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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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Gladewater ISD closes Thursday, Friday due to flu
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:29 pmGLADEWATER – Gladewater ISD will be closed Thursday and Friday due to “dramatic increases in flu cases for both students and staff.” According to our news partner KETK, officials from the district said the closure would allow deep cleaning of the all campuses and offices.
“The health and safety of students and employees is our top priority,” according to Gladewater ISD. “Thank you for your understanding and partnership with us as we take the necessary steps to protect our school community.”
District officials said that classes will resume Monday.
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Five restaurants appear headed to a recently approved development off Old Winder Highway/Ga. 211 in Braselton, just south of the Hall County line.
This spot near Hall County line could have 5 new restaurants
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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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LOS ANGELES – The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers slowly pushed into California on Wednesday, triggering statewide storm preparations and calls for people to get ready for potential flooding, heavy snow and damaging winds.
Known as a “Pineapple Express” because its long plume of moisture stretched back across the Pacific to near Hawaii, the storm rolled into the far north first and was expected to move down the coast through Thursday. Forecasters expect an even more powerful storm to follow it Sunday.
The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services activated its operations center and positioned personnel and equipment in areas most at risk from the weather.
Brian Ferguson, Cal OES deputy director of crisis communications, characterized the situation as "a significant threat to the safety of Californians” with concerns for impact over 10 to 14 days from the Oregon line to San Diego and from the coast up into the mountains.
“This really is a broad sweep of California that’s going to see threats over the coming week,” Ferguson said.
Much of the first storm’s heaviest rain and mountain snow was expected to arrive late Wednesday and overnight into Thursday.
“The main impact is going to be runoff from heavy rainfall that is probably going to result in flooding of some waterways,” said Robert Hart, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s western region.
Last winter, California was battered by numerous drought-busting atmospheric rivers that unleashed extensive flooding, big waves that hammered shoreline communities and extraordinary snowfall that crushed buildings. More than 20 people died.
The memory was in mind in Capitola, along Monterey Bay, as Joshua Whitby brought in sandbags and considered boarding up the restaurant Zelda's on the Beach, where he is kitchen manager.
“There's absolutely always a little bit of PTSD going on with this just because of how much damage we did take last year," Whitby said.
The second storm in the series has the potential to be much stronger, said Daniel Swain a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Models suggest it could intensify as it approaches the coast of California, a process called bombogenesis in which a spinning low-pressure system rapidly deepens, Swain said in an online briefing Tuesday. The process is popularly called a “cyclone bomb.”
That scenario would create the potential for a major windstorm for the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of Northern California as well as heavy but brief rain, Swain said.
Southern California, meanwhile, would get less wind but potentially two to three times as much rain as the north because of a deep tap of Pacific moisture extending to the tropics, Swain said.
“This is well south of Hawaii, so not just a Pineapple Express,'" he said.
The new storms come halfway through a winter very different than a year ago.
Despite storms like a Jan. 22 deluge that spawned damaging flash floods in San Diego, the overall trend has been drier. The Sierra Nevada snowpack that normally supplies about 30% of California’s water is only about half of its average to date, state officials said Tuesday.
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Nic Coury contributed to this report from Capitola, California.
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The budding love story featuring music superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs' tight end Travis Kelce took an unexpected turn into the world of political conspiracy theories this week after the team advanced to the Super Bowl.
Myriad baseless rumors emerged on social media — everything from claims that Swift has played a part in Pentagon psychological operations to the idea that she and her two-time Super Bowl champion boyfriend are key assets in a secret plot to help President Joe Biden get reelected in 2024. Another variant: That the Chiefs' success was rigged as part of the plan for the game on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.
Political and media figures on the right, including former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, political activist Laura Loomer and One America News Network host Alison Steinberg, have amplified the allegations.
The claims are ludicrous and may well reflect the fear on the right that someone as famous as Swift, whose landmark Eras Tour is the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, could indeed influence the presidential race should she urge her legion of fans in one direction.
Pop culture and politics have long been entwined. The entertainment industry has been a deep well of political contributions. And candidates often try to draft on the celebrity of stars to add to their own allure.
The potency of the impact is less clear. In Swift's case, there is some proof that she can at minimum generate more voter registration.
In September, Swift posted a short message on her Instagram account encouraging her 272 million followers to register to vote. The post led to more than 35,000 registrations on the nonpartisan nonprofit Vote.org.
Swift's massive fan base gives her a powerful voice. An SSRS poll conducted in October 2023 found that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults called themselves at least casual fans of the singer, with 8% saying they're big fans. The poll also found that 8 in 10 U.S. adults said they had heard of her relationship with Kelce and the majority of those familiar with it considered it a real relationship, rather than a publicity stunt.
''Pop culture people identify with this stuff, they pay attention to it. And that's what moves politics now. It's attention and identity,'' Joel Penney, an associate professor at Montclair State University whose research includes the intersection of politics and pop culture, said. Indeed, Donald Trump's improbable march to the presidency in 2016 was propelled in part from the celebrity he gained as a reality television star.
But the false claims about Swift are of such an extreme nature that they will test the limits of how potent a conspiracy theory can be. Penney sees the recent deluge of posts aimed at Swift as an attempt to preemptively blunt her impact by discrediting her.
Penney said Swift's influence could prove a difficult force to contend with, especially if she publicly supports Biden, as she did in the 2020 race.
The attacks on Swift could also galvanize young voters who want to rally around her.
''Young people are fighting their political battles through a language drawn from pop culture,'' said Henry Jenkins, a professor at the University of Southern California who also studies politics and pop culture. ''That's what connects them. That's what they're engaged with.''
Both Swift and Kelce have made public statements about politics and other issues that put them at odds with the far-right.
Swift broke her long-standing refusal to discuss her political views in 2018 when she announced in an Instagram post that she would be voting for Tennessee's Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and Democratic House incumbent Rep. Jim Cooper. She also slammed then-U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican candidate, citing Blackburn's opposition to certain LGBTQ+ rights and her vote against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013. Blackburn won election to the Senate.
In 2020, Swift endorsed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview with V Magazine, noting that ''under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.''
Kelce faced criticism in September for appearing in an ad promoting the double dose of the flu and COVID-19 vaccines, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ad was part of a partnership with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that developed a vaccine in response to the pandemic and has since become a common mark for anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists.
Pop culture figures and the industry that surround them have been enmeshed in political campaigns long before the duo some fans refer to as Swelce. Former President Bill Clinton first appeared on MTV during his 1992 campaign while he was still governor of Arkansas. Major stars including Johnny Cash, Mary Tyler Moore and Willie Nelson endorsed former President Jimmy Carter more than 40 years ago when he made his second run for the White House. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics after a career as an actor.
''That question of, does this stuff work in pop culture? It absolutely can,'' Penney said. ''And it does. And history has shown that.''
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Danaher (NYSE:DHR – Get Free Report) had its price objective boosted by investment analysts at Citigroup from $255.00 to $280.00 in a research note issued on Wednesday, Benzinga reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the conglomerate’s stock. Citigroup’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 16.71% from the company’s previous close.
A number of other analysts have also commented on the company. Wolfe Research initiated coverage on Danaher in a research report on Wednesday, December 13th. They issued a “peer perform” rating for the company. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on Danaher from $250.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, December 20th. Raymond James upped their target price on Danaher from $240.00 to $270.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday. KeyCorp lowered their target price on Danaher from $300.00 to $260.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, October 25th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada increased their price target on Danaher from $254.00 to $282.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Wednesday. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $263.86.
Get Our Latest Stock Report on Danaher
Danaher Trading Down 2.1 %
Danaher (NYSE:DHR – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 30th. The conglomerate reported $2.09 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.91 by $0.18. Danaher had a return on equity of 13.71% and a net margin of 20.01%. The firm had revenue of $6.41 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.10 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $2.87 EPS. The business’s revenue was down 10.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts predict that Danaher will post 7.39 earnings per share for the current year.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Atria Investments Inc grew its stake in shares of Danaher by 14.1% during the 2nd quarter. Atria Investments Inc now owns 36,863 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $8,846,000 after acquiring an additional 4,549 shares during the period. Phraction Management LLC lifted its holdings in Danaher by 141.2% during the 2nd quarter. Phraction Management LLC now owns 29,578 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $7,099,000 after purchasing an additional 17,315 shares in the last quarter. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich lifted its holdings in Danaher by 0.7% during the 2nd quarter. Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd Zurich now owns 1,189,703 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $285,529,000 after purchasing an additional 8,284 shares in the last quarter. Stack Financial Management Inc lifted its holdings in Danaher by 0.8% during the 2nd quarter. Stack Financial Management Inc now owns 77,722 shares of the conglomerate’s stock worth $18,653,000 after purchasing an additional 637 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Carderock Capital Management Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Danaher by 7.9% in the 2nd quarter. Carderock Capital Management Inc. now owns 25,055 shares of the conglomerate’s stock valued at $6,013,000 after acquiring an additional 1,840 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 76.71% of the company’s stock.
Danaher Company Profile
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The Biotechnology segments offers bioprocess technologies, consumables, and services; lab filtration, separation, and purification; lab-scale protein purification and analytical tools; reagents, membranes and services; and healthcare filtration solutions.
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From the outset, it was clear Brentford’s strategy was to exploit the space left behind Tottenham’s high defensive line. The Bees thought they had pulled off their plan to perfection when Mads Roerslev slotted the ball home, only to see his effort ruled out for an offside infringement.
Just minutes later, the visitors stayed on the right side of the last man to take an early lead. Ivan Toney saw his initial effort saved after racing through on goal, but Neal Maupay was well-placed to bundle the rebound over the line.
Tottenham attempted to produce a quick response after conceding the first goal for just the second time in a PL home game this season. Timo Werner forced Mark Flekken into a smart stop just moments before Richarlison sent a fierce strike fizzing past the Dutchman’s goal.
After being unable to find an equaliser in the first period, Ange Postecoglou decided to introduce Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and Brennan Johnson at HT.
The double substitution helped the hosts make an electric start to the second half, as Destiny Udogie and Johnson found the net within a minute of one another.
Udogie guided the ball home at the second time of asking, before Johnson tapped in from Werner’s low cross to turn the contest in Tottenham’s favour.
With Brentford on the ropes, a rampant Spurs side added a third through Richarlison, who swept the ball past Flekken to register his eighth league goal of the season.
Following a disastrous start to the second period, the Bees were gifted a way back into the contest when Toney pounced on Udogie’s poor backpass to net his second goal since returning from an eight-month ban.
Fortunately for the left-back, his error did not prove too costly, as Brentford failed to find an equaliser despite piling on the pressure in stoppage time.
Defeat leaves the Bees in 15th after a fifth consecutive away league defeat, while Spurs climb into the top-four.
Flashscore Man of the Match: Timo Werner (Tottenham Hotspur)
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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.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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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.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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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.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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Updated January 31, 2024 at 5:33 PM ET
The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but signaled that rates could fall in the coming months if inflation continues to cool.
Policy makers have kept their benchmark interest rate between 5.25% and 5.5% — the highest in over two decades — since July.
Fed chairman Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday that interest rates are unlikely to go any higher, and that he and his colleagues are beginning to contemplate cutting rates.
"If the economy evolves broadly as expected, it will likely be appropriate to begin dialing back policy restraint at some point this year," Powell said.
He cautioned, however, that the economy remains unpredictable and said the central bank would proceed cautiously.
"The economic outlook is uncertain and we remain highly attentive to inflation risks," Powell said.
The Fed has been pleasantly surprised by the rapid drop in inflation in recent months. Core prices in December — which exclude food and energy prices — were up just 2.9% from a year ago, according to the Fed's preferred inflation yardstick. That's a smaller increase than the 3.2% core inflation rate that Fed officials had projected in December.
If that positive trend continues, the Fed may be able to start cutting interest rates as early as this spring. First, though, Powell said he and his colleagues will need to see additional evidence that inflation is easing.
And he sounded doubtful about a rate cut at the Fed's next meeting in March as many investors in Wall Street had hoped for.
"Based on the meeting today, I would tell you that I don't think it's likely the committee will reach a level of confidence by the time of the March meeting," Powell said. "But that's to be seen."
The comments disappointed investors, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbling 317 points.
Investors are still hopeful about a rate cut by the following Fed meeting in May, with markets putting the likelihood of that at better than 90%.
Good omens in the economy
Both the economy and the job market have performed better than expected over the last year, despite the highest interest rates since 2001. The nation's gross domestic product grew 3.1% in 2023, while employers added 2.7 million jobs
Unemployment has been under 4%for nearly two years. And average wages in December were up 4.1% from a year ago.
While that strong economy is welcome news for businesses and workers, it also raises the risk of reigniting inflation. As a result, Fed policymakers say they'll be cautious not to cut interest rates prematurely.
"We have history on this," Atlanta Fed president Raphael Bostic told the Rotary Club of Atlanta this month. "In the '70s, the Fed started removing accommodation too soon. Inflation spiked back up. Then we had to tighten. Inflation came down. Then we removed it again. Inflation went back up. And by the time we were done with that, all Americans could think about was inflation."
The Fed is determined not to repeat that '70s show. At the same time, waiting too long to cut interest rates risks slowing the economy more than necessary to bring inflation under control.
A report from the Labor Department Wednesday showed employers' cost for labor rose more slowly than expected in the final months of last year. Labor costs increased just 0.9% in the fourth quarter. That's a smaller increase than the previous quarter, suggesting labor costs are putting less upward pressure on prices.
Fed officials promised to keep an eye on upcoming economic data and adjust accordingly.
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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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“It’s time” — Larry David on ending ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ for good
Posted/updated on: January 31, 2024 at 4:33 pmHBO has traditionally allowed the mercurial Larry David to decide whether or not there would be more seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but to Variety, he now says this is it.
At Tuesday night's Los Angeles red carpet premiere for the forthcoming 12th and final season, David acknowledged to the trade that he's said the show was over many times before.
"Yeah, I said it before. But I wasn't 76 when I said it," he noted.
The Seinfeld co-creator also expressed of the Emmy-winning show, "It's time. Twelve years, that's a lot for a television show -- over 24 years. It was time."
The series, which began in 1999 as a one-off mockumentary about David's alleged return to stand-up comedy, launched as a series in 2000.
HBO had always given David a wide berth to return for subsequent seasons at his leisure. For instance, there was a six-year gap between seasons eight and nine.
During its run, the show racked up 51 Emmy nominations with two wins, including an Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy in 2002.
Curb Your Enthusiasm's 12th season kicks off on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and Max.
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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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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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Italy striker Andrea Belotti (30) has joined Fiorentina on loan from AS Roma, Fiorentina said on Wednesday.
Italian media reported that Belotti has joined Fiorentina on a six-month loan worth around 750,000 euros ($811,000) without a buy option.
Belotti, who has played 44 times for his country, joined Roma in 2022 after seven seasons at Torino. He failed to score a Serie A goal last season and has only netted three times in the current campaign.
Fiorentina are sixth in Serie A with 34 points.
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A man convicted of arson for participating in the August 2020 rioting that damaged Target's downtown Minneapolis headquarters was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison in a hearing cut short by an outburst at the judge.
Leroy Lemonte Perry Williams, 37, interrupted closing remarks from Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. Paul, shouting that the judge's decision was "unconstitutional." Moments earlier, Magnuson sided with federal prosecutors who called for a "significant sentence" to serve as a deterrent in the event further unrest visits the state.
"While no one hopes for widespread riots in the future, the likelihood of such events remains a distinct possibility as this nation grapples with a period of civil unrest," Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Walcker argued in a previous filing with the court.
Williams, of Minneapolis. was first charged in November 2020 with arson for his participation in downtown Minneapolis rioting that started with the false rumor that a man had been killed that day by Minneapolis police. Instead, the man, Eddie Sole Jr., 38, shot himself when confronted by police investigating reports that he had earlier killed Eddie George Gordon, 61, in a nearby parking ramp. Williams has described Gordon as a "mentor and stepfather figure."
While on pretrial release and staying in a halfway house, Williams went to the Target store in downtown Minneapolis to try to intimidate and threaten a Target employee involved in the case. He was ordered detained after multiple rule violations at the halfway house.
In January 2021, Williams pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and was granted a furlough motion to participate in the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge's mental health and substance disorder treatment program.
But he left the program – and the state – in September 2021. He has since said he fled to visit a dying relative in Indiana, but was arrested and returned to Minnesota in July 2022. Back in the state, Williams asked to vacate his guilty plea, and was then charged in a superseding indictment with arson and convicted after a three-day trial in October 2023.
Earlier Wednesday, Magnuson refused Williams' arguments to adjust a pre-sentence investigation report that would've lowered his sentencing guidelines in the case. Chiefly, Williams asked that the Target headquarters not be considered a public space.
"To say this isn't a public place is an absolute misnomer: 4,000 people work in that place and if you had been successful in your arson … 4,000 people would've been out of work," Magnuson said. "And if Target Corp. did need to rebuild that building, it probably wouldn't have been done yet. This is a very, very serious crime and I will not make light of it."
Glenn Bruder, Williams' attorney, had requested a five-year sentence. Two other men, Shador Tommie Cortez Jackson and Victor Devon Edwards, pleaded guilty in 2021 to charges related to starting a fire in the Target headquarters mail room, causing at least $1 million in damages. Edwards was sentenced to more than 8 years in federal prison and Jackson received nearly 3 years.
Williams was captured on surveillance video lighting a cardboard box on fire and placing it inside the Target headquarters building through a shattered glass door. He made several attempts to reignite the box as the flames petered out and also tried to start a fire inside the building's vestibule.
Bruder urged Magnuson to give his client "his first opportunity to turn his life around," pointing to a harrowing upbringing in which Williams first witnessed his own mother's substance disorder and physical abuse by a partner before eventually turning to drugs and alcohol himself.
Williams choked up as he addressed Magnuson midway through the hearing, noting his two children in attendance.
"What makes me cry is they shouldn't be seeing this," he said. "I should not be standing in front of you right now, but because of my bad decision making here I am fighting for my life and my freedom."
