (QTRH.TO), Shopify Inc (SHOP.TO), Constellation Software (CSU.TO) and Lightspeed Commerce (LSPD.TO) ended lower by 2 to 3%.
CGI Group Inc (GIB.A.TO) gained nearly 1% after reporting higher first quarter earnings.
Canadian Utilities Ltd. (CU.TO), down 2.7%, was the biggest loser in the Utilities index. Brookfield Infra Partners (BIP.UN.TO), Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp (AQN.TO) and Superior Plus Corp (SPB.TO) ended lower by 1.8 to 2%.
Energy stocks Nuvista Energy (NVA.TO), Parex Resources (PXT.TO), Vermilion Energy (VET.TO), Tamarack Valley Energy (TVE.TO), Baytex Energy (BTE.TO), Crescent Point Energy (CPG.TO) and Imperial Oil (IMO.TO) lost 1.6 to 3.4%.
In the financials sector, Laurentian Bank (LB.TO), EQB Inc (EQB.TO), Nuvei Corp (NVEI.TO), Fairfax Financial Holdings (FFH.TO), Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO), Bank of Montreal (BMO.TO), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CM.TO) and Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) lost 1 to 2%.
Consumer discretionary stocks Aritzia Inc (ATZ.TO), Canada Goose Holdings (GOOS.TO) and Giland Activewear (GIL.TO), and materials shares Lithium Americas Argentina Corp (LAAC.TO), First Quantum Minerals (FM.TO), Filo Mining (FIL.TO), Methanex Corp (MX.TO) and Nutrien (NTR.TO) were among the other prominent losers in the session.
Jamieson Wellness (JWEL.TO), Ag Growth International (AFN.TO) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CP.TO) gained 1.7 to 2%.
Data from Statistics Canada said Canada's economy likely grew 0.3% in December 2023, according to preliminary estimates. In November, GDP increased by 0.2%, higher than the preliminary estimate of 0.1% advance, and following three months of stagnation.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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Tottenham Hotspur moved back into the Premier League top four with a thrilling and at times chaotic home victory over Brentford.
The visitors led at half-time at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium via a scrambled Neal Maupay finish.
But Tottenham blitzed the Bees with three goals in eight minutes after the interval, through Destiny Udogie, Brennan Johnson and Richarlison.
Ivan Toney pulled one back following a dreadful Udogie backpass.
But Spurs held on to win, and move back into the top four for the first time in 2024, after Ange Postecoglou’s side dropped from the Champions League places following the 4-2 defeat by Brighton on 28 December.
Spurs started the game on top, but were caught out with their high defensive line as Toney was played through. His shot was saved by Gigi Vicario, but Maupay pounced on the rebound.
Although the Frenchman kicked the ball against his standing foot, it deflected into the corner to give Maupay his fourth goal in consecutive matches.
But Spurs came out with a bang after half-time, scoring three times in eight minutes. First, Udogie raced forward from left-back and exchanged passes with Timo Werner, before finishing at the second time of asking after his first shot was blocked.
Seventy-three seconds later Werner was the provider again with a low cross from the left finished from close range by Johnson with just his second touch after coming on as a half-time sub – before Richarlison completed the goal rush with the follow-up after Maddison’s shot was deflected.
Richarlison has now scored seven goals in his past seven league appearances, one more than he managed in his previous 47 top-flight outings.
Spurs allowed Brentford back in the game in farcical circumstances with Udogie playing a backpass straight to Toney, who calmly slipped the ball past Vicario for his second goal in as many matches since returning from his eight-month ban for betting offences.
But Brentford could not find an equaliser and remain 15th, just four points above the relegation zone.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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Ohio man sentenced to 18 years for firebombing church that hosted drag show
An Ohio man who attempted to burn down a because it planned to host drag shows has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for violating federal law.
Aimenn Penny, a 20-year-old resident of Alliance, was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison plus three years of supervised release for trying to destroy the Community Church of Chesterland, which is affiliated with the theologically liberal United Church of Christ.
Penny pleaded guilty last October to the charges of violating the Church Arson Prevention Act and using fire and explosives to try to commit a felony.
"This sentence holds Mr. Penny accountable for carrying out violence against an Ohio church because he disagreed with the way congregants chose to express their beliefs," Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the U.S. Justice Department's National Security Division said in a statement Tuesday.
"Such acts of extremist violence have no place in our communities and the Justice Department is committed to bringing to justice those who would use or threaten violence to prevent their fellow citizens from freely exercising their fundamental rights."
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said that she hoped "this significant sentence sends a clear and resounding message that this type of hate-fueled attack against a church will not be tolerated in our country."
"This defendant tried to burn down a church simply because its members created space for and provided support to the LGBTQ+ community," stated Clarke.
"The Justice Department will vigorously investigate and prosecute such senseless, bias-motivated violence against people exercising their constitutionally protected right to practice their religion and express their beliefs."
In March 2023, Penny threw two Molotov cocktails at the Community Church in hopes of burning down the building in response to its decision to host a drag show.
By the end of the month, Penny was arrested and charged with one count of possessing a destructive device and another count of malicious use of explosive materials.
The arrest came through a joint effort by the FBI Cleveland Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Chester Township Police Department, according to Special Agent in Charge Gregory Nelsen of the FBI Cleveland Field Office.
"The FBI leveraged its task force and its specialized resources to identify, locate and subsequently arrest the subject earlier today," said Nelsen in a statement last year.
"We thank the collaborative work and strong partnership of the Chester Township Police and Lake and Geauga County local authorities who assisted."
Community Church held the drag queen story hour show as scheduled, with the congregation thanking authorities for providing extra security.
"The number of cruisers we hear were present, the 'swat-style' vans, the Chagrin Falls' tactical mobile unit' which we were told was parked nearby ... this overwhelming presence would have put caution in the mind of any group hoping to make an opportunistic threat," stated the church.
"Taking the preparations made by our own team with the Fairmount team, together with the law enforcement contingent, helped make the day a resounding success! And the only memory resulting from the day's event at the church was Joy and Love! So much Love!"
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — (AP) — The PGA Tour is getting a $3 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group in a deal announced Wednesday that would give players access to more than $1.5 billion as equity owners in the new PGA Tour Enterprises.
The launch of PGA Tour Enterprises, with SSG as a minority partner, comes eight months after the PGA Tour signed a framework agreement with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf for a commercial venture, which ultimately led to private equity groups wanting to join.
The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is not part of the deal yet, though the tour said negotiations with the PIF are ongoing for it to also become a minority investor.
“The coolest thing about it is the players are now owners,” said Jordan Spieth, one of six players on the PGA Tour board. “So not only do they benefit with the tour, they now are equity owners so they want to push it themselves, they want to make the product better themselves. Not that they didn’t before, but you directly benefit from owning a piece.”
How much of a piece remained unclear. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan held a conference call with players from all its main tours (including the PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour) on Wednesday morning that included Tiger Woods, whom the tour appointed to the board last summer at the players' request.
“As the tour grows, we grow,” Woods told players, according to Golf.com, which obtained access to the call. “So the more we invest into the tour, the more we get the benefits of it, which has never been — it’s never happened in sports history. So we’re the first. Exciting for me to be able to be part of that.”
Also uncertain is where this leaves the PIF.
The tour said its deal with SSG allows for a co-investment from the PIF, subject to regulatory approval. A Senate subcommittee wrote a letter earlier this week to Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF, that it is proceeding with its inquiry into framework agreement with the PGA Tour that was announced June 6.
“At this point if the PIF were interested in coming in on terms that our members like and/or the economic terms are at or not beyond SSG's and they feel it would be a good idea, I think that's where the discussions will start,” Spieth said. “I understand it could take some time to even come to those kind of terms, and then beyond that the Department of Justice and a regulatory review would be intact.”
LIV Golf starts its third season this week in Mexico and is likely to be around through all of next year depending on the timing of any investment by the PIF in the PGA Tour. How the fractured landscape of golf gets repaired remains as cloudy as how specifically equity ownership is distributed.
The PGA Tour plans several player meetings over the next month to work through details.
“By making PGA Tour members owners of their league, we strengthen the collective investment of our players in the success of the PGA Tour,” Monahan, who will be CEO of PGA Tour Enterprises, said in the formal announcement.
He said a partnership with SSG — a group comprised of American owners and executives of pro sports franchises — will “enhance our organization’s ability to make the sport more rewarding for players, tournaments, fans and partners.”
The PGA Tour Enterprises board would be comprised of seven players, the PGA Tour commissioner, four members of SSG and an independent director who's also on the tour board.
The unique equity program in golf would give some 200 players access $930,000 in initial grants. Starting next year, PGA Tour Enterprises would use $600,000 for recurring grants for future players.
While specific details of the equity ownership program were not announced, the initial grants would be based on career accomplishments, recent achievements and PGA Tour status. The grants would vest over time.
SSG is led by Fenway Sports Group and includes owners Marc Attanasio (Milwaukee Brewers), Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons), Steven Cohen (New York Mets), Wyc Grousbeck (Boston Celtics), Tom Werner and John Henry (Boston Red Sox), and Marc Lasry (Milwaukee Bucks). Others in the group include Alec Scheiner, former Cleveland Browns president and co-founder of Otro Capital.
“Our enthusiasm for this new venture stems from a very deep respect for this remarkable game and a firm belief in the expansive growth potential of the PGA Tour,” said Henry, the principal owner of Fenway Sports and manager of SSG.
SSG is investing an initial $1.5 billion into PGA Tour Enterprises and will concentrate on maximizing revenue for the benefit of the players and on finding opportunities to enhance golf across the world. Another $1.5 billion would go toward PGA Tour business.
The deal was unanimously approved by the PGA Tour board.
“It was incredibly important for us to create opportunities for the players of today and in the future to be more invested in their organization, both financially and strategically,” the player directors said in a joint statement. “This not only further strengthens the tour from a business perspective, but it also encourages the players to be fully invested in continuing to deliver — and further enhance — the best in golf to our fans.
“We are looking forward to this next chapter and an even brighter future.”
The tour said it was making progress in its negotiations with the Saudi national wealth fund on future investments and an ultimate agreement. Under the original framework agreement, Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor, was to be chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises.
Now the commercial arm launches without any deal with the Saudis.
The European tour was part of the framework agreement on June 6, and it has a strategic alliance with the PGA Tour. The tour said only it is discussing how they can work together for a mutual benefit.
Key to the original deal with the Saudis was dismissing the lawsuits involving LIV Golf. Since the rival league was launched in June 2022, LIV has lured several prominent players and major champions such as Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka, Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau.
As the tour’s negotiations with the PIF neared its original Dec. 31 deadline, LIV signed Masters champion Jon Rahm in a deal reported to be in the neighborhood of $500 million. It also signed Tyrrell Hatton, currently No. 16 in the world.
Rory McIlroy, who gave up his seat on the tour board in November, said on Tuesday he didn't think there should be any punishment for a LIV player eligible to return to the tour.
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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) supports an appeal by The Elders, an influential group of former heads of state and civic leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, urging countries to avoid deadlock in the contentious pandemic accord negotiations under the auspices of the World Health Assembly. The open letter from The Elders and supporting organizations calls for equity, sufficient financing, and accountability among countries to prepare for the next global health crisis.
