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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — News 3 anchor Blaine Stewart shares an inside look at his story about the rising cost of streaming services, and how you can cut back on spending when cutting the cord.
Posted at 5:53 PM, Jan 31, 2024
and last updated 2024-01-31 17:53:48-05
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The Cardinals announced Wednesday that they have re-signed LB Jesse Luketa and OL Carter O’Donnell.
Luketa, 25, was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada but attended high school in Erie, Pennsylvania. He was drafted in the seventh round out of Penn State by the Cardinals back in 2022.
He failed to make the active roster but was signed to the practice squad upon being waived.
In 2023, Luketa appeared in 14 games for the Cardinals and made one start, recording 11 total tackles.
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WASHINGTON — 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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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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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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Left-arm spinner Leach played a limited role in England's stunning 28-run win in the series opener, where Ben Stokes's men overcame a first-innings deficit of 190 runs, following a problem with his left knee.
"He's ruled out of the second Test. Unfortunately the knock he took resulted in a haematoma," Stokes told travelling British media on Wednesday.
"It's a big shame for us and a big shame for him. It's something we're assessing every day but the medical team have taken over on that so hopefully it's not something too serious that keeps him out for longer."
Bashir was forced to fly back to London to resolve a visa issue last week but returned in time to witness the last day of England's sensational victory in the first of a five-Test series.
The 20-year-old off-spinner has taken a mere 10 first-class wickets at an average of 67.
But rookie left-arm spinner Tom Hartley bagged a seven-wicket haul in India's failed run chase on Test debut last week and England may again ignore any lack of experience.
"To be perfectly honest, our training camp in Abu Dhabi was the first real live look I got at Bash," Stokes said.
"The first time I saw him was on Twitter. I think the County Championship put a little clip together of him bowling against Sir Alastair (Cook).
"I just saw something. With the height he bowled from, it was very obvious that he put a lot of action, a lot of revolutions, on the ball."
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Attorney Griffin O’Hanlon shares some essential tips to ensure that you're driving safely when the weather gets bad, and what to do if you encounter dangerous conditions on the road.
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The Falcons announced that they have finalized nine coaching moves, including retaining assistant HC Jerry Gray on the staff of new HC Raheem Morris.
Gray has agreed to a contract extension to stay in Atlanta for the time being. The following is a complete list of staff being retained or hired by the team:
- Assistant HC Jerry Gray
- QB coach T.J. Yates (formerly WR coach)
- OL coach Dwayne Ledford
- RB coach Michael Pitre
- DL coach Jay Rodgers
- Senior defensive assistant Dave Huxtable
- Chief of Staff Steve Scarnecchia
- Director of Coaching Operations Sarah Hogan
- Coaching Operations Assistant Donovan Ellison
Gray, 61, was a first-round draft pick by the Rams back in 1985. He played until 1993 and had brief stints with the Oilers and Buccaneers. He got his start in coaching in the NFL as a defensive quality control coach with the Tennessee Oilers and was promoted to DB coach when the team became the Titans.
The Bills hired Gray as their defensive coordinator in 2001. After stints as a DB coach for the Redskins and Seahawks, Gray returned to Tennessee as the defensive coordinator. He joined Vikings HC Mike Zimmer‘s staff in 2014 and was with them through 2019.
In 2020, the Packers hired Gray as their defensive backs coach and he has remained with the team until 2023. He joined the Falcons’ staff as the assistant head coach.
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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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Bank of the Philippine Islands (OTCMKTS:BPHLY – Get Free Report)’s stock price shot up 3.9% during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as C$41.10 and last traded at C$41.10. 133 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 65% from the average session volume of 376 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$39.55.
Bank of the Philippine Islands Price Performance
The firm’s fifty day moving average price is C$37.50 and its 200 day moving average price is C$38.22.
Bank of the Philippine Islands Increases Dividend
The company also recently disclosed a dividend, which was paid on Monday, January 8th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 30th were paid a dividend of $0.4024 per share. The ex-dividend date was Wednesday, November 29th. This is a positive change from Bank of the Philippine Islands’s previous dividend of $0.40.
About Bank of the Philippine Islands
Bank of the Philippine Islands, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial products and services to retail and corporate clients in the Philippines. It operates through Consumer Banking, Corporate Banking, and Investment Banking segments. The Consumer Banking segment offers deposit taking and servicing; and consumer lending, such as home mortgages, auto loans, and credit card finance, as well as remittance services to individual and retail markets.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A federal judge refused to take action against Florida on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging an order to deactivate pro-Palestinian student groups, essentially because nothing has been done to follow through with the directive.
State university Board of Governors Chancellor Ray Rodrigues wrote to university presidents in October at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' urging, directing them to disband chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. He said the groups are supporting a terrorist organization based on the national group's declaration that ''Palestinian students in exile are PART of this movement, not in solidarity with this movement.''
The American Civil Liberties Union sued on behalf of the University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine chapter to prevent deactivation, but Judge Mark Warner denied an injunction because the group is still active. He wrote that Rodrigues overstepped his authority.
''Neither the Governor, nor the Chancellor, nor the BOG (Board of Governors) have the formal power to punish student organizations,'' Warner said.
Individual university boards of trustees, which have that power, haven't taken any steps to disband the groups, and Walker said Rodrigues has acknowledged that the student chapters aren't under the control of the national organization.
Walker acknowledged the groups had a reason to feel anxious, especially after DeSantis called them terrorists and falsely proclaimed while campaigning for president that he deactivated the groups. DeSantis has since dropped out of the race.
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From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 5:39 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn 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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HAMPTON ROADS, Va. — Acclaimed writer/director Darren Aronofsky joins Coast Live with collaborators Ari Handel and Lance Rubin to discuss their new children's book, "Monster Squad: Monsters Take Manhattan."
Here's a synopsis of the book, courtesy of HarperCollins Children's Books:
Ever since Eric “Doodles” King and his friends saved Coney Island from Crumple Monster and its minions, Eric’s life has been changing faster than he ever expected. His parents’ divorce has gone through, his mom has moved to a deluxe apartment in Manhattan, and now she’s making him start all over at a fancy new private school. Suddenly, Eric’s trapped between two worlds – his old Coney Island friends and the rich, cool kids at his new school who treat him like a celebrity.
At least, Eric thinks, his days of epic monster battles are behind him. But what he doesn’t realize is that the magic mermaid ink that brought his drawings to life hasn’t been destroyed like he thought. Quite the opposite, King Neptune has found a way to take the last remaining drops to create a new class of creatures perfectly designed to put New York City right back where it belongs – underwater.
Now it’s up to Eric to rally Monster Club again and find a way to bring back Brickman, Bellybeast, Skelegurl, DecaSpyder, and RoboKillz so they can stop Neptune before it’s too late.
"Monster Squad: Monsters Take Manhattan" is available now.
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The napkin was signed in December 2000 when Carles Rexach, then Barca's sporting director, agreed with Jorge Messi, Messi's father, and agent Horacio Gaggioli to recruit the Argentine teenager who went on to become the club's all-time top scorer.
The pivotal moment in football history happened after Rexach invited Messi senior to have lunch over his concerns at the lack of response following his son's initial trials at the Spanish club.
"In Barcelona, on 14 December 2000 and in the presence of Messrs Minguella and Horacio, Carles Rexach, FC Barcelona's sporting director, hereby agrees, under his responsibility and regardless of any dissenting opinions, to sign the player Lionel Messi, provided that we keep to the amounts agreed upon," is written on the napkin from the Pompeia tennis club.
The agreement, ratified by then club president Joan Gaspart, was formally signed that same night and a month later Barcelona completed the signing of Messi to begin his 20-year stay at the Catalan club.
The eight-time Ballon d'Or winner helped Barca win 35 titles, making a record 782 appearances and scoring 674 goals.
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The Detroit Lions announced they signed WR Daurice Fountain to a futures contract on Wednesday.
#Lions signed WR Daurice Fountain to a Reserve/Future contract.
— Detroit Lions (@Lions) January 31, 2024
Detroit has now signed the following futures contract:
- LB Mitchell Agude
- WR Maurice Alexander
- G Matt Farniok
- RB Jake Funk
- T Connor Galvin
- DB Craig James
- RB Jermar Jefferson
- DB Brandon Joseph
- WR Tom Kennedy
- T Michael Niese
- DT Chris Smith
- TE Noah Togiai
- WR Daurice Fountain
Futures deals are essentially camp invites that will allow players to compete for roster spots during offseason workouts and training camp.
Fountain, 28, is a former fifth-round pick of the Colts back in 2018. He signed a four-year, $2.7 million contract with the team, but was waived at the start of the 2018 season.
The Colts later re-signed Fountain to their practice squad and eventually promoted him to their active roster towards the end of the 2018 season.
Indianapolis then re-signed Fountain to an exclusive rights free-agent deal in 2020. Fountain spent the season bouncing between the Colts’ practice squad and the active roster.
The Chiefs signed Fountain to a one-year deal in 2021 before releasing him and adding him to their active roster. He caught on with the Bears on a futures deal for 2022 before being let go at the end of the preseason and returned to the practice squad.
In 2021, Fountain played in six games for the Colts, recording two catches for 23 yards.
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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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Even when compared with other CEOs, who routinely get paid roughly 200 times more than their typical employees, Elon Musk’s pay package was eye-opening.
A judge in Delaware on Tuesday struck down the package that Tesla established for Musk in 2018, ruling that the process was “flawed” and the price “unfair.” Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick called the package “the largest potential compensation opportunity ever observed in public markets by multiple orders of magnitude.”
So, if Musk isn’t worth the maximum $55.8 billion value of the package, how much is he worth? It’s a thorny question without an easy answer in the notoriously complex world of executive compensation.
McCormick’s ruling bumped Musk out of the top spot on the Forbes list of wealthiest people. The magazine on Wednesday lopped $25 billion off his net worth, reducing it to $185.3 billion, putting him behind fashion and cosmetics magnate Bernard Arnault and family.
Critics have argued for years that CEO pay packages are exorbitant. The median compensation for a CEO of an S&P 500 company was valued at $14.8 million, according to the latest AP CEO pay survey for 2022 conducted with the executive compensation research firm Equilar. It would take the typical worker at one of those companies more than 185 years to earn what their chief executive reaped in just 12 months.
In 2018, Tesla estimated the value of Musk’s compensation package at $2.28 billion, topping the previous highest package of $1.39 billion given to Blackstone’s Steven Schwarzman 10 years earlier, according to Equilar. The value of Musk’s package has grown as Tesla’s stock price increased. By comparison, in 2022 the median worker at Tesla made $34,084.
Under Musk’s pay plan, he received a chunk of stock options each time Tesla’s market value rose by $50 billion. Ultimately, he would have the chance to buy nearly 304 million shares for $23.34 each. Tesla has met each of the performance hurdles since the package was awarded. Its stock is trading at roughly $191 compared with $21 at the start of 2018.
The judge determined that Tesla’s board lacked independence from Musk. His lawyers said the package needed to be rich to give Musk an incentive not to leave — a line of reasoning the judge shot down.
“Swept up by the rhetoric of ‘all upside,’ or perhaps starry eyed by Musk’s superstar appeal, the board never asked the $55.8 billion question: ‘Was the plan even necessary for Tesla to retain Musk and achieve its goals?’” McCormick wrote.
Musk’s fans would argue that he shouldn’t be paid like other CEOs because he isn’t like other CEOs. He and Tesla are practically inseparable, so keeping him as CEO is key to the company’s growth. He built the company from an idea to the most valuable automaker in the world, last year selling more electric vehicles than any other company. His star power gets free publicity, so the company spends little on advertising. And he has forced the rest of the auto industry to accelerate plans for electric vehicles to counter Tesla’s phenomenal growth.
To figure out how much to pay their CEO, corporate boards often start by looking at how much their rivals are paying theirs: They need to pay enough to attract and keep the talent.
General Motors, for example, considers executive salaries at 3M, Boeing, Ford, IBM and other huge companies, and uses complex formulas to determine CEO compensation. For GM CEO Mary Barra, part of that depends on how GM’s stock return compares to its peers and how much progress the company makes on electric vehicles.
In 2022, Barra earned total compensation that GM valued at $29 million. That included $2.1 million in salary. Ford CEO Jim Farley's compensation was valued at $22 million that year.
Even though Tesla makes automobiles, investors often lump its stock in with Big Tech stocks. They’re the companies disrupting industries and people’s ways of life.
Plus, Musk is closely identified with Tesla the way Meta Platforms’ Mark Zuckerberg or Apple’s Tim Cook are with their companies. Pay packages at Big Tech companies are among the largest in the U.S.
Cook’s compensation was valued at $63.2 million for 2023, mainly due to stock awards valued at nearly $47 million. A year earlier, he earned total compensation valued at roughly $99 million.
In the nuanced world of executive compensation, these numbers don’t indicate how much a CEO actually takes home, they’re just an estimate of the compensation package's value. The final value may exceed or fall far below those figures because it is tied to stock.
Corporate law experts say any new compensation package for Musk will likely be challenged in court unless Tesla's board either resigns en masse or follows a meticulous process to protect shareholders by passing a substantially smaller package.
“This is just a mess for them,” said Charles Elson, a retired corporate law professor and founder of the corporate governance center at the University of Delaware. “They kowtowed to this apparent superstar with poor results.”
Elson, who has followed the court for more than three decades, said this is the first time he can remember a judge invalidating an executive compensation plan at a public company.
Lawyers for Musk and the directors had countered that the plan was fairly negotiated by a compensation committee whose members were independent, and that it was blessed by a shareholder vote.
Shareholders who approved Musk’s deal, Elson said, were unaware that Musk essentially was negotiating with himself. “If the shareholders were aware of that, they may well have not approved it.”
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky House overwhelmingly passed a bill on Wednesday instructing public schools to set aside time for a moment of silence at the start of each school day.
The measure easily cleared the House on a 79-17 vote and moves on to the Senate. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
Under the bill, the moment of silence would last one to two minutes at the start of the first class each day in public schools across the Bluegrass State. Students would decide how to use that time, and school personnel would be prohibited from instructing them on their silent reflection. Parents would be notified of the policy and encouraged to offer guidance to their children on how to spend that time.
Every student would be expected to remain seated and silent during that time.
During the House debate, Democratic Rep. Tina Bojanowski said she sees the bill as "a way to push prayer into public schools,'' adding that it raises constitutional concerns.
Public schools were barred from leading students in classroom prayer following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling decades ago that said it violated a First Amendment clause forbidding the establishment of a government religion.
Another critic of the bill, Democratic Rep. Josie Raymond, said: "This is something that belongs in the home realm for families to discuss with their children.''
In praising the bill, Republican Rep. Tom Smith said what has been lacking in schools is taking the "time to thank God for our day. And I think that's what's going to watch over our education and our kids.''
The bill's lead sponsor is Republican Rep. Daniel Fister.
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The legislation is House Bill 96.
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The first family to access Self Build Wales are set to move into their new dream home. The scheme has now been extended to allow people who already own or have found a plot of land, to access support for building costs.
Katherine Simmons, 42, and son Kyle, 27, had to make extensive changes to their family home after Kyle suffered a brain haemorrhage at the age of 12, which left him in a coma and in need of multiple surgeries.
After undergoing treatment, Kyle defied the odds and began to show signs of improvement, though now needs 24-hour care at home, with live-in carers also requiring space in the family home. While their previous house had been adapted to ensure Kyle’s needs were met, the family found it was becoming less and less fit for purpose and didn’t provide adequate space for the family and carers to live side-by-side.
Using the Self Build Wales website, the family applied for a plot in Pentyrch with planning permission already in place.
Having been successful in securing the plot, the scheme supported Katherine to work with a local architect to design a house which fitted her and Kyle’s needs perfectly. This has allowed the family and Kyle’s carers to live in the same house with separate, contained living quarters, providing the right balance of support, independence and privacy. Work has now completed on their new custom-built home which meets their every need.