Williams apologized for his role in "adding to the problem instead of helping find a solution" at a time in which the Twin Cities were vulnerable to unrest just months after George Floyd's killing.
But as Magnuson explained his rationale for granting the government's request for a 10-year sentence, Williams shook his head and grew agitated. The judge recognized Williams' intellect, while saying that he could tell that he needed serious chemical dependency and mental health treatment.
"How do I get 10 years for attempted arson?" Williams interrupted. "It makes no sense, sir! It's unconstitutional."
"You are demonstrating right now why I am saying what I am about mental health," Magnuson said, before abruptly ending the hearing.
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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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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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The budding love story featuring music superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs’ tight end Travis Kelce took an unexpected turn into the world of political conspiracy theories this week after the team advanced to the Super Bowl.
Myriad baseless rumors emerged on social media — everything from claims that Swift has played a part in Pentagon psychological operations to the idea that she and her two-time Super Bowl champion boyfriend are key assets in a secret plot to help President Joe Biden get reelected in 2024. Another variant: That the Chiefs’ success was rigged as part of the plan for the game on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.
Political and media figures on the right, including former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, political activist Laura Loomer and One America News Network host Alison Steinberg, have amplified the allegations.
The claims are ludicrous and may well reflect the fear on the right that someone as famous as Swift, whose landmark Eras Tour is the first tour to cross the billion-dollar mark, could indeed influence the presidential race should she urge her legion of fans in one direction.
Pop culture and politics have long been entwined. The entertainment industry has been a deep well of political contributions. And candidates often try to draft on the celebrity of stars to add to their own allure.
The potency of the impact is less clear. In Swift's case, there is some proof that she can at minimum generate more voter registration.
In September, Swift posted a short message on her Instagram account encouraging her 272 million followers to register to vote. The post led to more than 35,000 registrations on the nonpartisan nonprofit Vote.org.
Swift’s massive fan base gives her a powerful voice. An SSRS poll conducted in October 2023 found that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults called themselves at least casual fans of the singer, with 8% saying they’re big fans. The poll also found that 8 in 10 U.S. adults said they had heard of her relationship with Kelce and the majority of those familiar with it considered it a real relationship, rather than a publicity stunt.
“Pop culture people identify with this stuff, they pay attention to it. And that’s what moves politics now. It’s attention and identity,” Joel Penney, an associate professor at Montclair State University whose research includes the intersection of politics and pop culture, said. Indeed, Donald Trump's improbable march to the presidency in 2016 was propelled in part from the celebrity he gained as a reality television star.
But the false claims about Swift are of such an extreme nature that they will test the limits of how potent a conspiracy theory can be. Penney sees the recent deluge of posts aimed at Swift as an attempt to preemptively blunt her impact by discrediting her.
Penney said Swift’s influence could prove a difficult force to contend with, especially if she publicly supports Biden, as she did in the 2020 race.
The attacks on Swift could also galvanize young voters who want to rally around her.
“Young people are fighting their political battles through a language drawn from pop culture,” said Henry Jenkins, a professor at the University of Southern California who also studies politics and pop culture. “That’s what connects them. That’s what they’re engaged with.”
Both Swift and Kelce have made public statements about politics and other issues that put them at odds with the far-right.
Swift broke her long-standing refusal to discuss her political views in 2018 when she announced in an Instagram post that she would be voting for Tennessee’s Democratic Senate candidate Phil Bredesen and Democratic House incumbent Rep. Jim Cooper. She also slammed then-U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican candidate, citing Blackburn’s opposition to certain LGBTQ+ rights and her vote against the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act in 2013. Blackburn won election to the Senate.
In 2020, Swift endorsed Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in an interview with V Magazine, noting that “under their leadership, I believe America has a chance to start the healing process it so desperately needs.”
Kelce faced criticism in September for appearing in an ad promoting the double dose of the flu and COVID-19 vaccines, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ad was part of a partnership with Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company that developed a vaccine in response to the pandemic and has since become a common mark for anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists.
Pop culture figures and the industry that surround them have been enmeshed in political campaigns long before the duo some fans refer to as Swelce. Former President Bill Clinton first appeared on MTV during his 1992 campaign while he was still governor of Arkansas. Major stars including Johnny Cash, Mary Tyler Moore and Willie Nelson endorsed former President Jimmy Carter more than 40 years ago when he made his second run for the White House. Ronald Reagan got his start in politics after a career as an actor.
“That question of, does this stuff work in pop culture? It absolutely can,” Penney said. “And it does. And history has shown that.”
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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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January 31st
22:59 CET - CONFIRMED - Fiorentina have completed the signing of striker Andrea Belotti on loan from Roma.
22:26 CET - CONFIRMED - Nottingham Forest have signed Borussia Dortmund midfielder Giovanni Reyna (21) on loan until the end of the season.
18:05 CET - SPECULATION - Stuttgart are close to completing a loan move for Mahmoud Dahoud (28) from Brighton, after the German midfielder made just nine starts in all competitions during the first half of the season.
17:58 CET - DEAL CLOSE - Fiorentina are on the verge of signing Andrea Belotti (30) on loan from Roma. The striker is expected to travel to Florence later today for a medical.
13:19 CET - CONFIRMED - Atletico Madrid have completed the signing of Brazilian centre-back Gabriel Paulista (33) after terminating his contract at Valencia.
10:35 CET - SPECULATION - Nottingham Forest are in advanced talks to sign Borussia Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna (21) on loan until the end of the season. The American international has made 14 appearances so far this season.
09:37 CET - SPECULATION - According to multiple sources, Aston Villa are set to sign Morgan Rogers (21) just six months after his move to Middlesbrough, with the Teesiders set to make a hefty profit on the winger.
08:35 CET - SPECULATION - It's the penultimate day of the transfer window and Juventus are closing in on a deal to sign Southampton's Carlos Alcaraz (21), as reported by Fabrizio Romano. The Argentine is expected to join on loan with a buy option of around 40 million euros included in the deal.
January 30th
22:05 CET - CONFIRMED - Saudi club Al Nassr have signed Australian full-back Aziz Behich (33) on loan from Melbourne City until the end of the season.
19:46 CET - SPECULATION - West Ham midfielder Pablo Fornals (27) is close to joining Real Betis on a permanent basis, with Sky Sports reporting that the two clubs are in the final stages of negotiations.
19:35 CET - CONFIRMED - Roma have announced the signing of Spanish defender Angelino (27), who joins the Italian club on loan from RB Leipzig until the end of the season following the termination of his loan spell at Galatasaray. An option to make the deal permanent has been included.
15:45 CET - SPECULATION - Sky Sports are reporting that Lyon are close to finalising a deal to sign West Ham winger Said Benrahma (28) on a permanent basis.
15:33 CET - Why is spending down in the January transfer window this year across the globe?
Flashscore’s Josh Donaldson took a closer look at the contributing factors here.
13:42 CET - CONFIRMED - Former Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic (35) has left Sevilla following a second spell at the club ahead of his move to Saudi Arabia's Al Shabab, the LaLiga side have confirmed.
“We have agreed a deal with Saudi Pro League side Al-Shabab Club for the transfer of Ivan Rakitic, who will bring his second spell with us to a close," Sevilla said in a statement.
Read more about that deal here.
12:00 CET - CONFIRMED - A rare sight indeed this window as Crystal Palace have announced the signing of Daniel Munoz (27) from Genk for around seven million pounds. The Colombian right-back signs on a three-and-a-half year deal with an option for an extra yeear.
09:17 CET - SPECULATION - Vitinha (23) is set for his long-awaited move to Genoa from Marseille. The deal is an initial loan with a 25-million-euro option to move to Serie A, according to our team at Flashscore Italy.
09:05 CET - SPECULATION - Napoli are looking for reinforcements after a poor season and a low-cost option could be Sparta Prague's Martin Vitik (21), according to transfer whisperer Rudy Galetti. The Czech defender could be available for less than 10 million euros with 18 months lefts on his current deal.
08:58 CET - SPECULATION - Two days left of the window and we are still yet to see any major moves, but could this be one? Chelsea's need to offload players may mean the departure of Conor Gallagher (23). The midfielder, who has made 36 appearances in all competitions this season, is being linked with a move away - likely to a Premier League rival.
January 29th
21:07 CET - SPECULATION - Corriere dello Sport are reporting that Manchester United are pushing to sign Everton centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite (21).
With Everton in financial trouble and United needing a top-class defender, this one makes sense but can they get it done before the deadline?
16:32 CET - CONFIRMED - Newcastle have not had the season they had hoped for so far but at least they have managed to tie talented young midfielder Lewis Miley (17) down with a new long-term contract.
15:16 CET - CONFIRMED - Fenerbahce have announced the anticipated signing of Caglar Soyuncu (27) from Atletico Madrid on their social media channels with a rather dramatic video.
09:47 CET - Speaking of Saudi investment, there have been fewer high-profile moves to the Saudi Pro League this winter, however Ivan Rakitic (35) has bucked the trend, according to Fabrizio Romano, with the Croatian midfielder expected to be announced by Al Shabab in the coming hours.
He will move from Sevilla on an 18-month deal and has already passed his medical - the fee is yet to be announced.
09:32 CET - The final week of the January transfer window is upon us and with spending down across Europe's top leagues, it is expected that player trading will ramp up as we close in on deadline day.
One player being linked with a move is Newcastle United's Bruno Guimaraes (26) with the Premier League club needing to sell due to their precarious position with the league's profit and sustainability rules. Having been in Disneyland Paris earlier in the month, the Brazilian could be set for a longer spell in the French capital with PSG - who could trigger the midfielder's 100 million euro release clause, this according to the Mirror.
January 28th
16:17 CET - SPECULATION - Sunderland have reportedly rejected a bid in the region of 16 million euros for star player Jack Clarke (23), with the club stating he's not for sale this month.
10:20 CET - DEAL CLOSE - Atletico Madrid are on the verge of completing a loan move for Juventus striker Moise Kean (23). The Italian is yet to score so far this season.
January 27th
19:25 CET - SPECULATION - As per transfer guru Fabrizio Romano, Ivan Rakitic (35) is set to leave Sevilla and move to Saudi Pro League side Al Shabab. The Croatian has reportedly already informed his teammates of the decision.
13:44 CET - CONFIRMED - Ligue 1 strugglers Lyon have completed a move for Nemanja Matic (35) from Rennes, with the experienced Serb signing a deal until 2026.
13:15 CET - SPECULATION - Several reports are suggesting that Chelsea will make a move for Napoli striker Victor Osimhen (25) this summer, with Mauricio Pochettino particularly keen on the Nigerian.
10:08 CET - SPECULATION - According to David Ornstein, Brighton are in talks with Leicester City's Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (25) over a potential transfer. The Championship club are believed to want £30 million for their star midfielder, with Brentford and Arsenal also interested.
January 26th
19:54 CET - SPECULATION - As per the Mail Sport, Wolves are reportedly stalling on a potential move for Chelsea striker Armando Broja (22), with the West Midlands club keen to ensure they don't break the Premier League's spending rules.
17:48 CET - SPECULATION - Fabrizio Romano has said those three words - here we go! He is reporting that Bayern Munich have completed the signing of right-back Sacha Boey (22) from Galatasaray and a medical is soon to follow.
15:42 CET - CONFIRMED - Sheffield United have signed goalkeeper Ivo Grbic (28) from Atletico Madrid on a permanent deal. The Croatian made a toal of 14 appearances for the Spanish side and spent the 2021/22 season on loan at Lille.
11:06 CET - SPECULATION - Bayern Munich's search for a right back looks like it may be coming to an end. According to a number of reliable sources, including Florian Plettenberg and Fabrizio Romano, the German champions are locked in talks with Galatasaray for Sacha Boey (23). The Turkish giants are demanding 30 million euros, while Boey waits for permission to travel for a medical.
10:10 CET - CONFIRMED - West Ham have sealed the loan signing of Kalvin Phillips (28) from Manchester City. The England international joins the London club until the end of the season.
January 25th
20:53 CET - CONFIRMED - Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers has stated that Danish midfielder Matt O'Riley (23) won’t be moving to Atletico Madrid this January window after the Spanish club had a bid for the player turned down.
18:15 CET - CONFIRMED - Paris St-Germain have signed Brazilian teenage midfielder Gabriel Moscardo (18) from Corinthians. He has signed a contract with PSG until 2028 and is immediately being loaned back to Corinthians until the end of the season.
Read more about the deal here.
13:17 CET - CONFIRMED - Manchester City have announced the purchase of Argentine talent Claudio Echeverri (18) from River Plate. He will remain in Argentina until moving to England next January.
09:39 CET - SPECULATION - Gianluca Di Marzio has reported that Juventus are preparing to bid over €40 million for Atalanta midfielder Teun Koopmeiners (25), who Liverpool are also interested in.
January 24th
22:05 CET - CONFIRMED - Former Manchester United striker Javier 'Chicharito' Hernandez (35) has returned to his boyhood club Chivas Guadalajara.
Hernandez, who spent the past three years at the Major League Soccer (MLS) club LA Galaxy, signed on a free transfer after leaving the MLS outfit in November.
17:24 CET - SPECULATION - Fabrizio Romano is reporting that Bayer Leverkusen are set to sign Real Betis striker Borja Iglesias (31) on loan until the end of the season as a replacement for the injured Victor Boniface (23).
12:33 CET - SPECULATION - According to Florian Plettenberg, Bayern Munich could be set to pull out of negotiations with Newcastle for Kieran Trippier (33), as they are unwilling to pay a price they deem 'unreasonable'.
10:23 CET - SPECULATION - As per El Nacional, Liverpool have made an offer to sign Real Madrid's Antonio Rudiger (30), who would be interested in talking to the English club.
10:20 CET - SPECULATION - The Guardian are reporting that Chelsea have registered their interest in signing Karim Benzema (36), whose future at Al Ittihad is very much uncertain.
January 23rd
23:36 CET - Over in Italy, Torino have made an enquiry about Sevilla's Rafa Mir (26). Fabrizio Romano has reported that the Serie A side are making their target one of their top targets ahead of next week's deadline.
18:42 CET - SPECULATION - It is being widely reported that Newcastle have already rejected Bayern Munich's bid for Kieran Trippier (33). The offer was in the region of €15 million for the experienced full-back.
17:52 CET - SPECULATION - According to Florian Plettenberg, Bayern Munich have made an offer to sign Kieran Trippier (33) from Newcastle on a permanent deal, and are now fully focussed on signing the England right back.
15:51 CET - CONFIRMED - Kalvin Phillips (28) is on the move. West Ham and Manchester City have agreed a deal for the midfielder to move to the UK capital on loan with an option to buy in the summer.
You can read more about the story here.
15:05 CET - CONFIRMED - File this one under things you didn't think you'd be reading today! Southampton Women have completed the signature of goalkeeper Benedicte Haland (25).
Albeit no relation to Erling, the Norwegian shot-stopper will be keen to follow in her compatriot's footsteps and have a positive impact at her new club.
14:33 CET - SPECULATION - As per the Daily Telegraph's Mike McGrath, Aaron Wan-Bissaka (26) is of interest to Saudi Pro League side Al Nassr, who have failed in their attempts to land Tottenham's Emerson Royal.
08:58 CET - CONFIRMED - Aston Villa have confirmed the signing of Kosta Nedeljkovic (18) from Red Star Belgrade. The defender will spend the rest of the season back on loan at the Serbian club.
January 22nd
19:07 CET - SPECULATION - According to the Athletic, Lyon are interested in bringing Karim Benzema (36) back to the club. The legendary striker, who currently plays for Al Ittihad, scored 66 goals for the French club beween 2004-2009.
16:14 CET - SPECULATION - The future of Manchester City midfielder Kalvin Phillips (28) has been under scrutiny throughout this window and another club has entered the chat. West Ham and City are reportedly in talks for a loan deal for Phillips, who has seen his game time limited at the Etihad since moving from Leeds.
16:05 CET - SPECULATION - More Newcastle players are being linked with a move away from St James' Park. Callum Wilson (31) could be on his way out, with AC Milan interested in him on a permanent deal. The Magpies have not accepted an offer, reports Craig Hope from MailSport, but the striker would be open to a move with 18 months left on his deal.
13:40 CET - SPECULATION - Saudi Pro League side Al Shabab have reportedly reached an agreement with Newcastle over a move for Miguel Almiron (29). The Paraguayan has scored five goals in all competitions this season.
11:36 CET - SPECULATION - As first reported by Fabrizio Romano, Bayern Munich forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (34) is open to joining Manchester United if both clubs are keen on the move.
09:05 CET - CONFIRMED - Javier Manquillo (29) has completed a move from Newcastle to Celta Vigo on a deal that runs until June 2025.
January 21st
19:20 CET - SPECULATION - Fabrizio Romano is reporting that Atletico Madrid’s seldom-used centre-back Caglar Soyuncu (27) is keen on a move to Fenerbahce in his home country. Plenty of clubs are interested but Soyuncu wants Fener!
11:45 CET - CONFIRMED - Bundesliga club Freiburg have signed Hungarian centre-back Atilla Szalai (26) on loan from Hoffenheim.
09:47 CET - SPECULATION - Atletico Madrid have been linked with Callum Wilson (31), but Fabrizio Romano says that they're instead trying to sign Juventus forward Moise Kean (23) on loan.
January 20th
21:40 CET - CONFIRMED - Olympique Marseille have signed Cameroonian forward Faris Moumbagna (23) from Bodo/Glimt. He is currently at AFCON with his national team.
16:58 CET - CONFIRMED - Have Brighton done it again and pulled off a wonderkid signing for a bargain price before the eyes of Europe's elite caught on? Valentin Barco (19) has been a fan favourite at Boca Juniors for a while and at just £7m, the Argentina under-23 international appears to be a steal.
13:48 CET - SPECULATION - As per Sky Germany, Manchester United are keen on signing Ajax striker Brian Brobbey (21) before the end of the month. The Dutchman has 13 goals and four assists thus far this season.