"Death by fine print is not an option for the pandemic accord. Far too many millions of people have died or have become impoverished during COVID-19 for us to lose sight of the big picture and accept the stalemate," said AHF President Michael Weinstein. "World leaders must choose principles of global equity, accountability, and transparency over narrow national interests like intellectual property protections. Another existential public health disaster will surely happen-and if we fail to implement the tragic lessons of COVID-19-the responsibility will lie with those who failed to deliver a strong global public health treaty."
The deadline for the adoption of the pandemic accord is May 2024. There has been little progress in reaching agreement on several key provisions of the accord related to intellectual property waivers during health emergencies and benefits-sharing from pathogen research between developed and developing countries. There are growing concerns that the World Health Assembly will not meet the adoption deadline this spring. The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention, which was co-created by AHF, is one of the signatories of The Elders' letter.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt about the effort from House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt about the effort from House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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An updated version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or FAFSA was supposed to go up on October 1st of 2023, it then got delayed.
Lesli Zeagler is a career counselor at Fayetteville High School and said when the form didn’t open on December first she was certain when it would come out.
“And I told everybody, I said, you know, what, make New Year's plans if you want, but it's going to come out on New Year's Eve,” she said. “ nd sure enough, it did. And it was open for about two hours on New Year's Eve, and that sent people into a tailspin."
According to the Department of Education the form is now open 24/7. But ever since this December 31st "soft launch" as the department of education called it, the process has been plagued with hiccups. Zeagler said the updates to the form have been top of mind for her students, yes, but even more so for parents.
"Having a child go to college is stressful," she said. “So you couple that this your child with your finances, those are the two most stressful things in a parent's life.”
This new application is the result of a 2020 law passed by congress, which compelled the department of education to update the FAFSA. The form helps federal and state agencies as well as university admissions and financial aid offices determine mostly need-based aid for students. And it has long been a dreaded and tedious task of applying to college.
Jill Desjean, senior policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said the purpose of the updates was to simplify the form, get more people to fill it out and ultimately, disperse more aid. She believes these changes, which are now in place on the 2024-25 application, are broadly good.
"I think it will make the FAFSA easier for students to complete,” She said. “There's a lot of just trying to figure out how to answer questions that are worded differently and things like that. But generally speaking, the changes to the forum are good changes, and you know, hopefully not presenting a lot of issues."
The new form goes from the previous 108 questions to 64, it is also integrated with IRS data so applicants don't have to rely on manually inputting information from a prior year's tax returns.
"And then to complement that as well, many tweaks to the formula that determines student eligibility for federal financial aid, which makes the formula overall more generous,” Desjean said. “And one of those many changes had to do with the tables that are in the formula that are designed to protect a portion of a family's income from being assessed in the eligibility formula. So just acknowledging that, you know, not all of your income is available for college."
But after just a few weeks of being open, another problem emerged on the application. That formula had a math error that cost eligible students nearly 1.8 billion dollars of aid.
"What Congress did back in 2020, was they sort of reset the baseline for those income protection allowances, and made them more generous,” Desjean said. “And then they also stipulated to the Department of Education that each year they should be updating them to account for inflation.”
But the tables were never updated. So families who would have been below the income threshold to qualify for aid, were pushed into a higher bracket.
“The department did come out last week and say actually, that they will now make updates to those tables,” Desjean said. “Which will basically make the formula even more generous than Congress had in 2020. Because we've had several years of decently high inflation."
She said the Department of Education however, has not said how or when that will happen. And, that is a problem for students updating their financial aid and for college admissions officers. Many schools don’t have data for the 2024-25 cycle or at least don’t have the correct data.
Joey Hughes is executive director of admissions for the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, and said accurate FAFSA data is vital.
“On the college and University side, it’s about rushing and making sure students have the information they need,” he said. “And it's not just colleges and universities, it's also state organizations. So this year, Arkansas is preparing to do a need-based grant with its Arkansas challenge. It's called Arkansas challenge plus, and it's based on need and the FAFSA is also a part of that. So it's, it's kind of the crux point for giving students the full view of their their student financial aid and what they're going to have to be able to attend college.”
Every year between 18 and 25-thousand students apply for state scholarships, according to the state department of education. Lesli Zeagler said the earlier FAFSA delay and this calculation error have left some students in the dark on what aid they may qualify for.
"I think this causes a problem for a family for example, that their student aid report said, you know, you don't qualify for any need based aid,” she said. “When in reality they do, so they may make a decision about going to college, going to college A or college B, or not going to college period, because it's just not financially feasible."
In a press release, Arkansas' Education Secretary Jacob Oliva said the department would move up its deadline to complete the FAFSA to August 1st and conditionally approve state scholarships.
Joey Hughes said for a lot of smaller schools, decisions on higher education are made based on availability of financial aid.
"Meaning, you might have two colleges that you love, and they may be very different. And what it comes down to is the financial aid portion of the conversation,” he said. “But, universities like Ozarks, we take into consideration low income, but we also take into consideration the middle income families when we talk about our need based grants on campus. And the FAFSA gives us the information and the knowledge to be able to help those families as much as we can."
Zeagler says despite the problems, she tells her students not to give up on filling out the FAFSA.
"Just know that colleges know this is happening too,” she said. “Take a deep breath and say okay, well I have X amount of months to get this handled. And I'm going to take it a little bit at a time and you know, not stress about the whole thing."
She advises students to fill out the form during off hours (think after 8 p.m. and not on the weekends), save the application and complete it one chunk at a time and to contact schools directly to find out their deadline for the FAFSA.
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit the eastern Ohio community that was devastated by a fiery train derailment almost one year ago, accepting an invitation from the East Palestine mayor to see firsthand how the cleanup of spilled toxic chemicals and the recovery are coming along.
Mayor Trent Conaway, a conservative who does not support Biden, said Wednesday he extended the invitation to the Democratic president because he thinks the visit will be good for his community.
“I'm as red as they come. I'm as conservative as they come. Sometimes I have to do what's best for the people so, yes, that's why I invited him,” Conaway said in an interview with The Associated Press.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier Wednesday that Biden would visit sometime in February. She said the White House and local officials were still hashing out timing for Biden's long-awaited trip.
The Feb. 3, 2023, derailment forced thousands of people from their homes near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Area residents still have lingering fears about potential health effects from the toxic chemicals that spilled in the crash and from the vinyl chloride that was released a few days after the crash to keep five tank cars from exploding.
The absence of a visit by Biden, who is campaigning for reelection in November, had become a subject of persistent questioning at the White House, as well as among residents in East Palestine. Some residents have said they felt forgotten as time marched by and as they watched Biden fly to the scenes of other disasters, such as the wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui and hurricanes in Florida.
East Palestine resident Joe Bethuy, a 36-year-old steelworker and a Republican, said he was disappointed in the Biden administration’s handling of the derailment and the president's delay in visiting, adding that all he had to do “was show up just for an hour or something.”
Bethuy and friend Jeremy Smith, who moved to East Palestine after the derailment, spoke to an Associated Press reporter inside Sprinklz on Top, a downtown diner.
“I don’t know what the point is really," Smith said of Biden's visit. “It’s kind of a year late.”
Several weeks after the derailment, former President Donald Trump visited East Palestine and criticized the federal response under Biden as a "betrayal." He also donated cleaning supplies and Trump-branded bottled water. Trump currently is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.
In a social media post on Wednesday, Trump criticized Biden for planning to visit “a year late, and only to develop some political credibility because EVERYTHING else he has done has been such a DISASTER. I know those great people, I was there when it counted, and his reception won’t be a warm one."
The Biden administration defended its response right after the toxic freight train derailment, even as local leaders and members of Congress demanded that more be done. The White House said then that it had "mobilized a robust, multi-agency effort to support the people of East Palestine, Ohio," and it noted that officials from the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies were at the rural site within hours even though Biden didn't immediately visit.
Asked at the end of last week about a potential Biden visit to Ohio, Jean-Pierre said he would visit “when it is appropriate or helps ... the community for him to be there.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s in a rural area, urban area, suburban area, red state, blue state, the president has always been there to ... assist and be there for the community,” Jean-Pierre added. “So, when it is helpful, he certainly will do that.”
Though the administration has defended its response, Biden has not declared a federal disaster in East Palestine, which remains a sticking point for residents. Such a declaration would unlock additional federal funding and assistance that people could apply for to help rebuild their lives.
But state and federal officials say a federal disaster declaration has not been issued because they are designed to help cover unmet needs no one is paying for after a disaster. In this case, there are not as many unmet needs in the government's eyes because Norfolk Southern is paying the bills and compensating residents for the damage to their homes and businesses.
Biden ordered federal agencies to hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the derailment and appointed an official from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to oversee East Palestine's recovery.
Norfolk Southern has estimated that it will cost the company more than $1.1 billion to remove all the hazardous chemicals, help the community and deal with lawsuits and related penalties. Insurance will likely cover much of that, but the total is expected to grow.
Reforms have been proposed in Congress but the bill calling for federal standards for trackside detectors that help spot mechanical problems, additional inspections by qualified workers and at least two people on every freight train crew has stalled. The railroads have lobbied against several of the provisions they believe aren't related to this crash, and many Republicans pushed to wait until after the final National Transportation Safety Board report on the derailment later this year.
“In the past, there have been times when Congress stood up against the railroad lobby and stepped up on railroad safety. They should do that now,'' Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in a call with reporters Wednesday.
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Associated Press writers Josh Funk in Omaha, Neb., Patrick Orsagos in East Palestine, Ohio, and Matthew Daly in Washitngton contributed to this report.
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The Dallas Cowboys have spoken in hyperbole when bringing up their season-ending 48-32 NFC Super Wild Card Weekend home loss as the conference's two seed against the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers, a game in which they trailed 27-0 and did not score until the final play of the first half.
Team owner and general manager Jerry Jones called the upset defeat "the most painful [in his 35 years owning the team]" because of the "great expectation and hope" for the 2023 Cowboys. Quarterback Dak Prescott, who led the NFL with 36 touchdown passes this season, admitted he flat-out sucked against Green Bay in his postgame media session after he threw two first-half interceptions, including a 64-yard pick six to Packers safety Darnell Savage. He finished with a Cowboys playoff record 403 yards passing while throwing three touchdowns on 41 of 60 passing. Those stats were essentially empty calories in terms of deciding the game's outcome.
However, one of Dallas' best players and quotes, All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons, vanished into thin air after the game, skipping postgame media availability as well as the team's locker room cleanout media availability the next day. On Wednesday, Parsons made his first public comments about the loss on his "The Edge with Micah Parsons" podcast. His explanation for going into hiding and ducking immediate accountability about the defeat was simple: his embarrassment about his and the Cowboys' performance overwhelmed him.
"It's that you [the Cowboys] lose the way you do and at home," Parsons said on his "The Edge with Micah Parsons" podcast on Wednesday. "We had talked about how much [better] we had played at home, how much it stood for us to be at home and then to go like that at home was completely embarrassing and unacceptable. I couldn't even look at that loss or feel any type of way because of how embarrassed I felt It took me a while to even show my face in public. I disappeared completely."