Katherine said:
“This is an absolute dream home for both of us – at our former property, it was difficult to ensure all of Kyle’s care needs were met while also giving us space and privacy. While we were able to adapt the property initially, it got to the point where we needed somewhere built from scratch to cater for all our needs, and we’re so happy that we were able to find that through Self Build Wales.
“It’s been completely life-changing for us both, and for Kyle’s carers – we couldn’t be happier with the improvements that are in place. We’re really grateful to Self Build Wales for all the support, advice and funding provided and would absolutely recommend them to anyone thinking of a self-build project.
Emma Phillips, operations manager for Self Build Wales, said:
“Knowing that we’ve been able to support a family with specific and complex needs is heartening, and we’re glad we were able to help them every step of the way.
“Self Build Wales is helping to remove the barriers and uncertainty that often prevent people in Wales from building their own homes. There are no repayments to make during the term of the Self Build Wales scheme loan and individuals could build up to 25% equity into their home by not having to pay developer’s profits, which could provide a deposit for first time buyers.
“We wish the family and their carers all the best and look forward to them settling into their new home.”
Julie James, Minister for Climate Change, said:
“Self Build Wales aims to provide opportunities to create self-build and custom-built homes through the use of underdeveloped and underused land. The scheme also aims to support more construction SMEs into home building.
“I would encourage anyone with suitable developable land for housing with the benefit of planning permission, who is interested in developing or selling their land to contact the Self Build Wales team, to enquire how you could support people in Wales to build their own home.
“I’m pleased the newly expanded scheme will mean more people will have the opportunity to access funding to build a home that meets their needs.”
Self Build Wales is a £40 million Welsh Government funded scheme to support custom and self-build homes, allowing applicants to find suitable plots with planning permission already in place.
The scheme, which provides self-build development loans to cover 50-75% of the value or cost of the plot, and 100% of the building costs, has recently been expanded. Applicants can now use their own land to build on, or build on available land they have found themselves, as well as applying for a plot on the Self Build Wales the website. It is designed to suit as many needs as possible and is open to anyone who wants to build their own home in Wales.
For more information, visit https://selfbuild.wales/
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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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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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Better Home & Finance Holding (NASDAQ:BETR – Get Free Report) traded up 1.9% during trading on Monday . The company traded as high as 0.61 and last traded at 0.61. 906,900 shares were traded during trading, a decline of 26% from the average session volume of 1,224,158 shares. The stock had previously closed at 0.59.
Better Home & Finance Stock Performance
The company has a 50-day simple moving average of 0.59. The company has a current ratio of 1.16, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.21.
Better Home & Finance (NASDAQ:BETR – Get Free Report) last posted its earnings results on Tuesday, November 14th. The company reported -0.15 EPS for the quarter. The firm had revenue of 16.45 million for the quarter.
Better Home & Finance Company Profile
Better Home & Finance Holding Company operates as a homeownership company in the United States. The company provides GSE-conforming, FHA-insured, VA-guaranteed, and jumbo loans to GSEs, banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and mortgage REITs. It also offers real estate agent services, title insurance and settlement services, and homeowners insurance services.
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NAGS HEAD, N.C. — This week, the new Carol S. and Edward D. Cowell, Jr. Cancer Center opened in Nags Head, the culmination of more than a decade of work to reduce cancer mortality on the Outer Banks.
It’s a collaboration between Outer Banks Health and its partners ECU Health and Chesapeake Regional Healthcare.
Before leaders launched their efforts to bring cancer treatment to the Outer Banks, patients had to drive to Hampton Roads, Elizabeth City, Greenville, N.C., or even farther for any kind of cancer care.
Dr. Charles Shelton, a radiation oncologist and medical director at the Cowell Cancer Center, said that lack of access to care likely lead to higher mortality rates in Dare County.
“Having a hospital here that focuses on access to services, we have really changed that paradigm by providing the majority of what people need to get cancer screening, cancer prevention and cancer care,” Shelton said.
Outer Banks Health achieved accreditation for cancer treatment in 2016, a rarity for so-called critical access hospitals, mainly in rural hospitals. It later became the only critical access hospital to be accredited in breast cancer treatment.
A new radiation treatment center opened to patients in 2019, and then conversations began about placing all the various cancer services Outer Banks Health grew to provide into one facility.
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“Patients may come in and see the medical oncologist and then have radiation therapy across the street,” said Amy Montgomery, senior administrator of operations at Outer Banks Health. “And as you may imagine, someone who is battling cancer and undergoing cancer treatment, that can take a toll on you.”
That led to the construction of the 10,000 square foot building, which is attached to the radiation center. It features treatment rooms, a CT scanner and supportive services like social workers and scalp cooling therapy that helps people undergoing chemotherapy to maintain their hair.
“It’s connected, it’s efficient, it’s better communication,” Dr. Shelton said. “Things just happen in a much more fluid environment.”
But the center also faces the same difficulties in recruiting providers that other health systems face.
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It’s still looking for a permanent medical oncologist to replace one who retired almost two years ago.
Rural areas, rural providers, rural hospitals and rural health care practices, clinics have always faced difficulty and challenges in recruiting people to work in rural areas," said George Pink, Deputy Director of North Carolina Rural Health Research Program at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC-Chapel Hill. “Specialists are particularly difficult to recruit because of patient volumes and so on."
The center’s leaders are confident that position will be filled soon, in the meantime the work to reduce cancer death rates continues. After being higher than the state average for years, they’re now lower in Dare County.
“If there is a way that we can help prevent cancer or diagnose cancer in an earlier stage when it’s more treatable, that’s where the work is and that’s what we’re doing and that’s how we’re making a difference,” Montgomery said.
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Syria's Fahd Youssef saw his penalty saved by goalkeeper Alireza Beiranvand in the shootout while Iran converted all their spot kicks, with skipper Ehsan Hajsafi netting the decisive one.
Iran were one of three teams to finish the group stage with maximum points and knockout stage debutants Syria had done well to contain them until they gifted their Middle Eastern counterparts a penalty in the first half.
Aiham Ousou deliberately barged into Mehdi Taremi without making any attempt to go for the ball and the Iranian striker stepped up to take the penalty, firing the spot kick into the bottom-right corner for his third goal of the tournament.
But Syria levelled when Pablo Sabbag came on as a substitute and immediately won a penalty when he beat the offside trap and was fouled by Beiranvand, with Omar Khribin calmly slotting it home to make it 1-1.
Things went from bad to worse for Iran when Taremi was sent off for a second yellow card. Having been booked for simulation earlier, Taremi fouled Alaa Al-Dali to earn another booking and reduce Iran to 10 men for the final minutes and extra time.
However, Iran managed to hold on and take the game to penalties where they were unfazed by the pressure, extending coach Amir Ghalenoei's unbeaten run to 15 games since he took charge of Team Melli in March last year.
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Pete Thamel reports that the Packers are expected to hire Boston College coach Jeff Hafley as the team’s next defensive coordinator.
Hafley replaces Joe Barry, who was let got a few weeks ago.
Here’s the full list of candidates for the Packers’ job:
- Former Chargers HC Brandon Staley (Interview)
- Bills LB coach Bobby Babich (Interview)
- Cowboys DL coach Aden Durde (Interview)
- Broncos DBs coach Christian Parker (Interview)
- Ravens secondary coach Dennard Wilson (Interview)
- Ravens LB coach Zach Orr (Interview)
- Boston College HC Jeff Hafley
Hafley, 44, began his coaching career at WPI back in 2011. From there, he worked for Albany, Pittsburgh and Rutgers before taking his first NFL coaching job with the Buccaneers as their assistant defensive backs coach
Hafley had stints with the Browns and 49ers before becoming the co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State in 2019. Boston College hired him as their head coach the following year and he’s held the position ever since.
During his four years at Boston College, Hafley led the team to a record of 22-26.
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JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi could allow Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation's worst rate of infant mortality.
With wide bipartisan support, the state House passed a bill Wednesday to allow up to 60 days of “presumptive eligibility” for Medicaid, starting July 1. This means a pregnant woman's outpatient medical care would be paid by Medicaid as her application for coverage by the government insurance program is being considered.
Processing Medicaid applications can take weeks, and physicians say early prenatal care is important.
House Medicaid Committee Chairwoman Missy McGee of Hattiesburg pointed out that Mississippi has high rates of fetal mortality, infant mortality and maternal mortality.
“I think this will go a long way in helping moms and babies be healthy ... and give babies the best shot for a healthy life," McGee said.
Mississippi ranks worst in the U.S. for infant mortality, with Black infants nearly twice as likely as white ones to die over the past decade, according to a report unveiled Jan. 18 by the state Department of Health.
Presumptive Medicaid eligibility during pregnancy would be based on questions about income, asked by health care providers such as employees of county health departments. If a woman's Medicaid application is ultimately rejected because her income is too high, Medicaid would still pay health care providers for services they provided during the time of presumptive eligibility.
McGee said presumptive eligibility could cost the Medicaid program just under $600,000 a year.
Medicaid is funded by federal and state governments, with the federal government paying at least 50% of costs in all states and a higher share in poorer states. The federal government pays for nearly 77% of Medicaid expenses in Mississippi.
In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 19 and older is based on income. A woman who is in that age category and has no dependents can earn up to about $29,000 and qualify for Medicaid during pregnancy. A pregnant woman in that age category who has three dependents can earn up to $59,700 and qualify.
Mississippi Medicaid coverage is available to all income levels for those who are pregnant and younger than 19.
Democratic Rep. John Hines Sr. of Greenville said earlier eligibility for Medicaid coverage during pregnancy could help the state in recruiting OB-GYNs.
“Where we are right now is that we are last in everything," Hines said. "This is a step toward making Mississippi a better place.”
The bill passed the House 117-5. It moves to the Senate for more work in coming weeks. Republicans control both chambers.
About 41% of births in the U.S. and 57% in Mississippi were financed by Medicaid in 2022, according to the health policy research group KFF. Only Louisiana had a larger share of births covered by Medicaid that year, at 61%.
In 2023, Mississippi extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from two months to a full year, with Republican Gov. Tate Reeves saying the change was part of a “new pro-life agenda” to help mothers in a state where abortion is tightly restricted.
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Associated Press/Report For America reporter Michael Goldberg contributed to this report.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's juvenile justice system has lingering problems with the use of force and isolation techniques and has done little to implement a 2017 state audit's suggestions for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday.
The new report from Kentucky Auditor Allison Ball says the state's juvenile detention centers lack clear policies concerning the use of isolation cells, Tasers and pepper spray, and have significant staffing problems. It also found that Department of Juvenile Justice staffers were using pepper spray at a rate nearly 74 times higher than it is used in adult federal prisons.
A federal lawsuit filed earlier this month alleges that two teen girls were kept in isolation cells for weeks in unsanitary conditions at a youth facility in Adair County in 2022. That same year, the detention center was the site of a riot that began when a juvenile assaulted a staff member. Another federal lawsuit was filed this week by a woman who said that as a 17-year-old, she spent a month in an isolation cell at the Adair facility in 2022.
The auditor's review was requested last year by state lawmakers.
"The state of the Department of Juvenile Justice has been a concern across the Commonwealth and a legislative priority over the past several years,'' Ball said in a statement Wednesday.
Ball blamed Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear's administration for ''disorganization across facilities, and as a result, the unacceptably poor treatment of Kentucky youth.'' Beshear earlier this month criticized a Kentucky House budget proposal for lacking funding for new female-only juvenile justice centers.
The auditor's report, labeled a ''performance assessment,'' found that the Juvenile Justice department's ''practices for isolation are inconsistently defined, applied and in conflict with nationally-recognized best practices.'' The department's use of force policies are also ''poorly deployed and defined,'' it said.
The report said the findings from the 2017 audit have largely not been addressed, including concerns of overuse of solitary confinement, low medical care standards and the poor quality of the policy manual.
Beshear initiated a new state policy for juvenile offenders last year that places male juveniles charged with serious crimes in a high-security facility. The policy replaced a decades-old regional system that put juveniles in facilities based on where they live.
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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.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A grainy sonar image recorded by a private pilot has reinvigorated interest in one of the past century’s most alluring mysteries: What happened to Amelia Earhart when her plane vanished during her flight around the world in 1937?
Numerous expeditions have turned up nothing, only confirming that swaths of ocean floor held no trace of her twin-tailed monoplane. Tony Romeo now believes his new South Carolina-based sea exploration company captured an outline of the iconic American’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.
Archaeologists and explorers are hopeful. But whether the tousled-haired pilot’s plane lies at the roughly 16,000-foot (4,800-meter) depth remains to be seen. And debates abound about the proper handling of whatever object is discovered.
Archivists are hopeful that Romeo’s Deep Sea Vision is close to solving the puzzle — if for no other reason than to return attention to Earhart’s accomplishments.
Regardless, the search is on for the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.HOW DID DEEP SEA VISION DETECT THE OBJECT THAT COULD BE EARHART’S PLANE?
Romeo wanted more of an adventure than his commercial real estate career. His father flew for Pan American Airlines, his brother is an Air Force pilot and he has a private pilot’s license himself. Hailing from an “aviation family,” he’d long held interest in the Earhart mystery.
Romeo said he sold his real estate interests to fund last year’s search and buy a $9 million underwater drone from a Norwegian company. The state-of-the-art technology is called the Hugin 6000 — a reference to its ability to break into the deepest layer of the ocean at 6,000 meters (19,700 feet).
A 16-person crew began a roughly 100-day search in September 2023, scanning over 5,200 square miles (13,468 square kilometers) of seafloor. They narrowed their probe to the area around Howland Island, a mid-Pacific atoll between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii.
But it wasn’t until the team reviewed sonar data in December that they saw the fuzzy yellow outline of what resembles a plane.
“In the end, we came out with an image of a target that we believe very strongly is Amelia’s aircraft,” Romeo told The Associated Press.
The next step is taking a camera underwater to better examine the unidentified object. If the visuals confirm the explorers’ greatest hopes, Romeo said the goal would be to raise the long-lost Electra.
Ultimately, Romeo said his team undertook the costly adventure to “solve aviation’s greatest unsolved mystery.” An open hatch could indicate that Earhart and her flight companion escaped after the initial impact, Romeo said, and a cockpit dial could lend insight into what, exactly, went wrong.FROM ALIEN ABDUCTION TO JAPANESE EXECUTION, THEORIES ABOUND
Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island as part of her attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. She had radioed that she was running low on fuel.
The Navy searched but found no trace. The U.S. government’s official position has been that Earhart and Noonan went down with their plane.
Since then, theories have veered into the absurd, including abduction by aliens, or Earhart living in New Jersey under an alias. Others speculate she and Noonan were executed by the Japanese or died as castaways on an island.
“Amelia is America’s favorite missing person,” Romeo said.
Deep Sea Vision’s is hardly the first foray. David Jourdan said his exploration company Nauticos searched in vain on three separate expeditions between 2002 and 2017, surveying an area of seafloor about the size of Connecticut. Those efforts were preceded by a $1 million hunt in 1999 from Nevada-based Dana Timmer. As recently as 2014, Timmer had not given up and sought to raise nearly $2 million for another go.
Between 1988 and 2002, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery made six trips to a different island in the western Pacific Ocean under the impression that Earhart crash-landed on a flat reef 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) south of Hawaii.
Hillary Clinton, then the U.S. Secretary of State, encouraged the group in 2012 when it launched a new search for the wreckage fueled by analysis of a 1937 photo believed to show the Lockheed Electra’s landing gear jutting out of the island’s shoreline.‘WE NEED TO SEE MORE’
Maritime archaeologist James Delgado said Romeo’s potential find would change the narrative, but “we need to see more.”
“Let’s drop some cameras down there and take a look,” said Delgado, senior vice president of the archaeological firm SEARCH Inc.
Delgado said Romeo’s expedition employed world-class, cutting-edge technology that was once classified and is “revolutionizing our understanding of the deep ocean.”
But he said Romeo’s team must provide “a forensic level of documentation” to prove it’s Earhart’s Lockheed. That could mean the patterns in the fuselage’s aluminum, the configuration of its tail and details from the cockpit.