09:01 CET - SPECULATION- According to Sport Bild, Real Madrid, Manchester City, and Bayern Munich are all interested in Bayer Leverkusen wonderkid Florian Wirtz (20), but would need to pay well over €100 million to sign him.
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DOLTON, Ill. — A traffic dispute in suburban Chicago erupted into gunfire Wednesday, with four people taken to hospitals after being shot, authorities said.
Saul Mazon told the Chicago Tribune said he was headed to a store when he saw several cars traveling quickly down a street, one car hit another, and the vehicles pulled into a parking lot where people got out and were yelling and arguing before he heard several shots.
Dolton Village Trustee Kiana Belcher said she was in the drive-thru lane at a Dunkin Donuts when people in two vehicles started shooting at each other.
''The people involved were taken to the hospital,'' Belcher said.
Four patients, all adults suffering gunshot wounds, were taken to several hospitals, Dolton Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeremy Cole said.
The shooting happened around 10 a.m.
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LAS VEGAS – Fans have been wondering for days whether Taylor Swift will make it to the Super Bowl next week to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs and, if so, how many times she'll show up on TV during the game. They can speculate all they want, but they won't be able to bet on it legally in the United States.
Those types of wagers can be made offshore with sportsbooks such as BetUS, which is based in Costa Rica, and potentially in the Canadian province of Ontario. BetMGM public relations manager John Ewing said he was waiting for word from Canadian authorities there if such bets will be OK.
But in the U.S., where betting laws vary from state to state, the general rule is that wagering is limited to what happens on the field. A handful of states allow bets to be placed on the color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach — red or pink is this year's plus-260 favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook — but even that type of wager is not allowed in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, the longtime epicenter of sports betting in the U.S., has some of the strictest rules regarding the kinds of wagers made.
Swift's romance with Kelce became one of the prominent stories this NFL season and she has attended several Chiefs games, including their victory in the AFC championship game at Baltimore on Sunday, where she joined the team for its on-field celebration and greeted Kelce with a kiss. Since she's performing in Japan the weekend of the Super Bowl, fans began wondering whether she'll make it to Las Vegas to watch Kelce and Kansas City face the San Francisco 49ers.
It seems only natural they would be able to put money on it in Vegas.
As a matter of principle, though, Ewing said it makes sense not to allow bets on things apart from the on-field action, such as the length of the national anthem.
"We don’t want any subjectivity in a prop (bet),” Ewing said. “We want it to be either it won or it didn’t win or went over or went under, and that’s the concern for regulators as well. That’s why typically we stick to if it’s in the box score, it can be posted."
Caesars Sportsbook assistant trading director Adam Pullen’s position is the more bets, the merrier.
“We’ve come a long way, but some stuff like we’re talking about here (about Swift) or betting on elections, there still might be a few years before we get to that point,” Pullen said. “But I like anything that drives action and gets people to bet. But we’re dependent on what the regulators in each particular state has to say.”
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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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Shares of Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (NASDAQ:FDIG – Get Free Report) traded up 4% on Monday . The company traded as high as $23.36 and last traded at $22.87. 100,535 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 17% from the average session volume of 120,513 shares. The stock had previously closed at $21.99.
Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF Trading Down 3.9 %
The firm has a market cap of $68.93 million, a PE ratio of 10.94 and a beta of 3.84. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $23.93 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $20.20.
Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF Dividend Announcement
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, December 20th. Stockholders of record on Monday, December 18th were given a dividend of $0.051 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, December 15th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.95%.
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The Fidelity Crypto Industry and Digital Payments ETF (FDIG) is an exchange-traded fund that mostly invests in stocks based on a particular theme. The fund tracks an index of global companies related to cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and digital payments processing, selected based on revenue derived from the relevant themes, and weighted by average daily trading volume.
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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 5:21 PM EST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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LONDON — British police said Wednesday they are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London.
The Metropolitan Police force said nine people were hurt, including a woman and two children, in the incident in the Clapham area.
Detective Superintendent Alexander Castle called it a ''horrific incident.''
Police said nine people had been taken to hospitals: the woman and two children; three adults who came to their assistance; and three police officers. Castle said the officers' injuries were believed to be minor. There was no immediate word on the condition of the others.
Castle said tests were underway to determine what had caused the injuries but ''at this stage we believe it to be a corrosive substance.''
He said police were searching for a man who was seen fleeing the scene.
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Why Tesla Batteries May Not Charge In Subzero Temperatures (And What To Do About It)
Depending on where you live, bitter cold may be a way of life in the winter. However, what you may not have known when you bought your Tesla is that those frigid temperatures could keep you from getting where you need to be. When temperatures drop below zero, the driving range of electric vehicles (EVs) drops along with them. What's worse is that sometimes their batteries stop working altogether. As EVs become more commonplace, this can wreak havoc — preventing people from getting to work, causing lines at Tesla charging stations, and frustrating delays.
The cold weather can even take a toll on the amount of time spent charging an EV. According to CBS News Chicago, when asked about the effect of cold weather on his Tesla, one driver reported, "A charge that should take 45 minutes is taking two hours." This happens because the colder it is, the less energy EV batteries absorb. While extreme cold is one of the reasons your car battery keeps dying, the problem is more pronounced in EVs. All of this can become a significant headache for Tesla owners living in cold climates.
Understanding why cold weather affects Tesla batteries
Lithium-ion batteries power Teslas and most EVs, much like the batteries you find in laptops and smartphones, only much bigger. These batteries store the energy that makes your Tesla work. While the optimal temperature for a Tesla battery is between 60 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the car performs well in a range of temperatures before it begins to run into problems. However, once the mercury drops below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, Teslas may start to experience reduced efficiency and longer charging times.
In cold weather, the electrolyte fluid in Tesla batteries becomes sluggish, impeding the flow of the lithium ions. When this happens, the battery can't absorb as much energy from a charging plug. Many Tesla drivers run into problems because they arrive at fast-charging stations with batteries that are too cold to charge. Then, they have to wait for it to heat up before their car will even take electricity and begin charging.
Tesla's Approach to Cold Weather Challenges
In theory, Teslas should be able to withstand frigid temperatures because they come equipped with a battery preconditioning system and an advanced thermal management system, which work to keep the battery at an optimal temperature so it performs efficiently, even in cold weather. If you precondition your car before heading out on the road, you can improve range and reduce the need for frequent charging. You can do this by activating climate settings at least 30-45 minutes before you're planning to leave to ensure the battery is adequately preconditioned. When it's cold out, a blue snowflake icon may appear on your touchscreen and app, letting you know the battery is too cold to operate at maximum power and range.
Since Tesla is aware of the challenges drivers face in cold climates, it regularly rolls out updates to improve vehicle performance in these conditions. These updates often improve battery management and energy efficiency, which can help your car operate more effectively in subzero temperatures. Tesla enables these features automatically, so you don't have to do anything once you receive the updates.
Practical Tips and Solutions
Although Tesla has extensive systems in place to help keep their cars up and running in extreme weather conditions, in practice, you may still run into problems. However, with the right information, you can often avoid most of these issues, even in extreme temperatures, ensuring you get to where you need to be without delay.
- Consider using garage parking to keep your Tesla at a consistent temperature in the winter. Doing so can reduce battery strain and can help preserve the battery's range and health in cold weather.
- Since your Tesla will often need more time to charge in cold weather, you should try to keep its charge level above 20% when it's not plugged in.
- Keep your car plugged in whenever possible to help it maintain an ideal temperature.
- Schedule your departure time in the Charging menu on your car's touchscreen or in the Tesla app.
- Use the navigation system to set a Supercharger as your destination. If you do so, your Tesla will automatically preheat the battery en route, allowing you to charge your battery at the maximum speed when you plug it in.
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J.Lo and the gang just dropped a new poster for the album-accompanying “intimate,” “musical,” “cinematic” “experience,” This Is Me … Now: A Love Story, and it’s just as confusing as the trailer. The poster is packed with symbolism, from the dual astrological dials flanking both sides — prominently featuring her cuspy Leo — to falling roses easily mistaken for blood(!!) fluttering across its visage. Lopez herself, looking a bit like a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Juliette Nichols from Silo, stands at its center, disheveled yet triumphant in the dirt and grime of the love games she’s been playing for the last 30 years of her public life. Coupling that with the trailer, which featured inexplicable imagery, including a flashy quick-cut of her many weddings, a motorcycle accident on what looks like a half-frozen tundra, and the mention of a possible sex addiction, there’s just a lot going on here. I spent a few hours theorizing on what exactly this movie is tryna be before it hits Amazon on February 16.
An ode to Audre Lorde
Aight, so, given the mainstream appropriation (and some would say dilution!) of the self-care principle, I’m sure we’ve all read Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, right? The subheading on that book is A Biomythography by Audre Lorde. And while there are many resonant themes within that work, the most relevant for our purposes relies on Lorde’s return to self, amid post-Depression-era Harlem. There’s a couple ways to think about the Lopez-Lorde connection: They both insist on changing their names — Lorde for more self-exploratory purposes and Lopez because she got married, like, a lot; both see New York as a space of both discovery and dilapidation (more on that later); and both have found love numerous times over, defining their lives and careers in very specific ways (the former centering on forms of resistance to the West and the latter in the emotional oscillations of celebrity). But if the poster and trailer are to be believed, J.Lo might’ve missed the plot a little bit on the whole “biomythography” thing. Where Lorde wanted to reflect the intimacy, generosity, and liberation that comes from the women who contributed to her sense of self, it seems Lopez is basing this story on her four marriages to menfolk — Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Marc Anthony, and Ben Affleck — who, in very coy casting, all fall into archetypes: the Quiet One (played by Alix Angelis), the Realist (Malcolm Kelner), the Lover (Brandon Delsid), and Ben Affleck likely playing Ben Affleck. Feels like the pop star is still figuring her way through the male gaze (with a healthy dose of her own product placement for good measure).
A tale about labor movements coinciding with the loss of yearning
One prominent image both on the poster and in the film’s trailer is a mechanical heart that seems to be going awry. With quick cuts to factory workers in goggles and hazmat suits dancing atop and along assembly lines, we’re made to believe that these workers braving the dangerous fumes of desperate love are doing their damndest to keep the heart beating smoothly for as long as possible. But the references to labor don’t stop there. We see Fat Joe leaning back in his therapist chair, perhaps growing a li’l exasperated, literally clocking out of her latest pity-partying session (and Lopez eye-rolling its untimely end). The workers are done with kowtowing to the whims of the wealthy elite; they’re putting in their time sheets and two-stepping out of the workplace. And if that weren’t enough, during one of the presumed couples-therapy appointments, one of her aggrieved beaus is sick of dealing with her “constant criticism,” claiming that Lopez “thinks I’m her employee.” That part of the biomythography — when Girl Bossing bleeds into one’s actual relationship — definitely feels real. Leave it to Lopez to Les Mis the fuck outta her own life. This here is a work of art that speaks directly to our moment!
A story about J.Lo’s role in New York’s ongoing gentrification
Lopez is really feeling a way about Eric Adams’s noirish New York. The city is grimy and dystopian, and Lopez looks slightly unsettled as trash and debris flits across cracked pavement. This is not the block she once knew! Ain’t no way she’s touting the rocks that she got in this bleak Babel! Peep the shot in the trailer where she’s on the Castle Hill train platform, the clouds overcast and what looks to be rainwater spraying off the top of the cars. Lopez walks, lonely, dragging her feet across rat-pelted concrete while she contemplates the criticism of her hopeless romanticism making her weak. Perhaps this is her vision of the city from a penthouse suite in Tribeca (or perhaps from the Afflecks’ Georgia plantation across state lines), and maybe this film is her reckoning with the flavorless gentrification she romanticized in her earlier work. Later in her narration, she even says to a lover, “Being with you feels like home, but I left home for a reason.” She doesn’t recognize her city, and, to be real, it doesn’t recognize her either.
Her Hunger Games, her Dune, her The Cell (again), her Dr. Strange (the 2016 original), her Color Purple (the musical, 1997 version), and also, somehow, her Anaconda
In the film’s trailer, Lopez posits herself as the villain. She’s someone who’s dealing with their own self-absorption through their intimate partners and accused of having an addiction to sexual gratification, while all her friends grimace-smile through her umpteenth wedding. There’s a ton of mixed signals in the poster, though. The hummingbird — which Vulture senior news editor Morgan Baila appropriately called “unnerving” — is a symbol of love, beauty, and grace, while Lopez looks more like a weathered phoenix tired of all the revivals. It also gives a bit of her look from Anaconda, as Vulture senior music editor Alex Suskind pointed out. The Dune allusions are based on the sheer amount of dust and sweat resting atop her skin. But perhaps the most interesting read from the Vulture team comes from Vulture TV critic Roxana Hadadi, who says that it’s Lopez’s version of her own 2000 film The Cell, wherein Lopez stars as “a child psychologist who uses virtual reality to venture into a serial killer’s mind.” The “nightmarish visuals and inaccessible dream logic from director Tarsem Singh” are mirrored in Lopez’s own maximalist interpretation of her life.
“There’s a persistent too-muchness to the film,” Roxana tells me, “that I immediately thought of when I saw the jumbled collage of the This Is Me … Now poster. Those blood-red roses, the steampunk-lite gears and mechanics, and Lopez floating outside of space and time at their center. The Cell’s late production designer Eiko Ishioka, who also worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, would be honored by the mimicry. It is probably deranged to do a double-header of The Cell and This Is Me … Now, but it feels right?”
A recounting of one wild ’shroom trip
This, to me, feels like the most realistic origin story for this film. J.Lo might have hit the psilocybin one time too many during one of those fancy, shamanic psychedelic retreats rich people do in the Amazon and had a conversation with a deity about how everything is connected, how we’re both very big and very small, and that deconstructing one’s own life is the only way to exit the Matrix or whatever. This movie looks like it could be one long run-on sentence in her post-’shroom journal. The trailer leaps from the jealousy she felt looking over to her sister in their childhood bedroom while she “lied awake thinking, how does anybody sleep that way?” to a conversation with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (who somehow stays employed despite allegations of misconduct) on her place in the universe. The trip would also explain the casting situation. How did Trevor Noah get here? Is Jenifer Lewis gonna play the fairy godmother that helps J.Lo become more aware of her antics? Is Post Malone gonna get her on the straight and narrow when it comes to addiction? And it bears repeating, why is Trevor Noah here? This is the most expensive journey to self of all time, and apparently we’re just along for the ride.
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Actor Terrence Howard will star opposite Kevin Hart and Samuel L. Jackson in new limited series “Fight Night: Million Dollar Heist.” Read more about the exciting series coming to Peacock.
In an exclusive to Deadline, Howard is the latest addition to the limited series headed to Peacock. The “Best Man: The Final Chapters” actor will reunite with Craig Brewer, who is set to direct and executive produce the first two episodes of the series. The pair worked together on Brewer’s notable 2005 feature Hustle & Flow, in which Howard starred and earned an Oscar nomination for his performance. They also worked together on the Fox series “Empire,” starring Howard and directed and produced by Brewer.
The Peacock series “Fight Night: Million Dollar Heist” follows the infamous story of how an armed robbery during the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight changed not only one man’s life, but an entire city’s destiny.
Howard comes on to play the series regular role of Richard “Cadillac” Wheeler, a gangster and associate of the Council of 12.
The announcement comes after he signed with Independent Artist Group back in November 2023, and after shedding light on how he had not been properly compensated on previous projects. Howard is managed by Mira Howard. A few of his other upcoming projects include John Ridley’s Netflix film Shirley, starring Regina King as America’s first Black congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm.
“Fight Night” is created and written by Shaye Ogbonna based on the eponymous podcast from iHeartPodcasts, Doghouse Pictures and Will Packer Media. Ogbonna and Jason Horwitch serve as showrunners; they exec produce alongside Hart, Bryan Smiley and Mike Stein for Hart’s Hartbeat, Packer and Sabrina Wind for Will Packer Media, Conal Byrne, Will Pearson and Carrie Lieberman for iHeartPodcasts, Jeff Keating and Lars Jacobson. Hartbeat’s Tiffany Brown and Studio 43’s Kenny Burns will co-executive produce. The series comes from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Stay tuned for more updates about the upcoming series.
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The Biden Administration Is Considering the Ultimate 'Betrayal' of Israel: Report
Is there no end to the astonishing moral bankruptcy of the Biden Administration?
Because, if administration officials are truly considering essentially betraying Israel as has been reported, it would be difficult to argue the contrary.
According to a report in Axios, Biden’s State Department is currently reviewing possible options to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state.
Apparently, Secretary of State Tony Blinken has “asked the State Department to conduct a review and present policy options on possible U.S. and international recognition of a Palestinian state after the war in Gaza.”
As Axios put it, “even considering such options signals a shift in thinking within the Biden administration on possible Palestinian statehood recognition, which is highly sensitive both internationally and domestically.”
Besides recognizing the state of Palestine, the sources that spoke to Axios reveal that the State Department is considering several options when it comes to resolving this vexing issue, such as refraining from using American veto power to block a Security Council resolution to admit Palestine as “a full UN member state,” or even encouraging “other countries to recognize Palestine.”
According to Axios, former British Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that recognition for Palestine is under consideration in the U.K.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is stridently opposed to any recognition of a Palestinian state — either by individual countries or in the U.N. Palestine currently has a “permanent observer mission” at the U.N., which is a designation short of full membership. (The Vatican also has a “permanent observer mission” at the world body.)
Upon the release of the Axios report, Jason D. Greenblatt, who served as an adviser to former President Donald Trump, publicized it on the social media platform X with the comment that this “would be a huge mistake, a betrayal of Israel & make things much more complicated to achieve something real down the road that could benefit everyone… It will make an intransigent Palestinian leadership in Ramallah even moreso, and embolden Hamas & other terrorists to continue their bloody rampage.”
This would be a huge mistake, a betrayal of Israel & make things much more complicated to achieve something real down the road that could benefit everyone. This effort should be stopped immediately. It will make an intransigent Palestinian leadership in Ramallah even moreso, and… https://t.co/BqI6CVUTNA
— Jason D. Greenblatt (@GreenblattJD) January 31, 2024
Reacting to Greenblatt’s post, more users joined Greenblatt with their critiques.