Dallas entered the postseason with a 12-5 record, boasting the NFL's highest-scoring offense (29.9 points per game). Prescott was the first Cowboys quarterback ever to outright lead the NFL in touchdown passes (36), wide receiver CeeDee Lamb led the league in receptions (135) and they possessed the NFL's only perfect record at home (8-0) that was part of a 16-game winning streak at AT&T Stadium. Parsons earned his third All-Pro selection in as many seasons, his first Second Team nod after two First Team nominations, after leading the NFL in quarterback pressures (103), quarterback pressure rate (21.8%) and pass-rush win rate (35.3%). None of those things, to Parsons' point, showed up in their faceplant versus the Packers.
Perhaps one reason why arguably the most ferocious pass-rusher in the NFL couldn't bare to speak about the defeat until now is because of his role in Green Bay first-time starting quarterback Jordan Love throwing for 272 passing yards and three touchdowns on 16 for 21 passing. Love's 157.2 passer rating is the new single-game Packers postseason record.
Parsons could only get near Love once in what was statistically the worst game of his three-season, three-time All-Pro career. He registered one quarterback pressure and one quarterback hit on 19 pass rushes, Parsons' lowest pressure rate in a game of his career, according to the NFL's Next Gen Stats. His only pressure came when he was unblocked, and Packers right tackle Zach Tom shut him out with no pressures in their nine matchups. Parsons may have been speaking about not being vocal following the loss when he said "I disappeared completely," but that line also can be used to sum up how he played in that playoff game.
Thanks to the Cowboys' latest postseason crumbling Jones has vowed to go "all in" with his roster building strategy for next season.
"I hope that we go out and get the players we're missing because we didn't do that this year," Parsons said. "I hope that we challenge ourselves, become better and become greater."
Although no matter how much Jones may supplement his roster, Dallas will need Parsons' postseason performance to mimic his regular-season production for any of it to matter.
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BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) -- For over a decade, Uriel "Tony" Rincon told authorities he didn't recognize the gunman who he saw kill Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay in the rap star's recording studio.
But all of that changed Wednesday inside a Brooklyn courtroom, where he identified the shooter by name.
"I omitted the truth," he confessed in court, before adding, "I was confused and scared. I just saw a bunch of people that I know with something I'd never seen."
Rincon was seated next to the legendary DJ, real name Jason Mizell, in his Queens studio on the night he was tragically gunned down in 2002.
In federal court Wednesday, Rincon described the trauma of seeing the hip-hop producer shot by two people he knew and treated like family, Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald Washington.
"I was scared. I was surprised at who I saw and what happened," Rincon said, explaining that he'd struggled to fathom what had transpired.
"I didn't understand what I saw, and I didn't understand why or who - because, again, it was somebody I knew. So that's why it was hard for me to grasp," he said.
According to Rincon, Jordan, who was Mizell's godson, "walked directly to Jay - gave him half a handshake and at the same time, that's when I hear a couple of shots. I see Jay just fall."
Rincon, too, had been shot in his left leg.
He told prosecutors, "I am on the floor tending to my wound and also trying to pay attention to Jason, shaking him, asking him if he's okay and he's not responding."
Rincon's sworn testimony is the first time he's ever identified the shooter by name.
At the time of the shooting, and for 15 years, he's maintained that he did not know who killed Mizell when asked by reporters, the NYPD and federal investigators.
When asked why he finally did so, Rincon said he thought of Mizell's surviving family.
"I felt that his wife and his children needed closure, and I felt that they should know what took place," he said.
When the defense attorney asked if he was scared testifying in court, he answered, "Of course."
Both Jordan and Washington, who was a childhood friend of the DJ, were arrested in 2020. Prosecutors say the two had been planning a cocaine deal with the rap star and killed him because they were about to get cut out.
They have pleaded not guilty.
Some of the those in the courtroom Wednesday were relieved to hear Rincon's testimony.
"I like the guy that's testifying," said Ronald Capehart, friend of the late hip-hop DJ. "It seems like he's telling the truth, he went through a horrible thing and when that happened and they killed Jay, he didn't know if he was next."
The trial began on Monday, and on Tuesday, Brooklyn Federal Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall ruled that Jordan's rap lyrics - which include first-person accounts of violence and drug dealing - would not be used against him at trial, as prosecutors sought.
Testimony is set to resume Thursday.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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The Empire State Winter Games begin Thursday in the Adirondacks.
The 44th Empire State Winter Games will launch after a 700-mile torch run concludes in Lake Placid and an opening ceremony kicks off the games. More than 2,500 athletes are expected to compete in more than 20 winter sports including alpine, cross-country and Nordic combined skiing, biathlon, bobsled, luge, figure skating, ski jumping, speedskating, and winter biking.
Lake Placid serves as the hub for the games and events will also be held in Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Paul Smiths, and Wilmington. The Empire State Winter Games are the largest Olympic-style winter sports competition in the Northeast.
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8 Things Frugal People Always Do When Selling Their House
Selling your house can be a monumental task, especially when you’re aiming to maximize profit while minimizing expenses.
Frugal homeowners, known for their wise and efficient handling of finances, follow certain strategies to ensure they get the best deal out of their property sale.
Here are eight things frugal people always do when they sell their house.
Do Your Research
Knowledge is power, and this is particularly true in real estate. Frugal sellers educate themselves about the current market conditions, the value of their property, and the recent sales in their area.
They use online tools, consult with real estate agents, and sometimes even attend local open houses to understand pricing strategies. This research helps them set a realistic and competitive asking price, ensuring they don’t undersell or overprice their home.
Declutter and Depersonalize
Frugal sellers know the importance of making a good first impression. They start by decluttering their homes, removing excess furniture, and personal items to make spaces appear larger and more inviting.
This isn’t just about cleanliness; it’s about creating a blank canvas where potential buyers can envision their own lives. And the best part? It costs nothing but a bit of time and effort.
Opt for Cost-Effective Repairs and Upgrades
Instead of costly renovations, frugal homeowners focus on small, cost-effective repairs and upgrades that can significantly enhance the home’s appeal.
This could mean fixing leaky faucets, repainting walls in neutral colors, or updating cabinet hardware. These minor changes can have a major impact on a buyer’s perception and the home’s overall marketability.
Embrace DIY Where Feasible
Frugal sellers aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves. They often take on DIY projects to save money, whether it’s painting, gardening, or minor repairs.
Of course, it’s important to know your limits; complex electrical or plumbing work should be left to professionals. But for the tasks within your skill set, DIY can be a cost-effective way to improve your home before a sale.
Utilize Free or Low-Cost Marketing Channels
Marketing a home doesn’t have to break the bank. Frugal sellers leverage free or low-cost marketing channels to reach potential buyers.
This includes listing the property on free online platforms, using social media, and word-of-mouth. They also ensure high-quality photos and descriptions accompany their listings, as these are crucial for attracting buyers’ attention.
Negotiate Commissions
Real estate agent commissions can take a significant chunk out of your sale profits. Frugal sellers negotiate these commissions or consider alternative selling methods such as For Sale By Owner (FSBO) or using a discount broker.
However, it’s crucial to weigh the pros and cons; while saving on commission is great, a good real estate agent can often secure a higher selling price.
Stage the Home Wisely
Home staging is a powerful tool in real estate, but it doesn’t have to be expensive. Frugal sellers often opt for minimal staging, using existing furniture and decor to highlight the home’s best features.
Sometimes, just rearranging furniture, adding some plants, or improving lighting can make a huge difference. The key is to create an inviting atmosphere without overspending.
Be Flexible and Realistic
Finally, frugal sellers are flexible and realistic. They understand that the market dictates the value of their home, not their personal attachment to it.
They are open to negotiation and willing to make compromises to seal the deal. This flexibility can sometimes lead to a faster sale and potentially even a better price.
Editor's note: This article was produced via automated technology and then fine-tuned and verified for accuracy by a member of GOBankingRates' editorial team.
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The International Olympic Committee is still not impressed with Italy's determination to spend about $90 million rebuilding a historic bobsled track for the 2026 Winter Games.
The IOC's latest statement Wednesday on the public rift came one day after local organizers of the Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Olympics moved ahead with a plan to revive a century-old sliding track in the Dolomites ski resort.
Aiming to avoid construction costs and potential white elephant venues, the IOC wants the Winter Games, opening in just two years' time, to use an existing track — with two nearby options in St. Moritz, Switzerland and Igls, Austria.
The issue has become one of Italian national pride to avoid paying another country to stage 12 of the 116 medal events.
"The IOC firmly believes that the existing number of sliding centers, globally, is sufficient for the current number of athletes and competitions in the sports of bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton," the Olympic body said in a statement.
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The IOC's opposition to an Italian renewal project on such a tight schedule — either at Cortina or Cesana, the now-closed sliding track at the 2006 Turin Olympics that was previously considered — has been publicly clear since its annual meeting in October held in Mumbai, India.
"(Only) existing and already operating tracks should be considered due to the very tight timeline remaining," the IOC said in a statement, stating it had been "unequivocal that no permanent venue should be built without a clear and viable legacy plan."
Italy's deputy prime minister detailed his country’s position Tuesday.
"It is not acceptable for the bobsled races to take place outside Italy," Antonio Tajani said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "We will do everything to achieve the goal."
Still, the Italian organizing committee aims to have a back-up plan if renovating the Cortina track used at the 1956 Winter Games is not ready by March next year.
The committee said after a board meeting Tuesday its plans rest on signing a contract with a Parma-based construction company that has offered to rebuild the Cortina track for $89 million.
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Jorge Rubiano arrived alone in Chicago, but his pain and trauma came with him.
For months, he tried to find steady work. For months, he's been sleeping in a crowded temporary shelter, worrying about his wife and mother back in Colombia. Are they safe? Did I make the right decision?
He recalls a frightening phone call with his wife in Colombia, cut short when the bus she was riding on was being robbed.
Rubiano, 43, is also haunted by memories of his harrowing journey to Chicago, during which he says he was kidnapped for a month, before escaping.
He left his country, he says, over a land dispute in which the government threatened his life.
"I'm still in between two dangers," Rubiano says in Spanish. "If I return it's very possible they kill me, and if I stay I don't know what can happen here."
More than 30,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived in Chicago since August of 2022 — most of them from South and Central America. They are fleeing the collapse of their economies, a lack of food and jobs, and violence back home.
Many came here on a bus from Texas, sent by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who said Chicago — and other so-called sanctuary cities that embrace immigrants — would provide much-needed relief "to our small, overrun border towns."
The buses haven't stopped since.
Migrants fleeing hardship, danger, fear and loss
Interviews with more than 30 people reveal the emotional toll migrants face, and the efforts of individuals and organizations that are trying to fill the gaps of a frayed mental health system.
Some of those efforts are catching the attention of leaders in other big U.S. cities also coping with large influxes of newly-arrived migrants.
For many, their journeys here were terrifying. A young girl who fell into a river, her pregnant mother struggling to hold her small hand, so the current wouldn't whisk her away. Women who were forced to have sex with gang members to get from country to country. People who walked over the dead in the jungle, or are wracked with guilt over the sick and injured left behind.