Jourdan, of Nauticos, would have expected to see straight wings and not swept wings, like the new sonar suggests, as well as engines. But that could be explained by damage to the aircraft or reflections distorting the image, he acknowledged.
“It could be a plane. It certainly looks like a plane. It could be a geological feature that looks like a plane,” he said.
Dorothy Cochrane, an aeronautics curator at the National Air and Space Museum, said Romeo’s crew searched in the right place near Howland Island. That’s where Earhart desperately sought a runway when she disappeared on the last leg of her flight.
If the object really is the historic aircraft, the question for Cochrane will be whether it is safe to raise. How much of the machinery is still intact would be determined in part by how smoothly Earhart landed, she added.
“That’s where you have to really look at this image and say, ‘What have we got here?’” said Cochrane.WHAT IF EARHART’S LOCKHEED ELECTRA HAS BEEN FOUND?
If the fuzzy sonar images turn out to be the plane, international standards for underwater archaeology would strongly suggest the aircraft remain where it is, said Ole Varmer, a retired attorney with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and a senior fellow at The Ocean Foundation.
Nonintrusive research can still be conducted to reveal why the plane possibly crashed, Varmer said.
“You preserve as much of the story as you can,” Varmer said. “It’s not just the wreck. It’s where it is and its context on the seabed. That is part of the story as to how and why it got there. When you salvage it, you’re destroying part of the site, which can provide information.”
Raising the plane and placing it in a museum would likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars, Varmer said. And while Romeo could conceivably make a salvage claim in the courts, the plane’s owner has the right to deny it.
Earhart bought the Lockheed with money raised, at least in part, by the Purdue Research Foundation, according to a blog post by Purdue University in Indiana. And she planned to return the aircraft to the school.
Romeo said the team believes the plane belongs in the Smithsonian. Acknowledging the “uncharted territory” of potential legal issues, he said his exploration company will “deal with those as they come up.”
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Finley reported from Norfolk, Virginia. Pollard is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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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.
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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.
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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 4:39 PM CST 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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Broadway legend Hinton Battle, who originally played Scarecrow in 'The Wiz', has died By Megan Lim, Tinbete Ermyas Published January 31, 2024 at 2:39 PM PST Facebook Flipboard 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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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Virginia lawmakers are debating whether to have a state agency create standards for police interrogations.
The issue came to light in 2022 when then Attorney General Mark Herring revealed Virginia Beach Police officers had used fake documents five times during interrogations.
At the time, News 3 uncovered a document meant to look like a report from the Department of Forensic Science, which said DNA evidence linked a man to a crime scene, but it was fake.
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VBPD chief says officers 'crossed the line' in using fake documents to get cooperation
Police Chief Paul Neudigate said the officers crossed the line and banned them from using fake documents.
"Our gut reaction was we went too far," he said in an interview with News 3 in January 2022.
Since then, Del. Jackie Glass (D-Norfolk) has been pushing for reforms in police interrogations.
Her efforts to ban the use of fake documents and to prevent officers from lying to minors during interrogations did not advance in the last two years.
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This year, she's introduced HB250 instructing the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish policies that set standards for police interrogations.
The bill was amended to make it optional for departments to follow.
"We can't legislate culture, but we're saying, based off this bill, let's just establish what's an acceptable culture and let departments make their decisions from there," Glass said during a legislative hearing last week.
The bill is working its way through the General Assembly, but is receiving some push back.
"We're always supportive of good training and policy programs for law enforcement," said Dana Schrad, the executive director of the Virginia Chiefs of Police Association. "We're not real sure that this does exactly what we would like to see. It seems to be very restrictive on interrogation practices."
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Police officers are allowed to use deception, but the question the bill tries to answer is where do you draw the line?
"What we are saying is acceptable or not acceptable?" said Glass.
Schrad says existing policies may already address these concerns and thinks the bill should be carried over until next year to order to review its impact.
"We're concerned about the timetable on trying to get this done and whether it will interfere with our current standards, policies, and practices," said Schrad.
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Japan, seeking a record-extending fifth title, have conceded in all four games at the tournament, with an own goal when they were 2-0 up giving Bahrain a glimmer of hope in the last-16 tie before the Samurai Blue wrapped up a 3-1 win.
"Obviously, we wanted to keep a clean sheet today. But it is what it is. We need to try and keep a clean sheet in the next game," Tomiyasu told reporters.
"As a defender, I want to keep a clean sheet every time on the pitch but today we couldn't manage it. I'm not happy about this."
Although Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu said he was pleased with his players' performances, he added that they were not playing at 100% and Tomiyasu agreed.
"I think we're not at our best form now. We could have done better today as well, we should have done better - especially in the second half," Tomiyasu added.
"We needed to kill the game at 2-0, but we gave them hope when they scored. We need to manage the game well and close the game out."
Tomiyasu plays as a full back for Premier League side Arsenal but he has been deployed in central defence by Moriyasu after returning from an injury.
"Obviously, I got injured and I missed the first game, but I'm fit now. My condition is getting better," the defender said.
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The Carolina Panthers officially announced the hire of former Chiefs executive Brandt Tilis to their restructured front office.
Tilis will be Carolina’s EVP of Football Operations. Per the announcement, his duties will include all football administration and non-coaching matters related to operations, equipment, video, analytics, contract negotiations, compliance with the CBA and league rules, cap management, and maintenance and labor administration.
“It’s great to add Brandt and his experience to our organization,” Panthers GM Dan Morgan said. “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.”
Tilis began his NFL career with the Raiders in 2004 as a Football Operations Intern. He would later spend three years working for the NFL league office.
The Chiefs hired Tilis as a Salary Cap/Contract Analyst in 2010 and he worked his way up to Vice President of Football Operations.
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SAN ANTONIO – The Wren Collective, the Texas group that has wielded significant influence on Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales during his time in office, operates under the umbrella of a California nonprofit, records obtained Wednesday by KSAT Investigates show.
This week, KSAT obtained hundreds of pages of communications between Wren Collective founder Jessica Brand — an Austin-based attorney — DA Joe Gonzales and his first assistant Christian Henricksen.
RELATED ON KSAT.COM: Take a closer look at the conversations between Bexar County DA’s Office & criminal justice reform group
The working relationship between the DA’s office and Brand, which dates back to at least January 2019, the same month Gonzales took office, had not been publicly acknowledged by the DA’s office until this week.
The Wren Collective formed in 2020, forfeited its tax certificate in 2022
Brand formed the Wren Collective as a for-profit limited liability company in February 2020, Texas Secretary of State records obtained Wednesday show.
The business address on file with the state matches Brand’s home address, a public records search reveals.
The formation paperwork was filed at least 13 months after Brand began advising Gonzales’ office on messaging, county records show.
The entity, however, forfeited its tax certificate in June 2022, Secretary of State records show.
The group, which touts itself online as a strategic advising firm, appears to operate .com and .org websites.
It is still listed on its .com website as an LLC, even though its tax certificate was forfeited more than 18 months ago.
The group’s .org website includes a link to donate to the group.
Clicking on the donate button, however, takes you to a PayPal account for Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, a Calabasas, California-based nonprofit.
Nonprofit started as group promoting cultural exchanges between USA, USSR
Records from the State of California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General show the evolution of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs over the past 37 years.
The group was formed as a nonprofit in June 1987 in the state of Delaware under the name American-Soviet Film Initiative.
The entity, which was granted nonprofit status and recognized as a 501(c)(3) by the Internal Revenue Service in February 1988, sought to promote educational and cultural exchanges among citizens of the US and citizens of the then-Soviet Union through films and television programs, records show.
This intended promotion included “the development of opportunities to view Soviet films in the United States and American films in the Soviet Union through tours and exhibition screenings,” formation paperwork for the nonprofit shows.
The group, which appears to have operated out of Southern California for most of its existence, changed its name from American-Soviet Film Initiative to Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) in the mid-1990s, tax records show.
The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.
The group’s certificate of incorporation was amended in 1994 to state it intended to promote educational and cultural exchanges between citizens of the US and other countries and to take on charitable activities that promote world peace, help underprivileged children and promote environmental and cultural preservation, records show.
The nonprofit previously had a modest revenue, mostly from contributions and grants, totaling over $21 million, 2019 tax records show.
That figure has ballooned to over $73 million in revenue in recent years, federal tax paperwork shows.
SEE’s current website states it mission is to “empower, encourage, and catalyze projects so that we can collaborate and facilitate progressive change in areas of social and environmental justice.”
The Wren Collective is one of at least 100 projects listed on its website.
Reached by telephone Wednesday, an official for Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs told KSAT the group is the fiscal sponsor for the Wren Collective.
Fiscal sponsorship includes help with nonprofit management, bookkeeping services and start-up guidance, SEE’s website states.
The official told KSAT donations to SEE can be confidential, if the donor chooses so.
She did not have information on how Brand and other members of her team are compensated.
Brand did not respond to an email from KSAT seeking comment Wednesday.
Gonzales, during an appearance on KSAT’s Q&A Tuesday night, defended his working relationship with Brand, stating that she has provided messaging to his office in a volunteer capacity.
The messages, most of which were between Brand and Henricksen, included how to respond to major incidents in San Antonio including the October 2022 shooting of Erik Cantu by a San Antonio police officer and the 2022 investigation into migrants being flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard on chartered flights.
Read more reporting on the KSAT Investigates page.
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bioAffinity Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIAFW – Get Free Report) traded up 37.7% on Monday . The company traded as high as $0.12 and last traded at $0.10. 3,570 shares were traded during trading, an increase of 99% from the average session volume of 1,797 shares. The stock had previously closed at $0.07.
bioAffinity Technologies Stock Performance
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About bioAffinity Technologies
bioAffinity Technologies, Inc, a biotechnology company, engages in developing non-invasive diagnostic tests and targeted cancer therapeutics. The company offers CyPath lung, a diagnostic test, for early detection of lung cancer. It also researches targeted therapies to treat lung cancer and other diseases of the lung at the cellular level.
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Top tech CEOs were being grilled in Washington by lawmakers, who said the companies have failed to protect children from being subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation on their websites.
The executives include Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, X's Linda Yaccarino and TikTok's Shou Zi Chew, among others.
The social media apps have "given predators powerful new tools to exploit children," said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., at the kickoff of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. He noted that the powerful apps "have changed the way we live, work and play."
The hearing is one of several over the past year as pressure builds for federal regulators to do more to hold tech companies accountable for children's safety online. Lawmakers have spoken out, have written letters to the CEOs and are pushing five separate bills that cover social media and child safety.
States have also targeted the social media companies. Last year, 13 states passed laws to protect kids on social media, and more states are expected to do the same.
"You have blood on your hands," Sen. Lindsey Graham tells Zuckerberg
Of the companies testifying on Wednesday, Meta has especially come under fire for allegedly creating a toxic environment for children. In October, a group of more than 40 states sued the company for allegedly designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.
Separately, New Mexico's attorney general filed another suit against Meta, alleging it fails to remove child sexual abuse material from its platforms and also makes it easy for adults to solicit minors.
That lawsuit came after a Facebook whistleblower, Arturo Bejar, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in November. Based on data he collected while working at Facebook, he said he found that 24% of teens had received unwanted sexual advances. And when harmful posts are reported, he said, only 2% are taken down.
During Wednesday's hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., laid into Zuckerberg.
"Mr. Zuckerberg," Graham began, "you have blood on your hands. You have a product that's killing people."
The packed audience, which included parents, survivors and child advocates, erupted in applause.
Zuckerberg has testified several times before members of the Senate, and he voluntarily agreed to speak again on Wednesday. In his opening statement, he said, "Keeping young people safe online has been a challenge since the internet began."
"No matter how much we invest or how effective our tools are, there's always more to learn and more improvements to make," Zuckerberg added.
Internal emails show Zuckerberg declined to hire staff to protect children online
In the lead-up to Wednesday's hearing, Meta rolled out new tools geared toward protecting kids online. Those include barring children under age 18 from seeing posts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders. The company says it has around 40,000 people working on safety and security issues.
But just hours before the hearing began, lawmakers released 90 pages of internal emails that showed Meta has refused to fully commit to improving child safety on its platforms. At one point in 2021, the emails show, Zuckerberg declined a proposal to hire 45 new staff members dedicated to children's well-being.
The emails show top executives at Meta discussing budget and head count, as well as the fact that if they didn't address the issue they'd face increased regulatory risk and external criticism.
"This work & narrative has of course become a more critical focal point for policymakers, regulators et al in recent weeks — this is not likely to diminish going forward," Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs wrote in a 2021 email to Zuckerberg.
The internal emails were produced in response to a letter that Senators Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sent to Meta in November.
Five federal bills introduced
Of the other executives to testify, TikTok's Chew has also appeared before Congresslast year, but this is the first time lawmakers have grilled X's Yaccarino and the two other CEOs: Snap's Evan Spiegel and Discord's Jason Citron. Chew volunteered to speak on Wednesday, but Yaccarino, Spiegel and Citron agreed only after being subpoenaed.
Snap has come out as the sole social media company to throw its support behind the Kids Online Safety Act, which is one of the bills that lawmakers are hoping to bring to the Senate floor this year. If passed, it would hold tech companies accountable for feeding teens toxic content.
"Many of the largest and most successful internet companies today were born here in the United States of America, and we must lead not only in technical innovation but also in smart regulation," Snap's Spiegel said in his opening remarks on Wednesday.
Throughout the hearing, several of the senators tried to get the tech CEOs to agree to back legislation. All of the executives said more had to be done and they agree with regulation, but besides Spiegel, none said they'd fully back one of the bills.
At one point Senator Chris Coons, D-Del., tried to get the CEOs to support legislation he and several other senators introduced, the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act.
"Is there any one of you willing to say now that you support this bill?" Coons asked the CEOs.
After the question didn't elicit a response, he followed up with: "Mr. Chairman, let the record reflect a yawning silence from the leaders of the social media platforms."
Child safety groups and parents joined lawmakers for several press conferences on Wednesday. They echoed the senators' demands that more has to be done to protect kids online.
"Parents used to worry about where their kids were at 10 p.m.," said Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate. "These days, they may be physically present, but we don't know who they're spending time with online and what they're being exposed to every day."
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JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi could allow Medicaid coverage earlier in pregnancy in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation's worst rate of infant mortality.
With wide bipartisan support, the state House passed a bill Wednesday to allow up to 60 days of ''presumptive eligibility'' for Medicaid, starting July 1. This means a pregnant woman's outpatient medical care would be paid by Medicaid as her application for coverage by the government insurance program is being considered.
Processing Medicaid applications can take weeks, and physicians say early prenatal care is important.
House Medicaid Committee Chairwoman Missy McGee of Hattiesburg pointed out that Mississippi has high rates of fetal mortality, infant mortality and maternal mortality.
''I think this will go a long way in helping moms and babies be healthy ... and give babies the best shot for a healthy life," McGee said.
Mississippi ranks worst in the U.S. for infant mortality, with Black infants nearly twice as likely as white ones to die over the past decade, according to a report unveiled Jan. 18 by the state Department of Health.
Presumptive Medicaid eligibility during pregnancy would be based on questions about income, asked by health care providers such as employees of county health departments. If a woman's Medicaid application is ultimately rejected because her income is too high, Medicaid would still pay health care providers for services they provided during the time of presumptive eligibility.
McGee said presumptive eligibility could cost the Medicaid program just under $600,000 a year.
Medicaid is funded by federal and state governments, with the federal government paying at least 50% of costs in all states and a higher share in poorer states. The federal government pays for nearly 77% of Medicaid expenses in Mississippi.
In Mississippi, Medicaid coverage for pregnant women 19 and older is based on income. A woman who is in that age category and has no dependents can earn up to about $29,000 and qualify for Medicaid during pregnancy. A pregnant woman in that age category who has three dependents can earn up to $59,700 and qualify.
Mississippi Medicaid coverage is available to all income levels for those who are pregnant and younger than 19.