One user rhetorically asked “So Hamas and Iran got everything they wanted out of the Oct 7 terrorist attack?” Another called the move “unacceptable. The free world cannot reward terrorism.”
So Hamas and Iran got everything they wanted out of the Oct 7 terrorist attack?
— Banana Republic Justice Swan 🍌 (@TheWuhanClan) January 31, 2024
This is unacceptable. The free world cannot reward terrorism.
— Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky (@76brandy76) January 31, 2024
Another user, however, brilliantly encapsulated everything wrong with this boneheaded idea:
“This is disgusting. It is the apotheosis of a foreign policy obsessed with legitimizing and appeasing bad actors under the assumption that the good guys must always give way. This is the worst possible signal imaginable: commit acts of savagery, and the world gives you a treat.”
This is disgusting. It is the apotheosis of a foreign policy obsessed with legitimizing and appeasing bad actors under the assumption that the good guys must always give way.
This is the worst possible signal imaginable: commit acts of savagery, and the world gives you a treat.
— Eldee Stephens (@eldeestephens) January 31, 2024
You can’t really disagree with that take.
It’s almost as if the Biden administration has forgotten the brutal and unwarranted savagery of the Hamas’ Oct 7 attacks on Israel.
They murdered men, women and children indiscriminately, committed all sorts of acts of violence while recording their victims’ humiliations, threatened to broadcast executions of hostages on national television, and even numbered infants among their long list of victims.
For the Biden administration to even consider such a move is a slap in the face to Israel.
Israel is a sovereign nation recognized by the U.S. and the U.N. that has been the target of a brutal terror attack.
Everyone knows — or should know — that appeasing terrorists is a failing strategy.
The U.S. knew this well enough when tracking down the terrorists behind the 9/11 terror attacks; why does the Biden administration seem to have forgotten that?
Why are they even considering giving Hamas and their allies what they want?
It’s only been a few months since Hamas’ despicable attacks. Rewarding the group now for doing nothing but double down on its savagery would not only send exactly the wrong message, it’s beyond absurd.
We knew Biden and his cronies were morally bankrupt, but this is beyond the pale even for the Biden administration.
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Joe Dumars went to a game a couple of weeks ago that came down to the very last shot, and he thought it was one of the best games of the season to this point. Final score: Denver 102, Boston 100.
It was a reminder that defense still can get played in the NBA.
Amid a flurry of big individual performances — Luka Doncic scoring 73, Joel Embiid scoring 70, Devin Booker and Karl-Anthony Towns each scoring 62 — in the last two weeks alone, Dumars said Wednesday that NBA officials aren't alarmed by such numbers because the league's scoring average is up only slightly compared to last season.
“It's where the game is today,” said Dumars, the NBA's executive vice president and head of basketball operations. “It's the pace of the game. It's the amount of 3s guys are shooting now. You're going to have some offensive eruptions like that.”
There hadn't been an instance since April 1978 of two players scoring at least 60 points in the same day. That is, until it happened twice last week: Embiid and Towns had their huge games on Jan. 22, Doncic and Booker put on their scoring shows on Jan. 26.
Having those events happen twice in the span of a few days is a statistical oddity, for certain. But the numbers show it's not really much more than that.
Scoring leaguewide this season is up just 0.78% over last season entering Wednesday, from 114.7 points per game to 115.6 points per game. The jump was far bigger last season, when scoring rose 3.7% over the rate of 110.6 points per game that the league saw in 2021-22.
There have been more high-scoring games, but the averages suggest things also tend to balance out. Entering Wednesday, there had been 78 instances of teams scoring at least 135 points in a game this season — already the second most for a full season in league history and on pace to smash the record of 112, set last season. The previous mark was 74 games of 135 or more, done in 2019-20.
“We're going to see offensive eruptions with this kind of pace and the amount of 3s people shoot,” Dumars said. “But there's no push here at the league office from me or anyone else that we want to see a certain score. I left that Boston-Denver game saying, ‘wow, great game.’ That's what fans want. Fans want to leave a game or watch a game and at the end say, ‘that was incredible.’ The score is secondary to that. Fans just want to see great games.”
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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 4:21 PM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 3:45 During a contentious hearing, lawmakers demanded that social media companies do better to protect children online. Copyright 2024 NPR
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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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TikTok is about to get a lot quieter. Universal Music Group, the largest music corporation on the globe, is planning to take its music off TikTok as it struggles to negotiate a new licensing agreement with the platform. In an open letter to musicians and songwriters on January 30, UMG said TikTok could not come to an agreement on key issues of payment, AI, and safety. The label group said it had an “overriding responsibility to our artists” that outweighed the consequences of leaving the app. “We will always fight for our artists and songwriters and stand up for the creative and commercial value of music,” UMG said. TikTok doubled down in its own response, accusing UMG of “greed” and lying. The companies seem to be at a standstill, and barring a last-minute agreement, UMG’s departure seems likely after the current contract expires on January 31. Artists have taken their music off TikTok before, but a removal at this scale would be uncharted territory for musicians and TikTokers alike.
Why is UMG threatening to pull music?
UMG’s letter cited three concerns: compensation, AI protections, and online safety. UMG said TikTok wants to pay its artists “a fraction of the rate” of other social platforms and only makes up about one percent of the company’s total revenue in the first place. The company also criticized the prominence of AI recordings on TikTok, accusing the app of “nothing short of sponsoring artist replacement by AI.” And UMG is worried about TikTok’s inconsistent content moderation amid “the tidal wave of hate speech, bigotry, bullying and harassment on the platform” that affect their artists.
UMG claimed TikTok began to resort to intimidation tactics in their negotiations by removing the music of some of its smaller artists. “TikTok attempted to bully us into accepting a deal worth less than the previous deal, far less than fair market value and not reflective of their exponential growth,” the company said. UMG cited “an overriding responsibility to our artists” in taking this stand. In a separate note to songwriters, the company added, “We believe our greatest responsibility to you is to make sure your songs are appropriately compensated, on platforms that respect human creativity, with your music in environments that are safe for all and effectively policed.”
Whose sounds are disappearing?
Most of pop music? UMG is the largest of the Big Three major-label groups (along with Sony and Warner), comprising juggernaut pop labels like Republic, Interscope, Def Jam, Capitol, and Geffen while also distributing music from other labels. In other words, this is way bigger than just one record company. And it doesn’t simply encompass artists signed to UMG labels either — this development will also affect songwriters whose music is published by Universal Music Publishing Group, which includes some artists who are signed to non-UMG labels as performers. That means the list of affected artists is pretty much a who’s who of pop music: Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake, Ariana Grande, Bad Bunny, SZA, Billie Eilish, Adele, Olivia Rodrigo, the Weeknd, and Rihanna, to name only a few. In 2023, 12 of the 19 No. 1 songs on the Hot 100 were by UMG artists, including Morgan Wallen’s record-setting “Last Night.”
And many UMG artists found success on TikTok. A dance challenge on the app turned the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” into the longest-running Hot 100 hit ever; TikTok helped Rodrigo first break out with “drivers license.” Swift revealed her Midnights track list in a series of TikToks, and even Drake got in on the fun in 2020 with the blatantly TikTok-bait song “Toosie Slide” — which immediately hit No. 1. Now, as Swift prepares for a new leg of her Eras tour and Grande readies her seventh album, Eternal Sunshine, UMG risks missing out on prime opportunities.
Metro Boomin, who’s on Republic, supported the move on Twitter. “I love the creativity and appreciation the kids show for the music on TikTok but I don’t like the forced pandering from artists and labels that results in these lifeless and soulless records,” he wrote, after tweeting a GIF that said “It’s about damn time.”
How has TikTok responded?
In its own, much briefer statement on January 30, the social platform called UMG’s claims “false” and criticized the move. “It is sad and disappointing that Universal Music Group has put their own greed above the interests of their artists and songwriters,” TikTok said. The platform noted that it has deals “with every other label and publisher.” For good measure, TikTok also reminded UMG of its billion-plus users and the “free promotional and discovery vehicle” the company would miss out on. With both companies publicly taking such hard lines, it doesn’t sound like a resolution is coming soon.
Well, how much does TikTok pay artists?
Short answer: We don’t know. TikTok doesn’t make its royalties public, and those rates are different depending on each label group’s deal. (That’s what got us here in the first place.) We do know, though, that UMG isn’t bluffing when it says TikTok is just a fraction of its income. According to Goldman Sachs’s 2023 “Music in the Air” report, which analyzes industry finances from 2022, TikTok made the music industry $220 million in revenue that year. That’s … not a lot. “Emerging platforms” like TikTok only accounted for 6 percent of the industry’s total 2022 revenue, and TikTok was only a 14 percent share of that (up one percent from 2021). Yes, that’s significantly more than YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels, but less than Facebook or even Peloton. Fourteen percent of 6 percent indeed comes out to a little less than one percent of the music industry’s total revenue. To UMG, which made $10.95 billion in revenue in 2022, that TikTok money is pocket change.
UMG has been concerned with TikTok’s payments for years. At the 2022 Music Matters conference, UMG’s CEO and chairman, Sir Lucian Grainge, said the industry should “avoid repeating past mistakes” by not advocating for fair pay on TikTok, per Music Business Worldwide, citing previous dynamics with YouTube and MTV. And on UMG’s 2022 Q3 earnings call, Grainge and other leadership expressed hope for a fair deal with TikTok. “When you look at what the funnel that TikTok has, when you look at the billions of views, the rate at which the company has grown, we will fight and determine how our artists get paid and when they get paid, in the same way that we have done throughout the industry for many years,” Grainge said, per Music Business Worldwide. “I have seen this movie before, I know the ending.”
Wait, doesn’t TikTok already have rules about AI?
Yes, but UMG’s concerns about artificial intelligence and TikTok go beyond the platform being “flooded with AI-generated recordings.” In its letter, UMG said the app isn’t just complacent in the AI content boom, but encourages it. The company didn’t specifically mention TikTok’s new AI Song tool, but that probably didn’t help the app’s case. Earlier this month, TikTok began rolling out the feature, which can turn user-written lyrics into a song in one of three chosen genres (pop, hip-hop, and EDM). “It’s not technically an AI song generator,” a spokesperson told the Verge, adding that the name would “likely” be changed. This is just the latest AI tool from TikTok, joining others like Creative Assistant, which uses AI to help creators make videos. TikTok has become more strict about identifying AI-generated content on the platform, though, announcing new requirements for labels on posts involving AI content last fall.
For its part, UMG is involved in AI too. Last year, for instance, UMG announced a deal with the AI startup Endel through which its artists could use Endel’s AI technology “to create science-backed soundscapes.” When UMG announced that deal, though, its executive vice-president and chief digital officer, Michael Nash, specifically spoke about “the incredible potential of ethical AI” — ethical being the operative word. UMG has run into trouble with AI before, as when the anonymous artist ghostwriter released a song called “Heart on My Sleeve” last year featuring AI dupes of Drake and the Weeknd — both UMG artists. TikTok helped that song go viral, and UMG’s stock suffered about a 20 percent hit afterward. Yeah, it goes back to money: One of the chief issues with AI-generated music, to UMG, is that it could “massively dilute the royalty pool for human artists.”
And what’s this about safety?
Concerns over harmful content on TikTok are nothing new, reaching all the way to Congress, which questioned CEO Shou Zi Chew over the issue in 2023. UMG wrote in the latest letter that TikTok has “no meaningful solutions” to safety concerns. While the label is referring to hate speech and harassment, it says this also extends to “content adjacency issues,” or ads running alongside inappropriate content. Unsafe content is particularly salient to UMG at the moment as Twitter cracks down on AI-generated nudes of Taylor Swift; the letter cited “pornographic deepfakes of artists” as an example of harmful content. UMG went on to call TikTok’s approach to moderation “the digital equivalent of ‘Whack a Mole,’” referring to “the monumentally cumbersome and inefficient process” of asking for a post to be taken down. TikTok has claimed it uses tens of thousands of moderators, along with an AI algorithm, but even some of those moderators have criticized the app’s processes.
What about other labels?
All of the Big Three label groups have been negotiating with TikTok since 2022, Bloomberg reported. Warner Music Group — the smallest, covering artists like Dua Lipa and Zach Bryan — struck “a wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind partnership” with TikTok last July. A press release was scant on details, but touted increased partnership between the companies, like finding “new ways to harness TikTok’s revenue generation and promotional capabilities” for Warner’s musicians. Good news for your “Training Season” TikTok plans.
But UMG isn’t the only group with concerns. Sony Music Group, which has artists like Beyoncé, Doja Cat, and Miley Cyrus, has expressed an interest in higher payment for short-form video. Chairman Rob Stringer didn’t specifically mention TikTok at the company’s 2023 investor presentation, where he said Sony is “aggressively leaning into” short-form video, Music Business Worldwide reported. “It doesn’t take a scientist to realize that we are being underpaid by some of those content providers,” Stringer added.
When is this happening?
UMG’s deal with TikTok is up January 31, meaning its music could be taken down as soon as tomorrow. If you’ve been sitting on any SwiftTok ideas, now could be your last chance for a while.
This is a developing story.
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5 Quick Tips For Organizing Your Google Drive
Google Drive is one of the most essential Android apps to boost productivity, but have you looked at your storage space lately? If you use, create, and work with digital files, there's a high chance that your Drive is filled to the brim with all sorts of files, from class presentations and homework to client contracts and invoices. With such a large amount of documents, photos, and what-have-yous, your storage space would surely look like a hot mess.
This can be quite problematic for a number of reasons. One, it's hard to locate stuff when everything is scattered everywhere. Sure, there's a search bar you can utilize, but that's only helpful if you know the exact name of the file or folder you need. Two, there's a risk of overlooking or forgetting about files with urgent deadlines because they're buried under a sea of clutter. Lastly, such chaos can lead to inefficient storage use because you're likely to resort to duplicating files you misplaced.
To prevent such scenarios and keep you sane and productive, it's always a wise idea to organize your Google Drive. Here are five quick tips on how to do so.
Color code folders
If you have a load of files stored in your Google Drive, chances are you're also juggling a bunch of different folders. Sure, this does keep everything organized, but because the folders are of the same colors, it can be a headache to find anything just by scrolling through your list. One quick trick to solve this dilemma is to color-code your folders.
Google Drive lets you change the default color of your folders to one of 24 colors. This way, when you browse your storage space, you can easily spot the folder you need. Color-coding is also a clever method to categorize folders without lumping them together into one big folder. For instance, you have seven folders for your work-related files and three folders for your personal media. You can simply color all your work folders green and the personal folders purple.
To change the color of your folders, here's what you need to do:
- Log into Google Drive if you haven't already.
- Right-click on the folder you wish to change the color of.
- Select Organize from the menu.
- Under Folder color, pick your preferred shade.
Add descriptions to files
Normally, you would name your files in Google Drive based on what it is or what it's for. This makes it easier to search for the file later. But sometimes, you have no control over how your files should be named. Perhaps your company follows a specific naming convention, where you need to name certain files and folders with a group of numbers, dates, or a reference to a client's project. Unless you have a memory of an elephant, you'll likely have a hard time looking for such files.
This is where file descriptions come to the rescue. They add some much-needed context to your file, helping you find them faster among a sea of oddly named documents. Google Drive allows you to tack on descriptions of up to 25,000 characters to any file or folder. This could be anything from a couple of keywords to a more detailed explanation. Here's how to do so:
- Right-click on the file or folder that needs a description.
- Select File information.
- Go to Details.
- Scroll to the Description box at the bottom of the Details pane.
- Type your description. It can be brief or detailed — whatever helps you remember what's in it.
- Press Enter to save the description.
Now, the next time you're searching for that file and forget its real file name, just pop some of those keywords or phrases into the search bar. Google Drive will do the rest and pull up files or folders with such descriptions.
Rename your folders and files
By default, your files and folders on Google Drive are arranged alphabetically. While this can be handy in certain situations, most of the time, you want them to be sorted in a certain way, perhaps in order of importance or frequency of use. So, here's a quick tip: rename your files and folders. Consider implementing these naming conventions:
- Add numbers in brackets before the file name to arrange them sequentially. For instance, instead of just having folders labeled "School," "Work," and "Personal," you can have "[01] Work," "[02] Personal," and "[03] School." This way, your folders will be sorted with Work at the top, followed by Personal, and then School.
- Throw in some special characters or emojis at the start of the files or folders you frequently use. This trick pushes them to the top of your list. Special characters can be periods or asterisks. If you prefer adding emojis, here's how to do so:
- (Method 1) In the name text box, press the Windows keyboard shortcut Win +. (period) or the Mac shortcut Cmd + Ctrl + Space to bring up the emoji selection window. Click on your preferred emoji to add it to the file name.
- (Method 2) Go to an emoji website like Emojipedia or EmojiDB. Search the emoji of your choice, click on it to copy it to your clipboard, and then paste it into the name text box.
- Use different text cases to show folder hierarchy. For instance, you can have uppercase for top-level folders (a.k.a. broad categories), sentence case for subcategories, and, finally, lowercase for individual files within the subcategories.
Use shortcuts for shared files and folders
When it comes to the best apps for sharing large files, Google Drive is a top pick. However, there are some issues you can experience with shared files and folders in Drive. Typically, when someone shares something with you, it lands in the "Shared with me" section, which has limited flexibility. You can't create new folders here to organize your files, and if you try renaming the file, the change will reflect in the original file itself, potentially messing up the owner's naming convention. An alternative strategy is to make a copy of the file in your Drive so you can freely organize and rename it. However, the issue with this approach is that the owner would no longer have access to it. This can be counterintuitive when you're doing collaborative work.
To solve this issue, just use shortcuts. Shortcuts, in essence, are quick links to files and folders located anywhere in your Google Drive. When you click on a shortcut, it will open the original file or folder. Create a shortcut for that shared file or folder, and you can place it wherever you want in your Drive, organizing it based on your preference. Another benefit of shortcuts is that you're free to rename it, as it won't affect the original file name. But remember, when you open a shortcut, you're actually working on the original file, so any changes or comments you make are visible to everyone with access.