Their stories have unfolded across Chicago: in the quiet space of a therapist's office, at an informal healing circle in the back of a store, with a nurse at a folding table propped up outside a police station.
But for many migrants, taking care of their mental health might not be a priority.
"They're in survival mode," says Sharon Davila, a school-based social worker who has screened migrant families. "They need their basic needs met. The number one thing is they're looking for jobs."
Just getting in front of a therapist or a social worker can be extremely difficult for even the most savvy and persistent. With a shortage of mental health workers, wait lists for an appointment can be months long.
Layer on being new to this country, speaking a different language, and having no health insurance. Getting help can seem impossible.
Therapist Susie Moya worries about a mental health crisis brewing for many migrants.
"Right now it's on the back burner," says Moya, who has worked with migrants on Chicago's Lower West Side. "But I'm thinking a year from now when these families are settled in. Who is going to be providing that support?"
Informal support, with a side of soup
It's a Monday night in the back room of an insurance agency on the Southwest Side. About 20 migrants have arranged their chairs in a circle. Each person takes a turn describing how they feel on a scale of one to 10, as social worker Veronica Sanchez gently encourages them to share why.
Warm homemade chicken soup and arepas await them for dinner.
A woman says her husband got deported, and she's heartbroken that she left her children behind. A man says he worked several days that week, but never got paid. Another says he is grateful to God for bringing him to America, but he misses his mom, dad and brothers.
Finding work and reuniting with family is important, Sanchez tells them. But right now she's concerned about their mental health.
"Maybe we have answers. Maybe we don't. But when you open up a safe space where you can share your sorrows... you don't feel so alone," Sanchez says in Spanish.
Sanchez understands the migrants' desperation. She comes from a long line of pottery makers in Mexico. Sanchez was just four years old when her father left to work in Cicero, a suburb outside Chicago. She didn't see her father for almost seven years, until they were reunited as a family in Cicero.
Those memories fuel her work with the healing circle. "When I was talking to them, it really came from the heart," Sanchez says. "I was seeing the migrants' faces, that they were so scared."
Informal support groups like this one have popped up around Chicago in shelters, storefronts, churches and schools, led by volunteers or mental health professionals.
Many of these support groups don't last long. Volunteers get burned out. Migrants prioritize other needs. Or the city moves them from place to place.
The costs of ignoring loss and trauma
Some volunteers and mental health providers emphasize that not every migrant might be experiencing severe trauma.
But for many, trauma can have lasting impact. Trauma can change the wiring in a person's brain and make someone more vulnerable to depression and anxiety.
Daily or ongoing stressors can add up to what Chicago psychologist Laura Pappa calls "little t trauma" — like not feeling welcomed right away.
"A lot of people come here seeking the American dream and they realize that that's not there," says Pappa, who came to the U.S. from Argentina as a teen. "A lot of people were not expecting that, how hard it is on this side. I've had a lot of parents who've come alone and ask themselves, was it worth it?"
It can be hard to persuade migrants to seek help, however. There's a stigma about the need for mental health care in many immigrant communities, particularly among Latino men, Pappa says.
But, she adds, the stigma is easing as talking about emotions becomes more common.
Training the front-line workers in shelters
One effort to provide faster help involves training hundreds of peoplewho don't have a medical background, but work in city-run shelters. These front-line workers, such as case managers and shelter supervisors, are learning to lead support groups called Café y Comunidad charlas — coffee and community talks.
The initiative is led by the Coalition for Immigrant Mental Health, the University of Chicago's Crown Family School, and Lurie Children's Center for Childhood Resilience.
The idea is to help migrants feel less isolated and try to prevent the most extreme outcomes, such as suicide.
"We have to help people the minute they arrive," explainsAimee Hilado, an assistant professor at UC's Crown School and chair of the coalition. "That's actually going to promote healing down the line."
Case manager Albert Ayala has led a charla in the ballroom of a downtown shelter. He recalls moments of joy, such as when a woman said she was searching for love — and hands shot up hoping to catch her attention.
Ayala says he's watched migrants who arrive scared and shy blossom after attending a charla.
"We try to tell them we're no different from you," says Ayala, who is Mexican American. "Your dream is possible."
Leaders in Philadelphia and San Jose have reached out asking how to replicate the effort, Hilado says.
Outside his shelter, Rubiano, the migrant from Colombia, says he hasn't attended one of these support groups. He says he tries to keep busy working on his English skills. And he recently found a full-time job in a supermarket.
He longs for his family, and for the chance to bring them here — once there is a stable life he can offer them.
WBEZ is part of the Mental Health Parity Collaborative, a group of newsrooms covering stories on mental health care access and inequities in the U.S. The Collaborative's partners include The Carter Center, the Center for Public Integrity and newsrooms in select states across the country.
WBEZ's Manuel Martinez contributed to this report.
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Pastor mauled to death by pit bulls after saving wife in attack
An Indiana pastor’s wife is remembering her husband of nearly 50 years as “a hero” after he died protecting her from two stray pit bulls that mauled him to death when he tried to chase them off their property on Tuesday.
"I say he saved my life," Betty Mundine told 13News about her late husband, 85-year-old William Mundine, who led Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church.
"He was a hero,” she said.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department told Fox 59 that the attack from the pit bulls occurred around 10 a.m. on Tuesday when they were called to the city’s east side.
Holly Watkins explained that she and her grandmother were outside their home when the two dogs tried to attack them, but they ran inside their home. Watkins said her grandfather went outside to chase the dogs off their property and they responded with the attack.
"My granddaddy came out to try to shoo them away, and two pit bulls, I guess, they attacked him," Watkins told 13News.
Although she is remembering her husband as a hero, the pastor’s wife is in mourning, according to her daughter.
"My mother is distraught," Melissa Mundine told 13News. "These dogs are just loose, and they've been on the loose for weeks."
Kurt Christian, chief communications officer for the Indianapolis Animal Care Services, said in a statement cited by Fox 59 that a day before the pastor and his family were attacked, they had received a complaint about the stray dogs and “investigated reports of what was described as one brown and one black pit bull-type dog attacking people and dogs on the city’s near northeast side.”
“Officers were unable to locate the dogs in question at that time. According to procedure, IACS established a ‘sweep’ schedule wherein officers would be dispatched to the area those animals were last seen between three to four times a day for the next 10 days,” Christian explained.
He said an animal control officer was searching for the dogs in the area on Tuesday when they received a report that “two dogs were attacking a person in the 2300 block of North Kenyon Street.”
“After an ACO and EMS arrived on-scene, they requested IMPD and additional ACOs to assist. IMPD officers arrived and located a victim with injuries consistent with multiple dog bites. The victim was transported to an area hospital in critical condition,” Christian said.
One of the dogs had become so aggressive that an IMPD officer was forced to shoot it.
“An IMPD officer discharged their firearm at the aggressive dog, and an ACO did locate the wounded black dog to impound it,” he said.
Officials later confirmed that a brown pit bull that had eluded IACS officers was eventually caught, according to Fox 59.
The pastor’s family told 13News that aggressive dogs have been terrorizing their neighborhood regularly and they want whoever is responsible for their presence to be held accountable.
"Every day, they just come in people's yards," Watkins said Tuesday. "Like just last night, we were in the backyard — and they ran up on us — and we just had to kinda run and wait for them to leave."
"Find the dogs," the pastor’s daughter said. "Find the owners of the dogs and let's get this situation handled."
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Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of top social media companies in a hearing today By Dara Kerr Published January 31, 2024 at 1:21 PM AKST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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The Carolina Panthers have plucked a member of the Kansas City Chiefs front office, the team announced via its official X account on Wednesday. Brandt Tilis is headed to the Panthers to become their new executive vice president of football operations.
#Panthers name Brandt Tilis Executive VP of Football Operationshttps://t.co/StMc2HSXwR
— Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) January 31, 2024
Tilis spent 14 years with the Chiefs, working his way up throughout the ranks of football administration. His most recent title with Kansas City was vice president of football operations.
This process marked the second time the Panthers interviewed Tilis, who also interviewed for the general manager position in 2021. We covered Tilis’ role in the announcement of the Chiefs’ 2022 personnel changes:
As Patrick Mahomes signed his monumental new contract in July of 2020, general manager Brett Veach credited Tilis with being the first to realize the quarterback was going to get a “baseball” contract, allowing the team to begin working away and planning years in advance. Tilis began his Chiefs career as a salary cap and contract analyst back in 2010 and was the team’s director of football administration from 2017 to 2020. He was named to The Athletic’s “40 Under 40” list in 2022.
Tilis worked directly with Veach in all aspects of the team’s football operation, including salary cap management, roster strategy and optimal use of club resources. Tilis had served the Chiefs as their lead player contract negotiator, spearheading every extension and free agent deal for the Chiefs since 2017.
Tilis will now work with the new Panthers' general manager, Dan Morgan.
“It’s great to add Brandt and his experience to our organization,” Morgan said, via the Panthers. “He comes from a championship-caliber team in Kansas City and will play a lead role in our front office. We are looking forward to getting him here and working together to build this team.”
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Boeing released its 2023 earnings Wednesday, but the company's CEO spent most of a call with investors talking about safety and quality.
Boeing is facing big questions about quality control after a door plug panel blew off one of its 737 Max 9 jets in midair earlier this month.
"We are not issuing financial outlook for 2024 today. Now is not the time for that," chief executive Dave Calhoun said during an earnings call.
Instead, Calhoun focused much of the call seeking to reassure analysts — and the flying public — that the plane maker is taking the incident seriously.
"We will simply focus on every next airplane, and ensuring we meet all the standards that we have, all the standards that our regulator has and that our customers demand," he said.
Calhoun did not offer any information about the cause of the incident on January 5th, which is still under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board. No one was seriously injured, but the incident touched off another crisis for Boeing. The troubled plane maker was still working to rebuild public trust after 346 people died in two 737 Max 8 jets that crashed in 2018 and 2019.
Boeing said Wednesday it lost $30 million in the fourth quarter of 2023. That's a better performance than the final quarter of 2022, when the company lost more than $600 million. Overall, Boeing lost $2.2 billion last year — its best result in 5 years.
But any improvement in the company's financials has been overshadowed by the latest safety incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is allowing Boeing 737 Max 9 planes to fly again after an inspection and maintenance. Calhoun said airlines have now returned 129 Max 9 planes to service, out of a total of 171 that were grounded by the FAA.
Earlier this week, Boeing formally withdrew its request for an exemption from federal safety rules in order to speed up certification of its new Boeing Max 7 jet to start flying. The company had been hoping to begin delivering those smaller planes to airlines this year, despite a design flaw with the Max's engine de-icing system that could be potentially catastrophic.
Boeing wanted to use the same workaround that's already in use on its Max 8 and Max 9 jets. Now the company says it will focus on a permanent engineering fix instead.
Calhoun told analysts on Wednesday that process is expected to take about nine months, likely pushing certification of the Max 7 back into 2025.
The FAA has also taken the unusual step of ordering production caps at Boeing's factories. Calhoun said the company will continue producing 737s at the rate of 38 per month until the FAA agrees to lift that limit. And Calhoun told analysts that slowing down production at the behest of regulators would help the company fix problems in its factory and supply chain.