Democratic Rep. John Hines Sr. of Greenville said earlier eligibility for Medicaid coverage during pregnancy could help the state in recruiting OB-GYNs.
''Where we are right now is that we are last in everything," Hines said. "This is a step toward making Mississippi a better place.''
The bill passed the House 117-5. It moves to the Senate for more work in coming weeks. Republicans control both chambers.
About 41% of births in the U.S. and 57% in Mississippi were financed by Medicaid in 2022, according to the health policy research group KFF. Only Louisiana had a larger share of births covered by Medicaid that year, at 61%.
In 2023, Mississippi extended postpartum Medicaid coverage from two months to a full year, with Republican Gov. Tate Reeves saying the change was part of a ''new pro-life agenda'' to help mothers in a state where abortion is tightly restricted.
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - A man wanted in connection with a double stabbing in Cambridge earlier this month has been taken into custody on two counts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, police said.
Joshua Barreau, 23, of Lowell, has been arrested in connection with the Jan. 4 stabbing outside of The Halal Guys restaurant on White Street that left both victims with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Cambridge police.
Barreau was arrested after his image was seen on nearby surveillance cameras.
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Newswise — The Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 stigmatized local employers by creating the impression that strongly anti-diversity attitudes put on display by white supremacists were widespread in the community. Employers sought to counteract this “stigma by association” by dramatically increasing the extent to which they included pro-diversity language in their job advertisements. This is according to research by Assistant Professor of Management and Organization Reuben Hurst at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Hurst explains, “One of the most fascinating phenomena of the contemporary business world is that companies speak up on divisive social issues far more so than they have in the past. This is especially puzzling in light of evidence that firms generally have fared better by staying silent on these issues. Idiosyncrasies of Unite the Rally meant that I could cleanly test the theory that this positioning often arises as a defensive response to counteract perceived association with controversial political actors.”
Through interviews with hiring managers in the Charlottesville area, Hurst first learned that following the rally, local organizations had begun to hear concerns from prospective employees that the anti-diversity views of the rally's demonstrators existed broadly in the community. This motivated employers to make pro-diversity claims in their job postings to counteract the presumption. Post rally, “firms normally neutral, or not even pro-diversity were more likely to ‘speak up’ as ‘pro-diversity’ in their recruiting and hiring processes,” he explains.
Motivated by this qualitative evidence, he then found evidence of this pattern with a dataset of over 60 million job ads where he compared job ads in Charlottesville to ads in other parts of the country.
“What's more,” he adds, “the rally seems to have caused a wage premium, pressuring employers to offer higher wages to offset potential employees' misgivings regarding Charlottesville. But this premium was lower when employers made pro-diversity claims. In other words, those efforts to counteract that anti-diversity stigma by association seem, to some extent, to have worked.”
The paper, recently published by Administrative Science Quarterly, has received multiple best paper awards, including from the Academy of Management and Strategic Management Society. The study reflects Hurst’s broader interests in how employers adjust recruiting strategies in response to growing demographic diversity and political polarization and how these strategies contribute to labor market segregation by gender, race, and political partisanship.
The findings surrounding ‘Unite the Right,’ he says, add insight to employers’ strategic sociopolitical positioning whereby they make calculated appeals to stakeholders. “This contrasts with related research showing that firms use social claims to combat negative evaluations resulting from their own actions or to differentiate from competitors,” he adds.
“For example, we’ve all heard about the diversity training Starbucks implemented after some of their employees mistreated racial minority customers. A big part of that was to signal to people that, despite the actions of these employees, they would not tolerate racism in their stores. What’s different about this case is that Charlottesville’s employers hadn’t done anything to indicate sympathy with white supremacy. It was simply their proximity to these rioters that suddenly made it important for them to speak up and explicitly affirm their commitment to diversity.”
Hurst says his study also “suggests opportunities for further research investigating, for example, additional motivations for firms’ socio-political positioning, how positioning might evolve in the context of growing political polarization, and how positioning might relate to workplace inequality and diversity.”
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Former DDB boss Weiss’s new agency promises clients a Quality Experience
Another new wave of creative agencies seems to be outperforming their holding company rivals (Gut and Uncommon Creative Studio, both recently acquired, being perhaps the main examples.)
Now former DDB global CCO Ari Weiss is having a go, forming Quality Experience in the US with a seasoned line-up from Droga5 and McCann.
Weiss is creative chairman (following in the footsteps on one D.Droga.) Joining him are CCO Cristina Reina from McCann, CSO Colleen Leddy and CEO Dan Gonda from D5 (all below.)
Weiss says: “Usually you do this kind of thing with one or two people. To do it with such killer pros at every level, I’ve never seen it done like this. It feels like we’re playing with the most high-performance machine there is.”
CSO Leddy promises a different type of agency: “The old playbook isn’t working. Linear stories have less value than ever before. This will be the first year that television viewership is the minority in terms of channels. There are 400 million stories uploaded to Instagram daily. We want to live in that space—in the way people are consuming across touch points and across culture.”
New agencies always promise a different way of doing things but, as a general once said, even the best plans rarely survive contact with the enemy – in agencies’ case clients. If they’re lucky it’s a good old linear Super Bowl ad.
But QX, as it wants to be known, looks like a grown-up offer and another reason for some clients, at least, to abandon the creative agency establishment.
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Death penalty recommended in fatal shooting of a state trooper
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:27 pmEDINBURG (AP) — A Texas jury early Wednesday recommended a south Texas man be sentenced to death for fatally shooting a state trooper in 2019. The Hidalgo County jury that convicted Victor Godinez last week of capital murder and deliberated for nearly 12 hours before returning the death penalty recommendation shortly after midnight. Godinez, 29, was to be formally sentenced Wednesday afternoon. Godinez was convicted after a 16-day trial in the April 2019 shooting of Trooper Moises Sanchez.
Sanchez died of his injuries four months after being shot in the head and shoulder in Edinburg while investigating a vehicle collision in which Godinez had fled the scene. The Texas Department of Public Safety has said Sanchez approached a vehicle crash where the driver fled on foot. The trooper then located Godinez near the scene and was shot.
Defense attorney O. Rene Flores argued that Sanchez had died due to complications of surgery to his skull and not because of the gunshot wound to the head.
Prosecutors countered that the shooting led to the need for the surgery.
“This is as much justice as we are going to get,” prosecutor Joseph Orendain said. “I think this community has spoken and said that they’re not going to tolerate this kind of behavior in our county. And they are going to give the most serious punishment that they can dole out.”
The jury also convicted Godinez of attempted murder of two law enforcement officers during a manhunt for him and sentenced him to life in prison on those counts. Texas death penalty verdicts are automatically appealed to an appeals court.
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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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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Two bills that are set to be reviewed by Virginia House and Senate committees could allow energy companies to move forward with projects without gaining approval from the local municipality.
According to Virginia’s Legislative Information System, SB 567 and HB 636 “Establishes a procedure under which an electric utility or independent power provider (applicant) is able to obtain approval for a certificate from the State Corporation Commission for the siting of an energy facility rather than from the governing body of a locality.”
This has some residents of Sandbridge alarmed because it could affect a project proposed by a company called Avangrid.
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“I think all Virginians should be concerned that the state legislature would want to override what is typically reserved for a municipality or a local community, and that’s the right to determine the best way to use land,” said Joe Bourne. “I mean, that’s why we write comprehensive plans.”
Bourne is a volunteer spokesperson for Protect Sandbridge Beach Coalition.
“The Protect Sandbridge Beach Coalition started as a response to Avangrid’s Kitty Hawk offshore wind proposal and their desire to make landfall for their cables in Sandbridge and then run a cable routing through Virginia Beach,” Bourne explained.
He says the coalition is not against wind energy, and he wanted to make it clear that this project is separate from Dominion Energy’s wind farm off Virginia Beach.
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As far as Avangrid, Bourne says “Their intent was to land what they call their export cables or the cables that come from the offshore wind farm into land, right here in Sandridge, right in the public parking behind the market.”
News 3 reached out to Avangrid but has not yet received a response.
In the Fall of 2023, Virginia Beach City Council announced it would not support Avangrid’s project at that time, though there was never a formal vote.
A spokesperson for the City of Virginia Beach responded to News 3’s inquiry, writing, “Council authorized City Legislative Affairs staff to oppose both companion bill.”
“We have taken a position that the City would be in opposition of these bills,” Councilwoman Barbara Henley stated.
The bills are expected to be heard by the Senate Labor and Commerce Committee on Monday.
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In April, Braselton resident Greg Horne, his family and friends will travel to New Orleans to compete in a barbecue contest for a good cause: children’s brain-cancer research.
BBQ for a good cause: Braselton pitmaster to compete in New Orleans contest
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Barca were looking to get Saturday’s shock 5-3 defeat against Villarreal out of their system, but their start here was far from ideal as Ferran Torres was forced off injured in the opening 10 minutes. The first chance of the game did fall the hosts' way, but Robert Lewandowski could only head Ilkay Gundogan’s inviting free-kick wide, before the 35-year-old was unable to latch onto Joao Cancelo’s teasing cross.
Osasuna were doing a good job of containing their illustrious opponents, with Unai Garcia putting in a vital challenge to thwart Fermin Lopez after he was found by Pedri. The substitute then couldn’t apply the finishing touch to Lamine Yamal’s superb ball, and Jules Kounde nodded over Gundogan’s corner, while at the other end, Lucas Torro’s header was flicked on by the visitors’ talisman Ante Budimir, but off target.
Despite Barca bossing possession, they didn’t seriously test Osasuna goalkeeper Aitor Fernandez in the first half, although straight after the break, Yamal should have done better than to fire straight at the 32-year-old following a nice touch by Lopez.
Gundogan was the next player to spurn a glorious opportunity, failing to connect to another sumptuous Yamal cross, before Xavi controversially decided to take off Lopez for 18-year-old Vitor Roque. The decision paid off just a minute later though, as the Brazilian headed in at the near post from Cancelo’s exquisite outside-of-the-foot cross.
Osasuna’s problems were quickly compounded when Garcia was sent off for a second bookable offence after dragging down Vitor Roque. Yamal then looked set to double the Blaugrana’s advantage, but after a dazzling run, his shot was too close to Fernandez.
Jagoba Arrasate subsequently made a triple change to try and inspire a comeback, and one of those introduced, Raul Garcia, agonisingly dragged his effort wide before Jon Moncayola stung the palms of Inaki Pena from distance.
Los Rojillos couldn’t find an equaliser though and remain 12th after seeing their three-game unbeaten streak in the league come to an end. Barcelona, meanwhile, strengthened their grip on a top-four spot as they look to keep their title defence alive.
Flashscore Man of the Match: Joao Cancelo (Barcelona)
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A look from Maui six months after devastating wildfires By Debbie Elliott Published January 31, 2024 at 4:39 PM CST 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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Power outages seem to be happening more often, whether from wildfires, hurricanes, heat waves, or ice storms. No one wants to be left in the dark. So, it’s no surprise that portable generators are popular items. And as Consumer Reports reminds us, the best generator is one that works when you need it.
A generator can help power the essentials in your home, but only if it starts. It can go months or even years without being used. But keep in mind that the fuel inside can go bad over time. That can clog the engine’s carburetor or fuel lines, so the generator may not start when you need it.
Consumer Reports’ Paul Hope has some easy tips:
Keep the generator’s fuel tank empty to prevent clogged fuel lines. You’ll want to have at least 10 gallons of fresh gasoline on hand in a safety container, and always add a fuel stabilizer to your stored gas to help it last as long as possible.
Store your generator in a clean, dry, and ventilated spot that you can access easily but is not attached to your house. Storing a generator in your home or too close to it is dangerous because vapors can escape from gasoline and gasoline is flammable, so it could start a fire.
And if you deal with power outages often, consider a transfer switch. An electrician will install it alongside your main circuit breaker, making it a safe and easy way to use your portable generator.
A transfer switch lets you power whole circuits on your home’s panel without running individual extension cords to each appliance. It also lets you power things that may not have a plug, such as a furnace or water heater.
Hope had something similar called an interlock device installed in his own house and says it makes facing a power outage a little less stressful.
Never run a generator in an enclosed space or indoors. And always place it at least 20 feet from your house with the engine exhaust directed away from windows and doors.
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BELMONT, MASS. (WHDH) - The Belmont Police Department is unveiling the newest member of their force: Bingo the comfort dog.
The department shared an image of Bingo on their X page and noted he has several weeks of training before he’s ready to “hit the streets.”
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Newswise — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories scientists Patrick Feng and Thushara Gunda recently were honored with national achievement awards by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. The awards recognize recipients’ leadership and accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Feng, a materials scientist, received a Professional Achievement Award, 10-plus years, for his leadership in developing radiation-detection materials. Feng has guided several innovative technologies from early-stage research and development to commercial availability. His prolific advancements in radiation-detection materials and devices have resulted in 10 U.S. patents.
Specifically, Feng’s work on neutron and gamma-ray detection has extended the reliability and lifespan of radiation detectors used in nuclear nonproliferation applications addressing performance and environmental aging issues through a chemistry approach. He also has served as a project lead and contributor for end-to-end design, qualification, production and deployment of multiple sensor-architecture systems.
Currently, Feng leads a team of 15 technical staff members and has mentored nine undergraduates, two graduate students and two postdoctoral researchers. In addition to his work at Sandia, he shares his passion for science by volunteering with the Quest Science Center in Livermore, California, and participating in local science outreach activities with children.
“When you’re lucky enough to enjoy your work and those you work with, good things happen,” Feng said. “Developing solutions to complex engineering challenges takes an interdisciplinary team that values everyone’s unique perspective equally. To be recognized by SASE for our great teamwork in solving national security challenges is truly fulfilling.”
Gunda, a systems research analyst, earned a Promising Professional Achievement Award, 2-10 years, for her advances in water security, energy resilience and anticipatory science.
Combining social science insights with physical sciences and engineering activities, Gunda advances tools and techniques to discover patterns and new knowledge made possible by her innovative approach integrating disciplines and data. Her unique approaches have generated collaborations with government agencies, national laboratories, industry partners and universities.
Gunda also led the establishment of a Sandia community of practice focused on analytics for climate and earth sciences and co-leads a multi-laboratory effort focused on water-energy information exchanges. She serves as the New Mexico Water Data Initiative’s technical working group lead, is an external advisory board member for the Hantush-Deju National Center for Hydrological Innovation at New Mexico Tech and is an American Geophysical Union committee member for diversity and inclusivity initiatives. She generously shares her knowledge through peer-reviewed papers, technical reports, conferences, workshops and seminar presentations.
Outside of her robust work efforts, Gunda mentors early career STEM hopefuls, volunteers at the New Mexico Future City Competition — a national STEM competition for middle school students — and is a leader in the Asian employee resource group, working to help build a more inclusive culture at Sandia.
“Having the flexibility and support to explore integrating ideas across disciplines with data help advance solutions at the nexus of social, environmental and engineering puzzles,” Gunda said. “This award helps underscore the many creative minds working together on these projects. Being at Sandia truly helped us all connect with each other around a common purpose.”
“In addition to honoring two of Sandia’s enterprising and hardworking researchers, these SASE awards highlight the power of belonging in developing smart solutions to complex engineering matters,” said Larry P. Thomas, Sandia’s chief diversity officer. “Bringing together diverse ideas and unique experiences delivers real results at the highest levels.”
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Let’s have period sex. Kotex seduces with Valentine’s Day chocolates
Kimberly-Clark’s U by Kotex is on a mission to normalise periods, which seems to have become the raison d’être of most menstrual product brands since AMV and Bodyform opened the floodgates with “Blood Normal” in 2017. It’s laudable of course, and at the same time it’s a good excuse to employ some shock tactics that will get attention.
For Valentine’s Day, U by Kotex has launched a heart-shaped box of chocolates that contains a dose of aphrodisiac to help get things going. Available in the US to over-18s only, they cost $35 and were developed by a New York agency called Quality Meats.