To create a shortcut for a shared file or folder, follow these steps:
- Navigate to Shared with me.
- Select the desired file or folder.
- Right-click on it.
- Go to Organize > Add shortcut.
- Choose the folder you want to add the shortcut to.
- Press on Add.
Customize the layout and order of your files and folders
Google Drive comes with built-in organization features that enable you to change the layout and order of your files and folders. Let's break down how to use these features.
First off, there are two ways to view your stuff: list layout and grid layout. The list layout displays your files and folders in a list, along with details like the owner, date and time of last modification, and size. The grid layout, on the other hand, arranges your files and folders like a gallery, giving you previews of the files. To switch your current layout, click on the list or grid icon at the upper right corner of your Drive homepage.
In both list and grid layouts, you're free to reorder the files and folders to suit your preferences. There are several sorting options available:
- Name: Arrange the files and folders alphabetically. To toggle between ascending (A-Z) and descending (Z-A) order, click on Name (list layout) or the up/down arrow (grid layout).
- Last modified: Sort by Last modified (most recently edited by anyone with access), Last modified by me (most recent file/folder you edited), or Last opened by me (most recent file/folder you opened).
- Show folders: Change how folders show up among your files. "On top" keeps them at the beginning of your list or grid, regardless of other sorting criteria, while "Mixed with files" allows them to be sorted alongside files, not separately. To adjust this, click the three vertical dots in the upper-right corner and select your preferred option.
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https://www.slashgear.com/1506851/tips-for-organizing-google-drive/
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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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Watch: Travis Kelce Goes on Profanity-Laced Rant About Kicker Justin Tucker as He Tries to Justify Tossing His Equipment
The viral incident involving the Kansas City Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce engaging in a run-in with the Baltimore Ravens’ Justin Tucker before the Chiefs’ AFC win Sunday brought an explanation later in the week from Kelce.
Detailing the incident on the Wednesday “New Heights” podcast with his brother Jason Kelce, the Chiefs tight end said kicker Tucker broke an unwritten rule regarding pregame practice, and that prompted Travis Kelce to toss his equipment aside.
Recognizing that Tucker, in invading the Chiefs’ territory as they warmed up, was jokingly playing a competitive mind game, Travis Kelce indicated Chiefs players were focused on the game and in no mood to joke around.
“So we’re warming up,” Travis Kelce said in the podcast. “And we do our same warm-up every single time on our side of the field.
“For those of you who don’t know what happens in pregames,” he continued, “The Ravens have their side of the field, and the Chiefs have our side of the field.
“Now specialists — because of, like, the wind factor and …
“They go to both sides,” interjected Jason Kelce.
“They get a chance to kick at both field goals,” continued Travis Kelce, “and a punt from both sides of the field.”
If someone like a kicker goes to the opposition’s side of the field, “You kind of stay out of their way,” according to Travis Kelce. “You know, you don’t interfere with what they have going on.”
“That is the unwritten rule, “said Jason Kelce.
“That’s the unwritten rule,” responded his brother. “If you want to be a f*** d*** about it, you keep your helmet and your football and your f*** kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up.”
He noted that in their warmups, quarterbacks’ eyes are scanning the field, implying — with Justin Kelce seconding — that a kicker’s stray helmet could be a hazard.
“If you’re not going to pick that up, I’ll happily move that for you,” Travis Kelce said.
“Justin came out and he said it was more of a joking gesture, kind of a fun competitive [thing]. And I get it. And he was kind of winking at me and being a d*** about it, trying to get under the skin.”
Travis Kelce and Mahomes were not amused. “Me and Pat, we’ve been having the same mentality for this game all week long, man,” according to Kelce.” And it was, you gotta go in there and have the right mindset.
“And we just weren’t in a joking mood.”
WARNING: The following video contains language that may offend some viewers.
Yet, both Kelce brothers complimented Tucker as an exceptional kicker and recognized how he tends to play psychological games with opponents.
Travis Kelce summed up the incident, saying, “Don’t paint me as the bad guy,” while Jason Kelce noted how Tucker got under his brother’s skin.
But it didn’t work, Jason Kelce noted, since the Chiefs won. That makes for their fourth trip to the Super Bowl in five years.
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LAS VEGAS — Fans have been wondering for days whether Taylor Swift will make it to the Super Bowl next week to cheer on boyfriend Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs and, if so, how many times she'll show up on TV during the game. They can speculate all they want, but they won't be able to bet on it legally in the United States.
Those types of wagers can be made offshore with sportsbooks such as BetUS, which is based in Costa Rica, and potentially in the Canadian province of Ontario. BetMGM public relations manager John Ewing said he was waiting for word from Canadian authorities there if such bets will be OK.
But in the U.S., where betting laws vary from state to state, the general rule is that wagering is limited to what happens on the field. A handful of states allow bets to be placed on the color of Gatorade dumped on the winning coach — red or pink is this year's plus-260 favorite at FanDuel Sportsbook — but even that type of wager is not allowed in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, the longtime epicenter of sports betting in the U.S., has some of the strictest rules regarding the kinds of wagers made.
Swift's romance with Kelce became one of the prominent stories this NFL season and she has attended several Chiefs games, including their victory in the AFC championship game at Baltimore on Sunday, where she joined the team for its on-field celebration and greeted Kelce with a kiss. Since she's performing in Japan the weekend of the Super Bowl, fans began wondering whether she'll make it to Las Vegas to watch Kelce and Kansas City face the San Francisco 49ers.
It seems only natural they would be able to put money on it in Vegas.
As a matter of principle, though, Ewing said it makes sense not to allow bets on things apart from the on-field action, such as the length of the national anthem.
"We don't want any subjectivity in a prop (bet),'' Ewing said. ''We want it to be either it won or it didn't win or went over or went under, and that's the concern for regulators as well. That's why typically we stick to if it's in the box score, it can be posted."
Caesars Sportsbook assistant trading director Adam Pullen's position is the more bets, the merrier.
''We've come a long way, but some stuff like we're talking about here (about Swift) or betting on elections, there still might be a few years before we get to that point,'' Pullen said. ''But I like anything that drives action and gets people to bet. But we're dependent on what the regulators in each particular state has to say.''
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GogolCoin (GOL) traded 10.1% higher against the U.S. dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 17:00 PM Eastern on January 31st. One GogolCoin token can currently be bought for $0.0046 or 0.00000011 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges. GogolCoin has a total market cap of $48,104.44 and $165.50 worth of GogolCoin was traded on exchanges in the last day. Over the last seven days, GogolCoin has traded 0.4% lower against the U.S. dollar.
Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed over the last day:
- KILT Protocol (KILT) traded 2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.33 or 0.00000772 BTC.
- Aidi Finance (BSC) (AIDI) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- Zoo Token (ZOOT) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0652 or 0.00000239 BTC.
- CareCoin (CARES) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0809 or 0.00000297 BTC.
- Kitty Inu (KITTY) traded up 1.9% against the dollar and now trades at $95.84 or 0.00338062 BTC.
- Hokkaidu Inu (HOKK) traded 1.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0004 or 0.00000001 BTC.
- Lego Coin (LEGO) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0121 or 0.00000028 BTC.
- Jeff in Space (JEFF) traded down 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $2.75 or 0.00010076 BTC.
- Lumi Credits (LUMI) traded 0% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0082 or 0.00000019 BTC.
- AXIA Coin (AXC) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $13.43 or 0.00048094 BTC.
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GogolCoin’s genesis date was March 24th, 2021. GogolCoin’s total supply is 295,000,000 tokens and its circulating supply is 10,402,501 tokens. GogolCoin’s official website is gogolcoin.io. The official message board for GogolCoin is gogolcoin.io/blog. The Reddit community for GogolCoin is https://reddit.com/r/gogolcoin and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. GogolCoin’s official Twitter account is @gogolcoin and its Facebook page is accessible here.
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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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Attorneys delivered opening statements Wednesday in the trial of Michael Jason Meade, the now-retired Franklin County Sheriff's Office SWAT deputy charged with murder after he shot and killed 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr. in Dec. 2020.
Meade is white and Goodson was a Black man.
Meade's attorneys say he pursued Goodson after seeing him handling a gun in a vehicle, while the two were stopped at an intersection.
The prosecutors say Goodson was driving home from a dentist appointment and picking up sub sandwiches when Meade chased him down.
The defense and the prosecution outlined the cases they intend to present to the jury over the next few weeks before Judge David Young in Franklin County Common Pleas Court. The statements showed where each side differs on some key elements of the case, though they do agree on some facts. Goodson was wearing ear buds, he was carrying a bag of sub sandwiches as he walked into his home on Estates Place in North Linden and a gun was found with Goodson after he was shot six times by Meade.
Special prosecutor Gary Shroyer said Meade shot Goodson in the back through a storm door as he walked into his grandmother's house. Shroyer argued the shooting was not justifiable, because Goodson wasn't a threat to anyone. He claims Goodson was oblivious to Meade's commands.
"Casey did not pose a reasonable threat to the defendant or anyone else at the time he pulls his trigger. Because the evidence in our case shows Casey wasn't even facing him," Shroyer said.
Defense attorney Kaitlyn Stephens said Meade pursued Goodson because he thought he was a danger because of the weapon he saw. He said Goodson pointed the gun at him when they drove past each other and said that Goodson ran from him after after making eye contact with him. Meade fired the gun as Goodson walked into the house, after Goodson turned toward him and pointed his gun at him, making Meade fear for his life.
"It is every officer's worst nightmare to stare down the barrel of a gun. Both of them will tell you that leveling the gun in the direction of an officer is absolutely an immediate threat," Stephens said.
The defense is disputing whether or not all six shots were in Goodson's back.
Stephens said Meade pulled the trigger once while Goodson was turned toward him, but the other bullets struck Goodson because the rifle's rapid fire feature fires in six-round bursts.
Shroyer said all six shots were in Goodson's back and emphasized how Goodson fell, face forward with his palms down on the floor.
Each side says they have medical experts who can confirm which direction Goodson was facing when the first bullet hit him.
The attorneys are also offering differing perspectives on why Goodson's gun was lying next to him after he was shot.
Shroyer said Goodson had a concealed carry permit and was legally allowed to carry the weapon, and implied it likely fell from the holster when Goodson was shot in the back and fell forward.
"Casey's gun was found on the floor, with its safety still engaged. The gun had not been fired. He also had a soft-sided holster in the front of his pants. The holster does not have a strap to hold the gun in place. It's just you put it there. There's nothing there to hold it in," Shroyer said.
Stephens, though, said the weapon was found outside of a holster, within arm's reach of Goodson's body, because Goodson had the gun out when he went into the house as Meade followed.
She argues that these circumstances would mean Meade was justified in shooting Goodson.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the suspect turns toward the officer, looks in Jason's direction as he lifts his hand up, leveling the barrel of the gun toward my client. And in that split second, Jason steps to the left and fires in accordance with his training, one shot until he sees the suspect fall," Stephens said.
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28-Days-to-Lean Meal Plan
With the right plan and the right discipline, you can get seriously shredded in just 28 days.
Read articleIf your looking to get a bigger butt and a shapely physique like Jennifer Lopez you better work and while your at it do some glute exercises! From six pack abs to a big bottom a sexy body comes in many forms but it all comes down to the curves of our silhouette. There’s no doubt the butt has become a popular body part since the days of Sir-Mix-A-Lot. With superstars like Beyonce, Nikki Minaj, Cardi-B, and Jennifer Lopez all touting there impressive backsides it’s no wonder our butts have become THE body part women who embrace their curvaceous physiques.
We all want our butts to be as high, tight, round, and firm as those seemingly perfect celebrities but getting it is another matter. Because so much of our body’s shape and figure comes from our genetics and our butts is the area where we tend to hold the most fat for the longest. Making it very difficult to shape and tone. But not impossible.
Our glutes are made up of three muscles the gluteus maximus, the gluteus medius, and the gluteus minimus.
The gluteus maximus is the largest of the three muscles that make up the buttocks. This is the muscle where you want to focus your efforts on specifically the the panniculus adiposes or the fatty layer just underneath the skin.
The panniculus adiposes gives the rounded shape of your butt. If you have a flabby buttock it’s because it’s becuase of the panniculus adiposes. After all it is the layer of fat. So naturally in order to shape and give the butt a firm rounded look we need to build the butt with glute exercises.
Thankfully, Kim Oddo, celebrity trainer to the fitness stars, and IFBB figure pro—and mother of three—Cheryl Brown are here to show you how to reduce the ass into the shape you want with 10 glute exercises specifically designed to improve your bottom line.
Perform the following moves in a traditional three-set format: 15 reps each set, and resting 60 to 90 seconds between each set. Complete all sets for one exercise before moving on to the next butt exercise.
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https://www.muscleandfitness.com/muscle-fitness-hers/hers-workouts/10-best-glutes-exercises-better-butt/
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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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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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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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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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Golden Goose (GOLD) traded flat against the U.S. dollar during the one day period ending at 17:00 PM E.T. on January 31st. In the last seven days, Golden Goose has traded down 0% against the U.S. dollar. Golden Goose has a total market capitalization of $15,268.12 and $0.95 worth of Golden Goose was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Golden Goose token can currently be bought for $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Golden Goose was first traded on December 30th, 2020. Golden Goose’s total supply is 500,000,000 tokens and its circulating supply is 165,994,209 tokens. The official website for Golden Goose is goldengoose.io. Golden Goose’s official message board is medium.com/@contact_31481. Golden Goose’s official Twitter account is @goldengoosenews and its Facebook page is accessible here.
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Buying and Selling Golden Goose
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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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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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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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Goldman Sachs Small Cap Core Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:GSC – Get Free Report)’s share price was up 44% during trading on Monday . The stock traded as high as $45.45 and last traded at $45.45. Approximately 2,408 shares were traded during trading, a decline of 70% from the average daily volume of 7,985 shares. The stock had previously closed at $31.57.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Disturbing new research has uncovered how climate change impacts African elephants. The study, conducted by a team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), reveals alarming findings, urging an immediate call to action by the international community.
Older African elephants face significantly reduced survival chances under climate change. This not only threatens the species’ resilience but also disrupts the ecosystems they inhabit.
The research centers on Africa’s Greater Virunga Landscape (GVL), a vast 15,700-square-kilometer region stretching across Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This biodiverse area, hosting seven national parks and various reserves, is also the habitat of critically endangered African elephants, vital for their ecosystem roles and cultural significance.
Historically, studies have not fully explored the interplay between environmental dynamics, climate change, elephant demographics, and habitat influences.
To bridge this gap, Simon Nampindo (WCS Uganda Country Director and UMass Amherst Ph.D. graduate) and Timothy Randhir, a UMass Amherst professor, developed a systems dynamic model.
“This model,” says Nampindo, “can look at all the different environmental and population dynamics within a system. For the first time, we’re able to get a comprehensive vision of what the future might look like for African elephants in the face of climate change.”
Nampindo and Randhir constructed their model using elephant population data, historical landscape changes, and various future climate-change scenarios, projecting warming of 1.6 ºC, 2.8ºC, and 4.3ºC over the next 80 years.
They then analyzed how each climate scenario would impact five different elephant age groups: under 10 years, 11 – 30 years, 31 – 40 years, 41 – 50 years, and over 50 years.
“Any impact on one age class echoes through the entire population,” Randhir notes.
The findings are stark, to say the least. Older elephants, crucial as matriarchal leaders, will be severely affected across all climate warming scenarios. Their loss would disrupt herd dynamics, genetic profiles, and landscape interactions.
“We found that the older elephants will be massively affected by warming under every scenario,” says Nampindo.
“Elephants are matriarchal — their leaders are the older cows, and the herds depend on their wisdom, long memories and ability to outsmart prey, and if they are lost to changing climate, it will wreak havoc on the surviving, younger herds, as well as change the genetic profiles and structures of the herd. There will also be ripple effects through the GVL’s landscape,” Nampindo explained.
But the study offers more than grim forecasts. Randhir highlights its utility for policy guidance, emphasizing the need for coordinated management across the GVL.
Strategies must encompass anti-poaching efforts, community-led programs, and habitat management to counter fragmentation, fire, and invasive species.
“These results are very important to WCS,” says Nampindo, underscoring the broader implications. “If we can do a good job at protecting elephants, our efforts will reverberate to other species, such as lions and mountain gorillas.”
“More broadly,” says Randhir, “the most exciting thing about this systems dynamic modeling is that it can be adapted to any migratory species that move across political boundaries, from fish to birds to lions.”
In summary, the jolting research by Nampindo and Randhir offers a critical lens through which we can view the future of African elephants amidst the growing challenges of climate change.
By employing a dynamic systems model, their study highlights the vulnerability of different elephant age groups to rising temperatures while underscoring the necessity for collaborative, multi-faceted conservation strategies.
These strategies must integrate anti-poaching efforts, community engagement, and habitat management to ensure the survival of these majestic creatures.
This study, therefore, stands not just as a call to action for the conservation of African elephants, but as a blueprint for safeguarding migratory species across diverse ecosystems and political boundaries.
The full study was published in the journal PLOS Sustainability and Transformation.
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Intelligent Design
Physics, Earth & Space
Astrophysicist: “We Do Not Yet Know How, Where, or Why Life First Appeared”
A fantastic article at Universe Today reports on “The Improbable Origins of Life on Earth.” It opens with a striking admission of our ignorance about how life arose:
We do not yet know how, where, or why life first appeared on our planet. Part of the difficulty is that “life” has no strict, universally agreed-upon definition.
The author is Paul Sutter, an astrophysicist at Ohio State University — and he’s absolutely right: there’s presently no natural explanation for the origin of life.
What Is Life?
Sutter provides some useful definitions of life, starting with what he calls a “simple statement”:
Life is that which is subject to Darwinian evolution. That is, life experiences natural selection, that unceasing pressure that chooses traits and characteristics to pass down to a new generation through the simple virtue of their survivability.