"I'm sort of glad they called out a pause. That's an excuse to take our time, and do it right," Calhoun said. "This is what we do, and how we get better."
But some longtime observers are skeptical that Boeing management is ready to confront the true scale of the problem.
"I'm sure they're hoping for a quick fix," said Peter Lemme, a former Boeing engineer who's now an aviation consultant. "But this is like a cancer in the system. And how far has it infiltrated, and what are you gonna do to eradicate it? I think it's going to take years for Boeing to really get back to where they should be on quality and manufacturing."
The NTSB is expected to release preliminary findings from its investigations of the Alaska Airlines incident in the coming days.
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Beaver Dam fatal shooting, woman killed
BEAVER DAM, Wis. - A woman is dead following a shooting in Beaver Dam that took place Wednesday, Jan. 31.
Beaver Dam police said they were called shortly before 9:39 a.m. near Rosendale and Greenwich for a report of a woman asking for help. Upon arrival, officers found the woman with a gunshot wound, but said she was still breathing and had a pulse.
Officers also noticed a bullet hole in the front door of the residence.
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Police said they performed lifesaving measures on the scene before the victim was transported to the hospital, where she later died.
They said there is no danger to the public.
An investigation is underway.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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MIAMI — A federal judge has dismissed the Walt Disney Company's lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Disney sued after DeSantis and state lawmakers removed its self-governing status in 2023.
Backed by Republican lawmakers, DeSantis dissolved a special district near Orlando that for more than fifty years had governed Walt Disney World. He acted after Disney's CEO opposed a law limiting how sex orientation and gender identity can be discussed in the schools. The Parental Rights in Education Act was labeled "Don't Say Gay" by opponents.
At DeSantis' request, Florida's GOP-controlled legislature created a new special district, the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District, controlled by the Republican Governor's appointees. Disney sued in federal court, saying DeSantis was retaliating against the company, punishing it for exercising its First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Disney also canceled plans for a $1 billion campus in Florida.
In a 17-page order, U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor dismissed the case, saying Disney lacks standing to sue the governor. The judge also said while Disney could sue the new DeSantis-appointed board, it hadn't shown evidence that actions by the new board had harmed the company. In addition, Winsor said the law prohibits plaintiffs from bringing a free speech challenge to constitutionally enacted laws.
A DeSantis spokesman hailed the decision saying, "the Corporate Kingdom is over. The days of Disney controlling its own government and being placed above the law are long gone. Disney is still just one of many corporations in the state and they do not have a right to their own special government."
Disney says it will "press forward with its case." In a statement after the ruling, a company spokesperson said, "If left unchallenged, this would set a dangerous precedent and give license to states to weaponize their official powers to punish the expression of political viewpoints they disagree with."
Disney and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board are also embroiled in lawsuits in state court.
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Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. Tune in to get updated about the major news stories of the day.
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NPR National Correspondent Debbie Elliott can be heard telling stories from her native South. She covers the latest news and politics, and is attuned to the region's rich culture and history.
Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Vivian McCall, reporter for The Stranger, about recent raids in Seattle's gay bars. Members of the city's LGBTQ-plus community are looking for answers.
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On today's show, a web of confusion around getting federal aid for college. Plus, Kiley Reid’s new novel, “Come and Get It” is set in Fayetteville. Also, a series of live "Undisciplined" podcast events focus on education.
On today's show, a web of confusion around getting federal aid for college. Plus, Kiley Reid’s new novel, “Come and Get It” is set in Fayetteville. Also, a series of live "Undisciplined" podcast events focus on education.
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Environment and Climate Change, Principal Secretary Eng Festus Ng’eno is among the Accounting Officers who beat the deadline in submitting reports of pending bills in their state departments.
Eng. Ngeno submitted the report to the Chairperson of the Pending Bills Verification Committee, Susan Oyatsi. The Committee was set up by National Treasury and Economic Planning Cabinet Secretary Prof. Njuguna Ndung’u to carry out a thorough analysis of the stock of pending bills accumulated between 1st July 2005 to 30th June 2022.
During the event, the Treasury Principal Secretary Dr. Chris Kiptoo directed all principal secretaries who are the accounting officers in various ministries to submit all pending bills on time and avoid unnecessary accumulation.
He said since beginning the scrutiny of pending bills which stood at 640 billion shillings, the total now stands at 567 billion shillings. The PS said that going forward under the fiscal consolidation plan the government will not tolerate the accumulation of pending bills and urged those in charge to take heed.
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Viably, the North American master distributor of Komptech equipment has introduced the Lacero horizontal grinder. This high-speed wood waste grinding machine is a significant addition to the company's innovative product line and is engineered to address the stringent requirements of the North American waste and recycling industry.
DENVER, CO / ACCESSWIRE / January 31, 2024 / Viably (formerly Komptech Americas), a forward-thinking waste management solutions company, is proud to announce the launch of the Komptech Lacero high-speed, horizontal grinder. The Lacero is the newest addition to Viably's product portfolio and was designed exclusively for the complex demands of the North American wood waste and organics recycling sector. The introduction of the Lacero reinforces Viably's commitment to delivering advanced technologies and solutions that increase profitable resource recovery.
Komptech Lacero: Engineered for Efficiency
The Komptech Lacero fulfills the specialized needs of wood waste recyclers, mulch producers, logging and land clearing, and organics recycling companies. It is a robust machine that is precision-engineered and boasts a 41-inch diameter downswing drum powered by a CAT® C18 diesel engine and PT Tech clutch, providing up to 812 horsepower.
This tracked machine also has an optional 3-axle dolly system that allows for seamless on-road transport, making it flexible and functional. An integrated control system provides real-time diagnostics and a wireless remote control with a comprehensive machine status display for efficient use. The expansive feed hopper and innovative "Smart Grind" program control assure continuous and efficient material feed.
"The Viably team takes pride in being at the vanguard of delivering innovation to North America waste recyclers, and the Komptech Lacero stands testament to our aspirations," states Brandon Lapsys, President of Viably. "Working with the Komptech factory engineers to craft this machine reflects our commitment to excellence and our insights into the real-world needs of our clients on this continent. The Lacero is not just a product; it's a pivotal tool reshaping the waste processing landscape."
Customer-Centric Innovations
With over a decade of expertise in waste management solutions, Viably has developed a strong position in the North American waste and recycling market. Renowned for premium quality and revolutionary performance, Viably's equipment portfolio is a beacon of operational efficiency and sustainability, trusted by industry leaders across the continent. Companies seeking to enhance efficiency and drive their productivity forward in wood waste and organics recycling will find the Komptech Lacero to be an indispensable ally in operational success.
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Learn more about the Komptech Lacero by visiting Viably's Lacero product page.
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The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers punched their tickets to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas as each team hopes to hoist the Lombardi Trophy and celebrate as it rains confetti in Las Vegas at Super Bowl LVIII.
How can you tune in when the time comes for Super Bowl 58? We've got you covered:
How to watch the 2024 Super Bowl
- Date: Sunday, Feb. 11 | Time: 6:30 p.m. ET
- Location: Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas)
- TV: CBS, Nickelodeon
- Stream: Available via Paramount+ on all platforms, or sign in with your TV provider on CBS.com or CBS Sports apps
- Halftime show: Usher
Note: This marks the first time in NFL history that the Super Bowl will be broadcast in two different formats, with CBS carrying the traditional broadcast of the game and Nickelodeon airing an exclusive kids- and family-friendly telecast. The CBS broadcast will be available to stream via Paramount+.
Paramount+ can be streamed on a number of supported devices, including iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Fire TVs, PlayStation 4s and 5s, Roku TVs, Xboxs and Google TVs.
What is the Nickelodeon broadcast?
CBS Sports and Nickelodeon have teamed up to air several iterations of family-friendly NFL action, infusing kid-themed elements like virtual-reality graphics and Nick characters into game broadcasts. This will continue with Super Bowl LVIII, following up a "Nickelodeon NFL Nickmas Game" between the Chiefs and Raiders scheduled for Christmas Day.
"There is nobody more suited than our CBS Sports production team, in conjunction with our friends at Nickelodeon, to deliver an innovative and slime-filled Nick-ified telecast for kids and family," CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus said, "alongside our industry-leading NFL production on CBS, to create a truly unique viewing experience and broaden the reach of the Super Bowl to a new legion of fans."
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Senate Republicans demanded that President Biden's national security funding package for Ukraine be tied to policy changes to address the crisis at the southwest border. But now that negotiators say they are ready to release details of a bipartisan plan to reduce the surge of migrants at the border, Republican divisions could scuttle the plan.
Months of negotiations between the Republicans, Democrats and the Biden administration officials are now threatened by politics. Former President Trump, the GOP's likely 2024 presidential nominee, has been publicly slamming the deal and urging lawmakers to oppose it.
Negotiators started the week promising to release a bill in the coming days. But by Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to signal he's ready to move on, and focus on getting money to two key U.S. allies at war.
"It's time for us to move something, hopefully including the border agreement, but we need to get help to Israel and Ukraine, quickly," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters.
McConnell has consistently argued that divided government is the moment to extract demands on border policy from Democrats.
Pressed about what voters would think of GOP lawmakers who sink a bill because Trump directed them to, McConnell sidestepped the question. "I still favor trying to make law when you can" and said what the bipartisan group is working on is better than current immigration law, adding, "you're asking me, a question I can't answer right now, which is the fate of it."
Senators already know key details
The top Democratic negotiator working on a border plan, Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has signaled for days that the deal is basically done, but getting sign off from the GOP to move ahead is the hold up.
"We have a bipartisan agreement to help address the crisis at the border. Republicans have been desperate for that. Why would they walk away from it?"
Senate Republicans huddled at their weekly lunch on Wednesday to discuss next steps, but the consensus coming out of the meeting was that lawmakers want to see the details.
But after weeks of negotiations, the key provisions have already been explained to lawmakers from both parties.
The bill includes several tools to address the border, including: giving the president the ability to shutdown the border if the numbers of migrants attempting to enter the U.S. climbs above a certain threshold, adjusting the rules for who qualifies for asylum and allowing migrants authorization to work while awaiting adjudication of their asylum claim.
Extended negotiations opened space for critics
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said the effort is "an uphill climb" because as the talks have continued, some members have impressions about what the proposal will do and "there are certain people who will never change their mind."
Tillis has said a border plan needs to get the majority of Senate Republicans in order to move ahead. But Trump injecting himself into the process has caused many lawmakers to refrain from backing the framework, making it tougher to meet that test.
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Jim Lankford is crafting the plan along with Murphy and Independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema. Lankford spent time on Sunday talk shows swatting down leaks about the plan that conservative media outlets are painting as a green light for 5,000 additional migrants a day.
Texas Republican Sen, John Cornyn, who was an early advocate of linking money for Ukraine to changes to the Biden administration's policies, said people need time to see an official piece of legislation.
"People are talking about what they think is in it, and what they've heard is in it, what's not in it,' Cornyn told reporters. "I think the first thing we need to do is see where the conference is based on the text rather than just based on rumors and hearsay."
Tillis called Wednesday's meeting "a good discussion." But added, "I would ask those same members who are calling for time to read it, but not judge something they haven't read."
Others who came out against the bill already are already dismissing the proposals.