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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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Man arrested for murder after admitting ‘he had hurt his mother’
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:27 pmJEFFERSON – The Jefferson Police Department said that a man was arrested for murder after his mother was found dead according to our colleagues at KETK. At approximately 3 a.m. on Tuesday, the Jefferson PD said they responded to the 400 block of Bonham Street after a 911 call asking for officers after the caller claimed that “he had hurt his mother.” Authorities said that upon arrival they discovered Carla Rogers, 67, dead, and her son Dillon Rogers, 32, on the scene. Jefferson PD said that Dillon was arrested and booked into Marion County Jail on the charge of murder. The Jefferson PD and Texas DPS Ranger Division are currently investigating.
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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 2:21 PM PST Facebook Flipboard 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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A checkered mesh of mysteries have accompanied the release of Matthew Vaughn's ''Agylle.'' There is the promoted one: Who is the ''real'' Agent Argylle? Then there's all the (baseless) conjecture over whether argyle aficionado Taylor Swift had anything to do with the film. But most of all: Why two L's? While we can finally put to rest the first two puzzles, we're left to posit that the spelling must be to differentiate the movie for those who just want to buy a pair of socks.
The socks would be a wiser investment. ''Argylle,'' a $200 million production from Apple Films opening in theaters Thursday, is a big bet to kickstart a new spy series, presumably with iterations to follow such as ''Plaidd'' and ''Herringbonne.''
Criss-crossing patterns of ridiculousness and self-satisfaction run through ''Argylle,'' a tiresome meta movie that puts an awful lot of zest into an awfully empty high-concept story.
There are all kinds of dumb movies. It can even be a good quality. ''Step Brothers,'' for instance, is a brilliantly dumb movie. ''Argylle'' knows it's preposterous and it's trying to have fun with that. But it's a strained, unimaginative effort, over-reliant on twists and needle drops, that leaves ''Argylle'' on the bad side of dumb. The best that you can say about ''Argylle'' is that it comes by its dumbness genuinely.
Bryce Dallas Howard stars as Elly Conway, a bestselling spy novelist who lives quietly with her (CGI enhanced) cat, Alfie, while conjuring globe-trotting adventures for her agent Argylle. The movie's clunky prologue plunges us into his world, as Argylle (Henry Cavill) dances with and then pursues a slinky target (Dua Lipa, whose few minutes in the film may be its best).
While Elly mulls a new ending for her fifth book, she's thrown into a real-world espionage thriller. While on the train, an actual, more scruffy-looking spy, Adrian (Sam Rockwell), approaches her just as mean-looking guys are closing in. Throughout the encounter, Elly blinks and sees Argylle in the place of Adrian, a bit of fiction-vs-reality that will play throughout ''Argylle'' in mostly uninteresting ways.
It's a premise familiar from better movies like ''Romancing the Stone'' or ''The Lost City.'' But while those films filled their adventures with comedy, ''Argylle'' is surprisingly unfunny, a lacking Jason Fuchs' script tries to make up for with one switcheroo after another. Eventually, the whole movie feels like a joke, even if contains few of them.
The actors nearly keep the movie's absurd plate-spinning going. Among them are Bryan Cranston as the head of a shadowy organization called the Division, and Catherine O'Hara as Elly's mother. But roles are fluid in ''Argylle.'' It's a testament to Howard's charm that ''Argylle'' is watchable, at all, and Rockwell, too, elevates the material.
Vaughn's knack for combining a smirky sense of humor with flashy, slo-mo ultra-violence has previously won him fans in the ''Kingsman'' film series. He delights in running spy tropes through an irreverent wringer. (If ''Kingsman'' was a 007 riff, ''Argylle'' cribs from ''Bourne.'') His movies, while often colorful and spirited, are slyly nasty with a slightly obnoxious juvenile underpinning of ''can you believe I'm really doing this in a studio movie?''
With enough plot twists to make a daytime soap blush, ''Argylle'' shows just how little that can add up to. You might think: spy movie, fun actors, pleasing diagonal lines — how bad can it be? As much as we all could use a fun movie for fun's sake, you, too, may have your concerns about the limits of such pointlessness around the time when Bryce Dallas Howard glides across an oil spill on skates of knives. Plus, no movie genuinely interested in a good time would dare not give Catherine O'Hara room to be funny. All she needs is an inch.
In the end, the mysteries that surrounded ''Argylle'' ahead of its release were far more intriguing than those that play out during its lengthy runtime. Those questions go more like: Are they really repeatedly using the Apple Music tie-in Beatles song ''Now and Then''? And: This film can't be 139-minutes long, can it?
If there's one person who seems to have the right idea in ''Argylle,'' it's, as usual, Samuel L. Jackson. He has some vague role that requires him to await an important transmission from Adrian. But this effectively means he spends much of the movie far from the action, drinking red wine and watching the Lakers game. Smart guy.
''Argylle,'' a Universal Studios/Apple Studios release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for strong violence and action and some strong language. Running time: 139 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
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Inter Miami are defending champions in the tournament, which brings together all 47 top-flight teams from MLS and Mexico's Liga MX.
Messi led Miami to victory over Nashville in last year's tournament final, the club's first trophy since signing the Argentine World Cup winner.
The dates and venues of the games will be announced at a later date but the tournament kicks off on July 26th and the final will be held on August 25th.
The tournament will again be held only in the United States and Canada with Mexican clubs on the road throughout.
However, four of the Liga MX teams, including Tigres, will play their home games at a hub in the United States to reduce travel.
The teams are split into 15 groups of three with MLS champions Columbus Crew and Liga MX winners Club America receiving byes into the next round.
The top two teams from each group progress to the knockout round of 32.
The draw has also attempted to limit travel by keeping teams from the East and West coasts together.
Among other eye-catching matchups, 2022 MLS champions Los Angeles FC will face Club Tijuana and Canada's Vancouver Whitecaps in West 7.
Mexican international Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez, is set for a reunion with his former club, Los Angeles Galaxy, when they face Chivas in West 2, which also features the San Jose Earthquakes.
CONCACAF Champions League winners Club Leon will take on the Portland Timbers and the Colorado Rapids while in the East, Pachuca are up against New York Red Bulls and Toronto FC.
Full draw for group stage of Leagues Cup:
West
West 1: CF Monterrey, Pumas UNAM, Austin
West 2: Chivas de Guadalajara, San Jose Earthquakes, LA Galaxy
West 3: St. Louis City, FC Dallas, FC Juarez
West 4: Toluca FC, Sporting Kansas City, Chicago Fire
West 5: Club Leon, Portland Timbers, Colorado Rapids West 6: Seattle Sounders, Minnesota United, Club Necaxa
West 7: LAFC, Vancouver Whitecaps, Club Tijuana
West 8: Houston Dynamo, Real Salt Lake, Atlas
East
East 1: FC Cincinnati, New York City, Queretaro FC
East 2: Orlando City, Atlético de San Luis, CF Montreal
East 3: Tigres UANL, Puebla, Inter Miami
East 4: Philadelphia Union, Charlotte FC, Cruz Azul East 5: New England Revolution, Nashville, Mazatlan
East 6: Pachuca, New York Red Bulls, Toronto FC
East 7: Atlanta United, Santos Laguna, D.C. United
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A rookie Gainesville firefighter was driving to church Sunday, Jan. 28, with his daughter and nephew when he witnessed a head-on collision.
Gainesville firefighter heading to church pulls driver from truck before it catches fire
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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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Bitcoiva (BCA) traded down 2% against the US dollar during the one day period ending at 17:00 PM ET on January 31st. Bitcoiva has a market capitalization of $151.68 million and $85,107.32 worth of Bitcoiva was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. In the last week, Bitcoiva has traded 0.5% lower against the US dollar. One Bitcoiva coin can now be purchased for approximately $9.45 or 0.00022198 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:
- Bitcoin (BTC) traded down 1.7% against the dollar and now trades at $42,605.70 or 1.00000000 BTC.
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FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT
Paul Riggs lives a quiet life in eastern Atascosa County. Minus the sound of cattle, there’s not much noise. Which is why the cloud-free night of July 19, 2023 was so startling.
“We were totally asleep. I mean, me and my wife and the dog, and all of a sudden, we heard a big boom,” Riggs said. “I thought somebody hit our metal gate. I grabbed the flashlight, grabbed my gun, and went out to investigate.”
Just down the road, Paul’s father, Weldon, had a similar reaction.
“I went out and looked around, and thought maybe our butane tank had exploded. I thought some plane crashed or something like that,” he said.
There was enough concern that Weldon Riggs called the sheriff’s office.
”They said, ‘No, y’all had an earthquake’ and this was about 11:30 p.m.,” Riggs recalled. “And I said, ‘No, earthquakes don’t explode like that.’ I mean, it was a big boom, just a great big explosion.”
Turns out, it was a shallow, relatively weak earthquake, measuring 3.8 in magnitude, but the epicenter was nearby the Riggs’ homes. Neighbors along Black Hill Road reported similar experiences.
It may have been jarring, but it was not the first time. Riggs recalled another tremor around 2011.
“I was feeding cows. I didn’t feel it because I was on the tractor. But when I came back in the house, my wife and daughter said something about it,” Riggs said.
INCREASING IN FREQUENCY
The Riggs live just southwest of Floresville. Last year’s earthquake was one of hundreds reported within the last decade within a 50-mile radius of their home. Most of them are weak and many are not even felt. Almost all of them, however, happened atop the Eagle Ford Shale, a busy oil and gas region south of San Antonio.
Several drilling sites could be seen from Black Hill Road.
”Starting about 10 years ago, we have seen a pretty dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes that have been happening in Texas,” said Dr. Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
”They absolutely are becoming more common,” added Dr. Matt Cannon, assistant professor of instruction, earth, and planetary sciences at UTSA. “If you go back 30 years, we had, on average, one earthquake per decade. And now, as anyone living south of San Antonio knows, we have hundreds.”
By now, you’ve probably heard that there is a connection to oil and gas. This is, in fact, undeniably true. But how exactly? And does the future bring concerns for damaging earthquakes in the future, as the Eagle Ford play stays active? To understand these questions, we must first understand fracking.
HYDRAULIC FRACTURING
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has revolutionized the oil and gas industry. It’s allowed oil and gas reserves to be tapped that weren’t accessible before. The process is done by drilling a well and inserting sand, water, and proprietary chemicals to break up rock formations.
”You’re going to inject fluids, sand, and a cocktail of chemicals, which every company has their own proprietary going-to chemicals, at very high pressures,” Cannon said. “High enough pressures that it will crack the rock.”
In some cases, millions of gallons of water are injected into the well at a rapid pace. Sand is then forced into the fractures to keep them open and the oil or gas is extracted.
”When you’re finishing that process, you have to pump all that fluid back out,” Cannon said. “That ends up being a pretty nasty slurry of stuff.”
The preferred method to get rid of that slurry is to inject it deep back into the ground, which, of course, raises concerns.
”It is very tightly regulated. And if everything is done by the book, there should be no danger to the aquifers,” Cannon said.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT FRACKING THAT CAUSES EARTHQUAKES?
The process of fracking and the injection of the fluids are connected, but separate processes and when it comes to earthquakes, had led to a division among geologists. Which step was causing the earthquakes?
“If you had asked me these questions five years ago, I would have said that it was almost entirely the injection of wastewater from fracking that was causing earthquakes,” Cannon said.
But, new research has changed his opinion. That research is revealing that it’s the fracking process, itself, that is the biggest catalyst. The other issue to keep in mind is that fracking is not organically causing the shaking, nor is solely responsible. There are pre-existing faults, which are behind all the earthquakes in the world, all across Texas. It’s just that those faults would never be active in our lifetime if not for the pressures that fracking creates.
HOW STRONG?
”I mean, the vast majority of these are not felt,” Cannon said. “You know, and even the ones that are felt, they are typically in the magnitude three range.”
A Magnitude 3 earthquake might shake your dishes. It’s not often until Magnitude 4 and higher that you begin to see minor damage. But, as fracking continues, is there a concern that the intensities of the earthquakes will increase for those who live over the Eagle Ford play?
”No, I don’t think they have any immediate need to be worried. Certainly not for loss of life or major damage to infrastructure,” Cannon said.
And according to Cannon, out of the thousands of wells, only around 10% of those drilled ever cause an earthquake.
RESIDENTS DON’T SEE EARTHQUAKES AS A PROBLEM
While earthquakes are becoming more frequent, there’s a philosophical question to be asked: If there’s little damage and the oil and gas is benefitting, are those who live on the Eagle Ford comfortable with taking the good with the bad? Other than a nuisance, is the seismic activity a problem? Those we talked to said “no”.
”I don’t mind it,” said Paul Riggs. “You just know not to put certain things up on shelves and stuff. I had one small little picture frame fall down off the shelf and that’s it.”
”It’s good for the economy,” added Weldon Riggs. “Not just Texas, not just Pleasanton, Atascosa, Wilson, and Karnes County, but for the state.”
You need only look at the Eagle Ford cities to see the money it has injected into the economy. Many cities have benefitted over the last decade.
The Riggs have not directly benefitted from oil companies drilling on their property, but some of their neighbors have.
”Maybe it’ll come this way. sure, sure, that that’d be alright,” joked Weldon Riggs.
”You know, we do live in an interconnected world where if we’re not producing our own oil, we are relying on regimes in other parts of the world, some of which don’t particularly like us,” Cannon said. “Having our own local sources of oil, even with things like induced seismicity that come along with them, is geopolitically advantageous.”
COULD SAN ANTONIO EVER SEE AN EARTHQUAKE?
San Antonio has, for the most part, avoided earthquakes, even with the mighty Balcones Fault Zone running right through the city. Geologists will tell you that it’s a fault that hasn’t moved in millions of years and shows no signs of doing so in the future.
”These are really old faults that maybe we wouldn’t, without the oil and gas production, we wouldn’t have considered active,” Cochran said. “The evidence is that they were last active was millions of years ago, but these are faults that are sitting there. There wasn’t stress accumulating on them until we started changing where the fluids are distributed under the ground.”
In this case though, the Balcones Fault also created the Edwards Aquifer, which comes with stringent regulation and protection by proxy.
”Because the Balconies Fault system is so intimately tied to our local aquifer, there’s no way that any regulator is ever going to allow any of this stuff anywhere near the bulk of this fault system,” Cannon said.
In other words, San Antonio won’t be shaking anytime soon, at least not in a big way. Still, those who work downtown might remember November 16, 2022, when a 5.3-magnitude earthquake occurred hundreds of miles away in West Texas. In San Antonio that day we received numerous reports from those working in high-rise buildings downtown, saying they were swaying. Those on the ground didn’t feel a thing.
”If you imagine my finger being the building as I move the base, a minor move in the base results in a much larger amplitude of motion of the top,” Cannon said.
It’s possible that shockwaves from earthquakes over the fracking zones in Texas, often far away, could cause some minor shaking in high-rise buildings in the future.
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Newswise — On this inaugural episode of the Down to Business podcast, host Sharon F. Matusik, Edward J. Frey Dean of the Ross School of Business, is joined by Robert Isom, MBA ’91, to discuss his path to Michigan Ross, his career as a Ross MBA, his journey to becoming CEO and president of American Airlines, and his advice for current and prospective Ross students who are interested in leadership careers.
To open the discussion, Isom explores his path to pursue an MBA at Michigan Ross. After a successful start to his career at Proctor & Gamble, he became interested in pursuing a career in management. Inspired by the increasing presence of MBA graduates in senior P&G positions, Isom sought a way to take the next step in his career. He emphasized the importance of attending a top-rated school that wouldn't incur excessive debt. Ross emerged as the right fit, offering an affordable education and invaluable connections, curriculum, and action-based learning experiences.
Robert credits the connections made and experiences gathered at Michigan as instrumental to his current success as a CEO. Notably, he appreciated how his multidisciplinary coursework tied to his previous functional expertise, providing a holistic understanding of business operations and their part in benefiting communities and serving customers. This comprehensive insight was instrumental in shaping his career as a top enterprise leader.