If we accept this definition at face value, life must be highly complex. That’s because Darwinian evolution requires both survival and replication. Survival requires the ability to metabolize materials from the surrounding environment into energy needed to power the chemical reactions of life, and replication requires the ability to make copies of yourself with some minimal level of fidelity. Both of these requirements entail highly complex systems.
Here’s how Walter Bradley and I described the minimal complexity of life in our chapter “Did Life First Arise by Purely Natural Means?” in The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, published in 2021:
[A]ll living systems (1) process energy, (2) store information, and (3) replicate. In nature, these processes are performed primarily by molecules from three families of large biopolymers: proteins, DNA, and RNA. The mystery of how life began is essentially the mystery of how these three types of biopolymers formed and congregated within a cell with a barrier made of lipids as a self-replicating system.
Sutter seems to unwittingly agree with this description of life, because he then elaborates on what is necessary to make Darwinian evolution possible, and lands on exactly the same three requirements for life (though listed in a different order):
To succeed at evolution and separate itself from mere chemical reactions, life must do three things. First, it must somehow store information, such as the encoding for various processes, traits, and characteristics. This way the successful traits can pass from one generation to another.
Second, life must self-replicate. It must be able to make reasonably accurate copies of its own molecular structure, so that the information contained within itself has the chance to become a new generation, changed and altered based on its survivability.
Lastly, life must catalyze reactions. It must affect its own environment, whether for movement, or to acquire or store energy, or grow new structures, or all the many wonderful activities that life does on a daily basis.
Again, this is exactly right. And doing these “three things” — “store information,” “self-replicate” and “catalyze reactions” — isn’t simple. The whole process requires complex DNA and RNA molecules and molecular machines. Sutter appreciates this fact and gives a decent sketch of the complexity of life:
[L]ife on Earth has evolved a dizzying array of chemical and molecular machines to propagate itself — a menagerie so complex and interconnected that we do not yet fully understand it. But a basic picture has emerged. Put exceedingly simply (for I would hate for you to mistake me for a biologist), life accomplishes these tasks with a triad of molecular tools.
Sutter is correct that life is full of molecular machines and that we’re still untangling its complexity. And the molecular triad he refers to is composed of DNA, RNA, and proteins.
The Molecular Triad of Life
Regarding DNA, he says strikingly that, “The raw ability of DNA to store massive amounts of information is nothing short of a miracle.”
Regarding RNA, Sutter says that it “stores information but, again speaking only in generalities, has the main job of reading the chemical instructions stored in the DNA and using that to manufacture the last member of the triad, proteins.” Of course he’s right that RNA stores (and transports) information that is used in manufacturing proteins, but I would argue he understates its other important functions. As we recently discussed, we can now identify “RNA genes” which produce RNAs as an end in themselves that perform numerous important cellular functions.
As for proteins, Sutter provides a nice summary of their importance and their diversity:
“Proteins” is a generic catch-all term for the almost uncountable varieties of molecular machines that do stuff: They snip apart molecules, bind them back together, manufacture new ones, hold structures together, become structures themselves, move important molecules from one place to another, transform energy from one form to another, and so on.
But there’s a catch: proteins are also necessary for replicating DNA. Sutter explains: “DNA stores information, RNA uses that information to manufacture proteins, and the proteins interact with the environment and perform the self-replication of DNA.”
The Irreducible Complexity of Life
But then Sutter closes with a powerful conclusion that the “interconnected” nature of this triad means that all aspects of the system must be present for life to function:
The interconnected nature of DNA, RNA, and proteins means that it could not have sprung up ab initio from the primordial ooze, because if only one component is missing then the whole system falls apart — a three-legged table with one missing cannot stand.
This almost sounds like a description of “irreducible complexity” — if “one component is missing then the whole system falls apart.” And once again, he’s absolutely right: Life as we know it requires DNA, RNA, and protein to function, and it can’t arise in a stepwise manner on the early earth.
A Potent Challenge to Chemical Evolution
What about his comment that life’s “interconnected nature” means “it could not have sprung up ab initio from the primordial ooze”? That sounds like a potent challenge to chemical evolution.
Now make no mistake, Sutter clearly endorses evolution at multiple points in his article, and I have no idea what he thinks about intelligent design. And while he thinks that life “could not have sprung up ab initio from the primordial ooze,” it’s not entirely clear if that wording is intended to leave the door open to some other unspecified types of models for a natural origin of life. Nonetheless, his arguments here about obstacles to a stepwise explanation of chemical evolution — even alluding to the irreducibly complex nature of life’s fundamental biomolecules — are exactly right.
It’s good to find another scientist — with no connections to intelligent design — who sees the issue so clearly
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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Scientists have found that spiderwebs can be used to capture environmental DNA, which reflects the animal population of an area. The technique may help track the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
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In our exploration of age-related dementia, a common belief is that this affliction is as old as humanity itself. However, research led by the University of Southern California (USC) suggests a different history behind this disease.
This study delves into classical Greek and Roman medical texts, revealing that severe memory loss, now almost epidemic, was surprisingly rare around 2,000 to 2,500 years ago.
This finding strengthens the theory that Alzheimer’s and related dementias are largely products of modern lifestyles and environments.
Factors like sedentary behavior and air pollution are significant contributors.
Caleb Finch, the study’s first author and a University Professor at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, sheds light on the ancient Greeks’ understanding of memory issues.
“The ancient Greeks had very, very few — but we found them — mentions of something that would be like mild cognitive impairment,” said Finch.
They acknowledged mild cognitive impairments, akin to what we identify today, but nothing on the scale of Alzheimer’s, which involves substantial loss of memory, speech, and reasoning.
The study’s journey through ancient medical literature, including works by Hippocrates and his disciples, reveals intriguing insights.
These texts extensively catalog ailments common in older people, such as deafness and dizziness, yet surprisingly omit significant memory loss. However, as we shift to ancient Rome, the narrative changes slightly.
Notable figures like Galen and Pliny the Elder begin to document instances of memory decline in the elderly.
For example, Galen observed learning difficulties in some 80-year-olds, while Pliny the Elder recounted a senator who forgot his own name. Cicero, too, noted a kind of “elderly silliness,” though he didn’t associate it with all old men.
“When we got to the Romans, and we uncovered at least four statements that suggest rare cases of advanced dementia — we can’t tell if it’s Alzheimer’s. So, there was a progression going from the ancient Greeks to the Romans,” Finch explained.
Finch, alongside co-author Stanley Burstein, a historian at California State University, Los Angeles, postulates that the denser Roman cities and increased pollution might have escalated cognitive decline cases.
The use of lead in cooking vessels, water pipes, and even wine sweetening by Roman aristocrats likely exacerbated the issue, given lead’s neurotoxic properties.
To further their understanding, Finch didn’t limit his research to the ancient Western world. Lacking demographic data for ancient Greece and Rome, he turned to a modern comparison: the Tsimane Amerindians of the Bolivian Amazon.
The Tsimane’s preindustrial, physically active lifestyle mirrors that of the ancient civilizations, and significantly, they exhibit extremely low dementia rates.
An international team, including Margaret Gatz, a professor at the USC Leonard Davis School, found that only about 1% of older Tsimane people suffer from dementia, a stark contrast to the 11% incidence in the United States’ elderly population.
In summary, this comprehensive study, bridging ancient texts and contemporary groups, underscores the profound impact of environmental factors on dementia risk throughout history.
The Tsimane community offers a valuable model for understanding how lifestyle choices influence cognitive health.
As Finch notes, their minimal dementia rates provide a template for asking critical questions about the environment’s role in this modern-day health challenge.
“The Tsimane data, which is quite deep, is very valuable,” Finch said. “This is the best-documented large population of older people that have minimal dementia, all of which indicates that the environment is a huge determinant on dementia risk. They give us a template for asking these questions.”
This research revisits our historical understanding of dementia while providing suggestions for future studies, potentially reshaping our approach to preventing and managing this condition in the modern world.
The full study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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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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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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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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GXChain (GXC) traded 0.2% higher against the US dollar during the 1-day period ending at 17:00 PM Eastern on January 31st. During the last seven days, GXChain has traded down 6.6% against the US dollar. GXChain has a market capitalization of $20.32 million and $4,079.24 worth of GXChain was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One GXChain coin can currently be purchased for about $0.27 or 0.00000638 BTC on popular cryptocurrency exchanges.
Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:
- Belrium (BEL) traded flat against the dollar and now trades at $2.51 or 0.00009565 BTC.
- TRON (TRX) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.11 or 0.00000263 BTC.
- Tezos (XTZ) traded 3.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.96 or 0.00002258 BTC.
- Terra Classic (LUNC) traded down 4.9% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
- aelf (ELF) traded 3.5% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.56 or 0.00001306 BTC.
- Terra (LUNA) traded 5.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.60 or 0.00001414 BTC.
- Adshares (ADS) traded down 2.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.34 or 0.00000802 BTC.
- BitShares (BTS) traded 2.4% lower against the dollar and now trades at $0.0037 or 0.00000009 BTC.
GXChain Coin Profile
GXChain (CRYPTO:GXC) uses the hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was June 10th, 2017. GXChain’s total supply is 100,000,000 coins and its circulating supply is 75,000,000 coins. The official message board for GXChain is forum.gxb.io. GXChain’s official Twitter account is @gxchainglobal and its Facebook page is accessible here. GXChain’s official website is gxs.gxb.io/en. The Reddit community for GXChain is https://reddit.com/r/gxs and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here.
The blockchain supports smart contracts, blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS), ID verification and KYC, multi-dimensional data, and swift login. It also has a GXB Dapp that can perform personal credit management and face-to-face credit verification.
GXChain is a DPoS cryptocurrency based on the DPoS algorithm.”
GXChain Coin Trading
It is usually not currently possible to purchase alternative cryptocurrencies such as GXChain directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire GXChain should first purchase Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Changelly or Coinbase. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to purchase GXChain using one of the exchanges listed above.
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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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The intriguing relationship between kimchi consumption, health, and obesity reduction has recently come to light in a study published in the BMJ Open.
This comprehensive research delves into the effects of this beloved Korean staple on human health, particularly concerning obesity risks.
Kimchi, a cornerstone of Korean cuisine, is a fermented dish primarily made from cabbage and radish. It’s crafted by fermenting these vegetables with a variety of seasonings like onion, garlic, and fish sauce.
Not only is it low in calories, but it’s also a rich source of dietary fiber, beneficial lactic acid bacteria, vitamins, and polyphenols.
Past experimental studies have highlighted the anti-obesity properties of Lactobacillus brevis and L. plantarum, strains of bacteria found in kimchi.
Building on this, researchers sought to understand if regular kimchi consumption could reduce the risk of overall and abdominal obesity, the latter being particularly detrimental to health.
The study utilized data from 115,726 individuals (36,756 men and 78,970 women with an average age of 51) participating in the Health Examinees (HEXA) study.
HEXA, part of the larger Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study, focuses on identifying environmental and genetic risk factors for common conditions in Korean adults over 40.
Participants’ dietary intake was assessed using a 106-item food frequency questionnaire. This tool helped researchers understand the frequency of kimchi consumption among participants, ranging from never to up to three times a day.
The study considered various types of kimchi, including cabbage (baechu) and radish (kkakdugi) kimchi, watery versions like nabak and dongchimi, and other varieties such as mustard greens kimchi.
Serving sizes varied, with 50 g for baechu or kkakdugi and 95 g for nabak or dongchimi.
Researchers observed a J-shaped curve in the relationship between kimchi consumption and obesity. Notably, those consuming more than five servings daily tended to have higher weights, waist sizes, and obesity rates.
These individuals were also more likely to have lower education levels, lower incomes, and a propensity for alcohol consumption.
The study found that consuming up to three servings of kimchi daily was linked to an 11% lower prevalence of obesity compared to those who ate less than one serving.
Specifically, in men, three or more servings of baechu kimchi daily correlated with a 10% decrease in overall and abdominal obesity rates.
In women, two to three servings of the same variety were associated with an 8% reduction in obesity, while one to two servings per day corresponded with a 6% decrease in abdominal obesity.
Interestingly, consuming below-average quantities of kkakdugi kimchi was linked to a 9% lower prevalence of obesity in both sexes.
Moreover, consumption of 25 g/day for men and 11 g/day for women was associated with an 8% (men) to 11% (women) lower risk of abdominal obesity.
It’s important to note that this is an observational study and cannot definitively establish cause and effect.
Additionally, the use of food frequency questionnaires has its limitations in accurately quantifying food intake. The findings may also not be applicable to populations outside Korea.
Despite the health benefits, the researchers caution against excessive kimchi consumption due to its high sodium content, which can be detrimental to overall health.
However, they suggest that the potassium in fermented vegetables may help counteract this effect.
In summary, the study concludes that while moderate kimchi consumption appears beneficial in reducing obesity prevalence, excessive intake could lead to adverse health outcomes.
As one of the major sources of sodium intake, a balanced consumption of kimchi is recommended to enjoy its health benefits without the associated risks.
The full study was published in the journal BMJ Open.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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New reports show a big academic recovery after schools reopened. But not for all students. Stanford professor Sean Reardon tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly how the pandemic worsened education inequality.
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A new study from the University of Reading has brought to light the alarming risks associated with ocean heating, particularly highlighting the drastic changes observed in 2023.
The research warns of the consequences if the world enters a climate that is 3.0°C warmer than pre-industrial levels.
The year 2023 witnessed record-high ocean temperatures that were unprecedented in the last four decades. The North Atlantic, in particular, experienced extreme warmth, measuring about 1.4°C above the average temperature between 1982 and 2011.
This surge in ocean temperatures is not an isolated phenomenon but a potential precursor to what could become the new norm under a global warming scenario of 3°C.
It’s crucial to note that the current global temperature has already risen by approximately 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels. The researchers set out to explore the causes behind the record-breaking ocean temperatures.
“The extraordinary heat in the North Atlantic and missing sea ice in the Southern Ocean in 2023 tell us the oceans are sounding an alarm,” said Dr. Till Kuhlbrodt, who led the study.
“We urgently need to understand exactly why parts of the ocean are warming rapidly so we can prepare for more frequent weather disruption across the planet. How often we get hit by more of these extremes hangs on figuring out what’s driving the Atlantic and Southern Oceans into uncharted territory.”
A critical aspect of this research is the investigation into Earth’s energy imbalance. Currently, the Earth is absorbing more solar energy than it releases back into space as heat, creating an imbalance of 1.9 watts per square meter.
Over a year, this excess energy is roughly 300 times greater than the global annual consumption of electric energy. This imbalance, primarily driven by heat-trapping gases from human activities, is a significant factor in the acceleration of ocean heating, with over 90% of the excess energy being absorbed by the oceans.
Since 2016, the Atlantic Ocean has been warming at a rate faster than other ocean basins, particularly in the top 100 meters of the ocean. This trend is believed to be linked with record low levels of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. The year 2023 marked a historic low for Antarctic winter sea ice extent, the lowest since satellite monitoring began in the late 1970s.
The study emphasizes the need for a deeper understanding of how the rapid warming of the Atlantic is affecting sea ice cover and stresses the importance of attributing these oceanic and sea ice extremes accurately. Such understanding is crucial for refining climate models, which in turn will guide global mitigation policies and resilience measures.
Dr. Kuhlbrodt highlighted the urgency of gathering more data: “We need more data from the Atlantic to conclusively tie the warming and disappearing ice trends to a shift in the pattern of ocean currents, but the signals point to a hidden climate connections between the poles.”
Ocean warming, a consequence of climate change, has several significant and interrelated effects on the environment, marine life, and human societies.
Warmer ocean temperatures can lead to coral bleaching, where corals lose their vibrant colors and essential symbiotic algae. This can devastate coral reefs, crucial to marine biodiversity.
Warmer temperatures cause the expansion of seawater and the melting of glaciers and ice caps, contributing to sea level rise. This can lead to coastal erosion, flooding, and displacement of coastal communities.
Ocean warming can alter the distribution of marine species, as many species migrate towards cooler waters. This disrupts existing ecosystems and affects fishing patterns and marine biodiversity.
Warmer oceans can fuel more intense and frequent hurricanes and typhoons, leading to increased risks for coastal communities.
Along with warming, the ocean absorbs more CO2, leading to acidification. This affects shellfish and other marine organisms with calcium carbonate shells or skeletons.
Changing ocean temperatures can affect fish stocks, altering their breeding patterns, growth rates, and migration routes, impacting global fisheries and food security.
Elevated temperatures can affect ocean currents, which in turn disrupt the upwelling of nutrients from the deep ocean. This can impact the base of the oceanic food web.
Marine mammals, like polar bears and seals, are affected by the loss of sea ice and changes in prey availability due to warming oceans.
These impacts highlight the importance of addressing climate change and implementing strategies to mitigate ocean heating.
The study is published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
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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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Hooker Furnishings Co. (NASDAQ:HOFT – Get Free Report)’s share price passed above its 200-day moving average during trading on Monday . The stock has a 200-day moving average of $20.88 and traded as high as $25.51. Hooker Furnishings shares last traded at $25.29, with a volume of 47,548 shares.
Analyst Ratings Changes
Separately, StockNews.com raised Hooker Furnishings from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, December 8th.
View Our Latest Stock Analysis on Hooker Furnishings
Hooker Furnishings Stock Performance
Hooker Furnishings (NASDAQ:HOFT – Get Free Report) last released its earnings results on Thursday, December 7th. The company reported $0.65 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.26 by $0.39. Hooker Furnishings had a positive return on equity of 4.64% and a negative net margin of 1.84%. The business had revenue of $116.83 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $116.26 million. On average, research analysts predict that Hooker Furnishings Co. will post 1.45 EPS for the current year.
Hooker Furnishings Increases Dividend
The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 29th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 15th were issued a dividend of $0.23 per share. This is an increase from Hooker Furnishings’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.22. This represents a $0.92 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.99%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, December 14th. Hooker Furnishings’s dividend payout ratio is presently -122.67%.