"I think this is a bad bill," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., told reporters. "And the simplest reason is it doesn't solve the problem."
Cruz blamed Senate Democrats for crafting a bill that "allows Joe Biden to continue the open borders," despite the months of bipartisan negotiations that have taken place. President Biden endorsed the proposal and said last week if Congress passes it he would immediately shutdown the border.
Some optimisim remains
Murphy remained optimistic on Wednesday that the deal would survive and come to the floor for a vote, possibly as soon as this week.
He said a "sizable, important group of Republican senators" are making a good faith effort to get something done on the border, and suggested that others are making disingenuous arguments about needing to see the full text.
"This is not a detailed study of the issue. This is a question as to whether they are going to put Trump before solving the problem," Murphy said.
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MANHATTAN, New York -- A Manhattan judge on Thursday vacated the murder convictions of two childhood friends accused of killing a French tourist on New Year's Day 1987.
Eric Smokes, who was 19, and David Warren, who was 16, were sent to prison for the murder of Jean Casse, who was attacked and killed on West 52 Street minutes after the ball drop in Times Square.
When Casse was mugged, he fell and hit his head and died.
Smokes, 56, was released in 2011 after serving 24 years in prison. Warren, 53 was released in 2007 after serving 20 years.
The pair are still best friends all these years later. They never gave up on their friendship, and they never gave up on justice.
"I've gave no pleas- I didn't do none of that in court, that was for y'all. I knew we didn't do nothing," said Warren. "What would I take a plea for? I didn't do nothing. I wasn't going to sell him out, he didn't do anything."
And even though it took time, the pair never gave up on hope.
"Everyone says the system doesn't work. It does work, but it's slow at working," said Smokes.
The Post-Conviction Justice Unit of the Manhattan district attorney's office moved to exonerate the two men after an investigation with defense counsel found the teenage witnesses who testified at trial had been treated as suspects.
One teen who had testified in 1987 that he had seen Smokes and Warren commit the deadly assault of Casse saying he told police what they wanted to hear in order to avoid getting arrested.
Another teenage witness, who initially testified he had seen Smokes and Warren commit the attack, recanted his testimony and revealed he was told by police that another witness had already identified Smokes and Warren, and if he did not similarly accuse them, he would be charged.
"Eric Smokes and David Warren lost decades of their life to an unjust conviction. I am inspired by the unyielding advocacy of Mr. Smokes and Mr. Warren and hope that today's decision can finally bring them a measure of comfort and justice," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.
All these years later, all the pair wanted was to clear their names and restore their reputations.
"I wanted my wife to be here for this day, but she passed away. I guess she's here in spirit," said Warren.
Smokes' son, who was a baby when he left for prison, is now 38.
After 25 years in prison, and 12 years fighting for their convictions to be vacated, Smokes and Warren say they may return to court for compensation.
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Oregon officials have announced a 90-day state of emergency in Portland due to a serious public health and safety crisis linked to the widespread use of fentanyl.
“Our country and our state have never seen a drug this deadly and addictive, and all are grappling with how to respond,” Gov. Tina Kotek said in a press release Tuesday. “The Chair, the Mayor, and I recognize the need to act with urgency and unity across our public health and community safety systems to make a dent in this crisis. We are all in this together. The next 90 days will yield unprecedented collaboration and focused resources targeting fentanyl and provide a roadmap for next steps.”
The declaration will allow the city, state, and county to use available resources from human services, state police, health authorities, and emergency departments to set up a command center in Central City, which is composed of 10 districts, to serve as the focal point for daily communication, coordination, and efforts to address the fentanyl crisis.
“The Command Center will serve to refocus existing resources. It will also share and publicly report data on the impacts of fentanyl in downtown, use data to identify and respond to acute needs and gaps in service, identify any specific resources necessary to address gaps, and establish a system to coordinate that can be sustained beyond the 90-day startup period,” the press release notes.
While the state’s health department will launch educational campaigns across town to promote drug prevention and treatment, the county will “distribute and train partners on the use of Narcan and issue reports on overdose data.”
The fentanyl crisis has led to a staggering surge in fatalities in Oregon, as reported by health authorities. In 2022, the total number of unintentional opioid overdose deaths reached a grim milestone of 956. Although data for 2023 is still being compiled, by June, the toll from unintentional overdoses had already reached 628, and it is anticipated to surpass 1,250 once all the data is collected, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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Student Loans: 3 Forgiveness Programs Are Going Away, Here’s What To Do Now For Financial Relief
While President Joe Biden’s initial efforts to enact debt forgiveness legislation were quashed by debt-ceiling plans and Supreme Court lawsuits, the administration went to work on alternatives. These alternatives include an income-driven repayment (IDR) strategy created to cut many borrowers’ monthly payments to $0 (the Saving on a Valuable Education [SAVE] plan), and a narrower forgiveness policy proposed for spring 2024.
To date, the loan forgiveness approved by the Biden-Harris government totals $136.6 billion in aid for 3.7 million American borrowers, according to the U.S. Department of Education (ED).Relate
“This president has done more, especially for the most vulnerable student borrower populations, than any other administration I’ve ever seen,” said Betsy Mayotte, President and Founder of The Institute of Student Loan Advisors.
However, as Adam S. Minsky of Forbes notes, when three other debt relief programs expire this year, student loan borrowers are going to have to look elsewhere for alternate targeted-repayment initiatives, or seriously review their finances to accommodate monthly disbursements.
1. Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustments
To reflect borrowers’ payment counts more accurately, the Biden administration announced the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustment (previously called the “IDR waiver”) in April 2022. The temporary adjustment allows eligible loan borrowers to use past periods of repayment (and even some periods of deferment and forbearance) toward their 20-year and 25-year IDR loan forgiveness terms and their Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) programs.
The recount has already been automatically adjusted for many federal loan borrowers, but if you hold a non-ED-administered commercial loan — a Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL), Perkins Loan or a Health Education Assistance Loan (HEAL), for example — you’ll need to consolidate your loan by way of a federal direct loan. The deadline to do this is April 30, 2024.
Additionally, the Education Department currently expects that the payment count adjustment will be completed by July 1, 2024, at which time the adjustment will be applied to those who have consolidated over to ED-managed loans. Because it takes at least 60 days to process a Direct Consolidation Loan application and to disburse the new loan, per the Federal Student Aid site, you’ll want to submit an application sooner than later.
2. Temporary Student Loan On-Ramp Repayment Program
To help the transition from the pandemic payment pause to restarting loan payments in October 2023, the Department of Education provided a temporary on-ramp from the beginning of that month to the end of September 2024. This was enacted to help prevent “the worst consequences of missed, late, or partial payments, including negative credit reporting for delinquent payments for twelve months,” according to the ED guidance on the StudentAid.gov site.
This on-ramp transition period ends on September 30, 2024, when borrowers will have to start repayment or enroll in an available relief plan like SAVE. During the on-ramp period, missed payments will automatically land you in loan forbearance (not delinquent), so you won’t get reported to the national credit reporting agencies or to a collection agency.
However, you’ll need to plan for repayment and the interest that has accrued for the entirety of the on-ramp period, which may mean higher monthly payments to your loan servicer. If you don’t need the on-ramp safety net, you’re better off making your monthly payments if you can now.
If you’re using this period to delay payments, make sure you have a contingency plan for the extra amount you’ll owe in September or hitch onto an affordable alternative repayment plan. Best to start planning now, either by stacking cash or researching repayment and forgiveness program enrollments.
3. Fresh Start to Get out of Default Program
Also originally announced in April 2022, the Fresh Start program allows borrowers who defaulted on their federal student loans prior to the payment pause to get them back into good standing. This status do-over will revert a borrower’s loan to “current,” negating all default reports and suspending collection efforts, per Forbes.
Aside from resolving student loan defaults, Fresh Start also allows borrowers to apply to new federal aid programs and provides a financial a “fresh start.” Enrollment must be completed before September 2024, so it would behoove you to apply immediately. You don’t want a paperwork delay at the deadline blocking you from debt relief and access to the program.
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — The House looked to accomplish something unusual Wednesday in passing with broad, bipartisan support a roughly $79 billion tax cut package that would enhance the child tax credit and boost three tax breaks for business, a combination that gives lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle coveted policy wins.
Prospects for the measure becoming law are uncertain with the Senate still having to take it up, but for a House that has struggled to get bills of consequence over the finish line, the tax legislation could represent a rare breakthrough. Debate and a final vote on the measure are scheduled for the evening.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., threw his support behind the bill on Wednesday morning. He spent part of the previous day meeting with GOP lawmakers who were concerned about features of the bill, namely the expanded child tax credit. Some were also unhappy that it fails to address the $10,000 cap on the total amount of property taxes or state or local taxes that consumers can deduct on their federal returns. Raising the cap is a top priority of lawmakers from members of the New York congressional delegation.
Johnson committed to moving a bill that addresses the cap, but there is no bill text yet and legislation would have to move through the House Rules Committee, which leaves the timing very much in flux. Athina Lawson, a spokeswoman for Johnson, said the speaker and the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., agreed to work with members to “find a path forward."
Johnson called the tax cut bill on the House floor important, bipartisan legislation that would revive "conservative pro-growth tax reform." He also said that it would bring an early end to a "wasteful COVID-era program" that has been plagued with fraud. Moving up the deadline for claiming the employee retention tax credit is expected to largely offset the cost of the tax cuts in the legislation.
Johnson also emphasized the importance of the bill moving through the House Ways and Means Committee before coming to the full House for a vote, saying it was a good example of how Congress is supposed to work.
House Republicans were anxious to restore full, immediate deductions that businesses can take for the purchase of new equipment and machinery, and for domestic research and development expenses. They argue such investments grow the economy and incentivize American companies to keep their manufacturing facilities and operations in the United States. The bill also provides businesses more flexibility in determining how much borrowing can be deducted.
“Each of these policies will help American businesses grow, create jobs and sharpen their competitive advantage against China,” Smith said as debate began on the House floor.
Democrats focused on boosting the child tax credit. The tax credit is $2,000 per child, but not all of that is refundable. The bill would incrementally raise the amount of the credit available as a refund, increasing it to $1,800 for 2023 tax returns, $1,900 for the following year and $2,000 for 2025 tax returns. The bill also adjusts the topline credit amount to temporarily grow at the rate of inflation.
Households benefitting as a result of the changes in the child tax credit would see an average tax cut of $680 in the first year, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
Democrats pushed to restore the more generous tax credit they passed in 2021 in President Joe Biden's first year in office with payments occurring on a monthly basis. The credit was $3,600 annually for children under age 6 and $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17. But most lawmakers were willing to take what gains they could get through the compromise bill.
“I'll continue to do what I can to fight for more,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash. “...We aren't reaching all the families who really can use the child tax credit the most.”
The bill also would enhance a tax credit for the construction or rehabilitation of rental housing targeted to lower-income households, adding an estimated 200,000 housing units around the country. And it would ensure victims of certain wildfires and the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment don't get hit with a big tax bill for payments they received as compensation for their losses.