“Whether it was the corporate finance classes that we took or organizational behavior and management or anything else, it was a real kind of science put to the functional work that I've been doing for a number of years,” said Isom. “And it just seemed like every class was just another piece of the puzzle being put together so that you could really have an understanding of large companies that have a lot of people doing various functions. It enabled you to see how things had to be put together in a fashion that would allow an enterprise to make money and fulfill its purpose to the communities that it resides in and the people that it serves. More than anything, I look back and think that Michigan was a key to helping put the whole puzzle together.”
After Ross, Isom leveraged the Michigan Ross network to pursue his first career move post-graduation. The connections he made, such as fellow MBA ‘91 grad Derek Kerr, led to his first interview and a subsequent job at Northwest Airlines. During a challenging phase of business restructuring, he found the opportunity to learn and gather experiences quickly. As a newcomer, he was thrust into critical financial situations and complex organizational matters, stirring his interest in aviation. This experience at Northwest Airlines paved the way for positions at America West Airlines and U.S. Airways, ultimately leading him to his current role at American Airlines.
In the second half of the conversation, Dean Matusik and Isom focus on what sets Michigan Ross students and alums apart from other professions. He shares that Michigan Ross students and alums have a unique work ethic and practicality. Isom attributed the success of Ross alums to the melding of global perspectives and solid Midwest work ethics instilled during their time at the institution. He recalled the university's emphasis on being dependable and determined to accomplish tasks effectively.
I have a great passion for U-M. I grew up outside of Detroit, and it's a group of people that, let's face it, are going to get things done. They want to build things. They're dependable. And when I look at the success of U-M grads, especially from Ross, it goes back to, look, you go to Ross, and you're going to go and get a great MBA education, you're going to have great faculty, but you're going to come out of there, I think, with a little bit of Midwest work ethic, and that means a lot in the world
To close the conversation, Isom explores what current and prospective Michigan Ross students can do to forge a path to organizational leadership. When asked for advice for future CEOs studying at Ross, he emphasized that leadership is not passive but requires activeness and engagement. Isom encouraged students to sit at the front of the room, show energy, and display consistent interest. He affirmed that fostering such an environment promotes learning and camaraderie and that the energy and enthusiasm of personal interaction are essential for long-term career success.
“Leadership, whether you aspire to these roles or not, people are going to reward you with opportunities because they can depend on you,” said Isom. “I wish I could tell you it was because you're the smartest person in the world or you've figured out kind of the next new thing to market, but it's not. At the end of the day, it really is people having confidence in you, wanting to work with you, and being able to depend on you. And the more that we can kind of instill that into those that are getting an education now, I think the better off industry will be, the better off our country and the world will be.”
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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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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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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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Mother joins battle for fandom with new agency Run Deep
Mother is launching another new agency into what’s already a pretty extended family with Run Deep, aimed at taking brands “into the heart of fan culture.”
The agency is led by Jodie Fullagar and Rich Barker (below), previously of M&C Saatchi Sport and Entertainment, itself now majoring on “fancom.”
Founders Fullagar and Barker say: “We’ve built Run Deep for a new era of fan culture; shaped by the scale and diversity of the new ‘fan multiverse,’ the fan-led ecosystem that drives it, and the opportunities there are for brands to be part of it.
“This requires a new agency model, combining fan-centric creative development, with representative storytelling that speaks to the true values of the communities and a commitment to social progress. In this new era, performative playbooks won’t cut it. Brands must run deep to embed and shape culture.
“In Mother, we have found a partner who shares our mission to make culturally authentic work, delivered with creative excellence.”
The core of the agency offer is STAN. a fan insights and campaign development platform. This will sit alongside an established network of cultural contributors and social progress experts.
Mother global CEO Michael Wall says: “By welcoming Run Deep into the Mother Family, we’re unlocking new creative avenues. Jodie and Rich have a stellar reputation for delivering impactful campaigns that put brands into the heart of sport and entertainment. Run Deep is a new type of agency for a new era, and alongside their team, they’re set to bring brand voices into genuine fan cultures.”
With its appointment-to-view element, sport has become a critical part of entertainment culture and business. Just look at all the Netflix sports docuseries like Drive to Survive (F1), Break Point (tennis) and Beckham. Darts is next on the list, and the recent mega-deal to show live WWE wrestling is a major play in the streamer’s bid to bring in the advertising dollars.
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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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The outlook was bleak for the Clarets even prior to kick-off, having conceded 32 consecutive goals without mustering a reply against City.
Erling Haaland’s long-awaited return from injury therefore came at an ominous time, but Pep Guardiola stuck with Alvarez up top on his 24th birthday, and the Argentine was just as devastating.
Matheus Nunes made City’s opener, directing a pinpoint cross for Alvarez to head home from the edge of the six-yard box, before a quick-thinking set-piece routine caught the visitors off guard.
Kevin De Bruyne was the architect, playing his free-kick along the ground as a through-ball for Alvarez, who bagged his second of the night with a clinical finish past James Trafford.
It wasn’t a half devoid of all opportunity for Burnley, as Lyle Foster finally gave the travelling fans something to think about minutes before the interval by cutting in from the left and curling an effort past the far post, but Vincent Kompany trudged back to the dressing room knowing his side were fighting an uphill battle.
The gradient got steeper just 27 seconds after the restart, when Phil Foden rolled a tempting ball across the edge of the box for Rodri to slot home and rubber-stamp the result.
The Clarets kept plugging away as City engaged cruise control, but it took until stoppage time to notch their first goal in nine games against the Sky Blues, with David Datro Fofana’s fine run and low cross turned in by Ameen Al-Dakhil.
Burnley are now five games without a win and seven points from safety, as Kompany gears up for a tough triple-header against Fulham, Liverpool and Arsenal.
City, meanwhile, will fancy their chances of keeping the pressure on their title rivals by banking maximum spoils from upcoming games against bottom-half duo Brentford and Everton.
Flashscore Man of the Match: Julian Alvarez (Manchester City)
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‘Full-fledged famine’ threat in Gaza continues to rise as aid declines, humanitarian groups warn
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:03 pm(LONDON) -- More than three months after Israel began its siege in response to the surprise attack by the terrorist group Hamas on Oct. 7, the United Nations has been issuing major warnings of a catastrophic food crisis in Gaza, where they say more than half a million people are already starving.
Even before the war, roughly two-thirds of Gazans were reliant on food aid, according to the World Food Program.
But now the need is far higher with nearly 2 million people displaced and with Israel only allowing in roughly half the number of trucks compared to enter prior to the war, while intense fighting has made it dangerous to deliver food, according to the U.N.
The scale of the crisis is now such that roughly 577,000 Gazans, or 26% of the population, are starving, according to Arif Husain, the chief economist for WFP.
"If things continue as they are, or if things worsen, we are looking at a full-fledged famine within the next six months," he told ABC News.
Almost all Gazans are now reliant on food aid for sustenance, according to the U.N.
Maryam al-Dahdough, a mother of four who is pregnant with another child, was one of the thousand people who line up daily at a soup kitchen in Rafah in southern Gaza.
She told ABC News that she has not eaten eggs, milk, or anything healthy for three months and it's been worse for her other children.
"Fever, vomiting, diarrhea all day, not a single one of them is healthy," she said.
Husain said that he has never seen a food crisis grow this dire so quickly in his 20 years of experience, saying in terms of scale, severity and speed it was “unprecedented.”
Israeli officials, who control the routes into Gaza, say they send 200 trucks of food and aid a day into the country. Before the war, 500 trucks were being sent to Gaza, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA.
Israeli officials denied accusations they are not letting enough food into Gaza and blamed Hamas for stealing aid. They also blamed the U.N. and other aid agencies for creating logistical bottlenecks.
The U.N. has disputed the Israeli officials' claims, saying on average far less than two hundred trucks are entering most days. UN officials have said excessive Israeli inspections, as well as arbitrary rejections of some aid, frequently hold up deliveries.
"We are getting the average of trucks near 80, 80 trucks per day," UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abo Hasna told ABC News.
UNRWA officials also say Israel provides too few authorizations to make deliveries into some areas and that heavy fighting often makes it too dangerous for aid workers to operate. Israel disputes the criticisms.
UNRWA has come under fire over the last week after Israeli officials accused a dozen of its workers of taking part in the Oct. 7 Hamas assault. Israeli officials claim one of those members participated in the kidnappings.
The U.N. condemned the alleged attacks and nine of those workers were fired. Two of the accused are reportedly dead and one has not immediately been identified, the U.N. said.
Not long after the allegations were announced on Friday, several nations and other organizations, including the U.S. State Department, announced that it would pause funding to the UNRWA as the investigation continues.
On Monday, a coalition of 20 non-governmental organizations, including Save the Children, sent out a letter condemning the funding pause, stressing that innocent Gazans will be left to suffer without aid from the organization.
"We are shocked by the reckless decision to cut a lifeline for an entire population by some of the very countries that had called for aid in Gaza to be stepped up and for humanitarians to be protected while doing their job," the statement read.
UNRWA, which is the primary aid provider in Gaza and shelters around 1.4 million people, has warned that the funding suspension could impact its operations within weeks.
The worst of the situation is in northern Gaza, according to the U.N. which said Israel is granting few permissions for aid groups.
Some northern Gazan residents say deliveries are hard to reach, and those that manage to, often re-sell food for high prices.
Videos have shown stampedes breaking out, and hundreds of people crushed together scrabbling for food. A video captured in December showed shots were fired near an aid distribution point, though ABC News has not confirmed who fired the shots and IDF has said they had no known operations in the area at the time.
"I had seen people looking into the garbage of other people for food. And I felt so sad for them. But I never imagined that I would do something similar," a northern Gazan woman who asked not to be identified over fears for her safety told ABC News.
There are also severe shortages of clean water, according to humanitarian groups.
The U.N. said 1.9 million Palestinians, roughly 85% of the country's population, have been displaced to camps and other settlements where fresh water is hard to come by and humanitarian aid groups have warned of disease epidemics in those locations.
Ahmad Ismael, who has been living in a tent in a camp with thousands of other displaced people in Rafah with his four children, told ABC News that they have to use a small bucket for a toilet.
"You wake up to think about the situation of the tent. Is there water flowing or not," he said.
"We receive canned food from the agency’s warehouse every two or three days. It doesn’t meet our needs, and comes incomplete, but we buy other things, and we make our food here over the fire," Ismael added.
As Israel continues to advance in southern Gaza, more Palestinians continue to flee combat areas and there is more pressure on aid agencies to deliver needed supplies.
"We hope to God that the war will stop, we have had enough," Ismael said. "Let us go back to our lives."
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A Gainesville man pleaded guilty Tuesday, Jan. 30, to a litany of crimes dating back to 2020, including two armed robberies and multiple stolen vehicles.
Gainesville man sentenced in crime spree that included 2 armed robberies
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The first major overhaul of St. Paul's bike plan since 2015 recommends 119 miles of new bikeways throughout the capital city.
The proposal calls for more separated bikeways, like the raised one planned for Summit Avenue that sparked months of fierce debate last year.
Without a dedicated funding source, additions to the existing 218-mile network would likely take place over decades. The plan would serve as the new blueprint for city planners when opportunities to build new bikeways arise.
St. Paul's Planning Commission is accepting feedback on the proposed bike plan, with a public hearing scheduled for Friday morning. Here's what you need about the plan.
What is a bike plan?
If passed by the City Council, the 97-page bike plan will be an addendum to St. Paul's 2040 Comprehensive Plan, the city's roadmap for development for the next two decades.
"It might not affect you right now," said Jimmy Shoemaker, a planner for St. Paul's Public Works Department who is leading the bike plan update. "But 10 years from now, when there's a project on your street, where we start is the bike plan."
Bikeways are often built or improved when streets are reconstructed to minimize costs and disturbances, Shoemaker said, though standalone projects also happen.
He emphasized that the bike plan is a starting point. Once a project gets funding, it goes through the city's regular design and community engagement processes.
What's new in this proposal?
The city's original bike plan, adopted in 2015, prioritized additions to the St. Paul Grand Round, the downtown Capital City Bikeway and the Highland Bridge development. Since then, St. Paul has added 65 miles of bikeways.
The new plan aims to substantially expand the city's network of separated bikeways — those with physical barriers between cars and bikers. Shoemaker said national best practices have changed to favor separated bikeways over painted on-street bike lanes. This allows for narrower streets, which reduces driving speeds, he said.
"City staff routinely hear from members of the community that people want to ride, but they feel unsafe and uncomfortable riding in on-street bike lanes," Shoemaker said. "We want to make biking a comfortable option for all ages and abilities. We want to attract new bikers."
The plan identifies priority areas, including the segments of the Grand Round and the Capital City Bikeway that have not been completed and streets that are going to be reconstructed with money raised by St. Paul's new 1% sales tax.
What is the city trying to achieve?
Boosting bike ridership is key to the city's longer-term goals. Thirty percent of St. Paul emissions came from the transportation sector, according to the city's 2019 Climate Action and Resilience Plan. St. Paul's 2040 Plan set a goal to reduce vehicle miles traveled by 40% to combat climate change.
The plan also says forecasted population growth will lead to higher density in the city, which in turn will increase traffic and reduce parking. "We're trying to give people more options," said Shoemaker, adding that a full build-out of the proposed network would give people a bikeway within a quarter mile of every destination in the city.
What are people saying about it?
Many bike advocates, such as Matt Privratsky, have praised city staff for proposing ambitious upgrades. Even though the plan will take years to realize, Privratsky noted that the plan instructs the city to consider smaller-scale improvements to bikeways in the meantime.
"It's just a really big step to put this forward — because then you have what you need to go fight for the funding and fight for the political buy-in," Privratsky said.
"Every single municipal, county, regional, state plan in Minnesota has incredibly ambitious goals for reducing the amount of dependence we have on single-occupancy vehicles," he added. "This is one of the very few times where a plan is meeting that level of ambition."
Neighbors who opposed the Summit Avenue regional trail approved by the council last year are rallying to raise concerns about the bike plan. Many of those concerns echo the arguments they previously made.
Opponents of the trail said the elevated trail will reduce green space and lead to the loss of mature trees. They expressed concerns about a loss of parking. Some have warned that poorly designed separated bikeways can be more dangerous than on-street lanes.
Critics have also questioned whether there's enough interest in biking to justify the costs of building out bike infrastructure, particularly given the cold and snowy Minnesota winter months. While it may be cost effective to add a bike lane during a street reconstruction, it's not cost neutral — the 5-mile Summit Avenue trail will add an estimated $12 million to the $100 million street project.
What are the next steps?
The Planning Commission will host a public hearing Friday at 8:30 a.m. in room 40 (in the basement) of City Hall. Members of the public also have until Monday afternoon to submit comments by mail or by emailing bikes@stpaul.gov.
The city may revise the plan based on feedback before submitting a final version for consideration by the Planning Commission's Transportation Committee and the full Planning Commission. If passed by those entities, the bike plan will be taken up by the City Council.
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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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SAN ANTONIO – KSAT’s discovery of hundreds of emails and text messages between the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office and an Austin-based criminal justice reform group has revealed just how much of an influence the group had on the DA.
Earlier this week, KSAT obtained more than 200 pages of conversations between the firm’s founder, District Attorney Joe Gonzales and First Assistant District Attorney Christian Henrickson — many of which involve specific cases and policies. KSAT obtained the records through an open records request.
The Wren Collective’s website states it is a strategic advising firm made up of former public defenders that aims to “reimagine the way our country approaches criminal justice.”
Since then, texts and emails between Wren and the DA’s office ranged from discussions about policy, including bail reform, to topics the office discussed in county meetings with other county officials.
Keep reading for some of the specific conversations in the records.
Conversations being days after Gonzales assumed office
Gonzales began talking to the group since he took office in January 2019, records show.
On Jan. 21, 2019, the founder of the Wren Collective, Jessica Brand, reached out by text to Henricksen:
Brand: “How are things going. Also, is there anyone our team can talk to on data”
Henricksen: “It’s crazy, (former Bexar DA) Nico (LaHood) left a mess. There’s a lot to do but it’s pretty cool to be doing it.