Institutional Inflows and Outflows
A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of HOFT. Bank of New York Mellon Corp lifted its holdings in shares of Hooker Furnishings by 4.1% during the first quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 123,942 shares of the company’s stock valued at $2,347,000 after purchasing an additional 4,870 shares in the last quarter. MetLife Investment Management LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Hooker Furnishings by 39.7% during the first quarter. MetLife Investment Management LLC now owns 8,421 shares of the company’s stock valued at $159,000 after purchasing an additional 2,392 shares in the last quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP lifted its holdings in shares of Hooker Furnishings by 0.6% during the first quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 884,972 shares of the company’s stock valued at $16,762,000 after purchasing an additional 5,479 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Hooker Furnishings by 1.5% during the first quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 558,993 shares of the company’s stock valued at $10,588,000 after purchasing an additional 8,059 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Renaissance Technologies LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Hooker Furnishings by 514.9% during the first quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 76,865 shares of the company’s stock valued at $1,456,000 after purchasing an additional 64,365 shares in the last quarter. 74.01% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.
Hooker Furnishings Company Profile
Hooker Furnishings Corporation designs, manufactures, imports, and markets residential household, hospitality, and contract furniture. The company's Hooker Branded segment offers design categories, including home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, and bedroom furniture under the Hooker Furniture brand; and imported upholstered furniture under the Hooker Upholstery brand.
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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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The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
Copyright 2024 NPR
The dueling contests surrounding the Nevada Republican's nominating process has led to voter confusion. And with it, an outcome many in the state saw as inevitable: Trump is the de facto winner.
Copyright 2024 NPR
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A recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, provides conclusive evidence that modern humans, Home sapiens, coexisted in the same region with Neanderthals for thousands of years.
Bone fragments excavated from a site near Ranis, Germany, prove that modern humans, Homo sapiens, had reached Northern Europe approximately 45,000 years ago.
This period significantly overlaps with the era of Neanderthals, suggesting a coexistence that lasted several millennia before the latter’s extinction.
The Ranis site, renowned for its intricate leaf-shaped stone tool blades, now stands as one of the oldest confirmed locations of modern human Stone Age culture in north central and northwestern Europe.
This discovery aligns with genomic evidence indicating occasional interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.
It also supports theories that the arrival of modern humans in Europe and Asia, about 50,000 years ago, may have contributed to the Neanderthals‘ decline after over 500,000 years of dominance in the region.
Detailed in a trio of papers published today in Nature and Nature Ecology and Evolution, this discovery was made possible through a combination of genetic, archaeological, isotopic analyses, and radiocarbon dating at the Ranis site.
These studies have shed new light on the age-old question of who crafted the leaf-point stone blades found there.
Until now, it was unclear whether these tools, part of the Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician (LRJ) culture or technocomplex, were the work of Neanderthals or Homo sapiens.
Elena Zavala, a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the first authors of the Nature paper, clarifies the discovery, saying, “The new findings demonstrate that Homo sapiens made this technology, and that Homo sapiens were this far north at this time period, which is 45,000 years ago. So these are among the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe.”
Zavala began this pivotal work in 2018 as a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (MPI-EVA), under the leadership of Jean-Jacque Hublin, the institute’s former director and a professor at the Collège de France in Paris.
“The Ranis cave site provides evidence for the first dispersal of Homo sapiens across the higher latitudes of Europe. It turns out that stone artifacts that were thought to be produced by Neanderthals were, in fact, part of the early Homo sapiens toolkit,” Hublin said.
“This fundamentally changes our previous knowledge about the period: Homo sapiens reached northwestern Europe long before Neanderthal disappearance in southwestern Europe.”
Interestingly, the genetic analysis conducted by Zavala focused on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is solely inherited from the mother.
This analysis spanned bone fragments from both new and deeper excavations at Ranis, conducted between 2016 and 2022, and those from earlier excavations in the 1930s.
“We confirmed that the skeletal fragments belonged to Homo sapiens. Interestingly, several fragments shared the same mitochondrial DNA sequences — even fragments from different excavations,” Zalala explains.
“This indicates that the fragments belonged to the same individual or their maternal relatives, linking these new finds with the ones from decades ago.”
This link between the new and old finds is a remarkable testament to the continuity of the human lineage over millennia.
Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, another first author and a doctoral student at the Collège de France, initially identified the fragments as human through paleoproteomics, the analysis of ancient bone proteins.
This preliminary identification set the stage for the subsequent DNA analyses.
By comparing mtDNA sequences from Ranis with those from other Paleolithic sites in Europe, Zavala constructed a family tree of early Homo sapiens across the continent.
Most of the Ranis fragments resembled mtDNA from a 43,000-year-old woman’s skull found in the Czech Republic, while one fragment was more akin to an individual from Italy.
“That raises some questions: Was this a single population? What could be the relationship here?” Zavala notes.
“But with mitochondrial DNA, that’s only one side of the history. It’s only the maternal side. We would need to have nuclear DNA to be able to start looking into this.”
Zavala’s meticulous examination of sediment from various levels at the Ranis excavation site revealed DNA from an array of mammals but notably no hominid DNA.
Her combined analysis, including morphological, isotopic, and proteomic studies of bone fragments, offers a vivid depiction of the environmental and dietary patterns of both humans and animals that inhabited the cave over thousands of years.
Remarkably, the discovery of bones from reindeer, cave bear, woolly rhinoceros, and horses suggests that the area experienced cold climatic conditions akin to modern Siberia and northern Scandinavia.
This finding points to a human diet predominantly based on large terrestrial animals. The research team concluded that the cave served primarily as a shelter for hibernating cave bears and denning hyenas, with humans occupying it only occasionally, but no trace of Neanderthals.
One of the papers posits that the sparse archaeological evidence at the Ranis site, among others, indicates short, expedient visits by small, nomadic groups of early Homo sapiens.
“This shows that even these earlier groups of Homo sapiens dispersing across Eurasia already had some capacity to adapt to such harsh climatic conditions,” said Sarah Pederzani, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of La Laguna in Spain, who led the paleoclimate study of the site.
“Until recently, it was thought that resilience to cold-climate conditions did not appear until several thousand years later, so this is a fascinating and surprising result.”
This finding is particularly intriguing as it challenges the previously held belief that resilience to cold climates in Homo sapiens emerged much later.
The Ilsenhöhle site, nestled at the base of a castle, was initially excavated between 1932 and 1938. The leaf points discovered there were initially attributed to either the final years of the Middle Paleolithic period (about 300,000 to 30,000 years ago) or the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic (beginning around 50,000 years ago).
Recognizing the site’s significance in understanding the transition from the late Middle Paleolithic to the modern human Upper Paleolithic in central Europe, Jean-Jacque Hublin and his team embarked on a reexcavation using modern archaeological tools.
This extensive excavation, reaching 8 meters below the surface, unearthed flint tool chips and a quartzite flake consistent with the LRJ technocomplex.
Proteomic analysis of bone chips recovered both in the recent and the 1930s excavations confirmed the presence of hominid remains.
Zavala’s DNA analysis conclusively identified all 13 bone fragments as belonging to Homo sapiens.
Moreover, the team’s radiocarbon dating of human and animal bones from various layers of the site has been instrumental in reconstructing the site’s chronology.
Helen Fewlass, a former Max Planck researcher, emphasized the coherence between the radiocarbon dates of Homo sapiens bones from both excavation collections and those from the LRJ layers.
“We found very good agreement between the radiocarbon dates from the Homo sapiens bones from both excavation collections and with modified animal bones from the LRJ layers of the new excavation, making a very strong link between the human remains and LRJ. The evidence suggests that Homo sapiens were sporadically occupying the site from as early as 47,500 years ago,” Fewlass explained.
Tim Schüler of the Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments and Archaeology in Weimar, Germany, added, “The results from the Ilsenhöhle in Ranis fundamentally changed our ideas about the chronology and settlement history of Europe north of the Alps.”
In summary, this important study has confirmed that modern humans, Homo sapiens, coexisted with Neanderthals for thousands of years.
The scientists’ conclusion is based on the analysis of bone fragments found near Ranis, Germany, which indicate that Homo sapiens arrived in Northern Europe around 45,000 years ago.
This timeline suggests a significant period of overlap with Neanderthals, lasting several millennia before the Neanderthals eventually became extinct.
In addition, through meticulous DNA analysis and modern archaeological techniques, researchers have unveiled evidence that challenges previous notions about human adaptation to harsh climates and the timeline of human settlement in Europe.
The tireless work of these scientists has enriched our understanding of human evolution, while exemplifying the importance of integrating various scientific disciplines to unravel the complex narrative of our ancestry.
The full study was published in the journal Nature.
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A court rejected Elon Musk’s $55.8B pay package. What is he worth to Tesla?
Posted January 31, 2024 6:15 pm.
Last Updated January 31, 2024 6:26 pm.
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.”
Stan Choe And Tom Krisher, The Associated Press
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Chinatown has been an area in Edmonton that has faced challenges relating to poverty and crime, but the community is also the source of many stories of resilience and joy.
One local artist and illustrator is hoping to help Edmontonians see that.
Emily Chu has been a market vendor for almost 10 years and has been working in Chinatown since 2019. She has started a market to bring local artists and the community together. Fittingly, the event is called Togather Chinatown Art Fair.
Chu said there is so much community spirit to share.
“In Chinatown, we are often under that stigma there are still a lot of folks who think it is a dangerous place or don’t feel quite comfortable there, so we really want to bring that alternative lens to this space (and show) that there is beautiful community-building happening,” she said.
The market event celebrates the Lunar New Year. It will showcase 35 community-minded vendors. Chu said they are mostly artists but the market will also feature food and family-friendly activities.
“We are all about creating space for multiculturalism, sharing stories, community connections, and of course vibrant local art.”
Chu said this event follows Chinatown Dining Week and Chinatown After Dark. She said this is a chance to showcase the artistic side of the community.
“There has been great energy happening in the Chinatown area, and this is honestly just the arts branch of it,” she said.
Chu said the event has amazing artists coming together to be a part of it. The Bissell Centre is taking part to showcase artwork created by some Edmontonians who are experiencing homelessness.
She said she hopes to bring a multigenerational and multicultural audience to Chinatown.
Other events include a lion dance, face-painting, crafts, magic shows and a photo booth.
“That’s also why we have so many of these incredible activities that go alongside the market … we want to have space for games, for families to gather, to eat and to support local art,” Chu said.
“If you do come to the event, you will definitely feel that deep community heart in Chinatown.”
The event takes place on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 at the Edmonton Chinatown Multi-Cultural Centre.
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Davina McCall was made an MBE for services to broadcasting on Wednesday, however, her personal life has been far from easy.
Nowadays, Davina is known as the epitome of health, with her impressive abs and fitness regime, as well as being an advocate for women's issues, reports the Mirror.
Despite her stellar success, Davina's lifestyle at 56 is worlds away from her early-twenties, when she was tragically addicted to Class A Drugs.
During her appearance on Steven Bartlett's Diary of a CEO podcast, Davina opened up about her drug use at the tender age of 14, using a year later at 15 with her mother.
By 16 she heartbreakingly used cocaine and heroin, and by her twenties, she was a full-blown addict, using heroin regularly.
"I was a mess. You name it, I took it. Cocaine, ecstasy and heroin. Because of my mistakes I am less judgmental of others," she told The Mirror.
At the age of 19, she formed pop group, Lazy Bear, before she pursued a career as a classical solo artist.
However, the star quit the music business and became a men's booker at Models 1 before her short stint as a Moulin Rogue-style cabaret performer in Paris.
Sadly for Davina, her life almost ended with an accidental overdose when she was trying to escape her 'dark' reality.
"Drugs took me to a very, very, very dark place and, one night, I overdosed," she admitted.
"It was very frightening as it was a very gradual overdose. I'd had a cocktail of drugs, because I didn't want to feel normal. I was constantly trying to escape myself - I was like a piece of fruit rotting from the inside."
She devastatingly added: "When you hate yourself so much, you think you are worthless. Someone would smile at me and I wouldn't understand why as I wasn't worth anything. I had to try and love myself but I didn't even like myself, so it was a big leap."
The 56-year-old classed herself as a "high-functioning", she thought she was getting away with it until a fight with a friend led to a moment of realisation.
"I always wore make-up, I had a job, I didn't steal. I wasn't like your average street junkie," she told This Morning in 2016.
"Everyone is different, but for me, it was when my friend said, 'Everyone is talking about you and what a mess you are,' that changed things. I thought I was fully functioning. But I wasn't. My cover was blown."
The Big Brother icon reflected on the intervention at 24 in her self-help book, Lessons I've Learned in 2016.
She went on to explain that it was her best friend Sarah who had confronted her en route to a concert, warning her: "I know you're lying to me and I know you've been taking heroin.
She penned: "I explained I knew she was right and I wanted to change. She forgave me and we had a massive cry. I went into the NA meeting that night and my life changed. I owe NA my life, literally. But it also gave me my career," she added.
Subsequently, Davina got clean when she was 25 with the help of ex-boyfriend Eric Clapton and went on to land a life-changing presenting gig with MTV in 1992.
She added: "And because I got clean I got the job I'd dreamed of and that changed my life forever."
The presenter took the leap to front Rays Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe, changing her life and beginning her long-running and successful career in television.
Her status was elevated when she was given the opportunity to host Channel 4 dating programme, Streetmate, in 1998, followed by the now-iconic reality show Big Brother, which she was the face of until 2010.
Davina believes that her problems began as a child: just three when her parents split up, her socialite mother Florence travelled back to France, leaving Davina to live with her grandparents in Surrey, and while she maintained contact with her dad, she felt abandoned by her alcoholic mother who failed to show for meetings.
"It was just very sad. She probably shouldn't have had kids because she was still a big kid herself," Davina revealed on BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? in 2009.
"Obviously she drank a lot, and from a really early age - a bit too young. I know she smoked magic cigarettes. She called them magic cigarettes but I kind of knew what they were from about eight. Just not appropriate behaviour."
Comparing her relationship to Eddie and Saffie out of Absolutely Fabulous, Davina recalled once being left alone in a Parisian nightclub when she was just 12.
And despite her desperate attempts to forge a good relationship, she remained heartbroken by her mum's ability to show any affection.
"I worshipped her. I had no boundaries. When I was a teenager, it was cool, but half of the time, I wanted a hug or for her to pick me up from the airport," she said. Explaining how the rejection left her "catatonic with grief", in another interview, she revealed: "I couldn’t make her invite me into her bed for a hug when I'd had a nightmare. I felt she'd done something to betray me or hurt me."
Despite the rocky relationship, Davina recalls her mother could be the life and soul of any gathering.
"She was party central, but also, I'm at pains to say, along with being quite a chaotic parent, she was really f***ing fun," Davina added.
In 2000, Davina and her mum tragically had their final fallout when Florence sold her story, just three months after Davina tied the knot with Pet Rescue's Matthew - whom she shares three children with.
Florence claimed her daughter's demons re-surfaced just a week before the nuptials.
However, Davina insisted that although she did visit Narcotics Anonymous, it didn't mean she was about to relapse.
In 2008, Florence died in South Africa - with Davina making the decision not to attend her funeral, admitting she felt 'relief' over her passing.
"When she died... I could stop swinging from side to side. And I also think, 'Please God, when I die, don't let it be a relief to anybody,'" she said.
Elsewhere, Davina's transition into fitness and health came in her mid 30s, when she discovered the importance of moving her body.
Following the birth of her children, she was keen to look to look and feel good again and set out on a mission to educate others at the same time.
She released her first workout DVD in 2004, titled Davina: Power of 3, with My Three 30 Minute Workouts released the following year.
Following the release of 14 exercise DVDs in total, in 2019 she launched her online fitness and lifestyle programme 'Own Your Goals' in a bid to help people get fit. It offers hundreds of workout routines, live fitness sessions, healthy recipe ideas and wellbeing advice.
More recently, the health advocate has fronted documentaries on women's health and in 2022, released a book called Menopausing, which won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards last year.
On her latest accolade in the King's Honours for services to broadcasting, Davina responded: "I can't believe it. It's a great honour and it really means a great deal". This afternoon, the TV legend, joined by photographer Nick Knight and fashion designer Roksanda Ilinci, will attend an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace to receive the award.
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Jan 30 – Man Will Fail – Isaiah 2:19-22
Isaiah continues with the vision of the future. People are going to flee from the Lord by running and hiding in caves and shelter underground. The Lord will rise on that day with fearful presence. He will show his splendor and majesty. The whole earth will be shaking. Remember all that can be shaken will be shaken. John saw this as well in the book of Revelation.
On that day the people will throw away the idols that they personally made to the moles and bats. They will see the futile of what they have made. Isaiah uses parallelism which is a Jewish emphasis on what is going to happen for certain. They will hide in crags and caverns. The Lord will shake all by his fearful presence, splendor, and majesty. Isaiah counsels them to stop trusting in human beings who are mere creatures who die and pass away. Don’t hold them high esteem or value them because they will fail and fall.
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“Sometimes it’s like a gut punch that forces all the air out of your lungs.”
That’s how a Tauranga mother describes the impact of the loss of her son, apprentice builder Ethan Thomas Perham-Turner, who was killed after unbraced timber framing fell on him at a Ōmokoroa worksite in March 2022.
He had tried to stop two frames from falling over but slipped off the edge of a dirt bank. The top plate of the frames struck him on the back of his neck and head area inflicting fatal injuries.
The 19-year-old was just four months into his apprenticeship with Inspire Building Limited which had been contracted by Thorne Group B.O.P Limited to construct dwellings at the Te Kaha Plc property.
WorkSafe found that the businesses should have consulted on the timber framing installation plan and ensured a mechanical aid (such as a Hiab crane truck) was used to install the framing. The safety risk was heightened by the framing being manually installed around the site, and a temporary support brace had been removed shortly before the fatal incident.
The companies were sentenced in the Tauranga District Court yesterday after earlier pleading guilty to a charge of failing to comply with their duty to ensure the health and safety of their workers.