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Arts Broadway legend Hinton Battle, who originally played Scarecrow in 'The Wiz', has died By Megan Lim, Tinbete Ermyas Published January 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM EST Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 1:59 Broadway star Hinton Battle, who played the original Scarecrow at the 1978 "The Wiz", has died at 67. He was a three-time Tony Award winner. Copyright 2024 NPR
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WASHINGTON — (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has won the last remaining unresolved delegate from New Hampshire, giving him a 13-9 delegate advantage in the Granite State over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
The Associated Press allocated the final delegate based on the latest vote results from the Jan. 23 primary in accordance with the state’s unusual rules regarding the allocation of Republican delegates.
Unlike in the Democratic presidential primaries, where all states follow a mostly uniform delegate allocation procedure, Republican delegate rules vary state by state. In New Hampshire, 22 Republican delegates are awarded to candidates in proportion to statewide primary results. For example, a candidate who receives 50% of the primary vote will receive 50% of the delegates at stake, or in this case, 11 delegates. The rules also state that a candidate must receive at least 10% of the primary vote in order to qualify for any delegates.
Only two candidates received more than 10% of the primary vote in New Hampshire – Trump, who received a little more than 54%, and Haley, who received a little more than 43%. In most states, the delegate math would involve multiplying these percentages – including the decimals – by the total number of delegates at stake. However, in New Hampshire, the first step in allocating Republican delegates is to round the vote percentages to the nearest whole percentage, which would be 54% for Trump and 43% for Haley. These whole percentages are then multiplied by the total number of Republican delegates at stake, which in New Hampshire is 22.
This produces an initial result of 11.88 delegates for Trump, which rounds to 12, and 9.46 delegates for Haley, which rounds to 9.
This accounts for 21 of the state’s 22 delegates. In New Hampshire, any unallocated delegates are awarded to the top vote-getter, which in this case is Trump. This is sometimes referred to as a “winner’s bonus.”
Based on these rules, the final delegate allocation in New Hampshire is 13 for Trump and 9 for Haley.
In order to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, a candidate must win a majority of delegate votes – 1,215 – at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this summer. After Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump leads Haley in the overall delegate count, 33-17.
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Tyson Fury says he and Oleksandr Usyk are 'two biggest Christians in boxing'
Ahead of a major heavyweight championship match next month, boxing superstar Tyson Fury said that he and his upcoming opponent are two of the strongest Christians in the sport and that whoever wins is because God ordained them to be victorious.
Fury will face Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk on Feb. 17 in Saudi Arabia, with the winner to be named the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
Thirty-five-year-old Fury is the World Boxing Council champion, while 37-year-old Usyk holds the World Boxing Association, International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization titles. All four titles will be on the line next month.
In a preview fight interview with boxing reporter Steve Bunce posted to YouTube last week, Fury spoke about his faith and that of his opponent.
"We are the two biggest Christians in boxing," said Fury. "Without failure, I can train all I want, but whoever God wants to win this fight will win. It doesn't matter if you're from the gutter or the kingdom of wherever."
"Listen, being a champion is great. But to see someone who is also a world champion and has big faith in God is unbelievable. Beautiful."
Fury has not shied away from sharing his faith in God over the years. After retaining a heavyweight boxing title in 2021 with an 11th-round knockout, Fury credited God for having "raised" him to his feet during the fourth round of his fight against fighter Deontay Wilder.
Following the fight, Wilder went to the changing rooms and was taken to the hospital for precautionary measures, while Fury stayed back to give a post-match interview.
"I would like to say thank you to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In the mighty name of Jesus, I won this fight tonight again," Fury said. "I give Him the glory; He gives me the victory."
After the 2021 match, Fury could be seen wearing a hat with the words "Jesus: El Rey Viene," a Spanish phrase that means "Jesus: the King is coming."
Fury was recognized as an undefeated champion after beating Wilder in 2019, earning him the World Boxing Council heavyweight belt.
"Deontay Wilder's a top fighter. He gave me a real run for my money. I always said I'm the best in the world, and he's second best," Fury said in his 2021 interview.
"He's got no love for me because you know why. Because I've beat him three times. And he is like, 'I'm a sportsman.' I went over to him to show some love and respect, and he didn't want to give it back. So that's his problem. I'll pray for him so God will soften his heart."
Nicole Alcindor is a reporter for The Christian Post.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
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By The Vanguard Staff
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A jury here in San Francisco County Superior Court last week agreed with public defenders that SF police failed to investigate appropriately and ignored evidence in the prosecution of a man the jury found not guilty of commercial burglary last July.
Deputy Public Defender Christopher Garcia argued, said the SF Public Defender’s Office, “police carried out an incomplete investigation that was riddled with confirmation bias, and ignored the fact that the evidence did not support the allegations against Wesser, who has maintained his innocence and had an alibi.
“As soon as police had it in mind that Mr. Wesser was involved in the incident, they neglected to investigate any further and ignored all evidence contrary to their erroneous theory,” said Garcia.
The PD Office said on July 22, 2023, “three individuals burglarized the San Francisco office of the game company Ubisoft on 3rd Street. Police retrieved a surveillance video of the break-in and later that day spotted some of the stolen property on a sidewalk several blocks away. Wesser was sitting nearby in clothes that resembled those of one of the people in the video of the burglary.
“Wesser denied being involved in the burglary and asserted that the property nearby did not belong to him. He encouraged the officers to obtain video surveillance from the surrounding buildings to confirm that he had just arrived on the sidewalk after being with his girlfriend all night and morning.”
The public defenders said, “Body-worn camera footage showed that officers lied to Wesser, telling him that those cameras were off, but later talked to each other about retrieving footage from those cameras, which they never did.”
The defense argued that the “prosecution relied on the video of the break-in and on officer testimony, as the police had not collected any fingerprints, DNA, or other forensic evidence from the Ubisoft office or the stolen property. When the arresting officer was testifying for the prosecution, he pointed out many details about the suspect’s clothing to try to show that the person in the video was Wesser.
“However, under cross-examination, the defense pointed out that the person in the video did not appear to have a tattoo whereas Wesser does. When confronted with this observation, the officer then tried to claim that the video wasn’t very clear.”
Wesser, relayed his lawyers, claims, he has “experienced increased harassment from police since 2019, when plainclothes sheriff’s deputies broke down his apartment door with a battering ram and fatally shot his service dog, Ruby. Deputies had stormed his apartment while trying to serve a bench warrant because Wesser had missed a court date. One of the bullets went through Wesser’s hand as he was trying to hold back Ruby, who was barking at the intruders.”
“I am proud of the defense team for their keen attention to detail in a case that could have led to a wrongful conviction of Mr. Wesser, and I am grateful to the jury for returning this verdict,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju.
Raju added, “While circumstantial evidence can play an important role in many cases, what we saw here was police who neglected to complete an investigation that could have eliminated Mr. Wesser as a suspect.”
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Drugmaker Biogen is pulling the plug on its controversial Alzheimer's drug Aduhelm, following disappointing sales. It had been expected to be a blockbuster product.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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Southern Gaza has seen the heaviest fighting over the past few weeks. But bombing has restarted in the north and the humanitarian situation has worsened there.
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Chicago becomes largest US city to pass Gaza ceasefire resolution
CHICAGO - Chicago City Council members cast their votes Wednesday on a resolution that calls for an "immediate" ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The resolution passed after Mayor Brandon Johnson broke a 23-23 tied vote. The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) says Chicago is the largest city in the country to pass a ceasefire resolution.
The resolution, known as "Uniting for Peace," was introduced by Ald. Daniel La Spata (1st) and Ald. Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez (33rd). It is modeled after one put out by the United Nations General Assembly last month.
In addition to calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, the resolution seeks "the unconditional release of all hostages and ensuring humanitarian access."
Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel that sparked the war killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and about 250 people were taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities.
The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s offensive is up to 26,900, according to the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry. It does not distinguish between civilian and combatant deaths but says most of those killed were women and children.
Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., State Rep. Abdelnaseer Rashid, Jewish Voices for Peace, American Muslims for Palestine and other groups will hold a news conference Wednesday morning calling on City Council members to support the resolution.
A rally was scheduled to take place at Daley Plaza immediately after the City Council meeting.
The Illinois Republican Party issued a statement on the city council's decision, shared below:
"Democrats in Chicago and across the state would rather engage in posturing theatrics than take action to protect our citizens. Today's vote is not only a slap in the face to the hostages held at the hands of terrorists abroad, but sends a clear message that the City Council and Chicago Democrats would rather do anything except their jobs. Much like Nero, Chicagoans are dying due lax criminal prosecution backed by Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker. Migrants are overrunning Chicago due to inconsistent, dysfunctional responses from the city and state. Chicago Public Schools are failing and about to become less safe if Johnson succeeds in removing police officers from schools.
Democrats would rather waste time virtue signaling about a conflict half a world away than do the hard work of governing for the common good."
On Tuesday, Chicago Public Schools students staged a walkout in solidarity with Palestine outside City Hall.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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On Wednesday, the Kansas City Chiefs released an estimated injury report. The Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, next Sunday.
As expected, they did not practice Wednesday but will take the field to begin preparation on Thursday. Here’s the report:
- Did not practice: Defensive tackle Chris Jones (quad), running back Isiah Pacheco (toe/ankle), defensive end Charles Omenihu (knee) and left guard Joe Thuney (pectoral)
- Limited practice: Wide receiver Skyy Moore (IR/knee), linebacker Willie Gay Jr. (neck) and cornerback L’Jarius Sneed (calf)
- Full practice (but receiving treatment): offensive tackle Prince Tega Wanogho (IR/quad), quarterback Blaine Gabbert (oblique), wide receiver Richie James (foot), wide receiver Rashee Rice (ankle), linebacker Drue Tranquill (knee), wide receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling (oblique) and Kadarius Toney (personal)
The did-not-practice designations are as to be expected, except for the injury to Jones, which is new information. Jones and Pacheco are expected to play in the Super Bowl, Thuney’s status remains up in the air — and Omenihu is not expected to play. It’s positive for the Chiefs to estimate Gay as a limited participant after he missed Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.
The full participant list is lengthy and includes Toney, indicating he should indeed practice with the team this week. The wide receiver only has a “personal” designation; there is no longer an injury listed.
Moore and Wanogho remain on the injured reserve list and would need to be activated if they were to play in the game.
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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:06 As we approach the six-month anniversary of the Maui fires, we look at the biggest issues that people on the island are still facing. Copyright 2024 NPR
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. Tune in to get updated about the major news stories of the day.
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Arkansans may be at a lower risk for cybercrime. Telecommunication experts from an Indian company called NetworkBuildz have compiled data from the FBI's Internet Crime Report over the past five years to determine which states experienced the fewest attacks. They found that there have been just under 14,000 reported attacks in Arkansas. That puts the state as the fifth lowest in the country.
However, there was still a combined victim loss of over $100 million. Despite the Natural State’s low ranking, Arkansans should still be cautious and protect themselves from cybercriminals. Dale Thompson is the Associate Department Head for Academics for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He said one reason cyber crime may be down is education.