Brand: “Oh man. Let us know if there’s anything we can do. Same thing happened in St. Louis.”
Bail Reform
A month later, on Feb. 5, 2019, Brand reached out to Henricksen to talk about a bail meeting:
Brand: “I hear the judges meeting on bail went poorly. Not you guys the judges themselves.”
Henricksen: “It was frustrating. We had the county brass, the Chief public defender, us & THE SHERIFF all there backing them up if they wanted the lead of the Harris county court judges. They sent out a letter before the meeting even started & said no. Basically, they are resistant to change. I also think that they don’t fully understand the law on this issue. They basically claimed that our current set up addresses all of the issues brought up in the various lawsuits while still acknowledging that they use cash bonds to detain people Regardless, I never expected them to be helpful. I have always been operating under the assumption that, short of legislative action, we would need to be the ones taking the lead.
Brand: “I think we could very easily mobilize massive community action to support you. Actually not think I’m certain.”
Henricksen: “Yes. We had a meeting with TOP today. Joe just got back into town. I expect to have a detailed discussion about your proposal with him I’ve been reading up on the lawsuits & think they give us good cover.”
Around the same time, Brand alerted Henricksen that she is sending over plea guidelines:
Brand: “I have plea guidelines for you btw. Doing one final rounds of edits.”
Henricksen: “Looking forward to the plea guidelines.”
Toward the end of 2019, bail is talked about again.
Brand: “What do you think about the bail stuff from yesterday.”
Henricksen: “What bail stuff from yesterday Commissioners’ Court & magistration?”
Brand: “Yes”
Henricksen: “I think It should help some. The inside politics is that it may get the district court judges to back down from some of the positions that they have taken on jurisdiction that have gummed up the works & increased jail pop. I’m hoping that these new magistrates are going to be open to a sit down with us so that we can talk to them about our bond policy & the rulings that have come out of the bail litigation. I’m fairly certain that most of them are not up to it.
Brand: “Let us know if you need support”
‘You could settle that death penalty case right now’
As the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020 discussion still continue between Henricksen and Brand.
March 19, 2020
Brand: “You could settle that death penalty case right now and no one would bat an eye.”
Henricksen: “I know. I’m trying.”
Brand: “How can I help.”
March 23, 2020
Brand: “Are the judges being any better. Or would it be helpful if some real justice pac volunteers started calling.”
Henricksen: “Sent out jail report from my work email.”
July 2020
Brand: “Joe has always been very cautious and my personal belief is that’s a mistake. I think he underestimates enthusiasm for change and overestimated the continued power of the police.”
Henricksen: “He is cautious. Also, we brought in a bunch of defense attorneys as administrators. There is some good there but I’m learning there are some other issues they come with that. Our defense attorney administrators have pushed against open communication with the public. They seem to be afraid of information. Regardless, I think I finally won that argument.”
Brand: “Nothing like a bunch of backlash against lack of transparency.”
Sept 2020
Gonzales: “I’d love to do a zoom meeting with you later in the week we’ve got some hot irons on the fire the first part of this week.”
Brand: “Let’s do it”
Gonzales: “You may have heard about one of them involving a black jogger that was arrested.”
Brand: “I have not I will google now.”
SAPD releases crime stats
In the beginning of 2022, SAPD released crime stats from the previous year. Those stats and an article KSAT 12 wrote about them were a topic of conversation.
Jan. 18, 2022
Henricksen: “This is our police chief today. Nothing urgent but wouldn’t mind your input at some point. Here’s the full article -- KSAT LINK “SAPD reports 23% jump in homicides, smaller increase in overall crime in 2021.”
Brand: “We should also do an oped from a community advocate about this bogus response. And we can do some talking points for Joe.”
Jan 24, 2022
Brand: “Oped submitted”
Gonzales: “Can you email me a copy of the op-ed… BTW, chief of police continuing to bash me in public with the comment “people who commit crimes believe there are no consequences in this city” He did it again Saturday night.
Brand: “What a charmer”
Later talks continued about stats on June 9, 2022, between Henricksen and Brand.
Brand: “Am I reading right that your rearrest rate is lower than national. I don’t really get the point of this -- it’s not an attack on bail because the comparision period is four years. So what is it?”
Henricksen: “It’s this.. Cops arrest people and we have to keep arresting them bc the DA’s & judges drop the ball. The cops keep saying that so they decided to pull this data. But the way they did it is completely (f***ed) up & doesn’t actually mean anything. They pulled the data backward. They should have pulled arrest data from 2017 & then looked to see how many got rearrested. Instead they looked at who was arrested in 2021 & which of those had been arrested in the previous 5 years. This is the police chief trying to say, ‘not my fault.’ The whole thing is ridiculous. One of the interesting things to me was the top offenses for prior arrests. Almost exclusively low level stuff. Diversion eligible stuff. Just got data yesterday that our rearrest rate after a successful PTD completion is 9%. That is from the start of our program in 2019.”
Brand: “Oh we should pitch that to a reporter. Can you share that data. We should give it to the ED board. Have a press conference!!”
Migrant Flight Investigation
In 2022, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar announced an investigation into migrant flights out of San Antonio, organized by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Gonzales met with Salazar and then texted details of that meeting to Brand.
Gonzales: “I wish he would have called me, we could have done a joint press conference.”
Brand: “Yeah me too are you guys engaged on this. We can prep some talking points and a stmt”
Gonzales: “He’s texting me now standby.”
Gonzales: “Says there is another plane scheduled to go out tomorrow, wants to know if we can stop it with a TRO or similar actions.
Brand: “Someone should file on fed court why not.”
Gonzales: “Let me get some details. Just spoke to the sheriff, he says there’s not enough information to believe that immigrants are actually being recruited for this plane trip. All they have is an itinerary for a similar flight from Florida to Texas and then to the East Coast.
Erik Cantu
Later, in October 2022, teenager Erik Cantu was shot by a now-fired SAPD officer in a McDonald’s parking lot. Henricksen and Brand began having conversations about the case on Oct. 7, 2022.
Brand: “Was thinking more about that case. My guess is there will be a lot of misinformation out there - if I were Joe I’d probably have a press conference, maybe with the sheriff, explain you are dropping charges (and why they were ever filed), and then that obv the video is extremely disturbing, you can’t say more because pending case, but are obv investigating and you know this incident has harmed public trust. If you want we can do talking point that don’t lead to commenting on the case - we’ve done it for others.
Henricksen: “I’m trying to get Joe in the phone now. I’m going to advise we dismiss immediately. I agree with a press conference. I’ll see what he says. Would not hurt to have talking points ready if he decided to a press conference.
Brand: “On it”
Henricksen: “I’m rejecting the kids cases now. Joe wants to do press this afternoon.”
Brand: “Julia is working on talking points.”
Henricksen: “He went totally off script but hopefully it was ok.”
Brand: “Oh man. Anything you are worried about.”
Henricksen: “It was just too much talking. Parts were good. There was a lot of trying not to commit to anything that could comm off as wishy-washy.”
Brand: “Joe’s signature move!”
Dec 1, 2022
Henricksen “We got an indictment on the officer from the Erik Cantu case. Thanks for the help from you & your team.”
Brand: “We saw! How was the press conference.”
Henricksen: “It went well. Joe pretty much stuck to the talking points.”
Brand: “Hooray”
Officers shot in Summer 2023
In summer 2023, five SAPD officers were shot, and a another shot himself during pursuits of suspects with violent criminal histories and pending warrants.
Gonzales, Henricksen and Brand discussed what was going on involving these shootings and the possibility of a removal of office petition being filed. The conversations end as Gonzales asks Brand to move their conversation to his personal email.
Aug. 31, 2023
Brand: “Has Joe gone to the county to ask for a budget if there is a removal petition.”
Henricksen: “Indirectly”
Brand: “Has he put out a response to the police union.”
Henricksen: “About to”
Sept 8, 2023
Henricksen: “It’s getting interesting down here.”
Brand: “?”
Henricksen: “Abbott blamed Joe for everything yesterday. Tony Gonzales just had a press conference declaring war on Joe.”
Brand: “Oh fuck can you send to me.”
Henricksen: “The Governor is sending 50 dps troopers to Bexar to fill up the jail.”
Brand: “Has your sheriff said anything. Would he consider saying something with Joe.”
Henricksen: “We just met with him. He might. We haven’t asked him that but the plan is a united front.”
Sept 13, 2023
Henricksen sends photo from Express News article.
Brand: “I like the photo at least makes Joe look kind.”
Henricksen: “Yeah. Glad he did that. Doubt chief would have shook his hand if Joe didn’t force it on him.”
Sept 20, 2023
Brand: “Hey guys can you PLEASE respond to arnold and porter”
Brand: “I just went out on a limb to get these guys and you are basically getting the smartest guys in dc”
Gonzales: “I just sent out an email and the problem is that this was sent to my work email and I do not always check my work emails as often as I do my personal. Can you please see that any future communications with this group or sent to ------ please? I would also suggest any communications coming from you, Jess, go to that email because my secretarial staff can see my emails and I would prefer this go to CH and I only.”
Brand: “absolutely”
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G. Allan Penrod, 85, a longtime Bluffton resident, passed away Monday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2024, at Heritage Pointe of Warren.
Allan was born July 22, 1938, in Wells County to George W. and Florence L. (Bennett) Penrod.
On October 26, 1956, in Keystone, Allan and Marilyn Jane (Barner) were married. Shortly after they married, the newlyweds lived in Ayer, Mass. and then Bad Aibling, Germany, as Allen served our country in the United States Army, working in Army Security Agency. After returning to Wells County, he worked as a traffic supervisor at Dana Corp. in Marion for 38 years and retired in 1998.
Allan was a member of the Bluffton Masonic Lodge 145, Fort Wayne Scottish Rite, and the American Legion Post 111 of Bluffton, and Bluffton Lions Club. The local Lions Club was instrumental in helping Allan receive his service dog, Saddie, who quickly became part of the family. Allan enjoyed making stained glass, including windows which can be found hanging in churches and homes over Wells County.
Survivors include his wife of 67 years, Jane Penrod along with Saddie, both of Warren; three grandchildren, Sarah (Dustin) Conner of Warren, Trudy (Richard) Wolfe of Hartford City and Carrie Penrod of Montpelier; he was a loving “Grampy” to three great-grandchildren; Rozlynn Wolfe, Camden and Whitley Conner; and a daughter-in-law, Becky Penrod of Fort Wayne.
Allan is preceded in death by two sons, John M. Penrod and Mark A. Penrod; a sister, Rebecca Prentiss; a brother, Paul E. Penrod; and his parents.
A Masonic Memorial Service will take place at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, at the Thoma/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton. Funeral services will directly follow at the funeral home with Pastor Gerald Moreland officiating. Inurnment will follow at the Northridge Community Mausoleum at Fairview Cemetery in Bluffton, with full military honors by the United State Army Honor Guard and American Legion Post 111 Honor Guard.
Visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, prior to the service.
Memorials may be made to the Boys & Girls Club of Warren and can be directed to the funeral home.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Lemler family of Thoma/Rich, Lemler Funeral Home in Bluffton. Friends can send online condolences with the family at www.thomarich.com.
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Newswise — The big underlying theme of my questions has been that partisan tribes are living in different worlds with respect to, well, everything. Facts, interpretations, perceived interests, implications for policy — it's like we are characters in a weird novel: The City & the City.
November: Identity trumps economic interests
My top-line takeaway is that these data suggest that identity really does trump economic interests when it comes to how voters think about politics, and this is really significant. For generations, we have believed that property ownership and one's source of income created economic interests, and that these interests drove peoples' political perceptions and attitudes.
In The Federalist No. 10, James Madison stated: “From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of society into different interests and parties.
So, parties are supposed to figure out their voters' (economic) interests and propose policies that serve these interests. This also assumes that people accurately understand their own interests and that they process information (what is happening in the world, perhaps the effects of policies) accurately. There are theories of "pocketbook voting" (I vote directly in my personal economic interests) and "sociotropic voting" (I vote based on how the economy is doing for people like me).
This was adapted by Republicans in the 1990s and 2000s, especially President George W. Bush, to their "investor class" theory: stockholders end up being more economically literate and more attuned to the economic implications of policies, which was the basis of Bush's "ownership society" proposals (see Stock Ownership, Political Beliefs, and Party Identification from the "Ownership Society" to the Financial Meltdown).
But these data show something I have suspected: our brains have been scrambled, and identity is now more important than economic interests in driving perceptions and stated preferences.
Some evidence: observe that Biden and Trump voters are essentially identical in terms of employment status and income distribution:
So: economically very similar. Now look at explanations of inflation. Stockholders and non-stockholders (best indexed by "Retirement savings -- yes or no") have very similar explanations. But 71% of Biden voters blame large corporations ("greedflation"), whereas only 37% of Trump voters do:
Similarly, for policy preferences — owners vs. non-owners have similar views on, e.g., raising taxes on the rich, but Biden vs. Trump voters are very different:
December: Why the economic pessimism?
American voters express far more pessimism about the economy than we might expect from the data. This has become particularly pronounced since 2020. The University of Michigan’s Index of Consumer Sentiment – the gold standard for measuring how Americans feel about the economy – normally closely tracks economic fundamentals (inflation, unemployment, stock market returns, consumption).
But since 2020, that model has broken down, and the American public – particularly the Republican part – seems much more negative about the economy than is warranted by objective facts.
Perhaps the problem is that voters are not seeing the same data. We normally imagine that we all can agree on basic facts – things that can be easily verified in under a minute on your smartphone. But what if there is disagreement not just on interpretations of facts, but what the facts are?
To examine this idea, the FT-Michigan Ross poll asked voters a few factual questions about the economy. The results showed that Trump voters are especially prone to being wrong about how bad things are. The unemployment rate was 6.3% in January 2021 and is currently at 3.9% (a historic low). Yet 31% of Trump voters believe unemployment has increased, and 32% believe it has stayed about the same (compared to 12% and 24% of Biden voters). 77% of Trump voters believe inflation is worsening recently, compared to 39% of Biden voters.
Yet inflation has dropped substantially over the past 18 months. And the S&P 500 has increased 19.6% since Biden took office. Yet 46% of Trump voters believed the stock market has actually declined, compared to 19% of Biden voters.
When partisanship affects not just interpretations of the facts but beliefs about the facts themselves, polarization will not be easy to overcome.
January: What can both sides agree upon?
Republicans claim to experience inflation in a substantially worse way than Democrats, and Independents are in the middle (Q29). So Republicans are like European soccer players, where a slight touch is experienced as a devastating blow requiring medical attention. Not sure what to do with this other than to note that it is consistent with their prior inaccuracies about inflation, unemployment, and the stock market.
And, it is fascinating that the two main areas of near-uniform agreement are the belief that tech companies have too much power and influence and that universities should not limit the opinions expressed by students and faculty:
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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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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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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.
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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.
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VCCP debuts “Will you be next?” campaign for National Lottery
It’s a year since new operator Allwyn appointed VCCP to handle the gaming side of the National Lottery business, while Leo Burnett won the branding and scratch cards.
VCCP is first out the block and while the agency may not have won the overall branding, it is claiming to have “developed a new brand world for Lotto.” (Lotto is the original UK draw that takes place every Saturday and Wednesday.)
There are three ads, each set in an everyday location: a chippy, a cinema and a newsagent. The idea “Will you be next?” is all about persuading more people to enter because they could win big, and is not a million miles from Saatchi & Saatchi’s original 1994 “It could be you” campaign.
Lucy Buckley, chief commercial officer at Allwyn, said: “Lotto is the heart and soul of The National Lottery, so of course this had to be the first campaign we went live with. The National Lottery really does change lives every day – and this campaign is the first step in our journey of communicating this far and wide.”
Darren Bailes, global CCO at VCCP Group, said: “Over the years, Lotto has lost a bit of that sense of fun and anticipation. We wanted to bring back those emotions, so built our campaign idea around them We wanted to remind everyone that normal people, in normal places, become millionaires every week?”