Judge Paul Geoghegan fined The Thorne Group $210,000 and Inspire $30,000. A $130,000 of emotional harm reparation to be paid to Ethan’s family, with Inspire paying 60 per cent of the award and Thorne Group the balance.
The companies also have to pay another $10,000 emotional harm reparation to a work colleague of Ethan’s, as well as $5706.30 in consequential losses, with Inspire to pay 60 per cent of this award and Thorne Group the rest. WorkSafe costs of 11,712.02 must also be paid.
Judge Geoghegan said assessing the sum to be paid to the family for the loss of a loved one in these circumstances was an “impossible task”.
The judge said he had assessed Inspire’s level of culpability for the tragedy as greater than Thorne Group, which admitted it had failed to adequately monitor the effectiveness of Inspire’s safety systems in terms of timber framing.
Ethan’s devastated mother Sheleace Turner, supported by her husband Jason, Ethan’s sister Charlie, his grandmother Wanda Penham and grandfather Dennis Turner read victim impact statements to the court.
Sheleace Turner placed a large framed photograph of her son on a seat next to the public gallery.
“Ethan brought a beautiful layer of light and warmth to our lives that I had never known before him. From his first breath and throughout his short 19 years and up until his last breath he was someone who only ever added good to the world and to the people who crossed his path.”
Shelaece Turner said her son was the “happiest person” she had ever known.
“People loved being around Ethan. They were drawn to him. He had this ability to make you feel like a better version of yourself. People would always compliment me on what an amazing, human Ethan was.
“He was kind, caring, generous, fun, humorous, confident, committed, creative, imaginative, honest, ambitious, loyal, and dependable.
“I am so proud of Ethan.”
The devastated mother said she questioned how a healthy teenage boy could go to work and never come home.
“This question often steals hours of every day for me. Ethan was an apprentice builder and the youngest and least experienced builder on the site.
“There is no greater loss than losing a child ... Ethan should be alive and he should be enjoying the amazing life he created. He had an incredible future ahead of him and so many hopes and dreams. Ethan left this world feeling valued and loved. He was a fabulous brother to his siblings and adored his grandparents.
“I miss everything about him.
“Our lives are altered forever, and we will never know a life without grief,” she said.
“Sometimes it’s like a gut punch that forces all the air out of your lungs.”
She had struggled with her mental health since the tragedy and had to give up work.
She told directors of the companies they got to go home after the sentencing hearing and this chapter of their lives was closed.
“We’ve drawn the short straw, and go home to the same heartache that we have felt since the day Ethan was killed and to a life without our beautiful son.”
“There is no tougher sentence ... We are left with a small urn that holds Ethan’s ashes and a few boxes of his special things that we cannot part with and photos that spark memories, and we have the light and warmth that Ethan wove into our lives and hearts.”
Ethan’s grandmother Wanda Perham and his grandfather Dennis Turner told the court they had suffered an “unimaginable” loss and would never get over the death of their grandson from what could never be described as an accident.
In a written statement WorkSafe NZ said Perham-Turner’s death was yet another example of why the construction sector needed to “up its game”.
”The death of a worker so young is an indictment on the construction sector, WorkSafe’s area investigation manager, Paul West said.
”Ethan was new to the job and should have been provided with what he needed to be safe.
”It is unacceptable that companies are not identifying the risks and providing workers with a safe workplace.
“We can only hope the death of a very young apprentice might motivate the step change required to improve the sector’s health and safety performance,” he said.
Sandra Conchie is a senior journalist at the Bay of Plenty Times and Rotorua Daily Post who has been a journalist for 24 years. She mainly covers police, court and other justice stories, as well as general news. She has been a Canon Media Awards regional/community reporter of the year.
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The state announced 111 parks and recreation projects throughout Illinois will receive a portion of $55 million in state funding this year.
The Open Space Land Acquisition and Development grant program administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is a cost-sharing program between state and local governments to help further outdoor recreation projects.
Gov. JB Pritzker’s office noted $18.7 million of the funding will go toward projects in 32 economically or physically distressed communities. Those categories are calculated based on land value, poverty rates and whether the area has experienced a natural disaster or catastrophic event.
The awards included a $600,000 grant for the Carbondale Park District in Jackson County, which will oversee a renovation of Crispus Attucks Park that includes the replacement of playground equipment that will make it disabled-accessible.
Harristown, in Macon County, will receive $150,000 to build a park and playground with a pavilion, sitting areas, walking path, disabled-accessible playground, and a basketball and pickleball court.
The city of Toulon in Stark County will receive $600,000 to renovate a city park to include a splash pad, resurfacing a half-basketball court, and making a full basketball court a multi-use space. Playground equipment will also be made disabled-accessible.
Projects in 45 counties will receive funding from the OSLAD program this year.
A full list of local entities receiving OSLAD grants can be found here.
Comptroller urges awareness of tax scams
State Comptroller Susana Mendoza is warning Illinoisans of email, telephone and mail tax scams as the 2024 filing season begins.
One scam, for example, may contain a letter in a cardboard envelope with an IRS letterhead that contains the text “about your unclaimed refund.” That letter may request personal information such as a photo of a driver’s license or Social Security number. The contact information on the letter, however, does not belong to the IRS.
Telephone scammers often target recent immigrants and threaten arrest or deportation if the person doesn’t send payment, often in the form of a gift card or wire transfer.
“Remember, neither the state nor the federal government will call taxpayers, threatening them and demanding payment via a wire transfer, or credit or debit card,” Mendoza said in a statement.
Mendoza’s office noted some Illinoisans have been targeted for false unemployment claims. The state sends 1099-G forms to people who have claimed unemployment. If you receive such a form but did not collect such benefits, you can contact the Illinois Department of Employment Security to report fraud.
Email and text message scams use the IRS logo seeking personal or financial information. Anyone receiving such an email can report it to the IRS at phishing@irs.gov.
Individuals should also avoid tax preparers who are unwilling to sign the forms they have prepared.
Once tax returns are filed, Illinoisans can track their state tax refund at myrefund.illinoiscomptroller.gov.
New State Police facility designs
The Illinois State Police released designs for a new headquarters and forensic laboratory in Joliet this week. The structures are expected to cost a combined $76.5 million, funded through the $45 billion Rebuild Illinois capital infrastructure program that originally passed in 2019.
The two buildings are approximately 75,000 square feet combined on 12 acres of land adjacent to an existing ISP building and firing range in Will County.
The new forensics lab will replace the current Joliet facility that was built in 1964 and will include space for testing DNA, firearms, latent prints, controlled substances, footwear, tire tracks and toxicology, along with areas for processing crime scene evidence.
The new facility will house an ISP investigation zone and serve as headquarters for ISP’s Troop 3, which serves from Will and Grundy counties to the state’s northern border, excluding DuPage County. The building will contain several offices, training rooms, interview rooms, an evidence area, and a large garage for vehicle storage and inspection work, according to ISP.
The project is scheduled to go out for bids in the spring.
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On an average day, 32 million pounds of vinyl chloride moves by rail through Northeast Ohio. Another accident like the train derailment one year ago in East Palestine could happen any time, according to a new report from Toxic-Free Future, an environmental health advocacy group.
The new report mapped the supply route from vinyl chloride production facilities in Texas to facilities in Illinois and New Jersey. The route goes through several parts of Ohio.
"We were shocked to find out the massive amounts of vinyl chloride that are regularly traveling through hundreds of cities and towns across the United States, as we saw in East Palestine, that can spell disaster for a local community in the event of a local train derailment," Mike Schade, the report's author, said.
Schade said he's calling on federal officials to ban production and transport of new vinyl chloride to avoid another East Palestine.
“We found that more than 3 million people are at risk in another major derailment. We also found that there's more than 1,500 schools that are also within a one-mile radius of this regular train route," he said.
Vinyl chloride is almost entirely used to make polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, a plastic most commonly found in building supplies.
“Vinyl flooring is one of the biggest uses of PVC," said Schade. "There are plenty of safer alternatives, such as good old-fashioned wood. Another common alternative is linoleum, which is a material that is bio-based and performs just as well as vinyl.”
In East Palestine last year, officials released 1.1 million pounds of vinyl chloride by burning it. Some residents reported health problems and sought medical attention. Exposure to vinyl chloride can cause irritation to the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract, while chronic exposure has been associated with liver problems and cancer.
The EPA announced in December it would consider further regulating vinyl chloride.
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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.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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Inspire Veterinary Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVP – Get Free Report)’s share price traded down 23.5% on Monday . The stock traded as low as $0.17 and last traded at $0.17. 12,127,655 shares were traded during mid-day trading, an increase of 28% from the average session volume of 9,468,101 shares. The stock had previously closed at $0.22.
Inspire Veterinary Partners Stock Down 2.6 %
The stock has a 50 day moving average of $0.34.
Inspire Veterinary Partners (NASDAQ:IVP – Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 14th. The company reported ($1.25) EPS for the quarter. The business had revenue of $4.12 million during the quarter.
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Inspire Veterinary Partners Company Profile
Inspire Veterinary Partners, Inc owns and operates veterinary hospitals in the United States. The company specializes in small animal general practice hospitals, which serve companion pets, canine, and feline breeds, including equine care. Its hospitals provide preventive care for companion animals consisting of annual health exams and parasite control; dental health; nutrition and body condition counseling; neurological examinations; radiology; bloodwork; and skin and coat health, and other breed specific preventive care services.
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In the lush rainforests of the Philippines, a remarkable discovery of two weevil species has emerged, highlighting the resilience of nature amidst human-induced disruptions.
Tom Terzin, a dedicated biology professor at the University of Alberta’s Augustana Campus, has made a significant contribution to the world of entomology.
His recent discovery of two unique weevil species — one previously thought to be extinct and another entirely new to science — serves as a testament to the enduring vitality of wildlife.
While working on a broader project examining the impact of environmental changes on insect life, Professor Terzin’s meticulous examination of beetle samples from Northern Negros National Park yielded these extraordinary finds.
The samples, collected in 2016 and 2017, came from an area that had seen its pristine forest almost completely decimated by logging, agriculture, and population growth by the late 20th century.
Among these samples, a peculiar short-nosed weevil caught Terzin’s eye.
Contrary to its relatives’ metallic sheen, this black bug, about half a centimeter in length, bore light scales on its surface without any distinct pattern.
Dubbed Metapocyrtus (Trachycyrtus) augustanae, named in honor of Augustana Campus, this new species is intriguing for its plainness, a stark contrast to its more flamboyant counterparts.
“This guy was a bit strange, some sort of rebel in refusing to mimic the species,” Terzin remarked, highlighting the specimen’s uniqueness. “It could mean there’s a redirection of the habits of these species, evolutionarily speaking, and being only known from a single specimen, for now, indicates it’s probably a rare species.”
Equally thrilling was the rediscovery of another short-nosed weevil, Metapocyrtus (Orthocyrtus) bifoveatus, last spotted on the island a century ago.
Previously known to inhabit only the lowland rainforests — areas ravaged by deforestation — this vibrant weevil was found thriving in higher altitudes over 1,000 meters.
“Somehow this species has managed to survive in higher altitudes of over 1,000 meters, which shows a struggle for life, that they refused to become extinct from deforestation. In the world of insects, it’s almost like discovering a dodo bird,” Terzin explained, emphasizing the species’ resilience.
Terzin’s fascination with beetles began in childhood, viewing them as “tiny natural robots” with their exoskeletons and segmented bodies.
His enthusiasm is palpable as he describes their behavior, drawing parallels to the simplistic yet effective actions of robots.
“They behave like tiny natural robots. They have an exoskeleton and segmented bodies, and they crawl around obeying simple rules. If there’s an obstacle in their way they usually go around it, which is generally how a robot would behave,” Terzin explained.
The significance of these discoveries extends beyond academic curiosity. As the largest family of beetles, weevils play a crucial role in the rainforest ecosystem.
However, their potential as pests, especially in the face of climate change, cannot be overlooked.
“They’re like asteroids that cross the Earth’s orbit. Some of them can be dangerous, but they’re even more dangerous if we don’t know about them. So it’s important to monitor their population — and that means we first need to discover them,” Terzin adds.
These specimens now have a special place in the Augustana Tropical Insects Research Studio’s entomology collection.
They are not just scientific curiosities but valuable resources for teaching and research, particularly in understanding ecological recovery in forestry.
The naming of the new insect after Augustana serves as a gesture of gratitude for the support Terzin received for his 2016 research trip to the Philippines and recognizes the campus’s growing focus on undergraduate research.
With a rare permit to explore the country’s national parks, Terzin is poised to continue his quest for new insect species in 2025.
His work, beyond its scientific merit, may inspire the Philippine government to open its doors to more international researchers.
As Terzin notes, while the country strives to protect its natural resources, there is a dire need for more researchers to document its rich biodiversity.
“It’s a huge world with lots of still undescribed wonders and species,” he concludes, echoing a sentiment of endless discovery and the importance of preserving our natural world.
In summary, Professor Tom Terzin’s discovery of two unique weevil species in the Philippines’ Northern Negros National Park vividly illustrates nature’s remarkable capacity for resilience and adaptation.
Through his diligent research, Terzin brings attention to species that challenge our understanding of ecological recovery and underscore the urgent need for continued exploration and documentation of biodiversity in threatened ecosystems.
These findings, significant in their own right, also serve as a clarion call for greater international collaboration in conservation efforts, reminding us of the countless wonders that still await discovery and the crucial role of scientific inquiry in safeguarding our planet’s natural heritage.
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London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) and London InterCommunity Health Centre (LIHC) have formed a partnership to help marginalized women receive vital prenatal care.
The women that the obstetrics clinic are trying to reach struggle with accessing healthcare in hospitals or other locations that require a commute.
“A lot of us have been serving the marginalized community for 34 years,” said Greg Nash, Director of Program Development and Complex Urban Health. “Part of that experience is women who are pregnant, who might be street involved, experience precarious housing, mental health issues, chronic disease and substance use disorders.”
Nash and his team at LIHC work alongside two OB-GYN’s and one Family Medical Obstetrician from LHSC, Dr. Laura Lyons, to provide care for women who are pregnant, up until six weeks after their birth. This timeline is case-dependent and allows for longer follow-up care if need be.
“Because of their circumstances, health care they experienced in the past sometimes isn’t good or doesn’t produce positive health outcomes, so the trust they have in the health-care system is reduced,” said Nash. “This partnership (between LHSC and LIHC) evolved because our community workers and clinicians identified this was problematic.”
The commitment of the team of OB-GYN’s extends to their patients’ labour and delivery as well.
“Part of our plan is to support these folks with Dr. Easterbrook, Dr. Hudson and Dr. Lyons to visit the hospital with them,” said Nash. “Actually go with them and do that introduction to help build that trust, to help build that positive experience, so that can continue.”
Dr. Lyons is a key member in the creation of the new clinic and will be helping the patients on site on a rotating schedule. When Lyons initially reevaluated the barriers that women were facing, causing them to miss appointments, she realized the health-care system wasn’t providing the best care they could.
“This is why we decided to bring our services to where the women feel safe. LIHC is a place they have been coming to, prior to becoming pregnant, for health care.”
The location will be the primary change in that patients don’t need to travel to be seen at the clinic, as well as the quality of care.
“This is going to be one stop shopping,” said Lyons. “they’re going to be able to get their ultrasounds, their blood work and their physician care here.”
The clinic also has space for patients to do their laundry, bring in their companion animals or have showers, and offers support for housing, food security and mental health.
“This care is patient-centred. We’re identifying what the patient needs and how health care should be delivered,” said Lyons.
The clinic runs biweekly on Wednesdays, and has been open since Jan. 10, 2024. Since the establishment of the clinic, they have received two ultrasound machines that LHSC would otherwise have put into storage, according to Brad Campbell, corporate hospital administrative executive at LHSC.
When asked if the ultrasound machines were the most noteworthy investment, Campbell instead referred to the commitment from physician partners in leadership roles to come to be at the clinic. “There was no hesitation.”
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https://globalnews.ca/news/10264060/two-health-centres-partner-to-create-new-obstetrics-clinic-for-marginalized-women/
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Isaiah in this chapter again must talk about the present condition of the nation of Judah. This was during the time Ahaz who was a vassal or puppet king. He has allowed the nation to fall into idolatry. The Lord has decided that all support from Jerusalem and Judah was about to be cut off. Their water and food. God had said this would happen if the people forgot Him or went after idols.
People who they relied on the hero, warrior, judge, prophet, diviner or elder would all be taken away. The army captain, counselor, skilled craftsman, and clever enchanter. They would be humiliated to the point where youth and children would rule over them or have better understand, wisdom and insight than they had. The result of this abandonment is oppression, fighting, looting, division, and all would be dishonored. It would be bedlam, anarchy, and chaos. A total breakdown in society. When that is wrong becomes right and that which is right becomes wrong society soon is destroyed.
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https://www.cjca.ca/jan-31-bedlam-isaiah-31-5/
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In this week’s episode, The federal government and Texas have different approaches to border security
A school in Colorado is embracing learning in its student’s native languages
We get motivated to move our bodies more.
And we learn what all the buzz is about with the cicadas this year.
Migrant (noun): A person who moves from one place to another usually to find better work.
Famine (noun): An extreme shortage of food.
Sensory Inclusive (adjective): An environment that was designed to accommodate people with sensory needs or processing issues.
Brood (noun): A group of animals or insects born at the same time.
You’ve heard about skiing and snowboarding…but, what about snowskating?
It's a new sport that’s gaining momentum across the US and around the world.
You know we love trying new sports. That’s why the writing assignment for the week is: invent a new sport!
Students can submit their answers online through our inbox form.
A new bill making its way through the California legislature could make kids tackle football a thing of the past.
The idea is to protect children from serious injuries, including concussions, while they are still growing.
But some argue that alternative sports don’t allow for as many kids to play because of the sizes of the teams.
We now want to hear what you think: should tackle football be banned for young kids?
You can choose between: Yes, it’s a high risk sport, or No, it’s fun for kids
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https://www.ideastream.org/newsdepth-2023-2024-season-54/2024-01-31/newsdepth-2023-2024-episode-16
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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
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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