“It's become more common knowledge, there's been a big push on educating employees to be careful on click links and things like that. So a lot of the companies are taking cybersecurity a lot more seriously. And they're just building it into their processes that that's just part of the business model, that you have to deal with cybersecurity, they train their employees not to click on lengths, they train their employees not to, you know, provide any kind of information unless they are truly talking to the right person, when somebody just randomly calls on the phone. They also are getting better at you know, installing them out the anti virus and things like that on their, on their computers. Also doing, you know, filtering things, some of the emails that have some malicious emails, with links on it, you can subscribe to services to it.”
Thompson said it’s best to exercise caution even while searching for guidance.
"There's a lot of training sites out there. The only problem is you got to pick the ones that are actually not, not actually malware in disguise, but actually people have set up sites like that, you know, it's pretty been pretty sad. Yeah, I guess. You know, there are, I think there are training sessions now, sometimes, in some community groups about, you know, what, if it sounds too good to be true, it is true, right? You know, right, that should be your red flag. And, you know, there's all the red flags of, if they're trying to make you hurry up and make a decision."
Thompson advises people to never click on links about finances that are sent to them, especially if they are unexpected. He suggests that you should just go directly to the bank, credit card company, or other organization if you think there is an issue.
"I call the call the, you know, the phone number on the back of my credit card, where I log in directly to my account. I mean, I hate to be that pessimistic, but it's, you know, it's almost to that point now, to see if anything, if it is real or not, be careful on the links that you click, of course, that's the big thing. It's really sad, because I think, you know, the generation including me, that I grew up in is, you know, that we were trusting that people weren't going to be doing dishonest things all the time. I mean, sometimes, but it seems like with the opening up of this digital media, we get bombarded with a lot of people who are trying to do us harm and steal from us and things like that."
If you have a question or complaint about cybercrime, visit the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center to learn more or report attacks.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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Laws on abortion are out of step with public opinion. One Republican legislator in Tennessee is working to establish exceptions to his state's strict abortion laws, but he faces a tough battle.
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With the Kansas City Chiefs now in the Super Bowl, the biggest question left unanswered between now and the big game is whether Taylor Swift is going to be able to make to Las Vegas in time for kickoff to watch Travis Kelce.
The Grammy-award winning singer has a concert on Feb. 10 in Tokyo, which means she's going to have to hustle if she wants to get to the Super Bowl, which kicks off Feb. 11 at 3:30 p.m. PT in Las Vegas.
So can Taylor actually make it to the game? It looks like we now know the answer to that question thanks to the "West Wing." The political drama, which ran on NBC from 1999 thru 2006, just so happened to cover this exact topic. Well, they weren't talking about Taylor Swift, but they were talking about how long it takes to fly from Tokyo back to the United States.
In an episode from 2001, several of the main characters were trying to figure out what time a flight would arrive in the U.S if it was leaving from Tokyo. The conversation, which involved White House communications director Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe), deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman (Bradley Whitford), press secretary C.J. Cregg (Allison Janney) and Toby Ziegler (Richard Schiff), turned into total chaos.
"It's 14 hours ahead. We're sure it's ahead and not behind?" Lyman asks. "So it's almost 11 o'clock in Tokyo. ... I'm sorry, 11 in the morning, 11 in the afternoon?"
As you can see, everyone is confused. After Lyman's comments, Seaborn seems to get a handle on things. "He's going to travel eastward from Tokyo at 7 p.m., so when he crosses the international dateline, it'll be 3 a.m."
You know what, let's just go ahead and watch the clip.
Can Taylor Swift make the Super Bowl from her Tokyo concert? A West Wing episode from 2001 already answered this: pic.twitter.com/6LBQMSrCVw
— Rohita Kadambi (@RohitaKadambi) January 29, 2024
If that sounds confusing, now you know what Taylor's team is dealing with right now.
Fortunately for Swift, the logistics should work out in her favor and that's mostly thanks to the international dateline, which will allow her to gain almost a full day when she leaves Japan.
Here's a look at the schedule she'll be dealing with. (We'll be using Pacific Time here, so please adjust your brain accordingly,)
FEBRUARY 10
- 1 a.m. PT. Taylor's concert in Tokyo starts at 6 p.m. local time, but thanks to the 17-hour time difference, that's only 1 a.m. in Las Vegas.
- 6 a.m. PT. Swift's concerts have been lasting around four hours, but we'll say this one lasts five just to account for any possible delays. If the concert goes for five hours, she'll be done at 11 p.m. local time in Tokyo, which is 6 a.m. PT in Las Vegas.
- 8 a.m. PT. We'll say it takes two hours for Swift to get from her concert venue to the airport in Tokyo. If she sticks to that timeline, she'd be taking off at 1 a.m. Tokyo time on Feb. 11, which would be 8 a.m. on Feb. 10 in Las Vegas.
- 7 p.m. PT. The flight from Tokyo to Las Vegas takes about 11 hours, which puts Taylor in Vegas at about 7 p.m. PT on SATURDAY NIGHT. Fortunately for Swift, she'll be flying with a tailwind, which will cut some serious time off her flight. The flight from Vegas to Tokyo would probably take about 13 hours because you have a headwind when you're flying in the opposite direction.
Not only will Swift be able to make it to the Super Bowl, but assuming everything goes according to plan, she'll be in Vegas with enough time to get a good night's sleep. If Kelce is allowed to have visitors the night before the game, she may even be able to stop by and say hi.
If everything works out as planned, she should be in Vegas a full 20 hours before kickoff. What this all means is that you should probably expect to see Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl.
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Democrats in the state Senate approved a measure to allow the state to work directly with manufacturers to make generic — and much cheaper — versions of key prescription drugs.
The bill would make New York only the second state in the nation, after California, to seek contracts with drug companies to make the medications, including insulin, a drug that has sharply risen in price in recent years.
Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said the aim is to lower costs and protect against potential drug shortages.
“Accessible and affordable prescription medication is not a luxury,” Stewart-Cousins said. “It is a necessity.”
The legislation would direct the state health department to identify other generic drugs that are costly or are vulnerable to shortages that could also be eligible for a manufacturing partnership.
A second bill would eliminate insurance co-payments for insulin, which is used by 1.6 million New Yorkers to control their diabetes. Gov. Kathy Hochul also included that provision in her state budget proposal this year.
Senate sponsor and Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera said once the original investment is made, the changes would save the state’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid program money.
The Medicaid prescription drug program is projected to cost $3.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. Senate Democrats could not estimate exact savings but said it’s not unreasonable to expect to cut costs by a minimum of 10%.
They said in California, where the state has already entered into an agreement to manufacture insulin, a 10-millimeter vial that now costs $300 would cost just $30 to make.
They said it could also save patients hundreds of dollars on each dose, and thousands of dollars annually.
The Democrats’ proposal comes at a time when the governor is asking lawmakers to slash $1.5 billion in public health care spending. Rivera is against the cuts, saying it’s not the time to reduce spending on a health care system already destabilized by the pandemic.
“I certainly scratch my head, because I think that there are other options on the table,” Rivera said. “There's proposed cuts (that) are between a billion and a billion and a half (dollars). I think that this is not the moment to do that.”
Rivera, along with the health care workers union SEIU 1199 and home care advocates, have an alternative proposal for cost savings in the state’s Medicaid program.
They want to decouple home health care from the Medicaid Managed Care program. They say that arrangement, begun in 2011, has resulted in billions of dollars going to insurance companies who manage the programs for administrative costs and profits, instead of paying for home care workers. Rivera said it was a “failed experiment.”
“It has not worked,” Rivera said. “What has happened is that we have a system in which people are more needy, in which people who take care of those folks who are needy, (and) don't get paid the money that they deserve.”
He said the change could save the Medicaid program $2.5 billion a year, more than the amount that Hochul is seeking in savings.
The health insurance industry opposes the idea. In a statement, the New York Health Plan Association, which represents nonprofit insurance plans, said the previous fee-for-service plans was a “dismal failure” and that there are concerns among home health care providers and their clients who are “worried about the impact the bill will have on elderly and disabled New Yorkers.”
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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 31, 2024) - Hillcrest Energy Technologies (CSE: HEAT) (FSE: 7HI) ("Hillcrest" or the "Company"), announces a non-brokered private placement of up to an aggregate of 8,000,000 units of the Company (a "Unit") at a price of $0.25 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $2,000,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company (a "Common Share") and one Common Share purchase warrant (each, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one Common Share at a price of $0.30 per Common Share for a period of 36 months following the distribution of the Warrant.
"The proposed placement is a result of expressed interest from current shareholders," Don Currie, Hillcrest CEO, stated. "Current market conditions are very challenging for listed companies, and we appreciate this interest and support. We intend to leverage this proposed placement in conjunction with the facility announced on January 17, 2024, to provide the Company financial flexibility as we look to amplify our customer and partner engagements this year in pursuit of commercial commitments."
The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Offering for continued technology development, corporate development, and general working capital including retirement of existing accounts payable.
The Company may pay finders fees to eligible finders for services in connection with the Offering in cash or warrants exercisable into Units on the same terms as the Units distributed pursuant to the Equity Offering.
All securities issued in connection with the Offering will be subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day from the date of issuance in accordance with applicable securities legislation.
The securities of the Company referred to in this press release have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "U.S. Securities Act"), or any state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities of the Company may not be offered or sold within the United States unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities of the Company in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
The Company also announces that it has granted restricted share units ("RSUs") to consultants of the Company to acquire up to 933,333 common shares of the Company, pursuant to the Company's RSU Plan dated July 28, 2021. 638,889 of these RSUs will vest immediately, 50,000 will best on February 28, 2024, with the remaining 244,444 vesting on a quarterly basis as work is completed in 2024. The RSUs have a three-year term.
About Hillcrest Energy Technologies
Hillcrest Energy Technologies is a clean technology company focused on providing advanced power conversion technologies and digital control systems for next-generation powertrains and grid-connected renewable energy systems. From concept to commercialization, Hillcrest is investing in the development of energy solutions that will power a more sustainable and electrified future. Hillcrest is publicly traded on the CSE under the symbol "HEAT," on the OTCQB Venture Market as "HLRTF" and on the Frankfurt Exchange as "7HI". For more information, please visit: https://hillcrestenergy.tech/.
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Don Currie
info@hillcrestenergy.tech
O: +1 604-609-0006
Toll-free: 1 855-609-0006
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Walter Frank/Jennifer Belodeau
IMS Investor Relations
hillcrest@imsinvestorrelations.com
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Jamie L. Hogue
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Cautionary Statement Regarding "Forward-Looking" Information
Some of the statements contained in this news release are forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements and information can be identified by the use of words such as "expects," "intends," "is expected," "potential," "suggests" or variations of such words or phrases, or statements that certain actions, events or results "may," "could," "should," "would," "might" or "will" be taken, occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information is provided as of the date of this news release. The forward-looking information reflects our current expectations and assumptions and is subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any anticipated future results, performance or expectations expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. No assurance can be given that these assumptions will prove correct. Forward-looking statements and information are not historical facts and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control. Investors are advised to consider the risk factors under the heading "Risks and Uncertainties" in the Company's MD&A for the year ended Dec. 31, 2022, available at www.sedarplus.ca for a discussion of the factors that could cause the Company's actual results, performance and achievements to be materially different from any anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statements, except as may be required by law.
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SOURCE: Hillcrest Energy Technologies Ltd.
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