Allwyn’s stated aim is to offer more games, attract more players, inject more entertainment, create more winners and raise more money for National Lottery funded projects. If enough people see this campaign enough times, the maths should add up.
MAA creative scale: 5.5
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Clean Power Hydrogen Plc (LON:CPH2 – Get Free Report)’s share price traded up 5.3% on Monday . The company traded as high as GBX 10 ($0.13) and last traded at GBX 10 ($0.13). 132,363 shares traded hands during trading, a decline of 58% from the average session volume of 318,018 shares. The stock had previously closed at GBX 9.50 ($0.12).
Clean Power Hydrogen Trading Down 5.3 %
The stock’s fifty day moving average price is GBX 11.82 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 16.95. The company has a quick ratio of 6.54, a current ratio of 6.68 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.36. The company has a market capitalization of £24.08 million and a PE ratio of -882.50.
Clean Power Hydrogen Company Profile
Clean Power Hydrogen plc, a green hydrogen technology and manufacturing company, engages in the development of hydrogen and oxygen production solutions. The company provides membrane-free electrolyser technology, which produces green hydrogen and oxygen in medical grade purity. It serves power, industry and manufacturing, transportation and machinery, commercial and retail, and hydroculture markets.
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Lingard joined on loan from Manchester United in January 2021 and helped take West Ham into the Europa League with nine goals in 16 matches.
Phillips may be a different player, but Moyes is still expecting midfielder Phillips to make an impact following his arrival from Premier League champions Manchester City.
"His pedigree over the years has made me feel he's a player I'd like to have at the club," Moyes said Wednesday.
"For some time he's been a mainstay of the England national team. He's someone who has been a really good player. The move to City hasn't worked as well as he would have liked.
"This time a couple of years ago we got Jesse Lingard, he really helped us. I'm hoping Kalvin can have a similar impact as what Jesse had."
Phillips will be hoping the move helps secure his place in the England squad for this year's European Championship.
"Everybody has something to prove," added Moyes. "Jesse had something to prove and Kalvin has as well. There is a big competition at the end of the season where he'll be hoping to be in good form.
"We're talking about a boy with really good character. I heard Pep Guardiola's comments about him and I would agree with those, having had him here for a week now.
"We want to see his footballing ability now. I think he's got a chance now to get himself back on track. We've brought in another England international to our squad and that's a big plus."
Phillips could make his West Ham debut against Bournemouth on Thursday.
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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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Man who had affair with Jennifer Crumbley testifies about her son’s school shooting
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:23 pm(PONTIAC, Mich.) -- Brian Meloche, a longtime friend of Jennifer Crumbley and with whom she was having an affair with at the time of the 2021 Oxford School shooting, took the stand to testify in her manslaughter trial on Wednesday.
In texts sent after the shooting, Jennifer Crumbley told Meloche that the shooting "could have been prevented," according to evidence. In other texts, she told him the school was "nonchalant" about concerns surrounding Ethan Crumbley and said that the school should have taken the concerns seriously and not allowed him to return to class.
Jennifer Crumbley and James Crumbley are each facing four counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the school shooting, which was carried out by their then-15-year-old son Ethan Crumbley. James Crumbley is being tried in a separate trial in March.
Ethan Crumbley has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing four students and injuring seven others in November 2021.
After Jennifer Crumbley's attorney, Shannon Smith, questioned Meloche -- suggesting that police intimidated and threatened him into providing his testimony -- prosecutors sought to allow the judge to include evidence that the two had an affair. In a previous ruling, Judge Cheryl Matthews excluded all evidence regarding their extramarital affair.
The jury was excused from the room and Matthews spoke directly to Jennifer Crumbley, who said she supported her attorney's decision to admit information about the affair into evidence.
Meloche, a fire department captain, initially appeared to testify that police interviewing him threatened his job and benefits, including his pension, if he helped Jennifer Crumbley by refusing to share information. However, he later clarified that he was pressured by police to share information about the Crumbleys but was always told to tell the truth. Meloche admitted on the stand that he did not want his affair to be revealed and had sought to protect his family and wife by withholding information.
Meloche testified Wednesday that Jennifer Crumbley had told him she was able to leave work to meet up with him even though she allegedly told school officials on the day of the shooting that she could not take her son home or for mental health care that day because she needed to return to work.
Jennifer and James Crumbley decided to send their son back to class despite a meeting the morning of the shooting in which school officials expressed concerns about him.
Andrew Smith, the CEO of the real estate company where Jennifer Crumbley worked at the time of the shooting, testified on Tuesday that she would have been allowed to leave for the day if she needed to take care of her son and could have brought him to work if she needed.
Meloche testified about conversations he had with Jennifer Crumbley in the days leading up to and after the shooting. The two texted regularly leading up to the shooting and in the days after it.
Meloche said he regularly deleted the messages between himself and Jennifer Crumbley. He testified that one of the deleted texts from her -- sent on the day of the shooting -- said that the gun was gone. He responded, telling her to contact police.
Meloche told Crumbley in texts before she was arrested that she needed to "disappear" when she was allowed to do so.
Prior to the shooting, Meloche said he was aware that the Crumbleys had gotten a handgun for their son and said he was "surprised" that they chose to do so. Meloche also testified that he did not believe Jennifer Crumbley should have been charged, but has since learned more information that makes him believe otherwise.
Meloche testified he didn't think a shooting would take place, but he thought that Ethan Crumbley might hurt himself.
Evidence shown in court of the text messages also showed an unsent message from Jennifer Crumbley to Meloche in which she told him that the gun was locked with a string lock.
"I'll never be OK I lost my son. And he's a murderer and I'll forever have to live with the guilt of that. I'm not even sure life is worth living anymore," Crumbley said in another message that was never sent.
Meloche testified that the two normally met in the parking lot of a Costco across the street from her job during the morning hours of work days, when Ethan Crumbley was at school. He testified that he never felt that Jennifer Crumbley did not care about her son.
He stopped communicating with Jennifer Crumbley when he saw on the news that police were trying to apprehend her and her husband, Meloche testified. The last time the two communicated was Dec. 4, 2021, he said.
Lt. Sam Marzban, an Oakland County detective, also testified that Jennifer Crumbley did not want to hand over her phone to police and was concerned about being able to contact people while police were conducting a search.
Marzban testified that he told Crumbley she could get a replacement phone and asked that she share the number with police. Marzban said Jennifer Crumbley seemed "irritated and frustrated" but was not crying while police searched their house, just hours after the shooting.
The prosecution said it expects to call two more witnesses Thursday morning before they rest. The defense is expected to begin presenting its case in the afternoon.
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Two investigators with the Hall County Sheriff’s Office detailed the cases against two men accused of traveling to Hall County to have sex with underage girls through a sting operation.
Investigators detail cases against two men following Gainesville online sex sting
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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.
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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.
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St. Thomas had lost its position of MIAC strength in women's basketball when athletic director Steve Fritz hired Ruth Sinn from Apple Valley High School to take over in 2005.
There were a couple of rebuilding seasons, and then the Tommies tied for the MIAC title in 2007-08 and were back on their usual righteous path.
The Tommies and Sinn had a 10-season run from 2010 to 2021 with a record of 250-31 in Division III. And now, coach, for your next assignment, we present Division I competition and the Summit League, which at the top has been more prominent in women's basketball than any sport.
Sinn's time with the Tommies went back to playing her freshman season of 1980-81 in the "Hot Box,'' the cramped, wonderful third-floor gym in the old O'Shaughnessy athletic building.
There have been two versions of Schoenecker Arena since then, and the plan is to replace the current D3-sized arena with a larger one that will be the site for both hockey and basketball games.
You could call a new 5,000-seat arena a game-changer for the Tommies, yet Sinn's program already has proven to be dramatically more competitive in Season 3 than when this all started in 2021-22.
"We were competing with 18-year-olds against great programs like South Dakota and South Dakota State that had fourth- and fifth-year standouts," Sinn said.
"We have more juniors and seniors now. We have made it to the middle. The goal would be competing at the top of this league.
"There are now two Division I programs in Minnesota. I think Dawn [Plitzuweit] with the Gophers and I are both looking at all the great young players in this state and saying, 'If we can keep most of them home, we're going to be very good.'"
Sinn was able to get both Iowa State and Wisconsin to come to St. Paul for games this season. The results were decisive losses, which wasn't all bad in the coach's view.
"Embrace failures; chase excellence; grow from it,'' Sinn said. "That's the attitude I've seen from our players."
The Tommies were 20-38 overall and 11-25 in the Summit in the first two DI seasons. They are now 12-9 overall, 4-3 in the conference, and play home games — Thursday night, Saturday at noon — against Omaha and Kansas City.
The best win so far was 73-72 over Oral Roberts (6-2 in the Summit) in mid-January, when Jade Hill hit a three with 0.01 left on the clock.
Was there any doubt?
"No, it was off in time,'' Hill said Wednesday. "I'd never hit a buzzer-beater like that in any game I've played."
Which have been plenty, since Jade is the fourth of among the six siblings of Paul and Monique Hill in south Minneapolis — a Minnesota basketball family of renown.
"St. Thomas going Division I made all the difference for me, because I wanted to stay home so my family could watch me play," Hill said. "That support is important to me.''
There has been a complication in Hill's sphere of relationships. She started dating Andrew Rohde, a freshman standout on the Tommies' basketball team, last year.
The lanky, dynamic guard tested the transfer portal and wound up taking a sizable Name, Image and Likeness deal with Virginia. I tried to hedge the Rohde question to Hill, but she figured out immediately, laughed and said:
"We're still dating. The difference is, we were together constantly here last year … and now, I have a lot more free time."
My suggestion was Jade send her boyfriend a video on shooting, because Rohde has been a starter for the Cavaliers despite making a low percentage of shots.
"He's doing OK there," she said. "He had a stress fracture in a foot for a while."
Amber Scalia, sister of Big Ten standout Sara, leads the Tommies at 17.3 points per game. Hill is averaging 14.3. The only holdover from the DIII days, fifth-year senior Jordyn Glynn from Grand Meadow, Minn., is a veteran presence in the starting lineup.
I referred to her as a former Lark, and was corrected: "We're the Super Larks now. We upgraded.''
Just like St. Thomas.
"I had a lot of friends on the DIII team that chose not to continue playing,'' Glynn said. "I decided, 'Why not just try?'"
"I'm still here, starting as the guard … doing the dirty work, facilitating our offensive players like Amber, Jade and Jo [Langbehn].
"That Oral Roberts game was a huge turning point for us. It was a moment you say, 'We belong. We can compete.'"
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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Spurs rookie sensation Victor Wembanyama surprised some kids and parents at the International School of San Antonio on Tuesday.
Wembanyama was in attendance as the school was awarded a plaque for LabelFrancÉducation, the school’s elementary French program.
The plaque represents a French immersion program that the school offers to students. The program consists of qualified teachers who are natives of France.
Wembanyama, who grew up in France, presented the plaque alongside Valerie Bararan, Consul General of France in Houston.
Mayor Ron Nirenberg was on hand and received a signed jersey from Wembanyama.
“As a vibrant, cosmopolitan city, we always aim to showcase San Antonio as a multi-cultural, inclusive, and welcoming place that it is,” Nirenberg said.
The International School of San Antonio is a private, international full-time immersion in French, Spanish, and Chinese for children from pre-school through elementary school.
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From the occupied West Bank, an emergency hotline assists rescue efforts in Gaza By Aya Batrawy Published January 31, 2024 at 3:39 PM MST 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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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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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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What’s next for WPP after underwhelming Capital Markets update?
The Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze hinges of the “curious case of the dog in the night time” or, in this case for us, “the dog that didn’t bark” (it was expected to.)
The dog in question is WPP founder Sir Martin Sorrell who would normally be expected to be noisily applying his hand-made Lobbs to the rear end of his WPP successor Mark Read as Read struggles to return the rambling empire he inherited six years ago to growth. Sorrell would be full of useful tips, maybe even suggesting it was time he returned.
But Sorrell’s own S4 Capital’s share price is in an even worse state than WPP’s, losing over 90% of its value from a dizzying (and frankly unrealistic) £5.2bn a couple of years ago as tech clients, the basis of its business, cut back and it was found out for expanding too fast. WPP, by comparison, has lost 16% in the past year but rewind a few years and you’ll find it was once worth £24bn compared to £8bn or so now. French rival Publicis is worth £20bn (Omnicom £13.5bn.) Looks like adland’s version of the battle of Waterloo has been reversed.
Read’s strategy, outlined at a Capital Markets day yesterday, is to double down on A1 and save staff and back office costs by slimming down WPP to six main brands. These are: AKQA (incorporating Grey), Ogilvy, VML (absorbing Y&R, Wunderman and JWT), Hogarth (production), GroupM (incorporating EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, Mindshare and tech ops Nexus and Choreograph) and Burson (now all the big PR companies apart from Finsbury.) WPP’s 40% stake in data company Kantar is up for sale.
This may be sensible housekeeping (or not) but hardly amounts to a strategy. Profits may be boosted in the short term but where’s the growth?
AI isn’t just WPP’s toy. Publicis claims to be using it already to pull its empire together. If AI does, indeed, revolutionise adland it’s at least as likely to do so in the hands of Microsoft (currently the world’s most valuable company thanks to its presence in AI) or a big consultancy-based operation like Accenture Song (although AS has eschewed media agencies to date.) WPP’s £300m or so investment is small change for this lot.
The focus on fewer brands may, indeed, make WPP easier to navigate for clients but the acid test is: are the brands as good as they need to be? It’s always more or less impossible to tell with ad holding companies but GroupM has been losing big accounts and VML is unproven. Ogilvy looks in the best shape but that might be sold if WPP needs to rationalise further without dismembering the whole shebang. It’s hard to see what else might put a rocket in the share price, given WPP’s conservative forecasts for 2024 as a whole. Apart from a bigger than expected sale of the Kantar stake, maybe, which might give it the firepower for a transformative deal.
What would Sorrell’s advice be, were he inclined to offer it? He’d probably begin by saying he wouldn’t start from here. He bought all those now “retired” companies after all. His strategy for WPP was to be the biggest, banking on the world’s biggest advertisers wanting to be part of it. He also knew that in agencies momentum is all and what an ad holding company can’t afford to do is go backwards (as happened at Saatchi & Saatchi, his first home.)
It’s hard to see what else Read can realistically do apart from pray that his clients, particularly the tech-based ones, start spending again and his new slimmed-down agency line-up delivers. Otherwise a private equity company will surely have a go – probably by taking the company private and then re-listing in the US at some stage. Or a cheeky upstart might try a reverse takeover. Sorrell’s WPP owned a few UK design companies and a shopping trolley business when it bought JWT for a then record-breaking $566m in 1987.
2024 looks likely to be an interesting one for WPP and Read. The barbarians are surely at the gates although, at the moment (like our dog) they’re being strangely quiet about it.
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The shell-shocked Seagulls conceded twice inside three minutes at Kenilworth Road during a defeat that meant they have won just three of their last 16 Premier League games.
Brighton have also not scored a league goal since beating Tottenham 4-2 in December.
"We are eighth in the table," said De Zerbi. "I don't want to make any excuse because we have to play better, we have fight, we must fight. I can explain this day as a blackout. It can happen, a blackout.
"We knew before the game the style of Luton, we knew everything. We didn't play.
"I believe in my players. I said the secret of Brighton is not the coach, not the recruitment, not the former coaches. It's the quality of the people inside the dressing room.
"Today is more difficult to say it like this. But I think they are smart, they have great values. They can analyse this day and we can learn from this game, from this defeat."
Brighton remain in the hunt for the European places and are also into the FA Cup fifth round and the Europa League last 16.
The Luton loss was only Brighton's second defeat in their last 11 matches in all competitions.
"This defeat is very, very, very tough," added De Zerbi.
"Luton played an amazing game, one of the best games this season I think. But I'm sure we played the worst game in my time this season."
Brighton next host Crystal Palace on Saturday, with Roy Hodgson's side going into the game on the back of their 3-2 victory against Sheffield United on Tuesday night.
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